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THE DAILY
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ALASKAN.
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VOL. II. NO. 144
'SKAGWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY HORNING, MARCH 17, 1899
PRICE 10
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Thos. Whitten. Manager. BonJ Str,,t' t*(wwn Msln ,nJ Wjte
II will* I ?mforlt ?p*cla
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BblCTRIC lilOKTft
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Portland flizpah House
Mk ?si) Mks. a. P. Mkad, Proprietor*.
uf M: Tabor, Or* i
Cor Sth At. Bet. Broadway and State
0|>p??lte i lly Hall
Prices 25c and 50c Skagway, Alaska
Stean HejteJ First-Class Bar
fitotri. LightaJ ?nJ Club Rooms
The Hstoria
European Pljn Only
??mu K t F*r,t <vd A. H. DAVIS, Monagtr
i - H r. Aijskx Ratrt: From It upwa-Ji. skagway
Electric I.iyht and
ST. JAMES HOTEL |
Cor er Fourth Avenue and State
The <)nly l' v I 'roof
BuiM.n,; in Aiasnii
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
[Kurupvan Plan!
ERNEST F MILLER. M?n?o?r
i>tt appo ? 1 !:?>???. in Elegantly furni?h?tl
Klectr*- Li({h!>. Comfortably beaUtl. Kin<?, lar^a
warm lobby
H?adquartara for AT LIN -KLONDIKE UINKUS Raa?oaab!a Tartnt
Well H. JteJ Fir?t [111111/ 1111111 llflTN Ljr*"' anJ ^ 'fP01"1"
t.iti Accommodat i? K |( 1 [J < H 1 1 1 r I eJ hotel in Alaska. Cor.
F?r i?( Gue>:i UUIlll 111 lU IIUILL Bro*!v?jy ?nj Fifth Ave
F. F. CLARK.1 PROPRIETOR
Tims M AGNOLIA 1H10TEL
*tftT "Ave |6etween Broadway and State Sts.
Newelv Kittod ?nJ'Furninhed Op>n All Night
BEDS 25c C. CARMICHAEL, Lessee
PACIFIC HOTEL
? ? - - ? ? luropriu Plan. ?
Fifth avenue Near Ma n Street. C. W Klippel. Manager.
R/ltH?S & ^05TGOI^FO|^Jl\dLC
Ut 1 *V ^0?]^5 J^E CI JY
TCHm Ri;A?01ABiK. IRAfiVAl, ALiRKA.
U. S. HOTEL.
& R6STHURHN1
_*T*_C A, ^c.r> r\TT>/ The only Second CU?? Howl in
*\f\ I 4Pl r Cl\ ur\l skyway. Next door to RR depot
E. GOVRLEY, Prrop,
LODGING IV
BOARD PEP MEAL 35<-PERwEEK $$.o0
HOTEL WICKSTR0M
Bear J and Lodging per week $6 and If. 70
Johnson avenue, Near old Postotfice. NO BAR See the High Flag Pole
Rainier Hotel & Restaurant
^ - ji ? BROADWAY. K rank Hall, Wop.
Czcaileit Maala S3 ccnta. Alllhe deheaciee the market afford* Beet chef?
?tutored Handaomely furaiahed roome. Electric light*, city water
and beat accoaimodatuina ia the city
5 $ . ; SKAGWAY - ALASKA
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It is .1 curious thing how a rumor grow s.
, The rumor got started in some old wav
that Vining's is the best place to get At.ln
' outfit". ?
Business Propertv For Sale? Lot }2 feet
front, store building 10x28 teet, four living
rooms and wood house. All papered and
painted inside and out. Good sidewalks,
well of splendid water 18 feet deep. Cen
trally located. A snap for somebodv. In
quire at Manhattan Grocerv, Twelfth and
State streets. .. UJtf
Everest is selling out to close out busi
ness. Come and get pricfs
?Airm cmuuch *? oa%
CHURCH & DaY,
LAWYERS
.sank Building. Cor. Stat* and ;th
SKAGWAY.
C. W. TURNER,
LAWYER.
ormi: Moore block Sccond Floor.
State Street, Slcagway.
P. A. E. Boetzkes M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICt : Sixth Ave- between Broadwav
and Slate? Over Peterson's store.
Hours, 9 to 10 a. m.? 1 to 2 and 7 to 9 p. m
Dp. Laycock Barker
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Clayton Block.
