THE DAILY "W ALASKAN
CITV QFMPICIffL PHPER
No. 68 VOL. J1X. 9KAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY APBIL. 21 1906
PRICK. 10CEN?S
BULLETINS AT
BQUGHTOVS
If any dispatches are received after
tha Daily Alaskan shall have been
issued tonight concerning the San
Francisco fire, they will be displayed at ,
Boughton' cigar store.
Thr?? Bo?'? Du?
The Dirigo is at Haines. She is ex- i
pected tonight.
Tbe Jeannie is due to arrive.
Jefferson will be due tomorrow night, i
The Pack Train 3alonn always leads.
It carries only the beat brands of whis
kies, wines, beers and all the other
goods to be had at a tirst-olass gentle
men's resort tf
JllNtAll PAPfR
CHANGES AGAIN
The Juneau Record-Miner, purchased
last fall from W. S. Coutant by Johu B.
Denny, has been been taken back by
Coutant, and C. W. Taylor, who has
been getting out aSouthe?stern Alaskan
edition of that paper and publishing
the Alaska Monthly magazine, has
been made manager. Mr. Taylor is
said to have had a wide newspaper ex
perience.
J. P. Rogers is expee'ed to arrive at
Skagway on the next trip of the City of
Seattle, due here Wednesday.
W. W. Boughton has received a con
signment of Marguerite Havana Cigars.
If you want a good sweet smoke oall
for them. ?
HARRISONS'
YOU WOULD THINK AN
"Earthquake"
Had struck our store- business is
simply humming. Havn't time to
write an ad, yet we want to call your
attention to our line o t
Lace Curtains
Portiers, Carpets
Rugs and Linolium
A new shipment of
Adjustable Go Cards
JUST RECEIVED
If you are going to laundry your own
lace curtains see us for curtain stret -
chers- Our motto. ''The Best Goods
at the Lowest Prices."
I Che Advance Agents
OF SPRING- ARE *
HERE IN OUR ?
' NEW
b. $. c m.
and
fldur (f
Sons' Suits
And From Their ap
pearance we do
not hesitate to say i
that we show this
season the best
line of clothing
ever bronght to
_ this city.
COPYRIGHT * J
DAVID AOltR i SOfiS
Clothing ca
MiLWAUKlL
f fi. Claysoit & Co.
THE CNF. PRICE CLOTHIER
JDjFtTRNIHING
GOODS HOUSE IN ALL OF ALASKA.
OTHING ANO^CRNIHING ^ ^0(1^ j
FRISCO STILL IN fLAMES' GHir
Fourth day's battle with raging- fire bravely contin
ues, but with little success Outlying portions of
city being rapidly consumed. Extreme western
portion may be saved.
(Special Dispatches to the Daily Alaskan)
San Francisco, April 21, Noon? San Francisco began
its fourth days's awful battle with death, with the flames
still beyond control. The north end of the city is fiercely
burning.
At 10 o'clock last night the city was plunged in abso
lute darkness. All the lighting plants were consumed.
Immediately a gale sprang into existence and the flames
were fanned from Nob hill section and swept the north
beach district clean. Then they steered south to the im
mense sea wall sheds and grain warehouses. These were
licked up and then the fire, as an agry monster, headed for
the great ferry building 'and the Southern Pacific terminals.
This morning the water front in the north end of town
is a raging furnace, Between Bay street and Meiggs wharves
a quarter mile east it is still safe, but in the opposite direc
tion everything has been consumed.
All the fruit canneries have been consumed. The
gas company's tanks are burning. The gas had been re
leased.
Water communication with Oakland is threatened.
The vessels in the bay off shore are hid from view by
the smoke but they are still throwing streams of water into
the flames.
The Emergency hospital on the water front is afire and
the patients are being removed across the bay.
The wind is blowing down the walls on Market street
making them dangerous to life and the authorities have
closed that thoroughfare to the public, shutting off the only
means of reaching the ferry.
In the western section of the city the fire broke out last
night again among the only residences still standing. All
the forces were concentrated there and the buildings are so
far apart that by mid-night the water had it again under
control. It is said that it will probably be kept down there.
The telegraph companies have again ceased all attempts
to deliver messages. The Postal Telepraph Company at
midnight was forced to abandon its temproary quarters en
the water front. They were consumed by fire.
Slaughtering
Criminals
San Francisco, April 21.? Neon.?
