The Skaguay News.
Skaguay, Alaska
Friday, June 17, 1898.
Volume 1, No. 36.
Page 1.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Levens & Weldon.
Attorneys at Law,
Office with U. S. Marshal, in
Occidental Hotel Building.
Lovell & Jennings,
Attorneys at Law,
Practice is in all the Courts.
Cor. State and Bond Sts.
Skaguay, Alaska
Hotel Wickstrom
On Johnson Avenue near postoffice. Best accommodations.
Peter Wickstrom, Prop.
Steamer 'Farallon.'
Will leave for Victoria and Puget Sound Ports on or about the 24th of November,
and every twelve days thereafter.
For further information apply to A. Heathorn, Agent.
At Juneau Wharf.
Walter Church,
Attorney at Law.
Notary Public.
Opposite postoffice, Skaguay.
Falkboulia Barber Shop
Best Work in the City
Conducted by "Jimmy the Josher."
State Street near 6th Avenue.
D. Lucci
Grocderies, Tobacco, Cigars, Candy and Confectionery.
Finest Fruit in the City.
On Broadway.
For all kinds of Choice Fruits, Vegetables, Candy, Confectionery, Tobacco,
Cigars and Smokers' Supplies,
Call on Tony Dortero
Broadway, near 5th Ave.
Astoria Restaurant
Broadway, near Fifth
First-Class in Every Detail. Best 25c. Meals in the City.
T. J. Broemser, Prop.
Wallin & Alm.
Fruit, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes and Confectionery.
Soft Drinks a Speciality.
State Street between 4th and 5th.
Vince & Son
Are the largest poultry, egg and butter dealers, and can fill all orders.
Responsible agent wanted.
Portland, Oregon.
G. A. Anderson,
Dealers in shelf and heavy hardware, stoves, tin and graniteware. Paints, oils
and glass, sash and doors. Miners' and prospectors' outfits a speciality.
Cor. State and 6th Avenue,
Skaguay, Alaska
Dentistry.
Jas. B. Wall, Graduate Dentist.
Open evenings.
8th Ave., near Post Office
Skaguay, Alaska.
Colorado Lodging House
8th Avenue.
(Holly) Two doors below Astoria Hotel.
The nicest, cleanest, and most quite lodging house in the city. Parties
compelled to be up during the night will find this a quiet place to recuperate.
Rooms by the week, $2.00.
T. M. Dougan, Prop.
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HER OWN MEDICINE.
MAKES SEATTLE SICK.
Yet Her Papers Continue to Slander and Defame Skaguay's Fair Name.
For the past several months, in fact ever since Skaguay has been a town, the
Seattle papers have never lost an opportunity for saying mean things about her.
For some time the "impassable White Pass" was the favorite subject, on which
long and misleading articles were written. When it became apparent that
nothing more could be accomplished in deriding the trail, those papers took
another tack, and for some time. Skaguay was published to the world as a
place rocking in pestilence and disease, in fact it was denominated "a veritable
death hole," the most unhealthy place on earth. When the lies were refuted
with cold facts, another hobby was groomed for the track, and that hobby is now
being ridden with a vengeance. It is to bhe effect that human life in this
city is valued no higher than that of the dogs which roam our streets; that
raping and murder hold high carnival here without a hand being raised in
protest; that the federal authorities are in co-partnership with murderers and
thugs, and are, themselves, the worst set of men ever known in the northwest.
Whether or not the slanderous fabrications are believed by the unsuspecting
readers of the Seattle papers, we have no means of learning. But the
inference is that they are generally believed, and as a logical result, much
injury has been done and is being done to our city from this source. It is
a fact that several tourists who were here on the steamer Queen last Sunday
morning, after reading a dastardly article in a recent issue of the Seattle
Times, expressed themselves as being afraid to come ashore on the dock, much
less to walk up into the city. Of course, these were only a few
chicken-hearted easterners of the class who begin to look for wild, war painted
Indians, and bodies dangling from limbs of trees, the moment they cross the
Mississippi on their way across the continent from their effete New England
homes.
However, the publication of these many and infamous, groundless lies have a
very deleterious effect on Skaguay and her interests. Men, citizens and
officials have been slandered and maligned, whose every interest is here, and
who are ever foremost in every movement which serves to advance law, order and
the general moral welfare of Skaguay. The sun does not shine on a more
law-abiding city and people in any land than Skaguay and her residents, and ere
the lapse of another week, the low, slanderous and defamatory sheets of Seattle
will realize that they have gone too far, that the worm has turned, and that
courts of law exist and were created for the purpose of attending to such
criminals as are those who permit their publications to become the instruments
through which cities are maligned and men's characters assailed and defamed, and
for ought the Seattle papers care, forever ruined.
On the other hand, how does Seattle relish the publication of even a vague
hint at the lawlessness that for many months has been rampant within her own
confines? In a recent issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the leading
editorial was:
"The calumnies against Seattle, first invented and printed by a lying local
newspaper, are being most industriously circulated by competitors of this city
to its infinite damage and discredit. Two great London newspapers have
been persuaded to admit to their columns falsehoods from this newspaper
descriptive of the alleged chronic lawlessness of Seattle and the league between
the authorities and the criminal element. The London Morning Jounal,
Railway and Commercial Gazette, the leading paper of its class in the world, on
April 16 published conspicuously correspondence from Vancouver, B. C., in which
the following appeared under the heading, "A Dangerous Port of Departure.' "
Then followed an article from the London paper, which warned people coming to
Alaska to steer clear of Seattle on account of the almost certainty of being
robbed were they to stop off at that place. The London paper was right,
for between the professional sure thing men and the merchants of Seattle, the
average Englishman and easterner would stand no more show there than the
proverbial snow ball in, we'll say, the tropics. And yet the Seattle
papers assert that their city is being injured, but in the very next issue they
defame and vilify Skaguay, and inform the world that her officers and residents
are red-handed murderers. Consistency is a jewel, but it is as foreign to
Seattle papers as Esquimaux are to Florida.
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HIT 'EM AGAIN, OLD MAN.
Steamship companies are in a state of despair over over the falling off of
passengers to Alaska, and are devising means to increase their traffic.
Yet they keep in their employ, in charge of their steamers, men who spread such
reports at Seattle, as food for the reporters of the daily papers, as gthe
following taken from the P.-I. of June 5th:
"The officers of the Farallon report that the spring freshets have set in
about Skaguay and Wrangel, and are playing havoc with the wharves and other
woodwork along the river courses. Bridges on the trail between Dyea and
Skaguay are said to be washed entirely away and the trail strewn with wreckage.
Travel on the trail is practically suspended for the time being."
The facts are, there is no trail between Dyea and Skaguay, and no
obstructions to travel along the Dyea trail have existed by reason of freshets.
If the managers of the steamship companies would bounce one half of their lying
steamboat officers and boat hands, they would find their passenger lists
increasing instead of diminishing. Ship captains, mates and pursers on
their lines have destroyed the travel to Alaska by their false reports of the
condition of affairs at Dyea and Skaguay. -- Dyea Press.
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GAMING DEVICES DEBARRED.
Two weeks ago when W. J. Jones, the well-known newspaper correspondent, left
here for Dawson City, he had with him a wheel of fortune with which it was
proposed to make a large fortune in the land of gold and heavy gaming. The
wheel, which was six feed in diameter, and weighed upwards of two hundred
pounds, was with great difficulty packed to the summit, it being necessary to
construct a special pack-saddle for the purpose. At a great expense, the
wheel was finally taken as far as the boundary line, where it was confiscated by
the Canadian custom officers. Mr. Jones is thus out a large sum of money,
while the Dawsonites will be deprived of the pleasure of buying little tickets,
and seeing the merry wheel go round. Had Jones told the customs officers
that it was a circular saw he was taking in, it would have been all right.
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ALL ABOARD FOR DAWSON!
