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JAPAN MEANS TO STAY
Instead of putting Tsingtau in
order and them turning that fa
mous naval station over to China,
the Japanese are settling down in
the port they wrttsted from its
little*' German garrison and are
making rapid progress in convert
ing it into a Japanese seaport and
stronghold, says the Cleveland
Leader. It is evident that they
have not the least intention of
keeping the promises they; made
when they went Into th<x, war and
sent their forces to the Shantung
peninsula.
Tne iucrease in the Japanese
population tells the story plainly.
At the end of last November there
were about 3,000 Japanese in
Tsingtau. A month later there
were 5,000. At the end of Febru
ary the Japanese population had
risen to 10,001). Before May it
ha: become about 13,000. Literally
by thousands, the Japanese have
registered as tradesmen, going into
many kinds of business on a scale
which shows that they count abso
lutely upou the retention of the
port and the special favor of the
government. European merchants
established in Tsingtau are ex
tremely discouraged and are mak
ing ready, iu numerous instances,
to withdraw from the city alto
gether.
Here is evidence of a determina
tion to hold fast to Tsingtau which
oust be reckoned with as a factor
ia settling international • questions
at the end of the war. Japan
means neither to restore the port
the Germans built so well and ad
ministered so ably to the nation
which made it a great center of
Chinese trade, nor turn it over to
the Chinese. It will take tremen
dous pressure or a bitterly fought
campaign, on a great scale, to pre
vent the islanders from keeping
Tsingtau for their own.
MANY TOURISTS SPENDING
SUMMER IN NORTHERN TOWN
Juueau Dispatch, Aug. 12th:
Tiiat the residents of Skagway are
fillfc" with an optimism this year
as a result of the large tourist
trade and the developments in that
section which are proposed within
the next couple of years, is the as
sertion of Judge H. B. LeFevre,
who returned from there on the
Dolphin.
Mr. LeFevre says the gardens
there this summer • are wonderful
and that one in particular, that of
Fred Weber, is without a doubt the
sho-v garden of Alaska and is far
ahead of the average garden in
the states.
Discussing Skagway, Mr. LeFevre
aa'd: "The town has spent a great
deal ot money this summer in lay
ing new sidewalks all over the
town, greatly adding to the ap
pearance of the streets.
"Many of the old buildings have
been torn down an-d others moved
to new locations, and nearly every
buillln" ia the towai has been giv
en a fresh coat of paint this year.
"Mrs Pullen has made many im
provements in the Pullen House
and the grounds during the past
year and is getting a greatly in
creased business as a result. •
"Tnere are 20 tourists who are
spending the summer in Skagway
this year, as against 10 last year,
and 5 the year before. The "peo
ple there feel that Skagway is to
become a Mecca for tourists in the
near future and are planning to
handle the trade.
' The high water in the Skagway
river lately did a great'deal of dam
age to farms and crops on the op
posite side of the river from the
town a"d tiie small farmers there
are rather hard hit.
"The bridge over the river will
j be built iu. "the near future and this
; is an encouraging sign to the citi
: zeus of the town, us they feel the
wa :ou road to the summit will be
buil* iu the near future, which will
optn up a great deal of good farm
ing laud which is now lying idle.
"The now Moore wharf ranks as
the best in Alaska and it certainly
^ is a good one," said Jlr. LeFeyre.
, CAwkiUKS MUST l'AV
FISH TRAJP LICENSE
In a decision rendered Wednes
day by Judge Jennings it is held
[ that the territorial legislature of
Alaska has a perfect right to
j levy taxes on the fishing industries
i and on th© fisli traps maintained
by the canneries of Alaska.
( Tho cannery men maintained that
the Organic Act did not givo the
legislature the administration of
the fishing industry and therefore
they had no power to levy special
taxes on them. They also contend
ed that the word "fish trap" is
not a word and has no meaning.
I In the decision the court held
that the legislature was given spec
ial Drivilego by congress to levy on
the fishing business by a clause of
the Organic Act, and that the con
tentiuu about the word "fish trap"
was not well taken. The word
was held to be one of common use
in the fishing industry and the
court would have to take it at
the same valuation and meaning.
The decision rendered was in
the case of the territory of Alaska
against the Hoouah Packing com
pany. The case against the Al
aska Pacific Packing compauy was
decide;? at the same time as a stip
ulation had been 'filed by Attorney
Cheney, stating that they would
abide by the decision of the first
case.
WINNING WAYS.
The people who win their way
into the inmost recesses of the
hearts of others are not usually the
most brilliant and gifted, but those
who have tender sympathy, gentle
patience, self forgetfulness and that
indefinable faculty of eliciting the
better nature of others.
An Ancient River.
In Long Island sound, not far from
the north shore of the island. Is clear
ly defined tho channel of an ancient
river. As shown by the United States
coast survey it is a gorge, having a
depth of about sixty feet below the
general floor of the sound on either
side of it. The gorge or channel was
cut into the bedrock of gneiss, the ero
sion of which is exceedingly slow.
