STEAM HEATED HOT AND COLD BATHS
" L Copper, Block Hotel
VALDEZ, ALASKA
“The Hou^e of Comfort”
PHONE 7 ^ x FOR MEN ONLY
y Mead’s Sheet Metai Works
plumbing STAVES and RANGES HEATING
MOTOR BOAT SUPPLIES, PAINTS and OILS
i 4, Mine Air Pipe, Valves, Hose, Pipe and Fittings
Valdez Dock. Opposite Prospector Office. Telephonea*^^
YOU’LL BK ADMIRED
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and oft’ times envied in one of
our swell form fitting suits.
Suits of fully shrunken pure
woolen cloth. There's a dash
and class to our tailoring that
sets off your figure to the best
advantage. And another thing
the suit will hold its shape and
wear well.
BEN SILVERMAN
THE TAILOR
Independent Steam Laundry
SatisfaetioiKjSuaranteed
Telephone 66
I Foot Key»ione Ave
I Ftoujfh Dry lCc lb
THE SENATE
ANGUS CHISHOLM—FRANK GUSTAFSON
CIGARS, BILLIARDS
Nicely Furnished Rooms. Phone 35
MERCHANT’S CAFE & BAKERY
FRESH liREAD AND PASTRY' DAILY
Phone «3 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Clias. Fischer, Projir.
1894 CHAS. R. CRAWFORD 1917
PIONEER CONTRACTOR mi BUILDER
OF ALASKA
CAN HANDLE ANY CLASS OF BUILDING.
Will take contracts on wharves, bridges, fish traps in any
part of Prince William sound.
Building material of all kinds, and several grades of wall
l' board kept in stock at all times.
OFFICE AND FACTORY, VALDEZ, ALASKA-PHONE 18
REFERENCES j S. BLUM & CO., Valdez, and Cordova,
BANKERS j B. M. BEH RENDS, Juneau. Alaska.
Location Notices
For Sale at
The Prospector Office
C1TV EXPRESS, Phone S2; ready J
to transit. t_..i : . .... tor you. tl
. Remember your friends by sending
Them a Panoramic View, a new lot
just received. Valdez Drug Co. tf
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Complete line of Bulk Chocolates.
Candy Kitchen. tf
For flratclass Ratals ited good derV
ice at re^niiable prices try the Mer
chants’ *fe. **tf
Cabia fpr Rent.
keystone fWLA, $fro large rooms, i
1 jtty furnished, Jhree hegfe.*Rents for
$8.00.'
4'J 1 ALASKA INVESTMENT CO.
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Fin& assortment Koenig's Easier
Box Candies. Keystone Produce Ccftj
Statement of Ownership.
Statement of Ownership, Manage
ment, Circulation, etc., of the Valdez
Daily Pt ctoj, published daily, at
Valdez,. ka, required by the Act
of August 24, 1912:
Manager, Elliott Stewart.
Editor, H. B. Selby.
Publishers, Elliott Stewart and
Harry B. Selby.
Ow;ners (stockholders holding one
per cent or more of total amount of
stock) Elliott Stewart and Harry B.
Selby.
Known bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders, bolding
one per cent or more of total amount
of bonds, mortgages or-bther securi
ties, none.
ELLIOTT STEWART, Mgr.
H. B. SELBY, Editor.
Sworn to before me this 2nd day of
Apral, 1917.
ANTONY J. DIMOND,
Notary Public.
My commission expires Feb. 13, 1921.
REORGANIZATION
PLAN IS READY:
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BK SIBMITTKB TO COM.KKSS
Secretary of Wtlf Baker Announced
Had Been Completed—Refused to
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State Whether Volunteer or Con
scription Will Be Kmployed.
