Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
February Clearance Sale
Women’s
Underwear
Two piece woolen underwear,
broken lots, mostly small sizes,
50c and 75c garment.
Women’s Hosiery
Unusual values at 15 cents.
Pumps and Slippers
Broken size lots of up to date
footwear at reduced prices;
Three-fifty, Four dollars and
Four twenty-five values,
at $2.75 pair.
Women’s
Sweater Coats
All-wool sweater coats, grey
and white—formerly sold for
five and six dollars,
now priced $1.00.
Red Cashmere
Seventy-five and Eighty-five
cent values, now 50 cents.
All One-twenty-five to Two
fifty corsets offered now at
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.
fw..no DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
« THE DENTIST
Offioe rooms over Otvl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 Vyjp.. 7 p, m..to9 p. m. Sundays
toy appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. S9
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaaka
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone LOl Valdes. Alaska '
F. BUTTERWORTH
,Civil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Jt Mineral Surreyor
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Blue Printing Valdez, Alaaka.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
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OOIAS. McCAIXOM^W^
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
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LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
During the Argument.
Mr. Knagg—Stick to the truth. Tell
the truth and shame the devil.
Mrs. Knagg—Well, the truth about
you ought to make him feel ashamed.
. —Chicago News.
G. O. Reinke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, Is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading In im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, light Telephone & Company
CRUSHING THE KAFFIRS.
Treated Like Slaves, Even by White
Children In South Africa.
In "The Iteul Suutli Africa” the au
thor, Ambrose Pratt, says that the
Kaffirs are not only enslaved by the
Boers, but it would seem also by the
other whites, who ought to know bet
ter. The white children born in South
Africa acquire incurable habits of
pride and indolence before they rench
their teens. Their manners are
haughty and overbearing:
"The first day l landed in South
Africa I witnessed a small incident
that will tell its own story. Strolling
through the city of Durban in the ear
ly morning I saw a great hulking
Kaffir carrying n bundle of papers to
the door of a news agency, where a
little boy about ten years of ago wai
waiting to receive them. The Kaffir
very respectfully placed the bundle on
the steps at the child’s feet and mov
ed away. He was immediately recall
ed and most imperiously. ‘You cheeky
devil!’ shrilled the child. ‘How dare
you leave the papers there! Take the
bundle into the shop at once and un
tie it!’ The Kaffir silently and humbly
obeyed.
“ ‘Now sort the papers!’ ordered the
child.
“Again the Kaffir obeyed. When his
task was completed the little boy con
temptuously pointed to the door. ‘Get
out!' he said.
"The Kaffir Inclined reverently and
backed out of the shop ns though tak
ing leave of royalty. The child did not
even smile. The sneer on his face was
fixed.”
PITY THE POOR LIONS.
Hunters In Africa Actually Kick the
Brutes Out of Their Way.
A globe trotter and a hunter, by
name Percy Stanhope, Is an English
man who may or may not have a sense
of humor. Here is what he said in
New York recently about lion hunting
In Africa:
“You bear them talk of lion bunting
In Africa as though it were the king of
sports. It's a beastly shame the way
they treat the poor beasts. Why, when
l was out in British East Africa two
years ago there was a movement on
foot to punish lion hunters for cruelty
to animals. In fact, they were serious
ly taking up the question with the
home government.
“The lives of the poor lions are being
made a burden to them. I can remem
ber when the lions would come in out
of the Jungle and sit on the platform
of the railway stations, and some of
those cruel Englishmen actually booted
the beasts out of the way. Think of
It. the cruelty of it all!
"There being no foxes available, the
sportsmen out in those parts have a
habit of stirring up a lion and pursuing
the poor beast with whoops and yells
until It drops dead of exhaustion and
actual fright. The poor beasts have
been so terrorized that when they see
a white man they whimper from fright.
This fear shortens the life of the lions,
and unless drastic steps are taken to
put a stop to the cruelty there won’t
be any of the animals left in Africa.”—
New York World.
Fear Is Useless.
Pbobism Is an addition to fear (an
I other name for worry) If smugness
be unlovely from a social point of
view pbobism is fatal to its victim.
Did it ever occur to you that fear can
become a habit and a luxury, just as
smoking is'; Hut pbobism is the more
hazardous We fear poverty, we fear
j disease, we fear death, we fear that
| we shall be snubbed socially. And
j each separate fear impairs our capaci
ty for work in a definite, measurable
way. I know many people addicted to
the use of fear. Some of them use it
to excess. To the psychologist fear is
the most expensive of all habits that
people indulge. Ninety-nine and forty
four one-hundredths per cent of fear is
as useless as a deckhand on a sub
marine.—Eliott Park Frost in Atlantic.
How to Win an Author.
“There’s no greater fallacy,” said an
author at the Authors' club, "than the
popular one to the effect that writers
don’t like you to talk to them about
their work.
"Mark Twalu exploded this fallacy
well when he said that there were
three ways of pleasing an author—first,
to tell him that you have read one of
his books; second, to tell him you have
read all bis books, and, third, to ask
him to let you read the mnnuscript of
bis forthcoming book. The first way
wins his respect, the second wins bis
friendship and the third wins his love "
—New York Tribune.
He Thought He Was Handsome.
“So she bns quarreled with that
ugly beau of hers! He is the ugliest
man 1 have ever seen. What did they
qunrrel about?”
“She thought she would make him
feel good and remarked that handsome
men were never worth enough pow
der to blow them over the fence.”
“And It didn’t have the desired ef
fect?"
“No; It mnde him furiously angry.*'
—Houston .Post.
8hs Carried It.
