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The Douglas Island News
THE LOCAL FIELD.
Ah. happy hills! uh. pleasing shade!
Ah, fields beloved iti vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd,
A strangeT yet to pain.
5feel the gales that from ye blow
A momentary bliss bestow,
As, waving fresh their gladsome wing,
Mywearysonl they seem to smooth,
And, redolent of joy and youth,
Tb breathe a second spring.
?Gkay.
Smoke Berry's Clays.
J^ance?Friday night.
Rope?all sizes?at Feusi's.
Electroplating, at Feusi's.
The mill men are praying for rain.
Mrs. M. B. Archer has been quite sick
Mrs. A. Lilystrand is on the sick list
See Feusi for all kinds of blacksmith
ing.
For Sale?A graud piano. See Oscai
?hmari.
Glory Hole for Family Wines, $1.50 a
gallon.
Standard Raugesat Wortman ?fc Jen
sen's.
The Humboldt is due to night. Smith
has the flag up.
Baby carriages from $4 up at Wort
man & Jensen's.
Nine-pins is the popular game at the
Glory Hole now.
A part of the 300 mill is closed* down
tor want of water..
A Juneau paper tells about driving a
tiunuel 40 ft. a day.
Nails for builders, all sizes and any
amount, at Feusi's.
Gardeu Rakes, Hoesr and Spades, at
Wortman Jensen's.
C'eutemeri Kid Gloves in all shades
at the Treadwell store.
Dr. A. Rogers contributed to the
News meal tub this week.
A meat famine prevailed in these
parts the tirst of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. \Ym. Stubbins made a
Sunday trip to Raveusdale.
Family Wines o< all kinds at the
Glory Hole, 81.50 per gallon,
Mr. E. T. Hammond has taken charge
of the Douglas Meat Market.
New Fall Dress Goods and Trim
mings at the Treadwell store.
Latest styles in Men's Hats just re
ceived at the Treadwell store.
Mrs. D. E. Landsl?erg and children
left on the Dolphin for Seattle.
Do you smoke? Kerry's Clays are the
most popular cigars in the market.
Ladies Shirt Waists selling at 50 cts.,
75 cts. and 81 at the Treadwell store.
Mr. and Mrs. John Henson and Mr.
Kemmis spent Sunday at Fish creek.
The bowling team of the .1BOO mill
beat the 240 boys last Friday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Rbineberg and children
returned to the Island via the Dolphin.
The Topeka came from the South
Monday night. She goes to Sitka this
trip.
Dr. H. R. Garner has moved his of
fice nearly opposite the Douglas City
Pharmacy.
Frank Bach has received a large ship
ment of men's clothing, which it will
pay you to inspect. )
Cunningham whiskey is an addition
to the excellent line of liquors carried
at the Glory Hole.
Get a pair of the celebrated "Tread
well" shoes; every pair guaranteed at
the Treadwell Store.
The Glory Hole is noted for the ex
cellence of its liquors and the court
eous treatmeut accorded to all custom
ers.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Noonan entertain
ed Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Landsburg and
children at 6 o'clock dinner last Friday
evening.
I
Strangers in the city soon learn to
call for the Henry Clay and Marguerite
Cigars, made by the Douglas Cigar
Factory.
What has become of the old fashion-1
ed man who used to say that it never j
stopped raining in Alaska except when
it snow9?
Mr. Geo. Riedi and Mrs. Wiedeman
started early Monday on Preacher
Jackson's gasoline launch for Admiral-1
ty island.
Two very prominent society ladies of ,
Douglas were seen Sunday applauding
a dog fight, which one of them was en
couraging with a long pole.
Wortman & Jensen have received an-'
other large invoice of stoves. They
are now supplied with all sizes from a
parlor cook to a steel range.
Henry Elliott and Jack Cottrell!
leave tonight or tomorrow for the Ad
miralty Island mines. They expect to
be absent about three weeks.
The band boys have asked the News
to express their thanks to the citizens
who subscribed to the fund for the
purchase of their new uniforms.
Douglas bas a preacher who is ad
dieted to the gasoline boat habit, an
other who rides a bike, and a third whe
can tell you all about the merits of a
shotgun.
H. H. Sterling is back at his desk
agaiu at Treadwell, after a vacation ol
I a month spent in Washington, Idaho
and Montana. Harry says ho had a
good time.
Robbie and Hillary McKanna and
' Claudie Penglase made a raid on the
salmon berry patches yesterday and
brought home the finest and most
berries of the kind wo have seen.
For mosquito bites, bites or stings of
insects, animals or reptiles, apply BAL
| LARD'S SNOW LINIMENT. It coun
? teracts the poison in the wound, sub
dues the inflammation and heals tho
flesh. Price, 25 and 50 cents, at J.
Heubner's Drug Store.
