Douglas Island news. [volume], December 31, 1913, Image 1

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E still have a large assortment of Women's
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
prices ranging from
$15.00 to $35.00
We overbought on Girls Coats, in aijes from 10
to 15 years, so instead of waiting until the season
is over we have decided to mark them ut <1 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 and Children's Ruffneck Sweater? .$5 50, $6 50, *7.50
Boya' and Utrh>' Kuffueck Sweaters $3
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lodge directory.
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2.
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY KVENING
at 8 o'clock in A. L. (J. Mall
M F. THOMAS, C. C.
CHAS. A.HOPP. S. of R. A S.
Visiting Knights invited.
Gastineaux Lodge No. 04
F. <* A. M.
Luil^e meets second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month.
C. W. JOHNSON, W. M.
JAMES DANIELS. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. I, I. O. O. Ft
? Ideots every Wednesday eveniuir in Odd
Fellows Hall
Visiting brother* always welcome.
CHAS. N. STITKS, N. G.
JOHN LIVIB. Kec. See'y.
Aurora Encampment No. I
aaeets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Thursdays at 8 p.m.
Brothers of the Knyal Purple are cordially
Invited.
NKLS ANDERSON, C. P.
W. H. VicBLAIN. Scribe.
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i
Beets at Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially Invited.
.MAGGIE BLOBDHORN, N. 6.
GERTRl DE LAIGHL1N. Secretary.
Auk Tribe No. 7,
Imp. O. R. H.
Meets every Monday Even
ingr at eight o'clock at
Odd Fellows' Hall. ?
YUitiii? Brothers Invited.
B. R LEIYEKS, Sacnem.
FRANCIS CORN WELL. C. of R.
Treadwell Camp No. 14, A. B.
ARCTIC BROTHERS MBKT EVERY TUES
DAY at 8 p.m. at A. L. U. hall.
HUGH McRAB. Arctic Chief.
DAVE BA1KNKK. Arctic Recorder
PROFESSIONAL
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Offioe? Third and D Street
Office Houn- 9 a. m. to 12 m.; I p. m.
to 5 p. in.; Tjk m. to 9 p. m.
Telephone*? Office 4; Residence 4-6
Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted
Dc Piperno R. Hector, M. D.I
ITALIAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONl
Authorised to practice in Alaska and
outside. Twenty-neven years experience.
X-rays and medical electricity used whea
/ needed without extra charge. Never
contract. Fees are $2.50 for office and
? outside calls. Speaks English, French
? Italian and Spaniah.
O floe ?O'CONNOR BUILDING, THIRD 8T.
Phone S-S DOUGLAS. ALASKA
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning: the Great
North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody.
The natives of ;Kake have opened a
co operative store.
Eggs, home product, are quoted at
#3 per dozen at Fairbanks.
Fred Harris, a Port Wells miner, was
brought into Valdez with his feet
frozen.
The Fairbanks Times warns its read
ers that the cost of living is very high
at Juneau.
The dead body of Fred Stark was
found near W ranged. Stark had lived
in Wrangell for mauy years.
Herman Uai thel, a well-knowu Fair
bauks biewer, kied on Friday, Dec. 12
at t be age of GO yen 3 , from a stroke of
paralysis.
It is stated that the government may
abandon the detention hospitals at
Nome and Fairbanks, because of the
high cost of maintenance.
At tbe Ready Bulliou mine at Hollis,
a five stamp mill ruuning eight hours,
poQDded up four- tons of ore from
which $200.00 was extracted.
Five hundred dollars in coarse gold
was taken from tbe bottom of a sixty
foot shaft, four feet by four feet, ou
Hammond river iu the Koyukok coun
try.
in Wiseman, the farthest north gold
camp on the continent, if not in the (
world, there will be about 300 prospect
ors for the winter. The women in tbe
camp number 20.
Dr. Blytbe, a Petersburg dentist,
started in a gasboat for Kake. The
boat was wrecked at Cape Beudel, and
the doctor wandered for twelve hours
through the woods before reaching his
destination.
Oideou Montcalm, 60 years of age,
who came to the United States from
Quebec, Canada, fifty years ago, has
decided that tbe country is all right,
and has applied for citizenship papers
at Fairbanks.
