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All sifl er mesh bags and vanity cases to be
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All Casseroles at One-Third Off
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Many durable and entertaining toys for the young folks
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WOULD HE'III
TOUGH WITH MINES
01 aim Owners are Requested by U. S.
Geological Survey to Keep De
partment Well Informed.
The United States Geologic Survey,
under the Department of Interior, has
sent lists to owners of mining proper
ties in this section requesting that t.h •
lists be filled out and ’forwarded to
the department.^ Official envelopes
are supplied for ''the? reply, requiring
only a few minutes vqprk on the part
of the recipients to fill out the lists.
The information desired is relptive to
the amount of development work, for
mation, etc.
The information gained by the de
partment through the lists as filled
in by the individual claim owners is
of inestimable value in aiding the of
ficials of the geological department
to keep posted on the progress betng
made in the various mining districts.
On another form requests are made
for information as to the machinery
with which the properties are equip
ped and the process employed in sav
ing the values, average values of the
ores and the total output. This in
formation is for the guidance of the
the department and is confidential if
the^mine owner so requires.
Makes 300 Miles an Hour.
Smile Bachelet, a Franco-Ameri
can electrical engineer, has an
nounced an entirely new discovery
in the Held of electrical science that
(a believed to forecast a revolution
in the high speed transmission of
mail tfed express matter and pass
engers.
He has built a small model of a
railroad car made of aluminum and
ateel, which although without wheels
•r internal machinery, moves for
ward at practically any speed the in
ventor desires. The exact means of
propelling it *te held secret by the
inventor. A spjeed of three hundred
miles an hour is said to be easily at
tained.
aluminum base of the car was
one-dalfan inch from the surface of
tbe rail during each of its trips over
the thirtjr-ohe-foot section of track,
•rtiia was accomplished, the Inventor
explained, through the following
means:
First, by raising and sustaining
the car by means of electro magnetic
repulsion: second by causing the
ear so sustained to move laterally,
at will, with great speed, by means
of electro-magnetic attraction;third,
bv overcoming gravity while these
forces are operative, there being iittle
friction except that of the atmos
phere.
Cylindrical coils of wire with sol
enoids (practically large charged
magnets), furnish the magnetic lat
eral force, leading an amateur scien
tist to remark that M. Bachelet had
“harnessed magnetism.”
Between the two lower rails are
“levitating coils.” As the car passes
the force in these levitating coils »e
pulses the aluminum base of the. ve
hicle, raising it one-half inch in the
air.
The car is given direction by the
“brushes” which slide along in their
grooves in the lower rails. There is
also an upper rail somewhat similar
to the overhead feed wire above the
trolley tracks. At each end, the car,
in passing along, comes in contact
with the solenoids.
It is by means of the brushes that
the current is automatically cut off
after the car has passed over that
particular section of the track.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 23, 1915.
Barometric pressure.29.921
Temperature 7 p. m. 7
Maximum temperature .27
Minimum temperature . 5
Mean temperature .-.IB
Precipitation .37
Clear, wind northeast, 4 miles;
snowed at night.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Dec. 24, 1915.
Fairbanks, —25; 10 inches snow;
clear, calm.
Salcha, —28; 10 inches of snow;
dear, calm.
Richardson. —35; cloudy, calm,
trail good.
McCarthy, —21; clear, calm, trail
good.
Donnelly, —20; 1-9 Inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
McCallum, —11; 42 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Paxson, —18; 30 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Hogan, —17; 23 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Gulkana, —16; 19 inches snow;
cloudy, windy, trail good.
Copper Center, —26; 18 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Tonslna, —12; 17 inches suow;
cloudy, calm, trail good.
Teikhell, —12; 26 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Beaver Dam, —22; 37 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail good.
Summit, ■—6; 70 inches of enow;
cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s, zero; 36 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail heavy.
A locking device to prevent both
sashes of a window being moved from
the position in which they/are lock
ed, small enough to be carried in the
pocket, has been invented for tour
ists.
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ter i*erlui|iM Hi... did. im.ioubtedly
they nccilc.i II. iii.1 did tliey ueces
surily wear congress palters? Tlie true
western siaiesuiau wus proud of bis
leg boots. Tbe popularity or tbe con
press pulter In ibis couutry wus due
to tbe euse wilb wb.eb it wus put ou
It was tbe shoe for fat men. for iudo
lent persons, for those that were men
tally down ul tbe beel. discouraged
aud depressed. 1
Where are those shoes now? But
what has become of all the herdk-s
aud where Is,Peter Herdle? Where
are all the old fusbloued carpet bags,
the tuoss agate rings and sleeve but
tons, the hair jewelry, the mustache
cups and napkin bauds? Where are
the revolving casters that were once
the center ornament of the dining
room table? "What will you have
from the caster?" Where are the
i linking silver plated ice water pitch
ers. with gold lined goblets, that stood
on the sideboard or on the table In
the directors' room of a bank or office
of some corporation? What an amaz
ing amount of Junk there must be in
this world. Including novels that were
for a time prodigiously popular, serious
books that were once called definite,
final, epoch making.—Philip Hale in
Boston Herald.
