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The Douglas Island News. VOL. 4. DOUGLAS CITY AND THEADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1902 N0.22 new Spring Goods, j Hare just received a large line of all classes of Spring and Summer ? j Goods. Among the many new lines shown by us we \ j mention a few of the different kinds. j \ Hfpce SUrtc* A bi? liue' including Taffetas and ) Lull It j 4?I1IV l/itjj JMI Id* poe De Soie, iu price to $50 ? I fl/lipc' CJlt Wflictc- A line of beauties in all styles, button front ( LtlulCj JliiV "dlMo. and back, aud also V the new Gibson Waists, prices from $IAvV >| Ladies' Cotton Shirt Waists: ^??^?5*2 can find any style you may want here. /vV > i I B.M.Behrends l\ ; -o? / ! MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENT <! ) I Subscribe!! 8 FOR ALL J [ ? Newspapers Magazines Ij; X THROUGH THE j \ I DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT, ? NEW5 AGENTS LDOUGLAS, - - - ALASKA A Cf5 , I You can buy at FACTORY PRICES ? INFANT'S, CHILDREN'S, MISSES', BOY'S, LADIES' AND MEN'S 1 DRESS SHOES |i ALEX. SMALLWOOD'SjJ Call and Examine Them. ? i Also Always a Full Line of Miner's Washington Shoes - And n Fine Assortment of HEN'S WASHINGTON DRESS SHOESIn Stock ? I i | UNDERTAKING and EMBALMING. I A LL Kinds of Undertaking Goods constantly In stock. Everything In that line new ? and up to date, In every particular, \ EMBALMING by the latest methods a specialty; also preparing bodies for either burial or shipment. ? Pull charge taken of funerals, thus removing all care and trouble of arrangements 5 from relatives and friends. Charges most reasonable. 5 C. W. YOUNG, Juneau, Exclusive Agency for Olympia Beer. * a gentleman's open day t resort an d night THE CLUB SALOON Sherry Port Claret Reisling "Wine 7 yrs old b yrs old b yrs old the best $1.75 $2.00 51.25 $1.25 4 D. J. MILAN, PROPRIETOR ' fi LODGE DIRECTORY. I. 0. O. F. Alaska Lodge, No. 1, . meets at Odd Fellows' Hall, Douglas, on Wednesday evenings at S o'clock. Visiting brothers are cordially jnviled to attend. WM. STUB BINS, N. G. | GEO. MATHER, Secretary. Aurora Encampment No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Saturdays, at S p.m. Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially invited. JOSEPH PATTERSON, C. P. (j ANDREW LIDFORD, Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth 1 Saturdays. Visitors are cordially invited. MRS. IDA ATWOOD. N. G. MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN, Sec'y K. of P. The North Star Lodge. No. 2, _ *K. of P.. meets every THURSDAY EVENING ut 8 o'clock, in Odd Fellows Hall ? WM. STUBBINS.C. C. O. H..Bkknakd, K.of R.AS. , Visiting Knights are Cordially invited to at- ; tend. = !, Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E. 11 Meets every Sunday ^xt Ohman's Hall at 2 o'clock p. m. .^ll visiting Brothers invited to attend. ELMER E. SMITH, W. P. RUDOLPH G. TROLL, Worthy Sec'y. ^ < PROFESSIONAL. DR. W. L. HARRISON, DENTIST Hunter Block, between Front and 2nd Sts. ? Douglas City DR. LAPSLEY, Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE HOURS From 9 to 11 a.m.; from 1 to 5 p.m,; 7 to 10 p.m. ? 1 DR. STRICKLER, Physician and Surgeon Calls promptly attended, day or night. Will. also go in consultation when desired. OFFICE?Across street from Northern Hotel j [ . t Z. R. CHENEY Attorney at Law and Notary Public Admitted to practice in all Courts, Collections made, Titles examined and Couveyancing neatly done. Office in Court House, - Third Street. DOUGLAS. ALASKA. LAWYER CHAS. n. JOHNSON, 1 DOUGLAS, ALASKA - at Hotel Northern All legal business solicited. Col lections made. All kinds of legal pupers drawn. The Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North, Condensed. Information for Everybody. > The grade of Yukon coal is too low for exportation. 51 below zero is the record for Kou garok this winter. An attempt will be made to raise the wrecked collier Bristol. It costs $15 for recording a claim in the Mush creek district. White Horse was visited by a heavy snow storm on the 3rd inst. Skagway has dispensed with the ser vices of its night watchman. Tho Hif-v rlnrndnred about $500,000 in gold last year. Freighting charges from Bettles to Coldfoot are 9 cents per pound. The White Pass boys of Skagway i have organized a base ball club. The Alaskan says that Sitka is to have a wireless telegraph station. Gold was discovered on Birch creek, in the Circle City district, in 1863. Indians in the vicinity of Nome are destitute and in a starving condition. The new, novel aud fasciuating game of Ping Pong has struck White Horse. A zinc mine has been discovered on