if 8 ill iiS 80 8 8!
THE story can be quickly told—Twenty-four
Ingrain Reversible Rugs, sizes 6x9 feet
and 9x9 feet—Come in brown and tan
and green and tan, in neat pattern mixtures.
A splendid opportunity to brighten up the room
at a minimum cost. Regular prices $10.00
and $7.50. Tuesday your choice,
$6.00 AND $4.00
Valdez Mercantile Co.
TRUE VALUES
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau. Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas
Cordova Ellamnr. Valdez and Datouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th
» S r.atouche, 15th: S S Cordova, 25th of each month-Right reserved to change this
.schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen ! Agt- Valdez DockICo., Local Agt
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
!■ Steamers sail from Seattle at’ lOi A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing 15th calls Iliamna andjKodiak--All sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
J Seattle to San Franci»co every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
i Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
> Kieht reserved to chanire schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RIN6W00D, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK GO. Local Agt.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, her heirs
and administrators and to all it may
concern: You are hereby notified that
, I-have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
office of the commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords, In order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
ed States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the amount
required to ho'd said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wlt: within ninety days
after the 7th day of June, 1916, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure incurred In performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of 166.66, your in
terest in said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
^The Prospector office for job work.
Notice of Filing Final Account and of
Hearing Thereon.
In the United States Commissioner's
Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Third Division, Valdez Precinct.
In the matter of the estate ol' Dan
S. Kain, deceased. No. 146. Notice
of filing of final account and of hear
ing thereon.
Notice is hereby given that on the
18th day of March, 1915, S. Blum, the
administrator of the estate of Dan S.
Kain, deceased, filed in and present
ed for settlement to the above-named
court his final report and account of
his administration of said estate, and
that Thursday, the 20th day of May,
1915, at the hour of two o’clock in
the afternoon, at the court room of
the above-named court, in the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, has been duly ap
pointed by the above-named court as
the time and place for the settlement
of said final account and the hear
ing of objections thereto.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 18th
day of March, 1915.
S. BLUM,
Administrator of said Estate.
Donohoe & Dimond attorneys for
administrator.
First publication March 18, 1915.
Last publication April 8. 1915.
Dick Rogers has returned to Port
Wells after a few days spent in see
ing the sights in Valdez.
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co. tf
Notice of 8peci«i Meeting of the
Stockholder* of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice Is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will bo
held at the offices of the company,
In ‘he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of trie
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing the company to amend Its
articles of incorporation, so that Its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that it may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that it may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1915, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. 1,0 VE,
Directors.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To G. A. Brown, his heirs and ad
ministrators and to all it may con
cern:
You are hereby notified 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,
Monte 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 of
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
the United States, concerning annual
labor on mining claims, being the
amount required to hold said lode
claims for the period ending Decem
ber, 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 seeMon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
Notice of Special Election.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial election for the purpose of elect
ing a clerk of the Valdez school board
to fill the vacancy caused by the re
moval of C. E. Bunnell from the city
of Valdez, Alaska. Election will be
held at the Fire Hall Valdez, Alaska,
April 6th, 1915. The polls will be
open from 9 a. m. to 7 p. m. The
following persons shall be qualified
to vote: All adults who are citizens
of the United States, or who have
declared their intention to become
such and who are residents of the
Valdez school district. The judges
of said election will be Chas. Sealey,
John Heckey, and Sam McNlece. The
clerks shall be John Krum and C. P.
Topliff.
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1915.
A. VON GUNTHER,
MRS. ALBERT WHITE,
Members of Valdez School Board.
If you want all the news all the
time, read the Prospector.
On the basis ot Security and Service
* we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
FAMOUS DIAMONDS.
The Cullinan In the Rough Weighed
One and One-third Pounds.
Until 1805 the largest diamond
known was the Excelsior, found In
1803 at Jagersfontein by a native
while londiug a truck. It weighed
973 carats and was cut ultimately into
ten stones weighing from thirteen to
sixty-eight carats. All previous dis
coveries were surpassed in 1005 by
the finding of a stone weighing 3,025%
carats, or one and a third pounds, in
the Premier mine in tlie Transvaal.
The Transvaal government bought
this stone and presented it to King
Edward, it having become known as
the Cullinan diamond. In 1008 it was
sent to Amsterdam and there cut into
nine large stones and a number of small
ones. The largest one weighed 51GV.
carats and is the largest brilliant in
existence. All tire of the finest duality
and flawless.
The Koliinoor in its earliest known
state weighed 18GVi carats, but was
later cut to 10G.
Other famous diamonds, some from
Brazil, some from India or Borneo,
others from Kimberley, are the Star
of the South, weighing 251 Vi carats:
the Regent or Pitt diamond, weighing
13G carats after several cuttings; the
I>nryiil-nur, weighing 18G carats, in the
possession of the Shah of Persia; the
Tiffany, weighing 125Vi carats; the Vic
toria, weighing ISO carats and cut
from a stone weighing 457 carats.—Ex
change.
