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The Douglas Isl
VOL. 13.
DOUGLAS CITY AND T Li K A DWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE U' 1913 \ !
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T: Our Wall Paper Section is showing everything 2
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E 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA |
LODGE DIRECTORY.
K. of P.
The North Stur Lod^e. No. 2. I
K. of P., meets every
[ thuksda y evening
at S o'clock in A. L. U. Hull j
F. VV. HUMFREY, C. C. ,
CHAS.A. HOPP. K. of K. ? S.
Knigrht* invited.
Qastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodtre meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each momL.
C. W. JOHNSON, W. M.
JAMES DANIELS. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. I, fl. 0. 0. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd
Fellows Hull
Yisitinjr brothers always welcome.
L. H. BERTSCH, N. G.
JOHN LIVIE. Rec. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are cordially
invited. *
CHAS. STITES, C. P.
HUGH McKAE. 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. j
GERTRUDE LAUGH LIN. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. n.
Meets Second and Fourth
Monday Evenings of eaeh
month at 8 o'clock.
at Odd Fellows' Hall
Visiting Brothers Invited.
F. A. MoDONALD, Sachem.
FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
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ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY" TUES
DA Y at 8 p.m. at A. L. U. hall.
A. T. NELSON, Arctic Chief.
R. McCORMICK. Arctic Recorder
PROFESSIONAL
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
'rtir*- Third and D Street
Otti"" K' " ? -9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
t-' r. iv.; 7 p. m. to 9 p.m.
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De Piperno R. Hector, M. D. |
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ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Authorized to practice in Alaska and
outaide. 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-S DOUGLAS, ALASKA
Dr. J. S. Harrisoi\
DENTIST
Rooms 106-107 Decker Bldg.
Phone 2 0 5
JUNEAU, : ALASKA
The Northland
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The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North. Condensed.
information for Everybody.
A shortage of laborers is feared in
Juneau.
Dynamite was used 'o clear the Tan
ana river of ice this spring.
The Standard Oil Co. is erecting large
storage tank? at Ketchikan.
Thomas Manifee, a ball player out at
Seward, was found to be insane.
Wbitehorse girls play good baseball,
which is more than can be 9aid for the
boys.
The United States marshal recently
seized fifteeu tons of diseased pork at
Fairbanks.
Seward business men have sub
scribed $13250 per month for a pub
licity fund.
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A. 1?. DemidolF has been, appointed
postmaster at Kodiak to succeed II. P
Cope, deceased.
President F.W.Bradley, of the Alaska !
Treadwell aud associated compauies, is
on his way north.
It is said that T. R. Needham, editor
of the Wrangell Sentinel, is after the
commissioner job at that place.
Democratic National Committeeman
Cheney is the latest object of Delegate 1
Wickersham's wrath, or jealousy.
By the terms of the uew Yukdn mail I
contract, Dawson is to have mail of all
classes delivered both winter and sum- J
mer.
Senator Pittman has introduced a
bill iu the senate to allow Juneau to
issue bouds for $10,000 to build a scnool
house.
Premier McBride has publicly an
nounced that a railroad line is being
projected iuto the Atlin country from
I the south.
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, Because of the discovery of a case of
j smallpox at Uyak canuery, all the in '
habitants of Kodiak island must be
vacciuated.
The steamship Georgia, of the Juuoau
Steamship Company, is laid off for re
pairs. The tug Carita is temporarily
ou the run.
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Black bears are crowding toward the 1
Capital City, demanding protection.
One recently chased the wireless oper
ator up a bill.
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The Whitehorse Star says that the
Yankees came across the line on cele-"
, bration day and lifted everything but
| their mortgages. '
Down at Loring cannery near Ketch
ikan tbfey are making up the caus for
the 150,000 cases of fish which they ex
pect to catch and can.
The Iiemple Copper Company have j
some very promising claims on Land- 1
lock bay and expect to soon place the J
property in position to ship.
