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' VALDEZ, ALASKA
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A Brand New Selection of
Hand Painted China in Writing sets; Ash Trays, Placques.
A Large Assortment of Toys.
OWL DRUG CO.
Same Location New Management
VY nr i strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
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Phone 188
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Notice of Final Settlement.
In Commissioner’s Court of Valdez
Precinct, Territory of Alaska,—in
Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that W. H.
Caswell, administrator of the above
named estate, has filed his final ac
count as such administrator in the
I above-entitled court, and an order has
been made by the court setting Thurs
day, February 10, 1916, at 2 o’clock
p. m.. as the time for hearing objec
tions to said account and the settle
ment thereof. AH persons interested
in said estate1 are notified to file
their objections, to said account, if
any they have, on or before the date
named, specifying the particulars of
such objections.
Dated December 9. 1915.
W. H. CASWELL,
Administrator of the estate of Rob
ert Martin, deceased.
First publication, Dec. 9. 1915.
Last publication, Dec. 30, 1915. thu
Notice of Pinal Settlement.
In Commissioner’s Court for Valdez
Precinct. Territory of Alaska,—in
Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of Peter
Johnson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that W. H.
Caswell, administrator of the above
named estate, has filed his final ac
count as such administrator in the
above-entitled court, and an order
has been made by the court setting
Thursday, February 10, 1916, at 2
o’clock p. m., as the time for hearing
objections to said account and the
settlement thereof. All persons in
terested in said estate are notified to
file their objections to said account,
if any they have, on or before the
date named, specifying the particu
lars of such objections.
Dated, December 9, 1915.
W. H. CASWELL.
Administrator of the estate of Peter
™ Johnson, deceased.
First publication, Dec. 9, 1915.
Last publication, Dec. 30, 1915. thu
SUMMONS.
No. 735
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
John Payne and Chas. Payne, co
partners, doing business under the
. Arm name of Payne Bros., Plain
tiffs, vs- Rambler Gold Mining Co.,
a Corporation, Pern L. Wagner,
Collin Murray, Judd M. Billot, J.
Grant Billot, John Grull and Ralph
Carson, Defendants.
The President of the United States of
America, Greeting:
To the above-named defendants, Col
lin Murray, Judd M. Billot, and J.
Grant Billot.
, You and each of you are hereby
required to appear in the District
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, within thirty days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this summons, to-wit, wlthlh thir
ty days after the 23d day of Decem
ber, 1915, and answer the complaint
•f the above-named plaintiffs in the
above-entitled cause. The 'said cause
is an action wherein plaintiffs de
mand judgment against defendant
Rambler Gold Mining Company, a
corporation, above-named, for the
sum of eight hundred ninety-four
and 45-100 dollars, together with in
terest thereon at the rate of eight per
centum per annum from the 22d day
of January, 1915, also for the sum of
twenty-eight and 30-100 dollars
claimed by plaintiffs for preparing,
verifying and recording plaintiffs'
claim of lien on a certain mining
claim described in the compl&int;
also for the further sum of two hun
dred fifty dollars as attorneys’ fees
for plaintiffs herein; and wherein
plaintiffs . demand judgment against
all of the defendants above-named, i.
e., all of the defendants in this
cause, that said plaintiffs have a de
cree herein that all of the sums
above-named be a lien upon that cer
tain mining claim and premises and
any and all improvements thereon,
known as “Tomboy No. 3” lode min
ing claim, situate near Pigot Bay, in
the Port Wells mining district, Val
dez recording precinct, Territory of
Alaska, and the notice of location of
which is of record in Book 19 of Re
cords, at pages 144 and 145, of the
records of the said Valdez precinct,
at Valdez, Alaska, to which records
reference is hereby made; and where
in plaintiffs also demand from all of
the defendants herein their costs and
disbursements incurred in this action.
The order for the publication of
this summons was duly made and en
tered herein on the 10th day of No
vember, 1915.
And you and each of you are here
by notified that if you fail to appear
and answer said complaint as herein
required the said plaintiffs will take
judgment against you for their costs
and disbursements incurred in this
action and will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said com
plaint, as hereinbefore set out.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 11th day of No
vember, 1915, and the date of the
last publication thereof is the 23rd
day of December, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, this 10 th day .of Novem
ber, in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and fifteen,
and of our Independence the one
hundred fortieth.
(Official Seal) ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By Chas. A. Hand, Deputy Clerk.
Donohoe ft Dlmond, Attorneys for
the Plaintiffs.
First publication, Nov. 11, 1916.
