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Snug-fitting,
a Seamless.
Six Pairs
Cotton Hose
Guaranteed
" to Wear
Six Months
or New
Hose FREE
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc.
TRUE VALUES
On the basis of Security and Service
we solicit your account. •
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
BIG TIME JULY 4th
Largest Celebration ever held in
Valdez Planned by
IGLOO NO, 7, ALII PIONEERS
*
Three Day Celebration, 4th, 5th and 6th
$1,000 FOR PRIZES $1,000
Rock Drilling Contest
First Prize, $250; Second Prize, $75
Horse Races
First and Second Prizes, $75
Tug of War
Prize $50
Clay Pigeon Shoot Foot and Boat Races
Base Ball and Atheletic Sports
Battleship Maryland expected with crew of 800 and
Brass Band of 60 Pieces
Military Parade
$7.00 Fare from Cordova and Seward to Valdez
and return
Everybody Welcome
• - .• ___
morphine and Cocaine Habits.
Examination of the laws which
control the sale of opium and co
caine in the several stales show
that there is a most extraordinary
lack of uniformity, in many
states anti-narcotic laws are so
Comprehensive that were an at
tempt made to enforce the law
literally it would result in the line
or imprisonment of practically all
the retail druggists. On the oth
er hand, there are some states in
which the exceptions and provis
ios to the law are so numerous
as practically to nullify all efforts
to control the traffic in narcotic
drugs.
Although in most nf the slates
lhere is some legislation which
aims In abolish the evil, if is all
of comparatively recent date, and
has not kept, .pace with the in
crease in drug addicliou. -Lack of
federal control resulting in var
ious conflicting state laws, or
more properly speaking in giving
rise to such a diversity of laws
that stringency in one slate can
be overcome by ordering by mail
from another slate wlMre the
laws are less stringent, is un
doubtedly the chief reason why
our country compares so unfavor
ably with European countries in
respect to the prevalence of mor
phine addiction.
Since 1800, when I he various
forms of opium were separately j
enumerated in the tariff schedule-,
there has been an increase of 351
per cent in the importation and
consumption of all forms of op
ium, as against an increase of 133
per cent in the population. In
the United States during the last
ten years there has been an an
nual importation and consump
tion of over 400,000 pounds. Au
stria-Hungary, with a population
of a little less than half that of
ours, consumes annually less
than l-100th this amount of op
ium. Germany, with (>0,000,000
inhabitants, consumes only about
17.000 pounds annually, while in
Italy, with 33,000,000, there is an
annual consumption of only about
6.000 pounds. The appalling dis
crepancy consists in the fact that,
the most reliable authorities are
agreed that one-eighth the
amount of opium imported into
the United States would amply
suffice1 f r the legitimate medical
needs of our people. This coun
try manufactures into morphine
fully 300,000 pounds of the an
nual importation, and it is esti
mated that 80 per cent of the
morphine thus made is used by
victims of the habit.
When we consider <cocaine, the
situation is no less alarming.
Koller lirsl introduced ibis drug
to the medical profession in 188 5.
Thirteen years later was enacted
the lirsl legislation in the Unit
eel Slates which strove to prevent
the indiscriminate sale of the
drug. In 1807 Illinois passed a
law which made i| unlawful to
give or sell any cocaine or prep
aration containing cocaine in any
form, except on prescription of
a physician or dentist. Tin* im
prael icabilily of all the legisla
tion since that time is evidenced
by I he fact that although cocaine
is a drug which is utterly useless
except in I he hands of I he physi
cian or dentist, and should nev
er be prescribed ..nlinuous
use under any circumstances ev
en by them, there has neverthe
less been such a steady increase
in its use that it is now reliably
estimated that its illegitimate use
alone exceeds 150,000 ounces ev
ery year.
A consideration of the evils at
endant on the use of morphine
and cocaine alone, says the Jour
nal of the American Medical As
sociation, should tend to convince
the* most ardent advocate of
stale’s rights that legislation reg
ulating the sale of all dangerous
habit-forming narcotics should be
national in scope and absolutely
uniform throughout the country,
In matters which affect the health
of the nation at large the laws
should be in the hands of feder
al rather than state authiyities.
A native station master on the
East Indian railway had given
strict orders not to do anything
out. of the ordinary without au
thority from the superintendent.
This accounts for his sending the
following telegram:
• “Superintendent’s Office, Cal
cutta: Tiger on platform eating
conductor. Please wire instruc
tions.”
For Sale Cheap.
Twenty-Sight foot Racine mo
tor boat hull. Inquire of E. P.
Cashmaa.
Rook Contract to Let.
