The Summer Boys.
IN N't s have -ting of the summer girl.
Anti hailed her reign with joy;
Hut her reign i^n’t in it
With the reign <>f the summer hov.
All winter long we’ve stood a round.
And watched with a .resigned air
The antics of those Brenmer swells
And Slate creek millionaires.
We’ve made the coffee, served the
lunch.
Anti on the Ajxdlo played,
While they danced with the ladies.
And their Yietv airs displayed.
But now the thing is different;
And whileo'orthe trail they mush
We dance with the ladies,
And console them for their loss.
We may not lx- as young as some,
And the hairs on our heads he
few.
But if’twere not for us summer boys.
What would the ladies tlo?
Fkm.
A FERTILE IMAGINATION.
J. D. Hoover Talks of Matters He
Knows Nothing About.
J. D. Hoover, a pioneer Alaska,
wlio has thirty-nine placer claims
at Sunrise City, at the upper eiul
of Cook Inlet, is in Seattle on
business, and is staying at 1415
Fifth Avenue. He is greatly inter
ested in the Alaskan Central Rail
way. "I have Wen all through
that country,” said Mr. Hoover.
“I have lived there four years,
and have prospected everywhere
from Resurrection Ray to the
Tanana. Kcnai Peninsula and
the Shushetna valley are the richest
parts of Alaska. I have found
quartz on Kcnai Peninsula that
showed free gold. All the bars of
the streams show colors. The
placer diggings at Sunrise City are
Wing worked by 300 to500men, and
they are putting hydraulics to
work them to Wttcr advantage.
‘‘Jack Renner, who is now stay
ing in Seattle, took out 11702 in
one day and 11540 another day,
last summer on Mills creek. A
railroad through that peninsula
will open a mining district richer
than the Klondike, in the first fifty
mill's.
“The Shushetna valley has the
Wst timber in Alaska. The Kenai
peninsula, too, is heavily timW'red.
Thousands of acres there are cov
ered with trees three feet in diam
eter.
“I have always claimed that any
railroad built through the interior
of Alaska, would have to go from
Resurrection hay. That is the fi
. nest harbor in Alaska.and haseasy
passes. It is out of the question to
build from Valdez on account of
glaciers.
“Resurrection bay has a level
country all around, and is fine for
a town site. We raise just as good
garden produce there as you do
here on Puget Hound. I lived
thirty-two years in Montana, but
Kenai Peninsula and Hhushctna
valley are far ahead of that State
in climate. We get the warm
winds from the Pacific over Kenai
peninsula and for three hundred
miles inland.”—Seattle Times.
The ulmve article from the Times
is in part correct. The Kenai pen
iusula is the garden spot of Alaska’
and Resurrection bay one of the
best lmrlMjrs in Alaska. There are
a number of rich placer claims on
the peninsula, hut nothing has yet
Ken fount! to show that the coun
try is as rich as the Klondike or to
warrant the building of a railroad
through the country. The talk of
a road from Resurrection hay to
the \ ukon is visionary. That a
road cannot K* built from Valdez
on account of glaciers, is a barrier
that we have not heard of before.
Mr. Hoover shows a lamentable ig
| noiance in regard to Valdez and
this route to the interior, when lit*
makes such a statement.
If you want to buy an outfit in
the interior, or have goods deliver
ed to any part of the district, or
wish yourself taken to anv part of
the interior with guides, call on A.
Holman,
Recertified Covernment Heriot
for sale by t'. N. Crarv.
I
Old Russian Diggings.
A cofferdam, built of rock, and a
bedrock drain, 500 feet long, have
l»-en found on Gold Hun. in the
Kougarok district, which were
built many years ago.
These discoveries were mad*' at
a considerable depth front the sur
face. The walls of the drain can
la: traced distinctly for a distance
of 500 feet and show every indica
tion that the stones of the wall
I were placed one upon the other by
human hands. Those who have
given the matter close attention,
say that the mines were probably
worked by the Russians, while Al
aska was under leasetothe Russian
Fur Co.
