j STEAM HEATED HOT AND COU) BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONF. 7 FOR MEN ONLY
NO ALTERATIONS ARE
EVER NECESSARY
when we pronounce a suit of
our tailoring finished. A look
in the glass will show the per
fect fit of the garments. We
attend to that part by skilled
and thorough measurements.
As to the style, it speaks for
itself. The prices are equally
eloquent as to their modera
tion.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office._Telephone 24
THE SENATE
I ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
f CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicelv Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 OPEN ALL NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Propr.
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
Independent Steam Laundry
Hatisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Rousrh Dry lCc lb
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Notice of Dissolution.
Notice is hereby given that the
firm of Dougherty & Ferguson of Val
dez, Alaska, has this day dissolved by
mutual consent, R. P. Ferguson retir
ing from the firm. T. E. Dougherty
will continue the business at the same
place will pay all debts of the old
firm and will collect all debts due to
said firm.
Dated this 30th day of December,
3916.
T. E. DOUGHERTY,
R. P. FERGUSON.
BIG GAME PLENTIFUL
IN EAST AFRICA
MOMBASSA, B. E. A., Jan. 23.—
Large game, including elephants,
rhinoceri and buffalo, are very plen
tiful in East Africa, as the war has
practically stopped the visits of hunt
ers. Reports received here state that
11 his is especially true of the northern
reserve, where the rhinocri have be
come so numerous as to be a verita
ble nuisance. The southern reserve
has been the scene of extensive mili
tary operations, and therefore game
has been used for food but not to an
extent that will cause any scarcity in
future years.
STEAMSHIP TOFT WOOD
IS REPORTED SUNK
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—The Brit
ish steamship Toftwood, which left
here about Christmas for Havre, car
iying a cargo valued at more than
three-quarters of a million, is report
ed to have been sunk. None of the
details of the disaster have been re
ceived.
NOTICE—Electrical heaters, cook
ers, percolators, vacuum-cleaners,
will be advanced in prices after New
years, by the manufacturers. Stock
on hand will be sold at prevailing
prices, at the Emporium.
Fred Anderson arrived in town last
night from Ellamar.
Bread, rolls and pastry of all kinds
fresh every day, for sale while they
last, at the-Merchant’s Cafe. 1-9-1 m
Rexall Perfumes. The breath of
Araby. Owl Drug Co. tf
Rexall Remedies. Call for them at
the Owl Drug Store. tf
Prsspefltor ads brlsg results.
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8KAGWAY MEN MAKE
FIND OF MOLYBDENITE
A molybdenite claim discovered by
Chas. Cartwright and Joe Ouyot
about eight miles from here gives
promise of being one of the biggest
and most valuable mines in the vicin
ity of Skagway, says the Alaskan.
Recent assay tests made in Juneau
show values taken from this pros
pect to run from $500 to $1000 a
ton.
A tunnel has been driven 50 teet
into the mountain side and the fur
ther in it goes the richer the ore
becomes. This molybdenite was first
discovered in the surface rock and
traced along a blanket vein. 140 feet
wide, for a distance of more than on"
and one-half miles.
There are very few molybdenite
mines in the world, and the value of
the ore is great since it is a good
substitute for platinum and tungsten
The metal is pratically non-fusible.
The ore occurs in foliated masses
or scales, and is lead grey in color,
with a metallic luster. In feeling it
it soft and like graphite.
The metal is used largely for
hardening steel, especially the steel
used in the large fighting machines
of Europe.
Mr. Cartwright said that if they
could not bond their property to
some big concern, they would work
it themselves this summer. The pro
cess of mining is very simple. It be
ing the crushing of the rock to a 20
grain mesh, and the washing of it
in sluice boxes similar to placer gold
mining.
MINING MAN LEAVES BUT
$10 EACH TO HIS SONS
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Jan. 23.
By the terms of the will of Patrick
Mullins, who died here last week, fil
ed in the Superior Court late yester
day, all the property, both real and
personal, is left to the widow. Nellie
Mullins, except $10 each to his
three sons. No estimate of the value
of the estate was filed. It includes
the Washington, Michigan and Mon
tana hotel properties, considerable
other city realty, two big ranches
and mining property, both here and
in Montana. Mullins was mayor of
Butte in the days of the famous Ana
conda mining litigation between F.
