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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, I»l«
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LAUNCH LOST WAY WHILE
CROSSING BAY IN FOG.
While coming across the bay last
night with Dr. Duckwall, the Post
physician, as a passenger, the launch
Eagle missed her way in the dense
{qg and had a difficult time in mak
ing a landing. Persons who were on
the waterfront heard calls coming
through the fog for a rowboat, and
realizing that someone was in trou
ble Wm. Finical, Henry Suessdorf,
George Waldron and others Immedi
ately got busy. The tog made it dif
ficult to tell from which direction the
calls were coining and two row boats
went to the rescue. The launch was
finally located near Swanitzville, hav
ing drifted past the dock without the
passengers on the Eagle being able to
see the lights. After the boats had1
located the launch considerable diffi
culty was experienced by them in
finding their way back to the dock
and all might have spent the night on
the bay had not the big fog horn on
the dock guided them in to the wharf.
MANY MADE HOMELESS
WHEN TENEMENTS BURN.
PASSAIC, N. J-, Feb. 25.—Two
hundred and forty people were ren
dered homeless when a row of tene
ment houses burned here yesterday
afternoon. The property loss is esti
mated at three million dollars. The
burned buildings are in the oldest
part of the city and were occupied by
the families of laborers who suffer
keenly from the loss of their house
hold effects.
BIG GOLD DREDGE WORKS
AT SIXTY BELOW ZERO
The spectacle of a ponderous goia
dredge, a perfect dreaduaught of the
Arctic, churning incessantly in icy
waters and turning up daily and
washing perfectly thousands of cubic
yards of auriferous gravels, may be
Been in the Klondike valley, seven
miles from Dawson, by those who
care to take a little journey that for
today. The big machine is the Cana
dian Klondike Company’s mammoth
dredge No. 2, the largest in the
world.
The dredge has ben working with
out interruption since repairs on her
were completed and she started up
last fall. During the last four days
the big ship has been submitted to
the severest test respecting tempera
ture ever recorded in the history of
the world. During these four days
the thermdfheter at the dredge has
registered 56 to 66 below zero, Fah
renheit. During that period no more
time has been lost than on ordinary
day3. The remarkable preformance
of No. 2 In this instance no doubt
will be a matter of great interest to
dredge men the world over, and
should be a great encouragement to
others who look on the north as a
possible field of exploitation.—Daw
soh News.
Capital and Labor Dine Together.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 25.—
Seveh inembers of President Wilson’s
cabinet and four prominent union la
bor leaders launched together last
night and there is considerable spec
ulation as to the subjects which were
tinder discussion at the dinner.
.WANTED:—Work by hour or day.
Phons 133. Mary Nixon. Arctic Ho
tel 3t
--THE
EMPRESS
TO-NIGHT
Only One Show at 8:00 Sharp
PROGRAM
WITH NUDGES BURNED)
Three-Act Drama Adapted
from Rex Beach's Story, feat-,
uring Augustas Phillips and
Mabel Trunnelle.
GEORGE ADR FABLE COM
EDY—The Reform Wave
, Change Pictures Sunday.
Admission 25c and 10c.
SAY BEST COAL IN NORTH
IS RIGHT AT NOME’S DOOR.
The Nome Industrial Worker says
that a deposit of coal is being devel
oped at Cape Lisburne by Chas. Mc
Intosh who claims that there is no
better coal in Alaska. The extent of
the coal fields has not been deter
mined but they are said to extend in
land in outcroppings for forty miles,
and every bit of it is high grade. The
seams are. said to be in place and not
broken with repeated faults as is the
cause in the Bering river fields. An
alysis has shown that the coal is an
thracite, semi-anthracite, bituminous
and semi-bituminous. It is claimed
that coal from the Cape Lisburne
fields have been used by whalers for
fifty years and the mariners often as
serted that there was no, better any
where. Hard coal is $33 per ton
at Nome.
LOCAL BRBVITTE8.
