Douglas Island news. [volume], March 29, 1899, Image 1

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VOL. I. DOUOLAS OITV AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, ISO!). NO. 1?
\ Bo M. Behrends |
? BANKER AND MERCHANT S
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< ftllNERS' OUTFITS
! SOLD AT
WHOLESALE PRICES
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J|w Let us figure on your
[ ?| 1 Outfits. f
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General Banking Business Transacted. \
If you want to make Investments consult with us. >
) Juneau, Alaska. \
if NEW MANAGEHENT 9
C a u?aMkxarw:a*a \
S The New York Exchange r
1 b Has Changed Hands ^ j
~ MAYS &. NAPOLEON ~
y are now in charge Y
A Gentlemen's Resort ?j
S Finest grude <?T Liquors and Cigars C
\ always on hand j '
9 Come and See Us. JUNEAU. fij
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RESTAURANT |
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It has recently been
opened by
Mrs. Frances Baker, of Seattle,
IN
HcUrPc Mill on Seward Street,
' ?CIC1 I let 11, bet. Jd and lth Sts.
BOARD BY TUB DAY Oil WKEK
RATES ^ASQNABLE
Spooner
Shack haines
Terms $2.00 per Day
' This is where the N. W. M. Police stop.
f . V ALASKA FURNITURE COMPANY j
z: ? * ' Seward Street,next to Opera House, JUNEAU.*
^ $ $'
Z. # 0 BEFORE PURCHASING, drop in and see our stock and
Z' o 4 prices oil
c ' 0 J JED ROOM SUITS, BUREAUS, CHIFFONIERS,
^ ' " CHAIRS, ROCKERS, TABLES, BEDSTEADS,
? 0 ! SPRINGS, MATTRESSES, COOK STOVES,
ZL ? 0 COAL HEATERS, AIR TIGHT IIEAT
^ ;<* $ ERS, GRANITE WARE, CROCKER V,
$ fr TINWARE, and all Kinds of
0 ^ HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
We will give you good {roods uiid Rood values.
? * * . G. A. KNIGHT, Mgr.
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There are More Ways than One of Saving
Gold ;
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AND THE MINERS KNOW IT
They are coming from JUNEAU, SHEEP CREEK, and all parts of
the ISLAND to buy their
Underwear, Over Shirts, Boots, A'Pnm'TAP
Shoes, and Winter Supplies from V vUllllUii
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\ CHLRCH DIRECTORY.
pATHOLIC CHURCH;
Muss with Sermon - - - 10:00 A. M.
Sunday School .... 3;(X) p. M.
Rosary. Lecture and Benediction 7:00 P.M.
f Priest, Rev; Father P. C. Bougis. S. J.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-Rev. Loyal
L. Wirt, pastor. Services will he held every
Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Sunday School meets at
2:30 p.m. Society of Christian Endeavor
Thursday evenings at 7:3>). Ladies Lea-rue
every alternate Thursday afternoon.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH Services held at Odd
Fellows Hall every Monday evening1, except
ing last in month, when the service will he
held on Sunday evening. Rev. H. J. Gurr.
FRIENDS CHURCH--Regular services at the
Mission School house.
Sahhath School - - - - 10 a.m.
Native Services - - - - 11 a. m.
Evening Services - 7:45
Prayer meeting. Wednesday evening at 7:45
Teachers* meeting every Friday evening at
o'clock at private houses.
Any and all arc cordially invited a.id wel
comed at all of these services.
Rev. C. X. Reploglk. Pastor
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-At
Peniel Mission, Tuesday evenings at 7:45
o'clock. Scandinavian services at the Peniel
Mission Friday evenings at 7:45 o'clock.
A cordial invitation extended to all. Rev. C.
J. Larsen. Pastor.
A. F. and A. 1*1.
Masons of Douglas Island meet at
Odd Fellows' Hall on the First and
Third Tuesdays of each mouth. All
Masons are cordially invited to at
tend.
I. O. O. F.
Alaska Lodge No. 1 meets at Odd
Fellow's Hall, Douglas, on Wednesday
evenings at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brothers are Cordially in
vited to attend.
