ST^AM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
"The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN f ONLY
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liOOKING AT C’IjOTHES <
one becomes convinced that it
is a difficult problem to decide.
But not so If you come to us ;
No matter what you want to
pay for a suit, we can build
it for you. Furthermore we j
guarantee it to be pure, ? il»y 4
shrunken woolen cloth; to ^
wear well and fit pcriecfy. 1
Our reputation is your protec.- 4
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BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR 4
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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valvea, Hone. Pipe and Fittings
Valdai Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
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Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
\ CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
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CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for ^
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
I Foot Keystone Ave j
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MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 OPEN ALL NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Spokane Expected Tonight.
- The steamer Spokane is expected
■lo return here this evening from the
westward and sail south. No word
lias been received from the boat as
to the hour of her arrival, but the lo
cal steamship office announ- -.'l that
she will undoubtedly reach hc<e to
night.
^ For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants' Cafe. tf
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Fresh butter and eggs at Keystone
Produce Co. 3*
1T CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfer that baggage for you. tf
Ylour picture will please the folks
at borne better than anything you can
send them. Jenner the photographer
tf
BOOKS? Yes, we have them, suit
, able tor Xmas presents; and Pyralln
■ivory, kaad painted. Valdez Drag j
Ge.
SOCIAL WORKER GETS
15-YEAR SENTENCE
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 11.-—Davis
Green, prominent social and charity
worker of National City near here,
was sentenced to 15 years at San
Quentin penitentiary by Superior
Judge T. L. Lewis, following the cot -
viction by a jury of criminal assault
upon Ida Bullis, 15 years of age.
Green strongly protested his inno
cence of the charge and declared tha
it was a frame-ap, as he had been en
gaged in Christian work in California
and Oregon.
Editor Commits Suicide.
LONDON, Jan. 11.—A coroner s
jury returned a verdict that Regi
rald John Smith, head of a London
publishing houBe and editor of the
Cornhill Magazine, who died Thurs
day, committed suicide while tempo
rarily insane, having thrown himself
from a window while his nurse was
out of the room.
Have you tried our poker chip
candy and also our new line of chew
ing gum, Candy Kitchen tf
Dent’s kid gloves in black, white
and tan would make a very nice
Christmas present. At >. Winter’s, tf
THIS YEAR’S RACES
BE A BIO EVENT
NOME: With a lot of money al
ready donated, Nome will have more
dog races this winter than during any
other season in the history of Bering
sea. The All-Alaska sweepstakes race,
the great spcrtlng classic of the north,
will not receive individual attention
for premiership honors this year, for
a new contest, the dog race accord
ing to Charles Sangford, former edi
tor of the Nome Nugget.
John Borden, Chicago millionaire
who started north on a sporting ex
pedition last summer that ended wheu
the power schooner Great Bear piled
up on St. Matthew island in Bering
sea, was the creator of the Marathon
for dogs. Borden reached Nome aft
er a wet and chilly experience in the
surf at St. Matthew island and be
came Interested in dog racing. He
sent to Chicago for the handsomcs'.
silver cup that the silversmiths o’
that city could furnish, and donated
it for a race over a marathon course.
The trophy weighs more than sixty
pounds without the pedestal.
The Nome Kennel club, w'tn Bor
den's assistance, laid out the rules un
der which the trophy must be com
peted for. The course will 26 miles
and 300 yards. The event is to be
run under the most ravorable climatic
conditions, it being the desire of
both the club and the donor of the
trophy to learn exactly hew fast a
team of dogs can cover this distance.
The big cup must be won three time)
by the same team owner, but each
winner will be given a smaller silver
cup. It is likely that the Marathon
race will be held a few days before
Christmas, but tbe date is dependent
upon the weather.
Eight teams are in training for the
event. Perry Riley, Russ Downing,
Grant Jackson, Fay Delzenc, Charley
Ross, John Erickson and Billy Webb
are getting their animals in shape
for the test.
Only five teams will compete in the
A11-Alaska Sweepstakes race, from
Nome to Candle Creek and return, a
distance of 412 miles, and the contest
is likely to simmer down to a battle
between tbe malamutes with pointed
ears and malamutes of the lop-eared
variety. Leonard Seppala has acquir
ed all the pointed ear Siberian dogs
in the country and Fay Delzee has a
monopoly on the best lop-eared dogs.
