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Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Summons. Mo QER

Tn the District Court for the Territory
 of Alaska, Third Division. Wm. A. Schroeder, Plaintiff, vs. Net
 tie Schroeder, Defendant. The President of the United States or
 America, Greeting:
 To Nettie Schroeder, the Above
 Named Defendant.
 You are hereby required to appear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, within 20 days after the completion of the pub licafion of this summons, to-wit, within thirty (30) days after the fourth day of November. 1916, and answer the complaint of Wm. A. Schroeder, the abOve-named plaintiff in the above-entitled cause, 0 which said cause Is an action for divorce in one of the cases prescribed by law. wherein the said plaintiff prays a de cree of absolute divorce from you, forever dissolving the bonds of mat rimony existing between you and the said plaintiff.
 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the plaintiffs said complaint as herein required. the said plaintiff will take judgment against you for want there of, and will apply to the court for the relief demanded in his said complaint as hereinabove set out.
 The order for the publication of this summons was duly made and en- tered on the 21st day of September, 1916.
 Witness, The Honorable Fred M. Brown, Judge of said Court and the seal thereof. this twenty-first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six teen, and of our independence the one hundred forty-frst.
 (Ofiicial SeaD ARTHUR LANG. Clerk District Court for the Territory
 of Alaska, Third Division.
 By Chas. A. Hand, Deputy. Donohoe & Dimond, Attorneys for
 Plaintiff
 Pub. Sept. 23. 30. Oct. 2, IA, 21, 28,
 Nov. 4. It
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
USE OF THE TOOTHBRUSH.
1t Was Unknown In England In Lord
 Chssterfieid's Time.

1t Was Unknown In England In Lord
 Chssterfieid's Time.
 When did the English first adopt the toothbrush habit, which In recent times has been denounced by certain medical authorities2 Tn "Esmond" Thackeray makes Lord Castlewood spend "a tenth part of his day in the brushing of his teeth and the oiling of his hair." and in doing so the novelist commits a double anachronism.
 During the first half of the eighteenth century all fine gentlemen wore wigs and had no use for oil on their hair. while the toothbrush was so late as 1754 unknown to Lord Chesterfield. Writing to his son. Chesterfield says:
 q hope you take great care of your mouth and teeth and that you clean them well every morning with sponge and tepid water. with few drops of arquebusade water dropped into 1t. l do insist upon your never using those sticks or any hard substance whatever. which always rub away the gums and destroy the varnish of the teeth."-- London Saturday Review.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

NOW that Mir. Wickersham has stated over his own signature that he is working earnestly to secure the election of none but Republicans for members of the Territorial legisla- ture where are our Progressive-Dem- ocratic friends coming off at? Is the Delegate giving his packers the usual XIX? Can he pledge his faith to Jeter in Anchorage and to Dieringer in Val dez at the same time? At his famous banquet in Anchorage he stated that Anchorage should have the Road Commissioner, and we must do all i our power to elect MT. Jeter." Where does Valdez get off in case MT. Jeter Is elected?
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

IF someone would muzzle the Del egate he would stand a much better chance of election. His attacks on Alaskan payrolls are hurting him in the estimation of his hearers. It is breeding to make vicious personal at tacks upon men employed by the Government. AS an official, repre- senting the Territory's interests ill the capital it is obligatory upon him to make charges against an! other official he finds derelict in his duties Personal invectives settle no argu- ments and simply disgust ar audi. ence.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Paralysis Germ Pound.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-Dr. E. c. Rosenow of the Mayo Brothers foun- Gation in Rochester, Minn.. announc- ed last night before the New York Acadamy of Medicine that he had dis covered the infantile paralysis germ.
 Dr. Rosenow said a germ found in the small abscesses in the tonsils and adenoids of victims of infantile paral ysis has produced a similar affliction when injected into lower animals. He did not advocate the removal of ton sils of persons stricken with infantilt paralysis but said the discovery wa. important because the disease now could betreated pathologically on : much wider plane.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

