Douglas Island news. [volume], December 21, 1904, Image 2

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The Douglas Island News.
Entered at Douglas Post-office as Second
Class Mail Matter.
Wednesday, December 21, 1904.
'PHONE NO. 12.
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CHARLES A. HOPP
Editor and Proprietor.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
TERMS:?In Advance.
One Year - - $3.00
Six Months - - - - - - -1.50
Three Months ------ 75
Single Copies ------ 10
The arrival of Judge Guunison at an
early date is expected.
It seems strauge, but it is true, that
the highest thing that can be said for a
public man today is that he cannot be
bribed.
Even the Skagway Alaskan fails to i
detect a trace of wisdom iu the ram
bling statements of the Juueau Record
31iner.
Alaska halibut are being shipped to
the Sound in such quantities that the
people of Seattle are beginning to won
der where they all come from anyway.
President Roosevelt's recommenda
tion that the salaries of the district
judges in Alaska be raised indicates ,
that be also expects them to be honest, t
The co-operation of the Treadwell i
and Douglas Eire Departments will
increase the efficiency and value of both
organizations. The people of Douglas
Island have discovered the adautage of
haviug trained firemen and under the
present arrangement the combined
companies will muster more than 250
men.
On onr desk lies a copy of theAlaska i
Transcript, a weekly newspaper pub
lished at Juneau. Its- editor is John
W. Frame. There may be people in Al
aska who do not know John W., but
that is their loss. There are mighty
lew people in S. E. Alaska who do not 1
know him as the best all around fight- ;
er in the District. John (we fee) privi- j
leged to call him John, because we ;
know him) is noted for his scrapping ! j
proclivities, and especially for his j;
"solar perplexis" blows. Them is;
latin words meaning he bits'em where ]
they live?John don't fight just for the ;
fun of the thing; he fights because he ; j
has to fight. Whenever John gets <
after a dishonest federal otficial the j
name of the aforesaid federal official is
mud. John may seemingly get the .
worst of it for a while, and have to dis
pose of his big daily, and start a weekly j
but in his fight for truth and right he
sacrifices it all without a murmer. And
that brings us back to what we started j
out to say, that John Frame and his
Alaska Transcript are reaping the re- L
ward of true worth, and tbe columns ;
of the Transcript are bulgiug out with j
the ads of the thoughtful business men
of this community, who know that in ;
giving their patronage to John Frame
they are not paying their money to a
man who will stab them in the back or
rob their widows and orphans after |
they are dead.
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HITS HILLS HARD.
The following article from the Ta-j
eoma Daily Ledger, will so doubt be
read with a great deal of satisfaction j
by those who hare been made to suf-1
fer through the devilish schemes of,
this arm of the federal court:?
Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.?W. J..
Hills, clerk of the United States dis-!
trict court at Juneau, Alaska, is slated
for dismissal, and his head will fall
just as soon as Judge Royal A. Guuni
son relieves Judge Melville C. Brown,'
whose resignation has been called for. j
A great deal of the trouble that sar- j
rounds the court at Juneau is attribut- j
ed to Hills; in fact he was far more cul
pable in many ways than was Judge j
Brown himself. Hills belongs to that;
class of men who have given Alaska ;
such an unsavory reputation. In this j
eountry he would be styled a "get-rich- I
quick artistr" for his sole object in go- [
ing to Alaska seems to have been to [
amass a fortune, regardless of method, j
One of the officials who investigated
affairs at Juneau tells an incident i
which throws light onto Hills' opera
tions, and stamps him as a man nnfit
to bold government office. The Tread
well mine is located nearly opposite
Juneau and only about a mile distant.
Hills, 800n after his arrival at Juneau, ?
found that quite a cluster of small'
bouses and cottages bad been erected ?
in the vicinity of the mine on the mine j
property, and were occupied by mine '
employes. The houses had been erect-!
