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The Douglas Island News.
VOL. 13. DOUGLAS CITY AND TKEADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1911
NO. 22
I BO YOUR SHOPPING HERE j
^ WHY not buy where you have a complete assort- 3
^ ' ? ment to choose from? Whether you have one or rs
a dozen articles on your shopping list you will find no 3
^ trouble in completing your purchases here.
^ For Graduation Day
^ We hare made special prepara
%<% tioDs for this eventful occasion
al lots of pretty Sheer Lawn,Flaxon,
Wash Criffon, Swiss, Dimity, etc.
^ Also dainty Embroidered All
overs and Plounciogs. You had
better get tbat dress started for
the yoQDg lady.
House Furnishings ^
Do you want a new Carpet,
Rag, New Linoleum, New Cur
tains, Curtain Swiss, Scrim, Bur- Z*3
lap or auy of the thousand and
one things that make the home ^
attractive? You will find this
the best place to buy them.
Alfred Benjamin Clothing, - $25.00 to $35.00 3}
Conqueror and Knox Hats, New Spring Styles, $3-50to$5 3
1 B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. 1
p 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA 3
LODGE DIRECTORY. .
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
R. of P.. meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 3 o'clock lu Odd Fellows Hall
C. M. SPOKES. C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP. K. of R. & S.
Suiting 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.
M. S. HUDSON. W. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
> Lodge meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each montL.
JAMES CHRISTOE, W. M.
J. N. STOOD Y. Sec j.
Alaska Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening In Odd
Fellows HaU
Tisitintr brothers always welcome.
E. A. W. JUHLIN, N. G.
MONTE BENSON. Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' ball first oivd third
Saturdays, at 8 p. m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
E. A. W. JUHLIN. C. P.
J. H. MCDONALD. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. 1
Meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Tlsitors are cordially Invited.
GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. 5. G.
1RENB 6ILLA.M. Rec. Sec >.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
JOHN LIY1E, Sachem.
WM. H. KELLY, C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY NIGHT, at SkO(>, at Fraternal hall.
C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief.
S. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL
R. G. CLAY, D. D. S.
DENTIST
GOLD INLAYS A SPECIALTY
OPEN EVE MINGS
Phone 3-8 - DOUGLAS
,
C F. Montgomery, M. D.
PHYSfCfAN ? SURGEON
WOMEN and VENEREAL DISEASES
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third S*., Opposite O'Connor** Store
Office Hours ? & a. m. to 13 m.; 1p.m.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. tn.
Telephones? Offioe 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
???* Tcit?d and (Homci FUte 4
The Northland
The latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The first oil tank at Katalla is done
A new cannery is being bnilt at Sel
dovia.
The wharf at Tenakee will be en
larged this spring.
H. L. Faalkner was again appointed
U. S. marshal for the first division last
week. j
Rev. Father Duncan wants to sell the
island of Metlakahtla to the govern
ment.
Sumuer Smith, of Berkeley, Calif.,
ha9 beeu appointed to inspect Alaska
mines.
W. G. Beattie, superintendent of the
Sitka Training school, ha9 been re
moved.
What's Alaska? First in gold; first
in copper! She's all right; you can't
stop her.
More than the usual travel is expect
ed this summer to the interior by the
Skagway route.
The steamer Bertha encountered an
ice pack thirty-three miles long off
Malaepiua glacier.
Samuel Blythe, who edits ''Who's
Who" in tbe Saturday Evening Post, is
coming to Alaska.
The city council at Prince Rupert is
planning to build waterworks and sew
ers to cost $600,000.
An excursion of Tacoma business
men to Southeastern Alaska will be un
dertaken in June.
Ab one of the results of tbe spring
election at Nome, tbe Sunday closing
law is to be enforced.
W. H. Bush, for years agent of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Co. at Nome,
died last week at Seattle.
The Grand Trunk Pacific has let con- 1
tracts for the construction of 885 miles
of line to be built this year.
Richard Bushell, Jr., has sold the
Wrangell Sentinel to Harold F. Dawes,
a "recent comer from the East."
if tbe congressional investigating
committee comes to Alaska this sum*
mer, they may be vaccinated at Seattle.
Ex-Senator Sam H. Piles, of Wash
ington, has lined up with those who are
making a struggle for home rule for
Alaska.
