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No. 287 SEVENTEENTH YEAR
SKAGrWAY, ALASKA THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915
PRICE 10 CENTS
TODAY'S if!
DISPATCHES
K.VTTLKSHIPS ESCAPE
i 'onstantinople, Jan. 7—Turkish
lcittle ships in the Black Sea to
day succeeded in making their es
cape (n>ni a fleet of seventeen Rus
sian uanliliH by which they were
ulm«st surrounded.
I liKM H MAKING SLOW GAINS
Paris, Jan. 7—The allied armies
are making slow gains in the ad
vance into the German triangle in
I ho Woevre district.
Tl'HKS ARE ROl'TEP
>t. IVtwsburg, Jan 7—The Turk
ish force*, according to late ad
v ices received here, have been utter
ly defeated in their encasements
with the Russians in the Trans
cuucasus.
KKSKKYISTS ARE WARNED
Bucharest. Jan. 7—Rumanian res
i rvists have Irni warnet! by
government to prepare for an early
cull to their colors. The inove
it.ent is said to be very popular.
HARASSING HERMAN'S
London, Jan. 7—The allies are
i (-ported to 1* constantly harassing
the Germans in the vicinity of St.
Mihie!.
FEAR SPV IN ADMIRALTY
London, Jan. 7—The Uriti>n
government, it leaked out today. is
in fear tlvat there is a spy high
up in the Admiralty, for in no oth
er way could the leaks of British
military and naval movements g^|
into the hands of the Germans as
they are now lx*lieved to be doing.
Making Demand
For Reparation
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7—The
families of Charles Dorsch, who
was baily wounded, and Walter
Smith, who was killed, while on a
duck hunting trip on the Canadian
side of the Niagara river a few days
:'jro by Canadian soldiers, are in
the city demanding administrative
assistance iu procuring reparation j
from the Canadian government.
Violent Storm
In the South
Jacksonville, Fin., Jen. 7—A vio
lent storm raged yesterday in North
era Florida and Southern Geor
gia and it is reported today thait)
many people lost their lives there
from.
Another Jingo
Airs Himself
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7—
Senator Lodge, in a hot speech be
fore the senate today, saW the gov
ernment policy regarding Mexico had
beeu so wrong all the way through
that the only thing t'aat remains is
the military occupation of the coun
try by the United States.
General Carranza
Wins Victory
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7—Ad
vices wer? received in this city to
day that General Carranza had won
a victory over the forces of Gen
eral Villa in an engagement that
took place yesterday near Marte.
President In
Indianapolis
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7—Presi
dent Wilson will leave this city
tonight to attend a banquet and
make a speech before the democrati
club in Indianapolis.
Will Drop Probe
Dum Dum Bullets
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7—Sec
retary of State W. J. Bryan an
nounced today that he would drop
the contemplated probe into the
use of dumdum bullets by the al
lies in Northern France and Bel
gium.
Ten Days' Annual
Inventory
Sale
33i; saie ,331
One = Third Off
On Every Article in
Our Immense Stock
With the exceptions of Rubber Goods, E. & W. Collars
Overalls, Jumpers, Threads, Knox and St»tson Hats
Sale Starts Thursday Morning, Jan
uary 7th at 9 o'clock; closes Satur
day night, the 16th, at ten o'clock
TERMS—CASH. Store will be open until Ten o'clock
every evening during sale.
H. J. LYNCH
Up-to-date Haberdasher
and Ladies' FurnUher
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
WILL COMMENCE DRIVING
PILES FOK DOCK TOMORROW
From Supt. V. I. Hahn we learn
that N. Hansen, foreman of the
pile driver gang, will tomorrow com
mence driving for the r.ew W. P. &
Y. R. dock, on the Bite of -the old
Moore's wharf. The work will be
| permanent In character and accord
ing to plans and specifications furn
j ished by Mr. Hahn. Upou the ar
rival of General Managerr H. Wheel
er and General Agont W. H. Wurz
bacher next week plans and specifi
cations for warehouses and
docking facilities, location of
railway tracks, etc., will be' taken
up and definitely arranged and con
struction work commenced.
\
EAGLES TO (JIVE INKOKMAI, |
DANCE ON SATl'RDAV I
Once more the Skagway family of
Eagles will assume a position in
the social circle of the city, mark
ing the event by giving rn old j
time social dance at their hall on
Fifth street, the date tor which has
b*en set for Saturday, January 9.th. j
Iu former years the social dances
of Skagway Aerie were among the
i.iost enjoyable affairs jjlveu during
the winter months by any of the
traternal societies of the town, and
it is reasonable to believe the
Eagles will prove they are able to
"come back"' with the old-time joy
and cordiality formerly marking the
irformal dances given for the so
cial entertainment of the members
and friends of tho order.
