New Seeds
The famous Hunts canned fruits
Kellogs Crumbles
Pompeian Olive Oil 30 and 50c sizes
Reliance canned Dill Pickles
Crystle Domino Syrup
Bagleys Apple Juice
TRY OUR
Blanchard Butter and Eggs—Always Freeh
ASK & SONS Grocers
THE ROYAL TAILORS
SAMPLES HAVE ARRIVED
Come in and Look Thorn Over. 500 Samples to Pick From
$16.00 and Up
Dortero & Son
Clothiers and Furnishers
PHONE 32
NUGGET MOVIES
; Broadtvny. between 2nd »"<'
Open r'-ve y Night
Monday and 1 uosday
Ronivtte and Julio.—Pathe play.
Jim Dolan's Ksoape.—A Selig
drama i.i two par.ts
Kill or Cure.—A Vitagraph com
edy.
FIVE REKLS
Music by Miss (iladys llutlor.
Commences nl H::SO f>. iu
Local Happenings
lie City of Seattle will be in
sometime tomorrow evening.
F. A. Mover came over from ileu
ntt yesterday and will return to
morrow.
The Mariposa is due in Sfcagway
from the westward early tomorrow
H oming.
Dr. L. S. Keller returned from a
several weoks' professional visit to
Atlin and Carcross yeterday on the
W. P. & Y. R special.
Miss Kthtl Leslie of White horse,
who has been visiting with Skag
way frieuds for several days, re
turned home on today's train.
Ageut F. F. W. Lowle of the
local c. Pi R. office, went over to
'.Vhitehorse Saturday on business
and returned this afternoon.
Wednesday and Thursday
See. "Why (ilrls Leave
Home." at the Nugget Movies.
Supt. Fred Story of the Silver
Queen and Ruby Silver mine on
Lake Bennett, came over on a hur
!if>U business trip on the special
yfsterday -and returned this morn
ing.
The plant formerly used in the
publication of the Cordova Daily Al
askan, which paper suspended last
June, has- been bought and taTjen
to Anchorage by • L. F. Shaw, edi
tor of the Cook Inlet Pioneer of
that place, who will shortly issue
a daily paper. Associated with Mr.
Shaw in the new enterprise are T.
li. Needham and C. F. Packard. •
LOST—Jet eardrop, somewhere
between W. P. A. club, Pack Train
restaurant and..my home. Finder
return to Mrs. H. U. Kirms6 at
store. 9-2 5-21.
Governor Strong has written to
Washington, showing that unless
more money is received outside in
corporated towns under the "Nelson
fund'' the territory will not have
enough to run for the full term of|
nine months. He says in the com
munication that, even if the fifteen
thousand dollars allowed by the
legislature from the road money
lot est fund is used -without a court
contest, there will still not be
enous-h. The shortage is due main
• naw
Tile Dolphin carno in yesterday
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock with sev
eral passengers on board for Skag
wa«% among whom were J. McGreg
or, J. Whelan anj G. W. Speer,
The vessel had 80 tons of freight
c,. unload aud did not get away
ijtr the south until S:25 p. m. She
took out 27 people bound for Seat
tle, 10 for Juneau 3 for Tacoma
and 2 for Wrangell.
LUX is the pure essence of soap.
Get it at Kellers' and us« it for
fine laundering. *f.
Receipts for the Alaska fund
for the last quarter total $1S,865.
£5, according to figures compiled by
Clerk Jay Bell of the District court
at Juneau Friday. Twenty-five per
cent of this amount will be used in
the maintenance of .schools, 10
percent goes into a fund for the re
lief of indigents in Alaska, and
t •• remaining 65 oer cent goes to
tile road commission.
The finder of a crescent-shaped
gold-nugget brooch will confer a
favor by leaving it at this office.
Reward. 9-25-2t.
J. S. Sterling of Trenton, N. J-.
vice-president and general manager
of the Alaska Silver Fox Fur
Farms Co. of Fairbanks, arrived
fron the interior yesterday with 41
i'oxes and was met here by Mr.
Hamburger, another member of the
firm, who had arrived from the
westward cn the last boat with
19 additional animals and was wait
ins for Mr. Sterling's appearance.
I'tfc entire lot was shipped out on
the Dolphin yesterday, consigned to
Hlattsburg, X. Y., where, we un
derstand, the headquarters of the
company are located.
LUX contains more real soap
tbaa five times Its weight in ordi
nary soaps or soap powder. Get it
"or 10c at Kellers'. tf.
The miners in the Wheaton river
district in Southern Yukon are
preparing to organize a company
for the development oi the anti
mony leads that have been dis
covered and are now being opened
up there. Messrs Whitefield and
Ross, the former a sourdough min
er and the latteir the representa
tive of a Vancouver, B. C., syndi
cate of capitalists, came out from
the iuterior yesterday and Mr.
Ross will leave on the Princess
Alice Thursday for the outside to
make final arrangements for the
incorporation of a company and to
procure the necessary machinery to
start work.
