MAY MOVE
Roed Commission May Go
To Seattle
The Alaska road commission might
move Its headquarters from Skagway to
Seattle. Rumois come from the Puget
Sound city tb&tsucb is being considered.
A Seattle Post-Int?lligencer to a. rive
in tha last mail contains the following
concerning the commission, and it is
considered by some to indicate a future
purpose to make the tOueen city the
pevmanent headquarters:
' Maj. Wilds P. Richardson, president
of the Alaska road commission, will
establish headquarter* in' the Burke
building, in rooms opposite those of the |
l/nited States engineer's office. There
be will install his force of assistants
and begin active work on plans for ex
penditure of the JioO.COO made avail
able for road purposes by the last ses
sion of congress."
Nothing is known of any contem
plated change at the Skagw<<y offices
which are now inchirge of Chief-Clerk
Daly.
BAD TIME
Smallpox Hospit-tl Create*
Excitement
(Special Dispatch to D&ily Alaskan.'
North Yakima, April 10? A fire
broke out in the smallpox hospital
yesterday and 50 patients tried toi
escape. Guards drew guns and ^forcej '
the fugitive* to return to he ^building
in which the fire was afterward ex-j
Ungulshed. The fire was the result of
an incendiary's work.
Katchlkan and Wrms-11 R?torn?
At Ketchikan last week, Forrest J. j
Hunt, A. C. Kritd'err, Jacob Pettln- j
ger, J. L Lathrop. A. A. Cornell,
Thomas Torry and Eli Copelacd wer?* |
elected city councilmen and J. J. Paly j
school treasurer.
At Wracgeli, P. B. McCormaak. j
Donald SHc air, H. D. Campbell.
William Hugh, F. S. Willson. J. C.
Grant and W. C. i Waters were chosen
city couac:':men, L. M. Churchill,
school treasurer, and Mrs J.H. Wheeler,
school secretary.
Bimckmtn Coming To Sianway
Collector Matthew Bridge received a
telegrtm yesterday saying that Harry j
Barrackman, of the customs force, who
has jpeat tae winter in charge of the j
sub-port on the tortymile, has beenj
directed to report at Skagway for ser-.
vice hTe during the summer. Mr. j
B?rrackman was here last summer.
Lamb r for Port?j? Hold
The Wracgell sawmill has recently ?
receded a contract to furnish 150.0CK.'
fe=t of :t-incb plank a: the head of j
Cholmondeley Sound, to be used in the
construction of the portage across'.
Prince of Wales island.
Rm(1'i Sitter Come*
Miss Lucy Reed, sister of the man
who killed Norman Smith, at Tenakee,
has arrived at Juneau and will remain
there Curing the trial of her brother
which will take place at the present
Mrm of court at Juneau.
MAKflOOD
.DoN'of Begin Spring With
Dirty Watch
Do not begin the active season with a
watch that w.il not keep good timp.
The season of summer n too short in
this country to permit of one's being
hampered be an uncertain timepiece.
If your watch is dirty it will not keep
time correctly until it has been cleaned.
Spring should be the cleaning season
for watches and clocks as well as for
everything else.
Our repair department in unequalled
in AlasKa for the character of work it
turns out. Our mottos are: AS GOOD
AS NEW. ana SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED. Try us and become
our permanent patrons,
Newest, best selected ami most
fashionable stock of jewelry, watches,
clocks, novelties, etc. in Alaska. Our
souvenirs lead. OUtt PRICES ARE
RIGHT.
We give free examination of the eyes.
J. IkuU. Optician and Jeweler.
A lolhM'i Arc-iuent.
"The most to bo regre'ted act of my
life," says a commander of the nary,
"was a letter I wrote to ray mother
when about seventeen years of age.
She always addre^ed her letters to me
as "my dear boy." 1 felt at that time I
I was a man. or very near It, and .
wrote saying that her constant ad
dressing me as a "bov" made me feel |
ilspleased. 1 received In reply a letter
full of reoroaches and tours. Auionu
other things, she said: "You might grow
to be as big as Goliath, as stroug as
Samson and as wise as Solomon: you
might become ruler of a nation or em
peror of many nations, and the world
mislit revere you an I fear you, but to
your devoted mother you would al
ways appear l:i memory in your Inno
cent. unpretentious, unself conceited
tin pampered babyhood. In those days
when I washed a ml dressed and kissed
ami worshiped you. yon were my Idol.
