*ffTEAM 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. Opposite Prospector Office.Telephone 24
m AFTER THE DINNER PARTY «1
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' and you stroll down the thor- J
ot'are you’ll feel good all over <
if you are clad in one of our
exceptional suits. The parly ^
may have been a pleasant one. 4
but not so pleasing as the i
knowledge that you are well ^
dressed in the latest fashion. ■
When we make your suit it’s
sure to please. j
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
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m CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 191/
PIONEER CONTRACTOR ml WILDER
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. BEH RENDS, Juneau, Alaska.
Independent Steam Laundry
satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 66
Foot Keystone Ave
Rouirb Dry 10c lb
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Chas. Fischer, Propr.
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
Quartz and Placer
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
Location notices, both quartz and
plEcer, for sale at the Prospector of
fice.
Ed Sellers was an arrival last eve
ning on the Alaska.
A. H. and W. G. Marsh, concrete
experts and contractors, were arrivals
yun th,e Alaska, from the States
Webster’s New International Dic
tionary, strictly up to date; come in
and look it over. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Remember your friends by sending
them a Panoramic View', a new lot
just received. Valdez Drug Co. tf
A full and complete line of Cigars,
Cigarettes. Smoking Tobacco ai.d
Pipes. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Spain to Conserve Food.
MADRID, March 19.—The cabinet
is studying measures to insure the
better distribution of foodstuffs.
Every disposition will be made to
enable Spain to live on its own re
sources and restrictions will be im
posed on all rrtieles rot absolutely
essential in the life of the country.
Rain and snow storms are sweeping
the entire peninsula. Trains are de
railed and communications interrupt
ed.
The launch Shamrock returned
from Eidalgo bay yesterday bringing
two horses that had been used there
by Mark Gleason and H. Saling ii>
freighting ore at the Dickey mine.
Miner Ads. bring RESULTS.
HOW SOAP WORKS.
K Claana Bacauaa It Emulaifiaa tha Oil
That Holda tha Crt.
Why does soap lake out the dirt?
The answer to this question has been
argued many times by chemists, and
as cleanliness is necessary and enor
mous quantities of soap have to be
used it Is well that we should know
how soap does its work.
It Is fat or oil that especially makes
things dirty. If only we can melt or
get rid of the oil on hands or clothes
we soon can nutke them clean, and the
real use of sevp is that it dis|x>sos of
oil. It does this in at lenst two ways.
Most soaps have in them a great deal
of alkali. This alkali dissolves the oil.
But soap takes the dirt, from things
in another way. ns we know when we
use soaps that have no alkali in them
at all. It has the power of breaking up
oil Into a number of tiny little drops,
with all the dirt that the oil 1ms col
lected.
A collection of tiny drops of oil held
in some other fluid is called an emul
sion. Water alone will not form an
emulsion of any oil, because oil and
water will not mix. That is the reason
why w-e cannot get dean with water
uloue. But when water has soap dis
solved in it it is able to make an emul
sion of the oil on anything we are
washing and so make it dean.—Ex
change.
LIVE AND KEEP ON LEARNING.
Look Ahead to Doing Your Boat Work
After You Are Sixty.
"If you die before you are eiglity-five
years old you come to an untimcly
end.” “Earl Barnes of New York, an
exponent of longevity and defier of Dr.
Osier, made a large audience sit up
and take notice when he made this
statement recently.
“Thirty-five per cent of the world's
greatest work has been done iu the ag:>
deeade between sixty and seventy
years, 21 per cent between seventy and
eight!’, and 6 per cent above eighty.”
Mr. Barnes cited a score of political,
scientific, philosophical, commercial
and military leaders who are just he
ginuing their work at sixty years.
“The rtmn who does one thing con
tinuously is old at forty,” he snid.
“But get out and study, travel and
broaden your horizon. If you are a wo
man. don’t put your broom in the same
corner every day. Hide It. Break up
your routine or you are lost.
“Tlie farmer at fifty years turns the
farm over to the hoys, moves to the
c'tv and spends the remainder of his
life watching tlie trains arrive is wast
ing his life. He might as well he dead,
and he soon is.
“There is no reason why you can’t
he learning every year of your life.”—
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Argentina's Capital.
Buenos Aires is to Argentina what
Paris is to France—the center of th •
national industries, thought and cul
turo. Commerce, journalism, politics,
(lie drama, music, literature, art and
social life are Intensely focused there.
The brilliant activity of the greatest
city of the southern hemisphere (the
fourth city of the Americas after New
York, Chicago and Philadelphia) draws
tlie Argentines to it as a flame attracts
moths, and oue-tifth of the population
of the country struggles ttiere In fever
ish competition for pleasure and gain.
No traveler to the southern countries
hut stops as long as he may in Buenos
Aires to enjoy or to study the most
cosmopolitan, yet most Latinized, of
the Spanish American cities. The me
tropolis Is at once the heart and tin?
bruin of the country.—National Geo
graphic Magazine.