J. G. McDonald, N. G.
C. A. Weck, Secretary.
DR. CLARENCE A. TREUHOLTZ,
Office ami Resilience. St. Aim's Hospital.
Telephone No. 2. Douglas City, Alaska.
DR. W. L. HARRISON,
DENTIST
Hunter Block, between Front
anil 2nd Sts. Douglas City.
FRED PAGE-TUSTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in the District Court of Alaska.
Fort Wrangel, Alaska.
A. G. McBRIDE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Office with News Douglas City. Alaska,
T. J. DONOHOE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all the Courts of Alaska.
Post Office Building, JUNEAU, ALASKA.
JNO. R. WINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, *
Juneau, - Alaska.
F. D. KELSEV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Juneau, I - * Alaska.
? JAMES LEDDV,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Juneau - Alaska.
C. S. BLACKETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Juucau Alaska.
Alex. Sniallwood,
BEACH TRADER.
/T;57""Carries at all times a complete
j?jggF-Stock of
Groceries,
Provisions,
Vegetables,
Fruit,
Candies, Etc.
Proprietor of Miners' and Mechanics'
^?Beach Boarding House
Rooms ami Hunk House in connection with
Table Board."
A First-ciass Boot and Shoe Siiop
Is maintained, Repair Work promptly,
neatly and substantially done. Years of ex
perience in Miner's repair work enables us
to properly do your work. Give us a call.
On the Heach. - Bet. Treadwell & Douglas.
S. E. WEESNER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Dealer in
Tobacco and Cigars.
GOODS SOLD
AT SEATTLE
PRICES ******
*** SNUFF***
Douglas City, - . - - - Alaska.
Alaska
Steam
Laundry
Dyeing and CleaniiigWork.
o
E. R. JAEGER, Proprietor.
o
Laundry Work in all its branches. Suits
cleaned and pressed. Colors restored. Dye
ing of every sort promptly attended to. Car
pets cleaned without taking them up. All
at lowest possible prices consistent with
good work.
A. LaMotte. Douglas City Agent.
Leave Bundles at Delmouico Hotel.
Front Street. - Juneau. Alaska.
ERNST BEIHL
DEALER IN GENERAL
MERCHANDISE.
Bakery in connection where
the Best Fresh Bread may
bo had. A Fresh Line of
Cakes and Cookies always on
Hand^-^ ^ ^ ^
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j Douglas City, - - Alaska.
THE DOUGLAS CITY
?#*8fl9G0BGfcCr $606G6Q&6G6O6K$
? MUSIC HALL #
? AND BAR S
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FIRST CLASS LIQUORS AND CIGARS.
Douglas and Juneau Beer always on tap
EMERY ELLIOTT, Prop.
Frout Street, ? - - Doujrlas City. 1
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The Sheep Creek Alines. A Fine
Plant. Ride on a Railroad.
Electricity and Com
pressed Air.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMMOND.
Sheep Creek b? across the channel
from the Ready Bullion mine and
stamp mill. It is only a few miles from
Douglas City. Formerly Uifc.- Nowell
Gold Mining Co. owned the property
located at that place, but, a few years
ago it went into the hands of the
American Gold Mining Co. It, is the
mission of the News to l?t the .people
know something about the mines of
Southeastern Alaska and with that ob
ject in view a representative of this pa
per made preparations for a trip to the
mines located at that place, and at 11:45 :
a. in. last Thursday wo walked the gang
plank of the Flosie and soon we were
on our way.
Capt. Tibbetts was in charge of the
handsome little craft. Good nalured
and happy and as good as lie is good
looking. He brought tho Flosie up
from Seattle and handles her as easily i
a child do?>s a toy. A short stop was
made at Treadwell where the saucy lit
tle Lucy lay with steam up. Capt. Mar
tin poked his head out of the wheel
house and exchanged greetings with
the writer. There was a time when the
Captain got red around the neck and
back of his ears every time he saw the
editor of the News?it was after we
published an account of the experience
the Lucy had in a storm this winter
but the Captain has become used to the
enterprise displayed by the editors of
the great religious weekly in getting
news and the hatchet was buried some
time ago.
