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JOHN TROY COMES BACK AT
FR ED HEILEG.
' The Alaska-Yukon Magazine o?ii
torialiy condemns the appointive-elec
tive legislature favored far Alaska b>
President Taft There is no doubt
that Alaskans want a wholly elective
legislature. and there is no good re?- j
son why. if wo are t ?> have a legisla
ture at all. it should not lv wholly
elective. Rut the Alaska-Yukon Ma;
azine is wrong when it points to the
delegate from Alaska as the one Alas
kan fundamentally opposed to an ap
pointive-elective legislature, and the
oae person especially qualified to
fight it. The present delegate's first
home-rule Mil was exactly the kind
propose by President Taft Inlay,
and we rtnvain to be convinced that
the delega'e is today sincere in his
desire for a democratic form of home
rule. His .resent hill does not show
i', aor did his arguments during hi
recer.t visit t'* Fairbanks carry the
conviction "hat he would stake a 1 for
tome rule without federal >trinsrs to
IV ? Fairbanks- T mes
Painful as it is. we must admit
that there is one editor in Alaska
that has no* beer, a careful reader
of the Alaska-Yukon Magazine. If
Brother Htilig of the Time? had been
reading this Magazine as studiously
as all good editors should read it.
he would have refrained from so
ruthlessly accusing us. We ha\e al
ways contended that the sentiment
Alaska "fundamentally oppose.'." to
'he hybrid co w mm- .t pro;*><(-<i t' r
thai territory by Priori lort Taf : is
well -Lis: h unanimous F^tr ha.- it
beer, from us to admi? that only
Delegate \V-.> kersham opposes i' Nor
have we ever admitted that ho is
"fhe one" person esp' iaiJy qtwiif^od
V> fight it We know many Alaskans
that arc especially qualified to >om
ba; the President s monstrosity, but
of them all only IVleca'e Wickersha a
possesses a (wnmisskvn from the peo
ple of Alaska that enables him to
s?-\e on congressional committees
and entitles h:m to the privileges of
the floor of the House of Represen
tatives We ha\e ins. -tod only that
Pelesate Wickersham is entitled to
judgment on his works These have
demonstrated that he i- at least one
person, that is qualified to bkxk the
ne<kr;ous t>arpose of the thief o*eou
trve U> fasten an un-Anieriian gov
ernment on Americans, and \\ e have
wthed more power to him in ?ase
he has to make another fi^ht such
as he mad." in the last Congress. ? Al
aska Yukon Magazine for March.
DOES THIS SUGGEST?
DOUGLAS, April S ? The ladies of'
Douglas have a new scheme on foot j
foe the improvement of the fcvks of j
the town and make it a better plaoe |
to live in.
They ask all the ladies who take i
pride in the appearance of their !
home town to meet on next Wednes- j
day eveninc at 7:30 o'clock at the;
Douglas school house to help form n I
civic Improvement club.
About the first thing that the la- 1
dies erf Douglas will do after they gel
tfceir club formed will be to inaugnr. ,
at* a tin can day. On that day un
sightly piles of cans and rubbish in
empty places in the town will be a
tack>>3 and made away with The la
dies intend to atta<k in t :rn every
thing in town that t-nds to spoil
the looks of the town or that might
spread disease
Their plans if carried out will
6urety make a better place to live
and make a better impression on the
mtads of visitors than it does at
present.
All the ladies of the T^Jand are
requested to be at the school h'wise
at 7:30 sharp next Wednesday even
houn* dawg song
?
SUNG BY CHINOOKSj
Champ Clark's Battle Hymn Undoubt
edly Originated Among The In
diars of Alaska.
rt; iiUU u yV i ltl4 UltKiUO
w.l, vounavrx'l' 1 I MtfJkKO, WUOil
O.I luo V'lAV-'" cOUUUy tiU il pllwiUv?
u>.ir i' ytsiis rtUoi" *uo
luC WtvU-t U tvliUUCUL 1 lie S Mtg
?u v t4i.u>> k, uic Uiii?cr?ai *?l
>4io uai^ioru iiiaKiiis, iouous:
nihil cj.?.\o ?-opa tJwii,
U'?<^ >uau cuuKm nika vouiox
conaway Kitu ;
v :.i i> copa ni<ui sinx-e yaka uiowiuh
comoi,
deiuto chukui uitva
como* couaway Kan.
