Men’s Rainy Weather Coats
NO MAKER STANDS
higher as a raincoat
manufacturer than Kenyon,
and here at this store you’ll
find an unusually good se
lection. They’re made in
Gabardine and London
slip ons, set in and regular
sleeves. Black, Olive, Brown
and fancy mixtures— all
sizes from 36 to 46.
Priced $12, $14,
$15, $18 & $20.
A $15.00 Coat Now Balmaccan Coats
For $11.00.
There are only seven in the
lot—a slip on Raglan style,
color black, setin velvet
collar and cuffs—a splendid
good coat. Regular price
$15.00, Saturday for $11.00
Made b^ Kenyon
All are very nifty styles.
Good heavy tweeds, shower
proof, black and white and
brownish mixtures.
Sizes 36 to 42. Prices are
$18.00 and $20.00.
Groceries Selling For Less
Tea Garden Jellies in Raspber
ry flavors, regular 20e a jar,
Saturday a jar.10c
Postum Cereal, a compound
made of wheat and molasses,
regular 35c, Saturday for.. . .25c
Pimentos Morrones, sweet red
peppers, No. 1 size, regular 25c,
Saturday. 20c
Delicatessen Cheese, Camem
bert type, regular price 50c,
Saturday .45c
Valdez Mercantile to.mc.
TRUE VALUES
| Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.!
j PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND j
l California Alaska :
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1 ALASKA
$ Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on I
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
>, Steamer sailing 15th calls Iliamna and Kodiak--AU sailings call at Knik Anchorage j
| CALIFORNIA j
S’ Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with J
^ Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
i Rindit reserved to change schedule without notice ■
| RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt. |
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. 25tit of each month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tiacy, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cent:
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,
Monto 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,
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 sec*!on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
•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 tiling 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 tinal 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 & Dirnond attorneys for
administrator.
First publication March 18, 1915.
Last publication April 8, 1915.
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,
tit lilt? UUUI VII L, l» viuin,
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 trie
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.
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.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
\
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
FLUORINE A RABID GAS.
Nothing Can Reaiat tha Power of Thia
Chemical Fury.
The fury of the chemical world Is
the element fluorine, although, strange
ly enough. It exists peacefully In com
pany with calcium in fluorspar and
also in a few other compounds.
Although this element was known
and named a good while ago, it long
resisted tiie efforts of chemists to iso
late it. for the Instant the compound
containing it was torn apart the free
fluorine attacked and combined with
whatever substance composed the ves
sel containing it. It was finally isolat
ed by the great French chemist Mois
sau.
Fluorine is a rabid gas that nothing
can resist, it combines with all met
als, explosively with some, or if they
are already combined with some other
nonmetaliic element it mercilessly
tears them away from it and takes
them to itself.
In uniting with sodium, potassium,
calcium, magnesium and aluminium
the metals become heated, even to red
ness, by the fervor of its embrace.
Iron filings slightly warm burst into
brilliant scintillations when exposed to
it. Manganese does the same. Even
the noble metals, which at melting
heat proudly resist the fascinations ot
oxygen, succumb to this chemical siren
at moderate temperatures.
Glass is devoured at once and water
ceases to be water by contact with this
gas. which, combined with its hydro
gen, at the same moment forms the
acrid, glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid
and liberates ozone.
Even hydrofluoric acid eats into and
destroys every known substance ex
cept platinum and lead.—Exchange.
BURNING WATER.
Coal Wet Gives a Much Larger Amount
of Heat Than When Dry.
Dry coal docs not produce as much
heat as coal that is considerably damp.
It is. of course, a fact that a greater
heat makes the fuel more valuable, and
it is essential to know how to secure
the most from ordinary fuel.
Coal that is to be burned in a fur
nace, a stove or a grate for immedi
ate heat will produce nearly one-fourth
more heat when wet than when dry.
Coat that is to be placed in a stove
or furnace to be closed up so as to
produce a long continued, moderate
heat will produce a little more than
one-third more heat if there is plenty
of moisture than can be secured if the
coal is real dry.
