JAMES FISH & Co.
We are now established at~]the "corner of McKinley Street and Broadway, wit'- the largest
and best stock in the lnrgest and best store in this part of Alaska. •
ONE FEATURE of our modern store'will be the completeness of our stocks, and
you will find each department a thoroughly equipped store in itself In which
Quality and Lowest Prices will Prevail.
We will carry in stock,
Groceries, Hardware, Stoves,
Boots and Shoes. Hats and Caps: Ready to Wear Clothing.
Gents Furnishing Goods.
RUBBER GOODS.
AND HARNESS
Hay Grain and Coal.
Paints and Oils; Wall Paper, Glass, Lumber and windows.
PROMPT AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT.
Merit will tell
The truth of this saying has been proven
1 by the wonderful success of
CRARY’S COMPOUND COUGH SYRUP
In all eases of Cough’s Colds, etc. It is our ab
solutely genuine preparation that
Has merit.
Buy a Imttle of it now. Try it,and if not absolute
ly satisfactory to you, the money will Ik- refunded.
THE VALDEZ PHARMACY
H.T. WHITLEg, GEO. J. LOVE
Merchants Cafe
AMD
Bakery.
MEALS AT ALL HOURS. OREM ALL MIGHT
to introduce god
OThe Choicest Selections of
UP TO DAT®
Watches, Jewelry, Diamonds
and the Kwellest of Swell
Novelties in ami Silver.
WHICH STAND WITHOUT A PEER
ftM Standard Quality. Superior Work
I■■,‘Ujansliip, ami Artistic itesi^ns.
Any ofjwliii-h would make “Princely Presents. The prices are right-too.
The feature of Making to Order NUGGET JEWELRY of all Sorts,
we Especially Call Your Attention To.
Y’OUR SIGHT! See as well as you used to?
IIOW NOW ! Delay will cause you endless trouble and sometimes
total blindness.
Our EZY SPEX will give you absolute relief. Costs nothing
to find out. FREE TEST.
W. C STULL,
Jeweler. Exj>ert Watchmaker Optician,and Diamond Setter.
VALDEZ
U. S. EXPERIMENTAL
STATION.
To Be Established Immediately
At Copper Center.
The Copper River Valley is now to
have the government agricultural
experimental station that has been
promised so long for that section.
Mr. Fred E. Rader, the special
assistant of Prof. C. C. Georgeson,
the general agent of the Department
in Alaska, arrived on the Str. New
port last Sunday with J. W. Neal,
who is to take charge of the station.
These gentlemen brought with
them a large amount of agricultur
al implements, and will start for
the interior this week.
Not much work can Ik- dime this
year, but Mr. Rader will select a
location for the station and assist
in erecting suitable buildings for
the agent, Mr. Neal and his wife,
who accompanied him. A* much
ground as possible will Ik- culti
vated this year and planted in win
ter wheat. A silo will lie built and
hay put up for the use of stock this
winter. A number of horses will
p obahly be received from the gov
ernment pack trains this fall, and
a larger part of the farming imple
ments and supplies will lie taken
in this winter on the snow.
It is not known yet at just what
point this station will la- built, but
it will be established near Copper
Center. Several men will la-em
ployed next year.
Mr. Neal, who is to have charge
of the station, is well tpialitied in
every way for the work. He Inis
laa-n connected with this depart
ment of the government for several
years, and has spent a few seasons
in Alaska.
!
The Xewj>ort,Capt. F. S. Moore,
I arrived from Juneau last Sunday
I morning with twelve psasengers for
this place and some mail. She
• left Tuesday.
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Tilt (MIOUS
IS CELEBRATED BY TIIE FEW
PEOPLE IN VALDEZ.
Base Ball Gat
IS MAIN FEATURE OF DAY.
DANCE AND DINNER.
Independence Day was celebrated
in Valdez as well as could be ex
jH'cted under the eireunistanees.
there being but a few people in town.
The day was as beautiful as could
lx- wished or asked for. and Pa
stures and many residences were
gaily decorated with bunting and
flags. The principal features of
the day were a ball game between
the Ft. Liscuni and the Valdez
team, a shooting contest and a ball
at Moose hall in the evening.
