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AMAZING WORK AT PANAMA
Everybody predicted that when
Americans took hold of the Panama
canal tbero would be evolved methods
to revolutionize the art of digging
ditch s; that everything of that nature
that Lis:ory tells about would be
maue itneiL Colonel Goetbels,
army ? ~ <iue r In charge of the work,
i* r k . . ,;ood on the bravest of these
pred c'. a. In speed he is excellioK
every engineer from the time of the
man who built the pyramid of Cheops
to the present day.
In December he threw out dirt rep
resenting ten city blocks, to the depth
of forty feet. Compared with this the
past digging on the canal has been
mere loating. Besides this he has his
force in such splendid shape and so well
safeguarded from disease that it Is said
his name is one to conjure with at the
White tiouse.
In the iatett report filed an
effort is made to give a picturesque
setting to dry statistics. For every
fifty working days, the commission
showed that it is displacing materal
equal to the built of the pyramid of Che
ops, the making of which took 100,000
men twenty years. To build the road
connecting the pyramid with the
quarry it took this great army ten
years.
De L?sse?s built the Suez canal in
ten years. It would take Goethals 3.8
years to dig this ditch and stack away
his shovels. Goethals' men could pat
through the Manchester canal in
twenty-five months and the famous Kiel
. .75
. 2.25
. 4.51'
. 9.(X
canal of Germany la five years.
There Is said to be less dissatisfaction
and more work on the isthmus now than
ever before. ^Wallace, Shonts and
Stevens have been completely eclipsed
by the army engineers, who, while not
drawing fancy salaries, are meeting
every expectation of President Roose
velt.
The report shows less typhoid fever
han for eighteen months, and a steady
improvement in sanitary conditions.
No estimate as to the time of the
canal's completion is given.
SIX PRIZE LIMERICKS
The N. A. T. & T. Co., adopted a
rather effective mode of advertising at
Dawson a little while ago iff offering a
Drize for the best Limerick running to
the line "A Miner from Granville,
V. T," the merits of which
was to be determined by appointed
judges. There wero six prizes and the
offer called out two thousand attempts.
Tho winners have just been announced
as follow:
Sergeant G. B. Joy, John Dines, Mrs.
C. P. Dolan, A. B. Clegg. A. E. Lee,
and Marie Frotherjngham, the prize
winners bein ? named in the order ot
merit.
The winning Limericks iu the same
order follow:
A miner from Granville, Y. T.
Fell into a creek on a spree;
He poisoned the courses,
Gave glanders to horses,
And killed all the fish in the sea.
? Serjjt. G. B. Joy.
A miner from Granville, Y. T.
In a quarrel chased his wife up a tree,
At this elevation
He viewed his relation.
"High life in the Yukon," says he.
?John Pines.
A miner from Granville, Y. T.
"A toast to the Yukon," says ho.
"Thy mystic charms hold me;
"Thy enchantment enfolds me.
"I am thine and I would not be free."
-Mrs. C. P. Dolan.
A miner from Granville, V. T.
Whose bedrock be never could see,
Said, "I know very well
"My paystreak's in h? 1.
"So Guggle will And it, not me."
A. B. Cleg?.
A miner from Granville. Y. T.,
Came to Dawson his lawyer to gee.
Sad to say he went baok
Without gold in his sack
It hau all been absorbed by the fee.
?A. E. Leo.
A miner from Granville, Y. T.,
Kan a race with a big gtizz-lee.
Said the near: "What's your rush?',
Said the man: "I must mush,
" 'Tis a life and death matter to me,"
? Mrs. Marie Frotherlngbam.
The judges In the contest were F. V.
Stackpole, Dr. A. J. Gillis and John
Sutherland, Mackiy. The judges
worked from 2 p. m. until 10 p. m.
sifting and picking the winners.
They- -they judges? are said by tbe
Dawson News to be threatened with the
Limerikitis.
NO DRESS SUIT, W DINNER.
