Douglas Island news. [volume], June 17, 1908, Image 1

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The North Star Lodge, No. S,
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THURSDAY KTBNING
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JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
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Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. I
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Visitors are oordially invited.
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North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.;
i The Guggenheims will send 500 men
in to Dawaon before July 1st.
The day of the big dog raco at Nome, 1
the mayor declared a holiday.
Beach diggings on Afognak island 1
ar? proving profitable this year.
No lfquor will be sold in the grading
camps of the Grand Trunk in Canada. |
Mrs. Mary iVlartin, of Whitehorse,
celebrated her 96th birthday last Wed
nesday.
Judge Sila9 fl. Reid, of the Third
division, has goue to the States for a
vacation.
A lodge of Yukon pioneers baa beeu
organized at Seattle. Nothiug eacapea
the "spirit."
The gunboat Yorktowu is to leave
Seattle tomorrow to spend the sum
mer cruising off Pribyloff island.
The Whitehorse Star saya that Perry
Mack ia a false alarm in the pugilistic
field. They all are, brother White.
Practioally a million dollars' worth
of shipments to Alaska went out of
Seattle during the month of May.
The Pacitto Coast S. S. Co. advertiseB
the fare for the Southeastern Alaska
excursions to Sitka and return, $06.00. 1
John Kirkland and Thomaa Fox.
who attempted to croaa Lake Atlin in
a oanoe, found graves in its ioy waters. .
All the campa of the Copper River
& Northwestern railroad ? building out
of Cordova ? will be in full 'awing by
July.
The first olean-ups of the winter
dumps on Banner and Tenderfoot
creeks in the Tanana districts yielded
1 1200,000.
A large part of the travel to Nome
this year will go by the way of Skag
way, beoaaae of the greater comfort of
that route.
The ioe pack at Nome refa9es to start
for the Bering sea, and it ia feared that
it will beJnly before the big ships
can get in.
The Katalla Herald makes the state
ment t hat artificial street sprinkling
has become necessary in that town to
lay the dust.
Old Man Kinney and Claude B. Kin
ney have retired from the ownerahip of
the Cordova Alaakan. B. C. Allen has
taken the wheel .
The flood of people in the spring
rush for the Klondike and points
further down the Yukon got stalled at
Skagway and Whitehorse, waiting for
the water to rise in the river. The Ice
is gone, but the river is still very
low.
[ Millard Freeman, editor of the j
Pacific Fisherman, will have charge of i
the fishery exhibit at the Alaska-iu
kon-Paclflc exposition.
The Katalla Ilerald says that the re
publican convention held at Ketohikun
engaged in three days of disgraceful,
but characteristic wrangling.
Samuel Hott, second class steward
on the Princess May fell off the (
approach to the Skagway wharf, land- 1
ing on some piles and fracturing his
hip.
The Beateon mine on Latouche is- 1
laud now furnishes employment for ;
seven meu. The work is closed down, ,
presumably because of the low price of
copper.
Travellers going down the Yukon
river in small boats are said to be re
sponsible for timber fires that are de- j
Mtroying thousands of acres of good j
timber.
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The Whitehorse Star says that the
trouble# of Tom Marquam, recently j
indicted by a Fairbanks graud jury,
are attributable to his Europeau mode
of living.
John P. Clum is out with supple- j
ment No. 1 of the Clum Record, iu j
which he announces he will be an iu- i
dependent candidate for delegate to
congreos.
Earthquake shocks were felt at
Katalla on May 14, and aleo at Yakat
aga where the vibration was so severe
that the mountains crumbled and
huge rocks rolled down their sides.
Capt. Francis A. Pope will succeed
Capt. Geo. Pilsbury as disbursing agent
of the Alaska road commission, with i
headquarters at Skagway. Capt. Pils
bury has been ordered to West Point.
From Dawson comes the news that
ground which was imide the old
Quart* creek concessions, and whic h
wae thrown opeu last year, is proving
to carry the best pay aver found on
the creek.
W. H. Bard, District Deputy Grand
President of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, ia making a tour of the North
and will visit all the aeries in Alaska
on official business as representative
of the grand aerie.
It is supposed that Ned Elfols who
left Whitehorse on May 16, in boat No.
113, in company with Emil Anderson
and David Bergman, murdered his two
partners when near Selkirk. He reach
ed Dawson alone.
A gas explosion in the McDonald
coal mine at Bering lake instantly kill
ed George Gurrell and Steve Steff, and
seriously injured Foreman James
Gurrell, who was badly burned about
the hands, faoe and head.
Congressman Humphrey, of Wash
ington has made a discovery. He now
states that Congress is perfectly will
ing to give Alaska any legislation that
it really wants and needs, excepting,
possibly, such legislation as Congress
may think Alaska should not have,
among whioh he mentions home rule.
He also states that the members of
Congress are generally very ignorant
ot conditions in Alaska.
Members of the A. 0. U. W. in Fair
banks, and some others, have asked
Judge Keid to run for Congress? and
the ink on his carpet bag appointment
hardly dry. Of course Judge Reid
will not be a candidate.? Ex.
