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No, 125 FIFTEENTH YEAR
115 JOLLY DAMP
HI Slllf, OL" CHAP
tendon. An*. 57 1-ondon is un
W water I taring the past twelve
:>ours mw than six inches of rain
>a* failen U Is the greatest rain
*11 in the history of the <tty. Mat
i the sewers are inadequate to take
ire of the Hood and basements
Hare been filled to overflowing. The
ritire country around has been dam
:-ged by the downpo?r Rven the
Thames. which usual It does not re
ShuiiI much to floods, is in manv
places overleaping its banks
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PWH1.K Tit RK t;<?VTS?
Portland, Aug 27? Tom Marshall
in his speech last night talked most
ly ,?n the tariff. He asked the peo
ple how much longer they were po
?c to be made coats for the tariff
'attenod beneficiaries of the Repub
lican party. His speech mi i well
received and he was frequ' tly ap
plauded.
MWV.KKS TRYlXti TO
KKKI* KH. Rll.l AT NOMK
Washington. Aug. IV 1'pon the
<'os:ng of the business in oongre1*,
Taft signed the bills that
had heen presented for his approval
iT?d then immediately left for Fer-i
?-rly where he will take a "few days'
ne?T. It is believed that he will not
nak* ranch of a campaig* daring the.
'?or contest. It is said that his
managers have adused him to keep
?>ut of the spo?lirht as much as pos
?iSle Thev are apparently afraid
he ? ill make some more bad breaks
as he did at the celebrated Winona
speech, if he is given too much lib
erty in : he matter of talking
W1KKLR8S ST?M-K JOWW5R
pus in raw?
Atlanta. Aug ?7 ? Colonel Ch.-is-'
ropher WIIm*. the wiaard of th?(
I'nited Wireless company died In the
? >*<icra] prison here last night, lie.
was stricken during the nicht and
died a few hours later.
JVTHiK DKMKS DISMISSAL
SECOND HKAR1NM OUDKP.KD
Los Angeles. Aug. 27 ? Judge W
i lis yesterday deu led the Darrow mo :
I tlon for a dismissal of the Bnin !
. bribery ewe. Today the judge will
! VH the time for the beginning of the
i second case. * The governor has wot
answered the court s request for
the substitution for an outside jury
and It Is uncertain whether the
Jury will be drawn from Los Ante
lea or not. The district attorney is
of the opinion that It will be- almost,
impossible to secure an unbiased
Jury as the former case has beer
so prominent that almost the entire
county has formed an opinion In the
matter.
DEBS HOT-SHOTS !
THEOLD PARTIES!
Terre Haute, Aug. 27? Eugene V !
Debs, the Socialist nominee for the
presidency wag yesterday officially
notified of his nomination. Mr.
Debs made a speech on the subject
of the coming elections, as did the
other candidates, only his differed
from theirs very radically. He saw
in the prest-nt split of the Republi
can party a considerable gain for
socialism. He called the attention
of his hearers to the claims of
crookedness by the different fac
tions of the old party and showed
by the example as such men as Lor
imer ard Archbold that the old
parties were corrupt. He said that
socialism would also become corrupt
if the selfish rompetetive system j
was allowed to get possession of Its j
membership, but tht they had pro- 1
vWed a^alost that condition by re
moving the incentive to steal. He
believed that socialism would be a
fact of this generation.
Mr. Debs puts the hooks into the
old party very succinctly by saying:
"The Republican party stands for
things as they are. The Democrat
ic party stands for any old thing.
The Progressive party stands for
honesty after they have stolen their
progressive planks from the Social
ist* "
The Princess May will be in at
an early hour In the morning. She
has thirty passengers aboard, with
ten round trippers Her cargo con
sists of 225 tons of general freight.
She will make the morning train an
sail south Thursday night.
f IIEKS1KBRUI
t OUR
k NEW
FALL
SUITS
&
COATS ?*
FOR LADIES
NOW ON DISPLAY
h ^ogUe
DENOTES STYLE
AND QUALITY
NEW CREATIONS IN
Millinery
%
NEXT : WEEK : NEXT
H. J. LYNCH
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SK??'V OUT
rtHth JELIER
On Saturday, August 17. the'
Klondike was sweet sixteen. The
day was celebrated In Dawson with
a lot of high Jinks and a gathering
together of all the old sourdoughs j
I hat could be roimded up. Speak
ing of the gold output of the dis
trict. which embraces Skagway, the
News has this to say :
One hundred and sixty-nine million
dollars ? such, in round numbers, Is
the yield in virgin gold by Yukon
Territory and the small neighboring
ramps during the period since gold
was discovered In the upper Yukon
valley.
