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The Douglas Island News.
VOL u DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912 ?
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want from the assortment we can show you.
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'Phone 5 JUiNtAU,
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The fcorth Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets ever**
? THURSDAY EVENING
*t S o'clock in Odd Fellows Hall
r R. A. SCHMIDT. C. C.
CHAS.A.HOPP. K. of R. AS.
7141110? Knights invited.
Gasttne&ux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
? Lod*re meets second ?uid fourth
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Tuesdays of each immtL.
JAMES DANIELS, W. M.
J. N. ST (X XD Y , Sec}'.
Alaska Lodge No. i* I. 0. O. F,
M-ett s wer>' Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
JOflii K.SCOTT. N. <G.
MEKI. F. V>, !C?'t\ Sec'y.
Auror: {.rjcamprnent No. 1
meets a; Odd a -' hall first and third
Saturdays, at S >
Brothers of t . L >yul Purple are cordially
invited.
CHAS. STITES, C. P.
HUGH McRAE. Scri l?e.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hafl second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
MAMIE PRICE, N. G.
GERTRUDE LAOGHLIN. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. n.
MCETl^EYERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock
.nt*Wd Fellows* Hull
Visiting1 Brothers Invited.
WILLIAM McCORMICK, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY at 8 p.m. at A. L. U. hall.
C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief.
K. McCOJKMICK. Arctic Recorder
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R. G. CLAY, D. D. S.
DENTIST
GOLD INLAYS A SPECIALTY
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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. m.
Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2
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Robert W. Jennings
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
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Juneau, - . Alaska
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The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
-Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The price of mouey orders iti the
Yukou has been cat in two.
{ireat numbers of halibut are re
ported in the waters all about Sitka.
Tiie Marcotte barber shop at White
horse was gutted by lite on March 3i?t,
Preliminary work is under way for a
million dollar hotel at Priuce Rupert.
A Ketchikan genius has invented a
new trolling spoon for salmon fisher
men.
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The Whitehorse Star has discovered)
that Walt Masou was born in Ontario,
j Cauada.
Alaska can lie rs have a delegation
[headed for Washiugtou to protest
agaiust the passage of the Joties bill.
Members of the Ketchikau Koral
Klub und the Ketchikan Firemen's
Band are working together to produce
a play.
President Taft has nominated Ward
Bower as assistant geueral agent for the
supervision of the Alaska salmon fish
eries.
A part of the sawmill wharf at Peters
i burg collapsed ou March 31st, under the
! weight of about ?7,000 worth of salmou ;
box shooks.
Sigurd Blick, of Norway, a lieutenaut
guuner of the Norwegian navy, has
been .hired as an expert marksmau ou
board the whaler Tyee Jr.
The thirteenth child was added re
cently to aSkagway family. The Alas
kan claims that this is the largest fam
ily ever reared in Southeastern Alaska.
Tlie oommon council for the town of
Wrangell for 1912 will be C. H. Borch,
Ohas. Benjamin, D.Lewia, L.M.Church
ill, C. A. Emery, A. T. Spader and J. 11.
I Wheeler.
Haines elected a new town council
on the 2nd iust. as follows: B. E. Ben
son, Geo. Vogei, Ed Fay, Geo. W.,
I Hinchman, Frank Saucier, C. A. Lind
j holm, Jesse Jensen.
Capt. P. Knaflisch, of the power
i schooner Bender Brothers, has called
off the voyage he had planned to Cook
inlet and will sail early in May for
Bethel, on the Kuskokwim river.
Senator Simon Guggenheim wants
President Taft to tell him when ;tbe
Alaska coal fields will be opened.
There are a great mauy people in the
North who are ourious about that mat
; ter.
The Taxpayers' tioket carried the day
I in the Skagway muuicipai election.
| The successful candidates were: P. H.
; Ganty, J. M. Tanner, Henry Frieden
1 thai, Jack Uender, Dr. J. P. Brawand,
| Phil Abrahams and Ed Foramen.
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The Alaska bill for the relief of the
indigent in the Northern territory,
which passed the senate last May, was
on April 1st reported to the house for
action. It is thought that action will
be taken on the bill in t*he near future.
