The daily Alaskan. [volume], April 21, 1904, Image 3

About The daily Alaskan. [volume] (Skagway, Alaska) 1904-1924

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MUCH GOLD
Alaska Has Already Produced
$150,000,000
Since the purchase of Alaska from
Russia in 1867 by the Unlt?d States,
that district has produced a total of
about >150,000,000 in go'd, according to
the estimates of Go*. John O. Brady
and J. G. Davies, the Alaska commiss
ioner in charge of the mineral exhibit
to the St. Louis Exposition, says the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Got. Brady
is en-route to the exposition. He says
one of the chief features of the Alaska
exhibit will be an imitation gold pyra
mid representing 122.000,000 of gold, the
output of a single low grade quart.*
mine? the Treadwell, in the pist 21
years.
Th? United States paid Keaaia $7,
200,000 for Alaska in l!W. The trans
action was characterized as Seward's
purchase of an ice box for 97.200,000.
Consequently, accompanying the 122,
000,000 pyramid will be a gold leaf-cov
ered ice box. purporting to be worth
(7,200,000, or less than one third of the
output of the Treadwell.
Threv years ago Mr. Davies compiled
figures showing the total output of the
entire district from the date of the pur
chase up to that time to be #123, 000,000,
and he anil Got. Mrady estimate that
the treasure yield since then will swell
the total value to between 1140, 000,000
and #150,000,000.
INLAND WEATHER
The condition of the weather in the
interior today, as indicated by the
dispatches received at the Skagway
offices of the W. P. & Y. R., is as
follows:
Stewart ? Cloudy, calm, 33 above.
Yukon Crossing ? Cloudy, calm, 38
above.
Selkirk ? Cloudy, calm, .16 above.
Hootalinqua? Cloudy, calm, 40 above.
Lower La Barge? Cloudy, south wind
34 above.
-Atlio ? Cloudy, calm, 34 above.
Dawson ? Cloudy, calm, 36 above.
Forty mile ? Cloudy, calm, 40 above.
Glacier ? Cloudy, calm, 38 above.
White Pass ? Cloudy, calm, 33 above.
Fraser? Clear, calm, 40 above.
Log Cabin ? Cloudy, calm, 32 above.
Bennett- Cloudy, calm, 36 above.
Pennington? Cloudy, south wind, 35
above.
Caribou ? Cloudy, calm, 34 above.
Cowley ? Cloudy, calm, 38 above.
Whitehcrse ? Cloudy, south wind, 40
above.
Wanted H a Fr*?
S. J. Tarkinson, the man charged
with having assaulted Otto Hairing
with a gun. stated to the court that he
desired no attorney. Tears came to the
eyes of some people in the audience
when the poor man ventured to trial
on s ?) grave a charge without anyone to
plead his cause, but subsequent events
showed that he knew exactly what he
was doiDg, for Kdmond Burke himself
never made a more eloquent appeal for
a criminal at the bar than did Assist
ant District attorney Barnhill for S. J.
Tarkinson.? Juneau Record-Miner.
?Hk Mitt
The Frye-Bruhn Co. keep all kinds
of fresh meat constantly on hand, tf
Fori Rant
For Rent Cheap? Two elegant fur
nished cottages, within two blocks of
schoulhouse. Inquire at the Skagway
Laundry. 10-li-tf
Do Yon Want Llf* Iaaaraaea?
Do you want life insurance in the
best company in the world? I repre
sent the New York Life Insurance
Company, and want your application.
Harry Wiles,
4-6-2w Agent.
The Totem serves the best free lunch
in town.
All the delicacies of the season at the
Pack Train Restaurant.
Writ* Sewell Drug and Curio Store,
Haines, Alaska, for Alaska native made
moccasins, baskets and all kinds of Yu
kon and Arctic curios, nugget jewelry
and souvenir good*. Strictly wholesale
prices, any quantity.
Clayson A Co. carry the largest stock
of overcoats in town.
Fine free lunch at the Totem all day
And night.
Stetson hats at Clay son's.
Barley's Views at your own price at
the Skagwav News Company.
