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I EDITORIAL
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KATES \ >. ALASKA FARMS
Just what \» to be gained by the
comlL,; interstate commerce • in
vestigation. in regard to Alaska
transportation companies ! cannot
be foretold. I£ it is true that some
of the companies have -bean &'vin5
seem rebates to preferred m«r
chr.nta this may be corrected, and
i- may be poasfble to enforce more
equitable rates. J
Tuere is no •<**took, however,
fcr a reduction in rates, because
tie rat« to Alaska is lower llOW>
considering the length, of the 'r°^~
age, than rates-by boat in tbe At
lantic.
The final answer to the rate quew
tiou to Alaska lies in the agricul
tural development of the interior.
The sooner " Alaskans raise their
own produce and stock the better.
Tar more can be gained for the
Tcrritot.' by putting the money no*
paij cu* in freight-rates into home
grown hogs and cattle, potatoes and
other vegetables.
"1 Lmk FIGHTING FOR RUMANIA
1£ tee Teutonic troops in Ruman
ia, * do not accomplish more within
fee nexi two week, or a month
than they have since von Macken
sen concluded his sensational driv®
iu. the Debrudja, the prospect tha*
this Balkan country will escape the
fate of Serbia *111 be -materially
imoroved. '
Time k fighting on the side of
the Rumanians. .Every day brings
clcoer the Period of the year ^hen
snowfall in the cajpatblians "Ri
render ;t .impossible for the Aus
i re-Germans to preGs their advance
southward. Similar conditions will
opeiate to retard »o a measurable
extent the extension of Mackensen's
galas In the southeast and east.'
While a winter campaign for this
lat'tr army would not bo impossible
i- would be an extremely difficult
operation. Even in the west, where
the Allies are backed by an lnade
qua*n s^tem of-railroad, transpor
*at<Dn, the plans mapped out for a
continuation of the Somme • drive
thrcugh the cold months'are re
«.. gniz?d as imposing vastly increas
ed hardships upon the troops.
Russia, bad one try at a winter
campaign -in the Carpathians. For
weary months- her victorious sol
diers hammered the defeated Aus
trians in-an effort to smash, a way
through this mountajneous ^ 'bar
rier. Theeffort not only, was 'vain,
but it resulted in such heavy Slavic
losseg tnat the famous, .Austro-Ger
man drive through Galicia and R°
land the following spring was ren
d-j-d possible.'
The success of the campaign) °"
tntf Central Powers in "Rumania de
pends, according to well-posted ob
servers, on 'the ability of .Falk®n
haya and Mackengen to co-operate
in squeezing the troops 'opposing
taem. If the ^former is held up in
tne Carpathians, the latter -will be
unable to .continue 'his thrust to
waM Budapest or tbe railroad-lines
leading southward to -the 'capital,
upon which the Rumanians depe-nd
now for thefir-supplies of munitions.
In .fact, the crisis of this ca -
paiga must be'approaching with
great rapidity and,'for the moment,
the balance seems to be-swinging n
lavcr o.- the Rumanians.
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ALASKA'S NAME EMBLAZON!ED
'Alaska, finis lies , rifie ' ma toll,
beating Nevada, i Pengylvania,
ooutli Dakota,. Maryland, W. Yirgin
la, Crocrj^la, . Arkansas, j Ala
bama, Florida, Military] "Academy,
Remarkable; comBideringj conditions
Btrgcr wins a'bronze medal la Na
tional individual match^ im, field
nine hundrefl and thirty."*
The -foregoing >-as received la a
letter Tuesday] bj- Governor -Strom^
and was the litrst news from the
Rifle team -which) left nearly .four
weeks ago for Jacksonville, Florida,
for the purpose of-competing in, tie
Government .Inter-State shooting
contest. WMle the Alaska team
is composed of-mea from Tread/well,
Thane, and Juneau, the majority) ol
them are from the'former place.
When it is considered that our
fcoys had been 'practicing but .a
:ZCrt time the news that they did
so well -as the letter to the gov
ernor says, is both, a eurprisg -and
apieauTe. . , I '.ij*;.
Tn© members of the team were
an far back on the • way "home as
Seaf.jQ cn Tuesday and are doubt
less -on the last -l3!) of the long
journ?y by; this time. 1— Douglas
island News. I '
TWO CHRISTMAS PRESENTS FOU
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The best family paper and the
best fashion magazine •— The
Youth's Companion! andi McOll's
Magazine, both for .1,2.10. The
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best, most interesting, most useful o
Chrlstma^ presents, crowded -with
stories, articles, .humor, science,
aoid the progress of the world week
by week. McCaH's-Magazine (50
cen's Dy itself) is -the most widely
circulattd fashion ' magazine in
America. '
Our two at one price offer in
cludes: '
1 Tn« Youth's Companion—52 is
sues of 1917. »
2. A'J tie remaining issues'of 1916.
3. The Companion Home Calendar
for 1917. '
5. One 15-cent McjCall Dress Pat
tern—your choice from your first
number of the magazine—If you
sei-d a 2-cent stamp with your
sel°ction. '
THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, St
Paul ct., Boston, Mass. i
Xe.v subscriptions received 'at
this office. 1 '
KEEP YOUR HEAD UNCOVERED.
