Prospectors
Now is the Time to have
YOUR FOOTWEAR
Put in good condition for the
season. Work guar iteed.
BEST WORK
LOWEST PRICES
DAN SKY
? roadway SKAGWAY
Hoot and Shoe Maker
bottled and draught beer
"-Inier Beer ts the peer of all
brows. At the Mascot, phone 67 and
have a case sent to your home.
Iitere's Vigor and
Strength
in every drop
1 1 ill
C0MPRNV
Sevtle Wa*h
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GENTLEMEN^
There is a Spe
cial Sale on PIPES
only for this Month.
Now BOYS there is
? show for you to
come and get
your pipe
I COME III AliO SEE THE OLD MAI
Tony Dortero'si
fo? &
Established 1897
Real Estate
BROKER
Collections
NOTARY PUBLIC
POCTKTH AVK? SKAGWAY
DON'T FROG
Unless You've Cot 50 Cents
W W. BOUGHTON
DEALER IN'
Cigars, Tobacco,
Smokers' Articles,
Stationery and Fish
ing Tackle
LARGE CIRCULATING LI UK\RY
INCLUDING I.ATESV COPY
RIGHTED BOOKS
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS AND
OTHER PERIODICALS
I PHONE lO |
? HAROLD f?
? FRANK <1
% BEN
? HERB ;?
H. F. TAYLOR, Man.
9
| CUSTOM BROKERS AND BONDED |
CARRIERS
8 3
&5 Baggage, Freight. Safe and ||
? Piano Moving
| COAL and WOOD?
% Hai'k and IlukW Nlifbt or ||
$ Cay Service
JGixxl Work Guaranteed and Prices S
Reasonable IS
. Office R. R, Depot J
sa M ?S 153 "3 "3 "3 KBaS?Skr
Only One "BROMO QUININE," that I
Laxative Rromo Quinin
Cures ^ Cold in One Day, Crip in ? Day
Raw Furs....
WK PAY
(Jigh Prices for fine furs
Write For Price List
Percy's Fur House
Oshkosh. Wisconsin
Subscribers arc requested to notify
The Alaskan when papers are not
promptly delivered by the carriers.
RELIABLE ALL THE TIME.
The Tack Train Restaurant will
serve wine with dinner orders, free
in place of tea or coffee. Coiuo on
boys.
If you have something you don't
need, why not advertise it for sale
or exchange In The Alaskan?
The Caribou Hotel, Carcross, Y. T..
is the headquarters for the Atlin and
Conrad stage lines.
SO SAY THEY ALL.
16 is a pleasant surprise what a
splendid old, rich and mellow goods
they sell at the Pack Train Bar. So
say they all, me to Her Man.
FOR SALE ? A 2S-horse power,
cycle, marine gasoline engine. Is in
pood order and capable of constant
and hard service. Apply to Captain
Pete Madsen, Skagwav.
Why not bo cheerful? Poor Lit
tle Herman has just received a con
signment of that famous Crtam Rye.
A smile guaranteed with every drink.
There is more Catarrh in this sec
tlon of the country than all other dls
eases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be in
curable. For a great many years doc i
tors pronouueed it a local disease an
prescribed local remedies, and by con
stantly tailing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Selene
has proven catarrh to be a constitu
tional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. llall's Ca
tarrh Cure, manufactured by P. J.I
Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar
ket. It Is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
Address; k. J. ClIRXHY & CO., To
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 7."c.
Take Hall's Famllv Pills for consti
pation.
HIDDEN DANGERS.
Nature Gives Timely Warnings That
No Alaska Citizen Can Afford
to Ignore.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes
frort the kidney secretions. They will
warn you when the kidneys are sick
Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber
fluid. Sick kidneys send out a thin,
pale and foamy, or a thick, red, ill
smelling urine, full of sediment and
irregular of passage.
DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes
from the back. Back pains, dull and
heavy, or sharp and acute, toll you of
sick kidneys and warn you of the ap
proach of dropsy, diabetes and
Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills
i cure sick kidneys and cure theiu per
: manently.
Theodore Josephson, 515 Seventh
St., Astoria, Oregon, says: "About
five years ago I used Doan's Kidney
Pills and derived great benefit. At
| that time I was suffering from so
| vere pains across ray back and loins,
at times so severe that I was unable
to stoop or straighten. My kidneys
also bothered me a great deal, the se
cretions generally being too frequent
: in passage. At last Doan's Kidney
Pills were brought to ray attention
1 and I procured a box. I used them
and as a result ray health is now ex
j eellent. I take a few doses of Doan's
1 Kidney Pills now and then, when
i feeling any sign of backache and they
never fail to banish the trouble."
i For sale by all dealers. Price 50
i cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
i New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name ? Doan's ? and
I take no other.
200 TONS WEtiliVGIOiV
LUMP COAl
from Shaft No. <?, Oyster Hay Mines
at Ladysmith, the highest, grado
household coal of all the 13. C. fields
58,28 FIXED CARBON
Pertect Combustion Uniform Heat
Light Ash
Oq and after January 1, 1003 we shnll
| otter this Coal, selected and graded as
; follows:?
