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Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Univeriitj
Washington. D. C.
DENTIST
in both companie* Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Omee rooms over owl Druk' store. Office hours,
S a. m., to 6 p. m.. 7 p, m..to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work Buaranteed
*>R. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’s Phone No. SB
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE;
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes-Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-L A W
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
DONOHOE & D1MOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer And'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Ma« Printing
ValdM, Alaska, j
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.
TABLE OF DISTANCES.
Summer Road. Winter Road.
Miles. Miies.
00 Valdez. 00
9.9 .Camp Comfort. 9.9
18.8 . Wortman’s 18.8
26.9.Thompson Pass Relief Sta. 26.9
33.1 _'. Ptarmigan Drop.33.1
42.2 . Beaver Dam . 42.2
51.9 . Tiekhell 519
67.6.... Tiekhell Tel. Sta.57.6
63 . Ernestine . 63
80.5. Tonsina 80.5
92.3 . Willow Creek 91.8
102.6 . Copper Center 102.1
111 . Tazlina .110.5
113 . Simpson’s 112.5
118.6 . Dry Creek .118.1
128.3. Gulkana .127.8
139.8 . Poplar Grove 139.3
149.8 . Sourdough 149.3
161.7 .Hogan’s Tel. Sta.158.2
165.8 . Our Home .162.3
175.2.. ....... Meier's .171.7
190.9 . Paxson’s .187.4
208.2 . McCallum's 207.4
219.9 . Miller’s .219.1
232.8 . Rapids .232
244.8 . Donnelly’s.244
261.8 . Beal’s Cache .
280.2 . McCarty’s .
292.2 . Shaw Creek .
297.8 . Tenderfoot .
300.8.. ..... Richardson .
312.8 ... Birch Lake .
. Gordon’s ...260
. Sullivan’s .276
...Spruce Creek or Tent. .*.287
. Martin’s .299
321.3 . Overland 307.7
330.2.. ...... Munson’s .316.6
337 . Salcha Tel. Sta. .323.4
342 .. Pile Driver .328.4
352.1.Bergman’s.338.5
361.4 . White’s 347.8
370 .Fairbanks 356.4
BANDITS HOLD UP
TEXAS TRAIN
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 30.—
Two masked men held up a tram
near this city and forced the passen
gers to give up money and valuables
of the value of $1,000. The bandits
escaped and the police are hunting
for them.
MARIPOSACOMES
FROMJE SOUTH
The steamer Mariposa arrived in
Valdez at 11:30 this morning and
sailed for the westward at 2:30. The
Mariposa is due back here tomorrow
night.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 29, 1914.
Barometric pressure .29,427
Temperature at 7 p. m. 13
Maximum temperature . 38
’Minimum temperature . 10
Mean temperature . in
Partly cloudy air, wind northeast
6 miles.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Over a dozen varieties of apples to
pick from at the Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Cooking apples $2 per box at the
Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
plan’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
For home cooked meals go to Mrs.
Matilda Olson’s on Hobart street.
Phone 219. Special Sunday dinner
served at 6 o’clock. Week days din
ner served at 6 p. m. tf
Sweat Baths.
First-class sweat baths and mas
sage parlors at room 6, Montana, tf
PACKAGES IN « u.UUGAL
Messengers Carry Them, as 8tores Do
Not Use Delivery Wagons.
Llgbt delivery in Portugal is done al
most entirely by men and women. De
livery wagons, sucb as are used in
American cities, are unknown here.
Some of the large department stores
are now using motor trucks, but none
has introduced a special parcel carrier.
Lisbon and Oporto, tbe only large
cities in the republic, are built on bills,
and most of the streets are very steep,
attaining a grade of 17 per cent. They
are paved with stone and generally are
In good condition. Tbe roads Immedi
ately about these cities are fair and
the grades are easy. County highways
are a mixture of very good and very
bad. They are not kept up as they
should be and for short distances are
apt to be extremely rough.
Nearly all articles such as are de
livered In the United States from a
light wagon or motor vehicle are sold
here by men and women, who go
through the streets crying tbelr wares.
Fish, fowls, vegetables, bread, oil,
fruit etc., are all carried on the bead
or shoulders of the vendor. Delivery
of goods from small shops is made by
boys or by the “galego," who is found
at every street corner. These men also
transport pianos, furniture and other
articles of a similar character.—Con
sular Report
MILITARY MESSAGES.
Some That W?re Made Famous by
Their Pith and Brevity.
Of famous military messages there
are scores, beginning with the never
to be forgotten "Veni, vldi, vici” of
Caesar and that equally famous dis
patch of Commodore Perry. “We have
met the enemy and they are ours," Out
both were beaten for brevity by Gen
eral Sir Robert Boyd, who while gov
ernor of Gibraltar, being in need of
beef for his troops, wrote to the agent
in England this laconic dispatch:
“Browne, beef, Boyd.” Browne sent
the stores with the reply, “Boyd, beef,
Browne.”