The following apperared in a recent issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"Shipments of material to Skaguay to be used in the construction of the White
Pass & Yukon railway are being made almost daily. A number of handcars
were sent north yesterday, and forty tons of giant powder will be shipped
tomorrow on the sailing vessel Camden. Another shipment of fifty tons will
be made during the coming week on the vessel Columbia, which will also carry
1,000 tons of rail.s
"E. C. Heney, who has charge of the Seattle headquarters, reports that work
on the road is progressing rapidly, and if it is found that the country north of
Lake Bennett is not exceptionally hard to penetrate, the road will be completed
to Dawson in eighteen months, if not sooner.
"Louis Sibble, of Trinidad, Col., has arrived in the city to act as
accountant for G. M. Forbes, who has the contract to furnish all the lumber
necessary in the construction of the road."
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700 TONS OF STEEL RAILS.
The barge Skookum arrived Sunday evening from the Sound in tow of the tug
Tacoma, and is now tied up at the S. & S. dock, where her cargo of 700 tons of
rails for the Skaguay & White Pass railroad is being discharged. In
addition to her cargo of railroad material, the Skookum brought 800 head of beef
cattle which were discharged at Pyramid harbor, from which place it is proposed
to drive them over the Dalton trail to Dawson. The cattle are the property
of a company in which the Klondike millionaire, Pat Galvin, is heavily
interested. The work of unloading the rails is being pushed as rapidly as
possible, and when they are all off, there will be enough of them to lay several
miles of track. The Skookum is the biggest craft of the kind ever seen in
Lynn canal. She is 250 feet long, 50 feet beam and, when fully loaded,
draws about 13 feet of water. As soon as discharged she will be towed back
to Tacoma for another cargo of rails and railroad material.
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COARSE AMUSEMENT.
The fact that Sunday was a dull day in Skaguay does not paliate the rough,
coarse and brutal acts, which, we are informed, a few careless men perpetrated
for the purpose of, as they termed it, "making things lively." These acts
consisted in typing cans to dog's [tails?], _____ _____ broken down, pack horses
and other such rude and unmanly practices. We do not know who the parties
are who were thus fiendishly engaged, and we have no desire to know them.
There is not one man in ten thousand but who was trained in his early life to
abhor such acts, and he who was not should be ashamed of his parents for their
lack in giving him proper training. Being in Alaska is no excuse for
laying aside the natural instincts of a gentleman, or for ignoring all the
precepts and practices taught us in youth. Shame on any biped who will
thus torture dumb animals.
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Captail Wood, of the Canadian Mounted Police, the all around good fellow and
gentleman, who was stationed here during the fall, winter and spring in charge
of the boys of stripes, and who left nearly a month ago for Lake Bennett, was
crossing palms with his many friends here Tuesday. Capt. Wood was on his
way to Victoria, and left on the Tartar for a hurried business trip in
connection with the Canadian customs. Captain Wood will return to Skaguay
in about ten days. Were it not for the fact that he is a true son of
Britain, he would be a welcome adjunct to the country over which waves the stars
and stripes. The poet Burns had just such a man as Captain Wood in his
mind's eye when he wrote, "A man's a man for all that."
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REPORTS FROM TAGISH.
BOATS AND LIVES LOST.
Over Three Thousand Crafts En Route to Interior. Large Saw Mill for
Dawson.
Mr. F. J. Baker, the popular agent of the Canadian Pacific railway here in
Skaguay, returned form a week's sojourn at Bennett, on Sunday. Mr. Baker
brought quite an interesting budget of news from that locality:
Bartlett Bros., the well-known packers, started down the lake with two large
scows. One was loaded with livestock and provisions, and the other with
hay and grain for the animals. The latter began to leak quite badly and an
attempt was made to beach the unruly craft, when she struck a hidden rock and
the waves soon wrecked her. The loss was a severe one to Bartlett Bros.,
as the cargo was quite valuable.
The Canadian Mounted Police had advices form their men stationed along the
lakes and the rivers, that forty-one boats had been wrecked and their entire
outfits lost, some at Carribou Crossing and others at White Horse rapids.
So far as the Police have been able to learn, but three lives have been lost.
Up to June first, the Police had registered a little over 2,500 boats at
Bennett, after which the registration office was removed to Lake Tagish.
The boats averaged four and one-half occupants each, making, in round numbers,
ten thousand people who had started down to Dawson by June 1st.
The Mounted Police have appointed two experienced river men as pilots at
White Horse - Dickson and Richards - are their names - and loaded boats are not
permitted to shoot the rapids unless these men are allowed to pilot them.
The charges for piloting boats through these dangerous waters are $20 to $100
for boats, and $30 for scows.
The two light stern wheelers, "Willie Irving" and "Goddard" which left
Bennett a short time ago to locate the channel of the river as far as White
Horse, returned to the above place last Saturday, having made the round trip
very successfully. The little steamer "Ora" will be ready to leave Bennett
this week for Dawson. She has a capacity of sixty passengers and seventy
tons of freight. She can steam twelve knots per hour. It not seems
almost a certainty that a daily steamer service will be inaugurated between
Bennett and Dawson this summer.
Mr. A. S. Kerry, of the Kerry Canadian Mill Company, returned to this city
from Tagish last Monday morning. Mr. Kerry made a quick trip out,
traveling night and day for upwards of sixty hours without sleep or rest.
Mr. Kerry owns and operates a sawmill at Tagish, and his story is contradictory
to what appears above in regard to the loss of boats. He says that up to
the time of his leaving Tagish, carriers had returned daily from White Horse
rapids and and other points down the river, and that only three b oats, and not
a single life had been lost in the trip from the lakes to below White Horse.
He said that submerged rocks for boats drawing less than three and one half feet
of water, are unknown at Carribou Crossing, and that only two scows or boats
have thus far passed that point, drawing more than two and one half feet of
water. When Mr. Kerry left Tagish early last Saturday morning, 2605 boats
had passed Tagish in the previous 15 days enroute to Dawson. He estimates
that by this time upward of 3,000 boats have passed Tagish on their way down the
river. Many of these did not wait for the ice to melt, but struck out over
it. To this latter class is due nearly all the reports of accidents and
bad luck occasioned on the route. The steamer Henry Irving, with barges in
tow, had passed down the river several days previous to Mr. Kerry's departure.
Mr. Kerry had not visited Skaguay for severla weeks, and to say that he was
surprised at what he saw, is putting it very mildly. He says this is the
only feasible gateway to the interior, and he ventures the prediction that one
year from date, we will have a population of 20,000 people at this place.
He has shipped a sawmill plant to Dawson city, and within 30 days it will be in
operation at the metropolis of the gold fields, cutting from 20,000 to 30,000
feet of lumber daily.
Mr. Kerry said that two days previous to his leaving Tagish, 58 head of as
fine beef cattle as he ever saw had passed down the river for Dawson. Mr.
Kerry left on his return to Tagish Tuesday evening, via the White Pass, the only
feasible route to the lakes and headwaters of the Yukon. He expects to
make a hurried business trip to Dawson in about 30 days.
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A KOMICAL KUSS.
In the language of Artemus Ward, deceased, the editor of the Dyea Press is a
"komied and amoosin' kuss." In the last issue of his paper he says, in
reference to Skaguay's railroad:
"The construction of the road to the boundary line is as far as the present
corporation can possibly go, provided it has the means to go thus far with an
enterprise which promises no returns for the capital needed to complete it to
the boundary.
"The editor of the News will find that he is talking through a No. 6 hat when
he undertakes to magnify the importance of a railroad enterprise, however
beneficial it would be to the interest of Skaguay, beyond the jurisdiction of
the United States and against the declared policy of the Canadian government.
The construction of this road is not taken as a serious menace to the advantages
of the Dyea route, and in the end may not prove an unmixed joy to Skaguay, for
it has been known for some time that certain parties were gathering up a lot of
material at Seattle to construct a line of railroad from the wharves at Skaguay,
to a point connecting with the Brackett wagon road, expecting to control the
carrying of freight thus far, hoping at some time to interest capital, both
American and Canadian, to extend it over the boundary. Now since the
Canadian parliament has refused to grant a charter of this character, it will be
interesting to note what progress will be made with the enterprise. The
mere fact of a few tons of rails and the employment of a few men may mean more
or less, according to the capital behind the enterprise. So far as an
international line is concerned, we are not so selfish but that we could
congratulate our neighbor on its acquisition, for it would be a great thing for
Alaska, and the road is only completed to the boundary, it will not leave
them on equal terms with Dyea so far as reaching the lakes at the head of water
navigation to the Yukon is concerned. We have the shortest and best
route from the boundary line to the lakes, and equally as good means of
transportation by our tramway system to the summit."
