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I * . 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 ?f quality and workmanship. I LATEST CREATIONS IN FALL MILLINERY' B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. JUNEAU.- ALASKA 'TTVTVTTTTTTTTTt r * 4 / W WE ARE J DOUGLAS AGENTS j FOR 1 P. -I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, \ V . 0 Times and Oregonian r? J ? ~ ] We also carry the Leading Periodicals & Magazines' I For NICE TABLETS and TING PAPE WE ARE IT! \ FINE WRITING PAPER < Our line uf Cigars and Tobaccos | Is tho most complete in Alaska \ ; Our Candies are Always Fresh! ; We* carry a full line of Fruit! j (During the fruit season) j All the LATEST $1.50 BOOKS! : Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper ; ?LIS NEWS Wi\ ! ? Special W all Paper Rale 33 l/3 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. JUNEAU ALASKA I I The \ only I. place { on earth I t0 I Buy Men's Goods m Groceries...., OF 9 A <fc A Atffi M 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 K. A. SCHMIDT. C. C. CHAS. A. HOPP. K. of K. & S. Visitiuyr Knights are cordially invited to at tend. Douglas Aerie, No. 117* F- 0. H. MEETS EVERY. SATURDAY NIGHT * At 8:30 O'clock^ at Cofr^ins' H&11. All visiting' Brothers invited to attend. M. J. CCONNQR, \V. P. JOHN STOFT. Secretary. Aurora Encampment No. i " \ meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Saturdays, at 8 p. in. Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially luvitedi f PETER JOHNSON. C. P. ^ J. H. McDONALD, 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. Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. iM. 1 Lodge meets first and third Tues ? days of each month. JAMES STOODY. W. M. A. E. ANDREW. Secretary. PROFESSIONAL. Harry C DeVighne, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE OFFICE 3rd and D Street Office Honrs i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. ro. 'Phone 401 JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION CO. FKRRY TIME CARD LEAVE JUNEAU For Douglas aud Tread well: 8:00 a. m. 9:30 a. ra. 11:00 a. to. 1:00 p. m. 3:00 p. m. 4:30 p. m. 7 :00 p. m. 9:00 p. m. LEAVE DOUGLAS For Treadwell: 8:15 a. m. 9:45 a. m 11:15 a. m. 1:15 p-m. 3:15 p. m. 4:45 p. m. 7:15 p. ro. 9:15 p.m. tor Juneau: 8:30 a. m. 10:05 a. in. 12:05 a. m. 1 :45 p. m. 3:30 p. m. 5:S5 p. m. 7:30 p. ui. 9:30 p. m? # / leave treadwell For Douglas and Juneau: / 8:25 a. m. 10:00 a. m. 12:00 a. m. 1:40 p. tn. 3:25 p. m. 5:30 p. m. 7:25 p. m. 9:25 p. m. Sundays 8:00 a. m. trips omitted ON SATURDAXS Bout leaves Juneau for Douglas aud Tread well at 12 midnight. The Northland i ? The Latest News, from Reliable ources, Concerning the Great North. Condensed. Information for Everybody. A Presbyterian church will be orected at. Kasaan. * (ieoige F. Kussell has beeu appointed | postmaster at Seattle. Active work is in progress at the Red I Diamond miue ou Douglas Island. Alaska has seven "Lost" creeks, a .Lost gulch, a Lost harbor and a Lost . river. K. L. Colby, the Juneau printer who shot Banker Summer-, has been bound | over to the grand jury. Nome sports vary the monotony of : the malamute handicap with h race be i tween a dog and a horse. Siuce the seizure of gold by Russiau officials, the American prospectors are ; deserting the Siberian diggings. Somehow the people of Skagway seem i to be proud of the old story of Soapy I Smith? which they tell so often. ! The whole city of Seattle is to be or ganized iuto a publicity bureau to ad vertise the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo sition. In the Ketchikan district, the Mamie j and Stevenstowu mines aud the Hadley j smelter have closed down for the j wiuter. The surgeon-general of the U. S. army j says that Alaska is a health resort. | Probably thinks that is all folks come j here for. ? Two of the petty otHcers of the rev enue cutter Thetis were taken to Seattle in irons. Poor fellows, they had heard of the "Spirit." The Miner says that what^will be the finest aud most commodious dock in Alaska is now in process of construc tion at Ketchikan. % > It is reported that there are several ' cases of smallpox among the natives at Haines, and Fort Seward has quaran tined against the town. The Guggenheims have opened up headquarters at Seattle and from that point of vautage will direct operations j in Alaska and the Yukon. The cantata "Esther" will be pre- ' sentedat Ketchikan during the holi days, under the