Douglas Island news. [volume], August 05, 1908, Image 4

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obnuge wit hous notice. This U tho f
only line of *to?m><r? enllinjj roirn
lar'j both North and
Sooth ;?o>;no
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has ever before carried such an assortment of
FLOOR COVER! N05
as we now have in stock* We have
New Rugs New Flattings New Linoleums
There Is a ftrong feeling just now, In favor of cov
ering floors with rugs instead of carpets, we have
anticipated a tig demand for them, by buying a big
stock.
They come in all the popular qualities Body Brus
sels, Tapestry Brusselis, Axminsters, Wilton Velvets,
etc. and sizes x9, 8-3x10-6, 9xJ0-6 and 9x12 stees to
fit any room.
For the 5>2d?oom we can offer you Japanese Straw
Mattings, American Fibre Matfjtags, Fibre Rugs and
Crcx Rugs.
For your Kitchen we can show you a stock of Lin
oleucss, 61eet wide and J 2 feet wide* in printed, in laid
and granite patterns, that is ^surpassed by any one.
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JOHN RON AN, MINER.
OHN RON AX, Democratic candidate for Delegate in Congress
from Alaska, is an Alaskau in every sense of tbo word, in
that ho lives in Alaska and has lived here for the last 10
years. As a candidate he should especially appeal to all
Alaskans not only for th?' reason that he is a bona fide res
ident of the territory, bat because he is of the type of hardy and deter
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mined men who have by their efforts made Alaska what she ia today.
JOHN RONAN was born in Leavenworth county, Kansas, Juno 28,
1871, where he grew to manhood, working on his father's form in summer
and attending the public school in winter. At 22 he loft heme and, after
working for two year9 in Iowa, he went to Montana where ho began bla
career as a miner and prospector, and in 1898, he came to Alaska, the
land of promise, whero he bae siuce lived, sharing the hardships and ex
periencing the upa and downs of & pioneer's life in a new oonntry. lie
climbed over tho Dyca trail, tried his luck in the Atlin country,
worked for tho White Pa3s Co., and finally, in tho summer of 1900. he
drifted down the Yukon in a small boat and located in the wonderful
Valley of theTanana, where the years of patient labor were rewarded by
a strike onCleary thai has given him a start in the world.
The candidaoy of John Ronan should especially appeal to those
who, like him, have toiled and dug In the heat and cold, and have en
dured privation and suffering as only those can and do who undertake
to conquer the wilderness. In the Tanana. where he is known by all, he
la universally respected and admired as a man among men, a man to be
trusted to the end and one that it will do to tie to.
To tlie Voters of Southeastern Alaska: John Ronan asks for
your ?upport In the coming election, and pledges you his word that if he
should be elected to represent you in the Congress of the Uulted States
he will do his duty in the same conscientious manner that he has lived
and worked as a oitizen of this glorious Northland.
Vote for John Ronan and you will never have cause to regret it.
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From Seattle and Puget Sound Points
Humboldt June 6-14-24, July 5, Aug. 20-30
Cottage City RXClJRS,0N July 15-29, August 9
City of Seattle mnoct y
June 9, 19, June 29th,
Tuly 11, 23, Aug. 4, $???" Aug. 15, 25
Cottage City via Sitka and Killisnoo.
Making Regular S. E* Alaska Ports of Call
Close connections at Seattle with this Company's steamers for
SAN FRANCISCO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND MEXIOo
Above sailing; dates subject to change without notice
The company reserves right to ohauge ?teamnrs, sailing: dates and hours
of Sailing: without previous notloe. For Information regarding passenger
and freight rat?p, apply to
R. R. HUBBARD, Agent.
C. D. DUNANN, General Passenger Ag;ect, San Francisco
MM Fill 1 UHMI CO.
LOUIS G. THOMAS, - - Mawagis.
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furniture
Manafactnres and
all kinds of.. JMIIIIIMI V Caskets
, OUT OF YELLOW CEDAR
Special Articles of Furniture Made and Guaranteed.
Treed by a Bear
To be treed by a big black bear; to
have the animal then follow him out
011 a big limb of the tree in which he
had taken refuge snapping and snarl
ing viciously in an endeavor to reach
its enemy, was the experience of C. L.
