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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. D. Flynn, deceased.—Citation
to Show Cause.
To Mabel M. Flynn and all
other heirs unknown, and to all
persons interested in the above
entitled estate, greeting:
You and each of 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 W. 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 Valdez,
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 or said
eotfrt affixed, Inis 21st day of Oc
tober, 1913.
(Seal) ' GEO. J. LOVE,
LJ. S. Commissioner and ex Of
ficio Probate Judge.
■First pub. Oct. 21. 1913.
Last pib. Nov. (f8, 1913.
FOOLED THE COLLECTOR.
Clever Way In Which a Costly Turner
Drawing Was “Restored."
Ther,e was a wealthy art con
noisseur and collector in London
who had a room full of beautiful
Turner drawings that had been
stored away for a long time, and
drawings and glasses had become
laden with dust. The collector was
going out of town and instructed
a firm well known as honorable pic
ture dealers to clean and overhaul
the precious works of art.
Before the collector left town
the senior member of the picture
firm went to his house and brought
away the treasured drawings and,
carrying them into the room be
hind the shop, took the first draw
ing out of its frame and mount pre
paratory to dusting it and laid it
on the table. Being suddenly called
into the shop by a customer, lie cov
ered it with a sheet of Whatman pa
per and left it. IT is brother entered
from the street and passed into the
private room. A moment later the
other followed and found him,
knife in hand, cutting a mount on
the top of the Turner. With a cry
he rushed to the paper and lifted it,
and there the horrified brothers
found the 2,000 guinea drawing cut
into two pieces.
What was to he done? J o make
a clean breast, of it was apparently
out of the question, so it was deter
mined to call in the clever artist
and repairer for the firm, and he
joined the pieces and remounted
the drawing, and down where the
vertical cut. was he boldly painted
in a tree!
The picture was in due course
taken back and reining in time for
the owner’s return. A couple of
days later came an urgent letter
calling the dealer to the house.
“Look at this drawing,” said the
collector. “What does it mean?
There’s a tree here. I never saw
that tree before!” “Xo more did I,”
quietly replied the dealer. “J told
you that you would hardly recog
nize the drawings when the glasses
bad been cleaned inside and out.
Why, you could hardly see them!”
The owner,'though still astonish
ed, accepted the explanation and
probably never guessed the truth.
The dealer told the story himself
shortly before his death.
Took a Nice Long Sleep.
“\V. • Fox lev, potmaker to the
mint,” indulged in a prolonged
sleep, according to Stow's Chron
icle, which says that he fell asleep
on April 2T, l.Vlli, “and so eonlinu
ed sleeping and could not he waken
ed with pricking, cramping or other
wise burning w'liatsoever (ill the lirsl
day of the next tonne, which was
fourteen dayes and fifteen nights.
The cause of his thus sleeping could
noj: he knowing though the same
were diligently searched for by the
king's phisitions and other learned
men, yea the king himself examined
ve said \V. Foxloy, who was in all
points found at his wakening to he
as if he had slept hut one night and
lived forty-one yeeres after.”
Took No Notice.
“What kind of people are your
neighbors?'’ a suburban dame was
asked.'
“Oil, I never take the slightest
notice of them or their doings, my
dear. They don’t, keep a maid,
and a charwoman comes on Wednes
days and Fridays. The butcher nev
er calls, as the husband brings an
occasional joint home from the city
and sits down to dinner in his shirt
sleeves. The wife is a most dowdy
creature, wears hideous hats and
has no ‘at home’ day. The children
attend the council school, and the
baby hasn’t been vaccinated. But,
as I say, 1 know nothing about
them and don’t take the least notice
of them!”—London Mail.
Webster’s Thanksgiving.
For all the happiness of life,
which has been so far exceedingly
happy, I desire to render the most
devout thanks to Almighty God. 1
thank him for existence, for the
pleasure and glory of rational being,
for an immortal nature and for all
the gratifications, the joys and the
means of improvement which has
blessed my earthly life; for the time
and the country in which 1 have
lived and for those objects of love
and affection whose being hiis been
entwined with my own.—Daniel
Webster’s Notebook.
At th« Tiller.
A sailor on leave was about to
escort his best girl across the road,
an offshoot of a busy thoroughfare
in London, when an omnibus came
bowling round the corner aiid they
had a narrow escape from being upr
set. The sailorinan poured out the
vials of bis wrath upon the conduc
tor.
“What’s tlte use of talkin’ to
me?” cried the conductor. “I ain’t
drivin’, am I ?”
“No.” replied the salt, “but you’re
steerin’, ain’t yer ?”—.London Tit
Rit».
BELL CORDS ON TRAINS.
Their Origin, According to «n Old
Railroad Tradition.
*
The way the bell cord came into
use is about as interesting a rail
road tradition as (here is. Nearly
every one of the older lines in the
country claims to have originated it.
One of the likeliest claimants is the
Baltimore and Ohio. In those early
days most of the conductors’ tak
ings were cash fares, and tickets
were a rarity. Disputes with peo- j
pic who either couldn’t .or wouldn’t |
pay were therefore of frequent oc- j
currcncc. To put these off, stop- j
ping the train between stations, the j
conductor had to send a brakeman j
ahead over the freight cars and j
make a polite request of the en
gineer.
