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The Douglas Island News.
VOL. 11.
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Ladies' Muslin
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Underwear Sale
For a few days we will place Qn Special Sale our
stock of Ladies' White Muslin Underwear. Our
stock is limited, but there will be real bargains in
Corset Covers
White Petticoats
White Muslin Pants
Short and Long Chemise .
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Ulbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
lodge directory.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hall
AUGUST ANDERSON. C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP, K. of R. A S.
Viditiag Knights are cordially invited to at
tend.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E.
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MEETS EVERY SATURDAY" NIGHT j
At 8:30 O'clock
ut Covins' Hi.ll.
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
MARTIN OLSON, W. P.
v JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
nvited.
PETER JOHNSON. C. P. ?
J. H. McDONALD, Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
neetsat Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. JENNIE JOHNSON, N. G.
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'y.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodsre meets first and third Tues*
days of each moniL
JOHN H. CHRISTOE, W. M.
J. ALFRED JOHNSON, Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. 0. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening: in Odd
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
PETER W. TAYLOR, N. G.
J. H. McDONALD, Rec. Sec.
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
3rd and D Street
Office Hoars i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phone 401
G. Cuthbert Maule, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Office, D Street Over Riecli's Bakery
hours:
9 a. m. to 6 p.m. 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCH
Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a
m. Services, Sundays at 8 p. m.
John H. Wabmakek, Pastor.
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The Northland!
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.!
Wickersbam is at Washington.
It is still cold enough at Whitehoree j
for "Ice Carnivals."
J udge Reid, of the Third division, has
been seriously ill with tousilitis.
Robert McChesney, formerly cf the;
i Fairbanks} News, will start a second j
; paper at Cordova.
The suggestion come* from the Tan
ana that. the great seal of Alaska should 1
1 bear the image of a malamute dog.
Joe Hines, a well-known barber in
i the early days of Dawson, died last
; mouth at Fairbanks, of Bright's dis
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i ease.
First Lieut. Jeunet will have charge
of the installation of the wireless tele
graph statious at Wrangell and Peters
burg.
The report comes from Whitehorse
that the ice on Lake Lebarge is seven
| feet thick. A late break-up is pre
I dieted.
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Two 3, 000-ton steamers recently pur
chased ou the Atlantic will be put on
the run from San Francisco to Southern
Alaska.
I It may or may not be significant that !
when the inaugural ceremonies were in
progress at Washington the weather j
was suggestive of Alaska.
Delegate Cale i9 now among the has
beens, and will never have to explain to
his constituents why he opposed the
appropriation to enforce the game laws
of Alaska.
/ The hotel at Krusgamepa Hot springs
near Nome was destroyed by fire and j
the guests were forced to sebk shelter
in the outbuildings, clad only in their
night clothes.
Sam Bonnifleld, president of the
First National bank of Fairbanks, was
arrested at Seattle last week as a plain
drunk. It was afterwards found that
was mentally unbalanced.
William Lane, chief clerk of Major
Cook, commandant at Fort Gibbon, has
turned up missing. It is said that he
appropriated about 89,000 of Uncle
Sam's money before he left.
Governor Hoggatt has suggested the
name of Nelson for the new town to be
established at the head of Cordova
bay. In this he will no doubt have the
undivided suport of Delegate Wicker
sham.
MacKenzie Bros., Ltd., have just
closed a contract with the Sulzer
mines, Prince of Wales island, for
freighting 6,000 tons of copper ore per
month to the Tyee smelter at Lady
smith, B. C.
THE NEW LAW
Portion of the Act Relating to Af
fairs in the Territories Passed
by United States Congress1
LICENSE REDUCED TO $1,000.
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Sec. 8. That section of 4.04, 465 and I
4G8 of an act. entitled "An act to define I
and punish crimes iu the District of j
of Alaska, and to provide a code of
criminal procedure for said district"!
approved March 8, 1899, be, and the
same are hereby, amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. mat oeiore any uceu?>e j
ict g- anted, hs provided in this ?ct in
relation to iutoxicating liquor, it shall
be shown to the t>atis>fuctiou of said
couii that a majority of the white male
und female citizens over the age of 21 j
years, within two miles of the place I
where intoxicating liquor is to be mau 1
ufaetured, barteied, sold and ex- 1
changed, or bartered, sold m.d ex- !
chauged, have, in good faith, coiu-ented j
to the manufacture, barter, sale and ex
change or the barter, sule and ex
change of the same; aud the burden
shall be upon thtf applicant or appli- ?
cants to show to the satisfaction of j
said court that a majority of the white
male and female citizens of the age of
21 years or more have-( consented there
to, and no license shall be granted in the
absence of such evideuce. Provided, i
that no license shall be granted ior
the manufacture, barter, sale or ex
change of intoxicating liquors except
within incorporated town*, and such
other towns, settlements or communi
ties in which a duly appoiuted United
States commissioner or deputy mar
shal shall reside, except that the re
spected district judges may in their
cretion grant licenses to the keepers of I
regularly established road houses on
main traveled post roads and post
trails in the district: and provided,
that when it is made to appear that a
majority of said white male and female
citizens over the age of 21 years, of any
one place, have consented to the manu
facture, barter, sale and exchange or
the barter, sale or exchange of intoxi i
eating liquor, no further proof of the
consent of the citizens of tho place
where such intoxicating liquor is to be
manufactured, bartered, sold and ex
changed or bartered, sold and ex
changed will be required for twelve
months thereafter.
"Sec. 465. That every persou apply
ing for a license to sell intoxicating
liquors in said district shall Hie with
the clerk of the court a petition for
such license, verified by the applicant's
oath, and such petition shall be con
sidered and aoted upon by the court in
the order in which the same was filed
and numbered. Said petition shall
contain:
"First. The name and residence of
the applicant, and how long said appli
cant has resided there.
