@UR Grocery Department
can supply your wants in
all fancy and staple groceries.
We are sole agents for the
reliable
ssw
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.
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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 entrepot to
the great interior of
Alaska; the salt water
terminus of the 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 coast
town offering direct com
munication with the In
terior by wagon, summer
or winter.
Valdez offers the near
est and most dlreot route
to the Matanuska coal
fields.
Its harbor is the most
easily defended on the Pa
cific coast and can ride
the navies of the world.
Why freeze in your room and j
have l.o read the sign in order j
to tell that your room is heated
with steam, when you can get all
I he steam that you want at “The
Cliff?"
If you warn ail the news all the
- time, read the Prospector.
| ADVERTISERS’ DIRECTORY
DAILY prospector
Attorneys-at-Law.
0. E. Bunnell.
L. V. Bay, Seward, Alaska.
E. E. Ritchie.
Assayers.
(ioorge I'. White.
Banks.
! S. Blum & Co.
Valdez Bunk & Mercantile Co.
Builders’ material.
Clias. It. Crawford.
Breweries.
Valdez Bottling & Brewing C<
Bakeries
Valdez Bakery.
Coal.
Valdez. Dock Co.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Dentists
Dr. II. 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.
Boyers Cash Store, Golden.
S. Blum & Co.
Fagerburg Bros., Nazina.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Life Insurance.
W. 11. Crary.
Hotels.
Copper Block, Valdez.
Coleman House, Seward.
Hotel St. Elias.
The Cliff."
Rainier-Grand Hotel, Seattle.
Laundrys.
independent Laundry.
Launches.
Three M.
Moving Picture Shows.
The Orpheum.
Manufacturers.
Copper River Lumber Co.
Chas. R. Crawford.
Alaska Water Light & Powei
Cc.
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 AlaJ:-, 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. 10:46am.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. in.
Tuesdays . .8:i&a. m. 10:45 a.m.
2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m.
5:00 p. in, 5:30 p. m.
\Vednesdays8:15 a. m, 10:45 a. m.
,1:15p.m. 4:00 p.m.
rhuraday . .8:15 a. m. 10:45 a. m
1:15 p. in. 4:00 p. m.
Fridays ...8:16a.m. 10:45a.m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m.
Saturdays 2:00 p.m. 4:00p. 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 the emergen
cies of the service.
Tty order of Lieut.-Col. O’Neil.
Ij. A. KUNZIG.
11st Lieut. 30th Infantry. Qunr
mnster,
“The Cl iff” is the place, not
a bunkhouse; not cheap, but rea
sonable and moderate in price,
and you get what you pay for—
comfort.
FOR RENT—Three furnished
houses, apply to G. E. Bunnell.
Mariposa Stands by But Failed to
Get Response From Drift
ing Launch.
The Mariposa returning from
the westward yesterday passed the.
launch Mermaid, of Kllamar, two
miles this side of the Narrows,
apparently adrift and the big linei
stopped and blew her whistle in
order that those aboard the
launch, if they cared to, could be
taken aboard by the Mariposa.
Although the whistle was blown
many times no answer was re
ceived from those aboard, if any
-there were.
I The captain of the Mariposa
reported the fact of the launch
| being adrift when he arrived at
| Valdez and Col. O’Neil dispatch
led the Donaldson to locate the
;boat if possible and see if any
one was aboard and needed as
sistance, but the boat was unable
to find the launch,although Gapt.
Erickson cruised around for sev
eral hours.
Charles Rue and Matt I,inquest
left Valdez yesterday noon for El
lamar with a load of freight on
the Mermaid and it was their boat
which was sighted. The officers
of the Mariposa are sure no one
was aboard, but it is very likely
that the men were unable to hear
the Mariposa’s whistle, as they
were housed in. It is also said
that both of them were filled with
“Valdez hootch” before they left
here, and may have gone to sleep
in the boat and allowed it to drift
about.
It is also thought that the en
gine* was out of order and that
Rue and Linguist were engaged
in fixing the machine and could
not hear the whistle, but that lat
er the engine started and they
proceeded on their way to Ella
mar.
I-:
BELL COMPANY SET A8IDE
LARGE FUND FOR PENSIONS
New York, Jan. 18.— By far Un
most far-reaching plan yet adopt
ed by an American industrial cor
poration for the pensioning of its
employes is that put into effect
today by tin! Hell telephone sys
tem and affiliated interests. a
fund of ft 1 (1,000,000 for pensions
sick benefits and life insurant*!
has been made, available for the
employe's of the several compan
ies and their families and de
pendents, amounting altogether
to more than l'50,000 people. The
lund is lo be provided by annual
appropriat ions by tin* American
, Telephone it Telegraph company,
the Western Union Telegraph
company and the Western Elec
j trie company.