George Shea, of Nome, and L. P*
Shackleford, of Juneau, were given
seat1? in the republican national con
vention aB delegates from Ala?ka.
The seating of these men means the
recognition of the so-called Hoggutt
faotion as the regular organization
and convention.
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Sur veyors of the Canadian govern- j
ment have left Vancouver, B. C., to be
gin the survey of the boundary line be- ,
tween Alabka and the Yukon. Follow
ing the lead of the American surveyors j
now in the field they will run the line ;
from the nnmmit of White P?ss to the
141st meridian.
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Iq a Seattle court, Matthew Boline |
was granted a divorce from Amaoada j
Boline because she sold all the house- 1
hold furniture and skipped to Juneau j
with the money. The husband further (
Blleged that Amanada was a member ;
of the Freo Lovers Churoh, and had !
told him that one man was just as good i
as another.
When the Umatilla was ready to sail
from Seattle for Nome a passenger im
plored the captaiu to wait a
minute for his wife. The captain
ngreed, aud tho ship with its pas
sengers waited exactly 31 minute6 :
when the missing woman was 9een
coming leisurely down the dock.
Only two vessels are outfitting at
Victoria for pelagio sealing, In oontrast
to the large fleet whioh formerly en
gaged in that industry. The entire
Canadian fleet for the year wtll con
sist of but oight vessels. At the same!
time thirty-eight schooners are going '
out under the Japanese flag, thirty-five j
of which will go to Bering sea. At one'
time there was a fleet of sixty vessels j
annually outfitting at Viotoria.
So far as reports conoerning the
Innoko are concerned the men who
are coming out of the coontry bring
suoh contradictory reports that litlle
reliability can be placed in them.
Some of the men declare the country
is good, but too hard to work. While
others, as is the usual custom, con
demn it. The only thing that "can be (
said which Indicates that the country
is good, is that very few men are com
ing out, while there are several hun
dred going in. It is safe to say that
between 300 and 500 people have al
ready gone into the diggings this
spring. There w ere perhaps that many
in there already so that the few strag
glers coming out cannot seriously In
jure the aountry, no matter what they
say. The moat reliable news is to the
effect that the creeks are spotted, some
of the men striking big pay, while oth
ers next to them get nothing. The
diggings are some distance from the
river so that It will b# some tima be
fore an aooarate resume of the dis
trict can be given.
The Whitehorflfl Star aayn: The
most Miotio. childlike, ?illy, pathoti
cally senile, damfool circulars ever
j perpetrated, perpetuated, printed and
: sent oat to afflict newspaper men
j are now being "uttered" from the post
office department regarding the mail
ing of newspapers for foreign coun
j tries, particularly the United States
by publishers. For sheer stupidity
these -'dnpartmental circulars" have
never been excelled outside of a bug
bouse.
j "I bHve been selling tiokets for a
long time," paid E. B. Clark, of the
I Alaska Steamship Company, "but I
j never saw a better class of working
| men going North. As a rule most of
the laborers or men who are going
North to mine take a steerage tickot.
This spring hundreds of men who were
going to the copper regions of South
eastern Alaska or the placer fields of
the Tanana or Klondike have gone up
first olass, and I had a good opportun
ity of knowing that most of them had
considerable money. They were as a
whole the most independent lot of men
who have gone North in several sea
sons."
Tho Katalla Herald savs: J, W. Mo
Cord, well known as "LUjhtfoot Mao,"
chief of Copper river scouts and the
hero of the battle of Bru tier's orossing,
came near ending hi? long line of ad
ventures last week, wheu in company
with J. F. Forester he attempted to
cross the Copper river flats enroute to
Cordova and was caught in the break
up. Forester and McCord had show
shoed about tweaty miles when sud
denly they found themselves floating
towards the ocean, with an eight-mile
current, on a large cake of ice. The
boys were sighted by a transit man at
Flag point, and were picked up by a
brave boat crew from JSngineer
Preble's camp.
The present year promises to be a
prosperous one for Alaska as a whole.
In times of general depression the new
country attracts increased attention,
for it is not so severely affected by
the financial and Industrial distur
bances of the older sections. In indi
vidual instances enterprise may re
ceive a temporary eel- back, but not
generally, and this is particularly true
of Alaska.
The oatlook for an aetive season in
the placer mining regions is excellent
Operations will be on a larger scale
than over before, and this spring and
next fall Alaska will pour millions of
virgin gold Into the ohannels of trade
and commerce throughout the United
States. What a rloh blessing Alaska
is to ourUoole Samuel's folks and how
little they appreciate the fact.
Quartz mining on the coast section
will be vigorously pushed from the
southern boundary to the Aleutian
Islands. And much more prospecting
will be done thao in former years,
when labor was in suoh demand and
wages were considered high. Many
men are going into the mountains
and valleys to discover fortunes for
themselves. Some will succeed; new
discoveries will be made, and thus will
other regions now nnknown add theic
quota to the mineral production and
greatness of Alaska.? Katalla Herald.