STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
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Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA'
“The House of Comfort”
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PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hose, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
when YOl’ look
IX THE .MIRROR
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are you satisfied? Do your
clothes fit? Have they that
'•easy” hang? And look like
full value received? If they
don’t we want you to come to
us. We specialize on dress
clothes and know how to cut
them. Your full dress and
Tuxedo won’t cost much here.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I j Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I I Roujrh Dry 11c lb
THE SENATE
ANOl'S CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phoui* *« OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Proj.r.
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Hats—Men's Women's and Chil
dren's. from 25 cents up, at the Em
porium. ti
FOR SALE—-A bargain, one smali
Victor Phonograph. Enquire Pros
pector. tf
For Sale.
1 complete sawmill outfit with plan
<rs (Russell A- Co.) 11-13. Nominal
b. p. 35. Indicated h. p. 77.
Circular saws and other materials
1 new Willamette Donkey engine,
8^-10.
1 slightly used Willamette Donkey
Engine 7 H-10.
2 slightly used Florry Donkey En
gines, 7-10.
For further information write o
wire
ALASKA ANTHRACITE KV. CO.
Per Geo. W. Nelson,
tf Katalla, Alaska.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
]•> A reared? tot infections
V vl the oiintii tract,
p. Painleee, zton-poiecDOUS
U and will not atrictnre.
__ Believes in I to ft da?«.
.MILD BT DKDMim.
Parcel Pott if denied — Price *1. or 3 bottles I2.7S.
THE EVANS CHEMICAL CO., CINCINNATI. O.
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
I‘lying between, Valdez, Klla
mar, Hidalgo, Port. Wells, I.amt
lock, Nellie Juan, Wells Bay,
and all Sound Points. Times of
.sailing and terms upon appli
cation to Master.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
VAI.DK/, ALASKA
OLD PAPERS—Just the thing to
1 place under carpets or start the fires
with, ten cents per bundle of 100 at
' this office.
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i Henry Suessdorf returned on the
| Admiral Evans after spending the
! winter in California, Hawaii and
^points in the Millde West.
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Chairman Edes, of the Alaska En
gineering Commission, went through
on the Admiral Evans for Anchorage.
THE best things in life are the
commonest. Thar’s plenty of
friendships — plenty of sunshine—
plenty of landscape—an’ yo' can get
VELVET at any t
store.
No Victim* in* Tills State*
OLYMPIA, May 19—In the col
lapse of the Pittsburg Life & Trust
company, of Pittsburg, Penn., no pol
icy holders of life Insurance in the
State of Washington will lose any-!
thing, as the company was not li
censed to do business in this state, ac
cording to an announcement of H. O. j
Fishback, state insurance commis
sioner, today. The company did no \
direct business in this state.
Review Measure
WASHINGTON. I). C. May lit —
Following the signing of the Con
scription bill by Vice Marshall and j
Speaker Champ Clark, the Hill was j
submitted to Secretary of War Hak-j
er and the heads of the army, who;
reviewed the measure, and then sent
it to President Wilson, who at once
affixed his signature. Secretary of!
War Baker announced this morning'
that plans had been completed for;
housing twenty-two thousand men i:i |
each of the thirty-two cantonments1
to he created, and where the men;
would receive training before being1
sent to the front.
The Admiral Evans brought a con-!
siderable quantity of freight for the;
Valdez Packing Company, and after!
unloading at the Valdez Dock went!
over to the City dock to unload.
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But IS degrees marks the variation i
in temperature at the various inter-;
ior- stations between here and Fair-,
banks, according to the weather re-1
port this morning. McCallum reports
the lowest temperature. 42 degrees,'
and from this it ranges up to 55 at
Richardson. Fairbanks reports a tem
perature of 52.
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f !
Skilled Uixir
The following is an excerpt from j
the expert testimony of a negro dele-|
jgate of a local hod carriers* union.]
given in the Municipal Court of Cinn-j
cinnati, Ohio, who testified that lie
had been a bod cairier for twenty-one >
years: \
Question: State whether or not I
there is any apprenticeship in the!
Hod Carriers' Union.
Answer: No. sah; when I larn’d j
to be a hod carrier, it took me 'bout j
j half a day.
! Question: What are the require-]
i ments necessary for a full-fledged j
I hod carrier?
! Answer: Well. fust, you must pay]
l.vouah dues in de Hod Carriers’ Un-i
lion, and den all it takes is a weak I
mind and a strong hack to lie a fust- j
| class hod carrier.
The probable income of liie govern
ment from the seal herd in the fiscal,
year ending June 30 next will be up
ward of $750,000. according to Hugh
H. Smith. United States fish commis-1
sioner. and it will increase steadily]
thereafter. It is the belief of Smith!
