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and other well known brands
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nection with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel transconti
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with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and comfort.
No Extra Fare on This Train
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations,
etc., call on or address
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VALDEZ. ALASKA
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SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST.. SEATTLE
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOA
PATENT.—Survey No. 993.—
Serial No. 01(118. United States
Land Office, Juneau, Alaska,
August lift, 1913.
Notice Is hereby given that in pursii
ance of the act of Congress approved
May lu, 1872, Fred Ltljegren, whose
postoffice address Is Fllamar, Alaska, lias
made application for a patent lor 1,000
linear feet on the Copper Bullion No. 1
lode mining claim and for 1,500 linear
feet on the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode
mining claim, hearing copper, together
with surface grounds as allowed by law,
lying, being and situate in the record
ing precinct of Valdez, Alaska, and de
scribed by Ihc olficial plat and by the
Held notes of li. S. Mineral Survey No.
1103, on die in the office of the Hegister
of tlie Juneau Laud District, at Juneau,
Alaska, as lollows, to-wil;
Copper Bullion No. 1 Lode.
Beginning at Cor. No. I, whence C. S.
Mineral Monument No. 8 hears N. 4f> de
grees 44 minutes 2I seconds E. 013.92 feet
distant; thence N. ill deg. US) min. VV. COO
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 28 deg. 51
min. E. 1500 feet to Cor. No. 3; thence
S. 01 deg. 09 min. E. 009 feet to Cor.
No. 4; thence S. 28 dog. 51 min. VV. 1500
reet to Cor. No. 1, place of beginning.
Area 20.001 acres. The A dditional amt
Amended Location Certificate or the Cop
per Bullion No. l lode claim Is duly o(
record in Book 14 of the Records of the
Valdez Recording Precinct at page 301.
Tills claim Is bounded on the north by
the Copper Bullion No. 2 lode claim.
Copper Bullion No. 2 Lode.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, Identical with
Cor. No. 4, Copper Rulllon No. 1 Lode of
tills survey previously described, whence
U. S. Mineral Monument No. 8 bears S.
17 deg. 12 mill. 50 see. VV. 934.98 feet
distant; thence N. 01 deg. 09 min. VV.
009 feet to Cor. No. 2, identical wltu
Cor. No. 3, Copper Rulllon No. 1 Lode;
thence N. 28 deg. 51 min. E. 150(1 feet
to Cor. 3. whence a witness corner, a post
marked C B No. 2 Cor. 3 VV C hears S. 28
deg. 51 mill. VV. 383.to reet; thence rroni
true corner S. 01 deg. 09 min. E. 000
feet to Cor. No. 4, whence a witness cor
ner, a post marked C B No. 2 corner 4
W C bears S. 28 deg. 51 mill. VV. 14 1.70
feet; thence from true corner S. 28 deg.
51 min. W. 1500 reet to Cor. No. t, the
place of beginning. Area 20.001 acres.
The Additional and Amended Location
Certificate of the Copper Bullion No. 2
lode claim is duly of record hi book t t
or Records of the Valdez Recording Pre
cinct at page 302. This claim Is bound
ed on the south by the Copper Bullion No.
1 lode.1
Any amt all persons claiming adversely
any portion ofsald mining claims or sur
face ground, are hereby required to (He
tliclr adverse claims with the Hegister
or the U. S. Land Office at JiTneau, Alaska,
within the time prescribed by law, or they
will ho barred by virtue of the .provis
ions or the statute.
FRED LIUEGREN,
Claimant.
It is. hereby ordered l..at the roregoing
notice bf application he published In the
Valdez ? Dally Prospector, the newspaper
publisty>(l nearest the said mining claims,
for a period of sixty days.
C. B. WALKER,
Register.
Date of first publication Aug. 27, 1913.
Date or last publication Nov. 6, 1013.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.1
For $0 we will give you a tic
vet entitling you to hospital ser
vice and care for any eight weeks
jut of the year from date of your
lickel, when incapacitated by in
iury Dr sickness.
See VV. H. ZIEGLER.
Cabla Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. rn.
Sundays and holidays 9 to I ft
.. in. and 5 to 6 p. in.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
The Making of Skalatens Is Really a
P h ■A’ .iWorkJaf Art.
