New Shipment Waterproof
Clothing
1,1, the Genuine Dri-Bak make—The
coat comes in Hunting Style, dead
grass brown; full layer in and out
side of genuine waterproof Dri-Bak; drab
corduroy storm collar and cuff facing; ad
justable cuff; one large, inside game
pocket, full size of coat; two lower di
vided pockets and three additional acces
sory pockets on left side; two front and
two side vents for entrance to game
pockets; bellows arm pits with air cham
bers. Hunting trousers to match, made
full double front and double seat.
Coats priced at $5. Trousers $2 and $3.
Valdez Mercantile Co.
KV Wonf 8trict*y ^re8^ Egg*, Butter, Fruit
IOU Tf aill antJ Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
Where Bears are Plentiful.
Capt. Ed Swift, of the government
packet Chulitna, arriving from In
dian river Monday, reported that
black hears are so plentiful and bold
in the upper Susitna valley that en
gineers engaged in locating the line
of the government railroad have been
compelled to detail men to watch the
caches of supplies, several of which
were broken into and robbed by
the animals.
At the Liberty Theatre.
The Liberty theatre announces that
tonight it will run the last six reels
of Lucille Love, with Grace Cunard
as Lucille and Francis Ford as the
international spy. This serial com
prises 30 reels or 15 episodes and to
night will mark the last of the series.
This picture is one of the most sen
sational and emotional pictures ever
produced by any moving picture com
pany and has created a hit in Valdez,
for the series was run in a manner so
all those interested could see the fin
ish. The last six reels are the most
interesting of the whole picture and
each reel ends its own story. Prices
25 cents. *
Rubber iootwear to fit all at S.
Blum & Co. *
-#*-7
Notice is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the Granite Gold Mining Company
will be held at the office of the com
pany in the Copper Block at Valdez.,
Alaska, on the 21st day of October.
1915, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m.
A Board of Directors will be elect
ed for the ensuing year and such oth
er business transacted as may prop
erly come before said meeting.
The books of the Secretary will be
closed from October 1st, 1916, until
the first day after said annual meet
ing, and no stock will be transferred
during this period.
B. P. MILLARD,
9-21-20t President.
Receiver’s Notice to Creditors.
No. 761
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
George Ker, Plaintiff, vs. Cameron
Johnson Gold Mining Company, a
Corporation, Defendant.
Notice is hereby given that by or
der of the above-named court in the
above-entitled cause all creditors of
the above-named defendant, Camer
on-Johnson Gild Mining Company, a
corporation, and all persons having
claims Of any kind against said de
fendant are required to exhibit the
same, duly proved and verified to the ;
undersigned receiver of said corpora
tion on or before the 10th day of ;
November, 1916, at the office of said
receiver in the City of Valdez, in the
Termory of .Alaska. All claims not,
so presented and exhibited to said re
ceiver on or before said date will be
'barred.
Dated this 4th day of October,
1916. ’*
W. M. GOODWIN,
Receiver of Camcron-Johnson Gold |
Mining Company, a corporation,:
the above-named defendant.
First publication Oct. 4, 1915.
Last publication Nov. 1, 1915.
Mo. 5t
Communication.
Mr. Editor: In yesterday’s issue
of the Prospector an article headed
“Miners favor the Rockefeller Plan;
Vote Overwhelmingly to Drop West
ern Federation,” and treat directly
with operators, is either mistaken or
misleading.
The Western Federation of Miners
has no jurisdiction over the coal min
ers of Colorado nor of any other
state. The Western Federation of
Miners deals only with metalifurous
mining. It is the United Mine Work
ers of America that Is trying to ele
vate the Colorado coal miner from
a state of peonage and have a diffi
cult problem in dealing with the rich
trusts and corporations who own the
coal mines of Colorado and else
where.
The day of coal miners dealing in
dividually with operators passed
when the small independent operator
gave way to the mighty trust and
corporation that appear to be the
meanest and stingiest creations on
earth when dealing with working
people.
If the miners of Colorado agree to
individual bargaining they were forc
ed to by coercion or starvation. Any
one with horse sense knows it is im
possible to accomplish anything
with such dealing.
MINERS’ UNION.
The Prospector gave the news just
as it was cabled in, and if a mistake
was made it was unintentional. We
try to be accurate and impartial. Ed.
In the Federal Court.
The Cliff mine case, in which Ed
mund Smith, Geo. C. Treat and Lo
gan Archibald is suing H. E. Ellis
for an interest in the Cliff mine,
which began in the district court on
Tuesday morning, closed at noon to
day, and was taken under advisement
by Judge F. M. Brown.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The steamer Farragut is expected
back from the westward some time
tomorrow.