London Hotel Where Not Even an
Earl Can Dine In Street Clothe*.
Never was the question of propriety
In matters of dress so sharply tested
as the other evening when a well
known English nobleman and his wife
were refused admission to the Savoy
restaurant In London at the dinner
hour because neither was in evening
attire. The nobleman Is an earl, bear
ing one of the proudest titles In Eng
land. He protested, but the hoad wait
er, polite but obdurate, said the rule
could not be changed for all the wear
ers of coronets In the realm.
To dine at the Savoy restaurant or
even to be served with coffee in the
adjoining foyer It Is absolutely essen
tial that a lady wear a dinner gown.
The escort naturally must wear a
dress suit. This rule has been unbro
ken ever since the Savoy was opened.
Those who don't care to dress eat the
same viands and drink the same wine
In the grill room.
The Savoy is the only remaining
rampart of this peculiarly English
fashion. At all other famous hotels In
London known to traveling Americans
the managemeut is ever ready to make
exceptions.' At the Itltz, for example,
the manager says the whole thing re
solves Itself lrilo a matter "of tact and
discretion.
"Wo know our guests," he said. "Nat
urally an extremely rare one of them
falls to dress for dinner, but when
such a thing docs happen the guest
himself Is the first person who desires
to be Inconspicuous. We prefer that ev
ery one should be dressed, and should
a stranger come In in street attire he
probably would b? told that all the
tables, to our groat regret, already
were taken, but the guest never would
be forbidden to take dinner where he
wishes."
The manager of Clarldge's made a
similar statement "It rarely happens,"
he said, "that any of our guests ap
pear at the dinner hour without being
in eveuing dress and still rarer that
they would care to dine in the restau
rant under such conditions, but such
cases do arise, especially at this sea
sou of the year. For instance, a man
arrives from Paris, finds his family
already in the restaurant and wauts to
dine aud chat. It would not only be
unkind, but unjust and bad taste, to in
sist that he first change his clothes.
We have no fixed rule on the subject.
The whole matter Is one of tact and
common sense."? Exchange.
Gold Stealing In Australia.
There have recently been unpleasant
revelations as to the extent to which
the stealing of gold by the miners is
carried on In Australia. Some authori
ties estimate that as much as a million
pounds' worth of gold Is lost every year
by the Australian mining companies
In this way. Most of the miulug cen
ters are haunted by a shady class of
nominal "gold buyers," who are really
the accomplices of the dishonest min
ers, the "fences" In criminal slang.
Representatives of the mining compa
nies in Beudigo, where a record num
ber of cases of gold stealing have re
cently occurred, have met in confer
ence to consider the best means of
dealing with the evil. As oue way of
checking the evil, it was decided to es
tablish a register of all the miners em
ployed in the Bendigo district, so that
the movements and migrations of dis
missed or reasonably suspected men
might be traced and observed. In this
way It Is hoped to prevent the thieves
getting employment in other mines.?
Pall Mall Gazette.
Bondholders' Unclaimed Money.
The postotllee profits slightly by the
destruction of stamps which have been
paid for aud the treasury gets the
benefit of bills which are lost and nev
er fouud. A large source of Irregular
profit lies In the failure of bondholders
to present their bonds for redemption.
A One Handed Locksmith.
In a little shop over on Prospect nve
nue, not fur from the Colonial arcade,
Is nu old locksmith whose facility at
turning out keys of difficult design and
doing the other work that comes to a
locksmith Is a marvel to those who
have seen him. The old man has only
one arm. The other Is off at the shoul
der. By the use of a vise which he
operates with his knee he is able to
hold the tourIi pattern of the key
while he works on it with his file. It
1b said that no task that can be .per
formed by any locksmith with both of
his hands is too much for him.? Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
What's an Eel?
Summoned the other day for taking
flsh from the Thames during Illegal
hours, Stephen Thomas Bidmead said
he was eellug and that an eel was not
a fish, but a "fresh water serpent"
After a long consultation the bcnch
held that an eel was a fish and ordered
BMmead to pay costs.? Lloyd's Week
ly.
