An Old Firm
Under a New Name
LJAVING disposed of the Banking Department, we
\\l will hereafter devote our entire capital and energy
to a Strictly Mercantile business-believing that we will be
in a better position than ever, to serve vour wants.
Valdez Mercantile Co. inc.
Successors to
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co. Inc.
This Space Is Reserved for the
Valdez Bank & Trust Company
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Charles R. Crawford andyGeo.
B. McMullen, their heirs and
administrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified that l
have expended tne sum of six
hundred ($600) dollars in labor
and improvements upon the,.al
lowing named lode miningcldiitis,
to-wit: The Valdez claim No; 1,
recorded in book No. 1, page 97 ;
Valdez mining claim No. 2, re
corded in book No. 1, page 98;
Valdez claim No. 3, recorded m
book No. 2, page 19; Valdez claim
No. 4, recorded in book No. 2, page
18; North Star claim No. 1, re
corded in book 2, page 20; North
Star claim No. 2, recorded in book
2, page 21, all records of the Val
dez Mining District, Territory of
Alaska. Said mining claims be
ing near Mineral creek, about one
and one-half miles from Valdez
liav, in the recording district
aforesaid. Proof of said expendi
ture appearing by affidavit, filed
on the 31st day of December,
1912. The sum of six hundred
($600) dollars expended being the
amount required to hold the said
claims for the year 1912, and if,
within 90 davs after this publi
cation vou fail or refuse lo con
tribute your proportion each of
two hundred ($200) dollars, being
the sum of $33.33 for each of said
claims, your interest in said
claims, for which you fail to con
tribute your said proportion of
expenditure for annual labor, will
become the property of the under-,
sisrned co-owner under Section
2324, Revised Statutes of the Un
ited States.
GEORGE H. MERRIFIEI.D.
First pub. Feb. 4. 1913.
Last pub. May 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To John McPherson, his heirs,
administrators, and to all
whom it may concern:
You are hereby notified that 1
have expended $100 in labor and
improvements upon the “Lark"
lode mining claim, situated about
two miles N. E. of Shoup bay and
S. E. of Shoup glacier, in the Val
dez Recording District, Territory
of Alaska, the location certificate
of which said claim is of record
in Book 2 of Records, page 392, in
th1 office of the recorder of the
recording ditsrict aforesaid,
proof of said expenditure appear
ing by affidavit filed on Decem
ber 28, 1912, in the office of the
recorder aforesaid; that being
$100 per year, the amount re
iTttired to hold said claim for the
year ending December 31, 1912.
And if, within ninety days after
'Htls notice by publication, you
fail or refuse to contribute your
proportion ($50) your interests
in said claim will become the
property of the subscriber under
Section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States.
JOHN PAULE.
First pub. January 11, 1913.
Last pub. April 15. 1913.
Why freeze in your room and
have to read the sign in order
to tell that your room is heated
with steam, when you can get all
the steam that you wfcnt at “The
Cliff r
ADVERTISERS’ DIRECTORY
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DAILY PROSPECTOR
Attorneys-at-Law.
0. £. Bunnell.
L. V.llay, Seward, Alaska.
E. E. Ritchie.
Assayera.
George F. White.
Banks.
S. Blum & Co.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Builders’ Material.
Chas. R. Crawford.
•> Breweries.
Valdez Bottling & Brewing Co.
Bakeries.
Valdez Bakery.
Coal.
Valdez Dock Co.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Dentist*
Dr. H. Cockerille.
Dr. Charles Daggett.
Dr. German.
Drug Stores.
Valdez Drug Co. ‘ v
Furs.
McMillan Fur & Wool Co.
Fraternal Orders.
Masonic Order.
Odd Fellows.
Fraternal Order Eagles.
Arctic Brotherhood.
General Merchandise.
Beyers Cash Store, Golden.
S. Blum & Co.
Fagerburg Bros., Nazina.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Life Insurance.
VV. H. Crary.
Hotels. •} :
Copper Block, Valdez. ?
Coleman House, Seward.
Hotel St. Elias.
“The Cliff.”
Raiuier-Orand Hotel, SeattJe.
Laundry*.
Independent Laundry.
Launches.
Three M.
Moving Picture Shows.
The Orpheum.
Manufacturers. «
Copper River Lumber Co.
Chas. R. Crawford.
Alaska Water Light & Power
Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Newspapers.
Prospector, Dally.
Miner (Sunday), Weekly.
Pool and Billiard Rooms.
Copper Block.
Roadhouses.
Camp Comfort.
Real Estate Agencies.
Valdez Real Estate Agency.
Restaurants.
Valdez Cafe.
Steamship Lines.
