Another choice as
sortment of fresh
fruits and vegetab
les received on the
Northwestern.
ercantile
DONALDSON SCHEDULE
The following schedule for the har
bor boat "Lt. C. V. Donaldson” will
take effect today. All orders to the
contrary are revoked.
Monday, Wednesdays, Thursdays,
and Fridays:
Lve. Fort Liscum Leave Valdez
8:16 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAY
1:16 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAY
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:16 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
11:16 p. m. 12:00 m. m.
There will be no trips of the boat
on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each
month, these days being used to clean
boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of the
above will be made without notice
only to meet exigencies of the ser
vice. ,
All official tusineas between Val
dez and the Post should be arranged
for transaction, where possible, so
that advantage will be taken of the
scheduled trips and extra trips will
be made at a minimum and made only
when urgently needed.
G. R. KOEHLER,
Capt. 14th Infantry, A. Q. M.
CALIFORNIA HEN CRIES
FOR CHEAPER GRAIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.—The
poultry industry of California must
have relief either through lower prices
of poultry feed or a minimum price
for eggs, otherwise the industry will
be destroyed, according to a telegram
j sent yesterday by A. H. Naftzger, vice
chairman of the California state coun
cil of defense, to Herbert Hoover head
of the national food admnistratlon at
Washington.
According to Mr. Naftzger the poul
trymen assert that many of them
have been forced to quit business be
cause of severe financial losses due, j
they said, to the high price of poultry
feed.
NKUHOKK CAKKIKD OKK TO
JAIL. IN BLACK HKAKSK
! CHICAGO, Jan. 25.—Commandeer-'
ing of a black automobile hearse to
I take two negro prisoners to a police
station caused a hard fight for two po
licemen and much excitement in the
"Black belt" on tlie* South Side last
night.
No patrol wagon being available a
policeman hailed a passing hearse.
The prisoners pleaded in superstitious
fear not to be placed in such a con
veyance and finally fought to prevent
it.
It took the combined efforts of sev-,
eral policemen and civilians to force.
the men into the hearse and to hold
them there until the station was
reached.
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Korty inches of snow is reported
j on the ground by the weather obser
ver, with a minimum temperature for
the last 12 hours of 9 degrees above
zero. Barometer 20.085.
I
steam heated newly furnished
SEATTLE HOTEL
MRS. E. .MIKE. Propr.
VALDEZ ALASKA
ALASKA’S PRIDE
Is the new Brew
Has all the requirements,
strength, nourishment, re
freshment and taste of beer
but has no kick.
Put up by
ALASKA BEVERAGE &
BOTTLING WORKS.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY
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Open Day and Night McKinley Street, Below Cable Ofllce
Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes,
All Kinds of Pastry for Sale
MVBRTOHDfO THE BEST ANDY MABOVIGH, hapr,
ANCIENT VESSELS Of JAPAN
■arliast Known Specimen of Japanese
Craft Called "Morota-Buna" ar
“Many-Oared Ship of Kumano.*
A historical study of unclear ships
used by a seafaring people such ns
were the prehistoric dwellers along the
shores of what Is now the sen of Japnn
has been made by ShlnJI Ntshlmnra of
the Society of Naval Architecture and
the Tokyo Anthropological society,
Rust and West News states. He has
devoted many years to the work, and
although the printed volume Is small.
It Is profoundly exhaustive. He starts
with the earliest known specimen of
Japanese called the “Morotn-Bune" or
“Mnny-Oared Ship of Kumano.” re
mains of which were dug up at an old
village of that name to the south of
take Nnku-no-Uml In Idxumo province.•
It was “a place to which the Idxumo
people had migrated from their native
Innd. Where was that native land?”
Mr. Nlahlmnra traces direct descent
from the “Many-Oared Ship of Kn
ninnn” and the trisngulnr craft of
Korea, still used at Songyn. He says:
“It may he asserted flint the Morotn
Bune In Idxumo and the triangular
craft In Korea tiHve diverged from the
same stock, viz... the fishing boat of the ■
Ainu. In my opinion, the Morata-Bune. ■
the fishing boat of the Ainu, and tho^
triangular craft In Korea resemble one!
another in form; hut the boat of the
Ainu belongs to the northern group.;
while the rest belong to the western,
group. The triangular craft of the Ko
reans was modeled after the fuKliion of j
the ancient Manehuriun type, while j
the Morota-Bune was fashioned after
the Korean type. Kven supposing they :
eniue from the same source, that source
Is prehistoric;'ll must belong to a time j
when the ancestors of the Ainu were
related with those of the Koreans, he- j
fore they came to Japan, from some ■
place situated lit the eastern extremity .
of Asia ; let us say. for example, in a j
|H>taniie region like the Amur. If this,
he so. the time antedates the history 1
of the shipbuilding of our country.”
