AT THE OB
Christian Science Society
Pioneer Hall
Sunday Service 11 a. m.
Subject of Lesson Sermon, “Mat
ter.”
Sunday School 12:16.
Wednesday Evening Meetings at 8
o’clock.
Free reading room open Wednes
day from 2 until 6 and from 7 until
8 p. m.
All are welcome to attend the meet
ings and visit the reading room.
Episcopal Church
Sunday, Sept. 16. 1917.
Rev. George John Zinn, minister
in charge.
Sunday school 12 noon.
Catholic Church.
Mass 8:30 and 10:30 a. m.
Sunday School Immediately follow
ing Mass.
Evening Services, 7:30.
—Rev. A. Fletcher, S. J.
First Congregational Church
Rev. R. Demain Nicholls, pastor.
Sunday, Sept. 23rd. 1917.
11 a. m. Worship and Sermon.—
“Religious Slackers.”
12 noon. The Sunday School.
7:30 p. m.. Song Service and Ser
mon.
The second of the series on "Red
Letter Days in Life.” "In Business for
Self.”
Thursday afternoon. The Ladies
Aid Society meets with Mrs. Keesler
at her home.
Thursday evening—the prayer j
meeting. 1
STORM CAUSES DAMAGE
IN ANCHORAGE DISTRICT
Damage to the extent of hundreds
of thousands of dollars was occasion
ed by the storm early last week to
property interests in territory near
this city. Detailed reports from the
affected districts indicate that the
storm was the most severe in many
years and that the losses are much
greater than at first supposed.
The Crow Mining company, which
operated extensively on Crow creek
near Glacier, estimates its damage at
$100,000. The by-pass was washed
away and a two-mlle ditch ruined.
The rush of water undermined the
lower end of an expensive flume, and
the mining works were put out of
commission. The loss is so serious
that the company will not attempt
further productive operations this sea
son, but will devote its time to re
pairing the damage.
Railroad Badly Damaged
Between Anchorage and Seward
the ogvernment railroad work was
badly damaged in several places and
it is doubtful if the track can be re
paired this fall. Two miles of rails
were washed out near Mile 34 be
sides general damage to the line.
The countrv around Hope suffered
heavily, said Eelix Brown, who yes
terday returned from the Gus Seifert
mines on Resurrection Creek. Great
damage resulting to mining camps.
1‘earson camp, two miles above the
St. Louis Mining and Milling com
pany’s ground on Resurrection creek
lost its entire cleanup, amounting to
several thousand dollars. The camp
was marooned when Mr. Brown left
the district.
Matson Buildings Destroyed
The Matson camp on Resurrection
creek also suffered heavy loss. The
barn, two houses and other Improve
ments were reduced to ruins but the
working ground was not materially
damaged.
Several hydraulic outfits operating
on Resurrection creek lost giants and
other mining machinery.
All the bridges across Resurrection
creek between the Seifert camp and
Hope were washed away and Mr.
Brown and members of his party
were forced to cross the creek by the
way of a temporary cable.
Henri Hahn arrived here yesterday
from Hope. He reports that the town
itself suffered heavy damage. The
bridge across Bear creek was washed
away and all transportation in that
direction is cut off. Several smaller
bridges were washed away he report
ed.—Times.
KPENCE RESIGNS AS
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Information is received from Wash
ington to the effect that District At
torney Spence of Valdez, has tendered
his resignation, upon request ot the
department of Justice, to take effect
October 1. It is also intimated that
his successor will be Judge W. H.
Munley, who is at present assistant
district attorney, with headquarters
at Anchorage. The latter is a per
sonal friend of Seator Chamberlain,
whose private secretary he was when
Chamberlain was governor of Ore
gon.
The direct cause of Spence’s retire
ment from office is due to the aggres
sive fight made against that official
by the Democratic leaders of the ter
ritory. and his successor would have
been named some time ago but there
was some hitch in the selection. The
Democratic organization in the terri
tory had endorsed Attorney William
Ilolsheimer, of Juneau, for the post
{ion, but Senator Chamberlain insist
ed that it be given to Judge Munley.
