Just Arrived
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KIPPERED SALMON, BREAKFAST CHEESE
RANCH EGGS, WALNUTS, APPLES, ORANGES
Ton can’t g» wrong Whole Wheat bk D t
when you eat Roman Meal
French
FANCY COFFEE CAKE,
HOME-MADE DOUGHNUTS
From
Schmidt’s Bakery
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
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VAJJJEZ. AIjASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 FOR MEN ONLY
Ifcffteen young people gathered at
Everyman’s club house last night at
the regular meeting of the Literary
Society A mock Congress was held
at which a bill for “Prohibition in
Alaska’’ was introduced and debated
upon. There were many good and
clever arguments on both sides. After
Congress adjourned the remainder of
the evening was spent in games.
Watson Due This Evening.
The steamer Admiral Watson left
Seward early this morning en route j
tor Valdez, and is expected to arrive
We about 7:30 this evening.
tide tables for march.
The table given below m toi high
and low water in Valdez Bay, for
the month of March. .1910
Saturday, March 25. .
High, 3:28 am, 9.4; 4:59 pm, 6.0.
Low, 10:3.7 am,—0-3; 1Q:01 pm, 8.4.
Sunday, March 36.
High, 4:37 am, 8.8; 6:34 pm, 6.7.
Low, 11:64 am, —0.7; 11:14 pm, 3.9
Monday, March 27.
High, 6:46 am, 8.4; 8:02 pm. 6 1.
Low, 1:26 pm, —0.8
Tuesday, March 2M.
High, 7:22 am, 8.2; 9:18 pm, C.s
Low, 1:02 am, 3.3; 8:46 pm, —0.6.
Wednesday, March 2D:
High, 8:50 am, 8.4; 10:04 pm, 7.7.
Low, 2.48 am, 3.3: 8:42 pin. 0,4
Thursday, March 30.
High, 9:57 am, 8.7; 10:44 pm, 8.5.
Low, 3:56 am, 2.2; 4:27 pm, —0.2.
• Friday, March 31.
High, 10:51 am. 9.0; 11:18 pm, 9.3.
Low, 4^8 am. I t; 5:06 pm, —0.2.
: \ Jr Notice of Forfeiture.
To Juliet Steinmetz, Emmy Petersen
i and Mandy Petersen, Heirs of Pe
' ter Steinmetz, Deceased, and Devi
sees Under His Will: and Charles
•* Newbill:
* You and each of you are notified
that the undersigned,' co-owner with
■you of the Big Queen and Little
Queen lode mining, claims, . situate
near the head of Landloek Bay, Val
dez Precinct, .Territory of AViskjt, has
performed the annual labor reqnired
by law to &old said claims for the
year 1916; that said work was done
in the year 1916 and to the amount
of $100 on or for the benefit of each
of said claims. And you, Juliqt
Steinmetz, Emmy Petersen and Mau
dy Petersen, are notified that the
amount due from you for said’annual
labor as ownors of the Interest of Pe
ter Steinmetz, deceased, which said
interest was an undivided one-third
of said claims, is $06.67. And you,
Charles Newbill, are notified that the
amount due from you for said an
nual labor as owner of an undivided
one-third of. said claims is t$66.67.
And unless within ninety days aft
er completion of publication of this
notice you pay to your co-owner who
has performed said annual labor, the
proportion thereof duo from you a a
aforesaid, your Interest in szid claims
will become the property of said co
owner.
Dated, February 26, 1916.
ROSS PADEN.
First publication February 26, 1916.
LaBt publication May 27, 1916. sat
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The Beat Place In Valdett to
Stop at ia the
Arctic Hotel
Wans, Light Rooms--'Tke Hone of Comfort
RATES REASONABLE
BATH ROOM Special Ratca By tke Montk
PHONE 133 MRS. STRING, Prop.
Valdez Miners Union Ko.188
Western Federation of Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER,Prerideet,
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCAUAJM. Secretary.
Valdes Alack*.
Scared Him.
She—That fellow haa taking ways.
He—You don’t aay! What i« he. a
thief?
