Valdez Daily Prospeetor
PUBLISHED BY THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
TERMS.
Daily Prospector.
By carrier, per month.$1.00
By mail, per annum.10.00
The Weekly Miner.
By carrier, per month.40
By mail, per annum. 3.00
The Daily Prospector and Week
ly Miner by carrier to one ad
dress, per month. 1.26
The Daily Prospector and Week
ly Miner by mail to one ad
dress only, per year.12.50
Business Office and Editorial Rooms,
'Phone 162.
Advertising Rates on Application.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1915.
THE WOMEN OF GERMANY. -
One must entertain the highest ad
miration for the German women. In
a sense, they are no less the victims
of the kaiser’s army than the women
of Belgium.
They impressed me as the greatest
women of Europe when I was In Ger
many, and the most pathetic in their
bondage to the men. They were by
far the most thoughtful, the most cap
able and the most helpless. They had
the mournful sense of sibyls in re
gard to their conditions. They were
not hopeful; they were only patient.
They had the brains of scholars and
philosophers, the seer spirits of poets.
And they seemed to be moving dumb
ly through the life of the nation.
They w'ere the slaves of the order of
things there.
This war Is the great opportunity
for the women of Germany. And they
have met it with courage. Germany
is being bled to the last drop of ner
manhood. 'So the women are filling
the men’s places in every walk of
life. They are no longer at the bot
tom, but at the top. They are tak
ing the places of the male students
in the schools and universities. They
are in the banks. They are conduct
ing great businesses. They are at
tending to the sanitary conditions of
the tow'ns and cities. The whole of
Berlin is supplied with millk from the
farms just outside the city. This
enormous enterprise has always been
managed by men; but when they
were called out to join their regi
ments the women went in and filled
the places of the men, and Berlin was
not without her milk supply for a
single day—Corra Harris, in Satuday
Evening Post.
THE CANAL BUSINESS.
If you walk through the American
Hawaiian big fifteen-acre dock ware
house at the Bush terminal in Brook
lyn you will see huge cargoes of
freight being loaded and unloaded that
mark a new era in American trans
portation. They pretty nearly mark,
for the United States, what Hamburg
and the Elbe stand for to Germany—
the co-ordination of river and rail,
of land and w-ater transportation.
You see Wabash cars, Illinois Cen
tral cars, Michigan Southern cars,
lined up beside steamers, transferring
freight from the middle west to
steamers bound for the Pacific coast.
There is motor machinery billed from
Detroit to Seattle. There are Pitts
burg steel plates billed for California.
There are Chicago galvanized sheets
billed for San Diego. Yet more—
please note and think what it means
—there are Indianapolis boxes billed
for Seattle. There are St. Louis leath
ers and Kansas City corn exports and
St. Paul flour billed to coast points
all the way from Los Angeles to Ta
coma.
What does it mean? It means that
•middle west freight is taking to wa
ter to go round to the Pacific coast.
It means that it is cheaper for this
freight to come a third the way across
the continent east by rail and then
go by water 2,000 miles down to Pan
ama and 3,000 miles up the Pacific
coast than it is for this freight to go
two-thirds the way across the conti
nent west by rail.—American Review
of Reviews.
AN ORIGINAL GOVERNOR.
The "most human document that
has ever been sent to a legislative
body” is a Texas comment upon the
first message of Gov. Ferguson. It
sums up the present situation in the
sentence, “In other words, we are
broke with a pocket full of money.”
