Valdez Daily Prospector
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WEDNESDAY, MARE11 10. 1013.
A MODERN SISYPHUS.
Not since an iiuforlunale Ortsek
worked overtime on I lie .job of
rolling a boulder up Dill only to!
have it slip hack every lime from j
the top, has an industrious party j
scratched harder at a hopeless j
task than the telegraph editor of j
the Nome Nugget toiled in the
darksome days of last winter to
prove that the Copper River rail
road never got plugged up, that
the mails consigned over the rail
road never stopped longer than
was necessary to get films for a
moving picture show, and that a
detail from the Ananias club was
sending reports from Valdez al
leging stagnation of rolling slock
on the rail line aforesaid.
With this difference, perhaps
Sisyphus pushed the niggerhead
up the slope because the job was
fastened on him, while the Nug
get writer may have boosted his
nuraen iron: cnoice. w ny mis
yearning to move mail matter ov
er a blockaded railroad by inver
sion of facts nobody knows, but
the Nugget man humped himself
like an aspirant for a fourth-class
postoffice. When nothing had
slipped through for a month eith
er way between Cordova and Chit
ina he was still running grape
vine telegraph assuring Nome
folks that the mail sacks were
traveling both ways with due dili
gence.
And when mail that had been j
stalled for several weeks at half j
way houses on the railroad final
ly reached Cordova by the aid of
dog teams, tile Nugget press ag
ent averred, under telegraph la
bel, that all interior mail had
reached Cordova and gone to
Seattle mi the Northwestern.
Now that the 75-day blockade
on the railroad has gone into his
tory and all the facts are known
may we not hope for the conces
sion'that Valdez wired out noth
ing but the I ruth, which was had
enough, the Lord knows, and
needed no embellishment to make
a good story. Valdez may have
snared a little Cordova traffic but
fold no lies to get the goods. It
was like this:
A green Irish policeman on the
night shift saw a stranger hov
ering around suspiciously and
demanded to know his business.
"I have no business at pres
ent," said the stranger, "but I ex
pect to open a jewelry .store in
this neighborhood before long.”
The Irish hull moved on. Next
day he was called before the po
lice magistrate, told of the crack
ing of a jewelry store on his beat,
and was asked if he had seen any
thing suspicious the night before.
He told of his conversation with
the prowler and the magistrate
said:
"Yes, you idiot, you let a burg
lar crack a store right under your
nose.”
The harp studied a moment and
said:
“VV“II, yer honor, he may have
been a thafe, but, bedad, he was
no liar.”
What has become ol' the old
fashioned man who protested
that, there was no need for the
parcel post ?
Mr. Schwab says he never made
a peimv mil of the steel business.
Still, he should lie grateful for the
fun he has had.
In the final analysis Mexico
may decide to declare war on us
for not paying enough attention
to her border riots.
There is one man of the modern
world of whom the modern world
unanimously approves. He was
and is Abraham Lincoln.
■MMMW* >!■!■ 11 .in————
From now until the Fourth of
July yne can predict cold waves
in the calm assurance that they
will come sooner or later.
While a Chicago man was away
from home the roof was stolen
off his house. Another one of
those cases of seeing stars.
The Democrats insist upon
handling the mail. With wo
man's suffrage, the females are
expected to handle both parties.
.Ninety-five persons were k Med
while climbing the Alps in 191'-’.
On the record, dodging automo
biles in New York is more dead
ly.
"I would rather drink red ink
than beer," says a Kansas City
clergyman. Whatever a man is
used to - it is largely a matter of
taste.
Having lost Miss Helen Oonld
through a lack of vigilance, t'n
cle Sam should now establish a
double guard around Miss Jane'
\ < 111:i mk
Wonder if they will have In
shrink Ihe presidential chair hack
In nnrmal si/.c In lit Mr. Wilson?
Mr. Tall, stretched il out of all
sorl of shape.
The costume plates in the cur
rent fashion magazines will look
very funny twenty years from
now. For that matter, they look
very funny now.
A Massachusetts man says that
men who own automobiles
should allow their domestics to
use them frequently. Evidently
that man never owned an auto
mobile.
Announcement is made that
the price of pythons has advanced
$5 a foot. Xowis he time to lay
in your supply of pythons before
the price goes any higher.
President Wilson proposes to
make public Ihe proceedings of
the cabinet meetings. If this
keeps up the people eventually
will get a real insight into Ihe
operation ot the government ma
chine.
Those Chicago actors who “led
a live donkey into a saloon on a
bet” probably bel that you can
lead a donkey to the bar. but you
can't make him drink: which is
more than can be safely wagered
on a man.