"The;*. are se>eial iuu.au versions
a uis. u mk'? traces ot a.-jKUvut j
c' iv..i U orofcUl, ' said li. B. .MiiiW.
vuiuru.a.i oi lUe Keimpluau, ceiit.ai
couiiiuuec oi \akima louui} , UaJi.,
t'Ui i iu> not th.nk that me son*;
Ails Urougli'. into Hie north w est by
'lie early t reach priest*. The ve?
.-..oio coalmining words simply show
wiie resuit oi the mingling of tongues
m the tsirly days.
. " 'i he Chinook Indians wore once j
Uie great trauma tribe of the noTih-j
*esi. ana they came iuto contact, wit-h
sQe voya^eurs the early French set. j
iieutents of eastern Canada s?.-nt out j
toward -ihe Pacific slo[>e and iiUer
uwuntain country, as well as the fac
tors and men of tae Hudson's Hay
company
A. J. Splawn, mayor of North Yak
.ma. who has lived in ceutral \\'a--.h
since l>til and has been friend
and advisor of the Indians mere a
naif century, says while he greatly
admires Champ Clark, he thinks it
only just thai the red man of the
northwest t>e given credit, as he Is
-atisfied the '"HomV Itowg'' song is
>>f Indian origin/
Certainly. When St. Louis was
the entrepot of the fur trade the
mountain men would often swell the
trains of the traders at the rendez
vous and come to the Missouri me
tropolis, and it is nure than supp^s
able that these light hearted i*>ur
eurs des bois sa:ig an English adap
tion of the Coniox song that was
chanted by the Chinooks during the
salmon drying season and by Cayeus
es and other bunchgrass Indians at
the dog dances in celebration, of the
oowse and camas harvests.
The Missourians naturally caught
the refrain of these wanderers from I
the sunset land and adapted it ?s |
a race anthem ? fOr who shall say
that Missourians are not marked by
racial traits as distinctive as those 1
bourne by the tribes of Isreal ? and j
from Missouri the dog song drifted to
the Ozarks.
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REGULATIONS 1910.
Warehouses open for delivery of merchandise from S a ni. to 5 p. in.
lYrithables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
All freight shipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
SHIPPER'S MANIFEST (papers can be obtained at the I". S. cus- i
toms office) and must be delivered before 5 p. m. No freight will be j
received on the wharf after this hour.
BAGGAE ? Tolls will be collected on CHECKED BAGGAGE ONLY.
No charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will be closed to the public when steamer is m-aring , '
dock and will be opened when passengers have disembarked.
Wharfage Tariff can be had on application at office on dock.
P. O. Box 175. E. J. SHAW, General Manager.
TheWhitePass &YukonPoutei
TIME TABLE NO. 28.
No. 1, N. Bound, 1st class Mon- No. 2, S. Bound, 1st class, Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday day, Wednesday and Friday j
S:30 a. m. Leaves SKAGUAY Arrives 3:20 p. m.
10:15 p . m. - WHITE PASS Leaves 1:45 " 1
11:10 - " LOG CABIN " 12:47 "
12:05 - " BENNETT " 12:15 " j
1:30 " " CARIBOU * 10:25 v m.
3:45 " Arrives WHITEHORSE Leaves 8:15 "
Passengers mast be at depots in time to have baggage Inspected j
and checked. Inspection is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of train, j
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full fare Uck
et and 76 pounds with each half Car* ticket.
Flavoring Extracts
If you want a G&voring Extract that la far superior io any J&U \ [ j
buy anywhere etee, we have Chun and sell thorn at prices you pay J ' |
for Inferior brands.
Vanilla, Lemon, Bitter Almouda, Orange, Raspberry, Strawbrry, (
R&nana, Gta^er, \Vlntorgre*n, and Robo.
