clanks today. The 9t»t« Is to give
to each service man a bonus far
his service in the worlj war.
feattie Feb 2—Returneil service
men to tlio number of five thous
and took out bonus application
ONLY A GYPHER
|| nine
Washington Feo 2—An operator
failed to in an 0 and be it
the custom hou^e at Sitka falls to
get additional land. Th© depart
ment presented an estimate for the
putchase cf additional land for
S-' O for the CustoniHous© but when
It was found a mistake had be**n
made and the amount should have
t«,?a $2000 the additional $1S00
was P-t in the defeciency till but
the committee rvfus^d to srant tie
USOOO. k
Victoria Feb 2—Owing to the un
satisfactory price of the Unconsol
idated Whaling Company the Vict >r
ia of Seattle fle^t will cot be op
erfted this year. This announce
aient came from Manager Marquartl.
President Sees The
Play "Abe Lincoln"
\Va*iingtjn Feb 2—The Presid»nt
last night attended the first pub
lic presentation of the Play "Abra
ham Lincoln". __
Milwaukee Feb 2—Victor BerS "
comes out in a sUUenieQt in which
he denounces Wilson for his
al o pardon Euge!'e Ue'-'8
$ t
y 3
■is
I oeatil* Feb 2—Mrs. Anna r.irr :1
a oueineits woman of t'.is city a: :I
iii former u^i's a I>ioneer of Xomo
S«i"<gWoy mid i>iHsrn dieJ li ;
IcCay aft«'r a !>'r of Mn-ts. Mrj.
Farrell was well known ;n t! e tow
ol Skagway auj iiia.iv rcui<..m! t r
ii«i.
May 30 To Be Mad:
Monona! liay
For Allks
Talis.—One of the a ts of t'-ie su
iTem^ touucil binding together t
«ir associations of allied natio.
was taken yesterday wi-u the rec ' -
. Diend:.tion that My 3u Amerlc. ■
| ..,'em>"iiai day bo observed in r '
' c untr.ej "Alli.d Memorial day."
'iVvree "B.easows
>s\\^ sVoTiVd Va.'ot a Tb ut.V.
SUcowl uiUYi xvs.
SAFETY—No risk whatever. Lost or'stolon
checks caa be duplicated without cust.
CONVENIENCE—Paying bills by check is the
easiest, simplest method of ; ayiny thoui.
SYSTEM—You have a complete recorfl of all
money received and spent, with accurate
dates and amounts.
We assure you Safety Convenience
and System
BanK ol AlasRa
S YR UPS
AT LOWER PRICES
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple 2i pound tins $ .TO
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple-. 5 pound tins 1.25
Liberty Bell, Cane and Maple 10 pound tins 2.33
Pure Maple Sap from Vermont 2$ pound tins 1.15
Rogers Golden Syrup Canadian 2 pound tins .40
Rogers Golden Syrup Canadian 5 pound tins .75
P. H. GANTY
Tho Towi Council liiya b<"en try
iaf" for some timo to make gome
'•angeme.tts with the Home Power
O.npai.y w.tli a view to a reduction
::i our light bills. The Council fee'8
i'~* tost oC the lights Is abov© what
w; should oay for the service.
Skagway Pays H* P. Co.
$3,207 Yearly
1 he Tax Payers of Skagway paid
the Home Power po. in 1!'20 ?1C07.
!'•) for its lights besides the $1 fiOO |
tYr water making a total of $3207.1
P0 till told.
'I he Council appointed a commit-)
;e- to wait upon the Home Power
C-> f >i the purpose of ^>cuTing for
:Ti,. Town a better rate on the
Ik »ts.
