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Ho merchant in Alaska | has ever before carried such an assortment of FLOOR COVERINGS as we now have in stock. We have New Rugs New flattings New Linoleums * There is a strong feeling just now, in favor of cov ering floors with rugs instead of carpets, we have anticipated a big demand for them, by buying a big stock. They come in all the popular qualities, Body Brus sells, Tapestry Brussells, Axminsters, Wilton Velvets, etc. and sizes 7x9, 8-3x10-6, 9x10-6 and 9x12 sizes to fit any room. For the bedroom we can offer you Japanese Straw Mattings, American Fibre Mattings, Fibre Rugs and Crex Rugs. For your Kitchen we can show you a stock of Lin oleums, 6 feet wide and 12 feet wide, in printed, inlaid and granite patterns, that is unsurpassed by any one. d a O 9 BEST GLASS OF I Rainier Beer on Douglas Island 8 0 3 O AT Q 1 o <5 O O Douglas Opera House | > WINES -> LIQUORS -I" CIGARS 8 ? ? PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. PIONEER ALASKA LINE Safe, Fast PnnctnaKLnxnrioasXonrteons Treatment, Splendid Meals Steamers of this Company are due to arrive at Douglas From Seattle and Puget Sound Points CITY OF SEATTLE, Oct. 29, Nov. 9, 2 J, Dec. 2 HUMBOLDT : : : : : Nov. 4, 15, 27 Making Regular S. E. Alaska Ports of Call Close connections at Seattle with this Company's steamers for SAN FRANCISCO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND MEXICO Above sailing dates snbject to change without notice The company reserves right to change steamers, sailing dates and hours of Sailing without previous notice. For information regarding passenger and freight rates, apply to R. R. HUBBARD, Agent. C. D. DUNANN, General Passenger Agent, San Francisco wvlMHIMI ? Airal Fiit i uiming c#. LOUIS G. THOMAS, - - Manager. Manuiactnres 'Cilt+Httilt+A afld all kinds of.. J III IIIIUI v Caskets ********* OUT OF YELLOW CEDAR Special Articles of Furniture Made and Guaranteed. ...Alaska flyers... ??? Between Seattle, Ketchikan, Dong las, Jnnean and Skagway. One to arrive at Donglas : Jefferson September 7, 17, 28, Oct. 9, 20, Nov. 1 Dolphin September 2, I2, 23, October 3, 15, 25 Steamers and sailing dates subjoctto change without notice. This is the only line of steamers calling reeru larly at Douglas both North and South bound Elmer E. Smith. Agent, Douglas, Alaska \ 3 A. MURRAY I 3 AGENT FOR THE fc j STANDARD gj 4 GASOLINE ENGINE I.J.Sharick WATCHES, DIAMONDS, JEWELRY JUNEAU ALASKA NEW YORK CLIPPER IS THE GREATEST THEATRICAL J SHOW PAPER IN THE WORLD. $4.00 Per Year. Single Copy, 1 0 Cts. ISSUED WEEKLY. Sample Copy Free. FR&NK QUEEN PUB. CO. 'Ud), .ALBERT J. RORIF!, ITHLISIIERS, ju.nagxk 47 W. 2>ri! sr.. New York There passed through Skagway the other day Falcou Joslyn, a captain of pioueera, known to all Alaskans as an energetic, level headed man of thia north land, oue who haa doue more than the average for itn development and one who keeps at work along the name lines, hoping and expecting to accomplish much more. It was Falcon ?Joslyn who carried up the long stretch of ocean and over the mountains and down the rivers and up the rivers and again over" the hill of the tar interior those engines aud rails and supplies that now constitute the Tanaua Mines railroad; who brought that railroad into being in the heart of the wilderness in an amazingly short space of time and so carried relief to the miners at work in that difficult country. To have heard this practical business man talk of the conditions that em harass that wonderful Tanana couutry, hold , its development in check, to have seen his throat swell with feeling and heard his voice tremble with vibrant indig nation as he cried, "Yes, quote me, quote me if you wish?it is a thing that j should be known and must be known and how else save through the freest publicity. I say only what I know quote me by all means. There never | was a condition that could compare with it out of Russia and I question if greater injustice has beeu done there. The whole country has been tied up ; with litigation, men waiting upon the judgment of the courts while the courts are not in session, or delay month after month with their decisions until these months run away with the seasons into years and that for which these men lmve struggled and starved and frozen, and through these sufferings and volun tary privations GAINED, are lost to them. I have been wituess of 30 much miscarriage of justice tor the with I holding of judgment and delay in com ' ing to trial is to be classed under this head- that my wonder at what meu do in their struggle for their own, agaiust powerful outlaws, has changed to amazement rather at their