Exceptional
Values
We are making some extraordinary low prices
on broken sise and odd lot merchandise; such
«
as Men’s Six and Bight Dollar Sweater Coats
at $1.50; Three Fifty to Five Dollar Sweaters
at $1.00; Men’s Dollar leather Mitts at 50c.;
Men’s Two Fifty Underwear at $1.50; also
many other excellent values. A visit to this
store will convince you.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National UnivercitT
Washington. D. C.
ru*.no DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen Tears id
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
phonp i9 THE dentist
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Office rooms orer Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 0 pjp., 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appolntmSR All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. BB
HOURS—9 to 12a.m.; 1 to 6 and7 to9p. m.
DONOHOE & D1M0ND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdes, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS A RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
JCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bli& Printing Valdes, Alaska.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meet* every Saturday at S p. m.
Next door to 8enate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
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Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER. President.
Granite Mine.
GHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdes. Alaska.
G. O. Relnke, the watchmaker and
jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
More Poetry.
“Daughter, I have found a husband
for you. He Is a poet and he disposes
of all his poetry.”
“Iteally? Then I do hope I won’t
be averse to him!”—Pittsburgh Press.
THE READING TABLE
There is no iight that m kes night
reading so easy as doos Electricity. *'n
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. Tho entire body suffers if tho
eyes become affected, fieaciir.gj in im
proper light isone of tho worst gings
for the eyes. Get an Eiectric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, Light Telephone & Company.
BLOOD OF THE VIKINGS.
The Men Whose Descendants Con
quered Normandy ancf England.
The vikings and their followers who
swarmed up the Seine and the Thames
and whose descendants conquered Nor
mandy and then England were bred
of long years of Independence and
property rights, while those they over
threw were dependent and nonland
owners. They were the hardiest and
boldest travelers of their time.
The Norwegian sealers still cruise
about the sea as far north as it Is
open, and the history of polar explora
tion has been associated with Norway
from Othar In King Alfred’s time to
Nansen in our own. In the Shetland
islands the people still talked Norwe
gian in the last century, Greenland
and Iceland were colonized from Nor
way, and from Iceland comes a litera
ture in old Norwegian, still the lan
guage of the people, which ranks with
the hero talcs of the east, of Greece,
of Germany and England.
The Orkneys, the Shetlands, the
Hebrides and the Isle of Man were
possessions of Norway for hundreds
of years, and for more than 300 years
Norwegian kings ruled in Dublin.
Many of the Danes who conquered
England were Norsemen, und the con
querors of Normandy were mostly of
the Norwegian viking breed.—Price
Collier in Scribner’s Magazine.
TWO VIEWS OF A DANDY.
In Which Carlyle and Dr. Holmes Took
Opposite Sides.
When your gaze runs afoul of a male
adorned with a wrist watch and pink
socks and a purple necktie, think kind
ly or unkindly of him—it all depends
upon whether you swear by Thomas
Carlyle or Oliver Wendell Holmes,
both of whom have furnished intimate
descriptions of the "dandy.” Says the
former in “Sartor Hesnrtus:”
“A dandy Is a clothes wearing man
—a man whose trade, office and exist
ence is the wearing of clothes. Every
faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and
person Is heroically consecrated to this
one object, the wearing of clothes wise
ly and well, so that, as others dress to
live, he lives to dress.”
And now look on the other side of
the picture furnished by Holmes:
“There was Alcibiades, the ‘curlea
son of Glinias,’ an accomplished young
man, but what would be called a
‘swell’ in these days. There was Aris
totle, a distinguished writer of whom
you have heard—a regular dandy he
was. So was Marcus Antoninus, so was
Sir Humphry Davy, so was Lord Pal
merston, if I am not forgetful. Dan
dies such as I was speaking of have
rocked- this planet like a cradle—aye
and left it swinging to this day.”—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
Frederick’s War on Coffee.
In a manifesto issued by Frederick
the Great in 1779 the mighty monarch
deplored “the increased consumption
of coffee by my subjects and the
amount of money that goes out of the
country in consequence. Everybody is
using coffee. This must no longer be.
My subjects must drink beer. His
majesty was brought up on beer, and
so were his ancestors. Innumerable
battles have been fought and won by
soldiers nourished on beer, and the
king does not believe that coffee drink
ing soldiers can be depended upon to
endure hardships or to conquer his
enemies should another war occur."
Coffee roasting was made a govern
meut monopoly, and a prohibitive price
was charged for the berry. "Coffee
smellers” were appointed all over Prus
sia to check illicit roasting. Coffee
was therefore ousted from popular fa
vor.—London Chronicle.
When Napoleon Died.
July 10, 1821.—The news has Just ar
rived of the death of Napoleon. He
died on the 5th of May. 1 was much
astonished at the way the news was
received. The hero which the whole
French nation had worshiped, whom
all Europe had trembled before, it
might have been an ordinary actor
who had died. Really one could feel
great disgust A mighty man indeed
he was with all his faults. The first
I heard of it was cried about the
streets, “La Mort de Napoleon a St.
Helene, Deux Sous.” Oh, the irony of
it!—“A Diary of James Gallatin In Bn
rope” in Scribner’s Magazine.
Glancing Blows.
Testy Old Woman—There now! 1
guess you won’t go around poking
your nose Into other people’s business
after the raking I Just gave you. Re
porter-Well, don’t get proud about It
madam. You didn’t hurt my feelings
much. I’ve been Insulted by experts.—
Life.
Not a Complaint
“Of what complaint,” asked the In
surance agent “did your father die?”
"Well." was the reply, “it was not
exactly In a sort of way, as It were,
a complaint precisely, If you under
stand me. The fact Is the Jury found
him guilty."—London Telegraph.
