Douglas Island news. [volume], November 13, 1907, Image 1

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LODGE DIRECTORY.
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^ The North Star Lodtre, No. 2,
l'- meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock.
in Odd Fellows Hall j
BP. ANDREWS, C. C.
A. S. FEURIS, K. of R. & S.
Visiting Kuisrhts are cordially invited to at
load.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E.
MEETS EVEKV SATI/RDA V NIGHT
At 8:30 O'clock
at Co-rjrins' Hall.
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
ELMER E. SMITH. W. P.
JOIMs STOFT. Secretary.
Aurora Encampment No. :
meets at Odd Fellows' hall lirst and third
Saturdays, at S j>. m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
1 nvitcd.
1). F. HAWKINS, C. P.
HUGH MCRAE. Scribo
Northern Lijht Rebekah Lodge No. 1
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturday*.
Visitors are cordially invited.
>IRS. IDA WHIPPLE, N. G.
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHUN. Sec'v
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C. DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
Over Elliott iS: Smith's Pharmacy
'Phone 4 Office Hours i to 5 p. m.
Residence, Sans Souci B'ld'g Phone 4 6. j
DR. F. L. GODDARD
Physician and Surgeon
TELEPHONE NO. 3
DOUGLAS - - ALASKA ;
DR. C. M. HARRISON
DENTIST
Hunter Block, between Front
arid 2nd Sts. Douglas City
'Phone, Douglas 3-8.
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\ WATCHES, DIAMONDS,
JEWELRY
JUNEAU ALASKA
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Fairbanks is building a $20,000 school
bouse.
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The first snow fell in Ketchikan on
Nov. 2d.
A train loaded with Vukon coal has
arrived at Skngway.
Spokane and Montana are planning
to erect a smelter at Skagway.
The Atlin steamer "Gleaner" has
made her last trip for the seasou.
An exchange says that Judge Reed is
a western man. Think of Oklahoma
being called west. /
An Alaska man, with plenty of mon
ey, was captured at Tacoma in company
with an "affluity."'
The fellow who has no money gets a
a certain amount of enjoyment abus
ing the chap who has.
"Who were the first gamblers?" "Ad
am and Eve." "How so?" "Didn't
they shake a par-a-dise?"
A. V. R. Snyder has withdrawn from
the newspaper business at Wrangell.
His son is now the whole thing.
George Forbes was drowned in the
river below Moosehide, and his two
companions had a narrow escape.
A shoemaker has a card in his win
dow reading: "Any respectable man,
woman, or child can have a fit in this
store."
Thomas Ultican, of Haines, attempt
ed suicide by exploding a dynamite
cap iu his mouth. He very nearly suc
ceeded.
Bristol Bay fishermen want the fish
traps abolished. If the matter reaches
Washington, the President might refer
it to Lieut. Jarvis.
The President has appoiuted Silas II.
Reed, of Oklahoma, to succeed James
Wickersham as judge of the U. S. court
for the Third district.
Ilev. Corser, formerly pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Wrangell, has
been ordained by Bishop l\owe to the
Episcopal priesthood.
The United States government is
placing rapid fire guus on St. Paul aud
St. George islands to protect the seal
rookeries from Japanese poachers.
It is now positively announced that
the Guggeuheims have decided to aban
don Katalla, aud move over to Cordova,
whero the natural harbor facilities are 1
better.
Prof. Doolittle, astronomer of the
University of Pennsylvania, announces
showers of shooting stars Nov. 1-lth to
j 16th. Watch for them around the Ju
; neau convention.
The cableship Burnside has com
pleted her season's work in Alaska, and
returned to the Sound.
James P. Egan, a Dawson pioneer of
the days of the big rush, died on the
12th of last month from pneumonia.
If it be true that Speaker Cannon has
said that he will oppose territorial gov
ern men t for Alaska as long as he lives,
there are many Alaskans who will not
pray that his days may be long in I he
land.
A not altogether reliable Nome paper
says that many of the big miuing prop
ositions there are worked out, and if
new discoveries are not made, the out
put of that camp will next year fall
far short of this year.
