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In style, material and workmanship—that's
what you should expect and what you will get,
when you buy
Henjamm (Horrwt (Ulntljpa
Made by ALFRED BENJAMIN-WASHINGTON CO., New York.
For Discerning Men and Young Men,
$20 and Up.
Authoritative styles that are cut on lines
appreciated by good dressers. Various new
fabrics that will appeal to your good taste.
Quality workmanship:—Satisfaction guaran
teed—Different from ordinary clothes in every
thing but price.
Your Spring Suit is now ready.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
(Incorporated.)
TRUE VALUES d
‘frfljoiintSnttctMts
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
! VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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Alaska Water, Tight & Telephone Company
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova. Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th
S S Latouohe. 15th; S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
sohedule without notioe.
F B. Tracy, Gen’I Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I Tll/VDCD and Building
Puget Sound jLjV/1V10I-*1\ Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Independent Laundry Go.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Are
Telephone 66 I I Rough Dry lOo lb.
‘‘Didn’ Buff Jackson tell you dat
mule he traded to you is a pow’ful
kicker?” "He diddn' ’zactly tell me,
but he tried to be honest. He th’ow
ed in two bottles of liniment an’ a
crutch widout no extry charge.”
Blooded Dogs ror Sale.
Two airedale terrier puppies, breed
lng unsurpassed. Fine bead, ear, eye
and coat. Pedigrees furnished. Eight
champions in three generations. En
quire at Prospector. tf
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in *he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided Into
one hundred thousand snares of ttie
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing the company to amend its
articles of incorporation, so that its
Indebtedness may be Increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, ana to mortgage or otnerwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that it may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that it may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Dally Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1916, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
I Directors.
WOMEN SOLDIERS.
They Posed as Men and Fought With
the British Army.
The British nrm.v hns had Its women
soldiers, and two of them are burled In
the cemetery of Chelsea hospital. One
of these dames—Hannah Snell, a truc
ulent looking person, whose portrait Is
preserved In the great hall of the hos
pital, served In the siege of Pondi
cherry and was badly wounded, her
sex being discovered when she was re
moved to tile hospital. She became a
pensioner and wore ou occasions the
three cornered hat and uniform coat of
Chelsea and was at her own request
buried in the graveyard of the hospital.
Christina Davis was the other female
soldier burled in this cemetery She is
described as a “fat, Jolly woman.”
Another Englishwoman who success
fully posed as a man nnd enlisted us a
soldier was Phoebe Hessel, who was a
private in the Fifth foot regiment anil
fought at Fontenoy In 1745, under the
Duke of Cumberland, being severely
wounded. Ultimately she died at
Brighton in 1821 at the age of 108.
The most famous Englishwoman
“soldier," however, was “Dr. James
Barry,” who joined the medical corps
in 1813 and served at Waterloo and in
the Crimea. In 1858. after many promo
tions, she became Inspector general,
and it was not until many years later
that the fact that she was a woman
was discovered.—St Louis Post-Dls
patch.
ELECTRICITY AND WATER.
Little Danger In Turning a Hose on
Heavily Charged Wires.
The slight danger that Bremen run
through the electric current passing
from heavily charged wires up the
stream of water they are squirting is
proved by an experiment conducted by
Ugo Tnrtaglinl and reported In La
Scienza per Tuttl.
A trolley car wire charged with a dl
rect current of 525 volts had one end
grounded: on the other end he directed
a stream from a hose with a nozzle (if
teen millimeters In diameter. At 2.20
meters distance a voltmeter attached
to the nozzle registered twenty volts
At sixty-five centimeters distance it
registered seventy volts and at twenty
centimeters 210 volts. The average man
can stand a current of fifty volts with
out serious shock, so a fireman who
holds his nozzle five or six feet from a
live wire runs no great danger. j
Mr. Tartngllnl made the same expert
ment on two lines of alternating cur
rent, one with 2.300, the other with
4.1100 volts, and the voltmeter did not
register any current In the stream of
water, although a slight shock was per
ceptible when he put his band Into it
With a chemical extinguisher he got a
current of 1,550 volts at 225 uiilllme
ters from a wire with a current of 2.050
volts.
