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No. 138 SEVENTEENTH YEAR
PRICE 10 CENTS
SMS HE HAD II
"euny or
Oyster Bay, July 9—Col. Roose
voit returned home lust night from
.\ew York, where ho wont yester
ilav. I'pon being questioned as to
how ho spent his time hv» said that j
lie h-ui had a "bully day." He said
also, that he had told nobody yet
i hoi her he would ruu for governor
>f Now York state or not.
'1 BOARD IS
PRIVATE PROFIT
—
Columbus, Ohio. July 9—The day !
t'f private profit in state work is
-i-lns. The Ohio slate board of
.m i-itration has struck it two
First the board decided to stock
:.'s farms with cattle, hogs, sheep :
poultry and the Ilk*. With this i
s a start it begau the construction !
<>f creameries to furnish dairy pro
uets to all stat institutions.
Th mi slaughter houses were plan- |
in'U to furnish meats. Now it Is !
umed to open a cannery to can
-je'.ables and fruits, raised on
tate f irms, for winter use.
The second step was taken when
the board announced that it was [
ready to award its last contracts i
■ r buildings to private parties.
Hereafter the state will use'
>i>n ! ibor on all of its buildings.
.<? st::re h is a brick plant in oper
>n with convicts in charge and
mvicts at work under the honor
rii K NEW KOl'TE
I)OWX MOUNTAIN*
v ird Gateway: Reports have .
b'vn received from the re-location
•imp of the Alaska Engineering
iMtimisfion at Mile 23 that the sur
i-ors have established a 1.5 per
l grade line from Mile 4 5 down
The i.ew line passes over the I
where the present line of the
ska Northern cuts through with \
horseshoe tunnel and keeps to
hiilsidi about 220 feet above the
■1 in the Box canyon at Mile 52. :
On mile 54, where two bad snow
des have covered the Alaska |
Northern track every winter, the
new line will span the deep and nar
row ravines through which the
slides shoot down, so that snow
sheds will not be required at
these joints. Very littlo snow
shedding will be necessary any
where on the new line, as tbo track
prill go over the ravines.
The 1.5 per cent Hue will cut
out two miles ol loops and horse
shoes on the Alaska Northern, and
will come down to the Placer river
valley at Mile 60.
The camp will be moved to Mile
54 next Saturday.
WILL ISSUE AN ILLUSTRATED
ALASKA FISHERIES EDITION
The eyes of the world are at last
turned to Alaska'3 fisheries, now
generally conceded to be the world's
most ImDortant. The constant ad
vance in the pric« of foodstuffs^has
served to turn attention to Alaska's
wonderful supply of cheap food,
found in her fisheries. It was point
ed out recently at a meeting of
scientists held in Seattle that al
though there are over 200 varieties
of edible fish found in Alaskan
wattrs only seven varieties are ex
tensively exploited. Notwithstanding
this alleged oversight, the fisher
ies products of Alaska now have an
annual valuation far in excess of
that of any other division of the
Uuited states.
As an evidence of the interest
uow taken in our fisheries,, it
wight be mentioned that the Pa
cific Fisherman, the only journal
ilevoted to the commercial fish
eries of this coast, Is now planning
to issue in October a large Illus
trated "Alaska Fisheries Edi
tion" the first publication of
its sort ever compiled. A staff of
fditorial writers and photographers
are coming north this summer to
prepare the matter.
BILL 15 PASSED
REPEALING TAX
Washington, D. C., July 9—The
senate today passed the bill the
same as It had passed the house
repealing the hundred dollar per
mile tax on Alaska railroads, and
substituting a tax of four per cent
Dn the net earnings. It also remits
ill previous penalties.
Mark P. Goodman, representing
the Richmond Paper Co. of Seattle,
la in town In the interest of that
firm.
Gentlemen: Our
Spring and Summer
Suits
Hats, Shoes
Rain Coats, Furnishing Goods, Etc
Are Now On Display
Suits Hade to Your fteasure
At $18 and Up
When in Need of Goods in Our Line Come In
and Look Over Our Stock
No Hard Feelings and No Harm Done"
If You Do Not Buy
STORE OPEN EVENINGS
H. J. LYNCH
The Up To Date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
PHONE 41 SKaGWAY
JOHN HE IS
AFTER WELSH
Cleveland, July 9—John Kilbane
today Issued a challenge to Freddie
Welsh, who wrested the champion
ship from Willie Ritchio in a 20
round bout In London the other day.
