The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-12

hotel. is attracting much attention. The contest closes July 10.
 The run over the White Pass & Yukon road from Skagway to the in- ternational boundary line, at the sum init of the pass to the Klondike was one of the unique features of the trip. A special train was provided by the railroad company, and frequent stops were made to permit the use of cameras on the snowdrifts and bits of scenic grandeur. Between the poles from which wave the national colors of the United States and the British empire, the trevalers seated themselves, and La Roche, the Seattle photographer. and others took snapshots of under two flags"
 The steamer entered Glacier bay early in the morning of Thursday, June 19. Immense pieces of Tainbow-tinted ice, fragments from the frozen river of Muir glacier. filled the bay, so that it was impossible to run only to within about eight miles of the high ice wall of the glacier The Spokane was the 1 first steamer to enter the bay this sea- son. In spite of the forced distance away, the view of Muir glacier was one to be long remembered. clear air and bright sunshine and snowcapped peaks all about, adding to the scenic effect. Leaving Glacier bay, the steamer moved southerly and stopped during the afternoon and evening at Killisnoo. on Admiralty island, once an old whaling station, now given up to the operations 1 of the Alaska Oil and Guan0 company, of Portland and San Francisco. There's big plant here, employing about 120 men, including many Indians. The sea son's product averages 5000 barrels of oil and 2,500 tons of phosphates or guano fertilizer.
 l The fertility of Killisnoo, situated geographically, 57 deg. 25 min. north, 1S4 deg. 30 min west. was surprise. A passenger pulled at random blade of wild oats, which measured four feet eight inches, and wonderful specimens of flowers and ferns were gathered by ramblers over the hills. Seekers for baskets and totem poles added to their collections at the large Indian village. Over the village Chief Jake, clad in the cast-off uniform of a naval officer rules supreme. Jake received the party with alternate grins and scowls. Over the doorways of his throne-room is this le- gend:
 By the governors commission. And the company permission,
 I am elected the grand tyee
 Of this entire illaee:
 Famed in song and story,
 I have attained the height of glory As Saginaw I am known to fame,
 Jake is but my common name"
 After Killisno came the wonders of Peril strait. with it's wooded shores and
 islands, reminding tourists of the sights of the St. Lawrence or the Hudson. Then Sitka. blazing in sunshine and bathed in soft air. was reached on June 20. Captain Pendleton, of the United States marines, stationed here, de- tachment of men from the revenue cut ter Rush, Governor Brady, of Alaska and United States Marshal Shoup. were at the wharf to greet the steamer and show the voyagers Sitka's sights. There were walks out along the shaded In- dian river drive to the totem poles, wis it's to the Sheldon Jackson museum, to the Elliot F. Shepard Indian training school, and several reticent young men fell to kissing the Baranoff blarney stone in the hope Of acquirng thereby fuency In Russian speech.
 From Sitka the steamer took the tourists to Taku glacier, near Juneau. The Taku was all ready for visitors and let its frozen face be photographed as | la., big Ice river is one of the best of the Alaska collection, equal in symmetry if not in size to it's more famous cousins of Glacier bay.
 After Taku came Kasaan, already re- ferred to, and then the homeward run, with everyone we'll and wondering.