ENGLAND PAYS HIGH
TO PREVENT INVASION
New York, Sept. 27—J. Herbert,
Duckworth writes the Sun that Eng
land's "ring of steel" to prevent in
vasion costs $10,000,00 a <iay to
maintain. He asserts that England
his ?,r>00 aircraft, and that he has
watched the airmen at war games,
practicing attacking Zeppelins and
preparing for the promised grand
if rial raid on Krupps" and other
vUaJN spots in the enemy's 'ter
ritory. At the present time Eng
land has 16,000 men engaged in
turning out aeroplanes. Up to
June 30, the United States had
Shipped 250 aeroplanes, valued at
$2,000,000, to England. There are
uow standing orders for 60 ma
chines _a week until the end of the
LETTER FROM FAR
AWAY biBERIA
time lust evening. Had no diffl
cutly whatever regarding my com
partment on the Petrograd Coupler
Express, which you reserved for me
last May, from Vladivostok to Irk
utsk. It was fortunate yoiu made
the reservation as you did, how
ever, for the train was loaded to its
capacity, and bookings are sold out
for weeks in advance.
Tnia completes the journey so
far as your routing is concerned,
as I start overland for Ghigolovo,
Vitimsk, and Bodai)>o, from here.
It may interest you to know that
the total distance from Skagway to
Irkutsk, via San Francisco, is 10,
72S miles. I left Slcagwuy July
7th and have made quickest possible
conuections all the way through.
Had 6 days in Japan between steam
ers.
With many thanks for the inter
est which you have taken, asd the
care and thoroughness with which
you prepared my tickets and reser
vations, I remain,
Ver£ truly yours,
HENRY M. PAYNE,
Consulting Eugineer.
(233 Broadway, New
York City.)
SENATE NOT XI) MEET;
WAR TALK PEAKED
Washington, Sept 25—Authorit
ative announcement was made today
that President Wilson has decided
to forego an extra session of the
United State senate.
Tnc reason assigned Is that the
President fears that the extra ses
sion inevitably would mean a dis
cussion of the international ques
tion. and this he is desirous of
averting for the present.
going to get ready
FOR THE BIG HAUL
Dawson News: Among those who
will leave tonight on the Vidette on
her last trip of the year to Mayo,
will be J. E. Pickering, of the firm
of Greenfield & Pickering. He goes
to take charge of the company's
plans for carrying out its contract
to haul silver ore this winter from
the Silver King mine, 011 Galena
creek, to Mayo Lauding, 30 miles.
"We have feed, horses, sleighs
and all equipment on the ground at
Mayo" says Mr. Pickering, "and
have good stables erected. We are
prepared to haul 1,000 to 2,000 tors
of ore. I shall do some work on the
road preparatory to undertaking the
heavy hauling.
"We also are to handle the mail
between Dawson an 1 Mayo this win
ter, giving a service every three
weeks during the period from the
freezeup to the spring breakup."
Quite a number of others are go
ing up 011 the Vidotte, including a
number of traders, prospectors and
miners with heavy outfits.
WILL NOMINATE ON
TOMORROW EVENING
The officers tnd members of
Camr. Skagway No. 1, Arctic Broth
erhood, are hereby notified that
there will be a regular meeting
held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock fo
the purpose of placing in nomina
tion, officers for the ensuing term
as well as for the initiation of can
didates, A full attendance is de
sired.
Send the Daily Alaskan to your
friends. It's easier than writing
letters.
BOOSTS YUKON AYITH NEW CART
J (Continued from page 1.)
tory, On the obvorse Bide is room
for the address and portions of the
regions touching the Yukon boun
dary, including the Northwest Ter
ritories, British Columbia, Arctic
ocean and Alaska. A strip of nor
thern Alberta also is shown, thus
giving the stranger a good idea of
the relative position of Yukon and
tne other portions of the contin
ent. A legend is given, showing
the locations of gold, coal, copper,
silver, lead and other minerals of
the Yukon, and likewise the graz
'ug areas. Members of the Yukon
council and the names of Yukon of
ficials are in diminutive type at
the corners. On one end of the
card are the words: "Yukon con
tains 192,000 square miles, fully
one-half of which is haibitable; con
siderable grazing land; also agricul
tural and horticultural (possibilities;
for postal maps apply to the com
missioner or director of surveys,
Dawson."
•The cards will be distributed
free of charge, and a number, says
Mr. Brcwnlee, will be placed in the
"■ v"— ♦Mvf»iers will find them.
ALASKA DOGS TO WAR
Nome, Sept. 26—M. Rene Haas,
former French consul here, but a
subaltern in. the French army since
the war broke out, has returned
here and yesterday purchased 100
Alaskan Bled dogs which will he
taken by him to the front, for use
by the Alpine Cnausseurs. In the
stiing are several dogs of the Allan
Darling Sweep-stake thoroughbreds,
"ocotty" Allan will take the dogs
to Seattle, sailing on the Senator.
