Benjamin-The Suit Of No Regrets
HOW often have you bought a suit that
looked allright at first but after a few
week’s wear begun to look sort of shabby.
Alfred Benjamin suits may cost a few dol
lars more at the start, but at the finish they
are the less expensive—and above all have
that look of tailoring always desired.
Benjamin Clothes are made from fabrics out
of the ordinary and come in styles suffi
ciently varied to meet all demands. We
would be glad to show them to you.
Priced $20. to $35.
35c Bartlett Pears 25c
OLD Homestead Bartlett Pears, Packed by
the California Canneries Association for
Sylvester Bros. & Co. Perfect fruit, brown
syrup canned when the flavor is the best.
Regular 35c, Sale 25c.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f I Tit/IQ CD and Bui,dins
Puget Sound L.U1V1DH.IV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
‘w GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED, Mgr.
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S '
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
i 7 u id to 9 a in
MEALS< Lunch 12 m to 1 V m
i H lo7pm
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital [
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms and Particulars Apply to r
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
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and on the job—day or night—buy j.
and sell anything.
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| Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop i |
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The Prospector office for job work. ■
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Send The Prospector To Your Friends In The States'
SEWARD MACHINE
SHOPS BURNED
Forest Fire Reached Railroad Yards
and the Loss Is Heavy—Rotary
Snow Plow Burned
SEWARD, Hay 11.—The lire which
started in the woods north of town did
considerable damage before it was
placed under control. The railroad
machine shops were destroyed, one lo
comotive, a number of cars, the big
rotary snow plow and considerable of
the railroad track were burned.
EEight cabins and many tents were
also destroyed.
The town was saved, as the big wa
ter pipe leading down the hill to the
power plant of I he electric company
was shot full of holes and the pipe
thus made similar to an automatic
sprinkler, which prevented the
flames from crossing into the busi
ness section of f e town.
The busses of the railroad and the
railroad cars were saved with dif
ficulty. All danger is now past.
SEWARD, May 11.—1The forest fire
north of the town spread alarmingly
last night and at 11 o’clock every
available man in the city was on the
line trying to prevent the fire sweep
ing into Seward and destroying the
city. The fire has been burning for
several days and did not appear dan
gerous, but with the heavy winds
that sprung up late yesterday after
noon the flames were fanned and
came rushing down towards the town
with great rapidity.
The fight is being made a few hun
dred yards north of Millionaire Row,
where it is hoped to stop the con
flagration, and if it fails there the
next fight will be made at the big
creek which divides the town into a
residence section and a business sec
tion.
Should the flames reach the busi
ness part of town with the present
wind blowing and the lack of water
the city will he wiped out.
Tlie merchants have commenced to
pack up their valuables, many of
which have been taken to the IT. S.
cable office, which is in little danger
of destruction as it is a detached
structure with but few buildings in
the vicinity.
Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans is in
charge of the work of fighting the
fire and preserving order.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
IN PHILADELPHIA
(Continued Trom page 1.)
citizens.
President’s Address Guarded.
The address of the president was
very guarded. The chief executive did
j not .care to rouse the audience by
making a patriotic address that would
have brought the crowds to their
feet cheering, but rather to impress
upon them the fact that only by calm,
careful thought and slow, cautious ac
tions can we hold our position as a
peace-loving, fair-minded and up
right nation.
“America must be an example of
humanity (o the world,” said the
president. “The administration has
taken steps to protect American lives
and We must enter the controversy
with a determination io show tlf.it
we have a desire to aid the people
of tile world and not seek personal
reven .e or financial profit."
People Are Calmer.
The people are calmer in all parts
of the United Slates today, hut II
would require bill little to start a
wave of jingoism over the land and
| force tlie administration into a war
which it is striving in every manner
to avoid, and which it will not enter
| until it has exhausted every means
of securing a peaceful settlement of
the disagreement between the United
States and Germany.
Om lhe basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
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WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
A Strange Punishment.
Professor Petrie, the eminent Egyp
tologist, while exploring about thirty
five miles from Cairo, discovered a
tomb of the twelfth dynasty that
thieves had broken into thousands of
years ago. A tragedy attended the
robbery, as I*rofessor I’elrie also dis
covered. The Sunday School Times
calls it “a tragedy of providential jus
tice.”
“it appears,” says Professor Petrie,
“that the plunderers removed only a
few bricks, so that a man could crawl
into the tomb. One of the men entered,
opened the eoliin, lifted the mummy
out and laid It across the coffin, so that,
he could easily unwind the bandages,
lie first found a collar of beads, which
he passed out into the shaft, where we
found it. Then he came to the jewel
(a beautiful work of gold and colored
gems), and took it from the body. Be
fore he could do anything more the
roof apparently fell in and crushed
him and the mummy. The other rob
bers, seeing the fate of their accom
plice, abandoned the tomb and filled In
the shaft to hide their guilt”
The explorers found the skeleton of
tlie robber beside that of the mummy.
Homemade Barometer.
To make a cheap but effective ba
rometer take eight grams of pulver
ized camphor, four grams of pulver
ized nitrate of potassium, two grams
of pulverized nitrate of ammonia, and
dissolve them all in sixty grams of
alcohol. Pour the whole lotion in a
long and slender bottle, the top of
which should be closed with a piece of
pig’s bladder —which your family
butcher will give you gratis—contain
ing a pin hole to admit air. When
rain is about to visit you the solid par
ticles of your liquid barometer will
tend gradually to mount, little star
crystals forming in the liquid, which
otherwise would remain clear. Should
high winds be approaching your barom
eter will become thick, as if ferment
ing, in addition to which a solid film
of particles will form on the surface.
Fair weather is indicated by the liquid
remaining clear, with the solid parti
cles settling into a firm sediment—
London Answers.
Beavers as Engineers.
In “The Itomance of the Beaver” A.
K. Dugmore, the author, tells how ho
watched a colony of beavers in New
foundland building a dam across a
swift stream about forty feet wide:
“Before the work was quite finished,
so that the dam had not yet settled
1 enough to gain its proper strength,
there came a great rain, which con
tinued for several days and flooded the
country. The beavers, seeing that their
new dam was threatened with immedi
ate destruction, came down during the
night and made aWge opening by cut
ting away the sticks. This allowed
the water to escape, and so the dam
was saved. No sooner had the water
resumed its normal level thau the lit
tle engineers closed the break they had
I made and continued the structure.”
The Habeas Corpus.
The substance of habeas corpus was
given in the famous Magna Charta of
1215, but as today understood the
habeas corpus refers to the act of 1079.
This act provides that any man taken
to prison can insist on being brought
by his accuser before a judge, who
shall immediately decide whether or
not bail is to be given; that the ac
cused shall have the question of his
guilt decided by a jury-of twelve men
and not by a government agent; that
no one can be tried twice on the same
charge; that every one may insist on
being examined within twenty days
of his arrest and tried by jury tint
next session; that no defendant may
be sent out of the county for impris
onment.—New York American.
Versts and Miles.
Many people know that to multiply
any number of French kilometers by
live and divide the product by eight
is to get an exceedingly close approx
imation to tlie number of miles in the
same distance, but It is even easier
mentally to convert versts to mileS.
as one of the former is equal to O.i
of the latter, or almost exactly two
thirds.
Trees and Chimneys.
The existence of tall plants and trees
depends largely on the wind force. A
tree with square trunk and branches
would offer-so much resistance to the
wind that it would be continually hav
ing Its branches snapped. Fngiucers
build tall chimneys and piers for
bridges imind in preference to any oth
er form.
Not Practical.
“Did you attain the high ideals you
set for yourself when on were young?"
asked the friend of Ids boyhood.
"No," replied the millionaire, "and
I’m glad I didn't. 1 see now there was
no money in them.”—St. Louis Post
Dispatch
T ransparent.
The Toucher I'm going to work next
week, but I'll need a few dollars to live
on till pay day. C’an you see me
through? The Wise Guy —No, but I can
see through you.—New York Globe.
Subconscious Cerebration.
“The bridegroom appeared cool and
collected.’’
“Yes, he didn’t seem to realize that
he was losing control of himself.”—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Very Poor Taste.
“I hate that girl.”
“Yet you lend her your clothes."
“Yes, and she has the bad taste to
look better In them than I do."—Kan
sas City Journal.
Russia’s Immensity.
The Russian empire Is as compact as
the British empire is scattered. It Is
one great mass with no parts, except
possibly a few islands along the coast,
separated from the main body. There
are no distant possessions, no oversea
territory, and the czar claims no domin
ion over any land not in the northern
hemisphere.
Its area is what astonishes. It is
larger than all of North America from
the cannl north and with the islands
of the Caribbean thrown in. One-sixth
of the land area of the globe is under
the czar’s Hag and within its boun
aries is a population greater than that
of Great Britain, Germany and France
combined. And this population of be
tween 100,000,000 and 170,000,000 is
increasing at the rate of 2,000,000 a
yenr by birth. The population of the
empire has doubled in forty years.
Of the many strange things about
Russia perhaps the strangest is that
this Immense empire has no salt water
port which does not freeze up in the
winter. No big nation in the world
is so circumscribed in this respect.—
Brooklyn Standard Union.
Why You Wink.
The unconscious act of winking
bears a quite important relation to the
welfare of the eye. Tills being the
most delicate and sensitive organ of
the body exposed to the air, it is in
constant need of the protection given
by the eyelids, which not only close
quickly at the approacli of danger, but
are employed in washing the surface
of the eye. Moistening Is required to
offset the drying effect of the air and
cleaning to prevent the injurious effect
of dirt Every time you wink the eye
is washed. Inside the eye is the little
tear gland, which, as its name implies,
is busy storing up the supply of tears
This gland keeps the inside of the lid
moist, and you wink automatically
whenever the surface of the eye be
comes dry or a particle of dust or any*
thing else strikes it. This work is
done as often as necessary, and to
realize how often it is necessary try
how long you can keep your eyes open
without winking.
"Dreary Stuff,” Said Gisaing.
G. B. Burgin in the Bookman contrib
utes a personal recollection of George
Gissing, whom he met many years ago
at a garden party in St. John’s Wood.
“He was curiously and I should thiuk
unconsciously picturesque,” writes Mr.
Burgin, "his loose, easy clothes and
slouch hnt seeming a part of his own
personality more than a studied pose,
and looking rather at variance with the
smart ‘getup’ of the London crowd
which filled the little garden.” During
conversation Gissing alluded to the
fact that many authors wrote with
ease and facility, "but,” he added, “I
grind it out with infinite pain and la
bor.” When Mr. Burgin hinted that
most of his material was saddening,
“Yes,” he said thoughtfully, “it's
dreary stuff—dreary stuff!”
Evangelist Who Was an Actor.
George Whitefiekl qualified as a boy
for greatness in more than oue direc
tion. The future evangelist enjoyed
play acting and performed in girl’s
clothes before the mayor and corpora
tion of Gloucester, while by the time
he was fifteen he had become an ex
pert ale drawer in the family public
house. These pursuits, alien to the
pulpit, appear, however, to have been
converted into aids to evangelism. The
youthful love of the stage, says the
London Chronicle, no doubt helped to
develop the tremendous histrionic gift
which made Lord Chesterlield on hear
ing Whitefiekl describe a blind beg
gar's fall over a precipice spring from
his seat and exclaim. “Good heavens,
lie's gone!"
He Had Found His Specialty.
A London contemporary tells tliefol
i lowing anecdote: A member of the bar
i not richly endowed with intellect after
! years of briellessness married a rich
widow. She died. Again lie sought a
bride with a large dower and again
became a widower. Then he thought
lie would return to his long neglected
profession. lie approached an old
friend who had meanwhile become a
judge of the supreme court and asked
what, in his opinion, would he the
wisest course for him to pursue. "Stick
to the probate and matrimonial.’’ said
the judge.
His Revenge.
■ "1 la. ha!” said Jhe man who had just
been elected. "1 thought you said you
trusted the wisdom of the plain peo
ple.'
"I still believe in it,” replied the de
tea ted candidate. "The wisest people
want a joke now am! then.”—-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Tactful Man.
Me—Do you know, you are so clever
and t-hufining and brilliant that 1 real
ly feel embarrassed in your presence.
She — But you mustn’t; really you
mustn’t. Ho (reassuringly)—Oil, 1 dare
say I’ll get over it when 1 knew you
I iet ter 1-1.1 fe.
More Than Her Share.
Patience — Nature has provided for
tier lavishly.
Patrice—how so?
“She lias two chins.” — Yonkers
Htatesuiau.
The Trouble.
“There seems to be a coolness be
tween tbem.”
“Yes. The trouble is they’re both too
hot tempered.”—Detroit Free Press.
Under Cover.
Parson—Robert, did you know that
your mother was looking for you?
Bobby—Yon bet! That's why she can’t
find me.-Boston Transcript
Dougherty & Ferguson
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Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
n—ui DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone .9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
i 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 Pfouse
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone iOl Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bacli” 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 ttie rnan with the
dollar.
ADVERTSSE IN TilE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
The Prospector office for joii work.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
(.eaves Fori Liscuni Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. in. 9:45 it m.
1:15 p. ni. 4:00 p. m.
TPPSDAVS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. :n.
1:10 p. ill. 3:00 p. in.
4:30 p. 111. 5:00 p. ill
SATPIMIAYS
1:15 p. ni. 4:00 p. in.
7:00 p. in. 10:30 p. ru.
There will he no trips of tlie launch
on the seeo: d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days hemp used
*o clean boil-s.
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 tenths1
Tuesday, May 11.
High tide 11:03 a. m„ 10.3; 10:40
p. m., 12.2.
Low tide 4:54 a. m., 0.1; 4:33 p.
m., 2.3.
Wednesday, May 12.
High tide 11:43 a. m„ 10.3; 11:08 p
m.. 12.4.
Low tide 5:28 a. m„ -0.4; 5:04 p.
m., 2.4.