Fairbanks, July 10—Thomas L.
Ttiggs, Jr., member of the Alaska
railroad engineering commission,
left here Monday for Nenana, there
to start inspection of the sur
vey parties now In the field wo.-* -
ing toward Broad Pass. He plans
to go ui> the Nenana to the head
waters, and probably will meet
Lieut. Frederick Mears, second mem
ber of the commission, at the pass.
Lieut. Mears, it is announced from
the local officea of the commis
sion, is on his way to Fairbanks
along the route of tho proposed rail
road from Seward.
SEND MEN 10
Ai rangements f or the opening of'
the Alaska Northern clear through
to the Placer river were completed
today. Men were sent out to clear
the tunnels beyond Mile 54. This
work is for the benefit of the Al- j
|aska Engineering commission.
Surveyors under C. R. Breck and
T. W. Secrest are still busy 011 the I
relocation work between the second
Summit and Turnaguin Arm.
Additional men for the bridge re
pair gang -were sent out this morn-!
ing. The heavy rains of the past
week, together with the fact that
110 work has been done on the line
beyond Mile 29 for over a year,
makes the repair work more diffi
cult.—Seward Gateway.
MASONIC LODGE WILL HAVE
DEGREE WORK TONIGHT
« A stated communication of White
Pass Masonic Lodge No. 113, will
be hel'' this evening at Masonic
hall 525 Fourth ayenue. There will
be work in the M. M. Degree. Vis
iting brothers are cordially invited
to be present.
Refreshments will be served dur
ing the evening.
Agent F. F. W. Lowle wired to
Vancouver, B. C., on. Thursday at
2 p. m. for drawing room reserva
tions on the C. P. R. between Van
couver and Mackinaw, Mich., and re
ceived ® n answer three "hours later,
which Is considered pretty quick
work.
TIED AN ANCHOR
10 HIS IEGK
An unidentified mutt committed
suicide ut Goose bay, near Knlk, j
last week by tying rn anchor to
Ui3 necic and jumping overboard I
from a dory.
The body was found 011 the beach
just before the Admiral Evans sail
ed on her return -trip. • The man j
was not well known in the vicinity,;
but had told several people that he j
was formerly a jailor at Fairbanks.
It was leported that lie left a note
in the dory saving that he had killed!
himself.—Seward Gateway.
CAPTIVE mi
George Rorcr, the proprietor of I
the Alaska Silver Pox aiul Fur Co. !
at Dry creek, a few miles north of
CopDer Center, had a narraw escape
from being killed by a lynx that h«
is holding in captivity with a view
to propagating the species.
A few days ago an Indian broirslr
him two lynx that had been cauglu
in traps and he put them in a cor- |
ral. As they appeared to he docile,
ho entered the corral to feed them,
but no sooner had he got inside tin
enclosure when the male sprang at
him and a fight for life bO'.un. IJor
er is a powerful man, and struck
the lynx on the solar pb mis, bul
It was not until he had all his
clouting torn off hiiu, and his body
badly scratched thai he succeeded iti
subduing the animal.
After dressing and cauterizing his
wounds he made a solemn vow that '
never again would he go inside an
enclosure where a lynx was confined
—Valdez Miner.
BOSTON POT
ON M INSIDE;
Mr. and Mrs. Tlios. S. Lockwood j
and daughter and Miss Wells, all
of Boston, Mass., are stopping at
the Pulleu hotel, having come in
from a trip to the Westward on the
last south bound boat.
From here the party will go |
down the Yukon river and on to the
outside via St. Michael and the Ber
ing Sea,
A son of Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood :
was on the Polar Bear last winter
when it became ice bound in the I
Arctic ocean and was one of those
who abandoned the vessel and mush
ed overland to Cordova, from which
point hf> took passage on .^no of the
regular boats plying between there
and Seattle and finally reached j
home in time to spend Christmas
with his relatives and friends.
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Perishables
of all kinds received on S. S.
