The Alaska Prospector from Valdez, Alaska • 1

WE ARE THE LEADING OUTFITTERS and carry the largest and most complete stock of SUPPLIES, HARDWARE and CLOTHING FOR THE TRAIL. We shall be glad to show you our stock and give you estimates on your outfit. VaJvDjoa cold STORAGE and CITY MEAT MARKET. OPP. A.

L. LEVY CO. FRESH VEGETABLES Wholesale ami Retail Dealers TELEPHONE 33. Live and Dressed Meats, Poultry, Fish, Oysters, Butter and Eggs. Medicine Outfits For The Trail (Largest Assortment of Snow Glasses.) STATIONERY MINING LOCATION NOTICES Agents 0wi Call For Warrants Valrlez, Alaska, Feb.

is hereby given that I will pay all city warrants up to and including No. 574 if presented within ten days from date. E. Tovvr. Treasurer.

Have You Seen The new Edison Phonograph, with repeating attachment, just received at the Bowling Alley? They are just the thing. We also havo the largest stock of Flower Horns ever carried in Valdez, and Gold Moulded Record- galore. Before you buy that Phonograph see us. It will pay you. COAL COAL C.

W. or Copper River Draying Co. 8,500 Edison Gold Moulded Records at Phonograph Parlor. Take Notice. That I will not he responsible for any work done upon any mining property owned by me on Uyak bay, Kodiak island, Alaska, unless ordered by me in writing.

Josephine Lkchens. Emma Smith vs Harry Smith, divorce. Notice. the undersighed, agent for K. M.

interest In the Moonshine, iron Duke, and Lillie claims, and owner of an interest in the Kxelmngc claim, all of which are situated on south side of Landlock bay and recorded in the Prince William sound mining district, do i by notify all concerned fliHt I Will not be rej sponsible for any labor performed on any of the above claims. Dichard Keif. Dissolution cf Partnership. Notice is hereby given that I transferred all my interest in the partnership under the name i Blackwell Frazer, operating the Northern Saloon, on Neb. I.

to Miss Morris, who assumes all indebtedness and will pay all bills. I have no further connection with said business. Alexander Frazer. Have You Seen The Latest Improved fcdison Standard Phonograph? PRICE $25.00 Belter amt Prettier Than Ever Runs Noiseless, has Cushion Springs and plays more records atone winding. On exhibition at Phonograph Parlor CALL AND SEE THEM Throe times three.

Soon. New Moving Pictures at the Horseshoe. Positively a change of pictures every night. The Bertha left Seattle for Val-j dez on the evening of the 25th. Quartz and Placer Location' Blanks at Prospector.

The Adams Realty Company is the latest addition to the business concerns in town. It has been started by E. W. Adams to handle real estate and mining property on commission, and do a general brokerage business. The office is in Kanitz block, opposite the postof-: lice.

Jake Hepfinger left this morn-1 I ing for Fairbanks. 0. P. Hubbard, assistant district attorney, has gone to New York on legal business in connection with the Valdez-Yukon Railway Co. Chris Tjosevig left this week the country.

He will be camped most of the summer on the i Kennicott. J. P. Dillon is now steward on the Excelsior. Dennis Donolioe and J.

F. Barrett left Tonsina Tuesday enroute to the copper country. F. F. Burgin, who was here takling options on interior eopper properties, was called East on irni nortant legal business and left on the Oregon.

He will return early in the summer. Among the arrivals from Fairbanks this week are Scott Wilcox, George Carl, F. S. Gordon, E. L.

French, Clarence Copeland, Claire Copeland, Mutchler Hall, Oscar Anderson, John Charles. Pete Cashman and C. H. Golden left last Saturday on a stampede to the eopper country to relocate some claims. One thousand five hundred horses ere recently slaughtered at Nome because it would not pay to winter them through the long months until spring opens again and work can be resumed.

Telegraphic Items. Washington, March has issued a proclamation of a reciprocity agreement with Germane, imposing the tariff of section three of the Dingley act on German imports in return for the concessions of putting a minimum tariff on United States products. Washington, March Hopkins, of Washington, who was charged with too much political activity in office, has been reappointed subject to the condition that he quit lobbying. Denver, March bomb used by Orchard to kill Governor Steunenberg, was manufactured here by Charles Roach, a plumber whose shop is across the street from Peltibones store. The latter is under arrest.

Roach admits making the bomb. Seattle, March Cheng of the imperial Chinese commission which arrived yesterday on the Dakota, says that there is no chance of a cessation of the Chinese boycott against American goods until the exclusion act is modified. He ex presses himself as believing that within two years China will hax'e a new constitution modeled after the European and American governments. Seattle, March 1-J. D.

McCarthy the well known local dry goods merchant, died at the hospital last night. Washington, March Foraker made a strong attack today upon the railroad rate bill. He favors extending and enforcing the present Elkins law. Sold. Mrs.

E. E. Doty lias purchased the roadhouse, known as twenty miles from town, from Pontius Magnusson. Mr6. Doty has had extensive experience in the roadhouse business, and is thoroughly capable of maintaining the reputation of as one of the best places along the trail.

owns the Ptarmigan Drop roadhouse, 30 miles from town, just across the summit. Olson Property Sold. The property of the Clas. S. Olson estate, of which A.

P. Olson is administrator, was sold at auction Monday. The building occupied by the News was purchased by W. S. Amv, and the residence further up Keystone avenue was bought by Gus Dgarf.

