Send an order to the
“BUFFET”
for a case of the famous
VALDEZ BREW
“The Best Ever.”
PHONE 7.
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1911
PIONEER CONTRACTOR lid BUILDER
OF ALASKA
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 .1 S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS '( B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alaaka.
Merchant’s Cafe
Phone 68 OPKN DAY AND NIGHT Cbee. Klaclier, Prapr.
.11 HT AN ORDINARY
GOOD FIT
isn't sufficient for our standard
of tailoring. The garments must
lit perfectly at every point or it
is no sale with us. We would
like to show you our skill by
making that new suit for you.
Drop in and select the cloth and
leave the rest to us. Don't wor
ry about the cost. We don't
break you or come anywhere
neaT it.
BEN SILVERMAN
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hose, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
OUR MACHINERY
Is thoroughly up-to-date. It en
ables us to turn out perfect
work in a short time. This ma
chinery does more than wash
the articles sent to us. It prac
tically serilizes them too. Send
your things ehre this week as a
test. That will demonstrate the
superiority of our work. We al
so wash and clean carpets.
Phone 166.
INDEPENDENT
STEAM LAUNDRY
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
THE PINZON
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
Gaffie^ ^Chocoiatc-P
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
Xmas Good*
and jiaetnl article* ere now oomln*
on otott boat, tor the Emporium- tf
Valdai FWi PHea*
>t dRi* » cwr
Dock; halibut .06 coats pound on
fishing grounds; black cod .01 1-1
cents.
Q. W. LONG.
Valdes Iron Worst. If .you kaTal
asrtfctertlse to do ge fiohlag. U
SELF-INJURY FROM LYING
Vloioua Habit Make* It Dlffleult for
the Prevaricator to 8ucceed in an
Honest Undertaking.
Lying <'nines not of aggressive
shrewdness, hut of cowardice and of »
shallow cunning that Is often treach
erous and tricks the lie Into transpar
ency.
It is not the danger of being found
I out by others that is most to be
dreaded; far more dreadful is it that
the liar must know himself to he a
j liar, the Christian Herald says.
"I'ls self-respect suffers— the leaven
j In hint loses strength and leaves him
dead dough.
j The miming that leads to lying is
! a rot that .must permeate the whole
| ehnriieter mid make a man uncertain
! of himself. It distorts his perspective.
1 obscures his vision, and warps Ills
j comprehension. The habit of misrep
resentation leads to misconception, the
j judgment heroines as erratic its the
j touglle. and then* results llie man
who ‘‘couldn't tell the trillh if lie Wlltll
I ed to."
Nothing so shakes (tie confidence of
one's friends as known lying does;
nothing so shatters one's own self-con
fidence ns does lying, whether known
to others or not.
The cowardice that fathers lying In
creases with the lie. Fear of detec
tion joins with self-contempt In mak
ing the liar a greater coward than be
fore. One lie calls for another in its
defense.
Soon a tangled weh spun of false
hood makes It all the harder for the
liar to succeed in even an honest un
dertaking. His lies are a chain and
hall upon his fool. They are lien ill in
Ills eye mid a weight on his heart, lie
flounders along, most of his energy he
Ing required to overcome the Impedi
ment. while the truthful man easily
outstrips him.
The lying cheat In the "Vlenr of
Wakefield.” who was always swindling
everybody, died III Jail for debt, while
Ills honest neighbor, who was swindled
a thousand times, steadily prospered
and died rich and respected. Fiction,
eh? Well. It Is iiilllinrtill as fiction, he
cause It is fact the world over.
I HAVE A CHEERY DINING ROOM
Gloomy Surroundings Prompt Hasty
Eating and May Be Responsible
for Many Cases of Dyspepsia.
Few liiiine-liiillilers realize the Impor
tanee of the dining room. Too fre
rptently It Is placed In some conveni
ent corner, light and outlook being
sacrificed for the benefit of other
rooms, it Is true that In a smnll cot
tage a dining room may l>e omitted.
This may be necessary In order to give
added space to the living room. It l«
belter to have either an alcove off the
kitchen or make a combined living and
(lining room than to provide both with
out proper size or ventilation. But a
house of large or medium size should
have a separate dining room, writes
Dorothy Verrill Yales, In People's
Home Journal.
