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Our Candies are Always Fresh! * | We carry a full line of Fruit! | 4t (During the fruit season) ? * J All the LATEST 31.50 BOOKS! * Crepe, Tissue and Shelf Paper i DOUGLAS NEWS DE ************************** 3. O'Connor Wholesale and Retail Dealer in General merchandise i lodge directory. K. of P. The North Star Lodyre, No. 2, K. of P., meets every THURSDAY EVENING at S o'clock in A. L. (J. Hall F. W. HUM FRET, C. C. CHAS. A.HOPP. K. of K. <Sc S. Vi-iiting: Knights invited. Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. Lodge meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each mouvL. G. W. JOHNSON, W. M. JAMES DANIELS. Secy. Alaska Lodge No. 1, I. 0. 0. F, Meets every Wednesday eveninjr in Odd Fellows Hull Visiting brothers always welcome. L. H. BEKTSCH, N. G. JOHN LI VIE. Kec. Sec'y. Aurora Encampment No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hull first and third Thursdays at 8 p.m. Brothers of the Royal Purple ure cordially invited. HUGH McRAE. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Thursdays. Visitors are cordially invited. IN A BENSON. N. G. GER1KI I>E LAUGHLIN. Secretary. Visiting Brothers Invited. F. A. MCDONALD, Sachem. FRANCIS CORK 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. A. T. NELSON, Arrtic Chief. R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder PROFESSIONAL Albert R. Sargeant, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE Telephone*? Office 4; Residence 4-6 Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted De Piperno R. Hector, M. D. 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. Phone S-8 DOUGLAS, ALASKA Dr. J. S. Harrison DENTIST Rooms 106-107 Decker Bldg. Phone 2 0 5 JUNEAU, : ALASKA CHAS. ST1TES, C. P. Auk Tribe No. 7? Imp. 0. R. H. Office? Third aud D Street Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m. to 5 p. m.; 7;,p. m. to 9 p. m. The Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North. Condensed. Information for Everybody. Ruby is to have an up-to-date water system. The Ketchikan Miner reports an 81 pound salmon caught in the water.- of ? Uniou bay. Up to May 30th, uinety eight small boats had left Whitehorse for down river poiuts. Johu Matson Beratovich, a Russian j Fiuu fisherman, was drowned last week uear W range)!. A.F. Holden, a director of the Alaska Gastineau Company, died at Cleveland, Ohio, on May 18fh. j A Nome man went to Seattle suffer injf from appendicitis and escaped without au operation. The S. S. Corwin, the first boat of the season, reached Nome on May 28th with greeu stuff aud mail. Haines business men are waking up ou the railroad question, as they should have donw mauy moons Hgo. Th? citizens of Ruby have nsked the Road Commission to expend $75,000 for roads and trails in that vicinity. The report comes from .Juneau that the litigatiou over the Ebner property has come to au end and the hoodoo is off. 'The floating court, ou the revenue cutter Thetis,' will depart from Valdez June 13, according to the latest inform ation. c Judge Robert W. Jeuniugs, of the i First division, has appointed S. H. Milwee as court stenographer, to suc ceed Ralph E. Robertson. If the plans to open Alaska should . also have the collateral effect of closing j Delegate Wickersham, prosperity would take the next boat north. ? Ex. Stanford Wilson, a passenger on the Spokane, jumped overboard last Satur- j day while the ship was crossing Queen Charlotte sound aud was drowned. The Alaska, the first of the two river j boats, built by the White Pass Com ' pany for use on the Dawson-Fairbanks run, was launched at Whitehorse last I week. The Canadian government will build a wagon road from Telegraph creek, at tae head of navigation on the Stikine river, to Dease lake, a distance of 75 miles. The sohool house at Ketchikan has become too small to accommodate the rapidly increasing population of young folks in the town, so an addition will be built. Johu Frame's paper, The Commoner, g;ives Ed Exum, recently appointed U. S. marshal for the Third Alaska div | lsion, a bad reputation to start with. Johu says that Exum is unclean. Now that the United States is goinc i to take Alaska away from Mr. Pinchot, it should in common decency give him another, if less expensive, toy with which to amus-e himself. Ottawa telegrams state that the gov- ! erumeut has awarded the mail contract for the Dawson Whitehorse service, winter and summer, to the White Pass Company, at $80,000 a year. George Evans, a government coal ex- j pert, has gone to the Westward, but it is said that he will return in a mouth to examine the claims owned by George llai krader over on Admiialty island. A. F. Zipf, traffic manager of the Northern Navigation Company, went north last week to his station at Daw son, from which point he will direct the uperatious of the compauy's steam er? during the preseut summer. Mrs. Ruth Kelsey, who was severely burned in the fire which destroyed the Dominion hotel at Whitehorse, died on the 28th ,11 It. The lire was caused by the explosion of a bottle of gasoline, which the ?vomau was using for cleuu- , ing clothes. Dutiug a smoker given by the Volun teer Fire Department of Cordova, Dan iel Keeder approached William Rowe from behind and without warning fired j five shots into the unsuspecting mau from a revolver before he could be dis- j armed. Rowe died. An action has been tiled in the dis trict court for 1 be foreclosure of first mortgage bonds on the Nevada creek ; mines for ?300,000. The title of the case is the Union Trust Compauy vs. the Alaska Treasure Gold xMining Com pany. The Nevada creek properties are j located on Douglas Island aud former ly belonged to M. S. Hudson aud othersi When an Iudian, an untutored son of the forest, who kuows nothing of schedule <4K" in the Underwood tariff bill aud who does not kuow whether the late European war took place in the Balkans or near Fargo, North Dakota, can devote a half day to digging out a black fox which he can exchange for a team of horses, a wagon and five hun dred in cash, it is time for the average uewspaper editor to sit down on the "hell box" aud think.? Whitehorse Star. A society event in the history of Cor dova is described by the Alaska Times as follows: At the Russian church at Eyak on Sunday evening last, Rev. Father Zollfkofer officiating, Mrs. j Stephenita Irish, of Eyak, and Mr. Nels Nelson, of Cordova, in the presence of j a few intimate friends and acquain tances, were united in marriage for better or for worse. The