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The
Route of
Comfort.
Speed,
Service
Safety.
Through Tickets to and from Dawson, Fairbanks and all
Interior Alaska and Yukon River points.
YUKON RIVER SERVICE
During the season of navigation our fleet of modern, up-to
date steamers will operate regularly the entire length of the
Yukon River and tributaries, giving a service never before
equalled.
Our daily train service [between Skaguay JandJ White Horse
ihas been improved by the addition of jitiodernj
PARLiOR OBSERVATION CARS
which are splendidly equipped with comfortable leather
chairs, writing desks, card tables dressing rooms, etc., afford
ing travelers an oppartunity to view the famous White Pass
scenery in ease and comfort.
For full information apply to
J. E. DEMP3EY. Traffic Manager
Skaguay, Alaska
fheWhitePass & Yukon Route
TRUE TABLH No. 33.
Daily, ftsc«pt Sunday.
><>. 1 N. Hoonil
1st class
0:30 a. m.
12:05 |>. m.
12:45 p. m.
1:40 "
3:20 "
5:50 "
L eaves
SKAGUAY
WHITK FAS8
LOO CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
U HITEHOKSK
Passengers muat be at depot* t* time t» Hare Baggage iuspected
md checked. Inspection Is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time cf
ral-u.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with pach full fare
:lcket and 7* pousds with each half fare ticket.
Arrives
Mo. J S. Bound
lht class
Arrives 4:50 p. m.
Leaves 3 • 20 "
2:30 "
1:50 "
" 1 1 ; IS ft. ill.
leaves 9 00 "
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arc essential to healthy. jrdWth
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Hotel
Georgian
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All Outside Sunny
Rooms. Elegantly
Furnished
Sample Rooms.
Commercla & Fam
ily trade solicited
RATES
SlnKle Kooms ?1 up
Itoomswitb hat h >1 50
Two persons £.50 up
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Manager.
Take East Late car rrom Onior
Depot to Fourth. FOURTH AVE
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OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, __ Alaska
Capital, $30,000.00. Surplus, $20,000.00
B. M. BEHRENDS. R.1WILLIS. GUY.McNAUGHTON.
President Vice Pres. Cashier
j Haines;, August 2o—A stranger by
tile iniiiia of Kritson was brought
down from Porcupine yesterday, and
taken to the hospital for treatment,
lie fell off the flume at Porcupine,
and is said to have been seriously
injured.
Two soldiers deserted from Fort
Seward the other night, taking some
of Unci© Sum's guns with them, it
is reported that the men have been
caught up the Chilcat river, and
will probably bo brought down to
day.
Ira H. Kiug, agent for the Haines
Wharf company, has commenced
making repairs _ on the Haines
wharf. This is a good work and
should have been done long ago,
and undoubtedly would havo been
if Air. King could hade done so.
Tho action brought in the com
missioner's court, before J. J. Ken
nedy, by G. \V. Hiuchnian against
Lahey and Hanley, resulted in a
judgement in favor of plaintiff. W.
B. Stout appeared for the plaintiff,
while Steve Ragau looked after the
interests of C. M. Hanley, one of
the defendants.
J. C. Hayes, superintendent of
the Alaska road commission for
southeastern Alaska, made a trip up
the road between Haiues and Por
cupine, returning yesterday morn
ing, and we hope ho will find some
way of improving it, particularly
between Wells and Porcupine as
that part is said to be in a deplor
able condition.
LOWLK S.VVS TKAI'FIC WILL
UK HANDLED WITH DISPATCH
From tlio l>;iwson News of
August 19th.
F. F. W. Lowle, general agent at
Skagway for th0 Canadian Pacific
Railway company, who is visiting
Dawson for the first lime, looking
over the Klondike field in the in
terest of his company, makes the
following Interesting statement re
garding the company's service:
"Realizing ^tho unsatisfactory
necessity cf dealing with Its good
friends and patrons in Yukon Terri
tory from a liistauco the Canadian
Pacific Railway company decided to
have me spend several days in Daw
son, «ud I anticipate this will in
augurate periodical visits being mad
hereafter.
