On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit uour account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
! From Valdez south -7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell. Douglas
Cordova. Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
s S Latouche. 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month-Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND §
I California Alaska 1
ALASKA 1
| Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on g
| Sth, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH |
8 Steamer sailing 15th calls Iliamna and Kodiak-All sailings call at Knik Anchorage g
I CALIFORNIA 1
B Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with §
8 Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California. 8
B Rip-ht reserved to change schedule without notice Q
| RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK GO. Local Agt. g
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in ‘he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o'clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of tne
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing the company to amend its
articles of incorporation, so that Its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that it may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that It may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three. t
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1916, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
■ ruary, 1915.
* F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
Directors.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern:
Yon are hereby notified that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.09), 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,
Monte earlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Mente Carle 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 232-1 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 sec’mn.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4tli
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
Notice of Filing Final Account and of
Hearing Thereon.
In the United States Commissioner’s
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Valdez Precinct.
In the matter of the estate of Dan
S. Kain, deceased. No. 146. Notice
of filing of final account and of hear
ing thereon.
Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of March, 1915, S. Blum, the
administrator of the estate of Dan S.
Kain, deceased, filed in and present
ed for settlement to the above-named
court his final report and account of
his administration of said estate, and
that Thursday, the 20th day of May,
1915, at the hour of two o’clock in
the afternoon, at the court room of
the above-named court, in the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, has been duly ap
pointed by the above-named court as
the time and place for the settlement
of said final account and the hear
ing of objections thereto.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 18th
day of March, 1915.
S. BLUM,
Administrator of said Estate.
Donohoe & Dimond attorneys for
administrator.
First publication March 18, 1915.
Last publication April 8, 1915.
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 for 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 tide
in feet and tenths:
Saturday, March 20.
High tide 2:17 a. m„ 12.0; 3:08 p.
m., 9.8.
Low tide 8:53 a. m., 0.3; 8:34 p.
m„ 2.6.
Addud Attractions.
rm _ ^
‘‘Miss Jones is ;m attractive girl, isn’t
she?”
“Yes, anil she’s getting more so ev
ery (lay. They say tier father’s Just
coining money." — St. I-ouis Globe
Democrat.
Perfectly Satisfactory.
Pater—If nay daughter marries you
I’l! disown her.
Suitor—Say, that'll be great. The ef
fects of introducing you to my set
would be disastrous.—New York Globe.
So Very Pessimistic.
I .
Mitfsiey—it costs ten times as niucti
to get wed now ns it did ten vents ago
Sowergy—And it isn't worth a petit
more either.—Iioston (!lobe.
That’s When.
I i
“When will you women get a little
sense regarding clothes?”
“When all the men get to be old
fogies like you.”—St.. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
Queer Dream.
“Had a queer dream last night.”
"Tell It.”
“I dreamed that I made an appoint
ment with myself and when 1 got to
the place I was gone.”—Boston Tran
script.
Notice To Creditors.
In the matter of the estate of George
Hansen, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the es
tate of George Hansen, deceased, to
the creditors thereof, and to all per
sons having claims against said es
tate, to exhibit the same with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to-wit, within six months after
the 24th day of February, 1915, to
said administrator, at the office of
Donohoe & Dimond, his attorneys in
said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said es
tate.
The date of the first publication
of this notice is the 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN, Administrator.
' "SHOOTING THE SUN"
Simplest Way of Locating a Ship’s
Position at 8ea.
Out of sight of land a ship’s geo
graphical position Is determined either
by keeping a careful record of the
course steered and the distance run.
known ns dead reckoning, or by the
combined use of chronometer and sex
tant—that is, by observation of the
heavenly bodies. The operation of find
ing the latitude and longitude of ob
servation can be performed in a num
ber of ways, of which the simplest and
most convenient is by measuring the
altitude of the sun above the horizon
at noon, us is indicated on the vernier
of the sextant and spoken of at sea as
•‘shooting the sun.” An arithmetical
computation by the uid of logarithms
is thus (juickly made whjch shows ex
actly how far the ship is north or south
of the equator, or. in other words, the
latitude.
Finding the longitude, however, is a
somewhat longer process. An observa
tion is made either In the forenoon or
afternoon, the chronometer time of the
horizon contact of the sun’s image be
ing noted. A calculation is then made
which gives the exact time at the spot
where the sltip happens to be. and. as
tlie chronometer carried aboard shows
the exact time at Greenwich, the prime
meridian of longitude, the difference
between the two expresses in hours and
minutes (easily convertible into degrees
and miles) the distance east or west of
Greenwich.
