Douglas Island news. [volume], January 24, 1912, Image 1

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ALASKA
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock in (M<1 Fellows Hall
C. M. SPOKES. C. C.
UH AS. A. HUPP. K. of R. A S.
Uniting Knights invited.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodsre meets second and fourth
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Tuesdays of each monvL.
JAMES DANIELS. W. M.
J. N. STOOD Y. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. O. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Visiting: brothers always welcome.
JOHN K.SCOTT, N. G.
MERL P. THOMAS, Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Saturdays, at 8 p. m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
L. W. KILBURN. C. P.
j. h. Mcdonald, scrihe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Saturdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MAMIE PRICE, N. G.
GERTRUDE LAl'GH LI F. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVEN 1NG at 8 o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
WILLIAM McCORMICK, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORN' WELL, C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET SECOND AND
FOURTH TUESDAYS at S p.m. at A.B. hall.
C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief.
K. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder
professional
R. G. CLAY, D. D. S.
DENTIST
* GOLD INLAYS A SPECIALTY
OPEN EVENINGS
Phone 3-S - DOUGLAS
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
Robert W. Jennings
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LEWIS BUILDING
?Juneau, - Alaska
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/O by Eye strain; can be cur
ed permanently by proper fitted glasses
i, <k SUA RICK, opticus JUNEAU
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
.Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Timber wolve? are numerous in the
vicinity of Skagway.
An attempt will Hgain be made to in
corporate the town of Seward.
Gordon's hotel at Forty-Mile burned
on January 7th. It was a total loan,
and there wa* no insurance. v
" Oue of the largest, contracts of the
kind ever given out in the West is that
! awarded to a San Francisco firm of
label printers for 33,000,000 labels for
salmon cans for Alaska fish.
The citizens of V'aidez raised S700 to
pay the expenses of X). P. Hubbard,
who has goue to Washington to present
the claim of the Glacier City to the
propo-ed government road to the in
terior.
Joseph Irvine, who has been in the
North since the year 1870, is visiting
friends at Vashou island, near Seattle,
lie was at SiJka when one mail boat a
mouth constituted the entire water
travel into Alaska.
Telegraph Operator McMillan, of
Yukon Crossing. wa9 thrown from his
' sleigh while he was driving flis dogs on
i the Yukon river, and was rendered an
conscious. When he came to his senses
: his hands were severely frozen.
The Copper Mountain mine9 and
smelter, near Sulzer, which have been
idle for a number of years, have been
lately sold to a Denver capitalist for
$3-1,000. The mines produce a good
grade of copper and will be worked
during 1912.
An ad of the Juneau Commercial
Club says that that city is two miles
from the Tread well, where 300 stamps
drop incessautly under one roof. It
might be well to add that 900 stamps
are?continuou?ly engaged iu pounding
out the gold.
William Clayson has brought suit
against, the Cordova Transfer Co. for
810,000, for injuries received by his son
last winter while coastiug. The boy
collided with a team belonging to the
Transfer Co., and received injuries
from which he will never recover.
E. T. Barnette, head of the Wa9h
ington-Alaska bank at Fairbanks,
which failed a year ago, has given a
bond of $100,000 for his appearauce iu
the federal court at Fairbanks on April
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1, 1912, to answer the iudictments ;
charging him with embezzlemeut of
j $317,000.
At Fairbanks last summer and fall
; Pouudmaster Phillips impounded 113 1
, dogs. A stringent dog ordinance has I
now been passed making it unlawful
i for a dog of any age or discription i
at any time to be outside of an enclos
ure except when harnessed to a sled or
? held iu leash by a person capable of
restraining it*
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Major John P. Clum, once a rigorous
candidate for delegate, is delivering
lectures up and down the Pacific coast.
Major Clum ia a pioneer of Alaska and t
was at one t ime, in charge of the pos*'
tal service in the North. In 1898 he1
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went over Chilcoo* Pas-* with prospec
tors, and was in full charge of the
Ala-ka postal service at the time of:
the Nome lush in 1900.
