^ VOL. 16. DOUGLAS OlTYjY.VD TBEAtWHLU \i. A SKA, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3, 1913 . NO. 3 ? ? ? _ iAAiAAAAAiAAAAAAAAAAAiAAIAAiiiiifllii A MiliftAiiiAiiftAiliiAiiAiaAAABBiAliiA glWfffTffffWWWWffTffTfWfWfJ !!F!!F!ff!ff!fn!f!fnffW!Tf!fflf5 ?= TIT1 ^ st^ ^avc a 'ar^c assortment Women's 5! ? Wl and Misses' Coats, in cheviots, zibalines. ? bouches and chinchillas, in shades of light and medi ^ um greys, browns, tans, navies and blacks. They 5: are all tastefully trimrfied, and the best of tailoring, at ^ prices ranging from e $15.00 to $35.00 We overbought on Girls' Coats, in ages from 10 to 15 years, so instead of waiting until the season is over we have decided to mark them at a cut in j* price that will move them quickly. So come and p; see them and take your choice. | All Trimmed Hats at About HALF-PRICE ^ $ 9.50 and $10.00 hats at $6.50 ?= $10.50 hats at 7.50 ? $12.00 hats at 8.00 p Women's aud Children's Ruffueck Sweaters $5.50, $6.50, $7.50 P Boys' and Ulrla' Ruffueck Sweaters $3.75 B. H. Behrends Co., Inc. | ^ 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA ^ iiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiu^iuiuiuiuiiiiuiuiuiuiiiiuiuiuiul A Thanksgiving Offering of a box of our delicious can dy is the proper tiling. Rest assured the recipient will ap preciate the gift and the | giver. 'We suggest a box of j our bon bons, chocolates or j special mixed. They repre i sent the best there is in candy S making. You can pay more | 1 ?nt you cannot buy better. ! DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA Wholesale and Retail Dealer in . O'Connor General ercbandisc lodge directory. K. of P. The North Star Lodge. No. 2. & . of P., oieets every THURSDAY EVENING at 9 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall M. P. THOMAS, C. C. CHAS.A. HOPP. K. of K.AS. fliltioir Kniehti Invited, Gastineaux Lodge No. 124 F. & A. M. Lodge meet* second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. C.W.JOHNSON, W. M. JAMES DANIELS. Secy. Alaska Lodge No. i? I. O. 0. F, Meet* every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellow* Hull ViiltiPK brothers always welcome. CHAS. N. STITISS. N. G. JOHN LIYIE, 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 oordiaily invited. NELS ANDERSON. 0. P. W. H. McBLAIN. Soribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i meets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Thursdays. Visitors are oordiaily invited. MAGGIE BLOEDHORN. N. G. GERTRUDE LAL'GHLIN. Secretary. Auk Tribe No. 7, Imp. 0. R. n. Meets every Monday Even ing at eight o'clock at Odd Fellows' Hall. Visiting 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 MoRAB. Arctic Chief. DAVE BAIKNEK. Arctic Recorder PROFESSIONAL Albert R. Sargeant, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE Office? Third and D Street Offloe Hours? & a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. xm. to & p. m.; 7-p. m. to 9 p. m. Telephones ? Office 4; Residenoe (4 Eyes Tested and Qlassss Pitted Dc Pfperno R Hector, M. D. Itauan physician and surgeon! Authorised to practice in Alaska and ooteide. Twenty-seven year* experience. X-rays and medical electricity used when ?eeded without extra charge. Never eon tract. Feea are |2.S0 for office and OttCside calls. Speaks English, French Italian and Spanish. OffiM ? O'CONNOR BUILDING. THIRD 8T. Phone 1-8 DOUGLA8, ALASKA The Northland The latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great North, Condensed. Information for Everybody. A balf mile of track aud a tram oar will be installed to preach the Garnet ledge, down near Wrangell. Deputy U. S. Marshall Scbnabel, of Wrangell, has resigned, and William D. Grant has been appointed in his place. Killing foxes on the Afognak reser vation is prohibited until 1918, and , land otter may not be killed uutil 1915. Ketchikan, the first city of Alaska, was visited by an earthquake, when all the other cities of Southeastern Alaska only got rain. Since mining begau in Alaska in 1880 the gold placers of the territory have yielded 7,488,471 tine ounces of gold, valued at $154,800,875. Paddy Dixon, a Wmugell logger, was found dead on the beach at Cbicagof pass. A bullet hole in the temple 6eems to iudicate foul murder. After tweutytwo years in the United States navy aud United States revenue cutter service, Capt. J. G. Balllnger, the veteran commander of the steamer Bear is to quit the sea. Prof. W. T. Lopp, of the department of education, says