bride was ar- ; rayed in conventional black alpaca and wore salmon berry blossoms iu her hair, while the groom wore a beautiful all-wool grey tuxedo, borrowed from his partner, and white gloves. The bride on entering the church, was at tended by the two Misses Guyo, daugh- ! ters of Mr. and Mrs. Guyo, the most > prominent family of Eyak. The brides maids wore wreaths and bore large boquets of salmon berries, pond lilies and devil club blossoms. The steamer Senator, of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., sailed from Seat tle for Nome on the morning of June 1st, and the Victoria, of the Alaska S. S. Co., sailed 24 hours later. It is uovv quite the style to jump on to Gifford Pinchot, the leader of the conservation movement. The latest to t6ke up the hammer is Congressman I Humphrey, of Washington, who created a tremendous sensation in the house of representatives by charging Pinchot and other conservationists with steal ing from the national government in behalf of the Norjtheru Pacific railway, j the Santa Fe railway and the Weyer hauser people timber lands valued at $200,000. The Fairbanks Citizen has the fol lowing to say on the appointment of j Irwin a9 marshal of that district: "We i do not object to being dictated toby men of brains and tact, but when men whose intelligence is below par of the long eared Balaam locomotion, who t have demonstrated their inefficiency in j trust, seek to rule with bull dog ignor ance, and assanine method*, the hair trigger of our dignity, inherited from Jefferson, Jackson and Bryan, immedi ately becomes in dauger of being | sprung by our finger of self respect. Our sob machine becomes clogged mid we shed our linen preparatory to a fight to the finish for the fundamental j principles on which our government and democratic platform was founded. We are bound to win, for the right ? must prevail." A second stampede to the North, similar to that which occurred when gold first was discovered in Klondike ? and Alaska, will doubtless occur if the bill introduced in congress by Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, providing for j the ei-tablishment of an official "open ing" day for Alaska, is passed. Thej Pittman bill, if made into law, would I mean that no less than 3,000 valuable coal land claims, each of which would be of sufficient size to be wor ked as an individual property, would be thrown open to immediate settlement, the; claims being parceled out on the "first come, first served" plan. No other bill affecting Alaska so potentially and con taining such rare promise aud genuine advancement for the territory has been introduced in congress for a great i many years. In order to double the capacity to j the plant that furnishes gasoline and other fuel oil to the people of Alaska, the Amalgamated Development Co., of Vancouver, headed by James Mc Mahon, recently made the final pay- j ment of $125,000 for 56 oil claims near Controller bay, owned by the Alaska Development Company, a Seattle or ganization headed by Charles P. Mun day. The claims were optioned to Clark Davis at ?300,000 and sold to the Vancouver syndicate at an advance on this price. The Amalgamated Com- , pany has four wells, each producing from thirty to fifty barrels of crude oil per day. Their refluery has a capacity of 250 barrels a day, but this is to be increased to 500 barrels a day. One well is 912 feet deep. The company plans to enter the gasoline aud distil late busiuess all over Alaska. Secretary of the Interior Department Lane granted a leave of absence with out pay, of one month, to Arthur P. Davis, chief engineer of the reclama tion service, in order that he might go to Juneau, Alaska, for consultation re garding the design and construction of a high masonry dam which is to be built on Salmon creek to develop power for mining purposes. Fred Church, a young man who com mitted suicide by taking laudauum a month ago at Ruby, left the following poetic evidence of his mental condition: "I'm off on a long journey, some time to stay; I'll take a little laudauum and crawl in the hay. If you look for any confession of crime, by the way, you'll find it along with me, buried in the hay. My love weut blindly, blinder each day ? on till darkness came and cast it away. God bless each sweet heart that ntood in the door and waited yearly for his return once more ? 'tis my insane prayer." Railway and Marine News, the trans portation paper published by J. P. Par kinson, is to have a new editor in the person of Kenneth C. Kerr, he having purchased an interest in the paper. Mr. Kerr has resigned from the posi tion of industrial agent of the Alaska Steamship Company, but will continue in the employ of tho^e two corporations under the direction of Vice President R. W. Baxter. He haw doue spleudid work exploiting the resources and pos sibilities of Alaska and has sent tons of descriptive literature into the East, the South aud the Middle West. If any person uot familiar with the subject, or who has had his miud con fused through reading much that has been written about it, desires to have a clear understanding of exactly what is the matter with Alaska aud what has retarded the growth and development of that territory, he can find it in the statement of J. F. Cal breath, secretary of the Americau Mining Congress, made before the seuat.e committee on territories on May 10. His is a clear cut analysis of the situation, which is literally aud exactly supported by the record facts. As he says, there is nothing mysterious about the situation in Alaska, although there has been a fog deliberately created around it by those intent on making the territory a theater for socialistic experiments, without the slightest regard for the in terests of the people of Alaska aud with but a slight regard for the general interests of the country. What Alaska wants, and what it has wanted all along, Is nothing more nor less than precisely the same treatment at the hands of the general government aud of congress that was accorded every one of the original territories on this continent. She does not ask for the special and extraordinary privileges which have been accorded Porto Rico aud the Philippines. Alaska has beeu strangled in its development through the withdrawal, by executive order, of lands in that territory from entry un der the laws which congress passed to facilitate their entry. Alaska can be released from this strangling by an act of congress which annuls the executive reservations and permits the laws to operate. ? P.-L