Another Shipment of
h Holeproof Hosiery
As the proof of the pud
ding is in the eating, the
best evidence of the merit
of HOLEPROOF is in
their splendid service.
On the last boat came the
biggest shipment of Hole
proof ever brought to this
store. There are several -
new numbers, a fine wors
ted Stocking for Women,
a pure Silk Thread for
Men, besides a complete line 01 staple numocrs. .
Stockings are seamless—that means comfort; no knife-edged |
seams to hurt the feet; and by buying six pairs you receive a
positive guarantee for six months’ wear.
PRICES RANGE A PAIR FROM 25c TO $1.00
Valdez Mercantile Co.
iir i strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, rruil
lOU Tf&nt and Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KING’S GROCERY
Phone 188
Si Keystone Produce Co.
E. G. AMES, Manager
Fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit, Vegetables
Cor. Keyilone Art. and McKinlay St. _ PH0NE
MUST MAKE HUM
FOB PREPAREDNESS
National Security League Believes
that Measure Will Meet with
Determined Opposition.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—S. Stan
wood Menken, prominent in the or
ganization of the National Security
League, declares that the greatest
danger now facing the advocates of
preparedness is the feeling that their
campaign jP&KJbn, and that congress
will surely puss the adequate meas
ures for increases in the army and
navy as outlined in the adrainistra*
tion’s policy.
Mr. Menken declares that the dan
ger of failing was never greater than
now if the objective of a far-reaching
measure for preparedness is to be ob
tained. He believes that an active
campaign is urgent in order that the
congress will be forced to favor the
administration’s army and navy pro
gram by direct popular demand.
“GET-TOGETHER” DINNER”
SHOULD BE BIG SUCCESS.
The committee in charge of the
“Get-Together” dinner this evening
at the Congregational church, are
making every preparation to care for
a big crowd of guests and it is hoped
that the committee will not be disap
pointed as the motive is a most ex
emplary one. A good dinner is prom
ised and the list of speakers includes
a number of the brightest public
speakers in Alaska. The admission
is only 60 cents.
ELLAMAR COPPER CLAIMS
SHOWING UP WELL.
W. R. Morton, the well known min
ing man, returned from Ellamar this
morning on the launch Shamrock, aft
er spending several weeks developing
. cop’per properties in which he is in
terested in that district. The prop
erty joins the Ellamar mine and de
velopment work has convinced the
miners that they have an extension
ot the famous Ellamar ore body.
Rapid progress is being made by
the crew of workmen under Sam Mc
Nlr e in constructing the board walk
or Front street to replace the walk
destroyed by Are last July. The tide
delayed operations today for several
hours but the work will soon be com
pleted.
GOLD WEATHER AT
GOGH INLET POINT
Small Streams Frozen Over and Be
lieved that Navigation will Close
at an Early Date.
Arrivals from Anchorage on the
Admiral Evans this morning state
that during the past week cold weath
er has prevailed to the westward and
that the mercury dropped to nine de
grees below zero at Anchorage Tues
day night. All the small creeks in
the Cook Inlet district are frozen
over and the river at Anchorage is
covered with ice from bank to bank.
A report was current in Seward
when the Admiral Evans left there
yesterday morning that heavy ice was
forming in the inlet and that naviga
tion was expected to close at any time.
The passengers, however, having just
come from the Inlet, and having seen
no sign of ice except at the small
streams, considered the rumor as an
attemptto knock Anchorage.
However the passengers reported
that lighetrage service at Anchorage
was rotten. The Evans was compell
ed to lay there 55 hours. One lighter
was up Turnagain Arm, two others
had holes stove in them, and it was
all the steamer could do to unload
her immense cargo of freight.
The early arrival of winter has
caught many residents of Anchorage
still living in tents and ill prepared
for cold weath. It is also reported
that four feet of snow fell at Mile 28
on the Alaska Northern out of Sew
ard, and that the mercury had regis
tered 12 degrees below zero.
Will Work all Winter.
E. D. Reiter, who is developing the
property of the Fidalgo-Alaska Cop
per comany, at Fidalgo Bay, for Spo
kane capitalists, returned to Valdez
today on the launch Shamrock and
reports that the miners are working
in eleven feet of high grade copper
ore in the raise. He is employing 18
men and states that a compressor will
be installed on the property at an
early date. It is the plans of Mr, Rei
ter and associates to continue devel
opment work all winter.
Miss Etehel Sachs, whose father is
engaged in general merchandise
business at Sunrise, Alaska, was a
passenger on the Admiral Evans for
the States, where she will spend the
winter visiting relatives.
BISHOP P.l. ROWE
IS
Spending Honeymoon in California
with His Bride, who Was Miss
Fullerton of Ketchikan.
SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—Bishop P. T.
Rowe, of Alaska, was married yes
terday to Miss Fullerton, of Ketchi
kan, and the couple left last night
for California where they will spend
their honeymoon.
The bride has spent three years at
Ketchikan, where she had charge of
the Episcopal missionary hospital, es
tablished by Bishop Rowe. She is
an old friend of Bishop Rowe’s fam
ily and nursed the former Mrs. Rowe
for many months during her last ill
ness in 1914.
