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VOL. 15.
The Douglas Island News.
DOUGLAS CtTV AND TREAD WELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY" 19, L913 NO. 13
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LODGE DIRECTORY.
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K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
f THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall
P. W. HOMF&BY, C. C.
CHAS. A. HOPP, K. of R. 6 S.
Whiting Knights invited,
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M. .
Lodsre meets second aud fourth
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Tuesdays of each mouih.
C. W. JOHNSON, W. M.
JAMES DANIELS, Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, I. 0. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Visiting brothers always welcome.
\V. BIRCH, N. G.
JOHN LIVIE. Rec.Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
ThursJuys at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited.
CHAS. STITES, C. P.
HUGH McRAE. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. 1
meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
IN A BENSON. N. G. i
GERTRUDE LA UGH LIN. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. 0. R. H.
MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at s o'clock
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
F. A. McDONALD, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORNWELL. C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY at S p.m. at A. L. U. hall.
A. T. NELSON, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK . Arctic Recorder
PROFESSIONAL,
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third and D Street
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; T^p. m. to 9 p. m.
Telephones ? Office 4; Residence 4-6
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 3-8
Robert W. Jennings
ATTCRNEY-AT-LAW
LEWIS BUILDIXG
Juneau,. - - Alaska
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Prince Rupert has set' its foot down
ou Sunday pool.
Fresh halibut climbed to 12}? cents
at Seattle last week.
A forty-stamp mill is plauned for the
Jualin mine this summer.
Juueuu has about decided to build a
new school house this summer.
The scourge of meayles and whooping
cough at Metlakahtla is abating.
Petersburg fishermen report an en
couuter with a man-eating shark.
E. P. Kefling has been elected Arctic
Chief of the new A. B. cauip at Peters
burg.
Ice twenty inches thick and clear as
a crystal is beiug cut iu the Chilkat
river, for use at Haines.
A Juneau paper jealously suggests
that a move is ou foot to move the cap
itai of Alaska dowu to Seattle.
George Wilkes, better known as the
"Burn 'em up Kid," has plotted an ad
ditiou to the town of Ketchikan.
Packing 105 boxes of halibut, iu three
hours and fifteen minutes is the record
for such performances at Ketchikan.
The Dominion telegraph station at
Tagish caught fire on the morning of
the 10th iust. and burned to the
ground.
Dr. Juan Butista Ruffo, a former
surgeon in Madero's army, has decided
to locate in Juneau, "far from the mad
ding strife."
Walter II. Zott, of Juueau, hunting
ptarmigau on the mountain side, slid
down over a cliff five huudred feet. No
bones brokeu.
Owing to the mildness of the weather,
Atlin lake did not freeze over until
late in January, almost a month later
thau for some years.
A Juneau paper has it all figured out
that C. iVl. Summers, the convicted
banker, seuteilced to serve five years in
the pen, will get off with less than two.
John J. Folstad aud AJex Fredolf,
both of Seattle, were fouud guilty in
the district court at Valdez, of stuffing
the ballot box at the delegate election
last fall.
Fred Berg spent a night in a crevasse
of Valdez glacier and escaped with no
greater injury than frosted hands aud
feet, but is not at all anxious to try it
agaiu. A howling blizzard prevailed at
the time.
The court of appeals at San Francisco
i will decide the question whether an
j Alaska lndiau who solicits others to
! furnish him liquor is guilty of a crime
i under the law. Selling.or giving liquor
to au lndiau is a felony.
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Sixty men are employed at the Cliff
mine, near Valdez, and it is said that J
the ore valuer, which are already ex- j
ceptional, increase with the depth of
: the workings.
Mrs. James Wood, formerly of Nome,
but now of Seattle, a well known i
yachtswoman, was found guilty of
stealing three gasoliue engines and was
sentenced to serve a year in jail.
j As the result of the attempt of Dr.
Parker to climb Mt. McKinley last
j year, aud failing by a few feet, another
party from Cornell University is i'orm
; iug for the purpose of at tempt ing -the
ascent.
In appeal from the decision of
Judge Lyons of the First judicial di
vision of Alaska, the government has
taken the now famous transportation .
case to the supreme court, where a
hearing is set for Feb. 25th.
Chas. E. Ingersoil, Ketchikan mem
ber of the lower house, will be present
when the first Alaska legislature con
veues next, mouth at Juneau. He has
about recovered from an injury re- ,
ceived by a fall on the ice some time
ago.
A company of Valdez business men
has been formed to send Mr. Sidney
Laurence, an artist of note, to a point |
j south of Mt. McKinley to sketch the
grand old pile, from which later on to I
make a painting for exhibit at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition.
Government flower seeds are being
distributed free by the Skagway Im
provement society, which has the aim
in view to make Skagway the "Flower
City of Alaska." Every home owner is
a^ked to cooperate. Skagway now has
a reputation to b6 envied.
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Cordova. ? No word has yet come
from the expedition which was recently
sent up the Bremner river to try aud
locate Harry Happle and Johnny Van
Iderstein, who were expected out from
that couutry not later lhau the first of !
October, and who have not arrived a9
yet.
Because of the shortcomings of the
U. S. commissioner, or the U. S. mail
service, the voters of Noland, in the
Koyukuk district, were denied the
right of suffrage iu the November elec
tiou, and now they are up iu arms and
want the whole election declared il
legal.
No doubt the well trained New York
hubby will prepare his own meals and
makes his own bed while his wife is
galivanting across the continent on
horseback in the cause of woman's suf
frage. We believe it was in Alaska a
husband chastised his wife when he re
j turned from work to find that his wife
; had not attended to her household
duties. ? Valdez Miner.