Utllcu hour* : 10 to 1" a. in
2 to 5 p. in
7 to i) j>. in
G F PARKER
U. S. DEPUTY SURVhYOR
Cltv anJ Country
Surveying Promptlv
Atte.iJeJ to
Orticc BroaJu ay anJ 1 2th Street.
J. G. Pric* Morton E. fct?v?n %
PRICE & STEVENS
A'tomeys and Counsellors
Fifth Avt N>\t to CnurthouM
Noury anJ swn Sk????v .
o^rjphfr in Otu? Afj*k4
Lovell and Jennings
ATToRNKYS-AT-LAW.
Corner Stale anJ Bon J ? ? Skyway.
WIAHLON F HALL, M. 0
KLI.LY BLOCK. Broadway.
OrricK Hocks :
10 to 12 A. M.
2 to 5 and 7 to 9 v. v
if ill
III If HIE ill
They Spoil the Face of Na
ture and Get in His Way.
ON HIS WAY JO HAINES
HfOiber of i'hllkal Tribe Who Pi
loted _ Llrulrai?ii\ KrliwHlxkM
Tlirougb Copper Miter Country
-Old Mud Rllrla.
"Go da sek votine ?" was the cordial
salutation of "Long Sliortv" to a bin low
sguattv Indian with white hair, as the
two shook hands heartily! The red skln'sl
feature > took on a still more ruddy glow
of pleasure.
?'Ye so dey dotary vase katsay wasa
tive," was the reply.
He had been asked where he hid been
and replied that he had just come from j
Five Fingers, after actinic as pilot for a
party over tlte ballon trail to Dawson.
Speaking still in the CUilkat language
the old man sjid he had had a very fc.iJ
trip; very bad. All the game had been
scared out of (lie country; he could not
even gel a porcupine, game all along the
the trail was so scarce. "Why I had to
eat white mans grub all the way out," lie
said, and he vowej that l;e would never
again make a trip on the food
the boston man. No, he would
prefer to p^ck his own dried salmon and
hi? little can ot hoolkan grease.
I he Indian name of the sturdy old war
no. .<ud guider is Lndi-Alik. fie is a
member ol one of the Chilkat tribes speak
ing the i lilinket tongue and is famous as
a pilot into the interior. He was in the
Copper tfivei country with Lieut. Sch
waUka, and went with Wells down the
Yukon to the mouth of the lanana and
out to the coast by the way or Luchitak.
I lie entire trip Irom Haines Mission to the
coast took eighteen monthy and tile whole
party lived nearly on tne resources of nature
No u nider therefore he c&nplains of the
bjstoR man having dliven all of the game
out ot the country.
In lty6 he accompanied Long Shorty
Bigelow to the Klondike when they drove
over the l)alton trail the first band of cat
tle ever taken into the interior, Last fall
he went in with another herd and return
ed two days ago.
He wa< walking around Skagway in a
state of great bew :lderment. "Yes he had
a very hard trip," he repeated musingly.
Notfrub and the che>kakos were to many
on the trail; thev got in his wav. And
now that he had got here the white man
N. K.WILSON
Druggist
Liargest Stock |
^Physicians' Prescriptions [jarefully Compounded
Holly Ave, Near State.
City Brewery
I'll AS. A. ? % % K ?*., K'rop /
Manufacturers of j
\
Steam and Lager Beer
Made of the Purest and Best Hops and Malt
BEST BOTTLIiD BHKR MADE IN ALASKA.
Special attention given to FAMILY TRADF
' Main Street, between Holly and Shoup.
G. A. ANDERSON.
Largest Stock in skagwav
HARDWARE
Shelf Go ds. Stove*, Tin and G aniteware, Paints. Oil*, Class,
Sash and Doors. Prospectors outfits a Specia t v. Tents. Can
vas, Rifles, Guns and Ammunition.
F. C. Lauirtence Jecueler
DIAMONDS
WATCHES
CLOCKS $
JEWELRY
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%
Official
rt'ntch In
?|n'Ctor for
rt'hito l'?<*
and
Vukon Ity
Hroadwsj
Slca^waj
p.is changed everything. The trees that
he owned, where hr had cached his goods
fur m.inv vears had all Wen stolen. He
hid chaches near where he stood, (opposite
the post office) ''where was it now?" In
dians never touched a cache belonging to
another.
