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Price From $6.50 to $9.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
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.
n.... no DENTIST
in both companie. Fourteen rears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
p^neia THE DENTIST
Office rooms over owl Druit store. Office hours
ga m„ to6p. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 |>. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’# Phone No. BO
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 t»d7 to9p. ■>.
I JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE !
LYONS & RITCHIE <
Attorneys at Law f <
Offices In Whaling Building |
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska ]
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; ;C. E. BUNNELL !
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3 \ i Office Opposite Court House 2
1 i' Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska j
F. BUTTERWORTH
JCivil Engineer sndj
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdes, Alaska,
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,
Valdez, Alaska.
A Little Encouragement.
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“You had to give Fred a hint before
he'd propose, eh?’
“Yes. lie didn’t seem to be equip
ped with a self starter.”—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
If you want all the news all the
time read the Daily Prospector.
There is no light that m kcs night
reading so easy a docs Cloctr\.: y. r n
Electric portablo is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well a; a means of
health. The entire b y r " f the
eyes become af u ■ :. r . in im
proper light is or.o cf : s \ hings
for the eyes. Go: an . j ' : Portable
and read in comfort and pean ..
| Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company.
A WELL AND A POET.
And .an Unanswerable Argument In a
Suit at Law.
Among tbe many anecdotes told of
Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, the Ger
man poet and novelist, the following
from Tagliche Rundschau Is one of the
most amusing:
In a place where Scheffel once lived
there was a lack of good drinking wa
ter. One day a well driver In the
neighborhood proposed that the poet
allow him to drive a deep well for
him. Scheffel accepted his offer, but
only on the condition that after the
water had been drawn It be found
drinkable. The well driver completed
his work, but all that the pump would
deliver was a thick yellow liquid, so
the poet refused to pay for the work.
Finally the matter wns brought be
fore the court, and the poet and well
driver stood side by side before the
Judge to present their respective cases.
Both argued their sides so well that
the magistrate was plainly puzzled to
know which was actually right In the
matter.
At length, weary of the affair, Schef
fel said: “Well, I’ll give in and pay for
the well and the court expenses, too,
but on one condition. My opponent
shall, before our eyes, take a drink of
the water from the well in question.’’
The poet then drew from hls hip pock
et a flask of dirty yellow water and.
after extracting the cork, passed it
over to the well driver. One glance
was enough. He thrust the bottle aside
with a disgusted look and strode out of
the courtroom with an angry growl.
HORSEBACK RIDING.
It Is a Sport and an Exercise In a Class
by Itself.
When Oliver Wendell Holmes pro
claimed the trotter the coming horse
and the steed of democratic useful
ness. he did not foresee the Invention
of the automobile. Small blame to
him. No one else dreamed of it for
some scores of years thereafter, but
the motor driven carriage has caused
the learned doctor’s plausible prophecy
to go askew. By all present signs the
coming horse, or. rather, the lasting
horse, the one which will survive any
amount of mechanical aids to locomo
tion, is the good saddle animal.
Horseback riding is at once a sport
and an exercise, which is without a
relative or a competitor. It is like
nothing else, and for one who loves it,
it can be replaced by nothing else. It
Is one of the finest aids to digestion
ever known. The dictum of the old
English physician. “The outside of a
horse is the best thing for the insides
of a man,” remains true.
With all these advantages the saddle
horse is likely to last till we degenerate
into a nation of button pushers. When
that degradation is accomplished It
won’t matter greatly whether we have
any desirable animal companionship or
not.—Chicago Journal.
The Musical Gamut.
Guido, a monk of Arezzo, in Tus
cany. in 1009 A. D. was the inventor
of the gamma “ut,” or gamut, and
the six notes “ut,” “re,” “mi." “fa,”
“sol, “la.” These syllables were
"taken from the first three verses of the
hymn of St. John the Baptist, "Ut
queant laxls,” etc. Without the use of
the gamut a person could not In a lit
tle time become perfiK^t master of
plain song. Guido says in a letter
which he wrote, “I hope they who
coine after us will not forget to pray
for us. for we make a perfect master
of singing in a year or two. whereas
till now a person could scarce attain
this science, even imperfectly. In ten
years.” The gamut is the first note,
but oftener taken as signifying the
whole scale of music or series of
sounds, rising or falling toward acute
ness or gravity from any given pitch
or tone.
Home of the Huns.
The Huns have probably their near
est actual European descendants in
the Bulgarians. It Is a mistake to
look for them in Hungary. The Ogre
or Ungrl, better known as the Mag
yars, have very little to do with the
Huns. But one conjectured deriva
tion of the word “ogre” is from the
Ugri, through confusion of them with
the Huns. It seems more probable,
however, that “ogre” should be traced
through Spanish and Italian to the
Latin Orcus—at first the god of the
dead, and afterward in Romanesque
folklore a shaggy, man eating monster
of the woods.—London Chronicle.
Smokeless Breakfast Bacon.
Try cooking your breakfast bacon on
a pie tin in tbe oven. This does away
with all smoke and burnt grease smell
in tbe kitchen, and the bacon is uni
formly crisp. It may be cooked two
layers deep If you will turn it once
while cooking. One layer needs no
turning. The fat from this Is white
and can be UBed for all baking. With
half the amount of butter it is good
even for cakes.—Washington Herald.
Highly Flattersd.
“Your glasses,” she said, “have made
a great difference in your appearance.”
