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The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Bishop Grafton. of che Episcopal church. at Fond du Lac Wis. has made a very exhaustive study of che doctrines and practices of the Greek church. Last summer he visited Rus sia and hasernized with che dign.taries Of the orthodox church of Russia. The bishop is a, the head of a movement to draw che Anglican and Greek churches into closer relationship and commuu- ion. Both the bishop and a number of Russian ecclesiastical writers maintain that DO, only the fundamental beliefs but the teuets of the two churches are identical Alaska, it might seem, would be the most fertile field for the champions of this movement to attain practical results. Both churches are we'll represented in the territory and come within temporal contact of each other. Both here are working under the same government, and the respec- tive communican,s are bound by many mutual interests.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
INLAND WEATHER

The condition of the weather in the interior yesterday, as indicated by the dispatches received at the Skagway offices of the W. P. & r. R., was as follows:
 Cloudy, south wind, 2 above Fortymue-Cloudy, south wind, O. Stewart -Cleer, calm, 20 below.
 Selwyn-Clear, calm, 20 below.
 Sclkirk-Cloudy, calm, 22 below.
 Youkon Crossing Clear, calm, IS below.
 Big Salmon-Clear, calm, 10 below. Hootalinqua-Clear, calm, 10 below. Lower La Barge-Clear, calm, % be- low.
 Whitehcrse-Cloudy, north wind, l9 above.
 covley-CIOudy south wind, 2s above
 Caribou-CIOudy, north wind, 30 above.
 Penniugtou-Cloudy, strong south wind 32 above
 Bennett Cloudy, strong south wind, 34 above.
 Log Cabin-Cloudy, strong south wind, % above.
 Fraser Cloudy, strong south wind, 27 above.
 White Pass-Cloudy, strong south wind 30 above.
 Glacier Cloudy, calm, 30 above.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
ADavuOn AIdornau

A. La Lande, a prominent merchant of Dawson and one Of the newly elect ed aldermen, left yesterday morning for Vancouver on the Amur. Mir La Laude is on his way south for a brief so- iourn. He is interested in one of the principal quartz propositions of the Klondike.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
Hand'omslT Renovated

The vestibule and office of the Dewey hotel has been enlarged and renovated throughout with paper, paint and lin- oleum. It is a bright, handsome room, and does great credit to the good taste and enterprise of Syd Mcdonald, the landlord of the popular house.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
A.B Meeting

There was a large attendance at the Arctic Brotherhood meeting last night. A number of enthusiastic speeches were made under the good of the order and preparations for the annual ban quet were iuaugurated.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
InpoEsaat MosslaE

The Knights of the Maccabees will meet at their hall tonight for the trans action of business of the utmost im- portance. A general attendance is very much desired.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
Mascot ha. New Music

The Mascot saloon has just received a large consignment Of new music for les popular Victor talking machine. lt Includes all the latest popular airs.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
Good Beer Cheap

Lemp's St. Louis beer, S3 co per dog CD, delivered. Idaho Liquor House, agents. Phone ga. u
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Harry Harper, a well known civil engineer on the w. P. & Y. R., during construction days, is building resi- dence in Seattle.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
Famous Oyster ooOktalla

The Pack Tram saloon IS now serv- ing Elmer Chamberlain's famous oyster cocktails. u
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Let us fl your prescriptions. Kelly S Co.,, the reliable druggists.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
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PERSONAL MENTION

A. B. Lewis, the locating engineer of the W. P. & Y. R Is still at Valdez, where he hu established a residence on the new townsite pending the lapse of activity in the building of the Val dez, Copper River & Yukon railroad.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Diaries forl9Oiat the Skagway News O.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

When in Whitehorse stop at the Windsor, only first class house in town.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Baths at the Portland Lodging House, 25c; new porcelain tub, 10 8 lmo
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

C. B. Hooker will take the first boat out of Skagway for Juneau, and will make the trip to the westward as for as Valdez.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27

Kelly & Co.,, the old rela rug gists, Skagway, Dawson and iI
The daily morning Alaskan., 1904-01-27
Fur coats at ClaYsOn's.
skagvay Laundry

