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The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01

believing that the benefit will be mutual.
 The fundamental principles of our or der-,ruih, justi C, equality, liberty these four, the highest of human viitues, are the corner stones of our institution. On these we rear our structure. Truth the mother of all virtue, inspires mutual confidence and respect amongst her voc taries. Justice-blind and impartial, meets out to all, without regard to wealth, profession or social station, their due. Equali,y-.knowiug no rank. station, condition or difference created by men, places each in his true sphere. Liberty, dear to the heart of all true men, accords to each perfect freedom to act and live according to the light within him, hav- ing regard for the rights of others. Such are the principles of our order.
 The order has for its object mutual aid and assistance of it's members and their families, to watch at the bedside of the sick, soothe the dying pillow, and per form the last sad rites at the grave of a brother. It offers consolation to the afflicted, and cares for the widow and the orphan.
 But it does greater work than this; it seeks to instruct the mind and make men better socially and morally. All wrong, either to himself or another, is strictly forbidden. To be true Eagle and live within the letter and spirit of it's teachings, one must obey the laws Of God and of his country. He must be a patriot and a Christian in the broadest sense of these terms. Such are the ob- jects of the order.
 Besides paying sick benefit to it's members and burying it's dead, each Aerie has a physician paid by the year out of the funds of the order, and in case of sickness of brother or any member of his family, he is entitled to the serv- ices of this physician free of charge. II he is away from his own Aerie. he is en- titled to the services of the physician for the Aerie wherever he may be on the same terms.
 These considerations. and the fact that the order recognizes that there are goo and noble men in all walks of life, makes the order popular. We do no' enquire what business a man is engaged in, but we jo require of him that he be true hearted, honest, honorable and up- right before he can become a member Of our order. And if by chance or accident some one not possessed of these qualities succeeds in getting into the order, he is either dropped from membership unless he reforms, or finds the order so uucon- genial that he soon withdraws.
 JOHN F. DILLON.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01

SKAGKAY'S PAST AND FUTURE
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which was not then completed. SO the freight had to be taken off in boats and lighters and br,ught to shore. The Queen carried back the news that the White Pass trail was open for horses to Lake Bennett. and then the rush began. Passengers and freight came in at a rapid rate. Tents were put up in the woods,whieh then cov- cred the entire townSite. and people began to do business in the tents.
 Of course, at that time, the intention of everybody was to pass on ss quickly as possible to the great Klondike gold fields. but some SagaciouS men decided that there was likely to he a town at this point and they began the erection of more eommo- iiouS buildings as soon as lumber was brough in byt transportation companies, and the town of Sklgway was founded
 To look at it now no one would dream that but little over two short years. with their joys and sorrows, their struggles nd sue cesSeS and failures, have plSSel into his to-v sin,e it was uninhabited wood land.
 Judging of the future bv what we know of the past, and taking into con Sileration the two important faets-tide- water and steel rails in conjunction, are bound to build a town is one, the other being, tha, where transportation is cheaper -l higher Co a lower ground-and fuel tlu be brought from another direction. and it is cheaper than to transport ore the en- tire distance, we can readily see what the future has in store for Skagway.
 The enormous deposits of precious met als, gold, silver, and copper which have been discovered at what is known in Alas kan plrlanee as "the interior" which in plain English means beyond the summit of White Pass; and taking in connection with that fact that many ot these import ant deposits are already in the hands Of capitalists of Sufficien, means to develop them into mines, this seems tO be an that is necessary to demonstrate to those who are posted on the building Of smelter towns, that the time is not far distant when Skagway will be the one sm,lter point of Alaska, and point where as great a reduction of ore will be accom- plished as anywhere in the United States.
 Such a development. which seems tO be reasonable from the facts stated, will build the town of Skagway to such an extent that instead of being proud as we are now of the few plaStered buildings we have, and boasting of the few that are st,am- heated, we shall in five years consider our present conditions as primitive as we noU' consider the tents and cabins of the winter of 1897. When that day comes the streets of Skagway will be lined with stone and brick structures of the most modern type; the residences will contain all the comforts and the luxurieS of life; and the iami les, under conditions of that sort and in con- neetion with the schools and the college now started in Skagwav, will develop society to as fine point of refinement as any eastern city containing a similar num-
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01
THERE is more than one tradition in

