Qclkiit ^krfkas
u OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
Admitted u second class mall matter
July t, IMS, at the Postottlce
at Skagway, Alaska.
L. ?, Keller, Publisher.
Subscription Rata*.
One meatb by mall 76
One aeat* by carrier LOO
Tbree Months: by mall 2.20
Six ssemths by mall... 4.60
On year by mail 9.00
Subscription* and advertisement
received by:
BeaneU News Co. .. Wbltehorse, Y.
?. W. Old eon Carcross. Y. T. |
S. L. Plllman AUln, B. C.
Jl. A. Baraett Halseo, Alaska
ADDS INSULT TO INJURY.
t
There Is Just one thing more for
President Taft to do in order to
?till further outrage the American
principles and patriotism of the citi
aens of Alaska and add insult to in
jury, and that is to appoint either ex
Oovernor Hoggatt or Lewis P. Shack
leford a member of his pet com
mission for making laws for this ter
ritory, says the1 Cordova North Star.
His commission will cost Alaska
more than 146,000 per year. Accord
ing to the press dispatches, four
commissioners, to be appointed by
himself , are to draw a salary or
$7,500 per year. And for what?
Just to sit in session sixty days each
year with the governor and four elec
tive representatives and pass laws
which must afterwards be approved
by* the governor and then by the pres
ident. The elective representatives o
the people, mind you, one to be cho
sen from each Judicial district, are
to receive pay only for the actual
working time of the commission ? 60
days. They are to receive $23 per
day. But the presidential appointees,
on the other hand, are to sit around
the rwt of the year, have their le
gal residence In Alaska and spend
the rest of the time outside, if they
so desire, and draw salaries the en
tire year.
When the governor's salary is add
td, $10,000 a year, a fraction over
$-'5 per day for every day in the
>e>ar including' Sundays, this proposed
executive assembly means an annual
expense of $46,000. This allows no
thing for the traveling expenses of
the elective representatives. The
entire legislative session provided for
by Delegate Wickersham in his bill
for a 60 days" session every TWO
YEARS would cost but little more
than $12,000.
What has Alaska done, we might
ask, to merit such autocratic treat
went at the hands of the executive
head of one of the most intensely
Republican forms of government?
This territory has richly rewarded
the government for every cent spent
on public improvements, its cable
?ystem alone has realized it a pro
fit of $530,000 in six years, after de
ducting the cost of installation and
maintenance.
Alaska has been under the Stars
and Stripes for over 40 years. Since
the original purchase of $7,200,000
was made it has yielded approxi
mately $300,000,000 in gold, fish, fur
and other products. It has produc
ed fully $150,000,000 in placer gold;
its exports to the United States in
1908 were valued at $36,000,000 and
its total trade with the states for
that year amounted to $46,000,000.
Alaska has been the only self-sup
porting territory in the United States
And yet President Taft tells the
American citizens of the North
land, the producers of all this an
nual wealth and the ones who have
made It a country for homes and
educational and social ties, that they
are not fit to govern themselves,
that he will send a commission of his
own choosing at a cost of $46,000 per
year to show them how it is done.
By virtue of his acts and proposed
legislative commission, he repudiates
the people's elected representative
in Congress and giver, them four
elective representatives and five ap
pointive officials.
The appointed officers, it will be
?een, outnumber the 'elective ones.
Every thing for the "
Toilet and Bathi
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TOILET SOAP
TOILET WATER
TALC POWDER
PERFUMERY
FLESH BRUSHES
HAIR BRUSHES
TOOTH BRURHES
NAIL BRUSHES
WILLIAM BRITT, Druggist
and draw a salary the whole year.
The governor, moreover, can exer
cise his veto power, and should that
not suffice, the president has an
other whack at all legislative acts
passed. Very careful nursing, this,
for the red-headed Alaskan child
that won't be good and do just as it
is told.
JOY IN WORK.
OH. to be up and doing! Oh,
Unfearlng and unshamed to go
In all tho uproar and the press
About my human business!
My undlssuaded heart 1 hear
Whisper courage In my ear.
