CAN ACT
Coal Land Claimants May
Perfect Title
(.Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan.)
Washington, May 20? Judge R. A.
Billinger, commissioner of the general
land ortke, has issued orders governing
the acquirement of title to Alaskan
coal lands and outlining the rights of
present claimants. The orders provide
that all those persons and associations,
qualified under the law, who Hied in
good faith one ye?r prior .to November
12, 1906, may file notice* at any time
prior to August 1st, next, and acquire
patents according to law.
The order also fixes the boundaries of
the Nome and Fairbanks land districts
and provides that title to all those
claims within those districts must be
perfected at the lacd office of the dis
trict. All claiming coal lands outside
of those boundaries must act through
the Juneau land office.
SOliltl ENDERS GETS
ANOTHER GAME
The South Enders won the baseball
game Saturday with the North Kcd
t?am in the series for the Keller
prizes The game was the third play
ed and its results gives the South End
?rs two victories and one defeat. The
first team to win three games will get
first prize.
Barrdt Will Rapraaant President
Seattle, May 17? John Barrett of the
United States diplomatic corps will
represent President Roosevelt at the
Alaska- Yukon-Pacific fair grounds
breaking June 1.
Ikatsay People Engage la Flaklag
There were dozens of fishing Jparties
out from Skagway yesterday in various
directions. Probably 60 people were
fishing in lake Dewey. All the persis
tent anglers wtre rewarded with fish.
Al-Kl Coming Again.
A letter received by E. A. Murphy j
conveys the information that the Al-J
Ki w?s to sail for the North yesterday.
She has a cargo of explosives and coal,
City Coanoll Wilt Mast Tonight
There will be a regular semi-month- j
ly meeting of tbe Skagway city council
this evening at the council chamber. !
All tbe members of the body are in the |
city.
Phone City Tranafar
For your vOal, wood and general haul- 1
ing." Phone 90. Boughton's cigar;
10-4-lmo ;
Skagway .Laondry
For first-class work try Skagway ]
Laundry. Twenty-five vears' experi- j
ence. Telephone 89. ft
Ralniar Book B>ar At Maacot
Rainier Bock Beer on draught at |
the Mascot.
Rye
America's finest production. Rich
and mellow. At the Seattle, tbe house
of old honest gcocls and reputation . !
mrm
If Von Want a Baseball
Eje Act Qnicb
Now is the accepted time to hive
your eyes examined by a speaclaiist
and to have them fitted with glasses
that will give them a vision that Is per
fect. The basebtll season is about to
be with us againjand every good citizen
will want to get onto the curves of the
knights of the diamond. That will be
impossible ii tho eyesight is not per
fect. And then, the spring is the
season of the year whsn repairs are in
order, when everything should be j.ut
In first-class condition for active work.
We examine eyes free of charge; we
use the latest appliances approved by
science, and we Gl'ARANTEE SATIS
FACTION.
Our jewelry store and our repair and
manufacturing department are the
best.
i. Ik a tlcian and Jewels
1 A Meteorological Paradox:
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(Original.)
I once knew a quartet composed of
the funniest people you ever saw In
your life. They weren't four men or
four women nor two men and two wo
men, but three men and a woman.
Each of the three men was funnier
than the other two, and the woman
was funnier than the three men to
gether. You should have seen her.
One eye was turned up at nn auple of
twenty-live degrws, the other dowu at
an angle of thirty Shecould look serious
and sympathetic out of the one eye
aud hysterically diabolical out of the
other. She had a ravenlsh croak and a
sweet melody In her voice, so that no
oue eould tell whether she meant to be
pleasaut or disagreeable. Sometimes
she would say pleasant things to you
looking at you with her sympathetic
eye and sometimes say diabolical things
looking at you with her sympathetic
eye. So nobody ever knew what she
was driving at.
The first of the three meu was Mr.
Bautatu, husband of the above describ
ed lady. Everybody said the name
was very appropriate, for .Mr. Bantam's
face wore the perpetual grin of a ban
tam rooster. Next came Mr. Guver. a
theoretical mathematical prodigy. Like
Kir Isa*c Newton, who made a large
and a small hole In Ills door for his
big and little cat to come through,
Guyer didn't stoop to consider petty
contrivances. He once had au alarm
clock which failed to v\'ake him up In
the morning. Somebody finally called
his attention to the fact that it hadn't
any belt. The third man was Mr. Mer
ryweather, a "real noble, good man,"
as one of his wotneu friends express
ed It. Indeed, lie was so good aud no
ble that he cotildu't conceive of any
one being wicked. And thereby hangs
this tale.
One Sunday morning Merry weather
and Guyer went to see Mr. and Mrs.