City Is Self Conscious.
The city life is conscious of Itself,
the small town life is not. asserts
Seymour Deeming in the Atlantic. An
army of fairly competent minds Is busy
interpreting the life of the city to it
self, and this so thoroughly that not a
teamster or ribbon counter clerk of the
urban lot hut has his spokesman in the
public prints and ]>artukes somewhere
of the typical. And the sales person
who bus once seen sales people elevat
ed to the rank of printed or acted com
edy or tragedy is conscious of a new
sense of personal consequence which
years of obscurity are powerless wholly
to erase. To have had one’s social set
ting touched by the wand of art Is to
have shaken hands with a celebrity;
life is never afterward quite the same
drab commonplace.
Willing, but Not Anxious.
Ministers sometimes observe some
curious phases of humau nature among
persons solieiting their services in the
lierformance of a marriage ceremony.
“Will you take this woman for your
wedded wife?” asked a clergyman of
a would be bridegroom.
“Yes: I'll take her." remarked the
aiau in a half dejected tone, “but," he
added, with surprising frankness, “I’d
rather it were her sister."
Doing Big Thing*.
Doing big things makes us energetic
to the highest pitch. That's why we
any a man who is doing great tilings is
Irunk with power—that it has turneJ
tiis head. The fact is it has lifted him
into a higher stratum of activity.
Prom “The Fighting Man.” by William
V Brady.
.No Evading That Bill.
“I ordered some dowers sent to Miss
Lledbud. mul I'll be hanged if the
dithering idiot of a dorist didn't send
horn C. O. I).”
“Phew! Did she pay for them?"
“She did. and now. deuce take it, I’ve
rot to pay her.’’—Boston Transcript. *
lie who would serve everybody gets
hanks fr >:u nobody.—Danish Maxim
DAILY DOINGS OF
DISTRICT COURT
—
In the case of the United States vs.
Walter Stocker, the taking of testi
mony was concluded on Saturday eve
ning about 5 o’clock and went to the
ljury. After being out about 24 hours
the jury last evening returned a ver
dict of not guilty on account of in
; sanity.
This morning the case of P. L. Walt
: vs. A. J. Adams, an action for dam
ages for false imprisonment, was
transferred to the Cordova term of
; court.
In the case of the United States vs.
Ed Sellers, charged with trespass
upon mining claims, the accused was
arraigned and was given until tomor
row morning at 10 o’clock to plead.
The case of the United States vs
Steamship Alameda, et al.. was called
•up and was held over until 2 o'clock
'this afternoon.
Attorney Booker filed a motion for
the return of certain trunks, papers,
etc., belonging to Otto Kanitz now
held by the U. S. Marshal. Argument
on the motion will be heard this aft
ernoon.
The trial jurors were excused until
10 o’clock tomorrow morning.
The divorce case of C. B. Bussin
ger vs. Martha Bussinger was called
up and the testimony taken before
referee O’Connor at McCarthy road.
MARY PICK FORD AT
KMPRKHS TONIGHT
I _
Last night's bill at the Empress
was one of the best given for some
time, and a large audience assembled
to see the big double show presented.
Tonight Mary Pickford, in the five
act drama, "Fanchon the Cricket” wid
be shown, also Pathe News.
I
This show is given tonight (Mon
day) instead of Tuesday night, on’ac
count of the Ladies Aid staging their
Pure Food show at Moose Hall to
morrow night. This is a good bill
and will be greatly enjoyed by those
old people who remember this grcai
play as staged by Maggie Mitch°ll
many years ago.
LOVE'S VOl'NG DREAM
QUICKLY FADES AWAY
Clarence P. Bussinger of McCarthy,
aged 22, married a Kodiak chicken
on the longest day of 1916 but the
• day was no mascot. Love’s young
dream faded utterly in ten days. Aft
er a honeymoon trip to Cordova
Martha wearied of matrimony ami
told Clarence and others she didn't
like him no more at all. She con
tinued to participate in his bed and
1 board but refused to do anything to
make life pleasant for him and in div
ers ways made him so weary of life
that his health was undermined, as
he was too young to abide such cruel
ty without worrying.
Early in September Martha move 1
on to find somebody she liked better
This morning Judge Brown in the dis
trict court slipped Clarencea decree
of divorce and he is in the market
again. Girls too hard to please need
not apply.
A new line of neaters priced right,
at Mead’s. tf
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A new stock of Al Fruit Tablets
Candy Kitchen. tf
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Fresh candy at the Emporium, ti.
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Anything in nugget and Ivory Jew-1
elry at Valdez Drug Co.
THE THRICE-A-WEEK EDITION
OF THE NEW YORK WORLD |
IN 1017
Practically a Dally at the Price j
of a Weekly. No Other Newspa- i
per in the World gives so much
at so low a price.
The value and need of a newspaper 1
in the household was never greater;
than at the present time. The great i
war in Europe 1b now half-way into 1
its third year, and whether peace bo,|
at hand or afar off the events to fol- ■
low will be world shaking.
