STEAM HEATED HOT AND.COLD BATHS
Jjmriri jiff]" t
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHonF. 7 FOR MEN ONLY
ECONOMY 18 THE KEY
NOTE OF OUR SUCCESS
We were the first in the city to
place tailored to measure H
clothing within the reach of 4
every one. The day of high jj
prices is paBt. Let ns show H
you some dandy patterns >f 4
pure woolen fabrics that will Jj
make up into beautiful t.iits J
for a little money. 4
BEN SILVERMAN <
THE TAILOR 4
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hoae, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office.Telephone 84
m CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1917 j
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
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 18 :
d
REFERENCES \ S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova, ■
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAIJiY
Phone 08 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Oh as. Fischer, Propr.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms._Phone 35
Steam Laundry ]
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Aye
Telephone 66 I I Rou*rh Dry lCc lb
1 < • • *. 11 *. . ». ..
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Rexa!! stand for par excellence, not
alone in drugs, but every article sold
under the name. The Owl Drug
Store. 'f
Old-Fashioned Hoarhound lumps
at Hunt’s Candy Kitchen. tf
Rexall! Rexall! Investigate Rex
all products at the Owl Drug Store, tf
—
Fresh Box candy at Hunt’e Candy
Kitchen. A new tins opened. tf
Pictures and Panoramic Views
make fine presents. Valdez Drag
Co. * tf
Anything in nugget and ivery jew
elry at Valdes Drag Co.
If a man does not like another I
man he knocks the other man behind
his back. But a woman rushes up to
another woman she detests and kisses
her on both cheecks.
This is a wonderful country. No
matter how cold it gets there is plen
ty of hot air in circulation.
A single man imagines that after
he gets married he will have a right
to spend part of the money he earn.-.,
but within a week or two after mar
riage he is cured.
A new stock of A1 Fruit Tablets
Candy Kitchen. tf
Freeh candy at the Emporium tf
(Continued from Page One)
refused to discuss the attitude adopt
ed by Germany toward the blockade
of port of the entente powers and the
effect may have upon the United
States. He refuses to make any com
ment whatever upon the situation
end is quietly awaiting instructions
from Washington.
Many Submarines Sighted.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1. —Fishing
boats arriving here this morning from
the North Sea report having sighted
a large number of submarines, pre
sumably German, proceeding west
ward toward the British Islands.
I*resident Incredulous.
WASHINGTON. D. (’., Feh. 1 .—
President Wilson retired at 11 o'clock
last night after having spent the eve
ning alo/ie in his study. He seemed
incredulous when the first unofficial
draft of the German note was handed
to him, but his doubts were dispelled
when the official copy of the note was
conveyed to him by Ambassador veil
Bernstorff, following which he im
mediately summoned Secretary Lan
sing for a conference. What steps
will be taken by the administration
lias not been made known, but it is
generally conceded that diplomatic
relations between the United States
and Germany will be severed within
the next twenty-four hours.
—
All Ships Be Cleared.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.
The treasury department this morn
ing announced that clearance would
be granted all vessels desiring to
leave ports in the United States for
ports in the British Islands or other
belligerent countries.
Hindenberg » onceived I’lan.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—
The general consensus of opinion
among officials here is that the Ger
man plan of ruthless submarine war
tare was conceived and urged by
General von Hindenberg, and that
Admiral von Tirpitz was retired be
cause he failed in his submarine
campaign. It is believed that Ger
many plans to strike England a quick
staggering blow and end the war
quickly. It is stated that German
officials predict the end of the war
within a month.
Five Hundred Subs Ready.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 1.—Ac
cording to the German note to the
neutral nations beginning today sea
traffic is opposed by the Germans in
the barred zones including Great Uri
tain, France, Italy and the Eastern
Mediterranean sea. Five hundred
German submarines of a new type
and enormous cruising radius, have
been completed in the German ship
yards and have been sent out to com
pletely blockade the forbidden waters.