Thou. O my lovo; ye. O my friends?
The gist of life, the end of ends?
To laugh, to love, to live, to die.
Ye call ine by the ear and eye!
? Kobert Louis Stevenson.
Subscribe for the Daily Alaskan.
Catching Nfonkey*.
Rlngtailed monkeys, which rank
amoug the most valuable, commercial
ly speaking, of the small animals, aro
caught In an interesting way. A co
coanut is sivlit in two and a banana
with a piece of wood running through
it placed lengthwise through the nut,
the two li.#.es of which are drawn
together by wires. Then a hole Is cut
Just large euough for the monkey's
paw to enter. The monkey spies the
tempting cut from his tree. lie hops
dowu, looks it over, sees the hole and
smells the banana Inside. He is fond
of bananas. Tutting his paw in, he
grasps it, but the wood prevents It
from coining out. Then the catchers
appear, and the monkey runs for a
tree. But he cannot climb because of
the cocoauut on his paw, and he will
not let go of that, so he is captured,
pawing wildly at the tree trunk.
Rundel Automatic Safely Razor
Stropper for sale at Britt's tf.
Only One "BROMO QUININE," that is
Laxative firomo Quinine
Cures a Cold in One Day, Crip in 2 Days
on
box.
25c
Ttm "muni
MOORE'S WHHRF CO.
Terminus W. P. & Y. Route
All South Bound Steamers Arrive end Deoert FromThle Dock
REGULATIONS 1909
Warehouse' o; en (or delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 5 p.m.
Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
All freight s ilpments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
Shipper's Manifest (papers can be obtained at the U. 8. customs
office) and must be delivered before 6 p.m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf after this nour.
BAGGAGE? Tolls win oe collected on Checked Baggage Only. No
charge for bags and grips when uncheokod.
The wharf gate will be ctaad to the publio when steamar Is nearlng
dock and will be opeojdonly whan passengers have disembarked
Wharfage Tariff can bo had on application at office on dock,
P. O. Box 175. E. J. SHAW RESIDENT, MANAGER
HEATED AND LIGHTED
BY ITS OWN PLANT
FINE SAMPLE ROOM g
FOR DRUMMERS
(Ubitc Pass fjotel
P. D McMillan, Manager
Dirges! and best appointed Hotel In (be Yukon
CHOICE BAR STOCK
RATES MODERATE
Wbiteborse, VX
X HEADQUARTERS FOR
5 ATL1N-C0NRAD STAGE
CHOICE BAR STOCK
FIRST CLASS CAFE
IN CONNECTION
II Caribou Hotel
E. w. GIDEON, Proprietor
Carcross, Y. T. f
?**?!??! .Mill I ?M"i"K~H-K* -M-M -M M I I I ?M-M-H-H
NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS
J. FURNACE HEATED
TheWhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE NO. 22.
(Dally Except Sunday.)
No. 1. N. Bound
1st class
8 30 a. m.
10 00 ??
U 00 "
11 30 "
1 30 p. m.
3 46 "
Leaves
Arrives
Arrives
Leaves
No. 2. S. Bound
1st class
3 20 p. m.
1 45 "
12 42 "
12 10 "
10 25 a. m.
8 15 "
SKAC DAY
WHITE PASS
LOG ABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOJ
WHITE HORSE
Passengers must be at tiepoj in time to have Baggage inspect
ed and checked. Inspection is stopp d 30 minutes before leavlr.g time ot
train.
150 pounds of baggago will be checked free with each full fare
ticket and 75 pounds with each half fare tlckeL
WEATHER VERY MILD
The result of the observation taken
?t Moore wharf at midnight, Jan 4,
1009, Is as follows:
Temperature timeobservat'n 33 above
Max. temp. preceding 24 hours 35 above
Mln. " " " " ^8 abovo
Mean " " " " 31| above
Barometer 30 20
Cloudy and calm
INTERIOR WEATHER.
