J STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 .F0R MEN 0NLY
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT St/PPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hose, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Oppoette Prospector Office. Telephone 24
Ol'R WAYS LIE
TOGETHER
if good clothing interests you.
If you demand style and indi
viduality in your apparel you
need us as much as we want
you. You can see examples of
our tailoring on many of the
best dressers In town. Coiye
and let us put you in their
class.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I
Telephone 66 I
I Foot Keymon*? Ave
I Rough 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 03 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT ( has. Fischer, Pr »,.r.
’KEEP POSTED
The next few months will be the greatest in tin*
history of the United States.
Each day will produce events that may make or
mar the destinies of you and your town!
Nations will grapple with nations; great battles
will be won; kings will be unthroned: dynasties
change and tin* world’s lines of demarcation glinted.
Floating cities bulwarked with steel will lx*
thrown against other iron leviathans of tin* deep.
(’an you afford not to keep posted at this time l
It is your duty as a citizen and a man to keep
abreast of the nation’s affairs that you may realize
that Opportunity is knocking—for you. Opportunity
to serve your Country and your Flag!
You cannot afford to allow Old Glory to send
out he S. O. S.
Freedom is crying to each man to do his part.
This is not a time for slackers!
During the crisis in the Nations aifaiis I he
Prospector and Miner have arranged to receive ALL
news of importance to our readers.
Twice the telegraphic matter will be received, in
order to keep these papers up to their present high
standard!
If you wish to keep posted oil world aflairs you
must, take some jiapt-r. Why not.'Hie Daily Prospec
tor at $1.00 per month, delivered at your door .'
Or 'idle Weekly Miner, at $11.00 per year; also
delivered.
Or, better yet, take both The Daily Prospector
and The Weekly Miner for only $1.25 per month, de
livered.
These papers will also have a good illustrated
service of men prominent in National affairs; and
a photo of every battleship and cruiser taking part in
jibe great sea battles certain to come between these
mighty floating fortresses and the death-dealing sub
marines.
1 )<) N()T DEIjAY ! MAI L OR TELEPHON E
US YOUR ORDER AT ONCE!
SUBSCRIBE NOW
B. R MILLARD EXPRESSES
VIEWS ON ARBITRATION
_
B. F. Millard, the well known Alas
kan mine operator in a recent letter
to the Mining Congress says:
*'I most heartily agree with your
taking up the matter in Congress and
in every State in the T’nior. in the
[ matter covering strikes and lockouts.
1 have always contended that if all
I parties /interested in the labor ques
tion exhibited a desire to be fair that
all difficulties could be adjusted and
settled by arbitration.
“I have employed labor for thirty
I years, sometimes having as high as
.300 men under me. I never have bad
I a strike or a lockout—not only that,
\ 1 have been on both sides of the
• question—for many years I labored
'for others; in those days, however, a
j .-trike was never thought of, the em
j ployer hired and discharged men to
I suit his own convenience and always
paid just as little wages as possible.
After becoming foreman for a large
| lumber company 1 have hired for
them hundreds of men at front $14 to
$20 per month and board and work
led them from 12 to 13 hours a day.
I ‘‘Those days have passed and labor
land capital are getting closer togeth
er. Brute force is no longer the slo
!gan. Foremen are not hired because
i they are pugilists. Labor is coining
(into its own. Capitalists have recefv
jed a great jolt, and have come to the
[conclusion that it is better to feed
and house men well and comfortably
and treat them as human beings. The
only question is the wage. Capital
land labor differ upon this question
land always will. We will always
I have big corporations ami poverty,
land right at this point is where nrbi
it rat ion will come in. All fatr-mind
ied men should be willing to leave
! their affairs, or rather disputes, to a
(competent body of disinterested men.
and should be willing to abide by
Hheir decision.
p^V’The disputants are not the only
Ones interested or injured by strikes
land lookouts but it carries to those
'directly Interested in the disputes, and
{great body of American citizens no;
I some means ought to lie provided
i whereby both parties to a dispute
!should be held up until their griev
ances could be passed upon by an in
telligent body of disinterested citizens
and sooner or later it must come to
that. l)o all you can to assist in pass
ling an arbitration law that would
{have a tendency to. give full justice
ti both capital and labor and the great
body of onlookers. You can draw 01.
me for any assistance that it is in my
\ ower to give.”
WILL RECEIVE RIDS
FOR ALASKA SITUS
In accordance with authority re
Icentl.v granted by the War Depart
ment. Captain Robert M. Nolan, ottl
; cer in charge of this section of the
i Alaska telegraph and cable system,
will receive bids up to May 1 for
,10.000 pounds of Alaskan grown po
i i a toes for use at the various telegraph
i stations, deliveries to Iip made at any
i station in the first section. Bidders
are required to specify the time and
place of delivery and the government
[reserves the right to specily the time
and place of delivery, and the gov
ernment reserves the right to increase
or decrease the quantity bid on by 20
per cent.