The warning sent out by Germany
states that all vessels attempting to
leave or enter ports in the restricted
zones will be sunk regardless of their
nationality or the character ol the
vessel. The gauntlet has been thrown
down to the neutrals, and they must
either aid Germany in breaking the
blockade of German ports by England
or stand aside and permit an unre
stricted fight between Germany and
her adversaries. Austria is expected
to give full support to the German
plans.
Hash Expected.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—Following
the receipt of the German note last
night, Collector Malone sealed this
port, forbidding the entry or depart
ure of all vessels for the night. Spe
cial patrols were also appointed to
guard the twenty-four interned Ger
man liners here, which it was rumor
ed were prepared to make a dash tor
sea.
Will Aim All Vessels.^
PARIS, Feb. 1.—The Maritime
League today announced that every
French vessel would be armed not
only for defense but for offense, and
that a war of extermination would be
waged against all German subma
rines.
Never Return Colonies.
LONDON, Feb. 1.—Walter Long,
the Colonial Secretary, today stated
that the German colonies in Africa
and elsewhere, captured by Groat
Britain and her allies would never be
returned to German rule.
(dear At Own Risk.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—It was an
nounced by the port officers here to
day that as a neutrality precaution
ships given clearance papers would be
warned that they must proceed at own
risk.
Shore Leave Revoked.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 1.—The
Commander of the Navy Yard has re
yoked shore leave for the seven hun
dred members of the crews of the In
terned German auxiliary cruisers
Kron Prlnx Eitel and Kron Prim
Wilhelm, and has issued orders that
they shall not leave the vessels until
further orders.
STORES IN BURMA.
You Can Make Purchaaaa In Tliam If
You Try Hard Enough.
You may walk through the muddy
old markets of Kangoon for hours at a
time or through the bazaar at Manda
lay without any of the salespeople tak
ing the slightest notice of you as a
possible purchaser of their wares. The
dear little ladies sit crosslegged upon
long tables in front of the high cup
boards containing their goods. They
are placidly smoking or chatting or
painting their faces or braiding their
hair. They are uot attending to busi
ness in the least.
It requires a great effort to get a
Burmese shopwomun (they are nearly
all women) to show you her Nilks, and
when at last she has spread her mer
chandise broadcast upon the table and
you ure reveling in the illusion that
you are living in the middle of a rain
bow, with a chance of holding fast to
some of its colors, she will ask her
price, which is seldom more than u
ruiiee too much, and will stick to it
like glue.
She is an indolent lady In many ways,
who loves a quiet life, and she has de
termined that her most comfortable
course is not to haggle in the market
place. So you may make up your mind
that bargaining and persuasion are use
less arts to practice in Burma, however
valuable they may be elsewhere.—Lon
don Spectator.
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Held by Authorities to Bo Port of the
Notional Jurioprudonoo
The declaration that international j
law is at one and the same time both I
national and international has far
reaching and very practical signiti- j
cance for the work of building a new I
international order.
The courts of Great Britain, begin- I
ning with Lord Chancellor Talbot in .
1733 and including Lord Chief Justice
Mansfield in 1704, have held that the ,
law of nations is part of the common
law of England. Sir William Black
stone supported this doctrine in his
classic Commentaries. This doctrine i
holds good as well in the United States j
as iu Great Britain, a fact to which j
both Thomas Jefferson und Alexander
Hamilton bore convincing testimony.
In the lifetime of the present gener- i
ation the United States supreme court
has held that international law is part
of our law and that, in order to ascer
tain and udminister it in cases where
there is no treaty and no controlling
executive or legislative act or judicial
decision, resort must he had to the cus
toms und usages of civilised nations.—
New York Times.
Parnell’s Superstitions.
Several stories illustrating the super
stitious nature of Parnell are told in
a memoir which his brother has writ
ten. His horror of the color green has
been touched on by many writers. He
would not wear a coat or tie with any
tinge of green in it. and he objected
to anything like a green wall paper. So
strong was his aversion to the color
that one day when a lady whom he
knew very well came to see him in
the house of commons he refused to
shake hands with her because she was
wearing a green dress and hurried
away from her as quickly as possible.
