^ STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
§
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
.“The House of Comfort”
PHONF. 7 FOR WEN ONLY
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
OUR WAYS LIE
TOGETHER
if good clothing interests you.
If you demand style and indi
viduality in your apparel you
need us as much as we want
you. You can see examples of
our tailoring on many of the
best dressers in town. Cotre
aud let us put you in their
class.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keym-one Ave
Telephone fi« I I Roujfh Dry 11c lb
THE SENATE
XNGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms._Phone 35
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRRSH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone «« OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Clias. Fischer, Propr.
KEEP POSTED
The next few months will he the greatest in the
history of the United States.
Each day will produce events that may make or
mar the destinies of you and your town!
Nations will grapple with nations; great, battles
will be won; kings will be unthroned; dynasties
change and the world’s lines of demarcation shifted.
Floating cities bulwarked with steel will lie
thrown against other iron leviathans of tin* deep.
< ’an vou afford not to keep posted at this time (
i t is your duty as a citizen and a man to keep
abreast of the nation’s affairs that you may realize
that Opportunity is knocking---for you. Opportunity
to serve jour Country and your Flag!
You cannot afford to allow Old Olory to send
out he S. O. S.
Freedom is crying to each man to do his part,
'•'iiis is not a time for slackers!
During tht* crisis in tin* Nation's ar'laiis The
Prospector and Miner have arranged to receive ALd
news of importance to our readers.
Twice the telegraphic matter will be received, in
nrdcr to keep these papers up to their present high
standard!
•
If you wish to keep posted oil world affairs you
must take .some paper. Why not ’flu* Daily Prospec
tor at *1.00 per month, delivered at your door !
Or The Weekly Miner, at .$2.00 per year; also
delivered.
Or. better yet, take both The Daily Prospector
and The Weekly Miner for only $1.25 per month, de
livered.
These papers will also have a good illustrated
service of men prominent in National affairs; and
ajphoto of every battleship and cruiser taking part in
the great sea battles certain to come between these
mightv floating fortresses and the death-dealing sub
marines.
DO NOT DELAY! MAIL OR TELEPHONE
US YOUR ORDER AT ONCE!
SUBSCRIBE NOW
ARRESTED CHARGE
WHITESLAVERY
The Marshal's office is in receipt of
a telegram from • Deputy Marshal
> Mossman at Anchorage, stating that
he has received a warrant from Ketch
ikan for the arrest of Brown and
Brown (presumably a man and wom
an) on a charge of white slavery, and
! that he has taken the parties into cus
| tody. The marshal's Officer at Ketch
jikan will send an officer north to take
; the parties back to that place for
trial.
NEGRO EXHORTER
IS SENT TO PRISON
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 18.—
Because he delivered an address to
twenty negroes at a railroad station
urging them to take a stand against
the United States government. Sam
Bell, a negro was convicted on a
charge of disorderly conduct in the
recorder’s court here today and sen
tenced to 180 days with a $100 fine.
Bell declared that he had not urged
! iiis hearers to take a stand against
government, and said that he was
merely repeating what he had read
! in a newspaper.
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NAVY TO GET STEEL
AT $50 A TON LESS
| NEW YORK. April 18.—The prices
iat which the steel companies have
agreed to sell steel to the navy de
partment were announced here today.
They are$2.90 a pound for plates and
$2.50 for bars and shapes. This is
a concession of $50 a ton from the
prices recently current or a saving
lot $18,000,000 to $20,000,000 to the
j government on the purchase of 300,
j 000 tons of steel, which, it is said.
I !he navy department has thus far con
l traded for. It is expected in steel
circles that fully 1,000.000 tons of
| steel will be speedily contracted for
by the govenment to meet war nec
essities.
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FLAG 130 FEET LONG
IS FLUNG TO BREEZES'
SAN FRANCISCO. April 18.—An
American tiag 130 feet long, 75 feet j
wide and weighing 300 pounds carried j
)ii the shoulders of a company of1
marching marines from Mare Island j
navy yard was flung to the breezes j
in the heart of the downtown district
yesterday while hundreds cheered. .\ 1
hall inch cable swung diagonally |
across Market street at the intersec- j
Wion of Third Street sagged as United ]
i States marines and sailors attached :
the flag to it and a non-commission-J
led officer freed it to the wind while
marine and naval bands struck up j
;the Star Spangled Banner.