"It is my desire to, if possible, |
get into closer touch with all north
ern shippers, and the traveling pub
lic, and therefore would like the
Canadian Pacific company's office
in Skagway considered by them as
an information bureau on any or all
matters of transportation.
"W© nre only too glad, at any
time, to UK'tt residents in Alaska
and Yukon who may be passing
through Skagway, north or south
bound, or to answer any :unl all in
quiries made by letter.
"While we are in the r'-il and
steamship business muny inquiries
reach me from residents in the
United States and Canada relative
to northern matters and in the same
manner would welcome all northern
residents using us.
"While the Canadian Pacific com
pany operate steamships from Skag
way it especially would have it
known that it is not necessary for,
passengers south bound to take
those steamships, if it is desired to
use their rail lines out or Seattle
or Vancouver.
"AH passengers destined to east
ern points in Canada or the States,
to Europe or the Orient will be
cheerfully furnished with all neces
sary particulars for their trip or
actual tickets issued covering same
and baggage checked to destina
tion.
"Tho impression seems to have
become genc*il that to use the
Canadian Pacific company's steam
ers from Skagway during the Euro
pean troubles, was a risk, and I
would hasten to assure that such is
not the case, and that were it so,
the Canadian Pacific cpmpany would
be the first to advise all interested,
t "While in Dawson I am at the
Hotel Royal Alexandria, and very
glad indeed to answer any inquiries,
or discuss any question that niay
come up."
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Rosa Puente
A Story of an American
In Mexico
By F. A. MITCHEL
Malcolm Burch. having Inherited j
enough money to enable him to set :
himself up In some sort of business
mill not fancying mercantile pursuit*, j
enst about for an out of door method j
of Investment He visited the west,
looked over the sheep growing Indus
try aud concluded that under the con- I
ditious it was not Inviting. Going j
down to Galveston, he sailed for Vera
Cruz. Mexico, aud thence he went by
rail up to the capital.
Coffee raising appeared much more
attractive to him than sheep raising,
and he decided to spend some time on
a coffee plantation studying the cul
bean. Every morning he
ML me. which consists of tight
trousers with a row of buttons run
ning the full length of the leg. a short
coat and o profusely decorated sugar
loaf sombrero In this attire Mr.
Burch looked very handsome and, be
ing a young man in the twenties, was
especially fitted to capture the hearts
of Mexican maidens
One morning he was riding along ft
road lined with tropical verdure. The
sun shone brightly and would have
stiono hot had not Its rays been tem
pered by the high altitude of the Mex
ican plateau, which Is more than 7,000
feet above the sea. The country com
bined the beauties of the tropics with
the exhilarating air of the mountains.
Indeed, there were peaks all about
him, while In the distance an elongat
ed moiir.?»!n presented the fc-»m of a
woman resting on bier, the snow
forming her winding sheet.
Before Malcolm Burch tripped a lit
tle Mexican girl. FTer jacket, covered
with spangles, reached \ barely to her
waist. Fler skirt bedecked In like
manner, fell not far below the knea
Not needing her robosa — n garment
Mexican women wear over their heads
and shoulders—she carried it on her
arm.
"If anything were needed." said the
American to himself, "to complete this
Jellcions landscape it would be the lit
tle figure sparkling In the rays of the
sun."
horse, donning Mexican
v> nen ne reafut-u «uc
and cast b glance at him. She was
neither Spanish nnr Indian, but a mlx
itire of the two races. Her Spanish an
■estors must have once dwelt under the
Pyrenees, where the climate Is mild
ind many of the people are fair, for her
hair had a gold tinge iii It, and her
eyes, If not blue, were certainly not
black. She was apparently about six
teen years old.
