If the Election Cost* you a Hat—let it be a Knox they re
Best by every test.
Selling Hart Schaffner and
IVjtarx Suits Tomorrow at $19.92
We’re closing out all H. S. and
M. Suits, hence this special
sale price for tomorrow. The
patterns and styles are good,
not extremes in any way. All
sizes from 34 to 44. Regular
prices are $25.00 and $35.00.
Tomorrow your choice at
$19.00
Valdez Mercantile Go.|,c
TRUE VALUES
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
Native and I f TMP17D and Bui,din«
Puget Sound LUlVlDlllX. Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND
California
PUGET SOUND
Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at lO A. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer sailing 15th calls Iliamna*and*ICodiak--AH sailings call at Knik Anchorage
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francisco every Wednesday and Sunday connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
nipht reserved to chantre schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RINBWOOD.tMgr., Seattle. VALDEZ DOCK CO. Local Agt.
PROFESSIONAL _
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
Washington, D. C.
Pl DENTIST
in both companies Fourteen vearsjn
Office Rooms in VALDEZ j
Whaling Building.
DR. GERMAN
Phone 10 THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
0 a. m.. to tt p. in.. 7 p, m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
JOHN LYONS E. E. RITCHIE
LYONS & RITCHIE
Attorneys at Law
Offices in Whaling Building
Phone lOl Valdez. Alaska
DONOHOE & DIMOND \
4
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW 4
4
, Office Opposite Court House
Phone 34 Valdez, Alaska *
<
To the Voters of Valdez.
In announcing my candidacy for
election to the city council, I wish
to state that 1 am, and always have
been, in favor of maintenance of the
city dock.
I am in favor of improving our
fire protection and pledge myself, if
elected, to strict economy In the ad
ministration of the city’s affairs.
After you have selected six coun
cilnien I would appreciate it very
much if you will consider my name
for the seventh.
k 5 W. M. FINICAL. ,
Thirty pounds of fresh Yakima
spuds for 50 cents at Yakima Fruit
Co.’s store. tf
IK^Seattle
>4 Complete Services
J f : IN THE HEART OF THE CI1Y .
1155Roows with batir505atnpleRooms
This is a good time to return that
hook you’ve read to the library at
Everyman’s Club. Library hours:
1 to 2 j). m. every day, Monday, Wed
days and Fridays 7:30 to 9:30 p. m.
SURE DARDANELLES FORTS
WILL HOLD OUT
Thanks are expressed to England
for the excellent defenses of the Dar
danelles forts, in an editorial in a re
cent issue of the Frankfurter Zeitung,
which expresses confidence that the
forts will hold out against all at
tacks by the Allied fleets.
"Tlie Dardanelles strait is 56 kilo
meters long, and at its narrowest
point less than 2,000 meters wide, in
the placing of the fortifications, Eng
land has done a service for which it
should now receive thanks, in those
days when it had not yet. been de
prived of its reason by fear of 'the
German danger,’ and when it saw in
the defense of Turkey against Rus
sia and French robber lust a chief
task of its diplomacy. The entire
chain of forts was subsequently im
proved again and again and buUt up
more extensively, and today it is so
strong that even the military critic
of the London Times, Colonel Rep
ington, is obliged to admit that the
fortifications can be forced only if
the attacking fleet is supported by
a land army of at least 200,000 men.
“The German kaiser has decorated
the Turkish war minister, Enver Pa
sha, with the iron cross. In view of
the new attack of the enemy upon
the central point of the Turkish em
pire, that is a fresh recognition of
valor and an encouragement. When
it is considered today that Turkey
is standing embattled on three or four
fronts and with three great powers,
the continued duration of the war in
itself is eloquent of the internal
strength of an organization which the
political barber shops of Europe had
all too readily accustomed themselves
to regard as a ‘sick man.’ ”
Remington and Smith Premier type
writers for sale or rent at Valdez
Drug Co.
The Prospector office for job work.
Notice of Special Meeting of the
Stockholders of the Valdez Electric
Company.
Notice is hereby given that a spec
ial meeting of the stockholders of
the Valdez Electric Company, will be
held at the offices of the company,
in ‘he town of Valdez, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 22nd day of April, 1915,
at the hour of 2 o’clock, in the after
noon of said day, for the purpose of
considering the question of increasing
the capital stock of said company,
from its present capitalization, name
ly twenty-five thousand dollars, di
vided into twenty-five hundred shares
of the par value of ten dollars each,
to the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be divided into
one hundred thousand snares of ttie
par value of one dollar each. Also
authorizing the company to amend Its
articles of incorporation, so that its
indebtedness may be increased to a
sum not to exceed fifty thousand dol
lars, with full power to issue bonds
in payment of all of its indebted
ness, and to mortgage or otherwise
hypothecate its property or any part
thereof, for the purpose of securing
such indebtedness. Also authorizing
the company to amend its articles of
incorporation, so that it may acquire
by purchase or otherwise water rights,
water power, and the lands incident
al thereto, and that it may reduce the
number of its directors from seven
to three.
And you are hereby notified to be
present at said meeting either in per
son, or by your regularly authorized
proxy or attorney in fact for the pur
pose of considering said questions.
This notice is hereby served on
you by publication thereof, in the
Valdez Daily Prospector, a newspaper
published at Valdez, Alaska, which
Is the principal place of business of
said company. Said notice will be
published in said newspaper for eight
consecutive weeks, beginning with the
issue of February 24th, 1915, and end
ing with the issue of April 21st, 1915.
Witness our hands as directors of
said company, this 23rd day of Feb
ruary, 1915.
F. M. BOYLE,
E. E. RITCHIE,
W. M. FINICAL,
GEO. J. LOVE,
Directors.
: LAUNCH
BRIGHTON
FOR
Port Weils and Way Ports
Leaves Valdez every Saturday Morning: carry
ing: Mail, Passengers and Freight. Calls at
Kllaniar, Wells Bay. Golden, Hobo Bay, Port
! age Bay, Esther Island. Special trips by ar
[ rangement.
SEE CAPT. STAMEY.
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
CANING THE CULPRIT.
The Mark* It Leaves Look Worse Than
the Whaling Feels.
In a London police court recently a
teacher In a public school was prose
cuted for assaulting a pupil by caning
him. The magistrate decided Unit he
had not used undue violence and there
fore discharged the master.
In this case the father of the boy
who had been caned took him to a
physician on the evening of the day
of his castigation and this doctor found
about fifteen wheals on the lad's back.
This was evidence of severe punish
ment, but the magistrate considered it
was not too severe for the offense i
which had caused it, and said that
parents had formed an exaggerated
opinion of the amount of force that
had been used.
Commenting on this the London Lan
cet says:
“A blow from a cane causes at the
time an appreciable amount of pain
(which, by the way, is what it is in
tended to do), but it leaves behind a
mark quite out of proportion in its
formidable character to the amount of
suffering which it causes after the first
sting has been endured. If any one
doubts this, having perhaps avoided
the opportunity to observe it in the
course of an exemplary boyhood, the
experiment is easily made. Any small
boy will be willing to do his share by
Inflicting upon the seeker after truth
a sharp cut or two, the results of
which will no doubt be distinctly felt
for a time, but only for about an hour,
while there will be visible on the well
protected and tender skin of the buck
for some days wheals which would
harrow the heart of any mother.”
In other words, a boy's back after a
caning looks far worse than it feels.
HARDY TUSCAN WOMEN.
One Vigorous Old Dame Who Acted as
a Mountain Guide.
Illustrative of the hardiness of wo
men in Tuscany, Sir Francis Vane re
lates in “Walks and People In Tus
cany” the experiences of two Eng
lishmen who were traveling in Italy
and who appealed to a village innkeep
er for a trustworthy guide to conduct
them over the pass between the moun
tains of Rondinajo and Tre 1‘oteuze.
To their surprise an old woman ap
peared and announced that she had
come to make arrangements for the
journey. They concluded she must be
the mother of their guide.
“What wus''Ortr amazement to learn
that this elderly dame was our destin
ed leader, and indeed she was got up
for the fray in long boots and short
skirts.
“On we tramped, she always ahead,
walking with a fine military swing
■grbich a llfeguardsman might have en
vied. The path was difficult and could
not be used by vehicles. Our guide
led us up the steep way which follows
a small and rushing stream issuing
from out the side of Rondinajo. and up
it we ascended for an hour or more
until the pass was reached.
“We here had the merciful intention
of sending the old woman back, an
intention, however, she very strongly
opposed. It was only by allowing her
to come some few miles farther on that
wo could induce her to leave us before
she had seen us safely to the end of
the journey.”
Father and His Daughters.
