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EDITORIAL PAGE
After twelve years of ceaseless
effort, two Alaska coal claims have
at length been patented. We hope
this Is the thin edge of the wedge,
and from now on other claims will
be allowed and the situation reliev
ed.
The claims now open to use will
be of little benefit in relieving the
c ml famine, as they are both small
ones, and produce lignite. One is
a 50-acre claim near Homer on
kenai Peninsula. There is abund
ance of coal, such as It is, but the
Krade is poor. A numbr of years
ago the Southern Pacific Railway
experimented with this product, but
found it unavailable for their use
:is it contained particles of fossil
rosin that were uneonsumed in the
locomotive fire boxes and were
sent out from the stacks and set
fire to the forests.
The other claim now patented is
lignite also, not a thick vein, con
sists of 137 acres and is in the east
side of Admiralty Island. It is not
likely that this property either will
produce a coal that will be commer
cially available on any considerable
scale We do not wish to be hasty,
but it looks as though the letter of
our demands had been complied
with in a very small way and the
substance of them denied. We
have asked for bread and they
gave us a stone. ? Pacific Mining
Journal.
Two propositions came up before
the city council last night that
should be given more than passing
attention. One is the removal of
unsightly shacks ?holdovers from
ancient days ? that disfigure the
landscape in Skagway. Most of our
laws have been framed in the inter
est of property, with but little at
tention given to human rights, con
st fluently a municipal officer trem
bles when he is asked to remove
some rubbish that belongs to some
one else. The fact is that many
of those shacks are damp, rotten
and pestilential- a menace to pub
lie health, and if the owners will
not clean them up, burn them or
destroy them, then it is plainly the
duty of the city to do bo, and charge
the expense to the owners. When
property interferes with human
rights, destroy the property, don't
wait for it to destroy life.
Another thing which will add to
?'is beauty of the city ? and beauty
is us valuable an asset as any one
tniug a city can have, is the grant
ing of the request of a business
house for permission to use a part
of the walk for the purpose of
growing flowers. Remove the un
sightly decaying objects and plant
trees and flowers, theu our people
will want to stay in Skagway in
stead of chasing down to Seattle
each winter to spend their money.
This can be made a city of homes
and thousands of dollars kept here
by making It a more desirable place
to live in than elsewhere.
If the prophecies of Dr. Wiley,
the late chief government chemist,
are to come true, there is coming a
time when there will be no physi
cians and no lawyers. Wiley has
long ago given up the idea that
medicines have any value in the per
.wtuation of health, though he still
clings to the idea that when nature
I has been abused that some drugs
ure temporarily useful to stall the
I physical system along until nature
I has had time to readjust the dam
ages.
Dr. Wiley lays great importance
! on fresh air, cleanliness and above
! all: right thinking. In a recent
'speech in Uenver he said:
"Sometimes I wish a holocaust
i would come and destroy every dwell
| ing in the United States. Then the
j two death-bringing house diseases,
cancer and tuberculosis, would be
I banished.
Some day every learned profes
sion with the exception of teaching
-.nd agriculture will be banished.
Perfect health will banish physi
cians, and will bring universal peace
thereby banishing lawyers."
World
Becoming
Like
This
Country
By
GERHART
HAUPTMANN.
Every
Nation
. Feels
America's
Influence
German Author,
Winner of
Nobel Prize
CHE WHOLE WORLD IS BECOMING AMERICANIZED.
I mean that the world is adopting from day to day the
customs and using the inventions of tbe country. Do not
understand me to say that we are becoming any less Ger
man or that the Italians are becoming the less Italian because of this.
In the last analysis every nation will keep its peculiar attributes,
and it is well that it should.
The disappearance of racial characteristics would be unfortunate,
but the GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND PROGRESS OF
AMERIC A ARE MAKING TIIEIR INFLUENCE FELT EV
ERYWHERE.
