Report of the Financial Condition of
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
located at Valdez, Territory of Alaska, at the
close of business on the 10th day of February, 1915
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts.$109,434.03
Overdrafts . 297.33
Bonds, warran*s and other securities . 9,205.77
Furniture and fixtures. 4,324.00
Due from banks. 27,197.00
Checks on other banks and other cash items. 1,258.53
Cash on hand, including gold dust . 29,672.70
Total .$181,389.36
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. .3 25,000.00
Undivided profits . 2,669.62
Due to banks—deposits. 8,246.74
Deposits . 145,367.30
Certified checks . 105.80
Total .$181,389.36
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, >• 88.
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION. )
I, W. M. Goodwin, Cashier, of the above named bank, do solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my know
ledge and belief. W. M. GOODWIN, Cashier
Correct Attest: j jqjjn'lyONS
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th day of February, 1915
J. W, GILSON,
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
[seal] My Commission expires January 21, 1917.
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Valdez Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
Motor Boat Supplies. Paints and Oils.
Pumps. Well-Pointf. Valves T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. Hose.
_PIPE AND FITTINGS_
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1 j
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
Al. White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Aooepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month In MoKtnley Hall Visitor* always
we loom e.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
Ed. Wood, Sec
Q. O. Relnke, tee watchmaker and
jeweler, Is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
—
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers (or sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
The big free dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come.
Beautiful hand-painted vases just
received at Valdez Drug Ce. tf
SAYS FARMERS
GETTING MONEY
Chicago Wheat Speculator Telle Probe
Commission That Farmers Are
Getting Wise.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Joseph Let
ter, of Chicago wheat corner fame,
yesterday gave evidence before the
■feden l commission investigating the
high price of wheat in America. Loi
ter declared that the farmers were
•the men who were getting the big
money, as they were holding their
wheat and refusing to sell until they
received their price.
The famous wheat manipulator de
clared that he did not blame the
American farmers for demanding ev
ery cent they could get for their
wheat as they had been made the
goat by the dealers for many years.
He asserted that while connected
with the stock market that he had
investigated conditions in the rural
districts in every part of the country
as a part of his business and had
learned that the farmers had actual
ly been compelled to sell their wheat
at a figure for which it could not be
produced. He believes that the farm
ers have at last realized their ad
vantage and that the price of wheat
will never be permitted to go below
the cost of production.
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RUSSIA MUST HAVE
A SOUTHERN OUTLET
PETROGRAD—Resolutions express
ing the conviction that Russia would
carry on the war until the peace
of Europe was assured were adopt
ed unanimously by the Duma at the
close of its sitting yesterday. The
resolutions, which were adopted
without a dissenting vote, said in
part:
“The Duma expresses its firm con
viction that the great national and
liberating objects of the present war
will be achieved and declares the in
flexible determination of the Rusv
sian nation to carry on the war un
til conditions shall have been Im
posed on the enemy assuring the
peace of Europe and the restoration
of right and justice.”
At the close of the speech of For
eign Mibisjgr Sazonoff, which was
received with loud applause, Prof.
Paul N. Milukoff addressed the Duma
in behalf of the Constitutional Dem
ocrats.
"We are convinced,” he said, "that
the accomplishment of our principal
task—the acquisition of the straits
and Constantinople—will be guaran
teed in good time both from a dip
lomatic and military point of view.”
The budget was voted today by
the Duma and the Council of the
Empire. The Budget Committee of
the Duma in its estimates for 1915
placed the revenues at $1,566,000,000,
expenditures at $1,846,000,000, and ex
traordinary expenditures at $67,000,
000.
After the vote in the council one
member, P. M. de Kaufmann, declar
ed in the name of all the groups
that whatever sacrifices were de
manded by the war should be car
ried out to the bitter end. This
declaration was received by all the
members of the Council with cries
of approbation.
Cathollo Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion.
8:30 a. m.
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2 p. m.
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
7:30 p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL, <3. J.
Moose Dance.
The regular Saturday night dance
given by the Moose will be given at
Moose hall. Fine music and excel
lent lunch served at midnight.
Men’s wool socks, 25c; Hold-IIeai
electric stove, $2.50, and everything
else in proportion at the Emporium.
A nice line or art pictures Just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
An “annual” glacier on Pedro
creek, Fairbanks district, exploded
while a heavy load of supplies were
passing over it. The explosion was
of sufficient force to upset the sleigh
and water which poured from the gla
cier damaged the food with which
the sleigh was loaded. It is not un
usual for such glaciers to explode, as
they are caused by the waters from
springs being frozen over, compress
ing the air and water.
ns ILL
Federation of Labor Will Collect
$250,000 From Members To
Pay Damage Suit.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Laboring
men throughout the country are tak
ing great Interest in the announce
ment of the Executive Qojuncil of the
American Federation of Labor that,
having financed the Danbury hat
ters’ case through all the higher
courts, and having secured amend
ments In the Clayton Anti-Trust bill
which "precludes the possibility of
any similar suit being brought in the
federal courts,” that body Is now
through with the case.