The Ball Game.
The soldiers commenced to ar
rive about noon and at 2 o'clock
the game was called. It was an
exciting game from the first and
the most interesting ever played
in Valdez.
The Valdez
1m»vs expect
ed defeat,
as only two
nf the team
had d o n e
any practis
ing at all.
* and had not
even idaved
AfisrnnrnuH Ko'imtf lor
the i.i-rmn tf«m. a practice
game together. But the home team
was not defeated as easily as they
or the victors expected.
The home team had the first in*
ning hut were quickly fanned out.
and the soldiers thought they had
it their own way. But here they
were mistaken for when (.ioodell
commenced to pitch hall right over
the plate like greased lightning,
and (Iriswold took them in each
lime and sent them to the right
place, their feathers fell somewhat,
and Zeisenhenna their mascot, and
the other soldiers commenced to
root for their team, and this they
did to perfection, while the Valdez
team got hut little help this way.
Man after man was fanned out
on IH>th sides in
quick succession,
until the ninth in
ning when the
game closed with a
score of 11 to 1 in
favor of the Fort
Liscum team.
Griswold, always on the alert,
caught to jierfcctjun. He soon
found the strikers weak point and
took advantageof it. Huie Goodell
pitched excellent hall and it was
hard for 'tie soldiers to hit him.
Hiorty btowu if
nut very l>i<i
an<l down,” Imt lit
eau^ii every ball
that came his way,
and looked fur
mure. Then ht
knew what tu do
with the ball when
he jjut it.
iyooii mam* |»ia>p
I tint* of which was a two-bagger.
Crawford on third did well and
| l)iek Brown, Price and Grinnel
j played as well as they could, but
need practice as ili» most of the
team. Holland, the surveyor made
the only score for the home team.
The f.isenm team are a fine lot
of lsiys and certainly know how to
play hall, some of them lieinjr pro
fessionals. They were in practise,
and not only their basemen, hut
their fielders Us well did pood work.
It i- to he hoped they will play a
a mimiH'i*
of games j
•here this
so in nier.
••Happy’ McDon
ald, one of the sol
diers, acted as um
pire of the oame.
and while some of
his decisions wen
new to the \ altlcz Imys. yet he was
fair and iinj>artial in all Ids di
visions.
At the close of the game, the Ft.
Idsettm team and ten oi their
friends were entertained at dinner
hythe I’kosvkctok,at the Merchants
t'afe and did amide justice to the
excellent meal served them. They
enjoyed themselves very much
while here.
SLATE CREEK LETTER.
Injunction Served on Brehtne and
Wenke.
Interesting News.
SLATE CREEK, June 18.—Jake
Stead and Harry King arrived
here yesterday. The Chico (iiant
is doing assessment work on the
Chesna Slate Creek divide. X. M.
Patterson is working for Jack Mil
ler. Talk aliout a novel way of
settling disputes, we have it here.
All one has to do is to bring in a
few hundred feet of pressure hose,
set up an intake at the head of the
claim, and when things “get excit
ed” turn on the water and wash the
disputants down the cut. That is
the way one foreman did it to-day.
There is a claim here that has sev
eral owners, among the number a
tall gent with a light complexion,
and, judging from his accent, In
comes from a northern country.
He has a very peppery temper, and
when angry he grows very pale, hi
eves flash fire and his lip.- get blue.
He often gets so angry he trembles.
One of the other owners of the
claim is a short, dark complec
tioncd gentleman, who likewise lias
a temper of his own, is not afraid
to speak his mind, and. like the
light gentleman, is cpiite a musher.
They work on the claim in which
they own an interest. In the cut
to-dav they had some words and
came to blows. The foreman,
a big, husky, red complectioned.
Montana man, slow-of speech but
sure of movement, would have
golie to separate the gentlemen
but he was running the hose and
could not leave it for fear the
boxes would fill up and spoil a
good clean up. The oiilv thing lie
could do was to turn the host* on
the poor unlortunatcs. This lu
ll id to the “Queens” taste. The
tall gent had a firm grip on the
short gent when the deluge struck
him amidships. They say a
drowning man grabs anything he.
can and holds on for dear life.