YOU HAVE IN AMERICA THE FOUNDATION FOR A GREAT AR
TISTIC DEVELOPMENT. THE IDEA THAT BUSINESS? THE DOLLAR
?IS THE ALL IMPORTANT THING IS, I BELIEVE, DYING OUT. YOU
ARE BEGINNING TO BOA8T OF YOUR CULTURE. OF YOUR ART,
OF YOUR LITERATURE, AND THAT MEANS THAT YOU HAVE ALL
THESE THINGS AND APPRECIATE THEM.
It seems to me that your great land, with its diverse but yet com
mon interests, should give the writer or artist A BROADER OUT
LOOK than we have in Europe.
America is young yet, and you have not, until recently at least,
had a leisure class that could devote its attention to these things. But
I hear MOST ENCOURAGING REPORTS of the change in the (
last fifteen or twenty years. ?
A
Complete
Stock
Our stock of Drugs, Patent Medi
cines, Rubber Goods, Toilet Articles,
Perfumes, Stationery, Candies, etc.,
is complete and we are able to sup
ply our customers with everything
usually found In a first class and
well stocked prescription pharra icy.
Our prescription work is subject to
the utmost accuracy. Mall orders
have our special attention and no
pain is spared to fill them to satis
faction.
WILLIAM BR1TT, Ph. <i.
Druggist.
Stores at Skagway and Juneau.
Take Notice!
We have four mounted
Bear Skin Rugs that we
are going to sell at ex
actly what it cost us to
put them up.
It will pay you to call
AND LOOK AT THEM
Draper & Co.
HOME OKO UN 8 1* R I N (3
CHICKE N
at
The Pack Train Restaurant
MOOR6S' ^HWRF CO
Terminus W. P. & Y. Route.
A llSuathfcouudStenmerisAirive aDd DepartFrom This Dock
' REGULATIONS 1910.
Warehouses open for delivery of merchandise from 8 a. in. to 5 p. m.
Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday <.ir at night.
All freight shipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
SHIPPER'S MANIFEST (papers Oun be obtained at the U. S. cus
toms office) and must be delivered before 5 p. m. No freight will be
received on the wharf after this hour.
BAGGAE? Tolls will be coUerted on CHECKED BAGGAGE ONLY
.No charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be closed to the public when steamer Is :> oaring
dock and will be opened when passengers have disembarked.
Wharfage Tariff can be had on application at office on dock.
P. O. Box 175. ?. J. SHAW, General Vanaae'
The White Pass &Yukon Route
- ' TIME TABLE >0. 30.
_ Mondays, Woiliu-Miays and PriiUjN.
No. 1 N. Bound No. 2 S. Bound
1st class lbt class
8:30 a. m. Leaves SKACJI'AV Arrives 3:20 p. m.
11:05 " " WHITE PASs" Leaves 1:40 "?
11:40 " " LOO CABIN " 12:47 *?
12:85 p. m. " BENNETT " 11:50 a. m.
2:00 " " CARIBOU " 10:25 "
4:15 " Arrives WHITEHORSK leaves 8:15 "
Passengers must be at depots in time to have Baggage inspected
and checked. Inspection is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of
trains.
150 poonis of baggage will be checked frve with ench fall far?
ticket aad 76 pounds with each half fare ticket
Juneau Steamship Co
U. S. MAIL STEAMER
Georgia
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Hoonah, Gyp
sum, Tenakee, KiUIsnoo and Sit
ka Jan. 22. 28, Feb. 3, 9, 15, 21, i
27, Mch. 6, 11, 17, 23, 29. Leaves
Junsau for Funtf.r and Chatham,
8 a.m., Jan. 28, Feb. 21, Mch. 17. '
Leaves Juneau for Tyee, 8 a m.,
Jan. 22, Feb. 21, Mar. 23.
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor,
Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Comet, j
Sentinel Light Station, Eldred
Rock Light Station, Haines and
Skagway. 8 a.m., Jan. 20, 2S, ;
Feb 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, Mar. 3, 9,
15, 21, 27. Returning Leaves
Skagway followirg day at 8 a.m. |
WILLIS E. NOVELL, Manager.
