FRESH GOODS
Just received on the last boat
Cauliflower
Cucumbers
Celery
Head Lettuce
Tomatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Cocoanuts
New Dates
Fancy Layer Raisins
Persimmons
Baiinaiuis f
Apples
Oranges
Grape Fruit 1
Grapes
Cassabas
Pears
Chestnuts
New Figs j •
Poniejjrani ts
C. W. ASK & SONS
Leading Grocers
«
A FINE LINE OF TENNIS SHOES
Just the kind the yuung people want
ALSO A FINE LINE OF RUBBERS
Women's' Men's, Boys' and Girls'; Just the kind
you need this kind of weather. Come in and
we will be glad to let you try them on
DORTERO © SON
Exclusive Clothiers and Gents' Fuanishers
KING'S CAFE
WHITE HORSE YUKON TERRITORY
BEST MEALS IN THE NORTH
Mrs. Orloft King :: Proprietor
GOLD SHIELD COFFEE
"ALWAYS" GOOD
STEEL CUT
SOLD BY ALL THE BEST GROCERS
Schwabacher Bros. & Co", Inc.
OAK OLSON.
S. EL & S. W. Alaska Representative
..IRJLW IFTTIRS..
Ship; ail your Raw Furs. Whalebone, Ivory, Ginsenjt.
Golden Seal Root. etc. to the
Moose Bay Fur & Trading Co.
TACOMA, WASH.
And revive the highest prices paid. Special personal attention
is givea ;o our sales and thorough satisfaction 1b guaranteed.
Writa us for price list and any further information.
Referenci-s Fidelity Trust Co, Bankers.
A ;iska's
Seattle Price
Drii" Store.
KELLER BROS.
Drug Company
Alaska's
Seattle Price
Drtifj Store.
Timely Hints
Don't forget how prettily your Christmas
Present from home was packed last year
We thought of it for you and we bought
a stock of the most delicately tinted and
daiutily designed patterns which we are
selling at prices quoted below:
Denison's Crepe Paper, all Col
ors per roll 10c
I>enison's Tissue Paper, al col
ors l>er sheet lc
Christmas Greeting Cart Is, Seals
Stamps, Pasters, Tags, etc
Per box 5c to 10c
Christmas Candles .. per box 15c
< liristiims Tree Lamps . . 2 for 5c
DEL SAKTE GOLD EMBOSSED IN
ITIALED BOX STATIONERY
Remember oar Prescription Room Policy is "Quality. Accuracy
and Skid", and we charge you SEATTLE PRICES.
Keller Bros. Drug Co.
SECOND AND BROADWAY SKAGWAY, ALASKA
WILD WIND ANTICS
The Havoc That May Come When
a Tornado Breaks Loose.
STORMS»PLAY QUEER PRANKS
Homes Have Been Carried Bodily Into
the Air and Exploded, and Half a
Building^ Has Been Swept Away,
While the Rest Remained Unharmed.
The weather bureau at Washington
has been collecting statistics and facts
about cyclones and tornadoes for many
yeurs, aud the experts have succeeded
In securing considerable valuable dat:i
about the big winds; but, after all, the
freaks of the storm are the things that
give it special Interest, and if all these
were properly classified some remarka
ble reading would be furnished. Every
visitation of a tornado adds to this val
uable storehouse of queer freaks.
It is not uncommon for the whirling
wind to cut a bouse lu half, demolish
Ing one side and leaving the other un
disturbed. This happened In an Iowa
tornado, aud the part that was left in
tact was so little disturbed that the
clock on the mantel continued ticking,
as if nothing had huppened.
In the Texas town of Sherman,
which was visited by a toru-ido in
lS<Xi. two houses were picked np and
carried into the air. where they ex
ploded. Every one in them was severe
ly Injured except a baby, which did not
receive so much as a scratch. A man
milking a cow lu a shed saw the cow
and shed carried up In the air, but he
wes not^so much as touched. Not a
drop of the milk in his pnii was spilled
or disturbed.
In the St. Louis tornado of the same
year a carpet in the parlor of one house
was pulled up by the twister and car
ried away a few hundred yards with
out so much as a rent being torn in It.
The tacks had been pulled up as neatlj
as if extracted by a careful carpel
layer.
In another house the bedclothing and
mattress were lifted from the Bed, and
the bedstead was left Intact A resi
dent was carried through the roof of
another house with the bed and drop
ped a quarter of a mile away without
Injury. The mattress saved hhu in the
fall, and he picked himself up iu a va
cant lot to dress without knowlug ex
actly what had happened to him.
The "twisters" have been known to
pull nails out of shingles and then go
on to pick up a chimney bodily and
carry It through the air. In Kansas
one picked up a bugsry and lauded it in
the branches of a tree. At another
time it ripped the harness completely
off a horse and left horse, buggy and
man uninjured. In Louisville. In ISiR).
a tornado carried the roof off a house
and pulled a child from the mother's
arms and carried it safely to another
house six blocks away.
But these are merely among me
harmless freaks of the big wind. There
are others more heartrending. It has
dismembered human beings, tearing
arms and legs from the body, and
twisted the hair of women Into ropes.
