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No. HI. TWELFTH YEAR.
8KAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY JULY 22. 1909
PRICE, 10 CENT
(By Ur.l'.ed Press.)
GALVESTON, Texas. July -- ? Com
munication with the mainland was!
established early this morning.
Careful reports indicate that not!
more than twenty people were drown- 1
ed in the flood of yesterday. The
I>ollee depar inent as yet have only
received reports of ten deaths.
The prope. ty damage however, is
enormous. It will undoubtedly mornt
high into the millions.
Today the wind has subsided and'
the waters are slowly receding from
the city, shortly after 2 o'clock yes
terday afternoon there was eight feet
ot water over some parts of the down
town district of Galveston.
The fact that the people had plenty
of warning and kept out of the
streets and the great sea wall un
doubtedly saved Galveston from a
worse catastrophe than that of Sept.
I 900. The sea wall broke the force
of the waves so that the water cov
ered the town with comparative slow
ness.
D. GUGGENHEIM
BOOSTS ALASKA
(By United Press.)
LONDON. Rutland. July -- ? Daniel
Guggenheim, of Now York, who is
now visiting England, stated today
to newspaper interviewers that Al
aska was the grvntest of all countries
in latent possibilities and that he ad
vised young men to go there, for no
where were there as splendid oppor
tunities for wealth and success.
RIVER REPORTS
The steamer Whitehorse arrived in
Whilehorse at I o'clock this morning
with 132 through passengers. The
steamer Dawson arrived in Dawson
at S o'clock this morning.
The Casca left Dawson at 3 o'clock
this morning, and the Bonanza Kins
passed Yukon Crossing at 5 o'clock
this morning bound up stream.
The Whitehorse will leave White
horse tonight, the Selkirk Saturday
night and the Dawson next Tuesday
evening.
"Make 'em prove it. Bill!" ? Doc
EYE WITNESS TELLS OF
FIRST GALVESTON FLOOD
(Jwrgp \V. Andrews, general pas-j
sienger agent of the Pacific Coast ,
Steamship company with offices at
Seattle, made the round trip to Skaj;
way and return on the Queen. Mr.
Andrews was particularly interested
in the reports of the Galveston dis- j
ast.T as he was in Galveston in Sep
tember. 1900. three days after the ter
tible flood In which about !'.0U0 peo
ple lost their lives.
"I was living in Houston when the ,
tidal wave swept Galveston ."Mr. An
drews said, "and I entered the city
on the first train. Ti.e scenes were
horrible beyc d all description. Thou
sands of dead bodies were lying un
buricd on Iho beach and the stench
was awful. It was finally necessary
to burn the dead bodies to prevent a
plague. The bodies were stacked up
in piles with cord wood and burned, j
"Galveston is built on a sand spit
and for this reason most of the dwell
ing houses were erected on piling like
stilts. The tidal wave, which was IS J
feet high, swept under these houses
and tore them from their foundations
as though they were built of cards, i
The wave struck late at night and ]
the people, who were sleeping, had J
small chance to escape."
We could make clothes
expressly for you here at home, but
a local tailor shop today is impractical
and unprofitable.
It hu D3 labor market fron which to secure
dssirabl: cutters and tailors ?
It canmt afford to install a modern plant
designed to reduce cost of production ?
It doesn't do sufficient business to enable it
to buy woolens direct from the mills ?
It cannot keep abroast of m*tr?p?litan ltyles
and workmanship. ,
Therefore, we send our orders
for fine made-to-measure clothes to
Ed. V. Price & Co., of Chicago.
We can take your measure the
same way we would if running shops
here, and furnish you your clothes,
made as you want them, at 56 $ less
than we could make them locally.
Won't you call today?
LYNCH & KENNEDY
The Up-To-Datc Haberdashers and Ladies' Furnishers
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RELATIVES HI GALVESTON
Mrs. J. P. Allison, Mrs. Mary Allen,!
Mrs. E. K. Dumble, Mr*. H. B. Rice, j
and Miss Llbby Rice, tourists on the
Queen, are all residents of Houston,1
Texas, which Is only forty miles from
Galveston, and all of t!ie have rela- j
tions and friends In the stricken city.
The entire party called at The Alas
kan office to try to learn the details
of the catastrophe, when they were
Informed of the accident by a re-'
presentatlve of the paper. They wer
greatly agitated, as they fear that)
many of their friends have been
drowned.
"Oh, it's too terrible," gasped one;
of the women, "I lust knew there
would be another flood there some
day. Wow can we ever wait until we
Ce' buck to Seattle before we 'find
out who has been drowned? It's
ppolled all the pleasure of our trip."
i' Several of the ladies seemed to
think that as the storm had been In
creasing all night and morning that
the residents of Galveston would hava
ample warning and could escape lo
the mainland.
"But they never would leave," said
another, "you know that during the
first flood they kept staying and stay
ing; I don't believe that warning
would do a bit of good."
II. B. 10
The Arctic Brothers will be hosts
at a dance given this evening at A.
B. hall for the entertainment of the
visitors in Skagway. The dance will
bi a public affair and all are cordiall
Invited. The A. B'S. are renowned I
for their hospitality and tonight's j
dance should be most enjoyable.
Reed's orchestra will play.