THERE Is more than one tradition in
 1 regard to the origin of the name Of this eitv, but the one that deem the most reliable pictures ,h. chief of an Indian tribe, inhibiting his vicinity mlnv years ago, standing on the beach of what is now the town of Skagwly watching the eff riS of his son in a tlnoe. The son was on his way from ChiIkat, and north wind was blowing 30 furiouSlv that the young Indian, strong and expert with the pidjle though he WIS, could make no progress against it. The father anNiouSly watched and waited. The canoe was blown around the point, lni out Oi sight. In little tune it reappeirei, keel up. The son cf the chi,ftiin WIS never seen again. Thsreupon the chef ehrist-nsd th. bay "Skigul,' an Indian word me ming the Home of the North Wind, and anyone who has had expeuence with old Bore $ in his angry moods over the summit ana down the canyon Of the Skagwav river Nill readily appreciate the appropriateness sf the name.
 The velr ISS6 is the first r-,ori He have of white men coming here. They came to investigate the White Pass, over which the rdliro d now carries itS passengers. In that ve,r William More. jr.. s'n Of Capt. Moore, the 6-St white settler of Sklgul, mit- ip over the pass and reported to his father thit it was feasible for a trail.
 In 1887 Capt. Moore was assisting Ma jor Og..vie. now president Of the Yukon coun-ii, in making an exploration of the hellwa,erS Of the Yukon and down that river as flr as Fort Selklr<. Miior Ogilvie with his party lan1-d at Taiyl. afterward corrupted into Dyel, and proceeded over tEe ChilkOot Pass. But Capt. Moore, having in mind his sons report, obtained permission to gO over this plSS, and he and an Indian did so carving plcks of 90 pounds and II2 pounds respectively. Thev were eight days on the trip from the mouth of the Skagwly river, where Skag- way now stands, to Lake Bennett, the head waters Of the Yukon, and in eight differ ent places on the route they were obliged Co lower themselves and their packs by ropes, because th- mountain sides in these places were too precipitous to descend in any other way.
 In that same year. 1887, the schooner Charlie l-f, Moore's jettv. near where the saw-mll now stands. with a load of furs for the south. That was the first boat there is any reeotd of having sailed out of the harbOr of Sklgway.
 From that time on until 1897 no import ant progress was made in the development of a trail over White Pass, but in that year the trail was made plSsabIe for horses from tiiewlter to the head of Lake Ben nett. This had only jus, been completed to that extent when the steamer Queen arrived in the hlrbor with 100 passengers and 100 tons of freight The freight and passengers were landed on what Is now part of MOOre's wharf, the approach to
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01

else. The large store Of Kelly & Co. has little by little been made so attractive that i, is the general rendezvous for all the leading people iu town There is not only display of all the drugs any one can possibly ask for, but a large ex- hibition of imported perfumes and the daintest of toilet requisites e"d articles de luxe, and the best brands of cigars for the gentlemen and Lowney's candies for the ladies. And MT. Kelly thinks Of -,sIle-% zee tent when the demand was chiefly for calomel instead of caramels, and the big business block to which the wee tent has grown, and beams with pride upon every visitor.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01
KERN, THE GOLDSMITH.

IL was a surprise to Skagway when Mr. P. E. Kern came here over a year ago with such n large and valuable assortment of jew els, watches and timepieees, sil- verware and so on; such luxuries seemed in advance of the demand. Bu, it had taken Mir. Kern very short time to make up his miad that Skagway was going to be a good location for such business, and it was not long before he moved into new premises next to the St. James hotel and eular ed 1t. He not only enlarged his stock but his staff. He has a skillful wa,chmaker in the person of Mir. E. A. Corcoran, and an ex- pert dye-siuker and engraver in Mir. Fred Weiss, while Mir. Kern
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01
8 PRIDE OF BROADWAY

ZANE of the best of the old-time ho- NJ tels, the Burkhard, passed away during the year, and it's popular proprie- tor, F. F. Clark, took the big sign with
 him over the Dalton trail where he now
 sports it over a big tent in the new city
The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-01-01

Der of inhabitants, which number believe will, in five yeirs, be not less than 10000.
 n. 4. DAY.
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24
HARD FIGHTING IN CHINA.