IDE WEATHER
INTERIOR AND LOCAL
Whitehorse? Cloudy, ca'm, 10 below.
Atlin? Clear, calm, 1 below.
Center? Clear, calm, 0 below.
Tagish? Fogey, c >lm, 10 below.
Hootalinqua? Clear, calm, 20 below.
Big Salmon? Clear, Cilui, 22 below.
Yukon Crossing? Foggy, calm, 10 be
low.
Selkirk? Clear, calm, 28 below.
Coffee ? Cloudy, calm, 21 below.
Stewart ? Cloudy, calm, 10 below.
Ogilvle? Foggy, calm, 24 below.
Dawson? Cloudy, s iuth wind, 18 be
low.
The result of the observation taken
at Moore wharf at midnight, Jan. 19,
1908, is as follows
Temperature time observat'n .32 above
Max. temp. preceding 24 hours. 30 above
Min " " " " ..32 above
Mean " " " " ..34 above
Barometer ?9.42
Snowing and calm.
INFORMATIONWMEO
If this meets the eye of Charles
Feldman, who left home November.
1905, he in earnestly requ> sted to com
municate with his parents and allay
tbelr anxlet If he Is 111 or Id diffi
culty. he is requested to communicate
at ODce with bis parents at No 83 De
lancy s ieet, New York city. Any in
formation concerning him will be
thankfully receiveJ.
J. Feldman,
Seven room furnished house to rent
on Third Avenue. Enquire of G. E.
Howard. 264-tf
All the delicacies of the season at
the Pack Train Restaurant.
BETTER PREPARED THAN EVER
Having put In a steam uoiler and
other macuinery we are better pre
pared thun ever to do first-class work
on short notice.
5-23-tf Skagway Laundry
Fresh Moat
The Frye-Bruhn Co. keep all kind
of fresb meat constantly on hand.
A Wonderful Instinmrnt
You should drop into the Mascot and
hear the music. The ehctric piano
hag a Mandolin attachment tqual to a
whole octette of Mandolin attachments
with a string of lcw airs.
Phone City Transfer
For your coal, wood and general haul
ing. Phone 90. Boughton's cigar
store. 10-4-lm
HAVE YOU SEEN
our? F. Canntius Felenius, if not drop
in at Daylight and look at It? it is the
prettiest now it ever was. Respec fully
yours Herm?n Grimm.
Hear Those MandoliiaS Ringing
Eight of 'em in one instrument, with
Piano accompaniment. Hear them ao
the Mascot. It is gi eat, and fills the
place of a vaudeville entertainment.
WANTED? A first class Gold or Gold
and Copper Mining Proposition in Alas
ka. State full particulars when you
write. Address. Lewis Lusk, P. O. box
107:i, Spokane, Washington. 219- lmo
PIONEER ALASKA LINE.
s?f=eed. safety, comfort
Seattle, and other Puget Sound Porta
CARRYING U.IS. MAI I.
Steamers of This Company Leave
City of Seattle
Cottage City
January 20th
February 3
C nmct ns- with tne ^npany's Steamers at Seattle for
San Francisco, Socthkr.m California, Eureka (Humboldt Bay) and
Mkxico
f&r Above Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice.
FRANK H. STUART, Agent
Second and Broadway, Skagway
Seattle Ticket Office, 113 James St.
C. D. DUX ANN, General Passenger Agent,
10 Market Mreev san Francisco, Cal.
("anadian Pacific Railway
(B. C. Coast Service)
Twin Screw Steamshio
PRINCESS MAY
Leaves Skagway
Dec. 14th, 30th. Jany. 13th, 29th..
For Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle. Stop-overs allowed
Spacious Observation and Smoking Rooms
Ticketd to any part of '.be world and all information from
Phone 87 F. F. W. LOWLE, Agent
The Alaska Steamship Co,
Carrying U. S. Mail and Alaska Pacific Express
Next Sailing of the Fast Passenger Steamer
JEE f ERSON, Jan. 14, 25
FAIULLON - - - -
Company reserves right to change sailing date without notice.
