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No. 329 SEVENTEENTH YEAR 8KAGWAY. ALASKA
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 26, 1915 PRICE 10 CENTS
BUSH FLEEI
London, Feb. 26—Tho Admiralty
announced this morning that the
British fleet had reduced •verr
fort at the entrance of th« Dardan
elles.
The bouituudment. i* *1111 coatlau
iug.
BiG MM
London, Feb. 20—From account*
lecehred here it la believed In ol
liciiil circles that Germany la plan
ning another great movement
■isjaiiLst the western frontiar.
BIG SEA FIGHT
Berlin, Feb. 2«—Tho Cologne
(iazette, copies of which have Just
iteen received in this city, publish
es a letter received from Monte
video stating that seven British ;
cruisers are lying at the Falkland;
Inlands severely damaged.
(■ermany is much pleased by the
American note in which it la sought
to end the foodstuff hlockade.
I
1'aris, Feb. 2<J—Tho French tor
pedo boat destroyer Dague MM
>unk yesterday by coming in con»
tact with an Austrian mine in the
Adriatic Sea.
Thirty-eight of the er*w are
ing.
The Jefferson waa reported at
Juneau early this afternoon and 13
due fcere at 7:30 tomorrow morn
ing
MTTIBLING
CHICAGO MARKET
!
Chicago, Feb. 26—Due to reports
received her# today announcing that
the outer defenses of the Dardan
elles had fallen and that la conse
quence there wu a prospect for
an earl/ release of the Russian
fleet In the Black Sea, making pos
sible thereby the release of mac/
luillloaa of bushels of Russia a
wheat, that product dropped seven
cents In the local market thl3
morning is the first half hour's
trading, and is still going down.
CENTENARIAN GLAD
WILSON'S A GRANDPA
, Cincinnati. O., Feb. 34—Mm. El
isabeth Hall De Camp, who rem em-|
bore Cincinnati's town pump, eel®- j
brated her 100th birthday Monday.:
She called It her debut. On Jan.
14th. she celebrated her eightieth
weddiot anniversary. Ninety years
axo she lived in a log; cabin on
Rac« street, near the present scene
">f high metropolitan skyscrapers.
She saw busy Fourth street as a
cow-pasture.
The new centenarian Is an advo
cate of President Wilson, and was
overjoyed' .recently whan Frances j
Sayre Jr., came to the White Hou&e
and made th« president a "grand- j
pa."
Interior Weather
Skagwaj, cloudy, n. w. 34 above.
Whltehorse, cloudy, calm, i below
Lower LeBarge, cloudy, n. w. 8
telow.
Hootalinqua, clear, calm, 14 be
low.
Big Salmon, clear, calm, 1$ b«
low.
earmarks, elear, calm, 16 be
low.
Yukon CroMiaf, clear, calm, 2b
below.
Selkirk, cloudy, calm, 27 below. I
C-oKee Creek, clear, calm, 30 be
low.
Stewart River, eloudy, calm, 2G
below
OgilvJe, eloudy, ealm 28 below.
Daw*oa, clear, a. w. 27 below.
kotics
A elated •OBUnunicatton of White
P«m Uaaonle Lodge No. 113, will
be keld tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Uuoiic kali. III Fourth avenue.
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Washington, D. C., Feb. —K.
forts to secure a general cominoi>
school system throughout AU.sk.:
by grants of public land lias bee'i
blocked temporarily by John 10. Ba!
laine, according to a charge made
against that individual this morn
ing by Delegate James Wickershaia.
"The person responsible, for the
failure of the bill to pass," sai'i
Wickersham, "is Ballaine, who ho 3
been lobbying against the measure."
The bill, after passing the sen
ate, came up in the house under un
animous consent. Norton of North
Dakota, .opposed it 011 t lr*> ground
that it would locate the agricultur
al college at Fairbanks, while ho
desired to see it located ai Seward.