PROBE INTO SHOOTING
OF RANCHER STARTED
PETALUMA. April 19 - County of
ficials are investigating the death of
Jacob Kiesbuye, a young Cotati ranch
er. who was found dead at his ranch
house last week with a bullet hole
through his head. The deceased con
ducted a poultry ranch and was mak
ing good and there was no reason why
he should have ended his life. When
found, a pistol was lying near his
side.
After the inquest it developed that
perhaps the deceased died by other
than his own hand. There were no
powder marks on the face and the in
('ications show that lie might have
been murdered.
Acting upon the advice of coroner
K. H. Phillips. Assistant District At
torney Ware arrived here and is in
vestigating the case to determine
whether Kiesbuye died from his own
hand or was murdered.
PHILADELPHIA MINT
VAULT IS ENLARGED
PHILADELPHIA, April 19.-The
hig vaults of the local mint are be
ing enlarged tor the storage of more
than a billion dollars in gold bullion.
Upward of $500,000,000 in gold
bricks is already In the vaults and
preparations are being made lo re
lieve the New York subtreasury of
about $600,000,000.
A full and complete line Cigars.
Cigarettes, Smoking Tobacco* and
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Webster’s New International Dic
tionary, strictly up to date; come in
and look it over. Valdez Drug Co. if
•
Miner *,ds. bring RESULTS.
GETTING AHEAD.
0 ---
Are You diving tho Loot Mon on the
Job o Chonco to Pooo Youf
Don't laugh at that green, ungainly
looking but hardworking ami always
oil the job fellow who baa joined }u,:i'
force. In a few yeara you may be
asking him for a Job.
No; it Is not at all impossible. There
arc thousands of such Instances. You
can think of sonic yourself.
That new chap may not lie as until
Iv dressed as you arc, lie may not be
as keen at repartee, lie may not lie a
"last stepper." but lie may possess the
characteristics by which lie may climb
fast while you slip buck.
The time you spend enjoying your
self he may lie using in study which
will help him to advance.
One of these days there may lie n
change in tlie business and the young
man of whom you nro making spirt
may step into the high place.
Should that time come do not l>e so
small as to say that lie must have had
some kind of “pull" or "that lie was
a fool who worked overtime anil did
everything lie could to get a stand in."
Maybe he did. You might have done
tile same. So shut up and take your
medicine.
But do not let the nest one get ahead
of you.—Toledo Tiinss.
GRANDEES OF SPAIN.
Curious Hat Etiquette That Marks
Their Three Claeses.
A grandee of Spain enjoys the privi
lege, grufited him many hundreds of
years ago. of remaining "covered" in
the presence of his sovereign. This
custom dates from the period when,
according to the theory then held, the
king was "the first among equals."
The undent formula always at the
coronation of the kings of old Spain
was, “We, your equals, cl/oose you to
reign over us." And the king assented
in this declaration of his nobles.
There was a time when all grandees
of Spain wore their Imts in the pres
euce of (lie king, lint in time the Idea
■ if caste began to prevail even among
the grandees, with the result that they
were eventually divided into three
classes, and these classes were distin
gnislied by the hat etiquette.
The first class entered the royal pres
ence covered; tlie second class entered
uncovered and, after an advance of a
few steps, put on their iiats, unhidden
by the king, and the third class also
entered uncovered, hut did not “cover"
until requested to do so by tlie king.
Then, according to the etiquette, “ali
were equal."
There have been grandees who were
not Spaniards, notably tlie Duke of
Wellington, upon whom the Cortes con
erred tlie honor in recognition of Ills
services to tile state.
Judging a Cigar.
How cun t!u> ordinary person wiio
•mokes ini a good cigar from a poor
tneV This question was put to a
i11 manufacturer. who answer
ed in i his fashion:
“There is hut one way that I know
Mi order to get everything that is in a
igar—the aroma and taste—it is neves
-ary to light the cigar, take a couple
• if puffs, then ailow the smoke to pass
through the nostrils. When you do
I !iis you get the two things that are !
in a weed, the aroma and the taste.
“It is Interesting to a man who j
unows the business to see a smoker i
Mike a cigar, look at it and then place j
it to his nose for u smell. Neither the ;
look nor smell of an uiiligbted cigar '
means anything.
“I repeat, it is necessary to light li
and start to smoke it in order to learn .
whether it is good or not.”—New York
Globe.
People Who Do Not Whittle.
