STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
■ VALDEZ, ALASKA /
“The House of Comfort”
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Weather Report.
Valdez, Jan. 23, 1916.
Barometric pressure .30.134
Temperature 5 p. .. *
Maximum temperature .12
Minimum temperature . 0
Mean temperature. 6
Clear, strong wind, northeast, 45
miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Jan. 24, 1916.
Fairbanks, —44; 12 inches snow;
cloudy, calm.
Salcha, —64; 16 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Richardson, —63; 20 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
McCarthy, —66; 22 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail fair.
Donnelly, —60; 20 inches snow;
clear, calm, tfjsiil good.
McCallum, —52; 19 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Paxson, —66; 30 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Hogan, —22; 28 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Oulkana, —23, 17 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
Copper center, —68; 17 inches of
snow; clear, calm, trail drifted.
Tonsina, —49; 18 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
Teikhell, —36; 36 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
Beaver Dam, —23; 46 inches of
•now; cloudy, windy, trail drifted.
Summit, —14; 9 feet of snow/
clear, windy, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, —12; 40 inches of
snow; clear, light wind, trail drifted.
J. P. Finnegan, the well known old
timer,' Wfin'has been employed with'
the Ramsay-Rutherford mine during
the past season is in town owing to
the mill having been closed down
through lack of water.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to aU parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
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McKinley Street, Valdez
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ED. WOOD, Proprietor
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CAPT. TIM MARCUM \ \
Sails for Port Wells, Portage J;
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday ,.
at 9:00 a. in., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock. ) [
For Ellamar, Land look Bay, J [
and.Fidalgo, every Wednes- ■ '
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val- <■
dez Dock Company’s Dock. J [
For Rates, Apply on Bout. j;
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to !I
“back” a good plan', a good J;
idea, a good business ven*
ture or a good mining pros* ! I
ipect; otherwise a good many J;
of today’s successful bust- ■ >
nets enterprises would still ! I
be mere dreams. |;
Advertising has brought > ■
about a majority of the in- |!
troductions of the man with J;
the idea, the man with a > •
prospect, or business to the !!
man with the dollar. ;
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ADVERTISE IN THE ! >
PROSPECTOR FOR RE- <
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LOCAL BREVITIES.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by Q. O.
Reinke. tt
Henry Myers is in town from the
Granby mine, across the bay from
Valdez.
Fancy Stationery at the Valde2
Drug Store. •
Owing to the rush of business caus
ed by the Are when Louie’s Cafe was
destroyed, Jack Callin of the Arcade
Cafe*, has engaged Hugo Bergstrom
as night chef and will keep his res
taurant open all night.
Valdez Drug Company nave a fine
| line of School Stationery. tf
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Fsr good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street. •
Just received ,the finest line of
neckties ever shown in Valdes, at
Ben Silverman’s.
Norman Merchant, who has been
employed with the Granby mine, is in
town, owing to the force having been
laid off on account of the water sup
ply having become frozen by the cold
weather.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Engineer L. Graham of the Valdez
Fire Department, reports that during
the fire last week that two nickel
plated hand fire extinguishers disap
peared and anyone knowing their
whereabouts is requested to notify
the department in order that they
may be recharged and made ready
for further service.
Furnished- rooms at Mrs. Osland’s
Prices reasonable. •
The painting of the interior of the
new postofflce building is nearing
completion and the premises are
about ready for Postmaster Jefferson
and his efficient staff. The heating
arrangements have received attention
and are now said to be working to
perfection. A portion of the building
is beated with hot water and the bal
ance with steam.
Kodak Supplies at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf
The high wind which has prevent
ed the small launches from venturing
away from the dock has moderated
and it is reported that several of the
little craft will get away tomorrow
morning for points down the Sound.
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
The Empress was packed last even
ing to see the Call of the North which
will be shown tonight for the last
Lime. 'The theatre is warm so don’t
be afraid to come and see this fine
paramount production. A splendid
change tomorrow evening. And Mary
Pickford in “The Eagle’s Mate,” on
Thursday evening.
“The Call of the North, ' a Para
mount featuro at the Empress to
nigni. Robert Edeson plays the lead
ing role.
Ed Woods, of the Copper River
Transfer company, who made the trip
to Seattle to purchase horses in an
ticipation of a busy season next sum
mer is returning home on the Admi
ral Parragut. He recently sold sev
eral head of horses to Chas. Swan
son and other Interior mining opera
tors who will employ the animals in
freighting supplies to interior mines.