The gravity Of yesterdays news from China
is amply and officially confirmed to-day. In
Tien-Tsin, city almost as populous as Phila-
delphia, there Is anarchy. The foreign residents
and a few troops defending themselves ues-
perately against Boxer mObs within and the hos
tile Chinese army without. A force of American
marines Russians and others has been trying
TO cut its way in to the relief of the besieged.
but was, at the date of the latest dispatch un-
able to do So though larger force composed
of reinforcements from Taku, was about to re-
new the attempt 1t seems practically certain
that the American Consulate at Tien-Tsin has
been destroyed. and it is probable that there
has been considerable loss Of life AS for
Peking and Admiral Seymour, their fate is still
unknown. The Chinese Minister at Berlin saws
the German Minister at Peking has not been
killed, but the source of his information is not
disclosed. Word comes from Shanghai that all
the legations at Peking except the British Aus
trian and Belgian were burned ten davs ago
Other reports that the legations are still be-
sieged. but intact If So the question is how
much longer the little garrison Of 43O foreigners
can hold out against the myriads of hostile
Chinese. AS for Admiral Seymour and his de-
voted twenty-three hundred, speculation breads
to dwell upon their lot.
Not the least serious feature Of the case as
SeeH III tO-udy y ulSpdufHeS Is the PARTICIPATION
OF the regular Chinese army in the attack upon
foreigners and upon the consulates It was
feared that such was the case when the first
news came that Tien-Tsin was being bombarded
with heavy artillery. Now Rear Admiral
Kempff confirms that suspicion, saying it was
the Chinese army that our troops vainly tried
TO cut through to the relief of the foreign quar-
ter of Tien-Tsin. 1t was serious enough for
Boxer mobs to assault foreigners. But that evil
might have been suppress d by foreign inter
vention. without any conflict between the Chi
nese Government and foreign Powers. For the
Chinese Imperial Army, under a prince Of the
blood, 10 make formal and persistent attack
upon the foreign consulates is immeasurably
worse. II amounts In fact to making war upon
the Powers whose flags are thus assaulted We
cannot. of course, concede that there is any ex-
culpation in the fact that the Chinese army is
really number Of armies acting Independently
OF each other. each under n general or n vice
roy who may be half hostile TO the imperial
Government, and may therefore lead his army
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24
FOR GENERAL GREENE TO CONSIDER.

FOR GENERAL GREENE TO CONSIDER.
When General Francis V. Greene said at
Philadelphia that Governor Roosevelt was not
the choice of the New York delegation for Vice
President and did what he could to bring about
the fulfilment of the Governors wishes he acted
the truth and spoke the truth far as he
understood it. 1t is said that this degree
of honesty on his part was extremely offensive
to Senator Platt, and that in consequence Gen
eral Greene is unlikely TO be elected president
of the Republican County Committee in place of
Mr.. Quigg. It is only fair to Mr.. Odell to give
him the benefit Of the report that when ques-
toned on the subject yesterday he declared that
'the organization is not going to make fool of
itself AT the very beginning of the campaign"
1t is not invariably safe to put the natural in
depreciation Mr.. Odels political announce
ments, but if he really said this we prefer to
believe he meant that it would be ridiculous TO
set General Greene aside because he kept faith
with Governor Roosevelt at the Republican
National Convention.
Nevertheless we are constrained to suggest to
General Greene the advsability of giving care
full consideration TO Mr.. Platt's outgivings since
his return from Philadelphia. \ day or two
ago Mr.. Platt being found in reflective mood
a. the Fifth Avenue Hotel made the interesting
statement that it doubtful if Colonel Roose-
velt could have carried the State again as a
candidate for Governor. Yesterday he was
quoted without contradiction from any source
as saying that 1t had not yet been decided
whether or not General Greene would succeed
Mr. Quigg. A more accurate account of the
matter would seem to be that since General
Greene proved the sincerity of his own adher-
ence to the programme insincerely proclaimed
by Mr.. Platt by doing his best to sustain the
Governors original position at Philadelphia the
~
mittee, already settled by the choice of General
Greene, had been reOpened If Mr.. Platt said
yesterday, must suppose he did, that Mr..
Quigg's successor has not yet been selected, it
would seem to be time for General Greene to
recall Mr.. Platts doubt of the Governors abil-
| ty TO be reelected to his present office, and,
| putting two and two together, to consider that
Mr.. Platt may also entertain a doubt of his
ability to carry the State as a Vce-Presidential
| candidate in case one of his less convinced and
! faithful admirers and friends is chosen to con-
| duct the local campaign.
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24

