THE NORTHERN UGliT
The pupila of Mr. Telford'* room ate
being entertained thle morning by
tome sore of musical Inst ruir?#ac Id the
possession of Ruth De Wit;.
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The seventh grade is having daily testa
in spelling, fifty words being selected
each day. Viola Powell made the best
record yesterday, getting correct forty
seven words out of the fifty
chosen from selections that have been
read this year.
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Today we give the second of the com
positions selected from the fifth and
sixth grade's effort on "The History of
Skagway's Name."
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Frank Ashley is back to school again.
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HISTORY OF SKAGWAY'S NAME
By May Parker
Many years ago, before any white
man camc to Skagway, a little Indian
maiden roamed about in the Talley.
Nobody knew her parents or even knew
she bad any. This maiden's cams was
Skagway, which means "beautiful
maiden."
When she grew up to womanhood
she married an Indian brave. Soon
after she was married, when she was
riding up and down the Skagway river,
her husband ?aid something very un
kind to her which insulted her very
much. "Skagway" left her Indian
brave (when he let heroutof the canoe)
and started up tbe canon. She threw
her hair around her neck and counted
ber steps as she went. She wentso fast
that the Indians that were after her
could not catch her. She went as far
as Poroupine valley where she disap
peared. The Indians looked and looked
for "Skagway" out could not find her.
There was a rock near where she dis
appeared that they thought had opened
and let her in and then closed again.
The Indians put on the rock food and
clothes and everything ''Suagway"
needed. Last of all, thinking that
"Skagway" would come back again
they oiled tbe rock with oil, but she
never came back again.
Sometimes wben the strong
north wind is blowing and tbe Indians
are sailing about in the bay tbey cry,
"Skagway have mercy upon us." Tbe
The Indians suppose that wben the
north wind is blowing that "Skag
way " is blowing ber breath down upon
them.
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? ALASKA AND THE YUKON *
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i A* high a* $750 to the pan has been
taken out oa the rich ground struck
last fall oa the Koyuktfk.
Prank Roch of Seattle, haa been
sent to Fairbanks to boom the Alaaka
PaclOc- Yukon exposition.
Col. W. S. Sutherland, president of
the Perseverance Mininsr Co., Is ex
peoted to arrive at Juneau the last of
March.
They are boring for oil at Prince
Rupert,
Spring Salmon have made their ap
pearance at Ketchikan.
Workmen on che railroad at Cordova
are being paid 30 centa an hour.
On the entire western coast line of
Alaska there are only three light
houses.
J. E, Florence of Boston, mining ex
pert and consulting engineer, who baa
been examining the coal depotita near
Katalla for eastern capitalists, says that
the Bering lake coal beds will furnish
high grade coal in large quantities for
the next hundred years.
The Ketchikan steamship company
bas under construction a 700 ton steel
schooner which will bo fully completed
?nd ready to go into commission not
later than April 1st. She will be put
on the Seattle-Ketchlkan route, but
may extend her trips should business
warrant her in doing so.
The Alaska Fish and Cold Storage
company, recently organized and in
corporated und3r the laws of the state
of South Dakota, will establish its plant
in Wrangell Narrows, where it will can
halibut, smoke white king salmon and
prepare fresh fish for shipment to east
ern markets In cold storage.
The federal government will pay $1,
000 towards the expenses of hiring ex
tra deputy marshals at Fairbanks dur
ing the labor troubles.
Judge Silas H. Reed, wbose appoint
ment was recently confirmed by the
senate, began a term of court at Fair
banks ye?terday.
THE PORTLAND HOUSE IS OPEN TO THE
PUOLIC
Good warm rooms, 25c to $1. Bathi 25 o
Porcelain Tubs. Friends and strangers
made welcome. Fifth ave.. opposite
Canadian bank.
Wrecked Auto to Kill Princess.
Chauffeur, Mad With Unrequited Love, Drives Car Containing His
Inamorata and Her Husband Over a Precipice.
A sensational attempt was recently
made near Bucharest by Prince Ghika's
Italian chauffeur* to murder the prince
and princess and to kill himself by
running the motor car which ho was
driving over a precipice. ^
The chauffeur was desperately In
love with the princess and told her so
repeatedly, until at last she threatened
that If he ever mentioned the subject
of his love to her again she would In
form the prince.
Thus warned, the chauffeur ceased
his suit and apparently had resolved
to forget his love or at least to aban
don all hope of moving the princess.
As a matter of fact, he had made up
his mind to destroy the prince, the
princess and himself and had selected
that afternoon as the time when he
?hould carry his purpose into effect.
Driving the car through a village not
from Bucharest, he began to ap
proach a spot where the bank of the
river, which flows through the village,
rises precipitously from the edge of the
?tream to the height of a hundred feet.
Turning the car suddenly from the
roadway, he headed it straight for this
precipice, and it seemed inevitable that
he would succeed in accomplishing his
design. But the instant the car left
the highway Prince Ghika was struck
with the thought that his chauffeur
had gone mad. lie at once leaped
upon him and attempted to take con
trol of the car away from him.
In the struggle that ensued the
chauffeur was overpowered. He was a
powerful man, but Prince Ghika was
more than a match for him.
The prince was able to prevent the
car from going over the precipice, but
to do It he bad to steer It Into a huge
bowlder, and when It struck the rock
it was overturned, and In Its over
turning the chauffeur was Instantly
killed.
The prince's first thought was that
his wife also had been killed, for she
lay motionless and apparently dead for
several minutes after the accident. He
was overjoyed when she opened her
eyea and lost no time in hurrying her
back to Bucharest and providing for
her the attention she needed.
Bulldog Saves Pittsburg Hotel.
Fights a Black Hand Man Who Placed Bomb Under Boiler !n
Basement and Saves One Hundred and Fifty Lives.
Teddy, a Pittsburg bulldog, saved 150
prominent persons from death or In
Jury when he attacked a Black Hand
dynamiter and caused a commotion
that resulted In the discovery of a
bomb under the boilers of the Knick
erbocker hotel. The boilers are direct
ly beneath the grill room, which had
many patrous at the time.
The Black Hand was willing ap
parently to sacrifice all these guests to
obtain revenge upon an Italian waiter.
John Jason, employed at the hotel. For
several weeks Jason had been receiv
ing letters from the Black Hand, to
which he paid no attention. Finally
he was notified that unless be seat 51,
000 Immediately he would die by mid
night. He remaiued at work in the ho
tel, thieving he would be safe there.
Soon after 11 o'clock a mau deposited
under the three boilers a bomb with a
seven foot fuse attached. Had the
bomb exploded it would have buret the
boilers.
Teddy saw the Italian Just as he de
posited the bomb. The intruder had
barely time to apply a match to the
fu?e when the dog gave battle. Tb?
mau finally escaped. The noise at
tracted employees of the hotel, who ar
rived when the fuse had burned to
within a foot of the bomb, which Is
now in the hands of the police.
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Most Alaska people work every day
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also injurine my back. Since then I
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put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro
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ly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has
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REGULATION? 1905
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Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
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office) and must be delivered before 6 p.m. No freight will be re
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charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
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