P r ospectors
Now is the Time to have
YOUR FOOTWEAR
Put in good condition for the
i senson. Work guar it?ed. .
BEST WORK
? LOWEST PRICES ?
DAN SKY
C roadway SKAGWAY
Boot and Shoe Maker
bottled and draught beer
"-tiller Iieer Is the peer of .ill
brews. At the Mascot, phone 67 and
have a ease sent to your home.
! Here's Vigor and
strength
in every drop
Cull!
ill
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Seattle Wa-h
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BENTLEMEN^
There is a Spe
cial Sale on PIPES
only for this Month.
Now BOYS there is
a show for you to
come and get
your pipe
COME IN ANQ SEE THE 0L0 MA
Tony Dortero'sj
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Established 1897
Phil Abrahams
Heal Estate
3ROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
52 r'Oiri1 H AVK? SKAGWAY
DON'T FROG
Unle-s You've Got 50 CENTS
W tf . BOUGHTON
DEALER IN
Cigars, Tobacco,
Smokers' Articles,
Stationery and Fish
ing Tackle
LARGE CIRCULATING UBR\RY
INCLUDING LATEST COPY
RIGHTED BOOKS
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS AND
OTHER PERIODICALS
PHONE lO
HAROLD
FRANK
BEN
HERB )i
11 II
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H. F. TAYLOR. Mgr. ??
I CUSTOM BROKERS AND BONDED |
CARRIERS
is Baggage, Freight Safe and ||
Piano Moving
1 COAL and WOOD ?
g Hack and H uggy NUrbt or g
? ray Service S
fi Good Work Guaranteed and Prlcus Jg
2 IU-aMinablo 9
| Office R. R. Depot j
?558'.2S .3^3'iS S3 "3 '-53 "3 EffiJiSSStf
itaw Furs....
WK PAY
Nigh Prices for rine furs
Write For Prico List
Percy's Fur House
Oshkosh. Wisconsin
Subscribers are requested to notify
The Alaskan when papers are uot
promptly delivered by the carriers.
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.
Tho Pack Train Restaurant will
serve wine with dinner orders, free
In place of tea or coffee. Come ou
boys.
If you have something you don't
need, why not advertise it for sale
or exchange in The Alaskan?
The Caribou Hotel, Carcross, Y. T.,
is the headquarters lor the Atllu and
Courad stage lines.
SO SAY THEY ALL.
It> is a pleasant surprise what a
splendid old, rich and mellow goods
they sell at the pack Train Bar. So
say they all, me to Her Man.
FOR SALE ? A 2S-liorso power,
cycle, marine gasoline engine. Is in
good order and capable of constant
and hard service. Apply to Captain
Pete Madsen, Skagwav.
Why not be cheerful? Poor Lit
tle Herman has just received a con
signment of that famous Cream Rye.
A smile guaranteed with every drink.
There is more Catarrh In this sec
Uon of the country than all other dls
eases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in
curable. For a great many years doc
tors pronounced it a local disease an
prescribed local remedies, and by eou
stantly falling to cure with local treat
ment. pronounced it incurable. Selene
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. It is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acts directly oh the blood and mucou
surfaces of the system. They offer
oik- hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
Address: p. J. CIIKXKY & CO.. To
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Hall's Family J'ills for consti-i
pation.
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings That
No Alaska Citizen Can Afford
to Ignore.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes
fror; the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are sick.
Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber
fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin,
pale and foamy, or a thick, red, ill
smelling urine, full of sediment and 1
irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back. Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, tell you of
sick kidneys and warn you of the ap
proach of dropsy, diabetes and
Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills
cure sick kidneys and cure them per
manently.
Theodore Josephson, 515 Seventh
St., Astoria, Oregon, says: "About
five years ago I used Doan's Kidney
Fills and derived great benefit. At
that time I was suffering from se
| vere pains across my back anil loins,
at times so severe that I was unable
' to stoop or straighten. My kidneys
also bothered me a great deal, the se
cretions generally being too frequent
in passage. At last Doan's Kidney
Fills were brought to my attention
I and I procured a box. I used them
and as a result my health is now ex
j cellent. I take a few doses of Doan's
| Kidney Pills now and then, when
feeling any sign of backache and they
j never fail to banish the trouble."
