GRAND TRUNK FKf 5 GQNHRMS
MS FOR ?. M SERVICE
No Longer Any Doubt that New Line
of Steamers will be Run to Skagway
and Make Strong Bid for Tourist
and Freight Traffic.
3eattle, Feb. 17—Ca.pt. C. a.
Nicholson, manager o» tae uai.
Trua* Pacific's cixu-t utcuuisaip
aarrlce, announced laii ;v'w. jsa-j
tha* tha plans of hu, wjaipany ;or
eiteriLg the Alaskaa trade the
coaxing summer setu-on had boon
approved.
Th« Arrival at thia conclusion
aided by tha Icxge number cX
Inquiries made from ageaiis through,
out the United States and Canada,
particularly in th$ East, lor ser
Tio and space to Aiaskaa points.
The tourist traffic to Ala&ka this
yea* is expected to exceed that
of any previous yews.
The American people as a whole
are in a very prosperous condition
ajid their journeys for pleasure
during fUe coming samm.ir will be ,
.. -...icribtd by tha war conditions
v..:ling iu Europe.
Wuile the service may be inau
gurated by one of the smaller
timers of the company it is
proposed during the tourist sea
sj.'.i to ruu. the steamers Prince I
Rupert raid Prince Georgo through,
iroru Seattle, Victoria and Van- 1
couver to Prince Rupert. Ketch&an,1
"N'raagell, Juneau and Skagway. A |
tri\v«ek!y service v/ill be maintained j
between Seattle and Prince Ru-!
port in connection with the trains
of tha Grand Trunk Pacific rail
way and a weekly service from
Prit.ce Rupert to Skagway.
T.'ie excellent record which, these
two tessels mace iu tlu. openuion
tf iha tri-weekly service between
ieutt*? and Prince Rupert. last
year proved conclusively their abili
ty to undertake hca\ier duties and
cover larger territory.
WAR EXPORTS
(2,000,000 DAILY
W.isnlngton, Feb. 17—The de
partment of labor and commerce
today issued a report showing th"t
the present rate of exnort of muni
tions from the United States to
Kuropa la over $2,000,000 dally.
FOR FORMAL
ADOPTION
Washington. Feb. IT—A resolu
tion propo6lng the formal adop
tion of the Monroe dctxine by
congress was Introduced In the
hous« this morning.
fjieiijfi BILL
INCREASED
Wasfiicgton, Feb. 17—The pen-1
.-La rropriutiou bill passed, the
h e day, adding two million dol
lars uunually over former ap
propriations for the widows of j
scUiers who fought in the Philip
pic^ and the Indian wars.
woi
i:!f MONEY
• ciiu, Feb. 17—Banking
e have been advised thut
ij'seeki&e another loan
f ■ a G.-rmaay, and have been asked
i up a share of the loan.
Let Us T ke Your
Mc " vz For A
Suit Or
uvercoat
WE ARE SOLE REPRESENTATIVES OF
B. STERN
& SO IN
These suits are
GUARANTEED TO FIT
and you will find
THE PRICES RIGHT
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• J • Li 1\^H LADIES' FURNISHER
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
SALOHIKI SOON 10 BE SCENE
OF GREAT WORLD SMILE
SaionJki, Feb. 17—Like the calm
before a great storm Is the tense
situation here. Almost any moment
may tee the beginning of one of
tlio greatest battles of th« ages. It
Is looked forward to as the su
preme tost of the military prowess
of the great contenldng powers and
the men who are to be the actcrrs
in fbo great drama are pacing
restlessly beside their guns.
It is known from the reports of
the aviation corps that more than
two hundred thousand Bulgarians
are concentrate! around Glevgiil
and within fifty miles from here
and ore drawing nearer dally. A
comparatively small force of prob
ably 30,000 or 40,000 Gerrman
veterans carrying with them the
heavy Krupp elege guns before
wnlch no fortifications have yet
been able to stand, form the cen
ter and heart of the. attacking ar
my. A large Aurirlan force is
not far away In Albania and may
be brought up from the westward
after the fighting has begua.
The French and British have
placed in. position their new large
calibre guns which arc the su
pieme product cf tho combined ef
forts of their best military and
mechanical engineers and are de
signed to answor the Krupp wea
pons shell for shell with longer
range and greater accuracy. The
guunexs are confident and anxious
ly awaiting the test.
EVENTS FfiOW ALL ALASKA
III SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Tae United StatC3 commissioner
of the Seward peninsula has re
ported that comparod to last year
the number of locations recorded
during the yoar Just ended, tf&ssc-d
all records. The increase is Bald
to be significant in both placer
and quartz locations.
One of the signal corps mem on
the Interior side of tho Delta di
vide, who was out on the trail
lookif^ after the telegraph line
after the recent heavy fall of Bnow,
reported that It tools him three
day3 to make 12 miles with a horse
and double-ender. He says that in
places he found thai snow had
fallen to a depth of twelVfr
Tlie Coi>per River & Northwest
ern railway has received a large
Hiantity of ties, which will be
used la replacing those on the
Chltina branch. Part of the ship
ment was on the barge Washington,
which was wrecked last fall, and
as the order had to bp duplicated,
tho work of Installing the new
ties on the road will not com
mence until spring.
