Douglas Island news. [volume], October 21, 1908, Image 1

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The Douglas
^ews.
VOL. 10.
DOUGLAS CITY AND TREAD WELL, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, OCTOHER *21, 1908.
NO. 47
To the Ladies
of DOUGLAS and TREADWELL
We wish to announce that the celebrated '"Wooltex"
Coats, Skirts and Suits have arrived. They consist of
the very latest Directoire Style with the American
modification.
Coats from $15.00 to $65.00
Suits from $20.00 to $45.00
Skirts from $5.00 to $20.00 %
These garments are made in the very best materials
suited for this climate. The values are second to
none in consideration of quality and workmanship.
LATEST CREATIONS IN FALL MILLINERY
B. fl. Behrends Co., Inc.
JUNEAU. ALASKA
WE ARE
DOUGLAS AGENTS
FOR
Examiner, Chronicle, Star,
Times and Oregonian
We also carry the
Leading Periodicals & Magazines
For NICE TABLETS and
FINE WRITING PAPER
WE ARE IT!
Our line uf
Cigars and Tobaccos j
Is the most complete in Alaska ^
? ? ? ? <
Our Candies are Always Fresli! 1
We carry a full line of Fruit! j
(Durinjrthe fruit season) ,
All the LATEST $1.50 BOOKS!
Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper
Special Wall Paper Sale
33 l/s 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
olace
I on
j earth
I ?
I Buy
Men's Goods
Wt
Groceries.....
OF
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lod?;e. No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hall
R.A.SCHMIDT, C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP. K. of K. A S.
VUltluff Knights are cordially invited to at
tend.
Douglas Aerie, No. H7? E.
MEETS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
At 8:30 O'clock
at Cousins' Hull.
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
M. J. O'CONNOR. W. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall tirst and third
Saturdays, at S p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
Invited.
PETER JOHNSON. C. P.
J. H. McDONALD, Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
aaeetsatOdd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. ANNA BOYLE, X. G.
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHL1N. Sec'y.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
, L meets Krst and third Tues
days of each month.
JAMES STOOD Y, W. M.
A. E. ANDREW. Secretary.
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C. DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
3rd and D Street
Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to q p. m.
'Phone 401
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION CO.
FERRY TIME CARD
LEAVE JUNEAU
For Douglas and Treadwell:
8:00 a. m.
9:30 a. no.
11:00 a. m.
1:00 p. no.
3:00 p. m.
4:30 p. m.
7 :00 p. m.
9:00 p. m.
LEAVE DOUGLAS
For Treadwell: For Juneau:
8:15 a. m.
9:45 a. m
11:15 a- no
1:15 p. in.
3:15 p. m.
4:45 p. m.
7:15 p. m.
9:15 p.m.
o.ou a. in .
10:05 a. m.
12:05 a. in.
1:45 p. m.
3:30 p. m.
5:3.", p. m.
7:30 p. m.
9:30 p. m.
LEAVE TRE*dwul
For Douglas and Juneau .
8:25 a. m.
10:00 a. m.
12:00 a. m.
1:40 p. m.
5:30 p. m.
7:25 p. m.
9:26 p. m.
Sundays 8:00 a. m. ITIJiS Uuuvioi
ON SATURDAYS
Boat loaves Juneau for Douglas and Tread
well at 12 midnight.
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.!
The water wagon at Fairbanks is a
sled aud is easy to get ou to.
A new Eagle aerie will start at Cor
dova with over 100 members.
A saloon census of the town of Val
dez shows a population of 1,104.
All hopes of floating the Saratoga,
; wrecked in Prince William Souud, have ;
I been abaudoned.
A recent copy of the Skagway Alas
| kail says that strawberries are still
ripening there.
The general election of the Yukon for
the choice of a representative to Ottawa
; will be held January 9th.
Valdez, St. Michael and other points
j report a number of earthquake shocks
on the night of October 1st.
One bunch of Alaska copper mines
j sold for $300,000 more than the pur
chase price of the entire country.
One of the jurors drawn for the Val
: dez court has lived in Alaska forty
! years, aud he comes from Cordova, too.
Quartz samples from the Atlin dis v
1 trict will be assayed free of cost at the
government office at Whitehorse,
Caribou and moose retail at Dawson
at the rate of three pounds for 81, and
mountaiu sheep at 50c a pound.
Recent arrivals at Seattlo from the
Innoka declare that the output for the
season will not be less than $200,000.
