EAUTIFY your home and your town
and at the same time help the Civic
Eeague. Several hundred of the choicest
varieties of roses are to be placed on sale to
morrow at this store. I*et us make Valdes; the
Rose Center of the North.
For Saturday Only—Twelve pieces of
thirty-six inch scrims with reversible colored
borders—very pretty patterns. Regular OCp
values to 40c a yard. Saturday a yard....
Valdez Mercantile Co.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I HV/ID17D and BuUdinn
Puget Sound LUlVltjUiIV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
, VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Baths
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 0 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Table*
Jack Callin - •_Proprietor
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY._
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
ForTerms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystoije Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing.;Printing, Enlarging
A. W„ L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and >e!l anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
C. H. Dunlap, watchmaker and op
tician, at the Owl Drug Store. Chro
nometers and complicated watches a
specialty. All work guaranteed. tf
Going Out of Business
INGRAM & BUSH
Are Closing Out Their Entire Line of Cigars, Tobaccos
and Smokers Articles at Less Than Cost Price.
i
NOW IS YOUR TIME TO BUY
Don’t Overlook This Opportunity—Put in Your sup
ply Now and Save 50 Per cent On The Dollar.
ALL FIXTURES FOR SALE
Consisting of
Bowling Alleys
Pool Tables
Billiard Table
Show. Cases
Oak Card Tables and
all other Store Fixtures
INGRAM & BUSH
VALDEZ, ALASLA
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
MAY GG AFTER
ALASKA M
District Attorney Spence Thinks Mem
bers Under Moral Obligation To
Pay License
The question of private clubs pay
ing back liquor licenses has been ag
itating some of the professional poli
ticians of Valdez ever since the de
cision of the circuit court of appeals
a few days ago In the test case
brought by a Nome club. The per
petual Wickersham claquers are con
science-stricken over the failure of
the Tillikum Club to pay a license
and have been whooping up a de
mand that the club pay a back li
cense for several years.
District Attorney Spence sympathiz
es with this notion. He has gone so
far as to urge that the club is under
a moral obligation to pay something
to square it with the world. Inas
much as the circuit court of appeals
of the Ninth circuit decided in the
case of United States vs. Jourden,
which went up from Nome in 1911,
that no civil action lies to recover a
back liquor license, but that the per
son who has sold liquor without a li
cense may be prosecuted under the
penal laws, it seems that no other so
lace can be offered to the feelings
of the patriots who are suffering mor
al convulsions over these lost licen
ses.
The Alaska Club.
However, attention has been di
rected to the fact that in 1912 an in
stitution called the Alaska Club was
in the retail liquor business over a
store on McKinley street. Also it
ran a poker game whenever enough
of its members felt so inclined. Its
membership was largely composed of
the aggregation who now call them
selves “Progressive Democrats” and
pray to Wickersham morning, noon
and night.
It is not believed that District At
torney Spence will shrink from the
plain course of duty indicated by
“moral obligation” since his attention
lias been called to the dereliction of
the Alaska Club. Some of the lager
beer politicians who complain that
they feel an abnormal activity of
conscience over local crimes and mis
demeanors are believed to be suffer
ing in fact from derangement of the
gall bladdery but no such imputa
tion rests on the district attorney.
Believing that the district attorney
wants to bring all offenders to jus
tice whenever they disregard a mor
al obligation to pay a back license
which cannot be collected by law the
Prospector appends a nearly complete
list of member^ of the Alaska Club.
Star Performer Missing.
It will be observed that while this
list includes most of the active “pro
gressive" statesmen of this burg “the
loudest bagpipe of the squeaking
train” is missing from the array.
This may be due to the fact that at
the time the club was organized he
was suffering complete financial dis
ability. Having successfully wrecked
a paying newspaper which had been
presented to him at a cost of $2,000
by sundry misguided local citizens he
was not a winning factor with folks
possessing mazuma and he was divid
ing his time between ward politics
and earning his board by propelling
a grocer’s hand-cart. His room rent
he stood off until the hotel propri
etor locked the door of his room with
his trunk and typewriter Inside.
There they remained until a citizen
signed a note to effect their release
from the landlord’s custody.
Under all these handicaps it may
3:ave been difficult for even a pro
gressive statesman to dig up $3.00 in
order to join a popular club with un
licensed liquor-selling privileges ap
purtenant thereto. However, that is
all ancient history that cannot bo
revived without disseminating ill od
ors.
