Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
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For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
V. _
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The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sitting* by appointment
Developing/Printing. Enlarging
A. \V., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
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and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail. Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellair.ar, Well* Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
T^Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin-. Proprietor
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
< 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS< Lunch 12 m to I p n
( 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM ,8BO per Mo.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liseum. Leaves Valdes.
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. in.
1:15 p. m- 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:10 p. in. 2J30 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4 tOO 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 boil ->rs.
LONDON.—A Londoner telling how
he was entertained at a country
house near Rutland Gate, said that
after dinner his noble host, together
wiwtthe brother of an earl and widow
of ljn"ex-lord mayor, washed and dried
the dishes. All the servants had gone
to war.
SUMMONS.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Lucy Smith, plaintiff, vs. Harry F.
Smith, defendant.—No. C-112. Sum
mons.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To Harry F. Smith, the above
named defendant:
,You are "hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, at Valdez,
Alaska, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons, to-wit, within thirty days
l from and after the 8th day of July,
1915, and answer the complaint of
Lucy Smith, the above-named plain
tiff in the above-named cause.
The said cause is a suit brought
by said plaintiff against you, praying
a decree of this court for the dissolu
tion of the bonds of matrimony heie
tofore existing. The order for the
publication of this summons was duly
made and entered on the 1st flay of
May, 1915.
And you are hereby notified tnat if
you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiff will take judgment against
you for want thereof, and will ap
ply to the court for the relief demand
ed in said complaint as heretofore
set out.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 27th day of May,
1915, and the date of the last pub
lication thereof is the 8th day of July,
1915.
Witness the Hon. Fred. M. Brown,
judge of said court, this 26th day of
May. in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and fifteen and
of our independence the one hundred
and thirty-ninth.
ARTHUR LANG,
(Official Seal) Clerk.
T. P. GERAGHTY, Deputy.
C. M. Frazier attorney for plaintiff.
Publications May 27, June 3, 10, 17.
24, July 1 and 8.
I_
In Bankruptcy. 1
In the District Court of the United
States for the Territory of Alaskar
Third Division.—In Bankruptcy.
In the matter of the estate of Alas
ka Oil ft Refining Company, a private
corporation.—In Bankruptcy.
To the creditors of the Alaska Oil
& Refining Company, a corporation
organized under the laws of the State
of Washington and doing business in
in Kayak precinct. Third Division,
Territory of Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that on the
1st day of May, A. D. 1915, the said
Alaska Oil & Refining Company was
duly adjudicated bankrupt; and that
the first meeting of its creditors wiU
be held at the office of Chas. G. Gan
ty, Referee in Bankruptcy, in Valdez,
Alaska, on the 31st day of May, 1915,
at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of said
day, at which time the said creditors
may attend, prove their claims, ap
point a trustee, examine the bank
rupt, and transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before
said meeting.
Dated this 14th day of May, 1915. ’
CHAS. G. GANTY,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Impertinent.
Irate Landlady—Don't you ever dare
come to this house again! Weary Wil
lie—Very well, madam. To Compan
ion—Mr. Wrnggles, please don’t let me
forget to have my secretary cross this
lady’s name from my visiting list.—
London Telegraph.
Lost ar.d Found.
This is either a queer or a dishonest
or one sided world. There are always
ten times as many “losts” as there
nro “founds" in the ad. columns.—De
troit Free Dross.
Times to Laugh.
A..—Is the old man always so glum
as this? B.—By no moans. lie laughs
twice a year, spring and fall, when
the women’s new hats come In.—File
condo Blatter.
Cleaning & Pressing
Alterations of allkinds-First class work guaranteed
Suits Sponged, and Pressed $1.00
Rugs cleaned like new, 50c and up.
J. D. CLARK, Panama Hotel. Both Phones 15
Headquarters tor Traveling Men.
Copper Block
VALDEZ
“The House of Comfort,”
For Men Only
Steam Heat. Hot Baths
Father—Do you think you eau sup
port my (laughter in the manner to
which she has been accustomed?
