MUSIC'S DULL THUD
IN TOWN KETCHIKAN
Music lias received an awful
«o I back in Ketchikan. Harmony
has given place to discord and the
bull-lUldIc end of the band threat
ens to 110 longer lid, lid, lid. The
extemporaneous and go-as-you
please looters of the white or
ganization were made to play sec
ond liddle to the Indians, then the
Indians were pa d double the
amount given the pale-faced Alex
anders, who thought they had the
bos' ban' in Ihe lan'. Their wrath
is something to behold. The bas^
drum drew up a lol of resolu
tions which wore signed by the
piccolo, calling the Fourth of July
commiltce a lot of sharp things
which fell Hal. The sforzando
got tangled up with Ihe crescendo
and welled him over the eye. Then
the staccato jumped in and grab
bed Ihe appoggiatura by the dim
uendo and hooked him in lie fort
issimo. The inverted mordent
•strangled the arpeggio until ho
transposed his semi-quaver. Then
they called a rest and printed the
whole thing in Ihe newspaper.
Thus it was that music received
an awful setback in Ketchikan.—
Ex.
SECRET SERVICE AGENT
EN ROUTE TO SEWARD
George Drebelbus, formerly
deputy u. S. marshal under Perry,
was a 111 rough passenger on the
Alameda bound for Seward. Mr.
Drebelbus is al present connect
ed with the secret service of the
United States government, lie re
fused to say what his present mis
sion to Alaska is. The last as
signment the department gave to
Mr. Drebelbus took him to Europe
and South America.
The teaching force of Hie Sew
ard public school has been cut to
two.
roil RK.NT-Lower part of Mc
Kinley hall, 50 x 50 feel, suitable
for merchandise store, fruit store,
athlelic club. Rent S35 per month.
So Al. White.
Four men from Company M, of
Fort Seward, are reported as hav
ing deserted on July 2'ith, and
guards are out for the purpose of
taking them. The missing men
are well armed, each carrying a
new rifle and 100 rounds of am
munition. The deserters are Har
rison, Mills, Rener and Richards.
PRESENTS WIFE
LIFE PRESERVERS
Dad Ingram Comes Home With a
Surprise for His Spouse and
is Surprised in Turn
II \n«is a j«»lly crowd of Yaldez
people who came home: on the
Alameda. Over their table in the
«Ii 11 iup: saloon hunt; a large ban
ner bearing I tie inscription:
"Yaldez," which was hung on the
"outer wall" whenever a port was
reached. Dad Ingram, one of the
returning passengers, before
starting for the north, purchased
a beautiful cloak for Mrs. In
gram and had it nicely packed in
a box and when he arrived pre
sented it to his helpmate. When
Mrs. Ingram opened the package
she found it to contain two life
preservers stenciled in approved
fashion with the name of the
steamer on which her husband
look passage. A little quiet de
tective work showed that Al. Sul
livan and Harry Shultz had pur
loined the cloak and filled I lie box
with life preservers.
()rn« of the rider* in the Fourth
of July hor.se races at Fairbanks
is .si ill in a serious condition. In j
one of the races a horse became
unmanageable, throwing its rid-j
er. Three others were thrown as
4i consequence and all were hurt.
Monger advices from Nusliagak,
Itristol bay, state that the can
nery ship Standard, owned by the
Alaska Salmon Co., is ashore. The
Standard arrived al Nushagak
May 2i, and it is understood that
she grounded upon arrival.
The Juneau Dispatch publish
es I lit* information that L. E.
Spray, an old neAvspaper writer,
has returned to Alaska and will
campaign in the interest of Rob
ert. Jennings, the Democratic
nominee for Congress.
The government experimental i
farm at Fairbanks will soon have
1,000 acres of land cleared and
under cultivation.
CAMP
COMFORT
E. P. CASHMAN. Prop.
lO Milt* From Valdoz
BEST MEALS - - - CLEAN BEDS
Tako a trip through the Keystone Canyon by
buck board over the Uovcramunt Road. Unsur
passed for scencry.
