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Xo ELEVENTH YEAH. sKAGWAY. ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1908 ? PBICE, 10 CENTS
In the exuberance of feeling result
Ins from the game of last Saturday
between the Army atnl the Navy
root ball t *11 111s mid the sight of that
p.auie. Major W. P. Richardson yes
terUay sent the following cable to
.Mrs. 1'iillen
Mrs. Pullet). Skagwuy. Alasku:
We certainly killed the navy yeater
i'ay and Dan wan the star.
\V. I*. RlCilARhSO.V.
V Ptilli-n is having tiie message
emlM. il and framed.
NOT SMALLPOX |
AFTER ALL:
Indians who came ni> from llaines
on Saturday say the case of alleged
small pox which caused su< h a flurry
there and her?* has been discovered
to be a case of skin disease, instead,
that has improved so much under
treatment that the victim on Friday
last returned to Kluckwan by the
new government road pulling a sh%d
load of goods behind him.
FLEETTOSIIL
TOMORROW:
(By United Press. i
MANILA. Nov. 30 ? The fleet v.A\
sail tomorrow ;n wording to previou j
announcement Anchors nil! >>?-'
weighed ?t J i clock
STEVENSON
WILL CONTEST
(By United Press.)
I CHICAGO, Nov. 30.? SteVenson
now announces that he will contest
the election of IVjneen for tilt* ko\
ernorshlp. The official count gave
Deueeu L'3 plurality. *
WOODRUFF IS
OUT OF II
(By United Press.)
HOT SPRINGS, Nov i "0.? ' Tlnu>
thy Woodruff makes the announce
ment to President elect Taft, that he
is out of the race for the Now York
.enatorshi|> This will make the ele?
lion ol Secretary of State Kllhu Root,
who has long been a candidate, cei
tain.
(By Ur.itcd Press.)
LAWRENCE, Kan., Nov. 30. ? Son
ator-elect Brlstow of this state
in an interview here makes the
statement that a majority of the fed
eral Judges are controlled by the
railroads The statement has caused
a sensation.
t>. .Maskevlczlous was a passenger
on the Humboldt for Ketchikan.
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LyKb and Kennedy
(By United Prees)
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Nov. 30.
? 1 Vhe revolutionists are marching' on
this city. Government troops are
fulling back- anil the city Is overrun
with the advance of the retreating
army. Soldiers report frequent skir
mishing at the front in which they
were for the most part defeated.
The city is greatly excited and gov
ernment officials are doing all they
can to encourage the leaders to
maintain resistance.
TREATY SIGNED
(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.- -This ar
ternoon Secretary of Stale R.iot and
Embassador Takahira signed an Am
erican-Japanese treaty.
Lt. Orchard, wife and family. Cap
tain Hamilton Smith and Mr. Win.
Brilt, returned home this morning An
the Peterson from a two weeks' out
iug to Tenakee Arm, where the men
went to hunt. The) come back with
the biggest kind of a bear story ?
skin nine feet in the clear ? the bu;
gea^ ever killed In this section. They
say it was the real thing in hear
hunting. They had been some days
in camp and had got but one deer
ami were growing of the opinion that
it was'ut going to be much of a
hunting trip, when one day they
struck his tracks in the snow, for all
the world like those of an elephant.
The next day they set out to find
him, followed the tracks up the
mountain and at last located him in
his ilen where be bad curled up for
th>' winter. They woke him lip and
when he came out the mountain
looked comparatively small, with him
on it. Badly scared as they were
they plugged him full "of lead and
Lt. Orchard has the skin to sliow
for It They were well repaid for
their trip.
Captain Davison and _a number of
others from the fort were bunting at
the same time In the same neigh
hood secured .five deer. They also
came back with the Peterson.
GOLD SENT
OUI OT ill
(By United Press.)
? WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.? Post
master General Myers has completed,
his annual report which has Just been
made public. The report refers par
ticularly to the use made of the
mails by Alaskans in sending out
their gold; that heavy shipments of
gold were made from the interior in
this way. The postmaster general
recommends the establishment of
postal savings banks.
