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The Douglas Island News. VOL. 15. DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1913 vtimnmiwviiwwwviiv(ii& | Our Annual January Sale ? mbbmhmbmbbmmbmmmbbdbmbmmmmmbbhhhhbbhmkbb ->? REMARKABLE reductions in a number of ^ winter lines that must be closed out regard- 2 ^ less of cost. This includes all Ladies' Winter 3 ^ Coats, Suits, Dresses and Furs. Broken lines of 3 Men's and Women's Underwear and Hosiery, ^ ^ Men's Hats and Shirts, Men's and Women's Shoes =3 ^ FURS ? Your choice of our entire stock of Furs, 3 ^ Muffs and Shawls, in Russian mink, wolf, fox, !!? at half price. Regular values, $10 to $37.50. ^ ^ Sale price, $5 to $18.75. 3 | WOMEN'S COATS? We still have a number ji of very pretty coats to select from. Regular prices 3 ^ range from $J5 to $35. Sale price $10 to $23.50 ^ | B. n. Beh rends Co., Inc. | E 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA 3 lodge directory. K. of P. The North Star Lodge, No. 2, K. of P., meets every THURSDAY EVENING at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall V..J. KCKLWC. C. I CHAS. A.HOPP. K. of R. AS. fultluir Knights invited. Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. ( Lodge meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each monvh. JAMES DANIELS. W. M. J. N. STOOD Y, Secy. Alaska Lodge No. i, U 0. 0. F, Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows Hull Visiting brothers always welcome. MONTE BENSON. N. G. MEKL F. THOMAS. Rec.Sec'y. Aurora Encampment No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Thursdays at 8 p.m. Brothers of the Koyal Purple are cordially invited. CHAS. ST1TES, C. P. HUGH McRAE. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Thursdays. Visitors are cordially invited. MARIE WEISS. N. G. GERTRUDE LA UGH LIN. Secretary. Auk Tribe No. 7, Imp. O. R. n. MEETS EVERY MONDAY EVEN 1NG at 8 o'clock at Odd Fellows' Hall Visiting Brothers Invited. CHAS. p. OSTERBKRG, JK., Sachem. FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R. Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B. ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES DAY at S p.m. at A. L. (J. hall. C. E. BENNETT, Arctic Chief. K. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder PROFESSIONAL Albert R. Sargeant, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE Office? O'Connor Building-, Third Streot Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 in.; 1 p. ru. to 5 p. ra.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. in. Telephones ? Office 5-2; Residence 5-2-2 Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted Dr. De Piperno R. Hector Regular Physician and Surgeon American, French, Italian and Spanish Authorized to practice in Alaska and Outside Roentgen Rays and Medical Electricity used when needed OFFICE D STREET DOUGLAS, ALASKA Phone 3-S Robert W. Jennings attorney-at-law LEWIS BUILDING Juneau, - - Alu^ku i he Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources. Concerning the Great North. Condensed. Information for Everybody. Water is getting short at Wraogell, but the people of the Stikine City know what to do. A Juueau attorney is quoted as say ing that the Alaska Sunday closing law is a dead one. Odd Fellows at Valdez celebrated the new year by starting a charter list for a new lodge. Better transportation facilities are absolutely required for the develop ment of Alaska. The Seward Democratic club has be come affiliated with the national organ ization of democratic clubs. "Tex" Alexander offers to argue to a standstill any socialist in Southeastern Alaska. Thx bails from Ketchikan. | The steamer Corwin is to be placed back on her old routfcas the first vessel out of Seattle for Nome each spring. Electric power, aerial tramways and pipe lines are becoming of utmost im portance in the development of Alaska. The Dawson News declares that the most practical route for a railroad to interior Alaska would start from Haiues. The Pacific Mining Journal says that 1500 men were engaged in mining near Juneau in October, exclusive of Tread well rniue. Mushing 200 miles iu 10 days, over the ice of the White river, is the feat ac complished by Audy Taylor, the Daw i sou pathfinder. John Samuelson, a resident of Silver Bow basin, uear Juneau, committed suicide last week by stabbing himself in the abdomen. Senator L. V. Ray, of Seward, is a candidate for president of the terri { torial senate, as is also Senator Henry Roden, of Iditarod. Alaska coal claimants have paid into the United States treasury over $350,- i 000 and yet Alaskans continue to pay duty on foreign coal. "The Glory of the Seas," known to fame as a floating caunery, will be con- ; verted into a cold-st.orage plant for the handliug of fresh fMi. Noatak Eskimos are reported to have fouud pay on that river, which runs as high as 75 cents to the pan. The Noatak empties into Kotzebue sound. Gov. Walter E. Clark has announced j that his resignation will go into head 1 quarters on March 4th. Clark took oath of office on Oct. 1, 1909. Bids are beiug called for by the quartermaster department at Seattle ; | for repair work and installing new j 1 boilers on the cableship Burnside. * * ? ft*? WE ARE ? DOUGLAS AGENTS f FOR ft P.