The first requisite for a dining room
is sunlight. Many a case of dyspepsia
probably comes front dining In gloomy
surroundings which create hasty eat
Ing. One’s meals should be served in
a pleasant room with a pleasant at
Unisphere. This is as necessary to
health as the proper observance of
rules of diet.
The Ideal dining-room exposure K
southeast, and it should have all the
windows possible, and as charming an
outlook as can be arranged. The day
Is much better started lit sunshine
than in shadow, and with a view of a
rose-covered trellis or a flowering
hedge, Instead of an ugly fence or
“yard.”
Sea Otters.
Some of the liuhlts of the sea otter
are very Interesting. For example, an
otter always swims on his back, Ids
tall serving ns a milder and bis bead
slightly raised so that by locking over
his shoulder he can shape Ills course.
When about to dive, however, he turns
on Ills stomach, remaining in thut posi
tion while under water, but changing
again on coining to the top. writes Kd
wurd K. Martin, in St. Nicholas. Swim
ming a few feet below the surface, an
otter very much resembles a sailor In
his oilskins. An amusing story is told
of a tourist fisherman who. seeing one
of these animals swimming In this
manner, hurried ashore and related a
wonderful tale about having seen a
sailor man. apparently drowned, yet
swimming with till the vigor of life six
or seven feet under water; aud who,
when he, thinking the man might he
alive, rowed to his assistance, wen I
down nnd'stnyed down. The fisherman
would not believe It when fold that It
was probably a sen otter, and he re
turned Immediately to his Eastern
home convinced lie laid received a su
pernatural warning of some dire ca
lamity about to happen.
Are You a Superior PereonT
A professor of psychology announced
to his class somewhat humorously one
day that he should propound a proh
lent by mentis of which each member
could prove to his own satisfaction
whether or not he was u superior per
son. The average person, he explained,
never works It out; only the person of
superior practical ability succeeds.
Here is the problem, as propounded by
the Youth’s Companion:
A man has two palls; one of which
holds exactly five quarts and the other
exactly three quarts. lie is sent to the
river to bring back exactly seven
quarts of water, no more, no less. With
only the five-quart pull and the three
quart pall bow cun he measure exactly
eqveq' ouqrtal Congou solve lt»
I NEEDLES I'SED IA>NG AGO
ARK BROT INTO SERVICE
• ■— i p
GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 24.— ,
With the same knitting needles with
which she knit 40 pairs of socks for
! soldiers of the Civil War, 55 years
jago, Mrs. R. M. Craven of Belt, Mon
tana, has just completed two pair of
socks for American soldiers in the
present war, and sent them to the
local Red Cross chapter.
I Mrs. Craven is a pioneer of Mon
tana and has been active in Red Cross
work.
DIVER I l\DK Y"deAD
MAX OX' Sl'XKEX BOAT
|
While under water investigating
I the sunken gashoat Myrtle the diver
reported finding the body of a man
in another launch which proved to be
‘the body of Anton Larson, a flsher
I man of Petersburg. Larson was last
seen on Nov. 2nd, when he had de
posited some money with one of the
Ketchikan merchants.
As far as the Ketchikan authorities
: can determine the deceased had no
1 relatives and had but recently pur
chased the launch In Port Alexan
dria. The launch contained a small
four horsepower Regal engine and al
so a small rowboat which will be dis
posed of. An inquest was held over
: the remains and the same were buried
at Ketchikan.— Ketchikan Miner.
I CANNERY BE MOVED
WATERS
' The Hidden Inlet Packing Company
is preparing to move the equipment
of its Puget Sound plant, now at
Richardson, Wash., to Hood Bay,
Chatham Straits, Alaska. A first-class
plant will be built at this site, and
a complete three line outfit will be in
stalled. All equipment. Including a
new can makng machine will be of
the Seattle Astoria Iron Works make.
Juneau Empire.
BISHOP DECIDES TO
REDUCE CHURCHES
DENVER. Jan. 24.—That Denver
has too many churches and that few
er would serve the purpose during the
war was the reason advanced by Irv
ing P. Johnson, bishop coadjutor of
Colorado, in calling today a meeting
of members of the Episcopal churches
in the city for Thursday to consider a
plan to abolish all but four of the
nine churches and four chapels of
that denomination in the city.
Ten below, 45 inches of snow and
a blizzard blowing is the report this
morning from the operator at McCal
lum, who adds to the good cheer con
veyed in his letter by stating that
south and north bound mails are both
stalled at that point, and snow is still
falling. The snowfall in the interior
is the heaviest ever known, and has
greatly interfered with operations.