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Walter and Maggie Paul, of Wraogell,
have been bound over on the charge of
manslaughter to await t he action of the
next federal graud jury.
Recent arrivals from the westward
report that the big mountains in the
vicinity of Cook inlet are smoking, but
as yet no ashes have fallen.
K. J. McChesney, who was hurt at
Port Wells recently, is recovering at
Valdez. His foot, that it was feared he
would lose, is rapidly healing.
It is announced that the big 300
stamp mill to be erected near Juneau
by the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.,
will be completed by October 15th.
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Unless business men show more in
terest in the organization, the Wrangell
volunteer fire department threatens to
disband. Wrangell needs another fire. j
The Juneau town council has passed i
an ordinance prohibiting street orators
from holding forth in that town.
Henceforth such characters will have
to hire a hall.
According to the report of Sumner
S. Smith, mine inspector for Alaska,
there have been twelve accidental
deaths in the mines of Alaska during
the past two years.
An exchange says that it is known
that many of the candidates for federal
jobsjtio not possess all the virtues in
the decalogue, and are liberal in their i
views of personal conduct.. Sure.
The merchants of Fairbanks estimate :
that the cut in freight rates ou mer- j
chandise aud machinery to be shipped
in will mean a saving of ?200,000 this
year to the people of that place aloue.
The president has withdrawu the
name* of Edward Exum, nominated for !
United States marshal for the Third
division. Exum's confirmation was
opposed because of his personal char-,
acter.
"Within three years Juneau will be a
city with a population of 10,000 people,"
is an expression that is charged up to j
Hon. Samuel H. Piles, a former United
States seuator from Washington. Piles
should know. ^ I
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Fairbanks will repeat the annual
midnight celebration on the shortest
night of the season this year. It will j
take place June 22 23. The fraternal
aud social societies will participate iu |
the midnight carnival.
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A stamp mill has been set in opera- j
tion on No. 17 above discovery on Fair- j
banks creek. It is workiug on quartz :
from the Teddy R. property on Moose j
creek. There is work in sight to keep !
the mill going all summer.
Judge Henry States, of Juneau, has i
presented to the Pioueers' association
of that city the first article of furniture j
of Eastern manufacture ever shipped!
to the town, it ia a hardwood desk
made iu Ohio and shipped to Juneau
iu 1884.
Miss Alma Delauey and Mr. George
C. Teal were married iu Seattle on
June 2. The bride is a daughter of the j
late Judge Arthur K. Delauey, of Ju-I
neau. The groom is superintendent of
the Admiralty Trading Company's can
nery at Gam bier bay.
m. 3. O'Connor
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
general
Merchandise
The Fidalgo Mining Co., in charge of
Thomas Blakney, is now one of the
shippers of copper ore, having joined
the list last winter, when the first
shipment was made after the installa
tion of a tram and the construction of
a wharf.
At Fairbanks t he jury in the case of
Stein vs. Aloom, after a deadlock last
ing for twenty four hours, decided the
case itifavor of the plaintiff by tossing
a coin. The defendant has filed notice
of appeal on the ground that the jury
arrived at the verdict illegally. This is
the third trial of this case, which grew
out of the division of profits of a har
ness deal.
The farmers of the Tanana valley
have formed themselves into an asso
ciation. From information gathered
from the various members it is believed
that enough potatoes can be raised the
coming year to supply the demand for
the entire district. The merchants of
the various towns will be asked to co
operate with the ranchers, and to give
preference to home grown spuds.
Here is what Pinchotism is doing to
Alaska: The British tramp steamer
Rupert City, laden with Canadian coal,
is at (Jnalaska unloading its cargo,
which is for the use of the United
States revenue cutter fleet. Within a
few leagues of Unalaska are fine beds
of native coal, but uuder the Pin.chot
theory of conservation they are being
preserved foi generations yet unborn. ?
Seward Gateway.
