or style, fit and Material
—-1 -real tailored goods
tyfear a ‘ ‘benjamin
hand-shaped fronts, set up necks and
elegant backs; a piece of work any
tailor would be’proud of.
Suits and Overcoats, from $20 up.
P. S.—We are~not the Sole Agents for
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
FINE CLOTHES
though we have some real values in those suits, from
$18.00 to $25.00
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.
Steam Heat Electric Light.
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furni.hcd Room* All Modern Convenience*
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ALL KINDS OF
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Fur further information regarding fares, train service, reservations, etc.,
cal on nr adore.* ' 1
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City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St,, Seattle
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We handle your baggage,
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DICK'S PLACE
Fine Line of Cigars iti Tobacco;
Fruits. Nuts. Candies.
Cird Room Soft Drink* of AU Kind*
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r1 vaEBPz'do^k
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Dav
id H. Sleem. deceased; A. J. Wendler,
administrator.—Notice to creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
cf David H. Sleem, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within six (6) months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator, at the
office of C. E. Bunnell, at Valdez,
Alasita. the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of
sniff BnfntA
Dated at 'Valdez, Alaska, this 24th
day of November, 1913.
: ■ A. J. WENDLER,
Administrator of the estate of David
H. Sleem.
Date of first pub. November 25, ’13.
Datd of last pub. December 26, ’13.
For 8s(«.
Twe boiling alleys complete, pins
and balls, also automatic pinsetter.
Will. sell, on terms, if desired. Also
moving, picture, machine, in first-class
condition. Enquire
AL. WHITE & CO.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
HE WAS GOOD, BUT NERVY.
Would You H*vo Qivon an Increaa* In
Salary to This Man?
The following story, taken from
the American Magazine, brings up
the question as to whether, under
the circumstances, the man in this
story should have his salary raised:
“Good morning, Sir. Perkins,”
greeted Forbes airily.
Perkins glared, speechless.
“Good morning, Mr. Perkins,” re
peated the young salesman politely.
Perkins exploded.
“What th’ dickens d’yuh mean by
butting in on me!” he roared.
“Quite so. Quite sc,” agreed the
young man. “Now to our busi
ness”—
“I won’t listen! Beat it—quick!”
“What I wished to see you about
was”—
“X said get out of this office!”
“But X”—
“Well, what is it? Quick!”
“I am now drawing $G0 per
month,” said Forbes easily. “I wish
it increased to $80, commencing”—
“And for that you come rampag
ing in here at my busiest hour. Boy,
are you plumb, crazy ?”
“Don’t get excited, sir. Eighty
dollars is a trifling sum”—
“Trifling sum ? Good Lord!
Why, when I was your age $80 was
a huge amount”—
“But times have changed, Mr.
Perkins. When you were my age
times were different. The cost of
living, education and morals was
lower. More time and liquor were
consumed, fewer books read. With
all due respect, I venture to suggest
that modern salaries are not to be
regulated by what they once were.”
“Say—say,” spluttered the irate
employer, “1 know you’re going
to be disappointed. D’vuh knotv
you’re the first one of, my men
who’s dared to ask me f’r a raise ?
Can’t 1 run mv own business? Don’t
[ know w’en a man deserves a raise
without him cornin’ in here when
I’m up to my ears in work?”
•‘so 1 suspected, returned
Forbes. “However, I’m not trying
to run your business. My matter is
personal to me”—
“You—you”—
“Don’t say it—please,” admon
ished the younger man. “You might
regret it.”
“Well, of all the”—
“Nerve,” completed Forbes. “Yes,
it’s nervy, Mr. Perkins, 1 admit
that, but success requires nerve
these days.”
Perkins' stern features relaxed a
trifle and he indulged in the ghost
of a smile.
“Mebbe you’re right,” he hazard
ed. “At any rate, you’ve plenty of
, the right stuff in you, if you are
1 fresh. You need taking down, but
—well, come out witli me and I’il
fix it with the cashier.”
Together they strode- out. The
olliee force applied itself mightily
in the presence'of the man higher
up, but they watched covertly and
wondered at Forbes’ triumphant
grin.
The pair paused at the cashier’s
desk, and the salesman delighted ic
the fact that Perkins spoke loudly.
All listened attentively.
“Simmons,” said the big boss,
"this morning I sent you an order
to raise the salary of Forbes, here,
to $100 a month. Cut it down to
$80!”
