Douglas Island news. [volume], December 10, 1913, Image 1

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717TIE st^ ^ave a 'ar^c assortm^nt of Women's
Wi and Misses' Coats, in cheviots, zibalines,
bouches and chinchillas, in shades of light and medi
um greys, browns, tans, navies and blacks. They
are all tastefully trimmed, and the best of tailoring, at
. . e
prices ranging from
$15.00 to $35.00
We overbought on Girls' C oats, 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
price that will move them quickly. So come and
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
Women's aud Children's Ruff neck Sweaters $5.50, $G50,$7.50
Boys' aud Girls' Ruff Deck Sweaters. $3.75
B. n. Behrends Co., Inc.
'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA
lodge directory.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge. No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
' THURSDAY KVKNING
at & o'clock in A. L. U. Hall
M. P. THOMAS, C. C.
CHAS. A.HOPP. K. of R. AS. i
VUiting Knight* invited.
pa
Qastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lodg* meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month.
C. W. JOHNSON, W. M.
JAMKS DANIKLS. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. i, ?- O. O. F,
Meets every Wednesday evening In Odd
Fellows Hall
Visiting brothers always welcome.
CHAS. N. STITES, N. G.
JOHN LI VIE, Re?. Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. I
aseets at (Aid Fellow*' hall first and third
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Royal Purple are oordially
invited.
NELS ANDERSON. C. P.
W. H. McBLAIN. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
Beets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Thursday*.
Visitor* are oordially invited.
MAGGIE BLOEDHORN, N. G.
GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7>
Imp. 0. R. n.
Meet* 9***7 Monday keen
ing at eight o'clock at
Odd Fellow*' Hall.
Visiting Brothers Invited.
B. R. LEI VERS, Sscheu .
VRANCIS CORNWALL, C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14. A
arctic bbothbrs mbet by bet tubs
mV .? B n m at A. L. U.
HUGH MeRAE. Arctic Chief.
?AYB BAIKNKLK. Arctic Recorder
rofessional
Albert R. Sargeant, M* D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third md D Street
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. m.
to 5 p. m.; 7<p. m. to 9 p.m.
Telephones ? Ofltee I; Residence 4-6
Eyes Tested sod Glasses Fitted
De Piperno R Hector, M. D.
ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON1
Authorised to practloe h> Alaska and
euteide. Twenty-seven years experience.
X-rays and medical electricity used ?hea
seeded without extra charge. Never
eontract. Feet are $2.50 for offiee and
antslde calls. Speaks English, French
Italian and Spanish.
O*ee-O*C0NN0R BUILDING, THIRD 8T.
Vfcoat W DOUGLAS. ALASKA
The Northland
The latest News, from Reliable
.Sources, Concerning the Qreat
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
Skagway reports zero weather.
The Yukon river was completely seal
ad by ice oo Nov.. 29th.
Capt. Cann succeeds Capt. White as
master of the steamship Spokane.
The town couucil of Ketchikan has
purchased a fire bell that weighs a ton.
A term of the United States court
will be held at Juneau beginning Jan
uary 5th.
It has been discovered the Tanana
Valley Railroad company now owes the
j government $5,000 taxes.
Federal Judge Jennings still insists
that nineteen 9aloons are enough for a
tittle town like Juneau.
The Ketchikan Camp of the Arctic
Brotherhood will have a Christmas
tree for the ohildren of the town.
The Alaska trading schooner Bender
Brothers burned recently while tied up
at a Seattle dock. She is a total loss.
"Powerful Joew Houston is wanted
real bad at Fairbanks, where, it is alleg
ed, be left numerous debts a few years
ago.
The Alaska raoinc ttauway <x ier j
minal company of Katalla, has'gone in
to the bands of a receiver. Liabilities,
1300,000.
The Humboldt damage case against
tbe alleged combine of steamship com
panies, has been set for trial at Juneau
about Feb. let.
Tbe first unit of the immense milling
plant being installed at Juneau by tbe
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining oompany
is now half done.
Manager Joe Boyle estimates that the
profits of the Canadian Klondike Min
ing Co. for the current year will be
about 61,000,000.
It almost appears that Delegate
Wickersbam has forgotten his old friend
Teddy. In a oable to the governor of
Alaska he shouts the praise of Presi
dent Wilson.