The City Council met Monday even
ing as usual. Ordinance No. 15, relat
ing to the municipal court, police de
11 partment Ac, was passed. The bill of
j the dog catcher for $4.00 for slaughter
ing four dogs was allowed. The
i vacancy caused by the resignation of
| Mr. M. J. O'Connor was filled by the
| election of N. A. Uren.
i The Y. P. S. C. E. and the Junior Y.
j P. S. C. E. of the Friends church will
hold a union service on the mission
I lawn, Friday evening, Aug. 7, beginning
at 7:45. Refreshments will be served
: at the close of the program. Everyone
is invited to come and take part in the
1 lessou and enjoy the social hour fol
lowing.
Mr. Smith, representing James F.
| Ballard, of St. Louis, Mo., was a pas
i senger on the Topeka. He will visit
j the towns of S. E. Alaska this trip.
? Since his last visit a year ago, Ballard's
Snow Linimeut, and other remedies,
have become quite popular iu these
parts. Mr. Smith is aocompauied by
his wife.
The band boys new uniforms have
I finally arrived and they are swell. They
are of a dark blue material and are all
! done off with a great profusion of gilt.
The caps are made to match. The
1 boys turned out Monday evening and
discoursed sweet strains of music, that
eouuded sweeter because of the new
uniforms.
Chief Joe Coggius and his band of
: trusty braves, Irvirc Warren, John
Museth and Francis Coggins, swooped
down upon the finny inhabitants of
Fish creek Sunday afternoon and
found them wholly unprepared for
defense against a band of such great
; warriors, and the result was that the
invaders carried off a large number of
the inhabitants and came home Mon
day night covered with glory and mos
quito bites.
Judge James W. Witten, special U.
S. inspector, of Washington, D. C.r was
in the city today. He had with him a
plat of the townsite of Douglas that
had been filed iu the U. S. land office
years ago, before there was any law by
j or under which the citizens of an Alas-j
ka town could obtain title to their lots.
It was the first paper ever filed relating
to town lots in Alaska. The office had
no place to file it, haviug no others like
it, so they just kept it as a relic or a
curio.
A baby was born to a certain minister
last Saturday morning, says an Oklaho
ma paper. That evening the church of
ficers waited on him with $50 in cash, i
The next morning when the congrega-.
tion assembled two wags stood before
the church door and one bet that the
minister would thank the Lord for the
money first and the other bet he would I
thank the Lord for the baby. When
the reverend gentleman arose tc pray
he said: "Lord, we thank Thee for this
timely succor," and the boys are yet
undecided as to which was the winner.
E. A. Hegg, the photographer, and
his assistant Miss Henson, went down j
to visit the Takus yesterday; they went
to take some pictures of the dancing
at the potlatch which has been going
on for several weeks. When they ar
rived at Taku they had some difficulty
in landing as the Indians had been |
driuking quite freely of the hootch
that cheers. They finally effected a
landing, and, after much diplomacy
on both sides, they gained an entrance
into the hall where the dancing was
taking place. There arrival there cre
ated quite a commotion among the
performers and a halt was called in
the ceremonies while a pow-wow was
indulged in, the verdict of which as
given in the words of Jimmie Jack,
their special guardian, was; "Ladies
and gentlemen, you had better come
back some other day." The visitors
were glad enough to get in their little
boat and get away from the noise and
the smell of the hootch.
Ice Cream.
Mrs. Laughlia sells ice cream by the
pint, quart or gallon, also by the dish.
Careful attention given to specia
orders.
AT THE TREADWELL.
Hoist Man and Two Oth
ers Killed This
Morning.
Three are dead and four are more or
less seriously injured, as the result of
the breaking of the cable at the new
Treadwell hoist, this morning at 1:30 i
o'clock.
The dead are:
T. J. Welch?hoist mau.
Ole Linge?miner.
Joe Leon?miner.
The injured are:
Nels J. Peterson, leg badly broken
John Arthurn, shoulder sprained.
Knut Hanson, bruised.
Jackson, bruised.
Without any warning whatever the 1
cable, which, attached to the big steam
winch, raises and lowers the ore skips i
in the big shaft, broke. The skip,
which itself weighs over 3 tons, loaded
with 4 tons of ore crashed to the bot-!
torn of the shaft.
Thomas Welch had charge of the :
smaller hoist, used to raise and lower
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the men. His position was in front of
the big hoist, or between it and the
shaft. When the big cable parted the
loose end coiled around like a serpent,
catching Welch in its folds, killing him ,
instantly. He was torn and bruised
and the upper part of his head was
torn completely away.
The skip in its downward path to the
bottom of the shaft, carried destruc-1
tion and death with it. The shaft is
down about 900 feet. Six men employ
ed by contractor Albion Bartello were
in the bottom of the shaft, working
three drills. A bulkhead is built at the
750 ft. level, from which level ore was
being hoisted. When the skip fell it
crashed through the bulkhead and the
whole thing, skip, timbers and all fell
to the bottom on top of the men. The
shaft is twenty feet across, and this
fact only accounts for the escape of the
men.
Shift boss Frank Burns was at the
440 level when the accident occurred.