A recent issue of the Fairbanks
Times says: On the stage last night
there were three passengers, among
them J. R. Mathews. Mr. Mathews,
mad" the trip from Seattle in the
record breaking time of 11 days 22
hours. That was done owing to the |
fat" t h ?? t clo^e connections were made
at all junction points. The Alameda
made the trip from Seettle to Cordova
in three and one half days.
Katalla is.coming to the front, again;
this fini^ because of the interest in oil
properties in that, vicinity. Several
companies are preparing to make ex
tensive improvements in the spring.
The Amalgamated Oil company has
cleaned out the No. 2 well and the oil
flow was so strong that it flooded the
casings and gas pipe-, and all lires ha$
to b<? extinguished to prevent it catch
ing fire and destroying the plaut.
The people at Fort Yukon feel that
they are out of the woods as far as the
danger from smallpox is concerned, for
the Cauadian government, has been en
forcing the most stringent, quarantine
up at Rampart house, in the Porcupine.
To date there have boen eighty-seven
case9 of smallpox in the Porcupine
and it seems unlikely that the disease
will die out until all of the natives
have had it and recovered. On the
Yukon aud its tributaries all the In- ?
dians that could be reached have been
vaccinated.
The high grade coals of the Matan
uaka valley, Alaska, are the subject of
a timely report just issued by the
United States geological survey. The
iMatannska coal field is the area to
which Secretary Fisher recommended
that a government railway be built,
and the geological survey report, with
accompanying detailed maps, showing
the areas underlaiu by coal strata, the
most feasible routes for railway ap
proach, aud other specific and authori
tative information, constitutes a valu
able contribution to the present Alaska j
fuel problem.
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For the Alaska cruises of 1912, the
Pacific Coast Steamship Co. is remod
eliug and rearranging the entire pas
senger accommodations on the steam
ship Spokane. Every detail is being
carefully planned with a view to
equipping the steamer for sight-seeing
service in Alaska and to suit the re
quirements of the fiigh class passen
gers who auuually take advantage of
the opportunity afforded by these
cruises. The steamer Spokane will have
accommodations for 195 flr^-t class
passengers. Among the improvements
will be noted additional bath rooms,
bringing the total number of bath
rooms up to eleven, two for general
use of men, aud two for general use of
women, seven connected with private
rooms.
t
onnor
lilbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
Cordova and Valdez are in a dickens
of a fix. Both want, lo endorse t lie
Fisher policy, and yet they don't want
to. It's t his way: Both towns are
putting forth an effort to secure the
terminal of the proposed government
owned railway system. For this reason
they don't want to oppose the Fisher
policy, which favors a federal ojvned
lino. On the other hand, Secretary
Fisher specifically favors Seward as
the coast terminus of this proposed
railway system. That makes the vil
lager on PiijMJe William* sound feel in
clined to oppose the Fisher plan. They
are between the devil aud the deep ?
blue sea, for certain. Seward is watch
ing the horse play of her neighbors
with keen iuterest aud uuooucealed
enjoyment. ? Gateway .
Says the Seattle P.-l.: Capt. l<\ E.
Kleiuschmidt, who was a passenger on
the schooner Polar Bear last snmmer
and who obtained in the North moving
pictures of wild life which are difficult
to duplicate, showed half of his Alius
before a largo and appreciative au
dience in the public hall of the Press
Club last night. The program began
with pictures or' myriad* of geese and
other wild birds in their summer
breeding places. Other films and
si ides showed the hunting of sheep ou
the Keuai peninsula aud views of
Eskimo life afloat and ashore. A
thrilling story in moving pictures was
that of a huge mother polar bear, ser
cured at inaccessible Wraugell island.
The mother took her cub for a swim.
The cub clung to its mother's tail to
be towed through the water and was i
soundly cuffed for this imposition.
When the men ou the Polar Bear las
soed the cub, however, the mother
fought frantically to save it, biting aud
fighting at the rope and leaping at
the schooner. The story ended when !
the cup was released and the two bears
swam away together.