Suitor—I think I can. sir.
Father—Then you can’t have tier.
She’s never had anything in her life.
Cautious.
De Quoter—Opportunity knocks once
fit every mnn’t door.
McFact—Opportunity will have to
ring my bell. I don’t answer knocks.—
Chicago News.
Merest Trifle.
“Oh, how do you do, dear? I haven’t
seen you for some time. What’s new?”
“Nothing special, only uiy husband.”
—Fliegeude Blatter.
Feathered Aid.'
“How’s your garden coming out?”
“Thanks to the neighbors' chickens,
it’s coming out faster than I can plant
it”—Pittsburgh Press.
Posted.
Schoolteache£-Can you tell me the
kind of Illumination they had on the
ark?
Little Willie—Arc lights. — Boston
Globe.
Subscribe for the Dally Prospector.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
PLIGHT Or A POET.
Hi* Vivid Imagination Once Nearly
Got Coleridge In Trouble.
From Ills early youth Coleridge lived
in a world of books and dreams, yet
his favorite walk seems to have been
the Strand, the last place in the world
for a poet to lose himself in reverie.
As he strolled down the street he im
agined himself swimming the Helles
pont, the feat of which other poets
had written and which the poet Ilyron
was to accomplish later. Once while
the mind of Coleridge was thus far
from the btv V’ Strand he absently
thrust his lii'i'rds before him in the
manner of o)P!> swimming. Suddenly
one hand can"; fn contact with a gen
tleman’s pocket.
The gentleman, thinking to capture
a thief, seized the hand and exclaimed:
“What! So young and so wicked!”
He accused the poor, poetic boy of an
attempt at pocket picking.
With some fright and a few tears
the boy explained, and we can imag
ine that words did not fail him who
was to become the most brilliant talk
er of his age. The gentleman was de
lighted with Coleridge’s imagination,
which could turn the Strand into the
Hellespont. The intelligence of the
young Leandcr made the stranger in
quire into Coleridge’s tastes, and when
ho found the hoy liked books he open
ed for him a subscription at the circu
lating library in Cheapside.—Westmin
ster Gazette.
ORDER OF THE BATH.
It Was a Realistic Ceremony In the
Time of Charles II.
The last Knights of the Bath mJUe
according to the ancient forms were at
the coronation of Charles XX., when
various rites and ceremonies, one of
which was bathing, were enforced.
According to Froissart, the court bar
ber prepared a bath, and the candidate
for membership in the order, having
been undressed by his esquires, was
thereupon placed in the bath, his cloth
es and collars being the perquisites
of tlie harbor. lie was then removed
from tho water to the words “May this
be an honorable bath to you” and was
placed in a plain bed quite wet and
naked to dry.
As soon as ho was quite dry he was
removed from the bed, dressed In new
and rich apparel and conducted by
his sponsors to the chapel, where he
offered n taper to the honor of God and
a penny piece to the honor of the king.
Then iio went to the monarch and,
kneeling before him, received from the
royal sword a tap on tho shoulder, the
king exclaiming, "Arise. Sir-,” and
then embraced him, saying, “Be thou
a good knight and true.”—London
Strand Magazine.
"Choir.”
Churchgoers who follow the service
in their prayer books would certainly
miss the “dear old phrase” concerning
“quires and places where they sing,”
and in time the old fashioned “quires”
may ho made new fashioned again by
the coming of rationalized spelling.
“Choir” was a most unnecessary out
rage upon the language. The old Eng
lish “quer” or “quere" became quite
naturally "quyer” or “quire,” and so
it remained until the end of the seven
teenth century, when somebody seems
to have introduced “choir” because it
looked more like the French “choeur,”
as if that were a valid reason. There
could have been no danger of confus
ing a church “quire" and a “quire” of
paper, which is a different word, the
French “eahier,” probably from I^atln
“quaternarium,” a collection of four
leaves.—London Standard.
