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VOL. 13.
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The Douglas Island News.
DOUGLAS OfTV AVD TftEADWELL, ALASKA.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, L911
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f= 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA 3
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
Tho North Star Lodjje, No. 2,
K. of P.. meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall
C. M. SPOKES. C. C.
CHAS.A.HOPP. K. of K. AS.
7uitins Knights invited.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117* 0. E.
Meets every Wednesday Evening at S o'ciock
At the Douglas Fraternal Hall
All visiting Brothers invited to attend.
M. s. HUDSON, W. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
jastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodjje meets second and fourth
ruesdays ??f each inonvh.
I AMES CHRISTOE, W. M.
J. N. STOOD 1*. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. 1, 1. 0. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in <><Kt
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
B. A. W. J I' H LIN, X. G.
MONTE BENSON, Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. 1
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at S p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
iuvited.
E. A. W. JUHLIN. C. P.
J. H. MCDONALD. Scribe.
Northern Li^ht Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hail second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN, N. G.
IRENE GILLAM. Rec. Sec'y.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. fl.
MEETS EVERT MONDAY
EVEN 1NG at 8 o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
JOHN LIVIE, Sachem.
WM. H. KELLY, C. of K.
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
R. G. CLAY, D. D. S.
DENTIST
GOLD INLAYS A SPECIALTY
OPEN EVENINGS
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 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
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A homebuilders' association has beeu
I organized at Cordova.
More natural gas has been discovered ;
right in the town of Cordova.
As a result of the receut boom, Val
dez is to build a tie* Catholic church.
Mr. Richard A. Bailinger is now Sec
retary of the Exterior. ? Miniug Science.
The entire valley of the; Kenai river
has beeu staked l'or dredging grouud.
The B. M. Behrends Mercantile Com
j pany will retire from business at Skag
way.
The Haines towns.ite case will again
have a hearing in tJbe federal court at I
Juneau.
Mark L. Sullivan, a former law part
ner of John L. McGinn, died at Fair
banks, March 23d.
Amos Njootli, a Peel river native, was !
ordained at Dawson, a deacon of the
; Church of Englaud.
Two thousand old hens and three
women recently started over the trail
from Valdez for the Iditarod.
Iditarod is to have a public hall and
: it will be built under the auspices of
the Arctic Brotherhood Club.
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Judge Cushmau will go to Fairbanks
this summer to relieve Judge Overlield
who in turn will visit the Iditarod.
Prominent business men of Valdez
; have organized for the purpose of
building a large, modern hotel in that
i city.
The Uuited States army wireless
plant at Eagle recently picked up a
message sent from Nome, a thousand
miles away.
The Valdez town council has grauted
to Jos. A. Burke a 35 year franchise to
maintain a water and sewerage system ?
! in the town.
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The steamer El9ie, once the popular
means of travel between Valdez and
Cordova, has disappeared. It is thought
she has sunk in deep water.
Lying on the rocks off Bligh island,
' where she was wrecked on the night of I
December 10, the steamship Olympia
will be relieved of everything of value
within the next few weeks.
The Iditarod is talking of construct
ing a railroad from its town to Flat
City and adjoining creeks. There was
a survey made of it last fall, maps
made and taken outside by interested
i parties.
The Seward-Iditarod trail has been
; improved by a fall of snow and it is
now estimated that to get away from
! Seward by the 15th of April will be in
i plenty of time to get into the Iditarod
I over the wintor trail.
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tsays me Aiasna uneeu. qj.*,vw
crushed from the rock of Tanana in
one week, aud yet there are those who
say there is uo quartz here.
The steamer Melville Dollar will Bail
froiu Seattle, May 15th, for Bethel on !
the Kuskokwim. She is under charter
to the Alaska Steamship Company.
At Skagway, J. M. Tanner, Howard i
Ashley, W. S. Sparks, J. P. Brawand, ?J.
