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PROSPECTOR PUBLISHING CO.
H. B. SKI,BY, Editor And Proprietor.
VAI.DBZ. ALASKA
Published Dally Except Sunday
Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter,
July 23, 1912, at the pogtofflce of Valdei.
Alaska, under act of March S, 1879.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1017
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Owing to the war tax hitting the
newspapers especially hard we are
compelled to raise the price of our
publications. Commencing November
1 the price of the Daily Prospector
delivered or by mall will be $1.50 per
month including the Miner. The price
of the Miner alone will be $3.50 per
year. These prices will prevail only
for the duration of the war, and we
deeply regreat the necessity of the
raise, but if we stay in business it is
imperative.
PROSPECTOR PUBLISHING CO.
HELPLESS BUREAUCRACY
If Mr. Burleson is going to sup
press all publications that venture to
"impugn the motives of the govern
ment" rhe must in the end virtually
suppress all hostile criticism of the
administration and destroy free
speech in this country. Of course, he
will not do it. The president will not
be so unwise as to let him. As much
harm may be done arbitrarily sup
pressing a dissenting paper because
of its opinions, during the war period
as by letting it flourish and scream
to the uttermost its mistaken views.
There is a real danger ahead in
the harsh enforcement of the new
laws by postal officials who may not
be discreetly guided, or may not be
sufficiently sensitive to the spirit of
the sound political doctrine that dis
sent and criticism should be permitted
free expression within lawful limits
in the public prints of the land. Hon
est error can be suppressed only by
Intelligent argument and truthtelling |
never by the decree of a bureaucrat. ]
—Springfield Republican.
SOMETHING WRONG
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A news dispatch to the Chicago |
Tribune says that Oklahoma farm
ers are feeding Wheat to the hogs be
cause the governmentally-fixed price!
j is lower than that of corn. Yet with-J
|in a hundred miles of the country I
I whence this is reported there are,
! towns where “wheatless days" are on
'the calendar. Something seems to be,
j wrong in all^thls—that is, if anything
j can be wrong under a statute like the;
food-control bill which was hailed as1
being full of promise for all the pen
! pie.
IT WOULD seem that the time is!
coming when the United States Gov-1
ernment will be obliged to take a.
hand in fixing the price of cotton.
When it is remembered that cotton
went begging at 10 cents a pound,
and that Ute “buy-a-bale-of-cotton”
slogan was used to induce people to
"save the Southern farmer” only a
short time ago, one naturally sus
pects that the present price, soaring
well above 25 cents a pound, is about
as high as it ought to go. And yet
at a cotton-growers' conference in
New Orleans, the other day, the ques
tion of putting the price up to 45
cents a pound was agitated. The cot
ton crop this year is not a large one,
but the total output, as estimated by
the government, will be more than
500,000 bales larger than that of last
year.
A Mysterious Blaze
Recently in driving a heading in
the Bonne Terre mine of the S^. Jo
seph Lead Co., at Bonne Terre, Mo.,
an odor of gasoline was noticed. As
the heading advanced, it became
stronger until finally the emanations
from a drillhole took fire from the
open flame of a miner’s cap lamp.
This fire was easily extinguished but
further drilling brought out so much
more “gas” that another big fire oc
curred and was extinguished with dif
ficulty. As this occurred in a porous
dolomite with a heavy sandstone be
low and on an anticlinal structure,
visions of a ga? field were conjured,
further heightened when a churn
drill hole sunk to this horizon pro
duced about 10 gal. of gasoline—and
then petered out—but it was clean,
straight gasoline. A quiet investiga
tion of the neighborhood developed
the fact that a blacksmith shop had
been run for years immediately over
the "gasoline drift” and that it had
been equipped with an old gasoline
engine supplied froih underground
tanks. With gasoline at 10c per gal.,
a slight but steady leakage was not
noticeable and would never have been
detected, but for the unique outbreak
of a gasoline fire ir a new.rock drift
in the mine directly under the old
tank.—Ex.
One and one-half inch of snow fell
yesterday in this city, according to
the local weather observer. Precipita
tion .05 with a temperature of 25.
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THE EMPRESS
TUESDAY EAGLE HALL 8 SHARP
WILLIAM FOX PRESENTS
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BERTHA KAUCH
In
“AMBITION”
A Dramatic Story of Political Intrigue.
COMING NEXT TUESDAY
“RAMONA”
Admission 30c
STEAM HEAT' NEWLY FURNISHED
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. R. MILL, Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
Pound n “Wood’s Pussy"
Some extravagant person night-let
tered that the following was over
heard at the recent St. Louis. A. I.
M>. E. convention: The engineer, “Yes,
Blank lost all his money in a wildcat
mine.” His wife interrupted, “I did
n’t know you lmd to mine for wild
cats.” The wife of another engineer
hutted In with: "Oh, yes you do, but
Is never paya. When 1 was a little
girl in southwestern Virginia I rambl
ed upon Angel's Rest Mountain one
day, looking for berries. Suddenly I
saw the cutest little kitten ever. In
stead of coming when 1 called, it ran
into a hole in the ground. Determined
to have that kitten, my sister and I
commenced mining with a stick. Pret
ty soon we struck the mother lode al
most at grass roots and collected
some rich samples. We each prom
ised faithfully, hope-to-die, cross-our
liearts never to tell a soul, but it was
not necessary. When we were about
100 yards from home something told
mother what had happened and she
ordered us to bury our clothes before
coming to the house. You see, our kit
ten was a ‘wood pussy’ which Is ano
ther kind of a wild cat.”—Ex.
