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N*o. f>5 SIXTEENTH YEAR SKAtiWAY, ALASKA. iSA'1'1 KDA> , APHIL 5, 1913 PRICE 10 CENTS
PROGRESSIVES JOCKS
FOR PUCE III I POLE
Washington. April 5 ? Leading
l'rogrossl\ announco that It has
been framed up to utund by Repres
entative Murdoch for speaker of
the House at the coming session of
congress. The Progressives are
holding a caucus with the object
of putting up a fight for the recog
nition o' their man for leadership
The tariff revision bill has been
completed with the exception of tho
sugar schedule, which Is hoped to
reach an acceptance by tho frtmera
within the next day or so. The bill
Is modelod all tho way through in
accordance with Prosldout Wilson's
Ideas. Ia fact that geatloman seem
to bo tho real performer In all tho
Si-hedulo making.
I MOVEMENT
Among the passengers to arrive
on tb Cl'y of Seattle today wero
Messrs E. P. Poi.d and W. D. Pat
t*-rsou of .'uneuu.
Although the gentlemen claimed
that they were merely going into th
Atlln district to sceure winter scenes
ot dog teams, stage coaches, and
other interesting viows of gold stam
peders, to be used for souvenir pos
tals and photographs, it has leaked
out that Mr. Pond Is an old time
fr'ond of Skookum Jim, and that ho
will meet the famous native in the
Avitn district, and go with him In
to the Teslln strike. The fact has
also become known that for sonio
tituo Messrs. Pond and Patterson
have been sending into Caribou
pleco meal their outfit and supplies.
an<i although when seen by a rep
resentative of this paper Mr. Pond
refused ta tell anything concerning
his movements other than that ho
was going .uto the -Atlln district, ho
? ?>! not de ly that he was going In
to the Teelin district.
Prom unguarded remarks of Mr.
Pond, it is evident that the two
stampeders ha\e evidently slipped
nway from their friedns in Juneau
so as not to be followed.
Kl'RIAL OF MORGAN
tM WltS APRIL nth
New York, April 5 ? The funeral
of J. Plerpont Morgan will take
plrce on Monday, April 14th. Ar
langements have been made to havo
the services held In St. George's
Episcopal church.
HAKNKY MctSKK CARHIES
BAN -NEK OF HI' FFRAG L'TTKS
1'hla morning's boat brought In
lUireny McGeo, the hotel mau from
Whltehorso. Mr. McO?a has been
east for the winter and la return
ing north with the other sourdoughs
to begin the season's activities.
Mining men, muckirs, mushcrs,
stampederj, and workers of all kinds
filled the boat's capacity when the
City of Seattle left the Sound. They
w< re dropped off at various sta
tions along the way, leaving about
a. hundred for this port.
Mr. McO'ee informs us that dur
ing his absocce he viilted Now York,
V'ashlngtou, St. Paul, Fargo and
the Souud cltlen. Ho was In Wash
ington for the Wilson Inauguration
;ind admits having carrlod a banner
for tho suffragettes during their
memorable parade.
MODERN MAN.
Man is bandiomer. better
housed, fed and clotbed. more
charitable and Is raoro rarely as
sailed witb goat than In "ye old
en times." Id fact, man has had
on an average of tlx years added
to his life In tht last century.
No doubt the stress and strain of
life today are conducive to ner
vous complaints as well as to
arterial, cardiac aud gastrointes
tinal disturbances. And yet with
ail of this burry one is amazed
at the outward calm, the poise,
of the man of affnlrs today. We
rend that man is old and worn
out at sixty, but statistics prove
that the average length of IJfe
is between six and seven years
longer than a century ago. Wives
and children are better cared for,
better educated, dressed, enter
tained, are healthier, happier,
more beautiful than In the his
tory of the world as we know it
?Dr. John W. Wain wrlght
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H. J. Lynch :
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Thomas A. Edison Faces the
Camera on Sixty-sixth Birthday
Photo copyright, 1913. by American Press Association.
TLKING movie* -Kdlsoo. Von link tbe two together Just cow because
the electrical wizard recently succeeded In Inventing talking movie*
tbat really talked and moved in unison. So tills picture of Thomas
A. Edison as be looked on his sixty-sixth birthday only a few week*
ago is Interesting. It was taken In ills laboratory In West Orange, N. J. H*
ipent bis birthday working. He refused to talk about hi* movie* ~L?t the<n
talk for tbem?elve?." ?ald he. ?
KINK TRAIL NOW ON
HIVKK 1IKLOW DAWSON
Tho trail botweon Dawson and
Fortymlle lc reported by Percy Do
Wjlfe, tho Dawson-Eagle mall car
rier, to b? In flno condition. Ho
(irtves a doublo rig between Daw
son and Fortymllo, but below Fonty
inlle ho u?e6 a single rig. Mr. Do
Wolfe arrived here yestorday. He
1-ft Eagle Frlduy. He drove from
K< rtymllo to Dawson In ten and a
hui hours. Tho cutoffs along the
river which the govornment made
last fall, ho says, are a great holp.
GOLD NUGGETS^
There Is a Curious Resemblance Be
tween Them and Meteorites.
How do nuggets of gold originate?
Sometimes a mutts of the precious met
al worth u thousand dollars or more is
found. Ity what process was so much
gold compacted Into a lump?
