A FEW NEWS NUGGETS.
W, C. Stull,Graduate Optician.
Houses to Rent—See Stagliound
Bill.
Alaska StrawWrrics 4c i>er lb. at
Richard’s.
Cameras for rent or sale at Val
dez Pharmacy.
Store your trunks at the Miners
hotel for safe keeping.
Get your outfit for the interior
at Copper Center from Rlix.
Houses and lots for rent or for
sale. Call on Dr. Von Gunther.
A fine riding saddle and several
pack saddles and aparahocs cheap
at Richard’s.
Staple foods from 30 to 35 cent
a pound at Blix’s, Copper Center
Hay and feed cheap.
We buy everything you have to
sell and sell everything yon have
to buy. Richards & Co.. Keystone
Ave.
Rcmemlier if vou are going to
the interior quickly, go bv Copper
Center and secure vour outfit there.
A. Holman for further information.
The Prospector will Ik-on sale at
Hammond’s store on Slate creek
all summer.
Buy a nice comfortable rocker
from Richards, ami take life easy.
They are guaranteed to cure the
blues, and remove wrinkles.
Moonlight or nl-night parties are
in vogue at present time.
The glass front, for Fish. BroV
new store arrived on the Santa Ana
a id is being placed in pi si on
Holly Flour is making for Fish
Bros, new customers every day.
You don’t know flour if you are usc
ing any but HOLLY
The Santa Ana is the*fastest and
most comfortable ltoat on the Val
dez run. She brought up the larg
est passenger and freight list of tin
season.
O. P. Hubbard Esq., of Iowa City
la., the attorney of the V. C. It. A
Y. Railroad arrived here on the
Btr. Santa Ana and is registered at
the St. Elias.
Mr. Ueo. oexton of Seattle is in
town again, and this time to stay.
His family will join him later, and
will make their home here. Mr.
Sexton is connected with the V. C.
R. & Y. R. R. Co.
What with HOLLY FLOUR and
MONOPOLE CANNED GOODS
iish.Bro’s. business is increasing
J. f. Hieleher of Seattle arrived
here on the Santa Ana and brought
15 head of cattle. He has the
contract for furnishing the post
with fresh meat and will open a
first das* meat market.
M by nse any other flour when
you can get a sack of Holly at
Fish Bris. for $1.50.
On and after July 1st the follow
ing rates will lie charged for send
ing messages over the government
telegraph line. Two cents a word
for commercial use ami one cent a
word for Canadian official and
newspajter communications.
Captain Wilson, Chas. Cowell
and ten men with a pack train
left today for the interior. Captain
Wilson goes to inspect the trail.
Mr. Kinghorn is building a float
to he used in connection with the
dock for the accommodation ol
small l>outs which he will care foi
at a moderate charge.
Everybody will tell you that
Holly Flour is the best, and make.
more and better bread than am
other.
W. C. Stull Expert Watchmaker' |
Choice hams, 15c per pound at!
Richard’s.
Recertified Government Script
for sale by C. N. Crarv.
Bromide of Qimiinc Capsules
cure a cold in one day at Valdez
Pharmacy.
Chase and Sanborn’s Celebrated
Coffee is to be had at Hcmplc Jfc
Dougherty’s.
Parker Bunk House, on Key
stone Avc. Bunk, stove and wood.
All comforts, 25c per day.
One third of your life is spent l<>
la-d. Moral— Buy a good one from
Richards A Co.. Keystone Ave.
One Dollar and fifty cents buys
a sack of Holly Flour at Fish Bro’s
every day
Captain Burnell and party mov
ed camp last evening from Chesto
china to Indian creek.
The Steamer Santa Ana will
leave for Seattle via the insidi
passage on Friday. She will not
wait for the mail this trip us her
contract expires June 80th' She
will hereafter leave Valdez about
the 27th of each month and Seattle
the 15th.
Holly Flour is shipped to Fish
Bros, in heavy canvas sacks, which
insures arrival in goiwl condition.
