THE WHITE PISS 8
-*■ ROUTE =
The
Route of
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety.
Through Tickets to ana from Dawson. Fairbanks and all
Interior Alaska and Yukon River points.
YUKON RIVER SERVICE
During the season of navigation our fleet of modern, up-to
date steamers will operate regularly the entire length of the
Yukon River and tributaries, giving a service never before
equalled.
Our daily train servioe between Skaguay and White Horse
has been improved bv the addition of modern
PARhOR OBSERVATION CARS
which are splendidly equipped with comfortable- leather
chairs, writing desks, card tables dressing rooms, etc., afford
ing travelers an opportunity to view the famous White Pass
scenery in ease amd comfort.
For full information apply to
J. E. DEMPSEY, Traffic Manager
Skaguay, Alaska
The White Pass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 34.
Tuesday and Friday.
■No. 1, N. Bound
1st class
8:30 a. m. Leaves
11:00 p. m. "
ll;4o p. ni. "
12:35 p. m.
-:0t> p. ni.
1: !.*» p. m. Arrives
SKAGUAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WHilEHORSE
j av. a, a.
li 1st class
Arrives 3:20 p. m.
Leaves 1:45 p. nj.
" 12:47 p. m.
^ " 12:15 p. ni
" 10:25 a. m.
" 8:15 a. in. ..
Haasosgera must De at aepoui u unw m wire .Baggage
mil checked, laspectloa li stopped SO falautea before leaving time of
ralna. ' j i
150 pounda of baggage will be checked free with each lull fare
ticket aad 75 pouada with each half fare ticket. V
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Has Had no Peers for FifiyWears^
SOLD BY ALL DEALERS' •
OLDE.ST BANK IN ALASKA
THE B. M. BEHRENDS BANK
Juneau, Alaska / : ^
Capital, $30,000.00. Surplus, $20,000.00
B. M BEHRENDS, ft WILLIS GUY.McNAUGHTGN.
Pre»id«nt V>m Pre* f Ca«hi«r y
BELGIAN SOLDIERS DIGGING TRENCHES.
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I Photo oy American Press Association.
The Santa Maria
Derelict
By M. QUAD
Crpyrlglit. 13H. by Associated Lit
erary l'ress.
Of sill the devilish, cold blooded
tilings done by men yon will have read
ot few to et|iuil what took place aboard
one of tbe Spanish merchantmen, the
Santa .Maria, in the year 1S02. It was
published in the papers at the time,
but only a partial account, and as we
had war and excitement at home the
incident was soon forgotten.
One of the oldest business houses in
Mexico up to the date above named
was thai of* the Spanish house of Ga
lera & Co. founded seventy-five years
previously The business of the bouse
was banking. mining, merchandising
and cattle raising. It hr.d a dozen
branches in Mexico, and it had deal
ings with half a dozen countries, in |
a tinan'-ia! sense it was stronger than
the government, and its yearly profit* i
footed tin an enormous sum. A sou j
of the founder had succeeded to the i
management, and when old age camo |
he turned over the active work to a
cousin named Alvarez. The new man
ager was a voting man of twenty-five,
bora in Spain of a tine family and had
been educated for the priesthood, lie
was a man without a vice. Such was
his probity that lie was called "Holy
Alvarez" even in his youth. At an
enormous salary ami with autocratic
powers young Alvarez took over the
management of affairs in Mexico, and
almost as soon as lie stepped foot on
North American soil a change took
place i:i hi< character, lie began to
drink. • niv e and play fast and loose
or ipur e nlHi- «ii.- „ _—
new nwn.iu'i'i'. nml there were those
who predicted ilmt his extravagances
would ultimately lirin^ ruiti to the old I
house. but there were no official com
pl;iluts He knew little or nothing of
business. lint be did know how to
spend money royally, ntul in a year j
he had people (messing how murb
longer it would take him to bankrupt
tlie house. It was after the lialanee
stinets had proved to him that he was
spending more than the prolits of the
bouse and was a debtor to an enor
mous amount that he set about prepar
ing a grand coup. The Spanish mer
chantman was loadtd with a consign
ment of gold. .silver, copper, furs and
dyestulT* for Spain ami the cargo In
sured ro the last cent Alvarez took
into his confidence a young man named
Prado. and when the Santa Maria sail
ed his confederate went with her as
supercargo
Tlie ship was manned by a crew of
fourteen men. all Spaniards. Thirty
days after her sailing to the southward
the American bark Homeward left the
port of Valparaiso homeward bound.
