sVeam heated hot and cold baths
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7
FOR MEN 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. Oppoaite Proapector Office. T«Mion«24^
FROM ANY VIEW POINT -
our clothes show their superi
ority. In the material, in the
workmanship—every stitch set
with care—and in the Jit and
hang oi the garment. Don’t
spend a lot of money but to re
gret it; let us tailor you this
time and forget the past. A
host of fetching designs to
<?hoose from.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
[ Foot Keystone Ave
I Routrh Dry 11c lb
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. *_Phone 35
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Arctic Hotel;
All Warm, Outside Rooms
Transient Trade Solicited
Rates 75c and Up
Special Rates by the Week or Month
Baths in Connection
PHONE 133 MRS. SYRING Prop
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AMERICANS UNABLE
TO GET OUT OF TURKEY
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 2 6.—
Americans of military age are having
difficulty in leaving Turkey and the
embassy at Constantinople is making
urgent representations.
An official dispatch received by
way of Stockholm says 24 Americans
got away May 4, but 20 men between
18 to 45 were not permitted to de
part at the last moment. Those who
rlid get away included Consul Gener
al Ravndal, Vice Consul Young,oCorn
LAUNCH
PATHFINDER
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Plying between, Valilez, Klla
mar, Fklalgo, Port Wells, Land
lock, Nellie Juan, Wells Bay,
and all Sound Points. Times of
sailing and terms upon appli
cation to Master.
CAPT. BYRON SMITH
Y.4LDKZ, ALASKA
mander Morton, the Heiser family
and the Messrs. Gulliver and Tomp
kins.
Jack Hathewey returned on the
Farragut after spending the winter
in the States.
Jack Whalen left this morning for
Landlock bay, where he has taken a
contract for development work on the
property of the Hemple Copper co.
JUST fill a
the pa p e with
iest VELVET—
Smoking tobacco drawin the cool,
mild smoke
/F you paid for
things accord
in* to the pleas
ure they gave,
tobacco an*
books would cost
a lot mo* than
diamonds. _
that’s so fragrant and
rich that—
But what’s the use trying
to describe a taste? Take
our word for VELVET
long enough to try a
pipeful. You won’t need |
to take anybody’s word '
after that.
OREGON KILLS QUOTA
IX REGULAR FORCES
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26.—
'Oregon has filled her quota In regu
lar army recruiting. With a qoula of
1,344, the State has supplied 1,349
|men since April 1.
Nevada, first State to fill its quota
nov has 34 4 men accepted on a quota
t of 162.
EXPOSE FRENCH OFFICERS
TO AIR RAIDS AS REPRISAL
-
BERNE. Switzerland. May 26 —
|An official statement published today
in Berlin says:
“In reprisal for the placing of a
jGerman general and 15 staff officers
on French hospital ships in the Medit
Icrranean, the German authorities
have placed thrice this number of
:French officers of corresponding rank
iin the towns in western industrial dis
tricts which are especially subject to
aerial attacks."
, ^ ,
MAKE RICH HAUL OF
PEARLS from mussels
i
I
JOPLIN. Mo., May 26—Three years
iago Mrs. Bertha Scott was married to
j Edward Bell, and the pair moved to
the husband's small farm on the up
jper White river. Mrs. Bell spent
i much of her time fishing. One morn
ing she raked a mussel from the
J stream and found in it a pearl the size
of a No. 4 shot. She waded in and
soon bad a bushel of mussels and
garnered ten more pearls.
When she told her husband he ad
! vised that they collect as maDy as pos
sible before looking for a market.
• They went pearl hunting together, but
jMrs. Bell had the greater luck. Her
jf.psband found only three or four
'rather poor pearls, while she got for
ity-one, some of them the size of a pea
land of beautiful luster.
"If you are offered $50 for the
j Punch grab it." was her husband's ad
ivice. So Mrs. Bell took the pearls to
'Newport, Mo., the nearest possible
|market. The jeweler there said he
I could not afford to buy them, hut that
jtlie regular New York buyer would
be in the next day.
Mrs. Bell called on the buyer at
his hotel. After testing them and
]weighing them he said:
1 "Twenty of them are but little bet
!ter than ‘slugs’ and are worth to me
lonly $5 each. The remained weigh
• about 760 grains. The hunch is worth
to me $1 1,900.”
Mrs. Bell had sufficient control to
I escape fainting and to say calmly she
'guessed lie could have them.
