Douglas Island news. [volume], May 10, 1911, Image 1

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land News.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, L911
NO. 2?
! BUY YOUR SUPPLIES?!
?=? /^^UR reputation for carrying reliable merchan
^ dise, honest methods and fair dealing is well 2
^ known; besides this, when buying here, you have ^2
the largest and most select stock of Men's Furn- ^
^ ishings, Dry Goods, Groceries and Household ^
Goods in the city to choose from. ^
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f) CL P^TT ^ W? have the agency for the two best ---g
vU ^ makes ? Nemo, $2.-50 to S5. K.&G. 81. 50 up
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^ PDV ^est assortment of the best wear- ^
llU^ICKl inur hosiery to be procured, 12)?o to $3.50
I 1\J^ The thousand and one little things t hat
1 lU 1 Ivy 1^1^ are usually so hard to procure you will ^2
flud here in abundnrKJe. H2?
^ I a p ^ Anything and everything you can think of iu
g- LiivLiJ Laces? all the new patterns.
| B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. |
^ 'Phone 5 JUNEAU, ALASKA is
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North" Star Lodgre, No. 2,
K. of 1*., meets every
THUKS1UY EVENING
at S o'clock in 0<K1 Fellows Hull
C. M. SPORES, C. C.
CHAS. V.HOPP. K. of R. AS.
Visiting Knight? invited.
Douglas Aerie, No. 117, F. 0. E.
Moots every Wednesday Evening1 at 8 o^clock
At the Douglas Fraternal Hall
All visiting Hrothers invited to attend.
M. S. HUDSON, W. l\
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Gastineaux Lod^e No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodjre meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each tuotitL.
JAMES CHRISTOB, W. M. ?
J. N. STOODi*. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. O. O. F, ;
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Visiting -brothers alwn\s welcome,
E. A. W. JUHUN, N. G.
MONTE BENSON, Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
-meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays.atSp.ni. ?
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially i
invited.
E. .A. W. JUHLIN, C. P. j
J. H. McDONALD. Scribe.
Northern Light Kebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially Invited.
GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN, N. G.
IRENE GILLA.M. Rec. Sec'y.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock |
ut Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
JOHN LIVIE, 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.
C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder.
PROFESSIONAL
R. G. CLAY, D. D. S. '? J
DENTIST
GOLD INLAYS A SPECIALTY
OPEN EVENINGS
Phone S-S - DOUGLAS j
C. F. Montgomery, 1VL D.
PHYSICIAN ? SURGEON
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WOMEIS AND VENEKIAL DISEASES
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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 forTverybody.
Seward id overran with mining men
seeking investments.
Cleau tip or pay a tine of $100, is the ;
spriug order at Whitehorse.
In a vote on incorporation, taken at
Tanana just for fun, it carried by 54
to 18.
The Skagwav Daily Alaskan contends
that the vacoiuation order at Seattle is
only a fake.
Two miuers, Dan Moranville and
Matt Pavola, were killed at Stewart. L>.
C., by the explosion of a missed hole.
C. D. Garfield, chief deputy collector
of customs, will make an official trip
this summer from Skagway to Nome.
This year the White Pass river boats
will use thecoal supplied by the, Five ;
Fingers Coal Co. from mines at Tan
talus.
Baruey AlcGee, a prominent citizen
of Whitehorse, has returued to the
river town after many mouth3 of wan
dering.
The boats of the Cauadian Pacific
operating in Southeastern Alasjka will
maintain a ten-day schedule duriug the
summer months.
The mounted policemen who lost
their lives on the trail from Herschel
islaud are to have a nice monumeut
erected to their memory.
T. Reid offered to rid the town of
Priuce Rupert of rats, at five ceuts a
rat. The town council beat bim down
to 50%ents a dozen and gave him the
job.
The steamer Fucatan, wrecked in Icy
straits over a year ago, was towed into
Seattle the first of May. She will be re
paired at a cost of 890,000 and put on
the Nome run.
That curse of the miniog camp, the
lot jumper, is making his appearance
in Valdez and the quicker he is sup
l ressed the better it will be for the
city. ? Prospector.
A northern New Fork paper printed
this marriage notice: "The bride
groom^ present to the bride was a
handsome diamond, besides many other
beautiful articles in cut glass.
Frederick Sargent, aged 93 years, !
passed away at his home at Kodiak,
Alaska, on March 15. He is suiVived i
by a wife and seveu children. Mr, Sar
gent was undoubtedly the oldest white
man in Alaska at the time of his death.
To him belonged the honor of having
raised the Stars and Stripes at Sitka
wheu Alaska was transferred to Amer
ica by Russia in 1877. He had been in
Alaska some time before the interest
ing ceremony was performed. ? White
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Our line uf
Cigars and Tobaccos
fs the most complete in Alaska
'A doctor died at Iditarod City, and
at his fuueral the choir fang, "Though
your sins be as scarlet, I will make
them white as snow.-"
The St. Michael camp of the Arctic
Brotherhood has now a fnnd of 85,000
which is intended for the purpose of
erecting a building on the island,
should the authority of the government
be obtained. ?
On May 4th a mob at Cordova
marched to the dock and armed with
shovels, dumped 300 tons of foreign
coal into the bay. The mot) was headed
by A. J. Adams, president of the cham
ber of commerce, ex Mayor Chase and
several other pi ominent citizens. The
demonstration is said to have re?ulted
from the refusal of President. Taft to
open the Alaska coal lands.
Flat City in t he Iditarod promises to
outdistance Iditarod City and a move
ment is afoot to have t ho recording dis
trict removed from iditarod to Flat and
of inducing Judge Overfield to hold
court on Flat creek 4 his spring instead
of at Iditarod as planned. A petition
was circulated by Dr. Carter, formerly
of Hot Springs, for the removal of the
recording district. Recently when lie
was inching up Otter creek the peti
tion fell out of his pocket and a mala
mute dog ate it up.
From the Thlinget, published month
ly at the Sitka Training school, in the
interests of the native people of Alaska,
wo take the following news items: The
buildings of the Sheldon Jacksou
school are practically completed and
the contractor, M. Ayerson, has gone
back to Seattle. * * * The seasou
for sealing is at hand and. the native
people are out at Biorka island in full
force. Both the native village and the
cottages are almost deserted. The boat
and crew under the direction of Thos.
Bennett were the tirst ou the sealing
grounds and they captured ten of the
much wanted fur bearing animals of
the sea during the first day's hunt. *
* * The run of herring in the waters
adjacent to Sitka is always large, but it
surely seemed to be the "largest ever"
this spring. Possibly because t-hey ar
rived this year April 1. The native
people dried herring eggs enough to
keep themselves supplied with the de
lectable food for a long time. The
whole beach was literally covered with
fish eggs. More than a hundred wagon
loads were hauled from the beach to
the government experimental farm and
gardens of the town for fertilizer. * *
* Mr. fiayes, well known for his work
in road and bridge building In connec
tion with the Alaska road commission,
has arrived in Sitka and will recon
struct the suspension foot bridge over
Indian river which was wrecked last
winter. * * * Prof. P. J. Waldrou,
superintendent of native schools of
Southeastern Alaska, paid a visit to the
local school this month. * * * The
latter part of March, William Millmore
sold the Millmore hotel to Oscar Holm
and Sam Sing, who assumed charge of
the historio hostelry the first of the
month. * * * Several deaths have
occurred among the older native people
of the village during the past month,
from pneumouia.
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Ulftolesale and Retail
Dealer in
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Robert Mitchell, an insane boy cou
fined in the jail at Fairbanks, was al
lowed to play with a tobacco cutter.
Placing his finger under the blade, he
cut it off by applying his foot to the
: lever.
The city council atValdez has passed
an ordinance requiring peddlers, mes
sengers, fortune -tellers and clairvoy
ants to pay an annual license fee of
?25. Quack doctors, healers and meu
talists must pay SICK) license. Regular
doctors don't need a license, so one who
takes out one acknowledges be is a ,
quack.
As tthe result of the self-sacrificing
labors of 4G0 women of St. Mark's
church during tho six weeks of Lent,
three largo packing boxes filled with
clothing are ready to be dispatched to
Fort. Yukon as soon as navigation
opens. Included in the gifts for Bishop
Rowe in his work among the native in
habitants of Alaska are sixty dolls
dressed by the childreu of St. Mark's
parish. ? Seattle P.-L
There is uo occasiou to fear secession
upon the part of our northern territory,
Alar-ka, nor is there any likelihood of
a serious attempt, to procure an ar
range aieut for the purchase of Alaska
by the Dominion of Cauada. Neverthe- 1
less the people of the United States
proper and its ruling powers cauuot af
ford to treat lightly the discussion of
9uch a proposal, however remote it may
be from consummation. If a large
, share of the population of any region
so manifests its disapproval of the ad
ministration of its affairs as to utter an
aspiration for political divorce, uo time
should be lost in remedying the cause.
