Valdez Mercantile Co.i.c
TRUE VALUES
Just in Time
for Xmas
A delayed shipment
of beautiful
CHfansY
CRAVATS
Just arrived on the last boat;
Bat-wings, Tubulars and Flow
ing and Four-in-hands in the
newest patterns and colorings.
From 75 Cents Up.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
„ 110 DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years In
Office Rooms in VALDEZ |
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Oirl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 p. in., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M.O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company's Phone No. 69
HOURS—9 to 12a. a.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. m.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdea. Alaska
C. E BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone Si VALDEZ
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
)Civil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Lend end
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Vnldee, Aleeka.
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Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
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Desperate.
Woman—Did some gent in this build
ing advertise for a wife?
Janitor—Like enough. Lots of ’em is
behind in their rent—New York Globe.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of 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, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1914, 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, the
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 Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date of last publication January
21, U1S.
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Famous Record Makers.
The Pullet—They say the ostrich can
run faster than any other bird.
The Turkey—Mebbe so. But any
how I hold the trotting record.—Chi
cago News.
According to the Rules.
Professor of Criminal Law—Can you
dte a case In which a deadly aeaault
Is justifiable?
The Pullback — Yes, sir; when the
other side has the ball.—Washington
Star.
The English Language.
Elsie (aged five)—I do hope some
Dutchman will marry me when I
grow up.
Aunt Mary—Why, my dear?
Elsie—’Cause I want to be a duch
ess.—Philadelphia Ledger.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
AT MOOSE HALL
The sixteenth annual Christmas
dinner will he held by the Alaska
Moose tomorrow afternoon at Moose
hall at 4 o’clock. One hundred and
seventy tickets have been reserved for
the dinner. Following the dinner the
hall will be cleared and those who
wish may dance. A big tree has been
placed in the hall upon which to hang
presents.
MOONT ETNA IS
AGAINjRUPTING
CATANIA, Italy, Dec. 24.—Mount
Aetna has resumed its eruptions,
which are becoming alarming and the
people are seeking shelter far from
the volcano. Only a few of the fool
hardy remain on the mountain sides.
Smoke, flames and ashes are being
belched thousands of feet into the
air, while the flow of red hot lava
down the mountain side is increas
ing.
CATHOLICS LOSE
PROHIBITION SUIT
—
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21.—The ef
fort of the Catholic church to obtain
an injunction against the enforce
ment of the Arizona prohibition law
was in vain and the state court has
refused the injunction. The church
will now appeal to the Supreme Court
of the United States in an effort to
have the law declared unconstitu
tional. It is argued by the church
that the enforcement of the law vio
lated the religious liberties of the
members of the Catholic church in
that wine cannot be used at the
church communion.
LONDON EXCHANGE
GOON TO REOPEN
LONDON, Dec. 24.—The stock ex
change here will be reopened on Jan
uary 4. Business conditions have
improved greatly in the past few
weeks. The government has placed
certain restrictions upon the ex
change and margin selling is to be
prohibited for the present.
NO SERVICES AT
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
As far as can be known up to the
present time there will be no services
in the Catholic church Christmas.
Rev. Father Shepherd did not re
turn from Cordova as expected and
Rev. Father Cremont had to go to
Seward as appointed.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Arthur Johnson is up from Ellamar.
H. C. Shaw left for Jack’s bay this
morning.
K. Knutson arrived in town today
from Ellamar.
LOST at last night’s fire an over
coat. Finder please return to Harry
Schultz.
Just arrived the most beautiful and
largest assortment of Christmas ties
at Ben Silverman’s. tf
Guy Cameron, who has been sur
"ering with a severe cold, has fully
recovered.
D. Hansen is in town from a hunt
ing trip out Lowe river. He bagged
a couple of goats.
No issue of the Prospector will be
published tomorrow. The Prospector
staff will take a day’s rest.
Sam Taylor and G. Hansen reached
Copper Center today from the Delta
and are coming to Valdez.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDE*.
Friday, Dec. 25.
High tide 6:41 a. m., 7.9; 7:24 p.
m., 6.7.
Low tide 1:46 p. m., 2.1.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to 8enate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
STARS IN THE UNIVERSE.
Enough to Allow One For Every Hu
man Being on Earth.
For years the approximate number of
stars visible to the eye. a matter of
3,000 or 4,000, according to the defini
tion of average vision, bus been known.
By most persons, however, and by
many scientists, the total number of
stars in the heavens has been con
sidered countless. If not limitless. The
universe is now declared to be finite,
yet of a magnificence of dimensions
and of a populousness far beyond all
earlier conceptions. This assumption
Is a result of very recent Investigations
Into the motions and distances of the
stars.
