Now Comes a Hat Sale
THE HAT MAN wants to
clean up his stock and
we’re going to help him in
every possible way. Exactly
eighty-four hats have been
selected and they’re going to
be sold—we made a price to
insure that. There are about
a dozen styles:—Telescopes,
Flodoras, both raw and
bound edges, blocks, derby set—Colors are black, I
brown olives and tans—all
sizes. Regular price
$3.00. Now your choice at
There are fourteen crush
hats, in grey only,
worth regular $2.00
for.
J
Valdez Mercantile Co.*
TRUE VALUES
ALASKA
_ STEAMSHIP CO.
S. S. Mariposa and S. S. Alameda sail from Seattle
the 1st, 8th, 16th and 24th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south-7th, 15th, 23rd and 30th for Cordova,
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Juneau, Sheep creek Treadwell, Douglas
Cordova, Kllumar. Valdez and Latouche. Explosives. S S Seward. S S Seward. 5th'
S S Latouche, 15th: S S Cordova. 25th of each month—Right reserved to change this
sohedule without notice.
F B. Ti»‘.y, Gen’l Agt- Valdez Dock Co., Local Agt.
I Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
| PUGET SOUND PUGET SOUND f
| California Alaska |
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on £
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH §
Steamer (ailing 15th call* Iliamna and Kodiak—All *ailing(call at Knik Anchorage 5
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Franciaco every Wedneaday and Sunday connecting with S
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Blfht reserved to change schedule without notice g
RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt. 1
Copper River Lumber Co., be.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and f I T11/10CO Budding
Puget Sound LUIVIDEJa Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Price* Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
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 (1300.00), 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, w-hic.h 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
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6, 1915.
Notice To Creditors.
In the Commissioner’s Court for the
Territory of Alaska. Third Divis
ion. At Valdez. In Probate.
In tho matter of the estate of W.
H. Blackwell, deceased.—Notice to
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been regularly appoint
ed as the executrix of the estate of
W. H. Blackwell, deceased, and cred
itors and all other persons, having
claims against said estate, are here
by notified to exhibit the same to me,
together with the necessary proof
thereof, at my place of business at
Valdez, Alaska, within six months af
ter the first publication of this no
tice, the same being the place for the
transaction of all business in connec
tion with said estate. Dated at Val
dez, Alaska, this 13t,h day of Febru
ary, 1915.
MBS, W. H. BLACKWELL,
Executrix of the estate of W. II.
Blackwell, deceased.
Date of first publication Feb. 16, 1915.
Date of last publication March 16,
1915.
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in ‘he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-live thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of trie
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing me company to amenu ns
articles of incorporation, so that Its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that it may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that It may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney In fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
is the prlnqipal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1916, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
Directors.
The Prospector office for job wont.
am——— i ,.i ■
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
SEARCHLIGHTS IN WAR.
How Thoy Are Workod by Distant
Control In Land Oporatiana.
In modern warfare tbe searchlight
is invaluable. On dark nights at sea
It Is the only means of guurdlng
against torpedo bouts, which its beums
will reveal at a distance of two miles
and more.
On shore tt is the electric eye of the
army, it is carried to all parts of tb<j
field of action by motor truck, and the
motor that propels the vehicle drives
the electric generator that supplies the
current for the light.
Most of these field searchlights are
not directed by hand, for each instru
ment is fitted with what is known as
the distant control. Two small motors
govern the vertical and the horizontal
movements of the light. From them
an electric cable runs to the station
of the operator, who. although he may
he several hundred feet away, can
send the rays of the light in any direc
tion he pleases.
According to the Navy and Army
illustrated, one advantage of this dis
tant control is that the objects picked
up by the beam of light can be sighted
more quickly and more definitely, for
if the operator stands behind the light
and looks along the beam his vision
is hampered by a luminous haze. A
second advantage is that tlie light can
he placed in an exposed position with
out endangering the men who run it.
Were the operator and ollicer beside
the apparatus they would he certain
to receive the fire that is sure to he
poured upon it searchlight and would
sit (for rite instant the range was found.
VIRTUE OF AN APPLE.
At One Time the Fruit Was Called the
“Food of the Gods.”
The apple has become so familiar as
the co&monest of all fruits that Its
value as man’s greatest friend in the
vegetable kingdom may not be fully
realized. It was called the "food ot
the gods” because it was believed to be
the magic reuewer of youth to which
the gods resorted when they felt them
selves growing old and feeble.
There have been many mystic tradi
tions about the apple, ivhich has been
credited with varied potency. It is the
healing fruit of the Arabian tales.
Latin chronicles and institutes and ear
ly English poems contain many refer
ences to it Scientific analysis of late
years has justified all the ancient glori
fication of this fruit, which has been
found to contain albumen, sugar, gum,
malic acid, gallic acid, fiber, water aud
phosphorus.