TRAINING THE FLEA.
How the Tiny Insect Is Weaned From
His Jumping Habit.
"The teaching of the flea to <lo any
sort of trick is, of course, a tedious,
difficult matter." said a flea trainer.
“The first thing to do is to break it of
its natural habit of jumping.
"One can see bow necessary this is
when one considers the flea is loss than
one-eighth of an inch in length and
has a jump of three feet—300 times its
own length. If a sis foot man had
the same leaping power lie could make
leaps of 1,800 feet, so that when a flea
has the advantage of one leap he is
good as gone forever. My apparatus
for jump breaking is a round glass
bnll. I confine him In this for three
weeks. 1 look through this ball, touch
it, flash lights into it, talk, do every
thing to let the flea accustom himself
to my presence. At first he will jump
and jump. He strikes against the
curved walls and gets bruised. After
a time, and T find three weeks to he
ample, the flea gets to know me. and
he also gets to know that it is less
painful to crawl than to jump and get
bruised.
“The flea canuot differentiate be
tween transparent gluss and no glass,
so that when I take him from the ball
he still strikes this peculiar obstruc
tion and so lie don't jump. So. you see,
a flea must have some reasoning power
somewhere, but I am in no position to
say where it is located. That is why
I have to pick fleas up with tweezers
ami put them on my arm when I waul
to feed them. They don't dare to
Jump on me."—Kansas City Star.
How He Got Along.
An attorney living on the north side
was arrested a few weeks ago charged
with violating the motor speed law
When Ills case was/called in city court
the next day he asked that it be con
tinned for a week. The arrest caused
bis wife considerable embarrassment,
and she spent most of her morning con
versntions with the neighbors during
the next few days in explaining just
how it happened.
On the day of the trial one of the
neighbors was sitting on the porch ns
the attorney returned home.
‘Hello. Jack.” said the neighbor
•‘How did yon get along In the police
court V"
•‘Fine!" yelled the attorney: then lie
whls|iered. “Twenty-five and costs.”—
Indianapolis News.
A Fam'ily Trait.
••Oh. mother!" exclaimed the tender
hearted little Frances, coming in from
school with tears in her eyes. "There
was the pitil’ulest little orphan there
today! He had holes in his stockins
an' all his elo'es, an’ his shoes wern't
alike, an" he hadn’t any hat. It made
me cry to look at him. He was the
orphanest little boy I ever saw. Oh.
I JUBt know that poor child’s father an'
mother’s both orphans too!” — Pitts
burgh Press.
The Dignified Retort.
•Why,” asked the domestic economy
expert “do you not use up all your
stale rolls In making a toothsome des
sert?”
“Because.” replied the housekeeper
with dignified reserve. “1 did not raise
my bread to bo a pudding.”—Balti
more American.
His Great Need.
A new pastor was met by one of his
parishioners who was fat and of many
years and who said to the pastor. “You
must feed the sheep.”
Whereupon the pastor replied. “My
dear old man. you do not need food:
you need exercise.”
Explaining the Delay.
She trending uewspaperi-“Dlvorced
10:18 a. m.. weds again 5 p. m.” What
do you think of that? He-It would
take that long to get the license. -
Judge. _
Be who does not stretch himself ac
cording to the coverlet finds his feet
uncovered. --Goethe.
INCENDIARY BOMBS.
T»->-ifie h»«t of Thermite, the 8tuff
• f..h wmch Ti.ey Are Filled.
mu i'iii,i,ii,i . bombs are oue ut the
| mu.t iimi'iiiI engines of moueru war
n:ie i lie reason they throw out such
a - . rlhi- heal Is heeause they are tilled
a . .li ilieruiite.
i henuite Is so hot wheu It Is fired
that •! will melt Iron and steel with
the greatest ease aud even hum Its
way through granite.
This marvelous substance was dta
covered iu 11)02. It Is really a mixture
of coarsely powdered aluminum and
oxide of iron. It can't be tired by it
self. but has to be started by another
mixture consisting of finely powdered
aluminum uud barium peroxide.
Tbe wonderful beating power of tbts
terrible substance bas been made use
of all over tbe world In Iron and steel
welding. Steel joiuts are welded solid
ly together In a few moments by plac
ing a little thermite round the Joint and
firing It
The thermite mixture Is as safe to
handle or store as sawdust—safer. In
fact. Only the special mixture or a
very high temperature Indeed will set
it on Are. If necessary the two sub
stuuces from which thermite is made
can be taken separately and mixed
when required, and there is no danger
whatever In aluminum powder or ox
ide of iron, which is. practically speak
ing. Iron rust, yel the mixture makes
up one of the hottest substances
known.—Pearson's Weekly.