.MARINE LOUSES FULLY
$2,000,000 CALENDAR YEAR
SEATTLE, Jan. 24— Fully $2.
000,000 represents the total loss as a
result of accidents at sea in the Pa
cific Northwest and Alaskan watero in
the calendar year 1917. There were
only nineteen wrecks, according to
inspectors H. C. Lord and William
Fisher, and of these Bix vessels were
a total loss, including the steamship
Mariposa, valued at $900,000, which
ran aground and was destroyed at
Strait Island, Alaska, November 18,
this being the heaviest single finan
cial loss of the year.
Four lives were lost, all id the
case of the steamship Tolo, which
collided with the steamer Magic, dur
ing a thick fog on October 5, between
Alki Point and Restoration Point, and
was a total loss. ,
Authentic estimates of the amount
of damage in some cases cannot at
this time be obtained, official inves
tigation and survey being still pend
ing. but authentic estimates as to
thirteen of the vessels are given as
follows:
Admiral Watson. $ 30,000
Stanley Dollar. 35,000
Standard. 150,000
C. C. Cherry. 3,000
St. Francis. 150,000
Wakena. 1,000
Jefferson. 8,000
Barge Elwell. 500
Milwaukee Barge No. 6. 500
Al-Ki. 100,000
Mariposa. 900,000
Spokane. 260,000
Thistle. 60,000
Total thirteen vessels ...$1,168,000
The grounding of Barge No. 38, in
tow of the steamer Daniel Kern, at
Oyhut, five miles north of Grays Har
bor entrance, as the result of keep
ing too close to shore to avoid rough
weather outside, was a peculiar case,
in that the barge, property of the
Independent Towing Company, was
later raised and transported three
fourths of a mile through timber and
swamps and safely launched at North
Bay, Grays Harbor. She grounded on
March 20, started on £er overland
trip April I, and was launched * at
North Bay, May 4. This was aeeoak
/
plished by Curtis Bros, under the sup
ervision of Mr. Duncan, of the tow
ng company. Barge No. 38 is 157 feet
long. 40 feet beam and 12 feet mould
ed depth, her net tonnage being 497
tons. She was then dry docked and
inspected and found to be uninjured.
Origin of the fire which destroyed
i the tug boat Ruth has not been dis
j covered. The fire on the Kyak start
ed in tlie engine room and is now un
der investigation by the marine in
j specters. She was tied tip at the
11’oulsbo dock at the time of the .'ire.
The steamer Spokane was Homed
after grounding during a thick fog
on Idol Point. Seaforth Channel, B.
C„ November 22, and continued her
run to Seattle. She Is now on drj
dock at the Seattle Construction &
Dry Dock Company.
The steamship Mariposa grounded
on Strait Island during very thick.
r»Mjy weather, November 18, and is
a total loss .
Kodaks and kodak supplies at th'1
Valdez Drug Co. tf
CLE th’ Irishman sez: “One
man’s ez good ez another
an’ a durn sight better.”
Anyway, one man
can't get no better
tobacco 'n another
ef they both get
VELVET.
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WHEN FLAMES FILL
f THE FACTORY
> despair fills 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 beet
companies, pay the premiums
promptly and attend to renew
als. Let us do that for you.
It will not cost you anything
for our service.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
Phone Xo. 1. VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Agent, Valdez Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.— From Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 12.—S. S. Admiral Evans. Jan 22—S. S. Admiral Evans
Jan. 20—S. S.
Jan. 30- S. S. Admiral Evans h>b- 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.
IF YOUR TICKET READS "PACIFIC STEAMSHIP [COMPANY"
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle 9 a. m.—
Jan. 10—8. S. Victoria
Jan. 10—8. S. Northwestern.
Jan. 24—8. 8. Alaska.
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 5—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 11—S. S. Alaska.
Jan. 17— S.S Victoria.
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova. Ellamar, Fort Llacum, Valdez,
Latouche and Seward, except S. S. Victoria which sails via “outside"
route between Seattle and Cordova.
S. S. Victoria, Bailing 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 Skagway, Cordova. Ellamar. Valdes and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
VALDEZ DOCK CO- Local Ageat
Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to ill
Interior Points
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
No Goal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance