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VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The House of Comfort”
PHONE 7 for men only
Valdez Miners IWoii No. 188
Western Federation df Miner*
ROBERT SHAFFER. President.
Granite 'Mine.
CEAS. McCALIAJM. Senretarr.
Valdes Alaska.
When In Seward Stop at the !
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, PROP
SrRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave, Seward, Alaska
Or the
ahd Nowhere Else _
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Here are two farts <abbut
the Remington which
every -typewriter buyer
should .know:
1. Tbe Remington Column
Selector adds 25 per cent. :o
the letter writing speed of (he
typist. This is not a claim or
an estimate. 3t is a definite fact
—proved and established by any
number of comparative tests.
2. The Column Selector is a
Remington feature exclusively.
No other machine has it—<n
anything T/fce it.
Adds 25 per cent, to ties speed
Adds nothing to the price j
Oh, yes, oilier machines have devices -.which look like it, with the five
keys, etc. It is :ea?.v for a salesman, who knows the supreme merit of
this Remington feature., to cal] them “column selector” keys. But there
is no other device on any other typewriter which can do what the Reming
■ton Column Selector does.
I ne icemmgton t_oiumn selector
is the only feature on any type
' writer wliich permits instantane
ous setting of the carriage at any
desired point on the line.
It is the only feature which pro
vides this setting by either for
ward or backward movement.
is the only featute which j>ro
viarisrue express service witn
no stop-to-stop movement in
reaching any writing point.
And I'ifsf are the features which
mate the 25 per cent, speed
pain.
Let us shew you the real and
only Column Selector — on the
Model 10 IRemington.
REMINGTON TYPEWRITER COMPANY
' (loewrporated)
t f 1111 3rd Ave., Seattle, Wash,
F. D. MILLARD, Agent and Supplier-Cooper Block. Valdes
TIDE TABLES FOR .APRIL.
The following table Is compiled for
high and low tides in Valdez Bay.
Tuesday, April 26.
High, 5:44 am, 8.0; 7:40 pm, 7.1.
Low, 11:35 am, 3.8; 12:55 pm, 0.8.
Wednesday, April 26.
High, 7:17 am, 7.6; 8:38 pm, 7.7.
Low, 1:22 am, 3.4; 2:05 pm, 1.0.
, Thursday, April 27.
High, 8^40 am, 7.6; 9:25 pm, 8.4.
Low, 2:47 am, 2.5; 3:00 pm, 1.2.
Friday, April 28.
High, 9:47 am, 7.7; 10:05 pm, 9.1.
Low, 3:46 am, 1.4; 3:47 pm, 1.3.
Saturday, April 29.
High, 10:42 am, 7.9; 10:40 pm, 9.6.
Low, 4:36 am, 0.5; 4:28 pm, 1.6.
Sunday, April SO.
High, 11:29 am. 8.0; 11:13 pm, 9.9.
Low, 5:18 am, 0.3; 5:04 pm, 1.7.
Spring Samples in heavy weights,
for Alaska wear. Guy F. Cameron,
Tailor. tf
If you want what you want, when
you want it, call 196. Alaska Inv. 2t
WANTED—A small cook stove in
good condition. Apply E. G. Ames.
'V —
Valdez Drug Company has a fine
line of School Stationery. tf
A fine display of nugget jewelry at
Valdffc Drug Co. tf
Farfuy Stationery at the Valdez
Drug fetore. tf
Just Received—the latest Popular
Songs and Music. Valdez Drug Co. tf
Anything in the jewelry line at
the Valdez Drug Co. tf
For good home-cooked meals try
Mrs. M. Olson, on Hobart street. *
Men, women's and children's wear
ing apparel, household utensils and
articles of every day need, at the
Emporium. *
I
Some Cau'ts
You can lead a horse to water,
But ^ou cannot make him drink;
You can send a boy to college,
But you cannot make him think.
You can warn a girl from marriage
But you cannot make her shrink,
You can sell a cat for trimming,
But you cannot make it mink.
Latest In War Saws.
