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No. 301 SIXTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY ALASKA, SATURDAY. JANUARY 37, 1914 PRICE 10 CENTS
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HIRE PEEKED
Paris, Jan. 31—Piqued with
France because of tve attitude of
the French press during the Balkan
War, Bulgaria has decided not to
send her officers to Franc® to com
plete their military studies as form
t-rly, but to send them to Germany,
instead, according to a report which
reached here recently.
Seittle, Jan. 31—Steamship me®
here bound for Juneau as witnesses
in the Humboldt case, which, is be
fore the district court there, got
word of the postponement of the
hearing just a few minutes before
the sailing of the Mariposa for the
north last night.
London, Jan. 31—More than thir
teen aillion meals were supplied to
the reedv in Great Britain by the
Salva io;. Army in the past year,
i-ecoruin. to a special report issued
lodav by oeneral Bramwell Booth.
Night lot' i.ngs to the number of 7,
129,723 were furnished; 93,766 ap
plications were filed with the var
ious labor bureaus, and 59,392 situ
ation-. were found. In connection
■with the prison-gate reform work,
2,746 were received and 2,146 were
passt i out ns satisfactory.
THE BOATS
Th.> Spokane docked here at 2:25 ;
this :uorr.ing and sailed south three
hours later.
Th.' Northwestern has been report
ed ai d v.-ill reach Skagway about 7
o'clo* k this evening, after calling
in at Haines on the way up. The
boat would have been here earlier
this . fternoon if she h3d not had to
lay to for several houra off Caj>e
Speucer on account of darkness.
Washington, D. C., Jau. 31—Pres
ident Wilson will today probably
name Winthrop Daniels of Now Jer
sey, and Henry Hall of Colorado as
members of the Interstate Commerce
commission.
IS COHERING
A 6090 OFFER
Portland, Oregon, Jan. 31—Gov
ernor Oswald West has under con
sideration an offer of $500 per
week for giving a course of Chataug
ua lectures.
DKSTRK TOR CONVENIENCE
CAUSE OF HIGH COST j
Washington, Jan. 31—The desire j
for convenience is the cause of the
high cost of living, according to
National Democratic Committeeman
Fred B. Lynch, of Mlimeeota, who
quoted a number of instances to
pro", a his contention while Bitting
in a Washington hotel lobby the
other day.
"The average purchaz© in a del
icatessen store I know of in St.
Paul is 31 cents", he declared. "It
was found to deliver this order cost
7 cents. After more investigation
alonir this line a friend of mine,
who had been put in charge of the
store, cut out his delivery wagons,
his telephones, and every other
item which could possibly be lopped
off, and then ha cut his prices. The
housewife has to go to the store her
self and bring her goods home in
a basket, but she pays only 17
centa a pound for porterhouse steak.
15 cents for round steak, and 12 j
cents for pork and mutton. Think
what could be done along the same
lines In New York where It is I
said the cost of delivering meats!
and groceries is 37 per cent!
"1 have long known that tele
phones have been largely instru
mental in increasing the cost of
living. It is time the people should
make a study of how to elimin
ate expenses that are not neces
sary, when dealing with the prob
lem of how to cut down the cost of
living."
JBST A FEW NECESSITIES
Just a few of the Needful Articles
for parties going to the New Diggings
8 and 12 inch Rubber Packs—Hip Boots
Miners' Leather Shoes
Large Size Heavy Wool Blankets
Heavy Wool Sox Sheep Lined Moccasins
Fur, Wool, and Leather Lined Mitts
Heavy Wool Underwear—Blanket Lined
Coats and Pants and Sweaters
Fur and Cloth Caps
7 x 0 and 8 x 10-3 ft. Wall 10 oz. Duck Tents
IN FACT, WE HAVE EVERYTHING
FOR THE HINER WITH THE EX
CEPTION of Groceries and Hardware
H. J. LYNCH
^The Up To Date Haberdasher
and Ladies' Furnisher
PHONE 41 SKAGWAY ;
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Norfolk, Va., Jan. ?1—Ninoty
nlna survlvore o f the steamship
Monroe wMch was ounk yesterday
in a sollaion with the steamer Naai
tuokci, arrived her© today. Forty
one persona went down with the Tea
sel when she disappeared.
The survivors tell a heart rending
story of the terrible disaster which
overtook thorn in the early hours of
the morning wheu th« heaviness of
sleep was still upon them.
FiSfLUJSE
m TERRORS
London, Jan. 31—Fcgs at 6ea will
lo3e moat of thoir terrors if the in
vention of Ernest Welsh, a Hull
druggist, proves praciical. By a spe
•: al apparatus ho professes to be
ablo, viih the aid of certain chemi
cal powders, to produce green, red
and *hito lights, which will pene
trate tho denseet fogs. Ills device
is is the form of a ptetol which is
operated by pulling a trigger.
IT BETTER
Bert Ford, who recently returned
to Vald02 from the Chisana, states
that much dissatisfaction is felt by
the American miners in the White
River country because of the poor
mail service from the coa^:. to the
new camp. "While i* Is true the
government has Inaugurated a twice |
a mont'j service from McCarthy to j
Chisana, it is carried by anyone will-j
ing to take the mail into the I
camp for $50 for which they must!
agree ".•> hrl«g back the mail from
oamp. Orily first class mail is hand
led. The mail is drt-li-ed at each
roadhouoe and whoe-'cr wants to
ma., pick out their own mail, aa a
result no one c-ansemi in money to
the camu and money is scarce in
there so that no one will casii cQeck
"This lack of confidence iu the
mail prevents the prospector, who iB
willing to prospect and develop his
cliJm, from securing the money for
tho w ork and they are driven to the
coast."—Valdez Min^r.
