| I | I — — — — — — —-w—- W » -
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
February Clearance Offerings
_ - . ■ ' ■ ■ 1 1 • * 1 "~i
Women’s
Underwear
Two piece woolen underwear,
broken lots, mostly small sizes,
50c and 75c garment.
Women’s Hosiery
Unusual values at 15 cents.
Pumps and Slippers
Broken size lots of up to date
footwear at reduced prices;
Three-fifty, Four dollars and
Four twenty-five values,
at $2.75 pair.
Women’s
Sweater Coats
All-wool sweater coats, grey
and white—formerly sold for
five and six dollars,
now priced $1.00.
Red Cashmere
Seventy-five and Eighty-five
cent values, now 50 cents.
All One-twenty-five to Two
fifty corsets offered now at
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
'Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
pb.„.uo DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
©fllce Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST \
sL
Office rooms over Owl Drug store Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m..to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DR. M. O. ADAMS
DENTIST
Office Over Valdez Drug Store.
New Company’* Phone No. 89
HOURS—9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m.
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices In Whaling Building
Phone lOI Valdea. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaaka
F. BUTTERWORTH
jCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Bl&v Printing Valdez, Alaska.
Valdez Misers Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER, President.
Granite Mine
OBAS. McCALLUM.^ Secretary.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Ed, Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meets every Thursday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
Moss Bread.
Along the shores of the Columbia
river a bind of bread is made by the
Indians from a moss that grows on the
spruce Hr tree. This moss Is prepared
by placing it in heaps, sprinkling it
with water and permitting it to fer
ment. Then It is rolled into balls as
big as a man’s head, and these are
baked In pits.
His Standard.
Voting Bride ito waiter)—Waiter, my
husband has been here very frequently
lately I hope lie’s all right, ehV
Waiter-Oh, yes; he never has more
than three glasses of beer. If he were
not happy he’d sorely drink six. —File
gende Blatter.
Friendship is a strong and habitual
inclination of two persons to promote
the good and happiness of each other.
Meieditli.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
r'l ' jvrr«nr PUf-W { ..--y
THE READING TABLE
There Is no light that makes night
reading so easy as does Electricity. An
Electric portable is a source of pleasure
in every home—as well as a means of
health. The entire body suffers if the
eyes become affected. Reading in im
proper light is one of the worst things
for the eyes. Get an Electric Portable
and read, ip comfort and peace.
Alaska Water, light & Telephone Company
TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS. (
They Have Many Important Part* to
Play In Naval Warfare.
Torpedo boat destroyers, as the name
Implies, were first built to enguge the
small torpedo bout, which had become
a serious peril to the big battleships
and large cruisers.
So serious wus the menace that
searchlights and rapid Ore guns were
regarded as unreliable for the protec
tion of these big ships ngainst this
smaller craft, it was thus that the de
stroyer was born, and, with gradua
tlon. Its duties were extended until
they included all that was formerly
done by the small torpedo boat, and
much more besides.
It is a fact that the modern destroy
er is three or even four times as large
as one of the earlier type, which natu
rally renders it much more seaworthy
and obviously Increases Its radius of
action, seeing that it is capable of car
rying much more fuel.
The objects of a modern torpedo boat
destroyer flotilla are many. Perhaps
the paramount duty of every vessel in
the flotilla is to discharge Its torpedoes,
should it get near enough, at the ene
my’s big battleships. But n very im
portant office to fullill is that of scout
ing, which comprises locating and re
porting the position of the enemy.
Should the enemy make a night at
tack ttie destroyers are relied upon to
locate and report the position of the
attacking fleet’s torpedo craft, as well
as sink or drive them away before they
can force an attack against the bigger
battleships.-London Telegraph.
STEAM MOTIVE POWER.
It Had Been Used Long Before the
Time of Watts and Fulton.
The Marquis of Worcester while Im
prisoned in the Tower of London in
1050 invented and constructed u per
fect steam engine and had It publicly
exhibited the same year at Vauxhall
In successful operation.
Thirty-four years Inter, in 101)0, Den
uis Papin added tile piston to the
marquis’ discovery, in 1098 Captain
Savary devised nnd built a steam en
gine different in many details from
(hose made by Worcester and Papin,
and In 1705 Newcomb. Cawley nnd
Snvary constructed their celebrated at
mospherie engine, which was complete
In every detail.
The above array of historical facts
notwithstanding, James WatL who
was not bom until sixty years after
these great men bad given the steam
engine to the world, enjoys the distinc
tion of being the veritable inventor,
originator and author of the most use
ful contrivance of the present day.
Fulton, who lived and worked in the
early part of the nineteenth century.
Is given the credit of being the man
who demonstrated that steam could be
applied to navigation—this, too, in face
of the well known historical fact that
De Gary propelled a vessel by steam
in the harbor of Barcelona in 1543.
SL James’ Gazette.
Arms and the Woman.
"Did anybody ever see a one armed
woman?" asked a gray headed man us
he surveyed the afternoon parade. "I
never did. Almost every duy 1 meet
one armed men, but 1 have yet to en
counter a woman with that pitifully
empty sleeve. Are there no women
who have suffered that mutilation? It
not. why not? And, if so, where are
they? Yesterday 1 heard it argued that
there was no cause for a woman to
lose an arm; that women do not go to
the wars and are not engaged in Occu
; pations that are likely to carry away
| a part of their body Rut that reason
! ing la not sound. Many women work j
in mills and factories, and they are us
liable to accidents in the streets and
public conveyances as men. Frequent
ly they figure in these accidents; but.
although men In the same situation
would lose an arm. women never do.
What Is the cause of their immunity?’
—New York Globe.
Byron at Oatend.
At one time Ostend was a great fort
ress looking out over the North sea
through her menacing loophole upon
tbe sails of Vikings. A century ago
Byron made his memorable flight, not
from, but to Ostend, In terror ol van
dal bailiffs who were laying siege to
bis mansion In Piccadilly. Tbe poet
made tbe Journey to Dover In bis mag
nificent £500 coach, but bad to wait
until a storm abated before tbe mall
packet felt It safe to set sail. That By
ton was far from seasickness in bis
crossing “Cbilde Harold’s Pilgrimage”
testifies.—London Standard.
The Pessimist Bays:
if Opportunity bad enjoyed tbe ad
vantage of a modern course in bus!
ness efficiency It wouldn’t leave a
man's door after knocking a single
time, it would leave one of these in
termlttent alarm clocks.-Richmond
Times- Dtspntcb.
Quits 8sfe.
“What did that man want with you.
Henry 7"
“He was after my scalp.”
“Goodness gracious 1”
“Don’t be tbe least bit frightened.
He’s only a balr specialist’’—Balti
more American.
Retribution.
Today tbo boy wbo is gassing mother
will grow op and marry a woman wbo
will not stand tor any pert talk.-New
Orleans State.
Opportune.
“Opportune” once si gained nothing
more than “to be at the harbor.” An
opportune ship was a ship which bad
come to port
WHISTLER'S CLEVERNESS.
The Artiet Could Fix In His Mind Any
Effect In Nature.
It was Whistler's habit to memorize
nu effect in nature, and Mr. T. R. Way,
in his “Memoirs,” gives an example of
his cleverness at it.
I shall never forget a lesson he gave
ais one evening. We had left the stu
dio when it was quite dusk and were
walking along the road by the gardens
of the Chelsea hospital, when he point
ed to a group of buildings in the dis
tance, an old public house at the cor
uer of the road, with windows and
shops showing golden lights through
the gathering mists of twilight.
"Look!” he said.
As he did not seem to have anything
to sketch or make notes on, I took out
my notebook and offered it to him.
"No, no; be quiet!” he said, and after
a long pause he turned and walked
back a few yards; then, with his back
to the scene, he said:
“Now, see If I have learned it," and
then he gave a description of the
scene, perfect In every detail of ar
rangement and color, as he might have
repeated a poem lie had learned by
heart.
Then we went on, und soon there
came another picture that appealed to
me even more than the former. I tried
to call his attention to it. but he would
not look at it.
“No, no," lie said; "one thing at a
time.”
In a few days I was at the studio
again, and there on the easel was the
picture.
FINALLY SHE BALKED.
It Was a Good Scheme, but She
I Thought It Was Going Too Far.
Jt wag nii extraordinary notice:
•‘Eleemosynary Typewriting institu
tion.—Anybody wishing typewriting
done, but having no money to pay for
same, will be accommodated in this
office between the hours of r> and 10
P. m.”
A young woman was tacking the
sign on the office door when the man
in a plaid suit stopped.
“Who is the public benefactor?" he
asked.
"Me,” she said. “1 thought 1 might
as well advertise and save my employ
er’s friends the trouble of hunting me
up. They always have something for
me to do. Even on days wtien l am
so busy that I hardly have time to
breathe they come in with rolls of
manuscript and ask the manager if l
have time to copy it. Sometimes that
makes the manager squirm.