WILLIAM BRITT
As further proof that the "Uoim'
Daws" s""s is a reflection, of the
folk lore of the far northwest a
moUse FYencto version w?s sung in
the ropetolre of tho voyagours and
oven as la' o as tho last of the Hud
son's Ray days those volatile child
ren of the wilds paddled their icanoes
to tho measure of
"Je no Trouve pas qu'il est bien
Que vous f rape z du pied nion chien."
Father Turnell, the Jesuit priest of
Skagway. who has made an exhaus
tive study c f such annals as appertain
to the career of the pioneer mission
aries in the Chinook zone, distinctly
remembers reading this early vers! 11
of the dog song.
While the battle hymn of the Oz
arks is an undoubted importation
from the bunchgrass empire its ori
gin is lost in antiquity. In that re
spect the schwastica Isn't in it with
the dog song, for eight hundred miles
north of the Chinook zone, so stales
Col. Sol Ripinsky in his soon-to.be
published ireflitise on tho Tlingots,
tho Klans or the Chilkats sang the !
dog song at the festivitos of the '
oolican catch before the aJvent of ?
the Russians or of Vancouver. Henry
Phillips, A-ho Is the present here.li-j
tary historian of the Bagle Klan of
C hilka's and spent the greater
part of his boyhood days in memorir- ?
ing the Klan legends from the di. - :
tiaa of his predecessor, maintains
that the dog song is tho family an
them of ".he Eagles and that the
long, cruel war of IS Sit between the
lvagles and the Mud Hens was cause 1
by the presumption of the latter Klan
in chantins: the dog song at a fish
oil fiesta.
Mr. Phillips voices ?Jie Chilkat ver
sion as follows:
"Kah schahe oh kay deh
Yah taw no ho goo deh."
It is therefore a d<^ad cinch that
tho Battle Hymn of the CVarks is
of Alaskan origin
FAILS TO KILL HUSBAND,
WIFE TAKES OWN LIFE
NEWARK, O., April 7 ? After mak
ing an nnsueepsstul attempt to kill
her husband with jtaris green, Mrs.
Ueorgc Sanford, wife of the assi.it-'
ant Baltimore Ai Ohio Ral.roa.l train
master here today committed sui
tide by swallowing a draught si mi ar
to t!ie one Sanford refused.
At breakfast yesterday Mrs. San
ford pressed her husband to drink
a second cup of coffee. His refusal
was actuated by no suspicion of the
beverage and it was not until she
swallowed the liquid that its deadly
nature was disclosed. Prompt, work j
saved her life.
Today she drank paris green nnd
her death followed.
Twice before she has attempted
her life. The woman is said to have
been mentally unbalanced owing to
continued ill health. She leaves be- j
sides her husband two grown daugh
ters.
When in Whitehorsc stop at the
Dominion Hotel. Best beds, best ac
commodations, best prices. tf
FIRE SALE! F I Ft L SALEI
WOOD TO BURN
Good Dry Planking lor Summer use
Special price this month
$2.00 PER n CK.
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Attorney*
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Attorncys-At-Lftw
P O. Bo* K. Juneau, Maaka ^
H. B. LE FEVRE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Commissioner For Yukon Territory
to Take Affidavits
Skagway, >ilaska
STEVE RAGAN
Attorney at Law
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DentiaU.
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? Dealer* In ?
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Music Teacher*.
MISS M. G. HINDSHAW
Teacher of
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March 3, 9, 15, 21, 27.
it 6 : OC ? ti.
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0 STEAMERS FOR
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City of Seattle April 25 , May 7-19-31
June 12-24, July 6-18-30
Spokane April 19 May 1 13 25 June6
State of California July 12 24
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Alaska Steamship
Company
CARRYING U. 8. MAIL AND WELL* PARGO EXPRESS
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! Jefferson, April 9, 21 May 3, 15, 27
Dolphin, April 3, 15, 27 May 9, 21
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Sailings From 5Kagway
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April 12-23
May 3-14-24
Vancouver, VictoriaS Seattle via Prince Rupert
Phon- 37 F. F W LOWLE, Asrnt
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f Steamship Humboldt
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I SKAGWAY for SEATTLE and Way Ports
APRIL 19 th
9
Sailing dat? iubject to change without notice.
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Train Service Monday, Wednesday and Friday Between SKAGUAY and WHITE
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