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we solicit your account.
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VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Job Printing
At The Prospector Office
PASSENGER LIST
OR NORTHWESTERN
The Northwestern arrived 'from .
Seward at a- late hour last night
and after a short slay sailed
again for Seattle with the fid low
ing passengers: T. B. Grove,
Baron Von Haven, O B. Hurd, Jas.
Bjorn, Mrs. M. Windsor, Mrs. L.
Backinan, G. F. Bogue, Emmett
Ball, Morris King, G. G. WultT,
G. J. Roach, J. S. Mullins, W.
Largon, M. S. Jenson, M Hum
luck, George H. Goshaw, Thos.
Higgs, Jr., Ira B. Vanocker, Mrs.
II. G. DeGine, Erma Fields and
Mrs. A. G Williamson.
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WORKMAN MS
NARROW ESCAPE
One of (he men employed l>V
McIntosh working on the dike had
a narrow escape today. He was
struck on the head by a Hying
stick and knocked unconscious.
A physician was summoned and
his scalp dressed. The wound is
not serious and lie will be back
on the job again in a few days.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
See I he great, ragtime picture
tonight. Last chance.
Special two-reel feature Him at j
the Orpheum Saturday change.
Dr. Dalton has removed lo his
<dd residence on Reservation Av
enue.
Ghas. Anderson has returned
from a prospecting I rip down the
gound. |
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Bert Gaunthier arrived from
Hobo Bay on the launch Hobo,
last night.
The usual Saturday matinee
will be omilled tomorrow at I he '
Orpheum.
Caleb West, Master Diver, line j
two-reel feature at the Orpheum
special change Saturday.
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Phil Wilson, of Knik, and Carl j
Nelson, of Kodiak, arrived in j
town on the Northwestern.
Frank Reid and Berl Cooper !
re'lurned from a prospecting j
trip in the Pori Wells district.
I
A fresh supply of Chinese ;
goods just received oil the Samp- !
son—Chop Suev and Chinese '
Noodles at the Valdez Cafe
II. i,. Worcester returned from
a irjp lo Perry Island yesterday.
He brought four live foxes which
were shipped on Iasi night's j
sldamer lo the fox farms in
eastern Canada. The animals ]
were line specimens.
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the United States District
Court for the Territory of
Alaska. Third Division.
Fred U. Peek, plaint ill', vs. An
nin Feck, defendant.—No. (HO.—
Summons for Publication.
The President of the United
Stales of America, greeting:
To the above-named defend
ant, Annie Peck:
You are hereby required to ap- !
pear in the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third divis
ion, within thirty (30) days after
the completion of the service of
this summons upon you, and an
swer the complaint of the above- |
named plaintiff, the original of I
said coinplaint is on tile with the
clerk of the above court, at Val
dez, Alaska, and unless you so
appear and answer, the plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in said com
plaint.
This action is brought to se- i
cure a divorce from the defend- (
ant upon the grounds of deser
tion and abandonment, and this :
summons is served upon you by |
publication thereof, pursuant to i
an order of the almYe Court, |
made and entered on the 27 th day j
of June, 1913. I
Witness the Honorable Fred i
M. Brown, Judge of said Court, I
this 30th dav of August, in the!
yetar of our Lord one thousand I
nine hundred aiid thirteen, and-of |
our independence the one hun- !
deed and - thirty-seventh. I
ARTHUR LANG, !
(Seal). Clerk.
First pub. Aug. .30, 19J3)
Last pub. Oct. 6, 1913.
i JAMES NARAY, THE j
SHOEMAKER
*1mi moved to the Phoenix Block;
in Keystone Ave. where he will do
BOOT [A SHOE Repairing
Ih first clast order and reasonable.
TOM CYPHERS GHOST.
It Cut 8oma Terrifying Capers on Hie
Old Engine No. 33.
Out along the Northern Pacific,
in the far, far west,- you can find
very probably engineers and other
railway men of years and experience
who still can tell you the story of
Torn Cypher’s ghost and its terrify
ing runs on No. 33.