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CHILDREN'S DAY.
Last Sunday was designated as Children's Day, and in the evening a highly
interesting program was rendered at the Union Church. The edifice had been
appropriately decorated, and the bright and smiling faces of the little people
made a very attractive scene. The following program was rendered:
Greeting, by Superintendent Mr. Royal.
Scripture reading, by Dr. Campbell.
Song, by Rev. Faulsell.
Song, by school: "Joy Bells Are Ringing.:
Recitation, Lillie Doran.
Recitation, Myrtle Hollingsworth.
Recitation, Eugena Mona.
Song, Luci9lle Lattimer.
Recitation, Mabel Doyle.
Recitation, Tommy Luke.
Recitation, Ella Hartman.
Song, Quartette.
Recitation, Frank Morehouse.
Recitation, Ethel Luke.
Song, by Seven Little Girls.
Recitation, Elvner Leslie.
Song, by School, "Bringing in the Sheaves."
Recitation, Silvia Hill.
Recitation, Mabel Pierce.
Recitation, Katie Bauer.
Recitation, Clara Carson.
Recitation, Hazel Johnson.
Recitation, Sadie Verbaunhede.
Recitation, Horace Hillery.
Recitation, Alfred Verbaunhede.
"A Casket of Jewels." (Dialogue) by Seven Little Girls.
Twenty minutes address by Rev. Mr. Sinclair.
Solo, Mrs. Brackett.
Collection.
Quartette, "Salior's Dream." by Mrs. Redman, Mrs. Pierce, Dr. Niskern and Mr.
Royal.
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BRACKETT AGAIN IN CHARGE.
Wagon Road Receivership Set Aside by District Court.
When the Brackett Wagon Road receivership case came up for hearing before the
U. S. District Court at Sitka last week, Brackett's attorneys, Lovell &
Jennings, sprung some intricate points on the opposition counsel with the result
that the receiver business was declared off by Judge Johnson, and Brackett was
restored to full ownership, possession and the management of his property.
The amount involved in the claims of C. S. Moody against the road is $3200,
and on his petition D. M. Brogan was appointed receiver of the property.
Mr. Brackett, through his attorneys, denied that the road was insolvent, and
also denied owing in full the amount claimed by Mr. Moody, the amount denied by
Brackett being $800. Of the $3200 claimed by Moody, $100 is for time
checks cashed by the latter, $2,000 is made up from non-itemized bill and
accounts taken by Moody from the firms of Jos. Burkhard & Co., and H. A. Bauer &
Co., and the remaining disputed $800, making a total of $3200. While
Brackett does not admit owing any of the above mentioned amounts, he deposited
with the court $3200 in cash, and asked that all accounts and bills be itemized,
and that Moody, through Brogan, be asked to furnish a more specific bill of
particulars. The motion was granted by the court, and defendants were
granted 16 days in which to present to the court an amended bill, in the
meantime, the road to be without a receiver, and Mr. Brackett to have full
charge and control of the same. A strong aid to Brackett, in having the
order appointing a receiver revoked, was that a petition signed by the majority
of Brackett's creditors, and by 35 laborers now employed by him on his road, was
presented to the court in corroboration of the plea made by the attorneys.
It is to be earnestly hoped that all complications may now be settled out of
court; that Mr. Moody, as well as all other creditors, will receive all that is
due, and that Mr. Brackett may continue at the helm of the most beneficial
enterprise ever conceived and promulgated in the interests of Skaguay.
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Page 2.
Down in the Philippines any person who sits down on the grass is apt to catch
cold, as it is very Dewey.
Several hundred young women in Nebraska, who can ride and shoot, want to go
to Cuba as cavalry companies.
An eastern paper requested answers to the question: "What do you regard at
the most common fault of the present day young men?: Many answers were
received, the pithiest being this: "Preference for a white-shirt job."
At Bath, Me., a tramp stole a tub of axle grease, put it up in small boxes
and sold it around town as corn salve. The man from whom the grease was
stolen bought two boxes.
Henry Norman writes to his London paper that if the Maine had not been blown
up, war would not have occurred. In a sense that is true. The Maine
was the immediate impelling cause. Still, there was a deep seated
conviction that sooner or later Cuba must be freed. It would have found
expression at a later day.
Salvation General Booth said in an address to 400 ministers at Philadelphia:
"Are you satisfied to amust people on their way to hell? You say you
believe that their souls are in danger, and yet your service is to tickle them
with entertainments, to preach milk and water twaddle or away over their heads.
The fact is you don't believe your belief!" The old man would be a good
artilleryman. He shoots straight at the mark.
That miserable lying sheet, the Seattle Times, will be made to sweat for its
gross libel on certain citizens of Skaguay which recently appeared in that
paper. The firm of Price & Fuller has been retained by four of the parties
to begin proceedings against the managers of the times for criminal libel, each
placing his damages at $25,000. Either Mr. Price or Mr. Fuller will leave
for Seattle on the next steamer, to commence proceedings in the Superior Court
of King county. The matter will be pushed to a finish and old man Blethen
will discover that even the worm will turn after a time, and that he cannot
forever continue his hellish lies about the people of Skaguay without having to
pay dearly for it.
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RAPID RAILROAD WORK.
Never in the history of railroad building in the west has such rapid progress
been made as that inaugurated on the Skaguay & Lake Bennett enterprise.
The road is now completely graded from tidewater to the foot of Porcupine hill;
the piling has all been driven for the long bridge across the river, and the
numerous small bridges are being rapidly put in, while over a mile of track has
been laid, and a mighty fine track it is, too. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Heney,
the contractor, have gone to the Sound after more help, and will, if possible,
bring back 600 or 700 men with them. After that the work will be pushed
more rapidly than every.
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As will be seen by referring to the views of property owners along Broadway,
published in another column, there is a great diversity of opinion as to whether
the construction of a railway thereon will be a benefit or injury to real estate
situated along that thoroughfare. The News does not presume to know what
the result will be along the business portion of Broadway, but of one thing we
feel absolutely assured, and that is that property situated along that street,
say from 9th avenue north, will be greatly enhanced in value by the road and the
clearing of the street for such purpose. The stream of water from the
springs along the foot of the bluff, takes an extremely meandering course on its
way to the bay, and crosses the street no less than six times within a distance
of nine blocks, and a bridge is required at every crossing. This is a
great expense, and it would have been years before the city or the property
owners would have been financially able to build these structures, or even clear
the thoroughfare of stumps. Again we say, it is our belief that upper
Broadway property owners have been greatly benefitted by the construction of
this railroad, and we think they will bear us out in the statement.
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THEIR OPINIONS.
Residents and Property Owners on Broadway Interviewed.
As a result of the mass meeting held Tuesday night, the Skaguay & White Pass
Railroad Co. was, by the city concil, granted a right of way over the
thoroughfare known as Broadway, and at seven o'clock, Wednesday morning, upwards
of 500 men were working like beavers, excavating, grading and leveling a road
bed in the middle of the highway. By ten o'clock in the forenoon the grade
had been completed and ties were being laid. Two hours later these ties
were being bound together by steel rails, and when the sun set Wednesday
evening, upwards of a mile of railroad had been graded, tied and railed, and was
ready for the locomotives, the work having all been done in the short space of
thirteen hours.
At the cost of considerable time and labor, the News, being aware that there
existed some opposition to the constructing of the road along Broadway, made it
a point to call upon and interview as many of the adjacent property owners as
could be found, and to them was propounded the question: "What in your opinion,
will be the effect on business interests and property values of the building of
the railroad along Broadway?" The replies were as follows:
E. R. Peoples, undertaker: "The road will not benefit the street, but what is
the use of kicking. Let 'er go."
