Women’s Sweaters
Smart Styles.
Just unpacked—-a shipment of nifty, new
styles in women’s sweaters. Scarcely any
two are alike so that you are assured
individuality in style. Be sure and see them
Jersey coat style ,solid color, white
trimming with tassel sash, colors, Kelly
and white, royal blue and white. Sizes
40 and 42. Price $7.50.
Middy style Jersey, front and side
lace. Colors, Kelly—White, Royal-White
Rose-White, Gold-White. Size 36, 38,
40, 42. Price $5.00.
Fancy Jersey Sweater Coats,1 j(all wool
jersey, half belt back in solid colors
with white collar and {trimmings of
white, brush finish. Colors]{Copenhagen .S
White, Kelly—White. Size 38 and 40
Price $9.00.
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This Day in History.
Feast Day of St. Abraham, Hermit
of Mesopotamia and his niece St. Mary
St. Zacvhary, Pope.
Julius Caesar assassinated in 44 B.
C.
Columbus returned to Spain in
1493.
Haverhill, Mass., attacked by In
dians in 1693.
France declared war against Great
Britain in 1774.
Andrew Jackson, president of the
United States born in 1767.
Battle of Guilford Court House in
1781.
Maine admitted to the Union in
1820. *;
Fightfftg behind barricades in Ber
lin in ljtyl.
Insurrection in Paris in 1871.
Bishop McCloskey made the ilrst
American cardinal in 1879.
Seven hundred Socialists expelled
from Vienna in 1884.
Great hurricane in Sumoa began
in 1889.
Bland coinage bill passed tin Sen
ate in 1894.
Rein of terror 'l. lfayti in 190'<
YEGGS CUT WIRES, ' I
ROB P. O. OF $800 i
CHICO, Calif., March 15.—After
cutting every telephone and tele
graph wire leading out of town,
yeggmen early this morning broke
open the safe in the postoffice at
Paradise, east of Chico, and got away
with $400 in cash, and more than >
$300 worth of stamps.
All of the latest Books, Magazines
and News Papers received on each
boat. Valdez Drug Co. tf
A full and complete line of Cigars,
Cigarettes, Smoking Tobacco and
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
SANTA MONICA BARS
DANCING IN CAFES |
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| SANTA MONICA, March 15.—An
• ordinance prohibiting public dancing
in places where liquor is served was
adopted today by unanimous vote of
the city commissioners. It becomes
effective in 30 days. Three large
cafes are effected by the measure.
READING HISTORY.
The On* Wey to Acquire a Real Knowl
edge of the World.
Henry James owe told me that the
only reading of which he never tired
was history. “The least significant
footnote of history,” he said, “stirs me
more than the most thrilling and pas
slonate fiction. Nothing that has ever
happened to the world finds me indif
ferent.”
I used to think that ignorance of his
tory meunt only a lack of cultivation
and a loss of pleasure. Now I am sure
tbut such ignorance impairs our judg
ment by Impairing our understanding,
by depriving us of standards, of the
power to contrast und the right to esti
mate. We can know nothing of any
uation unless we know its history, and
we can know nothing of the history of
any nation unless we know something
of the history of all nations.
The book of the world is full of
knowledge we need to acquire, of les
sons we need to learn, of wisdom wo
need to assimilate. Consider only this
brief sentence of Polybius, quoted by
Plutarch, “In Carthage no one is blam
ed however he may have guined his
Wealth.” A pleasunt place, no doubt,
for business enterprise, a place where
young men were taught how to get on
and extravagance kept pace with
shrewd finance; a self satisfied, self
confident, money getting, money loving
people, honoring success and hugging
its fancied security, while in farofT
Rome Cato pronounced its doom.—
Agnes Reppller in Atlantic Monthly.
THE SCARLET TANAGER.
H* Wears His Gaudy Fireman’s Suit
Only In the Summer.
The country folk call the scarlet tun
user the firebird. His feathers set the
woods on fire. Reversing the figure,
the firebird puts out the torch of the
sumac and pales the plumage of the
oriole that has come to fly “In tropic
splendor through our northern sky.”
This fanager of ours Is not much of «
songster. He does not have to he. All
lie has to do is “stand on’’ in the show
in order to share applause with the
gold tongued wood thrush and the mel
low noted meadow lark. Sccmlngli
the tanager thinks that his call Is to Ik
preferred to his song, for he calls forty
times where he sings once. The tip of
a tree gives him the best stage setting
for his beauty, and there lie porches,
looks the sun In the eye and clilp
< burs by the hour. His mate Is a
modestly garbed female, who is willing
to attend to home duties while Ilesri
Uniumiel gallivants abroad.
it is only for a season that the tana
ger wears his tireman suit. Nature's
rule that he must change Ids clothe.*
when Septcnilier Is spent may seem
foolish to him. but he obeys to the
feather. In dun and drab lie got'.:
south, where lie tells an unbelieving
and brilliantly plnuiaged company <•*'
tropic birds of the wonder of his sum
mer dress.—Chicago Post.