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Panoramic views of Child’s and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrangel on sale at the Valdez Drug
store tf
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron,
Tailor. ' tf
For Sale.
Launch 3-M, 57*12x3.6. Make us
an offer. T. J. Morris, by D. E. Mor
ris, Agent. Call Prospector office, tf
Furnished rooms at Mrs. <island’s
Prices reasonable. *
James Fish, local agent of the New
York Life Insurance company, who
made the trip to Latouche in the in
terests of his company, returned to
Valdez on the Alameda. He reports
great activity at the mining town and
says that sleeping quarters are at a
premium.
John Barrett, traveling agent of
the New York Life Insurance com
pany, passed through on the steamer
Alameda en route to Seattle. He will
return to Alaska next spring and will
make an extended trip through the
intetior.
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A big shipment of DuPont dyna
mite, which arrived on the freighter
Latouche this morning*for S. Blum &
Co., was immediately taken to the
powder house out on the road to the
interior.
P. J. Bonner, who is developing a
copper property at Bay of Islea,
Knight’s island, came up the bay yes
terday afternoon in the launch Ka
talla Queen. He reports that good
progress is being made in drifting on
the crosscut tunnels since a pump has
beer installed to handle the water.
The steamer Admiral Evans, Of
the Admiral Line, passed Juneau at
noon yesterday en route to Yakutat,
Katalla and Cordova before coming
to Valdez. It is believed* that she will
reach Valdez sometime Saturday
evening.
H. J. Harvey was the holder of
ticket No. 57 which won the lot raf
fled by F. C. Morgan. Mr. Harvey
disposed of his ticket for $20 without
even going to look at the property
which is located in the western end
of town near the dike.
Geo. Waldron left on the launch
Reliance this morning for Irish Cove
where he will be employed on the
work of building the wharf for the
Dicltey-Alaska Mining company.
The launch Eagle left for Shoup
bay this morning with a big load of
supplies for the Sea Coast Mining
company. •
The Moose will give their regular
Saturday evening dance tomorrow
evening.
Postmaster Jefferson has received
instructions from the Postal depart
ment in Washington requiring that
all parcels be mailed during the reg
ular office hours. The reason for the
order is that several parcels have
been placed In the office upon which
insufficient postage was placed, re
sulting In the parcels being held here.
In several cases the parcels bear no
return address and those dropping
them into the postoffice cannot be
notified of their non-delivery.
When the freighter Latouche ar
rived In Valdez this morning she was
in command of Captain Jensen, who
is making his first trip after a two
months honeymoon trip which took
him and his bride to St. Louis, Chi
cago, and the Pacific Coast cities.
Hotpoint Electric Heaters, Cookers
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
Emery Valentine, several times
mayor of the city of Juneau, has de
cided to let the younger men man
age the affairs of the city and has
declined to run for mayor at the com
ing municipal election.
-■A '
j'tL if
KEEPING YOUNG.
Old Ag» la Not by Any Moana Maraly
a Matter of Yeara.
There la no scientific evidence to
abow llmt late youth and middle age
are the periods of commencing decrep
itude and "old age,” Man grows old
because he is injured; because his body
cells are poisoned, and not because be
has lived just so many years. There Is
uo relentless law determining when a
man shall grow old. The tradition
"three score years and ten” is condi
tioned mainly on the manner of living
and not by any natural law. But man
has it in bis power to modify these
conditions either for better or worse.
Probably a greater luxury of living
which is not balanced by proper phys
ical exercises Is a primary condition to
be reckoned with. But (emperunce ail
(tlong the line—in eating, drinking,
working, playing and even in resting—
has been suggested as a wiser prin
ciple to hold to. This avoids the pos
sibility of rusting out on the one hand
or of wearing out on the other.
Yet there is another way and a more
worthy reason for retaining youth and
deferring old age—cultivate health for
the love and pleasure of it- The
monthly letter of the' Ufe intension
institute says of this suggestion: "It is
not a fear of illness or of death that we j
should encourage, but a love of health, :
a sense of responsibility for the care i
of our Ijodlcs, n desire for bodily en- j
durance and efficiency and full achieve
ment. if the mind is fixed on these !