The soldiers and police have killed
more than a score of people who hare
not been reported thus far in their
work of maintaining order.
Three men were shot last night
while trying to loot the wrecked sub
treasury.
Soldiers shot 16 men Thursday night
while they were trying to enter the
mint
Two Chinamen were shot to death
last night for refusing to obey orders to
work.
The police have broken every saloon
open and all the stored liquors that had
not been destroyed by the fire were
turned into the gutters. All intoxi
cants are being destroyed wherever
found.
Eleven clerks who were imprisoned
in the wrecked postoffice. were releas
ed today after three days without food
or drink. All of them had be given up
bs dead.
All the bank vaults have been ex
amined and all are safe. None of them
have been opened since Thursday, j
The darkness last night, coming on !
so suddenly, created a panic. The j
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make up a list of
OJbat Von Heed
^^.andlef us atoe you prices_^
Iall our shelf goods are going
AT COST
2>bs- Cans Coffee 70c- lib. Cans 40c
4 Packages Starch 25c,
Best Creamery Buttter 65c.
Fresh Ranch Eggs 25c per dozen
Blue Ribbon Tea, 35c. per lb
Force I5c- per package
Macoronii Spaghetti and Vermecelli 10c.
per pkg. All bottle goods at cost
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San Francisco, April 21 ? Noon ? The lodging house at
Fifth and Minna streets just collapsed. Seventy-five per
sons were killed. The Cosmopolitan hotel collapsed and 100
dead are in the ruius. The Brunswick hotel has col
lapsed and 150 met death.
San Francisco, April 21 ? 2:30 p. n. ? Gen. Funston
has just sent the following message to the secretary of war:
"The fire is making no headway west of Van Ness
avenue. A gale is blowing from the westward. All south of
Van Ness avenne and to the bay has been destroyed.
" It is impossible to establish sanitary conditions. I
expect much sickness. Many residences west of Van Ness
avenue that are still standing are being used as hospitals.
"We are fighting hard to save the remainder of thece
eidence district.
"Supplies are now arriving.
"Apprehension is felt for safely of Fort Mason. We
hope to save it."
San Francisco, April2 1?2:30 p. m.? Debris in China
town. which has been destroyed, has sunk into the earth
100 feet revealing many underground passages the existence
of which were not known.
Many slave women, who were never permitted
to see the light of day, were cushed to death and then
incinerated.
FIRE UNDER CONTROL
S m Francisco, April 21?6 p. m,? All fires
are under control- The water front fire at
last succumbed to the streams fromCthe bay.
The loss wilt exceed $300,000,000. In
surance adjusters are already on the ground.
The List of dead is thought not to exceed
700.
HONOLULU SLIDING INfO IDE
MERCILESS SEA
San Francisco, April 21 ? Noon ? The
Oriental liner China has just arrived,
She reports baring picked up a wireless
message from | Honolulu, yesterday^
which city she was in commuoieatic n
for a short time, saying that Honolulu
is sliding into the sea as the result ol
an earthquake.
Honolulu, April 20? A severe ea,rth
quake shock continued here for six
minutes yesterday. The whole busi
ness section of the town swayed likn
reeds, and several buildings partly col
lapsed. The people were frightened.
T A
.List QT -ueaa.
San Francisco, April 21, ? 2:30 p. m. ?
The identified dead 10 date include the
following: ? ,
John Pearson. W. King, Harriet
rhesbo rough, N. J. Haven, Annie
Webster, John Day, William Ware,
Stevenson, George Wilkins. Dr.
J. G. Stimso", Marion Kinney, Herman
Meyer, Miss Kattener.
Hundreds of the dead are too badly
decomposed or burned to identify
J. E. Barragar is at Juneau. He left
on the- Humboldt.
?Liosses A-re xica " y
San Francisco. April 21? Two million
dollars in gold belonging to the estate
of L- land Stanford, which had been de
posited in trust company vaults till the
heirs cou d fight out their differences as
to it# ownership in the courts, were lost.
The building in which the trust com
pany was located w as blown up with
dynamite. The money went into the
a'xhe Iceland Stanford University will
lose $3,000,000.
.The Spreckles sugar refineries, cost
ing $1.5 >0.000 were destroyed.
' great Reduction i
In prices in our
Taney Box Paper
This week we offer you Fancy and
up-to? date note paper at prices that
will surprice you- Call and get your
choice- Cheaper than in Chicago de
? partment stores |
I Wm. BBITT
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