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we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
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List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th,j24th 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. EUumar, 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
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I I JMD17D and Buildin«
Puget Sound LtUlVlDlliIV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. • TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
' MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road CommUsion
< 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS $ Lunch IS m to 1 P m
' 6 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $60 per Mo.
Arcade Cafe
Open Untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. ML
Private Table*
Juk Callin ■ • ■ Pfoprietpr
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Norses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician io Charge,
AWAKE
and on the jib—day or night—buy
and fell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
Anthony J. Dimond, plaintiff, vs.
Rambler Gold Mining Co., a corpor
ation, defendant.—Summons. No. 714.
—Summons. No. 714.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting:
To Rambler Gold Mining Co., a cor
poration, the above-named defendant:
You are hereby required to appear
in the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division, at Val
dez, Alaska, within thirty days after
the completion of the publication of
this summons, to-wit: on the 20th day
of July, 1915, and answer to the com
plaint of Anthony J. -Dimond, the
above-named plaintiff in the above
entitled cause, me said cause is an
action brought by the said plaintiff
against you to recover from you the
sum of twenty-two. hundred ninety
three and 14-100 dollars ($2,293.14),
together with interest thereon from
the first day of January, 1915, until
date of judgment at the rate of eight
per centum per annum, and the said
plaintiff’s costs and disbursements in
said cause. The order for the pub
lication of this summons was duly
made and entered on the 7th day of
May, 1915.
And yeu are hereby notified that
If you fail to appear and answer said
complaint as herein required, the said
plaintiff will take judgment against
you for the said sum of twenty-two
1 hundred ninety-three and 14-100 dol
lars ($2,293.14), together with inter
est and costs ind disbursements, as
above stated.
The date of the first publication of
this summons is the 7th day of May,
1915, and the date of the last pub
lication thereof is June 18, 1915.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof, -this 7th day of May.
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred fifteen, and of our in
dependence the one hundred thirty
ninth.
ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
CHAS. A. HAND,
(Seal) Deputy Clerk.
Publications May 7, 14, 21, 28, and
June 4, 11, 18.
FOR RENT—A four-room well fur
nished house, central location, $16.00
a month. Apply Ben Silverman, tf
Laurence develops and prints ko
dak pictures. Work guaranteed. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
Frank McDonald came up from the
Granite mine yesterday.
TEDDY IS READY
FIGHT GERMANY
Says Sinking of Lusitania Is Viola
tion of American Rights and
Wants War Started.
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I
SYRACUSE, N Y\, May 8.—When
the full news of the sinking of the
Lusitania reached this city ex-Presi
dent Roosevelt issued a public state
ment denouncing the German admir
alty for its war upon non-combat
ants and its putting into operation a
war upon civilians.
The ex-president urges that the
United States take some action to
show that the rights of this country
cannot be trampled upon with im
munity by the nations of Europe,
who appear to believe that the right
to sail the seas belong only to bel
ligerents and the right of a non-com
batant to live shall not be considerd
for an instant by them.
The former president again charg
ed that the United States, as a sign
er of The Hague treaty, should enter
the war to aid Belgium, which has
been needlessly outraged by German
militarism.
"The sihking of the Lusitania was
piracy and murder, and not war, and
the men responsible for the murder
should be hunted down and hung.’’
is the way Roosevelt expressed him
self on the matter.
1500 LIVES LOST
ON THEJ.USITANIA
(Continued from page 1.)
eph Brandilla, a New York society
man, Charles Broderick, a Boston
financier, J. H. Brooks, a New York
broker. Several people from the |
northwest United States, eight per
sons from Los Angeles and many
other Americans were aboard the
ship.
Infernal Machine Story Is Doubted
The story of the planting of an in
fernal machine in the hull of the Lu
sitania while the ship was in New
York harbor is discredited by the au
thorities and the vessel is said to
have been sent to the bottom by a
submarine.
Many Passengers Aboard.