A br.ight young B. and 0, con
ductor one day devised a plan to
signal the engineer without sending
the brakeman for.ward. He hung
a stick on the engine cab and hitch
ed to one end of it a clothesline
which he ran back over the tops of
the cars so that the stick would
wriggle when the rope was pulled.
He carefully explained his scheme
to the engineer. The latter looked
at it scornfully and made no answer. ,
Three-quarters of a century ago the I
man in the cab was a high and 1
mighty person to whom no mere
conductor could give orders.
This run started, and it was not j
long before the engineer saw the
stick signaling him to stop. In
stead of even slowing up, he let out
the throttle a few notches and grin- i
nod at his fireman. At the next sta- ;
tion they had to lie out for another]
train, and the young conductor
came ahead with fire in his eye.
The engineer finally climbed down
from his cab and showed fight. For
tunately for railroad history the
conductor was the stronger man.
Stick signals were thereafter obey- j
ed on that train.
Almost immediately the story j
reached the ears of the superintend- |
ent. He at once saw the conduc- ;
tor’s idea was a capital one and set
about installing the bell cord signal
system, practically the same as it
exists today.—Chicago Record-Her
ald.
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Generals and Admirals.
The generals in chief of the army
have been: Washington; Arthur St.
Clair, March, 1791, to March, 1792;
James Wilkinson, 1800 to 1812;
Henry Dearborn, 18i2 to 1815; j
! Jacob Br.own, 1821 to 1S28; Alex- j
jandbr Macomb, 1828 to 1841; Win- :
I field Scott, 1841 to 1 SO 1; George'
! B. McClellan, Nov. 1, 1SG1,. to 1
! March 11, 1802; H. W. Halleck, !
I 1802 to 1804; U. S. Grant, 1804 to
j 1SG9; W. T. Sherman, 18G9to18S3;
I P. II. Sheridan, 188.3 to 18SS. j
: I'.sek Ilo])kins was the first coin- 1
i mander of the navy, and Coraino
! dore Isaac Chauncey was ranking
j officer of the navy in the war of:
1812. David G. Farragut was cre
ated admiral July 25, 1801; David .
: A. Por.ter, Oct. 17. 1870; George:
! Dewey, March 3, 1S99. The last \
three are the only naval officers to i
i hold the rank of admiral.—Maga-1
! zine of American History.
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A Drink and a Fight. i
The Albanians used to practice a
form of dueling well nigh as fatal
as that advocated by Sir Charles
Napier. Sir Richard Burton, who
once commanded a corps of bashi
bazouks, writes that “the Albanian
contingent, who generally fight
when they are drunk, had a peculiar
style of monomachy. The princi
pals, attended bv their seconds and j
j by all their friends, stood close op
posite, each holding a cocked pistol
in his right hand and a glass of
raki or spirits of wine in his left.
The first to drain his draught had
, the right to fire, and generally blaz
j ed away with fatal effect. It would
• have bpen useless to discourage this
| practice, but I insisted on fair
plav.”—London Chronicle.
Placing the House.
Don’t put the house too close to
the main road. Have it at least 100
feet away. When you geW it too
close dust conies into the house,
'and you sacrifice the privacy of the
! home to a certain extent. Houses
too close to the road do not look
well and are not as valuable. No
tice this next time you drive to
town. Provide a windbreak and
trees for shade. Have the main
highway in view from certain win
dows in the house. — Progressive
Farmer.
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An Exception.
"Tt is rather strange about Miss
Maddox.”
' “What has happened to her?”
*8he' sings beautifully—remark
ably,, in fact,’’, •
1 “Yes, VHcnow, but thnt is not ,
strange. There are plenty of yonng
women who sing well."
‘ “R$l: he#*$ h Tteannrkable case.
She Inis never, eo fa# U {‘am aware,
been called thgT’atti xrf; thia tdwrt?* (
MTineiago' RticonMHmMv * ’
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ard FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds'
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid ter in advance
"professional
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen yearsfia
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Neat to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phon, is THE DENTIST
(Wet* rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
8 a. ru.. to 6 i>. in., 7 t». m.. to 9 i». m. Sundays
by utMinintmcnt All work guaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNKY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
i’houe 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
L A \V Y E K
I‘HONK i;« Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
All Mining Business Given Prompt
Attention.
WHALING BLDG. VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
’Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Kes. Phone. IN
L. W. STORM. E. M.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
Reposts on Mints
Ratent Sunyevs
Qehesal Minina Enatnteiyinq
Rhone No. ios
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
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No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
A -B'
Meet every rueway evening at s ociook in
Eagle Hall. All members are requested ta
ittend. S. McnIECE. Arctic! Chief
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday is
inch month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
seleome.
James H. Patterson..W. M
C. C- Reynolds. Sec
ifALDEZJLODGE NO. 6,1.0. 0. Ff
Meets every Monday at 8 p. m. in
ODU FEILOWS BALL
Visiting Brothers especially invited
iVm. Thomas, n. o. P. S. Huy.;e. < , 'bta
PQSITJp^: wanted by experienced
roman as camp cook. Inquire at the
’rospector office.
Fine watch and jewelry repairing,
ill work guaranteed. H. V. Hern
Ion, with Owl Drug Co.