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The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
TAX PAYERS PLATFORM.

The Tax Payers party in conyen- tion assembled, urge the citizens of Skagway to compare its record dur ing the last year with its promises the last campaign
 It has faithfully carried cut Is pledges of economy, by reducing the valuation on real estate 10 per cent. By furnishing the town. school. and people with coal at greatly reduced price.
 By unceasing vigilance in proteciin the town from fire. By so econ- icaIly administering affairs of the municipality that there was in the treasury March lst, as shown by the ireasurers report $S5OO.OO.
 The Tax Payers. party confident of the popular support again seek the suffrage of the electors, on the is sues of the campaign pledges it's can didates as follows:
 To continue to administer the ar fairs of the municipality and schools in the same. careful. safe and econ omiCal manner.
 If possible to further reduce the valuation on real estate through the town.
 Not to increase the levy to more than one per cent
 To maintain the fire department in it's present high rate of efficiency. To continue to furnish water at reasonable rates.
 And at all times work fer the betterment of the people of skagway.
 J. P. Brawand.
 (Signed) c. W. Boyce.
 G. W. Parnett.
 Committee
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
SEARCH
 E SUCCESSFUL
WILL BUILD SHELTER AT
 THE BIG THING MINE
Rich Ledge Located at Depth Of 500 Feet. Shipping to Start lmmed- iats,y. Prospects For Shelter.

Condemnation of the report received here concerning the strike made at the Big Thing Mine ending the long search which has been in progress raere fer the ore body, is received in the WhiJehorse Star. which prints the following story of the finding of the ledge by Col. Conrad, the pursuit of which has lasted many months:
 Monday was a great day at Car cross and. for that matter. all over southern Yukon. the cause for re- folct1- being that .he ore ledge in The Big Thing mine. which has been pe~s stertly sought for many months, was struck Sunday night While many small but rich ledges had pre- vioGsly been located in the upward of tweuty-three hundred feet of tun- uels driven. it was the main ore body which was sought and which was located by the shift going at work sunday night.
 Col. Conrad. principal owner and general manager Of the mine. Expert .. ". Bryant and Foreman William P. Ireland. never wave-ed in their be lief -a the existence Of the ledge. but none e them. however. had the fai-eest idea that it would require as much uaneIEng to reach it as it did. but now that it has been located fully five huzursd feet below the surface cropping, their faith has been justified and their enthusiasm viGd5ia-ed
 The ledge is i2 the ncishSorhes3 Of eight feet wide and is known to be os high grade. The ore carries silve. lead, and considerable gold, and. suitable arrangements can be male for tle shipping in Of sup glas s.r the mine tthe rate on ore -lLr. or- being satisfactory, the york a. mining and shipping will be- gin at once and be carried on iI- definitely. thus iHsu-iDg the future prosperity or CacUoss and. at the same time being of benefit 10 both Whit horse and Skagwav.
 There ls a likelihood that a smel.- or will be erected in the near future for the treatment of the ore near the mine IT such is done there will be a heavy demand for the output of
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
WOULD PREVENT
 CRUELTY TO OYSTERS
lBg Alaska News Bureau.y


 NEW YORK, March 3O-The scru- pies of teuder-hearted epicures who have maintained that the eating of live oysters infdct pain upon the tender hvalyes. and therefore should be prohibited by law. are Set at rest by statement from the professor of physiology at the London Medical School. Commenting on an announce ment that "a prevention of cruelty to oysters campaign Is to be instL tuted by he president Of the Ala bama Oyster Commission. the pro lessor says:
 The oyster has 6 certain nervous structure and undoubtedly has Ger tain amount os nervous ssnsibtlity. It is impossible, however, 10 say wheth- CT it's nervous sensibility is of suffi- ciently high development to enable it to experience pain. In any case. if would be hard 70 find a more harmless or merciful way of Killing an oyster than by eating it."
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
COMMISSIONER
 |S THREATENED
COPPER RIVER PEOPLE
 BURN HEALY iH EFFI6Y
Mass Meeting Held to Protest Again st The Holding Of Office by For ei5ners in Chitinz District en Cooper River.
Especial to The Daily AIaskan-J