NEW YORK, May 8.—The officials
of the Cunard Line, in this city, state
that the passenger list on the Lusi
tania was divided as follows: Two
hundred and ninety were first-class
passengers, 600 were second-class,
and 380 were in the steerage, mak
ing a total of 1,250 passengers. The
crew totaled over 1,000 men and wo
men.
300 Passengers Reach Cork.
QUEENSTOWN, May 8.—Three
hundred of the passengers of the Lu
sitania are reported to have reached
Cork, where they are being cared for
by the officials of the government
and the steamship line. It is report
ed that the sea was exceptionally
calm when the vessel went down.
Lusitania Sunk Friday Afternoon.
NEW YORK, May 8.—The Lusitan
ia was torpedoed at 2:30 Friday af
ternoon just before she was due to
reach Queenstown, the end of her
transatlantic journey. The sea was
calm and many of the boats were
launched. It is believed here that
all the passengers and the crew of
the big liner were saved. The Cu
nard Line officials have given out a
statement containing the above in
formation.
Something new ih piece goods, al
so summer hats for ladies and chil
dren received on last boat at E.
Winter’s. ,f
Leave your picture films at the Val
dez Drug Store for development.
Prices are right and workmanship
guaranteed. tf
ANTIQUITY OF SEAL RINGS.
They Are Mentioned In the Bible and
Their Origin Is Unknown.
The origin of seals is lost in the
shades of antiquity. In Assyrian and
Babylonian ruins seals arc still found,
and It is certain that their use passed
from those countries to Greece and
Home, to all European countries and
from England to America. Originally
they were set in rings.
Tlie earliest references to them in
Biblical history is found in Genesis
xxxviii, where it Is recorded that,
pending certain negotiations between
Judah and Tamar, the widow of his
son, Tamar demanded a pledge and
Judah gave her ids signet and other
belongings. And when Aliab, king of
Israel, tried to buy Naboth's vineyard
and couldn't Ids wife Jezebel “wrote
letters in Allah's name and sealed
them with ids seal.’’
In the book of Esther, chapter vin,
it is written that King Aliasuerus said
to Esther and Mordeeai, “Write ye
also for the Jews, as it liketli you, in
the king's name and seal it with the
king's ring, for the writing which is
written in tlie king's name and sealed
with his ring may no man reverse.”
Seals doubtless were used long be
fore the stirring events described in
the quoted chapter of Genesis, but no
one took the trouble to write about
them. From the lime of Jeremiah to
William the Conqueror the pen was
practically unknown to king, noble or
peasant, so the seal was absolutely
necessary.—Kansas City Star.
BASEBALL OR FOOTBALL
Which of the Two Games Calls For the
Greater Courage?
A group of former varsity football
players were arguing the interesting
point ns to which requires more nerve
on the part of participants—football or
baseball. One would think there would
not be a dissenting voice to the opin
ion that the gridiron sport requires far
more nerve. Vet there were several
who strenuously debated this conten
tion, holding that the mental strain
was greater upon the man who plays
baseball.
“I played varsity baseball and varsity
football,” said one man of the group,
“and I want to tell you that the only
time I ever felt inward tremors was
when I stood at the plate facing a
pitcher who had a fast ball. There is
something about the situation—or al
ways was to me—which made me feel
my helplessness, made me feel at the
mercy of the pitcher, or ra'Aer at the
mercy of his possible bad aim. In foot
ball you were lighting against one man
and he had notidng to throw at you.”
“I felt the same way,” chimed in a
former varsity guard. “When I came
from prep school I had a reputation ns
a pitcher, but I never tried for the
team because I hadn’t the nerve to
face the shoots of varsity twirlers.”
The curious thing is that this man in
his day was one of the most daring and
resourceful football players in the
game.—rhlladelphia Ledger.
Dog or Ox.
W. R. Wright says: “A dog drinking
is the emblem of alertness. Watch him
If a leaf rustles he sees it and starts.
