@UR Grocery Department
can supply your wants in
all fancy and staple groceries.
We are sole agents for the
reliable
Sa-'W
brand of canned goods: fruits,
vegetables, jellies, preserves,
etc.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co. Inc.
PIONEER OUTFITTERS
Confident of our Ability
To Please You, We Invite You To
Give Us A Trial.
' -—BANKING DEPARTMENT = — - =
VALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE CO.
INCORPORATED
VALDEZ
The heart of
the gold belt
The most northerly port
In the world open to nav
igation the year ’round.
The logical enterportto
the great interior of
Alaska; the salt water
terminus of the great gov
ernment wagon road lead
ing Into the Tanana val
ley and the Yukon water
shed.
The seat of government
of the Third judicial di
vision of Alaska.
The headquarters of the
Alaska Road Commission,
of the Telegraph and Ca
ble systems.
It Is 85 miles nearer the
interior than any other
coast city.
It is the headquarters
of the largest fleet of
small craft in Southwest
ern Alaska.
It has the largest popu
lation of any community
In Southwestern Alaska.
It has the best public"
schools and an accredited
high school with a four
year course.
It is the only sea ooaot
town offering direct com
munication with the In
terior, by wagon, summer
or winter.
Valdez offers the near
est and most direct routs
to the Nlatanuska coal
gelds.
Its harbor is the most
easily defended on the Pa
cific coast and oan ride
the navies of the world.
Why freeze in your room and
have lo read the sign in order
lo fell that your room is heated
with steam, when you can get all
the steam that you want at “The
Cliff?"
Wallies ana noney 25c at Val
dez Cafe. tf
il ADVERTISERS’ DIRECTORY
DAILY PROSPECTOR
I
Attorneys-at-Law.
C. E. Bunnell.
* L. V. Ray, Seward, Alaska.
E. E. Ritchie.
Assayers.
George F. White.
Banks.
I S. Blum & Co.
| Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Builders’ Material.
Clias. R. Crawford.
Breweries.
Valdez Bottling & Brewing Co.
Bakeries
Valdez Bakery.
Coal.
Valdez Dock Co.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Dentists
Dr. 11. Cockerille.
Dr. Charles Daggett.
Dr. German.
Drug Stores.
Valdez Drug Co.
Furs.
McMillan Fur & Wool Co.
Fraternal Orders.
Masonic Order.
Odd Fellows.
Fraternal Order Eagles.
Arctic Brotherhood.
General Merchandise.
Beyers Cash Store, Golden.
S. Blum & Co.
Fagerburg Bros., Nazina.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Life Insurance.
W, H. Crary.
Hotels.
Copper Block, Valdez.
Coleman House, Seward.
Hotel St. Elias.
“The Clift.”
Rainier-firand Hotel, Seattle.
Laundrys.
Independent Laundry.
Launches.
Three M.
Moving Picture Shows.
The Orpheum.
Manufacturers.
Copper River Lumber Co.
Chas. R. Crawford.
Alaska Water Light & Power
Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Newspapers.
Prospector, Daily.
Miner (Sunday), Weekly.
Pool and Billiard Rooms.
Copper Block.
Roadhouses.
Camp Comfort.
Real Estate Agencies.
Valdez Real Estate Agency.
Restaurants.
Valdez Cafe.
Steamship Lines.
Alaska Coast Co.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Sheet Metal Works.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Transfer Companies.
Copper River Draying Co.
City Express.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Telephones.
Alaska Water, Light & Tele
phone Co.
Schedule for Launch Donaldson.
Fort Liscum Alaok-, Aug. 2
1912.- Office of the Quartermas
ter :
The following schedule for the
launch Lieut. C. V. Donaldson will
take effect Monday, Aug. 5, 1912.
All orders in conflict herewith are
revoked:
Leave Leave
Days— Ft. Liscum Valdez
Mondays ...8:15a.m. 10:45am.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
Tuesdays ..8:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m.
2:00 p. m. 2:30 p.m.
5:00 p. m. 5:30 p. m.
\Vednesdays8:15 a. in. 10:45 a. m.
1:15 p. pi. 4:00 p. m.
