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No. 2S9 EIGHTEENTH YEAR
SKAtfWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1916
PRICE 10 CE&T8
COMMITTEE RECGMMEKDS TWO
MILLION FOR ALU RAILROAD
Washington, Jan. 20—The urgent
dafic'eacy appropriation bill, jrhich
laclule# two milloa dollars for the
Alasta railroad, was today report
ed farcrbly by the houia commit
tee ca appropriation! and accord
ing to the admintatratlon'B pro
gram will bo passed by both Rouses
before the end of th$ w»ok.
PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
IS PROBLEM III SEATTLE
8«att>, Jan. 20—Tno hjmes of
W. X. Borng and d. e. skinner,
both millionaires, wer& raided by
Sharlff Hodge under authority ot ■
search -warranty lut Eight ud a
largo quantity of liquor w*» found
and confiscated it In «tp««toil
that a hotly contacted legal tat
tle w.'U result.
Washington, Ja*. 20—It ia a.n
aounced by tha opponents of the in
crease of the military strength of
the (Jolted States that former Sec
retary of State Bryan will follow
President Wilson ia his proposed
speaJtla* tour in fayor of prepared
new jnd will dellYer addresses ad-,
Tocatisg uniyersal peace.
MEXICAN PASSENGER TRAIN
DERA1LED NEAR el PASO j
11 Paso, Jan. 30 —A passenger
train running from Chihuahua city
►o Jaurez was derailed early this
morning. There were no deaths
bu; several were slightly injured.
Srraral Americana wore on the
train enroute from the bandit zono ,
to safety on the American side.
MONEY OFFERED FOR FIGHTS
BY WELLAKD AND MORAS'
New York, Jan. 20—Jimmy John
stoae, manager of Madison Square
Garden, offers a guarantee of six
ty thousand dollars to Tex WUlard
for two fights and thirty thousand
to Billy Moran for two contests*
PANAMA CANAL |i
, I OPEN AGAIN;
New York, Ju. 20—Col. E. T. | |
Sicca of the U. S. army, arrlrfrd I
tiere yesterday after baring traveled, I
six ? eeks la tho Panama canal roa«.
He srated that the canal -will bs
>r,eced for the passage of the
arg«)t vessels by February 1J.
HOKE MONET XEEDED
FOB ALASKA ROADS b
B
Jrlgtmg ub.t9 own iwiiuiu v.- a
it. J. comera, superintendent of the ; u
Uaaka road commleslos, showing n
Jiat $44,4S4.48 has already been [
sxpended la the Fourth Judicial DIa
:riet during the past summer and I
$20,000 la outstanding accounts I
ivers paid before the season was end- |
?d. These lunu do not include the
£5,009 subscribed to tbs commission
by the people of Fairbanks for the
svork en the ToloTana. trail. The
:ontent!oa Is being mads that Is
flew of the size of the district thfl
expenditures are small and thit
It is to the interest of everyone in
the inferior of Alaska to work for
a larger appropriation. An appro
priation of $1,000,000 a year for
road work in that district should he
made according to ths consensus of
opinltva.—Seattle Bulletl*.
One-Third Off
On Every Article in
Our Immence Stock
With the exception of Rubber Goods, E. & W. Collars,
Overalls, Jumpers, Threads, Knox and Stetson Hats.
j , 5ALE STARTS ...
Wednesday Morning Jan. 12, at g o'clock
Eg CL05ES
j Saturday Night, Jan. 22, at 10 o'clock
TERMS CASH—Store will be open until 9 o'clock arsry
j evening during sale.