Selected Lumps (in bulk only) SI 4. ton
Double Screened and sacked 12, "
1 Run of Mine " 11. '*
i Screening " 7. "
i Screenings (bulk) "
Above p'ices ate ON wharf. Dki.iv
51.00 per ton extra.
E.J. SHAW & Co
Phones 11 or 109 Skagway, Alaskn
on every
25c
I A PRIVATE :
: INSANE ASYLUM. I
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[Copyright. VJ01, by M. M. Cunningham.]
Dr. Trent's private lusnuo asylum,
situated nine miles from the city, had
been In existence for ten years when
the first breath of suspicion was raised
ji gainst It. The editor of the Dally Ar
gus was a personal friend of the doe
tor. He regarded It as one of iho
model institutions of the country and
had time and apt In commended It lu
the most favorable terms.
One day a young woman escaped
and toid such tales as led to an Inves
tigation.
The trick of getting a reporter Into a
prison or nn nsyluin for a few weeks
to report on the condition of affairs
was a new thing then, though old
enough now. On the city staff of the
Argus was a man named Green. lie
suggested the plot that was carried
out. Me was to lie sent to Dr. Treat's
asylum for treatment. The editor took
up the Idea not because he doubted
the doctor, but from a newspaper
standpoint Creep would find nothing
to criticise during Ids stay, but his ar
ticles on life in an insane asylum
would make good reading. It would be
a stroke of newspaper enterprise to
show that the Argus was wide awake.
The details of the plot were worked
out. and then Green suddenly disap
peared. It was learned from the editor
afterward that ills friends had him
Incarcerated In the asylum as a "trou
blesome person." In plain English
that meant that he stood* between
somebody and property. Two doctors
were found to certify to the fact that
he was "harmlessly Insane." That
meant lie was In the way. but not ex
actly given to chopping up people with
an ax. His examination by these doc
tors lasted less than half an hour.
The editor continued to visit the
doctor's retreat and to assure him
that he believed In his integrity, but
each time he went out there lie man
aged to secure a brief interview with
Green. In fact, lie was handed a writ
ten report of what had been seen and
heard. Why none of these reports
twelve In all? were never published
will be explained later Green had not
gone to the asylum to dissemble. lie
announced on his arrival that he was
perfectly sane, and he continued to
talk and act like any sane man.
For the tirst three days he was well
treated. Then he was called Into the
doctor's otlice and told that If ho con
tinued to play the hypocrite he would
bring down punishment on himself.
The doctor meant by that that If
Green still continued to act like a sane
ntau lie might expect trouble. lie re
fused to make any change and was
placed In a dark cell for three days.
As In- was still rational when he came
out. one of the keepers knocked him
down with a club.
Tlmt was the Dpginumg or uie man ?
persecution, lie could hnve been re
leased :i t any time by tipping the w'.nk
to the editor, hut lie had determined
to make his Investigation a thorough
one. One of the punishment* was he- ?
inu tied down on a cot, face upward, i
and a dls!i of water suspended from
the celling In such a maimer that a |
single drop struck his face every sec
ond. At the end of an hour each drop
seemed to have i he for e of a sledge
hammer. Another was to tickle tin
soles of his feet until he went Into
hysterics. There was a ferocious
great hound at the asylum, the proper
ty of one of the attendants, Green and
other patients would be tied In a chair
and the dog tied to a riiic In the wall
and left together for half an hour. The
rope on the dog would be tied so that
he could get his teeth within an Inch
of his victim's legs. On several occa
sions the rope stretched and enabled
him to latllct terrible bites. Green con
cealed pencil and paper and managed
to write of these things and pass them
to the editor. After a month had
passed he had made a good case
against the doctor and was told to
chop it oiT there. This he refused to
do He wanted to get the whole of it
down to the last detail.
When he retused to play insane to
please the doctor, who must have
known that lie was a perfectly sane
man. (ircen was starved for two days
at a time, and the punishments num
bered a score. One of the worst was
heading him up in a barrel and rolling
hiin around the back yard for naif an
hour at a time. The food he describ
ed as not lit for dog^, though the Ar
gus, to oblige the doctor, had publish
ed a bill of fare lit for wealthy people
to sit down to. Sane or insane, every
patient had a program to go through
with when visitors wetv being shown
through the place. They must speak
of the doctor as God and bless him for
his goodness It' asked what they hud
. to eat they must mention a list of
| twelve articles. To fall In these
I things meant a brutal beating. Tho
editor could see at each weekly visit
how Green was failing, aud at last a
I certain day was set for the expose
and Ills release. Before that date
came word was received that he had
uiade his escape. Just nfter the word
came he entered the otlice and walked
over to his desk without speaking to
any one. There he sat for half an
hour with his head In Ills hands, and
when the city staff finally gathered
around him he lifted Ills head and be
gan to babble like a child. IIo was
clean gone daft, and, though he lived
on for three years, his reason never
returned.