SOMETIMES the canard acts as a boomerang. The Seward Post made a vicious attack upon the Road Con- mission and several Seward mer- chants who place the development of Alaska ahead of politics, stepped around to the newspaper office and took several hundred dollars worth of advertising away from the obnoxi- ous yellow sheet. Their contention was that there should be no quarrel with Alaska's payrolls, and that a paper which knocked one of our prin- cipal industries was a detriment .' the community. And when y u com
 to think of it it is despicable trick on the part of both the Delegate aud the paper to try to embarrass a Coy ernment enterprise intended to work to the development of our Territory
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Summons. M D n

In the District Court for the Terri
 tory of Alaska, Third Division. George Osborne, Plaintiff, vs. Lottie
 Osborne, Defendant.
 The President of the United States of
 America, Greeting:
 To Loitie Osborne, the above named
 defendant:
 You are hereby requested to appear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Division, within 30 days after the completion of the pub licatiOn of this summons, to-wit, within 30 days after the 21st day of October, 1916. and answer the com plaint of George Osborne the above named plaintiff in the above entitled cause, which said cause is an action for divorce on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment wherein the plaintiff asks for q decree of divorce from you dissolving the bonds of mar riage which now exists between you and the plaintiff.
 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint, as herein required. the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof and will apply to the court for the relief de- manded in said complaint
 The order for said publication of this summons was made and entered on the 9th day of September. 1916. by the Honorable Fred M. Brown. Judge of the District Court for the Third Division of the Territory of Alaska.
 Witness, The Honorable Fred M
 Brown, Judge of said court and the
 seal thereof this 8th day of Sep
 tember. in the year of our Lord
 One Thusand Nine Hundred and
 Sixteen.
 (SeaD ARTHUR LANG. Clerk Date of first publication Sept. g, 1916. Date of last publication Oct. 21. 1916.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
WE ARE AFTER THE MONEY.
WE UNDERSTAND certain parti,

WE UNDERSTAND certain parties around town are stating that the Prospector refuses to publish any thing concerning Mir. Wickersham, and that we have refused to print cer- tain documents regarding the Dele gate. We again remark that we are here to run a newspaper. The Dele- gates friends are as welcome to air their opinions in our advertising col umns as the friends of MT. Sulzer. and upon the same basis, foi cash. MT. Sulzer and the Democratic party pay for the support they receive from the Prospector and it is no more than right that MT. Wickersham do the same. Any time that any of Mr. Wickersham's friends desire publicity at twenty-five cents per inch we will be delighted to give 1t to them, and will give 1t to them. We have given MT. Wickersham no favorable pub licity for the reason that he has adopt ed a pinch-penny policy with the press of Alaska. and prefers to have the government frank his campaign literature to the voters. There is no paper in the Territory. Wickersi am or anti-Wickersham, that will refuse to publish paid advertising. for any can didate. To do so would be unethical and unbusinesshke.
 The primary object of newspaper is to make money. It may have it's choice of candidates. but more often supports a different man because 1t Is paid to do so. We are trying to con- duct paper on the same plan that a merchant conducts 8 business, and expect the same reasonable profit for our material and labor.
 The only reason we have run no
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

WHEN the Delegate made his bit ter attack upon Colonel Richardson at Seward he stated that there should be an investigation made of the ex penditure of the funds of the Road Commission. "but unfortunately the books were burned at the time of the great fire" And no one knew this better than MT. Wickersham This is the mans calibre; his idea of the dignity due a superior officer. He made his charges knowing that they could not be proved or disproved and taking a chance that he could get a vote by knocking.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
ANNIVERSARY OF
 ELECTRIC LAMP

