Douglas Island news. [volume], May 24, 1899, Image 2

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THE DOUGLAS ISLAND NEWS.!
Entered at Douglas Post-office as Secoud
Class Mail Matter.
A. (J. IlcBRIDE and CHARLES A. HOPP
Editors and Publishers.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY I
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Foreign Postage must be prepaid.
The News at Juneau.
The News is on sale at the Postoffice News
Stand.
TELEPHONE 105.
Wednesday, May 24,1890.
WE SHOULD ORGANIZE.
Douglas is a live, prosperous, grow
ing city. Now buildings are going up
on every hand. A man who owns a
number of houses in the city said a few
days ago, that people inquired of him
almost every day for rent houses. The
great Tread well mines and mills fur
nish employment at good wages for
thousands of men for 3(13 days in the j
year. These men have families and
they are bringing them to Douglas and :
are building up little homes iu the city, i
Cor many years Douglas has run
along easily and quietly and has made
no pretensions to greatness; was simply
looked upon as a mining camp and the
?I uneau papers in speaking of the Tread
well mills, referred to them as "across
the channel from Juneau."
l>ut things are changed now and
Douglas City is pushing to the front
and will so<m take its place, where it j
belongs, as the first city in Alaska.
This being the case, the business i
men and property owners of our town.'
are beginning to realize the need of a
united effort for the general good, i
They all appreciate the need of a unity :
?faction; of organization and of co-;
operation.
In talking along these lines with j
some of the prominent business men
of the city we were gratilied to tind |
that all agree that what Douglas needs
is a chamber of commerce or a board j
of trade.
One man said, "It is cue of the most,
essential things for the prosperity of
the town. They have organizations of.
this kind in every town in Alaska."
Another said, "1 aiu heartily in favor
of it and am williug to do anything I j
ran."
Still another said, "Just the proper:
thing, 1 wish you would begin to punch
them up."
So, that is what we are now trying to
do. "Agitate the matter." An orgaui-1
zatiou should In? effected, composed of
all the business men of the city, and we
think the time is at hand when a start
can easily be made, and the necessity
is too apparent to require further com-.
ment.
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Indians and Whiskey.
Yesterday morning about 3 o'clock j
the peaceable, law abiding citizens
down on the beach below the sawmill
were awakened from their slumbers by
She howls and cries of a number of
Indians, that whiskey had transformed
into veritable fiends.
Deputy Marshal McElheny was
soon on the ground aud fouud one
Mortimer Austin, an Indian, with a
knife wonud in his neck, from which
the blood was pouring in liberal
quantities. Upon inquiry, the woun
ded Indian said that Haider Bob
and Haider Sarah had done the deed.
Sarah was soon found and locked up
and a secoud trip brought Bob. Mar
shal McElheuv took them to Juneau
on the first boat and lodged them in
the cooler.
Judge Malcolm came overabout noon
yesterday and took a sworn statement
of Austin, who is hovering between life
and death.
Whiskey selling to Indians should
be stopped on Douglas Island aud the
officers of the law should have the
earnest co-operation of every eitizen in
the effort to-accomplish this one-thing.
Basket Picnic.
Sivcn by the Ladies' Social Union of
the M. E. Church, to be held m the
Juneau Opera Houser on Thursday
evening, 23th of May, 1S99-. An inter
esting program- will be rendered, in-i
eluding "The Dairymaids' and Dairy
men's March" and the "Milking Stool
Drill'." The ladies are expected to -
bring' basket with lnmch for two, which
will be sold at auction to the gentle
men. The ladies' bringing the- baskets
will leave their names in them and'
Jtzaw with the purchasers. The proceeds
wiH gu to the orgau fuud of the church.
SenUecrta free; ladies bring baskets.
Douglas Literary Society
To-morrow, Thursday night, at Congre
gational church, S p. in. sharp.
MEMORANDUM
Heroic Age
Homeric Age
"Seven cities contended for Homer death
Throug h which the living Homer begged his
bread."
Aleseus Poet, Soldier, uml Lover
Sappho "The Tenth Muse" Love affairs
firiimu Died at 3D "Ude to Koine"
Ibycus "Love-mad poet" "Ibycus avengers"
Anncreou "Money" "Age" "Drinking"
Alciphron The dregs of Atheuian society
Pindar Lyric poet w ho found educated
women in G recce who were poets too
Solon Lawgiver and poet
Pericles The greatest Athenian
Aspasiu The brilliant nntl beautiful critic
Greeks not patriots but fearless
"Soldiers of fortune" I nvincible
Lovers of home and refinement
Greek Artists
Greek Architecture
Greek Orators
Greek Historians
The Drama
The Philosophers
Religion the poorest ami most unreasonable
Relative position of Greek literature
Greek influence upon the world
Illustrated with 50 Perry pictures
"What constitutes n State?
Not high-raised battlements or lnbored j
mound.
Thick walls or moated gate:
Not cities fair with spires and turrets!
crowned;
No! men, high minded men," etc.
Alcieus, (WO H.C.) !
PROGRAM,
Music Vocal Solo - Mrs. W. GOULD;
Mythology - Miss KATHEKINE Sl'lKKS
Outline of Greek . W.O. GRAHAM
Liter.it ure
Greece in War ... L. S. KKKTONj
A*^itect u re h" Vl iss G KKT,iU 1)15 SPIEUS
KKCEH3
Mttsic Vocal Solo - - Mrs. W.GOULD
Greek Poets, Histo- RAYMOND ROBINS
nans ami Orators
Selections from Anncreon %. , T , u* rr?m
ami Alcii.hro.i Mrs. L. L. \\ 1K1
Greek Philosophers Miss LIZZTE McKENNA
Effect of Greek Influence on the World
General Discussion
"Of those whout Thermopylre were slain,
Glorious thedooin, and heaiitiful the lot:
Their toinn an altar, men from tears refrain
To honor them, and praise, hut mourn
them not."