J. G. Price: "I am satisfied the building of a road along Broadway will
greatly decrease the value of property, and increase the fire hazard along that
thoroughfare. It is a serious blow to Broadway property owners."
Strassner & Geisler, The Tivoli: "It is a shame. The work should be
stopped and the street put back in its previous condition."
Ike Freidman: "I don't like it, but it seems it can't be helped."
A. M. Laska, cigar manufacturer: "I don't ccare a hell of a lot about it,
still it makes me hot to see the street torn up that way."
DuBois Furniture Co.: "What can't be cured must be endured."
C. N. Hanson, Mondamin hotel: "I do not think a temporary road on Broadway
will injure us, and it is understood that it is only temporary. But I
could say a whole lot if I wanted to. Have something?"
J. F. Quinn, manager of the Packtrain: "In the absence of the proprietors, I
have nothing to say."
A. L. Cheney, the Boston store: "I am opposed to the road on Broadway for
several very good reasons. First, the street is too narrow for business
and a railroad, and second, when we are able to obtain insurance in Skaguay, the
fact that there is a railroad on Broadway will cause rates to be higher on this
street than anywhere else in the city."
A. Bloom, Kentucky House, "We mkight as well be satisfied. It will
probably be all right in the long run."
John Kalem, "It is a damned disgrace to spoil the best street in the city
with a railroad. The city council sold out the people for the money.
Yes, you bet there was 'graft' in it."
Jos. Burkhard, by Councilman W. F. Lokowitz: "The property owners on Broadway
have been shamfully used after all the expense they have gone to improving the
street. Besides, the railroad will necessarily drive all retail business
away from it, as people are afraid to risk their lives by running around
locomotives and trains. The value of property on other streets will be
enhanced at the expense of Broadway. I have opposed putting the track
along Broadway, both as a citizen and as a councilman, and I very much regret
the fact that my efforts in that direction were unavailing."
Gus & John, All Nations saloon: "Let 'er go."
Mrs. A. Crawford: "I think the railroad is a good thing and will help our
street. Hot today, ain't it?"
J. Herman Lewis: "A railroad on Broadway is all right, a damned sight better
than lots of the people on Broadway."
Will Clayson: "The railroad will benefit rsather than injure Broadway.
I feel tht our property, corner Broadway and Bond, is worth more today than it
was a week ago."
A. C. Fasel: "If the track on Broadway is temporary, it is all right; but if
permanent, it is a very bad thing."
Mrs. E. A. Hegg: "I do not think the railroad on Broadway will do a
particle of harm or injury to our property."
D. Lucci: "I do not like it, but what can I do?"
Geo. Young, Skaguay Lumber Co.: "Do not think it will injure our property in
any way. We need the railroad, and must have it."
R. Murphy: "If the company will keep the track at grade, and plank between
the rails, the road will be a benefit to Broadway, rather than an injury."
Gus Nelson: "Don't think property on Broadway will be injured by the
railroad, unless the company should run trains every 15 or 20 minutes, which is
not probable."
Gus Malstrom: "Don't think the road itself will prove an injury to property
holders in the least."
Otto Schlessinger: "I think the building of a road up Broadway will be an
injury to the street and depreciate the value of all property thereon."
A. J. Carlson: "I consider the road a great detriment to the street, and
think my property is worth considerrably less than before the road was
commenced."
W. M. Cribbs, manager Kelly & Co's, interests in Skaguay: "My opinion is that
the road will be a detriment to property owners. Have never known a street
in any town that a railway did not injur and depreciate the value of real
estate. It will prove the same here, I feel sure."
D. M. Brogan, Occidental Hotel: "I think the railraod will be a good
thing as it will have a tendency to center business on Broadway."
S. Bauer, Boss Baker: "Am glad the road is being built on Broadway, because I
will not have far to go to put my famous bread on the cars and ship it to
Dawson."
Ed Drew: "I consider the building of that railroad on Broadway a great
injury to the street, and every foot of property is worth less than it was
before the road was commenced."
I. Friedenthal: "I strongly objected to the road being built along Broadway,
but now that it is there, I say let it stay for all time to come. I always
try to abide by the will of a mjaority of my fellow citizens."
Mrs. L. A. Harrison: "I think for a year at least, the road will prove
beneficial to business. After that time I am satisfied the road on
Broadway will be an injury to property owners."
White Navy, corner 4th and Broadway: "Should have preferred the road be built
along the bluff, as originally intended. But as the road is now built, I
am satisfied it adds 25 per cent to the value of our property, if it was for
sale, which it is not."
C. W. Everest: "Don't known a d---- thing about it. Can't see into the
future, but wish I could."
Dr. J. A. Cleveland: "I own 160 feet front on Broadway. I think
for a year at least the road will prove beneficial; after that time I think it
will be detrimental to property owners."
Miller, Bodine & Rupert: "We do not in the least consider the road
detrimental to our property interests; on the contrary, we think it will prove
beneficial."
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INCENDIARYISM.
Two attempts were made late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, in kindle
fires under buildings in the most densely crowded portion of the city. One
was under the store of Keelar, the money king, while the other was in some
buildings in the rear of the Grotto saloon, run by J. H. Foster.
Fortunately, both fires were discovered before much headway had been gained, and
were much extinguished by the timely application of water. If the dastard
who is attempting to burn the town is apprehended in his nets, he will have
occasion to wish he had died of cholera infantum.
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A NIGHT WATCHMAN EMPLOYED.
At a called meeting of the city council held Tuesday evening, H. C. Bowman
was employed to act as night patrol or watchman at the stipulated salary of $100
per month. The person to whom is due the credit of making possible the
employment and payment of a man who will devote his time in protecting both life
and property in the city is Jeff R. Smith, who, through his individual efforts,
succeeded in raising from the liberal and loyal business men of the city, the
money to not only employ one watchman, but he raised within a few dollars of the
amount necessary to employ two, as he succeeded in securing a guarantee of $160
per month for this purpose. As soon as the $40 per month is guaranteed, a
second watchman will be employed. Mr. Bowman is a competent and careful
man, in whose keeping the city is safe during the silent hours of night.
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PROMINENT VISITORS.
Frank A. Twichell, the popular and efficient agent of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company here, was piloting about the city last Friday and Saturday
three prominent gentlemen from Seattle, who were looking over the conditions
here for the first time. They were C. J. Smith, president of the P. C. S.
S. Co., C. G. Lacy, general superintendent of the above company's business, and
M. F. Backus, cashier of the Washington National Bank, at Seattle. The
Pacific Coast people are financially interested in one of the tramways at Dyea,
but notwithstanding this, they have the very best of feeling for Skaguay.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Lacy were amazed at the size of our city, and the evidences of
prosperity to be seen on every hand. A trip over the completed grade of
the railroad convinced the gentlemen that there is no foolishness about the
proposition.
Mr. Backus is one of the successful fnianciers of Seattle. The bank, of
which he is president, is one of the most solid and successful institutions of
the kind in Seattle, and enjoys the confidence of the business public.
The visit of these gentlemen at this time will be of great benefit to our
city in more ways than one.
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__ M. Cribbs and Dr. H. B. Runnalls start today for Shorty creek, in the Last
Chance mining district, on the Dalton trail, where the gentlemen have secured
valuable claims. This district is 175 miles from Haines Mission.
They took with them ten horses, and five men who will work the claims.
This district is showing up very rich, and the boys are delighted with the
specimens sent them. Dr. Runnals expects to remain there, while Mr. Cribbs
will return to Skaguay and immediately proceed to Dawson, where he is due to
arrive July 15. He will return next spring by way of the Dalton trail, and
will visit the mines on the way out.
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There was an informal meeting of resident Free Masons held at Cuba hall
Tuesday evening. A committee on permanent organization was appointed, to
report at the next meeting, Saturday evening, at the same place and time.
Meanwhile, a register has been opened at Wright's restaurant on Holly street,
and all Mason's in the city are requested to register their names and addresses.
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There is at least one good result from the railroad boom at Skaguay. It
will afford the sensational correspondents of eastern papers a rest from the
continued misrepresentations of the existence of plagues, riots, murders and
social disorders in Alaska, especially at Skaguay and Dyea. -- Dyea Press.
