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EDITORIAL PAGE
"CARRYING COALS Tt>—
ALASKA!"
Stat tie Times: A lew years ago
the whole nation w;is excited al
armed and indignant because certain
enterprising gentlemen were going
to steal the ''immeasurably ■ rich"
coal miuts in Alaska.
Tlie campaign to preserve those
deposit* "for posterity" made sev
eral zealous souls, who otherwise
wc uld have gone on to tho end in
the jrrav dusk of their own medio
critv, nationally famous- The zea
lots triumphed, rightly or wrongly,
And the coal was tied np so tight
ly that practically none of it has
yet been mined.
That is one side of the picture.
Now for the v'her side.
The government recently awarded
a contract Cor 15,000 tons of coal
for the forts in Southeastern and
Southwestern Alaska and on Puget
Sound. Did it get some of the Al
a>ki fuel so zealously guarded from
ex; ioitation? Not by a jugful! The
fuei for Alaska will come from Brit
ish Columbia and the movement
north has already started.
Iu other words, with those beds
of fuel of fabulous wealth in the
tcrr'.coi/, I'ucle Sam contracts to
use- 1:1 the Northland coal produeod
iu another land!
There was a time when ■•carry
ing coals to Newcastle" was svu
onynous with absurdly misdirected
labor. The same thought is con
veyed, tveii more strongly, by para
phr:uiii;g the quotation, "Carrying
coals to—Alaska!"
BOWERS COMMISSIONER
OF NEW PRECINCT
Joseph Bowers has been designat
ed commissioner at Gold precinct,
a new preeiuct • established by
Jlidge iiobert W« Jennings a short
time sir.ee. It is not far from
Chicago?!. 1
Bowers is now in Juneau, and
•- ill remain there until the arrival
o* a small wireless plant from
Seattle, which he will establish at
his home. It will be operated un
der a contract with the Chicagoff
Mining company. '
GOVERNMENT PLANS
NEW ALASKA COURT
Fairbanks, July 12 — According
to word that has reached Fair
banks recently, the government is
considering the advisability of es
tablishing a floating court for all
of Alaska. Ia other words, it is
planned to establish here a fifth
federal court, which will travel
about to the outlying places.
The purpose of this is to leave
the regular court at home, so that
le»al business need not be halted
•while th°y 'travel about their res
pective divisions.—Fairbanks Citl
zeu.'
TO HOLD CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS SOON
The United States Civil sen-ice
commission announces that a forest
and field clerk examination will be
held iu Juneau on September 18,
1915, to fill vacancies as they may
occur in the forest'and reclamation
services. The usual entrance salary
is from $1100 to $1200 per annuurn
It is possible that vacancies may
also be filled from this examination
at $9i>0 and $1,000 per annum.
Applications will not be accepted
from oersons'who do not show that
thev have had at least one year's
actual experience in clerical work
hi a business office. A knowledge
of stenography and ' typewriting is
required.
Men only will be admitted to this
examination. The age limits are
IS years or over 011 the day of ex
amination.
Persons who desire to outer the
examination should apply to the Ju
neau secretary, board of civil ser
vice examiners, at the surveyor gen
eral's office, this city, or to the
secretary, eleventh civil service dis
trict, post office building, Seattle,
Wash., for aoplicatioii blank, form
1571, and information for appli
cants.
FOKMER SKAG WAY AX GETS
AN OFFICE AT FIRBXKS
R K. Latimer, formerly a resi
dent of Skagway, whoro he was en
gaged in the hotel business, and
later a itsldent of Dawson, but
for • the last several years
in the real estato business at Seat
tle, Ins been oPpointed as a guard
by United States Marshal L. T. Er
wln, succeeding John Solen.
Mr. Latimer, accompanied by his
wife, recently went to Fairbanks,
where his two daughters—Mrs. Rob
ert Laverv and Miss Lucille Latiui
er, reside.
UNKINDNESS.
If we will remember unkind
nesses it is well to begin with our
own. Those we have rece; ved
are not usually one sided, and the
bitter words whose memory stings
were seldom entirely without prov
ocation. This at least is true: If,
on examining our animosities and
resentments, we find ourselves
wholly blameless it will at once
become easy to forgive.
ANCIENT WRITING.
The History of Man Began When an
Alphabet Was Devised.
Perhaps the most valuable inven
tion after the making of languages
was that of writing, says a writer ill
"Student's Investigations." Picture
writing was the first used by primi
tive men, such as was and still Is used
by the Indian tribes of the new world.
The characters in this system of writ
ing were pictures of objects very crude
Id art, as for instance the picture of
tlie eye, to indicate the organ of sight,
and then again symbols for ideas were
drawn, such as a picture of an arc,
representing the sky and wavy lines
beneath, thus indicating rain. This
system of representing ideas and ob
jects, which is the most natural to
man. Is known as ideographic, and the
signs are called ideograms.
