Douglas Island news. [volume], December 07, 1910, Image 1

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YOUR XMAS SELECTION
To assist yon to make your Christmas gifts we would suggest any
of the following articles. We have lots of others to choose from
and will hold any article until you are ready for it.
CAD HIM Cigar Box, Tie Rack, Military Brush Set, Bath Robe,
1 VH Illiil Smoking Set, Paper Cutter, Silver Match Safe, Um
brella, Collar and Cuff Box, Tobacco Jar.
CAD HCD Set of Furs, Leather Handbag, Silk Waist, Umbrella,
run licit pine Handkerchief, Manicure Set, Silver Embroidery
Scissors, Siik Kimonn, Kid Gloves, Head Scarf, Sweater, Silk Hose.
PHI? THF f H1I nUCX A*r P?P Gun, Doll, Doll Carriage,
TV!! 1I1L villX<l/I\Lli Water Pistol, Games, Bureaus, Chairs,
Japanese Blow Toys, Mechanical Toys, Target Outfit, Pianos, Bugles,
Swords, Spelliug Board, Sewing Machines, Typewriter, Tops, Dishes,
Doll Beds, Banks, Skipping Ropes.
FflR RARV Rattles, Rubber Dolls, Blocks, Large Rubber Ball,
1 l/I\ Drill 1 Animals, Noah Ark, Return Balls, Cute Blankets,
Coats, Hoods, Mitts.
CAD HOIHP Table Linen Set, Couch Cover, Lunch Cloth, Dresser
1 UU IlUiflL Scarf, Curtains, Blankets, Comforter, Portieres, Pic
tures, Electric Lamps.
B. n. Behrends Co., Inc.
'Phone 5 JUNEAU, ALASKA
DOLLS!
DOLLS |
DOLLS |
10 PER CENT i
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DISCOUNT |
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ON ALL |
DRESSED DOLLS!
Where price is $1.00 or up \
. 1. O'Connor
Ulbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The Noria Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
1 THURSDAY EVENING
at S o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall
A. B. JEHXKE, C. C.
CHAS.A. HOPP, K. of K.&S.
Fi-itiuvr Knigrht# invited.
Douglas Aerie, iNo. 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 attend.
M. S. HUDSON, W. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lods^? meets second und fourth
Tuesdays of each montL.
WM. STUBBINS, W. M.
J. N. STOODY. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. I, 1. O. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hall
V:siti:i2 brothers always welcome.
L. W. KILBURX, N. G.
JOHN LIYIE, Kee. Sec.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Koyai Purple are cordially
invited.
J. H. McDONA LD, C. P.
HUGH McRAE, Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Yisitors are cordially invited.
MRS. MARY RUSSELL. N. G.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. H.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock
nt Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting: Brothers Invited.
WM. 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 m., 1 p.m to 5 p. m
Evenings by appointment
Phone 3-8 - DOUGLAS
C. F. Montgomery, M. D.
PHYSICIAN ? SURGEON
WOMEN and VENERIAL DISEASES
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D;
general practice
Office? Third St., Opposite O'Connor's Store
Office Hours? 9 a. in. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. rn. to 9 p. m.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Alex Grillos, an old timer at Dawson,
was drowued at 79 below on Bonanza.
Ed Smith, chief of the Dawson fire
department, is dead of Bright's disease.
Walter Swan has resigned as agent
for the Pacific Coast S. S. Co. at Ju
neau.
Two Kake Indians were drowned
Thanksgiving Day. Their gasoline
boat blew up.
Who said Skagway's ambition was
buried up there in the grave with
"Soapy" Smith? ? Alaskau.
Brisk travel over the Dawson trail is
reported. A large portiou of the jour
uey is still made on wheels.
E. S. Harrisou, publisher of the Alas
ka Yukou Magazine, died recently at
Seattle, after a long illness.
S. W. VVible, a California bauker who
has large holdings on Kenai peninsula,
has sold to Spokane capitalists.
? A Creole woman, supposed to be af- j
flicted with leprosy, is being held on
; the government reserve near Seward.
j A Fairbanks couple are celebrating
! the birth of their eleventh child. It is
not strange, but their name is Russell.
The starting of a stamp mill atChena
wa a made the occasion for a big cele
bration and au excursion was ruu from
Fairbanks.
The VVhitehorse Star says that the
Big Thing mine at Carcross has re
sumed operations which will continue
indefinitely.
