15c Ginghams For 10c
~~7~\ TABLE of about twenty piecs of
A A. F. C. and Toile du Nord ging
_bams in checks and stripes—in
red, blue brown and pink. Regu- j n
lar price 15c a yd. Special a yd
Valdez Mercantile Co. in'
The Store That Sells for Tess.
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
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“The House of Comfort,”
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VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY j
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made. j
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street, j
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
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Native and f f TMDCD *nd Building
Puget Sound JL U1V1 J3HiIV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Beat of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. ' KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
^treet, next to Road Commisiion
S7 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
6 to 7 p tn
BOARD & ROOM $60 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to |
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge. ;
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
The Prospector office for job work.
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail. Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Etlamar, Well* Pay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
IVir. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing.tPrinting, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
B
Main Carranza Army Only Thirty
Miles From New Villa Position—
Crash Soon Expected.
WASHINGTON, May 13- The next
great battle between Gens. Obregon
and Villa will be fought this week,
according to advices reaching Wash
ington, which show that Gen. Obre
gon passed through Silao yesterday
at the head of his army, which is
advancing toward Aguascalientes.
Silao is on the main line ot railway
from Irapuato to Aguascalientes,and
is about eighteen miles north of Ira
puato, which, until two weeks ago,
was the headquarters from which
Gen. Villa was directing lii^ cam
paign against Celaya. Thirty-one
miles north of Silao is the town of
Francisco, where Villa has, accord
ing to State Department information,
been erecting defenses in an effort
to block tlie northward advance of
Obregon.
Carranza reports that there has
been a split between Gens. Angeles
and Villa are flatly denied by Enrique
C. Llorente, who is the confidential
agent here of the Villista provisional
government. Senor Llorente sent
telegrams asking for the truth of the
relation be'ween Gens. Villa and An
geles, and has received responses on
the basis of which he has issued this
statement:
“In view of the persistence with
which the reports of the differences
between Gen. Villa and Gen. Angeles
are being circulated by their ene
mies, the confidential agency wishes
to state that it has had communica
tions from both generals personally
denying with great emphasis that ev
en the slightest friction has taken
place between them.”
HAVE MR TREE
TRIMMEDJIP NOW
The Civic League has arranged for
the cutting of tree tops in the city
at a very nominal sum. Trees will be
opped for 50 cents a piece by the
league, which has contracted with sev
eral young and strong tree toppers
who are willing to help the league
to beautify the city. Those who wish
to have trees topped need but ’phone
No. 47 and the matter will be at
tended to. The trees are greatly im
proved if the tops are cut off and
become more bushy. Help the Civic
League to beautify Valdez.
VALDEZ GIRL TAKES
WRONG MEDICINE
Reaching for a bottle of cough
medicine to allay a cough and in the
darkness taking by mistake a drink
front a bottle of carbolic acid which
stood on the dresser near the cough
syrup, was the experience of Mrs. I.
Kewoen of this city. Realizing in
stantly that something was wrong,
■Mrs. Kewoen called to her mother,
Mrs. Boyle, and an antidote was
promptly given. Dr. Dalton was call
ed and alcohol and whites of eggs
were given in large quaintities so
that the young woman was soon out
of danger. The accident happened at
midnight and no lights were on in
the bed room so that the mistake of
taking the poison instead of the
cough medicine was easily made.
Mrs. Kewoen is resting easy today
and is said to be out of all danger.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Weather Report.
V'aldez, May 12, 1915.
Barometric pressure .30,004
Temperature at 7 p. nj. 51
Maximum temperature . (i2
Minimum temperature . 41
Mean temperature . 51,1-2
Clear air, wind northeast 6 miles.
On the basis ot Security arid Service
we solicit your account.
6 WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
John Bull.
“John Bull,” a popular epithet for
la Englishman, as a personification of
what is supposed to be the English
type, is derived from a prose political
satire by Dr. John Arbuthnot, who
used the name in his “History of John
Bull” (1712, reprinted complete in
“Pope’s Miscellanies” in 1728). The
subject of that history is the "Spanish
succession during t lie reigns of Queen
Anne and I.ouis XIV.” Queen Anne is
“Mrs. Bull.”
“John Bull's mother” is the church
of England, and "John Bull’s sister
Peg” is the Scotch nation, represented
as in love with Jack (Calvin). The de
scription of Bull is so close to the
familiar figure in the pages of Punch
that a sentence or two may be quoted:
“Bull in the main was an honest and
plain dealing fellow', choleric, bold and
of a very inconsistent temper. He
dreaded not old Lewis (Louis XIV.),
either at back sword, single falchion
or cudgel play, but then he was very
apt to quarrel wdth his best friends,
especially if they pretended to govern
him. If you flattered him you might
lead him ns a child.”
