High School StudentsTo Write Our
Store Advertisements For Ten Days
Some one recently said that advertising was the biggest factor
in a store’s success today, and whether or not that is entirely true
advertising certainly does play a most important part. So we have
arranged with the sophomore, junior and senior classes of the
Valdez High School to write and have entire charge of our adver
tising for ten days. Bach advertisement is to be written entirely
without aid by one member.
The store has offered two prizes—ten dollars and five dollars
for the best written and displayed copy. Mrs. Edward Maloney
and Mr. William Meals have kindly consented to act as judges, che
third member will be announced later.
The copy will start Wednesday night and will be written in the
following order: Wednesday, Thomas Selby; Thursday, Emmet
Egan; Friday, Fred Fish; Sunday morning, Theresa Johnson; Mon
day, Rose Johnson, Tuesday, Eurline Eeavelle; Wednesday, Mar
garet Miller; Thursday, Jessie Jepson; Friday, Pearl Miller; Sun
day Morning, Eimer Kidwell.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
VY Want- 8trictly fresh Egg8> Butter> Fruil
IOU Tl ftHl an<J Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
CHMIDTS BAKERY
FOR GOOD THINGS TO EAT
Doughnuts what am—Cakes and Cookies.
Wiegels High Grade Candies.'
Delicatessen and Lunch Goods---Bread 3 for 25c. Call 1S6
Notice of Filing Final Account and
Hearing Thereon.
No. 139.
In the Commissioners Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division,
Valdez Precinct, at Valdez.
In the Matter of the Estate of Pon
tius Magnuson, Deceased.
r Notice is hereby given that on the
SOth day of October, 1915, T. J. Don
ohoe, the administrator of the estate
of Pontius Maflnuson, deceased, filed
in and pres/*j*i for settlement to the
above namfdThurt his final report
and account ofi,his administration of
said estate and that the 5th day
of January, 1916, at |he hour of 2
o’clock in the afternoon in the court
room of the above named court, in
the Town of Valdez, Alaska, has been
duly appointed by the above named
court as the time and place for the
settlement of said final account and
the hearing of objections thereto; and
all persons interested in estate may
on or before the date appointed for
snch hearing and settlement file his
objections thereto or to any particu
lar item thereof specifying the par
ticulars of such objections as requir
ed by law.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 30th
day of October, 1916.
T. J. DONOHOE,
Administrator of said Estate.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for Ad
ministrator.
First publication, November 1, 1915.
Last publication November 29, 1915.
^ Daily, M 5t
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
tbe year 1916 are now due and pay
able at my office at the corner of Key
stone avenue and McKiuley street.
Taxes will be delinquent on Monday,
December 6th, 1916, at 6 o'clock p.
Follow the Crowd
to the
THEATRE
To-Night.
m., and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be added
to the amount and interest at the rate
of 12 per cent per annum.
Warrants issued by the present
Council will be accepted in payment
of taxes.
Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m., except Sun
days.
Dated this 3d day of November,
1915.
E. G. AMES,
Town Treasurer.
Kill 11-18
Notice of Filing Final Account and of
Hearing Thereon.
No. 146.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Valdez Precinct—
In Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of George
Hansen, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the
first day of November, 1915, A. S.
Jensen, the duly appointed, qualified
and acting administrator of the es
tate of George Hansen, deceased, filed
in and presented for settlement to the
above-named court his final report
and account of his administration of
the said estate, and that by order of
said court the settlement of said fin
al report and account and the hear
ing of objections thereto will be had
and held at the courtroom of the said
court, in the town of Valdez, Alaska,
at the hour of three o’clock in the
afternoon of Wednesday, the fifth day
of January, 1915.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this first
day of November, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN,
Administrator of said Estate.
Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for the
Administrator.
First publication, November 1, 1916.
Last publication November 29, 1915.
