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, STEWART A SELBY, Proprietors
VALDEZ, ALASKA
Published Dally Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Kali Matter,
July 23, 1912, at the postoffice of Valdes,
Alaska, under act or March 3, 1879.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, I BIT
OZONE OF OPTIMISM.
IT is better to sing than to sigh, I say;
It is better to crow than to cry, 1 say;
It Is better to do than to die. I say.
And we might as well die as be gloomy.
It Is better to look for the silvery side
Of the clouds that above us so frequently
ride.
Than to crawl underneath them and tim
idly hide
In the darkness that Isn’t so roomy
IT Is better to stand than to drop, I say:
It is better to go than to stop, I say:
It is better to stick than to flop, I say,
For the world hasn't room for tne
Hopper.
It is better to fare with a jubilant heart
That is beating in tune with your com
monplace part
In the game than to cork with a vinegar
tart
Than to bottle your joy with a stopper.
IT Is better to build than to break, I say;
It is better to give than to take, I Say:
It is better to Hnd than to fake. I say.
And there's good that is free for the
finding.
It is better to cherish the blossoms of life
Than to cut them to shreds with a critics!
knife;
To rejoice you have taken Miss Joy for
your wife
In a beautiful union and binding.
—P.obertus Love.
ANOTHER BliOW AT Pl'Bl.lSIiKKS.
Through what is known as the
Randolph amendment to the postoftice
appropriation bill, now before con
gress, it is proposed to place an in
defensible and heavy tax on the pub
lishing industry of the country. The
bill provides that all classes of pub
lications, newspapers, magazines, etc.
shall pay 1 cent a pound for postage
for distances up to 300 miles, 2 cents
a pound up to 600 miles, 3 cents a
pound up to 1,000 miles, 4 cents a
pound up to 1,400 mllea, 6 cents a
pound up to 1,800 miles, and 6 cents
for more than 1,800 miles. The pres
ent rate Is 1 cent s pound for any
distance.
The above rate would be almost
prohibitive to parties in Alaska tak
ing Chicago or New York papers,
which weigh in many instances ovei
a pound. It would also stop Alas
kan publishers from sending papers
to the Eastern or Middle States, with
out charging ten cents a copy for their
papers straight; and would necossi
tate the endless bother of assorting
papers out for the various zones, am:
an eternal squabble with postmaster
over the exchange mail. The pub
lisher is already burdened to the verge
of bankruptcy by the almost prohib
itive cost of white paper, and it is al
most a certainty that a large part of
them will be unable to withstand thi s
additional load. It has been stated
that at least S00 papers and periodi
cals have suspended the last year,
owing to the excessive price of paper.
To he sure, most of these were email
sheets, but in the aggregate the loss
to the printing industry is great.
Several thousand men have been
thrown out of employment and tne
wage loss to communities has been
considerable. It is just as fair to re
quire that letters and post cards be
taxed by zones as it is that papers
should be. The whole system is bas
ed upon the fallacy that the people
are made to serve the postofflce in
stead of the postofflce being made to
serve the people.
The Randolph bill is one of the
most oppressive and unjust ever de
vised, and ranks with the iniquitous
stamp tax of 1776 and other burden
some measures.
THE PROSPECTOR has quite a
number of unpaid subscriptions upon
its books, and we entreat our sub
scribers who are in arrears to come
forward and help bear the onerous
burden resulting from the excessive
price of stock. Affairs are moving
swiftly in the world war and our
readers must be kept informed of the
main events happening at the Na
tion’s capital. By paying up promtly
we are enabled to give our readers a
better paper, and a better paper
means more readers.
WHAT a pity that the city has no
library available at all hours. These
long winter evenings are just the 'iir.e
to read up on those questions which
have been perplexing you the pas*
summer. A good library is as neces
sary to the advancement of a town
as good streets or good schools, and
nothing bespeaks a town's advance
ment than a good circulating library.
THE Valdez University is making a
record for a new institution. Many of
the classes are full, and others are
on the verge of being filled. This in
stitution bids fair to become perma
nent, and will place Valdez on tlie
educational map.
ANOTHER popular question: “Is
it cold enough for you?”
EAGLE HALL
The Empress-Temporary
Special Saturday Eve Show at 8 Tonight
Charles E. Van Loan’s Famous Story
“BUCKSHOT JOHN”
A big story of Express Trains and Bank Robberies, etc.
