STEAMER WATSON
RAMMED AND Sill
BY FR'TER PARAISO
Seattle, August 30—The steamer
Watson, of tlia Admiral Steamship
Hue, while lying at the Bell street
dock in this city was rammed aud
sun I at 6:45 o'clock on Sunday
morning by the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Co. freighter, Paraiso, during
a dense fog and in the pall of
smoke that has hung over the bay
and water front from the forest
fires that have been burning in the
miunta.es au(l valleys in the vi
cinity of Seattle for several weeks.
The WatSf-n was hit abreast the
u.ainniast, and the starboard side
was cut into for a distance of
sixteeu feet.
A longshoreman, while going
dow a the hatch, was knocked off
by the shock of the collision and
killed 1' the accident had occurred
fifteen minutes later than when it
did there would have beeu a heavy
toll cf death, as there would, at
that time, have been a large number
of longshoremen in the hold load
in,; freigh' for Alaska.
The Watson will he raised and i
(Continued on page 4.)
Hingham, Mass., Aug. 30—John
I). Long, former secretary of the
navy and former governor of Mas
sachusetts, died at his home here
Saturday night.
Hi.« death was not espectod, al
' iiou^h he had been suffering sever
.1 years from intestinal troubles.
Jehu D. Long was secretary of
tat navy during the Spanish-Ameri
can war. It was he who is on re
cord as having dispatched the fa
tuous message of April 25, 1SV»S, to
I'otnmodore George Dewey, com
i. uding the Asiatic Squadron, then
..'.iting orde;-s at Hong Kong. The
nusA-tge read:
"War lias commenced between
£i>aiit and the I'nited States. Pro
vc.-il ;;t once to the Philippine Is
Capture or destroy the Span
i.-h shivis. Vse the utmost endeavor.
Mr. Long was called to head the
navy department when president
McKinley took office In March,
1SS>7 arid also served a year in the
cabinet of President Roosevelt.
Rumors of his resignation were
fr*""i:tent during the Sampson-Schley
controversy, when Mr. Long was_
accused of unduly favoring Schley,
but lie declared he would not re
sign "under fire" aud retained his
I»osition until 1902, at which time
lik owu ill health, as well as
tlat of his daughter, caused him
to withdraw from public life.
Thee funeral will take place to
morrow.
1?25 000,000 COMPANY FORMED
TO OPERATE IX ALASKA
New York, Seattle and Nevada
mining men have organized the
■\Vorld Mining company, with a
capitalization of $25,000,000.
It is said that this company pur
poses to acquire various properties
specifically named is the Topkuk
Ditch company at Nome, the Chica
goff, near Sitka, and various placer
properties on Atlin lake and dredg
ing property on the Yukon.
J; is also contemplated to em
ploy 100 prospectors t<> prospect Al
(Continued on page 4.)
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CUP FOURTH
ANNUAL FAIR
The editor of the Whitehorse1
Star la the issue o£ that paper <>£
date August 27th, iu mentioning
tht» Skagway Fourth Annual Horti
cultural fair, says:
"The writer has never missed one
of Skagway's fairs. He was present
at the christening of the first one,
seeing it in the long, white robes
of innocent infancy. It was a suc
cess beyond the dreams of its pro
moters. The second was an Im
provement on the first and the
third was far and away ahead of
tho second. Now it is proposed to
make the fourth the banner of
all and the people of Skagway
have the products, the vigor and
enterprise to make good in their un
dertaking. Heretofore these annual
fairs have not had the out-of-town
attendance which they merited, but
thos«» who attended one were always
eager to attend others. This year
it 13 hoped the fair will receive the
patronage it so richly merits. ResL
dents of WhitehOTSe and Southern
Yukon can have no conception of
the magnitude and beauty of the ex
hibits without seeing them.
Tne usual excursion rate of 15
round trip from Whitehorse and j
$3.50 from Carcro6s will be given
by the railroad and tho occasion
should bo taken advantage of by
all. Tickets will be good from Fri- j
day the 10th, until and including
the following Monday. Arrange to
go ar.d you will never regret the
trip.
GOLD AND SECURITIES
ARRIVE FROM ENGLAND
I
New York, August 30—Twenty '
million dollars in gold and twenty
five collateral securities arrived in
this city this morning from Eng
land, having been sent by the
British to strengthen their bank
credits here.
UNIT* D STATE SUBMARINE
RAISED FROM SEA 1JOTTOM
Honolulu, Auust 30—The United
States submarine that sunk off the
entrance to the harbo-r here sev
eral months ago with a crew of 25
m^n, all of whom perisheed, was
raised today and will be taken to
quarantine and drydocked tomorrow.
FANCY ALBERTA PEACHES
Large shipment due on the
"Seattle" this week. Price
will be lowest of the seasoD,
quality guaranteed.
