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The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
Notice to Dolinqusatc ce-ownSr

To lanes R. Rollins and Henrietta Rollins:
 You are hereby notified that during me yeg 1908 he undersigned have expended more toin slCO ln labor and improyements upon eeeh .1e at,rown Diamond" Lode Mining Claim. tns 'sHypatia" Lode Mining Claim, the -St PSser Lode Mining Claim, the "Watervile. Lode hn ing Claim, the Faiphix" Lode Mining Ctaln. ana tbe HBreWster" Lode Mining Cia,mt ali ol which said claims are situate in the SkA8NeJ Mining District, near SkagWAy, AlaSkA; m 1 hieh mining claims you ONn an undivided one-sixth interest each as shown oy tne ho- tices of location of record in the mining recores of said district The said labor was Periorme9 ss and for the annual representation or ssl0 claims for the said year of 1908, as reQoneq Dy me provisions of Section 2S2i Of the kevisea Statutes of the United States, and tne anend- ments thereto. approved January &, lssO. con, corning annual labor upon mining claims, ana the same was the amount required 70 hold sal9 Claims for said year, You are further notined that unless within % days after the publication of tbis notice, you contribute your portion or such expeuditure as eO-OWDers, 10 wtt, the s9m of 500, or El0O each, your interest in the claim will be forfeited Co the undersigned co-ownefs
 who have made such expenditure, and VIII 3e- come their property in the manner provided oy law. - ,o,.
 Dated at skagway, Alaska May 24, lso4.
 May 26, sod. James Lewis
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
Famous Oyster Cocktails

The Pack Tram saloon Is no" ser 9to ing Elmer Chamberlain's famous oyster cocktails.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
Cutter shoes at Clayson's

Is your washing satltactoryY re your clothes torn? If no or yes, try the Skagway Hand Laundry, and you1 will be satisfied. SzO
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
New Spring ( % OIs

New goods have arrived and are open for your inspection, at F. Wolland's.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
At the Pantheon

The Pantheon Saloon always se5Ees ss their patrons with the best orsnos oi wines. luuors and cigars u
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
FOR CoUNCILMEN.

FOR COUNGlLnGN'
 Dr. L. s. Keller,
 w. W. Boughton,
 John Kalem,
 w. B. King,
 k. J, Shaw,
 J. R. VanCleve,
 F. WOlland.
 The foregoing, constituting the pres ent common council of the city of Skag' way. were unanimously re-uominsted al a representative convention of the electors of Skagway, last night, al which more than six score of voters were present No school officers were nominated
 Brevity aud uua nimity were the prin- cipal chara .terist.cS of the convention which wa, held las. night. From the time it was called to order sntiI the ad- iou-umeu,, DO, more than I5 minutes were consumed.
 The convention was called to order by Joba ". Troy. chasr.man of the cen ,ral committee, aud Mayor Keller was elected chairman, and J. $. Harding secretary of the convention.
 A motion vas made by J. M Tanner ths. the present city councumen' whom bs named, be nominated by accIaims
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16

The best that the market offards at the Pack Train Restaurant.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16
F5rhsnt
Notice

Two nicely furnished room, Geo. k Howard, Third avenue. u
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16

All the deIicacies of the season at the Pack Train Resturant.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-06-16

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
RAILROAD NEWS
SHOWS BIC DECLINE
Railway Construction For 1904
Falls Below Previous Year


There has been a great falling off in
railroad building in the United States
during the first six months of 1901. as
compared with corresponding period in
1903 and 1902.
increased operating expenses and de-
creased traffic resulting in smaller net
earnings, together with the continued
Stflngency in the money market. supply
lion. Al ooii' - az
operating expenses were materially in
creased during the first quarter by the
severity of the winter and spring found
many or the railways borrowing money
Ter present necessities, and constrained to
retrenchment, both in current expenses
ana IN their projects for the immediate
future. Many plans for improvement and
extensions proposed by some of the great
railway systems consequently were sus-
pended and still are held in allowance.
FROM official reports received by the
tsaiiWay Age, 1t appears that 1887 miles
or track We're completed during the first
SIX months of this year on 1874 lines in
thirty-three states and territories In
the first six months of last year 3. pol
miles OIL track were laid, while for the en-
TIRE year of 1908 it amounted to 5.7SS
miles. If the same ratio is maintained
tnls year the new mileage for 1904 will
approximate 5000 miles
Present conditions, however do not in
dictate that this figure will be reached
as large percentage of the track laid in
the last six months has been on lines
winch were graded last year. and on
which track laying was begun before the
close of 1903 ~
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
WHY RUSSIA LOSES

