Valdez Daily Prospector
PUBLISHED BY THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
TERMS.
Daily Prospector.
By carrier, per month.... $ 1.00
By mail, per annum. 10.00
The Weekly Miner.
By carrier, per month. -tOe
By mail, per annum.$3.00
The Daily Prospector and Weeklj
Miner, by carrier, to one address
per month.81.25
The Dailv Prospector and Weekly
Miner by mail to one address
only per year.. . 812.50
Business Office and ^Editorial
Rooms, Phone 152.
Advertising Rates on Application.
FRIDAY. MARCH 7. 1013.
THE MAIL.
■\YIiv |h<‘ postal depart liii'iil
s11<111111 change l lie cmil i11g of t he
mail from Valdez. which lias giv
en a sure, eerlain, eimslanl ser
vice, in that via Cordova, the
mule of freipienl delays,uncerlain
delivery, can only he explained by
slating that the Northern Com
mercial company and the Alaska
Syndicate dictate the policy of the
Postotried department.
If the mail can be* delivered via
the Cordova route t" the people
of Fairbanks and Nome ipiieker
than via Valdez, then il should
lie sent that way.
The facts are that for the two
years the mail has been sent from
Cordova, 1011 and 1012, the de
livery at Fairbanks has averaged
Ihree hours slower than that via
Valdez. The past winter no tire- ;
tense to deliver mail on schedule!
was ever made by the railroad.
Were it not for the enterprise of
Valdez merchanls in keeping the
trail open to demonstrate to the
people of the interior that this is
the best route, and the fact that
we expected and woe prepared!
for what, did happen, interior
towns would be getting mail
Ihree, four and live weeks late.
The fact is that the postal de
partment knows this is true, yet
they order the1 mail of interior
people about as if il were but a
plaything of the ‘‘Gug'gs.”
The mail should be routed via !
Valdez, not because we want il,
liut because we can do the work
better than it can be done from
Cordova.__
ALASKAN RAILWAY.
Tin* telegraphic report today to
the effect President Tall will rec
ommend that the, proposed Amer
ican federal railway lor Alaska
connect with the present Copper
River & Northwestern road, is one
of general interest to people of
this territory as well as through
out the norlhland.
The road recommended hy
President Taft need not lie adopt
ed hy congress, and. in view of
the fact Mr. Taft quits business
at the While House in less than
a mouth and tin* Democrats will
lake control of tin* affairs, it is
doubtful if he was warranted in
using so much government ink
as to write a recommendation at
this eleventh hour. The chief and
probably the only purpose it will
sel've will be to show his hand
as to his attitude in the game.
The record may be interesting to
future generations. The Demo
crats will do about as they filease
without much hallowed harkening
back for the opinions of the man
from Ohio.
The report of the railway com
mission, now being formulated,
will command more respect and
may tie followed. It is said to be
in favor of the Seward and ldita
rod route. If so, it will open a
country now less served hy rail
ways than that from Cordova,
but none no more resourceful. If
it, is true the Cuggenlieiins are
trying to control the Iditarod reg
ion, they may want a road there
as well as from Cordova, and it is
known they are making an effort
to work off the glacier-plagued
and slide-pestered Copper River
& Northwestern on the govern
ment. If the Taft recommenda
tion is accepted they may succeed.
But from all practical northern
men long in Ilie Held, the most
feasible and practicable and ser
viceable trunk line that can lie
built in the North will he one to
run from Haines to (tie tiead of
the Tanana. passing through tin*
Rainy Hollow, White River,, Tan
ana, Rampart, Ruby and Nome
mining regions, and opening oth
er fields with spurs to right and
left. Such a line would be only
150 miles or so by direct route
from Dawson. It would be a long
main line, but, if a road is want
ed to open Alaska, there is none
other to compare for such gen
eral and sweeping service.—Daw
son News.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Youth tins been defined as .just
one darn blunder after another.
SI ill some mini manage to gel
on skates without touching I In
ice.
Itabies scut by parcel post
must not weigh more than eleven
pounds.
Skirls slashed at the knee are
.the latest fashion. Handy to gel
at I be money.
Well, now that we know there
is a money trust, what are we
going' to do about iI '!
SI ill is i ics show dial iih ire I m Hi
Hui's Ilian maiTii'il mi'ii lii'cnini'
insaiii'. Why say iimri''.1
Thi' rici'h'ss wedding is now
1..... If anyhiiily suggests
snlisl ifuI ing a new break fast fuml
lei's lar iiinl feather him al mice.
II is Inn bail Hull Hie suspen
der .ipany Dial failed I lie oili
er day could not have held up a
little lunger. Sull'ragel tes advo
cate wearing them.
After a girl lias jibed every
other way lo get a proposal and
failed, she lakes to standing ill
I he side door with her sleeves
rolled up a lid an apron on.
II cannot be gainsaid that the
altruistic idea of I he pension sys
tem loses force somewhat when
a §5,000 government official is
drawing a pension of §10 a
month.
That New Jersey Judge who
said that §43 was enough to
spend on a woman's outtit of
clothing, would be' adjudged in
contempt of any court composed
of fair jurists.
Oh. a boy is a boy and a boy
let him be. for the season of boy
hood’s a span: and the heart that
now leaps in its joy and ils glee,
will soon ache with the cares of
a man—and that’s no fabrication.
Tin* New York slate legisla
ture is now debating the passage
by that body of a workman’s
compensation act to provide for
the eompensalion of workers in
case of injury while performing
their labors, regardless of the
fault of the employer or tin* neg
ligence of the employee. If the
act is passed it will do away with
the many suits for damages for
injuries and will always provide
compensation for those* injured
in the slate.