Oyster cocktails, Olympiaor'Eastern,
at the Pack Train restaurant.
A new line of wall paper just re
ceived on steamer Far alloc by K. R.
People#.
IS COMING
Wilson Foster Soon To Be
In Skagway
j Wilson Foster, the Dawson quartz
mine owner and boomer, is at White
horse and will arrive at Skagway in a
few days on his way to the world's fair,
at St. Louia, to advertise this north
oountry by publishing a weekly illus
trated paper, and exhibiting a large
and extensive collection of placer gold
aod mineral samples from different
northern communities.
Mr. Foster will remain in Skagway a
few days, and will endeavor to interest
the people of this city in bis proposition.
Raby Will B? Goad
George Scott reached Whitehorse
Tuesday, four days from Ruby creek,
coming in with ene of Brooks' teams.
When Scott left Ruby, Skookum Jim.
on 9 above, had a shaft down 40 feet.
He had gone through the muck add had
reached wash gravel which showed
good pay and the shaft was supposed to
be within a few feet of bedrock. ?
Whitehoi se Star.
Valencia Arrlva? and DaparU
The Pacific Coast liner Va'encia ar
rived at 5 o'clock last evening with KO
tons of Wellington coal for the Pacific
Coast Company. She sailed this morn
ing at 4 o'clock for Sitka via Killisnoo,
at which place she will discharge brick
and lumber.
" The Valencia had 110o tons of coal
when she sailed from Ladysmith.
Paoiflo Cogit P?r?y to Whltohor?o
The Pacifio Coast Steamship official
partv, consisting of Mr. and Mrs J. E.
Pharoand Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Connor,
accompanied by Mrs. J. P. Rogers and
little Florence Rogers, went to White
horse today.
The party occupied the general man
ager's private car. They will return
from Whitehorse tomorrow.
Bob Wright Laav?i far Hooaah
Bob Wright, the Dyea pioneer, who
has been suffering with consumption
for along time at UishopKowe hospital,
left on the Georgia this morning for
Hoonah hot springs in care of Jack Mc
Laughlin.
The tlpicarean Didyrr.
The budgrr is a grent epicure in eggs,
and much of the hostility of game
keepers to this animal lies undoubtedly
In the faot that it will, when it gets the
chance, devour a whole nest of piir
t ridge or pheasant ecgs. Itudgcrs an'
mi ill also to be fond of honey, and.
knowing the extraordinary craving of
their South African cousin, the ratel.
for this delicacy, I should say It is not
Improbable that they may occasionally
partake of It. It is certain that these
? nlmals have a particular liking fur
the nest and larvae of wasps and wild
bees, digging dowu with strong feet
and infinite perseverance till they at
tain their object. These animals art
said by keepers o kill and devour free
ly young rabbits. That they do partake
of this fare at times Is, I think, certain,
but that they destroy any very consid
erable number Is more than doubtful
Still, the badger Is carnivorous in his
tastes and is not, even by his kindliest
friends, to be absolved from devouring
at times tender rabbits and even tin
young of came birds when he can gel
bold of them. ? Longman's.
The best that the market affords at
the Pack Train Restaurant.
Home work, either sex, mailing cir
culars, II- per week; send dime and 2c
for business formula. Prof E. Melvin,
San Jose, Cal.
flake
a Note of it !
That the
Great
Northern
Railway
Runs two trains from Seattle every day
connecting at St. Paul and Minneapolis
with all Fast Trains for Chicago, St.
Louis and all points east, and south.
Short Route
Fast Trains
New Equipment
& G. Yerkes, G. W. P. A.
C. W. Meldrum, City Pass. Agt.
612 First Avenue, Seattle
STORY OF A
CRITICISM
[Original.]
"Great Scott! Who would bare
thought It? Helen Young an author!
Well, I am In a pickle!"
