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Just In PAULHAN^. linocord Buttonhole* are raev-to-button and unbutton, and l&er don't t tar out. Our tlyle* can be copied bat not our Buttonhole*. ur Spring line of Ide Silver Collars and Shirts Latest patterns in Ide and Silver shirts from $1.25 to $2.00. Valdez Mercantile Co. inc. Successors to Valdez Bank .& Mercantile Co. Inc. On the basis of Security and Service we solicit your account. WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY. VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. To Charles R. Crawford and Geo. B. McMullen, their heirs and administrators, and to all whom it may concern: . , , You are hereby notified that I have expended the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars in labor and improvements upon the fol lowing named lode mining claims, to-wit: The Valdez claim No. 1, recorded in book No. 1, page 97; Valdez mining claim No. 2, re corded in book No. 1, page 98; Valdez claim No. 3, recorded in book No. 2. page 19; Valdez claim No. i, recorded in book No. 2, page 18; North Star claim No. I, re corded in book 2, page 29; North Star claim No. 2, recorded in book 2, page 21. all records of the Val dez Mining District, Territory of Alaska. Said mining claims be ing near Mineral creek, about one and one-half miles from Valdez bay, in the recording district aforesaid. Proof of said expendi ture appearing by affidavit, filed on the 31st day of December, 1912. The sum of six hundred ($600) dollars expended being the amount required to hold the said claims for the year 1912, and if, within 90 davs after this publi cation you fail or refuse to con tribute your proportion each of two hundred ($200) dollars, being i he sum of $33.33 for each of said claims, your interest in said claims, for which you fail to con tribute your said proportion of expenditure for annual labor, will become the properly of the under <ierned co-owner under Section 2321. Revised Statutes of Lhe Un ited Stales. GEORGE II. MERRIF1ELD. First pub. Feb. 1913. Last pub. May 8, 1913. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. To tteorge Benson, your heirs, personal representatives and as signs: You are hereby notified that the undersigned, H. M. Carter, ex pended during the year 4912, «ae hundred dollars in labor and im provements on the following min ing claims, to-wit: The O. K. No. I quartz claim, filed for rec ord in Val. 10 of Book of Rec ords, page No. 235 of the records of the U. S. Commissioner at Val dez, the said claim being locat ed in the Port Wells mining dis trict, Territory of Alaska, for the purpose of holding said claims under the provisions of Section 2324, Revised Statutes of the Uni ted Slates, during the year of 1913. And if you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of said expenditure as a co-owner, within ninety days after comple tion of publication of this notice, to_wif. the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00), your interest in said claim will become the property of the undersigned co owner, who has made the oxpcn said, pursuant to statute. Dated Valdez, Alaska, April I. 1913. N. M. CARTER. Date first pub. April 1. 1913. Date last pub. July 31, 1913. Ceo. Reinke, the watch repairer and jeweler, is at the Valdez Drug company. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. To Alex. Nelson, liis heirs, admin istrators, and to all whom it may concern: You are hereby notified that 1 have expended four hundred dol lars ($100) in labor and improve ments upon the Last Chance No. 1 and Last Chance No. 2 lodes, situate in Shoup bay near the en trance thereof, Valdez recording precinct, Territory of Alaska, the location certificates of said claims being of record in the office of the jU. S', commissioner at Valdez, I Alaska. Said expenditure was | made in order to hold said claims ! under the provisions of the laws jof the United States and of this j territory, said amount being $200 I per vear, the amount required to hold the claims for the years end ing December 31, 1911, and De c mber 31, 1912. And if, within ninety / (90) days after this no tice by publication, you fail or re fuse to contribute your proportion ($200, being $100 for each of said ears! your interest in said claims will become the property of the subscriber, your co-owner, under ection 2321, Revised Statutes of the United States. YVM. KOCH. Date of tirst pub. Jan. 21, 1913. Date of last pub. April 24, 1913. NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL ACCOUNT. n tli 3 United States Commission er’s Court, ex Officio Judge in Probate, Valdez Precinct. Ter ritory of Alaska, Third Judic ial Division. In the matter of the estate of 1 ,ouis Camicia, deceased, James Fish and W. H. Caswell, adminis trators.