The Alaska Prospector
I'uiilUiioil Ht Valtlcx, Aliixkii, ovory Thur*<ly
by Ilu» I'RO.M'KCTOK I'l'HLltlllNU ('<».
I'honk Main l.
Kiitoro<l i«t the VhIiIci I'oatotlleo as hoooihI
i'I«m mutter.
Subscription jut.year. 92 lor six month
8Jiiglc.c«»|»loiclo ront»
VAUDE55 IS GROWING
llocoiptH of morchandiss in Valdoz
in 1007 aggregated $1,411,071, nearly
double the total (if l»0t>, which was
nearly double the aggregate of 1905.
The i«n|K»rt<H of 1907 were three and
one-third times as great as the aggre
gate two years earlier, showing a
rapid as well as constant growth.
Valdoz ranked fourth last year
among Alaska towns in value of mer
chandise received. Nome's total was
but 70 per cent more than that of
Valdoz, and Fairbanks exceeded Val
doz only 18 per cent. The bizarre ex
hibition of railroad buildings at Ka
talla put that place a notch ahead of
Valdez, but there is no present pros
pect that it will duplicate the effort
this year.
All this growth in trade comes
from the development of resources
tributary to Valdez. The merchan
dise is consumed in the town, around
Prince William sound, and in the
mining camps of the interior this side
of the range dividing the coast water
shed from the Tanaua and Yukon.
Scarcely any of it is to be credited to
anything but mining development,
and very little of it could be taken
away from Valdez by any railroad
from any other port,
Valdez Is able to stand alone and
build up on the resources scarce yet
touched, most of them absolutely un
touched, of which nature has made
this town the center, while money is
burned on empirical railroad projects
elsewhere, but some day capital will
accept the opinion of the best engi
neers that a railroad from Valdez will
rcach greater mineral deposits at less
cost and with less mileage than aline
from anybody's townsite.
SOME NEWS FOR VAI,DEZ,
Walter 10. Clarke, Washington cor
respondent of the Post-Intelligencer,
reports t<» that paper that a poll had
boon taken in Valdez to settle the
post otliee eontest. He does not give
the source of his information hut it
must have hern the hot air pipe he
cause nobody in Valdez ever heard of
such a poll and nobody here knows
how it would have come out if one
had been taken.
Nevertheless the Post-Intelligencer
gives the alleged news a place on
the front page of a Sunday paper.
The learned correspondent further
says that the result of the poll being
adverse to Delegate ('ale's candidate
the delegate was willing to quit and
let the other man have the job.
Strange to say the president went
ahead and appointed ('ale's man any
way.
If any one in Valdez ever heard of
t his mysterious poll he will confer a
favor on the Propeetor by informing
it who was invited to vote and who
did vote. This paper confesses an
inglorious scoop hut as a matter of
history would like to print the facta
which seem to have escaped from
this town when nobody was looking.
The P.-I. of February 27 on its
Alaska page has a local account and
one under a Valdez date line each
telling of a poll on postmaster. The
latter merely tells of the petitions
which had been circulated.
Ohauneey Depew certifies that Wall
street Is pure and virtuous. Now who
will give Chauncey a certificate of
merit? An observing poet may have
been thinking of Chauncey when he
wrote:
The river Khine, as is well known,
Washes the city of Cologne;
Hut oil, ye gods, what power divine,
Could ever wash tin- river Khine?
The Heeretary of Mm Young iMeii'n
ChriHtlnn AHHoeiat ion of Seattle
ndlrntH Mint moral ruin await* every
young ninii who eomen to Alaska.
I'iVon a Young Men'n Christian Asso
ciation in a Hiiperlatlvely moral city
liko Henttle in liable to elect a
(lampliool for its Heeretary.
A |M»liee oflleer in Oregon killed a
ninn heeniiHe some guest* at a lioiiHe
party made a noine, ami another in
California killed a man beenUHe IiIh
boy didn't go to school. Now why is
it. that ho many men without brains
break Into the j nil Ice department!
A polI of eolored men in the United
Htates hIiowh that a majority are for
Taft, hut It- Ih not explained whether
any of the Taft votes are hnndi*
enp|»ed in an eloetlon by the grand
father elnuHo.
Henator Tillman eonld hnve told
King l/oopold that, he In Inviting
tronblo by annexing a state full of
colored Africans.
It Ih to tm ho|H«d that Japan will
not mnko war on t he United Htnten
nnd China at the same time.
