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Mrs. Marion Leach’s house for rent.
Mnqulre at The Pinson or Geilneau’e
Barbershop. 4t
Arcade Cafe
OPEN ALL NIGHT
Private Dining Room with Electric
Heater. *
BREAD POR SALE
Jack CaKa • • Proprietor
m Shamrock
OAPT. TIM MARCUM
flails for Port Wells, Portage,
. A Bay, Granite Mine, .Saturday
p ‘ at 9:00 a. m., from the Val
r dez Dock Company’s Dock.
’ For Ellamar, Lana lock Bay,
, and Fidalgo, every Wednes-,
► day, 9:00 a. m., from Val
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’ For Rates, Apply on Boat. ,
VALDEZ LODGE
NO 1A8
mt nd Accepted Masons
Regular Communications ftrBt Wed
nesday In eaoh month in McKinley
UalL VleltoPB slways welcome.
Visit F M BR0WN w „
. ED WOOD, Secretary
COLD BAY PLACERS ARE
AX,L THE BENCHES
U. S. Deputy Marshal Carl Arm
strong, ' of'Kodiak, has written to
friends in Seward giving information
regarding the placer gold strike in
the1'Cold' Bhy district.' He says that
almost all the gold found was taken
from the benches of one creek, which
is very short. The country surround
ing Cold Eay is covered with volcanic
ash, which often reaches a aepth of
fifteen feet. Sufficient work has been
done on the claims to determine the
extent of the gold deposits.
i Hotpomt Electric beaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat for
the Emporium. tf
f— .
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
Merchandise
v
The best groceries received
on every boat,
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Fresh vegetables, fruits, and 1
nuts.
DOG TEAM HAD HARD
TKII* TO CAMP COMFORT
F. W. Sheelor, who started with his
dog team to take Dr. E. C. Dalton to
Gulkana, where Sergt. David Max
well was reported as being seriously
ill, returned to town yesterday after
noon when it was found that the sick
man was recovering. On the trip out
from Valdez to Camp Comfort, a dis
tance of ten miles, the team required
seven hours and were nearly all in
from battling with the deep snow and
blizzard. He reports that the dogs
and sleigh were frequently blown off
the trail by the wind which had at
tained a velocity of nearly seventy
miles an hour.
ADMIRAL WATSON PASSED
JUNEAU YESTERDAY A. M.
The local office of the Signal Corps
received advices from Juneau last
night that the steamer Admiral Wat
son of the Admiral Line, had passed
Gastineau channel points at 2 o’clock
yesterday morning en route to Yak
utat. This is the first trip of the
steamer to Alaska since she was
rammed and sunk at the dock in Se
attle last September.
To the Public.
Editor Prospector.
Dear Sir: Will you please give the
enclosed . letter space in your col
umns.
1 know it is light and power that
your readers want and not letters or
bull, but we feel that things will
change for the better right soon.
Our reason for showing this letter
is that your many readers may know
how much faith can be pinned to the
writer of such letters or their prom
ises.
Respectfully yours,
T. G. QUINN.
Inter-Mountain Traction & Power Co.
Alfred B. lies, Vice-Pres.
Valdez, Alaska, Jan. 16, 1916.
Capt. Lenoir, U. S. Signal Corps, Se
attle, Wash.
My Dear Sir: 1 am sending you a
clipping from the Prospector to give
you an idea of what is going on in
electric light circles in Valdez. I am
not doing this in anything but the
friendliest spirit and principally to
show you how idiotic we are to fight
each other for the privilege of being
philanthropists to the inhabitants of
Valdez. Now you have considerable
money tied up in this enterprise, and
I have so much that I cannot afford
to lose it. I see before me a long
struggle for the patronage unless I
induce my friends to invest in long
distance lines, and seek other sources
of revenue from the mines. This we
are about to do.
But why can’t we get together and
both make money? I have always
wanted to, and was always willing to
do the fair thing. If we don't this
cut-throat competition will go on,
while our friends the consumers sil
back and laugh. There will never
be anything in it as long as twc
companies are lighting Valdez. Your
company owes a lot of money and
that has to be paid before your stock
will be worth anything. So far as I
am concerned, I owe no man and am
therefore in beter shape for a run of
lean years. The question then is:
which one will survive? I have just
returned to the power plant and afte:
watching the work in town of string
ing more wires.
On my way over an idea struck mo.
which I thereupon determined to pill
into words and send you. It is this:
Suppose I took over the indebtednesr
of your power plant and combine it
with mine—.not the Valdez Electric
Company’s claims, and withdraw from
the town business. Your company
to buy the current from me at three
cents per kilowatt under long con
tract. This would Immediately put
your company, on a dividend earning
basis, ang you would get some return
on your stock. Under your franchise,
your company could demand the old
rates, and the three cents paid ms
would he a mere bagatelle. 1 would
put in a larger plant o take care of
the business as I have made arrange
ments for considerable eapital to
come in with me, whether your com
pany looks at this favorably or not.
Your company would then be In a po
sition before it put In that plant up
on the mountain, and which has been
the cause of all your woes. You need
not say that the rates could not be
raised. What could be done about it
if they were? I would be out of the
way. Your company would have a
monopoly In town and also at Fort
Liscum.
Think this over. You have told
me of your unfortunate investments
in Alaska, and I for one, would like
to see you save this one. To be frank
with you, there is nothin gin it for me
at three-cents a kilowatt, but I hope
to reach out for the outside business.
Iq fact I must, if I ever expect to
make any money.
Yours very truly,
, . gned) ALFRED B. 1LE8.
adv.
Dr. E. C. Dalton was an outgoing
passenger on the AdmiralEvans this
morning en i;oute to Pasadena, Calif.,
where his father Is Very 111. He ex
pects to return to Valdez early In
April.
WEATHER AND THE SCHOOL
Cold, Calm a*d Clear Oaya Show tho
Pupils at Their Best.
Teaching children Is not the easiest
thing in the world. It presents a prob
lem complicated by many lAul diverse
factors. Some of these are only now
beginning to he properly appreciated.
One such Is the Inttucnce of weather
conditions.
Investigation has shown that the
state of the weather has a marked ef
fect both on the children’s conduct
and on their mental and physical pow
ers.
This was first clearly brought out a
few years ago by an American psy
chologist. Professor E. G. Dexter,
whose researches still are among the
most exhaustive and informing that
have been made In this novel field of
Inquiry.,
Professor Dexter, studying condi
tions In the schools of cities at sen
level, like New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia. and of others at high alti
tudes, found that In the former the pu
pils were best behaved on cold, calm
and clear days. Muggy days were pro
ductive of the greatest unruUdess. A
marked tendency to misbehavior was
also noted on hot days and on windy
■men.
In high altitude schools, such as
those of the city of Denver, where
tnugginess Is seldom hi evidence,
windy days were found to have the
most disastrous effect on conduct.
Cold, csflm and clear days were again
the days of best behavior.
With respect to working ability the
same results were observed. Both
mental and physical tasks were best
performed on cold, calm and clear
days. — H. Addington Bruce in New
York Globe.
MACE OF THE SPEAKER.
Ancient Emblem Used In the House of
Representatives.
In one respect the house of repre
sentatlves surpasses the senate in dig
nity. The senate has no mace- Now,
a mace Is not much iu the way of fur
uiture. It is a silver eagle mounted
upon a staff around which are bands of
silver.
This mace Is always an emblem of
the house of representatives. It Is the
duty of one employee to look after It.
Just before a session of the house be
gins he takes it from the office of the
sergeant at arms into the house cham
ber, and as soon as the speaker's gavel
falls he inserts it in a socket in a stone
pillar at the right of the speaker's
chair. The mace remains there while
the house is in session and is taken out
and stood beside its pedestal when the
house is in committee of the whole.
When the house adjourns the mace is
carried back to the office of the sor
geant at arms.
This ancient emblem has uot a thing
to do with the order of business of the
bouse save as one of the old time regu
lations that are continued. When the
bouse is turbulent an officer seizes the
mace and walks through the aisles
Only once or twice when the speaker
failed to preserve order, said a Wash
ington correspondent, have 1 seen an
officer seize the mace and walk through
the house, waving it backward aud for
ward. Possibly the sight of it brought
members to their senses, and they re
tired to tbotr scats. At all events, that
Is about the only repl use for the mace
that I ever have observed.
What a Toad Enjoy*.
There are few things more amusing
than to watch a toad submitting to tbe
operations of a back scratching. He
will at first look somewhat suspicious
ly at the twig which you are advanc
ing toward him, but after two or three
passes down bis bach ills manner un
dergoes a marked change, his eyes
close with an expression of infinite
rapture, be plants his feet wider apart,
and his body swells out to nearly dou
ble its ordinary size, as if to obtain by
these means more room for enjoyment
Thus be will remain until you make
some sudden movement which startles
him or'until he has had as much pet
ting as be wants, when, with a puff ojT
regretful delight, he will reduce him
seif to bis usual dimensions and hop
away, bent once more on the pleasures
of the chase.
Fish |n Fortner Timo*.
Men of former ages, unless they lived
near the sea or a river, had great diffi
culties in gratifying their taste for fish.
Tbe great houses had their fish ponds
or stews, but sea fish, such as. cod.
bream, sturgeon, 'bei-rlng and sprats,
were salted, arid' tbe excessive con
sumption Of highly salted fish in the
middle ages is said to have produced
leprosy. Fish was also baked in pies to
enable it to be carried for great dls
tances
A Hint of Plagiarism.
**Afid why do you spnra this child of
my brain?” asked tbe disappointed au
thor as bo received his manuscript'
back.
"Because,” replied the editor coldly,
"certain famll|ar passages it contains
led me to suspect that it is. an adopted
child.”—Birmingham Age-Heraid.
Different From Har Ms.
He—Why is it that there’s never a
match In thin bonse? She tcurtlyi—1
can’t make matches. He — That!*
strange; your mother could.—Boston
Transcript
Equivocal Sympathy.'
Hr—I feel nervous. Miss Sibyl. My
head feels «p full! She—Don’t wort*y
If your head feels that way. Mr. Simp.
There's nbthlng tn it—Baltimore Amer
ican.
The harvest of friendship Is gath
ered only by those who have sown tbe
seeds of a kindly purpose and trust
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reach the boat on time—Let us do the
worrying. •
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FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 Clias. Fischer, I’ropr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLIMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fittings, Valves. Etc.
Motor Boat. Snpplies, Paints and Oils.
Located on Valdez Dock, Opposite Prospector Office. Phone 24
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One*road—one management—one service all the'way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
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ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
MtuMt Sailing 15th calls Ul,maa and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Kmlk
• and Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday aad Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale aad Haavard tor Southern California.
Right' reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr, Seat tic I VALDEZ DOCK CO, Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM 8E- j
ATTLB THE 10TH, 90TH AND 80TH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOOTH—8TH,118TH, BOTH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.; \
toi_oil yea, S. 8. Be ward, on tbe,lth; Latou'*ha, on thtUth; 8. a
Cordova, ft b oi each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without noi oe.
A a TRACT, Gen*! Agent VAUJDl DOCK CO, Lgeal Agent. '