A fine display of nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Bishop P. T. Rowe, head of the
Episcopal church in Alaska is report
ed to have returned from California,
where he spent his honeymoon and is
now starting on bis annual trip thru
Alaska. Mrs. Rowe will remain, with
friends in Seattle as her husband
fears that the hardships of the trip
into the interior would be too great a
'tax upon her strength. He will visit
1 Valdes before going into the interior'
| via Chltina.
GRANBY CLOSES
FOR THE WINTER
High Wind of Last Week Partly
Wrecked Buildings at Upper
Workings Belaying Work
The intensely cold weather which
has prevailed during the past ten days
has caused the Ramsay-Rutherford
mine near the Valdez glacier and the
Granby mine in Solomon gulch, over
the bay from Valdez, to suspend oper
ations for the balance of the winter.
The storm up at the Granby mine
is reported to have been much more
severe than in Valdez and the miners
believe that the wind attained a veloc
ity of seventy-five miles an hohr. The
buildings at the dpper workings were
slightly wrecked but the aerial tram
escaped damage.
Mine Foreman Palmer Cook, who
is in town today, reports that the de
velopment work at the mine will be
suspended for at least two months, as
the water supply has been frozen-and
that operations cannot be carried on'
to advantage before the first of
March.
The miners who have been working
for the Granby and who have been
made idle through the result of the
cold snap are Howard Conrad, Carl
Hauser, Henry Myers, Billy Jones,
Gus Gravelle, Pete Minelli, M. Peb
coff, and Norman Merchant, all of
whom are Valdez men.
JLOCAIi brevities.
Hats Cleaned and Blocked.
Hats cleaned and blocked; suits
cleaned and pressed.
tf GUY P. CAMERON.
WANTED: Experienced woman de
sires work as cook or maid. Refer
ences given. Address Prospector.
Hotpoint Electric Heaters. Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
FOR RENT: Nice three-room cot
tage down town, completely furnish
ad. Rent $16.00. Apply to James
Fish. tf
Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store. tf
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley’s.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company. tf.
SAYS KETCHIKAN IS
ENTITLED TO GREAT CREDIT
That there is more mining going on
!n the vicinity of Ketchikan than
there is at either 'Valdez, Cordova,
Reward or Fairbanks, is the state
ment made by the Progressive Min
er in a recent issue. The paper re
ents the mention of all these other
ilaces by prominent mining journals
of the coast and nothing said about
Ketchikan. It says: "The Ketchi
kan precinct has several good mines
hat are being worked extensively.
Others are being opened up which
will make the precinct one of the
most prosperous mining precincts in
he country. Apparently some of
those mining publications are inform
ed only in spots.”
The Very Reverend Mother Pro
vincial of the Ursuline convent de
sires to state that even though she
should be called away by reason of
business the lessons at the Convent
will be continued without interrup
tion.
SEIZES MAILS TO
GET BELGIAN STOCKS.
WASHINGTON: Unofficial advices
received today by the State Depart
ment indicate that Great Britain’s
recent seizure of mail in transit from
I Europe to the United States were
prompted by a desire to recover Bel
gian and French securities confis
cated by German authorities.
Such securities, all of high commer- '
cial value, it was said, have been sent 1
from German sources to this country
to be sold, the malls of Switzerland
and Holland being used for their
movement.
The State Department has asked
Great Britain for a statement of facts
concerning interference with mails.
Ambassador Page of London and
agents of the department in Holland
and Switzerland are expected to for
ward Information on' the subject. A
protest may be the result.
American officials hold that the le
gality of Great Britain’s action is
questionable under I existing postal
treaties. Great Britain, however, con
tends that both military necessity
and treaty rights gars authority for
the seizure.
COL. ROOSEVELT
Oil PREPAREDNESS,
The following paper prepared by
Colonel Roosevelt on national de
fense when read before the American
Sociological Society called for some
caustic remarks by several of the
delegates. The Sociological Society
is one of the many scientific meet
ings held in New York at the same
time as the Pan-American congress
.The paper follows:
“Infinitely the most important fact
to remember in connection with the
war and militarism in relation to
moral and social values,” wrote Mr.