THAT LABOR AFFIDAVIT
The Prospoctor prints today the
net of the lust congress providing ft»»*
filing Hworn proof of the performance
of annual labor upon mininc claims.
The subject is one of considerable
importance just now because the law
provides that the aflidavit of labor
performed must be filed within nine
ty days after the close of the year in
which such work is performed, and if
the "construction which some attor
neys place upon the law is eorrect the
subject is one of vital importance to
the owners of many thousands of
valuable claims.
Some lawyers hold that the law
forfeits and lays open to relocation
all claims for which affidavits of
assessment work are not filed. If this
is true existing claims can he saved
to their owners only by filing the
prescribed aflidavit not later than
March :w>.
This construction of the law, how
ever is not accepted by other lawyers
who hold that the law merely estab
lishes a method of pcrpct uat in^prima
facie evidence of annual labor. The
latter construction seems to be a rea
sonable deduction from tin1* language
used, which is as follows:
"Such aflidavit shall be prima facie
evidence of the performance of such
work or making of such improve
ments, but if such aflidavits be not
filed within the time fixed b\ this act
the burden of proof vhall be npoii the
claimant to establish tin performance
of such annual \v< rk and improve
ments. And upon failure of the loca
tor or owner of any such claim to
comply with the provisions < f this
act, AS TO I'KRFoK.MANCK OF
WORK AND I.MIMIOVK.MKN TS,
such claim shall he forfeited and open
to location."
ii win i>c IK>ii<-«■«i inai tiic law in
specifying failure to comply with its
provisions proceeds to recite "as to
performance of work.'' hut does not
recite failure to file the alfuhvit as a
fatal omission. In the beginning of
the act it reeitesthat a locator "may"
file an atlidavit as thereinafter speci
fied. Jt is true that the word "may"
is sometimes construed "must" liy an
accepted rule of construction, hut
this is not a case of the class which
falls within the rule.
And if failure to file the affidavit
forfeits the claim 1 why the clause
shifting upon the claiiriunt the burden
of proof of performance of labor? If
his claim is lost wherein lies the utili
ty of any proof whatever?
The only peremptory language in
the act referring to the filing of the
atlidavit is near the end, where refer
ence is made to "the affidavits rc
(piired hereby."
Certainly it seems like a forced
construction of language after weigh
ing all the clauses of the act together
to say that the affidavit must be filed
to save a claim. Hilt it costs onl\
$l./>0 to file the affidavit, and it is
worth that much as "prima facie
proof" of the performance of annual
labor. In some cases it might be
worth a great deal more.
CAN'T LOSE EVELYN
So Kvelyn has sued for annulment
of her marriage to Harry Thaw and
Marry will light the ease as well as he
can from behind the bars of Mat tea
wan asylum for the criminal insane.
He says that the much-wronged
maiden has been coerced by his re
latives, who doubtless do not wish
any longer to rest under the stigfna
of having'a young woman in flic
esteemed Thaw family who is no
better t han she ought to be.
Now why the Thaw family should
feel that way about it is not clear.
All the glory that has come to the
family has been conferred by the fair
Kvelyn. Hcforc she annexed them
to her train with Harry as the con
necting link the Thaws were no more
noted than any other idle millionaire
family. Maybe they are sore because
Harry is now a missing link, about
what Darwin was looking for. Hut
the advertising Kvelyn has given the
family would make any of them a
drawing card on the vaudeville stage.
And Kvelyn. Well, she could have
picked tip a bigger stipend from the
theat rical trust than any actress on
the stago without this divorce suit
to whoop her salary still higher. The
triiHt Is not looking for actresses but
for yellow sensations, like one kind
sf newspapers. Kvelyn is an ideal
representative of the trust standard
of art but If she gets many more trim
mings on her record her salary may
bust t he t rust.
CougroHH Hah voted to Immune tho
pay of <*i» 1 mon In tho regular
army 40 |ht cent, an act which ought*
to have boon on acted fifty year* ago.
Can ft be poMlhlo that oven eongrewH
Ih jotting bettor ami that, tho Hlx
tloth la trying to catch up with tho
march of reform?
When that hll/zard In Northern Ill
inois an<1 Wlaconnln "moeto up" with
tho Indiana flood nomef hlng ought to
give way.
Aho Huof In beginning to hum poet
that tho a<|uoa1or ha« a harder game
Homotlmoa than the norappor.
AUTOMOBILE RAGE
ADVERTISES ALASKA
New York Times Accounts
Give Lengthy Descrip
| ^ tions of Territory.
