Sales tomorrow are contuv■
ued in every department
Groceries, Men’s Furmsjv
ings, Women’s Furnish
ings, Shoes for Men and
Women, etc.--Yourinspec
tion is welcomed.
What The Hardware Offers
Paint, prepared in quart cans,
colors gray, brown, French gray,
mauve gray, silver white, wil
low green, light brown, and
warm olive, regular price 75c
and 80c; *n
now . ‘tUw
Black enamel, service trays,
regular Rr
$1.00; now. Udu
Old mission style clocks, in
termittent alarm, regular price
$3.25; M -7C
now. \J)£i I 0
Aluminum salt and pepper
shakers, regular „ nr
‘."tc; now. OUu
Royal granite sauce pans, the
standard ware of America, reg
ular price nr
50c; now . uUu
Other sizes accordingly.
A 12 gauge single barrel shot
gun, electro steel, choke bored
barrel, guaranteed for 28-grain
smokeless powder. Regular
$8.00; sale no rn
price .vOiull
Valdez Mercantile Com
TRUE VALUES
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
* ALL KINDS OF
Native and I I T114DI7D and Buildin«
Puget Sound LivJiViDlLIx Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
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, l'ouglus
Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives, S S S- ward. S S Seward, Stir
S S Latouche. 15th; S S Cordova. 25th of each-month—Right reserved to change this
schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen'l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer (ailing 15th calli lliamna and Kodiak—AH wiliagicall at Knilc Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Bight reserved to ohange schedule without notice
v RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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 McNiece. The
clerks shall be John Krtim and C. P.
Topliff.
Dated this 23rd day of March, 1915.
A. VON GUNTHER,
MRS. ALBERT WHITE,
Members of Valdez School Board.
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 sec‘<on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
r Last publication May 6. 1915.
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
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,
fmm 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 tlie sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of tne
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, 1916, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1916.
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. LOVE,
Directors.
THE WORDJ'YES.”
W« Ara Charged With Rarely Using It
In Thie Country.
In the United States “yes” Is pre-emi
nently a hook word, though It Is also
scattered somewhat thinly through the
conversations of everyday people and
is employed habitually by a negligible
number of individuals who are both
highly cultured and careful of their
speech. Furthermore, as compounds or
set phrases tend to preserve old forms
and old sounds, “yes" regularly occurs
in all stock combinations. That is why
persons whose habitual affirmative is
ordinarily “yeh-a," or “eh-a,” “eh-up,”
“yeh-up,” never say “yeh-a, sir.” “eh-a,
to be sure,” ‘yep, madam,” “eli-up, in
deed.” or “eh-a, thanks.” for example
“Yes, sir”—a group which in various
states, but especially in New England,
is occasionally employed as an emphat
ic exclamation (and without any hu
morous intent) in addressing girls or
women!—“yes, sir,” has several strik
ing variations; first, “yes. sir,” an ac
centuation as common and illogical as
that, in “I hadn't any reason In 01
in “lie’s n married man” Then what
Is “yes, sir-reV” Well, like “no, sir-re."
it is as characteristically American as
“yes, sir-rail” is Elizabethan; but that
final “ee” is mysterious—possibly a de
cayed remnant of "ye” or “thee,” pos
sibly nothing but an emphasizing vo
calic appendix, like the “o” which
cheerful Britons often add to “right.”—
Bichard T. Holbrook in North Ameri
can Review.
POLLUTED WATER.
Two Simple Teste by Which its Im
purity Bay Be Noted.
Every one knows and admits the ne
cessity for pure water. When you are
away from home and are not sure of
the character of the water supply it
would not bo a bad idea to make a few
simple tests. The results may prove
that it was decidedly worth while to
take the trouble, says the New York
Sun. Here are two tests that you can
make very easily;
Fill a tumbler with water, drop in a
lump of white sugar, cover it with a
saucer and let it stand overnight on
the bricks at the side of the range, on
the kitchen mantelpiece or, in fact,
anywhere where the temperature will
not sink below 00 degrees. If next
morning the contents are clear the wa
ter is pure. If. on the other hand, the
liquid is cloudy some source of con
tamination is indisputably proved.