Germany has a powerful chain saw
eight feet in length and fitted with
strong teeth which can be folded up
and fitted to the pocket. It is made
on the bicycle chain system and with
it a man can cut down a tree single
handed. It was found in a captured
trench in Belgium.
Your business or property proper
ly taken care of in your absence.
Alaska Inv. Co. 2t
SLIGHT BLAZE CALLS
OCT FIRE DEPARTMENT
The fire department was called out
yesterday afternoon by an alarm sent
in from the Pinzon. Before the fire
fighters had reached the scene the
blaze had been extinguished, with no
damage to the building. The fire
originated on the roof of the build
ing from sparks dropping onto the
shingles from the smokestack, the
soot having caught fire in the stack
and sent out a shower of sparks.
Privates Ernest Solburg and Mel
vin Huggins, from Wortman and Jas.
Rudides. from Beaver Dam, all of the
14th Inf., who have been detailed
with the Signal Corps on the tele
graph lines arrived in town this morn
ing to join the detachment at Fort
Liscum that is under orders to go to
Anchorage.
WELL KNOWN EXPORTER I
VISITING IN ALASKA,
Deuilo Vucetich, now ap exporter!
aad .merchant of the Pacific Coast
but a -cousin to the exiled king of
Montenegro, is at present in Seward
looking around, possibly with a view
to extending his business connections.
Hre is “looking around,” anyhow, to
use an old expression, but last even
ing be held a roomful of people in the j
'Commercial Club while he told most j
absorbingly interesting things about ,
lithe Balkans and the near east. "Mr.:
Vucetich is of Serbian, Slavic, nation- i
ality but was born in the city -of Con-1
stantinople. He is a cousin of the j
present exiled king of Montenegro j
.and his name Danilo was taken from!
Prince Danilo of Montenegro whose j
name has appeared so frequently in j
publications since the outbreak of the. -
jwar. Mr. Vucetich smiles when ex-.
| plaining ins mauuu&uip m ^luiumo.
I His grandmother was a first cousin to
[the mother of the king but Mr.
Vucetich reminds one that our idea of
royalty in th^Balkans is different al
together from the actuality. The
king of Montenegro lived in a modest
house in' the tiny capital and some
times would sit at the open window
and speak to the neighbors as they
passed by while at times he walked
into the friends’ houses and visited
just as a priest or parson might.
The sons of the king are accustomed
to walk into cafes like any boye and
make themselvs at home. Mr.Vucet-,
ich has all the patriot’s 'Certainty
that the Allied nations will win the
| war and that brave Serbia and Mon
Itenegro will again come to their own.
! He says three hundred thousand Ser
bian troops escaped from Serbia and
are now on the island of Corfu, at
“Avlona and at Salonica, ready to take
the field again when the allied ad
vance is ordered from Greek terri
tory. He also tells the most remark
able fact that Serbians never emi
grate from Serbia and not a hundred
of them can be found in the United
States. The Serbians here are the
ones • who lived under Austrian or
Bulgarian or Turkish rule. In Ser
bia -every man must have a little
land and when a man does not hold
his land he is an undesirable citizen.
Although born in Constantinople Mr.
Vucetich has been again and again in
Serbia and Montenegro, his birth in
the Turkish capital having been only
Ian accident, by the way. which does
, not seem pleasant by his certainty
i that the Russians are surely now on
(the way around the Black sea to con
jquer Turkey.—Gateway.
j CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION
STENOGRAPHER-TYPEWRITER j
The l\ S. Civil Service Commission j
announces an open competitive exam- |
ination at Juneau, May 20, 1916, to
provide a register t>f eligibles from
| which to make certification for filling
vacancies as they may occur in posi- j
|tions requiring the qualifications of i
| stenography, typewriting or stenogra- j
phy and typewriting in the Federal j
classified civil service in the vicinity!
of the place of examination.
Both men and women will be ad- j
mitted to the examination.
. Age, 18 years or over on the date j
of examination'.
i
Persons desiring to enter the ex- j
animation should apply to the, local1
Secretary, Surveyor General’s office, |
Junau, Alaska, for Form 1424 and ap
plication blank.
