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iwmww immnw mwmmmmm NEW FALL SHIPMENTS 1 Of Women's and Misses' Wooltex Suits and Coats have arrived, in weaves of Chinchilla, Boucles, Illuminated Zibulanes, Cut Velours The Women's and Misses' Fall Hillinery is now on display in all the newest shapes 3 3 New Fall Woolen Suitings and Coatings, in mixed Tweeds, are here in all the newest colors. w ALSO LARGE ASSORTMENTS OF THE NEWEST IDEAS IN FURS I B. H. Behrends Co., Inc. | '? 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA 3 SiMiUiUiUJMiUiUitt lodge directory. K. of P. Thr North Star Lodge, No. t , K. of P., meets erery THURSDAY EVENING at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall M. F. THOMAS, C. C. CHAS. A. HUPP, K. of K. A S. VliitiD? Ki?lj?ht? in vitecl. Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. ( Lodge rawts second and fourth Tuesdays of itch month* C. W.JOHNSON, W. M. JAMES DANIELS. Secy. Alaska Lodge No. i, I. O. O. F, Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows Hall Visiting: brothers always welcome. CHAS. N. STITES, N. G. JOHN LI VIE. Rec. Secy. Aurora Encampment No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall lirst and third Thursdays at 8 p. m. Brothers of the Koyal Purple are cordially iovited. NELS ANDERSON. C. P. W. H. McBLAIN. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Th ursdays. Visitors are cordially Invited. MAGGIE BLOEDHORN. N. G. GERTKl l/E LAl'GHLIN. Secretary. Auk Tribe No. 7? Imp. O. R. n. Meets Second and Fourth Monday Evening* of each month at 8 o'clock. at Odd Fellow*' Hall Visiting Brother* Invited. P. A. McDONALD, Sachem FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of K. Tread well Camp No. 14, A. B. ARCTIC BROTHKRS 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 Office? Third and D Street Office Hour*? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m. to 5 p. m-;7 p. m. to 9 p.m. Telephones? Offioe 4; Residence 4-6 Eyes Tested aod Glosses Fitted Dc Piperno R. Hector, M. D ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Authorised to practice In Alaska and outside. Twenty-seven year* experience. X-rays and medical electricity used when needed without extra charge. Never contract. Fees ar$ $2.S0 for offioe and outside calls. Speaks English, French Italian and Spanish. 0?ce? O'CONNOR BUILDING, THIRD 8T. Vfcone M DOUGLAS. ALASKA The Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North, Condensed. Information for Everybody.; Snow fell in the Fairbanks section 1 last week. Woodrow City u the uame of a new town iu theChisana district. The steamships Mariposa, North western and Alauieda now carry mail clei ks. Scarlatina i9 epidemic at Nome and quarantine regulations are strictly en forced. This is the week ot the Skaway Hor ticultural and Industrial Fair ? Friday and Saturday. Roller skating, in the capital city of Alatka, is credited with the marriage of a happy couple. Au extra session of the Alaska terri torial legislature is threatened. Seri ously this time. The torpedo station for the navy de partment is to be located at Keyport, on Puget sound. The Copper River Railway company has a force of men working on the trail to theChisana. Steve Gatti, an Italiau, met bis death as a result of a cave iu, on No. 17, Gold ? *tream, near Fairbanks. The government hospital for natives at Juneau has been olosed because of a lack of funds to maintain it. Mrs. Mary E. Hart, the woman with many titles, proposes to spend the win ter io the Chisana, looking for gold. The wharf of the Foss Mill Co. at Hadley collapsed last month and about 100,000 feet of lumber fell into the deep I sea. The Side Streams Navigation com* pany offers a round trip from White horse to Dawson for $20, on its steamer Karoom. Government experts sent north this summer to survey the kelp beds of Alaska, found the water too rough for their undertaking. The schooner Star, from Seattle, caught 175 tons of halibut on the banks west from Yakutat and headed for her home port, fully satisfied. The town of Juneau has named a street in honor of Hon. Wrn.L Distin, surveyor general of Alaska, who retires after sixteen years of service. - H. M. Brown, a shaft man, was killed 1 last Friday iu the Perseverance mine at Juneau. He fell a distance of 200 feet and his skull was crashed. A passenger on the Spokane by the name of Doyle, in attempting to jump from the Haines wharf to the ship, fell and broke his shoulder and his arm in two places. He was cared