Burcb had picked up a few words of
Spanish for ordinary nse. but not
;nough to carry on n conversation. But
i man does not need words to express
idmlratlon. Indeed, the word beside
he look would seem very tame. Burch
knew the words to express "Where are
rou going?" but did not understand the
reply. He put out his hand and his
Toot resting in the stirrup, meaning, "If
rou will give me your hand and put
rour little foot on mine I will Uft you
up behind me and carry you whitherso
sver you are going."
The girl hesitated, then advanced, did
is he indicated, and he swung her up
behind him on the horse's back. To
keep her position she must put her
arms about his waist, and whenever
[lis hand touched hers there came a tin
gle that ran by leaps and Jumps to his
heart He asked'her her name, and she
jaid It was Kosa Pucnte with such a
musical voice that, pretty as It was,
the name sounded much prettier.
They rode along, be mixing English
nnd Spanish, three parts English to one
}f Spanish, she adhering to the musical
language which was the only one she
knew. She looked ind acted unsophis
ticated. but when tliey approached a
clump of adobe houses she slid down
an the ground, knowing full well that
she must not appear In company with
a man. Had she been of the upper
class she could not have been more
particular In this respect, that class In
which girls are not permitted to con
verse with members of the opposite
sex except through a barred window,
or the man standing In the street while
the girl stands on a balcony above him.
Malcolm Burch said "Buena bye,"
mixing his languages as usual, and the
girl replied In the vernacular. He
forced his horse to walk very slowly
In order that he might keep her ahead
of him, partly that he might feast his
eyes on her graceful figure and partly
to observe where she went She stop
ped at an adobe bouse with a thatched
roof in the center of a small yard In
which chickens and vegetables and
flowers jjrew Indiscriminately.
The knowledge that Kosa Puente
was not one of the higher class Mexi
cans, while It brought a shadow of
disappointment, did not deter Burch
from following up an affair which he
should* have dropped at once. When
he went to sleep that night he passed
from consciousness to slumber with a
fumble of Kosa Puente and other
varieties of roses, adobe houses, chick
ens and such articles running and
jumping before him, and during the
night he dreamed that he was trying
to catch Rosa Puente and the chickens
were always in his way.
What use to lay down the devices
practiced by these two to meet with
out their meetings being Known to ts»
girl's relatives and friends? The Span
ish custom of 'putting young* women
behind bars Is not conducive to keep
lag them from men when they are, so
to upenk, "out of Jail." Kosn was far
more adept in arm tiding meetings with
Burcb than an Ana-noun girl of her
age would be. While she possessed
tlie native Innocence of youth, she had
fir several years been given to under
stand that she was not trusted, and It ;
Is not easy for such persons to con
sider themselves on their honor, lie '
this as It may, Burch mot Itosa fre
quently, nnd she laid all the plans for
their meetings.
Burch went to Mexico City Just after
the revolution that landed Vlctorlano
Huerta In the presidency. When Caf
ranza, governor of the state of Coa
hulla, determined to revolt and avenge
the death of Madero the conditions
rapidly changed. The governor first
got all the arms there were in Saltlllo,
then proceeded to take nil the money.
Burch was not pleased with this condi
tion of things and decided that, after
all, lie would not care to invest his
money In Mexico Such- being the case,
there was but one thing for him to do,
go somewhere else. This was a very
easy mental process for him, there be
ing nothing to regret In leaving Mexi
co, not even Rosa Pueute, for three
or four months' association with a girl
who lived in a mud edifice is usually
quite enough for a man born with a
silver spoon in his mouth.. Somehow
It did not occur to Burch that there
would be any objection on Kosa's part
to part with hinir ITe had never seen
any 'member of her family, though she
had told him she .bad a father, a moth
er and some small brothers and sisters.
She said that her father was away
from home a good deal of the time.
When he returned he had plenty of
money, n part of- which he spent In
buying what tho family needed nnd
the rest in the national drink, pulque.
