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Official City Paper
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SHOULD NOT BE DONE
The contention over the purchase of
school books still continues. This '.s
re .rettable but it appears that no one
is at fault. The school board ordered
the new books used in the schools be
cause they were the latest and best
adapted L. A. Harrison company
agreed to supply the books and permit
the school board to set the margin of
profit which the latter thought the
company was entitled to on them.
Kverytblng was done, apparently, to
get the books that should be u?ed aud
Install them for the lowest price. Des
pite thi> the suggestion is being uiade
that. the school board shou'd handle the
books and supply them to the students
at cost price. This certainly should
not be done. The school boarJ Is not
in -he school book business. Merch
ants in town psy taxsi for selling the
articles required in schools and it is not
within the orovince of the school board
to attempt to set itself up as a business
institution. Mr. F. B. Wurzbacher, ii
ia understood as < board member, is
opposed to such a plaa and it is noped |
that the other members of I lie school
board are of a like frame of mind.
THE FIGHT IS WON
Some friends of the cau>e have asked
the editor of the Miner why lie has not
had a? much to offer lately on the sub
ject of territorial government as h?d
formerly been with him a ruling pas
tiou The question is easily answered.
It i> because ne considers the fight won
?in fact, practically all over except
the shouting. That is certainly the
condition as applied to the campaign of
education begun by h:m twenty years
ago, renewed with the inception of iht
Ketchikan's piioeer newspaper, and
continued until the press and people of
Alaska have been made practically a
unit ia their ><lhe*ion to and advocacy
of the cause of popular home govern
rnent. lie ia loth to strike a fallen
enemy, or to continue a fight alreadt
woo, and is content to surrender all the
honor and credit to those who entered
the fray later on, and to whose earneit
ness and courage is due the victory.
I'otil, therefore, >omething in the way
of argument more effective than the
falae statements and falser reasoning
thai is now oppo>ed to the cause is
brought to the fore, the Miner will be
content with the consciousness of a duty
well and faithfully performed of a vic
tory honestly achieved in the education
of the people of Alaska into a high
sens?- and apprehension of their politi
cal rights and dutiis. ? Ketchikan
Miner.
The Alaskan cannot say that it en
tirely agrees with the opiixismof the
Miner. The papers have made a good
fight and have tne situation in such
shape that it can be well handled from
now on. But the ne>t democratic and
republican convention* must both pass
strong condemnatory resolutions of
Governor Hoggatt ar.d send them to
Washington, and when they do the
matter will be clinched. As ? a repub
lican newspaper. The Alaskan expects
that the republican convention which
will meet in Juneau in November will
uaas such resolutions and pass them as
shortly after it get> organized as possi
ble.
MINER IS FACETIOUS
I'nder the heading: "Fun ^ ith the
Boy*," the Ketchikan Mitier baa the
following in its last issue:
''They have a man up in Skagwav
whose narua is Death. The Alaskan
records the fact, however, that be has
sold hK holdings preparatory to talciop
flight."
"Recently the Skagway paper in
mentioning what will be news to Ketch
ikan people that 'Ketchikan democrats
want the next convention held there,'
suggest* that 'the amount of rainfall
will cot be an argument.' And it might
have added, 'neither an absence of wind
necessary to the hot air without which
such affair* are necessarily more or les*
f 10 GAVE I! I
WHISKEY GETS SIX MONTHS
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(Special CorrespoadenJf)
Haines, Sept. 13ib ? This afternoon
Judge Le Levre held an inquest over
the body of the Indian who died at
Pyramid Harbor, the jury finding that
he came to bis death through liquor
administered by a Japanese name:) K
Tokirshlneo, and that the Jap bad
entered tbe home (tent) of the Indian
with criminal intent and refused to
leave when told to do so by the Indian.
The Indian a name was James Sch>ou
ah and he was a resident of Klukwan.
Tbe evidence showed that tbe Jap hail
gone into the tent some lime about
midnight and was first discovered by
tbe Indian man wbo awoke his wife
saying: "There is a whiiemau in the
ten'.." The Jap had part of a bittle
aud a gallon demijohn of whiskey with
him. He took a granite cup which was
in tbe tent and poured Into it some
whiskey from the bottle aud told the
Indian to d( ink it. The Indian at tirst
refusal, sayinsr it bad been eighteen
years since be drank any whiskey.
The Jap indited and finally he got biui
to drink the liquor, telling him that
after he drank it be would go out. He
then tilled up tbe cup and got him to
drink again after which he poured
what was left In tbe bottle and
gave it to the wouian. Tbe woman re
fused to driok, the Jap called her
names, swore at her and further insist
ed that she drink. Both sbe and her
husband being very much frightened,
sbe finally took the cup but spilled the
larger quantity of the wblsltey on the | "
ground, drinking a -mall portion. The .
Jap then filled the cup out of the 1 1
demijohn and got the Indian man it* ,
drink again. which operation was after
wards repeated. The Indian womar
was also forced to drink a large quan
tity as wan afiio an Indian boy, who was
sleeping in the lent, the .lap grabbing
him by the throat and literally forcing
it down hU throat.. The boy in nine
years of age Both the woman and bo
had been try lug to gtl out of the ten: 1
to notify the neighbor* but the Jar
had prevented them from leaving.
Finally the nnn went to sleep a? did th?
woman ami the boy shortly afterward-.
As it hail becoma light by this time the
Jap hid to leave without committing
auy further violence. The Inlian j
woman stated that the Jap bad never
been <o their tent before but that she
bad seen him around the cannery ;
sorting lisb and supposed he ha<l come
into the tent with the intention of get
ting the tuau drunk and out |
raging her. The Indiau was an old
man, but the moano was not over,
thirty.
This morning Judge I.e Fevre tried
the -lap on the oharge of living liquor
to Indians and found him guilty, j
' sentencing him to six mouths in jail.
It is understood that the .lat>. aftei
lie has served his sentei ce for g'ung
th Indians liquor, will have to face a
charge wnich will be brought against
him for unlawfully entering a house iu
? the night time. '
LOCAL TOMBSTONE CLEARS
lOlN'S DISAPPEARANCE
Prompted through curiusily Kev. K I.
McCeiure, a Coagregational ni.olit.er ?>(
San Francisco, who is m rt& in?r a tour of
Alaska, yesterday visited the local
cemetery for the purjjose of seeing tlie
grave of "Soapy ' Smith. While hunt
ing for the Smith grave his eye was
attracted by a headstone bear ng the
inscription "Thomas Maleite, Died
March 24, 1S99, aged ~>1 years," and his
chance sight of the headstone may un
ravel a mystery of many years stand- '
In the late nineties Rev. McClurc was
stationed at Humestoo, la., aod in that
town Thomas Maleite was a prosper
ous resident. The Klondylce excite
ment took hold of Maleite aod he left
Iowa for Alaska. Letters came to his
wife atlntervais for the period <iT s te.r
but afterwarJs c-ased altogether Kin
ally the report reached his Iowa home
that he had b; ? killed in a -hoolinc
scrape, but nothing was ever definitely
known. Malette's lite was insured in
the New York L!fe insurance company
and the policy payment was held up.
Rev. McClur! Is today gathering such
data as he cm about the d-atli of
Malette and will send the smio to the
widow in Iowa Beyond the fact tha'
Malette, s name appeurs on the head
stone of the t?rai e nothing can be found
out here alwnl his death. There is no
record in the undertakers of his having
been burie.1 and none of the old lime.-*
recall his having been killed.
stale, Hat and unprofitable.' "
"The Alaskan says 'the Juneau town
couucil bis recently taken a new hold
and passed a set of whereases and a
resolution. The burden of the prayer
is for an act that will put the collection
of licenses in the hands of the town
council, and will also allow the cities of
Alaska to level in the luxury of bonded
Indebtedness' That Juneau town coun
cil has a happy faculty of always taking
hold of the wrong end of things
The Alaskan is authority for the state
ment that excursionists on the last voy
age of the steamer Spokane presented
her captain with a solid silver drinking
set. Perhaps it was some influence of
that character that invariably brought
the Spokane to Ketchikan in the night
and almost as invari <bly caused her to
sneak down a back alley when she made
the place In daylight, all through the
season."
