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hen you are overhauling: that boat
remember we are Strong on all
kinds of boat gear and supplies
Lights
Bells
Rope
Paint
Canvas
Oars
Anchors
Life Preservers
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PIONEER OUTFITTERS
5 Per Cent Interest
This Bank affords a convenient and reliable
depository for the savings of the people. We
pay interest at the rate of 5 per cent per an
num on certificates of deposit for one year.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co., Inc.
SO Per Cent Discount
We are disposing of our large stock of undertaking goods,
consisting of best metallic-lined and plain caskets, also hard
wood coffins; also embalming by a licensed embalmer at 50
per cent, of our original price, which si about cost price.
VALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE CO.. Inc.
3"Qty~of
Edison Mazda Jjfobf
Alaska Water, Light & Tel. Co.
Phone 39
Puget Sound Fir Lumber
We Carry a Complete Assortment
Mining Timbers, Bunker At
and Stamp Mill Materials g Prices
Arctic Lumber Co.
Y.nb Foot of WALL ST.
Office in
CRAWFORD BUILDING
Phone 214
Notloe of Forfeiture.
To Blarney Stevens: You are
hereby notified that there has
been expended during the year
1911 in labor on those certain
quartz claims known as the "Last
Chance," the "Last Chance No.
i." and the "Last Chance No. 2,"
situate, lying and being on Shoup
bay noar tho entrance thereof, in
tho Valdez recording precinct.
Territory of Alaska, the sum or
three hundred dollars ($300.00),
lawful money of the United States,
tho amount required by law to
hold said claims for the year fol
lowing the performance of the
annual labor; that said expendi
ture for labor, as aforesaid, was
made by Wm. Koch and Alex.
Nelson, tho co-owners of said
claims. And unless within ninety
(90) days after the completion
of tho publication of this notice,
to-wit: within ninety (90) days
after the 10th day of April, 1912,
you contribute your portion of the
oxponses or tho aforesaid annual
labor for said year, your interest
in said quartz claims will be for
feited and become tho property of
tho undersigned, who are your co
owners.
ALEX. NELSON.
WM. KOCH.
Date first pub. Jan. 11, 1912.
Date last pub. April 11, 1912.
I THE INDIAN.
• The greatest of them all. The fol
• lowing is a list or the latest mod
• els and prices. You can't touv this
• machine any cheaper. All agents
• have the same price.
• 4 h. p. single cylinder chain or belt
• drive, is 16.00.
• 4 h. p. single cylinder, tourist
• trophy, chain drive only, 9965.00.
• 4 h. p. single 8. S. two speed, chain
• drive only. $900.00.
• 7 h. p. single cylinder, chain drive
• only, $966.00.
• 7 h. p. twin cylinder, chain drive
• only, tourist trophy, $316.00.
• 7 h. p. twin cylinder, chain drive
• only, tourist trophy, two speed,
• $340.00, v
• Tandem attachment for carrying a
• passenger, $10 extra.
• AL. WHITE, Agent.
New Wall Papers.
.TunI, received a largo shipment
of wnll paper on tho Northwest
ern. All tho latent patterns. Now
being oponed. Como in and see
thorn. C. C. RUDOLPH.
Look I Look! Look!
Ladies and gents, blank and tan
shoos cleaned and shlned. Soel
Johnnie, the bootblack, Pioneer
Barber Shop.
PICTURE ALASKA
OF THE FUTURE
rr*
Portland Oregonian Editor 8ees
Wonderful Possibilities
Of the Territory.
One of the mosl interesting
an<l optimistic editorials ever
written about Alaska is contain
ed in a recent issue of tin; Morn
ing Oregonian, of Portland.
