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Weather Report.
Nov. 4, 1913.
Barometric Pressure .29,121
Temperature at 7 p. m.32
Maximum Temperature .35
Minimum Temperature .25
Mean Temperature .30
Precipitation .04
Partly cloudy, wind N. E. five miles,
rained at midnight.
L. JONES.
CITATION TO SHOW CAUSE.
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 iA the fore
noon of said day, then and there
tfr 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 same 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 this ci
tation be served upon you by
Bublication thereof in the Valdez
'aily Prospector, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed and
published at Valdez, Alaska, for
a period of at least four succes
sive weeks.
witness me uonorame ueo. j.
Love, United SJates Commission
er and ex Officio Probate Judge
in and for Valdez Precinct, Third
ITudicial Division, Territory of
Alaska, with the seal of said
court.affixed, this 21st day of Oc
tober, 1913.
(Seal) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Gomnflssioner and ex Of
ficio Probate Judge.
First pub. Oct. 21. 1913.
Lasl p.ib. Nov. 18, 1913.
TAMMANY CANDIDATES
ARE BADLY DEFEATED
(Continued from page 1.)
Boston, Mass., Nov. 5.—Former
Lieut. Governor David I. Walsh, the
nominee for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket, was elected yesterday,
over the Republican and Progressive
candidates by 50,000 plurality. The
tariff was the issue in the state cam
paign. Congressman Augustus P.
Garwdner is third in the race ac
cording to the returns so far receiv
ed and the Progressive candidate,
Charles Bird, is leading the Republi
can candidate by several thousand
votes. The unreported districts may
change the result and place the Re
publican in the lead but the differ
ence will be but slight.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 5.—Presi
dent Wilson is greatly pleased at the
result of the elections in New Jersey,
Maryland, New and Massachusetts.
The fight made by the Republican
party against the tariff which was the
main issue in all the states with the
exception of New Stork and the sup
port given the administration by the
vote for the candidates who favored
the administration tariff has greatly
pleased the executive. When the el
ection of Governor Felder became a
certainty the president sent a tele
gram of congratulations to his former
Lieutenant governor and also to
Governor Walsh, of Massachusetts.
Largest Power Station in Canada.
Canada’s largest hydroelectric
power station, which is being built
at Cedar Rapids, in the St. Lawrence
river, near Montreal, will have a rat
ing of about 100,000 lip., to be in
creased to 160,000 hp. later. Its
twelve 10,800-hp. water wheels, which
will operate at filty-six revolutions
per minute under a thirty-foot head,
will be the largest ever built. Three
1,500-hp. exciter units will be added
and twelve generators are to be con
nected with the wheels. The plant,
663 ft. long and 130 ft. wide, will be
built as a part of the dam, and its
turbines resemble in design those of
the Mississippi river power develop
ment at Keokuk, la. Contracts for
80,000 hp. from this station have al
ready been made.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The goods must go at a sacrifice at
Adler’s.
Ernie Johnson left this morning
for Ellamar.
Blood Will Tell, a swell two-reel
film at the Orpheum tonight.
The Orpheum has erected a fine
storm front.
Great reduction in everything new
and second-hand at Adler’s.
A. Y. Tuttle leaves on tonight’s
steamer for Seattle.
Robert Coles will make the trip to
Seattle on the Sampson.
Mrs. Harry Moore will be an out
going passenger tonight.
Winter is coming; see the fine fur
display in Blum’s wdndow.
Mrs. Thomas Shepard leaves on the
steamer tonight for Tacoma.
Fine pictures tonight at the Orphe
um. Change tomorrow evening.
Tony Carlson has renovated the in
side of his saloon for the winter.
Mrs. Fred. Guthrie will leave on
one of the next boats for California.
The best place to bathe is at the
Pioneer barber shop; large tubs and
plenty of warm water.
Attorney Frank Webber leaves on
the Sampson to make his home in
'Seattle.
The dance in Moose Hall tonight
starts at 9:30 sharp. Home waltz
at twelve.
FOUND—Small purse, with small
amount of money—Information at
this office.
Jack McLean will be an outgoing
passenger on the Sampson for a
business trip to the states.
Al. Sullivan, who has been con
fined to his bed for the past ten days,
is able to be about again.
—
Nu Bone corsets, Mrs. T. R. Need- I
bam, general manager, In Fish build
ing. For appointments telephone
iOG.
Mrs. George White will be an out
going passenger on the Sampson to
spend the winter Jn the states visit
ing with friends in Seattle, Tacoma
and Los Angeles.
If you want all the news all. the
time, read the Prospector.
DlAIVu,.,J MINING.
How They Treat the Blue Dirt In the
Kimberly Region.
Writing to his monthly fr,om Jo
hannesburg, E. W. Howe tells haw
the diamonds are taken from the
mines in South Africa. Briefly, the
process of finding the diamonds is
as follows:
The blue dirt in which the dia
monds are found is brought to the
surface precisely as coal is hoisted
and mined in about the same way.