direction of the Ladies Aid society of the M. E. church. Eagle glacier, on the mainland, east of Lynn canal, was so named by Meade, j 1S69, from its fancied resemblance to an eagle with outstretched wings. | It is reported that platinum has been I discovered in considerable quantities | in the Mt. Wrangeil neighborhood, | from which place two miners have sent ; out about 27 pounds^ of the mineral, I worth near $20 an' ounce. It is said that in the country where the White, Copper and Taciaua rivers all head there are only about dozen white men, but the country is "looking ! up." in the midst of a busy term of court ; at Valdez, Assistant District Attorney I Alartiu started for Seattle. There is a strong suspicion that he may not re turn. The Juneau Record says that the Perseverance Aliuiug Co. has put a gang of men at work on the Sheep creek | tfiunel and will continue the work all winter. Major Richardson, chairman of the ! Alaska road commission, has gone to Washington to report the season's work and make recommendations lor the future. i ?< The representatives of the municipal research in Washington are trying to i find out how Alaska towns are gov ! erned. We are ashamed to tell. ? Ju neau Kecoro . The Whiiehorse Star reports that the I weather has been very mild along the upper river since navigation closed. The coldest place reported was at Cof fee creek, where it was six below. The Nome Nugget has recently made a discovery that may be of value to all parts of Alaska. It says: "The occu pants of the federal court benches in the United States are gentlemen." s' 1 Steam pipe used for heating, says a correspondent of the Engineer, should not be painted, but can be given a thin coat of lampblack and liuseed oil, which will greatly improve its looks. Eighty thousand dollars a ton is said to be the value of a consignment of seven and a half tons of gold ore | brought down from the Queen Char lotte islands, says the Victoria Times, i The weight of 1 cu. in. of wrought iron is .2779 lb. The thickness of a plate of wrought iron expressed iji six teenths of an inch multiplied by 2.5 will give the weight of 1 sq. ft. in . pounds. In namiug places aud things in Alas ka the word "Dry" figures quite exten sively. With that prefix there are six : bays, a cove, five creeks, two islands, a pass, a passage, a river, two straits and a Dry Creek mountaiu. It is expected that Esperanza creek will be the scene of a stampede in ^the spring. Most of t?ie people of Candle already have locations there. Pay was discovered on the creek this summer by a couple of Laplanders. John Hegbloom was shot and iu stantly killed at Petersburg on Thurs day of last week by Charles Knipple. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of self-defense. Hegbloom carried two guns, but was too slow in getting hi^ artillery in action. Fifteen witnesses ^have been sub- j poenaed to appear in Juneau on Janu ary C to give testimony on the part of the government in the Hasey case. The last trial cost the government about $30,000, and the defendant was ac quitted. ** Fred Lawrence, who has been mining! | _ | in Alaska for nine years, went to Seat tle recently with considerable money, where he disappeared. Jlis father, Fred i S. Lawrence, president of the Rocky ; Mountain Mining & Development Co., of Montreal, has taken up the seaich. 0 Another strike has been made 011 the beach line near Nome, six miles east of j the city. It is probable that this news ; will induce many prospectors to try j | their luck there in the spring. As the news was not sent out until after navi gation closed, there are some who will doubt its authenticity. ; From a patriotic citizen the Skagway town council rented a shed in which j to house a hose cart. The lease was for one year, consideration $1, the cart to j be removed at the expiration of the ? lease. That was iu 1904. La^t week J Patriotic Citizen put in a bill for $800 for the rent of the cart house tor the 32 months that have passed since the lease expired. Peter Mcfnohan, the discoverer of the rich goi(J diggiugs on Valdez creek re cently an ived in Seattle with $100,000, j x the result of his fall clean-up. Mono- j han is one of the enthusiastic boosters of the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific exposition I and proposes to make an exhibit of his own, including hundreds of pictures, 0 map .of the Valdez creek country and j many skins and ludian curios. A feature of the Alaska