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EDITORIAL
"OLD GLORY"
"America For Americans
U. S. MARSHAL ISSUES A
NEW LIQUOR ORDER
A continuous string of complaints
4o fha marshal's office regarding
the shipment of liquors by the sa
loo'jra^n of Seward to Anchorage
and other "dry" points along the
government railroad, has culminat
ed iu the issuance by Marshal Bren
neman of stringent orders that the
tr*fflce must stop under penalty of
a forfeiture of licenses. Marshal
Brenneman telegraphed Deputy Mar
shal Evans, of Seward, instructing
him. to notify the saloon keepers at
Seward 'hat they must assist the of
fice In suppressing the traffic and
refrain from selling liquors for
transportation to Anchorage and
other points or he will proceed to
take action against all saloons with
a view to revoking the licenses,
and will further opposo the issuance
of licenses in Seward at the expira
tion of the present license.
Ia this connection Marshal Bren
■emau states that he expects the
co-crera»ion of the saloon men not
only »•«. Seward, but at Valdez, Oor
dovs an1 McCarthy in man taming
fUo observance of the laws respect
vided care is taken, that the liquor
He points out that in this division
the saloon men have been permitted
to sell liquOr by fhe bottle and case
,wi<hout molestaticn, and would
bo* be disturbed, in this matter pro
vided care is taken that theliquor
•old does not go to bootleggers and
other? who might engage in the 11- 1
legal sale of the same, but he al
so points out the licenses issued to
salcoi e calls for the sale of li
quor "to be drunk on the premises,"
aaid if violations continue a strict
construction of the license will be
enfv reed and the sale, even by the
bot'le tr> be taken from the prem
ises where sold, will be rigidly en
forced throughoue the entire divi
sion. : ; ■
BIG PRODUCTION' OF ALASKA
MINE THAT IS FAMOC9
For many years the gold mines o
Dougl83 Island, Alaska, commonly J
toacwB as the Alaska Tread-well
group hare been recognized as be
Ins among the important gold minea
ctf the world.. The ore bodies are
of huge size and mining operations
hare been conducted on a commen
surate scale, but by a method that
has differed somewhat from that
Adopted in the exploitation of other
large lodes. This variation. of
minlnz method has been the result
of economic necessity rafater than
engineering choice; the <*0 of the
Tread well mines is of low-grade..
{The official report issued ffulj 31
1916, gives the total amount of
pre crushed to date bf all the
eom-jtuiiee ot the group w 26,464,*
074 tons; the yi«U per ton,
tha mining and milling cost,
$1.42 per ton> including the op
era'inj? cost of 96 cemts per ton;
«uid the dividendu declared 80.5
e«u'* per ton, .
PAPER PHIS
MISINFORMATION
The following article was taken
from a Bellingham paper of re
cent issue, and it is reprinted for
tha purpose of showing what a
number of inaccurate statements
can ^ made in a few words.
Here is the article:
j This will bo one of the greatest
(years ever experienced t*y South
eastern Alaska, in the opinion of
William Eglinton, 2501 Poabody St.,
who reached Bel ling ham today from
Skagway, where he want last Sep
tember. That part of the big ter
ritory 's preparing to receive an
enormous influx of tourists and it
promises *o be the investment point
of a b umber of capitalists.
The inflow of tourists will be
unprecedented, Alaskans believe. In
accordance with their expectations,
th+ White Pasa & Yukon railway
has ordered two more passenger
coaches and still others "will be add
ed next summer, and in Skagway
ne.w buildings for tha accommoda^
tp>a o' tourists hay® been or will be
built One of the *ew structures,
built of concrete, 14 a bank. The
city has three good hotels now.
At \he present time the copper
mines in that region are very Jmsy
and soon the army of fishermen will
be spreading their nets and the aum
erous canneries jvill swarm with
men and women. With regard to
minin„, a man named Cartwright
has made a discovery of a large de
posit of molybdenite, about nine
miles from Skagway- This mineral
is extensively used in the manufac
ture of guns and is widely used for
hardening steel. Soma work has
been done on it and capitalists have
boen inspecting it.
Egliuton says that Southeastern
Alaska experienced unusually se
vere cold last winter, the thermo
meter registering as low as 50 and
80 degress belojr zero. The se
verity of the winter was manifested
in part, by the ease with which fur
bearinp animals were caught by
tracers. Driven from the hills by
hunger a number of wolves venture
iuto Skagway itself.
