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No. 60 SIXTEENTH YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1913 I RICE 10 GEN I
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John Kmil Oleson (lied at the]
White Pass hospital yesterday fori'- 1
uoou about 9 o'clock after an III
u?ws of several months duration,
caused by a cancerous growth ng-|
t>ravatod by complications.
Oleson came (o Skagway last July
from Woodchopper c%-ek In tho In
terior, and worked on the docks and
did odd Jobj until his illneos pre
>ei.ted him front performing manual
Kbor, and he was taken to a cabin
where the city cared for him.
few days ago ho became worse and |
was removed to the hospital.
liut little is known of Oleson, ex
? tptlng that he lias a brother 111
Somervlllc, Mass., who has been
wired to for tustructlons relative to
> s burial. Oleson was about fort.
The Kf.t.tas Spokesman says the
first law passed by the Alaska leg
islature was one giving the ballot
to worn n. As polling places are on
ly 100 to 1,000 miles apart In that
territory, no doubt a greater per
centage of theta will exercise the
franchise than Is the case with their
slater* In the states, who are forced
travel two or throe blocks to the pol
the Aleutian Islands and the Siber
ian coast, the little power schooner
Polar Bear, Capt. Louis Lane, left
Seattle. April 2. Aboard tho vessel
is i. party of scientists representing
the Smithsonian Institute, Washing
tow, D. C., the Harvard Museum of
Comparative Zoology, and the Mus
?Mim of Comparative Zoology of the
University of California. Also a- '
board the Polar Bear Is Will E
Hudson, staff photographer of the
Pont Intelligencer, who will Invade
the wilds of th? Far North to ob
tain moving pictures of big game,
the seal rookeries, the bird Islands.
Kskimo life, and the hunting and
trapping of polar bear, walrus and
other game. He has with him more
than 15,000 feet of moving picture
films, and will take about 1.000 pic
tures illustrating the cruise. The
party expect to be gone about six
months
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WUH DOGS
Kraukllu Moses, who succeeded W j
A. Reed as the he-.d of the army Y.i
M. C. A. In Alaska, was a round
tripper on the Spokane arriving this'
morning and leaving for Haines,
hiving just come over from Valdez.
Mr. Moace made the trip from St.
Michaels tj Valdet In twenty days b
dog team, thus establishing a new
tecord over that trail
He stopped at all the telegraph
Btaticns along the lino, and put In
moving piciuro machines at all the
forts In Alaska for tho entertalumen
and Instruction of the soldiers. Ho
will also place a picture machlno In
r. S. CAULK IS AGAIN
Ol'T OK COMMISSION
The government cable has parted
again. Tho break occured yester
day afternoon about 2:30 between
Seattle and Sitka. Tests show that
the parting occured at qulto a dls
soiuewhat farther out than was the
recent break, and In all probability
will take a longer tlmo to send the
cable ship there to locate the ends
and make the splice.
The mining industry has not been
ovei looked by the new tariff bill
now before Congress, and sotpe Im
portant changes are proposed in the
tariff on ?omo mine products. It is
proposed to place Iron ore, steel
rails and nails, coal and coko, sul
phur and sulphuric acid on the free
Among other suggested changes
are the following: Ferromanganose,
present tariff $2.50 per ton, propos
ed 15 per cent; lead-bearing ore, a
reduction of 1 ct. a pound, or from
lMi to % ct. per pound, ulumfnum,
old rate 7 cts. per pound, new law.
