Ramie Cloth—a Linen
finished fabric suitable for middies, dresses and
the like, 27 inches wide—comas in pink and jr
white. Regular price 25c. Friday a yard IJC
Entire Stock of Allovers in
Shodows, Venice ank Oriental effects, eighteen
inches wide. Values to $2.50 fllir Tl-S!PD flEI
ayard. Friday, choice UNt" I lHHl) Ull
Fels Naptha Soap, The Best
washing soap on the market today. Regular
price three cakes for 25c. Friday r
a cake.. tJ
Valdez Mercantile Co.*
TRUE VALUES
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 sohedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’IJAgt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
Native and 1 ¥ T ft/f RU'D and Budding
Puget Sound l-i U1V1 Jl5IUA Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82._J. A. Spenard, Prop
4,
* * LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdec every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mall. Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Blanari Wells Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
f SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equqsped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Norses—Private Rooms for Petients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician io Charge.
The Prospector office for job work.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. R COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone IB THE DENTIST
Office rooms oyer Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 0 p. m.. 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS Sc RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whalins Bulletins
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW '
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdes, Alaska
ED WOOD NAMED
ROAD SUPERVISOR
His Pay Is Small But Will Get Plenty
of Cussing To Make Up for
Lack of Pay.
Edward Wood, the Valdez freighter,
has been selected by the members of
the legislature to be the road com
missioner for the Xhird judicial divis
ion, and he will have charge of the
expenditure of the money recently ap
propriated from moneys from the For
estry Bureau in Alaska for the con
struction of roads and trails. About
$11,500.00 is allotted to each of the
divisions and the road superviser will
be paid two per cent, of the amount
spent for his work, or $230.00.
With the job will come the cussing
of the residents of every section of
the division, who will insist that the
money be spent by Mr. Wood in their
vicinity and, failing which, he will be
forever damned.
The money was placed in the
treasury by the Forestry Department
from moneys made through the sale
of timber. Most of the amount came
from tlie Tongass forestry reserve, in
Southeastern Alaska, and the repre
sentatives from the First division
wanted it spent in their section, but
were disappointed, as it was divided
equally in all four diviraons.
will"celebrate
MOTHERS’ OAT
Lieut. Dougherty has received word
from the Secretary of War to display
flags on all buildings in his charge
'on Sunday, May 9th, which has been
selected as Mother’s day, The pub
lic buildings in this and every other
city in the United States will have
the star-spnagled banner flying in
honor of the mothers of the repub
lic. Every man is expected to wear
a white carnation. The Valdez Civ
ic League has sent for several hun
dred carnations, which will be on sale
for May 9th, the proceeds of the sale
to go towards carrying on the work
of the league.
ASSATER WHITE
TO REOKN OFFICE
George F. White, the assayer, has
leased, through the Valdez Real Es
tate Agency, the Walsh building on
Front street, between Wall street and
Broadway, and is busy fitting it up
as an assay office. Mr. White ex
pects to be ready for business in a
few days, and as he has many cus
tomers in this section of Alaska will
no doubt get his share of the busi
ness.
See Tod Winter for your watch and
jewelry repairing at. E. Winter’s store.
Ail work guaranteed. t
Mixed.
Small Girl (to butcher)—Ma wants a
pound of sirloin steak for the dog and
5 cents' worth of dog meat for pop!—
Chicago Dally News.
The Prospector office for job work.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
HUMAN BROTHERHOOD.
When Disaster Came All Were Kin and
Equality Reigned.
Friends who went through the hor
rors of the San Francisco earthquake
In 11)00 and kept their spiritual senses
ulert tell uie that Its most poignant
experience was not one of horror or of
pity, but of the almost miraculous at
tainment of human brotherhood.
' “Just after the disaster, when rich
and poor waited In line together for
their allowance of bread and milk, I
saw," says a friend, "a rich woman
from the St Francis hotel lying asleep
on a doorstep with her hend on a muff.
X long sable coat was thrown over her,
and under one corner of It a young
Japanese boy, a perfect stranger to
her, was curled up asleep. * * *
“Everybody was everybody’s friend,
and, though we were ull dog tired,
there was not a word of complaint or
111 nature. To bivouac together in the
park and care for each other’s babies
around iires of driftwood gathered on
the beach transformed men and wo
men Into defenseless children of the
earth, revealed each to each by their
lunate lovubleness.
“Common danger and mutual help
fulness. common misfortune, common
work, common confrontation with the
elemental, brought a swift achieve
ment Cf almost Ideal brotherhood. A
crushing blow made all tlJS world for
n time kin.”—Atlantic Monthly.
