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VOL. 3. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREAD WELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1901. NO. 10
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
C(\^s Alaska Lodge, No. 1.
^-^-^meets at Odd Fellows' i
Hall, Douglas, on Wednesday evenings at 8
o'clock.
Visiting brothers are cordially invited to
attend. JOE WILKERSON, N. G.
WM. STUBBINS, Secretary.
Aurora Encampment No. i
>ets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third '
aturdays, at 8 p. m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited. j
W. H. McBLAlNE. C. P. /
JOSEPH PATTERSON, Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekali Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth '
Saturdays. 1 I
Visitors are cordially invited. ; ;
MRS. LEONARD RAYMOND, N. G.
MISS ANNIE MUSETH. Sec'y.
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K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2, j
'K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING ]
at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hall '
H. R. Shepabd U. U. ,
J. E. Hamas,, K. of R. & S.
Visiting Knights are cordially invited to at
tend.
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PROFESSIONAL. !
DR. W. L. HARRISON,
DENTIST
Huntor Block, between Front
and 2nd Sts. Douglas City
DR. LAPSLEY, 1
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Physician and Surgeon. j
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Office lately occupied by Dr. Ballance 1
Second Street.
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ATTORNEYS.
T. J. DONOHOE, \
ATTORNEY AT LAW. 1
Will practice in all the Courts of Alaska.
Post Office Building. JUNEAU, ALASKA. <
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Mining and Corporation practice a specialty i S
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
A passenger on the Cottage City had !
a choice selectiou of frozen frog legs
for the Dawsou market.
A high wind on the 15th inst. tore off i
a section of the roof on the Klondike
IYading Company's building at Skag
svay.
For the week preceding January 16th
the thermometer atSkagway registered
from fourteen to ninteen degrees below
zero.
Skagway nearly experienced a coal
tamine during the recent cold spell,
ind wa9 compelled to forage on the
R. R. Co.'s supply.
The Skagway Daily Alaskan has at- !
tained that degree of prosperity which
permits the purchase of a Merganthaler
llneotype machine. It vr ill be installed
shortly.
The Skagway Alaskan says that John
McLean, who works at the shops, was
picked up on Sixth avenue on the even
ing of January 17th with his hands bad
ly frozen.
A small fire occurred at the Daily
News office in Dawson on the 16th
inst. Good work by the fire depart
ment saved the building, which was j
slightly damaged. 0
The Cottage City on her last trip up
aorth unloaded sixteen head of horses
it Skagway for W. F. Matlock, who will
put them on the trail between White :1
3orse and Dawson in the freighting '
business.
Grave fears are dow entertained for
;he safety of Miio Kelly, of Douglas, 1
vho mysteriously disappeared on the j
i'ukcn last fall just before the freeze- j
ip. Repeated inquiries at different
joints along the river have been fruit- !,
ess.
An Everett, Wash., man has the jaw (?
>f an Alaska mastadon that measures 1j
17 inches from point to point. The jaw |
contains two gigantic teeth 9 inches
n length and embedded 6 inches deep ]
n the bone. The jaw is petrified and j ?
veighs CO pounds.
Skagway postoffice officials have
nade provisions for sending the Daw- -
ion mail to White Horse by dog teams, ,
md it is quite probable that this mode -|
)f conveyance will have to be resorted ,
o for some time to come, as the White |
Pass road is now most effectually block- j
ided.. (
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The first actual tie up of the season i
>n the White Pass R. R. took place on i
January 10th. On that date the morn- 1
ng train from Skagway was stalled two i
ind a half miles from Eraser. The snow c
Irifted so badly that the engine and ?
oache3 were completely covered over, c
large gang of shovelers had to be v
ent to the rescue. I c
I? Newspapers, Magazines, |
Stationery, Chinese |
Napkins, Crepe |
and Tissue 2
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I CIGARS & TOBACCO I
FRUITS, CANDIES, NUTS, SNUFF, ? i
CANNED GOODS, BREAD,
PIES AND CAKES.
, DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT. |
For jhe next 14 days
A Grand Offer of
10 Per Cent Off
ON EACH HEATING STOVE
We have in stock <&?