So spoke Leslie Held, tossing a note
on his desk and leaning back disconso
lately In his revolving chair. This was
the letter:
My Dear Mr. Reld? You will be sur
prised to learn that I am the author of
the story "The Veil Lifted," which you
have dismissed with such a contemptuous
notice In your paper. Wishing to get your
unbiased opinion of my work. 1 said
nothlnf to you about It, confident that
your Ignorance of the name under which
It Is published would Insure an honest
criticism. Far be It from me to find fault
with you for that criticism. Ws who lay
traps to Warn the truth as to what our
friends say of us and our works muBt not
grumble at our success. Sincerely,
HELEN IOUNO.
"One who knows nothing about the
Inconsistencies of the sex," tnuseU Held,
"would suppose this merely a woman's
thanks for an Ingenuous criticism. I
know better. No woman Is going to
spend months or perhaps years on a
cherished labor and have it knocked In
the head with Impunity, and If I know
Helen Young this Is the feather that
breaks the camel's back. I have had
uphill work against Bartlett anyway,
and this episode will tip the scale In
his favor."
Held was right In his Interpretation
of the letter he had received. In pro
portion to her predisposition to him
and her respect for his literary opinion
was her wrath at his criticism. She
deceived herself by the illusion that
after all she preferred his rival and
did not admit to herself that she would
have a delicious revenge upon Keid
when she permitted Bartlett to an
nounce his engagement with her. This
permission, given In an equivocal way,
was taken advantage of immediately,
and the announcement came to Itcid's
ears.
"They soy," Keid muttered, " 'O that
mine enemy would write a book!' Bet
ter write the book yourself and have
your enemy criticise It."
This sudden engagement so soon aft
er the fatal criticism somewhat altered
Mr. Keld's opinion of the best way to
handle the matter. He had some
doubts as to the engagement being
bona fide, and it led him to act ui>on
the adage, "All's fair In love and In
war." He did not follow up his note to
Miss Young by calling upon her and
did not see her for several weeks, lie
then met her at the house of a friend.
He bowed to her, assuming Indiffer
ence. She smiled upon him? weli, one
cannot say graciously. Her smile was
rather one of triumph.
"Oh, Mr. Keid," she said, "I'm so
glad to meet you! Come, let us have a
talk." And she led him away from the
others. "Now, 1 want you to tell me
why my book was so bad."
"I criticised your book," he replied,
with dignity, "not you. I have no fanlt
to find with you. Let us turn to a more
pleasant subject."
"Not at all. I am entitled as an old
friend to the benefit of your counsel
and advice. They will aid me In my
future work."
"Very well. Since you Insist upon It
I must say that your style Is faulty
and gives the Impression that the work
was done under different moods."
I Tnore was a nasn in tne girl's eye, n
mounting of color to her chock.
"Then you handled your love parts
badly and disappointed your readers
by making your hero marry a popinjay
when the rival was, though common
place, a fairly good fellow."
"Thank you," said Miss Young, biting
her Hps.
"Your man Macklnson" ?
"Macklnson! Who's Macklnson?
What are you talking about V"
"Your hero. You have made his feats
as Impossible as himself. Then your
Lucy Tanglefleld's career Is as tangled
as her name. So far as"?
"Will you please tell me who all
1 these people are? 1 never heard of
them." <
"Your characters. As I was say
ing"?
"Will you stop? My characters are
not Macklnson and Lucy Tanglewood
or any such people."
"Are not they the characters of 'The
Veil Lifted?'"
"They are not."
"Then," snld Held. "I must have been
laboring under a mistake and got your
book mixed with another. You see,
wo have so many to read that It often
loads to serious mistakes. Mention
some Incident, some name. In your sto
ry by which I may recognise It."
"The hero's name Is Adair, the hero
ine's"?
"Claudia Grnmmont! I">o you menu
to 'II me you wrote that book? The
style is perfect, the plot remarkable.
In parts there Is evidence of positive
genius."
?Miss Young'* eyes were lighted. Her
cheeks were glowing with a different
motive from tlmt of a moment ago. Slit
was quite sure she h:id not made a
ml -take, after all. and that Held was
her choice. The meeting was Inter
rupted by the hostess, and the two sop
united without further explanations,
which were not necessary. Miss Young
sent for Mr. Kartlett and rated hiui
soundly for his premature announce
ment. and a few evenings later she ac
cepted her critic, whom she admired
all the more for his Independence.
