VALDKZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
YOU’LL SURELY BE
WELL SUITED
with the suit we make to your
measure. Made up in the clas
siest style, from cloth of ex
clusive pattern in the very
best of tailoring craftsmanship
it will be a suit that will car
ry individuality and distinction
in every line. Stop in and be
measured. You can afford to
at our prces.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
■ PINZfiN BAR
Imported and pomertic
Wipes, Liquors and Cigars
, ■«»*,.'* * y ■ ^ v \ •*i • * •
Phone 69
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MERCHANT’S CAFE
FltHSH BREAD ANB PASTRY DAILY
Phffnr w OPEN AM, NIGHT Cb«s. Ftecber, Prspi.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
THE- SENATE
ANGUS OHISHOUtf—FHANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 3S
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Bunding Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66
Foot Keystone Ave
Rousrh Dry tCc lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
COCKTAILS
Oyster Cocktails, Crab Cocktails,
Shrimp Cocktails, Minced Clam Cock
tails, ready to serve, at Love-Whit
ley’s. tf
Dent’s kid gloves in black, white
and tan would make a very nice
Christmas present. At B. Winter’s, tf
A new line of hand painted china.
Owl Drug Co. tf
Location notices, both quarts and
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
Notice O. E. 8.
There will be an important meet
ing the O. E. S. on Tuesday eve, Jau.
2. All members will please be pres
ent. Visitors welcome.
B&t H. COCKER1LLE, Sec. v
Two Hundred of the latest Colum
bia Phonograph Records just receiv
ed on the Alameda. Owl Drug Co. tf,
Try the Cottage Dining Room for
good home-cooked meals. Mrs. M.
Rucker, Phone 181. tf
The Owl Drag Store oaa furnish
you with a 1817 Dairy. tf
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The committee in charge of solicit
ing subscriptions to the fund for se
curing the arrest and conviction if
the party or parties setting fire to
the several business places last Tues
day report having secured the sum
of $2,486.
The following is the list of sub
scribers and the amounts subscribed
up to 1 o’clock this afternoon:
Love-Whitley Co.$ 50.00
Valdez Dock Co. 250.00
S. Blum & Co. 200.00
Valdez. Merc. Co. 200.00
T. J. Donohoe . 100.00
John Lyons . 100.00
E. E. Ritchie . 100.00
Alaska Liquor & T. Co. 76.00
Valdez Drag Co. .. 75.00
Empress Theatre . 50.00
Stewart <£ Selby . 50.00
Dr. P. M. Boyle. 60.00
Senate Saloon . 50.00
Merchant’s Cafe . 50.00
Frye-Bruhn Co. ...\. 50.00
Chamber of Comnierce . 50.00
Owl Drug Compan^. 50.00
H. E. F. King . 26.00
Ben Silverman .. 25.00
Levy & Ross . 26.00
Major P. W. Davison. 25.00
George Mead .«,. 26.00
Charles R. Crawford .*. 26.00
Jas. Patterson . 26.00
W. J. Morton . 25.00
Charles Sealey . 26.00
Ed. Wood . 26.00
A. Dieringer . 26.00
James E. Wilson . 26.00
E. G. Ames. 20.00
Jos. A. Bourke . 20.00
C. J. Todd . 29.00
Sam Jensen . 20.00
Dr. J. A. Silverman . 20.00
E. Winter . 20.C0
Dr. von Gunther . 20.00
Alaska Inv. Co. 15.00
Jake Hepfinger . 15.00
Dave Bennett . 10.00
Dr. Merritt. 10.00
Adam Swan . 10.00
Wm. Brennan . 10 00
George Sanders . 10.00
Wm. Golineau . 10.00
H. M. Saling . 10.00
Andy Marovich . 10.00
Prank Lowe . 10.00
T. Dougherty . 10.00
Guy Cameron . 10.00
Albemarle Hotel . 10.00
W. R. Millard . 10.Oo
J. C. Martin . 10.00
Sam Knudsen . 10.00
Geo. Reinke . 10.00
William Schmidt . 10.00
J. J. Betties . 10.00
City Express . 10.00
O. P. Hubbard . 10.00
Max Schmidt . 5.00
Eli Larson . 6.00
E. P. Cashman . 5.00
Oliver Morrais. 5.Of
Grant Remington . 5.00
Tom Hunt . 5.00
August Hokanson . 5.00
L. Decker . 6.00
J. P. Holman . 5.00
D. P. Millard . >5.00
B. C. Wiltse ... ' 5.00
Porter King .5.00
Walter Elliott '.'. 5.00
H. M. Conrad . 6.00
C. H. Golden . 5.00
t. H.-«Voll . 5.00
•fwk Hughes . 5.00
H. E. Albert . 5.00
O. A. Hall . 5.00
Rev. Nicholls . 5.00
Wm. Meals . 5.00
Jas. Gilmour . 5.00
Ed. Spearstad . 5.00
Dr. H. Cockerille . 5.00
C. C. Rudolph . 5.00
Mrs. M. Rucker . 5.00
R. D. Kelsey . 5.00
Frank Nelson . 5.00;
F. J. Hayes . 5.00
B. D. Burhoe . 5.00
Geo. Fawcett . 5.00
\V. Whalen . 5.00
C. B. Smith . 5.00
Geo. Strixner . 5.00!
