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No. 89. TWELFTH YEAR.
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SA1UROAY, SEPfEMBER li. 1909
PRICE, 10 CENTS
(By United Prsss.)
N'EW YORK. Sept. 11? An exclus
ive wireless message to the United
Press from Robert E. Peary states
that he has proof that Dr. Cook never
I reached the north pole and is an im
postor. Peary says ho will produce
Ms proof when ho reaches New York
and that it will convince tho most
skeptical that Cook is claiming credit
for something he did not do.
GUGGENHEIM!) LOOKING AT
THE RAINY HOLLOW MINES
Robert Marshp. the mining expert I
troni Salt Lake City, who has been
inspecting the Porcupine and Rainy
Hollow districts for the past week,
returned to Haines Wednesday and
sailed south on the Cottage City. ?
Mr. Marshp is undoubtedly represent- j
ins the Guggenheim interests. He
Is known to be affiliated with Stephe
Birch, who has charge of the Guggen
heim raining Interests in Alaska.
Mr. Marshp refused to commit him
self in giving his opinion of the
mines. He said that some were good
wild some were had, that the country
was "very nice." and in general evad
ed the issue. Ho admitted, however,
that he had sent his report to head
quarters.
It is more than probable that the
Guggenheims are considering invest
ing in either the Porcupine or Rainy
Hollow, probably in the latter place,
and that big developments may re
sult from Mr. Marshp's inspection.
? Haines Pioneer Press.
TOWN TALK
Bill McPhee left for the Interior'
this morning.
I-aurenee Estrada returned from
Haines on the Hegg yesterday.
The Skagway Commercial will hold
a mee' ng next Monday evening.
Delicious fresh oysters served at
all hours at the Pack Train Restaur
ant. tf. I
If you love your wife take her to
the A. B. show and dance.
Tim Creedon. the Haines mining!
man, arrived in town yesterday from!
Haines on the Hegg.
The Jefferson left Seattle a day ear*
lier than advertised and will arrive in
Skagway Tuesday. Sept. 14.
Col. J. H. Conrad returned from
Vancouver on the Princess Royal and 1
It- ft Thursday for Conrad.
Rev. Henry P. Wilbur of Coronado
will again preach at the Presbyter
ian church tomorrow evening at S
o'clock.
The Elks club will re-open next
Tuesday night and all Elks and their
ladies have been invited by the house
committee. The evening will be spent
in dancing, card playing and bowling.
Refreshments will be served.
The question of the ownership of
the launch Superb will be settled Sun?
day afternoon Sept. 12, at 3 o'clock
at Fireman's hall. All those inter
ested art- requested to be present.
Big time at A. B. hail next Wed
nesday night. Be sure you get there
ou time.
Are you going to the A. B. show
next Wednesday?
Come one, come all; both great and
small, and have a good time at the
A. B. hall.
LOOK OUT!
Beginning IGth inst. 1 shall have
some A.-Y.-P. special at the Pack
Train. Finest in the Land. Yours
as ever, Herman Orlmm
Fall Millinery
Now on Display
Including the Newest Feather Aigrettes
French Curl Ostrich Plumes, Imported
Wings and Tips in all Colors
LYNCH & KENNEDY
The Up-To-Date Haberdashers and Ladies* Furnishers ^
?H 1 1 1 1 : : I-I--H-H-M"!1 1 1 u 1 1
SUCCESSOR OF HUMAN
HAS HAD A RAPID RISE
The news dispatches state that Ro
bert Lovett will succeed Harriman in
the management of the Harriman Int
erests. The following article from the
Seattle Star gives a brief history of
Lovett:
Lovett's career is the most ro
mantic of any great lawyer's. He
was plowing on his father's farm
near Shepard, Texas., 35 years ago.
He saw a narrow guage railroad,
and from that time on was interested
in railroads. His education was like
Abraham Lincoln's ? snatched at ran
dom on the farm, until he showed
that he was fit for a fight with any
earnest young man in the state.
"Some day," Lovett told his boy
friends, "I'll own that road." '
Ho Btudled law at night and cur
ried horses by day. Then he got
work In the railroad's offices and
was admitted to practice. Just four
years later Lovett was president of
the Houston & Texas Central.
Within a few years he came to
New York as Harrlman's general
counsel. Wall St. laughed at the
tall Texan. "We'll have to take off
his sharp corners," they said.
They never have. They never
will. It Is Lovett who has done
the slde-ewiplng when any financial
clash has occurred In the house of
Harriman. Th<> scoffers were stung.
He Is a six-footer and a sphinx,- es
pecially at present.
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(By United Press.)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 11?
With his wife. Gov Walter E. Clark
of Alaska left his home at Connectl-I
cut this morning for the west Gov. ;
Clark will proceed to San Francisco
where he will be entertained by the
Chamber of Commerce. He will then
go to Seattle and arrive at Juneau
and assume his office about Oct. 1.