GENUINE ROUND OAK
TUBULAR HOT DRAFT
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Max R. Hirschberg, proprietor of the |
Flag RoadbouRe on tho Dominion di-,
vide in the Klondike district, was a
passenger north on the Cottage City.
Ho had with him two hundred dozen
eggs, packed in sawdust and wrapped ;
in paper to keep from freezing, to be j
used ou bis tables.
The White Eagle Mining company is
at work on the Mark Fleming claims
on Kasaan bay, Prince of Wales Island.;
About 12 men are employed and the
outlook is very encouraging, says the j
Ketchikan Mining Journal. Jim Ward
ner, tho well known mining man, is
promoting the enterprise.
Tho steamer Viva Rial has been en
gaged for the Skagway-Haines run, and
tho Skagway Chamber of Commerce
has contributed 8700 as an Inducement
to its owners to undertake tho contract.
Passengor rates between the two points !
will be 82 one way, or 83 for. round trip, j
and freight is carried at 82 per ton.
Peter McDonald, a Yukon pioneer, i
died recently at Dawson, and tkero is
a contest on before the courts for the
position of administrator to his estate
which is valued at from 815,000 to 825,
000. The applicants are Frank Barteau, l
the dead man's business partner, and
Collin McDonald, his brother-in-law.
Tho direct heirs are in San Francisco.
The Ketchikau Mining Journal says
that H. F. Rowell, superintendent of
the saw mill at Smith's Cove, has been j
in the city the past week looking after:
the reshipment of machinery. Unfort
unately the scow upon which it was
loaded from tho wharf sprung a leak
and sank before it could be towed to
the nearest beach, and its recovery was I
no easy job. Mr. Rowell says he will
have the mill in full running order |
within a month, and that it will give
employment to twenty men exclusive j
of loggers.
Postmaster Sampson, says the Skag
way Alaskan, has prepared a compara
tive statement of the amount of mails
arriving and departing to aud frQm
Skagway from portions of 1899 and
1900. Mr. Sampson has selected as
suitable periods of comparison the six
weeks between July 15 and September
1 of each year for the summer and
those between November 1 and Decem
ber 15 for the winter. According to
Mr. Sampson's statement there were
received from the interior between July
L5 and September 1 at the Skagway
postoffice 227 sacks of mail for the (
United States. For the same period ,
:>f 1900 the mail receipts were 286 sacks.!
During the fame period of 1899 there
were shipped to Dawson 293 sacks of
U. S. mail from Skagway to the Yukon |
while in 1900 for the period mentioned j!
:he shipments from Skagway to the Yu-;:
ion were 781 sacks. Thus it will bo ob- j 1
served that the gain in receipts was :
nore than 26 per cent and that in ship- <
nents nearly 167 per cent. From Nov. \
L5,1899, the receipts of mail for the U. '
3. from the interior were 186 sacks and ]
luring the same period for 1900, 248, or i
i gain of one-third. The shipments j
luring the same period of U. S. mails <
vere: In 1899, 223 sacks; in 1900,518, <
>r a gain of more than 132 per cent. i
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A Vancouver, B. C., special to the Se
attle Times, under date of January 8tli,
says that a now triple trade alliance has
boon formed to carry freight from Van
couver to Dawson. At present the
companies operating between Skagway
aud Dawson are the White Pass& Yu
kon Railway, the Cauadian Navigation
Company and the Alaska Exploration
Company. It is announced that these
three corporations have jointly pur
chased two British steamboats, each
capable of carrying 250 passengers and
050 tons of freight, to run from Van
couver to Skagway. It is also stated
that for the season of 1901 freight rates
on this line will be reduced 15 per
cent.
There is a legend of the Moosebides,
says the Dawson Daily News, that at
one time in the remote pact, long prior
to the past century, a party of white
men came into the country and mined
on the streams here during two sum
mers. One of these men married
among the Tanana Indiaus and resided
among them several years, his wife
beariug him several children. He final
ly, however, disappeared from the vil
lage and is supposed to have gone down
to the sea to join bis companions, who
preceded him to the coast by many
years. This legend, it is said, accounts
for the appearance of a number of the
Tananas who showed unmistakable evi
dence of possessing white blood when
the first explorers of the present gener
ation visited their villages. Their stat
ure, complexion, blue eyes and browu
hair gave convincing proof that they
were not all Indian. It was supposed J
that they owed this blood to the occa-1
sional visits of Russian traders a cen
turv ago, but if the traditions of the
tribe are worth anything, their ances
tors possessed those same distinctive
characteristics long before the Russian
occupation. It is impossible to winnow
the truth from the fiction in the legend
referred to and how much of fact there !
is to it may never be known. There is
some extraneous evidence, however,
that tends to confirm it in the main.