President Taft, who has had direct ex '
perieuce in the government of a colonial
po6sessiou of the United States, may,
from a habit of mind, be disposed to
regard as nothing more than a colony.
The view expressed in his December
message to congress gives a fair under
standing of the administration's, atti
tude toward a land iu which the popu
lation is regarded as transient and un
settled. But it is the judgment of his
tory that even colonies should be given ,
the greatest possible measure of home
rule and relief from interference by '
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authorities dwelling at a big distance
from the colonial conditions. It may
be noted here that a pronounced ten
dency of the -"conservation"" party is to
regard the Western states, where public
lauds still remain, as colonial posses
sions of the Eastern states. That which
should be told to the ears of Washing
ton lawmakers is that a typically min
iug region is not a settled country in
the sense that an agricultural regions.
Let the idea of "settlement" be dis
missed as beeide the question. Those
who have a direct economic interest in
the new country are those who are con- ;
corned by the laws governing it. This
is the real essence of "settlement," and
there is room for the -suspicion that
this is the kind of settlement which the
colonial lords of the East desire to
prevent. The opportunities for devel
oping the native resources are the only
incentive for the peopling of the new
region, so as to elevate it to the dignity
s-tate. ? Mining Science.
The Klondike -cleanup has begurk
Water is runniug everywhere. All the
big dredges have started, the hydraulic
plants are getting into action and the
individual miners are washing out their
wiuter dumps. The Klondike's output
this year will be the largest for years,
with the promise of steadily increasing
for several years. Last year the yield
was more than 84, 000, 000,- this year it
will exceed 85,000,000.
Recent news from the Iditarod is tc
the effect that a new discovery of pa^
that ij particularly good has just beets
made on the second tier bench, left
limit, opposite No. 2, above Discovery,
on Otter creek. Good pay has also
been found recently on tb^ ground
owned by Billy Wise, Capt. John Worth
and Dan Sutherland, who have since
refused a substantial offer for their
proj>erty. Otter will be worked on &
large scale l his season and will produce
a lot of money.
These are busy days at the New Eng
laud Fish Company's docks and the
cold storage plaut, says the Ketchikan.
Miner. During the past week the Pros*
pector brought in 55,000 pounds of hali
but, the Bringold 20,000 pounds and th?
Heleys 20,000 pounds, making a total ot
almost 100,000 pouuds for the last week
and nearly 1,000,000 pounds siuce the
beginning of the season. The total
product of last year was 1,500,000
pounds and the indications are that
this year's figures will reach at least
3,000,000 pounds before the season,
closes. In addition to the above hali
but cargos, 10,000 pouuds of salmon
were received by the compauy during
the same period.
Fees Are Cut Down
Hy au order issued by the attorney
general, the following fees will be al
lowed district recorders iutheflrst and
third divisions of the District of Alaska
on and after April 1, 1911:
1. For recording an instrument or
paper not exceeding three folios, filing
same and eudorsing thereon the date,
hour ?ud minute same was received for
record, except as in items 6 aud ?
below, $1.50.
2. For each additional folio in exces*
of three folios, except as in items 6 and
7 below, 30c.
3. For making in the several indexes
the entries required of the recording of
auy instrument or paper, for each eu
try, -except in items 6 and 7 below, 15c.
A. For making and certifying a copy
of any instrument, paper er record
(certificate to be counted continuously
with copy), per folio, 25c.
5. For entering satisfaction of mort
gage or judgment, 75c.
j6. For filing, recording and indexing
the annual proofs of work and improve
ments as provided by sectiou 2 of the
act of March 2, 1907, for each claim,
$1.50.
7. For recording each claim to en
force a miner's lien, as provided in sec
tion 3, act of June 25, 1910, SI; for in
dexing above, for each name, 15c; for
filing above, 10c.
The order reduces the fees on
instrument recorded au aver^g* of 5ft
cents. i