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VOL. 10. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWT3LL, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, ,TULY 29, 1008. NO. 35 ANNUAL_CLEARANCESALE j The success of our annual clear- E ance sate is due to the great bargain giv- ; ing time. We do just as we advertise New and up to date goods will be : priced away down, Following is a few = of the prices. I Ladies dress hats for $8.50 $6.00 Ladi69 very stylish hata for 3.75 8*20.00 Panama paita for 1 2.00 ?35.00 Lad io3 suits, priced at 20.00 8350 to $10.00 skirts for 3.00 $5.75 White Lawn Waists for 30O Take a look through and you will be convinced that this is a great bargain giving sale. LODGE DIRECTORY. K. of P. Th? North Star Lodjce, No. 2. ' K. of P., aieots every THURSDAY EVENING at 8 o'clock, in Odd >'eilow? Hall CHAS. P. STOWE. C. C. U S. FERRIS. K. of R. Jc S. Visiting Knights are eordinlly invited to at lana. Douglas Aerie, No. 117* F? E. MEETS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT At 8:30 O'clock atCoggin*' Hall. All Tfsltlnft Brothers invited to attend. M. J. O'CONNOR, W. P. j IOHN STOFT, Secretary. Aurora Encampment No. i sects at Odd Fellows' hall first and thin! Saturdays. at 8 p. ai. Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially Invited. ALFRED JOHNSON. C. P. ' J. h. Mcdonald, Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i ? ?eta at Odd Follow*' hall second and fonrth Saturdays. ? ieltore are cordially Invited. MRS. MATILDA MILLER, N. O. MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN'. See'y. PROFESSIONAL. Harry C DeVighne, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE OFFICE 3rd and D Street Office Hours I to 5 and 7 to 0 p. m. 'Phone 401 NOTICE! From and after June 19th, and antil further notice, the Ferry Time Sched ule will be as follows: JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION C&, FBRKY TIMJ5 CARD LEAVE JUNEAU For Dou*la?and Trend well! 8:00 a. is. 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a. m. 1:00 p. m. 8:00 p. m. 4:80 p.m. T:00 p. m. 10:80 p. m. LEAVE DOUOUAS For Traadwem 8:15 a.m. 9:45 a. tn ll:l5 a. no 1:13 p. to. 1:15 p. m. 4:45 p.m. 1:15 p. m. 'or Jnnean: &K) ft* is. 10:05 a. m. lS:09<a.xn. 1:45 p. m. 8:80 p.ro, 5:S5 p.m. 7:80 p. zd. 11:00 p. m. leave treadwell for Doorla* JunMni 8:23 a.m. 10:00 a* a*. 12:00 a. m. 1:40 3:80 p. m. 7:25 p. m. 10:50 p.xru Sundays 8:00 a. m. trip* omitted ON SATURDAYS Boat leave* Juneau for Douglas as<i Tread well at IS m!d nffffct. The Northland j The latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North. Condensed. Information for Everybody. i Valdez has an "Alley" where teuder things nre supposed to be hid. Tom Gane, discoverer of Gane creek in the Inuoka, died during the winter ?t Anvik. Freight haudiing Rt Dawson will be, simplified by the installation of a 16- : ton derrick. Four more rate found at Seattle had the plagued plague germs concealed 1 about them. Watermelons and cauteloupes raised at Mauley Hot Springs were shipped to Fairbanks by the first of July. Fire broke out in the cable office at Valdez on the 9th aud resulted in a serious crippling of the service. In the Yakoo oountry there is a Dr. Pare, but it does not seem that he should hail from Peel river instead of Whitehorse. The Captain of the Steamship Ohio J evidently has too largo a bump of cau tion to navigate a boat wbere there are any icebergs. Candidate Corson has bought the Fairbanks News at a figure supposed to be aboat ?20,000, and is booming himself in the Tanana. A. E. Light, secretary to Thomas Cale, and a political trickster of no ! meau ability, has gone to Fairbanks to 1 work. for Wickersham. News from the Scsitna indicates that the expectations of Its gold pro duction will be fully realized, but at the present time grab is very scarce. Two prominent lawyers from Fair- i banks came out to Skagway to argue a motion for a new trial in the famous Dome Creek case, before Judge Gun nison. Peace has been established between Seward aud Valdez, and we suppose it is the same kind of peace that bath her victories no less renowned than railroad war. The saloon of Lucas 6c Brie and the meat market of the Frye-Bruhn Co., at Haines, were entered by burglars last week, bat the amount of their pecul a tioas was not Urge. In calling attention to the faot that for the third time in as many years a fisherman has drowned while leaving Wrangell in a condition much the worse for liquor, the Sentinel says: "A small percentage of the men who leave town drunk and in small boats are drowned, and in view of all facts, those who do And a watery grave are entitled to no sympathy." Certainly not, Sentinel, those who are entitled to ?ympathy are those who do not leave the town. WB ARB < i DOUGLAS AGENTS j S POR J \ * i I P.