Douglas Island news. [volume], March 10, 1909, Image 2

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The Douglas island News, j
Entered at Douglas Post-office a* Second
Ckis* Mail Matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
TERMS:? In Advance.
One Year - - #3.00
Six Months ------- 1.50
Three Months ------ 75
Siuarle Conies ------ 10
Wednesday, March 10, 1909.
CHAKLES A. HOPP
Editor and Proprietor.
'PHONE NO. 12.
The Beautiful Rain
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Water, water ail around. How glad i
were the residents of Douglas Islaud
when it begau to rain, aud raiu iu i
earnest. For nearly two months the
water supply has been short. Not that
anyone really suffered for the want of |
a drink, for there was always water to ;
to be bad at the spriugs. But that is
not the way we are accustomed to get
ting i>. The severe cold during the
month ??f January fioze up the little,
streams and the big >treams that sup- j
ply the iank^ in 01 dinar? times. Doug-!
las is built up with abundant water as
one of her foundations. Every house
is piped to kitchen, bath, toilet, etc.,
and when the supply fails it i9 nothing
leas than a calamity, ttut at such
times as we have just passed through
the water is not to be had, and there is
the end of the whole matter.
Douglas Inland is really too small to j
furnish streams of water large euough
that Jack Frost canuot dry them up. j
Dongla* Island is big euough to yield, i
in the past twenty tive year*, more than j
three times as much golden treasure as
the Uuited States paid for all of Ala.> !
ka, but when it comes to water it's dif- ;
ferent. The Treadwell compauy has j
spent iu the neighborhood of a half
million dollars on water ditches aud
dams, but this winter Jack Frost made
it look like a drinking fouutaiu. Dur
ing the shortage a society was foimed
for the prevention of waste of water, j
having among its members all the re- j
spectable citizens who are not addicted !
very much to the use of water at auy
time. A regular schedule of fiuet* was
arranged for those who might be
tempted to break over the rule of long
accustomed habit. The offeuses aud
penalties were as follows: To drink
water Viy2c\ washing the hauds, 25c; j
washing hands and face, 50c; washing
the feet, $1; taking a bath, banishment
from the Island. It speaks well for the
membership that there was not a single
breach of the rules, aud the example
thus set up was emulated by many citi
zens not eligible for membership.
There were cases, however, where
such precautions were openly defied.
A white man, who has an Indian help
mate and who never before felt the
need of more thau a pail of water every
two or three days, exhausted all the
springs in his neighborhood, to the sur
prise of his bachelor friends and neigh
bors.
But now it has rained aud it's all off.
Mayor O'Connor received a com
munication from the officials of the A.
Y.-P. exposition announcing that the
14th day of Oct. might be reserved as
"Douglas Day'1 at the fair. Mayor
O'Connor is of the opinion that every
day is "Douglas Day" right here at
home, and there the matter stands.
The statement made by a Juneau pa
per that the new liquor law might close
the saloons in Douglas is all rot. A
perusal of the act, published in another
column will reveal the fact that the re
strictions in regard to a U. S. commis
sioner and marshal do not apply to in
corporated towns.
Some of the high school debaters are
of the opinion that the race is not al
ways to the swift, neither is the battle
to the^etrong.
Wnat's the matter with a man who
strikes for an 8-honr day, and works
his wife 16 hours?
"The laborer is worthy of his hire."
The hire is also worthy of the labor.
A monopoly is like a baby? -no man
likes it until he has one of his own.
Home-made pie brightens a home
more thao a graud piano.
Humor of the Press
"Did you ever notice bow life's arith
metic is generally applied?"
"How?"
"It adds to your sorrows, divides
your means, multiplies your cares and
subtracts from your pleasures."
Wife ? "Billy, dear, I stitched up the
hole in your trousers pocket last night
after you had gone to bed. Now, am I
not a thoughtful little wife?"
Husband ? ''II'ii); bow did you know
there was a hole iu my pocket?" ? New
York Times.
"1 can't keep the visitors from com
ing up," said the office boy, dejectedly. !
"When I say you're out they don't be- j
lieve me. They say they mu.-t see you." !
"Well," said the editor, "just tell
them that's what they all say. I don't !
care if you check them, but I mu?>t have
quietness."