Alder creek, in the Bluestono district Alaolrn the United States one ,1 and nineteen-twentieth cents per acre. The Rodman Bay placer excitement has petered out. There was nothing in it. Late reports from Mush creek seem bo confirm previous reports as to good pay. No. 8, Little Minook?the McGraw claim?produced $114 in one day this winter. Skawgay and White Horse are to, contend for championship honors at hand ball. John S. Kaznokoff, a resident of Sit ka, committed suicide in that town on April 4th. Customs collected at White Horse during the month of March amounted ; to $15,505.03. Ocean rates from Seattle to Dawson, via St. Michael, have been announced at $70 per ton. U. S. Commissioner Brooks, of Sun rise, has been removed from office for neglect of duty. A $50 nugget was picked up on No. 13?A, on Hoosier creek, Rampart dis trict, in February. Latest advices from the Yukon trail are to the effect that it is rapidly going 1 to pieces in places. Jack Dalton has bonded his Rainy . Hollow copper properties to an Eng- j Lish syndicate for $125,000. i Blizzards swept over Nome from; Jauuary 4th to 17th, and the mercury fell as low as 53 below zero. Information as to the whereabouts of one Geo. M. Easterly is desired by Ed ward Chamberlaiu, of Sitka. Six to eight inches of water on the ice was reported April 5th between White Horse and Tahkheena. Sidney Mudgette, a Kougarok miner, ? frozo his feet so badly in a blizzard that they had to be amputated. ? j Dog feed is scarce in the Koyukuk district now, and even rice for such purposes sells for 20 cents per pound.; The coal deposits of Alaska are j chiefly lignitey with some bituminous, j and in a few localities, semi-anthracite. The coldest day ever recorded in the 1 Klondike was January 17, 1901, when the thermometer registered 68.5 below j zero. The Dolphin and the Princess May ? had a race from Ketchikan South on ! their last trip down aud both claim the broom. In the year 1817 the Hudson Bay I company established a trading post on ! the Yukon where Fort Yukon now; stands. The Russian-American company, as i far back as 1855, undertook the devel- j opment of coal mines on the Kenai Peninsula. A long distance telephone system is j now in successful operation from Nome as far as Salmon City, below Port Safety. . I ? Morris Burns, a Nome prospector, in trying to thaw out his hands over a Are ' roasted one so badly that amputation j was necessary. It is said that Judge Wickersham, now at Nome, will return to Eagle, and 1 that an Eastern man will take Judge Noyes' place. Tho business men of Skagway have perfected an organization looking tow ards a contest against the collection of government taxes. Native hay in the Koyukuk, put up last season for horses, proved unfit for J those animals, and as a consequence j only two remained alive the past winter. Alex McDonald, tho Klondike mil-! lionaire, has purchased residence prop erty in Tacoma. Evidently he is pre paring to lead a quiet and retired life. ' i Serious charges have been preferred against certain government officials at j Atlin for violations of the law relating to the sale of property to the govern ment. ? . In 1868 coal was mined at Kootznahoo ! Inlet, Admiralty Island, for the U. S. steamship Saginaw, and the same year coal was discovered near Port Gardner, same Island. Discovery on Chicken creek, which was supposed to be about worked out, shows up better than it ever did, and although in its early workings over $75,000 was taken out, the indications are that the balance of tho ground will yield four or five times that much. If the boundary dispute was left to the settlement of Secretary Hay the I Canadians would have a cinch. Fortu nately the question is bigger than eith er Hay or Roosevelt. F. C. Wade, who is lecturing in East ern Canada, sized up the situation properly when ho said: "Canadians are too slow to recognize the opportu nities of their own country and too lazy to improve them." Prospectors will do well to bear in | mind that the occurrence of coal in j Alaska is limited to rocks of the later geologic periods?the Mesozoic and Tertiary. When looking for coal don't monkoy with other formations. A word to the wise is sufficient. A. B. Garberg, who bas been pros pecting No. 4 above on Dry creek, in Nome district, for the Pioneer Mining company, has commenced prospecting work on No. 5. He sunk 50 feet to bed rock on No. 4, and ran 350 feet of tun nels, cross-cutting a pay streak 200 feet wide and 4 feet deep. The pay is low grade, averaging 2% to 3 cents to the pan. A P.