STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
topper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 dias. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ lodge
NO 168
Krec and Accepted Maaona.
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H»H. Visitors ^way^ w^coxne. M
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Vara, Light Roama-The Heme of Contort
RATES REASONABLE
BATM ROOM Special Rate* By the Month
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PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mire dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a fnajority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
COAST VOIiOANOES
ARB NOT EXTINCT
Poet Intelligencer: Mounts Rain
ier, Shasta, Hood, St. Helens, Adams
and Baker may some time show signs
of aotivity, although prediction of
when this will occur or how violent
it will be is impossible. Prof. C. E.
Weaver of the geology department at
the University of Washington, stated
last night in the course of a public
science lecture.
“Judging from the character of the
lavas,” he said, “any future activity
in the mountains of the Coast will
probably be accompanied by violent
' explosions and outpourings of v<ol
1 canic ash and the emission of small
amounts of lava, which will not go
any great distance. The Coast vol
canoes lie along a great tone of weak
ness or rupture, on the western mar
gin of the North American conti
nent .Those of Alaska and Mexico
are stttl active, while those of Wash
ington/ Oregon and California are
quiescent, but not extinct”
“The formation of a volcano,” he
continued, "is the result of a ruptur
ing of the earth’s surface and the out
pouring of molten liquid rock through
eracks and fissures. The generally
accepted idea now is that the interior
of the earth is a solid more rigid than
\steel and that it is not a liquid mass,
as is the popular supposition.
“The thickness of the earth’s crust
is not known but is supposed to be
between fiOOO and 25,000 feet Be
tween the central portion and the sur
face there is a zone containing irreg
ularly shaped reservoirs of molten
rock, which is at times half solid and
half liquid, and at other times in a
purely liquid condition.
“This molten material varies in
composition and upon its nature the
character of the eruption which oc
curs directly depends. Some lavas,
such as those in the Hawaiian volca
noes, rise and flow out like water,
consolidating after a considerable pe
riod. Other fluids consolidate in the
neck of the crater and the steam
which is confined causes a blowing
out of the hardened rock in the neck,
sometimes throwing ash and dust
high in the air. Much of the ash falls
back on the point of the upheaval
and builds a steep cone like that of
Mt. Rainier. This peak is of the ex
plosive type, the lavas of which do
not travel far. Those extending
from the Aleutian islands through
Canada, Washington, Oregon and
California to Mexico are of approxi
mately the same origin and of the
very late geological age.”
In explaining the earthquakes com
mon on the Pacific, Prof. West said
that the West coast is comparatively
young geologically and that the rocks
are not yet entirely stable in posi
tion. There is a tendency for the
stresses continually to adjust them
selves causing local breaks, which re
sult in jars, known to us as earth
quakes.
GUNS THAT HURL, TON
PROJECTILE 2.1 MILES
To get an idea of what kind of
guns Germany is using in the pres
ent war, it is sufficient to note the
kind the United States government is
now building.
One of six guns authorized for the
protection of the United States ports
has juBt been completed. This gun
from a distance of 21 miles can shoot
a 2400 pound projectile that will
shatter the tallest building in the
world which is t>5 stories and 750 feet
high. Such a gun, a 16-inch rifle, is
the biggest in the United States, and
at a distance of three miles it will
strike with an energy of 30,000 foot
tons, enough to demolish the largest
battleship.
The length of this 16-inch breech
loading rifle is 9 inches short of GO
feet. It weighs 130 tons and its car
riage weighs 450 tons. The 2400
pound projectile discharged by that
monster is nearly as tall as an aver
age man, being 5 feet 4 inches. •
With the exception of four 14-inch
guns now being mounted on the Pa
cific coast, the largest of the guns
protecting the approaches to cities
and harbors of the United States are
of the 12-inch type. Great rifles of
the kind described would form a de
fense against attack from the sea,
if a sufficient number were mounted
at strategic points, but even the larg
est coast guns must have the support
of a navy and on land,a mobile army.
There is a vast stretch of coast line
that there are many gaps where an
enemy might make a landing, unless
prevented by navy or army and at
some places, by capturing a fort, the
enemy would be able to turn the guns
against other fortifications. Many of
the existing defenses of the United
States need to be modernized; the
guns they carry are outranged by
modern naval guns.* The coast de
fense system is seriously underman
ned at present, being short 564 offi
cial reports. ,
Germany has giant naval guns,
now being used on land, which shoot
23 miles. In traveling that distance,
the projectile goes up in the air nine
miles, and it is possible to drop it
within 200 feet of the point at which
y>e gun is aimed.—Ex.
Father J. S. Corbett of the Catho
lic church returned froth Cordova on
the steamer Alameda this afternoon
and announces that he will hold ser
vices in his church tomorrow morn
ing at 7:30 o’clock.
