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KIK,p vrH YKAR SK.MJWAV ALASKA' THIRsDAV, SKPTffltBM *. MU
?ft* SITED
B WE IB IK
thir rmilm atY Mtonllr Inter
'Mfd in the nction* of promiiifnt 1*1 -
pN? mho vwlt the iKWih, and In the
iwwimli of I hone who have Ihtps
le i here l>rh*p* the mm who *a
nn?.i tikoh to Influence oer rommff
? Ul aid indiiMtid <Mlnr, 1* Mr. W"
H i |i*c. ih* eminent financier who
i? i h? creator of the White Pa?* *:
> uko'i railroad With the object of
-i Mnns interesting new* for the
? ?-.ider* of the Daily A!a*k*n. our re
,N?rter has obtained an interview
*?iih that eminent gentleman. whlrh
? herewith published
i^-om the time Mr. l>ickv*on too
ante of?the i-ompany '* aftairs, the
* of the White l*a?s has been
in msn*lve one, and we are con
sent. with the miny plana he ha*
der way tor continued improte
it? m tn the nervioe and extension
<>t i.? <-cnipany a interests in var
um* direitkwia, that the people tn
M*?ka and Yukon Territories are
;?eginnlng to *?>e a transttlHMHio'i
l conditio** aa compared
w itk laat rear when the company a
.ffair* were <-omplet?'ly root-fa ni red,
d?rtn? which year we hello# the
Wnslneaa reaches! its lowest ehh
tJeweral freight traffic la aatla
fartorv and hy reatwwt of opening up
>?f th* \\ hi'ehorse mine* the White
l'?? will handle more than double
i l>e 'uiamoaa in point Of tonnage
'Nat it has handled during an* tear
*i nee tin road a aa owwdracted Ku<
'? '?er, we are murfc elated at the su<*
?"?*f*l effort* to induce toarlsts to
>me into the country. Thin h**ino?
i? mon- t Kan doubled aa compared
t la* v.ar, and w|t% mUMred ef
? the company la putting forth
n establishing agenc'e* threuchoMl
e i nitod State* and Canada It wil
? '-?atly increeae
Mr IHckeeon ia fart making ar
.'?cement* to proxlde for the com
? n of this travel in Inatalling bet
'? r -?l*iptne?\t and he now ha* un
.'.??r way a plan to populari*e the
interior route hy continued good
cervW and providing better hotel
1 inht'es \ suml lour*; hotel will
he constructed at Atlin next year
There iv however, an inadequate
?,>rxi. e lw* *<>m ltaaixm and Falr
?v?*>kv on the lower river, connec
itot.s '??q?ently being missed at
l>:iw?on and pasaencer* compelled to
> up at that point ?or sevoral days
i-? gardlosa of the fact that the
White Tasa has four cool boats
running regularly between White
horse and l?awson Tfcis will, how
ever, be speedily remedied as I waa
rery glad to learn upon my arrival
that .Mr. I?i?kes?on had already ar
ranged to establish service In the
l-ower River field. It has always
been my own idea since the Incep
tion of the White Pass Company
that onr service should have been
extended to the Fairbanks country
and 1 am glad indeed to note that
he coincide* with my views on this
point By thns Increasing onr traf
fic we can afford. If conditions de
mand it. to reduce our rates, which
w?< believe to be In I he Interest of
developing the country generally
"Tbe White Pass rates have been
frequently publicly attacked and the
larger companies trading In l>awaon
have made the excuse for main
taining their hleh prices that our
rates were such that they could not
afford to sell at a lower rate In
ord?-r to meet this char**, we. hav
ing once estbalished onr legal rights
to maintain the old rates, reduced
the ratea materially on a large num
ber of commodities Immediately fol
lowing the rate decision, and we no
l.ropoee to carry this poller further
and see that this t cneflt reaches the
public With this end In view we
h?ve ??sfahlishcd a who|?**le ware
house in l>awson and will dispose of
g<?ods at heavy reductions as com
pared nith present prices In tbe
A tension of our line the same pollc
* ill be pursued wheiever there Is
a monopoK of trade, as the high
;?>(. -e? which generally follow a mo
i?oli are extremely bad for the dc
telopment of any new country.
