The Well Built House
JUST as Sood material and
workmanship are essential
to the well built house, so
are good fabrics and tailoring
necessary to well built clothes.
T Good material in the hands
of a poor workman is substance
wasted—Good work on poor
material is labor lost.
Quality in both workman
ships and material is what
counts.
iUnt;amtn
ffinrmt (Motljes
$20.00 and Up.
» .
are developed in exclusive fab
rics of the highest quality; skil
fully tailored into styles that
Ttewmmtdmn are absolutely authentic, yet
cost no more than clothes inferior in every re
spect.
Benjamin clothes are differnt from ordi
nary clothes in everything but price.
Valdez Mercantile Co
TRUE VALUES
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f I Tli/|0170 and Buildin*
Puget Sound U lVllJllilV Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
ices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
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 creeit Treadwell,
Douglas Skugway, 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 schedule without notice.
F B. Tracy, Gen’IJAgt- Valdez Dock'Co., Local Agt
List Your Houses with the
VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Houses for Rent or Sale. Collections Made.
C. B. SMITH, Proprietor. Office on Wall Street.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. • TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chltlna.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mar.
Send the Prospector To Your Friends In The States
BUSINESS MEN FOR
LIQUOR LICENCES
The Valdez Commercial Assoeia
tion has issued an appeal to the tax
payers and citizens of Valdez to vote
for a “wet” town, pointing out to
them that the interest of the city re
quires that Valdez be “wet” because
Seward and Cordova is almost cer
tain to go “wet,” and while as much
liquor would be consumed in Valdez
as heretofore no revenue would be
given to the city government, besides
which many men now employed in
Valdez would lose their positions and
property values would decrease
alarmingly.
The Commercial Association is not
interested in the matter as it affects
the saloon keepers, but is interested
in the granting of licenses only to
the extent that general business con
ditions in Valdez are affected. The
association is composed of the busi
ness men of the city, whose interests
are in. Valdez, and the citizens of the
city should consider the club’s argu
ments with deep attention.
The question brought up at this
time is not a “wet” or “dry’* Alaska,
but a “wet” or "dry” Valdez with
other towns wide open and the rev
enues of the city seriously under
mined.
The city council has also gone on
record for a “wet” Valdez.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen rears in
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
i 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 Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing, Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
PortWellsand Way Ports
Leave* Valdez 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. 8TAMEY,
Arcade Cafe
Open untill 9 P. M.
Try Our Special* After 4 P. M.
Private Tables
Jack (Tallin . -_Proprietor
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
* . - i •
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
COUNCIL FAVORS
SALOONJJGENSES
Pass Resolutions Urging Citizens To
Vote "Wet,” As License Mon
ey Is Needed.
_ I
Councilman William Finical intro
duced a resolution in the council last
night placing the city dads on rec
ord as favoring the granting of sa
loon licenses in the city because of
the need of the license money paid
by the saloons in order to do busi
ness. 1
This sum of $6,000 is wanted by
the city authorities in order to meet
the expenses of government, which
are estimated by Councilman King
under his budget as being $622 short
of enough to pay the running expen
ses of the city. Councilman Finical,
however, insists that. with economy a
saving of $5,000 can be made and the
warrants now outstanding reduced by
that sum.
The resolution was passed without
a dissenting vote, and is as follows:
Whereas, By an order of the Judge
of the District Court, of this Divis
ion, the method of obtaining the con
sent of a majority of the resident
citizens of the town of. Valdez to the
sale of liquor has been changed; and,
Whereas, The town government is
greatly dependent upon the revenue
derived from bar room licenses, and
if deprived thereof, have no other
lawful means of raising money to
make up the defiicit; and,
Whereas, A great injustice will be
worked on the business interests of
the town by the closing of saloons;
now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council
of the town of Valdez, that its mem
bers advocate the granting of saloon
licenses for the year commencing July
1, 1915.
MAKE NATIVES
FULLJCITIZENS
JUNEAU, April 28.—The bill pass
ed by the legislature regulatii/g the
manner in which the natives of Alas
ka shall ecome citizens received the
approval of Governor Strong today
and is now in effect. The law makes
the natives full citizens of the ter
ritory and entitled to vote at all elec
tions.
ALASKA LEGISLATORS
ARE READY TO QUIT
JUNEAU, April 28.—The members
of the. Alaska legislature are prepar
ing to leave in a few days for their
homes. The members who are here
from the interior are anxious to take
the next boat for Cordova in the hope
that they may make the trip before
the trail breaks up. The legislature
will adjourn in a few days.
DIRECT PROPERTY TAX
HAS BEEN KILLED
JUNEAU, April 28.—The proposed
law which would have allowed the
taxing of property at a greater rate
than 2 per cent, and would have done
away with the present license tax
was defeated yesterday in the legisla
ture and the committee was appoint
ed to draft a special license law in
order to raise more funds.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Boys and men’s pants, overalls and
socks at Emporium. tf
Have you tried the Y. F. Co. brand
of eggs? If not do it now and note
the difference. The Yakima Fruit
Co. tf
Charles Ross, of Cordova, came up
■from his mining property yesterday
on the launch Brighton and will leave
on the Admiral Evans this evening
for Cordova.
Fine line of stationery at the Val
dez Drug Store. Prices reasonable, tf
William Harrington, the mining ex
pert, returned yesterday from an ex
amination of the "Happy Jack” min
ing property on Knights Island.
L. Larson came up yesterday from
his Knights Island mining property.
The launch N. and S. left for Port
WellB this morning.
No show at the Orpheum tonight
as the theatre Is being altered.
