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The Douglas
DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL,
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ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1908.
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The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Burglars are very active at Skag
way.
Railroad operations at Cordova uow
provide employment for nearly 1,000
men.
The appoiutment of John T. Spiekett
ns postmaster at Janeau has been con
firmed.
A railroad from Dawson to the out
side is among the possibilities of the
near future.
Spokane County, Washington, will
have a building at the ^iaska-Yukou
Paoific Exposition.
The Alaska Packer# Association will
build five more fish trap s iu the Ketch
ikan district this seasou.
An attempt will be made to float the
schooner Glen wrecked last summer
near Bear Harbor, Unjmak island.
A prominent business man of Cor.
dova advertises that he will cash the
railroad checks at a small discount.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition,
which will be held at Seattle, opening
June 1, 1009, is fifty per cent complet
ed.
L. L. Bale9 one of tho species com
monly kuown as game hogs is again
operating in the country to the West
ward.
There i9 still need for a thousand
men in th? Tauana? but some of the
Eastern papers have been making it j
10,000.
The Northern Commercial Com
pany's Yukon river boats will carry
the mails in iron cages built for the
purpose.
The rate is now $2 a ton for freight I
shipments from Seattle to China and
Japan. That rate sounds queer to an
Alaskan.
The Alaska Sentinel reports that
placer diggings have been found on the
mainland about forty miles from
VT'ingell.
T. Hi Carpenter has organized a com
pany of Tacoma and Portland capital
ists to but in an electric lighting plant
at Cordova.
The darker the future looks for
Katalla the bigger grows the chamber
, of commerce. Such energy should be
rewarded.
The Gjja, the ship in which Capt.
Koald Amundsen made his expedition
through the Northwest passage, start
ing from rhe Atlantic side and after
going alon> the north coast of North
America emerged through Bering
Strait into the Pacific, will bS one of
the attractions at the Alaska-Yukon
Pacillo Exposition.
The importance of the gold produc- '
i tion of Alaska to the nation may re
sult in congress taking a hand in the J
strike business.
H. H. Moran, better known as
"Casey," will begin the publication of !
1 h paper in Seattle to be known as
, "Moran'fc Weekly Alaskau."
P. T. Rowe, bishop of the Episcopal !
church for the territory Alaska, if on
! his way to attend the Lambeth confer
I euco in London, England.
It is claimed that the new Alaska >
liquor law will surely pass. Its en
j foreement will make dance halls in ;
{ Alaska a thing of the past.
The organization of a new electric j
i light company at Valdez has already'
! had the effect of reducing the price of
! the juice by about 15 per cent.
The Hasey case, growing out of the
railroad war last fall in Keystone Can- j
yon, was terminated last week by the :
acquittal of the defendant.
Thirty cents an hour for an eleven
hour day, is the scale of wages posted
j by Al. J. Heney, who has the contract
for the railroad work at Cordova.
j The Northwest Security Company i
j has just bought 4,000 acres of valuable j
! coal and oil land near Katalla. The '
purchase price is given as 8250,000.
i The Oregon building will be the first J
state structure finished at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The build
' ing will be finished within a month.
A big deal is in the air which in- '
volves the purohase of a large slice of |
the Nome placer fields. The Goggen- 1
| heims are supposed to bf the parchas- ;
i ers.
Frank Sawyer, wbodied on the lower
river this wiuter and was buried at
Charley creek, left some valuable prop
erty, but none of his relatives has been
found. ?
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I On April 25th a Japanese sailing
vessel landed four Japs on an island
near Sitka, where they were afterward
found by natives, in a half starved
condition.
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The Canadian Paciflo and associate
steamship ' companies have combin
ed to raise the freight rate from Vau- 1
couver to Prince Rupert and"~Skeena
river points SI a ton.
"There's gold in the land," saya a
philosopher, "but some people want an
earthquake to do the digging and a
cyclone to blow the gold dust to them"
? Atlanta Constitution.
According to the Seattle P.-I., a .
miner just down from Alaska refused
| to take chances on leaving his money
in charge of the police department
while he took in the town.
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John E. Ballaine, of the Alaska
| Central railroad, has returned from his
| somewhat exciting trip to Chicago, and
i now announces that the committee of
bondholders and stockholdeas of the
road are interesting new capitalists to
take over the interests of A. C. Froat,
reduce the stock and bond issue to
actual coat, and go ahead with the con
; straction of the road from Seward as ,
soon as the stock transfers can be
I effected. ,
Tho steamer -Jeanie, one of the oldest
craft- engaged in Pacific trade, will
oommenco another chapter iu her
checkered career this season by enter- j
io? tho Nome trafBo as a freighter.
* Henry Roltaire, the famous illusion
ist, will have his large concession, The
Creation, at the Alaska-Yukon Pacific
Exposition. The spectacle depicts the
creation of the world as described iu
the book of Genesis.