A full and complete line Cigars, |
Cigarettes. Smoking Tobacco and |
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
I Webster’s New International Die-!
i lionary, strictly up to date; come in \
jand look it over. Valdez Drug Co. if J
’ -
Miner Ads. bring RESULTS.
_
BEWARE! ZEPPELIN!
Old Woman Acting aa Town
Crior In Fronch Town.
Bven tlie old women <<f France are
helping in the war. In 'one French
town this a tied drummer heals the re
treat when the Zeppelin is sighted. It
is her duty to warn the townspeople
to run to safe places to escape l*'iUK
killed hy hotuhs
SEW IN CHINESE STREETS.
Woman Who Mond Cloth#* Right Thor#
Whilo You Wait.
Id many towns of Cblua oue tuay
have his garments mended on t’:e
street and “while he waits." Native
sewing women are to be seen on low
stools. i>erbaps on t lie sidewalks, mend.
Ing articles of masculine attire.
The accomplishments of these street
seamstresses are somewhat limited,
their efforts with the needle being for
the most part confined lo “running."
Other brnnelics of needlework are pra<
ticully unknown to them. As a <-onso
<|Uonce their efforts arc hotter appfe
efofetl by native workmen than by
foreign travelers.
They are never short of patrons
among the former, for these are often
natives of other districts and. having
1 come to tlie city to engage in business.
| have no one to mend a rent for them
Their wives being left at home, they
are glad to avail themselves of the
services of the street needlewoman.
Por tills class of customers tlie skill
of tlie Itinerant sewing woman answers
every purpose.
Generally speaking, these women are
wives of boatmen and iHlmrers who
live in tlie houseboats which line the
creeks of many Chinese cities and
towns, and their needles are a great
help toward the solution of tlie prob
lem of maintenance in n crowded city
or town
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
Cara Should Ba Taken to Minimize the
Danger of Accidehte.
At least tliree fourths of the acci
dents that occur in mountaineering are
the results of foolhardiness.
More than half of the entire num
her of accidents happen to persons
climbing without guides, some to
ciiuhera attempting a dangerous or
impossible route with guides, and
there are still other forms of folly
One may • arelcssiy engage an ineoin
petent guide or an overbold one. who
will undertake an ascent under unfa
vorable conditions.
Eliminating these contingencies, there
remain certain risks which must t>e
taken by every climber who ascends (
difficult mountains.
I However tine the weather, there is 1
j the possibility that a sudden storm
may render the descent perilous. ,
I though even then the chances are ten
l to one that a skillful climber with
I first class guides will return In safety ,
J Furthermore, on certain mountains
there are pho-es where a party is ex
posed to danger from avalanches ot ,
falling stones.
The risk may often be reduced to the
minimum by waiting for the best of
weather or by making u very early
I start.—All Outdoors.
Our Humorists.
All we can say is that we hope nu> ;
given Humorist of ours will live out
tiie greatest length of days and not
slop joking before be dies. We need .
every moment of his threescore years I
and ten to keep ns sane and kind, and 1
we cannot be satisfied with a stinted '
measure of time for him. When he be- ;
g.ns unsurpassuhly to delight the world •
• •nr national pride as well as our hu
man need is bound up in his continu
uni-e. Possibly w e are going from bad
to worse, as we have always been, but
we tliink we have been kept from the
worst by the humorist's smile, not by j
the satirist's frown. Other races, oth !
or lands abound in songs and sermons, j
lint we have sent our laughter over the ;
World to save it alive more than any- i
thing else could.—W. L>. Howells in
Hunter's Magazine.
“Undertakers."
in England in 1014 undertakers were ,
men of influence who undertook for a
consideration to get such persons re- j
turned to parliament as would prove j
submissive to the royal will of King !
James I. The three chief undertakers j
of 1014 were Lords Bacon. Somerset i
and Neville. Then there were under- !
takers in Ireland in 1008. They were ■
English and Scotch colonists sent to J
north Ireland and were each allotted !
