No. 1*4.
ELEVENTH YEAR.
iSKAtiWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2<\ 1908
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STEAMER HUMBOLDT IS A WRECK
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Seattle, Sept. ? The steamer Humboldt which sailed
last night at o'clock for Skagway with .'IS passeugers went
ashore this morning in a dense fog in Active pass. The
steamer was going ahead at a good speed and crashed into
the rocks head on. Panic seized the passengers who rushed
on deck, women screaming and men frantic. It happened
that a tug was-near by and answered promptly the distress
signals of the ilumboldt. The tug ran alongside and took
oil the passengers without much difficulty. The tug then
started for Seattle where it will arrive this afternoon. Sal
vage boats are going to the scene. It is feared the Hum
boldt is put wholly out of commission. Four feet of her
bow is completely t?>ru away.
(By United Press.)
Minneapolis, Sept. --Itoth Brvan
and Taft ?pent in this city eery
quietly. 'hey di-1 not meet.
GAME AGAIN POSTPONED
(By United Press.)
Cincinnati, Sept. 'it? The postponed!
H ;ue which wa- 10 have been playec. j
wi;h Cbicigo yesterday, was aga>r ,
p >stpoced.
(By United Press.)
.Marquette, Mich., Sept. J'.' - Trying j
t> sail through the dense smoke caused i
by the fores' tires that border the take |
and w hich hangs u a heavy pal) ov.-r
the entire lake region, the steauier
Xeshoto ran ashore this morning. The
pi^sengrr* urd crew were saved by a
life saving crew.
(By United Press.)
San Francisco, Sept. ill' ? Chaung, the j
famous king of Chinatown, high in ih'1 1
counci's ?>f the s'x companies, is dying |
IN A WARSHIP
TO A WEDDING
(By United Press.)
Home, Sept. 29. ? The king of Italy
lins -.?ncti' ned the wedding of 'ho Duke
dWbruzzi with the daughter of Senator
K'klnsof Virginia. Italian warships
will escort th" duke to America for his
?filling in November.
town Talk
John McCauley went south on the
City of Seattle last evening.
T. r.. Hersberg, Dawson merchant,
went through yesterday south bound.
The C. P. R. ss Princess Beatrice
1 left Vancouver mi time Sunday night
and will be here Thursda ?.
Miss Sophia Bull arrived on last
night's train from Dawson. She will
rcruaiu here for some time.
Th- Arctic Brotherhood will hold an
important meeting this evening. There
will bt: nominations for officers for tho
?>n-uing year.
Mrs. Anno E rick son, who had charge
' of the dining room at the Golden North
I for some time, was a passenger south
Itounri on the City of Seattle last night.
W. P. Allen, for years solicitor on
the Dawson News was, with his wife,
a passenger on the City of Seattle south
bound. They will spend the wiuter on
the sound.
Lynch and Kennedy
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RUMdRED SILE OF W. P. i r.
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Vancouver, Sept. 29? Announcement is expected daily
of a transfer of the White Pass Yukon to the Canadian
Pacific
This brief statement of a highly interesting
bit of news ? if news it is ? was received this morning.
When the telegram was shown to Mr. W. B. King, auditor
oi" the company ? Mr. Berdoe being absent in Whitehoree ?
that official showed no surprise. "Ah!" said he, "it has
arrived ? the annual story of the sale of this property. iYo
there is nothing to. say ? save that it has almost ceased to
be a joke ? so regular does it come around. Seriously,
there is nothing to it. Wm would know if there was and
we have heard nothing of it.
Mr. F. F. \V. Lowle, agent for the C. P. R. ss line,
when asked what he knew about it, declared ignorance.
He recalled, however, that Second Vice-President Wm.
White, of the C. 1*. R.. accompanied by Mr. Akins. Iv. C.
and Mr. T. C. Irving, leading counsel foi the Canadian,
Pacific, came up last August on the same boat with Presi-J.
dent Graves and General Manager Berdoe, of the W. P. A '
V, and the latter gentlemen showed the former over the ,
road, in state. Mr. Graves makes the trip annually, but
the visit of the other was unusual and noted so at the time.
