The finest stockings
—the neatest socks
And every pair guar
anteed to wear for
six months or new
hose free. 1
EVERY box of Hole
proof contains a defi
nite, printed guaran
tee with a coupon for
each pair.
Sixpairsof cotton Hole
proof for men, women
and children are guaran
teed to wear six months
without a hole.
Three pairs of silk Hole
proof for men and women
are guaranteed to wear
three months without a
hole.
If any pairs fail, send
them back and the man
ufacturers will gladly and promptly send you new pairs in
exchange. Even the gauzy, summer weights are guaranteed.
Yet, most people buy Holeproof for their style, perfect fit
and fine appearance.
Think of the darning they save, and the expense too, of buying new
Be*. U. 8.
Pei. Office. 1908
hose every week or two. Don’t you think you ought to miy
Holeproof? Ask us to show you the new colors and various
grades, $1.50 to $3.00 a box.
Valdez Mercantile Co., Inc
TRUE VALUES
On the basis ot Security and Service
we solicit your account.
WE DO A BANKING BUSINESS EXCLUSIVELY.
VALDEZ BANK & TRUST CO.
Steam Heat Electric LigHti
THE COPPER BLOCK
Finely Furnished Rooms All Modern Conveniences
Good Tiir niirrrT Good
Goods I lit DUrrLI Goods
Copper River Lumber Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OP
^Native. and f I JMDCD and Bui,din«
Puget Sound IjUIVIDILIX Material
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Prices Right W. M. FINICAL, Mgr. Phone 18
Patronize a Home Industry
“OLYMPIAN”
The Train oi Luxury
TO
Butte, Miles City, Sioux City, Minneapolis,
and St. Paul, Milwaukee, Chicago
All Points East, via the
“MILWAUKEE”
Leaves Seattle Daily at 10.15 A. M.
“A TOU^ DE LUXE" is an expression supremely fitting in con
nection with a trip to the East on this palatial all-steel transconti
nental train. It combines the enjoyment of rare scenic beauties
• with the pleasure of a journey in absolute ease and comfort.
No Extra Fare on Thin Train
For further information regarding fares, train service, reservations,
etc., call on or address
C. H. Kraemcr. Central Anna. Alaska Steamship Co. and Alaska Coast S. S. Co.
VALDEZ. ALASKA
City Ticket Offices. Chicaro. Milwaukee k St. Paul Railway. 441 Hasdiifs We*
VANCOUVER. 0. C.
SECOND AVE. AND CHERRY ST„ SEATTLE
ISS
CITY EXPRESS STORE
\17J7 Buy Anything
W £< Sell Everything.
LYNCH & SPENARD
VALDEZ HARNESS SHOP
HARNESS and SHOE
REPAIR WORK
DOG HARNESS MANUFACTURED
We Make or Mend Any
thing in Leather.
Workmanship! Guaranteed
Price! Reatonable. Shop in Swan Block
LAUNCH BRIGHTON
CAFT. STAMEY
{Leave* once a week from
VALDEZ DOCK: for
PORT WELLS and
Way Porte.
FOR SPECIAL TRIPS SEE CAPT. STAMEY
A Rapid Heart Beat.
Along with many other discov
eries of greater or less importance
scientific men have proved the law
that the rapidity of the heart beat
is in inverse ratio to an animal’s
size. Thus in a man it is about
seventy-two to the minute, whereas
in the elephant it is only thirty, and
in the horse forty. The dog's pulse,
on the other hand, counts about
ninety beats to the minute, and the
rabbit’s over 150. Most remarkable
of all, the heart pulsations of a
mouse have recently been counted
and recorded by an ingenious ma
chine and found to number nearly
700 eyery minute.
Notice.
Regular meeting of Valdez Chapter,
No. 6, Order pf the Eastern Star this
evening for election of officers for
the coming year. Attendance of all
members is desired.
BERTHA C. COCKERILLE,
Worthy Matron.
Cable Office Hours.