The next day the asylum was mob
bed. and the doctor had to fly for his
life. The Argus had said that he was
a good man and a merciful man and
that his enemies had done him lnjus
| tlce. The Argus had a scoop right at
hand, but It wan never published. The
editor couldn't see his way clear to
j eating his own words. M. QUAD.
Humor and
Philosophy ^
?By DWVCAA M. SMITH
THE SIREN SONG.
In tho spring
You hear
Tho culling
Of tho fabled
Wanderlust,
And you,
Listening
To Its message.
Keel that you
Must move
Or bust.
How you long
To hit the highway
Kor the land of
Long ngo.
Whoro tho shadows
Hot tho landscape
And tho cooling
Waters How!
Visions of
A cozy corner
In v. sunny
Pasture lot
With your playmates.
Who have gathered
Kor a thrilling
Dovish plot.
You would trade
Your new
Suspenders
Ami your chance
A judge
To bo
Kor a quiet
Summer morning
Underneath
Tho cherry tree.
Hut the boss
Says:
"Chuck It. Hilly.
Work
Looks p?od enough
To me."
That Affinity Fad.
-O
HONEST J
I WA^> I
ON L V
1 FOOL IN I
Thi% oho groat drawback to an atlluity
is that at the windnp one ?r <l'e other
refuses to take it as .1 joke.
Deluded Things.
"Why do men hate to go calling?"
"Tlicy don't."
"Hut they say they do."
"That Is tle-ir Idea "f actiug su
perior."
"Know what I don't likeV"
"Sure."
"Ilow do ynu know?"
"By the cost mark."
Horrid March!
Thul snowy
Ami blowy
OKI month, as of yoro
I'ntorrlil
And horrid.
Is with lis onco more.
We shiver
And quiver,
Hefuse to be Kay.
The good luck's
The woodchuck's.
Who's snoozing away.
When the weather is pleasant enough
to make us want to play we have to
work, hut it never gels ugly enough to
make us want to work.
Don't worry about little things, j
There are plenty of liig jobs to muddle j
up if you Just have to worry.
Messed are the meek, for they ar<- 1
not addict od to boasting, so are und<T
no reci.:sity of making good.
A good reputation is a valuable as
set, but the nature of It depends on
locality.
A good boss is an easy boss unless
you are either the boss or the man
who employs him.
Her Weakness.
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
\ OAN'T C
bus/ne;
1 3
Jou S 1 NEJ
! The harder it is fur a nmn to earn
his money the hinder to separate him
j from It.
?
The artistic individual delights in
j pose, the Indolent Individual in repose.
Some people are so busy hoping that
they have neither time nor energy for
j hustling.
COME IN AND GET OUR PRICES ON
Choice, Dainty Pieces of Carved Ivory
such us.Cribbage boards, Paper weigh' & and Knives and Napldn rings
4 Alaska Silver and Copper Novelties
q Suvenlr sjoons, Bracelets, Envelope openers and Feptr knlvea
SCut Glass, Hand Painted Japanese China and Nugget
Jewelry
^ Alaska Certar Pacques, Leather Wall, Banners, and
Sofa Pillow with Burnt Designs
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AW FUR
TRAPPERS AND COLLECTORS
are requested to correspond with us about this sea
son's catch of FURS. We want the early catch as
well as the lath catch. We will pay full market
value at all times. Price list and tags can be had for
the asking at any time.
Herman Schmerl & Co.
28 West Thirty-First Street
NEW YORK CITY
MOORE'S WHHRF CO.
Termlnu* W. P. & Y. Route
Al! South Bound Steamers Arrive and Deoart From Thla Dock
REGULATIONS 19G9
Warehouse o,;en (or delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 5 p, m
Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
Al! freight * lipmenta destined southbound must bo accompanied by a
Shipper's Manifest (papers can be obtained at the U. 8. customs
office) ani must be delivered before 6 p. m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf after this nour.
BAGGAGE? i.'o!ls win oo collected on Checked Baggage Onlt. No
charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The v/harf gate will be ciopjd to the public when steamer Is nearinp
dock and will be opefj.-donly when passengers have disembarked.
Wharfage Tariff can he had on applieatioo at office on dock.
P. O. Box 175. E. J. SO AW RESIDENT, MANAGER
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SEt THE
Our Service is Always The Best
Our Rates as Low as the Lowest
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CALL ON US EOR PRICES
V. I. HAHN, Supt
Railway Building Skaguay
M ANU PACT I " RE IS OP ALASKA SOU V EN IllS AND
NCGGET JEWELRY CURIOS OP ALL KINDS
P. E. KERN, ?
| SILVER & COPPER HAND BEATEN NOVELTIES
Spoons, Bracelets, Paper Cutters, Napkin Kings
Paper Weights,
jjj Native Carved Ivory Handled Catving Sets
^ Beautifully Carved Walrus Teeth Novelties
Watches and Diamonds, Silverware, Cut
n Glass and Hand Painted China