Valdez Daily Prospector
PUBLISHED BY THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
TERMS.
Dally Prospector.
?y carrier, per month....$ 1.00
By mail, per annum. 10.00
The Weekly Miner.
By carrier, per month. 40o
By mail, per annum.$3.00
The Daily Prospector and Weekly
Miner, by carrier, to one address
per month.$1.25
The Daily Prospector and Weekly
Miner by mail to one address
only per year... >.$12.50
Business Office and Editorial
Rooms, Phone 152.
Advertising Rates on Application.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST G, 1913.
A HIGHER PRICE THAT IS WEL
COME.
When Nome calls upon Fair
banks to join in a protest against
the new mining law which was
passed by the Alaska legislature,
it is doubtful if Fairbanks will
respond. The new mining law
is largely the work of Fairbanks
mining men, and carries out
ideas which the miners here have
long entertained as sound. The
privilege of staking 150-acre as
sociation claims has been so
grossly abused in interior Alas
ka, and the abuse has resulted in
long-time idleness on such vast
areas of placer lands, that there
has crystallized a strong senti
ment against ;large holdings
without active development.
Whether a greater amount of
annual labor should be required
on 1 GO-acre association claims
which have been located hereto
fore, remains a matter for argu
ment. There is something to be
said on both sides, although the
burden is upon thos.e who oppose
the increase.
it is, a mistake, however, to
take it for granted that all those
who hold interests ill 100-acre
association claims are hostile to
the provision of the new law,
which requires $100 worth of an
nual labor to be performed for
every 20 acres of every placer
claim. Many owners of interests
in such claims welcome the new
requiremelnt. In nearly every as
sociation yf men wh_ own an as
sociation claim there are some
who desire to open up and devel
op the supposed payslreak in the
claim. They are tenable to go
ahead because the majority re
fuse to. assist. The majority of
the owners did not in the lirst
place cause the claim to be stak
ed for them with the idea of de
veloping l he claim, but generally
in tile hope of selling for a large
sum of money. While awaiting
sale, they contribute their $12.50
share toward the annual labor re
quired to hold the claim; but
eight times this amount can ac
complish so little in the way of
developing the claim that the
money is absolutely wasted. The
'new law calls for the expendi
ture of $800 in annual labor on
every 100-acre association claim.
Eight hundred dollars a year will
go far toward developing any
claim. That is why many work
ing miners who hold interests m
160-acre claims welcome the new
law.--Fairbanks Times.
Newspapers are current his
tory, or.are supposed to he, and
people should never object to
having therein the stories of cur
rent events, whether they are of
absorbing interest or not. Some
times people prefer to read some
thing about a local man doing
something trivial than to read
about the events that mean the
making of history at home and
abroad. This is accounted for
by the fact that people as a rule
prefer the reading of novels or
anecdotes to the reading of his
tory, although there is no ques
tion about the relative benefits
acquired. Tastes always differ
about what is interesting or not
and what is of the greatest in
terest to one is passed over by
another as not worth reading at
all. To try to serve all tastes is
the duty of a newspaper, and ev
qn newspapers are forced some
times to cater to the most trivial
desires and to the most “local”
tastes. Papers cannot always he
blamed for this.--Ex.
Perhaps you really do not know
just what you are doing when
you tango, but, according to a
Latin dictionary, the word means
“to take in hand, to carry off, to
strike, beat,, smear." Figure it
out.
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Crawford Building, opposite Tele
phone Exchange.
) 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS > 12 m to 2 p m
> 6 to 7 p m
A Special Dinner Snndaje at S o’clock
HUGO FELS
Contractor and Bollder
Day Work if Desired
Estimates Furnished
WORK GUARANTEED
When the automobile is used
as an offensive weapon in war
France will be a terrible oppo
nent.
Now some Chicago physicians
have endorsed the hobble skirt.
Perhaps some cubist artists may
yet come forward to commend its
beauty and grace.
They did things differently in
Australia. Instead of making a
joke of the law prohibiting wo
men from wearing long hat pins,
those who violate it are lined $15.
A man in San Francisco is
building a house whose cornice is
to be gold-plated. The lirst thing
he knows enterprising burglars
will be taking the roof off the
house.
Some Pittsburg aldermen have
undertaken the job of lixing the
minimum of women’s skirts,
when there are so many things
that are possible of accomplish
ment in that town.
“They are treating grasshop
pers with kerosene out in Kan
sas,” says a contemporary. Will
not the grasshoppers go to the
active legislature and demand an
anti-treating law?