?d by the miners themselves, tbe sav
ing of a lifetime. Tbe mine authorities
had granted permission to tbe men to
build their homes on the company's
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land. Hills, who apparently has no
conscience, quickly saw an opportanity
to make a neat snin, so he wrote to the
mine owners asking them to reut to
him at a nominal sum the use of the
surface of their property at Tread well,
he agreeing not to engage in mining
operations.
The owners knowing nothing of the
local situation, quickly assented, and
Hills paid his rent. He thereupon ;
turned on the miners who bad erected :
their own homes and demanded ot
them excessive rent for the use of the
land, which he then controlled by per-;
mission of the mine owners. Those
who conJd not meet the payments de
manded were ejected from their homes;
the others paid usurious rates, and in
time, by pressing the miners to the
limit, Hills virtually became the owner
of the small village by this high-hand
ed method. Judge Brown, it is charg
ed, bad full knowledge of the manner
in which hie clerk robbed these miners
of their homes, yet raised no word of
protest.
The jndge of She coart bas the ap
pointment of the coart clerk. Were it
not for this fact, Hills* bead would
hare come off when Marshal Richards
of florae lost bis job. As it is the de
capitation will be performed by Judge
Gunnison.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES.
The Swedish Evangelical Lutherans
will celebrate Christmas in tbeir new
church at the corner of Third and ESt.
Children's festival and Christmas Tree
will be held at 8 o'clock Christmas Eve.
Divine services at 6 o'clock Christmas
morning* All Scandinavians are most
cordially invited. J. A. Levix, Pastor.
Jki DAN POPOVICH, BOZO BECHIR, tjk'd
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SOMETHING
GOOD TO EAT
AT THE
TREADWELL
Meat Market
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Celery, egg plant,
cucumbers, cabbage,
cranberries, young
car rots, lettuce,
squash, wax beans,
string beans, turnips
green peppers, red
peppers, ripe toma
toes green peas.beets
garlic, onions, green
corn. Fresh shrimps,
salmon and halibut.
Ranch eggs, small
Star hams, Premium
? hams, Star bacon,
pickled and smoked
tongues,summer sail/
sage, bologna* hol-\ #
stine sausage, smok
ed Yarmouth Illoat
ers and herring, Hol
nnd herring, boiled
ham and smoked
beef sliced, dill pick
les sour pickles,
sweet pickles, pick
led olives and saner
kraut in bulk, Ooli
cans, anchovies,
spiced Russian sar
dines and caviar, salt
mackerel, salmon
bellies and cod fish
tongues and sounds,
genuine Swiss cheese
rokefort cheese,
breakfast cheese,
edum cheese, pine
apple cheese,limbur
gcr choase guaran
teed to make any
body sneeze. Apple
cider, wine vinegar
and honey from
home, chickens alive
killed or cooked,
pickled pigs feet 10c
a foot or 2!>c per yard
fresli beef.veal, pork
mutton wholesale
and retail.
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Belts Gloves Slippers Shoes jj
Hats Caps Hosiery Etc. 3
A Cheerful Call to Christmas Buyers j
> Our Bright, Sparkling Line of Christmas Gifts is Ready for Inspection )
1 Come and Eook. Vour judgment mill Cell you Ulbat to Do \
? Yoo will delight in our fine Display of Holiday Qoods because it is in close touch with the times and anticipates your every want r
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With Pride and Confidence in the Variety, Richness and Completeness of our Beautiful
Holiday Stock, we invite you to look through our up-to-date line of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Novelties, Etc.
& Cut Glass of the highest Grade, Nugget Jewelry of every Description &
and hundreds of articles that we have not space to enumerate
Our Stock is THOROUGHLY UP WITH THE TIMES in VARIETY and NOVELTY in Every Department.
The simple, plain talk of THE PRICE THAT IS RIGHT is our convincing argument.
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I WE CAN, WE WILL, WE DO SUPPLY JUST WHAT EVERYBODY wants for CHRISTMAS )
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