I For sale by all dealers. Price 50
: cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
| New York, sole agents for the United
Slates.
Remember tho name ? Doan's ? and
take no other.
200 IONS WELLING ION
LUMP COAi
from Shaft No. 6, Oyster Bay Mines
I at Ladysmith, the highest grade
household coal of ail the B. C. Gelds
58. 2S FIXED CARBON
Pertect Combustion Uniform Heat
Light Ash
! On and after January 1, 1!)0.) we sholl
offer this coal, selected acd graded as
i follows:?
Selected Lumps (in bulk only) $14. ton
< Double Screened and sacked 12. "
j Run of Mine " 11. "
! Screenings " 7. "
: Screenings (bulk) fi. "
Above pi ices are ON WH.VRF. DELIV
$1.00 per ton extra.
E.J. SHAW & Co
Phones 11 or 109 Skagway, Alaska
Only One "BROMO QUININE," that is a
Laxative Bromo Qainme ?
Cures a Cold in One Day, Crip in t Days
VflLDEZ PLANS
ID ADVERTISE
Plans for convoying to the world
:U large some information concerning
v'nldez and it-s environments were
discussed and practically decided at
tile meeting of the chamber of com
merce held Saturday night. At a
previous meeting a committee was
appointed for the purpose of Hound
ing the sentiment of the business men
>f the town in regard to publishing a
l'older of some sort to be distributed
at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific expo
sition and also by other means, and
one of the purposes of the meeting
was ;o hear the report of this commiN
tee. ? Vahlez Prospector.
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ciation.!
Wo were on our way from S:in Fran
cisco to Bering sea for seals. Never ;
did I sail with such forebodings. It
was Into In I lie wason. ami wo liud
picked up a < row In San Francisco
s'lu b is no otilcer would bo pleased to
sail with even In fair weather. My
llrst mate 1 trusted Implicitly, hut my
second was new to me. and 1 knew Ut
ile of Ms antecedents. The men had
beeu spending some time ashore be
tween cruises, frequenting the lowest
dives In the city, and when tlioy came
iboard they wore drunk.
It was a Meal: day that wo sailed,
and the weather didn't Improve on
acquaintance. My ship was a sailer
and required constant bundling aloft.
A Hue mist or a sleet fell most of the
time, and the rising was thick with
lee. The consequence was that every
time a man was ordered aloft he either
went with a growl or refused to bo at
all. My Hrst mate. Wldttemore, and I
were kept busy most of the time
threatening, cursing or even knocking
them down with any Implement that
came handy. As for Harden, the sec
ond mate. If he gave a man an order
and It wasn't obeyed he gave It to
some one else.
One daw when we were beating
against a' biting northeast wind and
the clouds v ore spitting snow, while
?tnndiug on the after deck l saw the
men gathering on the forecastle. I
leuew trouble was brewing and. giving
Whitteir.ore a meaning look, directed
his attention for'ard. As for Harden,
he was liolow. though had he been on
deck I should not have placed any
reliance on him. Next 1 saw a | "mn
of the crew of the name "f Billings
ur-lng his shipmates to follow him
aft", starting himself, going a few steps
mil returning for more argument A
few followed him on some of these
Incipient advances. I tit the bull: of the
j crew hung back. Finally, after a
harangue that .1 could not hear, he
made another move, and all but two
or three of them went with him.
It's not a pleasant sight for one
man with no support but a single
comrade out on a blustery oceftu to
see a knot of men. doubtless with arms
concealed, coming to murder him. I
1 made up my mind to sell my life as
! dearly as possible and uncovered n re
volver 1 had carried ever since setting
sail. Whittemore came and stood be
side me.