Literary Controversies.
Famous controversies over the au
thorship of poems Include the follow
ing:
"Laugh and the World Laughs With
You,” claimed by four or five different
authors, is now credited to Ella
Wheeler Wilcox. Her chief opponent,
was John A. Joyce.
“Rock Me to Sleep” was claimed by
two different authors.
John J. Ingalls, the great Kansas
statesman and writer, had his author
ship of “Opportunity” disputed ninny
times.
Walt Whitman and Mary Mapes
Dodge had a stirring dispute about a
little poem, "The Two Mysteries.”
The authorship of Shakespeare's
plays has been ascribed to Francis Ba
con (Lord Verulam), Christopher Mar
lowe, Sir Walter Raleigh and other con
temporaries.—SL Louis Republic.
Popular Poverty.
Katie, aged seven, was the only child
of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. One day, when
the new minister called, Katie, upon
her own invitation, went into the par
lor to entertain him until her mother
came down stairs. As she approached
the parlor door, Mrs. Jones heard the
minister ask Katie how many children
her mother had, and was very much
surprised to hear her little daughter
reply “six.”
Her mother wisely made no comment
upon the startling reply of the child,
but sent her out to play, and when the
minister’s visit was over she asked
Katie why she had told him that her
mother had six children, and was more
dumfounded than ever when Katie
said, “Because. I did not want the
strange gentleman to know that you
were so poor that you didn't have but
one child.”—National Monthly.
An Efficiency Recipe.
Be earnest, but be calm, no matter
what happens. A man may learn to
treble his day's work by systematically
shutting out all feeling during office
hours. What fatigues and annoys us
is not our work, but the mental fric
tion. nervous strain, muscular tension,
emotional wear and tear which we al
low to accompany our work. A real
man is always a machine while on the
job, never a machine at any other time.
Recipe for efficiency: Be a plodder by
day and a poet by night. Do your
planning, your dreaming, your resolv
ing, when silence and solitude open the
mind for great thoughts and purposes;
then nppear to the world just as an or
dinary business man. with nothing
unique about you to rouse the neigh
bors’ suspicions.—New York Independ
ent.
The Dramatic In Life.
The undying Interest which Is taken
in tho theater Is explained by the very
profound line with which Shakespeare
begnn a very silly speech. "All the
world’s a stage.” People, as a rule,
take no interest in anything that is not
dramatically or. ns In the ease of poli
tics. melodramatically formulated. Any
creed to he popular must be dramatic
ally stated. Therefore the gospels are
preferred to tho epistles. Aesop's fables
are remembered because they are the
truth about things stated dramatically
and morally.—George Bernard Shaw.
Sense of Humor.
A sense of humor preserves nil who
have it from extremes. It warns away
from tho coniines of the petty and
ridiculous and produces very often the
same tolerant effects as magnanimity,
revealing through laughter that reason
able line of thought which was ob
scured by logic.
Th^ Test.
“I)o you really believe college edu
cation helps a young man in business
life?"
“I know it does. At college my boy
was the champion sprinter of his class
and now he has a jolt as a bank run
ner.”—Baltimore American.
A Hero.
Muggins—That little shrimp doesn’t
look like n hero, does he? Bugglns—
Great Scott, no! What has he ever
done? Muggins—He’s been married
six times.—Philadelphia Record.
Crust of tho Earth.
The volume of tho rocky crust of the
earth, estimated ns ten miles thick. In
cluding the mean elevation of the land
above the sea. Is 1.033.000.000 cubic
miles. v
The Turks have a proverb which says
that the devil tempts all other men, but
that Idle men tempt the devil.—Charles
Colton.
Sleep and Poetry.
An exchange recommends the read
ing of u fine, soul felt poem before re
tiring for the night’s rest. It tends
to compose the soul and put it in har
mony with the truth and goodness of
tilings. A novel will not do that, nor
a newspaper, nor anything that sets
the mind in a Hotter. Heading a poem
—one of the good old kind that gets
into the heart, and has a idee time
there—Is like floating down a quiet
stream, past the fragrance of flowers
and the songs of the birds. Never had
that experience, eh'/ IIow very shift
less, indeed.
Did you ever try reading “Snow
bound” on an evening when the snow
was piling up the “silence deep and
white?” Well, try it. Whittier will
give one something for any evening.