'Week days 9 a. m. to 9 p. m.
Sundays and holidays 9 to 10 a. m.
and 5 to 6 p. m.
£.
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Mrs. Alfred B. lies is in town for
a visit.
Tom Parker left this morning for
the Nelchina.
Jack Carroll leaves tomorrow for
the Nelchina.
J. McDaniels arrived from the Chis
ana yesterday.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
Catholic entertainment at the Or
pheum tomorrow evening.
Fancy Meerschaum Pipes specially
priced at the Valdez Drug Store.
Suits cleaned at Silverman’s, the
tailor, for $1.00. Work guaranteed.
The Valdez Drug Co. has an elegant
stock of Hammered Brass Ornaments.
POSITION wanted by experienced
woman as camp cook. Inquire at the
Prospector office
( has. Swanson arrived at Copper
Center today on his way to Nelchina.
S. Blum & Co. are showing the
largest line of Xmax goods in town.
Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. tf
"■’’■ank .- h pp and Ed. Suskey left
this morning with the government
teams.
Her Favorite Son, a K. B. two-reel
sensational picture at the Orpheum
tonight.
WANTED—An experienced ironer,
apply Independent Laundry.
Bill Stair arrived from Fairbanks
yesterday. He reports the trail in
good condition.
Buy one of the nifty combination
purse and card cases at the Val
dez Drug Store.
Suits cleaned at Silverman’s, the
tailor, for $1.00. Work guaranteed.
Fresh Seal shipped oysters on ev
ery boat for Frye-Bruhn Co.
The heavy snow and rain of last
night will make the trail into the in
terior exceptionally good.
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S. Blum & Co. are sole agents for !
Hart Schaffner & Marx fine suits, j
_ i
Nothing more appropriate than a
j box of Lowney’s dainty candies as a
Christinas gift. Valdez Drug Store.
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' FOIt SALE—A line piano, reason- i
j able, apply to Lieut. Sherrard at!
' Fort Liscum.
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Chris. Anderson has freighted the
last load to the glaeier to the John
son property. The machinery will now
be installed.
Fine watch and iewelry repairing
alt work guaranteed H. V. Hern
i don. witj Owl Drug Co.
j The Ladies’ Aid will hold their reg
ular meeting Thursday afternoon at
2 o’clock in the parlors of the Con
gregational church.
Fresh eastern oysters at the Vai
dez Cafe. tf
| The bridge crew of the Alaska road
t commission left Valdez this morning
for Chitina and will go to the Nizina
to construct the new government
bridge across that river. The work
was planned for last season but ma
terial oould not be transported to
McCarthy by the railroad during the
tieup.
Just received, a large consignment
of furniture at Rudolph’s.
During the recent snow storm a
large number of ptarmigan have been
killed by flying into the wjrse of the
electric company. One of the line
men of the Alaska Water, Light &
Telephone Co. picked up ten birds
yesterday on the Lowe river flats be
low the wires, where they had been
killed by flying into the wires and be- I
ing crippled, dropping Into the snow j
to die. A few were killed outright,
as their necks were broken when they
came in contact with the wires.
Indiana Quit Fighting .Uncle Sam..
DURANGO. Colo.. Nov. 29.—Gener
al Sootf, a friend of the Indians, and
in whom they place explicit confi
dence, succeeded today in inducing
the Navajoes to end the rebellion
against the United States and return
to the reservation and also to sur
render to tbe United States marshal
the renegade Indians wanted for mur
der.
Two rules we should always have
ready—that there is nothing good or
evil save in the will and that we are
not to lead events, but to follow them.
—Epictetus.
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OXEN AS POLICEMEN.
Curiou* Mathod* of Caring For Span*
iah Fighting Bulla.
Whatever one’s views may be in
regard to bullfighting there is one
feature of the national sport of
Spain which is particularly interest
ing to the visitor and sightseer.