Tbe Alaska Northern railroad, wbicb
was operated during the summer as far
as mile 29; by tbe citizens of Seward,
bas olosed down for the wiuter. The
use of the roiling whh the gratuitiou*
contribution oil the railroad company.
"Millions of dollars' worth of kelp
were destroyed and the growth of the
seaweed greatly retarded in Alaskan
waters by the clouds of ash and dust
from Katmai volcano last July," said
Prof. T. C. Rigg, of tbe botany depart* I
meot of the Uuiversity of Washington.
"The movement of tbe ash over tbe
water tore the kelp plants from the
fastenings, oovered with sediment tbe
rocky bottom necessary for kelp
growth and in more distant seotions
hindered growth by volcanic ashes."
Many Stockings Will Contain
some of our stationery on
Christmas morning. It makes
a handsome and serviceable
gift. Come see what beauti
ful presents our stationery
includes. Boxes of fine pap
er, inkstands, blotting pads,
calendars, pen knives, pearl
handled pens and a hundred
others. All choice gifts and
moderately priced.
DOUGUS NEWS DEPOT
FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA
Ernil Hai t man, of Dome creek, was
receutly sentenced by Judge Fuller, at
Fairbanks, to serve five years at hard
labor in tbe federal penitentiary at
McNeil's island. Hnrtman was con
vioted of shooting 8t Anton Horoje,
with intent to kill.
Illustrating the old-fashioned hones
tyofthe average Alaskan miner, (he
St. Michael correspondent of the Seat
tle P.-I. tells the following typical
story of the Northland: The close of
navigation this year caught the steamer
Herman, of the Northern Navigation
Company fleet, about seventy five mile*
from St. Michael. The passengers were
lucky nnd managed to catch tbe last
ships for the outside, but the compan
ies weie unable to transfer the baggage
and express. One man was left to
guard the gold. For a distauce of 75
miles in all directions there was no hu
man habitation, aside from an occasion
al Eskimo shack. The news filtered
back to Marshal City, the supply base
for tbe new gold field, but, unlike an
outside commuity, there was no -iteal
thy planning to gain posse=8iou of the
gold, there was no attempt to get a
single speck of the me al, although
there were pokes and pokes, cram full
of nuggets and dust.. After a mouth's
storage in the isolated cache, the gold
was freighted here by dog team, and
when the trails are in good condition,
the gold will bo started over a 2,000
mile trail to Southwestern Alaska,
headed for the money markets of the
Sooth.
A pretty little story of the.Northland
is toid by the Dawson News hs follows:
Facing tt muHh of 150 miles ovor k long
winter trail, Mrs. Geoige Cunningham
will leave here tomorrow morning with
her six-weeks-old babe. Mr. Cunning*
ham and their two other young children
Also will make the trip. Mrs. George
Cunningham has been hero since the
last steamer came down from Mayo
this fall. This is the third time she
has made the trip from Dawson to
Mayo in winter practically walking all
the way, and on each trip nhe has taken
back a bright little bairn, until today
the third member of the choery family
i* with the party. The route for most
of the distance is without a roadhouse,
but has refuge bouses at wbioh the
travelers cau put up at midday and at
night. Each cabin is provided with
rough board buuks without blank
ets. Tbe only other equipment in the
place is a small crude frontier stove,
put there by the government. ?ach
m usher passing that way according to
the law of tbe trail, leaves a little pile
kiudling wheu departing in the morn
iug, and that makes it possible for the
next visitor to start the fire quickly on
arriving on the long tedious mush on
the oold trial. Although tbe Cunning
hams are taking a horse attaohed to a
small rig, they expect to walk rnuoh of
tbe way this trip. Mrs. Cunningham
is quite equal to the task. The first
time she went over tbe route, eleven
years ago, she mushed every step of
the way. She is a rugged daughter of
the laud of the heather, and delights in
the outdoor life. Mr. and Mrs. Cunn
have been in tbe store and hotel busi
ness at Mayo for years.
ffl. 1. O'Connor
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Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
A big rlog team race has been plan
ned to take place early in the spring,
for a suitable purse. The contesting
teams will be the one owned by Coun
cilman E. E. Chamberlain, of Seward,
and one owned by George Riley, the
Iditarod mining man. which carried
bim out from the interior mining camp.