Thirty-nine years ago today, Thoa. X. Edison. the greatest living inven- tor, gave to the world the first cleo tric lamp. As a commercial proposi- ton the lamp was not a succes, but t burned for forty hours before the Gliment burned out, and demonstrat- ed that the incandescent lamp was possible. Today it is in universal use. "The first thing to do was to find out what was the best material to use for light producer" began Mir. Edison. "I soon made up my mind that of all the materials I could oh tain in 1877 carbon was the most promising. Paper, jute, palm fiber. grasses, tissue paper coated with tar hemp-everything, in a word. was tried. Finally on October 21, 1879, carbonized a piece of cotton sewing thread bent into a loop and sealed 1t in glass globe from which the air had been pumped out. When the current was turned on, that black thread glowed for 40 hours. That was really the first incandescent cleo tric lamp. It couldn't be put on the market of course, but it showed un- mistakably that electricity could be used for incandescent lighting. spent about $4O,O00 in bringing the investigation up to that point, and yet in a way, this was only the begin ming. A little later we placed sev- eral hundred paper filament lamps on the market. So I began a hunt for the right kind of carbon. Men were sent all over the world to collect grasses and hbers that looked prom ising for work. They brought back several hundred and out of the lot I selected a certain kind of bamboo that grows in Japan. We made fila II ents out of that for nine years"
 In the few words MT. Edison tells the story of the first electric lamp The twenty-frst day of October, nov known as Edison Day" is the birth. day of the electric inca; ;:descert lamp
 Edison's famous exhibition of a complete electric lighting system when the laboratory grounds ere il. luminated by 700 lamps, took place late in December, 1879, and attract cd thousands of visitors from all ove: the country. The lamp itself was but a small part of the inventive wori necessary to develop the new lighting system. It was also necessary to de wise and develop wiring systems, in sulation materials, sockets, fixtures measuring instruments and a host ot things necessary for the new work More than all this, it was quite nee essary to devise the special machiner required to insulate the wires. tt make the porcelain parts of the wir ing devices. to stamp out and mako the sockets, fixtures and everythin, else.
 The growth of electric Iightint after 1880 was very rapid. LamI costs were materially reduced. II 1891 the cellulose or squirt" nroces! of making lamp filaments was intro duced, and after 1893 electric lamI filaments of bamboo were no longer made. Experiments W th filaI 'ents o rare metals began in 1898 but it wal not until the metal tantGlum was triet out in 1901 that the possibilities O ent few years later the first tanta lum lamps were made and were al most as quickly superseded b7 tung sten, which was first used in 1907.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
PERHAPS the most foolish thine

PERHAPS the most foolish thing yet advocated by Wickersham's pa pers is the agitation for the grand
 jury now in session to examine Col.
 Richardson books to see that the funds have been properly expended. Next thing Wickersham will be call ing for an Alaska grand jury to eX- anime the books of the United States treasury. It would have equal juris- dictiOn in either case.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
SATURDAY, OCTOBER al, 1S18
A WARNING TO ALASKA.