A traveliug man worked a Ketchikan
bartender on the old "chicken feed"
gag last week. How i9 that for a slow
town?
The Seward Weekly Gateway is the
only Alaska paper of general circula
tion that does not advertise booze
shops.
Robert W. Tompkins, Christian Sci
ence healer and fouuder of that church
in Fairbanks, died therfe last month of
paralysis. ?
A new street in the town of Prince
Rupert is called Immanuel, and wo sup
dose that no Japs or Chinamen will be 1
allowed to set foot on.
Valdez has decided to exhibit pictures
of all the babies in town at the A.-Y.-P.
exposition, just to show that they can
be raised in that part of the North.
The Valdez Prospector will get out a
speeial edition, illustrated with half
tone cuts, and telling the wonders of
the Prince William Sound country.
Judge John Lyons, removed from the
office of commissioner at Valdez to
make room for a carpet-bagger, will
continue in the practice of law at Val
dez.
The Seward public school opened this
fall with two teachers and twenty pu
pils. The teachers are anticipating a
pleasant year's workdays the Gateway.
Charles Clay pool, a Fairbanks lawyer,
has been delegated by the republican
national committee to take the stump
on the Pacific coast in the interest of
Taft.
The reveuue cutters Thetis and Perry
will remain in Alaskan waters all win- ,
ter. The Thetis will wiuter in Bering
sea >and the Perry in Southeastern
Alaska.
I
The Dawson News tells of a man who
has just returned to that place from
the outside, whore he took post gradu
ate instructions in the art of horse
shoeing.
Old timers at Nome are predicting a
severe winter, one that will compare
with the winter of 1876, when the Yu
kon refused to open aud changed its
course twice.
The first child bom at Prince Rupert
was a boy. He was bom on Friday aud
io the son of Auton liugge. Ho should
take courage? most children get that j
way sooner or later.
Formal charges of cowardize have
beeu tiled against Captains Farrer and 1
Hamilton, commanding the tugs in
charge of the Star of Bengal previous
to her being wrecked.
A big bull moose got tangled up with
a line of telegraph wire near Dawson
and after vaiuly trying to get out of
the mix-up he walked away with a mile
(of wire trailing after him.
Judge Thompson, of Katalla, has be
gun the manufacture of peat briquettes.
He mixes coal dust with uative peat
aud the result, says the Herald, is as
fine fuel as ever begot heat.
Eight miners traveling afoot from i
Council to Nome were held up by a lone
highwayman, at the point of a guu, and
relieved of all their valuables, amount- 1
'
iug to something over $1,000.
Ned Elfors, who was hanged at Daw
son on October G, confessed on the scaf
fold at the last minute that tie killed
his partner, David Bergman, in the
woods near Selkirk, on July 8.
Long Poker Lawrence, a gambler who
was well known in the early days of
Dawson, Fairbanks and Nome, died re
cently at Reno, Nev., absolutely penni
less and was buried by his friends.
Dr. H. E. Pratt, a well known physi
cian about forty-five years of age, who
has resided on the coast of Alaska for
several years, committed suicide at Ili
amna recently by taking a huge dose of"
morphine.
Six steerage passengers who came
down from Nome on the steamer Sena
tor will bring an action for damages
against the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.
They allege that they were stored with
the horses.
S. I. Gedney, manager of the Council
City & Solomon River railroad, says
that his road will be operated full blast
next summer and that it is his inten
tion to make through rates to Council
from Nome.
D. A. MacKenzie, who is promoting
coal enterprises in the North and is of
the opinion that the government has
not given the coal meu a fair chance,
will go to Washington this winter in
their behalf.
A saloon keeper over at Cordova
hired a female piano player, contrary
to the ordorof the court, and hi$ saloon
was closed for three days, after which
he was allowed to reopen upon paying
a tine of S10U and costs.
Word has been received at Fair
banks that Elbert Hubbard, of East
Aurora, publisher of the Philistine, the
''Little Journeys" iuto the lives of great
folks, the -Fra and other noted publica
tions, may visit Fairbanks next sum
mer.
Hans Stark, an old timer who mined
at Circle City as early as 181)5, has been
operating on Tenderfoot creek, about
75 miles trom Fairbanks. He blew into
FairbBuks recently with $100,000 in
gold dust as a reward for a season's
work. ?
