•One of those beautiful
MEERSCHAUM PIPES
at the
BUFFET
would make a delightful Xmas gift.
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1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1W j
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER j
OF ALASKA 3
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING ;
Building material o! all kinds, and several grades ol ;
wall board kept in stock at all times .
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ ALASKA
Phone 18
REFERENCES j S. BLUM A CO. Valdez, and Corder.,
BANKERS 1B. M. feKHRENDS. Jmmq, Algih,
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Merchants Cafe
pboM os OPEN EAT AND NIGHT Oh-. Fischer, Propr.
LET US MKA8UBK YOU .1
for your new salt and let us do }
It now. The new fabrics In serge. }
worsted, thlbet, etc., are In and 7
we are prepared to cut them In- j
to suits of class and snap at a +
very low rate considering the I
quality of the cloth and the tall- ♦
orlng. Do it now. J
BEN SILVERMAN i
THE TAI1X>R ♦
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Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Ho*e, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdes Dock. Oi>posl«e Prospector Office. Telephone 24
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Independent Steam Laundry
’ s , | Foot Keystone Ave
! Rough Dry 11c lb
; Telephone *H> 1
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THE SENATE
A NODS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON l
CIGARS AND BILLIARDS *'
Nicely Furnished Rooms._^Phone 35^
THE WNZON
f •r • V - 5P. '7 /. • *if
TOBACCO AND CIGARS
tSaMGJ-fiuChocolltcJ’
POOL AND BILLIARDS
PHONE 69 Me Kinley St, Valdez
HOTEL SEXTON
Seward Alaska
Geo, Sexton, Proprietor.
The'traveling public's
home.
European Plan.
HOTEL^PP^
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A complete line ot fountain pens,
perfumes, stationery, etc., at the
Valdes Drug Store. Buy your Xmas
gifts there. tf
Rainer Cereal Beverage, non-in
toxicating at B. Hgnt’a. tf
Xuh Goode
and uaefnl articles are now coming
on every boat, for the Bmporlnm. tf
A nice lfae of carpenter
JaH;
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ALASKA FISHING
' ATTRACTS WORLD
SEATTLE: The Ashing Industry of
Alaska in at last receiving the atten
tion of the world, through the estab
lishment of many Asheries and salmon
canneries, according to advices Issued
in a report by the Alaska rfureau of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and
[Commercial Club. Among the new
I canneries, states the report, are the
' following :
Deep Sea Salmon Company, which
Is constructing a three-line cannery
at Port Althrop. I«v Strait.
Alaska Sanitary Packing Company.'
which is making arrangements to con- j
struct a new plant at Cape Fanshaw,
Frederick-Sound.
Carlisle Packing Company, which I
I is constructing a cannery at Andreaf- j
sky. Yukon river.
Fred Davidson is expecting to con
struct a cannery at Olltak.
Valdez Packing Company, of Val
dez. contemplates the enlargement of
its plant, which was constructed last
year.
Southeastern Alaska Cannery Com
pany, of Seattle, has been organized,
hut no plans have as, yet been an
nounced.
J. R. McDonald, of Seward, has re
cently organized a company to con
struct a' cannery at Port Chatham,
Cook Inlet.
T. S. Gorman is making preliminary
arrangements to put in a Cannery at
Sitka hot springs.
' North Pacific Trading & Packing
Company, which has a cannery at Kla
wak, is considering the construction
of a new plaht, the location of which
has not yet been announced.
Alaska'Packing & Navigation Com
pany will construct a two-line cannery
on Fresh Water Bay, Chicagof Isl
! and.
George Palmer Is preparing to con
struct a cannery at Snug Harbor.
Cook Inlet.
] Canning plant projects now under
consideration embrace the folowing:
Jeages, Ericson & Peterson, of Lynn
canal; Robert Semple and J. C. Mc
Bride, Gedney harbor; V. A. Paine,
Juneau; Alaska Packing & Naviga
tion Company, Pavloff harbor, and W.
H. Spaulding, Chatham strait'.
Canning plants which were burned
during the past summer are alsd be
ing reconstructed, one being at Sun
nypoint, near Ketchikan, and the oth
er one being the Astoria & Puget
Sound Cannery, at Excursion inlet.
SPOKANE BREAD TO
HELL FOR 1) CENTS
SPOKANE, Dec. 14.—At a confer
ence of Spotcane bakers and retail gro
cers with Charles Hebberd, federal
food administrator for Washington,
today, 9 cents was set as a fair re
tail price for 16-ounce loaves of bread
when customers pay cash and carry
home the purchase, and 10 cents a
loaf when charged and delivered.
