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we solicit uour account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED, Mgr.
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I f T1V>|D170 and Buildin«
Puget Sound LwIVIDIUY Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th,|24th and*30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez »outh~7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell,
Douglas Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouehe. Explosives. S S Seward.
S S Seward. 5th' S S Latouehe. loth: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right re
served to change this schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’IJAgt- Valdez Dock'Co., Local Agt
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - - Proprietor
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wali
Street, next to Road Commiition
S7 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 p m
8 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM SSO per Mo.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and lell 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
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY,
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern- Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patieats
For Torms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Pfcysiciaaia Cltargo.
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National Universit?
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone .» the dentist
Office rooms over Orel Drug store. Office hour,
) a. m„ to 6 p. m., 7 p. m., to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All reork guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS A RITCHIE
Attorney* at Law
Office* in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Library Hours.
Library books can be secured at the
Everyman’s Club rooms between 3
and 6 o’clock each week day, and
from 7:30 to 9 on Wednesday and
Friday evenings.
Seward policemen are to wear uni
forms and have a big star on their
manly breasts so that the crooks may
know them.
Resistance To Japanese Demands
Reported To Be Based On
That Belief.
WASHINGTON, May 1— Develop
ments here seem to make certain that
the Chinese government believes it
has the support of the United States
government in its resistance to the
Japanese demands for preferential
treatment in China, and that this be
lief accounts for the reported refus
al of China to yield further to Japan
in the pending negotiations.
Paul S. Reinsch, American minis
ter to China, who has been keeping
the State Department in close touch
with the situation and developments
at Peking, is understood to have for
warded to Secretary Dry an within the
last forty-eight hours a lengthy re
port on the present status of the ne
gotiations. In this report it is under
stood that the American minister has
stated that the Chinese government,
is refusing to grant any preferential
treatment *o Japan outside of South
Manchuria and Eastern Inner Mongo
lia, and that this is based on the
belief of the Chinese government that
the United States government will
give full support to that position.
State Department officials were
asked today whether such a report
had been received from Minister
Reinsch, but refused to confirm the
fact. They followed their determined
policy of neither discussing nor dis
closing the inside facts of the situa
tion. There were two significant con
ferences at the State Department to
day that undoubtedly related to the
situation. Baron Chinda, the Japanese
ambassador, was closeted an hour
with Secretary of State Bryan this
morning.
Within an hour after Baron Chin
da left the secretary’s office the Chi
nese minister appeared and was ush
ered into Secretary Bryan’s office for
another long conference. This was
the second call that the Chinese Min
ister had made at the State Depart
memnt within twenty-four hours, as
he had conferred late yesterday with
Secretary Bryan. One report had it
that during these conferences the re
port from Minister Reinsch was dis
cussed.
High officials of the administration
charged with the consideration of the
Chinese situation are carefully study
ing the contents of the statement
that has been cabled by Americans
in China to President Wilson com
plaining of the preferential demands
made upon China by the Japanese
government. This statement, which
contained about 5,000 words, and was
cabled in its entirety from Peking to
President Wilson direct, is receiving
President Wilson’s personal atten
tion, but has also been referred to
officials of the State Department.
Efforts to obtain the text of this
cabled statement of Americans in
China were unsuccessful today, as
they have been previously, both at
the White House and the State De
partment, where no hint, even of the
nature of the statement, could be ob
tained.
The contents of this statement are
of such a character that the president
believes it should not be published.
The president’s unwillingness to pub
lish the cablegram is thought to in
dicate that he does not wish to com
mit himself, even by implication, to
a policy antagonistic to Japan.
Notice our display adv. in this pa
per. It is worth 10 cents to you to
read it. Yakima Fruit Co. tf
TIDE TABLES FORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled 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 Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t'me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
In feet and tenths:
, 8aturd»y, May 1.
High tide 12:38 a. m., 14.1; 1:57
p. m., 10.8.
Low tide 7:31 a. m., -2.4; 7:12 p.
n., 2.0.
OUR SUPREME COURT.
Thera Was a "Leak” There Once, but
It Wat Quickly Stopped.
"Yes; It Is true that supreme court
decisions leaked in the old days;” re
marked an old time broker. “1 remem
ber a certain important suit about
twenty years ago. It was the great
case of those xlays, as big in its wuy
as the Standard Oil and Tobacco suits
of the present. A week before the de
rision came down the sou of one of the
judges came into m.v office, and 1 told
him that of the nine judges one would
decide ‘so and so,’ one would refrain
from any opinion, and the remaining
seven would make a decision ’so and
so.’
“lie smiled and went away. Shortly
after the decision was rendered and
the matter had turned out as 1 had
foretold this young man came back to
the office. He said his father was
greatly worried over the leak iu the
court and asked me if I could help
them trace the source of my informa
tion. 1 told him what 1 knew—that
one of the official supreme court ste
negropbers hud been selling advance
copies of the decisions to a very prom
inent broker of that time. What this
broker paid for his information I, of
course, do not know, but it was estab
lished that 1 was correct as to where
the weak spot was in the court.
