WALRUS BRAND
For Wet Weather
The man whose work keeps him outside in the
wet these disagreeable days needs a Slicker
Coat that will actually turn water. The Wal
rus Brand has stood the test of the interior placer
camps, where a man has done hard labor in a
downpour of rain for days at a time. They never
dry up and become stiff—always remain soft and
pliable.
They are made of different weight material and
different lengths; all having a good grade corduroy
collar facing, with double, ventilated back.
Black and olive green, in 54 and 56 inch lengths,
medium weight, with snap fastners.
Sell at $5.00.
Heavy canvas, with buckle fastners, 44 inch
length, sells for
$4.00.
Valdez Mercantile Co.*
TRUE VALUES
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5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing 15th calls Hiamna'andJKodiak-.All sailings call at Knik Anchorage
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Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
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Private Tables
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Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
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LAUNCH
FOR
Port Walls and Way Ports
Leaves Valdes every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail. Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Bobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners'
H. M. CARTER, President,
Granite Mine
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary,
Valdaa, Aimak., ,
SHIP CREEK NAMED
FOR PRESIDENT
Coast Survey Bulletin Changes Ship
Creek To Woodrow Creek—
City Named Anchorage.
WASHINGTON, April 22.—-The
United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey bulletin just issued gives the
name of Woodrow Creek to what has
formerly been called Ship Creek, in
Cook Inlet, Alaska. The name has
been changed in honor of President
Woodrow Wilson, who has by the
stroke of a pen changed the small
town at its mouth from a small vil
lage of a few huts to a terminal for
the railroad to the interior, and es
pecially for the vast coal deposits oi
the Matanuska coal fields.
The "Postoffice Department has call
ed Ship Creek village, Anchorage,
which will hereafter be the official
name of the city so far as the Post
office Department is concerned.
The new names are to go into ef
fect at once and hereafter all offi
cial documents will show Ship Creek
as Woodrow Creek and Ship Creek
anchorage, as Anchorage.
The engineering comjmission have
made a protest against the change in
name for the city, insisting that it
had better be left as Ship Creek rath
er than to make unnecessary confu
sion by a change at this time.
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.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Unirersit)
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
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RUIN IN A CHINA SHOP.
A Crash That Spelled Agony For the
London Curio Dealer.
George Itobey, the comedian, fre
quently drops in for a chat with a
dealer in London. In the outer room
are vases and jars, cups, groups and
sets of pieces valued at anything from
SO to SOO guineas. Inside is the pro
prietor’s private apartment. To reach
him you gingerly pick your way
through the thousands of pounds’
worth of valuable china.
“One day not long ago,” Robey says,
“I had been chatting within, and a
friend was waiting for me in the outer
room. As I bade the dealer ‘Good
morning’ and was about to pass into
the outer room there came a dreadful
crashing of broken china. My friend
turned upon me au eye glassy with an
guish. Never shall I forget the pro
prietor's expression of supreme horror
as he rushed from his snnctum and
saw my friend and myself standing
amid the debris of broken china ware
which lay strewn around our feet. He
was speechless—choking.
“Legal proceedings? Five thousand
pounds? In a word, what was the
damage, you inquire. Well, I am sorry
to have to confess it, for the proprietor
was in bed for a week as the result of
the shock, but it was a gag prear
ranged. For my friend, who had
brought with him a couple of dozen
cheap soup plates, had, at a given sig
nal from me, dropped them in a heap
upon the floor.”—London Answers.
FLYING FOXES OF INDIA.
During the Day They Sleep In Trees,
Hanging Head Downward.
Teople who have lived In India are
familiar with the long strings of flying
foxes which can often be seen wending
their way in single file from their
sleeping places in remote trees to the
fruit gardens upon which they prey.
These curious creatures, says a writ
er in the Wide World Magazine, some
times measure as much as four feet
across the wings and have reddish
brown fur and mole colored wings.
