Daily Alaskan JOHN W. T*OT. KMTO* SUBSCRIPTION KATES SHiwk.Wlwtdtr -arvWr Dm Math, by Ball rhrMMotte.br mi I Ull Maths. W sail OMmi.MMU COMPLAINT ROT JUST The people of the north should not complain of the steamsh.p ooropanlts for devoting so many of their ship* to the excursion trails this summer. The business was much larger than anyone expected It would be. It came on rath er suddenly and it was Impracticable to attempt to secure extra boats to handle it. It would be an Injury to both the steamship line* and the north country had It been refused. All the compan ies have dooe their best to have it in terfere as little as possible with the regular Alaskan and Yukon trade. More could not be asked of them in falrnees. While a few people rrobably have beee dtsconvenlenced to a more or lea Insignificant degree oo account of these large excursions, the good to the coun try generally and all that have Interest therein has been so great that the in jured have no just cause for complaint. Considered aside from the question of i rofit to the steamship com pan i. *. I and ooly frcra the standpoint of the greatest good to the greatest number, the excursioocarriers acted for the best Interest of the people In doing as they done The Lyoo Manufacturing Company, proprietors of the long famed Mexican Mustang Liniment, have prepared an almanac, advertising their products, but made especially for circulating in Alaska and the Klondike. So much of the almanac as is not taken up with the merits of the publishers' medicines la filled with Interesting data concern ing Alaska. The first page cover con tains au Alaskan wi.ter scene, taken from "Alaska and the Klondike," ai d a reproduction of the official seal of the district. It addition to a list of the of ricers of the district and other data it contains a summary of the statistics n the last annual report of Collector Jar vis, of the Alaska customs district, i taken from the Daily Alaskan. Manufacturers of the east, who are most insistent in the demand for the re peal of the Chinese exclusion act, tre willing to endure the effective bojeott resulting from the constantly increas ing tariffs of Canada. Germany and other countries in order to protect the monopoly afforded them in the prohibi tive American tariff, tut they are un willing that American labor should be protected against Oriental invasion if the protectloc la to cost them a market for a few dollars worth of their sup plies. . .? MS1 4 50 9.00 The freer trade is in the world the better it is for all trailing people, bet the American government cannot afford to purchase free trade with China at the coat of crowding American labor from the Pacific coast with the yellow men of the Celestial empire. The Are from another batter; has been focused on Got. Brady. It will be come apparent oo of these days to those at Washington where the people of I Alaska stands on Brady Ism. TO MEET t Kire Department ou Deck Tonight There will be a meeting of the Skag waj fire department at the Firemen's hall thla evening at 8 o'clock. It will be the regular monthly meeting. In addition to the routine business there will be a drill and Chief McLean hat* requested that every member of the tie pert men t attend. r*Mh Crahs MEWi* ? Freeh boiled crabe for free lunch to day and tomorrow at the Seattle saloon. Reeeived today (Friday). 2t lee cream and sherbets a the V ienna Bakery, Beet in town. 'Phone 35. Hegc's Souvenir book for II at Har rttooflV So. 1319 This is the lucky number which won the ticket to Portland and return Who has it? M.CONWAY Monarch off the Bar The lower Yukon steamer Monarch, which has made several trips on the upper river, has just gotten off a bar on which it rested for several weeks be low Faffle, where it had sunk. It will remain in the Fairbanks tra^e. Scott I? Hrcmotad John Scott, for a lonir time ea?hier in 'theW. P. & Y. 11. offl.es at Dawson, has been made agent for that compar J ;it Fairbanks.. He is succeeded at Dawson by Charles K. Taylor, foi merly of Skajjway, wh) has been in the Daw son office of the W. 1\ & Y. R. for sev* eral years. HERBINE Renders the bile more fluid and thus helps the blood to flow; it affor?'s prompt relief (torn bllliousness, indi gestion. sick and nervous headaches an I theovar-indolgence In