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ALL-ALASKA CELEBRATION
The meeting of citizens called
last night at the towuhall at S
o'clock by Mayor Howard Ashley
to confer with J. L. McFherson,
secret.iry of the Alaska Bureau of
the Seattle chamber of commerce,
in reference to making arrange
ments for the celebration of Al
aska's semi-centenary as a posses
sion of Uncle Sam in the summer
of 11' 17. while not as largely at
tended as the importance of the
occasiou would seem to demand,
th» re was nevertheless a verv
strong sentiment expressed in fa
vor of the movement and a set of
resolutions adopted embodying and
setting forth the views of those
present.
Iu every other town in Southesat
ern Alaska which Mr. Mcl'hreson
visited while enroute to Skagway he
m-t with enthusiastic reception and
his ii!eas iu regard to the manner
iu w:\ieh the details of the proposed
celebration should be worked out
were fully endorsed at Ketchikan.
Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau and
Silt- .
Briefly, the situation as outlined
is: Each city and town in Alaska
lying alone or irnmedi tely adjacent
tc the routes of travel of the steam
ship-T and railway lines is to set
:>!>nrt a day-—more or less, accord
ing to its importance—for the en
tertainment of a big party of busi
ness men from all parts 01 the
United States and Canada which it is
the intention of the Alaska Bureau
to personally conduct through easily
accessible portions of the territory
iron Ketchikan to Nome, both on
the interior and the ocean routes.
In f:i. t, Mr. McPherson, while he
acknowledges his optimism, is firm
ly o* the belief'that when the date
of the proposed celebration comes
it will be necessary to m;ike steam
er reservations from Seattle north
for t'.vr. parties of excursiouists.
one <*t which will only visit the
An Incident
Of Heredity
By DW1GHT NORW OOD
Doctor," said Norman Goodfellow to
Dr. Theodore Colt. "1 am thinking of
proposing marriage to a Ia«ly la whose
family there are traces of Insanity. l>o
you cousider me justified In marrying
her under the circumstances?"
"Not if the insanity Is hereditary.
There Is a great difference between in
sanity from a temporary cause and
from an organic trouble that may bo
transmitted from parent to child. I do
not consider that any one suffering
from an ailmeut which Is hereditary
has a right to marry. Your question
suggests a story Involving a case which
came within my professional experi
ence.
"One day a young man named Sever
ance came to consult me as to a case
similar to yours. He had recently been
married and all had goue happily till
one day on returning to his home from
business he found his wife lying on the
bed indisposed. She seemed drowsy,
and, suggesting that she try to get a
nap, he took the evening paper to a
window and sat down to read.
'Tresently he heard her tossing
about on the bed and. looking at her
from his paper, saw that, though
asleep or at least dozing, there was an
undulatory motion about her that sug
gested the movement of a snake. lie
had awakened her and asked her If
she had not been dreaming, but she
said she had not been conscious during
her nap and felt much better for It.
"Nevertheless the young husband
seemed to me to have been much
shocked at what he had seen. Were
it not for this I would have concluded
that what he had seen was the work
ing of his wife's nerves uncontrolled
during slumber. I gave him this cause
in order to reassure him, but it did not
However, since I could give him no
other comfort, be left me, much de
jected.
, jfot long after his visit, taking up a
coast points while the itinerary of
the ct):er will embrace both the
interior and the ocean routes.
As Mr. McPherson made plain
list night, the Alaska Bureau will
not h?ve anytiug to do with the ar
rangements that' are to be made—
the initiative must come from the
peopl.- of Alaska, as well as the
working out of the manner in which
the people are to conduct the af
fai'- and the dates upon which the
celebration will be held, although
as as a matter of fact this will
Iiavr necessarily to conform to the
time set for the excursionists to
react, the points at which they are
to I*; entertained.
Alter the arrangments liave all
i'O.m made, the Alaska Bureau will
take hold of the publicity end and
push it to its conclusion, all the
benefits they expect to derive from
it being through the people it will
bring to Seattle and who will have
to be looked after there for a time
before embarking for the north and
the great amount of publicity over
the whole country which the city
of Seattle will receive through be
ing the port of departure for an
excursion 'of such magnitude
and importance into a region
toward which all eyes are now
turned. •
Two year s ago Mr. McPherson
conducted a party of 114 prominent
business men through Alaska, and
since then he has received so many
inquiries as to when another along
similar lines will take place, ■ that
he has no doubt as soon as it is
known that the proposed tour of
two years hence is contemplaed
and under way, there will lie sever
al hundred applications for reser
vations. '
It is hoped that long ere the
date set for the Alaskan semi-cen
tenary the financial situation
throughout the country will have
improved so much that people will
feel that they can afford to come
and see this wonderful country of
which they have heard so much.
newspaper, 1 saw 7i notice that TuTTTac!
left Ills house h few days before ami
had not been heard from since. The
police had been notified, and an alarm
had been sent out. Fears were enter
tained that he had met with foul play,
since the day before his disappearance
I he had drawn a large yum of money
from his bank.
