Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
February Clearance Offerings
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Women’s
Underwear
Two piece woolen underwear,
broken lots, mostly small sizes,
50c and 75c garment.
Women's Hosiery
Unusual values at 15 cents.
Pumps and Slippers
Broken size lots of up to date
footwear at reduced prices;
Three-fifty, Four dollars and
Four twenty-five values,
at $2.75 pair.
Women’s
Sweater Coats
All-wool sweater coats, grey
and white—formerly sold for
five and six dollars,
now priced $1.00.
Red Cashmere
Seventy-five and Eighty-five
cent values, now 50 cents.
^GUARANTEED 1
| K^ust^rooj i
sOxsets/
All One-twenty-five to Two
fifty corsets offered now at
On the basis ot Security and Service
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we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
M DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen veais in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Oftloc rooms over Owl Drug store. Ofllce hours
8 . to 6 p. m., 7 p, in.. to 9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. 59
HOURS—9 to 12 a. a.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valde*.Alaaka
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
.Civil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaska.
Valdez Miners Union No, 188
Weitem Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER. PnekUmt.
Granite Mine
ORAS. McCA^Ufojyyg,
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Not the Reason.
“They asked me to tlielr reception,
but It wasn’t because they liked me.
It was only because I can sing.”
“Oh. I’ru sure you’re mistaken.”-'
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
FOR SALE CHEAP—Two good
work dogs, harness and sled. Both
leaders. Apply Tony Carlson’s, k 20
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers If the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get ap Electric Portable
and read in comfort and peace.
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Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company
BULLETS ARE TRICKY.
One Chance 8hot That Brought Down
Three Englieh Officer*.
It baa been truly said that once yon
tire a bullet from a modern rifle no one
can forecast where it will ultimately
come to rest. Kveu when a bullet has
an uninterrupted course it is capable
of upsetting all known calculations of
its flight and runge.
Before the buttle of Omdnrman a
sick officer was carried across tbe Nile
and placed under an awning no less
than 6,500 yards from the nearest
point of possible tire. This should eas
ily have insured him n mnrgiu ot safe
ty, hut it didn't. A stray bullet ate up
tbe intervening three miles ot desert
ulr. struck him in the bead and killed
him.
Shortly before another battle in the
Sudan General Sir Archibald Hunter.
Colonel Hacket-Thompson, G. B., and
another officer were reconnolteriug
through au opening In tbe wall of a
disused sakieb, or waterwheel. Tbe
hole In the wall was so small that the
officers hud to stand oue behind the
other to see anything.
The officer, whose name is not given
in the incident, was tu front using a
pair of binoculars, wtiile Sir Archibald
Hunter was in the rear. The glint
caused by the setting sun shining on
the gluss of the binoculars attracted
the attention of a dervish, who, with
others, was retiring along the Nile.
He,^topped, took rapid aim and filed.
It was a very good chance shot, for
it sped through one of the lenses of the
binoculars, through the brain of the
officer holding them, killing him oil the
spot, through the shoulder of Colonel
IIticket Thompson and finally lodged
In the breast ot Sir Archibald Himter,
where It remains to this day.— London
Mail.
THE HOUSE OF SORROW.
Those Who Have Dwelt Therein Have
Learned a Lasting Lesson.
They that have experienced a greai
sorrow are born again. The world
they are now in is quite different from
their old world. In that earlier world
they lived upon terms of household
familiarity with joy and felicity. Mow
they must lie down by the side of sor
row nud cat with sorrow beside them
at the board. Outward things may as
sert their identity to eye. to ear, to:
touch, but outward Ihings cannot de-(
ceive the spirit within. The house or
sorrow is strange, all its furniture is
strange, und the nevvcomer must learn
anew how to live.
The first lesson is to accept the past
as a beautiful day that is done, as the
loveliness of a rose that has withered
away. The object of our yearning
nas passed from the world of actual •
contacts into the world ot art. Mem
ory may paint the picture as it will,'
drop out all shadows and catch the’
beauty of our exquisite less in all tbe
golden glow of human happiness.
There, within the shrine prepared by
sorrow, that picture will ever refresh
us nud bless us. Evil cannot touch it.
nor ill will, nor envy, nor sordid care.
Only our own faithfulness, our own
acceptance of unworthy things, can
stain the freshness of its beauty. Sor
row has constituted us the sacristans
of this shrine; on us rests the care ot
this pictured relic, and unless we suf
fer motes and beams to get in our
eyes it will remain as bright in Hie
sanctuary of memory as in the sun
shine ot earthly life.—Atlantic.
His Passport.
On one occasion Gustave Pore, flu*
artist, lost his passport while on u tour
In Switzerland. At Lucerne he asked
to be allowed to speak to the mayor,
to whom he gave his name.
"You say that you are M. Gustave
Pore, and I believe you." said the
mayor, "hut,” and he produced a piece
of paper and a pencil, "you can easily
prove it.”
Pore looked around him and saw
some peasants selling potatoes in the
street. With a few clever touches he
reproduced the homely scene and. ap
pending his name to the sketch, pre
sented It to the mayor.
"Your passport is all right." remark
ed tbe official, “bat you must allow me
to keep it und to offer you in return
one of tbe ordinary form.”
The Codex 8inaiticus.
The.most ancient of the New Testa
ment manuscripts is the one Known 11s
the “Codex Hlnaltlcus,” published at
the expense or Alexander II. or Rus
sia since the Crimean war. This codex
covers nearly the whole or the Old and
New Testaments and was discovered
In the Convent of St. Catherine on
Mount Sinai by the celebrated Tischen
dorf. It la generally ascribed to the
fourth century.—New York American.
Was Probably Serious.
“I'd like to know,” said the boat
swain, “whether she was stringing me
or not.”