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Mrs. Charles Sanborne, owner of
valuable placer property on Slate
Creek, Is a passenger on the steam
ship Mariposa.
BARRACKS TO BK
ERECTED ANCHORAGE
At a meeting last night of mem
bers of the Home Guard and the Loy
al league, plans were discussed to er
ect a building here to be used as an
indoor drilling place by the two mili
tary organizations. The fact that
$100 a month will be allowed from
the territorial treasury as rent for
suitable drilling quarters will justi
fy, it is believed, the construction of
a building.
Committees each of five members
from the two organizations will meet
tonight in Pioneer hall to decide on
definite plans, which will be sub
mitted to a joint meeting of the
Home Guards and Loyal Xeague to
morrow night in Pioneer hail.
The Alaskan Engineering Commis
sion has offered to donate a site for
the barracks building.—Times.
KCSKOKWIM IS
REPORTED ACTIVE
A1 Walsh has just returned from
the Kuskokwim, where he spent a few
days says the Iditarod Pioneer. He
reports that the steamship Santa Ana
NEW OVERCOATS
Ulsters in handsome patterns, warm, but
not too heavy.
C onvertible collar
coats in new Scotch
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tweed fabrics.
Black and colors
in Cravenettes
Now is the time to
make your choice
while the sizes are
. complete.
S. BLUM & COMPANY
GOOD GOODS
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has left Bethel on her second and fin
al voyage of the season. The wife and
daughters of Captain Langley of the
steamer Tana, were outgoing passen
gers, as was also Mrs. Felder, wife of
the trader at Bethel.
C. Felder has bought out the busi
ness of the Kuskokwim Commercial
company at Bethel.
At Akiak Karl Thiele is building
two big warehouses, and he is also
putting up a store building at the
mouth of Crooked. Fred Bishop, at
Sleltmute, is building a two-story
house.
All the material for the Candle
creek dredge has been landed at Mc
Grath.
i Contrary to previous reports, which
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WHY send out for your printing when we can
furnish you with anything needed in stationery for
the office and store.
A dollar kept at home is a dollar saved to the com
munity. If you send for your needs your neighbor
will follow your example and we all suffer. The town
that is up and coming is the town with an abiding
faith in its future, and how can you maintain your
faith in the city when you buy all you eat and wear
outside?
Beers, Sawbuck ft Bunk have busted more towns
than they have built up, and you never saw a dollar
of your money ever come back to you.
When you send your money outside to the old re
liable printing houses of Seattle and Tacoma you
may get a cheaper job in every sense of the word,
and you may also have to pay a higher price for it.
Location notices, both quartz and placer; warran
ty deeds, mill site location notices, proofs of labor,
quit clai mdeeds, amended location notices, and all
kinds of legal blanks at The Prospector Office.
We sell a good quality of typewriter paper at $1.50
per box, a better quality for $2 and the best Crane's
Japanese Linen for $2.50, legal size.
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Why not let us print you 100 calling cards in the
latest style type, for $1.50.
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bad it that gardens along the river
had been destroyed by the high water,
Mr. Walsh reports that late in August
they were in better condition than
ever before known, and that more
produce was raised in that region
than in any previous season.
Jack Smeaton, the Donlin Creek
miner, has had an excellent season,
and will be in Iditarod in a few days
on his way outside, which he has not
visited for fifteen years. Harry Stev
ens and Joe Konechny. also mining on
Donlin creek, are doing preparatory
work for next season's operations.
At the cinnebar properties, a few
miles from Georgetown, Fuller, Will
is & Miilett are doing fairly well, and
have retorted considerable quicksil
ver. Harks also had three men work
ing.
Duke E. Stubbs of Kolmakoff is
now the pround owners of the fastest
boat on the Kuskokwim river, having
recently received a new Buffalo en
gine from the outside—Anchorage
Times.
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Genuine sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo. Sexton, Proprietor.
The traveling public’s
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL SEXTON
Valdez Misers Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
W. M. CONLEY PrmU,*.
VaWse Alaska.
GEORGE M. BARRY Sosronuy,
VaMss thg_
|LAUNCH DELLA |
iCapt. H. L. Rider {
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Weekly tripe from Valdes to *
1 Fllamar, Landlock, Fidalgo and ♦
Y way ports. Passengers landed ♦
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Carrying freight and passen- «
gen. *
For rates apply on board. J
CAPT. H. L. IUDER |
I J. E. WILSON I
Freighting to all points I
in the third division. I
Horses bought end sold. I
Phone 166. I
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR. S. WICK.ES MERRITT
Offices in Fish Building, adjoining
Tlllikum Club.
Pbone SO. McKinley Street.
Contract Surgeon. 0. S. Army
A. > Surgeon, U S. Public Health Sere
(Marine Hospital)
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DR. H. COCKERILLE
SKSSSJL'SrS1
DENTIST
In Valdez Since 1808
PHONE 110
Office Booms In Whaling Building
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
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attorrbys-at-law
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
GUi*ei Fitted I^iMf Ground
LOVE & MEALS
Insurance
Fire-Surety Bonds-Life
VALDEZ HOSPITAL ]
Private Rooms
Taras Reasonable
■>«*• savnuu*. n. c.. m. b.
Jo*. A. dilveraaa Pk.G.M. D.
physician and surgeon
! OSci hssn—l U 4 p. m -7 ti t p. a.
Sunday by Appolntmaat
Rea. Tel. 176 Office TeL It
| Beyle Black Vaktaa
Arctic Hotel
All Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths In Connection
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Regular CommaaleaUaaa first Wed
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F. M. BROWN. W. 1C.
MB WOOD. Secretary.