Ideals und the already known means of j
approaching them are utilized, heart
disease, kidney trouble! and the need- !
less miseries that a-mbitler the lives of ;
so many may be left to take care of i
themselves, it is not so much neces- j
snry to fight disease as to cultivate '
health for the happiness, contentment
and moral gain that it brings.”
AGE OF THE EARTH.
Different System* of Computing It and
Their Varying Figures.
As long ngo as 1800 John Phillips,
the geologist, estimated that the time !
required for file deposition of the >
stratified rocks lay between 38.000,000 |
and '.Mi.OOO.OOO years. This was prob .
ably the only estimate prior to Kel j
t in's epoch making paper of 1803. :
Since that time ninny estimates have i
lieen made, varying all the way from j
17.000.000 years to 100.000.000 years.
Kelvin was tin* first to discuss the j
age of the earth considered as a cool- i
ing Irndy. In 18113 Clarence King in
troduced i he Important criterion of ■
lidal stability and reached the conclu
sion thai 34,000.000 represented the
conditions. This result was adopted
by Kelvin In 1897. and I hen lie placed
the limits as 3rt.90.OOo and lO.rtno.ooo
rears
tjmy JSli tieorge i»arwm nn-i iii>rnr>o
ihI the age of the earth from a purely
astronomical point, of view. From Ilia
theory of the earth moon system he
derived an estimate of more ilian VI.
(Mjn.OOO years, which for a long time
stood between groups of higher and
lower figures. .1. Joley was the first to
base estimates of the age of the earth
in 1899 on the sod klip contained in the
(Mean Adopting the hypothesis that
the sodium content of the ocean is de
rived at a constant rate from that of
i lie rocks, he arrived at an age of 80.
000.000 or 90.000,000 years and increas
ed this by 10.000.900 in 1900. in 1909
Mr Sollas made a searching inquiry
into this subject and placed the age of
the ocean at between 8O.00O.O00 aud
150,000,000 years.
The Seme of Taste.
Scientists say that the flavor of food
and drink does not come to us through
the sense of taste. The latter can only
ftirnisb sensations corresponding to the
chemical composition of substances
taken Into the mouth Although al
most infinite in their variations, these
sensations are few in number, compris
ing sweetness, bitterness, saltiness and
sourness, with their numerous degrees
of intensity.
The distinctive flavors of food do not
come from chemical action and are
therefore not perceived by the sense
of taste, but by the olfactory nerve by
which the sensation is transmitted to
the brain.
This explains why one's food does
not taste "right'’ when he is suffering
from a eold.
Two of a Kind.
A lady selected some purchases In a
store, asking that they be kept for her
until the uext day. When she returned
she could not remember who waited ou
her After puzzling over the matter,
she approached one and asked;
“Am 1 the woman who bought some
embroidery here yesterday?"
"Yes'in." replied the girl, stolidly,
and turned to get it.—Christian Regis
ter.
3imply Couldn’t.
"Now, son,” said the lawyer, "you
were guilty of various mlsdemeanon
today and must be taken to task.’’
"I apply for a stay of proceedings,
pop. and a change of venue to ma."
And how could a good lawyer refuse
such a request? — Louisville Courier
Journal
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Envious,
Bowell—I’m engaged to Mlsa Rowell.
Congratulate me. old man. Powell—I
would if I did not know that In her
case a nomination Is not equivalent to
an election.—Smart Set.
On His Part.
“Tom out of work again? Why, I
thought he had a steady Job?”
••Oh. ibe Job was < steady: Torn
wasn't"—Philadelphia Press.
