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The Douglas Island News.
VOL. 12.
^ January Stock Reducing Sale %
Just a few samples of the bargains we are giving:
?: $12.50 Coat of Scotch Tweed ^ ^2
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^ Our $20.00 "Wooltex" Coats of pn 3
Colored and Black Broadcloths ^
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^ Ladies' Coats for lU.^O ^
^ Black and Colored Broadcloth
^ $35.00 Coats now
^ $25 Suits in Reds, Blues, Black
^ and Fancy, now
E FREE, with any of the above Coats or :2
?T Suits, your choice of any of our Ladies Hats 2
I B. H. Behrends Co., Inc. |
E 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA i
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at S o'clock,
in Odd Fellows Hnll
L. S. FERRIS. C. C.
CHAS.A. HUPP. K. of R. AS.
Visiting Knijrhts are cordially iuviteu,
Douglas Aerie, No. ii?? F? 0. E.
MEETS EVERY WEDNESDAY .NIGHT
At 8:30 O'clock
At the Douglas Fraternal Hall
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
A. G. JOHNSON. W. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Gasli.iernx Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
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Alaska Ledge No. i, I. 0. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening Odd
Fellow s Hull
Visiting brothers alwa>s welcome.
J. M. McDONALD, N. G.
JOHN LI VIE. Ree. Sec.
Aurora Encampment No. i
m??ets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p. tn.
Brothers <>f the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
P. W. TAYLOR. C. P.
P. KKOWN. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturday*.
Visitors are cordially invited.
.MRS. ANN A KNUTSON.N.G. j
MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Sec'y.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. H.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING nt S o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
M. J. KELLY. Sachem.
Ji M. H. KELLY. C. of K.
Tread well Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY NISHTvat $n)0, at Fraternal halL
A. T. NELSON, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL
Harry C DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
OFFICE
3rd and D Streei
Office Hours 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phytic 401
G. Cuthbert Mau!e, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Office, D Street Over Riedi's Bakery
'Phone, Douglas S
hofrs: j
9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
W. E. Stoft, D. D* S?
DENTIST
OFFICE: 0*er Douglas City Meat Market
HOURS: 8 a.m. to 12 m., 1 p.m to 5 p. m
ami 7 p. m. to & p. m.
Phoua 1-e - DOUGLAS
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
.Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
information for Everybody.
The dog poisouer is still working at
Whitehorse.
The Skagway Alaskan has decided to
sell its cash register.
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The Pioneer Press contends that
Haines is the place for the crazy house.
Attorney Cobb, of J uueau, has been
reinstated aud may now practice iu the
courts of Alaska.
Thomas Kendrick, a section man, was
k;lled Saturday by a rotary ou the
White Pass railroad.
Valdez citizens will call a convention
to protest against the Beveridge plan
of governing Alaska.
C. S. Burch and Thumas Ingerhain
aie experimenting with an ice automo
bile on Lake Benuett.
Of them that weut down to tho sea in
9hips last year, there was only one life
lost for every 1,440,000.
Additional appropriations for Mie ex
tension of the signal corps service in
Alaska have been refused by congress.
The Skagway Alaskau finds comfort
In the fact that the ground hog did not
see his shadow in that viciuity on the
secoud.
As an addition to the work of the j
census takers of Southeastern Alaska,
a record of the arrivals will be kept un
til May loth.
The Skagway Alaskan man contends
that be saw a bird sitting on a fence
and that therefore spring has come.
He is not just sure what kind of a bird
it was.
Secretary of the Interior 13allinger
says that Alaska is a prize package to
the United States and that the vast re
sources of the country are as yet un
derestimated.
At the suggestion of Secretary of the
Interior Ballinger, a bill has been in
troduced in congress providing au ap
propriation to build an asylum for the
insane in Alaska.
A government official and another
man attempted to jump the oall
grounds at Ketchikan. They were re
pulsed by angry citizens. The national
game is popular in the Gate City.
The Wrangell Sentinel avers that the |
bodies of two men were left in a
warehouse in that town for two nights
at the mercy of the rats. The Sentiuel
blames it all on Court Commissioner
Snyder.
From Sitka comes the report of a big
strike on the Jumbo claims nearChich
agoff. A six-foot vein has been discov
ered which assays high in free gold. J.
