Valdez Daily Prospector
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913.
NO NEWS or
S. S. SEWARD
Freighter Supposed to Have Left Se
attle November 19th—Officials
Are Not Worried.
The failure of tfhe steam freighter
Seward, of the Alaska Steamship Co.
to reach Valdez lias caused some of
the businessmen to worry regarding
the vessel. Charles Kraemer, the ag
ent of the Alaska Steamship Co., how
ever, is not worried regarding tne
boat because of the heavy freight
shipments aboard consigned to South
eastern Alaska ports, which he believ
es are the cause of the boat’s delay.
The freight of the Seward consists
of >200,000 feet pi lumber for IJu
neau (and the unloading of lumber
will require several days), also a
large amount of heavy machinery for
the big mining companies operating
near Juneau, and the unloading of
heavy machinery consumes much
time.
Twenty-iour neau ui uuihvs aic uu
the freighter for W. A. Black, of
Nome, who will enter the freighting
business from Valdez to the Nelehi
na and also to the Chisana diggings.
Mr. Black is greatly worried about
his stock, as the long trip of the boat
with the horses kept in warm quar
ters cannot do them any possible
good and may result in some of the
horses catching cold. A large amount
of powder and gasoline is aboard the
vessel for Valdez merchants and un
less the steamer soon arrives the Cliff
mine will be short of powder.
The failure of the steamer Cordova
to report the Seward is taken as an
indication that the Cordova's captain
was not surprised at the non-arrival
of the Seward had the boat left Ju
neau before the Cordova and not ap
peared at the railroad town prior to
the arrival of that ship it is certain
that an investigation would have been
ordered. The break of the telegraph
line has prevented the local office
from securing any news of the boat,
but now that the wireless is in op
eration from Whitshed to Sitka it is
believed news of the ship will be re
ceived at almost any moment.
The Seward was built especially
for the Alaska ore carrying trade and
Captain John O’Brien was the first
captain of the vessel. He left the
Valdez hospital, where he had been
confined suffering with wounds re
ceived from Ci. 'abonia, the crazy
■ Italian who ran attack while the Vic
toria was at Katalla, cutting the cap
tain, the mate and several others
aboard the steamer. He was sent to
McNeil’s island for his crime. Capt.
O’Brien, however, did not like the
ship and made but one trip on her,
when he asked tc. Oe transferred to
his fid vessel, the Victoria.
Just as the Prospector goes to press
word was received by the Valdez
Dock company that the steamer Sew
ard would reach Valdez tomorrow
morning.
Imagination.
(By George Fitch.)
Imagination is seeing things back
of the eyes.
Some men have to walk ten miles
in order to gaze upon a vacant lol
and make sure it is there. Other men
can remain 100' miles away and see
the lot with a fifteen-story building
on top of it.
Some men can only see the half
pound fish which they haul in on >.aeii
lines. Other men can see and de
. scribe accurately the 11-poundere
which were within four feet of the
surface when they fell off the hook.
Some men can only see a day's wort
when they rise in the morning. Oth
er men can hardly see the work be
cause of the flock of palaces, private
yachts and country estates which
> tin just beyond It.
If a man has no imagination he
can see about a mile and a half on
this earth, and into the future as
far as he can poke his finger. But the
man with imagination can be enjoy
ing a ball game which is going to
take place next week 500 miles away
while he is wheeling brick; and he
can ramble around in next year as
readily and profusely as if he had
an annual pass on tomorrow, signed
by the President of the Universe.
Imagination keeps some men happy
and powerful while they are hunt
ing for jobs. It elects others presi
dent while they are running for the
office of coroner. It makes cham
pions and heroes of men who perform
great deeds while witnesses are un
avoidably absent; and it keeps many
people climbing large and knobby
| mountains of woe and tribulation
which they might easily step over if
they only thought so.
Imagination gives a man wings, and
makes him a resident of the centur
ies gone and of the centuries to
come. It also everlastingly busts
him once in a while. Beware of the
other fellow’s imagination. Too many
men have peered into a damp and
flea-infested hole in the ground in the
west and have seen therein wheel
barrow loads of solid gold, which they
have sold to eager investors very
much farther east.
Imagination is as exhilarating as
whiskey, and much easier on the sys
tem. But every man should equip his
imagination with a cut-out lever. A
little imagination will increase a
man’s happiness 100 per cent when
it gets to work on his troubles it
makes them grow like dog weed in a
potato patch.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
The Valdez Drug Co. has an elegant
stock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
FOR RENT—Horse and cutter; see
Charley Johnson at the Alameda.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
POSITION wanted by experienced
woman as camp cook. Inquire at the
Prospector office
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j S. Blum & Co. are showing the
j largest line of Xmax goods in town.
I Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
'the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. tf
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WANTED—-An experienced ironer,
apply Independent Laundry.
| Buy one of the nifty combination
j purse and card cases at the Val
: dez Drug Store.
j Fresh Seal shipped oysters on er
: ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
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Beds, rooms and lodging at the Ala
meda. Charles Johnson, proprietor.
S. Blum & Co. are sole agents for
Hart Schaffner & Marx tine suits.
FOR SALE—A fine piano, reason
able. apply to Lieut. Sherrard at
Fort Liscum.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
, man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Fine watch and jewelry repairing
alt work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
don. wit a Owl Drug Co.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Vai
dez Cafe. tf
!
j Just received, a large consignment
of furniture at Rudolph’s.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.00 we will give you a t ickot
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
For Sale.
Two bowling alleys complete, pins
and balls, also automatic pinsetter.
Will sell on terms if desired. Also
moving picture machine in first-class
condition. Enquire
AL. WHITE & CO.
A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Goods is shown at the Val
dez Drug Store.
By the ills that flesh is heir to we
merely mean that the doctor needs
the money.
i | * MILK—MILK-MILK |
Froth Milk and Cream |
ij VALDEZ DAIRY |
TtkphoM orders to Phono 1<87 2
A SAM CLEMENS PRANK.
True Story of the Trick He Turned In
Artistic Whitewashing.
The Hannibal of today, with its
thriving factories, street cars and
brick pavements, is a very different
place from the languid, yawning
Missouri village of Mark Twain’s
boyhood. The river has not changed,
and without the river Samuel Clem
ens could scarcely have been Mark
Twain. Yet perhaps it had no more
influence upon him than had this
picturesque old town of his boy
hood.
John A. Fry went to school with
Mark Twain, and he knows the
truth about the whitewash story.
“Sam Clemens? Yes, 1 knew
him. Went to school with him, and
I’m bound to say that he did keep
up with ns, but nobody ever knew
how he managed to learn anything.
Shiftless, lazy and dadblasted tired
—born tired! No study in him.
All the time too busy getting up
some new kind of devilment. And
he sure was a boy, Sam was, who
knew how to entertain himself.
“Ever hear about him and the
whitewash? Can’t say whether he
ever put it in any of his books or
not, but it’s a fact, every word of it.
Well, sir, one time he went out
over the neighborhood and took
contracts for whitewashing tight
board fences. Then, come night, he
blew his whistle or cat meowed to
get out the boys. Told ’em he had
a good trick they could play off on
the neighbors, lie let on that peo
ple would be awful mad if any
whitewash was put on their fences;
they wanted to plant vines and
flowers along their fences, the
neighbors did, so he said, and then
explained to us how lime would
surely be terrible bard on the
plants. People would wonder who
had done it; neighbors would be
awful mad ; it would kick up no end
of a row.
“Well, that sounded reasonable
and all right. And there we were,
us boys, just a-spoiling for excite
ment. To worry folks a lot we
thought was most as good fun as
a minstrel show. So that’s why the
scheme that Sam Clemens got up
looked so almighty attractive. But
I disremember whether the boys
hooked the lime to make the white
wash with or whether they come bv
it honorably. Anyhow, come night
with enough moon to see with, the
boys started in to whitewash the
fences. They just flew at it; they
soused it on; they worked and they
sweated, burned their hands and
faces with the lime and let their
selves be bossed by Sam Clemens
till the work was plumb through
and done.
“And then what happened? Well,
sir, the next day Sam goes around
to the different, houses, collects for
the jobs and gets no end of compli
ments. People, 1 reckon, never did
have so much whitewash on their
fences before."
“You might as well tell it all,” 1
urged. "Were you one of the boys
who assisted that night in making
the neighbors mad ?”
“Well,” said Mr. Fry as lie struck
a match to relight his pipe, “never
mind about that.”—Keene Abbott
in Harper’s Weekly.
Guilty Anyhow.
Daniel O'Connell was at one time
defending a man accused of murder
at Clonmel. The circumstantial
evidence was so strong against the
prisoner that the jury had already
determined upon their verdict of
guilty when tlie man supposed to
he murdered was brought into court
alive and unhurt. The jury were
desired to return their verdict at
once, and they did so, but it was
one of “Guilty.”