After their nocturnal depredations they
fly away with the dawn to a tree in
some isolated place and there rest dur
ing the day, hanging head downward
from the boughs in the manner of bats,
clutching the branch with their feet.
As the flying foxes gather on the tree
selected there is a tremendous commo
tion, for each newcomer is vigorously
driven off from one place after another
until he eventually manages to secure
a perch for himself. Those on the tree
meanwhile keep up an Incessant wran
gling, each endeavoring to secure the
highest and best place to rest on.
Sometimes many hundreds of these de
structive creatures may be seen hang
ing from the branches of a large tree.
When opportunity offers they are of
ten shot, and some of the natives con
sider their flesh a delicacy, though it
hardly appeals to Europeans.
A Personal Preference.
A well known magazine writer moved
not so very long ago from Brooklyn to
California. On the day before the fam
ily started west he went for a walk
through the neighborhood with his
four-year-old son.
“I suppose,” said the father, “that
you’ll be sorry to leave all your little
chums here?"
The youngster thought he would. At
that he did not seem to show much
emotion at the prospect of parting
from all his friends.
“Which one will you miss the most?”
inquired the parent.
The boy was not sure.
“Now,” pressed his father, “which
little boy of all the little boys you know
do you like the best?”
The little chap considered a minute
before answering.
“Well,” he said at last, “I guess I
like myself pretty well!”-Saturday
Evening Post.
Uses of Menu Cards.
“It wouldn’t take so many menu
cards to carry us through at. dinner,”
said the head waiter, "if people didn’t
scribble so many notes on them and
make them unfit for use. Memoranda
of all kinds are Jotted down on these
cards during a meal.' Arithmetical puz- i
zles are solved, the particulars of busi
ness deals are worked out, financial
problems are wrestled with, sonnets
are composed, and Social engagements
are made and broken. The fact Is I
have seen about everything written on
a menu card except a popular novel,
and no doubt I’ve found the plots of
some of them.”—New York Times.
Fickle.
"Popularity is very fickle.” exclaim
ed the offhand orator.
"What’s the trouble?”
“Every time I get a crowd interested
In my remarks an automobile tire
blows out and the audience rushes off
to see what the matter is.”—Washing
ton Star.
Wonderful Mouse.
“Oh, mamma,” exclaimed small
Willie, “I’m sure there is a great big
mouse in my bedroom!”
“Did you see it, dear?” she asked.
“No, I didn’t see the mouse,” replied
Willie, “but I heard it wagging Its
tail.”—Chicago News.
To 8hare a Confidence Binds.
Confidence always pleases those who
receive it. It is a tribute to their
merit, a deposit we commit to their
trnst, a pledge that gives them a claim
upop us, a hind of dependence to
which we voluntarily submit—La
Rochefoucauld.
Belnjg our own muter means that
we are at liberty to be the slave of cor
own follies, caprices and passions.—
Schiller.
ORIENTAL CARPETS.
Some of Those Made of Kashmir Wool
Strongly Resemble Silk.
Generally speaking, the carpets of
India can never excel those of Persia,
as the materials used in the former
ire not of the same superior quality as
those employed in the latter country.
The wool of which many of the best
carpets are manufactured is obtained
from Kashmir. Sometimes carpets
which are mistaken for silk are really
of an extremely fine quality of wool
known ns “pashm.” Tills Is obtained
from the goats of Kashmir and grows
close to the skin, being protected by
the long and coarser wool. It is as
smooth and lustrous as silk and is used
for the beautiful soft shawls for which
Kashmir is famous.
Peculiar methods are employed by
the Indian weaver in converting his
original design into a textile. Instead
of working from a colored drawing or
diagram, the weaver has the pattern
translated on paper into rows of sym
bols, eacli of which expresses the num
ber of stitches and the color. With
this written “key” in his hand the
head weaver sits behind Ids subordi
nates and dictates the pattern to them,
one row at a timo, all through the
breadth of the carpet.