The second test is to drop a few
grains of permanganate of potasli into
a tumbler of water, cover and let it
stand for an hour. If the water is
still of the bright rosy color to which
the chemical turned it, it is perfectly
safe for drinking. If it is of a brown
ish color it is impure, although the im
purity may be of the kind that boiling
will rob of its power to barm.
You Are Cause and Effect.
You are the effect of a cause.
You are yourself that cause.
You are an acme of things accom
plished and an eucloser of things to be
What you were yesterday, plus yom
efforts, is the cause of what you are to
day. And il depends upon yoursoli
whether you will treat your present
self as a mere effect, resting in thai
consciousness, or as a cause to he
worked for and with, to the end that
your future self he greater and more
powerful for good than it is now or lias
ever been in the past.
it Is it]> to the mail. And no amount
of sophistry can absolve him from the
obligation to choose the highest each
and every day. choose to do his best
under all condilions.—Elizabeth Towne
in Nautilus.
No Sourness.
Assistant Professor Charles T. Cope
land had reproved his students for
coming late to class. "This is a class
in English composition.’’ lie remarked,
and added with sarcasm. “I’m not con
ducting an afternoon tea.”
At the next meetiug of the class one
of the girls was twenty minutes late.
Professor Copeland waited until she
had traversed the room and found her
seat. Then he remarked bitingly.
“How will you have your tea, Miss
Brown ?” ■*
“Without the lemon, please,” Miss
Brown answered gently.—Lippincott’s.
A Dear Dog.
Fred Kelly was negotiating with n
street dealer for an Airedale pup.
“How much?” asked Kelly.
“Three dollars.”
“Well, I’ll be along this afternoon
again, and I may buy him.”
“Better take him now. He’ll proba
bly be $5 by then.”
“Why the raise?” '
“Oh,” said the dealer, “probably I’ll
become attached to him by that time.”
—Saturday Evening Post.
Useful Proverb.
“Do you,” he asked, “believe In early
marriage?”
“Weli,” she replied, “1 used to, but I
am willing to say that at present I be
lieve ‘better late than never' may be
applied to marriage as well as to some
other things.”—Exchange.
Ancestors Burned.
Bacon—He suys his ancestors were
all cremated. Egbert—Why, I thought
cremation was a method of recent
years?
“It Is. His picture gallery, though,
was burned up only a month ago.”—
Yonkers Statesman.
< Weloome Color.
!; “A streak of yellow Is all right eome
! times."
“How’s that?”
“In a «old mine, for instance."—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
CLOTHESPIN MACHINES.
What Happens When a Log of Wood
Starts Through Them.
Making clothespins is an Industry
that nets handsome returns to many
American factories. At Martinsville,
Ind., there Is a factory which has a
capacity of more than 200,000 clothes
pins a day.
A rough log started through the mill
comes out us hundreds of the shapely
little wooden pins familiar to the back
yard. The logs are cut into blocks
about sixteen inches long, which a
headlong saw cuts into boards about
five-eighths of an inch thick. A gang
of saws cuts these bonrds into strips
five-eighths of nn inch square and each
long enough to make four pins. These
strips are placed on an automatic
trimmer and cut to the required length.
They are theu conveyed to the auto
matic lathes, seven in number, each
witli a capacity of four dozen a min
ute. From the lathes the pins drop
to the slotting machines and from
these to the dry room, where all mols
ture is removed. Next tuey go to the
polishing cylinders, which are filled
about half full of pins, chips and saw
dust. The cylinders revolve slowly for
four hours, after which the pins drop
into chutes to he conveyed to the pack
ing room. Each lathe has a capacity
of 2,400 dozen pins a day.—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
ANIMAL SPIRITS.
Our Vital Functions as They Were
Known In Galen’s Time.
