Another Shipment of
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 m
Men, besides a complete life of staple numbers. Holeproof
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.
if y «r i strictly fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit
It I Oil fv Sill antJ Groceries, and appreciate
prompt deliveries, try
KLNG’S GROCERY
Phone 188
2i Keystone Produce Co.
E. G. AMES, Manager
Fresh Eggs, Butter, Fruit, Vegetables
Cor. Keyrtohe Arii »ni McKinley
BODIES FOUND FROZEN
OF WOMAN AND DAUGHTER.
W. B. Van Vallin and his wife,
who have been in charge of the rein
deer herd and the government school
at Wainwright for the past two years,
recently on reaching Nome on the
way outside, gave some further de
tails of their life, of the tragedy of
a woman and daughter driven from
home and of a lake of oil, already
outlined in press dispatches. The
Nugget says:
During the course of the interview
Mr. VanValien also referred to the
native woman and girl spoken of in
his Wainwright letter, stating that
the bodies of both were found this
spring not far from the beach be
tween Point Hope and Cape Lis
burne. The woman and child had
covered a considerable portion of the
long journey to Point Hope after be
ing turnt'.(L(l,j#t by the woman’s hus
band, PetS; Keenuk, and had been
evidently soon overcome after leav
ing Lisburne. The bodies were
found frozen stiff, that of the woman
seated on a log while the girl had
crawled into a small draw some dis
tance away.
Speaking of his own experiences in
the north. Mr. VanValien says that
life in that remote district has its
compensations and he enjoyed the
experience greatly.
Among other interesting experi
ences referred to are the finding of a
lake of oil some distance east of
Wainwright station and also of fish, ]
said to be peculiar to the waters ad
jacent to the inlet which has an ex
ceedingly sweet taste and the odor of
which is exactly that of a cucumber.
The fish is said to much resemble the
white fish in appearance but the clas
sification is unknown. Concerning
the lake of oil, Mr. VanValien states
that it is of extensive proportions
and the oil is of a very light color,
much resembling engine oil and burns
with little smoke. Several photo
graphs of the body of oil are shown
and display that it is of extensive
proportions.
MORMON GIRL WANTS
POLYGAMY AFTER WAR.
San Francisco: Polygamy as a
means of repopulating Europe after
the war is being seriously advanced
by Miss Emma Lucy Gates, grand
daughter of Brigham Young, pioneer
Mormon leader.
Conjing from Europe since the out
break of hostilities, Miss Gates pre
dicts that the women of the war
drained nations are today ready to
accept polygamous marriages. She
bases her belief on 12 years’ associa
tion with European women in various
old world capitals.
Miss Gates, who, for many years
sang with the Royal Opera at the
Kaiser’s theatre in Berlin, was re
cently here as a soloist with the Mor
mon tabernacle choir. She spoke
freely of her faith in polygamy.
“I have,” she said, “known many
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families in Utah where there were
several wives, and I have known
many unmarried girls in Europe—
where matrimony is the only career—
and I am convinced the woman who
is one of many wives is happier than
the permanent spinster.
"Many girls in the old world have
told me that they would much pre
fer being a plural mate of a man who
could give them a pleasant home,
where they could lead a useful life,
to being an old maid.
“I was for 12 yeatrs in Berlin, and
I have heard numbers of German wo
men say they thought it far better to
have a home and family on a poly
gamous basis, where a husband took
proper care of his children, than the
system of monogamy which in Eu
rope permits several affinities.
“And as a result of this war I firm
ly believe these ideas regarding mar
riage are going to be generally prac
ticed.”—Examiner.
ii_.
COL. HLEIOHER FAVORS
ONE-MAN RULE FOR NORTH
To take the affairs of Alaska out
of the hands of a multitude of bureau
chiefs at Washington and place them
under the direction of one man, an
assistant secretary of the interior for
Alaska, is the suggestion made by |
Col. John A. Sleicher, of the Leslie- j
Judge company, in the fourth of a se-1
Ties of timely articles on the North- j
land in Leslie’s Weekly. Col. Sleich
er’s idea is to have this assistant sec-1
retary reside permanently in Alaska, j
In other words, he suggests that the1
government send one man to Alaska
from Washington, rather than have
thousands of men come'from Alaska!
to Washington to do business with ,
the government.
