Children's woolen gloves 40c
Children’s and misses’wool
en gloves, a very good as
sortment for your selection.
Priced a pair,/forty cents.
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Fruits and vegetables
Usual well assorted line re
ceived on the Alaska this
morning.
Men's top coats $5.00
About a dozen light weight
top coats that were former
ly worth $20 and $22.50,*
now being closed out at $5.
Valdez Mercantile Company.
FISH
A fine lot of black cod received on
the Northwestern by tbe Love-Whlt
ley Co. ^
Subscribe for the Minor.
DONALDSON NCHEDUL*
The following schedule for the har
bor boat “Lt. C. V. Donaldson" will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Monday, Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays:
Lve. Fort Llscum Leave Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:45 »• m
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAY •
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:16 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
11:16 p. m. 12:00 m. m.
There will be no trips of tbe boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these days being used to clean
hollars.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice
All official t us)ness between Val
dez and the Post should be arranged
for transaction, where possible, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
when urgently heeded.
O R KOEHLER.
Capt. 14th Infantry, A. Q. M.
TIDES FOB JANUARY
Thursday, Jan. 31.—
First high tide 2:39 a. m., 8.0.
Second high tide 2:35 p. in., 7.6. j
First low tide S:39 a. ni., 1.4.
Second low tide S:47 p. m., 0.7.
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Mrs. Anderson, wife of Corporal
Anderson of Fort l.lscum. was a re
turning passenger on the steamship'
Alaska from the States.
NOTICE
Owing to the increased expense of
operation^ occasioned by application |
of the Territorial eight hour law, it Is;
necessary to increase the price on de-i
livery of coal, therefore the price of
coal delivered will be as follows:
Bulk .$15.00 per ton
Sacked (ton lots) . 18.00 per ton
Sacked, (half ton i .... 9.50
Sacked, less than V6 ton 1.35 a sack(
tf VALDEZ TRANSFER CO.
Kodaks and kodak supplies at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf i
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; reads'
lo*transfe, t-at l»autor you. t'
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Second (.’all
We will accept Liberty Bonds for
stock in the Valdez Iron Works. |
Make your money earn 25 per cent;
Instead of 4 per cent. tf j
ALASKA’S PRIDE
Is the new Brew
Has all the requirements,
strength, nourishment, re*
freshment and taste of beer
but has no kick.
Put up by
ALASKA BEVERAGE &
BOTTLING WORKS.
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PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY
LOUIE S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale .
I EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVICH. Prop*.
BOLIVIA'S CITY OF SILENCE
Santa Crus Oe La Slarra Far From
the Outside World—Mail Reachee
New York In Two Months.
“The only tropical city of Bolivia It
stands from 1.19)0 feet altove sea level
so far from the outside world that
rnsll deposited on Jnnuary 7 reached
New York on March 11. Of the 19,
IMIO Inhabitants of .Santa Cruz He
I.a Sierra, 11,000 are female, writes
Harry A. Franck In the Century.
“It Is a city of silence. Spreading
over a dead-flat, half-sandy, Jungled
plain. Its light-angled streets are
deep In reddish sand In which not
only Its shod feet, hy no means In
the majority, though the upper class
is almost foppish In dress, but even
the solid wooden wheels of Its clumsy
ox carts made not a sound. There Is
no modern Inihistry to lend Its stri
dent voice, though the town boasts
three ‘stream establishments* for the
milking of Ice. the grinding of maize
and the sawing of Imnher, and every
street fades away at either end into
the whispering Jungle. Narrow side
walks of porous red bricks, roofed hy
"the wide overhanging eaves of the
houses, often upheld by pillars or |
poles, line most of the streets. But
these are by no means continuous, and ;
being commonly high above the street ■
level and often taken up entirely, es
pecially of an evening, hy the families. |
who consider this their verunda rath- ;
er than the pedestrian’s right of way,
the latter generally* finds It easier to
plod through the sand of the street
itself.
