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The Douglas Island News.
DOUGLAS OITY AtfD TKEADWBLL, ALASKA.. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER i, 10U
Wooltex Coats
We have just received a few advance models
of the newest styles. Our entire shipment will
l>e here shortly. If you need a coat or suit, it
will pay you to wait and get a Wooltex.
WAIST SALE?HALF PRICE
To make room for our new stock of Waists
we offer our entire line of white Lingerie and
Foulard Waists, also a number of Silk and
Wool Waists at Half Price.
A FEW SILK DRESSES
Pretty Foulard one-piece Dresses, only a few
left, worth $1S to $22.50, to close at $0.50
B. Tl. Behrends Co., Inc.
'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA
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We also carry the
Leading Periodicals & Magazines
For NICE TABLETS and
FINE WRITING PAPER
WE ARE IT!
Our line of
Cigars and Tobaccos
Is the most complete in Alaska
Our Candies are Always Fresh!
We carry a full line of Fruit!
(Duritiffthe fruit season)
All the LATEST S1.50 BOOKS!
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodjre, No. 2,
K. of 1'.. meets every
: THU RSDA V EVENING
at N o'clock in Odd Follows Hall
C. M. SPOKBS, C. C.
CH AS. A. HOPP, K. of K- & S
7t?itiuff Knitrhts invited,
Douglas Aerie, No. 117* P- O. E.
lieets second A fourth Wednesday Evenings
of eurh month
All visiting Brothers iuviced to attend.
M. ?. HUDSON, V. P.
JOHN STOFT. Secretary.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
^ Lcxise meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each motul .
JAMES CHKISTOE, W. M.
J. N. STOOlA*. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I- 0. O. F,
Meets everv WwlneMluy evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Visiting brothers always welcome.
JOHN LI VIE. X. G.
MONTE BENSON. Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
tneets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple i'.re cordially
iuvited.
L. W. KILBURN, C. P.
j. h. Mcdonald, scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
ANNA ZIMMERMAN, N. G.
IRENE GILL AM, Rec. Sec'y.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. H.
MEETS EYEKY MONDAY
EVEN 1XG at S o'clock
at Odd Felknvs* Hull
Visitintr Brothers Invited.
SAM KEIST, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORN WELL, C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET SECOND AND
FOURTH TUESDAYS at 8 p.m. at A-B. hall.
C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder
PROFESSIONAL
R. G. CLAY, D. D. S.
DENTIST
GOLD IN LAVS A SPECIALTY I
OPEN EVENINGS
Phono 3-8 - DOUGLAS
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third St., Opposite O'Connor's Store
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 ni.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. in.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
Robert W. Jennings
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LEWIS BUILDING
Juneau, - ? Aln.skj
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The graud jury will meet in Valdez
October 17th.
Orer at Valdez they call just com-,
moil eggs, "Leu fruit.1'
i The North Pacific salmon pack this
year is worth $'Jo,000,000.
The dryest season in four years is
reported from the Circle district.
A uative in the viciuity of Nome
stole a reindeer. He got six months.
Cordova ahook so hard last month
that the quake broke the Alaska cablo.
! .i
Bids for surveying the towusite of
Valdez range all the way from $750 to
$0,000.
Nothing iu Alaska can escape in
vestigation They have begun oo the
preachers.
The three salmon cauneries on Cook
iijlet had a totui output this season of
121,000 cases.
Joseph Beedy, a pioneer of Hope,
was drowned iu Turnagaiu Arm. His
body*%as recovered.
The Eskimos of the Seward peuiu
sula have petitioned Washington for a
j postal saviugs bank.
George Friend was held up by mask
ed men uear Flat City and robbed of a
poke containing .>33,000.
They say that the name had nothing
to do with the appointment of liarry
Steel as postmaster at Cordova.
The U. S. cable ship Burnside started
uorth September 2G, to overhaul the
Alaska cable and make needed repairs.
During his visit to Alaska, Gilford
Piuchot became a member of Camp
Seward No. 21 of the Arctic Brother
hood.
O. L. Dicksou, who was formerly ouly
Vice President, has been made General
Manager of the White Pass & Yukon
Koute.
Offering a prize for the best slogan
the Fairbanks Commercial club adopt
ed the following: "l^airbauks Alaska's
Golden Heart."
The Nome Nugget .contends that
there are more people working on Sew
ard peninsula this season than for the
past three years.