He also had a horror of the number
13. Once, during an election (his broth
er, .1. H. Parnell, tells us), he was
put in a room numbered 13 in a coun
try hotel. "What a room to give me!"
he remarked. "1 suppose the landlord
Is a Tory and has done this on pur
pose.”
Ready For Him.
The landlady noticed with unfeigned
dismay that her new lodger’s fire con
sumed more coal than she bad been
accustomed to provide for it. She
mentioned it.
"Oh. yes!" explained the ingenious
young man. "You see, 1 always place
the lumps of coal upon the fire in such
a way that the grain of the coal is per
pendicular—that. is running up and
down, you understand. It makes much
better fire. Nothing like a little sci
ence, you know.”
The unimpressed female who con
tracted for the supply of daily neces
saries spoke in a bard voice that al
most stopped the lodger’s watch:
“That may be so. bui 1 always
charges 1 shilling extra to scientific
gents!"—London Telegraph.
The Wind end the Keyhole.
“How excellently I whistle!” said the
wind to the keyhole.
"Well, that’s good!” answered the
keyhole. “It Is I who do the whistling.
I should have thought you knew that.”
Just then the old lady took some pa
per and stuffed up the keyhole, so that
neither wind nor keyhole whistled any
longer, and It would be difficult to say
which of the two was more annoyed.—
My Magazine.
Well, Why Not?
Crawford—You seem to think your j
wife the most unreasonable woman in ;
the world. Crabshaw—You see, 1 mort
gaged the house to buy her a car, and
now she wants me to raise money on
the car to purchase her a birthday
present—London Answers.
, H«r Share.
“So the lawyers got about all of the
estate. Did Kdith get anything?"
"Oh, yea! She got one of the law
yers.”—Boston Transcript
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if fire does come you will have
• he ready means to replace
your home. Foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
'S' TONY’S PLACE™
EVERYTHING ANTON CARLSON,
FIRS! CLASS Manager.
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINK) *
Our Large Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
h om Seattle to \ aide/.—
Feb. 3—S. S. Admiral Watson
Feb. 15—S. S. Admiral Evans
For Seward.
Feb. 25—S. S. Admiral Watson
For Kodiak
Mar. 2—S. S. Admiral Farragut
Mar. 9—S. S. Admiral Evans
l*Yoni Valdez for Seattle—
Feb. 4—S. S. Admiral Evans
Feb. 11—S. S. Admiral Watson
Feb. 23—-S. S. Admiral Evans
Mar. 8 S. S. Admiral Watson
Mar. 10—S. S. Adm. Farragut
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Ijeave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Jan. 26—S. S. Alaska.
Feb. 1—S. S. Northwestern.
Feb. 8—S. S. Mariposa.
Feb. 16— S. S. Alaska
Valdez to Seattle—
Jan. 27—S. S. Mariposa.
Fell. 2-— S. S. Alaska.
Feb. 8—S. S. Northwestern.
Feb. 16—S. S. Marinnaa
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellarnar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice
F. B. TRACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO.. Locnl Agent
Make it a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to Elec
trification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable accommo
dations and you’ll like the little courtesies inci
dent to ‘‘Milwaukee” service.
J. C. Martin, Valdez, Phone 1 A. E. Harris, T. P. A. Juneau, Alaska.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Rexall! Rexall! Always gets fin,-’
call by discriminating buyers wh «
know that Rexall stands for superla
tive excellence. Owl Drug Store, ex
elusive agents. it
Pure Fresh Drugs ai me Valdez
Drug Store. tf
For fine Candies see our stock.
Valdez Drug Co. tf
A new line of Heaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
Just received, a new line or Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
Just Received— th<- latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdes Drug Co. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfe. t-ot baggage for you. tf
For good warm rooms try the St
Sitae Hotel. tf
|
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE,
STORAGE,
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance
Location notices, ootn quarts and
[placer, at the Miner office.
E