—Notice of Hearing of Fi nal Account. Notice is hereby given that James Fish and W. H. Caswell, administrators of the estate of Louis Camicia, deceased, have rendered, filed and presented "Tor settlement their final account and report of their administration of the said estate, and that the 21st day oF Affril. 1913, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, at (he office of Thomas R. Shepard, ex officio judge in probate of the Valdez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska, i has been duly appointed by the said court at the time and place .of settlement of said final account and report, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and file his objections and exceptions to sl id final account and report. Dated at Valdez, Alaska, this > 9th day of February, .1913. JAMES FISH. W. H. CASWELL, Administrators of the Estate of Louis Camicia, deceased. Date of first pub. Feb. 19, 1913. Date of last pub. April 21. 1913, NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL ACCOUNT. In the Probate Court, Valdez Pre cinct, Third Judicial Division, Territory of Alaska. In the matter of the estate of Hardin Smith, deceased—Nolije of hearing of final account. Notice is hereby given that An gus Chisholm, administrator of the estate of Hardin Smith, de ceased, has rendered and pre seated for settlement and filed his final account and report of his administration of the said estate, and that Tuesday, the Oth day of May, 1913, at the hour of two o’clock p. m., of said day, ht the office of Thos. R. Shepard, ex of fifcio judge in probate of the Val dez precinct, at Valdez, Alaska, has been .duty appointed by the said court as the time and place of settlement of said final ac count and report, at which time and place any person interested in said estate may appear and lile objections and exceptions to said final account and report. Dated at, Valdez, Alaska, this 1st, day of March. 1913. ANGGUS CHISHOLM, Administrator of the estate of Hardin Smith, deceased. Date of first pub. March 1,’13. Date of last, pub. May 5, 1913. NOTICE OF FORFEITURE. To William Hogan. Von are hereby untitled that I have expended during the year 1912, one hundred and Ihirlv Hiree dollars and lhirly-1 hree rents, lawful money of the Unit ed States, in labor and improve ments, upon your two-ninths in terest in those certain lode claims lying and being on Knights Is land, in the recording predinct of Valdez, Alaska, which are known as and called the “Shamrock” claim; the “Tramp” claim; the “Star No. 2” claim; the “Mother Hill” claim; the “Beach” claim, and the “Last Chance” claim,' the location notices of said claims be ing of record in the office of the Commissioner and Recorder, at Valdez, Alaska, in order to hold said claims tinder Ihe provisions of Section 232 4 of the Revised ^Statutes of the United States, concerning annual labor on min ■ ing claims, being the amount re quired to hold said lode claims for the period ending on the 31st day of December. 1912. And unless within ninety days after the completion of the publi cation of this notice, to-wit: with in ninety days after the 6th day of July, 1913, you contribute your proportion of such expenditure incurred n performing said an nual labor and improvements, which is tiie sum of one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thir ty-three cents, your interest in the claims will become the prop erty of the subscriber of this no tice, your co-owner, who • has made the required expenditure, by the terms of said section. Dated at Valdez. Alaska, this 5th day of April, 1913. S. A. HEMPLE. Dale of first pub. April 6, 1913 Dale of last pub. July 6, 1913. l’OR RENT—Three-room apart ments furnished over Valdez Drug Co. Apply Valdez Drug Co. It is worth while taking a chance on the $800 diamond ring being raffled at Plant & Com pany's, jewelers. t —— Will the owner or the 15-foot dory which is in the warehouse on the dock call at the Prospector uffice if he wishes to sell? Where Miles, Are as Dust. Surveying the billions of miles ,o a star would be an impossible i feat to the ordinary person, who j is, perhaps, not a mathematician, jt Even the astronomer may make it i mistake of a billion miles or so. i The lirst requisite is a basis of!' calculation. For Ibis, Ihe astron- ji inner takes the spot where his oh- ji servatory stood in Ihe month of; March and its place in Septem- ■ her. II is the same location on earth, of course, but in celestial spnce--thc earth having traveled half way around the sun—Ihe distance is 18(i,(Kill,(1(1(1 miles. With Ibis as Ihe base of a Iri angle, Ihe astronomer, by