: The bakers' price to retailers was
[reduced from 8 cents to 7 1-2 cents,
I with the understanding that all bread
be paid for by the retailer at time of
delivery.
The food administrator agreed with
the bakers if the new price be found
too low at the end of a sixty-day trial
he would recommend the return to the
old price schedule. Mr. Hebberd will
arrange meetings with the bakers and
grocefs of Seattle and Tacoma during
the week to make similar arrange
ments'. * •
Ketchikan had her first fall of snow
last week, when nearly an inch fell
in th* twenty-four hours. Deer moun
tain, the sentinel of the city has been
covered With show for some time.
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Buy your groceries direct. Save
fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The
house that sella direct to consumers.
Randall Grocery ft Brokerage Co.,
In a, 8ft Marlon 8t., Seattle Wn. tf
Subscribe for the Prospector.
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FISH
Fresh black' cod, silver salmon,
halibut and kippered cod just re
ceived on this boat. Love-Whltley Co.
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PERIL OF COAST EROSION. *
Th* CmmIm Warfare Waged by the j
Sea Againet the Land.
All over the World, hi America a> j
well as in tbe eastern hemisphere, lx j
i he sea waging a ceaseless warfare J
against the land So serious Is the |
danger of coast erosions round the Brit !
iali isles that people are asking w beth |
er Kngland is not slowly liut surely dia- ]
a pi .caring.
Low estoft tins been sorely hit l>y the | ]
iiiereilesa waves wliieli are steadily ad j
vancing. \\ it bin the last few'year* tl> |
eii'. i" asi town has spent eiaish’.erahl j
more than iito.oon in ioinbniltig the
s**a which means n new promenade I
groynes, break waters, piles and htlge|.
eetrienl structure*. Only a few years j;
since treiiiendons damage was eimsevl
to rheso then new structures liy a j
scries of pales which wre ked part of i
the promenade, tore down the piles]
and breakwaters and made a scrap;
heap "f tbe cemented parts.
i'miner, too. has suffered terribly j
from the sea's, advancement Not so]
long ago it lost this delightful east
mast town more Ilian 145.000 to make j(
good the damage. .
I hiring less than flfty years it Is
roughly computed that Kngland must
have lost more than 50.000 acres of
laud b.v sea Incursions. The battle
agninst nature still goes on. But It
must lie reiuemliered that, while In
some places the waters are advancing,
hi other s|H>ts the aea la retiring. But
the Imldncc Is said to be not altogether
In favor of the latter, and new roeib
ods may have to be devised to meet
and fight the perll.-London Mail.
PIKEMEN IN BATTLE
The Old Greek Phalanx Wes Like a
Mess »f Live Barbed Wire.
It la a long reach back from modern
war methods aud Dig guns to the day*
of the pike and the battleax. But in
its time the pike did deadly work and
used In the phalanx wa» a terrlWs
weapon.
A phalanx In the military affairs of ;
Crewe waa a square battalion or body
of soldiers formed in ranks aud flies
compact and deep, with their shield*
Joined and pikes crossing each other
so as to render It almoft Impossible to
break It. At tlrat the phalanx consisted
of 4.000 men. but this number waa aft
erward doubled by Philip of Macedon.
aud the double phalanx la heuce often
called the Macedonian phalanx. Polyb
ius describes it thus:
"It was a square of plkemen, con
slating of sixteen In flank aud 500 hi
front. The soldiers stood so close to- i
gether that the pikes of the fifth rank j
extended three feet beyond the front
The rest, whose pikes were not service- !
able owing to their distance from the
front, couched them upon the shoulders
of those who stood before them mid.
so locking them together In file, pressed
forward to support and push on the
former rank, by which means the as
sault was rendered more violent aud
irresistible.-' The spears of those he
bind also stopped the missiles of the
enemy. Bach man’s pike was tweuty.
J three feet long A grand phalanx con
I si.sted of It-,..'PC men.
An Equally Extanaiv# View.
A III era I interpretation of a common- i
place remark is sometimes amusing
In ••Midsummer Motoring In Kurope' i
I*e < 'oitrc.v \V. Tltotn tell* of au old ‘
traveler who said to a very a in till boy
then making Ills tirst royage, who bad
cliiidied upon the bulwark and was
gazing across the ocean to the far hori
zon. “My boy. did you ever before »e*
Much a glorious stretch of ocean—a* far
as yon can see. only ocean?
“Yes." answered the boy.
"Hardly." said the matt. “Where do j
you think you saw It?"
