Douglas Island news. [volume], January 26, 1910, Image 1

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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
S. of P., every
TFKJESDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock,
in Odd Fallows Hall
L. S. FERRIS. C. C.
CHAS.A. HOP?. K. of R. AS.
"Tisitin^ Knights are cordiaHy -invited,
Douglas Aerie, No. 1:7, -F. 0. E.
i'A^L.
MEETS EVERY WEDNESDAY *IGHT
At 8;30 O'clock
At *he Dotl??!as Fraternal Hall
All visit i us: Brothers invited to attend.
A. 6. JOHNSON', W. P.
?JOHN STOFT. Seerctu-ry.
Gastineoux bodge No. 124
F. A A. SL
Lodge -meets -second and fourth
Tuesdays of each montl .
WM. STUBBiNS, W. M.
3. N. STOOD Y, Seey
Alaska Lodge No. 1, L (X O. F,
Meets every Wednesday weniiiK in Odd
FeHows Hull
Visiting: brothers -always weleome.
?J. H. Mc-DONALD, K. G.
JOHN LI VIE, Ret*. Sec.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple r.re cordially
Invited.
P. W. TAYLOR. C. P.
D. BROWX. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. ANNA KNUTSON, N.G.
URS. GERTRUDE LAUGH UN. Sec'y.
Auk Tribe No. 7, .
Imp. 0. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING atS o'clock
?atOsld Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
M. J. .KELLY, Sachem.
*VM. H. KELLY, C. of R.
TreadweU Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY NIGHT, at 8:00, at Fraternal hall.
A. T. NELSON, Arctic Chief.
R. McCOKMICK. Arctic Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL.
Harry C. D^Vighne, M. D,
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
3rd and D Street
Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phene 401
G. Guthbert Maule, D. D. Su
DENTIST
Office, D Street Over Riedfs Bakery
'Phone, Douglas 8
hours:
9 a. m. to"6p. m. 7 p. m. to^p. m.
W* E. Stoft, *D* D. S,
DENTIST
OFFICE: Over Douglas City Meat Market
HOURS: 8 a.m. to 12 m., lp.m te Cp.m
and 7 p. ju. to 9 p.m.
PWe-KS - JJQJJGJLAS |
The Northland
The t.atest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The young men of Seward have or
ganized an athletic club.
The trains are not running on the
Alaska Central tfcis month.
The Whitehorse school has reopened
with a new fcrce of teachers.
Johu G. Brady is takiug a pcet gover
nor course iu Alaska politics.
The Seattle Times says that the 'Bev
eridge bill is an insult to Alaska.
John Wheaton, formerly cable -oper
ator^ Hadley, has falleu heir to S48,
000.
A parrot that sings and talks with
great versatility is a receut arrival at
Seward.
The Juneau Commercial club has
?been ""snatched as a brand from the
burning.''
Louis Reasoner, au Alaskan, died
suddenly of appoplexy in Seattle last
Thursday.
The Skagway Home Power Co. has
reoeutly installed a 150-horse power
steam turbine.
Capt. M. J. O'Connor, of the Ft. Sew
ard barracks, has gone to New York on
a business trip.
Frank AlcPhee, whose store at Car
cross was destroyed by .fire on Decem
ber .24th, has rebuilt.
S. E. Flower, postmaster at Sitka, has
resigued. R. W. DeArmond is a candi
date for the position.
Judge Thomas Lyons, who is now
holding court at Fairbanks, has been
made an Arctic Brother.
E. M. Karnes, an attorney of Juneau,
has been found guilty of sending ob
scene matter through the mail.
The exchange of "beuches" between
Judges Overtield and Lyons will take
place sometime after February 1st.
The Haines election has been con
tested because H. A. lianta was both a
candidate and a judge of the election.
What is known as an autosled, pro
pelled by a 10*horse power gas engine,
is being operated successfully at Tan
ana.
The date of the return of the steamer
Humboldt to the Southeastern Alaska
run has been fixed at about February
10th.
The bill appropriating $90,000 to con
tinue the investigation of the mineral
resources of Alaska, has passed the
house.
The dog poisoner &as gathered in #.0
more of the people's pets at White
horse. The -supply must ?soon be ex
hausted.
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A headline in the Sfeagway Alaskan j
announces an "Old Pioneer 'Going i>e
low.'' Probably in search -of a warmer
-climate.