During that lease, the fur com
pany made it a crime to mine with
in the limits of Alaska, and even
when hunters brought in gold-War
ing quartz, they were given from
•>0 to 100 lashes. The Kougarok
district was out of the range of the
officials, and the mines were un
doubtedly worked clandestinely.
Fossil Glaciers in Siberia.
Baron Toll lias made an inter
esting discovery of buried glacier
on (.treat Lyukho island in New
Siberia. The baron deserilte* them
as fossil glacier, composed of mass
es of ice, not river ice, or he form
ed in clefts, but undoubtedly gla
cial ice, dating from the glacial
period, which lias I sen covered
with more recent soil deposit. Re
garding the animals, mammoth,
rhinoceros and other mammals
found in them, he concluded that
they lived on the spots where
their remains now occur, dying out
hv reason of the phvsico-geograph
ieal change* of the region, their
bodies, with the exception of the
remains of those tliat were destroy
ed by some catastrophe, having
been deposited on river terrace's,
shores of lakes and the surfaces of
the glaciers, wlierc they have lteen
gradually buried in loam and pre
served in the same way as the
masses of ice beneath them by per
manent and perhaps increasing
cold.
Can a Man Salve His Own Boat.
A problem in shipping law has
been raised at Yarmouth, where
the owner of a trawler lias present
ed a claim to an insurance club for
salving liisown vessel. Four luimls
went ashore, leaving only two
young luimls aboard. Wlien they
tried to return tlieeU* tide preven
ted them reaching the vessel, and
they had to land at the beach.
The owner going down to her, and
finding her in wliat la- considered
a position of risk, got a man to as
sist him,and together they brought
the trawler hack into the harbor.
He holds tliat the insurers should
eomjieusate him for saving his own
trawler.—London Times.
Fox Island For Sale.
Tlie well established fox ranch on
Goose island, Prince William sound.
| containing 880 acres, well timbered
and good grazing ground for stock
at all seasons. It is 3 miles from
| the mainland, is stocked with over
200 blue fox, has ten good buildings
thereon and a good garden. Fish
in abundance for fox feed. Terms
low. Address, M. L. Torstensen, or
G. W. Donaldson, Ellan ar, Alaska.
Chunks of Philosophy.
The devil may not be as b'a'tk as
he is painted, neither is the average
I woman’s complexion as white as it
is painted.
The average man spends morej
j money in a month during court*
; ship tlien he does in a vear after
.
marriage.
There is no ecstasy like that which
i slips into a fellows soul iu that
, hour when he is conscious of hav
| ing done an net of kindness
' to some liaplcss mortal.
j A Juneau paper states that Val
• dez has declared itself in favor of
, territorial government. That’s
news to us.
Have the Prosi-kctom sent to you
this summer and get the new? from
all parts j>f the country.
GOOD GOODJ. GOOD SERVICE.
“RECEPTION”
CLUB "ROOMS IN CO/i/iECTIOH
Market Price List.
Flour *!.*> por 100
Corn Mi>r1 " WO
Rutter *Sc •• Ih
Kgg- •• dox
sugar T.nn •• ion
Rice 44-«Uo$7 10 •• ltt»
Fotulor* 3* ..*• *• lb
Ra< on and llain 41.VOOti»RT.W ltf>
Coffee 2H to lOr - lb
Milk VJVh ti» *20 "can
Granulated Potatoes *J0 to 2-V " lb
Dried Fruit 8 to 15e •• lb
Syrup .$1 to fl .,fa> ** gai
Means, small white •*<*» * 1*"»
Means. Lima HJ..4) “ 100
Rolled Oats . ... V - lb
Tea V to 75 •• lb
Tobaeeo, smoking f4»to70c •• lb
Ttiluieeo. ehcwillg •'*> to 75c “ lb
K. Wash, double eond. timothy hay .812.ft* ton
Most Whitman Oats WJ.VOton
Coal W5 00 ton
Wffffi |M§ Mi
Alaska’s Official Directory.
Gmernoc—John G. Brady.
V.S, Judges-Melville C. Brown. Plat. No. 1.
seat at Juneau; James Wickershani. Pist. No. 3.
seat at Nome
1*. si. Attorneys - R. A. Frlslrich. Pist. No. 1;
Joseph K. Wood, J. Harlan.