NOT MADE BY SPOOKS.
House Noises at Night That Sound
Like Ghostly Footfalls.
Ill okl houses the hoards and joists
forming the floors are often in a some
what unstable condition. Many floors
are permanently bent with the traffic
of generations. Others are still under
going the warping process. It is easy
to imagine a floor which is in a perfect
ly ripe condition for the production of
ghostly sounds.
During the daytime the timbers get
bent with the Weight of the various in
mates of the house walking to and fro,
but the noise and bustle of the day
drowns the starting and creaking
which goes on until the floor lias recov
ered its natural position, as it is bound
to do in time, wood being of an elastic
nature.
When, however, the stillness of night
comes on. these little intermittent
movements may become magnified into
mysterious footsteps, according to the
imagination of the hearer. I myself
live in a house the landing of which
exactly illustrates my argument. Some
hours after all are in bed the sound ns
of one stealthily creeping along the
landing is heard—loud enough to star
tle n light sleeper into wakefulness.
“Who’s that?” has often been the ex
clamation, but by good sense the nat
ural explanation has as often been ac
cepted.—London Times.
Didn’t Need the Hoe.
Some time ago a hobo meekly tapped
on the back door of a suburban homo
and asked for something to eat. The
good housewife responded that she
would feed him on the back step along
with Fido provided he was willing to
earn the meal by cleaning out the gut
ter.
The tramp agreed, and when he had
eaten his way through several sand
wiches the housewife came out with
a reliable looking hoe.
“You needn't, have gone to that trou
ble, madam."•.said the hobo. “I never
! use a hoe in chining out a gutter.”
j “Never use a hoe!" sit’d the woman,
j “What do you use, then, a shovel?”
; “No, madam," sweetly replied the
j hobo, starting for the back gate, “my
1 method is*to pray for rain."—Boston
Advertiser.
Pump Anchors.
A pump is a queer sort or' anchor,
but it has been t'qund to bo tile best
kind of an anchor for a sandy bot
tom. The anchor consists of a heavy
piece of metal with a hole down
through the center and a tube from
this hole to the ship, so that water can
he pumped from the ship down through
the tube and out of the bottom of
the metal mass. When this anchor
drops to the sandy bottom and the
pump Is started It makes quicksand
of the material round It so that it
sinks in deep. When the pumping
stops the sand hardens and holds the
anchor. To raise the anchor it Is nec
essary only to start pumping again
and loosen the sand—Saturday Even
ing Post.
What la Instinct?
Instinct is. a generic term compris
ing all those faculties of mind which
lead to the conscious performance of
actions that are adoptive in character,
but pursued without necessary knowl
edge of the relation between the means
employed and the ends attained. It is
hardly necessary to remark that some
times “Instinct" comes so close to “rea
son" that It is almost Impossible to
distinguish between them.—New York
American.
Entirely Out of Place.
“What itinerary did you take on
your European trip?”
“John wouldn’t let me take one at
all. Y'ou see, lie’s crossed the ocean
before, and he said It was foolish to fill
our trunk with a lot of things we’d
never use."—Detroit Free Press.
Easy to Talk Back Now.
“I’ll bet that in days gone by men
did not talk back to th$ir wives In the
fashion that they do nowadays.”
“The telephone is certainly a great
Invention.”—Houston Post.
When faith is lost and honor dial
the man is dead.—Whittier.
EXTREMES IN DAYLIGHT.
There le, In Reality, No One Longsat
.or Shortest Day.
It Is usual to regard Dec. 21 ns being
the shortest day in the year and Juno
21 ns the longest. Hut this Impression,
like so many others that are ingrained
in the popular mind, is not a strictly
accurate one.
True it is, of course, that on Dec. 21
and June 21 respectively the sun reach
es its most southerly and most norther
ly points in tlie zodiac and begins in
the one case to ascend and in the other
case to decline. Hut tills is in theory
only, because for two or three days
preceding and following these dates
there is no observable difference in its
position or its hours of rising and set
ting.
This question of latitude, by the way,
is extremely important when speaking
of the shortest or longest day or days
of the year.
In I/mdon and its neighborhood, for
instance, the shortest days are seven
hours and forty-live minutes and the
three or four “longest days" around
June 21 are sixteen hours and twenty
six minutes. At Tornea, in Finland,
June 21 brings a day nearly twenty
two hours long and Christmas one less
than three hours in length. In St. Pe
tersburg tlu> longest day is nineteen
hours and the shortest live hours, while
at Spitzbergeu the longest day is three
and a half months, the shortest being
counted in seconds only.—London An
swers.
FEATHERED SCAVENGERS.
Crows as Track Cleaners and Gulls as
Government Workers.
As unique a crew of track cleaners
and police as could be found anywhere
Is enlisted in the service of the South
ern Pacific railroad. The members are
neither Americans nor foreigners. It is
a crew of crows.