Sights and sounds which elude your
powers of observation arrest his. The
most conspicuous distinction between
the dog and the ox at water is this:
The ox never heeds his master until
his thirst is quenched; the dog never
heeds his thirst till his master is obey
ed. I have seen u hound panting with
heat, Ills black lips baked, his tongue
cracked, dart toward the cool spring.
But his master’s whistle arrests lihn
at the brink, and he darts back with
out a drop. I have watched drovers
call, pound, goad oxen nt the ford, but
the beasts would not budge until their
thirst was slaked. Both types youmny
have seen among the recruits enlisted
in the army of the Lord."—Christian
Herald.
Jewsharp Artist*.
Ability in performing on the jews
harp (which, by the way, has nothing
to do with the Hebrews) was once the
medium of bringing luck to a German
soldier. One of Frederick the Great's
warriors so charmed the king with his
performance on two Jewsharps that
he gave him bis discharge and a large
money present and enabled him to
amass a fortune playing at concerts.
The greatest performer on the jews
harp was a German, Charles Eulen
steln, whose exhibitions in London in
1828 were very popular, but also, un
fortunately, fatal to his teeth.—London
Mail. _
Panama Hata.
Three to six months, working four
or five hours each day, are required in
Ecuador to complete the best “Pana
ma” hats, but children will make two
of the cheapest grade hats from un
dressed strnw In a day. Qualifications
such as patience, good eyesight and
the skill acquired by years of experi
ence are necessary to produce the very
best grade of hats.
Two Method*.
"I buy my wife everything she
wants. How about you?”
“I keep mine wanting a few tilings
Just to be sure that her interest in me
is maintained.”—Kansas City Journal.
A Drawback.
Mrs. Hicks—Have you ever tried
shopping by mall? Mrs. Wicks—My
dear, one cannot shop that way; one
can only buy things by mail.—Boston
Transcript.
Who is the happiest man? He who
values the merits of others and in their
pleasure takes Joy, even as though
'twere his own.—Goethe.
INVISIBLE WRITING.
So Simple a Process as Mifk and Water
Can Be Used.
In more romantic days (not so very
l>ug ago) invisible ink was a favorite
precaution of sentimental youth—usu
ally, of course, a quite unnecessary
precaution. Just now, perhaps, if a
letter reads as if it had something be
tween the lines, it is a reasonable pre
caul ion to give it a good toasting before
the fire and sec if anything conies out.
The two simplest and handiest in
visible inks are milk and water. If |
you write your letter with a clean pen |
in ndlk It will dry off quite invisibly, j
But the writing will show up in a faint
brown when it is toasted at the fire. !
If you write in water, the way to make I
the writing visible is to sprinkle the '
sheet with fine coal dust or powdered
charcoal.
There are, besides, various chemical
invisible inks. A week solution of co
balt used as ink remains invisible until
tlio paper is heated, when it shows up
red. The red can be changed to green
by steaming it or breathing on it. A
solution of salts of lead or bismuth
makes an invisible ink which shows
up black when treated with sulphur
ated hydrogen. Another recipe is to
write in a weak solution of tannic acid, j
When dipped in a bath of a persalt of
iron tile writing conics out black.— ;
Manchester Guardian.
FUSES FOR EXPLOSIVES.
They Are Made by Winding Gunpow
der In Cord Meshes.
Fuses, such ns are used for setting
off charges of dynamite in digging
subways and tunnels and for explosive
shells in warfure, are prepared very
simply in several different ways. One
old form was made by soaking a loose
ly wound cord for ten minutes in a
boiling solution of acetate of lead. An
other form is a cotton cord impreg
nated with chromate of lead.
The fuse invented by Bickford in
1831 consists of a lino thread of black
powder inclosed in three envelopes of
thread and soaked in pitch or rubber, 1
according to the use to which it is
destined.