T. Bauer, of the U. S. signal corps, is
the principal owner. t
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The steamer Leelanaw has been pur
chased by the Alaska Steamship com
pany from R. Dunsmuir Sc Sous for the
Seattle Nome trade. The' price paid
was ?SO.OOO.
Delegate Wickersham has introduced
a bill in congress creating a coal reser
vation of 15,000 acres in Alaska, the
coal to be used for the benetit of the
United States navy.
II. IS. LeFevre has been removed as
J. S. commissioner at Skagway, and
Martin Conway appointed as his suc
cessor. This was doue at the request
of Judge Thomas Lyons.
Godfrey Chealander, who got his
start in the Windy City of the North,
and was afterwards called the father of
the A.-Y.-P. exposition, now has am
bition to become a member of the city
council at Seattle.
The steamer Kentucky, enroute from
New York to Seattle, sank Feb. 4th,
when 240 miles east of Cape Hatteras.
C'apt. Moore and a crew of 4G men were
taken off In safety by the Alamo. The
Kentucky was recently purchased by
the Alaska Coast, company for the
Alaska run.
A Ketchikau citizen has a post card
which the Miner says is a curiosity.
The card was made of aluminum and
was sent to JJerschel island. The ex- 1
treme cold in the far North crystal/zed
the aluminum until two thirds of it is
iu powder ? only the postmark retain
ing its original form.
The steamer Farallou, of the Alaska
Steamship company, Capt. Hunter in
command, was wrecked ou a reef near
Iliamna bay ou Jauuaiy 5. Her pas
gers and crew reached shore without a
life being lost. On Jan. 7th, the second
mate and four sailors started for
Kodiak in a small boat and have not
been heard from since.
From the howl in the article on lu
diau testimony in the Juueau Daily
Record, one can almost see the sub- i
I
scriber rubbing bis toes. Wblle the
native perjures himself on the witness
stpnd like some white men, we know
the United States commissioners and
marshals of Southeastern Alaska well |
enough to know that "no poor home
less and unfortuuate white mau" is in
the toils of the law without cause. ?
Sitka Thlinget.
It is a long drop for the city of Daw
son, which was once tho center of the
gold excitement of the North, but now
the board of trade is workiug to divert
a liit'e of the Iditarod travel that way.
The > >awson News presents its claims :
as follows: "Dawson is the only safe i
end eane route to the Iditarod. Trav
elers from the South can come by the
iuland sea to Skagway, cross the pas3
in a day by railway, and then come by
small boat or steamer to Dawson, and
continue the same way to the mouth of
the Innoka, which virtually lands them
r ? the Iditarod. This fact is easily ap
preciated here, but with the thousands
of prospective stampedere outside it
may be little known, and those who do
know may yield to the sophistry of
transportation agents and try any old ;
route but the right one." i
(Uboiesale and Retail
Dealer in
Stroller White, of the Whitehorse
Star, is reported at Puyallup, Wash.,
a*id the only wetness he complains of
falls from heaven.
Alaska is the last great body of
natural resources left to the citizens of
the United States. A great political
fight is being waged around it; it is un
immensely rich territory and is coveted
by big financiers. Senators, represen
tatives, governors are being dragged
into the scandal of its possible spolia
tion. What is Alaska? It really never i
has been interpreted so that all of us i
could grasp its full and immense
meaning. There is only one writer who
pan "do" Alaska in this way. That
writer is Rex Beach, who is now pre
pa< ing for Hampton's a seiies of extra
ov-'ioary articles on the territory.
Th> y will begin in an eaiJy issue and
wi:l 'lesciibe the exact conditions in
our northernmost province today. ?
JJampton's Magazine.
A lettei received in this city from an
old-time miner and prospector of the
Fairbanks country, gives a very iiu
f.-.vorable description of the new Jdita
rod diggings, says the Seattle P.- 1. The
1 et te r, under date of December *29, is
written by George A. Kendall, and says,
in part: "I hear there is quite a stam
pede fever in Seattle fur the new dig
ging ? Iditarod. It is the usual steam
boat fake. Men who left heie last fall
for that, country are returning here
every day. One man wanted to bring a
sample of the dust, and could find only
about 82.50 worth in the whole Iditarod
camp and this the prospectorjwould not
part with. They have a few colors, just
as in most parts of Alaska. The whole
country is staked. Under one of Judge
VVickersham's decision the number of
claims a man may stake is limited ou'y
by the length of his legs or the number
of stakes he is able to put up. Of
course, if he stakes more than he can
handle, he is liable to lose some, but
most people are chary < if lawsuits and
pass the stakes by."
