Douglas Island news. [volume], March 23, 1910, Image 4

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We have just received a very large
line of the best Blue and White
Ware, triple plated acid proof
AT POPULAR PRICES
BEFORE YOU GO OUT HUNTING
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Amunition and
Sporting Goods
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a W. ANDREWS, G. A. P. D. C. D. DUNANN, G. P. A.
1 13 James St., Seattie 1 12 Market St., San Francisco
Right reserved to chcncc tnss Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS WILL HE
COTTAGE CITY
Northbound, March 2, 14, 26; April 6, 17, 28
Southbound, March 3, 15, 27; April 7, 18, 29
For information regarding: passenger and freight rates, apply to
R. R. HUBBARD, Agent.
Alfll Filil I UMII c?.
LOUIS G. THOM-YS,
Manager.
| Manufactures
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OUT OF YELLOW CEDAR
Special Articles of Furniture Made and Guaranteed.
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AGTS FOR
WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS
Olyttipia Brewing Company
...Hlaska flyers...
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Between Seattle, Ketchikan, Doug
las, Juneau and Skagway.
Due to arrive at Douglas :
Jefferson
Northbound, Feb. 10, 23,
March 7, 19, 31 ,
April 12
Steamers and sailing dates subject to
change without notice. This is tho
only line of steamers calling reiru
Jurly at Douglas both North and
South bound
Elmer E. Smith, Agent, Douglas, Alaska
The CITY BAKERY
GEO. R1EDI & SON, Props.
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We have the reputation of pro
ducing the best bread in Douglas
Sanitary Bakery Methods
FREE DELIVERY
I Parties supplied with made-to
order dainties.
Your Patronage Solicited
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JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION CO
FERRY TIME CARD
LEAVE JUNEAU
For Douglas and Treadwell:
8:00 a. m.
9:00 a. m.
11:00 a. in.
1:00 p. m.
a:uu p. ai.
4:30 p. m.
6:30 p. m.
8:00 p. m.
Sundays only 9:00 p. m.
LEAVE DOUGLAS
For Treadwell:
8:15 a. m.
<9:15 a. m
11:15 a. m.
1:15 p.m.
3:15 p. m.
4:45 p. m.
6:45 p. m.
8:15 p.m.
9:15 p. m.
Sundays
bor Juneau:
8:80 a. m.
10:45 a. m.
12:05 a. m.
1:45 p. m.
3:30 p. m.
5:05 p. m.
7:05 p. m.
8:30 p. m.
9:30 p. m.
LEAVE treadwell
For Douglas aud Juneau:
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8:25 a.m.
10:35 a.m.
1*2:00 a. m.
1:40 p. m.
4:55 p. m.
6:55 p. m.
8:25 p. m.
9:25 p. m. Sundays
Trip made to Nevada Creelc? Mondays and
Thursdays, leaving: Juneau at 9:00 a.m.
Sundays S:00 a. m. trips omitted
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
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Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Skagway had a near-flood last week, j
caused by the sudden warm spell.
Au exchange says there are uo sa
loons in tbe Lditarod. What a knock.
Chandiar quartz is looking up. A
three-stamp mill has been scut iuto
the district.
Rev. M.H. Jackson, an Atlin preacher,
has got chilly pedal extremities and
gone South.
Beginning March 15th, the stage fare
from Whitehorse to Dawson, has been ;
raised from 380 to $100.
George Drybaugh, a sailor, was
drowned at Ketchikan March 12th, by
the upsetting of a dory.
Through the consolidation of the
newspapers of Fairbanks', seven pi inters
were thrown out of work.
An exchange asserts that feeding
dogs raw ooligan will either drive them
mad or kill them outright.
Private individuals have expended in
the neighborhood of $50,(K)0 on wagon
roads in the vicinity of tfnik.
The mercury registered 11 below at j
Afognak last month. This the coldest
wit.hiu the memory of the oldest inhab
itant.
It is perhaps worthy of note that a
fire insurance company doing business
at Skagway promptly paid a loss
of suo.
The "government" is contemplating
the construction at Carcross of an in
dustrial manual training school for
Indians.
Both the DeGroff and the.Mills mines
on Chichagof island are working full
blast. The mills started about the
middle of the month.
The steamer Northwestern, which
was squeezed in the ice while on her
way to Nome last June, has been re
paired at a cost of 8150,000.
Deputy Marshal BrightwelJ, of Cor
dova, announces that no matter how
disreputable the place, liquor cannot
be sold in that town without a license.
The case against May Finu, who was j
ajre&ted a^ Circle and taken to Fair- 1
banks on t Lie charge of selling liquor
without a license, ha3 been dismissed. I
Warm weather has put the skaters
and curlers out of business at White
horse and almost ruined (he winter
trail. In some places the water is
running over the river ice two or three
feet deep.