In Kansas It drove a piece of scantling
six inches square through the body of
a hog. At another time it blew in the
door of a farmer's house nnd carried
the owner away on the door, to drop
him In the branches of a tree. The
tornado did not hurt him, but ho broke
his neck falling from the tree to the
ground.
No one has succeeded in measuring
the full force of a tornado, but It i>
known to travel at the rate of 20»
miles nnd more an hour.
Tornadoes are exciting more genera
attention than formerly because of th
greater number of towns and village
located in the tornado belt. Each su
cesslve one is more dangerous than i!
predecessors because It is apt to fin
more human material to destroy. Foi
merly It might travel half the lengtl
of a continent without finding any thin;
In Its path to destroy except grass
trees and ocaslonally the crops of ••
solitary farmer. Today. If It fol«owe.
the same route, it might pass over i
dozen villages and towns.
The only thing that can pceslbl'
break the force of a tornado is a rang
of mountains. It may create will
havoc among the trees and bowlder
of a mountain, but it cannot carry th
mountain Itself away. It will uproo
giant forest trees, suck the water froi
wells and streams, twist and deroollsf
Iron bridges and carry up houses, bn
the mountains are proof against th
mifftty force of the wind.
Until we know how to control th'
tornado or find some means of baffling
It. its menacing danger must always
be a source of considerable uneasiness
in the great plain sections of the conn
try. But, like earthquakes, the tor
nado and cyclone do not come every
year, and sometimes they defer their
.visit for a (}ecade or so. for which we
may be thankful,—George p. Walsh in
Harper's Weekly,
The Pleasure of Raising Whiskers.
The enthusiasm of those engaged ii
the cultivation of whiskers is inspir
Ing. A man with a full beard may Ir
a lucid moment shave it off. But
watch him closely. Within ten day
be will show signs of returning to hi
old ljfe almost as certainly as a nun
derer will return to the scene of hi
crime.—Americap Magazine.
Didn't Get a Chance.
"Did your son who went to the citj
to make his fortune deliver the goods?"
"No. Ke was caught with them be
fore he had a char.ee."—Houston Post.
Doing well depends upon doing com
Dletely — Persian Proverb.
WIZARD AT FIGURES
DIES IN POORHOU8E
Kansas City, Dec. 10—-Reuben
Field, whose phenomenal powers as
a rapid calculator have puzzled ex
pert mathematicians from all parts
of the country, died here recently
of apoplexy at the Jackson County
farm, where he had been cared for
since 1907. He was 70 years old.
Apparently without ambition and
always dependent on others, he re
garded his arithmetical powers as a
gift of God that would be taken
from him if he turned them to
worldly gain. He was unable to
read or write.
Given the distance by rail be
tween two cities and the dimensions
of a car wheel, he would tell an
inquisitor how many revolutions of
the wheel would be requiired to
cover the distance almost before
the statement of the problem was
complete. It was said he could tell
the exact time at any hour without
hesitation and without reference to
clock, sun or other agency.
On several occasions Field had
consented reluctantly to aid in mak
ing invoices in stores at Independ
ence, Mo. Given the number of
yards of goods in a bolt of cloth,
the number of bolts and the price
per yard, Field would tell instantly
the total value of the goods on the
shelf.
He was born in Bath County,
Kentucky but spent most of his life
life in Western Missouri.
PILES CURED -N 6 TO It DAYS
Vour druggist -.vill refund money i
?AZO OINTMENT fails to cure an\
;-ase of Itching, Blind, Bleeding oi
^rotrud'ns lllfs in 6 <n 14 days Srtc
A healthy city is a wealthy one.
Tie cheerful loser stands next to the
iheerful giver.
More thinjrs will come your way if
you go after theui.
War veteran, sixty-nine, run HO
yards in seventeen seconds—In 11113.
not in 181*1.
So. Sir Thomas hopes also to win a
bride over here next year. That will
be a lot easier.
One advantage of being n horse is
that corn on the cob never gets too
tough for his uses.
Sir Oliver Lodge insists we're Immor
tal. That ought to make un infinite
change in the plans of some of us.
A German specialist who says that
hotel orchestras are driving people In
sane is evidently some music critic too.
The node in art Is to be barred from
the mails, but there is no indication
that it will be barred from public dis
cussion.
Householders need anticipate no
shofks in becoming adjusted to the
new tarlfT. The tradesmen will break
It to them gently.
ERUPTION ON ANKLE
GREAT SUFFERING
Many Nights Did Not Sleep. Burned
All the Time. Wore Bandage
Night and Day. Used Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Now Well.
Kingsville, Mo. — "My trouble began
eighteen years ago. Nearly half of the tlmo
there were running sores around my ankle;
sometimes it would be two years at a time
before they were healed. There were many
nights I did not sleep because of the great
suffering. The sores were deep running
ones and so sore that I could not bear for
anything to touch them. They would burn
all the time and sting like a lot of bees were
confined around my ankle. I could not bear
to scratch it, it was always so sensitive to
the touch. I could not let my clothes touch
it. The skin was very red. I made what I
called a cap out of white felt, blotting paper
and soft white cloth to hold it Ln shape. This
I wore night and day.