The governor’s analysis of this
strange state of affairs carries him
to the individual. "As a law-making
body,” he tells the legislature, “you
will be beset and besieged by per
sons and petitions seeking in differ
ent forms and ways to cure these sim
ple evils by legislation. . No law can
he passed that will provide against
wasteful extravagance, excessive ex
penditure, or incorrect living. The
government can do much to protect
property, but only the individual can
produce property. * « * You, as
a legislature, can regulate many
things, but you cannot produce wealth
by statute. The govenment is the
people, and whatever burdens the
government must, in the last analy
sis, burden the people.” There is a
section devoted to education, in
which, after calliflng attention to the
70,000 children in Texas “who never
get a chance to go to school,” and
against this condition putting the ag
itation ' for an appropriation amount
ing to $325 for every student in the
State University, the governor re
marks: “You can begin to see that
there is a real danger of somebody
going hog wild abou* higher educa
tion.” Equally picturesque is his crit
icism of the penitentiary system as a
carbuncle, "because when you try to
do something with it you hit a sore
'spot on some politician’s neck.”—Ex.
bbingTBers
10 VALDEZ JAIL
Murder Suspect From Chisana and
Two Men Convicted of Lar
ceny At Cordova.
United States Deputy Marshal
Frank Hoffman, of Chisana, arrived
from Cordova on the Admiral Wat
son yesterday, bringing three prison
ers to the Valdez jail. He made the
trip from Chisana with James King
ston, who was bound over by the
Chisana commissioner on the charge
of being implicated in the murder
of Louis Schonorn, a storekeeper at
Bonanza, near Chisana. George Go
shaw accompanied Deputy Hoffman
across the glacier to McCarthy.
The other prisoners were William
Kensil and George Ityan, convicted
before Commissioner Adams, of Cor
dova, on the charge of larceny and
sentenced to seven and four months
respectively.
Deputy Marshal Hoffman will re
turn to Cordova this evening on the
Admiral Watson and will continue on
to the interior camp. He reports that
the trip across the glacier with the
prisoner was not attended by any
great hardships.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Carl Smith left on a hunting trip
down the sound this morning.
Hugo Fels has gone to Slioup bay
on a hunting and prospecting trip.
Jim Wilson’s tej.ns returned to
town today from the glacier.
Bob McIntosh is getting his teams
ready to make a trip to Teikbell.
E. Campbell, Farmer Cook and M.
F. Hendrickson, who went down the
sound on the launch Mary Lee to
visit the GrGanite mine, have return
ed to town. They report rough
weather for a portion of the trip.
The launch Brighton will leave Mon
day morning for Port Wells and way
:visit the Granite mine, have return
el extremely 1 ght during the past
month and hopes that the tide will
turn and that he will be able to
get a few live ones soon.
Remember the St. Valentine’s dance
to be given tomorrow evening in
Eagle hall by the Women’s Guild.
The ladies have been untiring in their
efforts to make the dance a success
and promise something new in the
way of programs which will be pleas
ant reminders of the dance. The mu
sic will be furnished by the Pinkus
orchestra.
NO MOOSE DANCE
ON SATURDAY NIGHT
The Moose have cancelled their
regular Saturday evening dance this
week on account of the dance be
ing given by the Women’s Guild in
Eagle hall that evening.
< Masonic Notice.
A special meeting of Valdez Lodge
No. 168 F. & A. Masons will be held
in Masonic hall at 7:30 o’clock Satur
day evening. Wont in third degree.
Visiting Masons Invited.
ED. WOOD, Secretary.
No Show At the Orpheum.
There will be no show at the Or
phevtm until next Sunday, being out
of pictures and none arriving on the
last three boats. Another sample of
Seattle spirit in neglecting shipments.
The regular meeting of the Val
dez Civic League will be held at the
Fire hall Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock. All members requested to be
present. Yearly dues are now pay
able. Mrs. E. O. Ames, Secretary.
THE ERA OF GLASS.
It May Come After Our Iron Ore De>
posits Arc Exhausted.
The iron ore deposits of the world
are being rapidly exhausted, and the
time is not far distant when we will
have to get along without iron and
steel. Before that day arrives some
substitute for these valuable things
will have to be found, and it has been
suggested Ikv a scientist familiar with
the subject’ that the logical successor
will be glass.
Glass can be madia to meet nenrly all
the requirements of iron and steel and
with Improved methods of manufac
ture will be a great deal cheaper.
There is an abundant supply of the
materials from which glass is made,
and long before Iron reaches the ob
solete stage it is more than likely that
glass will be one of its strongest com
petitors.
