Valdez Daily Prospector

Let Us Clean Up Right.

The following from the Skagway Alaskan applies with equal force to Valdez:

Complaint has been made to this paper of the numerous loafer dogs that run untagged and undisciplined throughout the municipality. There seems to be some reason for the complaint. We can't for the life of us see why a mangy dog with no friends and no qualities of a gentleman, should be so fastidious in picking out a pansy bed every time he wants to plant a ham bone until it becomes ripe and suited to his discriminating taste.

Some of these sleepy and sun basking malamutes are too lazy to do more than keep ahead of the cool shadows that diurnally chase them around the house, yet when they spy a flower bed, will run their snoots into it and kick dirt over their itching backs, like a legatee digging the grave of a deceased rich uncle.

Skagway people are taking unusual pride this year in creating pleasing flower beds and splendid gardens. It is also noticeable that those who have the best gardens have the least dogs. There is something about the energy of a man who will put in his spare time in developing a garden, that does not harmonize with the presence of a raft of mournful huskies. He does not permit his garden to go out and destroy other people's dogs, and naturally, he resents that other people's dogs are permitted to come in and destroy his garden. A man's home is his castle. The home is the bulwark of American institutions, not the bulldog of them. It is therefore meet that the creators of the "city beautiful" be given protection to their gardens, before some horticulturist rises in his justified wrath and slaughters every dog in the land; and when such a hero does arise, and the blood has been spilt, who shall say it was not well spilt?

Geo. Reinke, the watch repairer and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug company.