"I tried many remedies for njoat of the
eighteen years with no effect. Last summer
when my anklo had been sore for over a year
and much worse than ever before I sent for
somo Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It
would itch and burn, besides a groat hurting
that I think tongue could never explain.
The very first time I used Cuticura Soap
and Ointment I gained relief; they relieved
the pain right then. It was three months
from the time I commenced using Cuticura
Soap and Ointment until the sorea were
entirely healed. I have pot been troubled
since." (Signed) Mrs. Charles E. Brooke,
Oct. 22. 1012.
Cuticura Soap 25c. and Cuticura Ointment
60c. are sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed freo, with 32-p. Skin Book. Ad
dress post-card" Cuticura. Dept. T, Boston."
WMen who shave and shampoo with Cu
ticu -a Soap will flndit bast for skin and scalp.
EASTERN OYSTERS ON THE
HALF SHELL
Fresh Eastern Oysters on th
half shell are now to be had at th
Pack Train Restaurant.
With each dollar purchase at the |
Keller Drug store you will be serv- J
ed with a cup of hot chocolate or j
malted milk while your purchase Is j
being wrapped.
Table Linen
An attractive line of Holiday
TABLE LINENS, LUNCH
CLOTHS and FANCY HUCK
TOWELS.
Box Stationery
for
ALL AGES.
and
TO SUIT EVERY PURSE.
Silk Hosiery
for
LADIES and MEN
A variety of colors anil black.
KESTNER
Swinging Jointed Dolls.
Campbell Kids.
Peek a bool Dolls.
and
Kewpies.
Have You Visited Our Big i
Toy land?
Blackboards, combination desks, drums, toy dishes, stoves, toy
pianos, Shoo fly, Doll heads, Musical tops, Tool chests, Doll bug
gies, trains, lx»ats and most everything to please the kiddies.
We must insist oil all sales being l'inol, we cannot make ex
changes in tliis our busy season.
/
L. A. Harrison Company |
'Fhone 55
We clo.se at S p. m.,_ except Saturday? 9 p. m.
Shop early—It is your gilt of the holidays to the workers bo- ;
hind thexcounter.
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PES88MIST'8 SONG
Port Angeles Bee: A dog sat ii
the midnight chill and howled at th
beaming moon; his knowledge oi
music was strictly nil, and his voic,
was out of tune. And he howled ant
howled as the hours went by, whil<
dodging the bricks we threw, til
the moon was low in the sky, an<:
his voicfe was split in two. ' Ant
there wasn't a thing at which ti
howl over which a pup should weep
and' the course of that dog wai
wrong and foul, for people were wil
to sleep. There ar e many mer
like that blamed fool hound, win
yell when there's nothing wrong
disturbing the country with dolefu
sound—the pesslninst's senseless
iong.
CHANGE TONIGHT AT THE
"MOVIES"
When a Count Counted—Comic—
Thannauser.
The Fugitive—Drama—Solax.
Through a Higher Power—Dram;
—Rex.
Visiting our President's Suminei
Home—The Collaborators—Comic
Powers.
4 good ones tonight.
CRAB MEAT COCK TAILS
at
The Pack Train Restaurant
Service a la carte.
RAW FURS
—: WE PAY
HIGH ■ PRICES
FOR FINE FURS
WRITE FOB PRICE LIST
Percey's Fur House
Othkosh, • Wisconsin
S J. IKUTA ;
MANUFACTURING
jeweler;
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carvings :
Indian Baskets t
CHINA AND CUT CLASs |
Official Watcfc Inspector tor the S
W. P. & Y. Route |
Mail Orders given prompt care |
Candy Evrr Kind Von Want
j CigfSa Any Kind You Want
• Cigarettes Any Kind You Want
' Pipes Any Shape or HIzi; Yon Want
j Cail on "Tony" before
( the Holiday Rush comes
J he will be glad to show you
, the best line of
i Smokers' Articles, Tobacco
? and Candy in Skagway
} Dont Forget the nnmber, 423
BROADWAY, (Near Fifth)
Tosy Dortero's
■ You make a mistake if
! ycu do not stop at
THE
Puiien House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da|rv,
Fresh Eggs, etc
. Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up '
Well Lighted, Large Sample •!
Rooms for Traveling Men. J
H. S. PULLEN, Prop. ■
Skagway. Alaska '
FRANK SUFFACOOL. Pwprietor
COAL,
WOOD,
HAULING
Quick Service and^Low Rates
Office in,Railway Building
Phone 10 ,
ol its kind pnbilsbed
"dje IMmbert ^fjipper*'
Hailed Absolutely Free lo Fnr Shippers—Send "Sbubert"
your name on a postal today
You want this valuable publication—it is worth hundreds of
dollars to you, issued at every change of the Fur Market,
giving you an accurate and reliable report of what is doing in
all the Markets of the \Vorld in American Raw Furs. - _
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