“What does this mean?” safd the
judge. “If the man lias not been
murdered how can the prisoner be
guilty?”
“Please, yor honor,” said the
foreman, “he's guilty. He stole my
bay mare three years ago.”
Beat Her Out of Sight.
A Washington suffragette was en
tertaining a mimlier of delegates
from distant cities.
“Might I inquire,” said the lady
from South America, “why that ex
tremely plain person in the red arm
chair arrogates unto herself so
many airs?”
“She is a Daughter of the Revo
lution,” said the lady addressed in
awed tones. “Her ancestor fought
in the Revolution.”
“Oh!” said the lady from South
America. “I myself am a daughter
of seventeen of them.”
Bold In War.
The word Gumboil when used as
a surname has nothing at all to do
with any part of the anatomy. It
denotes that its first bearer was a
man, of considerable importance and
great, power in the state. It is de
rived from the Norse word “gum
bald,” which itself has nothing to do
with any affliction, but means “bold
In war."
Copyright Han Schaffher & Marx
....OUR LINE OF....
Holiday Goods
Is the largest ever
shown in town.
There is'nobetter Xmas Present
for a Man than
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Fine Suit or Overcoat
We are showing all the latast
Styles and ' Colors.
WE ARE SOLE AGENTS
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THE TELEPHONE A MYSTERY.
Any One Can Use It, Yet Nobody Is
Able to Understand It.
The telephone business is not like
anv other business on the luce of
the earth. It is the most remark
able combination of science and
mystery, of human and mechanical,
of wire and wits, of highly skilled
specialists and the general public.
Any little child can be the engi
neer of a. telephone talk train. Any
little baby can send its cooings hun
dreds of miles along the wire to its
father at the other end. And yet,
at the mystery end of the telephone,
not even John J. Curty, master of
telephone science, can explain or
even comprehend some of the phe
nomena of a telephone exchange.
I once asked Alexander Graham
Bell if he really understood the
workings of a telephone receiver,
and he replied: “Why, of course not.
Xobody does.” I also asked Mr.
Kmile Berliner if he could explain
exactly what happened in a tele
phone transmitter, and he replied:
“No, 1 can't. It is as great a mys
tery today as it was thirty years
ago."
Think of the marvel of it! Here
is an intricate network of wires and
disks and electric currents and elec
tric lights and keys and jacks and
bells and cords and cables. This
mechanism is so delicate that it is
actually operated by the slightest
sound. It is not set in motion by
steam or gasoline, but by breath.
The slight vibration of the vocal
cords is actually the power that puts
the vast telephone mechanism in
operation.
A telephone system is an immense
and widespread mechanism of voice
machinery. There is nothing else
like it. It stands bv itself as a
marvelous tiling which any one can
use and which nobody can under
stand.—Herbert X. Casson in .Moun
tain States Monitor.
light and Power
Since the organization of the
Valdez
Electric
Company
Valdez consumers are getting
electric current at a reduction of
forty per cent In rates.
Support the new company and
keep rates down to bedrock.
Office inJCopper Block
Phone (57
Subscribe for the Prospector.
Prospectors,
Don’t neglect youijhealth on the trail.
The VALDEZ DRUG CO.
is prepared to fill your medicine kit
with the purest and best of drugs,
medicines, and surgical bandages.
TAZLINA HILL ROAD HOUSE
is open for freight and accommodations for the new
strike at Nelchina—Horses on hand at all times.
JAMES L. SIMPSON.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
! DENTISTj
I Phone 92 iFeurteen years' in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
F. BUTTERWORTH
[Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing lies Plume. Hi*
DR. GERMAN
Phono 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. id . to 6 p. in.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment Ail work guaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTO RN K Y- A T»LA W
Offices WhII S'.reet
•■hone 8. VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
LA WYER
phone’kw Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY ATJLAW
All Mining Buainnn Given Prompt
Attention.
WHALING BLDG. VALDEZ
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez. Alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
ISenegal Mining Engineering
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HUGO FELS
Contractor and Builder
DaylWork if Desired
Estimates Furnished
WORK GUARANTEED
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
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Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'oiocK la
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Valdez I/Odge
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Regular Communications tint Wednesday in
each month in MoKinley Hall Visitors always
weloome.
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C. C- Reynolds. Sec
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Moots every Monday at * p. “> 1B
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Visitintr Brothers especially Invited
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