A. Bender, J. W. Grashet and Heury j
Friedenthal were elected councilmen,
and Dan McKay, school clerk.
April 3rd was the 13th anniversary of
the greatest disaster ever known in the
North, the snow avalanche which oc
curred on that date on the Dyea trail,
killing sixty-five persons without a
moment's notice.
The municipal election at Haine- re
sulted in the choice of James McQuinti, j
Homer O. Banta, John P. Lindsay, G.
A. Baldwin, John B. Peterson, P. A.
Polly aud George Vogel as councilmen
and Tom Valeur, school director.
You checbacos who are complaiuing
about the climate in Valdez should hie
yourselves to southern California,
where they have suoshiue in large
chunks aud where in time you may
fall iuto a SiO-a-week job. ? Prospector.
Chiekeu creek, io the lditarod, is
coming to the front as a producer.
Prospecting carried on during the win
ter has demonstrated it to be as rich,
on several claims at least, as the famous
Flat creek. Chicken is a longer creek
than Flat.
P. Morrisy, a Cordova sourdough, has
fallen heir to a large estate iu Massa
chusetts through the death of an uncle. |
Morrisy was formerly a prizefighter, j
having fought Jack Detusey to a 40
round draw, and knocked out Tom
Sharkey in the 20th round.
The steamship Senator, of tue racinc
Coast Steamship Co., sailed from San
Francisco on March 28th for Honolulu.
The vessel is going to the islands empty
and will return with a large number of
Fillipinos, Hawaiians and Porto Ricans
to work in the canneries of Alaska.
Since the dog raising industry has
become profitable in Seward, other in
dustries are forced to take a back seat.
A bunch of savage malamutes attacked
and nearly killed a little girl and a
local paper comes out with a warning
to parents to keep their children off
the streets.
Ed Hurley, the colored man, who
committed an assault on Henry Shafer
at Cordova on New Year's eve, was sen
tenced to ten years at McNeil's island, i
The assault on Shafer was a vicious one
and only escaped being murder by
the fact that the first blow dealt Shafer
merely succeeded in dazing him, but
did not render him insensible.
Erwin R. Gray, a pioneer resident
and leading business man of Seward,
died at his home there, March 31, of
rheumatism of the heart. Mr. Gray
was the organizer of an independent
steamship company formed to operate
a iine of steamers between Seattle and
Southwestern Alaska ports and was
well known throughout the North. He
is survived by a wife and son.
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In spite of the fact that E. T. Bar
nette president of the defunct Wash- j
ington-Alaska bank of Fairbanks, has
pledged his personal fortune to make
good the losses of the depositors, they
have asked that the management of the
bank be investigated by thegraud jury.
On March 30th, General Manager E.
C. Hawkins, of the Copper River and ;
Northwestern railway, drove the golden
spike at Bonanza, marking the end of j
construction work on the road. The '
arrival of the first train load of copper
ore at Cordova will be celebrated by a
general holiday, to be knowcK&s Copper
Day.
Officials of the Alaska Steamship Co.
are making preparations to handle the
enormous copper ore shipments which
will begin in a few weeks from the big
Bonanza mine at the terminus of the
Copper River and Northwestern rail
way and from the mines of the Fidalgo
Copper Company, 'on Fidalgo bay,
which will bo readv to ship its output
by May 1. It is planned to place two
steamships, probably the Seward aud
the Latouche, exclusively in the ore
carrying trade between the North and
the Tacoma copper ore smelter.
Advices from Fairbanks creek are to
the effect that the largest nugget ever
picked up in this district; largest in
poiut of weight, for there has been one
other find that was more valuable than
has been discovered on G above discov
ery, the oue discovering the big slug
being Fred Ellum, owner and operator
of this claim. The nugget weighs 81.35
ounces, but its value cannot be deter
mined exactly, as it is estimated that
one quarter of the weight is made up
of the quartz contained. However, it
is certain that the slab of gold will be
worth over $1,000. ? Fairbanks Times.