These weavers—generally small boys
—sit in front of the warp strings and
tie in tile requisite number of stitches |
of eaeb color as called out to them by
the reader from his ciphered scrip.
These boys, who perform the actual
process of weaving the pile, follow day
by day the dictations of the head mart;
knowing nothing of the pattern they
are preparing, but gradually building
up in a mechanical way the carpet on
tiie strings before them.—Argonaut.
TRIALS OF A PARSON.
Efforts of Some of His Flock to Keep
Him Meek and Humble.
Do not bo n parson unless you are
blessed with a strong sense of humor
and a thick hide, advises an English
clergyman in L’earson’s Weekly.
I was asked by a friend who had
been offered a living near me to go and
see the vicarage and church and re
port. I did so. and the clerk showed
me round. As we neared the end he
turned to me and said:
“Be you our new parson, sir, if I
may make so bold?” I assured him
that I was not. “I be main glad to
hear that, sir.” he said, with relief.
“We've always had good tins so far!”
In a scattered parish I called upon
an old couple about tea time. “Would
you like a cup of tea?" the housewife
asked. 1 confessed that 1 should like
It very much. The dear old soul pre
pared one and kept apologizing be
cause she had no jam or cake. I as
sured her that it did not matter in the ,
least. “Well, sir,” she said, brighten
ing. “after all, 'tisn’t as if you was one
of them that feed high. Any one can
see that.”
One more. A friend of mine had got
a job for a man who had been for a
long time out of work. I guessed he
was getting pretty shabby, so 1 looked
up a suit—we were much of a size—
and took it round. The man’s wife
took it, and 1 waited in the room,
read.v to be overwhelmed with thanks.
She came back and said:
“My 'usbaud thanks you kindly, sir,
but lie don’t hold with parson’s clothes.
But if you’ve got anything as ’d suit
a man he’ll have a look at it!”
Cut His Visit Short.
The Duke of Wellington once wrote
to Dr. Hutton for information as to
the scientific acquirements of a young
officer who had been under his instruc
tion. The doctor thought he could not
do less than answer the question ver
bally and made an appointment ac
cordingly.
Directly Wellington saw him he
said: “I am obliged to you. doctor, for
the trouble you are taking. Is - fit
fer the post?"
Clearing his throat. Dr. Hutton be
gan: “No man more so. my lord. I
can”—
"That’s quite sufficient,” said Wel
lington. “I know how valuable your
time is. Mine just now is equally so.
I will not detain you any longer. Good
morning.”
Test For Hydrochloric Acid.
A curious mishap gave us a very del
icate test for hydrochloric acid in the
atmosphere. In a north of England
locality many houses have curtains of
the cream color produced by metanil
yellow, popularly known as “dolly”
cream dye and to science as "the so
dium salt of meta-amido-benzlne sul
pbonlc acid-azo-diphenyl-amine.” Some
of these cream colored curtains sud
denly changed to heliotrope. Investi
gation showed that an accidental es
cape of hydrochloric acid from a neigh
boxing alkali plant had discolored the
curtains, and the dye became a most
useful test.—London Globe.
Political Influence.
"Whut do you understand by the
term political Influence?”
“Political Influence,” replied Senator
Sorghum, “is usually something that a
lot of people come around and tell you
they brought to bear after you have
succeeded In landing a Job.”—Wash
ington Stnr.
College Education.
A college education is not a scheme
to enable a man to live without work.
Ita purpose Is to help him to work U
advantage — to make every stroke
doubt—David Starr Jordan.
Considerate Parent.
“What ate you dolnf these dayir*
“t bavejblned the eon* of feel”
“How can you do Itr
“By having a father who didn’t”
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
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on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
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Moved to Reed Buildirg, on Wall
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BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and EVest Equipped EEospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, Ills 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,
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 323,
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 secHon.
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. 5:00 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 secoi d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boll -rs.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“b'hclT” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi
ness venture or a good
miniitg 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
vqith the Idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IM THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
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