The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-03-31


 before the final stroke the toreador performs stunts that make ones hair stand on end. He walks right up to that bull. wild and crazy. slaps 1t across the face or grabs 1t by the horns. He stands and loolu 1t In the eye for . minute. then deliberately turns his back and walks away. never turning around to look at the bull. One charge and he would be gored to pieces. but he seems to have the bull hypnotised. He sits on a chair right h front of the bull and as the latter charges he slips out to one aide. the chair being smashed to pieces. He knesls or both knees in front of the bull and pushes the animal right in the face. Nerve. why l was fairly shivering at times. After the final stroke the crowd goes wild. 4 ninth inning rally in FairbAnks.Nenanx ball game Is . mere trife compared to the racket that mob of greasers kick up. The toreador h showered with money. cigars. and one fair lady threw him . big bunch of violets. All the aristocracy rush down and shake his hand. AS he comes by the rabble hats arc thrown in the ring and If the toreador or even 8 matador throws . hat back to the owner the latter swells up like he had just shook hands with Ty Cobb.
 A team of mules comes In now and hauls oil the dead bull and the horses he has killed. All the blood is scraped dry on the arena floor. and the next bull comes h. The same performance follows. Each bull Is . triae moro aery than the others. There were four bulls. and the last one was . biz gray devil. 8 grand fighter. When the toreador did one of his turning away stunts the bull charged. Tho crowd yelled a warning and the toreador turned to slip aside. but fell and the bull charged right over him. barely miss- ing him with its horns. and stepping right on top of him. Some matadors ran In m attracted the bull away until the toreador was on his feet. Then the latter waved away all help and went in to break the bull. and he certainly did. He took chances by the score until the crowd were In frenzy. finally killing the animal with one mighty thrust
 The light was about a cruel. yet as thrilling an event as ever wit messed. The killing of the horses without chance was fierce. but when the man and the bull got down there face to face 1t was some battle and surely exciting. think one fight is enough for me but 1t was the experience of . lifetime. We'll. after the fight was over we walked up to the fine residence sec. tion where all the oil kings live. They have houses there that look like the palaces in 8 book of fairy tales. They are built on a high hill and you can see over the whole country from there. Down on one side are . lot of old trenches where Villa and Car ranza battled one time. From the fight we took e car down town and went to the plaza. A band concert was going on and we listened to the music for an hour or SO, 1t being unusually excellent. After that we went up to the Y. NJ. c. A. and had supper. The Y Is . great place-a big room for . club room, easy chairs. piano. phonograph. all the late magazines. etc. We had fine meal-frijoles. honey. biscuits. pie. and real coffee with fresh cream-for forty-five cents.
 About eight o'clock we went up to the dancehalls and started to dance again. and wore out my shoes till eleven p. m. when the whole EAng returned to the ship. This night we say funny incident. An American from another ship broke something in saloon. Two policemen came up and grabbed him and before he could make c move each one had g pistol jabbed into his side. One move and he was Q goner. but he had sense enough to stay still until some friends came up and paid for the damage. In general the Aexicans don't pay much attention to an Am. erican. but If they get . chance 1t Is good night American.
 The next day l stayed aboard all day. and about 4p. m. ws got orders to move up river for fuel oil. An. other ship was at the dock % we laid in the stream again. In the evening 8 bunch of us weat ashore and took the train into town and danced . few hours. The next day at noon we put alongside for cargo. When we got loaded the pilot re- fused to take us out as . mortimer was blowing and 1t was too dangerous,