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Murray Potts, of Vancouver, B. C..
is an old Kloudiker, and tells the fol
lowing: "The champion hard luck
story happened to a friend of mine)
who staked claims on Sulphur creek.
The son of a wealthy powder manu
facturer of Hamilton, Ont., he started
North with 810, OCO. He fell in with the
"Soapy" Smith gang, was relieved of
all but a small wad he had tucked into
hisjboot, and proceeded iuto the gold
diggings. He crosscut every 12 feet
and sunk holes to bedrock for a dis
tance of a mile on Sulphur creek, a
work in which he was engaged for a
year, and he never got a color. After
completing this job-he was taken down
with scurvy. He was in the hospital
for three months. When he was able
to travel my friend returned to Ham
ilton, thoroughly disgusted. A Scandi
navian later secured control of one of
his claims on Sulphur. My frieud had
failed to %o to bedrock in one place,
mica shist being what he took for the
real article. The Scandinavian went ;
through the mica deposit to actual
bedrock, and took out ?250,000 the first
year, and a similar amount for several
seasons after that. The claim was
lower 30 on Sulphur, oue of the richest j
individual claims of the Klondike,
Col. A. W. Swanitz, of Alameda Oal.%
who a year ago took over the manage
met?t of the Alaska Central railroad,,
says: "We expect to extend the lino
to Matanuska as soon as we can ascer
tain from Washington what our rights
will he in the country. In my opinion,
the proposition hinges on what the
democratic congressional caucu9 will
do. A number of the democrats will
support Secretary Pis her in his plan
for opening Alaska, and I am hopeful
that Mr. Fisher will be tjiven sutlicient
power by the two parties, who mean
well by Alaska, to go ahead and opeu
tilings up there."
The domestic gold output is derived
not only from ore but al jo from gravels
of placer mines. A considerable por
tion of the gold output is al&o f'om
copper, lead and mixed base-metal
ore-. Exact figures for quantities of
gravels washed are not available, but it
is estimated that the volume was about
80,000, 0()t) cubiu yards, wit h in average
value per yard of 12 centa lor the
United Sta!o-+ proper and about 1,131,
000 cubic yards, with an average value
of $3.00 per yard for Alaska iu 1009;
and about 100,000,000 cubic yards,
uvei a^iug from 11.3 cents per yard iu
the United States proper, and 3,800,000
cubic yards averaging about 63.20 per
yard in Alaska in 19L0. ? .vliuiug
Science.
A Valdez dispatch says: The Alaska
nonpartisan convention closed its ses
sion hnre last night by adopting unani
mously a platform declaring that the
question of paramount importance to
the 40,000 "former citizens <>f the
United States," now resident. in Alaska,
is the right to govern themselves and
regulate their local affairs, and de
manding the same rights of self gov
ernment that have been accorded to
every other territory, the right of
American citizenship and the abolition
of far distant bureaucratic govern
ment. The platform emphasizes the
vital need of rail transportation to
develop Alaska's resources and recom
mends governmental construction aud
operation of a railroad i'rorn tide water
to the Yukon river via the Matanuska
coal fields; urges the speedy openiug
of the coal lauds aud. their operation
both by the government and by private
enterprise under governmental super
vision on a liberal leasing system; de
maud? reform of the destructive fish
ery methods and imposition of a rea*
sonable tax upon the cauners, payable
only in cash; urges abolition of forest
reserves in the Third division, and de
mands extension of the interstate com
merce commission's jurisdiction to
Alaska. It advocates an appropriation
of at least SI, 000, 000 annually for tea
years for the further development of
the road and trail system; recommends
the creation of a separate land district
comprising the Third division of
Alaska and the use of all Alaska pub
lic land receipts for a road and school
fund; favors quarantine regulations,
care of destitute, establishment of life-*
saving stations and lighthouses in
Prince Williams sound and the exten
sion of the public laud survey to
Alaska; condemns the idea of u oow*
missiou government aud oppose ally
change in the mineral lawa which
would atitfle individual effort,