When the picture writer used sym
bols to represent the sounds of the
human voice—that is, words and not
objects or ideas—he took a great step
in perfecting the system of writing.
When symbols are used to represent
words the ideogram becomes a phono
gram, and the writing is called pho
netic or sound writing. The Babyloni
ans and Assyrians used characters to
represent syllables Instead of words,
thus reducing the number of signs
used in their writing to a few hun
dred. When characters or symbols
are used to represent syllables they
are called syllabic phonograms, and a
collection of such signs is called a syV
labar/.
But still this system was clumsy,
and a final step was taken in the mak
ing of an alphabet, the symbols being
used to represent elementary sounds
of the humnn voice instead of sylla
bles. The symbols then became true
letters, a collection of which is called
the alphabet, the writing alphabet
When and where the first alphabet
was made is not known, but several
Semitic tribes were In possession of
an alphabet as early as the ninth cen
tury B. C. It may truthfully be said
that the history of man begins here,
for without an alphabet records, dates,
names and events could not have been
recorded and preserved for us.
There Only by Inference.
An Englishman coming by train to
Glasgow for the first time and pass
ing Motherwell Junction said to a gen
tleman opposite, with whom he had
been chatting:
"Queer name, 'Motherwell.' Is there
a 'Fatherweir nest?"
"No," was the reply, "but we come
Immediately to 'Bothwell.' "—London
Tit-Bits.
A Deathbed
Triumph
By WILLIAM CHANDLER
An old uiuii lay on the bed of death.
A doctor sat by him intent upon some
method of saving Ills life. An entirely
different problem was in the mind of
the sufferer.
"Doctor," he said presently, "can't I
die for a short time, then come to life
again for a certain purpose?"
"What purpose?" asked the doctor.
The invalid cast his eyes about the
room to see that no ono was present,
then, stretching forth his hand, drew
the doctor to him and whispered what
he had to say. When he came to a
pause the doctor said:
"I have suspected as much."
"Can It bo done?" asked the invalid.
"It can be tried."
Some more conversation followed, In
which the doctor gave the sick man
Instructions, and the sick man did the
same by the doctor. Then the latter
ended the matter by saying:
"Are you ready?"
"Ves."
The doctor took from his medicine
case a tablet and placed it in the pa
tient's mouth.
The sick man, who was lying on his
back, stared at the celling, immovable.
The doctor went hurriedly to the door
and opened It There stood the wife of
the Invalid.
"Madam," said the doctor, "I fear
that your husband is dead."
The woman hurried into the room and
stood over the sickbed for a few mo
ments looking down into the pale face.
The doctor, who was beside her, closed
the eyes of her husband, then led her
away, saying:
"Tills has ueen a long tnai 10 you.
Your watch Is now over. Go and rest
yourself."
She suffered herself to be led away
and within an hour was In bed and
asleep.
Paul Markbam passed away at dawn
the nest morning. Preparations were
made for the funeral, which was held
three days later, aud on the fourth
day his widow, who was his second
wife, and her two children by a for
mer husband, all dressed In deep
mourning, entered the drawing room of
the house In which Mr. Markbam had
died and took seats. A number of
other persons, including a lawyer, en
tered, aud when all were seated the
attorney unfolded a document and was
about to begin its reading when Dr.
Blanchard. who had attended the de
ceased, entered In company with a girl
of tlfteen. There was about her a mel
ancholy that savored of despair.
"I have here," said the lawyer, "the
last will and testament of Faul Mark
ham, deceased, executed one year ago."
He tbeu read the will, which left all
his property to his beloved wife, Jane
XIarkhani. Irlisting that.she would suf
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Ueletitiy provwefOMaa eauEttterrfiafel
Mark ham. Having stated Hint the will
had been duly signed nnd -witnessed,
ho added that It would be Immediate
ly filed for probate. He was refolding
the document when Dr. Bluncbtird
arose and, drawing a paper from his
pocket, said:
"I have a will executed a few hours
before Paul Markbam's death."
The widow's countenance changed
Immediately.
"If you have nny such will," sho
said, "It is a forgery. At any rate it
was not witnessed. That I know, be
cause I was in attendance upon my
husband every day nnd hour during
his last illness, and I know no one
who could have witnessed a will en
tered the house."
"What time did you go to bed the
night your husband died?" asked the
doctor.
"At 10 o'clock."
"Your husband did not die till 2
o'clock the next morning."
"lie died at 0 o'clock in the evening.
You called me Into the room where he
lay and told mo he was dead."
"I told you I feared he was dead.
Ho was very low. He revived, and at
midnight I drew this simple will for
him, bequeathing all bis property to
his daughter, Ethel Markham. Two
persons came at my call and witnessed
tho will while you were asleep."