The delineation of the international
boundary between Alaska and the Can
adian Yukon south of Mount St. Elias,
and in the vicinity of the Alsek river,
extending over a distance of 70 miles,
has been completed. It lias occupied
two jTears.
Charles Fowler bought something
like S100 worth of whiskey of a Dawson
firm and then attempted to leave the
territory without paying for it. He
was stopped at VVhitehorse by a capias
warrant and he having no funds it will
hold him thore.
The McNeil Island penitentiary has
an Alaska prisoner named Tony Gal
lagher whose time has expired, but who
refused to sign the formal application
for release required by the prison of
ficials, and the chances are good that
he will either change his mind or stay
in jail for an indefinite period.
In the coarse of the railroad opera
tions near Cordova the remains of a de
ceased Chinaman were dug up. He was
at one time an employe in the Eyak
cannery and when buried had a small
piece of Chinese monoy in the pocket
of his shirt. This cannot now be found
and it is supposed that the "Guggs"
have it. *
All persons leaving Dawson for the
United States, who are not citizens of
Canada, Mexico or the United States,
are required to pay a head tax of $4
each. This tax is collected by the
White Pass at the time of sale of the I
ticket, so as to avoid delays. The cer
tificate-issued for the ?4 is collected on
the train by the immigration officer.
There is considerable difference be
tween the treatment given the Japanese
seal poachers by the authorities of the
United StateB and that which they re
ceive when they fall into the hands of
the Russians. The Americau plan is to
take them to Valdez, house and feed
them well for a few months and then
send them back to their horrfes at gov
ernment expense. The gunboat York
town brings the news that Jap poachers
who fell into the hands of the Russians
wore put to death.
John E. Grey, Charles Dolan and
Zero Strong, Dawson old timers, have
undertaken 1 he construction of the big
gest water power system ever con
structed in the North, to constitute an
electrical supply. They will tap the
Klondike river near Rock creek.
A stowaway secreted himself on the
j Str. Northwestern just before she sailed
i for Nome, thinking he was bound for
Sau Francisco. Unless the captain
gives him a chance to work his way
back to the 3tates he will be obliged to
pass the chilly winter in the North.
A black fox with a skin estimated at
a valuation of $500, driven from the
hills by the extreme cold, was killed on
the streets of Nome on September 27.
The animal was chased by hundred* of
Nome citizens, and finally its rich pelt
fell to a tenderfoot prospector, who
; made a wild slam ut the fox with a club
and killed it.? P. I.
Bishop P. T. Kowe, ou his way home
from the Pau-Anglicau congress and
i conference of the Episcopal church at
London said at Seattle that he would
spend the coming winter at his homo at
Sitka. The Bishop is perhaps the
i greatest exemplar of practical, common
1 sense Christianity in the North. In
! speaking of his ideas of the kind of
work necessary in the out-lying camps
| of Alaska, he said: I dou't care if a
man is a Catholic, a Methodist, a Pres
byteriau or a Baptist. If I can do him
any good 1 want to do so, and I don't
cnre whether he is converted to my
faith or anybody else's. The idea of
making converts is repugnant to me.
By means of hospitals or reading rooms
or the supplying of some other need of
' these isolated communities I believe
we can aid more in the spread of Chris
tianity than with a church in every
town in Alaska."
The first, big sale in the lanoka was
consummated recently when G. M.
Landerkin sold his one-sixteenth inter
est in a claim on Little creek for ?10,
000. Landerkin is one of the oldest
residents of the district. He first cam?
to Southeastern Alaska as engineer of
the steamer "Leo," for some years util
ized by the government as a revenue
cutter and man of-war. She was a
wooden craft, barkentine rigged, und in
the early seventies awed the natives by
a liboral display of guns from her fore
deck aud the noise she made when they
were discharged at an imaginary foe.
She was stationed at Sitka, then (he
only white settlement in Alaska, and it
was at this time that ex-Qovernor
Brady was wavering between duty and
inclination. He had been laboring as a
missionary among the natives when the
government decided to sell the Leo, as
she had been condemned as useless for
longer service as a gunboat, and Gov
ernor Brady bid her in. In attempting
to navigate the tortuous waters of the
inland channel between Sitka and
Queen Charlotte sound, she was wreck
ed and it cost the Governor aDd the
Sitka Trading Co., of which he was the
principal owner, so much money to
raise her that it was decided to sell her.
She was afterwards one of the many
vessels that engaged in the far seal in
dustry in those days, and has sinco
been consigned to the boneyard.