- TH^ skeleton 'of matt 6r beast is
a. much more useful and salable ob
ject than one would be inclined to
suppose. Proof of this is the fre
quency with which we find these ob
jects mounted in museums, schools
of medicine, anatomical cabinets
and even in the classrooms for child
physiology and in the studios of
painters and sculptors. Much labor
is employed in separating the skele
tons from the tissues ’and bones
that cover them, whitening them
and mounting them. Some of them,
it is true, are prepared and sold by
llic medical profession, persons oc
casionally (in the interests of sci
ence) leaving their bodies to the
rare of this or that medical fra
ternity for whatever use they may
tend to serve. This, however, ex
plains very inadequately the supply
available in response to the ever
growing demand.
As a matter of fact, the greater
part of the skeleton trade is car
ried on in France, nearly all of it
originating there. Paris has a very
well equipped factory for the fur
nishing of skeletons of men and
animals for whatever purpose re
quired, and this factory has branch
es in London and Berlin. Most of
the human bones employed in the
French manufacture belonged in
life to criminals or to unknown per
sons whose bodies were unclaimed
after death in hospitals or alms
houses. After being utilized in the
dissecting room the remains were
removed to this factory. The pro
prietor of this factory is or should
be a very rich man, for he practical
ly monopolizes this industry. The
factory has many departments.
First comes the preliminary prep
aration of the skeleton in the car
bolic acid tank and finally the fit
ting of the bones and joints togeth
er with wires.
± I1U prepUIUUUU Ul LUC DlVClvUMl
takes many months from first to
last and is a very expensive process
in the bulk. There must be a thor
ough chemical treatment of the
bones, in the first place, to insure
their hanging together and remain
ing in an unaltered state. It is
hardly ever the case that a skeleton
seen on exhibition is made up en
tirely of its own original parts. The
formula employed in bringing the
process of the skeleton’s comple
tion to a state of relative perfection
is still an industrial secret. It must
be when sold as “white as marble.”
In fhe warehouse of this factory
ire rows of shelves where skeletons
of all forms and representative of
ill races may be seen. Some by ac
cident or in virtue of dissection
processes have been broken or dis
mounted and very carefully refitted
with fine wire. Underneath are mul
titudes of boxes of assorted hones,
with big hones, such as ribs, marked
off with letters and numbers. In
showcases may be seen for sale—or
M• > Id" for whatever purposes de
. !—skeletons of giants, dwarfs,
• mi's or of strange races dis
•id by explorers in l'aroff
.unifies. Criminals’ heads with
heir names and the dates of their
execution (some of them very re
mote) are seen here, and pamphlets
descriptive of their crimes are held
for sale, with cards in small type
containing the same matter, to lie
attached, if desired, to the skull or
skeleton.—Harper’s Weekly.
A Tree of Many Powers.
The ash tree is rich with super
stition. The old charlatans, of the
middle ages used it in their love
potions, and the damsels of ancient
times believed that it would enable
them to make their sweethearts
true and help them to discover their
future husbands. The inhabitants
of Iceland still look with dread
upon the use of mountain ash as
fuel. Their belief that it will make
enemies of all who gather round a
hearthstone on which it burns is
deep seated and was once almost
universal in Europe.
Too Bad.
On the occasion of her sixth
birthday the daughter of a Phila
delphia physician received from her
father a little ring with a tiny pearl
in it.
A week had not passed since the
presentation when the child, agitat
ed' and tearful, appeared in her fa
ther’s office. ...
In response to her parent’s query
as to the cause of her perturbation
the youngster replied:
“It’s awful, futher! I have lost
the little pill out of my ring.”—
St. Paul Dispatch.
Which Was It?
The governor was puzzled. “Look
here,” he said, turning to his pri
vate secretary. “Can you tell me
whether this note comes fropi my
tailor or my legal adviser? They’re
both named Brown.”
The note was as follows:
I hnve begun your suit. Ready to be
tried on Tueaday. Come In. BROWII.
—Exchange.
SEEING THE GRAND CANfOli.
Look at It With 'Wtir'Qwn Eyas, Not
■ThriiislhtTkoM of OthOra.
In describing how it feels to look
for the first time into the depths of
the Grand canyon it has become
customary for literary folk to por
tray their sensations in some such
striking way as this:
“One glance was enough. My
brain reeled, and 1 recoiled in gris
ly terror from the brink. Casting
myself upon my knees and clasping
my companion about his, I besought
him with tears to take me away.”