Nowadays you are becoming part of a
gross world by contact with It. and 1
cannot bow down to you and worship
you. but if there are manhood tuui
maternal love transmitted to you, you
will understand that the highest com
pliment that mother love eau pay you
Is to call you "my dear bov
Some Olil Time Ginntn.
Cajanus. a Swedish giant who was
nine feet high, was on exhibition In
Loudon in IT II*. and several old hand
bills still exist which M'-t forth the
measurements of this freak of nature.
Thirty years later we have Charles
Byrne, who was eight feet four inches
lu height in his stockinged feet. He.
however, died voting, at the age of
twenty-two. from hard drinking, Cot
tor O'Byrne. another Irish giant, fol
lowed a few years later. He was
bom at Kinsale in 17<I1 and at the age
of fifteen was eight feet high. This
by the time lie was twenty-three had
Increased to nine feet four inches, and
then he changed his name to O'Brlnn
In order to make people think that he
was descended from Kiug Brian Bo
roihtue and went on exhibition. At
that business he. of course, soon real
ized a very comfortable fortune and re
tired. dying at Clifton on Sept. 8. 1804.
His will espc. .illj provided that his
bod> should be thrown in ? the sea lu
order to prevent the surge--:i< from cut
tins t up.
N? Hhyme For Tl|?f??rary.
A poet uikh? Jumped to t ? conclusion
that there was no rhyme ? Tipperarv
and sait! so. whereupon i iadiirnaut
Irishman, who chanced at ? to l?e a hit
of a versifier, pounced v >u him and
poked fun at him in a It glhv poem,
every other line of wtiic rhymed or
was supiKiseil to rhyme w th the place
In question. Thus:
A bard there was in sad r andary
To find a rhyme for Tipp? ary.
Long labored he through J anuary,
Yet found no rhyme fox* Tipperarv;
Toiled ev.?ry day jr. Febn: ?.ry.
Bat tolled in vain for Tipserary:
Searched Hebrew text and commentary.
But searched :n vn in for :pperary. |
And so on through many scores of I
stanzas, ending up with
He paced about his aviary.
Burnt in despair his dictionary.
Blew up sky htffh his secretary.
And th*.-n in wrath and anger sware he
There w is r.o r; me for Tipperary.
(?las*?*n and the Kjr*.
Every one kncws that in using a
field glass it is necessary to adjust It
to n proper focus. Suppose tbat you
put one of the tubes at your focus and
the other tube at a focus tbat suited
some une else and then you looked
through both tubes. You would have
a more or less blurred vision, and if
you kept <hi 1 (.Hiking the chances are
that you would feel giddy and get a
headache. Now. the two eyes are sup
posed to have an ?t|Ual natural focus,
and when by any chance that focus is
unequal a headache results. The rem- |
edy is a pair of glasses or a single
glass to m:tl?<* the eyes equal In power.
The Dane*.
The l>anes. or Northmen, first be
came prominent in European history
lu 7 So, when they began t?> ravage
the north coast of France ami south
ern shores of t'.reat Britain. The dar
lug of these hardy seamen was re
inarkable. for in tli?*ir small ships thcv
ev<?n petu'tratf^l the Mediterranean and j
bevame terrors to the seaboard popula- |
tion of H.tly, Sieilv ami ilroece. The!
first kinsr of iH'iiuKirk is said to have
be?Mi Skiold. B. I1.
\1I 1 1
"1 made this potato salad for you ;
myself." suiiled she "Isn't it dell
clous'*"
"It would l?'." assented her husband. I
"If you hail put a little more oil and I
vinegar ami pepper atid mustard seed :
and bor?eradi~li :: the dres>iug an<! ,
introduced a sliced egg or two and a
feu white onions and left half of the i
potatiM'^ ..lit."
Tolerance In Japan.
