Douglas Island news. [volume], May 28, 1913, Image 1

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lodge directory.
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Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
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Auk Tribe No. 7,
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MEETS EVERY MONDAY
EVENING at 8 o'clock
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Visiting Brothers Invited.
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FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R.
Tread w ell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES
DAY at 8 p.m. at A- L. U. hall.
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R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder
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GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third and D Street
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; 7. p. m. to 9 p. m.
Telephones ? Office 4; Residence 4-6
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
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ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Authorized to practice in Alaska and
outside. Twenty-seven years experience.
X-rays and medical electricity used when
needed without extra charge. Never
contract. Fees are $2.50 for office and
outside calls. Speaks English, French
Italian and Spanish.
Office? O'CONNOR BUILDING, THIRD ST.
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The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The Whire Pass station at Caribou is
open for the summer.
The first rain in seven months fell al
Whitehorse on the 14th inst
President Wilson has named Km met
Jordan, United States marshal of the
Nome division.
The harbor boat Peterson is again
making regular trips between Skagway
and Fort Seward.
Preparations are now under way in
Ketchikan for the publication of an
all- Alaska magazine.
Chris Shaft-tad, a well known fisher
man of Wrangell, is reported tnissinu
from his camp at Elephant's Nose.
Valdez will install a tire alarm sys
tem by which the alarm may be sound
ed in all parts of the town at the same
time.
Governor Stroug has reappointed W.
W. Short hill as secretary to the gover
nor. Shorthjll was first appointed by
Gov. Clark.
In the district, court at Ketchikan,
Judge Lyons fined twenty-one Jap
anese for illegal fishing. Their bail of
$1,000 was forfeited.
T. R Needham, who published the
Stikiue River Journal in the boom days
of J98, is back in the old town, aud has
taken charge of the Wrangell Sentinel.
H. Bergman, Alaska manager of the
Liudenberger interests, announces that
his company will operate both the Roe
Poiut and Fish Egg canneries this sea
son.
The White Pass railway will deliver
freight from Seattle to Dawsou at 50
; per cent of the former rate, aud prom
ises to maintain the rate during the
seasou.
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At Afognak the volcano dust has
settled dowu to a depth of five aud a
half inches and most people will ,dig it
up with the soil and plant their garden
seeds in it.
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Bishop Stringer, of the Church of
England, has planned a campaign
against tuberculosis among the Yukon
natives, in which soap will occupy a |
prominent place.
Robt. W. Jennings was sworn in as
United States district judge for the
First division upon his arrival at Ketch- 1
ikan May 20th. His flr*t official act
was the reappointment of Judge E. S.
Stacfepole as U. S. commissioner for
the Ketchikan precinct.
Magdaleua Maskeviczius, the wife of I
| D. Maskeviczius, immigrant inspector
for Alaska, died at the Ketchikan hos
pital on the 20th inst. of a complication
of heart failure and quick consump
tion. Mrs. Maskeviczius was 22 years
of age, a native of Lithuania.
According to the Valdez Commoner
the cats in that, town are all dying with
the catarrh, bubonic plague or some
thine else. Wherever yon go a sore
eyed cat With half its hair and some- ,
times part of its hide Roue, is staring ?
you in the face.
The first boats to sail from Fair
banks down theTanana and for Yukon
i iver points got away from the lanana
i; vTuv 19th The Cheua
metropolis May i."n. 1,1
slough, the Tana?. a river and the I u
kon river aro all free of ice. It is pre
dicted Lake La Barge will break up
about June 12.
Valdez is discussing the proposition
of having a three days' celebration for
the Fourth of July. The plan pro
posed by those urging the celebration
is to have excursions from Cordova,
Seward and other Westward towns,
and to make the affair a general re- ;
union of all that section of Alaska.
By the overturning of a pile driver
near Kataila shortly after the men had
gone to work, nine of those employed
on the machine were drowned, lbe
heavy barge on which the pile driver
was located was overturned in the sea
bv the force of the wind, and before aid
could reach the men who were thrown
into the icy water, nine perished.
The socialists of Cordova have sent a
wire to President Woodrow Wilson,
asking that Ward T. Bower, of the
United States fisheries service in
Alaska, be removed from office. Ihey
allege he is in league with the big can
nery companies. In substantiation of j
the charge they say he is opposed to
| the abolition of the salmon fish trap. j
In these Alaskan towus too much ot
a thing, even though it be a good thing,
i8 not desired. In Petersburg the citi j
zensare protesting against the estab
lishment of another church. They say
one is enough. In Cordova many of
the citizens declare that we do not, and
will not, need any new liquor licenses
for a long time to come. Seven are
euough. ? 13x.
Senator Pittman has introduced a
bill in the senate providing for the
opening up ot a coal mine in Alaska.
The coal mined under the provisions of
the bill is to be used by the United
States navy should the occasion arise '
whereby it should be needed, and also
for use at such a time to relieve oppres- 1
sive conditions due to a monopoly of j
coal on the Pacific coast.
The delegate from Alaska wants the
federal government to buy the white ,
elephant Guggenheim railroad. It is j
costing the Morganheims too much to
patch it up and keep trains out of the
ditch, and they hate to lose the ma
zuma When Kennecott, Steve Birch a
I dunghill, voted mostly for the delegate
! last August, some folks had the ill
taste to comment on the circumstance.
When the delegate shoved through a
bill for a $100,000 federal building in
Cordova, more gossip was stirred up.
And now that the delegate proposes to j
convert the Copper River bubble line
into a federal asset, or liability, as the
case may be, curious persons once more
inquire, u Where is Birch?"? Valdez
i Miner.