This includes the discovery in 1881 of j
an old mining shaft near Forty Mile 1
that from its appearance must have
been dug at a remote period, the poe
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session Dy tne inaians 01 a unite tuuue
in the curved form of those peculiar to
the Fifteenth century, and which is
now in the possession of the Smithso
nion institute at Washington; a string
of English coins possessed by a Tanh
na chieftain, all being an ancient date
and having been handed down from
father to son for many generations, be
ing considered a talisman. This also
is in the Smithsonion institute, having
been secured in exchange for food by
the exploring party of Lieutenant
Schwatka. Add to these the further
fact that the Indians knew to some ex
tent the white man's method of wash- j
ing placer gold and the natural infer-;
ance is that the legend is predicated
upon events that actually occurred, j
The Russians, who penetrated a few j
hundred miles up the Yukon, never!
reached the gold .bearing region and
possessed no knowledge whatever con
3erning it, devoting their energy en
;irely to trading for pelts. Besides, it
.s doubtful if they were ever brought
; in direct contact with the Tananas,
Moosehides or any of tho tribes of the
upper Yukon.
Tho Alaskan of the 17th inst. says
that in the battle with tho snow and
I storm the trains made decided progress
yesterday, the north bound train reach
j ing White Horse at 12:30, six days out.
Train No. 2, south bound, one week out
from White Horse, reached the snow
sheds the other side the summit yes
; terday and is expected in tonight.
A special to the Skagway Alaskan
from Dawson under date of January
! 16 says: Today is the coldest recorded
in the Klondike. It reached G8 below
zero by the government thermometer.
In January, 1896, Governor Ogilvie's
instrument registered 67.9 below at
Boundary, near Foity Mile, but the re
port from Forty Mile today is that it
is 78 below at that point. It is ton de
grees lower today than th?n. The av
erage temperature for the last seven
day9 is 58 degrees below zero, the cold
ost snap in the history of the country.
A dense fog hangs like a pall over the
entire country, and nearly all activity
; has suspended. Many men continue
at hard work all day, but the great ma
I jority have laid off. It is ten degrees
warmer on the creeks than it is in
| Dawson. Notwithstanding the intense
i oold, Dawson water pipes are kept run
ning by heating the water with steam.
All mains and pipes are kept enclosed
in air tight boxes, which are kept full
of hot steam. Men are kept at all hy
drants heating them constantly.
According to passengers from Cop
per river arriving on the Victorian, says
the Port Townsend Leader, the much
sought for copper deposits have been
| found in the Copper river country and
I from which the river derived its name.
Those returning say that the newly dis
covered copper vein is the richest ever
reported and that in some places tho
deposit is pure copper and a number of
chunks of pure copper weighing several
hundred pounds have been taken out.
The discovery is not a great distance
from Valdes and it is believed that it is
the place where the Indians obtained
their copper during the Russian regime,
and from which they made all their
cooking utensils, kuivos and forks,
spear heads, bracelets and even bullets
and anchors for their canoes. When
the Americans took possession of
Alaska, there was an immense amount
of crude copper wares among them and
at Sit ka there wore tons of native cop
per among the Russians, the pieces
weighing from a few pounds to several
hundred pounds, and the only knowl
edge they had from whence it came was
that they got it from the Indians to the
Westward. Miners have for many years
believed that the copper was obtained
by the Indians somewhere in the vicin
ity of Copper river and many expedi
tions have been sent there to look for
the deposit and several expeditions
were murdered by Indiaus, after which
the search was given up. Since this
recent discovery it is believed that the
copper deposit is the same from which
the Indians obtained their supply and
the discovery is one of great import
ance and will cause a stir in the cop
per market of the world.