ORKNEY ISLANDERS.
Proud of Their Norse Descent and Pre
fer Scenery to Trees.
Miss Elinor Hoot, who has been visit
ing in the little known Orkney islands,
tells us that the natives are very proud
of their Norse origin, indignantly repu
diating the Idea that their forbears
were Scottish.
“People do not speak here with near
ly so broad an accent as ttie people in
Scotland,” Miss Root remarked to her
hostess, “and 1 notice the names do not
sound Scotch—Cult. Twatt. I'lett. Cur
sitor, and so on. How Is that?”
My hostess stiffened visibly.
“They are not Scotch. We are not
Scotch. We did not come from Scot
land. Have ye never heard of the
Norsemen from beyond the seas? We
are the descendants of them. We are
not of Scotch blood. Ye do not call the
Irish English; ye’re not to call us
Scotch!”
“I beg your purdon." I returned hum
bly, and to change the subject plunged
into the theme of afforestation. The
venture was an unfortunate one. as
trees refuse to grow in the islands.
“Trees spoil the scenery,” declared
my hostess. “We would not have them
If we could. If ye go to the southland
ye cannot see anything of the scenery
for the trees. We like to see scenery ’
—Lipplucott’s Magazine.
Dr. Yates’ Trousers.
St. Catharine’s was the first Cam
bridge college to produce a don who
glared to stagger humanity by wearing
trousers. He wus Dr. Lowther Yates,
■‘a large, square man from Cumber
land.” suspected of radical opinions,
wbo. was master of ’’Cat’s’’ during the
closing years of the eighteenth century
As Yates, when vice chancellor, walk
ed in procession to the university
church, wearing trousers instead of the
orthodox knee breeches, somebody
| shouted from a window:
Gadzoons, gadzoons,
Lowther Yates in Pantaloons!
! The profahe ’‘Impromptu poet was
j captured and proved to be Yates’ own
nephew. “Gndzoons” was a Cumbrian
expletive with which Yates was wont
to express intense astonishment. -
Westminster Gazette.
Luck.
i Luck is the main difference oetween
! (allure and success. It rises like some
, mysterious fairy from the chaos of
events and crowns its victors with an
apparently hopeless ignorance of jus
tlce.
Luck must be a woman; no man
| could be so tickle, so fantastic in a
! choice of favorites.
Luck, however, has one great virtue.
Although she will desert the gambler
as suddenly as she came to him, she
is likely to be faithful to those of her
proteges who are the steadiest work
ers. (5he appears to be on the side of
the biggest battalions.—Life.
A Disturbing Sound.
“There Is no excuse for a man being
run down by a motorcar. All he has
to do Is to keep his wits about him.’*
“Of course.” replied the recent victim,
in sarcastic tones. “There Is nothing
more conducive to rational thinking
than a loud *honk’ beard unexpected
ly in one’s rear.”—Birmingham Age
Herald.
Opened Her Eyes.
Clara—Can it be. Dolly, that you are
to marry Mr. Smith after saying to ine
repeatedly that you could not endure
him? Dolly—The truth is. Clnra. dear
that until I beard that his aunt had
died, leaving him a fortune. I was de
ceived in my own feelings toward him.
—London Telegraph.
The Orang Outang.
To protect Itself from the rain the
orang outang crooks its arms over its
head. The hair on the ora nit's upper
arm points downward, while on the
lower arm it points upward, the ap
parent purpose being to shed the rain
like a thatch.
8ounded Like a Knock.
Mrs. Bacon—How many biscuits
would It take to make ten pounds.
John? Mr. Bacon-Well, it all depends
on whose biscuits they were, dear.—
Yonkers Statesman.
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CITY EXPRESS
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MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto for Hlr e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. 8PENARD. Prop.
If Yah Want ,trictly fresh E***> Butter, Fruit
11 mil Traill antj Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. M*r.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
*
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 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
PLtMBING, 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.
P1I6ET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California Lillfi Alaska
ALASKA
\ Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
i 5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
I Steamer Sailing ISth calls Illamnn and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Franclaco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle* VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA j
STEAMSHIP CO. <
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8. 8. ALAMEDA AND S. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM HE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND 30TH, \
EVERY MONTH j
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA, -
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, RETCH IRAN AND SEATTLE. j
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau. Sheep -|
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La- A
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche. on the 16th; S. S. H
Cordova, 25th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule 4
without notice. j
F. B. TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO- Local Agent, 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 ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
““Chicago, Milwaukee & st, Paul ry.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.