tSpectAl tO The Da1ly AbasAaA~J
 CORDOvA. Alaska, March 30-A dispatch from Kelnecot and the Bonanza says that the people al those places have held mass meet ings in which they have made visor- ous protests against the holding of the office of commissioner of the ChitIna district by the present com missioner. J. R. Healy who IS re- garded there as a foreigner. having failed, upon coming to the Uaited States to take out his naturalization papers.
 Healy as well as United States Deputy Marshal Joe Brown who aiso Is suspected of being a foreigner have reused the antazOnism Of the people of the district.
 Numerous petitions have been sign ed asking for the removal from of- flee Of both men. Last night Com missioner Healy was burned in ei- fgy by the enraged people Of the Chitiua district
 Speaking of the situation in the Chitina district Will A. Steel writing on the CoTdova Daily Alaskan says:
 Some of the Chftina people now believe that in officiaIdom there Best of foreigners lord 1t over Ameri- cans. The iaiier is said to have been in this country less than two years The commissioners stool pigeon. the weakling deputy United States marshal. Joe Brown. is under suspicion. and his citizenship viii be looked into. Truly I peculiar and de- pIorabie state Of affairs 1f relief were not n sight the people Of the Copper River country would have good cause to be alarmed and fear ful of the future. There s every reason to believe that the foul nest will be thoroughly cIeansed
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
HEARST PAPERS STEAL
 AMuNosENs POLAR STORY.

New York American is Cited For Contempt of Court For Printing Story of Antarctic Dash. New York Times Held Sole Right to Story, Protected by Copyright.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
CITIZENS PARTY PLATFoRm M.

The Citizens Party in Convention assembled re-affirm their allegiance to the principle of a business admin isuatioR of Public affairs untrammel- ed by commercial experiments and undominated by personality.
 We believe that taxes are levied for the purpose of Public Improve ments in which all Citizens are mu- tually interested and that such taxes when collected should be used fir Street Improvements. Good Cross Walks, improved Sanitary conditions where possible. better Street Light ing and additional Water Mains. and such other betterments as may be practicable.
 Skagway expects to entertain many Tourists the coming Season. It should at least make it's main thoroughfare so presentable that a favorable im- pression may be made on our wis., itors. The present administration has utterly neglected all improve ments. contented itself with pfling up surplus in it's Treasury. to which it points with pride instead of divert ing the pubic funds to public bet terments, the vital principle fer which taxes are levied
 The Citizens Party if honored with the confidence of the electors pledge themselves to immediately improve the public thoroushfares. fur nish City Water by extension of mains 10 those who desire 1t, when practicable and to generally give the public service the benefit of taxes collected for such purposes.
 The Citizens Party does not view the presence of a surplus of SS5OO.O0 las stated by the Tax Payers Party b be availabIe) standing idle. pre- sumable without interest. as a con- dition indicating either wisdom or economy. Such a condition indicates either an unreasonable tax levy or l neglect of the purposes of Taxation. the improvement of the Town.
 We believe in publishing monthly or at least quarterly a statement of the City's affairs. Receipts and Dis tursments with such details as may be readily understood by the general [ public, regular statements of our Wa ter System and it's collections showing how the investment stands and It's earnings on principal paid in. The present administration has failed utterly to publish any statements cf practical value that has been avail able for the Tax Payer during the whole period Of It's existence.
 We believe that coal for use in
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The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
(By Alaska News BureauJ