Westerners seetu to nnd it Incon
ceivable how th? Japanese can main
tain allegiance to different creeds at
one nud the same time. One broad ex
plauation of this is that we as a nation
are tolerant in mind, espec. illy in mat
ters pertaining to relig >u. ? Japau
Times of Tokyo.
The W'roue Jar .
Haskell? What's Bobby rying for?
Mrs. Haskell? Oh. the pool boy caught
bis finger in the pantry do r. Haskell
? n'ml He evidently diuu't get the
Jam he was looking for that time.?
Ptck-MeUp.
(ifttlns llavk at Him.
Hewitt? I got even with the doctor
who vaccinated me. Jewett? How dirt
jou do it? Hewitt? He ran for office,
and I scratched him.
Flattery is telling a man to his race
that which was intended only for ills
tombstone.? Dallas News.
DRESS OF THE ESKIMO.
Mailr by the W'omea From thr Skim
of Northern Anlmali.
Tlio chief material of the clothing of
the Eskimo Is the sklu of the reindeer,
which Is used In various stages of pel
age or tauuitig. Fine, short haired
Bummer skins, especially those of does
aud fawns, are used for making dress
garments and underclothes. The heav
lest winter skins furnish extra warn)
Jackets for cold weather. The white
spotted skins of the tame Siberian rein
deer are especially valued for full
dress jackets.
The skins of the white mountain
sheep, white and blue fox, wolf, dog.
ermine aud lynx are sometimes made
Into clothing. Underjaekets of elder
duck skins are often pressed Into serv
ice. Sealskin dressed with the hair on
is used only for breeches and boots,
aud for those rarely. Of late years
drllllug and calico have been Intro
duced into the makeup of some of the
mluor garments.
The dress of the men consists of a
loose hooded frock without opening ex
cept at the neck and wrists. This
reaches just over the hips and very
rarely to midthlgh, where It is cut off
square and usually confined by a girdle
at the waist. Under this garment Is
worn a similar one of lighter skin and
sometimes without a hood. The thighs
are clad In one or two pairs of tight
fitting knee breeches, rather loose, but
fitted to the shape of the leg. They are
very low in front, but are much higher
behind, sometimes as high as the small
of the back. They ar? held in place by
a girdle or thong around the waist and
are usually fastened below the knee
over the boots with a drawstring.
On the legs and feet are worn, first, a
pair of long deerskin stockings, with
the hair Inside, then slippers of tanned
sealskin, in the bottom which is spread
a layer of whalebone shavings and out
side a pair of close fitting boots, held la
place by a string around the ankle,
which reaches above the knee aud
ends with a rough edge covered by the
breeches. Dress boots often end iu au
ornamental border, with drawstring
Just below the knee. The boots are of
reindeer sklu. with white sealskin
soles for winter and dry weather, but
In summer waterproof boots of white
whaleskln are worn. Overshoes of the
same material, reaching just above the
ankles, are sometimes worn over the
winter boots.
The women wear tight fitting deer
skin pantaloons, with the hair next the
skin, and outside of these a similar
pair made of the skins from deer legs,
with the hair out and having soles of
sealskin, but no ankle strings. The
women's pantaloons, like those of the
men. are fastened with a girdle just
above the hips. It appears that they
do not stay up very well, as the wo
men are continually hitching them up
and tightening their girdles, like some
old sailor.
Until they reach manhood the boys
wear pantaloons like the women, but
their jackets are cut Just like those of
the men.
The well to do Eskimos generally own
several complete suits of clothes and
present a neat appearance when net
eugaged In dirty work. The poorer
classes wear one suit for all occasions
until It becomes shabby. New clothes
are seldom put on till winter. Th*
outer frock Is not often worn In the
Iglu. or hut home, being usually taken
off before entering the room.
At present there Is no such thing as
an Eskimo tailor, for the women of
each Eskimo household usually make
the garments of all the members of the
family. Not ouly this, but the Eskimos
are extremely conservative In the mat
ter "f changes In the style of their rai
ment and respond very slowly to the
modernizing influences In this particu
lar which have reached their neighbor
hood.
Couvlct Keirlmcuts.