The report comes from Valdez of a
wonderful discovery of placer gold on
Valley creek at the head of theSusitna
river. It is claimed that the pay streak
is forty feet wide and runs from $1.00
to 63.00 to the pan, in coarse gold.
Postotflce Inspector C. L. Wayland
complains that the winter mail to inte
rior and Xome points is overburdened
with newspapers sent to people who
are not there, but have gone to the
States aud have neglected to notify the j
publishers of the fact.
Tom O'Brien, who has returned to j
Dawson from the liig Salmon country,
reports 12.~> men have been working in
that district the pa?t summer. Ho says:
''The output of the Big Salmon district
for this year has reached 8100, 000. The
producing creeks have been Living
stone, Cottoueva, Lake and Summit.
Capt. E. F. Diekeus, who, as com- !
mauder of the coast survey steamer
(iedney, had been doing some impor- ;
tant survey work along the Alaska |
coast during the last summer, has been
ordered to the Philippine islands. Capt.
Diekeus will be director of the Philip
pine coast survey.
Within a few years copper has vi
brated between 11 and 24 cents a pound
and is now midway. It vfould take a
powerful telescope to discover that a
"war on business" has anythiug to do
with the fluctuations. It is more likely
that speculative values have struck a
snag in the region of supply and de
mand. ? St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
News is brought from the extreme
upper Stewart river country, several
hundred miles from Dawson, that Far
rell, the trader, who succeeds Brain &,
Nash, has succeeded in getting a fairly
large quantity of goods into the rigion,
aud that the Indians not only are sup
plied with foodstuffs, but have taken
kitchen ranges, spring beds and a few
other of the white man's domestic con
veniences.
A common rule for computing the ;
power required by the use of ordinary
tackle-blocks to raise a given weight is
to divide the amount of the weight to
bo raised by the number of parts of
the rope supporting the lower block;
this'rule is, howover, based upon the
supposition that there is no fractional
resistance involved in the turning of !
the 8hoaves, which factor may some
times be as great as to nearlj7 offset
the advantage otherwise gained by j
their use.
Wortman's roadhouse, forty miles
from Valdez, ou the Valdez-Fairbanks
winter trail, was totally destroyed by
lire a few days ago. This roadhou.se
was one of the best known supply de
pots and rest resorts on the long trail
between Valdez aud the Tanana coun
try.
A catamaran, built, in South Dawson i
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this summer by W. J. Chance, and ;
equipped by him with a new style pad
dle propeller, has been launched and
given a test in the swiftly running;
Klondike river. The craft is equipped !
with a twenty-horse-power gasoline en
gine, and with this made a successful
run against the current of the Klon
dike.
A cable message came yesterday di
recting the cruiser Buffalo to arrange i
fur securing fifty tons of Matanuska J
coal to be sent to the Atlantic coast for
test by the navy department, says the
Seward Gateway. This will be taken ?
out from the Chickaloon river bed this
winter, sledded to Knik and carried out
by way of the iulet as early as naviga
tion opeus next spring. The Buffalo
came here with instructions to take!
out with her fifty tons of Matanuska
coal lor testing, the navy department
having obtained the erroneous idea
that the coal was already accessible.
This was no doubt due to the somewhat
extensive notice the Matanuska coal
has received through the reports ct
Mr. Griffith and Prof. Martin, the for
mer a noted Pennsylvania expert, and
the latter a member of the government
geological survey. The hydrograpbic
work of the survey for the coaling sta
tion is practically completed. Some
work on land remains and Cant. Pond
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says it is absolutely necessary to have
one or two sunny days to take certain -
observations. At the rate sunny days
have been coming in October, this will
make the Buffalo a fixture in Resurrec
tion bay.
