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VOL. 12.
The Douglas Island News.
DOUGLAS CITY AND TREAD WELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, L910
NO. .48
i^i I
I NEW ARRIVALS |
^ Every boat, that comes to this port briugs something new to add
to the popularity of this store for haviug what you want at the price ^5
you wish to pay. Among the many new things to arrive last week we
desire to call particular attention to the following: IS
% Childrens & Misses Coats
^ These coats are made of good
quality material, nicely tailored,
^ all up-to-date style* and a good
?= range of colors to choose from.
Priced from
v\
$7.50 to $15.00
B Popular Silk Waists
Another lot of Popular Silk
5^ Waists iu Plaids, Persiau and
Dresden designs aud a nice rauge
mZ of plain colors from $5 to 7.50
Also an advance shipment of
White Lingerie Waists at
^ $2-75 to $6.75
Koyal Society moss ^
This popular Wash Floss for
Kai broidery Work is preferred
by many women to silk floss. ^
We have just received a full ^
range of colors. Price
30c per Dozen
Embroidery Silks ~
Braioerd <fc Armstrong's Km- ^
broidery Silks need uo recom ^
mendation aad cost no more ^2$
thau inferior silks. A beautiful ^ j
range of colors, including the ^
new autumn tints to select
from, at ^
50c per Dozen ^
Another lot of guaranteed Silk Skirts in black and a variety of colors, guaratf
teed to wear three months, or a new skirt free, at each $5.00
| B. n. Beh rends Co., Inc. |
H 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA ^
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2, j
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING I
at 8 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall \
A. K. JEHNKE. C. C.
CHAS. A.HOPP, K. of K. AS.
Vi<itintr Kiutrhts invited,
Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E.
Meets every Second and Fourth Wednesday
Night of the month at 8:00 o'clock ?
At the Douglas Fraternal Hall
All visiting Brothers invited to*t-tcnd.
M. S. HUDSON, W. P.
JOHN SIX* FT. Secretary .
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
^ Lodge nw?ots second and fourth
Tuesdays of euch motiti. .
' IVM. STUB BINS, W. M.
J.N. STOOD Y. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. I, L 0. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hall
Visitinpr brothers always welcome.
L. W. KILBUKN, N. G.
JOHN LIVIE, Rec. Sec.
Aurora Encampment No. ?
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p. m.
Brothers of the Koyal Purple are cordially
invited.
J. H. McDON A LI>, C. P.
HUGH McRAE, Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MRS. MARY RUSSELL, N. G.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVEN ING at 8 cTcloek
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Hrothers Invited.
\VM. JUHLIN", Sachem.
WM. H. KELLY, C. of R.
Tread well Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY NIGHT, at 8:00, at Fraternal hall.
J. F. TOMPKINS, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK . Arctic Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL
Harry C. DeVighne, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third and D Streets
Office Hours i to 5 and 7 to 9 p. m.
'Phone 401
W. E. Stoft, D. D. S*
DENTIST
OFFICE: Over Douglas City Meat Market
HOURS: 8 a.m. to 12 in., 1 p.m to 5 p. m
Evenings by appointment
Phone 3-8 - DOUGLAS
C. F. Montgomery, M. D.
PHYSICIAN SURGEON
WOMEN and VENEREAL DISEASES
Albert R. Sargeant, M* D?
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third St., Opposite O'Connor's Store
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1p.m.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
Teiejxhouev? O&ice 3-2; Kcsideuco 5-2-2
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.!
Major J. t\ A. Stroug has launched
the Iditarod Nugget.
A miutis aoioDg the things Seattle
is reachiug out after.
Dr. Kane, the postmaster At White
liorse, has gone to England.
The first frost at Wraugell was on
October loth, says the SeutiueL
Cordova uow has eighteen saloons,
but the "Truth" says they are uot pros
perous.
The Iditarod Pioneer claims that the
output of that section will exceed 86U0,
000 this season.
The i'ukou Valley News has come to
life agaiu at Tauaua. Albert (i. Stauim
is the publisher.
It became necessary recently to close
' the Dawsou school on account of
whooping cough.
One hundred and four cases were
cleared from the court docket at Fair
banks in two days.
The Cahoon Creek miue, above
i Haines, has closed dowu for tiie season,
after a very successful ruu.
When the l'ukon Valley News started
| up again, one of the first to come for
ward and subscribe was a native.
The Star of Greenland, with the pack
and crew of the Wrangell cannery, got
I away for Sau Francisco on the 15th.
With volume three, number 23, the
i day of the publication of the Haines
Pioueer Press was changed to Saturday.
Southeastern Alaska towns are to be
permitted to contribute to a fund to be
used in advertising the country as a
summer resorL
Iu one respect the country across
J the line has it all over Uncle Sam's ter :
! ritory ? Thanksgiving Day comes
earlier, Monday, Oct. 31st.