On account of the heavy traffic,,
caused by the opeuing of oauneries iu i
Southeastern Alaska, the steamship
Curacao, of the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company, was dispatched from ,
Seattle ou the 3rd, for one more trip to ,
?the North.
Di-l'-unte Barnes Wickersham told t<he
Ikv.im' committee on territories that the
iinpres.-ic.ns spread by Gov. Clark in
regard to Alaska are in direct opposi
tion to the will of the people of Alaska,
and are due to ignorance on the part of
the governor.
The construction of a smelter with a
treatment capacity of 2,000 tons daily
at Gran by bay, in the Portlaud canal
district, for the Gran by Consolidated
Mining <fc Smelting Company, involving
an expenditure of 61,000,000, will be
started in May.
Capt. Charles O'Brien, for some
years master of the steamer City of Se
attle, but recently of the Ala-ka S. S.
Co., has been appointed master of the
si earner Seward in place of Capt. Thos.
Moore, who has been placed iu com
maud of the uew liner Mariposa.
Charles Burch, who has been experi
menting with an auto sleigh atCarcross i
for the past three years, now announces
that the machiue is a success and that
he will have live of them constructed
during the coining summer for freight
ing next winter on the Dawson road.
The uew Fish Egg cannery of the
Lindeuberger Packing Co. will pack
sanitary cans, and the company is now
busily engaged iu manufacturing its
own caus for both the new cannery
and the cauuery which was operated
last year for the first time at Roe
Point.
Several changes are to be made this
year iu the superintendents of the
Alaska Pacific Fisheries. Fred Heck
man has been made superintendent of
the Yes Bay cannery.; Thomas Heck
man will remain in charge of the
Chomley cauuery, while E. L. Gardner, j
formerly of Geo. T. Meyers & Co., will
act as superintendent at the Chilkoot
cauuery.
Secretary Fisher, of the department
of the interior", appeared before both ,
houses of congress on March 30th and
asked that rapid action be taken by
cougress on the matter of a railway for j
the purpose of cpeniug up the Alaskan
coal fields. He declared that it was
imperative that some action be taken
this sesaiou of congress for the relief
of Alaska.
The warm weather ha9 played havoc
with the winter trail to Dawson. Sleighs
have been abandoned and the entire
trip from Whitehorse will have to be
; made on wheels. It is thought that an
early breaking up of the trail will be I
followed by an early opening of navi- 1
gation on the Yukon, and the flow of
! travel into the Yukon will be inter
rupted ior but. a short jpeciod.
i m. i O'Connor
UJbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
General
merchandise
With a large cargo of cannery sup- ;
plies and general freight for the Prince
of Wales island cannery porta, the
steamship Dirigo, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, which has undergone
exteusive alterations, sailed north from
Seattle on March 30th, in command of
Capt. Jerry Klynn, who has been a pilot
in the service of the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company.
uThe word Seattle is mighty popular
?up in Alaska,1' said Dr. Fallows, a min
ing man from Valdez, at t$*e Savoy yes
terday. "We realize that Seattleites j
are interested in uh, and how heartily
they wish us homo lule. Of course, oc
casionally you hear a kioker, who de
clares that Seattle is trying to run
Alaska affairs, but the feeling in gen
eral it> that of friendliness."' ? P.-I.
The court lias been asked to decide
what was in the mind of M. J. Ileney,
the millionaire railroad contractor,
when he devised in his will 30,000 ca^h .
to Richard H. Simpson, a to'al stranger
whom he ia said never to have met ki J
hi? life, and omitred any bequest to his
old friend, Hamilton Ross Simpson, his ;
foreman ofc construction on the rock
hewn load bed of the Copper River &
Northwestern railway, of Alaska.
Mr. Charles E. Davidson., of Fair- 1
banks, who ie in the city to attend the
democratic convention, is accompanied
by his bride. He was married at Cor
dova to Miss Helen Beatey, who came
u p ou the Northwestern. Mr. Davidson
is a civil engineer and U.S. deputy land
surveyor in the interior camp, where he
has resided for years. The happy
couple are receiving the congratula
tions of friends. ? Valdez Prospector.
