On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit uour account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell,
Douglas Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward.
S S Seward. 5th' S S Latouche, 15th; S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right re
served to change this schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’l^Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
PROFESSIONAL
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Dr. H. COCKER1LLE
Graduate of National Uni?er»it»
Washington, D. C.
«„..,!(> DENTISTj ,
in both companies Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
^.JhODe 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over O'vl Drug store. Office hours
3a.m.,to6p. m.,7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays,
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phon^ lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alazka
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio-Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W.( L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Ellamar, Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROF.
81RICTLY FIR8T CLASS
Fourth Ayr Siwaro. Alaska
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack CaHin_-_-_Proprietor
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners*
H. M. CARTER, President,
Granite Mine
CIIAS. McCALLUM, Secretary,
Valdez, Atlaska.
Notice.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Alaska Water, Light and
Telephone Company will be held at
said company’s office, in the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, on Monday, the
third day of May, 1915, at the hour
of two o’clock in the afternoon of
said day, at which meeting the di
rectors of said company shall be
elected for the ensuing year, and
such other business shall be trans
acted as may regularly come before
said meeting.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 17th
day of April, 1915.
JONES H. KIRK,
Secretary.
First publication April 17, 1915.
Last publication May 1, 1915.
Dissolution of Partnership.
The undersigned, Andrew M. Maro
vich, has purchased the interest of
Tony Kowes in Louie’s Cafe and is
now the sole owner. All bills due the
partnership are to be paid to Andrew
Marovich and all indebtedness of the
firm will be paid by him.
ANDREW M. MAROVICH.
TONY KOWES.
TIDE TABLES PORT OF VALDEZ.
Compiled from the official tide ta
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdes
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t’me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Saturday, April 24.
High tide 7:26 a. m., 10.0; 8:52 p.
m„ 10.1.
Low tide 1:33 p. m., 3.7; 2:13 p.
im., 1.4.
Puzzled.
.CAftlRJASS. .CALL .
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“I like moving pictures, but I can’t
follow the plot of this one.”—Boston
Traveler.
Too Much For His Constitution.
"I leave you forever," said Artemus
Phipps.
He loved her, that wasn’t the question.
The red stuff she smeared on her kiss
able lips
Gave Phippsy acute indigestion.
—Kansas City Star.
Pessimist.
Stranger (to clerk at weather bu
reau)—I’m to be married tomorrow.
What are the probabilities?
Clerk—Why, judging from your
looks—rotten!—New York Globe.
Law Abiding.
The Customer—Why don’t you keep
bunion plasters?
The Druggist — I'm nfraid I’d be
pinched for harboring footpads.—Bos
ton Globe.
The Modern Way.
He—Listen! My love for you Is a con
suming fever. The blood runs through
my veins like molten invn from a seeth
ing volcano.
She—Well. Just hold this thermom
eter in your mouth till I get your tem
perature. to prove It.—Boston Globe.
The steamer Leelanaw, well-known
on the Pacific coast, has been sold to
Harriss, Ryley & Vose, of New York.
She has been delivered to her new
owners at Galveston, Tex.
PICTURESQUE DAMASCUS.
A Garden City Whose Beauty Halted
Mohammed at Its Gates.
The hotel in Damascus in which we
stay is called the Grand Victoriu,
but it is above a blacksmith shop and
a saddle shop. The lower stories are
mostly blank, bare walls. From the
upper stories project balconies of lat
ticed oriels, some of which extend so
far over the street as to make it easy
for the veiled damsel of the harem to
leap across.
In contrast with these plain exteri
ors the interiors are often exquisitely
beautiful, having an open court paved
with marble and a fountain fed by the
waters of the Abaua, tinkling and
splashing through the hot hours of the
day, and wooing one to rest during the
cool of the evening. Palms, orange
trees and oleanders stand here and
there. Within the house you discover
rooms cold and formal to an American,
but brilliant with oriental hangings,
brasses and inlaid mother-of-pearl fur
nishings. Damascus is perhaps the
second city in importance in the mind
of the Mohammedans. It is a garden
city made to be indeed an oasis in the
desert by the Abana river, which, find
ing life in the snows of Ilermon’s
breast, flows through this city witli in
creasing volume as if it intended to
regenerate the desert, into which it
pours all its wealth, and does verita
lily make this section to “blossom as
the rose.” It is not to be wondered at
that Mohammed drew rein outside the
walls when first he sow the city and
said, “Since man can enter paradise
but once, I will not enter this earthly
paradise lest I be shut out from the
heavenly.”—Christian Herald.