A Boston oable announces the reor
ganization of tbe Alaska Ebner Gold
Mining company, with peroral millions
of new capital. Tbe property is back
of Juneau.
The Indians held a convention at Ju
neau last week, lasting several days, at
which delegates from all parts of South
eastern Alaska were present. The
trend of the whole matter was an ex
pression of tbe desire for citizenship.
G. Kanada, a Japanese resident of
Skagway for the past ten years, is
about to depart for bis home, accord
ing to the Alaskan, where his wife and
three small hildreu await his coming
CHRISTMAS ALL THE
I YEAR ROUND
at this store. We keep an
assortment of toys that would
make you think Santa Glaus
lived here. There are dolls
and blocks and soldiers and
(what all beside. Give the
youngsters a few new ones
occasionally. They won't be
children always. Give them
a good time while they are.
DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT
FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA
The Juneau Dispatch recently print- \
ed a picture of Representative Charles
Jouea, of Nome, along with the very
remarkable statement in bold, black
faced type, that he is not insane.
The Gen. William L. Distin loving
cup committee has sent out circular
letters asking for contributions to the
fund. The committee consists of D. B.
Stewart, B. D. Blakesleo and R. G.
Waylaud.
J. G. Quinlan, who recently resigned
as a conductor ou the White Pass rail
way, says that road has an unusual reo
ord. Not a passengsr has been injured
since the traoks were laid and no em
ploye has beeu seriously hart.
The government road over the sum
mit from Valdez has been staked from
Wortman's to Ptarmigan Drop to pre
vent many from being lost who may
travel duriug the storms which some
times prevail in that high altitude.
A deal was closed yesterday whereby
Angus McKinzie and Harry Webber
bought out the interests of George
Gervis in the Puyallup gold property
near Hollis. The property while not a
big mine is a promising little one, and
under the management of such men as
Webber and McKinzie will give a good
account of itself. A five stamp mill
and concentrating plant goes with the
property. New pipe has lately been
installed to the water power plant
which furnishes power for the mill aud
everything is ready to turn over aud
get to work. ? Ketchikan Miner.
Mrs. Rose Johnson of Valdez ihas
spent $5000 installing a mill which is
now' completed and with the water
power near the property harueased, will
in a few weeks be at work gcindiug the
high grade ore taken out during the
summer on ber property near the Val
dez glacier says the Prospector. Mrs.
Johnson has worked without attracting
much attention and few people knew
of the property beiug opened and of
tbe erection of the mill. She has taken
up the greatest part of the machinery
herself with the aid of a team of big
trail dogs and has had a crew of from
two to eight meu on the claims for the
past many months.
Another Alaskan railroad to or en
the natural resources of tbe territory
is proposed in the bill Chairman Hous
ton* of tbe territories committee, re
ported favorably to the house. The
road, to be built by tbe government,
and either leased or operated by tbe
government, would run from tbe
southern coast, at Cordova or Seward
or vicinty, to the Upper Yukon river,
and would not be more than 722 miles
k>og. Chairman Houston in his report
points out that such a road would
vitalize the great valley of the Alaskan
interior, containing an immense agri
cultural tertitory, aud a line from tbe
coast to Fairbanks will provide com
munication with tbe Tanana and Y ukon
river9, having hundreds of miles of
navigable water, which steamboats
already are traversing. Tbe plan also
contemplates two short branoh lines to i
connect with the Bebring river and tbe <
Matanuska coal fields.
Dealer in
General
Merchandise
People stick closer together when
tribulation and trouble come upon
them than they do when all is going
smoothly. The greater the trouble the
faster the right sort stick. Nome
has had considerable trouble and
is going to have considerable more bo
fore everything is again running as it
was before the storm. But the real
people, the people who are worth while
will be found pulling together when
the hard time is passed. This is right.
Especially is it right in a small place
like Nome and if we didn't pull togeth
er we would be in a good deal worse
plight than we are. We have GOT to
pull together and put Nome ou her
feet.? -Nugget.
Complaints against Canadian, Jap
anese and Russian fishermen invading
Alaskau waters for halibut have led
Secretary Kedfield to include in his
estimates for the Department of Com
merce an appropriotion $100,000 to pur
chase one sea going vesssel, one light
draft tug and six rapid motor boats to
enforce the alien fishing law. Kor add
itional employes he asks *$8,500. The
department now has no vessel to use
for this purpose, and the secretary
points out that when a government
official has to visit an Alaskan canuery
or fishery to see that the law is observ
ed, "his only means of transportation
is a boat owned and run by the very
person that may be violating the law."
