Valdez Daily Prospector
PUBLISHED By THE
Prospector Publishing Co.
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The Weekly Miner.
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By mail, per annum.• • .$3.00
The Daily Prospector and Weekly
Miner, by carrier, to one address
per month.$1.25
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Miner by mail to one address
only per year...$12.50
Business Office and Editorial
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THURSDAY, JULY IT, 1913.
MINING STOPS
ABOUT NDNE
.
No Water to Work Claims and
All Have Shut Down—No Rain j
This Summer.
i
Nome, July 17.—The operato
rs near Nome have been compelr
led to shut down the mines be
cause ol' the recent drought.
The camp has had no rain for
several months and the water is
about gone.
The suspension of mining
will greatly reduce the output of
the camp for the year as the sea
son is short at the best.
CHINA MAY BE
DISMEMBERED
Peking, July 17.—The six
southern provinces of (he repub
lic are preparing to secede lroin
the confederacy.
locOems
Ray Millard, who won fame
as tile superiulcnde 11,1 ol' I lie
Cliff mine, knows lots about
mines, but when it comes to op
erating a motor boat be is
down and out. and last night
while trying to come from the
Cliff mine to Valdez, lie was ma
rooned out in I Ini bay for 1 hours
•until Charles Kraemer went to
his rescue and towed bis boat to
the dock. Ray immediat ly hir
ed an expert, nothing was the
matte]' except that the spark
plug was not sparking.
The school hoard is considering
the advisability of postponing the
opening dale of the school term
from August 1th to some later
lime when the present epidemic
of whooping cough shall have
subsided.
Andy Dierenger is preparing
the foundation for the Valdez.
Yukon office building which
he will place on his lot near the
Alaska Road Commission.
The sidewalk from the corner
of front street to the Panama
building is being widened by the
city. Charles Seagreen is doing
the work.
Angus McBride will leave on
the Mariposa for Skagway and
will jnurivey down the Yukon to
Fairbanks to assume his posi
tion as clerk of the court under
Judge Fuller. Valdez,’ loss is
Fairbanks’ gain.
Dr. Von Gunther made a trip
to the Grand Cliff Mining com
pany’s claims on, Mineral Gulch
to inspect the property and to
provide for future work on the
•claims.
( The scow loaded with the Mi->
das machinery was found to be
leaking and the machinery was
transferred to another scow im
mediately.
Wallace Spiers is showing
some improvement today and is
now almost out (if danger.
The life of Woocjrbw Wilson
and other fine pictures at the
Orpheum tonight.
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE'S
Crawford Building, opposite Tele
phone Exchange.
i 7am to 9am
MEALSf 12 m to 2 i) m
> 6 to 7 p m
A Special Dipper Sundays at 5 o’clock
Makes Trip t0 Cordova Before
Calling at Valdez—Has Coal
to Unload at Cliff.
The Steamer Sampson left,
Seward last night and sailed
direel to Cordova, which port
was reached early I his morning
and the tourist passengers were
takei^ out I he line that they
might see the wonders at Miles
and Childs glaciers which are
now breaking off tons and tons
of ice every hour.
On the return trip from Cor
dova the Sampson will call at Fi
dalgo Bay and load ore, then, at
Ellaniar for the same purpose
and later at the Cliff to discharge
75 tons of coal for the mine.
The boat is billed to reach
Valdez at 7 and sail south about
7 tomorrow morning going di
rect to Kalalla.
Otis Grigsby, who was very
sick Tuesday and Wednesday is
slowly recovering. For a short
time it was feared that he would
iyit recover as the little chap
was out id' his head and refused
to take any nourishment.
Tony Carlson and Clarence
Golden left this morning to do
some prospecting across the bay.
Notice to Stockholders.
Notice is hereby given to the
stockholders of the Midas Cop
per company, that the regular
annual meeting of the company
will be held on Wednesday, July
21, 1913, at the hour of 2 p. in.,
at the office of the company, for
the purpose of electing officers
for the ensuing year.
MIDAS COPPER CO.,
A. E. GRIGSBY, Sec’y.
Valdez, Alaska, July 2, 1913.
NOTICE OF SEIZURE.
In |In* District Court I'm* (lie
Territory of Alaska, Third Di
vision.