WAS TOO WEI
FOR WALLIGK
A. M. Walltck, accompanied by his
son H. A., arrived Monday on the SeV
kirk, they having come up from Liv
ingstone creek where the former own
mining property and where they have
been at work since early in the sum
mer.
In conversation with a Star rep
resentative Mr. Wallick, senior, as
serted that the constant and Inces
sant rains of the present summer
practically put him out of business so
far as accomplishing anything in the
way of mining Is concerned. Living
stone creek, he asserts, has been a
raging torrent a good part of the
season and he and his son were al
most constantly engaged In repairing
sluice boxes and slulcehose that was
being damaged by the high water.
At length they became discouraged
and concluded to suspend operations
for the season.
All operations on Livingstone, Mr.
Wallick says, have been retarded this
year by high water. However, he
says, considerable gold will be taken
cut by the end of the season. ? White
horse Star.
Dr. L. S. Keller left Juneau early
this week and is now In Sitka pract
icing his profession.
POLE SEEKERS
(By United Press)
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Sept. 11? Com
mander Robert E. Poary is still at
Battle Harbor and will not arrive in
New York until Sept. 17.
CHRISTIANIA, Norway. Sept 11?
Dr. Frederick A. Cook the successful
pole seeker, arrived here last night
and leaves this morning for New Yor
MAY REVISE
116 LAWS
(By United Press)
GOLDFIELDS. Nev. Sept. 11? Pre
parations have been completed for th
convention of the American Mining
Congress on Sept. 27. The Import
ant matters to come up for discus
sion will be to Inaugurate n national
bureau of mines and to revise tliej^l
aska mining laws.
Mrs. C. C. Shea and Mrs. William
Blackmer came up from Haines on
the Hegg yesterday.
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THE HHHH IE
(By United Pre??.)
NEW YORK. Sept. 11? It is be
lieved in financial circles In this city
that J. Plerpont Morgan will take the
.enter of the stage In the railroad
world and assume practical control of
tho Harrlman railroads. J. P. Morgan
jr. will probably bo elected to /uiecoo*l
Harrlman .by the board of director*
at a meeting hold Monday.
Robert Lorett will bo mado provi
dent of the Union Pacific road.
TAHANA PAPER PREDICTS
RAILROAD FROM RAINES
A straight line drawn from Fair
banks to Haines, at the upper end of
the Inside Passage, follows the valley
of the Tanana river to Its head near
the International boundary line, and
at the other end follows the valley of
the Chilkat river. Instead of run
ning crosswise over the mountain
ranges, it runs lengthwise behind ther
until t'le mounU<*H ronjeve th-ir ob
slructivcness by diving accommo
datingly into thj ocean. As Mr. Jus
lin sayj, "Hain<r? Is the logical gate
way to Fairbanks and the Tanana val
lfy."
This route wo.iM be <j:tiU- as diicct
o the states aa ne ro'ite across thr
mountain ranges to the south coast
and thence by ship to Puget Sound.
It would avoid not only the summits
of the ranges, but it would cut out
the sea Journey across the Gulf of
Alaska, one of the stormiest recesses
of the Pacific ocean, and would con
fine the travel by water to the shel
tered lane* of the Inside Passage Th
objection, of coiirae In that the route la
not all American, but that objection I
largely Rentlnieni.il. and to thn travel
er, at least, fades away before the *1*
Ions of sea-sickness.
Plans of so great magnitude a*
the one proposed by Mr. Joslln are
long in taking the shape of actual
roadbeds and rails, yet the promoters
should live to see their dreams come
true and to be bailed as empire build
ers. People and project* move more
rapidly nowadays than in the days
when the first transcontinental rail
ways were stretched across the
plains and the mountains of the west.
Population responds more readily to
the opening of new avenues of travel,
il is population, of c^rse, upon whlc
the judicious building of railways
mnst be based, but the growth of
railways and of population are mutua
and concomitant ? Tanana Tribune.
rived reports;
The Whltehorso passed Bin Salmon
a i 6:40 a. m. today and the Selkirk,
passed Coffee Creek a 7:30 a. m. to
day, both bound up stream. The
Bonanza Kins Is still in Whltehorse.
The Dawson passed Selkirk at 3 a.
m. today and tho Cnsea left White
torse at 4 a. m. today, both bound
down stream.
The Whltehorse will leave White
horse tomorrow or Monday morning.
SEATTLE IS DUE SUNDAY
The City of Seattle loft Ketchikan
today and is expected to arrive in
Skagway late tomorrow. The City of
Seattle has 130 tons of freight. The
local agent does not know how many
paasengcrs are on board.
J. A. Fraoer, the provincial gold
commissioner of Itritish Columbia,
arrived In Skagway yesterday from
Haines. Mr. KYaser has been Inspect
ing the Hairy Hollow road.
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