For frst-class work try SkagWay Laundry. Twenty-two yeras' experi- ence. Telephone S9. tt.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14

could catch no repetition of the noise.
Scr | threw myself back, determined to
sleep again.
Suddenly there came another sound.
so close that | jumped up again. When
you are in swimming allow your
mouth to go just one inch below the
surface of the water. then blow hard
Do that and you will know what the
noise was like in sound, but not in
volume for it was like d whale blow
ing.
Looking quickly over the canoe
edge, | saw by the dim starlight
wonderful sight-what appeared to me
to be a tree was sailing over the water
toward the canoe, and from the base
of the tree came the strange, watery
snorts / had heard.
Il started to arouse Sitka Charley
but before l could do so there was
a swirl in the water about us, the ca
noe lurched. and as / was standing, /
lost my footing and fell Next in
stant, / was under water, and / felt
something hard strike me several
times. Finally, l came to the surface
and was swimming. Out in the dark
ness / heard rifle shots and shouts and
a wild commotion in the water. My
heavy boots and canvas clothes
dragged me under again, until I man
aged to free myself of them. Then l
started to swim in earnest. BY this
time / could hear nothing on the lake
beside by own breathing. | could see
nothing, the darkness was thick about
me.
Suddenly l felt my foot strike
something. l stiffened my body up
right and felt bottom, but by the way
it slipped by l knew that some strong
current had caught me. Finally the
water became quite shallow, and l got
a foothold. The current obliged me
to run over it, and once in while
some big bowlder raped my shins or
stubbed my toes. At last / crawled up
on a dry, pebbly beach, but the strug-
gle had so exhausted me that / was
Obliged to lay down to rest.
How long l lay there l could not
tell, but when l came at length to
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14

The world worldly does not natur-
ally turn to preachers, for tales of adj
venturous hunting of big game, but a
recently returned missionary from
Fort Wrangel. Alaska, has a story to
tell which makes tiger hunting from
elephant howdahs in India seem as
tame as snipe shooting.
The minister's adventure occurred
while he was on the way to visit a
settlement of Indians several days
travel up the Stykeen river. This part
of Alaska is full of game, especially in
summer time. when the weather is at
times almost tropical.
Ion the second evening after we
left Wrangel," he says, I'VE came upon
a broad lake. and there we decided to
camp for the night. After pulling our
canoe up on the pebbly beach, we
cooked the evening meal, but the pres
ence of myraids of mosquitoes COM
PEELED us to paddle out into the middle
of the lake and anchor. The shores
were about a half mile distant on
shelter of a smudge. My three Indian
companions went to sleep at once, and
l followed soon after.
What ii was that awoke me I do
not know. but I found myself sitting
bolt upright listening for some noise
from out the darkness. For some
time / heard only the ripple of water
about the canoe and the distant BOOM
ing of the rapids. Then. suddenly,
there came over the calm surface of
the lake a low. hollow rumble, as
though some one were rubbing a wet
hand over a huge drum. felt tempt
ed to wake Sitka Charley. who could
speak English, that | might under
stand the mysterious sounds, but re-
memberinc his hard work of the pre-
yious day, l refrained. That was my
mistake
Again came that low boom-booln
boom. this time from the opposite
shore Then there was silence. I
listened alertly for long time, but
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14
THE MAGIC
BOY-MEDICINE
First 1t Was a Son of the Sun God
Now 1t Is Great Charm.