food and drink Herbine acts qnickly, a dose after meals will bring the patieut into a good condi tion in a few days. G. L. Caldwell, A>jt. M. K. aiid T. li lt.. Checotah, Ind. Ter.. writes. April IS. 1903: *M was sick for over two years with enlargemant of the liver and spleen. The doctors did me no good, and I had given up all hope of being cured, when my druggist advised rae to use Herbine. , It has made me sound and well." 50c. Sold by Kelly Drug Co. JUNEAU S. S. CO'S. ELF.CTKIC LIGHTED STEAM HEATED STEAM EK GEORG lit Carrying V. 9. Mall r or Haines. Hornets Bay, Juneau, Floonah, Tenake* Sitka and WavportV SAILS Saturday N oon and Tuesday at 8 a.m. W. W. BOL'GHTON, Agent Broadway and Fifth Ave. Phone 90 Patronize Home Industry? If Not You Should Do So By Drinking Skagway Beer Our Bottled Beer Only $2.00 per doxen. 2i>c rebate on bottles PORTER ? Manufactured Especially For Hospital and Family Use ^ Phono Brewery 40. Heeldence, JS I LEI HIM STAY WHERE HE IS A dispatch to the Juneau Dispatch stales that Seattleites aro busy i off themselves with a pet r. ion asking for the pardon of the Indian. Jim Hanson, who is now servinc a life sentence at McNeil's Island for the murder of Bert Horton and wife near Skagway in 189!' Alaskans, who remember the brutal details of that foul murder, are pretty well convinced that Jim should stay where he is and thank Cod that bis neck is still whole. Turn him loose and the next Siwash that wants a little fun will kill tome other white man and his wife.? Douglas News. SK AC WAY WEATHER The result of the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, Aug. 4, 1905, is as follows: Temperature time of observation ... .56 Max. t?mp. preceding 24 hours . . . .65 Min " " " " *8 Mean " " " " 57 Barometer, 29.86. Calm, cloudy. Quartcrmasier oBec, Fort William H seward, Atuka. July 1S06. Sealed proposals. In triplicate, will K roceired hen until alevon o'clock, a. Hi Auk-ust 34th. and then oi*ned. lot thrconitrrtetlon ofooelleldotBcer sqoarwra, one double captain's quarter*, one dout.ir Kent ennnt** quarter*. two dout,ie n c. * *inarw^l4 an addition to quartarroaster storehouse. a* per piano and specifications on tile In thin olBce. The U. S. reserves the ri*ht to accent or reject ac y or all proposals or parti thereo.. Informa tion furulshed upon implication, knvetopes Containing proposals >tould I* endorsed "Pro posals for Construction of Quarters' ' *nd ad mnd to the yuartettraster. Kort \\ H . New ard, Alaska. The Celebrated Yost... TYPEWRITER The machine for beautiful work and correct alignment. Easy to Operate and Keep in Order Easy to Pay For The light running Yost Is unequalled lo lightness of toutch. quietness of ac tion, simplicity and durability. It ii recognized as a necessity in the bus Iness man's office or the professions man's study. For particulars, catalogue etc., write to Yost Writing Machine Co 325 Montgomery St, 8 in Franclsoo Agents for Alaska ?r Anply at this OV?? A Queer C&ptare (Copyright. 1M. by T C McClura.) In the year 1884 the British inrrej ?t earner Comet left Bombay to reaor vey the Makllve Island* The Couiet bad shipped ten now man before starting out, all half eaates and. at appeared later on. members of a secret hand that had n^rorn vengeance on anything British. Tbese nan uin tinted and, having got poaaeatdan of the brig, ran her Into Shark bay, on the northernmost Island. The captain and other offlcera w?>r*> net afloat on a raft, unprovided with Mil, wntar or pro\ Istons, and no doubt they perished In the storm that swept over the wa ters next day. The leader of the half castaa was a mnn known as I?oudra. He waa a sailor by otvnputl >n mid probably as great a niUHn ?s < mm 1.1 l>e fonnd In all India. \Vbeii a start was made from Shark liarl?