United States of America, Lib
elant, vs. mu* ship’s boat, her
tackle, apparel, furniture ami
equipment
W hereas a libel o.l' information
has been llled in the above couri
on the 1 ilh day of July 1013. on
behalf of the United Stales again
st the above mentioned ship’s
boal, her tackle, apparel, furni
ture ami equipment; and where
as the substance of said libel of
information, is that the said
sliill’s boat, her tackle, apparel,
furniture and equipment were
seized on the 25th day of July,
1010, and turned-over to the Unit
ed States Marshal who now holds
the same at the* Port of Unalas
ka, Alaska, as forfeited lo me
United Stales for the reason that
the same was then and there
found engaged in unlawfully kil
ling fur seals within the waters
of Alaska, and praying that the
said ship’s boat, her tackle, ap
parel, furniture and equipment
be condemned and sold for use of
the United Stales.
Now therefore, in pursuance
of the monition under the seal
of said Court to mo. directed and
delivered, I do hereby give public
notice to all persons claiming
the said ship’s boat, the tackle,
apparel, furniture and equipment
or in an,v manner interested
therein, that they be and appear
before the United States District
Court for the Territory of Alas
ka, Third Division, to be held at
Unalaska, in and for the said
Territory and Division, on the
18lh day August 1913, at 10
o’clcok in the forenoon, of that
day, provided the same shall be a
day of jurisdiction, otherwise on
Ihet next day of jurisdiction there
after, then and there to inter
pose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf,
and that in event of their fail
ure so to do default and condem
nation will be ordered.
H. P. SULLIVAN.
United States Marshal for the
Territory o{ Alaska, Third Divi
sion .
GEORGE R. WALKER.
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ARCADE
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MEETS ALL BOATS
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BARGAINS
ADLER will sell
A Bailey piano in first class
shape at a bargain.
A Five-room house with ten
foot shed for less than lumber
cost.
LAUNCH VIKING
Leave* from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way point* at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
When In Seward Stop at the
COLEMAN HOUSE
GEORGE SEXTON, Prop.
SVRICTLY FIRST CLASS
Fourth Ave Seward, Alaska
Schedule for the Donaldson.
The following schedule fox' the
launch Lieut. C. V. Donaldson,
will take effect today (June 19).
All orders to the contrary are re
voked:
Daily, Saturday and Sunday ex
cepted.
Leave Fort Liscuin at 8:15 a.
ni. and 1:15 p. ni.
Leave Valdez at 10 a. in. and
5:30 p. in.
SPECIAL TRIPS.
Tuesday, leave Fort Liscuin 5
p. in., leave Valdez 2:30 p. in.
Saturday, leave Fort Liscuin |
1:15 p. in. and 7 p. in.; leave Val
dez i p. in. and 10:30 p. in.
Sundays, such trips as may be
ordered.
There will be no trips for the
launch on I he second and iourth
1-relays each month, these days
being used to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of
abnv> will be made without no
tice only to meet the exigencies
of the service.
By order of Lieut. Col. O Neil.
L. A. KUNZ1G,
First Lieut. 30th Infantry, Quar
termaster.
Cable Office Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10
.. m. and 5 to 6 p. m.
The Order of Alaskan Moose
Postoffice Hours.
Week days 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 12 noon
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
Valdez, Alaska, April 23, 1913.
To H. Muir, your heirs and ad
ministrators, and to all whom
it may concern:
You are hereby notified and
will take notice that I, the sub
scriber, T. E. Dougherty, have
expended during the year A. D.,
1912, one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon
the "Minnie” lode mining claim.
Said claim is situated and lies in
the Valdez Recording Precinct,
Territory of Alaska, about six
miles from Shoup bay. The no
tice of location thereof is of rec
ord in Book 8 of Records, at page
370, in the office of the United
States Commissioner for the Val
dez Recording Precinct at Val
dez, Alaska, to which book and
page reference is hereby made for
a more particular description of
said claim. Said expenditure was
made for the purpose of holding
possessory right and title to said
mining claim under the provis
ions of Section twenty-three hun
dred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States and the amendments there
to, providing for the annual la
bor upon ipining, claims, said
amount being the sum required
to hold said mining claim during
the period ending the thirty-first
day of December, 1912.
If you fail or refuse within
ninety days from the personal
service of this notice, if person
al service be had, or within ninety
davs after the publication of this
notice to contribute your propor
tion of such expenditure as a co
owner, your proportion, being in
the sum of eighteen dollars and
seventy-five cents ($18.75), your
interest in said claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
who i% vour co-owner, and who
has made the expenditure and
improvements as above mention
ed pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute.
Dated Valdez, Alaska, April 23,
1913.
T. E. DOUGHERTY.
Date first pub. April 24, 1913.
Date last pub. July 20, 1913.
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