Douglas Island news. [volume], February 28, 1912, Image 1

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A Few of the
Recent Arrivals
THIS store is already beginning to display a
variety of New Spring Merchandise in the dif
different departments, which we will be very pleased
to show you. Come in; we will make your visit a
pleasant one.
RUGS AND CARPETS
COUCH COVERS AND PORTIERES
ALFRED BENJAMIN CLOTHING
KENYON RAIN COATS
JAPANESE CREPE SPRING WAISTS
NEW SILKS
B. H. Behrends Co., Inc.
'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Star l.od^e. No. 2, ?
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at S o'clock in Odd Fellows Hnll
C. M. SPORES. C. C.
CHAS. V. HOPP. K. of R. & S.
Vi-.itiuir litiishts invited.
E
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
^ Lod^e meets Second mid fourth
Tuesdays of eitch mom, .
JAMES DANIELS, W. M.
J. N. STOOD Y, Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. O. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Visit in;; brothers alwa\s welcome.
JOHN R.SCOTT, N. G.
MERL F. THOMAS, Rec. Sec'v.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and thjrd
Saturdays, at S p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
CHAS. STITES, C. P.
HUGH McRAE. Scril*?.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MAMIE PRICE, N. G.
GERTRUDE LAUGHLIF, Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. n.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
BTSN1N6 at S o'clock
at Odd Fellows.' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
WILLIAM McCORMICK, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORNWELL, C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET SECOND AND
FOL RTH TU ESDAYS at S p.m. at A.B. 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
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. ra.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
Robert W. Jennings
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
LEWIS BUILDING
Juneau, - - Alaska
Q?\ 0 ' headaches are caused
V /W by Eye strain; can be cur
ed permanently by proper fitted glasses
L J. SHARICK, ^opticus JUNEAU
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The Ketchikan saw mill started up
on Feb. 15.
The Wrangell >aw mill started up on I
the 14th with a full ere at.
Johu Zug is huperiotendeut of the I
road commission at Fairbanks.
During the year 19 L 1 the Valdez post
office did a busiue^ of $5,723.61.
.
Citizens of Skagway have subscribed
$1,100 for an aviation meet iu that city.
The Apollo mine at Unga, which was
closed down for the winter, will start J
up again iu May.
Johu P. Chase, a prominent, socialist
from the States, is scheduled to make
a lecturing tour of Alaska thi.-> t-priug.
Another fair will bo held at Fair
banks next fall. The fair association
has $104 cash left from the last fair.
Thomas R. Shepard, of Seattle, has
been appointed United States commis
8ioner at Valdez, to succeed Judge J.L.
Heed.
Fred Schmidt was found frozen to
death on the trail near Ruby. He was
25 years of age. His mother resides at
Dawson.
In a book comprised of the reports of
government officials ,the native popu
lation of the Yukon basin is estimated
j at about 7,000. ?
Since the establishment of the Fair
banks recording preciuct, 100 persons
have been adjudged iusane there, says
the News-Miner.
The town council of Iditarod has
' made the tax levy for the present year
\}? cents. The total valuation assessed
i for taxation is $1,300,000.
The slogan, 4; Fairbanks, Alaska's
Golden Heart," has been embodied in a
seal, and to date 30.000 of these stick
ers have beeu distributed free.
Not for a number of years has the
outlook for an increased tjold output
in the Koyukuk beeu as promising as
at present, say recent arrivals from
there.
Following the recent strikes in the
Cliff mine at Valdez comes the an
nouncement that three more stamps
will be added to the mill, tusking six
; in all.
Pavlov volcano has beeu on a ram
page again. This volcano is situated ou
the Alaskan peninsula near the village
of Belkofsky, about 60 miles west of
Sand Poiut.
Dan Jonas, of Fairbanks, who has
been spoken of as the successor to
Louis P. Shackleford, as national re
j publicau committeeman from Alaska,
passed through Cordova recently on .
his way inside.
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Delegate .James Wickersham is op
posed to a government, railroad in
Alaska "a? a matter of principle," but
will support the measure because it is
a good thing for the territory.
