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? ? ? A REAL BEAUTY SPOT f ? One of the real beauty spots of Juneau is the show window of our store, in which we are dis playing just now many of the new Wooltex coats and suits, furs and other apparel that has just come from the makers. A beautiful coat of Copenhagen blue and black bouole; button and frog; large cutfs; a special value $15.00 A splendid chinchilla coat with protective tie collar, an ex clusive Wooltex feature; an exceptional AA value at J.UU Another splendid coat of navj biue boucle; large cuffs and collar of velour plush; special O O A value jU A coat of drawn diagonal wool freize; large- *^0/^ collar and frogs of same material \J \J | B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. | Zr 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA ^ EVERY ONE YOU TASTE makes you want another of \ our exquisite chocolates, bon- ! hons or other candies. Don't < be afraid to eat as many as | you like. They are pure and ! wholesome as they are de- ! licious and just one trial will | tell you we couldn't say more ! than that. DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA | j ># IU. .1 O'Connor Wholesale and Retail Dealer in General crchandise LODGE DIRECTORY. K. of P. The North Star Lodge, No. 2, i K. of P., meets every THURSDAY EYENINO at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall M. F. THOMAS, C. C. CHAS.A. HOPP. K. of K. AS. Visiting Kultrht* invited. Oastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. ft A. M. Lodge meets second and fourth Tuesdays of each montl:. C. W. JOHNSON, W. M. JAMES DANIELS. Secy. Alaska Lodge No. i , I. 0. 0. Ft Meet* every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows Hall Visiting brother* alwa.va welcome. CHAS. N. STITES, N G. JOHN LI VIE. Rec.Sec'y. Aurora Encampment No. i meet* at Odd Fellows' hall first and third Thursdays at 8 p.m. Brother* of the Royal Purple are cordially invited. NELS ANDERSON, C. P. W. H. McBLAIN. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meet* at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Thursdays. Visitor* are cordially invited. MAGGIE BLOEDHORX. N. G. GERTRUDE LAIGHLIN. Secretary. Auk Tribe No. 7, Imp. 0. R. H. Meets every Monday Even ing at eight o'clock at Odd Fellows' Hall. VUitiug Brothers Invited. B. R. LEIVERS. Sachem. FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R. Tread well Camp No. 14, A. B. ARCTIC BROTHERS MEET EVERY TUES DAY at 8 p.m. at A. L. U. hall. HUGH McRAE. Arctie Chief. DAVE BAIRNER. Arctic Recorder PROFESSIONAL, Albert R. Sargeant, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE Office? Third and D Street Office Hours? ? a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m. to 5 p. m. ; 7 p. m. to 9 p.m. Telephones? OHioe 4; Residence 4-6 Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted De Piperno R Hector, M. D. ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Authorised to practice in Alaska and outside. Twenty-seven years experience. X-rays and medical electrloity used when needed without extra charge. Never ?ontract. Fees are $2J0 for office and outside calls. Speaks English, French Italian and Spanish. fXUce? O'CONNOR BUILDING, THIRD 8T. Vhone S-S DOUGLAS. ALASKA the Northland The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North, Condensed. Information for Everybody. Alaska growu celery sells in Seattle at $1.25 per dozen s'alks. It is said that the Chisana section ' produced $74,000 this year. The Valdez Commoner calls this par* down here the "skillet handle ' of Alaska. It is estimated that the winter popu lation of Nome will be 400 less this year than last. It is expected that the test of the Matanuska coal will not be made before next June. Two Slavonians, Mike Kovich and Nick Zakovich are reported missing on the White river trail. The famous Ynkima valley In Wash ington has been drained of turkeys to supply the Alaska Thanksgiving trade. A very vague and uncertain report is going around today that the bodies of four people from Ketchikan have beeu found on the beach.? Miner. Delegate Wickersham will ask con gress to establish in Alaska a univer sity, school of mines and an agricul tuial college, all three to be located at Fairbauks. The great Norwegian explorer, Sverd rup, has beeu commissioned by capital ists from Christiania, Norway, to in vestigate the possibilities of Alaska for the location of a pulp mill. Senator Elwood Brunei', of Nome, es timates the storm damage to that village at a half million dollars, but says that the people are not discour aged, and will rebuild better than ever. An old prosj ector from Purgatory, Alaska, witnessed the first marriage ceremony be had seen in sixty years the other day. Marriage and purgatory are evidently not synonymous terms in that country. ? Seattle P.