i Exceptional
Values
We are making some extraordinary low prices
on broken size and odd lot merchandise; such
as Men’s Six and Eight Dollar Sweater Coats
at $1.50; Three Fifty to Five Dollar Sweaters
at $1.00; Men’s Dollar Leather Mitts at 50c.;
Men’s Two Fifty Underwear at $1.50; also
many other excellent values. A visit to this
store will convince you.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National Univer*it*
Washington, D. C.
rto.no DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
f
Ufflce rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p^ai.. 7 P. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 89
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 «nd7 t*9p. m.
DONOHOE & D1MOND
attorneys-at-law
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
JCuril Engineer end'
U. S. Deputy Lend end
Mineral Surveyor
Blueprinting Velde*, Aleak*.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER. PmUmL
IGranite Mine.
(MAS. MeCALLUM. Secretary,
VaMca, Alaaka.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Or the Candy Kids.
“So the political warriors in the wo
man suffrage places load up on caramel
for their constituents instead of cigars,
do they?”
"Yes; those political warriors are
chocolate soldiers, so to speak.*’—Phil
adelphia Press.
A nice line of art pictures Just re
ceived from New York at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
THE READING TAGLE
There is no light that makes night
reading so easy ai does Electricity. An
Elecjpic portable is a sourco of ploasuro
in evory home—as well as a means of
health. Tho entire body suffers if tho
eyes becomo affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an E.ectric Poroabis
and read in comfort and peace.
i
Alaska Water, light Telephone & Company
FIWDTNB TffE RANGE AT SEA.
How Warahipo Bring Thoir Guns to
Bear Upon the Enemy.
One of the most Important instru
ments used on a warship is the range
finder, for without this Instrument it
is practlcaly impossible to aim the
guns accurately without first incurring
a serious delay in getting the range
by trial shotB.
Range finders nil work on much the
same principle, Images of the ship or
other object sighted on being received
through the two object glasses, one
located near each end and on the side
of the tube, being reflected and refract
ed by a system of mirrors and prisms
so that both are brought to the eye of
the observer, who looks through the
eyepiece located at the middle of the
tube and on the opposite from the ob
ject glasses.
The right hand object glass transmits
only the upper halt of the object sight
ed on and the left hand object glass
the lower half. When sighting on a
ship, for example, the rigging and fun
nels will appear to be offset horizon
tally from the lower part of the ship,
so long as the Instrument is not set !
for the correct range. The Images are
then brought together by a thumb
screw that moves one of the prisms,
and this sets a scale that shows the
distance in yards to the ship.—Pear
son's Weekly.
HE WAS “A LITTLE QUEER.”
His Eccentricity In the End Proved His
Own Undoing.
Itev. Mr. Iliigamore, to whose mem
ory Is a slab In the church at Cats
hoge, Leicestershire, England, was “a
little queer." It seems that the rev
erend gentleman died in January, 1880.
leaving all of his property, valued at
$3,500, to a railroad porter.
Tills queer old preacher kept one
servant of each sex, whom he locked
up every night. His last employment
of an evening was to go the rounds of
his premises, let loose the dogs and
fire off his gun.
He lost his life In a curious manner.
Starting out early one morning to let
out his servants, the dogs fawned upon
him and threw him into a pond of wa
ter. The servants heard his cries, but.
being locked up, could not render as
sistance, so the old man was. drowned.
When the inventory of his property
was taken, he was found to be the
owner of 80 gowns, 100 pairs of trou
sers, 100 pairs of boots, 400 pairs of
shoes, 80 wigs (althongh he had plenty
of natural hair), 50 dogs, 96 wagons
and carts, 30 wheelbarrows, 249 razors.
80 plows, 50 saddles and 222 pickaxes
and shovels. He surely was “a little
queer.’—London Standard.
Merely Point of View.
It was about 3 o’clock, and the fad
ing light In the art gallery of the Pub
lic library was beginning to bother the
painter woman who faced the sunset
canvas with lumpy palette impaled on
one thumb and paint brush held hesi
tatingly in the other hand, while she
scrutinized again the intricate blend
ing of sunset colors and hacked away
a few steps farther to squint at the
perspective of the old whaler she was
copying as it lurched in painted waves.
Details of color blending, of light anil
shade, of form after the fasbiou of a
painter’s sensitive appreciation, nil
doubtedly filled her mind.
Then came thumping along the pol
ished door two other women. They
stood for a moment in silence in from
of the sunset picture. One of them
wised a thick, beringed hand and rub
bed the canvas with a slow, feeling
rub.
"Ain’t it grand. Nellie?" she said
“An' ult hand painted too.”—New York
Post.
An Old Larch Tree.
Italy can boast of a larch tree the
age of which is estimated to be 2.000
years. It Is situated on the northern
dank of Mont Chetip in the direction
of the huts of Plan Vent, above Cour
mayeur, a few steps from the footpath
that skirts the limits of the meadow
land. Due allowance being made for
the extreme slowness with which the
larch grows, for the altitude above sea
level (1,600 meters) at which it Is root
ed and for its northerly exposure In
the near neighborhood of the glacier,
where the cycle of Its development Is
barely dve months every year, this
venerable larch, untouched alike by
woodman’s ax and thunderbolt, cannot
be less than 2,000 years old.—Scots
man.
Wagner to the Musicians.
Wagner's little admonition to the mu
sicians was most characteristic and
worthy to be noted by many an orches
tra of this day. “Gentlemen,” he said.
“1 beg of you not to take my fortissi
mo too seriously. Where you see 'IT
make an 'fp' of it. and for piano play
pianissimo. Remember how many of
you there are down there against the
one poor single human throat up here
alone on the stage.”—Neumann’s “Per
sonal Recollections.”