exhibit at the 1009 exposition iu Seattle will be the ; map and outline of the government road work. The value of this work is shown in the big trade that the Ameri can towns aud trading camps are get ting along the international botyjdary. Thousands of dollars are spent by Can-, i adians on the Americau side because they can reach the American towns the easiest. Southeastern Alaska papers are i making sarcastic remarks about the following item which appeared iu one of the Puget Sound papers: "Charles, E. Peabody and J. H. Bunch, president and freight and passenger agent re spectively, of the Alaska S. S. Co., and ft. D. Pinneo, of the traffic department of the Pacific Coast S. S. Co., left today for San Francisco for a conference with George H. Iligbe, manager of the Pacific j Coast S. S. Co., relative to the handling of next year's Southeastern Alaska business." \ The Seattle Union Record claims that the advertisements sent out to eastern cities presenting the oppor tunities for employment in a highly colored light are working an injury to Seattle, and that they flood the city with paupers who arrive penniless and become a charge upon society, or worse. "The grandeur of the scenery i in and about Seattle is something to ; conjure with, but when that is used to bring the people here who have not the money to maintain themselves until an avenue of employment opens up it be comos criminal and does more harm ; than good. Anyone stranded in Seattle is down and out unless they make a bid for employment at a salary which will not keep clothes on their backs nor a roof over their heads?' A cement for closing lnaks in iron pipe consists of coarsely powdered iron borings, 5 lbs.: powdered sal ammoniac, '2 ozs.; sulphur 1 ox., and water suf ficient to moisten it. This composition hardens rapidly; but if rime can be al lowed it sets more firmly without the sulphur. 1: must be used as soon as mixed, says the Mechanical Engineer After a stern debate the directors of the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific exposition recently decided that they could take the risk of lengthening the time of the exposition oue day, closing October 10. In all the time since the exposition be gan brewing it seems never to have oc cuired to anybody connected therewith , that a good closing date would be Oc tober 18, the anniversary of American occupation of Alaska, making that a big Alaska jubilation. But then prob ably nobody in Seattle knows that Oc tober 18 is Alaska day. ? Juneau Dis patch. Prior to 18(57, when Alaska became American territory, there had been no gold mining in the territory of any im portance. Old Russian records show that small amounts of the precious metal had been observed at various points, though it was not believed to be of commercial importance. In the eai ly '60s gold was discovered in the gravels at the head of the Stikine, and during that period many prospectors went to the Cassiar diggings, on the Canadian side of the iuteruatioual boundary. In 18G0, .Mix Sylva and other disappointed Cassiar miners traveled northward from Fort Wrau gell and made placer discoveries afc Windham bay and on Powder creek at Sumdum bay. It is reported that 810,* 000 was extracted from these placers in 1870-71. This represented the first gold production from Alaska. Nellie Cashman Going Home Nellie Cashman was a passenger on the Santa Clara euroute home. And where do you suppose she lives? Five hundred miles beyond the Arctic circle. Lt is unnecessary for the Alaskau to tell its readers who Nelly Cashman is, for there are very few people who havo resided in Alaska any length of timo who do not know her. She came to Alaska iu 1874. She was with the first on0s who went into the Cassiar country and many a miner, will tell you that if it had not been for Nellie Cashmau they would have died in that country from scurvey abd other sicknesses. Nellie, on that expedition, was the nurse and scores of^nen who fell sick with the scurvey received medicine from her free of all cost if they were broke. ^ She was through the Dawson country in "the days of '97" and has seen about every camp in Alaska. Four years ago she struck for the wilds of the Koyu kuk and now calls that home. While in Dawson she was the partner of Tom McMullen in the restaurant business and they coined money. Tom was showing her the city today, and with her calling on the old pioneers who have known her for the last thirty years. ? Cordova Alaskau.*