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8ATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1916
HEED THE WARNING.
Again we would call the attention
of the people of Valdez to the neces
sity of more efficient fire fighting ap
paratus. That the town has not been
utterly destroyed the past week is
due more to good luck than to good
management on the part of our city
fathers. Chief Finical has done all
in his power to get the council to co
operate with him In the matter of se
curing a modern chemical engine,—
one that would operate in any tem
perature,- and operate effi6iently and
economically. Had such a machine
been on hand Friday morning, the
damage would have been confined to
but a few dollars, as the fire was dis
covered in plenty of time to have been
handled by the more modern chem
ical engines. In fighting fire every
minute counts. We have no criticism
to make on the actions of the local
fire company, as they did better
work under the stress of cold and
wind than we have ever seen any
where, but why risk the lives of our
firemen when a few hundred dollars
Bpent in modern apparatus would
allow them to work more easily and
at a better advantage? As the matter
now stands the firemen have to gather
at the fire hall, drag heavy hose to
the scene of the fire, and in the mean
time the water is pumped through
the hose from a base of operations
so far away that a fire can gain dan
gerous proportions before the water
comes through the nozzle. In the
time it takes to get up steam a mod
ern equipment would have the fire
out.
As long as Valdez is permitted to
remain a collection of wooden build
ings, with stovepipes sticking thru
shingled roofs, the chances of a Are
which will wipe out the business por
tion of the town, are so good that
our merchants are forced to pay a
premium of nine per cent upon their
insurance. As one of the most prom
inent business men of the city re
marked after the lire, “Insurance is
so high I cannot afford to carry it."
The difference between the pre
mium here and in the States comes
wholly in the manner in which the
building is erected and in the effi
ciency of the fire-fighting apparatus.
The question of firemen does not
come Into cons.deration whatever.
Fire Chief Finical has warned us
time and again what to expect from
our antiquated fire-traps, and it is
only a question of time until his
dire forebodings come true.
The electric bells which he has had
Installed at the expense of the mem
bers of the fire company have already
proven their worth. Let us go a lit
tle further into the matter and give
bim and his body of efficient fire
fighters efficient machinery to work
with.
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A STUDY IN EQUATION.
"The Republican party In Alaska
minus Wick, minus Shack, equals 0."
—Star.
And to add to the paradox the Re
publican party plus Wick and plus
Shriek still equals 0. This is a re
markable problem where two nega
tives remain a negative.
A man who can see no difference
between the case of the Tillikurc
Club of Valdez and the Rainier Clul
of Seattle, is certainly not endowed
with legal acumen sufficient to sit
in trial of his peers. That has beer
the trouble heretofore, the Senator
and the Magistrate have picked up the
laws of Washington or Oregon and
tried to pass ’em off as Territorial
law. There is as much difference be
tween Washington law and Territo
rial law as there is between Frame
and a real Democrat.
The severe weather and high wind
storm which has prevailed during the
past week has detained a number of
miners in town who are anxious to
return to their work at different
points down the Sound. When the
launch Shamrock leaves on her next
trip for Port Wells she will carry
more than a dozen miners to Hobo
Bay, Culross Passage and Bay of
Isles mines.
If some of those jlngoist editors
would stop raving about war long
enough to become naturalized citizens
of this country the people would have
more faith in their utterances.
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Like Samson, our adversary is
flaying his thousands,—in every A
sue of the Star, and with the same
old weapon.
Our local organizer's boycott has
given him indigestion. He is seeing
“faces on the bar-room floor.”
Keep up your little boycott, Twlnk
lets, Armageddon is at hand.
LAUNCH SHAMROCK
POSTPONES SAILING
The launch Shamrock, Capt. Tim
Marcum, which was scheduled to sail
this morning for Landlock, Fidaigo,
Ellamar and other Prince William
Sound ports did not get away as the
captain believes that the present
storm cannot last forever. Capt.
Marcum states that anyone who de
sires to go down the Sound during
the storm which has been raging
over the bay for days should take out
marine, life, fire, automobile, and ac
cident insurance policies and then
stay home. r
Congregational Church.
Rev. J. F. Dunstan, pastor.
Sunday services.
11:00, Devotional services. Ser
mon, “Pass It On.” Children’s story,
"A Little Gentleman.”
12:00, Sunday School.
7:30. Evangelistic service, address,
“Pilate’s Problem.”