-l. An example of what may be accom plished by waste is brought to mind by the life experiences of an old Arctio whaler, who remembers the palmy days when there were 400 whaling ves sels in Alaska, and whales enough for all. Frank Cook, agent for the Wells Fargo express company, is authority for the statement that the gold output of the Tanana valley for the year 1913 will in round numbers be 84,000,000, a falling off from the previous year of practically $1,000,000. The Corwin sailed from Nome on the 5th, for Seattle, with 50 passengers, eome of whom are bound for the uew i Chisana^ diggings The Corwin has beeu pljing in the freight and passen ger trade betweeu Nome, St. Michael and Kotzebue souud poiuts. Practically the ouly coal produced in Alaska, aside from that mined for the navy duriug the past summer, was mined at Port Otaharo on the Whorf property, which property has the added distinction of being the first coal claims allowed to go to patent iu Alaska. The winter trail from McCarthy to ^ Chieana, a di.-tance of seventy Are miles, is now said to be in such good condition that horses with double euders cau easily draw 1,000 pounds. Roadhouses and relief stations have been built. Hor&es can make the trip in three to four days. Every! hing is ready for the winter iufiux of ctam peders. Valdez now has two electric light and water plants. A. B. lies has brought his power and water to the city edge and now asks council for an electric light, power and telephone franchise for the city. He makes material reduc tions in the rates charged by the old company, bnt it is expected that before granting the frauohise still further re ductious will be demanded. A Bissett, manager of the Vancouver Salvage company, the company who are salvaging the Curacao, was in W range! 1 lust week, but returned to the wreck to store the machinery used by them for the winter. While in town he repoited that hia compauy were having tine success iu their efforts and that the hull of the ship would be raised early in the spriug.? Ketchikau Miner. Chitina is now in direct touch with Fairbanks, Valdez aud Cordova. The enterprising citizen* of the interior metropolis raised the funds uecessary to connect Chitina by wire with the government line at Willow creek, a <1 is tunce of forty miles. Now wires can be sent direct to Fairbanks from either Chitiua or Cordova. Heretofore it was uecessary to seud messages by cable from Cordova to Valdez and from there over the government line to the in terior. The storm damage along the mouth of the Yukon was enormous. Native villages are reported to have been swept away aud the wireless station at Kotolik almost met the same fate and is now being closed for the season. The damage at Uualaklik was only nominal being confined to the cabins on the beaoh. The damage at St. Michael is very heavy. It- is estimated that the government aud the N. C. Co., between them, lost at least $200,000, ooveriug shore buildiugs, boats, oil plant, docks, etc. A receut issue of the Petersburg Pro gressive contaius the following con fession of fault: In our last issue a uotice appeared in regard to a "stork" which had visited a certain place and the initials "C. E.n were used. That was a mistake; a horrible mistake, as we found out. This is Inserted to cor rect the error. The UC. E." mentiouea last week disclaims any knowledge of the stork, and further more, he says he had nothing to do with the "blooming stork," as he called It. It appears that C. A. wae the guilty party and who also claims to be glad of it. Now, are you sati&tledxC- E.? The Southwestern Alaska Medioal Association was organized at Valdez re J cently at a meeting of most of the phy&iciana and surgeons of the Third division, who happened to be there in attendance upon court. Dr. Romig, of Seward, was elected president and Dr. W. H. Chase, of Cordova, secretary.] The purposes of the organization are for mutual benefit aud protection, Graduate physicians aud surgeons of all schools of medicine are eligible to membership and the association starts out under the most auspicious circum stances. in Seattle recently when it was sug gested that an effort would be made to have congress also include hu appro priation for the buildiug of roads in connection with the railroad bill. Delegate Wickersham i* quoted as say ing, "I will flght it from start to finish." Something kind of familiar in that ex pression. It would be almost a shock to the people of Alaska if Wick ever declared, 4,1 will support it from start to finish." He is stronger on fighting than supporting. But he gets away with the goods each time an eleotion rolls around, which illustrates the say- : ing that "some people like to be fooled all the time." ? Chitiua Leader. Dr. G. P. Ramsey, the