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The Douglas Island News
VOL. IX. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREA DWELL, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, L909.
NO. 17
Ladies' Muslin
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Underwear Sale
For a few days we will place on 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
B. H. BEHRENDS CO.,
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JUNEAU. ALASKA
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Times and Oregonian
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We also cany the
Leading Periodicals S Magazines
For NICE TABLETS and
FINE WRITINQ PAPER
WE ARE IT!
Our line of
Cigars and Tobaccos
Is the most complete in Alasku
Our Candies are Always Fresh!
We carry a full line of Fruit! .
(During the fruit season)
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All the LATEST S1.50 BOOKS!
Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper
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ftlbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodjje, No. t, |
rK. of P., meets every
1 THURSDAY EVENING
ut 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hall
AUGUST ANDERSON. C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP. K. of R. A S.
Visiting- Knights ure cordially invited to at
tend.
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Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E.
ME E1"S EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT |
At 8:30 O'clock
at Covins' Hull.
All visiting Brothers Invited to attend.
MARTIN OLSON, W. P.
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. McDOXALD. Scribe. :
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
neets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. JENNIE JOHNSON, N. G. J
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'y.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodsre meets first and third Tues" 1
days of each month.
JOHN H. CHRISTOE, W. M.
J. ALFRED JOHNSON, Secy, j
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. O. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd!
Fellows Hull
Visiting brothers always welcome.
PETER W. TAYLOR, N. G.
j. h. Mcdonald. Rec. sec.
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry G DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE /
3rd and D Street
Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phone 401
G. Cuthbert Maule, D. D, S.
DENTIST
Office, D Street Over Riedi's Bakery
'Phone, Douglas 8
houbs:
9 a. m. to G 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. Warmaxen, Pastor.
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The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
.Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
No important placer strikes have
been made in the Nome country the
past winter.
The Dawson police report the drown
ing of live Peel river Indians in the
Peel river last fall.
Large shipments of canuery supplies
are now engaging the attention of the
Northern steamers.
Joseph Caunou, the friend (?) of
Alaska, has been re-elected speaker of '
the house of representatives.
The Coi win will sail from Seattle for !
Nome ou May 10th, with maii. She will
have a full passeuger list.
Since the arrival of Contractor Heney
at Cordova, real estate values have a
tendeucy to soar skyward.
The Skagway Alaskan takes a decided
stand when it says: "Taft wants to
come to Alaska ? aud we want him."
William E. Craig, of Haines, has been
bound over to the federal graud jury,
charged with selling whisky to ludiaus.
The report comes from Nome that a
half dozen native hunters out after seal
were attacked by sharks aud Jouah- j
ized.
"Hostilities" began at the Whitehoree
shipyards on March 15. It is consid- :
ered by the inhabitants of that burg as
a harbinger of sweet spring.
The Graud Trunk Pacific railroad at
Priuce Rupert is up against a strike.
The demaud is for $3 a day, and the
strikers are mostly Montenegrins.
Richard Ballinger, secretary of the
interior, will visit Alaska next summer
to look into the coal lands and the
manner in which they are gobbled up.
The Ohio with 480 passengers, the
Northwestern with 400 and the Port
land with over 200, are indications that
the tide of travel is well on to the great
North.
A man bound for Alaska was fined
$200 for stealing a dog at Vancouver,
B. C. Southeastern Alaska could have
furnished him a ship load for less i
money.
It is said that hundreds of Alaskans
who joined the rush to Nevada a few j
years ago are on their way back to the
North, having got their fill of the sage
brush country.
W. C. Dawson, former manager of the
Alaska Pacific Steamship company, has
gone over to Shubach^& Hamilton, and
will have charge of the firm's Alaska
business, which has been growing Qn a
scale to be a distinct menace to the su- <
premacy on the Yukon of the N. A. T. I
& T. Co. and the N. C. Co. i
Fuuds are being raised in different
parts of the United States to equip an
expedition to set out from Seattle, in
search of Dr. Cook, the explorer, who is
lost in the Arctic regions.
Billy Cooper, who attempted to make
the trip from Valdez to Seattle over- ;
land with a team of dogs, has reached
Seattle ? by steamer. When he got to
the Atlin country he gave it up. /
Secretary Wilson of the department!
of agriculture has decided that hump- !
back and dog salmon must be so
maiked by the canuorymen, and that
the "pink" brand will no longer go.
A Wa>hiugton dispatch say> that re
tiring Delegate Cale is showing James
Wicker.^ham, his successor from Alas
ka, t tie haunts of thy city. Alaskans
who know Wickersham cousider this
time wasted. . ' ?
A u exchange remarks that the freight
rates on the Yukon river are altitudin
ous enough to realize the fonde>t
dreams o'f a steamboat man's most op
timistic hours. "Boat's option of space
or weight" is the rule.
Several hundred holy rollers are pre
paring to hold a camp meeting just out- j
side of the city limits of Seattle during
the fair next summer, aud the White
horse Star suggests that with the holy
rollers around her edges aud rube rol
lers withiu her confines, Seattle will be
iu position to eutertain all classes.
E. A. Murphy, general manager of the
Klondike Miues Railway Co., went
North recently bouud for Dawson. He
has just retnrned from London, where
the stockholders of the company, a' a
recent meeting, decided to spend !?500,
000 on improvement and extension of ;
the road. The road is receiving a sub
sidy of $6,000 a mile, and it is planned
that it will eventually be connected j
with and form a part or the Grand
Trunk Paciflc, with one terminus at 1
Prince Rupert.
Those people who believe that the J
placer fields at Nome are about worked
out should read the following U. P. dis
patch from that town bearing date of
March 13: "The Pioneer Mining Co. is
now taking out from the famous prop
Brties the richest dirt ever mined in |
Alaska. The pay is averaging 56.30 to
the bucket and 40,000 buckets are taken i
out monthly. One hundred and eighty
men are at work. Estimates made to
iay place the gold output from Nome
this season at $12,000,000."
