STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
5
A Glance of Approval •
is always bestowed upon the t
wearer of a suit tailored by <
us. The style is so evident, J
the whole effect so distin- jj
guished, that the keenest 4
clothes critics cannot with- J
hold their approval. Why not j
stop in and order such a suit. ,
You’ll not find the cost at all J
excessive. On the contrary it J
will be very reasonable «
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1917
PIONEER CONTRACTOR Ml RUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will lake contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of wall
board kept in stock at all times.
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ, ALASKA--PHONE 18
REFERENCES ' S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS 1 B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone (hi OPEN DAY AND NIGHT ('has. Fischer, l*i-.»|»r.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—KKANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
de SiE !
i
, i
Satisfaction Huaranteerl I j Foot Keystone Ave ]
Telephone tU> 1 I Rough Dry ICc lb
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
Ihe Prospector Office;
•I
The launch Pathfinder will leave
Thursday for Ellamar, Land lock am’
Pidalgo.
In every line of manufactured ar
ticles there is usually one maker who
sets the standard of excellence. The
Rexall Products set such a standard
for the United States in Drugs, Per
fumes, Toilet Articles and in fact, for
every article which they manufacture.
The OWL DRUG CO., exclusive agenu
f^r Valdez. **
Hot drinks are in full swing at the
Candy Kitchen
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. *
Fresh candy at the Basporlam. tl
No Joke
Doctors Holder & Pullem, the
Pipe, Ark., dentists are kept as busy
as other dentists with less terrifying
names. But what we were about to
observe was that the only gold
crowns some of us will ever wear
are those we get here on earth.
Premier Resigns
PARIS, Feb. 6.—Andrea Radovitch
premier to Montenegro, has tendered
his resignation to King Nicholas. It
was accepted.
NOTICES—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing
prices, at the Emporium.
CROOKED, BUT FAMOUS.
Washington Street, Boston, On* of the
World's Groat Thoroughfare*.
Washington street in Boston is one
of the great thoroughfares of Amer- ;
lea. worthy to rank with Broadway In
New York and Michigan avenue In
Chicago. Like nearly everything else
hi Boston. It has a history of almost
incredible length and respectability,
making other streets seem painfully
young and callow and crude.
Moreover, Washington street is one
of the longest in the world, running
all the way through Boston and on to
another town without a stop ora break.
This Is not accomplished without many
a bend and meander, however, for
Washington street is amazingly crook
ed, as are nearly all the thoroughfares
of I'urltan origin, it seems that the
Mayflower party did not realize how
big Boston was going to be, and so
they carelessly let the cows lay out
the streets as they wandered home
ward.
Washington street today does not
look like an aristocrat of ancient lin
eage, however. On the contrary, it ap
pears decidedly democratic, swarming
with all sorts of people who Jostle
and push each other on the narrow,
overflowing sidewalks in the brilliant
glare of numerous electric signs that
flash the rival merits of moving pic
ture shows, bars and cafes.—Exchange.
CURIOUS CLUBS.
The Man Killer*, Their Cheerful Talk
and Fitting Fate.
One of the oldest purely social clubs
was tbe Everlasting club, limited in
membership to a hundred people, who
divided (he day among them in stub a
j way that some of them were always
on the premises. Solely for the pur
pose of keeping up the lire from which
! members lighted their pities an old
; woman was kept, and during tlie fifty
j years of existence the club members
I smoked fifty tons of tobacco.
No one who had not killed an op
l ponciil in a duel was allowed to lie
| a member of tbe Man Killing club.
< where the conversation was confined
I to wounds, bullets and slaughter, i'uri
| ously enough, most of the members
! were executed.
Very different in character was the
j Six o'clock club, whose members, num
i boring six only, met at •» in the evon
! ing and separated at <! in the morning.
Meeting early in the evening and
.sitting smoking until midnight, the
curious people forming the Humdrum
club observed the strictest silence.
iiut perhaps the most curious club
of till was the No Nose club, which
! was founded by an unwilling follower
j of the Egyptian fashion of fiat faces
j —London Telegraph.
I
Persia’s Great Superstition.