The habits of a lifetime which began
a generation or more ago. the habit of
being a source of maintenance and the
need of keeping in hand the means of
maintenance, the habit of power and
of keeping hold of the source of power,
may make a man less than fair per
haps in dividing his acquisitions with
his wife, but when it comes to the
daughters whom he is going to leav“
in the world when he quits it he is t.*l
for securing to them as far as he can
a full share of all that is worth hav
ing. Hardly can sex selfishness squeeze
in between him and his girls. As be
tween them and all males, he is for
them. He wants them to lose no good
thing that may lawfully be coming to
them. He wants no man to bully them,
no man to impose upon their generosi
ty, no man to bring them to want, to
sorrow or a hungry heart.—Edward S.
Martin in Atlantic.
A Maker of Cripples.
Dr. Charlton Wallace once invest! j
gated with great care ‘K‘0 cases of hip j
joint disease—tuberculosis of the hip.
lie found that of this number 70 per j
cent came of tuberculous families or :
had lived in houses where there had
been known cases of active Uibercu- j
losis within a year. In both cases the !
explanation was the same - exposure to
infection. When the tubercle germ
cannot murder a victim it does its best
to cripple him. ’The only safeguard is
to make sure personally that your
house does not harbor Ibis greatest of
human enemies.—Chicago Journal.
I nappreclative Man.
“You say you occasionally smoke one
of your wife’s birthday cigars?"
"Yes; 1 dug 'em up the other day.
and they are a great help in my pres
ent situation."
"What is that?”
"I am trying to quit smoking tor
good.”—Albany Knickerbocker Press.
Courtesy at the Pawnshop.
"You go first. Frau Meier. I can
wait.”
"Thanks. I'd have you know I’m in
no more hurry for my money than
you.”—Fliegeude Blatter.
Real Ability.
“What is the secret of success.?" ask
ed the fool. .
"The ability to conceni your lack of
ability.” replied the sage.-Cindnnatl
Enquirer.
QUEST OF EL DORADO.
Hiat Elusive* Land of Gold and Jewels
In South America.
Guiana is bounded on the north by
the great river Orinoco and on the
south by the si ill greater river Ama
zon. These two grand livers fire con- !
netted with one another, the Cislqui
ure. it branch from the Orinoco, falling
Into the Itio Negro, a tributary of the
Amazon. Within Guiana itself are
many rivers of very considerable size.
The klugdom of El Dorado was re
puted to exist, somewhere between the
Itio Itraneo and the Essequlbo, called
by the Indians the Brother of the Ori- j
noco. Mauoa, the capital, was said to
be somewhere between the Bio Branco
and the Itupununi, a tributary of the j
Essequlbo. From the thirties of the 1
sixteenth century some eighteen expe- j
ditions had been sent by the Spaniards
to Guiana in search of the golden king
dom. Diego de Ordas, one of the cap
tains of Cortes at the conquest of Mex
ico, led the first attempt in 1531. After
him followed many a brave cavalier,
but all was in vain, and disasters as
well as failure attended nearly all the
expeditions.
From a state paper in the public rec
ord office, London, it appears that in
1580 persons who traveled in America
had reported that there was a place
where the women wore great plates of
gold, covering their whole bodies like
armor. In every cottage pearls were to
be found; in some houses a peck. Ban
queting houses were built of crystal,
with pillars of massive silver, some of
gold. Pieces of gold as big as a man’s
fist were to be found in the heads of
some of the rivers. Raleigh read ac
counts of these expeditions, but their
want of success did not deter him from
attempting to find the golden region.—
Blackwood’s Magazine.
A LIGHT IN AN AUTOMOBILE.
Use One of the Spark Plugs When You
Have No Matches.
Did you ever while making an auto
mobile tour find yourself on a lonely
country road, perhaps miles from the
nearest house, and suddenly discover
that you had no matches? If you
were anxious to light the lamps or ea
ger for a smoke such a discovery
would not prove at all conducive to
the smoothness of your temper.
There is a simple way in which any
one may secure a light without the aid
of matches. You may be anxious for
a smoke or it may be getting dark and
you want to light your lamp, but in
any event you can secure the neces
sary light if you will follow these di
rections:
Unscrew one of the spark plugs and
let It lie on the cylinder head. Wrap a
small wisp of waste around the end of
any small stick of wood or if there is
none handy wrap it around the end of
a screwdriver or any other tool. Dip
the waste in the gasoline until it is
thoroughly soaked. Of course you
should have only a very small piece of
waste; otherwise the blaze will be too
big for you to handle. After dipping
this in the gasoline lay it close to the
spark plug and turn the engine over un
til this plug sparks. This will Ignite
tlie waste and you will have a littlp
torch sufficient for lighting your lamp.
Even if there is a heavy rain or snow,
you can secure a light in this manner
sufficient for your needs.—Detroit Free
■ Press.
Fear of Old Military Service.
A prisoner’s appeal to the court of
criminal appeal for a longer sentence,
although the first on record before
that tribunal, is not altogether unpar
alleled at tlie assize, for offenders who
have had the advantage of inside
knowledge of the working of the pris
ons acts have been known to ask the
judge to give them penal servitude in
stead of a short period of hard labor.
They shrink from the more Spartan
diet and severer restrictions that at
tach to the nominally lighter sentence
A century ago. when capital punish
ment was inflicted for many trivial
crimes, a prisoner was sometimes giv
en a choice— death or service in the
army or navy. And the services in
those days had such a terror for some
criminals that many elected to lie
hanged instead of serving their coun
try.— London Spectator.
Government of Japan.
The government of Japan is not an
absolute monarchy, the mikado being
largely responsible to the parliament
and, to a degree, to the people hack of
Ihe parliament. Under the mikado is
the house of peers, composed of the
princes of tlie blood and the nobility
and the representatives of the vested
interests, and I lie bouse of represents
tives. which is made lip of some .’ISO
members, representing the masses of
the people.—New York Journal
An Exception.
Little Mary was coloring pictures
with her set of paints. She used a tint
that failed to please and exclaimed:
“Oh. 1 didn’t mean to do that! How
ever, what’s done is done and can’t lie I
undone—except shoe laces.”—Chicago j
News.
Poor Dora.
•‘Dorn must have suffered some ter- |
rlble disappointment. One never sees
her smile now. What is the matter?"
"She’s had two front teeth pulled
out.’’—Loudou Telegraph.
Up In a Balloon.
To remain motionless and watch the
earth fall away from you ns rapidly ns
a bnseball falls from you when drop
ped from a window is the sensation of
going up in n balloon.
There is only one cure for public dis
tress, and that is public education, di
rected to make men thoughtful, merci
ful and Just.—Ruskln.
Dougherty & Ferguson
GENERAL
MERCHANDISE
The best groceries recen ed
on every boat,
Fresh vegetables, fruits
and nuts.
BEST PLACE TO EAT
MRS. ST. MARIE’S
Moved to Reed Building, on Wall
Street, next to Road Commission
l 7 a m to 9 a m
MEALS < Lunch 12 m to 1pm
' to 7 p m
BOARD & ROOM $50'pcr Mo.
AWAKE
and on the job—-day or night—buy
and sell anything.
CITY EXPRESS
Phone 82. J. A. Spenard, Prop
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Mrs. M. F. Roberts, tier heirs
ami 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 rents) 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 ttie commissioner, and rec
orded at Valdez, Alaska, pages num
bered 95, 96, in Book 10, Mining Rec
ords, in order to bold 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 June, 1915, you
contribute your proportion of such ex
penditure incurred in performing said
annual labor and improvements,
w-hich 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 Sth
day of March, 1915.
JULtUS RONNING.
Last publication June 7, 1915.
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 tor 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
| rii. 1915, and answer the complaint
of the above named pfhintiff, filed in
! I he clerk’s office of the above entitled
I court; and unless you so appearand
| answer or otherwise plead, the plain
[ tiff will apply to the court for the
j relief demanded in said complain*,
i to-wit: a decree subjecting to the
lien of certain judgments duly docket
led in the above entitled court, in fa
vor of the plaintiff and the said de
fendant Erl Thompson, on the Battle
Ax placer mining claim, in Cook Inlet
Precinct, Territory of Alaska, and or
dering that the same he 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 day
of March, 1915, which publication was
directed to he made once a week for
six consecutive weeks.
Witness the Honorable Fred. M.
Brown, judge of said Court, this Sth
day of March. 1915.
(Seal) ARTHI R 1 ANG.
Clerk of the District Court.
By CIIAS. V HAND. Deputy.
Dale of ftr-t j uPiicar.nu MaHi S,
19.1'.
Date of last pupticai Am \pril 1!;.
1915.
Somebody
With Money
always lias been found lo
“back” 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
with the idea, the man
with a prospect or busi
ness to the man with the
dollar.
ADVERTISE IN THE
PROSPECTOR FOR RE
SULTS.