Side Splitting Comedy
“Tinkering With Trouble”
Regular Admission .... 26c
SUNDAY - “Old Heidelberg” - Triangle Program
SAVED $18,000; LOST $4,000,000
It Is sad to have to record that the
wreck of the cruiser Milwaukee Is
due to what a large par*, of the Amer
ican people believe to be the "way the
'government usually does things.” A
private concern was ready to contract
to salvage the submarine H-3, its fig
ure being $18,000. Instead of ac
cepting that offer the department
'sent a couple of very costly navoi
■vessels to the dangerous reef witl
the result that the $4,000,000 bat
tleship Milwaukee was piled in
the breakers and is a total loss.
I There will be court n'.artials. The
; wight who navigated the H-3 is like
' ly to be dragged over the hot plates
again and again, and no telling what,
they’ll do with the skipper of the Mil
waukee for getting too close inshore.
iBut the imperturable aplomb of the
heavyweights in Washington will not
be as much as slightly irritated by
|the incident unless congress recovers
sufficiently from the Lawson ramming
to ask for an inquiry among the high
er-ups.—Tacoma News.
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A MAN will admit that his wife has
her faults but don’t try to knock his
; dOg.
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AN extremist is a person who is
willing to lend you hand or give you
a kick.
HOW high must they be before
| they cease to be shoes and become
leggings?
A MAN is not looking a gift horse
in the mouth when he looks to see
| what brand of cigar you gave him.
THE most mournful sound at this
1 season of the year is the ring of the
icoal scuttle on the stove door.
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A MAN can make a fortune with
a common school education, but it
'takes a son with a college education
i to spend it.
WE have no desire for an advance
' tip on stock quotations, but, oh, how
| we long to sell Secretary Lansing his
typewriter ribbons.
OUR observation has been that
when a widow hasn’t any children to
spend her insurance money on she
spends it on another husband.
IT IS a cold day when Harry Thaw
fails to get in the lime light. His lat
est feat is liable to meet with more
public approval than his former one#
I IF Seward had Valdez's location
and Valdez had Seward’s hustle we
would both be among, the largest of
Alaskan cities within a iew years.
IF the weather man worked as in
defatigably for the printer as he does
for the plumber we should worry
about the high cost of white paper.
WITH the mercury sixty below at
Copper Center and ten at Valdez there
is very little chance of city politics
becoming warm enough to cause fric
tion.
A MAN can be cross-eyed, bow
legged and have a face like a mashed
up lemon pie, but that does not keep
his wife from imagining that he is
leading a double life.
ELEPHANTS are said to be rap
idly advancing in price owing to the
war in Europe. Valdez persons
who find themselves short on ele
phants should lay in a supply at once.
George Dorsh will leave on one of
the next boats with Jack Miller’s
horses and sleds for Chitina and will
commence freighting in the outfit for
the summer’s work on the Miller
property at Slate creek. The mate
rials and supplies will arrive at Cor
dova on the Northwestern.
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Make Trip to Ramsay-Rutherford.
Smoky Joe and George Cristo left
for the Ramsay-Rutherford this morn
jing with Dan Wiltsy’s dog team, car
i rying mail and supplies to the mine,
j As the mercury stood at 22 below at
[the time of the boys’ departure, and
it is undoubtedly much colder upon
the glacier, it is not known how they
fared on the trip.
Deer Fast Disappearing.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Deer are t.
ing killed in such numbers in the Uni
ted States that the day is not far off
when none will be seen outside f
preserves and parks. Dr. William T
Hornaday, director at the zoological
park here, said last night at the an
nual meeting of the New York State
Forestry association.
A particularly deplorable condition
exists west of the Mississippi river, he
declared, 8,000 deer having been kill
ed in one Colorado county in one
year.
FOR RENT—Good cabins. 16.00
and up. Alaska Inv. Co. 2t
Frash caady at the Bnporlaa. tt
A new stock of A1 Frail Tablets.
Candy Kitchen. If
_IN~
Our Hardware Department
you will now find a complete stock—Our line
of Shelf Hardware, Granite Ware, Cuttlery,
Tools, etc., is the most complete in town.
-IN.
Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Shoes, Underwear, Caps, Bedding, etc., you
will find assortments priced right.
See the Khaki Covered Down Comforters
for trail use.
S. BLUM & CO., Inc.
GOOD GOODS
LOCATED IN THE FORMER INGRAM & BUSH BUILDING, McKINLEY STREET
Want Church Dry, Too
OLYMPIA, Feb. 2.—A petition
from the Epworth Methodist church
in Tacoma asking that fermented
wines be barred from use in church
ceremonials in this state was read <n
the senate this morning. The peti
tion was referred to the committee
on public morals.
