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cal on or address
C. H. Kraemer, General Agent,
Alaska Steamship Co. and Ab'ka Coast S. S. Co., Valdez, Alaska
City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B. C.
. Second Are. and Cherry St., Seattle
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When in a hurry call on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
it my motto.
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If you want all the news all the
time read the Daily Prospector.
CITATION TO SHOW CAUSlT
In the Probate Court, Valdez Pre
cinct, Third Judicial Division,
Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
I. D. Flynn, deceased.—Citation
to Show Cause.
To Mabel M. Flynn and all
other heirs unknown, and to all
persons interested in the above
entitled estate, greeting:
You and each of you are here
by cited and required to appear
before the judge of this court,
at the court room thereof, in the
Town of Valdez Alaska, on Tues
day, the 23rd day of December,
1913, at ten o’clock in the fore
noon of said day, then and there
to show cause, if any you have,
why W. T. Scott, the adminis
trator of said estate, should not
be authorized by an order of this
court to sell at public sale all the
property belonging to said es
tate, the shine consisting of sun
dry personal effects and a one
third interest in and to lot 1 1-2,
in block 7, of the Town of Valdez,
Alaska.
And it is ordered that tars ci
tation be served upon you by
publication thereof in the Valdez
Daily Prospector, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed and
published at Valdez, Alaska, for
a period of at least four succes
sive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Geo. J.
Love, United States Commission
er and ex Officio Probate Judge
in and for Valdez Precinct, Third
Judicial Division, Territory of
Alaska, wjth the seal of said
court affixed, this 21st day of Oc
tober, 1913.
(Seal) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and ex Of
ficio Probate Judge.
First pub. Oct. 21. 1913.
Last pub. Nov. 18, 1913.
WEIGHT OF THE EARTH.
And th» Method by Which Scientists
Are Able to Measure It.
Over a century ago, after the
ancients, medic vals and other
modern astronomers and physicists
had failed to agrpc about the weight
of the earth, the celebrated scien
tist Henry Cavendish measured the
attractive power that two lumps of
globular lead, which weighed re
spectively about 400 pounds, had
over two similar but very much
smaller, objects. The plainly evi
dent attractive power was estimat
ed by a dainty instrument which
consisted of a thin wire, six and
one-quarter, feet long, which held a
little trapeze from which two tiny
balls hung. As the two great glob
ules of lead approach these balls
from opposite sides there occurs a
twist or “torsion” of the wire-which
is the index of the effect.
Francis Baily, another physicist,
repeated this work more recently.
In order to secure extreme accu
racy, he made more than 2,000
separate repetitions of this experi
ment.
It is no difficult matter to com
pute the pull which the large balls
must have given the small ones to
produce the effect. If lead balls
twelve inches in diameter exert
such h force, what would be their
force or; their dead pull were they
as large as the earth?
The attractive force of the earth
is known. It is the weight of such
balls—that is to say, their ten
dency to fall. The attractive power
of the earth therefore may now be
compared with the influence or
“drawing power” of lead.
The mass and density of lead
and similar metals is known, there
fore it is merely a matter of multi
plying a few figures to find the
“drawing power” or attraction of
the earth and its weight. The lat
ter is, according to this plan, 5.G
times heavier than a globe of water.
The pendulum method consists
in the comparison of two pendu
lums, one swinging on the surface
i of the earth and the other beneath
the surface. The differences be
tween these show that at a given
distance below there is a difference
in the time of the swing. Thus the
pendulums differ in a definite frac
tion of a second for each number of
feet below the sea level.
This calculation has shown that
the earth is really over six times as
heavy as water, and the weight of
the whole globe is 132,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000 pounds. — New
York Journal.
Farsighted Economy.
Airs. Wipedunks—Jenkinson, we
ought to lake one of the first class
magazines. It’s only $4 a year, and
the children are getting old enough
now to have something good to
read. • »
Air. Wipedunks—Only $4 a year!
That’s all, is it? If you begin on
magazines you’ll think you have to
keep it up. At the end of every
year you’ll want to have ’em bound,
i There’s two volumes in a year.
Costs $1 a volume for binding.
That makes $G a year. In ten years
it’s $G0. Then you’ll want a book
ease to hold the tu'euty volumes.
That’ll cost about $25 because you’ll
think it ought to be big enough to
hold the twenty more volumes.
There’s $85 thrown away. Do you
think I’m made of money? If yon
want to read the magazines, what’s
the matter with borrowing ’em?—
Chicago Tribune.
Easily Convinced.
A story in London Opinion bears
witness to the fact that, from the
preacher’s point of view, a sermon
may occasionally be too eloquent
and too persuasive.
“Eh,” said Sandy to the minister,
“yon was a powerful dcescourse on
‘Thrift’ ye preached the Sabbeth.”
“Ah’m glad ye were able to
profit”—
“Profit! Why, mon, I would
have sloshed ma saxpenee into the
plate wi’oot a thought if it had not
been for your providential words.
They saved me fourpence there and
then!”
Misplaced Credit.
"Mother,” said a little south side
boy, “if I knew of a one legged boy
1 would give him one of my roller
skates."