Gold was discovered on Otter creek,
a tributary of the Iditarod on Christ
mas day, 1908, by VV. A. Dikeman and
John Beaton.
High school students at Cordova re
cently debated the question, "Re- :
solved? That baseball is a better game
than football."
Forty-one horses shipped from Cor
dova to Seattle on the steamship
Olympia were killed by the rolling of
the ship in the heavy seas.
The output of the Hot Springs dis
trict this year is nearly a .half million,
and the knockers are beginning to wake
? up, says the Yukon Valley News.
Two customs mills, aggregating 20
stamps, will be busy crushing out gold
from the quartz of the many mines ad
jacent to Valdez next summer if the
plans of the Chicago-Alaska Develop
ment company mature.
The school of mines at the University
of Washington opens on January 4th
and lasts three months. No examina
tions are required for entrance and
there are no charges except for books
and materials actually used.
Indians in the Mt McKinley district :
are said to be on the war path. The re
port states that several whites have
been killed and prospectors'and miners
are in danger.
Dr. Cook admits he faked the North
Pole story, but claims temporary in
sanity. Many think he was suffering
from just such an affliction when he
told his Mt. McKinley story.
United States Marshal H. K. Love, of
the Fourth judicial division, who, it was
reported, would resign his position this
fall, announces that he will not hand in
his resignation until next April.
The steamship Northwestern, enroute
from Seattle to Cordova, was wrecked
on Dec. 2 near San Juan islands. The
passengers were taken off in safety and
there is a prospect that the ship can be
saved.
The Seattle chamber of commerce has .
appoiuted a special committee to co
operate with Gov. Clark of Ala8ka on
plans and measures calculated to pro- ,
mote the development of Alaska's re- |
sources.
Four hundred thousand dollars in
sight is the report on the Seward Gold
company's property ou Groundhog
creek, says the Gateway. This is on a
basis of $200 per ton, although repeated
assays show the average to run nearer
$350 per ton.
Dan Kennedy, who for several win
ters past has conducted an indepeudeDt !
stage line between Valdez and Fair
banks, has sold out to the Northern
Commercial company, who will use the
outfit ou its mail service between Fair
banks, Hot Springs and Tanana.
During the past two years Ave men
who have gone to the headwaters of the
Koyukuk river prospecting have disap
peared, leaving no trace. It. is believed
that the prospectors have met death at
the bauds of Indians, who have mur
dered the men for their outfits.
The man who runs the Seward Gate
way complains bitterly because of the
lack of support. He says: "It's a good
thing this writer has a small appetite,
has prospected sufficiently to enable
him to sleep uuder a tree, or any other
old place, sells a gold mine occasion
ally, and is a remittance man."
The month just closed was the mild
est November ever known in the his- j
tory of the country, 21 below zero being
the coldest registered at this place at
any time in the month. It is seldom
that the month of November passes
without about ten days of from 40 to 50 :
below weather, but in November this
year there were less than half a dozen
mornings when the temperature was
even down to zero. ? Whitehorse Star.
Seattle.? Unusual interest in the wild
animals of Alaska is shown|by Eastern
ers. according to the quarterly report
of the local customs office. In July,
August and September the number of
permits issued by the customs office to
bring in game speoimens exceeded that
of any previous season both in num
ber and variety of animals. Mountain
sheep, caribou, bear and moose, con
signed .both to museums and to indi
viduals, are named in the majority of j
the permits. '
Unknown persons placed powder,
caps and fuse in a stove in the cabin of
Pete Canavera, a workman at the Beat
son mine at Latoucbe. When a fire
was built in the stove an explosion fol
lowed that wrecked the cabin and so
badly injured Canavera that he will be
disfigured for life.
John Scharle,the Fairbanks gardener,
raised 15 tone of cabbage on half an
acre of ground. The heads were all of
immense size, many weigbing30 pounds
each. The heads were so large that j
Scbarle found considerable difficulty
in selling them to families, but the
restaurant keepers and mine operators
were eager buyers.
Knik and the country contiguous?
including the Mantanuska and the
broad, fertile Susitna valley ? has been
called the "garden spot of Alaska."
Seventeen homesteads have been lo
cated in this district and the settlers
are putting up substantial residences,
barns, etc., and preparing for agricul- 1
tural pursuits on an extensive scale.