Now, if before visiting Arizona
I had visited the travel alcove of
the public library I, too, would
doubtless have known some of this
grisly terror on reaching the fa
mous brink. But as my habit is not
to read about places until after see
ing them through eyes unbespec
tacled by literature the mile depth
of the abyss actually terrorized mo
no more than had the deeps of the
smiling Yoscmite.
Indeed, that first glimpse did not
awe or intimidate me at all. It fill
ed me instead with a chaotic sense
of power and tranquil beauty and
sublimity that deepened, strength
ened, clarified as the confused mass
es of dome and battlement and
spire, of fretted cornice and pin
nacle, terrace and turret below
gradually disengaged and defined
themselves and as the variety and
marvel of color scheme sank into
my soul—a color scheme as protean
as that of an ingot of white hot
steel cooling rapidly under a sunset
sky.
In looking over the standard ac
counts of literary terror at first
sight of the canyon one wonders
why they should lie so curiously
stilted. It is almost as though
some pioneer word painter of the
canyon had seen it first at some par
ticularly forbidding moment; as
though subsequent writers, having
studied his account before the jour
ney, had instructed their emotional
(systems to behave no less vividly
than his had behaved.
The result is that under the in
fluence of their hysterical writings
many tourists aTrive expecting to
shrink from a grisly inferno and
accordingly shrink from a grisly
inferno, while others, sincerer and
(less suggestible, not feeling in the
(least neurotic, are slightly disap
j pointed both in the place and in
(themselves, for this canyon has
been just as much injured by hav
ing its somberness laid on too thick
;as that other Grand canyon up in
the Yellowstone has been injured
by having its gorgeousness laid on
too thick.—Hobert Haven Sehauf
j tier in Metropolitan Magazine.
' Golf That Is Mostly Ball Hunting.
’ There are two sorts of golf. One
| is where you do not hunt for the
(ball. Those who play the other
'sort are never found in the eham
Ipionship records. They traverse
the links with amateur caddies or
with no caddies at all. They sally
out in twos, threes or fours and
play all against all. They expect to
spend most of the time in ball hunt
ling, which they have reduced to a
science. They spread out in a line
and walk the suspected area, each
rallying to the other's need. Only
when the ball is found does the
game continue, and the players are
lucky if they do nine holes before
luncheon.—London Globe.
Deed of Kindness.
j Tin: benevolent olil gentleman
| got busy when he saw four boys,
eight or nine years of age, attack
one boy about the same age.
i “You mustn’t, you mustn’t,” he
| said when he hail hauled them off,
j “attack your little companion this
way. What has he done to deserve
j such harsh treatment?”
The four boys glowered sullenly,
while the one boy whimpered as he
thought what would happen to him
when the benevolent old gentleman
went on his way.
“Well,” said one of the four at
j last, “he won’t join the band of
1 kindness our teacher wants to get
I up in our school?”—Chicago Inter
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Her Sun Spots.
Sir Robert Ball on one occasion,
after delivering a lecture on “Sun
Spots and Solar Chemistry,” met a
young lady who expressed her re
jgret that she had missed hearing
! him on the previous evening. “Well,
you see,” he said, “I don’t know
that it would have interested you
particularly, as it was all about sun
spots.” “Why,” she replied, “it
! would have interested me extreme
; ly, for I have been a martyr to
freckles all my life.”
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Youth and Pleasure.
I Youth is not the age of pleasure.
| We then expect too much, and we
'are therefore exposed to daily dis
appointments and mortifications.
When we are a little older and have
brought down our wishes to our ex
perience, then we become calm and
begin to enjoy ourselves. — Lord
Livernool.
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Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
thhce rooms over Owl Drug store. Offlce hours
9 a. m.. to 6 n. in.. 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
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l*lionK i36 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offioes Wall Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
JCivil Engineer andj s
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. !R9
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Patent Surveys
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Valdez I^odge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
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FOE
YALDKZ AKR1K Mo- 1971
Meet every Friday. 8 i>. m. Ka?lc Hal
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VALDEZ LODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F
Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. in
ODD FELLOWSlHALL
Visitintt Brothers especially invitetl
Wm Thomas, n. o.“. P. S. Hunt p. g..’Sec
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in
Rattle Hull. All members are requested to
attend- S. McnIKC’K. Arctic Chief
PIONEERS OF ALASKA
IGLOO NO. 7.
Meets every first and third Mon
day of each month. All visit
ing Brothers welcome.
E. G. AMES, Secretary.
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