ASKS AID
Mrs. Barr Trs"1^ Need of
Ali?kan Children
Washing' or. .'in. 7? Mrs. Barr, ODe
of the best ko?>? ;i women philanthro
pist io the country, who devotes special
attention to children, <av that the chil
dre^of Alaska are nejrelected :n every
town ii the territory. She say? the
condition is one demanding immediate
action on the part of the gov?rnment
and submits a carefully compiled report
of the situation in support of the state
ments she makes.
The principal feature of the report
is recommendation that congresss ap
propriate sufficient mo-ey to build and
equip a suitable home for the homeless
children of the territory. This requesi
was made in the name of the Alaska
branch of National Children's Home
society. The society declare* that re
medial action for the present conditions
should be ma le at once and even before j
con gfjss does anything in the way of
erecting a home.
New laws shou d be passed regulating i
the care and treatment of A aska
children in tow s other than those thai '
have incorporated. In the unincjrp- i
oral d towns there are no means oi
providing for home'.e-s and misused t
children as the Alaska code faile I to 1
make any provisions for such ca-es. i
As a result there are hundreds ot j
children in Alaska whose condition ami
the condition of whose parents a-c such j
tha- government provision shou'd ?be i
made for them at once.
Mrs. Barr sp*nt last summer in AI?s i
ka in the interest of the National j
Children's Home Society. She was at j
Skagwrty severa d>ys. She visited all
the leading towns of the district.
COLD WIVE COMING
There is another coM wave coming. !
It w-ll be here soon ami you will b?- i
kicking about the cold again. Now. 1
while it is warm, is ;us> the time ti i
move The Fifth Avenue hotel is .
heated with sreitra and makes al
waether look alike.
Notic? of Sett1?m?nt of Final
Account
In the Matter of the Estata of Jacob
BI"om. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given th <t the ad
ministrator has filed in the United
States Commissioner's Court at Skag
way, sitting in Probate his final ac
count as administrator of the above en- ?
titled estate, and the court has fixed ;
Friday March >, 1907, at 2 o'clock in th?
afterooon as the 'ime of bearing and
settling said account. All person> \
h-?viog, therefore, anything to say why j
said account shoul not be settled and
approved, are hereby notified to mane)
their aopearance in c 'irf, on said |
day and date and hoar ?nd make their;
allegations in tha; btha'f.
Euiil K' rach,
Administrator. |
Jan. 7 to March S 1907.
Fur coats at Clayson's. tf
FIX IT
Do N'M C>in-y UmeliaW
Wa'ch
An accurate time keeping watch 'is |
ev ry mm and worn m's neee-sitv. !
U lea- you ha,ve one you cannot be sure
of yours?: r*. You must of neces ity, it
you have a conscience, have that un- 1
easy feelirg ab ut your engagements
and special or routine duties ur.'^ss you
are safe in the possession of u watch
that does its work. A good watch oie
that keeps time end one that you know
keeps time? breeds self confiJt-nc?.
Do s your watch keep good time?
Is it nroken in any of its parts?
Is It dirty ? If vou cannot answer all
these questions to your satisfaction
come to us. Our repair depar-men'
makes watches AS GOOD AS NEW,
That is the watchword of this branch
of our business. We have another
motto, and with us the words have
actual meaning: SATISFACTION IS
GTARANTEED. If you do not like
the work we turn out, say so anu get
your money back.
We also sell watches ? the very best
in the world, and our prices ARE
RIGHT.
We sell ail kinds of jewelry, fnugget,
ivory and other Alaskan souvenir.
We kave a complete line of cut glass
and hand painted china.
We (rive free examinations of th?
eyes.
J. Ikuta, Optician and Jeweler.
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Consolation
16 o
(Orlelnal.)
"There's crape on the Chittendeus'
door," said Mrs. Cressler. "Chauneey
has passed away. Poor Chauneey?
to hs.ve been obliged to endure that
woman for so long! It's a wonder he
lived as Ions as he did. Well, I sup
pose I must go over and offer the usual
consolation."
Now, there was not only a want of
reason for Mrs. Cressler's going over
to offer the "usual consolation." but
there was a snjierflulty of reason why
she should not do so. Mrs. Cressler
had herself been Mrs. Chitteuden and
by good rights should have been the
widow. But she had tired of Chitten
den. sent him off and secured a divorce
on the ground of desertion. On the
day the divorce was granted she had
married Tim Cressler. Chittendeu,
who hail Ihvu forced to desert one wo
man, clung to another and married her.