SOME OLD HEALTH FALLACIESj
j
Surgeon Blames Women, Especially i
Mothers, for Keeping Infectious
Diseases Going the Rounds.
“If I were asked wtm keep inf«*«"-'
tlous disease going iny reply would
lie most emphatically women in gen
eral. but chiefly the mothers.” This
hard saying runic from a noted Hug-!
lisli surgeon who was addressing a i
gathering of women. The new Idea of!
public health was Ids topic, font Inn
ing. he said:
"One Is horrified to observe tile pro
found Ignorance that prevails even
among clever nnd cultivated people as
regards the true nature and .reatinent
of disease. For instance- you will flud
numerous persons of your acquaint-,
ance who still believe tliut rubbing the
eyelids with a gold wedding ring will
cure a stye, and that piercing the ears
strengthens I lie vision; that lunatics
are affected by the phases of the I
moon ; that consumption is hereditary ; i
thill the application of red flannel (If |
must he red) cures sore throat, and j
that a raw beefsteak is good for a ,
lilaek eye; tliut pricks from rusty nails j
cause lockjaw, and that (tie swallow
ing of grape stones sets tip append!-1
cilia, finally, that measles and other j
children's diseases are inevitable and |
that the sooner one Is ‘through with,
them' the better, and that, on tliut ac-|
colint. It Is both useless and uiineces-!
Mary to endeavor to segregate the oth-,
• ■r children when once a case occurs;
in a house." i
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At the Tombs of the Kings.
A Syrian ruaiil dipped her wuter Jar
!nt<> the muddy well In the corner of
the great square where sleep the no
bles and kings of Jerusalem.
•The well is swimming with danger
ous microbes," said a doctor who was
touring the Holy Land.
“We have drunk the water for
years," replied the maid pertly.
“Have any of your family died from
typhoid T’ went on the doctor, giving
the girl a kindly smile.
“Yes, two brothers and one sister,
hut many die of typhoid in the city."
“As 1 suspected. Why not go to the
river for water?”
“The Journey Is long nnd I have
much service to perform at home."
“Then, you must boll the water be
fore you use It for drinking.”
The maid laughed. Whoever heard
..I* boiling water before drinking It?
She looked at the doctor nnd asked if
lie hud had sunstroke.
Then the doctor laughed, nnd replied
ihat he was u doctor.
At the mention of that word the girl
bowed to the stranger and said that
she would do as the doctor had told
her. A doctor had once saved her fa
ther’s life.
Sorrow and Sympathy.
Adam Bede had not outlived his sor
row—bad not felt It slip from him as
a temporary burden, and leave him the
same man again. Do any of us? God
forbid! It would be a poor result of
all our anguish and our wrestling if
ive won nothing hut our old selves at
the end of it— if we could return to the
same blind loves, the same half-confi
dent blame, the same light thoughts of
human suffering, the same frivolous
gossip over blighted human lives, the
same feeble sense of that unknown to
wurd which we have sent forth Irre
pressible cries In our loneliness. Let
ns rather bp thankful that oar sorrow
lives la os as an Indestructible fores,
only changing Its form, as forces do—
and passing from pain into sympathy—
the one poor mood which -includes all
oar best In sight and our best tore.—
George Eliot. —
STEAMER SAILINGS
Steamship Northweeten—Sailed west
from Valdes. Thursday. Jan. 26.
Will return tomorrow some time.
Steamship Alaska—Sailed north from
8eattle Thursday, Jan. 24. Expect
ed in Valdes about the 30th.
8teamship Victoria—Will sail from
8eattle February 1st for Northern
ports.
8teamsh!p Admiral Evans—Sailed
west from Valdes, Sunday, Jan. 20,
will return to Valdes about Jan. 28.
Steamship Alameda—Sailed south
from Valdes, Saturday, Jan. 6.
NOTICE
Owing to the increased expense of
operation, occasioned by application
of the Territorial eight hour law, it is
necessary to increase the price on de
livery of coal, therefore the price of
coal delivered will be as follows:
Bulk .114.60 per ton
Sacked (;c:i lots) . 18.00 per ton
Sacked, (half ton) .... 0.60
Sacked, less than H ton 1.36 a sack
tf VALDEZ TRANSFER CO.
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FISH
A fine lot of black cod received on
the Northwestern by the Love-\Vhlt
ley Co. . tf
K. W. Smith, representing the
Black Mfg. Co., manufacturers of
mackinaws and men’s wear, has been
in the city the past few days inter
viewing customers. Spring and Smith
generally appear together in the ter
ritory, but it is believed he has pre
ceded the season a few weeks this
year. He will go over the trail to Idtt
arod. thence up the Yukon to Fair
banks. and out to the coast. Mr.
Smith is stated to be an experienced
musher and has traveled many thou
sand miles in the territory by dog
sled.