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WASHINGTON. I). C.. April 2. —
Late Saturday evening Secretary of
War Baker announced that the army
reorganization plan was ready for
submission to Congress. He refused
to state whether the new plan was
founded upon a continuation of the
volunteer system or whether conscrip
tion would be adopted. The President
and Secretary of War both refused to
express an opinion on universal serv
ice when interviewed by reporters
Saturday night.
I CHURCHES PLAN REPLACE
SALOONS WITH CAKES
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LINCOLN, April 2.—Religious so
cigites in Nebraska towns and cities
are pla ining to open coffee houses to
lake the place of the saloons, which
will be banished by edict of the voters
I May 1.
Omaha churches will try out the
i coffee house idea and if it i6 success
1 ful they will scatter a number of them
lover the city. The plan is to make
! the coffee house a social club for la
| boring men such as they now have in
| the saloon. Coffee and sandwiches are
| to be furnished cheap and the men
' encouraged to make the places club
rooms.
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OFFIC IALS SUSPICIOUS
OF
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ATLANTA, April 2.—Examination
of the effects of the Valderian Johan
nes Piecynski and Hugo Coutandin.
German youth arrested here last night
led government officials to Investi
gate whether there has been some
thing sinister in th emovements of
several German hikers walking over
the United States in the past two
years and a half. The police say the
two men under arrest claim to be
walking around the world on a wager
and that they are not Germans but
Poles. Newspaper clippings and pho
tographs show that they have been
supposed to make the trip with seven
companions, one a woman.
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WILL HEN1> BODY OF
HILL TO OLD HOME
The remains of the late E. E. Hill
who died Friday night at Fort Lis
. cum, will be sent out on the Alameda
for interment at his old home near
Wheeling, West Virginia.
W. P. Miller was a returning pas
senger on the Admiral Evans after
spending the winter in California.
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For Sale—Ten lynx skins. Inquire
Fred Reese, Albemarle Hotel. 3t
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Furnished rooms at Mrs OBland'a.
Prices reasonable. *
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TURKEY GETS $187,000,000
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Djavid Bay, Financa Minis
ter, Announces German Loan.
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Germany has made a new loan to
Turkey of 42..j00,000 Turkish pounds
(about $187,000,000). A bill authoriz
ing the acceptance of the loan was in
troduced in the Turkish senate. Dja
>itl Hey, minister of finance, in dto '
cussing the bill said that since the out
break of the war Germany and Aus
tria-Hungary had advanced to Turkey
7D.000.000 pounds, repayable eleven
years after peace is declared.
BLIGHT FIR* AT
WM. MEAL8 RESIDENCE
An alarm of Are was turned in this
afternoon for a slight blaze which oc
curred at the residence of Wm. ?fe"l«
on upper Broadway. The Are appar
netly caught from a spark from the
chimney and was extinguished before
nny material damage was done.
MANY RETURNING ON
ADMIRAL KARRAGl'T
SEATTLE. April 2.—The steamer
Admiral Earragut sailed from here at
!) o'clock last night for Valdez and
way ports. The passengers for Val
dez are Mrs. J. DeHart and daughter
Elizabeth, J. L. Steele, Peter Olson,
E. Leonard. Hobart Tucker, Joe Einel,
W. Shaffer, W. Florence, Luther
Moore, John Emel and wife, Hugo
Bergstrom, Joe Edstrom, Axel Jack
son, A. C. Baldwin. Will. Thrasher,
and for Latouche W. Jones.
JORDAN’S PEACE MEETING
IS DISRUI’TED BY MOB
BALTIMORE. Md„ April 2.—An
enthusiastic patriotic demonstration
occurred here today when several
thousand persons stormed David Starr
Jordan's peace meeting in the Acad
emy of Music. The crowd thronged
the hall and with shouts cut off Jor
dan's speech in the middle of a word
and routed the audience. The police
were powerless to subdue the crowd,
which were led by prominent business
and proles8ional men and men from
Johns Hopkins University.
PETITION OPPOSING
ALEXANDER MEASURE
A petition is being circulated here
and largely signed, protesting against
the passage of the Alexander fisheries
bill.
EDISON IS WORKING TO
TO HELP U. S. IN CASE OK WAR
WEST ORANGE, N. J., April 2.—
Thomas A. Edison is working on a
submarine detector l'or the United
States government for use on patrol
and merchant vessels.
SULZER’S SON STRICKEN
WITH SCARLET FEVER
William Sulzer. the young son of
Delegate Charles Sulzer, was seizeu
with an attack of scarlet fever just
before the Delegate started for the
National capital, and Mrs. Sulzer was
compelled to remain in Juneau. The
hoy is reported to progressing nicely
and his speedy recovery is expected.
Paul Swanson has taken a position
as deliveryman with the Valdez Mer
cantile Co.
Mrs. Wm. Callaghan will leave on
the Alameda for a visit to the States.
H. J. Harvey will leave Wednesday
for his mining property at Knight
Island.
Mrs. W. D. McDougall was an ar
rival in town yesterday from Land
lock bay.
Through an error the name of Mrs.
Jack Surrhyne was omitted from
the list of ladies who took part in the
minstrel 3how given by the Woman’s
Auxiliary of the Pioneers Friday
night. Mrs. Surrhyne gave an exhi
bition of buck and wing dancing that
was one of the hits of the evening.
Carl Wilman was an arrival last
evening on the Pathfinder from Port
age Bay.
THE THRIGE-A-WEEK EDITION
OF THE NEW YORK WORLD
IN 1917
Practically a Daily at tlie Price
of a Weekly. No Other Newspa
per in the World gives so much
at so low a price.
The value and need of a newspaper
in the household was never greater
than at the present time. The great
war in Europe is now half-way into
its third year, and whether peace bo
at hand or afar off the events to fol
low will be world shaking.
The Prospector Publishing Company
offers the Thrice a Week World, The
Daily Prospector and The Week’.y
Miner, one year for only $13.00 cash
in advance. You get 156 copies or
the World, 313 copies of the Prospec
tor and 52 copies of the Miner for thlr
price. Can >»u afford to be without
them.
The Thrice-a-Week World,
The Daily Prospector.
The Weekly Miner,
ALL FOR 913.00 PER YEAR
The Prospector and the Weekly
Miner are the only papers published
at Valdez, and are replete with local
and world news. The Miner makes s
specialty of Territorial News in ccn
iensed form. The World is too well
Known to our readers to dilate upon
its field of usefulness.
SEND IN YOUR ORDER NOW.
OPEN FIRES AND
CHRISTMAS CANDLES
have been the cause of much
loss both of life and property.
Protect yourself against the
latter by having us issue you
a fire insurance policy on your
home and its contents. Then
if lire does come you will have
the ready means to replace
your home. Foresigh* is bet
ter than regrets.
t Valdez Real Estate Agency
T TONY’S PLACED
EVERYTHING
FIRS'! CLASS
ANTON CARLSON,
Manager.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
Krom Seattle—
March 23—S. S. Alameda.
March 30—S S. Alaska.
April 5—S. 8. Mariposa.
Apr. 9—S. S. Northwestern.
April 17—8. S. Alameda.
Valdez to Seattle —
March 24—S. S. Northwestern
April 3—S. S. Alameda.
April 10—S. S. Alaska.
April 15—S. S. Mariposa.
April 19—S. S. Northwestern.
CALL AT Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Kllamar, Ft. Lisrum, Val
dez, Latouche, Seward and Anchorage beginning with Alameda Sail
ing March &8rd.
Regular freight service for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Sheep
Creek, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Cordova, Ellamar, Valdez and La
toyche. Explosives. Right reserved to change schedule without notice.
F. B. TRACY, (in’l Agent VALDEZ ROCK CO.. Local Agent
Pacific Steamship Co.
(.ADMIRAL IJNK)
Our Larne l-'Ieet of Magnificent Steamships oiler Frequent, PER
FECT SERVICE Between all Points in
Alaska and California
From Seattle —
Mar. 19--R. S. Adm. Watson,
for Seward
Alar. 26—S. S. Admiral Evans
for Anchorage and Kodiak
April 1—S. S. Adm. Farragut
April 9—S. S. Adm. Watson.
.April 17—S. S. Adm. Evans,
for Anchorage
Valdez to Seattle—
Mar. 27—S. S. Adm. Watson
April 8—S. S. Adm. Evans.
April 12—S. S. Adm. Karragut
April 2* S. S. Adm. Watr.oV
April 28—S. S. \dm. Evans
CALIFORNIA ROUTE
Leave Seal tic Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for San Francisco,
liOS Angeles
San Francisco to Los Angeles, Daily Except Sunday
San Francisco to San Diego, Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays..
IF YOUR TICKET READS PACIFTC STEAMSHIP COMPANY
YOU ARK ASSURED THE VERY BEST
For Full Particulars Address
Phone 1 VALDEZ DOCK COMPANY Valdez, Alaska
The Episcopal Church.
Holy Week service tonight at S:0U
.o'clock at the Episcopal church. There
i will be services every evening during
| Holy Week except on Friday which-Is
! Good Friday when there will be a scr
jvice of three hours devotion from <12.
noon to 3 in the afternoon. PersJfcts'
may enter or leave at any time dur
ing the three hour service.
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Attorney L. C. Booker left on the
jAdmiral Watson to attend the term
'of court at Cordova.
j ADDITIONAL TROOPS
’ TO GUARD RAILROADS
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WASHINGTON. D. C., April 2.—
Secretary of War Baker today called
out seven thousand additional slate
troops tor police duty in the several
states .'nd for guarding important
railway bridges and tunnels.
NEW FRENCH LOAN IS
CAUSING MUCH INQUIRY
NEW YORK. April 2.—Inquiries!
for participation in the proposed new
French $100,000,000 secured 5.5 per f
cent loan are being received by New |
York investment houses in such vol
ume that it is likely the date set tor j
the official announcement will be ad-1
vanced considerably.
IRISH PROBLEM TO BE
TAKEN UP AGAIN
LONDON, April 2.—Andrew Benar i
Law, chancellor ot' the exchequer, j
said in the House of Commons today !
that the government had decided on |
its own responsibility to solve the i
Irish question. Former Premier wel
comed the announcement and said
the government could rely on the ac
tive co-operation of the entire uouse.
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N. C. CO. AWARDED
INTERIOR MAIL CONTRACT
The summer mail contract between
the coast and the interior, bids for
which were advertised some time
since, has been awarded by the de
partment to the Northern Commercial,'
Company, which also has the winter
contract. It is said that the company
intends to pul on eight Dodge cars,
four operating from Chitlna and four
from Fairbanks, and will carry mail,
passengers and a limited amount of
Express matter. The amount of tin*
I Company's bid has not been made
I known.
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Activity in Rumania.
BERLIN, April 2.—A revival of
activity on the Rumanian front is re
ported today by the war office. i"i
the Russian front,.east of Lida, Ger
man detachments advanced to the sec
ond Russian trenches, over a front of
four kilometers (two and o->e half
miles) and captured 20,000 Russians
Alfonso Sinus Decree.
MADRID. April 2.— King Alfonso
on Friday will sign a decree for the
insuring of the safety of Spanish mar
itime commerce. The measure adopt
ed will be in accordance with a prec
edent followed by other foreign
countries.
A. M. DIERINGER
Valdez Transfer
Company
Office on Alaska Avenue, in
George C. Treat Building
Telephone No. 60
General Trucking and Freighting
to all Interior Points.
LIVERY and FEED STABLE.
STORAGE.
Teaming of All Kinds
Positively No Coal Delivered Un
less Paid for in Advance