COOKS.
(By Oeorge Filch.)
A cook is a genius who is able
to combine the contents of a
meat market and a grocery store
insuch a manner as lo tempt a
man to overeat himself whether
jhe is hungry or not.
! Cooking is llm greatest pro
fession in the world. There are
'upwards of 25,00(1,000 cooks in
j I his country alone and a number
(if them are good cooks. The
difference between a good cook
land a bad cook is greater than
jibe difference between Heaven
land I he feverish latitudes.
I A good cook can take an old
shoe, a little salt and some edi
ble debris of various sorts and
[make a soup from them which
would cause a Republican, to for
get last November's election and
sing for joy. A bad cook can
lake a cross section of a sweet
and toothsome young cow and an
neal il so successfully that I he
iiuugi’N diner will eat his nap
kin instead.
Cooks, like \ iolinisls. are born
__no| made. Some women can
mix li ingredients by guess, bake
them until I hey have finished a
story and produce a masterpiece
which w ill make I he eater yell
for more. Other women cook
with a pair of apothecary's scales
and a slop watch and produce
only woe and dyspepsia.
Cooking is a duly of woman
and eating the result is a duly
of man. The more duly I lie sad
der I be world. Bui cooking can
also lie made a pastime, an ac
complishment. an art and an in
spiration in which cases eating
I lie results soon becomes a dissi
oal ion.
On'cooking depends iiic mip
pjncss uf matrimony. I.ove usu
ally lasts as long as digestion,
(iimd conking cements a family
uulircakalily logetlier. while had
cooking drives it howling In the
lunch counter and the divorce
cnurl. , .
In spite of all lhe.se things, no- j
Jmdy pays much attention to cook
ing. \Ve spend millions in this
countrv teaching our girls to
write in a neat, round hand, which
will go out of style as soon as
the new copybooks come in. But
we spend very little in teaching
them how to lake a pint of (lour
and I real il w ith benoficenl re
sults.
Education cannot produce
kitchen geniuses, but it can mit
igate the amateur cook to a won
derful degree. In these days of
conservation the American stom
ach appears to have been over
looked. IJnl il medical science is
able to install new digestive
equipment at a small expense the
American stomach ought to he
conserved with jealous care for
the benefit of the American dis
posil ion.
Moral Spoilt.
Teacher: "You see, had the
lamb been obedient and stayed in
the fold, it would not have been
eaten by the wolf, would it?”
Boy: “No ma'am: it would have
been eaten by us.”
What a Difference It Makes.
Son: “Why do people say,
Dame (lossip?
Father: "Because they are too
polite to leave off Iht* ‘e.* ”
FOR RENT—Three-room apart
ments furnished over Valdez Drug
Co. . Apply Valdez Drug Co.
Does your watch need repair
ing? See Reinke, the watch doc
tor.
Hcinke, expert repairer, at the
Valdez Drug company.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 I
I Foot Keystone Ave
I Rough Dry 10c lb.
VALDEZ DOCK CO.
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY AND GRAIN
PHONE NO. I.
Agent for
| ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO. ALASKA COAST COMPANY, j
FOR SALE
2 1-2 H. P. Stationary Gasoline
Engine
A BARGAIN
Keystone Dock Valdez Iron Works
Give Us the Opportunity
STEINBLOCH
SMART CLOTHES
to dress*you better for the same or less
money with
Stein-Bloch, H. M. S. Soneborn
or Hamberger Clothes
These well known clothes cost no more
than ordinary clothes, and
We Guarantee a Perfect Fit
Daily Prospector and Weakly
Miner $1.25 the mo. delivered
Economical
Ironing .
To iron economically
you must not waste
heat.
Ironingwith ordinary
flat irons is very waste
ful of heat; most of the
heat goes up the kitchen
chimney; a lot of it is
wasted in charring the
ironing pad and in
scorching the clothes.
Ironing with a
G-E Electric
Flat Iron
is quite different — all the
heat is in the iron, ready to
go into the pieces ironed in
stead of going into the aoom
or up the kitchen chimney.
None of it is wasted.
To use only the amount of
heat actually needed for
ironing, be it either heavy
damp pieces or laces,
embroidery or other light
goods is real economy.
That’s why G-E Irons are
used in thousands of homes
throughout the country.
We keep allstyles and sizes
—'-Let ussend you one on trial.
Alaska Water, Light
& Telephone Co.
H-Sl
Steam Heat Electric Ligfeta
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Room* All Modern Convenience*
Good jijr DIICTCT G ° °d
Goods I IIL DUlILl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
^Native and f | Tib/IQ CD and Building
Puget Sound LUiVlDLilV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
VALDEZ DRUG CO.
Drugs and Druggist Sundries
PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS
Telephone Orders Solicited Free Delivery
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Arguments May Be Disputed, But
“Facts A re bads. ”
It i - a fact that Valdez beer is a food and not a tonic.
Ask any doctor you know. Valdez beer aids digestion. Use
it a few times with your meals and you’ll find we’re right.
If you drink beer you should use Valdez beer in preference to
others. First, because of its unquestionable high quality.
Second, because it is a home pr duct; brewed in your home
town and all who are interested in the growth and prosper
ity of Valdez should patroniz home products.
VALDEZ BREWING AND BOTTLING CO.
We do a
general
Banking
Business
Bank in
rear of
mercantile
department
We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest on Time Certificates oi Deposit