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LUXEMBURG CABINET
HAS BEEN DISSOLVED
PARIS, Nov. 8.—Grand Duchess
Marie, of Luxumburg, has dissolved
her cabinet owing their favoring
German sentiment. Conditions in
the little principality are deplorable
and the Grand Duchess recently pro
tested to Berlin against the German
manner of distributing food supplies
sent to Luxemberg from Switzerland
to save the* people from starvation.
Dr. Lentscb, a lawyer, has been di
rected to organize a cabinet.
Suits pressed for 81.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailot. Telephone 198. tf
ERROR WAS MADE
IK RUYIK6 ROAD
Joslin Believes Copper River Rail
road Possesses Many Advan
tages Over Seward Route.
SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—Falcon Joslin,
President of the Tanana Valley rail
road, is in Seattle en route to Wash
ington where he will join the Alas
kan contingent in urging congress to
make larger appropriations for the
railroad construction work in Alaska.
Mr. Joslin will urge an emergency
appropriation and declares that the
present rate of construction will re
quire ten years for the railroad to
reach Fairbanks when it ought to be
completed and in operation in two
more years. He also believes the
government ought to encourage set
tlers going to Alaska, and says the
population of the Tanana Valley will
double in one year if railroad con
struction is started from the interior
toward the coast, as urged by Com
missioner Riggs.
The Alaska railroad man has just
completed a trip which Included the
Tolovana camp, the Copper river val
ley, Katalla coal fields, Setfard and
| Anchorage, and unhesitatingly de
clares that the government made a
! great mistake in not purchasing the
Copper River railroad. He believes
the ice of Cook Inlet will cause An
chorage to be closed for several
months each year to navigation and
declares that competent engineers
have assured him that the grades on
the Seward road will prohibit exten
sive tonnage of coal being hauled to
that terminal.
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Interior Weather.
-—
Fairbanks, 2 above, 5 Inches snow;^
cloudy, windy.
Salcha, zero, 6 inches of snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Richardson, 20 below, 9 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
McCarty, 12 below, 10 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Donnelly, 6 above, 18 inches snow;
cloudy, south wind, trail drifted.
McCallum, zero, 36 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
, Paxson, 2 below, 16 inches snow;
cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Hogan, 18 below, 12 inches snow;
clear, calm, trail good.
Gulkana, 20 below, 12 inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Copper Center, 16 below, 12 inches
snow; clear, calm, trail good.
Tonsina, 17 below, 12 Inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Telkhell, 6 below, 16 Inches of
snow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Beaver Dam, zero,, 16 inches of
sn'ow; cloudy, calm, trail heavy.
Wortman’s, 8 below, 6 Inches of
■now; cloudy, windy, trail fair.
Subscribe for .he Prospector.
A FAMOUS JATTLE.
Th* On* D*«crib*d In History as th*
“Victory of Victori**.’’
The battle which Is known In his
tory as the “Victor}- of Victories" took
place at Nehaveud. In Ecbatana, and
was fought between the new Moslem
power in 037 and the empire of Persia,
then one of the most powerful of the
eastern monarchies. It was one of the
most absolutely decisive battles In the
history of war, and It was all the more
amazing by reason of the fact that It
was won by a people who twenty years
before had been unknown barbarians,
lost In the deserts of Arabia.
Arabian historians place the Persian
loss in a single day at 100,000 men
killed. This may be and probably Is
an exaggeration, but the fact remains
that the Persian dynasty came to an
end when the battle was over and that
Zoroastrianism, which bad been the re
ligion of Persia for over a thousand
years, was at once supplanted by Is
lam. Its modern representatives, as is
well known, are now the Parsees of
India.
The victory was so absolutely deci
sive that It extended the Arabtan do
minions over the whole of the region
lying between the Caspian sea and the
Indian ocean. With the exception per
haps of the battle of Tours, no single
fight ever made such a difference In
the after history of the world.—Ex
change.
AN ARMY AND A MOB.
