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No. 190 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAGWAY, ALASKA,
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915 PRICE 10 CENTS
GERMAN LOSSES NEAR UNA
FOOT UP TO QUARTER MILLION
Petrograd, Sept. 24—Prom recent
estimate by the Russian war of
fice, made public today, the Ger
man losses in the vicinity of Vilna
will amount to fully a quarter of
a million men. It is now officially
admittteed at Berlin, according
to late c.dvices received Crom there,
that the Russian army, which -was
thought to be irretrievably within,
tho toils of General Vou Hinden.
bur,j's cavalry, has escaped the an
ticipated annihilation or capture
and is again in shape for effective
defense.
INTERESTING EVENTS OF THE DAY
IN SWAY AND VICINITY
James Marshal of Atlin, for Vic
toria, B. C., ami Messrs. A. A. Da
vis and Capell for Vancouver, B.
C., -were outgoing passengers e* the
Princess Sophia.
J. W. Pritchett has written to
irieuds in Skagway informing then)
that he had secured a i>osition on
the Gateway immediately .after his
arrival in Soward.
Miss Clara Meyhers, who has
been spending the summer with her
sister, Mrs. C. W. Ask, left for
Arlington, South Dakota, on *he
Princess Sophia last night
Auditor of Canadian Customs Eet
tia of Ottawa, who has been in Daw
son for the past three months, came
out yesterday and went south on
the Princess Sophia euroute to his
home.
The autumnal equinox was
ushered into Skagway last night
with a high south wind, a driving
rain and a light fall of snow on
the -higher mountain peaks
surrounding the valley.
IT. J. Levrie and A. J. Johnson
came out from the interior on yes
terday's train and left for Juneau
on the Northwestern this morning.
Mrs. C. L. Irvine, Otto Nelson,
and K. Willardson, all interior peo
ple, departed for U*e south on the
Northwestern.
Grand Master P. W. DempSey of
the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of
Uritish Columbia, arrived out from
Dawson on 'Wednesday, and left on
the Princess Sophia las* night for
Prince Rupert, B. C. From there
he will go by the Grand Trunk
railway to Fort George, where he
will visit the lodge of Odd Fellows;
.then he will travel »o Edmonton,
| Culgiirv, and back >Vest by the C.
P. H., visiting all the lodges of
I Odd Fellows in his jurisdiction 'uu
| til he returns home to~ Victoria.
Gus Gillis, known all over the
coast as the Optimo Kid, is in Skag
way in the interests of the Nation
! al Grocery Co. of Seattle, distri
j butors of the famous Reliance Food
Products for one of which. Reliance
Coffee, the company jvas recently
1 awarded a contract by the govern
ment to supply 15,000 pounds. Thv
Reliance brand of coffee is being
| handled by C. W. Ask & Sous, the
i well Known Skagway grocers.
Captain lluuter of the Northwest
ern re,K>rts that the Columbia gla
cier on Glacier Islaud, near Valdez
and opposite Ellamar, has been
I split in two and a portion of it
thrown into the sea apparently by
some mighty convulsion of na
I turc and that vessels now have to
alter their usual coarse to get
arouul it The Northwestern is
loaded with 1250 tons of 70 per
ceut Kennecott mine copper ore
and 250 tons of the La Touch®
copper ore, of a total value of
: over *400,000. The Kennecott
mine is now taking out 250 tons
j of ore per day, and shipping over
| $2,000,000 worth to the smelter
each month. The westward business
I of the Alaska Steamship Co. is
assuming such gigantic proportions
that extra facilities in the way of
steamers will have to be provided
to handle it in a proper manner,
and Capt. Warner of the Alameda
is now on his way East to bring to
the coast one of two big freighters
that the company has recently
pui chased.
LADIES' AND MISSES' COATS
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Are just a little the Nicest have
ever been shown in Skagway, con
sisting of the
Very Latest in Fabrics, as well as in
Cut and Finish
Our Coats are made by the La
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known the world over as the
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TWO BIG TEUTON ARMIES NOW
ON THE FRONTIERS OF SERBIA
Nish, Sept. 24—From the 'b«st
Information obtainable here the In
dications are that 800,000 Germans
are now available for an immediate
attempt to force a passage through
Serbia *o the relief of their Turk
ish allies.