-I. special says that the first op era in Dawson was presented by local amateurs. "Pinafore" was the piece and made a great hit as a diversion from the drama and vaudeville which alone has always held the boards in this city. The work was clever and Dawson ites roveled in their first taste of oper atic music, unless heard outside, for years. The Kougarok, in the Nome district, which in the earlier stages of prospect ing proved a sore disappointment, now < gives promise of boing extremely rich. < Late strikes on Goose, Henry and Homestake creeks, and on Salmon,! Taylor, and the main Kougarok above ! the mouth of Henry creek, has given the district a new lease of life. The pay i streak, wtferever struck, is said to be j extremely rich. Jas. F. French, of Dawson, who has been working on Chicken creek, says: "Machinery is what we must have here to make a good showing, for we cannot thaw to advantage with wood. There is not a claim on the creek that the big operators at Dawson would consider other than a rich proposition, and on i both Myers and Stonehouse Forks you can get almost any size pan you wish. The miners do not consider $1 to the j pan anything big. Reports come from theKoyukuK tnat Edward Jessup, who mysteriously dis- { appeared from Dawson last fall and was | the subject of thorough search for j months by the police, is at Coldfoot. | P. X. Gowans, formerly in the commis sioner's office at Dawson, and later a broker there, writes that Jessup is at Coldfoot. He says that Jessup claims | he started down the river on a stam-j pede to Fourth of July creek and later i decided to go to the Koyukuk district. The Seattle P.-I. says that the trip from Nome to Holy Cross Mission with Father Jacquet was an arduous one and often taxed the patience of Dr. Call and his oompanions. Father Jac quet at times was extremely violent j and had to bo watched night and day. i Ilis own exertions weakened kim con siderably, although when Dr. Call left for Nome the father had improved men ally. He is being well cared for at the Mission and will probably fully recov er. The round trip from Nome to Holy Cross and back was made in fifty-one days?excellent time considering the condition of the weather. Quartz has been struck on Hender son creek, in the Klondike district, a mile and a half below the Forks. Six claims, located on one lead, were re corded. Discovery and a number of other claims were recorded on the benches on the left limit of the Yukon, opposite the Stewart river. The dis coverers claim they have fouud fair pay. The Rampart Miner of February 11 has the following about the killing of an Arctic owl recently in that section. Rev. Koonce and VV. S. Walcott stuffed an owl last week which the former had shot down the river a month ago. The bird was grey in color, two feet high and completely covered with heavy fur feathers, but when the flesh was with drawn it didn't look as big as a black bird's carcass. The men think it prov able that they have a bird not recorded heretofore. Mr. Geo. A. Carpenter, who was bad ly frozen in the Kougarok district, is one of the best known newspaper men of the North. Ho formerly lived in Juneau, and afterwards in Dawson, where he was connected with tho News and Sun. He went to Nome in 1900 and was employed for a time on the News of that place. Then he purchas ed the Sun and conducted it until it was sold to the Chronicle. Since the fall of 1900 he has been in the Kouga rok country. ?- ? ?? . .i ? i i it. .1 The iNews says that it is iearneci unat a surveying party of sixty men will ar rive in Valdez on the May trip of the Chas. Nelson to survey for the Copper River, Yukon & Alaska R. R. Col. E. D. Bannester will be in charge of the party. The surveyors will be divided up into parties of 15 men each, and they will survey first a route to the Chittyna district and from there on to the Yukon. Col. Bannestor is already receiving bids for supplies, including horses and all other necessities, and he has engaged passage for the party on the May trip of the Chas. Nelson. A correspondent says that there is a stretch of country between Topkuk and Solomon river that is a favorite range of the blizzard. Nome may be blessed with the slanting sunrays of a still, clear, cold, brief Arctic day; the smoke from a thousand chimneys may be curling straight up into the frosty air, and at the same time, from Solo mon to Topkuk the north wind is howl ing and shrieking like a demon, oblit erating trails with drifting snow, filling the air with snow until the faint light of day is nearly obscured and the in trepid men on the trail become bewild ered and lost. A new line of Fancy Dress Ginghan^a. Dimities, and Fancy Silk Striped Chal lies in exclusive patterns at the Tread well Store.