;tha: the time is coming when tlm gov
crnment will derive a net income of a
million dollars a year from the herd
without any impairment of it.
The steamer Prince Rupert, which ;
went ashore recently on Gan Island.1
and which was later pulled off and j
| taken to Victoria for repairs, is found 1
|to be more seriously damaged than j
anticipated. It is estimated that be-,
j tween 50 and 60 plates will have to I
'be removed and replaced and between
[150 and 160 frames partly renewed.!
'The repairs will take the better part1
!of two months.
A committee appointed by the
C hamber of Commerce at Anchorage, j
jhave drawn up and forwarded to the;
department of the interior a protest:
against the forfeiture clause in thee
terms of sale of town lots at that!
| place, whereby persons illegally sell
ing or manufacturing intoxicating li
(juors forfeit to the government the
‘property which the may have pur
! chased.
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Kor Hale—5-room house and two:
lots. Terms reasonable. Apply Pros-|
pector. k22:
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New Records
Two hundred Columbia Phono-1
graph Records of the latest music I
received on the last boat at the Owl. I
Good dance records. tf
Webster’s Xew International Dic
tionary, strictly up to date; come in
and look it over. Valdez Drug Co. tf
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Another assortment of Women's
suits, just received at E. Winter’s, tf
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Location notices, noth quartz and!
placer, for sale at the Prospector of s
flee.
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Fresh line of Box Candies just, re-!
ceived at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen, tfj
For Sale i
One 20 foot dory, new this spring, j
Alaska Investment Co. 2t |
Why look old and care-worn? The
famous Parisian method for rejuven
ating the complexion and hands will
erase from 10 to 20 years. Remem
ber a woman is as old as she looks.;
Method fully explained at the Vanltie
Shop. tf
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SIX SIDED SNOW CRYSTALS.
That la Nature's Law, but Why It la !
So Scianca Cannot Explain.
Snow crystals obey an ininnituble j
law of six. They are six sided jewels !
or six pointed stars. They never an :
swer to the lav,- of four or live. Snow
is crystallized water, and water always
crystallizes in six sided forms. Why'/
No one ever will know. There is no
more apparent reason for the sixness ,
of crystallized water than there is for !
the inonoelitiie prisms of sugar crys- .
tats. Water and sugar und tlie com
(ilex minerals which make the granite ’
rock all follow laws which are utter
ly unchangeable, but which are. as far
as we can see. without any special rea
son. It Is as profitable to speculate
why the chlorophyll of vegetation is
green and why the blood of animals is
red.
Tlie whiteness of the snow is under
standable. It is due to tlie fusiou of
prismic colors scintillating from the
countless surfaces of minute crystals.
Hu man science comprehends this. It
also comprehends the fact that snow
is a poor conductor of heat and thus
prevents terrestrial radiation and keeps
tlie earth and the things in the earth
snug and warm under the white blan- i
ket which is softer and finer tliun
lamb's wool or eiderdown. Science
Knows why snow is white and why it
is beneficent, but It cannot explain the
law of six.
It ’is well that snow cannot be ab
together explained. It is one of the
earth's most lieautiful mysteries. It
would lose something in beauty were
it to lose all its mystery.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
BANKS "LOAN” MONEY.
They Don’t “Lend” It Because It Is a
Business Transaction.
Why is it banking houses always
•’loan" their huge sums of money, nev
er by any chance •■lend" theinV "Lend”
is the true verb, while "loan" was ex
clusively the noun, ilow came it about
that "to loan" has uniformly supplant
ed "to lend’:’
The purists make a great fuss about
this. They insist that the stupid awl
untaught linancial world has foisted
upon the language a substantive verb
when no new verb was needed, when
the ancient and established usage was
fixed in the signification of "to lend.'
But prior to the modern development
of business enterprise when money
was lent it was bestowed upon tlie bor
rower either for temporary use with
out compensation, as a mark, of favor
or patronage, or by the professional
money lender who. taking advantage
of persons in extremities of need, de
mnuded usurious interest. This Anglo
Saxon verb today retains its ancient
connotation When it was coined the
productive powers of money were un
known and the wcaith of rich men
was locked up for safety ami kept out
of the channels of commerce.
Nowadays, by devices of credit and
rapid intercommunication, it is kept
constantly working in productive en
terprises. Immense loans are made, no
longer to relieve the necessitous and
the improvident, hut to stimulate in
dnstry and to enable tbe borrower its
well as the loaner to reap a profit in his
transactions. Money is'‘loaned" in this
sense. It is not lout.- New York Times
The People of India.