In a quarrel as to who should go
after the mail, VV. R. Rodgers shot and
killed his mining partner, VV. H. Wixon,
at their cabin on Glacier creek in the
Porcupine. Immediately after the
shootiug Rodger s came down to Haines
and gave himself up to the authorities.
Wixon's home is in Sherlock, Wash.,
where he lias a wife and several small
children, lie was 48 years of age.
Representative Stevens, of Texas, has
advanced a proposal that the United
States cede Southeastern Alaska to
Great Britain in order to promote in
ternational good feeling. It, should be
followed by a proposal to cede Texas
back to Mexico, from which country it
was forcibly taken, with little provoca
tion beyond the fancied necessity, at
the time, for increasing the area of
slave holding territory. Great Biitain
never pretended to any claim to South
eastern Alaska.
The jury in the John VV. Mitchell
trial brought in an unusual verdict
when they found the accused "tempor
arily insane" when the crime was com
mitted. It appears that Mitchell was
under the doctor's care at Petersburg
and as the result of the treatment,
which consisted of injections, was for
the time being insane when he "ped
dled booze to uatives" iu the fishing
metropolis. The poor devil is very
sick, and the judge and jury evidently
considered he had had punishment
enough, hence the verdict. Judge
Lyons ordered his release. ? Ketchikan
Miner.
The two stern wheel river boats,
built by the Puget Sound uavy yard,
for use by the Alaskan Coal lnvestiga- j
tiou expedition, were iauuched and
given their trial run on April 20th. The
boats are queer looking contrivances,
but are capable of making good speed
against the strong currents of the
Alaskan rivers. They are fiat bottom
and have no deck house. The boats are
driven by 50-borsepower Corliss en
gines and made a 12 knot speed with
ease. They are 49 feet in length with a
10-foot beam and draw about 30 inches
of %vater. The space iu the hull is filled
with a gasoline tank The boats are
designed particularly for usefulness
and for their task of towiug loaded
barges up the Bering river and to other
points which the coal expedition may ?
touch.
One of the most interesting events in j
connection with the 1915 International
Exposition will be a motor boat race
from Sandy Hook and Chicago to the j
Golden Gate. This will be the longest
race in record and will be the longest j
voyage ever undertaken by power
boats. So far, two reputable firms have
decided to run boats of their manufac
ture. These are the Leow Manufac
turing Company of Clevelaud, Ohio,
and the Winton Gas Engine Company
of Cleveland. Considerable interest
has been aroused amoug 'builders and
motor boat enthusiasts in the East and
the prospects are that the races will be
one of the most notable events in his- ^
tory. The route takeu will be from
Chicago to the Mississippi, thence to
the Gulf through the Canal to the Gol
den Gate, and also from Sandy Hook j
through the Canal.
The expected annual trouble is now
being experienced atjthe Cbitioa trestle
bridge, 1 hat- crosses the Coppor river.
Five bents have goo e oat since Satur
day. Today the ice is still r?nu,?*
and the water conlinues to
rise. Carpenter crews are nn both
sides of the bridge prepared to star
the work of rebuilding so soon as the
elements will permit. The weather
about Chitina is mild, about twenty e
L'rees warmer than it is at Cordova,
is possible that two or three more
bents may be carried away. as
spring eight bents went out, and
trains were able to cross the bridge
for eight days. In 1911 the bridge was
tied up for twelve days. It is figured
that after the work of repair can be
started that four or live days will be
necessary to get everything in good
order again, so that trains can run on
the Kennicott branch.-Chitina Leader.
The Dominion hotel and annex were
destroyed by fire last Saturday evening
a few minutes atter 5 o'clock when Mrs.
Ruth Kelsey, leasee of the P?P?r'y'
almost lost her life, says the White
horse Star. As it was, she is now lying
on a bed in the General hospital wi i
both arms, her left shoulder and side
badly burned. Mrs. Kelsey was clean
ing clothes with gasoline Saturday and
had just filled a pint bottle of gasoline
from a can in the yard back of the
kitchen. She turned back into the
kitchen to reach for a cork for the
bottle wheu she accidentally droppe
it some of the oil splashing onto the
kitchen stove. She had picked up t e
bottle, which was not then broken, but
immediately there was a flash, the bot
tie exploding in her hand. ? ex
plosion threw oil all around and in an
instant Mrs. Kelsey's clothing and hair
were all ablaze. Fortunately Mrs.
Jack Parker was in the dining room
iust off the kitchen and, with grea
presence of mind, got Mrs. Kelsey out
of the kitchen and smothered the
flames in her clothing and hair with a
large apron she was wealing.
Alaska needs a jury reform that has
been adopted by several states, and
that is a provision that in civil actions
nine or ten jurors may return a verdict.
As it stands now a bloated ooporation
that is trying to beat some poor devil
that it has crippled for life by its crim
inal negligence out of a fair compensa
tiou for the damages, can defeat a re
covery by getting one or two stool
pigeons ou the jury, says an exchange.
In Washington ten jurors can return a
verdiot in a civil action. Utah, in
nineties, passed a law authorizing a
verdiot by nine jurors iu civil ?utlon9'
When the territory became a state the
constitution provided for a juiy o
eight, and permitted six to return a
verdiot in civil actions. AU these pro
visions were upheld by the federal su
preme court. At present in Alaska oue
or two jurors can go into the jury
room, jump up and down and crack
their heels together and announce that
the verdict has got to come their way
or there will be no verdiot. And what
are you going to do about it? J us tone
thing can be done. Enact a law that
two or three jurors shall not count for
more than ton or nine.