But we were going to Sheep Creek,and
away we went, the little Flosie striking
a twelve-mile gait. We had never been
to the Sheep Creek mines so we fol
lowed the lirst wagon track wo saw and
it led us up along the creek's banks.
It was a warm day and the grade is a
good one?some 300 feet in a little more
than a mile. We didn't take any sum
mer clothes along?wo wished we had
before we get there. About oDe-half
mile from the stamp mill we met a man.
"Please tell me how far to the stamp
mill," said the writer.
"About half a mile," was the answer,
and otf went our overcoat off. We had
never met the man before, but he was
such a line, portly, good li'atured look
ing fellow that we wanted to know more
of him and we handed him our card It
was Supt. F. C. Hammond we were talk
ing to. The Farallon lay at the dock
to load the sulpherets and it was neces
sary for him to be there. This we both
regretted but lie supplied the meaus
for us gaining all the information we
were in need of and arranged for our
comfort at the home of the steward.
We were at the assay office where
Mr. Sv. L. Jehu is in charge. This de
partment is in a separate building and
is very complete. If Mr. Jehu is as
good in the line of his profession as he
is in treating a visitor, he is all right.
He, too, had to go to the wharf, bnt not
until the ceremony of extending to us
the freedom of the plant had been com
pleted. > '
On entering tho stamp mill, wo met
the foreman, Mr. J. C. Warner, and for
the first time we met some one wo kuew.
He knew that a knowledge of the mill
was the only thing that would satisfy
us and we went from basement to the !
ceiling. Way up a number of flights of
stairs arc huge bins that hold tons of
ore. In these bins the ore is dumped
from iron cars that are brought from
the mines, about a mile and a quarter
further up the crock. From the bius
the ore is fed automatically into the
stamp mills where it is ground as tine
Hour. It is thoroughly mixed with wa
ter and pours on down into the concen
trators. There is both gold and silver
in the ore handled at the Sheep Creek
mines. JJut the noise of the mill. Oh,
it is simply terrible, but we stood it
long enough to learn that the mill is a
splendid plant and complete in ali its
details.
Leaving the mill we were attracted
by the pulling of an engine and we
scampered up onto the track. Three
cars were attached to the little locomo
tive and/they had just been unloaded
and the train was about to leave for
the mines.
"I would like to ride out with you,"
said the'News man.
"All right; climb on," said the, tire
man and he gave us his seat in the cab.
The engineer was outside oiling up, but
soon he-was inside-with his hand on the
throttle, which ho gave a pull and away
we wont. The track is built on trestle
all the way. It didn't look strong to.
us, but it was. The track was net very
smooth, and not very straight either.
When we had gone but a little ways he
gave the throttle another pull and the
iittlo engine commenced to Hy. There
we were way up 011 the trestle and the
little machine see-sawed and cavorted
around until we expected to see it lly
the track at the end of every rail.
Scared? Well, I guess we were. We
were in a car once that turned a com
plete revolution down a forty foot em
bankment?we carry scars to remind
us of-the time?we thought of a second
accident we were to go through. Wo
got onto that engine with many, and we.
hope honorable, gray hairs on our head,
but' the' number was more than doubled
when we got olf. Did wo ride back 011
that engine? No indeed, we rode on a
Hat ear that a kind providence appar
ahtly ordered the engineer to fasten on
the rear of the engine for our special
benefit.
?' 11 ? Ti.
15ut now we ma see someimng. n,
was the manner of getting the ore from
t he mines to the building where it is
loaded onto the cars. Way up in the
mountains on the left one can see three
buildings. On the right of these there is
another. The structures are probably
a mile away and are up on the mountain
side thousands of feet. Steel cables
are stretched between these buildings
and the building where the ore is
loaded onto the cars, and 011 these ca
bles the ore is conveyed in huge-?buck
ets, which arc constantly gomg aud
coming, there being some eight or ten
of the cables in all, and which are un
der the perfect control of the machin
ery. Supt. Hammond designed and
constructed this part of the plant and
it is indeed a creditable piece of work.
"Did we go up to the mine?" No, aud
we probably never will. The prospector
that first went up there and discovered
the mine must have had some good
truck in him. His successors may
write up the hole in the mountain, but
we have no desire to do so.