It was at the Eagle gorge, in the
Cascades, ’way out in Washington,
that Cypher died at his post. And
this was in 1890.
As the story goes, engineer after
engineer, approaching the point
where Cypher died would be con
fronted by the sudden full stare of
a locomotive headlight. As a usual
thing the man thus seeming to face
catastrophe would bring his train to
a full stop. Then would the light re
treat up the road as if the engine
which bore it were being run with
the lever reversed.
One who, on an occasion, rode
with the' driver of the Overland ex
press, saw this ghostly headlight for
himself.
“Stop the train, man!” he cried
to his friend in the cab.
“Oh, it’s nothing,” said the en
gineer, one who had previously stop
ped for that very same appearance
of peril. “The man who is running
that engine ahead of us can run it
faster backward than I can run this
one forward.”
And so it proved. So it ever prov
ed, the men declared who kept up
the legend. The light was on Tom
Cypher’s old engine, No. 33, and no
express train ever traveled swiftly
enough to catch it.
Daring repeaters of this tale of
the road would declare that No. 33
had been known to come into
Sprague unmanned, her coal ex
hausted and her boxes burned out.
That is as may be. Perhaps it is
true that no good ghost story was
ever the worse for being somewhat
expanded in detail.—Chicago Jour
nal. j
Eating Should Be Pleasure.
Feeding the machine called the
human body is not any more diffi
cult than feeding a locomotive, says
a widely known food expert and
medical man. The question of prop
er diet is, from a practical stand
point, neither a complex nor a diffi
cult matter, in spite of the rampant
theories of food specialists, dietetic
experts and other faddists. Eat
plain, simple food in moderate
quantities twice or three times
daily. Eat in such a manner that
it is a pleasure—a pleasurable, natu
ral act, not a surgical operation.
Then the food will digest as it
should and will be properly convert
ed into heat, thought and motion— '
that is, into vitality—and fancy
foods, while they may create energy
for a time, weaken and destroy a
sound digestion.—Health Culture.
Siberian Bees and Bee Masters.
One would never think of Siberia
as a suitable home for bees or the
practice of agriculture. Vet bees
are maintained bv the peasants of
that region, and swarms of wild
hoes are to be found in the birch
forests. Those who keep bees in
Siberia bear the title of bee masters. |
Some of these have no more than
four swarms, but many have fifty or
a hundred, and certain “bee lords”
own five or six hundred. The aver
age annual income in Siberia from
a swarm of bees is about a ruble
and a half. In certain localities
buckwheat is sown to serve as a
“pasture,” and occasionally the bees
are. fed with sugar sirup or treacle,
but for the most part the swarms
feed on wild flowers along the bor
ders of the great forests.—Harper’s.
The African Egg Eater.
A curious snake is the African
egg eater which swallows eggs three
times the diameter of its body. Its
jaws are almost toothless, but a few
small hooks far back enables it. to
grip its food. As the egg slips
through the stretched jaws into the
gullet its shell is cut by a row of
knifelike points of bone (inferior
processes of the neck vertebrae)
which project into the throat. By
this adaptation all wastage is avoid
ed, and the crushed shell may be
ejected later from the stomach or
remain there and be dissolved. All
snakes are fond of eggs and are
among the most persistent robbers
of nests in trees as well as on the
ground. Our active blacksnake is
especially capable at this villainy.
Ideal*.
He kissed her hand.
She withdrew it hastily and gazed
reproachfully at him.
“1 didn’t think it of yon!” she
said, almost tearfully. “I had al
ways considered you a young man
with ideals, and”—
“T—I am sorry if I have offend
ed,” he stammered. “I”—
“Well.” she said bitterly, “I cer
tainly expected you to aim higher.”
So he took heart and made new
resolutions and thingft.—Brooklyn
Eagle. .
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
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STORAGE
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Positively no coal delivered
unless paid tor in advance
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Graduate.of National University
Washington,ID. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 !ZFeurteen'ye*r»!in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ,
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