A dozen years had passed (Mrs. Held
was kept too busy with her live chiU
dron to think of dabbling In literature)
before her husband confessed that he
had deliberately pretended to mix hot
uovel with another. To his confession
she replied carelessly:
"I certainly proved a better authoi
than you a critic."
Reld winced. "The Veil Lifted" was
one of the most successful books of Its
! time. F. A. MITCUEL
Just Opened
THE
Railroad
Restaurant
Will Now Serve You With
The Best Meal In Town
Your Patronage is Solicited
WILLIAMS & PETERSON |
Next to P. C. S. S. Co. Office
VVWWiW%W\.V AVA<AVA*.V WAViVAVAWiVAWAVA'.
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NEW FURS
Men's Fur Coats From $7.00 to $100.00
Fur Robes, 7x8, 161b. coyote - 20.00
20 doz. Ordinary Fur Caps, cheap
Genuine Seal Caps, $7-00
Ladies Fur Coats from $20- 00 to $90.00
Fur Collarettes and Boas at Cost
Highest Price Paid For Raw Fur
C. R. Winter,
The
Furrier
Broadway, Between 3d and 4th Skagway, Alaska
Billiard Parlor Reading and Writing Room
SPACI098 CLUB ROOM
The Board of Trade
LEE GUTHRIE Proprietor
Largest and Best Appointed Resort for Gentlemen
In the North
The Idaho Liquor House
CORNER THIRD AND BROADWAY,
The Pioneer Family Liquor Store of Skagway
ESTABLISHED 1897
Direct Importers of Foreign and Domestic
WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS
AGENTS FOR
LEMPS and SKAGWAY BREWERY'S BOTTLED BEER
Private Rooms For Families
Special Attention to Oiders for Family (Jse. Telephone I
Canadian Pacific Ry. Co. :
Direct Service, No Intermediates
Call, to
Vancouver
Victoria
Transferring to
Seattle;
No Extra Charge
APRIL, 14, 23
Sailing at 6 p.m.
For Speed, Comfort, Service and
Appointment These Twin Screw
r Steamers Cannot be Equaled. For
? Information Write or Apply to
| H B.DUNN , Art.. SKAGWAY
JUNEAU S. S. CO'S.
STEAMER
GEORGIA
Carrying V. S. Mall
Leaves Skagwav at 8 a. m.
Wednesday, April 27
For Haines, Juneau, Hoonah Springs
and Sitka
J. F. FAIRBANKS, Agent
216 Broadway, Phone 90
THE DOMINION HOTEL
Miners Headquarters
Next I'ostoflice, Whitehorse, Y. T.
Table Set Family Style
Meals and Beds 50c each,
Single Iiooms, f 1 00.
Fino two story log barn with stove and
water. Accommodations for 20 head
of horses. Log barn for dogs.
Horses Bought, Sold and Blred,
Wood for Sale to Order
W.J. GIBBONS, Prop.
Postottice Box No. 26.
R0YHL
?Steam Laundry*
All Work Guaranteed. Short
Orders Promptly
Done.
PHONE 7*
Messenger Will Call and Deliver
Baths In Connection
Private Rooms for Ladies.
STEAM HEATED.
"nMMWMAmmwnmnMWi
Delmonico Restaurant
Bozman & Lin, Props.
Open Day and Night i
All the Delicacies of the Sea?,o^
HEALS, 25 CTS.
Sixth Ave. Near Broadway
Pacific Coa&U\5. ?...
PIONEER ALASKA LJTSTF
SPEED. 9AF?--T C C" N/ P'
V Mtlt;, Hlllfet H'To' ft;- K? r. ...
CARRYING D. S. MAIL
6ity of Seattle, = April 20
HUMBOLDT. - - - April 25
Direct to Seattle
COTTAGE CITY - May 2
Sails Via Sitka
?fe. Above Schedule Subject to ohange Without None
L M. WEST. *0"" M
C. O. DUNAMN, Gen Pass. Agt
10 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.