Alaska Coast Co.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Sheet Metal Works.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Transfer Companies.
Copper River Draying Co.
City Express.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Telephones.
Alaska Water, Light & Tele-'
phone Co.
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To Alex. Nelson, his heirs, admin
istrators, and to all whom it
may concern:
You are hereby notified that I
have expended four hundred dol
lars ($400) in labor and improve
ments upon the Last Chance No.
1 and Last Chance No. 2 lodes,
situate in Shoup bay near the en
trance thereof, Valdez recording
precinct, Territory of Alaska, the
location certificates of said claims
being of record in the office of the
U. S. commissioner at Valdez,
Alaska. Said expenditure was
made in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of the laws
of the United States and of this
territory, said amount being $200
per year, the amount required to
hold the claims for the years end
ing December 31, 1911, and De
c mber 31, 1912. And if, within
ninety (90) days after this no
tice by publication, you fail or re
fuse to contribute your proportion
($200, being $100 for each of said
ears) your interest in said claims
will become the property of the
subscriber, your co-owner, under
.»
Section 2324, Revised Statutes of
the United States.
WM. KOCH.
Date of first pub. Jan. 24, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 24, 1913.
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The steam Seat at “The Clin-”
is mighty flue these frosty days.
Notice the contented expression
of our tenants.
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
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Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders’
hard ware. Shop and job work of all kinds
Windows.'Doors, Moulding, Finilh
tug Lumber
Aaaate hr FaMaaka. Men. ACe.
AGIST RAPERS
Details of One of the Most Das
tardly Crimes Ever Commit
ted in Alaska.
The six men of Company B.
Thirtieth L'. S. Infantry, who are
charged with rape and breaking
and entering a dwelling house in
the night time with intent to
commit rape, as reported in the
Prospector some time since, were
recently given their preliminary
hearing in the commissioner's
court at SI. Michael.
The men are Privates Henry II.
Alderman. William C. Butler, Si.
Corbin, Lewis Kirkwood. Owen
Xidy and William Polenller. They
were all bound over to the grand
ury and were taken to Nome, (tap
lain Wade and the other officers
of the local garrison had investi
gated the affair to such good ef
fect tlial evidence was found
against all six of the men, even
though the I wo native women
were aide to identify bill two of
the men implicated.
Not only the officers of the
post, but the enlisted men, took
part in tracing out the guilty
ones, as public sentiment seemed
against the soldiers generally,
and the men who cared for their
good names lent all possible as
sistance, with the result that the
officers were soon enabled to pick
out the probable guilty ones.
Some of the guilty ones have
confessed and have, made sworn
statements implicating tliem
sclveselves, as well as all the rest
of the six men. The story told
by the two native women was pa
thetic in the extreme. They both
told straightforward stories
which could not be doubted. One
of the women had a small child
on her back which was clothed
only in an underskirt and parka,
the lower portion of its body be
ing exposed.
The men took this child from
lhe woman’s back and tossed it
into the snow and left it lying
there while three of them assault
ed the woman, who was really a
mere girl, the aunt of th child.
She said that in the assault the
men so twisted her right leg that
her hip was nearly dislocated,
which caused most excruciating
pain and caused her to give up the
resistance she was making.
After the men left her, at a
point several hundred yards from
the shore out on the ice of the
bay, sin* picked up the child and
put it under her parka, but her
right hip and leg were so lame
that she could hardly move and
[she fell every few steps of the
way back, and every time she fell
the child's bare feel and legs
would protrude down into the
snow.
Evidence was introduced to
show that one of the men had
confessed the whole affair and
implicated all the others with him
in the dastardly crime. It was not
thought necessary by the prose
cution to introduce other evidence
at this time, as there was suffi
cient to hold the men.
All of the defendants waived
their right to make a statement
and only one of them, Butler, call
ed a witness in defense. That
witness made a much better wit
ness for the government than for
the defense and no more were
called.
Fe insurance
See Crary about that
inaurance today
Policies Written Here
FIRE INSURANCE
MILK-MILK-MILK
Fresh Milk and Cream
VALDEZ DAIRY
Telephone orders to Phone 187
ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
.. - No More, No Leu
VALDEZ, ALASKA
SUFFRAGETTES SHOW
THE WHITE FEATHER
Philadelphia, Feb, l8.-,-On!y
eight of the Jones army (if suf
fragettes, marching ' from New
York to Washington, were able to
reach Philadelphia. Half of the .
party fell by the wayside between ■
the two cities. More are expect- !
ed to desert between here and j
'Washington.
