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KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
leKeystone Produce Co.
E. G. AMES, Manager
Fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit, Vegetables
Cor. Keystone Ave. and McKinley St.
PHONE 44. |
KENNECOTT IS GREATEST
COPPER MAN IN WORLD.
BOSTON—Once upon a time some
mining promoters arranged that one
should go west and send glowing dis
patches about the ore development
and prospects oT die property, while
the eastern patrners boomed the
stock. While the western man was
at the mine, the company opened up
a big deposit of bonanza ore. The
t dispatches, of course, flowed fast and
furious.
“Don't sell anodter share. Stock
worth ten times what we are asking.
Big ore body just opened." Back
went the dispatches the east.
“Stock selling „fine Your dispatches
are
Meanwjflp* the western man was
tearing lus fcair to convey the truth
to his eastern par.ners. But every
glowing report brought back the re
ply of booming stock sales and how
fine were his accounts. Despite a’>
his dispatches telling his associates to
cancel every sale order and fo ’get,
everything that ever occurred be
tween them, and under no circum
stances to sell another share, away
went the stock. The buyers goc a
good property while the insiders got
out.
Kennecott was no mere mining
stock promotion. Three of the weal
thiest financial concerns in the
United States put up $25,000,000 to
build a railroad ard develop the cop
per property After nearly ten years
of work they find their investment
justified and copper twenty cents a
pound.
They, however, we understand, ar
ranged to make some distribution of
the shares and establish a quotation
preparatory of list’ng on the New
York Stock Exchange. Their friends
and the public readily took all the
stock around $27 .0 $37 a share. Af
ter all the desired distribution was
accomplished the stock suddenly took
a jump to 47 and then into the 50’s,
and who were the buyers on the re
cent advance.” ‘
j copper discoveries :n the world—the
j Calumet & Hecla und the Anaconda.
| All the other big copper mines have
been metallurgical and mechanical
developments. If Kennecott has op
ened a vein of copper glance 61 feet
wide and Engineer Henry Krumb
is willing to bank his reputation on it
as a world beater, there has taken
place in the year 1915 the third
greatest copper discovery the world
has ever known.
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Change Tonight.
Entire change of program tonight
at the Liberty Theatre. Spend the
evening in a warm, steam heated
comfortable place. Among the early
attractions coming to that theatre are
Lillian Russell in “Wildfire,” 5 acts;
Charles Chaplin, that great fun mak
er, and “Across the Pacific” in five
acts.
Do you know that this is the hot
test place in town? We keep 6300
degrees of heat on tap night, and day.
That is the reason we weld anything.
Valdez Iron Works. Tu
DISTANCE A GUN CAN SHOOT.
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Main Facters Are Initial Velocity and
Angle of Elevation.
The distance a shot can be thrown
depends primarily on two things—the
velocity with which it leaves the muz
zle and the ungle of elevation above
tile horizontal. Other things affect It
also, but these two are all important.
Of course a light shell will lose its ve
locity quicker than a heavy one, for it
hus less stored up energy to overcome
the friction of the air. Temperature
and the humidity of the air both have
their effect But the two great fea
tures are initial velocity and angle of
elevation.
Any one who throws a ball knows
that it is higher near the center of Us
flight than at either end. The farther
It is thrown the higher it is at the cen
ter. It was long ago found that any
projectile to reach a maximum range
must be thrown at about forty-five de
grees above the horizontal. This ap
plies tan baseball as well as a 1,000
pound Miell. If it is thrown higher it
fulls short in distance, for too much of
our effort has been expended in giving
it height If thrown lower gravita
tion pulls it to the ground before it has
covered its maximum distance.
Another thing—the ball or shell falls
at a greater angle than that with which
it started. If it is thrown at forty-five
degrees elevation it will fall with near
er sixty degrees because of the retard
ing effect of the atmospheric friction.
This friction is continually slowing up
the projectile and eventually all but
stops it. But meantime the action of
gravitation is pulling it farther and
farther downward from its initial
path. The net result is to bring it to
earth much sooner than if the second
half of its flight were the counterpart
(reversed) of the first half.—Sidney
Graves Koon, M. B., In Leslie’s.
If under-surface Wall street reports
can be trusted th > buyers at 47 were
' none other than the sellers at 27. |
And some very choice investments
were sold to enable the so-called in
siders to b/y back their stock.
The reasflh was recently told in
the columns of this paper. The dis
patches from Engineer Krumb were
a surprise. He l*ad been a most
careful estimater cf the ore reserves
in this property but late dispatches
that the Kennecott was a "world
beater and show the greatest body of
ore in the history of mining,” has
astonished his associates and, seeing
visions of $76 aud $100 per share,
they have been scrambling for the
shares.