Trolley Car Ruins House.
PITTSBURG, N. J., Feb. 2.—Jump
ing the track at Heckman and Lewis
street early today a steel trolley car.
carrying eight men to work at the In
gersoll-Rand plant in Phillipsburg,
crashed into the home of Willirm
Huff, almost demolishing the house,
which was a two-story fvame struc
ture. Although the building was
damaged to such an extent that it
will have to be torn down, the pas
sengers escaped without serious in
jury.
Soaked With Explosive.
PARRY SOUND. Ont., Feb. 2.—
Henry Feltham, an Englishman, aged
35, is dead from burns sustained in
a peculiar manner. He worked in the
cordite branch of the Nobel works.
On returning Saturday he sat down
to smoke with the clothes on he
wore at the works and taking a child
on his knee. He struck a match on
the sleeve of his jacket which had
evidently become saturated with gun
cotton. The coat burst into flames.
The child was slightly burned, but
Feltham was so badly injured that he
died.
Gus Gillies (the Optimo Kid) ar
rived on the Alaska and is calling on
the local trade.
NOTICE—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing
prices, at the Emporium.
Why not a VICTROLA? We have
them from $15 up. Valde* Drug
Co. *
Miner \ds. bring RESULTS.
The Most
Dependable
Ingredients and the purest,
too, are used in the manufac
ture of
CRESCENT
BAKING
POWDER
Hence, its never failing ability
to raise the dough better.
AV Aid, GROCERS
25c Hx
CRESCENT MFO. SO-,
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Ni«lit McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale.
EVERYTHING THE BEST ANDY MAROVIOH, I’ropr.
Candy Kitchen i
E. W. HUNT—b Owl Drag Store. j
FOUNTAIN DRINKS !
HOT- -COLD |
ATLAS JUNK CO.
Wfcole**le and Retail Dealer* in
ALL KINDS OF JUNK
Buyers of Metal, Rubber, Ma
nila Rope, Sacks, Machinery,
Pipe, Hides, Furs and Bottles.
1043 Railroad Avenue, So.
SEATTLE, WASH.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. P»OF
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave. Seward. Alaska
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel;
Win, Light Rooms—The House of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
I
BATH ROOM Speciel Rates By the Month j
PHONE 133 MRS. SYR1NG, Prep J
VALDEZ CAFE
AND BAKERY
Fresh Bread and Pastry always on hand
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
BERGSTROM & ROGSTAD, Props.
PHONE 17 — Three doors below Owl Drag
Alaska Sails West.
The steamship Alaska arrived in j
port about 3 o’clock this morning and i
remained here until after 6 o'clock !
unloading cargo. She brought the fol- 1
lowing passengers: J. Molton, M. j
Bokinich, S. Mlchal, P. Bocket. M. j
Wollch, G. Kopp, S. Hart. E. W.
Smith, P. W. Hughes. G. Gillies and
J. M. Emel. The long stop of the
Alaska at Cordova was due to her
having loaded a considerable quantity
of ore at that place, and as the ore j
was frozen it was very difficult to ban-1
die and made slow work.
Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tt
For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICKES MERRITT
OBo« over Valdes Drug Co.
Phoae'13 McKinley Street
Contract Surgeon. U. S. Army
A. A. Surgeon, U S. Public Health Serv
(Marine Hospital)
JOS. A. SILVERMAN, PH. 6. M. D. f
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Over Owl Drug Co.
—OFFICE HOURS:
1 to 4 P. M. 7 to 8 P. M
Sunday by Appointment.
Res. Phone 176 Office Phone ID
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National University.
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years In Valdes.
PHONE 110
Office Booms in Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
»■« Opposite Coart House
Phone St VALDEZ. ALASK A
JOHN LYONS A r HITCH; h,
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAAA
Oflees le •« ■•altnc Halldlng
Phone 101 a aldkz. alaska
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 108
Free nnd Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKinley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
P. M. BROWN, W. M
ED WOOD, Secretary.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. H. GARNER. President.
Granite Mine
CBAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdes Alaska.
In every line of manufactured ar
ticles there is usually one maker who
sets the standard of excellence. The
Rexall Products set such a standard
for the United States in Drugs, Per
fumes. Toilet Articles and in fact, for
every article which they manufacture.
The OWL DRUG CO., exclusive agent t
t'T Valdex. tf
Only a first-class drug store cai
secure an agency for Rexall product*.
The Owl Drug Store, exclusive agents
for Valdex. tf