The revenue cutter Thetis sailed
from Seattle on the first of the month
for her summer's work on the seal
patrol ou Bering sea. She is provided !
with 10,000 rations, which vary from
salt pork to chicken.
The miuers of the Koyukak and especi., j
ally those on Nolan creek, are very j
anxious to prevent a stamdede to that
country this summer. They say that
there is uothiug in tho discoveries so
far made to justify a rush.
Bishop Rowo is generally known as
an honest man and a hardworking
preachor, but he is quoted by a Seattle :
paper as having said that in an Alaska ;
mining camp where there were 125 men
they all atteuded service.
The Katalla Herald gets off* the fol
lowing: 'The wild geese and ducks
are returning to their northern hauuts, j
and the blue empyrean honks with
their pants, of vice versa, to spend the
summer and rear their broods."
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The old gasoline stern wheeler Cold- j
foot is again in commission and will be j
sent north shortly by Ed. Lewis, of
Port Townsend, who is said to have ;
sold her to the San Juan Fish Co. for
use in the Alaska stations along the in
side routo.
Frederick Neil limes, the noted band ;
leader, is director of the bureau of !
music for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific :
Exposition. The musical program will
consist of many distinct features
which were not presented at former '
expositions.
The second day of March was almost ;
springlike at Nome, and some practical
joker climbed up on a building and j
announced that the Corwiu was in
sight. The people rushed for the
water front and then realized that they !
were the victims of a hoax.
The Washington State Federation of ;
Woman's Clubs will have a S10,000
building at the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflo
Exposition. The Washington State
commission set aside the funds for the
building and the clubs will furnish it;
aud install the exhibits.
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x Miss Hayward, teacher of the govern- j
ment Indian school at Saxman, and
whose pupils have all moved away to
the fishing grounds, has been provided j
with a tent and will chase them from
one place to another in the persistent
effort to "educate" them.
Fighting the Flames will be one of
the large concessions on the Pay
Streak at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Ex
position. It will show how a fire de
partment fights a big conflagration in
a row of four or five story buildings, |
and how people are. rescued from the
burning structures.
Joseph R. Mat hews, chief engineerof
the Northern Commercial company,
has recently reached Seattle from Fair
banks, his lir?t trip out in eight years,
and says tho strike is over and the out
look for the district this summer i9 tho
best in the history of the camp.
Tho steamer Seward, which sailed
from Seattle for Cordova on April 2Gih,
carried a heavy cargo of railroad and
mining materials, included in the
shipment are railway cars, lailway ties
and steel rails, and on top of it all is a
shipment of oreosoted piles.
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Why do not the newspapers of
Seattle come to the aid of those men
and women who, in the present con
dition of the labor market, find them
selves without work itfld without
opportunity to earn au honest living?
This is the question, repeatedly put,
that has induced the Post-Intelligencer
to establish a free labor bureau.
At a sale of unclaimed baggage held
by the Pacific Coast S. S. Co., at Seattle
a secondhand deaier bonght an old
dunnage bag, supposed to have belong
ed to a sailor, for 83. When he opened
it he found a poke containing $150 in
gold. It is now thought to have been
the property of a returniug Klondiker.
Henry Auderson was a passenger on
the Bertha eu route to the head waters
of the Ventna, says the Seward Gate
way. He has with him six men and ex
pects twelve more to come lator on tho
Portland. Anderson is taking in some
machinery, a steam pump, Ruble ele
vator and 1,000 feet of fourteen and
sixteen inch pipe.
According to O. N. Walker, a Seattle
fur buyer, who recently reached Val
dez from Nome, two new creeks in tho
Innoka district have proved rich and
another has every indication of being
good. The new creeks are Ophir,
Spruce and Dodge. These streams run
parallel with Gane creek, all flowing
into the Innoka.
The suudry civil bill contains the
following appropriations for Alaska,
not otherwise provided for: Surveys
in Alaska and Hawaii, 61G0,000; steam
vessels for salmon inspection service,
Alaska, $20,000; care of Alaska insane,
$27 ,000;' education, $170,000, a reduction
of $25,000 from last year; support of
reindeer stations. 13,500; traveling ex
penses of federal judges and clerks in
Alaska, $5,000.
Repeatedly, through the platforms of
both political conventions, more than
once through a free ballot and by
large majorities, the people of Alaska
have expressed the desire that they
be given the privilege of self govern
ment so far as the privilege exists
in the territorial form of government
A representative of the people, elected
upon a platform that made it his duty
to do so, prepared a bill granting to ua
somewhat of that privilege, and the bill
is before the committee of congress
which has it in its power to recommend
its passage. Before that committee
went the governor of Alaska? the gov
ernor being appointed by the president
?and. declared Alaska to be "nol ripe
for self government."? Skagway Alas
kan.