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On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
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TO
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“A TOUR DE LUXE!" is jin expression supremely fitting in con
nection with a trip to thit East on this palatial all.steel transconti
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with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and comfort.
No Extra Fare on This Train
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations,
etc., call on or address
C. H. Kraemer. General Agent. Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co.
• VALDEZ, ALASKA
City Ticket Offices. Chicago. Milwaukee A St. Paul Railway. 44? Hastings Si. West
VANCOUVER. B. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST., SEATTLE
_ _-_
New Goods.
New goods mi every boat at
Mrs. Winter’s.
FOR SALE, rent or lease, a 20
room lodging house; central lo
cal ion. A snap. Call at Pros
pector office.
Hand Laundry, corner of Ho
bart si., and Keystone Avenue.
Flannels and silks a specially.
MRS. ||. SMARTS & CO.
FOR SALE—Three horses,
wagon and set of harness cheap.
Inquire at Seattle hotel.
Fine watch and Jewelry iepair
ing, all work guaranteed. H. V.
Herndon, with Owl Drug Co.
FOR RENT—3-rooin apartment
finely furnished, hot and cold
water and hath. Reasonable
rent. Centrally located. Enquire
at the Prospector.
CITATION TO SHOW CAUSE.
In the Probate Court, Valdez Pre
cinct, Third Judicial Division,
Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
i. i ri.vim, uvn'unt'u,-umi inn
to Show Cause.
To Mabel M. Flynn and all
oilier heirs unknown; and to all
persons interested in the above
entitled estate, greeting:
You and each ol' you are here
by cited and required to appear
before the judge of this court,
at the court room thereof, in the
Town of Valdez Alaska, on Tues
day, the 23rd day of December,
1913, at ten o’clock in the fore
noon of said day, then and there
to show cause, if any you have,
why YV. T. Scott, the adminis
trator of said estate, should not
be authorized by an order of this
court to sell at public sale all the
property belonging to said es
tate, the same consisting of sun
dry personal effects and a one
third interest in and to lot 1 1-2,
in block 7, of the Town of Y'aldez,
Alaska.
And it is ordered that this ci
tation be served upon you by
publication thereof in the Valdez
Daily Prospector, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed and
published at Valdez, Alaska, for
a period of at least four succes
sive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Geo. J.
Love, United States Commission
er and ex Officio Probate Judge
in and for Valdez Precinct, Third
Judicial Division, Territory of
Alaska, with the seal of said
lUik 9Ld J...
UUU* U V»>W — •* V uuj a v» v
tober, 1913.
(Seal) CEO. J. LOVE,
U. 8. Commissioner and ox Of
llcio Probate Judge.
First pub. Oct. 21. 1913.
Last pub. Nov. 18, 1913.
THE STELLAR SYSTEM- .
. i - ,i
Th«re MPy B* a Hpqdrad Milfipp
Star*, 'Parhapa Many Mora.
We tbin|c of the multitudes of the
stave and would in nil probability
holifiy say that on a clear, frosty,
moonless night we see millions of
them. In reality on such a night,
if we leave out the faintly luminous
Milky way, we see less than 3,000
distinct stars.
In the whole starry sphere, oi:'
which we see only half at any given
time, there are only a score of first
magnitude stars, beginning with
Sirius, the brightest of them, and
including stars like Orion’s right
shoulder and left knee, Betelgeux
and Kigel, Vega and Arcturus. Of
stars of the second, magnitude, like
six of the seven stars in the Dipper,
there are in all sixty-five. Of stars
of the third magnitude, like the re
maining star of the Dipper, where
the handle joins the bowl, there are
190; of stars of the fourth mag
nitude, under 500; of the fifth, just
over 1,000, and of the sixth, the
extreme limit visible to the naked
eye on. the best nights something
over 3,000, making in all less than
5,000 visible at any time to the
naked eye, while only half, or about
2,500, can be seen, at one time.