Transfers to Victoria and Vancouver Without Additional Charge
Through Tiokets to San Francisco
R. A. CARROLL, Agent. Phone 66
I
You knom the Advantage of
up-to-date toilet preparations
They are ns indespensabie to health
beauty ami happiness as food and it is
only bv careful study a druggist be
comes a factor in the struggle for them.
We recommend our
BKNZO WITCH HAZEL CREAM our
ALMOXD.'and CUCUMBER CREAM
our great assortment of BEST SOAPS
For a
SMOOTH AND SOFT SKIN
_ Our
Resorsin Hair Tonie
and Tar Shampoo for the HAIR and
SCALP.
Our
TOILET WATERS, PERFUMES and
TALCUM POWDERS for general use
by all who care for a clean, healthy and
refined appearance.
Wm. BRITT
THE DRUGGIST
JTJNEAU S. S. CO'S.
ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM
HEATED STEAMER
Georgia
Carrying U. 5. Moil
For Haines, Berbers Bay, Juneau,
Hoona, ;.Tenakee, Sitka and Wayports
! I S A I LS
JANUARY 3, 9, 15,
21, 27
WILLIS NOWELL, Mgr., Juneau
W. W. BOOGHTON, Agent
I Broadway and Fifth Ave. Phone 00
U. S- Mai' Steamer
Hegg
Carrying passengers and mail
Leaves Skagway Tuesdays,
Thursdays and
Saturdays
at 9 a- m. Leaves
Haines for Skagway
same days at 2 p. m.
Fare one way $1-50
Round tri-Q $2.50
REMODELED
THE
Rainier-Grand fiolel
SEATTLE
New Management
Central Location
Popular Prioea
European Plan
Finest CAFE and BAR In the Cl'v
Wilson & White Co.Prop.ChM PerrjMlf
Raw Furs....
WE PAY
1 High Prices for fine Furs
Write For Price List
Percy's Fur House
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
DOOOOOOODQO-' -*?WOnOC?XJ008?
R?YAL
Steam Laundry
All Work Guaranteed. Short
Orders Promptly
Done
Messenger will call and.{delirer
Phono 79
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TheWhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No- 18
(Dally Exoept Sunday.)
No. 1. N. Eound
1st olass.
8 30 a. m.
10 10 "
10 50 "
11 20 "
1 10 p. m.
3 25
Leaves
Arrives
Arrives
SKAGUAY
WHITE ;PAS8
LOG CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
Whitk Horse
Passenecrs must bo at depots In time to have Baggage Inspected and
checked. Inspection is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of train.
i 4ii ft*on with naoh full fare ticket
Leaves
No.|2, S.JBound
1st class
3 20 p. m.
1145 "
12 45 "
12 05' "
10 30a m.
8 20 "
1BU pounas 01 oarage . ? -
ftnd 75 pounds with each half faro ticket.
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Through Line Prom
Skagway to Abiin, White Horse; Big SalmoD, Diwson and Intermediate Yukon River Points.
The new placer camps in the Alsek and Kluane Mining Districts are reached only via White Horse.
Winter Route Stage Service
During the winter season, when navigation is closed, dally trains will continue running between
Skagway and White Horse. A through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be maintained
by a Thoroughly Equipped Stage Line botween Wbito Horse and Dawson.
Regular stages, carrying mail, express and passengers, leave White Horse for JDawson and
intermediate points.
For Conrad City, located injtbe heart of the newly discovered and fabulously rich quaitz camp
of the Windy Arm District, take our daily trains to Caribou.
For information relative to passengei, freight and telegraphic rates, apply
to any agent of the Company, or to:
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT A. L. BERDOE, Gen. Mngr. F. B. WURZBACHER Gen. Agent
Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, B. 0. and 8kaguay, Alaska Skaguay, Alaska