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No. 20?. TWELFTH YEAR.
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, SATURDAY JANUARY 29, 1910
PRICE, 10 CENTS
mam inns
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Criticism Is A Crime To Be Pun
ished By Raising Rates Of
Postage ? Bluff Won't Work
1 By Alaska News Bureau)
WASHINGTON. O. C. Jan. 29?
President Taft today informed the
representatives of the big eastern
magazine publishers that unless they
stopped the criticism of himself and
his administration he would cause the
postal department to recommend an
Increase in the rates of magazine pott
age.
President Taft some time ago stat
ed that the deficit of the postal de
partment was caused by the carrying
of so many magazines at a cheap
rate and Intimated that this rate
might be increased.
I Collier's Weekly, Saturday Evening
' Post. Everybody's. Hampton's and sev
eral other big magazines, who have
from time to time been publishing
articles reflecting on the Taft admin
istration, at once took cognizance of
this veiled threat and plainly showed
that the postal deficit was not caused
by the bulk of the magazines trans
| ported, but by poor business methods
' and by the fact that the government
grants the express companies the
right to cut in on the post office bus
iness.
The magazine owners will hardly
be swayed by the threat of the l'res
I ldent.
6URCH IS HERE
WITH ICE AUIO
C. S. Burch, the inventor of the
ice automobile with which he made
several long trips last winter on Lake
Bennett, arrlve<l In Skagway on the
Amor, accompanied by Thomas Inger
ham "chief engineer." The Ice auto
and a big supply of gasoline also ar
rived on the Amur and will be shipped
to Caribou early next week.
Mr. Burch says his experiments last
winter have enabled him to make sev
eral improvements in his machine and
now it will run over any kind of ice
or snow at a good rate of speed.
CABLE OFFICE
Douglas now has a cable offico.
The cable tender Burnside has been
working; at Dounlas for several days
and yesterday the new station was |
cut In.
L. M. Powers, formerly operator at
Seattle and Sitka, and a warm friend
of H. W. Klrby of Skagway. is in
charse of the new office.
The rates to Douglas are fifty cents
for ten words and five cents for each
additional word.
> Children delight in wading through all
the puddles on the sidewalk and they
would rather walk in the snow beside the walk,
than anywhere else.
This is hard on the shoes ? no shoe will stand it in
definitely. All you can do is to get the strongest shoes
vou can buy, without getting them too coarse and
heavy,
curify School Sho
For Boys For Girls
These shoes are made of the best leather, especially selected. The
boys shoes are made by the welt process ? the best known method of
fastening soles and uppers together. The girls shoes are made :n both
welt and turn soles.
They are made on good fitting lasts and will not hurt the feet or injure
their shape. Both boys and girls shoes are dressy and attractive looking
with wonderful wearing qualities.
Security Watch with Every Pair
Each purchaser of Security School
Shoes i* entitled to one of these hand
some watches for only 50 cents. I
There isn't a dollar watch on the
market as good. It It guaranteed for
one year. We couida't afford to make this offer cxcept
as an inducement for you to try Security School Shoes.
Bring the children in and let us fit them out with a
pair of Security Shoes ? they will prove a revelation
to you in shoe value for childrens shoes
LYNCH & KENNEDY
The Up-To-Date Haberdashers and Ladies' Furnishers
MB ME SUBSIDING
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(By Alaska News Bureau)
PARIS, France. Jan. 20? It was of
ficially announced today that the Riv
er Seine showed no rise last night
while reports from the tributaries
of the river show them to be falling.
Unless uioiv raius fall the flood is
thought to have reached Its highest
stage.
Thousands of people are being fed
from the government supply stations.
EVIDENCE IS ALL CIRCUMSTANTIAL
(By Alaska News Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 29?
Louis Glavls has not adduced many
/acts of a damaging nature so far in
his testimony. The value of his tes
tiinon.v depends "DO" 'he credence
which will be given the circumstan
tial evidence which he brings fortli
and which tends to show that the De
partment of the Interior sought to
facilitate in every way the granting
of the Cunningham coal claims.
(By Alaska News Bureau)
PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 29? Two
fashionably dressed highwaymen rode
up to the Twelve Mile roadhouse, a
uoteil'frsefi^i" ? taxicab and held
the place up lasTW.*" The hIghway
men are thought to havt> s?cliro(l se*''
eral thousand dollars. The i -ut< '
have no clues to work on.
6UDIIIC ENOW
CRUSHES LIFE
Word was brought to town last
week by Joe de Blondeau, that four
natives had been caught in a snow !
slide, at the head of Bear creek. '
about ten miles from Wells, and that
one of the natives had perished in j
the slide, the others barely escaping |
with their lives.
