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VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone it THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Air yon want all tn« new* all the
time read the Dally Prospector.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - • • Proprietor.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Wei tern Federation of Minora
H. M. CARTER, Preiident.
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Vajdea, Alailta,
akAAAAld OVER 66 YEARS’
EXPERIENCE
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Trade Marks
Designs
rrm’’ Copyrights Ac.
Anyone lending a iketch and description may
qulokly aioertnln ohr opinion Dree whether an
Invention ll probably patentable. Communica
tion! strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patent*
■ent free. Oldest egency for securing patents.
Patent* taken through Hunn A Co. receive
•pedal nodes, without charge. In the
Scientific American.
Ahiy«WBelylltotn^AW|e^g.
Jeff Devlnney left this morning for
the Three In One properly to do some
development work.
H. Bush left for the Three In One
property this morning.
Blooded Dogs ror Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
ing unsurpassed. Fine bead, ear, eye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. if
Notice of Special Meeting of .the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders ot
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in *he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of tne
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing the company to amend Its
articles of incorporation, so that Its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that It may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that It may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1915, and end- J
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
Directors.
It l« an UnprwaM* TWiry, aa It It
Based Upon tha Unknown.
Ju answer to the following Interest
ing question. "1 understand that a
crawling insect knows only two dimen
sions, length and breadth, all lines be
ing horizontal to It and that it cannot
conceive of a perpendicular; do 1 un
derstand correctly that the fourth di
mension is to us as the third is to the
insect?" Edgar I.ucien Larkin in the
New York American says:
“We do not know the mind of the in
sect and cannot decide whether the
third dimension is known to it. And
the fourth dimension is not surely
known to man.
“To be known geometrically a
straight line must be drawn perpen
dicularly to three others mutually per
pendicular—that Is, a perpendicular
must be constructed to all three sides
of a cube. But this is Impossible to
the geometer.
"Mind as now phasing in man does
not know what anything is. Then it
does not know what space is. although
space is supposed not to be a thing.
Yet we say space includes all things.
If we know nothing about space we do
not know, therefore, whether it is
curved or not. But the fourth dimen
sion is a transcendental concept based
on the curious theory that space has
curvature, all of which is unknown
and not proved."
MONEY VALUE OF SMOKE.
Over Half the Heat Energy of Coal
Goes Up the Chimney.
To the engineer the smoke rolling
and billowing out of the power house
chimney is just like so many dollars
taking wings from the company's
strong box. The smoke escaping from
a steam plant is composed of nearly
(10 per cent of the heat energy of the
coal which is being burned.
This energy is lost in the tiny parti
cles of coal and carbon which escape
up the chimney in the various gases
which are freed before they are burn
ed in the heated air and in various
other ways. So. for every $10 spent
for coal $0.50 is lost up the chimney.
Assuming that the energy of coal is
100 per cent, only 2 per cent of this
is available in the form of light when
you snap on the electric lamps. Nearly
99 per cent of the original coal energy
is lost in transmitting this energy into
heat, from heat to steam, from steam (
to electricity and in transmitting the
electricity to your home.
The efficiency of the electric lamp is
only 5 per cent—in other words, the
lamp turns Into light 5 per cent of the
energy it receives nnd wastes 95 per
cent of it in useless heat.—New York
World. _
Poetry and Poverty.
Writing of Poets' Corner. W. J. Lof
tie, in “Westminster Abbey," com
ments on the frequent and pathetic al
liance between poetry and poverty.
The first of the poets laid here, Chau
cer— who dwelt in a house in the mon
astery garden known as “The Itose”—
“fell into poverty In Ids old age."
Spenser, according to Drummond of
Hawthorndcn. "died for lake of
bread" in King’s street. Westminster.
Ben Jonsou “died in great poverty” in
a house on tile north side of tile abbey,
near St. Margaret’s. Drydou is anoth
er immortal to whom the same fate at
taches; also Butler of “tludibrns"
fame. Chaucer's house was demolish
ed to make way for Henry VII.'s
chapel. His gray marble tomb dates
only from 1555. Though so.late in erec
tion. it is good to recall that the tomb
was the gift of a brother poet iu hap
pier material circumstances. Nicholas
Brigham.
“We, the People of England.”
Every one Lists heard of "the three
tailors of Tooley street.” hut it is not
generally known that only two of them
were actually tailors. The three men
were John Grose, tailor. Tooley street;
Thomas Satterly. tailor. Weston street,
aud George Sand ham, grocer, Bermond
sey street. They were accustomed to
meet after business hours at a public
house in Tooley street in Southwark
to drink beer, smoke their pipes, talk
politics aud discuss public affairs. Dur
ing the movement for Catholic emanci
pation. when Canning was prime min
ister, these three worthies determined
to petition parliament on the subject
and they commenced the document
with these words. “We. the people of
England;”—London Express.
Shakespeare's Descendants.
Besides bis first child. Susanna.
Shakespeare’s only other children were
a boy and a girl, twins, born in 1585.
Susanna married a Dr. Hall, a Strat
ford physician, in 1007, was left a
widow in 1035 and died In 1640. She
had only one child, a daughter, who.
though twice married, left no children.
Of the twins, the boy. named Hamnet.
died at the age of eleven, and the girl,
Judith, married Thomas Quincy and
had three sons, who all died childless.
This Is a Fact.
"When a man loves a girl in a novel
■fee raves about her through forty chap
ters In real life he never mentions
her name."
“Wlmt’s the application?”