The late congress appropriated a :
fund for the use of the geological sur
vey in making a search for conditions
favorable to thre occurrence of potash
salts. This is a significant action and
it possesses a flavor of a challenge to
Germany, which, by the favor of nature,
possesses a present monopoly of the
potash industry. The German laws af
fecting the potash trade have aroused
no little antagonism in this country,
because of their restrictive effect, and
accordingly the American geologists i
have been set to the task of making the
United States, the largest consumer
outside of Germany, independent of !
that country.? Mining Science.
This is tbe season of the year when ,
the rumors of the big strikes in various j
far-away districts are due, and they are
just as much to be expected this year
as in former ones, says the Alaska Citi
zen. There has not been a spring in
the Tanana yet without its accompani
ment of luring tales of rich paystreaks
"over there," and practically every one |
of them has ended in disappointment j
to nearly everybody but the steamboat
owners. |The follies of stampeding have j
been h theme for many preachments, !
but in spite of all that can be said it is j
probable that they will be persisted in. j
When the lurid stories of the strike are 1
received good common sense takes j
flight, and even the old-timer is pre- j
pared to believe anything he hears.
The carcasses of fifty moose, counted
by nativee, are to be found in the Char
ley Swanson rivpr country. Starvation
is the cause of the demise of these flue
food animals. The Chariey Swanson
river region, lying about five miles from
the east forelands of Cook inlet, is
famed as a hunting country. It is re
garded by many as the most beautiful
part of the Kenai peniusula, and is a
favorite rendezvous for moose, which
inhabit it in great uumbeis.
Ed .Murphy, one of the first stam
peders into the Bullfrog district in
Nevada, was au arrival ou the North
western. Mr. Murphy is a practical
mining man, having been superintend
ent aud manager of one of the largest
mines in that district. He has recently
left Nevada and says that not less than
5,000 of the practical men from that
stato will be in Valdez before the sea
son closes. It is hin opinion that this
city must make preparations for at
least 10,000 newcomers. ? Dally Miner.
A dispatch from Washington says:
It seems almost assured that at I he
next regular session of congress at
least one branch of that body will pass
legislation providing for the establish
ment of home rule for Alaska. That
bruucb, of course, will be the house,
for the democratic leaders loug ago
promised a measure of this sort as soon
as they assumed coutrol of that end of
congrest, and uow that they are actu
ally behind the guns they are display
ing renewed willinguess to carry out
their promises in this connection. It
is still too early to predict what recep
tion the senate might give to a bill
passed by a democratic lower house
giving Alaska home rule, but those be
hiud the movement entertain high
hopes for its passage by both houses.
At least two of the new republican seu
ators have expressed themselves favor
ably toward such legislation, and it is
presumed that the democratic mem
bers of the senate would not oppose a
bill of this nature which had been ini
tiated by a democratic house.
The graud jury at Valdez last month
devoted special attention to the method
of collecting license tax from the can
ning companies aloDg the coast auil the
rebate allowed for the liberation of
fry. The report of that body says: "For
the season 1910 the superintendent of
the Karluk hatchery, on Kodiak island,
the only private hatchery in this divis
ion, made affidavit to the liberation of
37,105,000 salmon fry, thereby taking
exemption from taxation on 371,050
cases of salmon, amounting to over 311,
000. The total tax due from the Alaska
Packers' Association in this district,
for the year, was $29,557.86, of which
?14,350 was rebated on account of the
Karluk hatchery and $10,000 rebated on
account of certificates transferred from
other judicial divisions, making over
$24,000 of exemption taken advantage
of by the company for 1910. In the
opinion of this grand jury the law
should be replaced by one providing
for a just tax and license fee for salmon
canneries, and the maintenance by the
government of hatcheries, thereby
placing the business of canning salmon
upon equal footing with other busiuess
conducted in Alaska."