Copiep of the New York Times re
ceived in Valdez j^ive a j»;roat deal of I
space to the automobile race, show
ing that when a jjreat newspaper
undertakes an advertising stunt it
set* an example for other people.
The Times, ineidently, in describing
tin- route which the ears will take
tfives a concise and aeenrate aeconnt
of the Alaska towns which will be
passed in t lie race.
This description of the route is un
doubtedly the work of John Klein,
who was in Valdez in January to ar
range tor the start to the interior.
Mr. Klein is an old Alaskan, having
visited or lived in nearly ever\ settled
portion of the territory, and he is a
trained metropolitan newspaper man,
so that lie was able to write an artiele
effective in style and accurate in
facts. His description of Alaska
from Valdez to Nome tells the pro
vincial New Yorker more than that
stolid person ever dreamed of the
territory.
When the six auto cars started from
Times sipiarc, New York, at 11:15 in
the forenoon of February 12 the
street was packed with people. The
Times thus describes the start
Description of Cars
"Parked in the space reserved for
(lie racers was tin- Hizaire-Naudin,
the baby <>t the racers, a machine of
only twelve horse power, but whose
French builders hope will he in at the
finish.
Next to this pigmy ivsted the I.ti
horse power .Moto-Bloe, also a French
entry. Then came the Thomas,
America's champion, with in horse
power. Next in line was the I'ntos,
(•erinany's in horse power entry. The
l)e Dion, French, and 10 horse power,
was lith in line, the Italian Znsi, of
21, being last.
"A throng of f»t),000 persons jammed
into the square and in t he streets lead- I
inn thereto saw the departure and
cheered it enthusiastically, lle'^vcen
eoutinuonslines <>t flag-waving and
vociferating holiday makers, who
crowded hoth sides of liroadw.w fori
the eight miles ahove Times square
to 'JOOth street 150,(1(1(1 people perhaps j
— the racers and their escort of more
than 'Jon automobiles proceeded on
the lirst stage of their journey.
Ilet on Result •*.
'i.
Kex. I'i. Ueach, the Alaska writer,
het £1000 with Frederick W. Thomp
son, a theatrical manager, that the
cars will never no through Alaska.
On the ot her hand ('<>1. Swan it z of the
Valdez <S: Yukon railroad told the
Times:
"There is not the slightest douht
that an automohile can over that j
trail in favorable seasons. There are
stretches where the ascent will he
sleep and dillicillt, where it would he
necessary to invoke auxiliary power,
and there are places where the trail |
is very narrow lor an automobile to
travel, but it can be done without a
doubt. At any time between the
lirst of February and the middh*, of
April an automobile ought to make
very good time over the trail. Then
the conditions for travel would he
excellent and exactly suited for auto
mobile travel. Alter that time the
difllculty increases and the trail bo
eoincsat length to all intents and pur
poses impassable."
ELECT DELEGATES TO
KETCHIKAN CONVENTION
At the Valde/, republican primary,
hold in tho federal courtroom lant
night, tho following delegates were
elected to t!io territorriai convention
at Ketchikan May 1*2;—10. H. Kitchlo,
J. I). Hlnddon, It. P. Millard, Charloa
Crawford, W. A. Kyatroni. Tho
territorial convention will elect two
delcgatea to tho repnbllean national
convention and nominate a candidate
for dologato to congrcHH to miceoed
Thoman ('ale. The Vuldoa delcgatea
are uninHtrnoted.
The following product republican
committee wan electedP. M. Hoylc,
W. II. Crary, A, (i. Maker, ,1. II.
Hurt on and (!. (I. Wnlff.
Republican How At Falrl>ank»
John I/. Mcd nn wired thia morning
to ('. (I. Wulfl, aecretary of the re
publican territorial committee, that
"pollticlana affiliated with tho Wont
ern Federation of MinorB" reftmed to
recognize hl« anthority to call a ro
pnbliean primary, and called another
one thomHolvoM for tomorrow night.
Mr. MoCIInn Ih tho Fairbanks member
of the territorial committee.
Pino Line of Diarlon for 1908
at lied Urofw l>rng Company.
TEXT OF LAW FOR
PROOF OF LABOR
Asjsome uncertainty exists regard
ing the provisions of the law enacted
by the last congress to govorn the
llliiig of sworn proof of the annual
labor upon mining claims the text of
the act is given here.