?Simonides (556 H. C.)
Company C, Alaska National Guard.
The Douglas Island branch of the
Alaska National Guards starts out in
a healthy manner and, if the interest
continues, we will probably soon have
an organization hero of which wo may
be proud.
Mr. Chas. A. Phelps has been ap
pointed, by Adjt. Gen. Kelsey, as com
manding and recruitiug officer for the
present, or until an election is held
and a full staff of officers selected.
Following we give the muster roll as
signed:
We, the undersigned, hereby associate
ourselves together for the purpose of
forming a military company in the
Alaska National Guards.under the laws
of the United States and the District
of Alaska.
Charles A. Phelps D. J. Milan
M. J. O'Connor R. R. Hubbard
Fred A. Schulor Geo. S. Shotter
Elmer E. Smith Geo. II. Rusk
Loyal L. Wirt Henry Crawford
A. E. Weesner George Crawford
John Laugklin I. J. Stahley
Raymond Gale D. Eastburg
H. G. Slater G. L. Johnson
Tom Cashen M. Ilarter
S. E. Weesner 11. H. Webster
Fred Hensou Willmot Kenney
E. E. Bertram August Hodelt
Jas. Christoe Otto Peterson
Ed. Andrews Andrew Lidford
John Lyons Frank Johnson
F. E. Vestel John Stevens
Going East.
The Rev. Mr. Wirt, pastor of the Con
gregational church of this city was a
passenger 011 the Topeka for the
south. He leaves for the purpose of
making a trip to New York in the in
terests of the church and general church
work in Alaska. Mr. Wirt is a good,
man, an earnest, eloquent preacher and
a live, wide-a-wake, hustling business
man. He is doing much good in
Alaska and his church could not find
another man who could take his place.
There is some talk of Mr. Wirt taking per
sonal supervision of the general work
throughout Alaska. If such should be
the case, Douglas City would lose him
as a pastor. We would much regret
this, but no doubt it would be to the
interests of the church to make such a
change.
^HE Comet....
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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.
In the District Court of the United States
for the District of Alaska.
Hkllb MATHBWB, ,
Complainant, I
vs. y summons.
Barney Mathews, V
Defendant. J
To the President of the United States of
America,
To Barney Mathews, tho above named de
fendant, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to be and ap
pear in the above entitled court, lioiden at
Juneau, in said District, and answer the com
plaint tiled against you in the above entitled
action, within twenty (20) days from the date
of the service of this summons upon you; |
and if you fail so to appear and answer, for
want thereof, the complainant will take
judgment against you ami a decree of this
Honorable Court, dissolving the bonds of
matrimony existing between the complain-j
ant and defendant, and for an absolute
separation and such other and further relief i
as the nature of the cuse may require. The )
grounds upon which the said divorce and!
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habitual, gross drunkenness, cruel and in
human treatment and failure of support,
i Referenco is hereby made to the complaint
herein and the same made a part of this sum
mons.
And this is tocommand you,the Marshal of j
the said District, or your deputy* to make |
due service and return of this summons.
Hereof fuil not.
WITNESS, the Honorable Charles S. John
son, Judge of said District Court, and the
seal of said Court affixed at Juneau, in said
District this 24th day of May, 1899.
(ska 1,1 CHARLES S. JOHNSON,
JOHN It. WINN, Judge.
Attorney for Complainant.
Date of first publication May 24tli, 1N99.
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THE
STANDARD
MUSIC
HALL
JOHNSON & COTTRELL,
PROPRIETORS.
Douglas City, * Alaska.
jOPEN all night.
j lot, ana Mixea urmics a
Specialty.
The Finest Brands of
Liquors and Cigars al
ways on hand.
A First-class Lunch Coun
ter has recently been added
Prescriptions Hilled
Day and Night at...
~ Douglas Pharmacy.
; | A Full Line of Toilet Articles,
.. J Perfumes,
C/(* Brush s,
Etc., Etc.
Hunter Bld'g 3d St., Douglas City.
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Douglas City Barber Shop.
Hir Cutting Shampooing
Shaving Baths
! VESTAL & EDMONDS, Props.
DELMONICO HOTEL
AND RESTAURANT.
ALEX. LA MOTTE, Proprietor.
Board by the Day,
A A Week, or Month
* T Rates Reasonable tmm
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MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
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The table First-class and will
satisfy the most fastidious.
Our ColT'ee cannot be excelled.
Ayrnt for Alaska Steam Laundry.
Leave Bundles here
j Douglas City, Alaska.
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THE FINEST EQUIPPED RESTAURANT IN ALASKA.
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Wine and Spirit Merchant.
Catering in all its Branchs
; The Nevada Cafe'
GEO. L. RICE.
I'rivate rooms while waiting for the ferry boat will be found one of the many
conveniences at the Nevada.
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D. McKAY, Proprietor.
A FULL LINE OF
Fresh, Salt, and Smoked Meats
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Poultry and Game
in Season.
Hunter Block, Douglas City, Alaska.
TELEPHONE NO. 8.
A fine line of Office Stationery
Just Received at the
Douglas Island
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