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The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
INLAND WEATHER

Weather conditions obtaining al in- land points at 8 o'clock this morning, according to telegraphic reports re- ceived at the offices of the w. P. x Y R., were as, follows:
 Fortynile-Cloudy, calm, D above. Dawson-Cloudy, calm 2S above.
 Ogilvie-Cloudy, calm, ? above,
 Stewart-Snowing, calm, 2S above. Coffee Creek-Snowing, west wind 2S above.
 Selkirk-Cloudy, calm, 20 above.
 Yukon Crossing-Clear, south wind, ,S6 above. Big salmon-Cloudy, south wind 40 above.
 Hootalinqua-Cloudy, south wind, 32 above.
 Lowey Labarge-Cloudy, south wind, 36 above.
 whitehor8e-Cloudy, south wind, 30 above.
 Tagish-Cloudy south wind, 36 above. Atlin-Cloudy, south wind, 34 above. Courad-ClOudy, south wind, ,36 above. Caribuu-Cloudy,. south wind, 3S above.
 Benuett-Cl Cloudy, south wind, 32 above.
 Log Cabin-Snowing, south wind, 2f above.
 FIaser-snowing, south wind, 3C above.
 White Pass-Cloudy, south wind, 34 above.
 Glacier-Cloudy, south wind, 30 above.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
BRITISH COL UMBIA
 CABINET CHANGES

F.J. Fulton has baeu sworn in as at torney general ia the cabinet of Pre- mier Mcbride, of British Columbia, to succeed Charles Wilson, resigned. F, Carter Cotton, of Vancouver, 1t is said, will become minister of public works to succeed Mir. Green who is slated for provincial secretary.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
KEEP II UP
Four Games Played in Bowl.
 ing Contest

E. Barry and E A. Murphy won three straight games from W. B. King and P. H. Ganty in thd two-men team bowling contest last night, aad J. M. Tanner and George Blanchard won one game from King and Ganty. The scores in the latter game were:
 Tanner, l67, Blanchard, l3S.-total, 305. King, 1+5; Ganty, ll6-total, 26l.
 The record of the three games be tween E. Barry and Murphy and King and Ganty follows;
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
Do Not Nsproo, A Bad Cold

Never allow a cold to take its course Too often at this season of the year its course is toward pneumonia. Chamber. lain's Cough Remedy will promptly cure your cold and cOunJeracJ any 'eudenCy in this direction. There is nothing better for acute throat and lung troubles For sale by Wm. Britt.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
Principal Barbsr Shop LeadS

The Principal Barbershop and Baths is the leading tonsorial establishment ir Alaska. Everything in all the de- partments is strictly modern. The baths are first class in all respects.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
WEATHER BUREAU REPORT
SKAGWAY WEATHER

The result of the observation taken at Moore wharf at midnight, Mar. q, 1906, is-as follows: Temperature time observat'D. Al above Max. temp. preceding 24 hours..49 ID Min. " Al Mean 40
 Barometer, 29.85.
 Light rain, south wind.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28

IT you are out of kindling see E McC Weste. have it by the sac> or cord Phones 90 S4. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
Open Day and Nigh

The Seattle saloon is open day and night. Frien1s of the house and the public generally will be welcomed at sny hour. The place is always com comfortable.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28

All the delicacies of the season st. the Pack Train Restaurant.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
For Rent

A completely furnished 4-room house with bath. Inquire at Monogram.
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
SkagwRy Laundry

For frst-class work trv Skagway Laundry. Twenty-Five wears expert ence. Telephone S9. tf
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28

Earl S Wilson collars and cuffs a ClsysOn's
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28
Oyster Cocktails and wsinerwurst

Fresh oyster cocktails and hot wein srwnrst on tap at the Mascot Saloon
 Thirda7enue and Broadway. U
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28

A Nettleton shoe at ClsysOn's. If
The daily Alaskan., 1906-03-28

Highest Scores-Tie, E, Barry aud E. A. Murphy, 166.
 Highest Aversge-E. Barry, l55: E. A. Murphy, l50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
SIXTEEN ACRES TO A MULE
Georgia Cotton Growers Agree to Hold
the Production in These Bounds.
Organizer for Each District.