For 35c. you can get a wholsome,
home cooked meal at the New Home
Restaurant, 5th aveune, Just off of
Broadway.
FRESH EASTERN' OVSTEK8
In any quantity, on the half shell,
first of the season, at the Tack
Train Restaurant.
SITKA
HOT SPRINGS
Sanitarium [siml Alaska
l*arjre, Clean, Individual liatlis
Abundance of "Water, Best of
Hotel Accommodation*. Fur
nished Cabim for Rent. % . .
Kxcellent Hunting and Fishing.
Motor Boating and Sailing.
Steamer Georgia from Juneau
makes semi-monthly visit*. In
formation aod rates upon request
Dr? F. L. Goddard, Prop.
Health Resort
ALASK
There is a great deal of satisfaction
lu the use of coal that Is bright and
clean.
Moore's Wharf Co.
'Phone 10. Skagway, Alaska.
There is economy lu coal that gives
you a dollar's worth of heat units
for every dollar invosted ? thatu
CLEAN
COAL
STEAMERS FOR
Seattle, Tacoma
Victoria. Vowiiii. AwxH R^a
Ewe*. Otympw. Port T<s?n?i 3?*fc
Bcliingham, Eur-i?. San* Birbara, Mn*?
San F rancisoo, Los Angeles, San Diego
C. V ANDREWS. G. A. P. D. C D. DUN ANN. P. T. M.
113 J?nw? St., S'?nW 112 ,VI?fkH 3?? 5m Fmxm tr
rmrvM It ^?nt# tf? S<M?lt
NliXT SAILINGS WILL BE
Curacao -- March 6
V. A. PETERSON. Agent
Phone 50 2nd & Broadway, bkagway, Alaska
Alaska Steamship
Company
CAHRYINO U. fc MAIL AND WCLLS-f AROO EXPREM
Next Bailinx of ?>? f*M ptMN* itnuMr
JEFFERSON
March - 4
ICi'iiipAiiy reserves the right to rhwi, sailing without nntlrt.
TKLBPRONK NO. ?fl. R A. CARROLL, Arti?r \gmnt.
Canadian Pacific Ry.
(B. C COAST SERVICE)
Sailings
FROM SKAGWAY
PRINCESS MAY
MixrcH 12 - 22
April 2? 12 ? 23
May 3-14-24
Snbjeol lo ahtorr wl'h-wt N >?1?n
Vancouver, Vidoriaft Seattle via Prince Rupert
Phone 87 F. F. W. LOWLE Afl?nt
Jgr^vaMww * ----- -
j Steamship Humboldt
THE ONLYJKOEPENOEIIT STEAMSHIP 8PEH4TI6 JOIS. E. IUSIA
Will tail from Seattle for all Southeastern AUskaa Ports
About March 1st
Sailing date to cbanx? with oat aotloa.
THROUOH TICKKT8 HONORED
8?tU? Off Of: Ticket* *n<l all Informslloa
716 feu?d Avfloua. H. HAimVKJSEV. nth A Browtw'jr.
Winter Route
Stage Service
During the wintor mmoi of 11H2-1913, a through Mail, Pasw-nger. and Freight ? .HmW will
bo miiintiilncd between While Horse and Dawson, affording rll possible comfort for traveler!
by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage
and Automobile Line
F??r the winter season 'he Conipany'a eomfortaW a trains will operate on a trt-weekly schedule be
tween Skkgwif and White Horse, trains leaving each tormina] on Monday*, Wednesday* and
Fridays.
For Information lolntive o )wi?wp>r and freight rates apply to
H. WITKF. LER, Supt., Mil Service Department, - ? ? ^ ? ? Whltehorae, T. T.
O. Ii. PICKESOV, President, f?kaga*y, Alaska.
Wo make telegraphic transfer of funds to or from Vancouver or Seattle.