CELEBRATION OF IDE FOURTH
FITTINGLY OBSERVED IKSKMf
Tii■< Glorvjus Fourth—the anni
versary oi our national birth, the
day we all levers—has come and
gone, its advent hatted with ue
u^ju, its departure without regret,
tor uur veneration ot the day is a
ilower oi perrenuial growth, attain
ing to is fullest perfection m
urn'-si mmertime, when nature wears
her most alluring aud attractive
B-U'b.
1'Uo number oi visitors from the
Ulterior aul the neighboring towns
oi joutheasiern Alaska wad rather
• ?.s than usually joins with us In
tae celebration oi this great day,
bat this did not detract from the
warmth oi the welcome accorded
tuem, tor every door was thrown
wide to them, socially, athletically
and fraternally. Kveryone oi the
wcito;s was a "dead game sport,"
-ad in consequence tiiere was no
mctiou at any stage oi the pro
ceedings over the decisions in the
«:hietio contests.
The weather was simply delightfu
and with the exception of a rather
atiti breeze that blew yesterday ai
terujon and somewhat interiered
wilii the tenuis play ere, was as
though ordered ior the occasion.
Below we give a list of the
prize wiuners and the purses in the
various contests. The principal
event was, oi course, the baseball
games, the first prize—a purse of
$iuo—being taken down by Skag
way and »he second—purse,$50—be
ing won by Ft. W. H. Seward, CoL
Stevenson, chairman of the Skag
way reception committee, pitching
the first ball—a double twister—
over the home plate. The games
wffiv all seven innings, the first be
tween Whitehorre and Fort Seward,
wa» won by the latter by a score of
7 to 5; second between Skagway
and Klulrwan, vol by fOnner by
soo-e oi 12 to 1, and third between
Skugway and Ft. Seward, won by
iortuer by score of 5 to 3. .
On Sunday there was a baseball
game between Skagway and a
picked team composed ot White
horse, Ft. Seward and Klukw&n
players, which was -won by thg form
er by a score of 9 to 1. This game
was featured by McKenzie'a pitch
ing, in wbich he allowed but one
bit and put out tea men, and
Greime's catch of C. Rapuzzi'g foul
in the first innings, when he ran
utyilt 75 feet towards the Home
Power Co. plant and then made thq
catoh.
Prizq Winners
Children, 6ix years or under—25
yards, first, Harriet Towne, $2.00;
s^okil, Horace Wade, |1.00.
Boys, nine years or under—50
yards, firat, Jack Klrmse, $2.00;
second, Albert White, $1.00.
Curls, nine years or under—50
yard*, first, Grace Adams, $2.00;
second. Fay Adams, $1.00.
Boys, twelve year* or under—100 J
yards, first Elmer Wheeler, $2.50; |
setond Vincent Mulvlhlll, $1.50.
Girls, twelve years or under—50
yards, first Katharine Hahn, $2.50;
second, Birdie ieliner, $1.50.
Boys three legged race, first
(Jack Klrmse aod "Doc" B raw and)
$'i.50; second (Karl Hahn and Vic
tor Grimm) $1.50.
Girls fifteen or under — one
legged race, fust, Beatrice Olsen,
$2.50; second, Etta Suudeen, $1.50.
100 yard# daaU for men, first,
Bert McKemle, $5.00; second John
Wlllard, $3 00.
Relay race—4 men teams, (Jack
Wilker, Clyde Talbot, Kosco, Frie
denthal) $29.00.
Ladies' race around bases, first,
Mrs. G. G. Miller, $5.00; second
Miss Mary Ryder, $3.00.
Fat meu'a race—50 yards, first,
J. H. Saunders, $5.00; second,
Frank Rics, $3.00.
Slow bicycle race—free for all
—first, Karl Hahn, $5.00; Vincent
Mulvlhlll, $3.00.
Tug of war—six men team—first,
Indian team, $10.00.
Hose race—first, Skagway Fire
department, $25.00.
Girls' slow bicycle race, first
Katherlne Hahn, $3.00; second
Vivian Talbot, $2.00.
Girls fast bicycle race, first Etta
Sundeen, $2.00; second, Vivian Tal
bot. $1.00.
Baseball — first, Skagway, $100;
second Fort Seward, $50.00.
Tennis Tournament
In thQ tennis tournament, Fort
Seward won the cup. Their first
team, Davis and Peyton of the j
Fort defeating Johnson and Bone-I
(Continued on page 4.)