TAKING A PHOTOGRAPH.
So Easy Nowadays That It Positively
Peeved the Old Timer.
“I’m in tin organization where the
members are expected to furnish the
secretary with photographs of them
selves.”
“Yes?"
“Well, I hadn’t been to a photogra
pher's for twenty years. 1 hated to go.
[ remembered the old head clamp, and
the twisted spine, and the awkward
hands, and the depressed chin, and the
silly smile. It seemed to me worse
than the dentist’s. But 1 had to go. I
walked Into the photographer’s big
room like a Christian martyr, and the
operator pointed out a chair, and I sat
down, and he said, ‘That’s all.’ I ask
ed him to repeat it He did. Then 1
got out of the chair and went back to
my office.”
“Well?”
“Well, I don’t feel right about It. It
didn’t seem to me worth while. 1
don't think the photographer treated
me right. It looked to me as if he had
a disagreeable Job on his hands and
wanted to shirk it He should have
fussed over me more. What do I know
about posing? Besides, there wasn't
time. ‘That’s all,’ he said, and flipped
me out of the chair. They didn’t snub
me that way twenty years ago, no,
sir!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Made the Most of His Hats.
When Lord Milner held his first re
ception at Pretoria the officers and leg
islators were given to understand that
frock coats and tall hats were expected
of them. There was only one shop in
the place in which silk hats were sold,
and this had but four of them. The
Transvaal legislators rushed off In a
body to buy these four, but the hatter,
not being mad. saw his opportunity
in their extremity. He knew there
was no time to get hats from any
where else, so he resolved not to sell.
He offered to let them out on hire at
the rate of 10 shillings for ten minutes.
His shop was close at hand. Four
gentlemen could present themselves
before his excellency. After ten min
utes they must silently steal away and
hand over their hired finery to another
panting quartet. It was done", and the
hatter still repeats dreamily as he re
calls the moment of his life, “it would
not have been fair to have sold them,
not fair to my customers and not fair
to myself.”—London Globe.
•The Corsican Bandit.”
Only those who have traveled a good
deal in Italy can realize the depth of
the resentment that is still felt there
at the losses the oountry suffered
through the “Corsican Bandit” as Na
poleon has been dubbed. The Italians
have a saying about the French, “Are
the French thieves?” “No, but bona
parte (a good part of them) are.” And
when a visitor goes to one city after
another, sees one building after anoth
er that was robbed of its chief treas
ures by Napoleon, be begins to under
stand this savage sentiment It is even
stronger in Malta, which Island was
virtually swept clean of its splendors
of medieval and renaissance art by
-the conqueror. The Maltese loot is all
somewhere at the bottom of Alexan
drla bay, the ship on which Napoleon
loaded it having foundered there.
Wat Tyler's Rebellion.
Attempts to fix by statute the wages
of agricultural labours In England
were largely responsible for the great
revolt of 1381, or “Wat Tyler’s rebel
lion.” U represented the despairing
effort-of landowners to get back to
the level of wages before the black
death came to make labor dear. But
the lord of the manor overshot the
mark. He wanted the day wage kept
down to 4 cents to 6 cents a day. Had
be pnt 6 cents to 8 cents In the sched
ule there might have been no rebellion
Badly Expressed.
Mother-in-law-It Is so kind ot yon.
Joseph, to take the trouble to drive
me home! 8on-ln-law-l)on’t mention
It! It’s no trouble at all. On the con
trary. It Is the most delightful drive
1 have had for some tlmel—Ixmdon
Telegraph.__
The wise prove and the foolish con
fess by their conduct that a life of
employment Is the only life worth
leadlng.-WUliatn Paley.
PRIMITIVE 0-..r.EN3Y.
Nails, FTobacco and Codfish a*
i.kiiiums of Exchange.
A i.unoii:, medium of exchange in
Scot bind not ninny years ago was
handmade nails. This is equaled by
Switzerland, where eggs are still cur
rent coin. ICggs would be rather risky
coin to deposit in the bunk for sev
eral reasons, but not so wheat and
oats, which have been used for all pur
poses of sale and purchase in Norway
and have even been banked. The na
tional corn crop of Mexico is maize
and not very long ago formed the chief
money of that republic.
in tile time of our ancestors to
bacco was used almost exclusively in
Virginia instead of gold and silver. In
Newfoundland dried codfish was at
one time u great medium of exchange.