Tin* greatest superstition in Persia is
what is known as the “evil eye." You
must not say to some one whom you
i meet. "Ilow well you are looking!" for
I if you do and that person is taken ill
it will be because you gave him tin*
evil eye. You must not say to a moth
cr. "What a pretty baby!" “What a
bright child!” for if you do and any
tiling unfortunate happens to the child
you will be considered responsible
Many mothers let tin; children go din.*
and poorly clothed in order that they
may not attract favorable attention
The sign which is thought to have sonic
power to avert the evil eye consists m
holding the second and third lingers of
both bands close to the palms with the
thumbs, while the other lingers are ex
tended straight out. Then, with the
hands behind you. you make a down
ward movement three times.
Struggle of the Rivers.
The discovery that there is a kind of
struggle for existence and survival ol
tlie fittest among rivers is one of the
most interesting results of the modern
study of physiography. A notable ex
ample of this contest is exhibited by
England's two biggest rivers, the
Thames and the Severn. Between
their valleys lie the Cotswold hills, and
exploration shows that the Severn by
eating backward among these hills
where softer strata underlie them has
diverted to itself some of the headwa
ters which formerly flowed into the
Thames.
Breaking It Gently.
“I have called, sir. to see the photo
of the lad.v with $25,000 who wants a
husband.
‘‘Can you keep your face straight?"
"Of course 1 can."
“Very well. We'll break you in iirst
with the $5,000 applicants, ami then
gradually, as'. you grow stronger, we
will work you up to the big prize.
This way, please, and don’t get fright
ened.”—Exchange.
Boss at Home.
"How can you tell that the conductor
is tite boss in his house?" asked the re
crult.
“Simple," boasted the great detee
dve. "That woman asked him where
she got off. and he said. Til tell you
where you get off.’ ’’—Buffalo Express.
Desperation.
"Is dis high cost of livin’ worr.vln
you?" asked Meandering Mike.
"It’s drivin* me desperate." replied
Plodding Pete. “I’m almost tempted 1
to go to work.’’—Washington Star.
Nothing Loat.
“I hear she doesn’t like me with a
mustache."
"Going to ahave It off, 1 s’pose?"
"Ob, no! She never liked me.”—Kan- ,
sas City Journal.
Difficulty is only a word indicating !
the degree of strength requisite for ae- I
complishlng a particular object.
FORTY-SECOND
(Continued from Page Two.)
sergeant would conclude that after all
the stores had better he in the first'
place, and sixteen other men would,
move them back. It may be easily1
understood how. after a few such J
blunders, the sergeant would lose the'
respect of his men and find it hard >
to maintain discipline in his squad.
Once we were put to building an '
arbor over our horses. Officers
picked out the trees to be cut—trees
that most of us knew would never be j
strong enough. Half the troop spent j
a week working on something that wo
knew would be a failure. As we had !
expected the first wind completely!
wrecked our structure.
Throughout, inefficiency was thoj
rule rather than the exception among'
those in authority. On the parade-1
ground officers would blunder in giv-:
ing commands and then, in rage, jeal ,
ous for their virgin authority, would
1 lame the men for their own short- j
comings. Even after two months’!
training, in a sham battle, the squad-,
ron in which 1 was serving charged
our own side—a force firmly cn-1
trenched with machine guns. In ac’-;
ual service this would have meant i'
needless loss of three hundred lives.
As weeks went on the guardsmen |
grumbled more and more. It took -is:
a month and a half to get uniforms j
alone; now after five months t ome of -
the regular equipment is still lacking. I
The "Fighting Forty-second" is a
cavalry regiment. It soon became!
known ml along the border as "The I
I lor.- .ess Forty-second." Tw*dv<
hundred of us had seventy horses.
.Slowly we dropped into the regu
lar routine of army life. The sold lei
of the movies diuppeuml from the ••h
fruit's vision, instead of storm eg
trenches he had to shovel manure and
dig ditches for twelve hours a d: v a
that. Tito soldier of today is an <>nli- j
dary working man, and for the > •-•*
part a very unskilled one. Hi- !'ie is {
a tie.uiiv. daily routine, a monotonous
grind of heavy labor, unlit for men
of indoor occupations.
Sc- lay by day the grumbling in
creased. liut the grumbling was not
so much because of the necessarv
hard work as because o) the misman
agement and inefficiency of those in j
authority. The man who tried to do1
his best was vexed continually by m-t
ty annoyances brought upon him by
incapable officers.
