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The COMFORT
Gate-way ! , service
o x i SAFETY
Route of vw// kqvV
To Yukon Territory, Atlln District, Iaterio# AlMks. _i
During the winter season ot 1917-18 our regular train aer
rtce will be maintained Nortfc »»d South Bound between 8kag
w»y and Whltehorae, trains leSfUg both terminals oi Tueadayi
and Fridays. £ ,
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our through Mall, Passenger and Freight Berrice will be
operated between Whltehorae and Dawsoa, affording eTedy pos
sible facility for comfortable wfstar travel by means oi a
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED STAGE ANT) AUTOMOBILE LINE.
For full information apply to
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mill Servicr Department
WH1TEMORSE, Y. T.
A. F. ZIPF
Traffic Monagef
612 S«cond Ave.. SEATTLE, Wash
White Pass &, Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 40.
Every T uesdaj and Friday
No 1, X. Bound i u i. t. *0, ^ ®- 110
1st Class ^ w 1st CJua
S::10 a. m. Leaves SKAGWAY Arrive* S:50 p. m.
11:03 «. m. " WHITE PASS Leave# 2:20 p. m.
11:45 a. m " LOO CABIN » 1:80 p. m.
12:40 p. m. " [ [_. BENNETT - 12:00 p. m.
2:20 p. m. " ' CAROROSS • 10:48 a. m.
4:50 p. m. Arrive^ WHll'tHOKSE ** 8:00 a. m.
Passengers must be at depot In time to have Baggage In
spected and checked. Inspection la (topped 30 minutes before
leaving time of tra ins.
150 pounds of tnggage will be checked free with o*cb full
fare ticket and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
► Relieves CAT A RHH of
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You make a mistake if
vou d' not stoo at
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Pullen Hp,use,
Electric Lights
Rooms Single of en Suite
Bathi on <iach floor
Famous for its Home Cookinig.
Milk. Cream, Cottle CI leese art|d
Buttermilk from our own daW.
Fresh Eggs, etc!
Rates $3.00 Per Day and Up ^
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PTJLLEN. Prop.
Skagway, Alaska
CLEANLY WOMAN.
Erroaeonaly Tlilnka by Scovirlng Her
Scalp That She Cures Dnudruff.
Cleanly woman has an erroneous Idea
that by scouring the scalp, which re
moves the dandruff scales, she Is curing
the dandruff She mny wash her scalp
every day. and yet have dandruff her
life lor.tr. accompanied by falling hair,
too. The on!y way in the world to curi
dandruff is to kill the dandruff germ,
and there Is no hair preparation that will
do that but S'ewbro's Herplclde. Herpt
cide by killing the dandruff germ
leaves the hair free to grow as healthy
Nature Intended. Destroy the cause
you remove the effect. Kill the dan
druff ge-m with Herplclde. Sold by
leading druggists. Send 10c. In stamp?
for samnle to The Herplclde Co.. De
troit. Mich.
On# Dollar bottle, guaranteed.
At all Drug Stor*e. Ady.
) If you want a Box of
I
j Lowney's
| Candy
| Go To
i TonyDortero
j 438 Broadway
STRATEGY OF THE BOER.
0* Wafa Clever Escape Whan Hemmed
In by the Enamy.
Of the tbree great figures that emerg
ed on the Boer side In the war of de
fense that developed after Ladysmlth,
Botha, De Wet and Delarey, De Wet
was the most Impressive. His face was
a study In resistance, says Harold
Spender In "General Botha—The Career
and the Man.". Looking on him, one
could understand the fear that he In
spired In his own men. But It was his
schemes of escape, almost miraculous
In their cunntng, that perplexed an em
pire and puzzled a planet.
One evening after a long day's march
—so lie told us—all his wanderings
seemed to have come to an end. The
lights of the British bivouac tires twin
kled from every point of the horizon.
De Wet, as was his wont, went apart
from his men and sat alone in dumb
despair. Then there came to him soft
ly one of those wonderful scouts who
served him so well. The scout had dis
covered a slight gap in the British
lines between two regiments that were
not <iuite keeping touch.
In a moment De Wet was on his
feet. Within an hour every horse's
foot was mutiled with cloth or wool I
aud every wagon wheel was swathed.