We do not think that a better ex-
in which Russia gets the worst of it in
her encounters could be found than the
published official report of the loss of
a submarine boat on the river Neva
This is a plain relation of facts as
they happened; but facts so incredible
in connection with the handling of any
navy department that they would be
received with suspicion if they came
from any other source.
The submarine boat Delfin, the finest
in the Russian fleet and desperately
necessary to her at this time, was ly-
ing in one of the Russian shipyards
for the purpose of giving instructions
to her crew. Her capacity was ten
men. Although her captain was alb
sent, three officers decided to make
descent in hep; thirty-two men, mostly
inexperienced, rushed in, a panic was
created, the boat went to the bottom
and one officer and twenty men were
lost
To any man in any we'll ordered
How thirty-two men, all novices, could
get onto submarine under such cir
cumstances, to say nothing of the alb
sence and ignorance of the command
ing officer, is problem. That these
officers must have had some knowledge
Of the capacity of the boat or that
there must have been some skilled men
on board is certain. Yet with that
knowledge there was not discipline
sufficient to keep the curious from an
experiment that cost them their lives
The whole incident is exceedingly
illuminating. It describes the eharac-
ter, intelligence and discipline existing
through the Russian naval establish
ment. There are plenty of brave men
and there are valuable appliances Of
war. There does not seem to be
even the rudinents of intelligent and
ordered adaptation of means to ends.
Everybody blunders, and lives are be-
ing snuffed out and ships going to the
bottom for the want of the most ele-
mentary precautions and orderly sys-
tenn. No wonder that Russia is prac-
tically helpless before an enemy ridic-
| ulously small in comparison, but so
trained in efficiency that her millions
act as a unit. The secret Of Russia's
weakness is carried where all may
| read it in the story of this amazing in
cident.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
state of Missouri are Just about what

state of Missouri are just about what
they are everywhere else. The only
difference is that in ST. Louis they car
ried boodling to an extent from which
the boldest elsewhere shrank and that
they were permitted and encouraged to
do this by more than ordinarily
stolid public indifference.
1t is the community that is to blame
in the last resource in every such in
stance Does any one imagine that
these CRAFTS in st. Louis were hid in
corner? Did not every man know
there, as every man knows here, pre-
cisely whether a public servant is ap-
proachable or not? Did any corpora
ton pay big fee for such privileges
without having it whispered around?
Could the swag be divided without
boasting on the part of the shameless
and exposure by those who got less
than their share or none at all? The
truth is that, while the exact details
come to light now for the first time,
the condition of moral and political
rottenness has been practically as well
now, and as it is in many another city
in the country.
The difference is that Missouri is
fortunate enough to have a man OF
brains, of courage and of character,
who deems it an adequate crown for
his lifes work to go after the boodlers
and land them in Jail. The difference
is that the same people who are now
holding up his hands, lauding him to
the skies and insisting that he must
be governor of the state were unwill-
ing to share the labor that he assumed;
private affairs couple of years ago,
perfectly cognizant of the boodling in
progress, declaiming against it on the
street corners, declaring that politics
was unfit for decent men to participate
in, and then quietly voting back into
office the very men who were covering
the city and state with shame.
Everywhere honest men are in the
majority. Everywhere the corruption
list will not last month after the COM
mon people make up their minds to do
their duty and to permit none but
IlnTaSt in who
ton of purifying politics in this coun-
try in city, state and nation is the
question of getting the plain, everyday
voter to do his duty. There can be no
such thing as boodling without fear
full and general default in citizenship
behind it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1904.
The REPUBLICAN ROW