Seventeenth Century Sheep.
“The best and biggest sheep,” says
Fuller in his famous “Worthies of
England,” published in the year 10G2,
“are those of the vale of Aylesbury, in
Buckinghamshire, where it Is nothing
to give £10 or more for a breed ram.
So that should a foreigner hear of the
price thereof he would guess that ram
rather to be some Norman engine of
battery than the creature commonly so
called. Foreigners,” he adds, “much
admiro our English sheep because they
do aot, ns those beyond the seas, fol
low their shepherds like a pack of
dogs, but wander wide abroad.”
Locating tha Laughs.
Once upon a time De Wolf Hopper
was required to play Falstaff In a spe
cial performance of “The Merry Wives
of Windsor.” He sought the help of
William H. Crane, a famous Falstaff
twenty-five years ago. "1 will help
you,” Mr. Crane said. “I will lend you
my wig, my beard, my costume and
my pad, and I will go page by page
through the text with you, pointing
out as I go Just where the laughs are
not”—Indianapolis News.
They Came Back.
"How’s this, son? Yesterday you
cleaned up the back yard nicely, but
today it looks worse than ever.”
“It’s not my fault, dad. I fired every
thing over the fence, but last night the
kid next door slammed ’em back.”—St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Laat Retort.
“Well, we have exhausted reason,
logic, common sense and justice. What
more can we do?”
“I guess we’ll simply have to go to
law.”—Life.
A Lover of Muaio.
He—I took Maud to a musical even
ing last night She—Was It good? He
—I don’t know. I didn’t hear much of
It Maud was telling me how fond she
Is of music.
What do we live for If not to make
life lesa difficult to each other?—George
Eliot *
ALLIES OR ENEMIES.
There Were No Neutral Nations In
Europe In Ancient Times.
Iu ancient times nations at war class
ed their neighbors as either allies or
enemies, writes Herbert W. Bowen.
Neutrality as an international relation
was not recognized. There were no
neutral rights and no neutral duties.
International law itself existed only in
a very rudimentary form.
It was not until after tile fall of
Rome and until the nations of Eu
rope had become numerous and were
asserting ami exercising comparatively j
equal prevention and power that their 1
interests became so conflicting, that !
they perceived the necessity of estab- j
li.shing mid supporting a system of law j
that must be applicable to them in
their relations one with another. Gro
tius (1583-KU5), the so called father of
International law, published in 1C25 Ids
famous book, “Do Jure Belli et I’aeis,”
which defined and described the laws
of war and peace. Of neutrals, whom
ho called middlemen in war, lie had
but little to say.
Bynk«shoek, who was born twenty
five years after the peace of West
phalia was signed and who was one of
the most distinguished successors of
Grotius, was, if not the first, at least
among flic first of publicists to define
and explain neutrality authoritatively
and to give to it a permanent and
prominent place in the law of nations.
—Case and Comment.
DEATH ON THE GUILLOTINE.
A Surprise For Sardou at an Execu
tion Ho Attended.
Sardou In order to be present at the
execution of Tropmnn in January, 1871, ]
spent tiie night before with La Ito
fjuctte, the prison director. In Ids de
scription he says:
“At daybreak the guests went out
upon the cold, bleak execution place,
where the guillotine had already been
erected. The bedraggled crowd, which
had spent the night in drinking places,
sang ribald songs and from time to
time shouted for Deiblcr, the execu- j
Honor, who meanwhile was explaining
tiie mechanism.
“The basket In which the head was
to drop was brought, and while looking
>lt it I TU’as horrified to see the lid arise
and a, human form emerge. ‘Don't
worry,’ said Deiblcr with a smile: ‘that
Is only my wife, who wanted to see
the execution, and I chose the simplest,
way to secure a good place for her.’ ”
Clemeneeau saw Emile Henry decapi
tated on May 22. 1804, In his capacity
as a journalist, and describing liow the
culprit was dragged to the machine,
strapped upon the plank and there tor
tured by awaiting the pleasure of
Deiblcr till the knife finally ended it
all, saitf that the “horror of It” made
htm sick.