The Boer campflr*s were lighted and
were left burning brightly. Then the
whole Boer force crept out through the
darkness of the ni^ht in utter silence!
penetrated the gap In the British lines
and started on a new course of fugi
tive warfare.
FEAT OF THE OREGON.
H»p Historic Trip Around Cape Horn
to Santiago Bay.
At the outbreak of the war with
Spain the battleship Oregon was order,
ed from San Francisco to the Atlantic
coast. She left San Francisco on
March ID, 1S98; arrived at Callao, Feru,
on April 18, where she took on coal;
reached Sandy Point on April 18 aud
took on wore coal; reached Klo de
Janeiro on April 30; Hahla, May 0;
Barbadoes, May IS, and Jupiter inlet,
Florida, on May 24. The entire dis
tance run was 14,703 knots at an ex
penditure of 4.1"> tons of i oal.
While at Rio <le Janeiro Captain
Clark, who was In command of the
Oregou. received wird ihat the Span
ish torpedo boat Terivr.'.rio lir.ii sailed
from Montevideo with the ir.teu.ion of
destroying the Oregon. Cnp.alu Clark
notified the Brazilian authorities that
if the Spanish vessel entered the har
bor she would lie attacked. The Teme
rario did not enter the harbor.
In the battle of Santiago Ilay the
speed of the Oregon enabled her to
take a front position in the cba. e, in
which she forced the Cristobal Colon
to run ashore to avoid destruction from
the Oregon's thirteen Inch guns. The
Ore iron also prevented the escape of
the Vlzcaya.
Tho Travaler'a Tost.
The eminent traveler James Bruce
was highly touchy whenever his ve
racity was called lut-> <]t5es.ioli. h hap
peued that when dining out one day at
a friend's house o;:e of the guests ob
served that It was impossible that the
natives of Abyssinia could eat raw
meat. Without making any reply Bruce
forthwith left the table and before long
returned from the kitchen with a piece
of raw beefsteak, peppered and salted
in the Abyssinian fashion. Placing this
In front of the guest, who had doubt
ed his word, he said, "Sir, you will
eat this or tight me!" The guest pre
ferred the former alternative. There
upon Bruce calmly observed, "Now,
sir, you will never say again tltHt it is
impossible."
Singing Crickets.
In Japan if one will leave- the hotel
and the tourist office atid thy cocktail
drinkers and go out Inti the real native
quarter there are euci ;h tliiups to In
terest any one. One > Id luau passes
with his load of crickets, which sing in
hot weather and are kept In cages like
so many canaries. These gentle crea
tures make a noise like a squeaky axle,
and one hidden under the hood of a
twelve cylinder car would subject the
most careful chauffeur to scorn. They
are caught with birdlime and make
nice little pets, cheap to buy and not
requiring gasoline for thj upkeep.
Always a Wsy.
"I am beginning to fear," said the
Rev. Mr. Goodman, "that I may be in
jecting too much humor Into my ser
mons. The congregation may fall into
the habit of neglecting to take me se
riously."
"Oh, don't worry about that, dear,"
his wife replied. "Whenever you be
gin to notice that they are not taking
you seriously just ask them to raise
your salary."—Chicago Herald.
Eager Inquirers.
"Don't you think conundrums are
rather silly?"
"N'o. We consider them very useful
when they keep the children asking
one another questions Instead of send
ing their parents to the encyclopedia."
—Washington Star.
The Difference.
The Impecunious—It Is Just as easy
to love a girl with money as to love
one without It. The Heiress—But it
isn't so easy to get her.—London Tit
Bits.
Persian Houses.
Every Persian house is constructed
on a plan of secrecy. No windows are
visible from the streets.
Cottages.
The term "cottage" was first applied
to a small house without land In the
year 1275.
GHOSTLY ISLE
OF MYSTERY ON
ALASKA COAST
Lon-elv in. its solitude, Btern and
forbidding, wrapjjed injeternai mist
frowning and sullen, about 80
miles to the southwest of Kodiak
stands Chirokof, the island of ghosts.
Surrounded by; dangerous reefs, and
stormy seas, (it ia at best unlnvit
in"! a nlace and Js seldom1 visited
unless stress and storm makes a
landingjthere imperative.
