The Douglas Island News.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We carry a full line of Fruit!
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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.
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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.
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O'Connor
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
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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.
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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.