It’s Discipline That Marks the Differ
erence Between Them.
An army is not an army, but a mob.
unless every item in it can be trusted
to do the same thing at the same mo
ment at the word of command. So
obedience is not a virtue in a soldier. ,
but a necessity, for, unless be learns
It, be cannot attain to the military vir- ■
tues. It has been proved, for instance. i
again and again that obedience is the
way to courage.
When it is a habit with men they
face danger as they form fours be
cause they are told to, and the habit
of obedience is stronger in them than
their natural fears. It is, in fact, pari
of a soldier's technique, and unless he
has learned it he is an amateur liable
to stage fright.
There may, of course, he an irration
ul discipline which destroys a soldier’s
Intelligence, as Irrational technique de
stroys Intelligence iu any craft. But
the fact remains that soldiers have to
learn obedience by means of a training
specially designed to teach them obedi
ence. just as a musician has to prac
tice settles. When he has learned it
he can exercise his intelligence far bet
ter than if he had not learned it be
cause he is braver and cooler for hav
tng learned it.—London Times.
Butlsr’s Reply.
There was a time, while Lyman
Trumbull was chairman of the senate
committee on Judiciary, that Benjamin
Butler was chairman of the judiciary
committee of the house. It was at this
period that a delegation from one of
the southern states visited Washing
ton with a desire to secure the ini
peaehmeut and removal of the federal
Judge of their state. They interviewed
Mr. Butler as to the probability of car
rying such a measure through that
session.
“1 don't know,” was Mr. Butler’s re
ply. “1 am chairman of the judiciary
committee of the house. The neces
sary action can be had here. But Ly
man Trumbull Is chairman of the sen
ate committee, and Judge Trumbull is
troubled with two things—the dyspep
sia, which makes him miserable, and
conscience, which makes him unccr
tain.”
A Giant Among Dwarfs.
The intellect anil genius of Franklin
were perhaps never more manifest
than when, as the colonial agent of
Pennsylvania, he appeared before the
British house of commons in order to
undergo an inquisition into the taxa
tkm questions which were brewing the
trouble which subsequently resulted in
American freedom. Not fewer than
300 questions were propounded to him
by some of the acutest legal and po
litical minds of the old country. To
each and every one of them he replied
in a masterful manner. Edmund
Burke In commenting on the matter
said that Franklin reminded him of “a
man being examined by a parcel of
schoolboys,” while Charles James Fox
remarked that, his inquisitors were
‘'dwarfs in the hand of a giant”
Regulating Bread Prices.
A simple plan for the regulation of
bread prices was in vogue in England
from the time of Henry III. to the be
ginning of the nineteenth century. The
“assize of bread" was set every week
by the authorities of every borough
and manor, when the price of the loaf
was regulated by the ruling price of
wheat, the margin of reasonable prolii
being left to the baker and miller. De
parture from the official price was
heavily punished.-London Mirror.
The Ruling Passion.
“Fore!” yelled the golfer.
But the lady never moved.
For she was thinking of a comma
shopping tour.
He should have called $3.98 to have
attracted her . attention.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
By Hook or by Crook.
The phrase “by book or by crook'
originated with the Irish defenders ot
Limerick, who had to defend two chan
nels, the Hook and the Crook, from
English attacks.—Exchange:
It Is not helps, but obstacles; not fa
culties, but difficulties, that make men
—W. Mathews.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in Ike Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooass.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Clias. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE nafsted. Mur.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
Foot Keystone Ave
Roujjh Dry 10c lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
Pacific Alaska Navigation Go.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
FUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francium every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Stenmer. Ynle and Harvard tor Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 13th, ISth, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight eervlce for Ketchikan. Wrangell Juneau. Sheep
Creek Treadwell Douglas. Skagway. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
Suchi. Explosives, S.%. siwarJ, on the 6th; Latouohe, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova. 26 th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
W. B. TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agent.