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10—Under the aus
. oh Alpine Club, i
• iu Siv.t, whose
o South Pole was
; iloai !i before he
Honors of his achieve
u oil Friday in the
■, oa the Col ile Laut
.s ti; :o ih.'t the Bri:
v\ eat tc try out his
*. 'a he intended to
• • the pole. Funds
:oriul weve raised by
-rinaor of the idea,
subscriptions. A
i.v.lty delegation attend
ttiou. Representatives
Ministries of War
v . iv present, the for
i . aarjre of a section of
Chasseurs Alpins.
Paris. Feb. 10—That the French
arun is 200 aeroplanes short o
the number authorized by patii- - j
meat for l'-'lU, and ti.ii the funds
d have purchased tlu^se
or different purposes. i:i i
•e the stet of charges j
is pres.-.
which saou
were used '
the army, .
made here
of the Par
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THE 1ANAGER
SERIOUSLY ILL!
Rome, Fob. 10—Manager Com
:sky of the Chicago White Sox is
ttriously ill hero today with car
i.iae symptoms.
Prof. Tlausou, who was sent t° j
the heart of Asia by the I uitcil
States govern meat to search for |
hardy forage plants which would j
stand transplanting to Alaska, has
been successful in finding a pota
to and alfalfa which liny «"> • ■- >
son, M P.' for Yukon, has askod ■
tha Jcminiun government to Intro- ,
duce tue plants into Yukon. The
alfalfa U said to grow wild and
provide excellent feed for animals
and i;row3 in the higher altitudes as ;
well as in the valleys and river :
! oi toms.
A subscription list circulated
: tnong tiie busincs-3 men for the '
; uiyjoo of raising enough motley to J
k ■ Juneau high school team to.
MiUa, h.is been liberally
■
fa to by almost e\ery bds' ess
house i'.i Juneau, anti as a result j
the local high school team will b<>
able to take the trip to Sitka j
where it will meet the Sitka aUile'i
club in a game for the champion
ship of Alaska.
Tlie team will leave next Wad- j
tie>day morning on the Georgia.:
. i;:g the day of its aarrival in
-.:ku .iid returning immediately af
ter the game.—Juneau Dispatch.
I'ltlCK OF COAL RKPITKD.
lloore's Wharf is now selling nut
coal for ot.ly §9.00 per ton bulk.
($1 .in) sacked). Excelluet range
•o»i!. tit.
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Miners' Leather Shoes j
* Large Size Heavy Wool Blankets
* Heavy Wool Sox Sheep Lined Moccasins ]
£ Fur, Wool, and Leather Lined Mitts
* Heavy Wool Underwear===Bianket Lin?d .
* Coats and Pants and Sweaters
* Fur and Cloth Caps
* 7 \ o and 8x10=3 ft. Wall iooz. Duck Tents -
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EXPERIMENT
Loudon, Feb. 10— Marconi today j
succeeded in lighting' an electric
bulb at a distance ox six miles by
a wireless current.
Chief Deputy Marshal J. F. Mul
lta, assisted by J. F McDonald,
v it vc Tor McNeil'? Ui'ind polli—
u 11 iniy on the souther mid Maripo
sa MUing prisoners under sentence
io that institution. The prisoners
:ire \V. J ISurke and Frank Wheel
i r, both ot whom were convicted ,
m" seilins» liquor to Indians. The
former is sentence te 21 months
and the latter to 1G months.— Jun
eau Empire.
Oil PISE
A W SGQUIi
Copenhagen, Feb. 10—Crown
Prince Frederick, who with his
younger brother Prince KnuU, join
ed the Danish Boy Scouts lasi year,
today w.is appointed "lluglish Trans
lator" lor that organisation. He
won thj job by fulfilling three
t,writing a Ions; and really
clever essay in English on t'je
boy scout movement, translating an
title from a London newspaper,
id in conversing in Kngllsh for an
Mexico City, Feb. 10 -Upon an in
vestigation of the charges made
igain-a Ucdolfo Reyes, former min
ister of justice, and one of the dep
uti'-s arrested here last November,
the cotirt today ordered his release.
There will be a worts meeting of
the 'Woman's Church Auxiliary of
ftkagway at the Presbyteriian Annex
tomorrow afternoon frcm 2:110 to
5. Worjc will be provided.
Sirs. A. R. Ilillery, Sec.
Howard G. Ashley, master mech-j
:inic for the W. P. & V. Route, will
leave on a hurried business trip to
Seattle o:i the Mariposa this evenina
V. A. Peterson, local agent of
rite Pacific Coast S. S. Co., accont
i>a iod by Mrs. Peterson, rtturr.ed on
the Spoki'ne this morning after an
ibs.'nce of several weeks on the out-j
side.