Whitehorae lf> above
Atlln "
Lower Lcbargo 2 "
Hootalinqua 2 below
Big Salmon ft "
Yukon Crossing 10 "
Selkirk 1 2 "
Coffee Cretk * 12 "
Stewart ti "
Ogilvle 10 "
Dawson 11 "
Forty Mile
Our Christmas Poultry, Oysters,
etc., will arrive oil the Cot
tage City, and as usual, our stock of
Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Chickens and
Oysters will bo the very choicest to
be found in any market In tho North.
FRYE-BRIJHN CO.
FOR SALE OR RENT.
Well established Trading Post, IIo
tel and Stables at Wells, Alaska.. Ev
erything ready for immediate occu
oancy. S. J. Weitzman, Haines.
B. B. B. pipes need no description
and can only be had at TONY DOR
TERO'S.
JUNEAU 8. S. CO'S. I
ELECTRIC LIGHTED STEAM
HEATED STEAMER
Georgia
Carrying U. S. Mull
For Haines, Berners Bay, Juneau,
Hoonh, Tenakee, Sitka and Wayports
SAILS
Dec. 2 8 14 20 26
at 8:00 a. m.
WILLIS NOWELL, Mgr., Juneau
W. W. BODGHTON, Agent
Broadway and Fifth Ave. phone 90
U. S Mail Steamer
Carrying Passengers and Mall will
leave Skagway for Haines
Every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Returning leaves Haines for Skag
way at 2 P. M.
FARE ONEWAY S1.50: ROUND TRIP S2.50
BOAT CAN BE CHARTERED FOR
EXCURSIONS SUNDAYS AND
EVENINGS
Cable Code "Hegg" Phone SC
SKAGWAY
STEAMERS FOR
^ SeattSe, Tac ?ma
Victoria, Vancouver, Anacortc;, Bcllingliam
Everett, Olympia, Port Townsend, South
Bellingham, Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mexico
San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego
G. W. ANDREWS, G. A. P. D. C. D. DUNANN, G. P. A.
1 13 Jamci St., Seattle 1 12 Market St., San Franciico
Right rosorvod to chanco this Schndulo
NEXT SAILINGS WILL BE
S. S. COTTAGE CITY
January 1 13 25 February 6-19
FRANK H. STUART Agent, 2nd and Broadway, SKAGWAY
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
Carrying U. S. Malljand Alaska^Paclflc Express
Next Sailing of the Fast Passenger Steamer
S. S JEFFERSON
.January 5 17 - 29
Company reserves rltfht to change sailing date without notice^
C. B. GUPTILL, Agent. Phone 66
Canadian Pacific Ry.
(B. C. COAST SERVICE)
Winter Schedule of Sailings From Skagway
PRINCESS MAY
January 14-28 February 11-25
Subject to change witaout notice
For Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, via Prince Rupert
Phon? 87 F. F. W. LOWLE, Agsnt
ihe Humboldt S. S. Co/
The S. S. Humboldt will resume her reg
ular sailings for South-Eastern Alaska
Ports on or about January 15, 1910.
SEATTLE OFFICE W< W< BOUGHTON,
? 03 YESLER WAY PHONE 90 SKAGWAY AGT
??> lit lif liffc i;r i*r
Through Line From
Skagway to Atlln, White Horse, Big Salmon, Dawson and Intermediate Yukon River Points.
The new placer camps in the Alsek and Kluane Mining Districts are reached only via Whito Horse
Winter Route Stage Service
Duriog the winter season, when navigation is closed, daily trains will continue runnlug between
Skagway and White Horso. A through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be maintained
by a Thoroughly Equipped Stage Line betweon White Horse and Dawsou.
Regular stages, carrying mail, express and passengers, leave White Horse for-. Dawson and
intermediate points.
For Conrad ]Clty, located in the heart of the newly discovered and fabulously rich quattz camp
of the Windy Arm District, take our daily trains to Caribou.
For Information relative to passeager, freight and tele<?raphio rates, apply
to any ardent of the Company, or to:
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT
Vancouver, B. C.
A. L. BERDOE, Gen. Mngr. F, B. WURZPACHER Gen Agfa
Vancouver B. C. and Skaguay, Alaska Skaguay, Alaska
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