A Chance to Buy
Real Home Cooking
THE LADIES’ AID Food Sale will be held at
this store tomorrow afternoon. Real Home
Made Cakes, Pies, Brown Bread, Doughnuts, etc., on
sale, and plenty of them.
Coffee and Wafers will be served free of charge.
Saturday Specials In
The Grocery Section
Violet Oats, regular 20c seller;
Saturday price 10c, ftp
three packages for.ZuU
Kelloggs Toasted Corn Flakes,
regular 20c size; price tomor
row 10c, three
packages for.
Elastic Starch, regular 12</2c
package; special Saturday
three pack- OCn
ages for. ZuU
Old Dutch Cleanser, regular
two for 25c, Saturday p
three packages for. ZUll
Arm and Hammer Soda, regu
lar 10c package; Saturday
four pack
ages for .ZuU
Bon Ami, regular size cake sold
two for 25c; tomor. OCn
row three cakes.ZwU
Valdez Mercantile Co.mc.
TRUE VALUES
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington* D. C.
»-» dentist,
in both eompaniea Fourteen vears tn
Office Rooms in VALDEZ
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 the dentist
Offioe rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
3 a. m.. to 6 p. m., 7 p, m.,to9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
DONOHOE & DIMOND
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
SlRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward. Alaska
Valdez Miners Union No. 188
Western Federation of Miners
H. M. CARTER. President.
Granite Mine.
CHAS. McCALLUM. Secretary.
Valdez. Alaska.
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND MET SOUND
California Alaska
ALASKA
■ Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
J' Steamer tailing 15tli calk Iliamna'andJKodiak--All tailings call at Knik Anchorage
1 CALIFORNIA
j Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
r Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
t: Rlvht reserved to ohanxe schedule without notice
S RICHARD J. RINGWOOD, Mgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
Plumbing. Steam and Hot Water Heating.
Motor Boat Supplies, Painto and Oils,
Pump*. Well-Points, Valves X Water. Steam and Suction
and Packing. Hose.
PIPE AND FITTINGS
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, ber heirs
and administrators and to all It may
concern: You are hereby notified that
I have expended during the past year,
1914, the sum of $66.66 (sixty-six dol
lars and sixty-six cents) lawful money
of the United States in labor and im
provements upon your one-third inter
est in those mining claims lying and
being on Avery river, in the recording
precinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are
known as the Beauty Bird and Beauty
Bird No. 1, the location notices of
said claims being of record in the
office of the commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords. in order to hold said claims
under the provisions of section 2324
of the Revis d Statutes of the Unit
ed States, concerning annual labor
on mining claims, being the amount
required to ho’d said lode claims for
the period ending December, 1914.
And unless within ninety days after
the completion of the publication of
this notice to-wit: within ninety days
after the 7th day of Juno, 1915, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure incurred in performing said
annual labor and improvements,
which is the sum of $66.66, your in
terest in said claims will become the
property of your co-partners, who have
made the required expenditure by the
terms of said section.
Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this 8th
day of March, 1915.
JULIUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
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. 6, Monte Carlo No. 6, the
location notices ot 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 tfae 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
lay of February, 1915.
MIKE BARRETT.
JULIUS JUNGHOLM.
Last publication May 6, 1915.
Dissolution of Partnership.
The undersigned, Andrew M. Maro
vich, has purchased the interest of
Tony Kowes in Louie’s Cafe and is
now the sole owner. All bills due the
partnership are to be paid to Andrew
Marovich and all indebtedness of the
firm will be paid by him.
ANDREW M. MAROVICH.
TONY KOWES.
Mr. Sydney Laurence
The Studio—Keystone Ave.
Photographic Portraiture
Sittings by appointment
Developing. Printing. Enlarging
A. W., L. & T. Co. Phone 217.
AWAKE
and on the job—day or night—buy
and tell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Wells andWay Ports
Leaves Valdes every Saturday Morning carry
ing Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calla at
Ellamar, Welle Bay, Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
v On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
\ WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
| VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
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INTERESTING SUIT
IN DISTRICT COURT
Claimed Foreign Corporations Have
No Right In Court Unless Com
ply With Local Laws.
—
The district court Is engaged today
in trying the case of W. J. Van Schuy
ver & Company, of Portland, Ore.,
versus Oscar Breedman, of Chitina,
Alaska.