The men had reached the compan
ion wav when one of them caught sight
of something on the port quarter. Oth
ers turned to look, and one by one
tiiev stopped. Thinking It safe to do
1 so. I turned mv own eye In the dircc
| tlon they were looking and saw a ship
coming athwart our course. It was
she that had arrested the men. Those
bent on mutiny don't want any wit
nesses. They stoed peering at her.
and as she drew nearer It was plain
that she had suffered rough usage.
Her masts, all except her foremast,
were gone, and that had a single sail
I set. No one was to be distinguished
on deck until she came within bailing
distance, when through the flying
I snow tlakes one person was dlscover
! able.
At the wheel stood a helmsman. Ine
ship scudded across our course not a
hundred yards In advance of us. and
; only the one man was to be seen. He
was motionless except for the rolling
| of the ship. 1 hailed, but lie neither
i answered uor turned even to look at
! us. Ho was not plainly visible and
onlv so for a few moments, for no
sooner did he reach the nearest point
to us than a snow squall hid both him
and his ship, and when it thinned the
I vessel was but a few Indistinct lines.
Sailors are the most superstitious
people in the world, and my crew was
of the lowest and most superstitious
type of sailors. I could see by their
appearance that they considered the
i passing vessel a phantom and the
wheelman a ghost.
Here was my opportunity. Drawing
my revolver and motioniug Whitte
more to follow me. I walked briskly
forward. On reaching the forecastle
I covered Billings with my revolver
and ordered him to walk aft. He look
ed at the men for help, but saw that
they were cowed and obeyed the or
der. 1 marched him down the gang
way, and In a few minutes my mates
had him disarmed aud in jrons. Then
1 went again on deck and told the
crew that if they wished to escape a
i baasilis- when, we reached oort they
O
MOW A MUTINY
WAS AVERTED.
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It Is feared that a prospector nara
e i Fiske 1ms perished somewhere be
tween Vnldez and Khitina lake. On I
September 2, Fiske started out for!
the lake presumably intending to j
Join J. II. Wilder, who with the out-j
fit had started over the glacier. Wil- !
der arrived at his destination with a '
bi? outfit purchase from Dougherty,}
and after waiting fo'' Fiske went to '
Copper Center where lie hired out to j
the Orr Company. So far nothing
lias been heard of Fiske. ? Vald"Z
Prospector.
bad bettor return to duty at once.
Most of them obeyed with alacrity.
Those who showed signs of giving fur
ther trouble 1 had put In irons by
the very men they had been influenc
ing to mutiny.
The wind howled that nighr. audtbc
next day we got tin observation. Find
ing that I was far out of my course, I
put her off considerably, sailing in the
direction of the phautoni. In smother
day we overhauled her. As we
eaiue up astern of her we saw her
name, the Allda of Tacoma, Wash.
Tbero was the man still at the wheel,
but uot another person In sight. I
drew up beside her. as near as J dared,
and. examining the helmsman through
a glass, saw that he was stone dead.
I sent a boat's crew aboard, who
found that the ship had been dismast
ed In a gale and deserted by her crew.
The man at the wheel was her cap
tain. who had undoubtedly refused to
abandon his ship. Finding his strength
failing, he had lashed himself to the
wheel, steered his vessel for hundreds
of miles through Icy storms and had
frozen at his post.
The only good his heroism and suf- J
ferlngs accomplished was the saving
of my life.
HORACE R. GAYLOKD.
Pure Water Is Blue.
A well known scientist says that the
true color of pure water Is blue and .
that this Is a characteristic of the wa
ter Itself and not due to reflection
from the surface or from suspended
particles. Lake Geneva Is aji example
of the blue of pure water.
Radium.
Radium Is contained In greater or
less amount In evefy sort of igneous
rock.
Absolute Zero.
Astronomers believe that the temper
ature of space outside of the earth's
atmosphere Is ?}."!) degrees below the
zero of the Fahrenheit scale. That In
conceivable cold Is what they mean by
absolute zero.
Yawns.