That there may be n> misunder
standing at the outset, ihe commit
tee which will have these dances in
hand, wishes to extend to all the
.fiiends of the organization a cordial
invitation to be present on Satur
day night and enter into the spirit
of the affair, and enjoy to the ut
most the hospitality of Skagway
Aerie No. 25, F. O. E.
Arrangements have been made
for good music, and it is hinted
t..at there will be a number of
novelties introduced which are cal
culated to add pleasure for those iu
attendance.
During the past few weeks, work
cen have been engaged In making
repairs to Eagle's hall, the founda
tion to the building having been
reinforced, now bracing and pillars
placed to add greater support to
the upper floor, and other improve
ments made which will add to the
comfort and convenience of the
friends and members of the order.
CONCESSION' TO BE
OPENED ON THE FOURTH
Dawson News, Dec. 29th: The.
Williams concession, 011 Hunker!
creek, will be thrown open to loca
tion at 12 o'clock noon, Monday,
January 4. The concession was
granted to A. D. Williams, August
24, 1900, and later was assigned to
Michael M. O'Brien, and Is being
cancelled for non-compliance with
the regulations. The tract extends
along the right limit of Hunker
creek from the upper boundary of
creek claim No. 35 below discovery,
thence one mile up scream, and
or.e mile down stream, €-xcluding
the hillsides and creek claims. The
cancellation of the concession is
announced in official notices is
sued by the gold commissioner in
accordance with subsection 3 of sec- j
tion 2.
RECORD OF INCIDENTS ON
OUTSKIRTS OP WAR ZONE
Geneva (By mail to Ney York)—
A stranded American tourist in
Switzerland nearly brought about
the death of a friend living in Ger
many by sending him the following
telegram: "Kale all gone. Wire
thirty beans." The German cen
sor took it to mean that some Ger
man town, Kiel probably, had been
attacked and wiped out. The per
son to whom the wire was address
ed was arresrted as a spy and prob
ably would have been shot if, luck
ily, a German officer who had liv
ed in America hadn't been able to
convince the authorities that the
message was merely a request for
monetary aid.
Parts,—When the Germans en
tered Conde sur Escaut, say the
Paris papers, they tried to pull
down a statue erected there to the
memory of the popular French Gen
eral Poilloue de Saint Marie. Fif
ty men with ropes tugged at the
monument but were unable to
budge it. Losing their tempers,
they then fired hundreds of shots
at the figure, but the bullets only
flattened themselves against the
solid bronze with little effect.
The municipality of Conde has
now decided to leave the marks of |
the German bullets undisturbed as I
a standing "testimony to German
impotence to break French resis
tance."
Nish,—Servia boasts the young-1
est non-commissioned officer in |
the ranks of Europe's warring ;u -
mies. This is Dragoljub Jelititich,
a twelve year-old schoolboy, who
has just been promoted corporal.
The lad took the field to avenge his
father who was killed at the bat
tle of Kumanovo. Owing to his
youth he was unable to join the
regular army but he took service
with a group of comitadjis, and
from the first displayed extraordin
ary bravery. He has been through
seven of the hottest fights of the
war, and is just recovering from
a serious wound received at
Sontcha.
Copenhagen,—The Danish po
lice are endeavoring to track down
a particularly inhuman genius, who
profiting by the paralysed postal
sorvice has been extracting from
Russian refugees money sent by
their friends and relatives. The
swindler, who has an, accomplice,
managed to learn the methods of
assisting the refugees, and for
forging the name of a Russian of
ficial who was sent to Copenhagen
to look after them, he has inflicted
financial suffering and misery on
scores of wretched victims of the
war. The fraud was only discover
ed when the Russian official be
gan to receive letters from differ
ent oereons informing him that
money had already been sent.
FORMER ALASKA l'Ol'XG LADY
19 MARRIED IV BOSTON"
Miss Dorothy Hall, daughter of
Dr. M. P. Hall, of Fairbanks, was
recently married in Boston, Mass.,
to Alley E. Hawkes, a young mer
chant of that city, the wedding tak
ing place at the home of Dr. Hall's
mother. The bride lived in the
north many years and has a host
of friends who will wish her much
happiness.
Breakfast Helps
Albers' Flap Jack Flour- per pkg. 30c
Albers' Buckwheat Flour " 30c
Larowe New York Buckwheat, sax 60c
Irize, [Self rising flour] " 50c
Pure Maple Sap, quart tins 65c
Pure Maple Sap, half gal. tins $1.25
Log Cabin Syrup from 30c to $1.50 per
tin. Hills' Syrup [cane and maple] 40c
to $1.25 tin. Imported and Domestic
Jams- Marmalade- etc.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
THE STROLLER
If there is a newspaper man liv
ieg who does not detest the combin
ation of words "Card of Thanks"
the Stroller has never me>i him.