E. D. Reiter arrived from his mine
at Fidalgo bay this afternoon. He is
very enthusiastic over the prospects.
T. J, Hendrickson and M. F.
Gross arrived in Valdez last night,
having come over the government
road from Ruby. /
Harry Bush, who has been shovel
ing into the sluice boxes on his placer
ground on Mineral creek, above the
upper canyon, returned to the creek
this morning after purchasing sup
plies in Valdez.
Don’t Miss the Hast of Hucille Hove,
The final six reels of Lucille Love
will be shown tonight at the Liberty
Theatre, thus completing that story
that requires 30 reels to produce.
Don’t fail to see the sensational end
ing of that great serial story. *
Some Show.
The last six reels of Lucille Love,
the Girl of Mystery, with Francis
Ford as the international spy, and
Grace Cunard as Lucille Love. Ad
mission 25c. *
REOSOX PLAYER
IS CONFIDENT
Says It Is a Case of a Well-Balanced
Team Meeting a Team of Two or
Three Good Men.
BOSTON. Oct. 7.—Tris Speaker,
center fielder ot the Boston Redsox,
and a well known baseball critic, has
issued a statement in which he de
clares that the Boston team will win
three straight games in the series.
He says:
“Most ballplayers when they claim
that their team is going to win are
charged with having swelled heads,
and if they do not say they are going
to win they are charged with not hav
ing any confidence in their own team.
I know the Boston Redsox, know
what they have done and have fig
ured it out that the present series is
between a well balanced baseball
team against a two or three man
team. I do not see how Philadelphia
can beat Boston. We will win the
first three games.”
Local baseball fans are getting
their annual excitement on over the
big world series, and as usual are be
ginning to bet. The majority seem
to favor the Boston Americans, al
though the Philadelphia Nationals
have many admirers who pick them
to win.
A local fan says Tris Speaker’s as
sertion that the Phillies are a two or
three man team is contrary to the
latest dope peddled by the baseball
scribes. In the last batch of papers
from the outside is an article analyz
ing both teams and laying down the
proposition that the Phillies are the
best balanced team in either league.
J It is conceded that the pitchers are
| the strongest factors in a short series.
The Phillies depend on Alexander,
considered the king-pin of all pitch
ers this year, and Mayer and Rixey.
The strongest Boston pitchers are
Shore, Poster and Leonard. Joe
Wood has never come back since his
illness which kept him out nearly all
last year, and he has not worked
much this year. It is expected that
Alexander and Shore will work in the
first game.
A big Philly asset is Cravath, who
has knocked out twenty home runs
this year, a record only surpassed in
the big league by Buck Freeman,
with twenty-five and Frank Schulte
with twenty-one.
ENTIRE GREEK
CABINET RESIGNS
Chamber ‘ of Deputies Refused to
Sanction Action of Premier in
Permitting Landing of Allies.
PARIS, Oct. 7.—It is authentically
stated that the resignation of Pre
mier Venizelos of Greece, was due to
his having authorized the landing of
British and French troops on the
shores on the Gulf of Salonika, in
order that the Allies might be pre
pared to go to the assistance of Ser
bia in resisting the Teutonic invasion
of the Balkan'Stifte in their drive to
Constantinople to the relief of the
Turkish armies.
Premier Venizelos asked the Greek
chamber of deputies to confirm his ac
tion, and forced the matter to a vote.
The members of the cabinet remained
silent during the .heated debate of
the premier’s action and when the
denuties voted it was found that they
had expressed a lack of confidence in
his administration. The premier and
his cabinet immediately resigned.
King Constantine, when notified of
the disruption of his government im
mediately began the formation of a
new cabinet, and it is reported that he
strongly advocates the selection of
men opposed to Greece entering the
war in defense of the country.
BETTING 01)1)8 ARE IN
FAVOR OF BOSTON.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Betting on
the series of baseball games for the
world championship between the Bos
ton Americans and the Philadelphia
Nationals, is in favor of the former
with odds of four to five being of
fered. It is reported that several
heavy wagers have been placed with
Philadelphia admirers taking the
short end of the bets. Transporta
tion companies are making prepara
tions to handle the crowd of fans
which will attend the opening game
of the serieB at Philadelphia tomor
row.
GUNPOWDER IN WAR.
I'or Centuries Its Use Was Opposed In
the Name of Humanity.
There was a period when any kind of
•explosive" fighting in war was con
sidered barbarous. The discovery of
gunpowder put a stop to the old fash
ioned method of attack, in which only
missiles and sburp edged weapons were
considered ethical, but gunpowder did
not Come into approval without a
struggle. In fact. It was under the
“humanity" ban for almost three cen
turies.
This remarkable compound of salt
peter, sulphur and charcoal, which was
given Its first tryout at the siege of
Constantinople in 1453, had been
known to both the chemist and the
soldier for a hundred years or more.
