THE EMPRESS
To-Night Only at 8:P.M.
The Rev. Salamander- Comedy drama.
Cartoons in the Laundry- Comedy.
The Man From Texas- Tom Mix in one of his
great horse stunts.
The Experiment- Comedy.
Ham and Bud- the scream artists.
Tomorrow- The Man From Home Comedy.
STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
Copper Block Hotel
VALDKZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7
FOR MEN ONLY
VOl'It KX.K’T MK.lSt III-’,
is necessary in order to have a
perfect Fit. We know how to
do the measuring, the rutting
and the putting together ef
garments. Our made to meas
ure suits represent the highe. I
degree of perfection at iioom
parable prices Have us tailor
you one or two winter suits
You will then be ready for the
I Iolidays.
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Imported ana Domestic
Wines, Liquors and Cigars
Phone 69
(Paid Advertisement)
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—mill report to you far work fimldletoly i&ad his arrival la-the
Fairbanks Mining District. Wou are to p^yhlo to work as soon as
you pdsslbly can, not later . 1908. be Is to recelr
from you J5.00 por ten hour day and board and tunk-house free of
chargs, alstm Association card which will entitle,hlsi to
dootor'a care Shd hospital treatment free, should he get hurt ot
incur slokneas while In your employ or In thn suploy of eny member
ot our Association. be understands that hs is to have nothing to do
with any union! federation or any other agitators whatsoever, but
report dlreotiy to you Immediately upon hla arrival In Fairbanks
Mining District}; and he further understands that should he in any way
violate the conditions herein contained, he forfeits all hla olalm
on you for employment or to the receipt of an Association oard.
/ Agent Mine Owners and Operators
Association of Fairbanks Mining
Dlatrlst.
Good Clean Bunks.
If you go to • the Pioneer Bunk
House on Keystone avenue. Hvery
thing handy for housekeeping for
only $2.60 per week. tf
Hot corn bread and baked new po
tatoes atter 6 p. m. at the Arcade, tf
Location notices, Doth quartz and
placer, at the Miner office.
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FARRAGUT ARRIVES
AND SAILS WESTWARD
The steamer Admiral Farragut
came in from the south Saturday eve
ning about 8 o'clock and sailed to
the westward about 9:30. Her pas
sengers for Valdez were Mr. and Mrs.
W. K. Millard, J. Baumann, C. Holms
burg, C. Stroud and A. J. Olson. For
Fort Llscum, Mrs. Newlove, Margaret
Newlove and Gwendoline Newlove.
The passengers booked from here for
the westward were Karl Anderson,
Chris Anderson, Mrs. H. R. Herbert,
Mrs. M. M. Mohle, M. Demidoff, J. A.
Silverman, E. M. Ball, John Miller,
E. J. Smiley, and a number of wit
nesses and others who have been in
attendance at the session of the dis
trict court.
Stop tliat Infernal Racket
Show your wife how much you
love her and send that noisy old
pump to the Valdez Iron Works and
let them remove the peace disturber,
your neighbors will appreciate It. tf
Nuts and Fruits, Chocolate Cover
ed, at Hunt’s.
See Blake for Cement Blocks. tf
Notice of Sale of Real Estate.
In Commissioner's Court for Valdez
Precinct, Territory of Alaska—In
Probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of H. B.
Wiltse, a Minor.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned will sell at the front door
of the federal courthouse in Valdez,
Alaska, on Tuesday, October 24, 1916,
at 2 o'clock p. m., the following de
scribed real property to-wit: an un
divided one-half of three certain lode
mining claims situated near Wells
Bay, in the above-named precinct,
known as the Big Buffalo Nos. 1, 2,
and 3; pursuant to an order and li
cense to sell made by the above-en
titled court on August 29, 1916.
Dated September 25, 1916.
B. C. WILTSE,
Guardian of the estate of H. B. Wiltse
a minor.
First publication Sept. 25, 1916.
Last publication Oct. 16, 1916.
Publish Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9. 16. 4t
Notice of Equalization.
The Common Council of the Town
of Valdez, Alaska, will meet at the
City Hall, as a Board of Equalization,
on the second Monday of October, the
Tuesday following said Monday, and
the Thursday following the third
Monday in October, between the hours
of 8 p. in. and 9 p. in., on each of said
days, for the purpose of equalizing
assessments for the year 1916.
The Tax Holl is now open for in
spection, between the hours of 8 a.
in. p...d 12 in. and 1 p. m. and 6 p.
• at the office of the Town Clerk in
the v aldez Mercantile Co.'s store.
W. M. MEALS,
• Town Clerk.