The Farallon, which is on the Dora's j
tuu to the Westward from Valdez, -sa
fifteeu days overdue aud 'it is ^earefi ,
-she is wrecked.
J. Kingsbury, a Skagway electrician,
! withstood a shook of '2,800 -volts last |
! Wednesday, and was only unconscious i
an hour aud a half.
C. B. GuptilL agent at Skagway Tor
| the Alaska Steamship company, fell on j
the icy streets of -the Windy City, dit
lecating his shoulder.
When Vrank Brown and fire. fcteiu
were married at Cordova, a paper
printed in that section called ?it a
?Brown Stein wedding.
Wrn. Storey, of Atttn, 'is going to
?Boston to tell -the capitahsts of the
rich opportunities ?f the Noith. Wo
hope they believe him.
?Congressman MondeK, of W yoming,
I has asked congress to-appropniate$l(XV
000 for the survey ?of agricultural and ?
grazing lauds in Alaska.
The Seward "(era tew ay rather boast
ingly remarks that -no other towu :ti
the United States the size of -Seward
supports a daily paper.
Tales of suffering from the -cold 'in
Interior Alaska are outclassed by the
' dispatches from New Yoi k.whereJlfteen
perished in a single day.
John H. launch, general freight ageut
of the Alaska Steamship Co., announces.
that after February D.st the freight rates
j will be the same as they were before the
war.
Peter Muuson, a Kougarok miner,
who became lest in a blizzard, is now a
raving maniac. Both feet and hands
have been amputated, but there -is no
hope of his recovery.
Theilaines Pioneer Press says* There
was a largo herd of seal around the
Chilkoot inlet "Sunday, aud Ben Fox, a
native, killed seven out of the herd.
Another native got four.
A. K. Beatson is in New York aud j
the rumor has reached Seattle that the
copper king of Latouche is about to
make a sale of his big property. He has
several times refused *3,500,000 for the
mine.
Judge Overfield came down from Val
dez last week to pass on some questions
of lav/ at Juneau, Judge Cusb.man bo - 1
ing disqualified by having at some time
appeared as attorney for one of the
litigants.
The destruction cf the Haines wliarf
by tire was averted by the arrival of the
steamer Georgia, which ran alongside
the blazing structure and turned her
hose on the blaze, which was soon ex
tinguished.
Miss Lena Lochke, of Fair banks, -go
ing from her work 'to her home on the
evening of Dec. 3^th, was waylaid and
-roughly!fcreated by an unknown wretch
evidently -bent eu robbery. The reward
offered ?or the capture of*the assailant,
w^^^iuW-atia^^airNOuntfl 00.
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?Mesale and Retail
Dealer in
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Burglars recently raided a print shop
in Victoria and robbed it of 38. It is
not known how the money got into the
OtHce, but ^ome visitor may have
dropped it on the -floor. ? Ex.
A Hgbt company asking a 50-year
franchise of the town ofCordova guar
antees a 2?-hour service, and will make
a 'flat rate of for each AGicaudle
power light for the 2S hours.
?Dan Kaiu's company .iias gene on the
rooks and -Valdez creditors have at- j
taofaed the ^visible assettn. It was
known as the:Central Alaska Hydraulic
company, and its stockholders are ?
mostly in Oregon.
The Princess May is laid up for her
annual overhauling and 'the Amur has i
taken her place on the Southeastern ,
Alaska ??rn. Affcor May 1st both the j
Princess May aud the Princess J.Uoyai
will be oo the ruu.
The ?rst Canadian gold to be coined
?into ?Canadian currency will be turned
out from gold bricks to the value of
$50,000 which have been deposited with
the miut by Joseph Boyle, the wol!
?known Dawson miuer.
William Ripstein, one of the original
locators of the famous Beatson mine
on iLatouohe island, and an Gldjtimer
?in the Prince William sound country,
has been declared insane and taken fco \
the M-t. Tabor asylum.
?L. L. Williams, a promriuent resident
of Alaska for many years, died at St.
?Louis, Mo., the first of the week from
heart trouble. Mr. Williams came to
Alaska as United States marshal dur- i
ing the Cleveland administration. At
the expiration of his tenure of office he
?remained in the district, makiug bis
home in Juneau.