STUMPS AND MILL WASTE
MAY BE HIGHLY YALTABLE
Seattle, Feb. 26—AVestem yellow
pine eturnps aud mill waste, liiUie.
to a nuisance to the husbandman
and lumberman of the northwest, ma
shortly be proved a considerable
source of wealth and a basis for
now industries in this section of
the country. The University of
Washington, in cooperation wi'.h
the United States Forest Service,
is about to undertake a series of
experiments to determine tho yield
of products from the distillation of
this wood.
Marc Dbirta, chemist in charge of
the experiments, visited Spokaue
last week to select stumps and
waste donated by lumber and mill
men. A carload of the material
will be shipped over the Great
Northern road to Seattle, and the
yield of turpentine, pins oil, tar,
alcohol, acetic acid and charcoal
determined. The quantity of illum
inating gas per cord anil its boat
ing value will also be determined.
The university has bo'.n material
ly assisted by the Spokano Chamber
o' Commerce, through its secretary,
Gordon C. Corbaley, in making it",
preparations for the tests.
D4YS OF THE "ROBERT
E. LEE" COMING BACK
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 26—River
traffic between St. Paul end New
Orleans was given quite a boost
Monday, when the city council of
St. Paul took up the matter of build
ing a terminal in one of the most
convenient spots for rlvsr shippers.
J. H. Bernhardt of New Orleans
is organizing a $5,000,000 company,
to be known as "The Mississippi Riv
er Navigation Co." which shall
have for Its object the operation of ■
a barge line on the Mississippi.
It was Bernhardt who, last sum- ,
mor, ran a barge from new Orleans
to St. Paul and back, just to dem
onstrate the possibilities of river
navigation between these points.
Word has just been received from
our old 3kagway frlenc? D. J. Rica,
who has been undergoing treat
ment at the Tenakee hot springs
for several weeks for a bad ease
of rheumatism, that he is com
pletely recovered and will be home
oa the Georgia next Sunday.
I ISLE FROM
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When Charley Armstrong of the |
Story mine gang at Lake Bennetit
started over to Skagway the other
morning ttf have an aching tooth
attended tp he was undergoing sc
much pain that after he had thrown
nis pajama^ into a grip and locked
he inadvertently slipped his ■
bunch of keys into an out-of-the-way
pocket oi tys overcoat and thought
no more aNout them.
When he reached l.ere he was
buffering excruciating agony, sweat;
was pouring from hi3 anatomy m
rivulets, and^the balmy spring weath- j
er was suffocatingly hot, so he dis
carded his overcoat before going to
the dentist tb have his tooth at- !
tended to. What "Doc" Keller did to
Armstrong after he got the latter in
his o[fice is best told in his own ■
words. Said he, with tears in his
eves, shortly afterward, to a Dally
Alaskan man':
"You'd never believe to look at
"Doc" that he's as heartless as be
proved himself to be to me. After
lie got me into the operating chair
he took a kifid of preliminary pull
at the tooth bothering me, but find
ing it was one with its roots turn
ed up and curled on the outside of
the jaw, he sat down and changed
his office slippers for a pair of
spiked shoes. When he got rea'dy
to make another effort, he placed
one of his feet on«*ny right jaw,
traced the other In the rung of tho
chair, and taking a grip with a pair
of forceps that looked as big to me
;i3 the jaws of a quart.-; crusher, ho
gave one final surge and the of
fending member was out.
"I tell you, when I saw Doc.
preparing to go at me the perspir
ation in which I was bathed sud
denly changed and incased me in >
sheath of i*,-«sc that I was pow
erless to protest. However, I arm
;;11 right now except for the scratch
es made on my cheek fcy the spikes
in Doc's shoes. All that bothers
me is that I have lost the key to
my grip and I wish you would put
in a little ad offering the finder a
reward for its return, as I am con
stitutionally delicate and don't seem
io sleep well without my pajamas.'
Shortly after tho paper appeared
last night, Charley, in rummaging
p.round through the pockets of his
overcoat looking for his visiting
cards, accidentally ran across his
bunch of kejs, and was thereby
made as happy and contented as a
clam at higii tide.
Petrograd, Feb. 120—Tli«j Ger
mans are reported to be making w
rangeinents for another advance
against Warsaw from the direction
of Novgorod and lVzasnysz.