We bad l>eeii out three days when we
ran iuto a dead calm, with the weather
so terribly hot that the deck planks
smoked iu the sun As we lay heaving
on tile g"o;:nd swell a small boat drift
ed into view. It seemed to be empty,
and it had been in sight for two hours
tiiid' was not over half a mile away
'Wli: n the captain decided to pick it up
A In>at wi:s sent o.T. and when she re
mr- .-d uit'i tin- similiter we had a sad
spectacle under our eyes. *fnere was a
dead man lying at full length under the
thwarts.
About two days later we came up
with a derelict from which the man In
the boat had no doubt escaped. On
bourd a horrible-sight met us—the bod
ies of fourteen dead men.
The derelict was a great find to ns.
Her manifest showed a cargo valued at
over S2.000.000, and the ship was all
right above deck.
As the man got away alone and had
provisioned the boat it must have been
after the others were dead. He it was,
theu. who had - brought about the
wholesale death of the crew, and he
must have had a strong motive. That
motive was discovered when some of
the boxes of treasure were hoisted out
of the lazaret and broken open. Aside
from one or two boxes, the whole
treasure business was a fake. Lead
had been substituted for silver and
gold. The furs were a cheat and a
fraud, and the value of the dyestuffs
was not one-quarter of the sum they
were Insured for. A second nnd closer
search of the stateroom evidently oc
cupied by the supercargo gave us the
key to unlock the whole mystery. He
had left behiud a letter of Instruction
signed by Alvarez at the City of Mexi
co, and in that we learned that the
name of the dead man was Prado.
With the auger hole plugged and a
part of our crew ou board the Santa
Maria, we laid our course for the port
of Valdivia. uud in due time both
craft arrived there in good shape. The
dead had been given burial, of course,
but there was no lack of other proofs.
As soon as the plot was unraveled
steps were taken for the arrest of Al
varez In Mexico, and our claim for sal
vage was filed. Governments move
slowly In international matters. It
was months before they got ready to
arrest the mau who had plotted this
sea tragedy. He bad meanwhile con
tinued his career of dissipation and ex
travagance, depending upon his Insur
ance money to make everything good.
News got to him somehow from Val
divia of the derelict being towed In,
and be left Mexico and hid away In
Bolivia. There he was at last found, but
he cheated the hangman by commit
ting suicide.
As a plot batched againsc an equai
and as a tragedy of the sea one must
believe that Prado was little short of
a devil incarnate to sweep aside coolly
the fourteen hnman beings who stood
In h!a pith
He Brought Them.
Mr. Sweet opened the door of the
kitchen and said:
"Hello. Ella; company for dinner."
"Goodness, Tom, you don't mean that
you have brought any one home to din
ner tonight?"i)ueried the wife.
"Sure 1 have!" replied Mr. Sweet.
"Haven't you got any grub for them?"
"Why, no," said the wife despair
ingly. "Don't you remember you told
me you would bring home a couple of
lobsters for dinner, and I depended on
them?"
"Well," said Tom, "they're here."—
National Monthly.
Women's Capes.
Cape of (Jood Hope—Sweet sixteen.
Cape Flattery—Twenty.
Cape Lookout- Twenty-five.
Cape Fear—Thirty.
Cape Farewell—Forty.—Ladles' Home
Journal
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Photo by American Prew. Association. "
Veteran Fighting Men of Servia
The- Servfnnnnny Is largely composed of veterans who know what war is
Tbsy-haye recently been through two war*, one against Tutk?£.V10 aaotW
agaJnj^BiflgaHa. Army experts consider tixom to bA excellent fighters.
THE MIDNIGHT SUN
Really Seen but Once a Year In
the Polar Regions.
A SWING ROUND THE HORIZON.
For One Whole Day, About June 21 at
the North Pole and About Dec. 22 at
the South Pole, Old Sol Keeps His
Blazing Face In Full View.
"The midnight son" is one of those
fceemingly mysterious natural phenom
ena which exercise a perpetual charm
over the popular imagination. The
northern part of Scandinavia has ac
quired for itself the distinctive name
of the "Land of the Midnight Sun,"
but the title should be extended to in
clude a complete circuit of the narth
along the arctic circle. Then, too, the
southern hemisphere has a precisely
similar phenomenon, which occurs
along the antarctic circle, including a
portion of Wilkes Land.
Properly speaking, a midnight sun
is seen but once a year in either hemi
sphere.
Confining our attention to the north
ern hemisphere, the midnight sun Is
visible near the arctic circle on the
date of the summer solstice, which oc
curs about June 21 at the time when
the sun In its apparent annual circuit
of the sky reaches Hs greatest north
ern declinatiou, which means its great
est distance north of the equator. This
distance In angular measure is about
23'/2 degrees, which is precisely equal
to the inclination of the earth's axis
of rotation from a perpendicular to the
plane of its orbit around the sun.