A n Alaska Free Information and
Publicity bureau will be established
with headquarters at Seattle. The
purpose of the orgauizatlou is to fur
nish free information of every descrip
tion pertaining to Alaska; to maintain
a camprehensive exhibit of Alaska's in
dustries and resources, and to advertise
Alaska geneially by furnishing news- j
papers, magazines and trade journals
with reliable data and facts, in the 1
form of live news stories, concerning
the mining, agricultural and commer
cial resources and possibilities of the
territory. The bureau is to be main
tained by subscriptions from the or
ganized commercial bodies of Alaska,
by contributions from the transporta
tion companies operating in Alaska,
and such other subscriptions as may be
offered. The business of the bureau |
will be conducted by a temporary man- i
ager who will act until such time as
authorized representatives of the com
mercial bodies of Alaska may meet
and perfect a permanent organization ,
by the election of officers and the ap- j
pointment of executive heads of de
partments. A. W. Rockford, formerly
editor of the Valdez News, is in charge
of the business of the bureau.
Looking Forward
Scene I ? Juneau. Date, Oct. 15, 1010.
Alaska appointive Council in session.
Member from New York (formerly Tom
Piatt's stable boy) speaking:
"Gentlemen: I am deeply interested
in the heroic and haidy pioneers who
left home and friends and Molly and
the baby to come up here to this land
of snow and cold, and who by their
sturdy, honest and capable foil have
opened in Alaska such rich restricts as
Ihe Klondike and built in Alaska such
beautiful cities as Dawson and Juneau.
(Applause from Rhode Island member,
formerly butler in the Aldrich chateau.)
1 have been in Alaska nearly a week,
thoroughly considering the needs,
hopes, desires and best interests of the
heroic heroes who built these moun
tains and opened the way for Ihe brains
of we eastern statesmen to guide and
direct, I have arrived at Ihe conclusion
that what Alaska needs is a pickle i'ac^
tory." (Sensation.) "I find that the
propagation of rutabaga has been neg
lected. My God! gentlemen, can we
stand idly by with our hands m our
pockets for a moment, when congress
has directed us to put them in the
pockets of the sturdy, hardy, heroic
miner and fisbeiman whom our smiling
president lores so well? We cauuot.
What will Payne think of us, and De
pew and Joseph Cannon?" (Tears from
the West Virginia member, erstwhile
an Elkins chauffeur.)
Alaska mernbei ? "May I ask the
gentleman a question?" (Consterna
tion among eastern members.)
"No, teir! I.'s against, the rules of the
house which Joseph Cannon so con
siderately framed for our government.
Phis ignoiacce of the Alaska member
is so appalling lhat ' must ask for an
immediate adjournment. The clerk
from Maine, assisted l>y the assistant
clerk from Vermont will draw warrants
for ?7,500 payable to each of the east
ern members and $25 to the ignor
amuses from Alaska for this day's work
in the interest of the sturdy aud heroic
pioneers. ? Ketchikan Miner.
Why Run Risks?
A Canadian autnor wrote an anthem
for a recent celebration iu Toronto.
Toward the end of the exercises when
the people were going out a few at a
time the author rushed to the conduc
tor and said:
"Is it over?"
"Practically."
"But, great Scott, man, they haveu't
sung my anthem!"
"Weil," said the conductor, "so loug
as the people are going out peacefully
and quietly, why sing it at all?"? Ex.
"Sir, I wish to make your daughter
my wife!"
The old man hesitated. "Hadn't you
better see her mother first?" he asked,
gently, after thinking a moment.
"I've seen her mother, and it doesn't
make any difference ? I'm willing to
take the chances!"? Puck.
"1 think every town in Alaska has a
smaller population now than it had
five years ago, except Cordova, per
haps, and the town of Haines Mission."
? Major Richardson before senate com-,
mittee.