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Job Printing
At The Prospector Office
CHISANA GOOD
SAYS MILLED
Valdez Man Returns From New
Diggings—Reports Favorable
—Remained Two Days.
diaries Miller and C. H. .Nor
man, who reached Valdez last
night from the Chisana, coming
via the Scolai pass to McCarty,
then to Chitina and from there
to Valdez via the government
road, predict that the Chisana
camp will b.e one of the biggest
in Alaska and they also condemn
the Scolai pass route as unnec
essarily dangerous, as the route
via the (tulkana is safer and bel
ter and nearly as quick as the
Scolai pass route over the gla
cier, on which from i to 5 feet
of snow had fallen when they
crossed a few days ago.
Both men predict that men who
work in the newcamp this winter
will uncover big pay streaks in
the benches. Because of lack of
provisions they were compelled
do return after spending two days
•in the new camp and were unable
to purchase supplies, as I he
Rreedman and llamwhaw pack
train of 20 animals had not
reached the new camp.
They report that Bert Bollin
ger, Judge Tucker and several
other well known, people had se
cured good locations on Wilson
creek.
Dolph Smith and his party had
reached the camp and were pros
pecting in hopes of securing sev
eral claims on neighboring
Creeks.
Tom Lane was passed with a
l)ig outfit with which to do pros
pecting this winter on the belneh
es.
The two men report from 500
to 750 men in the new camp.
Game was found in plenty all
‘along tin; route and in the White
river and Tanana river valleys.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Just, arrived, a line or latest
style waists at Harvey’s Toggery.
Don’t miss the three-reel fea
ture at the Orpheum.
Geo. Reinke. the watch repairer
and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug |
company.
The Brighton, in command of
Captain Stanley, returned from
Port Wells yesterday.
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One-half off on trimmed milli- j
nery and 25 per cent discount, on '•
suits at Harvey s Toggery.
The last chance to see the 3
reel feature, The Invaders, at
Hit' Orpheum tonight.
Fine program at the Orpheum
tonight.
Jack Cook and George Crist.o
left this morning for the Big
Four on Mineral Gulch.
The Invaders, a 3-reel feature
at the Orpheum tonight, excit
ing and interesting.
The regular Saturday night
dance at Moose- Hall will he given
this coming Saturday night.
Tabanack and Todd Date left
this morning for Teikhell to do
some prospecting in that section.
, Fine watch and Jewelry iepair
ing, all work guaranteed. H. V.
Herndon, with Owl Drug Co.
Ringwald Blix, the Copper Cen
ter merchant, is in town, having
arrived yesterday to spend a few
days on business.
3-Reel Feature—The Invaders.
At the Orpheum tonight. This
descriptive three'-reel subject is
full of excitable events relating
to the history of the Sioux In
dians.
Millinery.
Just received from Chicago, the
latest, up-to-date fall and winter
millinery at the Keystone milli-.
ner’s, MRS. S. E. GLEASON.
I JAMES NARAY, THE I
SHOEMAKER
ha* moved to the Phoenix Block
in Keystone Are. where ha will do
BOOT 4k SHOE Repairing
in first class ardor and reasonable.
OUR THIRSTY WORLD.
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It May In Tima Quip Down Every Drop
of Water We Poaeeae.
Scientists have long declared that
the earth will dry up and become as
barren and dismal as the moon. But
there is no occasion to worry about
this, since it will not occur for more
millions of years probably than we
can count.
In regard to the present dried up
condition of the moon, it used to
be believed that the moon at one
time had a plentiful supply of wa
ter, but that the great heat develop
ed on either side as the moon was
turned to the sun on alternate sides
fourteen days at a stretch gradually
evaporated the water. This vapor
of evaporation did not fall back, to
the moon’s surface, it was claimed,
because the moon’s gravity was not
sullicient to hold it, and so tho
vapor constantly thrown off by
centrifugal motion gradually left
the moon barren and dry.
But the now theory now held by
great scientists is also held to be ap
plicable to the earth, and that what
really happened to the moon will
happen to this planet in the course i
of time—an almost unthinkable |
amount of time. 1
This theory is that a crystal of
any sort, a lump of rock salt or
quartz or limestone contains a great
proportion of water. If these things
are heated in a retort the water is
recovered and the crystal becomes
a powder. Now, if this powder is
placed near water it will absorb
while cooling quite a lot of it.
The interior of the moon being at
one time extremely hot, so hot that
it was a molten mass, a cooling
process was started then, and in
cooling the natural demand was for
water in order for them to form
their crystals. The water seeped
down through the crust of the moon,
and finally it was in that manner all
used up.
This is the manner in which this
theory is applied to the earth. Our
great oceans bring a powerful pres
sure to bear upon the earth’s crust,
and because of subterranean vol
canoes in various parts of the Pa
cific ocean we know water is gradu
ally seeping into the heated interior
of the earth.
The earth continues to lose its
heat by radiation, and this brings
about a shrinkage and cracking of
the old crust, as demonstrated now
and then by great earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions. This in turn
makes a communication between
the water of the earth’s crust and
the cooling mass inside, these things
being affinities. And so it is claim
ed all the earth’s water must gradu
ally seep into the interior and go
into the formation of crystals. Even
then it is claimed there will not be
sufficient water to cool and crystal
lize all the molten mass inside.—
New York American.
Work.
“What shall 1 do?” asked a wo
man who felt her grief was greater
than she could bear. How many
hundreds of others, borne down by
the tides of disappointment, grief
and sorrow, are asking the same
question.
Once we heard an old lady say,
“Work is the great sorrow killer,'”
and she knew, for all the waves and
billows of human sorrow had gone
over her, yet she had risen above
them through work. When the
clouds seem heaviest, the sun gone,
an insurmountable wall before you,
go to work, work hard for yourself,
or better still, for some one else.
Work is the common heritage of all,
a panacea for almost every mental
ill or heart sorrow.—Exchange.
What Waa on His Mind.
Once a clergyman went to pay a
visit to an old Yorkshire yeoman,
who was lying on his deathbed. Aft
er a few preliminary words the
worthy minister said that if the
veteran had anything on his mind
he hoped he would ease his con
science and confide it to his pastoral
ear, so that he might die in peace.
“Well, sir,” answered the old sports
man, “if I only had to live my life
over again, I’d fish more with bait
and less with flies.”
The Man and the Book.
A clerk in a Chicago book store
was surprised not long ago when a
young lady came into the store and
said to him: “I want to buy a pres
ent of a book for a young man.”
“Yes, miss,” said he. “What kind
of a book do you want?”
“Why, a book for a young man.”
“Well, but what kind of a young
man ?”
“Oh, he’s tall and has light hair,
and he always wears blue neckties!”
Dropped In the Basket.
“Here,” said the man of pensive
mien, “is something that I dashed
off in an idle hour.”
“Well,” said the man beside the
waste basket, “that’s no reason for
printing it. There is no use of idly
consuming both time and space.”—
Washington Star.
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CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
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Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. S. MCNIECE. Arctio Cbtet
VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F
Meets every Mondt y at 8 p. m.
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