@u R Grocery Department
can supply your wants in
all fancy and staple groceries.
We are sole agents for the
reliable
brand of canned goods: fruits,
vegetables, jellies, preserves,
etc.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co. Inc.
PIONEER OUTFITTERS
Confident of our Ability
To Please You, We Invite You To
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=BANKING DEPARTMENT —
VALDEZ BANK & MERCANTILE CO.
INCORPORATED
VALDEZ
The heart of
the gold belt
The most northerly port
in the world open to nav
igation the year ’round.
The logical enterport to
the great interior of
Alaska; the salt water
terminus of the great gov
ernment wagon road lead
ing into the Tanana val
ley and the Yukon water
shed.
The seat of government
of the Third judicial di
vision of Alaska.
The headquarters of the
Alaska Road Commission,
of the Telegraph and Ca
ble systems.
It is 88 miles nearer the
interior than any other
coast city.
It is the headquarters
of the largest fleet of
small craft in Southwest
ern Alaska.
It has the largest popu
lation of any community
in Southwestern Alaska.
It has the best public
schools and an accredited
high school with a four
year course.
It Is the only sea ooast
town offering dlreot com
munication with the In
terior by wagon, summer
or winter.
Valdez offers the near
est and most direct route
to the Matanuska ooal
fields.
Its harbor is the moat
easily defended on the Pa
cific coast and can ride
- the navies of the world.
Why freeze iir your room and
have to read the sign in order
to tell that your room is heated
with steam, when you can get all
the .steam that you want at “The
Cliff?”
Waffies ano noney 25c at Val
dez Oaf*. J it
ADVERTISERS’ DIRECTORY
DAILY PROSPECTOR
Attorney 8-at- Law.
C. E. Bunnell.
L. V. Ray, Seward, Alaska.
E. E. Ritchie.
Assayers.
George F. White.
Banks.
S. Blum & Co.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Builders’ Material.
Chas. R. Crawford.
Breweries.
Valdez Bottling & Brewing Co.
Bakeries.
Valdez Bakery.
Coal.
Valdez Dock Co.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Dentists
Dr. H. Cookerille.
Dr. Charles Daggett.
Dr. German.
Drug Stores.
Valdez Drug Co.
Furs.
McMillan Fur & Wool Co.
Fraternal Orders.
Masonic Order.
Odd Fellows.
Fraternal Order Eagles.
Arctic Brotherhood.
General Merchandise.
Beyers Cash Store, Golden.
S. Blum & Co.
Fagerburg Bros., Nazina.
Valdez Bank & Mercantile Co.
Life Insurance.
VV. H. Crary.
Hotels.
Copper Block, Valdez.
Coleman House, Seward.
Hotel St. Elias.
“The ClilT.”
Rainier-Orand Hotel, Seattle.
Laundrys.
Independent Laundry.
Launches.
Three M.
Moving Picture Shows.
The Orpheum.
Manufacturers.
Copper River Lumber Co.
Chas. R. Crawford.
Alaska Water Light & Power
Co.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Newspapers.
Prospector, Daily.
Miner (Sunday), Weekly.
Pool and Billiard Rooms.
Copper Block.
Roadhouses
Camp Comfort.
Real Estate Agencies.
Valdez Real Estate Agency.
Restaurants.
Valdez Cafe.
Steamship Lines.
Alaska Coast Co.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Sheet Metal Works.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Transfer Companies.
Copper River Draying Co.
City Express.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Telephones.
Alaska Water, Light & Tele
phone Co.
Schedule for. Launch Donaldson.
Fori Liscum AlaJ:.., Aug. 2
1912.- Office of the Quartermas
ter :
The following schedule for the
launch Lieut. C. V. Donaldson will
take effect Monday, Aug. 5, 1912.
All orders in conflicl herewith are
revoked:
Leave Leave
I Days— Ft. Liscum Valdez
Mondays ...8:16 a. m. 10:45am.
I :ltf p. in. 4:00 p. m.
Tuesdays . .8:ls>a. m. 10:45 a.m.
2:00 p. m. 2:30 p. in.
5:00 p. in. 5:30 p. m.
\Vednesdays8:15 a. in, 10:45 a. m.
1:15 p.m. 4:00 p. m.
Thursday ..8:15 a. in. 10:45 a. m
1:15 p.m. 4:00p.in.
Fridays ...8:15 a.m. 10:45 CL m.
. v. 4:45p.tn. 4:#f fr. tfi.