It bad the advantage of keeping in
definitely, and it is said that the New
foundland miser got as much pleasure
from the odor of his possession as
though it were from Araby.
in savage lands they used more curi
ous things as money. Salt circulated
in Abyssinia; cubes of beeswnx were
the medium in Sumatra, cubes of tea
were used in Tartary; in some of the
Portuguese possessions the coin con
sists of straw mats. In the islands of
the Pacific they depend upon feathers,
while in Madagascar the natives count
their wealth in Iron shovels. Chinn
has had varied forms of currency, not
the least curious being the coins made
of clay, while Japan used the slightly
more expensive substance resin.—New
York Sun.
VELOCITY OF LIGHT.
Roemer’s Early Calculations Have
Stood the Test of Time.
The first astronomer to demonstrate
satisfactorily the speed of light was
Ole Roomer, a Scandinavian scientist,
who rend his immortal paper on tills
subject before the Academy at Paris
July 22, 1075. Roemer’s calculations
and conclusions have stood the test
of time and subsequent investigations
on all important points.
Knowledge as to the velocity of
light was of tremendous importance to
astronomical science, since it enabled
astronomers to estimate accurately the
enormous distances with which their
science deals. Roemer found that light
traveled at the rate of 180,000 miles in
a second. The sun, being distant from
the earth 02.000.000 miles, flashes light
to us in eight minutes and fourteen
seconds.
Yet the sun is a near neighbor com
pared with the so called fixed stars,
which in reality move with inconceiv
able velocity, although the most pow
erful telescopes will not show that
velocity as anything but rest Beyond
the outskirts of our insignificant solar
system are other systems, and beyond
them still others, so far as the sight of
man, aided by instruments, may bridge
the ghastly chasm of the infinite.
Distances beside which the immense
line stretching from earth to sun is an
invisible point are now measured by
means of Roemer’s special discovery as
to the velocity of llght-Exchange.
The Stone of Infamy.
In many Italian cities there formerly
existed what was called “pietra d’ln
famie,” or a stone of infamy for the
punishment of bankrupts. In Venice
one stands near the Church of St
Mark, and in Verona and Florence
they are near the old markets. On a
day In carnival week the old time
custom was to have all traders who
had become bankrupt in the preceding
twelve months led to the stone, and
one by one each stood on its center to
hear the reading of a report of his
business fnilure and to endure the re
proaches heaped on him by his credi
tors. At the end of a certain time
each bankrupt was partly undressed,
and three officers took hold of his
shoulders and three others of his
knees and. raising him as high as they
could, bumped him on the stone delib
erately twelve times “in honor of the
twelve npostles.” the creditors crowing
like cocks while the bumping pro
ceeded.
Full Information.
In the smoking room of an east
bound Pullman, the other evening,
there were two men—one of them
grouchy, the other one receptive. Aft
er smoking two indifferent cigars the
latter said to the former:
“How far are you going.”
“Buffalo,” acknowledged the other
one, taken off bis guard.
"Is that so? Well, Buffalo Is a grent
town I have a cousin living there,
and I’ve been there myself several
times. The last time was twelve years
ago and over. Er— what are you going
to do in Buffalo?”
“Change cars." — Cleveland Plain
Dealer. _
Willing.
Outside one of the recruiting depots
in an English town a sergeant saw a
smart young milkman and, thinking
to get a fresh recruit, said, “Young
man. would you like to serve the
king?”
“Rather 1” said the milkman eagerly.
►How much does be want? A pint?"
Cynioal.
“1 always said that political rival of
mine would stoop to any falsehood.
Now I can prove it"
“How?"
“He sent me a message saying be
congratulates me on my election."
Washington Star.
Then He 8tele.
Prudent Swain—if 1 were to steal a
kiss, would It scare you so that you
would scream? Tim id Malden—l
couldn’t Fright always makes me
dumb.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
Chas. Perry
_ ^EfirfET
Complete Services
• IN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
1155Rooms with bath-50 SampleRooms
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found lo
“back” 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.
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
gro'up consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monts 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 secMon.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
lay 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.
1:16 p. m. 4:00 p. m
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:1 'j 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 wHl be no trips of the launch
on the secoLd and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
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 tide
in feet and tenths’
Thursday, May 6.
High tide 5:26 a. m.. 10:7; 7:18
p. m., 10.1.
Low tide 12:32 p. m.,0.6.
Friday, May 7.
High tide 6:53 a. m„ 10.2; 8:14 p.
m.. 10.6.
Low tide 1:09 a. m., 3.2; 1:38 p.
m„ 1.1.
if yon want all tn« nows all the
time read the Dally Prezpeeter.