Ypres and Death.
In Holland and Flanders, according
to the Manchester Guardian, Ypres Is
connected In the mind of the people
with the Idea of death. If a Dutchman
or a Fleming wishes to describe a par
tieularly lugubrious person he will suy,
"Uij ziet el' uit als de dood van Yper
eu” ("He looks like the death of
Ypres”). This expression has been pro
verbial since Ypres was ravaged by the
plague in 1340; "the death of Ypres” Is
a vivid expression like our "black
death.” But it is also taken literally
for Ypres is in sober truth one of the
dead cities of Flanders It is more dead
than "Bruges la morte,” which owes
its reputation in this respect more to
George Bodenbach's novel and the rev
erics of other artists limn to actual
fact "Ypres sleeps and Bruges slum
hers,” says a Dutch writer of travel
pictures.
Making Matches.
The lunuufueture ot matches is a
complicated and elaborate process, in
which are used u succession ot lngeni
ous machines unci devices which must
work at all times with the utmost pre
cision and delicacy. It is now possible
to turn out from a single dipping ma
chine about 600,000 square matches an
hour. A green log is made Into match
es and packed for shipment in less
than two hours.
Johnnie’s Excuse.
“Why don’t you say Thank you.
Johnnie, when you are banded any
thing?” said Mrs. Brown at the table
“Your sister always says it"
"Yes,” replied little Johnnie, "she’s
a woman and always wants to have
the last word.”—Exchange.
An Optimist.
“1 am going to buy a raven," a gen
tleman informed bis neighbor.
"Really?” rejoined the latter. "What
for?"
“1 want to see If these birds really
do live 300 years, as people say I”—
Westminster Gazette;
Mean Trick.
“George, father has failed.”
“That’s Just like him! I told you all
along, darling, that be was going to do
all be could to keep us from being
married 1’’—Exchange.
Very Much So.
“Didn't you think the operatic prlma
donna bad an unusually high voice?”
“1 should say she had I My sent cost
me $5!’’-Baltimore American
Davy Jones.
Davy Jones’ locker Is a combination
of Duffy, a ghost or sprite among West
India negroes, and Jones, a contraction
of Jonah.
The world Is upheld by the veracity
of good men. They make the earth
wholesome.—Emerson.
MACHINE GUNS.
Thata Deadly Waapone Fire Some 700
Bullets a Minute. _
The machine gun, which pours forth
a direct hall of small caliber bullets, Is
one of the deadliest weapons of mod
ern warfare.
From the clumsy Gatling gun has
come the modern “automatic,” mount
ed on a light tripod, and weighing less
than forty pounds. All the armies use
these guns, which, although they vary
somewhat In type, are essentially alike
In their mechanism and in their etTeo
tiveuess.
In the Benet-Mercle automatic ma
chine gun of the French army a metal
feed strip, or clip, that contains thirty
ordinary army ritle cartridges Is in
serted in a slot on the right side of the
gun. As the trigger Is pulled the bolt
mechanism Is released and, guided by
the main firing spring, pushes a enr
tridge Into the rifle chamber.
The instant the cartridge Is In place
the breech mechanism locks and the
charge Is exploded. On its way through
the rifle barrel, a little of the gas from
the exploded powder is diverted through
a hole in the side of the barrel, and so
acts on a piston as to force the bolt
mechanism back and to compress the
main spring.
In returning, the bolt mechanism
pulls the empty shell from the cham
ber and throws it out below, so that
it does not Interfere with the new
cartridge that Is now forced In from
above.
The mechanism is so perfect that the
operation described takes place In a
small fraction of a second, and the
bullets Issue from the mouth of this
deadly weapou at the rate of seven
hundred a minute.—Youths Com
panlon.
ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERIES.
Origin of Starch From Corn and of
Silver Plating.
How to make starch from corn
(maize) was discovered accidentally by
Thomas Kingsford. a mechanic. One
day he threw a mess of cornmeal mnsli
into n garbage pail. Ills wife emptied
some lye into the same pail, and in the
morning when he emptied the pail lie
was astonished to find a small qmin
tity of starch at the bottom.