There have been only two great
GASES AND SOLIDS.
Th« Attraction Between Them and
How It May Be Illustrated.
It in an interesting fact that gases will
cling to the surface of solids to a won
derful extent. If a piece of iron is
placed in a bucket of water and the
water heated, bubbles will be seen coin
ing from the iron. They are merely
parts of the air tilm on the iron ex
panded by heat till the water buoyancy
becomes great enough to detach them
from the surface.
On account of this peculiar attraction
of all solids for all gases, any scien
tific or other instrument devised to
work in a vacuum must first be thor
oughly heated before it is ready for
use.
If a solid has an extraordinary power
of absorbing or occluding gases, the
fact is utilized for other purposes.
Charcoal will absorb gas, and It is con
sequently used to take gas out of ves
sels and as a sanitary agent. In fact,
charcoal is medicinal in some respects,
being prescribed for patients troubled
with gas on the stomach. After the
charcoal Is swallowed it absorbs the
gas in the stomach and the unpleasant
distension is gone.
If oiie cares to try a little experiment
ict him fill the mouth full of tobacco
smoke and blow it gently and slanting
ly downward on the surface of a
smooth table. The smoke will be seen
to remain on the surface for three or
four minutes, or even longer, although
smoke, ns is well known, tends to rise
on account of being warmer than the
air; also in spite of the fact that the
process of diffusion Is tending to make
it mix with the air. If the experiment
is tried at night under a red light and
on a smootji mahogany table, the
scenic effects produced by the con
volutions of smoke are positively un
canny.—Boston Post.
RELICS OF A LOST RACE.
Articles That Were Used by the Ara
wak Indians of Jamaica.
When in 1194, on his second voyage,
Columbus discovered the island of
Jamaica, it was populated by the Ara
wak Indians, who, although at first
hostile to him, became friendly on his
giving them clothing and other articles
before unknown to them.
When later the Spaniards settled the
island they forced the Indians not only
to do agricultural work in their own
island, but to labor In the gold mines
of Haiti. So hard were the Spanish
taskmasters that by 1558 the whole
Arawak nation was exterminated.
During recent years G. C. Longley of
Pelham Manor has been seeking to re
cover all possible traces of the lost
race. To that end he spent much time
on the island In exploring the old
kitchen middens or refuse heaps of the
Arawaks, in which he has found, be
sides shells and pottery and fish, turtle
and cony bones, many celts or rude
chisels, grinding stones, stone pendants
and axes—1,500 objects in all.
Tlie whole collection he has given
to tlie American Museum of Natural
History in New York city.
The most interesting objects are the
cylindrical stone pendants, which were
fashioned with sand and stone by
endless rubbing. Pendants of exactly
the same sort are worn today as in
signia of office by chiefs or head men
of tribes in northern South America.—
Youth’s Companion.
Sucking Fish.
A curious looking object is the suck
ing fish, which has a peculiar disk
fitted to the crown of its head. By
means of this it attaches itself to any
fish it chooses—a shark or wiiale, for
instance, or turtles and even ships—
and so it is carried about without any
trouble. When once attached they
stick like glue, and they are occasion
ally used for purposes of fishing. A
line is fixed to the fish's tail, which is
then set free. As soon as it discovers
a fish or a turtle it hikes a firm hold.
In the simplest form of fishing the line
is dragged in and the sucking fish
bnuled up, together with its captive,
in the case of a turtle the fisherman
dives after the line and so secures the
victim.
The Only Time.
Fred—There are times when I care
nothing for riches —when I would not
so much ns put forth a hand to receive
millions.
Kittle—Indeed! That must be when
you are ►'.red of the world and its strug
gles and vanities—when your soul
yearns for higher and nobler things.
Is it not?
“N-no; you are wrong.”
"Then when is it?”
“When I’m sleeping.”—Exchange.
Ambition Realized.
She would a driver be.
She tried to drive u man—biff!
She tried to ^five a horse-ditch!
'She tried to drive an auto—smash!
But when she tried to drive a'bar
gain success roosted on her banner.—
Indianapolis Star.
He Knew.
Teacher—Now. Harold, can you tell
me what letter this is? Small Harold
— No, ma’am. Teacher—You can’t?
Why. you certainly know what comes
a'ter T. don’t you? Small Harold—
Yes. ma’am; sister’s beau.—Chicago
News.
Anticipated Him.
Census Mnn—How old nre you, mad
am? Lady—Twenty-five. Census Man
igallantlyi—You could easily say you
were five years younger than you are.
Lady—Oh. I’ve done that already!—
Boston Transcript.
A tyrant never tastes true friendship
or perfect liberty.
CULLODEN MOOR.
Where the Last Battle Wae Fought 1w
Great Britain.