Sour Grapes.
"The man I marry must have com
mon sense," she said haughtily.
"He wont," replied he bitterly.—
Denver Clarion.
A cow is a very good animal in the
field, but we turn her out of a garden.
—Johnson.
A Rough Criticism.
Lord Houghton's epigram on "Sor
dello," probably the most obscure of
Browning's poems, though it has often
gone the rounds, is worth recalling.
Said Lord Houghton, then onlj
Dicky M lines, "There tire but two lines
in 'Sordello' I can understand—the first
and last—'Who will may hear Sordel
lo's story told' and 'Who would hath
heard Sordeilo's story told,' and both
are false."
Fingsr Print Love.
"Why do you think you'll be happy if
yon marry that young man, daughter?"
asked the father.
"Because, father, we've had our fin
ger prints examined and they almost
match," was the sweet young thing's
reply.—Yonkers Statesman.
Let us remember that justice must
be observed even to the lowest—Cicero.
COUNSEL AND CLIENT.
A Lawyer's Right to Defond a Prisoner
Ho Knows to Be Guilty.
Ought nu advocate to defend a pris
oner whom he believes to bo guilty?
Mr. Justlco Darling In a case In which
a solicitor was the plaintiff made some
observations on this familiar problem
which ought not to go unrecorded. He
protested, says the London Globe,
against the notion that a lawyer,
whether barrister or solicitor, was un
der nu obligation to cease to conduct a
caso which he realizes to be bad.
"If an advocate in the course of a
trial for murder comes to recognize
that his client is guilty is he," asked
the learned Judge, "to say to the court,
'Hang my client?"" Judges have sel
dom asked about the ethics of advo
cacy in open court It was, however,
In a considered Judgment in the court
of exchequer that Baron Bramwell
mado his famous contribution to the
discussion.
"A man's rights," sold the baron,
"are to be determined by the court, not
by his advocate or counsel. It Is for
want of remembering this that foolish
people object to lawyers that they will
advocate a case against their own
opinions. A client Is entitled to say tc
Ills counsel: 'I want your advocacy, not
your Judgment I prefer that of the
court.'" Mr. Justice Darling, In tho
jargon of the courts, concurs.
Laym?n have usually been readier
than lawyers to discuss the ethics of
advocacy. "What do you think of sup
porting a cause you know to bo bad?"
Everybody knows Dr. Johnson's reply
when Boswell asked him this question.
"Sir, you do not know it to be good or
bad till the judge determines it"
Less generally known Is Sydney
Smith's contribution to the discussion.
"Justice is found experimentally to bo
most effectually promoted by the oppo
site efforts of practiced and ingenious
men presenting to the selection of an
Impartial Judge the best arguments
for the establishment or explanation
of truth. It becomes, then, under such
an arrangement the decided duty of
an advocato to use all the arguments
In his power to defend the cause he
bas adopted and to leave tho effects of
those arguments to the Judgment of
others." This was said In an assize
sermon the famous wit preached at
York In IffcM.
Tho Senate Barber Shop.
Here's an odd thing about the Unit
ed States senate barber shop: Although
the number of senators bus hardly in
creased at all. the number of shaves
has incr.-ascd at a surprising rate In
recent years. The reason Is simply
that the senate Is now Inhabited large
ly by comparatively young men with
smooth faces or wearing mustaches at
most and they are obliged to get
shaved every little while, whereas the
old style senutor with a riot of whisk
ers never had occasion to visit a barber
shop except every few months to get
his hair trimmed.-Cincinnati Euqulrer.
THE ROAD TO j
SUCCESS !
IS LINED WITH ADVERTISE
MENTS, THAT HE WHO RUNS
M VY READ—
Therefore, I haave been in
structed to advertise for
sale aat the reduced price
$300.00
o Two Story Four Roomed
House on Fourth Avenue,
next to the old bakery.
Former Price was
$350 00
PHIL ABRAHAMS, Agent
You make a mistake if
you do not stop at
THEi
Pullen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da'*v.
Fresh Egga, etc
£Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Samp'e
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN, Prop.
Skagway. Alaska
5100 Reward, §100
The readers of this paper will bo
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by destroying the foundation of the dis
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have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
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Address: F. J. CHENET & CO.. Toledo, a
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BUILDING OUR BIG CANAL
The Human Problem OvoraHadowed
the Engineering Difficulties.
The general impression prevailed from
the beginning that the building of tlio
Panama canal comprised one of the
world's greatest engineering feats, and
the tremendous scope of the work as It
developed during the construction pe
riod served to mold this impression
into a fixed belief, yet Mr. Stevens,
who for nearly two years had control
on the Isthmus not only of all con
struction, but of those various co-ordi
nate branches which were essential ad
juncts to the building of the canal, ex
pressed the opinion that the engineer
ing features wero the least difficult,
describing them as "of magnitude and
not of intricacy." On the other hand,
his expepienco convinced him that the
administrative problems wero tho
greuter, presenting us they did many
unusual features involving an im
mense amount of detail and extending
Into every branch of business, with
ramifications touching many phases of
social and domestic economy.