Cressler was still living with Chitten
den's tirst wife, but report said that
he was very abusive, the reports ema
nating from his wMe. and if he did not
mend his ways he too, would be forced
to desert her. ' ill's. Cressler's inteu- 1
tiou was to offer Mrs. Chitteuden that |
kind of consolation which Satan would
give a soul he had purchased? that Is,
he would thrust it into hell.
"Good morning. Mrs. Chitteuden. I
have thought, considering what we
have both been to poor Chauneey, 1
would come over and offer my sym
pathies. Notwithstanding his faults
he was too good for most women."
"He was too good for me." said the
widow demurely, "but I suppose he
wasn't good enough for you. Mrs.
Cressler. or he wouldn't have left you."
"I was glad when 1 saw that you aud
Chauneey were getting en so well to
geilier. There was too great a gap
between him aud lue. Chauneey was
not a smart man."
"His iir<; w ife was "
"II isn't tliat 1 was very smart." said
Mrs. Cri -slei iii<?le?tiy. "but Chauneey
was verv dull, lie needed a wife of
very moderate intellect."
"Von were_J'o.-tU!iate In Letting uu
other hushand the day you got your
divorce from the one that deserted
you." said Airs. Chittendeu. "Maybe
Instead of lii'-k it was smartness."
"I didn't w.iiit poor Chauiicey to suf
fer from thinking I'd take him hack."
"It was ver\ kind of you not to make
him silJer an; longer than he did."
"Tli "iv t any tune? 11 I hadn t
lieeu married? that lie wouldn't have
been gl.ttl in return lo his sufferings."
"Theu ic must have !>een lucky for
him that you were married."
"Wi-M see alniiit tluit some day. only
in heaven there's no marrying or giv
ing in marriage."
"IIow is it iu the other place? l'o
you think you're going to have him
there':"
"I'm not going there. Mrs. ('bitten
ileu. n >r i> Chauncey. It' there's mar
rying there you'll have to look out for
a new husband."
"You'd have hoth Chauncey ami Tim
Cressler in heaven, only there's no
more l?igiiiii.v there than marriage."
Mrs. Cressler was not getting ahead
in the game. Iter thrusts were vigor
oils. but they were |>arrio?l with great
skill." There was one thing she had i
cotue i.ver for Hint thus far she hail not j
gained? a knowleilge of what funds
Chittenden had left his widow. She
had a vague h"i>e that the law might
look kindly u;-oii her and iKnsider her
a fvaetiou of ili.it widow.
"I li >pc Chauncey left you comfort
able. Mis. i 'liitieiidw." she said iu a
tone t>> intimate tli.it she would like to
ret b.aek to her purpose of .."Tering eon
soiatioii.
"It's you li--s left comfortable." re
lie t the other, "because he was noth
ing to you. Ho left me uueotufortable
because we were everything to each
other."
"They say you made a frugal wife
and be left a peunjror so iu the bank."
"lie did. and to his widow."
"There's alimony due me."
"I hope you may get It."
"If it's due the law "11 allow it."
"Yes. if it's title. Yoli go' your di
vorce at uooti and married at 1 o'clock,
lliere's aiiuiony for one hour due you.
"I suppose it wouldn't loo'.; well for
me to c.mio to the f::neral."
"Charn.-ey's funeral, so f.tr as his
first wife is concerned, occurred long
igo."
"Of course I'd like to sli >w my kind
ly sympathy for you. The neighbors
alight think it ijiieer of me l ? be here,
but it would show them that I'm not
nia'.icious."
"Oh. they know you haven't any
.niuhv a;?;i?s> me. Why should you
:iave? It wis I who made i! easy for
vou. ' 'I' lliH' vv was well enough satis
lied with t!'e deserti >n plan after he
met me."
"Il'iy: They Ml luic.v that i wouldn't
stand him cuy longer."
-He told me lie was afraid you
would."
"I'd have just liked to hear him say
that iu the flesh."
There was a step in the back room?
the roum where Mrs. Cressler supposed
the corpse was lying a man's step,
and wh.? should walk into the room but
Chauceey Chitteudeu.