He climbed down the ladders to the 750
level. From there a bucket work9 to
the bottom. He found the pump
which keeps the shaft clear of water,
stopped, and the pump man nowhere to
be found. It was an anxious moment
until Burns found that he could start
that pump,for,if that refused to work,
any of the men who might be alive in
the shaft would be drowned like rats.
But it worked. On reaching the bot- '
torn of the shaft Mr. Burns accompan
ied by Mr. Goldensmith and some other i
men, found that two of the men could
be liberated from their perilous posi- '
tion by a few moments work. This
was done, and they were found to be i
' only slightly injured. Two others,
more seriously injured but still alive,
were taken out after 2>? hours hard
work. The bodies of the two killed
were taken out at 5 o'clock.
With auything happens, some men
lo*e their nerve, and others seem to be
specially cool and active. Perhaps J
neither blame nor praise should attach j
in either case. Yet the coolness of Mr. j
Thomas Tatom who was in charge of!
the big hoist at the time the cable i
broke was certainly remarkable.
The two ore skips counter balance, j
When the cable parted and one skip |
fell, the other began to shoot down like
lightning. With the cable whipping j
its deadly coils all about him, he calm- j
ly applied the brake and stopped the
skip.
Thomas J. Welch,who was one of the j
victims of the accident this morning,
has been mining in S. E. Alaska, and a
resident of Douglas Island for several,
years. He has a large circle of friends j
and acquaintances who will regret his !
untimely end. He was a member of i
Gastineaux Lodge, No. 124, F. & A. M.,
which organization will take charge of
tne remains.
We understand he had a father and
sister living in New York, and who
have been notified by wire of the sad
occurrence.
They Will Dance.
The Douglas Harmony Band will give
a dance at Natatorium Hall on Friday
evening next. The boys will be out
with their now uniforms on, doing the
honors of the occasion. Now is the
time for the good people of Douglas to
show by their actions that they appre
ciate the efforts of the boys to give us
a first class band, by patronizing them
liberally. The boys need money to pay
for new music, an instructor, and, if
possible, new instruments.
The tickets are $1.00 each, and every
man in Douglas can afford to buy one
whether he can dance or not. For
those who dance, the enjoyment of the
occasion will repay them amply for so
small an outlay.
Let everybody dance.
A Pleasant Party.
One of the nicest little affairs ever
given in Douglas was a dancing party
given by the Y. M. R. C. to the ladies of
the Y. W. R. C. last Monday evening at
Ohman's Hall.
Our readers may wonder what the
mystic letters "Y. M. R. C." stand for.
To be candid we must admit that we
are blissfully ignorant on that subject.
But the fact remains that they and
their guests, "the ladies," passed a very
pleasant evening and no questions
asked.
Notice.
The assessment books of the City of
j Douglas for the year 1903 are complete
! and are at the office of the City Clerk,
and are open for inspection.
On Saturday, Aug. 15, 1903, the city
council will sit as a Board of Equaliza
tion, at which time all persons having
complaints regarding their assess
ment shall appear with said complaint
duly verified and present the same for
consideration.
By Order of the City Council.
Nearly Finished.
Carpenters, painters and plumbers
are rushing Mr. P. H. Fox's new store
toward completion. It is now a ques
tion of only a few weeks when it will
be completed.
Mr. Fox says that he has now neither
time nor space to exhibit his special
bargains, but as soon as he gets moved
into his new store, he will have some
thing to offer that will surprise the peo
ple of Douglas Island.
We Have a Delegate.
Mr. R. J. Willis, of Treadwell, has
been appointed by Gov. John G. Brady
as a delegate to the Trans-Mississippi
Congress, to represent Douglas Island.
The choice is a good one, and with the
assistance of Mr. C. W. Young, the del
egate from Juneau, Gastineau Channel
will be well represented. Mr. Willis
has bis credentials.
Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining unclaimed in the
postofflce at Douglas, Alaska, on Aug.
1st, 1903. Persons wishing any of them
should call for "Advertised Letters"
R. R. Hubbard, P. M.
Bevc, Matija Gjilovich, Petar
Herrett, John Larson, Carl W.
Ringstad, Nils Suberich, Vrile J.
Special Rates.
Douglas to Seattle and return $37.50
good for thirty days. No stop overs.
S. S. Dolphin leaving here Aug. 12th
and S. S. Humboldt Aug. 17th, 1903.
Account Trans-Mississippi Congress.
Alaska Steamship Co.,
Agents.
A Seattle paper of July 18th says:
"Mabel Towler told the court this
morning that she thought she had sup
ported her husband long enough. They
were married in Douglas, Alaska, and a
short time afterwards had trouble. She
came down to Seattle and secured em
ployment in a variety theatre. She told
the court that she was a professional
musician and vaudeville performer, and
by this means provided for her mother
and child. Judge Griffin granted the
divorce." Mrs. Towler was better known
as Vena Aberdeen.
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