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The Douglas Island News. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 11)08. NO 42 New Goods Are Arriving We wish to announce that new goods are arriving on every boat and we have just received a very choice assortment of Ladies' and Childrens furs, consisting of the most popular lines and styles Choice Japanese Mink, Choice Isa bella Fox Cravat, Genuine Black Lynx, Stone Martin, Opossum, Russian Mink, Choice Sable Ra cony Fancy Black Wolfer, Isabella Coats, Russian Pony Jackets B. fl. Behrends Company, Inc. LODGE DIRECTORY. K. of P. The North Star Lodge, No. 2, ' K. of P., meets every THURSDAY EVENING at o'clock, in Odd Kellowt HnlJ K. A.SCHMIDT. C. C. CHAS. A. HOPP, K. of K. A S. flatting: Knights are oordially invited to at* tend. Douglas Aerie, No. H7? O. E. MEETS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT At 8:30 O'clock at Cousins' Hall. All visiting Brothers Invited toatteod. M. J. O'CONNOR. W. P. JOHN STOPT, Secretary Aurora Encampment No. 1 meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Saturdays, at 8 p.m. Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially Invited. ALFRED JOHNSON. C. P. J. H. XicDONALD, Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i Meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Saturdays. Visitors are cordially invited. MRS. ANNA BOYLE. N. G. MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'y. PROFESSIONAL. Harry C DeVighne, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE OFFICE 3rd and D Street Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m. 'Phone 401 NOTICE! From and after Aug. 15th, and untiJ < further notice, the Ferry Time Sched ule will be as follows: JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION CO. *EKKY TIME CARD LEAVE JUNEAU For Douglas and Tread well: 9:00 a. m. 9:30 a. no. 11:00 a. m. 1:00 p. m. 8:00 p. m. 4:30 p. m. 1 :00 p. m. 9:00 p. no. LEAVC DOUGLAS For Treadwell: 8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m 11:15 a- m. 1:15 p.m. 3:15 p. ra 4:45 p. m. 7:15 p. m. 9:15 p.m. for Juneau: 8:80 a. m. 10:05 a. m. 12:05 a. m. 1:45 p. m. 3:30 p. m. 5:S5 p. m. 7:30 p. m. 9:90 p.m. leave treadwell For Douglas and Juneau: 8:25 a. m. 10:00 a. m. 12:00 a. m. 1:40 p. m. 3:25 p. m. 5:80 p. m. 7:25 p. m. 9:25 p. tn. Sundays 8:00 a. m. trips omitted ON SATURDAYS Boat leaves Juneau for Douglas uud Tread well at 12 midnight. The Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North. Condensed. j Information for Everybody. t ? Dr. F. R. Cheney, of Valdez, is dead as a result of a fall in the bills. j The Conrad concentrator, which will ( haudle lOOtous of ore a day, is ready to ' start up. The Alaek Fishing Company, made up of Juneau men, will build a cannery at Yakutat. . | Juneau is proud of its flrst concrete , building, erected there by the Carstens I Meat Company. | The mnyor of Skagway issued a ; proclamation declaring September 7th 1 a "legal holiday.'' According to the Interloper, goose berries raised in Skagway are as large | as English walnuts. Talk about naming things; King' Solomou girls are called "secretaries" over at Cordova. Wages are reported to be $10 a day on Valdez creek, but It is also reported that supplies are short. Whitehorse has had h visit from a ohicken-fed preacher/for the Star says that he "filled the pulpit." Haines people will celebrate the com pletion of the government road by a big feed and great speeches. The bark Guy C. Goss reached Seat tle from Nushagaft on the 5th with a fish cargo valued at ?250,000. The fact that it pays to cultivate na tive Yukon berries has been demon strated in Dawson this year. A hot water heating plant has been installed in the postoffice at Dawson, which was formerly heated by hot air. L. A. Harrison, of Skagway, will be gin the erection next spring of a two story fire-proof building of reinforced cement. I The remains of Mrs. Reinoke, the German woman who disappeared from Dawson, were found floating Id the ! Yukon river. That horrible yarn about the manner in whioh the natives along the Siberian coast dispose of their aged and infirm has betm revived. Skagway has had another election? this time for the selection of a school clerk ? and E. L. Miller beat William Leslie, 295 to 116. The Northern Steamship Co. an nounces that it will operate two steam ers on the Seattle- Valdez run, giving a fortnightly service. A three-ton copper nugget is to be a part of the Alaska mineral exhibit at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition. Wonder if any o i those Seattle spirits will attempt to swipe it. * WE ARE * 1 DOUGLAS AfiENTS I <C ? 