The printing plant of the Pioueer
Press, which was published at Nome
some three years ago, has been shipped
to Ruby City.
George Goebel, socialist orator, talk
ed so hard at Nome that the lights not
only flickered, but went out, from the
force of the wind.
|
Fairbauk9 farmers are planting Nor
way winter wheat which was shipped
| in and is beiug given away by the
iTanana Valley Kailroad. J
"Married played Single" at baseball
in Nome recently. Owing to the en
couragiug rooting of the wives and
families the "Married" won.
According to the Nome Industrial
Worker, the governor-geueral of
Siberia and the governor of Kam
schatka will visit Nome shortly.
Pat O'Connor, former chief of police
of Fairbanks, confirms the report that
the Good News bay district, at the
moutii of the Kuskokwim, is a frost.
The report come9 from the Ktisko
kwim that Duke E. Stubbs, postmaster
at Georgetown, was shot dead by Bis
tnark Joe, following an altercation over
a lot.
All the charges against Rev. John
Parsons have been dropped by the
Salem conference except the one in
which he is accu>ed of giviug aid to
a beer eaioou.
Up to date the city of Valdez has
paid cash warrants of more than $11,
8S0 this season in fighting tho glacier
stream. The beservation residents con
tributed about $1,500 cash.
"A new cannery at Point Ward, only
thirty miles from WrangelL, is assured,"
says W. D. Grant, a member of the
Point Ward Canning company and
largely interested in same.
The report that the supreme court
had reversed the decision of the com
missioner in the Taku Maru sealing
case, seems to have been nearly if not
wholly without fouudatiou.
Natives of the Seward peninsula
have organized a fraternal society
which they call "The Indians of the
North.1' It will be couducted on the
same lines as similar organizations
among white people.
The old Gladhough mine at i?llamar
which fizzled out as a copper producer
and was allowed to fill up to the 200- ,
foot level with water, has recently
come to the front as a gold producer
and promises to eclipse its past record.
Captain George H. Williams is the
full name of the prospector who was
drowned at Kamachak bay several
weeks ago. He has a wife living in
Turn water, Wash. He was about sixty
years of age, and during the wiuter
lived at Kenai.
With Pinchot chaperoniug her ou
one side, and Seattle's motherly care
of her on the other, poor Alaska feels ,
very much like the youug married man
when his step-mother and his mother
in-law both came to visit him at the
same time. ? Ex.
Commander Tokutaro Hirago, naval
attaohe to the Japanese embassy at
Washington, recently made the round
trip of the coast of Southern Alaska
taking many pictures and making
maps of harbors. Alaskans looked
upon his actions with suspicion.
Let it be recorded that Gifford Pin
chot can never lay claim to being an
Alaskan Sourdough. The Valdez
Miner says that when the ship on
which he was returning from the west*
ward passed Valdez he slept. An
Alaskan would have gone up town for
& -drink
The wreck of the Kataona, on Span
ish islaud, has been left to its fate. An
effort may be made to ?ave the boilers
Mid the gear, bat nothing will be dorre
in that direction until next spring.
The ship^s safe feil through a bole in
her side and is lost in the depths of the
i ocean.
The vice president and geuerai man
ager of the White Pass railway reports
that it is the intention of his compauy
to make strong efforts to divert to the
interior of the Yukon country the tide
of Scandinavian immigration. Agen- j
j cies are to be opeued in the fia&t, and
excursion parties may be arranged I
next summer.
I I
A Seattle paper prints a picture of a
residence just completed for George E. j
James, on North Forty -eighth street, i
near Linden avenue, Woodland park.
It contains all modern improvements, I
hardwood floors, beamed ceilings and
i paneled walls. It is heated "by hot
water and cost complete $5>,0(KJ. C. CL
Dose & Co., architects, prepared the
plans and superintended the construe- j
tion.
His body buried near his lonely
cabin in the Kotsina district, the scene
of his hopes and labor, "Scotty" Craw
ford has a final restiug place befitting
a prospector, typical of Alaska. :
Firmly believing that the Kotsiua
would some day become a second
Butte, "Scotty" was stricken with
heart disease early last month before
his dreams were realized. ? Valdez
Daily Miner.
That the Shoups bay district gives
unmistakable indications of possess
iog a system of true 08- u ring, is the
statement made by Dr. Alfred H.