Monday afternoon Ladies’ Aid Re
hearsal.
Monday evening, Bible Study Cir
cle.
Thursday afternoon, Silver Tea.
Thursday evening. Prayer Meeting.
There is considerable prospecting
being done in the Timbuktullk, all
of those now in the camp being
Councilites. Gene Be Carey, Bob
Lougei A. Tuft and Denny M’Laugh
lln are out looking for the elusive.
.Good prospects have already been
found, and it id believed that a good
paystreak ’ will yet reward the per
severing efforts of the -miners in that
section.—Industrial Worker.
It Is interesting to pote that Ruby
is. one of the few camps in the terri
tory where the eight hour law work
ed without a-hitch last summer. No
effort was made by the operators to
reduce the wages. Dan Sutherland &
Co. paid six dollars and board for
eight hours work.
Mr. C. C. Rudolph is confined to
his home with a severe attack of la
grippe. . 1
Several people are suffering from
frost bites today. ..
REAL EVERYDAY LIFE.
A> Seen on the Stage and Appreciated
by Two Spectators.
Two women stood in a «|ueue wait
ing to get In to see a melodrama.
“TUis'll be a good show,” said the
irst woman. "Life, you know—real
ife— nothin' overdone.”
“Yes, J like life, too.” said the other.
T don’t want to be put to sleep,
hough. Still. 1 can’t stund nothin’ far
etched.”
“Same here,” said the first woman.
And then they went in and sat
brough five acts, wherein the hero kill
d thirty Kaffirs with his nuked hand,
ound a diamond us big as a duck's
gg, smashed with his revolver from
i mile away the bottle of poison that
be beautiful heroine was about to
wallow rather than yield to the bian
llshments of the villain and finally
cillcd the latter in an aeroplane duel,
dightly off the stage, iuberitlng later
m unexpected dukedom, and so forth,
ind so on.
• When the curtain fell to the sound
<|f wedding bells the two women look
ed at each other with glistening eyes.
! “Grand, wasn't it?" said the first
’’’Life, real life, eb?”
“You bet.” said the second. "That’s
life, that is—nothiu’ farfetched or over
done.”—Detroit Free Press.
TOWER OF SKULLS.
A Legacy Left by the Turks to the
8ervian City of Nish.
There have been many tragic epi
sodes in the history of Kish, in Servin.
In the fifteenth century the Turks cap
tured the city, and for 300 years it re
mained in their possession, although
there were brief periods when the
Austrians held it. Then, In 1809. the
Servians, who had recovered most of
their country from the Turks, besieged
Nish, but were defeated with great
loss. The Turks to celebrate their vic
tory erected n rough tower composed
alternately of lumps of rock and skulls
of Servians cemented together.
It is related that there were original
ly 1.200 skulls in the tower of Nish.
For a long period it was the habit of
travelers to Nish to carry off a skull as
a souvenir, and this reduced their num
bers. But in the Russo-Turkish war
the Servian army, under the command
of King Milan, besieged Nisb. and the
fortress fell on Jan. 10. 1878.
The remaining skulls were then rev
erently buried by tbe Servian troops
except one. which was too deeply im
bedded In the plaster to be extracted.
Tbe so called “tower of skulls” Is now
only about four feet In height, and
only one skull can be seen to remind
the traveler of its gloomy history.—
London Answers.
Aaron Burr’s Grave.
Aaron Burr died at Port Richmond.
Staten Island. Sept. 14. 183d. His re
mains were conveyed to Princeton.
N. J., where, according to his request,
he was interred at the feet of his fa
ther and grandfather. Both bis father
and grandfather were presidents of
Princeton college.
For nearly two years the spot where
he lay was unmarked, when one morn
ing It was discovered that a small,
very substantial and not inexpensive
monument of granite and marble bad
been placed during the ulght over his
remains. No one in the town saw the
monument erected or knew anything
whatever respecting It There was no
stonecutter In the vicinity capable of
executing the work. The stone bears
the Inscription: "Aaron Burr. Bom
Feb. a 1750. Died Sept 14. I83ft”
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Armenian History.