And the best of these glad tid
ings is that the placer gold output
of Klondike and the . Yukon is in
creasing steadily every year.
The Klondike camp, having a ra
dius of not to exceed 100 miles, last
year alone produced more than $4,
ooo.OOO, and this year, according to
the present pace, will yield $5,000,
00 0. This means a leap upward by
liie old camp of a cool one million
dollars in one year.
The future of southern Yukon
never before Irsd such a brilliant tint
;?s now. From the Pueblo mine,
seven miles from Whitehorse, the.
Atlas Mining company is shipping
400 tons of ore daily, and General'
Manager Grecnough says the ship
ment will be increased to 1,000 tons
a day in a short time, or as soon
as the railroad can handle the in
creased output.
it is believed that William B.
Close, head of the firm of -Close Brt
tliers, Chicago and Ixindon finan
ciers, who has just visited here, will
authorize the increased facilities in
the way of new rolling stock.
Besides th^ work at the Pueblo,
sixty men are engaged by the ^tlas
company in opening up and deter
mining the extent of the ore bodies ;
of three other claims, the Grafter,
the Best Chance and - the Valerie, j
Kxcellent showings are being made.
All three are of higher grade than
the Pueblo.
It is estimated 1.700.000 tons of
ore are in sight at the Pueblo, suf
ficent to continue shipments indefi
nitely.
The Conrad quartz properties at
Carcross are shut down temporaiily.
Conrad this week bought fifteen cop |
per, gold and silver calims in the
Rainy Hollow district, not far west
Whitehorse. for $350,000.
It is believed here that Close will ;
authorize the construction of a smel
ter before returning East. Skagway
is making a pull for the smePer.
n?A<; NKT GKTK Bl'Nt'H *
OK \. V. GAMRl-KUS
New York, Aug. 27 ? l-ast night
the federal officers made a raid on
several gambling dens and took in j
a score of players snd destroyed the
rambling paraphernalia. The dis
trict attorney has taken the matter ,
of raiding out of the hands of the
police and is doing some fine work j
on behalf of the government.
NK'ARUJUAN TROUBLK
LKFT TO COMMITTOR
Wasington, Aug. 27 ? Before con
gress adjourned Senators I-odge,
Hark of Arkansas, Sutherland, Ba
cou and Burton, were appointed to
investigate the landing of the Unit
ed States marines at Nicaragua
The question has arisen whether the;
t'nlted States did not overstep Its
authority In landing troops there
without the consent of the Nicnra
guan government.. The committee
will also go Into the question of
whether It Is now expedient to land
additional troops for the protection
of the Americans there
Wasington, Aug. 27 ? The second '
session of the Sixty-second congn*s
adjourned yesterday afternoon at
naif past four o'clock, and the
members have all hurried to their
homes or to their political head
quarters, or wherever they are In
the habit of spending their time
between sessions.
The general deficiency bill, also
the LaFollett? resolution asking for
a continuation of the campaign fund
probe has gone over; the bill until
the next s<sssion of congress and the
probe resolution until about the first
of October when the board will meet
to take up the Penrose-Archbold
hearing, which will probably in
clude the examination of Roosevelt,
Cortelyou and others of more or le^e
prominence in politics.
ALASKA <;R0\VN HPl'ra
oniT IMPORTKI* BRANDS j
After the experience of dealers!
;?nd householders with the outside
potatoes which were io decidedly in
ferior this last winter, many have
decided to depend entirely upon the
native grown spud this coming sea
son. for they have become convinced
that the tuber raised on the upland
or sidehill toil cannot be surpassed
It is true that the gardens of the
flats affected successively by drouth,
frosts and cold weather are not
looking nearly as well this season
as they did last year, but the flats
at best are not adapted to the
growth of I'Otatoes and their pro
duct never competes with the Out
side product;.
On the hillsides a different state
of affairs is found, for the gardens
there are apparently just the same
as in other seasons and will pro
duce the same high class potatoes.
The present indication is that the
potato crop from the hills to the
north and the upper Tanana will
be as large and probably larger than
last season.- Fairbanks News-Miner.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Pettit and two
children left on the City of Seattle
for Juneau. They have been spend
ing the past 'ireek in Skagway where
Mr. Pettit has had business with
Commissioner Conway.
