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(Incorporated.)
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On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington. D. C.
n_i» DENTIST
i> both compute* Fourteen Tears In
Office Booms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone IP THE DENTIST
Office rooms orer Owl Drug store. Offloe hours
• a. m.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 Valdez, Alaska
f It yon want all tn« newa all the
tirilfc read the Dally Prospector.
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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.
Valdez Miners Union Ni. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER. PrashUnt.
Granite Mins
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
VaMea. Alnskn.
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders ot
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in ‘he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of the
i par value of one dollar each. Also
| authorizing the company to amend Its
articles of incorporation, so that its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that It may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that it may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a' newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1915, and end
ing with tho issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
Directors.
Blooded Doga ror Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
ing unsurpassed. Fine bead, ear, eye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. tf
Famous Actor—“Oh, yes, I’m mu
ried, but I always think it’s kind o’
tough on a girl that marries one of
us travellin’ men.” She—"Still, it
might be worse. I suppose you’re
away from home most of the time.’’
DINED PN JACKALS.
But There Wat Other Food the Arabt
Simply Would Not Eat.
Describing the Molmmineduns of Al
geria in his book,“The Itarbary Coast."
Albert Edwards says he discovered
that with the exception of the obvious
difference in clothing they seemed to
be very much like other men, although
“they do not care for the same tilings
—at least not for the same reasons,"
Of this he had a striking example dur
ing his first winter in Algeria:
“I had asked my host about the
jackals which howled the night
through in the brousse about his home.
I was curious to know how much they
resembled the coyotes of our western
plains. A few days later he called me
from my desk with the news that some
of his Arab workmen had trapped a
jackal. I followed him out into the
patio and found a half dozen natives
squatted about an earthen pot. Two
of them were holding the animal while
another skinned it. A jackal looks like
nothing but a very sick and mangy
dog. I can not imagine anything less
appetizing. I was surprised and rather
nauseated to see that the men were
preparing the beast for cooking.
“ ‘Do the natives eat these tilings?’ 1
disgustedly asked my host in French.
“The man who seemed to be the
chief cook understood the language of
tlie conquerors. He looked up surlily.
“ ‘Yes,’ he growled, ‘but we don't eat
pig.’
I thought ot our slaughter house
scandals and the doubtful cleanliness
of our food supply and felt very much
like the owner of a glass house who
had thoughtlessly begun to throw
stones."
IVORY. CARVING IN CHINA.
Only Six Expert Workers In Forty
Shops In Canton.
There are In Canton about forty
shops which make and sell ivory arti
cles. Each store is small, consisting
usually of a showroom open to the
street and a back room, where the cut
ting is done. Members of the store
also usually work in the showroom.
The industry may he divided into two
stages, cutting and carving. Tusks im
ported from Siam constitute the raw
material. These are first cut with a
saw to the shape capable of being
worked up by carving. The cutting ap
paratus consists of a wooden block or
vise, a saw and a tub of water. The:
ivory is secured firmly by the vise,
moistened with wnter and cut to the
required shape.
Perfectly flat pieces of ivory nearly
as thin ns paper were shown in evi
dence of the skill of the cutter. The
cutting finished, the blocks are then
carved into shape with knives of many
different shapes. These have a short
blade and a long handle made of bam
boo, like a penholder. Other instru
ments noted to be in use by the carv
ers were wire saws and a gimlet work
ed by a leather twirling apparatus.
The number of expert workers in
Canton is far less than the number of
stores, being only about six in number.
An expert carver seldom works in the
shop which employs him. He generally
works in his own house and can earn
about $30 Canton currency a month.—
Consular Reports.
Lapping Up the Land.
AUleburgh, which annually holds its
feast of sprats, has run considerable
risk in recent, years of providing a
least for the sprats themselves. Fierce
gales In the eighties and nineties did
very great damage and almost complet
ed the ruin begun by the sea that swal
lowed up ancient Dnnwich. At one
tiffin the land went a quarter of a
mile farther out to sea. and an old
map preserved in the venerable Moot
hall shows that the church had at
least ten times more land toward the
sen than it has now. The market place
and tlie cross are among the trities
which the sea lias stolen, while in
1799 eleven houses disappeared. The
arms of the borough were selected
with some sense of humor, "A ship in
the waves of the sea, all sayles bear
inge.”—London Chronicle.
Police In Old Glasgow.
In the eighteenth century the whole
safety and order of Glasgow, Scotland,
were intrusted to the unpaid nnd reluc
tant burghers. Every citizen who wns
between the years of eighteen and
sixty and paid a yearly rent amount
ing to $15 had to take bis turn at
guarding the city. ‘‘On touch of
drum,” says the writer, “the gentleman
wns nt his post at 10 at night and
strolled with weary tread and yawning
gait along the Trongnte and High
street nnd tip ,the pitch dark lanes of
winter nights till 4 in the morning.
After tlmt hour the city was without
n police.”
Man and the Office.
“The office ought to seek the man."
said the patriot.
"Perhaps.” replied Seuator Sorghum,
"but when an office has to seek the
man the salary is generally so small
that it makes the office look like a
downright mendicant.” — Washington
Star._
Poor Method.
‘‘Ho seems to be nlways chasing
rainbows.”
“fes, tlint appears to be his method
of providing for n rainy day.”—Judge.
Not Very Duety.
