STEAMSHIP LINES.
The Combine Does Not Affect Kates.
Passenger and Freight Tariff
Still the Same.
The combination of Alaskan
steamship lines recently perfected
in San Francisco has in no way in
terfered with the plans and busi
ness of the independent water
transportation companies operated
between this port, St. Michael,
Nome and Yukon river points. It
has, save in the elimination of the
Seattle-Yukon Transportation Com
pany and the Empire Transporta
tion Company as i .dependent Alas
kan transportation factors, not af
fected Seattle shipping in the least.
In other words, the reduction in
office and operating forces applies
particularly to San Francisco, as
the Alaska Commercial Company,
the Alaska Exploration Company
and other concerns in the combine
have their lieadquaiters in that
city.
In Seattle, the Empire Trans
portation Company, which contin
ues to maintain its identity as a
Seattle in stitution, acts as agent of
the combine. The Seattle-Yukon
Vompany, while not actively en
gaged save through the combine
in Alaska and Yukon shipping,
still maintains offices in Seattle, as
does also the Alaska Commercial
Company. The Alaska Explora
tion Company has never maintain
ed a regular office in Seattle.
Among the larger independent
Nomeaul Yukon lines operated
from Seattle are the Pacific Clipper
line, the Northwestern Commercial
Company, the E. H. Gray Steam
ship agency and the North Ameri
can Transportation and Trading
Company. Besides these there are
numerous smaller Nome shipping
concerns each operating one or
more steamships and sailing ves
sels. !
So far there has been no disposi- i
tion manifested either on the part
of the combine or the independent j
lines to cut rates from Seattle.
The passenger tariff is $iooand$3o
per ton for freight.—Seattle Post- j
Intelligencer.
Items Around Town.
Dance will be given this
evening
; at Pioneer Hall, under the direction ;
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|of Steward Hicks. The proceeds;
: will be used for the benefit of Mrs.
I Davis. Everybody is invited, i
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The case of Wingate vs. Wal
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: bridge, to recover possession of a
j cabin held by the latter, was deter
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! mined by jury yesterday. The I
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position of Wal bridge was untena
ble and the difference between a
I lien and a porous plaster demon- ■
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jstrated. Walbridge was found;
guilty of holding another’s proper-!
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ty by force and unlawful detainer, i
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| London, June 2.—Boss Croker
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races have been decided. !
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I Chicago, June 2—One thousand!
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: machinists have struck and other !
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! branches of trade will follow.
San Francisco, June 2.—The
long drawn out cootroversy as to
the Fair will has at last termi at
ed, and the vast estate, valued at
$25,000,000, will pass to his three
children, Charles Fair, Mrs. Her
man Oelrichs and Mrs. Wm. Van
derbilt, Jr.
San Francisco, June 1.—Wm.
I Gamble, marshal, starts for Nome
to arrest ex-Judge Dudley Duboise,
found guilty of contempt of court.
The marshal will also serve sum
mons upon Judge Noyes, of tae dis
i trict court, and Attorney Word.
APPRAISERS ARRIVE.
Finally Wound Up. The Old Com
panies Los« Their Individual
Identities.
Mr. Phillips, formerly agent for
the A. E. Co. at Rampart in ’98
and ’99, and latterly at Eagle, ar
rived last Sunday eveniug, accom- ^
pmied by Ch is. Hall. Mr. Hall is
the A. C. agent at Forty mile and
one of the best known men in Alas
ka, Having been connected with
the A. C. Co. for years. The ob
ject of the trip of Messrs. Phillips
and Hall is to appraise the stock
and property of the new combine.
They arrived in a small boat and
will continue on to Tanana. There
they will await the arrival of the
Su.-ie and proceed to St. Michael.
Mr. Phillips has many friends in
Rampart who were in hopes that
he had come to stay7 as the new
agent, but it seems not. He says
that the new combination will ben
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efit ‘Maska and the miner; that the
immense saving of exj ense in op
erating will be applied to a propor
tionate reduction in the price of
goods, and that the policy of the
combine will be to encourage the
prospector to come into the coun
try and develop it, thereby increas
ing the business and enhancing the
value of its holdings.
San Francisco, June i.—A seri
ous riot has occurred at the Pre
sidio. A mob of soldiers made an
attempt to wreck a saloon. Guard
fails to stop the trouble. Cavalry
called out, but could do nothing.
Fnally the fire department was
called upon and a stream of water
was tnrned oil the men befoie they
could be subdued and arrested.