"dent himself, and afterward by the sub
committee, was drivelled out by driVeiler
from New-York. who had charge of that
branch of the work. Upon the greatest ques-
'tion Of the hour. upon the question about
which the Republicans in Congress fought ana
won, the driveller performed this act Per
haps the great Qugg is right in denying that
he ''surreptitlously' suppressed anything But
there is no doubt that. whatever the process by
which he edited the platform and got his work
approved, General Grosvenor is perfectly right
in saying 1t was "irIveled out by drlveller."
Nobody but driveer would have dreamed
OF such pettif0gging an attempt TO suppress
this constitutional question il the campaign 1T
is an issue and the Republican party must face
ii sQuarely, accept the responsibility for its
acts and educate people to understand the ire
mendous Importance while doing our duty to
the lands committed by the fortunes Of war to
our care, of maintaining our own civilization
and institutions undiluted by partnership of
barbarian races in the conduct of our Govern
ment. The same courage which led the Repub-
lican party in 1896 to meet the money question
squarely and trust TO an educational campaign
TO convince the doubling. who were not few
even in the party's own ranks, should have been
displayed this year in facing the new problem
and standing up boldly for right principles
essential TO the preservation of the United
States of America as the United States of
America. No doubt when this question first
came up msinformatiOn and sentmentality
worked strongly against the Republican policy.
but it is understood better it is steadily
gaining in favor and the chief obstacle to its
triumph with the people Is the danger that the
opposition with catchwords and cant phrases
will have influence because they are not met
with stalwart arguments boldly going TO the
heart of the matter
The party a whole has no apology to make
for its course in dealing with this subject no
desire to sneak away from it. and it would not
now be open TO the reproach Of trying to do so
in its platform but for the marplot driveller
from NewYOrk who preSumes to edit the Presi-
dent of the United States, to decide what prin-
ciples he may stand for a candidate for re-
election, and kindly lends his superlative gifts
in rhetoric and literature and craftsmanship TO
the production of platform which he modestly
assures us is not, like the Washington docu-
ment too long or too much resembling pOlit-
ical essay. Oh, mighty Quigg oh. vast, i'm
measurable head! Oh. bright and brazen cheek.
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24
PERSONAL.

Ghazi Mukhtar Pacha. Ottoman High Commits
sioner IN Egypt has made report to the Porte.
calling attention to serious evils in the internal
administration Of the Ottoman Empire and urging
various reforms. including liberty of the press ap
council of notables with control of the finances, IN
dependent tribunals and the abolition of the palace
veto on the decisions of the Council of Ministers.
Signor Constantine Macs. the italian archRolo-
gist. says that three thousand bronze tables con-
stitutng the records of Rome. from its foundation
to the time of Vespasian buried in the marsh
after being rescued from the fire which devoured
the capital in the year 50 of the Christian
Signor Macs suggests that the marsh should be
completely drained in order to recover this historic
treasure.
commission has been appointed to represent
Brazil at the Pan-American Exposition to be held
in Buffalo next year. with DR.. Joaquin Francisco
de Asss Brazil president. Antonio Fontaura
Xavier as vice-president and DR.. AzaredO as sec
retary
Cambridge Mass. June % CSpeciaD,-The depart
ment of political economy of Harvard University
will have new member next year in Professor
Thomas Nixon Carver who for the last six years
has been professor Of political economy at Oberln
College. He took his first degree in California, was
for two years q graduate student at Johns Hopkins
then fellow Cornell University where he took
his Phi. D. in 1894. In the same year he went 10
Oberlin associate professor He to Har-
ward assistant professor.
Mddlebury. Vt. June 23-Ezra ]. Warner, Of
Chicago, class of 81 has added s2O 900 his pre-
vious gift of $4,000 for science hall for Middle
bury College
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24
TREE PLANTING DIsCOrP4GED

