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We Wish One and All
A Happy and
Prosperous New Year
C. Vv. ASK & SONS
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GENTLEMEN^ |
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 OLD MAN
Tony Dortero's
to s
"f ? ? ^
Special Sale ? H
r reduce
our immense ?t xK of l'icturcs
I and Frum s, we will, fort'ie next
! Five Jays, raak-' a special dis
! cjudi of 25 per -cm on at! slock
in this line.
DRAPER &G0.
Skagwa t, Alaska
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JANUARY SHOE SALE
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Our January Shoe Sale? the most elaborate in the history of our store? Starts on
MONDAY January 11th and will continue until SATURDAY January 16th.
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During its progress we are going to give our patrons the most remarkable values
in footwear, at the lowest prices, ever known in this vicinety. Every shoe in
thestore,with the exception of Billy Busters and Rubber footwear, will.be reduced
FOR MEN
Our Hanan Shoes will sell for $5.50
palp during this sale. ? Regular prlc?
$7.00.
Our $6 Shoes will be $4.75 pair.
Our $5 Shoes will be $4 per pair.
Our $4.50 Shoes will be $3.50 pair.
Our $4 Shoes will be $3.25 pair.
Our $3.50 Shoes will be $2.75 pair.
FOR WOMEN
Our Hanan Shoes will sell for $5 pair
Regular price $6 and $6.50.
Our regular $6 Shoes will be $4.75 pr.
Our $5 Shoes will be $4 pair.
Our $4.50 Shoes will be $3.50 pair.
Our $4 Shoes will be $3.25 pair.
Our $3 Shoes will be $2.25 pair.
Our $2.50 Shoes will be $1.75 pair.
For Boys and G-irls
Our $3.50 Shoes at $2.75 pair.
Our $3 Shoes at $2.25 pair.
Our $2.75 Shoes at $2 pair.
Our $2.50 Shoes at $1.75 pair.
Our $2 Shoes at $1.50 pair. .
Our $1.75 Shoes at $1.25. pair
Our $1.50 Shoes at $1.15 pair.
STORE
OPEN
EVENINGS
B.M. Behrends Mercantile Company
Geo. Blanchard, Manager
STORE
OPEN
EVENINGS
By Her Disappointed Rivals.
"Has her engagement
nouueed?"
anil tbat Isn't all."
"What more':"
"It has als?> ?Kvn denounced."
Clever Surgery.
The doctor thought I might be car
rying a ball from the tluie 1 was
wound* ! In the army. ><> he went at
It atal prolied around for about two
hours."
"Did he extract auythlng from you?"
"Yes? $lo "
No Favorites.
"Most international marriages are
unhappy."
"Why specify international?" asked
the ernlibed old bachelor.
Time to Fly.
"I hate fly time." said the young man
who was staying late.
"Indeed. I i' ?ln't_thlnk you noticed
li." said the weary girl.
TOWN TALK
Bishop Stringer of th?? Yukon dis
trict is expected to arrive in Ska^way
Saturday on the Princess May. Mrs.
H. S. Pullen is also expected to re
turn uftw a trip to Seattle and Vic
toria.
F. B. Wurzbacher received a wire
from Caribou this morning stating
that the first horse stage had arrived
there from Atlin this morning with
five passengers. The lake is frozen
over and the stag*' will leave Caribou
for Atlin every Monday and Thursday
?ttfter the train arrives.
A team of "shorts," composed of
Fred Callarman, .linuay Rook
Monte Snow, will bowl the "longs,"
who art- Lieut. Orchard, Will Blanch
ard and "Bill" King, at the Elks' al
leys Saturday evenl'r- at s oVl-u-k
"for pins, glory and something to
eat," as Mr. Callarman expressed it.
The Elks will give a stag smoker
a week from next Tuesday evening,
Jan. 26. Announcement is made at
this early date so thai 110 other or
ganization will give any dance or en
tertainment 011 the same ? veiling. Th
committee in charge state that sev
eral features will be present d at tie
smoker which will make it the most
successful event of lt^ kind ever
held in Skagway.
great "slaIoh if r "sale's
"our roR the coir
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3-3 off on all wool dress groods, including e
Broad Cloths, Voiles. Novelty Suitings, 23
Cravanettes, Fancy Waistmgs, Panama ^
K*
A. F. C. and Amoskeag Dress Ginghams ^
10 Cents the Yard a
Elsewhere l5e
Percales that sold earlier in the season
for 15c and 16 2-3c a yard
NOW ioc tPhe yard
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Fancy Flowered ^Organdies. Swisses, ^
Batiste, etc. at half price. Just the dope a
for party dresses. ?
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Stores Or>en Evenings Phones 4 & 55
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YUAN SHI KAI
IS DISMISSED
PEKIN, Jan. 13. ? An edict Issued I
: today dismissed from office Yuan
i Shi Kai, grand councillor and com
mander-in-chief of the forces. The
reason given for this action is that
\ 'it' has rheumatism in his leg.
The edict orders Yuan Shi Kai to
? vacate all his offices and to return
1 o his home, adding, "Thus clemency
toward him is manifested." A sec
>iid edict appoints Wa Tung compt
. tiler of customs, and ex-governor of
i I'ekin. grand councillor, presumably
i:i Yuan Shi Kai's place.
Yuan Shi Kai, the great viceroy of
Chili province, was one of the most
influential and powerful statesmen in
the Chinese empire. He had been
i ailed the strongest man in China,
and infinitely more powerful than
was Li Hung Chang. He Inspired a
national patriotism which is today
doing much to sweep away middle
superstition and rebuild the em
pire. He organized an army in China
that was the wonder and amazement
of forengn military critics. He sub
stituted modern text books for an
cient classics. He compelled the
abolition of torture, and he trans
formed Pekin from the filthiest city
in the world, into the metropolis ?
well paved and cleanly kept.
smiles
' FOSTER CRIME
XEJV YORK, Jan. 14. ? General
Theodore Bingham, police commis
sioner of New York, reporting yes
terday on the difficulty of convicting
local offenders, assigned the follow
ing as reasons:
Tflo many lawyers live by showing
people how to break the law safely.