Tho Day of the Carver.
Carving was once a serious tiling.
Tlie sixteentli century carver was u
professional. lie had to make the
Joint tit. the guest. The size of hi;
slices was the tiling. Then lie had t<>
know his guests and cut accordingly.
A lord, for instance, at the table, air'
a pike was dished up whole. Smaller
fry, and the pike came on in slices.
Tlie same procedure with pig. The
rank of the diners decided whether it
should upiiear at. table ill gold leaf or
naked, whole or sliced. With bread,
too. there was a difference. New or
three days old baked was at the dis
cretion of the carver ns ho sized up the
visitors. And as for the apportioning
of the titbits according to precedence
there was no end. The old time carver,
in fuct,‘ was horn and then made.—
London Standard.
Difficult Feat.
Two hoys stood in front of the en
trance gate of a football field. They
had no money, hut they were deter
mined to outwit the gatekeeper some
how and get In and see the game.
They suggested scheme after scheme
to oue another, and finally the older
boy said:
“I got. It now! We’ll walk in back
ward, and he’ll think we’re cornin’
out.”—Exchange.
Net Catching.
Mrs. Nouveau Rlclie—Willie, I don’t
want to see you play with the Slings
by-Smythe’s dog again. Willie Dltto
Why not. ma? Mrs. N. R.—The dog
is pedigreed, they say, and there’s no
telling when It may have another fit of
them.—New York Hlobe.
His Suspicion Confirmed.
How Interesting the financial columns
In the morning papers can be to the
traveled reader! For Instance, here's n
market report that says “butter w:«.^
strong.” This confirms an Impression
formed at a lwtarding house reeently.
London Ideas.
Feminine Intuition.
"I thought you were going to senn
that hat back. Maude. What induced
you to keep It?”
“Every girl I know was careful to
tell iue, as soon as she saw It on me
how unbecoming It was.”—Baltimore
American.
On the Line.
"You say yon have spent hours ove
a single line?"
"Yes; and sometimes days.”
"Then you're a iM>et?”
“No; I'm an angler.”
Unusual Behavior.
I.errot—You look worried, old chap
Yadllloh —Yes; I'm afraid my wife is
sick. She stayed at home all yester
day afternoon.—Life.
Steamship Sailings
Admiral Farragut—Passed Juneau,
j northbound, March 14.
Admiral Evans—Due here from the
westward tonight.
Alaska—Passed Juneau, northbound.
March 13.
Alameda—Sailed south from Valdez.
March 8.
Admiral Watson—Sailed south from
Valdez March 9.
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DONALDSON SCHEDULE:
Lvs. Fort Liscum Lvs. Valdez
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
TUE8DAYS.
8:15 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
1:15 p.m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAYS.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
I 7:0 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
There will be no trip of the launch
on the second and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used to
clean boilers.
TIDE TABLES EOR MARCH.
—
Compiled for Valdez Bay, by T.»e
I Prospector:
Thursday, March 15—
First High Tide 3:37 a. m., 8.5.
Second High Tide 5:03 p. m„ 6 3.
First Low Tide 10:42 a. m„ 0.5.
Second Low Tide 10:05 p. m., 3.0.
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Daily Weather Report.
March 14, 1917, 7 p. tn.
Barometric pressure .30.011
Temperature .20
Maximum temperature .32
: Minimum temperature .2*t
Mean temperature .28
: Precipitation .01
Snow on ground .29 in.
! Cloudy, calm, light snow.
March 15, 1917, 7 a. m.
Barometric pressure .29.98 7
Temperature .27
Maximum temperature . 27
Minimum temperature .25
Mean temperature . 20
Precipitation . 02
Snow on ground .29 in.
Cloudy, calm, very light snow.
- Myrtle F. Billings, Ohs.
Trail Weather lte|Mtrt.
Valdez, Alaska, March 15, 1917.
Fairbanks—12 above; 20 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm.
Saleha—5 above;' 12 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail good; stage south
4 p. m. yesterday; no passengers;
; stage north 7 a. m. date, four passen
, gers.
Richardson—21 above; 5 inches of
, snow: snowing, calm, trail fair; no
; traffic.
McCarty 18 above: 5 inches snow,
; cloudy, light snow tra.l fair; one dog
j team north 7:30 i. in.
Donnelly-—12 above; 9 inches of
j ,(iw: calm, light snow, trail goo;i. 8
! lum bers north this mottling: north
! mail left Rapids 7: 15 a. m. with 3
i locks and 32 ties
McCallum- -10 above snow; 45 in.
:(>;■ snow; calm, trail fait; stage north!