Among the Kiowa Indians there are
ten medicine men, each of whom is the
custodian of a little skin pouch orna-
ment with scalps, which is kept in a
wigwam built for it's especial place of
deposit
What the substance is in these
pouches nobody knows unless, perhaps,
the medicine men themselves, and they
will not tell. But whatever it is, it is
known among the Kiowas as the boy
medicine" and this is the story of how
they came by it.
A great many years ago, in the very
beginning of things. little girl was
playing one day with some companions,
when she espied porcupine high up in
the top of lofty tree.
The little girl began to climb the tree
to get at the porcupine. and as she
climbed the tree grew. So she climbed
and she climbed, and the magic tree
grew and grew until it pierced through
the sky, and at last the girl and the
porcupine were both away up where the
sun is.
Then the porcupine suddenly changed
its shape and became a handsome and
splendidly dressed young man of noble
bearing. He announced that he was
the son of the sun, and his home was
there in the upper world, where the sun
was king.
The Kiowa girl and the son of the
sun were married, and after a while
they had a little boy of their own.
Amid the joys of that upper world the
kiowa girl forgot all about her home
on the EARTH and was forgotten by her
people down below. But she was still a.
mortal, and being mortal, and a wom-
an, was still afflicted with an ungov-
ernable curiosity,
Her husband warned her that in her
excursions in search of roots and ber-
ries she should never go near a plant
called azon if its top had been bitten
off by buffalo. This warning affected
khe earth Wife just as Bluebeard's
warning not to open the closet affected
Fatima, and one day. when she was
out gathering roots and berries AMI
happened to see an azon plant which
had had its top bitten off by a buffalo.
she could not resist the temptation to
pull It up by the roots, just TO see what
would happen.
What happened was that the plant
left hole in the sky. and. looking
down through IL, the dlsobedient wo-
man saw the earth spread out below
She kept the secret to herself. being
AFRAID TO tell her husband what she
had done, but day after day she would
go 10 the hole in the sky and gaze
down upon the earth where she had
once lived. And day by day her long
ing to return 10 her old home IN
She thought Of the girls who had
played with her on the day when she
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THE WAYS OF GIRAFFES.

Continued From Page Twenty-five)
the expedient of building a cage with
out bottom around his CRATES. To
this he dashed the usual bamboo poles,
and when his natives lifted them up.
leaving the CRATES feet on the
ground. His idea was that the gil
RATES. would be forced to trot along
with the natives. The idea didn't seem
so bad, but the CRATES had minds of
their own, and two of them tried to
bolt as soon as the cages were lifted.
The result was a mixed-up lot of
bearers and two CRATES with broken
legs.
The CRATES leg breaks on slight
provocation. This is the ever present
danger all the way to the coast. But
when port is reached. it becomes still
more grave. for il is i'm bringing the
animal aboard a ship and during the
storms of a voyage that the collector
may expect every moment that his
precious property will slip. And If it
slips and goes down in its narrow
quarters it's good-by giraffe, for
its legs haven't room enough in an
ordinary stall on ship and are almost
sure TO double under 1t If ii falls.
Bringing the animals aboard is an
undertaking in itself. When the
steam winch begins to hoist the deep
pen with the brute's helpless neck
sticking out like a mast, the collector $
heart is in his mouth, for the giraffe's
head may get tangled among the
tackle of the ship or strike spar,
mast or shroud, and then there will
be wild times.
And 1t isn't only broken limbs and
similar accidents that bother the gil
raffe collector during a voyage. A
giraffe is one of the animals that will
break its heart in captivity. The poor
brute will actually cry with home
siekness--at least, / have always fig
ured that it's inconsistencies.
so catching CRATES isn't business
that a man really bankers for. The
reward IL great, however, II you can
succeed IN carrying one home alive.
for the giraffe Is to-day the most
costly wild animal, and n collector
can get almost any price within rea-
son for q good specimen"
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on her head, which she did not seem
DESTROYS of doing.
Lucinda Candisister felt sad when
she saw the unpleasant plight of the
old lady, but Lycurgus Sulferrnister
seemed to be full of glee.
It's very funny" said he, giggling,
Il kind of enjoy this land, only l
wish that l could jump and run the
way | used to before l was a King"
Almost Immediately he began to
bounce up and down. Every time he
jumped, he bounced up in the air
nearly ten feet.
Whats the matter?" What's the
matter?" he shfieked, still bouncing
up and down violently.
Lucinda Candisister looked, and
shrieked in turn.
IT'S your foolish wish" she cried.
Your feet have turned to rubber"
Lycurgus Sulfermister sat down and
held his rubber feet up in the air
to save himself from bouncing, and
began to cry.
Boo! Hoo! Boo! Hoo!" he Sob
bed. What's the use of being a King
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14

