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The Douglas Island News. VOL u DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1912 ? gwwfflw w fflwwitfwfflttj* nffffwnffTnrntfWfwnrnfTtfig materials Our Stock of Wash Goods, Silks and Dress Goods is now complete. You will find it easy to get what you want from the assortment we can show you. ?* Wooltex Suits and Coats ? Priced from $20 to $35 3 ^ Women's and Misses' Skirts in vv ^ Tweed, Serge, Panama, &c ? Priced up to $ 1 5 ^ Cotton Poplin, 20c a yd. Scotch Ginghams, 25c a yd. ^ ^ Domestic Ginghams 15c yd ? Percales at 15c a yard ^ '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 f 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 PRO FESSIONA L, 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. m. Telephones? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2 Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted Robert W. Jennings ATTORNEY-AT-LAW LEWIS BUILDING Juneau, - . Alaska Oh ?* headaches are caused /O by Eye strain; can be our ?d permaueutly by proper ftfcted glasses L J- SU AfiJUfcL. frttwiAK JUNEAU 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. I I 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. to 4t to to *** **to *C WE ARE' to * ? I DOUGLAS AGENTS | ? FOR to *{ to y P.-I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, to ? Times and Oregonian to to a ^ We also carry the to * Leading Periodicals & Magazines * ? For NICE TABLETS and ? FINE WRITING PAPER * WE ARE IT! Our line uf J Cigars and Tobaccos J Is the most complete in Alaska ^ i; _ ? i 4 j Our Candies are Always Fresh! ? | We carry a full line of Fruit! | 4t (During: the fruit seuson) ? * * * J All the LATEST S1.50 BOOKS! } to 4 Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper ^ I DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT ! 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