Sepalla and Delzee each have won a
victory in this great event.
Perry Riley is training a team of
Missouri bird hounds, crossed with
malamute, which may upset the gen
eral belief that crossed breed animals
are not good racers. The dogs are
said to be very fast, but there is a
question as to their having the stay
ing qualities as needed in a gruelling
lace of 412 miles.
The Ladies’ Amatucr race this year
promises to bring out considerable
rivalry. George Bokum, a Chicago
sportsman and who accompanied Bor
t’en to Nome, donated a beautiful
bronze and silver vase for this event,
and already the woman dog fanciers
of Nome are arranging to borrow a
few dogs from the crack racing teams.
There will be about eight other races
during the winter.
Sanford says there will be more
prospecting :n Nome this winter than
ever before, but he has never seen the
time when miners wouldn’t take a
few days off to watch a dog race, no
matter how much gold they were
gathering from deep in the earth at
the time. When a dog race starts all
! other activities are suspended.
FLAG DESECRATION BILL
PENDING IN CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11.—
A bid providing severe punishment
for persons who may be found guilty
of desecrating the flag of the United
States is on the Senate calendar and
is expected in the near future to be
reached for argument. Senator Pom
erene, author of the bill, declared
himself confident that a majority of
his colleagues favor the measure and
that its passage appears certain. Sev
eral patriotic societies of the country
have actively supported the bill. It
is understood the legislation was des
ignated to prevent I. W. W.’s and
d her organizations of like creeds
from desecrating the flag.
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URGED BATTLESHIP BE
NAMED AFTER TERRITORY
SEATTLE, Jan. 11.—The Alaska
Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce is making strong repre
sentations to the navy department,
urging the naming of one of the new
battleships of the navy Alaska, in
honor of the great northern terri
tory.
NOTICE—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing
prices, at the Emporium.
Pare Fresh Drags at me Valdes
Drag Store. tf
An up-to-date line of cook stoves
and ranges at Mead’s. tf
r
* OLD FREIGHT CARS.
What They Endure Before They Are
Sent to tho Scrap Pile.
An average freight car costa about
$750. but the refrigerator and special
cars built for carrying perishable
goods may cost two or three times
that amount. The average freight car
weighs about 28,000 pounds and has a
carrying capacity of 00,000 pounds of
freight
There has never been a time when
the companies had enough freight cars
to meet the heavy demands of trade
In seasons of unusual prosperity, and
though thousands of new cars are
built every year, car famines occur
every time the season's crops are
ready to be moved. The number of
freight cars that are scrapped each
year almost keeps pace with the num
ber of new ones built.
The scrapping of a freight car is one
of the fine arts of efficient railroading
A enr may go to the repair shop half a
dozen times before It Is ready for the
scrap pile. Not until the trucks are
practically worn out so they cannot be
renewed ha6 the railway wanderer
passed beyond Its life of usefulness.
Even then every part of the ironwork
Is recovered, and such parts that are
still useful go Into other cars before
they are Anally scrapped.
The wood, ji platform and the boxed
in sides are the Arst to be renewed,
and then the coupling pins and mech
anism. and finally the wheels. A
freight car will frequently use up two
sets of wheels before it is entirely
worn out and ready for Anal demoli
tion.—Popular Mechanics.
INDIA’S FAMOUS ROAD.
It la Callad the Most Romantic High
way In tho World.
Every one who has seen It will agree
with the New York Sun that the Grand
Trnnk road of India Is by all means
the most romantic highway In the
world. ThAt paper says of It:
A stately avenue of three roads In
one—the center of bard metal, the
roads on each side ankle deep in sil
very dust—fringed by double rows of
trees. It runs for 1,400 miles through
the vast northern plain that skirts the
Himalayas, from Calcutta to far Pesha.
war, which keeps sentinel at the gate
of Afghanistan.
From horizon to horizon It stretches
like a broad white ribbon, as straight
as if traced by a gigantic ruler. And
dotted along the entire length are hun
dreds of serats (wayside rest houses),
each with Its arched and turreted gate
way. Its spacious inclosure, where hu
mans share shelter with oxen, camels
and goats, and its central well of spar
kling water.