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HOW THEY LOVE WRANGEL.
Dr. W. S. Bunn, Dr. E. J. Carrol, Geo. F. Jewett, C. J. Jorgensen and C. M.
Ulainder arrived Wednesday on the Al-Ki. Dr. Bunn and party, with about
fifty others came directly through from Glenora, B. C., and report a pitiable
state of affairs at the Stickeen river port. As a route to the Yukon the
Stickeen-Teslin trail is an utter failure for this year at least, if not for all
time to come. The great McKenzie-Mann railroad is abandoned, and now their
men and supplies are being moved away. Work on the wagon road has ceased.
The pack trail to Teslin is, as yet, in places, almost impassable.
Numerous steamers are plying on the river, among the largest of which are the C.
P. R. boats. Largely as the result of the advertising methods of the C. P.
R. about 2,000 people, as a conservative estimate, have been induced to try this
"poor man's route" to the golden north. At Wrangel they are charged $40
per ton for freight, and $20 passage to Glenora. At Glenora they are asked
$800 per ton for packing to Teslin lake, and no prospects of getting it through
at that price until late in the season. Many are discouraged and without
money, knowing not what to do, some having gone to Dense Lake, into the old
Cassair diggings, (packing to the this locality, $200 per ton) many have
sacrificed their outfits, and are coming by way of Skaguay. An indignation
meeting was held some days ago at Glenora, and delegates sent to the provincial
government, petitioning the completion of the road, but relief, if granted, must
necessarily come too late to held the deluded and betrayed miners this season.
W. S. Bunn.
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CARD OF THANKS.
I desire in this manner to publicly thank the people of Skaguay who so kindly
ministered to the comfort and care of my deceased wife during her fatal illness.
I deeply feel the kindness shown me by neighbors and friends during the terrible
affliction through which I have just passed, and will always hold them in
grateful remembrance.
Yours Respectfully,
C. A. Pauley.
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The Skaguay News gets facetious over the idea of a bank in Wrangel.
Well, those are funny fellows up there at the head of Lynn Canal! Come to
think of it, has Skaguay a bank or even the prospect of a bank? Come,
neighbor, don't get jealous at our psoperity. -- Stickeen River Journal.
Why, bless your antiquated soul, of course Skaguay has a bank, and a mighty
good one it is, too. In fact Skaguay has nearly every comfort and
convenience that any city of six thousand people in the east may have. The
trouble with people who have never visited Skaguay, is that they are lamentably
ignorant regarding the town and its advantages. Skaguay is the marvel of
the nineteenth century, and the metropolis of the northwest.
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At the entertainment given last night in the Union church, under the auspices
of the Ladies Aid society, a large crowd was present, the sacred edifice being
filled to its utmost capacity. After a reading of the scripture by Dr.
Campbell, and prayer by Rev. Loherett, an able and interesting address was
delivered by Rev. St. Clair. A quartette by Mesdames Miller and Pierce,
and Messrs. Floyd and Nesker was well received. Many of the children
delivered short and interesting recitations. A neat sum was realized,
which will be used for the benefit of the Union Sunday school
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NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE.
In the District Court of the United States for the District of Alaska.
H. H. Harding, Plaintiff,
vs.
Tillie Page, Defendant.
By virtue of an execution issued out of the above named court, duly attested
on the 8th day of June, 1898, in the above entitled action, wherein said
plaintiff, H. H. Harding, recovered judgment against said defendant, Tillie
Page, for the sum of $249.00 and costs of suit taken at $10.00, on said day, I
have levied upon the following described property of said defendant, to-wit: Lot
numbered Two (2) in block numbered Three (3) in the town of Skaguay, to the
District of Alaska, according to the plat of said town by F. H. Reid, together
with the buildings and appurtenances.
Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the sixteenth day of July, 1898, on
the above described premises in said District. I will sell all the right,
title, and interest of said defendant in and to the above described property, at
public auction, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, to satisfy said
execution and all costs.
Dated June 15, 1898.
James M. Shoup, U. S. Marshal.
By S. S. Taylor, Deputy.
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ADVERTISING.
The Skaguay News Depot
L. A. Harrison. : : : T. A. Shorthill.
Latest papers, magazines, books, novels, mining literature. Best photographic
views of Skaguay, Dyea, White and Chilkoot Passes. Stationery, cigars and
tobacco. Base ball [sic] goods, and latest popular songs. Dressmaking and sewing
of all kinds. The latest in shirt waists, wrappers, calicos, percales, veilings,
vests, and dress furnishings. The latest in ladies' and children's plaid lisle
thread, hose and fancy garters.
Ladies' Bazaar,
Mrs. S. E. Shorthill,
Near Cor. Bond and Broadway
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Golden North Hotel.
Thos. Whitten, Manager.
Large, comfortable rooms. Nor bar. No bunks. Patronage of business residents,
especially solicited. A first class hotel. Rates reasonable.
Bond St., bet. Main and State. Skaguay, Alaska.
M. K. Kalem
Wholesale Yukon Outfitters
$15,000 nlow on hand. Owing to ill health I am obliged to temporarily retire
from business and have decided to place on the market at once $10,000 worth of
goods. Most complete stock of staple and fancy groceries ever shipped to the
Alaskan coast at reduced prices. Inducements never before offered in Skaguay.
M. K. Kalem, Cor. Broadway & McKinney.
Keelar
The money king, has piles of money to loan.
"Princess,"
Shoup Street, opp. Clancy's Music Hall.
Martin & Valentine, Props.
Fine furnished rooms. Elegant stock of liquors and cigars. Beer on draught.
Phil. Abrahams,
Notary Public Conveyancer.
Real Estate and Collection Agent.
17 Bond St., Skaguay, Alaska.
California Pack Train
Blaker & Hewitt, Props.
Fine wines, liquors and cigars.
Main St., near Shoup.
The Boston Store
A. L. Cheney & Co.
No. 21 Broadway.
Gents' furnishers and outfitters. The only exclusive store of this line in town.
We follow the seasons and everything we carry is up to date. Footwear, Stetson
and Gordon hats are our leading specialties. Remember the place, Boston Store.
No. 21, Broadway. Skaguay, Alaska.
St. James Hotel.
Everything First-Class. Electric light and call bell. The only fire proof hotel
in Alaska. Rates moderate.
Cor. Fourth Avenue and State St., Skaguay, Alaska.
Skaguay Lumber Company
Second and Broadway
Geo. H. Young, Manager
Largest stock of all kinds of building material in the City. Estimates furnished
on all kinds and styles of buildings. Wholesale dealers in in hay.
The Office
Sam Roberts, Proprietor
Strictly First-Class. Best liquors and cigars
McKinney Street.
Hotel Astoria
(European Plan.)
The finest hotel in Alaska. First class bar. Steam heated. Electric lighted.
A. H. Davis, Manager.
Holly Ave., near Broadway.
All Nations Saloon.
Gus & John, Props.
Only the choicest wines, liquors and cigars in stock. Trade of business men
solicited.
Broadway, next door to Burkhard's.
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Page 3.
LOCAL NEWS.
L. O. Waldo, who brought up the mammoth barge Skookum, is one of the best
fellows to be met with in many a day, and the successful voyage of that big
craft shows him to be a very able navigator.
Post office news stand open evenings.
Sam Chucovich is cook at the Rookery. You know what that means.
Mrs. Pat Crowley, wife of the water wagon man, arrived Wednesday night from
Montana, and will look after Pat from now on. If the water wagon is late
for the next few days, the reason will be apparent.
L. D. Spencer & Co. will have a fresh lot of groceries by steamer Cottage
City.
Joseph Dauthoff, a Russian, dropped dead from the effects of heart disease,
while playing faro in this city last Saturday evening. He evidently
"coppered" to lose, and lost. He had a wife and children somewhere in the
states.
Our young friend, Isador Kaufman, of the popular and reliable firm of Kaufman
Bros., made a hurried business trip to Juneau within the past week. He
says that Juneau is a quiet village compared with this railroad metropolis.
A fine line of duck and rubber goods at I. D. Spencer & Co.