CHARGE BEING
INVESTIGATED
Denver, Feb. 10—The peonage
charge of the strikers is being
heard here today by the congression
til investigators.
gallIepends
01 WICKERS
The matter of calling a special
session of tlic legislature for pro
viding means for further collec
tions of revenue v■ ill remain in
status quo until the governor hears
from Delegate Wickeishani regard
ing what congress will do with the
bill he has introduced to amend the
organic act. Even if a call is is
sued it seems extremely doubtful
whether a full quorum could be se
cured during the summer montli3.
WOMEN JURORS j
ARE POPULAR
San Francisco, Fc. 10—Women
Grand Jurcrs seem likely to become
very much the ra<"e throughout Cal
ifornia in the near future. San
Mateo county havi'i" broken the
ground recently with an inquuisitor
lal body 011 which women outnumb
ered the men membeis 13 to 6,
judges in various parts of the state
'.lave been considering the advisabil
ity of repeating in their own dis
tricts an experiment which proved
to satisfactory at the ibit'ial test.
IB CAUCUS Of];
CM tolls!
Washington, D. C., Feb. 10—It
is announced today that the dem
ocrats in the house are to bold a
:aucus on tbo Panama canal tolls
juestion.
The Alaska Cafe and Grill, short
y to b'j opened 011 the corner of
second and Droadway by Karaman
£ Clecak, is rapidly rearing com
iletion and is now in the hands of
J. Rich, the paper hanger, paint
?r and decorator for the finishing
ouches. The opening will probab
y take plate about the 1st of March
Jas. Sullivan, the painter and dec
orator, returned Saturday from Ft.
kV. H. Seward, where he has been
or some time engaged in the work
>f renovating the interior of the post
lospital. While there he enamel
ed all the walls in the different
■vards and varnished the woodwork
hroughout.
made from Atinore's mince meat is
equal to the very best home-made.
Sold in bulk, at 2.">c per lb. 5 lb.
for $1.00. Guaranteed to consist of
only pure ingredients and properly
seasoned.
P. Ii. GANTY, GROCER
SlvAGMAY, ALASKA.
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San Francisco, Feb. 10—Arrange- j
meats are already mads for Ritchie j
and Wolgast to meet in a short
time.
Rome, Feb. 10—The formal amal
gamation of the Italian Socialists i
iind Feminists for the attainment of
their respective political ends, took j
place Thursday. The recent elec
tion of 80 socialist deputies to par- j
liament was in a large measure due I
to the campaign efforts of the Ital
ian suffragettes, the Socialists alone i
having declared themselves in fa-1
vor of equal suffrage. In return
lor this the socialistic party today i
announced its formal alliance with
the later and will fight to secure I
parliamentary support for the so-1
cialist legislation desired.
Philadelphia, Fel;. 10—Fourteen
aiillions .f dollars will be spent by
Philadelphia in ihe erection of pub
lic buildings *o comprise wliat is
claimed will be the most notable
^roup of municipal structures in
the world, according to plans Hear
ing completion. Starting at the
t':ty Hall the buildings will be eree
-ed along a broad parkway with the
Municip"] Art Gallery at one end,
incl a Temple of Justice at the oth
r. Other structures wiii be a cen
:r.il library, central manual traili
ng school. Franklin Institute, Am
JriPan Philosophical Society building
uh1 a school of industrial art. The
Municipal Art Gal.'ery-and the
reniple of Justice wi.l cost $3,000,
"00 each, and the central library
13,500,000. The school ot industrial
irt is to cost $1,000,000.
COAL - KOAL - COAL
British Columbia Beat Harbor
]oal. SI2.00 per ton Delivered. i
'hone 3.J J. M. Tanner, tf
'lilLD CM
CA1Y0I REPLICA
San Francisco, Fc-i>. 10—Work
started Saturday on the miniature of
Uiq Grand Canyon of Arizona which
is to be one of the most expensive
and attractive concessions of the
Panama Pacific International Expo
sition. This concession, which is
being constructed by the Santa Fe
Railroad at a cost of exceeding
$350,000, will bo the exact replica of
Nature's masterpiece. While it will
occupy only five and a half acres,
scientific devices will show the can
yon in its proper peispective and
give the visitor a true conception of
the great heights and distances. A
trainload of red sandstone from
Winslow, Arizona, resembliing the
native stone of the canyon and
large shipments of sage and cactus
from which the canyon will be built
arrived several days ago.
PSOFESill
GUEST OF HONOR
Boston, Feb. 10—Former Persi
dent William Howard Taft, now pro
fessor of law at Yale, was the guest
of honor at a banquet given by the
Lio: toil University Law School As
sociation Thursday night. Professor
Taft delivered one of his lectures on
'•Lgal Ethics" at the Boston Law
Schools in the afternoon.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 10—Rep
resentative Ferris today introduc
ed a bill into the house authoriz
ing the leasing of Alaska coal
lauds bv the SecreUry of the In
terior in blocks of forty acres or
multiples thereof up to 2650 acres
by competive bidding, the moneys
obtained from the leases to be ap
plied to the development, improve
ment and betterment of Alaska.
Andrew Rapuzzi, who has been
visiting coast cities for several
weeks, returned to Skagway on the
Spokane this morning.
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