Sept. 28, 29, 30, Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4. 7t
Statement of Ownership.
Statement of Ownership, Manage
iiie:,t. Circulation, etc., of the Valdez
Daily Prospector, published daily ex
cept Sunday at Valdez, Alaska, re
quired by I he Act of August 24, 1912:
Manager. Elliott Stewart.
Editor, 11. B. Selby.
Publishers, Elliott Stewart and
Harry U. Selby. .*■
Owners (stockholders holding one
por cen t or more of . total amount of
stock) Elliott Stewart and Harry B.
Selby.
Known bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders, holding
one per cent or more of total amount
of bonds, mortgages or other securi
ties, none.
Average daily circulation for last
preceding month, 602 paid copies.
ELLIOTT STEWART, Mgr.
II. U. SELBY, Editor.
Sworn to before me this 1st day of
October. 1916.
ANTONY J. DIMOND,
Notary Public.
My commission expires
My commission expires May 28, 1916.
Early or late
Phone 48
Baggage Transferred
at a reasonable rate
Sonnie’s Express
Office at
SONNIE’S NEW
& SECOND HAND STORE
Men’s Furnishings
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CAMERON
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FAMOUS GOLD SHIP
DISMANTLED FOB JUNK
The battered hull of the famous old
gold ship "Portland" now lying on the
beach at Katalla, Alaska, Is being
torn to pieces for the brass bolts and
fasteners which E. E. Miller, of
Ketchikan Is going to sell for Junk.
Such is the prosaic end of the
famous old ship that startled the
world on a sunny July day, nineteen
year ago, by bringing to Seattle a
cargo of raw gold taken from the
newly-discovered Eldorado on the
Yukbn river. The news of tho Port
land's arrival was flashed around the
world, and In a few weeks adventur
ers and gold hunters from every cor
ner of the earth were headed for the
scene of the new strike. From that
dale Seattle was placed definitely on
the map as a city of commercial im
portance.
The Portland is being broken up
for/Ju.nk! Miller says that junk has
advanced 110 per cent in price since
the beginning of the European war,
and that the price offered for copper,
lead, brass and babbitt Is such that it
is a paying proposition to unearth tho
wrecked ships that are strewn along
the coast for the metal that is in
them, and that Junk dealers in Se
attle pay fifteen cents a pound whole
sale for the same. Occasionally It Is
necessary to obtain permission from
the former owners of a hull before
breaking it up, but for the most
part wrecks three of four years old
are handled without any such for
mality.
The Portland began her long and
sensational career In 1886 under the
name of the Haytian Bepublic." Al
most from the first voyage' she began
to furnish the newspapers with start
ling Items of news, as she was seized
for carrying ammunition to the reb
els in Hayti during the Hippolyte re
bellion. When the United States gov
ernment forced her release, a futile
attempt was made to sink her as she
left the harbor at Port au Prince,
and the marks of the collision with
the gunboat selected to do the work
were still visible when she came to
tho Pacific coast in 1889.
After failing both as a canenry boat
and a passenger steamer during the
next few years, she was finally char
tered by a Portland concern, for the
purpose of carrying passengers and
freight between Vancouver, Puget
Sound and the Columbia river. How-,
ever, later the principal and most;
lucrative part of her cargo consisted
of contraband Chinese and opium, it
was aleged. As a smuggler she was j
notoriously successful until the ex
pose of the big smuggling ring on
Puget sound, after which she was
seized and sold by the government.
at Portland.
Her new owners remodeled her anil
started her out again under the name
of "Portland.” Prom this time on
she had a varied, but always re
spectable career, running to all points
between Panama and the far Aleu
tian Islands of Alaska.
As a passenger boat on the Alas
kan run no steamer was ever more
popular than the “Gold Ship.” All
over Alaska today are people who
like to recall the pleasant Journeys
made on the old “Portland,” and
who still feel a twinge of regret when
they tell of her fate.
It was during a heavy snow squall
one morning in November, 1910, that
the Portland, westward bound, in
trying to anchor off Katalla struck
an unchartered rock and tore a large
hole in her bottom. The captain,
thinking only of the safety of his
hardly awakened passengers, ran the
sinking vessel full speed a distance
of two miles until she finally ground
ed on the bar In front of the town.
Lighters and launches from Katalla
were alongside almost immediately
and the passengers, who scarcely had
time to realize what had happened,
were quickly takeu asiiore. The one
hotel not being large enough to ac
comodate them all, the sympathetic
residents came forward and offered
the shelter of their cabins. Even the
ship’s four cats and a family of kit
tens found happy~liomes, when an
old sailor produced them from the
egg case into which he had placed
them when the ship began to go to
pieces.