25 per cent; antimony, old rate 1 ct
Per pound, proposed rato 10 per cen
lead bullion, old rate 2M> cts. per lb.
proposed rut?, ?5 per cent; nickel
pigs, old rate 6 ctt. i_er pound, pro
rosed rato 10 per cent; zinc oxide,
old rato 1 ct. per pound, proposed
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JUNEAU AFTER A NEW
GOVERNMENT BUILDING
Kc.lcral itiilMinir. Juneau
Juneau, April 23 Kepre.ieni.i
ivo Slionp yesterday I lit red need a
memorial asking Congress to make
in additional appropriation to com-|
>leto tli j necessary government
ulidlngs in Juneau. The memorial
?efers to the appropriation of $200,
100 made at the time that tho om
ilbU8 bill was passed In 1910, and
mils attention to the fact that the
?ongross at hat time was making no
irovlslon for legislative halls and
tinny other offices that have sinco
There will he a meeting of the
Skagway Improvement Society on
Thursday, April 24. at 3 o'clock P.
M. at tho residence of Dr. L. S. Kel
e-r to which all members are asked
The Daily Alaskan today receiv
ed i. card from Alex P. Drapes, dat
?d Knulscothy, Ireland, April 5,
? I lch took but 18 days to make the
rip. Mr. Drapes says thnt he was
eavlng Ireland for Minneapolis.
J. R. McGovern, who has been
iPTiidlng several weeks In Skngwny.
eft this morning for Whltehorse
vhere ho will take tho stage for
Juwkoii and thence down the river
,o Kuby mid the Iditarod country,
vhere he owns considerable mining
>roperty.
Miss Phyllss Morris arrived on
he Spokane from Ft. Wm. H. Se-.v
ird and will leave on the Princess
tf.iy for Victoria where she will en
er the S:. Joseph's Hospital to b<>
r tined as a nurse. While In town
Mm Morris is the guest of Mrs. F.
S*. Peero.
James McXamee, owner of copper
:lalms In the Whltehorse district. I
left this morning to bogln the work
)f opening up his properties. He
las n claim on the same ledge as th
iVrctlc Chief which he has owned for
i long tliu:-, and it Is on that h<
ar'll begin development work. Mr. j
McNamee has been In Skngwny for
the past month.
The sum as sot forth in wholly
Inadequate mid Congress Is asked to
Increase Iho building fund by an
udded appropriation of 1500,000 for
that purpose. This would give un
entire sum of $700,000 with which
to construct tho building. The pe
tition forwarded by tho Commercial
Club of Juiioiiu, bearing on tho sumo
subject is referred to and endorsed
by tho memorial.
Frank Suffecoll, of Skugway.camc
down on tho Jefferson lost evening
i-nroute to Seattle but stopped over
to attend to bomo business matters
?ind will leuvo on the Humboldt. Mr.
Suffecoll has recently associated
Wells Furgo express agent at Skag
wa.v, and negotiations are now pend
ing for tho purchase of the Alaska
rransfer Companya* property iu Skag
way, formorly held by H. F. Taylor.
J..ncnu Kraplre.
"Every time you corno to town
\ud start to throw your money a
round,
Srj, "Home made goods are the
goods for mo,
Oecauso they spell pros-per-ity."
"A dollar you send to tho East
ern Shoro
Says, good bye, Bill, forevermore,
But tho dollar you spend with the
home made sound,
Keeps a comln' and a comin" and
a comln' around."
? Passed Along.
AS TO DYING.
When some men die It la as If
you hud lost your penknife and
were subject to perpetual In
convenience until you could get
another. Other men's going Is
like the vanishing of a great
mountain from tho landscape,
and the outlook of life Is changed
forever.? Phillips Brooks.
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NOW IN STOCK. v .j.
lit. I pound Sack $4.00. V +
SO pound Iota $2.35.
4"
!*iiiaH lots . . 5 cents per pound.
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P. H. GANTY, Grocer ?