Malic acid of apples neutralizes the
excess of chalky matter caused by too
much meat and thereby helps to keep
us young Apples are good for the
complexion, as their acids drive out the
uoxious matters which cause skiu
eruptions. They are good for the brain,
which those same noxious matters, if
retained, render sluggish. The acids
of the apple diminish the acidity of the
stomach that comes with some Forms
of indigestion.
The phosphorus, of which apples con
tain a larger per cent than any other
fruit or vegetable, renews the essential
matter of the brain and spinal column.
-Boston Herald.
Does Your Spine Shiver?
"A shivering spine." said a psycholo
gist, "is the one infallible proof of an
artistic temperament. Does a shiver
run up and down your spine when you
listen to beautiful music or read a
lovely poem or look at tt superb paint
lug? If not the gates of art are closed
to you forever All great artists aud
all good critics experience ibis shiver
ing sensation of the backbone before a
worthy work of art. Some of these
men use rite shiver as a measure The
work that does not evoke it they pro
nounce tt failure. My own spine shivers
best to music. The violin solo that
precedes the last act of Massenet’s
’Thais' sets tip in me a tremolo move
ment that wrinkles the back of my
coat”—Exchange.
Napoleon as an Editor.
The Almanaeh de Gotha was already
of sufficient importance over a century
ago to prompt a dispatch from Napo
leon. On Oct 20, 1807, he wrote to
Champagny. his foreign felnister. com
plaining that “the latest edition of the
Almanaeh de Gotha is full of errors,
no account having been taken of the
changes wrought by me Id Germany.
Tell the minister from Gotha to call
on yon und Inform him that this mnst
be set right In the forthcoming editlou.
Insist on seeing the section devoted to
Germany before the edition is pub
lished.”
On* of Many.
"What kind of work could you pos
sibly do around an office?"
“I’m a kind o’ all around handy man,
mister. 1 kin hold a door open, light a
match for ye. look out an' see if It’s
rainin', call a taxi, drop letters down
the chute an* tell folks yer out when
ye ain’t." -I.lfe.
Speaking of Sponge*.
“1 see in the paper here that the
largest sponge ever found is three feet
across and ten feet in circumference.”
“That’s Just about Uncle Sqtieezly’s
size, isn’t it?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Couldn’t Expect Him To.
Lady—I’m afraid you don’t like
work, my good man. Tramp—How kin
I, mum? Work’s wot killed my poor
wife.”—Boston Transcript.
Ominous.
First Small Boy—We’d better he
good, Second Small. Boy-Why? Flftd
Small Boy—1 beard the doctor tell
mother to take plenty of exercise!—
Lus Augelea Examiner
I
PICKING A PICKPOCKET.
Rules That Quids Chicago Detectives
In Spotting Their Man.
How to tell a pickpocket when you
see one—the feat is apparently not
difficult, for all applicants who take
the civil service examination to be
come Chicago detectives are required
to have mastered it.
“What are the physical characteris
tics of pickpockets?" the would be
thief catchers are asked.
And tills is the answer they are ex
pected to give:
“Pickpockets ordinarily travel In
mobs and are of two distinct types—
one small or medium stature, the other
tall and muscular. As a general rule,
the age runs from eighteen to thirty
five. Their bands are soft, show no
signs of work, and the fingers of all
except the ‘stall' and particularly the
fingers of the ‘wire’ are long and slen
der. Their eyes are shifting and fur
tlve. Their complexion is generally
sallow and without distinct color, this
being due either to prison pallor in
types or to the use of cocaine or other
drugs. The cocaine users show drawn
features uud prominent check bones
and usually have distinct rings around
the eyes.
"The temperament of pickpockets is
high strung because of the dangers of
the ‘profession’ or from the use of
drugs. At the same time they are po
lite almost to the point of obsequious
ness. They seldom carry weapons and
rarely resort to force. On duty they
dress to suit the occasion, generally
well, but not conspicuously. They
avoid wearing anything that might
lead to Identification." — lialtimore
American.
OUR FIRST ELECTION.
Methods In the Days When Washing
ton Was Chosen President.
At the first national election at which
General Washington was chosen presi
dent only eleven of the thirteen states
voted. North Carolina and Rhode Is
land not yet having entered the Union,
and in only three—Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Virginia—were popular elec
tions held. In the other eight states
the legislatures chose tlie electors. New
York did not choose electors because
of a feud between the anti-Federalist
house and the Federalist senate.