London, Sept 24—Premier Veni
zelos of Greece has asked King
Constantino to sign a general mo
bilization order for the Greek
troops. The King had already pro
mulgated a decree mobilizing twenty
Greek divisions. Greek reservists
In Italy are being recalled to their
colore, and a censor's veil of se
crecy la drawn closely around the
Balkan situation, where, it is
claimed, that in addition to the
800,000 Germans now gathered on
the borders of Serbia, there will
soon bo another army of Austria as
of equal size massed there.
London, Sept 24—Heavy firing
has been heard for the past two
days and nights in the North Sea,
but the British Admiralty refuses
to glye out any information in re
gard to i».
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE
IS PELT IN ITALY
Rome, Sept. 24 — Earthquake
shocks in a wide section of Italy,
especially in the vicinity of
Avezzano, were felt today.
"SWIFTWATER BILL" PILES
BOND FOR SON'S SUPPORT
Seattle, Sept. 24—"Swiftwatar
Bill" Gates today filed a guaran
tee bond with the court to give hia
fourteen-year-old son twenty dol
lars a month for his support for
a period of one year.
TURKISH TRANSPORTS
SUNK IX NAGRA BAY
Paris, Sept. 24—A Turkish trans
port is reported to have been sunk
in Nagra Bay by an allied aviator
And an English submarine is said :o
have sunk two other Turkish trans
ports at Akbachi.
CAPTAIN VON PADEN
TRAVELING INCOGNITO
S«n Francisco, Sept 24—Captain
Von Paden of the German embassy
at Washington City, who was mixel
ud In the Dumba affair, is here
incognito with Prince Hatzfeldt.
He is in bad with the government i
of the United States and will not J
answer any question regarding thai
Archibald matter. He also refuses,
to state whether or not he has |
been recalled by his government
TROUBLESOME DETAILS
DELAY ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN
New York Sept. 24—Troublesome
details are delaying the consumma
tion or the Anglo-French war loan.
Excellent authority places the
amount asked for at only $500,
00.*,000, Instead of the $1,000,000,
000 that was first announced.
SUBSCRIBE SPLENDIDLY
TO THIRD WAR LOAN
Berlin, Sept. 24—The official
advices given out by the govern
ment recently that the allies will
boycott all German made goods im
mediately following the end of the
war has caused the business people
of the large cities and manufactur
ing districts to subscribe splendid
ly to the third German war Joan,
which has just been levied.
BANDITS KILL ONE AND
WOUND TWO SOLDIERS
Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 24—
One American soldier was killed
and two others'wounded today by
Mexican bandits near Progresso.
THE CARRANZA CABINET
IS NOW IN MEXICO CITY
Washington, D. C., Sept. 24—The
entire Carranza cabinet is now in
Mexico City and General Carranza
himself expects to go there shortly.
Advices received here this morn
ing from Stuttgart, Germany, state
that the American consulate there
had been struck by a fragment of
bomb when that city was bombard
ed by French aircraft on Wednes
day. The 'royal palace was also
badly damged.
Former President Theodore
Roosevelt has a cataract on his
left eye and will have to undergo
an operation at an early data for
its removal.
OLD EARTH HAS HAD
MANY "ICE AGES"
Everyone wltli intelligent interest
iu the history of the world on
which he lives has heard of "the
glacial epoch," or the ice age. The
inhabitants of the northern portion
of the United States have no doubt
a general understanding that the
gravel hills and ridges and the huge
bowldere with which they are fa
miliar are due to an Irresistible in
vasion from Canada by "the great
ice sheet" at a date just preceding
that which geologists term "re
cent" yet many thousands of years
ago.
It is, however, not strictly cor
rect to speak of the "ice age" or
the "glacial epoch," for there have
been many of them. . It is now
known that even this latest or Pleis
tocene glacial epoch has several im
portant divisions, and in the Rocky
Mountain region it appears that im
portant changes in the form and
height of the mountains, due to a
wearing down by erosion, took place
between the glacial suibepochs.
