THE ALASKA PROSPECTOR
Published at \ nldez, Alaska, every Thursday by the Prospector
Publishing Co. Phone, Main 1.
Entered at the Valdez jiostoflice as second class matter.
Huhscrijitions: f" j>cr year. for aix months. Single copies lOcenls
Tin* advance notices of the polit-,
ieal joh designated as the Alaska
convention, would indicate that
the promoters, Perkins and Ryan,
had all of the delegates well in
hand, hut it is to lie hoped that
our Valdez representatives will
hear in mind the past actions of
Ryan, candidate -for delegate tO|
Washington. It was this Ryan
who said that a road from Valdez,
would he of no value as it would 1
not open un a country that was
any good, hut that a road from
Katmai would he of great and last
ing lienefit to the world in general.
No one took him seriously at the,
time, hut now lie appears, with the'
aid of the redoubtable Col. Per
kins, to have framed a trap into;
which the people of this section of j
Alaska have walked hlin iloldcd.
The Ketchikan Journal contains
a wail from some socially ostra-]
ciscil correspondent, lamenting
ing over the fact that “a small
aggregation styling themselves the j
‘400’ will intentionally and mali-1
ciously hand together, anil for;
spite, neglect some of the people
whose endeavors toward Ketchi
kan’s welfare have always been
given with a free hand,” etc.
These petty social squabbles are to
be seen in all Alaska towns, hut
this is the first instance coming to
our observation where they were
taken seriously and made a mat
ter of comment in the papers.
There appear-* to he an epidemic I
among the chambers of commerce I
in Alaska. Nome lias one called J
the ‘‘Mutual Admiration Society,”
and those at Wrangell and Valdez J
are spoken of as needing reviving, j
As it is nearly time to resolute and |
appeal to ttie justice of congress,
Mrs. \\ in slow should forward a
gross of soothing syrup to assist in
the reviving.—Dispatch
There is one federal plum vacant \
'ii this section that does not appear
to he hankered after by the ever I
hungry politician. This is the po
sition of poll tax collector or road
commissioner. Under the last fed
1
eral act, the citizens n Alaska are
supposed to pay eight dollars rer
year poll tax, hut so far no one has
tiled an application for the position, j
At Haines recently the poll tax
* collector put ail the cannery China
men in jail for failure to do their
share towards public roads. The
Chinamen said “no sabe.”
If the prets reports are right our
delegates to Seattle have become
imbued with the “Seattle Spirit”
anti will tight against having fu
ture Alaska conventions in Alaska.
The Juneau Hec jrdsMiner is out
after the scalp of J. J. Boyce, dis
trict attorney in the First division.
It is claimed that he is incompe
tent.
Bare Correspondence.
As there is luck in odi^uunbers
it is presumed that our good luck
is due to the fact that there were
three of us in the party—Fjeld,
Berkenholz and Youts Truly.
We had just finished a hard,
early spring job of hauling our out
fit from Y’aldez to Jack creek, a
tributary of the Tanana, a distance
of about three hundred miles, and
had completed our permanent
damp, when we decided to take a
holiday on Easter Sunday. As a
recreation we proposed to prospect
for the continuation of our ledge
on a small side creek, and as is the
general habit, took along our shoot
ing tools. None of us were ever
noted for marksmanship, hut we
felt that if we could not hit any
thing we could at least have the
satisfaction of shooting at some
thing.
Wre mushed along leisurely up
the Nabesna, and into Jack creek,
keeping to the river bottom all the
way, and meeting with nothing in
♦he way of game till we had pro
ceeded up tin* latter stream about
a mile when, turning a l>en<l in the
henehes, we suddenly espied two
War culis gamboling about on a
clearing about, twenty-five hundred
feet up on the side of the mountain.
We immediately felt a craving for
bear meat, and decided to get some.
Making a cautious detour up the |
mountain we got within rifle range,
and well hidden behind a clump of
brush. Between us and the cubs
there was what we supposed to be
a large, grayish boulder. After a
few minutes wait the cubs in their
antics ran higher up and clear of
the boulder, when we thought it
time to secure our fresh meat.