Nome dredging operator, recently came down from the North. Dr. Ramsey is manager of the Nome Moutana Mining Company,: which operates two dredges in the Nome district. Although it was a very dry season aud a bad one for most of the operators, he says that his company had a very prosperous year, although ouly one of the dredges was able to operate. Their dredge, a new oue, on Casa de Paga river, was unable to do any work on account of the lack of wafer, but their dredge on Solomou river had an unusually rich season. In speaking of the recent storm at Nome, Dr. Ramsey said: '"Nome needs all the relief that she can get, more money is needed right now." At the time of the storm the city treasury was just about empty. A number of patrons of the Washing ton saloon eujoyed the unique spectacle yesterday of seeing an almost full grown moose step up to the bar of the establishment and literally demand bis morning drink. A drink was placed upon the bar for a patron and the moose made for it in a greedy manner, but after getting one smell of the liquor be declined to driuk it, and directed his attention toward the dish of crackers. In consequence of the in cident, Bill McPhee claims to be the only host in the world who had ever bad the pleasure of serving a real live moose at his bar up to that time. Later in the morning the moose visited a few more of the drinking emporiums and i enjoyed the attention that was given ! him. He also visited Dan Rose's cigar i store, and found the box of apples < greatly to his liking. .On the way up i Cushman street be was restrained with < difficulty from going through a grocery store wiudow when be saw more of the luscious fruit. Many people along the street, and especially the children, en joyed watching the antics of the great beast.? Fairbanks Times. < Rumor has it that Judge Murane will sue the government for a year's salary. The judge was removed to make room for a democrat. On board the steamship Senator wheu she reached Seattle on her last trip from Nome was Carrie Sihg, an Eskimo girl, who shot and killed a soldier by the name of Grifflu during a quarrel, and has been senteuoed to serve six years at McNeils inland. She waa brought south by Mrs. Taylor Payne, wife of the jailer at Nome. Jack Kingston, a Dawson musher, de scribes the White river trail to the Chisana as follows: Roadhouses are being built all aloug the White river for the accommodation of the wiuter travel, and for the summer business which will traverse the upper end of the route. Two or more roadhouaea and stores are open at Donjek. Sua gp twenty three mile9 farther up, has a store, a saloon and a roadhouse. Snag also has many cabin*. Eig.'iteeu miles above Snag another roadhouse is being built, fifteen miles farther on, in the Beaver flats, is auother roadhouse uu der construction. Twelve miles be yond, in the Beaver valley, one more is being started, and eight miles beyond, at the boundary, iu a creek valley, an other is being started. Twelve miles above that, at Horsefelt, is the last house under construction. I^'rora there to Bouanza creek is twenty Ave miles% with no signs of a house startiug. That twenty Ave miles include the divide, and there should be a house on the divide. % Iu discussion of the uew United States tariff as it bears on the Yukou territory, that is, the Cauadian Yukon*, the Dawsou News says: "Yukon is in terested to uo little degreu iu the new tariff. Some of the products to be ad mitted free include those which Yukon possibly will be exporting iu time to Alaska and elsewhere iu the states. The placing of coal on the free list may open a market iu the lower Yukon country or at Skagway, the Copper river country or the prospective White river copper regions for the products of Yukon's flue coal mines. One shipment of Yukon coal wa9 madr to Fairbanks this summer. Coal from this territory has been sent to Whitehorse, and more may go that way under the incentive of the new laws. In time wood pulp from the Yukon will be wanted on the coast, and with the item now ou the free list a larger market is afforded. The plac ing of many food articles on the free list will be an eucouragemeut this win* ter and continuously thereafter for the miners in the American Shushanua and White river fields, aud at American points below Dawsont to buy Canadian products. If a customs man be plaoed ou the White river boundary by Uncle Sam this winter, he will find most Cac? adian goods can cross duty free. Tariff duties may fall off in tho Alaska cus toms receipts, but the miners will re ceive the benefit, and the whole North-* land will be aided. When the prospec tor is enabled to live at reduced cost more territory will be opened. Tho de velopment of frontier regions moans prosperity and greater wealth tor botU countries,"