"I.a's a mercy!" exclaimed Mrs. ( 'ress
ter. "I thought you were dead!"
"That's the fellow In the other flat."
"What have you been lying to me
for this way. Mary Chittenden?"
"I haven't been lying."
"And you. -Chauncey Chittenden? I al
ways thought you were above eaves
dropping."
"A corpse can't eavesdrop. 1 am only
a corpse so far as you are concerned. I
heard what you thought of me alive
loDS ago. I'm glad to hear what you
think of me dead."
Mrs. Cressler flounced out.
MARION MAT HOI-T.
I Original. 1
"I was in the late oupleasautuess,"
said the Mississippi pilot, "uud it's my
opinion that all this thlugr called hero
Ism depends on circumstances. Wheu |
a bra re man's cornered he aiu't any
better 'n a coward. I've butted up I
ag'in fortyfications, and I've leaped it
| to get out ?' tile way o' sliot and shell."
The boat was moving swiftly down |
with the stream, and the pilot was uow
pulling? the wheel with all Ills strength, I
then letting it t'y around like a Fourth |
of July plnwheel.
"But I don't have to draw ou myself
for an argymeut. I was a stars and
bars boy myself. I'll take one o' your
fellers, as bravo a man as ever fought
under the stars ami slri|>es. D'ye see
pthat bank over thar'r 1 remember a
day when there was a good deal doin'
on that bank. It was about fou' years |
after the close of the war, and the car
petbag business was huuipin'. The
gineral idee of a carpetbagger, both
uorth and south, was a low dowu cuss
without any decency whatever. Some
of 'em was. But .Major MacEtiery was
a different sort. He had risen from the
rauks in the I'lii.m army, aud wheu the
war was over, bein' only twenty-seven |
years old, lie concluded to settle in the
south and grow up with the country
after its new birth. There was a lot of
no'tbe'u officers tuk that fever, aud I
reckon they all come to grief.
"The major bought a plantation over
thar. He didn't pay much.fo' it, fo' il
wasn't wo'tli much. His neighbors
tried to drive him out in var'us ways
but he was good pluck and refused to
be driv. One day when I was pilot o'
the Talladega we come iloatin' dowi, ,
yere just as we're doin' now, aud
rouudiu' to. puttin' her nose upstream
we tied up at a wha'f i>oat over thar
to deliver the mail. I wanted to git
some tobuccer. so I loie the eap'u I'd
take the mail l>:tg up lie tole me to go
ahead, aud. roliiu' it iiuder my arm?
fo' thar wasn't much in it? I struck
out. i found a big crowd 0:1 the bluff. ]
aud they follered me to the postotllce.
I hauded in the mail bag, aud just then
lu walked Major MacEnery. There wa
one letter in the hag. and that had the
major's name ou it. The postmaster
handed it out to him.
lUill UUItlC llit' (TITOU UlilU. 11110
mail s:ii?! tlmt yo* imildu't expect noth-'
lu' bettor from a Yankee gov'ment than
to deliver only letters fo' Yankees. Tin
major. who had seen all the tightin' lie
wanted iu the late war, ink his loiter
and wont out. or. ruther, he was goin'
out when one of the crowd put out his
foot and tripped him. -The major
stumbled, lull didn't say uotliiu'. lie
knowed il was intentional, but If lie
said anything there he'd have to light
for his life. There was a man lie hi:d
on his plantation in the crowd and two
or three sotith'n T'ninnists that had set
tled thar to lie under the major's wing.
When the man that had tripped the
major saw it didn't move him to give
'em a chance to, kill him lie roared out:
?? 'Yo' Yankee carpetbagger, what d"
yo' mean hy carryin' off the mail with
yo'? We don't want no hogs down !
yore:'
"The major whipped out a revolver |
and stuck it under the man's nose so j
quick that the feller fell back, aud the ;
major went our. He hadn't been gone
more'u a few minutes when they jaui- I
tiled the man that wo'keil on his planta- |
tlon ag in the wall, and he lilt one of
'em on the head, The I'uiou men tried
to get at him to get him out o' their
way. and pretty soon it was n stand off
between the two factions. I got out
o' the way o' the flyin' bullets. As I
was raakin' off a heavy man that had j
been shot fell on me and knocked me I
down. It occurred to me that it would |
be well fo' me to lay wliar I fell? |
leastaways there's no use to kill a
I dead man, an' I concluded I'd be dead
fo' awhile, till the sliootiu' was over.