Miss Leigh—I ndmire your effects so
much, Mr. Dauber. I sincerely wish
I could carry some of your brilliant
coloring away with me. Mr. Pnuber
I think you will today, madam. Vou’re
—er—sitting on my newly mnde up
palette!—London Telegraph
Dsgrss and Occupation.
Browne-What ever became of PIgg)
Ton remember, he took ■ Ph.D. In
Greek poetry. Orey-He’s scanning
meters for a gaa company.-Smart Set
ENGLAND AS AN ISLAND.
changes a Channel Tunnel and Perfect
Aviation Would Bring.
Great Britain Is an island. Unless
there is some great convulsion of na
ture to all time the strait of Dover will
separate it from the continent of Eu
rope. Yet every now and then a re
newal of the scheme for a channel
tunnel is' heard, and at this moment
men are flying from England to
France and France to England.
Suppose the channel tunnel to be
made; suppose flying to be Improved
and it is improving every day—what
will become of the island? What will
become of the sea? They will be there
and will be shown on the map, but to
all human intents and purposes the
geography will be chnnged. The sen
will no longer be a barrier; it will no
longer be the only highroad from Eng
land to France. There will be going to
find from on or In dry land and going
to and fro neither on land nor sea.
Suppose this science of aviation to
make great strides and heavy loads
to be carried In the air, whnt will be
come of the porj£, and what will be
come of the seagoing peoples?
The ports will be there, appearing as
now on the map, but Birmingham
goods will be shipped at Birmingham
for foreign parts, and Lithgow will ex
port mineral direct, saying goodby to
the Blue mountain and even to Syd
ney harbor.—Sir Charles P. Lucas in
Science.
EAR DRUMS AND DROWNING.
Why Good Swimmers May Meet Sud
den Death In the Water.
Sudden death of swimmers has nev
er been explained satisfactorily, but it
is generally assumed that it is due to
cramps that affect the respiratory mus
cles. The Medical Record says there
is another theory that “has never re
ceivod the attention which it merits.”
This is that cold water penetrating the
ear sets up an irritation in the delicate
passages of the inner ear. It cites an
address delivered by Dr. Guettich be
fore the Berlin Otologieal society, in
which he revived this theory.
The irritation of the labyrinth of the
inner ear by cold water might cause
sudden paralysis, Just as a shock to it
through a sharp blow on the chin will
cause a "knockout” The symptoms of
the swimmer and the tighter are sim
ilar. They can make motions, but can
not direct them; they may become tem
porarily unconscious. In the case of
the swimmer, of course, drowning fol
lows unless some one helps him.
The Medical Record says that persons
with perforated ear drums are those
chiefly menaced by this accident, al
though it may occur to others. And
this in spite of the fact that children
with large perforations of the ear drum
often swim and dive with impunity.
Ths Periscope.
Permit me to Introduce myself to
the public generally. Modest and re
tiring both by nature and occupation,
I have hitherto refrained from obtrud
ing myself upon the attention of the
multitude
My name is Periscope. My principal
object in life is to rise to every neces
sary occasion. When this demands
my more or less immediate presence I
occupy myself by holding up the rnir
ror, not to nature, hut to the enemy
Like an occasional idea which renders
superfluous old systems of philosophy,
i have come to render superfluous an
entire cycle of inventions. I am the
last triumph of mind over matter. I
reflect, and a thousand men go down
to their fate Within the blue zone of
my horizon, subject to m.v orders, flits
the angel of death
I am the naval eye that put the
naught in Dreadnought.—Life
Fires In the Philippines.
The fighting of fires In the dry sen
son is a grave problem In tile cities and
pueblos of the Philippine Islands.
House construction is light, the roofs
being made from nipa palm leaves, the
framework of bamboo and the sides of
either nipa or sawnli—a woven prod
uct of certain species of bamboo. When
this mnterinl has been exposed contin
uously to the sun for several months
It becomes as inflammable as tinder
Fires that break out In the nipa dis
tricts always gain groat headway be
fore any kind of an alarm can be sent
In even where there ts a fire depart
ment Fires in such districts spread
with great rapidity. In thickly popu
lated areas it Is not uncommon for a
fire to burn several hundred houses be
fore It is stopped.
Keep the Hands Clean.
Clean hands and nails are most lm
portent precautions against carrying
poisonous germs Into the mouth on
food taken In the hnnds. Nurses at
tending cases of typhoid have not In
frequently taken the disease because
of such failure to cleanse their hands
before eating. A towel may carry
germs from one person who has been
Infected Into the eyes of another who
uses It and so produce blindness
Love’s Labor Lost.
"Wbat on earth has become of my
meerschaum pipe?” Inquired an invet
erate smoker.
“Well, my dear," bis wife replied,
“It was getting awfully discolored, so
l gave It a coat of white enamel, and
It Is not quite dry yet!”
Didn’t Want 'Em,
“That beauty expert la a fake.”
“Whyf”
“Wanted to give me some wrinkles
on how to look young.”-Baltimore
American._
Tba blessedness or misery of old
ifa la oft an but tba attract of our pant
Ufa.—De Malstrs.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
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
Chas. Perry
■Seattle
^4 Complete Services
-IN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
| l35Rooms with bath-50 SampleRooms
Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration hooks for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the 6th day of April,
1915, will be open at the office (if
the Town Treasurer, in Coppet
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 1 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 2tith
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and between
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at.
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
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.
D. Flynn, 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 til
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February. 1915, 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, the
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 Recordin'?
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found lo
“back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good rftany of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
lyith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
U you want all mm hwi aU tka
Una, read Hie Praapaatar.