Clerk-District No. 1. W. J. Ilills. Dlst. No. 3.
A. It lleilig.
I*. S. Marshals—James M. Shoup, Dlst. No. 1;
Cornelius L. Vawter, Dlst. Nti, *2; U. G. Perry.
IMst. No. 3.
Ct mi in issioners—Edward «le tirrfl, Sitka; II.
II. Folsom. Juneau: F. P. Tustin, Ft. Wrangtdl;
L. R. Woodward, Clialaska; P. Gallagher, Ko- '
diak; J. J. Roberts.Hkagway; W. J. Jiws ('Irelr
City; L. It. Shepard. St. Michael; Sol Kipiiisky, ■
Haines Mission: J. I’. Smith, Ketelilkan; G. M
Irwin, iHiuglas; C. T. Mn*>ks, Sunrsle; John
Lyons, Valdez, Prescott Sawyer, Eagle,
r. S. Land Officer* Surveyor General—W. R.
Distiii.
Register—John W. Dudley.
Receiver—A. I*. Apperson.
Clerks—Geo. Stow ell. W. F. Jefferys.
Deputy V.S. Marshals Dlst. No. 1, special,
W. Jl. McNair, J. W. Snook, Skaguav; J. I*.
CampbidL, Sitka; E. F. Kelly, Juneau; Wm. P.
Grant, Wrangell W. Ilillg, Douglas Island;
Edward C. Ilasey, Valdez; Lewis L. Bowers.
Kodiak;Peter Nissoti, Porcupine; W, G. Thom
as, Ketchikan; J. P. Ueynoldsou, Eagle, J.
Eiiboff, Killisnoo.
Alaska Views.
Views taken to order. DE
VELOPING and PRINTING.
Films, Plates, cte. Received,
Developed and Stored for any
Persons in the Interior. Send
all orders to J. G. Snyder’s.
P. S. HUNT, Photographer
VALDEZ, ALASKA.
CHURCHES SOCIETIES ETC.
Endeavor Con«. Cnrwn—Cor.
Glacier Avenue and Holiart
Street. Rev. D. \V. Cram. Pastor.
Services every Sunday at 10:AO a.
m. and S p. m. Prayer meeting
Wednesday night. Christian En
deavor Society meets Sunday even
ing at 7 o’clock- Melvin Dempsey,
President.
Chvuch ok the Epiphany—Cor.
i Glacier Avenue and Holeirt
Street- Services on Sunday at 4
p. m. Jas. Fish, Senior Warden.
Ohdek of Alaska Moose, Pioneer
Tent No. 1. Meet in their own
Hull on Reser
vation Avem.e,
every Thursday
evening at S
o’clock. John
(inodcll. Ruling
Spirit ; A. J. Ad
ams. Keeper of
Wa Wa.(Sec)
Auctk- Bkotiikkiiooi:—
Vali *-z Camp No. 10.
Meets at Moose
Hall every Tues
day evening.
A. M. Edwards,
Arctic Chief. J.
G. Snyder, Sec
retary.
Yaldkz Social Cu b F. Brown,
! Pres. Mrs. Anna Fish, Sim*. Meet
at the Moose Hall every Saturday
| vening.
i
Valdez Guam her of Commence—
Meet on the first anil third
Friday night of each month. J.
j (ioodclh I’res. A. \V. RiK'hforil.
See’y.
i * -
j Tlie Pboudwtok will Ik* on sale at
• Hammonil’s store on Slate creek
all summer.
i The Some City left Seattle April
24, for Nome, loaded with passen
gers. She is the first vessel to
start for that place this season.
Cntry's Mange Cure cures
LAUNDRY
Family and Bachelor
Washing of all kinds
Promptly Attended to.
riR/.W.E. RILEY,
KEYSTONE AV. SEE SIGN.
GRAND HOTEL
A SWAN, Proprietor
Corner Keystone Avenue and
McKinley Street
WHERE
a ? who?
STOP
Everyone From VALDEZ.
AT THE
FRANKLIN
OF COURSE.
