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VOL. 11.
The Douglas Island News.
DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, L909. NO. 41
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^ For a few days only we will give FREE with every =2
^ Ladies' suit purchased your choice of any hat in the ^
house. This has been our custom in the men's -2
Zx department, but this year we are adopting the same 13
n plan in our ladies' furnishing department. Our suits
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^ are new and slylish, the best in the market, ranging in ^
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^ you get your choice of our hats FREE of charge, ^
^ commencing Thursday 17th, 9 A. M. ^
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodyre, No. 2,
' K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hall
NBLS G. JOHNSON. C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP. K. of R. Jfe S.
VUltluj* Knight* are cordially inviteil to at
tend.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. O. E.
MEETS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT
At 8:30 O'clock
at Cos: trins' Hall.
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
MARTIN OLSON. \Y. P.
JOHN STOPT. Secretary.
Aurora Encampment No. l
meets at Odd Pellows' hall Hrst and third
Saturdays, at 8 p. in.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
nvited.
P. W. TAYLOR. C. P.
D. BROWN. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
neetsat Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturday*.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. MARY WEISS. N. G.
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'y.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodce meets second and fourth
'Tuesdays of each month.
* JOHN H. CHRISTOE, W. M.
JOHN H. DUCKWORTH. Secy
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. 0. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd I
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
CARL WEISS. N. G. j
L. W. KILBURN. Rec. Sec.
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PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
3rd and D Street
Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phone 401
G. Cuthbcrt Maule, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Office, D Street Over Riedi's Bakery
'Phone, Douglas 8
hours:
9 a. m. to 6 p.m. 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
W. E. Stoft, D. D. S.
DENTIST
OFFICE: Over Douglas City Meat Market
HOURS: 8 a.m. to 12 m., 1 p.m to 5p.m
and 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
Phone 3-S - DOUGLAS
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
A flreless cooker has reached Fair
banks.
Frank Hilder was giveu six months
at Dawson for passing a worthless
check.
Bob Henderson and the Pelly river
are again attracting attention in the
North.
This month promises Alaska a change
of governors ? off with the old aud on
with the new.
The effort will be made to operate
! the Copper River & Northwestern rail
: load as far as completed all winter.
Much of the freight formerly shipped
to the interior by way of Valdez is now
! beiug sent in over the Copper River
railroad.
I
The Seward monument, which was to
1 have been the prime attraction of Sew
i ard day at the A.-Y.-P. exposition, has
gone astray.
The Pioneer Press says that the
finest strawberries iu the world are
raised at Haines, and it's not bragging
much either.
By October 1st, the Alaska Central
railroad will have reached the 7'2nd
mile post of the 180 between Seward
and the Matanuska coal field.
Bearer Creek Copper Camp, ou the
upper White river, is cut iu two by the
boundary line being run this season be
tween the Yukon Territory and Alaska.
A Fairbanks attorney named J. J.
Rogers, and a resident of Alaska since
1897, formerly deputy clerk of the
court at Sitka, died on August 13th at
Victoria, B. C.
Chas. Strangeland, of the Pullman,
Wash., agricultural college, has been
appointed to collect the statistics on
Alaska mines in connection with the
census of 1910.
William Quinn, a well known sports
man, was found dead in his bed at
I Nome. A coroner's inquest disclosed
: death to have been caused by rheuma
' tism of the heart.
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A iscow loaded with material to be
used in the construction of Cape
Hinchinbrook lighthouse broke away
from the launches that were towing it
and disappeared in the darkness.
While the press of Southeastern
Alaska is rent by a terrible and pitiless
war, the Cordova North Star is engaged
in instructing its readers as to the
proper spelling of "Welsh rarebit."
B. J. Shelton, the originator of the
"Baby Stocking fund," is now a resi
dent of Fairbanks. Little "Sunshine,"
the ward of the Tanana, is now an
orphan, her mother also having died.
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Ernest Rheiumutb, of Skagway, is at
Seattle looking for a marathon lace.
He raced the mail stage from Porcu
piue to 20-mile post and beat it, going
the 20 miles in 2 hoars and 20 minutes.