The appointment of district organi-
zers in each congressional district of
the state and the PRONUNCIATION of a
pledge to hold the cotton acreage down
to sixteen acres to each mule were
among the important actions of the
Georgia division of the Southern Cot
ton Association, which held its an
nual meeting at the state. capital in
Atlanta Wednesday.
The following officers were unani-
mously chosen without opposition to
serve for 1906: President, M. L. john
son, of Barlow; vice president, w. L..
Peek of Rockdale; secretary, II. c..
Hill of Jasper; treasurer, John d.
Walker of Hancock.
Georgia members of the executive
committee of the central association:
w. L. Peek of Rockdale, j. l.. Boyn-
ton of Calhoun, and J. r. Miller of
Bulloch.
The only change made in the officers
who served the division of 1905 was in
the election OF w. L. Peek, to succeed
Vice President John Bostwick of Bost-
wick.
The result of the roll call showed in
attendance about 100 delegates from
some seventy counties.
President Harvie Jordan of the
Southern Cotton Association in his
address congratulate the members of
the association upon the great work
which it has accomplished during the
last twelve months. Through its in
duence and work, he said, Wall street
has at least lost the power of debating
the price of cotton throughout the
world. The time is not far distant, he
declared, when the cotton spinners
throughout the world will be glad to
treat with the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation. Already there has been ar
ranged a conference between certain
spinners and representatives OF the as
ISOLATION to be held in New York in
the near future to discuss the trade
situation.
President Jordan warned the asso-
citation against letting politics enter
into it in any shape or form.
Hoke Smith, candidate for governor,
was among those in attendance on the
convention and responded when Fulton
county was called. He was not invited
to speak.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
UNCLE SAM KEEPS SECRETS
When Your Letters Go Estray He
Sees That No Harm Comes of
Them. Uses Much Discretion,

The dead-letter Office at Washing
ton is the depository of a multitude of
secrets. In the course of a year many
hundreds of thousands of letters are
opened there and their contents read.
Not a little of the matter contained in
these communications is of a private
and confidential nature, and some of
it might do a great deal of damage if
made public. But there has never
been a case in which information of
the kind has been divulged
When possible, often by the utmost
exercise of ingenuity in deciphering
illegible addresses and hunting for
missing individuals, letters are finally
delivered or else returned to the
writer's. But there are not infrequent
instances where the return of compro-
missing missives might make serious
trouble, and in such cases, at the dis
erection of the officials in charge, they
are burned.
For example, married woman
might imprudently mail her photo
graph, with a too affectionate inscrip-
ton, to a man of her acquaintance,
with every reason to fear unpleasant
consequences in the event of its com
ing back from the dead-letter Office.
In cases of this sort discretion must
be exercised. 1t is important that
people recover their lost letters, but it
is of far greater consequences now
and then that Uncle Sam should re-
frain from sending them back, bury
ing in his bosom so to speak,
the secrets they contain. Where pho
tograps are concerned the dead-Ietter
Office assumes the functions of a
censor, and all that are judged to be
improper are carefully bundled up
and consigned to the NAV of fur
mace, which in the course of year
reduces to harmlessness an immense
amount of material that might be in
furious to the happiness of countless
individuals.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
CIGARS SMOKED BY MACHINE.

The Latest Innovation by the Govern
ment at Washington.
Smoking cigars by machinery is the
latest innovation of the agricultural
department at Washington.
Some leaves. said to be worthless
for smoking were sent to the depart
ment for testing. Secretary Wilson
did not care to try the stubborn weed
himself, so machine was rugged up.
A jet of water is so arranged as to
cause a vacuum in a glass tube in
which a cigar is placed. When the
cigar is lighted and the Jet started the
device smokes like a human being.
Six cigars can be smoked at one
time, and by this method it is possible
for the experts to compare the merits
of various brands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10