The Alaska Steam Laundry is making a great reputation on the work it is
turning out. Their specialty is men's white shirts and collars, and a
great deal of favorable comment is indulged in regarding this line. The
Alaska Steam Laundry is all right.
For a good, cool and refreshing drink of draught beer to ten cents, or for
fine wines, liquors and cigars, call on Nick Webb & Co. at the Skaguay Beer
Hall, on State street, near the corner of McKinney. "Old Nick" serves his
customers in fine style. Give him a call.
There was $280,000 in cash sent to Victoria, B. C., on the steamship Tartar
Tuesday in charge of Captain Wood and others of the Canadian Mounted Police and
Canadian customs service. The money was the amount of duty collected on
American goods and outfits en route to the gold fields.
"The Office," Sam Roberts, mixer and dispenser.
Last Friday, J. Steinbaugh, one of the proprietors of Principal barber shop,
had the misfortune to lose a log cabin and entire contents by fire. The
structure was located on the corner of 13th and State streets, and the fire
caught from a blazing brush heap. The building and contents were valued at
about $250, and is quite a severe loss to Mr. S.
C. W. Everest was the first individual in Skaguay to have water from the
water works turned on at his place of business. It was on Monday of this
week, and a fifty foot hose attached to the hydrant, quickly disclosed the fact
that a stream of water can be easily thrown to the top of the highest building
in town. The pressure is not only very heavy, but the water is the best in
the country.
Mrs. M. Weber has just received and has now on sale as fine a selection of
millinery as could be purchased in San Francisco. She invites the ladies
of Skaguay to call and inspect the stock while it is complete. In a few
days Mrs. Weber will have a fine and elegant assortment of gentlemen's straw
hats. In order to make room for new goods, Mrs. Weber will have a grand
clearance sale tomorrow, Saturday. Do not fail to attend. Remember
the place, McKinney street, near the Burkhard.
Councilman Frank Clancy and Dick fleming will leave today for Dawson City,
via the White Pass and Lake Bennett. Mr. Clancy is going in on a business
proposition, and expects to make the round trip in thirty five days. If
any man in Skaguay can make the trip in the time above specified, Frank Clancy
can, and he need not travel on his looks, either. He will be met with a
royal reception when he reaches Dawson, as he is known by many people there, and
wherever Frank is known, he is decidedly popular.
I. D. Spencer & Co. has the finest line of tablets and writing material in
the city.
D. O'Donovan Rossa, whose name is familiar with the business people of
Seattle, arrived here from Wrangel on the steamer Farallon. Mr. Rossa went
over the so-called Stickeen route as far as Glenora, but discovered very soon
that it was an utter failure, both for men and beasts. The gentleman has
opened a real estate and mining brokerage office here in Skaguay, which place he
considers the metropolis of Alaska.
Attorney J. G. Price has been appointed by Acting Governor Albert D. Elliott
as one of the delegates at large from the District of Alaska to the
International Mining Congress which convenes at Salt Lake, Utah, July 6th to
9th, inclusive. Mr. Price appreciates the honor conferred upon him, but as
each delegate is supposed to pay all his own traveling expenses, the chances are
that he will not attend the Congre3ss this year.
Mrs. Glenn, of San Francisco, has opened a fine line of Ladies' Fancy goods
and Ready made Silk Tea Gowns and Wrappers. Also Hosiery and Underwear.
Fine Laces and Veilings, all of the best and most elegant quality. Call
next door to the Arctic Cigar Store, on 6th Avenue. Skaguay.
One of the largest and finest safes ever shipped to Alaska, was received by
postmaster Sampson, one day last week. It is made by the Waltz Safe Co.,
of San Francisco, and weighs 4,330 pounds. It is fire and burglar proof
and hereafter postmaster Sampson will have no fear of burglars or fire.
The postmaster also received six street collection boxes, which have been placed
in convenient places about town. Hereafter people who are in a hurry to
mail letters need not necessarily travel to the post office to do so.
A big row is on between officers and members of the Washington & Alaska S. S.
Co., operating the steamers City of Seattle, Rosalie, and Pak Shan. The
trouble is said to be between Hugh Wallace, president, and other members of the
company. As a result of the trouble, Captain Roberts went ashore at
Seattle on the last trip, and the end is not yet. The trouble is said to
be that Wallace wants the steamers to go to Dyea before coming to Skaguay, and
to stay at Dyea during all the time they lat at the head of Lynn canal.
Let us hope that Mr. Wallace will be downed in the fight, and fired from the
presidency of the company.
We have gasoline stoves for sale. Seattle Stove Co., J. E. Moore, Mgr.
Dr. O. F. Searle, Physician and Surgeon, has permanently settled in Skaguay.
Officer and residence in Moss Bldg. on Holly Ave., near State St. Calls
promptly attended day or night.
Frank Butrns, who has acted as agent here in Skaguay for the Washington &
Alaska Steamship Co., since last September, has resigned his position and will
go to Dawson. Mr. A. S. Dautrick, of Tacoma, has been appointed agent here
in place of Mr. Burns, and the gentleman arrived here, on the last trip of the
Seattle. Mr. Dautrick is a practical newspaper man, having spent a number
of years in the business. He is a mighty good fellow, socially, and as he
thinks Skaguay a fine little city, he will doubtless find his stay here very
profitable and pleasant.
For Sale. -- A. Bloom, of the Kentucky House, has four safes for sale cheap.
Inquire at once.
For stationery call on N. K. Wilson, Druggist, Holly Ave.
Among the leading institutions, and away up near the head of the list of
pi9oneer business houses of Skaguay, is found the familiar firm name, Kelly &
Co., druggists. By fair dealing, handling none but the very purest and
freshest of drugs, in addition to the largest and best assorted stock of
druggist's sundries ever seen in Alaska, they have won the confidence of the
trade. "Kelly's drug store" is a household expression in Skaguay, not that
medicine is often used or needed here, but when wanted, people know where the
pure article can be obtained. Mr. C. E. Hooker, in charge of the store, is
a pharmacist of years of experience.
Mr. Theodore Johnson, a prepossessing young man from Portland, arrived
Tuesday night on the steamship Discovery to accept a position with the popular
and well-known hardware dealer, G. A. Anderson.
Strictly first-class stock of drugs at N. K. Wilson's.
Judge Schlbrede, United States Commissioner, authorizes the News to inform
the public that he will hold court in Skaguay commencing Monday, the 20th, at 11
a.m. The Judge desires all litigants be ready on that date, to have their
cases tried.
Wanted to Buy -- House and lot, or rent house. Must be close to
business part of city and cheap. Inquire at News office.
Dr. O. F. Searle, specialty, Obstetrics and Gynecology. Office in Moss
bldg. on Holly ave., near State.
Miss Brown, who conducts the post office news depot, has gone to Tacoma on a
short visit. During her absence the business is being looked after by Miss
Farrar, a very popular young lady of the city.
Mr. A. J. Clode, formerly superintendent of the poor farm of Pierce County,
Wash., but later of Auburn, King county, arrived here on the Utopia last
Saturday. Mr. Clode was greatly surprised to find such a large town and
everything so lively.
Hon. Rosswell Shelley, receiver of the United States Land Office at Sitka,
arrived in Skaguay on the steamer Farallon. Mr. Shelley has a very warm
feeling for Skaguay, for the reason that he knows that it is the only natural
gateway to the gold fields of the interior of Alaska. Mr. Shelley is a
mighty good fellow, and the News is always pleased to see him.
Mr. C. E. Hooker, of the Kelly Drug Co., arrived on the steamer Farallon,
after having spent three weeks very pleasantly visiting friends and relatives in
Seattle and the Sound country. Mr. Hooker is a general favorite here in
Skaguay, and when he goes away, even for a short time, his presence is greatly
missed, and his return exceedingly welcome.
Mrs. A. E. Church arrived home from Bennett Tuesday, having taken the time to
make one more visit before taking her final departure for Dawson. This
charming and highly respected lady is a great hustler, and she has been getting
in some good work for the White Pass trail these days. The News wishes the
lady the greatest success in her new venture.