The Prospector Publishing Company;
offers the Thrice a Week World, The ■
Daily Prospector and The Weekly
Miner, one year for only $13.00 cash
in advance. You get 156 copies of
the World, 313 copies of the Prospec
tor and 52 copies of the Miner for this
price. Can you afford to be without
them.
Hie Thrice-a-Week World,
The Daily Prospector.
The Weekly Miner,
ALL FOR $18.00 PER TEAR
The Prospector and the Weekly j
Miner are the only papers published i
at Valdez, and are replete with local j
and world news. The Miner makes e
specialty of Territorial News in ecn-i
densed form. The World is too nell|
known to our readers to dilate upon
its field of usefulness.
SEND IN YOUR ORDER NOW. |
OPEN KIKES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if lire does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home, foresight is bet
ter than regrets.
Valdez Real Estate Agency
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EVERYTHING
FIRST CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
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Pacific Steamship Co.
(ADMIRAL LINE)
Our Large Meet of Magnificent Steamships offer Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
Mar. 9—S. S. Adm. Farragut
Mar. 19—S. S. Adm. Watson,
for Seward
Mar. 26—S. S. Adm. EvhDs
for Kodiak.
Apr. 4—S. S. Adm. Farragui
for Seward
Apr. 9.—S. S. Adm. Watson.
for Anchorage.
From Valdez for Seattle—
Mar. 8—S. S. Adm. Watson.
Mar. 10—S. S. Adm. Evans
Mar. 17—S. S. Adm. Farra^ut
Mar. 27—S. S. Adm. Watson
Apr. 6—S. S. Adm. Evan.1*
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seattle .Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
Los Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays.
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU -ARE ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VAIiDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Sailings from Seattle—
Feb. 16—S. S. Alaska
Feb. -4—S. S. Northwestern
Mar. 1—S. S. Mariposa
Mar. S — S. S. Alaska
Mar. 16—S. S. Northwestern
Valdez to Seattle—
Keb. 15—S. S. Mariposa
Keb. i.S—a. S. Alaska
Mar. 4—S, S. Northwestern
Mar. S—S. S. Mariposa
Mar. 16—S. S. Alaska
-CALLING AT
KETCHIKAN, JUNEAU, CORDOVA, ELLAMAR, FT. LISCUM,
VALDEZ, LATOUCHE AND SEWARD.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek, Treadwell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
E. B. TKACY, Gen’l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agent
SIGNAL CORPS TO USE
ALASKA GROWN SPURS
Through the efforts of Captain
Robert M. Nolan, officer in charge of
this division of the Alaska Military
Telegraph & Cable system, permis
sion has been granted by the war de
partment for the purchase Alaska
grown potatoes for the use of the sev
eral telegraph stations between here
and Fairbanks. Bids will be opened
at the local cable office on May 1 for
tupplying the required quantity of po
tatoes, deliveries to be made after the
harvesting of the 1917 crop. Bids
will be entertained from all sections
along the telegraph line.
WIFIK HAS RIGHT TO
GO THROUGH POCKETS
NEW YORK, March 19.- A wife
whose husband withholds his money
on payday has a perfect right, ac
cording to a decision by Magistrate
Cornell, of the New York court of
domestic relations, to go through his
trousers pockets when he is asleep.
Mrs. Samuel Kell testified in court
that her husband’s weekly wage was
$25 dollars but that for nine years
he has given-her but $4 or $5 a
week to run the house and care for
(heir two children. Last Friday night
she said, she took $17 from her hus
band's trousers pocket while he
slept. Then Kell sewed up his pockets
and took his trousers to bed with
him, his wife testified, and in con
sequence she had him summoned
to court.
1 >1,1) hTRNlTlRE WlLI, HAVE
TO DO AT WHITE HOl'HE
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 19.—
Sew rugs, draperies, furniture, table
ware and other furnishings for the
White House must await action at an
rther session of congress, it developed
today, because the $60,000 asked for
that purpose failed to passed when
the sundry civil appropriation .bill
was shelved.
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All of the latest Books, Magazines
and News Papers received on each
boat. Valdez Drug Co. tf
A fresh lot of Haas’ Candies receiv
ed on last boat, from 50 cents to S2
a box. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Sweepstake Stock Wanted ' .
Wish to purchase shares of Swe^pi
stake Mining Stock,
tf ALASKA INVESTMENT CO.
We have a fresh line of Augustine
Kyer box candies at the Candy Kitch
en. tf
CITY EXPRESS, Phone 82; ready
to transfe. that baggage for you. tf
WANTED-—Mill man's job as first,
amalgamater. References to prove for
several years, handy with tools esp<> ,
dally wood work. Inquire at the
Prospector for K. Lahz. k-2:'
Try our satin-finish hard candies
in bulk at the Candy Kitchen. tf
Ok
Fresn King Salmon at Louie's Cafe
today. 3t
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
Geneial Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE.
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
ices Paid for in Advance