Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
February Clearance Offerings
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
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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.
»_■» DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
flft'ce rooms over Owl Drutf store. Office hours
d to 15 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's Phone No. S0
HOURS—9 to 12 a. n.; 1 to 6 and 7 to 9p. m.
JOHN LYONS EL EL RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE .
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
f. butterworth:
jCivil Engineer and'
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Valdez, Alaika.
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Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Weitern Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER, PrWd.it,
Granite Mine
OHAS. McCALLUM^SwrotQ.
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers
to all parts of the Interior.
GENERAL TRUCKING.
McKinley Street, Valdez.
Eld. Wood, - - - Proprietor.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Saturday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
A Late Book.
Mrs. Hoyt, who been me the possessor
of n fortune by the death of no aunt,
did not like to admit her ignorance of
any subject.
One afternoon she had n call from
a prominent society woman, and the
conversation turned upon books.
"Have you read Shakespeare’s
works?” asked the caller.
"Oh. yes, indeed.” replied Mrs. Hoyt,
"nil of them—that is." she added has
tily. “unless lie has written something
very lately.”—National Monthly.
Not Good at Figures.
Lady Canvasser-I’ve called to ask
you to give 11s something for the O. P.
O. S. The— Old Gentleman —My dear
lady. 1 already give away one-tenth
of my income. Lady Canvasser—Oh.
just this year couldn’t you make It an
eleventh?—London Punch.
Imported Japanese baskets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
The Prospector office tor job work.
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 in comfort and peace.
k
Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Conpany
GERMAN CIVIL COURTS.
Mode of Procedure Where Commercial
Cases Are Tried.
Tbe "buudeisgericbt,” or commercial
court, is presided over by one Judge
and two laymen known as "handels
richter”—commercial Judges nominat
ed by commercial bodies and appoint
ed by tbe government. Any German Is
eligible who is registered ns a mer
chant, thirty years old, and otherwise
qualified as specially provided by law.
Only commercial cases are sent to tills
department upon motion of either par
ty. I witnessed a trial between mer
chants and was much pleased with
the speedy method of determining the
case.
Instead of submitting technical busi
ness questions to a Jury, who in all
probability never beard of tile like be
fore, and then offering tbe testimony
of experts on each side of the case,
which often lias a tendency to con
fuse tile Jury rather than to enlighten
them, tbe German commercial judges
possess personal experience in busi
ness and skill in affairs of commerce
of the greatest value in arriving at
correct conclusions. Besides, the pro
cedure, as a rule, is brief and to tbe
point and causes little delay to the
litigants. So far as I could observe,
this system worked very satisfactorily.
— Fred II. Peterson in Case and Com
ment.
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS.
The Reason He Does So From the
Physical Point of View.
Laughter is an involuntary response
of certain muscles to a communication
from nerves controlling their action
We laugh because we receive an im
pression through our sensory nerves
that causes a demonstration from the
muscles which express mirth. The
vigor or heartiness of laughter depends
upon liie susceptibility of the brain to
what is received through the sensory
nerves.
They get the impression in three
ways—from something we see, feel or
hear—and send it along to the nerve
center. From there it is sent along
other nerves connected with certain
muscles or glands and excites them to
activity.
The nerves are like so many electric
wires, and the sensory nerves act ns
a battery, by means of which the elec
tric currents of life are transmitted.,
The muscles have the power to ex-j
press the state of gladness, indicated'
by laughter, according to the positive
ness of the impressions passed along
the nerves which operate them. Yon
laugh less heartily the second time
you hear a funny story because the
impression Is less positive. — Rocky
Mountain News.
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A 8ook That Wasn’t Published.