“Since then every decision by the
supreme court has been written in long
hand (one copy), thus making it abso
lutely impossible for any outsider to
get the news in advance. This ex
plains in part why it now takes so
long for the court to announce Its deci
sions.”—Wall Street Journal.
DREAM GREAT DREAMS.
And Then Strive Your Utmost to Make
Your Dreams Come True.
To turn the face in the right direc
tion and then to travel on is unques
tionably the essential secret of all
achievement There are, however, cer
tain facts as well as certain inner
forces common to us ail that can be
used as helps along the way.
In a recent little poem by Edwin
Markham we find these lines:
Great it is to believe the dream
When we stand in youth by the starry
Btream,
But a greater thing is to light life through
And say at the end, "The dream is true."
Whether the dream, which may be
used ns another term for one’s ideals,
does come true depends primarily upon
the self. The intrepid and the brave
hearted, moreover, actualize more of
their ambitions or ideals than do the
faint hearted or the vacillating. It was
Goethe who said:
Are you in earnest? Seize this very min
ute;
What you can do or dream you can, be
gin it.
Boldness has genius, power and maglu
in it „
Only begin and then the mind grows
heated;
Begin and then the work will be com
pleted.
Life, or rather life in a continually
expanding and achieving form, is, aft
er all, a business, and they who are
the most in earnest get from it the
most and in turn give the most back
to the world again.—Ralph Waldo Trine
in Woman’s liorne Companion.
Beginnings In Authorship.
The first appearance in print of that
successful author, Arthur l’eudennis.
was a poem written to matcli an en
graving which tile proprietor of a mag
azine found unexpectedly thrown on
his bands. M. Jules Clnretie’s first
novel was composed under somewhat
similar circumstances. Edmond Den
til, a prominent publisher under the
second empire, had widely advertised
a novel entitled “Une Drolesse,” by a
writer who signed herself Comtesse
Dash. On the eve of publication the
lady wanted the title altered. The
publisher refused to make any change
and in order not to waste money hunt
ed around for an author capable of
furnishing within four weeks a novel
which the title would QL M. Claretie
undertook the task and finished it well
within the stipulated time. — London
Standard.
A Sermon on Conscience.
“I knows why you wakes iu de night
time an' stares at de dark, an' pulls
de klver over yo’ head,” said Brother
Williams, "an’ you orter know wldout
me tellin’ of you. It’s on account er
dat conscience you kicked into de
corner in de airly mawnin', w’en you
wuz Axin' ter leave fer de day. Vou
didn’t think ter ax it ter warm its
han’s by de Are w’en you wuz gwine
ter bed, an' so it riz up an’ stumbled
'round de room In de dark, ontel it
strlck a light in w’lcb you seen yo’own
soul I Dat’s how come an' why—git
roun’ It ef you kin!’’—Atlanta Consti
tution.
A Game of Chance.
"1 suppose," said the stranger with
in the gates, “the lid is on all games
of chance in this town.’’
"Don't you believe it, stranger,” re
joined the native “The marriage li
cense office is still wide open.”—Ex
change.
The Resemblance.
“I was always Interested In airships
and flying machines, so 1 bought a the
ater.”
“Why did you do that?”
“A theater has wings and flies."
Just Goaa Out.
Juvenile—Mamma, when the Are goes
out where does it go? Mother—i don’t
know. dear. Ton might Just as well
ask where your father goes when be
goes out
it is as hard to And a man without
guilt as a Ash without a backbone.—
Arrbytns.
BUSY TAIL OF A WHALE.
Legend ef the Origin of the Idea of the
Screw Propeller.
The following extraordinarily inter
esting story is printed by the Marine
Journal with the express stipulation
that it cannot guarantee its authentici
ty, but gives it for what It is worth:
“’Way back in 1S5S the stout Dutch
bark Groote Marie. Captain Van der
Broeek, bound from Amsterdam to the
East Indies, became dismantled in try
ing to round the Cape of Good Hope
nnd, because of high seas, was in a
generally bad plight. Just as things
were looking particularly black an in
vestigation of a terrific blow received
by the vessel on her high, square stern
revealed the fact that a large whale
had crashed partly through the rear
boards and had got caught in the tim
bers. Fortunately water which was
pouring into the aft hold was prompt
ly blown out through the open hatch
way by the struggling animal, and in
jndeavoring to release itself the big
mammal lashed the water with its tail
so violently that it propelled the bark
abend at seven knots an hour into
Cape Town harbor.
“It was in watching the mighty ef
fect of the whale’s tail that the good
captain conceived the idea of a screw
propeller, but neither the Dutch mer
chants of Cape Town nor his brother
skippers of Amsterdam were suffi
ciently interested in his tale to unite j
with him in patenting the device.” i
THE KING IS KING.