The writer pens a beautiful
picture of Alaska if the supposed
change of the Japan current is
permanent. The Oregonian says:
"Nature seems to have favored
the United States in its acquisi
tion of Alaska. Politicians have
exploited it, mercenaries have
plucked it, and theorists have
tried to bottle it, but steadily with
the years nature has unfolded its
wealth und disclosed to an as
tonished world its grand proper
ties and possibilities. Now its au
riferous sands have yielded up
unguesscd treasures; now its
colonies of seals have laden com
merce with valuable pelts; again
its fisheries have given returns
in excess of all expectation, and,
yet again, and more wonderful
than all, the pnssihiilics of ag
riculture within its great expanse
have been established, while its
unmeasured limber areas and
undclved con| mines suggest 4
national opulence that, in nm.
temptation, surpass the dreams
of avarice.
"And now mines a report of a
softening €• f the Arctic into the
North Temperate '/.one tempera
ture along the coast through the
shifting of I lie Japan current in
shore, due lo a convulsion of na
ture whereby islands have been
erupted into the North Pacific.
A temperature as soft as that of
April is recorded at Skagway, with
little or no snow on the ground
—climatic conditions that have
never before, so far as the rec
ords show, prevailed in that far
northern city, to account for
which the theory of the shifting
inshore of the Japan current, due
to seismic disturbances of the
oceaYi bed, has been advanced.
Whatever the cause, the ell'eel
lifted is magieiil, and if peniM
nent will effect- the entire penin
sula. The great, bare uplands
of the Yukon river, carpeted with
wild flowers in greatest variety
and profusion in the short sum
mer and piled high with snow in
the winter, will become product
ive grain fields, pastures ami gar
den tracts dotted with homes and
s.'hoi-ls ; nd c'i'.irches. Slock in
duslry and poultry raising will
become profitable and the depen
dence of the citizens of Alaska
upon more southern lands for the
means of subsistence during the
long twilight of the year will
cease. Homcstcading on the
great plateaus of the wonderful
peninsula will develop from a
vague possibility into a certainly
that will furnish an abiding place
for thousands; the clutch of con
servation will loosen ils hold up
on the forest and coal fields, and
from the inhospitable silence of
the shadowy land known in the
geographies of the past genera
tion us "Hussion America"—ail
vaguely known at that—an em
pire of surpassing beauty and
fertility and of boundless re
sources will be evolved.
"Nature holds the key to this
vast domain. Its surrender to
the forces of civilization and de
velopment has been . demanded
and slowly, in hor own gracious
way, as is her wont In moving in
any direction, great nature is
yielding to the sway of man."
TAKINQ 0HAN0E8 ON OMIMI
NALO.
The governor of Oregon is re
ceiving much praiso for his mer
it system of treating hardened
and other penitentiary convicts
and the warden of Nevada's stale
prison seems to havo Adopted
similarly lenient methods. Both
permits convicts to go to work In
open fields unguarded and free
handed. The Nevada warden has
even oxtended the courtesy to
life prisoner*, whilo.tho gover
tiol' of Oregon says hrt has accbm
pafticd prisoners equipped with
large corn knives for work, while
ho was totally unarmed and un
harmed. Tho Nevada offloial has
apparently gone him ono belter
by giving a long-term oonviot
money for his railroad faro to
another town to do an errand. At
(lie federal prison in Atlanta and
elsewhere the bars are said to be
similarly let down.
To us tbis seems like taking
unnecessary cbances without as
suring results. Humane and
sanitary treatment of prisoners
does not call for quite that sort
of thing. Prison reform does not
have to transcend the bounds of
safely. Thoughtful people, as
well as sympathetic, believe in
treating the criminal with human
consideration, and they take just
as much interest in every rea
sonable effort t<» make his lot
heller as does the emotional man
or woman. There is always Man
ger. however, in extremes, even
in so righteous a reform as the
care of prisoners, and this inno
vation strikes us perilously near
that limit.
Justice as well as mercy, judg
ment as well as impulse, has to
be observed in penology. Before
giving liberty to the hardened
criminal it is well to remember
he was on probation longer be
fore entering the prisoner than he
has been since, and failed. His
in teres I is not alone to be reck
oned with, but society's as well.