Thursday ..8:15 a.m. 10:45 a. m '
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. rn.
Fridays ...8:15 a. m. 10:45 a.m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m. |
Saturdays . 2:00 p. m. 4:00 p. m
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
Sundays, such trips as may be or
dered.
There will be no trips for the
launch on the second and fourth
Fridays each month, these days
being used to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of
above will be made without no
tice, only to meet I be emergen
cies of the service.
By order of Lieut.-Col. O’Neil.
L. A. KUNZIG,
1st Lieut. 30lh Infantry. Quar
master.
“The Cliff’’ is the place, not
i bunkhouse; not cheap, but rea
sonable and moderate in price,
ind you get what you pay for
lorn fort.
FOR RENT—Three furnished
muses, apply to C. E. Bunnell.
Thirty-foot Bone Ribs Support
ed Umbrella-shaped Roofs
In the Stone Age.
A house, or habitation, built by
human beings ages upon ages ago
with stone utensils, stone knives
and axes, was found last sum
mer in the vicinity of Point Bar
row, Alaska, according to A. L.
Maxwell, government teacher.
Mr. Maxweil and three white
men from Point Barrow, while
prospecting along the beach of
Behring sea in July, discovered
a high clifl' of gravel, the strata
of which il was decided had been
piled in I hat lofty way by ice
bergs.
At a point where the action
of the waves had washed away
gravel the framework of a prim
itive house was partly uncover
ed. The remarkable dwelling was
well preserved in the gravel. The
roof was made of the ribs of an
immense whale or some mam
moth beast long ago extinct. The
ribs, from 20 to 30 feet long, were
set to a center column of rocks
after the fashion of an umbrella.
Over this framework skins had
evidently been stretched. The
gravel was washed in so grad
ually that many of (lie ribs had
scarcely moved.
Convinced of the primitive na
ture of the dwelling because of
the fact that there are no such
bones seen anywhere in the nor
thern tundra, the men began dig
ging to see what lay on the floor
and were successful in unearth
ing a stone hatchet weighing 27
pounds, a stone knife, or skin
ning knife, fashioned like the
modern drawknife of the wood
wAt^er, and a bodaka, or boat
bailcr>^ rock shaped like a
trough.
The utensil and tools were car
ried back to Point Barrow, but
the bones were too bulky to be
moved. They are in a well pro
tected spot and an expedition will
attempt next summer to bring
them and such other articles as
may he unearthed out for the
purpose of installing in the uni
versity museum the house as il
stood in the primitive ages.
The immense bones under so
feet of gra\el and the stone tools
warrant the conclusion that they
are of the remotest antiquity.
FOOL PLtf
TESTING DELHI
l
j
I Chicago, .Fan. 9—The Tribune
sent forty packagegs to • Prof.
Sheridan at the University of
Chicago, half hy express and half
| by parcels post, t he express pack
rages arrived First,.
{senator BAILEY'S
SUCCESSOR IS NAMED
Houston, Tex., Jan. 8.—The
legislature has named Col. H. M.
Johnson, editor of the Houston
Post, to succeed Joseph Weldon
Bailey in the Senate of the Unit
ed States.
Gus Bysled, Ihe local dairy -
nian, liad the misfortune to up
set his sled in front of the r*osi
deuce of George Treat, thus si :l).
ing the day’s supply of milk.
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Outposts Surrender.
Athens, Greece, Jan. 9—The
outposts of Janina have surren
dered to the Greek troops.
William Conley has returned
from a short trip to Port Wells.
Many local trepsichorean art
ists are looking forward with
pleasure to the dance to be giv
en Saturday night by the Eagles.
Room and board at the Grand
Hotel $1.50 per day. Home cook
ed meals and good beds. Mrs. H.
Sharts. *
Policies Written Here
FIRE INSURANCE
Will Act Together When the In
ter-State Commerce Commis
sion Promulgates Rates.
- !
Chicago, Jau. 9.—Wells, Fargo j
& Co. announce that they expect
to receive the government rales |
of express companies shortly ami j
that they are awaiting the co- ]
operation of all the other express |
companies as to the policy to he
pursued.