Saturdays ,2:00 p.m. 4:00p. m
7:00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
Sundays, such trips as may be or
'dered.
; There will be no trips for the
launch on the second and fourth
Fridays each month, these days
being used to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of
above will be made without no
tice, only to meet the emergen
cies of the service.
By order of Lieut.-Col. O’Neil.
. L; A. KUNZIG,
1st Lieut. 30th Infantry. Quar
master.
“The Cliff” is the place, not
abunk house; not cheap, but rea
sonable and moderate in price,
and you Ket what you pay for—
comfort.
FOR RBNT—Thred furnished
houses, apply to C. E. Bunnell,
THROUGH TRAIN
INTO CHITINA
First Train Goes Through Since
.
Big Snowslide of December
21—Return Monday.
Cordova, Jan. II.--The first
train from here since the big
snowslide at mile 77 on Decem
ber 21st, reached Chitina at 3:30
this morning with 3,200 pounds
of mail for the interior.
Traffic will be resumed on the
regular schedule of three trains
a week within a few days. The
entire credit of opening the' road
under the adverse circumstances
of the rotaries being caught with
out fuel is due to the untiring
energy and able generalship of
Superintendent Giegcr.
Wireless Phone a Success.
Assistant Professor (1. \V.
Pierce of the department of phys
ics at Harvard lias devised a new
wireless telephone instrument
which may eventually revolu
tionize the methods of long dis
tance communication. The new
instrument has already received
the hearty endorseent of John
Hays Hammond, Jr.
Professor Pierce was the guest
of Mr. Hammond at his Glouces
ter laboratory at Fresh Water
Cove, recently, where a series of
experiments were conducted with
the new apparatus.
The wireless power was con
centrated about fifty feet above
sea level. By means of the new
instrument Professor Pierce got
into communication with the
Harvard wireless club, thirty-five
miles away, and talked with sev
eral of the club members tor a
space covering fifteen minutes.
Life Under Pressure.
The bed of the Arctic seas is
very fine and .plastic, while in
the other zones of the Atlantic
!lhe bed is covered with reddish
| mud and an accumulation of the
j remains of animals that lived in
I the surface waters, died, and
I slowly sank.
The pressure of the sea in
creases about one atmosphere to
every ten meters, so every addi
tional hundred meters adds the
pressure of ten atmospheres.
When deep-sea fishes are brought
to the surface'they lose their
scale's, their teguments lieeonn*
brittle, and they are so inflated
by internal distension caused by
the lessened pressure that in
many cases they burst asunder.
Curious Perquisites of Royalty.
It appears that, b„v a curious
statute of the realm, thjt King of
Great Britain and Ireland is en
titled to every sturgeon landed in
the United Kingdom. The king
lias also the right to the head of
every whale caught off the coasts
of his kingdom.
The tail of the whale is the
Queen’s perquisite, the object of
this curious division being that
Her Majesty shall always be well
supplied with whalebone, al
though, singularly enough, the
whalebone is the King’s half.
Among other strange perquis
ites of England’s rulers are a
pair of white doves, a pound of
cumin seed, a pair of scarlet hose
and a silver needle from his tai
lor.
Charles Seagren, who has not
left Valdez for many years, was
an outgoing passenger on the
Northwestern for the states and
Will return in the late spring.
Mr. and Mrs. William Orchard
left yesterday for the states af
ter a pleasant visit with Mrs. Sam
Orchard.
E. E. Rudolph, of Seward, is in
‘Valdez as a witness before the
district court.
Room and board at the Grand
Hotel $1.50 per day. Home ooofc
ed meals and good beds. Mrs. H.
Shart^.
Bring your Job work to the
Prospector office.
riRE INSURANCE
* Sm Crary about that
insurance today
Policies Written Here
FIRE INSURANCE
Russia's Biggest Forgery.
Russia's secretfp&liee are busy
tracing the producers of millions
of counterfeit notes .that have
been passed into circulation in
Russia and on Russian financial
houses abroad. It is the biggest
and most perplexing forgery case
they have ever tackled.
Four of the men concerned in
the traffic—a commercial drum
mer named Dunaievsky, a mer
chant named Semonev and two
others named Liebenthal and
Rochlin—have been captured witti
skillfully forged notes to the face
value of nearly a quarter of a
million rubles in their posses
sion. They have been subject
ed to the Russian variety of the
third degree examination, but
have revealed nothing leading to
the dis’covery of the forgers
factory.
Two men suspected of complic
ity wore traced in vain to France.
