The FirstBank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25,000.
4% PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON
JAFET UNDEBERG
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
Motor Boat Supplies. Paints and Oils.
Pumps, Well-Points. Valves T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
AL White & Co
PROPRIETORS
Valdes Lodge
No 168,
Free and Aooepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday to
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGS13Y. W. M. ,
Ed, Wood. Sec
LUXEMBURG SAID
TO BE_STARVING
, NEW YORK—The Grand Duchess
of Luxemburg has appealed for aid for
her people to the Commission for Re
lief in Belgium, and efforts are now
under way to render assistance to the
people of that little country, whose
neutrality was violated by the Ger
mans although it was officially an
nounced that the Invasion was look
fed upon with disfavor by the Luxem
burg government and the people of
the Grand Duchy.
The sad plight of the Grand Duchy
was referred to yesterday In the fol
lowing way by one of the most wide
ly known Belgian citizens of the Unit
■d States.
“Occasionally,” he said, “it is ar
gued that allthe sorrows visiting poor
Belgium were brought upon that un
fortunate country by her refusal to
o\v the Germans to pass through
her territory. The Germans, indeed,
to pay for everything they obtained
promised not to molest the Belgians,
to pay for everything they obtained
in case Belgium would offer no re
sistance. For that reason, people say,
all Belgium had to do was simply to
remain passive. If we want to know
what would have happened to Bel
gium had she acted as Germany re
quested her to do, we need but lis
ten to the reports lately received
from Luxemburg. There the Germans
met with no resistance, and yet the
Luxemburgers today are starving.
“Why does not Germany lake care
of them? Must we then not conclude
that the selfsame treatment now given
to Luxemburg would have been given
to Belgium; that Is to say, that Ger
many would have done nothing to
keep the Belgians alive. They would
have been treated as a conquered na
tion; they would have been forced In
to the German navy; and besides they
would have been looked upon, in the
eyes of the whole world, as cowards."
IS. WM. MORTON
DIES IN SEATTLE
Succumbed To Shock Following Op
eration In Providence Hospital
Some Days Ago.
William Morton received a cable
gram this morning from Seattle con
veying the sad news that his wife
had died in the Providence hospital
there last night, having succumbed to
the shock of an operation which she
recently underwent for a complication
of diseases.
The news of the sudden death of
Mrs. Morton comes as a surprise to
her husband and friends in Valdez
as recent letters from Seattle indicat
ed that she had improved and was
believed to be on the road to com
plete recovery.
Mrs. Morton has lived with her hus
band in Valdez and vicinity for many
years and enjoyed a wide circle of
friends. During her residence in Val
dez she identified herself with every
movement for the purpose of accord
ing relief to the needy. The couple
have no children. The sympathy of
the entire community is extended to
Mr. Morton in his great bereavement,
"Uncle am Aroused.”
"Uncle am Aroused,” showing war
preparations, horse races, etc., in the
Animated Weekly at the Orpheum to
night, also Edwin August In the
“Taint of An Allen." A sizzling com
edy hit, "Jealousy and Giant Pow
der."
Moose Dance Postponed.
The Moose dance which was to
have been given tonight has been
postponed owing to the death of Mrs.
Wm. Morton in Seattle.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Imported Japanese Basnets at Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Remember the sale of home cooked
foods at Love-Whitley’s Saturday. k6
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug- Co. tf
Prescriptions carenilly compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Latest popular copyrrgnts and clas
sics at Valdez Drug Co. tf
An opportunity to get good home
cooked dainties at the Guild sale of
foods. Love-Whitley’s next Saturday.
Beautiful hand-painted vases Just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Men’s wool socks, 25c; Hold-Heat
electric stove, $2.50, and everything
else in proportion at the Emporium.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Full line of the latest up-to-date
picture frame mouldings just received
at Hunt’s. tf
Snow glasses 16c and up, at the
Bmporium.
The Mg tree dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 9:30. All are wel
come:
See Tod Winter for your watch and
Jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tf
A nice line or art pictures just re
ceived from New Torn at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silvor
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Universal percolators and chafing
dishes at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Change of program at the Orph
eum tonight. All good pictures.
Remington and Smitn Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
Catholic Church.
Sunday services:
Confession and holy communion.
8:30 a. m.
Mass and sermon, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday school, 2 p. m.
Rosary, instruction and benediction,
7:30 p. m.
FATHER VAN der POL, S. J.
Weekly News at the Orpheum to
night.
“Jealousy and Giant Fowawer,” a
sizzling comedy at the Orpheum to
night.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
SWISS MILITARY SYSTEM.
With No Standing Army Every Citizen
le a Trained 8oldier.
The republic of Switzerland furnish
es an example in the way of military
preparedness well worth study. It
has no standing army, and yet every
man is a trained soldier and can at
any time be called upon to defend his
country.
Military training in Switzerland be
gins at the age of eight years. From
the ages of seventeen to forty-nine
service is compulsory at the call of
the state. All males not incapacitated
serve thirteen years in the aufzug,
twelve years in the landwehr and six
years in the landsturm. From eight
years to seventeen the boys receive
military instruction in the public
schools, and when they enter the auf
zug they are prepared for actual train
ing in arms. In the first year of their
service they spend from sixty-seven to
ninety-two days in camp or maneuvers,
depending upon whether they belong
to cavalry, Infantry, artillery or engi
neers. In each subsequent year they
serve thirteen days.