Just now there is considerable excitement in Skaguay over recent rich quartz
finds in this immediate locality. On Wednesday of this week Jeff Smith,
who has located a claim within less than two miles of the city, had about twenty
pounds of ore in small pieces brought in, from any piece of which can be seen
protruding in from one to a dozen places, solid chunks of gold, worth from 10 to
40 cents per "protrude." Mr. Smith says the vein from which this ore was
taken is two feet in depth and of unknown width and length. There is no
doubt but that if the class of ore exhibited exists in quantity of any
magnitude, the vein is one of the richest in Alaska. Further developments
and results will be duly chronicled in the News.
The two jolliest Dutchmen in town, "Henry" and "Fritz," who preside over the
destinies of that splendid eating place, the German Bakery and Cafe, are having
some nice private boxes placed in their dining room for the accommodation of
those guests who desire to partake of their meals in private. The "boys"
are always up to date in anything and everything pertaining to their business,
and they therefore enjoy a nice run of custom.
That man, Clark, who so successfully conducts the Burkhard hotel, is a mighty
enterprising fellow. Feeling the need of shade trees in front of his
hostelry, he did not wait for them to grow, but sent men to the woods, who dug
up some good sized maple trees - being very careful not to injure the roots -
and transplanted them to the street in front of the Burkhard. It is
thought that the trees will live and become things of beauty and a joy forever.
J. H. Killington, agent for Bartlett Bros., returned Wednesday from a trip to
Tagish. He says that the report to the effect that one of Bartlett Bros'
large scows was lost after leaving Bennett is not correct. Bartlett Bros'
many friends in Skaguay will gladly learn of the fact, that when last heard from
their entire party and two big scows, were safely skimming over the turbulent
waters of the Yukon, towards Dawson, having shot the White Horse rapids in
safety.
MASONS. NOTICE! All members of the Masonic Fraternity in this
city and vicinity, are requested to meet at Cuba Hall, on Seventh Avenue, at 8
o'clock p.m., Saturday evening, June 18. By order of Committee.
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THE SKAGUAY LIGHT AND WATER CO.
Expects to turn on water about June 20. Parties desiring to take water
from the company can get rates and regulations by applying to either of the
undersigned. Tapping of mains and connections to 10 feet from property
line must be by the company, and will be put in strictly in the order in which
the applicants are received.
Andrew Jackson, Manager.
J. A. Ennis
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Two story house, 16x24 feet, just off Broadway. Lot 50x100 feet.
This choice property can be purchased at a bargain within the next ten days.
Reason for selling is that owner desires to go to Dawson. Apply at News
office.
Dr. W. S. Bunn, of Lawrence, Kan., and a physician friend, Dr. E. J. Carrol,
formerly of Seattle, arrived here from Wrangel on the steamer Farallon.
Dr. Bunn was for many years a prominent practitioner in that historic old town
of Lawrence, and the publisher of the News is in possession of documentary
evidence that the gentleman is one of the "boys," and a genial, jovial
gentleman, withal. The two M. D.'s had vainly attempted to get to the
interior via the Stickeen route, but having met with complete failure, came to
Skaguay and will take their supplies over White Pass. The so called
Stickeen route is described by these gentlemen in another column. It is
valuable reading, especially to those people residing in the states who
contemplate going to the Klondike, but have not decided on a route.
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between the
undersigned, under the firm name and style of the Skaguay Real Estate and
Investment Co., has been dissolved by mutual consent, J. Allen Hornsby retiring
therefrom.
J. Allan Hornsby,
A. H. Bryant,
J. G. Price.
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ADVERTISING.
Millinery
Wrappers, sjirts, shirt waists.
Mrs. Mary Conrad,
Cor. 5th Ave. and State
Skaguay Beer Hall,
Nick Webb & Co., Props.
Fine Wines, Liquors, and Cigars, Draught Beer, 10 cts.; per quart, 25 cts.
State Street, near McKinney
NOTICE.
I will sell, a public auction, on Monday, June 20, 1898, at 10 o'clock, a.m. 250
tons of coal! 250 to the highest bidder for cash, on Barge Ajax, on beach
between Valentines' and Seattle and Skaguay wharves.
E. W. Johnston,
Agent for Insurance companies.
Hotel Astoria Bar,
Finest furniture. Finest fixtures. Best liquors and cigars in Skaguay.
First Class service.
Horace Leach, Prop.
Don't risk your life by drinking surface water.
The Skaguay Light and Water co. will, on or about June 20, 1898, be prepared to
furnish the citizens of Skaguay with pure water from the glaciers at reasonable
prices.
For further information apply to Andrew Jackson, Manager.
J. A. Ennis, Cashier.
Jeff Smith's Parlors
(formerly First Bank of Skaguay.)
Holly Street.
Most elegantly furnished resort in Alaska. Choice wines and liquors. Havana
cigars. Sepcial attention paid to service.
No cards. No games.
Old Vienna Restaurant.
Best meals in the city. No bare boards, no oil cloth. Furnished rooms in
connection. Everything First class.
Mrs. L. Thompson, Proprietor.
Holly Street, near State.
Post Office Drug Store,
Pure drugs and medicines. Best of attention and care.
505 State Street.
Williford-Foster Drug Co.
J. H. Brooks
The old reliable packer and freighter, to Lake Bennett. Rapid delivery of
freight, in good order, reasonable rates guaranteed. Brooks has the larges pack
trains in the world, having 225 head of fine horses and mules, managed by 30
experienced packers. Call and get rates and a speicified time contract.
Office at St. James' Hotel.
City Brewery,
Chas. A. Saake, Proprietor.
Manufacturers of steam and lager beer made of the purest and best hops and malt.
Best bottled beer made in Alaska. Special attention given to family trade.
Main Street, bet. Holly and Shoup, Skaguay, Alaska.
The Peerless,
Fourth Ave., (formerly Bond, opposite Brannick Hotel.)
Draught beer, 10 cts.; choice liquors and cigars.
Harry Phillips, Prop.
B. & B. Bottling Co.
W. J. Blackwell, Manager.
Manufacturers and dealers in soda water, sarsaparilla, ginger ale, champagne
cider, sarsaparilla and iron, and all kinds of mineral waters and syrups.
4th Ave., formerly Bond, opp. electric light plant.
J. Perl, wholesale outfitter.
At very lowest prices. Examine our goods before purchasing. Everything bought
and sold. Money exchanged. Goods retailed at wholesale prices.
Cor. 5th Ave. and State St., Skaguay, Alaska.
And 100 E. Seventh Street, New York.
Hotel Oregon.
Mrs. Ella Brown, Prop.
New House. Everything first-class. Finest meals in the city for 25 cts.
Opp. Brannick Hotel, Bond Street.
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the first Spanish war pension was paid at Chicago, May 26, to the mother of a
victim of the Maine explosion.
Schley's name is pronounced Sly. The name is GHerman, but the family
has lived in Maryland for several generations.
Miles says that 160,000 men are now ready for service in Cuba, Puerto Rico
and the Philippines as soon as transports to convey them are furnished.
Cervera's plan is supposed to be this: As soon as the Cadiz squadron arrives
he will make a sortie, and an attempt will be made to hem in the blockading
vessels and give them battle from the harbor and the sea.
Mr. F. J. Baker, of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Steamship Company,
thinks that it will be possible to take passengers from Victoria or Vancouver in
from seven to nine days. He is preparing to make the experiment very soon.
The Tacoma News says that it is reported that the steamship Victorian, which
made a few trips to Skaguay and way ports this season, is to be taken to the
bone yard at Portland. The reason for not continuing her longer in the
service, is that she has machinery much too powerful for her hull.
If we are to annex Hawaii or hold the Philippines, or even maintain a secure
coast defense, our warships must have a shorter cut from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Aside from the commercial advantages, which would be immense, the
canal is a naval necessity, and must be constructed without any further delay.
The chief questions before the next congress are likely to be military and
naval. The maintenance of a standing army of 100,000 will become a party
issue, in all probability. The reorganization of the National Guard on a
stronger basis will be proposed. Large appropriations for increasing the
navy will be asked.
