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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 years in
Office Rooms over VALDEZ
Valdez Drug Co.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Oivl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. no., to 6 P. m., 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by aiipointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office on Wall St. next Prospector office
Valdez, Alaska.
New Company’s Phone No. 69
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
DR. C H. VANCE
the OSTEOPATH
Graduate American School of
Osteopathy, Kilcraville. Mo.
OFFICE HOUU-MsUa^lts$».a., srW
TREATMENT<S2.SO
Offics and Residsaca Court St. FHOME 203
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JOHNILYONS E. E. RITCHIE «
LYONS A RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone XOl Valdes. Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone Si VALDEZ
F. BUTTERWORTH
[Civil Engineer ind[
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bine Printing Valdes, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
LOST—A Meerschaum pipe practi
cally new with black case covered
with ehamoise skin. Supposedly lost
on McKinley street between cable of
fice and Wickersham ave. Suitable re
ward for its return to Warren T. Gill
at cabie office. tf
Summons tor Publication.
In Justice’s Court for Valdez Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.
Frances Wilson, plaintiff, vs. Anna
Guenther, defendant.—Summons for
Publication.
To the defendant, Anna Guenther:
Take notice that you have been sued
in the above-named court by the
above-named plaintiff upon an ac
count for goods sold and delivered,
in the sum of $58.50; that personal
property belonging to you has been
attached to satisfy said claim; and
unless you appear and plead to plain
tiff’s complaint within thirty days af
ter completion of publication of this
summons, to-wit, within thirty days
after December 21, 1914, plaintiff will
take judgment for the sale of said
attached property to satisfy her claim
againBt you.
This publication is made pursuant
to an order of the court dated No
vember 9, 1914.
(Seal) GEO. J. LOVE,
Commissioner and Ex Officio Justice
of the Peace.
First publication November 9,1914.
Last publication December 14,1914.
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1914 are now due and pay
able at my office, in the Valdez Elec
tric Company office, in the Copper
block. Taxes will be delinquent on
Monday, December 7, 1914, at 6 o’clock
p. m. and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be add
ed to the amount and interest at the
rate of 12 per cent, per annum.
No interest will be allowed on town
warrants in payment of taxes after
November 1, 1914.
Office hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.| except Sun
days. Dated this 4th day of Novem
ber, 1914.
B. O. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Valuable Services.
' “I have indeed done>a service.” the
orator declared. “1 have given the
people cause to think.”
“That was something at least”
“Yes. oh, yes. But 1 have done a
further service. I have told them just
how to think.”—Buffalo Express.
Silent Service.
“Don’t you like silent service in the
house?”
“Sure. That’s one reason we put in
a dumb waiter.’’—Baltimore American
L»irge stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf.
Proof.
Father — Jane, my opinion of that
young Perkinson is not flattering. He
doesn’t know the value of a dollar.
Daughter—Oh. yes be does, daddy.
Ho says be wouldn’t give a dollar for
your opinion, anyhow.—Chicago News.
Nowadays.
“Doesn’t she dress In the latest
ityteT"
"She did up to yesterday afternoon.”
—St. touts Ulobo-Democrat
UNPROFITABLE PROFIT.
Dramatists of Hugo’s Day Often Got
More Fame Than Money.
From an Incident that Victor Hugo
Jotted down In his notebook, something
like seventy or more years ago, we
may conclude that tbe dramatists of
that day more often received fame
than any more material consideration
as a reward for their work. And not
infrequently even fume was withheld.
“Monsieur Santy,” Hugo wrote In
November, 1844, "is a former secretary
of Thiers. He has written a tragedy
called ‘Count Eginond;’ it Is very flat
The piece is played; not a cat In tbe
theater and not a sou in the box office.
After three performances the tragedy
disappears from the repertory of the
Odeon. Furious, tbe author runs to
the director. Monsieur Lireux.
" ‘Sir.’ he cries, ‘you have stopped
playing my tragedy!’
“ ‘Yes,’ the director replies.
“‘Why?’
“ ‘Because it brings In no money.'
“ ‘I am told that the receipts were
only 100 francs less than the receipts
for Casimir Bonjour’s “The Student of
Segovia.’’ and you are still playing
that.’
’“Only 100 francs less!’ says Cireux.
'That may be true enough. But you
see, the highest receipts for “The
Student of Segovia” were 89 francs.’ ’’
—Youth's Companion.