Jack -I don’t believe you’ve the saud
lo propose, anyway. Tom—Vou’re mis
taken. I’ve tbe sand, but 1 haven't
tbe dust—Exchange.
It is easy to Improve wbat has al
ready been Invented.—Latin Proverb.
TALKING AT DINNER.
A Chinei* Suggestion That One Per'
■on 8hould Do It All. /
Jts a nile, a dinner conversation is
seldom worth remembering, which is a
pity. Man, the most sensible of all
animals, more readily leans to non
sense than to rational discourse. Per
haps the flow of words may be ns
steady as the eastward flow of the
Yangtzekiang in my own country, but
the memory remains only a recollec
tion of a vague, undefined—what? The
conversation, like the flavors provided
by the cooks, has been evanescent.
Why should not hostesses make as
much effort to stimulate the minds of
their guests as they do to gratify their
palates? What a boon it would be to
many a bashful man sitting next to a
woman with whom lie has nothing in
common if some public entertainer
during the dinner relieved him from
the necessity of always thinking as to
what ho should say next! IIow much
more he could enjoy the fine dinners
his iiostcss has provided—and as for
tlie woman, what a number of sup
pressed yawns she might avoid!
To take great pains and spend large
sums to provide tasty food for people
who cannot enjoy it because they have
to talk to one another seems a pity.
Let one man talk to the crowd and
leave them leisure to eat is my sugges
tion.—Wu Ting Fang. Lute Chinese
Minister to United States, in Harper’s
Monthly.
CLOVE APPLES.
Spicy Odored Ornaments That Were
Once Quite Common.
Tile manufacture of clove apples,
common in the days of our grandmoth
ers, is very simple. You can take an
apple, the rounder and sounder and
bigger the better, and into it stick
cloves ns thickly as possible, with only
tlie heads showing and forming a close
continuous surface all over. Put it in
a drawer or on a mantelpiece or
whatnot, and time will do the rest.
The clove nipple becomes dry and cu
riously hard, maintains its form per
fectly and acquires an approximation
of immortality—if carefully protected,
of course, from accidents and children.
The latter, if memory serves, were
wont to annoy the grandmothers of
clove apple days by decapitating the
, cloves or, if especially mischievous, by
working at one of them till it came out
whole. Either achievement, when dis
covered, as it alvaps was soon, caused
indignant oratory always and “wrong
stories” not infrequently.
The exact purpose of the clove ap
ple, whether it was valued as a curio
or as the source of a pleasant, spicy
odor, the present commentator does
I not remember, if he ever knew. In
value, however, it ranked well up with
| the shells brought front foreign strands
by seafaring husbands and sons, and
both were about equally durable.—New
York Times.
A Busy Man.
A customer of a large downtown
tailoring establishment was getting
service out of a suit of clothes be bad
not paid for. Statement after state
ment was sent to the customer and
finally a letter informing the mail that
' unless he paid ids hill the matter
| would be put in tin* hands of the com
i rally's attorney. That awakened the
customer. lie hastened to the stoi"
and demanded to see the head of
tlie company, lie assorted the only
reason for not paying I he bill was that
he bail been so busy with other af
fairs that lie had overlooked bis debt
| to tlie tailoring company.
! “Why. sec here.” lie emphatically
i told the president of the company,
"just to show you how busy 1 have
been I brought ibis telegram along. 1
got that telegram day before yester
day, but I haven't had time to open it
yet-’-—Minneapolis News.
Domitian Swatted Flies.
The original "swat the fly” man was
Domitian, Roman emperor from 81 to
DC A. D. History records little good of
Domitian, but It does say that lie an
ticipated the anti-fly movement by more
than 1,800 years. Maltreating the
buzzing pests was Ids favorite amuse
ment. it is recorded, blit be was not
animated by a desire to save babies'
lives or avert epidemics.
One biographer says of the old Roman
tbnt “one of his favorite pastimes was
bunting and killing flies.” and Sueto
nius, the famous historian, wrote thus
of Domitian: “In the beginning of his
reign be used to spend daily an hour
by himself in private, during which
time be did nothing else but catch flies
and stick them through the body with
a sharp pin.”—New York Tribune.
Rail Splitting.
Finished splitting the winter’s rails
—about sixty. Have never been able
to determine whether they split best
from top or butt. Sometimes one suc
ceeds, sometimes the other. In split
ting posts the usual plan is for the
men to face each other, one slowly ad
vancing while the other backs away
and the blow of each into the cleft
loosening his partner’s ax.—From “A
Farmer’s Note Book.”
Curioua Watar Supply.
A curious form of water hole is
found in the deserts of Western Aus
tralia. The hole is dry by day, but
yields an abundant supply of water by
night. The flow of water is preceded
by weird hissing and sounds of rushing
nir.
But It Is Easier.
If It were only easier to smile and
praise than It is to growl and criticise
many a rough mile of life’s Journey
would be smoothed.—Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
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Chas. Perry
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■z IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
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Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the 6th day of April,
1915, will be open at (lie office of
the Town Treasurer, in Coppet
Block, in said Town, on tlie 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, •
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
tvithin the office hours and between
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
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 set)la
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 til
led in the above entitled court, liis
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, 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
recount 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 last publication February 2t,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found lo
“bac£” 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
wjflh the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
If 70a want all t&e new* all t»e
ttua, read the Proapecttr.