The arctic circle is situated this same
angular distance (23Vi degrees) from
the north pole. When the sun Is di
rectly ovef the equator, about March
21, Its light reaches simultaneously
both poles of the earth. As the sun
begins to move northward the light
quits the south pole, which then en
ters its period of six months' night.
But at the same time the sun rises
higher at t lie north pole, which in its
turn enters upon its period of six
months' day.
In the meantime, along the arctic
circle, the days grow longer and the
nights shorter, as the sun comes con
tinually northward, until, at the sol
stice, when the sun Is 23^ degrees
north of Uie equator, there will be one
period of twenty four hours during
which the sun does not set at all In
the arctic circle.
At the hour of midnight on that day
the sun, describing a circle through
the sky. just touches the edge of the
horizon in the north, like the bob of a
gigantic pendulum, and then, without
disappearing, immediately begins to
rise again to describe the other half
of its sweep in the sky.
This Is the phenomenon called the
"midnight sun."
Conversely a'' the time of the winter
solstice, which occurs about Dec. 22,
when the sun la at its greatest south
ern declination, there is one absolutely
sunless day on the arctic circle, when
the sun skims just under the southern
horizon at nooa
As a matter of fact, owing to the
effects of the refraction of the atmos
phere, which means the power of the
air to bend the rays of light so that
the sun appears to be above the hori
zon by about its own diameter, when
it is really its own diameter below It,
the phenomena just described are vis
ible half a degree (about thirty-five
miles) south of the arctic circle.
After the day of the solstice the sun
begins to dip below the horizon again,
because It is then going south once
more, and the nights, beginning with
a length of only a few minutes, grad
ually Increase until they, too, for one
single occasion, attain the length of
twenty-four hours.
Within the arctic circle the days and
nights, alternately, greatly exceed
twenty-four hours in length. At the
very pole, as we have seen, they each
last six months. In I.apland they may
be a month long and at the North
cape three months.—Garrett P. Serviss
in Spokane SpoKesman-Review.
Shoes For Soldiers.
A study of the orders given by Na
poleon Indicates the care be exercised
to have a sufficient supply of shoes
provided. On one occasion be wrote.
"You know that shoes are always
needed In war. and at another time be
said to Baron Lejeune, "Shoes help
on marches, and marches win battles."
To Sir John Burgoyne's question ad
dressed to Wellington. "W hat was the
first requirement of a soldier?" "A
ijood pair of shoes," be replied. "And
the second requirement?" "A good
pair of shoes for a change." "And the
third?" "A pair of soles for repairs."
-Scientific American.
Ways of Iceland.
There are no trades or guilds in Ice
land. every man being compelled to de
pend apon his own skill for his sup
plies. The natives make their own
shoes, shoe their own horses, and man
ufacture their saddles. A few artisans
are found in the capital—for example,
a bookbinder, a Jeweler and others.
Helping Him Along.
"I want to improve tny language,"
said the conscientious man. "so I
bought a book entitled 'One Thousand
Words Often Mispronounced.'"
"You didn't need the book. You
know more than a thousand now."—
Washington Star.
Nature Is an endless combination
and repetition of a very few laws.
THE
Golden North
Cafe
i
Is serving meals at
restaurant prices.
We make specialty of
Lunch and dinner
Parties
J. IKUTA
manufacturing
JEWELER
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carvings
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
Official Watck Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Order* given prompt care
RAW FURS
i ■ i
WE PAY !
HIGH - PRICES!
FOR FINE FURSI I
WRITE FOB PRICE LIST |
Percey's Fur House
O»hko»h, • Wiicowta
rHJE BKAGWAT
Pioneer Dairy
H. F. MEEHAJJ, Prop.
THE SHOT MILK RJM
The lurgeat and bwt coa
dueted Afirj 1b Ataftka.
Dally clilpmenta of par*
milk and cream to aX pol«t»
011 White Paaa tt Takoa
Route.
Juneau $uam$Mp£o.
U. 8. MAIL STEAMER
Georgia
Elecric Lighted. Steam Heated.
SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS
Sailing Date* and Steamer Sub
ject to Change Without Notlc#
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Douglas, Faa
ti-, Hoonah, Gypsum, Tonakeo,
KlllLsnoo, Chatham ud Sitka
EVEKV WEDNESDAY AX 12:01
ft. ill.
Juneau-Skagway Rout©
Leavts Skagwaj lor Hal*ad, El
dred Uock, Comet, Jaalla, B«eU*
el Islaud, Eagle Hirer, DoaglM
and Juueau.
EVERY SUNDAY AT 12:01 Ik ■»
WTLLIB K. NOWKLL. Manager.
Raleigh
Hotel
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MANAGEMENT
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Reasonable Rates
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