A compromise was recently effected
whereby the Democrats of Alaska fell
i, to line and together with Delegate
Sulzer gave their endorsement to
Munley, and he will undoubtedly re
ceive the plum, thus ending a long
political battle in which Spence is
f>ast into the dscard.
Judge Munley is an attorney of con
siderable ability, an able but just
prosecutor, a most affable and llke
rble man. and his appointment as dis
trict attorney will undoubtedly meet
with general approval.—Gateway.
DEATH PREFERRED
TO LOSS OF SIGHT
■
j CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Fear that
' '.Mildness would separate him from
•lie hooks with which he had spent his
life is the reason for the suicide of
Mpxander Rudolph, for twenty years
'ibrarian at the Newberry library
Mere and long engaged in library
vnrk in other cities. His body was
found in a downtown hotel after a
(arch his wife began when she found
"otes saying he was going to end his
life.
Mrs. Rudolph said that her husband
mr many years had feared blindness
Mnt that she did not believe he was in
danger of losing sight.
Oak Oleson, of “Smoke a Lovera”
fame, was a thru passenger on the
steamer Alaska for the States. Mr.
Oleson travels for the Schwabaclier
company of Seattle.
SAINT ELIAS HOTEL
MRS. FRANCES CRUM. MGR. '
Rates made on Rooms by Week or
; i •; • ' ' :
Month, Warm, Comfortable, Home-Like
Special Attention to Transients.
THE PINZON
Fine Wines, liquors, Cigars,
Cigarettes, Tobaccos and
Smokers’ Sundries.
Finest Pool and Billiard Tables
in the North.
Card (looms in connection.
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
friVERTY of Wealth.
There Are Meny, Many Things That
Money Cannot Buy.
If you have wealth you can purchase
a hundred outdis of wearing apparel,
but you can only weur oue at a time.
Socrates never owned but one pair of
shoes, but bis name Is Immortal. If
yon have wealth you cau purchase
beautiful paintings and adorn your
home with statues. That wouldn't
bring you happiness. If you have
wealth you cau purchase furniture In
laid with gold and upholstered with
One fabrics. That doesn't mean con
tentment
If you have vyealth you can purchase
a great park and erect a splendid man
slop, but tradition tells us that there
Was a very happy man who lived In a
tub and when the king came to see
him and asked what be could desire
from the king Diogenes replied, “That
you would step from between me and
the sun.” If you have wealth you can
possess an organ with golden pipes,
but Beethoven composed bis immortal
symphonies on a cheap barplschord. If
you have wealth you cau equip a lux
urious studio, but Turner painted in a
garret and mixed bis colors in a broken
teacup.
Money cau purchase copies of Sir
Joshua Reynolds, but God gives the
sunset away free. Money can employ
musicians to perform for a private con
cert, but the song of the lark in the
tree and the music of children's laugh
ter is for the millionaire and the poor
man alike. Wealth cannot purchase
the great things of life. It canuot buy
a couteuted mlud uud a serene life. It
cunuot purchase goodness and beauty.
—Dale H. CarUagey In Leslie’s.
CURBING THE MISSISSIPPI.
Father of Waters at Timas Becomes an
Unwelcome Quest.
When the Father of Waters comes to
town with all his family, as he does
every teu or eleven years, we hope at
some near time hereafter to exert a
control over our visitor through the
many millions congress has provided.
The Father of Waters himself is a
genial old friend on most occasions,
but when he comes down the valley
with the swollen Illinois, Wisconsin,
Missouri. I'lutte, Kaw and Innumerable
other streams on his back St. Louis
finds him like un intoxicated guest,
hard to manage and utterly unwelcome.
Old Mississippi is to lie made to take
a more circumspect path and not stag
ger all over the adjacent country- In
fact, we d« not wish hltn to stop at all.
hut hurry through anil begone with
him to the gulf as fast as he can make
his way. Most of our water is believed
to come from the gulf of Mexico, and
we wish to return It after we have
used all we can by absorption. We
are no gluttons, and enough Mississippi
is euough. We adore it “fourteen feet
through the valley," hut not forty-two.