The wedding took place at St.
Mark's church here and was attend
ed by only the immediate friends of
the couple. Bishop Rowe is 68 years
of age and his bride 30 years of age.
When the news was published last
night that Bishop Rowe had secured
a license to t>e married to Miss Ful
lerton, congratulatory messages be
gan pouring into his offices and
many cables from Alaska have been
received.
The former Mrs. Rowe was an in
valid for several years before her
death and before she died requested
that her remains be laid to rest in the
oitka cemetery, near where she had
labored so many years with her hus
band.
Bishop Rowe has just returned
from a trip extending over all parts
of Alaska, having gone into the in
terior last spring via Valdez.
MEXICAN BANDITS HOLD
AMERICANS FOR RANSOM.
COLUMBUS, N. W., Oct. 22.—Mex
ican bandits yesterday raided the
ranch of the Palomas Cattle company
in this state and carried off the
American employes of the company,
and are demanding a ransom of $10,
000 for their release. The outlaws
threaten death to the Americans un
less the money is forthcoming with
in forty-eight hours. The outlaws
have taken their captives to the
mountains south of Palomas Springs
and it is feared that they will execute
their prisoners.
Arrested on Secret Indictment.
F. M. Bean, who purchased a ticket
here for passage to Seattle on the Ad
miral Evans this morning, was ar
rested by a deputy marshal as Tie was
boarding the steamer. He was taken
in charge on a secret Indictment re
turned by the grand jury, and is
charged with having sold liquor in
the Kenai district without having a
license. He will be taken to Seward
to stand trial at the term of the dis
trict court which convenes there on
November 1.
800,000 ARMENIANS ARE
COUNTED AS DESTROYED
LONDON: Replying to a question
by Lord Cromer in the House of
Lords, the Marquis of Crewe, Lord
President of the Council, said that
information which had reached the
government in regard ho the massa
cre of Armenians by Turks and Kurds
was based mainly on statements from
Tiflis. In one district it was declared,
the population had been absolutely
exterminated, and the most terrible
description was given of the condi
tion of the country.
The Government, he continued, had
no official confirmation of statements
that German Consular representatives
in Asia had' encouraged these horrors,
but the statements had been made
by an observer from the United States
and he was bound to say, knowing
what had happened elsewhere, there
could not be said to be antecedent im
probabilities that such was the case.
Viscount Bryce, former British
Ambassador to the United States,
said thpt such information as had
reached him from many quarters,
showed that the figure .of 800,000 Ar
menians destroyed since May was
quite a possible number. Virtually
the whole nation had been wiped out,
he declared, and he did not Buppose
there was any .case in history of a
crime “sohideous and on so large a
scare.”
The remedy for saving the unfor
tunate remnants of the Armenian
people, added Lord Bryce, was.to be
found, he believed, in the expression
of the opinion of the world, espe
cially of neutral countries, which
might possibly exert some Influence
on the German government and in
duce it to take steps to prevent furth
er massacres.
The Wrangell shingle mill, which
was recently sold at marshals sale,
was purchased by Marion McKinney,
who will Install new machinery and
make a specialty of fine woodwork.
ORPHANS IN HOLLAND.
In Some Cities The/ Are Dreesed In
Most Grotesque Fashion.
The Duteli differ from the Chinese tn
announcing to the world the birth of
children only in the article displayed.
The Chinamen bang a piece of ginger
over the main entrance to the house,
while the Hollanders indicate the
event by a piece of lace, combining
with the lace u pink background for a
boy and tinsel for a girl.
The orphans of some of the cities of
Holland are quite conspicuous, and
especially so when seen on the streets
of Amsterdam, dressed in what might
be termed half and half clothing. The
east half of a boy’s coat, including the
sleeve, is red, while the west half la
black. The dresses of girls are divid
ed in a similar manner, but are topped
oft by becoming white caps, which
make the young misses look very neat
and attractive.
This singular style of dress is said
to have been adopted to enable the
railroad officials, as well as the au
thorities, to keep track of them, says
the National Geographical Magazine.
As the orphan asylums of Holland
have the control of children committed
to them until they are of age, the more
mature of the unfortunates (wearing
these odd garments In public) present
a very striking appearance.
IMFLATING A TIRE.
A Way to Tost It When There lo No
Pressure Gauge Handy.
Time was when every tire manufac
turer warned all and sundry to inflate
their tires to a high degree of pressure,
and more probably than not tills was
due to the fact that in those days all
pumping was done by band and with
very inefficient implements.
Tlie correct tiling to do nowadays, of
course, is to consult a standard table
of requisite pressures, according to the
size of tire and the load to be carried,
and to use this in conjunction with a
reliable gauge.
But there is also a rough and ready
method which is by no means indeter
minate if no pressure gauge is handy,
and that is to take the car out on to a
dry road which is in a bad state of re
pair and fill! of holes. Preferably there
should be no passengers on the rear
seats. If the driving wheels are pumped
up too hard the driver will experience
a constant sensation of incipient skid
ding, and though lie may not actually
side slip, he will not find the ear by
any means easy to steer.