A large number of miners arrived
on the Alameda this afternoon and
will go over the government road to
Fairbanks and other interior points,*
where they will be employed in the
mines.
Just received ,the linen line of
neckties ever shown in Valdes, at
Ben Sllvennan’n.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
See Katbro Kidwell in the shirt
lance at the Liberty tonight.
Our fresh candy arrived on this
last boat late for the holidays, 12%
:ents half pound at the Emporium.
Hear the sweet songs by the Che
3haco quartette at the Liberty to
light. „
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
IV ran gel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. tf
Miss Rose Johnson will render sev
eral selections on the harp tonight
it the Liberty.
Ft>r good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. *
J. E. Seagrave, superintendent of
:he Kennecott mine, was a through
passenger on the Alameda this afi
jrnoon en route to Latouche.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by G. O.
iteinke. tf
Jack McDonald who has been with
the Cameron-Johnson company at
Shoup’s 'bay for some time, has re
turned to town for a few days.
Kodak Supplies at me Valdez
Drug Company. tf
Dick Taylor, mine foreman in the
Beetson copper mine at Latouche,
was a through passenger on the Ala
meda this afternoon.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. *
The launch Elvira returned this
afternoon from her regular trip down
the Sound bringing Chas. Burnell
and Miss Lottie Burnell from Ella
mar.
Brooms 25c, 35c and 50c; for the
best at the Emporium. tf
Mrs. Emery of Latouche, was a
passenger on the Alameda en route
home after spending a few months
with friends and relatives in the
states.
Bargains at the Emporium; open
from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. *
Contractor Sam McNiece reports
that the carpenter work at the new
postoffice building will be completed
before the end of this week. The
painters are busy on the woodwork
and it is expected that Postmaster
Jefferson will be installed in his new
office before January IS.
A fine display of nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
1 bear a great deal of complaining
from the business men of our little
burg about the trade that goes out
to the catalog houses. Is it any
worse for the common herd to try
and buy for the least money than for
the merchant who depends wholly on
local trade for his existence to take
an order or send out to a wholesale
house for articles foreign to his busi
ness for himself or to accommodate
a customer, when that line is being
carried by a fellow merchant, or gives
his vfork to some man that comes to
town and claims to be the only me
chanic that ever came over the pike
and that he just refused a job before
coming here of superintending the
war in the old country, rather than
give the work to your local Industry
that is investing every dollar they
get in tools and machinery so that
they may be able to do your work
right and reasonable? Mr. Mer
chant, set the example you wish
|ICUyiD IU luuunt uv lunvivi veuviaavs
you sell coal, nails or pins. You say,
“who gives you credit when you are
broke, or your family is sick?’’ I say
who does your work when the other
fellow has passed on to the next town
or can’t do it for the lack of tools or
machinery? And now, fellow citi
zens, while I am about it, I am going
to unburden my mind of a few more
gems that have been agitating my
mind ever since the fire. Have you
ever stopped to think that were a few
good honest, deserving citizens who
were a benefit to the community who
were put completely out of business
to the detriment of Valdez. Does it
pay you, Mr. Merchant or citizen, to
build up Seattle’s payroll by buying
Inmber and Its finished products
there when there might Jus} as well
be 8 or 10 men employed here the
year round. We need a payroll here
no matter whether large ot small,
they all help to keep the mdvles mov
ing. Now, why not get together and
stop wishing for rail, roads smelters
and mines to come along and scatter
their mazuma among ns but get down
to business and help our selves to
what there Is in Bight and Incident
ally make ourselves of some use to
sur town, can we not get together
and raise enough In this old burg to
Save a sawmill and planing mill go
ing by spring.
VALDEZ IRON WORK8,
Bon-tt Per O. W. Long.
HIGH EXPLOSIVES. j
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Making Them la a Very Delicate ana j
Complex Process.
Almost all the high explosives have
cotton as their base. It Is true that
very good sporting powder can he
pade from wood pulp: but. as the ed
itor of Nature remarks, "the artillerist
would be in great difficulty if he were
provided with such a propellant, be
cause in order to obtain any sort of j
regularity the nitration of the wood ;
pulp has to be kept at a low point, and |
•the ballistics, on which the artillerist |
depends, would be* quite thrown out.” j
High explosives are cellulose highly j
nitrated—that Is, highly charged with ;
nitrogen. This process consists of im- ■
mersing cotton waste (that has been re
peatedly teasled. picked and dried) In
a mixture of nitric and sulphuric ac
ids, in the proportion of 71 per cent
sulphuric acid, 21 per cent nitric acid
and 8 per cent water. After the acids
have acted for the required time they
are removed. The cotton is washed
repeatedly ana noiiea several limes in
water. It Is then pulped, partly dried
and pressed into molds.