The latest studies on the subject of
the number "as well as the light of the
stars have been made at the royal ob
servatory at Greenwich, England. The
late Franklin Adams succeeded in mak
ing a set of 206 photographs covering
the entire sky. After counts were
made on these pictures, from which the
brightness of the self luminous bodies
between practically the twelfth and
seventeenth magnitudes could be In
ferred, It was concluded that they
recorded about 55,000,000 stars.
From this a formula was determined
showing the change of number In
passing from one magnitude to an
other. With these figures it was rea
soned that the aggregate number of
stars is not less than 1,000,000,000,
probably not more than 2,000,000,000.
and probably approximately 1,600,000,
000, the estimated present population
of the earth.
In making computations it was in
ferred that there would be as many
stars fainter than magnitude twenty
three or twenty-four as there are
brighter. — From September Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
KILL LOBSTERS KINDLY.
Put Them In Cold Water and Slowly
Bring Them to a Boil.
Boiling over a slow tire is the hap
piest death a lobster can meet, so It
has been determined at the Jersey ma
rine biological station. The experi
ments were carried out by Joseph
Sinel. a well known biologist, for the
Isle of Jersey Society For the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, whose mem
bers associated the prevalent method
of killing lobsters with medieval tor
ture.
Lobsters, says Mr. Sinel, are ex
tremely difficult to kill. Piercing the
brain does not seem to cause the lob
ster more than temporary annoyance,
since his brain is a mere nerve gan
glion the size of a hemp seed. He has
to be killed all over. To throw him
Into boiling water fails to do the work
either mercifully or quickly since he
struggles violently to escape for about
two minutes
The pleasantest way to end a lob
ster’s troubles, Mr. Sinel finds, is the
old fashioned way of placing him in
cold water and bringing him to a boil
As the water warms he becomes lazy
and rolls over ns for a sleep. By the
time the water reaches the compara
tively mild temperature of 70 degrees
Fahrenheit he becomes comatose. At
80 degrees he is dead. To use a hu
man illustration, the biologist says it
is like a person succumbing to a heat
wave, with loss of consciousness and
a painless end.—London Cor. New York
Post.
Tips and Tips.
•■The Scotch caddie is the best caddie
In the world.” said a famous player,
•‘only, like all his race, he’s a little
near, a little tight across the chest.
•Bang goes sixpence,’ don't you know.
"A friend of mine spent his voca
tion golfing on the famous St. An
drews links in Scotland. Aly friend
had a very fine Scotch caddie, a notori
ously fine Scotch caddie, and he said
to the man the first day on the course:
“ ‘Dugald. my man, 1 expect to get
some good tips from you during my
stay here.’
•• -And 1 expect’ said Dugald dryly,
•the like frae you.’’’-Exchange.
Velocity of Sound.
The velocity of sound depends upon
the medium through which the sound
has to travel. The mean velocity of
sound in air is 1,125 feet per second,
while the velocity of sound in water is
given at 4,708 feet per second, being
about fonr times auicker than In air.
Cast Iron conveys sound at the rate of
16.822 feet per second, or about six
teen times more quickly than air.—New
York American.
Buying a Dog Blanket.
"What’s the matter there? Can’t
yon please that lady In a dog blan
ket?”
"1 can please her. all right” answer
ed the clerk, “but she wants the dog
to indicate bis preference, and he’s one
of these blase pups that don’t seem
to care for anything.”—Judge.
Musical Comment.
"Yes,” saId Mr. Cumrox. "we spent a
lot of money teaching onr boy l’ercival
Claude to play the violin. But it was
wasted.”
"Doesn't he piny?”
"Yes. But if be knew anything about
music he’d realize how It sounded and
wouldn’t.”—Washington Star.
Dissimilarity.
"Marriage is a lottery,” said the
ready made philosopher.
"1 shouldn’t say that” commented
Miss Cayenne. "In a lottery it’s a com
paratively easy matter to tear up a
losing ticket and take another chance.'*
-Louisville Courier-Journal.
A brave spirit struggling with ad
versity Is a spectacle for the gods.—
Seneca.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You'on Time for'the boat
if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy andJSell Anything from
DeadJCrabs to Live Bean.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
S'7 a m to 9 a rn
Lunch 12 m to 1 i> rn
6 to 7pm
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never (’lose.’*
Private Dining Room.
The Bent of Every thing. ] We Bake Our.Own
Bread and Pantry.«£. Bread for^Sale.
Jack Callin--Proprietor
_
Chas. Perry
"™3E«rf£iT
*14 Complete Services ■
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When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the clothe? and
start the motor;—in I 0 to 15
minutes the clothes are washed
white and clean ready to Ire j
hung on the line without the j
wear and tear of the wash
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs onty 2 cents an hour to
run. ,
Let us send one to your home
fo'r 15 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Go.
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Somebody
With Money -
always has been found to
"back” 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
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPEOTCR FOR RE
SULTS.