Of course, the officers, for the most
part, were not to blame for their rub
handling of affairs. They were m-'
not fitted far tiieir jobs. They did
their best—tint their best was iruv
iievably poor. Efficient leaders men
who know their business are a pi
requisite in any army; that fact >s
gent rally understood, lint cupan! ■
officers can never be obtained b«’ th
present method of appointmen;
Let us see how appointment. w< ie
conducted in my regiment. Thme .va:
an examination for ottici-rships, wliicli
great number of men entered. Sou,
of them had been in the militia h
fifteen years, and wore really c<m p>
tent soldiers A sergeant 1 knew u:oi
served eight years, part of i; la rh
regular army, arid Atood third in the
test. But neither be nor any of those
at the head of the list won out. rb• ■
examiners discarded the examination
entirely and followed the dictate; of
politics. One man was appointed limi
tenant who had been a bare six
mouths in tlie militia and who stun!
twetily-iiiTh on flic list. Ami in art
rial war tins ma 11 would have had eon
iioi of tlie lives of hundreds.
Our Colonel is true to type. A suc
cessful business and former politician
his only value to the regiment is as a
publicity agent. Among both officer,
and men lie is unpopular. No one
has any confidence in him. Scot's of
t ines men have retnatkecl bitterly
that to follow him into a skirmish
meant suicide. Mis inadequacies he
covers up by bluster. The men car!
hint the “Roaring Colonel." This L 1
the man who said, when asked wliai
he thought the solution of the “officer 1
problem” would be: “We will never;
have the best kind of officers in this j
regiment until they are all appoim 1
ed by me.” ,
So here we are waiting to be re-'
called. For six months we have bee:
charges of the government. We are j
disappointed and disgusted. Concern-1
ing the hard work, the more or less
inadequate food and the duties of
camp we do not complain. These are
to be expected. But if we are to
serve our country we demand more
capable officers, a more efficient or
ganization; less politics. Our lives are
at stake. We know it would be whole
sale suicide to go into action under
our present leaders.
Here are the facts. If they were:
true only of the group in which 1 ami
serving, they would scarcely be worih
repeating, but on a ninety-mile Jour
ney along the Border I found the
same conditions existing among all
the state forces.
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OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cauee of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if Arc does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresigh* is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdes Real Estate Agency
rs TONY’S PLACES11
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRST CLASS Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points In
Alaska and California
From Seattle to Valdez—
Feb. —S. S. Admiral Watson
Feb. 15—S. S. Admiral Evans
For Seward.
Feb. 25—-S. S. Admiral Watson
For Kodiak
-Mar. 2 S. S. Admiral Farragut
Mar. !»—S. S. Admiral Evans
From Valdez for Seattle—
Feb. 4—S. S. Admiral Evans
Fel). 11—S. S, Admiral Watson
Feb. IF! -S. S. Admiral Evans
Mar. S S. S. Admiral Watson
Alar. 10 —3. 3. Adm. Fnrragut
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Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
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San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Lxcept Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
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Phone 1 VALDKZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Jen. 26—S. S. Alaska.
Feb. 1 S. S. Northwestern.
Feh. x—S. S. Mariposa.
Feh. 16- S. S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
•v S. Mariposa.
S. S. Alaska.
Ki'p. j, -3, s. Northwestern.
FVI>. I •> -S. S. Mariposa.
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, Jl'NEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCl’M,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau. Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagwa.v, Cordova, Kllainar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to cliange schedule witliout notice.
<•'. It. Tit All, tienT Agent VVI.Di:/, DOCK < O., l.nenl Agent
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year_
In addition to t lie cleaner conditions due to Elec
trilication, you'll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you'll like the little courtesies inci- \
dent to “Milwaukee" service.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone I A. E. Harris. T. P. A. Juneau, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Rexall! Rexall! Always pets firs:
call by discriminating buyers wh >
know that Rexall stands for superla
tive excellence. Owl Drug Store, ex
clusive agents. tf
Pure Fresb Drugs at tne Valdez
Drug 8toro. tf
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdez Drug Co. tf j
_
K new line or neatera priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
Just received, a new line or Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co.
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdes Drug Co. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfe, tliat baggage for you. tf
For good warm reams try the St.
Elias Hotel. tf
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Genet al Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Location notices, bout quarts and
placer, at the Miner office.