By the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, from
which there is no appeal, the Hatters’
Union has been fined $252,000, pay
able to the D. E. Doewe Company,
of Danbury, Conn., under the provis
ion of the Sherman Anti-Trust law
as triple damages for injury to their
business as the result of methods
employed in conducting a protest
against alleged factory conditions in
the works of that firm. The recent
decision of the Council was render
ed after a hearing of representatives
of the Hatters’ Union, who urged that
a special assessment be levied on the
members of the American Federation
of Labor to pay the fine and save
the property of members of the Hat
ters’ Union which has been tied up
by the attachment since the suit was
instituted.
HAS ENGLAND VIOLATED
RIGHTS OF UNITED STATES
The tendency of every great mili
tary power so to fashion the rules
■of war as to emphasize the value of
that arm In which it is strong, has
been often noted. Thus Germany in
all the codes of land warfare has
tried to limit the use of civilians for
home defense, and Jn Belgium has
stopped it by wholesale execution.
Similarly England has stood out for
such rules of naval capture as re
gards enemy’s property and contra
band as tend to make her control of
the case in the Napoleonic wars—it
the case in the Napoleonic wars—it
Is the same today. Occasionally the
neutral worm turns; his state depart
ment remonstrates, his merchant ship
pers cry for justice; that also Is
the case today.
Whether one judges the British
actions by the rules of the declara
tion of 1909, or by an earlier stand
ard, her fault In calling copper ab
solute contraband is the same. I un
derstand Germany has made Swedish
lumber bound to England contraband,
which is also unwarranted. Both bel
ligerents are Inclined alike to dis
regard neutral rights. The seisure
of copper is but one Instance. Tak
ing reservists out of a Dutch ship
on the high seas, if the facts are
correctly stated, is another instance
not essentially different from the
Mason and Slidell case. Making the
whole North Sea a war area when it
had hitherto been high seas and
hence incapable of such appropria
tion, is a third Instance of belliger
ent aggression.
These are highly technical ques
tions, but vital to the neutral ship
per. Yet it is not a question of
profits, * is a question of law- and of
rights. Like the great majority of
thinking Americans, I regard Britain
as in a sense my champion against
the spread of certain ideas dangerous
to civilization. But I want my cham
pion to be without reproach. For her
sake as well as for -our own, if she
values our good will, we should in
sist that she keep within the law,
and when she alleges necessity as an
excuse for framing new rules or vio
lating the old, we should remind her
that Germany gave the same rea
son when she invaded Belgium and
lost her own honor thereby.—Theo
dore Woolsey in Leslie’s.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Snow glasses 16c and up, at the
Emporium.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian Ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Prescriptions carefully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
The most exquisite nand-palnted
china ever seen In Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
• > When In Seward Stop at the '
il COLEMAN HOUSE jj
{> GEORGE SEXTON, PROP. <1
" STRICTLY FIRST CLASS J]
| J Fourth Avi Seward. Alaska ,,
Mr. Sydney Lawrence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraltore
Sittings by appointment
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, bis heirs and ad
ministrators and to all It may con
cern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1918, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars (1300.09), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
Improvements, upon your one-sixth
Interest In those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdes, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monte Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
8, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record In the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdes, Alaska, pages numbered 322,
328, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, In order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decem
ber, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which Is the sum of three
hundred dollars (3300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said sec*;on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6, 1916.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to v p. in.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
tud 6 to 6 p. m.
Suits pressed for |1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
“Female of Species” at the Orph
eum tonight.
Imported Japanese Basnets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
_THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY ;
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
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JUST RECEIVED
On The Mariposa,
Fresh Vegetables and Fruit
The Yakima Fruit Company
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Your Houses with the ]
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY!
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made. •
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street. I
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meala—Price* Reaaonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connect* with Chitina.
General Freighting, KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior*-• Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. _ Rates Reasonable
Chas. R. Crawford Wall Street Phone 159
Plate Glad, Window Glad, Roofing and Building Paper*, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Platter Lath, Shingle*, Builder*’ Hard
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kindt.
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber, fairba^ks^morse a co
Only The Best
Smokers Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Juan Oe Fuca Cigars
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U. S. Government Inspected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS
A. M. Diertnger
Valdez Transfer
Company ,
General Trucking and Freigh
ing to all interior points
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kinds
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Positively no coal deliveief
unless paid for Id advance f
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DONALDSON 8CHEDULE. f
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdoi
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. to. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the la:
on the secoi d and fourth Frida;
each month, these days beln
to clean boilers.
This is a good time to return^ftat
book you’ve read to the librarj^
Everyman’s Club. Library hou*
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, V.'j.‘ ■
days and Fridays 7:80 to 9:80 p. ml
Blooded Doge for Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, brej
ing unsurpassed. Fine bead, ear, 4
and coat. Pedigrees furnlshedJF^if v
champions in three generations,
quire at Prospector. »v
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Universal percolators and chai
dishes at Valdes Drug Co.
Suits pressed for 81.00 at St^'V,
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
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