In addition to being pr*?sldcnt
of the railway Mr. l?|ckeson has In
come a partner In our firm and he
has now the charge of our copper
properties Much of his time will
spent on the ground personally
Oirccting the policies Inaugurated
and we have anlimi'ed faith in the
future outcome "
sKi V tloNKK t IM KI.I.KII
< 'I, AIMS
Washington, D C , Sept S It was
learned today that Secretary of the
Interior Walter I. Fisher had sign
ed the order cancelling the Cunning
ham coal claims in Alaska
Send the Skagway Daily Alaskan
home to th" states. "Sc. per tnontty
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H. J. LYNCH
?Nil RECEPTION j
nraniH
For years there has kwn * ffy
among the politician* and wonld-be
lenders that what Alaska most
needed was to get together and worlc
In harmony, and then they could
*et anything they wanted out of
congress. The only hitch In that
program has been that the so-called
lenders wanted the people to do all
the getting together and give to
them the power to "get what they
wanted" from congress
Today we are getting together on
the only stable foundation that can
Insure permanency to a constitution
al government, and that Is home
rule Where formerly there was dis
cord and rancorous division of sen
timent. we now hare harmony and a
unanimity of purpose and action.
That condition has been brought
about by the incorruptible and un
ervable persistency of the voters
of this Territory in sticking for
common jnstlce and accepting noth
ing else I'nder the banner of Jame
Wickersbam, we have fought down an
opposition that menaced our liber
ties and retarded our progress to
ward commercial and Industrial sue
<ess There is no longer a divided
Alaska, the generous recognition
given our returning delegate by the
cities of Alaska has shown that
After having visited Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Itouglas and Juneau. !>ele
Bate .1 nines Wlckersham arrived in
Skaewav last evening, whe.e he was
met at the boat by Mayor Tanner
and a committee appointed by the
council to receive him for the
past week the ladies of Skagway ha
been engaged In preparing a recep
tion for Mr. Wlckersham and when
that gentleman was escorted to A.
R hall he was greeted hv a largo
assemblage of the cltlienshlp. where
under the guidance of the women, a
most enjoyable program was in wait
Ing for him The orchestra rendere
a few selections which was followed
by a song by Mrs H IV Klrmse.
? piano solo by Miss Oladys Klrmse.
anil a baritone solo by Mr. Will C.
Blanrhard, all of them receiving en
thusiastic em-ores
Then something unique happened;
Mrs Kmma C. 1-eFevre, a lady 74
years young, who had been selected
to introduce the city's guest, arose,
and In a voice mellowed by age,
held the undivided attention of the
audience for half an hour. She com
pared the enacted Territorial bill
with an emaciated turkey in her
father's home, which w-ould not fat
ten, though it had been stuffed with
patent foods for weeks. Her father
gallently said that It had a magnifi
cent frame and all It needed was
some of mother's splendid dressing
to make it most palatable. So it
was with the home rule bill, it had
a magnificent framework for the co%
struction of a home government that
will be a perpetual blessing to the
home builders of the north. Mrs.
l^eFevre then paid a splendid trib
ute to the achievements of Mr. Wlck
ersham and urged her hearers to
graut the women the right to vote.
She then closed by Introducing him I
*s the "George Washington of Ala*-,
? Her remark* were loudly ap.
ptauded and the audience was a
nn|t In congratulating her on her In
* HlgPnt and convincing uik.
Mr Wlokershan, then arow and j
old n? ?f (hf> m?rIf- of t|)e hompi
rule bill || tM a b,? thal n<wJoi
"o apology rt was fh? moM Uber.
|?l organic ,,ct that had ever been
rrantPd by congress tc a territory.
. nder Its provisions the people had
"'ore right* than any one of the
; territories ?* the|r creation. Wei
w*r* to form our legislature and
make our laws and the entire ?*
I'ense was to be borne by the gener
al goTornment. CongrP*s haa plac
0,1 "*trlrt|?iig around It, to be aure
|bm those restrictions mere neces
??ry during the formative period
and would be removed aa noon aa
ff?e leiishtlti machinery had h*
come a working organism.
Speaking of the restriction. on th
flah. game and other legislative'
powers. he i?p|d that It waa neces- 1
"?ry for the government to continue
looking after those Interesta until
'he I oral legislature could paM law*,
?<nd until after an election waa held
?nd thP neceaaary processes adopt.
"I for pprmanent tPrrltorlal opera
tlon.
1 "My work ? ..id Mr. WlckwrtamJ
, u prart ir.ll v through It I. ?p J
you now to lake up the work of
forming thin legl.l.ture. When I
first went to rongrpas. someone had
? '?ached fhe Par of the prealdent be
1 for." 1 did and they told him that If
ja territorial government waa permit.