The Alaska Steamship Co. "
Carrying U. S. Mail and Alaska Pacific Express
Next Sailing of the Fast Passenger Steamer
DOLPHIN, April 19
The Dolphin maintains a schedule of 75 hours between
Skagway and Seattle
FARALLON. About Aoril 25
DIRIGO, About Mav 5
Transfers to Victoria and Vancouver Without Addiiional Charge
A. S. DAUTRJCK, Agent. Phone I
The WhitePass& Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No- 13
(Daily Except Sunday.)
No. 3. N. B No. 1. N. B. No. 2. S. Bound No. 4. S E
2nd class. 1st class. 1st class 2nd class
8 30 p. m. 9 30 a m. LV. SKAGUAY AR. 4 30p. m. AR. 4 16a. a.
10 30 " nw}" " WHITE PASS " 3 ^0 " " 2 10 ?
11 40 a. m. 11 45 " " LOG CABIN 2 10 ? '? 1 00 "
12 20 12 35 } P;'m " BENNETT " j J? [ p.m " 12 20 p.a.
2 45 " 2 10 " " CARIBOO " 11 50a.m "10 20 "
6 40 " 4 30 " AR WHITE HORSE LV ? 30 " LV, " 7 00 "
Passengers must be at depots !n time to have Baggage Inspected and
checked. Inspection Is stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of train.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full fare tleke
and 75 pounds with each naif fare ticket.
Raw Furs....
WE PAY
High Prices for Fine Furs
W rite For Price List
Percey's Fur House
Oshkoeh. Wisconsin
Proposals for Pobllc Buildiugs: Constructing
Quartermaster's Office, For! wllllat.. H. Sew
ard, Haines, Alaska, April lfi, l'JOl. Sealed pro
posals lu triplic ite will be received here unltl 2
o clock P. m. Thursday, May 6, !904 and then
opened, for the construction. Including plumb
ing, heating. Kas-pipln*. and gymnastic appar
atus. of a Post Exchange sud Gymnasium
Hulldlng combined, at Fort William H. Seward.
Haines Mission. Alaska. Plana and specula
tions of the work may be examined aud
copies of general instructions to bidders
with blank forms for submitting proposals
obtained at this olSce, and Quartermaster's
Olfloe, Seattle, Washington. Any further Iniorma
Hon *111 be furnlshod upon application. Right
Is reserved to reject any or all proposals or putts
thereof. Envelopes should be endorsed "Pro
posals for Public Buildings, Fort William H.
Seward, Alaska,' and addressed to Captain W.
1'. Richardson, Constructing Quartermaster.
Haines, Alaska.
= Patronize
^ Home
<= Industry?
If Not You Should Do So By
Our Bottled Boer Only
$2.00
Per Dozen '
25c Rebate on Bottles
Drinking Skaqway Beer
Phone Brewery, 49. Residence, 38
While Pass & Yukon Route
THROUGH LINE FROM
Skagway to Atlin. Whitehorse, Big Salmon
Dawson and Yukon all River Points
The New Mining Camps In the ALSEK and BULLION Creek Dis
tricts Are Reached Only Via Whitehorse
Navigation on the Yukon River, Whitehorse to Dawson, should open the first week in June.
Daily conneotion with trains will then be nnde at WBITEHORSE by RIVER STEAMBOATS, for all Yukon River
points, including MENDENHALL LANDING, ? the nearest steamboat landing to the NEW GOLD FIELDS. These
steamboats are operated by the WHITE PASS & YUKON ROUTE and are equipped with all molern conveniences,
including steam heat, electric light and such other features as afford not only safety but comfort to passengers.
Finely Appointed Trains Daily, Except Sunday> Between Skagway
and Whitehorse
Carry Passengers, Baggage, Mail and Express
Baggage Bonded Through. Direct Telegraphic Service to all Points
in Canada and the United States
For Information relative to Passenger Freight and Telegraph rate*, apply to any agent of the com pan v, or to
M. J. B. WHITE, G. F. & P. A
Vancouver, B, C.
A. R NEWELL. V.-P. &G. M.
Vancouver, B. 0. and Skaguay, Alaska
R. D. PINNEO, Asst. G. F. & P A.
Skaguay, Alaska