' The Alaskan editor displays just a
little ignorance of Alaskan geography,
when he sneaks of a person going to
Fairbanks by Skagway 'over the ice by
#ay of Valdez.' "
Wanted
Hop pickers ? Two dolla's a box to
pick the hops out of the barley juice at
the Seattle.
Fresh Meat
The Frye-Bruhn Co. keep all kind
of fresi meat constantly on hand.
"A Belgian woman, thought to Ik- in
sane and who bail been bothering Skag
way people for several weeks, was sent
back to Vancouver en the last down
voyage of ibe l'riocess May. which
ship had taken her north, an.! the otli
[cers of which offered to carry her back
without expense to the Skajjway an
thorities. The o'd iidy. however,
showed the method in her madness i>y
refusing to accept other than first-class
accommodations, and promi-ing to
raise h? ail Columbia if they were not
given her."
The Mmcat
Mt. Vernon Rye, Old Taylor and Rai
ment Whiskies (double stamped goods,
10 years old), and Rainier and Pacific* |
Bottled Beer, at the Mascot.
CALLmFdAILY ALASKAN
The Alaskan will be pleased to pub
lish any local or social news of the c'ty
which is telephoned to the oflice. Call
up "phone lit and send It in.
I Notice is hereby given that I was ;
] appoiuted administrator of the estate
I of Petin Alex, deceased, on the 17th
day of August, 1!K)7, by the Commis
sioner for Alaska, sitting in probate
at Haines precinct In the first division
All persons having claim- against *aid
estate are hereby notified to present
the same to me within six months
from this 22d day of August, 1007. at
at the Commissary of the Tenth Reg
iment of U. S. Infantry, at Fort Will
iam H. Seward, Alaska.
J. B. Gowen,
Administrator,
JTJNEAtT 8. 8. GO'S.
UK, A ttP STKAMKK |
Georgia
Can-ylnf U. S M*t!
?"or Haines, Berners Hay Juneau,
3oonah. Trnakee, Sltlta and Way port*
SUNDAY, 8 A. M.
TUESDAY, 10 A. M
WILLIS NOWKLL, Mgr .Juneau
W. W. BOCGHTON, A??nt
Broadway and Fifth Ave. Pbooe 90
U. S Mail Steamer
C'aming j>a avengers ami mail
Lriaves Skagway ?veiy
?lay except Sunday.
at 9 a- m Leaves
Haines lor Skagway
same days at 2 p. m.
Fare one way $1 50
Round trin $2.50
STEAMER
"MABEL F."
Commencing June 17. the
Steamer Mabel F will make
round trips daily l*etween
CARCROSS
Wynton and Conrad
Will also do towing and
handle excursions
Thos. H. Brown,
Master
BEER
there's Visor and
Strength
in every drop
COMPHNY
?eaitie. W a?h.
Pacific Coast S. S. Co.
PIONEER ALASKA LINE.
SPEED. SAFETY, COMFORT
SctiUt. P-ret SohinS 3*s FrMc'.?rr> t?i Porl*
CAKItri*a V. *- MAIL
8t^*m*rt of Tkta Crtmpmnj [???
Humboldt - Sept. 7, 18, 26
Cottage City - Sept. 1, 18
City of Seattle Sept. 2, 12, 24
Vlk FiHO?rtr
\hor? Schedule Subject to Cb?nr* WHhoot Notiee
C. 0. DUNANiN, Q?n p?t? AqV
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19 MiifH lirwi ik? CW.