ST. PETERSBURG. AaT,h 90 Deepening the present fanane mis- cry in Southeast Russia cones the confirmation of the failure on three quarters Of the tiled land of the Empire of the winter sowings. The official report to the department Cf the interior covering the past half of the Russian winter. a percd end ing January g. records that the snowfall came very late, and that in most of the classified areas Gin the Baltic provinces, in the trans volga, on the Steppes, on the voiga, Don and Cis-Caucasia1 territOriesl in the Polish provinces. and in all trans Caucasia and Central Asia there has not been enough snow to overlay the seed sufficiently for good crops Tn Russia it is a proyerb thai three good harvests carrot follow in sue cession. The calamity has now to be faced of seeing one failure Of the food supply of over twenty millions of the population. followed by a bad beginning for the Text season all over the country. Pictures Of des0lation are painted by doctors. cIergymen. schOolmasters and public-spiTited men of conditions on the further side of the lower volga, fin Orenbury. and in large areas Of near Siberia. Mostly the villages are lying in mute despair.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
TIE TWO COUNCIL TICKETS
 HE TWO PARTY PLATFORMS
TAX PAYERS TICKET.

r~-- Candidates for Council J. NJ. Tanner Dr. J. W. Brawand J. A. Bender Henry FTiedenthal Ed Foreman Phil Abrahams P. H. Ganty For School Director Hon. Martin Conway
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
lRr Alaska News Bureau.l


 NEW YORK, March SO-Judge Holt of the United States District Court, signed an order yesterday requiring the Star Publishing Company, which publishes the New York American, to appear in court today and show cause why it should not be adjudged guilty of contempt of court for yio- latiug an injunction order signed by him on March s restraining the New York American frcm publishing Cap tain Roald Amundsen's own story Of his discovery of the South Pole, which was copyrighted in this coun- try by the New York Times Com pany.
 Judge Holts order signed yester- day also requires the Star Publishing Company to show cause why it should not deliver up the original of Judge Holt's injunction order and why an should not be issued against the company and its officers for resisting the court order.
 Judge Holt's action was based on affidayits and petitions presented by counsel for the New York Times Go. These papers recited that the New York Times had contracted for the sole rights to Captain Amundsen's polar story in this country and had protected these rights under the law. The suit will be heard today.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
IOWA TOWN BROKE.
IBy AIaska News BureauI

(By Alaska News BUreauJ
 IOWA CITY, la, March 3O-It costs too much to run a town. At least this is what Mayor F. A. Brenak, of Morse. a village north east of Iowa City. has decided.
 Hence. leading a band of petition CTS. he came to Judge R. p. Howell. Uf the district court here. and asked that the incorporation be dissolved. Recent operations of the mulct law have destroyed the usual Hquor license revenue to Morse, and finan- cial stringenoy made the upkeep of city officials an imposs.bitty. The town is but a year old.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
CITIZENS TICKET.

Candidates for Council V. I. Ham Howard Ashley James Kettles John Greshel Dr. W. G. Gable Robt. Eville Oscar Selmer For School Director Hon. Martin Conway
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30

the local copper mines, such output being used by smelters for fluXiDg purposes.
 ''If the railroad people will now do the right thing, the turning Of the tide in the financial affairs Of South ern Yukon will date from Monday March 9. 1912, and prosperity and general development will thunder down the corridors Of all time 10 come and he names of Conrad and Big Thing" will be emblazOned on the pages of all future Southern Yu kon history"
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
20Oo PENNSYLVANIA
 MINERS QUIT WORK,
lBr Alaska News Rureau.O

(By Alaska News Bureau.)
 WHEELING. Penn. March 3O-Fol lowing the order sent from the head quarters of the Federation of Miners 2O0O men have laid down their tools n tue mines heree and nave gone on a strike.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30
FREIGHT OFFICE MOVED.

It vas announced today that the general freight office Of the White Pass Railway which has been in winter quarters in the Traffic office of the Railway Block will be re- moved Monday to the summer freight office on the Noores wharf.
The daily Alaskan., 1912-03-30

Mr. George Charletou of the Porcu- pine Gold Mining Co, made the round trip to this city from Haines today.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
VAPOR Treatment
FOR cA1ARRH, COLDS, COUGHS
SORE THROAT AND eR0N.
CHI1IS.