That night all the town was out
on the beach watching through the
mist while the old Portland made her
last light against the sea, and the
creaking and groaning of rending
timbers could be heard above the
roar of the breakers. When morning!
came the beach in front of the town I
was Uttered with piles of wreckage
three feet high. Provisions of all
kinds, turkeys, chickens, and meat
alternated with bedding, and furni
ture protuded here and there from
stacks of splintered wood. The beach -
combers, hurrying from pile to pile
In the gray, drizzling dawn, reaped a
harvest.
Six years have gone by since then
and piece by piece the old hull was
washed ashore, but the engines cov
ered with barnacles and sea weed
and buffeted by breakers, sink deep
er each year into the sand on the
bar, and the launchmen of Katalla
use the rusty old mass of iron as a
tide-mark, for they know when the
incoming tide covers' the gold ship’s
engines, they may take their boats
out with safety through the breakers
on the bar.
Workingmen’s Home.
Back of the postoffice. Bunks with
out blankets, $1.50 per week; with
blankets $1.76. Do your own cook
ing. tf
Attention Please
Get your Ideas for your Christmas
presents at the Needlecraft shop in
McKinley Street FT
Ding, dong, hear that bell and City
Express goes by like—well, we check
your baggage, trunks and grips by
day or night; we meet all ships, tf
Turkish Baths.
Oo to the Turkish Baths next to
the postoffice. Shower baths, 25c;
steam baths, 50c. tf
How about that photo you promised
to send home? Go to B. Jenner, the
Photographer, and have it taken to
day. It only takes a few minutes, tf
A HISTORICAL OLD TREE.
Ons Planted on Long Island by Sana*
tor Rufus L. King.
Perhaps the most historic tree in the
vicinity of Jamaica Is that on the
grounds of King manor, in front of the
east entrance, planted over a hundred
years ago, it is believed, by Senator
Itufus L. King himself. That the dis
tinguished contemporary of Washing
ton uud Jefferson and Hamilton and
brilliant defender of federal principles
planted this tree with his own hands
was testified to by the late Hon. John
A. King, grandson of Rufus L. King, in
a conversation be had on the grounds
of the manor on the occasion of the
transfer of the historic property to the
village of Jamaica.
John A. King, in talking with Judge
Fleming at that time, pointed to this
old sycamore or buttonwood tree and
remarked that his eminent grandfather
bad planted it He said, “I think I’ll
have a plate put on the tree to perpetu
ate the fact.” Whether ho ever did so
or not, there Is no plate there at the
present tlm&
There are several hlg boles in the
trunk, which have been filled In with
cement to preserve 1L At one time it
sheltered a doghouse which Rtood In
the hole at the bottom of the trunk. It
is related tbnt In the days of Rufus
King and his son. Governor King, there
was a bell on the tree, which was rung
when people appeared at the gate to j
give notice that they stood waiting to '
be admitted. The tree belongs to the!
plane tree family. It Is doubtless one
of the finest specimens of this family j
to be found in this country.—Long Is
land Life.
SHOWED HIM THE DOOR.
And Dickens Went and Stood Not
Upon the Order of Hie Going.
Colonel B. was the proprietor of a
widely known old bouse In tbo south
which three-quarters of a century ago
had earned Its reputation as a well
conducted tavern.
When Charles Dickens came to Amer
ica he stopped at this southern house
He was hardly settled In his room be
fore Colonel B. was at the door. He
assured him that his horses, his wines,
all the lavish hospitality of a state
famed for its generosity, stood at the
convenience of the distinguished vis
itor.
Dickens received the proffer coldly.
In London one did not accept a tavern
keeper as a social equal. So It was
that he returned tlie courteous offer by
saying that when he wished the serv
ices of the Innkeeper he would send for
him.
For sixty seconds Colonel B. stood si- I
lent, his great face growing redder all
the while. Finally he stretched out a
long arm toward Dickens.
'You go, sir!” he stammered. "And
do not stand upon the order of your
going.”
The novelist went And It Is to be
trusted he had learned that the Ainerl
can hotel keeper of that day and age
was not to be confused with bis broth
er in faroff Europe.—Edward Hunger- |
ford In Saturday Evening Post
Social 8tructur«.
What is a social structure? it may
be an ant hill or a democracy. It Is !
usually composed of a mass of Indi
viduals banded together for mutual
disagreement It Is centripetal and
centrifugal. Each Individual would
like to get out of it but he doesn’t
know how. Small masses of individ
uals, also banded together, would like
to get out of it, but they don’t know
how. Larger masses of Individuals
banded together would like to get rid
of some of the smaller masses, but
they don’t know bow. Nobody wants
everybody else to stay. Everybody
doesn’t want anybody to stay. The
result Is that nobody can get rid of
anybody.