for at the White Pass hospital at Skagway. Bonds and Mortgage Blanks Deeds, Leases, Agreements and many other legal and commercial blanks here in good supply. We are likely to have most any paper or form you desire. DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT I FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA While Attempting to pilot a raft down the Chatanika river, Adolph Olson was brushed off by a sweep and drowned. He was 23 years of age. The Whiteborse pchool opened Sep tember 2nd; and six inches of pnow fell on August 30th, making it just right for the school boys. A new wharf has recently been com pleted at Tenakee, capable of accom modating the largest steamers. The old wharf at this place fell down. The Chisana district is to have a postofiice, and mail will be sent in by way of McCarthy, from whence the trip will be made with pack horses. James Wickershnm, Alaska's dele Kate, says that he firmly believes that the department of justice is under the influence of Guggenheim interests. The Bank of Seward has shipped bf express to the assay office at Seattle one thousand ouuces of gold bullion nnd gold dust, mined on tneKeuai pen sula. Under the weight of 3,000 tons of freight, the foundation of the Domin ion Commercial company warehouse at Fairbanks, ?ave way. No one was hurt. The Fairbanks News-Miner has flopped out of the ranks of weak-kneed republicanism to the warm and invit ing fold of rook-hottom, dyed iu-the wool democracy. Samuel E. Walker, a resident of Whiteborse for thirteeu years, was fouud dead on the Whitehorse-Dawson road, where he was employed. He was 69 years of age and had never been married. The wreck of the Curacao was sold to the Vancouver Dredging & Salvage Co. for a nominal sum. Insurance survey ore reported that it would coat more than the original value of the vessel to raise her. Reports from Western Alaska state that the much advertised test of Alas kau coal by the cruiser Maryland haa been absolutely worthless owing to the fact that the "coal" tested was fully two-thirds rock aud earth. Information is desired as to the whereabouts of Fred Gelmacher, age 75 years, a native of Germany, who left St. Louis in the year 18(58 and was last heard of as a resident of Sitka in 1904, since which time no trace of him oan be found. After a trip extending as far as Bris tol bay, iu which he held the position of presiding genius of what is known as the floating court of Alaska, Federal Judge Robert W. Jennings has return ed to bis home port at Juneau, where he will start up the wheels of justice about the middle of the month. Believiug that the 40 lives lost in the wreck of the steamer State of Cali fornia would not have been sacrificed if the ship had beeu a modern craft with double bottom, the relatives and friends of the viotims are petitioning their respective repreaentatives in con gress to pass laws which will make it less possible for disasters of this kind tQ occur agaju. nu O'Coii Wholesale and Retail Dealer In encral i ilcrciwndisc HIHIIIItllllHHtlMIIIH Advice9 from the Iditarod are to the effeot that the Yukon Gold Dredging Co. had the be9t cleanup of the season on July 26. Fifty thousand dollars was taken out of the boxes after a three days' run. The dredge is working on Plat oreek. Marine Inspectors Whitney and Tur ner, after a thorough investigation of the matter, have found that the rock upon which the State of California waa wrecked is in the center of the chaunel on the regular oourse of vessels enter iug and departing from Oambier bay, and that it never before had been lo cated or charted. Capt. T. H. Cann is held blameless for the wreck. The Glory of the Seas, transformed the begiuning of the season into a .e frigerator ship, is reported as having very good success, Laving frozeu 750, 000 pounds of halibut. The supply of fish furnished by the fishermen has been greater than the capacity of the freezers, and it seems probable that the vessel will retain in the fall with a cargo approximating her full capacity. Ward T.Bower, head of the U. S. fish eries service in Southeastern Alaska, left on the Northwestern this morning for the South, by direotion of the fish eries bureau, for (be purpose of taking up the work immediately of making a special survey and statistical canvas of the three Pacific coast states, Washing ?ton, Oregon and California, relative to the salmon fishing and packing indus try. After reaohing Seattle Mr. Bower will l.;ave for San Fraucisco, at which