Juneau, July 5—Judge Robert A.
Jennings Thursday ordered a special
term of court for Skagway to con
vene on Monday, August 2nd.
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SUka July 2—Sitka business an en
tonight adapted resolutions favoring
the celebration of Alaska's purchase
"Throughout Alaska on dates that
w!.l not conflict; and that every ef
fort should be made to attract as
nuuy people to Alaska as possible
at tfcat time."
J.. L. McPhereon, of the Alaska
Bureau of th© Seattle chamber of
commerce, who was present, leaves
hare for Juneau, thence for Skag
wuy ajid Fairbanks and out via
N'om?, to Seward and other coast
cities.
I'lan is to have each town in Al
aska hold one day's celebration in
1917 to welcome visitors, congress
men and cabinet officers
New York, Julj 3—J. Pierpjfit
Morgan, sou of the late money king,
was shot bu^ not dangerously
wounded by an unidentified crank
at his home. Glen Cove, Long Is
land, at 9 o'cl<ck this morning. Two
bullets from a !i 2-calibre revolver
struck Mr. Morgan before he grap
pled with f'lQ assassin. With the
aid of a butler in the Morgan home,
Morgan overpowered his attacker
and surrendered him to the police.
LATER—The Glen Cove police
declared that Morgan's assailant had
made nJs identity known. He is F.
Holt, and Mas formerly professor of
modern languages at Cornell uni
versity.
Holt is declared by Glen Cove
officials to have suid that he was
ot German decent and that he was
willing to give up his life at any
time to eui the war. He declared
Morgan was responsible for the war.
and for the Bhipment abroad of
arms and ammunition.
"Th9 house of Morgan & Co." he
continued, "is the purchasing agent
of the British government for muni
tions and supplies bought in this
country."
Applications for saloon licenses
from towns of Southeastern Alaska
are in the hands of the clerk of
the court at Juneau, -with but few
exceptions. Douglas, Haines, Ju
neau, Petersburg and Wrangell ap
plications have been sent in and
part of the applications from Ketch
ikan and Skagway also, but part of
those in the latter two are in the
hands of deputies of the clerk's
office in those places.
BOMB EXPLODED
IN IDE CAPITOL
Washington, July 3—An explo
sion caused by a bomb or some kind
o£ infernal machine wrecked the
public reception room on the East
side of the capitol befor 12 o'clock
last night. No one was injured.
It developed today that the
Washington Times had received a
letter, mailed an hour and a half
before the explosion occurred, an
nouncing there would be a blast in
the capitol.
Superintendent Woods, of the
capitol building, six months ago an
nounced that an unknown man had
been writing from 3t. Louis, to Vice
Presidt nt Thomas R. Marshall, de
claring that if certain legislation
were not passed a bomb %vould be
exploded in the building.
PORFIRIO DIAZ
deab ii FAms
Paris, July 3—Poriirio Diaz,
former president of Mexico, died
he-o yesterday. Mrs. Diaz and his
son were present when the end
c.inie. Heart failure following a
severe i'ttack of la grippe is held
to V; responsible for his death.
Friends now in France whom he
made rich in Mexico, were away at
i' e time death ensued.
WILL BE TENNIS
TOUBNIENT
A tenuis tournament will be held
next Saturday and Sunday at the
\V. P. A. club court. Only singles
will played and all members of
the club, either ladies or men, are
eligible to enter.
An entrance fee of $1.00 will be
charged the men, and a first and
second prize will be put up for the
ladies to compete for, and first
and second prizes for the men.
Entrirs should be made with F.
F. \V. Lowlc not later than 6
o'clock Thursday evening. An an
nouncement of the first draw will
be mr.de in Friday's paper.
The applications received to date
are:
From Skagway—Herman Grimm.
From H"lines—Henry Brie for the
Gateway Bar, John G. Morrison.
Haines and Skagway licenses "will
probably be issued at Skagway dur
ing the August term of court.
Ketchikan, Wrung ell and Petersburg
licenses will bo taken up when the
judge visits Ketchikan after the
close of the August term at Skag
way.
Dr. Payne and Prof. Lewis were
breakfast guests of Mrs. H. S. Pul
len at her Dyea farm this morning.