Vasile Deacon, a Roumanian, has
been arrested at Wrancell for the at- 1
tempted murderof Jack Brown. Deacon !
attacked Brown with a knife and in* '
flicted serious wounds on his victim
about the bead and neck.
Nome has been suffering this winter
from a typhoid pneumonia epidemic.
Th? '-;ty healt h officer reported to the I
ci'v incil that the epidemic was not
<? Mi- : v a contaminated water sup j
; ' . I -; nas due to the unusual weather
condit ions.
The Valdez chamber of commerce
unanimously adopted resolutions
urging upon congress the appropriation
of 81,000,000 to be expended under the
direction of the war department for
the construction of permanent roads I
and trails in the territory.
At Sitka, where, with the exception
of a few short gaps, a record of the
thermometer has been kept, for forty
five years, it. has been found that the
mean spring temperature was 41.2;
summer, 54.6; autumn, 44.9; winter,
32.5 and for the entire year. 45.3.
The publicity bureau of the Dawson
board of trade is making arrangements
to hold a dance outdoors, with the ob
ject of educating the outside world to
the fact that weather conditions there
in the winter are far more congenial
fhati in most outside eastern cities.
Everybody will be clad to hear that.
Mr. Clyde Guptill intends to return to
Skagway next. mouth to take up his
duties atrain with the Alaska Steamship
company, which were so disastrously
interrupted last fall. Mr. GuptilPs
health is quite restored, and he writes
in good spirits.
With a stick of dynamite at his head,
one on his breast and another piece at
his feet, all with fuse attached, and
with 24 sticks under his back, Peter
.Julius Johuson blew himself into
eternity. 7'he deed whs executed in a
sequestered spot near Acklen ditch,
back of Dawson.
A report is current to the effect that
the Northeru Navigation company is
contracting to deliver freight in Daw
son at S30 per ton, one report naming i
the price at S25 per ton. The Star is
making an effort to verify the loport,*
which, if true, should be knowu by the .
merchants of Whitehorse. The death
knell of exorbitant freight charges in j
the North is being rung, no matter
what railway commissions may do re- 1
garding them.? Whitehorse Star.
The indicted Seattle men, charged
with having embezzled the funds of the
Fairbanks Banking company, will be
tried on a less serious charge when
the case comes to trial. They will not
be tried for embezzlement, the charge
haviug been changed to making a false
report of the condition of the bank in
order to deceive the creditors and de- 1
positors, which is only a misdemeanor.
The prosecution was doubtful of secur
ing a conviction on the embezzlement
charge.
. 1. O'Connor
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
In wpite of all the fuss there is out
there about gold discoveries', the Val
dez Prospector say*.: ''In the Decem
ber Outlook there is an article, en
titled, 'What is really going on in Alas
ka?' There is nothing doing in Alaska.
In the summer we fish and fool around.
In the winter there is no fishing nor is
fhe populatiou of Alaska increasing.
No, there's nothing doing in Alaska
just now."
The Whitehorse Star says: That
there has been a mighty change in
weather conditions lately there is no
denying. Here the winter season is
more than half gone and, with one
scarcely noticeable period of less than
forty-eight hours, there has been very
little weather that would even bo class
ified as crisp. Within the memory of
white mau there has not been a winter
Mtnilar to the present one. Comparing
dates of this winter with those gone
before, we find a difference of from 30
to 50 degrees, the temperature of this
winter being from ten to thirty degrees
above zero, where on similar dates of
previous years it was from thirty to
fifty helow ? sometimes sixty to seventy
below.
Up at Prince Rupert, the northern
most transcontinental terminal, Presi
dent Hays of the Grand Trunk frankly
avows that his line is preparing steam
ship and elevator capacity to ship 100,
000,000 bushels of Canadian wheat
round the world through Panama. "We
have the lowest mountain grades in
America," says the Grand Trunk presi
dent, which is true. "We have a 60 loot
harbor which uature made and we dou't
need to dredge, and we have a seafront
which never freezes over as the wheat
harbors of eastern Canada freeze. We
already have the finest Alaska steam
ers on the Pacific; and by the time
Panama opens we'll have ocean freight
ers between Prince Rupert aud Liver
pool through the canal." ? Review of
Reviews.
