The Special Featuring of
Housecleaning Supplies continued to
. morrow—Curtain scrims, Couch covers,
Silkolines, Draperies, Portiers, Creton
nes, etc.
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ALASKA
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S. S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th,f24th and30th
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. 25lh of eaoh month—Right re
served to change this schedule without notice,
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Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Specials After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack Callin - -_Proprietpr
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
57 a m to 9 a m
Lunch 12 m to 1 tf m
8 to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM SSO per Mo.
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and on the job—day or night—buy
and aell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells and Way Ports
Leaves Valdes 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.
8EE CAPT. STAMEY.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Narses—Private Rooms (or Patienti
ForTarms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician ia Charge.
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
PROFESSIONAL
Or. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National Universitf
Washington, D. C.
rbwic* no DENTIST
in both companiet Fourteen years in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
?hone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
3 a. m., to 6 p. 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
Phone lOl Valdes. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Library Hours.
Library books can be secured at the
Everyman’s Club rooms between 3
and 5 o’clock each week day, and
from 7:30 to 9 on Wednesday and
Friday evenings.
The Prospector office for job work.
CHINA REFUSES
JAPS' DEMANDS
Diplomats Expect Trouble—Russia,
England and United States Back
ing China.
PEKIN, China, May J.—The gov
ernment of Yuan Shih-kai has inform
ed the Japanese government that the
majority of the demands made by the
Tokio government will not be granted
by the Chinese republic, as they are
unfair and threaten the integrity of
t'e republic. The announcement
caused some surprise among the dip
lomats here and is taken as indicat
ing that the Chinese government has
received assurances from Russia,
England and the United States that
they will back the republic against
the aggression of the Tokio authori
ties.
Constant preparations are being
made by the military authorities to
bring the army up to a war footing.
The troops are being trained by for
eign officers. Many German officers
who escaped from ihe forts at Kiao
Chau being among them. The new
troops are being raised in western
China and are being euipped with new
guns brought here from America and
Russia.
The next move by the .Japanese
government is awaited with keen in
terest. Japan already has a large
force of troops on Chinese soil and
iias refused to withdraw them. The
Chinese have no troops to meet the
well equipped Japanese forces.
LONDON, May 3.—The foreign of
fice is greatly worried at the turn
'of affairs in China and is believed
to be strongly backing the Chinese
government in its refusal to grant to
Japan territorial rights over all of
Manchuria and other parts of Chi
na, and is also aiding in blocking the
demands of the Japanese government
that all foreign loans made by the
new republic must be made through
the Tokio government, besides which
all government supplies shall be pur
chased from Japanese manufacturers.
The present trade of Great Britain
with China will be destroyed if the
treaty is signed and Russia, which
also does considerable business with
China, is opposed to allowing the
Mikado a free hand in China. The
alliance between England and Ja
pan may be broken as a result of the
Chinese trouble.
WOMAN SMUGGLER
BMESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3—The cus
tom officials today arrested Mrs. John
Francis Sydney upon her arrival in
this city. The customs officials
found $18,000 worth of gems sewed
in her dress and charged her with
attempting to smuggle them into the
country duty free. The woman was
forced to undergo a search by the
women connected with the Treasury
Department, although she made a vig
orous protest against the "outrage.”
When the jewels were found Mrs.
Sydney collapsed. She was arrested
and is awaiting the arrival of friends
to provide bail.
JUDGE FINES
SALMONJVASTERS
The Fldalgo Island Sacking com*
pany was fined $500.00 by Judge F.
M. Brown today for willful waste of
salmon last year at the canneries of
the company. Five indictments were
brought against the company and
$100.00 was charged for each offense.
The company pled guilty today.
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.
LIKED BIG BANKNOTES.
An English Lord Who Had a Curious
Mania For Hoarding.
A curious story of hoarding is told
in Ralph Neville's book of gossip:
A former Lord Dysart who lived
more or less an invalid’s life in a
house on the outskirts of London, care
fully watched over by a lady who act
ed as a sort of companion-nurse, one
day asked her to go to town and get
a check cashed for him at the Bank
of England. When she was ready to
start the old peer sat down at Ills
writing table and, having written out
a cheek for £100,000, told her to be
sure and see that she got one note for
the whole amount. * * * When she
reached the bank the cashier commu
nicated with the manager, whooshed
the nurse to step Into his private of
fice. Having satisfied himself as to
her authority for making such a re
quest, he said that if she did not ob
ject he would much rather send a
clerk to accompany her with the note.
She gladly assented to this arrange
ment, and in duo course the clerk in
person handed the £100,000 banknote
to Lord Dysart.