"That during each year and
until patent has been issued
therefor, or at least one hun
dred dollars worth of labor shall be
performed or improvements made on,
or for the benellt or development of,
in accordance with existing law, each
mining claim in the district of Alaska
heretofore or hereinafter located.
And the locator or owner of such
or some other person having know
ledge of the facts may also make and
tile with the said recorder of the dis
trict in which the claims shall be sit
uate an allidavit showing the per
formance of labor or making of im
provements to the amount of one
hundred dollars as aforesaid and spe"
cifying the character and extent of
such work. Such affidavit shall set
forth the following: First , the name
or number of days work done and the
character and value of the improve
ments placed thereon; third, the
date of thejperformanee of such labor
mid of making improvements; fourth,
at whose instance the work was done
or the improvements made; llfth
the actual amount paid for work and
improvement, and by whom paid
when the same was not done by
the owner. Such allidavit shall be
prima facie evidence of the perform
ance of such work or making of such
improvements, but if such affidavits
be not tiled within the time fixed by
this Act the burden of proof shall be
upon tin; claimant to establish the
performance of such annual work and
improvements. And upon failure of
the* locator or owner of any such
claim to comply with the provisions
of t'lis Act, as to performance of
work and improvements, such claim
shall become forfeited and open to
locution by others as if no location of
the same had ever been made. The
affidavits required hereby may be
made before any officer authorized
to administer oaths, and 'the pro
visions of sections fifty-three hun
dred and ninety-two and fifty-three
hundred and ninety-three of the
Ueviscd Statutes are hereby extended
to such affidavits. Said affidavits
shall he filed not later than ninety
days after the close of the year in
which work is performed.
Section 2. That the recorders for
the several divisions or districts of
Alaska shall collect the slim of one
dollar and fifty cents as a fee for the
filing, recording, and indexing said
annual proofs of work and improve
ments for each claim so recorded."
Approved March 2, 1J»07
Summons for Publication
IN rill. IUSTKICT ((MKT KOIl Til K TKKIil
TOKY «)|- ALASKA, TIIIKI) DIVISION.
I*«>ntill" Maguiisscn, I'Ini111iff. ,
vs. S No. "1 lh
Otto'llalisoil, Defendant. 7
I'lii' 1'rcsident of 1 lit* t'nitud HtntCH of Anieri
<•11. < irccting : To I lie above named defendant:
Yon me licreby required to n|>|u>nr In the
District Court for the Territory of Alaska,
Tliirtl Division, within thirty days after the
day ot the service of this summons
niMtn yon, ami answer the complaint
of the above named lilaintifT, a copy of
which complaint is herewith delivered to
yon; and unless von so appear and aimVer the
plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief
demanded in said complaint, which is, I'irst:
that plaintiff lie adjudged and decreed to he
the owner of an undivided one-sixteenth in
teres) in and to five certain lode mining
clatiiis, situated on (ilaeier Creek, Ni/.ina Mill
ing liistriet. Valdc/ Kecordlng I)istrict, Alaska,
and that plaintiff he decreed to he entitled to
a conveyance of said mining claims to liiin
from defendant and that defendant he for
ever .uijoinud Iroin elaimiiiK said one-six
tecntli interest in said milling claims . Second,
that plaintiff he adjudged ellti.led to the
specific perforinniici of a certain con tract set
out in-'the complaint between the parties
hereto, in that he have conveyed to him, the
plaintiff, an additional one-sixteenth interest
in and to said five lode mining claims, under a
contract in which defendant agreed to con
vey to plaintiff said one-sixtcentli interest in
said claims. The said five lode milling claims
above referred to arc known and called as fol
lows: I'anlliie l<odc Mining Claims town Lode
Mining claim ; Montetey Ixido M111 itik claim ;
Kldora l.odc Mining Claim and Chiitv i»odc
Milling Claim The dale of the order for the
publication of this summons Is March itli,
1908, said order being made by the Honorable
Silas II Held, fudge of our District Court, and
this publication Is to he made for six weeks In
the "Alaska Prospector," a weekly newspaper
published and printed at Valdc/., Alaslcd.
And yon the above named defendant are re
•itilrcd to appear as a hove set out within thirty
(lavs from the day of the last publication of
this summons, which is on the Iflth day of
April, MX in.
witness the Honorable Silas II. Held, judge
of said Court, this fourth day of March, HKIH,
and UlOSeil! thereof hereto attached.
I Seal) K. J. Htier, Clerk
ity W T. Ileoks, Deputy.