A bear was arrested in New
York for crippling a man’s hand.
It might be mentioned, to specify
the offender and the offense, that
the bear in question was not of
the carnivorous or Wall street
variety.
Under the caption of ••Inter
esting Happenings of Ten Years
Ago in Valdez,” taken from the
tiles id’ the Prospector was print
ed the death by drowning of Miss
Louise Wheeler, U. A. Widmai
er and son and August Reischel.
The Seward Gateway reprints the
article as a recent occurence,
working under the old addage
that sevi<nrday oldness is now
newness.
The Skagway Daily Alaskan
brags that the women of that
town excel!, in the art of making
pies, and challenges the women
of Douglas to enter a pie-making
contest. The editor of the
Whitehorse Star jumps into the
fray and names himself as a
qualified judge. We call atten
tion lo the fact that the News
man is the best judge of pies in
all Alaska, and Indue of these
starved to death printers from
across the line need .. apply—
Douglas News.
No, the editor of the Prospect
or is best qualified as a judge of
good pie. Send the pies this
way, Skagway and Douglas.
Hospital of the flood Samaritan.
For $6 we will give you a tic
ket entitling you to hospital ser
vice and care for any eight weeks
out of the year from date of your
ticket, when incapacitated by in
jury or sickness.
See W. H. ZIEGLER.
Schedule of Donaldson.
Oflice of the Quartermaster
Fort Liscum, Alaska, June 9th,
1913.
Daily, Saturdays and Sundays
excepted.
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
m. and 5:00 p. in.
Leave Valdez 2:00 p. in. and
5:30 p. m.
Sundays
Leave Fort Liscum, 9:30 a. m.
Leave Valdez, 12:30 p. m.
Saturdays: .
Leave Fort Liscum, 1:15 p.
m., and 7:00 p. m.
Leave Valdez 4:00 p. in. and
10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips on the
2nd and 4 th Fridays of each
month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
Spevial trips or cancelling of
the above will be made without
notice only to meet the exigen
cies of the service.
By order of Lietut. Col. O’Neil.
L. A. KUNZIG.
1st. Lieutenant, 30th Infantry.
Quartermaster. '
Go to the
ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
RAKF.RY iNXONNEcnoN
* EVERYthing good
JACK CALLIN A CO.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
“QUICK ACTION”
i« my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAPT. STAMEY
Leaves once a week from
VALDEZ DOCK for
PORT WELLS and
Way Ports.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
FOR SALE—“Quick Meal” oil
stove. Suitable for camp use.
Perfect order, Inquire Mia,
Shepard.
They are all good live pictures
at the Orpheum toliight.
Bring your job work *o the
Prospector office.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. rn. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
_
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-eight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cash mail.
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In the District Court for the
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. one ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture and
equipment
Whereas a libel of information
Its been tiled in the above court
on the 14th day of July 1913. on
behalf of the United States again
st the above mentioned ship s
boat, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture and equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
ship’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized on the 25th day of July,
1910, and turned over to the Unit
ed States Marshal who now holds
the same at tin Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited to the
United States for the reason that
the same was then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals withiu the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United States.
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to me. directed and
delivered, I do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in any manner interested
therein, that they be and appear
before the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alas
ka, Third Division, to bo held at
Unalaska, in and for the said
Territory and Division, on the
18th day August 19-13, at 10
o’clcok in the forenoon of that
day, provided the same shall be a
day of jurisdiction, otherwise cn
the next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default and condem
nation will be ordered.
H. P. SULLIVAN.
United States Marshal for the
Territory of. Alaska, Third Divi
sion .
GEORGE R. WALKER.
Shushana Shoes
The shoe to land you at the new
diggin’s is the
HUNKIDORI
A new line just received that
will stand the wear
Copper River
Draying Co
Freighting and passengers to all i>att8
of the interior. tJeneral Trucking
bid. Wood, • Proprietor
McKinley St. Valdez
Chas. R. Crawford I
Wall Street Phone 159 j
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Plate, glass, window glass, roofing and ]
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce- ]
ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders' ]
hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds j
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Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish- j
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse & Co. |
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.]
Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Irci °ipe, Fittings.
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Steam Heat Electric Ligtotil
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Goods I IIL DUrrtl Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF
Native and I I TIV/IDCD and Building
Puget Sound LUIVIDEJV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
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VALDEZ DRUG CO.
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