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The Douglas Island News. ? - * ? VOL. 13. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1911 NO. 9 ONE MORE WEEK ENDS JANUARY 31 OUR JANUARY SALE January 3 1st ends one of the most successful sales we have ever undertaken. You have saved money. We have reduced our stock. During these closing days of the sale you will find many broken lines that we are closing out regardless of cost. It will pay you to visit the store at every opportunity. Blankets and Comforters at substatial reductions. A saving of 20 per cent on all Dress Goods, Silks, Handkerchiefs, Linings, Ribbons, Belts, Laces and Embroidery. A saving of 1 0 per cent on Sheetings, Percales, Bleached and Unbleached Muslin, Ginghams and Calicos. Half price on Furs. Boys' and Misses' Shoes, $1.75 a pair. Alfred Benjamin Suits and Over coats at a big reduction. B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. 'Phone 5 JUNEAU, ALASKA LODGE DIRECTORY. K. of P. The North Star Lod{*e, No. 2, K. of P., meets every THURSDAY EVENING J at 8 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall j C. M. SPOKES, C. C. CHAS. A.HOPP. K. of R. AS. VUitinsr Knight* invited. Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. O. E. Meets every Wednesday Evening at 8 o'clock At the Douglas Fraternal Hall All visiting Brothers invited to attend. >1. S. HUDSON, W. P. JOHN STOFT. Secretary. Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. Lodtre meets second and fourth 'Tuesdays of each montl.. ^ JAMES CHRISTOK, W. M. J. N. STOOD Y, Secy. Alaska Lodge No. 1, 1. O. O. F, Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows Hull Visiting brothers always welcome. E. A. W. JUHLIN, N. G. MONTE BENSON, Rec. Sec'y. Aurora Encampment No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Saturdays, at S p.m. Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially invi'ed. J. H. McDONA LD. C. P. HUGH McRAE, Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Saturdays. Visitors are cordially invited. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN, N. G. IRENE GILLAM. Rec. Sec'y. Auk Tribe No. 7, Imp. 0. R. n. MEETS EVERY MONDAY EVENING at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows' Hall Visiting Brothers Invited. WM. JUHLIN, Sachem. WM. H. KELLY, C. of R. Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B. ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES DAY NIGHT, at 8:00, at Fraternal hall. C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief. R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder. PROFESSIONAL W? E. Stoft, D. D. S. DENTIST Somnoform, the latest, safest and best anaesthetic for extractions. Gold Inlays a Specialty 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. m. to 12 ra.; 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. 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. Wrangell will have a new wharf. Jt was 58 below at Whitehorse last week. The Imp. 0. R. M. have organized a "Tribe" at Haines. Au epidemic of stomach trouble pre vails at Whitehorse, principally among childreu. The B. M. Behrends Mercantile com pany carries the largest ad in the Skag ; way Alaskau. A reading room aud gymnasium has beeu opened at Juneau by the busiuess men of the town. Au audacious cuss from the lditarod I declares that there is only ?12,000,000 I in that country. Commissioner Marsh, of the Chand lar, ha9 encountered gold ore too rich to trust on a dump. Suow storms at the summit have tied up the trains of the White Pass during the past two weeks. By the terms of a settlement with the : underwriters, the owners of the Yuca | tan get $200,000 in cash. Fairbanks teamsters refuse to take their horses out of the stable when it is colder than forty below. Dr. Shurick, a YVrangell physician, had a narrow escape from Wood poison caused by wearing colored socks. A Skagway citizen who warmed his hen house by burning newspapers had j a narrow escape from the loss of his home. The United States supreme court has been asked to declare that the creation of large forest reserves is unconstitu tional. Skagway is installing a still alarm system for fires. The Alaskan says they already have a soundless fire whistle. The steamship Northland recently reached Seattle with a cargo of halibut valued at $705,000 from Southeastern Alaska. I Alfred S. Moore, formerly district judge of the second division of Alaska, is practicing law at his home town, Beaver, Pa. Two men recently brought to Valdez by natives were in a pitiful condition, 1 they having been marooned on an isl- j and for sixty days with nothing to eat but clams. ; Fred Handy, of Haines, while split- ; ting wood, hit himself in the head with an axe, cutting a gash that it required j four stitches to close. Fred should ? change his name. WE ARE DOUGLAS AGENTS FOR P. -I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, Times and Oregonian We also carry the Leading Periodicals & Magazines For NICETABLETS and FINE WRITING PAPER WE ARE IT! Our line uf Cigars and Tobaccos Is the most complete in Aluska Our Candies are Always Fresh! We carry a full line of Fruit! (Durinjrthe fruit season) All the LATEST $1.50 BOOKS! Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper A mountain has been located in Alas ka 2,000 feet higher thau Mt. McKinley. Here is another job for Dr. Cook. ? Cleveland Leader. The White Pass &, Yukon railroad ex pects to get an increase of traffic this year as the result of recent gold discov eries in interior Alaska. The Skagway Alaskan, haviug been j criticised for uot priuting the news, ; says that if its critics insist it will some day. Send us ten copies. : Ernst Brothers, old-timers at Nome, have ordered a special dredge built at San Francisco, with which they will miue the beach sauds at Nome. Si Pepper, at one time acting post ! master at Fairbanks, died there last j mouth from a lesion at the base of the brain that caused paralysis of the heart. Dr. E. Ci. Cannon died at Nome in November at the age of 90. He was at the head of the Mormon church in the Seward peninsula and maintained a tabernacle in Nome for many years. : i The report is again current that Dr. Scharschmidt, superintendent of the White Pass steamer line, ha6 quit. The Whitehorse Star says that with the loss of "Doc," another "cherished institu tion" goes glimmering. A Washington congressman recently made a beautiful speech iu behalf of a better mail service for the Iditarod. Printed copies of the speech will be sent to the new eldorado wheu naviga tion opens in the spring. The Haines Pioneer Press puts it up to the business men of the town to give it enough ads to keep it alive or it will be compelled to accept "foreign" ads. The Press is a lively paper and is doing much for the town and country. The fine of $500, which was imposed on the American steamer Northwestern for carrying last October from Nome to Seattle twenty five passengers in excess of the number allowed by her current certificate of inspection has been re duced to $200. Herbert, better known as "Herb" Wilson, who was formerly one of the largest operators on Cleary creek, Tan ana, was married Jan. 4 to Miss Flor ence Murphy at the home of the bride ; at Fremont (Seattle;. Ben Boone, who was at one time a partner of Frank Manley, acted as best man. The CordovH North Star of January 1 tells of an encounter between Henry 1 Shafer, who was formerly in the milk business in Skagway, and a negro burg lar, in which Shafer by the aid of a stove legt succeeded in sending the burglar to the hospital, not without, however, having a few stitches taken in j bis nose and right thumb, which the [ burly negro uearly chewed off. A deal has just been consummated i by which hundreds of acres of placer j ground on Kenai river, near Seward, passes into the hands of a big syndi- i cate, mostly composed of EDglish cap talists, who were represented by P. W. : Griffin and W. B. Harmon, of San Fran cisco. The vendor was Charles G. Hub- 1 bard, who had purchased the property j from P. E. Youngs, now iu Seattle. ? 3* O'Connor Wholesale and Retail Dealer in ? At Fairbauks the schools are taking a six weeks mid-winter vacation. This is done by beginning two weeks earlier in the fall and continuing two weeks longer in the 6pring, which, with the j two weeks allowed for the holiday va cation, makes the six weeks. By this i means there is no school daring the ! most severe portion of the winter. The seizure at Cordova by the United States marshal of ?101,000 in gold coin, I gold dust and currency shipped by the Washington Alaska bank of Fairbauks, ! which receutly went into the hands of a receiver, to the Dexter Horton Na- : tional Bank of Seattle, has brought out the fact that the failed Alaska institu tion has an overdraft of ?141, 407.89 with j the Seattle bank. ; | Alex Smith, the Nome mail carrier, i arrived at Seward, January 11, making the trip from Iditarod City in 138 hours of actual traveling. The trails are good, he says, and he considers this the best route for intending mushers to the in- J terior camps. He reports 300 en route ! to Seward from Iditarod and Tacotua. Butter, bacon and many other food- ! stuffs are short in the camps and prices are soaring. The Canadian mounted police expe dition from Herschel island and Fort MacPherson, now eu route to Dawson, - in charge of Sergt. Fitzgerald, is