WHERE BITES ARE TREATED
Mission Dispensaries Cure Many Afri
cans Who Sustain All Manner of
Dangerous Injuries. ,
Africans go to the mission dlspeti j
sarles to be cured of Idtes from alt
—kinds of animals, and a large mint- ,
her of them are cured. The common- j
••si bites are from snakes, say o writer i
in World Outlook. In Inhnmlmne are |
IS to ‘JO varieties of poisonous snakes. 1
some very deadly, whose Idles mean a :
tight for life. Hyenas kill or carry i
off hundreds of children eaeli year,
and most of those who are rescued j
have terrible scalp wounds, as the j
hyena carries a child h.v the head,
other biting pests of the region are
lions, from whom few escape alive:,
scorpions, very poisonous and fond of
getting Into beds: hypo Hies, large'
Hies that In biting take huge pieces of |
flesh and cause great swellings:!
sharks, of which the hay Is full.
But the most common, litre and j
seemingly the hardest to heal. Is the i
huijpin hit. The Africans when they |
get angry use their teeth to good ad
vantage. There is scarcely a morn
ing that several do not come to the
dispensary. One boy had his lower
Up hit off. and for him a new lip
was made.
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Legal Anatomy.
I followed with interest from time to
time the Innocent errors of the little
hllle-eyed helpmate of the office. I
douht not that, without her help, theat
er mistakes in typing would he made:
not in spelling or grammar, perhaps,
hut such as these: "Dear. Sir youos
of the 1st re%eclved audio re(ly will
say." etc.
Be that as it may, I have one here
which I think worthy of a paper. 1 '
dictated us follows:
“Such a proposition, couched as li
is in terms to mislead the jury, is not '
a true statement of the law. is uuteu
aide and is certain to mean defeat to j
the ends of Justice."
My stenographer evidently thought
that our courts use a defeated litigant
much us father does an unfavorable
suitor for daughter’s hand, for she
wrote:
“Such a proposition, couched as It Is
in terms to mislead the jury, is not a
true statement >f the law. is untenable
and Is certain to meet the feet in the
hands of the Justice."—West’s Docket.
Woman Suffrage.
It was In the early days of the ad
vanced movement of woman suffrage,
muses an exchange, when by the mag
istrate's orders a number of “enthus
iasts” went to Holloway Jail. Among
them was a most excellent charwoman
who was employed at Clement's inn.
A sympathetic meeting was held on
their release, at which the chalrmau
spoke In ejoquent terms. “Here you
have.” he remarked, “a body of deli
cately nurtured, earnest-minded wom
en who, for some trifling Infraction of
the law. find themselves condemned to
prison, and there for the first time
in their .lives—"
“Beg pardon, sir, for Interrupting.'*
said the charwoman. Jumping up hasti
ly, “hut I think 1 ought to tell you that
I did once get seven days for banging
my old man on the nose!"
Ship of the Desert.
Because of Its peculiar swaying mo
tion In walking, the camel has been
called the “ship of the desert.” This
title nmy also have some reference to
the extreme stupidity and passivity of
the . animal, says Popular Science
Monthly, which submlta to great
loads, which It will often carry for
days at a time without stopping for
food or drink, with no more urglog
than a ship would require from the
hands of Ita pilot.
The manner In which the drivers
hobble the camels when they stop for
a rest la Interesting. They do not de
pend upon stakes driven In the deep,
yielding hand, hut simply doable bac*
and tie one end of the forelegs of the
animal, so that It cun He down or rise
op. hat cannot move Crotu the spot
CAPT. FRED WARNER
LEAVES FOR EUROPE
Capt. Fred Warner, the well known
AlaBkan navigator, sailed from Seat
tle on the 22nd In command of the
new steamship West Point. He was
accompanied by Purser Bill Harris,
the veteran purser of the Alaska S.
S. Company. Both men signed on the
trip for "some port In France."
PRACTICE THE GOSPEL OF THE
CLEAN PLATE
Paddy Smith has got a new job.
He is going to leave Taooma. where
for many years he has been a famil
iar figure on the waterfront. Having
reached the age at which a bit of cold
or dampness finds its way Into his
joints, he feels that the climate of
Southern California will be more
suitable to his years.
Paddy, who is an employe of the
Pacific Steamship Company, has been
a longshoreman and watchman at Ta
coma since he ceased to follow the
sea, which is longer hack than most
people remember. Some twenty or
mor9 years ago, he taught the art of
pushing a truck to an eager, red
headed boy of 14. who had started
out to learn his livelihood as a long
shoreman. That boy was H. F. Alex
ander. who today is president of the
Pacific Steamship Company.