But even an opera glass shows a
great many more, and larger and
larger telescopes disclose more and
more. Vet they seem limited in
number, at least if it be true that
the light carrying ether does not
[absorb and extinguish the light of
| the most remote, for if they were
really infinite in number and their
light came to us unimpeded the
night sky would be uniformly lumi
nous, which it is not. So that a
small telescope which shows stars
down to the ninth magnitude will
add about 100,000 stars to those,
visible to the unaided eye. while the
largest telescopes will show stars
down to about the sixteenth magni
tude.
Argelander s star chart includes
between three and four hundred
thousand stars counted and plotted
by hand, while the modern photo
graphic survey, in which the stars
are made to map themselves, goes
up to the high figure of 15,000,000.
It is computed that the best optical
means which human genius can de
vise may show 100,000,000 stars.
If this be, as is supposed, close
to the total of existing stars and if
we remember that the population of
the earth is computed to be 1,500,
000,000, then it follows that there
is only one star for each fifteen peo
ple. or. say, a star for oath three
families—by no means such a vast
number as most people suppose.'
Hut. as said, this is true only if the
ether docs not extinguish any of
the light, and so does not hide the
most distant stars by absorbing
their luminous messages..—Harper’s
Weekly.
A Very “Unclubable” Man.
Boswell gives I lie number of orig
inal members of "The Club” as nine
One of them, however, Sir .John
Hawkins, presently withdrew, his
j own version being that “The Club's"
late hours were inconsistent with
his domestic arrangements. On the
authority of Sir Joshua Reynolds,
Boswel was able to give the true
reason. Hawkins was so rude to
Burke one evening that the other
members made it plain to him that
his company was no longer wel
come.
It was in connection with Haw
kins and his behavior at “The Club”
that Johnson coined a most useful
word. Hawkins refused to pay his
share of the reckoning for the sup
per, on the ground that he usually
ate no supper at home.
“Sir John, sir,” commented John
son, “is a very unclubable man.”
How He Hated Smokers!
Tennyson was the smoking poet
of the Victorian era. His two great
contemporaries — Browning and
Swinburne—hated tobacco, espe
cially Swinburne. He expressed
himself with characteristic vehe
mence. He had wandered into the
Arts club, where he sought, and
sought in vain, a room that was
free from the fumes of tobacco
smoke. At length his fury over
came him. “James the First,” he
exclaimed, “was a knave, a tyrant,
a fool, a liai;, a coward, but 1 love
him, 1 worship him, because he slit
the throat of that filthy blackguard
Raleigh, who invented tins filthy
smoking.”
Mutt Have Been Pretty Homely.
James Heidegger, London court
favorite and manager of the opera
in the early part of the eighteenth
century, was called the ugliest man
on earth. Mrs. Delany described
him ns “the ugliest man ever form
ed." and he was so proud of it that
he challenged Lord Chesterfield to
produce a more hideous face in Lon
don. A woman was found who ran
him very close, but when Heidegger
put on her headdress he was unani
mously pronounced to be the win
ner.
MOHAMMEDAN HOLIDAYS/'
> A 1 • < •- •
Tfioy Aro Not Numerous and Are
Solemn Rather Than Gay.
In nothing is the natural sober
ness of the Turk more manifest
than in his holidays. He keeps
‘fewer of them than his Christian
compatriot, and most of them he
celebrates in such a way that an
outsider would scarcely suspect the
fact. This is partly perhaps a mat
ter of temperament, and partly be
cause Islam has not yet passed a
certain stage of evolution. A holi
day, that is, is still a holy day. Secu
lar and patriotic festivals are every
where of comparatively recent ori- 1
%'"]■. J
In -Turkey, where church anu :
state are o*>e to a degree now un- '
known in western countries, there !
was no real national holiday until J
190!). Then the lirst anniversary
of the re-estahlishment of the con
stitution was celebrated on the 23d
of July (July 10, old style). A
highly picturesque celebration it
was, too. in Constantinople at least,
with its magnificent array of rugs
and medieval tents on the hill oi
Liberty, its review of troops by
the sultan, its procession of the
guilds of the c-ity, and its evening
illuminat ions.
Illuminations, however, were not
invented bv the constitution. Long
before a 23d or a -1th of July was
the splendor loving Sultan Ahmet
111. discovered how unparalleled a
theater for such displays were the
steep shores of the Golden Horn
and the Bosporus. The accession
day of the reigning sovereign made
an annual occasion lor great fami
lies to set their houses and gardens
on lire with an infinity of little oil
i lamps and, in all literalness, to keep
| open house.