there is enough moss on Annette island to support a herd of 500 reindeer: aud that 100 might be slaughtered each year for the main tenance of the natives, without deplet ing the numbers. "it is inmaterial to Alaskans who 1 builds the railroads in Alaska, just so they are built, aud that 6oon," says William A. Giimore, who was the Re publican condidate for delegate to cou gress, and who recently arrived at Se attle from Nome. ? Dr. Emil Krulish, big medicine man for the natives of Alaska, tells the Ketohikau Miner that the, general | health of the natives of Southeastern and Western Alaska is good, and that the reports of the measles epidemic to the westward have been greatly ex aggerated. The Seward Sampling Works is going into the hands of a corporation, now being formed. The incorporators are Charles Crawford, Geo. A. Mirlach, H. E. Ellsworth,' J. L. Graef,Sam 1. Silver man, Andrew Iverson and J. Liudley Green. The capital stock will be $10, 000, of the par value of #1.00 per *hare. The company will operate the stamp mill and laboratory formerly owned by H. E. Ellsworth, ks well as making the oeoessary preparations for the sampling and testing of ores for tbe general pub lic at aotual cost. The principal aim of the oompany will be to advertise the mineral resources of the country tribu tary to Seward, A quantity of pork and ssusago was seized by tho pure food inspector at Fairbanks, which wa* being offered for 8 ?le by the Paciflo Gold Storage com pany aud the Fairbanks xMeat compauy. The district attorney did not make the report public but attorneys for the meat company will carry the case up to the coui ts. Col. Jaokling has denied that he is interested iu the Kenai river placer proposition, which is now being inves tigated by a syndicate headed by H. T. Tripp. The exploration of the ground will require an outlay of $200,000 cash for development alone. If tho ground prospects as reported by the owners ! the company plan to place five giant dredges at various places along the river. ? Valdez Miner. A new steamship line, backed chiefly by E. J. Dodge of the E. J. Dodge Steamship oompauy of Portland, may | inagurate a passenger and freight ser vice from Portland, Ore., to Southeast ern Alaska, uext spring. Il is claimed that several cannery men have agreed to ship their packs on the proposed company's vessels. Between twenty aud thiity men were laid off from the Pueblo mine at the beginning of the week. Some were laid off for one month, others for two months. There are uow only about forty-five men left at the mine. It i9 generally supposed that the compauy intends to do development work this winter. Consequently not so many men will be required. ? Whitehorse Star. William Wiun aud James Winn, two of Alaska's oldest residents, are at the Frye. James Winn first, went to the i north twenty seven years ago, making the trip by pack horse and canoe from his ranch in Montana up through Brit ish Columbia aud into Wrangell. He says it took him about six months to j make the trip. He has prospected iu various parts of Alaska and has carried many a large poke duriug his days. William Winn, or "Bill" as he is better known, is a sourdough of twenty five years standing. They are ou their way to Los Angeles where they expect to spend the winter. ? Seattle P.-I. A Ketchikan correspondent writes the P.-I. as follows: John Orchard and his son, Lieut. S. C. Orchard of Cordo va, this week organized the John. Or chard Mining and Manufacturing com* pauy. Their first effort will be to establish a large pulp mill at a point on Shrimp bay, about forty miles north of Ketchikan. Later on they expect to manufacture pulp into paper, both for local use and export. The mill will have a capacity of fifty tons each day. Construction work on the plant will begin about January 1. Speaking of their veuture, John Orchard said that they had secured a valuable tract of timber that was available for the pulp mill, enough to supply it at its fullest oapaoity of flftv tons a day for forty years. They have excelleut water pow er at hand. A stream with a fall of 134 feet flows at the rate of 428 cubic feet persecoud and this they estimate will easily develop 6,000 horse-power. ? A rare mineral little sought in this part of country though obtainable, is platinum, much dearer than gold. In fact ounce for ounce, platinum is more than two to one higher in price than refined gold. In 1908 platnium was worth 120 an ounce. It is now quoted at $40. Tho Cauadiau Pacific Railway com pany's coal barge Coronado disappear ed beneath the waters of the Gulf of Goorgia, ou Nov. 20th, taking with her 1600 tons of coal and 1300 feet of wire hawser, which the tug Clayburu hastily cast off. The crew of five got a boat over the side and kept it headed to sea until the tug came along and picked them up. The Coronado and her coal are gone forever. *She sank in deep water two miles south of White rocks, near Sechelt, and the nearest sound ings show eighty one fathom*1, which is far too deep to permit of salvage. The loss on the vessel and her cargo is estimated at $22,000. Ruby, the mining camp on tho Yukon below Fort Gibbon, narrowly escaped . beiug entirely destroyed by fire last mouth, when flames broke out in the building occupied by the Merchants cafe and the Eagle barber ehop. As there wu? no organized fire fighting squad, the townspeople, together with what few prospectors and miners hap pened to be in town from tho creeks, formed into a volunteer department, j Men, womeu and children turned out and water from the Yukon was packed to the sceue of tho blaze iu buckets. One women stood in icy water for over an hour filling the buckets for the men to carry to the fire. Homesteader Smalley, who has been , holding down a claim on the verge of tie ward, for lo those many years, very justly, we think, complains because he cau neither get pateut to his laud, nor any satisfaction when the patent will issue. We can giveSmilley no light on the subject. The acts or contemplated actions of the United States laud de part merit, so for as its policy relates to Alaska, passeth all understanding. What a hardship it works on these worthy pioneers, representing a citizen ship that should receive, at the hands of the government, every possible en couragement. If we had oue of these homesteade we would let the govern ment keep it, aud get out of the coun try.? Gateway. Action was begun in the Yukon ter ritorial court at Dawson this morning by the Narthoru Light, Power and Coal company, carrying on business at Daw son and vicinity, against Newman A. Fuller, John Treadgold, Oscar New house and the Klondike White Chan nel Gravel Miniug company, says the News of Dec. 15. The action involves, perhaps, the largest sum of any ever started in the Yukou. Judgment is asked ^against Fuller, Treadgold and the White Chauuel company for $1, 680.000, aud other considerations are asked, including an injunction and an order of the court for purchase of power from the plaintiff company. The whole fight involves the sale of the former Fuller properties located near Dawson, and the financing or the same. The Iditarod has its first dredge. This means permanoy for the camp. On the night of the 25th nit. the citi~ zeus of Valdez gave a smoker at which Col. Richardson, head of the Alaska road commission, was presented with b valuable gold (watch and fob in re cognition of the great work the com mission has accomplished in the build iug of roads and trails throughout Alaska. Among the interesting amusement concessions to be presented on the "midway" at, the Panama Pacific expo sition, will be "Toyland Grown Up," a walled oity in which the buildings will bi enlarged repuducrions of children's toys. The concession will be presented by Frederick Thompson, the famoua creator of Luna park at Coney island. Toyland Grown Up will be almost an expositiou by itself, covering twelve acref, costing more~than $1,000,000. It will require more than 4,000,000 feet of lumber and its streets and canals if stretched in a row will be five miles long. The walled city will be entered by three mommotb gates; the first gate will be the gate of fun; the second gate will be the gate to fairylaud, the gate of beauty; the third gate ia the eutrauce to the city of the wicked king, where is held in captivity the doll princess; this, is the gate of thrills. Amoug other features of Toyland will be Mother Hubbard's Cupboard, sixty feet high; the Great Shoe, as large as a six-stoiy city buildiu?, and built, iu pait, iu the form of a sidewheel steam er, siuce it will have huge wheels by means of which the sightseerer will b? raised aloft. In Toyland, too, there will be the city of Peter Pan, the town that never grew up. Whitehorse, Nov. 25.? The trail to Kluane lake is now in Drat class shape, and sleighing over it is uearly perfect. Two horse teams are going right thro ugh, with 4500 pounds to the teamfc without trouble. The W, P.