-I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, j Times and Ore^onlan i We kIbo carry the j ; Leading Periodicals & Magazines ! j ? _ j j For NICE TABLETS and FINE WRITING PAPER WE ARE IT! Oar line of Cigars and Tobaccos j In tho uiort complete In Alaska ; j """ j j Oar Candies are Always Fresh! j i I > We carry a fall line of Fruifl j [ (Durlnffthe fruit lemon) ( ? j | All the LATEST ? 1.50 BOOKS! j [ Crepe, Tissue and 8helf Paper i m it . a w ' The dry weather still continues at Whitehorse. The star says that there has not been sufficient rain to lay the ?luat at any one time this year or since laet September. Patsy Cl:?rk, the millionaire mining man of Spokane, Wash., visited White horse recently to ins poet the War Eagle and Pueblo mining properties, with a view to their purchase. President Roosevelt ha* decided to appoint .lames Fursier as a special agent to collect the Alaska exhibit for the A. Y.-P. exposition. Farmer should be put iu charge of the agricultural exhibit. The Str. Jefferson arrived in Seattle on the 21st with $1,450,000, the banner shipment of Alaska gold so far this season. The gold was from Fairbanks and was consigned to five of Seattle's banking institutions. The special license tax collected In Alaska, outside of the incorporated towns, for tho fiscal year ended Juue 30, 1908, reached the sum of $201,202. This is good reason to believe that the population of the territory has increas ed In a like ratio. American surveyors are on the ground ready to proceed with the sur vey of the International boundary line in the Yukon, but they are delayed by the non-arrival of the Canadians, who are hung up at Vancouver waiting for money to proceed. President J. C. ^ord of thn Paoiflo Coast Steamship Company says that rather thau raise the wharfage chargo It will be better for the Seattle wharf owners to obtain a portiou of their rev enue by charging dockage against ships, as is doue at other points. Two entorprising citizens of Seward who had been reading in their bibles tbo etory of Elijah, wore arrested for stealing a &lab of bacon. They told the court that the bacon which was found in their possession had been carried to their door by ths ravens. They were each given three months. The headstone over the grave of "Soapy Smith," at Skagway, ha9 been stolen, and there Is considerable spec ulation over tho identity of the thief. Perhaps it was taken by the same spirit that carried away the totem pole from Southeastern Alaska a few years ago. A forest fire near Sunrise ran up to within a half mile of the town and threatened to destroy the plaoe. The flames leaped to the tops of the highest trees and the people were prepared to flee for their lives when the wind changed and the danger was for the time averted. A new steamship company has been formed for the purpose of entering the Alaska trade. A number of Aberdeen capitalists who own stoamers now em ployed in the lumber business from Aberdeen to San Pedro and San Fran cisco have turned their attention to Alaska and have secured oontraote for the carriage of freight which Insures them a steady business from Seattle to Southwestern Alaska points. Special Wall Paper Sale 33 Vs Per Cent Discount For 30 days on our entire stock of Wall Paper and Mouldings. Our stock is the largest and most complete in Southeastern Alaska, and this is an opportunity you cannot afford to miss. C. W. YOUNG CO. = The only place on earth to Buy Men's Goods w OF Awakening In a pea of flames, and ? with a pungent smoke filling his nos trils and blinding him, George Powers, j of Minernl creek, in the Circle district, I barely saved hie life after a desperate struggle. The man was sleeping in the cabin with little olothing on him, i and when be made a dash for liberty the flames wrapped around him, burn- ; j ing him frightfully. The body of the ^inlander who jump ed iuto the river from one of Nel- i son's oamps in Keybtone canyon to ; escape from a powder blast was washed 1 ! on the gravel bank of Lowe river about | [ four miles below. The man's name j has not drifted to Voldez, but the j corpse was reverently deposited coffin- j I less in a bole and a few rocks piled 1 1 over it, says the Prospector. I \ Cash is a Valdez baiber of ebony hue who hao beeu in bard luck ever since j ibe failure of the Reynolds bank. Of late Cash baa not been in tbe regular and legitimate channels of circulation,! { uud hence has been under surveillance by tbe police, ile was fouudlast night 1 iu the home of a dusky companion of ' tUe same race, aud the pair of tbem ! were turned in. Cash will not circu late any more unt.il he baa served out hid flue which will require about five