The boy who was killed is named
Gun-da-jin, and he, and his brother,
Sam Johnson and an other native,
called John wore hunting sheep at :
the head of Bear oreek. Gun-<la-jin
was about 100 feet ahead of the
others, going up a gulch.
When the slide started, he turned
ami started to run and called to the
others. They started *to run alsp and
got to where the gulch widened
out when the slide overtook them.
Gun-da-Jin was caught further up
the gulch and at last reports his body
had not been recovered. ? Haines Pi
oneer Press.
Jack Combs and Ed Woods came ufl
from Haines on the Hegg yesterday.
They will return to Haines 011 the
1 Monday.
MOTOR GARS
FOR ALASKA
(By Alaska News Bureau)
EAST ORANGE, N. J. Jan. 29?
Thomas Edison has received orders
for six electric motor cars for use on
the Tanana Valley railroad.
FAI I IHR NOW
(By Alaska News Bureau)
PARIS, France. Jan. 29? The floods
are receding, but considerable appre
hension is felt regarding the weak
ened foundations of many of the large
buildings of Paris.
POLICE BAN
BOXING SAME
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 29? The pol
ice have decided to allow no more
prize fighting in Portland. For a time
the authorities sanctioned ten round
goes.
The Amur reached port at 8:"0
o'clock tills morning with nine pas
sengers and C7 tons of freight and
sails south at G o'clock this after
noon with thirteen passengers. Capt.
George Robertson formerly pilot on
the Princess May, is commanding the [
AMUR IS IN AND OUT
Amur.
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MARMALADE
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4. known all over the world for its
4* Purity and Excellence
WE HAVE IT
1-lb. Jars 35c., 3 for $1.00 4-lb. Tins 90c ?
GANTV & FRANDSON
BALLIIfGER WINS VII POINT
(Bv Alaska News Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 29?
Today I^ouls Glavls admitted that
Secretary Balllnger did not attempt ,
to suppress the investigation into the
patents of the Alaska coal lands. ?
Gifford Pinchot, the deposed chief
forester, has been issuing circulars
throughout the hearing and has at
tempted to twist the evidence so
that it will be favorable to the con
tentions vVltich ho lias made.
NO VOTE Oil THE BEVERIDGE BILL
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 29?
The Beverldge bill providing a legis
lative council for Alaska was not pas
sed by the Senato yesterday. The bill
did not come to a vote and an at
tempt was made to displace It on the
calendar in favor of the postal saving
banks bill.
FIGHT FANS
ITCH MILL
The moving picture entertainment
at Elks hall last night was very well
attended, about 200 persons being
present, and the show was so well
enjoyed that another performance
will be civen tonight. The Johnson
Ketchell f l^ht pictures will be given
iKjiin tonight, ilie rest of tin -
gramwill be changed. Ths fight
pictures of the Gans-McGovern fight
will be also given tonight.
Owing to the coming battle be
tween Jeffries and Johnson, great in
the fight fans of Skagway who were
anxious to get a line on Johnson. The
negro showed up well. He Is fast
and shifty and fights in a cool and
calculating manner. He simply toyed
with Ketchell, but with Jeffries it
will be another matter.
But at that Ketchell bumped the
coon good and hard in the last round.
He is seen to land a hard swing on
the negro who goes to the floor. He
takes the count and rises slowly.
Ketchell rushes in with another
swing, evidently thinking Johnson is
groggy, but the big black leaps for
ward and drives a left into Ketchell's
face and drops him to the mat like
an axed bullock.
The pictures of the Gans-McGovern
fight that will also be given tonight
are full of action. Terrible Terry
knocks out the negro in the fourth i
round.
MERGERS WILL
BE DISSOLVED
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 29?
It was announced today that the gov
ernment will press the railroad mer
ger suits against certain railroads for
Illegal combines in restraint of trade.
(By Alaska News Bureau.)
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 29? Cyclone
Johnny Thompson and Johnny Me
Carthey battled twenty rounds to a
draw last night. The fight was fast
throughout and both men mixed
things freely.
JEFF TOMORROW MORNING
The Jefferson did not reach Juneau
until 2 o'clock this afternoon and is
not expected to arrive in Skagway un
til 3 or 4 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Walter Sharpe came out on Thurs
day's train and sailed south on the
Amur. Mr. Sharpe was employed at
the Commercial cafe in Whitehorse.
He is going to England for a visit.
The Collegian Clothes Store
Certainly Offers Its Customers
Exceptional Values. They must
be constantly on the alert for
Bargains, for they are Always
Able To Undersell All Other
Stores
Come In And Get Our Prices Before
You Buy
WILL CLAYSON. cloThieb