That, afternoon there called at, the of- 1
i tice a lady with hard features and an
acid expression. She wanted to see
the editor, and the boy assured her
that it was impossible.
"But 1 must see him!" she protested.;
"I'm his wife."
"That's what they all say," replied
the boy.
That is why he found himself on the i
floor, with the lady sitting on his neck j
and smacking his head with a ruler, and
that is why there is a new boy wauted
there. ? Answers.
Tom (with a sigh) ? "I have been hug
ging a delusion for uearly six mouths."
0 Jack ? "Well, why don't you marry
her?"
He? 4,I should like to kiss you under j
a leafy canopy, but there is none here." j
She? "What's the matter with the
plaster on the ceiling?"
The kid (watching dog chasiog his ,
own tail) ? "I say, dad, what kind of
dog is that?"
His father? "Watch dog, son."
The kid ? ,4I reckon he's winding him
self up, then."
Benevolent lady? "But, my poor man,
if you have been lookiug for work all !
,
these years, why is it that you never I
'found it?"
Tramp (confidentially; ? "It's luck,
mum; just sheer good luck."
He? "Would your mother object to
my kissiug you?"
She ? "My mother! Why, she wouldn't
hear of such a thing!"
The New Preacher ? "Where were
the remains of your late husbaud in
terred?"
Missionary's Wife ? "There were ? er
? er ? no remaius. He stumbled into j
the camp on a cannibal tribe."
Camel? "So it's really true that the
big snake swallowed the goat?"
Gorilla ? "Indeed it is, and to look at j
him no one would ever think the batter
would ever melt in his mouth."
Elder Sister ? "I think mother and
father were quite right when theo gave
you the name of Lillie."
Lillie ? "Why, dear?"
Elder Sister? "Because you're the
lily that toils not, neither do you spin!" ;
Bobby ? "Look, dad, what a black
face lady's got."
Dad ? "Hush! That's her natural
oolor. She's an Indian lady."
Bobby ? "Is she like that all over,
dad?"
Dad ? "Yes, my son."
Bobby (unconvinced) ? "How do you1
know, dad?"
"Yes," she said defiantly. "I admit j
that I kissed him."
"Did he put up much of a struggle?" j
inquired her best girl friend.
Village Schoolmaster (explaining
"biped" and "quadruped") ? "Now, ;
Jones, what is the difference between j
me and a pig?"
Jones? "Couldn't tell you, sir."
"What's the best way to tell a bad
egg?"
"I don't know, but I would suggest
that if you have anything really im
portant to tell a bad egg, why? break
it gently."? Yale Record.
We make a specialty of filling pre
scriptions, using the highest grade of j
chemicals. No substituting. Can fill j
prescriptions of recognized practi- j
tioners from any nation of the world.
Two prescription druggists at Heub- j
ner's Drug store.
Anton Krasel ? shop on Second street
? cleans and repairs clothes with neat
ness and dispatch. Prices very reason
able.
The Ice Pack
Wheu winter comes tip on the Arctic
coast the shore ice forms in a solid
sheet extending ont sometimes miles
from the beach. This sheet if ice la a
source of fear and danger to the natives
who live in little settlements along the
frigid coast line. The ponderous ice !
pack, made up of acres and acres of ice
frozen centuries Hgo, stands but a short i
distance farther out to sea awaiting the [
first favorable wind to intrude itself
upou the shore. When it comes, with
an irresiotable force it drives every
thing before it; and the sheet of shore >
ice it slipped inshore like a sheet, of
cardboard in a strong mau's hand. As
it. creeps steadily alon^, woe to the
Cabin that, lie? in its pall). There is no
escaping it ? it carries destruction and
death. Sometimes an obstruction will '
cause the ice to buckle, and then it will
pile up mountain high. The natives
watch for the coming of the pack with
fear and trembling, keeping a sentinel
constantly on duty to give the alarm.
Wheu it is. over and all ate safe the ex- j
citemenf subsides. The danger is over i
for that. year. Unlikethe Taku wiud j
it does not icpeat itself.