-I., Examiner, Chronicle, Star, ft T? Times and Oregonian ft ? j We also carry the ft Leading Periodicals & Magazines * For NICE TABLETS and i FINE WRITING PAPER ? WE ARE IT! * f Our line uf S Cigars and Tobaccos Is the most complete in Alasku ft 40 ft * * * Our Candies are Always Fresh! ft j We carry a full line of Fruit! ft 4$ (During the fruit season) <r * <r ? ? > J All the LATEST $1.50 BOOKS! * Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper if. I ftOIIM NEWS DEPOT ! The Nome-Solomon dog race is , scheduled for today. It is one of the great sporting events of the North, and J dog teams for the race are selected with the greatest care. Chris C. Shea, a former mayor of tne : town of Skagway, died on board the steamer Northwestern enroute to Se att lo, where he expected to undergo a suinical operation. An exchange has discovered that Alaskans grow gray before their time for the same reason that a weasel cr a ptarmigan puts on a coat in the winter i time resembling the snow. Fire aud snowslides destroyed the loading statiou at the Bonanza, mine last Sunday. The los* is estimated at ?100,000. Tne accident will seriously interfere with the large shipments of copper ore to Cordova. in the absence of democratic repre sentation in congress from Alaska, it is > said upon good authority that thu dem ocratic territorial and divisional com mittees will have much to do with federal appointments in the territory, i Of the one thousaud coal claims lo cated iu Alaska prior to the withdrawal order of November 12, 1900, over three huudred of which have been surveyed at the expense of the claimauts, a patent has been issued iu one single in stance. In a sportive mood, the Seward Gateway >?ays: "We have a few small coins to wager that the Alaska railway i commission will report in favor of Seward as the coast terminus of the proposed governmeut-owued railway system." O. P. Gaustad, of Cleary, Alaska, plans installing a hydro-electric plant near the mouth of Pilot creek for the > purpose of supplying quartz properties with current for power. A dam aud a ditch 11 milee long will be iuciuded in ! the proposed improvement. The treasury department has accept ed the bid of the Alaska Junk Com pany ? $8,500 ? for the former revonue cutter Bush. When taken out of com j mission some months ago the vessel was stripped of all her navigating and department furnishings, leaving only i the hull aud machinery. The news comes from Fairbanks that the ledge of the News Boy mine at the 315-foot level is looking very good, be ing two aud a half feet wide aud car- j rying values equal to anything found on the property. Men are now work ing on the three levels, 150, 215 and 315, each level carrying good ore. The loss of the steamer Workman off Columbia bar last week with 90,000 cases of finest red Alaska salmon for export to Liverpool and London has withdrawn a large portion of the best ! fish, as announced by leading salmon brokers, and that it will have the effect of strengthening the market was the assertion of those who have been watch- ! ing the conditions, says the Seattle P.-I. The pack of red Alaskas this sea son was none too large for the possible consumption, insluding the export trade, aud an advance in price is within '? the range of immediate possibilities. MNNNNNCi ? O'Connor Wholesale and Retail Dealer in General A white man in Alaska, purchases more in a year than any other white i man in the world. The amount, ac cording to government report is $1,000' per capita. One of the reasons that, the interior department has given for the refusal to issue coal patents to the claimants is because "no mine has been opened up." And yet the government seuds a party of forty men to the Bering river fields : and in a few week* they mine 855 tons oi coal from tunnels driven on claims where Commissioner Dennett has said there was no mine. Surely the rulings I of the interior department passeth all understanding. ? Cordova Alaskan. The freighter Cordova, which made its berth for several days on the mud flats at Scow bay, a few miles below j here, pulled itself out after reducing i the weight of its cargo. \Vith tne use of scows aud the pumping out of nine hundred barrels of fuel oil, the heavily laden ship managed to leave her muddy berth and return to the Citizens' dock, where she reloaded prepaiatory to go ing below by the way of Kake aud the outside today. ? Petersburg Progres-( sive. The first large shipment of ore that