BEAT THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Olden Time Ladies Who Took the Gal
leries by Storm.
The English house of lords has never
been particularly kind to its fair vis
itors. Long ago, in the days when
duchesses sold their kisses for votes,
the house of lords forbade them to en
ter, and a battle royal ensued between
the ladles and the peers.
The lord chancellor had sworn that
he would not let them In, and the
Duchess of Qucensberry had sworn
that ladies should come in. "This be
ing reported,” we read in an old diary,
“the peers resolved to starve them out.
An order was made that the doors
should not be opened till they had
raised their siege.”
These amazons now showed them
selves qualified for the duty even of
foot soldiers. They stood there till 5
in the afternoon without either sus
tenance or intermission, every now
and then playing volleys of thumps,
kicks and raps against the door with
so much violence that the speakers in
the house were scarcely heard.
At last by strategy worthy of a gen
eral the ladles “all rushed in and
placed themselves in the front row of
the gallery,” where they remained till
an hour before midnight applauding or
hissing to their hearts’ content—Lon
don Saturday Review.
Origin of the Periwig.
The periwig, which played so Impor
tant a part in the toilet of a man of
fashion during part of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries, owed its ori
gin to Louis XIV. of France. When a
little boy (be succeeded to the throne
at five years of age) he possessed a pro
fusion of remarkably beautiful waving
hair which fell in clustering curls over
his shoulders. The courtiers imitated
the boy king by having heads of false
hair to Imitate his natural locks, and
when Louis grew up he adopted the
periwig himself.
During the reign of William and
Mary periwigs were worn in exagger
ated dimensions, and the beaux used
to comb their wigs in public with spe
cial combs of ivory and tortoise shell,
which became at Inst quite indispen
sable to these line gentlemen.
.Selim the Grim.
Sultnn Yawuz Selim (Selim theGrlmi
is certainly not a pleasant Turkish
potentate to recall. When he created
his secretary Mohammed grand vizier
the poor man had to be bastinadoed
Into accepting the honor. For “Mayst
tbou be Selim’s vizier!” was. a well
understood equivalent of the time for
“Strike you dead.” Selim loved litera
ture. however. The poem which his
brother wrote, in the hour’s grace
granted before he was strangled with
every other possible rival to Selim,
moved the sultan to tears. But It did
not save tbe poet.—London Chronicle.
When You Travel,
Don’t wait until you reach the sta
tion. a few minutes before it Is time
for the train to start, before you And
out the time for starting, arriving at
your destination and tbe time of con
nection. Other passengers wish to
take the same train and must bny
tickets. And don't argue tbe question
of the price of your ticket with the
ticket seller. The price Is settled by
the managers and directors of the road.
If the price is unjust, address a com
munication to them and stay at home
till the price Is satisfactory or pay it
and keep still.—Exchange.
Rattlesnakes.
Advancing civilization Is fast dimin
ishing tbe rattlesnake on tbe American
continent There are said to be twelve
species and thirteen varieties. While
tbe poison of this snake Is usually
fatal to man, it never attempts to
strike unless it Is molested.
A Morse on Him.
Jsffege Youth (writing to father)—
Dear dad. send me $500. Money makes
tbe mare go
Father (by return mall)—Yours re
ceived. Inclosed $50. That ought to be
enough for a Jackass. — Boston Tran
jcript
This Is Not tho Way.
Wife (with magazine)—Here’a an ar
ticle on “How to Avoid War." . Hub—
What does It say—remain single*—Bea
ton Transcript
ANTIQUITY OF MANKIND.
Geikie Places It at Between 250,000 ar.d
500,000 Yeare.
In his work, "The Antiquity of Man
In Europe.” Professor James Geikie
of Edinburgh university declares nis
belief that man has inhabited Europe
between 250.000 and 500,000 years.
All such estimates are based on geo
logical facts, such as the rate at whlcn
sediment is deposited or at which stal
agmites grow, that are very bard to
determine with any accuracy, but no
one now doubts that man is far older
than men of science originally suppos
ed him to be.