Having thus, roughly speaking, found
the latitude and longitude, a dot placed
on the chart at the exact point where
the lines of latitude an'’ longitude cross
denotes the ship's , isition —Travel
Maguzi tie.
FLOGGED THE FAT MEN.
Spartan Cure For Those Who Grew
Too Stout For Military Duty.
Among the ancient Spartans every
thing was considered secondary to mili
tary efficiency, and with a view to se
curing this the hoys and men were by
law kept in a continual state of "train
ing.” No deformed child was allowed
to live. Boys were taken from their
homes and subjected to military regu
lations at the age of seven. They were
compelled to wear the same single gar
ment winter and summer. At twenty
they joined the ranks and from that
age till they reached sixty were re
quired to dine at the public tables,
where only a certain quantity was sup
plied for each man. The magistrates
interfered in absurdly small matters.
They regulated the degree of fatness to
which it was lawful for any citizen to
extend ills body.
Those who dared to grow too fat or
too soft for military service and exer
cise were sometimes soundly flogged.
Aelian in his history relates that
Nauclis. son of I’olytus. was brought
before the ephors imagistratesi and the
whole assembly of Sparta, and "his
unlawful fatness” was publicly exposed
and he was threatened witii perpetual
banishment if he did not bring his
body within the regular Spartan com
pass and give up the culpable mode of
living, which was declared to he more
worthy of an Ionian than a Spartan.
A Literary Coterie.
Gubbins, who calls his living room
the library, but is otherwise a good
sort enough, brought home a near
sighted friend to dinner tile other
night. A young lady was standing near
the door to welcome the guest.
"Allow me,” said Gubbins. "to pro
sent you to my daughter.”
The guest bowed, but the courteous
inclination was directed not toward
Miss Gubbins. but toward another ot
the household treasures, a plaster pil
lar surmounted by a hast.
"No. no." hastily interposed Gubbins.
"to the right, not to the left: the one
on the left is Homer."—New York Post
Very Little Difference.
"Men have an advantage that woman
never cun possess.” she complained.
"Whenever u man wishes to hide his
identity he can. by letting his whiskers
grow or by shaving them off as the
case may be. change his expression
completely.”
"That isn’t so much of an advantage."
he replied. "A woman can by putting
on her complexion or leaving it off as
the case may be. make just as much of
a change in her appearance as a man
is able to make in bis with or without
the aid of bis whiskers.”—Philadelphia
Ledger.
Glaoiere.
It has been demonstrated tbat tbe
glacier does not move in one block, but
Bows, accommodating Itself to tbe
channel in which it moves. Professor
Tyndall planted a row of sticks in a
straight line across a glacier, and after
a few days the line bad become a cres
cent. showing that the middle of the
glacier moved faster than tbe sides.
|ust as In a river tbe stream is stronger
In tbe center.
Ma Knew.
It was nearly midnight. "That fellow
who Is calling on Maude hates to go."
growled Maude’s pupa.
“Why. It seems to me tbe young man
Is pretty far gone already." replied
daude’s mamma, complacently.— I’hllu
ielpbln Record.
Too True.
A critic once wrote of Whistler's
jortrnlt of Carlyle that it was not life
ilze.
“No.” was tbe artist's comment: "few
nen are.”
Navor Did.
“While you were standing In' tbe
loorway telling tbe sweet young tbing
goodnight did It ever dawn upon you”—
“Ob. no! 1 never stayed tbat lata-”—
ludge.
CHANGED HIS SHAPE. '
Effect of Open Air Life Upon the Man
of Buainesa of Today.
“The American man, the American
business man of forty or forty-five, has
got a new shape.” said a tailor. "He's
got a lean, straight shape—full chest,
narrow hips. But if you could have
seen him a generation ago!
“The business man of forty expected
to be fat and soft a generation ago.
He rather admired, in fact, a fat, soft
I shape. The richest business men were
fat and soft, and that made a fashion
of it. Just as Queen Alexandra's lame
ness made a limp fashionable in Vic
torian times.
"What stomachs our fathers had at
forty or forty-five—feather bed stom
achs, which they balanced by bending
backward! A big stomach was a sign
of success, a sign of gentility. If- you
were lean—why, you must be a laborer.
Perhaps you didn’t get enough to eat.
“What is tlie cause of the slender,
agile figures of today? Open air and
exercise, that’s the cause. Golf is the
cause. Motoring is the cause.
“My friend,” tile tailor Impressively
ended, "my books show that the mid
dle aged business man of today is four
inches bigger around the chest than
the middle aged business man of 1S!>0
and eighteen inches smaller around the
stomach."—New York Tribune.