The progress of the fight in the Re-
publican camp continues satisfactory
from Democratic point of view. The
events of yesterday simply made it
certain that there is no prospect of the
contending factions getting together.
Both sides have gone too far to make
compromise possible. Neither one of
the leading candidates has evinced any
disposition to abate one jot of his title
to the nomination. A large number Of
delegates who are anxious to vote for
Mr.. Dunn continue to cool their heels
upon the outside, while Judge Collins
men are sitting comfortable by virtue
of the complaisance of the state central
committee.
There is no doubt that the nominal
tons will be made today. Last night
there was much trading going on and
some of the minor candidates who have
been trailing along in the knowledge
that they had no important opposition
OIL liO lOu6ct SdlG. IG SOi1lIlS men
menace the candidacy of Secretary of
State Hanson. Treasurer Block is in
danger Attorney General Donahower,
it was reported last night, had fallen
victim to the rage of delegates who
had no longer any object than the
nomination of their choice for gov
ernor.
1t is a battle of men-principles have
no place whatever in the contest. Is
sues are forgotten and will be forgot
ten to the end.
That end cannot be foreseen. The
report of the committee on credentials.
which will be made this morning when
the convention meets again, will pre-
cipitate a fight that will result in the
defeat of one of the leading candidates
and the feeling on both sides is SO bit
ter. the talk of boiling so prevalent in
some quarters, that the immediate or
ganlzatlon of a rump convention is
easily possible. Generalship of high
er order than the situation has yet de-
veloped will be required to hold all the
delegates in the one convention.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
Contemporary Comment
Beat Roosevelt

1t IS apparent that the free coinage
OF silver at 16 to / could not be ac-
compilshed. even If the Democracy
una nlmously demanded it, but as a
matter OF factsit has. been almost unan-
linousiy dropped as a dead issue by the
various Democratic state conventions
II is also evident that little can be
done IN. the way of tariff revision. and
IL would be impossible to sell or sur
render our island possessions. AS we
nave said, the Democratic party. if
successful, could only hope to give the
people an honest and economical adj
mlnistration, lin accordance with the
law and the constitution. Four years
OF such government would prepare it
Tor the work of revising the tariff and
reducing the trusts to their proper di-
mansions. If, on the other hand, the
democracy should be defeated, Roose-
veitlsm will become more inflated and
arrogant. 1t is the presidents purpose
to be a candidate again in 1905
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
Fairbanks strateaicaI Birth

Mr.. Fairbanks is a typical product of
our free American institutions. Born
at Unionyliler Center, Union county,
Ohio, he Was educated at one of our
admitted to the Ohio bar. Even the To-
cation of his birthplace was strategi-
cally chosen; and when he finally set
tied in the. practice of his profession,
nothing could have been better adapted
to a future, career of political greatness
than the state of Indiana. Mr. Fair
banks was a born candidate for the
presidency. Of the United States, and
it is not in the least surprising that
he was already Tin the hands of his
friends" at time when some people
at distance were moved to ask,
"Who in blazes is Fairbanks ?"-
Springfield CMass.) Republican.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
TRUNK LINES REDUCE
EASTERN GRAIN RATES
Cut Is Made to Meet the Low Canadian
Tariffs

NEW YORK, June S0.-A reduction in
eastbound grain rates has been agreed
upon by the Atlantic coast trunk line
railroads. 1t will take effect tomorrow
and is made to equalize the rates prevail
ing on the Canadian lines. The export in
terests of New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and Baltimore will be put into position
to compete with the Canadian grain deal
ers.
Under the new tariff all grain from
Buffalo Is placed upon a Scent basis
This is a reduction of 1 cent per bushel
ON wheat and flax, q C per bushel on corn
and " cent per bushel on barley. No re-
duction is made on oats, because the ex-
port movement is limited.
A 3-cent rate on wheat means that
grain can be brought from Chicago and
placed alongside ship for &c, and count
ing floating elevator charges of &c per
bushel net can be placed on board ship
for SIS cents.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
ROADS SAY LABORERS
WILL BE PLENTIFUL
Forty Thousand Men Are Needed to Har.
vest Northwestern Crop