There is little doubt that the sug
gestion will receive wide endorsement
in the North, for Alaskans believe;
that the slow development of the ter
ritory has been solely due to the fact
that every time a man desires to do
any development work on either the
water or the soil it is necessary for
him to make from one to a half dozen
trips to the National Capital in order
to find out which department he is
responsible to.
At the suggestion or Secretary,
Lane a bill was introduced to create j
an Alaskan development board of (
seven members to take charge of the J
affairs of the territory which are now i
scattered through various govern- j
mental bureaus and are so bound up
by red tape rules and regulations that j
it is next to impossible to do any de
velopment work in the territory. The
bill met with considerable opposition
from the bureaus. The measure will
come up again before the next session
of Congress.
Should a bill embodying Colonel
Sleicher’s idea he introduced it likely
will meet with considerable opposi
tion from the bureau chiefs at Wash
ington, but Col. Sleicher is not with
out friends at the National Capital
and should he make a fight for the
passage of the bill he might be able
to put it through.
Leslie’s Weekly, of which Colonel
Sleieher is the managing director, was
the lone Eastern journal that had the
courage to tell the truth about Alas
ka when the muck-raking conserva
tion craze was at Its height and the
truth was not popular. Instead of
falling in line with other Eastern
magazines Col. Sleieher hired a num
ber of writers to go to Alaska and
get the facts. He was immediately
elected a member of the “In-Bad
Club” by the Gifford Pinchot forces
and was branded as a “tool of the
corporations.”
In the series of articles which he is
now running in Leslie’s he explodes
many of the untruths which gained
currency during the promulgation of
the conservation propaganda. In ref
erence to the appointment of an as
sistant secretary of the interior for
Alaska, he says:
"We are on the eve of a period of
industrial reconstruction just as
marked as was the reconstruction
period in national politics at the close
of the war between the States. Let
us all shake hands and join in an ef
fort for prosperity. That is the feel
ing manifesting Itself in Alaska. The
territory has suffered in common with
the rest of the country from unreas
onable attacks on our captains of fin
ance and Industry.
“It Is easy to And fault. Every
body does It. But It Is difficult to of
fer remedies for abuses. How shall
we cut the red tape of which Alaska
complains so bitterly and so justly?
Why not cut it by having an assis
tant secretary of the interior for
Alaska, one familiar with the terri
tory’s needs and having the confi
dence of the people? Establish his
headquarters at some central point
in Alaska and let him issue mining
and land grants and settle disputed
questions. Instead of making Alas
kans travel all the way to Washing
ton—a long and expensive trip—rlet
Washington come to Alaska—one
man on the ground to settle the griev
ances of a thousand'who have neither
the time nor the money to go to
Washington nor to pay for a lawyer’s
journey there. This would give relief
especially to those of limited means.
The latter are the greatest sufferers
now and deserve the Immediate con
sideration of Secretary Lane."
TtyE STRASSBURG CLOCK.
Its Many Remarkable Features That
Mak* It Famous.
Strassburg, the capital of Alsace
Lorraine. Is remarkable for the great
clock of i: s cathedral.
This clock, which is twenty feet in
height, was made by Jean Baptiste
Scliwilgue in 1842. Besides various
astronomical devices indicating true
solar time, it has a great planetarum
In which the revolutions of the planets
are represented, so that the relative
positions of each at any time can be
seen at a glance.
Then on a platform above are mov
able figures representing the four ages
of man. At the first quurter of an hour
a child strikes the bell with a rattle; a
youth in the garb of a hunter strikes it
with an arrow at the halfrhour; at the
third quarter a warrior strikes It with
his sword, and at the fourth quarter
an old man strikes it with his crutch.
Then a figure of Death appears and
strikes the full hour with a fleshless
bone.
On the highest platform is a natural
sized figure of Christ, and when Death
strikes the hour at noon the twelve
apostles pass before the feet of their
muster, bowing as they do so. As Pe
ter passes a large cock perched off en
one side flaps his wings, rutiles his
neck and gives three times a loud and
perfectly nutural crow.—I»ndon Stand
ard.
LIGHTNING RODS.
Why They End In a Sharp Point and
Not In a Knob.
The reason a lightning rod has a
sharp point is because a tine point of
fers no resistance to the discharge of
electricity und in order that a cloud
may be emptied of it noiselessly and
harmlessly. ‘‘
The degree of resistance is in propor
tion to the surface of the .object. If
the rod were surmounted by a knob,
for instance, the discharge would be
violent But many a lightning rod has
received an electrical discharge when
the people in the building below were
calmly unconscious of the fact Non
corrosive metal is used for the point of
the rod, as corrosion makes resistance.
