©4? HatUj Pnispertar
PUBLISHED BY '
STEWART * SELBY, FroprletoM
terms.
Dally Prospector.
By carrier, per month .
By mail, per annum ..
The Weekly Miner.
Business OltU-e ana uaiiurim noun.
TEL. 162
Advertising Rates on Application.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916
A HARMFUL SENTIMENT.
We are sincerely thankful that the
fire department is not under the con
trol of the sage of the Star-dust. It
is not our fault if we control the larg
er part of the newspaper business of
the city. The editor of the Star was
on the ground years ago, and made
a sad mess of the field. He had the
same chance we have, without an un
scrupulous competitor to handicap
bis efforts to serve all the people. He
still has a chance to make good by
running a newspaper free from his
sternal knocking and fault-finding.
His colossal ego has caused him to
believe that every other citizen in
town is wrong and that he stands
upon a pinnacle of knowledge unat
tained by the rest of humanity.
The Prospector and its proprietors
paid $70 in taxes this year, and has
a payroll and expense account of over
$800 per month, all of which is turn
ed loose among our merchants. We
pay our bills promptly and try to give
the people a good paper. So far as
we know we are the largest industry
in the city at the present time. We
want to give our people good service
and expect them to appreciate it. We
print the news as it comes in and if
it is not colored to suit the liking of
our readers it is not our fault.
The editor of the Star has lived in
Valdez (he says) ten or twelve years.
During that time he has paid $2 in
taxes. He has helped no cause, has
been against everything and every
body, and has proved a wet blanket
to the town from the day he landed.
We much prefer to dwell in har
mony and devote our efforts to our
business; but when our friends, our
women, our churches, our schools,
our professional men, and every per
son in town who does not agree with '
him is attacked, patience ceases to be
a virtue.
We have paid twenty per cent more j
taxes on our outfit than we would
have been required to pay in any oth
er city we have ever done business,
in, and have received fifty per cent
less for what we have paid for.
It is a good thing for the town
that the editor of the Star and his
advisers do not control the fire de
partment, or it would he as woefully
Inefficient as everything else he ha;
tainted by bis meddlings.
1 We have a splendid fire depart
I ment, headed by an efficient man
.He has been handicapped at every
turn by the fossilized ideas of this
Prince of Troublemakers. Had his
advice been taken years ago, the town
would today have been standing in
tact. But our friend, whose knowl
edge of municipal things runs in the
nth power, would have no improve
ments which were not fathered by
his advisers.
The results of bis meddling in civic
affairs are so plainly apparent that it
is a matter of wonderment that our
citizens have not rebelled long ago
against the stigma attached to his
presence in the civic body.
If we are to have a never-ending
fight on the respectable citizens of
the town and on our industries we
can expect no industries to be added
to what we have. On the other hand
they will dwindle, one by one, dis
couraged over the apparent unappre
ciation of the people, until nothing
would be left but the Star and a re
sultant stink.
For the sake of our future we be
lieve the sentiments expressed by the
Star should be promptly and effec
tually suppressed.
FIGHTING THE FLAMES.
(As Honest. John Would Have It.)
Curtain rises.
City Clerk discovered sitting at ta
ble wearily patching pair of sand
papered pants.
Desk at 1. e. containing copy of
Trails 1 Have Blazed, Workingman’s
Friend, Forty Years a Foozler and
copy of Daily Prospector.
C. C., crosses down stage and picks
up copy of tax list.
Fire bell rings.
City Clerk rushes madly into fire
ball with tax roll under his arm.
Firemen busily unrolling hose pre
paring to go to fire.
C. C.—“Where’s the fire?”
Fire Chief—“Don’t know, yet.”
City Clerk—(crosses stage to 1. e.
and strikes dramatic attitude)—“Are
you so servile that you will go out
in this cold weather to put out a fire
when the owner of the property has
paid no taxes?”
Fire Chief—"Get out of the way,
so the boys can get the hose out?”