The frightful conditions at Seattle where graft, bribery, corruption and lawlessness of all sorts resulting from the efforts of the authorities to en- force the prohibition law should be a warning to the people of Alaska.
 This condition at Seattle-where it is admitted that vice flourishus thru cut the city, that intoxicating liquors are being sold illicitly ever where, that $50,00O is being monthly con- tributed in bribes for protection, where police officers and parasites are equally involved in a carnival of cor ruption-is in a country where tho authorities have all the powers of State, County and City governments behind them; governments that are old-established and in smooth work ing order with powers clearly de- fined.
 In the light of Seattle's experience under conditions there, what might we expect with prohibition in Alaska? No one has any authority here to pre- vent crime. We have only power to punish criminals-and then only after a grand jury has indicted. A "dry squad" would be impossible in this Territory. The Legislature has no power to prohibit the importation of Thnro fc dooI nf certainty as to whether or not 1t has power to prohibit its sale. The peo. pie of the Territory are struggling now over the forms and powers of government. They are seeking to se- cure the necessary authority to gov ern themselves at all. We have no Jurisdiction over our schools outside of the municipalities. We have no power to raies the revenues that are necessary to conduct our municipal governments and municipal schools except under restrictions made by Congress-restrictio that would make our funds inadequate without the revenues from the liquor licenses We have no authority to create coun- ty governments with their police pow. CTS. We are laboring with the very simplest problems of government. We are in the early childhood of govern mental development. We have not got self-government launched in the Territory.
 To inject the problem of prohibi- tion, with all that it involves, includ- ing invested money and property in- terests, into such a situation as exists in Alaska at this time would be the height of folly. It would be foolish to the point of criminality. It would impair the chance of any immediate settlement of the first steps in gov ernment.
 In Alaska it is not a question as to whether prohibition is right or wrong We have not reached that point. Il is a question of placing task on gov ernmental machinery that is too weak for it to perform, and having the li- Quor traffic running riot instead of being controlled. Prohibition would be like turning reservoirs into pipes that are incapable of pressure. Il would be a Johnston flood.
 Self-protection and common sense demand that the people of Alaska vote down prohibition in Alaska next month regardless of what they might think of the liquor traffic.-Juneau Empire.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
The First Stock Exchange,

The Stock Exchange did not call it. self by that name till nearly the end of the eighteenth century. A newspa per of July 15. 1773. tells us how the name of their place of business was altered by resolution from "'New Iona than's' to The Stock Exchange which is to be wrote over the door. The bro, kers then collected sixpence each and christened the house with punch. London Chronicle.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

WE would respectfully call the attention of the powers that be to the deplorable condition of the cross walks, particularly on Mckinley street. When the streets were filled in last spring the road was raised somewhat higher than the crosswalks, consequently at this time the walks, from constant travel, are filled with water and mud to depth that makes their use unpleasant to say the least.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
hia Hauainu Latter.

Poet - There goes a notorious and confirmed begging letter writer. Friend What! Why. I thought that chap was an editor. Poet-Well. he has written me at least dozen letters beg ging me not to send him any more of my stuff.-Puck.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

THE news dispatches state that a young man armed with a knife and a bottle of unknown fluid tried to kill the President at Pittsburg yesterday. The unknown fluid probably was whisky. The Presidential body guard have been imbibing grape jl ice so
 long they have lost all recollection of the appearance of joy-juice.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

SINCE the Delegates visit to the westward both the Seward Post and Anchorage Times have been lambast- ing the Road Commission daily. We do not know whether this is a coin -cidence or 8 plot to detract attention from the Delegates record.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

WHILE it Is e matter of supreme indifference to us who represents the Territory the more we hear of the present incumbent's methods of elec- tioneering the more pleased we are that he will not be the man.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Christian Science Society.

PlOneer HaII. Sunday service, II a. m., subject "Probation After Death" Sunday School. 12:15. Testimony meeting, Wednesday, q p. m.
 Reading room open to the public Wednesday from ? until 5, and un' til 8 D. m.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

WITH an alliance of Dem"cratic- Progresstves. Socialists, I. W. W.'s, and antis. where does the Rerc blicap vote come in for the Delegate?
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Mystsrtoue,

First Flapper-I can't imagine how that secret leaked out Second Ditto Nor I. I am sure every one told promised to say nothing about it, London Passing Show.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
HeIpjnu the Diaonosis,

Doctor-My dear lady. you are in perfect health. 1 can't find a thing the matter with you. Patient-l wish you'd try again. doctor. l do SO want to go away to recuperate.-Century
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
StOD that lnfernaI Racket

Stop that Internal Racket
 Show your wife how much you love her and send that noisy old pump to the Valdez Iron Works and let them remove the peace disturber. your neighbors will appreciate 1t. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Catholic Church.