self-restraint. You remember that the court at San Francisco, in rendering judgment in the Nome cases was so impressed at this self restraiut of the victimized miners that it went out of its way to remark upon it. Surely if the condi tions obtaining in the Tanana were equally well known it would draw forth like eucomium. The Dome creek cases are only samples of a condition that is general. After waiting for a whole sea son for the peaceful adjudication of i cases which they weut into court to se i cure Judge Reld came in there and j opened a session, announcing that he : intended to "clean up the docket." The ! whole couutry was rejoiced to hear it. He began holding a continuous session day and night. Every man was ex ! pected to be ready when called. Law yers explained that in the long interval of waiting their witnesses had scattered ? some were up at the Salchaket, others at Kantishna, Hot Springs, etc.? it would take time to summon them. The reply was "it makes no difference; you must be ready ? I am going to clean up this docket." Aud so he did. There are two things to be considered in the administration of justice; one is to give both sides a fair opportunity to present their case; the other is that both sides shall feel, when it is over, that they have been fairly heard. As a result o? ICE Cream AND , ICE CREAM SODAS EVERY DAY AT The CITY BAKERY I awwwwwwvw^wwwws 5 HARDWARE I | STOVES J | FURNITURE | JULIUS j JENSEN CORNER 2d AND D STREET i | DOUGLAS I <(\WWVWVlV\V\WV\t\WW5f the session of court held in this fashion all litigauts were consumed with a sense of wrong? those that won laughed, no doubt, and those that lost groaned, but neither felt that the canes had really been tried on their merits. After a month of this hurried form of hearing cases the court adjourned and the judge want outside promising to return in July. He has not returned. Men have beeu lyiug in a foul jail there not intended as a prisou, but merely as a place of temporary detention and the like of which, as a prison, does not probably exist in Russia. Such outrage is demoralizing a people naturally law abiding. They are losing all respect for constituted authority ? they see where force is successful and they adopt that method. For the rich and powerful are constantly taking advantage of this condition to harass the merely honest and industrious. The rich can afford to wait. Claims are jumped, association claims are made to overlap previous lo cations, injuctions are secured, exactly after the manner in which Nome was tied up, and then the waiting game commences. Or the more powerful be gin operations, driving off the weaker claimant. This is the history of the Dome creek cases, with a score of en tangling ramificatious. The shooting of Ridenour was the direct result of the most shameless bit of juggling with a man who was acting iu good faith and the settlement of those cases was the result of that shooting? made out of a dread of threatening results. Many cases have come under my observation where men sent out by owners of claims to work on lays decided, when they found golf], that they had as much right to it as the man who sent them. They bold tenaciously to this belief be cause tbey see others win that way. It then becomes, in the absence of the court, a question of main strength. It is these conditions that breed murder, suicide and insanity. Only those who live in the midst of them can fully real ize what it all means. But the first ac tion Judge R?id took upon arriving at Fairbanks was to close the dance halla and when he went outside he boasted that he was not goin to allow Alaskans to be demoralized by the saloons. I waut to tell you that no evil which can come before the court for suppression can begin to equal in its demoralizing effect this conduct of the court itself/1 Skagway Alaskan. On October 1st the first mail for SJje i iuterior was started over the Valdez trail. Uutil Nov. 1 the total per week : is limited to 1,G00 pouuds, but after that date it is to be increased to 4,000 pounds. The triweekly stage service is to be gradually increased as the sea son advances until about the Hrst of February It is expected that the busi ness will demaud a stage every day in the week. y Foreign and Domestic K Woolens in Stock 5 t F. WOLLAND X MERCHANT TAILOR * J JUNEAU. ALASKA , ? WW w w^/vvwv wwwvvvv ? t s I f The most complete line of Toilet preparations in the city are to be had $ | here. The most fastid ious can be satisfied. . . . ELMER E. SMITH ^ FRONT STREET DRUGGIST . ? w ww w wwww wwww# Qf of Headaches are caused 9^ by fiye strain; can be cur ed permanently by proper fitted glasses I. J. SHARICK, opticiam JUNEAU