Pure and Sweet
The steamer Jeffersou brought for i
Mr. George Riedi,of the Douglas City
Bakery, a shipment of Ice Cream from
Puget. soij nd. This Ice Cream is made j
of pure cream, the product of one of j
the largest and best dairies in the
Sound country. This is the first of a j
series of regular shipments that will
enable Mr. Riedi to supply his cus
tomers with a splendid quality of Ice j
Cream in any quantity and at any '
time. Served to customers every day
at the City Bakery.
DIRECTORY OF ALASKA
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District Government
Governor, WUford B. Hoggatt, Juneau.
Secretary to the Governor, Win. H. Loller, (
Juneau.
Ex-officio Secretary of Alaska, William L. ;
Distin, Juneau.
U. S. Surveyor General'? Office
Juneau.? William L. Distiu, surveyor-gen
eral; George Stowell, chief clerk; Martin
George, chief draftsman; John J. Clark,
stenographer and type writer; William P.
Jeffreys, transcribing clerk; William Rugg, i
draftsman; Laurence Delmore, copying !
clerk; Henry Andrews, messenger.
U. S. Land Office, (Juneau)
John W. Dudley, register; P. M. Mullen,
receiver; H. K. Love, special agent.
Department of Agriculture
C. C. Georgeson, Sitka, special agent in ,
charge of Air ska investigations.
Bureau of Education
Wilford B. Hoggatt, ex-otticio superintend- ?
ent of public instruction, Juneau; Harlan
Updegraff, agent, Washington, 1). C.
Immigration Inspector
Kazis Krauczunas, Ketchikan. \
U. S. Customs
Collector, Clarence L. Hobart, Juneau.
U. S. Courts
Division No. 1.? Royal A. Gunnison, judge;
C. C. Page, clerk of court; Harold Lull,
court stenographer; John J. Boyce, U.S.
district attorney; James M. Shoup, U. S.
Marshal,
Division No. 2.? Alfred S. Moore, judge;
John H. Dunn, clerk of court; Henry M
Hoyt, U. S. district attorney; Thomas Cader
Powell, U. S. marshal.
Division No. 3.? Silas H. Reid, judge; Ed
ward J. Stier, clerk of court; George A.
Jeffries, court stenographer; J. J. Crossley,
U.S. district attorney; George C. Perry, U.
S. marshal.
U. S. Marine Inspectors
Prank H. Newhall, inspector of boilers,
George H. Whitney, inspector of hulls; con
stituting local board of inspectors of steam
vessels.
Internal Revenue
John Cameron, deputy collector. Fair
banks; D. H. Tarwilliger, deputy collector
Juneau.
V
NOTICE OF MARSHAL'S SALE
United States of America, Div. No. 1, District
of Alaska, ss:
Public notice is hereby given, that by vir
tue of a writ of Fieri Facias (or execution)
dated January 11th, A. D. 1909, issued out of
the District Court of the United States for
the First Division, District of Alaska, on a
judgment rendered in said Court on the 0th
day of January, A. D. 1909, in favor of John
P. Corcoran and against George Kostro
metinoff, I have, on this 23rd day of January,
A. D. 1909, levied upon the following de
scribed real estate, situated in the precinct
of Sitka, Territory of Alaska, to-wit:
That certain lot of land adjoining the town
of Sitka, Alaska, situated as follows: Com
mencing on the southeasterly or easterly
side of tne cemetery attached to the Russian
Trinity church and running on a course
about 40 degrees east of north 873 feet to the
road leading to the old grave yard about 50
degrees west of north; then aloug said
course 237 feet; then by sides parallel to the
said lines so as to form a rectangular lot or
Slat of ground, and generally known as the
ostrometinoff lot as recorded December
first, 1879, on page 193 book ,4D" Sitka
Records, and that 1 will, accordingly, offer
said real estate for sale, at public vendue to
the highest and best bidder, for cash, on the
the 8th day of March, A. D. 1909, at 2 o'clock
p. m? in front of the Post Offce at Sitka,
Alaska.
Dated at Sitka, Alaska, February SrcL'A. D.
1909. JAMES M. Shoup,
U. S. Marshal, Div. No. 1, District of Alaska.
By. A. G. Shoup, Deputy.
E. M. Barnes, Plaintiff's Attorney.
WAISTS & SKIRTS
LATEST STYLES
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GOT TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW STOCK
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Wm. Stubbins
FRONT STREET Kemmis Block DOUGLAS
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Ham, Bacon and Lard
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