STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
phone 7 for men only
MERCHANT’S CAFE
• FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 . Chas. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ LODGE
NO Jfl8
Free and Accepted Haaona.
Regular Communications first Wed
nesday In each month In MoKlnley
Hall. Visitors always welcome.
A. 15. GRIGSBY. W. M.
■ HD. WOOD, Secretary.
The Best Place in Valdez to
Stop at is the
Arctic Hotel
•' Warm, Light Room*--The Home of Comfort
. RATES REASONABLE
\
H BATH Special Rate* By the Month
5 Zl
PHONE 133**Ti MRS. SYR1NG, Prop.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING
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McKinley Street, Valdez
ED. WOOD, Proprietor
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“back” a good plan, a good
idea, a good business ven
ture or a good mining pros
pect ; otherwise a good many
of today’s successful busi
ness enterprises would still
be mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about[ a majority of the in
troductions of the man with
the idea! the man with a
prospect,* or business to the
man with the dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
CANADA PLANS FLEET
OF 20 LUMBER VESSELS !
WASHINGTON: Government aid ,
for the Canadian coast lumber Indus- ,
try is planned in a bill to be intro- ,
duced In the next British Columbian .
parliament providing for construction ,
of a great fleet of lumber carrying .
ships. The bill will have government .
support, it is reported. I
me measure would provide a Dona
issue for building 20 vessels of 2000
tons each, carrying 2,000,000 feet of
lumber each. Such a fleet would
more than triple export facilities for
Canadian Pacific lumber men. The
Canadian government already put an
agent in London, the commerce bu
reau was informed, to aid in market
ing the expected increase in Canadian
London shipments.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store •
4 -
ValMez Drug Company nave a fine
Uue of School Stationery. tf.
Pictures developed at the Valdez
Drug Company! tf.
A fine display of nugget Jewelry at
Valdez Drug Co. tf
—" 1
Anything in the jewelry line at the
Valdez Drug Co. tf
Bropma 26c, 86c and 60c; for the
beat at the Emporium. tf
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Bargains at the Emporium; open
trom t a. m. to 9 p. m. •
Communicated.
Editor Prospector: You stru U it
right in guessing that if the Forty
Ninth Starter helped Valentine or
anybody save $50,000 to Juneau-.it
might hhve been by staying away.
Valentine was mayor of Junea • from
April, 1908, until April, 1912. Hon
est John left Juneau for Cordova in
the early summer of 1908. It is not
likely that he even supported Valen
tine for mayor because he was work
ing at the time on the editorial staff
of the Juneau Record, the Iloggatt
organ of Juneau.
Not more than two months after
Valentine’s flrEt election the Hoggatt
Shackleford crowd wished Honest
John on the townsite people of Cor
dova. He ran the Alaskan f ir them
for a year and whooped up the am
bient air for the Guggenheim* an t all
things Guggy. Meanwhile be was
malting up the gross receipts of the
paper and letting the stockiiolc.ers
pay the bills. Wherefore they tired
bim out. For particulars ask T. .1
Donohoe and his associates. Then he
rot a shirt-tail full of type and >an
the Cordova "Truth” as a refirra oi
lman until it perished under a load of
lebt, like every business venture Hon
ast John has tangled up with, tor so
many years that the memory of nan
runneth not to the contrary.
In 1911 the Perpetual Starter came
:o Valdez, where hie record is so
widely known that everybody can
smell it. In all the years since then
le has had no connection with Valen
:ine at Juneau, hat he may have leen
i great help to valentine ana the cap
tal city by staying so far away, as
rou suggest.
He didn’t have time to help Ju
ieau because he was too busy stick
ng the Vaidez Miner stockholders
ind creo.^.s ,3700 in a few months,
ft toon nun longer to soak sundry
nisguided politicians $1000 or so on
;he Commoner because that sheet was
ess expensive and pretentious a~d
he suckers were not biting so avidly
is in the days when the Miner bou.
ueoned and withered like Jonah’s
;ourd.
A. RUFFNEK.
A STALK CONGRESS.
All of the representatives and one
hird of the senators who assembled
it Washington on Monday were se
eded a little more than thirteen
nonths ago. They were nominated
'or office perhaps fifteen or sixteen
nonths ago, and their “booms” were
itarted before war had broken out in
Surope. Only an antiquarian knows
vhat the issues were whyi these men
were put into office. Whatever the
ssues were they are not the issues
ibout which these men will legislate,
rhe net result is that our representat
ives come with a mandate from the
>eople approximately as direct as
hat of Rip Van Winkle when he
(merged from the Katskills. They
ire to make laws for a condition of
iltairs which was hardly Imagined
vh®h they were chosen. They emerge
rom the Sleepy Hollow of American
solation.—The New Republic.
BETTER GOVERNMENT
FOR ALASKA URGED.
WASHINGTON: In his annual
message Secretary of Interior Lane
says that the federal government
should continue its sympathetic co
operation in the development of Alas
ka. He urges that the confusion in
administration action in Alaska af
fairs should be abolished.
“It would be too hazardous a
thing to surrender these resources to
local control or disposal for those
who have lived in any new country
know how great the temptation is to
grant away water front and power
sites, forest and other exceptlanal re
sources to >those who come offering
large sumB for quick improvement.
Yet this should not drive us into a
policy that makes slow administra
tion a necessity.”
Old Boreas swooped down upon us
again last night, and with a half gale
blowing and a heavy snow falling,
our streets are covered with some
thre. to six feet of snow. While the
temperature is not low, the wind cuts '
like a knife and ,i is safe to say that :
all amusements will be suspended un
til the storm is over.
YUKON RIVER CAPTAIN
FOLLOWS LUCKY HUNCH
Capt. Sid Barrington, a well
known Alaska mining and steamboat
man, is convinced that it pays to fol
low what is commonly known as a
“hunch.” Captain Barrington recent
ly became interested in the strike on
Rude, Dip and Isaac creeks, near the
Yukon river, fifty miles above Daw
son. So interested did he become
that he bought four claims on R.s>e
creek, Seven below Discovery, and
Six, Eleven and Ten above. He then
found that Two and Three above Dis
covery were also for sale and playing
his hunch secured them with the rest,
the whole deal costing him $10,000.
Yesterday he got a letter from his
mining superintendent, whom he haa
previously sent in to work on the first
four claims he purchased, telling him
that he must by all means buy Two
and Three, as they looked the best
of the lot and to go as high as $5000
each.
"My superintendent didn’t know
when he wrote me in regard to Two
and Three above Discovery that I had
already purchased them,” said Capt.
Barrington yesterday at the Stevens.
“It looks like I had the right hunch
on those claims, as he is an expert
miner. I am getting the whole
bunch for what he thought I might
have to pay for the two alone.”
Capt. Barrington has six men at
work on his claims now and will go
in himself in the spring. Besides his
mining ventures Capt. Barrington
will put a new freight and passenger
boat on the Stikine river next sea
son. The boat will be powered with
gasoline engines. “I already have the
freighting contracts from J. E. Chil
berg for supplies to his mine and also
for the trading post at Telegraph
creek,” said Capt. Barrington.—Post
Intelligencer.
STRANGE SHEEP SHOT
IN THE PEEL COUNTRY.
Dawson News: A number of Peel
River indians arrivbd yesterday and
brought in a large quantity of moun
tain sheep and caribou on toboggans
drawn by dogs. Among the sheep is
one speciman which is the most un
ique ever seen here. It is exceedingly
large and has a dark back, exactly
like that of a caribou. The other parts
are of the customary white. Nearly
everyone on first avenue yesterday
who went up to see what the Indians
had brought in thought at first on
looking at the big u.ack mountain
sheep that it was a caribou. The
head was obscured from the quarter
from which the people approached as
though it had been cut off. But
when the spectator stepped to the
front he quickly discerned the usual
large sheep head and the massive
horns. The big sheep was killed and
brought in by John Martin, well
known member of the Peel River
Indian tribe. It was shot near the
head of Hart river, a tributary of
the Peel.
SHIPS REFUSE TO
CARRY PARCEL POST
The Post Office Department has an
nounced that the parcel post service
to Germany, Austria and Hungary
has been suspended until further no
tice because of the refusal of the
steamship companies to accept parcel
post mail for those countries.
Really this is done because England
has become miffed at the vast amount
of food which is finding its way to
Germany and Austria by way of par
cel post and her persistence in
stopping our vessels and looting the
mails has forced the president to eith
er stop England or stop the post. So
he chose to stop the post.
me unitea states government has
expended hundreds of millions of dol
lars to provide channels and wharf
accommodations for foreign ships.
These ships agreed to carry our mailt
and merchandise to all parts of the
world to neutral countries. We are
not at war with any of the countries
which are warring, but still these
vessels have abrogated their agree
ment.
The refusal <jn the part, of any for
eign ship to cagry and United State?
commodity be it mail or merchandise
under any other administratior
would mean the revocation of the
right of that ship to sail to or from
our ports. -
But the United States will make no
such revocation orders.
When will the United States have
ships of its own?
How much longer are we to re
main at the mercy of foreign car
riers?
Notice to Eagles.
The installation of officers of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles will be
held Friday evening, January 7, at
i o’clock. All member* and visit
ing Eagles are Invited to attend.
2t C. J. TODD, Sec.
Empress Dark Tonight.
Manager Pinkus of the Empress
rheatre announces that there will be
to show at his theatre this evening
swing to the storm. The "Monstone"
rill be shown Saturday night. It
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SPEED OF PROJECTILES.
How tho Vclmity of Cannon Balia and
Bullats la Measured.
How fast does a bullet travel? The
highest velocity ever given to a cannon
ball is 1.112(1 feet per second. This is
equal to a mile in little more than
three seconds, or nearly twenty miles
u minute.
A ritle bullet does not travel so fast
as a cannon ball, the average rate be
ing 1.275 feet pm second. This mat
ter of speed is tested in a very inter
esting way.
A long wooden shed'is used. In which
a distance of exactly 100 feet lias been
carefully marked off. At each end of
this space is a stand something like a
target with a large circular opening
where the bullseye should be. Across
each opening is stretched a small elec
tric wire, connected with a delicate
instrument In another room.
The rifle from which the firing la
done is so aimed that the bullet which
flies from it cuts both wires. Obvious
ly the difference in time between the
cutting of the two wires marks the
speed of the bullet through that 100
feet.
When the first wire is cat an electric
current Is broken and a rod falls, mov
ing a pointer on a slide in its desceut
The breaking of tte second wire acts
In the same manner on another set of
rods, slides and pointers.
The difference in the marks made by
tbe pointers on the slides makes it pos
sible to estimate the difference In their
time of falling, and from these calcu
lations accurate figures as to speed are
obtained.—London Answers.
MYSTERY OF THE PLAGUE.
How and Why Did It Disappear From
England In 1665*7
Why did the plague disappear from
England? Mr. Bernard Shaw inci
dentally asks this deeply Interesting
question in a letter to the Nation, and
we cannot say that we are satisfied
with bis answer. He says he "knows"
that plague has been "extirpated" by
•'coinmou sanitation."
Until the recent sporadic imported
cases, the last recorded cases of plague
In England occurred at Nottingham in
1*107. in that year plague vanished ut
terly from England for two and a half
centuries. No one who has examined
the records of the seventeenth cjntury
can believe that it was "extirpated" by
sanitation. Very gradually In the suc
ceeding century and a half plague
withdrew from Europe also.
The date of its disappearance from
Constantinople has been fixed at about
the year 1841. It remained endemic
only in a few lonely places in the
world, such ns the highlands of west
ern Arabia. Yunnan in China and Mes
opotamia. Sanitation, though an ex
cellent palliative, certainly never drove
the plague from Stamboul and Cairo
and the southern Mediterranean, any
inure than it did from England.
The shrinkage of plague is as great
a mystery as the recent outburst which
infected the whole world. Perhaps the
explanation is that in a few years bac
teria mny go through the myriad trans
forming processes of evolution which
in the case of humanity take eons to
complete.—Pall Mall Gazette.
CHINESE HUMOR.
The Story of the Careless Man and Hia
Puzzled Servant.
There was a man who was careless
and unobserving. Once, when be was
going abroad, he hastily pulled on his
shoes, ready to hasten away, when, to
bis surprise, he found that one of bis
legs bad suddenly become longer than
the other.
He was both puzzled and frightened,
for he said to himself: “What can be
the matter? When I last walked my
legs were the same length. How
queer it is! I have met with no acci
dent nor has any one cut a piece from
my foot palm.”
He felt his legs and then his feet to
solve the mystery. At last he discov
ered the mistake to be in bis shoes,
for be had put on one shoe with a thick
sole and one with a thin sole.
“These shoes are odd ones and not
a pair,” said be. So he called loudly
for his servant and ordered him quick
ly to change his boots.
The servant went into the room to
bring the master’s boots, but after a
little time came back with a much
puzzled expression on his face. His
master sternly demanded the boots for
which be had sent him, but received
for his answer:
"Dear master, it is very strange, but
there is no use for me to change your
boots, for when I examined the pair
of boots in the room 1 found that they
are just like the pair you have on. for
one has a thick sole and the other a
thin sole.”—Chinese Fun and Philoso
phy, in St Nicholas.
A 8hads of Doubt.
“What do you think of my gradua
tion essay?” asked the young man.
"Fine!” replied bis father. “Only I’m
afraid a lot of people ure going to be
bashful about offering plain wages to a
man whose intellect Is so much above
the average.”—Washington Star.
For Nature Student*.
The young author, reading a fake an
imal story to the attentive editor, said:
“Whereupon the woodchuck laughed
aoftly to himself."
“Ah." remarked the editor. “I sup
pose be Indulged In a woodehuckle!"—
Chicago News.
Family Division.
Friend—So that Is your little boyt
Be-looks very Intelligent. Proud Mam
ma-Just aa 1 was at bis age. My
daughter, now. la more like bar father.
-Noe Loielrs.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES -V TRAIN
Auto for HD e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. 8PENARD, Prop.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Qnaranteed I
Telephone 66 I
Foot Keystone Ave
Roujrh Dry 10c lb
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL. STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California LiflS Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th rails Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday* connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. KING WOOD. Mgr., Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 2'OTH AND 30TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. Gllamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
I
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent.
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
"MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management-one service all the way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY. \
A, EL HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.