11 p. ni. yesterday.
Puxson—20 above; 21 inches of i
I snow; calm, cloudy, snowitig, trail j
j goods, 3 mushers north at 7 a. in.
Hogan—18 above; 20 inches of
snow; cloudy, snowing, trail fair;
Cavallo north on relay.
Sourdough—Stage north, 4 pas j
sengers; one freight team north.
Gulkana—16 above; 8 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, snowing trail
good; A. R. R. team south 8 p. m.
Copper Center—16 above; 10 in.
snow; cloudy, calm, light snow, trail
good no traffic.
Tonsina—18 above; snow 12 in.
cloudy, light snow, calm, trail good.
Loder north 8 a. m.
Teikhell—18 above, 32 inches of
snew, cloudy, north wind, snowing,
trail good.
Beaver Dam—9 above, 46 inches of
snow, snowing, north wind, trail
good.
Thompson Pass— 9 above, snow 90
inches, snowing, calm, trail drifted.
WARM WEATHER PREVAILS
FROM COAST TO FAIRBANKS
Warm snowy weather is reported
from all stations between Valdez and j
Fairbanks this morning. Five de
grees above zero at Saleha is the
lowest temperature reported, the re
mainder of the stations reporting
from 9 t o22 above. Richardson and
all stations this side report snow fall
ing. The local weather report shows
but little change, the minimum being
25 above zero and the maximum 27
above.
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“DRY” AMENDMENT FOR
THE WYOMING VOTERS
CHEYENEE. Wyo., March 15.—
The legislature of Wyoming has pass
ed an act providing for the submis-1
sion of a State-wide prohibition I
amendment to the vote of the people j
of the State. Impressive ceremonies!
—the first ever held in Wyoming—|
were held in connection with the j
signing of the bill by the Governor.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Resources over $300,000.
Drafts sold on all Foreign Countries.
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Wells Fargo Travellers checks tor sale
Safe Deposit Boxes For Rent.
DEPOSITARY FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
ANO POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.
ALASKA INVESTMENT CO. i
| Real Estate, Insurance, Mining Stocks
► A*t*. for EQUITABLE Life Ins. \
\ Public! Rad Bids. Pb«M 196 <
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Only the best manufacturers are repre
sented in our stock. All electrical
supplies we sell are guaranteed
products.
Make your electrical purchases here
and have the assurance of absolute
satisfaction and quality.
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Tele. Co.
That Wyoming will adopt the con
stitutional amendment to rid itself
of the liquor traffic is held to be
certain by men and women close to
the issue. The bill provides that the
people of Wyoming will vote on a
constitutional amendment at the gen
eral election in November, 1918.
This amendment provides that the
State go “dry” on Jan 1, 1920. The
amendment prohibits the manufact
ure and handling of intoxicating li
quor for all purposes save for relig
ious purposes. It does not prohibit
its importation into the state.
GAVE HIH WIFE TO
A FORMER FRIEND
NEW YORK, March 15.—William
Van Loan told a jury he gave his
beautiful wife, Louise, to Charles W.
Saacks, when he found them together
in an apartment.
Van Loan climbed through a win
dow to get the evidence, and said
he and two friends were slapped by
his wife when one of them stepped on
Saack's cigarette case. Saacks form
erly was a good friend to the Van
Loans.
Van Loan said his wife told him
she loved Saacks and agreed to bo
the gift, but hasn’t been accepted be
cause Saack's wife has interfered by
refusing to get a divorce. Van Loan
got his divorce.
Mrs. Van Loan, attired in her bath
robe, consented to the gift, according
to the testimony, announced that she
would marry ‘‘Charley Dear" as she
referred to Saacks, and then slapped
the faces of her husband and two of
his friends who accompanied him ou
the raid. Before the party left Mrs.
Van Loan called a policeman and
threatened to have the trio arrested
for stepping on Saack‘8 cigarette
case, which had fallen from his
trousers pocket. The policeman, who
also testified, refused to interfere and
the party left the house.
Saacks is a former associate of F.
Augustus Heinze and now vice presi
dent of the Stewart Mining Company
of 61 Broadway.
Potted Plants in bloom at the Pure
Food Show and Carnival at Moose
Hall next Tuesday. It
U. 8. HOLDS CHANDLER
IN NAVY FOOD SCANDAL
EUREKA, Calif., March 15.—El
dred H. Connick, manager of a local
market was arrested here today on a
charge of conspiring to defraud the
government in connection with the
buying and sale of provisions to the
U. S. monitor Cheyenne. Connick
was bound over to the federal grand
jury at San Francisco and released
on $1,000 bail pending the jury jury
action.
VV. M. Ketels, chief commissary
steward of the Cheyenne, now in jail
here, was arrested on a similar charge
arising out of the same alleged con
spiracy.