JAPS STEAL
Koreans Augry Over Theft
01 Sacrel^Sbrine
Seoul, Korea, May 22? It has Iwwn
learned that Korea's sacred shrine
which is thousands of years old, has
been stolen by Japanese noblemen. The
tihole country is wild with anjfry ex
oitement over the theft. The Japanese
authorities have been appealed to see
^ to the restoration of the missing article.
tOONS TO BOVCOTT
\ CUV Of SEATTLE
?S;oago, ^May 20 ? At a largely at
u bLm aeeting of negroes held here
ve^tday, it was decided to throw every
tffo^pf the colored people throughout;
the lme.1 States toward a boycott on
Sea'.tlJ^in retaliation for the action
taken IrKlhe leading hotels of that city
in reluAg accommodations to the
oegro d<Jegates to the convention of
Christian%':ndeiVOrers, to be held In
Seattle sM?ly- Oreat bitterness Is
displayed by pegroes everywhere over
the action of tHf Seattle hotels.
COLLECTOR IJOBART
IS At SKAGWAV
C. L. Hobart, collector of customs
for Alaska, is in the city. 4 He arrived
on the City of Seattle last dfc'ht and is
at the Pullen house. He will remain
here umi! the arrival of the Jefferson
and then return to Juneau.
Mr. Ho'-*rt will cot make trip down
the Yukon river this year. Special
Deputy Collector Willis will perform
that office for him. Mr. Hobart made
the trip last year and the year previous.
mm sails
TOR IP-RIVER
Fairbanks, May IS? The Tanana sail-'
ed yesterday for Dawson with 20 passen
gers. She is the first boat to get away |
this year.
Cale Coming la July
Delegate Thomas Cale writes John I.
White that he will be in Juneau in
Ju> en route lo the interior to look '
after mining irterests. Friends here j
plan on giving Mr. Cale a big recep
tion.? Juneau Dispatch.
Mar Ask Ccr*y to Resign
Xew York. May 20- A report is inclr-]
culation here that President Corey |
has been asked to resign from the,
tnanagf ment of the United States Steel]
Company on account of bis recent j
marriage.
Maocabiaa Honor N<-w Memb.-r
A light supper was served at their
hall by the Ladies of 'he Maccabees
Tuesday evening after the lodge meet- :
iog in honor of Mrs. W. A. Sparks, j
who became a new member at the
meeting. A delightful time was had.
The best dining room.thebeat accummo ;
i!ation.?, tne most comfort at the Fifth
avenue.
The Fifth Avenue hotel is the big
gest and best appointed hostelry in all
the north.
NOW'S IIME
If Yon, Want a Baseball j
Eje let ^oick
Now is the accepted tiuie to have
your eves examined by a speacialist
and to hare them fitted with glasses
that will gire them a vision that is per
fect. The basebill season is about to
be with us acainjand every zood citizen
will want to get onto the curves of the
knlgbts of the diamond. That will be
impossible if the eyesight is not per
fect. And then, the spring is the
season of the year when repairs are in
order, when everything should be | ut
in first-class condition for active work.
We examine eyes free of charge; we
use the latest appliances approved by
science, and we GUARANTEE SATIS
FACTION.
Our jewelry store and our repair and
manufacturing depar.'ment are the
best.
J Iku U. Opticihu.&i d Jtwtle
A Woman Collector
[Original.)
"The firm uame was Shlrls & Shlnn,"
said the retired hardware dealer, "KJ
we didn't get on from the start I
had a good trade and was obliged to
be ou the road most of the time. This
left the buying to my partner. The
trouble was that he wasn't any klud of
a buyer. If a salesman came along
with a cock and bull story about a
sick wife aud a dozen or so starving
childreu Shinn would buy a bill of
goods of him whether we wanted them
or >io t. The couse?iueucc was that ev
ery time I came iu I found the stock
growlug In spite of my efforts to re
duce It.
"Well, the result of it all was that
i weeping drummers finally succeeded
In turning the store luto a Junk shop,
and we had to quit. Shlnn. as Be
should have done, offered to stand the
loss, giving up all the capital he d put
in, acknowledging that the outcomo
had beeu eutirely his fault If 1 could
have closed up at one? his money
would have b?*u just enough to square
us, with 110 loss to me, but the \ cry
dav we closed aloug comes a one leg
god ? commercial traveler he called him
#elf ?consumptive, wheezing through
one lung, aud Shinu had to order a
$500 bill of him. We closed the order
out at about 60 cents on the dollar,
making a deficiency of $187.42. This
Sbiuu agreed to pay as soou he was
able.
"Shinn was a bachelor ami removed
from his rooms In an apartment house
to a little shanty. I sent a man around
to collect his iu tebtedness. but he came
back empty hauded. I sent another
with ordei-s to be more persistent, and
he came back, reporting that the door
had been slammed In his face. I used
to stv Sliiuu occasionally on the street.