The case is brought by Van Sebuy
ver & Commpany, who are wholesale
liquor dealers, to collect for goods sold
to Breedman, who has a saloon in
the Copper River country.
Breedman's defence is based on the
statute of the Alaska code regulat
ing the transaction of business in
Alaska by foreign corporations. The
law provides that before a foreign
corporation can sue for debt in Alas
ka, they must first comply with sev
eral requirements, such as the ap
pointment of a resident agent, upon
whom legal papers may be served, a
copy of the articles of their incor
poration and the names of their in
corporators.
It is claimed that this has not been
done by this plaintiff and that there
fore he has no cause of action. It
is contended that this law is enforc
ed to protect local companies, who
are required to pay heavy license tax
es.
The local law firm of Donohoe &
Dimond represent Van Schuyver &
Company, while Attorney Capers, of
Cordova, represents the defendant.
TEXAS IS TRYING
OUT ILLITERACY
AUSTIN, Tex., April 16.—Texas has
fired the first shot at illiteracy In the
“solid South” by passing a compul
sory school attendance law. Texas,
the least illiterate state in the South,
is still the thirty-seventh state in the
Union in degree of literacy. Follow
ing her lead, it is expected that oth
er commonwealths below the Mason
and Dixon line will adopt compulsory
education.
The Texas legislature, just adjourn
ed, enacted a law to compel the at
tendance at school of every child over
seven years of age at least six months
every year until the age of twelve is
reached. But the bill does not go
into effect until September, 1915, and
for the next three years the maximum
of six months attendance is not en
forceable. No child of twelve years
or over can be compelled to attend
school if he has completed the fourth
grade and his assistance is needed
in the home.
While this law may not compare
favorably with stricter measures in
northern states, it is considered a
fair beginning for a state so long
steeped in child labor and illiteracy.
The advocates of the measure in the
1915 legislature were confident the
law would be improved in future ses
sions. It was bitterly fought in both
branches of this legislature.
WE LOSE MONEY
ON JOB CANAL
PANAMA, April 16.—The cost of
operating the Panama canal since
July 1, 1914, when it was opened, to
March 1, 1915, was $2,595,000, while
the income of the canal has been $2,
334,000, showing a loss of $261,000.
The canal officials insist that when
the war is over and shipping again
becomes normal that the income will
be in excess of the expenditures.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Otto Johnson is in town from Wells
bay.
Offices to rent over Valdez Drug Co.
The Prospector office for job work.
Suits pressed for $1.00 at Silver
man’s the tailor. Telephone 198.
The launch Elvira arrived from
Wells bay last evening.
Harry Halger gave a theatre party
last evening to twenty of his friends.
The Northern Commercial company
has seventeen stations in the inter
ior of Alaska.
Subscribe for the Dally Prospector.
JUST COAX THE SPRING.
How to 8tart a Clock After Winding It
Too Tightly.
If in winding a clock actuated by ft
spring you have given the key u turn
too much and so have wound the spring
so tight that the clock won't run you
don't have to take the clock to a clock
maker to have the spring unwound.
You can start It yourself if you will
go about it tbe right way and exercise
a little patience.
Jarring or shaking the clock does no
good. What you want to do is to hold
it up and turn it right and left quickly,
but gently, to oscillate tbe balance
wheel. The object of this, of course,
is to set the clock in action and free
the spring from the binding restraint
upon It, give tbe spring a little play,
a chance to exercise its own power.
If your own strong arm were bound
tightly to your side you couldn't use it
at all, but If you could work your arm
free just a little bit you could then
break loose. It is so with the tightly
wound clock spring. <Jivo it just a
little of play and It will then be able
to exert itself.
With your first oscillation the balance
wheel will stop after half a dozen
ticks, but tlint has helped. Keep this
up for ten or fifteen minutes and you
will then have given the clock spring
play enough to enable it to exert its
own power and keep tbe clock going.—
Now York Sun.
AERIAL PANTRIES.
How the Meat Supply Is Kept Safe In
One Alaskan Town.
“Very patriotic lot of people live here,
I see,” is the remark made by almost
every newcomer to the frontier town
of Knik, Alaska, at the head of Cook's
inlet, when they see that almost every
house is supplied with a flagpole.