Thomns Bolsover, a Sheffield me
chanic, was mending the handle of a
knife made of copper and silver. lie
saw these metals fuse together nnd the
Idea o'f silver plating was born in his
mind. He laid u thin plate of silver
on a heavier one of copper and heated
them till the edge of the silver began
to melt He took them from the fire,
let them cool slightly, then rolled und
hammered them to the desired thick
ness. This was the origin of “Sheffield
plate,” all of which was made in this
way until electroplating was invented
Cornelius Dubbol left a bottle of
aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and
muriatic acids) on a shelf. It fell over,
the neid run down over a window and
dropped into a bottle containing an
extract of cochineal. This turned to a
vivid scarlet. Dubbel found that the
acid had dissolved some of the tin of
the window casing and the combina
tion had produced the new color. A
few experiments added the most liril
liant color to the list of dyes.
The accident by which Roentgen dis
covered the X rays is too recent to
need repeating now.—New York World
Sammy’s Wisdom.
It was never a happy day for Sam
my’s painstaking father when his
young hopeful's school report arrived.
As for Sammy himself—well, he was
j a philosopher.
i The awful day had come once more,
and father was in the lowest depths of
misery.
’’Sammy, Sammy," he groaned, “why
is it that you are at the bottom of your
class again?"
"What does it matter, father, wheth
er i am at the top or the bottom?"
queried that wise youth. "They teach
the same at both ends, you know.”—
London Tit-Bits.
Birds of Distinction.
The crow and the bird of paradise
were talking about fame.
“Why, you ore so homely you are
only known to the farmers," sneered
the proud bird of paradise. “Now, I
am bo beautiful I have my feathers on
the bats of the society women.”
The crow laughed sardonically.
“That may be, my friend,” he
chuckled, “but I have my feet under
their eyes.”—Chicago News.
Dark Daya.
There are a number of daylight dark
nesses recorded In history, among
them being those in B. C. 295, A. D.
252, 746 and 775. There was a dark
day In England In January, 1807, and
another on Oct 21, 1816. There was
also a dark day In Detroit on Oct 19.
1762. On May 19,1780, there was such
atmospheric gloom over Hartford.
Conn., that the legislature adjourned
for the day.
Now Ho Reminds Her of It.
"Hal I've a good Joke on my wife."
“What la It?”
“She wouldn’t give me a letter to
mail because she was positive I’d for
get it and then she carried it around
three daya in her shopping bag.’’-Bos
ton Transcript
His Task.
George—With the assurance of yonr
love I could conquer the world. Grace
—That will not be necessary. All you
have to do is to conquer papa.—Lon
don Tit-Bits
8uceesa is sweet the sweeter if long
delayed and attained through man!
fold struggles and defeats.-A.' Bron
son Aleott
Dougherty & Ferguson]
GENERAL 1
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed I
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spcnard, Prop
Chas. Perry
Seattle
^>4 Complete Services
J IN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
|jS&RoomswiJjibafIr|505anipIeRoo^
The Prospector office for job work.
Summons By Publication
In tlie District Court for I lie Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Kri Thomp
son and M. A. Kllis, defendants.—
No. S-ID. Summons by Publication.
The President of the l'nited Stales
of America, greeting: To Kri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons against you, to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
the clerk’s office of the above entitled
court; and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Kri Thompson, on the Dattle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March. 1915. which publication was
directed to lie made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M
Drown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
(Seal) ARTIIFR T.AXO.
Clerk of the District Court.
Ry CHAS. V HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March S,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915.
Notice of Election.
Noth o is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal Election will he held
in the Town of Valdez. Alaska, on
the sixth day of April, 1515, for the
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, who shall hold
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three
years and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall has been designat
ed as the polling place for said elec
tion.
Said election shall commence at 9
o’clock a. m. and shall continue un
til 7 o’clock p. m. of the same day,
without closing the polls.
R. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8, 15. 22. 29.
Somebody
With Money
always has 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
So'llar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPEOTCR FOR RE
SULTS.
If you want aU the new* all t*e
ttiuo, read the Proepectar.