When It was all gone he returned to
follow the same course as before
But Burch was not Interested in the
Puente family, for he had not followed 1
the ordinary process of courting In
vogue In the country and had made
no application for Itosa's band. ITe
looked upon his affair with the little
Mexican girl as a very pleasant one.
At first he had wished that she was a
lady that he might marry her. but
time had cured him or that.- What
concerned him now was how to gW
out of Mexico with $20,000 that he had
brought there to invest In a coffee
plantation as soon as he had learned
bow to manage one.
FTe turned his money Into American
banknotes and distributed them In dif- ,
ferent parts of his clothing. Then when
he was ready to start for Vera Cruz,
proposing to make the journey on
horseback, he sent Bosa word by a
messenger ho had used before to meet
him at their usual trystlng place.
When they met Burch was on horse
back ready for his departure for Texas.
Dismounting, he took Bosa in bis
arms, kissed her nnd told her that he
must go to the United States. It was
not safe for him to keep money any
longer In a country where levies of
cash were mnde on the citizens by one
side or the other, no was going to get
his money in the bank In Galveston;
then he would come back to her—that
is. If it were possible to get through.
Bosa received the announcement with
her head on Bnrch's breast, so that be
could not see her expression. ITe fear
ed she might object to his going, but
was surprised after a prolonged silence
to see her look up and say:
"You are right Put your money in a
safe place. If you will wait till I can
get a borse i will go part way with
you."
There was a peculiar expression on
her face when she snid this that he did
Dot quite like. However, he expressed
pleasure nt having her with him, and
she went to pet a horse. She came back
presently with one she had borrowed
from a neighbor, and the two started
northward.
Rosa said very little, which Borch
naturally attributed to her reluctance
to part with him. lie thought it best to
talk about what he would do when he
returned, but this did not more her to
a more pleasurable feeling. WheD they
came to where the road forked she In
sisted that the one on the left was the
shortest route to Burch's destination,
Laredo. He knew better, but allowed
himself to be persuaded to go her way.
When they had been on the road a cou
ple of hours he suggested that she turn
back, since she had far to go and would
be tired. But she said she would go a
little farther.
In passing over a declivity they look-"
ed down on a small clump of trees,
and be saw a group of horsemen.
Burcb paled. He knew that he bad
met with a force of rebels or bandits;
he suspected the latter. A man sang
out from below for them to^advance.
They did so, and the men in the camp
spoke to Rosa familiarly, as If they
knew her. A man approached, and she
called him "Padre." Then she told him
something in Spanish which Burch did
not understand.
Turning to Burch, he said, "Money,"
which was the only English word he
knew. Burch saw at once that he had
been led Into a trap by the girl whom
he bad considered a plaything.
Half an hour later the American, at
the request of Rosa Pucnte. was per
mitted to resume his journey, but with
out bis $20,000 and without the girl.
"Goodby, senor." she =aid. "I thought
that your money would be safer with
my father than in the bank at Galves
ton. You needn't trouble yourself to
come back on ray account, for I would
not think of mating with a 'gringo.'"
She said this in a mixture of Spanish
and English, the latter having been
picked up in the love passages that hal
occurred between her and the Ameri
can.
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Skagway. Alaska
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RAW FURS
—: WE PAY 1
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS1
WRITE FOB PRICE UBR
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THE SKAGWAY
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U. 8. MAIL STEAMEB
Borgia
Schedule of Sailing* From.
JULY 1st, TO SEPTEMBER *M*
Sailing Dates and Steam or fesfr
ject to Change Without Notlc#
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Douglas, Fas
ti r, Hoonah, Gypsum, TeuJtM,
Ivillisnoo, Chatham and Sitka
EVERY WEDNESDAY AX Bl:«
a. m.
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leaves Skagway for Haines, Ht»
dred Itock, Comet, Jualln, Ssstta*
el Island, Eagle Klvsr, Doufias
and Juneau. ,
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