The population of India speak about
130 different languages and are divid
ed tip into forty-three distinct nation
alities. There are 2.378 main castes
besides a large number of subcastes
There are 2UO.OOU.OOO Hindus. 00.000.
000 Mohammedans, while among the
Hindus there are 50.U00.0U0 of degrad
ed people of no caste, whose touch or
even shadow is supposed to cause pol
lution.
Limited in number, but mighty in in
fiucnce, are the Parsees. who hold the
wealth of Bombay in the hollow of
their bauds and dwell in the loveliest
mansions around the coast. They con
form to-European customs uud live as
much like Europeans as is possible for
a colored race. Yet these people still
worship the sun.
The Seychelles Islands.
The Seychelles islands form an arehi
pelago of 114 islands and are situated
about 1.400 miles east Of Aden and
1.000 miles from Zanzibar. They rise
steeply out of the sea. culminating in •
the isle of Mahe. which is about 3.000j
feet above tbe level of the ocean and
is nearly the center of the group. Ail
the islands are of coral growth. The (
houses are built of a species of mas
sive coral hewn Into square blocks
which glisten like white marble. '
Trying to Oblige.
"What's your nnuie. my poor man'/"
asked the kind hearted woman.
"Lady." replied Plodding Pete uu
blushingly, “me name Is 'Lord Reginald
Courteuay Thorpe.' ”
“Are you sure that's your real name'/' i
‘‘No. I jes' thought it ‘ud be a nice '
name fur you to use if you wanted to ;
put de fact dat you had given me u
sandwich an' a cup o' tea in de society !
news."—Washington Star.
There Are Others.
“It is very strange that no one lias
ever been able to find Captain Kidd's
treasure.”
“Oh. well. Captuin Kidd isn’t the
only man who has put his money into
real estate and couldn't get it out.”- I
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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The Whole Period.
"There is a period in a woman's life
when she thinks of nothing but dress.” I
“What period i| that?"
“From the cradle to the grave.”—
Puck.
Bounty is the first present nature
gives to women and the first it takes
away.—Mere.
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WHK.N A KIRK STARTS
the firemen’s best efforts are
given to putting it out as
quickly as possible. He aims
to save as much as he can. But
once a fire starts, damage end
loss commence. The only way
to offset that loss is to be well
insured. Our policies cover
all losses front the very min
ute the damage by flames, wa
ter or smoke commences.
Valdez Real Kstate Agency
T TONY’S PLACES'*
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS1 CLASS Manager.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle—
May 10—-S. S. Alameda.
May 1 i»— S. S. Alaska.
May 21—S. S. Mariposa.
May 27-—-S. S. Northwestern.
June 2—S. S. Alameda.
Valdez to Seattle— •
May 15—S. S. Northwestern.
May 20-—S. S. Alameda
May 25—S. S. Alaska
May 31—S. S. Mariposa
June 0—S. S. Northwestern
•’ "'I' 'T Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Kllamar, Ft. I.isrum, Val
dez., l.utoiiehe, Seward and Anchorage.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Kllamar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACT, f.en’l Agent YVI.DKZ. DOCK CO., l.itcnl Agent
Pacific Steamship Co.
( ADMIRAL LINK)
Our l.ait-e Fleet of Magnificent Steam-hip- otter Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Seattle, U !*. >|.
May 11 — S. S. Adm. Evans
May 1!» s. s. Adm. Farragut
May 2S—S. S. Adm. Watson
June 4—S. S. Adm. Evans
June Hi—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Valdez to Seattle—
May 15—S. S. Acini. Watson
May 23—S. S. Acini. Evans
May 31—S. S. Acini. Farragut
June 10—S. S. Ad ni. Watson
June 10—S. S. Adtn. Evans
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Atuieles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Tiiursday and Saturdays.
II YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY REST *
For Full •Particulars Address
Phone I VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1911
PIONEER CONTRACTOR 1<OOILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of wall
board kept in stock at all times.
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ, ALASKA---PHONE lii
REFERENCES ( S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS 1 B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Furnished rooms at Mrs Osland’s.
Prices reasonable. •
Fresh candy at the Emporium, tl
•Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt's Candy Kitchen. tf
Anything in nugget and ivory Jew*
elrv at Valdez Drug Co.
Pasteurized Products.
Pasteurizer Whipping Cream, Pas
teurized Sweet Milk and Pasteurized
Buttermilk at Love-Whitley C'o.’s. tf
A new line of heaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
Lowney’s Box Candies at Hunt's
Candy Kitchen. tf
The articles you ordered have ar
ri'-fcd at the Emporium. tf