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To-diys New# _ _ g , _ . _ _ ___ _ Printed to-day. HP 1_| |TV . A I | \7 *At! the people von know an? In the iMitY III I a W I I V ^Alaskan. It * uew? l? nv<b ami crNp. ? ? ? ? ^ ? M ? W ? B Swreri to any *ddre*?, per wwlt.ftir TCf ^ -*? ~ A ?*? ? ^ *? tvsoml It to your frleutU. ?ILI* 1 -V VOL. 2.?|N0. 88 SKAGWAY, ALASKA, HOnDAY EVENING, \ I /\ \/^ I^lT More Business / ?^ | /1 '% I^L / % I T"* ,)AILY Alaskan will Introduce you / |A ? > / m A. " ? / m 1 ^ a ' to all till people wortl. Knowing. In -*? ? ^ A ^ W erory liorae every night c AAA Number wlio read It dally over ??,UW JANUARY 16, 1899 PRICE TEN CENTS ^k?nfh?k M?fl?Lo Kiin>|M?an rimi. All Modern Improvements. Sample Rooms for Commercial Men. ?ONO ST. HET. BROAOWAY ANO RUN" ALLS QOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSC " Uarg? ^wcnfontabl* Rooms .^j NO BAR ? NO BUNKS. 1 if Patronage ? ?? * RHSlDHflTS SOUICITHD. Golden North Hotel A Firs -Class Hotel Kates Reasonable Thos. Whitten, Manager. Bond Street, between Main and Stated ? 0 OOOOCOOOOOOOCXOOOr^OOOOOOOOOCD :oooocxsooooc I I For aOniet. Comfortable and ~~ ? ~ domelike Place Go to the Portland flizpah House Fifth Avenue Opposite City Hall Beds 25 to 50c Short order meils sfrved in annex 7 a m to 1 p in Regular Dinner at 6pm ? LOUilNG 25c BOARD PKR MEAL 25c- PKR WEEK #5.00 HOTEL WieKSTR0M Board and Lodging per week 56 and Ss.70 Johnson avenue, Near old Postotfice. NO BaR See the High Flag Pole Rainier Hotel & Restaurant 312 BROADWAY. Frank Hall, Prop. excellent Meals 35 cvnts. A1-' the ileiiruffiw tlie market afford*. Host chefs ?uipluved. Handsomely furnished roomy. Klectric lijrhtc, city Water and he?t iu->:omt'io<lation.s in the city SKAGWAY - ALASKA U. S. HOTEL. * R6STHURHN1 >- #i Per The only Second I 'lass Hotel In wntv. Next door to R II depot Desirable Rooms. Hatljfs B ay \fieuj H?^l H. K. Dent, Prop. 4th Ave bet Main Skagway. ar . State Aiaska Well H^ted . I First Cla?i A>. :on ~ '"tions For 175 Cue**.. [Largest and Best appoint ed hotel in Alaska.; Cor. s Broadway and Fiftb Ave CLARK, PROPRIETOR PACIFIC t HOTEL. (Fifth avenue Near Main Street. C. W. Klippel. Manager. Baths -# go^fo^^lb ihj jhJe CI JY J. E. STALEY Atlin Mining Exchange Office: St. James Hotel Skagway* Alaska. Look An Exclusive Dr\ Goocta Establishment has been opened jap hero. We keep an up-to-date and exclusive line of every ibfrog For Ladies And Childrens Apparel If you seek El usance and Economy tec uk. Tlhe FHMMELL K Unn VlMk Wearly T. ?. mm 01 1 HI Arrived Yesterday 011 the Steamer City of Seattle. HAVE GOME TO STAY .finny drought Their Household Cood* Intending to n?kt Sk?K war Their t\il lire Home. ? The steamer Citv of Seattle arrlved yesterday at ten o'clock, just 97 hours from Seattle. She had a good trip and the best of it was that she brought a regu lar boom crowd, like the famous cargoes of a year ago. Her decks were crow ded when she pulled up at Moore's wharf for she had 400 souls aboard, to siy nothing of the tons of freight and dogs galore. Of the 97 hours she was on the wav she laid up bat 0 le hour on account of bad weather? that time being just before sin entered Dixon's entrance. She stopped two hours at Port Townsend.a little over that time at Victoria, six hours at Van couver, two or three at Mary Island anJ three at Juneau. At the latter place she ( was obliged to wait some time tfo get .1 wharf on account of the Dirigo and Al-ICi both being tied up there. A notable feature of the passenger list was that many of these on board brought household gooifs with them Thirty passengers got on at Juneau for Skagwav. Of the 344 passengers from Seattte onlv eleven were for 'juneau s xteen for D\e*, one for Haines Mis sion and four tar Wrangel. The. balance? 3 1 2 were for Skagway. The Dawson and Atlin travellers are shown bv the number of dogs. The prin cipal shippers of canines, with the numqef "tjfhowlers e.ich^had are is follow?) Dr. E. B. Koine, 23; T. Townsend, 36; F. Snow, 5; W. H. Razden, i;C Jackson, 9: Nixon andfRobinson, 10; D. E. Griffith, 10; L. L. Metzger, 7; J. Carr. 6 dogs Wm. Hutchinson, a barber, coming to Skagway, got out his fixtures and the steamer officials allowed him to open up in the smoker. He did a thriving business and the passengers looked as clean and handsome, when they got to Skagwav as if they had just dressed tor t banquet. DUK'T f'ni((ii;T -t ill-: >141,1.. | Everything I'nluta to a t.rnnd Sue* ?t*? Tonight. ' ? Hvervbody Is talking of the ball to be given tonight bv the dub of Elks for the bei efit of How Company No. i and every body is expected to be there. The grand march will take place at 9 o'clock this eventng and will be led by some prominent couple. The several committees of arrangement report rapid sales of tickets and everything