Bantam, who were at church. The two
men st<t on the veranda waiting till
the services should be o\er aud the
couple, recharged, like au electric auto
mobile, with goodness, should return.
The weather was betwixt aud be
tween. and when Merryweather said
tt was warm <J uyer. who was a great
disputant, declared It was cold. Pres
ently Mr. aud Mrs. B'lutam returned.
Mrs. Bantam welcoming Guyer with
I her sympathetic eye aud Merry weuth
! er with her diabolic eye. theu passing
Into the house. The dispute about the
weather was referred to Bantam, who
concluded to refer it to tho thermome
ter, which he brought from the h J'ise
He showed it to Merryweather, who
| was surprised to see a lecord of fO de
grees. He was much pleased to be vin
dicated, but hadn't expected so trium
phant a vindication.
Then Mrs. Bantam came out ana, re
garding her husband anil Guyer with
ber sympathetic eye and the gft-rt Mr.
Merry weather with her diabolic eye,
made some modest remarks on the
weather herself, lu ""which she main
talned that It was growing colder.
After having established her point, at
least with Bantam and Guyor-Mra.
Bantam always established her point;
people were afraid that If they dis
agreed with her she would bring her
diabolic eye on them? she went back
Into the bouse with the thermometer.
Presently Bantam went luside to get
the thermometer agaiu, and when lit
brought It out it had fallen 20 degrees
Merry weather couldn't understand how
so decKlod a change should have oe
curred in so short a time without lib
feeling It. Guyer suggested that tbert
was something the matter with him.
Merry weather was frightened, lie
i bought be bad l>etter go h-iine.
Mrs. Bantam came out again, bring
ing the thermometer with her and sug
gesting that something nnst be tin
matter with it. It hail goae up again.
This reassured Merryweat'i-?r. who was
of too sweet a disposition to speak lils
thoughts, which were th.-t Mrs. Ban
tam bad probably read the scale first
with her lower, then with her upper
eye. But as there were 4." degrees be
tween the two eyes this didn't explain
the smaller difference. However, he
decided to wait awhile tv.'fore conclud
ing tln't he bad chills and fever. The
consequences might have been averted
had not Bantam handed round a stim
ulant. A few minutes after Merry
weather had drained his glass Mrs.
Bantam came out with the thermome
ter again standing at GO degrees. Then
Merryweather was sure be had the
fever of pneumonia. A sympathetic
curve appeared,on the left hand cornet
of Mrs. Bantam's mouth as she re
marked that It came on that way.
Merryweather was helped Into the
bouse and placed on a lounge. Occa
sionally he would resume a normal
bodily temperature, but whenever he
did so one of his three friends would
show him a thermometer antipodal to
his coudltton. If the mercury stood
low when he was hot ho thought he
was In fever. If It stood high when he
was cool he assumed that he bad a
chill. In this way his loving friends
kept working on his Imagination and
| through his Imagination on his body
! till he got up and went home to die.
Once out of the way of the malign In
fluence that had tormented him. be' was
surprised ate sudden recovery.
Now, the explanation of this me
teorological paradox Is this: Bantam
before bringing the thermometer out
on to the veranda to settle the dlspnto
between Merryweather and Guyer had
held the bulb In his fist. When he
took It Inside he gave It to Mrs. Ban
tam with Instructions to put It In the
Ice chest. And so the thermometer
was kept oscillating between heat and
cold while Mr. Merryweather was os
cillating between cold and heat tilt
he was thrown Into a condition of
3najlaary pneumonia.
OSCAB COX.
I i II
' What She Taught Him
n ii
(Original.]
Captain Gerald Donovan of ttie ? tb
United States artillery took the ground
that all glrlt were unreliable la mat
ters of love and a man should deal
with them according to their own
methods. Donovan wag stationed at
Fort Monroe, where he studied at
the artillery school by day and flirted
with the girls at the hotels during the
?veiling.
Among other girls he saw a great
ileal of Lorella Bertrand, the daugh
ter of a retired army officer living In
Washington. Miss Bertrand was quite
young and very unsophisticated. Cap
tain Donovan was the first grown man
who had ever been especially attentive
to her, and her poor little head was
soon turned. He was her constant at
tendant at dress parade In the after
noon and In the evening was always
seen sitting In one of the luxurious
chairs opposite her at the hotel where
she was staying with her parents.
