No. 108 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA. FRIDAY
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LONDON, AUGUST — THK ,
WHITE STAR LIXER AKA1UC, EN
ROUTE FROM LlYERl*OOL TO
NEW YORK, WAS TORPEDOED,
WITHOUT \\ ARXIXU AND SINK
RV A GERMAN SUBMARINE j
l.Alil.Y VESTEltDAV MOII.MN'C
SOUTHEAST OK EAST NET LHJHT.
NEAR WHERE THE LfSlTAXIA
WENT DOWN". THE DEADLY'
MISSILE STRUCK THE VESSEL
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED FEET J
FROM THE STERN OX THE
STARBOARD SIDE.
Lifeboats, which are always kept
hanging over the side of passen
ger steamers while passing through
the submarine zone, were quickly
lowered and filled with the people
who were aboard. They were later
picked up by either trawlers or
steamers aud taken to Queenstown.
There were four hundred and j
twenty three people on board the
Arabic, one hundred and eighty
one cf them being passengers aud
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TONIGHT
Commercial club Tally at city hall,
S:00 p. m.
SATURDAY'
Piriee under auspices of the White
Pacs Athletic club.
SUNDAY
Regular services in all churches.
See announcements ou page 4.
MONDAY
Meeting ol Skagway Honicultur.il
Fair association at city hall, S:00
P m.
Tlie calendar of coming events
is intended to bo a regular fea
ture with the Daily Alaskan and
is compiled for the convenience of
our readers. You will confer a fa
vor by calling us up and giving ad
vance information of meetings, en
tertainments, etc. Announcements
of theatrical and other entertain
ments to which aa admission fee
is charrod will bo inserted at regu
lar ratea.
CORDOVA HARBOR TO
RE OFFICIALLY SURVEYED
j Cordova Times: Colonel Cavan
HU«;h. of the U. S. army and engi
neering board, has arranged to
6?nd a party ot engineers to Princo
i William sound to make a reconnois
sance of the easterly end of Hawk
, ins island, and the two peninsulas I
, on both sides of Simpson bay. These!
| are militaiy reservations and the j
reconnoissance will cover all of the [
interior topography. Arrangementsj
are now being made for transports- j
tiou around the bay for the egineerei
and it is expected tiat a month at
least will be required to do this J
work.
Several years ago the government I
set aside all of Hawkins island j
and a'l cf the territory from the .
. townsite of Nelson to beyond Gra- [
i vina ooint for military' and naval
reservations. During the past j
ve.LT President George C. Hazelet, of
the Cerdova chamber of commerce, |
while in Washington, urged upon '
the dt-partuients the advisability of
miking definite surveys of what
the government wanted for fortifi
cation purposes and to return the
oalance of the reserve to the pub
lic domain. This will be the first
official survey (of the harbor for
fortifications and military pur
poses.
NERY
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Frames. Bandeaus, Hat Wire,
Trimming, Et.
we believe we have the )nost lip to the minute
line of Millinery ever shown in Skagway
PRICES VERY REASONABLE
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BE SENT WHERE
NEED IS GREATER
Houston, Texas, August 20—With
large quantities of supplies reach
ing Galveston today and the known
dead there estimated at less than
a seore of people, relief measures
will now be diverted to other lo
calities, where there is more need
of assistance.
OIIM
PRINCESS ALICE
The Princess Alice left Skagway
at 3 o'clock this morning on her
way south, with 133 passengers, in
cluding SI round-trippers, and a
car^o of 150 tons of magnceite
from the Atlin deposits or that
mineral, on board.
Among those joining the steam
er here weie:
Airs. (I>r.) Gabie of Skagway, on
routi to Seattle.
Mis. Taylor of Dawson, euroute
for Victoria, 13. C.
Mrs. Whitehead and Miss White
head of Savannah, Ga.
Geo Walker, father of Mrs. Al.
Henderson of Whiteharse.
W. LaRose, of the White Pass
Si Yukon Route mail service.
Mrs. Teskey, mother of Mrs. H.
fi. MacPherson of Whitehorse.
Mr. Kirieze, a gas expert, re
turning from a trip into the Atlin
district.
Mrs. Anthier and Mr. Leeonteur
o! Dawson, euroute to Baotorri
Canada.
Messrs. Duncan, Casey, Urocbane,
Mi'Ltod, Tliorubur", Dallas and
Brown, all of Fairbanks.
The two Misses Arnold, wlio came
on th«« Victoria from Nome and
stopped over here between boats.
Mr. aud Mrs. Bacon and Mrs.
Lombard, who have been to the inter
ior and are now on their yvay home.
Mesrrs. Conn anil Anderson, Mc
Kee creek, Atlin district, mining
operators, on their way to Vancouv
er, B. C.
Mrs, Mayer, two Misses Mayer
and Mr. Mayer, Jr., of Ne>v York,
returning from a trip into Atlin
and other interior points.
Dominion Geologist Young, who
is on his way to Ottawa after an
investigation of the magnesite de
posits iu the Atlin district.
Mrs. J. s. McCairn, Miss McCann
and three children, family of Capt.
McCann of one of the lojyer river
sUactrs of the A. Y. N. Co.
Among the round trippers on
the Princess Alice who spent a
couple of days In the north were
.Miss Tupper, daughter of Sir Chas.
Ilibbcrt Tupper, and Mr. Cambio
Washington, D. C., August 20—
The Bulgarian legation in this city
will net discredit the report that
Bulgaria is soon to join the al
lies in the European war.
lOVEii OF
THE STEAMSHIPS
The Spokane will leave Seattle
for Skagway tonight. She is due
hero Wednesday morning.
The Dolphin will be in tomorrow
morning at 3 o'clock with a b'g
crowd of tourists mid S5 tons of
cargo. Immediately after the ar
rival of the boat in port an excur
sifln train will be run to Summit.