PERISHABLES;
Extra fine lot of fruit and vegeta
bles due on " Humboldt"
We will be on hand to take care of your requirements,
whether boat arrives on Friday or Saturday
P. H. GANTY
"It's simply jvonderful—a revela
tion," commented Frank G. Carpen
ter, the world-famous traveler, on
the brand of weather we are en
joying in Skagway at thia time of
year, and which, by-the-way, is the
i ule and not the exception. , It is
Mr. Carpenter's second visit to
Skagway, he hf.vlng (spent a few
hours here some ten days since, re
turning to Juneau, where he has ex
plored that section of Southeastern
Alaska gathering material for a
series of articles to appear in 1916
on Alaska, her present condition,
her past history and her limitless
future possibilities. "How iitUe
people know of the REAL Alaska,"
lie added "of the witchery of her
climate, the enchanting, surpassing
charm of her scenery, where moun
tains are veined with tfhe precious
metals and clothed with exhaust
less timber resources, where streams
fairly teem with game fish, and
where opportunity knocks at every
dcor. The bigness of It all ap
peals to one. It Is so grand, so
unconfined, and this spirit—the
spirit of the "Great Country"—
seems to animate the Very people.
Their enterprises are on a big scale,
their ideas are expansive and un
dwarfed by that pettiness, that nar
rowness bo prevalent in older com
munities and now densely populat
ed countries. Like their mountains
and rivers^ they typify breadth
and liberality, and to me It all
foreshadows that wonderful develop
ment that is now in its inception
and awaits but the magic Wand of
capital to literally astonish the
world. In beautiful Skagway—the
Gateway to the Interior—I" . have
been charmed with the open-heart
ed, wholesome, natural Imanners of
th people, and when I isay 'beauti
ful'Skagway,' I speak advisedly. I
have been around Quite a bit, and
have seldom, If ever visited a
place where nature has been bo
lavish in her gifts, where th§ scenic
charms are more winsome, where
the cloud effects are more gorgeous,
in short, where every prospect
pleases. Another thing that makes
Skagway so interesing to the tour
ist is the spice, the flavor of ro
mance that permeates everything,
harking back to the epochal day® of
1898 when the lure of the yellow
metal beckoned men across the
perilous mountain paesee and wooed
them to death In the turbulent
waters of Whito Horse rapid*. I
can almost visualize that exodu*
over White Pass or the Chilcoot,
and understand something of the
spirit of adventur* as well as tho
greed for gold tt11 spurred them
on and on toward the mysterious
Eldorados of the great Yukon. I
will return to Skagway on my trip
to the outside, and hope to see
something more of your lair city."
For thirty years Mr. Carpenter
has roamed over the world, and,
singular to remark, Alaska, 'Persia
and Thibet are the three countries
that remain unvisited. Now that
he has reached Uncle Sam's great
northern possession, he has but
two more left to complete the
gamut His articles for years
have charmed a circle of readers ap
proximately 5,000,000, and at the
present time his letters on South
America are running in thirty
metropolitan papers. He has pene
trated every nook and corner of
South America and in speaking of
hla experiences said "Peru is the
most 1 aekward of the South Ameri
can republics, even Bolivia rank
ing ber lu progress and civiliza
tion. Buenos Aires, the magnifi
cent cauital of the Argentine Re
public, la unsurpassed among the
cities of the world in the grandeur
U its architectural triumphs, the
elegavce of. its boulevards and the
concrete evidence of wealth, cul
ture and progress that abound on
all sides. The population is now
nearly 2,000,000, larger than Phila
delphia In fact, and if I may be
pardoi.ed an invidious comparison,
handbomer than any municipality on
ihe western continent, if not on the
world."
"There is one thing that may
sound strange to you," said Mr.
Carpenter, in touching on the litera
iur» of tbe Arctic regions and con
tractu territory "and that is that
the fiaest descriptions I have read
of 'ravels in polar regions are
from tae gifted pen of the famous
Dr. Cock. I am not entering into
auy cih'roversy as to the falsity or
the truth of his discovery claims,
but art simply speaking of the
grate, the graphic incisiveness, tho
compelHne charm of his descriptivo
stvlo wiien writing of the boundless
tuodras, the majestic sweep of
rivers, the Icy expanses and appal
ling solitudes of the Arctic Circle,
and It seems almost a travesty of
fate that a man bo talented should
find himself so generally discredit
ed."
Mr. Carpenter's personal inter
views have embraced most of the
crowned heads and potentates of Eu
rope, Asia and Africa, not to men
(Cm tinned on last page)
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