There will be no shortage of harvest
hands IN the Northwest this year, accord
ing to the reports received at the general
oftlces OF the three transcontinentaI lines.
The labor agencies which supply the
men to the farmers of the Northwest have
reported that they will be able to secure
v with ease the 10000 laborers that will be
sale discharge of men in the bic cities
has flooded the labor market and many
men are now seeking work in the harvest
Heios IN the Southwest. The harvest
mere VIII be gathered in time to trans
Ter the iaborers to the Northwestern
1t is estimated that 10000 men will be
needed TO gather the crops, the estimate
being as follows: Northern Pacific. 10
600; Great Northern. $4,000; 500 line. s. 900.
and other roads 10, 000
Special rates will be made by the rail-
roads in order to induce the men to leave
their homes and come West. Wages this
year will range from 50. so to So. % a day.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
LINES HOLD MEETING
TO DISCUSS TARIFFS
Roads Attempt to Adjust Grain and Flour
Rates

CHICAGO, June 3O-Committees rep
resenting Eastern and Western roads met
today with view to an adjustment of the
grain and flour rates from Missouri river
points to the gulf and the seaboard
At the meeting it was announced that
drawn the 21-cent grain rate to the sea
board. and that the old tariffs of 231a cents
to the seaboard and Is cents to the gulf
would be restored. The Baltimore &.
Ohio Southwestern has given notice that
it will. join in any Western connection at
any time in making 21-cent rate on
grain from the Missouri river to the sea-
board.
Western lines today agreed to take out
on July , the cut rates on canned goods.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
ROCK. ISLAND ABSORBS
KANSAS CITY LINE
Newly Built Extension to Become Part Of
System

CHICAGO, June So.-The management
of the. Rock Island announced today that
on July 1 the st. Louis, Kansas City &
Colorado, which has been completed be-
tween ST. Louis and Kansas City, will be
absorbed by the Rock Island, becoming
the st. Louis division of that system
The name St. Louis, Kansas City & Col
orado will be dropped
1t is also announced by the Rock ISL
and that the new Chicago-St Louis line
of the Eastern Illinois road will be opened
during the latter part of July.
In connection with the absorption of
the ST. Louis. Kansas City & Colorado
the following appointments are made pub
lie: c. E. McKim, to be general super
intendent of transportation; J. o. Crock
EFT, general superintendent at Kansas
City; Thomas Roope, superintendent of
motive mower
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
BACK OF The Roonl Ess

The general reader will be shocked
when he reads the additional revela-
tons of corruption in St. Louis con-
tanned in the latest confession extract
ed by Circuit Attorney Folk. Charles
A. Gutke, former member of the
house of delegates, reveals details of a
plan of corruption that stretched from
the highest to the lowest office. He
shows how the holdup combination
gathered innumerable brides ranging
from a few hundred dollars for some
of the little fish up to $4,000 for the
big ones. The whole work was as we'll
systematized as the business of a big
corporation, and there was no secrecy
and no shame about it.
We hold up our hands in horror at
the iniquity of these people and cast
the blame upon the low standard of
political morality prevailing. We as
cribe it all to the wicked ambition of
the politician and the placeman and
thank God that we are not as other
men are, or even as these poor Missou-
rians. Yet human nature does. not
change with latitude and longitude.
and government and morality in the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
BUSINESS DECLINES, SO
DIVIDEND rs PASSED
American Car and Foundry Company Has
a Poor Yearly Report

NEW YORK, June s0-Directors of the
American Car and Foundry company met
here today and passed the dividend on
the common stock for the quarter ended
June 80. This stock which in 1903 was
ON a per cent dividend basis, was in
February of this year reduced to 2 per
cent.
The passing of the dividend is due to
trade conditions which show much de-
preston. The output of cars is 33 per
cent below that of last year and the COM
pany's general business shows a falling
off of 20 per cent.
Inc directors say that under conditions
outlined no other course remained than
the passing of the dividend on the COM
dend of ~ per cent on the preferred
stock was declared
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
TEXAS STEER INVADES
ILLINOIS DRUG STORE
Then He Jumps From a High Window
and Is Killed