No “Power Behind the Throne” In
England, It Is Said.
It Is often asked who really Inspires
the king’s attitude upon current ques
tions of the day and, more particular
ly, who writes his speeches?
The king takes, it is possible to
state, the closest interest in every lead
ing question of the day, and, while he
must of necessity take the advice of
his responsible ministers, he has views
of his own that he does not hesitate
to pronounce whenever the occasion
calls for it, while his speeches he
“roughs out” entirely by himself.
This draft of what his majesty de
sires to say is then passed on to the
officials of the private secretaries’ of
fice, who prepare the speech in set
form and submit it to his majesty in
formal language. This he goes through
most carefully, and it often takes two
or three rewritings before the king is
thoroughly satisfied with it.
It may be said at once, however, that
no words uttered by the king are ap
proved until they have passed his most
careful scrutiny. It is likewise possi
ble to add that his majesty is an ex
tremely good Impromptu speaker and
that some of his most notable utter
ances have been made without any
previous preparation of any kind.—
London Gentlewoman.
Didn’t Stop.
A young man who was with a party
of motor tourists making a trip
through the mountains decided to stop
over in an attractive place for a few
days and went into the hotel to ascer
tain the rates.
"What are your rates?” he inquired.
"Seven dollars a day. sir,” was the
reply.
"If 1 stay,” went on the man, "1
shall want a room on the parlor floor.”
“That will cost you $1 extra,” said
the clerk.
“I shall also want a room with a tire
place. where i can have a tire these
chilly evenings.”
“One dollar more, sir.”
“And. of course,” said the tourist, “I
want one with a bath also.”
“A dollar additional, sir.”
“Well,” said the man thoughtfully,
“how much will you charge to let me
leave the hotel just as I am?”—Pulit
zer Magazine.
"Good Morning!”
When we are at our best a flood of
life pours itself out in the simple old
words “Good morning!”—a flood of
meaning which strains to express itself
in a thousand ways, but has to be con
tent with verbal symbols. Our phys
ical and vital energies, our love, our
playfulness, our stores of gratitude
for the world’s past gifts, all that is
calling us toward the future, comes
rushing out in the time mellowed
greeting. The depths of us, the con
centrated and Imprisoned energy of
our inmost life, calls across the dis
tance to tbe unseen depths of our fel
low.—Atlantic.
Schoolboy Aspiration.
A schoolboy wrote the following es
say on soap: “Soap Is a kind of staff
made in cakes what you can’t eat. It
smells good and tastes orfei. Soap al
ways tastes worse when you get it in ;
your eye. Father says Eskimose don’t
never use soap. I wish I was an Es
kimose!”
Made Him Live Up to It.
Downtrod—Never write letters, my
boy. that you’ll regret In after life.
Dewtell—You speak as from expert
ence? Downtrod—1 do. In early cor
respondence with the lady who Is now
my wife 1 signed myself “Your obedi
ent servant’’
Unmasked.
“I was Introduced to your wife to
day, and she glared at me."
“I can’t account for that”
HI can. 1 s’pose I'm your scapegoat
you old fraud!’’—Kansas City Journal.
i -
Explosive.
An ambitious young writer having
asked. "What magazine will give me
file highest position qulcksetf” was
told. “A powder magazine, if yon con
tribute a fiery artMe.”
Dougherty & Ferguson
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Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting of l lie stockhold
ers of the Alaska Water, Light and
Telephone Company will be held at.
said company’s office, in the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, on Monday, the
third day of May, 1915, at the hour
of two o’clock in the afternoon of
said day, at which meeting the di
rectors of said company shall be
elected for the ensuing year, and
such other business shall be trans
acted as may regularly come before
eaid meeting.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 17tii
day of April, 1915.
JONES II. KIRK,
Secretary.
First publication April 17, 1915.
Last publication May 1, 1915.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern:
You are hereby notiiied that we
have expended during the years 1912,
1913, and 1914, the sum of three hun
dred dollars ($300.00), lawful money
of the United States, in labor and
improvements, upon your one-sixth
interest in those mining claims lying
and being on Mineral creek, in the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monts Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said claims
being of record in the office cf'
the commissioner and recorder, at
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322 .
323, 325, 326, and 327, of Book 2 Min
ing Records, in order to hold said
claims under the provisions of Sec
tion 2324 of the Revised Statutes of
(he United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decern
her, 1914.
And unless within ninety days af
ter the completion of the publication;
of this notice, to-wit: within ninety
days after the 6th day of May. 1915,
you contribute your proportion of
such expenditure incurred in perform
ing said annual labor and improve
ments, which is the sum of three
hundred dollars ($300.00), your inter
est in said claims will become the
property of your co-owners, who have
made the required expenditure, by the
terms of said secMon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. c 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:1b p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boil'-g.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bade” 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
w,ttb the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.