Douglas Island news. [volume], June 15, 1910, Image 4

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SPEAKING OF
ENAMELED WARE
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
CALL AND SEE OUR LINE OF
Amunition and
Sporting Goods
It is the best to be had and we have lots of it
BEST GLASS OF
| Rainier Beer on Douglas Island
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<3?ic"cgv STEAMERS FOR
seattle- Tacoma
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Victoria, Vancouver, Anacortcs, Bcllinghara
Everett, Oiynipra, Port To-htijctkJ, South
Sdiin^Ham. Eureka, Santa Barbara, Mrsico
San Francisco, Los Angeles,, San Diego
G. \V. ANDREWS, a A. P. D. C D. DUNANN, G. P. A.
1 J3 jtno -Sfl _ SezXitt ! 12 Market Sl, San Francisco
Tlfgrht re-acrvcc) to chs?r* this Schedule
NEXT SAILINGS WILL BE
P'i r i / North? May 12; 22, Jnne 1, 12, 24*
V-lty Ol OCattlC South? May 13, 23, Jane 2, 13, 26
f p*i North? May 27, June 6, *18, *30
V^OTX<3.g? l^rlty Sooth ? May 28, June 7, 20, July 2
^Excursion royagea via Sitka and calling at Tako Glacier,
ywr inJo7r?aJ itxi regmydinff passenger and freight rates, app)y to
R. R. HUBBARD, Agent.
AM Fill? ID UHII CO.
LOU3S G. THOM \Sr - - Makagis
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Special Articles of Furniture Made and Guaranteed.
the Canteen
WINE AND LIQUOR MERCHANTS
AGTS FOR Olympia Brewing Company
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Between Seattle, Ketchikan, Doug
las, Juneau and Skagway.
Due to arrive at Douglas :
Jefferson
Tune 3, 14 and 26
Dolphin
June 8 and 20, July 2, 14
Steamers and sailing- dates subject to
change without notice. This is the
only line of steamers calling regu
larly at Douglas both North and
South bound
Elmer E. Smith, Agent, Douglas, Alaska
The CITY BAKERY
GEO. RIEDI, Proprietor.
We hare the reputation of pro
ducing the best, bread in Douglas
Sanitary Bakery Methods
FREE DELIVERY
Parties supplied with made-to
order dainties.
Your Patronage Solicited
JUNEAU FERRY AND NAVIGATION CO
FERRY TIME CARD
LEAVE JUNEAU
For Doufifias and Treadwell:
8:00 a. m. 3:00 p. m.
9:00 a. m. 4:30 p. m.
11:00 a.m. 6:80 p.m.
1:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m.
Sundays only 9:00 p. m.
LEAVE DOUGLAS
For Treadwell: For Juneau:
8:15 a. m. 8:30 a. m.
9:15 a. m 10:45 a. m.
11:15 a. m. 12:05 a. m.
1:15 p. m. 1:45 p. m.
3:15 p. m. 3:30 p. m.
4:45 p.m. 5:05 p.m.
6:45 p. m. 7:05 p. m.
8:15 p.m. 8:30 p.m.
9:15 p. m. Sundays 9:80 p. m.
LEAVE treadwell
For Douglas and Juneau:
8:25 a. m. 3:25 p. ro.
10:35 a.m. 4:55 p.m.
12:007a. m. 6;55 p.'m.
1:40 p. m. 8:25 p. m.
9:25 p. m. Sundays
Trip made to Nevada Creek? Mondays'and
Thursdays, leaving Juneau at 9:00.a. m.
Sundays 8:00 a* m. trips omlttod
AROUND THE WORLD
Dr. Simpson's Story of His Visits
to the Countries of the
Old World
Bombay, May 6, 1910.
Friend Hopp: ? Have just received
"News" with first installment of my i
letters. They read rather jerky, but '
probably not more than 1 talk. I do j
not dare to read my letters over ? if I ,
did I would never send them. How
ever, there is this comfort: that these
letters will be worse. Then I was in
Kobe, nice and cool; now I am swelter
ing with the heat. Besides, 1 have a
grouch. I have received a number of
letters from Mr. T. J. Patterson and
several batches of papers, but I have j
not had a word from another Alaskan I
although 1 have written to nearly a
hundred. Even my old friend John 1.
White, a man of whom 1 have always
spoken kindly, has not answered any
of my letters and has utterly forgotten
my existence.
Before 1 begin 1 wish to 6ay that Mr.
Murray, the water-works man, sent me
a message through T. J. Patterson, say- 1
ing that he wauted me to give the full
name of the parties whom I am writing
about. He also suggested that I im
prove my spelling, but he can go to!
thunder. 1 was at a city a few days
ago. The station label said that the
place was Jeypoor. I went in and there
was a proclamation an the wall issued
by the mahraja of Jaypore. 1 went out;
passed the Jeypur postoffice, the Jaipur
gas works, the Jaypoor water works,!
went on to the Jaipore hotel and found
the letter heads read Jaypor. How the
devil does he expect me to spell a word
like that?
Left Kobe for Shimoneseki and pass- j
ed through a rich aud well cultivated
couutry. Most of it is low and flat aud i
is planted out in rice. There are hun- '
dreds of miles of dykes, some of them '
forty or fifty feet high. Road ran near
seashore most of the day. Arrived at !