We are not yet entirely familiar witli
the plans by which flood control is to
he brought.aliout, but we Judge that
the river Is to be compelled to act with
more deliberation in its rising and fall
ing, which Is tl>e best tiling that can be
done until man finds a way to stay
or cut loose the rains.—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Spend Money Wisely.
Says a prominent New York banker:
“It Is more important to know bow to
spend money wisely than to earn it
easily. If you want to gt.e your boy
and girl a good start teach them both
tile fine art of thrift. And what is
thrift? Thrift is all of prudence, econ
omy, frugality and industry—and then
some. Thrift is that instinct of the
dog that burios the bone he does not
want tbday for tomorrow's wants, the
instinct of the squirrel that knows
nutting is out of season in winter.
And there is thrift of earning power
and thrift of spending as well as
thrift of saving.”
Too Much For Him.
Voltaire could not speak much Eng
lish. The reason why he refused to
study the language is this: It was
drilled into him that “plague" was
pronounced “plaig,” which he thought
very pretty and acceptable. But right
on top of it he was Introduced to
“ague,” which his teacher said must be
called “a-gue." Finding It Impossible
to reconcile the difference, he went off
into a philosophical tantrum and drop
ped the study.
A Rash Bargain.
The minister dropped Into the village
barber shop for n shave, at the close
of which he proffered the nsnal ten
cent price of the shop.
“I'll take it lu preaching, sir," replied
the polite barber, refusing the offered
coin. “My friend.” rejoined the minis
ter with some dignity, “I haven't a
ten cent sermon.” “That’s all right,
sir,” quickly retorted the barber; “then
I’ll go twice.”—Christian Herald.'
Fifty-Fifty.
“So she has agreed to be yours?”
“That was not exactly the way she
expressed It.”
“No?"
“She said she would be as much mine
as I would be hers.”—Birmingham Age
Herald. _
Between Friends.
Edith—Jack told me 1 was so inter
esting and so beautiful. Marie—And
yet you will trust yourself for life with
a man who begins deceiving you so
early.—Boston Transcript.
Sugar.
Buggr wee discovered In the East In
dies by Nearchus. admirarof Alexan
der, In 830 v'‘ ‘
Judgment and nfB
grand jury men since before Noah was
a sailor.—Shakespeare.
1
—
Steamship Admiral Evans— Sailed
south from Valdez, Saturday, Sept.
21.
Steamship Alaska—Sailed south
from Valdez, Friday, Sept. 21.
Steamship Northwestern — Sailed
north from Seattle, Saturday, Sept.
22.
Steamship Admiral Watson—Laid up
for repairs, sailing date announc
ed later.
Steamship Admiral Farragut—Sailed
from Seattle for Valdez, Sept. 16.
Sept. 16.
Steamer Mariposa—Sailed from Val
dez west Sept. 19.
Steamship Alameda — Sailed from
....Valdez for Seattle, Friday, Sept.
14.
TIDES FOR SEPTEMBER
Saturday, Sept. 22.—
First high tide 3:35 a. m.. 6.4.
Second high tide 3:09 p. ra., 9.0
First low tide 8:50 a m., 3.3.
Second low tide 10:15 p. m., 1.2.
Sunday. Sept. 23.—
First high tide 4:38 a. m., 5.9.
Second high tide 4:02 p. m., S.7.
First low tide 9:37 a. m., 3.8.
Second low tide 11:25 p. in.. 1.4
Monday, Sept 24.—
First high tide 6:05 a. m., 5.7.
Second high tide 5:17 p. m., 8.4.
First low tide 10:*4 a. m., 4.3.
Tuesday, Sept. 25.—
First high tide 7:55 a. m.. 6.1.
Second high tide 6:50 p. m., 8.4.
First low tide 0:51 a. m., 1.4.
Second low tide 12:23 p. m., 4.4.
Wednesday, Sep*. 26.—
First high tide 8:56 a. m., 6.8.