ANDY DIERIXGER TO
Bl'ILD THIS Sl'MMER
. . —
It is reported today that Andy Dier
inger, the popular proprietor of the
Valdez Transfer Company, will erect
a building 50x150 on his lots adjoin
ing the Prosepcter office, at an esti
mated cost of from $5,000 to $9,000.
The building will be used as an office
for his rapidly growing business, and
he will occupy living rooms overhead.
At the back will'be his stables and
storerooms.
Mr. Dieringer’s rapidly growing
business makes it imperative that he
have more commodious quarters, and
his new building, as planned, will give
him one of the finest transfer quar
ters in Alaska. \
LOCAL BREVITIES.
The Mary Lee made a trip to Jack’s
Bay this morning. She will take the
Fort Liscum run on her return, while
the Donaldson is laid up for repairs.
It isi reported that trout fishing is
ripe.on the lake stream and many
fishermen are planning to make the
trip Sunday. r
The regular meeting of the Valdez
Athletic Association will be held /it 8
o’clock this evening in the rooms of
the club on Keystone avenue. A full i
attendance is requested.
Captain Marcum has the launch
Shamrock hauled out and is giving 1
her a coat of paint.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
i
Prospector Ads bring results.
FINANCIAL ECONOMY.
Ofw Man’s Scheme Whan He Found Hi*
Capital Was Shrinking.
What one man did when be discover
ed bis capital was shrinking is told in
the American Magazine:
“A friend let me into a secret of b)s
financial economy which strikes me as
valuable. He is of middle age. with a
small family, and has an income of
$3,500 a year. He has put by a few
thousand dollars. His investments are
In gilt edged securities.
"At the end of every six months he
figures out exactly the value of bis
property. Each share of stock, each
boud is reckoned tit its present market
price, and the sale value of his house
is placed at the lowest figure. To the
current value of his estate he adds his
life insurance. The result is the capi
tal which would be available for the
support of bis wife and children should
he suddenly die.
"At the last three reckonings my
friend found that his capital was
shrinking. There bad been declines in
certain stocks and bonds and a falling
off in the value of his real estate.
What did he do? Commiserate him
self? Not at all. He went to a life in
surance company and took out a policy
large enough more than to cover the
shrinkage in his capital. Comparative
ly speaking, it cost him very little, but
It added a neat sum‘to the value of
his estate and guaranteed an unim
paired income to his wife.”
PENS OF THE PAST.
The Old Time Quill end the Art of
Putting a Point on It.
Quill pens are no longer used except
In rare old fashioned Instances, but
people still use "penknives"—you can
see the name any day in the cutlery
store windows—but they do not use
them to make or mend pens. In fact,
where Is there a man or woman who
knows how to put a point on a quill?
It was once an art which every man
had to master, though women were
generally bad at it. ns they are now at
sharpening pencils.
In the old days the first question
asked of a schoolmaster was the one
whether be was skillful in pointing
quills, for he had to sharpen the pens
of his whole school and incidentally in
struct his pupils in the art. Alas!
There is no modern pen of steel or gold
that is so smooth, so swift, so alluring
as a good quill j>en. The writer is very
sure of that, for his father used to tell
him so.
The art of handwriting has certainly
declined since the quill pen went out of
use. The old fellows could really write.
We still pay them an unconscious trib
ute by calling a writer a “quill
driver” and picturing the >pen. when
ever we have to make an abstract rep
resentation of it as a qnilL—New
York Mail.
A Diplomatic Official.
During the reign of Emperor Napo
leon III. he and the empress visited
Normandy and bad arranged to spend
a couple of days at Bvreux. M. Jan
vier de la Monte, who was the prefect,
learned that the revolutionaries intend
ed to hiss the sovereigns as they pass
ed, and so he summoned the leaders of
the movement and told them that be
knew of their plot “If you carry out
your plan." said he to them, “you will
get six months in prison. If you do !
not your friends will accuse you of j
cowardice and treason. As a way out !
of the difficulty I propose to lock you j
up at once until the emperor has |
gone." The conspirators accepted the j
terms offered them, and so the emper- j
or was greeted only by cheers, as the j
revolutionaries, frightened at the ar- j
rest of their chiefs, had not dared to i
utter a sound.