Brotherly love ean be shown and
taught, criminals without invit
ing disaster.—Omaha Bee.
Runs in the Family.
Another fad has been added to
the suffragette propaganda by
Miss La Folletle, daughter of the
progressive Wisconsin senator,
and Miss La Folletle is a suf
fragist who not only insists that
the privilege of voting is but the
incident which offers the oppor
tunity tn the more alluring l ight
to scramble for public olfice, but
the woman should not be subject
ed (n the annoyance and indig
nity of bearing the name of the
mere man she marries. Miss La
Follette was married last Octo
ber to Mr. (Jeorge Middleton, the
dramatic author, but she declines
to he known as Mrs. Middleton.
She declares that she is still Miss
La Follette. She says that when
a woman takes her husband's
name she loses to a certain ex
tent her personality and she does
n't intend to lose hers. She says.
"I think the time is coming when
all women will retain their own
family names hi matrimony."
Apart from all I he graver con
siderations involved in Mrs. Mid
dleton's—beg pardon. Miss La
Folletle's—proposed innovat ion,
we shudder to think of the social
confusion that would ensue
should her impossible program
come into vogue. To avoid em
barrassing misunderstandings,
malapropos situations and dan
gerous complications, one would
have to |ug about a society di
rectory for frequent and instant
reference to distinguish the ma
trons from the misses and gel
tliejr hearings in the multinomi-]
nous matrimonial tangle.—Nash-I
ville Democrat.
Oh, You Noodles!
Mr IiCiu Hay. the celebrated
Chinese expert, has taken charge
of Mir chop suey and Chinese
noodle depart moid of I ho Valdez
Cafe. llo was formorly hoad cliff
for Li Hung Chang. 11-01
LOCAL ITEMS
FOR SALE CHEAP—Power
dory. Apply Pete Cashman.
Stull's jewelry store will bo
closed until further notice. If
you wish anything from the
slock make appointment with
Adam Swan or call up Dr. Dag
gett, 'phone 83.
Mrs. E. Winter will roceive on
first boat another assortment of
spring hats.
FOR SALE—All my household
furniture. Houso for rent after
May 1, 1912. Edmund Smith.
Cream wafTles and honey 25c at
the Valdez Cafe.
FOR RENT—Light and warm
room at the Reynolds Houso. Mrs.
L. A. Depuy, Prop.
8eo German, tho dentist, over
Owl Drug Store. Examination
free. 'Phone 19.
The 8oward Oatoway is on sale
at the Valdez Drug Co. It.
flenulno Chinese chop suey and
hoodies at tho Valdez Cafe.
It costs no more to get your
olothing cleaned and pressed at
Silverman's. Phone 1»8.
•ay!
The Valdez Cafe is one good
place to eat.
THE OBPHEUM
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Latest Released Films on every
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CHANGE OF PROGRAM EVERY
SUNDAY, TUESDAY, FRIDAY
Illustrated songs by Mr. T. F. Gillies
Orchestra of Four Pieces
One show every evening 8 p.m.
Two Shows Sunday, 8; 9:30
For the Winter Months
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PROFESSIONAL
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
3EWARD, - ALASKA
Patents Mining Incorporations
CHARLES G. GANTY
FRANK H. FOSTER
Lawyers
Alaska Securities BI'd'g VaUaz
DR. GERMAN
Phone i9 the dentist
Office rooms over Owl Dru* store. Oftlcc hours
8 a. ni.. to 6 t>. m.. 7 p.m.. to » p. m. Sundays
by auiioiniment All work uuarantcetl.
SOURCE OF BEACH
GOLD IS DISCOVERED
What is believed to be fm«i of
I lie must important, if not, indeed,
I lie best strike ever made in Ibis
district. is the discovery <if tbe
nld ancient channel of Anvil
creek, Ibe riebesl in I his coun
try. The strike was made on the
(iranl claim, in which is Moon
light Springs. A lawsuit has just
settled the ownership <»f the
ground. The springs bubble up
from this old creek bed. Develop
ment work under M. I>. McCum
ber and associates has revealed
this old channel, which is about
00 feet in width. lying between
limestone and schist formations.