Tennyson’s “Idyls” are a little more
argent, but they are as tranquil iziug
as a gentle arm around you. Words
worth is great, but takes too much
thought; Browning, too, and Lowell,
but Longfellow not so much. But as
easy as smiling is the humorous kind,
like Kiley. But there are hundreds of
poems floating about as sweet as a
bush of roses. Take them in and read
them before going to bed. A good one
will last a week. Like a song, they
improve with age.—Columbus Journal.
Just Pleasantries*.
Perhaps just pleasantness has not a
very heroic sound, but the human
heart that, knowing its own bitterness,
can yet carry itself cheerfully is not
' without heroism. Indeed, if that hu
man heart does no more than hold
its tongue about its own aches and
pains it lias a certain moral value that
the world cannot afford to lose. “Pleas
antness” does not sound as well as
self sacrifice or wisdom or spiritual
ity, but it may include all these great
words. And certainly just to start
one’s husband out to his work cheer
ily, to make the hobbledehoy of a son
feel a gentler and sweeter sentiment
toward women because of his own
mother's sound, sweet gayety and
strength, to help one's servants to put
good humor and friendliness into their
services—these things make for right
eousness in the world.—Margaret Lie
land.
The Panama Canal.
The Panama canal was suggested
for the Isthmus of Panuma as early
as 1520 by Angel Saavedra, but for
a long time all such suggestions met
with determined opposition from
Spain, which made It a capital offense
to seek or make known any Improve
ment on the existing route from Porto
Bello to Panama. More recently
Louis Napoleon, when a prisoner at
Ham, spent much time considering
the practicability of such a scheme.
It was not, however, until the Cali
fornia gold rush of 1849 that any ac
curate knowledge of the topographical
conditions was obtained, and even then
thirty more years elapsed before the
actual site was chosen by an inter
national body and the work begun.
Origin of the Organ.
The date of the invention of the or
gan is unknown. It is said to have
been during the third century previous
to tlie Christian era, and from that
period to A. 1). 670 the invention lias
been ascribed to various parties. At
tlie latter date organs were said to
have been introduced into some of the
churches of western Europe. This
statement, however, is not considered
trustworthy, and it is not certain they
were used in church service until 755.
when one was sent as a present by
Copronymus. the Greek emperor, to
King Pepin of France, who placed it
in the Church of St. Corneille at Coin
piegne. Keys were invented about
the close of the eleventh century and
pedals In the fourteenth.
An Apt Student.
A young woman who went to Colum
bia to take her degree of doctor of phi
losophy married tier professor in tlie
middle of her second year. When she
announced her engagement one of her
friends said:
“lint, Edith. 1 thought you came up
here to get your I'll. IV
“SO 1 did.” replied Edith, “blit X had
no idea 1 would get him so soon.”—
New York Post.
So He Could.
A physician says freedom from worry
is essential in the treatment of locomo
tor ataxia. But a man who could keep
free from worry with locomotor ataxia
could recover from an amputated head
without treatment.—Louisville* Courier- j
Journal.
I
Ths Fault.
"These apnrtmcnls are entirely too j
dark.”
“They are no darker than the aver I
age.”
"Yes. but we want, to do light house- |
keeping.”—Exchange.
Determined Curiosity.
•‘There’s no use of investigating that
official. He hasn't done anything.”
“Let’s investigate him and ascertain
how he dares draw a salary without
doing anything.”—Washington Star.
Music by the Peck.
At the beginning of a musical exer
cise was the sign %. Teaeher-Whnt
does the number 3 tell us? Pupil
(age seven)—There are three quarts of
notes iu a measure.—Boston Post.
, _m
Japanese Lacquer.
TTic Japanese method of lacquering Is
said to be at least 2,000 years old.
Pieces made ten centuries ago are still
exhibited.
The happiest workmen are those who
can absolutely lose themselves In their
work.—Carl Hiity.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
L..». DENTIST
io both companies
Office Rooms in
Whaling Building.
Fourteen vears in
VALDEZ
DR. GERMAN
?h0ne is THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
J a. in., to 6 d. m . 7 p. m.,to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaaka
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bac£” 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.
The Prospector office for job work.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Lisruiu. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. in. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. in. 4:00 p. in.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. ui. 9:45 a. m.
1:1b p. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. in.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. in. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. in. 10:30 p. in.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secot.tl and fourth Fridays of
eaeli mouth, these days being used
to clean boll'-s.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is tor the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the ti
in feet and tenths
Thursday, May 13.
High tide 12:21 a. m., 10.3: 11:2
p. m., 12.5.
Low tide 6:00 a. m.. -0.8; 5:33 p.
m., 2.6.
Friday, May 14.
High tide 12:57 p. in., 10.2.
Low tide 6:31 a. in., -0.9; 6:03 p.
m., 2.8.