The history of the later years of the
Armenian kingdom Is bound up In the
history of Am. The stronghold city
became the cnpital of the Bagrutid
kings of Armenia in Mil. The Byzan
tine emperor captured lb in 1040. and
it was then u hive of many scores of
thousands, n wealthy city and an In
viting one. The Seljuk Turks carried
Are and sword throughout Its routines
eighteen, years Inter. The warlike
Georgians took It tlve tiroes between
1125 and 1200. The Mongols overrun
it in 1230. and nn earthquake In 1310
completed the work of ruin. The great
cathedral, the most perfect survival,
was founded in 1010. Just nt the begin
ning of the city's long chain of misfor
tunes.
Keeping It Quiet,
A little girl was out walking the
other day with her mother when she
caught eight of a man with a wooden
leg.
"Oh. mamma!” she cried. “See that
man with u stick for a leg?"
“I hin't talk ho loudly.” said mamma.
"He'll hear you."
"Why?" the little one replied in sur
prise. "Doesn't be kuuw It?"—Loudon
Mali. ___
Easy to Proaoh.
“Who wrote that article on how to
aupiiort a family of alt ou $lu a
weekT’ a friend asked Wtiggles. the
editor of the Household Friend. “Rlug
Inmi. one of our I test uteu." said Wog
glea. without a siulle. "We |Hiy him
STi.OOO a year.”—Louisville Courier
.journal. „
Hie Record Class.
“Tour sou doesn't work very hard in
the oilice since lie left college.”
“No; lie doesn't want to Jeopardise
his amateur standing.”—Louisville Con
rier-Jounuii,
Cure Per Tippling.
Te core a itittu «t drinking take down
la shorthand everything be says aisiut
himself In a barroom and read it tu him
the nest day.-Pittsburgh Press.
Base envy wittier* at another's toy |
and bates the excellence it cannot j
reach.—Thouieeu.
PRECIOUS POSTAGE STAMPS.
Issues That Bring Joy to the Heart of
the Philatelist.
One of the questions asked us most
frequently is. Which is the rarest of nil
the stamps? There are not a few claim
ants for this honor, all of which are ex
ceedingly rare, stamps of which hut a
single copy is known'to exist. Indeed,
there is evidence which leads us to be
lieve that some stamps were printed
' and used of which no copies at all are
known to he In existence.
Of those stamps of which only one
copy is known, the first Is a post
master’s provisional issued at Bos
cawen. N. II. Another is n stamp from
British Guiana. Only one copy of this
is known and is in u celebrated collec
tion In Purls, probably the largest col
lection In the world.
In 1893 the Niger Const Protectorate
issued a series of surcharged stamps,
all of which are scarce, and some of
them are in the ranks^of the world’s
greatest rarities. This refers especial
ly to the twenty shilling values. Of
the HO shillings, surcharged in violet,
only five copies were ever-printed; of
ihe vermilion surcharge, only two
copies, and of the black surcharge, only
one copy.
As there is and can be only one copy
of this last stamp, it is justly entitled
to lie considered the rarest of all
stamps. It probably would not sell so
high as the better known and more
popular “poslofflee” stamps of Mau
ritius. Yet of these there, are known
fourteen copies of the penny and twelve
of the twopenny.—St Nicholas.
LUCK IN A MISTAKE.
When the Famous Singer /\lbani First
Went to London.
file curious story of Mme. Albanl’s
first London engagement Is as follpwa:
Colonel Mapleson heard of her singing
at a theater at Malta, and. thinking
that she would be successful, he made
her an offer through an agent of a con
iract to sing In Her Majesty’s theater.
She agreed to it and weut to London,
but on arriving there she told the cab
man to drive her to the Italian opera
house.
He, instead of going to Her Majes
ty’s. took her to Covent Garden, which
was also devoted to Italian opera. She
was shown up to the manager’s office
and stated that she bnd come to sign
tlie contract which Mr. Mapleson had
offered her.
Mr. Gye, thinking to pluy a joke on
bis rival. Mapleson, made out a con
tract. and AJbani signed iL Mr. Gye
then told her that he was not Colonel
Mapleson. but that he could do much
better by her. He offered to tear up
the contract if she liked, but told her
that Nilsson was singing at Her Maj
esty’s nnd would brook no rlvaL
Albani decided to let the contract
stand and thus became one of the stars
of Covent Garden, eventually marrying
the son of Mr. Gye.—Westminster Ga
zette.
Fanny Dickens.
Fanny, the sister of Charles Dickens,
was one of the first students entered at
the old Royal Academy of Music when
it opened its doors at Tenterden street
In 1823, and at that time the students
lived at the. academy, only going home
for the week end. “Every Sunday.”
