The Douglas Island News.
VOL. 15.
DOUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1913
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| Our Annual January Sale ?
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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 ^
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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.
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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.
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? 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.