After having done so lie told the peer
that there were only three such notes
In existence. “One,” he said, “we
have at the bank, another I have just
handed to your lordship and the third,
which some time ago disappeared from
circulation, we have never been able
to trace.”
“Perhaps I cun help you,” said Lord
Dysart. and, hobbling over to a bu
reau, ho unlocked a drawer and took
out the missing £100.000 banknote,
which had been lying there for many
years.
WATER IN COAL MINES.
Pumping It Out Costs a Big Pile of
Money Every Year.
It costs quite a bit of money to pump
1,000,000,000 tons of water out of the
anthracite mines of Pennsylvania every
year, but It must be done or there
could be no mines. In times post, col
lieries were abandoned because of in
ability to cope with the water flowing
into them, but more and more pumps,
some of them costing $30,000 and $40,
000 each, have been installed, and the
enormous amount of work they do is
all that enables the operators to keep
open the mines.
The calculation as to the amount ot
water handled in this way is simple.
The output of the mines is a little less
than 70.000.000 tons a year. The av
erage amount of water pumped is about
fifteen tons for every ton of coal pro
duced. The cost of this is one of the
most important elements in the in
creased cost of mining. As the richer
and more accessible veins have been
exhausted, shafts huve been sunk
deeper and the volume of water to be
pumped has increased rapidly.
The pipes, of which there are thou
sands of miles In the mines, wear out
quickly because the sulphur In the
mine water eats into the iron like an
acid. This destructive quality prohib
its the use of the water in the boilers
that generate steam at the collieries,
and the result is that, when there Is a
drought, the companies often are oblig
ed to haul water to the mines in tank
cars from many miles away.—New
York Post.
Odd Contrasts In Climate.
New York is usually thought of as
being directly west from London. It
Is. however, despite its far more rigor
ous climate, 900 miles nearer the equa
tor than is the British capital. The
bleak coast of Labrador is directly
west of London. The^game line passes
the southern part of Hudson bay and
Lake Winnipeg. On the other side of
the continent it touches the southern
extremity of Alaska and continues
through the center of the Isthmus of
Kamchatka and Siberia and Russia to
Homburg.
Another illustration of the unexpect
ed in contrasts is found in a compari
son of St. John's. Newfoundland, with
Paris. Paris has a winter of compara
tive mildness, while St John’s is a re
gion of bitter cold and fogs, with drift
ing icebergs along its coast. Yet St
John’s Is 100 miles nearer the equator.
Anatole France on Journalism.
M. Anatole Prance, in reply to a
toast of his health, said: “1 hove been
a journalist and am one still. I owe
to Journalism some of the qualities
that you have exaggerated. Journal
ism taught me a great part of the art
of writing. The two things most use
ful in writing are ease and simplicity.
Journalism teaches those things so well
that the style even of great writers
like Chateaubriand gained from Jour
nalistic experience.”—London Times.
New York’s 8ewage.
Every day there Is poured Into the
Harlem river 99.000.000 gallons of sew
age; Into the North river. 132,000,000
gallons; into the East river, 264,000.000
gallons. So in the course of a year
New York city pollutes its harbor with
about 405,000.000 gallons of refuse
matter.—New York World.
Juctieious Charity.
“1 don’t believe he is so miserly as
they soy. I hear he invites his poor
relations to visit him each year.’’
“Yes. They all live at a considerable
distance and are too poor to come.”
The Reason He Jokes.
When a mnn Jokes about bis wife
being Jealous yon may depend upon it
his wife baa not a Jealous bone in her
body. Men with Jealous wives do not
joke about it.—Atchison Globe.
Grief can take care of Itself, but to
get the foil valne of a Joy you must
have somebody to divide it witb.
Mark Twain.
OLD TIME PORTRAITS.
Oats There Exist a Reliable Painting
of the Poet Burns?
Was this the face that launched a thou
sand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
asks Marlowe, writing of the vision of
golden Helen. A similar question has
Veen asked in regard to the diverging
portraits of Mary Stuart. Was this
the face that turned so many heads
some 350 years ago? The queen of
Scots was assuredly bewitching. Knox
admits It; Knollys asserts it; Ituthven
lost his heart to her in Lochleven cas
tle; whoever saw her desired her. Yet
not one of Mary's portraits represents
her as beautiful. Itomney has suffi
ciently explained the fascination of
Lady Hamilton for Nelson. But Mary
Stuart’s charm remains unexplained
by her portraits.