A spev'.al W. T. & Y Route mix- j
ed train went out this afternoon. C.
A. Mowry, assistant manager of the
Atlas Mining company, together with
the eight mine** vrhom he brought
from Ju:i©au, besides several oth
ers of those who reached here
on the Spokane tills morning, were
passengers for Whiteliorse.
Will ClT-yson, Ska^way and Cor- j
dora merchant, who has been here |
for the past ten days looking after
his business interests, will leave on
the Northwestern this evening for
F.aatila unri r>thnr roast noiuta
RATHER TOUGH
ON THE CITIZENS
Berlin, Jan. 31—To combat the
plague of rats with which the town
of Loewenberg, Saxony, is suffering,
the authorities havo ordered that
"all citizens shall spend the inter
val between three and four p. JP
every Tuesday in strewing the
floors and walls of tholr dwellings,
at&bles and outhouses with phos
pherorus and arsenic". Heavy pen
alties are provided for those who
fail to obey the order.
Tienteein, Jan. 31—Half of the
gold medals and over a third of
the silver and bronz trophies hung
up in the international sports meet
ing here, under the auspices of the
Army Y. M. C. A., were won by
Chinese amateurs.
Their principal opponents, Brit
ish and American soldiers station
ed here, were astonished. Very few
of the winning Chinese are gradu
ates of foreign universities.
M. J. Burko, convicted at Juneau
Wednesday of the crime of selling |
liquor to Indians, was sentenced [
to two years in the penitentiary at
McNeil's Island. It is said that the j
jury arrived at a verdict within
three minutes after taking the case.
The Stroller in+-nd> leaving the]
coast sometime during the end of
this week, and exports to be in
Whitehorse by the 6th of February.
He is exceedingly s.irrv that he has j
had to impose upon the goodness of
his assistants for such a long per- [
iod, as h-j did not contemplate stay
ing so long when he lf-ft here. How- I
ever, he thinks that he will be able [
to even up somewhat with the min
ister by preaching some Sunday ev
ening in the church. He is assured
that there would t a large con
gregation, and that the church cof
fers would not suffer in any way
because of his presence in the pul
pit. This may be one of the Stroll
er's New Year's resolutions and
doubtless will be forgotten just as
soon as it was made. But no mat
ter whether he preaches or not,
either in the pulpit or out of it, we
will be pleased to see him in our
midst once more.—Whitehorsr> Star.
PREFERRED STOCK
OYSTERS
These era very select large east
ern oysters. If you have not yet
tried any of these, you have miss
ed a treat. Sold in 1 lb. tins at
25 cents and S lb. tins at 45 cents
each.
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
SKAGAVAY, ALASKA.
Washington, D. C., Jan 31—Pres-|
ideiit Wilson today informed the ad
ministration leaders in congress
that they must enact anti trust leg
islation before the adjournment of
the present session.
The grand jury this morning I
brought in an indictment against
George L. Rice for the crime of
maintaining a bawdyhouse or broth
el from December 21, 1913, to Jan
uary 20, 1914. The indictment was j
returned as secret, but the defend
ant was apprehended and admitted
to ball with William Burns and
William Leyton as sureties in the ]
sum of $500 each.
George L. Rice is a pioneer of Al
aska. He came to Juneau more
than 20 years ago, and was among
the first to locate in Skagwa/ in |
1897. He also operated a hotel at
Bennett, before the White Pass ter
minals were removed to Whitehorse,
and at Atlin. Later ho returned
to Juneau.—Juneau Empire., Jan. 281
IIS LIKELY
TO
Redwood City, Cal., Jan. 31—In
dications are that the courts will
have to deciJe the validity of the
claims filed by the eleven women
members of the last San Maitee |
county Grand Jury for $3 daily!
each during their term of service,
and mileage covering their trips
to and from the county teat.
That they will win their c?se was |
the general opinion of lawyers here,
but for some reason Auditor W. H.
Underbill has declined to turn'
over their fees, interposing various!
technical objections as often as their |
bills wore presented. The women's |
version is that Underhill was anger
ed because they compelled him to
make chauges in his office manage
ment which cost him considerable |
money and more trouble.
FAILS AFTER
TAKING PRIZE
Paris, Jan. 31—Awarded the an
nua! prize at Amiens three years ago
for "virtue and nobility of charac
ter", Lucie Chantrieux the other
dcy began serving a sentence of life
imprisonment for causing the death
of her lover, who had jilted her, by
throwing a pint of vlrtiol over him
While he slept.
ask for Ire
HE! AID BOATS
Washington, D. C., Jan. 31—In
their annual report today the Alas
ka Fish Commission ere ask for more
men and boats on the Alaska patrol
sen-ice and also that a bureau of
research for experimental work be
established at Seattle.
A NEW RECRUIT
11 RANKS
-Milan, Italy, Jan. 31—The fight
ing ranks of the militant Pank
hursts—"Emmeline, Sylvia, and
C£..islabcl—are about to be increas
ed by a fourth member in the per
se .1 of Adele Pankhurst, youngest,
daughter of the English leader.
Up until the present moment,
there has been very much of an un
known quantity—so much so, that
when she made her debut in this
city as a militant orator, The Suf
fragette, Mrs. Pankhurst's official
organ at London, denied she was
cue oi the* family. A day later it
discovered its mistake and welcomed
Adele to a position alongside of her
mother and two sisters.
AMONG THE MISSING.
Inquiry has been received at this
office for information concerning
Vincent or Mclntire, 'who is sup
posed to have come to the Klondike,
whore he died 10 or 12 years ago
assessed of valuable mining prop
t -*ty. Aty information should be
sent to the governor's office, Ju
neau, Alaska.
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