I
An Announcement
To Boat Owners
HE VALDEZ MERCANTILE CO.
is now in a position to furnish Ka
talla gasoline and distillate in drums.
Your patronage is solicited.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
The Store of Service.
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Bath»
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I TUDUD and Building
Puget Sound L U IVIdLIv Material
^ , CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Price. Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - - Propri.tor
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
For Terms'aml Particulars Apply to
E. C. BALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge,
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Key stone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
DevelopIng.'Prlnting. Enlarging
A. W„ L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and aeil anything.
CITY EXPRESS |
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop !
Administrator’s Notice.
In the Commissioner’s Court for Val
dez Precinct, Territory of Alaska,
In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Liz
zie Stropp, deceased—Notice of Filing
of Final Account and of Hearing
Thereof.
Notice Is hereby given that E. E.
Ritchie, administrator of the estate
of Lizzie Stropp, deceased, has filed
his final account as such administra
tor, and asked for settlement of the
same; and that Tuesday, July 6,1915,
at 10 o’clock a. m., has been set by
order of court for the settlement of
said final account and hearing objeo
tions to the same.
Dated May 4, 1915.
E. E. RITCHIE,
Administrator
First publication May 4, 1916.
Last publication May 25, 1915.
In Bankruptcy.
In the District Court of the United
States for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division.—In Bankruptcy.
In the matter of the estate of Alas
ka Oil & Refining Company, a private
corporation.—In Bankruptcy.
To the creditors of the' Alaska Oil
& Refining Company, a corporation
organized under the laws of the State
of Washington and doing business in
in Kayak precinct. Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that on the
1st day of May, A. D. 1915, the said
Alaska Oil & Refining Company was
duly adjudicated .bankrupt; and that
the first meeting of its creditors will
be held at the office of Chas. G. Gan
ty, Referee in Bankruptcy, in Valdez,
Alaska, on the 31st day of May, 1915,
at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of said
day, at which time the said creditors
may attend, prove their claims, ap
point a trustee, examine the bank
rupt, and transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before
said meeting.
Dated this 14th day of May, 1915.
CHAS. G. GANTY,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Publications May 15, 22, 29, June
5, 12, 19, 26, and July 3.
Laurence develops and prints ko
dak pictures. Work guaranteed, tf
Fine line of stationery at the Val
dez Drug tore. Prices reasonable, tf
EDES SURPRISED
AT R. R. TANGLE
Says He Thought Sale of Seward Road
Was All Settled—Road Sure Be
Built To the Coal Fields.
SEATTLE, May 17.—Chairman Edes
of the Alaska engineering commis
sion reached this city today from San
Francisco and when interviewed re
garding the legal difficulties resulting
from the Ballaine-Boland Alaska
Northern suits and counter suits said
that he did not believe that the leg
al fight would affect the final trans
fer of the railroad to the government
and that in any event the work of
buillding a road to the Matanuska
coal fields from Anchorage would be
pushed with all possible speed.
The commission is short of funds
and is working on the- balance of
$500,000 left from the first appropria
tion made for surveys. The new ap
propriation of $2,000,000 will not be
available until July 1st.
When I old that John Ballaine, the
original promoter of the Seward rail
road, had threatened to sue Attorney
Boland for $1,000,000 for defamation
of character because of the suit in
volving the ownership of the Seward
townsite, he stated that he believed
that Ballaine estimated his damages
rather high.
Chairman Edes admitted that the
legal trouble over the transfer of the
road came as a surprise to him, as
he had thought all was settled when
he left Washington.
Hobo Bay Company Failed To Pro
vide for the Men Sent North
Several Months Ago.
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The Admiral Evans picked up eight
starving Japanese miners who had
been working on the Shamrock Min
ing company’s property at IloLo bay.
The men had been sent to the mine
some months ago but the company
had failed to send north any supplies
for the outfit and consequently the
men asked for transportation south
on the Evans. The party were sup
plied with food by Captain Jensen on
the way west and the men picked up
last night on the trip to Seattle.
The Shamrock property is said to
be owrned by M. N. Matsuo, a Seat
tle Japanese merchant, who visited
the mine early last February and a
little later sent the eight miners
north.
The eight Japanese miners had each
paid the promoters from $100 to $200
a piece, according to information re
ceived here, and they are anxious to
reach Seattle so as to interview
Matsuo.
DENY RAID ON
VANCOUVER CABLE
OTTAWA, May 17.—The reported
raid on the cable post at Vancouver
by Germans operating from the Un
ited States is denied in this city by
the government officials, who assert
that no such raid was made and that
the cable is in working order.
Weatner fteport.
Valdez, May 16, 1915.
Barometric pressure .29,922
Temperature at 5 p. m. 60
Maximum temperature . 66
Minimum temperature .(. 40
Mean temperature . 52
Partly cloudy air, wind southwest
two miles.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
WHAT IS ELECTRICITY?
t. Seem* to Be an Effect Produced by
Energy on Matter.