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Gravenstein Apples ?
The finest of all early apples *
: $2.75 per box ?
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+ Dont buy more than you need,
* They are not long keepers +
; Will sell ?
I Half Box for $1.40 J
t P. H. GANTY, Grocer +
FORCE CAPTAINS
10 BE DECENT
l,ondon, Aiik. 27?' The British
Hoard of Trade bu notified all cap
tains of British vewels, that their
failure to go to the aid of vessels
In distress will be considered a mis
demeanor and punishable by two
years Imprisonment without the op
tion of a fine.
This action has been made neces
sary by the recent report of ves
sels refusing to respond to the call
for assistance, which resulted in
the loss of lives and the destruction
of ships, when both might have been
saved had the signaled vessels ans
wered the distress calls.
POIT1.AR <X>XCKRT TOMfiHT
IIV T\I.K\TF.I> VOCALIST
Miss Heletie J. Sloane has been
engaged to give a popular concert at
the moving picture hull tonight and
comes to Skagway with the highest
of references. The lady has enter
tained large audiences in most of
the cities in the southeastern part
of Alaska where the press has
spoken highly of her talents. K
dramatic critic writing for the even-j
ing Index at San Francisco, says th'?
of her: "Miss Sloane sings with
dramatic fervor in the arias from
grand opera in which she is at hy
best. Her voice, besides being full
of melody, is of remarkable range,
rhe richness of the low tones and
I extreme clearness of the high tones
i>elng fullr demonstrated In all her
numbers." She recently appeared in
Juneau wlitre she was evidently
Highly appreciated, judging from
the followlrg which is taken from
the Daily IMspatch:
To Miss Helene J. Sloane of Cal
ifornia must undoubtedly go the hon
or of being the most accomplished
singer that ever appeared In this
section of Alaska Mi?s Sloane gave
her Juneau concert in Klks hall last
night and was given a tremendous
ovation. When recalled to the stage
at the conclusion of each number,;
the graceful bows to the audience
were not enough. The singer would
be forced to respond by singing at ?
least a strain of the number ap
plauded.
Miss Sloane has a beautiful voice,
full of me'ody, and of wonderful
range. Miss Sloane sang with ten
der voice the sweet strains from
grand ope'a numbers, and the ease
with which alt# sang proved h<-r
thorough mastery over 'he difficult
nnmbvrs.
In the character song*. ;>n "tlcu
larly the Peotch songs, Ml a Hliare
la at her beat. Hhe rendered "My
Heart's In the Highlands" awe -fly
ind the grand old song "Annie Ijta
rle" waa another of the popular num
l.er* ating by her. Mlra Kemp
t home's accompaniment waa one of
the features of the entertainment
PACKERS START
A FREEZE-OUT
The Alaska Packers are agin up to
their old game of freesing out the ,
small packers. They have cut pric
es way below the cost of production
by the individual canner and the re
sult will he the total extinction of
the small operator. This is a good
thing for the consumer daring the
year of the cut, but when the big
concerns get again In control they
will boost the price up to a point
which wity reimburse them for all
losses with a high per cent, of In
terest.
A recent dispatch from Portland
says:
The announcement made by the
officers of the Alaska Packers As
sociation that salmon prices would
he unmercifully slashed this season
is believed by students of the fish
eries business to be the first gun in
a probable war on Independent fish
packers by the Alaska Packets As
sociation and the Northwestern Fish
eries company.
The prices quoted for Alaska sal
mon are far below the cost of mar
keting the commodity, and If the
prices do not advance before the fi
hal quotations are made, several
packers of small capital, but of large
investment, will go to the wall.
The following prices have ber-n
posted: .
Alaska Reds, tails, dos. cans $!.4D
Medium Reds, tails, dos. cans 1.15
Alaska Pinks, talis, do>. cans .85
Chums, tails, dos cans 62*4
The State of California left Seat
tle at 1 p. m August 26. which will
bring her into Skagwav next Friday
nijfht.
The Peterson came op this morn
ing, a day earlier than he? schedule
time. The reason for the change of
time was to allow her to remain in
Haines for inspection tomorrow
She will be up again Saturday.
COME ON ALONG!
COME OVER HERE!
CLA YSON
has the largest and most complete
Line of Clothing and
Furnishing Goods
IN SKAGWAY
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