She—No; a photographer.—Philadel
phia Reeord.
. JLUC&L BHFVTTIKS
Panoramic *taws_ of Child's and
Miles glaciers, Dawson, Valdez and
Wrange’ on sale at the Valdez Drag
store tt
Kodak (Supplier gt the Valdez
Drug Company tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
gongs and Music Valdez Drug Co. tf
Fancy ol.&tiooery at the Valdez
Drug Store. •
Hoipomt Electric Heaters, Cookers,
Bakers, Percolators and Vacuum
Cleaners arrived on the last boat tor
the Emporium. tf
Mrs. Kelsey entertained the Fri
day Evening Sewing Club at her
residence on Broadway last night.
Abe Abrahamson left for the
Cliff this morning after spending a
week in town.
| A1 I)ii beck has gone to Fidalgo bay.
where he has accepted a position with
the Alaska Mines Corporation. ;
For Rent—Well furnished cabins
from $5 up. Alaska Inv. Co. ' It.
You can buy cheaper first cost en
gines than we handle If you are in
the market for that class, don't both
er us, but buy your engine; we will
see you often enough afterwards. Val
dez Iron Works. fr-tf
Pasteurised Whipping Cream and
pure Buttermilk at Love-Whitley's
Furnished rooms at Mrs (island’s
Prices reasonable. *
Anything in the Jewelry Hue at the
Valdez Drug Co tt
_
Pure Fresh Drags at the Valdez
Drug Strive. •
Pictures iavelopefl at the Valdev
Drug Company tt.
For Bade.
Launch 3-M, 67xl2x3.fi Make us
an offer. T? J. Morris, by D. E. Mor
ris. Agent. Call Prospector office, tf
Fsr good homo-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart Street •
A flue display of nugget jewelry at
Valdes Drug Co. tf
Spring Samples In heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Ouy F. Cameron,
Tailor. tf
Valdez Drug company nave a fine
line of School Stationery. tf.
ANCIENT FORESTS
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Fossils have aptly been called the il
lustrations In the great book record
ing the world’s history, the pages of
which are the layers of rock that
form the outer part of the crust of
the earth. By looking at some of
these Illustrations that represent
plants we can restore In imagination
the ancient vegetation of parts of the
world.
Fossil plants are very pbundant in
the Fort Union formation in North
Dakota, where they are found in the
sandstone, in the harder concretions
or lenses, and in the clay between
the beds of sandstone. Most of them
especially those in the clay are pre
served with remarkable fidelity.
About 300 species of plants from this
formation have been described, and
the total number of species it con
tains may perhaps reach 500 or more.
This abundant fossil flora shows
that what is now almost treeless
plain was once covered with splen
did forests of hardwoods, intersper
sed with scattered conifers and gink
gos. The presence of numerous and
at many places thick beds of lignite
make it clear that in this region
there were great swamps, which must
have existed with but little change
for long periods of time.
'
The Ruby Record-Citizen gives
[the following account of an interview
between Delegate Wickrshhm and an
old-timer on the Yukon, In Seattle,
which did not get into the papers:
“I had a talk with Wick .
about the Ruby road, but he was
unable to do anything, be said. I
told him that it was a. case of no
road, no vote, at Ruby, and that lie
had better forget Fairbanks for one
short while and look at some other
spot in the interior. I also told him
that I was of the opinion that the
center of population would steadily
remove itself from Fairbanks, and
that the people would distribute
themselves on the Tanana and the
Yukon, and Ruby had the most to
offer them; that spending the money
needed for roads at other places, on
bridges at Fairbanks was not going
to earn him any votes nor good will
from the sections that were neglect
ed.”
Y. V. S. C. K.
All young people are invited to
the Christian Endeavor meeting in
the Congregational Lecture Room
Sunday at (5:30. Mrs. ,7. F. Dunstan
will lead the discussion.