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All men have tNr frailties, and he
who looks for a friend without Imper
fections will never ttnd what he seeks
SULZER OF SULZER
• MAY BE CANDIDATE
SEWARD GATEWAY: That Sen
ator Charles Sulzer of Sulzer, In the
First division may be the nominee
of the Democrats for election as del
egate to congress this year there is
now good reason to believe. It "has
been rumored that prominent Demo
crats are figuring on giving Sulzer the
nomination and of securing the posi
tion of attorney general of the terri
tory for George Grigsby of Nome,
who was rewarded as a likely candi
date. Sulzer is very strong in the
First division and carried it by a
large vote in the election for the up
per house of the legislature.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 24, 1916.
Barometric pressure .30.319
Temperature 7 p. m.17
Maximum temperature .34
Minimum temperature .17
Mean temperature .25.5
Precipitation ...03
Partly cloudy, wind northeast six
mile;.; snowed at night.
Interior Weather.
Valdez, Feb. 25, 1916.
Fairbanks, 25; cloudy, calm.
Salcha, 28; cloudy, calm.
Richardson, 20; cloudy, calm.
McCarthy, 12; cloudy, calm.
Donnelly, 10; cloudy, calm.
McCallnm. 22; cloudy, light wind,
trail heavy.
Puxson. 17; cloudy, light wind,
trail heavy.
Hogan, 22; clear, calm, trail heavy.
Gulkana. 10; cloudy, calm, trail
fair.
Gulkana, 10: cloudy, calm, trail
fair.
Copper Center. 8; clear, calm, trail
good.
Tonsina, 10; cloudy, calm, trail
heavy.
Teikhell, 0: clear, calm, trail drift
ed.
B<aver Dam. 10: cloudy, calm,
trail drifted.
Summit, 105 inches snow; cloudy,
calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s 14: cloudy, calm, trail
closed.
Republican Club Meeting.
The Valdez Republican club will
meet Friday evening, February 25,
at 8 p. m„ in the office of C. B. Smith
on Alaska avenue. 2t
I'T"i * T r i Ti"r i * » » •
LILLY CAFE
We Are Here to Serve
You
FIRST DOOR tHOVK THU
BUFFET
TRY^US
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
The best groceries received
on every boat.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, and
nuts.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON. Pilot
SlRICTLv FIRST CLASS
Fourth Aye, Seward, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Cr&nite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary,
Valdez, Alaska.
VALDEZ LODGE
NOT108
Free and Accepted Maaona
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In McKlnle)
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
ya Shamrock
OAPT. TIM MARCUM
Sails for Port Wells, Portage
Bay, Granite Mine, Saturday
at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
des Dock Company's Doek.
For Rllamar,. Landlock Bay,
and Fldalgo, every Wednes
day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
des Doek Company’s Dock.
For Rates, Apply oa Boat.
Indestructo
Wardrobe
Trunk
Takes the Place of
Two Pieces of Fur
niture—A Clothes
Closet and Chiffo
nier. . . . . .
Besides You Are
Always Ready For
That Trip. . . .
We Are Showing a Complete
Line.
S. BLUM & COM
GOOD GOODS
DR. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate National UbIwuHc,
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Fourteen Years in Valdez.
PHONE 110
Office Booms in Whaling Building
DR. GERMAN
i-honk i» THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug Store. Of
fice hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m., 7 to 9
p. m. Sunday by appointment.
All Work Guaranteed.
E. C. DALTON, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 42
Alaska Avenue Valdez, Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Otter Opposite Court lloww ,
Phone S4 VALDEZ. ALASKA
JOHN LYONS B. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office* la Whaling Building
Phone 101 VALDEZ. ALASKA
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
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General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming .of All Kinds
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Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
l
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater.
BREAD FOR SALK
Jack CalliB PwniaW
Copper River
Draying Co
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Freighting and Passenger*
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
The Best Place In Valdes lo
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
Wans, Lifht lawi-lW Houc af Ciafst
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Rate* Bp tbt Hast
PHONE 133 MRS. SYXUIC. jy*.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good manjb
of today’s successful busjl
ness enterprises would stilr
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea, the man with a
prospect, or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN TflB
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS. 1