At ttic beginning of the eighteenth
century the British army hail a bad
reputation at home, and it was very
difficult to get recruits for it. For this
reason it was officially proposed to find
the men t>y aii impressment falling ou
"any sturdy beggar, fortune teller or
the like idle, unknown, suspected fel
low iu the parish: or, If there be uoue
such, then any one that has already
been iu a gaol or before a Justice of the
peace for his idle, disorderly life." The
adviee was acted upon. Debtors were
released from prlsou on promising to
Join the army or the navy, criminals
were pardoned on the same terms, and
persons with no visible means of sub
sistence were ruarched off to death and
glory. The system worked out better
than might have been expected. Iu the
peniusular war, for instance, three new
reglmeuts were composed entirely of
convicts, and one made for Itself an Il
lustrious uauie.
Juv KukIhikI unit NapolruD.
The hostility of New Knglanders to
the first Napoleon was sincere and
deep. A remarkable Instance of this
feeling Is to be found in the manner in
which the townsmen of Boston receiv
ed the news of his first abdication. The
?incident has been brought to notice
through an interesting exhibit in the
historical collections of the. public li
brary of that city. It Is a ticket ad
mitting the bearer to a "solemu festi
val at the Stone chapel, in commemora
tion of the goodness of God in deliver
ing the Christian world from military
despotism. Boston, June, 1814."
Doing Hlght Well.
| "John's done right well up In the city,
j arter all."
I "I)o tell."
! "Yes; I've jes' hearn that he's recov
I ered from one appendicltlj. two orter
? mobiles, one heart failure an' three
business ones."? Atlanta Constitution.
Better the world should know you a n
a slnuer than God know you as a hyy
ocrite.? FfnCi the Danlak
SPECIAL SALES I
SPECIAL SALE Ladies Winter hats
Commencing' Monday 1-2 off.
SPECIAL SALE in Men Overcoats
and Suits 25 per cent. off. For the
next ten days.
SPECIAL SALE in dress goods and
fancy trimmings. We must make
room for our Spring lines.
MARTIN CONWAY
(fit BEST
COFFEE '
can be
SPOILED
by tho old bi?
cr rr.iss p!aa
used in Rom*
household*;
BUT
with*
*v- "METEOR"
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
even-thing is so arranged that by
following the simple instruction*
the qnality i3 always dclkiora.
See our several styles and 1st t?
explain the perfect way.
P. E. KERN
Gold t id Silver smith.
We have a large stock
homney's Gandy
Peter's Chocolates
Also a [large stock ol
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the.Number. 428,Brdw'y
Tony Dortero 's
[and Importcr"of?
MILLINER Yi 17
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No reprets next morn'
ing? good flavored and
good for you
HlthliliiilCv
\ The Leading; Jt we' >
Nugget jewelry of 41 kind .
Indian curios, soven r sp ons |
li. D. Kirmse,
The Pioneer Jewe'er
Official Timekeeper for th3 W. P. & Y. R.
Mail Orders a Soecialty
Dew (Uatcr and Eight Rates
OF THE ? '
(i
&
On and after the 1st of October. 1905, the following will be the
Monthly rates for water and light service from the Northwest Light
& P owerCompany:
WATER
First Faucet f 2 00
Each " additional (except wash basins, free). .; 25
Bath Tubs in Hotels or other Public Houses '. 50
Water Closets " " " " 50
Urinals :l " " " " 60
Wash Basins " " " " " 25
Hote's, per room odditional 10
Beer Pjmps LOO
Restaurants 5.00
Steam Laundries " " 50
Hand " 5.00
Motors, special per horsepower, minimum rate o.OO
Hose Connection for Fire Protection 1.00
Families carrying water 1.50
Individuals " " 1.00
Hauling water, per load 1 00
Lawn and Street sprinkling Free
ELECTRIC LIGHT RATES
COMMERCIAL SERVICE . ?
All Year Winter
Stores, Offices, Shops and/Residences I
Each 16 cp lights I 1.00 j 1.50
EnolosedArcs 10.00 | 12.50
ALL NIOHT SERVICE
Each 16 cp lights 1 50 | 2.00
Enclosed Arcs 15 00 \ 17.50
32 cp lights double 16 cp
Meter Rates will be 10 cents per 1000 watts.
EDWIN BROWNE. Manager.