Brooks, the noted national geologist.
Based on his examination of the var
ious leads in that district, Dr. Brooks
declares that the general formation
and great distance that they have been
traced shows that the ledges are true
fissure. ? Valdez Miner.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer saya:
Mrs. F. C. Montgomery Davis, the only
resident artist in Alaska, is spending
the winter at Victoria, at October Mau
sions oc Cook street. It was Mrs. j
Davis' pictures, it will be remembered,
at the A.-Y.-P. exposition that gained
for her so much enthusiastic praise. '
Her work has done much to advertise
the beauties and the resources of the
great Northwest
Gov. Clark baa been notified from
the department of the interior that
one hundred and sixty acres surround
ing every medioinal spring, or group of
medicinal springs iu Alaska, have been
withdrawn from all entry, and the
claims of occupants Grdered investi
gated. In cases where mineral springs
have beeu in forest reserves, the one
hundred and sixty acres reserved have
been taken out of their control. The
order is so worded that every medicin
al spring, whether specifically men
tioned or not, is included in the order.
Those mentioned by name are Tenakee,
Hot Springs, Baranoif Warm Springs,
Belle Island, Soda Bay Springs, Bailey i
Bay Springs, Zarembo Hot Springs,
the Stickine River Springs, and the ,
thai finings an the. Seward river.
E. W. Park9 owtw and operates the
only producing quicksilver mine -it
Alaska. Mr. Park-*' mine is located or
the Kuskokwim river, about 14 milee
above Georgetown. A tunnel has been
run a distance of 75 feet and a shaft
Funk to a depth of 5-0 feet. And s,
good quality of ore has been found,
including Iivingstonite, a remarkably
rare mineral. Mr. Parks expects that
he will produce quite a Urge quantity
of Quicksilver during the preseut sea
son.
Several thousand cases (/? salmoe
was picked up in the vicinity of th*
Rarnoua wreek last week. Liaated au&
Iverson, of the l?aranoff, picked up
about 60 cases and Otto lijfjtad, of the
Halley's, got 100, which were sold at
nearby caunenes. C. W. Demmert, of
Shakan, gathered 260 cases and a
Petersburg bout is reported to ha-Vto
picked up L,(KW cases. The prices re
ceived lor the salmon ranged from
50 cents to c>2.50 per case, the Klawock.
cannery paying the highest price.?
Wiangel Sentinel.
As was originally intended thait the
American Mining Congress should
hold its Chicago session tkis year dur
ing the last full week of October, al
though this was afterwards chauged te
the last week in September, the mem
bers will probably be well satisfied
with the diacoveiy that the dates first
decided upon are to hold, even though
on somewhat short notice. The two
changes of plau, backward and for
ward, that have beeu made hare been
due to the invitation that was some
time ago extended to Pre^ideut Taft
and accepted by the executive.
Some samples of rock brought U
Cordova by Dr. Chase from the head
cf the Kotsiua towards Mt. WrangeLl
contain silver and lead and assays over
$300 to the ton in silver. In lees than
a full five days' run, using but two ol
the battery of seven stamps, the Gold
Bullion Mining Compauy, in the Wil
low Creek district, cleaned from the
plates amalgam, the gold ccuteut d
which exceeded $8,300, according tc
word from Seward. The stampede
from Dawson up the Pelly river to the
mouth of the McMillan river and
theuce up that stream from 10 'o 2i
miles, was one of greater propurtiout
than at first reported. Fully 10 peoplt
in all left Dawson for the scene of th*
new strike.
Among the mauy opinions ot the
Iditarod and Ruby mining campj iic
Interior Alaska, we find that of Charier
Garfield, a deputy collector of cus
toms, who has recently returned tc
Juneau. He says that the-Iditarod will
send out $3,500,000 of gold this fall at
the seaon's output. He says, however,
that lluby City, at the mouth of Iiuby
creek* on the Yukon, eighty-Eke miles
from Tanana, is the coming placer
camp. Pay has been discovered on
five creeks, running up to 52.45 a pan.
Buildings are being put up rapidly aatf
about 500 people are there and mo?
are coming in constantly. No otse
knows how extensive the fields are, at
there are only a few holes down to bed
rook. Freighting is very expensive eut
machinery cannot be taken in ualU
the freezeup. He looks for a ttioo&fev*
able stampede therein the ejjiuig;