Douglas Island news. [volume], April 22, 1908, Image 1

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Information for Everybody.
, Congress will adjourn on May 15.
I At Nome, spnds have jumped to 86 a
crate.
Chris. C. Shea i9 the newly elected
mayor of Skagway.
May 12th, the Republican Territorial
Convention at Ketchikan.
Thieves broke into the pest-house at
SknRw&v and carried off the furniture.
The first w ireless messages have been
seut from Fairbanks and received at
Valdez.
Fifty live men are now employed at
the Ketchikan cannery, getting ready
for the season's pack.
A Whiteborse citizen lost thirty-two
heus iu one night ? by dogs. Only that
is not. what he said.
The west coast of Vancouver Island
has gathered iu another victim, this
time a four-masted schooner.
Fire wiped out the Indian village of
Sechelt, 50 miles north of Vancouver, I
and two natives were iciuerated.
Clum, Cale, Wickersham and Hog
gatt are the name9 frequently mention
ed in political circles at Fairbauka.
Porcher Island, lying twelve miles
south of Prince Rupert, is attracting'
atteution of settlers and fishermen.
Three John Does were arrested iu
Seattle for threatening the life of a
man employing laborers for Treadwell
A new fraternal order, styled the i
Brothernood of Gooueys, has been
started in Nome svith a membership of
200.
The underwriters still hope to be ;
able to float the Saratoga from the ,
position she now occupies on Busby j
reef.
The steamer Northlaud, owned by
the Ketchikan Steamship Company,
started north on her initial trip last j
week.
A Juneau carpenter named Cole is
said to have gone tQ Seattle, where ho
joined the Holy Rollers and wound up
in jail.
W. T. Scott, assistant prosecuting
attorney for the third division, died at
Juneau on the 16th inst., of pneumonia,
aged G3.
Collector of Customs Hobart, who
has been spending a vacation in Cali
fornia, returned to his home in Juneau
last week.
At the Presbytery of Southeastern
Alaska, recently held at Juneau, Rev.
Jones of Juneau and Mr. Faulkner of
Kluckwan were elected delegates to
the general assembly, which meets in
Kansas City next month.
A Washington dispatch snys that the
j Alaska- Yukon fair appropriation bill
has boon attached to the sundry ciril
' bill and will pass.
The dostructiou of the dynamo at the
i Ketchikau light plant mado it nec
essary for the citizens of that town to
; return to first principles.
Eli Smith, who made the trip from
' Nome to New York by dog team, to
win a wairer of 810,000, arrived (\n time,
and says it was easy money.
Almost every point heard from has
elected contesting delegations to the
great, two-ring, compromise conven
tion to be held at Ketchiknn next
month.
Ex-Gov. John G. IJrady is said to be
among the bunch of lobbyists hanging
around the oatioual capital, lie still
thinks the Alaska Home railroad will
win out.
Three immense nuggets of bornit.e
copper ore are now on exhibition at
Valdez as samples of the ore deposits
of the Chittyna country. The pieces
weigh 370; 100, 02.
In the Nome section, the famous;
Ault Fraction, near Little Creek, has
; proved a bonanza for the Pioneer Com
pany, and from its huge winter dumps,
j it is claimed, will realize 82,000,000.
The municipal election at Ketchikan
resulted in the selection of the follow
ing councilmen: J. Pittenger, J. E.
Lathrop, Thomas Torry, E. J. Cope
i land, W. F. Schlothan, Henry Goe
maere, Johu Koel.
The Paciflo Coast S. S. Co. will carry
( up a three-ton monument, which the
people of the Atlin district will erect
to perpetuate the memory of Fritz
Miller, the discoverer of the gold j
areas of the district.
The Northland Development Com
pany, which i9 interested in copper
claims at Big Harbor or. the West
Coast, has let a contract for the driv- j
iug of a 100-foot tunnel on its proper
ty, says the Ketchikan Miner.
Mr. Sam Wall, who once circled the
globe iu company with George Fran
cis Train in 67 days days, is now editor ?
of the Skagway Daily Alaskan, and
entertains the people of that burg by
reciting his thrilling experiences.
Skagway certainly has the cham- ;
pion long distance sprinter. The
Alaskan of recent date says: "Gen- 1
eral Manager Berdoe, of the W. P. & Y. 1
ran over to Whitehorse Saturday
night after the Jefferson got in, arriv
ing there at 2 a. m."
Under date of March 21, a press
dispatch to the Seattle Star from San
Rafael, Cal., says: Ward McAllister,
son of the famous social leader of New j
York 20 years ago, and former United ;
States district judge for Alaska, died i
in San Rafael today as the result of j
the shock occasioned by an operation 1
for appendicitis performed upon him j
Sunday. Judge McAlliister died de- '
serted by his mother and other rela
tives in the east and west, practically
indigent. His friends In San Rafael,
fellow club members, looked after bis
comfort for some time, and" they re
cently had him removed from* an asy
lum at Napa to this city.
McKay, McNeil and Adams, who
blanketed thirty-nine claims on Indian
river, V. T., by the use of power of
attorney, and were arrested for con
spircy to defraud the government and
the people, wero acquitted in the
Dawson court.
i The Ketchikan Miner seriously ad
vises the people of that town in case
of fire to take?hold and hulp pull the
cart to the fire and not to stop opera
tions to dicker with the lire chief for
their fifty' cents for fighting fire.