2.000 acres of land. They were men of j
capital and undertook to pay a mark
a year for every six acres and to ad
mlt no recusant for tenants; hence the j
name as applied to them. But neither ;
the histories nor the dictionaries give
any reason for calling the men who ;
bury our-dead undertakers. , j
Absence of Mind.
Ad old man was leading two lively
calves out to early pasture in tlie
morning. When he came to the field
be tied one of the calves to one of his
boot strgps and the other to the oppo
site boot strap while he opened the
rlckefy gate. The calves ran away.
When be was picked up bis wife asked
him:
“Didn't you know any better than to
do n foolish trick like that?"
“Yes." he answered. “I hadn’t been
dragged four rods before I saw my
mistake,*’.— Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph_
It All Depends.
“But you mhst admit, sir.” said the
aggressive party, "that a man ought to
be the boetHn bis own house.’’
“Y-yes, I suppose so." answered the
meek and lowly man with the scanty
hair, “but tile house 1 live In happens
to belong to my wife.”—Exchange.
Revenge to the Point.
She—Alas, Algernon, my father's re
marks about you were very bitter. He
—I’m glad of it. because I'm going to
met-p hlui eat Ids words. —Baltimore
American.
Pound Out.
“There are a lot of girls who don't
ever Intend to marry.”
"How do you know?"
“I have proposed to several.”—Puck.
WHKX A KIRK STARTS
the firemen’s best efforts are
given t6 putting it out as
quickly as possible. He aims
to save as much as he can. But
once a fire starts, damage end
loss commence. The. onl> way
to offset that loss is to be well
insured. Our policies cover
all losses from the very min
ute the damage by flame:;, wa
tt r or smoke commences.
Valdez Real Kstate Agency
T” TONY’S PLACE’S11
EVERYTHING
F1RS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
ALASKA
^STEAMSHIP CO.
►Vom Seattle— Valdez to Seattle —
March 23—S. S. Alameda. March 24—S. S. Northwestern
March 30— S. S. Alaska. April 3—S. S. Alameda.
April 5—S. S. Mariposa. April 10-—S. S. Alaska.
Apr. 9—S. S. Northwestern. April 15—-S. S. Mariposa.
April 17—S. S. Alameda. April 19—S. S. Northwestern.
CALL AT Ketchikan, Juneau, t 'ordova, Kllaniar, it. IJscum, Val
dez, l.atouche, Seward and Anchorage beginning with Alameda Sail
ing March 23rd.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wiangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. EUamar, Valdez and La
toyclie. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, (ifs’l Agent V A I, III: Z DOCK CO.. Local Ageat
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINK)
Our I .a rue Fleet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Seattle, ft I*. M.
Apr. 1 S. S. Adm. Farragut
\pr. 9—S. S. Adm. Watson
Apr. 17—S. S. Adm. Eva- ?
Apr. 25 -S. S. Adm. Farragut
May I! S. S. Adm. Wai ;on
May 11—Adm. Evans
Valdez to Seattle—
Apr. <\—S. S. Acini. Evans
Apr. l:>—S. S. Adm. Karragut
Apr. 2t—S. S. Adn.. Waison
Apl. 29-^S. S. Adm. Evar s
May 8—S. S. Adm Farra.upit
May 1 ~i S. S. Adm. Watson
May 2.{—S. S. Adm Evans
S. S. Farragut sailing from Seattle April i~> calls at Kodiak.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to la»s Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone I VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
1194 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1911
PIONEER CONTRACTOR anil OOILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will lake contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of wall
board kept in stock at all times.
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ, ALASKA-PHONE 18
REFERENCES I S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS '( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Goods coming on every boat for the
Emporium, open for business from 2
to 6 and 7 to & p. m. tf
Just received, a new line or Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
For first-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants' Cafe. tf
Ice cream every day, specials on
Sunday at Hunt's Candy Kitchen tf
Pasteurized Products.
Pasteurizer Whipping Cream, Pas
teurized Sweet Milk and Pasteurized
Buttermilk at Love-Whitley Co.’s, tf
FOK KENT—Three room house
completely furnished, electrical appli
ances, close in. Kent $15.00; Alaska
Investment Co. tf
A pretty line of colored crochet
cotton and stamped pillow slips at
the Needlecraft Shop. tf