Albany was visited Wednesday af-
ternoon by one of the most destruct-
i've tornadoes which this section has
ever experienced. The storm was &C
companied by a terrific dOwnpour OF
rain. and came from the southwest.
The acid chamber and oven room OF
the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.
was the first place the storm swoOped
down upon, and it's complete destruc-
ton was accomplished before the score
of workmen in the building realized
their peril. Ben Jones, labOrer, was
crushed to death by the falling tim
bers, and Walker Saunders, the as
sistant superintendent, escaped the
same fate by falling alongside of tim
bers, which prevented other timbers
which fell from reaching him. He was
only slightly injured.
About a dozen negro tenement
houses near the acid chamber were
destroyed, their inmates escaping
with slight injuries.
Tornado Caromed Overhead.
The tornado then lifted and Travelled
overhead for distance of two blocks,
again striking the earth at the inter.
section of Madison and Residence
streets, where the G. M. E. church.
two large storehouses and fifteen ne.
gro tenement houses were blown down.
The occupants of these houses also
escaped with minor injuries. The
tornado continued its work of destruc-
ton up Residence street to Jefferson,
unroofng houses, razing trees and in
many instances lifting cottages from
their foundations and setting then
down fifteen or twenty feet away.
The tornado lifted at Jefferson
street, but only to descend again or
Washington street, near Society, with
increased force. A huge storage room
IN course of construction by the Alba,
nv Artesian Ice Co., and which was
nearly completed, was completely de
molished, as well as the southern enc
of the oil mill plant of the Georgia
Cotton Oil Co, which was taken from
the main building as smoothly as i
cut with huge knife.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
MONEY ORDER SALES OVER MILLION A DAY.
Greatest Banking Institution in World Is This Branch
of Postofice Department Italy Draws More Mon
ey from Us Than Any Other Foreign Country.

unpaid for one year from the last day
of the month of issue it is called in
valid and the amount of the order is
placed in the treasury of the United
States, subject to the call of the hold
er of the order. There is now in the
treasury the very large sum of 81
$50, 900 of such money.
During the fiscal year IL, IT'S orders,
representing 1927, 1884, became invalid.
The amount accruing from invalid or
ders is increasing very rapidly, as
will be seen by the figures for the last
five years: 1901, 500, 678; 1902, 1924,
68l; 1903, 129, SOB; 1904, S175, O68; 1905,
1921, 964.
Cost of Blanks.
In 1905 the government expended for
money order blanks $122, SIS. The
government received in fees for do
nestle orders issued $3,213, $50, and
on foreign, including gain on ex-
change, 1905, sol, the gain on exchange
being $76, 229. The postmasters were
allowed commissions on domestic or
ders $973.27 and for losses by fire
and burglaries ST., 1856, leaving bal
ance to the credit of the government
of 81, 1888, 347. The commissions on
foreign orders issued were $l33, 1853.
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois
lead in the order named in the issu-
ance of international money orders,
the amount in 1905 being respectively
So, 724, 369, 81, 759, 1914 and S4, OIL, 968.
Italy Gets Most.
The remittances to Italy it far in ex-
cess of those to any other foreign
country, amounting in 1905 to SO, 348, =
SAB, against $7.908, 1872 to Great Brit
ain, S4,607, 94l to Russia, 81, 40l, 044
to Canada, SO, sos, 072 to Hungary and
So, 442, 925 to Germany. The transac-
tions between the United States and
other countries appear to be recipro-
cal in the case of Canada only, the
amount paid in Canadian orders and
those drawn against Canada being
very near equal
Italy, that drew from US nearly 3d.
100000, returned only 1867, 181, and
Great Britain issued against US only
81, 1876, GIG, as against the nearly 49,,
100000 drawn by US in her favor.
The amount paid in Illinois on do
nestle orders in 1905 was several mil
lions in excess of that paid in New
York, being SCI, 500, 1913 in the former
state, and 1868, 433, 1855 in the latter.
The next state to New York was Penn
sylvania, $25, sos, 896, closely followed
by California, with S22, 555, 099.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
DEER LOSES THAT $1,000.

At Little Case That Went from the
Lowest TO the Highest Court.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided the case of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Company VS.. E. e. Deer, reversing
the decision of the supreme court of
Alabama, which was favorable to
Deer.
This was an action to recover 1924
claimed by Deer to be due him for
wages by the railroad company. Not
withstanding the insignifcance of the
sum involved the case travelled all the
way from Justices court to the
highest tribunal in the nation. The
company admitted having owed to
Deer the amount claimed, but resisted
payment on the ground that the money
had been paid on garnishee proceed
ings against Deer. The garnishee
proceeding was in Florida, notwlth-
standing that Deer was a resident OF
Alabama, and the Alabama trial court
held the Florida court to be without
jurisdiction and the railroad company
to be liable. The company resisted
payment and appealed from one court
to the other until it reached the high
est.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
MONEY VALUE OF TEMPERANCE
Swiss Life Insurance Company Gives
Total Abstainers a Reduction

