The FirstBank of Valdez
CAPITAL $25,000.
4% PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS
%
OUR STOCKHOLDERS ARE
S. BLUM JOHN LYONS
M. BLUM J. M. LATHROP
E. B. WHEAT W. M. WILSON
JAFET UNDEBERG
TERRITORIAL DEPOSITORY.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
Motor Boat Supplies. Paints and Oils.
Pumps. Well-Points. Valves T Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. /S Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
Valdez Dock Co. PHONE NO. 1
JOBBER IN
COAL, HAY
and GRAIN
Office, foot of Wall street.
TO-NIGHT!
EVERYONE WELCOME
FREE DINNER
Will be served at 9:30 p.m.
Every Evening at
The Big Place
MENU
Meat, Potatoes, Beans, Bread,
and Coffee.
Do Not Hesitate. Welcome Means Welcome.
Al. White & Co
PROPRIETORS
You Will Take No Chances With Your
LIFE INSURANCE
If You Insure In The
NEW YORK LIFE
Established 1845. Assets $750,000,000.
The Best Insurance at the Lowest Rate
Do not close any insurance till you communicate with
JAMES FISH, District Agt., Valdez, Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miner*
H. M. CARTER, PrMidant,
Granite Min*.
CHAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdai, Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at the ;
COLEMAN HOUSE ;
QEORQE SEXTON, PROP. '
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ayr Seward. Alaska i
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PRESIDENT WILL
MEET OPERATORS
He I* Anxious To End the Coal Min
ers trike In the Eastern Ohio
District.
WASHINGTON, -March 13— Presi
dent Wilson has promised to meet
the operators of the eastern Ohio coal
mining district in an effort to end
the strike which has lasted for more
than eleven months. This is the first
time that the operators have express
ed any willingness to end the strike,
as they refused to treat with the com
mission appointed by the Labor De
partment, or to make any compromise.
The mines which were able to se
cure strike-breakers last year are
again closed down through the strike
breakers having forced a union of
their own and gone on strike for an
increased scale and a working agree
ment with the operators.
SQUAW’S HEAD IS
ON THE PENNY
SALT LAKE CITY, March 13.—It
has been discovered why the penny
has not found favor with the red men
of the plains. A delegation of In
dians yesterday asked the Indian ag
ent to forward a petition for them
requesting President Wilson to urge
the government to change the head
of the penny. They declare that the
head of the penny is that of a squaw.
REPEATERS PUD
$1 PER BALLOT
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 13.—
Witnesses testifying for the prosecu
tion in the fraudulent voting cases
being tried here assert that repeat
ers were paid at the rate of $1 per
vote every time they cast a ballot.
It is claimed that some of the men
earned as high as $6 during the day.
Uncle Sam and General Carranza.
See Uncle Sam’s protest to Carran
za backed by armed forces at the
Orpheum tonight. Also Animated
Weekly with late events. A drama,
"The Breed of the Mountains," and
an Eclair Klk comedy-drama, “Prince
Make Believe,” at the Orpheum to
night.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Latest popular copyrights and clas
sics at Valdes Drug Co. tf
The big tree dinner at the Big
Place tonight at 8:30. All are wel
come.
A nice line or art pictures lust re
ceived from New York at Valdes
Drug Co. tf
Suits pressed for 31.00 at Silvor
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tt
Chinese noodles and chop suey at
Valdez Cafe after 7 p. m. tf
G. O. Reinke, tee watchmaker and
Jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug Co.
All work guaranteed.
Large stock of cut glass and Paris
ian ivory at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Prescriptions carerully compound
ed at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Beautiful hand-painted vases Just
received at Valdez Drug Co. tf
Men’s wool socks, 25c; Hold-Heat
electric stove, $2.50, and everything
else In proportion at the Emporium.
Suit-s pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Snow glasses 15c and up, at the
Emporium.
8pring Halts! Spring Coats!
A strictly and most up-to-date line
of both hats and coats direct from
the East will arrive In time for East
er. Watch for further notice at the
Ladles’ Shop. * E. WINTER.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
Jewelry repairing at E. Winter’s store.
All work guaranteed. tt
FRISCO FAIR IS
THEJEST EVER
Nick Carter, chief clerk of the Alas
ka road commission, returned to Val
dez on the Alameda after a trip to
the coast cities as far south as San
Francisco, where he spent a week vis
iting the Panama-Pacific exposition.
He says that while a number of the
buildings are not yet completed and
many of the exhibits of the warring
nations have not arrived that the fair
■is the biggest thing of its kind ever
held.
Californians reported the weather
as chilly and retarding attendance at
the exposition, but Mr. Carter found
no trouble in keeping comfortably
warm.
Moose Dance.
The regular Saturday night dance
given by the Moose will be given at
Moose hall. Fine music and excel
lent lunch served at midnight.
DUCKING A SCOLD.
Punishment a Long Tongue Used to
Win In Old England.
It is interesting iu these days of
woman's rights and woman’s progress
to conjure up a picture of a “ducking”
as practiced in England at the end of
the eighteenth century.