Yesterday morning KnHi-Ank left for his
home at Haines, shaking his head in sad
perplexity at the bust I ng town and gaz
ing at the locomotives, the wharves and
the steamers with the wide eved wonder
of a child.
But Endi-Ank is by no means a child In
business matters. Prom his trapping and
trading ir furs with Stick Indians of the
interior and from his many trips as a land
pilot h? has grown wealthy. He and his
father and brother participated In the
burning of Fort Selkirk in 18;^ so tliat
he must be at least sixtv vears of age at
least. I his brother Is still living, and is
also settled at Haines. One peculhritv
about him is that he has hair as yellow
as a Swede This mav have led to
his being chosen a medicine man, and as
a medicine man he became and is now
the most famous on the coast. His I ame
is Sculda-hoo. He is also wealthy.
Many Good Creeks to he
Opened in Spring.
ALL RICH IN GOLD Ul'ST
I I % r Hundred miirr* Alri-nt.y
porlrd III Ihv l>l?lrlrl? II ill lira
lIUalitH Ufi'oinlug u l.lirly
Tun u.
"Long Shorty," who prefer* that
distinctive name to that of Mr. William
Iligelow, has been in town for a few
day* looking after hi* business affair*
here ami buying k m! for hi* new
place at Haines. When asked hisopin
ion of the future of Haines, and a* to
Porcupine mining district, before he
left for Elaine* yv-lerday morning, Mr.
Ulgelow became oracular and enthusi
attic. He said:
"T ho town, a* you know, in very pret
tily *itn.ited, commanding a beautiful
view of Lynn canal and *loplng gradu
ally down to the finest and safest liar
bor there is in Alaska. The town ha*
been laid out by a competent surveyor,
and youean sit in your home and see
the passing steamers every hour.
Haines is the starting i*>int for the
now I'oreupim; mining district. ami
miners are landed from the big steam
ers on to Migelow dc Cox's lighter and
by it brought to the foot of the trail,
where they can at mice start their sleds
with three to four hundred |*>uml* to a
sled. The Porcupine can be reached
in two or three day*.
"Kight miles from Haines you couie
to what is known as Kicking Horse,
which Is believed to lie quite rich in
i placer ux well iih quartz. Thin in it
tributary of the main ('hilkat river ?nd
drains a vast area of country. The
mountains at the head of Kicking Horse
arc the highest of any we have on the
coast, the altitude of some of the more
prominent |>eaks being from >?KN? to
'.?000 feet.
?'Next eomes the Salmon river, also
on the southwest side of the I 'hilkat
and einptyingjinto it. This is twenty
iwo miles above Kicking Horse, which
makes It thirty miles from Haines.
This creek is, of late, proving to con
tain rich placer ground In abundance.
( 'onildcrablu development work, quartz
as well us placer, Is now going on, and
the prospects are ??>?i-llent. Tim
Vogel, who owns the Haines hotel, has
a tunnel in aliout thirl) feet, and Jaek
Hlgelow and yours truly aiyl several
others" a re pushing development in that
neighliorhood. I /its of cabins ai c gi.
Ing up.
"Porcopine, the most famous of these
creeks, eomes next. It wus here the
lirst discovery of placer gold wus made
in the fall of last year by Mr. M axon.
! Porcupine is u tributary of what the
I natives call the Klechena river, which
' is also a tributary of the (.'hilkat, euip
1 tying into it, as the other two. from the
west. There are about live hundred
miners now there, prospecting and
i building cabins. The suow is about
' live feet deep so the work has to go
j slowly,
"From the mouth of the Chilkat to
its headwaters is JJ."> miles, and no
white man, except myself, has been up
to the extreme head. It runs in a
northwesterly direction from Pyramid
llarl>or. and in the summer you can go
from its headwaters to the headwater*
of the Dyea river in a day and n half.
The country between the two has never
I l>een explored. I made the trip last
summer, carrying my blankets, gun,
pick, shovel and grub and brought out
with me many lieauliful *|tecimen? of
quartz float, and I am satistied that the
good ledges In there are numerous. I
would advis* any miner who is llgurlng
on going in there to prospect to get in
his supplies over the snow . for when the
t 'hilkat river breaks up it is rather dif
ficult and dangerous to get up. The
(.'hilkat is quite a large and swift
stream, as well as are a'l of its tribu
taries."
"And how is Haines, Shorty?"
"Hainea is all righf.'and all these
miners going in nrtike it lively, but un
fortunately the tow nsito is in litigation.
