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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone lfl THE DENTIST
Offioe rooms over Owl Drun store. Office hour,
»a. no., to6t>. m.. 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work iruaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdex. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing. Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
PortWellsandWay Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
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Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Table*
Jack Callin-- Proprietor
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
EAST SUFFERS
FROM THE REAI
All Eastern Coast Cities Feel the Ef
fects of the Hot Wave—Many
Prostrations Recorded.
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WASHINGTON, April 27.—A hot
| wave is now general throughout the
east and the people are suffering
greatly as a result. The mercury
stands at 94 in this city and the
people are seeking the seashores and
the country for cool breezes.
In New York, Philadelphia and Bal
timore the humidity is great and eon
' frequently several score of the in
habitants of these coast cities have
dropped on the streets prostrated by
the heat and have been taken to hos
pitals for treatment.
All records for hot weather in Ap
ril in this city have been broken bv
today’s heat.
Very Hot In Windy City.
CHICAGO, April 27.—The sudden
heat wave that struck here last night
caused much suffering to the poor.
Thirty prostrations are reported by
the police. The demand for ice has
been very heavy.
HEAT KILLS BABIES
IN CLEVELAND CITY
CLEVELAND, O., April 27.—Thir
teen babies died here today as a re
sult of the sudden heat wave which
hit Cleveland two days ago. The
price of ice has already taken a big
jump upward and the poor are un
able to secure ice. An effort is be
ing made by the city to aid the
poor. The parks are to be used by
citizens seeking a cool place to
1 sleep.
NEBRASKA HARNESS
ON BATTLEFIELDS
HASTINGS, Neb., April 27.—A big
order for war harness manufactured
for shipment to England for use in
the European war has just been com
pleted by the J. H. Haney plant here.
The manufacturers have five months
under the contract, which was for 3,
'000 sets of six-horse-team harness,
but they completed it in just two and
one-third months. The work started
early in January and a shipment to
England of one car load per week has
been maintained.
The harness in the artillery branch
of the service and the sets are sim
ply but strongly made. The traces
are short and are of wire cable over
laid with leather. The six-horse-teams
in the artil’ery service are driven
two abreast, and to unhitch it is only
necessary to unloose the four-wheel
traces and unloose two breast straps.
Children’s Dance Next Friday.
A dance for the children of Val
dez will be given at Everyman’s Club
house next Friday night. All the
children are welcome.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
William Connelly came up this
morning from his- mining claims on
Avery river, in the Port Wells sec
tion.
Leave your picture Aims at the Val
dez Drug Store for development.
Prices are right and workmanship
guaranteed. tf
The Orpheum theater is putting in
new opera chairs, which will greatly
add to the pleasure of the patrons of
this popular show house.
Home cooked dinner served at Mrs.
M. Olson’s on Hobart street, 6 o’clock
on week days, 5 o’clock on Sundays
Dinner 50 cents. tf
Brighton Arrives From Port Wells.
The launch Brighton arrived this
morning from Port Wells and way
ports, bringing seven passengers.
On the basis ot Security and Service
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we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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An English Officer’s Story of a Dog
That Learned to Cheat.
That one <log at least not only rea
sons, but has been known actually to
cheat Is the couviction of a young
English army officer who owns a
smart cocker spaniel. Among other
tricks the officer has trained the dog
to answer "letter call” and fetch his
owner’s mail to the mess table. Pleas
ed with the dog’s intelligence, the
officer fell into the habit of giving him
a lump of sugar from the breakfast
table.
One morning soon ufter the trumpet
er had sounded "letter call.” the span
iel came in with neither papers nor
letters. This was unusual, for the
officer subscribed to a daily paper
that invariably arrived in the morn
ing's mail. but. he thought little of it
at the time. About 11 o’clock, how
ever. the dog entered his master’s
quarters and deposited a muddy paper
upon the floor. The officer did not
understand the situation, but he gave
the dog a lump of sugar. Half an hour
later the dog appeared again with a
very muddy and crumpled letter in his
mouth. Then the owner’s suspicions
were aroused.
He gave the dog another lump of
sugar and watched him. He soon
found that the dog had buried the
morning's mail in the rear of tile offi
cer’s mess and was digging It up a
letter at a time, apparently with a
view to a lump of sugar for each piece
of mail.—Exchange.
VERDICT OF THE PRINCE.
Napoleon’s Great Pride In the Infant
King of Rome.
A certain Frenchman of spirit once
found himself in great distress. It
was necessary to find a means of live
lihood or die in misery. There was a
vacant place that was worth 10,000
francs a year. lie wanted it but how
could he get it? It was under the first
empire. The king of Rome was a child
in tlie cradle. The aspirant thought of
an ingenious plan to bring about the
success of his hopes.
tie wrote a petition, addressed it to
the young king and. through the friend
ship of a general officer attached to
the emperor, got it presented to Napo
leou.
The emperor took the petition and.
seeing the superscription, began to
smile. "Very well,’’ said he. “let the
petition be carried to him to whom it
is addressed."
Four chamberlains conducted our
hero before the cradle of the infant
king. After a profound bow be began
in a high voice to read his petition.
From time to time tie bowed before
the cradle. As is the manner of in
tants. the child uttered several unin
telligible sounds.
After having takeu his leave respect
fully the petitioner returned to Napo
leon, who said. "Ah. well, what re
sponse?"
"Sire, his majesty said noth’ng "
"Who says uotbiug gives consent,”
said the emperor “The petition is
granted.”—Youth’s v'ompauiou.
A Scorpion.
•‘I took my tirst typescript—get that?
—typescript to u manager who happens
to be a friend of mine," said an aspir
ing dramatist. "I discovered that man
agers have an irreverent incredulity
combined with a scorpion’s sarcasm.
“’You wrote a play?’ he marveled.
•Who told you to?'
“ ‘I wrote it on my own initiative,’ 1
answered stiflly. ’Nobody would ever
write a play if people waited to be
told.’
•‘ ‘I would not do anything so diffi
cult as write a play unless 1 was
forced,’ declared the manager.
•• ‘It is easy, not difficult, to write
a play.’ I argued. "It Is as easy as fall
ing off a log.'
•‘He read the play and sent it back
with a scrawl on the title page as fol
lows:
“ ‘Compared with writing such a play
as this it would be totally Impossible
to fail off a log.' ’’—New York Times.
Diagnosis by Electricity.
For the benefit of the nervous cases
that come to the doctor it has been
asserted that it is just as necessary to
know how emotional they are as it is
to know bow high the temperature Is
in a case of fever. Moreover, in many
cases, it is necessary to find out what
experiences in tbe past or present life
of the patient produce emotions. For
this purpose tbe patient sits at ease
with bands on the electrodes, which
may be so concealed in the arms of bis
chair that he is unaware that the most
intimate processes of his soul are be
ing registered as various words are
spoken or various topics of conversa
tion are discussed, the galvanometer
showing when a sensitive subject has
been touched.—Harper’s Magazine.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 19$.
PERILOUS JUJGGING.
The Embrace of a Kangaroo Does Not
Leave Pleascnt Memories.
Notwithstanding the kangaroo's pop
ular reputation for speed, he is easily
overtaken in the bush by a good horse
(they say) within half a mile. A ca
pable kangaroo dog—a lean, swift
beast, a cross between a greyhound
and a mastiff, bred to course and kill
soon runs him to hay. Without dogs
It. is tlie custom to kill with a cudgel.
This is oftofi accomplished by the
spoi lsman from the hack of his horse.
Dismounted, however, with the kanga
roo waiting alertly for attack, it is
sometimes a perilous venture to come
to close quarters. A slip, and the
sportsman finds himself at once in a
desperate situation.
One of the lumberjacks with whom
we rested in the shade of the blackbutt
showed us the scars of an encounter,
lie had ridden the kangaroo down,
said he. and, being in haste to make
an end of the sport, he hud caught up
the first likely stick his eye could dis
cover and lie had stopped quickly and
confidently In, and he had struck hard
and accurately. And the next instant,
caught off the ground, he was strug
gling breast to breast in the hug of
the creature, frightfully aware that he
must escape before the deadly hind
foot had devastated him.
“My club broke.” he exclaimed, “and
tile boomer got me!"
There were long scars on his hack
and shoulders, the which we were not
very sorry to see, for we could not
make out why any man should wish to
kill a kangaroo for sport.—Norman
Duncan in Harper’s.
THE HANGMAN’S ROBE.
Dennis Didn’t Like It, So He Sold It to
“Old Cain."
James Berry was not so well paid
for his services as his French con
frere, M. Antoine Deibler, who draws
£500 a year, while his four assistants
have a similar amount to divide be
tween them. Sanson, the first execu
tioner to wield the guillotine, was
originally paid £1,520 a year, but when
executioners were appointed in each
department this was reduced to £800.
Before the revolution the legal tariff
in France was 25 shillings for a be
heading, 10s. 8d. for a burning at the
stake, and the same amount for a hang
ing, with allowances for the erection
of a scaffold or the provision of fuel.
One of James Berry’s predecessors,
for a brief period, donned a uniform
when at work. In 1785, according to
a contemporary chronicler, the sheriffs
of London were “so pleased with the
excellent mode In which Edward Den
nis, their hangman, performed his
duties that they presented him with a
very elegant official robe—a khilaut, in
fact, ns eastern potentates term a simi
lar garb of honor. Dennis found this
inconvenient when at work on the
scaffold and sold it to a well known
character of those days, ‘Old Cain.'
who, having set up as a fortune teller,
wanted a robe to complete the cos
tume in which he received dupes.”—
London Chronicle.
A Spoiled Scene.
E. H. Sothern once found his wit fail
him in time of need. It was in the
fourth^ act of "The Lady of Lyons."
Si i hern played Claude Melnotte. and
Virginia Harned was cast us Pauline.
Beausaut, the villain, was pursuing
Pauline, and she cried loudly for help.
Claude is supposed to dash to her res
I cue and catch the fainting Pauline in
I his arms. Sothern dashed on to the
stage, but slipped and slid, sitting
| down near the footlights. Losing his
■ presence of mind, he declaimed the
i line: “Look up, Pauline. There is no
: danger.” As Virginia Harned was
| standing, this was. of course, au im-‘
possibility. By this time the audience
was in an uproar, and when Arthur
Lawrence, who played Beausaut.
scornfully said, “You are beneath me."
the amusement of the audience knew
no bounds.
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Marksmen and Rifles.
No marksman ever bolds a rifle "as
solidly as a rock." He may think he
does, but Arms and the Man Insists
that the best shot gives merely the
“necessary impulse to the trigger,
while the rifle Is moving in the right
direction”—that is. when he takes de
liberate aim. The snap shooter works
apparently by a sort of Instinct. Fir
ing successfully at a running deer
through the woods and over broken
ground Implies a knack like that of
thrusting one’s finger, toward an Indi
cated object—New York Times.
Natural Inference.
A schoolteacher was reading a story
to a class of very small folks and
paused at the words “lay brother.” to
explain their meaning. “Does any one
know what ‘lay brother’ means?" she
asked.
For a moment a row of perplexed lit
tle faces looked up at her. Then one
face brightened suddenly, and a small
voice piped, “Yes, ma’am, it’s a roost
er!”—Youth’s Companion.
He Was Sensitive.
Blobbs—You’re pretty much stuck on
Miss Gobbs, aren’t you, old man?
Hobbs—1 was once, but after what
she said to me last night I’m not go
ing to pay any more attention to her.
Blobbs —Gee! What did she say?
Hobbs—“No!”—Cleveland Leader.
Nothing Lacking.
Manager-^Your play seems to lack
the human touch. Playwright—You
are mistaken, sir. My hero borrows
money from bis friends in almost
every act—Boston Transcript.
tyhy It la Fiotion.
Women are mysterious except in flc
tton. There tMjr Me edited In the
last chapter.—Wisconsin State Journal.
DIET AND COLOR.
What Man Eats Seems to Determine
the Shade of His Skin.
What you eat determines your color,
uccordiug to Berglield. a German inves
tigator—not necessarily that yon your
self could effect any change of color,
hut your ancestors for thousands of
years have unconsciously been influ
enced by the food they have eaten and
the drinks they have drunk.
For instance, the original men were
black, says Berglield. Their chief diet
was of vegetables and fruits, he ex
plains, and these same foods contain
manga nates that are not unlike Iron.