1t is characteristic Of the way in which things
are too often done in this i'll governed city that
the long delayed doing of one work of great
public utility is to be accompanied with the un-
doing of another great and benefcent work
and by the doing of a deed of wholesale and
unprecedented vandalism. The city has waited
ten or twenty years longer than it should have
had to wait for an underground railroad Now
it is going to get It, In those years it has been
cultivatng fine array of shade and ornament
al trees on the upper part of Broadway. Now
it is going to destroy them all, and wait ten or
twenty years longer for their tedious restora-
tiOn. That seeIRs now to be the determined
fact 1t would not be easy to conceive anything
more diScreditabe to the taste or to the thrift
of the metropolis.
As soon as Broadway was chosen as the route
of the underground road it was evident that the
thousands of fine trees along that thoroughfare
were in peril, if not actually doomed Prompt
and earnest efforts were made to save them if
it were possible. 1t was proposed that the tun-
mel be carried under the roadway instead of
under the parks. That was declared imprac-
ticable. Then it was proposed that the tunnel
be constructed as a tunnel by burrowing under
ground as is done in other cities, and not by
cutting an open ditch which must afterward be
rooted over. That too, was ruled out, ap-
parently on the ground that New-York was not
able to do what other cities could do. The third
plan was to take up the trees carefully and re-
place them after the tunnel was completed But
that plan is now dismissed. somewhat curtly,
with the remark that the trees are bound to die
anyway. for half their roots were cut off when
the trolley road was built And so men are
now at work deliberately killing the trees as
they stand as a preliminary to uprooting them.
Next all the grass and flowers will he destroyed
and Broadway be put into some such condition
as that which Forty-second-st has long en-
joyed, with a promise that some years hence,
when the tunnel is completed, lot of saplings
New-York tribune., 1900-06-24
Iep11ork Duilp 0,ibn1rs.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.
SUNDAY. JUNE "a. 1900.

FOREIGN-Confrmatio Of the reports re-
garding the serious state of affairs in CHINA
were received, and according TO these dispatches
the American and other Consulates at Tien-
Tsin have been destroyed; the DoWager
Empress has il is again reported ordered the
determination Of all foreigners In the EMPIRE
and the attack on Tien-Tsin was made by
Chinese regulars under Prince Tuan; no
news from the column under Admiral seymour,
the relief of Peking has been received,
and the gravest fears are entertained for It's
safety. - News from Africa meagre.
though il was believed that Lord Kitchener
about TO make an important move 10 entrap
General De Wet in the Orange River Colony.
vocating BOer independence has been Issued.
= Dispatches from Manila said that Amer
lean troops were ambushed in Mindanao nine
men being killed and twelve wounded; trouble
is also reported in the island of Samar, and re-
Inducements have been dispatched thither.
DOMESTIC-The Navy Department received
advices from Admiral Kempff stating that
American marines were taking part in the fight
ing at Tien-Tsin. - Senator NJ A. Hanna
returned 10 Cleveland, and predicted the over
Whelming success Of the Republican ticket; IN
the campaign President Mckinley will make
only brief speeches at Canton, and Governor
Roosevelt VIII speak at many Places -
Porto Rico has been created customs collec-
ton district by the Treasury Department. -
A c. Gilligan sentenced to eighteen years
Imprisonment in Virginia for the murder Of the
father Of his sweetheart. "A rise Of five
cents a bushel in wheat created much excite
ment the Chicago Board of Trade. - The
race for the American Derby at Chicago was
by Sidney Lucas. at odds of 10 TO l. the
IaNOrlte, Lieutenant gibson. Hnlsning lnITu
CITY.-Stocks were weak and lower -
Harlem Lane, Marbert, Water Color Greyfeld.
Trillion and First Whip the races at
Sheepshead Bay. = Richard Croker arrived
home from Europe == Senator Platt said it
had not been decided whether or not General
F. Y. Greene was to become president of the
County Committee. - Commander Dele
hanty, it was reported might resign from the
Navy IN order TO remain governor of Sailor S
Snug Harbor at increase Of pay. = ". E.
La Due dropped from his wheel unconscious
after riding twenty-five miles in team pursuit
race at Manhattan Beach. - II. L. Horton &
Co, stock brokers, We're sued for $4,000 for
count.
THE Neutrality-suspicious. for to-day: Fair.
The temperature yesterday: Highest, a de-
grees; lowest 81: average, G1$4.