The Constant WuHnic of n II«t Propo
ifHtra Dandruff Germa.
There aro many men who wear their
lau practically all the timo when awjJse,
tnd are blessed with a heavy shock of
lair: yet if the scalps of these same men
inco became infested with dandruff
Terms, the parasites would multiply all
the quicker for lack of air. Baldness
would ensue as the final result. New
bro's Herplclde kills these germs and
stimulates unhealthy hair to abundant
growth. Herplclde Is a pleasant hair
dressing as well as a dandruff mire and
contains not an atom of injurious sub
stance. Sold by lea/ilr" -'-'ir^lsts. Seti '
10c. In stamps for sample to The Ker;'
clde Co.. Detroit. MI'h
At all Drug Ptorea.
One Dollar bottle, guaranteed.
FOP REXT—5 ! room furnished
cottage on corner of Ninth I and
Broadway, inquire of L. Crepeau.
INDEXING BOOKS.
The Custom Is an Old Cno That De*
velopeJ Rather Slowly.
The custom of indexing books devet
oped gradually. Cicero used the word
"Index," hut lu the sense oC :i table of
contents. Seneca provided some works
! which he sent to a friend with notes of
particular passages, "so that he who
only aimed at the useful might he
spared the trouble of examining them
entire." This was at least a partial
"index" In the moderu sense. Anno
tated. or at least explanatory, tables of
contents seem to have preceded the In
dex proper.
Such tables followed the order of ap
pearance of the subjects iu the book It
self. Alphabetical arranjrenieut. which
was the beginning of the real Index,
appears not to hive been thought of
until the invention of printing, and
even then it spread hut slowly. Eras,
mus was one of the first to provide his
works with alphabetical indexes. The
custom did not become universal until
well into the sixteenth century.
The first Index to an English book is
said to be that printed in I'olydore
Vergil's "Angliae llistoriae" in 1540.
An edition of this work published teu
years later has an index of thirty-seven
pages.
A Clause In Napoleon's Will.
Feter the Great is said to have made
a will in which he exhorted his heirs to
approach as nearly as possible to Con
stantinople and toward India, but the
authenticity of this document has been
disputed, and It is shrewdly suspected
to have been forged late in the eight
eenth century by August Kotzebue.
Of the genuineness, however, of the
last wfll and testament of Napoleon I.
there can he no manner of doubt. Ono
of its clauses was as vindictive as the
testamentary Injunction of Queen Aus
trigilda to her husband to have her two
docrors killed and burled with her.
The exile of I.onj;wood absolutely be
queathed 10.000 francs to a fellow called
Cantiilon. who had been tried In Paris
for an attempt to murder the Duke of
Wellington. The man was still survlv
ing in Brussels when Napoleon III.
came to the throne, and Cantiilon was
duly paid his legacy.
CRYING FOR HELP
Lot* of It in Alaska But DaiJj
Crowing Lefea
Thf kidneys often ciy for help.
Net another organ in. the whole
bod»- mere delicately -constructed;
Not ol» more important to health
Tho kidneys ara the filter# of
the Blood.
Whew they fail the bloodl becoH'ea
foul aDd poisonous.
There can bo n» health where
there is poinsonjKl blood. •
Backache is one of the fre
queut indications oX kidney trouble.
It is often ths kidneys^ cry * for
help. Heed it.
Read what Doau's Kidney- Pills
hav# dene far overworked kidneys.
Proo' of merit in. -the following
sta'cment:
C. C. White, -barber, 164 6 Mis
sion St., Salem, Ore., Bays: "I
hay, been taking Doan'& "Kidney
Pills off and on for a 'number of
years and they havq never failed to
do good work. Standing in. one
DOslMcij so much was hard on my
bacV and -kidneys. At times I
could hardly stand up straight. Af
ter I had taken a box or'two of
Dofcn'g Kidneey- pills, my 'back folt
as strong as ever." '
PiJth 50c, at all 'dealers. Don't
■imply ask for a kidney remedy—
get Dean's Kidney Pills—the same
that Air. White had. Foster-Mil
bUTa Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
I
Re-Creation of Music....
I TC? AVT v * nnAmm rctTm tit
Edison
"Diamond Disc "
Phonograph
See the splendid new display of late models, and hear the
daily concerts that demonstrate their superior merit
over all sound reproducing machines.
KELLER BROS.
Have been licensed by
Mr. Edison to demon
strate and sell this won
derful invention.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
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Arctic Brotherhood, —
Camp Skagway No. 1
A. D. meets every se<
ond and fourth! Tue:
day evening at 8:30 (
m. BHnrp. Visiting brothers cordis
j_y wc-Kcino. W. L. Stevenson, Arc
tic .Chief. W. E. Burford, Arcti
Recc rder.