Then one day came Miss Olcott. a
New York belle, and whisked most of
the young officers of the fort in her
following, as a train of cars will draw
papers on the track flying In the air
after It. Captain I>onovan at once be
came the favorite, and he made no
more of transferring his attentions
from Miss Bertrand to Miss Olcott
than of changing his uniform of khaki
to full dress. Poor Miss Bertrand met
her first attention and her first deser
tion very near together, but If the lat
ter troubled her she did not show It
Outwardly at least Bhe accepted the
situation, and. as she was Just grow
ing Into attractiveness, she found no
difficulty in filling up her time with
other officers.
From Fort Monroe Captain Dou
ovnn was ordered to the Pacific coast,
lie remaiued there three years, when
lie was transferred to the war depart
ment at Washington. On the evening
of his arrival at a reception of the sec
retary of war he met Mls? Bertrand.
Three years had filled out her figure
and stamped beauty on ber face. Sh>
was the same retiring, gentle creature
that she had been when Donovan had
first met ber, and when he approached
and spoke to her, after a slight appui
ent embarrassment, she received bin;
not uukindly. As Donovan surveyed
her critically from liesd ta foot he re
gretted that he had not taken her who:
she was ready to fall Into his uet
However, not being troubled with back
wardness, be manufactured a cock anr
bull story about his conduct, hinting
at excuses greatly to bis credit, anil
asked permission to call and explain.
Miss Bertrand told him that she would
be at church the next (Wednesday) aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock and he might serf
her there.
Donovan went from the reception ti>
the Army and Navy club, where he
met Major Price, with whom he had
passed some time In the Philippines
wheu they were both subalterns. They
sat down together at a table for re
freshment, and Douovan, who was at
the moment full of his former love,
spoke to Price of having met her. Price
smoked In silence while Donovan gave
htm au account of his attentions to
Miss Bt-rtrtvud, his switching off to fol
low Miss Olcott? "couldn't help It; she
was such a stunner"? and ended bv
telling of the appointment between
himself and Miss Bertrand the next
afternoon.
"Oh. she wouldn't hurt any one's feel
Ings for the world," said Price. "SheV
a lovely girl and has recently Inherited
a fortune from her grandmother."
The two officers parted with expres
sions of satlsfactlou at having met aft
er so long an absence, and the next
afteruoon at 4 o'clock ?)ouovan weut
to the trysting place. The street before
the church was tilled with carriages
which surprised the capuin, who could
not understand how go many people
would attend service oq a week day
Then, seeing a canopy stretched from
the sidewalk to the church door, he
concluded that some friend of Miss
Bertrand was to be married and this
and not the ordinary service was win*
had brought her to church.
He had scarcely entered when h
wedding march came rolling out from
the organ. Who should Donovan set
proceeding as the groom down a side
aisle but his frieud Major Price. As
tounded, he turned to the correspond
lng aisle opposite, and his wonder wan
tenfold at seeing In the bride the lady
he had come to meet. Miss Bertrand
Donovan was entering a pew at the
moment and caught at Its back tr>
steady himself. In a twinkling he saw
himself from being about to he lifted
Into heaven cast down into hell. He
stoo (T during the wedding service sup
porting bliusrtf on the back of the pe^
In front of him, and when the bride
and groom walked out through the
center atsle, passing within a few feet
of him, he stared at the bride like a
condemned man at big executioner.
But she mercifully kept her eyes to the
front.
Captain Donovan went to his room.i
a sadder and a wiser man. He had
flirted with women who had vented
upon him the wrath of a woman scorn
ed. Their treatment had only flattered
his vanity. Providence had sent the
gentle Miss Bertrand to teach him
that no pain Inflicted on the body can
equal that which may be Inflicted upon
the soul.
Captain Donovan met Mrs. Price oc
casionally In society, but she never no
ticed him. Indeed, she seemed un
aware of his presence. On one occa
sion he was presented to her by a
frieud who knew nothing of their past
relations. She ^received him without
the slightest embarrassment and with
the unaffected manner for which sh*
was conspicuous.
AMI' B. KENNEDY.
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.
(HE BES1
COFFEB
can be
SPOILED
by the old tilt
or tr.iss plan
used ia eons?
household!!
BUT
?
g withy
?V- "METEOR" ~
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
even-thing is so arranged that bf
following tho simple instruction
the quality is always delkiorau
See our several styles and btw
explain the perfect way.
P. E. KERN
Gold and Silver smith.
We have a large stock|
Lotaney's Candy
Peter's Ghoeolatesj
Also a large stock ol
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the.Number. 428 Brdw'y j
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and Importer of
MILLINERY
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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 basins, free) 26
Bath Tabs in Hotels or other Public Houses 50
Water Closets " " " " 50
Urinals " " " " " 50
Wash Basins " " " " 25
Hole's, per room additional 10
Beer Famps - 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 1.00
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
EnolosedArcs 10.00
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Each 16 cp lights 1.50
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