WHO TOLD THE TRUTH?
! Feminine Life From the Viewpoints of
Home and Business.
Who told the truth?
They met in the subway one morn
ing, a young mother and a young pro
fessional woman. They had been
friends at school, but eons bad pass
ed, and now, after some ten years,
they began to discuss their present
jobs—of motherhood and journalism.
However, journalism seemed to fill
most of the time, and motherhood was
dismissed after a few desultory ques
tions about Billy, whose fame consist
ed in being seven years old and just
entering school.
“Oh, tell me about your work," said
the mother.
“There is quite a bit to tell of it."
said the egotistical woman of business,
and immediately launched upon the
joys, woes, disadvantages and advan
tages of the business woman's career.
“My, but that is most interesting!"
said the mother, whose eyes were pop
ping out of her head at the mere men
tion of the famous persons the jour
nalist knew. “I certainly shall buy
your magazine and read it!”
“Grand Central station!” mumbled
the guard.
“Goodby,” said the mother. “Your
life is certainly worth while.”
“Goodby,” replied the journalist.
“Not nearly as much worth while as
yours.”
Who told the truth? —New York
Tribune.
Ben Franklin’s Keenness.
Two incidents recall the keenness
and the thoroughness—the great twin
j abilities, to see and to utilize—of Hen
| Franklin. One day he chanced to ob
serve a lady in the possession of tin
| imported whisk broom. With his usual
interest and careful consideration he
examined it as a novelty. He discov
ered on the brush of the broom a seed,
which he carefully removed. Present
; ly he phinted it. and the growth from
this seed was the first crop of broom
corn in this country. Again one day
when Dr. Franklin was walking by
Dock creek he saw stuck in the mud
a wickerwork basket, which had sprout
ed. Carefully he fished out the basket
and carefully took it apart. He gave
cuttings to his friend, Charles Norris,
who planted the twigs in his garden,
where they grew to great size. They
turned out to be yellow willows and,
as Franklin had foreseen, proved of
great commercial value.
Spoiled Their Appetites.
“Why is Sweden like heaven?’’ asked
the thin boarder, coming to the break
fast table.
“I know,’’ came from the little blond
typewriter.
“Well, if you know push it along.
Sweetmeats,” said the thin boarder.
“Because”—
“The same old answer.”
“No, It’s not. I was going to say be
cause it is a foreign country.” essayed
the little blond.
“Wrong.” came from the thin mac.
"Listen. Because nearly all the match
es are made there.”—Yonkers States
man.
Insisted on a Change.
London Coster (meeting the village
idiot)—Oo are yer a-lartin' at? Idiot—
Oi bean't a-larfln'. Coster-Well, put
your face straight. Idiot — It Is
straight. Coster (exasperated)—Well,
then, blast yer, bloomin' well bend It!—
London Tatler.
Not a Bit Conceited.
Wife—You are positively the most
conceited man 1 ever met. Hub—I
conceited! Woman, there's not a con
ceited bone In my body. Why, another
man with the same abilities would be
absolutely carried away with pride.—
Exchange.
Mado Quite a Difference.
Miss Watson—Did Mr. Sark say to
you as I entered the drawing room last
night Clara, "la that the beantifui
MIbs Watson?” Clara—Yes, dear, with
the accent on the “that”—Exchange.
ST. LOUIS ASJ\ VILLAGE.
\n 1767 It Had Forty-five Houses and
as Many Families.
Captain Philip Pitman, an officer in
the engineering corps of the British
army, was selected by General Gage
in 1707 to make an expert report on
the territory just acquired from France
»n the east side of the Mississippi riv
er. Pitman came to the Mississippi
valley, the Illinois country it then was
called, and traveled about for several
mouths. Here is what he wrote of St.
Loifis in the early part of 1707:
“This village is one league and a half
above Kaoquias, on the west side of
the Mississippi, being the present head
quarters of the French in these parts.
It was first established In the year
1704 by a company of merchants, to
whom M. D’Abbadie had given an ex
clusive grant for the commerce with
the Indian nations on the river Mis
soury, and for the security and en
couragement of this settlement the
staff of French officers and the com
missary were ordered to remove here,
upon the surrendering of Fort Char
tres (forty miles south of St. Louis on
the Illinois side) to the English, and
great encouragement was given to the
inhabitants to remove with them, most
of whom did.