Simultaneously we fired, and evi
dently with effect, not on the cubs
but on the rock, which proved to
be three large, rusty looking glacier
bears. They jumped to their feet,
and sighting us evidently deter
mined that they would like some
fresh meat, for they at once start
ed for us in leaps and bounds.
Now hunting is quite a pleasant
sport when bear is in season and
man is the hunter, but when man
is in season and bear is the hunter
it is time for man to get out of the
way, and that is what we proceed
ed to do. It was a long chase
down hill with Fjeld in the lead,
and such strides as he made! It
was simply wonderful, and were it
not lor the fact.that I had urgent
need to follow him I would have
liked to stand and witness the
race, but l kept going, and so did
our companion till we finally
reached camp in safety.
The next day curiosity led us
hack over the trail to take a (,au
tiqus view of the bears. Thev
were absent, but we picked up IS
rabbits that Fjeld had tramped to
death the day previous in his mad
efforts to escape the bear.
\\ e have come to the conclusion
that rabbit is far preferable to bear
f<»r a good, quiet dinner.
Bon Thoiisox
Seattle, Nov. 14 — The North
Coast Railroad Company has asked
the city council to grant a franchise
allowing them to enter Seattle.
This company is constructing a
line from Milwaukee, and is close
ly allied with the Pacific railroad,
which holds the Milwaukee’s tide
land terminals in Seattle and Ta
coma. Surveyors are working all
along the line of the proposed road
from here to Chamberlain, South
Dakota.
Denver, Nov. 14—President Fen
iniore, of the Denver & Yellowstone
railroad, said in an interview to
day: “We intend to build a rail
road from Denver to Seaftle, and
construction work on the same will
start immediately.
Washington, Nov. 14 —Repre
sentatives of all the railroad un
ions and orders meet here to-stay.
They declare themselves as op
posed to the new law proposed by
Roosevelt, regulating the rates on
railroads. They state that such a
, l‘lw would be antagonistic to their
interests.
New \ ork, Nov 14—American
sailors gave a banquet to the crew
of the British ships under Prince
Louis last night. The Prince and
j Admiral Evans were cheered for
four minutes on their entrance to
| the banquet room.
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Notice.
Owing to increased transporta
tion facilities tlie Copper Center
Mining and Trading Co. will, after
Aug. 1, reduce the prices of pro
visions twenty j»er cent.
The longest successful wireless
telegraph system in the world is
that in operation between St.Mich
ael and Safety Harbor, a distance
of 107 miles.
KlCht j let bUmo raw tkknt
Englishmen Who Htn Usds For
tunes from Cutting and Sell
ing On* and the Other.
It gives one mthef nn aehe In
the month to reflect that a gentle
man who died recently in London
has left an estate of nearly £17t»,
•hflt, all from making artificial
teeth. Better thftt way than the
fashion in which his prototyjs-s
raised their wealth, says the St.
James’ Gazette. Before the arti
ficial tooth was created defleien
Hes had to be made good fiytlic real
article, so body-snatchers ravaged
the cemeteries at night, brenking
up the jaws of the dead to extract
their teeth to sell to dentists for
insertion in live men's mouths.
An army of these ghouls followed
Wellington. They were licensed
ns sutlers, but. once night fell, out
came their pliers, and out entue
the teeth of those dead and
dying on the battlefields. It is a
horrible idea, but we are not so
much more refined today. Onlv
18 months ngo somebody was ex
ploiting the bones of our soldiers
who had fought and died un<vr
Lord Wolseley in the Ashanti
\\nr. The poor relics were nhinped
to London, taken t*> an auction
room to be sold as “curios.” and
only at the Inst moment was pub
lie opinion too strong to permit
the wicked transaction to he car
ried through. Not so far from
where the prosperous tooth fac
tor has just died there used to
live a cutter of corns. Everybody
kn.-w him—old Wolff. He did not
aspire to the title of chiropodist—•
simply a cutter of corns lie. More
than a thousand clients paid him
t heir t hree guineas a year. One of
them was an archbishop, who,
w hile he submitted a painful corn
to the razor, plied his |tersunsive
tongue upon the cutter. Here was
1! Jew to tie converted. "Sir, of you
w ill go on talking. F shall cut von.”
was the only response ofShylock.