Sorrow In the 8anotum.
When an editor laboriously cuts
down a candidate's eight column
speech to two columns the candidate
Is mad at him for printing so little of
It and everybody else Is In a like
frame of mind toward him for print
ing so much.—Ohio State Journal.
The Difference.
“Say, papa.” asked little Roy, “what
Is the difference between an optimist
and a pessimist?”
“An optimist, my son," replied papa,
“thinks the times are ripe, while a
pessimist thinks they an rotten."—
Ladles' Home Journal.
MODERN WARFARE.
Manning the Trenches and Locating
the Enemy by Dust Clouds.
A column of lnfuntry, marching four
abreast—the regular marching form
will pass a given point at the rate of
175 a minute. At that rate it will
take a division, which contains about
10.000 men, about an hour to pass.
A division, which is the largest body
known in the organization of the Amer
ican army, will fully man two miles of
trenches. The regulation distance In
the manning of a trench is a yard to
a man. There are three lines, how
ever, needed to fully man such de
fenses—the firing line, which is down
in the trench, a yard between each
man; the support, which Is back a
short distance, and the reserve, which
is behind the support These three
parts of the defense are of equal size.
In locating an enemy dust clouds
are often excellent Indications. A low,
thick cloud indicates Infantry, a high
and thin cloud indicates cavalry, while
a broken cloud indicates artillery or
wagon trains. An experienced scout
cau closely estimate the character and
strength of an enemy solely by the
dust cloud.
An aeroplane to be perfectly safe
must keep at an elevation of at least
4.000 feet above the ground.
Although the telegraph and telephone
have become generally used in battle
for purposes of communication, for dis
tances under half a mile the old fash
ioned courier and horse are still exclu
sively used. These have been found a
swifter and surer means of communi
cation for short distances than either
telephone or telegraph. — Washington
Star.
ORIGIN OF STARS.
It May Be That the Nebular Hypotho
sus Is All Wrong.
The nebular hypothesis is that the
stars were formed by the cooling and
cohering of the gaseous nebulae. These
“filmy veils of luminous gas,” which
arc visible to the naked eye in the
Milky way, are supposed to be star
stuff. Many of these clouds have in
their centers tiny spots of bright light,
the supposed beginnings of new stars
and suns.
In 1910 astronomers at Lick observ
atory discovered that the older a star
becomes the faster it travels through
space. ■'Then the question arose. Can
nebulae be stars in formation when
their speed is even greater than the
oldest stars?
The astronomers began to doubt the
old theory. Some years of hard work
at Mount Hamilton and at the Unlver
sity observatory in Chile were requir
ed. Now the velocities of forty nebu
lae are accurately known. The incred
ible speed of these nebulae suggests
that they are older, not younger, than
the stars. It is possible that they are
disintegrated stars and not stars in
the making at all.
The director of the Lick observatory
says: “The effect upon our ideas of the
connection existing between planeta
ry nebulae and the stars is revolution
ary. Apparently the stars have been
evolved from planetary nebulae.
“What, then, are the nebulae if they
are not star stuff? That is what the as
tronomers at Lick have set themselves
to determine.”—Exchange.
Unique Engineering Feat.
When railroad building was under
taken in Alaska following the discov
ery of gold a unique engineering feat
was performed. At a point eighty
miles out of Skagwuy the survey had
been made for the road along the shore
of a lake, but it was found to be so
irregular and broken by so many coves
that the plan was adopted of getting a
better line by lowering the level of the
lake. This was done by cutting an
outlet channel, through which fourteen
feet of the lake drained off. Rut pres
ently the new channel, bnving been cut
through a sandy hill, gave way, and
the escaping lake water wore an euor
mous canyon through the country and
reduced the lake level again over sev
enty feet. A fine, level roadbed was
secured over what was formerly the
bed of the lake.—Argonaut
When Knights Were Bold.
When knights were clad in complete
armor from top to toe it was essential
that they should bear some sign by
which their followers could distinguish
them In battle, and this was the func
tion of their armorial bearings.
Knights who omitted to wear their
own arms ran considerable risk, and it
is related that at the battle of Ban
nockburn the last of the De Clares
owed his death to his omission to wear
his bearings. He was slain unrecog
nized, whereas had he been known he
would have been held prisoner for the
ransom or as a hostage.
An Extrema Case.
“They tell me your daughter Is very
musical,” said the visitor.
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Pikestaff. “The
fact Is she Is so very musical that we
cannot Induce her to practice either
her singing or her piano lessons, the
amateur quality of the work grates so
on her sensitive nerves.”—Judge.
Cause For Apprehension.
"1 object to that man on the Jury.”
said the lawyer for the defense.
“On what grounds?” asked the court.
“I was Instrumental In getting him
married.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
8elf Evident.
“A man baa Invented a trousers pock
et which a wife can’t discover.”
“Be wasn’t a married man.”—Balti
more American.
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Coo much rest simply means nut—
Ur Walter Scott
Dougherty & Ferguson
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Ter
ritory of AlasKa, ss.:
I, Charles E. Davidson, Secretaiy
of the Territory of Alaska, do here
by certify that on this date there has
been filed in my office consent of
stockholders to dissolution of the
James E. Wilson Transportation
Company, a domestic corporation or
ganized under the laws of the Terri
tory of Alaska, and said corporation
is therefore dissolved.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
Great Seal of the Territory of Alas
ka, at Juneau, this 21st day of De
cember, 1914. (Seal.)
CHARLES E. DAVIDSON,
Secretary of Alaska.
Publications Jan. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for tho
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that W. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, tho
undersigned, as the Judge f said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"back" a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions.of the man
wjith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
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