No wet or caked flour, when yon
buy Holly
The Pacific Clipper Line has
been awarded the contract by the
U. S. Government to transport all
passengers and supplies petween
Seattle, Ft. Liscuin andgValdez for
one year ending June 80, l'.>03
In a letter from Mr. Throwbridgc.
manager of the Pacific Clipper Line
to their agents at this place, he
says: “The wharf at Valdez is a
good thing for the town, and the
jtcople who have gone so far as to
put their money in should he en
couraged, and will beat least to tin
extent of our support.”
l iif sale oi Holly r lour is extend
ing to the Westwurd,and Fish Bros
now have customers at Resureetion
Bay, llomer, Seldovin, Aurora ami
lllianina.— Who says advertising a
good thing docs'nt pay?
Karny Grier and Gardner have
leit the telegraph service, purchased
six horses and will, if possible, se
cure four more animals. They in
tend to pack merchandise to Slate
Greek,and have already secured an
order to deliver one ton of assorted
goods.
IF you have not yet tried Holly
Flour,order a sack from Fish. Bro’s.
and your money will lie cheerfully
returned, if the Flour is not entire
ly satisfactory.
Henry Watkins arrived in town
early Tuesday morning. He left
Slate Creek on Monday, the 16th
inst., rested one day at Copper Cen
ter, making the trip in eight days.
He reports the trail above Gakona
a little wet, hut between this place
and Gakona was never in lietter
condition. He advises taking tin
lower trail between Copi>er Center
and Tonsina.
Drop a nickle in the new slot
machine at Fish.Bros, and trv vour
luck
From a correspondent, working
on the telegraph line, we learn
that digging holes for telegraph
|K»les is slow, hard work, and he
suggests that it would have been a
very good investment for the par
lies in charge to have purchased a
lew old, worn out, second-hand ar
tesian wells and cut them up into
the required lengths to serve foi
l he purpose.
J. BflQCNS.
CASH SHORE
If you want an outfit let
me figure on it and you
will save money. AGENS
BUTTER has stood the test,
take some with you when
you go on the trail.
H. W. Hiller, Manager
M Inlet Devs Dotes
From the Mines, Canneries
And Summer Resorts.
MOOSE ARE PLENTIFUL.
Hprrinl to tho hHHtrerrott.
Kenai, Alaska, June 10.—We!
are now having very beautiful
weather at present, although this!
spring has Wen colder than usual.!
Snow anti ice has all disappeared
ironi this neighWrhood although
the snow appears to W plentiful
"it the other side of the Inlet.
Quite a number of hunting part
ies have gone over to Snug HarWr
anil vicinity for War, and Waver.
Some of them are from British
Columbia and others are front here
but they all use Kenai as their
starting point.
1 he last steamer brought a
school teacher, sent by the Edu-1
ational Department,* Mr. A. N.
I'.vans, who hits Wen teaching i
school in Wood Island, during the
last winter. It was what we most !
detdird here, an American school,
although the summer is it hard
• 'me to get the children, its they all
work, helping to put up fish for the
winter. He lias had an average
of twenty scholars since starting,
which shows pretty well.
The hydraulic plant of the Kenai
Lake Mining Co. on upper Kenai
Hiver, started to work last week,
but as yet I have not heard how
ihey have done,
Tl»i» Vtirll.ia-,.. « M!. ? t
. , . iuiu
Dcvlopment Co. on Indian River
a tributary of Kussiloff Lake, have
quite a gang men and expect to
have their plant working in July,
t’iiev ought to do well, having'a
saw mill now in operation and a
gasoline launch oil the lake to do
tuning etc.
1 he King salmon are running
very well now, the traps for the
different canneries are about tinish
'•d and they have already canned
several hundred cases.
1 he steamer Tonquin connects
at Homer with the Bertha. Kxcel
sior. and Newport, bringing their
freight, passengers and mail, and
aw she is small enough to come in
the rivers, it is u great deal more
convenient than having the freight
and passengers landed in small
boats from steamers laying off about
tout miles. Plenty of steamers in
-lie Inlet this y.ar, Chico is to
make regular monthly trips 1 be
lieve.
.1 line 15.