A “Fine Old Woman.”
At a reception one evening a gen
tleman came to Mrs. Siddons and
said, “Madam, 1 beg your pardon
for asking so rude a question, but
in consequence of a wager allow me
to ask your age.”
She replied, “Seventy-eight years
old.”
“Ilang it,” said he, “I have lost.”
■ And he abruptly went away.
Mrs. Siddons immediately said,
“Puppy!”
“Very true,” I observed, “but
why did you tell him you were so
old?”
“She replied: ‘Whenever a lady of
an uncertain age, as it is termed,
is asked how old she is, she had bet
ter add ten or more years to her
age, for then the inquirer goes away
saying, ‘What a fine old woman!'”
—“Journals of Sir George Smart."'’
The Cure.
“You look glum,” said the hus
band of oho clever woman to the
man who had married her compan
ion. ., . •
“So would you if your wife studi
ed geology and filled the house with
stones until there wasn’t a place
left for you to sit.”
“Don’t worry about that.” was
the cheerful reply. “Turn your
wife’s thoughts to astronomy. That
will atilt-.her. iust as well, and she
can’t collect spocimens.”* — London
Express.
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Sewing Machine, ror Sale—Yoi^r
choice of a White or Singer machine;
both in first-class condition; drop
heads; for $20.00. Call at Mrs. St.
Marie’s. tf
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OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL, f
Unique Life of Washington and It*
Promise For the Future.
Washington lias a unique life,
though how long it will remain so
no one can tell. Fresh with the
beauty of youth, situated at the
pleasant mean between the ex
tremes of heat and cold, possessing
a climate which throughout the
greater portion of the year admits
of the only proper life—life in the
open. air—with sunshine as spar
kling and skies as blue as Italy's, it
presents to those who wish them
political, scientific and social life,
and soon it will offer a literary and
artistic life, which, second to none
in the new world, may possibly in
no long time be equal to that of
any in the whole world.
In Washington one may, aecord
I ing to taste, hear discussed the
I most advanced theories of science in
I every field, the political news of
every country, and enjoy a society
as simple, cultured and refined—or,
if one prefers it, as pretentious, as
empty and diverting—as in any cap
ital of the globe.
It has a social life, if not as bril
: liant, at least as agreeable as that
of any other national capital.
Commerce, we are assured by
those interested in it, covers as
wide if not as extensive a field
as any other metropolis, and we are
promised soon an increase of manu
facture so that those who love it
need not despair of having in time
substituted for our present pure
and uncontaminated air as filthy an
atmosphere as that of the greatest
manufacturing city in the country.
As to the spirit which produces this,
| we already have this in abundance.
In fact, Washington naturally
| demands consideration from every
i standpoint. Historically, political
i lv and socially it is a field for the in
j vestigntor, the student, the lounger.
And he will be hard to please who
cannot find in its various and di
| verse activities as many varied ob
jects of pursuit as lie will find in
| the varied scenes amid its elegant
j avenues lined with trees of every
j kind and variety.—Thomas Nelson
! Page in Scribner’s Magazine.
A MILITARY MARVEL
—
' RaJIy of tho Confederates Afto' tho
Petersburg Mine Exploded.
It was on July 30, 1804, that j
Grant exploded the mine which]
blew tip the center of Lee's lutes at
Petersburg.
From a hidden ravine in front of
Petersburg a mine was dug under
neath the strongest of the Con
, federate forts. The construction
j of the mine was suggested by Colo
j ncl Pleasants of the Forty-eighth
i Pennsylvania and was prepared by
i iiis men, who were mostly coal min
j ers from the anthracite regions of
' the Keystone State.
He excavated a nearly horizontal
j shaft about 500 feet in length, at
! the end of which and sixteen feel
below the surface of the earth a
large chamber was excavated. In
I th.is chamber were four magazines
containing ill the aggregate some
six tons of powder, up to which ran
the fuse.
Just at dawn on July 30 the
mighty blast of IS,000 pounds of
powder was tired. The big guns in
the fort, its garrison of 300 men
and huge masses of earth ■ were
'thrown high in the air, leaving a
I great hole (known as the crater)
where a moment before the center
of Lee's lines Imd been.
When the great black smoke cone
was belched into the heavens the
Union artillery opened tire along
the entire line, while an assaulting
column rushed toward the place
where the fort had stood, hut which
was now the great hole in the
ground made by the exploded mine.