Augustus Heinze and the Amalgama
ted Copper Company and W. A. Clark
interests.
ERIGHTKUL TOLL OK LIKE
TAKEN BY EUROPEAN WAR
In a bulletin issued by the War
Study Society of Copenhagen, on Aug
I, 1916, the following losses of hum
an life during the first two years of
the European war was given as fol
lows: Dead, 4,631,500; wounded,
II, 245.300; invalided. 3,373.700.
On November 15, 1916, this society
calculated that the number of dead
had reached the enormous total of
5,000,000; the wounded over 13,
000,000, with a corresponding in
crease in the number of invalids.
These figures embrace the armies
of Austro-Hungary, Belgiuinfi Bulga
ria, England, France. Germany,
Italy, Russia, Serbia and.Turkey in
hte first amounts given, and Rumania
in the second. During the first two
years of the war the killed in all ar
mies engaged averaged 6,336 per
day, and the wounded 15,904.
CHAMI* CLARK BOOM FOR
PRESIDENCY IS STARTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 23.—
One of the noticable political cur
rents since the reassembling of Con
gress is the well-defined purpose to
start a movement for the nomination
of Speaker Champ Clark for the Pres
idency to suceed President Wilson
in 1920. One of the interesting fea
tures of the agitation, if it can be
said to have reached that point is
that thus far the ultra Bryan men
are behind it, and it is said, the
movement has the benediction of
Bryan, himself. So far the only ob
jection that has been urged against
the plan is the circumstance that the
Speaker will be 70 years of age in
1920.
I GEORGIA TOWN HAS
TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT
ATLANTA, Jan. 23.—Kirkwood, a
suburb of Atlanta, is worrying along
with three mayors and two city coun
cils.
N. J. Cassels, elected mayor on the
face of the returns, went betoi*. the
City Clerk with his council and took
the oath of office. W. E. Saunders,
his opponent, who declares that he
was legally elected, went before the
Justice of the Peace with his city
council ard also vowed he would run
the town properly.
Both claimants pestered Mayor B
F. Gilliam so much that he refused
to turn the keys over to either until
the courts decide who is the real may
or and council.
Tonight In Eagle Hall the Empress
will show another splendid program
at 8 p. m. Don’t miBS it. See adver
tised program.
HATCHING J)F BEES.
TMr Method of Eacape From tho Wax
Col la of tho Hive.
It la Interesting to watch young
bees in the act of batching out from
the cells of the hive. The wax cap
ping which confines them is thin, but
it is quite strong enough to give the
tender young bee a good deal of trou
ble in nibbling it through.
At first one can only see a part of
the Insect's bead through a small bole
H has made. It gradually nibbles
away the wax till the bole is big
enough for the cutire head to gel
through, but ere this stage Is reached
the young bee Das been assisted In its
efforts by several of the older bees,
who. though no doubt engaged in some |
other work, pause on their way uud j
very considerately nibble away a little i
of the capping with their stronger i
jaws.
Once the head of the young bee Is j
out of fhe cell It has much more pow i
er. and. after pulling and twisting
perseveringly. the thorax Is gradually |
worked free of its prison. Then the
abdomen slips easily after it. and the
birth of the bee is accomplished.
When they are free of the cells the !
young bees stand for some time pal- j
pltntlng and apparently getting their
breath again after their efforts, while
some of the nurse bees gently stroke
them and give them food.—London
Tit-Bits.
NATURE AS A SURGEON.
3om* Species of Trees Amputate Their
Limbs Regularly.
Nature in many Instances is her owd
physician, treating her ills without con
sultation and rendering unto herself
most excellent treatment. Healing al
ways takes place without Infection,
and no great strain 1b put upon the
tree itself. Her surgery Is bloodless
and, so far as we know, painless,
writes David Brock In the Scientific
American.
Take, for Instance, some of the pop
lar and willow trees. When the im
mediate environment Is not adapted to
the best growth of a twig or branch of
these trees nature sets up a special
cell formation, a corklike growth
which gradually cuts off the nutrition
from the part about to be eliminated.
