Butterick Patterns and the De
lineator for May—Now on Sale
New Tilings For The Dry
Goods Section Arriving
THE last steamer brought this department
several new articles—just the advance
guard of the many nice things this store hopes
to show you this spring and summer. Here
are some of the goods you’ve been looking for:
Woolen Goods
50-inch black and white i hep
herd check, Cl "7E
a yard .vlilJ
50-inch navy blue Epingle
;S?\*. $2.00
50-inch Gabardine, colors black
and navy, CO nn
per yard .$ZiUU
Coats Crochet Cotton
Mercerized crochet couon to
take the place of D M. C. 'Ar
tical 151, sizes from nr.
5 to 80, per ball.tvlll
Cotton Materials
30-inch costume Crepe, ORP
neat patterns, a yd.tub
32-inch Devonshire cloth, sun
and tub proof, 9Rp
27-inch white Cotton qc»
Poplin, per yard.JJu
32-inch Long cloth, chamois
finish, for un- 9Rp
derwear prices, 20 and tub
27-inch white Pique, both nar
row and wide wale, ARP
sale price 35 and.*fJb
Stickerie Trimmings
Wash edging, assorted patterns
and colors, 3 and 4 yd. 1 ftp
length, per bolt.I Ub
Fibertex Hosiery
The new hosiery for women,
made of Fibertex or' artificial
silk; all the rage outside, sizes
9 to 10, black, QCp
price per pair.uJu
Women’s Union Suits
The popular styles in women’s
gauze underwear, "Comfy cut”
and others; low neck, no sleeve,
cuff knee,
a garment.
Valdez Mercantile Co.*
TRUE VALUES
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 5 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—-EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing 15th calif Iliamna’and^Kodiak--All sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Ri^ht reserved to change schedule without notice
> RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt,
Arcade Cafe
Open untill & P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing. Enlarging
A. W.. L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
A new line of Valdez and Alaska
pennants and pillow tops at the Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for J1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells andWay 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
8EE CAPT. 8TAMEY.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER. President,
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdes, /Hagka.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. • f
'OPERA LEADER
DIES INJRTLAND
PORTLAND, Ore., April 23.—Marie
Lombardi, a well-known impresario,
died here today of apoplexy at the
age of till. His wife, only 32 years
of age, immediately swallowed poison
in an effort to die and be with her
husband in death. The woman is
still alive but is not expected to re
cover. I
Ships Lost By England.
The semi-official North German Ga
zette, of Berlin, in its issue of March
11, asserts that a compilation of Eng
lish vessels destroyed from August 1
to March 1, shows 111 steamships,
with an aggregate tonnage of more
than 400,000 tons; 4 auxiliary cruisers
of 32,384 tons, 1 sailing vessel of 1,
785 tons, 1 schooner of 107 tons, 8
mine sweepers, of which 4 aggregat
ed 943 tons, and one troop transport
ship of unknown size. The total ton
nage is estimated at 437,879. The
English merchant ships interned in
enemy harbors are not included in
this list.
Catholic Dance.
Saturday, April 24th, a benefit dance
will be given for the convent at Moose
hall. After the dance a good lunch
will be served at midnight. The la
dies’ are asked to have the lunch
brought to the hall before 7:30 o’clock
in the evening. k 25
Spring is here. Get your disinfect
ants at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Alaska Water, Light and
Telephone Company will be held at
said company’s office, in the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, on Monday, the
third day of May, 1915, at the hour
of two o’clock in the afternoon of
said day, at which meeting the di
rectors of said company shall be
elected for the ensuing year, and
such other business shall be trans
acted as may regularly come before
said meeting.
"Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 17th
day of April, 1915.
JONES H. KIRK,
Secretary.
First publication April 17, 1915.
Last publication May 1, 1915.
PRO FESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
—DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 10 the dentist
Office rooms over Oivl Drug store. Office hours
i a. m., to 6 p. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
^ ** .
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PfiRKER’S two sermons.
And How He Got the Morning Congr*.
gation Back at Night.
A characteristic story of Dr. Parker
was told me the other day, writes “A
Man of Kent" in the British Weekly,
by a minister who had it from an old
minister who was much interested in
Joseph Parker's early work as a local
readier. One Saturday he met Park
er and asked him whether he had un
engagement for Sunday. “Yes," was
I the reply.
"Are your sermons ready, Joseph?"
asked the minister.
"I have tlie morning sermon." was
the reply, "but I am not sure about
the evening.”
“Well. Joseph, what is your text for
the morning and how do you treat it?”
Parker went over his text and the
outline of his sermon.