a sim ple calculation, computes I lie op ening of the angle where Ihe star is situated, and then tinds Ihe distance lo I lie earth; I tin I is, he could do so accurately if Ihe 180,- | Odd,(1(1(1 miles were proportion-i ately long with the two other! side's of Ihe triangle instead of being almost inadequately short. , Some idea of Ihe method may be gained from its employment for land-measuring. The distance $o a mountain top is desired.'The surveyor lays off a fehv hundred v'ards on the ground, finds the angles at which straight lines proceed from this basis of meas urement lo the mountain top, and solves tin* problem easily. To as certain the distance lo the moon, a very long line is needed; one drawn between two observatories will do—not along the earth’s j surface, which is round, but Ihe! straight line through the garth,! from observatory to observatory, i With this line, a-triangle is drawn : with Ihe moon at the vertex, and : the stellite found lo he 2 40.00(1 ! miles away. In making a mangle willi a! star, astronomers have hail re- 1 course to the longest line pos- \ sihle to earthlings—between the ] aforementioned points located by j the extremes of the earth’s orbit. | If a star were only a trillion miles I ■bff, a 186,000,000-mile shaft in j the position of the earth would i afford quite an advantage for a I look at the other cheek, yet it makes hardly an appreciable dis tance in the relative position with the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. 2<i trillion miles beyond. Now, the arc of a circle is di vided into 360 degrees, each sub divided into 60 minutes, and the ininute into 60 seconds. So there are 1,-'90,000 seconds in a circle. The angle that Alpha Centauri 'rffakes is less than the millionth part of a circle; it is about three quarters of a second of the arc. Imagine' tile angle, a line drawn from the star to earth in March: another line from the star to the I earth in September. Tliel base jof this triangle is 186,000,000 ! miles, which constitutes less than [tlie millionth part of a circle in j measurement of the angle where shines Alpha Centauri. This is | hard to detect with the linest of mathematical instruments, and that is why the distance to even [the nearest star is a vexing proli [ lem. I ..... Flowers From Cold Storage Tin* rxporlal ion of refrigerated plants from China to France has met with much success. The jleast success has Iteen had with violets and roses. Other (lowers kept in cold storage now llml their way to European markets in a stale of perfect preservation. The Horticultural Society of Paris lias recently' received peonies from the' Orient in excellent condition, though they were cut three months ago. Postoffice Hours. Week days 9 a. in. to 6 p. m. Sundays and holidays 12 noon to 2 p. m. Cable Office Hours. Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. Sundays and holidays 9 to in . m. and 5 to 6 p. m. FURNISHED ROOMS with or without hoard. Ibex House, Key stone Ave. Mrs. H. Sharts. Just received at Harvey's Tog gery, a nice line of spring and summer coats. FOR SALE—A Smith-Premier typewriter, in first-class shape. Call at the Valdez Transfer Co. Chas. R. Crawford Wall Street Phone 159 Plate glass* window glass, roofing and building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders' hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish ing Lumber Agents far Fairbanks, Morse Jt Co. Puddles of Silver in Mexico. - II was at Pachuca, Mexico, that ; he patio system of separating j diver had its origin. This sys-^j cm is still‘followed extensively at he silver mines throughout Mex CO. 'I lie ore is crushed and vorked down to a state of pud lie. It> is then spread out lo a leplh of two or three feel over tie paved lloor of the courtyard, >r patio. To this mass sulphate )f copper is added in powder. ! ibout 15 pounds of sulphate lo 1,000 pounds of puddle This is j roddeu into the puddle hy horses. Several gangs of old. worn-out dorses or mules, about Iin a fang, are seen in various parts if the patio, being driven round1 in circles to tread in the sulph ite. On the next day six per cent if common sail is added and in ! I,wo more days one hundred per I'eiil of pure quicksilver, or as imieli as the assay of t In* ore shows is required. This mass' is i I hen trodden up hy horses lor 15 days. II is then wheeled to a large lank through which passes 1 a rapid stream of water. This j washes away the clay, leaving the silver and quicksilver. This res idium is, poured into cone-shaped canvas bags Ihrnugh which most ; of the quicksilver runs out, ami what remains with the silver is passed off with the vapor by means ul healed retorts. None of I tie