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To Reopen P'roight Traffic
ST. LOUIS, May 26.—The reopen
ling ol freight traiiic on the Mississ
lippi river and its tributaries was as
sured last night when Brigadier Gen
eral Black, speaking for Secretary of
I War Baker consented to the loan of
twelve government barges and at
tendant towboats to a private St
Louis enterprise in return for the as
surance that the company would form
& similar barge line to take up the
traffic at the end of the year. E. E.
Goitra, of St. Louis, informed the
• conference, Secretary Baker had been
I asked for the loan of the barges and
• towboats to aid in transporting iron
ore to St. Louis from northern points.
GERMAN SPY ADMITS HE
SOUGHT SUBMARINE BASE1
; SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.—That
he spent lour months in company with
iether German spies, locating a sub
; marine and aeroplane base in South
ern California, in Mexican territory,
! was the admission of Lieut. Frank
1 Wolff, the German spy, to District
Attorney Preston of this city, accord
ing to an announcement made by the
latter today. Wolff’s real name is said
to be Baron Friedrich von Fels. and
Ihe is an officer in the German army.
WILL FIGHT IN RANKS
RATHER THAN NURSE
Don Trousers and Shoulder Rifles to
Help Their Uncle Sam
I -
i DENVER, May 26.—A regiment of]
1,200 women wearing the regulation]
army uniform including trousers, and I
|carrying army rifles, is planned, toj
j fight for America, instead of nur:-i
;ing.
Formost in the movement is Miss]
R. M. Stout. It is planned to offer]
commissions to Mrs. Genevieve Chan
Idler Phipps, divorced with of Law
rence Phipps, former Pittsburg mil
lionaire; Mrs. Frank L. Bishop, wife1
of a Denver banker, and Mrs. Irving j
P. Johnson, wife of Bishop Johnson
of the Colorado diocese of the Epis
copal church.
ENGLISH WEAVERS
THREATEN STRIKE
LONDON, May 26.— A quarter of
a million weavers in eight hundred i
mills threaten to strike today unless!
granted a 20 per cent increase in sal
ary. A conference is in progress be-1
tween the workmen and the mill!
owners in an attempt to adjust the i
differences. Unless a compromise isi
effected the men will walk out this
evening, shutting down the mills. ,
THE EMERGENCY SHELF.
Sirnpt* Remedies That Should So at
Hand In Evary Home.
Gasoline is a good disinfectant for
tbe treatment of wounds iu emergency
eases. It is especially good if tbe
wound is lacerated or if the skin was
dirty when the wound was made. Aft
er washing the wound with gasoline
paint with a tincture of iodine, using
a small wad of absorbent cotton for
the iodine "paint brush."
livery family, should have a supply
of emergency remedies at band, and a
physician suggests this list for the
home medicine shelf:
Two ounce bottle of aromatic spirits
of ammonia, a good stimulant in case
of fainting—use as an inhalation or
put one-half tcuspoonful in one-quarter
glass of water and give internally;
eight ounces of gasoline, use freely to
cleanse wounds: two ounces of tincture
of iodine to paint wounds and kill
germs; one yard sterile gauze; one yard
zinc oxide adhesive plaster, two inches
wide; one yard zinc oxide adhesive pins,
ter, one inch wide; one-fourth pound
sterile absorbent cotton; oue-hulf dozen
gauze bandages, assorted sizes; eight
ounce bottle saturated boric acid solu
tion to use as an antiseptic wet dress
ing for wounds and as an eye wash;
eight ounce bottle peroxide of hydro
gen. good for slight cuts and abrasions,
hut not to 1* relied on for serious
wounds; one hot water hag; one foun
tain syringe; one ice bag.—Kansas "City
Star.
TO PREVENT ILLNESS.
That la On* of th* Objects of Compul
sory Health Insurance.
Compulsory health Ius.iiranee Ik now
being talked of as another step iu com
munity welfare, the course being espe
cially recommended in welfare work
among wage earners. ,
Investigation has shown that a large
proportion of sickness is preventable,
but most persons, small wage earners
or not. are likely to neglect their ail
ments until prevention Is no longer
possible and serious illness must he
treated. Even then the doctor's serv
ices are avoided as much hs possible
because of the cost, and the victim of
disease goes buck to his work before
he is tit.
Under the compulsory insurance sys
tem it is the idea that every worker
shall be visited at stated intervals by
a physician whether he is ill or not;
the slightest illness brings a call" from
the doctor, whose business is to keep
him well if possible. In many cases he
will succeed, with the result of a great
saving of time and wages to the worker.
The total of such savings in the in
dustrial centers will run into the mil
lions and will proportionately lessen
the demands on, charitable funds.—In
dianapolis Star.
Th* Wild Pigeon Mystery.