Arabia must be a heaven for those |
whose lives are made a burden to them
by (be whistler. The Arab maintains
that a whistler's mouth cannot be purl
tied for forty days and nights, and I
they assert of the whistler that Satan
has touched his body and caused him
to produce the offensive sound. Then
there are the natives of the Tonga is
lands. Polynesia, who hold that it is a ;
sin to whistle, as it is an act disre
spectful to God. Even in some dls
tricts in north Germany villagers de
dare that if one whistles in the even
ing it makes the angels weep.
Understanding'
In its wider acceptation understand
ing is the power of perceiving and con
ceiving. exclusive of the sensibility:
the power of dealing with the impres
sion* of sense and composing them into
wholes, according to a law of unity,
and in its most comprehensive meaning
it includes even simple apprehension (
-Coleridge.
Easy Enough.
“I don't see how there ever came to
tie so many words in the world!" ex
daimed* a girl who was studying her !
spelling lesson.
"Why. sis.” said her brother, "they i
come through folks quarreling. Then, j
you know, one word always brings on j
another.”—London Tit-Bits.
He Was In It.
“I want to cancel my lease.”
“Cancel? Why, Isn’t the apartment
inst as I represented it?"
“Too much so. You advertised ’con
tlnuons hot water,’ but I didn’t kuow
that it referred to the neighbors.”—
New York Times.
Useless.
“Your wife lias tiled suit for divorce
Are you going to contest it?”
“Xo. It wouldn’t do me any good
I’ve lost every argument I ever ban
iv it li her.”—Excha nge.
Nothing is farther from the earth
ihnn heaven: nothing Is nearer to hear
»n than earth.—Hare.
I
WHEN .% FIRE STARTS
the firemen's best effor*3 are
given to putting it out aa
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 flame;;, wa
ter or smoke commences.
Valdez. Real Estate .Agency
rE TONY’S PLACES'1
EVERYTHING
FIRS'! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
l-'rom Seattle—
April 14.— S. S. Alameda.
April 22.—S. S. Alameda.
April 2S—S. S. Mariposa.
May 4— S. S. Northwestern.
May 10—S. S. Alameda.
Valdez to Seattle—
April 2C—S. S. Northwestern.
April 27—S. S. Alameda.
May 2—S. S. Alaska.
May 7—S. S. Mariposa.
May 14—S. S. Northwestern.
t'Al.l, AT Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Kllamar, Kt. IJsruin, Val
dez, l.atourhe, Seward and Anchorage.
Regular freiglit service fur Ketchikan, \V:angell, Juneau, Sheep
Cheek, Tread well. Douglas. Skagv.ay, Cordova, Kllamar, Valdez and La
toyohe. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
S. H. TRACY, tirn'l Agent \ \IJ)K7. HOCK CO.. I.ocnl Agent
Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINK)
Our I .aim* Fleet of Magnificent Steamship* otter Frequent, PKK
FKFT SKRVICE Hetueen all Points in
*
Alaska and California
I'm nil Seattle, l> I*. >1.
Apr. 1 S. S. Adm. Fan*acit
\pr. S. S. Adm. Wat.ton
Apr. 17—S. S. Adm. Eva« s
\pr. 2*i S. S. Adm. Farratjtu
.May S. S. Adm. Wai am
May 11—Adm. Fvans
Valdez to Seattle—
Apr. <5—S. S. Adm. Evans
Apr. 1:1—S. S. Adm. Farsagut
Apr. 21—S. S. Adni. Watson
A pi. 2 9—S. S. Adm. Evats
May $—S. S. Adm. Farrai?nt
May is S. S Adm. Watson
May 2-1- S. S. Adm Evans
S. S. Farragut sailing from Seattle April 2;> calls at Kodiak.
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for Sau Francisco,
Los Angeles
Sau Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to Sau Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
PI.. 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
« CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 191/
PIONEER CONTRACTOR and BORDER
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 A. CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS ( B. M. BEHRENDS, Juneau, Alaika.
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Goods coming on every boat for the
Emporium, open for business from 2
to 6 and 7 to 9 p. m. tf
Just received, a new line or Toilet
Waters and Perfumes. Owl Drug Co
for flrst-class meals and good serv
ice at reasonable prices try the Mer
chants’ Cafe. tf
Ice cream every day. specials on
Sunday at Hunt's Candy Kitchen, tf
Pasteurized Products.
Pasteurizer Whipping Cream, Pas
teurized Sweet Milk and Pasteurized
Buttermilk at Love-Whitley Co.’s, tf
FOR KENT—Three room house
completely furnished, electrical appli
ances, dost* in. Kent $15.00; Alaska
Investment Co tf
A pretty line of colored crochet
cotton and stamped pillow slips at
the N'eedlecraft Shop. tf