Humboldt today
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
Marshal Frank Page, in company
with two ladies, went up to Denver
glacier yesterday and reports the
trail from the railroad to the gla
cier to le in exceedingly bad shape,
and so overgrown with brush and
devil-club that it is almost impos
sible to get through, in addition
to this there are two or three of
the bridges which are greatly in
need of repair.
There were seven people strug
gling ever tho trail yesterday, lour
of whom were ladie3, one of them
(|Uite well advanced in years. It
had been raining, the bushes were
wet and when the party got through
their clothes were wringing wet and
their hands all scratched up and
full of briars from the devil-clubs.
Marshal Page says that the party
&f four strangers had a hard time to
keep iii the trail and had it nut
been for his assistance they would
■-"i,. in all probability have got
through fir gJ-c.'ir -?Si. — — —
He thinks that the trail should
be brushed out at once and the
bridges repaired.
It is his opinion that three or
lour men could cut out the trail in
:i couplb of days and suggests that
some steps should at once be taken
ro perform the work.
A Daily Alaskan representative
was talking of this Ft!ute matter a
few day ngo to General Agent
\Yurzbacker of the W. 1'. & Y. R.
uid that gentleman said that any*
time the citizens of the town get
ready !o go ahead a>i.t fix the trail
Ite would put on t-.v.> or three men
from tl'e railroad svetiou gang to
i"lp, which would make the expense
light all around.
WASHINGTON" Oi l Hl'DSOX
t NTII, llKGATTA OP H»1 T
Sc.itt!", June 10—Tin- University
~>t Washington crew,/which finished
la fifth place in the Poughkeepsie
legatta tliis year will not be seen
»n the Hudson again for three
rears at least. Action precluding
participation in the Poughkeepsia
races was taken by the university
faculty before the crew left for the
uast on June 6. The long train
ing season Involved and the uphill
work necessary every year lo set the
54.00 needed for tho eastern trip
were the faculty's reasons for limit
ing the oarsnien's activities.
Xext year the Washiiigtonlans*will
compete iu the regslta to he held
In San Francisco. While in the
; east, Manager Horr of the Asso
j dated Students of the University of
Washington tried to arouse interest
among the eiistern crews for a race
on Lake Washington after such of
them as come West have rowed at
San Francisco. In 1916, the Wasli
'ngton crew probably will have only
the old standbys, California and
Stanford, as competitors. In 1917,
if the prospects for a good crew aro
bright, Poughkeepsie may I>e at
tempted again.
Crews representative of the uni
versity are to row in the Potlatch
races in Seattle in July and in the
"Splash" at Aberdeen. Mott of the
; men in the squad taken to Pough
I keepsie are touring +hc East.
UN THEIR WAY
TO DAWSON GUY
Major A. F. Jones, wife and
daughter, Miss Leslie of Oroville,
Cal., aud G. F. Robinson of Chico,
Cal., were passengers on board the
Northwestern on her last voyage to
tlio Westward- _5V1U'~. i* .rwOo*
iuey paid a visit to Miles glacier,
and were much impressed with its
grandeur.
Returning, they stopped off in
Skagway and will make the round
trip to Dawson before they start on
their return to the outside.
While hero they are guests of
the Pullen hotel.
TOWN* OF VALDEZ HAS
$10,-440 IN SIDEWALKS
Valdci haa 24,700 feet of side
walks and crossings according to
I he measurement made by Council
man Albert White, of the street
committee. Seventy blocks have
sidewalks and 35 crossings have
been built, and at a valuation of
6o cents a foot the citizens of the
city have ? 10,440 invested in good
walks.
It is safe to say that Valdez has
more sidewalks than any Alaskan
town, and a great part of them
were constructed this spring, extend
ing in all directions along Xeystoue
avenue on both sides ou- Alaska
avenue to the dike on Sherman
street from Alaska avenue to the
end of town.
The city have constructed largo
crosswalks from block to block and
have filled in the bad holes oil the
streets until the town now has an
excellent system of streets.—Val
dez Miner.
Miss Edna Evans "aas bought all
of lot 3 in block 58, which adjoins
the home place recently purchased
by her on Tenth street between
State and Main.
If You Want to Make
A Good Impression
There is no better
way than to wear
Hart Shaffner & Marx
CLOTHES
They give yon the feeling 01
confidence and the well
groomed appearance that
always wins
Come in and look them over
WILL CLAYSON—Clothier