Valdez Brew
Just the same as beer, but
without the “Authority”
• at the
Buffet
Phone 7
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1W
PIONEER CONTRACTOR ad BUILDER
" 1 * 1 OF ALASKA 4
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of
wall board kept in stock at all times
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ ALASKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES J S. BLUM A CO, Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaaka.
Merchant’s Cafe
pimM «s ' OPK& DAT AND NIGHT Cbas. Fischer, Propr.
TRKAT YOURSELF
TO A NEW SUIT
or overcoat for Xmas. Come in
today and select the cloth from
our assortment of elegant and
exclusive fabrics from the very
best mills. The cost will not be
unreasonable. And our reputa
tion is a guarantee that the
style and tailoring will be irre
proachable.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, VaWea, Hoe, Pipe and Fittings
Veldes Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. _ Telephone 2*
YOUR COUiAM WILL
FKKL FINE
around your neck If we launder
them. No rough edges or torn
button holes to aggravate you
>and chafe your skin. Your shirts
too, will be juBt stiff enough
and faultlessly ironed. In short,
you’ll receive the greatest sat- 1
l isfaction for the least money.
^ Shall we call today?
INDEPENDENT
e
STEAM LAUNDRY
THE SENATE
** If Atorar tlHinmffii (faiiA gcwawws h 1
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Room#* * » C ' Phone 38
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinlej St, Valdez
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ALAMEDA HAB LARGE ~
LIST OP PASSENGERS
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The steamship Alameda which pass
ed throtth hare Saturday night, had
a large passengers treat the
westward,v every aeeomiiodatlon M»
•t ■* tf nuptutfa'i, f.l
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log Ukaa. iippt Qf.herpassengerB
fsame from Anphorage, gad were rail
way officials, who bad been laid elf
U»e first of the ypar. Vgldeafurnlshed
M* o dosen aod Cordova added to
thp number, crowding the Teasel tb
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STEAMSHIP ALAMEDA WILL
DRYDOCK THIS TRIP
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This will be the last trip of the
steamship Alameda of the Alaska
Steamship Company for some time, as
she will be under repairs for about
seven weeks. The steamship North
western will take her run.
‘After the road out of Anchorage
to Fairbanks is completed the road
to (he interior by way of Valdez and
the way via Cordova will be abandon
ed.” said an Anchorage booster in
a recent interview with a Seattle pub
lication. Wherein (he gentleman was
wrong.. Persons coming out of the in
terior will do as they do now, tired
of paying exhorbitant prices for
transportation will walk over the
trail. When a man can make $5 to $10
per day walking, with the savings of
several days time, he will not go sev
eral hundred miles out of his way to
get either to Anchorage or Seward. A
man can leave the boat here and be
in Fairbanks by auto and nearly by
foot before he can reach Seward or
Anchorage by steamer, with the long
railway trip still ahead of him. The
trains on the government road are
scheduled as making from 4.5 to 10
miles an hour, according to the rail
road bulletin issued, and many of our
old timers can mush that fast, with
out pulling a train of cars or a ca
boose behind. The trail will always be
popular on account of being the
quickest and most direct route to the
interior, and all efforts of our west
ern competitor to have it abandoned
will be in vain.
NEW RECORD 18 SET BY
WINTER WHEAT PLANTING
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan., 7.—
More winter wheat has been planted
this fall by American farmers than
ever before in the history of the na
tion, according to a report issued by
the Department of Agriculture yester
day afternoon. The acreage of winter
wheat is reported as 42,170,000, an
increase of 4 per cent over last year’s
planting. The condition of the crop
is reported as 79.3 per cent of normal,
a condition which should result in a
total production of 540,000,000 bush
els of winter wheat alone. The 1917
crop was 418,000,000.
FOOD CONSERVATIONISTS
MEET SATURDAY EVE
A meeting of the food conservation
committee was held in the office of
Chairman Arthur Lang, Saturday ev
ening at 4:30 o'clock with all mem
bers of the committee present. Chair
man Lang read a telegram from Ter
ritorial Commissioner Gunnison ask
ing what progress was being made in
regard to food saving in Valdez. An
inventory of the restaurants revealed
the fact that the meatless day saved
125 pounds of meat each week in the
city. After some discussion it was
agreed to make Wednesday a wheat
less day and Friday a meatless day
for Valdez. The restaurants also
agreed to cut down their sugar sup
ply to patrons, serving Individual por
tions at meals instead of placing the
sugar in bowls with an invitation to
patrons to wast more or less of the
needed staple. The members of the
committee universally agreed that ev
ery person ita the city was saving all
they could, but believed that if atten
tion was called to ways in which fur
ther savings could be effected that our
citizens would cheerfully fall In line.
The cardB and posters shipped to
chairman Lang failed to arrive on the
Alameda, so the committee is great
ly handicapped in securing signatures.
The members of the committee are
Arthur Lang, Cheaiman. R. Domain
Nicholls, secretary, Mayor James Pat
terson. E. B. Ritchie, T. G. Quinn, W.