Three southbound passengers left
"Waitehorse this morning—two for
Carcross and one for Skagway.
for the Lenten Season
We have a large variety of the finest
canned fish in the market.
Salmon [salt and kipperrd]. Norway
Mackerel. Boneless Codfish.
Strictly Fresh Eggs, Skagway and
Washington ranch
P. H. GANTY, GROCER
DEAD IN SEME
Seattle, Feb. 26—Albert Bur-1
nell, Alaska pioneer storekeeper,
miner and trapper, la dead here to
day.
SCHOOL
VJ
During the week Fob. 23 to 26,
the fifth and sixth grades have
been studying the Panama canal.
At assembly, on Friday morning,
Miss Moffat told two nature myths,
cne of Japanese, and one of Norse
origin.
Twenty pupils of the three lower j
rooms are absent from school o'j |
account of a light epidemic of 1
chicken pox.
The classes in industrial work
met today with Mi's. Reinert and
Mr. Pedersen. The boys made bird
houses, while the girls received in- j
struct ions in making a garment. |
The eighth grade has been in- j
vestigating the various applications j
of the Pythagorean Theorem, the
past week.
The seventh grade has com- i
ploted the division of general his- '
tory, known as Ancient History, and |
a final examination on the same is J
announced for Monday.
Third grade pupil (reading) The
little girl's father was killed in
the great civilized war.
WASHINGTON
(Written by 5th and t>Ui grades)
W stands for "Washington, who
helped make his country free.
A stands for the axe with which he
cut the cherry tree. •
S sands for surveyor, the ambl- j
tious young George.
II stands for hardships endured at
Valley Forge.
I stands for Indians, with whom i
great was his fame.
N stands for nobility, which was J
always his aim.
G stands for general, -vho was both
brave and wise.
T stands for truthfulness, which he
never did disguise.
0 stands for order, which he knew
like a book.
N stands for new nation, whose
leadership he took.
10 IE ME
AT HAINES
At an early hour this morning,
the gas lauuth W. A. Kelly arriv
ed from Klawack, bringing to Skag
way Rev. William Butison, a Pres
byterian missionary of that place
i'.nd John Benson of . Klukwan,
his brother, sons of the late Jack
Benson. The brothera are here for
the purpose of burying their old
father, an account of whose domlce
was published in this paper yes
terday. It is the Intention of Messrs.
Benson to take the remains o£
'heir parent to Haines for burial
in the Mission cemetery.
Jack Benson, whose native name
was Khoocter, more familiarly knows
as "Chilkoot Jack" by those who
have been acquainted with him in
and around Skagway for the post
quarter century, ia o£ the Sitka
tribe, while his wife, who survives
him, is of the Chllcat tribe.
According to Skagway history,
"Chilkoot Jack*1 was the first per
son to guide a white man over the
now famous White Pass, and it la
«aid that it was a party made up
by the late Capt. William Moore,
founder of Skagway that induced
the old native to tell of the trail
and thus show to the gold-mad
dened throng a nearer and less peri
lous trail to the Klondike. Just
•vhat his age was £t the time of
his death is not certain, but hi3
pons believe he must have been
nearing his ninetieth anniversary.
More than twenty years ago the
deceased and his wife adopted a
baby girl, who is well known In
Haines and Skagway as Miss Cora
Benson. In addition to the two
.•ons mentioned above, there Is a
third son, Daniel Benson, living at
Yakatat, who is unable to get here
in time for the funeral, which will
take i[lace tomorrow. •
William Benson will leave for
llaines this afternoon and be ac
companied by a number of the
friends of the deceased.
PORTLAND PLANTS ROSES
Portland, Ore., Feb. 26—Annual
rose planting day was observed in
Portland Monday. More than fifty
thousand additional bushes were
sot out. Already world's famous
'or iier roses, Portland will be a
veritable bower of the beautiful
flowers when the tourists going to
and from , the California expositions
this spring and aummer visit the
city. . . . .
Who's Your Tailor?
j^ever mind if the robins haven't
arrived yet—Spring is on the
way, and you'll be wise to leave
your measure for your custom tail
ored clothes today—then they'll be
Ready When You
Need 'Em •
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The Clothier