(By United Press.)
CHI2EFOO, Nov. I!0. ? Two Japan
ese steamers collided off this port
this morning and it is reported that
700 hundred were drowned. The re
lief steamers have not returned and
the details are not to be had.
arghIloHs
ON THE STANO
(By United Press.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. ? Arch bold
is on the stand this afternoon in the
suit to dissolve the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey. He is testify
ing to the early formation of the
con\pany and the development of the
trust.
DANCE A MONTH
Br FIRE LAOS
There was a well attended m etinp
of the firemen Saturday eveoiosr at
which it was decided to secure bids for
a general renewal of the hall, on Fourth
avenue, clcuninsr up, painting an<l the
laving of a now lloor? ono that will be
suitable to dancing. A committee was
appointed to lobk after the business,
get the bids and report to a meeting
next Saturday evening. The commit
tee is composed of Messrs. Mark
Phelps, chairman, Chris Shen, I lector,
Mi'Lean, Hill Sh arer and tleorge Dil
lon The hall being put in this apple
pie order the firemen will inaugurate
a series of monthly dances to pay the
bill and entertain their friends at
the- same time.
flUNKSGIVING DINNER
SUMS HONS
Camembert, Roqufort. Fromage de Brie
Imported Cheese
Queen Olives, Pickels, Relishes
Malaga Grapes, Oranges, Apples, Banans
Cranberries. Celery
GANTY & FRANDSON
MORE 111
AND HIGH WATER
(By Unitod Press.)
GUTHRIE, Okla., Nov. 30.? After
forty-eight hours of a terrific down
pour of rain, the Cottonwood river
has overflowed its banks and hun
dreds of people are fleeing before
the rising waters.
popeIsien
SERIOUSLY ILL
(By United Press.)
ROME, Nov. 30.? The pope was
this morning taken suddenly ill and
his condition is assumed to be ser
ious from the concern of the medic&l
attendants and the secrecy main
tained. All audiences have been sus
pended.
EARTHQUARKE
IN A MINE
* 0
Speuklng of the earthquake shock
felt in the Tanana last month, the
Fairbanks Times says: At No. 14,
l.oldstream, the point-ma'n was at
work when the shock came. It was
accompanied by such a loud rumbling
noise, and the effects on the tunnels <
a ud drifts were so fearful, that he ran <
to the shaft and screamed for help, s
There v^s a tremendous Jarring and
crackling of earth and timbers be- 1
hind him as he ran. The result was l
that, although the drift behind the t
fac? had shown no signs of weakness
or disintegration, earth the size of a 1
block 120 feet wide by 80 feet in 1
length and probably 25 or 30 feet in
thickness fell from the roof <? the
chamber, filling the entire drift al
most to the face. t 1
PERISHED III
THE MINE
(By United Press.) ?
PITTSBURG, Nov. 30.? Of the min
ers entombed in the coal mine at Mar
iana on Saturday as the result of an
explosion of ffre damp, 278 perished.
Their dead bodies are being taken
out today. Working all day yester
day the flames which broke out after
the explosion were extinguished and
the debris of the explosion removed.
The town of Mariana is plunged in
grief and gloom. Funerals are under
way.
L
LEAVE ALASKA
(8y United Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.? Major
21um, former postmaster at Fair
banks and late candidate for dele
gate to congress has been reap
pointed to the office of postal in
spector which officc ho lirld before
lecoming postmaster, and has been
.ransfcrred from Alaska to the Spo
cane division, a post he held once
>efore.
THE BOATS
The P. C. SS Tamplco arrived up
Saturday evening at 4 and left at 6.
She brought 16 tons of freight and
lome second class mall.
The Humboldt arrived at 10:30 and
eft at midnight Saturday. She
>rought a considerable stunt of
relght and a quantity of mall.
The next boat to arrive will be the
'rincess Mjy, December 5, to be foi
owed next day by the Jefferson.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Kirmse and
rack returned up from Juneau on the
iumboldt.
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