How else are prizefights and gamb
ling so difficult to suppress?
How else do these lawbreakers
dare fortify themselves behind iron
doors?
Why else does the liquor dealer
cheerfully produce bail, confident
that a chemical analysis will be re
quired of his whiskey?
How else In Sunday theatres is a
dance not a dance, nor a costume
not a costume, nor a play not a play?
; How else is It that a racing bet Is
not a bet?
Subscribe for The Alaskan.
TOBACCO COOP
or HAWAII
HONOLULU, II. T., .Ian. 14.? The
output of Hawaii's first tobacco crop
ou a commercial basis, is about 100
bales, now being cured. About 60
acres will be?plantc<f in 1909, and for
1910 about 400 acres have already
been determined upon by the two
companies thus far in the field. The
piesent crop of tobacco which will
soon be placed on the market, was
grown by the Kona Tobacco company,
under the management of .lared G.
Smith, whose faith in the future of
tobacco in the islands led him to re
sign his position as director of the U.
S. Agricultural Experiment station,
in Honolulu, last spring. Mr. Smith
founded the Hawaiian Experiment
station nine years ago. and his experl
raents with tobacco covering a period
of four or five years, has convinced
him of the practicability of growing
a grade of wrapper leaf that will com
pare with the better qualities of
Cuba, and Sumatra tobaccos.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 ? The stork
paid Just 1 26.S63 visits to this city in
the last twelve months, beating his
arch enemy, the person with the
syythe, by CO.OOO. The number of
births in Greater New York in the
year 1908, according to Health Com
missioner Darlington, has been at the
rate of 2S.6S per thousand; the death
rate per thousand for th<> same per
iod has been 16.52.
The births have been at the rale
of about one every four minutes,
wjiile the deaths have came about
once every seven minutes. The
marriages for the year were 47,499, ->r
at the rate of one every twelve min
utes. \ ,
BAILETSlfiE IS
AROUSED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.? The buf/i
ness of the senate today consumed
less than one hour
A motion by Senator Gorw. of Okla.
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FLOUR AND PURE , J
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1 ^RANfsjGROCERY ?
homa, to print the Lincoln inaugural
address and^the emancipation procla
mation in the Congressional Record
in celebration of the centennary
year of Lincoln's birth, brought Sen
ator Bailey of Texas, to his feet with
an objection to the printing of the
proclamation. Further discussion was
stopped by a reference of the entire
m utter to the committee on printiug.
Tho- Difference.
"Well," said the optimistic boilrder.
'"there's one tiling about our boarding
house? .vou can cnt as much as you liko
there." I
"Of course, same as ours." replied
the pessimistic one. "You can eat as
much as you like, but there's never
anything you could possibly like."?
Philadelphia Press.
CLEANLY WOMAN.
Erroncoutly Tlilnkx liy Scourlnjc Her
Sjalp Unit ,;;ic euroM DiindrafT.
Cleanly wotr. 11 lias an erroneous Idea
that !?? the .?<?.! p. which re
moves the <i::ndrtiff scale?, uho I:; curln.rj
tl e darn'rufT! Sho rtir y wash her seal?
e.vcry day. : 'id yet have dandruff her
1/fe Inn-r. fifi-ompanto'l by f:?!'.!ntr h-'lr,
t >0. The <-?.! ! y way in the world to cur ?
0 . nd- f* . :> !;IU the dandruff ceriiu
and t::erc ! i n 1 ir reparation that will
<!o tint bii! Jfewbri's -Herplcldo, Ilcrp:
c.'do by kl'.llng tho dandruff norm,
leaves the hair free to-prrnw r-: healthy
Nature intended. Destroy tho cause
you rcmovK the eflVct. Kill the d.m
eni'f ff.-.n with Herplcldo. Sold ly
l<?(jdln?r drutrelnti. Sond mo. In starnv.
for sainn!<* to The llerplcldo Co.. De
troit, Mich.
Two sizes ? 50 cents and $1.00.
Wm. Britt, Special agent, Skagway :
STRICTLY FRESH EGGS.
Wc receive on every boat fresh
consignment of local ranch eggs,
guaranteed stgptly fresh.
FRYE-BRUHN CO.
BOTTLED AND DRAUGHT BEER
"**'nlcr Beer Is the peer of all
brows. At the Mascot, phone 67 and
have a case sent to your home.
00 YOU DANCE ALL THE OUNCES?
Why not take a few instructions and
learn how ic dance t h*- new dances, or
the old ones that you simply >annot
mas'cr ? ? Prof Grie?bich'a dancing
academy, Ea^UV hail. Clares Monday
and Thursday eveninps.
Established 1897
Phil Abrahams
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
a ??< ? H AVB? skagway
THE
Pack Train Restaurant
Will Serve Sunday
ifrench Dinner
From'noou 12 to 8 p. m.
EVfRYTHING THE BfST
IHHE MARKET
Regular Dinner 50c
TEA, COFFEE or WINK and
ICE CUE AM
gflW FUR
TRAPPERS AND COLLECTORS
are"req nested to correspond with us about this sea
son's catch of FURS. We want the early catch as
well as the late catch. We will pay full market
value at all times. Pricc list and tags can be had for
the asking at any time. i
Herman Schmerl & Co.
28 West Thirty-First Street
NEW YORK CITY