The Caspian Sea.
The Caspian sea is as Herodotus said
2,000 years ago, "a sea by itself, having
no connection with any other.” Every
schoolboy knows that now, hut it is
remarkable to find Herodotus saying
so, because centuries after Ids time
such authorities as Strabo and Pliny
believed that it was connected with
the northern ocean by a long and nar
row gulf. Geography seems to have
had a setback in the interval through
false information received at the time
of Alexander's conquests. Herodotus
says that the Caspian's length was
fifteen days’ voyage with a rowboat,
its breadth eight days’. Since the
actual figures are 710 miles and 400,
this shows that a rowboat of the time
did fifty miles a day.—London Graphic.
Irony of Fate.
Divorce, as well as marriage, has its
little ironies.
A society woman, who has just in
stituted proceedings for release from
the double yoke, was discussing her
case with a friend.
“I don’t think I know this lawyer
who is going to represent you.” ob
served the visitor, running over the
unme in her mind.
“Oh, you must know him," returned
the hostess with animation. “Don't
you remember the good looking fellow
who sang ‘Oh, Perfect Love,’ at my
wedding?”—Lippincott's.
Why She Hurrahed.
During the last G. A. R. encampment
there was one woman amid the crowd
of spectators on the day of the parude
who made herself conspicuous by her
noisy hurrahs and escited waving of a
dag as the old veterans marched past.
One of the bystanders told her sharply
to shut up.
“Shut up yourself!” she retorted. “If
you had buried two husbands who had
served in the war you would he hur
rahing too.”—Everybody’s.
Old Fashioned.
“I never see you pay the slightest
attention to your children,” declared
grandma, who had como on a visit.
"Don’t you love your children?”
“Now, don’t be old fashioned, ma,”
urged tiie fashionable wife. “Their
governess Is employed to do that”—
Judge.
Would Be Great.
"They say that Mars is not now
habitable, but will be soon.”
“Gosh, I’d like to help settle it Think
of being among the first families of an
entire planet”—Kansas City Journal.
Unfortunately Put.
Nellie—How do you like the new way
1 do my hair, Jack? Jack (meaning to
be complimentary)—Why, It makes you
look at least ten years younger.
Caesar considered nothing done so
long as anything remained to be dones
-Lucan.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
n....no DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears i
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
phone is THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
a a. m., to 6 p. in., 7 p, in., toy p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
A TTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdei, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
._ . 7 Chas*Perrv
*A Complete. Service ■
, • IN THE HEART OF THE CITY *
I 155Rnomswitti bafh-50 Sample Rooms
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bacic” 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
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Complied from the official tide ta
bles Issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdes
and Is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
Friday, May 28.
;High tide 12:12 p. m., 10.6; 11:31
p. m., 14.2.
Low tide 5:47 a. m., -2.3; 5:20 p.
m., 2.2.
Saturday, May 29.
High tide 1:03 p. m., 10.7.
Low tide 6:36 a. m., -2.6; 6:06 p.
m., 2.3.
Sunday, May 30.
High tide 12:20 a. m.. 14.2; 1:54 p.
m., 10.6.
Low tide 7:25 a. m., -2.6; 6:58 p.
■yz ‘ in
Monday, May 31.
'High tide 1:10 a. m.. 13.9; 2:45 p.
m„ 10.5.
Low tide 8:13 a. m., -2.3; 7:41 p.
m., 2.6.
Tuesday, June 1.
High tide 2:01 a. m„ 13.3; 3:38 p.
m„ 10.4.
Low/tlde 9:04 a. m., -1.6; 8:48 p.
m., 2.8.
Wednesday, June 2.
High tide 2:56 a. m., 12.4; 4:34 p.
m., 10.5.
Low tide 9:66 a. m., -0.9; 9:58
m- 30-_ ^ ‘:
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