Shimoneseki after dark and rose before
daybreak. Crossed over to another
island, a distance of several miles. A
few hundred years ago there was a bad
sda fight, there being over five hundred j
vessels on each side. This sounds big, j
but very few of them wore any larger ?
than the Anita Phillips. The rebel
side won and sunk all the king's ves- j
sels. The king was three or four years
old and his grandmother was looking
after him. When she saw the battle
was lost she picked him up aud jumped
into the sea. Both were drown.
The sun rose as 1 crossed to Nogi and (
as I looked at the thousands of fishing ;
vessels coming in or getting made
ready to go out I could imagine what
it was like a few huudred jears since.
Kumamoto is about a hundred miles
from Nogi. The road passed through a
very rich valley in places over fifty
miles wide. Near Nogi are large iron 1
works and coal mines; farther on are
sugar mills and many kinds of manu- 1
factories. I saw three or four men
ploughiug. the first I had seeu in trav
eling 1,000 miles in Japan. I reached 1
Kumamoto, went to hotel, found that I
nobody spoke English. Fortunately at '
Kobe 1 had one of those lucid streaks !
that hit me occasionally. 1 had a ]
hunch that I might have trouble aud j 1
had the hotel manager give me a letter i !
telling who I was and that I wanted to ' 1
seethe leper asylum. 1 produced the
letter and everybody brightened up. i
They bundled me into a rickshaw and
the Jap started off. It was two miles
out of town, but it was a boulevard all
M. S. HUDSON ALEX T. NELSON
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THE DOUGLAS HOTEL
HUDSON & NELSON, Prop'rs
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DOUGLAS, ALASKA
Rooms by the Day, Week or Month
Steam Heat. Electric Lights
Bar in Connection I
?SPECIAL BRANDS?
Seal of Kentucky Bonded Whiskey.
Barclay '7G. Maryland Rye.
Careful attention given to all orders
the way. Tbe chftplaio at the y ~~
could talk English and I h*d .
plain to the rickshaw man what I wan
ed the hotel people to know; wb
wanted for dinner; that 1 wa"1
stay all night; that I pr8ferred Ear
pean to Japanese grub, and won
it soft pillow-that a wooden one ga
me a headache. I spent most of the
day at the leper asylum and examined
over seventy cases. The proportion of
blind ones among them seemed to be
less than 1 had seen in Egypt or Tur
key, but the other symptons were
about the same. Possibly the sand and
hot climate would account for the eyes
being so often affected in Turkey or
Ecvpt. The Japanese physioian was a
very intelligent, man. Said he was
curing some of his cases.
There is an old castle at Kumamoto
and its outer wall* are about four miles
long. It stands on a steep hiil, and to
make the hill impossible to climb they
have built a stone wall at all tbe doubt
ful places, aud in some places this
stone wall is 500 feet high. There are
three walls and two moats. There are
10,000 Jap soldiers stationed here.
That eveniug I had a number of officers
call on me. 1 sat on the floor in my
stocking feet (I had to tike off my
shoes before going up to my room; and
leaned against a pile of silk cushions,
for although everything in the room
was rich, the cushions being covered
with silk, 1 had no chair. They bad
heard in the castle that 1 was in
trouble, and one officer after another
came to help me out. Each one knew
from ten to twenty words of English,
but by the time 1 had got through with
all them 1 had my bill of fare laid out
ten days ahead. For dinner I was to
have soup, fish, chicken, beefsteak, po
tatoes and some other vegetable; for
breakfast, toast, tea, beefsteak, eggs,
fl3b and so on for days, so you see 1
did not go hungry. I bought a bottle
of beer each time an officer called,
am very sorry, but they do not drink
beer well. At bedtime two girls came
in with a pile of thick silk-covered
quilts. They spread one on tbe floor,
another on top of it and another until
it was about two feet high. They
tucked or turned one down at the head,
rolled another up for a pillow and
started to undress me. I remonstrated;
baid it was indecent, that Nick King
would not like it if he heard of it, but
the gills did not understand English.
I bad to strip and get into a kimona.
If 1 had not, those infernal girls would
be there yet and so would I. 1 got into
bed and they piled on quilts until they
had me several feet, not under ground,
but under quilts. But the rest is unin
teresting.
(Continued next week)
Making Douglas Beautiful. In the
spring campaign of cleanliness, you
will need ready mixed house paints,
floor paint, Jap a lac, lead and oil,
brushes of all kinds, or it may be a can
of Black Diamond Roof and Boat paint.
Jensen, tbe Second street hardware
man, can supply them all.
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J STEAM FITTING
\ SHEET METAL
? WORK
* Jobbing, all kinds of Repair and Mb
t chino Work, Phonographs and Sewing
? Machines Repaired.
\ GAS ENGINE REPAIRING
4 Front Street, near Ball Park, Dough ^
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Juneau Steamship Co.
U. S. MAIL STEAMER
Georgia
AND RUSTLER
Electric Lighted Steam Heated
Juneau=Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau forFunter, Hoonah, Gyp
sum, Tenakee, Eillisnoo, Chatham, Sitka
Wednesday at 8 a. m.
For KilHsnoo and Sitka direct: April 9
and 20; May 12 aud 22; June 12.
For Tyee and Baranof: April 6 and 20;
May 11 and 25; June 8 and 22
For Sanitarium (Sitka Hot Springs):
April 6 and 20; May 4 and 18; June 1 ana 15
Juneau = Skagway Route
Leaves Jnneau for Eagle River, Yankee
Cove, Comet, Haines and Skagway
Mondays at 8 a. m.
WILLIS E. NOVELL, Mgr.