“Tlie company lias built a large
house and store here, and there are
about forty-five houses and as many
families. No fort or barracks are yet
built. The French garrison consists
of a captain commandant, two lieuten
ants, a fort major, one sergeant, one
corporal and twenty men.’’—St. Louis
Times.
CURING SLICE IN GOLF.
An Expert Suggests Some Remedies
For a Troublesome Habit.
The slice is unfortunately a common
fault at golf, destroying all hope of
accuracy as well as distance in the
drive. The remedy becomes obvious
as soon as the cause of slicing is thor
oughly understood. That it is due to
a horizontal rotation of the bull in its
flight is unquestionable, from the an
alogy of the curved ball in baseball.
The question is as to how this motion
of rotation is imparted to the ball.
The remedy lies either in eliminat
ing the twist of the wrists or in com
pensation for it by turning the club
in the hands while addressing the ball.
If you are a continued slicer turn the
club in the hands so that the face
slants sharply inward while the hands
and arms are otherwise held in the usu
al position. Address the ball with the
club in this position and then swing
as usual. Tou will be agreeably sur
prised to see a straight ball or a pull.
A few trials will serve to determine
the position of the club in addressing
the ball which will give the desired
straight shot.
All the curves, the slice, the pull and
the rise are sharply emphasized in long
shots. The sharp, hard blow of a rapid
stroke sets up a much more rapid rota
tion of the ball just as in the billiard
shots.—E. K. Stuart in Outing Maga
zine.
Formation of Ice.
The cause assigned for the fact that
water freezes only for a comparatively
small space at the surface of rivers or
ponds is thus explained. Scientists au
thoritatively declare that water Is at
its heaviest when it reaches 40 degrees
F.—that is. 8 degrees above freezing
point. On a frosty nigbt. ns each top
lnyer of water falls to 40 degrees it
sinks to the bottom, therefore the
whole pond has to drop to 40 degrees
before any of it can freeze. At length
it is all cooled to this point, and then
ice begins to form. But Ice is a very
bad conductor of tieat. therefore it
shuts off the freezing air from the
body of warmer water underneath
The thicker it gets the more perfectly
does it act ns a greatcoat and that Is
why even the Arctic ocean never
freezes beyond a few feet in thickness.
An Untouched Subject.
In L’Esprit des Franenis Is an In
stance of the sharp, biting wit for
which Alexis Piron, the French epi
grammatist, was famous.
A young author whose ability was
by no means equal to his conceit was
discoursing at leugtth upon the merits
of his work.
*‘l am tired of writing of that of
which the others write,” he said. “1
wnnt to create an original work, some
thing that no one has ever written
about or ever will write about”
Piron turned quickly to the speaker.
“Why not write your own eulogy?” he
said.
Very Sweet Words.
“Are there any sweeter words in the
English language,” musingly inquired
Professor Swiggs. "than ‘i love you?' ”
“Well," grimly remarked the pessi
mistic hearer, “I understand that some
authorities regard ‘There’s that money
I owe you’ ns about the epitome of sat
isfactory sentences.”—New York Globe.
Chinese Cabbage Seed.
Rape seed is termed by the Chinese
trade "cabbage seed,” while Chinese
farmers style it "cabbage oil seed.” As
grown in Loongwab district, near
Shanghai, it yields 200 catties lequai to
1.600 pounds) an acre where the soil is
favorable.
8ocial Scale.
“Pa,” said Freddy, “what is a social
acale?”
“Generally speaking.” replied pa,
“It's a place where they weigh money.”
Why, Indeed7
“Mamma,” said Little Willie, “why
does the minister always say ‘lastly’ In
the middle of Us sermon?’—Woman*
Home Companion.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
Thebest groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
llWf^oEATTLE
WsiAComplete Services
|#JN THE HEART OF THE CITY
|lKRoom5wiJjibartr505anip!eRooins
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, cn Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
( 7 si ni to a in
MIvM.S ' I.r.ncl. !? in to 1 v rn
' ti to 7 i- in
BOARD & ROOM $50 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patierts
For Terma'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
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,
Monti Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Carlo No. 4, Monte Carlo
No. 5, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices of said plaints
being of record in the office of
the commissioner and recorder, at.
Valdez, Alaska, pages numbered 322
323, 325, 32(5, 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 0th 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.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 5:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boil ^-s.
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found to
“bacit” 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
vqith th idea, the man
with a i oect or busi
ness to I man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IR THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.