Talk about your summer resorts
in California, why if one of those
fagged out. brain weary city men,
after spending a week on Cooks
Inlet, especially in Kenai, was not
cured, it would be lieyoml human
belief. The weather lately has
been beautiiul. we have had it as
hot as <bin the shade,hut alwavs
a little breeze, enough to keep off
the mosquitoes. I grant that a
little rain would lie most beneficial
especially to the gardtns. The
agricultural station has finished
all their seeding and quite a
number of the plants and grains
show a I sue ground. This year
the superintendent has tried some
truit Ircisaiul lierrics. The straw
lierrics and gooseberries are looking
very well as also most of the trees.
On the Tonquin, last Monday,
there was a party of men going up
the Shushetua River to look over
the ground for a proposed railroad
from Resurrection Bay across the
peninsula, striking the Shushetua,
and then on to the Yukon.
i iie Aurora Uold Mining Co. has
closed down temporarily, hut antic
ipate starting again next month.
J. 1. Comfortii, (icneral Manager
of the Northwest Mining and De
velopment Co., came in on the T011
‘tuin, accompanied bv Warner K.
Smith, >i civil engineer, formerly of
lllamina, and six or seven more
men for the plant on Kussiloff Lake.
1 heir saw-mill has la-on running
<iuite a while, having now a I suit
10,000 feet of lumber for fluming
Indian River. They cx]»ect to start
their hydraulic pljyit 1st of Aug.
Capt, Ray, of the Cook Inlet Coal
Kieids Co., at Homer, has gone to
Seattle, by the way of Juneau,
where he will attend to a little law
business.
The jtwo 'canneries at Kussiloff
and Kenai are doing finely. Both
of them have a seining crew at Eng
lish Bay, and have taken over M.iXX)
rod fish at one haul,
I have never seen the moose so
plentiful as they are this year,
especially around' this immediate
vicinity. All one has to do is to
drift up the river on the tide alniut
five miles ami then drift hack, l»e
ing almost certain of seeing a moose
or two, it resting with lus marks
manship whether 1 c kills one or not.
Ihe) even coiue i.giu across the
river onto a liat, where three have
l*een killed this Summer, one of
them being shot last evening. I’rof.
A. N. Evans, the new school
master, had not Wen here n week
In-fore he shot a nice young hull.
If the game law goes into effect
it will stop killing at this time of
year, so I guess we will have to live
on fish, as moose meat is our only
fresh meat.
Hope City, June 14.-0. II. Sleep
er is working almut 20 men on his
Bear Creek mine and w ill have his
hydraulic plant in running order
by the first of July.
The Resurrection Alaska Mining
Co. have 12 men at work on their
property getting their hydraulic
plant in working order. They also
expect to commence operations on
July 1st.
(). J. Thomas and party are sink
ing a shaft on their Resurrection
property. They are using a steam
pump for pumping the water out of
the shaft. This is their first ex
perience in using a steam pump
for this purpose and it works like
a clock. Mr. Thomas is an
all round good man and anything
he undertakes proves tola- a suc
cess. No doubt they will make
their fortunes in this mine. The
gold is in pockets. Their shaft is
now down ’»() feet. They expect to
sled foO.OOO worth of mining ma
chinery to their claim next winter.
Surveys Commenced.
(<'on tin him] From FI rat Pit go.
fancy in saying that the route is
not only feasible, hut that the road
ean lie built with fewer engineering
feats than ran i>e seen on some of
the roads crossing the Rocky moun
tnin-. We have a right of way
granted by the government, and
the filings have been approved by
the secretary of the interior. We
ean build this road, standard gunge,
with something like less than half
the curvature seen on the White
Pass A Yukon road, to use an in
stance in Alaska, and with much
lighter grade than that road.
1 estimate that it will cost us
#40,000 a mile to build this road”
hut 1 have no doubt it will lie a
■paying venture,”said Mr. (Jillertte.