(BUTTS HIMSELF OUT
OF THE NAVY
Norfolk, Ya„ Jan. 18—A bel
ligerent hilly goat’s lack of re
spect for the uniform, it was sain
today, was the cause for an order
of Rear Rear Admiral R. M. Doyle
banishing all the sailors’ pets aim
mascots from battleships, cruis
ers and receiving ships at this
station. Admiral Doyle is sup
posed In have been inside the
uniform when the goat, a mascot
aboard the New Hampshire, hutt
ed it so vigorously that it toppled
over on tin* deck. The goal now
is an exile and with him went
a long train of cats, dogs, parrots,
hears and other goats.
TRAIN ACCIDENT
KILLS FAMILY
Champaign, Hi., Jan. 18.--Ed
ward H. Miller, 3 4; his wife,
Maud, 33; daughter, Ruth, 8, aim
son, Wayne, 4, were killed early
today by being struck by the Illi
nois Central Panama limited, foui
miles south of Champaign. Opal
Scott, the ll-iyear-old child-of a
neighbor, was fatally hurt.
FOUND—A silver-plated pen
cil holder with chain attached.
Owner can have same by prov
ing property and paying for this
advertisement.
TIRE INSURANCE
■ See Crarjr about that
imurance today
Policies Written Here
FIRE INSURANCE
FOR SEATTLE!
I
Did Not Remain at Cordova for ;
the interior Mail, as at First
Announced.
Tim Mariposa arrived in Val
dez yesterday afternoon and sail
ed within the hour for Seattle via
Cordova. It was announcer! by
'the officers of the boat when (hey
yv"iit west that they would loal
in Seward, Valdez * and Cordova
until next Monday, as the »dfi
eials of the railroad had expected
to clear the track of snow drifts
and have the mail from Fairbanks
sent south on the Mariposa, but
the continued cold snap and gales
on tin- Copper river have made ii
impossible and the boat sailed for
the south this morning. No Bon
anza ore has reached Cordova aim
the steamers are going south
light.
The Mariposa had several pas
sengers south from Seward who
have been subpoenaed to appeal
at Chicago in the Malanuska eoai
.eases which will come up for trial
soon If. II. Hildreth and George
Sexton are among those subpoen
aed. Col. Brosuis, one of Sew
ard's prominent eitiens, was al
so an outgoing passenger on a
visit to his home in Pittsburg, Pa.
The following passengers left
on the Mariposa from Valdez.
•J. I.ee. P. Jaffe, Mrs. W. L. Spald
ing, A. F. Raynor, F. A. Martin
Mary Steiwer, W, \V. Clark, A. II.
Wellniorc, Mrs. Ben Silverman,
W. If. Palmer, H. M. Badger, Dora
Scott, T. K. Orr, Win. MeFadden
Alice Niece,'ll. Ott, O. Roberts and
I seven steerage. For Juneau, T .
M. Amstun and A. W. Harris.
_
Raymond /Meyers left this
morning with the last of his
freight for Slate creek. The bal
ance of his year’s outfit he has
already relayed along the line.
It is worth while taking a
chance on the $800 diamond ring
being raffled at Plant & Com
pany’s, jewelers.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John McPherson, his heirs,
administrators, and t<> all
whom it may concern:
j You are hereby notified that I
; have expended $100 in labor and
: improvements upon the “Lark”
I lode mining claim, situated about
I two miles N. K. of Shoup bay and
iS. E. of Shoup glacier, in the Val
jdez Recording District, Territory
of Alaska, the location certificate
of which said claim is of record
in Hook 2 of Records, page 392. in
th1 office of the recorder of the
recording ditsrict aforesaid,
proof of said expenditure appear
ing by affidavit filed on Decein
be 28, 1912, in fhe office of the
recorder aforesaid: that being
$100 per year, the amount re
quired to hold said claim for fhe
year ending December 31, 1912.
And if, within ninety days after
this notice by publication, you
fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion ($50) your interests
in said claim will become the
property of the subscriber und.-i
Section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States.
JOHN PAULE.
First pub. January If, 1913.
Last pub. April 15, 1913.
Chas. R. Crawford !
Wall Street Phone 159 j
j
Plate glass, window glass, 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 j
Insurance Co.
W. H. CRARY, Repre.tnUtive
Valdez, Alaska. Phone 41
ASSAYER j
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No Mora, No Leas
VALDEZ, ALASKA
,A. W. DieriiJgei' , •
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid for io 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. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National Univertity
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Feurteen year* in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
. hon, .9 the dentist
Ofllco rooms over Owi Drug store. Oftlce hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. in., 7 p. ni.. to 9 p. ni. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
(
PHONK i:w Valdez, Alaska
;L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
!
! SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaska
Reports on Mines
Patent Surveys
Genesal Mining Engineering
Phone No. toa
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. |S»
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock Id
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. S. McnIECE. Arctic Chief
Visiting and local Odd Fe)low8 are re
quested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows’ Club. Regular
meetings, tirst and third Monday.
Call on P. S. HUNT. Secretary.
FOE
VALUE/. AERIE Wo. 1971
Meet every Friday 8 *». m Fugle Hall
Valdez Lodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications tint Wednesday la
mob month In MoKtnley Hall Visitor* always
reloome.
James H. rtllMKW.I
C. C. RevnoMa. See