5 FOR fr ^ P. -I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, ^ ** Times and Oregonian _y , ? We also carry the ? Leading Periodicals & Magazines ?i ?: For NICE TABLETS and | FINE WRITING PAPER ? ? WE ARE ITI X ? ? ? > <*? Our line uf ^ Cigars and Tobaccos is the most complete in Alaska * Our Candies are Always Fresh! . i ? S We carry a full line of Frait! 4 (During the fruit season) j* All the LATEST S1.50 BOOKS! ^ Crepe, Tissue aud Shelf Paper i DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT i A6 ^ Dr. Oabel Whitehead, a Nome ban ker is dead, as a result of injuries sustained in a wreck on the Wild Goose railroad. | W. S. Lawrence, one of ths pioneer ! freighters of the Fortymile district, j died at the Good Samaritan hospital at Dawson, from typhoid. Master George Hlinn, of Kodlak, six years of age, made a 2200-mile trip to < the States all by his lonesome to attend ! school at MoMionvilJe, Ore. ( I The delinquent tax list of the town ; of Skagway, published in Vol. 1, No. 17, j of the Interloper, roveals the fact, that j 82 lota are owned by unknown. Judge Si Reld is reported to have said that he will instruct the grand jury to investigate the charges of fraad in the recent delegate eleotion. Kev. J. W. Chapman, for 21 years an i Episcopal missionary among the In diaua iu the Lower Yukon country, has oome out for a year's vacation. j Two rocks said to be located near Unirnak pass are causing grey hair iD the heads of the masters of sailing j ships that each year go to Bering sea. I The schoouor Harold Blekum arrived : at Seattle the first of the month with j 408,000 poonds of Alaska oodfish, takeu off the south coast of Unimak island . It is reported that the Japanese and and Portugese employed at the caD neries at Nushagak have taken to fight ing and a number of the Japs have been killed. The fact that a Koyukuk miner re cently came out with a poke containing $80,000 proves that even if the country is spotted some of the spots are worth looking into. The Valdez Prospeotor suggests that the date of the delegate election be changed and that the election be held on the same day as the general election in the States. The affinity business has spread clear over to Afognak island, and a 19-year- j old Russian girl is under arrest for in stigating the murder of her husbnnd, Peter Kavorzoff. Foley, Welch & Stewart, sub-contrac tors on the grade of the Grand Trunk Pacific, want 400 men, and will pay : $2.25 per day and will charge $5.25 a ' week for hoard. The Chinese population of Alaska? that part which is brought North in the spring and taken south in the fall by the canneries? has begun to head for i the oitiea of the states. While hunting a whale in a bidarki, two natives of Afognak were killed and their bidarki completely wreoked by being struck by the tail of the monster of the deep. R. E. Franklin, a Dawson electrician, survived after having come In contact with an electric wire carrying 33,000 volts. He must be some relation to old Benjamin., . Admiral Henry Glass, who died at Berkeley, Cal., on Sept. 2d, was in charge of a United States warship in Alaska waters in 1879 and bombarded the Indian village of Killisnoo with good results. j Special Wall Paper Rale I 33 l/3 Per Cent Discount 5 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. rr \ / ' I Men's Goods m The only place on j earth I ? ( 'Buy OF L to. J. O'Connor. Already three men have lost, their ? Uvea working iD the underground sewer which in to drain the grounds of the A.-Y.-P. Exposition. Tho old Fairview hotel at Dawson was sold at auction for 83,000 to satisfy a claim aga^st Belinda Carboneau, the ; builder and owner, for 82,400. The Fairview was built in 1898. The new launch made to carry mail between Dawson aud Eagle has a speed of twelve miles an hour, and is pro pelled by two gasoline engines. It Is 1 one of the swiftest craft on the Yukon. I | Many men are rocking out grubstakes along the Stewart river. Some have made as high as $125 to $140 a weak. [ In the early days the Stewart was one of the greatest grubstake streams in the North. Mrs. PulJen of the Pullen house had to pay $13.25 into the exchequer of the town of Skagway for allowing her one black horse to meander about the streets, contrary to ordinance in such eases made and provided. The Klondike's output this year will be increased $2,000,000 over that of last year, making a total of $5,000,000 this i year. The increase is due to the Instal lation of new dredges, electric convey ors and hydraulic plants. Fire has swept some