quicksilver is lost, and ev en the vapor is brought hy cold wa ter to its original state and used again and again. The quicksilver soon lots the hoofs of the horses and the mules, hut the Mexicans themselves do not seem to he much worse for it even though they wade anmud in the puddle for days at a lime. Queer Manx Laws. Tlie Isle of Man presents many curious features, none of which are more curious than its laws. For instance, the legislature is called the House of Keys and was in other times a judicial body charged with the duty of inter preting the laws. *Any person so hold as to slander this House of Kitys was liable nut only to a tine in the amount of j0 pounds, hut to the loss of both his ears. Two deemsters were once ap pointed lo execute the laws which before the year I 417 were un eodilied, and these were known as Breast laws,' for Hie reason I hat. they were imparted lo the deem sters in secret, to he kept by them within Hie secrecy of their own breasts as long as they chose or during their whole service, though they were authorized lo impart and explain to the popu lace as imieli of these special laws as should ill any lime seem wise and expedient. certain ill ilia Manx laws as sai down after Ilia codilicat ion, are extremely <| u a ini. Hare are a anil ide of extracts from lha Manx le gal rulings: "If a man steal a horse or an ox il is no felony, for tin* of fender eannol hide I hem: lull if ha steal a ration or a pig lie shall lie hanged.” "In ease of | haft, if il aimuinl lo the value of sixpence half penny. il shall he felony and death lo the offender: and under that value lo ha whipped or sat upon 1,1 ..Ian horse which shall he provided for such offenders.’ The arms of lha Isle of Man. which, though il may sound like an Irish hull to say so, arc lags --three lags haul al the knees and apparently kicking outward from a common center in the midst of a shield-—have provoked a num her of jocular descriptions, ot which the hast declares that one leg spurns Ireland; one kicks al Scotland, and Ilia third kneels lo Kngliyul. On July 51h of every year lha laws of the Isle of Man are still read aloud lo lha assembled peo ple from the top of Tynwald Hill. This is said lo he the most in teresting and archaic legal cere mony observed today in Europe. j TIDE TABLES Wednesday;' April 16. | High tide, 8:I2 a. in., 9:30 p. in. j Low lido, 2:I0 a. in., 3:05 p. in. I Thursday, April 17. High lido, 9:20 a. in., 10:10 p. in. Low lido, 3:22 a. in., 3:52 p. in. Friday, April 18. High iid**, 10:23 a. in., 10:40 p. in. Low tide, 4:22 a. in.. 4:31 p. in. Saturday, April 19. ! High Iido. 11 :15 a. in., I I :2 I p. in. | Low lido. 5:0 4 a. in.. 5:13 p. in. Sunday, April 20. High lido., I I :59 a. m., I I :55 p. in. Low lido. 5; 41 a. in.. 5:47 p. in. B. PINDER, C. I. M. E. Aaiayer, Mining Engineer Send samples by Mail 8uablative Analysis or Express with charters bocks made on Smeller Pulp Gold A Silver, tl.50; Cold. Silver & Copper $», etc Second AdiHFVeaktyn Sis. JUNEAU, ALASKA A. M. Dieringer Valdez Transfer Company General Trucking and Freight ing to all interior points LIVERY ar d FEED STABLE STORAGE Teaming of all kinds Positively no coal delivered unless paid for in advance PROFESSIONAL CITY EXPRESS MEETS ALL BOATS When in a hurry call on me. “QUICK ACTION” i* my motto. Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop. Fagerberg Bros. NIZINA, ALASKA General Merchandise Miners & Prospectors Supplies Fresh Goods—Reasonable Prices Dr. H. C0CKER1LLE Graduate of National University Washington, D. C. DENTIST Phone 92 Fourteen years in | Office in^Whaling building VALDEZ | Next to cable office DR. GERMAN i I Phon, .» THE DENTIST j j Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours : 9 a.m.. to6p. m., 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays j by appointment All work guaranteed E. E. RITCHIE L A VV V E R phoxk i:!6 Valdez, Alaska C. E. BUNNELL ATTORNEY-AT-LA W Offices Wall Street Phone* 31 VALDEZ < ! L. V. RAY i ATTORNEY AT LAW I I | SEWARD, - ALASKA --- -- - ■ ■ - _—___ MINING ENGINEER » L. W. STORM. E. M. ' Valdez, alaska ■ Acpodts on Mines Patent Suntets (Senegal Mining Engineering Phone No. toa F. BUTTERWORTH Civil Engineer and U. S. Deputy Land and Mineral Surveyor ♦ Blueprinting Res Phone. IBS CAMP VALDEZ No. 10 Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in Eagle Hull. All members are requested to attend. S. McnIECK. Arctic Chief Valdes I/Odge No 168. Free and Accepted Masons Regular Comm unicat-ions first Wednesday io each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always welcome. James H Patton *>n„W. M O. C. Reynolds. Sec VALDEZ AERIE No. 1971 Meet every Friday 8 p.m. Eagle Hal