Post Office Inspectors Walter Cook
sou and Frank Smith arrived at Seat
tle April 1st from Southeastern Alaska
and euroute to Washington, where they j
will report on the conditions of the
Alaskan postoffice3 which they have
spent almost a year examining. Upon
their arrival at the national capital it
is their intention to urge theestablish
<meut of postal savings banks in all of
the second and third class postofflcea
?iu Alaska.
The lines of the Alaska Pacific Fish
eries"1 Tea Hay and Chilkoot canneries
have been changed and iu the future
sanitary cans will be used iu the place
of the old style. This company has
now entirely abandoned the use of the
soldered can. A new tender and three
scows are under construction and will
be sent north at once. A pack of 75,000
is being prepared for at Yes Bay and
one of like size at Chomley, and the at
tempt will be made to get up 50,000 ,
cases at Chilkoot.
Canned salmon exports from Puget
sound last month were more than ten
times heavier than during the corre
sponding month last year. The ship
ments aggregated 810,016 pounds, com
pared with 79,680 pounds during the
same month -in 1911. Shipments were
made to no less thaa twelve different i
t
countries, whereas shipments were
made to but four countries in March, j
1911. One of the feature of the month's
shipments was the large consignments
ito.Uermany and Belgium.
Rev. S. Hall Young, a pioneer Alas-k*
minister, more thau seventy year* old^
arrived at Seward, March 28, from Idit
arod, having drive? a dog team over
ti>e trail He left Fairbanks March 5^
and reports a pleasant journey. Mjt?
Young came oiat to attend a meeting ?at
his presbytery at Cornova and will
turn overla-nd to Fairbauks from Cor
dova.
M. O. Bennett, a former employe of
the Cont/rol'ler Bay ?fc Bering Sea Coal
& Railway Company, yesterday peti
tiotied the superior court lor the aj>
pointment o?f a receiver for t+ie com
pany, which, he says, is insolvent, sayg
the P.-I. He also asks a judgment
against the company for $7#7. Bennett
charges that he was employed as at*
engineer at a salary of 8200 a month
and expensea, and that he worked si*
months for the corporation. He asks
that a receiver collect the unpaid stock
subscriptions, sell the property of th*
company aud close up it9 affaira.
A decided chauge ha* beeu noticed
in the last few days -in the appearauce
of the soldiers of the Sixteeutlx, and
once more we have the "|poys in blue.*
This change in attire from the oliv$
drab service uniform to the regulation
dress uniform of blue, is 'he result of
an order lately issued to the effect that
the boys must "sport up1' a bit whe?
visitiug Haines. Not only are they re'
quired to wear their blue uniforms, bui
the olive drab shirt also has beeu ta*
booed, with the result that a nice white
collar is seen peeping from that poc.
tion of the blouse which protrudes
above the shoulders. ? liaines Pionear
Press.
The latest reports received from thfc
strike to the westward in what ie new
known as the Good News country ant
encouraging. The region was staked
for miniug purposee largely by fisher
men who were employed at the salmon
canneries iu and about Nushagak. i3e.
ing more familiar with the seine ami
line than they were with the pick and
shovel, they ilet lays to the more ex.
perienced miniug men who flocked U
the country iu answer to the news of
the stride on Butte creek. The result
is that some very systematic prospect
ing has been oarried ou this winter^
and ae spring comes on the indications
are that the country will make a good
camp.
Through the inability of the treasury
department to secure bids within the
appropriation allowed for the erection
of a governor's mansion and other pub
lic buildings at Juneau, Alaska, it is
feared that the work on these struc
tures cannot be undertaken this sea
son. Bids have twice been called foi^
once last summer and again this year.
The later bids have ?just been opened
by the department, and, like those of
last August, are found to be so much
in excess of the $40,000 appropriation
made by congress for construction and
furnishing that they cannot be further
considered. ?It will be necessary either
to get an additional appropriation or
else to draw new plans oalliqg jtor &
smaller expenditure, after wbitfk new
bids will have to be called ifor. 'Jt w
probable that no construcbiuu u:au be
undertaken in Juneau