Ail order has been issued by the post
office department which makes it no
j longer imperative for Alaska post- 1
1 masters to stamp the letters on the
back.
When Customs Collector Willis visit- 1
ed the Iditarod he found six steam
boat owners operating boats that would
not stand inspection and fl ned them
each $500.
Three Haines men have contracted to
freight ore from Rainy Hollow to
Haines this winter for Burham & Ken
nedy. The ore will be shipped to the
Tacoma smelter.
R. (*. White, secretary to J udge Over
field, puts in his Bpare time at Fair
banks teaching shorthand to a class of
about 40 young people. He donates his
services lor the good of the oausa.
Until Oct. 25, 1910
The "DELINEATOR" and
"Everybody's Magazine"
Make it possible for me to offer YOU
Magazine Bargains that are to all my
previous offers as
EXTRAORDINARY
IS TO
ORDINARY
No. 18.
Everybody's $1.50 ) { All for
McClure ' 1.50 -
Woman's Home Com. . 1.50 ) f $2.85
34.50
No. 19.
Delineator ?1.00) (All for
McClure 1.50 [ 1
Woman's Home Com.. 150) ( $2.55
"$4.00
No. 20.
Deliueator 51.00 ) {
Everybody's 1.50 1 } All for
McClure 1.50 / | S3.50
Woman's Home Com. 150( '(
85.50
Ttee above are only THREE out of a? Spcdals <
have for you. Come Early and avoid the
Christmas Rush. Vours for Buslnes5.
R. R. HUBBARD
The Five Fingers Coal Co., which hae
mines on the Yukon river between
Whitehorse and Dawson has beeu ship
ping coal all summer to Dawson, aud
it is said to give excelleut satisfaction.
The Seward Commercial Club is to
begin an active campaign for the es
tablishment of a laud office within the
confines of the Third judicial division
of Alaska, with headquarters preferably
at Seward.
Judge L N. Wilcoxen, formerly a well
known resident of Skagway, died re
cently at his home in Seattle, of heart ?
disease. The judge was a prominent I
member of the Arctic Brotherhood. He
left Skagway in I90G.
Since 1005, underwriters have been
called upon to pay the losses on the
Alaska salmon fleet amounting to
nearly $1,000,000. The rate has been
gradually advanced from per cent
to close to 3 per cent.
The news of the death of M. J. Heney
cast a gloom over Cordova. Officials
of the Copper River &, Northwestern
railroad say thatGeueral Mauager E.C.
Hawkius will probably have charge of
the construction work.
Under a law passed by the late con
gress, Alaska has been created a light
house district, by itself. Commander
E. H. Tillman, (J. S. N., has been placed
in charge of the new district, which is
known as the Sixteenth.
The Arraeria is the first lighthouse
tender to be assigned exclusively to
Alaska waters. She recently sailed for
the north. She carried five motor
boats to be distributed among the
lighthouse statious of Southeaste: n
Alaska.
'Since its introduction among the Es
kimos chewing gum has almost entirely
displaced the long honored gum drop,
says an old Arctic captain. What ap I
peals to the natives >is that while th<#
gum drop is cousumed in a few mo |
meuta, a stick of chewing gum has
stayiug qualities, and can be made to
do service with the whole family, turn
about.
Delegate Wickersham ha9 presented
the name of Claude Kell for appoint
ment to the naval academy at Anapolis.
There is a peculiar fitness in the selec
tion, seeing that it was Nome's turn to
be favored. Young Keifs brother was
the appointee named by Former Dele
gate Thomas Cale. He pa99ed his ex
amination and was ready to enter the
academy, when he was stricken with
sickness and died.
The lav/ creating a F-ederal bureau of
Mines in the department of the interior,
which became effective July 1, 1910,
transferred to the new bureau the in
vestigations of mine accidents and
| fuels as carried on by the technologic
branch of the United States geological
survey. With the transfer of the in
vestigations the Bureau of Mines as
sumes the distribution of the geological
survey publications relating to these
investigations. The publications may
be obtained by addressing the "Director
of the Bureau of Mines, Washington,
D. C. These publications are distrib
uted free as long as the edition printed
ffemaius in steak.
. t O'Connor
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
What is considered to be one of the ;
greatest tests of the wireless is that i
steamers near Nome caught aerograms ;
from Walter Well man's balloon after it j
had been abandoned half way between
New York and the Bermuda islauds.
A short time ago four lunatics were
being taken South on the Princess j
Royal. When the ship was off the
mouth of the Stikine, one of them -
crawled through a port hole and
dropped into the icy water. He seemed !
to be enjoying the* experience, but of
fered no resistance when a boat'd crew
came to pick him up. When the ship's
doctor offered him a stimulant he took
it gladly aud remarked: "You know,
doctor, I made a mistake."