"Second. The particular place for
which license is desired, designating
the same by reference to street, locality |
or settlement in such manner that the ;
| exact location at which such sale of
liquor is proposed may be clearly and j
detinitely determined from the descrip 1
tion given. j
"Third. The statement that said ap
plicant is a citizen of the United States
! or has declared his intention to become
such; that said applicant is not less
than twenty-one years of age, and that
such applicant, has not been, since the
passage of this act, adjudged guilty of
violating thelawa concerning the sale
of intoxicating liquors, or laws for the
prevention of crime in the district.
"Fourth. That said applicant in
tends to, and if so license will, carry
?>n such business for himself aud not
as agent for auy other person.
"Fifth. That said applicant iuteuds
to, and if so licensed will, superintend
in person the management of the busi
ine^s licensed.
"Sixth. That said applicant will not
conduct, maintain or permit the main- j
tenanee of any gambling, dance hall or
bawdy house on or in connection with ;
?h?i premises, nor permit any female or |
minor in or about the rooms where !
liquor is sold or served.
"That if any false material statement
i> made in any part of such petition or
affidavit the petitioner or petitioners
shall be deemed guilty ot perjury, and j
upou couvictiou thereof said license
shall be revoked and said licensee shall
be subject to the penalties provided by :
law for the crime of perjury.
"That should it appear to cne aisirici
judge that any of the statements above
i enumerated, requited to be made in
i he faetitiou, are untrue at the time of
application for such license, such ap
plication shall be denied.
''That should it appear to the district
judge, after the granting of any such
liceuse, that any of the statements
above renumerated, required to be made
iu the petitiou, are untrue, or that the
applicaut is permitting any of the
things to be done or exist on the prem
ises contrary to the statements re
quired in the petition, it shall be the
duty of such judge to forthwith enter
an order revoking such license, and all
license moneys deposited by the appli
cant shall be thereby forfeited, and it
shall be the duty of the United States
marshals and their deputies and the
United States attorneys and their dep- j
uties in said district to investigate and {
roport to the district judge any viola- !
tion of any of the provisions of this !
section: Provided, that this act shall;
not be so construed as to prevent .any
inkeeper or auy person operating a !
hotel in good faith from receiving as j
guests women and minors.
"Sec. 468. That the liquor licenses
authorized and provided for by this act j
shall be of two classes, namely, whole
sale and barroom. Every applicant for
a license shall deposit the amount of
the license fee with the clerk of the
court at the time of filing his applica- !
tion therefor; and if upon considera- j
tion of such application by the court,
as provided for in this act, the court
shall determine to grant the liceuse I
prayed for, it shall notify the clerk of j
the court and the applicaut in writing, ;
and the applicant shall thereupon re
ceive his license.
"That the fee for a wholesale license ;
shall be two thousand dollars per au
num, and for a barroom or retail li
cense (/ne thousand dollars per annum:
Provided, that the fee for a retail li
| cense for road houses on regular post
roads or tails where the population
within t,\^o miles of the place where the
business is to be conducted does not
exceed fifty people, or for a steamboat
or steamer operating on the inland
rivers of Alaska during the season of
open navigation, shall bo five hundred
dollars per annum: Provided, that
, said steamboat, or steamer shall not be
authorized to cell iutoxicating liquor
i while in port or dock: And provided,
I that the words towns, camps or settle
ments, as used in this act shall be con
strued to embrace the population with
I in a radius of two miles of the place
wherein the bu.-iness is to be conducted
under ?he license.
"That a retail or barroom license
shall bi3 required for every hotel, tav
ern, boat, barroom or other place in
which intoxicating liquors are sold at
retail.
"That a wholesale license shall only
authorize the licensee to sell distilled,
malt or fermented liquors, wines and
cordials in quantities not less than
four gallons; not to be drunk ou the
premises where sold; and no such li
cense shall be granted until it is satis
factorily showu that, the place where it
is iutended to carry oia such business is
properly arranged for selling such
liquor as merchandise.
"'mat every place wnere aisuneu,
malt or fermented wines, liquors or
cordials are sold in quantities as pre
scribed for retail dealers by Section
3244 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, to be drunk upon the
premises, shall be regarded as a bar
room; aud the possession of malt, dis
tilled, fermeuted or auy other intoxi
cating liquors, with the means and ap
pliances for carrying on the business
of dispensing the same to he drunk
where sold, shall be prima facie evi
dence of a barroonf within the meaning
of this act, aud the license therefor
shall be known as a barroom license:
Provided, that no license shall be
granted for the sale of liquors at either
wholesale or retail in auy other than a
substantial building which shall have
oost for construction not less than ?500.
Sec. 9. That section 142 of said act of
March 3d, 1899, be, and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 142. That if any person shall,
without the authority of the United
States, or some authorized, officer
thereof, sell, barter or give to any In
dian or half breed who lives and asso
ciares with Indians, any spirituous,
malt or vinous liquor or intoxicating
extracts, such person shall be fined
not less than $100 nor more than $500
or be imprisoned in the penitentiary
for a term not to exceed two years.
"That the term 'Indian' in this act
shall be construed to include the abor
iginal races inhabiting Alaska when an*
nexed to the United States, and their
descendants of the whole or half blood,
who have not. become citizeus of the
United States.
"That section 1955 of the Revised
Statutes of the Uuited States aud all
that part of section 14 of 4An act pro
viding a civil government for Alaska,'
approved May 17th, 1884, after the word
?provided,' is hereby repealed." * * *
Approvedj Feb. 6, 1909.