Ross Paden . 5.0o
Hugo Bergstrom . 5.00
Wra. Sparvelo . 5.00
Robert Weber . 5.00
Tom Beasley . 5.00
Tim Marcum . 5.00
George Cristo . 5.00
Gus Henckle . 5.00
J. D. Hamilton . 5.00
Harry Ober . 5.00
George Brown . 5.00
C. J. Egan . 5.00
J. W. Gilson . 5.00
Johnnie Johnson . 5.00
John W. White . 5.00
P. E. Petersen . 5.0i
H. A. King . 5.01
C hrist Rogstad. 5.00
W. L. Mooney .7.. 3.00
E. A. Sweet . 2.00
I24S5.00
British Boats Collide
LONDON, Jan. 6.—Two British
torpedo boat destroyers have been
sunk in a collision in the North sea,
according to the Admiralty but no
details are so far ‘obtainable as to
the names of the destroyers or the
causualties, if there were any.
MCK SPRAT AND HIS WIFE.
• • '•» ■ I I ' I >U '* 4 $ . •«**., *»
Ths Original Csupls Wars an English
Churchman and His Mata.
You know all about Jack Sprat and
bis wife. You have had occasion more
than once to call unkind attention to
the lean husband and the fat wife,
who contrived between them to de
vour all the meat on the platter. Do
you belong with the large majority of
those wlio have given any considers
tlon to the subject, who are satisfied
that Mr. and Mrs. Sprat came Into ex
istence in the fertile brain of old
Mother Goose? If so you must rate It
as nn American production and the
Sprats as a typical American couple.
That they could have developed as a
type in the early New England days,
when the life of the women folk was
particularly hard, seems Improbable.
No; the Sprats did not grow In the
soil of the colonies. Of this comfort
ing fact there is the best (Hideiiee.
Long before the pilgrim fathers land
ed on Plymouth rock a great English
dignitary had been ir.vlo the victim
of ridicule In had rlire. The verse,
which began with the words. "Arch
deacon Pratt could cat no fat. his wife
could eat no lean." was Included in a
collection of ancient proverbs and folk
songs that was published by James
Howell, the famous London lexicogra
pher, In 1651). The quatrain ends with
the enlightening statement. "’Twlxt
Archdeacon Pratt and Joan his wife,
the meat was c:.t up clean." James
Orchard Halllwell revived the old
satire In his "Nursery Rhymes of Eng
land," published In 1845.—St Louis
Globe-Democra t.
THE WORLD’S LARGEST CITY.
It la a Tumbledown Place In Mexico
and la Called Namiquipa.
Namlqulpa, In the state of Chihuu
hua, Mexico, lias the distinction of be
ing the largest city In the world. Its
site covers an area of 444 square miles,
or approximately 284,000 acres. Its ex
act boundaries having been fixed some
300 years ago by a charter from the
then king of Spain, who gave the land
to some colonists from Castile.
The greater part of the city site, how
ever, is unbuilt upon, and, as regards
the built over portion, many of the
houses, originally constructed of sun
dried brick, are in ruins.