Al. Clark, one of the old timers of
Dawson, Y. T., and at one time or an
other located at almost all the import
ant camps in Alaska, passed through
Seattle a few years ago with about 80,
000 feet of moving picture films to be
used in taking views iu sections of
Alaska that have uever been visited by
white men. Mr. Clark has been living
iu the states the last nine years, mak
ing his home in Sau Francisco.
President Wilson has given assur
auces to Senators Joues and Chamber
lain that he will lend his support to
the bill which bears the names
of these two senators, for railroad coo
struction in Alaska, and will urge his
party leaders to the passage of this biil
at the pending session. There ia one
proviso which the president makes: his
consent is conditioned that the consid- 1
eration of this particular measure shall
not interfere with or endanger the ad
ministration's legislative program of
tariff revision aud currency reform.
Seattle steamship companies have
been notified that arrangements have
beeu made with the war department
and the uavy department whereby
operators in charge of the army sta
tions in Alaska and the radio operators
in charge of Alaskan stations will ac
cept as official business messages re
garding aids to navigation from masters
of steamships operating in Alaskau
waters. These messages are to be ad
dressed to the light house inspector,
Ketchikan, Alaska. Steamship masters
have been requested to use this means
of communication freely in order that
the light house service may be promptly
informed as to any aids requiring at
tention.
P. W. Whelpley, the fox man repre
senting New Brunswick capitalists, has
purchased, for a substantial amount,
three or four fox islands to the west
from fox farmers who have long en
gaged in this industry, says the Seward
Gateway. Andre* Griswold, L. Beed
and Samuel Appelgate, western Alaska
j pioneers, have sold their holdings to
Whelpley, who, it is said, will engage in
fox faroiiug upon an extensive scale in
behalf of the iuterests he represents.
There i9 a reason for the coolness of
j the climate for the past year, and the
; lateness of the present spring It is
owing to the eruption of Mt. Katmai.
The goose bone, the grouud hog and
the musk rat houses have absolutely
nothing to do with it. An eminent
scientist says the big Alaska volcano
whs the guilty party; aud a scientist
who ha9 spent years in college 9inging
"Good NightJLadies" aud shouting that
rah, rah stuff, ought to know more
about weather, especially night air,
j than all the goose bouea in the ceme
tery. ? Alaskan.
The total sum of $076,550 has beeu
produced by the Little Cliff mine since
, the small three-stamp mill was started
working on the claims in May, 1910, a
little over three years ago. In a run of
30 hours $13,000 was produced. It was
this little mine, the pioueer of them all,
which started the Valdez camp as a
producing section of Alaska. With a
capital stock of 100,000 shares, but of
which only one-fourth was needed to
place the claims iu the dividend class,
the stockholders in this company have
received mauy times their original in
vestment, and will receive many thou
sands more, as present indications
point to a large body of ore on the
| property. ? Miner.
A determined and well-sustaiued at
tempt is to be made to introduce one
I or two species of Alaska salmon ou the
, New England coast. The present con
dition of New England rivers precludes
the possibility of re-establishing the
.large native salmon therein; but there
is a prospect of introducing small
species of Alaska salmou which spawn
near the sea aud would not be affected
by obstructions and the greatly
changed physical character of the head
waters which for some year9 have prac
tically prohibited natural spawning of
the Atlantic salmon. The salmon that
will be used are excellent food fish and
will prove very acceptable substitutes
for the native species.
Ana now senator n.ey riiiimtuuumuo
forth with a bill that will throw open
the coal fields of Alaska to locatiou.
And Senator LaPollette says the bill
for the government' building of rail
roads in Alaska will be passed at this
session, with the support of President
Wilson. If this thing keeps on eveiy
man and woman in Alaska will want to
be enrolled under the banner of dem*
ocraoy. It really looks as though the
deliverance of Alaska was near at band,
thanks to the democratic party and the
sincerity of their leaders. With coal
legislation and railroad construction
the problem will have been solved, and
Alaska will soon blossom as the rose
and her people become prosperous and
contented.? Ohitina Leader.