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No. 155. TWELFTH YEAR. SKAGWAY. ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1909 PRICE, 10 CENTS
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 29 ? In his yearly
report ending June 30, Secretary of
the Interior Balllnger pleads for th>'
issuance of bonds to the amount of
otf millions of dollars for the purpose;
of irrigating arid lands: for authority
to classify and segregate public lands,
to Introduce sanitary reforms in the
Indian villages in Alaska and giving
teachers of the native schools author
ity to enforce them, for an appropria
tion to build and equip a hospital for
the insane in Alaska and for money
to survey 200 square miles of land In
Alaska.
He also mentions the system of
distributing the reindeer in Alaska
and the work done by the public
schools.
Mr. Ballinger gives great praise to
former secretary Garfield for his
work in the conservation of the na
tion's resources.
HEM RAINS
SWELL STREAMS
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 29 ? Heavy rain
has been (ailing in the northwest for
the past five days and as a result
all the streams are swollen and much
damage has been done and property
lost.
HE OF ENA
SAVES SAILOR
A sailor on the Princess Ena,
known as '?Seotty, had a very nar
row escape from drowning on Fri
day night and had It not been for the
bravery of the second mate he would
now be occupying a watery' grave.
While watching the gang plank.
Scotty in some way slipped on the
icy guard timber of the wharf and
fell overboard striking his chin on
some obstruction, rendering him un
conscious.
The alarm "man overboard" was
Riven an second mate iminediatt
Iv Jumi . .nto the water, after a
heroic struggle, succeeded 'n getting
a line made fast to the unconscious
man and both were hauled aboard.
IN
MANY JAILS
A man named William Dunklc, a
:well known character around Tanana,
was an unwilling voyager down the
Yukon with the first run of the sea
son's ice. He was given a boat by
Grant creek miners, provided with a
supply of good, wholesome advice,
and told to proceed along the lines of
least resistance until he found con
genial surroundings amid which to
begin life anew. Dunkle had, like
the squirrels, been accumulating a
cache for the long cold, sub-Arctic
winter, and had disregarded the vest
ed rights of divers individuals under
the law in such cases made and pro
hided ; hence the decree commanding
| him to vacate the vicinity and there
after rt> remain absent, distant and
away.
A suspended sentence of 25 days
in Jail at Tanana has been hanging
over Dunkle slue laset summer. ?
Tanana Leader.
Dunkle is well known in Fair
banks, having been one of the first
here in early days. Dunkle street
is named after him. ? Tanana Tribune.
Dukle was arrested in Skagway last
spring and served several days on the
'chain gang" for having begged upon
the streets. He is a well educated
man and a fluent talke.r He is ver>
much averse to anything that savors
of work, however.
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Ml OWNERS
HELD LIABLE
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
CHERRY. Nov. 29? At the invest
igation held here the mine owners
were held liable for the deaths oc
curring in the terrible disaster of all
persons under age as regulated by
state laws, employed in the mines,
! and criminal prosecutions will follow.
?
MAI WET
OH DRY TODAY?
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Nov. 29? To
day is election day In Alabama and
the greatest interest seeius to center
on the question of prohibition. The
vote today is on absolute prohibition
and predictions are freely made that
It will carry.
JUNEAU-SKAGWAY ELKOEMI
"HE CULL OF THE WILD"
Tomorrow night a match game will |
be played at the Juneau and Skag
way Elk's bowling alleys between
picked teams from both lodges.
The game Is to be played via cable
and the results cabled to the respect
ive clubs at the end of each game.
This is the beginning of a series of
ulne games, and it is expected that
tliree games will be played ou Friday
evening next and the finals will bei
played on next Monday.
The total number of pins are to
bo counted and the club losing will
pay the cable lolls.
The committee Invites and expects
as many Elks and their ladies as
can t6 turn out and root for the
home team.
"Bill" Barnhlll has been chosen as
referee at Juneau and "Doc" Keller
will act as such here.
WILL CALL A
REAL MEETING
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 29? Frank YoungK
severely criticised the action of L. P.
Shackleford in calling the meeting of j
the Republican committee at Juneau
and electing himself chairman of the
Alaska Republican Central committee
and says that the Republicans of Al
aska will not stand for it.
Ho further stated that he may call
meeting of the committee himself as
soon as he returns from the East.
SENATOR PILES
QUITS POLITICS
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 29 ? Senator Sam
uel Piles made the announcement to
day that he would not he a candidate
for U. S. Senator for another term.
In doing so he said that he was re
tiring from politics and that he re
tires in favor of Thomas Burke, who
is the logical man to succeed him
in the senate.
STRIKES, SPARES AND SPLITS
OK MORSE ALLEYS TONIGHT
The teams that are to bowl in thej
Whltehorse-Skagway games tonight
left on the train this morning for
NVhitehorse.
The men's team will be A. C. and
George Blanchard, "Tuck" Flaherty,
N. E. Black and Charles Hockett.
Pitman was to have gone but bus
iness affairs prevented him, and Hock
ett was put in to take his place. As
Hockett has been showing great J
strength in the game of late it is
thought that the Skagway team will
have an easy victory.
The ladies team is composed of
Mesdames Stlnebaugh, Ganty, G. G.
Miller, Pitman and Miss Olive Spring
sted.
This is considered one of the
strongest teams that have contested
with the Whitehorse ladles and will
undoubtedly bring home the laurels.
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J. HI. RUFFNER SAVS ATUN
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J. M. Ruffner, who with his wife I
and a party of men who have been
working for the North Columbia
mines at Discovery, arrived on Satur
day's train after being eight days
on the road.
Speaking of the result of this sea
son's work on their properties Mr.
Ruffner said: "This has been a fair
season for mining operations in the
Atlln district although the severely
cold winter iast year left the banks
of our workings frozen hard and
to a much greater depth ihnn ai.y cf
the previous seasons ami It t ><? k prac
tically one third of the season to
mine out the frozen portion of the
banks, which combined with the delay
occasioned by the breakage of our
dam at Surprise lake shortened, con
siderably our time of sucessful oper
ations.
"In ttao latter part of the season
we got to working at full capacity
and with the amount of water we had
at our command were able to move a
great quantity of dirt although we
had to cease operations a couple of
weeks earlier than in former seasons
on account of the early freeze-up.
We will start as soon next year
as the frost will permit and I look
for the biggest season's work that
we have ever had.
ie ground worked this year has
held up to Its usual standard of val
ues and taken all in all I am very
well pleased with the showing made.
There have been a number of large
hydraulic properties opentd up this
year in the Atlin district and I look
to see the output of gold increased
for the next few years."
HOP! WAR,
MANY MUST
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29? Scores i
of men are enlisting in the U. S. i
Marine Corp and the recruiting of- 1
fice is besieged by men desiring to i
enlist in the hope that war will bo
declared against Nicaragua.
GLAVISCHABGES
NOT SUSTAINED
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SEATTLE. Nov. 29? A summary of
the evidence taken in the Cunning- 1
ham coal land investigation up to
date would indicate that the charges
made by Glavis are not substantiated.
Mrs. Tate is reported ill and con
fined to her bed at her residence In I
the North end.
SUGAR TRUST
TRIAL BEGUN
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
NEW YORK. Nov. 29? The trial of
the sugar trust, indicted for defraud
ing the government out of an imrnens
amount of money by under weighing
their imports, will be commenced to
day.
5. S. PRESIDENT
RAS ROUGR TRIP
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29? The S.
S. President arrived here today 24
hours late after a most tempestuous
voyage, having encountered a fierce
gale in which her hatches were torn
away and her forecastle shattered.
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