Plans are already being made for an
agricultural fair to be held at Knik,
September 1st, 1911. This will be the
first of its kind ever held in Alaska.
It may be of interest to know that a !
large amount of the spuds that are to
be consumed in this section this wiuter
was raised right here in Alaska ? the
home of the iceworm aud the swamp
mosquito. The matter has no signif
icance whatever beyond the fact that
we may all be living on Alaska grown
btaples within the next few years, and
that we can utilize our own gold dusf
to pay for our own products, instead of
seuding the bullion to the people of
the Outside, where they merely use it
for buying automobiles. ? lditarod
Pioneer.
There is a movement under way to
have a poultry and pet stock show here j
in Skagway some time in January. The j
idea seems to have met with universal ;
favor among the owners of thorough- j
breds and it is surprising how exten
sive is this list of owners of blue
blooded chickens. There are enough
of them alone to make the show a sue- ,
cess in attendance, but of course a
great many outsiders will be induced i
to attend. Skagway will be surprised to
learn there are sixteen breeds of thor
oughbred chickens in the place, not
counting two varieties of the bantam
family. There are three varieties of
duck, three of geese and three of
pigeons. ? Alaskan.
That the ore of the Valdez district
goes down and increases in richness
with depth is assured if the Cliff mine
may be taken as a standard by which to
judge other properties of this vicinity,
practically all of which are identical in
character with that of the now famous
property. The shaft now being sunk
on this property has reached a depth ,
of more than 70 feet and the vein in
the bottom of the shaft has widened to
more than three feet. Not only has ,
the ore widened, but the ore carries !
values far in excess of those found on ;
the surface, running in places to thoa- j
sands of dollars per ton, and to this
fact is due the steadily increasing
amounts of the weekly cleanups.?
Prospector. I
"What seems to be needed in Alaska
more than anything else," said Attorney
General Wickersham, upon his arrival
at St. Paul after his 6,000-mile tour of
the territory, "is the placing of some
power in one spot, where a general
oversight may be had regarding Alaska
as a whole and where regulations ap
plicable to one part of the territory
may be intelligently modified when
they are found to be inapplicable to
another part." It is to be hoped that
the "one spot" referred to will not be
Juneau. There are four one-spots and
a joker in every deck of card?. The
way Juneau plays the political game is
to hold the "one spot" and throw the
rest of Alaska into the discards. ? Fair
banks Times.
Tho Columbine recently placed a
light on Midchannel rock in Valdez
narrows. The light is one of the latest
models adopted by the lighthouse
board for this class of light. It is
known as a blinker, from the fact that
iustead of showing a steady light it is
intermittent, giving a flash of ten sec
onds duration each minute, the mech
anism for producing which is driveu
by clockwork. The flame is produced
by acetylene gas, but unlike the older
models does not produce the gas from
carbide. In the place of the compli
cated and daugerous mechanism of the
latter, tanks of compressed acetylene
gas are used. These tanks are eight
inches in diameter and four feet long,
six tauks being used in each light, this
quantity being sufficient to last for
about six months.
John Rosene, president of the Alaska
Midland railway, has an article in the
November Columbian that is one of the
best expositions of Alaska past and
present that has ever beeu put in
print. Not only is it historically cor
rect a9 to the past and up to the pres
ent day; but his irrefutable logic out
lines a future that can hardly fail to
materialize. While the writer treats of
Alaska in its entirety and with a faith
ful hand traces what exists in each
particular section of the country, he
has giveu no comment prejudicial to
any other portion of the great territory.
The following paragraph will be of par
ticular interests to the people of Haines
and vicinity on account of the hope
which exists among us that the day is
almost here when Haines will be on the
map in large red letters: "From the
Chilkat river in Southeastern Alaska
to the upper part of the Tanana river
in central Alaska for a distance of
I
about three huudred miles, stretches of
what appears to be the greatest copper
belt in the north, if not in the world.
Part of this territory is iu British Col
umbia and the Yukon Territory. In
the Chilkat mountains exist large de
posits of high grade copper glance and
bornite ores, as well as rich sulphides
and chalcopyrites; and in the same vi
cinity also exist silver and lead ores in
large quantities; and in olose proximity
are to be found iron, lime and coal. At
the headwaters of White river, as well
as along the tributaries of the Tanana
river, exist amygdaloid ores of the
same character as those that have made
the Michigan Peninsula famous for the
production of great wealth to their
owners." ? Haines Pioneer Press.