has ever beeu made out of the Port Wells district, has gone out ou the steamer Yukou. The shipment is from the Patton property aud consists of 10 tons of ore that will mill better than $100 to the ton. There is a lot of pros pecting being carried on in the Port Wells country this wiuter aud mauy good looking showings that have been discovered during the past season wiil ' be developed toward a milling point soou and in the spring it is thought many mills will be installed. ? Ex. Lee & Brinton, naval architects, yes- j terday were given the contract for ! plans and specifications for three cruising power launches to be built for the United States forest reserve service for use in Alaska. The vessels will be j thirty-five feet long and teu feet beam. They will be equipped with 15-horse power engines and have raised decks forward, pilot house amidships aud trunk cabin aft. The launches will cost about $2,000 each and supplement the launches Tahn and Rustler, now operated in the forestry reservice in Southeastern Alaska. ? Seattle P.-l. After a 12 years' fight before the gen eral land office, in, which he was baf fled and browbeaten aud stood off and circumlocuted, until au ordinary man would have committed suicide or kill ed somebody, a coal land patent has been ordered granted to W. G. Whorf, who staked coal claims near Port Gra ham, Kenai peninsula, Alaska, in 1900. j Whorf's claims are near English bay, Cook's inlet, about 160 miles southwest of Seward. The order granting the patent came through Secretary of the Interior Fisher, and it is believed that it will be followed by other patents to those who have made legitimate en tries. The Alaska colony in Washing ton is highly pleased at the turn of events which seem to be revolving in favor of the opening of the coal lands of Alaska. Very reliable information is at hand, says the Petersburg Progressive, to the the effect that, a New York firm has its agent in the vicinity of Petersburg looking over the advantages and prac ticability of putting up a paper mill aloug this coast. Elia Kanagin, charged with giving liquor to Indians, after two juries at Valdez had disagreed, entered a plea of guilty^ and was sentenced to 20 days imprisonment. Kanagin is an Aleut, and in passing sentence Judge Lyons took occasion to say that the Aleuts were not citizens within the meaning of the act, and that the mere fact that they had voted occasionally was no in dication of their citizenship. So many inquiries have been re received by the United States govern ment iu regard to Alaska that it has printed a small pamphlet to supply the demand. Copies of the pamphlet have been received at the governor's office, says an exchange. Contained in it is a brief historical sketch, beginning with the explorations of Bering and Chiri kov and ending with the passage of the home rule bill; a description of the climate and the geography; population of the minor subdivisions, as shown by the 1910 census; facts in regard to the government of the country; general information as to national forests, rail roads, roads and trails, and telegraph and cable lines, aud some detailed in formation in regard to agriculture, fur bearing animals and huuting regula tions; brief statements in regard to fisheries, labor, educatiou and reindeer service, geological, mineral aud water resources, where maps can be secured, a list of the newspapers printed iu the territory, and how other information can be obtained. Only oue coh! mine in all Alaska was operated commercially in 1911, but a little coal was mined at several places in the territory, chiefly by those who themselves utilized the product (not eveu this has beeu allowed during the past year. The total estimated output of coal in 1911 was 900 tons; the total output in 1910 was 1,000 tons. Nine huudred tons of coal miued in one year in a territory known to contaiu more coal than such beds as Pennsylvania! Fifty-Seven hundred square miles are known to contain anthracite and high grade bituminous coal and half as much again knowu to contain low grade bitumiuous coal and this from exhaustive surveys made by the U. S. geological survey in all parts of Alaska. Wherever a reconnaissance was made coal was found; at Cook inlet, Mata nuska, Nenam, Bering river, Circle, Colville river, as far north as Point Barrow, Lisbourne, Norton sound aud down to the Alaska peninsula. From 1899 to 1912 there has been consumed in Alaska 1,440,104 tons of coal. Of this, 492,066 tons was imported from the states, chiefly from Washington; 908, 577 tons, nearly double, was foreign importation, chiefly bituminous, from British Columbia, and 36,314 tons pro duced iu Alaska. At the present rate we can expect to find that there was no coal produced in Alaska in the past year and that practically all importa tions were foreign.? Wm. L, Kidston in Engineering Record.