points to a grand social and financial suc cess of tonight's affair. Tonight's ball Is strictly for the benefit of the ladies of Skagw?iy. There will be 110 liquors sold on or about the premises, and everything will be done to niakfe it pleas ant for the ladies. MOftKTEll III. AST I'lRKD. T \v o 11 1 ) -So v r 11 Hundred Pound* of Ujrnnmlte Exploded. A blast which would put to shame the eruption of Mount Vesuvlous was success fully touched pff on the railroad last Satur urday evening. It was at the big gorge next to the tunnel above Camp 9, high upon the mountain side overlooking White Pass City. The monster charge of 2700 pounds of dynamite was exploded at once. No one can accurately compute the enor mous amount of rock which the explosion displaced. One eye witness declared that the rock was blown away from the side of the mountain for a half mite high, but that is doubtless an exaggeration. However, it was a blast which will never be forgot ten by those who saw it or equalled again in all probability in Alaska. lu Judge Johnaou's Court. Judge Johnson's United States District Court, now in session In Skagway, is hear ing mainlv2 the pleadings of the saloon keepers indicted for selling liquor in Alaska. About twenty of the 100 liquor dealers in the vicinity of Skagwav and Dyea have pleaded guilty and have paid their fines of $100 each. The case of the application for a receiver in the Brackett wagon road, of Charles Bullen and others will come up again on an amended complaint. It came up at Juneau several weeks ago and the application was refused. McKinley Signifies Intention of Signing Bill. LAWS NOW CODIFIED Saloon I.lcrn ??? IVri to He I'tvd for Kducalloiinl l'urpo?r?Ali? tlnaku -lnw in t'nrrc In SI * t y Dnjr*. f Within the next sixty day* high license will be in force In Alaska. Saloons will be taxed ftooo a year, and that money, Of part of it, will be used for educational pur poses in Alaska. That Alaska is at last to te recognized in Congress And a law of vital Interest and of pressing necessity is about to be enacted, is the good news which was brought up on the Citv of Seattle yesterdaV. Purser Pope, of the Seattle, says that when (hev left Vancouver on Thursday morning last, the Vancouver paper had ome out with a dispatch from Wash ington ^city, announcing that President McKiilev had just signified his Intention of signing t;ie bill for the new code of laws for Alaska, f he prediction was also made that the law would pass both houses and become a law and be in force here in j less than sixtv days. ? No one not familiar with law in Alaska can appreciate how this news will delight and please this district, which has soring labored with poor laws or in most instances with no laws. The Pre^s dispatches of Jan-j uary 9. state that Governor Brady wa* 1 that day before the house committee ion I the revision of laws in reference to the j liquor restriction? feature of the new co. e j of laws for Alaska. He strongly approved I the course of the committee in substituting high license for prohibition, and said the | prohibition law could not be enforced. j The committee finally completed its amendment, placing the liquor license at j <1000 a year and adding a local option pr j vision, bv which an applicant for saloon : license must first secure the written assent j of a majority of all adult white citizens ' living within a radius of two miles. I Governor Bradv was also to appei>r be- 1 fore the territorial committee relative to the pending legislation for tbe general gov- 1 ernment of the territory. At the opening of the house the same ! day j general order was adopted providing | for the immediate disposition of the bill for the codification of the laws of Alaska, j Several days before the. house committee hadccmeto the concision that prohibi tion was a failure here, one of the con- j gressmen relited to the committee how he had seen, with his own eyes, a brewery in operation at Juneau. The new law provides for high license with severe penalties, leaving It discre- ; tlonary with the courts to grant the li censes and empowering the courts to revoke licenses. Provision is also made for per sonal liability of saloon keepers and own ers of saloon property for all damage re sulting from the sale of intoxicants. Li cense fees, or at least a part of them, are to go to educational purposes in Alaska. The present prohibition, as In the States, is continued against Indians, min ors and habitual drunkards nri i: (Ron MAWMts. f'lr?t uitr lo nnk? ilir I.oiik Trip (? Ikaiwh)'. -1 The novel and hitherto unaccomplished feat of bringing; a mule out from Dawson over the winter trail has just been success fully tried by C. D. Patterson and J. A. Thomas, who arrived in Skagway yester day. Tiie mule pulled two sleds all the way out and they were heavv ones too, | yet it arrived in good condition. Case & Draper took a picture of the mule and its two venturesome drivers yesterday. The men brought feed along to Selkirk, where they got more and came along slow ly with their novel expedition, Thev be lieve that horses will be better than mules ' and Mr. Patterson has just gone to Seattle to secure eight horses with which they ! propose to return to Dawson as soon as I possible. Mr. Thomas will wait here. U. S. Hotel restaurant. Best cooking in, j Skagway. 