A scientist has figured, out
dial a hee travels -48,000 miles in
the collection of a pound of hon
el. Present quotations indicate
that the bee's ravteling expenses
are being included in the price
of honey.
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I Notice of First Mootings of Di
I rectors and Stockholders of
Mineral King Mining Company.
j Notice is hereby given by the
i undersigned, a majority of the
persons named, in llie articles of
incorporation of the Mineral King
Mining Company, a corporation
formed under the laws of the Ter
ritory of Alaska and the articles
of incorporation whereof were
tiled on March 17, 1913, in the of
fice of the clerk of the district
courl of the Third division of said
Territory at Valdez, Alaska, as the
first hoard of directors of said
corporation, lo George H. Her
mann, A. A. Evermann and Albert
H. Willmore, who are all the per
sons named in said articles as
composing said first hoard of di
reclors, that a regular meeting of
said hoard of directors, being the
first meeting of said hoard,
-will lie convened and held
for the purposes of com
idetiug lln- organization of said
corporation, oll'cring its capital
stock for subscription, and trans
acting any oilier business of said
corporation that may properly he
brought before said board, on Hie
tenth day of April. 1913, at 3
uVlock p. in., at Hie bunkhouse of
tin* .Mineral King Mine on Betties
Bay. Port Wells, Alaska.
And notice is also hereby giv
en by Hie undersigned to all whom
it may conrern that a regular
meeting, being the first meeting,
of the stockholders of said cor
poration, including all subscrib
ers for said capital thereof, will
be convened and held, for the pur
poses of making and adopting by
laws for its government and
transacting any other business of
said corporation that may prop
erly he brought before said stock
holders, on said tenth day of Ap
ril. 1913. at four o’clock p. m.,
at said bunkhouse of the Mineral
King Mine on Betties Bay, Port
Wells, Alaska. ,
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this '
I 71 h day of March, t913. !
GEORGE II. HERMANN.
A. A. EVERMANN, '
Directors.
First puli. March 17, 1913.
East pub. April 8. 1913.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
n the United Slates Commission
er’s Court, ex OiTicio Judge in
Probate, Valdez Precinct, Ter
ritory of Alaska. Third Judic
ial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
I.ouis Camicia, deceased, James
Fish and W. H. Caswell, adminis
trators—Notice of Hearing of Fi
nal Account.
Notice is hereby given that
James Fish and W. II. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, have
rendered, filed and presented lor
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
the said estate, and that the 21st
day of April, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock p. m. of said day. at the
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex
officio .judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court at the time and place
of settlement of said final account
and report, at which time and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear and file
his objections and exceptions to
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, Ibis
19th day of February, 1913.
JAMES FISH.
W. H. CASWELL.
Administrators of the Estate of
Louis Camicia. deceased.
Date of first pub. Feb. 19, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 21, 1913
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2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
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A BARGAIN
Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works
Every Boat
brings something new to this store.
The S. S. Sampson brought us some
Carter & Holmes Easter Neck Wear
for men;
r-—^
Robert Johnson & Rand Shoes
for men, women and children. Come in and
see them, they show real class.
Daily Prospector and Weekl
Miner $1.25 the mo. delimei
Economical
Ironing
To iron economically
you must not waste
heat.
Ironingwith ordinary
flat irons is very waste
ful of heat; most of the
heat goes up the kitchen
chimney; a lot of it is
wasted in charring the
ironing pad and in
scorching the clothes.
Ironing with a
G-E Electric
Flat Iron
is quite different — all the
beat is in the iron, ready to
go into the pieces ironed in
stead of going into the Boom
or up the kitchen chimney.
None of it is wasted.
To use only the amount of
heat actually needed for
ironing, bo it either heavy
damp pieces or laces,
embroidery or other light
goods is real economy.
That’s why G-E Irons are
psed in thousands of homes
throughout the country.
We keep all styles and sizes
—Let us send you one on trial.
Alaska Water,'1 Light
& Telephone Co.
H-SI
Steam Heat Electric Lights
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
^ THE BUFFET
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
^Native and ¥ ¥ TliADCD and Building
Puget Sound LUIVIDLIV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
rices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 1
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
Arguments May Be Disputed, But
“Facts Are Facts.”
It i a fact that Valdez beer is a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you'll find we’re right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in prefer nice to
others. First, because of its unquestionable high quality.
Second, because it is a home pr duel: brewed in your home
town aiid all who are interested in th.* growth and prosper
ity of Valdez should patroniz home products.
VALDEZ BREWING AND BOTTLING CO.
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general
Banking
Business
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