‘‘If I make yon bleed you’ll die.”
w as another grim way he had of
si’enelng his clients. In his dingv
ah! room, patronized hy all the
Hon* of thf* atook exrhnnfre, and
ov<» vtm(]v wlio was anybody with
a corn, bo pilwt up a fortune of
over six ti'/urcs. and was still coin
in'; money up to the date of his
death at the ajre of S4.
COAL — • COAL
C. \\\ Miller, agent, or Copper Uiver
braving Co.
Notice of Forfeiture
Valdez, A In*kit, Aug. 21, HIV.
To r. Tjoskvio and Hkkmvn Mf.ykk:
You m:i<1 each of you ate hereby notified (hut
1 have expended. during the year HUH, One
Hundred Hollars upon cm. .1 of tlV- Lereina'l i
iii'ii" '! quartz mining claims, iu labor and im
| proveineiitM, to wit; Tl.e • Little Bonanza”
bide claim, dul) recorded iu book at page
rfC* oi mining location*, In tlie office of the rc
corder of tin- Valdez Recording Hisirict. Alas
ka: the “Bull I>og” lode claim, duly recorded
in book <1, ut page ”iO»i of said record*; the
| “Norway” bale claim, duly tecorded i-i book
<i, at page and «*I said record*. All .,f the above
; named claim* are situated near the Keuuicot
glacier, in the Valdez mining district, and Id- -
trict of Alaska. And that I. Jam.)* McCarthy,
! during the year ltad, in order to hold -, ui
claim* under the prov.-dotis oi >»•. lion ,d
th * Revised S alutes ol the C tilled Stall * and
the amendments tin rcto, concerning annual
labor upon mining claim* being the umount
required to hohl *aid claim* for the war end
ing Uecemb-r 21*1, Hud, have expend, i One
, Hundred 1'ollars in annual asseosinent work
| upon each of nbovesaid cluiills.
I And if within ninety day* of the personal
service of this notice, or within ninety davsof
tl.e publication thereof, you fail or * refuse to
contribute your proportion of such cxpctidi
j turc upon each or any of xaid claims, your in
| tcrc.'t in said claimsor in any or cither of (item
will become the property *«*f the subs, -riber
hereunto,%your c«)-o\vner, who iiu* made the
requisite ex|K-mlilure mi.lcr lln- leru n .l !hi
law.
This notice doe* not preclude either of you
from contributing >our proportion of such ex
penditure upon either of *aid mining Haim*
and preventing a forfeiture of your in?erc*t iu
eii her of said iiuuing clalms-up..n whieh *uch
puyment is made.
JAM EH McCAKTIIY.
First date of publication Aug. 21, tiXL>.
date id publication November 23. i-«uj.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
F. M. BOYLE, W. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Plione 30 VALDEZ,
Offices: ALASKA
Fisli Hull,Img. McKinley St.
Dr. C. A. WINANS,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Rooms 1 anti 2,
Swan Building Plione 19
W. A. RYSTROM,
Dentist.
Fish
Building. Valdez.
Open evening*, Sunday excepted. 7;:» t !».
A. JUDSON ADAMS,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
U. S. Deputy 'Mineral and Land
Surveyor.
, Broadway.
BROWN & SMITH,
Lawyers
Milling and I.and Imw*, Spccialtie*.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
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LEEDY & KELSEY,
Attorneys and Counselors.
Swas Bldo. Valdez.
D0N0H0E & OSTRANDER,
Attorneys at Law,
VALDEZ
John A. Carson,
Attorney and Counscllor-at-Law.
SALEM,
' Mcnilier of
I Alaska Bar. OREGON
R. BLIX.
NOTARY PUfeLIC
And CONVEYANCER.
i COPPER CENTER, ALASKA.
ARTHUR J. WARNER,
' ASSAYER
and ANALYTICAL CHEMIST.
77-78 Sullivan Bid?. Seattle.
For Assays Send Your Ore To
Ellamar Mining Co.
Gold, Silver and Coj>j*er ¥3.50
Gold and Silver - 1.50
Copper - - - ,’ts)
Lead ... -J.00
Ellamar, Alaska
HOTEL DILLER.