Hence the social structure.—Llfa
Origin of Geometry.
There Is ULtlo doubt thut the science
of geometry had Us origin in Egypt.
The annual overflow of the Nile wiped
ont all landmarks and boundaries, and
some reliable means of measuring the
earth was an absolute necessity;
hence the rise of geometry, which
means earth measurement From all
accounts the philosopher Thales took
the science from Egypt to Greece,
where it was greatly improved and
carried very near the perfection it
dually reached through the discoveries
of the celebrated Descartes of tbe eev
euteeutb century.
No Common Cur.
Wbeu assessing n family in Irvlng
ton tbe question of "what breed” was
asked of the owner of the family dog
The woman of the house answered:
‘He's just a cur.” Her sLs-year-old sou
straightened himself up to his full
height, putted his dog on the head and
proudly proclaimed. "Yes, and he’s a
full blooded cur too."—Indianapolis
News.
Could Livo on Love,
Father-The Idea or marrying that
young fellow! He couldn't scrape
enough money together to buy e
square meal. Daughter—But what
difference need that make? We haven’t
either of us had a bit of appetite for
months.
Hie Keener Optlo.
"How did you get such a bruised eye.
RastusT"
"Well boss, I was out a-lookln' for
trouble an* dls yere eye was de fuat to
And It."—Boston Transcript.
Lions and Lavender.
There la no record of a lion ever hav
ing attacked a trainer who had taken
the precaution of perfuming himself
with lavender.
THE FIRST BANK OF VALDEZ
Resources $250,000.
WE DO A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
DRAFTS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON ANY PART
OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.
Safe Deposit Boxes for Rent.
DEPOSITARY FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
plumbing STOVES and RANGES heating
(MOTOR BOAT SUPPUES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valve*, Hose, Pipe and Fitting*
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
■S* TONY’S PLACED
EVERYTHING
F1RS1 CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
CHAS. R. CRAWFORD
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Dealer in Agent for
Building Material. Machinery, Gas Engines
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Telephone 68
Foot Keymone Ave
Rousrh Dry lCc lb |
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOIjM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
From Seattle—
Sept. *2(1—S. S. Alaska.
Sept. 30—S. S. Mariposa.
(>rt. !>.— S. S. Northwestern.
Oct. to—S. S. Alameda.
From Valdez—
Sept. 2<f.—S. S. Northwestern.
Oct. I—S. S. Alameda.
Oct. 0—S. S. Alaska.
Oct. It)—S. S. Mariposa.
Oct. 1.1—S. S. Northwestern.
Oct. 20—S. S. Alameda.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek. Treadwell. Douglas, Skngway. Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and I-a
touche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notlc*
r. B. TRACY, Gea'l Agent VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agent
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
Admiral
Line.
PUGET SOUND |
Alaska
SAIIJNOS FROM SFATTI.F—
Oct. 1—». S. Admiral Wataon—
Anchorage and way port*.
Oct. K—S. S. Admiral Hvaua— Au
clioraKc and way porta.
Oct. IS—S. S. Admiral Farragut—
Kodiak and Way Porta.
Oct. 152—S. N. Admiral Wataon—
Anchorage and way porta.
Oct. 21*—S. S. Admiral Fvana—
Anchorage and way porta.
Nov. S—S. S. Admiral Farragut—
Anchorage and way porta.
SAII.INOS FROM VALDEZ.
Oct. tt—S. S. Admiral Farraffut
Oct. lit—S. S. Admiral AA ataon—
Oct. 20— N. S. Admiral Etana.
Oct. 27—S. S. Admiral Farraicut.
Nov. :<—S. M. Admiral AVataoa.
Nov. 10—S. S. Admiral Evana.
Nov. 17—S. S. Admiral Farragat. 1
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to Snu Frandaco on the .1th of each month and every live day*
thereafter, connecting with Steamer* Yale and Harvard for
Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
A. J. HAINES, Manager, Seattle.
Valdez Dock Company, Local Agents.
Over the Top of- the World
by Electric Power.
The “OLYMPIAN” and the “COLUMBIAN,” the Mil
waukee's crack transcontinental trains are now hauled
over mountain barriers by electric power. Take these
smooth riding ALL-STKKL trains and avoid the
smoke, soot and cinders incident to steam travel.
J. C. Marfa, VaMax, PImm I A. E. Harris. T. P. A. Jaataa, AlaAa.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway