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PIONEER OUTFITTERS
Confident of our Ability
To Please You, We Invite You To
Give Us A Trial.
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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 85 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 coast
town offering dlreot com
munication with the In
terior by wagon, summer
or winter.
Valdoz offers the near
est and most dlreot route
to the Matanuska coal
Holds.
Its harbor Is the most
easily defended on the Pa
cific coast and oan ride
the navies of the world.
11
W'liy friM'/p in your room and (
hav« lo roml Iho 8i#n in orrlrr
to ! o 11 Hint your rooin is hcalPtl
with slonrn,-whoii you run nil
l.hfi Hlfnm that you wnnl nl "Tin*
Cliff?"
NVafTies nun noney 25c at Val 1
tiez Caft. If
ADVERTISERS' DIRECTORY
DAILY PROSPECTOR
Attorneys-at-Law.
0. E. Bunnell.
L. V. Ray, Seward, Alaska.
E. E." Ritchie.
Assayers.
<*eorge 1''. White.
Banks.
&. Biuin & Co.
Vaidez Bunk & Mercantile Co.
Builders' Material.
Ciias. R. Crawford.
Breweries.
Vaiduz Bottling & Brewing Co.
Bakeries.
Vaidez Bakery.
Coal.
Vaidez Dock Co.
Vaidez Transfer Co.
Dentists
Dr. II. Coekerille.
Dr. Charles Daggett.
. Dr. German.
Drug Stores.
Valdo/. Drug Co.
Furs.
McMillan Fur & Wool Co.
Fraternal'Orders.
Masonic Order.
Odd Fellows.
Fraternal Order Eagles.
A relic Brotherhood.
General Merchandise.
Meyers Cash Sloro, Oolden.
S. Blum & Co.
Kagerhurg Mrns., Nnzina.
Vaidez Mnnk & Mercantile Co.
Life Insurance.
W. II. Crary.
. Hotels.
Copper Block, Valdez.
Coleman House, Seward.
Hotel St. Eliaa. -
"The Cliff."
Rainier-Grand Hotel, Seattle.
Laundrys.
Independent Laundry.
Launohes.
Three M.
Moving Picture Shows.
Tim Orplieum.
Manufacturers.
Copper River Lumber Co.
Chas. H. Crawford.
Alaska Water Light & Powei
Co.
Vahh'z Sheet Melal Works.
Newspapers.
Prospeetor, 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 Sleamship Co.
Sheet Metal Works.
Valdez Sheet Metal Works.
Transfer Companies.
Copper River Draying Co.
Valdez Transfer Co.
Telephones.
Alaska Wnler, Light & Tele
phone Co.
8ohodulo for Launch Donaldson.
Fort Liscum AlaJ:.., Aug. 2
1912.- Office of the Quartermas
tor:
The following schedule for'the
launch Lieut. C. V. Donaldson will
take cfTcct Monday, Aug. 5, 1012.
All orders in conflict herewith are
rovckod:
Leave Leave
Days— Ft. Liscurn Valdez
Mondays ...8:15a.m. 10:4&am.
I : 15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
1'uesdays ..8:1b a.m. 10:45 a. in.
2:00 p. m. 2:30 p. m.j
5:00 p. in. 5:30 p. m.
VVrdncsdHys8:15 a. in. 10:45 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. in.
I'hureday ..8:15 a.m. 10:45 a. m
1:15 p. m. 4:00 p. m.
Fridays ...8:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m.
1:15p.m. 4:00p.m.
Saturdays .2:00 p.m. 4:00 p. m
) :00 p. m. 10:30 p. m.
Sundays, such trips ns may be or
dered.
There will be no tripa for I he
launch on the second and fourth
Fridays each month, these days
being used to clean boilers.
Special trips or cancelling of
nbove will be made without no
tice, only fo meet Ihe emergen
cies of Ihn service.
Hy order of Lieut.-Col. O'Neil.
!,. A. KtJNZJO,
1st Lieut. 30ih Infanlry. Quar
rnaster.
Why not make your own break
fasts and lunchns. Try Ihe Pan
ama apartments. nest dining
mom there also. I
We will receive a complete line
of Christmas goods on the :iexl
steamer at Harvey's Toggery.
, TffS IWIUID HCAD.
.Young Winkler worked for Ja
bez Beall, who deals in shoes and I
linseed meal. For years he was (
a valued clerk, and Jabez warm- <
ly praised his work. And Wink- 1
ler's friends would often say he 1
should be drawing better pay. I
He owes his splendid trade to <
you; oh, what would poor old Ja
bez do, if you'd decide to flee the I
coop? 'Twould surely leave him <
in the soup." Young Winkler's 1
head began to swell, so many i
people stopped to It'll him what J
a honeybird he was, and clapped
his back with fervent paws. So i
Winkler then began to feel he was
a bigger man than Beall, and lie
got grouchy, mean and sore, be- i
cause he wasn't drawing more. '
He thought if he resigned his job
his boss would wail around and
sob and beg him for a while to
stay, and doubtless give him dou
ble pay. And so, in haughty
tones he told old .labez that his
feet were cold. "My services are
in demand; good jobs awail on
every hand. You don't, I fear,
appreciate how miieh'1've done to
make you went." Thus Winkl.M*
made his little, spiel. "I'm if I ad
you quit," said Jabez Beall. "In
other days you did quite well, hut
since your head began to swell
you made myself and patrons
tired, and I had planned l<> have
you IIred." Now Winkler tramps
I around the town and hunts ;i job,
ami is turned down, and while his
world*# a tiling of {ilooni, old
Jabez Head's business is mi I lie
boom.