“WbeD we reflect,” says Professor
Geikie, "on the many geographical
changes that man has witnessed—the
submergence and re-elevation of enor
mous tracts, the erosion of valleys and
general lowering of the surface by de
nudation. when we consider that he
has lived through a succession of stu
pendous climatic revolutions; that he
lias seen widely contrasted floras and
faunas alternately occupying our conti
nent—tundras, steppes and great for
ests succeeding each other again and
again—we must feel convinced that the
few thousand years that have elapsed
since the downfall of Babylonian, As
syrian and Egyptian empires are as
nothing compared with the long aeons
that separate the earliest times of his
tory from the apparition of palaeolith
ic man in Europe.”
RIFLE SIGHTS.
The Drop of the Bullet In Its Flight
Makes Them Necessary.
The average person if asked to ex
plain why a rifle is sighted would prob
ably be unable to do so beyond some
vague remark about taking correct aim.
Sights are necessary because a bullet
does not travel In a straight line, but
under the influence of gravity and fric
tion, begins to drop almost as soon as
It leaves the muzzle. Thus the bullet
of the British service rifle drops six
inches in the first 100 yards, but when
It has gone 200 yards it will have drop
ped not twelve inches, but two feet
The drop increases by leaps and bounds
with the distance. Were there no
sights on the rifle and you wanted to
hit a mark at 200 yards you would
clearly have to aim two feet above it
This would he awkward, for you
would lose sight of the mark aimed
at. to say nothing of the difficulty of
correctly estimating a distance of two
feet at 200 yards.
The sights of a rifle enable yon to
keep your eye on the mark, although
the muzzle of the rifle is actually point
ing nbove it. The movable slide of
the backsight enables you automatical
ly to point the muzzle Just so many
feet above the mark aimed at as is
necessary to counteract the knowu
drop of the bullet at various ranges.—
Loudon Answers.
Teaching Cubs to Kill.
Have you ever seen a cat catch a
mouse and hand it over to her kittens
to tench them how to kill? Well, a
tiger is merely a big cat, and she
tenches her cubs almost in the same
way, only not with mice. An East In
dian officer witnessed a scene of this
kind. An old bull bison had been the
victim, and the tigress bad disabled
him by breaking one of his forelegs
just below the knee. She never touched
the throat, the usual place of seizing,
but allowed the cubs to worry the dis
abled animal. The eyewitness relates
that the cubs acted exactly like kittens,
advanced and retreated and worried
the victim, all the time mewing and
snarling, while the tigress sat near by,
watching their antics and occasionally
giving the bison a blow with her paw
when he showed undue activity.
i
The Element of Chance.
Human progress might be otherwise
defined as human success in minimiz
ing tile element of chance. In science
there is substitution of exactitude for
the primitive accidents of the rule of
thumb, just us iu philosophy uud mor
als, truth and UDtrutb, right and
wrong, are being unswathed from
their veils of uncertainty and set clear
ly in opposition to each other, in
other words, the gambling spirit in life
is less and less countenanced, and gam
ing, once fashionable, is now taboo
even In the most innocent forms.—New
Orleans Tlmes-Plcayune.
Royal Sociaty of England.
The Royal Society of England is the
oldest and most renowned scientific
body, except the French Academy of
Sciences, In the world. It was organ
ised In 1645, and every great English
scientist has been a member of it.
Benjamin Franklin was the first Amer
ican member.
Faulty 8ystem.
Mamma—What are you doing. Ed
ward? Small Edward—I'm counting.
You said I should count a hundred
when angry. Mamma—Yes, l believe
I did. Small Edward—Well. I’ve
counted over 200 and I’m madder than
when I started.—Chicago News.
Placing Him.
“My father’s elected on the commit
tee which Is going to have some more
driven wells put down for the city.”
“Ab, 1 see; be’s on the water bored.”
-St Louis Republic.
And Enjoyed It.
Ethel—Didn’t it seem an age from
the time you were engaged till yon got
married? Maud—Yes, but Jack and i
managed to squeese through it—Lon
don Tatler.
I speak the troth, not so much as
I won Id. bot as much as I dare, and 1
dare a little the mors as I grow older.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call 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 PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
i 7am to 9 a in
MEALS\ Lunch 12 m to 1 i> m
t 0 to 7 i> in
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
Ilfil ILU^ Chas. Perry I
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| l55Rooms with bath-505ampleRoorns
ALI
WASHED
AND
When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
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Simply put in the clothes and
start the motor;—in I 0 to !5
minutes the clothes are washed
white and clean ready to be
hung on the line without the
wear and tear of the wash
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.
Let us send one to your home
for ) 5 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Go.
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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.