It is n curious fnct that although evi
dence of electricity In a primitive way
was observed as long ago as the sixth
century B. C. and Its manifestation has
become one of the greatest factors in
our modern civilization, no one knows
Just what it is.
At different times it has been thought
to be a form of matter, a thin, weight
less tluid, u kind of force, a variety of
motion and a disturbance In the ether—
which is supposed to fill all space, in
cluding pores in most solid metals.
Electricity is not something created by
man. lie has simply discovered ways
of turning its manifestations to prac
tical account.
From the time that Thales observed,
centuries before the Christian era, that
amber, after being rubbed by silk, had
the property of attracting light bodies
like bits of paper, discoveries of elec
tric phenomena were made from time
to time, but they were detached from
a realization of the great possibilities
brought to light in recent years.
Electricity becomes evident when
rendered active by some molecular dis
turbance, such as friction, rupture or
chemical action. Scientists today re
gard It as neither energy nor matter,
but, like heat, light and sound, It is an
effect produced by energy on matter.
It has been discovered that electric
ity is a self existent property, by which
we are everywhere surrounded, and
human as well ns inanimate bodies can
be charged with It. From this we can
understand that many more remark
able discoveries of its application will
be made.—llocky Mountain News.
ARCTIC FROST BITES.
And the Popular Error That Rubbing
With Snow Helps Them.
The Idea that when your face or
any other part of your body begins
to freeze you must thaw It out with
snow is declared to be a superstition
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Few things
could be more absurd, he says, and
yet this is a superstition that has been
carried with many an arctic explorer
through long experience in the north.
Tales are told of how even the applica
tion of snow failed to relieve the
freezing, and these are taken as in
dications of the severity of the case
Instead of proof that, ns a matter of
fact, the snow only assists the freezing
process. Any high school pupil, Ste
i fansson says, could tell us offhand
what would happen if liquid air were
applied to a man’s cheek or nose. Of
course the part would freeze instantly.
Snow has the same though less rapid
effect.
The whole secret of dealing with
frost bites of the face in arctic travel,
be says, is to keep the hands warm
and to run the warm hand over the
face every few minutes to see if any
part of it is frozen. Usually, also, one
can keep oneself fairly well Informed
about the condition of one’s face by
wrinkling it and “making faces.” if
a spot of skin or cheek the size of a
twenty-five cent piece becomes stiff one
can always detect it by making a gri
mace. Then all one has to do is to take
one’s warm hand out of one’s mitten
and press it to the frozen si>ot for a
moment until the whiteness and stiff
ness are gone.—Indianapolis News.
His Blasted Life.
John Grimes, a noted skinflint, resid
ing in a rural district, became engaged
to a lady of some means who chanced
to be visiting in the neighborhood dur
ing the summer. Ascertaining his true
character as the weeks passed, she
told him all was over between them,
whereupon Grimes threatened to sue
for breach of promise. ttstber than in*
cur publicity und- notorlSy his former
sweetheart, through her attorney, otter
ed to settle for $200. “Two hundred!”
shrieked Grimes melodramatically.
“Two hundred dollars for ruined
hopes, a blasted life! Never, never!"
“How much do you think would be
about right?” asked the attorney.
“Make it three hundred and it’s a bar
gain,” declared Grimes Instantly.—
Argonaut
Offer Declined.
It wns after an attack, and two high
land soldiers were lying flat to escape
the flying bullets. During a brief lull
In the firing one of them said, “Let’s
be moving on, Jock.”
“I can’t, Sandy,” was the reply. “1
got It In the leg.”
“Then crawl on tae my back,” said
Sandy, “and I’ll carry ye In.”
“Nae danger, fear,” exclaimed Jock;
“the Victoria cross for you and antther
bullet for me.”—Bostou Transcript
A Thumb Print Fantasia.
“You seem very much interested In
those thumb print records.” comment
ed the man at police headquarters.
“Yes.” answered the visitor. “I can’t
help feeling the greatest curiosity
about how one of those things would
sound if you put it on a phonograph
and played It."—Washington Star.
Difficult Classification.
Teacher—Tommy, to wliat class of
the animal kingdom do I belong?
Tommy — Dunno, teacher. Pa says
you’re tin old hen and ma says you're
an old cat—Baltimore American.
No Exemptions.
Grubbs—You have to give tlio devil
bis due. Stubbs—That’s right The
bankruptcy law doesn’t bold good in
bis court.—Richmond Times-Dlspatcb
Rude Criticism.
“My daughter has a rack for her
music.”
“I know. It’s the one she puts her
listeners on.”—Exchange.
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A MARVEL IN METAL
Story of a Steel Flea Made In Ger
many and Sent to Russia.
, The Russian peasants, of course, aro
neither scientists nor technologists;
tiut even they think that they can <lo a
few things—and especially work met
als—as skillfully as anybody. A. cen
tury or two ago, according to a folk
tale current In Russia, the gossudar
(the czar) called together a dozen or
more peasants who had a reputation
for skill in the working of metals and
exhibited to them a steel flea of natu
ral size which had been “made In Ger
many” and had been sent to him, part
ly as a gift and partly to show the deli
cacy of the German smith's work. The
gossudar handed It to the peasants on
a plate and said:
"Look at that! You think that you
can work metals, but I don’t believe
there’s one of you can duplicate that
steel flea.”