17 This cold snap is the time to get on the Inside of one of R. C. Dlehl's made to or- ' der heavy storm suits, See his add. Spend your money With a man who spends hi* money for the general good/ Clayson's building enhances the value of property. He is therefore entitled to your business. V i in n Bill H What Some Prominent Citi zens Have to Say. MK.WIN8LOW ANSWERED Ckirgr* ol Ihr Old foiupn n y Com parrd Willi Jniirun Mglircn? l<*wrr Prior* or n Competitor lirtlrtd. i The agitation for cheaper electric lights "for Skagway still continues and it appears to'be steadily resolving itself into the question whether the present electric light company shall reduce its present rates to meet existing conditions, or whether a competitor shall step into the field and divide the business with the present com pany. The DAILY ALASKAN Has treated the matter fri>m an impartial stand point, opening its columim for an exchange of views to all parties having an interest In the matter and it will continue to do so In order that conclusions may he reached that will be satisfactory to the majority. The following prominenlV^itizens have been Interviewed on the question of cheap1 er lights in answer to Manage* Winslo.v's >tntement published in Saturday's issue of the Daily Alaskan, touching the affairs '0* hlijf inpanv: I. G. K lufman, A. Lau rlster, |Mik Clancy, W. I . I .1 ??wtl. -, J- ftfannlck, F. F. Clark, John Kalem, .? T. Keelar uJ W I . Metcalf. Others not yet heard from are Kindly invited to give their views on the same sjbject. The Interviews had are as fol 1 iws: I. G. Kaufman? "This statement of Mr. Wlhslows will not bear analyzing.' If, as -e says, their first plant was lost on the Corona they should have ItaJ business foresight enough to have had it insured /nd for that failure they must not expect ?< tax the Skagwav public In order to pay "or their losses/ Every merchant in Slug way who has money invested in his goods, take the same business chances that this electric light compar.v does, and we do not expect to pay for stocks ruined by over charging fof our regular goods and it^is out of reason for this company to expect to pay for their plant and losses by putting a burdensome light tax on their customers. When the electric light plant was started in Juneau four winters ago wt never paid more than >1.50, even when the company for the first four months of its existence had to use wood for fuel, and that com pany never claimed that they were losing monev. In proof of what I say I have here two receipted bills of the Juneau Elef t/lc light company which speak for them selves: Juneau, Alaska, Nov. i, 1898. Messrs. Kaufman Bros. To Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. Oct. 26, changing hangers and opal globes $ 1. 00 For six 16 c p incan Jescent lamps at 30 cents ? ? 1.80 For installing two incandescent lights at $2 4-?o For rent of eighteen incandescent lamspat Si- 1 5 20.70 FVom October 1, to Nov 1, 1898 Rent one addl light Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 .v. Four vards lampcordsextra in above installation a 40 Wiring building for two addl lights at ti 2.00 Total 30.10 Received Payment, C. D. Tavlor. Juneau, Alaska, Nov. i, i8q8. Mr. Nathan Kaufman. To Alaska Electric Light and Power Co, For rent of three incandescent lights at 5i 3 00 Received payment, C. D. Tavlor. "Let the Skagway company realize that these are not boom times, nor is this a boom toM n, and let them come down in their prices as we all have had to do. If they do so A'ithln reasonable figures they will more than double their lights in town both in stores and in dwellings." A. LAUMEISTER "I think Mr. Winslow's statement is fair and equitable, and that the present prices are compatible with existing condi tions and cost of proJuction. It must be remembered that when the company was started it had onlv very few facilities for handling machinery of that nature- It was an expensive experiment for which the people did net ask or require a guar antee to an unknown proposition. bringing of this industry into this com munity was ?a great thing for us and its many advantages have been used through out the Unite! States to advertise the town. It Is not fair now to attempt to tear them down I efdre knowing just what is going to be given in place of It. I am satisfied