City Clerk (running rapidly over
tax list)—“But I tell you these peo
ple have paid no taxes and-”
Boy (rushes in r. e.)—“The fire
is at the Star office!”
City Clerk (excitedly grabbing
hose and dropping tax list—“What?
For God’s sake, hurry boys; what is
two dollars taxes compared to sav
THE EMPRESS
The Empress Circuit Presents the
PARAMOUNT FEATURE
“THE RING AND THE MAN”
Featuring
BRUCE MCRAE
Assisted by Famous Players Co.
LAST TIME TO-NIGHT
One Show at 8 Sharp
Admission 25c. All Children 10c.
PARAMOUNT Pictures are entertaining, educational
and artistic—Like a good play, many people see
them twice.
ing some poor devil’s property?”
Firemen rush out of fireball.
City Clerk grabs tax list and rolls
up in pants, and vainly tries to get
both legs in Prospector.
Slow music.
Curtain.
STILL AT THE DOCK.
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A large new cylinder press arrived
for the Star last week and is at the
dock.
Now, honest, Corny, wouldn’t you
give us just one little teenty drop
of water, if our outfit was on fire?
It might pay some of the lawyer*,
to advertise in the Star, and stop that
paper's eternal knocking the profes
sion.
When Honest'john talks about our
“pra rata of the taxes” he means
that he desires us to pay “his pro rata
of taxes" also.
We paid $70 taxes and the editor
of the Star $2. In case of a fire at
our respective places would we be
entitled to thirty-five times the pro
tection he is?
“Who was it coined the phrase
that ‘the biggest fool In the world
is an old fool?’ ’’—Star.
We will leave the answer to the
above to the judgment of those who
read your paper, Capri.
In view of the unexplicable stand
taken by the city clerk, in regard to
those paying no taxes not being en
titled to tiro protection, it might be
well for many of our citizens to take
out a little insurance.
We hate to quote the law to so
brilliant a legal luminary as the edi
tor of the Star, but we believe that
when property is admitted into a cor
poration it is necessary to have the
people living in that territory vote
upon the question; not the voters
of the territory already in the corpo
ration.
Why not get the city to vote on
taking in the Senator’s holdings.
Corny? He has several hundred acres
of ground he is offering for sale in
the East on the representation that
they are extremely valuable, “and no
taxes nor assessments to pay.” One
thousand lots taxed at one hundred
each on a 2 per cent basis would give
the city wealth beyond your wildest
dreams. If you will show your good
faith by inducing the Senator to Join
his vast acreage to the city’s tax roll,
we will gladly follow suit, as our
taxes would then be so small as to be
a mere trifle.
WHO KNOWS BEAVER?
FORTUNE AWAITS HIM.
City Marshal Willard T. Scott has
received a request from a firm of Par
is attorneys requesting him to make
inquiry for an Englishman named
Frederick Beaver, who has fallen
heir to a large estate in England.
The man whose address is wanted
has not been heard from for seven
years, when he was in Manitoba, but
had expressed the intention of com
ing to Alaska. Beaver is infirm and
wears an artificial leg and the estate
may be lost to him unless he is lo
cated in the near future. Anyone
having information regarding the
man will confer a favor by communi
cating with Marshal Scott, Valdez,
Alaska.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 4, 1916.
Barometer pressure .30.3 *8
Temperature 7 p. m. 9
Maximum temperature .24
Minimum temperature . 1
Mean temperature .12.6
Clear, wind northeast 4 miles.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 5, 1916.
Fairbanks, —15; clear, calm.
Salcha, —20; clear, calm.
Richardson, —20; clear, calm.
McCarthy, —20; clear, calm.
Donnelly, —18; clear, calm, trail
good. .*
McCallum, —11; 45 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Paxson, —16; 36 inches of snow;
clear, calm, good trail.
Hogan, —8; 21 inches Bnow; calm
and cloudy, trail good.