Roosevelt, “is that of an unscrupulous
warlike and militaristic nation is not
held in check by the warlike ability
of a neighboring nonmllitaristic and
well-behaved nation,, then the latter
will be spared the necessity of deal
ing with ‘moral and social values’,
because it won’t be allowed to deal
with anything. It seems to me posi
tively comic to fail to appreciate,
with the example of Belgium before
our eyes, that' the real question
modern peace-loving nations have to
face is not how the militaristic or
warlike spirit within their own bor
ders will affect these ‘values’ but how
failure on their part to resist the
militarism of an unscrupulous neigh
bor will affect them.”
* * *
Discussing the mental confusion of
the average citizen who thinks war
in itself is wrong, Mr. Roosevelt
wrote that war could be defined as
the use of force between nations, and
that the question of whether it was
right or wrong depended entirely up
on the purpose for which it was
waged.
"There are of course persons who
belive all force is immoral; that it
is immoral to resist wrongdoing by
force,” he added. “I have never taken
much interest in individuals who pro
fess this kind of neutrality, and I do
not know the extent to which they
practically apply it.
“But of course if they are right
in the theory, then it is wrong for
a man to endeavor by force to save
his wife or sister or daughter from
abuse or to save his children from
abduction and torture. It is waste of
time to discuss with any man a posi
tion of such folly, wickedness and
poltroonery.
“If the man who objects to war ob
jects to the use of force in civil life,
his position is logical although ab
surd and wicked. If the college presi
dents, politicians, automobile manu
facturers and the like, who during
the last year or two have preached
pacificism in its most ignorable form,
are willing to think out the subject,
and are both sincere and fairly in
telligent, they must necessarily con
demn a police force or a posse coml
taus just as much as they blame ar
mies, and they must regard the act
ivities of the sherriff and the con
stable as being essentially militar
istic, and, therefore must be abolish
ed.* * * When we have discovered a
method by which right living may be
spread so universally in Chicago and
New York that the two cities can with
safety abolish their police forces,
then, and not until then, will it be
worth while to talk about the aboli
tion of war.’
“The Sociological Society meets at
Washington this year,” continued the
paper, “only because the man after
whom the city was named was will
ing to go to war there would have
been no possibility of discussing ‘so
cial values’ in the United States, for
have been no United States. If Lin
have been no United States. In Lin
coln had not been willing to go to
war, to appeal to the sword, to intro
duce militarism on a tremendous
scale throughout the United States,
the sociologists who will listen to this
paper, if they existed at all, would
not be considering the social values
enumerated above, but the social val
ues of slavery and such governmen
tal and industrial problems as can
now be studied in the Central Amer
ican republics.
“At present in this world and for
the immediate future,” wrote Mr.
Roosevelt in conclusion, "it Is cer
tain that the only way successfully
to oppose the might which is the ser
vant of wrong Is by means of the
might which is the servant of right.”
ADMIRAL FA HR A GUT
HAS PASSED JUNEAU
The local office of the Alaska
Steamship company has received ad
vices from Juneau stating that the
steamer Admiral Farragut sa'irn
from that port at 8 o’clock last night,
for Valdes and other Southwestern
Alaskan ports. She is due to reach
Valdes about Tuesday night or Wed
nesday morning early. The steamer
will go to Kodiak this trip and will
not return from the westward for sev
eral daya
LOST:—During the Are a large
blue woollen blanket disappeared.
Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
the same, please hotlfy or return to
Mrs. E. Winter.
CITY EXPRESS
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will
reach the boat on time*—Let us do the
worrying.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Hatiefaction Guaranteed I | Foot Keybtoue Ave
Telephone 66 I I Kuujrh Dry lCc lb
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mer.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 03 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
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
PLI MBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
8heet 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
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, BOTH. AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCIIUtAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Douglas. Skagway. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latou-lie. on tho 15lh; S. S.
Cordova. 25th of each month—right reservod to change this schedule
without notice.
p. n. TltACV, Grn'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
Pacific Alaska Nayigafion Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California LillS Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Sttamcf Sailing 13th calla lllamna anil Kinllak—All Sailing call at ICnlk
anil Ancliiiraicc.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
■ tenniera tale and Harvard fur Southern Californio.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
nidlAItn J. HIMiWOOII, Mgr.. Seattle' V AI.IHCZ HOCK CO.. Leant Agt. j
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
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 atlc
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdes, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE A ST, PAUL RY.
A E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
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