>r a course waa laid for Ceylon, ami during a voyage lasting four weeks the Comet raptured seven coasting vessels. In earti and every case the crew* were put to death, the cargoes transshipped and the craft scuttled. It was piracy lifter tbe old style, ex cept that the brig did not dure at tack IU|Cf vessels. Her acts Anally reached the ears of the authorltlea, ami men-of-war started from Bombay and Calcutta to overhaul her. After sailing |?art of the way up the coast of Ceylon the Comet put about, and she was halfway back to her har bor of refuge when the Serpent (man of-war) sighted her. It was daring a heavy gale, and nothing could be dona but chase. It was three days tx>for? the 8erpent fired a guu. Just as even ing was coming on on the third day and after tbe mutineers had refused to surrender she crept up and flmi a broadside Into the brig and sent bet to the bottom. It was suppos* 1 at the time that everybody aboard was drowned, but two months later new* readied Bombay that Doodni and fo?r other half castes had got away to a boat and reached an Island at tha mouth of the gulf of Manaar. A gun boat was sent down to make an In vestigation and a reward of ??000 offered for the Are men. In the month of September of tbe year mentioned the bark Southland, bound from IJvenviol to Bombay, waa making her way up the Malabar coast tinder light breeaca. On? night In tbe middle watch It fell a dead calm, and this atate of weather contluued all next day and night. At midnight on the second night the offlcer of the deck beard faint shouting and singing to the east and as no vessel had been sighted In that direction he was mys tified. As the noises continued the mate awoke tbe captain, and It waa finally decided that there were men afloat in a small boat a mile or so away. We burned a flare to guide tbeiu and heard shouts In reply, but It was two hours before a yawl crept up to us out of the darkness. The lit tle crafl contained flve half caste Hin doos. and they were sufferlnt terribly for tbe want of food and water. Thera was but one oar and no sail. Tbe story told by the men. all of whom spoke i'ngllsh fairly well, was that they were part of the crew of a coaster named the Kmerald and while she was making her way up the gulf of Manaar she had l>een struck by a squall and turned turtle. They had clung to her bottom for several hour*, but had finally managed to loosen the boat and drift out to sea. Tbey claim ed to have been afloat for three daya. We bad no roo:n to stair thc!r ItoaU and it was cast adrift. but not liefore we had seen that her name had been erased. When questioned separately tbe sto ries of the men did not agree, but as we had heard nothing about tlie plrataa we could not make out what the frt lows had beeu up to. Their loader was an impudent swaggerer, who would not promise to do any work In return for his passage to Bombay, awl be had not been aboard two days when tha captain oniervd him Into Irons. Thli action sol>ered him up. and presently he was as humble as you ploaee and begging for his release. When restore*! to liberty he was icalons In his duty, and all suspicions on our part would have been lulled but for a discovery made by one of the appreutlcea wht understood the Hindoo language. Thinking then. selves alone In the forecastle one afternoon, the strangers plotted to take the ship, and tlie lad overheard every word and carried the news to the captain. He passed word L> the crew, and of a sudden the Hin doos were fallen upon and made prta oners. Not three hours later the gunboat from Bombay boarded us to give us the news about the pirates ami ask that we keep our eyes open for them. Oreat m as the surprise of her commander to And that we had prisoners aboard who answered to the description of those he was after. Tbe Hindoos saw that the grime waa up, and one of them made a confession Their leader was TVindra himself, and they had been hiding on an Island In the gulf. I /earning that their where ?bouts waa known, they had put off to sea In a panic and In a boat stolen from another vessel. Two of their number had been stabbed to death during a quarrel and their bodies thrown ore r board. The flve survivors Intended to fall upon our crew of eleven men fcnd murder ua all. Of course the men were surrendered to the gunboat, and upon being taken to Bombay proof sufficient to hang them was easily obtained, and within three months of their boarding us In mldooean they were dangling at the ends of hangman's ropes We had done little or nothing to bring about their capture, but the government of India paid ua the reward and added Its thanks to the mona?. U. QDilX TOURING IN RUSSIA. Tka DKIntllN ?f I ?k? r?*M< apeak. Ikr La?