Now is
The Time
To advertise. If business Is quiet
Invigorate It by bringing your
wares before the buyer. No mer
chant ever suooeeded by outtlng
down his advertising Just beoause
money tightened up a little. On
the oUier hand the merohant who
get* the money Is the one who
creates a demand for his wares
through the advertising oolumns
of the newspaper.
If you hays something for salo
write up an advertisement telling
Its msrlts. We will bring It be
fore the people and are oonfTdent
It will bring reeulte. Try It.
OLD VALDEZAK
IS IN AFRICA
Writes That He Is Now in a Coun
try Where He Can See and
Feel Things.
The many friend* of Mr. («. M.
Richards, who was formerly with
the Reynold-Alaska Development
Company at llorshoe hay, will be
pleased to know that he has sc
cured a good position with a Ger
man syndicate in Africa. Mr.
lliehards left here last November.
In a letter to C. E. Bunnell the
following may prove of interest:
"I have a good position as
chief engineer with several as- 1
sistanls and about 550 men em
ployed (natives). We arc now at 1
the north end of Lake Albert Ed
ward, practically on the equator. 1
Mount iluwenzori, 17,000 feet, is
in plain sight. II seems strange '
lo see a snow-capped peak in this '
latitude, but the snow line is 1
rather high. The climate is good, 1
quite hot at midday, but the nights 1
are cool, and one can sleep com- '
fortably under two woolen blank- '
"There an* not many mosqui
toes but what I hero arc arc 1<»ati—
4>«1 for bear. All sorts of diseases
are rampant —'sleeping sickness,'
'lick fever,' He. The former dis
ease has I bus far been found in
curable and always fatal. II i.«
caused by the bile of the lelse flv.|
Then I here is a delightful insect
called the spirilum tTFk. .whose
bile causes intermillenl fever,
blindness and death. Just now I
have one of the creatures in a pill
box. May send you a few later.
There are all kinds of frame
lions, elephants, antelope, leop
ard, in fact, all the curios usual
ly found in a first-class zoo. The
first time I saw an elephant track
I though! someone had been chop
ping out a trail. One has to wear
a helmet all the lime. The sun
certainly is powerful. I tried]
wearing a fell, hat for half a day.
and had a headache for I wo days|
as a result."
At Naples, while en route to
Kasindi, Mr. Richards received Hie
sad news of the death of his moth
er in New York City.
Ka indi is in the Helgian Con
go. The above letter left Kasin
di May 22 and arrived in Valdez
July
Captain Commandant K. I\|
Berlholf, of the revenue cutter
service, recently appeared before
the House commit lee on appropri
ations to argue against the abol
ishment of the revenue cutter ser
vice and madjt an effective argu
ment that the service was efficient
and economical. In tracing the
history of this service from 1790
down to tho present time, Capt.
Bertholf gave a comparison of the
cost of maintenance of five first
class vessels of (he service with
a similar number, in the navy, and
was able to show a difference of
5ft per cent in favor of the form
er,' He also proved thai instead
of ,saving between one ami two
million dollars annually by alvol
ishing this service as suggested
by flit president's economy com-)
mission, it would cost the govern,
menl at least *1.125,00ft more loj
render the same service" than it
is now expending.-llailway and
Marine News.
The hearing of testimony in I he I
case of the •Humboldt Steamship
ease vs. the White Pass Railway,
begun before Inter-Stale Com- 1
meree Commissioner Edgar E. I
Clark, at Skagway. Royal A. Oun
nison represented the railway I
company, and Chas. F. Mtinday, i
of Seattle, the steamship com- I
pany. 1
A miner in the Circle district
slipped a two-column communi- '
cation by the oditor of the Fair
banks Nrtws-Mlner In which an
other miner is charged with In
cendiarism. As the editor need
ed the type to All the paper, he
added another half column of
apology and let it go at that.
Pat Foley, who wflt a hucccss
ful miner on Spruce creek for a
number of years,- having sold his
interests in the mine to .Tames
McCloskey, came out on last
night's train and will leave on the
May tonight f'»r an extended trip
through the alntes nnd Catiada.
Alasknn.
