Exceptional
Values
We are making some extraordinary low prices
on broken sise and odd lot merchandise; such
as Men’s Six and Bight Dollar Sweater Coats
at $1.50; Three Fifty to Five Dollar Sweaters
at $1.00; Men’s Dollar leather Mitts at 50c.;
Men’s Two Fifty Underwear at $1.50; also
i
many other excellent values. A visit to this
store will convince you.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc. i
TRUE VALUES
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.
„„ ,10 DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
PhVe 1» THE dentist
Office rooms over Oivl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 pjp.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointmaft All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company's Phone No. 89
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 84 Valde*, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
t LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
' Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
'Civil Engineer and]
U. S. Deputy Land and
/ Mineral'Survejror
Blue Printinf Valdez, Alaska.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meet* every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Yielding to Temptation.
S7\
Judge—How did you come to enter
the premises?
Prisoner—Well, your honor, It was
2 o’clock in the morning, kitchen win
dow wide open, no cops about—blowed
if you wouldn’t ’a’ climbed in yourself!
—Philadelphia Press.
The Prospector office for job work
I THE READING TABLE \
There is no fight that makes night y
reading so easy as does Electricity. An \
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
L and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, Light Telephone & Company.
A STUBBORN ARTIST.
Mansfield Wanted a Likeness, and ths
Painter Gave It.
Rlcbard Maustleld once asked Frank
A, Nanklvell to make a picture of blm.
The actor explained that he wanted
an imitation of an old Roman coin
with bis own profile shown instead ot
Caesar’s.
“Do you want an absolute likeness,
)r shall 1 idealize it a bit?’’ asked Nan
klvell.
“1 want an absolute likeness.” re
plied Mr. Mansfield stiffly, and the
artist made a sketch of bis patron.
When the completed picture—a splen
did piece of work that looks as if ft
were embossed — was shown to Mr
Mansfield he was not pleased.
“It looks like a prizefighter,” said
Mr. Mansfield.
“That Is not my fault,” said Nankl
veil. “You know thnt you said you
wanted a likeness."
There was a further exchange ot
courtesies, and then Mansfield sug
gested that the artist try again. "Ex
cuse me.” said Nanklvell. “Once will
do me.”
“Well, change this picture a little,”
said tlie actor. “Perhaps you can fix
It up.”
“Not a fix,” said the artist as he
rolled op the picture and prepared to
go with a parting shot “You don’t
want an artist to draw your picture;
you want a lithographer. Good day.”
A GENERAL’S BAGGAGE.
It Is No Indication of the Fighting
Quality of the Man.
It may be laid down as a military
axiom tbat a general’s ability Is not
measured by the amount of baggage
he takes to war.
It is said tbat when General Sir John
French embarked to take command of
the British forces fighting with the
French against the Germans in north
ern France all the baggage he took was
contained In a single suit case.
When “Stonewall” Jackson started
out on a campaign he took along no
personal baggage except a withered car
petbag of ancient pattern, and even
this modest receptacle was but half
filled. Both these generals bear distin
guisbed reputations as successful lead
ers.
Contrariwise, when Napoleon Ill
emperor of France, left Paris in 1870
to take command of the armies which,
be said, were going straight to Berlin
he took along forty-eight trunks be
sides a most voluminous kitchen and
bedroom equipage. The Germans got
every 6crap of it all at Sedan. His son.
the prince imperial, escaped from Se
dan and the beleaguering Germans
with his personal effects, which filled a
special train of live cars.—Washington
Star.
The Rack, Pace and Amble.
The rack Is a gait of the horse be
tween a trot and a gallop or canter, in
which the fore feet move as in a slow
gallop, while the hind feet move as in
a trot or pace, it is usually an artifl
dal gait, but is sometimes hereditary
or natural. There is much confusion
of terms in respect to this gait, due to
the fact that the gait itself is some
what varied, according as the racker
carries the one or the other fore foot
foremost in the galloping motion of the
fore feet; that many confound the rack
with the pace, the words often being
used synonymously, and that many
have mistaken the use of the words
■pace" and "amble.” There is abut)
dant evidence that the American pace
of today is the amble of Europeans of
the last century and earlier. The mo
tion of the hind feet is the same in the
trot, the pnee and the rack. In the
trot the diagonal hind and fore feet
move nearly simultaneously In the
pace or amble the hind and tore feet
of the same side move nearly simulta
neously — Boston Globe.
Ceremonial Citron.
A valuable und somewhat curious
variety of citron Is cultivated along
the shores of Albania, western Eu
ropean Turkey. It is knowD as the
“casenia” or "esrog” (Hebrew!. It
is a small citron, weighing not more
than twenty-five drams. Just large
enough to be held tn the band, and 1s
thus used in the religions ritual by the
Jews all over the world during the
celebration of their feast of taber
nacles. Such citronB, If sufficiently
small, without blemish and possessing
somewhat extended nozzles, are valued
at from $4 to $10 each. These citrons
are mostly exported from Parga, Tur
key. and not from Corfu, as is gener
ally supposed. A few are said to grow
near Diakovto. Greece.
Rhode Island’s Capitals.
Rhode Island adopted a constitution
in 1842, which named live capitals tor
the state, designating Newport, South
Kingston. Bristol. Bast Greenwich and
Providence as the places for successive
honor In 1854 an amendment restrict
ed the meeting places of the general
assembly or legislature to two places
Newport and Providence, in 1900
Providence became the only seat of the
legislature.
The Boy's Idea.
-Par
“Yep."