The Useful Bird of Prey.
II. l.lii! general belief of nat
uralists thai birds of prey arc, on
I he whole, of if rent service lo
farmers; but this belief is direct
ly opposed to I hat which has
been commonly held by the fnriri
ers Iheinselves.
Th ornithologists have, thcre
• fore, undertaken I<.> ascertain who
is right, the farmer or I he man
of science. To Ibis end some
time ago about twenty-seven
hundred stomachs of newly kill
ed hawks and owls were critical
* ly examined.
Of the severity-three kinds of I
hawks and owls found within the
United Stales only six are, on the
whole, held by the experts to be
injurious. Of these, three are so
extremely rare as hardly to call
J for attention, ami another--tbe
| fish hawk — is only indirectly
'harmful, so that of only two—
the sharp-shinned hawk and
Cooper's hawk--ueed any prarti
jcal account l>e taken.
itiii mis is niiiy nail iin* su»ry.
I Not only ill'' I lit' overwhelming
! majority of sucli birds not in —
j.jiii'iotis li> I tit* agriculturist. Iml
{ I ln>\ render 11 i111 continual ami
I exl reiucly valuable service l»y I In*
i ilt'sl ruct ion of numberless planl
j dcsl n»\ 111m rodents ami im-esls.
j Of fin* common rcd-shouhlcrcd
• hawk lwo hundred ami twenty!
j stomachs were examined. ami <if!
I lit- food found in I liein less I hani
.11\vt* pit reul. was pmillry. The j
j.reiuaimler consisted of mire, |
[grasshoppers. ami a ureal vari- .
jely uf oilier things. .More I lian j
jsixly-livc per relit, ol' I lie whole
I was made up or noxious mam-;
I uials-.uiiee ami shrews especial
ly.
j Concern iim Swainsou's hawk,
•we are lolil thai il is pari ieularly
j Ttmil of grasshoppers. One bird
has heen eslinialetl lo consume
al least Iwo humlreil grassltov
! pers in a day. In ihe course ol' a
Jinoiilh a flock of ahoiil one liuii
jdrcd ami sixly-ll\e. which is a
small estimale of the nunilier ae
111 a 11 > seen I opel her ill Mll'ioils
localities I'ccdiim upon grasshop
pers, woiihl destroy a million • »!
these pests.
What Ho Thought Ho Was Gottir.}
The sunday-scliool teacher 'uu1
explained very carefully how K.vc
was crealeil oul of c.ne of A»I -
a.u's ribs ami made ! he wife of
A-I.im. I.iltle Hobby wis u'-epl.
impressed with Ihe slory, and
when lie went home he related
il lo his parents. The next day.
after running around a good deal,
a pain developed in his side, and
when his mother found liiin lie
was lying on the lied sobbing hit -
lerly.
"Why, what is Ihe mailer with
my little hoy," she asked.
"oh, dear," was Ihe response,
"I'ln getting a wife."
"The CllfT" is Ihe place, no!
a bunkhnuse; not cheap, hut rra- ,
sonahle and moderate in price,
and you get what you pay for
oomfort.
!t costs yon Iobh to slop at
"The Cliff" lhan It does to rcnl
and heat a cabin, find you have
a nice warm, clean room to dress t
in. No flres or cares at all lo »
attend t«.
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I
ThrM H«w Counterfeits.
All banks and business bouses
iave been notified of three new
ounterfeits, $10 and *20 goto
ertiflcates and a $10 National
tanknote on the Firt>t National
3ank of Ashley, Penn., reported
>y Acting Chief Jo in E. Wilkin
if the Secret Service.
The $10 gold certifu at-! fol
ows the series of 1907, bearing
shock letter A, plate number 253,
vith the signature of J. C. Nap
er, Register of the Treasury, and
L,ee McClung, Treasurer of the
Jnited State#, and the portrait
if Uillegas. It is a photomechan- !
cal production of fair workman- i
ship on paper of good <piality,!
•ontaining no silk threads, hut an J t
imitation of the lihre in red ami j I
Id lie ink lines. The number <>r i
lie note at hand is 1318890323. j|
The *20 gold certificate is a! ■
new issue of the counterfeit <!«•— i
scribed in Circular Letter 3i7 <>£<
April 2i, 1912, with the face plate J
number changed from iO to 12"*.!
The serial number also has been '
changed from l)i08527 to H-|
I0iir>72. The same black plale i
was used on liotli notes. The new j
issue, like I lie original, is print
ed on two sheets of paper, with
silk lihre distributed between j
I hem. i
The s|(i .\uliunal banknote pur- '
ports t<i be a series of 19(12-1908.*
It has the check letter 1"' and bears !
the .signalures of \Y. T. Vernon,!