A singular plan for honoring heroes
was proposed in 1832, if we rauy credit
the following footnote to “La Typo
graphic," a poem by Le I’elletier, pub
lished in Hint year at Geneva: “In Feb
ruary last several newspapers an
nounced that the largest book ever
printed will shortly appear in London ;
under the title “The Pantheon of Eng- ■
lish Heroes." The pages of this book j
will be twelve feet long and two feet '
wide and the letters six inches high. It
has been found necessary to erect spe- ;
cial machinery for the manufacture of |
the [taper required. This gigantic work ;
will be printed by steam in characters I
of gold, no ordinary printing ink being \
used in the process. Only a hundred j
copies will lie issued, and these will j
serve to adorn the principal libraries i
in England." You will not tind that j
book in any public or private library |
Pearls.
The use and popularity of pearls date
back to about 300 B. C., but they were
known to yet older peoples, and espe
cially to those of the east. Tile Chinese
records go still farther hack, and oys
ter pearls were received as tribute in
the twenty third century B C. It is
probable that they were found in the
waters of Ceylou and India 2.000
years ago. and the Greeks of eonrse
both knew and recognized the value of
the pearl. But it was not until the
Roman empire was beginning to rise
that the knowledge of the value of the
pearl became generul.
Unfortunate Namur.
From the tenth century to 1421 Na
mur was the capital of a dukedom, but
was merged in the Netherlands In 1421.
It was captured In 1692 by Marshal
Vauban in the Netherlands war and
three years later by William of Orange.
Again in 1746 the French General
Clermont took It. and It was taken
from the French by Joseph II. In 1794.
but restored ngntn Inter. In 1815 It was
defended with great bravery in the
Waterloo campaign.—Loudon Answers.
Interrogating a Reformer.
“1 shall leave politics a poorer man
than when I first accepted office." said
the patriot.
"Excuse me." responded the friend,
who is a little hard of bearing, “did
yon say ‘poorer’ or ’purer?’ ’’—Wash
ington Star.
Easy.
“I wish I knew how to get rid of
trouble.”
“I’ll help you out. 1 know a fellow
■who’s always looking for it!”—Judge.
Alligators' Teeth.
Ivory from alligators’ teeth Is ns rich
in hue as and has a brighter luster
than the beat tusks that ever came
from an African elephant.
There Is work on God’s wide earth
for all men that he has made with
hands and hearts.—Carlyle.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Don’t Be Hasty In Judging by It, Last
You Be Deceived.
Bret Harte wrote In one of bis 9tories
tbnt yon couldn’t judge anything by tbe
appearance of his characters. The big
gest scamp had a Raphael face, the
bravest man In camp was the smallest,
the surest shot bad but three fingers
and the best dressed was the worst
gambler in the state.
The same rule often works out in
real life. Nobody wrote more dry phll
osophical books than England’s prize
philosopher, Francis Bacon. But one
day while ill and without consulting
any works of reference he dictated a
volume of jokes which is still the best
collection to he found in London.
When Stephen Crane wrote his “Red
Badge of Courage" old soldiers thought
the author must have gone through the
war. .lust out of college. Crane had
scarcely ever bcard.a gun tired, and he
was not born until years after Appo
mattox.
A 220 pound bully was making trou
ble in a Philadelphia street railway
car when a small, pleasant faced youth
remonstrated. Every one expected to
tee the giant literally crush the young
man who had Interfered. As they step
ped off the car the bully was knocked
senseless by a blow of the other’s list
the list of Billy Rocap, then champion
amateur lightweight boxer of America.
1 heard Bob Burdette, tbe funny man,
tell how tbe soldiers laughed at a young
fop of a cavalry odicer until they saw
him just once lending a charge. 1'hen j
they knew It w.ns General Custer, and
they laughed no more.
So you cannot always tell what is in
a man’s head or his fist by bis personal
appearance or by his previous work.
Philadelphia I.edger.
HE SIMPLY FORGOT.
The Hurried Married Man Didn’t
Think, but His Wife Did,
He really meant to kiss his wife this
morning as lie left the bouse to go to
work.
But lie forgot. He was thinking or
the cares of the shop, or the thousand
and one matters which concern him lu
the big world with which he wrestles
for a living for her and the kids.