The chief fault with glass is its brit
tleness, but it is possible even now to
produce a grade of glass which can
stand a great deal of hard usage and
serve many of the purposes for which
iron is employed. The progress of in
vention is bound to evolve a quality
of glass which will be as strong and
durable as iron and transparent as
well.
The use of glass will effect a great
improvement In snnitary conditions.
The building of the future, according
to this scientist, will have its walls,
ceilings, floors, sanitary flxtures and
almost everything else made of glass.—
Exchange.
BELATED RECOGNITION.
Plaint of a Woman Who Was Shadow
ed by a Detective.
“Acquaintance with a detective is
not the good thing some people may
imagine,” said a young woman who
has never yet been accused of being
an adventuress or anything else that Is
supposed to get one’s name on^ the
front pages of the newspapers.
“A few mouths ago I was robbed of
a belt that I prized very highly because
it was unique and cannot be duplicat
ed. 1 spent considerable money and
had the assistance of a headquarters
detective, but without recovering the
belt.
"That \\‘as all well enough, but the
other day as I was walking down
Broadway I saw Sir.' Detective. He
saw me, too, and remembered that he
had seen me somewhere, but had evi
dently forgotten the circumstances.
He ‘shadowed’ me for a block; then
when I turned into a store he slipped
into a doorway and waited for me to
come out Again he shadowed me till
I turned info my doorway.
“At that point he seemed to sudden
ly remember that he had known me as
a client, not as a victim, for as I look
ed back he seemed to have a sheepish
look in his face us he turned and walk
ed rapidly away.’’—New York Globe.
New York’* First Mayor.
The first mayor of New York, Thom
as Willett, was inducted into office in
June, 1665. Governor Richard Nicolls,
the first English executive of the fu
ture Empire State, was responsible for
the appointment of Willett, who was a
wealthy merchant and trader and had
a town house in New York and a coun
try estate in Rhode Island, where Ids
body was buried in 1674. Willett, who
was a shrewd business man, governed
New York honestly and well and after
his first term of one year was made
mayor again in 1667. The municipal
government of which he was the head
was composed of live aldermen, three
Dutch and two English, and a slierilT,
although police duties devolved largely
upon the mayor, and he was police
magistrate as well.—New York Worid
A Wonderful Drummer.
Probably the most remarkable drum
mer who ever lived was Jean Ilenrl,
the famous tambour major of the Em
peror Napoleon. One of his feats was
to play on fifteen different toned drums
at the same time in so soft and harmo
nious a manner that instead of the
deafening uproar that might have been
expected the effect was that of a novel
and complete instrument. In playing
! he passed from one drum to the other
with such wonderful quickness that
the eyeswif the spectators could hardly
follow tlm movement of his bands and
body. |L_
Mansfield’s Humor.
Richard Mansfield's humor was of
ten misapprehended for conceit.
One night the company was playing
under a tin roof upon which a sudden
dowupour of rain caused a terrific clat
ter. This startled Mansfield Into ex
claiming, "What’s that noise?” "Rain,
'sir,” was the answer. “Tell it to
stop!" ordered the actor fiercely.—New
York Globe.
Sho Was Prepared.
“I trust. Miss Tapplt.” said the be
nevolent employer to his stenographer,
"that you have something In reserve
for a rainy day."
"Yes, sir,” said the earnest young
woman. “I am going to marry a man
named Mackintosh.”
Perfectly Plausible.
Cautious Customer—But If he’s a
young horse, why do his legs bend so?
Denier—Ah, «ir. the poor animal has
been living in a stable too low for him.
and he’s had to stoop!—Exchange.
Pa’s Solution.
“Oh, papa," called Willie excitedly,
“there’s a big black bug on the celling.”
“All right, son.” snid the professor,
busy with his essay; “step on it and
don't bother me.”
We rise in glory as we sink in pride
—Young
Household and Camp
Necessities
Wear-Ever Royal Graniteware
Luminum Cooking* Utensils. Cooking Utensils and Table
Light and durable. Guaran- ware. A brand well known
teed to meet every test. to all users of the best.