If he lives, he is an exception and
ia a class by; himself.
Some months ago the Stroller re
produced from a southern publi
cation an article concerning cards
of thanks. The substance of the
article was a suggestion that, if
you live in a neighborhood where
the people expect to be thanked
through the columns of a newspa
per for every act of kindness per
formed, you had better move to
seme other locality. But only those
who wish to advertise their charity
care for public thanks. Nine-tenths
o£ the people do not wish to be
publicly thanked—are bored when
they are. When people do what
they consider is a duty, they do it
aj, a duty and from kindly motives,
not for thanks through the col
umns of a newspaper. Let us sup
pose a case:
The Amalgamated uaugiuers 01
Mary Magdalene of Amazing Grace
church gives an entertainment for
the purpose of raising money wiitih
which to purchase carpet tor the
aisles of the church, window shades
for the parsonage, a new altar cloth
or to have the seats varnished so
that those who occupy them for the
next several months will have to
'pry" themselves loose at the close
of each service. Now to start with,
church entertainments for the pur
pose of raising money are mostly
skin games. Not one in a dozen
fives anything like more than half
value for money expended. Else
why the object in. holding them?
Knowing they will be skinned—dis
appointed if they arc not skinned
—everybody attends and spends
money profligately. Then they go
home and try to forget it. They
know they were skinned but salve
their respective consciences by
the thought that it was for a good
cause. But they are not allowed to
forget it. The next issue of
their paper, if it happens to bo in
a tank town—it does not luppen in
cities—not only recalls recollections
of the affair but "rubs it in" some
what as follows:
"In behalf of the Amalgamated
Daughters this paper is requested
to thank Bob High for donating
fifty pounds of ice for their enter
tainment last Tuesday night, the
X. Y. Z. company for the loan of
half dozen chairs, Colonel B'Gosh
for two flags and motto "Love One
Another," Mary Ann Kehoe for
keeping the parson's kid so his
wife could be present. Mrs. Mc
! Xootlle for the loan of three tea
cloths, all who so kindly donated
cakes, pies, doughnuts and cheese
straws, Mrs. Benzine for her de
licious home-made candy, the Misses
Baker for brown bread and baked
beans, the Alphabetical stores
for fruit. Captain Whaier for mix
ed candy and hardtack, those who
sang, played, declaimed and read,
Kldtr Jones for taking tickets at
the door, Deacon Mcl.ennan for
presiding as chairman, all those
who so liberally patronized the af
fair with their presence and liber
ality, and Jimmy the Rat for help
ing wash the dishes at the close
Oi the affair, which netted, the
Amalgamated Daughters arc pleased
to announce, the neat sume of
526.15.".
The week following usually brings
forth something like this: "In
■ hanking those who so kindly, gen
erously and whole-heartedly assisted
ul their entertainment two weeks
i'go the Amalgamated Daughters neg
lected to mention Miss Mehala Jen
nings who generously loaned them
her coffee pot and two dish towels.
This oversight is greatly 'legretted
End is most cheerfully corrected.
Miss Mehala is one of the be3t
workers connected with Amazing
Grace church."
Is it any wonder the average
newspaper man is a pessimist, a
cynic and a crank? Nine times in
every ten he is asked to write the
"Card of Thanks," a list of those
to be thanked being furnished him.
He supplies the necessary "musli"
aud if someone, as in the case of
Mehala Jennings, is overlooked, he
is blamed for being careless. Or
"He did it on purpose—the mean
thing."
Now, in all candor and with a
heart bubbling with generosity for
the reading public, the Stroller im
plores with tremor in his voice and
tears in his eyes that he be no>t
asked during the year 1913 to write
my "Card of Thanks." Resolve
to cuf out "Card of Thanks." Let;
all o'her New Year's resolutions go
but that one. Make it and the
Stroller will assist you in keeping it.
ff you break it, it won't be his fault.
The Stroller hopes to live a more
exemplary life henceforth, but he
can't do it and write "Cards of
Thanks." If the Amalgamated
Daughters of Mary Magdalene are
in trouble, they are at liberty to
weep out their sorrows on the Strol
ler's shoulder. If they give an
entertainment for the benefit of
the church, the Stroller will be
present even if he has to steal the
price. He hereby resolves to sup
l.ort any and all skin games that are
pulled off, but if you would not les
sen his chances for blessed immor
tality beyond the grave, don't, please
don't ask hint to jeopardize the
interests of his immortal soul by
writing "Cards of Thanks."
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