STUPENDOUS TASK
MOVING DREUGES
Quggenheima Having Hard Time
Landing Dredge at Idita
rod City
Stupendous, almost, i-. the task
Hint confronts Mm (iuggcnheim
i• h* 11 in lli«* Iditarod district, ac
cording 1«» T. J. Nestor. The giant
fold-digger that is to bo installed
• n Flat creek is awaiting ship
nenl from Dikeman to Iditarod,
iut because of the low water, the
nilk of the machinery cannot be
novcd. A tleet of small vessels is
mgaged in freighting the parts
ip the river to Flat. City, and of
hem the steamer Little Delta, Si
\twell, owner, is doing the best
vork.
The dredge weighs 700 tons and
s |o be transported to Iditarod ;
»y water. From there to Flat. City :
t will be carried overland by thj
ram company, who have a con
rad for the work. Nestor re
torts thai the day before he left
he Iditarod, the syndicate's two
veyst one drills reached tliere
'rom the Yukon and were to be
;et up immedintely for use on f>l
er creek.
Considerable gold ic coming in
o Iditarod from the small oper
itors who are continuing their
vork. despite the fiuggenheim ac
ivily in Ihe camp. The three
argest oultils on Flat creek. Ait— 1
ten & Riley, Friend. Lawson &
Fames and "Doc" Mailing, did not,
dart work this season at all. A
lumber of small outfits on the
tenches and on other creeks in
he district are adding to the out
mI, and it is probable that if the
iuggenheims get their dredge in
iperation by the time they look
[or, the output of the camp will
»o about the same a* last year.
PORT
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To Juneau, Puget Sound Ports and Southeastern Alaska
Steamer Bertha, leaves Seattle .... July 20
Steamer Admiral Sampson leaves Seattle - July 27
Steamer Admiral Sampson leaves Seattle - Aug. 15
Connecting at Seattle with steamers of the Alaska-Pacific Steamship Co. for
Southern California ports. Sailings every Monday anil Thursday. Through
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INCIDENTALLY SOURDOUGH
( Coniinueu ii.iun Dago I,
"Don't, you fool yourself," re
urned the Alaskan, feeling thai it
vas up tt» him to vindicate his
•ountrymen. "See that fellow
caning against the rail down
here. Doesn't look like he is
vorth 30 cents, does he? Well,
le could write his checK for $50,
•00 and still buy a few meal tiek
•ts even at the present high cost
>f living."
"You don't say!" beamed the
iweet young thing.
"Sure, Mike," continued the
sourdough. "It's nothing for a
nan to have $50,000 or $100,000
n this country. There was ono
• Id-timer who gave his girl her
veight in gold; another made a
>raetice of taking champagne
>aths; another bought up all the
•ggs in the country so he could
eed his afTinily on eggs. Money!
shy, the average Alaskan doesn't
hink anything of making and los
ng a dozen fortunes. They lilTc
vork so well that it is nothing un
'ommon to see them doing long
shore work and' other laboring
dunts just for the fun of it. You
•an'l judge Alaskans by appear
uice."
The old-timer noticed that the
<wee| young thing suddenly de
veloped an absorbing interest in
he man he had pointed out loan
ng against the rail, and in order
• » protect her innocence he
bought it well to again inter
fere, and said to her later:
"Don't you whisper to a soul
vhat I'm going to tell you, girlio;
>ut. that man used to steal cattle
n Montana and goes by anothor
lame. You can' be too careful
»bout these Alaskans. Lots "of
hem came to this country to bury
heir pAst and because the officers
nit side were too active. You're a
ilce liftle girl, and ! like you, and
lon't want to see you gel in
wrong."
Thus nnother romance was nip
ped in the bud, and the man who
leaned against the rail Is still
vonderlng wherein he erred.-Cor
1ova Alaskan.
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m • jl : I t — v •
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the Alaskan Service, ALAMEDA and MARI
POSA, : leave every eight days, All the
Year 'Round for Cordova and Seattle via. In
side Passage.
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For Houaelceepinff, Sleeping and Office*. Rates
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Ing passengers and freight,
touching at all way points
whero business offers.
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