. \ro had ( onsid' r'd a meter system
fi r the 73 60\V Street lights in"
!V *d ol paying the $2.00 per—light
flat rate which now pre\"ails- The
t--ii largp iights on Broadway w<re
ii ■> ,aK-n into consideration by the
ii'il owing to the fact that so
a j we are able to ascertain their
i 'allation wag arranged for by the
tii-re'.'.ants :ilong ittoadway who
i^ed th«Bi to l>e put up and the
•r p was to fall on the merchants
t later the Council agre-d to pay
fif'een dollars ner month for the
!',-'tt and upkeep in stead of the
c: -inr 1 jtn dollars rer month whicU
V. jncii had agreed to pay whllql
t1. -* merchants were to koep them j
n f\chaoge of e>rresPondenct>
had h, tw«en the committee and
■ ^ Homo rower Cb. but matters
• in. d to move very slowly so wo
«■' ed Mr. ^Jya If lie wpulitklndly
. 1? to o':r Couucil meeting that
■ v'.it r might 1j" brought to a
"Nye Appears Before
The Coitncil
>."y > appeared at the meeting
: d on D. rniheer 20th 1!>20 and
i f'lrrjid the ^'hole council that
t!.j Home rowcr Company had ar
rived at th0 conclusion tint if the
Tnwn was to go on a meter basis
; :• . treet lighting the Company was
;olng to so nrrange It so that the
town would Pay Just about the
s mo anyway.
Thus you see the propptCs of gtt
':*g a better rate on the street llgh
i >i; se'ms out of th0 question and if
•v; wer0 to reduce the amount of
• le- trlc-ity wo used thev were Plan
ting on raising theJr charges to off
set the reduction* 3Ir. Nye also
r^asjed to give us any better rate
K.ff. than 10 cents straight re
Tacorua Feb 2—Arthur Rust son
o£ W. R. Rust 'who is head of the
Taroma Smelter and Guggenheim in'
tcrests in the northwest and Alaska
wa3 k dnapped on his way to the
wher0 h0 is employed. Th9
young man is twenty years old.
(ilia captors took him to a garage
ami held him prisoner meanwhile
making unsuccessful attempts to ex
tort. twenty fire thousand dollars
from his father. Tlie jx>ung man
finally m&naged to ejscaPe* Hust
Mister; Hugh and Wallace are own
ers of" the Chicagoff gold mine one
of the host Paying min^ in S. E.
A'aska.
SuicidesOn Account
Of Failing Health
. cattl0 Feb 2—A. D. Anderson a
wo l known "Can'' broker of 3eat
tlo committed suicide in Log An
geles yesterday. Broken health is
the reason giren for hlg action.
His last me&age was.a Prayer for
Uud to protect I1I3 family.
Slige Ireland Feb 2—The Police
liave found large quanities
arua and ammunition p«creted In
an old gray© yard. i.i I ■„
g°rdlep9 of tliQ fact that we are
His best customer but one.
Home Power Co* Makes
Hard Terms
Mr. Nye further stated that if the
Town wife to go on a meter rate he
would require Ur^m to buy the fix
t,'ures' at about $4 50 each for the,
73 small street lights and that we
floold not attend them ourselves but
would have to pay the Homo Power
C". SI 00 per day to keep them up
aud pay a minimum of $50.00 per
month besides making $SO.OO i
all. .
Council Makes Offer Of
$1200 Yearly
At Ks last mating the Council
instructed the Pe'eCt commllte© to
make an offer of $1200.00 a year
fo- the present street lighting con
cJs!ing of 73 —60W. lamPs and tbe
ten large lights on Broadway
Lights to be addod or cut off on
this ratio. This the Council feels
is a fair iYrice when everything is
taken intp consideration. The com
nitte® wis also Instructed In case j
the. Home Power Co. refused to ac
*ryt this offer to have tho lights'
turned off from the streets
after Feb. first.
Is Council's Offer hair?
,The question will be as!ced; Is
$?5.00 a month for 73 —60W.
la Jips a fair price? This is $1.16
for one lamp per month. Each lamp
bu.ns 300 Kw a night ot ten hours
(whicn i« a eood average for the
year.) or 18Kw per month tt $1.16
tliIt would give tlie Company 6 cent
.i Kw. .Vow the Companv offers
•ar.y one elect'lc beat for 2 Cents
a Kw. It is celling others power
a^d light from 2'i a Kw to 6
oeutj;. The Council sayg if It can
sell others Iteht,-' power and heat
frcm 2 to a cents per Kw and con
isl<!®r it profitable is it unfair to
ask the Company1 to s<?ll the tax
payers light for 6 cents a Kw?