The bulls for the arena are usually
kept in large paddocks, wild and
unfettered, for, as Sir Albert Kol
lit, who has visited one of these
paddocks near Seville, says, “The
animals know nothing of ropes or
chains during lifetime.”
It is a dangerous business, how
ever, entering these paddocks. Sir
Albert 6tood some fifty paces from
the bulls and in his interesting let
ter describing the scone, published
in Country Life, says, “We enter.ed
with our lives in our hands.”
The bulls, however, are kept in \
order by u cordon of tame oxen,
which, if a bull attempts to escape,
at once prevents it doing so, acting '■
skillfully and effectively as a species j
of bovine police. “The night be
fore the spectacle in the bull ring
at Seville,” to quote Sir Albert,
“the bulls are driven, still quite at
large, by picadors along the boule
vards, intermixed with the oxen and
restrained only by them. On my
asking if there must .not be danger
to the public using the boulevard,
the reply was that occasionally a
bull might hide in the bushes of the
central gardens and fall foul of a
workman in the morning, but such
incidents did not seem to be regard
ed as matters of much importance
compared with the popularity of the
national amusement. At times many
of the aristocracy and others of
both sexes ride on horseback in ad
vance of the bulls, which is regard
ed as tine, but rather dangerous
1 sport.
“When at or. near midnight the
hulls thus enter the bull ring, the
scene is one of great turmoil, noise
and excitement. In rush the driven
animals, bulls and oxen, belter skel
ter, a motley crowd of men and
beasts, a veritable pandemonium.
The last scene is most interesting
of all. Stables with open doors en
compass the arena, in front of each
of which is a sliding door and at the
back a lighted lantern. These lan
terns the bull makes for one after
another, smashing them and ex
i tinguishing the lights, and us each
! light is observed by an attendant
; to be put out, be slips down the
j door of the stable and the bull is
I thus encaged and ready for the
! Spanish holiday of the morrow.
! Successively the lights disappear,
| and when all are out and the doors
I of the stables closed the police oxen
! are driven out of the bull ring to
| return to their more peaceful pad
; docks and to render similar serv
! ice to other hulls and other devotees
' of the bull ring.”
His View of Love.
' “Come, now, Henry,” said the
, fair, sweet daughter of the alienist,
“now that you’ve kissed me and pro
• posed, let’s go and see what papa
has to say about it.”
“Yes, and kill our little romance
; right from the jump. I know what
the old gent will say. He’ll look us
over, fool with his glasses a bit,
twiddle his thumbs and get off
something like this: ‘Love is lunacy,
and you two children are a couple
of idiots. Notwithstanding, my
blessings to both of you. Lucile,
you’d better speak to your mother
about this right away.’ ”—St. Louis
Republic.
Joke* With Name*.
Some parents seem unable to re
sist the temptation to make a joke
with the Christian names of their
children. The Somerset House
registers testify to the existence of
a Mineral Waters, a Frosty Winter
and an Alfred Day Weeks. There
is something to be said in favor of
naming children in the order of
their arrival — Primus, Sccundus,
etc.—but it is unfortunate for a
well known Canadian named Cum
ber that it should have fallen to his
lot to be Quintus. His name is al
ways appearing in the papers as Mr.
Q. Cumber.—London Chronicle.
Steer For a Goal.
Are you just drifting along, or
have you a real ambition? The
man who work* because he must,
with no higher purpose than to live
from day to day, is little better than
a machine. Work for something be
yond your work, if it’s only to butld
a chicken coop or own your own
home, and you have become a hu
man being. The world has plenty
of machines. They all go to the
scrap heap.— Hartford Post.
It Wa* Hi* Own.
“What’s the baby crying for
now ?” asked the head of 4hc house
from the depth of his paper.
“He wants his own way,” answer
ed the mothey.
And with his mind on the latest
etock quotations Inibbv replied:
“Well, if it’s his. why don’t you let
him have it?”— Lippincott’s Mags
sine.
DECATUR’S FATAL DUEL
Hia Memorable and Dramatic Meeting
With Commodore Barron.