N. Cuddy, Dr. J. A. Silverman and
H. B. Selby.
DIHBARMENT PROCCEDINGS
OPEN AGAINST HI GILL
SEATTLE, Jan. 7.—The disbar
ment trial of Hi- Gill, mayor of Seat
tle, opened this morning in Seattle,
before the board of state bar exam
iners.
Suggestion
A nice display of hand-painted pic
tures at Rudolph’s if
Tinas Goods
and useful articles are now coming
on every boat, for the Emporium, tf
Just received a new line of Pyre
In Ivory suitable for Christmas gifts
at the Valdes Drug Store. tf
Valdes Flsb Prices
Halibut .07 cents a pound, City
Dock; halibut .06 cents pound on
Ashing grounds; black cod t01 1-2
cents.
G. W. LONG.
Valdes Iron Works. If you hasn't
anything else to do go Ashing. tf
Hot-Point Eleetrio Heaters and
Cooklng^Appllah'ceo at thi'Bmporiua.
Chrtkniai’foods bothtag Oh' the not
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Itii *<• •> • ■■ -( - - nr,
new mmmuns stock
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Ahfmal, Mapping on Platform, Opono'
Valvoa Which Allow a Fresh, Cold
. Stream to Pour Irt.
A trough hns been Invented which
run gauge the amonnt of water an ani
mal drinks. There Is h platform which
works In conjunction with valves on
the supply and drain pipes of the
trough. When an animal steps on the
plntform the valves are opened and h
stream of water pour# In. As he slakes
h1s thirst and steps off the platform i
the Inlet Is closed and the surplus wa- t
ter Is drained off.
The valve mechanism of this device |
Is mounted In n concrete well In the !
ground. The valve of the supply pipe
and the valve of the drain pipe are
mounted side by side, and the stems of
both valves fit Into a single operating
lever. Hinged above this mechanism
at the level of the ground Is the plat
form. The front end of the platform
Is raised slightly hy a pair of springs
and Is connected with the lever Of the i
valves. The water trough lies Just In
front of the nlatform.
As soon affan animal walks on the
platform he presses the front end down
and opena the valves of the trough
pipes. The water gushes In at Just the
rate that he will drlnlc. His thirst
qnenelied, he leaves the platform, the
springs raise It up and close Ibe valves.
Very little water Is wasted, ad the
drink furnished the thirsty r.dtnal Is
as cool and fresh as that which la sup
plied to the farmer and his men.
FAVORS AN AMATEUR BUGLER
Flatdweller Prefers Distressing Noise
Made by Cornet Tooter * Man
Who Yeila "Murder** In Sieep.
“We lived once,*' said Mr. Flatdwell
| er. ‘In the same house with an ama
| tenr cornet player; and we tbongbt
j then that If we ever got out of that
j house we should be happy. It didn’t
| stem ns If we could ever have. In any
I other place, so distressful a nelgh
| hor.
“Hut in this house that we have
lately moved Into we beard the first
night we were here the cry of
“ 'Murder! Murder I’
"We sat up In horror; listening and
wondering what we ought to do; but
the next moment we heard a female
voice saying;
“’Kdward! Kdward! Wake up!
Mercy! What's the matter?’
“Anil then wo heard. In a man's
voice: .
“ ‘M.v gracious! I’m glad that
j wasn’t true.’
“This was n great relief to us. of
course, as no doubt It was to Ed
ward ; but then, as we pulled the bed
clothes up again and our bead
touched the pillow, we reflected that
the novice straggling with a cornet
hail once seemed the worst thing that
could happen to us; hut now we knew
better. As between him and a neigh
bor prone to u nightmare, give us. oh.
give us, every time, the amateur
bugler.”
i
Train the Memory.
The memory is a faculty which
1 through patient practice may be cultl
' vafed and trained to a wonderful de
j gree. Morphy, the celebrated chess
j player, could play several games ol
chess simultaneously without seeing
any of the boards on which the various
games were being conducted. It was
a peculiarly Impressive sight to set
him standing In the middle of the floor,
with his arms folded, defending him
self and attacking the various oppo
nents. with the itositiou of the chess
men on the several hoards always Id
his mind's eye. observes a writer. The
noted Jesuit Father Suarez was said
to have known all the works of St. Au
gustine by heart. These consist of
eleven large volumes. Pascal Is said
never to have forgotten anything be
read, and the same is told of Grotius,
Leibnitz and Euler. Themlstocles
knew the name of every one of the
twenty thousand citizens of Athens.
Where Cyclones Originate.
The most violent cyclones originate
In tropical latitudes. In the Atlantic
ocean to the north and east of West
Indian Islands, and in the Pacific, In
the China sea and In the neighborhood
of the Philippine Islands.
The reason they arc so destructive
is because they are carried such great
distances by extraneous Influences. The
West Indian cyclones are attracted
toward the Gulf stream by the great
volume of heated air which always
hangs over It and follows Its course;
so the cyclones of the Pacific follow
the course of Kuro Si wo, the great
jeeunic current which passes around
the East Indian archipelago, the shores
of Chlnu and the Japanese Islands.
