WATS with a reputation, priced
according to their worth-that’s our
idea of true value giving in hats.
Knox Hats
Stetson Hats
have many distinctive features not found
in others; style, durability and all-around
satisfaction. We are showing some
“good ones” in
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Knox at $5.00 and Stetson at $4.00.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc. jj
TRUE VALUES
On the basis of Security and Service i:
we solicit your account. ::
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY. \ \
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You admire it every
time you visit them—the
harmonious lighting, the
clean and orderly ap
pearance of everything,
the always-ready per
sonal conveniences, the
atmosphere of comfort
and luxury.
| “Hill is a lucky dog,”
[ you say; but did you ever
stop to think how easily
youcould be as fortunate?
The electricity that
does so much for his com
fort is obtained from the
same wires that pass by
your own home. It oper
ates his lamps, flatirons,
sewing machines motors,
fans and other useful
electric heating and cook
ing devices.
You can have it at
slight cost—let us discuss
wiring with you.
I Alaska Water, Light B
I t&SOk ^ Telephone Co. g
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NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.
To William Hogan.
You are hereby notified that I
have expended during the year
1912, one hundred and thirty
three dollars and thirty-three
cents, lawful money of the Unit
ed States, in labor anti improve
ments, upon your two-nintns in
terest in those certain lode claims
lying and being on Knights Is
land, in the recording precinct of
Valdez, Alaska, which are known
as and called the “Shamrook’’
claim; the "Tramp" claim; the
“Star No. 2" claim; the “Mother
Hill” claim; the “Beach" claim,
and the Last/Chance” claim,’ the
location notices of said claims be
ing of record in the office of the
Commissioner and Recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold
said claims under the provisions
of Section 2324 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said lode claims
for the period ending on the 31st
day of December, 1912.
And unless witniu ninety days
/
after the completion of the publi
cation of this notice, to-wit: with
in ninety days after the Oth day of
July, 1913, you contribute your
proportion of such expenditure
incurred n performing said an
nual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of one hundred
and thirty-three dollars and thir
ty-three cents, your interest in
the claims will become the prop
erty of the subscriber of this no
tice, your co-owner, who has
made the required expenditure,
by the terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this
Oth day of April, 1913.
S. A. HEMPLE.
Date of first pub. April 6, 1913.
Date of last pub. July 6, 1913.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the "Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez. Alaska, to which book and
page reference 13 hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim'under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon mining claims, 6aid
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
days after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, yoilr proportion, being in
the sum or eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents (818.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who is vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
tha said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913. .
T. E. DOUGERTY.
Date first pub. April 24, 1913.
Date last pub. July 26, 1913.
SHAFROTH PLEADS
FOR WATER SUIT
Washington, 1). C„ June 12.—
Senator Shafroth of Colorado,
pleaded for 15 minutes with Sec
retary Lane, at the interior de
partment reclamation hearing, to
sue the people of his stale. The j
senator proposed in this way to
get a determination of the gov
ernment’s right lo use the waters
of the Jtio Grande to (ill Ihe Engle
dam for life irrigation of 20,000
acres in Mexico and 100,000 acres
in Texas and New Mexico.
Senator Shafroth contended the
people of Colorado had a right In
construct reservoirs lo store the
waters which otherwise would
flow into the Rio Grande, and the
government had no authority to
stop them for the1 benefit of the
Rio Grande project in Texas, New
Mexico and Mexico.
“It will make the biggest scan
dal ever heard of, if the govern
ment goes ahead and spends some
seven million dollars constructing
the Eagle dam and then finds out
that it does not have title to
enough water to fill it,” said the
senator. “Wie can’t sue the Unit
ed States without its consent.
You, Mr. Secretary, ought to re
quest the Department of Justice
lo see us.”
The secretary had no comment
to make on the suggestion.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
TELLS OF WORST DANCE
London, June 12.—Mrs. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, the American
authoress, who arrived in Lon
don this week, relates a story of
a wonderful dance she witnessed
by a tribe of Arabs in northern
Africa. It is known as the dance
“l)u Ventre,” or stomach dance.
While traveling through the Kab
yle mountains with her husband,
Mrs. Wilcox suddenly came up
on a tribe of about 50 men, wom
en and children who were engag
ed teaching children the dance
"Du Ventre.” Nearby were seated
three men playing weird musical
instruments.
A broad grin was on their faces
as they watched the children go
through the movements of the
dance, which, Mrs. Wilcox said,
was most vulgar.
"There is hardly a woman in
North Africa,” said the poetess,
"who isn’t able to go through its
sensuous .movements."
Mrs. Wilcox described the peo
ple as among the "most immoral
on earth.”
1
Verdicft for Lame Finger. *
New York, June 12.—Supreme
Court Justice Hendrick denied a
motion yesterday to reduce the
largest verdict ever rendered in
the Supreme Court for a single
lame linger, $3,400. The verdict
was in favor of John Corless
against the E. E. Smith Contract
ing Company.
Corless sued under the new
employers’ liability law. He was
a caulker and pipe fitter at work
in the Fourth Avenue extension
of tile' subway, on May 2!), 1911.
'While chiseling a pipe a foreman
directed a laborer to smash it, and
his right index linger was partly
crushed. Skillful surgical work
saved if, with only a slight loss
of movement.