Deputy Marshal Moesnian will -fee -a
returning passenger on the Watson
from the westward, bringing with
him Charles Covey, arrested at An
chorage on a warrant from Fair
banks charging him with the theft of
a dog team at Ft. Gibbon and Oscar
Breedin, who will serve.a jail-sen
tence here for an assault committed
at Seward. Coveji will ho sent to
Fairbanks for trial.
Gus Wilson, a well known charac
ter in Cordova, has drawn a four
months’ sentence in the federal jail,
in the IT. S. Commissioner’s Court at
that place, and will be sent to Valdez
on the steamer Alaska, to serve out
the sentence.
The roof ladder which disappeared
from Wood’s barn some time ago, re
turned shortly after an ad was run
in the Prospector. This is only one
of the many illustrations of the fact
that it pays to advertise in the Daily
Prospector.
W’m. McPhail, who it. was reported
had sustained a broken leg due to a
fall, was more seriously injured than
at first reported. His leg was broken
in two places, near the .ankle and
above the knee.
The Fort Liscilta launch Lieut.
Donaldson made an early trip to Val
dez this morning and then left for a
trip to Jack’s Bay.
For Sale- Three room house, furn
ished, desirable location, good bar
gain. Alaska Inv. Co., Reed bldg. It
A Difficult Order.
Willie— I wont my pudding now. I
don't want any more meat, and—
Father (sternly)—Keep your mouth
■hut and eat your dinner.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
SPECIALISTS IN CHINA.
Thoy Know to a Niooty Juot WMr*
Thair Work Begins and Ends.
The Englishman knows bow to serve,
and he knows how to be served, says
Isaac Taylor Headland In “Home Life
In China,” bnt in the matter of service
and serving even the Englishman must
take a second place, for the Chinaman
has specialized sendee such as has
never Itecn done in Great Britain.
We sometimes think we are special
ists In the west. We have our eye
specialists, a kind of servant, of course,
although I simply use them to illus.
trate what ) wish to say here, but they
often combine with the treatment of
the eye that of the ear. the nose and
the throat They have not got down
to a last analysis of specializing as the
Chinese doctor has.
A man had been shot with an arrow.
,the head of which was buried in tbe
'flesh. He tried to puli it out, but tbe
skin had closed over the bead, and he
was not able to do so. He went to a
physician to get him to remove it The
doctor promptly sawed the shaft off
close to the skin and then 'demanded
his fee. .“But,” said the sufferer, “the
bead Of the arrow is still Inside.”
“Qnlte right” said the doctor, “i
am a specialist I deal only with out
side diseases. If yon want the head
taken out you will have to go to an
other specialist who cares for inside
ailments.”
WON BY DARING WIT.
0
Story of Czar Paul, Hia Sacred Snuff
box and a Wager.
(Star Paul’s snuffbox was iw sacred
as the imperial crown itself. No one
was allowed to touch it. Kaploff wa
gered that he would lake a pinch out
of it
One inoruing he walked up u» tile ta
ble which stood near the bed on which
the czar still reclined and boldly took
from it the majestic snuffbox. Open
ing it noisily, lie inserted his lingers,
and, while Paul l. was watching him,
in stupefaction at such audacity, he
sniffed up the fragrant powder with
evident satisfaction.
“What are you doing there, you
rogue?” exclaimed the czar excitedly
“Having hi pinch of snuff, sire. 1
have uow been on duty for eight
hours, and. feeling drowsy, 1 thought
it would , keep me awake, for i would
rather break the rules of etiquette than
neglect my duty.”
Paul hurst out laughing and merely
replied:
“Thai's right enough, my lad, but as
the snuffbox is not large enough for
both of us you can keep it for your
self.''
’ rteptiles Are Shortsighted.
According to a naturalist, serpents, in
spite of their reputation for alertness,
are eery shortsighted. Some of them
cannot see more than a yard or two in
front, of them. Other reptiles are sinai
la rVy deBdriit.” In sensd of vision, and'
the authority asserts that^a crocodile
cannot see a uiuu at a greater distance
Hum .six times its own length. In re
spent of Bearing, many reptiles are
even' more deficient than in sight
'Some serpents are deaf, tlie boa. it is
said. Jicing unable to hear any sound
The.|term •deaf adder” consequently
expresses a fact in one respect some
reptiles show singular acuteness. They
have an unerring instinct for water
and In dry weather will travel straight
to it, even when they tire at such long
distances that the mystery is how they
could possibly Become aware of Its
locality.