Contrac^-to let for sinking
shaft. Inquire of B. F. Millard
at the Copper Block.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
The bread that makes
good toast. Its a neces
sity for your meal.
Potato yeast whole nnPin
wheat,rye and Ger- UUL A 11
man pumpernickel UIILllU
Coffee Rolls, Cakes and
Pies.
All Quality Goods at
SCHMIDT'S DELICATESSEN AND
BAKERY.
FRYE-BRUHN CO.
Phone 29
Beef, Pork,
Mutton, Veal
POULTRY.
Oysters, Fresh Fish,
Fresh Vegetables,
Fruits.
BUTTER and EGGS
THE NEMO
For the Stout or Slender Figure.
The only self reducing Corset—not every
woman requires abdominal reduction—but
every woman who wears a long or tightly
laced corset absolutely needs abdominal
Supiwrt. This is perfectly accomplished by
the NEMO.
E. WINTER
The Ladies Furnisher.
VALDEZ
BARBER SHOP
SWAN BLOCK
Mias May Miles, Mias Emma Johnson
LADY BARBERS
Strictly First Class and Up-To-date
Shaving, Hair Cutting, Hair Dressing,
Manicuring.
Specialty Made of.Cutting Children’s Hair
Go to the
ARCADE
for quick, clean service.
RAICFRY ,N connection
DA1VE.IV I EVERYTHING GOOD
JACK CALLIN & CCX
LAUNCH VIKING
Leaves from Valdez dock for
SHOUP BAY
and way points at 10 a. m. Daily
W. J. CALLAGHAN.
| Chas. R. Crawford |
| Wall Street Phone 153 j
§ Plate glass, window glass, roofing and {
h building papers, roofing pitch, lime, ce* t
h ment, plaster lath, shingles, builders' ♦
g hardware. Shop and job work of all kinds $
| Windows, Doors, Moulding, Finish- |
It ing Lumber t
| Agents for Fairbanks, Morse Co. |
Valdez Sheet Metal Works
Manufacturers of
YAKSHAW STOVES
Plumbing, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pumps and
Well Points.!
1 Sheet Metal Work of Every
Description, Hose Valves,
Iroi °ipe, Fittings.
I
iffsrUP Horn
EVBOMML
SEATTLE
Cf/AS, Peppy, jma.
THE BIST OF EVERYTHING
IN THE HEART OF THECITY ^
135BoqhsWittiB^th-50SampieBoohs
Boots & Shoes
REPAIRED
Price* Reasonable. Workmanship of the best
JAMES NAREY
At Stisll’i former jewelry shop. VALDEZ
Adler is selling out. Bargains
in anything and everything.
A. M. Dieringer
Valdez Transfer
Company
I General Trucking and Freight
I ing to all interior points
| LIVERY and FEED STABLE
STORAGE
Teaming of all kinds
Positively no coal delivered
unless paid (or in advance
Fagerberg Bros.
NIZINA, ALASKA
General Merchandise
Miners & Prospectors Supplies
Fresh Goods—Reasonable Prices
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS
When in a hurry call on me.
"QUICK ACTION"
it my motto.
Phone 82. J. A. SPENARD, Prop.
PROFESSIONAL
Dr. H. COCKERILLE
Graduate of National University
[Washington, D. C.
DENTIST
Phone 92 Fourteen years in
Office injWhaling building VALDEZ
Next to cable office
DR. GERMAN
Phone THE DENTIST
Office rooms over Owl Drug store. Office hours
9 a. m.. to 6 p. m.. 7 p. m.. to 9 p. m. Sundays
by appointment All work guaranteed
L v. RAY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SEWARD, - " ALASKA
E. E. RITCHIE
L A \V YER
phone 136 Valdez, Alaska
k
C. E. BUNNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Offices Wall Street
Phone 3i VALDEZ
MINING ENGINEER
F. BUTTERWORTH
Civil Engineer and
U. S. Deputy Land and
Mineral Surveyor
Blue Printing Res. Phone. 189
L. W. STORM. E. M.
Valdez, Alaska j
Reposts oh Mines
Patent Sustets
Qenesal Mining Engineesing
'Phone No. ios
Valdes I/Odge
No 168.
Free and Accented Masons
Regular Communications tlrst Wednesday in
each month in McKinley Hall Visitors always
welcome.
James.H Patterson,.W. M
C. C. Remolds. Sec
FOE
VALDEZ AERIE Vo- 1071
Meet every Friday, 8 p. m- Eagle Hal
CAMP VALDEZ No. 10
Meet every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock to
Eagle Hall. All members are requested to
ttesd. S. Mcniece. Arctio Chief