He looked morose and shabby. One
day I saw him give a quarter to a beg
gar. That made me mad. If he had
money to give such nuisancer he had it
to pay his honest debts. I hired a reg
ular 'fighting collector and sent hiiu
round to Shii'ti's shanty. He came
Uck with his Lead baudaged up. a
Mack eye and a swelled l?p. to say
.nothing" vf the loss of a suit of clothes.
-I hired several men In succession to
go and net into the house and stay
there till Shlun came down with the
funds. The first oue that came back
reported he'd l>een thrown out. the sec
ond shared the same fate aud the third
and the fourth and so ou likewise.
"Theu It occurred to me that I'd send
% woman. You see, a mau cau t figU. a
woman, aud there never was a woman
yet that couldn't get the better of a
man If she wanted to. There was no
woman's collecting agency iu the town,
so I told several friends of mine that
I'd give half the debt to any woman
who'd collect it.
"About a month after making the
announcement a younj. good looking
woman came to see me and said she *1
heard I wanted a debt collected of
Pwcv Shlun. She didu t look like a
business woman at all. but I concluded
tc try her. So I gave her an order for
the uioney aud started her out.
-It was 3 o'clock when she left me.
uud 1 waited with a good deal of anx
iety to learn how Shinu would meet
this uew enemy, i expected her back
Id about au hour. Four o'clock came,
but no collector ? u, C. 7, uud she
didn't show up. Iu fact, she dldu't
show up that night uor the next day
nor the next uor the next. A week
passed, and I began to thluk Shiun had
murdered her. t'uuiiv . wasu t it.'
erv mau I'd sent had come hack after
having beeu tiiro\> ti out; the only wo
"Theu I fancied maybe the woman
had collected the money or a part of It
and gone off with it. At the same time
It occurred to me that 1 had stupidly
omitted to take her address. I con
eluded to notify the police aud started
ont to do so, but thought I'd take a
look on the way at Shluu's house. So
I went a roundaoout way aud brought
up opposite the shanty. Somehow it
didu't lo>k so tumbledown as before.
There were white hollaud shade-; iu the
windows aud a few flowers in the yard
In front.
"A woman came out of a house near
where I was stmdimr. and 1 asked her
who lived In the hou<e opposite. She
said. 'Mr. Shlnn.' 'Any one with hUu?'
'His wife.* 'I didn't know he was
married.' 'He wasu't n short time
ago. There's a story couneoted with
it. Mr. Shlnn owed some old cunnudg
eon some money and sent a young wo
man to collect it. She was real smart.
She told him she was to get half the
amount collected! that she was the on
ly supi>oct of a widowed mother and
seven brothers aud sisters. She gave
such a pitiful picture that Shlnn. who
had beeu a long while starving himself
to pay the debt aud had just saved the
last penny, went and got It and gave
It to her. You see somebody had told
her what kind of & mau Shinu was.
She was so cut op by his lovable man
ner that she told him to keep the mon
ey for all her. an 1 be said he would
keep It till his creditor came for It
himself. It was one of the quickest
' matches I ever heard of. They only
knew each other a week before they
were married.'
"This was the story given out. Years
after I heard the trne one. The wo
man was an old sweetheart of Sliinn h
who had refused him. On hearing of
his condition she bad gone, dlsgu'^ed,
ostensibly to collect the money.
Knowing his soft spot. sl>e had made
' up the yarn. Theu she threw off her
? disguise, and there was a circus.
"Yes. I got the money? every ceirt
due I w*it for it myself."
.:hijfr-.- . mSHBSHT POUSMAX
THE EJ*V
OF MATEO
I k
[Copyright. UWG. l>y Eugfiio Parcells.]
There was never a more absolute
monarch, uo matter what his color,
than King Mateo, who reigned over three
of the New Guinea Islands thirty yuan1
ft go.
Uateo's father had made the mistake
of murdering the crew of a trading
vessel, aud when word had been pass
ed around the white men would trade
with him no more. The sou sent word
far and wide that all traders should be
safe with him, and in time uiuny ves
sels called iit liis Islauds. He bad
copra and oil and other things to sell,
T>ut he wanted guns aud ammunition
In exchange.
lie hired white men to drill his war
riors and build forts for him. He even
got hold of a number of cannon and
had them mounted. He had the largest
fleet of war canoes on the big Islaud.
If his meu could have beeu made sail
ors of. the old chap could have gone
luto the pirate business in first class
shape.
For five years King Mateo encour
aged traders and whalers and got
?eady for a grand coup, and then be
struck a blow that made Ills name lu
fumous In every eastern sea. In his
principal harbor were lying two Eng
lish whalers and five trading vessels
when he gave a graud feast. It was
his wish that the crewS of all the ves
sels be present, aud only two or three
men were left aboard when the feast
began. By drugging the liquor and
food Mateo made nbout a hundred men
helpless, and when they had their
senses again It was to find all their
vessels captured and every person n
prisoner. When the various craft bad
been robbed and stripped they were
towed to sea and scuttled. By this
stroke the king secured many more
firearms and barrels more of powder,
as well as other things to increase his
wealth aud arrogance.
