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TAYLOR S TESTIMONY.
It i? a big- risk that Ex -Governor
W. A. Taylor is running in going buck
lo Kentucky to appear as a witness for
Caleb Powers. Onoe he is in Kentucky
he will have burned all his bridge*
bebiud him and there is no telling
what will happen lo him. Attempt
after attempt has been made to get
Governor Taylor to Kentucky for
almost ten years. In fact, Wiatield T.
Durbin, governor of Indiana, from 1901
to ly06, sajs that soon after his inaugu
ration as governor, attempts were made
to bribe him to turn over Taylor, to the
authorities of the state for trial on the
charge of conspiracy to assassinate
Governor Goebel.
Governor Durbin, according to bis
own statement, was offered $93,000 lo
cash. Mr. Durbiu said that Taylor was
advised of the attempted bribery after
it was made and was cognizant .of all
that bad transpired at the meeting at
whioh the <93,000 was offered.
Former Govertor Durbin says that
the first attempt made to bribe him
cioia lu the form of Invitations to meet
"certain gentletneu" in Cincinnati, "to
discuss the connection of Taylor with
the Goebel murder." He declined the
invitation, saying that be would give
no connderation to the case outside of
bis own office.
State Senator Blnkley, since dead,
was then asked to come to Cincinnati.
He met a number of Kentucklans in a
hotel tbrre by appointment. They
told him thev were an ious to have
Taylor returned to Kentucky for trial;
that there then remained a total of I^V
0?>0 of the 9100,000 appropriation voted
by the legislature. All this, they said,
would be cheerfully paid to the Indiana
executive if he would surrender Taylor
to the Keotucky authorities or make it
possible for them to get birn across the
Ohio river into that state. Binkley de
clined to consider the matter.
A man who will expose h's life for a
friend like Governor Taylor is doing Is
not a person who would connive at as
sassination, yet in their iosine political
passion the democrats of Kentucky
count not on this. Taylor beat Goe
bel for governor and since then his life
has been sought as forfeit, and the oae
?ry in the ranks of democracy has been
"Revenge."
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SKINNING A GAMBLER.
So long as the shoemaker sticks to
his list. he is safe. But when he de
serts it he invites his own disaster.
If Richard Cantield, the Saratoga
gambler who is going out of bus'.oess,
had oo Iv borne this in mind he would
not have been compelled to put up the
pitiful plaint over which ill New York
Is now laughing. Cantield, t>e it un
derstood, Is the mos: famous gambler of
the land, with fat Sheedy trailing at
his heels. He is to this generation
what John Morriseey was to his; only
CanQeld is a man of taste, a connoisseur
in art, and the walls of bis "hell" In
New York, as well as that In Saratoga,
are adorned with paintings that would
make Pierpont Morgan's mouth water
were be to see them.
It was Canfield, securely entrenched
behind Tammany, as he thought, who
defied Jerome. The district attorney
promptly brought him to time and inci
dentally threw a side light on metro
politan dissipation by telling the story
of the drunken boy who lost half a mil
lion at Canfield'a.
Sine: his place has been closed, Can
tield has been re*tlesj. Me has bad no
eicitement. New York with the lid on
was too placid for him. So be went
down into Wall street, where there
never was a lid, and uis chance remark
puts the spotlight on the situation.
"A man can lose more money in an
hour in Wall street than he can make
in a month in legitimate business,"
wailed Mr. Can&eld.
Come to think of it, Cantield isn't the
leading American gambler, or even a!
typical ont. He cannot be, after such a
declaration. He whines when he loses;
the crime of crimes among the frater
nity, John Oakhurst would have been
IBM SERVICE DIH
I) HE HIT UH
Ordinarily the source is considered
by newspapers and but scant heed is
paid to newspaper "knockers " How
ever, to those patrons of the paper who
appreciate what it is to gel the NEWS
a word or two in explanation is neces
sary. The Alaskan is at the pi-esont
time PAYING MORE for its telegraph
report than has ever beeu paid by a
newspaper in Skagway before. It Is, at
the same time, giving more LOCAL
? nd TERRITORIAL NEWS than the
people have been ACCUSTOMED TO,
and, all in all, The A!as<?n is a belter
newspaper than it has been. This is
not said valnglorionsly? ITS A FACT.
On several occasions wiseacrrs, persons
who have had a smattering of newspa
per read ingL but not actual experience
in getting up a paper, have scoffed
about news that has ag>pe?red in the
columns of The Alaskan, particularly
was this so iu reference to the recent
i fire at Shelton, Wash., on the S'.h of
this month. The following about the
fire appeared in The Alaskan ott the af
ternoon of that date:
The Daily Alaskan Cable.
Shelton, Wash., Sept. 5? Shelton was
visited by a Gre this morning which
caused the loss of fifteen known lives,
and the probabilities are that the list
may be even greater than that number.
At a few minutes before 2 o'clock fire
was discovered in the three-story Webb
hotel. The hotel was filled with guests
at that hour and means of espcape from
the building were practically none.