Capt. William Hemy Ferguson, who
at one time had interests on Seward
peninsula, has experienced a change of
heart j-iuce going to Washington, D. C.
lie is now very much in favor of a com
mission form of government for Alaska.
S. H. Graves, president of the White
Pass & Yukon railroad, is back from a
six-months' visit iu Europe, and au
uounces that the ouly improvements i
planned for the coming summer is the
completion of the Whitehorse. branch. |
Robert Stein, a contributor to a
Washington paper, conceives iu his
imaginative brain, an idea that the
^United States should trade that strip ,
of laud in Southeastern Alaska kuowu
as the "panhandle" to Canada, in re
turn for which it should receive that
strip of country lying between the
liOlh and lilst meridians. This pro
posed territory, Steiu declares, would
correst a geographical moustrosity.
r\n Ol?\ of ^eadac^e9 are caused i
V /O by Eye strain; can be cur- 1
ed permanently by proper fitted glasses
[. J. SHARICK. opticiak JUNEAU
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t?i i Foreign and Domestic
Woolens in Stock
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F. WOLLAND
MERCHANT
TAILOR
jj JUNEAU, ALASKA
If the press dispatches report cor
rectly, Clarence Cunningham has ad
mitted to the committee that he made
incorrect statements in the documents
he signed at the Juneau land office, and
that he had attempted to conceal the
interest which the Guggenheims had in
the claims.
The vessels of the Pacific Coast
Steamship company operating in Alas
ka carried 10,102 passengers daring the
year 1909. This was a gain of 5,080 over ?
1908. In the transportation of freight
the Alaska business of the company in
creased from 77,984 tons iu 1908 to 9J,
92G tons in 1009.
W. 11. Nichols and George M. Savage
have incorporated the Pacific Barge
company, with a capital of $10,000, and
have purchased three barges to estab
lish a line between Tacocia and Alas
kan ports as far north as Nome, after
the style of barges ou the Atlantic
coast and the Great Lakes.
A slab of quartz plated with gold is
the remarkable occurrence in nature
which has been takeu from the working
tunuel of the Gold iiulliou Mining Co.
during the winter. The piece of quartz
is about 18 inches iu length and about
a foot in width, and viewed from the
gold side it is literally plated with the
yellow tnetal. ? Seward Gateway. ^
A Seattle paper says that since L. H
Gray & Co. relinquished the agency for
the steamship Humboldt, Mr. Gray hag
been looking over the field to learn
whether another boat would prove re
muoerative. He declared that the out
look is satisfactory, in view of t he in
creasing business to Alaska points, and
is desirous of being early on the
grouud.
A Seward doctor named Hums went
dowu to Seattle for a visit. There >.
some one promptly stole his overcoat.
This made Burns hot. Shortly after he
saw a coat on a citizen of the .Spirit
City that looked like the one he had
lost and the doctor grabbed the wearer
by the neck and told him to peel it off.
Bat the Seattle citizen proved that the
coat he wore was his own and has sued
the Seward man for- $10,000 fur mussing
up his feelings.
The Fairbanks Times prints the fol
lowing: Word has just been received
from the Koyukuk of one of the richest
strikes vet made iu that district. The
Haley & Shook claim near the mouth of
Vermont creek, which is tributary to
the Hammond river, is reported to be
I lie richest ever. One siugle pan yielded
$?100 iu dust. Sixty pans went $00. In
two days' panning, 82,100 worth of dust
was realized. The paystreak is 40 feet
wide. Ten dollar paus on each side are
common. This report is authentic.
jtineau Steamship ?o.
U. S. MAIL STEAMER
Electric Lighted Steam Heated
LEAVES .JUNEAU
For Funter, Hoonah, Gypsum, Tenakeo,
Killisnoo Chatham and Sitka at 8 a. m.
January 2, X, 14. 20, %: Feb. 1, 7, 18, 19, 25;
March 3, 9, IS, 21, 27.
Fox* Killisnoo and Sirka di.'ioaj Jan.
12, 24; Feb. 5, 18 . March 14, 2(5
For Tyee and Karanof: Januarys, 20;
February 1, 13? March 9) 21.
For Sanitarium (Sitka Hot Springs):
Jan. 2, 14; Feb. 1, 13; March 3, 15
For Skagway and way ports: January
0, 12, 18, 24, 30; February. 5, 11, 17, 23;
March 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, 31.
Sailing dates subject to
change without notice
WILLIS E. NOWELL, Mgr.
1L S. HDDSOX ALEX T. SELSOS"
THE DOUGLAS HOTEL
HUDSON & NELSON, Prop'rs
DOUGLAS, ALASKA
Rooms by th? Day, Week or Month.
Steam Heat. Electric Lights
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Bar in Connection
?SPECIAL BRANDS?
Seal of Kentucky Bonded Whiskey.
Barclay '7G. Maryland Rye. ^
Careful attention given to all orders.