And what about Burns? The point I
wish to make is that old portrait paint
ers are not to be depended on for strict
fidelity to their originals. The mere
fact that they differ so much in their
representations of the same subject is
enough to prove it. In regard to
Burns, the question bears a twofold
aspect. Not only do the portraits of
the poet disagree with one another,
but even that which by its frequent
reproduction has tacitly been accept
ed as the truest reiwesentation cannot
have been exactly like him when it was
done. 1 refer, of course, to the famil
iar Nasmyth head and bust, painted in
1787, when Burns was carrying all be
fore him on his first visit to Edin
burgh.—J. Cuthbert Hadden in Scrib
ner’s.
REAL ESTATE LEASES.
Origin of the Custom of Making Rent
als For 99 or 99$ Years.
Whence originated the use of the
odd term in leases, 99 or 999 years?
In other days lessees nud mortgagees
in possession of real estate for 100 or
1,000 years demised the same ut an an
nual rental, retaining a reversion for
the last year of the original term. The
object Of this proceeding was to bo
found in the unwillingness of the un
der tenant to become bound to the per
formance of the covenant contained in
tho original grant and also in the im
portance to the lessor of a reversionary
interest, without which, under the old
English practice, he could not recover
his rent by distraint
Sometimes this reversion was for
only three days or even for only one
day, but usually in long terms the last
year was retained. Out of this came
the popular notion that the law pro
vided this distraint, and hence leases
were made for 99 or 999 years, when
there was no reason whatever for nuy
such odd period of time.
In England there was in special
cases a restraint on corporations, or
ecclesiastical persons prohibiting the
demise of lands belonging to them to
the impoverishment of their successors
for n term beyond 100 years and such
lenses were accordingly made for 99
years.—Harper’s Weekly.
Boosting a Stock,
“Stocks are valuable in keeping with
the demand for them." said a Wall
street man. “and the ‘demand' is often
created by queer methods. A few years
ago a man who is well known in the
street was overloaded with a certain
stock. He tokl his wife there was
money In It and that it would soon
have a big rise. Next day the good
woman gave the tip to the woman who
came daily to massage her. The latter
had many wealthy clients, to whom
she gave the get-rich-quick tip. The
stock became popular, the man sold
out, and the masseuse who set the ball
in motion never knew why she receiv
ed a present of extraordinary value at
Christmas time from her client.”
“From which one?”
"Why, from the one who said it was
a 'good thing.’ of course. The others
probably discharged her.”—New York
Tribune.
Hyderabad.
The state of Hyderabad, located
about midway between Madras and
Bombny, in the south central part of
India, with a population about equal
to that of New York and Massachu
setts combined and with an area of
82.C9S square miles (Just about the
same area as Kansas) is, generally
speaking, the most important native
state in India in population, wealth
and potential resources. It has many
wild creatures. Including tigers and
leopards in abundance and occasionally
bison and elephants. There are also
wild hogs, antelope, hyenas, wolves,
jackals and bears.
He Still Had It.
“Look here, you swindler!” roared
the owner of the suburban property to
the real estate man. “When you sold
me this bouse, didn’t you say that In
three months I wouldn’t part with it
for $10,000?’
“Certainly.” said the real estate
dealer calmly, “and you haven’t, have
you?”
A Little Too Much.
“This is what I call adding insult to
Injury.”
“What’s the trouble?"
"An editor not only returns my man
uscript, but he wants me to subscribe
for his pnper.”—Birmingham Age-Her
ald. __
Right on the Job.
Indignant Citizen (to office boy)—
Your confounded paper had an out
rageous attack on me this morning,
and— Office Boy (briskly)-Yesslr.
How many copies will you have?
Noble Thoughts.
Beautiful this thought and beautiful
the language wherewith Sir Philip Sid
ney gave It expression, “They are nev
er alone who are accumpanled by no
ble thoiurhta.”
Dougherty & Ferguson
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Somebody
With Money
always lias been found to
“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
do’Ilar.
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 qq Mineral crgek, ii) the
recording precinct of Valdez, Alaska,,
which are known as the Monte Carlo
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monta Carlo No. 2, Monte Carlo No.
3, Monte Q&rlo 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. Leases 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.
1:1b 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. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips of the launch
on fhe secoi d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
*« clean boil r«.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Mrs. W. Stromer, of Latouche, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spenard.
Notice our display adv. in this pa
per. It Is worth 10 cents to you to
read it. Yakima Fruit Co. tf
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
A new line of Valdez and Alaska
pennants and pillow tops at the Val
dez Drug Co. tf
Leave your picture films at the Val
des Drug Store for development.
Prices are right and workmanship
guaranteed. tf