that the present electric light com pany will meet the pri;es in a fair way as the town grows. If not the field Is always open for competition and it will then be a question of the 'survival of the fittest' At present I think the prices are reasona ble." JOHN KALEM. John Kalem? "Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the company has not made any money up to within two months ago, is there any reason why they should jeap ordise the field bvfcharging exhorbflant rates out of all proportions to the present conditions of affairs? They now have the field, and if they really have the faith in Skagwuv that Mr. Winslow says thev have, they should be willing to make fur ther sacrifice in order to hold this field. When busin;ss was- quiet with the merchants, and manv lost money, but no ?? 'thought of making up losses by selling goods at arbitrary "prices. The company can well afford to reduce its rates which would Insure for it a demand f c r more lights, and if not very profitable thev can afford to hold on until next spring at which I time thev could put in water power and make a still further reduction- Now I don't believe in bovcotting anybody , but believe in fair dealing on the principal o live and let live. These people are not living up to this and I am paying to much for a very inferior light. If their plant has failed to pay, the fault must lie .either In the plant or its management, and in that case they should not Apect the citizens to suffer for what appears to be bad manage ment on their part. Juneau is an illustra tion in point. The merchants frere get a good light for fi.15, and the companv /here lias no better facilities than ours here, ^ ^on the contrary the company here has bet t;r facilities. The time is now ripe for a cheaper electric light and it may be nec essary to have In that connection what wthMyi other business namely com,>e tition." FRANK CLANCY. '?If it Is a fact, as Mr. Winslow savs, that the rates since last October have bePtr cut down to S2 25, I fievtc have been given the benefi* of tlu reductibu- f?r I am paving rfce *.inlr Wwi I ?lwav> paid. Here is mv last Ml!, showing thaf '*> I paid 515 for 16 lights. I was We first to take mv lights in my old place and have been using thtm ever since I have been in tow n. The rates ought to have been low er, then everybody wftuld have increased the number of lights. The old company also charged me Si $0 for installing the , lights while the proposed new company agrees to charge onlv Si. Let us have cheaper lights by all means whether they are furnished by the old or new com pany." F. F. CLARK. "I11 the tirst place I would like to know if it is necessary for one who is not taking lights to ask me whether I know that lam Ixing overcharged? It reminds me of the little shell game with the dealer at one end saying to the man at the end of the table 'don't tell, tain't fair, If you will leave me alone I'll give him all he wants. Mr. Winslow states that he is furnishing all night lights for $2.25. That is an error, he charges Sj- Even if it was true it would be well to invite competition and place U15 citizens on a more indepen dent footing, and in this connection 1 am now given to understand that the new company experts' to bring doiwn the price to Si 50 for sixteen candle power all night. Juneau charges only St. 15 and furnishes globes, whereas we have to pay so cents and 75 cents for globes that else where cost not to exceed 20 and 35 cents. I pay S45 for nineteen lights distribu ted as follows: Eleven 10 candle power to midnight: five sixteen candle power all night, and three thirty-two candle pow er all night. Mr. Winslow makes the further statement that the people who own the company do not belong in Skagway. This will go far to show that these people have no personal interests in the well fare of the community but that they are in business here In charge of agents and have no other end in view except to get all the money they can within as short a time as possible. I do not remember that any of these owners have ever been to Skigway except Mr. Gaston." W. F. LOKOWITZ. "There is no question about wanting cheaper lights, and there seems to be no question that a very large percentage of the business community is of the same opinion. 1 believe in justice and equity for ail and in being conservative in the matter of reaching conclusions, especially where those conclusions affect the interest of individuals or the community. The present agitation for cheaper lights re solves itself into a p^in business proposi tion. When the present company a year ago answered the demands for electric lighting they risked their money and erected a plant just as every merchant risked his capital when starting business. They trusted to the wants of the comraun ( Continued on Page 6.)