FAKE MINI
E
Washington, Apill 22 ? During
the past winter there liave been per
?l?tont reports ot the discovery of
sold and oilier valuable ores in the
vicinity of /-Iblon, Pushmataha Coun
ty, okla., iiomo finds being report
ed as exceeding Jtio a ton and some
even as approaching a value of $000 1
U (on. It li>.s been known In the In
terior Department that several "mill
iui, companies" have been or are be
ing organized on the basis of tht)30
assertions and tlint many persons
11.1W been Induced to invent In the
stock. Th j excitement produced by
the alleged rich values has resulted
In request;, for an authoritative ex
amination of the lauds and the tem
porary suspension ot the sales of the
tracts of Indian lands on or near
wh<ch the supposed llnds were lo
cated. Although from Its general
knowledge of the geology of the ro
gloi. tho (ieologleal Survey reported
'hat there is 110 likelihood that the
area contains commercial quantities
of gold, the reports and tho demand
?iere so persistent that by direction
of the Secretary of tho Interior a
field examination was made last
month by Henry G. Ferguson, asso
ciate geologist of the Survey. Mr.
Ferguson reports the entire absence,
so far as can *>o recognized In the
field, of gold or other metals in
commercial quantities. There is
not.tne slightest Indication of any
vein or metalliferous deposit of such'
character us to Increase the mar
icet value of the land. The rocks j
in tho region consist of chert, shale,
r.ml sandstone, carrying here and
there small amounts of pyrlte, which
Is known to tho miner as fool's gold
None of the supposed rich ore, !
which Is generally a brown or grayj
sandstone, when crushed and pan
ned yielded any free gold.
Tho entire local excltemont ap
pears to be based on certain fabu
lously high assays made chiefly 011
material dug from wells. Assay cer
tificates vhlch reported as much as
ii ounces of gold a ton were shown
te Geologist Ferguson, but samples
of the supposed gold, ore, collected
by him hnd assayed by I.edoux &
Co , of New York, showed lC3s than
2 cents In gold and half a cent in
silver to the ton. The assay certi
ficates which arc being shown by
the promoters are therefore either
directly or Indirectly fraudulent in
character.
PAST FIFTY, IFF
HE WILL CUI
BIG MOUNTAIN
Ketchikan, April 23- Bishop Bowo
1h In Kelehilcuti 011 his way north
and exports to to In the north nb
ojt six weeks on the present trip,
w hero ho. will stop at all of the
principal towns in South wos'o a Al
aska. This will be Ills first vluli to
Aluoka since last fall, ulion he went
South, to Berkeley, Cul., -with his
wlte, who hud heuji in failing health.
Bishop Bowe has great faith In the
success o the Mount McKIulcy ex
I'cJIt Ion of Archdeacon Hudson Stuck
\\ lillt; Archdeacon Stuck is past 50
)enr? of ape Bishop Howe pins his
faith on I lie fact that he has spent
; l'p greater part of his life in the
nioiiiiialus. Archdeacon Stuck h:is
been 'n Alaska for the last nine
y.'i.rs and each winter has cove -ed
I on an avoroge about 2,009 mlies
./!th his own dog team. Before go
|>ng to Alaska h'.s main recreation
I was climbing peaks in the Bockbu.
I A few years ago he climbed Bainier.
m?; man; wolf
<:al'<;ht in thai*
Wily Mathews caught a full grown
Hack wolf In 0110 of his traps yes
terday neur his ranch In Dyca, and
now has the big fellow caged up at
Ills cnliln near the beacli on Stafo
street. The trap nabbed the fellow
by the toes and thus did not Injure
him to any considerable extent. The
pelt Is In fino condition and it Is
one of the prettiest specimens of the
?vol! speclei that has ever been seen
In this vicinity.
If the WllltO 1'ues can maintain the
MO a ton rate that It is quoting on
irclght between Seattle and Fair
banks, and can give the people that
live between those points a propor
tional Viito. It will mean a great deal
to the people of the Upper Yukon.
It will materially reduce the cost of
living and production at all points
between Atlln o.i the south and east
and Fairbanks on the north and
west. Lower freight rales and low
er tariffs will do a great deal to
ward promoting the growth and de
velopment of the North; more prob
ably, than anything else if we ex
?4>I>t wise laws and their faithful ad
ministration. ? Juneau Empire.
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