Th* Tail of a Fish.
A fish's tail is its wings. Owing to '■
the machinery of muscle set along its {
spine and to its cleaving form a trout j
or salmon can dart through the water i
at a tremendous pace, thoflgh its rap- I
id flights, unlike the bird's, are not |
long ones. It is soon tired. The water 1
is not so friendly to flight as the air.
The stroke of the fish’s tail is one of
great power, and by means of it and
the writhing, snakelike flexion of the
body a high speed is reached. The
Btrengtb behind this speed is shown in
the way a fish or sea mammal out of
the water will raise its tail and strike
the ground or boat
Victor Hugo.
Victor Hugo was tbe wealthiest of
the nineteenth century authors and
also tbe hardiest. At one time he made
less than 1.000 francs last him and his
brother for eighteen months, and one
;hop would serve for lunch three days
In succession. But this early absti
nence did not spoil Hugo’s digestion,
tor at tbe age of eighty-three be crack
id nuts with his teeth and ate oranges
is some folk eat apples—peel and all.
Then tho Row 8tarted.
Mrs. Snapped (who has been suffer
ng from toothache)—Thank goodness.
I’ve bad that tooth out at last! Mr.
Snappem—Happy tooth! Mrs. Snap
jem—What do you mean? Mr. Snap
ped— It's out of tbe reach of your
:ongue.
Tho Grind.
"What are you doing now?’
“Two a day.” said tbe vaudeville
ictor. ‘‘And you ?”
“I.can’t quite equal that." responded
be popular novelist “Two a week is
ibout m.v limit.”—Kansas City Jour
lal.
It is a great step In the tnterpreta
ion of life when we have discovered
hat all events are ultimately spirit
ial.—Brierley.
i
Valdez . and - , anchorage
CITY EXPRESS
Meets all boats! On the job, day or night
We never sleep.
J. A. SPENARD, Proprietor Phone 82
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VALDEZ REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Real Estate, Insurance, General Brokerage
Absentees Business Properly Handled
Treat Building, Alaska Ave. Telephone No. 60
Buy Alaska Made Cigars
ASK FOR W. R. King, Terminus, or Lavanna,
Made in Seward by union workmen.
We maintain our atandard. Sold everywhere
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLUMBING STOVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephone 24
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
Phone 63 Chas. Fischer, Propr.
Independent Steam Laundry
Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
Telephone 66 I ! Rouirh Dry 10c lb
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral j PUGET SOUND
California Line. Alaska
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE, 11:00 A. M.—
Monday, Mar. 5, Admiral Farragut for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Wednesday, Mar. 15, Admiral Watson for Seward and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 19, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, March 26, Admiral Farragut, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 2, Admiral W'atson, for Seldovia and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 9, Admiral Evans, for Kodiak and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 16, Admiral Farragut for Anchorage and Way Ports.
Sunday, April 23, Admiral Watson, for Anchorage and W'ay Ports,
Sunday, April 30, Admiral Evans, for Anchorage and Way Ports.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to So Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday, connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
__ Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD, Mgr., Seattle! VALDEZ DOCK CO., Local Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S. 8. ALAMEDA AND S. S. NORTHWESTERN SAIL FROM SE
ATTLE THE 10TH, 20TH AND SOTH,
EVERY MONTH
FROM VALDEZ SOUTH—STM, 18TH, 28TH, FOR CORDOVA,
JUNEAU, WRANGEL, KETCHIKAN AND SEATTLE.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas. Skagway. Cordova, Eliamar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6th; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
witnout notice.
F. B. TRACY. Gen’l Agcat VALDEZ DOCK CO„ I.ocal Agent
When You Leave
Foi" the Outside
take the
“MILWAUKEE”
One road—one management—one service all the*way
through to Chicago. It's the Short Line to the East
over
THE NEW STEEL TRAIL
For information and literature write or ask
J. C. MARTIN, Agent, Valdez, Alaska.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RY.
A. E. HARRIS, Freight and Passenger Agt,
Juneau, Alaska.