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WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companie. Fourteen rears in
Office Kooms in VALDEZ |
Whaling Building.
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DR. GERMAN
fhoas • THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays.'
by appointment All work guaranteed ,
DR. Mip. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. BO
HOURS—9 to 12«.m.; 1 to 6 sod7 to9p. m.
JOHN LYONS E_ E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Well Street
Phone li VALDEZ
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone '84 Valdez, Alaska
F. JMSTTERWORTH
[Civil Engineer and[
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bln* Printing
Valdes, Alaska.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood,
Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ,
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
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 I.
D. Plynn, 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, 1914, 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 appointed 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 of last publication January
21, 1915.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
nesday, Saturday 3 to 5 p. m., Tues
days and Fridays 7:30 to 0:30 p. m.
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Value of Silence.
A stolid, blank-looking Indian sat in
the federal court room to be arraign
ed for bootlegging. His case was
called. The marshal told him to
stand up; but he only stared, appar
ently not comprehending. The mar
shal motioned him to rise. He stood.
“What is your name?” the judge
asked.
No reply.
"Have you an attorney?”
Only a helpless stare from the In
dian.
“Can you understand English?"
queried the judge.
Blank silence on the part of the
prisoner.
“Mr. Attorney, what is this man
charged with?” asked the judge.
The district attorney stated the
case.
"It seems to me.” said the judge,
“that this is a very trivial ease. The
poor thing doesn’t seem to under
stand a word of English. He prob
ably has no understanding that he has
done wrong. Mr. Attorney, just en
ter a nolle prosequi in this case.”
The Indian was told he could go;
but stood staring and motionless. The
marshal, with a gesture, ordered him
to sit down. He obeyed, and stayed
throughout the long afternoon ses
sion of court. In one case, the
charge was similar to his own. Scott
Miller, a noted local lawyer, was de
fending. Miller entered a plea of
guilty for his client, and then made
an impassioned plea for mercy. His
pathos would have moved a marble
statue to tears. He represented long
and earnestly the wonderful virtues
and manifold kindnesses of his client.
When he sat down the judge said:
"Five years in the penitentiary.”
Court adjourned, and as the crowd
passed out the Indian followed. He
walked down the steps behind M'ller.
Suddenly he leaned over and whis
pered in the attorney’s ear:
“White man talk too damn much.”
—Green Bag.
The Unwise Choice.
“In penitentiaries,’* he said,
"Four-fifths of all are men unwed.”
“But why do they,” inquired she,
“Prefer the penitentiary?”
—Eugene C. Dolson, in Lippincott's.
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If you want all the newa all the
time, read the Prospector.
In Mother GoomvMU.
Little Johnny Stout—Dlngdong bell!
Pussy’s In the well!
Old Mother Goose-Dear me! Now
we’ll have to boll the water.—Chicago
Dally News.
Judging by the Name.
“What Is this foot and mouth dis
ease?”
“I should suppose that It was an at
tempt to make both ends meet.”—Kan
sas City Times.
Always Asking Questions.
“How do you like your teacher,
dear?” little Mary was asked after her
first day at school.
“I like her real well,” said Mary.
“But I don’t think she knows much,
for she just keeps asking me questions
all the time.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Knew His Geography.
Teacher—Johnny, can you tell me
where Lake Ontario is?
l'upil—Yessum; page 18.—Philadel
phia Telegraph.
Unworthy of Consideration.
About midnight at an evening parly
a gentleman was asked to sing. He
thoughtfully declined to do so on the
plea that It would disturb the next door
neighbors.
“Oh, never mind the neighbors!” cried
the girl of the house. "They poisoned
our dog last week.” — Philadelphia
Ledger.
Overdrawn.
Robinson—I hear you (ell out with
the bank.
Jackson—Tea; I loot my balance.—
Philadelphia Prase.
COLD ICE CREAM.
The More Fat In the Cream the Longer
the Cold Taste Lasts.
An odd application of a very ab
stract principle of physics la to control
at will the cold taste of Ice cream. If
an Ice cream manufacturer wishes to
have bis Ice cream taste cold a long
time he can do so by making simple
changes In the cream mixture be
freezes, the actual temperature of the
frozen cream having little to do with
It The scheme has been worked out
by chemists of the Iowa State college.
The scientific principle is that of
specific heats. The specific heat of an
article Is the intensity of beat needed
to raise Its temperature a given num
ber of degrees or, In effect, the rapid
ity with which the article saps up
heat. Water is taken as the standard
and scientists know the specific heat
of most substances compared with wa
ter. These chemists carefully worked
out the specific beat of milk, cream
and various other dairy products, dis
covering that pure cream has a low
specific heat and that fatty substances
do not take up beat so quickly and ef
fectively ns does water.
This explains why sherbets and oth
er ices taste so cold when they first
reach the mouth, but do not give the
cold taste long. They have a high
specific heat and quickly take up heat
from the mouth, then melt
With Ice cream the more fat there Is
In the formula the lower the specific
beaL Accordingly a very fat cream
will not taste disagreeably cold at first
but a spoonful of ice cream In the
mouth will maintain Its cold taste
longer. Thus the cold taste can be con
trolled by the amount of fat used.—
Saturday Evening Post
HINDU EGG DANCE.
Curious and Difficult Feat Performed
by Girl Jugglers.
Of the many wonderful feats per
formed by Hindu jugglers one of the
most remarkable is the egg dance.
Usually it is executed by a girl fan
tastically dressed. She makes use of a
willow wheel, around which at equal
distances are threads, and at the end
of each thread there is a noose held
open by a bead.
This wheel the girl places on her
head, while she carries a basket of
eggs on her arm. When the music
strikes up she begins to dance, and the
wheel begins to spin around. She then
takes an egg from the basket, places
it in one of the thread nooses gnd
throws it from her with sufficient force
to draw the knot tight. The spinning
of the wheel keeps the thread stretched
with the egg at the end of it.
She then takes another egg from the
basket, places it in another noose and
repeats this until there is an egg in
every noose. Her fantastic costume,
her perfect motion and all the eggs
swinging on stretched threads at once
present a curious sight.
It requires much art to execute the
dance, for one false step would cause
the eggs to be dashed together and the
dancer to be disgraced.
After dancing for some time with all
the eggs swinging round her head she
takes them out of the noose one by
one, all the time keeping the wheel bal
anced and in motion, and again places
them in the basket on her arm.
After the performance the spectators
are allowed to examine the eggs to see
that they are real.—London Ideas.
Historic Clontarf.
Clontarf is one of the most historic
spots in Ireland. It was there that on
Good Friday. April 23, 1014, Brian
Boroihme and the men of Munster,
Connaught and Meath fought the
Danes.
Brian was killed in his tent; Sigurd,
earl of Orkney and Caithness, perish
ed also, and 11.000 Irishmen and 13,
000 Danes are said to have fallen. Vic
tory remained with the Irish, but the
Danes reoccupied Dublin. In modern
times O’Connell’s monster meetings
for repeal were to have culminated at
Clontarf. but the meeting was prohib
ited by the government, and O’Connell
was put upon his trial for conspiracy
and convicted, though the verdict was
eventually reversed by the house of
lords.—London Chrouicle.
Wouldn’t Hear the Game.
An exceptionally voluble golfer was
vainly endeavoring to move a ball with
his driver. Pausing In his efforts, he
espied, watching him, a small girl,
holding by the hand a still smaller
boy. Immediately visions of flying
golf balls flashed across his mind.
“You ought not to bring your little
brother here,” be cautioned the girL
“Oh. it’s all right, sir,” came the re
ply. “He’s stone deaf.”—Exchange.
Handy Fire Killer.
A siphon of soda water is an excel
lent fire extinguisher, as the carbonic
add gas in the soda water helps to
stifle the flames. The siphon can be
tilted, and the fluid will carry to a con
siderable height, such as the top of a
blazing curtain.
8afely Over It.
“Yes; I have a nice little home In the
suburbs.”
"Raise chickens, do you?”
“No; I passed that stage two years
ago.”—Pittsburgh Post
Usury.
Artist—I’ve spent a dollar car fare
toting that sketch around town, yet
you only offer me $2. Art Editor
Well, that’s 100 per cent on your mon
ey, Isn’t ItT—Life.
Good Geek.
“Have yon a good cook. Mrs. Jikef
“The cook's good enough, but her
cooking Is awful”—Baltimore Amer
ican.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WTEJCalllYou on Time for the boat
** if We Handle Your Baggage.
We Buy and£Sell Anything from
Dead’Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. | J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
f 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS $ Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
( 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
"We Never Close.”
Private Dining Room.
The Bent of Everything. We Bake Our Own
Bread and PaHtry. Bread forlSale.
Jack Callin--Proprietor
Chas. Peppy
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