Mrs. E. McC. West, Mrs. Jacobs,
Miss Ethel West and Britain West ar
rrived on the Cottage City this morn
ing from San Francisco. They expect
to remain in Skagway.
HIGH HONOR
IS DECLINED
'(By United Press.)
PARIS, France. July 22 ? President
Fallieres has offered the premiership
of France to Leon Bourgeois, former
minister of foreign affairs, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation
Premier Clemenceau. It is believed
that Bourgeois will decline the ap
pointment.
Mrs. George Dedman, Miss Ida
Deduian and Henry Dedman arrh?
ed on the Cottage City this morning
from Pasadena, Cal., where they have
been living for several years.
A meeting was held at 2:30 o'l
clock this afternoon at the Presby
terian church under the auspices of
the Skagway W. C. T. U. for the pur
pose of listening to addresses by |
three women, who is each distinguish
ed in her chosen line of work. All
I
have been delegates at the Interna- j
tional Council of Women which re
cently met in Toronto and at which
more than 10,000,000 were represent-;
f-d by delegates.
Mrs. A. M. Hill is president of th?|
'loronto Council of Women, president
[of the Toronto Travel club and a life
j member of the National Local Coun
cil of Toronto. Mrs. Hill spoke j
| this afternoon on the scope and pur
j pose of the International Council ?f[
Women and what was done at Tor
onto.
Mrs. Maude Muff, district councillor
of Bexely, London, president of the
Physical Educational League of Eng
land and president of the British
Women's Temperance Association
which is affiliated with the W. C. T.
U., spoke this afternoon on the tem
perance work in England.
Miss Williams of London, England,
has been for many years president of
the Girls Kriendly Society of Wales.
She is a sister of the Bishop of
Bangor, Wales. She spoke along
the lines of the "White Slave" traf
fic, discussing protected immigration
for women and girls from the stand
point of the mother-land.
I Go to the Pack Train restaurant
| for your Sunday French Dinner. The
very best of everything the market
j affords. Ice cream served free with
our Sunday dinner. S. tf
Stop at the Caribou hotel when I"
Carcrosa. Fine fishing and huntin
In the immediate vicinity. Overlooks
the beautiful shores of the lake. E
W. Gideon, prop.
**? We carry the Best and Larg'estJStocK t
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F RUIT JARS !
I JELLY GLASSES f
I JAR CAPS |
Rubbers and Paraffine
? ? The berries are fine this year, put up all you can and * *
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?* enjoy them next winter J.
I GANTY & FRANDSONI
" I I II I II I I I I I II II 1 1 I I I1 M'I"I I I**j
ENTHUSIASTIC EXCURSIONISTS
SEE SWAY'S SIGHTS
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany's boat "Spokane" arrived in
port at 1 o'clock this morning witli
198 tourists and pleasure seekers on
board. Like the "Queen," the "Spo
kane" is also a three deck boat, with
a tonnage of 20.16. She has been car
lying tourists through ta.ise northern
waters for the past six yearn, and is
a popular boat. Last winter she was
completely overhauled, and her pas
senger capacity increased by addi
tional rooms. Most all of the tour
ists took Ihe trip over the White
Pass and Yukon Route, as far as
Wi.lte Pass. They returned to
Skagway at 11:30 a. m. They are
very much delighted with the trip,
so far, some of them stating that
th y had travelled all over the world
ai"l this Is the most beautiful trip
they had over taken.
The following is the passenger list:
Miss Florence Addix, M. I). Atkins,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Andrews, Mr. and
Mrs. W. N. Butler, Miss Elizabeth .1.
Butler, Edw. J. Banker, Mrs. Mary E.
(Continued on page three.)
WRIGHTS MAKE RECORD FLIGHT
(By United PressO
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 31? The
Wright brothers made a record break
Ins flight In their aeroplane, yester
day at Fort Meyer. The Aeroplane
was in the air continuously for one|
hour and twenty minutes and circled
around the big parade grounds under
perfect control. At times it went
at a speed of about thirty-six miles
an hour. A large crowd of govern
11 .it officials, army officers and Con
gressmen watched the flight.
(By United Press.)
PARIS, Prance. July 21 ? ' The Clem
encau cabinet was abruptly broken
up last nlfiht followinK the violent
debate in the French assembly over
the recent scandals relative to the
fi rnishing of poor equipment to the
government war ships. Every member
of the cabinet lias tendered his res
ignation. President Falliores is great
ly surprised by the abrupt termina
tion of the Clemencau regime.
TERRIBLE TERRY IS DECLAED INSANE
NEW YORK, July 8? "Terry" Mc
Govern, the former featherweight |
pugilist, was committed by a Brook- 1
lyu magistrate to the observation '
ward of the Kings County Hospital;
today. Witnesses testified that his
actions for some time past indicated
that his mind had weakened. If the
hospital authorities take this view at
the end of a week's observation it is
provable tnat he will be ?????>' to an
institution for treatment.
COTTAGE HUD 100 TOURISTS
The Cottage City arrived in port at
7:45 o'clock this morning with 110
passengers and -10 tons of freight and
left for the south at 1 o'clock this
afternoon with 102 passengers and a
light load of local freight.
A. B. Dance tonight.
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