Guests, aroused from their sleep by the
cloud* of smoke that were pouriug
through the building, rushrd to the
windows and in several instances leaped
to tha ground. A traveling man, whose
name could not be learned, jumped
from the third story acd was picked up
unconscitos. Others were so overcome
that escape was iinpo-sible and they
were burned to death Besides the
hotel three general stores and the
handsome home of John Connelly were'
destroyed. The loss iu property will
! reach MOO, 000. I
too wise to go down, in Wall street. Ue
never went against a strange game. >
But if he had tnkec the plunge j?nd
paid for his folly, he would have smiled
and kept his tongue between hid teeth
Oakhurst and Li Hung Ch.iog were
of the same caliber though one sported
the yellow jicket and theoth?r ran to
"biled shirts," in a community where
they were the greatest of luxuries.
It was Chang who put the hoary wis
dom of the Orientali at the service of
the white-skinned race, if it wishes to
profit thereby. Once the Chinese min
ister went down to Wall street in one
of those nosing-about trips for which
he was famous when her*. He was
much impressed by the ticker in a
broker's office, and finally someone
asked him: "How would you like to
play the market?"
The wily old celestial replied: "No,
thank you. I prefer to go into a game
where I can see the dealer."
What Chang knew by training and
what Canfield has just found out by
sore experience can be taken to heart
by thousands the country over. It will
be safer and cheaper that way.
WHO IT SHOULD BE.
There has never been a "year before"
In politics where so much doubt has
been expressed as to who will be the
presidential candidates. People will
not believe that Taft is to be made the
standard bearer for the republicans
and no one can tigure out who the dem
ocrats will nominate. The only one
mentioned by the democrats is Bryan.
Bryan, however, is impossilbe. His
following in the west is gone. The
"Solid South" will have none of him,
at least from the clipping taken from
the Courier-Journal it seems they will
not:
"Mr. Bryan is not l.he choice of the
best intelligence among leading dem
ocrats of a single Southern state. The
whisper goes around among the timid,
time-serving politicians of the South
that "we can't elect him, but we'll
have to nominate him." Can Mr. Bry
an believe th at be will be able to sur
The Post-Intelligenoer, which ar
rived here on the last boat, had the fol
lowing leader? It could not Ret the par
ticulars tor the first issue, as the fire
took place at 2 o'clock and the paper
coes to press at a few minutes thereaf
ter:
"Staff Cot respondent.
Shelton, Sept. 5? (Plash)? Eleven
persons are ksowo to have perish* d, at
least sixteen Injured, some fat a! I r, and
eleven others are numbered among the
missing, as the result of a disastrous
tire of mysterious origin, at an oarly
hour this morning, which completely
destroyed the Hotel Webb, the princi
pal hostelry of Shelton: two resiliences
sod a saloon.
The lire originated, as near as can be
ascertained, near the rear stairway In
the hotel, about thirty feet from thr
rear of the building, Tbe stairway
furnished a flue for the flames, and so
rapid was their progress that within
thirty minu'.es after it had first began
eating its way tlirough the thin floor
ing the entire building was enveloped
in tire.
Tbe Hotel Webb was a three-story
structure, containing sixty live rooms,
and runs the entire length of a block,
northward from Railroad avenue along
First street. Henry Fauben owned a
controlling interest In the hotel. The
alley which divides the block hid been
bridged over, and on tbe se'ond and
third floors rooms occupied the space."
Tbe above news was openly proclaimed
by several Skagway people as a news
paper fake? one person In particular
going so far as to say brazenly and un
truthfully that he bad been at Shelton,
a? d that it bad no such hotel ? * des
cribed and that only thirty-five people
lived there. Of course these things do
no harm, but they mislead some people
and Tbe Alaskan takes this occasion to
inform Its readers that the news that
appears under outside headlines is re
ceived dally by wire the day it appears
in print and Is the same that i? given
to the Seattle papers the dav the Skag
way readers get it.
vlre another defeat? Can be believe
the party may? Yet be holds the des
tiny alike of hit parly and himself in
his own bands, and, by realizing this,
might save the future of both. The
Courier-Journal has no other idea than
that of supporting the ticket; but that
support and the support of all the lead
ing democratic newsp?|.ets in the
country? especially in the debatable
states ? can only be broken- winded and
one-legged, the editors, like tbe flie
leaders, everywhere, feelinn it? short
of some unlooked-for catac'ysm? doom
ed to defeat.''
After all the candidates have been
paraded and the votes are counted there
will not be many surprised If Theodore
Roosevelt were again made president.
His work is not yet finished; he has
made good and the people want him.
Usually tbe people get what they want.
For the past two years the news
papers of the couotry have been plead
ing with congress '.o allow the officers
and men of the army and navy more
pny. The clamor has had u good effect
'or, the dispatches tell us Assistant
Secretary Newberry, representing the
navy; Assistant Secretary Wentwortb,
representing the Ti easury.-and General
Alnsworth- of the War Department,
got their heads together the other day
and approved a bill drawn by Repre
sentative Capon raising the pay of non
com missioned officers and privates 30
per cent,, of Captains .tnd Lieutenants
25 per cent., and of Colonels, Lieuten
ant-Colonels and Majors 20 per cent.