place he will commence his work. ? Empire. Five thousand dollars in two days taken from fraction 3 above, on Bonan za creek, in the Cbisana, is the record of Joe McClelland. Five men were en gaged iu the work of searching for the precious metal which came to them in large nuggets, one weighing six ounces nnd valued alone at $100. Ed Wood, now in the Chisaua country, conveys this new9 by letter to friends in Cor dova. Previous reports had indicated that McClelland, on fraction 3, was taking out good pay dirt, but the latest report of his success indicate that his claim may prove to be richer than the discovery diggings. The sad story of a peddler pinched is told by the Skagway Alaskan as fol lows: W. R. Smith and wife arrived in Skagwas last night from Dawson and will be outgoing passengers ou the Sophia tonight. Mr. Smith, better kuown throughout the North as "Man rico" Smith, has had a harrowing time this past season in Dawson, to which place he went early this spring with the intention of selling* cigars. No sooner had he placed two fat orders in his order book, so he informs this pa per, than Le was "pinched" uuder a new law prohibiting "peddling" and he was forced to spend the remainder of the summer in fighting the enforcement of the fine, which was placed at $1,000. He states that it not only cost him the loss of bis summer's business, but some good hard cash in fighting the oase. He is quite satisfied, however, as he won in ft* Far into the wilds of northweetemi British Columbia, and beyond into the1 wilderness of Alaska, where the Carrier Indians live in primeval simplicity and a white woman has never been, that is where Miss Mary L. Lobe, of New York, is going to spend the early fall. And she will be all alone, except for two Indian guides. Miss Lobe is a pretty girl of 26, who has been looking forward to such adventure ever siuce ?<he left Bryn Mawr college six years ago. She is now instructor in history in the New York Normal college. Messrs. Abbott and Uluck, well known mining engineers of Ogden, Utah, have goue to- the Westward to look into the merits of a large area of dredging ground on Raspberry inland, which was staked last fall by Bernard' fiettle, who has had a crew of m iatt* prospecting on it since the discovery. Exami nation so far indicates a large body of wash gravel, rich enough for dredging purposes. The gold is very fine and occurs all through the gravel which, it is estimated, will average bet ter tban 50 cents a cubic yard. In ad dition to the gold values that win be saved the concentrates show a large amount of black and ruby sand that assays very high in gold value. Rasp berry island is about 40 miles from the town of Kodiak. Prince Rupert. ? Eight thousand doK lars in prizes and attractions has been, put up by the Northern British Co lumbia's Agricultural and Industrial association for the fair to be heid in this city on Sept. 24 aud 25, 1913. The exhibition as planned will be held in a. specially erected wigwam and will em brace displays of minerals, agricultural and fishery products. In addition to the exhibition there will be a lengthy program of land and water sports^ while an Indian band will furnish the music for the occasion. Each evening of the exhibition there will be a spec* tacular display of fireworks, prepared by Hitt, the famous pyrotechnic de signer. This is the first undertaking of its kind in this part of the Dominion and it is believed that it will be a great success aud direct much attention to this oity and the surrounding oountry. All those people who are under the delusion that Alaska is without timber may find a reason to change their minds by reading the report prepared by R. S. Kellogg, of the forestry servioex who was traveling all over the oountry. Mr. Kellogg arrived at the conclusion that the forested area covered about one hundred million acres, or twenty seven per cent of the territory. The report says that the quality of timber varies ? there are patches of good and poor timber over varied regions. The best saw timber is found in the south ern and southwestern parts. The agi gregate stand in those regions has been estimated at 75,000,000,000 feet. The best and most valuable timber is found in Tongass and Ohugach forest re? serves, whioh contain twenty six mil lion acres. The timber is mostly made up of Sitka spruoe, western bemlook and western red cedar, and tbe sprupe is the largest species. Trees are fPBPil which measure six feet in diametflp ^4 gfty fcjgb,