-1 don’t see why the men who wrote
the rules of grammar didn’t make 'I
done' and ‘has went' proper It’s easier
to say It that way.” - Detroit Free
Press. _
Degree* of Deafness.
“Is your husband very deaf. Mrs.
Gradyr
-Well, be can’t bear the alarm clock
mornings, but be can always bear tbs
b o'clock whlatla afternoons.”—Judga.
DON’T NURSE WORRY.
. —
Particularly if It'a Your Own Fault the
World Looks Black.
When you feel down In the mouth
uud long to go nway and hide yourself
forever; when you imagine that no one
in the world is treating you right;
when you are satis lied that your em
ployer is tardy in recognizing your
genius; when you can’t divorce your
self from the idea that you are doing
the work and the other fellow is get
ting the credit; when the time you
spend at your work seems Intermina
ble nnd the time away from it seems
woefully short; when all the sky seems
to possess a leaden hue; when every
thing irritates you like salt on an open
wound; when the laugh of a child
grates on your nerves; when the food
you eat disagrees with you—
Straighten up and take an inventory
of yourself. Maybe it is with you that
the fault lies. Perhaps the rest of the
world is but a mirror. Don’t Imagine
you are carrying the world on your
shoulders. The browbeaten man is
too often a creature of his own mak
ing. He insists on carrying the Old
Mnn of the Sea on his back when the
world is willing to relieve him of the
burden. It is surprising bow many
worries we can banish by making up
our mind resolutely that we will not
give them room In our thoughts.—In
dianapolis News.
THE LAST SHOT.
Dramatic Incident That Closed the
Franco-Prussian War.
There was probably no Incident tn
the Franco-Prussian war ot 1870 more
dramatic than that which marked its
close. Ilerr Forckenbeck, president ot
the Prussian chamber of deputies, was
sent with a colleague to Versailles to
congratulate King William upon his
election ns emperor.
Bismarck, who had just concluded
the terms of peace with France, in
vited them to supper and in the course
of the meal said:
“This night at 12 o’clock the last
shots will be exchanged between our
troops and the French, and I have
conceded to the French the honor of
the last shot.”
Forckenbeck and his colleague left
their host before midnight, drew out
their watches, stood underneath a lan
tern of the riotel du Reservoir and
waited. First there was a cannon
shot from the German lines; then a
solemn stillness; then followed the last
repljr from Mont Valerien. The tow
er clock at Versailles struck 12. The
French war had ended.—Exchange.
Wills and Edmund Kean.
Irving used to tell with dramntlc ef
fect a story about W. G. Wills, the
dramatist who, among other services,
wrote for him the play “Charles I.”
When Wills was a boy ten years old
he was taken to see Edmund Kean
play Macbeth. In the murder scene
be was so affected by the realistic
power of the actor that, seized with a
severe attack of nausea, he hurried
from the box. Ten years later he was
lunching at a chop house In Fleet
street when a man entered, sat down
at a table near him and ordered a meal.
He was a perfect stranger to Wills,
who. after a few minutes' propinquity,
was again seized with a lit of nausea,
from which he had not suffered since
as a boy he was at the theater on the
occasion mentioned. He was obliged
to leave the room. When some min
utes later he paid his bill the waiter
said to him: “Did you see that gentle
man at tlie table near yon? That's
Edmund Kean."-Cornhill Magazine.
Toys During the French Revolution.
The toys of the French revolution
period were characteristic of that ter
rible time. There are tops whose
shadows cast the profile portraits or
Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette.
These are turned in boxwood and are
indeed interesting reminiscences ot
toys with the impress of history. The
children of the revolution had their
tiny Phrygian caps and danced the hor
rible carmagnoles in their play. Little
models of the guillotine were made to
“work,” and the bodies of pigs with
heads of Louis XVI. were decapitated.
Models of the Bastille were popular.
Playing cards with figures of ^evolu
tionary her„c - o ade when kings,
queens and aristocratic knavet- werr
taboo.—From “Toys of Other Days.” by
Mrs. F. Nevlll Jackson.
Dickens' Full Name.
Obarlea Dickens was christened
Charles John Huffam, or Huffbam,
as It Is erroneously entered in the par
ish register. But when he became fa
mous he dropped the last two Chris
tian names, as he desired to be known
as plain Charles Dickens, a wish re
spected on his tombstone In Westmin
ster abbey, by his biographer and
friend, John Forster, and by the scru
pulously accurate Dictionary of Na
tional Biography.
Never Give* Up.
“1 Just had to marry him. He told
me be never gave up anything he
loved.”
“Well, It’s good to have a husband
who loves one.”
“f-e-s, but 1 have learned that be
loves money also.”—Houston Post.
His Periodical.
"Do you take any periodicals?" asked
the new clergyman on bis first round
of parish visits.
“Wall. 1 don’t” replied the woman,
*1)01 my husband takes ’em frequent
I do wish you’d try to get him to sign
the pledge!”—London Malt
Kelt will is so ardent and active that
It will break a world to pieces to make
a stool to alt on.—Cecil.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries receii ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You oniTimetfor'theJboat
it We Handle Yourf Baggage.
We'Buy and Sell Anything frcm||
Dead”Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
S7 a m to n a in
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
0 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Chas. Perry
’Seattle^
Jl Complete ServJc o'
" IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
1155Rooms with bath-50 Sample Rooms
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of Alasaa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretary
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
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 1.
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, 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 appo. tied 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 last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found lo
“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
\njith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
U you want all mo im all tfea
time. read the Proepeetor.