Johnson a few days ago in the Carbon
mountain country says the Katalla
Herald. Johnson has been in the em
ploy of Surveyor C. S. Jlubboll and
one day last week Mr. Hubbell, George
Nylon, John Strebolt and Johnson
were making their way to their camp
at the foot of a steep hill, on the sum
mit of which, close to the trail, stands
a big tree with big out stretching
branc hes. In climbing down the hill
it wus tno custom of the men to seize
hold of a projecting branch thus start
themselves gently down the steep in
cline. Tho other day Johnson and
Strebolt were making for the camp,
Strebolt in the lead and he had swung
himself down on the limb. Johnson
followed. The latter had just seized
the limb to follow his companion
when, on hearing a uoise close behind
him he looked back and a few feet
away, coming straight at him, mouth
open and eyes gleaming like balls of
lire, was a big black bear. Johnson,
who is something of an athlete, made
a spring and pulled himself up on a
friendly limb, just in time to escape a
vicious swipe from the bear's paws,
the blow falling fihort, striking the
heel of his boot. Then he began to
climb, the bear following. Johnson
Anally olimbed far out on a big limb;
the boar followed, but uot liking the
position, it desoended to the ground
j went to another tree about forty teet
distant and gazed at Johnson, Then
turning it again climbed the tree and
limb and attempted to dislodge him
from his lofty perch. The bear finally
abandoned the job and again returned
to the ground.
in the meautime Strebolt, who had
seen Johusou's predicament returned
with Hubbell and Njlen. They nad
axes but no nuus so they attempted to
frighten the bear. But ahe made a bee
line in their direction, apparently, but
stopped, returned to her lookout under
neath the neighboring tree, while the
. rescuing party also scampered to a safe
distance. Finally Johuson, watching
: his opportunity reached the ground,
and joined his companions in safety,
The bear evidently had cubs, probably
in the tree under which she watched,
1 except while making diversions up
Johnson's tree and intimidating him.
So fast did Johnson climb the tree,
j so tho story goes, that he overtook a '
squirrel. ,4Getout of the way," yelled
Johnson, "and let someone climb who
' knows how."
State Flower of Alaska
C. W. Thornton, corresponding sec
! rotary of Igloo No. 1, Pioneers of Alas
ka, writing to the Katalla Herald in
regard to tho selection of a state
flower, encloses the following reso
lutions adopted by the Nome Igloo:
Alaska is blessed with a variety of
. flowers, which grow in super-abundance
i on her hills, mountains, valleys and
I tundra lands. But, of the almost end
i less variety of flowers, no other one has
the double attraction of being beauti
ful and at the same time expressing, in
its name, tho wish and prayer of many
a Pioneer of Alaska, so far from loved
ones in other lands, as the "forget-me
not." Therefore, be it
Resolved by Igloo No. 1, Pioneers of
Alaska, that the "forget-me-not" be
adopted as the state flower of Alaeka.
And be it further
Resolved that the corresponding sec
retary be instructed to send a copy of
these resolutions to each school in
Alaska, each Igloo of Pioneers of Alas
ka, and the Yukon order of Pioneers,
requesting them to endorse our action,
thus making the lovely little "forget
me-not" the permanent state flower of
our adopted home ? Alaska.
The following from a Fairbanks
paper may perhaps be taken with a
pinoh of salt: The latest reports from
the Innoko, as received by letter aad
from arrivals are not as encouraging
as eome of the earlier advices, as It
appears from all of them that the so*
called pay streaks on the creeks are
not only narrow, bat extremely spot
ed and that there is very little gravel,
Its plaoe being taken largely by loose,
almost unwashed slate.
Owing to the enormous rise In the
prioe of platinum in the last year, and
to the fact that the basin of tha Tula
meen river, Alaska, once prodoced a
larger amonnt of platinum "than any
other part of North America, It is alto*
gether probable that attempts will
again bs made by Interested parties in
the near future to locate the source of
the metal in this district, or to work v.
some of the higher bench deposits of
gravel which are knowa to carry plati
num, but which formerly necessitated
too large an outlay of capital to work.
?Mining Science.