Prices are high in Skagway.. Pot:*
toes sell at from $100 to $120
per ton, shoes that cost $6 and $7
la Bellingham tring from $15 to
$1(> there, a«d a snjt of overall
cloth costs $8. Other clothing is
eorrespendingly expensive.
Eglintcn will return to Skagway
ia tdree or four weeks.
OTHERS PUT IN ORDER
Th» first unit of the big mill of
the Alaska Juneau Goltf Mining Co.,
wli] started in, operation with
in ttie next few days, according- to
a s'atement issued today from the
local offices.
The machinery of this unit has
be"u in oper&tion for several days,
for t'ie purpose of turning over the
shafting and searching out the bear
in c? which might run hot. This af
ternoon a small teat run of ore was
sen' through th« mill to try out the
machinery and ii is understood to
h»ve ran perfectly.
The men ia change of the con
struction of the mill have made rec
ord* for themselves In getting the
plant in shape to operate at this
early date, as the actual caastruc
'lon cf the framework was started
last spring.. Tha entire mill has :
been constructed and put in operat
ing shape in a little over one year
of actual construction work.
Tbe o'her units of the plant will
be started a« rapidly as possible
uut'l the mill Is operating at its
estimate capacity Of 8,000 tons of
ore daily .
ALASKANS, AHOY!
T);e call is out far a big gather
ing >f former residents of Alaska
no* living- in the Pacific North
W63* according to the Spokane
Chronicle. The plan is to gather
ei*her in Seattle cr Portland next
October for a celebration to con
tinue a week, including October 18,
'he fiftieth anniversary of the
purchase of the territory.
Th6 movement was launched at a
meeting of Alaska pioneerB now liv
ing in the Yakima valley in Wash
ington state.
Choice chocolate® and boa bons
at KeUer Bros, Drug-Store.
Beliaf In Ghosts!
la most of the oriental countries, nb
tab'y in China and In many quarters in
Europe, the belief in ghosts is still ac
tive, quite as much so as it-was a thou
sand years ago. The peasantry of Rus
sia and especially of Siberia, are in con
stant dread of ghosts, and much of
their time is taken up with devising
ways and means of safeguarding them
selves against their visitations. Not
even In the United States of America is
the ancient superstition defunct. The
negroes are notorious believers In
ghosts, and thousands of white people
remote from the center of Intelligence
fere still the victims of the old Idea.—
New York American.
Origin of a Scholarship Fund.
Journalistic exposure of frauds and
swindles Is nothing new. Seventy-five
years ago the London Times exposed
a conspiracy to defraud bankers out
of a million pounds sterling, many
thousands of which had already been
obtained. One of the gang later
brought a libel suit against the Times
and received an award of a farthing
damages. A great popular subscrip
tion to meet the expense that the news
paper Incurred In defending the actloii
brought a goodly sum. The Times,
however, refused to accept It, but
founded with it two school and hos
pital scholarships, which are still
awarded.—Youth's Compaulon.
Bishops and Mustaches.
Shall we ever see the day of a bishop
with a mustache? At present, of
course, he may only wear a mustache
chaperoned by a beard—by an unwrit
ten code. The preseut bishop of
Chelmsford was the possessor of a lux
uriant mustache until his elevation to
the episcopate, when it disappeared.
The bearded judge we have bad with
us for years, but the mustached Judgtf
Is a comparatively new arrival He
came in with Lord Justice Phllllmore
and was followed, hot long afterward,
by Mr. Justice Shearman. As for doe
tors, a generation ago n mustached M.
D. would have been open to the charge
of unprofessional conduct! — London
Chronicle.
Swiss Organs.
Music has a'ways played an Import
tant part In e life of the Swiss peo
ple. The invention and development
of the bellows, its conbination with
the electric motor, the application of
electric releasing apparatus, from
which Wiere was but one step to the
keyboa * worked by electricity—all
' these brought organ building in Swit
zerland to a high degree of perfection,
| thus carrying its repute Into foreign
[ countries. Swiss organ builders be
came world renowued. Since 18C4 the
oldest two Swiss firms engaged in mak
ing these instruments have finished al
most 1,000 organs with single, hy
draulic and bellows working.
People In Boohs.
There is no possession people are so
unwilling to let one have as an Imagi
nation. In private friends will tear a
book to shreds to discover some por
, trait they can recognize, and In the
case of authors famous enough to be
dead critics rake the ground wherever
they have trod In an effort to prove
that the folk of their fancy were drawn
from the earth rather than the air.