The Barnette Blow-out.
Among the achievements of the
Alaska Club before it fell victim to
•financial embarrassment late in 1912
was the entertainment of Captain
Barnette and party, who were in
town on business with the district
court. Street gossip said the func
tion was a champagne riot. The
Daily Prospector of April 15, 1912,
gave a long account, the following be
ing the first paragraph:
"The formal opening of the Alaska
Club, recently organized, took place in
the club rooms in the Dougherty &
Ferguson block Saturday evening.
Over 100 members and guests were
present when the gathering was call
ed to order by President Frank H.
Foster. After a short address the
toastmaster called on Judge Walker,
Mayor Boyle. Leroy Tozier, Joseph
Murray, Martin Harrais and others,
who responded with short talks.”
In the same issue the poet lau
reate of the Big Place recorded the
following tribute:
“The Alaska Club’s launching was in
a sea of wine;
The house committee did great work
—things were very fine;
Thanks to liberal gentlemen, we
drank champagne from Paris;
Fairbanks people are all right—both
Barnette and Harrais.”
The Roll of Honor. (
Following is a nearly complete ros- j
ter of the Alaska Club:
T. E. Wikidel, It. A. Closterman,
A. Y. Tuttle, T. P. Geragbty, E. F.
German, AI. White, Frank J. Hayes,
W. A. Soule, George Beddow, G. A.
Candler, John McCarthy, Charles
Barrett, William H. Caswell, C. II.
Golden, George Keinke, Ben Silver
man, I. P. Blade, F. J. Closterman,
George Swan, Charles Bush, II. C.
Davis, William Kramer, William
Thomas, W. M. Goodwin, George Faw
cett, II. B. Ingram, It. J. McChes
ney, M. M. Reese, C. W. Mossman.l
A. M. Dieringer, J. II. Bell, M. G. j
Leach, Henry Cochrane, Guy Camer
on, J. W. Gilson, E. H. Rice, W. M.
Meals, M. M. Hopkins, Sam Knud
sen, C. D. Shaw, J. D. Jefferson, Rob
ert Kelsey, II. E. Ellis, Roy Gentzler,
Norman Merchant, C. G. Ganty, E.
W. Hunt, B. F. Millard, Chas. N.
Jones, George White, F. II. Foster,
Sam Mc-Nieee, E. M. Closterman, II.
P. King, Charles Adler, J. C. Dierin
ger, George it. Walker, E. E. Ritchie,
F. M. Boyle, Robert Smith, V. L.
Gray, William Harrington, Jack Rif
fle, Oraer Patton, L. V. Ray, J. H.
Brownrigg, C. E. Campbell, C. P. Top
liff.
INSPECTING ALL
VALDEZ FLUES
Fire Chief Finical and Chief of Po
lice Willard Scott are inspecting all
stove pipes and flues within the city
limits so as to prevent if possible
any fires. Many of the pipes have
been found almost corroded through
and new ones have been ordered put
in.
Fresh Koenigs, Augustine Kyer,
and Shull’s candies at Valdez Drug
Store.
Seventy "kids” in Valdez have bicy
cles.
No Wonder.
“I never see your husCand looking
at other women.”
“No; poor George is fearfully near
sighted.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
More Attractive.
Count Le Coyne—She has an attrac
tive figure.
Lord De Broke—You should see the
figure In her bank book.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Home Life.
bui'J*
HuSband—The doctor says 1 use my
mind t6o much.
Wife—You have strained It devising
ways to forestall my getting that ex
oenslve hat.—New York Globe.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries receii ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
\m \
^ iu.:
w4 Complete Services
1 • IN THE HEART OF THECITY,
1135Rooms with balv r 50 Sample Rooms
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
-hone .9 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Oni Drug store Office hours
i a. id., to 6 p. m., 7 p, m..to9 p. in. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baclT” 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
w,ith 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 Valdes
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8jl6 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:1 ij p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, thtese days being used
to clean botl'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 Valdec
and Is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter Is given the height of the tide
Saturday, May 22.
High tide 5:21 . m.. 9.9; 7:00 p.
m„ 10.2.
Low tide 12:06 p. m., 1.3.
Sunday, May 23.
High tide 6:45 a. m„ 9.5; 7:47 p.
m., 10.9.
Low tide 1:02 a. m., 3.0; 1:03 p.
m., 1.6.