Down into the crater scrambled
the men in blue (mostly negroes),
and out of the crater the bettor
part of them never came. The
men in gray, rallying from the con
fusion, concentrated from every
every side and poured shot and shell
upon the struggling mass of men
huddled in the crater. The Federal
loss was between 4,000 and 5,000.
The recovery of the Confederates
after their center had been blown
high into the air by the great ex
plosion will ever remain as one of
the most amazing instances of self
possesion known to military his
tory.—Rev, T, B. Gregory in New
York American.
* ——iL—^ J,
■ The. Merit of Paulin*.
Pauline, who had been attending
school for two weeks, was telling
her parents about the naughtiness
of >hpr classmates.
*‘That’s bad,” said her mother,
“a«d did tiie teacher have to speak
to you tdo?” *
: f'No’m/’ sai^ Piuilipe^, “she had,
to speak to' all the class but me this
afternoon.”
“Good,” replied her mother.
•Whujtrilid sheeay?”
“Why.” "»h«
*aph Mow, WlH.'
until Pauline is in order.’”
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fresh eastern oysters at the V’ai
dez Cafe. tf
See the exquisite Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles at the Valdez Drug
Company’s store.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
McKinley street is the best lighted
thoroughfare in Alaska and it well
deserves the name of the Great White
Way.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
FOR RENT—Horse and cutter; see
Charley Johnson at the Alameda.
The prevailing fad is Parisian Ivory
Toilet Articles. A handsome line is
being shown at the Valdez Drug Co.'s
store.
The Valdez Drug Co. has au elegant
stock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
William Meals, the artistic window
dresser at the Valdez Mercantile com
pany, has fixed up two exceptionally
fine Christmas windows.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Beds, rooms and lodging at the Ala
meda. Charles Johnson, proprietor.
The Alaska Water, Light A- Tele
phone company are having a new tel
ephone directory printed for the con
venience of their patrons.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
cry boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Kiddies Christmas chairs and rock
ers at Rudolph’s.
The revenue cutter Talioma was at
Yakutat yesterday on the way south
after having made a trip to Afognak
with doctors and medical supplies to
aid the natives at that point suffer
ing with measles.
Buy one of the nifty combination
purse anil card cases at the Val
dez Drug Store.
Prof. F. U. Davis was one of the
contributors to the fund expended in
staking a trail over the glacier, but
his name was inadvertently left olT
the list published recently in the
Prospector. He contributed $5.00.
The best place to. eat is at The
Delmonico’s at the Big Place. Open
for business next Monday. 6-7-8
A new wireless equipment for the
steamer Dora was aboard the steam
er Northwestern in charge of the
wireless operator on the ship. It is
hoped to have the Dora’s wireless in
good condition as required by law.
POSITION wanted by experienced
woman as camp took. Inquire at the
'’inspector office
Robert McIntosh will leave on the
Northwestern for Seattle, represent
ing Valdez business men and the Mc
Intosh Transportation company. Mr.
Mclnosh will endeavor to secure con
tracts for freight deliveries via Val
dez to the Nelchina Chisana diggings
and will also advertise the advan
tages of the Valdez route into the in
terior.
Nothing more appropriate than a
box of Lowney's dainty candies as a
Christmas gift. Valdez Drug Store.
Fred Chapman passed through Val
dez yesterday on the Northwestern
en route to Seward, where he will se|
cure live dogs which are awaiting hint
at the westward town, return to Val
dez and start for the Chisana diggings.
The dogs were shipped to Seward for
use in the Nelchina country, but as
that route is considered too long they
were never used. Later Mr. Chapman
determined to try his luck in the Chis
ana country and will bring the dogs
to Valdez.
The Delmonico Eating House will
be open for business next Monday
at the Big Place. The best place in
town to get a square meal. Prices
reasonable. Joe McCoy, Prop. 6-7-S
Reduce Rates On Wireless Talk.
Cashier Roy of the local office has
announced that messages will be ac
cepted by the government cable office
at the same rates via the wireless
route to the Spirit City as were in
force when the cable was up. This
has been accomplished by the War
department through arrangements
with: the navy wireless.
Odd Bit* ot Information.
-.-.During two years 24,000 miles of
Improved roads were constructed in
'this'country, which is more than all
the road* *>: Prance.
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