In every undertaking of an engineer
ing character there must necessari
ly bo a greuter or less amount of ad
ministrative detail resulting from
problems of supply, labor, policy and
considerations arising out of them. In
tho case of tho ranamn canal not only
were these problems present, but as
compured with those of engineering
they uiadp tho latter appear relatively
smalL
Tho very magnitude of tho work Im
posed difficulties which would have
existed even hud it been undertaken in
any portion of the United States, but
these difficulties wero Increased mate
rially by reason of having to curry on
tho work In n tropical country sparsely
populated, nonproductive, affording no
skilled and very little efficient common
labor, with customs and modes of liv
ing as different us the civilizations of
North and Contral America have been
since the settlement of these portions
of the western hemisphere, with h
heavy rainfall during tho greater poi^
Uon of tho year and with n reputation
for unheulthfulnesg which placed Pnll
ama in the category of one of the worst
pest holes of tho earth.—General
George W. Goethnls in Scrlbner'a
Street Car Amenities.
'T would get np and give you my
seat, miss," said tho ruddy faced man
In the crowded enr, "but I don't feel
it to be my duty. I am old enough to
be your father."
"You hold your age and your seat re
markably well, sir," replied the young
woman, grasping a strap as the car
lurched.—Boston Transcript.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
DR. L. S. KXXIJCR.
Deittrt.
Hu«i Modern Ktthoda.
Opea ETea!«g8.
Office Hours: 9-12 a m 1-6 p. m.
AJagkaa Building - Broadway
SKAOWAY ALASKA
WIUilAM I'ALLIiiTKH, M. D.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist In tlie treatment of
diseases and deformities <>f the eye,
car, nose und throat.
Office; Goldstein Bulldlag, ju
aoaa, Alaska
W. B. 8TOIT
Attorney At Law.
Practice la all court*
la Territory of Alaska.
Halaes - Alaska.
P. & A. M.
Whlto Pitts Lodge
b\ t A. M. No. 113
meets 2d anO 4th.
Frl. Ev'g3. of each
muiliu. VUJHlDfc ULWW Tjia —
fome Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
Elmer L. Whoeler, W. M.
!»_ P. O. ELKS
Bkagway Lodge
Vo. 431, B. P. 0.
E. meets first j
and third Thurs
day evenings at
kiifflr 8:30 .o'clock. Vis
'.iuc brothers cordially welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
F. J. VANDEWALL, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
i Engles—
Skagway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
njagieg meois me unit arm Ltijru
Wednesday night of eacb month at
their hall on Fifth ayeuue. Visiting
brothers cordially Invited to attend.
JtioH C. Wood, "W. P., J. W. Prlt
chett, Secretary.
Arctic BroMierh<*)d.—
}amp Skaeway No. 1
S A B. meets every sec
OM and fourth Tues
day evening at 8:00 p
m. snarp. visiung Driurera coriuai
[y welcome. A. J. Achesoa, Arctic
rhiet, \v R. Hillary, Arotlo Re
corder ur
TO I
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Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
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S. S. CITY of SEATTLE Aug. 18,30 Sept. II, 23
Aiul every twelve days following. Modem comfortable ship*,
excellent servlc* Connects at g«*aie with Ummgh passen
ger sUaaier*.
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AND CITY OF PUEBLA
Sailing Tuesday, Thursday nnd Friday, 11 p. m.
FOR SAX FRANCISCO, LOS ANGEL®, SAN DEEGO.
Through ticket* told and baggage checked to all points In
United State* and Canada. For folder* and fall particulars,
address V. A. TETKRSON, Agent
H. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50, 8KAGWAY
808 Sacond Ave., Seattle, Wash.
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Passengers will be transferred to Vancover or Victoria
without extra charge.
TELEPHONE NO. 68. E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
SEASON 1915
New Steel Steamships
esyPrincm fllice
X7 Princess Sophia
WILL LEAVE SKAGVVAY
Every Thursday 7 p. m.
Aug. 5-12-19-26 Oct. 7-14-21-28
Sept. 2-9-16-23-30 \ Nov. 4
For Prince Rupert,Vancouver, Victoria,Seattle
Let us arrange your trip to the Fair, or to the East
Cheap round trip rates with choice of routes
F. F. W. LOWLE, Gen'I Agt. Phone 87 or 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
TOE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATED TO S. E. ALASKA
Sailing Dates from Skagway to Seattle
Aug. 8-20 Sept 1-13-25
$5022 Round trip to Seattle and return
.SAILING DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)
Through Tickets Honored
Transfers to Vancouver, Victojia and Tacoma
WHHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL CHARGE
, DORTERO & SON, Skagway Agents
oeattle Umce, tickets and all information
712 Second Ave. Call 1*11000 32
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