Ad attempt was mado not long ago
to answer this question. An Investiga
tor In Australia cut and sliced and
polished gold nuggets with the sole
purpose of (tailing oat Just what 1*
their structure. Tbe flrst thing bp dis
covered wiis tbnt there Is one carious
polut of resemblance between gold
nuggets and meteorites. Both, when
polished mid etched with cblorine wa
ter. exhibit n crystalline structure. lu
tbe dm Of meteorites tbe lines thus
exhibited on tbe etched surface are
cnlled Wldinamistattlnn figures, and
their presence Is wild to be one of tbe
most invariable characteristic* of those
metallic bodies that fall from tbe sky
| to tbe earth
Itut It I* not meant to be Implied tbat
gold nuggets have fallen frura tbe sky
because they exhibit a crystalline struc
ture recalling that of meteorites. The
resemblance Is apparently only super
(Iclal, and tbe crystals of the nuggeL
'llfTer In form from those of tbe lae
' teorites.
Another curious fact is that when a
nugget Is heated In a Bunsen flame ex
plosions take place on Its surface Bits
tern are formed which continue to
swell until they burst with a sharp re
port nnd bits of gold are violently scat
tered about. It Is evident tbat tbe nug
gets contain either gases or some liq
uids or solids which are easily convert
ed Into the gaseous form, tbe expan
sion of wblch produces tbe explosions.
?Harper's Weekly.
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FOOD
A L I? E It S
"P n o o it e s s i v e
NOIV IX S T O C K.
100 pound Sack $1.00.
?10 poiiml Iota $2.25.
Small lotM . . 5 centu per pound.
P. H. GANTY, Grocer
POWERS THREATEN TO
MAKE ALLIES BE GOOD
London, April 5 ? Tho Powers to-,
dny Issued a dcmnnd to tho Allies !
that they reply at once to tho re- ;
quest for terms of pence rocontly ,
nmdo by tho Turkish government.
The delay on the part of the Allies |
iii replying Is causing annoyanco to
the Powers who Intimate that un
ions a reply 1? received Immediately,
stops w ill Do taken to stop the wars
und a settlement made without tho
consent of either side.
IS IT WALLACE?
OUI, OUI, II IS
Washington, April 5th ? After
spearing around to got a suitable
mnn to accept the ambassadorship
to Franco, the portfolio waa rocent
ly offered to Hugh Wallace of Ta
coma. Today Mr. Wallace accepted
tho position, and will succeed tho
presont ambassador, Myron T. Her
Ick of Ohio.
MEMORY.
It Is generally supposed that of
all our faculties memory Is that
whlrli nature has bestowed lo
Uie must unequal decrees on dif
ferent Individuals, and It Is far
from being Impossible (hat this
opinion may be well founded. If.
however, we consider that there
is scarcely any man who has not
memory xutllclcnt to learn tho
use of language and learn to rec
ognize at the tlrst glance the ap
pearances of a great number of
familiar objects, besides acquir
ing such an acquaintance with
the laws of nature uud the or
dinary course of human affairs
as Is necessary for directing his
conduct In life, we shall tie sat
isfied that the original disparities
?mong men In this re*|iect are by
no means mi Immense as they
seem to lie at first view aud
t'. it much Is to tie ascribed to
different habits of attention nud
to a difference of selection among
lii e various events presented to
the curiosity.? Dugald Stewart.
S. W. Anding, R. S. Porter. L.
W. 8eardslee, chaa IVurger, H. O.
Bautn, Georgo Amen, W. N. Rlne
hnrt, Wm. IJrooke, C. Allen, J. W.
Mr.rtln, U. D. Kdwards, came up yos
torday from Ft. Seward and Hainee
on tho Corlnnc and returned today
on the City of Seattle.
Doiwiscur
OFF FLOOD NEWS
CZitccgo, April 5 ? It Is extreme
ly difficult to get information, of
tlio flood conditions In Ohio. Over
vast areas of the Inundated dis
tricts, wires are still down and
i !v? transportation facilities paraly
zed.
Money ni.d supplies are constant
ly being shipped to tho stricken
I people and tho states are lending
assistance from the military storce.
WOMEN'S H HOUR BILL
TO BECOME A LAW
Juneau, April G ? Senator Rodens'
eight hour bill providing an eight
hour day for females In laundries,
stores, shops, etc., passed tho Senate
yesterday, Brunner of Nome alone
dissenting. Tho bill will now go to
the House. Its final passage is said
to be assured.
JAPAN STARTS PROTEST
AO Al XST DISCRIM I N ATION
Washington, April 5 ? A formal
complaint sent by the Japanose gov
ernment has been tiled with the
slate department, protesting against
tho proposed enactment by tho Cull
fp nla legislature, forbidding alien
made ships from landing on tho
same torui as American bottoms.
RAMPANT WOMEN Ol'T
TO STIR TRDCRLE
London, April 6? Tho suffragettes
arc still attracting objectionable
notoriety. Last night a building was
sef afire at Chocleywood, owned by
an ardent opponent of the votes for
women movement, and burned to
the ground. Arrests of suffragettes
connected wltL crime will follow.
A9 a man grows older, he takes better
care of his clothes, and he is a
? lot better satisfied with them.
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THE service of this store is not
confined to young men. Any
man of any age can be well-fitted,
and conservatively dressed in these fine
Hart Schaffner & Marx
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suits and overcoats. Now is the time
to see them.
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