More than 50 years ago it was
recognized by English geologists
that certain masses of gravel and
breccia and certain planed an,3
grooved rock surfaces in roekB of
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Just received another shipment of best
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Victorian and Societe
Hard—Soft—Nut Tops and Nut Center
Sold at 50c per lb.
We have built up a large candy trade by serving
our patrons with only fresh goods of the
very highest grade.
P. H. GANTY
HAS SPENT SEVENTEEN TEARS
IN THE ATLIN MINING DISTRICT
— ■* in ■ ii ■»
HUNTING PARTY
HAD FINE SPORT
Mr. and Mrs. Vogel of Los
Angeles, California, who arrived in
Skagway a few weeks ago on theft
yacht, the Ituna, and shortly af
terward left for the interior on
a big game hunt under the guidance
of "Shorty" Austin of Carcroee, re
turned yesterday and left on the
Princess Sophia last night for Seat
tle. They report having had the
greatest sport of their lives In
the vicinity of Tagish Lake, where
they spent mo6t of theft time, and
say that Austin Is the most effi
cient guide with whom they- ev®r
tiaveled. They are coming back
next summer for a three months'
hunting trip and have already made
arrangements with Austin to go
alon-r with them at that time. They
secured a greater variety of big
game than they anticipated they
would when they left Skagway, and
There arrived in Skagway from
Atlin on yesterday's train a man
and his wife, the former of whom
was one of the first settlera in
Skagway and is well Jcnown, to all
the old-timers who were herg in
the days of the great gold rush
into the Klondike. His name is
James McKinnon, but he is fa
miliarly called "Jimmy" by his
host of acquaintances and friends in,
the region which he has made his
home for the past seventeen years.
Ho went into Atlin in the first
stampede to that camp in the
spring of 1898, engaged in mining
and made money, mined some more
and lost what money he had Pre
viously made, and see-sawed around
that way for several years.
Wflenever he went "broke" he
drove stage and it was during one
of these periods of distressing and
soul-racking impecuniosity that he
wag handling the ribbons on a cer
tain occasion in the year 1899,
when the stage was held up and
tho passengers on board, of whom
our late fellow townsman, H. H.
Draper, was one, relieved Of their
surplus wealth. "Jimmy," Jxow-j
ever, escaped the most trying part
of the ordeal for, seeing that the
robber's attention was directed else
included in the evidence of their
prowess were moose, caribou,
mountain sheep and grizzlies, one
of the latter being a monster. At
one time they ran across seven
grizzzlles in a bunch, but did not
?et any of them for the reason that
they did not care to attack them
with the light callbred guns which
thpy had with them. —
OUifir FOB
THE WINTER
Daweon News, Sept. 14: The
steamer Vldette, which got In last
evening from Mayo, brought down
quite a number of well known up
per Stewart people. The boat is
' f> make but one more trip up the
Stewart this season, and those who
intend to remain there are rushing
In supplies.
Dr. D. D. Cairnes, head of the
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where than, at himself, he made an
unostentatious departure from the
Tic laity and wa8 booh lost to Bight
in the surrounding yold with what
loose change he had reposing safe
lv in his pocket.
"Jimmy" Is a general favoritq
wherever known, and his generous
heart as well as his purse are al
ways open to the call or distress.
Notwithstanding his tenderness of
heart, however, he has always b#en
obdurate toward the fair sex
since attaining manhood until laat
year when a charming young lady
from his old home in Boston went
into Atlin. It was not long there
after until Dan Cupid had added
another name to his list of victims.
Now "Jimmy" has to consult and
get the approval of the head of
the house when he desires to do
anything out of the ordinary.
Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon are
guests at the Pullea Honse, where
they will remain until the Balling
of the Georgia Sunday, when they
will continue their way to thq ,Ten
agee hot springB, jvhare it is their
intention to spend the winter.
Since going Into Atlin in 1898
Mr. McKinnon has never been fur
ther south toward Skagway than
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