The last battle fought on the soil of
Great Britain took place in the middle
of the eighteenth century. While
George II. was engaged in the war of
the Austrian succession Charles Ed
wurd, who was called the young pre
tender, a grandson of King Jnmcs II
of England, landed in Scotland and
made two attempts to obtain the throne
of his ancestors. He was victorious it
the battle of Fulklrk. but the Duke of
Cumberland, son of George II., having
been recalled from the continent to
take command of the king’s forces, the
pretender was defeated at Culloden
Moor, a plain in Scotland four miles
from Inverness.
This was the last battle fought on the
island of Great Britain and took place
April 16, 1746. and it was also the last
attempt on the part of the Stuart fnm
ily to recover the throne of Great Brit
aiu. Charles Edward Stuart escaped to
France after he had wandered five
months in the highlands. He died in
ltome, Jan. 30, 1788.
The Duke of Cumberland gave no
quarter. The wounded were all slain,
and the jails of England were filled
with prisoners, many of whom were
executed. Among the latter were Lords
Balmerino, Kilmarnock, and Lovat.
Lovat being the last person who was
beheaded ip England. — Philadelphia
Press.
CURIOUS SWISS LAWS.
Some That Look With a Very Pene
trating Eye Into the Future.
There are in force in Switzerland
certain laws, which, in the hands of
the unscrupulous, may work great
havoc with personal rights and liber
ties, an exchange remarks. This is
a point concerning which there can
be no dispute.
For instance, in most cantons men
and women may be punished not only
for what they have actually done in
the past, but also for what may pos
sibly result in the future from what
they have done.
Suppose a man is spending week by
week all that he earns. Then the local
authorities, acting in conjunction with
the local police, may send him to a
penal workhouse on the pretext that
his conduct is such that he may later
become destitute, and therefore a bur
den on the community.
To be a burden on the community is
a crime. The result is a woman who
wishes to be rid of her husband for a
year or two—or a man of his wife—
has only to persuade the local authori
ties that unless he be forced to change
his ways he may perhaps some day
become destitute.
A visitor once found in one penal
workhouse a woman who was there
for two years at the request of her
husband.
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How Letters Strike Our Eyes.
Roman letters of various sizes are
commonly called into request by ocu
lists in testing vision. Recent experi
ments show great differences in the
ease with which the various letters are
recognized by the same person. T is
especially difficult of recognition and
is apt to be mistaken for Y. By a sim
ilar optical illusion the angle of L Is
rounded off, making the letter resem
ble a reversed J. V is the easiest of
all letters to recognize, and O presents
little difficulty. K is more easily rec
ognized than II, which resembles it
closely, and both N and Z are easily
recognized. A is easily guessed at
from its general form, but is difficult
of positive recognition, including dis
tinct perception of the horizontal line.
13 and F are among the most difficult
of all letters.
Equine Sagacity,
Here is a startling story of equine
sagacity related by the London Tit
Bits. A horse was standing in tlje
shafts o£ u carriage just outside a lo
cal theater. It had a weary look, as of
one that desired repose.
Suddenly it brightened up, and ne
fore it could be stopped it made a dash
for the box office.
The reasons for this unexpected be
havior gave rise to much discussion
till at last one of the crowd, more ob
servant than the others, pointed out
that the legend, “To the stalls,” was
written in large letters over the box
office window.
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Law and Ordinance.
All “ordinances” are “laws,” but all
laws are not ordinances. Law is
the wider term, applying to states,
while ordinance has special reference
to the municipality. Laws and or
dinances are equally “rules of action”
laid down by authority, but in the case
of the ordinance the authority is of
the minor sort—the city ns opposed to
the state.—New York American.
Tried Her Patience.
“A little padding here and a little
more there.” she directed.
“Yes'm.”
“You don’t seem to know much abouv
padding a gown.”
“Maybe you had better try an uphol
sterer," ventured the harassed dress
ma ker.—London^ Telegraph.
The Symptoms.
“How do you know that Blinks has
bad u raise in salary?”
“He argues that the world Is getting
better; that the dauger from monopo
lies has been greatly magnified, and
that human nature isn’t so bad after
all.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
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Most people would succeed in small
things If they were not troubled with
great ambitions.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto fcS^Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas.E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries) Made
To] Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in Chitina Stop at the
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Finest Hotel io the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
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MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH RREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Plione 03 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
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 j
DoingjjjBusiness As Usual |
| Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
1! Telephone 66 ! I Rottifh Dry 10c lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLAMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located o'; Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California LiliO Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 Pi M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing: 15th call* Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing: call at Knlk
and Anchoragre.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Stenmers Yale and Harvard far Southern California.
* Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattlei VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche, on the 16th; 8. S.
Cordova, i6th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
r. B. TRACY, Gea’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agent.