That’s wliat the tall gent did to the
short gent and they went rolling
down the cut together. They would
have gum- down into Slate Crock,
but a very dark gentleman, who has
Itccn on the Delta all winter, ran a
sluice fork into them and throw
them out onto tin- bank. After
getting over their surprise they
looked at each other and went back
to work withouta word to the fore
man, who stood at the head of the
cut with hose in his hand. For
some reason they dont sjieak now.*
Another jieculiar hose acci
dent happened to-day. Joe Kelly
is hydraulic foreman for l>ert Hurd.
Bert runs the night and his brother
the day shift. They use a very
high pressure up there. The Hurd
tent faces the cut and is only a few
feet from the edge. The hose got
out of Kelly’s control about 3 P. M
(Cu&tidUtftl^u Fourth 1‘agc.) j
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MB.
With Copper Experts And
Railroad News
RAILS AND ROLLING~STOC2
ARE SECURED.
The arrival of the Excelsior <m
Monday jevciiing, with •!•”> pa-sw
gets for Valdez, brings ns some
news relative to the new railroad.
\\ e learn from one of the pas
senger- that M. J. Henehan, of the
Illinois Steel Co., sold to the V.,C.
K. A \ . K. R. Co. 5,000 tons steel
rails of the class known as 58 lb.
rails. The goods are paid for, and
the contract calls for their delivery
in Valdez bay.
Mr. Henehan came up to Juneau
on the Excelsior, and from there
lie will go to Skugway, where he is
authoriz.-d to purchase the rolling
stock of the AVliite Pass R. R.,
which is to lie changed from nar
row to standard gauge.
The V., C. R. A Y. R. R. Co., in
building their road will set the ties
tor standard gauge, hut as a l>egin»
ning will lay the rails for a narrow
gauge road, which will suit their
pii-pose for the present. Later
'.lie road will lie changed to stand
ard gauge.
At tire present time it is ditlicult
to secure railroad supplies of any
kind. The steel companies that
ilia i m fact tire rails are a year and a
half lichiiul on their orders, and as
a consequence some of the rails
that are lieing shipped to Valdes
had to be (Hirebased in Belgium.
The steamer carrying the rails
was hooked to leave Seattle on July
7th. and is likely to arrive hero
any day.
it is tlic nitration of the Com
pany to ln-gin o]K-rations at an
i-arlv date. Contracts for ties will
Ik* let, and every branch of the
business will lie pushed along as
rapidly as possible, and the screech
of the locomotive whistle is li kely
to Ik- heard in the land la-fore the
next snow flics
t'OPPER EXPERTS ARRIVE.
The Excelsior brought a number
of prominent mining engineers,
among whom were Messrs M. I.
Heller, Norris English, Han
ley and H. A. Keller, of San Fran
cisco ami F. 11. Blake and
Pope, of New York. Shortly after
their arrival they went altoard the
S. S. Newport, and were taken to
Latnuche Island, where they will
examine the copper projterty of
Mr. Beatson. Mr. Geo. M. Esterly
has placed his naptha launch Ma
nila at their disposal, and after
completing their investigations at
I.atom-lie they will proceed toKlIa
mar and other mining properties,
which they will give a thorough ex
amination.
Mr. Roliert Blei, of New York, is
showing tlie gentlemen ujvoiaa ike
Sound, and when they have finis lied
heir investigations there they will
return to Valdez, wh re Mr. Steph
en Bireh, Who is Cap’t Dciamar’d
siipcrintendant of ;i/uirs in Alaska
will take them in eharge
and guide them to the Nicolai and
Bonanza claims. Mr. Birch, ilarry
Fitch and two others came iu from
the mines some time ago and have
iieeii waiting for these gentlemen,
who are here in the interest of Mr.
Delamar of New York.
The development of various
‘hums, uiton widen Mr. Delamar
has an option, will dc|>cnd entirely
ujMin the re|M»rt of these gentlemen.
Mr. Cohen, of New York, would
have lieen one oi tlie party iiau lie
not met with an accident in San
Faancisco. He will probably bn
ere later.