This was the one purely secular
holiday of the year—unless 1 ex
cept the day of llidr Klvess. Ilidr
or Hi/.r Klvess is a distant relative
of the Prophet Klijah. of the god
Apollo, and 1 suspect of personages
still more antique. His day coin
cides with that of the Greek St.
George—namely. April 23, old style,
or May G, according to our mode of
reckoning. I must add that he is
frowned upon in orthodox circles
and feasted only in Constantinople
or other localities subject to Greek
influence.— II. G. Dwight in Scrib
ner's.
Punishing a Court Fool.
Ivan the Terrible, Peter the
Great and the Emperor Paul had
rough ways with their foots. A dag
ger thrust would follow a poor joke
and banishment any sign of doelin
ing wit. Once when Eougerc, the
; jester of Czar Paid, o(fended his
royal master he was permitted to
! depart in peace. In tlie middle of
! the night, however, he was aroused
i and ordered to get up and prepare
! for immediate banishment to Si
I boria. In vain the unhappy man
| pleaded. He was bundled into a
dark van and driven away on his
i long journey. Day after day, week
i after week, it lasted. Upon arrival
! he stepped out into the presence of
—the czar. All the time he had
been driven not toward Siberia, but
around and around St. Petersburg!
Wooden Water Pipes.
London's water supply formerly
came through wooden pipes. These
were of the simplest construction,
formed of the stems of small elm
trees, drilled through the center
and cut in lengths of about six feet,
one end being tapered so as to fit
into the adjoining pipe. The
wooden pipes, of which at one time
more than -100 miles were in use,
leaked considerably, decayed rapid
ly, burst during frosts and were al
ways troublesome. It was not until
1830 that they began to be super
seded by east iron, and a quarter of
a century later some of the old
wooden pipes were still in use.
The Whole Thing.
A snobbish young Englishman
visiting Washington's home at
Mount Vernon was so patronizing
as to arouse the wrath of the guards
and caretakers, hut it remained for j
Sliep Wright, an aged gardener and !
one of the first scouts of the Con
federate army, to settle the gentle
1 man. Approaching Sliep, the Eng
lishman said:
“Ah—er—my man, the hedge!
Yes, I see, (Jb.asge got this hedge
from dear okl England.”
“Reckon he did,” replied Shep.
“He got this whole. Wlooming coun
try from England.”—Everybody’s.
Steamboat*.
There were steamboats before the
Clermont, which sailed up the Hud
son in 1807. Jouffray, a French
man, operated a steamboat on the
Saone as early as 1783, and 10,000
people saw him do it. In 1788
Fitch plied a steamboat on the Dela
ware, apparently without any knowl
edge of what Jouffray had done in
France. It is only fair to say that
Fulton himself never claimed the
invention and always awarded the
honor to Jonffrav.
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight*
ing to all interior points
LIVERY air d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds]
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for in advance
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen yearsfin
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
PhoneTHE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Druir store. Office hours
9 11. m., to Bp. III.. 7 |1. in.. U)tt |>. 111. Sundays
n.\ appointment All work iruunintood
E. E. RITCHIE
I- A \V V E It
I’HONK iso Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
]Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing ,!ps. Phonp. ,s9
\L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez. Alaska
Reports or Mires
' Patent Surveys
: General Miring Engineering
Phone No. loa
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
I *
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H Patterson..VV. M
O. 0- Reynolds. Sec
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE Mo. 1971
Meet every Friday " 8 d. ni. Fabric Hal
VALDEZJLODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. F
Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. in
ODD FELLOWS:HALL
Vlsitfns Urotliers especially invited
Wm. Thomas, h. u. P. S. Hup-.tt*. c. tSso
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
A *B*
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clook In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
uttend. |S. McNJECE. Arctic! Chief
PIONEERS of urn
IGLOO NO. 7.
Meets every first and third Mon
day of each month. All visit
ing Brothers welcome.
E. Q. AMES, Secretary.