Mean Brute.
“It Is strange that there are no worn
en on the bench of the United States
supreme court.” remarked Mrs. Gabt
as she looked up from her paper.
“It Is strange,” agreed Mr. Gabb.
“That court always has the last word."
-Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Great Gift
“They say she Is splendid In amateur
theatricals.”
“She's a wonder. She can make the
moat painful tragedy a source of gen
uine amusement”—Life.
Bees that hare honor In their mouths
have stings in their tails.—Scottish
Prorerb,
LONDON’S SLUM BABIES.
Gutter Children That Thrive Where
They Court Death.
London gutter babies are immune to
ordinary diseases and thrive under con
dition!* that would be death to other
children, said Dr. Thomas, health of
flcer of the Finsbury district. Dr.
Thomas works in the most congested
of the London tairoughs, where 6,000
families live and sleep in 0,000 rooms.
“Some of these babies,” be says, “as
soon or even before they are able to
crawl, are placed on the sidewalks
early In the day, to be watched or
nursed by a girl of four or five years.
They are true gutter children. Some
times the immature nurse falls aitaep,
wearied by her task, and the baby
crawls to the other side of the road,
heedless of traffic. Both are filthy
und gutter stained, but they aeem to
live. In fact, the stock from which
they have sprung rises superior to the
ordinary diseases of childhood.” Among
the cases reported are these:
A baby four months old was given a
piece of raw fat and bacon to chew,
because the grandmother said bacon
was good for babies and canaries.
One baby was dosed with stout and
aniseed by the mother as a cure for
colic.
| Another baby ot nine weeks was fed
chiefly on weak tea.
Dr. Thomas complains of the Sal
rey Gamps, who act as nurses In the
district, undoing the work of the doc
tors in many cases. He says their ar
rogance is equaled only by their Ig
norance.—New York Tribune.
THE HOUSE OF THREES.
Curious Architecture of England’s
Most Peculiar Building.
The most peculiar house in the Unit
ed Kingdom Is probably the triangular
one at Rusbtou. in Northamptonshire.
Its design Is supposed to typify the
trinity.
This singular building has three sto
ries, and each story has three win
dows on each of the three sides, while
each of the windows in two of the
three stories is in the shape of a tre
foil—the three leaved shamrock. In
each of the other windows there are
twelve panes, arranged in three fours,
and the panes throughout are trian
gular.
Three gables rise on each side and
from the center, where their roofs
meet, a three sided chimney surmount
ed by a triangular pyramid terminates
In a large trefoil. The smoke issues
from three round holes on each of the
three sides of the chimney.
Three Latin inscriptions, one on each
side of the house, have each thirty
letters, while over the door there is
another Latin Inscription of three
words, the English of which is, “There
are three that bear record,” and on
each side are the carved figures of
three angels bearing shields.
Inside the boujtt each floor contains
three thrco-sided apartments. The
length of each of the walls by outside
measurement is thirty-three feet four
Inches—that is. exactly thirty-three
and one-third feet.—Loudon Telegraph
The Chair of Torture.
The most prominent building In the
ancient city of Nuremburg is the e:is
tie. One of its two towers was used
for torture; the other served as a prison
The castle also contained a museum of
horrors until it was purchased by the
Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, in
whose possession these relics now lie
One of these was the chair of torture
It was very heavily made and studded
over the seat and at the elbows with
blunt topped spikes. To it the victim
wits tightly bound, and in a short time
discomfort began to manifest itself and
in time became unbearable. During
its continuance the torture was increas
ed in several ways by means of wedges
being passed between the legs and
screws being applied to the thumbs
until they began to bleed
A Joint Concern.
When Richard Brinsley Sheridan
was In distress, in early life, one of bis
resources was that of writing for the
fugitive publications of the day, in
which be was materially assisted by
bis wife, and many years after his
entrance into the spheres of politics he
was beard to say that "if he had stuck
to the law he believed he should have
done as much as bis friend Tom
Ersklne; but.” continued he. “1 had
no time, for such studies. Mrs. Sheri
dan and myself were often obliged to
keep writing for our daily leg or shoul
der of mntton; otherwise we should
have had no dinner.” One of bis
friends, to whom he confessed this,
wittily replied, “Then 1 perceive it was
a ‘Joint’ concern.”
Triumph of Womanly Nature.
A budding novelist who knew bow
to depart from the hackneyed way of
potting things sent to a Boston editor
a novel containing the following:
“When she heard of the marriage of
her false lover to her hated rival she
at first bnwled bitterly, but her wo
manly nature soon asserted Itself, and
she began a desperate flirtation with
another man."—New York Post
Impossible.
. "Walter, has my friend Miller been
here?"
"Mlllfir— Miller! Ob, yes, the gentle
man has Just paid bis bill and gone
out"
"Paid bis bill! Then It wasn't he.’’
Man Lacht
Whore the Appeal Comes.
Mrs. Muggins—Does your husband
appeal to you ae a vocalist! Mra. Bug
glue—Not exactly. In tact Ifa the oth
er way. When be begins to alng I ap
peal to him.—Philadelphia Record.
Dougherty
Ferguson
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Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez. Alaska, on the 'itli day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Copper
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, lSl5, between the hours
of 2 and 4 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 26th
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. Arnes 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 \V. T.
Scott, tlie administrator of the estate
of 1. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and til
ed in the above entitled court, liis
iinal account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
tlie 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o'clock in tlie afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, tbo
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 Itecording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 21,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
w,ith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
It you want all Ae uawa aD Ae
tine, read Ae rroagaaw.