“‘Are you quite busy. Miss Jones?’
he asks. ‘Quite,’ J say. Then the
manager thinks. But be always gives
in. ‘Oh, well,’ he says, T guess that
isn’t very important. Just let it go
and copy this for Mr. -So 1 copy
■ it, and Mr. - says, ‘Thanks; you are
very kind.’ He never thinks of pay
ing. it is the easiest way in the
world to get typewriting done. 1 was
afraid there might be a few men who
had never heard of the scheme, so I
j have put this sign out for their bene
; tit.”—New York Post.
I ---
Catching a Thief.
In Dewsbury several years ago a gen
tleman present at a public gathering
had the misfortune to have his watch
stolen, a magnificent gold repeater.
Standing up, lie announced his loss anil
added: “It is now two minutes to il.
At 9 o’clock tlie watch will strike the
hour, and as it is loud I ask every one
| to keep quiet. \Ve shall then lie able to
j put our hands on the thief." A dead
i silence ensued, and one individual,
seized with a had tit of coughing, on
! dcavored to leave the room, lie was
j promptly accosted, searched and the
■ missing property found in his pocket.
It afterward transpired that the watch
would not have struck, as it was out of
order.—Londou Express.
A Thorough Case.
Every schoolroom is supposed to
have its romaueer, or boaster.
There was a mild epidemic of mumps
in an uptown school not long ago, and
a teacher asked the pupils in her room
how many remembered having the dis
ease.
A few remembered it. but most of
them bad never heard of It.
Then the romancer attracted the
teacher's attention.
“I get the mumps, teacher.” be smil
ingly said. “1 get It around my face
so. And 1 get ope by each eye—and
one under my n«>.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Crude Petroleum.
Roumania bolds the honor for the
earliest production of crude petroleum,
having put It on the market In 1857
Two years later the United States pro
duced Its first petroleum. 2,000 gallons.
Italy was n producer the following
year, and Canada, within twelve
months, entered the field. Russia
quickly followed, and for years these
countries were the sole producers. Rus
Bin Is now second only to this country.
Hawaii’s Crater Lake.
Wulapele, or Ureeu lake, on the is
land of Hawaii, is a body of fresh wa
ter In the pit of au old crater near
Kapobo. This lake covers an area of
about five acres and is fed by springs
below the surface. A pumping plant
takes water from this lake for domes
lic use and for irrigation purposes.
Whales.
The whale is not a fish. In every
thing which characterizes a true fish
and separates It from other classes, as
reptiles, birds and mnmmnls. the
whale resembles the last numed (the
mammals) and differs radically and
fundamentally from the fish.—New
York American.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries receh ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
’Seattle
si Complete Services
i IN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
|l35Roomswifjibattr505ampIeRooms
Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given tfiat the reg
istration books for the registration
of voters at the municipal election to
be held in and for the Town of Val
dez, Alaska, on the fiHi day of April,
1915, will be open at the office of
the Town Treasurer, in Coppet
Block, in said Town, on the 1st day
of February, 1915, between the houra
of 2 and i o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open for
such registration between like hours
on each and every day thereafter, ex
cept Sundays, until and including the
27th day of March, 1915; and on the
last two days on which such regis
tration may be made, viz:, the 26th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and 6
o'clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames has
been named registrar, and will enter
in said registration books the names
of all persons, residents of the Town
of Valdez, who are qualified voters,
or who will be such voters at the
date of said election, upon their ap
plication in person at his said office
within the office hours and between
the dates mentioned; and no voter
who does not personally appear and
register at said office between said
dates will be permitted to vote >,t
said election.
RANDALL E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Notice of Settlement of Account.
In the Commissioner's Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Division.
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of I.
D. Flynn, deceased.—Notice of settle
ment of account.
Notice is hereby given that \V. T.
Scott, the administrator of the estate
of I. D. Flynn, deceased, has rendered
and presented for settlement, and fil:
ed in the above entitled court, his
final account of the administration
of said estate, and that Wednesday,
the 24th day of February, 1915, at the
hour of two o'clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of raid
court, in the Town of Valdez, Ala ka,
has been duly appointed by me, the
undersigned, as the Judge of said
court, as the time and place for the
settlement of said account, at which
time and place any and all persons
interested in said estate, may appear,
file exceptions in writing to the said
account or otherwise contest the al
lowance of the same.
Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 23rd
day of December, 1914.
(Seal.) GEO. J. LOVE,
U. S. Commissioner and Ex Officio
Probate Judge, for the Recording
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baolT” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
\yfth the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
It you want all the news all Me
ttmo. read the Prospector.