STERILIZATION OF
CRIMINALS MAY BE LAW
Montpelier. Yt., Feb. 19.--The
Vermont senate has passed the
bill providing for the slerili/.al ion !
of criminals over the veto of the i
governor and il is likely to pass ]
the house. Tile vole was 13 In!
10, a majority only being neces-j
sary.
ADVERTISING COSTS
SOME MONEY
l.ondon. Feb. 19.--The amount
|of advertising done by patent
medicine lirms was forcibly shown
here when Sir Joseph Beacham,
of "worth ti guinea a box’’ fame,
testified before the committee on
patent medicines of parliament.
He .said that, he sold a million
pills a day. (lie aggregate weight
of which during the year was 50
tons. During a year lie expends
more than 8500.0(10 in advertis
ing.
GOVERNMENT TEAMS
LEAVE FOR INTERIOR
Six government teams belong
ing to the quartermaster's de
partment of Fort I.iscum. left
Valdez this morning for the in
terior stations with supplies. The
new telegraph station on the
summit is now equipped and do
ing business.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Blakney are
visitors in Valdez from Fidalgo.
Mrs. Blakney will remain for sev
eral weeks, slopping at the Alber
marle.
The Valdez Bank & Trust com
pany have had printed individual
heck books for accommodation of
their customers. They are quite
an innovation.
Chinese noodles and chop suey
at Valdez Cafe after 7 p. in.
FOR SALE—Paxsons roadhouse,
store and postoffice business,
probably as good and complete
a plant, in as good location, as
there is in Alaska. Undoubtedly
the best roadhouse stand on the
Fairbanks trail. Reason for offer
ing for sale want to go outside.
For particulars address A. J. Pax
son, Paxson, Alaska.
Rfinke, expert repairer, at the
Valdez Iirug company.
j FOR RENT—Three furnished
! houses. Apply to C. E. Bunnell.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL
ACCOUNT.
In the railed Slates Commission
er's Court, ex Officio Judge in
Probate, Valdez Precinct. Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Judic
ial Division.
In the matter of the estate of
l.ouis Camicia, deceased, James
Fish and \V. II. Caswell, adminis
trators.—Notice of Hearing of Fi
nal Account.
Notice is hereby given that
James Fish and W. II. Caswell,
administrators of the estate of
Louis Camicia, deceased, have
rendered, tiled and presented Tor
settlement their final account and
report of their administration of
the said estate, and that the 21st
day of April, 1913, at the hour of
2 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the
office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex
officio judge in probate of the
Valdez precinct, at Valdez. Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the
said court at the time and place
of sett lenient of said final account
and report, at which lime and
place any person interested in
said estate may appear and file
his objections and exceptions to
said final account and report.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska. Ibis
19th dav of February. 1913.
JAMES FISH.
\V. H. CASWELL.
Administrators of the Estafe of
Louis Camicia, deceased.
Date of first, pub. Feb. 19, 1913.
Date of last pub. April 21, 1913.
TIDE TABLES
Wednesday, February 19.
High tide, 10:43 a. in., 12:01 p. in.
Low tiile, 4:42 a. in., 5:42 p. in.
Thursday, February 20.
High tide, 11:35 a. in., 12:30 p. in.
Low tide, 5:31 a. m.
Friday, February 21.
High lide, 12:23 a. in.
Low lide, 0:20 a. in., 0:59 p. in.
Saturday, February 22.
High tide, 1 a. in., 1:09 p. in.
Low tide, 7:05 a. in., 7:33 p. in.
New York Life
Insurance Co.
W. H. MART, RtpnmteH..
Valdez, Aluka. Pfcone 41
A, M. Dierinfcer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY ard FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
onless paid tor in advance
CITY EXPRESS
J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Ouick delivery tu all parts of town
at short notice. Will move baggrge,
furniture, etc., at reasonable rates
Office in Alaska Securities
building, Wall St. Phone 82
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office iniWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drun store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 8 p. m.. 7 p, m., to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYER
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 31 VALDEZ
L. V. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
!
SEWARD, - ALASKA
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez. Alaska '.
Reports oh Minas
Ratbht Surveys
Oehesal Mihihq Ehqihbkrimq
Phone No. ios
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 189
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
A *B*
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clook In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
attend. S. McNIECE. Arctic Chief
Visiting and local Odd Fellows are re
quested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows’ Club. Regular
meetings, Hrst and third Monday.
Call on P. S. H17NT. Secretary.
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE Vo. 1971.
Meet every Friday 8 p. m. Eagle Hall
Valdes lyodge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Maaona
Regular Communications first Wednesday la
eaoh month in McKinley Ball Visitors always
weloome.
James B. Fatten nw..W. M
C. C. Reynolds. See