“Do you think so?” he asked.
“Yes. Yon look so intelligent with
(hem on.”—Chicago Herald.
Ruling Passion.
Lawyer’s Wife (2 a. m.i-John, there’s
a burglar downstairs. Lawyer—Ask
him if he’s got $20 with him. I won’t
bother with him for less.—Chicago
News.
Got Full Dssorlptton.
Dyer—Hlgbse was one of the bast
man that over lived. Ryer—How do
yon know? Dyer—I married his widow.
—Town Topics.
ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT RAYS.
How Man May Some Day Extract Hit
Food From the Air.
Science begins to dream of n day in
which man will gnther his food direct
from the air and digest it without
much aid from the various ferments
and juices which are now mainly in
strumental in that work.
The chief agent in this mighty revo
lution, according to no less an author
ity than Bertholet. will be the ultra
'violet light rays. These are not visi
ble to the human eye. They do not
appear upon the spectroscope. They
affect the photographic plate, how
ever, and are probabbly discerned by
some of the lower animals, whose
sense of sight is much more acute
than that of man.
Much is known of their chemical ef
fects. Few microbes can long with
stand their power. The redness and
pain of “sunburn” are their work. They
are particularly injurious to the eye,
which upon exposure to them becomes
totally blind in a little while.
Through the agency of these rays
Bertholet has actually combined car
bon dioxide and water vapor into
sugar and other carbohydrates. He
has inclosed carbohydrates, fats and
albuminoids In sealed vessels of
quartz and has seen them digest un
der the rays. The process is very ex
pensive. of course, but it is hinted
that modern inventive genius will so
cheapen it in time that fields of wheat
may be replaced by factories where
food is manufactured from the gases
of the air.
And should the men of that day be
troubled with indigestion the same
agent that makes their food will come
to their relief. Stomach troubles will
disappear at once before a little bulb
of light rich in the ultra violet rays.—
Boston Herald.
BIFOCAL LENSES.
They Had Their Origin In Ben Frank
lin’s Double Glasses.
Everybody who uses bifocal glasses
probably wonders where the Idea orig
inally came from. Bifocal glasses are
the kind that possess two separate
lenses cemented together so that by
looking in the upper part one can see
at a great distance and by looking
through the lower half one can read.
Most authorities are inclined to give
Benjamin Franklin credit for the in
vention. He was, so the story goes, an
inveterate reader and could not use his
reading glasses when looking any dis
tance away.
Finally the notion came to him that
he could combine bis glasses, and he
thereupon had the lenses cut in half
and one-half of each lens placed in tiie
rim of each spectacle rim. The result
was that a single pair of glasses was
sufficient, though present day oculists
state that the sharply drawn line must
have affected his eyes.
From this idea the oculists gradually
developed a glass in which the lower
part was arranged for reading and the
upper part for long distance visiou.
while the annoying “marking line” was
eliminated.—Washington Star.
Mount Rainiar’s Shadows.
There are some wonderful shadow
effects produced by and upon the gi
gantic snowy cone of Mount Rainier.
It sometimes happens that the sky as
seen from the city of Tacoma just be
fore sunrise is covered with a dome
of cloud 15.001) feet or more in height,
while behind the peak, toward the east,
the sky is clear. In such circumstances
the rising sun casts the shadow of the
great mountain upon the cloud curtain
overhead in the form of a vast blue
triangle, the point of which rests upon
the apex of the peak. At other times
the shadow of the earth can be seen
creeping up the cone in a distinct
curve, while the flush of sunset stains
the snow above the line of shadow to
a deep pink.
The British Crown.
The present crown of the English
king was originally made for Queen
Victoria at her coronation in 1838. The
principal jewels were taken from older
crowns. The most noted stone is the
great ruby which was given to the
Black Prince by Peter the Cruel after
the battle of Navarette in 13G7. It was
also worn by Henry V. in the crown
encircling his helmet at the battle of
Aglncourt in 1415.—Philadelphia Press.
Cause For Suspicion.
A mother who frequently went out
to spend the day with her friends bad
jeen accompanied always by her seven
year-old son. One evening on return
ing home very much bored with the
day’s experiences, he said to her:
“Mother, if you don’t Stop taking me
around with yon so much people will
think you have married a dwarf.”—
Harper’s Magazine.
Hia Part In the Drama.
Two women who claimed the same
man as a husband were airing their
troubles In court
“Who’s the skinny fellow over
there?” asked a visitor.
“He’s the bone of contention.”
chuckled the court attendant
They Rarely Are Idle.
“1 guess It Is nothing more than an
idle rumor."
“Idle? 1 guess not It is the busiest
old .rumor that ever happened.”—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Pa’s Little Joke.
Ostend—Pa, why did yon give ma
that little ring with a watch In It? Pa
—I wanted time to hang lightly on her
bands, my son.—Exchange.
Do thine own task and be therewith
content—Coeth*
Dougherty & Ferguson
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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 a rn to 9 a m
Lunch 12 in to 1 p m
6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close. “
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything. We Bake Our Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread for.Sale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
nesday, Saturday 3 to 5 p. m., Tues
days and Fridays 7:3(1 to 9:30 p. m.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alasaa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretaiy
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, 16, 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.
I). Flynu, 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 (he above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1914, 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, tho
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 of last publication January
21, 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
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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U you want all tna new* all the
umo, read the Proepeetor.