“Few persons even stop to consider
when they speak of ‘a man of spirit’
that they are unwittingly employing
the language of the days of Galen,"
says the Journal of the American Med
ical Association. “Yet this is evident
ly the survival of tlie old doctrine of
spirits. We may believe that Galen
had a conception of the nerve trunks
ns conductors of something—he called
it spirits—to and from the brain and
spinal cord.
“The natural spirits were that unde
fined property which gave to blood the
capacity of nourishing the tissues of
the body. The vital spirits were ac
quired in the heart, and when at last
the blood with its vital spirits went to
the brain and experienced a sort of re
finement for the last time the animal
spirits were separated from it and car
ried to the body by the nerve trunks.”
Such was the idea of the vital func
tions in the second century. Today,
afte'r 1,800 years, we know that there
are no "spirits’’ in our blood or nerves,
but we still speak of being in “high
spirits" or “low spirits,” of being full
of “animal spirits,” of a “spirited an
swer” or a "spirited horse.”
The Duke and the Artist.
In “Random Recollections'’ is tills
story of the Duke of Connaught. The
Incident happened at Windsor cnstle.
Tlie duke was criticising a water color
done by R. Caton Woodville. represent
ing a drummer in the guards:
"Look here, Mr. Woodville," lie said,
“you have made a mistake in the
mounting of the braiding on this drum
liter's coat: tile fringe on the side of
the elicst ought to run in this direc
tion,” indicating the line. "1 am cer
tain of it, for as a hoy I wore the
uniform, but I will show you what I
mean." and. turning to his A. D. C .
he asked him to have the bugler of the
castle guard sent up The bugler came,
and the dtike, turning toward him.
said. “Now. Mr. Woodville. 1 will show
you what 1 mean.” And then, as he
looked critically at the hoy's uniform,
he exclaimed. ‘T.y .love, Mr. Wood
ville, you are right, alter all!'
Justifying His Expense.
Managers who have to pass on ex
pense accounts will appreciate David
Gibson's story about a Chicago sales
man who paid $8 excess fare to reach
New York on a fast train.
“What time did you arrive in New
York?” asked the employer.
“Niue-forty in the morning."
“What did you do when you got in?”
“Went up to the hotel, took a bath
and ate breakfast”
“What time did you see your man?"
asked the conservator.
"About 3 in the afternoon,” said the
salesman.
“Yes, but why have you got $8 charg
ed up for excess fare on the limited
when you could Just ns well hnve taken
a regular train?”
"Well,” said the salesman, "It looked
better to be on that train.”—New York
World. _
Good Advice.
Don’t live beyond your Income, no
matter bow small It Is.
Don’t live up to your income. Save
at least 10 per cent of It every month
and if possible 40 per cent
Don’t let money lie idle. It Is the
fractions that count. Put every bit of
surplus In u snvtngs bank quickly, and
every time $100 accumulates Invest It
Don’t pay for show, but for value re
ceived.—Louisville Post
Played a Dual Role.
"Now," said a newly made husbnud.
“I am your captain, and you must let
me command you through life.”
“You have a dual capacity." replied
the former widow, "because you are
my captain nnd my second mate also ’’
—London Telegraph.
Safa Offer.
"Your Scotch friend asked you to
have n cigar, hut I notice he didn't of
fer me one.”
< "Ah, you see he knows I don’t
smoke.”-London Tattler.
3 ...T-" '
It Is not the strength hut the dura
tion of great sentiments that makes,
great men Friedrich HleUache
Dougherty & Ferguson
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Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Heed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
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
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Eri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March. 11)15, which publication was
directed to be made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
dav of March, 1915.
(Seal) AKTHFi; BANG.
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 of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal Election will be held
in the Town of Valdez. Alaska, on
the sixth day of April. 1915, for the
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
as a director for a term of three
years and until his successor is elect
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall has been designat
ed as the polling place for said elec
tion.
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.
R. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk.
Publications March 8, 15, 22, 29.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
•’b'acl?’ 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
PROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
-Imported Japanese nance** at Vat
dei Drug Co. tt