Several enterprising prospectors and
miners about Nome are going to sack
up a number of tons of the gold-bear
ing sand now exposed ou the beach, to
bo treated by the custom mill during
the wiuter, says the Nome Industrial
Worker, and they expect to make a
winter's grubstake out of their work.
Tests of the sand now exposed along
the water front, several feet of the sur
face sand has been exposed by the
storm, proves that the average material
runs from $12 to $25 to the ton. Two
men can sack about ten tons of the
beach sand a day, provided they can
rustle the sacks, aud the teamsters will
haul the sacks to the mill for $1 a ton,
after the sleddiug gets good. The mill
charges $5 per ton to run the saud
through, making a total of $6 per ton
for beiug treated. The figures turned
in by one of the hustlers sounds good,
and if the low water continues and the
beach does not freeze too hard, from
$20 to $40 a day can be made by men
who will sack the sand for treatment at
the mill. In some places along the
beach the storm exposed the bedrock
and Eskimos are hunting for pieces of
gold. The best find reported was a
chunk of amalgam containing about
?65 ii>gold.
Fairbanks lodge No. 3, 1. 0. O. P., b??3
purchased the old Overguard builditu?
on lower First aveuueand immediately
will remodel the structure to meet the
requirements of the lodge as a place of
meeting. The consideration was $2,000
cash.
The discovery of a fabulous quantity
of free gold in a specimen of rock said
to have come from the famous Dolly B
claim on the east fork of the Skagway
river, is causing no little amount of ex
citement in town today, says the Alas
kan. The find was made by J. C. Mo
Brien, who examined a quantity of rock
which had been placed in his forge for
the purpose of burning it. Upon clean
ing his forge this morning, McBrien
examined the rock and upon breaking
it up was amazed to find that it waa
filled with the yellow lucre. Five
pounds of the rock were granulated
and the mass was panned with the re
sult that 05 cents in free gold was re
covered. immediately a search wa8
started to find from whence came the
rich specimen. It is claimed that the
1 specimen was brought to tbo shop
by Arthur Wilson, and was from the
Dolly B claim on the east foik of the
{ Skagway river. The pan of gold haa
been on exhibition in the office of P/it)
Abrahams and has caused a big htam
pede of sight-seers to that place.
The people of Nome are discussing a
proposal to commute annual labor into
i cash, offering the government either
the labor or the cash as consideration
for permission to hold a milling claina
one year. On one side, according to
the telegraphic report, it is argued that
the government could put the casn
to excellent use in Alaska. On the
other side, it is hinted that pencil
miners and absentee claimauts are be
hind the scheme. The whole discussion
i follows hard upon the decision of the
circuit court of appeals wherein it is es
i tablMied that a full 6100 worth of labor
must be performed each year to hold
each claim. The idea of changing the
assessment system is not new in Alas
ka. It has been proposed at intervals
during the past ten years and longer.
Everybody is aware that the general
run of annual labor is perfunctory, and
that the purpose of the annual labor
requirement ? the development of the
mining ground ? is not accomplished.
Therefore, it seems sensible to propose
instead a cash payment for the holding
of the ground, because the cash could
be made td serve a useful purpose,
whereas the assessment work is gen
erally a waste, without profit i > any
body. But it is a question whether the
original idea iu requiring annual labor
should be abandoned. The laud laws
are liberal, but all are based upon the
bargain that a citizen may have posses
sion of the land if he will make use of
it. When it was proposed iu Fairbanks
some years ago that cash payments be
permitted instead of annual labor, the
money to be expended in the building
of roads, it was pointed out that there
would be no use for the roads If the
mining ground was not developed. We
should avoid any change that works
away from the idea of development and
in the direction of land speculation.? ?
Fairbanks Times,