The difference between a point and a
ball is shown in discharging a battery.
The full charge from a large battery
would lie received quietly on a metal !
point, while a moderate charge from a
small one would explode violently on a
ball.
It is said that a full charge may be
passed harmlessly through a person's
body if received on the point of a nee
dle, whereas the same charge received
on a discharger with a bull or knob on
the end would mean instant death.—
London Telegraph.
Mistakes In Uss of Words.
If use eon make authority in the em
ployment of words it is high time that
certain etymologically misused phrases
of our English tongue should be adopt
ed into the family of orthodoxy. The
word '‘necessity” is habitually used as
the equivalent of “necessary,” instead
of being its direct opposite. A man
suys: “I do not care for the luxuries of
life if I have the necessities,” when
probably he has the “necessities” in
clamorous abundance. Quite as com
mon a blunder is the confusion be
tween the words “expect” and "sus
pect." A man says: "There is a knock
at the door. I 'ex|H>ct’ that is the tax
collector.” Tie should say, "I have been
expecting the tax collector and suspect
that is he."—Boston Transcript
Indians of Ecuador.
Perhaps nowhere on the globe do hu
man beings so much resemble passive
beasts of burden as in Ecuador. In
fact, the Indians used to be designated
in documents as “smaller beasts of
burden" to distinguish them from pack
animals. Loaded, they clamber up the
steep streets as stolid as little gray
burros. One sees mauy an urchin of
seven years bearing on his back a load
of bricks as heavy as be is. One wo
man. bent under n burden, carries a
child at her breast. Another laden wo
man plies distaflf and spindle as she
creeps along. Here is a file of bare
foot women bent under loads of earth
or bricks escorted by a man with a
whip. — Professor Edward Alswortb
Boss’ “South of Panama.”
Holland’s Windmills.
A man's wealth may be measured
by the stocks and bonds be owns in
New York, by the cattle he has In Ar
gentina, by the chain of gold eugles his
wife wears In Tehuantepec, and so on.
But In some parts of Holland the num
ber of windmills a man owns gives
the clew to his financial rating. They
fight the water, shelter the family, af
ford an occupation and provide an in
come for their owners.
The Military Attache.
The duties of u military attache are
to make himself thoroughly acquaint
ed with every change that takes place
in military affairs and to report from
time to time on the mobilization, arma
ment and equipment of the power to
which be is to be accredited.
More to Come.
Pessimist—You haven’t had all that
you wanted in life, have you? Optim
ist—No. but I haven't had all that 1
didn't want, either.—Brooklyn Life.
Thieve* Don’t Like Duck*.
Ducks are good watchdogs for the
poultry yard. No matter what time of
nigiit the thief may come, the docks
will quack.—Farm and Fireside.
Defined.
“Pop, what’s a cynic? A man who la
tired of everybody?*’
“Tee. son, and who tires everybody.”
—Philadelphia Ledger.
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Large or Small Deliveries Made
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ALASKA
Steamers sail from Seattle at 9 P. M. on
5th, 15th, 25th—EVERY MONTH
Steamer Sailing 15th call* Illamna and Kodiak—All Sailing call at Knik
and Anchorage.
CALIFORNIA
Seattle te Sam Francisco every Wednesday and Sanday. connecting with
Steamers Yale and Harvard far Southern California.
Right reserved to change schedule without notidt^
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ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
S.[S. Mariposa, S. S. Alameda and S. S. Northwestern
sail from Seattle the6th, 12th, 18th,24th and 30th
EVERY MONTH
From Valdes south-7tb, 13th, 19th, 25th and 31th far Cor
dova, Skagway, Juneau, Wrahgall, Ketchikan and Seattle.
15 . v1 ' ■
Regular freight service for Ketchikan. Wrangell. Juneau, Sheep
Creek. Treadwell, Douglas. Skagway, Cordova, EHlaraar, Valdes and La
touche. Explosives, S. S. Seward, on the 6 th: Latouohe, on the 16th; B. S. '
Cordova. 26th of each month—right reserved to change this schedule
without notion
F. B. TRACY, ant Agent VALDES DOCK CO„ Local Agent.