"Ou the other side of the ship.” re-j
piled the youngster. •
* Tha Aneiant Scepter.
The Hebrew word translated as
“scepter" originally meant a rod or a
staff and was the wand of a ruler. It
waa thence applied to the shepherd’s
crook (I.evitlona xxvll. 32; Mlcah wit
Ml '
It may be Inferred that the scepter
ef early Hebrew times was made of
wood.' The scepter of the Persian non-,
arch la described aa "golden"—that la,
probably of massive gold (Esther j
Iw. ill. _.
Anciant Embroidery. •'
III Exodus the “embroiderer" ta cou .
fronted with the "cunning workman.’’!
The art iff embroidery by the loom wan
extensively practiced by tbo nations of
antiquity. The Egyptians and Baby
lonians were noted for It Embroidery^
with the needle was a Phrygian lnven
tion of a later date.
They
Satisfy! '
-and yet
they’re i
MILD!
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WHEN FLAMES FILL £
THE FACTORY j
despair Alls the owner who has 2
neglected to look after bis in- |
surance. We handle the insur- 2
ance of some very large con- £
ferns. We place it in the bekt *
companies, pay the premiums 2
promptly and attend to renew- •
als. Let us do that for you. 2
It will not cost you anything 2
for our service. . *
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Valdez Itenl Kstate .tgenry •
¥R”“1 Tony’s Place 'S* i
Orders to ANTON CARLSON, Manager.
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
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From Seattle 9 a. m.— Valdez to Seattle—
Dec. 2—S. S. Alameda Dec. 5—S. S. Victoria
Dec. 8—S. S. Alaska Dec. 10—S. 8. Alameda
Dec. 16—S. S. Victoria Dec. 18—S. S. Alaska
Dec. 24—S. S. Alameda Dec. 23—S. S. Victoria
Call at Ketchikan, Juneau, I'oraova, Ellamar, Fort Liscum, Val
dez, La touche, and Seward.
S. S. Alaska sailing from Seattle Dec. 8th connects with S. S. Dora
at Seward (or Alaska Peninsula ports.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell Douglas, dkagway, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice
VALDEZ DOCK CO* Local Agent
MBP
STEAMSHJE
Phene No. 1. VALDEZ DOCK CO., Agent, Valdez Alaska.
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships Offer Frequent,
PERFECT SERVICE
Between All Points in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
Leave Seattle 10 a. m.— Prom Valdez to Seattle—
Dec. 10—8. 8. Adm. Evans 1K.,. S. S. Adm. Evans
Dec. 28-sTs. Adm. Evans 20—S‘ S' Adm- Evans
(for Kodiak) IJec- -
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Monday, Friday and Saturday for
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
IF YOUR TICKET READS ‘PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY”
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST.
LOUIE’S CAFE
Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Office
Fresh Bread* Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale
\ EVERYTHING THE B'EST ANDY MAROVIOH, Propr.
Valdez Transfer Co.
A. M. DIERINGER, Proprietor
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Office on Valdez Dock, Next to Prospector
Building.
General Trucking and Freighting to all
Interior Points
AUTOS FOR HIRE,
DAY OR NIGHT
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No Coal Delivered Unless Paid in Advance
[cable TELLS BROTHER’S
DEATH AT WAR FRONT
OLYMPIA, Dec. 14.—“Killed in ac
tion” was the message received to
night by Mrs. Edward Kevin, of
Olympia, announcing the death of her
brother, Gabriel Haas. He left with
the first Canadian regiment from Tor
onto when the war broke out and was
but 18 years' of age. He was wounded
In the battle of the Somme, but after
four monthB In the hospital from a
hurt caused by Bhrapnel, he return
ed to the trenches. A movement- was
on foot to have the first contingent re
turn for Christmas and he was ex
pected home for'the holidays. Tt IS "be
lieved he was killed In the latest bat
tle on the Western- front? 1» wrKid* the
Canadians were engaged. He was a
machine goaner-“ •"*■* *u-vv* •
New table linen, round table seta
with napkins to match; also linen by
the yard. At E. Winter’s. tt
Housekeeper wanted at G. J.
Zinns. tf
Fresh taffy, chews and brittle®, at
Hunt's Candy Kitchen. tf
Toys! Toys! Toys!
Of all descriptions 11 the Valdes
Drug Store. tf
Downey’s box Candles at Hnn”e
Candy Kitchen. t
x—CO FUJI'S Wiu
fit any standard mal.. o < ~imera.
They art the standard. Gay / Oass
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