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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
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JANUARY 16, 1899 PRICE TEN CENTS
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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.)

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