P. H. GANTY
HIGH OFFICIALS
HEREWEDNESDAY
President Elliot, of the W. P. &
Y. R., with offices in. .Chicago, and
A. P. Zipf, traffic manager of the
same company, with headquarters in
Seattle, will arrive in Skag-way on
the Princess Alice on Wednseday.
IDE SIR. ALICE
MAKES FAST RUN
The Princess Alice on her last
triD from Skagway south, left here
at 3 o'clock Friday morning, or
8 hours late. Word received today
states she arrived in Vancouver 011
time and that Seattle passengers
•reached their destination 9 o'clock
p. m. Monday, as per schedule, thus
demonstrating the splendid reserve
o' 6peed this admirable ship has.
Time, Skagway to Seattle, was 90
hours with all stops included, sev
eral hours spent while tourists vis
ited Treadwell mine, also two hours
each at Prince Rupert, Vancouver
and Victoria,
It has been decided for the Prin
cess Alice to remain on Alaska
run until the close of the fall sea
con, therefore that steamer and
the Princess Sophia will continue
the regular Thursday sailings from
Skagway uo to and including Nov.
4th which will mean the fiuest ser
vice the Canadian Pacific Co. has
ever given its many northern pa
tl'QUS.
LATE NEWS
FROM MINES
Halne«, Aug. 29—W. S. Harding,
former deputy U. S. marshal at
this place, together with his moth
er and brothers, L. L. Harding and
Strother Harding will leave on the
next southbound Bailing of the
Humboldt for Juneau, their future
home. On Friday evening some of
the friends of the Harding family
gave them a farewell receDtion at
the Presbyterian manse and pre
sented Mr. Harding with a nugget
gold ring as a small token of their
regard. Mr. S. J. Weitzman made a
neat little presentation speech to
which Mr. Harding responded,
thanking the donors for the to
ken of their friendship, as well as
for their support and loyalty -while
in office here. A delicious lunch
eon was served. Music, both in
st'i'B'ental and vocal, and games
were 'ndulged in, and a general
good time had. Those present
were Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Craig, Rev.
and Mrs. Winterberger, Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Weitzman, Messrs. B. A.
Barnett, L. L. Harding, W. S. Hard
(Continued on page 4.)
TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT-GOME TO
HORTIGULTURAL SOCIETY MEETING
Everyone interested in making a
success of the Horticultural Fair
should be out tonight at tbe ad
journed meeting of the society and
help in the discussion and decision
o° the questions which will 'he
brought, up.
The committee on constitution
and by-laws will 'report, as will also
tho transportation committee and
some others.
The matter of changing the date
o* holding tho fair to Sept. 4th to
be more certain of good weather, or
to the 8th when a large Crowd of
tourists is expected to be in town,
will be brought up.
I* is hoped the ladies will be
present in greater number than
they were last Monday night, as
the complete success of the
fair will depend largely upon their
floral and other exhibits, and they
should have a voice in tho making
of arrangements.
If you have not enrolled as
a member yet you can do so at one
of the stores this afternoon or at
the meeting tonight.
Merchants having in their pos
session membership lists are re
quested tc present the same together
with all moneys collected to the
secretary of the Horticultural so
ciety tonight In order that caTds
can be made out and presented to
a'.l who have signified their in
tention cf becoming members.
The meeting will be at the city
hall at 8l:00 o'clock. Let every
body come and tak-» part.
THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND
RDSSI.M DANGER DfCAPIOHE
Berlin, August 30—Official an
nouncement was made in this city
toJay that unless something unex
pected turned up three hundred
thousand Hussians are in grave
danger ot being captured or annihi
lated uear Kovellusk. A further
advance of the German forces on
Grodno is announced, as is also
the- capture of Lipsk.
While Petrograd dispatches unof
ficially express the opinion that tho
Russians arc engaged in digging
fresh trenches with the Intention
of makhfr another determined Btand,
there are as yet no indication*, ac
cording to advices received here of
their being able to stop their r«
tr'-sat, the Teutons pressing them
so hard they do not have time to
take the offensive.
Paris, August 30—The Teuton
trenches are being heavily bom
barded la the region of Gbaulnes
as well as near Aisne.
»if PUBLIC SCHOOL.
0PEI5J1 1915-16 TEOIfl
The Skagway public school op
e«o<1 for the 1615-1916 term this
morning with Principal Margaret
Kmian in charge of the 8th, 9th
and llth grades, Miss Agnes Mof
fat' the 6th and 7th, Mrs. Louise
Milnes the 3d, 4th and 5th and
Miss Lois Butt the 1st and 2d.
After tho assignment of studies
the pupils were dismissed until 1
p. m. for the purpose of supply
ing themselves with, the necessary
books and at the hour named the
S'-hool re-opened and the different
departments entered upon their
regular work for the term.
This term the domestic eclence
branch, with Mrs. A. Reinert
teacher, will meet every Friday, In
stead of twice a month as during
last term, and the manual training
class will meet similarly under the
(Continued on page 4.)
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