One of the most commonly used j
fuses today is made by letting a tine
stream of black powder run from the
small end of a funnel into an envelope
of hemp, thick, but not rnuph twisted,
the powder falling in as fast as the
hemp is twisted. This tube is then
Inclosed in a mesh of fine cotton, twist
ed in the direction opposite to that in
which the hemp was twisted. The
whole is held together with glue or
pitch. This is very flexible and burns
at the rate of one centimeter a second.
—New York World.
Rule of the Corset.
If Cleopatra wore corsets she may
rank as a royal champion of them with
Catherine de’ Medici, who is credited
with having Introduced the busked cor
set in France from Italy. Male mon
archs have been less friendly. Joseph
II. of Austria tried to discourage the
corset by making it part of the cos
tume of a convicted woman of bad
character. Napoleon, shaking his head
over the tight lacing of his day, told
Dr. Corvisart that ho saw in it a sign
of frivolous tastes and a menace of
coming decadence. The restoration
kings, Louis XVIII. and Charles X..
were equally hostile. Formerly, said
the latter, France had been full of
Venuses, Dianas and Niobes, but now
there were only wasps. The revolu
tion alone temporally put down the
garment that has triumphantly defied
kings.—London Spectator.
Pigeon’s Care of Wounded Mate.
A farmer standing outside his farm
house saw a pair of his pigeons fly
away. Shortly afterward he heard a
shot, and the pigeons did not return in
the course of the afternoon, as he had
expected. In the evening, however, the
cock pigeon returned in order to feed
the young, and, having seen to this, he
again flew away.
The following forenoon the same pi
geon returned, helped Itself to some
corn strewn in the farmyard and again
disappeared. Between 2 and 3 o’clock
In the afternoon both pigeons returned,
and it was then ascertained that the
hen bird had one wing badly hurt by
shot, but owing to its mate's care and
perseverance it ultimately managed to
return to its nest.—London Field.
Napoleon Outdone.
In a small town there was a veteran
who was called Colonel Blngle. lie
was stored full of anecdotes about his
life os a soldier, which had won him
the unbounded ndmirntion of a certain
little boy In the^jwwn who was of a
martial cast of mind. But never had
the boy’s ndmiratlon for the colonel
found such complete expression as
when he remarked to a little playmate:
“Come on, Jimmy, let’s play soldiers.
You be Napoleon Bonaparte. I’ll be
Colonel Blngle!”—New York Times.
Modern Way.
Mr. Gushlngtou — Miss Goldilocks!
•Clara, will you be mine? Miss Goldi
locks—Mr. Gushlngtou, no high mind
ed, modern thinking woman will ever
consent to belong to nny man. But I
will marry yon, Percy.—Brooklyn Clti
ken.
Hia Indefinite Statue.
“The fellow who married your
daughter"—
“Ho Is my son-in-law now,” grimly
replied Grout P. Smith. “I don’t know
what he used to be."—Judge.
Her Claes.
Church—I understand there are 20,
000 kinds of butterflies. Gotham-That
may be. but ray wife is in a class by
berself.—Yonkers Statesman.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries receii ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
”L4 Complete Services
^ IN THE HEART OF THE CITY r
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PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERIU.E
Graduate of National Univereity
Washington, D. C.
ru».n0 DENTIST
in both companies fourteen tears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
?bone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over On l Drug store. Office hours
) a. m . to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m..to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
:: DONOHOE & DIMOND
<! attorneys-at-law
!! Office Opposite Court House
! I Phone 34 Valdez, Alazka
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone 101 Valdez. Alaska
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“baclt” 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
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.
The Prospector office for job work.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Lisrum. Leaves Valde*
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.
1:10 p. in. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. in. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on the secoi-d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boll'rs.
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 Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the t’me of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the ti ■>
in feet and tenths:
Saturday, May S.
High tide 8:15 a. m., 10.0; 9:00 _.
m., 11.1.
Low tide 2:31 a. m., 2.5; 2:34 p.
m„ 1.4.
Sunday, May ».
m., 11.5.
Low tide 3:29 a. m., 1.6; 3:20 p.
m„ 1.7.