(1st 1 andel A Douohoe,
I'lalutiff's attorneys.
Klrsl publication March 5. 1908.
I,list publication April 1ft, 1908
Iii Iho I'rnhnle Court, VhIiIoi I'recinct, Terrl
lory of Alnxkn, Hon. .lolui Lyona, Judge.
In the matter of Hie Kntnte of lunula Hrown,
I)<•<ciiHcil. Notice of Final Settlement
Not ce Ik hereby given Hint KiiiiI Hrnntxet,
i-xeeiilor of the nfiovc named cntnte, ha» ren
dered nnd presented for ncltlement and filed
in sniii conri liia Anal account a* ndmin'xtrn
tor of «nld cidnto, nnd thnt on Hie Will day of
Mnreli. IfltW, «l Hie honor of in n. m. nt the
< oiitIIioiihc, before Mid eoiirl, In (lie town of
Vkiiieii having hcon duly Minoltttod hy the
Judge for the neltlement of jnieli neeoniitn, at
which lime nny person Intercntcd In cnld
entntc, inny appear >m<l Hie exception* In
writing lo Ihe «nme mid make rcalntanoo
I hereto
imiiil ililcl'iih day of January, 190H.
Knot Hrantnet.
Kxccutor of Mid Will.
The A. Van der Naillen School
of I'rftctlcftl Clvi), Electrical Mining
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FROM VALDEZ AND EAGLE TRAILS
The Tacoma Roadhouse
55 itiil«>s from Valdez on government trail. One mile'from
telegraph station at Toikhell. First-class Accommodations
for moil and beast. Ilav mid drain for sale.
private rooms Dick Windmiller, Prop.
ANNOUNCEMENT'
To the Traveling Public :
The reason why I am able to give you mor accomojda
dation and better service for your money than you get at
any other place on the Route between Valdez. and hair
banks, is, that 1 am a Bachelor and do not need to
make a profit on the maintenance of a wife and children.
But, if you ;re one of the Traveling Public who
passes through Copper Center, Stop at Hotel
Holman and get your moneys worth.
Try it once and you will stop again.
Rl NGWALD BLIX, Proprietor
Tclofjraph and Mail ^ Town ill Itself. Blacksmith Shop,
Station. ——* otc., etc.
Wortman's Roadhouse
FOOT OF SUMMIT, WliNTV MILKS FROM VAL.DKZ
Accommodation for 40 horses. Warm Doghouses
A FULL STOCK OF GENERAL SUPPLIES
*§"Wi W
K!ronV V«l7u1S t o'V ho" Sum in It ^>POIltiUS MagllUSOIl PfOp
The leikhell Roadhouse.
48 Miles From Valdez
On Government Trail.
Host of accommodations for man and boast. Kronh Meal
always on hand. Horse and l)o« Feed All the la'.«>sf
improvements. PRIVATE ROOMS.
Mrs. Ed. Wood, Proprietor
Wines.Liquors and Cigars.
Fhe Senate.
T. A. COBB & eo., Props
Truth and QviaJity
appeal to the well informed in every walk of life and
are essential to permanent success and creditable
standing, therefore we wish to call the attention of all
who would enjoy good health, with its blessing** to the
fact that it involves the question of right living with
all the term implies. With proper knowledge of what
is best each hour of recreation, of enjoyment, of con
templation and of effort may be made to contribute to
that end and the use of medicines dispensed with
generally to great advantage, but as in many instances
a simple, wholesome remedy may be invaluable, if
taken at the proper time, the California Fig Syrup Co.
feels that it is alike important to present truthfully the
subject and to supply the one perfect laxative remedy
which has won trie approval of physicians and the
world-wide acceptance of the Well-informed because
of the excellence of the combination, known to all,
and the original method of manufacture, which is
known to the California Fig Syrup Co. only.
This valuable remedy has been long and favorably
known under the name of — Syrup of Figs — and has
attained to world-wide acceptance as the most excell
ent family laxative. As its pure laxative principles,
obtained from Senna, arc well known to physicians
and the Well Informed of the world to be the best we
have adopted the more elaborate name of - Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Senna— as more fully descriptive
of the remedy, but doubtless it will always be called
for by the shorter name of — Syrup of Figs — and to
get its beneficial effects, always note, when purchasing,
the full name of the Company — California Fig Syrup
Co.—-printed on the front of every package, whether
you call for—Syrup of Figs—or by the full name—
Syrup of Figs and Flixir of Senna.