It is then placed in little iron cars
and hauled to a level field, where it
is spread over the surface to a depth
of two feet. This is done to permit j
the weather to disintegrate the dirt!
and render its washing easier. To- ;
day I saw a field of 4,000 acres cov
ered with this blue dirt. It will re
main out in the weather a year be
fore it is treated in the washing
mills.
You might pause a moment and
think of that 4,000 acre field, cov
ered to a depth of two feet with the
blue dirt in which diamonds are
found. The 4,000 acre field 1 saw
represented the output of only one
mine; there are eight in the Kim
berly district, only two of which are
known to be duffers, as they say
here—that ie, of little value.
And you may rest assured that
this 4,000 acre field is carefully
guarded. It is surrounded with a
barbed wire fence fourteen feet
high, and on the top of the fence
are four wires spread out in such a
way that no one could possibly
climb over. At night the fence is
illuminated with electric lights, and
there is a patrol of armed guards
day and night. But you might be
turned loose in the 4,000 acre field
and not find a diamond in a year.
The process of finding them is very
intricate, expensive and difficult.
Many of the natives who work in
the diamond mines have never seen
a diamond; they see only the blue
dii't.
After the blue dirjt has lain out in
the weather a year and been plowed
up at intervals with steam plows
that all portions of it may have a
chance at the sun, it is washed in
enormous mills and reduced in the
proportion of 1 to 4,000,000—that
is, for every pound of diamonds
found 4,000,000 pounds of blue dirt
arc mined, hoisted, exposed in the
field a year and then run through
me wasning inuis.
In these washing mills the blue
dirt is first crushed between rollers
and then run through shaking
washing pans three different times.
What is left is then taken in cars
to another mill called the pulsator,
and here the precious dirt is again
washed three times. Finally the
diamonds and the heavier pebbles
remaining after six washings go in
a stream of water over a shaking
pan, the bottom of which is covered
with vaseline. The diamonds stick
to the vaseline for some reason yet
unexplained, while the pebbles roll
away with the water. The diamonds
on the screen are then easily col
lected and sorted.
Suicide as a Luxury.
Suicide has often been regarded
as a luxury, and Marseilles, France,
colonized from Miletus in ancient
days, preserved a custom and a pris
on for many years under Roman
rule. A dose of hemlock and aco
nite was allowed to any one who
could show sufficient reason why he
should deserve death. “This cus
tom,” says Valerius Maximus,
“comes from Greece, particularly
from the island of Ceos, where 1
saw an example. It was a woman
of great quality, who having lived
very happily ninety years, obtained
leave to die this way, lest by living
longer she should happen to see a
change of her good fortune.”
Mora Important.
Mr. Dustin did not approve of
his son’s choice of a wife and was
trying to persuade him to see things
as he did.
“Yes, you are quite right, fa
ther,” said the son. “Mabel has her
defects, she is vain, full of preten
sions and grand ideas, with a very
difficult character. But, father, in
spite of all, I simply adore her. I
can’t live without her.”
“But that is not the question, my
boy,” said the father. “Can you live
with her?”—Lippincott’s.
Not a Case of Sympathy.
Teacher—Willie, did your father
whip you for what you did in school
yesterday ?
Willie—No, ma’am; he said the
licking would hurt him more than
me.
Teacher—What nonsense! Your
father is too sympathetic.
Willie—No, ina’am; but he’s got
rheumatism in both arms.
•• Accidentally.
“| wonder how so many forest
fires catch?” said Mrs. McBride.
“Perhaps they catch*etcddentally
from the mountain ranges,” sug
gested Mr. McBride. — Christian
Register.
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY air d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds'
Positively no cool delivered
unless paid (or in advance
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen years^in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone ,9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Di uir store. Office hours
9 a. in., to 6 p. m., ? p. ui.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appoititnioiu All work truaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNKY-AT-LA\V
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
\. A VV Y E R
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
All Mining Business Given Prompt
Attention.
; WHALING BLDG. VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
]Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 189
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, Alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
General Mining Engineering
Phone No. toa
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
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VALDEZ, ALASKA
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
■A.B
MeeL every inesuay evening hi h o uiuux id
Kairle Hall. All members lire requested to
attend. S. McnjECE. Arctic! Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications nrst Wednesday id
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson..W. M
n. C. Reynolds. Sec
VALDEZJLODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F
Meets every Monday at 8 j>. m. in
ODD FELLOWS’ H A LI.
Visiting Brothel* especially invited
Wii. Thomas, n. o. P. S. Huf~"p. t „’Sbo
POSITION wanted by experienced
woman as camp cook. Inquire at the
Prospector office.
Fine watch and jewelry repairing,
all work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
don, with Owl Drug Co.