These abscess cells, as they are term
ed, form close up to the parent limb
or trunk and encircle the part to be
removed with such uniformity that lit
tle more plant tissue Is Involved than
is really necessary.
When In the early spring a tree re
ceives a great amount of nutrition nu
merous branches are sent out which
later In the summer become shaded
and of no value to the tree. It Is then
that the process of elimination takes
place. These trees, as a rule, do not
lose their branches until late summer.
Jumping Cocoons.
Many visitors to the southwestern
states and Mexico have amused them
selves by watching the queer motions
of "Jumping beans,” the seed vessels
of a plant, each of which contain the
pupa of an insect whose spasmodic
movements cause the bean to hop and
roll about.
More remarkable are the “Jumping
cocoons” found in South Africa. The
cocoon is formed by the mother in
sect and is very bard. The pupa when
ready to emerge must cut its way out.
The front of its head has a sharp,
chisel-like edge, and by driving this
against the inside of the shell it grad
ually makes a hole. The violent mo
tlons of the pupa within cause the co
coon to leap so that one has been seen
to spring out of a small glass tumbler
Wonderful Hand Weaving In Mexico.
The hand woven blankets made by
the Indian girls of Mexico, to whom
a dime a day is a good wage, although
they begin work at sunrise and labor
until sunset, are the admiration and
despair of all who appreciate fine
handiwork or value perfect color com
binations. A small blunket bought In
Mexico City five years ago. although It
has been used as a wall tapestry ever
since, seems as bright in every one
of its rainbow colors as on the day it
was bought. The weaving is so perfect
that it has no right or wrong side.
National Geographic Magazine.
Not So Exacting.
"Are you In favor of an eight hour
working day?"
“I don’t go quite so strong as that."
replied Farmer Corntossel. “If my
boy Josh was to work three hours a
day two days in succession I'd thins
he was doin' purty good.”—Washing
ton Star.
Cross Purposes.
She—You don’t seem to understana
that when I criticise I do it solely i’or
your good. He—and you don’t seem
to understand that when I am required
to listen It is impossible for me to
think of anything that is good.—Rich
mond Tlmes-Dispatcb.
Man’s Way and Woman’s.
When a wife dies a husband says
“I would be a better husband If I bad
it to do over again.’’ But when a hus
band dies his wife says. “Well. I did
my duty by him.’’—Topeka Capital.
Called Down.
“I would like to see the map or
place that could get my nerve.”
“Did you ever try a dentist’s chair?’
—Baltimore American.
Symptoms of It.
“Is there any insanity In Billy’s fsn>
OyV
“They ail speak highly of Billy!’’
Puck. __
Py speaking of our misfortunes w<
oft relieve them.—Corneille.
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us Issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if fire does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
r‘ TONY’S PLACE™
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS’! CLASS Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Seattle— For Seattle——
Jan. 24—S. S. Evans, Feb. 4—S. S. Evans,
for Kodiak. Feb. 11—Farragut
Feb. 3.—S. S. Farragut, Feb. 23—S. S. Evans
Feb. 15—S. S. Evans, Mar. 8-—-S. S. Watson
Feb. 25—S. S. Watson, Mar. 10—S. S. Farragut.
for Kodiak. For Cordova, Juneau, Ketchl
Mar. 2—S. S. Farragut, kan, Seattle and way ports.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IP YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Soilings from Seattle— Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 11—S. S. Alameda. Jan. 10—S. S. Mariposa.
Jan. 16—S. S. Mariposa. Jan. 18^—S. S. Alameda.
Jan. 24—S. S. Alameda. Jan. 24—S. S. Mariposa.
Feb. 1—S. S. Mariposa. Feb. 1—S. S. Alameda.
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
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Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to “Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Jnneao, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Pure Fresh Drugs at the Valdez
Drug Store. tf
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdez Drug Co. tf
A new line ol neaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
The Owl Drug Store can furnish
you with a 1917 Dairy. tf
just received, a new line of Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
Just Received- e atest Popular
Bongs and Music Valdez Drug Co t*
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfe. t— • for you. tf
For good warm rooms try the St.
Ellas Hotel. tf
Rexall Orderlies, a pleasant purga
tive. Owl Drug Co. tf
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A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Location notices, not quartz and
placer, at the Miner office.