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A suit is pending in the United States
district court at Seattle, in which the
government seeks to recover from the !
i Pacific Coast Coal Co., the Northwest
| em Commercial Co. and the Johu J.
Sesnon Co. the sum of $100,000, on ac- 1
count of alleged fraudulent bids sub-|
mitted by the said companies to fur
j nish the government coal at its mili
i tary reservations iu Alaska.
m. 3. O'Connor
lUbolesale and Retail
Dealer in
general
merchandise
Alaska's greatest resourcss lie dead ;
because of lack of railroads to connect
the inland waterways with the coast, j
and because of inadequate coal land
law9, Secretary Fi9her told the house
territories committee. "There has been
a doc in the manger policy in Alaska,
be said.
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Wm. Carless, of Katalla, i9 authority
for the statement that the govern
ment's attempt to bring to salt water j
850 tons of Bering river coal will prove
a complete failure; that the trails are!
breaking up and it will be impossible i
for the men to get through with even a ;
siugle tou.
The people of Alaska are asked to
pass resolutions urging President Wil- '
son to make the construction of Alaska i
railroads one of the first subjects for
consideration in his recommendations
to the special session of congress.
Delegate Wickersham and others are
back of the appeal.
The Skagway Alaskan, always erratic, i
has a new oue. Here it is: There i9 a
growing sentiment favoring abolishing
the office of governor of Alaska. In the
past, governors have spent most of
their time iu Washington, and it has
been observed that things ran along as
smoothly, and iu some cases more
smoothly than wheu that functionary
was on the job.
One of the markets available for Alas
ka coal, were the coal fields of the ter- !
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ritory developed, would be to supply
coke to the smelters and foundries on
Paget sound and at Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities
on the Pacific coast. Most of the coke
now consnmed on the coast is imported
from Germany or England or is brought
from the Eastern States. ? Ex.
The amount of beef and mutton con- 1
sumed yearly by the people of Nome j
amounts to 150 tons. Beef seems to
suit the palates of the Nomeites so !
much better than mutton that ten tons
of the former are eaten to every ton of ,
sheep. In additiou to beef and mutton
the people of Nome eat about 50 tons
of game and fish, which brings the
grand total up to 400,000 pounds.
All is excitement at Atlin over the
new gold strike to the southeast. Up
to date, five creeks have been discov
ered and staked. While no extensive
prospecting has been done, on account :
of the presence of snow and the frozen ,
condition of the ground, good prospeots
have been found in various places on
all of the creeks. Over three hundred
claims in the new district have been re- j
corded.
Remarkable accomplishments in
wireless communication are noted at
the U. S. army station at E&gle, Alaska,
which recently picked up Key West,
Florida. The conditions necessary for ^
good work are as nearly perfect as pos- !
sible in Alaska and countries of corre
sponding climate. The sending range
of a station is doubled, and sometimes
trebled, at night, and the long nights in
Alaska are conducive to the best dis
tances. The low temperature also helps
radio communication by the absence of
the static that is found in a warmer
zooe*
Lieutpnant Michaelis, formerly stfl'
tioned at Fort Seward in Southeastern
Alaska, has been found guilty of ex*
treme carelessness in handling the bus
iness affairs entrusted to- hi'm^and sen'
teticed to receive a reprimand. He waff
ordered released from arrest and re^
stored to doty with his regiment.- Thef
lieutenant was knowu in these parts as
a great practical joker^but a jolly good
fellow.
Dr. Marie Stopes, of London, has*
been interested for nine years in ther
study of fossil botauy, aud has in prep
aration a book that is expected to*
throw new light on the subject of coal
geology. She has visited the iuterior
of mines in all parts of the world, in
cluding a mine in one of the Japanese*
islands extending out under the sea/
She says that coal eannot be less than
20,000,000 years old, and that the first
plants which entered,into its formation1
were twice a? old as that. ? Miniug.
Science.
Tbe Alaska Packers' Association ha &
paid iuto the clerk of the district court
at Valdez the license for twelve can*"
nerie? and two salteries: $30,298.04 wa9
paid iu hatchery certificates and 6898.80
iu cash for salted salmon, which can
not be paid iu certificates. During the
pa*t quarter the clerk's office received
84G,G59.04 io certificates from the can
neries; all this causes the Prospector
to remark: "Through the keen fore
sight the A. P. A. always manages to
hatch a sufficient number of salmon
spawn to cover the amount of license
due the government for salmon canned,
A greater farce and a more bold-faced
robbery was never committed on a
people than the use of these certificates
in the payment of government licenses,
The Alaska fund is being robbed an
nually iu order to fatten a lot of bun
gry outsiders whose maws appear never
to be appeased."
No doubt there are eager politicians
in Manila demanding independence
with impassioned eloquence, says tbe
New York Tribune. So there are people
who would like statehood in Alaska,
and there were people who wanted
statehood in Arizona long before tbe
territory was fit for it, with just as
good logic to back their demand for tber
sacred right of self-government. Tbe
Fillipinos are exercising self-govern
ment as fast as they are able to exer
cise it safely. They have made great
progress under American guidance, but
when, a9 Senator O'Gorman points oatf
only a few hundred thousand can read
and write, when the islands are peopled
by diverse and antagonistic races, some
of them savage, some semi-civilized,
and even the civilized tribes ja9t learn
ing self-government, it is tbe height of
absurdity to think that they could be
safely trusted to govern themselves
and perform their international obli
gations, and to compare them, as as
pirants for independence*, to homo
geneous peoples trained through hun
dreds of years for the exercise of self
government. Senator O'Gorman be
lieves in self-government for the Philip
pines, but his common sense teaches
him that it may require one or t wo
generations of training to fit tbetn for
it? fall responsibilities.