“But, Joseph,” said the minister,
“that is very clever, but it is not the
real meaning of the text. If you will
look at the commentaries you will see
that you are wrong.”
Parker thanked him and went his
way. On the Monday the minister
l again met his friend.
"Well, Joseph, how did you get on
yesterday ?”
“Very well.” was the reply.
“flow did you manage?”
“Well,” he said, “in the morning I
preached my sermon and explained the
text in my way, and at the close I
said: ‘This is how I understand it
But learned men understand it differ
ently, and I will tell you in the even
ing how the learned men understand
it.’’’
They all came back in the evening,
and Joseph had a happy day.
MEASURING A RIVER.
How Napoleon’s Engineer Found Its
Width Without Instruments.
An engineer found himself summon
ed one day into the presence of his
commander. Napoleon stood on the
bank of a wide river gazing across to
where the enemy had planted batteries,
which he desired to attack with artil
lery.
'•How wide is that river?” was the
question put to the engineer.
"Let mo get my instruments,” was
the reply as he turned to go for them.
"I must know at once.” the emperor
insisted.
The engineer went down to the level
bank of the river und, standing erect,
gradually bent his head forward till
the edge of his hat brim just touched
the line from his eyes to the water line
at the opposite bank of the river.
Then, keeping his head bent as it was.
he wheeled a quarter turn till his eyes
looked along the hat brim and met the
land at a point on the same side of the
river on which he stood. Here he
noted a rock or tree near the point at
which his eyes met the ground and,
calling a soldier, directed that a stake
be driven near that point ns he should
direct. Then, by motioning just where
to drive the stake, he fixed the point
at which the line from hat brim and
eye reached the bank. Turning to the
emperor, he said. “Your majesty, the
distance from where I stand to the
stake is the width of the river.”
And so it was. as you can readily
3ee. If the emperor did not promote
that officer—why, then the story does
not end as it should.—St. Nicholas.
Mount Vernon.
Mount Vernon passed into the hands
of the Mount Vernon association
just prior to the war between the
states. It was purchased from the
Washington heirs for $200,000. Of the
purchase money about half was raised
by Edward Everett through his lec
tures and the balance by the ladies of
the association. Each state represent
ed in the association has a special
room in the mansion. The place is
kept in faultless repair and vandalism
is made well nigh impossible by the
careful watching. During the war
Mount Vernon was, by mutual consent,
neutral ground, and the wearers of
the blue and the wearers of the gray
often met before the tomb of the great
American, who was loved equally by
north and south.
Hospitality.
The appetite of the guest was a
keen one, and he was doing full Jus
tice to the excellent dinner provided
by his host. The little daughter of
the house watched him open mouthed
for awhile. Then finally she smiied
on him brightly and said:
“Oh, I do wish you were here to din
ner every day!”
The guest beamed with satisfaction.
“Do you, my dear? Why?” he In
quired.
“Because,” came the unexpected re
ply, "there won’t be anything cold to
eat tomorrow.”—London Tit-Bits.
Discipline.
“How do you get your constituents
so thoroughly accustomed to implicit
reliance on your word?”
“Well,” replied Senator Sorghum, “I
made ’em understand at the outset
that If they didn’t accept my state
ments they’d bnve to listen to a long
string of statistics.—Washington Post.
Wasted Effort.
“He never spanks bis Bon, does he?”
“No; he’s an efficiency crank.”
“What’s that got to do with it?”
“Be says the upward stroke Is lost
motion.”—Houston Post.
Indignant Denial.
"Prisoner, have you any collateral
about you?"
“No, sab; an’ dat man’s a liar what
said I eveh don tecbed any.”—Balti
more American.
The gem cannot be polished without
friction, nor man perfected without
trials.
RIGOROUS SCHOOLING.
He Carried to His Death the Lesson He
Learned at Eton.
Dr. Keate. the terrible head master
of Eton, encountered one winter morn
ing a small boy crying miserably and
asked hitn what was the matter. The
child replied that he was cold. “Cold!'’
roared Keate. "You must put up with
cold, sir! Y'ou are not at a girls'
school!"
It is a horrid anecdote, and I am
kind i i eat red enough to wish that Dr.
Keate. who was not without his genial
moods, had taken the lad to some gen
erous (ire (presuming such a thing was
to be found) and had warmed his fro
zen hands and feet. But it so chanced
that in that little snivelling boy there
lurked a spark of pride and a spark of
fun, and both ignited at the rough
touch of the muster.
lie probably stopped crying, and he
certainly remembered the sharp ap
peal to manhood, for fifteen years later,
with the Third dragoons, he charged
at the strongly intrenched Sikhs (30.000
of the best lighting men of the Khalsa)
on the curving banks of the Sutlej.