Comparison With Other
S. E, Alaska Cities
At six cents a Kw w0 are paying
mr,re than Juneau, Ketc'iikan or
Se&ttle. It is t!ie feeling of the
Coincil that w® are treating the Co.
fairly jn thj offer end that the Co.
should be willing to treat the tax
payer* as reasonably as theX would
a rivate Party.
BA1TEW1BD
FOR HOT OF LOOT
Seattle Feb 2—SchmKt the ban
dit who hap be«n condemned to die
made forme! claim for the reward
for the capture of the Blay«r; ot
Schulu. He confesftwi to tha miir
de? of B. H. Sdhultz of
as he was being taken to the P^nl
tenttary at Wallai Walla.' Thle hap
pened "on Dec 19th 19X3 following
a rum'oer ot hold,uPs In thkt city.
He alga contend to scores oS rob
beries in Seattle that w*re held up
and robbed of amounts aggregat
ing J20000. Me held UB» a»to I#*
vlcc stations In 3eattle Taxsoma Port
land SPokane and Belllngham. He
d®ared the reward be paid to Mra
O'Brien to help the widow and the
children. He aald It was this that
m nip ted him to confeps to tho
mvrder of Schuitz and the other
crimes.
3eattle Feb. 3—Btfore Schmitt
the bandit wae taken to th© Peni
tentiary at Walla Walla he annourc
e,l thlat he would reveal the Place
of hie cache before u3 execution.
He stated that he had 53000 cached
from hie banditry; and eW^ssed
th, desire that the money go to
,widow O'Brien.
SINK ROBBERY l§
IK CAPITAL
CIII :
Little Rock, Fob. 2—The Senate
lhL< afternoon a Mil provid
ing that capital punishment be In*
flirted for bank robbery.
Judge Landis Goses
13 Big Chicago
• Hotels
Chicago Jan 15—Thirteen bote's
valued at $1,000,000 yesterday
wore ordered closed for one year by
Federal Judge Landis becau&e the
tenantii were saloonkeepers who had
sold iiqujor In violation of injunc
tions restraining them from further
violations of the law.
Bombay Feb 3—The Bolaheyllci
have moved into Bokhhra and aa
they hav0 advanced into the coun
try they have destroyed all shrines
and executed chief Ghazj and mur
dered or imprisoned the leading cit
izens of the country^
DIES III P1IS0"
AFTER REFUSING
FIVE HOIS
Ualelgh, X. 0. Feb. 2—A strange
came """q to an end 'a the death
ot Sarah Wyckoff who hae been
In Priion for 42 j*ara. (A deathbed
confession exonerated her of i
crime for which she wag imprisoned
and »be was pardoned fir* times
bv.t declined the Pardon. She was
seT«<ntr six yeans old when death
e*2ie. * : I
COMMISSION 18
on am
Washington Feb 2—During the
epidemic of Influenza, last spring
th9 Engine'rlng commission took
eve of a. number of indigent na
tlren ia Nenana. The deficiency
bill contains an item of $5870 which
i« to reimburse the commission f. r
th6 money thus m>ettt. The AJaska
sea, fisheries get another $3730.00
in another Item for general pur
ponm.
IDE WHITE PASS J
YUKON ROUTE
THE GATEWAY RfUTE #F
comfort service: SAFETY
: F9n r— —
Yukon Territory, Atlia District and
Interior Aiuka
Semi-weekly Traim Swric# batWMa SJkaguay
and Whitehors* darisf tli» mntw, «8asou
Full informatioa regarding 9AUB*£tr' a*d frtigkt rates
H. Wheeler, Aetata! Hinayer
Skaiuay, Alaska
' %r
510 Alaska Bullainfj Seattle. Wash.