ex- i pected to arrive at any time between this and February 1. It will probably briug the first letters from the whaler6 and traders at llerschel, MacPherson aud other points on the Arctic, pos- 1 sibly also advices giving the where abouts of Steffanson aud other ex plorers. Passeugers on the steamer Dora rej port that the volcanos Shishaldon and Pavlof, says the Seward Gateway, seem to bo excited over something of late aud are displaying more internal ac tivity than a Taft cabinet. Pavlof has been pelting the little town of Unga with a shower of powdered pumice j stoue recently, although Uuga is 70 j miles away. Somebody must have told Pavlof about the commission form of government. Landlock bay is at the present time attracting considerable attention from those who are interested in copper. The bay is on Prince ^William sound, about midway between Cordova and Valdez and about 45 miles from either place. There are 11 companies working copper ! properties at the present time. The Standard company has 3,000 feet of tunnel, shafts aud stopes, and since de velopment work was first established hao shipped 3,200 tons of ore. Georgetown, the newest city in Alas ka, will be the capital of the new dis trict bordering on the Kuskokwim river, if the citizens of that town real ize their ambitions, according to C. A. Fowler, of the Kuskokwim Commercial Company, who arrived in Seattle re cently, direct from the new mining dis- i trict, with 125 pounds of gold in nug gets and dust. When Mr. Fowler left Georgetown, November 28, the popula tion in that section numbered between 4,000 and 6,000, and most of them were prospecting or preparing for operations next summer. A bill authorizing the leasing of l Alaskan coal lands, has been intro : duced in the senate by Senator Nelson, chairman of the committee on public lands- it limits the areas of leases to 3,200 acres, and provides that no indi vidual may own more than one lease, j A rental of from 5 ceuts to per acre is provided, as is a royalty of o ceuts a ton on coal mined. Lessees are re quired to supply coal at reasonable prices, aud in cases of their failure to do so the interstate commerce commis sion is giveu jurisdiction to quote prices. It is reported there will be a new sal mon cannery located at Seldovia in the spring. Last spring there was a com plete salmon outfit brought in aud erected aud the owners got out a good pack by fall. The season'^ pack put them eveu for the outlay of installing and cost of the plaut. This cannery ia located at Kaselof, only a short distance from the proposed location of the one that is to be put in next spring. \V. G. Whorf, who is the owner of the ouly producing coal mine in Alaska, is at the head of the enterprise and is being backed in the venture by Seattle busi ness men. Fire at Dawsou destroyed the old S. Y. T. building on Second avenue be tween King and Queen streets, also the adjoining buildiugin which was located the French Store. The S. Y. T. building was leased by Mrs. Walker, who con ducted a ladies' store in one of the first floor rooms and used the upper part of the building for a lodging house. At the time of the fire the temperature at Dawson was 55 below zero aud report says that, for a short time it looked as though, owing to the extreme cold, the fire department would be unable to cope with the rapidly spreading flames. The loss was $20,000. There was no in surance. Valdez. ? Five hundred feet down a crevasse in the great Valdez glacier have been discovered the bodies of six burros making up the pack train of a party of Eastern prospectors who start ed for the Copper river country from this port thirteen years ago aud were lost in what was then au utterly un known wilderness. W. H. Crary, a musher, who was traveling over the glacier, made the discovery. The depths of the crevasse were momentarily il luminated by the sun as Crary crossed it and he caught sight of the burros. With the aid of his binoculars he ascer tained that the bodies were in a perfect state of preservation and equipped with pack saddles and packs. He could not discover any human bodies, but it is believed that the owners of the pack train perished in the crevasse and an attempt will be made as soon as the weather moderates to descend into the Assure and learn whether such was the case. The crevasse is far from the old Copper river trail, and this leads to the conjecture that the doomed prospectors lost their "way and perished on the treacherous ice field. Old-timers here recollect that one of 6ereral parties who were lost here in the early days was equipped with a burro pack train, but nobody remembers the names of the members of the expedition.