Everybody knows that breathing
HYOMEI few times day through
the little hard rubber pocket inhaler
will in a short time drive out ca
tarrh.
Many people regularly use the va
por treatment at night in conjunc-
ton with the inhaler, claiming that
it hastens results.
This is the vapor treatment: Into
a bowl three quarters full of boiling
water pour . scant teaspoonful OF
HYOME1. cover head and bowl with
towel and breathe for five minutes
the soothing, healing, antiseptic
HYOME1 vapor. Try It when using
HYOME1 for any nose or throat all
ment,
HYOME1 is guaranteed by Len
hart to put an end to cataTrh, or
money back A bottle Of HY0HE1
costs 50 cents; . complete outfit,
which includes inhaler, 800.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
MONTHLY EVENTS BY
VIIAGRAPH COMPANY
ORPHEUM THEATER ADDS AN.
OTHER FEATURE IN NOV
ING PICTURES.
vitagraph Film Company Portrays
Leading Monthly Events Occurring
In America.

Another feature in moving pictures
which will be presented in local thea
ters for the first time will be offered
at the Orpheum theater this evening.
This feature is one that is produced
by the Vitagraph film company and
portrays monthly events as they have
occurred in different parts of Amer
ica. For some time the Orpheum has
been offering weekly events by the
Pathe company. btu those events GOV.
ering the world, while those by the
Vitagraph are confined entirely to our
home country, and cannot help but he
OF exceptional interest. Among the
events seen at the Orpheum tonight
in this film will be "Bobbie'' Leach
going over Niagara Falls in a barrel
will be the leading feature, a hitherto
achievement, some
thing which has always been looked
upon as impossible. Admiral Togo of
the japanese navy on his visit to
America. This great man is seen in
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
CASCAREIS SURELY
STRA|GnTEN YOU OUT
No Headache, siIiousness Upset
Stomach Lazy Liver or Consti.
papted Bowels by morning.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway through these alimentary
or drainage organs every few days
with salts, cathartic pills, Castor oil or
purgative waters.
Stop having a bowel-wash today. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and regu-
late the stomach, remove the undi-
gested, sour and fermenting food and
foul gases, take the excess bile from
the liver and carry out of the system
all the decomposed waste matter and
poisons in the intestines and bowels
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never gripe, sicken
or cause any Inconvenience, and cost
only ten cents box from your drug
gist. Millions of men and women take
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Billiousness, coated
tongue, Indigestion, Sour stomach or
Constipated Bowels. Cascarets belong
in every household. Children just love
to take them.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06

throughout. The Collegiate style,
executed I'm brick with terra-cotta
trimmings, was adopted for the ex.
terror. The interior of the audi
torium is EMzabethan.
The erection of this building, just
c~~1ed under the name of Central
Commercial and Manual Training
High School, marks the latest step
In a progressive building campgn, be.
gun by Newark four years ago, and
under which nineteen school build.
ings have been put up in the last
four years. These nineteen' buildings
have cost $2,7O0,0O0 has been spent
for the new Central Commercial and
Manual Training school alone. This
high school, together with another
opened year ago, has considerably
more than doubled the high-school
accommodations of Newark within a
+welvemonth.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
MEN. AND RELIGION PRIZES.
Christian Conservation Congress OF
fers for rAtlcIe and Eplqrams.

Christian Conservation Congress OF.
fers for rAtieIe and EpIsrams.
NEW YORK, March 5.-Fifty dol.
ars is offered as q prize for the best
250word article upon the significance
of the Christian Conservation con.
|, gress of the Men and Religion move
ment. which meets in this city, April
1924. Information about the congress
may be had of the literary department
Of the Men and Religion Forward
movement, 124 East Twenty-ei
street, where all articles must be re-
ceived by April l.
There are no other conditions than
this. Anybody may compete-news.
paper men, clergymen, laymen, wom-
en-, young and old. American or for
eigner The writer's may publish the
competing articles before sending
them in, if they SO desire. The sue.
cessful contribution will be widely
issued by the movement, with the
writer's name attached.
Three other prizes of $25, SIS and
SO are also offered for the three
best epgrams upon the meaning Of
the Men and Religion Forward move
ment.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
WRECK OF BATILESn|P Maine
READY FOR BURIAL IN DEPTHS Of
THE Ocean ON 18th OF March

