or style, fit and Material
-real tailored goods
7l/eara “benjamin”
hand-shaped fronts, set up necks and
elegant backs; a piece of work any
tailor would be proud of.
Suits and Overcoats, from $20 up.
P. S.—We’are^not the Sole Agents for
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
FINE CLOTHES
though we have some real values in those suits, from
$18.00 to $25.00
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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TWO FAST THROUGH TRAINS DAILY
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MINNEAPOLIS. ST. PAUL. MILWAUKEE nd CHICAGO
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations, etc.,
cal on or adores.
C. H. Kraemer, General Agent,
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City Ticket Offices, Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railway
443 Hastings St. W.nt. Vancouver, H. C.
Second Ave. and Cherry St., Seattle
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Fine Line of Cigars »pd Tobacco;
Fruits. Nuts. Candies,
Card Room Soft Drinks of All Kinds
Ding, Dong! Hear that gong.
City Express
Is Coming Along
We handle your baggage,
trunks and grips, by day or
night. We meet all ships.
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_V ALDEZ j.DOCK
Notice to Creditors.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court, ex officio Judge in Probate,
Valdez Precinct, Third Judicial Di
vision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of Dav
id H. Sleem. deceased; A. J. Wendler,
administrator.—Notice to creditors.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the estate
of David H. Sleem, deceased, to the
creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said estate, to ex
hibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within six (6) months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, to the said administrator, at the
office of C. E. Bunnell, at Valdez,
Alaska, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business of
said estate.
■ Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 24th
dky of November, 1913.
A. J. WENDLER,
Administrator of the estate of David
H. Sleem.
Date of first pub. November 25, 13.
Date of last pub. December 26, 13.
Hospital of the Good Samaritan.
For $6.0U jwe will give you a ticket
entitling you to hospital service and
care for any eight weeks out of the
year, from date of your ticket, when
incapacitated by injury or sickness.
See W. H. Ziegler.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
FATHER OF PHRENOLOGY.
Dr. Gall at Ona Tima Had tha Whola
of Europe In a Furore.
'i;he first public notice of the “Father
of Phrenology" appeared In Welland’s
“Dutch Mercury” on Aug. 14, 1708.
Gall was a practicing physician of
Vienna, and early in his career he be
came u firm believer in the idea that
the talents and disposition of men are
dependent upon the functions of the
brain and, furthermore, that they may
be inferred with perfect exactitude
and precision from the external ap
pearances of the skull.
Gall was an able man. fie set forth
his theory in a graphic, unctuous man
ner, and In a very brief period he hud
all Europe at the top notch of excite
ment. The Idea spread like wildfire,
and in all grades of society people
were discussing “the greatest of all
discoveries.” The new theory had to
meet the customary opposition from
the custodians of truth and the pre
servers of morality, but the opposition
only Increased the popularity of the
theory, and Gall’s celebrity increased
by leaps and bounds. His lectures
were interdicted, and he was threaten
ed with the direst penalties unless he
censed his "immoral and atheistical’’
teachings, but he kept on with his
propaganda, visiting all the large towns
of Germany and the continent, and by
1805 all of Europe was interested in
the Vienna doctor.
In 1828, the year of Gall’s death,
phrenology was in vogue everywhere.
But after a great and glorious flood
tide of popularity It began to wane,
and today it IS but seldom heard of.—
New York American.
BANISH THE RATS.
They Are Not Only Disease Carriers,
but Thieves as Well.
Almost unbelievable are some of the j
things done by the rat—the squealing,
filthy, gluttunous all pervading, all
destroying brown rat. Rats often gnaw
the hoofs of horses until the blood
comes. They have been known to at
tack fat hogs and eat holes in their
bodies, causing death. They will fight
human beings if cornered. They often
steal valuable articles to use in build
ing nests.
The following were found in a sin
gle nest: Three bedroom towels, two
serviettes, five dust cloths, two pairs
of linen knickerbockers, six linen pock
et handkerchiefs and one silk handker
chief. This same rat, which was a
model of industry anil thrift, laid car
ried away and stored near its nest a
pound and a half of sugar, a pudding,
a stalk of celery, a beet, carrots, tur
nips and potatoes.
In the last dozen years over 5,000,
000 human beings have died of plague
in India alone. The India plague com
mission. after careful inquiry, found
that bubonic plague in man is entirely
dependent on the disease in the rat!
Marvelous in its destructiveness is
the common house mouse, closely re
lated to the rat, and, like it. imported
from Europe. The field mouse, too. is
highly destructive, the most destruc
tive to agriculture of ull the rodents.—
Farm and Fireside.
Missed the Bird and Lost.
The Glasgow News records a singu
lar incident during a lawn tennis tie.
The two players, who may he term
pil A and B. were very evenly match
ed. The game was long, and some
times one a.id sometimes the other
narrowly led. At length when A was
within a stroke of defeat he returned
a ball softly, and it looked as if his
fate was sealed. So it would have
been, but fust at that moment a bird
flew across the court in a line parallel
with the ball.
As all good tennis players can well
understand. B mistook the bird for
the ball and "smashed" at it vigorous
ly. It swiftly rose and he missed it
by a feather's breadth, and ere he
could recover his balance the hall had
dropped on his court.
This stroke proved the turning point
in the tie, 'as A thereafter played up
strongly and ran out winner.
The Sheep In the Grass.
Lord Palmerston once inspected
••Summer In the Lowlands." a picture
by Sir John Watson Gordon "Look
here." said Lord Palmerston to the
artist, "why should the grass iu that
field be so long when there are so
many sheep in the field?”
“My lord." replied the artist, “those
sheep were only turned into the field
last night!"
Lord Palmerston bought the picture
at a high price.
Psnny Gone! No Warts.
Maurice, aged six. was weeping bit
terly. and mother inquired as to the
cause of the deluge. <
“I bought two wurts from Vincent
for a penny.” be wailed, "and Vincent
hasn't given me the warts and won't
give my penny back.”—Indianapolis
News.
Round and Square.
-The mode of expression plays a
very Important part In diplomatic ne
gotiations."
“Yes. but there Is not much use of
trying to tbake a' well rounded sen
tence take tbe place of a square deal.”
—Washington Star.
Entertaining.
One of the most entertaining sights
In life Is to see two people who know
all attempting to instruct each otber
-Puck '
A moral, sensible, well bMd man
sill not Insult me No other can.—
Cowper.
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PETERSON CASE
NOW ON TRIAL
t
Chris Wants $5,100.00 Damages From
Buck Hoyt Charging He Was
Falsely Arrested.
The district court and a jury were
busy all day hearing the testimony in
the case of Chris Peterson against
Buck Hoyt, the interior roadhouse
keeper, who caused the arrest of Pet
erson and charged him with having
a live fox in his possession contrary
to the statute and against the peace
and dignity of the United Sttae’s.
: Peterson was never tried as it was
j discovered by Commissioner Jones,,
| who issued the warrant, that Peter
son had committed no offense. The
.trouble started last spring over the
efforts of Hoyt and Others to secure
possession of a live fox which had
been caught by an Indian and sold to
Peterson for $450.00. Peterson was
working for Jake Nafsted at the time.
Jake claimed the fox but Peterson
said he was acting for himself and
] that the fox did not belong to his boss.
1 Hoyt tried to buy the fox, offering
$550.00, but Peterson had given an op
tion to Tom Atken for the animal for
$1,500., $100.00 of which was paid by
telegraph and that therefore he could
not sell.
Bert Skinner offered $1,600.00 for
the animal but couuld not get it be
cause of the option.
The fox died a day after the men
had the d:spute regarding the own
ership of the fox.
Weather Report.
Dec. 16, 1913.
Barometric Pressure .29.776
Temperature at 7 p. m.14
Maximum Temperature .20
Minimum Temperature . 8
Mean Temperature .14
Clear, strong gale, wind N. E. for
ty-five miles.
L. JONES.
SUNSHINE RECORDERS.
They Tell How Long and How Strong
Old Sol Shows Every Day.
“How is the daily sunshine rec
ord ascertained?” the editor asked
the reporter. The reporter didn't
know. He was told to lind out and
started on his assignment. When
lie arrived at the meteorological of
fice and found himself in a verita
ble sett of maps and charts and
curious Chinese lantern-like globes,
while strange diagrams frowned
down upon him from walls eloquent
of hygrometers, evaporimeters, ane
ometers and other "meters” of an
equally alarming description, he
imagined that simplicity was a word
quite outside I he scope of his sub
ject. Hut the ollieial who patiently
answered bis questions soon reas
sured him.
“Wbat, please, is the name of the
instrument which records the sun
shine?” the timid newspaper man
began in a rather awed voice.
“Stokes’ sunshine recorder,” came
the unexpectedly simple reply.
And the manner in which the
sunshine recorder works is just as
simple as its name.
Broadly speaking,the recorder con
sists of a glass sphere and a metal
bowl, the latter carrying blue strips
of cardboard, approximately spheri
cal, on which the sun burns its
record. The general effect is that
of a large glass globe inclosed in a
metal cup, out ol‘ one side of which
a big oval like an egg laid on its
side has been chipped. When the
sun is bright it shines through the
globe and burns the blue cardboard
beyond, and at the end of the day
one eun read the story of the sun’s
journey as though it were written
in a book.
As the clouds come up and ob
scure the sun the burning process
ceases. Then the sunlight bursts
forth again, so strongly perhaps
that the card is burnt right through,
and, instead of a yellow brown line,
the sun’s progress for an hour is
marked on the blue card by a deep
cut or furrow.
It does not matter, however,
whether the e*rd is pierced right
through or whether it is merely
svinhurnt wjtlr the yellow brown
Hue. Every portion of the card
which is marked—and it should be
mentioii&l that the card is divided
off into the various hours of the
day—is reckoned officially as sun
shine ana is consequently included
in the sttnfabine report for the day.
—Jjondon Answers,
After 22 yean in the United States
navy and United Statee revenue cut
ter service, dipt. j. O. Ballinger, the
veteran commander of the Steamer
Bear is to quit the sea.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Vat
dez Cafe. tf
H. E. Ellis will leave on the next
boat.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Mrs. C. A. Eby, of Cordova, is in
Valdez for a short vis't.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man's, the tailor. Telephone 198.
Bill Quitch came in from Miner
al creek last night.
The Valdez Drug Co. has an elegant
stock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
W. Ellis reached Valdez last night
from Mineral creek.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Jaynes have tak
en apartments in the Panama.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
i ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Jake eHpflnger will leave on the
Alameda for a trip to Seattle.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 57.
Sister Angelia was a returning pas
senger on the steamer this morn
ing.
Kiddies Christmas chairs and rock
ers at Rudolph’s.
Oscar Meyers, of Cordova, was a
through passenger on the Alameda for
Seward.
Blum’s are showing a large line oi
cut glass for Xmas.
\V. \V. Butts, the Seward merchant,
passed through on the steamer this
morning.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
Mrs. Evans, wife of the Seward
deputy marshal, was a passenger on
the Alameda.
S. Blum Co. are sole agents for
llart Schaffner & Marx fine suits.
Frank White came in last night
from the Rutherford Ramsay prop
erty near the glacier.
Chinese Chop Suey and .Noodles at
the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. tf
.1. C. Martin, the lisli packer and
mining promoter, returned from the
states on the Alameda.
S. Blum it Co. are showing the
largest line of Xrnax goods in town.
General Agent Tracy, of the Alaska
Steamship company, was a round trip
passenger on the Alameda.
We have cigars in Christmas pack
ages. Valdez Drug Store.
R. J. Boryer, the Cordova attorney,
came over on the steamer this morn
ing from the railroad town.
See the exquisite Parisian ivory
Toilet Articles at the Valdez Drug
Company’s store.
Sister Mary Amademus, of the Val
dez Convent, returned to Valdez this
morning on the steamer Alameda.
I A very complete line of Xmas Art
Leather Goods is shown at the Val
j dez Drug Store.
i J. J. Finnigan, formerly of Seward.
I but late from the Chisana diggings.
; was a through passenger on the Ala
meda this morning for Seward.
Sewing Macnine tor Sale—Your
choice of a White or Singer machine;
| both in tirst-class condition; drop
i heads; for $20.00. Call at Mrs. St.
Marie’s. tf
The Valdez Moose Lodge will serve
a “home dinner” on Chr'stinas day at
4 p. m. sharp to its members and their
families and to any friends whom they
would like to entertain on that day or
evening. Tickets $1.25 each. For sale
at Hunt’s. Kindly make reservations
by December 23rd. W. E. Lee, chair- ’
man of committee. k21
Dislike* Great White Way.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The "Great
White Way” of New York is unsightly
and a thing that should be relegated
to the scrap heap in the opinion of
Lorado Taft, the sculptor.
"The ‘Great White Way’ of New
York, about which we hear so much,
is not a thing f Beauty, but an un
sightly glare of lights,” said Mr. Taft,
at a luncheon of the Electric Club
today. “We in Chicago ought to be
thankful that we have not sunk to
such a degree -s they have in New
York.”
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