Mass S:3O and 1O:3O a. m. Sunday School immediately follow ing Mass.
 Evening Services D. m. T'r. A. Fletcher, s. J.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

For all kinds of cement work see Blake. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Aliens fresh Eastern Transplanted Oysters, counts, selects and stand ards at Love-Whitley Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

See our windows for Bargains at the Owl Drug Go.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

The Golden North has steam heat ed rooms. 1T
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

IF ANANIAS had lived in these days our Delegate would hay, had a good running mate.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

You must let your phlegm subdue your choler if you would not spoil yonr business
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

BETTER cut out following the bell wether Delegate and vote for Valdez once.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Pure Fresh Drugs at the valdez Drug Store. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Valdez Drug Company has a me line of School Stationery. tf
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

For good home-coOked meals try
 Mrs. M. Olson. on Hobart street. .
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Prospec tor ads bring results.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

How about that photo you promised to send home? Go to B. Jenner, the Photographer. and have it taken to- day. It only takes a few minutes. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Nuts and Fruits, Chocolate Cover ed, at Hunts.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

The launch N. & S.. Capt. Calla- ghan, left this morning for Port Wells, Wells Bay and other Sound ports to the westward
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Don't fail to attend the grocery sal at Blum's.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Don't fail to attend the grocery sal' at Blum's.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

S& w canned fruits and vegetables at Blum's.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

The Golden North. the House of Comfort. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Fox's Chocolate Tea, at Love Whitley Co.'s. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Just Received the latest Popular Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

A new line of heaters priced right, at Mead's. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

New Heaters from $12.50 up. Wood Stoves. Pipe. Cooking Utensils and Wash Boards at Rudelph's. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

For first-class meals and good ssrv-
 ice at reasonable prices try the Mer- chants Cafe. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21
Copper River
 Draying Co
Freighting and Passengers to all parts of the Interior, GENERAL TRUCKING
ED. WOOD. Proprietor

Don't forget the Clearance Sale at the Owl Drug Co.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Banquet Steel kanges, plain and polished tops, at Mead's. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Subscribe for the Prospector.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Kodak Supplies at the Valdez Drug Company. If
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-10-21

Comfort.
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-07-31

| spread of the fife mon u- h. sp.4G from one section to another spreading further destruction.
 The series of explosions lasted for several hours and thoroughly terror ized the populace over and immense area. Starting on the Lehgh Valley docks at Black Tom Island, the fire spread to the Jersey city shore. Every fire boat was rushed to the rescue but for hours the flames ragged un- checked. Several barges and steamers lying at the island docks caught fire and were turned adrift into the stream where they burned like blaz- ing beacons in the darkness until the flames were quenched by the fire tugs. In New York and Brooklyn hundreds of buildings were damaged and the loss in plate and window glass broken by the terrific explosions will run into the hundreds of thous- ands. Burning debris scattered fal and wide over the waters of the upper bay spread the flames to docks along the Manhattan and Brooklyn shore and required the greatest efforts on the part of fire fighting forces Of both cities to prevent q general con migration. The damage in New York city and Brooklyn will easily reach twenty five millions. The plant of the National Storage company is alone estimated to have been damag- ed to the extent of fifteen millions. The hospitals of Jersey city and Brooklyn are filled with hundreds of wounded and more are appearing at IulerNaIS witir a pI voIyvNt ualties will reach well over one thou sand exclusive of the dead. Owing to the great number requiring attention
The Nome daily nugget., 1916-07-31
A Partial List Of Losses.

New York, July 3l.-A partial list of the losses caused by the great ex- plosion discloses that the blast dis troyed seventeen warehouses, six piers. four barges and eighty five freight ears loaded with munitions in addition to q tugboat and large number of small boats and barges These do not include the damages caused in either Brooklyn or Man hattan. The work of renumerating the dead and missing is still going on but no authentic figures have so far been given out. Ii is believed how ever. that the death list will reach we'll over three hundred with far greater number of wounded.