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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
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The latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
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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.
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FINE WRITING PAPER
WE ARE IT!
Oar line of
Cigars and Tobaccos j
In tho uiort complete In Alaska ;
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j Oar Candies are Always Fresh! j
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> We carry a fall line of Fruifl j
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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. =
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only
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on
earth
to
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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.
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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.
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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