Swiss Life Insurance Company Gives
Total Abstainers a Reduction.
A Swiss life insurance company has
taken action which indicates that
temperance" has money value. 1t
has undertaken to insure members of a
temperance society composed of rail
way employees who are not members of
it. For some time past past Swiss
accident insurance company has given
total abstainers a reduction of 10 per
cent insurance rates. So we'll satisfied
is the company with the result that after
January l, 1006, it made the reduction
to total abstainers Is per cent. These
reductions have the merit of doing
fuller justice to the good risks. !"
There is no reason why one class of
risks should pay the losses caused by
another.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10

In government circles one of the di-
visions in the Office of the auditor for
the postoffice department is called the
greatest banking institution in the
world without capital. 1t is the di-
vision that has to do with the money
order business of the country, says a
Washington dispatch. 1t can be said
that if this great banking institution
has any capital at all the amount
may be placed at $40, 900, 600, for that
amount is always in the hands of the
various postmasters, credited to the
money order fund. The average
daily receipts are 81, APO, 900.
In short, the people of this country
daily deposit in the hands of the vari-
Gus postmasters that amount each day
in the year and take money orders in
exchange. In the course of single
letter your correspondent can only
give a glance at the tremendous mon
ey business on the postal service.
Something more than $4,000 postmast-
ers sell and pay money orders, yet
the amount lost by fraud or defalca-
ton of the pOstmasters, or those hav-
ing charge of the work, is exceedingly
small.
During the fiscal year of 1905, 55,-
885, 561 money orders were issued in
this country, of which SO, 722, 1853 were
domestic and 2, 1863, O98 foreign. Those
orders represented, domestic S4Ol,-
GIG, PA and foreign, s42, SOB, 246. Dur
ing the same period the govern
ment paid domestic orders calling for
$404, 334, 974 and foreign ST, 150,689. 1t
will thus be seen that we sent to for
eign countries in money orders $780,
252, $50 more than we received.
Established in 1864.
The domestic money order business
was established in 1864 and the for
eign in 1867, the first treaty being
with Switzland. The United States
now has direct exchange of money
orders with so countries.
Great care and circumspection are
used to prevent the payment of dupli-
cate orders, but such double payment
frequent occurs. If a money order
is lost or destroyed the remitter or
the payee can have duplicate issued
on making the proper showing under
the rules of the department. A double
payment is where both the original
and the duplicate are paid. During
the last fiscal year 1,472 double pay
ments, amounting to 1858, weremade.
When a money order has remained
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
LoUBET THANKS HEAVEN.

President AnxiOusIy Awaits Time
When He Can Retire to Privacy.
When it was reported recently that
he would be candidate for reelection
President Loubet is said to have pro-
tested emphatically as follows:
"No, thank heaven, am nearing the
end. 1 await February Is with the
greatest Impotence. l shall leave the
Elysee never to return. | shall dine
in Paris flat alone with my wife and
children in the privacy of home. 1t
will be the first time in seven years
that I shall be free to enjoy my pipe
by the tireSide free from the cares Of
Office and the fear of ministerial cri-
sis or diplomatic complications. l
shall allow nobody to disturb my pri-
vacy 5hat evening. There will be great
doings in the fat. 1t will be no public
gala day, but there will be family re-
ioicings with the door closed to all
outsiders. The President of the Re-
public is a prisoner even when he is
seemingly at large"
President Loubet's decision will sur
prise no astute observer. Kings clutch
their crowns until the last gasp, but
in republics most chief magistrates are
willing to lay aside their heavy respon-
sibilities after they have enjoyed the
honor of their position for a season.
They know that the honor will still
be theirs even in retirement.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
THE WEATHER FOR JANUARY.
Prophet DevOe Predicts All Kinds of
DisagreeabIe Things.


According to the weather forecasts
January will, as usual, maintain it's
record this year as the uncomfortable
month. DeVoe's weather forecast
promises only five fair days during
the month, and cold weather almost
continually.
DeVoe says further that 1906 will be
noted for variable weather, the ex-
IRENE in severity. Snow, rain and
billiards are the outlook. The sum-
mer months, the weather prophet tells
US, will be hot and dry and sultry.
According to DeVoe the people of
this section may look for a severe
storm somewhere about the 23rd of this
month, which will spread over the gulf
states, ranging northward.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
NO LONGER FIRE ALARMIST
BILL FOR CARE OF
GRAVES OF CONFEDERATEs.
Who Died in Northern Prisons and
Were Buried in Northern Soil
Big Appropriation Asked for.