Large lumps of coal can be soaked
in a pail of water for a half hour, and
the heat will be increased nearly one
half. This is done in cases where the
lumps are used in stoves tightly clos
ed. such as those known ns air tight
furnaces.
Several pails of water thrown over
a ton of coal will increase its value
greatly to the consumer. Coal will
burn briskly in wet and almost air
less mines, and it is said the heat is
intense. When there is a tire and the
coal pile burns it is difficult to drown
that portion of the lire with water
We might as well secure a little of
the heat stored in burning water as to
permit it all to go unused.—Philadel
phia North American.
Allah and the Cotton Worm.
This glimpse of oriental character is
from .John A. Todd's "The Banks of
the Nile:
“Well, how is the cotton worm now?"
said an English cotton worm inspector
to an old Egyptian sheik. "Finished.
There is none. How can there be cot
ton worms now? It is more than our
life is worth if we do not pick tile
cotton worms you tine us. you send us
to prison, you take us as prisoners to
another man’s fields and make us pick
his cotton worm. What can we do?
And so there is no cotton worm." “And
hasn’t it saved your cottou tills year?"
"Assuredly, the praise to Allah.”
“Then won’t you do all this picking
next year without us coming to make
you do it?” "No.” “Why?” “Because
that is the way Allah made us!”
The Annual Rainfall.
According to an estimate by Sir John
Murray, the total annual rainfall upon
all the land of the globe amounts to
29.347.4 cubic miles and of this quan
lty 0,524 cubic miles drains off through
rivers to the sea. A cubic mile of river
water weighs approximately 4,205.650.
000 tons and carries In solution on the
average about 420,000 tons of foreign
matter. In all, about 2.735,000,000 tons
of solid substances are thus carried an
nually to the ocean.—United States
Geological Survey.
Two Wise Ones.
The young man carefully removed
the cigars from bis vest pocket and
placed them on the piano. Then he
tipened his arms. But the young girl
did not flutter to them. "You,” she
said coldly, "have loved before.’’—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
Woman’s Way,
“Say, did you ever know a woman to
buy what she wanted at the first store
she came to?"
"Yes. My wife frequently does
tbat is. she returns to It after she's
been through all the other stores.”—
Boston Transcript
Involved.
Binks—1 notice that you have a
thread tied round your flnger. I sup
pose that Is to remind you of some
thing? Jinks—Not exactly. It Is to
remind my wife to ask me If I forgot
something she told me to remember.—
Exchange.
It Is wiser being good than being
bad.—Browning.
MARRIAGE MOURNERS.
Rites of a Gorman Club When Ono of
Its Members Weds.
There are other places besides All
Sou Is' college, Oxford, that penalize a
member who marries. Many reuders
have doubtless heard of the Bachelors'
club In London. When a member so
far forgets the principles of the club
>s to marry he Is promptly expelled.
By payment of a One of $125 he can,
however, retain an honorary member
ship, but of course he cannot enjoy
the privileges of tills select band or
non marrying men.
There is a similar organization in Ger
many—the Junggesellen club. When
ever there comes to the officials of this
club any intimation that a member con
templates matrimony he is immediately
summoned for trial in the club court,
with the president as Judge. The cul
prit. is allowed to plead in extenuation
of ids offense, and upon his skill in pre
senting such plea depends the amount
of his fine, which ranges from $100 to
$1,000.
The humorous feature of the line con
sists in tlie purpose to which the j
money Is applied. The money is de- j
voted to a dinner, whereat all members j
appear in mourning attire. At the con
clusion of the repast the president sol
emnly reads the sentence of expulsion,
and the delinquent is led from the room
amid the groans and lamentations of
bis erstwhile clubfellows.—London Tit
Bits.
LUXURY IN ARGENTINA.
The Big Story They Tell of a Buenos
Aires Hotel Charges.
The hotels of Buenos Aires are fairly
good and very expensive. One of the
cheapest rooms I saw in the Plaza hotel
was $7 a day, European style. There
are good Spanish hotels with rooms
from $2 a day upward.