A payslreak ten feet deep and av
eraging $1 per pan has been
found. It is hard ground to mine,
the. water making it expensive.
It is (»(• feel to bedrock. It is gen
erally believed here thai this old
creek is the source of nil the gold
found mi tin' beach. Outfits are
industriously engaged iu seeking
the channel as i! meanders its wa.
through the tundra to the sea
The rich .1. ('. l'-\»\vn claim is s;:iii
In be on the channel. There is
much »'.\eil•■iiien' over the find, a-*
it will rejuvenate this mining
camp and make it as good as in
the balmy days of yore.--Nome
Correspondence.
ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
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Twelve yearw :it Tacoma Smelter
OppoHite Electric Light Ofllce
All Work Guaranteed and Promptly Attended Tt
VALDEZ, ALASKA
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CHEMISTS, ASBAYERB AND
MINING ENGINEERS
Established 1881
Two door« Below Stock Exchange
Valdez, Alaaka
A. M. Dieringer
VALDEZ TRANSFER CO.
General Trucking and Freighting
to all partH of the interior.
Positively no coal delivered un
less paid for In advance
Officc on Wall St . Phone GO
Beaver Dam Roadhouse
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41 Miles from Valdez
OUTFITS FOR PROSPECTORS
First Claaa Accommodatioi.
Ample Stable Room
New York Life
Insurance Co.
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Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
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Dentist
Whaling Building VALDES
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Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
INDEPENDENT MESSENGER Co.
and
VALDEZ VACUUM CLEANING Co.
LATOUCHB & PECK. Men.
Offic. Smythi.'. Tailor Shop Pkoe«:i02
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House end Carpet Cleaning
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Ambrose Bell and Norman
Merchant: You are hereby noti
fied that I have expended one
thousand ($1,000) dollars in la
bor and improvements upon the
Peerless. Linooln, Clara Bell.
Mammoth and Gravina, claims of
the Peerless group; the Isabella
and Humdinger of the Isabella
grroup; the Badger and Hawkeye
of the Badger and Hawkeye group;
the Pearl claim located in tho
Kotsina river drainage Chitina
district. .
In order to hold said promts^)
undor tho provisions of section
2324 Revised Statutes of the Unit
ed States, being tho amount re
quired to hold the samo for the
(rear ending Jan. 1, 1012. And If
within 00 days after this notice
by publication you fail or rofuse ,
to contribute yoUr proportion of |
such expenditure as co-owners
pour interest in said claims will
become the property of the sub
scriber under said section 2324.:
TOM LARSON.
By Matt Larson, attorney in fact.
First pub. Jen. 13, 1012.
Last pub. April 14, 1019.
Weather Report.
Barometric pressure .'10.15
Maximum temperature. . . .52
Minimuju temperature ...l»k
Mean tempera'lire 40
Temperature at G p.m....30
Part cloudy
E. M. BLADE, Observer.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To William M. Conley: You
are hereby notified that tnere has
been expended during tho year
1011 in labor on those certain
quartz claims, known as the Alasr=
ka Belle, Jackpot and Snowflake,
lying, being and situated in the
Valdez mining district, in the re
cording precinct of Valdez, in the
District of Alaska, the sum of
three hundred dollars. lawful
money of the United States, Ihe
amount required bv law to hold
said claims for tho year, follow
ing the performance of the an
nual labor; that said expenditure
for lab r. as aforesaid, was made
by J. W. Little. And tin less with
in ninety days after the comple
tion of the publication of this no
tice, to-wit: within ninety days
after the 21th dav of April,
1012, you contribute vour portion
of the expenses of the aforesaid
annual labor for said year, or
your interest In said quart!
claims will be forfeiU and be
come the property of the under
si?ned, who is your co-owner.
J. W. LITTLE.
Flist pub. Jan. 24, 1012.
Last pub. April 25. 1012.