A daughter was horn to Mr. I
and Mrs. Jack Cook yeslerdai j
morning. Tli * mother is doing
nicely and is under the care of]
Mrs. Craham.
PUBLISHED SUMMONS.
In the District Court for (he Ter- j
ritory of Alaska, Third Divis- ;
ion.
United States of America,
plaintiff, vs. William B. Poland
.and Frederick William I.ow, de
fendants.—No. 593, Published
Summons.
The President of the United
States of America, greeting: j
To the above named defend
ants, William B. Poland and j
Frederick William Low.
You and each of you are here
by required to appear in the Dis
trict Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Division, within 30
days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to
wit: within 30 days after the 10th ;
day of February, 1913, and an-j
swer the complaint of the above |
named plaintiff filed in the above I
entitled court and cause; and un- j
less you so appear and answer,
the plaintiffs will apply to the I
court for the relief demanded in I
said complaint, to-wit: for the
cancellation of the patent here- I
tofore issued by the United States !
to William 13. Poland for certain j
land in said complaint describ
ed and for the cancellation of
certain deeds pertaining to said
land in said complaint describ
ed, which said land is situate in i
the Kenai Recording Precinct, I
Third Division, Territory of I
Alaska, and is bounded and de-1
scribed as follows:
Beginning at corner No. I, near!
the north shore of Resurrection
bay, identical with corner No. 5,
U. S. Survey No. 241, an iron pipe
three inches in diameter, marked
S. 242, cor. No. 1, thence west 40
chains to corner No. 2, an iron
pipe three inches in diameter,
marked S. 242, cor. No. 2, thence
north 40 chains to corner No. 3,
an iron pipe three inches in di
i ameter, mark 'd S. 242, cor. No. 3;
]thence east 40 chains to corner
jNo. 4, an iron pipe three inches
jin diameter, marked S. 242, cor.
; No. 4: thence south 40 chains to
corner No. 1. the place of begiu
Ining, containing one hundred ami
j sixty acres, being the land em
| braced within United States Sur
I vey No. 242, according to the of
j lieial plat of said survey return-|
led to the general land office by j
the Surveyor Oeneral; and forj
plaintiffs costs and disburse-]
ments herein.
This summons is served upon
you by order of the above entitled j
court, dated, made and entered on
the 28th day of December. 1912.
Witness, the Honorable Thom- I
as R. Lyons, Judge of the said
District Court, and the seal of
said Court, affixed at Valdez, this
28th dav of December. 1.912.
ANOUS McBRlDE.
Clerk of the District Court. Ter- j
ritory of Alaska, Third Divis- ,
ion.
Date first pub. Dec. 30.. 1912.;
Date last pub. Feb. 10. 1913. i
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Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glam, window glam, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders*
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse St Co.
New York Life
Insurance Co.
W. H. CRARY, RepreiMUtive
Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
_ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALDEZ, ALASKA
A. M. DierInner
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight*
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ard FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
nnloss paid lor in advance
CITY EXPRESS
J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Ouick delivery t all parts of town
at short notice. Will move baggrge,
furniture, etc., at reasonable rates
Office in Alaska Securities
building. Wall St. Phone 82
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE’
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen years io
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Neat to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 0 p. m.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
L A VV Y E R
PHONE 136 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
A TTORN E Y-A T- LA W
Offices Well Street
Phone Si VALDEZ
L. V. RAY
ATTORN KY AT LAW
SKWARli, ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
G ENESAL MINING E NCSlNE BRING
Phone No. tos
F. BUTTERWORTH
' Civil Engineer and
U. S. Do’ 'rty Land and
Mine* • : Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phono, ift*
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet < trery Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Id
Ea„'lo Mall. All members are requested to
attend. S. McnIECE. Arctic Chief
10. F.
Visitinir and local Odd Fellows are re
nnested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows’ Club. Keirular
meetings, first and third Monday.
Call on P. S. HOMT. Secretary.
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE *0. 1971
Meet every Friday 8 t>. m. Eagle Hall
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications llrst Wednesday in
each month In McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H Fatten ">n.. W. M
C. C. Reynolds. Sec