Eagle Dance Next Saturday.
The regular bi-monthly dance
'of the Eagles will be held Satur
day night at Eagle hall.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Emil Davis returned to Valdez
today from Shoup bay.
Extra fine change of program
at the Orpheum tonight.
See thedightning paper hanger
tonight at the Orpheum.
The Brighton left this morn
ing for Port Wells and way ports,
taking a large cargo of freight
and many passengers.
J. F. Wagner, of the Rambler
Gold Mining company, returne.d to
Valdez last night from his claims
on Shoup bay. V
A large number of people at
tended the Wednesday weekly
dancel at Moose hall last night.
LOST—A card case. Finder
please phone number 48 and
“Sonny,” the messenger, will call
for it.
Miss Monahan, who has been
confined to her roym, following
the shock of the news of I he death
of her father, is able to be out
again, pllhough rather weak.
FOR SALE OHEAP—Four-room
bouse, furnished; part cash and
the balance as rent. Mrs. Guthrie.
Hot Air.
The man who deals in rain
bows has come to town by stealth,
to catch the village beaux with
tales of sudden wealth. I hear bis
gorgeous ravings, his winter
dreams and sich; “Bring me,” be
says, “your savings, and I will
make you rich; I’ve coal mines in
Nebraska (where, co^il does uni,
exist , and peach groves in Alas
ka (no peaches (here, I wist;
I he nectarine and prune shine on
trees I have for sale, and 1 can
sell >ou moonshine, so hand me
out your kale.” The easy marks
are digging their kopecks from
the jar, for hot, air,, never twig
ging what easy marks they arc.
They hope to rake in riches and
never pay the price; a sucker al
ways itches to he a sacrific ■. 1
sidestep such disasters as these
men have in, view; to my hard
earned piasters I stick like patent
glue. I cannot he enchanted by
any hot air crank; my coin is
safely planted down in the vil
lage1 bank. I buy no dazzling
Ophirs a million miles away, no
Belgian hairs or gophers in Per
sia or Cathay. No fish in the
Nyanzas, no ice plants up in
Nome; no ginseng farms in Kan
sas, no silk worms far from home.
I save my clammy roubles till
there’s a seemly pile, and side
step lots of troubles, and dance
and sing and smile.
WALT MASON.
WASTE.
(By George Filch.)
Waste is a surplus of anything
which can’t be used profitably.
The world is full of waste in
many forms. Waste money is one
of our most serious troubles. Af
ter a man has spent all the money
he can sensibly and still has more
he often pours it down his throat
to get rid of it, with terrible re
sults.
Food is so plentiful in the Unit
ed States that we are very waste
ful in ils use. After an American
family has linished a dinner, a
FrdUich family can live high off
the remains. The garbage barrel
is the best fed institution in the
country.
Time is scandalously wasted.
Many a man wastes so much time
in business that hu hasn’t any
left in which io make himself
worth talking to or to insure his
being buried with regret.
Government is full of waste.
Our cities usually elect two or
three aldermen with brains and a
lot more for which it cannot find
the slightest use. However, no
city is wasted by its aldermen.
They get everything they can out
|of it.
Religion is exiremeiy wasieiui.
Many a small town supporls live
ministers’ families on hope anil
potatoes ami keeps up live
churches with live hells, where
as one hell would make enough
disturbance to call the people to
one church, which could he pre
sided over hy one minister with a
well-fed appearance and no
doubts.
Tlierg is an appalling waste of
eonversalion in the world. Three
quarters of the conversations
could he abolished and the output
of thought would still he the
same. The man who wastes a
half hour each for 1.000 Ameri
can citizens hy loading up a few
burning thoughts • with frazzled
adjeclives and calling the result
an oration, ought to he looked
into hy the conservation con
gress.
There are a billion and a half
people in the world and each year
we waste! enormous numbers of
these because we are too much
interested in gold, automobiles
and dividends to pry into the
health statistics and aiding suf
fering humanity with something
besides kind thoughts. When a
nation is too busy to take care of
its babies and clean up its slums,
it ought to be kicked with great
vigor in the capital and elsewhere.
Treasurer's Hours.
G. C. Reynolds, the city treas
urer, will be at his office in the
Brown building every day from
2:30 to 4 o’clock except on Sun
days. . G. G. REYNOLDS,
City Treasurer.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.’. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
“Come on, let’s go and buy
some bargains at Adler’3
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
Boots & Shoes
REPAIRED
Prim RmmM*. Wubullls *1 tke km
JAMBS NARfcY
At SMIhtomlrntTaw. VAUDKZ
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
LIVERY aird FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
nnless paid tor in advance
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
"QUICK ACTION”
is my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. St’ENARD, Prop.
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners &. Prospectors Supplies
Fresh Goods—Reasonable Prices
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office iniWhsding building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 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
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 188
L. W. STORM. E. M.
VALOSX. ALASKA |
fffposr* ok Mikas
Fatsht Susrsrs
Qskssal Misiks Bhoiksskiko
‘Fhohs No. ios
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
ttend. S. MCNIECE. Arctlo Chief
Valdes I,odge
No 168.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James H. Patterson,.W. M
C, C. Reynolds, Sec
F O E
VALDEZ AERIE So. 1071
Beet every Friday; I p. n. Bade Hal