I His visit to me, the story he told and
I his depression led me to suspect that
he was suffering from some nervous
i or mental trouble, and I inclined to
' the l>ellef that what he had told me
about his wife was a creation of a dis
eased brnln. I did not see how I
would be Justified in making known
my suspicions without mentioning the
cause, and that I did not care to d<\
Severance never turned up, and no
I probable cause was ever given for his
I disappearance. When several years
had passed his wife gave him up for
I dead, believing that he had been mur
dered for the money he had with him.
Four years after his disappearance she
1 married again, and as fate would have
1 it her second husband was a patient of
; mine. I did not know that he was to
| marry Mrs. Severance, and I was sat
isfied that I had not known it, because
t should have been troubled as to what
I should do In the matter, for I was
! undecided what to attribute her first
husband's disappearance to.
Within a few months after my pa
ttern's—Hammond's—marriage he camo
into my office one day with a wild
look in hlg eyes nnd told me a story sim
ilar to the one Severance had told me.
ne had had a disagreement Vvith his
wife, during which she had become
very much excited. During the vitu
perations she had hurled at him her
eyes had glittered like those of an an
| gry serpent. Her appearance during
j the trouble had made such a horrible
j impression upon him that he was
afraid ho would lose Ills mind. He
asked me to give him a sedative.
Here was a worse complication for
me than Severance had brought me,
for I was not sure whether Sever
ance's exi>erience had been an halluci
' nation occasioned by a disordered brain
i or had been caused by some peculiar
condition in his life. But I dared
i not tell Hammond this, for it would be
| sure to make a wreck of him. I had
no recourse but to say to him that he
must have been suffering from some
nervous weakness. Instead of giving
lflnTa drug f advised hi ill WpTSTT tt
trip, but on no account to take Ills
wife with him.
lie took my advice as to the trip, but
never returned from It News of his
having fallen over a precipice In Swit
zerland was sent to her over the ocean,
hut 1 have always suspected that he
arranged for Its transmission himself.
One thing confirmed this suspicion;
his b6dy was never found.
Two years after having become a
hypothetical double widow the lady in
tills case died. I confess I was re
lieved. There was now no further
chance of any more of my clients mar
rying her. Soon after her death I made
some Investigations as to her cas»
through the physician who attended
her. I called on him and gave him the
experience of her two husbands as giv
en to me. lie accepted a theory I gave
him and promised if possible to learr
facts that would confirm It
He found an aunt of the subject of
my story who told him that her sister
soon after her marriage had been
2>{ghtened by a serpent. Six months
after this episode the child, who be
came Mrs. Severance-Hammond, was
born. My theory was that the moth
er's fright at this critical period affect
ed the nature of the child.
The Senate Barber Shop.
Here's an odd thing about the Unit
ed States senate barber shop: Although
the number of senators has hardly In
creased at all. the number of shaves
has Increased at a surprising rate In
recent years. The reason is simply
that the senate is now Inhabited large
ly by comparatively young men with
smooth faces or wearing mustaches at
most and they are obliged to get
shaved every little while, whereas the
old style senator with a riot of whisk
ers never had occasion to visit a barber
shop except every few months to get
his hair trimmed.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
Disgusted.
One day while her grandfather was
paying a visit to Florence's home the
little girl said to hlui:
"Gron'pa, your talk about "persever
ance winning* is all v >nsense."
"Well, well, child!" cried the grand
father. "Why do you say that?"
"Why," said the little girl, "I've
worked all the afternoon blowing soap
bubbles and trying to pin them on
mother's hat"—New York Times.
A Little Ambiguous.
Musician—You didu't get around to
my recital last ulghL Friend—No. 1
had a splitting headache. Ilowever,
everybody told me 1 should have gone,
because you would have made me for
get all other suffering. — Richmond
Times-Dispatch.
Phil Abrahams
Fstctlisl td 1897
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Rates $2.30 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men,
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Skagway. Alaska
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of
5c Cigars
ever sold in
Skagway
Tony Dortero
A TABLE OF LOGARITHMS.
Its Use In Working Out Complex
Mathematical Problem*.
A logarithm Is an exponent, and an
exponent la a number showing how
many times another number has been
used In any multiplication. Ten times
10 equals 100. It was used twice, and
Its exponent is Z Ten cubed equals
1,000, and Its exponent Is 3; while 10
to exponent 4 equals 10,000, and so on
out toward Infinity. But suppose that
we wish to use 10, say 1J4 times or 1%
times Instead of twice. Then the ex
ponent must be computed, and expo
nents thus computed are always print
ed In tables.
Thus, as I am now writing, the pa
per, as always, by day and by night,
is very near a precious book, a tablo of
logarithms for all numbers from 1 to
108,000, computed out to seven deci
mal places. To give examples of their
use, suppose that you wish to multiply
8 by 1L Look in the table and you
will find the logarithm of 8 to bo
.9030000, and the logarithm of 11 to
bo 1.0413927. Add these and the sum
■will bo 1.9444S27. Look along tho
column and It will be seen that this is
tho logarithm of 88.