And as the word was given he turned
to his superior officer, a fellow Eton
ian, who was scaiffiing the stout walls
and the belching guns. “As old Keate
would say. this is no girls' school.” he
chuckled, and rode to his death on the
battlefield of Sobraon, which gave La
hore to England.—Agnes Kepplier in
Atlantic.
CORRECTED BY A SENTRY.
The Incident Which Led to Coleridge
Retiring From the Army.
In Ills young days the poet Coleridge
had a little love affair which ended in
disaster, for the lady refused him. In
despair be enlisted in a cavalry regi
ment, which he hoped would be or
dered on foreign service, that lie might
end his blighted career on the tented
Held. For family reasons he dropped
his correct name, but from a feeling of
sentiment retained the Initials, so Sam
uel Taylor Coleridge became Private
Silas Tompkins Camberhatch.
The regiment did not leave the coun
try, aud it was not long before his soul
wearied of barrack life aud its utter
absence of romance. His military life
ended in a curious fashion. One day
while Coleridge was doing a weary
sentry go two officers strolled past.
One of them made use of a Greek quo
tation, which the other corrected. The
first insisted on his correctness, while
the other was just ns positive he was
wrong.
While they disputed, the sentry sud
denly presented arms and respectfully
informed them that they were both in
error. He gave the exact quotation,
name of the author and other circum
stances. If his musket had spoken the
hearers could uot have been more as
tonished. The incident led to an in
quiry, and the poet was restored to
the bosom of his fnmily.—Argonaut.
Bavarian Distances.
Iu the Bavarian highlands signposts
along the roads, instead of stating the
number of miles or kilometers to the
various villages, give the amount of
time which the average pedestrian will
supposedly take to traverse the dis
tance. This is merely an official ex
pression of the very general custom of
the peasants in the region, who invari
ably tell inquirers on the roads not
how fur it is to a place, but how long
it takes to get there.
For instance, one asks, “How far is
it to Oberammergau?”
“A small half hour.” will be the an
swer, or perhaps “A good half hour"
or “A big half hour.”
Which is puzzling until the stranger
learns that a “small half hour” means
twenty-tive minutes, “a good half hour”
thirty minutes and “a big half hour”
thirty-five minutes.
Qualified to Paint Him.
Ambrose Patterson, the Australian
painter, secured a commission once to
paint a very lengthy and wealthy sub
urbanite. Patterson himself is a lank
brush, shooting up beyond six foot one
inch. He was rather priding himself
on having been given this commission,
bearing in mind the great pressure of
artists round every possible job in
Australia. Eventually, however, the
sitter explained. “I was a long time
lookin’ for a sootable hartist,” he said.
“I’m six foot two an’ a ’arf, and till 1
struck you I 'adu’t seen a painter what
’ad enough ’ight to do a full length of
me.”—Argonaut.
Schiller and Goethe.
Schiller wns, from all accounts, a
much finer man than Goethe, put in
mental grasp and artistic power the
Sage of Weimar was head and shoul
ders above his dear friend Schiller.
The Germans know this, and while
they love Schiller far more than they
do Goethe, they are not blind to the
fact that the latter was much the
greater intellect.—New York American.
Brutal Delay.
‘‘His love is growing cold,’ she said,
with a sigh.
“Why do you think so?” her mother
asked.
“I told him he might call this even
Ing at 8, and it was half n minute
after that wheu he arrived.”—Chicago
Record-Herald.
Figures Don't Lie.
Hoax-Men live faster than women.
Joax-That’s right. My wife and 1
were the same age when we were mar
ried. but I'm fifty now, and she’s just
thirty-one.—Illustrated Bits
Eduoation.
Education does not consist of knowl
edge alone. It la the mental capacity
af being able to establish and main
tain harmony between ourselves and
the world.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Chas. Perry
.’Seattle "
J4 Complete Services
14 IN THE HEART OF THE CITY *
1155Rooms with bath-503ampleRooms
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S!
Moved to Reed Building, cn Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
t 7 a id to 9 a ni
MEALS < Lunch 12 in to 1 p ni
t e to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patient*
ForTerms and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern:
You are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Mont3 Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322.
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decem
ber, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May, 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said secMon.'
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. in.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There wHl be no trips of the launch
on the secot-d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boll-rs.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“l)acf” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
mining prospect-other
wise a good many of to
day’s successful business
enterprises would still be
mere dreams.
Advertising has brought
about a majority of the
introductions of the man
With the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.