HI I V1VTOII ™E haberdasher and
• J« L» I i\vril LADIES' FURNISHER
Broadway between Third and Fourth Phone 41
KING CONSMII SH5
THAT HE IS HEAL ID
Atheas, Jus, >0 «— Klag Coa
■taatine today a&at for & reprawn
tatiT» corre«poadeat of tha associat
ed preaa and stated that he de«lred
to sxyresg through thg aoirvpapor*
of the United State* his ladlgaa
tlon at the hl£h luu.d«d Mtlo* of
the French and British aillea to
ward! Greece. He claims that In
his estimation the Tlolatlons of
the neutrality of Belgium by the
German* waa email compared with
those committed l)y tha alllM i
agalut Greece,
L
Low»ob, Ja*. 20—Tht aontrOYSray
«two«a England &ad3w«de* la sj
« s«rloua a«v*ct. Each cana
ry !s «o\r aelzlag aad holiday the
'tUeri mails. The trouble originally
■rose oyer the aeliurg by th«
Jrttiih of contraband articles sent
>jr parcel post from th» U*lt»d
tat« to Swedes which the Brltlah
»ller«4 destined for G*rmeiajr, j
nigh in
GERMAN SPV
Wrw ifork, Ja*. 20—Igmatlus Tra
ck TJieoln, former member of the,
rttimh parllameit &«d eoafe«M<l
pom tbs demand for hU •xtrajfllon. j
ade Jit England.
Wiu^inytoa, Jan. 30—Gen. CaS*-,
iiaa has notified the Mexican em- j
acaj h-ere that he haa lMned & ,
roclamatlon declaring Vllla.Pablo,
tafael and Castro outlaws. Accord- j
ag to the proclamatlom aiy citizen
i authorized to execute them wth
■ut formality.
rail
TO BE OPENED
WaekiHgtoi, Jan. SO—It ill "■
aouncej at the interior department
today that the president will Ibsh
a. oroclamatioa next March declarini
tho CclTille Indian reierratiom open
for aettlement oa July i.
BIG WIRELESS
I
Wasllngto*. Jaa. 20 — S^raUry
®f the Nary Daalel* liag approTed &
contract aegotlated by department
officialj with, the Federal Xela
graph Co., of Sfta Francisco* for
equipment for the gotoi-ament ra
dio stations under construction at
Saa Diego, California, Caylte, Philip
pine lal&ada aad Pearl Harbor, '
Hawaii. .* ' '
IDIMD SENDS
HALF MILLION
Among the outgoing passangera
3* 'li# Northwester* yesterday -was
Bob Qrlffls, the Intrepid dog mush
w4 accompanied by Jim Healy,
Hr»e»t Beile and Win. Lodge. Thaw
logi u all, with a big sntpmeui, vi
Sold dust, which thny are t*kla« I
to the States. It amounted ia 1
weight to 2,416 pounds, and la Yal- «
ue to almost {600,000, all from the 1
Iditarod camp. Of this amount t
M01,000 is for account of the Tu- I
koa Gold company and {173,000 I
from tbe Minora and Merchant* f
Bank at Idltarod for account of <
▼ar'.ous operators in that camp. '
Th» Tukon Gold company is one I
of the Guggenheim corporation!
and operates a tract of ground «ub- 1
leased fram George C. Friend, Ben- 1
net» Jamt* and T. F. Lawson, who )
originally leased the ground from i
Riley and Aitkin.—Corodya Timee,
Jan. L
FREEDOM OF SEAS
IX REAL rRAonoH
London, Jan. JO—The forelga of
fice has published a stateaeat
iwhlch it announces w«s made by
I tho caotaln of a Swedish steamer to
the elf»t that, befora the sailing of
& Teasel, Swedish custom hou««B
is all cases telegraph to Berlin in
formation of the sailing and thai?
the Teasel does not carry eoatra
basd; and that all Swedish rossels
leaTlng the Baltic are stopped at
the eatraac§ to the sound, by G«r
(Continued on page 4.)
"PREFERRED STOCK"
Means the very best in canned goods
Unsoliced testimonials from many sat»
isfied customers give evidence of the
good quality of these goods. We are
the Skagway agents for "PREFERRED
STOCK" brand and are authorized to
guarantee every can—This means that
should there happen to be a can not up
to standard, all you have to do is to let
us know and another one will be sent
you in place of it, or money refunded.
P. H. GANTY
NEWS FROM THE MINES -
AND CITIES OF ALASKA
H. p. B&ata, aa Arctic chief, has
filed the articles of Incorporation
of the Arctic Brotherhood at
Haiaes,
Thomas Clonlnger has disposed
Of hit interest la the Ch.it.ina Hotel
to Oicar Allen, and he Intends lo
eatiag la COrdOTO..