The total service for the thirteen
years Is 141 days for Infantry, 140 for
engineers, 160 for cavalry and 163 for
artillery. This makes a total of less
than six months for the thirteen years,
but the training is that of actual war
fare and the product Is trained and
seasoned soldiers.
This Swiss force can only be called
for defense against Invasion. For an
offensive campaign a new army must
be raised by volunteering.—Newark
News.
SPAIN’S WOMAN WARRIOR.
The Maid of Saragossa and How She
Saved Her City.
Tbe Spaniards have erected a mono
ment to tbe memory of Angostlna
Zaragoza, whose bravery during the
peninsular war saved her city.
In July, 1808, the French were press
lng hard upon Saragossa. The hardest
fighting occurred nt Portillo gate,
where the assaulting batteries more
than once reached tbe dilapidated
earthworks. The gunners of tbe Span
lsh battery were shot down one after
another, the survivors falling before
they could discharge tbe Inst loaded
gun.
The Infantry flinched, and the French
were closing In when a young woman
betrothed to a young sergeant of artil
lery who had Just fallen rushed In,
snatched tbe lighted match from her
dying lover’s hand and fired the undis
charged twenty-four pounder into the
bead of the advancing column.
The enemy was thrown back. The
citizens with a cheer rushed forward,
reoccupled the battery and the nssault
was checked.
Angostlna Zaragoza received from
her government a commission as sub
lieutenant of the artillery and a life
pension. A few years later she was
seen by an English traveler serving
with her battery In Andalusia. She
wore a blue artillery tunic, on the
sleeve of which was a shield of honor
—Washington Star.
How to Know Hemlock.
The occasional reports In the papers
of children or animals being poisoned
by eating some umbelliferous plant
emphasises the Importance of being
able to distinguish the dangerous ones
In the case of hemlock itself, the most
poisonous of all, this Is not difficult
Notice first the dark green, much cut
and divided leaves and the peculiar
odor which botanists call fetid. But
perhaps the most obvious thing and
that which most easily distinguishes
the hemlock from all other umbellif
erous plants is the stem. This Is
smooth, polished, slightly farrowed
and of a green color blotched and spot
ted with purple. No other member
of the order has a stem In the least
like lb—London Globe.
His Own Medicine,
A certain barrister named Jones who
practiced In Lord Brougham’s time
was In the habit of commencing the
examination of a witness with these
words, “Now, sir, I am going to put
a question to you, and I don’t care
which way you answer lb"
Brougham, tike many others, was
growing tired of the monotonous
formula, and one morning, meeting
Jones near the temple, be addressed
him thus: “Now, Jones, 1 am going to
put a question to you, and I don’t care
which way you answer 1b How are
you?”—London Express.
But Do They?
Mrs. Bacon—I see it is stated that
the average length of life rose from
twenty and one-quarter years In the
sixteenth century to forty and one-half
years In the nineteenth century.
Mr. Bacon—1 suppose the latter time
was when the women began telling
the truth about their ages.—Yonkers
Statesman.
Un In Beauty.
Strike out all the beautiful from the
world, leave us only the useful—the
manifestly useful—and we should lose
nil elasticity out of our lives, all
strength out of our purpose, all energy
out of our arms. It is the thousand
fold beauty, meeting our eyes at every
turn, that saves us.—Charles Force
Deems.
At Our Boarding Houaa.
The Star Boarder—What Is this
thread in the steak? The Waitress—
You asked for a steak two Inches thick,
nnd we had to sew three regular steaks
together, sir.—Philadelphia Ledger.
We color our own landscapes. Ob
jects and circumstances take the hues
we give them
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C* B’ SMITH* Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
JUST RECEIVED
On The Mariposa,
Fresh Vegetables and Fruit
The Yakima Fruit Company
Chas* R. Crawford Wall Street. Phone 159
Plate Glass, Window Glass, Roofing and Building Papers, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Plaster Lath, Shingles, Builders’ Hard
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kinds.
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber, fairbank "morse a co
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fineet Hotel in the Interior—Well Hented, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rate* Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable'
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chlthuu
General Freighting. knute NAFSTED. Mar.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop,
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
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 (9300.99), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
Improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral ereek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monte 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,
328, 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 sec^on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915?
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6, 1915.
■ r I -
G. O. Relnke, tt>» watchmaker and
Jeweler, Is at the Valdez Drug Co
All work guaranteed.
Sunshine or moonlight sleighing
parties to Valdez glacier one dollar
per person round trip. City Expess,
’phone 82. tf
The most exquisite nand-palnted
china ever seen in Valdez at Valdez
Drug Co.
:?
Only The Best
Smoker* Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Juan De Fuca Cigars
U. S. Government Inspected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior point*
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kindr
Positively no coal deliveied
ooless paid for in advance
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party of Alaska
Meets every Thursday at 8 p. m.
Next door to Senate Saloon.
Everybody Welcome.
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. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Cable Office Hour* i
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. n».
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
and 5 to 6 p. m.