The peasants said, "Perhaps not, ba
tusbka (little father), but If you will
let us take the flea home we will see
what we can do.”
The czar consented, and they retired.
A (lny or two later they reappeared,
and with low bows presented to their
monarch on a plate the same German
flea, but without the expected dupli
cate.
“Ah!” said the czar. “Y’ou couldn’t
make another. I knew you couldn’t.”
“Will your majesty deign to look at
the flea through a magnifying glass?”
replied the peasants.
A glass was brought, and upon close
inspection it was found that the Rus
sian metal workers bad shod the Ger
man flea with steel shoes.—Outlook.
DEEP SEA EXPLORATIONS.
Fishing With a Line That Is Some
times Over Six Miles Long.
The Albatross, the vessel that has
been used by the oceanographers for
some thirty years In deep sea explora
tions, fishes with a line three miles
long, often four miles long, sometimes
six miles long or over, a line of slender
enble, but wonderfully strong, rolled
off a deck winch by a sputtering
steam engine, that will bring up from
the ocean floor a three or four ton
haul of sponges, crlnoids, Jellyfish, sea
urchins, giant crabs, long white worms
that break In two If you touch them,
phosphorescent trees (really animals),
sea cucumbers with hideous heads,
starfish, devilfish, pelican fish, lantern
fish, sharks’ teeth, whales’ ear bones,
sea cows’ ribs and scores of other ex
traordinary things.
The Albatross follows no beaten
paths of commerce. She goes where
other vessels rarely go. She explores
forgotten corners of tha seven seas,
drops her great nets by day and by
night, takes hundreds of soundings In
uncharted waters and, after a cruise
of months, brings home her trophies
for final safe keeping In jars filled with
alcohol and labeled with Greek and
Latin names. This sort of work she
has been doing for thirty odd years,
ever since George W. Baird designed
her engines for the United States fish
eries service In 1882. It Is worthy
of note that the Albatross was the first
steel steamer built In America.—Cleve
land Moffett In American Magazine.
Aisle of the Car In a Railroad Wreck.
A veteran railroad man gave a piece
of valuable advice some time ago.
“If you ever got Into a wreck.” he
said, “and have time to follow out this
suggestion remember this: Always
stand In the aisle. Most of the In
juries that are suffered occur because
the victim Is crushed between the
seats. If you ore In the aisle you may
be thrown forward and bruised a lit
tle, but there Is much less "chance of
receiving serious hurts. It Isn’t always
possible to get out of your seat before
the crash comes, but If It Is follow
that advice.”—Louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
Strong Paper.
A single United States treasury note
measures three and one-elghtli Inches
In width and seven and one-quarter
Inches in length. It will sustain with
out breaking lengthwise a weight of
forty-one pounds, crosswise a weight
of ninety-one pounds. The notes run
four to a sheet, a sheet being eight and
one-quarter Inches wide by thirteen
and one-half inches long. One of these
sheets lengthwise will suspend 108
pounds and crosswise 177 pounds.
Modern Hostilities.
"A gossip is never willing to repeat
nnkind remarks to your face.”
"No,” replied Miss Cayenne. "Gos
sip is a social attack conducted on the
approved principles of modem war
fare. You are not supposed to see ttie
person at whom you are shooting."—
Washington Star.
Identification.
“That handsome woman over there
Is a widow of one of the Jaggs broth
ers.”
“Which brother is she the widow
of?"
“The dead one.”—Baltimore Amorl
can.
Widows In China.
There are no meary widows In Chi
na. When n Chinese husband dies his
widow Is despised by every member
of her family as a woman who has in
curred the wrath of the gods
Seems To.
They say there is no intelligence in
Inanimate things, but a pin works a
heap more tractably for a woman than
it does for a man.—Kansas City Jour
nal.
A thousand evils do afflict that man
which hnth to himself an idle and un
profitable carcass.—Sallust.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
V? 14 Comp/efe Services
I #1N THE HEART OF THEjCITT,
1 l55Booms with bath-50 SajnpleRooms
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
n„..no DENTIST,
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Oftlce Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
?hooe 10 the dentist
Oftlce rooms over Owl Drug store. Oftlce hours
i a. m., to 6 t). 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, Alaaka
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* 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
days successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
with tlie idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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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
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:16 p. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. tu.
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 ute of high and low wai
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths'
Monday, May 17.
High tide' 1:11 a. m., 12.2; 2:47 p
in.. 9.6.
Low tide 8:12 a. ni., -0.5; 7:41 p.
m„ 3.3.
Tuesday, May 18.
High tide 1:46 a. m., 11.9; 3:30 p.
m., 9.3.
Low tide 8:51 a. in., -0.2; 8:24 p.
m., 3.6.