Tka gorsnuneat wants Dutch
Harbor, Alaska, bm a supply hase,
the cout aad geodetic surrey re
vealed whs* Its annual report was
made nubile.
C«®t Gilbert T. Bude, who haa
keen la command of the U. S. coast
and geodetic surrey boat Taku in
Alaskan waters for sere.-al years,
hag fceea transferred to the IsIh, the
tla* new boat recently purchased by
the government. The Isia will be
imployed oa deep sea work.
Owing to the fact that the large
brewing companies of Washington
itats were forced to go out ot busj
i«ec January 1, oa account of the
prohibition law, representatives of
:hs same are said to be in negotiat
ions with S. Zynda, of the Eagle
3r*wlkg Company, to make the Ju
ihb brewery the supply center for
ha trade of Alaska,
H. B. Ingram, better known in
raider as "Dad" Ingram, formerly
* ths Valdez firm of Ingram & ;
lueh, and a member of the first ter
itorial legislature is in Valdez re
reseating a number of commercial '
one as whose headquarters are on ]
txq pacific coast. He .reports lm- i
rored business coaditioos in the 1
cstsrm states but says there Is no JI
place quite like Alaska, especially
Valdez. He will be la town for a
few days and will gq> to the interior
in the interests of his house to
take orders for early shipments after
the opening of navigation next
i spring.—Valdes Prospector.
Word recently received la Fair
banks is to the effect that a com
pany of miners known on Dome
creefe as the "Fin Beys," hare
struck pay iu their workings on, a
fraction between. Noa. 2 and 3 abov»>
second tier right limit of that
stream. It is eaid to go about
$1.76 to thej square foo-t of bed
rock. Its extent has sot yet fcxxj»
ascertained, but the men hare al
ready discovered that they hare a
block Of the pay large enough, to
keep them busy for the greater
part of the winter. They plan, to
take the dirt out la a winter dump
and will wash it out la the spring.
Commissioner H. J, Atwell -has
reported that a good trail has beau
completed between Rampart, on the
Yukon, and Brook# In the Toloyaaa,
according to the Fairbanks Cltisen.
The distance is - only sixty miles,
with a good haul most of the way,
the only hill being one Just out of
Liiyengood creek, about two miles
'rom Brooks. Building of the'trail
ras pa.'.-l for by Julius Rahmstorf
md M. P. Fleischman, Rampart
nerchants. They hired ten men
vho completed the trail in ten days.
The Rampart men announced they
ia<". fullT 200 tons of surplus Stock
ivailable for Toloyaaa, people, and
tobsleds were already making the
rip from Brooks for supplier •_
•ra-TTARY VKKIiH OK ALASKA
•r military policy for tn© ua
•«d States prepared by the war
ollege dlrtoloa, general staff corps
i compliance with Instructions of
h.« Mcratary of war," Alaska la
lru taeatlo*. The statement has
•ta submitted to the present con
r««i. The full report deals with
rerr oluse of military equipment
* (J pr«paT«daeB3. Regarding Al
Mlti, u says:
"The garrison of Alaska should
•rge eaough to iupport the au
horlty of the United States, and,
jl time of war, to maintain our
lorerelgnty oyer a, small selected
irea otf tho territory. As work on
;ho Alaakaa railroad urogreeEee the
Military needa of AlMka will ln
"Jn time of peace it Is believed
later aa clrcumstaneea aeu»*>..
SAN ANTONIO PLANNING
AVOELD'9 FAIR FOR 191®
Wushlngton, Jan. 6 — Plana ot
San Antonio, Texas, lor aa interna
tional exposition in 1918 to cali
brate the 200th anniversay of - "»
founding were outlined to Pre® den
Wilson today by a delegation 0
Texang, led by Senator Sbeppard and
Representative Slayden.
An invitation from Governor Fer
guson, of Texas, and Mayor Brown,
(Continued on *•) .
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