The fisheries of Alaska yield annually
more than $12,000,000 while almost $35,
000,000 is invested in the salmon indus
try, which employs 18,000 tneo.
A Fairbanks correspondent of the
Seattle P.-I. sayu: "Is there a second
Blue Parka man in Alaska? That is
the question asked by many resideuta
of the Interior now, since the finding
of the bodies of two men on the Val
dez Fairbanks trail near Willow creek,
fearful Jest they encounter harm on
the way. Old timers here recall the
days, not so many years ago, when the
Blue Parka man, so called because he
always wore a blue parka, terrorized
the neighborhood around Fairbanks,
lie was finally taken, however, only to
escame three or four times before he
landed with the doors of Leavenworth
penitentiary for a fifteen year sentence.
The Blue Parka man, whose real name
was Hendrickson, made his headquart
ers between the roadbouse at mouth of
Engineer creek and Fairbanks creek. I
He held up miners and the marshal's
office was kept busy hunting for the
mysterious desperado. Finally Hen
drickson was arrested by Deputy Mar
*hal George Dreibelbis when he came
to town for food for his shack in the
hills. He broke out of jail, to be cap
tured several months later. Again be
broke out, but only after the guards in
the jail had been severely out. The
third time he escaped he ptole a rifle,
and never in the three months that he
was out of jail did be go anywhere
without it. Mushing along the Cirole
trail one winter day Dreibelbis and
Frank Wiseman, now ohief of police
here, came upon a rifle stuck in the
Bnow uear a sled. By waiting, the men
managed to get the drop on Hendrick
son, and he was brought back to the
federal jail here."
Heaving is the breast that wears the
U. S. M. star these days in the First
Division of Alaska. From the high
"Mogol" clear down to the most in
significant deputy in the line, apprehen
sion of the coming shake is feared.
The coming of a mail carrying steamer
is dreaded by the force. And
not until all the mail has been -care
fully look over, does the heart returns
to its normal beat. Such has been the
almost unendurable situation in this
Division for some little time. The feel
ing that to "vamose" must carry with
it a queer sensation for those whose
berth is soft aud easy, and while as a
rule, each of the little "lords" in their
respective bailiwack want you to be
lieve that he is unconcerned about his
decapitation, we must not be misled by
such fallacious statement, for he does
very much. Of course there is this
much about all those appointive offices,
they are full of ups and downs, and
seemingly, down they shall go that they
may get a dose of their own medicine
and feel the hand of authority over
their heads. A good thing, else they
would forget that they are human. ?
Petersburg Progressive.
Some one eaid that if be could write
the songs of the nation be cared not
who made the laws. This is in line
with our legislative privilege and
franchise in Alaska ? tbat is we are al
j lowed to sing the songs. The American
colonies in 1776 were not more unfair
ly or tyrannically governed by Great
Britaiu than is Alaska being governed
today aud the supreme ignorance of
many of those upon whose shoulders
the governing act has been placed is
really alarming and dangerous to our
welfare. Many of oor congressmen
haven't anything like a clear knowledge
of Alaska geographically, to say noth
ing of our needs politically and in
dustrially, and from the very heart or
hob of this supreme nest of ignorance
comes the claim that Alaska people
are not capable of self-government.
Recently one Smith, congressman from
Maryland, conceived the brilliant idea
of selling a bunch of us Alaskans, bag
and baggage, to Canada. Now its
dollars to doughnuts that the limit of
Smith's knowledge of Alaska consists
in a semi careful study of a Russian
map. By this map Smith discovered
tbat we looked untrimmed and not
enough the shape of a cabbage head to
suit bis artistic eye. The faot that the
Panhandle, or Southest Alaska, in con
troliug 300 miles of coast line was ad
vantageous to United States never en
tered the granite boulder that Smith's
ears are fastened to. That the present
administration has shown a disposition
to recognize us people as partially hu
man in construction is indeed encour
aging, but so long as we must be gov
erned by men of the east who are not
in sympathy with our western ways,
and who do not care to understand our
resources and our needs, we should at
least have a herd law against ignorant*
ly dangerous animals like Smith.? Ket
chikan Mail.
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