Easy. But suppose you wish to mul
tiply two strings of figures of from 5 to
a dozen. In the great standard mathe
matical sciences, such as astronomy,
physics and chemistry, the multiplica
tion and division of immense numbers
aro required. Thus, let us square the
number 3155S149—that is, multiply It
self by itself, a tedious Job. But this
toil can be saved by the use of loga
rithms. Thus, the logarithm of 31558149
is 7.4991289, taken directly from the
table. Then, to square any number
multiply its logarithm by 2, and this
logarithm multiplied by 2 equals
14.998257&. Now, by looking In the
table, the number of which this Is the
logarithm Is 99591G9G200G951. Hours
of work are performed In a few min
utes.—Edgar Lucien Larkln In New
York American.
Dickens Not a Fisherman.
How surely one can deduce from
Dickens' stories tliat piscatorial pur
sults were utterly outside his world!
Mr. Snodgrass, Mr. Winkle and Tracy
Tupmau might toy with shotguns—to
the trepidation of the keeper and his
boy—but they never touched rod or
line, and Mr. rickwick himself, al
though represented on the flrst page of
the original parts of the Immortal his
tory which bears his name as sitting
asleep in a punt, while a hooked fish
pulls down the end of his rod, was not,
I believe, once betrayed In the varied
course of his adventure# luto a trial of
Walton's "genial art"—Willis B. Al
len in Scribner'a Magazine.
PROFESSION All CARDS
OR. L. KELLER.
DalM.
Masl Modern Method*.
Opes Byealags.
Office Houre: 0-12 a. m 1-6 p. m.
AJaskau Building - Broadway
SKAOWAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M. P.
(Portnerlj of Seattle)
Specialist In the treatment of
diseases anil deformities of the ejre,
ear, nose and throat.
Office; Goldstein Building, Ju
uoaa, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT.
1 I I « I • < 7 At Law.
Practice u all court*
Ii Territory «f Alaska.
Haines
„ . Alaska.
r. & a. m.
Whlto Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d anC. 4th
. . _ FrL Ev'gs. of each
monih. VlBlUn* brothers are wel
come Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
Elmer L. Whoeler, W. M.
B. 1*. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
tfo. 431. B. P. 0.
E. meets first
aud tMrd Thurs
day evenings u>
^^fegvS-^icTv^" 8:30 .o'clock. Vis
um f brothers cordially -welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
P. J. VANDEWALL, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
Eagles—
Skagw ay Aerie
No. 2C<, Frater
nal Order of
Eagles meets tiie xi;s: ana uura
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall on Firth avenue. Visiting
brothers cordially iavlted to attend.
J ho* C. Wood. W. P., 3. W. Prlt
chett, Secretary.
Arctic BrrtWierhfiOd.—
Camp Skagway No. 1
A. B. meets every sec
ond and fourth. Tues
„ day evening at 8:00 p
m. thorp. Visiting b rotters coriUal
ly welcome. A. J. Achesoa, Arctic
Chief, \v. R. Hlllery, Arctic Re
corder
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver, Prince Rupert
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan
Leave Skacjuuay
S. S. SPOKANE July 7, 19, 31 Aug. 12, 24
S. S. CITY of SEATTLE July 13,25 Aug. 6, 18,30
And every twelve days following. Modem eoariortable ehlps,
excellent seryica Connects at Seattle with through passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT AND QUEEN.
galling Tuesday, 10 a. m. and Friday, 5 p. a.
FOR SAN JFRANCISCO, LOS ANGELH&, SAN DIEGO.
Through ticket* sold and baggage checked to all point* in
Cnited State* and Canada. For folder* and full particulars,
address V. A. PETERSON, Agent
H. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50, SKAGWAT
#08 Second Ave., Seattle, Wae^.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO,
SOUTHBOUND
MARIPOSA July 12, 30 Aug. 18
ALAMEDA July 18 Aug. 5, 24
NORTHWESTERN July 6, 24 Aug. 11, 3o
JEFFERSON July 8, 20 Aug. 1,14, 26
DOLPHIN July 2, 14, 26 Aug. 8, 29
WESTBOUND
ALAMEDA, July 10, 28 Aug. 16
MARIPOSA, July 4, 22 Aug. lo, 28
NORTHWESTERN, July I7 Aug. 4, 23
Passengers will be transferred to VaRcover or Victoria
without extra charge.
TELEPHONE NO. 66.
E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAY.
SEASON 1915
New Steel Steamships
Princess Alice
Princess Sopbia
WILL LEAVE SKAGWAY
Every Thursday 7 p. m.
July 8-15-22-29
Aug. 5-12-19-26
Sept. 2-9-16-23
For Prince Rupert,'Vancouve,'Victoria, Seattle
Let us arrange your trip to the Fair, or to the East
. Cheap round trip rates with choice of routes
F. F. W. LOWLE, Gen'I Agt. Phone 87 or 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP
OPERATED TO SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
Sailing Dates from Skagway to Seattle
(VIA SITKA)
July 15-27 Aug. 8-20
$00 Round Trip to Seattle and Return
,SAILING DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE)
Through Tickets Honored
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TICKETS AND ALL INFORMATION
Call Phono 33
Seattle Office : 712 Second Avenue
Snow Shoe Time Is Gone
But Kodak Time Has Come
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