Commander P. J. Werlich United States navy, was recently appointed lighthouse inspector for Pacific northwest district. New lighthouses will be established at Muckilteo, island and Guard island in Alaska. The latter station will be ready to go into commission in about two months.

Want to Be Shown. The chief objection to Col Perkins is that he is connected with tlie Northwestern Steamship Company, and prominent Alaskans say they ill never stand for a corporation man as governor of the north. Col. Perkins has gone on record as saying that if he can secure the position that he will instantly sever all his relations with local and northern corporations, but those who are opposed to him in a general way declare that they got to be shown such connection has been severed before they will even lift a voice or wield a pen in his Governor Brady Resigns Eeaves Office Voluntarily. Resignation Takes Effect When Successor Earned.

Washington, Feb. resignation of John G. Brady as governor of Alaska was received at the White House today. It was handed to the president by Chief Justice Peele, of the court of claims, a personal friend of the governor, and will be accepted to take effect upon the the appointment of Mr. successor.

He does not go out of office under pressure from the president or under charges reflecting on'his honor. Anti Gambling: Bill Favorably Reported. The Senate committee on territories has agreed upon a favorable report on the bill prohibiting gambling in Arizona, New Mexico and Indian Territory, and including Alaska in the bill. It is the most drastic bill of the kind ever enacted, covering every phaze of gambling, and extending the penalties to the owners and occupants of buildings in which gambling is conducted. This is the bill mentioned in the press dispatches recently as passing the house.

He Will Develp Galena Bay Mines. B. F. Millard, one of the best known operators in the Copper River country, arrived at the Butler last night from Washington. D.

C. He is accompanied by bis wife and daughter and will sail on the Bertha February 25 for Galena bay, eighteen miles southeast of Valdez. It is rumored that Mr. Millard has sold his famous copper properties to Steve Birch, although he declined to affirm it. In speaking of his Galena bay copper android properties, however, he said: have organized a company in Chicago, capitalized at $500,000, and we will develop my properties at Galena bay on an extensive scale.

We have 900 acres of copper property. I will take a large force ot men north with me and we will start work just as soon as the weather conditions Times. Steamer For Cook Inlet Run. In order to handle the freight which will be consigned to the Cook inlet country this season, the steamer Toledo, of Portland, has been chartered by the Cook Inlet Transportation Company. Her tonnage is about 400 displacement.

She has a speed of about It) knots. The passenger accommodations are arranged for about 50 people. This steamer is only one of the many small boats which will be used in Alaskan waters this year. She is, however, one of the finest that will go North. The boat is owned by J.

O. Buzzard. Covering Bill Reported The Lovering bill, with a provision for a bond issue secured by the government struck out, has been favorably reported. As it now stands there is no direct financial aid given by the government to the project. The bill grants a right of way from Cordova bay to Eagle.

A sub-committee was appointed t6 diaft amendments providing that other railroads shall have a right of way Sand outlet on the water front in townsites granted the company, and providing for the payment of not less than $10 per acre for a section of coal land. Of Local Interest. Suits Filed This Week S. L. Senrles vs B.

F. Millard, suit on judgment for $3,500 obtained in Wisconsin. Alaska Central vs Gertrude Robb and II. Kopprund, suit for ejectment from land. M.

V. Edwards and R. mever vs Rotbkranz and A. von Gunther, suit for half interest in claims on Knight's island, claiming a grubstake. Articles of Incorporation Articles of incorporation have been filed with the clerk of the court here for the Copper River Railway Co, to run from the mouth of Copper river to the Tanana.

II. Middaugh and Samuel Murchison, of Seattle, Capital $7,000,000. The Canyon Creek Gold Mining incorporated by Joe Wilson, II. J. Marx and Cecil Clegg, of Seward, for $1,000,000 also tiled artii les.

Jumped Overboard. Frank Carey, a well known miner of Kayak, committed suicide Fell. by jumping from the Excelsior, while on the way between Yakutat and Kavak. He was seen when he made the leap, and a boat was immediately lowered, but no sign of him was seen after he struck the water. Carey bad been to Seattle on deal, by which lie expected to realize considerable money through the sale of some mining property, but the deal fell through and the suicide is supnosed to have been the result of a fit of despondency occasioned by the failure of the transaction.

Carey was well known and liked at Kayak. He worked there last in the coal mines for the Cunni ngham Co Home Restaurant Changes Hands Mr. ami Mrs. Chas. G.

Horsfall, formerly of the Nome River Bridge Store and Restaurant, near Nome, have purchased the Home Restaurant and are prepared to ful'y sustain the reputation acquired in the North for first-class service iq every respect. )ir. and Mrs. Horsfall, having every confidence in the future of this town, have come to Valdez to make their home. Build Without Aid.

D. A. NeKenzie, in uu interview at Seattle, announced that the railroad irotn Cordova hay will be built without government aid. He said: have formed a syndicate of weglthy Eastern men and you may state positively that the road will be built from Cordova bay out along tl.e Copper river to Eagle City, a distance of about 500 miles, Completed the road will represent expenditure of $20,000,000. There will be several branches tapping rich copper and coal fields.

will start active this spring, and expect to get a goodly number of miles of railroad laid before snow flies. We have eight years in which to build this road and will finish before that Big Deeds Two instruments, aggregating were recently Hied ami recorded in the office tary of Alaska, at Sitka. One was for $20,000,000 running from the Valdez, Marshal Pass Northern Railroad company totha Metropolitan Trust company, of New York, and contained 17,500 words. The other ran from the Central Railway company to Western Trust Savings Bank, of Chicago, and was for It contained 14,100 words..