Nature has made the piece re
pulsive and {.legend has added to its
terrors. Natives passing give the
place a wide berth, and nothing
short of dire necessity would cause
'hem to land there, preferring to
take the most desperate chances
with storm (and pea rather than
set foot on its inhospitable shores
for. legend h»a peopled the island
with ghosts, whose walking^ and
moicings and the clanking J of
whrse chains strike terror to the
stoutest hear. Those whom neces
sity; nave compelled fo stop there
tell harrowing tales of the unseen
inhabitants of that desolate place,
of the moans and cries which filled
Hie air during the hours of dark
ress. and drove them at the firs''
opportunity to seek other Bhelter.
F t Chirokof, aooording to the leg
ends of the natives, was the pris
on cf th° early Russian Inhabitants
of Kodiak. To this bleak and des
olate island were banished the of
fenders against the Russian law or
th» edicts of the officials in com
mand of the Russian es'ttlement.
Tales of horrible cruelties visit
ed upon these unfortunates are
handed down in tha Native legends;
hey the offenders loaded with
chains were landed at Chirikof and
left to their own resources. There
was no escape, and the unfortun
ates prev to the horrible sufferings
trom hunger and exposure eked out
a terrible existence until death re
lieve! them of their sufferings.
Manv years have passed since
the last of these unfortunates pass
ed away, but their restless spirits
still moan .according to the tales
cf the Natives, this bleak and deso
late island filling the air with
• heir lamentations and the clanking
of their chains. So vivid are these
stories that even the white men
shudder as they aass the unhallow
*•'. spot, and, like the Natives, they
pass It by without landing. No lure
ct possible mineral wealth induces
the hardy prospector to visit this
avesome place, it is shunned by
all. and bo dark and sullen it lies
untenanted except by the wildfowl
and its ghostly) inhabitants.—Val
dez Miuer. j • '.1
RESTIG OUCHE LADY
WRITES OF ALASKA
Tho following story was printed
in The Campbelltoiv Graphic, and
shows that the world at large is in
terested in. what the people of
Skagsvay are doing.
SKag^vay, Dec. 3d, 1917
Mr. H. B. Anslow,
Dear Sirfc |
Tnelosed find $2.00 for which
IN THE COLUMNS OP
The Daily Alaskan
You will find advertising that bring results
Skagway Merchants
Put your offerings before the public in a
way that will bring 100 per cent, re
turns.
Akdvertise in The Daily Alaskan
Printing of Quality
■
| please send] me the Graphic for a
J ' |
I certainly enjoyi the dear old
home town, paper. I «m glad, to
see you are putting the liquor out
of business, jye are haying a liArd
fight in Skagway, since the sa
loons went out of business one Kan
was fined $900.00, others smaller
amounts.
Twenty miles up the line from
Skagway jt is 30 below zero to
night. Skagway is not so cold.
I Our Red Cross here is doing good
work, -we have made several largo
•shipments of surgical dressings.
Knitted garments also. I have
charge of the knitting class which
meets every Tuesday. My youngest
pupil is little Ruthi Stevenson, 6
vears old, she ia the daughter of
Andrew Stevenson, president of the
I Bank of Alaska. She has about
completed a pair of wristlets, that
\youl>d be a credit to any grown
up. She takes great interest In the
Red Cross work and comes every
Tuesday, wears the R<=d Cross but
ton, sits and knits the two hours we
are there.
I hope eome day before many
years to return to see all my good
friends. Any of this letcer you care
to publish you may, 'Will try later
to ge! a few ne?v subscriptions for
♦ne paper. Wishing you a Merry
Xmas and a happy NeT Year.
Your friend from the frozen north
(Mtb.) J. W. SHEARER.'
(Subscribe t«r tfca Daily AlaskRn)
MISS DRUMGOOLE
Miss Will Allen Drumgoole of Nash
| ville, Tenn., is the only woman who
, wears the uniform of an officer In the
' United States nr.vy. Widely known In
! the South as a writer and a speaker,
i she has been assisting the navy in ob
! taining recruits.
Wailing For the Chanca.
| Marks—My old an lit had not been
dead twenty-four bnurs when ber par
rot dU d too. Parks -The poor bird died
of grief, I suppose. Marks—No; poison.
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