A circular was issued March 6 by the |
[J. S. department of agriculture, which |
reads as follows: "In accordance with
authority conferred on the secretary of
agriculture under section 2 of the Alas
ka game law, approved May 11, 1908,
the following regulations, additional to
those of August 1, 1908, are hereby
promulgated, to take effet April 1, 1909:
[n Southeastern Alaska the season for
killing deer shall be limited to the
period from June lto December 15; the
3ale of deer, carcasses or venison is pro
hibited except during the months of
September, October, November and De
aember; and the number of deer killed
by one person during the open season
3hall be limited to 12."
Alaska and the Grape
Dispatches today say that Messrs. j
Wickersbaui and Hoggatt, two dis- |
tinguished gentlemen from Alaska,
hitherto uoted for their hostility to
each other, have feasted and drank to- :
get her, mostly the latter, and have dis- j
covered a foudness for each other i
which increased in Sympathetic latio
with the cocktails that wore passed.
Oh! the ever mellowing influence of
the grape. What witchery is in thy '
kiss. Think of it. To take these men
in their hearts' extremest hate and with
a few drops of thy life's blood trans
form them into brothers.
Where is all the gore that brother
Wickersham wallowed in on his pil
grimage from Alaska to Washington?
Where are the "scars of his political J
enemies"?
Where are their "graves"?
Vauished through the legerdemain of
wiue.
}Jut wait. Wait until the grape1 has
lost its magic aud the headache comes
on. Wait until the pulse throbs and
the tongue tastes like a Turkish towel.
Then, Jack Dalton, curses upou you,
'?we'll brook uo interference from our
enemies at Washington."
But there will be other bauqueta.
Red wiue will stain the uapkins aud
warm the heart. In the meautime :
Alaska's fate depends upou which one
Koes under the table flrst. ? Ketchikan
Miner.
Alaskans All Crazy
it may, perhaps, affect the dignity of
Alaskans to realize that notwithstand
ing we have a delegate and a governor
who aro "representing" Alaska at the i
natioual capital, the average congress- 1
man entertaius opinions concerning 1
that couutry that are peculiar, to say j
thel east. A clause in the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill providing for the
care and custody of the insane of Alas
ka was under discussion in the house
of representatives when the following
debate ensued:
The clerk read as follows: "Care j
and custody of the insane of Alaska:
For the care and custody of the legally
adjudged insane in the district of Alas
ka, including transportation and other
expenses, $50/X)0."
Mr. Gaines, of Tenessee ? "What pro- !
vision is made for the insane in !
Alaska?"
.Mr. Smith, of Iowa ? "They are:
brought to the United States and cafed
for by contract."
Mr. Gaines ? "Has the government
made no provision whatever for taking i
care of the ifiaane of Alaska:?"
Mr. Smith-^'No; except to bring
them home to the continental United
States."
Mr. Mann ? "And taking care of
them." ,
Mr. Gaines ? "I am surprised that no
insane asylum has been erected in j
Alaska."
Mr. Smith? "There is no place where
an asylum could be built up there
where they would be comfortable j
through the long darkness and cold of j
winter."
Mr. Mann? "I will suggest to the
gentleman that they could not very
well build a big enough asylum, for it
would have to include the entire popu
lation. No one goe9 there who is sane."
[Laughter.]
Mr. Gaines ? "The President-elect is
going there next summer. Now, as to
the climate, I understand there are
places iu Alaska where flowers and veg
etables grow "
Mr. Garret ? "And onions."
Mr. Gaines ? "And everything that is
good."
Mr. Mann? "They grow luxuriantly
? in the Kovernmeut reports."
Mr. Smith ? "I will say to the gentle
man that we hare a contract to take
care of the Ala.-ka insane here in the
United States."
Mr. Gainer- ? "There are a great many
of our own people in Alaska. We have
owned that, country ever since Andrew
Johnson was president, and yet we have
never built an insane asylum up there.
We have built railroads aud towns, and
.-eut deer up there ? reindeer ? and the
real dear goes there, aud made appro
priations to take care of the Indians
und other people ot herwise, aud yet we
have no insane asylum there. We
bring those unfortunate people away
off down here at great expense. It
seems to me in that country of trees
and saw-mills and railroads and
diamonds "
Mr. Robinson? "And Eskimos."
Mr. Gaines ? "And Eskimos. We
ought to build at least a temporary in
saue asylum. I hope it will be done.
It ought to be done."
Mr. Macon ? "Does not the gentleman
think it would be cruelty to keep help
less people up in that cold climate
through the long winters?"
Mr. Gaines ? "Well, I do not know
about that.
The effectiveness of the American
Mining congress is to be greatly in
creased by a plan, as announced by the
board of directors, of having local of
ficers and subsidiary organizations in
each of the mining centers, where no
active associations are now in existence.
Heretofore the congress has been ex
clusively national in its scope, giving
little attention to the local problems
that vex the camps individually, but its
growing strength in all the mining
states, with now a large membership in
each, has suggested a new arrangement
under which each^state will have its
own local branch organization, with lo
cal officers and committees in charge.
The national organization will thus be
brought into close contact with the
small operator as well as the large one,
and the entire strength of the national
body will, if necessary, be thrown be
hind any local movement for relief
from conditions generally oppressive to
the industry. Besides having a vice
president for each state, who will pre
side over all local meetings and look
after the local affairs of the mining
congress, standing committees will be
appointed by the congress for each
state for the purpose of ascertaining
how the industry is locally affected by
such questions as the forest reserves,
smelter rates, transportation rates,
labor conditions, etc.