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• Headquarter* for Yuld z people ijo room*.
Hates 'mi eouts, $1 and j**r day. Firsteiai**
Kestauraut in connection. Free Tilu.*. upiiosiie
1.8. Fusloffice.
W. Ci. POTTS, Manager.
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It i* a dozen book* in one, covering the Hls
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i lie mist ry, Mineralogy. Metallurgy, Finances
and Statistic* of 4 «.ppt-r.
It lists aud describe* .T.Hi'j copper iniucs ami
companies in ail p»i :s ..f the worM.
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On Copper.
Price is 15 in Bueknii.i wdii uilt tup.and |7 Vi
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• othce block. Houghton. Mich., I*. 8 A
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Do You Want Lands In Alaska.
The quiokeM, be.st. and absolutely »afe wav
. to secure title is by
Recertified Soldiers Aadltlan.il Scrip.
j 1 have several thousand acres of this scrip ou
band. Pieces vary in sue from .19 of one acre
1 up to 14J acres.
i Special atteutiou (riven to LaB*i£am)^Mfniug
practice.
K. \V. McREYNOLI-S,
Attorney and Counsellor at Imyt,
Colorado Bldg.,
Washington, l>. C.
Reference*: C<>m‘uoreial Xat’l Btuk: \'4»t’l
Safe Hep. a. Trust t ».
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Camp Comfort Roadhouse.
On the trail to all interior (mints. Large com
fortable quarters with every accommodation for
man or beast Garden products in seaaon
Fresh Milk and Home Grown Vegetables
C. C. ROBERTS, Proprietor. 12 Miles From Valdes.
Workman’s Road House
P. MAGNUSSON, Proprietor.
First roadhouse built on Government
Trail. Can accomodate •'>0 people, has large
warm barn for 20 horses and good quarters
for dogs, (iood meals and everything the
niusher desires.
Twenty Miles From Valdez.
The Telkhell Roadhouse
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Best of, accommodations for man and hen at. * 1 F« •sh Vett,
Poultry and Vegetables always on hand. Best fowling ground
for horses on the trail.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor.
Willow Creek Roadhouse
Nafsted & Bingham.
On Winter Trail, Half Way Betwc en Tonsina and Copper
Center.
Best Accommodations FoF Travellers.
Frank Bingham, Manager.
HAY GRAIN
V. T. Co.
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! lie following Roadhouses, situated on tlic route to Fairbanks,
opera I < m1 under tin inan:n:enic:.t of the Valdez Transportation Co., I
will be found to lie tirst-class in every particular: * |
BEAVER DAM Roadhouse
41 Miles From Valdez.
Rates $4.00 j.er day. BILLY KAUFFMAN, Manager
GAKONA Roadhouse
135 Miles From Valiles
At Junction of the Eagle and Fairbanks Trails
Kates: Meals, $1.50, Beds $1.00
GEO. B. RORER MANAGER 1
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8«1uh»1 o! Opt n All Yt*ar
Practical Mining:, Gvil Mechanical, Elec
trical, Euginceilug, Metallurgy,
Cyanide Process.
Surveying. Architecture, J*ra.\ nigaicl Assay
ing. Assaying of l)iv>. F-'»; Million a>t<l < hl.Y
inalioli A'SrtV, $_*;•; pi|>c As y, *10. Full
course of Assaying •**■». : tblism*! 1n;i. > -utl
for circular
A. V AN r>E* KAILhH, Preside
11:5 Fultt . i' rmu iv Cal.
block »i > . . Hall.
Operates thej^tinest trains in the
world every day in the year, be
tween
Minneapolis,
St. Paul,
Chicgo,
Milwaukee,
OMAHA and KANSAS CITY,
making direct connections with
through trains for all points East
and South.
As cheap as the cheapest and the
best to he had. For rates or reser
vations, call or write,
F. \V. PARKER,General Agent.
151 Yesler Wav. Seattle.
SANDERS
PAINTING
PAPER HANGING
DECORATING
tyns A Specially
Ellamar
Mining
Companv
Powder, Caps, Fuse,
and all other nec
essaries for the
Prospector.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prices Reasonable.
EHainar. Al.-y,