months. ? Seward Gateway. A telegram received by the News ! from Fairbanks says: On July 21st: the biggest rally ever held at Fair banks was addressed by John Ronau, democratic candidate for delegate to congress. An effort made by the Wiokeraham crowd to stampede tbe meeting proved a flat failure. The j reception given Ronan is unprecedeut- ; od iu the history of the Tauana. Ron ! ans supporters are jubilaut, as they be lieve he will carry the Tauana by a largo majority. At the meetiug here I Ronan introduced a new issue, namely, j \ transportation. He said that one of his first acts, iu case of his election, < would be to secure the establishment 1 , of a maximum fregbt rate which would i : practically out Alaska rates iu half, as 1 ! transportation companies exact tho 1 i full burdeu of all the traffic will stand, i His statement was greeted by great ' applause. Ronan also stands pledged for a lien law for laborers and meohan ; ios. I The Seattle Post-Intelligencer calle attention to the fact that it was the 1 custom until a few years ago for the men and women who had spent a win- 1 ter or two in the North to briag out pictures taken under the most dia- t tressing oircumatanoes, apparently.! These piotures would show the per- i son looking for attention to hava been j traversing the great Northand when the temperatare was close to the 70 below zero mark. Most of these pio tures were, perhaps, taken in the woods not a hundred yards away from the comfortable dwelling in which the "hero" or "heroine" enjoyed every com fort. These pictures conjured up in the minds of the people in the States the idea that Alaska was a land of ice, snow and desolation. Within the last few years the farms and flower gardens of the North have disabused the minds of the people outside regarding I Alaska's climate. The opening of the Alaska ooal fields, and the placing of that coal oo tho market, will be matters of con siderable Importance to the whole Pa cific coast, and In a large way to the entire country. For one thing it will give the naval vessels ou the Pacific a eboap and abundant supply of fuel of the boat quality for naval uses, and thub will leave with no further foun > dations oue of fhe arguments which ha* been advanced against keeping a ?trong fleet of naval ve9?ela in tho waters of the Pacific. It will cost no more, possibly considerably less, to keep a battleship in commission off this Coabt than It does to keep a ves sel of the same type in commienion on the Atlantic, as soon as the Alaska coal is available for naval uses. ? P.-I. Return* begin to come In from the fiudingH of the grand jury In the matter of the alleged violation of the law re garding the closing of the fieh traps by cannery men und others. Some of the cannery men are already in the city in response to notifications sent out aud others are ou the way. The indict ments returned are aa follows R. A. Leonard, manager of the Columbia cannery at Halnos, six lndiotments; Walter Story, of the Alaska Packer's association, oannory at Pyramid har bor; Superintendent Ahues, of the Dun daa cannery of the Northwest Fiohing company; Robert Forbes, Swauson Bay cannery of the Amerioau Fishing com pany: Robert Bell, superintendent of a small cannery at Swaneon harbor; Superintendent Stewart and J. T. Meyers, of the Sitkoh bay cannery; James T. Barron, superintendent of the Funter bay cannery, owned by the Thlinket Fishing company, and Capt. Roblson, owner of certain flah traps. All of these will be required to give bonds pending their pleadings and subsequent trials. ? Skagway Alaskan. Dawson? Ernest Johnson, tbe young Tanann operator who reoently married Mina Mulroouy, youngest ei9ter to Countess Muirooney-Carboneau, In Fairbanks, lost 810,000 in cnrrenoy of large denominations while at Stewart City on his way to Seattle. He left here ten days ago for the outside, aooompanied by his bride. At Stewart City the boat was detained some time landing freight and Johnson went ashore to visit the town. He was par ticularly anxious to view the place, be* cause In his less fortunate days he had worked there through tbe Arctic winter. He was delighted in viewing the old oabina and their sarroundings, and while meandering through the village lost his wallet, oontaining the monty. Johnson did not miss the wallet until after be got on the boat Then he imagined everything possible as to the fate of the wallet. He thought of sneak thieves, of having dropped It overboard, of having left it in Dawson and a thousand other possible eola tions of the mystery. His worries were set at rest shortly afterwards by receiving a telegram that Mrs. David Sband, of Stewart had found the wal let with all the money. She forwarded It. to Whitehorse by the next steaaer