PEORIA, Ill, June SO.-A Texas
steer escaped from the stock yards to-
day, dashed through the streets with
several stockmen in pursuit, and en-
tered the drug store of Colborn, Birl1s
& Co. The clerks fled from the build
Ing. The animal destroyed considera-
BILE property and leaped through WIN
dow fifteen feet from the ground, sus-
tanning injuries which caused death.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
The South Has Kept It's Word

The Democrats Of the nation UNDER
stand the situation; and particularly is
TINS true of the Southern Democracy.
Ii was the South that said to the great
state of New York, without whose cleo
toral vote no president can be elected:
Name for us a. good. true and pure
Democrat for president, and we will
support him." New York named the
worthiest and the strongest Democrat
within her borders. and the South has
kept her word. The way is still open
for Mr.. Murphy, who has just started
on his career of political leadership, to
gain the confidence and respect of the
Democracy of the South. His great
organization. will suffer if he goes to
st. Louis and interposes a petty fac
tional light and shows the least sign of
attempting to create discord and con-
fusion when Democratic prospects are
so ight.4Atlanta Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
VOTING TRUST ENDS
Wisconsin Central Now in Con-
troll of Stockholders

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 30.-The vot-
ing trust of the Wisconsin Central rail-
road expired at midnight last night and
the control of the road is now in the
hands of the stockholders.
= The expiration of the trust it is an
nounced, will make no changes in the
management of the road, as the inter
road under the trust are still in power
The principal owners of the stock are:
President H. F. Whitcomb. Chairman W.
L.. Bull. for the board of directors; Fred
erick T. Gates, Francis B. Hart and
John ID. Rockefeller. The trustees were
Messrs. Bull and Gates and John Crosby
Brown and Francis B. Hart.
The preferred stock of the company
has par value of $11. 276, 200, and its
common stock $27. 345. 600
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-01
A PUNISHMENT THAT COUNTS

If the Minneapolis courts shall stand
by their rule that gamblers may not
have any longer the option of paying a
fine in the municipal court, but must
go to the workhouse instead, gambling
will disappear from that city in short
order. If all the courts. everywhere
would only exercise wisely the option
allowed to them by the law, and sentence
offenders of all degrees more frequently
to imprisonment and less frequently to
pay fines, the observance of law would
be vastly improved.
A fine is at best a relic of sayagery.
1t belongs to the old days of blood
or grievously injured his neighbor SO
that his own life was forfeit, was per-
rnitted, in the interest Of keeping the
strength of the tribe intact, to buy
back his life by a payment in land,
cattle or other goods. 1t has little place
in modern system of justice. In
deed, with the growth of wealth and
its universal distribution, the fine as a
penalty amounts to little better than
proffer Of indulgence to the rich man
to violate the law at pleasure
There are a host of laws upon our
statute books, many of them most adj
mirable in character, which are multi
fed in practice by the system of fines.
Wherever a lawbreaker can make
enough money by violating the law to
pay his fine and have a handsome
profit left over, that is what he will do.
The system furnishes remuneratiye oc-
cupation to many classes of criminals.
AT one extreme is the tough, who takes
in thousands by some illegal scheme
and pays his hundreds in fines gladly,
and at the other extreme is the man of
wealth who cheerfully puts up thou
sands to avoid public disgrace or in
terruption of some larger scheme.
The fine ought to be practically elm
mated from the modern system of JUS
tice. II belongs only to certain spe-
cial cases. 1t is admirable for in
stance, where the family of a culprit
is wholly dependent upon him for sup
port, which will cease If he is sent to
Jail. In a few cases like this the fine
serves the ends of justice and mercy
together. In the ma jority of instances,
however. it leads to discrimination be-
fore the law. to inequality in punish
| ments and to practical sale of per-
mission to defy the law for those rich
enough to purchase. There is room for
great reform along this line, and the
courts and bar associations should give
the matter their serious consideration
That st. Louis boodler who has
made new confession win be regard