STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS ;
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“ The House of Comfort ”
PHONF. 7 F0R MEN 0NLY
ECONOMY 18 THE KEY
NOTE OF OUR SUCCESS
We were the first in the city to
place tailored to measure
clothing within the reach of
every oue. The day of high
prices i3 past. Let us show
you some dandy patterns 'f
pure woolen fabrics that will
make up into beautiful suits
for a little money.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hoae, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office._Telephone 24
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1917
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
OF ALASKA
I CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take 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 j S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alatka.
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 OPEN ALL NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Propr.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms.Phone 35
Independent Steam Laundry
Batisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Roujfh Dry 10c lb
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Rexal! stand for par excellence, not
alone in drugs, but every article sold
under the name. The Owl Drug
Store. *f
Old-Fashioned Hoarhound lumps
at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
Rexall! Rexal 1! Investigate Rex
all products at the Owl Drug Store, tf
Fresh Box candy at Hunt’s Candy
Kitchen. A new line opened. tf
Pictures and Panoramic Views
make fine presents. Valdez Drug
Co. tf
Anything in nugget and ivory Jew
elry at Totten Dm Co.
JUDGE PEEVED BECAUSE
. BLUE LAWS ARE ENFORCED j
L1SMARK, N. D.. Jan. 31.—la-:
censed because he could purchase no j
paper last Sunday, Judge Robinson
of the State supreme court, because
of the strict enforcement of the blue
laws, issued a written order di
recting the sheriff and chief of police
to permit drug stores, news and cigar
stands to remain open. The proprie
tors of most places, however, remain
ed closed, and one poolroom owner
who opened was arrested.
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A new stock of A1 Fruit Tablets
Candy Kitchen. tf
Freak candor at tha Bmportam. if
A WILD MACHINE GUN
POURS BULLETS HARTFORD
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HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 31.—
Hundreds of lives were endangered
end considerable property damage rv
culted in Hartford’s older residence
section this afternoon when a new
machine gun, firing 500 bullets a
minute, got beyond the control of
testers at the proving ground of the
Colt Company. No one was hurt, but
the bullets pierced walls as far away
as a mile from the factory and
many persons narrowly escaped
death.
A shower or millets struck and al
most penetrated one of the steel tanks
of the Hartford City Gas Light Com
pany, about half a mile from the gut.,
and scattered a group of workmen
who were oiling the tank's ways and
girder rollers. The dents in the tank
are an eighth of an inch deep. An
other shower, of the bullets struck
St. Patrick's Church, a stone edifice,
and persons nearby picked up some
of the battered bullets which had hit
an iron fence.
A crew of roofers working on a
new automobile building on the Allyr.
Street Way fled helow when the mis
siles began to rattle on the roof and
whistle" around their heads.
The Colt factory is located in the
southeastern section of Hartford,
about a mile from the most distant
point at which a bullet was reported.
This was in the offie of Dr. Freder
ick T. Simpson, at 122 High Street,
where a bullet crashed through a win
dow and then piercetj two walls of
me nouse.
At fire house No. 6, which is very
close to the Colt Works, the firemen
heard a fusillade of shots, which hit
the upper portions of the building
and pierced the brick walls. The An
drews & Peck Window and Sash Fac
tory was also hit. Several other
buildings were reported to the police
as having been struck.
' Formerly the Colt machine guns
land revolvers were tested at a range
I south of the factory buildings and
[running into the South Meadows, but
since the plant has been doing its
'unprecedented war business several
;additional ranges have been opened,
ione of which apparently points to
jward the section of the city which
iwas bombarded today.
Although the factory managers ac
knowledged to the police that there
[had been a miscalcufation in the
! proving range, they were vague in
!explaining just how the gun became
[unmanageable.
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SHKLim.X WILL START
XKNAXA Al TO SKRVHT1
FAIRBANKS, Jan. 31.-— In an at
tempt to inaugurate an automobile
stage line between Fairbanks and Ne
nana, Robert Sheldon, the pioneer
stage driver of the Interior trails,
will leave town this morning for the
new railroad town. He will be ac
companied by one of his drivers, L’oo
Scanlon, and will take as passengers
Hal Bailey and Izzy Stein.