Yawns are excited by improper aera
tion of the blood and are akin to the
unconscious, tired sigh. Both are evl
detice of mental fatigue and sometimes
are symptoms of brain disease. There
is no reason to be worried over a fit I
of yawning, however, for often it Is
brought on merely by sight of some
one else yawning.
The Chimpanzee.
Surgeons of the Pasteur institute at
Paris have discovered that chimpan
zees have a previously unsuspected re
semblance to man In their special sus
ceptibility to appendicitis.
Mice That Spin Like Tops.
Japan has a breed of mice which j
whirl round and round for hours at a
time. If a person should lift a mouse
when it is whirllug, the animal will
resume its whirling the moment it is
set down.
A Silver Dollar.
The life of a silver dollar in constant
circulation is only four or Ave years.
New York's First Ferry,
Tiie first ferry from New York city
to Long Island was established in ltnl".
It was In the vicinity of Peck slip. ;
Cornelius Dincksen, who had a farm
near by, came to ferry passengers at
the sound of a horn, which he hung
against a tree near his skiff.
The Honeycomb.
The mathematics of the honeycomb
are as near perfect as can be, quite up
to that of any human engineering, 1
the hexagonal cell combining, as it
does, the maximum of strength with
the minimum expenditure of material.
More For Skill.
"What do dose men get for walking
over dat field and hitting de little
ball?"
"Day don't get nothing. Did youse j
t'Ink day got pay for dat?"
"Of course (ley do. De kid what '
goes along carrying de sticks don't do j
a bit of the work and gets half a dol
lar."
On His Side.
Satan danced in mad glee as he held
the sheet and glanced over the spring
fashions.
"Why do you rejoice?" asked a sad
shade.
"Somebody loves me," smiled Satan.
"Who loves you?"
"The man who Invented styles for
women."
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Choice, Dainty Pieces of Carved Ivory
sucb aa.Cribbage boards, Paper weights and Knives and Napkin rings
& Alaska Silver and Copper Novelties
Suvenir spoons, Bracelets, Envelope openers and Paper knives
SCut Glass, Hand Painted Japanese China and Nugget
Jewelry
^ Alaska Cedar Pacques, Leather Wall, Banners, and
Q Sofa Pillow] with Burnt {[Designs^
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TRAPPERS AND COLLECTORS
are requested to correspond with us about this sea
son's catch of FURS. We want the kakly catch as
well as the lath catch. We will pay full market
value at all times. Price list and tags can be. had for
the asking at any time.
Herman Schmerl & Co.
28 West Thirty-First Street
N"EW YORK CITY
MOORE'S WH MRP CO.
Terminus VV. P. & Y. Route
&:i South Bound Steamers Arrive and Oeoart From Thla Dock
REGULATIONS 1909
Warehouse o,>ec for delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
able* oNLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
Ail froijjht s lipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
Shipper's Manifest (papers can bo obtained at the U. 8. customs
office) nni must be delivered beforn 6 p. m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf after this nour.
BAGGAGE- Tolls win oo collected on Checked Baggage Onv.y. No
charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will bo clo-jd to tho public when steamer Is nearinp
dock and will be opei.-donly whrn passengers have disembarked.
Wharfage Tarii! cau be uad on application at office on dock.
P O. Box 175. E. J. SHAW RESIDENT, MANAGER
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PAGIFIG i 1RCIIC RAILWAY J N1VI6ATI0N CO.
Our Service is Always I he Best
Cur Rates as Low as the Lowest
CALL Oft US fOR PRICfS
V. I. HAHN, Supt
I Railway Building Skaguay
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MANUFACTURER OP ALASKA SOUVENIRS AND
NUGGET JEWELRY CURIOS OF ALL KINDS
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? SiLVtR & COPPER HAND BEATEN NOVELTIES
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Spoons1, Bracelets, Paper Cutters, Napkin Rings
Paper Weights,
| Native Carved Ivory Handled Carving Sets
I beautifully Carved Walrus Teeth Novelties
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Watches and Diamonds, Silverware, Cut
? Glass and Hand Painted China