(tM*. Kljtii Novgorod * here the great Rna ?Ian fkir l? held, for on toward tb? frontier of AalB. I f^'in ' t ?t * * raH propyl! Ion In nil F r\., -r? |V standpoint of the trsv. r >! ?? mid refreshment I knew only owe word In R laalau "???dka," ami nut can l>rot)<>uw* that toe ofte? Nobody ?eon>od to apeak anvth.n- hr! P "i* I couhl not gat a rabtnan U tak^ mo to a hotel. One llT? ulilp pier, a private p?? M?h* I *?? reduced to the Humiliating neor *lty of making pMures of hoteh, h? 'a and faod of an aorta and quite nithout avail. At Hat. Iiettdnklng mys. If that llie trnde of Ruaaln waa In Corman bands, I ?f?rW out ifM In ar.irr4i of any mercantile looking po-ao-i with jloee cropped blond hoard and apec tarlos ?*ii< +1 ? man 1 found. ??d ha directed ma In Gorman to ? traktlr. where ! had breekfaat with tb?- aid of mora rmde cartooning "PeTee" la food Volapnk. ami tho waiter under I stood mo at once, but I had to aketch ? number of elllptk-al flgurea tn my notobook and Anally maka ? spirited drawing of the common or garden hen before he know I wanted "egga." Kor dinner that night I w?nt to a rea tanrant overhanging the Volga ft la one of tny moat baffling mcmortea of travel that when tn my thirst I made the algn of drinking ami pointed to the rirer the waiter lowered a bucket I out of the window Into tho stream and ! brought It to me filled with rkti brown water.- New York Mall. THE MUD DAUBER WASP. 9h? RttftailM l.hlnv ?|iM?n mm FimkI Mrr Yttinff. When Bummer warmth haa aw ee<1ed anarea that prove fatal to moat Inooro era and aometlmea even to herself If the occupant eipectant of prey, aalllea forth to aelae the Intruder. It flmla Itself a captive. not a captor. The waap I ahnkoa the allken filament from wlnga ami feet, tnma upon the aplder, actios and atlnga It, beara It to her cell and thruata It therein.? H. C. McCook In ilarper'a Magailne. OI4 Maa of title "rthl Mid of tb? Mountain" wan flp?t applied to fiaman Ron Rah bal, who fouDi)?xJ a formidable dynaa tj in flyrta a. P. lOPa iir *?< the prince or chief of the eect of the Mo hammedan* Raving been twin letted from hit coon try. be took op hi* *NV? In Mount I -aha non, gathered aronnJ him a hand of follower*, who eoon be ram* the terror alike of < "hrtatlana. Jewa and Turk* They paM the moat Implicit olwxllrawe to hi* eotninanda and believed that If they earrttWd their Hrra for hla Mk? they wonld ha rewarded with the hlgtieat Joya of paradlae. For 2O0 yeara theae " A aaaa alna." aa they railed tbemaelrra. ma tinned to be the terror of the conatry. Whenever their chief. the "Old Man of the Mountain." considered hlmeelf Injured he dtupatrfeed anme of hla a? aaaalna aerretly to murder the agmrea aor Thla la the origin nf oar nee of the word aaaaaaln for ? aecret mnrderer til* We aiilit Have. A faroona writer aald: "Man In fen oral, or. aa It la eipreaaed. on the aver age. doea not lire a ho re two and twm ty year*, and during Itieae two and twenty year* he la Hilile to two and twenty tbouaand evlla. many of which ?re Incurable Yet even In thla dread ful atate men will atrnt and figure oa the atage of life. They make lore at the hasard of destruction and Intrlinie, carry ??? war and form projecta Jnat ?a If they were to lire In lumry and delight for a thonaand agea " A XfH la IrkMlBaitm We ahould like to aee a regulation that erery ecboolroaater befoie the age of thirty ahouM for one full year at leaat he baalabed from the achool world and from the academic life even If for that year be had to work aa a navvy, a aallor or a commercial traveler The man who, being educated, only knowa what life la will never take too aar row a view of the arbool coarae I -on 'od roat. Kaf?r What Tmm Have. Don't worry aboat your health. Keep la (nod condition and get aa mnch freab air aa yon can People who are alway* pottering over them ?elvea are like mlaera they don't en Joy what they have Roatnn Traveler. * H>H Weehev. Sllmaon - Willie, they tell me ymi have the imputation of being the worrt boy In achool Willie Tea. father, and I can tell you I didn't get It without a atnurgle ? Life. Aa KnfUahwomaa married to a fec al rner tahea the nationality of ber bu? band. Pacific Coast S.S. Co. PIONEER ai.amta LINE. 8PEED. SAP6TV. COMFOR1 rARRTIflfl IT. I MAIL SUa TINO ? Of Rrwy ttwrlpUo ? Th* orly plwH M U?Hi n?l?r* nm ik? ran WH?*toe I'ricr* > hi inpiwwtoww ?< f l??i. M At., HmmI*