On March 22, 18:'0, was fought
one of the most memorable duels
in the annals of the United States.
Commodore Decatur and Commo
dore Barron met on the fatal field
near Bladcnsburg that day. Both
participants were wounded, Decatur
mortally, dying within a few hours
after the encounter.
The causes which led to the ill
feeling between these two naval
heroes have never been accurately
deter,mined, hut it is generally sup
posed that Decatur's harsh criticism
of Barron on account of the latter
not returning from abroad to take
part in the war brought about the
breach. Certain it is that Decatur's
words were repeated to Barron, and
a correspondence between the two
ensued, which probably resulted in
the challenge. The impending duel
was kept a profound secret. Only a
few ot' the most intimate friends of
the respective participants had even
an inkling of it. Decatur was the
first to arrive upon the scene. He
was accompanied by Commodores
Itodgers and Porter and several oth
er friends. Barron arrived a few
minutes later. The combatants
bowed stiffly to each other and
stood waiting for their friends to
measure off the ground and make
the final arrangements.
“1 hope, sir,” said Barron as they
took their places, “that when we
meet in another world we shall be
better friends than we have been in
this.”
Decatur is said to have haughtily
regarded his adversary a moment
! and then replied :
I “Sir, I haw never been vour ene
| my.”
A moment later the word was
given, and two shots rang out simul
taneously. Bar,ron fell almost im
mediately. Decatur straightened
himself, but the pistol fell from
his grasp, and in a moment he was
upon the greensward writhing in
agony. lie was raised by his friends
land carried nearer the road, where
] Barron was lying.
“I wish I had fallen in the serv
i ice of my country,” Decatur mut
' tered, whereupon Barron looked up.
“Everything has been conducted
most honorably,” he said.
Then, turning his eyes upon De
catur:
“1 am mortally wounded. Com
modore Decatur, I forgive you from
the bottom of my heart.”
; As Decatur was being lifted into
■ a carriage Bainbridge, whom De
! catur had once rescued from a Moor
; ish prison, stooped down and kissed
his cheek.
Decatur was driven slowly back
j to the city and carried into his resi
dence on Lafayette square, where
he died a few hours afterward.
Barron ultimately recovered from
1 his injury, but it is said the mem
ory of the fatal duel darkened his
| life ever afterward. He lived until
I the ^ ear 1S51 and had charge of
1 several vessels. At his own request
| he was court martialed upon the
i charges made against him by Dc
; catur and exonerated.—Exchange.
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Fate of the Chickens.
i In an Ohio town the African
Methodist Episeopal church of that
district held a conference, and for
a week the town was tilled with
colored pulpit orators. A few days
after the conference closed its ses
sions one of the leading colored wo
men of the town drove out to Pea
Ridge to purchase chickens of an
old mammy who had supplied the
family for years. Aunt Hanna,
coming to the gate, said: “I'm sorry,
Miss Allie. I ain't got a chicken
left. Doy all done enter do minis
| try.”—Argonaut.
His Punishment.
It was beginning to rain, and a
man who was on the point of start
ing for church discovered that there
wasn’t an umbrella in the house lit
for use.
“You can borrow one from the
TVs, next door,” suggested his bet
ter half. “They never go to
church.”
“No, Laura,” he answered with
firmness. “It is wrong to borrow
umbrellas on Sunday. 1 shall pun
ish myself for my carelessness by
not going to church this morning.”
His Liberality.
“1 approach you in a worthy
cause, Mr. Tightwadd. We want to
raise $100,000. A prominent phi
lanthropist offers to contribute a
quarter of it.”
“Oh, well,” said Mr. Tightwadd
hastily. “I don’t mind giving an
other quarter. Can you change half
a dollar?”—Philadelphia Ledger.
Ragtima.
“Please, sir, would you kindly
help me to recover my ho
“Recover your boy?
got him there!”
“Yea, but I think you’ll agree
with me that he needs re-cover«f.”
—Pearson’s Weekly.