Mr. Sheldon does not expect to
[have much trouble in establishing
|the service but until he has been
| over the trail and thoroughly esti
j mated the difficulties he will have to
I overcome, he will not announce tmy
I definite schedule. According to the
j reports of drivers of rigs now using
|this trail, it is in good condition, and
[there is not much rougli ground to
! be gone over. However, there are
about four miles this side of the Ohio
roadhouse and about four miles be
yond the same place that are covered
I with niggerheads, and there ha* not
i keen sufficient snow to cover them
:deep enough to make the traveling
[easy. Mr. Sheldon will make the tnp
each way in a day at first, if he de
cides to establish the service. But
later on, as the traffic increases, as it
is figured it will do from now on, he
will make the round trip every day.
Several previous efforts have been
made to establish a quick auto ser
vice between the two towns during j
the past few months, but up t» tne
present they have been unsuccessful.
Mr. Sheldon has a reputation, how
ever, of being able to go anywhere
a horse can go, and has earned it rj
bis remarkable success in keeping up
an automobile connection with the
coast over a period of three or four
years. If he succeeds in opening up
the new route it will not mean that
lie is abandoning his coast service,
but that he is merely increasing his
service, and will thus be able to han
dle passengers from Chitina to ve
rana.
Dentist to Go to Sea.
BELLINGHAM, Jan. 31.—Dr. C. A.
Darling, a resident of this city for
27 years and a practicing dentist for
many years, has locked up his shop
and will become master of the biigan
tine Harriet G., a vessel owned by
the State Navigation Company of
which he is president. Dr. Darling
will take the vessel March 1 for a
trip to Honlulu with a cargo of l im
ber. He is an experienced navigator
and has been a keen yachtsmen for
years. The Harriet G. is «ow home
ward. bound from Peru whither she
took a lumber cargo from the mills
here.
BUCK FRIDAYS.
Flrot of The*# Financial Terror* Came
In London In 1746.
Several of the great financial panics
of tbe past h*_ve commenced on a Fri
day. and this has given rise to one of
the pet superstitions of tbe stock ex
changes and bourses of the world—
that the sixth day of tbe week Is
fraught with ill omen for those en
gaged in financial operations.
Tiie original "muck Friday occurred
Dee. 6, 1745. in London. On that date i
tidings reached the metropolis that the '
pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, had
reached Derby with his forces. Lon
doners Immediately made preparations |
to tly from the city, and a panic pre
vailed. It was on that occasion that t
the Bank of England bad its closest ,
call in its long history. The citizens |
were anxious to take their money with >
them, ami the Bank of England was j
besieged by an army of depositors. .
Tiie bank escaped banki iptcy only by J
the expedient of placing “dummies'' In i
the line to impede genuine depositors ,
and by paying bona fide depositors in j
small coins, thus consuming mm-h j
time.
The first “Black Friday" of latter
day financial history wus in 18G0 and
was due to the failure of one of Lon
don's largest banking houses. Three I
years later Wall street had a “Black
Friday.” due to an attempt to engineer !
a corner In gold. The worst of all !
“Black Fridays” was that of 1873. i
when on Friday, Sept. 18, It seemed j
that the whole financial structure of ,
the new world bad crumbled into ruins 1
—Exchange. |
A FAMILY ORCHESTRA.
H** Your Homo Ono, and, if It Ha*. ;
Doe* Thi* Ju*t Fit It?
When two people conduct an orches.
tra there Is plot material. If the two
are knit by marriage ties the plot thick- j
ens. Endlcott and I conduct a family
orchestra, he at the piano, I playing
second violin. I know more about mu
sic than does Emlicott; be is more mu
sical than I. I keep the time; he has
the tempera meut. Temperament is
more noble than time, but time, I shall
always insist, has its place, perhaps
nowhere more appropriately than in an
orchestra. He at the piano can domi
nate the situation more neatly than 1.
In m.v position among the strings, how
ever, I can more readily organize a
strike.