Dickens told Forster. "I was at the
academy at 0 o’clock in the morning to
fetch her (Fanny), and we walked hack
there together at night." And the Sun
day itself the two spent—in the Mur
shalsen prison, where their father and
mother then resided, owing to Mr
Dickens having “failed to* propitiate
Ills creditors.” While her father was
still in prison Fanny won a prize at
the academy, and the future novelist,
then engoged in pasting labels on
blacking pots at 7 shillings a week,
was present to see her receive 1L—
Westminster Gazette.
Compulsory.
A certain amateur aviator talked re
cently about a dying trip with a pro
fessional. when be fell 1.200 feet Into
the water without knowing It.
•*1 wasn't frightened,” he said with a
smile. “1 thought that our swift de
scent was a piece of fancy flying. I
am, in fact, as Ignorant of aviation as
the little boy was ignorant of English
history.
"•Describe the Order of the Bath.,
bis teacher asked this little boy.
” ‘It’s very ancient.’ he answered. 'It
goes back to the time when they didn't
take no baths except by order.”’—
Washington Star.
A Querulous Question.
"The sameness of these meals la get
ting on my nerves.”
“1 can't think of anything else,”
rasped bis wife.
"You're strong for new styles in
shoes, hats and ways of Axing the
hair. Ain't there never any new style*
in eatablesY''—ls>uIsvllle Courier-Jour
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Pair Division. I
Scene; Police court during dispnte
over eight duy clock.
Magistrate—I award the clock to the
plaintiff.
Defendant—Then what do I get?
Magistrate—I'll give you Uw eight
days.—Stray Stories.
Hindering the Process.
Doctor—Well. John, how are yon to
day? John—Verry bad; verry laid. I
wish Providence 'ud 'ave massy <m me
an' take me. Wife—'Ow <nn y«m exiwc
It to If you won't take the doctor’s
(itayslc?—London MalL
The Reason.
’’How is it that one never forget* a
love affair?"
"Because that Is something one learns
Ry heart."— Boston Transcript
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CLEARANCE SALE
T’S too good an opportunity to
miss. The prices are reduced to
_make it worth while for you to
buy now.
100 MEiy^^UITS 100 I
A $25.00 S<|it for $12.5C! AffiO.OO Suit fcr $15.00!
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Men’s Cravenette Overcoats, $20 value, now - $10.00
Men’s Cravenette Raincoats were $15 & $20, - $7.50
Heavy Blanket-lined Canvas Coats, $5 & $6 quality, now$2.50
Men’s Smoking Jackets, $4 & $5 quality, now - $2.50
Corduroy Coats at half >rice.
Buckskin-lined Corduroy Vests, $5 quality, now - $2.50 .
Moleskin blanket-lined Teamster’s Overcoats, fur collar,
were $15, Ww *. $10.00
AllVfioys’ Suits and Overcoats at
. . . v. 25 per cent off. . . \ .
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25;per cent off on
Ladies’ Furs
Children’s Furs,
Men’s Fur Collars.
Reduced to
Men’* StockTie* - 25c
Silk Muffler* - 50c
Way’s Knitted Mufflers 25c
Men’s Dress Shirts, $1.50? and $2.00 [quality,
now - - - 75c
Men’s NegligeeJShirts, $1.50 to $5.00 quality,
now - - - One-half off
Boss-of-the-Road Mackinaws, in blue, brown
and gray, $5.00 quality, selling now for $2.50
Malone Mackinaws, were $6.00, now -$4.0<f
S. BLUM & CO.,
GOOD GOODS
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms In Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
phones to THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
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Phone'42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MGND
ATTOn NE Y S-AT.LA W
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEY S-AT-LA W
Offices la Whaling Hulldlng
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
Arcade Cafe
OPEN UNTIL 9 P. M.
We Serve Corona Coffee
Strictly Fresh Eggs.
Jack Tallin - ■ PlipriilM
a Shamrock
CAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Ellamar, Land lock Bay.
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
dez Dock Company’s Dock
For Rates, Apply on Roat.
Dougherty & Ferguson
* GENERAL
Merchandise
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The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and ‘
nuts.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company1
Office on Alaska Avenue, ia
George C Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
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LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Team’""' ** Kinds
Positively No coni ucuvertd Va
less Paid foe ia Advance