“Who?" Inquired the mate.
“The young woman who asked me
awhile ago If we ever' hitched sea
horses to the captain's gig.”—St Louis
Post-Dispatch.
A Queer Eye.
An orator stated that “the worst en
emy any cause can have Is a double
lie In the shape or half a truth,' and
the newspaper reported It "a double
eye lh the shape of halt a tooth.”
Hopeless.
“He ought to torn over a new leaf."
“Gee, that wouldn't do much goodi
Bp could turn over a whole library and
not have a good atari toward being
decent”—Exchange.
If you cannot get grapaa, runs a Rus
sian proverb, try an appla.
PROFIT IN GOLDEN SEAL
A Woodland Crop That May Be Culti
vated With Little Trouble.
Speaking of plants that may be cul
tivated with little trouble and witb
profit to the grower, a writer in
Green's Fruit Grower advises those
who have a bit of unused woodland or
underbrush to plant golden seal. Ue
considers it one of the most remuner
ative of plants to ruise and says that
it requires very little care.
The roots of this plant sold fifteen
years ago at 80 cents a pound. The
price has steadily advanced. The root
is now worth $5.50 a pound, and the
dry leaves and stems now sell for 25
cents a pound. It is one of the most
widely used drugs known to the mod
ern pharmacopoeia.
At the end of three years yon can
sort out the mature roots from the
young ones and wash and dry them
for sale, while you put the young roots
bnck in the ground. At the end ot
the three years the grower has a year
ly crop of roots, and, beginning with
the first year, he has a yearly crop ot
leaves and stems. This is one ot tire
crops on which there Is an absolute
certainty of a market that will run
after you as soon as any golden seul
buyer knows you have the goods to
sell. Go and ask your druggist or your
doctor about the value of golden seal
WHISTLER AND HIS GROCER.
An Overdue Bill, a Threat and a Pay
ment Not In Cash.
Whistler’s financial affairs were the
mingled Joy and terroi of his friends,
and the Pennells, in their "Life of
Whistler,” give a most amusing
glimpse Into this side of his life. On
one occasion he had actually run up a
hill ot £(500 with a Chelsea greengrocer,
who at last called to insist upon pay
ment. Whistler came out strong on
that occasion:
“How—what—why—why. of course,
you have sent these things—most ex
cellent things—and they have been
eaten, yon know, by most excellent
people. Think what a splendid adver
tisement! And sometimes, you know,
the salads are not quite up to the mark
—the fruit, yon know, not quite fresh.
And if yon go into these unseemly dis
cussions about the bill—well, you know,
i shall have to go into discussion about
all this, and think how it would hurt
your reputatiou with all these extraor
dinary people. I think the best thing Is
not to refer to the past—I’ll let it go.
And in the future we’ll have a weekly
account—wiser, you know!”
The greengrocer left without his mon
ey, but received in payment two not:
turnes, one the blue upright Valparaiso.
A Calamity.
Five-year-old Tot’s mother was tell
ing the youngster the story ot herself
and her twin sister.
“One morning when we were a week
old the nurse was bathing us, aud she
took the blue ribbon off Della's wrist
and the pink ribbon off Stella’s wrist.
When she was ready to put them on
again she could not remember which
one of us was Della and which was
Stella, so she took 11s iu to mother,
but mother could not tell either, and
no one ever did know whether or not
we had our right uames. Then when
we were seven years old one ot us
died, and nobody knows whether it
was Delhi or Stella.”
Little Tot burst into an agony or
tears and sobbed out, ”1 just know it
was my own mother that died when
she was seven years old!"—Youth's
Companion.
A Rhineland Legend.
There is a Rhineland legend of three
German robbers who. having acquired
by various atrocities what auionuted
to a very valuable booty, agreed to di
vide the spoil and to retire from so
dangerous a vocation. When the day
appointed for this purpose arrived one
of them was dispatched to a neigh lior
iog town to purchase provisions for
their last carousal. The other two
secretly agreed to murder him on his
return that they might divide his
share between them. They did so. But
the murdered man was a closer cal
culator even than his assassins, for he
bud previously poisoned a part of tbe
provisions, that he might appropriate
to himself tbe whole ot the spoil. This
precious triumvirate were found dead
together.
A Different Reaeon.
"What bright eyes you have!” said
the visitor to dve-year-old Tommy
"You must get plenty ot sleep."
"Yes’m," he answered. "My mam
ma makes me go to bed every night at
8 o'clock."
“That’s to keep yon healthy." said
the visitor.
“No, It ain’t." replied the youngster.
“It’s so she can mend my clothes.”-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Platinum.
Platinum Is dissolved by aqua regia,
a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric
acids. No add known to chemists,
alone, will dissolve this metal, but these
two combined. In the proportion of one
volume of oltrlc and three of hydro- >
chloric, will.—New York American.
Safaty First.
Bill Burglar—I ain’t gonna rob no
poor lone woman, I utn't. Mike Thief
— What's de matter* Gettin' soft*
Bill Burglar—Soft, nothin. Them lone
helpless women’s de kind dot half kills
ye and then sends you to jail.—Phila
delphia Ledger.
Free Nicotine.
By sprinkling tobacco during the cor
ing with a 2 per cent solution or citric
add the free nicotine, which causes
the "bits,” Is eltmlnatad.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
W7E~Call*You on'jTime for the boat
” if We Handle Your Baggage
We Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
Seattle
A Complete. Services
' IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
|j35RoomswiHibaHr505anipIeRooms
Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration hooks for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the 6th day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Copper
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the hours
of 2 and 1 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and betweon
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote at
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that \V. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement,, and til
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o’clock In the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by me, the
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found to
“back” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
\yith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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tkuo. read tbe Preapeeter.