The Plaza is. perhaps, the most cos
mopolltan of all the hostelries of the
city, in its ballroom and its drawing
room I was reminded of the Waldorf
Astoria. The meals are a little higher
than in the big hotels of New York
city. But there are numerous small
restaurants where good refreshments
may be had at reasonable prices.
As an example of the charges in the
big hotels of Buenos Aires 1 may quote
a story told me by an Argentine olli
cial. He said that some year- ago a
commission of European ambassadors
was entertained by tbe Argentine gov
ernment at the Bristol hotel on the
Avenida de Mayo and that the bill for
soap and perfumery was .¥15.000 a
week. Nobody seemed to complain and
apparently everybody wns satisfied.
Luxuries seem to be necessities to
the Argentines, for I was told that the
tariff on champagne is only 2 per cent
while that on a plow is 50 per ceuL
National Magazine.
The Shrewd Advertiser.
The thoughtful man thinks ahead
The prudent man profits by his ability
to forecast tbe future as well as to
scrutinize tbe present. One of the most
prominent advertisers in the country
says be makes it it rule to increase Ids
advertising appropriation whenever
business slackens and be doubles and
trebles it in times of severe business
depression. This is his logical coat-la
sion: “The new customers that I get
when times are hard I always keep
! when times become good. They come to
I me largely from those who lose them
| because they fail to continue their pub
licity campaigns. A business depres
sion in this country never lasts long
and it is always seed time for me. The
harvest follows when prosperity re
turns." it is a wise man who knows
his own business better than the other
man does.—Leslie's.
Weight of a Lion.
What does a lion weigh? Those who
know the look of the king of beasts
best and bow small tils little body really
is will probably come farthest from tbe
truth. About 300 to 350 pounds is a
usual estimate, but a full grown lion
will tip tbe scales at no less than 500
pounds. Five hundred nnd forty
pounds Is the record for an African
lion. His bone is solid and heavy as
ivory. The tiger runs tbe lion very
close. A Bengal tiger killed by an Eng
lish officer scaled 520 pounds. A tiger
this size has. however, considerably
more muscular strength than the big
gest lion.
Hired Hie Newspaper.
Lady Taylor once took a friend to see
the poet Tennyson and was rather cold
ly received. On Lady Taylor rallying
him on his manner be said:
“Madam, I am a poor man. and as i
can't afford to buy the Times 1 have it
from the stationer. He charges me
2 cents for it. which entitles me to
keep it an hour. Why will people se
lect Just that hour to come and call on
me?”_
His Periodicals.
"Do you take any periodicals?” asked
the clergyman on his first round of
parish visits.
“Well, 1 don't.” replied the woman,
“but my husband takes ’em frequent
I do wish you'd try to get him to sign
the pledge.”—Judge.
Often the Case.
"It was a fair fight, wasn’t It?”
“Sure it was. The under dog got
whipped.”
“Call that a fair fight?”
“Wait now. let me explain. The un
der dog provoked it”—St. Louis Re
public.
Discretion and Valor.
Judge—How dared you strike your
wife, sir? Husband—Well, she had her
back to me and tb' kitchen door was
open, so I took a chance.—New York
tilobe.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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The best groceries receit ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and n uts.
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and on the job-—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
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Summons By Publication
In the District Court lor the Terri
tory of Alaska. Third Division.
.J. L. Deed, plaintiff, vs. Kri Thomp
son and M. A, Kills, defendants.
No. S-49. Summons liy Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Kri Thomp
son, tile above named defendant: You
are hereby .summoned to appear in
the District Court lor the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the 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 tlie
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Kri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same he sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons is served on you by
publication (hereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on tlie 8th day
of March, 1915, which publication was
directed to tie made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
(.Seal) Airriiun LANG,
Clerk of lhe District Court.
By CllAS. A HAND. Deputy.
Dale of first publication March S.
1915.
Date of Iasi publication April 19,
1915.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal Election will he 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, who 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
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. tti. and shall continue un
til 7 o'clock p. m. of the same day,
without closing the polls.
It. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8, 15, 22. 29.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baclt” 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
wiith the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
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Imported Japanese nasseta at Val
des Drug Co. tf