Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
This morning’s boat brought some very choice
- ' fruits and vegetables including
Apples
Bananas
Tomatoes
Radishes
Celery
Peppers
Asparagus
Strawberries
Lemons
Dates
Rhubarb
Green Onions
Head Lettuce
Green Peas
Potatoes
Squash
Valdez Mercantile Co.i*
The Store That Sells for Tess.
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Bath*
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
..- ■ .......see—*•«
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
k Native and f I TTV^DCD and Building
Puget Sound JL* U IVlDl-Jv Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
V GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commi»»ion
! 7 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
8 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM 8 BO per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
_
For Terms'atid Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin •■Proprietor
AWAKE
and on the job-day or night—buy
and aell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
The Prospector office for job work.
Send The Prospector To Your Friends In The States
PUBIS ITCHES
U. S. POLICE
Interested In Outcome of Sinking of
Lusitania and Expects War
To Follow.
PARIS, May 12.—The newspapers
of this city are al» snowing much
interest in the situation in the Un
ited States, where the sinking of the
Lusitania has caused a crisis for the
government which may result in
bringing the United States into con
flict on the side of the Allies.
Most of the papers regret that the
United States should become involv
ed in the European war, but insist
that unless Germany’s piratical ac
tions are soon curbed that no re
spect will be paid to neutral nations
whatsoever by the kaiser’s govern
ment.
GAS 60AI LOSI
IN ALASKA GULF
5
Edith G., From Juneau To Anchor
age, Goes Down With Four
Men Off Yakutat.
JUNEAU, May 12—The big gas
boat Edith G. 'is reported to have
been lost off Yakutat on April 21st
and all on board drowned. The boat
was en route to Anchorage and was
caught in a heavy southeast gale and
swamped.
The boat was seen just before the
•gale sprung up and then disappeared,
while the larger steamer, which had
seen the Edith G., hunted in vain
for the launch.
J. F. Green, John Helry and John
and Tony Mao were on the launch
when it went down.
MAURETANIA NOT
CR0SSJLANT1C
WASHINGTON, May 12.—The Cu
nard line has cancelled the sailing
of the big liner Mauretania. The
company will not sail the large lin
er but the smaller ships will be con
tinued on the run. It is expected
that a new ship will be built at once
to replace the lost Lusitania.
WILSONS NOTE
TOGERMMYj
(Continued from page 1.)
government in the present difficulty
between the United States and Ger
many.
Tumulty slated, however, that the
policy would not be made public for
several days.
Americans in Paris Cable Wilson.
PARIS, May 12.—One hundred
Americans now in this city have sent
a telegram to President Willson de
nouncing the sinking of the steam
er Lusitania and the loss of Ameri
can lives. They urge that some ac
tion be taken to protect Americans
who are forced by business to cross
the ocean through the German war
zone.
Concert Tonight.
Joe Plant arrived this morning with
a human violin, the most marvelous
instrument! ever invented. Concert
tonight at the Orpheum. Don’t miss
it Change of program tonight.
On the basis ot Security and Service
k we solicit your account.
'*»•< .
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Houms of Driftwood.
Port Stanley, the capital of the Falk
land Islands, Is a small, clean town,
very much resembling some of the vil
lages In the Orkneys and Shetlands.
The houses occupied by the govern
ment officials and the chief employees
of the Falkland Islands company are
stone built, with slate roofs, but most
of the others are built of driftwood
and old ships’ timbers. The country
round Port Stanley is a huge peat mo
rass, more or less impassable, accord
ing to the time of year, nnd there are
no roads fit for vehicular traffic lead
ing out of the town. Throughout the
whole of the islands there are no trees
indigenous to the soil, nnd the tallest
plants, except a species known ns tus
sock grass, which grows from six to ten
feet high, do not exceed the height of
the common English furze. Agricul
ture is virtually impossible, for wheat
will never ripen and oata, rye and bar
ley but seldom. Potatoes are unknown
as a crop, and the ordinary English
vegetables will not mature.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Science and Discoveries.
“There is a widespread but erroneous
belief in official circles and among
wealthy philanthropists.” writes Sir
Ray Lankester in the London Tele
graph, “to the effect that you can hire
a scientific discoverer and then say to
him ‘Discover me this’ or ‘Discover me
that’ (naming to him a possible and
greatly desired piece of new knowl
edge) and that he will thereupon pro
ceed right away to make the dls£Overy
which you wrant * * * But a valu
able and important scientific discovery
cannot be produced directly in response
to orders given and money expended.