There seems no uieaus of convincing a
reader that in n writer's head are con
stantly a thousand faces he has never
seen or heard of, all subtle with story
and all so real that they often make
his dally waking seem a dream.—Win
ifred KIrkland in Atlantic Monthly.
Jolkley—I ouce beard a man say that
he Would rather be nn ex-<k«ivjct than
anything else he could thitiU of. Polk
ey—The Ideji! IIow we'uri-! Jolkley
-Not at all. The iium was i.i the i>eiii
rentinrj fur life.
NOTICE OP ELECTION
A geueral municipal election will
be held Tuesday, Apri 3rd, 1917,
for the purpose of electing three
Councilmen, one Mayor, a City
Clerk, a City Treasurer, and one
member-clerk of the School Board.
The Election will be held at
tne Town Hall, and the hours for
voting will be from 7 a. m. to 7
p. m.
Voters for Councilmen, Mayor
Cleik and Treasurer, must be citi
zens of the United States, or those
whe have declared their intention
to become such; must be twenty
one years of age or over, who have
resided continuously one year next
preceding the date of election In th
territM-y of Alaska, and for six
months next preceding the date of
election tn the Town of Skagway,
aad who have been duly registered.
All adults, male and female, who
are citizens of the United States,
or who have declared their In
tention to become such; and who
are bona fide rseidents of the
Town of Skagway, are qualified t<
vote for Clerk of the School Board.
D. McKAT,
Acting City Clerk.
Piles Cured la 6 to 14 Days
ioui druggist will refund money ii
PAZO OINTMENT fa;ls to cure any
case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or
Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. The
fire* application gives Ease & Rest. 50c. ■
FRATERNAL ORDlSnS
Arctic Brotherhood. —
Camp Skagwav No. 1.
A. B. meets every sec
ond a ad fourth,' Tues
day- evening at 8:30 p.
'm. stwrp. Visiting brothers ©oidial
j ly wt'ocme. w. L. Stevenson, Arc
' tic Chief. W. E. Burford, Arctic
I Hacc rder.
Fraternal Oitlor
Kagiqs—
Bkagw-nj- Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Oixler of
iwgies meets tbe^ first and third
Wednesday night of each month at
tu<*l» haU on Fifth Avenue. Visit
in^ bruthlers cordially invite*! to
attmd. J. M. Qieisbaci), W. P.
J. V. Miller, Secrwtai-j-.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A. M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th
Saturday, Evenings
of each months. Visiting; Brethren
are w.olcome.
HAROLD TALBOT, W. M.
JAMES WALLACE, Secretary.
m
B. P. O. ELKS
Bkagway Lodge
NO. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
Thursday night
st 8:00 o'clock.
' ■-VAC* / Visiting brotfrers
cordially welcome.
HENRY FRIEDENTHAL, E. R.
F. J. VAWDEWALL, secretary
PIon«Kjr of Alaska Igloo, No. 12,
meet* tn A. B. UaU first Monday in
e*cry month at 8:80 p. in.
Visiting Brothers cordially wel
come.
W. L. STEVENSON, Pres.
V. T. DORTERO, Rec. Sec
rROFKS8ION <VL CARDS
DR. L. 8. KELLER
Dentist
M<*t Modiern Methods
OfQce flours: 9-12 a. in. 1-6 p. m.
Alaskan Building - - - - Btwdnray
8KAUWAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M. D.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist In the trenrfmrfit of
disease and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat.
Office: Goldstein Building, Ju
nftiu, Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Attorney At Law
Practice In all courts
la Territory of Alaska
HAINES _ ... „. ALASKA
Alaska Junk Co.
Of JueH Alaska,
Dealers 1b
RUBBER, COPPER, BRASS
LEAD, ZINC, SACKS, RAGS
ROPE, SCRAP IRON
r
R«ar of Sytckott's Poatoffice
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JEWELER
WATCH ES&CLOCKS
Curios, Ivofvr Carvings
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
Official Watch Inspector for the
\H>. P. & Y. Route
Mail Order; iven prompt care
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WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS
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S. S. Spokane April 2, 13, 24
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Saturday's for San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego.
If Your Ticket Reads PACIFIC STEAMSHIP Co. You are Assured the very Best
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For Full Particulars, Address
H. G. WEIR, Agent SKAGWAY, Alaska
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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S. S. Jefferson, March 25
WESTBOUND
Knik, Anchorage and Way Ports
S.S. Northwestern May 8
Phone 66 - E. J. SHAW, Agent Skagway
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-AND
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FROM SKAGWAY
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May 9-19
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