Sidney -Drake, president 0? the Circle
Hydraulic Mining jfc Trading company, i
is planning to 'take a large plant into
the Circle district uet:t-year. Ke is on
the coast, where he will ;buy several
horses 'for the necessary ditch work to
be done uext summer, aud these, in
chacge of a crew of men, will bs sent
through Valdez in Marob.
In 1908, 23 cement plants were in
operation in Canada, with a total daily
capaoity of 27,000 barrels, or an annual
output of some 8,2o0,C00 if ail wore run- i
niDg full time. The price of cement
was considerably lower in 1908 than in
?1007; sales were greater, but cash re
turns less. The valae of cement sold,
in 1906 was ?3,709,129; average price per
barrel, 31.39; wages paid, ^$1,276,638;
number of men employed, 3,029. ?
United States Consular Report.
H. '\W. 3ft eyes. a young trapper, rras
recently so badly frozen near the
i Minto telegraph station that it V7ae
necessary to amputate one foct above
the ankle and the other ebore the tees, j
The operators at the station cared *41or \
the unfortunate young mac till the
authorities at Fairfcauks could remove
i bim to- that city, where -he was plaeed
in the hospital. Being practically
without means, he to in a deplorable
condition, find the 'News-Miner says
the newly-^rganiced Fairbanks igloo of
theiBicneere of Ateska.haveuleaidedito
Llodk^af tar lhieoaasfi ,
. Lost for sixteen days intheKoyukuk
?valley, with the temperature -54 to CI
degrees bolov; zero, without food,
matches, ax or knife, Vernon Brewstei.,
an old-time prospector and miner, wug
forced to kill three of his dogs in order
to escape destruction in tne frozen Wil
derness. Brewster recently reached
Nome, where he told of his terrible ex
perience.
Arthur IS. Barney ? thewMukluk Kid'
?has confessed to the killing of Chas.
J. Smith and the shooting and wound
ing of-Chas. Chanquist- at Fort Gibbon
on December 16th. In a supplemental:
confession he implicates Tom Rock
well, a sr.loon keeper, who, he says, fur
nished aud loaded the revolver with
which the two -men were ."hot. Ko?-k
well and his wife have been arrested.
Late dispatches trorn Washingt.>u
toll that the Beveridge bill providing a
^fcrni of government for Alaska hae
been changed so that the territorial
council will include the governor, an
attorney general, a commissioner of
mines aud iinterior. and two council
men from each of the four judicial dis
tricts, all to be appointed by the presi
dent. The territorial cGuncil is author
ised to levy a one per ceut tax on the
gross output of mines tc defray ex
penses.
Dr. Mustard," of Nome, whose ideas
are sometimes as spicy as his name,
gives good advice to 'the men of the
North who are compelled to live alone
during the longcold winter and are apt
to get into the habit of dreaming day
dreams until they appear to them like
realities., and people shake their heads
and tap their foreheads and say: "Poor
devil.'' He 88ys: "Don't get tc dream
iug. Get in aud knock the spots off
Old Solt oven though one has to cheat
just a wee bit once .-in a while. Skin
him, for the odds are against you."
The Victoria News-Miner says: im
agining that he was a Rockefeller, .Jack
C. >Rosa, the former big operator on
?Cleacy creek, begau to spend money so
lavishly that hip mental condition was
inquired into aud as a result he hae
been adjudged insane and is now under
the care of physicians at Victoria. He
was spending money at such a rate un
der the delusion that he was a multi
millionaire that it was found necessary
to take stops -to preveut him from
squandering his entire fortune. Mrs.
JBoss and Herbert Wilson, his associate
in business., have been appointed guar
dians over his estate, Mr. .Ross would
make out ehecks in a bank aud then gc
out iuto the street and scatter them
broadcaet. Giving away money right
end left, he started to build a $5, OX
automobile garage. Jack Ross and.
Herbert -Wilson, it is estimated, cleaned
up over 6100,000 each in their miuing
operations on 10 below deary creek.
Although still a young man, Floss was
\ one of- the pioneers in the Yukon. He
<?7as at Juneau in 18S7 and joined in the
rush to Dawson3 afterward coming tc
Fairbanks. JLast year he went outside
V7ith his family and purchased a home
at Victoria. Both he and Mr. Wilson
have disposed of their interests in the
.'Fairbanks dietriet -and -invested then:
moaoyiin Cordov^jAlaaka, Tacoma a
\Victoria,