Fraternal Ordc
Kiiglcfci—
skMgwijf AerJ
Vo. 125, Pratej
ml Order o
l.Rglos meets uie) first and thin
Wednesilay niglit of each 111011th! n
triPJr h«ll on Fifth Avenue. Visit
iitg bPothters cordially invitc-fil t
attend. L. E. Hudson, AV. P.,
J. M. Greisbacli, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodg
F. & A. M. No. 11
meets 2d and 4tl
Fri. Kv'gs, of eMl
come.
Elmer L. Wheeler, TV. M.
Address ali communications t<
the' (Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKi
Skagway Lodg'
No. 431, B. P. 0
E. meets even
Thursday nigh
at 8:30 o'clock
Visiting b rot hen
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R
r. J. VAWDEWALL, Secretary
Pioneer of Alaska Igloo, No. 12
mcel» tn A. B. Hall first Monday il
every month at 8:30 p. m.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STFJVENSON, Pres
V. T. DOBTERO, Rec. Sec
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DR. L. S. KELLER
Dentist
Must Modtera MeiUiods
Office Honrs: 0-12 a. m. 1-C p. in
Alaskan Building - - - - B;toadwaj
SKAGAVAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M. 1).
(Formerly of Seattle)
Sp*v1aJist in the tivajtmcfit oi
disease and deformities of tin
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju>
neau, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice in all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA
Alaska Junk Co. I
of Juncan Alaska, J
Dealers la *
RUBBER, COPPER, BRASS f
LEAD, ZINC, SACKS, RAGS |
ROITS, SCRAP IRON |
Roar of Splckett'i Po«toffice X
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J. IKUTA
MA ."T!F\rTURIN\«
JEWELER
WATCH ES&CLOCKS
Curios, iv^r/ Carvings
Indian Baskets
China a.id Cut Glass
Official Watcl Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Order* iven prompt care
RAW FURS!
WE PAY
HIGH -TRICES
FOR FINE FURS
WRITE FOR PRICE LIST
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ADMIRAL LINE
OUR LARGE FLEET OF MAGNIFICENT STEAMERS
Offers Frequent and Perfect Service Between All Ports in
ALASKA and CALIFORNIA
LEAVE SKAGWAY FOR CONNECTS at JUNEAU FOR
Haines, Juneau, Douglas, Pet- Yakutat, Katalla, Cordova,
ersbu.g, Wrang«l, Ketchikan, Valdez, Seward, Seldovia
Prince Rupert. Vancouver, Steamers Admiral Evans, Admiral Wat
SEATTLfci and TACOMA. ton, Admiral Farragvt
S. S. CITY OF SEATTLE Leaves Skagway
NOVEMBER 10, 20, 30
CALIFORNIA ROUTE—Leave Seattle Monday's, Friday's,
Saturday's for Stn Faancisco, Los Angeles, San Diego.
If Your Ticket Rudi PACIFIC STEAMSHIP C». You are Assured the very Best
For Full Particulars, Address
H. G. WEIR, Agent SKAGWAY, Alaska
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
SAILINGS FROn SKAGWAY
SOUTHBOUND
S. S. JEFFERSON
Nov. 7-19
Navigation to Anchorage cioses sailing S.S. Mariposa Oct. 24
TELEPHOir* HO. M.
ft. J. SHAW, Agynt, SKAGWAT. I
SAILINGS FROM SKAGWAY
[Canadian! 1916 - winter - 1917
S.S. Princess Sophia
Nov. 23 Dec. 7 - 21 Jan. 4 -18 Feb. 1 -15
To
Prince Rupert, Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle
REDUCED THROUGH RATES TO EAST
All Information From
L. H. JOHNSTON Agt. Phone 87 or 118 SKAGWAY
FOR SALE
Th# 'West half of lot 9, Block
8, Fourtlhi Avenue, two store
house, range, stove, some car
pets, table, chairs, bedsteads,
&c. I
Prlca'
' 1450.00
PHIL
ABRAHAMS
Established
1807
624 Fourth Avenue
SKaGWAY, ALASKA
You make a mistake if
vou dr not stoo at
THE
Pnllen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each 9oor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own dainr.
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rjorr.s for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULI£N. Prop.
Skagway. Alaska
GOING OUT Egaa SAVE TIME
THIS FALL? AND MONEY
" VIA GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC "
TWIN SCREW STEAMSHIP
PRINCE RUPERT
LEAVES SKAGWAY
EVERY MONDAY at 11:00 a. m.
For
Prince Rupert, Victoria, Vancouver Direct
All Two Berth Outside Rooms Through Service - * No Change
Hot and Cold Running Water in Ever}" Room
TRAVEL VIA
"THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAST"
On The Finest, Surest, Swiftest Steamships on the North Pacific Coast
ON LUXURIOUS TRAINS OVER THE BEST NEW RAILWAY EVER
CONSTRUCTED and SAVE TIME and MONEY
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T,a». Frt 4 P«. p£4P""bS:.,
Juneau, Alaska Skagway, Alaska