The United Powder Company, with i
works at San eJose, California, is plac
ing on the market several varietiee of :
so-called Thor-ite, or Safety, blasting
powder, for which superior advantages
aro claimed over nitro-glycerine' and j
other powders now in use. It is a3- 1
serted, firstly, that the powder is from
?10 per cent to 50 per cent more eltlci
ent; secondly, that it will not freeze
and is not affected by age; thirdly, that ;
it gives off no fumes and is, therefore,
less injurious to the health of the
users; fourthly, that it explodes as a
whole only by the concussion of a most
powerful cap; fifthly, that it is lighter
in weight and can therefore be trans
ported at less expense, and, sixthly,
that it is cheaper than nitro-glycerine
powders. In proof of these assertions
the company lately carried on public
tests of several days' duration at its
San Jose works. The tests included ;
"bulldoziug," (rock-splitting and 6hat- ;
tering), blowiug up of mammoth oak
trees and the hammeriug and ignition
experiments, all of which were highly
satisfactory. In all of these tests the
absence of noxious or injurious fumes
was a noticeable characteristic, while
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tho safety of handling and firing the !
powder was demonstrated iu several
ways. ? Mining Reporter.
A Dawson correspondent of l e P. '.
writes: H. t'. Wel^.h, the Alinto fa' Tier,
who is iu Dawson for a few day., re
ports being most successful in r?ic;rg
potatoes, turnips and other root v.je
tables at his place, thus demonstrating
that part of the Yukon is highly suita
ble for agriculture. Some of hic. tur
nips weigh ten to fifteen pounds, r-r
many of the potatoes will r-'^h a
pound each.
A new freight vessel for the South
eastern Alaska route of the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company i- .nde*
consideration. Plans for the new boat
hare been drawn and are in the bands
of the officials of the company. The
plans propose a vessel with m- ca
pacity, speed and economy in handling
cargo than the steamship A1 Mi, wh?ch
it is intended to supplant. Iu ler-, h
t lie proposed vessel is feet; benn' *0
feet and depth 17.S feet. Tho hnii . to
lie built of stee! and the vessel to
have a speed ot about twelve I.nott.
Deck room for 1,000,00^ feet >f ! mi!
i.s allowed for. The one hou :o oa tiv
vessel is to be built to acuonruvd?'
the officers. The crew wiii be lodtf"^
forward. The vessel is planned
auxiliary schooner rig. Three ioxi'.i
hatches, two forward and one a.i w4!i
permit easy haudling of cr.rgo f i . 1
addition there will be two oargc
on each side. The propose*.' vr.
have a closed in dock. Tlr.s will , \
her to handle perishable goods in h
weather without damage to t'v v:/o.
The decks are to be of s<( ? ' a.- t hsi
'tween decks will be high in ordti i at
cargo can be trucked.
The burst i of* of the Roy Li old
at Valdez, while it worked I uj!.ips
on some, others came out happily with
money to the good. A large mercan
tile establishment thore attracted th<
attention of Reynolds and he imir di
ately offered to buy. The proprietors
named a price, and offered to s^l! upon
the payment oi 330.000 lor an opti .a.
Reynolds wrote his cherk for tv3
$50,000, and the check was inline- lately
cashed. During the next few wv ^
Reynolds bought goods < n :me a
when the era camo h3 owed
?11,000. This accouuf is ;ot couside? *
good for much, but Iho fira H st;
S3D,000 ahead on the deal. Another
story i* told that a poor Norwegian had
a lot that cost him $25. He Loped to
sell it for $30, but a friend advise' L*m
to try Reynolds. When Reynolds saw
the lot ho asked the price. The Nor
wegian thought of asking $50, but his
modesty got the better of him and he
was still halting between two opinion*,
when Reynolds asked: "Will you take
$500?" He took it. So the good thing9
were passed around. Two men had a
lot of shares? comparatively valueless
? in a townsite company, got J 2,500
each. Another mau w ith *.? mall siore
and a few gramophones 30M out for
$5,000 cash, and was made president oC
the Valdez Music company Outaide
of the laborers who lost their \wges,
very few were losers, and many made a
gobd thing out of it. Reynolds i9 a
character. It is said he never wears a
hat; when asked why, he replied that
his brain was so active that if he .?oro
a hat his head would burst. The
chances are Alaska will have bi t on
'Reynolds.