You may lift your hand, between
decks, and touch their sharp valves
where they cape in myriads on the
ceilings above your head.
Stores jealousy Protected From
Relic Hurters.
In one dim chamber, whose bare
SCARED timbers are the color of dead
leaves, dark bottles OF wine lie
stacked in a pyramid. These were
mess stores. One flask they opened
and found it as sound as though
it mad not shared the cellar of the
sharks these fourteen years. The
rest, untouched, will go down with
the ship.
In another room, carefully barred
and locked and guaxded, stand open
barrels of rifle ammunition and rows
of cartridges for ships guns. Their
shells are dull and rusted, but their
charges are still alive, and could
serve a purpose as well today as on
the day they left the armory, Just
as they are, and jealousy protected
from the hands Of relic.hunters,
these, too, will share the final sane
tuary.
In The Engine Rooms.
Down below, the great engines
stand in place, cleaned and oiled
from the rust and canker of their
long sleep. When the ship goes out
to her burial, she might, it is be-
lieved, move by her own power. But
the attempt will not be made. Those
who have labored over her till her
very spirit inspires them, hold that
such a thing would be as grim sac
rilege as to galvanize the earthly
lodging of a departed soul into a
show Of life.
"Do you feel" some one asked of
Major Ferguson, the army engineer
who has been in charge of the rails.
ing of the vessel, "D0 you feel that
she should be sunk with attendant
ceremonies, or that it would be best
to do the thing unmarked. to let a
morbid question lie the question:"
The answer was very earnest.
1.-The Spanish war is over. It's
rights and wrongs, its causes or fol-
lies or mistakes are things of the
past and need have no meaning here
But a captain is escorted to his bur-
ial by his proper guard. A colonel,
brigadier.general, receive their
greater honors. And think that
the Maine should go down to her
grave in the presence of every
available ship OF our navy"
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06

his actual moving and living presence
and everybody will have a chance of
sizing him up. Atwood, the great
aviator, in the unprecedented flying
trip from St. Louis to New York. The
greatest of female long distance SWIM
mers of the world, Miss Rose Pitinof,
16 years old, in her swim of 21 miles.
The opening of the Coney Island pub
lie bath house and the swarms of hu.
mans who took advantage Of the free
use of the ocean. These and other
great occurrences will spread an ami
mated newspaper before the public
eve
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
Candor by Accident.

The hostess was so weary after an
tnordinately long call from a bore that
when he at last rose to 60 she was al
most incapable Of coherent speech. and
her verbs in consequence changed
places in her final effort at hospitality.
It ran as follows: "Oh. Mr.. Peters.
must you stay? Can't YOU go!~1cE
Ion Opinion.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
PENALTY SOCIAL.

d The Epworth League of the McCabe
Methodist church will give a "Pen.
atty" social in the parlors of the
church on Thursday evening. March Z.
The public is cordially invited to
spend pleasant evening with u.s..
Come and hear the famous Gugen-
Observation-Disclosures orchestra.
Bring some pennies with you, or
that equivalent in small change.
Bismarck daily tribune., 1912-03-06
HOODS SarsaparItia
Cures AL Spring Ailments.

Mrs. Marion Bruce, Cumberland.
Me, writes II have taken HOODS
Saraaparilla for a great many years.
and think it the best blood medicine
in the world. take it both spring ana
fall. This last winter and spring l
was in very poor health. was weak
and had lost all my appetite and was
all run down. AS soon as began to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla my strength
came back and my appetite returned:
1 am now we'll, do my housework, and
no longer have that tired feeling.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated, tablets called Sarsatabs.