Ketchikan has a semi-paid depart
ment.
On the 14th, inst., Harry Loper, a
j deserter from the St. Michael barracks, \
was sentenced a t Nome to three years
at McNeil's island for attempting to
murder George Piloher on the Lower
Yukon last January. Pilcher is par- j
tially paralyzed as the result of the
shooting.
C. E. Smith, representing the engi
neering department of the Ouggen- 1
heirns mining interests, went north 1
last week on the Jefferson, bound for
Dawson, with a gang of forty skilled
workmeu to begin work on the pipe
line which has been in progress for the
last two years.
Thomas Husby, a Fairbanks mine ?
owner, was thrown from his sled and
killed on April 1th. He was enroute I
to Valdez, and while driving along a
bad stretch of trail the sled dropped '
into a chuck hole, throwiug the driver
head first onto the icy trail. His neck
was broken by the fall.
William Pound, one of the first
miners to mush out of the Klondike
and to reach Seattle following the big
gold discovery, will return to the North
after four years in Oregon, to resume
the pursuit of fortune. Thi9 time he ;
will prospect for quartz, and expects j
to go all over Southeastern Alaska.
According to the Chicago Record, I
the affairs of tho Alaska Central Rail- j
way have reached a climax in a per
sonal encounter between John E. !
Ballaine and A. C. Frost, the presi
dent of the company. Ballaine, who :
is the original promoter of the road,
claims that Frost is gailty of gross
mismanagement and has not lived up ;
to his agreements. |
Six thousand white men, which ex
cludes Orientals, are wanted by the
firm of . Foley, Welch &. Stewart, who
hold $10,000,000 worth of contracts
on 100 miles of right-of-way on the
Grand Trunk Pacific extension work,
which is to begin at once. The firm
draws the color line sharply and en
forces a very strict Asiatic exclusion ,
law of its own. Work will be com-,
menced at Prince Rupert this week.
The 100 miles of extension must be
completed within a year and a half.
Besides laborers, hundreds of black
smiths, carpenters and mechanics are
wanted. Headquarters of the contrac
tors will be at Prince Rupert. Two
thousand more men are to be employ
ed by the same firm at Edmonton,
Canada, on another contract for the
Grand Trunk Pacific. When the work
is in full swing the company expects to
distribute about $500,000 per month in
wages.
The Skagway Alaskan Bays: "Union
ism is all right ? it is the abuse of
unionism, the employment of ail or
; ganization formed for 0110 purpose to
other ends than whs intended, that is
objectionable. The Western Federa
tion of Minors in not a purely labor
union, it is a political organization, or
i an organization diverted by agitators
from its original uses to that of the
needs of the leaders, to sow the seed
cf disloyalty to the United States and
the spread of the doctrines of eocial
' isin."
On Sunday, February 9th, there were
more accidents in the Nome section
than ever ocoured in a month in the
| history of the camp. Four men were
precipitated to the bottom of au eighty
live foot shaft on the Jupiter claim,
Tom Phelau had his leg broken in two
places, Andy Beck, Gus Wilson and
Gus Maher were al6o severely hurt,
but not fatally injured. Tom Rolseth
was hit in the head by a falling baskot
on the Iogleside claim and had his
skull fractured. Albert Wilo fell
down a fifty foot shaft, landing in the
dump, barely escaping with his life on
Tripple creek. David Cauro had a leg
broken by a cave-in on the Three Star
traction.
A recent issue of the Prince Rupert
Empire gives a lot of plain, straight
forward information concerning the
town which is to be the western ter
minus of the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway, Prince Rupert. The climate,
says the story, is much the same as
that of sea coast points between Sau
Francisco and Vancouver; the soil is a
vegetable mould covered with moss
and intermixed with roots and from
ODe to ten feet deep to bedrock; the
vegetation is red and yellow cedar,
spruce, hemlock and bull pine, with an
undergrowth of blueberry bushes; as
there is no climate in England so there
is no weather at Prince Rupert; the
harbor is one of the finest on the
Pacific coast, large, land-locked, good
depth of water, no shoals and no ob
structions; the townsite is on the west
side of Kaien Island, and when survey
ed will have a frontage of four miles
on the harbor, and must contain
2,000 acres, 1,300 of which are now
cleared; the townsite has not been sur
veyed iuto lots and blocks, but under
the agreement between the Province
and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Company, the survey and subdivision
into lots is to be completed on or be
fore Sept. 30, 1908, and prior to that
date lots cannot be either priced or
eold. At the present time there are no
opportunities of employment or busi
ness chances there. The population is
about 200. There are two churches,
a public school, sewers and electric
lights, several general stores and
restaurants, and the Empire, a weekly
newspaper, which is sold at ten cents a
copy or 85.00 a year, and which gives
the general advice: "Do not come to
Prince Rupert, except as sightseers or
under engagement to go to work, until
lots in the townsite are sold."
NOTICE.
Anybody holding any cream jirs be
longing to the Douglas Dairy, please
return aud oblige. Jos. Trudqeon.