Post Assistant Surgeon Foster, of
Washington, D. C.? has been sent to
Alaska to investigate health conditions
in the cities of tbe North. |
The Standard Drilling Co., of Kansas
City, has contracted to drill a number
of oil wells in the Katalla district for
tbe Katalla Oil Co. and the Alaska
Wioteuta 4 Coal Co>
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4i WE ARE *
" DOUGLAS AGENTS
FOR
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P. -I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, J
Times and Oregonian
We also carry the
Leading Periodicals & Magazines
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For NICE TABLETS and
FINE WRITINQ PAPER
WE ARE IT!
Oar line of
Cigars and Tobaccos
Is the most complete in Alaska
Oar Candies are Always Fresh!
We carry a fail line of Frnit!
(During the fruit season)
J All the LATEST $1.50 BOOKS!
Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper
DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT
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An agitation now has sprung up in
British Columbia, fomeuted by Alas
i * \
kans, for the purchase of Alaska from
the United States by Canada, with a
? view to creatiug a new province.
The members of the Northwest
Mounted Police expedition that started
for Herschel island some months ago
have been found frozen to death about
fifty miles from Fort McPherson.
Fred and John Hess, of Parkland,
Wash., shipped a 33 foot launch to
Whitehorse, in which they will make
the journey down the Yukon and up
! the lunoka so the Iditarod country.
I
The question as to whether natives of
Alaska are entitled to the rights and
privileges of citizenship, under the
treaty with Russia, is to be settled by
the court of appeals at San Fraucisco.
The commercial importance of Alaska
i to Puget sound is shown by the report
of the customs business for the month
of March. The shipments to Alaska
, during the month amounted to $1,400,
953.
At an expeuee of 840,000, the Alaska
Packers* Association sent the steamer
Senator to Honolulu last month to se
cure 1,000 workmen for Alaska canner
ies. She returned to Frisco on the 9th
with 145, all of whom afterwards de
serted.
With the sailing of the Dolphin and
the Bertha from Seattle on April 20th,
the federal authorities inaugurated the
rule that crews and passengers sailing
on ships for Alaska must first be vacci
nated. The public is left in the dark as
to the reasons for the step.
The St. Elias Packing Company's I
river steamer Alsek, which has been I
* j
building at the yards of Cook & Lake
at Ballardj was launched April 19th.
The vessel is 60 feet long, 14 feet wide
and has a draught of 10 inches, which
will enable her to ply in the shallowest
waters of the Alsek river and Dry bay,
where the cannery of the St. Elias Pack I
ing Company is located. The Alsek is '
a stern-wheeler and is equipped with a
30 horse power gasoline engine. The
vessel will be used in the transportation 1
of salmon down the Alsek river, for
which she is named, to the packing
company's cannery at Dry bay.
A reindeer driven by an Eskimo
named Tautuk, well known in the.
North, during the last week in Febru
ary covered the distance between Fort
Davis and Nome and return, a trip of
seven and one-half miles, in 33 minutes
and eight seconds, establishing a record
which Scotty and his best team of dogs
was unable to equal the following day,
says the P.-I. This information was
contained in a letter received by W. T.
Lopp, chief of the Alaska division,
United States bureau of education, from
Walter Shields, of Nome, who is attach
ed to the government service. The
letter stated that the fast time made
by the reindeer caused muoh excite
ment in the vicinity of Nome. The
reindeer covered the distance in 33 min
utes 38 seconds. Three other dog teams
tried to out down the reindeer's time,
but failed. Mr. Shields said the rein
deer was making faster time when he
finished thau when he started,
I
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m. 3. O'Connor
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Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
General
merchandise
I
The freighter Edith, lying along side j
the wrecked steamship Olympia, at
Bligh island, stripping her of her ma
chinery, was struck by a heavy gVound
swell and jammed between two pin
nacles of rock. Two places were loosen- .
ed and five ribs broken. Repairs were
made at Cordova.
The United States steamships Ued
i ney, Patterson, Explorer and McArthur ?
of the coast geodetic survey service, !
, have begun to prepare for the summer's j
work in Alaska, says the P.-L The Mc* I
Arthur has gone into drydock at Mor- j
an's shipbuilding yards and the Gedney :
also has shifted there for a general over
hauling. The Explorer arrived at San
Francisco recently from Honolulu and
will go North in June to make a com
plete survey of the Kuskokwim river.
The Gedney will sail May 5 for Alaska,
where she will make a survey of Wran
gell and Congress narrows. The Mc- :
Arthur will sail about May 1 to com- i
plete the survey of Cook inlet.