The woman stared at the doctor, al
though she could hardly believe her
senses. For years she had dominated
her husband and for a year, since she
had forced him to make a will in her
favor, had watched him carefully to
make sure that ho did not make an
other. At the very end of his life he
had outwitted her.
"Let me see It," she said to the doc
tor.
He held the paper before ner. sue
read It and recognized her husband's
signature, though It had been written
in the agony of death. Realizing that
she had been foiled, she arose from
her seat and, followed by her two chil
dren, stalked out of the room.
Dr. Blanchard by the terms of the
deathbed will was made Ethel's guard
Ian, and she thereafter made her resi
dence with him. Iler life had been
nearly crushed out of her by her step
mother, and It required some time to
restore her to a healthy state of mind
nnd body. But by the time she came
of age she was completely recovered,
for her surroundings as a member of
the doctor's family were all that could
be desired, nnd he knew how to treat
her to her advantage professionally.
In his old age his savings of years
were swept away in a commercial pan
ic, and Ethel Markham provided for
him and those of his family who were
still too young to take care of them
selves.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
OR L. S. KIXLKR.
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Ope* EreaUgs.
Office Hours: 9-12 a. m 1-6 p. m.
Alaskan Building - Broadway
SKAGWAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M. P.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist In tlie treatment of
diseases and deformities of tf'e eye,
ear, uose and throat.
Office; Goldstein Building. Ju
neao, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT.
i t t a r a • j At Law.
Practice u *11 courts
la Territory of Alaska.
Halses Alaska.
F. & A. M.
Whlto Pass Lodge
F. & A M. No. US
meets 2d an<l 4th
_ Frl. Ev'gs. of each
monili. VlsiUnt brokers are wel
come Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
Elmer L. Whoeler, W. M.
B. P. O. ELKS
Bkagway Lodge
VTo. 431. B. P. 0.
E. meets first
aud third Thurs
day evenings at
8:30 o'clock, vis
ion* trotiiers cordially welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
F. J. VANDEWAI.L, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
Eagle=—
Skagrway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
Eiagies meets ice iirst ana unra
Wednoeday night of eacb month at
their hall on Fifth aTenue. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
Jhoa C. Wood, W. P., J. W. Prlt
chett, Secretary.
Arctic Brotl'orlMKxl.—
>mp Skagway No. 1
Ijw A. B. meets every sec
oi»'l and fourth Tues
day evening at 8:00 p
ra BtL-irp Visiting brothers cordial
ly welcome. A. J. Achesoa, 'Arctic
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Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Sitka,
Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan I
Leave Skacjujay
S.S.SPOKANE Aug. 12, 24
S. S. CITY of SEATTLE Aug. 6, 18, 30
And every twelve days following. Modern comfortable ships,
excellent service Connects «t Seattle with throagh passen
ger steamers.
CONGRESS, GOVERNOR, PRESIDENT, UMATILLA
AND CITY OF PUEBLA
Sailing Tuesday, Thursday nnd Friday, 11 p. m.
FOR SAM FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELKi, SAN DIEGO.
Through tickets sold and baggage checked to all point* In
Cnlted SUten and Canada. For folder* and ful particulars,
address V. A. PETERSON, Agtat
H. BRANDT, G. A. P. D. Phone 50, SKAGWAI
008 Second Ave., Seattle, Waab.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
SOUTHBOUND
MARIPOSA Aug. 18
ALAMEDA Aug. 5, 24
NORTHWESTERN Aug. 11, 3o
JEFFERSON Aug. 1, 14, 26
DOLPHIN Aug. 8, 29
WESTBOUND
ALAMEDA, Aug. 16
MARIPOSA, Aug. lo, 28
NORTHWESTERN, Aug. 4, 23
Passengers will be transferred to Vancover or Victoria
without extra charge.
TELEPHONE NO. 6«.
E. J. SHAW, Agent, SKAGWAV.
SEASON 1915
New Steel Steamships
Priieccss Alice™
Princess Sophia
WILL LEAVE SKAGWAY
Every Thursday 7 p. m.
Aug. 5-12-19-26
Sept. 2-9-16-23-30
Oct. 7-14-21-28
Nov. 4
For Prince Rupert, Vancouver* Victoria, Seattle
Let us arrange your trip to the Fair, or to the East
iCheap round trip rates with choice of routes
F. F. W. LOWLE, Gen'I Agt. Phone 87 or 141 SKAGWAY
Steamship Humboldt
Tin: ONLY INDEPENDENT STEAMSHIP OPERATED TO S. E. ALASKA
Sailing Dates from Skagway to Seattle
Aug. 8-20 Sept. 1-13-25
$5022 Round trip to Seattle and return
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Through Tickets Honored
Transfer* to Vancouver, Victoria and Tacoma
WITHOUT ANY ADDHIONAL CUARCE
DORTERO & SON, Skagway Agents
Seattle Umce, tickets and all information
712 Second Ave. Call Phone 33
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