I Three mouths a'fter the attack Cap
;aln Williams of an Australian tfader
?nanaged to escape to sea In a canoe,
"out had neither food nor water. Ho
was picked up by a vessel a huudred
miles away. It was four months later
before a British war vessel started
from Stugapore to convince King Ma
too that there were other uionarrbs on
the face of this earth. During these
neveu months Mateo had grown so ar
rogant thai he defied the world. Twen
ty-one of the white slaves had suc
cumbed to the climate aud the bar/J
work and scanty food
No more traders had culled in, auJ.
being angry at this, the king had deter
mined on a grand feast at which the
last of his white prisoners should be
slain for the amusement of'his people.
This- feast would have been held two
weeks before her majesty's man-of-war
Revenge reached the Islands had not
the ruler bad a spell of sickness. He
had Issued his royal proclamation when
the armed craft came sailing into his
harbor. She was an auxiliary, but was
not using steam. For once the British
captain resorted to a trick. He made
the Iteveuge look as much as possible
like a whaler after a long voyage, and
the few men of her crew allowed on
deck were rigged out any old way. She
had six guns, but these were so well
covered that the spies who were sent
aboard did not notice them. They re
turned to the king to report an ordi
nary whaler, aud he Invited the crew
to a feast. His iuvitatlou was refused
He thereupon ordered the craft out of
his harbor. She refused to go.
The British captain bad beeu in
structed to move carefully and let Mu
teo take the lead In overt acts, lie did
not have to wait long, in broad day
light on the third day, aud after seud
lug ott word of what he was goiug
to do, Mateo attacked the Britisher
with seventy war canoes, each one
holding ten meu. They paddled out
from shore singing their war songs aud
Indulging In many boasts. The He
vengo had furled her sails aud got
iteam up, and she steamed down to the
mouth of the harbor aud waited. When
the first musket was fired at her. her
crew leaped on deck and began to
work the big guns. She was provided
with round shot, shell aud grape and
canister, and the sea tight lusted only
fifteen minutes. Fifty of the seventy
.-?a noes were destroyed aud most of
fbe'r crews killed.
This was" the first licking King Mateo
ever received, and It set him frantic.
He was game, however. He was lick
ed, but he wouldn't give up yet. He
rallied his battalions and challenged
the Britisher to come ashore aud have
It out fair aud square. This was ex
actly what the captain of the Revenge
wanted to do. He had come after
those white prisoners, and he must go
ashore to get them. He had a crew Of
200 men, and hi lauded 'JOO of them,
divided them into three bodies, and
when the natlvis advanced, still five
to one. they we,-e bowled over by the
score, flanked right aud left and licked
out of their boots In half an hour.
King Mateo's reign was at an end
forever. Of the white prisoners only
about thirty were left. Of the natives
Coo had been killed and as many as
300 wounded. Two trading vessels
came in on the day of the battle. They
were allowed to load with the plunder.
Several villages were burned, many
cocoanut groves destroyed and the king
and eleven of bis principal meu taken
aboard the Revenge." A new king was
Installed on the throne and bidden to
mind bis p's and q's, and then the
Britisher sailed away.
The prisoners were lauded at Sing
apore and kept In jail for a year or so
and when turned loose became dock
loafers. Mateo Is still pointed out to
the tourist, aud the first thing he does
after being called up Is to beg for a
driik: the second Is to announce that
thtf British are a great aud wonderful
race. - M QUAD.
TO My Patrons:-- ?
I will be at my old place of busi
ness until further notice and pre
pared to give receipts to all those
who desire to pay their account.
MARTIN CONWAY
Skagway, May 11th, 1907.
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used ia some
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BUT
with#
"METEOR?
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
everything is so arranged that b J
following the simple instruction?
the quality is always delkion*.
See our several styles and let I*
explain the perfect way.
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Gold and Silver smith.
We have a large stock
homney's Candy
Peter's Gbocolates
Also a large stock ol
Fresh Nuts
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On and after the 1st of October, 1905, the following will be the
Monthly rates for water and. light service from the Northwest Light
& P owerCompany:
WATER
First Faucet $ 2.00
Each " additional (except wash ban.'os, free) ... 26
Bath Tubs In Hotels or other Public Houses ? 50
Water Closets " " " " *' 50
Urinals " " " " " 60
Wash Basins " " " " " 26
Hote's, per room additional 10
Beer Pumps 1.00
Restaurants 5.00
Steam Laundries ' 7.50
Hand " 5.00
Motors, special per horsepower, minimum rate 5.00
Hose Connection for Fire Protection i.00
Families carrying water 1.50
Individuals " " 1.00
Hauling water, per load 1.00
Lawn and Street sprinkling Free
ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES
COMMERCIAL SERVICE
All Yeir Winter
Stores, Offices, Shops and Residences
Each 16 cp lights -. $ 1.00
Enclosed Arcs 10.00
ALL NI'JHT SERVICE
Each 16 cp lights ." 1.50
Enclosed Arcs 15 00
32 cp '.ights double 16 cp
Meter Rates will be 10 cents per 1000 watta.
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