“Merely that realism In a love story
Is not possible."—St. Louts Republic.
Its Kind. *
"Why do you call that piano manu
facturer's business an infant indus
try?”
"Because he manufactures baby
yrand pianos.”—Baltimore American.
Wisdom Is the talent of buying vlr
tnous pleasures at the cheapest rate.—
Fielding.
A Uniform ‘Scheme That Failed and
Ugliness as an Asset.
In 1808 the formation was attempted
In London of a league of housewives
pledged to engage only servants who
would undertake to wear a uniform.
In the preliminary manifesto it was
also proposed to prohibit servants from
wearing "superfluities, such as flowers,
feathers, brooches, buckles or clasps,
earrings, lockets, neck ribbons and vel
vets. kid gloves, sashes, jackets. Gari
baldis. trimmings on dresses, crinolines
or steel of any kind.” On her Sunday
out a servant was to assume "a neat
alpaca dress, linen collars and cuffs,
black apron, black shawl, straw bon
net bound round with ribbons, thread
or cotton gloves, small cotton umbrella
to keep off the sun and rain.” The cos
tume was to be diversified in cold
weather by a linsey dress and a shep
herd’s plaid shawl. This extraordinary
scheme found very few supporters and
had to be abandoned.
Some bygone housewives appear to
have regarded ugliness as a quality to
be desired in their servants. When
Eliza Coke, daughter of Coke of Nor
folk, was about to marry she wrJfe to
her prospective mother-in-law: "Cray
have the goodness to decide as you
think best about the pretty housemaid.
I wish she were less pretty and less
fond of dress, but if her conduct and
principles are good neither are really
objectionable faults. I think our es
tablishment will be a pattern of moral
ity, particularly if Mr. Stanhope en
gages tile squinting butler and the ter
rible housemaid lie mentioned to me.”
—Chicago News.
VERY ANCIENT ART.
Rude Paintings That Date Back to
Prehistoric Times.
Remains of prehistoric man which
are occasionally discovered seem to
prove that there was a knowledge of
art even in the earliest times. A Span
ish nobleman, Marcellino de Sautuola.
was industrially digging in a cave on
his estate in search of prehistoric stone
implements and bones, while his little
daughter, who accompanied him. oc
cupied herself in play.
She happened to look up at the vault
ed ceiling overhead, and began to
shout, “Toros! Toros!” in such excite
ment that her father paused to investi
gate. Immediately he forgot his search
for stone implements. The little girl
had discovered some very remarkable
prehistoric paintings. '
The paintings were of the bison,
which the little girl mistook for bulls,
or toros. The colors were red, black
and gray. The technique of tlie draw
ings and the proportions of the figures
were really good and the positions
were very lifelike.
In the cavern of Font de tiuume.
France, paintings of mammoths, bison
and other animals have been found,
and most of them show a considerable
degree of skill. In the great caverns
of Niaux. near Tarnscon. France, half
a mile from the entrance, the smooth
polished walls are covered witli outline
drawings of animals, drawn in oxide
manganese mingled with grease, which
gives permanent lithographic effect on
the smooth limestone.
"Rats" and Royalty.
In "Random Recollections.” by I;
On ton Woodviile. is a story in which
King George (when Duke of York) fig
ures. The duke was examining a now
Mauser rifle of the latest pattern -the
type then purchased by Kruger- which
had been presented to Mr. Woodviile:
“l showed him the ritle and its uiech
aiiism and expressed an opinion that it
was superior to the l.ee-.Mel ford and
I,ee-Fnheld rifles. 1 had a very talk
ative parrot which did not always
use polite language. The duke exam
ined the two rifles carefully and at last
expressed an opinion that lie thought
our rifle better, or, at any rate, as good,
when a voice came from behind his
back with the rude remark, ‘Rats!’ It
was my parrot. The duke wheeled
round. ‘Who said that?’ he asked, and
the bird again repeated, ‘Rats, rats!’ ”
A Frontier of Peace.
With its row of crumbling forts and
musty guns the frontier between Can
ada and the United States stands as
an object lesson to all nations. While
it is the longest, it IS the safest and
surest frontier in the world. Three
thousand miles and more of it lie be
tween Passamaquoddy bay and Puget
sound, and In all that distance not a
shotted gun points menacingly from
either country toward the other. A
few small and comparatively ineffec
tive fishery cruisers guard the water
front, none of which would be of much
use in time of war.—St. John’s Tele
graph.
Not Even Common Sente.
Mrs. Newrich—My husband has a bad
cold. Mrs. Kawler—I understand that
colds are quite common. Mrs. Newrich
—Oh, then please don't mention my
husband's cold to any one. I shouldn’t
want it known around that we have
anything that's common.—Boston Tran
script. _
Theory and Practice.
"I always believe in saving some
thing for n rainy day."
••How much have you saved?”
“Oh, I haven't saved anything, but I
believe in it.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
Mines.
Nine mines in ten the world over
are richer in the first 1.000 feet than
in the second, but few are worth oper
ating below &000 feet.
Light may disclose a Jewel, but It
takes darkness to. disclose a star.—Van
Dyke.
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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 6th 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, 1915, 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. Ames 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 anil
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHRY,
Town Clerk.
Notice of .Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory ol' 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 W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in the above entitled court, liis
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o'clock in the 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 Recordin'}
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found lo
“bac£" 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
vgith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
ckfllar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
If you want all the hwi all Mia
Ulna, read the Pres pec tar.