When the “scold" had been properly
tried and convicted she was escorted
by a crowd of her neighbors—in fact,
by the whole village—to the nearest
pond, and the greener and slimier the
pond the better. A long plank was
produced, at one end of which was the
ducking stool, and in this the scream
ing, struggling victim was securely
pinioned.
j in- man euu ui uir piuun was iueu
pushed far over the edge of the pond,
and at a signal it was tilted deep into
the green ooze until the scold was com
pletely immersed.
When the dripping, half drowned
woman was raised to the surface
again to the jeers and laughter of the
onlookers it can be imagined that her
tongue wagged to some purpose. After
a second dose she emerged more sub
dued, and after a third or fourth she
was as penitent a woman as the vil
lage contained and was allowed to pro
ceed home, a sadder and wiser woman
until the next time.—London Tit-Bits.
RENTED SCENERY.
It Was a Parisian’s Idea, and It Suited
the Thrifty Peasants.
M. Georges Moreau one beautiful
day, in the course of a walk at Villiers
Saint Benoist, greatly admired three
magnificent oaks which towered from
the edge of a field.
“You'll not see ’em much more, citi
zen.” growled the owner of the land.
“They make too much shade. I’m go
ing to cut them down.”
“What a sacrilege! Out down those
magnificent trees! Better rent them to
me."
“What’ll you do with them?”
“I shall look at them as I pass by.
Will you give to me for 15 francs a
year the right to admire them?”
“Agreed! It’s only a Parisian who
;ould have such a funny idea!”
The story spread abroad, and now
whenever M. Moreau takes a walk in
that district the peasants hail him
with: “Hey, citizen, will you rent those
trees there of me? If not I’ll cut ’em
down. Yes or no? One, two, three”—
M. Moreau yields and pays to save
the lives of the trees that delight his
view. The little birds would be un
grateful did they not salute with their
most harmonious roulades the preserv
er of their nests.—Cri de Paris.
Uncovered by the Wind.
“In the year 1793,” says an old chron
icle, “the waters of the Rio de la Plata
were forced In the month of April by
a most violent current of wind to the
distance of ten leagues, so that the
neighboring plains were entirely inun
dated, and the bed of the stream was
(gft dry. A number of ships which had
been sunk in the river for upward of
thirty years were uncovered and,
among others, an English vessel which
was cast away In 17C2. Several per
sons repaired to the bed of the river,
on which they could walk without wet
ting their feet, and returned laden
with silver and other riches, which had
been long burled under the water. The
phenomenon obtained for three days,
at the end of which the wind ceased,
and the water returned with great vio
lence to its native bed.”
A Good House.
Mrs. Allen was entertaining a caller
one afternoon not long ago and was
enthusiastically explaining the many
advantages of concrete hollow block
construction, of which the walls of her
new home were built.
“The air spaces In the walls afford
insulation against heat in summer and
cold in winter,” said Mrs. Allen. "And
not only that, but puch walls afford
ventilation and insure a more healthful
house.”
The visitor nodded approval and
paused reflectively for a moment, then
replied:
"Well, our frame house must be quite
as well built Every night we lock the
cat In the cellar and have to let her out
of the attic in the moming.”-Detroit
Free Press.
The Prospector office for Job work.
VALDEZ ELECTRIC COMPANY
THE CONSUMERS’ COMPANY
Office in Copper Block, on Broadway
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
JUST RECEIVED
On The Evans,
Fresh Vegetables and Fruit
The Yakima Fruit Company
Chas. R. Crawford Wal1 street, Phone 159
Plate Glass, Window Glass, Roofing and Building Papers, Roofing
Pitch, Lime, Cement, Plaster Lath, Shingles, Builders’ Hard
ware, Shop and Job Work of all kinds.
Windowi, Doors, Moulding, Finishing Lumber, fairb^ks^morse a co
When in Ghitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel in the Interior—Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable'
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Msr.
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed I | Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I | Routrh Dry 10c lb.
GUARANTEED
rOR All TIME
jflmerican
Beauty'
ELECTRIC IRON
Alaska Water, Light & Telephone Company I
ARCADE CAFE
"We Never Clove."
Private Dining Room.
a
The Beet of Everythin*. We Bake Oar Own
Bread and Pastry. Bread for’Selv.
Jack Collin--Proprietor
Valdez Lodge
No 168,
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communications first Wednesday ID
each month in MoKtnley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
A. E. GRIGSBY. W. M.
Ed. Wood. Seo- ______
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
LOCAL VALDEZ
Socialist Party ot Alaska
Meet* every Thursday at 8 p. m.
Next door to 8enate 8aloon.
Everybody Welcome.
This is a good time to return that
book you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 p. m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
Only The Best
Smokers Can Now Enjoy
the Best
Joan He Fuca Cigars
U. S. Government Inspected.
Made In Bond
Ingram & Bush
SOLE AGENTS
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company'
General Trucking and Freight*
ing to all interior point*
LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGF
Teaming of all kindr
Positively no cool delta of
unless paid far la advance
ir yon want all tn« news all the
time read the Dally Prospector.