Prunella Tramplehopper immediate
ly rose into the air, and began to
swoop gracefully back and forth; but
she did not fly with wings. She flew
on broom.
The broom is the first airship, and
it was natural. when you come to
think of it, that Prunella should fly
that way; still it remained queer for
all that.
Unhappily. the broom on which she
flew belonged to an old lady in Wishy-
WHISKY, and she became so excited
when the broom sprang out of her
hands and flew away that she forgot
herself and screamed:
"Oh, dear me! l wish l had another
brooml"
And Immediately she had another
/ broom, only instead of being useful
it was merely ornamental; for it grew
out of the top of her head, and so
she could not really do much sweeping
with it unless she could have stood
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fully realize my position and surround
ings, the horizon was beginning to
! tighten, so l judged it to be about two
o'clock in the morning. Real dark
ness only lasts about three hours there
at that time of the year. / now made
out that l was on an island at the 4
lower end of the la9e on both sides of
which were foaming rapids. 1t was
really only a strip of ground half a
mile long and about 200 yards wide,
slightly wooded along ridge in the
center.
There / was. alone in the wilds of
Alaska, almost naked, unarmed, and
marooned as it were, on an island in
the Stykeen river.
Il followed the narrow strip down
river until l came to an abrupt break
The island was evidentI< of rocky
formation, rocky enough to split the
river, and here something had broken
the ridge off. 1t was a fall of twenty
feet. Well, l had been so dazed by
what had happened that before 1 knew
it l had tumbled down this rocky
ledge, and couldn't get back. Below
extended a few hundred yards of fiat
ground-sand in the lee of the rock.
On their side and below were rapids.
Il walked on. exploring. Suddenly,
1 stopped with start. On a rock by
the rapids sat big brown bear, watch
ing the rifles as a cat watches a rat
hole. AS l looked, his paw shot
down like flash and salmon flew up
on the sand. With a grunt of satis-
faction, he turned and waddled over TO
the fish. Then he saw me.
If you meet brown bear in the
forest and there is plenty of room and
you don't happen to offend him, he
viii continue his way without troub-
ling you-so they say. But either
had offended this bear, or there wasn't
room enough for both of us, or per-
haps he thought l wanted his fish. At
any rate. with nasty snort and a
snarl, he gave the fish a backward toss |
with his paw and started for me.
made one wild break for the rocks,
and by the energy which my desperate
fear gave me, / got up.
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now? Who ever heard of King with
rubber feet?"
Never mind, Lycurgus," said Luz
clnda Candisister, plying him. II will
wish that l was a Queen and we will
rule over the land together"
The next moment Lucinda was sit
ting on a swing, dressed in royal gar
ments that were real satin and velvet
and silk and fur, with a real gold
crown on her head. Lycurgus bounced
up and down with joy and Prunella
flew gracefully back and forth.
After they had been enjoying their
new delights for seventeen days, Ly-
curgus said suddenly one day
I'm getting homesick / wish
Prunella Tramplehopper would fly
around and find some way for us to
get home"
At once Prunella's broom rose high
in the air, and she went up and up.
All at once she saw what you shall
see next Sunday.
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climbed the magic tree after the por-
cupine, and wondered if they were
still alive-if they were grown up and
Tnarwied-if they mad any children. And
she thought of her father, the great
Kiowa warrior chief, and of her moth
er and her brothers, who, by this time,
must be grown up to be warriors
themselves.
So, one day, when she could bear
her inconsistencies no longer, she went
to the hole with a long rope, one end
of which she tied to a tree that grew
near, while she let the other end fall
down, down, down, until it reached the
earth
Then, taking her boy in her arms,
she began to slide down the rope. But
her husband returning from a hunt,
and finding his wife absent, cried out:
Where is my wife? Where is my
child?" When he was told that his
wife had been seen going in a certain
direction with her child and a long
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14

about the world in those days-drag-
ons and similar beasts-and the twin
brothers set aboalt DISCRIMINATING
them.
For several years they labored in
this good work, and when. finally,
they had killed off all the monsters
and taught the people many useful
things one Of the twins walked into a
lake and so down under it's waters and
was seen no more. The other sun
boy then changed himself into the
"talyidaf or boy-medlcine, which tho
chief priests Of the <iowas guard
carefully 10 this day.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-14

rope, he ran hastily to the place, and
there, looking down through the hole.
he saw that the earth was retaining
its daughter once more.
Come back! Come backl'' he cried
but the woman only slid the faster
down the rope. Then, being enraged,
the son OF the sun threw down a
great stone. 1t struck the woman and
killed her, so that she fell down to
the earth. But the boy was unframed
and was received joyfully by his moth
er's people, the Kiowas.
He was a boy OF wonderful beauty
and Intelligence, and at once began TO
teach the l<iowas what he knew about
hunting, raising corn, building houses
and many other things, Of which they
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beer. ignorant before.