Billy Allan has completed a new
tyoe of sled brake for use on dog
sleds that promises to fulfill all
expectations in the matter of 1
holding down a headstrong dog
team. The contrivance is of unusu- i
al strength and is so designed that |
the dogs will have to dig up j
about a foot of snow In order toj
go ahead. The brake xra& designed]
especially for Henry Brugh.—Nome
Nu«rg«.t
A wlreloss dispatch was recent
ly rtceived at Nome from Max
Go:tsch;ilk. who haa been In trouble
in R :.-siau Siberia over the shoot
ii'. a Cossack. Gottschr.lk asked
h -me -rlends to send him $500
sj .. cowlJ leave the czar's domains
.is everything had been straightened
out satisfactorily The wireless
dispatch was the first information
Nome had had from him for sev
eral months.
Construction of a $65,000 power
schooner of 310 tons for Capt.
Louis L. Lane, the Arctic explorer
and trader is under way at the
rarda of E. W. Heath, Seattle. Un
der the contract the vessel Is to
be ready for service on Alay 15,
when Lane will sail out of Seattle
on his invasion of the Arctic
wastes. The new vessel will have
a length of 140 feet Over all, a
beam >,f 35.2 feet and a molded
depth of thirteen feet.
Burnett Inlet, near Wrangell,
which is rarely covered with ice
is reported to have a costing this
year which is more than tlrrec
inches thick. Moa who are get
ting out three hundred thousand
feet of timber were forced to cut
a passage through tho ice for
their launch in or<icr that they
could reach a supply point. Two
days of hard work were required to
get the boat into open wc.ter.
Ed. N. Clark of Ketchikan is re
ported *o be in New Orleans and
claims to have walked every foot
of the "way from Alaska to New
Orleans. He is a ppeclal writer for
magazine and says that ho likes
walking The eastern people were
surprised when he dill not attempt
to make easy money by selling pic
tures of himself or distribute ad
vertising literature. He says that
i:e will walk around the world if
he iives long enough.
Editor Caskey of the Fairbanks
Citizen and Postmaster Deal, of
Fairbanks entertained an enthusias
tic bunch of spectators one night
recently when tbey engaged in a
one round go-as-you-please fist
fight. Deal scored a knockdown
but Caskey clinched and in the
breakaway landed an uppercut
which would havo sent the post
master to the mat had not bystand
ers caught him. The Citizen had
scored Deal in regard to letting the
mail contract to 6ervo the Tolo
vana camp. Honors were even.
HOT SOUP AND
HOT TAMALES
Sounds pretty good this kind of weather
We make a special price per doz. on
Cambell's soups "of $1.40 per doz.
straight or assortad varieties.
We offer you I. X< L. Chicken Tamales,
the best made, at 20c per tin 3 for 50c or
$1.85 per doz. I. X L. Chili Con Carne
15c per tin 2 for 25c or 1.40 per dozen.
Buy a dozen, they are good
things to have in the house.
P. H. GANTY
I New York, Feb. 17—Senator Eli- |
! hu Roo* was given a great ovation
I yesterday at the republican, state
j convention and was bailed as the
next president of the United States.
The convention voted to endorse
his candidacy and instruct the I
New York delegation to the re-1
publican national convention In
Chicago to work for bis nomination.
Washington, Feb. 17—G. W. And
drews, district utcrney for Boston,
is representing Brandies before the
senate invstigatir.g committee, and j
checking up all accusations made
against Brandies, and is preparing
to introduce evidence to counter
act them.
F1L STRUGOLE
IK ALBANIA!
London, Feb. 17—The final strug
gle for the mastery of Albania has
begun. The Aaslrlans and Bul
sars hnve affected a junction of
their j.rmies and are co-ooerating
iu the campaign against the Ser
bians and Italians.
1H12 WEATHER TODAY
Skagway, 37 above.
"Wbitehorse, 14 above.
Dawson, 17^below, n. vr.
RUSSIANS TAKE
TURKISH CITY
Petrograd, Feb. 17—It was of
ficially announced today that Erzer
um, the Turkish stronghold in the
Caucasian mountains, had been cap
' tir<v by the Russians. The an
nouncement caused great elation
amon' the people in all the cities
where tbe news wax published.
Si ELEVEN
II
i
Mobile, Ala., Feb. 17 — That he
saw eleven German steamers in
Canary Island oorts which hafi been
secretly armed and outfitted for
commerce raiding, -was the report
brought to this city today by
Captain Magune of an American
schooner who has just returned
from a trip to the islands, where
h§ went to deliver a sargo of coal.
Alexia, Texas, Feb. 17 — Tea
persons were killed by the col
lapse of an ooara house followed
by a gas explosion early this fore
noon. A fire started by the gaa
i3 still burning and threatening tho
business section.
EXAMPLE
Senator Cummins would, by stat
ute, prohibit moa from making
money out of war. And once thero
was a king who tried to regulate
the tides.—Wall St. Journal.
Copyright Haft S-UtTbcr & Man
Washington' Birthday, he b. ZZ
A RARE combination of statesmanship and
military genius; an unusual embodiment of
tenacity, unshakable courage; a keen and
militant sence of justice; these were the great
virtues of George Washington.
They represent the spirit of fairness which we
should strive for in our buisness relations which
should manifest itself in the sale of good merchan
dise, in the giving of values, in the guarantee of
of satisfaction. In that spirit we are trying to run
this store.
WILL CLAYSON
The home Ilart Schaffner& Marx clothes