Men’s Mackinaw Coats
The handiest, most serviceable
coat now days is the mackinaw—the
all-around coat; suitable for town or
the trail.
Our Kenyon or Summit coats are
made Norfolk or plain belted styles,
with high shawl collar and the new
est in checks, plaids or plain colors.
Price From $6.50 to $9.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
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On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen \ears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
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Office rooms over O'rl Drills store. Office hours
9 a m., to0t>. m.. 7 p. in., to 9 i>. m. Sundays
by appointment Ail work ssuarantced
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 58
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
C. E. BUNNELL
attorney-at-law
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
)Civil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Lund end
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdes, A leaks.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
;
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER, President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdes, Alaska.
Comparisons.
"You ought to see a judge I know at
drawing a jury.”
"You ought to see one I know at
draw poker.”—Philadelphia Press.
For home cooked meals go to Mrs.
Matilda Olson’s on Hobart street.
Phone 219. Special Sunday dinner
served at 5 o’clock. Week days din
ner served at 6 p. m. tf
THE READING TABLE I
There is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if tho
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, Light Telephone & Company.
CURIOUS FOSSIL FORESTS.
Twelve Tower, One Above the Other,
In Yellowstone Park.
In tbe Yellowstone National park
twelve successive forests, one on top
of another, have been buried by out
flows of lava and petrified, according
to a government pamphlet entitled,
"Fossil Forests of the Yellowstone Na
tional Park," by F. H. Knowlton.
The area within which the fossil for
ests are now found was apparently in
the beginning an Irregular but rela
tively flat basin, on the floor of which,
after a time, there grew the first for
est. Then there came from some of
the volcanoes, probably those to the
north, an outpouring of ashes, mud
flows and other material which entire
ly buried the forest, but so gradually
that tbe trees were simply submerged
by the incoming material, few of them
being prostrated. On the raised floor
of the basin, after a time, the next for
est came into existence, only to be in
turn engulfed as the first had been,
and so on through the period repre
sented by the 2,000 feet or more of
similar beds.
Tbe whole history of the manner in
which these forests were fossilized is
not fully understood, but it was un
doubtedly dependent on or at least
greatly facilitated by the presence of
volcanic and hydrothermal activity,
which was doubtless then, as it is to
some extent now, a marked feature of
the park region. The fossil forests
are surrounded by a matrix that is
known as an acidic lava, which con
tains abundant silica in solution. The
first part of the process of sllicifleation
may well hove been that silica would
be deposited in all the cells and ves
sels of the wood, making an accurate
cast of all open spaces. Then, while
the slow process of decay went on, as
each particle of organic matter was
removed its place was taken by the
silica, until finally all tbe wood sub
stance had disappeared and its place,
atom by atom, bad been taken by
silica.
SAVE THE SOIL
Don’t Let the Rains Wash the Valuable
Plant Food Away.
If you knew that It takes nature
10,000 years to form a foot of soil
maybe you would have a higher opin
ion of Mother Earth and be more care
ful bow you drain your garden or field.
If you saw a granary full of rat
holes you would suspect a careless
farmer. But a field left to wash
away by the unchecked rush of sur
face water after a downpour is fully
as wasteful. The only difference is
that here the waste Is of plant food
before it gets into the grain.
If your garden or field is on a slope,
terrace it; if on a level, plant it not in
straight rows, but in circles. And in
both cases tile drain it for the stuff
that washes away is precisely the
stuff that your crops most need. Once
gone it is expensive to replace.
When you stop to think that every
thing depends on the soil, clearly the
soil is worth saving.—Seattle Star.
A Dog Story.
We brought from Scotland a collie
about six months old. He was allow
ed to be with us at the breakfast ta
ble, but never to be fed in the dining
room. This rule was enforced by my
daughter. 1 was the only member of
the family who ever broke over the
rule. And often when I offered him
a tempting bone he would glance
across the table, and if he caught the
forbidding eye he would resist the
temptation. But one morning she left
the table abruptly. Rub followed her
Into the hall and watched her till she
had closed the door of her study.
Then he scampered back, nudged my
elbow, as if to say. “Now is our time,"
seized the bone and was soon crunch
ing It with the greatest satisfaction.—
London Spectator.
Red Sea Heat.
At certain seasons of the year the
Red sea is almost unbearable. The
water taken from seventy to eighty
feet below the surface at 6 o’clock in
the morning will often register a tem
perature as high as 00 degrees. If, In
addition, a sandstorm thinks fit to
blow the whole air Is full of a mist
ot innumerable particles of fine, hot
sand, which blind and suffocate at the
same time.
Striking at the Cause.
Mr. Littlerest— Doctor, what did you
tell me was your special treatment for
sleeplessness? Medico—We strike at
the cause or the origin of the trouble.
Mr. Littlerest—You don’t say sol Well,
you will find the baby In the other
room. Only don’t strike at him too
hard.—New York Globe.
Squaring It.
Mr. Shoddy—Yes, that’s the armah
used by my ancestab who came ovah
with the Conquerah. Young Lady—
(after examining the armor carefully)—
It says “Made in Germany” on the
gauntlet Mr. Shoddy—Oh, yes; my
ancestab—er-started from there, don’t
yer know.—London Telegraph.
Contemptible.