Next to Nnmiqulpa the biggest city
of eithe# ancient or modern times was
undoubtedly Babylon. Recent exca
rations have uncovered the old walls,
and they are found tp have measured
fifteen miles each way. Inclosing the
city in»the form of a perfect square.
An easy arithmetical calculation shows \
us that the area of Babylon inside the
walls, therefore, was 225 square miles, j
or 144,000 acres.
Compared with such figures as these {
Birmingham with 8,420 acres, Norwich
with 7,472 acres and Glasgow with
0,111 acres are utmost In the nature of
small villages. Yet these are the three
biggest British cities—that is to say.
they contain within their civic bounda
rles the biggest area of ground.
The cty of London proper contains
no more than about 040 acres, approxl
mately one square mile.—Ixuidon Tele
graph.
The Druids.
They druids were evidently of very
great' antiquity, for there cannot be
much doubt that it was one of their
.customs that Vergil had In mind when
he wrote in the “Aeneid.” vl, 142, that
the “only means of access for a living
mortal to the world of spirits was the
carrying of a golden twig which grew
In a dark and thick grove.” The re
semblance of the story to the druid
leal rite is perfect. The druids prac
tleed their rites In dark groves. If a
mistletoe was discovered growing
upon an oak a priest severed it with
I a knife, and a festival was held under
the tree at which two milk white
bulls were offered as a\ sacrifice. This
was a sacrifice to the sun god. and the
mistletoe, from Its pale greenish yel
low tint, was regarded as a kind of
vegetable gold and was accordingly
looked upon as being a fit offering to
the sun.
Birds of a Feather.
Frederick Leveson-Gower In Ills rem
iniscences relates that when he visited
Moscow in 1856 for the coronation of
Alexander II. “opposite our house dur
ing the procession was drawn up a reg
iment called Paulovski, formed by the
Emperor Paul, all the men having
turned up noses and therefore resem
bling him. It seems it was the fashion
to compose regiments of men all hav
ing the same features. The late em
peror had recruits sent to him and told
them off according to their looks. There
is one regiment of men all marked with
the smallpox.”
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Carpat Mills.
The first carpet mill in America was
not established until after the close ot
the Revolution. It was in 1791. at
Philadelphia, that carpet making as an
industry was born in the United States
Since then, however, this country has
become pre-eminent In carpet making.
Generous.
“Some men say," remarked the beau
tlful heiress, “that I have no heart.'
“Oh, that doesn’t matter," replied the
poor but willing youth. “I’ll give you
mine.”
More Like It.
“Now they say they can weigh the
conscience."
"By the ounce?"
“I imagine by the scruple.’’—Kansas
ORy Journal.
That’s the Piece.
Church—Your face looks as if it had
been cut in several places. Gotham—
No, only in one place—my barber’s.—
Yonkers Statesman.
» Al; l
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if fire does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
T TONY’S PLACE™
A
EVERYTHING
F1RS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER*
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
Leave Seattle—
Jan. 10—S. S. Watson,
For Seward
Jaa. 20—S. S. Spokane,
For Kodiak
Jan. 30—8. 8. Watson,
For Seward
l>eave Valdez
Jan. 10—8. 8. Spokane,
Jan. 18—8. 8.,Watson,
Jan. 28—8. 8. Spokane,
For Cordova, Katalla, Yaku
tat, Juneau, Ketchikan.
SEATTLE, TACOMA
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Hailing" from Seattle—
Jan. 11—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 16—S. S. Mariposa.
Jan. 24—S. S. Alameda.
Feb. 1—S. S. Mariposa.
F
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 10—S. s'. Mariposa.
Jan. 18—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 24—S. S. Mariposa.
Feb. 1—S. S. Alatneda.
-CALLING AT- *
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. USCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdea and La-J
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule vrttfcout notice.
F. B. TRACY. Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO^ Local Agent
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to “Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Jnnean, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tf
Just Received — tb*-' latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Fresh butter and eggs at Keystone
Produce Co. 3t
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfer that baggage for you. tf
Your picture will please the folks
at home better than anything you can
send them. Jenner the photographer
tf
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdes
Drug Store. tf
BOOKSf Yes, we have them, suit
able tor Xmas presents; and Pyralln
iTory, hand painted. Valdes Drug
Go.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Tor good home-cooked meals tor
Mrs. M. Olson, on Ho kart streak. *