The Seal's Sonse of Smell.
The sense of smell possessed by the
seals is very strong and will invariably
wake them out of a sound sleep even
if you come upon them ever so quietly
to the windward, and you will alarm
them in this way much more thorough
ly, though yon be a half mile distant,
than If yon came up carelessly from
the leeward uud eveu walked in among
them, they seeming to feel that yon
are not different from one of their own
j species until they smell you The chief
attraction in these animals Is their
large, handsome eyes, which Indicate
great intelligence. They are a deep
bluish block, with a soft, glistening
appearance, and the pupil, like the
cat's, is capable of great dilation and
contraction.
Wheat and Plane.
it takes about four and a half bosh
els of wheat to make a barrel of flour,
but different wheats vary from this es
timate. A bard wheat produces more
flour to the bushel than a soft wheat
Generally speaking, a bushel of wheat
will yield from 70 to 75 per cent of
flour of different grades, distributed
about as follows: Patent flour, 55 to 00
per cent; bakers' flour, 8 to 10 per'cent:
red dog. 5 per cent, making approx)
mutely 70 to 75 per cent, of flour and
leaving 25 to 30 per cent of feedstuff
that is bran, shorts etc —Philadelphia
Press.
Freemen the Historian.
It was an English bishop who. wfhen
tbs historian Freeman had worn out
his patience with bis rudeness. Intro
doced blm to a waiting audience as
“the distinguished scholar that so ad
mlrably descrilies and illustrates the
savagery of our ancestors.’' ,
Ths Result.
“Dear me. girls! What on earth is
that peculiar sweetish smell In the air
•11 over the bouse?''
“Why. Geraldine Is burning tier old
love letters In the furnace.”—Baltimore
American.
There Must Have Been Souvenirs.
“Was your baiujiiet a success?"
“Great! We conldn'l have hail a big
ger crowd If It bad been a free feed."
-Detroit Free Press
CITY EXPRESS
will guarantee that both you and your baggage will
reach the boat on time—Let us do the
worrying.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed ;
Telephone 66 I
Foot Keybione Ave
Rough Dry 10c ll»
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our standard. Sold everywhere
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone <13 Elias. Fischer, Propr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE^AGENCY
Real Estate. Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
FIAMIUNti, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
She«i Metal Work, Mine Air Pipe. Pipe and Fittings, Valves, Etc.
Motor Boat Supplies, Paints and Oils,
ijucated on Valdez Hock, Opposite Prospector Office. I'lioue 24
When You Leave
For the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One'road—•oi^e management—one service all the”way
through to Chicago. It’s the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or 43k
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line.
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
SAILINGS FKOM SEATTIiE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral Eorragut for Seldovia and Way Peru.
Wednesday, Mar, is, Admiral Watson for Seward and Way Port*.
Sunday, March 19, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 26, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovia and Way Porta.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral Watson, for Seldovia and Way Porta.
Sunday, April 9, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Porte.
Sunday, April 16, Admiral Farragut for Anchorage and Way Porta.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday. April 30. Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Saa FYanetaeo every Wednesday and Sunday, conuectlnu will
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
H1CHAKD J. HINOWOOU, Mgr, Seattle) VALDKZ DOCK CO, Coral Agt '
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
8. 8. ALAMEDA AND 8. 8. NORTHWK8TERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, SS0T1I AND 80TU.
EVERY MONTH
FROM' VALDEZ SOUTH—8TH, I8TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA.
JUNEAU, AVRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE, t
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek Treadwell, 'Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Eliarnar, Valdez and La
touche. Ezploslveo. 8. 8. Seward, on the 6ih; Latourhe. on the 16th; 8. S. •
Cordova. 86th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notloe.
p. B. TRACT, Gcal Agent VALDHl DOCK CO* Local tint