“That entire country is rich in
minerals, and once the road is put
through, the development of that
part of Alaska will begin on such a
scale as to pale into insignificncc
all the work that has been done
there in the past ten years. Look
what the mere scratching of the
surface of a small part of Alaska
has done for Seattle and the entire
Pacific coast, and then try to im
agine the prosperity that will ensue
when the country is developed on
a large scale.
We start in with three standard
gcuge engsnes end invest nlmut
#<>0,000. in cars and etjvipment. We
will run at least one train a day
each way, and the mail contract
will help us out somewhat. We
can cut the best time now on record
between Saattleaml Dawson stjuare
ly in two when we get this road in
operation, ami the fact that the
road will l>e open all winter, with
\ aide/, open all the year around for
any kind of vessels to approach, it
strikes me that we will have the
call on freight shipmehts. The
men hack of tins project think so,
anyway, and they are among the
shrewdest railroadmen in the Uni
ted States.
This company is incorjmratod
under the laws of New Jersey. It
is not asking any aid; it asks fora
land grant from the government lo
calise the men behind it believe
they are entitled to it, and under
the terms of the grant the govern
ment cannot lose anything, for
once the road is built the alternate
sections still retained by the gov
ernment cannot be sold for less
tijan twice the minimum cost pre
virus to the grant.
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Continued from first page.
Dempsey could not sell the proper
ty without first consulting him.
There was much ill feeling mani
fested at the meeting. It l>eing a
matter for the courts to settle, no
conclusion was arrived at. The
next morning the principals met
and settled their differences pri
vately. Oossip says Dempsey paid
#1,UU). for the re,urn of the hill o!
sale. The claim was shut down for
a couple of days on account of the
hifticulty, hut has started up again
now that matters are settled. Mr:
and Mrs. Hosford have left Demp
sey it Coles’ employ, and will run
a restaurant on the "Tacoma”.
A great many people are arriving
in camp, very few of whom have
any outfit at all. When asked why '
they came in light they say they
read Hammonds ad in the Valdez
papers wherein he states that he
lias lots of provisions up here.
Such is not the case. It is the re
verse. (iruh is very scarce here
and the new comers are cursing j
Hammond for deceiving them. All '■
the provisions Sienger and Little I
iiad here this winter have lieen sold.'
There is nothing else to sell. Peo- }
pic who came here to work and i
ME IDOUMTI
General Merchants
Groceries
Hardware
Clothing
Footwea r
etc.
We are Agents for Chase & Sanborn's
Celebrated Roasted Coffee.
Pioneer Outfitters
Lumber and Timbrs of all kinds
Rough, Planed, Matched.
Lathe and Rand
Saw Work. VJ'''' Spe°ial
\ AR^ Orders Promptly
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CRAWFORD & RUTHERFORD,Managers.
The 'Bohemian Saloon
LIQUOR AMO CIGARS,
HOME BETTER.
McKinley St. Between Keystone and Glacier Ave.
Gold Dust
Exchange.
Highest Price Paid For
Gold Dust
Treasury Notes, Drafts and Money Orders
Cashed Free of Charge.
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OTTO KANITZ, PROPRIETOR.
Liquid Refreshments of Rest Quality. Clean and Comfortable Rooms
to Let at Reasonable Rates.
McKinley Street near Glacier Avenue.
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RICHARD/ & CO,
FtlRMTl'RE, STOVES^MCSEHOLimjPFnES:
Second-Hand Goods Bought and Sold.
Joxks Building, - - Keystone Av e
brought their grub with them have
none to sell. In the early part of
the season provisions were cheap,
but now the proverbial $1 per
pound is the least paid for anything.
Among the late arrivals are
Judge Levelle, Oklahoma Bill, and
three other Mixzourians, Janies
Ikiyle, Jas. Moyland, Bob Graham,
Mr. O’Connor, Romain Scott, Geo.
Davison, Ed Dundee, Jas. Black
and party Gtsi. Holier and others
About 40 have arrived in the past
three days.
L. E, Davick
ARCHITECT 6r
D RAUQHHT JttAN.
OFFICE WITH A. J. ADAMS.
NEW YORK LIPE
INJURANCE CO.,
WRITES THE REST POLICIES!
G. Sponberg, Agent.