“You cannot manufacture scientific
discovery like soap. The great diffi
culty, in the first place, is to catch that
rare and evasive creature—a scientific
discoverer—and when you have found
him you have to humor him and let
him do as he fancies. Th?n he will
discover things, but probably not the
things which either you or he wanted
or expected.”
“Dollar" Comes From Dutch.
The abbreviation “Ps.," to signify
pesos, was the origin of the American
dollar mark, according to a Spanish
American scientist When America
was first settled the Dutch and the
Spanish were strong competitors for
the trade of the world. The word dol
lar is but a corruption of the Dutch
“thaler" or “thaller,” a coin much used
In commerce at that period and which
superseded the “pieces of eight” of
Spanish coinage. The peso or piaster,
which was the Spanish name for
“pieces of eight,” was worth approxi
mately the same as the thaler, and as
the Dutch name was easier to say it
found a place in our language in the
corrupted form, while the abbreviation
for the peso remained as the sole re
minder of the Spanish mintage in our
financial records.—Indianapolis News.
People and People.
One of the worst things about people
Is that they are ashamed of their estate.
So far as we know, this Is true of no
other biological specimen. Dogs hare
no objection to being dogs, cats are
quite satisfied to be cats, and so on,
but people constantly are trying to get
away from the fact that they are peo
ple, and, therefore, that they are like
everybody else. They are constantly
seeking to be magnates and bosses and
representatives and professors and
bachelors of this und doctors of that
and masters of the other. Sometimes
we can find a fellow who will admit
that he is a “real man." but never one
who will admit that he Is Just a man.
Boys will be boys, and girls will be
girls, but people simply will not be
people—Life.
The Weight of Crowd*.
In the building of theater galleries
and grand stands the supporting
strength of the structure has to be
carefully worked out. This is done by
multiplying the urea in square feet by
the pressure which it is estimated a
crowd exerts per square foot and mak
ing the supports proportionately strong.
At one time the weight of a crowd
was determined at between S2 and 102 i
pounds per square foot but experi
ments have shown this to be a great
underestimation and that the weight
exerted is now calculated at from 123
to 133 pounds.—Exchange.
I -
Got Her Answer.
A meddlesome woman in a street car
began sneering at a young mother’s
awkwardness with her baby and said.
"I declare a woman ought never to
have a baby until she knows how to
hold it!”
“Nor a tongue either,” quietly re
sponded the young mother.
Easily Explained.
“That man seems to be mnking a
great deal of money.”
“Yet in the nature of his business he
is always up against it”
“How is that?”
“He is a wall decorator.”—Baltimore
American.
Vain Wishing.
"Don’t you wish you had a fairy god
mother ?”
“Ail I want is a good plain cook, and
that wish seems too fantastic to ever
be gratified.”—Kansas City Journal.
Ornate Cookery.
“Is your wife a careful housekeeper?"
“Oh. very! Puts bows of ribbons on
the lamb chops nnd pinks the edges oi
her buckwheat cakes.”—Louisville Cou
rier-Journal.
\ man is very apt to complain of the
Ingratitude 'of those who have risen
.very far above him - Samuel Jnlinsou.
When Tiesot Wai Satisfied.
A eharming story is told of Tlssot,
the great French painter. While In
England on one occasion he puinted a
beautiful religious picture and, meet
ing a. woman from Purls, asked her
opinion of his work. Characterizing it
as a work of real art, she gave a re
markably just and detailed apprecia
tion of tlie various merits of the paint
ing.
“Are you satisfied?'’ asked a friend.
The artist answered in the negative. :
He entirely repainted his picture, I
working night and day. When It was
finished he sent for ills fair critic, who I
pronounced it admirable, and then she i
remained silently admiring it with
smiling criticism.
“Are you satisfied?” on£e more asked
the friend. “No,” replied Tlssot as he
began work on the picture for the third
time. When the lady saw the new
painting she gazed at it for some mo
ments with evident emotion and then,
without a word, sank softly to her
knees and began to pray.
“Are you satisfied now?” whispered
the friend. “Yes,” answered Tlssot.
—
What the Diver Saw.