Dark browns and blacks result from
this combination. It is a scientific fact
that negroes who drink milk and eat
meat are never as dark as those who
eat vegetables.
lie goes on to add that the Indian is
red because for hundreds and perhaps
thousands of years lie has taken into
Ills system the haemoglobin or red ma
terial in tile blood of animals which
lie lias killed for their food.
Again. Mongols are yellow because
they have descended from races that
were fruit eating and who. making
their way Into the deepest nooks and
widest plains of Asia, developed into
shepherds and lived largely on milk.
Of course it is known that milk con
tains a certain per cent of chlorine and
has a decidedly bleaching effect in
the case of Caucasians they are said to
have become white by adding salt to
their foods, which common salt is a
strong chloride and powerful in bleach
ing the skin.—Chicago Tribune.
ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION.
How the Pulmotor Is Used to Restore
Normal Breathing.
The pulmotor is au automatic resus
citation appliance which produces a
flow of inhaled and exhaled air by a
single nozzle, the rhythm of respiration
adjusting itself automatically to the
dimensions of the lung, and thus the
astonishing result is produced of a
seemingly lifeless body beginning to
breatlie regularly as soon as the pul
motor is placed In connection with it.
The pulmotor works directly on the
respiratory organs and if the spark of
life still exists will fan it into a flame
and give the heart and lungs a chance
to fight.
The pulmotor Is used on persons over
come by gas. electric shock, apparent
ly drowned or in other cases where the
breathing of the patient has been seri
ously impaired or stopped entirely and
where there still remains a slight heart
action. Its motive power Is an oxygen
cylinder containing this gas. which will
supply a (10 per cent mixture of air
and oxygen to the patient for forty
minutes. It has a great advantage
over artificial respiration by band in
that it forces larger amounts of oxy
genated air into the lungs than it is
possible by ordinary methods of artifi
cial respiration, and the work can be
kept up longer.—Philadelphia Press.
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Land Tilled.
The department of agriculture esti
mates that there are 1.140,000.000 acres
of tillable land in the United States
and that only ‘27 per cent of this im
mense area is under cultivation. It
might add that of the ‘27 per cent ac
tually cultivated comparatively few
acres are handled in such a way as to
show anything like their maximum pro
duction.
Here is food for the pessimist. The
man who fears that the country is
nearing actual exhaustion may find
cheer in the thought that little more
than a quarter of the available agricul
tural land is being made productive.
Supply inevitably meets demand, and
as tbe demand for agricultural products
increases the-supply will be enlarged
by tbe development of regions which
have not been touched by tbe plow.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Literal.
William Chase, the painter. Is a
teacher whose criticisms are awaited
with some trepidation by his pupils.
One “criticism day” Mr. Chase came to
the canvas of n pretentious and vain
young man. who was considering with
obvious complacency a portrait which
he had smeared thereon.
“It’s coming out nicely." he told Mr.
Chase.
Chase said not a word, but took tur
pentine bottle, paint knife and rag and
worked industriously at the canvas un
til there was a clean surface there.
“Ah. yes.” he remarked, “It’s coming
out nicely.’’—New York Post.
Books.
God be thanked for boobs! They are
the voices of the distant and the dead
and make us heirs of the spiritual life
of past ages. Boobs are the true level
ers. They give to ail who will faith
fully use them the society, the spiritual
presence, of the best and greatest of
our race.—William Ellery Channing.
A Monologue.
Tommy—Pop. what Is the difference
between a dialogue and a monologue?
Tommy’s Pop—When two women talk,
my aon, it’s a dialogue: when a woman
carries on a conversation with her hus
band it’s a monologue— Phlladelpbin
Record.
Do You Ses the Point?
Probably the man who gave circula
tion to the idea that there Is always
more room at tbe top bad never seen r.
pyramid.—Woman’s Home Companion.
Ultra Modern.
“Madge Flighty Is certainly an up to
date girl."
“Up to date! Heavens! She'a up U
•yaryttUnf.”—Boston Transcript
’3 ic'- ..• '——
A rut nay flood a province.—Ger
man Proverb.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
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The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Norses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, fils heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording preGinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monta Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 332.,
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decern
ber, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said secHon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JIJNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liseum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1: Vj p. in. 2:00 p. ro.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the 8ecoi-d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boll'ra.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
•‘b'aclT” 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
w,ith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
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