NOTICE TO PIONEERS
All those who have signed the
lis* as charter members for the in
stitution of an Igloo Of the Pion
eers cf Alaska in Sfcagway, are re
quested to meet at the A. B. hall
tonight at 8:30 for the purpose
cf effecting permanent organization.
Anyone who came to Alaska or the
Yukon territory prior to January
let, 1907, is eligible for memiber
3nip, and if there are any such
who deelre to Join the order, they
are also cordially invited to be pres
ent
T. L. JONES, tem. pr.es.
A. M. ROUSSEAU, tem. sec.
NATIONAL DEFENSE
LEAGUE CONFERENCE
(Continued from page 1.) '
will have an Important effect on
the action of congress at the next
session for adequate defense meas
ures.
Women are going to take a prom
inent part In the deliberations of
the conference. Many have written
the National Defense League they
will attend the conference.
From thousands of letters re
ceived by the National Defense
League it is shown that in every
section of the country there is a
strong sentiment for preparation*,
for National defense. Many of the
writers say they will attend the con
ference.
A citizens' committee of 500
prominent Washingtoniana has been
appointed to care for the local ar
rangements for the conference, and
the press committee includes prac
tically the whole membership of
the congressional press gallery.
President Wilson, former Presi
dents Ta£t and Roosevelt, and
many other prominent men have
been invited to speak at the confer
ence.
LUX won't Bnrlnk -woolens. Get
it at Keller Bros. 10c box. tf.
No. 21 In Bankruptcy
NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF
CREDITORS
In the District Court of the Terri
tory of Alaska, Division Number j
One, at Juneau.
In the matter of the voluntary
bankruptcy of J. W. & M. A.
Combs, co-partners, doing busi
ness under the naane of M. A.
Combs Lumber Co., bankrupts.
To the creditors of J. W. & M. A.
Combs, bankrupts of Haines, Alas
ka:;
Notice is hereby given that on
the 10th day of September, A D.,
1S15, the foregoing were duly ad
judicated bankrupts, and that the
first ^meeting of their oreditora will
be held at the office of the under
signed, at Juneau, Alaska, on
Thursday, the 30th day of Septem
ber, 1915, at the hour of 2 o'clock
p. m., of said day, at which time
the said creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint a trustee, ex
amine the bankrupts, and transact
such other business as may proper
ly come before said creditors.
Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Septem
ber, 17, 1916.
<AL H. ZIEGLER,
9-2 0-t Releree in Bankruptcy.
BEST LINE
of
5c Cigars
ever sold in
Skagway
Tony Dortero
, URINARY;
DISCHARGES
i RELIEVED IN
24 HOURS
Each C*p
sulc bears utllDV']
Ikwareof counterfeit*
AM. I>Ur<HSlST8 |
"Courting" Days
Why play Tennis in a Leather Shoe?
Console your feet by wearing a
"Comfy" Tennis Shoe
of specially prepared material, YIELDING to PRESSURE,
POROUS to the AIR.
All sizes, White with White Soles 85c.
"Mary Jane1' White Canvas Pumps $1.25
White Canvas Pumps with Heel $1.50
Excellent values in white hose, all sizes, 25c and 35c a
pair.
L. A. HARRISON CO.
Phone 55 Store closes 8 p. m.; Saturday 9 p. id.
nUKHPUE
GEORGE MOV/L, Proprietor
Next to Post OSice, Fifth Avenue
Open Every Night Raised Seats
Friday and Saturday
"51V LADY ItOOT."
"UNDER THE WESTERN SKIES."
"BELLS Ol" PARADISE." in two part*.
School children free tonight,
SUNDAY i i ' i
Universal presents "THE (ill HATER CALL."—American Ec
lair In three parts. . , 1 ! I
STRAND WAIt SERIES NO. 0. |
"OUT OF 'J'HE FRYING PAN."
5,000 feet of films.
Music by J. V. Miller.
Admission 25c and 10c Begins 8:30
KING'S CAFE
WHITE HORSE YUKON TERRITORY
BEST MEALS IN THE NORTH
Mrs. Grloff King :: Proprietor
The DAYS are NOW HERE
When you are thinking about and planning for your
Fall Outing, whether it is a Hunting or Fishing Trip
or both, and we are prepared'to fill your every want
- REELS - GUNS
AMMUNITION, FLYS, LINE, CARTRIDGE VESTS,
CLEANING RODS, GUN OIL, LEADERS
Reels. 85 cts. to $10 00
Joicted Rods. 75 cts. to $6.50
Rifles. $1.75 to $30.00
Shot Guns. $7.00 to $30.00
WE HAVE"THE GOODS
AT RIGHT PRICES
Come in and Talk It Over with Us
KELLER BROS. DRUG CO.
Sporting Goods Department
OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
THE B M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, Alaska
capital. $30,0il0 00. Surplus, $20,000.00
B. M. bEHRENDS R. W1QJS GUY McNAUGHTON.
president Vice Pre». Caahier
yon will find that a copy of tb e Daily Alaskan wil< be almost aa
much i«:t" lated br the Jolts at home as a letter, and Its Iota less
voile.