Senator Hale, Speaker Cannon and
Chairman Hull, of tbe House Commit
tee on Foreign A (fairs, have all agreed
not to oppose this Capon bill. The
President is for it, the people are not
opposed to It. The long-suffering army
and naTy must submit to congratulations
in advance.
Phono City Tramfer
For your ^oal, wood and general haul
ing. Phone 90, Boughton's cigar
store. 10-4-1 mo
JUNEAU 8. S. CO'S.
ELF.CTUIC Lir.flTKD 8TKAM
HKATKD STKAMKH
Georgia
Carrying U. S. Mull
For Haines, Berner* Bay, Juneau,
Hoonah, Tenakee, Sitka and Way ports
SAILS
SUNDAY, 8 A. M.
TUESDAY, 10 A. M.
WILLIS NOWKL.L, Mgr., Juneau
W. W. BOUGUTON, Affant
Broadway and Fifth Ave, Phone 90
U. S- Mail Steamer
Hegg
Carrying passengers and mail
Leaves Skagway eveiy
day except Sunday,
at 9 a- m- Leaves
Haines for Skagway
same days at 2 p. m.
Fare one way $1-50
Round trir> $2.50
STEAMER
'?MABEL F."
Commencing June IT. the
Steamer Mabel F will make
round trips daily between
CARCBOSS
Wynton and Conrad
Will also do towing and
handle excursions
Thos. H. Brown,
Master
BEER
There's Vigor and
Strength
in every drop
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COMPANY
Seattle, Wash, i
0 Pacific CoastS. S. Co.
PIONEER ALASKA LIKE.
Cottage City - Sept. i, >8
City of Seattle Sept. 2, 12, 24
Vlt Vancouver
W Above Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
C. O. DUNANN, Gen Pas*. Agt
10 Market Street. 9ao fnrwlioo, Q*l.
The Alaska Steamship Co. ^
Carrying U. S. M?J1 tad Aleak* Pacific Kipreee
Nest Sailing of the Fait Paaaenger 8t?amer
Jefferson Sept. 9, 19, 29
Dolphin - Sept. 14, 24
DOLPHIN has been changed similar to
the JEFFERSON- State rooms have but
two berths. WE give the FA8TEST
SERVICE.
Com pan j reeervea right to change tailing date witbeut notice.
Tranafera to Viotorla and Vancouver Without Additional Charye
Through Ticket to San Franclaco
R. A. CARROLL. Agent. PI ooe M
Canadian Pacific Ry. Co.
Sailings Every Wednesday
Princess may Sept. n, 25
Princess Royal Sept. 1$, Oct. 2
Direct to Vancouver and Victoria
Tr?n*ferrlnf Wo Seattle Tla rail or (teamer to extra char?*
Newest, Fastest Boats Runnisg to Skagway
Tickets to any j?rtof the world and information from
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The White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TABLE N<
l Daily Exoept Sunday.)
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No, 1. N. Bound
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9 30 a. m.
13 05 "
12 48 "
1 20 1 a.m
I 40 f "
3 20 p. m
5 50
Leave#
Arrlvei
9KAGUAY
WHITE PASS
IXXJ CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOO
Whit* Horsi
Arrive*
Leave*
No. 1. & Bound
let claM
4 30 p. ob.
5 ?0 "
2 20 "
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1 26 { p "
1? 40 a. m
9 30 "
Pawenper* must be at depot* In time to have Bafcape ln*y?3V6d aid
checked, inspection !* stopped SO mlnnte* before leaving time of train.
160 pound* of bagpape will be checked free with each Nil fare tieket
nod 75 pounai with each half fare ticket.
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Intermediate points. Connection msde st Dawson with tower River st^amtoats to r
Eagle, Circle CitT, Rumpsrt, ranana, Fairbanks, Chen*, St. Michael and Nome,
NAVIGATION NOW OPEN
Daily connection made at White Horse betweer trains and rirer steamers for all Yukon
River points. Including Mendenhall Landing, the nearest steamboat landing to the
Alsek Gold Fields- The following steamboats are operated by the WHITE PASS AND
YUKON ROUTE and are equipped with all modern convenience*, Including steam heat
electric light and other features as sfTord not only safety bot eorafort to passengers.
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DAWSON CASCA SELKIRK LaFRANCE
ZEALANDIAN THISTLE VICTORIAN
Through tickets can be purchased at Sksguay for DAWSON. FAIRBANKS, CHUN K
and all Lower River points.
Finely appointed trains daily, except Sunday, between Kkagnsy and White Horse.
carrying passengers, haggagt, mail and express.
Bhgpage bonded through. Direct telegraphic serviee to ttil points is Alaska. Canada
and the United States.
For information relative to passengei , freight and tekg-aphic rates, apply
to any agent of the Company, or to:
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