M. L. Torsteubeu, owner of the
launch N. S. of Cordova, fell into the
I water about ten miles from that town
and was drowned. Deceased leaves a
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wife and six children, all girls, at El
| lamar.
John Kehoe, of the Tanana, shipped
four cows to St. Michael on the bteamer
! Mackinaw. The cows gave milk en
route and the crew drank it, and now
Kehoe wants the company to pay him
for the milk, of which he says there
was 90 gallons.
The north pole has been discovered
by an Americau. Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, of Brooklyn, reached the north
pole April 21, 1908, accompanied by
four Eskimos. Since that time he has
been eudeavoring to return to civiliza
tion.
Charles Warner and Swell Carlson,
laymen on No. 7, Jack Wade creek,
picked up iu a pot hole on bedrock a
1 65-ouuce nugget, valued at $1,103.25.
The laymen are iu great spirits over
their find and will operate ou a large
scale this wiuter. ? Dawson News.
Falcon Joslin and other promiuent
Alaskans are framing an administra
tion bill for the government to guar
antee the interest on 4 per cent bonds
for the construction of 2,000 miles of
railway. It is proposed to have the
guarantee fund come from the sale of
government lands iu Alaska.
When George W. Perkins, the New
York millionaire, returned to Seattle
on the Yucatan after a trip through
the waters of Southeastern and South
ern Alaska, he was asked as to the
probability of the Morgan syndicate
! buying the Alaska Central railroad.
: He replied that the scenery of Alaska
is most beautiful.
Millionaires now have an ambition to
discover a glacier in Alaska and give it
a name. E. H. Harriman found three
and named them Yale, Harvard and
Harriman. George W. Perkins on his
recent trip to the North found one on
Knight's island, which was christened
Princeton, by Miss Perkius breaking a
bottle of champagne on it.
Narrow escapes from death for a
number of miners, great destruction to
mining property and a marked change
of the topography of the country in
the vicinity of Grubstake creek, a
tributary of the Tatlanika, caused by
an unprecedented cloudburst followed
by landslides, July 31, is the news
brought to Fairbanks by the steamer
Koyukuk.
Chief Division Officer Glavis, of the
General JLand Office, who has been at
Katalla invistigating, is said to have
stated that Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger attempted to grant patents
for the Alaska coal lands without an
investigation. This, he says, was done
at the instigation of the Guggenheims, j
who, by means of fraudulent entries j
by dummies, are attempting to obtain j
the most valuable coal lands. I
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O'Connor
Ofbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
General
crchandise
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j A straight liue drawn from Fair
banks to Haines, at the upper end of
the inside passage, follows the valley
of the Tanana river to its head near
the international boundary line, and at
t the other end follows the valley of the
Chilcat river. Instead of running
i crosswise over the mountain ranges, it
I runs lengthwise behind them until the
mountains remove their obstrtictive
i ness by dividing accommodatingly into
the ocean. As Mr. Joslin says, "Haines
is the logical gateway to Fairbanks and
i the Tanana valley." ? Fairbanks Times.
The steam whaler Gayhead, Capt.
| Wing, recently arrived at San Fran
cisco, after a voyage of eighteen days
from Kodiak, with 1,050 barrels of oil,
; the product of 25 whales. Three boats
j were destroyed on July 28, when the
Gayhead ran into a school of whales.
The Hist mate, venturing too close to
one of the monsters, was Hung into the
air with his crew of six men by the blow
of the whale's tail, and an hour later
with the same crew suffered the same
experience. The third mate's boat was
also wreckod, but the struggling crews
were all rescued.
Word comes from Nome that the
Russian government proposes to put a
stop to tbe trading of American schoon
ers with the natives on the coast of
Northern Siberia. For several years
past small schooners, buying their
trading outfits in Seattle aud making
Nome tbe home port, have visited the
native villages in Northern Siberia and
have built up a profitable trade in the
purchase of whalebone, ivory aud furs.
They are now to be driven out of the
1 trade, which is to be conserved en
tirely for a company which has re
J ceived a concession of the trade rights
along the coast.
Dawson. ? The feeliDg between the i
Blind Creek Indians and the Pellys, on
the upper Pelly river, has not died out.
The news is brought by Captain N. B. 1
Raymond of the steamer Pauline, re
; cently down from the upper Pelly. ?
The difficulty arose a year ago, when ;
one Indian shot and killed another
I over a matter originating in the admir- ;
ation one had for a dusky maiden
which the other also admired. The 1
damsel had given a pair of beaded
moccasins made by her own dainty
hands to the other. Then the friends
of the one who was killed rose in their
might and demanded from the other
faction a thousand blankets as the
price of the life of their friend. This
did not come, and the two sides began
to arm and war was imminent, when a j
messenger was dispatched for the po- j
lice on the Yukon. Captain Fitz Hor- j
rigan was sent alone to quell the
troubles, and he did so. Now, says
i Captain Raymond, the Indians are
abiding by the ruling of Captain Hor
rigan, but the aggrieved side still is
muttering. Fitz had no more army
with him than Miles Standish, when he
marched through the fog at Plymouth !
with his six soldiers, threatening dire
disaster on every tribesman on the
realm, but Fitz had the awe-inspiring
aspect, and somehow those glowing
dark fellows of the Pelly accepted his
dictum, shrugged their shoulders and
made the compact.
The body of George Eccles, the wire
less operator who lost his life when the
Ohio was wrecked, has been recovered
and shipped to Montreal for burial. A
monument will be erected to his mem
ory.
President Taft has commuted the
sentence of J. R. Bailey from 25 years
to live. Bailey was convicted of mur
der and sentenced to serve 25 years at
McNeil's island. His victim was Robert
Mcintosh. Both were Alaskans.
Under the caption "Judge L>yon9
Makes Good" the Fairbanks Times
says of .Judge Thomas R. Lyons, who
is holding a teim of court in that city:
"The manner in which the court has
dispatched business during the past
week has been a revelation to the law
yers of the town, and, it may be added,
a source of delight. It is almost a
novel experience in this valley to have
a court which keeps up a steady grind
all day long, one which gives attorneys
all the time they need or desire for the
presentation of their testimony aud
i arguments, and yet. keep them 'attend
ing to their knitting' every minute.
Another phase or the court's way of
! doing things which appeals to lawyers
and laymen alike is his relentless fol
lowing of the law. There is no attempt
to break into the domain of the legis
lature, no attempt to make laws, in
stead of interpreting and applying
them. Moreover there is no political
by-play, no attempt to build up or tear
down any particular interest. A faith
ful effort, a deadly-earnest effort is
made to apply the law impartially arid
to follow it wherever it may lead. In
an old community this fact would
cause no comment, indeed, would be
hardly observed; for in such commun
ities that is the regular order of things.
But in new regions, especially it seems
in mining camps, courts frequently
Beem to feel called upon to modify the
law, to reshape it, to shade it off, to re
fine it away, and, in some cases to ig
nore it entirely. This inevitably leads
to confusion worse confounded, to un
certainty, doubt, fear and distrust, and
this causes and provokes a large part
of the litigation which burdens the
people. Such a court is a mill which
creates its own grist. Instead of set
tling disputes and promoting peace of
life and stability of property rights, it
unsettles the life, business and titles of
the community. On the other hand, a
judge who follows the law unwaver
ingly, brings calm to bis jurisdiction,
is oil on the troubled waters, and
spreads abroad a feeling that rights of
person and property are certain, secure,
inviolable. Another thing about the
present incumbent of our bench which
excites favorable comment is his way
of deciding questions as soon as they
have been presented. Except when
time for further research and study is
desired, he decides it immediately.
There is no "hanging Are" and ques
tions which require further investiga
tion are studied forthwith and then im
mediately disposed of. Judge Lyons
has for years been in the habit of work
ing efficiently and at high pressure.
He still has the habit. If he continues
in the pace and manner of doing busi
ness with which he has started, no
country need desire a better judge."