The Alaska Steamship Co,
( kTrri nf (J. 8 M*M ut! A ?k> P?elfte f.iwwi
N?it S?l)1&r of \ht Ttm ''mm mpr Sum#*
Jefferson Sept. 9, 19, 29
Dolphin - Sept. 14, 24
DOLPHIN has been changed similar to
the JEFFERSON- State rooms have bat
two berths. WE give the FASTEST
SERVICE.
Com put rp*err?? rifht uj ck?s(f ??!ktv# d??? ?'<
Tr?n?fcn to Victoria *c4 VnH?a?*r ft Hk?nl MK'imI i Uff(
Through T?rk?? U> S?r Kr*nci?d>
R. A. OARROtX. *f??i P* w ??
Canadian Pacific Ry. Co.
Sailings Every Wednesday
Princess may Sept. 25, Oct. <)
Princess Royal Sept. is. Oct. 2
Direct to Vancouver and Victoria
?o S#atU? *la rail or to Mtra rfcaii'*
Newest. Fastest Boats Runnina to Skafl*a>
Tickets to any ]>art of thf w.irld ?n<t Information fmm
F. F. W. L??wi.it. A>*r.*r
The WhitePass& Yukon Route
TIME TABUtt No. I.J
< Dmii y Kto?pt SaoJajj
No. 1. N. Foual
ltt ClM(
M JO a. ta SKAHDAY A rr'\*? i K o a
12 C.I " " WBfT* PASS " 3 fO "
LOO CABIN ? II) "
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l?* C'SM
12 ??
! a m " RrNNrrr
I ?5
1 ?
S ao p. BO " CAHIBOC " ll?Oa.?
Arrlvaa Whtt? Howra ? J# ?*
ywwnren mat be ?t Vprt? la Kb* to ha?? laapoatef a?<)
checked. ln?pectioo !? tvopfmi 10 alauM* Vfnre time <vf watn
ISO noimdt of t**fac' will ba sfeeeked frea ?!tb *fb f?l) far* tlcliM
wid pound* ?lth far* lirtrM
RO^
Through line from Sk*K?*v 10 AtJln. WblM Hat-"*. R!f Haitpon. llawwx) ?k1
intermediate i>olnt*. t'onneetloo made ?! !)???< with Ix?ver Ri**r ?tea^'v^a for
Kaple, Circle CitT, llampart. Panana. Fairhaak* < bet>a A. M.rhae.) anl ftom-.
NAVIGATION NOW OPEN
Dailv connection mule it While Horw hetweer train* wl rWer ?*?amer? to* all VnkMi
River point*. Including Mendenhali Ivindioc. the near**' ttMnhnti ian-Ve* *? t*>*
Atopic tiold Field* The followiajj ?teamboaW are operated b? the WHITr PASR
Vl'KON KOI TK an<l are equipped with ail modem xmreniooe**. !?eli*!iof I'mc
electric llpbt and other fe?ture*-a* aPord not only ?*fety hat cnarfart 10 p*??rir?r?.
WHITE HORSE CANADIAN
DAWSON CASCA SELKIRK
ZEALANDIAN THISTLE
BONANZA KINO
LaFRANCE
VICTORIAN
THRotv.H Ti<"KETP can be purchased at SJtaffua? for OAWWoJ*. FAIRBANKS. CHBNA
and ail Lc*r6r Rir?r point*
Finely appointed train* daily, except Sunday. between Sktfmy *?<i WhHt B?r?e.
carrying pavenuer*. bafr*rr. nail and exprtaa.
Hh^ave bonded through. D'reet teiesraph'c ??r*>e?? tf> all i?ic*? o A'art*. C ? a4?
and the Tnlted State*.
For inforraatioD relative to pa*encr>, freitkl ??d tel < fyhie nrtw. apply
to aor agort o' the Couiwt?. or to
T R WX*R*BACH FR <!?? *f?t
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
V anoouver, B. C.
A. L. RERDOE, 0?i. Mb*t.
Vanoourer. P. C. aad PlrtfW. Ataafra
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