"1 didn't see notbin' more? I didn't
want to? but the major, hearin' the
fracas, went back, and he and his little
gang kep' the tire eaters at bay fo'
some time. Then most of the major's
backers was killed. As 1 was tellin'
yo', I didn't see nothln" that was goin'
ou till there was nothin' but a few
stray sliois '.??ft near me; then I got up j
aud made i racks fo' the boat.
"Everybody on board had left the
wha'f boat, aud some of 'em had lock
ed themselves in staterooms. The
deck hands had all tumbled luto the
hold, and the eap'n had hid in the pilot
house. 1 run aboard aud, seein' no
one, run out to the wha'f boat ag'i'u
and unloosed the cables. We drifted j
I off, and, yankin' the engineer out of i
his liidin' place behind the engine. I
tole him to be ready for signals as soon
as I g;>t to the pilot house. In half a
minute 1 was at the wheel, ller stem
was just, touchin' the shore wheu 1
rung to go ahead, aud we steamed out
Into deep water.
"Puttiu' her nose downstream, I
looked back at the scene of the tight
aud saw the major coinin' on the dead
run with a crowd an eighth of a mile
behind him, all/firUi' at him. I sig
naled to stop her and would 'a' sent
a boat fo' him, but there was no one
to send. When he got opposite us he
took to the water, and w hen he reach
ed us one of the hands pulled him in.
"He was the wo'sl used up man I
ever saw*. He stood oil deck loolcln
back at his plantation, where he had all
his funds Invested, realizln' that they
was gone.
" 'I was iu "the hornets' nest" at
Shiloh.' he said, 'but I didn't reel like
I did when that gang was a-trvin' to
murder me. In the one case it was
an even tight; in the other it was one to
twenty.'
"That's why I don't count on n?
man's beln' brave under all clrcum
Btaace*." TOWARD MORKIS0X.
SPECIAL SALES
SPECIAL SALE Ladies Winter hats
Commencing" Monday 1-2 off.
SPECIAL SALE in Men Overcoats
and Suits 25 per cent. off. For the
next ten days.
SPECIAL SALE in drees goods and
fancy trimmings. We must make
room for our Spring lines.
*
! Martin Conway"
lrtE BEST
COFFEE
can be
SPOILED
by the old hit
or miss p'aa
used in son?
household*!
BUT
with P
M- "METEOR"
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
everything is so arranged that by
following tlio simple instructions
the quality is always deliuons.
See our several styles and letfs
explain the perfect way.
P. E. KERN
Gold and Silver smith.
Notion to Public
I have authorized Mr. P. B. ' 'raves
to assume full charge of my aff irs in
conneci ion with ru"nlnu ;he .Pullen
House during mv absence.
Mrs. h. s, Pullen.
S-Hgway, Nov. 28, IS' 06, tf.
Coal and Wood
Call up the Alaska Transfer comtvny
for coal wuod and kind inff All or
ders promptly attended o. 'Phone 10
We hav? a large stock
homney's Candy
? PettF's Chocolates
A'so a large stock ot
Fresh Nuts
Don ' Fore t the Number. 428 B d? 'j
T ny Dortero's
and Importer of
MILLINERY
orders solicited and filled immediatly
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is ou'' advice. Later on in lit-*, it will
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Seattle, Wash.
On and after the 1st oi October, 1905. the following will be the
Mon hlv rates for water and light service from the Northwest Light
& P owe. Company:
WATER
First Faucet
E <ch " additional (except was ? basins, free)
Bath Tubj in Hotels or other Public Houses
Water Closets " " " "
Urinals " " " "
Wash Hasin9 " " " " "
Hote's, per room additional
Beer Pumps
Rfstuurants
Steam Laundries
Hand "
Motors, special per hirsepower, minimum rate
HoseC n, lection for Fire Protection
Families carrying water
Individuals "
Hauling water, per load
La wo and Street sprinkling
ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES
COMMERCIAL SERVICE
Stores, Offices, Shops and Residences
Each 16 cp lights
Enclosed Arcs
ALL NI3HT SERVICE
Each 16 cp lights
Enclosed Arcs
32 cp '.ights double 16 cp
Meter Rates will be 10 cents per 1000 watts.
All Year Winter
EDWIN BROWNE. Marker.