The manufacturer does his best to
regulate his output, so that it shall con
tain approximately eleven molecules of
nitrate to the quadruple molecule of
cellulose, as shown in the formula, or
a content of nitrogen that ranges be
tween 12.93 and 13.05 per cent
The process is delicate and complex, i
for the proportions of acids and water !
must be exact and all must be cbem- i
ieally pure. Besides this, the cellulose ;
must be of uniform grade, which is a
most difficult thing to obtain.
INDIA’S QUEER BELIEFS.
Buddhists Would Dio Rather Than
Lose a Limb or Eat Meat.
Iudla’s population is 325.000.000. Prac
tically all the races and religions of the
world are represented. Ninety-eight
and six-tenths per cent of the people
cannot read or write. Four per cent
of the Inhabitants eat regular meals.
The remainder cat when they can and
where they can. The average native
In India lives on less food per diem
than any other human being in the
world. Religious prejudices are in- .
tense. Men willingly die rather than 1
submit to some dismembering surgical 1
operation, for did not Allah command j
them to appear before him as they left ;
him to come into the world ?
The Budanists will not eat meat or
take even a medicine derived from an
animal. They died by millions daring
the bnbonic plague rather than take a
prophylactic serum made from pepsin
and beef broth—because the pig from
WU1CH Wtts UUlUlUfU WUB UU
ciean vo the Mohammedan and Hludu.
and the killing of this animal and the
bull from which the broth was made
was against tne tenets of the Bud
dhistic faith. I knew an editor in
Poona, India, to absolutely refuse a
$3,000 yearly advertisement of a patent
medicine because it contained pepsin.
Indians are fond of sweets and last
year Imported over $40,000,000 worth
of sugar. Clothing is made chiefly
from cotton, which is largely grown in
the country.—W. E. Aughinbaugh in
Leslie’s.
When You MSee Stare.”
The man who when struck violently
on the bead says he “saw state' is not
fur from telling the truth. The fact
is that there is a phosphorescent pow
er in the eye which does not attract a
person’s attention under ordinary con
ditions, but which is distributed and
reveals Itself whenever the head gets
a sudden snocs ami sometimes even
in the act of sneering. A blow on the
head results in a pressure of the blood
vessels upon the retina, causing either
total darkness or a faint blue light
which floats before the eyes, and it is
in this faint blue light tne imagination
discerns the thousands of fantastic
forms and figures that by general ac
ceptance are termed stars; hence,
while the astronomical display so fre
quently mentioned may be said to be
entirely a creature of the imagination,
there is at least some foundation for
the idea.
Tibetan Penal Code.
The Tibetan penal code la curious.
Murder Is punished with a line vary
ing according to tbe Importance of the
slain, theft by a fine of seven to one
uunahed times the value of tbe article
stolen. Here, again, the fine depends
on tbe social importance of tbe person
from whom the theft has been commit
ted. The harborer of a thief Is looked
upon as a worse criminal than tbe
thief himself. Ordeals by fire and by
boiling water are still used as proofs
of Innocence or guilt, exactly as was
tne custom in Europe In tbe middle
ages. And if tbe lamas never inflict
death they are adepts at torture.
Literary.
‘Oh, I simply adore Meredith and
Browning and Henry James,” said the
gushing young person.
“So do I,” said Little Blnks. “They
are perfectly delightful. It’s like send
ing your mind to a gymnasium. Er—
do you read them In the original?”—
New York Times.
The Rip Van Winkle Kind.
Salesman—Why not try one of our
Rip Van Winkle rugs, madam? Pros
pective Purchaser — What kind are
they? Salesman—They have an on
asuaiiy long nap.—Indianapolis Star.
The Outlet
Physiology Teacher—Clarence, you
may explain how we hear things. Clar
ence—Pa tells ’em to ma as a secret
and ma gives 'em away at the bridge
club.—Cleveland Leader.
This world la to the sharpest, heaven
to the meet worthy.—Cicero.
CITY EXPRESS
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MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hir e Day or Niglit.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARI). Prop.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
I Foot Keystone Ave
Rou?}) Dry ICe lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fineit Hold in the Interior—Wdl Heated, Clean Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER T0NS1NA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. , KNUTE nafsted. Mar.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th calla Illainna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa Francisco•every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamer* Yale and Harvard (or Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr. Seattle I VALDEZ DOCK CO„ I.ocnl Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.:
8. & ALAMEDA AND S. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule t
without notice.
r, B. TRACT, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local AgeaL ;
When You Leave
'* For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
. 4
One road—one management—one service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
*
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.