"1p In Alaska, the people would ope |
?he gambling room, and dance halh
lhat the rank and file of the dlatrlr
(* err j, rabble and Incapable of .elf
government It now fof TOtl
,low cltliena, to disprove the alan
?r by electing honest men to office
Meet aipn of famlllea. mw, wW
homes and wive, and bable* are her
and whose hearts and aympathlw
and Interesta are here You hllve a
*r.?at duty to perform, necauae ofi
i p n??inger and Plnchot Investiga
tions and the numeroua chargpa of
"'eft and the wldeapread muckrak
Ing. the eyes of the world are upon
Alaska I'pople are wondering what
*ind of ? legislature the north Is
somg to produce. I have told them
>ou were the most capable people;
on the globe, and I want you to
prove it. Begin at once the studv
of legislative processes, see that you
, oct con^rvathe men to the legis
lature. men who will not be stam
ped by vl,Honary and Inomplete!
theories of government. You may
rest aaaured that when once von
Prove to the business world that)
nothing will be enacted Into lawj
? which will Interfere with the proper-)
t.v rights or prevent the legitimate!
operation of business. that capital!
will Immediately be found to open)
these vast resource. f0r d?vel-j
opment "
Mr. Wickersham told u. that the
president had "signed the home rule
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ISM IS LIST HOPE
of id ami m
I)oa Moines. 9?jt. r. _-Theo<ioro
Roosevelt yesterday spoke to the
members of the Iowa Progressive
convention which la In session In
this city. He said that Wilaon was
the hope of the standpatters, that
the btfc Interests and the old time' re
actionaries and conservatives have
decided that they cannot ele~t Tafft
and are now throwing their strength j
to the democratic candidate in the
hope of sarin* themselves rrom
the F ro*r??wtves. He a*fure? 1 the
people of Iowa that the fight ???
wholly between the Democrat* and
the F'roitresjiive* and that the ?lw
tloti of either Taft or Wilson meant
a perpetuation of the monopolist**
system whi?h the standpatter* had
foisted upon the nation
f?l{. M'CJKK. A\THKOI"OMH;i*?T
DIKtt OK CASCKR
Washington, I). C., Sept. S ? Dr.
W. J. Mrfiee. the noted American
anthropologist dl<-d yesterday of ran
cer at the age of sixty years. He
had traveled extensively collecting
data for his published works on all
branches of the science connected
with the origin. classification and r
iatlonshlp of the races. His dis
coveries led htm to the belief that
the Alaskan native* were de^cend
'?nt.i of the Japanese who at wiw
remote period drifted across the
Retiring sea and established villa?e*
on the northwest American conM-j
nent.
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mkw York i 'fit m ? it khhi v EM
NOMIVATK STATU TM'HKT
Syracuse, Hept. 5 The I'rngres !
slve party of New York la In session ,
today for the purpose of nominating
a full state ticket. New York will !
he the hattle ground for some of the
hottest politic*! skirmishing this
year that haa ever been*hn>?wn In!
the battle srarred state The Pro
gressives are very much elated over
the victory In California and Halm
that they will duplicate It In this'
state next November
bill on my birthday and I consider
It the most splendid birthday pre-]
sent I ever received " It may be
.?aid In the way of Information that
the delegate was R5 year* of age
on A it gn*t 24. "though he looks
much younger," some of the lady
usher* remarked.
Mr and Mrs Wlckersham will
leave In the morning over the White
Pass for the North. They will
spend a few week* In Fairbanks and
then go over the trail for the ont- 1
side.
JOHNS"* THK BKTTKR MAN
SAVS oratoritai, \TIM.IAM
l.tiifotn, 8?*pt. 5 ? William Jeit
ningn Bryan delivered one of hia
llryanesone *|ieeehes last evening
In referring to' the Progressive can
didates he Mid thai Hir<?m .fohnson
was a bigger man than Treodore
Roosevelt. Tlint the latter wante.l to
place the trnats under the dirert con
trol of th# president He thought
that Roosevelt had an evalted ego
tism and desired to make himself a
dictator with Napoleonic powers
WHITKHOliNf; WOMAN sAVH*
roMPtNlON FROM IIKOWHHO
Redondo Reach, Cal., An*. 14
Two jroant society matrons saved a
third from drowning here yewterday
when Mrs J P. Whitney wife of a
mining man of Alaska, and Mrs 7.
S Packson, of this c|tyf rnshed int<?
the ocean and brought Mrs gam I
Mansfield, wife of a wealthy manu
facturer of Tnesoti, Arl* , safelr
ashore after she had beromn ??*
hansted. Mrs. MannfleWI Is an ex
cellent swimmer hut became sudden
ly exhausted She threw lip lie.
hands as a signal of distress. Mrs
Whitney and Mrs. Packson, who
had just appeared upon the beach,
rushed to her aid Mrs. Whltney
carrled a llfesavlng device into I he
water with her, while Mrs. Packson
reeled out the ropper wire attached
to It aa Mrs Whitney awnm oat i<>
Mrs Mansfield, a distance of f?OU
feet.
Mrs Whitney is the wife of J. P.
Whitney of Whltehorse, one of the
best known mining operators In the
northern part of the Skagway dis
trict.
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