For pure drugs see window of Val
des Brug Co. tf
NEWSBOYS ON HORSEBACK.
Cartiers Make Quick Time to the Sub
urbs In Montevideo.
Most American newsboys think
themselves well off if they own a good
suit of clothes, but in the Uruguayan
capital of Montevideo there are over
fifty newsboys who own horses and
peddle their papers on horseback.
Montevideo has 300.000 inhabitants,
but it spreads over more territory than
an American city of the same popula
tion; there are almost no tenement
houses, and there are several large
parks.
Like Americans, the Uruguayans
want their evening paper as soon as
possible after it comes from the press.
The horseback newsboys supply, this
demand with astonishing rapidity. La
ltazon, one of the leading evening jour
nals. is issued at 0 o'clock. About
twenty minutes before that hour the
newsboys, mostly young men from
eighteen to twenty-five years of age.
gather in the street in front of the
newspaper office. When the papers are
brought out the clerk hands a bundle
to each, and away he starts at a full
gallop. All the business in the center
of the town is done by ordinary “foot
newsboys;” the horsemen race away
to their “beats” in the suburbs, shout
ing with all their might. “La ltazon!
La ltazon!"
A customer who wishes to buy a pa
per steps to tlie sidewalk and holds out
his arm. The horse knows the signnl
and pulls up so short that it is a won
der the rider Is not catapulted over his
head.
So efficient is this system of eques
trian newsboys that a dweller in the
outskirts of Montevideo gets his even
ing paper almost as soon as the man
who lives in the very heart of the city.
—Youth’s Companion.
ORIGIN OF THE TELEPHONE.
It Sprung From Bell’s Efforts to Teach
the Deaf to Speak.
Trofessor Alexander Graham Bell
is reported to have explained in a lec
ture how he came to invent the tele
phones follows:
“My father invented a symbol by
which deaf mutes could converse, and
finally 1 invented an apparatus by
which the vibrations of speech could
be seen, and it turned out to he a tele
phone. It occurred to me to make a
machine that would enable one to hear
vibrations. I went to an aurist, and
he advised mo to take the human ear
as my model. lie supplied me with a
dead man’s ear, and with this ear 1
experimented, and upon applying the
apparatus I found that the dead man’s
ear wrote down the vibrations.
“I arrived at the conclusion that if 1
could make iron vibrate on a dead
man's ear I could make an instrument
more delicate which would cause
those vibrations to be heard and un
derstood. 1 thought if I placed a deli
cate piece of steel over an electric
magnet I could get a vibration, and
thus the telephone was completed.
“The telephone arose from my at
tempts to teach the deaf to speak. It
arose from my knowledge not of elec
tricity, but as a teacher of the deaf.
Had I been an electrician I would not
have attempted it."
“Belling the Cat.”
“Who will bell the cat?" Is a curi
ous old proverb, famous in parable and
in history. The mice, says the para
ble. held a consultation how to secure
themselves from the cat, and they re
solved to hang a hell about the cat’s
neck to give warning when she ap
proached. but after they had resolved
on doing it they were as far off as
ever, for who would do it?
Both parable and proverb have im
mortalized themselves iu history.
When tlie Scottish nobles met at Stir
ling in a body they proposed to take
Spence, the obnoxious favorite of
James II.. and bang him and so get
rid of him.
"Ah.” said Lord Grey, "that's very
well said, but who'll bell the cat?”
“That will X." said the black Earl
Angus. He undertook the task, accom
plished it aud was called “Archibald
Bell the Cat" until his dying day.—
Glasgow Times.
His Foot In It.
"Well,” said the hostess, bidding her
guest good night, “you have a long
drive home, hut it’s a lovely evening.”
“Yes, Isn’t it a fine night?” answered
the guest addressed.
“So you’ll have a nice drive and
won’t wish you hadn’t come to see
me.”
“On the contrary, 1 assure you, I al
ways think thnt the drive home Is the
very best part of affairs like this.”
Another one of the things that might
have been put differently if one had
had time to think it over.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
National Flowers.
Teacher—Now, children, can you tell
me what are the national flowers of
England? Class—Roses. Teacher—And
France? Class—Lilies. Teacher—And
Spain? (Silence for a minute—then
small voice at back of the schoolroom)
—Bulrushes, ma’am.—Life.
His Bluff Called.
"My dear, you grow prettier every
day.”
“And shabbier, John. Compliments
ure all very well, but I’d like to see a
little ready cash occasionally.”
Maternal 8olioitude.
“Is she good to the children?”
“Very. She lets them do everything
their father doesn’t want them to do.”
—Detroit Free Press.
The greatest man V frr who chooses
with the meat Invincible resolution.—
8ene«a.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
: Chas.PerRY
. JA Complefe Services
I f»:lN THE HEART OF THE CITY,
|l55Boomswitti bath-50 SampleRooms
BEST PLAGE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, cn Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
< 7 u »ri to 9 a m
M10-A LS < Lunch 12 m to 1 \ ni
f 0 to 7 |> li'
BOARD & ROOM 550 per Mo.
Valdez Hospital
Largest and Best Equipped Hospital
in Southwestern Alaska.
Graduate Nurses—Private Rooms for Patients
For Terms'and Particulars Apply to
E. C. DALTON, M, D., Physician in Charge.
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
group consisting of the Monte Carlo,
Monte 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 sec^on.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 4th
day of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6. 1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdei
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. 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 will be no trips of the launch
on the secoi d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boilers.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“b'acl?" 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
RROSPEOTOR FOR RE
SULTS.