Colonel Sol Rlpinsky bought a small
turnip patch and two partly tumbled
dowu houses from a native woman for
two pounds of sbeep-dip|K-d tobacco and
a box of crackers. Then he laid claim
to fifteen acres or thereabout* of brush
land and limber. The citizens nave
cleared this land and' built their
homes on it, and now Hlplnsky wants
to deprive them of it. On this disputed
land there are now ten or twelve busi
ness bouses. The mission ground ad
joins the townsltu and is one tuilo
square. Adjoining this the govern
ment has reserved lour miles square
for military purposes. Neither of
these conflict with the towuslte. Yes,
Haines will be something of a place in
a few months."
"ST. PATRICK WAS A C1NTUE|VI AN "
An' TliU l??t. 1'ntrlck'N Dit> In th<> Mornlnc hi Tliruo nt tlio Itluu o'
the 1I?IU o* uliunuoii.
It in St. Patrick's day today and It in a day that is celebrated all
over the I'nited States and ull over the world where there are Irishmen
enough to surround a jug of poteen to the good saint's memory. Here
we have a masquerade ball, for the reason that the alleged birthday of
the saint is in Lent and merry maker* are not sure that, as a saint, the
worthy bishop would officially sanction it, but they know that a* a manly
man be will smile at their merriment under their masks and grant them
indulgence. The Irish clan of Clancy is going to celebrate without
masks. They give an Irish green dinner with crcmc dc mlnte
o'n the sidelioard. This may not please the saints, but Frank Clancy
says: "Well, we'll have it anyway and pay the score In the hereafter."
If what was learned yesterday can be relied upon, St. Patrick is as
much the patron saint of Alaska as of lrelaud It was away back. in the
fifth century, some yearn before there was any Suagway, that St. Pat
rick lived and moved and had his being, and all about his birth and his
tory is dimmed with the obscurity of ages. The only Irishman in Skag
way who seems to know anything altout the old gentleman is Gustavo
Weishaupt. That is scarcely an Irish name, but Gus is well kuowu as an
Irishman, but you would scarcely recognize him "be the spaehe of him."
Gus is a deep thinker and a thorough historian. He isjso full of his
tory that he feels that he rememlters the event that occurred ages ago.
He Is steeped in history. He said last night.
"St. Patrick? Yah, yavoll, he it is 1 recall. Him was the saint
national of my countrymen, ze Irlandaisc. He va* von Scherman wot
got by hlmselet to Ireland and vw mine fader did. Undden he travel.
He drive der serjs-nts und her toads from Ireland, uud don he got to Ice
land und he come to Skagway und drive all doac'lieastea out ov Alaskay.
He "ave a wan' like is Aaron. He yust wave it from Moore's wharf und
dere is no more serjwnts in Alaskay. You dis all find in history You
dis all flud in der Kurzgefasstes Exegetishes Handbuchen,"
This is a mb-.t remarkable point for future historians. If no snakes
are seen in Ska way tomorrow morning the subjcct will Is- worthy of
scientific investigation.
Water Uoiki lr?nrlilir.
The application for a new water
works franchise, whloh came up before
the council Monday nitfht and water
committee, wan under the considers- 1
tion of that committee lnxt night. The '
member* of the committee present were ;
Meaara. Stanley, Guthrie mid Laumeis
ter and there were aluo present Mr. I.
William Adam*, the applicant for the
new franchise, and Measra Price and
Stevens and Mr. Eastman on behnlf of
the prosent water works oompany. The
committee heard and carefully ques
tioned both sides . It will make its re
port to the council on Monday evening.
Finest line of dress pants ever shown In
Alaska, at Clavtons.
I - - <
for Snlr.
A bakery ami coffee limine, the only
one In town, 'Miller wind ove'u.) Owner
linn ?omc claims inside which he haw to
work. For particulars address
H. Kappolb,
14-4 Im Unities Mission, Alaska.
Mr. Howard, of Camp No. t, was made
happy and content vesterdav afternoon by
the arrival of his wife on the steamer To
peka. Mr. Howard is just completing a
cozy cottage at Camp No. t, where he and
Mrs. Howard will make their permanent
residence*.
The scow with the reat of the Dir
iffo's freight left Juneau at 8 o clock
yesterday morning and will arrive
some time today.
R|e? l< -'?? ? ,fc
IBS II J
nie 10 m
Embargo Removed From *
Skagway's Business.