Gulkana, —29; 21 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center, —32; 16 inches of
mow; clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina, —30; 18 inches Bnow;
cloudy, calm, trail drifted.
Teikhell, —14; 30, clear calm,
trail good. j
Beaver Dam, —6; 46 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
Summit, —2; 60 inches of snow;
clear, calm, trail drifted.
! Wortman’s, — 0; 40 iifches snow;
clear, calm, trail fair.
Panoramic views of' Child's and
Milas glaciers, Dawson, Valdes and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdes Drug
store. **
Furnished rooms at Mrs. (island's.
I Prices reasonable. *
| A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdes Drug Co. U
Stop and Shop
at Valdez Leading
Grocery Shop
We carry the best hrhnds of
Domestic andjmported Groceries
Petaluma Eggs and Jersey Butter
( Are The Best In Town.
K
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Phone us for your bread and pies.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
The Leading Grocers '
nr
Notice to Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has qualified as executor of
the will of George M. Yoshlda, de
ceased; and that all persons having
claims against the estate of said dece
dent are required to present them
with the proper vouchers to said ex
ecutor at the Owl Drug Store In Val
dez, Alaska, within six months from
the date of this notice, or the same
will be barred.
Dated January 16, 1916.
ANDY YAMASAKI,
Executor of the Will of George M.
Yoshida, Deceased.
First publication Jan. 16, 1916.
Last publication Feb. 6, 1916.
I AXIAL BREVITIES.
Notice.
From now on every Sunday after
noon at 3 p. m. there will be a mati
nee at the Liberty Theatre. Watch
papers for program and particulars.
. i
Fancy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
FOR SALE; Hyacinth and tulips in
bloom. Lucy Depuy. 2t
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Kodak Supplic* at ate Valdez
Drug Company. tf
Pasteurized Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whltley’a
Miss May Thorstensen of Ellamar,
is visiting friends in Valdez for a few
days.
Nugget jewelry made to order at
the Valdez Drug Co., by O. O.
Relnke. tf
| Otto Elfstrom, blacksmith at the
[Granite mine, is in town for a few
days having come up on the launch
B. F. M.
WANTED; Experienced woman de
sires work as cook dr maid. Refer
ences given.' Address Prospector.
FOR RENT—After February l»th,
the premises now occupied by Hunt's
Candy 8tore. Apply to J. Callln, Ar
cade Cafe. tf
Emel Havness, who has been work
ing at the Granite mine, Hobo Bay,
came up to town yesterday afternoon
on the launch B. F. M.
Joe Stanton made the trip to the
glacier yesterday and reports that
long stretches of the flat are bare of
snow. He sayB that wagons would be
necessary now to deliver supplies to
any of the mines in that section.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National I'nlvrnrity,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Rooms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
PHONR .p 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
Phone£42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
OlHof OpMiltr Coart Hour
Phone 3» VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-JL AW
OfflcdH In Whnltnif Bnlldlnac
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valde*
ED. WOOD. Proprietor
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 enterprise* 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 ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater,
BREAD FOR SALE
J««h C«Uin_. Prnrj.irtm
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting;
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance (
ns 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 FIdalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Vkl
dez Dock Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply on Rost.
VALDEZ LODGB
NO f«8
free and Accented Mmtmmm.
I Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKInleg
Hall. Visitors always welcome:
„ -vA, R. GRIGSBY. W. 11
. ED. WOOD. Secretary.
When In Seward Stop at Ac
COLEMAN HOUSE
atORSi SEXTON, PROP.
SlRICTLV FIR8T CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
The Beat Place in Valdea to
■ Stop at la the
Arctic Hojtel
Wane, Light Reeai-The Haaaa ef CmImI
RATES (REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rate. Bp the Meath
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING,
Valdez Miners Union lie. 188
Wmtem Federation of Minna*
ROBERT SHAFFER. ProhUat.
CnaMoMna.