For 3.000 years the Himalayas have
looked down on this road and have
seen It as they see it today. It has
seen a hundred generations of men
come and go. a score of dynasties rise
and fall. And yet today It is to the
eye exactly the same as in the long
gone time when Nineveh was a proud
city and our ancestors gnawed bones
in their caves.
The First Money.
Money Is mentioned as a medium of
exchange in Genesis, chapter 23. and
is supposed to refer to a time as far
back as 1800 B. C. The coinage of
money is ascribed t,o the Lydians, a
people of Asia Minor. It is. of course,
quite impossible to flx any definite
date for the first coinage. Long before
any one thought to coin money it was
made out of any durable substance
that came to hand, such as leather,
iron. tin. bronze and even the hard
bark of the trees and stones of the
fields. The Hollander, so late as the
middle of the sixteenth century, made
money of pnsteboard. In fact pretty
nearly everything in the shade of last
ing material has at one time or an
other been used as the medium of trade
known as money.
Original Sea Serpents.
The National museum at Washington
contains a notable display of the bones
of several species of extinct mammals
which if seen alive in the ocean would
be called huge sea serpents. They
were carnivorous, and their long, sleu
der jaws were armed with formidable
teeth. Although a few remaining indi
viduals of the group may have given
actual basis for the sea serpent stories,
these extinct animals were not reptiles,
but mammals which, like the whale
and seal and otter, had happened to
evolve in an aquatic environment.—
Chicago Journal.
Yet How Plain It Is!
•‘Eacli dollar of this gold that is com
ing in." explained the financier of the
breakfast table, “means a potential
credit expansion of between $5 and $6 "
But when his wife took his words
seriously and bad three new hats
charged he said that women couldn’t
understand the simplest things In
money matters.—New York Mail
The Ruling Passion.
Mrs. Bargains — What is the next
train for Winterville? Clerk — Two
forty, madam. Mrs. B.—Make it two
thirty-eight and I’ll take it.—New York
World.
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Misdeals.
Sillicus—Love is a game in which
Cupid deals the cards. Cynicum—Then
why does he so often deal from the
bottom of the deck?—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
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Mistaken.
Patience—You say be married under
a misapprehension? Patrice—Yes; he
thought he understood women.—Yon
kers Statesman.
Life ia not dated merely by yean.
Brents are sometimes the beat calen
dars.—Lord Beaconsfleld.
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire Insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if Are does come you will have
tho ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Vuldez Real Estate Agency
TONY’S PLACE™
EVERYTHING
FIRS'! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our I>arge Meet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVIGE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Beattie—
Jan. 24—S. S. Evans,
for Kodiak.
Feb. 3.—S. S. Farragut,
Feb. 16—S. 3. Evans,
Feb. 26—S. S. Watson,
for Kodiak.
Mar. 2—S. S. Farragut,
For Seattle—
Feb. 4—S. S. Evans,
Feb. 11—Farragut
Feb. 23—S. S. Evans
Mar. 8—S. S. Watson
Mar. 10—S. S. Farragut.
For Cordova, Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Seattle and way ports.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Friday s and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Jan. 11—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 16-—S. S. Mariposa.
Jan. 24—S. S. Alameda.
Feb. 1—S. S. Mariposa.
Vaide/, to Seattle—
Jan. 10—S. S. Mariposa.
Jan. 18—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 24—S. S. Mariposa.
Feb. 1—S. S. Alameda.
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellarnar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VA1.DEZ DOCK CO.. Local Agent
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Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner condition^ due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to “Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Junean, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
A new line of beaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
The Owl Drug Store can furnish
you with a 1917 Dairy. tf
Just received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co.
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdez Drug Co. tf
FOR SALE—A No. 16 I. X. L.
heater in good condition. Inquire of
Mrs. Arthur Lang. 3t
Skookum Apples, Jonathans and
Spitzenberg at Keystone Produce Co.
3t
A new assortment of silk waists ir.
Crepe de Chine and Taffeta, Just re
ceived at B. Winter’s. tf
Why not a VICTROLA? We hare
them from $1§ ap. Taid ex Drag
Do. tf
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Location notices, nota quarts and
placer, at the Stasr sCca.