The big black birds built their nests
near Ilornbrook, Ore., on the northern
division of die road. They have be
come fat and sleek living off the gen
erosity of tourists and of dining car
employees.
When tile trains arrive at Ilornbrook
tlie crows leave their roosting places
and circle about the depot. As die lini
iteds pull out the birds follow them for
five or six miles. Scraps are thrown to
them, and they devour every bit, polic
ing the tracks and acting as scaven
gers. The section hands and other em
ployees of the road realize the value of
these birds and keep them from being
molested Trains crossing the Great
Salt lake are followed by sea gulls, the
latter, like the crows, feasting oil
scraps thrown from the diners.
In a similar way the great lakes are
patrolled by white winged gulls. The
government protects them, appreciat
ing die work they do in following the
ships or hovering over tlie fishing
grounds and keeping the waters free of
pollution.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
New Year Calls In China.
New Year calls are the custom in
China, and you have to pay them in
festive attire of silk or satin.
These tine clothes (says Archdeacon
Mottle in the Chinese Peoplel can lie
hired, the price being gradually lower
ed as the hours of the first six days
pass by. We complained once of tin
very late arrival of a caller, who
should have been among the tirst to
salute us. Jle replied that money was
scarce, and he was obliged to wait for
the cheapest day to secure a tine robe
already donned and doffed by a dozen
of others. 1 Miring tln-se ceremonial
days tin- whole community sot-ms to
give itself over to indiscriminate gam
liliug. a practice illegal ami condemned
both by Chinese law and standards ot
morality, hut winked at during tins
season.
The M issing Window Pane.
"Every kitchen lias a window with
one pane out in the Brazilian town of
Bio Grande do Sul." said a cook. "That
town is a servants' paradise. Servants
live in their own homes there, as they
should everywhere. They come to
Work at 7 in the morning, and they
quit at 7 at night, a twelve hour day.
Quite long enough. The paneless win
dow is for the milkmau, the baker, the
butcher, so that these traders can
leave their supplies—they usually come
early—in a safe place. The Itio Grande
servant is, of course, not there to re
ceive them. She is In bed at ber own
home.”
Sizing Him Up.
Au eminent Scotch astronomer tells
this excellent story against himself.
He once explained In ft lecture that a
certain star looked no bigger than a
threepenny bit a hundred miles away.
After the discourse one of the audi
ence said to him:
“You must be a Scotsman, for no one
but a Scotsman would trouble about
a threepenny bit a hundred miles off.”
Sign of the Time*.
“Business Is pretty slow here just
now,” confessed the Squam Corners
merchant.
“I judged so,” replied the baking
powder drummer, “when 1 observed
they had laid off one of the hands of
the town clock.”—Philaelphia Ledger.
For the Sake of Peace.
“That’s what I cull hush money!” re
marked a father as he put down the
cash for a bottle of paregoric for the
infantile members of his family.
Good Board.
Bill—Do you get good board where
you can eat now? Tom—Good board?
Why, I eat off the arm of a chair every
meal.—Boston Transcript.
Actions, looks, words-steps from the
alphabet by which you spell character.
—Lava ter.
I
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
I
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Notice of Election.
j Notice is hereby given that a Gen
I eral Municipal Election will be held
| in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
; the sixth day of April, 1915, for the
i purpose of electing seven members of
; the Common Council, who shall hold
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
1 as a director for a term of three
1 years and until his successor is elect
i ed and-qualified.
| The Town Hall has been designat
I ed as tlie polling place tor said elec
j tion.
i Said election shall commence at 9
o’clock a. m. and shall continue un
! til 7 o’clock p. m. of the same day,
without closing the polls.
H. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
' Publications March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thotnp
j son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
1 No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
| of America, greeting: To Eri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons against you, to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril, 1915. and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
the clerk’s office of the above entitled
court; and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
I relief demanded in said complain*,
! to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
i ed in the above entitled court, in fa
! vor of the plaintiff and the said de
1 fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
j Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
I This summons is served on yon by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
1 of March, 1915, which publication was
! directed to be made once a week for
i six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March. 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR I.ANG.
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March 8,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915.
Notice To Creditors.
In the matter of the estate of George
Hiyisen, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
dersigned, administrator of the es
i tate of George Hansen, deceased, to
■ the creditors thereof, and to all per
; sons having claims against said es
j tate, to exhibit the same with the
necessary vouchers, within six months
after the first publication of this no
tice, to-wit, within six months after
the 24th day of February, 1915, to
said administrator, at the office of
Donohoe & Dimond, his attorneys in
said matter, at Valdez, Alaska, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of said es
tate.
The date of the first publication
of this notice is the 24th day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
A. S. JENSEN. Administrator.
►
Somebody
With Money
always has been found lo
“ifectf’’ 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
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PRO8PE0TCR FOR RE
SULT8.
I .
Subscribe far the Weekly Miner.