ANCIENT HIGH FINANCE.
When White Deerskins Passed as Cur
rency In China.
In China, the first country to use
banknotes, certain skins were once of
such great value that they were ac
cepted as cash, passing from iiand to
band in the same way as banknotes of
tbe present day. The negotiability of
these skins was established in this way:
The Emperor On Ti, being in want of
money, gave bis treasurer to under
stand that such a state of affairs must
not continue. At that time it was cus
tomary for princes and courtiers on en
tering tbe royal presence to cover their
faces with pieces of skin. Taking ad
vantage of this custom, the treasurer
procured the issuance of a decree for
bidding the use of any other skins for
this purpose save those of a certain spe
cies of white deer in the royal parks.
Immediately, of course, there arose a
demand for pieces of these skins,
which, being a monopoly, were sold at
a higli price.
Thus were the royal coffers refilled.
The steady value of the skins thus ob
tained made them readily a substitute
for coin of tbe realm.
In tbe Russian seal fisheries of Alas
ka tbe workmen were formerly paid in
the currency stamped on squares of
walrus hide.—Washington Star.
Wyoming Has Many High Mountains.
Wyoming has nine mountains exceed
ing 13,000 feet in height and of these
throe approach the 1-1,000 foot mark,
according to the United States geologi
cal survey. They are Gannett peak.
13.785 feet; Grand Teton. 13,717 feet,
and Fremont peak. 13,730 feet. Cloud
peak, one of the most beautiful moun
tains in tbe state, is 13.730 feet above
sea level. Resides these mountains
Wyoming lias thirty-one other named
peaks upward of 13.000 feet in height .
and some forty unnamed mountains
which exceed that altitude.
An interesting story might be written
of the thousands of lofty unnamed
mountain peaks of tbe west which are
nearly double tile height of the very
highest mountains in the entire Ap
palachian mountain system in the east
ern portion of the country. Colorado
alone lias dozens ol mountains witli- j
out name which are more than double ■
the height of our most lofty eastern '
mountain.
Stones and Glass Houses.
The origin of the saying "Those who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones” is as follows: At the time of
the union of England and Scotland
London was inundated with Scotch
men, and the Loudon roughs used to
go about at night breaking their win
dows. Buckingham being considered
the chief Instigator of the mischief, a
party of Scotchmen smashed the win
dows of tbe duke's mansion, known as
the Glass House. The court favorite
appealed to tbe king, who replied,
"Steenle. Steenie, those who live In
glass bouses should be careful bow
they Bing stonesi"
Feeding on Sunlight.
Major Miramond de la Roquette of
the French army medical corps in re
porting to the Academle des Sciences
the results of some observations in
southern Algeria on the relation be
tween diet and sunlight gave it as his
opinion that the tissues of the human
body directly utilize the radiant en
ergy of the sunshine. The normal
diet of the natives of hot and sunny
climes Is far lower both in quantity
and In nutritive quality than that of
inhabitants of less favored Regions, the
sunlight seeming to make up the dif
ference.
An Extraordinary Man.
"Yes. Indeed, my husband is a re
markable mun."
"1 suppose nearly every woman has
that opinion of her husband.”
“But I’m sure my husband is an
extraordinary man. 1 told him this
morning where something was in one
of the closets, and he found it.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Both Cautious.
M. D —Would you have the price If
I said you needed an operation} Man
ning—Would yon say 1 needed an op
eration If you thought I didn’t have the
price}— Lite
Be conquers grief who can take •
Arm resolution.—Goethe.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
AWAKE
and on the job-—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
i m __ manage
_ .Seattle
Complete Services
* IN THE HEART OF THE'CIIY f
II l55Rooms with bath-50 SampleRooms
The Prospector office for job work.
Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. D. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Eri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of tlie publication of this
summons against you, to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915. and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
the clerk's office of the above entitled
court: and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, iti fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
Tliis summons is served on you by
publication i hereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the Stli day
of March, 1915, which publication was ;
directed to be made once a week for j
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this Sth
dav of Match, 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG.
Clerk of the District Court.
By ( HAS. A. HAND. Deputy.
Dale of first publication March 8,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal Election will be held
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
the sixth day of April. 1915, for the
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, wno shall hold ;
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three j
years and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall has been designat
ed as the polling place for said elec
tion.
Said election shall commence at 9
o’clock a. nt. and shall continue un
til 7 o’clock p. m. of the same day,
without closing the polls.
R. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8, 15, 22, 29.
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, with a prospect or busi- j;
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