The rest of the pieces are presided
over by our children, young people ol
inflexible spirit and chromatic moods
Sometimes we doubt whether we have
our troupe under the rigid control which
us parents we might expect to com
mand. The conductivity of an orches
tra. says our son Geoffrey, vuries with
the distance of the blood relationship
between artists and conductor. When
the children were little we held the
pleasant theory that a family orchestra
would draw ns all close together, stand
ing always as a symbol of our perfect
harmony. That would be all right if
the harmony would ouly go to suit us
all equally at the same time. As it is
our little band, in which observers find
so touching a picture of hearthside uni
ty. suggests sometimes all the elements
of guerrilla warfare.—Atlantic Monthly
A Statue That Never Waa Built.
Mount Athos, in Turkey, was the spot
contemplated l»y a sculptor for the most
imposing monument that man had ever
had. The sculptor Dinocrates offered
to cut the huge mountain mass into
the form of a statue of Alexander
which should hold a city in the left
band and in the right a basin to re
ceive all the waters that flowed from
the mountaiu.
Alexander was much taken by the
plan, but rejected it for the practical
reason that there was not food enough
in the district to feed the Inhabitants
of the proposed town. So the canal cut
by Xerxes to enable the ships to es
cnpe sailing round the mountain re
mained the greatest enterprise ever
achieved there.
Equity and Economy.
Two men. strangers to each other,
were seated together on the outside of.
a tramcar, and both filled their pipes
simultaneously. One, however, struck
his match first, and the other request- '
ed that he might share the light. Ilav
ing done so, he took from his pocket
u box of matches und handed one to
his obliging neighbor. "It is foolish,"
he suid, “to stri’.e two when one will
do, but I can't very well expect you to 1
provide that one when 1 have some j
also. Let me pay!” A mind of nice I
balance in equity as well as economy!— 1
London Chronicle.
'
Vain Quests.
A little girl who was trying to tell a
friend how absentininded her grandpa
was said, “He walks around, thinking
about notbiug, and when he remen;
bers it he theu forgets that what be
thought of was something entirely dif
ferent from what he wanted to remeni
her.”—Christian Register.
Caught Both Ways.
Mrs. Exe—My servant girl has left
me. She said I bad so much company
there was too much work to do. Mrs.
Wye—That’s singular. Mine has left
me too. She said I had so little com
pany it showed I had no social post
tion.—Boston Transcript
Not Yet.
Mrs. Bacon—Don’t you think I’m en
titled to a pension, John? Mr. Bacon
Why. no. A pension is something you
get after you are through fighting.—
Yonkers Statesman.
One reason we are not successful is
that we sidestep Opportunity and
■bake hands with. Temptation.
OPEN Ft REN AND *
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much ]
loss both of life and property. J
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a Are Insurance policy on your
home and Its contents. Then
if lire does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
TONY'S PLACE
■ H
EVERYTHING
FIRS'! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON, j
Manager. •
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Meet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
Feb^T^^s'Vd^lra^wTtson „ 1^°™ Va,d“
co , e. Feb. 4—S. S. Admiral Evans
1-eb. 16—S. S. Admiral Evans Feb H__s s Admiral Watson
For Seward.
Feb. 25—S. S. Admiral Watson Feb. 23—S. S. Admiral Evans
For Kodiak Mar. 8—S. S. Admiral Watson
«ar I ^arraBut Mar. 10—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Mar. 9—S. S. Admiral Evans B
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
I/os Angeles
San Francisco to I/os Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.'
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
© ALASKA
~ STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Jan. 26—S. S. Alaska.
Keb. 1—S. S. Northwestern.
Keb. 8—S. S. Mariposa.
Keb. 16—S. S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
■Jan. 27—S. S. Mariposa.
Feb. 2—S. S. Alaska.
Feb. 8—S. S. Northwestern.
Feb. It;—S. S. Mariposa.
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. n, TKACY, Gen*l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to "Milwaukee" service. •
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Juoeao, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Rexall! Rexall! Always gets firsf
call by discriminating buyers wh«
know that Rexall stands lor superla
tive excellence. Owl Drug Store, ex
clusive agents. tf
Pure Fresh Drugs ai me Valdez
Drug Store. tf
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For fine Candies see our stock,
j Valdez Drug Co. tf
A new line ol Heaters 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. Valdez Drug Co. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfer Uiat baggage for you. tf
For good warm roams try the St.
Eliae Hotel. ff
A. M. DIERINGEE
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial 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 nouees, Dotn quarts aa«
placer, at the Miner office.