Tile Northwestern, which was
scheduled to sail tonight from Stsit
Ue for the north and westward
will not leave there until tomorrow
night a*. 9 o'clock, according to in
formation received by Agent E. J.
Shaw at a late hour this afternoon.
The steamship will make her reg
ular calls on the way from Seattle
to Seward, but on the return trip
will go direct from Cordova to seat
tie bv the'outside passage, leaving
out all Southeastern Alaska ports.
and two daughters of Vancouver,
B. C. The party made the round
trip to Whitehorse.
Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Carey, ex
cursionists, who have been making
a tour of the interior enib&cing
Dawson, Atlin and intermediifie,
uoiuts
Messrs. Webb and Swan of the
department of the interior, Ottawa,
who have been iuvstigating the wat
er power of the streams in Yukon
territory.
Mr. and Mrs. Landers and two
sons of Chicago, who have been
making a tour of the north. Mr.
Landers is a prominent real estate
dealer in his homo city.
Mr. Jack Mercer and family of
Whitehorse. Mr. Mercer is taking
out the body of his wife for burial
at Chilawack, B. C., 6he having died
of typhoid fever in tho Whitehorse
general hosuital on Tuesday morn
ing.
WOMEN CAN'T KEEP MEX
FROM SERVICE IX CANADA
Ottawa—Wife and mother have
liar' their day in Canada, so far as
forbidding their men folk to go to
war is concerned, and that day is
past, according to official announce
ment made recently by the militia de
partment. It will no longer be pos
si* le, as it used to be, for a wife to
keeo her husband or her sons under
18 from enlisting by withholding
consent. •
In announcing the withdrawal of
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AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE QUALITY, IN SLICED AND
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AT 20c PER TIN,—3 FOR 50c. - —; IT t
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and you will be a satisfied customer.
Arrived on the Str. Seattle today, a complete line of per*
ishables. The canning season is now on, and you will find
our prices on all canning fruits very attractive.
P. H. GANTY®1
KAISER RETURNS THANKS FOR
CAPTURE OF RUSSIAN FORF
Berlin, August 20—It was of
ficially announcc-d in this city; to
day that tho Austro-German armies
in Russian-Poland had captured
Novogeorgisvsk fort with twenty
thousand Russian defenders and
large quantities of ammunition and
arms.
The Kaiser left for there this
morning after giving thanks to
the Almighty, for a great victory
| for the Fatherland and the | re
j moval of the last big fort of the
I Russians ' 'om Poland.
Petrograd, Aug. 20—The Noyoe
Vremya, discussing the theory that
Petrograd is the real objective
of the German offensive says;
"There is an enormous difference
between the war of 1812 and th§
present conflict. The Germans are
hurling against Russia forces equiv
alent to seven such Invasions as
that of Napoleon and supported by
the latest technical appliances;
whereas in 1812 the Russian army
in the latter respect was fully on
a par w.ith the French.
"The Germans are infinitely bet
ter uosted as to the position of Rus
sia than Napoleon and they are in
capable of regarding Moscow as the
key to the emu ire. They know, that
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Charley Chaplin, whom all the
movie fans know as the great fun
maker, has made a four weeks' en
gagement .with the Daily Alaskan to
do a comic stunt at the top of page
3 every day during that time.
You waut to smile ouco a day, at
least, so turn to page 3 and smile
with Charley.
His first appearance is today.
GOVK1J XM F.XT CLAIMS
BIG POWER SITKS
Thursday morning's mail brought
to the Juneau land office an exe
cutive older under date of July 31st,
ordering a power site reservation
to bo known :is Xo. 491 in Solo
nfoax Gulch and on Uno creek, in the
draws from appropriation all land
within oie-quarter of a mile of all
streams v.hich flow into Solomon
Gulch between the Doints of dis
char." cf s:iid stream in the port
of Valdcz and a point two miles up
stream. The order withdraws on
Uno crock all lands within one
quartc,- mile of the point of dis
charge into Shoup Bay and a point
1 'A miles un stream.
Another executive order came in
the same mail ordering the with
drawal for townsite purposes of two
tracts, comprising 11 acres each,
lmmi4:ately adjoining the townsite
of Seward. These tracts are desig
nated as Tract A. and Tract B.
A CORRECTION
Tomorrow's train to White
huse will be the last chance
this season for passengers for
Bettles and the Koyukuk river
camps to connect at( 'Daw
son with a boat bound for
those points. Tha boats of
the W. P. & Y. R-, will, how
ever, continue to ply for &ev
eral weeks yet between Daw
son, Fairbanks and other Low
er Yukon river points, the
statement to the contrary in
yesterday's Daily Alaskan not
a a i + + + T*
^tffXETEEX TONS OF
ALASKA GOLD IX 1015
Nineteen avordupois tons of gold
were deposited in the Seattle branch
of the United Statee assay office
during toe fiscal year of 1915, end
ing Junn 30, according to the of
ficial reDort of John\ W. Phillips,
nssnyer in charge. Led by Nome,
Iditarod second, and Tanana third,
sav office the greater portion by
far of thf» deposits. The total valu
ation o' Alaska's contribution for
this distal year is placed at $6,313,
3S3.98, subdivided from the follow
ing districts: Nome, $2,744,141 -
23; Iditarod, $1,437,033.38; Tan
ana, $908,061.02, and the balance
o' Alaska, $1,224,148.35. British
Columbia contributed $1,492,564.12,
and tne Yukon territory, $S43,698.
95. The figures given do not re
present by any means, the annual
output cf the districts named, Ae
sa-er Phillips declared, as a por
tion of their gold and precious met
h1 is shipped to other linked States
assay offices and mints.
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