And they are right about the patriot
ism, but it just happens that the poles
are not for flags, but for meat.
Knik is on the trail to Iditarod and
the Kuskokwim valley, and in the
summer the sled dogs and the flies are
so thick that it is impossible to keep
meat in ordinary caches near the
ground.
There is no butcher shop in Knik and
the only fresh meat Is moose or Alaska
sheep brought in by the hunters. It's
very handy for the housewives of Knik
to have the meat supply of the town
up in the air. If hubby has poor luck
with his gun and the supply runs out,
all she has to do is to go to the door,
pick out her neighbor who has the
largest supply on hand and go borrow
a steak or two.
The meat is fastened securely to a
rope and it is run up to the top of the
pole very much the same as a flag
would be.—Milwaukee .Journal.
Bullets That Come Back.
Speaking about a purchase of a large
quantity of zinc instead of sheet lead
for the manufacture of coffins, two
men interested in metals joined in the
following discussion:
“That is a final consumption,” said
one. “That metal never comes back
into the market.” “There are others,”
replied his friend, “shot and bullets,
for example." “You are only partially
correct,” replied the first. “Some of
the bullets come back. They are so
economical and so well organized in
Germany that after military target
practice the soldiers have to pick up
and account for all the lead they have
fired. They are no theorists about con
servation over tlnr e. They are practi
tioners.” — Engineering and Mining
Journal.
To Bed With Drum and Shot.
From the following story it would
soem that the cadets at West Point are
not the only persons who sometimes
find taps and the sunrise gun annoying.
The wife of one of the officers there
had a colored maid who was giving
satisfaction and was apparently well
pleased with her position. Mrs. Brown
was therefore amazed when Sallie
came to her and told her she could not
work there any longer.
“Will you tell me why you are leav
ing, Sallie?” her mistress asked.
“Mis’ Lizzie,” she answered, “Ah
likes you an’ Ah likes de kunnel an'
Ah likes de chillen. But Ah can't stay
nowhar whar Ah has to be drummed
to bed at night and shot out of bed in
de mawnin'.”—New' York Post.
Gaucho and Gringo.
The gaucho (now nearly extinct) was
the cowboy of the Argentine pampas,
a half wild fellow who, dressed in his
“poncho,” spent his entire time looking
after the great droves of cattle that
roamed over the South American
plains. “Gringo” is a term applied by
the South Americans to a North Amer
ican or Englishman and sometimes by
the people of Mexico to an American.
In the Book Department.
“You advertise satisfaction or money
refunded.”
“Yes, madam.”
“Well, I’m not satisfied with the way
this novel turns out The heroine mar
ried the wrong man, so I’d like my
money back, please.”—Pittsburgh Post.
Seeking the Lost.
“What is that poet gabbling about?”
"His lost Lenore.”
“He’d better put un ad. in the lost
column. By the way, what is a le
nore?"— Louisville Courier-Journal.
Babies’ Good Trait.
Another good thing about babies is
that they never go around telling the
smart things their daddies said.—Gal
veston News.
Hard work Is still the road to pros
perity, and there is no other.—Benja
min Franklin.
Dougherty & Ferguson
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BEST PLAGE TO EAT
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Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
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c 7 a di to 9 a m
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Summons By Publication
In the District Court for the Terri
tory of Alaska, Third Division.
J. L. Reed, plaintiff, vs. Eri Thomp
son and M. A. Ellis, defendants.—
No. S-49. Summons by Publication.
The President of the United States
of America, greeting: To Eri 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 the 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 Eri Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same be sold to satis
fy said judgments!
This summons is served on you by
publication thereof, pursuant to an
order duly made and entered by the
above entitled court, on the Sth daw
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 LANG,
Clerk of the District Court.
By CHAS. A. HAND, Deputy.
Date of first publication March 8,
1915.
Date of last publication April 19,
1915.
DONALDSON SCHEDULE.
Leaves Fort Liscum. Leaves Valdez
8:15 a. m. 9:46 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
TUESDAYS
8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 2:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m. 6:00 p. m.
SATURDAYS
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
There will be no trips at the launch
on the secoi-d and fourth Fridays of
each month, these days being used
to clean boil 'rg.
Somebody
With Money
always has been found to
‘•b'adt” 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
wjith the idea, the man
with a prospi or busi
ness to the in with the
dollar.
'•ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.