And this in turn recalls the story of
Peter de Dreux. the celebrated fighting
bishop of Beauvais, who, being taken
In arms by Richard Coeur de Lion, was
imprisoned and fettered. Pope Celes
tine III. remonstrated in behalf of the
prelate, and in reply the king sent the
bishop’s helmet and armor to Rome
with this neat dispatch taken from
Genesis xxxvii, 32: “Know now wheth
er It be thy son’s coat or no.” The
pope declined further intercession and
replied that the coat the king had sent
did not belong to a son of the church,
but of the camp, and the prisoner,
therefore, was at Richard's mercy.—
Detroit Free Press.
Every Woman a Nurse.
Every woman, or at least almost
every woman, has, at one time or an
other of her life, charge of the personal
health of somebody, whether child or
invalid—in other words, every woman
Is a nurse. Every day sanitary knowl
edge or the knowledge of nursing, or,
in other words, of how to put the con
stitution In such a state as that It will
have no disease or that It can recover
from disease, takes a higher place. It
Is recognized ns the knowledge which
every one ought to have—distinct from
medical knowledge, which only a pro
fession can have.
If. then, every woman must at some
time or other in her life become a
nurse—namely, have charge of some
body’s health—how immense and how
valuable would be the prodnet of her
united experience if every woman
would think how to nurse.—Florence
Nightingale.
Values In Exhaust Steam.
A common error among plant owners
is to ascribe undue economy to the heat
that may be carried in water resulting
from the condensation of steam. They
conversely greatly underestimate the
heat carried In exhaust steam. As a
matter of fact, the heat in a pound of
water at 212 degrees is only 180 Brit
ish thermal units reckoned above the
freezing point, whereas In a pound of
steam at the same temperature the
heat units number 1,150. Hence If this
steam Is condensed In a radiator It
gives ont 970 beat units, and the drip
will contain 180 heat units.—Engineer
ing Magazine.
Hi* Experiment.
An Irishman went Into a hardware
store to buy a looking glass. The shop
man brought him some to choose from.
Pat left one on the counter and.
walking back a few feet, closed his
eyes.
"What are you closing your eye*
for?" asked the shopkeeper.
“Bedad.” said Pat. “1 want to see
how 1 look when I’m sleeping.”—Chi
cago News.
On Tima,
"Is this train running on time?”
“1 should sny so.” answered the con
ductor. “It can’t run any other way.
The compnny has had to get so many
extensions of credit that the whole
road is now running on time.”—Wash
ington Star.
Making Sura.
"I will show my love not by words,
but by deeds ”
“1 think, dear, you had better show
the deeds to our lawyer.”—Baltimore
American.
Ought to Be Warm.
"Walter, this pudding Is quite cold.”
“Impossible, sir: This is the fifth
time It has been wanned since morn*
tag.”—Paris Journal Amusant
An archer la known by his aim. not J
by his arrows.—Old Saying. *
Must Be So.
Professor of Physics—Are your stu
dents thoroughly familiar with your
views on the subject?
Professor of Psychology—They must
be familiar with them, considering the
contempt they show for them.—Chi
cago News.
A Perfect Man.
“She married him to try to make a
man of him.”
“Succeed?”
“Perfectly. Now he washes dishes,
sweeps floors and makes lip beds just
like a maid of all work.” — Boston
Globe.
Well Broke.
“Your grandson seems to feel per
fectly safe riding you.”
“Yes. Hefore he mounted he looked
at my teeth and decided that there
was no danger that I was too young
and high spirited.”—Pittsburgh Press.
The Right Thing.
“I want to entertain a friend who is
a cubist artist. I wonder what would
be nn appropriate tiling to do?"
“Why don't you give him n square
meal?”—New York livening World.
A Wreck on a Railroad.
—Philadelphia Kecord.
Conserving Energy.
Publisher—My dear young lady, only
two novels ont of twenty pay for the
publishing!
Girl—Oh, very well, then, I’ll only
write two.—Boston Globa.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries received
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
WE Call You on Time for the boat
if We Handle Yourf, Baggage.
We Buy andjJSell Anything from.
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. (J. A. Spenard, Prop
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
t 7 a in to 9 a m
MEALSj Lunch 12 ni to 1 p m
' 8 to 7 p ni
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
ARCADE CAFE
“We Never Close.”
Private Dining Room.
The Best of Everything We Bake Our Own
Bread and Pastry#* Bread for^Sale.
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
Chas. Perry
Seattle
Serviced
I * IN THE HEART OF THE COY,
Il55[frxxn5 with bath-50 S&mpleRooms
When
You
Use
a
Western Electric
Washer and Wringer
Simply put in the clothes and
start the motor;—in 1 U to L>
minutes the clothes are washed
white and clean ready to he
hung on the line without the
wear and tear of the wash
board.
Connect to any electric lamp
socket.
Costs only 2 cents an hour to
run.
Let us send one to your home
for 15 days’ free trial?
Alaska Water, Lights
& Telephone Co.|_
m
Somebody
With Money f
always has 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
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.