hundreds of square miles of timber land in the Nor ton sound conntry. This section has been the nestiug place for ptarmigan, aud hundreds of thousands of young ; birds perished in the flames. James Beggs was arrested at Seattle) last week charged with being au ac- i complice of Bobby Miller, who stole | something like $75,000 in gold from the J Vukon steamer Tanana in 1006, and filled the boxes up with shot. Bishop Innocent is authority for the j statoment that the Russian-Greek 1 church now has in Alaska 85 churches, ! a seminary and numerous mission , schools, thirty priests and more than j : 10,000 members among the natives. I A notice of application for 20,000 , inches of water from the Stewart river at Fraser falls for generating eleotricity ' for dredges and conveyurs has been filed at the gold office in Dawson by j the Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Co. j The business of reworking the old j ground that was gone over so hurriedly j in the boom days has begun in the Yu- j kon. One man is said to have taken j out $50,000 from a plot the size of a city lot, on the famous old 27 Eldorado. The current number of the Alaska Yukon magazine contains an article written by Mrs. William Campbell Lowden which takes the groand that George Carmack was not the discoverer of gold in the Klondike, but that the honor belongs to Robert Douglas Hen derson. The Valdez Prospector, in making after election comments, notes the fact that Editor O'Brien went to Ellamar and secured a proxy for the Ketchikan convention, but not a single vote was cast at that camp for the republican candidate. The question is "who helped O'Brien hold that caucus at EJlamar?" 1 Talking from the Nom# roadstead to the Seattle station by wireless is one ot the wonderful thtngB that are hap j pening in these dajs. The steaming distance is 2, GOO miles, but naturally the direct distance is less, probably | 2,300. In a letter to his partner, Jack Leedy, at Nome, Kex Beach states that on hie j recent hunting trip to Cordovn, he | killed a bear with a can of Carnation cream and a spoon. He explains, how ever, that the bear was about eight inches long. George Shea, of Nome, who made the trip to Xushagak in the interest^of the republican candidate, has returned and says thfit there would have been a big vote there on August 11th, but there 1 had beeu no call for an election, so I there was none. H. D. Reynolds, promoter of the Reynolds Alaska Development ?nd , other companies, is uot free from the , legal toils iii which hia operations in volved him, and he le to be brought to | trial oo one of the indictments returned | ajjajnst him in Boston. A Seattle dispatch says: "Judge Gnnni9on of tbe federal court in Alat* j ka, in an interview today stated that he believed a oensus of Alaska should be taken to settle several mooted ques tion*." If the judge will have a little patience the povernrnent will probably come through with tbe usual big count lu 1910. The 0rst automobile to reaoh Fiir* banks caused quite a commotion among the sourdoughs, and it is said that the malamute dogs scent the gasoline long before the machine comes in sight, and when you see them hiking down the street with their tails between their legs and howling at every jump a devil wagon is due in a few minutes. The Northwestern Development Co. ha^ been reorganized and a half million dollar bond issue placed in Europe to extendi the line of the Seward peninsula railway and to develop the properties of the company near Nome. The Sew ard peninsula railroad is a narrow f uage road which Is 75 miles in length, connecting Nome with the Kougarok. Talking of the protection of the seal, an esrebange says if congress will abso lutely prohibit the killing of seal on 8hon.t in their breeding groands, then this country can come with clean hands and i*sk other nations to unite with it in making regulations covering pelagio sealing, which will help to preserve the dimishing seal herd. So long as the only purpose of the American laws is to preserve a well paying private mon opoly there will be little interest taken in the matter. That mining Is everywhere dangerous is again brought to mind by the killing of fcur men near Nome within 24 hours. Three men were killed on the property of the Miocene Ditch Co. Qne of the mea fell into the sump hole in front of the hydraulic elevator and bis body was partially sucked into the ele vator, the great pressure literally tear ing the body apart. Two of tba men were killed by the banks on the same claim caving in. The fourth man was killed at Solomon in tha same manner.