Anyhow, he said to hitnseil after
ward, what’s a kiss? It oughtn’t to
take such a mere formality to con
vince of his love and trust the woman
be has made the mistress of his home,
the mother of his children. Bsbaw.
The chances are she never noticed tne
omission. So why should he worry?
But bnck borne a woman wept—wept
not because she doubted ber husband s
constancy, not because sbe felt that
be wouldn’t prove big and true and
tine in an emergency, but Decause, wo
manlike. shut within home’s foui walls,
doomed to another day ot petty rou
tine, much ot it to be endured all alone,
she wanted that kiss as a token and a
memory—wanted it as proot that not
iu ber case could the poet write:
tie's lost, ycu see, 'cause he married me.
(Joodby. my lover, goodby.
Now If you, Mr. Man. made such a
! break as that this morning, do you
: know what you ought to do?
lio home tonight with a present In
I each band and plant two kisses where
one grew before.—New Orleans States
Belgian Hedges.
In Belgium there are no stone or
| hawthorn hedges like those in England,
i instead of being Inclosed by a hedge
| the fields are raised up by fairly high
i earth hanks and the roads are cut out
of them, as it were, so that when you
| are walking in the country you are
i dowu iri a sort of valley with low green
! hanks on elthet side of yon.
The things that are chiefly cultivated
in Belgium are the beet root- for mak
ing the cheaper kind of sugar, you
know—and you can see field upon field
of their red-green leaves stretching
on either side of you as you walk along.
Flax la also much grown over there,
and In summer time the fields are a
pretty sight when the pale blue fiax
blossoms are out in tull bloom. Bel
gian asparagus is also renowned all
over Europe. It has white Instead ot
purple-green tips.—London Mail.
Tough Old Voxels.
If tbe life of tbe old inan-of wai was
longer than tbatof tbe present Oread
nougbt tbe old merebuntmuu lived
longer still. Tbe Lively, for Instance,
wben wrecked at Cromer In 1888 bad
been afloat two years over a century.
Tbe Liberty, too. built at Whitby In
1750. was In regular use till 1850. and
tbe Betsy Cains, which began life us a
frigate aud ended as a collier, went
down In ber one hundred and thirty
seventh year. And In 1902. according
to a dully paper, tbe Anita, then trad
ing between Spain and America, dated
from tbe days of Columbus.—Loudon
Sun.
Her Amendment.
Little Loin bud been given a sbort
poem to commit to memory by bei
teacher. Id It tbese lines occurred.
“Sail on. ye mariners, the nlgbt Is
gone.'' Later wben requested to repeat
tbe poem she rendered tbe lines men
tioned thus. “Sail on, ye married men
tbe light is gone.”—Chicago News.
Avoid Introspootion.
Photographer (taking plain looking
girl and her escort!—Now, try not to
think of yourselves at all—think ot
sowetblug pleasant.—London Opinion.
Tht Turkish Empire.
Tbe Turkish empire Is composed or
many mixed races. It Includes Greeks.
Slavs, Albanians, Armenians, Jews and
Circassians.
There Is no wisdom like frankness.—
Hon const) ski
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
TlfEJCall^You on/Time for the boat
” if We Handle Your Baggage
We Buy and Sell Anything from
Dead Crabs to Live Bears.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
Seattle
A Complete Services
* IN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
| l55Rooms with bath-50 Sample Rooms
Notice of Registration.
Notice is hereby given that 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, oil tile 6th 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 hours
of 2 and 1 o’clock in the afternoon
of said day, and will remain open fur
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 25th
and 27th days of March, 1915, said
books will be open for such registra
tion between the hours of 1 and t>
o’clock in the afternoon of said days.
Town Treasurer E. G. Ames hag
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 at
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 ttie 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 said
court, in the Town of Valdez, Alaska,
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 Recordin*
Precinct of Valdez, Alaska.
Date of first publication December
24, 1914.
Date last publication February 24,
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found to
“back” 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
With the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
If 70)1 want all Uia aawa all ••
time, read tha Proapaatar.