It Is said to have been discovered by
Roger Bacon In England about the
year 1290 and by a German monk
named Schwarz twenty years later.
Another independent discoverer of the
same dangerous mixture was an un
known and uncelebrated Moor, whose
secret was ultimately carried into Eu
rope in the fourteenth century. Even
he was not the first to make an ex
plosive compound. The Chinese “beat
him to it,” having used this same kind
of mixture for rocket signals before
the Christian era.
The fall of Constantinople was
brought about by the use, the wholly
unethical and altogether barbarous use.
of cannon balls, and It was not until
about a century later that the world
gnve its full sanctiou to the killing of
men by means of gunpowder.—St Louis
Globe- Democrat
WHISPERING GALLERIES.
Old World Churches With Remarkable
Acoustic Properties.
The most celebrated whispering gal
lery is that which surrounds the base
of the interior of the dome of St. Paul’s
cathedral. London. A person speaking
near Us surfuce can be heard distinctly
by one listening near the smooth wall
at the other extremity of the diameter,
but not elsewhere.
In the cathedral of Gloucester a whis
pering passage lends from one aisle to
the opposite behind the east window of
the choir. It Is seventy-five feet long,
six and a half feet high and three feet
wide In the form of half an Irregular
octagon. The walls and ceilings are of
freestone, and the slightest whisper
travels from end to end.
The cathedral of the Taj Mahal in
Agra, India, has most marvelous ech
oes and reverberating qualities, hut is
scarcely a whispering gallery. The
whole cathedral of Girgeutl. in Sicily,
has this character owing to the pecul
iar structure of Its walls. These re
markable properties also belonged to
| the "Ear of Dionysius,” cut in the rock
at Syracuse In the shape of a parabolic
curve, ending In an'elliptical arch, it
is said that the tyrant seated in a small
chamber over a hundred feet from the
spot occupied by his captives by this
means could hear every word spoken
by his prisoners.—London Answers.
If Animals Could Speak.
It Is a startling fact that if some ani
mals could tell their life history they
would be able to recall events which
happened hundreds of years ago. A
Russian eagle, for Instance, would be
able to remember watching with
greedy eyes as one by one the French
soldiers under Napoleon fell exhausted
out of the ranks In their awful retreat
from Moscow In 1812. There are croc
odiles alive In India today which saw
the first English traveler set foot there,
while there are whales in the sea which
may have skirted the coast of France
when it was invaded in 1415. A great
many elephants could recall historical
events of a hundred years ago, while
there are ravens still living whose
memory could go back twice that pe
riod.—London Answers.
Plenty of Room.
The young wan who writes verses
was standing out in the night gazing
at the sky when a frieud ran across
him.
“What are you doing—studying as
tronomy ?”
"Go away and don’t disturb me. I
am gazing into infinite distance."
“I don’t see what satisfaction you
find in that."
“That’s because you never had any
experience with editors. You don’t
kuow what a comfort it is to find some
place -where nothing is crowded out
for lack of space."—London Tit-Bits.
The Amethyst.
A good example of one of the ways
In which magical properties became
attributed to natural objects is the
stone known as amethyst The an
cient Indian name of this stone bad
the sound represented by its present
name. In Greek this sound happens to
mean "anti-wine:” hence, without more
ado. the ancients declared that the
amethyst was a preventive of and a
cure for drunkenness!—London MaiL
Idle Dream.
"Poor dadl Sister told him that the
girls of her class are going to grad
uate in dollar gowns.”
“Well, what about poor dad?”
"He thinks a dollar Is all he will be
called upon to give up.”—Kansas City
Journal.
Two Sides.
Willis—Why don’t you go to church?
Glllls—Too far. Why don’t you go?
Willis—We live next door to one. and
I hate to get all dressed up Just to go
that little way.—Boston Journal
There Are Exceptions.
“We are all born equal.” quoted the
wise guy.
“Don’t try to tell that to the mother
of a first baby.” cautioned the simple
mug.—Philadelphia Record.
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES A TRAIN
Auto lor Hir e Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any |Part of^thej Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in C^itina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Fiaeot Held in the Interior—Well Heated, Cleon Room.
Bar in Connection. Rates Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 68 Clias. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
Independent Laundry Co.
Satisfaction Guaranteed | I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 i I Rousrh Dry 10c lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sl.oet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Fit
tings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
i i
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 10th call* lllamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
HICHAHD J. RING WOOD, Mgr. Seattle; VALDEZ DOCK CO„ Local Agt.
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 eervlce for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche. on the 15 th; S. S.
Cordova. 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Gea'l Agent VALDH2 DOCK CO™ Local Agent.