The Ketchikan Miner of the 21st inst. j
says: Late last night Jack Louth and '
Ben Sbelton arrived on the mail boat '
from Sulzer with the stunning news !
that a huge snowslide descended on j
the Jumbo mine just before midnight!
on Wednesday, carrying everything be- i
fore it, killing two outright and maim- '
ing others. The dead are: F. T. Figg, |
engineer; John Thomas, miner. Fatally :
injured: One, name unobtainable.!
Seriously injured : Mrs. Lee McElrath,
Jack Harris, John Dougherty and a
num ber of others. The compressor was ;
stove in completely. Figg, the engi- ,
neer, was crushed in his bunk. Din- j
ing room and cook house were carried ;
clean away, Mrs. McElrath, the cook, :
being found prostrate beneath a huge ;
timber. Dune Campbell, the foreman,
being quartered in bis office, was car
ried 200 feet below and landed cn top ;
of the cook house, not seriously in- j
jured, but stripped of all his clothes.
Recent announcement by the White
Pass & Yukon railway gave notice that
all through rates with the Canadian Pa
cific, Alaska Steamship and Pacific
Coast Steamship companies had been
cancelled. While the steamship lines
deny that they have given discrimina
tory rates, it is understood that the
White Pass assigns this as its reasons
for cutting loose from traffic agree- !
ments with the water lines. From now j
on local rates will obtain, although 1
through bills of, lading are furnished
for the accommodation of shippers.
The aotion of the White Pass gives to
the Humboldt Steamship Co. what it
has been seeking in the courts for two ;
years. However, Manager Max Kalish j
of the latter line, states that he has no
Intention of withdrawing the pending
suit asking for equal recognition by the
White Pass, accorded other lines. The
case is now before the supreme court
of the District of Columbia. Under
the new conditions, all the water lines
are on the same basis, quoting only the
local rate on business to the interior.
There will be little through business
until next month, when it will begin to
move, in anticipation of the opening of
navigation from Whitehorse down the
Yukou,*? Railway and Marine New#,
Frank Waskey, first delegate from
Alaska in congress, is now prospecting
all alone in some untravelled region be
tween Bering sea and the Kuskokwim
river, according to advices received in
Seattle some days ago. Waskey mada
a large stake in the Nome diggings but
lost all through some unfortunate un
dertakings, the principal one of which
was the driving of a tunnel through a
hill on Iron creek near Nome. Finding
himself on bedrock the former delegate
chartered a little trading schooner and
bad himself and outfit putoff on a bleak
port of the shore of Beriug sea late last
fall. There the boat and its owner, Ira
Ranke, left him to face the desolation*
As the boat was pulling away he de
clared his determination to strike it or
go under. No word has since coma
from him. His wife has a home at Bal*
lard, Washington.? Skagway Alaskau.
A
His Ministrations
Stroller White, in the Whitehorsa
Star, says:
The seventh year of the miniatrationa
of the Stroller in Whitehorse closed
this week and when he looks over hit
work his system is thrilled with a seusft
of pride. True, the town is uot aa
large as it was seven years ago, bat the
people here are better known and of a
better quality than were those of that
time.
Seven years ago it was not an un
usual thing to see from five to eight red
plush jags on our streets at one time.
Now the number rarely exceeds three?
not over four in the heat of a campaign.
In faot, it has been so long since wa
have had a campaign lhat it is doubtful
if to exceed two or three lurid jaga
could be mustered. Now, when a man
cultivates a red one he does not parad*
it around town, but retires with it to
his room and nurtures it for a week or
two.
Seven years ago the native sons and
daughters came to town in the spring
accompanied by over 400 hungry, thiev*
ing dogs. Now the number is about
365. Then the natives rarely ever wiped
their noses. Now they use telephone
poles, the corners of buildings and tha
sleeves of their raiment.
The churches were more crowded
seven years ago than at present. The
same thing can be said of the policy
aourt. Then from 10 to 15 prisoner*
were employed in the crown fuel works
at the barracks. Now the spider weave?
his subtle web across the jail aoor and
lives in undisturbed serenity.
Then a soloist would "frog on the
kitty." Now he must have it in hia
band.
Seven years ago the people of White*
horse were visionary in that every man
who had located a copper stain imagin
ed he was a local W. A. Clark, August
F. Heinze or "Death Valley Scotty.*
Now they would sell for 1200,000 an4
pay for recording the papers.
Young men who seven years ago knew
all about high wines, bull pups and
ooloring pipes can now discuss the
nutritious properties of prepared baby
foods by the hour.
All of whioh is oonolusive proof that
the Stroller has not resided fqr seven
year? iu Whitefcorse in vata,