That the wild pigeon,'once so com
mon in the United States, lias become
extinct is one of the strangest myste
ries in American natural history. It is
a puzzle which has battled scientists and
which probably never will be solved.
Half u century ago wild pigeons were
abundant in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi
ana, Kentucky and all the states of the
middle west. In their migrations they
traveled in, flocks numbering tens of
thousands, and it sohiethnes took a sin
gle flock the better part of an hour to
puss a given point. Vast numbers of
the pigeons were killed every year by
gunners, hut many investigators hold
that the complete disappearance of the
species must have been due iu part at
least to other causes. No other bird
was ever so numerous in this country
as the pigeon.
New York’s Subway*.
More tbau 2,000 trains stait each day
from tlie terminals of New York’s suli
way systems. They are run on sched
ules as carefully prepared and as close
ly timed as those of a trunk line rail
road.
Between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 per
sons ride each day on the subway.
This is more than twice the number
carried dally by all the trains on the
entire Pennsylvania railroad system.
Nearly two-tlilrdB of the New York
users of the subway are carried during
the morning and evening rush hours.—
ltapid Transit
Not Hia Language.
Lord Robson, at one of the dinners of
the Glamorgan society, told the story
of a Welsh witness in a Glamorgan
shire case who, having been sworn to
si>eak the truth, the whole truth and
uothlng but the truth, was asked if he
could speak English or would like an
interpreter. "No,” he replied; “I can
speak some English, but I cannot speak
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
hut the truth.”—St. James’ Gazette.
Sensible Girl.
"When Arthur proposed to me he
was so excited he couldn't speak.”
"But how did you know he wanted
to marry yon if he couldn't speak?”
“Well, he was down on his knees,
and I knew he wasn’t looking for a lost
collar button.”—Birmingham Age-Her
ald.
Forebodings.
"I fear my doctor’s bill is going to
be heavy.”
“Oh, you are not very sick.”
"That’s not the point He ran into
some obstruction on his way' to my
house and badly damaged his ma
chine.”—Ixniisville Courier-Journal.
Modest Pa.
“Pa. was mother much of a flirt
when 6he was young?”
"I guess not. my dear. Anyhow. I’m
the best she could land.’’—Detroit Free
Press.
WHKX A KIRK STARTS
the firemen's best etior‘3 are
given to putting It out as
quickly as possible. He aims
to save as much as he can. But
once a fire starts, damage pnd
loss commence. The only way
to offset that loss is to be well
insured. Our policies cover
all losses from the very min
ute the damage by flames, wa
ter or smoke commences.
Valdez Real Kstate Agency
«“ TONY’S PLACES1
EVERYTHING
FIRS! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle—
May 10—S. S. Alameda.
May 15- S. S. Alaska.
May 21--S. S. Mariposa.
May 27—S. S. Northwestern.
June 2—S. S. Alameda.
Valdez to Seattle—
May 15—S. S. Northwestern.
May 20—S. S. Alameda
May 25—S. S. Alaska
May 31—S. S. Mariposa
June 6—S. S. Northwestern
(.ALL AT Ketchikan, Juneau, C ordova, Kllamar, Ft. Liseum, Val
dez, Latouche, Seward and Anchorage.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. Rllamar. Valdez and La
l?*1iLIl^,.F,?ploslves’ Ri^ht reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, du’l Agent VAI.DK/. DOCK CO„ l.ocaX Agent
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINK)
Oiir Large l-'leet of Magnificent Steamship* offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVId Between aii Points in
Alaska and California
From Seattle, !f I*. M.
May 11—S. S. Adm. Evans
May 19—S. S. Adm. Farraeut
May 2$—S. S. Adm. Watson
June 4—S. S. Adm. Evans
June 12-—S. S. Adm. Farratnit,
Valdez In Seattle—
May 15—S. S. Adm. Watson
May 23—S. S. Adm. Evans
May 31—S. S. Adm. EarraKUt
June 10—S. S. Adm. Watson
June 1C—S. S. Adm. Evans
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
Sitn Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF VO! K TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY REST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
1194 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1914
PIONEER-CONTRACTOR and'BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN |HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take 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, Alailca.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
f
A full ana complete line of Cigars.
Cigarettes, Smoking Tobacco and
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
OLD PAPERS—Just the thing to
place under carpets, ten cents per
bundle of 100 at this office.
Genuine Sweet Apple Cider at
Hunt's Candy Kitchen. tf
Anything in nugget and Ivory jew
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
A new line ol neaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
Lowney’s Box Candies at Hunt's
Candy Kitchen. tf
A fresh lot of Haas’ Candies receiv
ed on last boat, from 50 cents to 52
a box. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Location nonces, both quartz and
placer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.