"However," said Mr. Lowle, "it may be a mere coin
cidence. "
DISCOVERY IN
NEW COUNTRY
R. B, Dixon, "mayor ofAtiin," was in
Skagway over Sunday. Mr, Dixon re
ports the Atlin country as in excellent
condition. Ho says tho big Ruflner
hydraulic enterprise is finding >ich
dirt this season ana is belDg worked
with all possible energy. Mr. Dixon
j says that Ailin wns visited a short timo
I aiiO by one J. L. Cox, who brought
j with hiin a poke of several thousand
dollars, the result of a discovery made
by him during three years solitary
prospecting in a country about 200
mile* northeast of Teslin lake. Mr
Cox left Dawson in 190X After travel
ing in various new fields, he invaded his
present preserves which he says hud
not before been visited by a white man.
What he found was near the surface;
he had not, at the time he was com
pelled to leave, reached bedricK. He
had been living, for the most part, on
moose meat and had swallowed a moose
hair which caused him trouble. Ho
was operated on in Atlin, his stomach
opened and the foreign matter removed.
Upon recovery he bought an outfit aud
started on his return to his mine.
ME WILL !
HELP ATUM|
R. F. Tolmie, deputy minister of
mines, of Victoria, returned frrni Atlin
and took the Princess May Saturday
Mr. Tolmie said that he h' d spent most
of his time on Otter creek: that ho had
tiad a very instructive trip and that he
thought he would he able to render the
miners in the Atlin district material
assistance in their efforts to develop
their country.
TO BE REPEATED TONIGHT
The show at Elks' hall last evening
was a really good entertainment. There
was a very poor house but those who
were there applauded to make up in a
measure. The several acts were all
that was claimed, for them the moving
j pictures and features were first clas?.
I It was deserving of h better fate.
I Later the management of the show
' late this afternoon, finding a feelinp
general in favor of repeating the show
decided to meet the wishes expressed
and put the show on again this evening
with a genera! change of program. If
the bill is as good as last night, it is a
safe investment for an evening's pleas
ure. Vaudeville, moving pictures and
a dance, is the bill.
Want ads in the Alask.m bring re
sults. Everybody reads them.
All the delicacies of the season at
the Pack Train restaurant.
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That is the name ot our new
SODA CRACKERS
Crisp- --Flaky Delicious
Cost no more than the other kind
GANTY & FRANDSON
STANDARD OIL STORM CENTER
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Washington, Sept. 29 ? Mr. Roosevelt following his ac
ceptance of the challenge of Mr. Bryan to prove his charges
against Haskell, the treasurer of t he democratic committee,
and the resignation of that officor, is ont with a more de
tailed answer to Mr. Bryan in which he sets up the record
of the two parties in contrast 011 the trust question. lie
makes a strong case for Mr. Taft.
Cincinnati, Sept. 29 ? The statement is made by leading
members of the party here that the smash-up made in the
campaign management by the corporation matter is by 110
means complete and that there will be many republicans
holding office with the campaign committee who' will be
compelled to resign.
Guthrie, Sept, 29 ? Governor Haskell arrived home yes
terday and was greeted by crowds. He declares he will yet
prove that Roosevelt has been the greatest crook that ever
sat in the presidential chair.
Chicago, Sept. 29 ? W. R. Hearst is enroute here to join
the presidential nominee of the Independence League. His
;vn. lb* says he is not by any means through with his let
ter reading, that he has another interesting budget to
-how that other prominent republicans are, and have long
been, associated with the Standard Oil.
mine GOES
10 JUNEAU
Tho special committee nf the City
Council opened bids yesterday for print
ing the recently adopted city code.
There were two bids? that of The Al
askan and the Interloper. According
to tho form of the specifications the bid
was to be mado at so much per page?
isti mated at 250 pages? for printing 250
hooks. The bid of The Alaskan was
f 1 50 per page, that of the other, under
the guise of being a local concern, was
85 cents per page. The committee of
course awarded the contract to the
lower bidder. Last evening Mr. Bu?h
ell took the steamer City of Seattle for
Juneau where it is to be assumed the
work of printing Skagway's city code
will bo done.
ELKS OPEN
THE SEASON
The opening parly of the season of
l4<08-9, of the Heat lJeople, is scheduled
for Weduesday at Elks' hall. Jit will
be in the nature of a bouse warming,
the club and card rooms, the reception
room the bowling alleys equally with
the ball room will be flooded with light
and warmth and these brought, under
the spell of good music. Each and
every one of those privileged to be pres
ent will, of course, be there and they
will be there early,. too, wl.o wish to be
represented in the grand march for the
cue for the music will be given at nine
sharp.
The Alaska ss Jefferson Is due to ar
rive at 11 tomorrow morning.
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