13ut this is not all of the Sheep Creek
mines. At the power house, the super
intendent has a beautiful residence.
There is also a large boarding house,
office and store building. Then there
is the power of which we have said noth
ing thus far. The drills iu the mines
are, of course, run by compressed air,
but the stamp mill is run by electricity
the dynamos being run by water power.
There are two of these plants?one
midway between the wharf and the
mill and the new one on the beach a
little ways south of the wharf. The
first one we did not visit, but the sec
ond is first-class in every respect. The
water that propels the wheel is con
voyed in pipes leading from above the
stamp-mill and the l'all is some 300 feet
giving a terrible pressure. The build
ing is large and it is the iutention of
the company to abandon the use of the
first-mentioned power house and iu
crease Hie power of the latter. At pre- '
sent there is one very largo dynamo
and one pair of air compressor engines
running in this building, but,as stated,
this is to be more than doubled in ca
pacity.
The Sheep Creek mines are back from
the beach more than a mile and their
inaccessibility prevents people from
visiting them. The plant is a good one
and is under an excellent management.
With Mr. Hammond as superintendent,
Warner as foreman, Jehu as assayer
and II. B. Ames as accountant, the
American Cold Mining company will in
the future as in the past be a money
maker.
We must not close this article with
out making mention of Sheep Creek
proper. What we say concerning it
will probably be taken with some grains
of allowance by our many Eastern read
ers. We are n ot apologizing for lying,
but deem it necessary to apologize for
telling the truth. Sheep Creek is a
small mountain stream, twenty to
thirty feet wide in places and it has
furnished water for power the entire -
winter, and in abundance. The weather
has not been cold enough to freeze so
hard as to stop the water from running.
Unexpected Visitors.
Judge Johnson, Marshal Slioup and
Clerk Elliott arrived in Juneau last
Thursday. A session of the court will
bo hold until the Cottage City arrives
from the south. Judge Johnson looks
hale and hearty and uot at all sleepy,
even if he does hail from a town that
is so dead that it smells bad. Marshal
Shoup looks about the same and if
there is any change he appears a trifle
brighter, which must be attributed to
his reading the News. Clerk Elliott
was calm and composed when the News
. man saw him. He is a hard worker and
a most competent man.
Under the law as it now is, and as
(}ov. Brady insists it shall be, these of
ficials must reside at Sitka where there
is no law business?no, nothing. It is
a dirty outrago, but the right will pre
vail in the end.
Beside the Casket.
The gavel in the hands of the Exalted
Ruler gave three taps and the noblo
Elks were seated. An invitation was
extended to the great concourse of peo
ple in the room to pass by the coffin.
and view the remains of him v/ho was
loved in life and deeply mourned in
death. The people formed into a pro
cession and slowly and sadly marched
by the coffin and took one last look at
the face of that piece of clay that lay
silent iu death. Among those who
joined the procession past , the casket
was a woman attired in black. She
stopped for an instant. Iler eyes were
dimmed and with her ungloved right
hand she threw a kiss at the face of tho
dead?one she had known so well in
? life, but whom she should see no more.
She passed on to her seat where she
shed tears?bitter tears?for a departed
friend. The agony of David over
his son Absalom was not more sincere.
' Her sorrow?her tears?moistened the
eyes of mauy sturdy men. How sad the
last look at those we loved in life?how
sorrowful to say goodbye forever. ?
It was the Baroness von Tiltse beside
the casket of George T. Ulmer.
The Y. P. S. C. E. meeting at the Con
gregational church last Thursday even
ing was one of the best services it has
ever been our good fortune to attend.
Mr. F. W. Hoyt, who was to have led
the meeting, having gone to Juneau,
Mrs. Rev. Wirt took charge and did
splendid service in her interpretation
of the subject, "Self-Mastery," I Cor.
9:24-27. The members present, added
many good thoughts to the subject and
nearly everyone had some word of tes
timony. Several new members^vero
elected and pledged to the work. Next
Thursday the subject will be "True
Penitence," II Cor. 7:1-11, and will be
led by Miss Mary Hampton.