Last publication. Dec. 23, 1916.
d-Th-7t
If you were sick would you go to
a blacksmith for repairs? Why then
do you go to a lung mechanic for In
formation about machinery when you
have mechanics in your home town
that stay there the year around, and
depend on their knowledge and abil
ity to do you^ work, satisfactorily for
their existence as mechanics. Try the
Valdez Iron Works; we are here to
stay with your assistance. th-tf.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Miss Courtwrlght, who has been
out at the Ptarmigan Drop Hoad
house, thirty-three miles from Val
dez, over the Summit, walked in yes
terday and made good time on the i
long trip.
Lieut. C. A. Dougherty, in charge
Of the U. S. military cable and land
lines between Valdez and Fairbanks,
who has been to the westward on a
hunting trip, is expected back on the
Admiral Evans tonight.
F. H. Goudy, an expert accoun
tant, who has been in Valdez check
ing up the accounts of the defunct
Valdez Bank & TruBt company for
the stockholders in the states, will be
an outgoing passenger on the steamer
Admiral Evans.
Councilman King and son, Porter,
report that they have killed some
ninety mallards and teal this season,
besides several hundred ptarmigan.
The Councilman has passed the three
score mark, but it takes a mighty
smart youngster to out-mush him or
out-shoot him.
Coal Shortage in Valdez.
Owing to the delay In the arrival
of the freighter Seward, Valdez Is
experiencing a coal shortage. The
visible supply consists of but a few
sacks at present. Several hundred
tons are expected on the Seward,
however, which will probably last
through the winter as most of our
citizens laid in their winter’s supply
early.
I
COPI’Klt COMPANIES
IN BIG COMBINATIONS.
NEW YORK: The Guggenheim
Exploration Company, a holding con
cern for stocks in various mining and
smelting properties, will be dissolv
ed in the near future and the assets
divided among shareholders. Rum
ors of this action, heard frequently
during the last three months, were
confirmed yesterday at the same time
as announcement was made of steps
being taken by the Kennecott Cop
per Company to buy up the stock of
the Braden Copper company. The
terms of the Exploration company’s
plan are expected to be made public
before the close of the week.
The Guggenheim Exploration Com
pany has outstanding $20,793,300 in
stock and owns these securities:
$4,045,040 Utah Copper Company’s
stock, $6,950,000 common stock of
the American Smelting & Refining
company, $1,543,000 stock of the Ray
Consolidated Copper company, $488,
750 stock of the Chino Copper Com
pany. and a majority of the stock of
the Yukon Gold company. Until re
cently $3,400,000 series A preferred
stock of the American Smelter Secur
ities Company was owned, hut this
was sold Eugene Meyer, Jr., & Co.,
and by them distributed to investors
The company also holds valuable ore
lands in Alaska, and in the treasury
Is $14,000,000 cash.
The 404,504 shares of the I tah
Copper stock will be sold to the Ken
necott Copper company, payment be
ing made in Kennecott stock on a
reported basis one one and one-fourth
shares of Kennecott for each share
ct Utah. This block of Utah shares
constitutes the largest single hold
ing of the company’s outstanding
stock.
President Stephen Birch ot tne
Kennecott Company issued a state
ment shying that leading sharehold
ers had practically come to terms on
the proposed purchase of Braden
shares, and that the plan would be
submitted to directors and stockhold
ers for their approval Opportunity
will be given all Braden stockhold
ers. said he, to accept the terms' con
sidered by the majority interests pay
ment to be made either in cash or in
Kennecott stock.
“The properties pf the companies,'1
said the statement, “while rHuated
far apart geographically, are admir
ably fitted to supplement each other
in their workings and future output
of copper at a low cost. It is expect
ed that arrangements may also be
made by which some of the steam
ships now used by the Kennecott
Company, in the transport of ore
from Alaska may be used during the
Alaskan Winter in connection with
the Braden mines, which.are in Chili,
and that such an arrangement may
indirectly have a material effect upon
the country’s South American trade.”
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Newest Notes of Science.
Something new in the line of mas
elgn countries, clothirtg of yellow col
to be attached to the back of a mas
seur’s han> and make his fingers do
the work.
A cover has been invented for
cooking utensils which claps in place
and is provided with a strainer thru
which boiling liquids can be safely
poured.
The introduction of electric power
recently Inaugurated the exploitation
In Chill of What experts declare to
be the greatest known deposit of cop
per in the world.
SHKVTNG THE PIG.
An Incident That Chief Justice Chase
Wanted to Forget.
Salmon P. Chase, governor of Ohio,
senator of the United States, secretary
of the United States treasury and chief
justice of the supreme court of the
United States, once had an encounter
with a pig that is worth telling.
When a boy he attended a private
hoarding school kept by his uncle, the
Episcopal bishop of Ohio. He did the
chores for his unde during the school
term and worked on the farm during
the summer. One day Ills uncle told
his nephew that he should kill and
dress a pig at the close of the school
that day.