Cyclones may he anywhere from 30
to 500 mites In diameter and may
travel over a path 5,000 miles In ex
tent.
A Robert Browning Story.
Tennyson wore the same hat year
after year, a big wide-awake, almost
green with age. How long exactly he
hhd had this hut nobody seems to
know. His Inverness cloak was not
quite so ancient, but bad long sine
seen Its best days. The great poet
was scrupulously clean In his person,
but he would not part with his old
clothes.
He seems to have clung as tena
ciously to his boots as to his hat j
William Alllngham records In his
diary: “Robert Browning dined at ,
Tsunyson’S ■ last night. - Tennysea In
grant force. He oahL TUs pair at 1
drees boots la forty-year*dd’ Brhwn- 1
lapwK i* woo geod wrMsatedMfca ’
liuamaUlp sftWr entein.>•".?•. , .fj -1
WHEN FLAMES FILL
THE FACTORY
despair Alls the owner who has
neglected to look after his in
surance. We handle the Insur
ance of some very large con
cerns. We place it in the bebt
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let us do (hat for you.
it will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez Real KM ate Agoucy
I’litoie No. 1. VAIX)HZ DOCK CO.. Agent, VaMn AIahIca.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave fleettte 1# a. m.—
Jan. 8—S. S. Adm. Evans.
Jan. 20—8. 8.
Jan. 28—8. 8. Adm. Evans
From V*M« to Btrtlli
Jan. 20—S. S. Adra. Kvans.
Feb. 1—S. S. -
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Saturday for
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
1FJ0UR TICKET READS “PACIFIC STEAMSHIP: COMPART”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
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VT\| ALASKA
y~ a| STEAMSHIP CO.
Prom Seattle 9 a. m.—
Jan. 10—S. S. Victoria
Jan. 16—8. S. Northwestern.
Jan. 24—S. S. Alaska.
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 5—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 11—S. S. Alaska.
Jan. 17— S. S Victoria.
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova. Ellauiar. Fort Llscum, Vaidet,
Latouche and Seward, except S. S. Victoria which sails via "outside”
route between Seattle and Cordova.
S. S. Victoria, sailing from Seattle January 10th connects with
S. S. Dora at Seward for Alaska Peninsula Ports.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Deuglaa dkagway, Cordova Bllamar, Valdes and La
touche Explosives Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
VALDBZ DOCK CO, Levs! Agent
Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor _
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to all
Interior Points
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
No Goal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance
A complete line of fountain pens,
perfumes, stationery, etc., at the
▼aides Drug Store. Buy your Xmss
gifts there. '' tf
John Crawford, of Anchorage, a
brother of Charles and Jess Craw
ford of this city, was an outgoing pas
senger on the steamship Alameda, for
the States, after a few days spent in
Valdez as guest of his brothers.
Contractor Crawford is installing
the door and window casings in the
quartermaster building today, and fin
ishing the cornices. The Q. M. is haul
ing hay and storing it in the build
ing preparatory to moving the live
stock in.
Privates Charles and Fields moved
Into the Dalton bouse, recently va
cated by George White.
, Mr. and Mrs. George Harmon re
turned to their home in Cordova on
the steamship Alameda. Mrs. Harmon
vaa formerly Miss Vera Bryant, aup
trintendent of the Valdes schools.
‘THE TWO-EDGED SWORD”
AT EMPRESS TUESDAY
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Edith Storey in "The Two-Edged
Sword," will appear in the dv^part
/ltagreph feature Tuesday evening,
nth a reel of .Current Events, a reel
>f Hearat Paths News, and the opa
rt* .
Popular Music bf the Moose Band
Mtween reels. >
«
•Vew Teacher for Valdez
W. A. Dolan, chairman of the Val
dez School Board, received a tele
gram yesterday from Seattle stating
that Miss Louise Vandervauter would
leave on the steamship Victoria, Jan
uary 10, for this city, to take the po
sition in the schools recently vacated
by Miss Bryant. Miss Vandervauter
comes highly recommended being a
graduate of the University of Wash
ington, and having had four years
teaching experience in French anil
other work. Mrs. W. H. Kramer will
assist in the school work until the
arrival of Miss Vandervauter. and
will turn the salary over to the Red
Cross.
SCHOLARS SUCCESSFULLY
PASS HARD TEST
Last week the scholars under Miss
Gamble successfully passed the spell
ing test of 100 demon words, Edward
Dolan and Mildred Wheat spelling ev
ery one of the words successfully and
Alaska Egan and Elaine Caa<eron
spelling ^9 per cent. sue ords
were purposely picked 1. • vord» us
ed in every-day business and nearly
always mispelled. That the young
sters so successfully ]> iss.id the or
deal speaks well for their training.
S m si-.—me 1 ■ ■
Rev. F*r. Van de. M tailed for
Cordova on the ste.i hip Alameda
Saturday, and will rc .rn on the Al
Moose Band practloes c -■. t.
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