Second high tide 8:17 p. m., 8.7. 1
First low tide 2:11 a. m., 1.1.
Second low tide 2:05 p. m., 3.7.
Thursday, Sept. 28.—
First high tide 9:40 a. m., 7.8.
Second high tide 9:26 p. m., 9.2.
First low tide 3:12 a. m., 0.7.
Second low tide 4:17 p. m., 2.6.
Friday, Sept. 28.—
First high tide 10:20 a. m., 8.8.
Second high tide 10:24 p. m., 9.6.
First low tide 4:00 a. m., 0.3.
Second low tide 4:17 p. m., 1.4.
Saturday, Sept. 29.—
First high tide 10:56 a. m., 9.7.
Second high tide 11:16 p. m., 9.9.
First low tide 4:42 a. m., 0.1.
Second low tide 6:06 p. m., 0.2.
Sunday, Sept. 30.—
First high tide, 11:33 a. ni„ 10.5.
First low tide 5:22 a. m., 0.2.
Second low tide 5:52 p. m., —0.6.
FOR RENT—One 3-rooni furnish
ed house. Also 1 two-room furnished
cabin. See Rudolph. tf
Jack Chamberlain, the well-known
traveling man, was a passenger on
the steamship Alaska from the west
ward.
FOR RENT—The Stanton house,
3 rooms, furnished, $15. Apply C. B.
Smith. tf
, FOR SALE—800 shares of Sweep
stake stock for 10 cents per share.
Inquire Prospector office. tf
Notice of Sale
Special sale on Jewelry at the Val
dez Drug. Everything half price. tf
W. Douglas Read was a passenger
on the steamship Admiral Evans for
the States.
Ice—Ice—Ice
Delivered to all parts of the town,
lc. per pound. Love-Whitley Co. tf
W. E. Patton returned from a busi
ness trip to Lalouche.
Just received a new fall and win
ter line of ladies coats, at E. Win
ter’s. tf
Odds and ends of wallpaper 3 & 4
rolls to the bundle, cheap at Ru
dolph’s. tf
Notice to Public
A new line of one-piece dresses
just received at E. Winters. tf
FOR SALE—Patten mining stock
at $2.98 per share. Inquire Prospec
tor Office. tf
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New Goats
Just received some
very nifty styles in
WinttfSfoats at
E. Winter's
Without a Rudder
No one wonld wish to ride in a* ship
without a rudder.
Cancelled checks are a rudder for
your future guidance, and will enable
you to save and cut out many useless
expenditures.
Come in and let us tell you how a
checking account with this bank will
help yon.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Valdez Dock Co. phone no. ■
JOBBER IN
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LUMBER
Office, toot of Wall street
So comfortable in the morning, when other fires burn
low—
So healthful in sickrooms, where oxygen is valuable—
So convenient and safe for cosy corners.
Prince William Sound Water,
Power, Light & Telephone Co.
Valdez-Fairbanks Auto Service j
CARRYING U. S. MAIL and EXPRESS j
Passenger Service—Valdez-Fairbanks
25c Per Mile To All Interior Points
LEAVE VALPE3 1st and 15th pi Each Month
SPECIAL TfilPS QN APPLICATION
Address: WM. SCHMIDT, Valdez, Alaska
Phone 228
KEYSTONE PRODUCE Co.
HEINZ’S 57 VARIETIES
AMOCAT CANNED GOODS
Groceries, Butter, Eggs, Fruits, Vegetables.
Cigars, Tobaccoes and Confectionary.
Keystone an<| McKinley Streets
A pretty line ot colored crochet
cotton and etampch pillow allpe at
the Needlecraft Shop. if
For flrat-claaa meals and food aerr
Ice at reaaonable prlcea try the Mer
chanta’ Cffe._ U
WANTED—Fire centa per pound
will be paid for dean, cotton rape ft
the Proapector Office. tf
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf *
Old papers In bancnes of 100 at
this office, only 10 cents. tf •
_^n i
A new lot of manufacturer’s sain*
pies of men’s and women’s wearing
apparel Just received at the Bmpor
lum. tf