ENGLAND MIST RAISE
NEARLY HALE MILLION MEN
LONDON. Jan. 25. —Between 420 *
000 and 450,000 troops must be rais
ed at once in this country. Sir Euck
land Geddes, minister of national ser
vice, told the house of commons to
day. The minister said this was the
absolute minimum and that it might
be necessary during the year to take
more men from civil life for the army.
Sir Auckland said the government had
decided not to introduce conscription
in Ireland, for the present, nor change
the military age limit. Great Britain
and the colonies, he added, had rais
ed 7,000,000 men.
GOES TO CAMP LEWIS;
OLYMPIA GIRL VANISHES
TACOMA. Jan. 25.—Disappearance
of a young Olympia girl, who left that
that city with a woman, ostensibly to
visit friends at .Cainp Lewis and Ta
•oma. is the latest dsappearance case
which is concerning the police and
military authorities.
Jennie Benson. 15 years old. wear
ing a middy blouse, left Olympia ear
ly this week in company with a wo
man, described as forty years old and
dark complexioned. Before leaving
they informed friends they were go
ing direct to Camp Lewis. Since their
departure nothing has been heard
from them.
Military police and the city depart
ment are endeavoring to locate the
girl.
W. A. Murphy. 102 Minor Avenue,
Seattle, reports to police headquar
ters that he believes his son is in Ta
coma. The boy, who is 13 years old,
left his Seattle home this week under
mysterious circumstances.
The 14-year-dld son of Joe Reda,
904 Pacific Avenue, is also reported
missing.
MAJOR BISHOP
Major Bishop is considered the
greatest air fighter In the Canadian
forces. He has fteen decorated sev.
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CITY KXPKlM. Phene Hi toady
to traM<e* tt*t hangage for yen, if
' TIDES FOB JANUARY
Friday, Jan. 15.—
Pint high tide 10:59 a. a., 9.4. ,
Why worry about your
Valuables
Why not engage a box for them
in our fireproof vault where per
fect protection is assured?
Why not do it today? Tomorrow
may be too late.
Price $5^ $ 10. and $ 15. per year
according to size.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
U. S. depositary for Postal Savings Funds
Valdez Dock Co • phone no.
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
GRAIN and
LUMBER
Office Foot of Wall Street
Headquarters For
Electrical Supplies
Only the best manufac
tures are represented in
our stock.
All electrical Supplies we
sell are guaranteed pro
ducts.
Make your electrical pur
chases here and have the
assurance of absolute satis
faction and quality.
Prince William Sound Water,
Light, Power, Tel. Company
First low tide 5:58 p. m., —1.0.
Saturday, Jan. 26.—
First high tide 0:15 a. m., 7.2.
Second high tide 11:41 a. m„ 9.5.
First low tide 6:37 a. m.,- 2.3..
Second low tide 6:31 p. m., —1.0.
Sunday, Jan. 37.—
First high tide 0:48 a. m., 7.5.
Second high tide 12:18 p. m., 9.4.
First low tide 6:16 a. m.. 2.0
Second low tide 7:01 p. ni., —0.9.
Monday, Jan. 28.—
First high tide 1:17 a. m., 7.8.
Second high tide 12:52 p. m., 9.3.
First low tide 6:51 a. m., 1.7.
Second low tide 7:28 p. in, —0.6.
Tuesday. Jan. 29.—
First high tide 1:45 a. m., 7.9.
Second high tide 1:26 p. m., 8.8
First low tide 7:26 a. m„ 1.5.
Second low tide 7:64 p. 4n.,—0.3.
Wednesday, Jan. 30.—
First high tide 2:13 a. m„ 8.0
Second high tide 2:00 p m., 8.3.
First low tide 8:02 a. m.. 8.3.
Second low tide 8:20 p. m., 0.1.
Anything you want in the Une of
photography—Jenner can do it for
you. tf
Aaeeo Films Will
at any standard make o f camera.
They ara the standard. Day M. Oam*
ON*. «t
Advertise in the Prospector.
FarnliUd rooms st Mrs Oeland's.
Prices reasonable. •
FURS MADE UP
Purs remodeled, also new skins
made up In all the latest styles. Prices
very reasonable. Special attention
paid to Alaska trade. All work guar
anteed. Mrs. B. Richmond, 305 Cham
ber of Commerce Bldg, Tacoma,
Wash. tf
Just received all the latest popu
lar songs at Q. O. Relnke’s. tf
Por Drst-clsss meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants* Cafe. tt
Cannery Sites
We have customers for select can
nery sites located In the Prince Wil
liam Sound District. It you have any
thing to offer send full particulars,
location, description, etc., to
BOND ft BABSON,
Field Dept.
32 Broadway,
New York City.
A new Una of Johnson's Candy at
the Valdes brag Co. tt