STRIKE DECLARED OFF
Tim II uiMtrrd of Ihr Mm Krlurn to
Work ail III* Itiillrond ml Olli.
era l.rntr I ow n*
United States troops are gone, the sa
loons are upen again; business, after a dull*
ness of a few Java, has started in again
w th a rush. I he recent vessels have
bruught bin loads of passengers. This has
ttllcj the hotels. More than ever of these
p.i^mers ere buying outfits here. Skag
w a> S fame as an outfitting point is spread
ing slowly but surclv.
The strike, as was stated in the.e col
umns yesterday, is over. The few railroad
men left on the streets cannot be distin
guished rrom the rest of the loungers.
I wo hundred of them returned to w irk on
the railroid yesterday morning. Among
these were about 3s of the destitute. So
far as can be learned not a single meeting
was held by the strikers yesterday. I here
:s not a quorum left. This small residue
will easily find work in town or will man
age to return to their homes below.
Commissioner Sehlbrede and Captain
Yeatman of the United States army con
ferred together yesterday morning, and
concluded there was no more any call to
keen t lie troops here. Captain Yearman
called up his men and returned with them
to the Uvea barracks. Shortly befcre he
left he remarked to a friend that he had
been on pins and needles from the time he
heard of the strike, and that the telephone
message to come over was a relief to his
nerves.
And so the first labor strike in Alaska
faded away, leaving only one evidence to
recall it to memory, tne prisoner in the citv
jail who is to be sent to Sitka on the next
boat touching there. Even in his case,
now that the matter is all over and settled,
there is talk of a petition to lighten his
sentence.
ill. Mill Vhkotii t:it* IIEKK.
lilt I Iirir Ull) In Their It I Claims
on ilir 14 lond*kr.
Frank mid t'larencc Berry ill. F. and
< J.; among the most noted of the
Klondike!* who went in early and cam*
t oat with a bit; stake, eaine up on the
Tope k a yesterday and put up at the
Mondamiu last night. This morning
they start for Dawson There are four
1 of the Berry brothers who have become
| rich and are growing richer on their
i Kldorado placers. One of them, Henry,
is in there now. It was he who recent
I ly turned up the il4(?) nugget, and the
! lir.-t news tliul ( larenee met with when
[ lie landed here was in regard to this
nugget. lie immediately started for
the Daily Alaskan ollloe to get a
; copy of the issue of March 10, contain
ing a full account of it. When Clar
ence and Frank get in to Dawson they
will relieve Henry, and he will come.'"
out for a good time among his old
friends in Fresno county, Cal.
Fred, the other brother, U still hav
ing a good time there, at the home of
the boys in Scliua. Fred was only
| married on March 5, so he was allowed
a little period for the honeymoon. It
was a splendid time the brothers had
at their old home. It was more to them,
the ailulutious of the friends and neigh
bors they had grown up among, than
all the adulatiens and flattery of the
great newspapers, who published their
|iortraits and made them heroes. All
thr time Fred spent in the Klondike
lie had been thinking of a ptetty girl at
Seltna that he used to go to school with,
.?she rf'ts a Miss Pearl Albaugh. When
he had made his pile ho hastened fo lay
it and himself at her feet The wed
ling on March 5 was the most eventful
occurrence In the history of Fresne
?ountv Mr. and Mrs. Fred Berry will
oe here in about two weeks.
All the brothers have made consider
able investments in Fresno county,
Clarence having gone largely Into Sel
ma town property and in farms and
mortgages so that the result of one
year in the Klondike wfll make the
Herrys the landed aristocrat* of Fresno
county.
i ?}. T. Edgar goes in with the Uerrvs
and also ('. W. Livermore. The latter
I has Invented a gasoline sled in which
I I he Herrys havo a financial interest.
| He tried it on t.ake liennett day before
yesterday and lwlieves ho can haul
three tons at the rate of three miles an
hour. The engine is of four horse
power and runs an endless chain in the
runner of the sled that has grouters to
eatchftiold of the ice and propel the
sled. The front end of the runners is
^olid metal and beats down the snow.
To this propelling machine the sleds
I are attached in single file.
Livermore says it works first rate,
but Clarence Berry says he is in a
hurry to get in and relieve Henry, so
he will go ahead with a clipping dog
team.
( The finest line of clothing and gents fur
nishing goods ever brought to Skagway
ust received bv the Klondike Trading
Company, corner State and ThlM