Mill, the garlic-eater, said he
would be there if the doorkeep
er will let him in—Saturday night
--Eagles dance.
PUBLISHED SUMMONS.
In the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Divis- !
ion.
United States of America,
plaintiff, vs. William B. Poland
and Frederick William Low, de
fendants.—No. 593, Published
Summons.
The President of the United
States of America, greeting:
To the above named defend
ants, William B. Poland and
Frederick William Low.
You and each of you are here
by required to appear in the Dis
trict Court for the Territory of
Alaska, Third Division, within 30
days after the completion of the
publication of this summons, to
wit: within 30 days after the 10th
day of February, 1913, and an
swer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff filed in the above
entitled court and cause; and un
less you so appear and answer,
the plaintiffs will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in
said complaint, to-wit: for the
cancellation of the patent here
tofore issued by the United States
to William B. Poland for certain
land in said complaint describ
ed and for the cancellation of
certain deeds pertaining to said
land in said complaint describ
ed, which said land is situate in
the Kenai Recording Precinct,
Third Division, Territory of
Alaska and is bounded and de
scribee! as follows:
Beginning at corner No. 1, near
the north shore of Resurrection
bay, identical with corner No. 5,
U. S. Survey No. 241, an iron pipe
three inches in diameter, marked
S. 242, cor. No. 1, thence west 40
chains to corner No. 2, an iron
pipe three inches in diameter,
marked S. 242, cor. No. 2, thence
north 40 chains to corner No. 3,
an iron pipe three inches in di
ameter, mark ul S. 242, cur. No. 3;
thence east 4<> chains to corner
No. 4, an iron pipe three inches
in diameter, marked S. 242, cor.
No. 4: thence south 40 chains to
corner No. 1, the place of begin
ning. containing one hundred and
sixty acres, being the land em
braced within United States Sur
vey No. 212, according to the of
ficial plat of said survey return
ed to the general land office by
the Surveyor (leneral; and for
plaintiff’s costs and disburse
ments herein.
This summons is served upon
you by order of the above entitled
court, dated, made and entered on
the 28th day of December, 1912.
Witness, the Honorable Thom
as R. Lyons, Judge of the said
District Court, and the seal of
said Court, affixed at Valdez, this
28th dav of December, 1912.
ANGUS McBRIDE,
Clerk of the District Court, Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Divis
ion.
Date first pub. Dec. 30,. 1912.
Date last pub. Feb. 10, 1913.
Chas. R. Crawford
Wall Street Phone 159
Plate glass, window glass, roofing and
building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce
ment, plaster lath, Jiingles. builders’
hardware. Shop and job work of all lands
Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish
ing Lumber
Agents for Fairbanks, Morse A Co,
New York Life
Insurance Co.
W. H. CRARY, Rtprmstttive
Valdes, Alaska. Phone 41
ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No More, No Less
VALORS, ALASKA
A M. Dierflifter
Valdez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight
ing to all interior points
; LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
_
Positively no coal delivered
! unless paid tor in advance
CITY EXPRESS
J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Ouick delivery t all parts of town
at short notice. Will move baggrge,
furniture, etc., at reasonable rates
Office in Alaska Securities
building. Wall St. Phone 82
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office in Whaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone 19 THE DENTIST
Onice rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m., to 6 i>. m.. 7 y. m.. to 9 y m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
E. E. RITCHIE
LAWYEH
1‘fIONK t:w Valdez, Maska
c. Bunnell
ATTORNEY-AT-1, AW
Ofliees WhII S'reet.
Phone 31 VALDEZ
L. V. RAY
ATTORN I'Y AT LAW
j
! SEWARD, • ALASKA
| MINING ENGINEER
I
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L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, alaska
Reports on Mires
Patent Surveys
General Mining Engineering
I
j Rhone No. ios
I
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Kps. phone. is»
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
7K.B
Meet ♦ very Tuesday evening nt 8 o’clock la
fiairle Hall. All m mb^rs are requested te
attend. S. MCNIECE. Arctic Chief
O.F.
Vi&iitntr and local Odd Fellows are re
quested to register their name with the
Valdez Odd Fellows' Club. Regular
meetinns. lirst and third Monday.
Cal) on P S. HiTMT. Secretary.
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE No. IKI
Meet every Friday 8 i>. m. Eagle Hall
Valdez ^odge
No 1«8.
Free and Accepted Masons
Regular Communication* drat Wednesday la
each month In McKinley Hall Vlnitor* always
welcome.
O. c. Reynolds.