Only First Class Eurojtcan Hotel in
JUNEAU.
John T. Spickett Proprietor
HOTEL DILLER.
Headquarters for VALDEZ People
1‘JO Rooms. Rates .MX-. $1.00 and
$1 .50 per day. First class res
taurant in connection. Free
bus. OpjHisite U- S. Postoflice.
\V- G. POTTS, Manager.
Cor. 1st Ave. and
University St. SEATTLE
vkAAAga, B0 years*
^|^^H|^experience
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Trade Marks
^BBHT Designs
' fHU Copyrights Ac.
Anyone sending a sketch end description may
quickly uscertnin our opinion free whether an
Invention mi probably patentable. Communic*.
tlonsHtrictlyconOdentlaL Hundbnokon Patents
sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.
Patents taken through Munn A Co. receive
BM-riol notice without charge, in the
Scientific American.
A handsomely Illustrated weekly. largest cir
culation of any scientific Journal. Terms. 93 a
year; four mouths, 9L Sold by all newsdealers.
^lAassM»
. Cameron Golden
1696 PiomToml Parlor INI
The Oldest a nil Moat
Reliable in Town.
Ladies’ Shampooing
a 8|iccialty.
Ladies’and Gents’Baths
Theonly place in town
where hath rooms are
separate from shop.
Latest Porcelain Kn
amel Tubs.
All Modern Improvements
Pacific Pachin; {navigation («.
Su«v-m> to PACIFIC STEAM WHALING Co.
EXCELSIOR
Z. S. MOORE, .M ast**.
AND
N EWPORT.
K S. MOORE, Masteh.
EXCELSIOR Sail-* from Seattle about 25th of Each Mouth lor
Yakutat, Ellamur, VALDEZ, Illiamnu anil Cooks Inlet Point*.
Sails from \ ALDLZ about 12th of tarli month for Juneau
Seattle.
NEWPORTaails from Juneau about 1st «>f each month for Valdez and
Western Points.
Sails from VALDEZ about 25th of each month for Sitka and Juneau.
For Information and Rates Apj.lv at Office «f
Pacific Packing & Nav. Co.
! Globe HuiMinp. Seattle, Waslc
30 California Street, San Fruoeitten.
J. C. Martin, Aft.
fifJi Jiros Store, Valdes.
\VM. WORKMAN P MAGNESOM
Workman’s Road House
First roadhouse huilt on Government
Trail. Can accomodate 50 people. has large
warm Ixirn for 20 horses anti good quarters
for dogs, Good meals and everything the
musher desires.
Twenty Miles From Valdez.
Roberts' Road House.
Before crossing the Summit on the way to
the interior stop for rest and shelter at Mr*.
Robert’s. BEST and ONLY place for feed
and water on the road. 21 Miles From Val
dez.
MRS. H. ROBERTS, - - PROPRIETOR.
i Donalson Roadhouse.
TONJINfl BRIbQE.
Outfits Cached Free of Charge. Free Horse and Dog Stables.
Distance From Valdez, 771 Miles, via Government Trail. Best
Accomodations for Travelers.
jCHAS. C. YAGER, Pitot*. 77 Milks From Valdes
I
When »>n the Way to the Interior, Stop at the
Loomis Roadhouse,
Tonsina Bridge.
Good Meals. Good Beds.
Complete Line of Merchandise and Miners Supplies at
Valdes Prices with Freight Added.
I. H. LOOMIS, Phop. 77 Mii.ks Fkom Valdes
I
: Harry C. Murphy Will Davis
HOTEL HOLMAN
Best roadhouse on the All American Route to the
Yukon. Fresh vegetables (luring season from our
own garden. Good feed for stock near by. Best of
■ accomodations, winter or summer.
'
COPPER CENTER. ALASKA. 103 Miles From Valdes
.
! C C. B0QARDU5,
Assayer and Chemist.
Gold and Silver $ 1.00 Gold Silver and Copper $2.50
tiO Columbia St., Seattle. Wasa.
Dr. L. S. CAMICIA
Dentist and Optician.
A Full Line of Spectacle* on Hand. Clocks
and Watches Repaired os
Short Notim
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