Register of the Treasury, and'
Charles It. Treat. Treasurer of.
the United States. The charier j
number is shown as 1322, the
bank number Jjllii, ami Treas- j
ury number 111*23899. It bears the j
portrait of William McKinley.
This counterfeit is photomechan- j
ieal also, printed on paper of f;iir !
quality, with red and blue ink 1
lines to imitate the silk fibre of
the genuine note.
Nothing To It.
To run a newspaper, all ii fal
low has to ho able to Jo is to
write poelry.discuss the tariff and
money questions, umpire a base
ball game, report a wedding, saw
wood, describe a lire so that the
readers will shed their wraps,
make $1 do the work of $10,
shine at a dance, measure calico,
abuse the liquor habit, test whis
key, subscribe to charity, go with
out meals, attack free silver, in
vent advertisements, sneer at
snobbery, overlook scandal, ap
praise babies, delight pumpkin
raisers, minister to the afflicted,
heal the disgruntled, tight to a
finish, set type, mold opinions, i
sweep i mi I the office, speak at I
prayer meeting and stand in with1
everybody ami every! Iiing.--I*al-1
esline Mn. Wabash Pearl.
i
Instead of seeing ourselves ;i-j
• •I hers see us. most nf us would
rallier impress others as we see ■
ourselves.
Tliorou^hnred Knglish Seller'
puppies for sale. Males $;Ti. fe- I
males -Sir,. I legist e in tl stork. Karl 1
Arms! rong.
Try the New Panama hotel, the !
only hotel with a drst-elass <lin- '
infr room in town. No bar.
New York Life i
i
Insurance Co.
W. H. CRARY, Repreientative
Valilez, Alaska. ' Phone 41
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
[.0.<^O£i0.F.:
V'lalUn* tmd locnl (>dd Fellow* am re
<iiif"Mi il to ri'trlNirr tliclr name with the i
Vuldrz <vi«| KMIowk' Club. Kfvuinr
nirrttaK*. rirst nntl third Monday.
• •nil on l». s HfTVT. Secrctnrv. f
Mi'fl r* i ry Ttirsdav
Kttiflr Hull. All hi
Attend- S.
PM'hltV at x oVIor'i In
miIhth itrc ri'i|ii(>M|ttl lo
Mi'N I !•'.< 'K. Antic Chief
VALDKZ AKItIK v., imti
l»»ct evi-ry Krlduy K i». m. KnirJe Hull
Valdeaj I^odge j i
No 168.
Free »nd Acoci'te.l Ma*onn
Kegular Communtoatton* itm Wednesday In ,
»ch month In MeKtnlej IU11 Victor* MmM
'•loovie. 1
Janes H. PMten -»o..W. M
C. C- Remold*. f*tt
A M. l)ierinKt*r
faldez Transfer
Company
General Trucking and Freight*
ig to all interior points
JVERY ar d FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
'ositively no coal delivered
inless paid for in advance
CITY EXPRESS
J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
Ouick delivery t all part* of town
at short notic*. Will move baggrge,
furniture, etc., at reasonable rate*
Office in Alaska Securities
building. Wall St. Phone 82
PROFESSIONAL
DR. GERMAN
THE DENTIST
Olllee rooms over owl Druir store. Office hours
S a. n:.. to 6 i>. in.. toO |> m. Sumhiys
by uMiointinrnl All worU iMmr:irit<-i-<l
DR
. H. COCKERILLE
Office Phone 02
Dentist
Whaling Building VALDEZ
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LA W
Offices WbII S'.reet
Phone 31 VALDEZ
E. E. RITCHIE
L A \V Y F. R
PHONK i:m
Valdez, Alaska
I.. V. RAY
ATTORNKY AT LA W
SKWAltl), - VI.ASK A
MINING ENGINEER
L. W. STORM. E. M.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
Reroktb on Mini- e
Patent Surveys
Genesau Mining E noine t rino
Phone No. toa
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing t{,.v l'h..n«\
ASSAYER
Geo. f. white
The Assayer
Assaying and Ore Testing
CORRECT RESULTS
No Mor«i, No Lhss
VALDKZ, ALASKA
As a mailer of facl 'The OlilT"
is Ihe most comfortable place to
lop in Valdtz. Why not go
here llrst and save the embar
rassment of changing?
TIDE TABLES
Tuesday, December 24.
I mli lide, I 2 :JW ti in., I 1:13 p.m.
,«>\v l 5:35 a. 'in., 0:30 p. in.
Wednesday, Decembor 26.
Imh lid*'. I;20 a. m.. 12:30 p. tii.
,o\v tide, 0:23 a. in., 7:25 p. in.
Thursday, December 26.
ligh lido, 2:03 a. ni„ 1:17 p. m.
o\v lide. 7:12 a. in., 8:00 p. in.
Friday, Deoember 27.
igh tide, 2:10 a. m., 2:08 p. m.
ow lide, 8:05 a. m„ 8:50 p. m.
Saturday, Deoember 28.
igh tide, 3:31 a. m., 3:03 p. m.
ow lide, 9:03 a. m., 9:45 p. m.