This is evidence that the tires are so
hard that they are bumping over ob
stacles instead of absorbing them with
out leaving the ground.—New York
World. __
Cust and the Lungs.
Where there is less dust there is less
tuberculosis. This disease Is respon
sible for almost exactly one-quarter of
all the deaths among wage earners 111
tills country between the ages of fif
teen and thirty-five. It Is also respon
sible for almost exactly one out of
every three deaths that come between
the ages of twenty and forty years to
both male and female wage earners.
The death rate from tuberculosis among
agriculturists may be put at 106 per
hundred thousand. In comparison with
this the death rate from tuberculosis
among those engaged In cotton manu
facture is 202; brass work, 279; copper
work, 294; glass making. 295: earthen
ware. 333: cutlery, 982; file making.
402. Other statistics might be given
showing the same thing—namely, that
tuberculosis Is intimately associated
with certain occupations, especially
those giving rise to dust, metallic,
mineral or organic.
Sunshine and Dust.
There is more dust In the places il
luminated by the sun’s rays than In
those which we call shady. If yon
look along a beam of light as it streams
■ through a window or a chink in the
I door yon will see innumerable dust
I particles dancing about in the light
You will be told by most persons that
there is just as much dust In the non
illuminated parts of the room as in the
more favored spaces, but yon cannot
sec the particles because the rays do
not fall directly upon them. You will
think that this is eminently plausible,
hut it is not the case. The sun falling
npon the air creates irregular currents,
and these currents stir up the dust and
collect it In layers along the line of
light; hence there is more dust where
the sun shines than elsewhere.—Ex
change.
Luck Against Him.
“I can’t get by with anything."
“What’s the matter?"
“I Invited a girl to go to the theater.
When It came time to buy the seats I
was broke, so I told her the house was
sold out for that night and promised
to take her next week."
“Well."
“Her aunt; took her down on the very
night we were to go and they and two
other couples were the only people in
the parquet.”—Detroit Free Press.
Feminine Logio.
Mrs. A.—Yes, Belle Is married at last,
and do yon know her husband is the
very man who proposed to her ten
years ago. Mr. A.—She ought to have
married him then. Mrs. A.—Oh. my
dear, he was really quite too old for
her at that time.—Boston Transcript
Her First Pie.
Mrs. McBride—Oh, John, don't cut
your pie with a knife. McBride—Huhi
You ought to be thankful that I don't
call for a can opener.—Boston Trans
cript.
Hope awaken* courage. He wnocan
Implant courage 1* the human soul I*
frs best physician
CITY EXPRESS
MEETS ALL BOATS AND NEVER MISSES \ TRAIN
Auto for Hire Day or Night.
Buy and Sell Anything.
Phone 82 3. A. SPENARD. Prop.
=
Jas. E. Wilson, Freighter
Large or Small Deliveries Made
To Any Part of the Country.
PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED VALDEZ, ALASKA
When in Chitina Stop at the
CHITINA HOTEL
Finest Hotel h the Interior—-Well Heated, Clean Rooms.
Bar in Connection. Rate* Reasonable
MERCHANT’S CAFE
FRESH BREAD AND PASTRY DAILY
j Phone 63 CliaH. Fischer, Propr.
UPPER TONSINA ROAD HOUSE
Best of Meals—Prices Reasonable
GENERAL STORE. - TRADING POST.
Telephone connects with Chitina.
General Freighting. KNUTE NAFSTED. Mgr.
VALEEZ EEAL[ESTA1E AGENCY
Doing Business As Usual
Independent Laundry Co.
1 Satisfaction Guaranteed I I Foot Keystone Ave
; Telephone 66 I I D011*'1 Dry lCc lb
Mead’s Sheet Metal Works
PLLMBING, STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING,
Sheet Metal Work, Metallic Roofing, Mine Air Pipe, Pipe and Kit
lings, Valves, Etc. Motor Boat Supplies.
Located on Broadway VALDEZ, ALASKA
__—mmmmmm——■— '
Pacific Alaska Navigation Co.
PUGET SOUND Admiral PUGET SOUND
California Lillfi Alaska
ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamier Sailing 15th calla Ulamna nnd Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knlk
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle to San Francl.co every Wednesday and Sundny. Conner tin* with
Steamera Yale and Harvard for Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notice
RICHARD J. RING WOOD. Mgr.. Seattle* VALDEZ DOCK CO., Loral Agt.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S.[S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdez south—7th, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th for Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrangall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
R«i ..i.. freight service for Ketohlkan, Wrangell. Juneau. Sheep
Creek, rw twell. Douglas, Skagway, Cordova. Ellamar, Valdes and La
touche. .plosives, S. S. Seward, on the 5th; Latouche, on the 16th; S. S.
Cordova, 25th of each month—right raaervad to change this schedule
without notice.
V. B. TRACT. Qei’l Agent VALDUS DOCK CO, Lecnl Agent.