While serving on a naval vessel sta- j
tioned at China an old time seaman j
had an uncanny experience. lie says: j
“Gur ship's company had been ashore !
for a route march, and on returning
one of our officers in stepping on the |
ship's gangway let his sword fall over
board. Going a diver, I was sent down
to try and recover it, but ns I touched
the bottom I saw the corpse of a lady
dressed in light material gradually i
rise from her resting place of mud. j
She faced me as naturally as if she |
had been a living person. The disturb- |
ing of the water by my descending j
had no doubt moved the body. It was j
a sight—and also a fright—which I do |
not wish to experience again. The
sw’ord was eventually recovered by an
other diver, for I can assure you 1
made a record trip to the surface
without seeking further." — Loudon
Globe.
A Smart Answer.
The following episode took place In a
country village In the north of Eng
land: One morning as a schoolmaster
was proclaiming to his school he saw a
penny. lie picked it up, he placed the
penny In his pocket, and after the chil
dren hnd assembled in the school the
schoolmaster said:
“Has any child lost any money?”
After a few moments a small boy In
the front of the class put up his hand.
“Well, Robert, what do you want/*’
asked the master.
“Please, sir, 1 have lost a penny,” re
plied the boy.
"And where did you lose your penny.
Robert?” Inquired the master.
“Please, sir, where you found it”
Robert got the penny amid the laugh
ter of the master and the whole class.
—Philadelphia Record.
Her Knowledge of Music.
The names of musical compositions
do not always convey the impression
that is intended by their composers, as
one listener discovered recently at a
San Francisco concert. One woman
was much interested in the music and
sat as close to the orchestra as possi
ble, attentively listening to every note.
A popular air had just been played. It
was a catchy, melodious bit of music
and was received with warm applause.
Immediately following it on the pro
gram was Dvorak’s “Humoresque,” anti j
the attentive listener drew back in dis- !
gust. “Just think.” she said in tones
loud enough to be heard by those near
by—“just imagine playing something !
humorous after that other beautiful
piece. It ought not to be allowed.”—
Argonaut. i
Amateur Truce Makers.
Toward the end of the last siege of
Paris by the Germans in 1870-71, the
custom grew up of observing an in
formal armistice of about an hour’s
duration at sundown, when the hun
gry citizens, or some of them at all
events, used to come out and purchase
sausages from the Prussians and Ba
varians in the advanced trenches at
about ten times their normal price.
1 After awhile, however, the custom
came to the knowledge of Von Moltke,
who effectually and promptly put a
stop to It by shooting some half dozen
or more of the amateur truce makers.
—Pearson's Weekly.
An Easier Task.
•‘Mamma, do you think it is true, as
papa says, that teachers do not have
to work as hard now us they did when
he went to school?”
“I expect it is.”
“What do you suppose the reason Is?”
“The teachers of today don’t have to
teach your father.”—Buffalo News.
Puzzling All Right.
“It’s a bit puzzling, isn’t it?” said
one man to another who was striving
to hold on to his hat and his umbrella
at the same time in a high wind.
“Yes,” said the man accosted. “It’s
like a wall paper hanger with the
hives.”—Ladies’ Home Journal
Overhead Charges.
The Boss—What’s this item on your j
expense account, “Overhead expenses, ,
$1 ?” The Traveling Salesman—That \
was an umbrella I bought.—Philtuleb
phin Bulletin.
Quite So.
“Longevity, after ali, is largely a j
mntter of diet.” j
“Indeed! I had the impression 11 j
was largely a matter of time.”—St.
Louis Times.
It is our duty to do our best to bright
en the lives of the people who live with
ns or are dependent on us.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Chas.Perry
"“^SewtuT
w4 Complete Service
*'IN THE HEARTOF THE CITY r
|l35RoomswiJjibaHir50SanipfeBootTi5
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
Pb DENTIST
iPhones 110
jin both companies Fount ecu vears in
j Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
! Phone 19 THE DENTIST
I Office rooms over Owl DruK store. Office hours
j J a. m , to 6 p. m . 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaika
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone 101 Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
"baclT” a good plan, a
go^d 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.
The Prospector office for job work.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. in.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:10 p. in. 2:00 p. in.
4:30 p. rn. 5:00 p. in.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. in. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the seco:d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boil ’rs.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and ten'hs
Tuesday, May 11.
High tide 11:03 a. m., 10.3; 10:40
p. m., 12.2.
Low tide 4:54 a. ill., 0.1; 4:33 p.
ill., 2.3.
Wednesday, May 12.
High tide 11:43 a. m., 10.3: 11: OS p
m.. 12.4.
Low tide 5:28 a. m., -0.4; 5:04 p.
ill., 2.4.