I had been. ignorant before.
He knew all sorts of magic, too.
which he had learned in the sun-land
above the clouds, and some of this he
impaired to a chosen few, who be-
came medicine men," and have trans
mitted the knowledge down through
generations To their successors of the
present day.
But the boy was lonely, and often
said to himself: ooh, if 1 only had a
brother to help me in my work."
One day, as he was throwing
sharp-edged playing wheel into the
air, 1T came down and struck him on
the head with such force that it cut
him completely in two
Did it kill him? Not at all. Being
a sun-boy, he was immortal, and so
the only result, was that where there
had been one boy before, there were
now two-twin brothers
There were many monsters roaming
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7 HAD oNE'LAsT ROCK, A eId J
JAGGED STONE, :,
POSED 10 STRIKE.

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jumped around, three rifle barrels shot
out and l saw three strea.ks of flame in
the early morning light. The canoe
glided in and showed it's nose up on the
beach just as l reached it. / jumped
in and we showed out, but none too
soon, for there came the bear, bowling
fearfully, for he had been severely
wounded.
1T did not take long for Sitka Char
ley to settle that beast-he killed him
, with four shots. Then we put ashore
again and camped.
After Sitka Charley, who was nat
! urally not of humorous disposition.
got through laughing at the figure I
had cut, running before the bear, he
told me what had happened. That was
well along in the morning.
THE noise that had wakened me at
midnight had been the believing of two
moose bulls who had challenged each
other across the lake. One had accept
ed and was swimming across to fight
| when his horns encountered the canoe
and almost upset it. Sitka Charley
had been so completely surprised that
the canoe, broken from its anchorag e
had almost drifted into the rapids be-
fore they could get out their paddles
The moose had apparently taken no
notice of them or their rifle shots, for
tSAA OSCo A1ICI I4lcy ledTQ Lne TWO
beasts fighting on the other side Of the
lake. But they were too busy searching
for me to hunt for moose.
But we go now see,' added Charley
as he finished his tale.
we pulled up the lake and across to
where the moose had met. The beach
was literally torn up for a hundred
yards around, and blood was visible on
the rocks. Leaving the canoe in charge
of one of the Indians, we followed UP
the trail leading into the forest. 1t re-
quired no great woodcraft to keep it in
sight.
I'VE came upon the two moose a half
mile inland. Their big, broad horns
were interlocked, and one lay on the
ground, bleeding profusely. Both were
breathing heavily. AS they saw us.
they made one more effort, and the one
more severely wounded rose to his fore
knees.
''Sitka Charley wanted to see the
fight out, but l insisted. that we kill
the two suffering animals, which we
did. They were fine, big specimens, the
size of bulls.
1--WE camped all day on that lake,
and when we struck the Indian settle
ment two days later 1 had had enough
adventure to last me the rest of my
life"
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Some crazy instinct told me that
the bear couldn't do it. and 1 didn't
run. Instead, l turned quickly, picked
up big, loose stone and hurled it at
the bear, who was sscrambling UP after.
1t was a lucky blow. The stone struck
him full ON the snout. and he rolled
over backward. roaring and snarling
ferociously.
When he had picked himself up
again l saw he was mad enough TO
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forepaw reached the top. 1 had one
last rock, big, jagged stone, poised
to strike. l. dropped 1t squarely on his
head and then 1 turned and ran as l
never ran before in my life.
Can you imagine the thrill 1 felt
when, as l ran, l saw the canoe out on
the lake, not one hundred yards away!
l heard that bear behind me, and l ran
on, yelling at the top of my voice. L
saw the Indians look. Then all three
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tear the rock ledge away. if neces-
sary, to get at me. On he came
again, blowing up sand and pebbles on
both sides of him. His nose was
bloody. and this made him look fear
full. | picked up bowlder after bowl
der and hurled them down upon him,
and although each one struck the
beast, they rolled off like peas, and
he kept on struggling, and paving to
get up. Finally. his snout and one
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THE ADVENTURES.

Like every other wish in the Land
of WishyW ishy, the wish of Lycur-
gus Sulfermister that Prunella Tram
plehopper should fly. away came true
in a manner different from what was
expected.