F, & A. H.
White Paw Lodge
F. & A.M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
fri. EVgs. of each
month. Visiting Drouiera aro ««•
come. Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
"W. C. Wright, W. M.
Fraternal Order
Faglet—
Stag way Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
Eagles meets the first and third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall on Fifth avenue. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
John Grashel, W. P.. J. M. Keller,
Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodg
No. 431. B. P. 0.
E. meeti" ever
Chursday night a
' 8 o'clock. Elk
club and readln
room open daily from 1 p. m. to
12 midnight. Visiting brotiters cor
dially -welcome. W. C Bl&nchard,
Ex. R. Geo. Magee Secretary.
Arctic Brotherhoods
Camp Skagway No. 1
A. B. meets every Tues
day eveniag at 8:00 p
m. sharp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly welcome. D. J. Rich, Arctic Chief
W. R. Hillery, Arctic Recorder.
SOth Infantry Lodge, No. 1390.
LOYAIi ORDER OF MOOSE.
Fort Wm. H. Seward, Haines, AUsk
Regular Meetings every Thursday
night at 7:30 p. m. AU visiting bro
thers cordially welcomed.
Any one desiring information
about the Lodge will confer a favor
by addressing
THE SECRETARY.
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Dentists.
DR. L. S. KELLER.
Dentist.
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OMce Hours: 9-12 a. rn. 1-6 p. m.
Alaskan Building - Broadway
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washing without shrinking the
clothes. Family work given careful
attention. tf.
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fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
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seventeenth of every
month for Chainpaigne
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"and the Service First Class.
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EDITORIAL PAGE
1HE FOSSIL FLORA OF CAPE
LISBURNE, ALASKA.
Peculiar and eNwrblng interest at
taches to the study ot the fossil
floras of the Arctic regions, for they
indicate climatic conditions very
unlike those now existing there. In
place of the present snow and ice
and the scant, almost perpetually
frozen soil which supports but a
handful of depauperate plants, the
conditions from at least late Pa>e
ozoic to middle Cenozoic geologic
time—many millions of years ago,
before the development of mam
mals—made possible, at least dur
ing certain periods, an abundant
and luxuriant vegetation, consisting
of ferns and palmlike plants that
could grow only in a mild and prob
ably frostless climate. Although
these lands are now so inhospit
able, and hence but rarely visited,
an astonishiing amour ot informa
tion concerning their fossil floras
has been accumulated, and to this
knowledge Alaska hag contributed
its full quota, says F. H. Knowlton,
a paleontologist of the United
States Geological Survev, in a short
paper on the "Juraasi c Flora of
Cape Lisburne", ju6t published as
Part D of Professional Paper 85.
The fossil plants described by Mr.
Knowlton were collected by A. J.
Collier, a geologist of the Survey,
while engaged "i the study of the
coal resources of the Cape Lisburne
region. The coal deposits are ex
tensive and are the only mineral
resources ot the region known to
be of commercial importance. A
little mining has been done by ves
sels short of fuel, which occas
ionally lie off shore and load on a
few sacks of coal. This, however,
is a rather dangerous practice, as
there is no harbor.
Cape Lisburne is *he bold head
land which marks the uortliweste'rn
extremity of a laud mess project
ing into the Arctic Ocean from the
western coast of Alaska between
latitudes 68° and 69". It lies 160
miles north of the Arctic Circle,
about 300 miles dircctly north of
Nome, and is the only point in Al
aska north of Bering Strait where
hills above 1,000 feet in height ap
proach the sea.
The Jurassic section to which the
name Corwin formation has been
given is said by Collier to con
sist of shales, sandstones, conglom
erates, and coal beds. Fossil plants
occur iu the shale beds wherever
they have been examined. This
formation reaches the enormous
thickness of over 15,000 feet and
contains 40 to 50 coal beds -which
range In thickness from 1 to 2 to
over 30 feet, ten of them being 4
feet thick and suitable for mining.
The various beds aggregate at
least 150 feet of cool.
Mr. Kuowlton correlates the Jur
assic flora of Alaska with that of
eastern Siberia and concludes that
the land connection between North
America and Asia at this early per
iod of the world must have been
practically continuous. In review
ing the character and geographic
range of Jurassic floras, especially
as developed in Arctic and Antarctic
regions, he states that the wide
areal distribution of Middle and Up
per Jurassic floras has long been
one of the marvels of riant distri
bution. The living flora of today,
of courss, affords many individual
examples of wide distrioution, such
as those found throughout the Trop
ics of both hemispheres, and oth
ers, ch'efly weeds, that have, large
I ly through human agencies, spread
[ widely over temperate lands, but
altogether these plants form but an
insignificant part of the whole flora,
whereas in Jurassic time a large
percentage of the whole flora was
practically world wide in its range.
Even Cape Lisburne is by no
means the northern limit of this
nearly tropical vegetation; it has
been found, preserved for all time
in the rocks, ISO miles northeast
of Cape Lisburne.
BILL TO ADMIT WOMEN".
A hill is to be introduced in the
House of Commons next session
which aims at riving English wo
men th-j right to practice as law
yers. It is a questiou whether it
will receive the support of the
government, without which it stands
little chance of success. The mat
ter has been fought in the courts
for sev -al years and the decision
to introduce a bill results from the
judgment 'of the Court of Appeals,
which iu December decided that
the present law did not give wo
men the right to practice, and that
the only tribunal which could give
women such rights was parliament.
The grounds for this judgment were
not that there was any inherent un
fitness among women which prevent
ed them from appeasing in law
practice, but merely that there
never has, in fact, been a woman
lawyer in England. The court held
that this common law disability
was further supported by a dictum
of Lord Coke, issued over 300 years
ago, concerning those who had be
come entitled to practice law from
time immemorial. As old as it is,
this dictum is stiill binding in Eng
lish law.
Skagway, Alaska, Feby. 14, '14.
J. M. Tanner,
Skagway.
Princess Maquinna arriving Skag
way 18th has Boat Harbor coal
consigned to you.
tf. F. F. W. Lowle,
Agent.
CRAB MEAT COOK TAILS
The Pack Train Restaurant
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Do you know?
That we use the best hard wheat
flour obtainable.
That we use pure lard.
That we use the best eggs.
That we use the best extracts
and spices.
Th-.t we use tbe utmost care in
the preparation of all our articles.
That we give a money-back guar
ty with everything you buy from us.
If you don't know these things,
it's time you did for its' to your
benefit to know them. The New
Idea Bakery and Delicatessen, tf.
Location Notices, placer aoo
quartz, 50c. a dozen at the DalJj
Alaskan office. U.
EXTRA GOOD PROGRAM AT THE
MOVIES TONIGHT.
FIVE GOOD ONES TO DRAW t0
Pebble'ord and Gibson Ry^. Bud
weiser, Plue Ribbon and Pale Rain
ler Bee- at the Board ot Trade.
Needles for Victor or Columbia
phonographs, soft, medium or loud
now in stock at Keller Bros. Drug
Co., envelopes of 100, Sets.; boxes
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THE ( RAFTERS GOOD THINGS.
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make Greeting Cards for every pur
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The Crafters have been making
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Those who buy the Crafters' Publi
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Until this year he Crafters have
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Crafters' Valentines and Easter
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