With no little difficulty the boy
caught the pig and killed it. And now
the question was how to get the bris
tles off. He had heard of farmers
scalding hogs, so lie soused the pig
into a barrel of hot water. He either
held the pig in the water too long, or
did not have It hot enough, for in spite
of all his scraping ihe bristles would
not come off. He then thought of his
uncle’s razors, and getting them he
slinved the pig from nose to tall.
When the bishop returned he con
gratulated his nephew on the splendid
appearance of the pork. But when'
he tried to shave the next day he dis
covered that the razors would not
"work." What he said and did we may
imagine, but we do not know.
Chief Justice Chase was a very dig
nified man. His private secretary. Mr
Pldier. suys that he had little humor
In his composition. President Lincoln
once related the foregoing story at a
meeting of the cabinet, but Mr. Chase
did not like it very well, and the pres
ident never referred to it again.
SWAMPED WITH PROFITS.
Story of the Patent on the Screw With
the Gimlet Point.
Perhaps the shortest patent applies j
tiou extant is the one on file in the
patent office at Washington, which
roads. “1 claim a patent on a screw
with a gimlet point."
Previous to that all screws used In
woodwork had been of the blunt end
variety, and the carpenter had to care
fully bore a hole with a gimlet or au
ger before inserting Ids screw and
forcing it home. The advent of the
screw with a gimlet point which would
bore itself in revolutionize*! tills.
This patent was held by ihe Ameri
can Screw company of Providence. R.
I.. and before the patent ran out and
It was Impossible for others to manu
facture it without damage suits this
company made tremendous profits.
The demand for the gimlet pointed
screw was. of course, immense, and
the company did not know what to do
with its profits.
All of its dray horses were carefully
selected blacks, and tremendous prices
were paid for good stock. The harness
was of patent leather trimmed with
red, while the wagons plying hack and
forth between the factory anil the
docks or the railroad had red under
gear to match the harness trimmings,
and the wheels were decorated with
gold leaf. 14 carat fine. But this is all
past. Today the pointed screw can be
purchased at any corner store for a
few cents a package. Wall Street
Journal.
Cape of Good Hope.
The Cape of Good Hope lies at a con
siderable distance from the end of
| South Africa and is. in fact, the middle
of the three promontories, severally In
conspicuous. which jointly terminate a
slender peninsula some twenty miles in
length forming the hairier between
False bay and the Atlantic ocean on
the west. These three headlands, lying
near together and commonly undivided
on a map of moderate scale, are locally
designated Cape Point. It was here
that Bartholomew Diaz first encoun
rerod in full force the prevalent south
easterly gales and denounced the rug
ged. threatening, threefold promontory
under the sounding appellation of the
Cape of Storms, to be'afterward re
christened by pious, trustful hearts the
Cai»e of Good Hope.
Pairing In Legislatures.
The custom of pairing in the house
of commons originated in Cromwell’s
time. "Pair off" is the phrase used to
signify that two members of u legis
lative body of opposite political opin
ions agree to absent themselves from
voting for a certain period. By "pair
ing" in this way they neutralize each
other's absence. The whips of the
house generally manage to rind "pairs"
when, for any reason, members desire i
to be absent temporarily.
An Odd Epitaph.
The following epitaph is to be found
in a cemetery'.within seven miles of
Now York’s city hall:
Header, paus on: don’t waste your time
O'er bad biography and b'tter rime,
For what I am this crumbling clay In
sures,
And what I was is no affair of yours.
Family Treasures.
"What's the trouble in the house
hold?"
"Mother guve uwuy all of father's
old clothes. And he retaliated.” .
"How ?''
"By throwing away all her old medl
cine liBMUmn mtlllwetl iluiulnrn*-—
'••Ate
! . ’
Incongruous.
Jones—That seedy looking Individual
Is Ptofessor Ragtag. He Is working on
a scheme'that will make him rich If bo
can perfect It. Smith—What Is the
scheme? Jones—A plan to enable out
siders to make money in Wall street—
Puck.
Do not allow Idleness to deceive you.
for while you give him today he steals
tomorrow from you.—Old Saying.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS AIX BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
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Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meats—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chit in a.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING.
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pi, e and Fittings, Valves. Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez, Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone
Pacific Alaska Navigation Ce.
PUGET SOUND Mmiral PUGET SOUND
California LillB Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Strainer Sailing ISth calls Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing rail at Kolk
anil Ancliornffc.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every WedncHilay and Sundny. connecting nltli
Steamcra Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. It IXO WOOD, Mgr.. Seattle) VAI.DEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, BOTH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—STH, 18TH, B8TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and Da
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Datoueho, on the 15th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
P. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
Vt ■
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask|
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdes, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.