Big gains in the shipping to Alaska
in September, 1910, over September, I
1909, are shown in the report of the j
business of the port of Seattle for the
month ending September 30, 1910, is
sued recently by Port Warden It. W.
Hill. The total value of exports from
Seattle to all parts of Alaska was
81, 162,707, whil-e a year ago it was only
81,011,675, a gain of nearly 15 per cent*
Not only did the freight traffic gain,
but the number of passengers to aud
from Alaska shows a corresponding
gain. Last month 8,780 persons took j
passage for Alaska, whi-le in the corres- ;
ponding period a year ago 7,472 was the
number.
Falcon Joslyn, president of the Tan
ana Mines railway, arrived in Cordova
last week, the first through passenger
from Fairbanks to Cordova over the j
new overland trail, which meets the
?Copper River railway at Chitina. Mr.
Joslyn says the trail is a boulevard and
that the summer as well as the winter
mails should go by the new route and I
would thereby save several days' time
to Fairbanks. At a banquet given him
by the chamber of commerce he said he
belioved the railroad would be running
to the interior iu a few years and that !
in fifteen years it would have to be
double tracked. Mr. Joslyu is on his
way to Washington, D. C.
The completion of the Panama canal
may enable eastern operators to deliver
high-grade -coals on the Pacific coast at j
prices about the same as those that can
; be offered by operators in Alaska.
Other competing fields will be those
of Vancouver island and New South
Wales. The present markets for Alaska :
coal may be grouped under three heads
? the local market, without competi
tion, about 120,000 tons a year; a mar
, ket competitive, yet favorable, about
350,000 tona; and a competitive market,
about 1,000,000. These rough estimates
indicate that Alaska coal of the better
grade could perhaps find a market to
the extent of 1,000,000 tons a year. It
is impossible to forecast how rapidly
; the market for Alaska coal may expand
| for its expansion depends on the rate
and amount of industrial advancement
made along the Pacific seaboard. That
the demand for high-grade steaming
I and coking coal will inorease rapidly
there ean be no doubt, but that Alaska
fuel will be a strong competitor with
some of the imported coals and also
with the eastern coals after the com
pletion of the Panama canal seems
<a?uaHy .certain. ? Mines and Minerals.
The P.-I. of October 16th says: Witfc
a poet as captain, the new tug Calcium
made her first appearance in Elliott
bay yesterday. She has been converted
from the passenger boat Florence,
which used to run between Juneau and
Douglas, and belongs to the Tacomtt
and Roche Harbor Lime company. She
will be employed in towing lime laden
scows around Puget sound. Capt. Jaa.
J. Doyle is noted for his ballads of life
at sea, mauy of which appeared in the
Post-Intelligencer. For a good many
years he was a resident of Alaska and
mauy of the poems deal with life ie
the north. The engines of the old
Florence have been converted from
coal burners to oil burners, and all the
upper structure and deck house has
been built anew.
What is known as the Klondike
placer mining distriet has produced
over $150,000,000 io gold since 1808, and
mining experts estimate the amount
yet to be mined equal to that already
produced. However, as the remaining
gravel is of a lower grade the work
must be done by machinery, and for
this purpose 20 dredges are in operation
this season, as well as a uumber of hy
draulic plants. There are ten. large
mining companies operating here, the
principal one having 10 dredges and a
large hydraulic plants and it has in
vested over ?17,000^)00 in the district
There are also six incorporated com
panies operating for quartz in the dis
trict, but little has been milled, al
though some high-grade ore has been
found. The gold production of the dis
trict for 1909 was 83,595,985, au increase
over 1908 of $307,321, and the indica
tions are that the production in 191G
will exceed that of 1909. This gold*
with the exception of a small quantity
sent to the new Canadian mint, was all
shipped to the United States, princi
pally by registered mail. Rich de
posits of copper ore have been discov
ered in the southern part of the dis
trict, which is being worked and
shipped to a smelter at Tacoma, Wash.
The rioher ore seems to be on the
White river at the Alaska-Canadiat
line, but this is not miued on account
of the lack of shipping facilities. The
ore extends over a large territory and
is claimed to be the richest in the
world. A good grede of bituminoue
coal is found in various localities. Ac
English concern engaged in mining
coal is constructing a 10,000 h. p. eleo
trie plant for the purpose of supplying
Dawson and other towns with heat and
light, as well as furnishing power tc
dredges, etcM within a radius of 75 tc
100 miles of the plant. All but two al
| the dredges mentioned were manufafr
tured in the United States, as well ae
three-fourths of the tools used hereof or
mining purposes. Two-tbirds of the
mining companies are American con
cerns, and four-fifths of the capital in
vested in mining is American. ? George
C. Cole, United States consul at Daw
son, in Mining Science.
I
Sayso Cones ? for parties, recepfciam
and other functions. Sayso Oones ape
not only a delicacy, but a decided con
venience. Sold by the Douglas Uanfy
liitcheu,