Grace—If It was a secret why In the
world did yon tell that girl? Gwendo
lyn—It won’t do her any good, my
dear. I’d already telephoned It to all
the girls she knew.-Puck.
Human Nature.
Edd!e~Pa, what’s human nature?
Pa-That’s the thing that always
catches It when a fellow can’t blame
It on anybody else.—London Mail.
There are more men ennobled by
study than by nature.
MAN’S CRITICAL AGE.
If Thirty Is Safely Passed Many Seri
ous Diseases Are Outgrown.
A medical lecturer recently declared
that in many ways thirty Is the critical
age In the average man’s life. Once
you reach thirty you have outgrown
many serious diseases. On the other
hand, you become liable to many oth
ers thut seldom or never attack people
in the teens or twenties.
Anaemia, for Instance, Is practically
unknown after thirty. If you have not
had it by then you never will. If yon
have you will have outgrown it at
thirty or so. Acne, too—that spottl
ness of complexion so common among
young people—Is certain to have van
ished by then.
Thirty, too, sees you out of the reach
of the gravest of all disenses—con
sumption. If you have shown no
sign of It by then in all probability
you never will. If you have hitherto
escaped rheumntlc fever, too, you are
fairly safe from It for life. Epilepsy
and goiter, too, never make their first
attacks on uny one who has reached
thirty.
But your thirtieth birthday lays you
open to kidney troubles of all sorts
They are very rare In people under
that nge. Cancer, too, usually con
fines itself to people over thirty. And
you may at any time be surprised by
a touch of gout You may have had a
tendency that way all your life with
out knowing It It never develops till
the critical birthday 1s past — New
York Press.
OLD TAPESTRY.
How the Product of Different Eras
May Be Distinguished.
Tho word “tapestry” needs to be de
fined, for it may mean anything from
figured furniture covering to carpets
Tapestry as the word is here used is
a pictured fabric woven by an artisan
on a hand loom, in which the design
forms the cloth and is not worked
upon a basic tissue. The design itself
is painted by an artist, and the loom,
either upright or horizontal, has alter
ed but little from prehistoric times to
tlie present The difference in the
tapestries through the ages lies in the
dyes, in the design and in the talent
of those who translate the drawings
in weaving. The species of stitch al
ters not and belongs to all peoples—
Asiatic, European, aborigines of North
and South America.
For those who would be quickly wise
in a general classification of old tap
estry it may be said loosely that three
great periods of design and weaving
dominate the history of the art First,
the primitive or Gothic; next, the
renaissance, and then that florescence
of decorative design which belongs
more peculiarly to France in the sev
enteenth and eighteenth centuries. As
these three great periods of artistic
development prevailed ail over the
Chrlstiau worltj in all varieties of art
one can, by using this simple key, ar
rive almost instantly at the century
to which a tapestry belongs.—Scrib
uer's Magazine.
Turkish Inns.
To the traveler accustomed to the
luxury of up to date hotels a Turkish
khan (inn) comes as a rude surprise.
Oue finds oneself suddenly whisked
from tlie twentieth to the tenth cen
tury. Beneath a central archway one
passes into a quadrangle, which, with
its fountain, suggests university pre
cincts. The ground floor of the build
ing forms the stables. Above are the
guest rooms. The principal guest
room—the one .above the entrance gate
way-is allotted to travelers of note.
It is innocent of the appointments
proper to a European bedchamber, its
furniture consisting merely of a roll of
matting to spread on a low wooden
platform and an earthenware pipkin
for water.—London Answers.
Vanished Vegetation.
The ancient vegetation which grew
in South Carolina and Georgia during
upper cretaceous and eocene time—
or, as geologists state, at least several
million years ago—included the se
quoia or “big tree," now confined to
the Pacific coast Also there were
three kinds of araucarias or Norfolk
island pines, which at the present time
live only In South America and Aus
traila. a pine with the leaves in clus
ters of three, as in the living pitch
pine, and a number of cypress-like
trees which were once widely spread
over the world but are now extinct
Easy to Hide It
"Mary," said a lady to her house
maid as she surveyed the furniture,
“just look at the dust! Didn’t 1 tell
you to go carefully over it? 1 expect
company this afternoon, and I shall
feel disgraced. Every one will go
away talking about It”
“Well, mum,” said the girl, "why
don’t you pull down the shades V*’—
New York Globe.
Too Persistent
She—You know very well that you
bad to ask me three times before I
would conseut to be your wife. He—
Yea, 1 know, and that only goes to
show that It is sometimes possible to
be too confounded persistent—Boston
Transcript
With the Modern Heel.
“What on earth are yon doing with
yonr shoe on the desk?”
"I’m only robbing out a mistake.
Pve lost my eraser.”—Meggendorfer
Blatter. _
Foresight
Little Willie—Bay, pa. wbat la tan
sight? Pa—Foresight my son. la the
faculty of being around when than la
• melon to bo cat—Chicago Newa.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Cali.You on Time for the boat
if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy and”*Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
( 7 si rri to 9 ;t nri
MEALS} Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
( 0 U) 7 p in
BOARD & Room $SO per Mo.
.Perry
’Seattle
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alaska, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretary
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka. at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember. 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, l(j, 23, 30.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in ihe above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, the
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
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SULTS.
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ttaw, read the Prospector.