Big Appropriation Asked for.
r. M. Larner, the Washington cor
respondent of the Savannah News,
says Senator Foraker of Ohio has
long since outgrown the days when he
was heralded as ''ire alarmist' be-
cause of the strenuous objections to
the return of captured confederate
flags to the south. He was young
when, as governor of Ohio, he came
into the lime-light in the flag episode.
Now he is the special champion of the
proposition that the government
should provide tor the appropriate
marking of the graves of soldiers and
sailors of the confederate army and
navy.
Senator Foraker is author of bill
providing for this care of the graves
of confederates who died in northern
prisons and were buried near those
prisons, and has succeeded this early
in securing a favorable report on his
bill from the committee on military
affairs, of which he is member. The
bill is high up on the senate calender,
and Senator Foraker will press it's
passage. There is no doubt of it's
passage by the senate with no opposi-
ton.
What the Foraker Bill Provides
- of
to ascertain the locations and condi-
tiOns of all the graves of soldiers and
sailors of the confederate army and
navy who died in federal prisons and
military hospitals in the north, and
who were buried near their places Of
confinement; to acquire possession or
control over all grounds where said
prison dead are buried not now in the
possession of the government, to
cause to be prepared accurate regis
tiers in triplicate, one for the superin-
tendent's Office in the cemetery, one
for the quartermaster generals office
and one for the war records Office,
Confederate archives) of the places of
burial, and number of the graves, the
name, company, regiment, or vessel
of each confederate soldier and sailor
who so died; and to cause to be erect
ed over said grave white marble head
stones similar to those recently placed
over the graves in the confederate
section of the national cemetery at
Arlington, similarity inscribed; and
to build proper fencing for the pres
ervation of the different burying
grounds and to care for these as the
various national cemeteries are cared
tor.
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars.
The secretary of war will be author
lied to appoint some competent person
as commissioner to ascertain the To-
cation of graves not now located, and
TO compare the names of those already
marked with the registers in the ceme-
teries, and make the necessary correc-
tions preliminary to the work of mark
ing the graves with suitable head
stones.
Senator Foraker provides an appro-
priation of 5000, 900 to carry out the
purposes of his bill.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10

A Hayes City, Kan, dispatch says
from disclosures made last week in
the old burying ground of Fort
Hayes it is evident that number OF
the soldiers were buried alive there
during the cholera epidemic. The
bodies are now being removed to
Leavenworth and the fort abandoned
as a military reserve. Caskets we're
disinterred that gave evidences OF
frightful struggles of the inmates for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
HIS BABIES A MINT.

Cramer Has Cleared Twelve Thousand
Dollars Raising Them.
With every visit of the stork to his
home George Cramer, a farmer OF
Eldora, Iowa, gets check for Sl.sCO
from his father in Germany, aud the
stork has paid twelve visits, Although
he has not been more than ordinary
successful at raising crops Cramer
has cleared Sl2, 900 raising babies.
When the first little one came to the
Cramer home the old father in Ger
many was so we'll pleased that he for
warded his check for $1,000 and de-
clared that he would duplicate it with
each visit of the stOrk. BY thrift and
economy Cramer has invested the
stork money from the fatherland, until
today he is the possessor of a comfort
able bank account.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-01-10
TERRIFIC TORNADO IN ALBANY
Killed and Injured and Thousands of DOar
of Property DESTROYED. One Concerns Loss Is 100000

A string of freight cars near the oil
mill, many of them heavily loaded
with merchandise, were wrecked, sew
eral being lifted from the track and
dashed against other cars on track
nearby. The damage there amounts
to practically the value of the cars
and contents.
The ctornado missed the Albany
academy, which was crowded with
teachers and pupils, by only hun
dred yards, and the screams of teach
ers and frightened pupils could be
heard above the din of the storm for
blocks. Had the building been de-
molished the loss of life would have
been appalling, as more than four
hundred children were in the build
ing.
Hundreds Homeless
Hundreds of negroes in the city are
homeless, and many lost their house
hold effects. The injured were cared
for, and efforts made to secure shelter
for all
1t is difficult to estimate the proper
ty loss. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Chem
ical Co. is the principal sufferer, it's
destroyed building and machinery
having been worth probably 100000
1t is safe to say the total loss will ex-
coed $500 Very little of the de-
stroyed property was protected by
tornado insurance.