General Miles opposed the landing of a small force in Cuba. He has
advocated an invasion of the island with a force of between 70,000 and 100,000,
to be landed as nearly as possible at the same time, at different points.
He has insisted on having transports to land 18,000 or 20,000 men in quick
succession, with abundant stores.
A man who has known Sampson and Dewey, says of them: "Sampson is cautious,
conservative, not desirous of assuming greater responsibility that has been put
on him, yet ready to dash in and do his part when the word is given. Dewey
looks ahead to the end to be accomplished, and springs for it, entirely
oblivious to the feelings of others - regardless of cost.
It was discovered from the holding up of Spanish mails and the reading of
letters that members of leading families in Washington city have been sending
naval and military information to members of the late Spanish legation with whom
they had been socially intimate. The heads of the families to whom these
treasonable young creatures belong, have been notified of the serious nature of
the offense.
It is currently reported that the French liner, Lafayette, landed rapid
firing guns and trained artillerymen at Havana when the vessel was allowed to
enter by United States authorities. If this be true, then the remembrance
of the dastardly act should remain with the American people. This is,
perhaps, not just the time to take action in the matter, but some time in the
future the frog eaters will have cause to remember their duplicity.
Another cause for complaint is the fact that the French at the port of
Martinique allowed the Spanish fleet to coal there. As a nation, we have
long memories, for enemies as well as friends. We are sometimes slow to
act, and are patient under insults and rebuffs that would cause other nations to
fight, but the time will surely come when France will have cause to regret her
unwise action in this matters.
Some valuable jewelry was recently stolen from Senator Mason, of Illinois.
He published a card addressed to "the gentleman who robbed my house," offering
to pay for the return of the stolen articles more than any one else would pay,
and pledging his word not to prosecute the thieves. The Chicago Times
Herald points out to him that he is offering to compound a felony, and is open
to prosecution for that criminal act.
Five hundred United States troops were recently landed at a point twenty-five
miles east of Havana, together with a large amount of ammunition and guns.
Fifteen hundred insurgents met them with a brass band, and the greeting accorded
the U. S. troops was in the nature of an ovation. This indicates
unmistakably that the Cuban coast is not nearly so well patrolled and guarded as
has been supposed, and General Miles can doubtless land all the men and supplies
he desires when the proper times comes.
An Associated Press dispatch from New York, dated the 9th, says that Capt.
Low, of the fruiterer [sic] Allegheny, which arrived her last night with a cargo
of fruit from Savanilla, and other west Indian points, says that from what he
learned on the trip, the condition of things in Cuba is deplorable. Nearly
all the peacable Cubans have been starved to death, and the Spaniards on the
sialnd are in a very bad way for food. The greatest portion of the people
have perished since Consul General Lee left Havana. The Cuban race, says
Capt. Low, has been practically exterminated.
In a well written article in the Century, John Sidney Webb says: Alaska is a
county of more square miles than square meals, and the legendary governor of
North Carolina would have found little else but muddy Yukon water, assaying 509
per cent solids to the liquid ton, with which to quench his celebrated thirst.
"Do as you please," is the motto. In civilization coats are worn for
various reasons, "on the Yukon" because it blows up cold or rains.
Napkins, tablecloths, sheets and pillows do not "go" on the Yukon, or have not
heretofore. Even the Klondike millionaire packs his blankets and takes
what he can get.
On the 19th day of May, the schooner, Jane Gray, departed from Seattle for
Katzebue sound, with passengers and crew to the number of sixty-five. The
party was under the charge of Major E. S. Ingraham, well-known to all Puget
Sounders as an explorer and intrepid mountain climber, and he and the men under
him, were well outfitted for a long prospecting trip in the vicinity of Kotzebue
sound. While the schooner was lying to in a moderate gale about ninety
miles west of Cape Flattery, she foundered, and thirty-seven of the passengers
and crew were drowned. Major Ingraham himself and twenty-seven others were
saved. It is claimed that the vessel was unseaworthy, and that she was
overloaded, but the truth or falsity of the charges will probably be made known
by the thorough investigation that is to be made of the affair.
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PROPOSED NEW WATER COMPANY.
As one of the results of the general feeling of disgust for the ten cent
quibble that has been for some time going on between the Skaguay Light & Water
Co., and the city council, a few conservative men who believe in the old motto,
"action speaks louder than words," have quietly been figuring on the
possibilities of putting in a new water system from the lake north of the one
tapped by the other company. So quietly has the matter bene conducted that
$24,000 of home money had been guaranteed for stock in the new enterprise, and
one of the prominent promulgators of the scheme had started below for several
days before even the News reporter knew that anything of the kind was on foot.
If the proposition works, and there is no reason why it should fail, then may
the present water company and the city council quibble on until the end of time.
Their quibbling will cause no one to be better, worse or wiser, and the city
will have all she requires in the way of water.
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Mrs. Myrick, of Stuck, leaves next Monday for Dyea, to join her husband, who
has been there since last January. - Arthur (Wash.) Argus. Mrs. Myrick and
granddaughter arrived here to join her husband last Saturday. The young
gentleman who presides over the destinies of the Auburn publication is somewhat
deficient in the geography of this country. He does not seem to know that
Skaguay has a place on the map, notwithstanding that it is the metropolis of the
northwest country.
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NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT.
Notice is hereby given that Abraham Goldbert and Joseph Goldberg, co-partners
doing business under the firm name and style of Goldberg Brothers, have, by
their deed of assignment duly executed on the 11th day of May, A. D. 1898,
assigned and conveyed all their estate and property, both real and personal to
the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of all their creditors.
All creditors of, and all persons having claims against, said estate, are,
therefore, hereby notified and required to exhibit siad claims with the
necessary vouchers, within three months after the first publication of this
notice, to the undersigned, at the office of Price & Fuller, his attorneys, in
Skaguay in the District of Alaska, the same being the place for the transaction
of all business connected with said assigned estate.
Date of first publication, June 3, 1898.
Price & Fuller, Attorneys for Assignee.
Henry Shattuck,
Assigned of the estate of Abraham Goldberg and Joseph Goldberg, co-partners,
doing business under the firm name and style of Goldberg Brothers.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Skaguay, Alaska, June 1, 1898.
Notice is hereby given that R. D. Weldon has been appointed
administrator of the estate of Elle D. Wilson, deceased: and all persons
having claims against the said estate are hereby notified to present
their claims with the proper vouchers, within six months from the date
hereof, to the administrator at his office in the city of Skaguay,
Alaska.
R. D. Weldon, Administrator.
June 3.
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Lost: -- Near Theater royal, a gold seal watch charm. Leave at
this office and receive reward.
Stolen. -- From Murphey's saloon on Moore's Wharf, Monday night, June
6th, one letter of credit for $1,000 on First National Bank of
Marysville, Missouri, and in favor of L. T. Hubbard; also one deed to
claim number 30, on Quartz Creek, Yukon district. Payment on
letter of credit has been stopped, and I hereby notify the public to
advance no money on the same, or to purchase deed to claim.
L. T. Hubbard.
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ADVERTISING.
The Balmoral.
Fine stock of wines, liquors, and cigars
Little, Launder & Wrolson, Props.
State St. near Holly.
D. C. Brownell,
Dealer in hardware, iron, steel, stoves, tinware, crockcery, hardwood
lumber, spokes, etc.
Corner Fourth Avenue & Broadway
H. N. Richmond Paper co.
Wholesale Paper.
G. S. Churchward & Co.,
State and Third St., Skaguay : : : Dyea
W. F. Matlock, President
R. C. Smith, Secretary and Treasurer
Skaguay Brewing Co.
Manufacturers of steam and lager beer. Sole agents for the Northrup &
Sturges Company's carbonated beverages, ciders, syrups and extracts.
Bottled beer a speciality.
Stop at Hotel Rosalie.
Strictly first-class.
W. E. Church, manager.
Foot of Broadway. Skaguay.
Steamships Utopia and Discovery
for Seattle and Way ports.
Next sailing date, about June 26th. Elegant steamers, first-class
service.
I. D. Spencer & Co., Gen'l Agents.
Bond Street.