Mr. Alexander has given orders
that Paddy be transferred to a South
ern California port, where he may en
joy mild temperature for the rest of
his days. The order went to A. F.
Haines. General Manager of the Com
pany at Seattle.
“I have known Paddy ever since
h“ pushed a truck alongside of Mr.
Alexander.” said Mr. Haines. “He is
one of the old school of faithful em
ployes. He has just bought a $1000
Liberty Bond, and has other funds,
hut he wants to stay in harness. He
lias not a relative on eartii. so we are
sending him South."
KAT MOKE FISH. CHEESE. EGGS
AND POULTRY. AND SAVE BEEF.
PORK AND MUTTON FOR OUR
FIGHTERS.
Statement of Ownership
Of the ownership, management,
etc. required by Act of Congress of
August 24, 1912. of the Valdez Daily
Prospector, published every day ex
cept Saturday at Valdez. Alaska, for
October 1. 1917.
That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing edi
tor. and busiues manager are:
Publisher. H. B. Selby. Valdez,
Alaska.
Editor. H. B. Selby. Valdez. Alas
ka.
Managing Editor. H. it. Selby, Val
dez. Alaska.
That the owners are H. B. Selby.
Valdez, Alaska.
That the known bondholders, mort
gagees. and other security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more
of total amount of bonds, mortgages
or other securities are none.
II. B. SELBY.
Owner and Publisher.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this 16th day of January, 1918.
A. J. DIMOND.
Notary Public.
My Commission expires Feb. 13, 1921
A minimum temperature of 24
above is reported for the last twelve
hours at Valdez, with a snowfall of
1 inch.
F. \V. Cox, representing the Wal
ton & Moore dry goods house of San
Francisco, was a passenger on the
steamship Alaska, en route for the
westward. He will stop off at Valdez
on his way south.
SENATOR CHARLES CURTIS
m
. 1winter Charles Curtin af Kanaaa la
advaaatlaa .rural oalanlaaHaa by- tha
gavarnmant af a vary United ttatea aal
dlar and aallar wha waata ta farm af
ter returning from tha war.
Why worry about your
Valuables
Why not engage a box for them
in our fireproof vault where per
fect protection is assured?
Why not do it today? Tomorrow
may be too late.
Price $5^ $10. and $15. per year
according to size.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
U. S. depositary for Postal Savings Funds
Valdez Dock Co # PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office Foot of Wall Street
Headquarters For
Electrical Supplies
Only the best manufac
tures are represented in
our stock.
All electrical Supplies we
sell are guaranteed pro
ducts.
Make your electrical pur- '
chases here and have the
assurance of absolute satis
faction and quality.
Prince William Sound Water,
Light, Power, Tel. Company
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The launch Tokeh Lou was delay
ed by the heavy snowstorm yesterday,
and left ror Ellamar this morning i
with L. L. Middelkamp, Gus Dgarf, |
Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson and son i
as passengers.
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+ + **•> + + + + * + + *♦♦
Steamship Admiral Evans—Sailed j
South from Valdez, Saturday, Jan. i
26.
Steamship Northwestern — Sailed j
South from Valdez, January 26.
Steamship Victoria—Will sail from
Seattle Feb. 1.
Steamship Alaska—Passed Juneau to
day, northbound.
Steamship Alameda—Sailed south
from Valdes, Saturday, Jan. 6.
Anything you want In the line of
photography—Jenner can do it for
you. tf
At uy iiutut^nki • f
They are the standard. Guy A Cun*
won. «t
Advertise In the Prospector.
Furnished rooms si Mrs Oslaad's.
Prices reasonable. •
FURS MADE IT
Furs remodeled, also new skius
made up in all the latest styles. Prices
very reasonable. Special attention
paid to Alaska trade. All work guar
anteed. Mrs. B. Richmond, 305. Cham
ber of Commerce Bldg, Tacoma.
Wash. tf
Just received all the latest popu
lar songs at O. O. Relnke’s. tf
For Orst-claas meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants' Cafe. tt
Cannery Sites
We have customers for select can
nery sites located In the Prince Wil
liam Sound District. If you have any
thing to offer send full particulars,
location, description, etc., to
BOND ft BAB80N,
Field Dept.
32 Broadway,
•*" • ' - New York City.
A new line of Johnson's Candy at
the Valdes Drug Co. tt