White Enamelware, fancy and plain Chinaware;
Glasses and Glassware; Butcher Knives and
Cutlery; Tinware and Ironware.
Our assortment is too numerous to enumerate-If you need anything see us first
BLOWN TO SAFETY.
Curious Incident of an Explosion That
Wrecked Fifty Homes.
It happened that In the last month
of the reign of Charles I. a certain
ship chandler of London was foolish
enough to busy himself over a barrel
of gunpowder with a lighted candle in
his hand. He paid the price.of his
folly. A. spark fell into the gunpow
der, and* the place was blown up.
The trouble was that the man who
did the mischief was not the only one
to perish. Fifty houses were wrecked,
and the number of people who were
killed was not known.
In one house among the fifty n moth
er had put her baby into its cradle to
sleep before the explosion occurred.
What became of the mother no one
ever knew, but what became of the
baby was very widely known. The
next morning there was found upon
the leads of the Church of Allhallows
a young child In a cradle, baby and
cradle being entirely uninjured by the
explosion that had lifted both to such
a giddy height.
It was never learned who the child
was, but she was adopted by a gentle
man of the parish and grew to woman
hood. She must surely all her life
have had a peculiar interest in that
church.—Sir Walter l'esant's ‘-Lon
don.”
Misplaced Sympathy.
Sitting near the door in a subway
car was a middle aged man reading a
newspaper. At one station there got
aboard this car a mother and tier son,
a small hoy maybe four years old.
As those two came through the door
way and into the car the small hoy,
quite by accident, of course, lilt the
middle aged gentleman reading the
newspaper a good, smart kick on the
sldn, causing the man to wince, while
the boy's progress was checked for a
moment by Ills thus kicking up against
something.
The mother looked down, but she
said nothing to the man. It was to the
boy she spoke:
"Did you hurt yourself, dear?”
Which seemed a case of misplaced
sympathy.—New York Sun.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from tne official tide L
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water Is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
In feet and tenths:
Friday, February 12.
High Mde 10:50 a. m„ 13.0.
Low tide 4:44 a. m., 2.6: 5:48 p.
m., 1.4.
Saturday, February 13.
High tide 12:07 a. m., 10.8; 11:38
p. m., 13.1.
Low tide 5:34 a. m., 2.0; 6:24 p.
m., 1.4.
Sunday, February 14.
High tide 12:41 a. m., 11.3; 12:22
p. m., 13.1.
Low tide 6:16 a. m., 1.8; 6:58 p.
m., 1.3.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Feb. 11, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,995
Temperature at 7 p. m. 17
Maximum temperature ...,. 28
Minimum temperature . 17
Mean temperature . 221-2
Partly cloudy, moderate gale, wind
northeast 40 miles.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f f TMDCD and Building
Puget Sound LUIVIDlU\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Rouirh Dry lCc lb.
STEAMSHIP CO.
I__I
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell, noughts
Cordova Ellamnr. Valdez and Latouchc. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th
S S Catouche. 15th: S S Cordova. S5th of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Aft- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
BOTTIEP IN
.*•3Pinch 3C°- j
FULL
QUART
m iB —i m
-BOTTLED IN BOND 1 1 —
Has Had no Peers for Fifty Years
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Feb. 12, 1915.
STATION Above Below, Snow In. WEATHER CONDITIONS
Donnelly ■. 6 6 Cloudy, high south winds, trail bare.
McCallum . 20 25 Clear, calm, trail good.
Paxson’s . 15 19 Clear, calm, trail heavy.
Hogan . 7 17 Cloudy, calm, trail fair.
Gulkana . 15 14 Clear, calm, trail good.
Copper Center . 10 10 Clear, calm, trail heavy.
Tonslna . 18 25 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Teikhell . 15 26 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Beaver Dam. 15 38 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Summit . 2 50 Clear, calm, trail drifted.
Wortman’s . IB 43 Clear, calm, trail drifted.