One exciting incident was caused by
the fear on the part of Alexander Ham
ilton that John Adams, who was on
the ticket for vice president with
Washington, was plotting to tie tlie
vote, and thus by throwing the elec
tion into the national house of repre
sentatives defeat the Father of His
Country for president. So real was
this fear in Hamilton that he dis
patched messengers on horses to Vir
ginia. Connecticut and New Jersey to
stampede the legislatures of the latter
two states to Washington.
So long did it take to gather news
that Washington was actually innugu
rated president before some of the
remote counties in Virginia had sent
in their returns. In this first election
there was only one ticket and there
was no campaigning. There were only
about 3.000.000 inhabitants in the conn
try at that time, and the whole cost
of setting up the machinery of this
presidental election is estimated at less
than $100.00o.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Spinster’s Hint.
A maiden well advaueed in years
used to wait every morning for the
postman, a bachelor of about her age.
and ask him if there were not a letter
for her. Several weeks passed thus,
but the anxiously expected letter did
not arrive. Tin,illy one morning the
postman said to her:
“Well, tomorrow you shall get your
letter If I have to write it myself."
"That's right; do it.” replied the old
maid. "1 shall be delighted to ac
cept it.”
“Well.” said the postman, smiling,
"what do you want me to write—a
business letter or a love letter?"
“If you mean business, please write
a love letter!" was her blushing reply.
—Loudon Scraps.
Ownership of the Air.
Our ancestors must have foreseen
the aeroplane or they would not have
embodied in the law the principle that
he who owns the land owns the col
umn of air above "usque ad coelum."
or up to the skies. This can be traced
back as far as the reign of Edward I.,
and from this time every authority to
the present court of appeal has em
phasized the right of every citizen not
only to be king of hla own castle, but
of the sky above It—Londtm Chronicle
Too Deep For Him.
A Britisher was announcing bis
views on things in general and sum
med up blB own position by tbe state
ment. “Well, I’ve seen life." “But’'
said his American friend, “one of your
own bright poets has said. 'Life’s a
Joke.’ ’’ The Britisher is still exploring
tbe remark.—New York Times.
Consistent.
She — This wait between the acts
seems to me to be dreadfully long. He
—Yes. You see. twenty years are sup
posed to elapse, and the management
iB simply trying to make the effect us
realistic as possible.—Richmond Times
Dispatch.
Trimming the Barber.
The Head Barber—Sure. Mr. Allgull.
I’ll lend ybu a dollar. Ulad to help you
out. Mr. Allgall — Many thunks, old
man. They’re having a sale of safety
razors around the corner, and I didn't
want to miss it—Philadelphia Bullc
tin. ___
Every real and searching effort for
self improvement is of itself a lesson
of profound humility.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and 3ell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Chas. Perry
~4Complete Services ‘
-T IN THE HEART OF THE CITY ,
|jKRoomswijjibdlr505ampIeBooms
The Prospector office for job work.
Summons By Publication
In tile District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. D. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Kri Thomp
son and M. A. Kllis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Kri Thomp
son, the above named defendant: You
are hereby summoned to appear in
the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, in the Third Division, at
Valdez, within thirty days after the
completion of the publication of this
summons against you. to-wit: within
thirty days after the 19th day of Ap
ril. 1915, and answer the complaint
of the above named plaintiff, filed in
the clerk's office of tjie above entitled
court: and unless you so appearand
answer or otherwise plead, the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complain*,
to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
ed in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Kri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the game be sold to satis
fy said judgments.
This summons Is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered hv the
[above entitled court, on the 8th day
of March. 1915, which publication was
directed to be made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this 8th
day of March. 1915.
(Seal) ARTHUR DANG.
Clerk of the District Court.
By ( HAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March 8,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915.
Notice of Election.
Notice is hereby given that a Gen
eral Municipal Election will be held
in the Town of Valdez, Alaska, on
the sixth day of April. 1915, for the
purpose of electing seven members of
the Common Council, who shall hold
office for the term of one year, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified; also one member of the
Valdez School Board who shall serve
as a director for a term of three •
years and until his successor is elect- ;
ed and qualified.
The Town Hall has been designat
ed as the polling place for said elec- »
tion. ;l
Said election shall commence at 9*
o’clock a. m. and shall continue un-g
til 7 o’clock p. m. of the same day,|
without closing the polls.
R. E. ASHBY,
Town Clerk, §
Publications March 8, 15. 22. 29. §
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
“bacic” a good plan, a
good idea, a good busi- j
ness venture or a good 1
mining prospect-other-j
wise a good many of to-J
day’s successful business I
enterprises would still bef
mere dreams. I
Advertising has brought
about a majority of tbfi
introductions of the malr
with the idea, the may
with a prospect or bust •'
ness to the man with ttf \:
dollar. I
ADVERTISE IN TMp
PROSPECTOR FOR Rt ?
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