Pleased with generosity thus ex
hibited by her son, the mother pat
ted the youngster on the head.
“1 admire the spirit which
prompts you to such a kindly act,”
she exclaimed, “but that would spoil
your own pair.”
“Don’t worry about that,” the lad
replied; “1 lost the other one.”—
Youngstown Telegraph.
Differentiation.
“What is the principal difference
between modem and ancient
times ?”
“One of the main points was that
the modern earn their living, while
the a indent urned their dead.”—
Baltimore American.
RAPID EATING IS WRONG. * j
Reason* Why Even Soft Foods Should j
Be Well Masticated.
When we do not chew our food I
properly the evil consequences are •
many and often serious in their cf- :
feet upon health and even life. In :
the first place, a person who does j
not chew his food sufficiently is sure i
to eat too much. That is especially ;
true in the case of soft foods, which ,
are sometimes literally shoveled
into the stomach. Food that needs j
mastication will generally get a lit- j
tie, even from the worst sinner, al- j
though sometimes it gets only 1
enough to make the act of swallow- ,
ing possible.
Thorough mastication acts in two
ways to diminish the amount of
food you take. If a proper propor
tion of the time spent at the table
is occupied by the work of mastica
tion, the amount, of food taken is
naturally less. Furthermore, those
who chew properly do not crave
food us others do, for they digest
what they swallow, and arc free
from the unnatural hunger that
torments the rapid eater. Mr.
Fletcher, the dietician, has proved
that he can maintain a high degree
of health and vigor on a much
smaller amount of food than most
people think they need.
Another real danger to the
health of the rapid eater arises
from the unbroken lumps of food
that pass into the stomach. In some
cases the digestive juice struggles
with them in vain, and they cause
much discomfort, and often serious
disorders—perhaps even appendi
citis.
Children should be taught to
chew their food well, for the
healthy condition of the mouth and
teeth in after life depends upon
their doing so. If the jaw does not
grow properly there is not enough
room for the teeth. Now, the
growth of the jaw depends in large
i measure on the mastication it is
called upon to do. The teeth them
selves suffer also. They miss the
active circulation of the blood, the
stimulation of the gums, and the
cleansing of the mouth by the sali
vary glands that follow upon the
act of chewing.—Youth’s Compan
ion.
I
Resourceful Livingstone.
David Livingstone, explorer and
missionary, was a man of varied ac
complishments. Besides getting
himself taught on board ship, and
later by Sir Thomas Maclear, to
take with great accuracy astronomi
j cal observations for fixing latitude
| and longitude, besides acquainting
himself with botany and geology,
with patristic Jiterature and Egyp
tology, Livingstone was an excel
lent mechanic, a steersman and a
mariner. His resourcefulness was
at all times remarkable. When lie j
was hard up for fuel on his first j
steamer journey up the river Shire, |
he landed in the elephant marsh. :
Here no trees existed and no fuel
was obtainable, but his men found
many bones of slaughtered ele
phants. Livingstone at once took
the bones on board, burned them in j
the furnaces of the Ma-robert and
so continued his journey.
A Standing Invitation.
A Chicago stenographer is so per
fect in her own opinion that the
boss could never tell her anything
that did not bring forth an answer
in her own defense. One day the
president of the concern came into
the office and as the boss was away
down at the other end he did not
see him for several minutes. The
president stood at the gateway look
ing around silently untill the boss
came up and greeted him, taking
him into the private office to sit
down. When the president had gone
the boss said:
“Miss Steno, why didn’t you ask
the president to sit down?”
“Why,” retorted the stenogra
pher, “lie has a standing invitation,
hasn’t he?”—Chicago Tribune.
Two Kinds of Truth.
The custom of resorting to an
oath in extreme eases, sanctified as
it is by all religious antiquity, is opt
to introduce into the laxer sort of
minds the notion of two kinds of
truth; the one applicable to the
solemn affairs of justice and the
other to the common proceedings of
daily intercourse. As truth bound
upon the conscience by an oath can
be but truth, so in the common af
firmations of the shop and the mar
ket place a latitude is expected and
conceded upon questions wanting
this solemn covenant. Something
less than truth satisfies.—Charles
Lamb.
8af« Ground.
“What a remarkable fund of in
formation ‘Bliggins has!”
“Yes. He can always tell you
something yon didn’t know. But he
is always careful to select some sub
ject that you are not sufficiently in
terested in to bother about verify
ing his statements.”—Washington
Star
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Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen ycarsfin
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
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Phono 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. (mice hours
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Oflioes Wall Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
L A W V E K
I’HON'KIiao Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Ail Mining Business Given Prompt
Attention.
WHALING BLDG. VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER^
F. BUTTERWORTH
[Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing lies. Phone. 1*9
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, Alaska
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Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
attend- S. McNIEOE. Arctic!Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
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VALDEZfLODGE NO. 6.1.0. 0. F1
Meets every Monday at » p. in. in
ODD FELLOWS HALL
Visiting Brothers especially invited
Wm. Thomas, n. a. S. Hcp~.tr. c..'sbo
POSITION wanted by experienced
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Prospector office.
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all work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
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