It will be a race between a coast and
interior team to determine the champ
ionship.
Secretary of the interior Franklin K.
Lane in his annual report approves
government construction and opera
tiou of Alaskan railroads. He says
that various states throughout the
Union build wagon roads, not for rev
<mue to the 9tate but for the general
good. He believes that tne const rue
! tion of government railroads should be
under the pontrol of a board of direc
torr which should report directly to
congress. He believes that Alaska
should Dave a federal budget of its
own; paying its own expenses. He also
favors the openiug up of Alaska coal
lands immediately.
With a view of presenting to the
officials at Washington, D. C., the ac
tual situation as it exists in Alafka,
aud the urgent need for the passage of
the Alaska railroad bill, the board of
trustees of the New Seattle Chamber
of Commerce has made au appropria
tion of 82.000 to the Alaska bureau aud
granted permission to send part of its
library, including lantern slides, sta
tistics aud literature, to the national
capital. The matter was brought before
the trustees in the form of a resolution
presented by Scott C. Bone, chairman
of the Alaska bureau. The bureau plans
to secure headquarters at Washington
aud send a representative to take
charge of it. it is generally conceded
that J. L. McPherson, secretaty of the
Alaska bureau, will get the assignment.
A series of lectures on Alaska, illus
trated with the bureau's collection of
slides, will be given in Washington,
and congressmen, senators and other
officials will be urged to attend the
lectures.
Probably one of the best known birds j
around Seward, bays a ornitholigist,
ie the raven. Black and very wise, fa
miliar with all back -doors iu town.
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and on speaking terms with every dog
and horse in the place, their natural
hilarious disposition is a source of
constaut amusement to those who
watch their frolics, whether worrying
some hungry dog or cakewalking abont
in the snow iu one of their noisy pow
wows. When the glad days of warm
spring warm the air they gather in the
tree tops and go through their stunts
of hanging on twigs by their bill or j
suspended upside down by their feet
to suddenly release all holds and fall
apparently dead, almost to the earth,
there to suddenly right themselves and
with loud croaks go soaring in the air,
possibly there to turn over on their
backs, glide down again at terrific
Bpeed, turn graoefully over again at
the end of their flight ? a sort of a "sky
larking" that few birds attempt. For
birds, ravens live to a ripe old age, 40
j to 50 years, and no doubt many of the
birds We see here could give even an
i old "98er" a few points about the glac
iers that he never heard of. ? Uateway
From all reports received the out
look for the Ruby district ie better to
day than ever before. Eveiy miner
aud business man in the camp feels
fhi?t the district will show much better
remit* within the next year than it has
ever shown before. Pooimau creek is
especially looking good. A pmall town
has been started on this creek.
The winter health resort, the Chena
Hot Springs, is the center of interest
now that the winter has set in, and
every miner aud prospector in its vic
inity, and others able to take a vaca
tion, plan ou spending a few w$eks at
leant at this famous resort. The
springs are located sixty-one miles
from Fairbanks and a weekly stage is
run between the two places, which
makes the run in a little over a day.
i The water bubbles out of the ground
in numerous places and an egg drop
ped in the clear crystal like water boils
soft iu five minutes. The waters are
beneficial in cases of rheumatism,
stomach troubles, general debilty aud
all sorts of skin diseases. There are
many instances where miners, who were
crippled with rheumatism, had to be
carried from the stage, after taking
daily baths were able to walk uuaided
within a few days, aud after a stay of
several weeks were cured entirely.
Wolves have receutly made their ap
pearance near the spiings and are a
menace to the little village, as the oc
cupants thereof fear to go outside its
limits without being armed. Thus far
no one has been molested, although a
prospector killed three large wolves
within one mile of the springs.
Alaskans are all more or lees inter
ested in the effort that is being made
to bring ont a sample of Matanuska
coal, to be subjected to rigid tesf> by
the navy department. A Cordova re
port says: Recent arrivals from the
Iditarod say the government party
under Jack Dalton is making good
progress in preparing to bring the coal
from the Matanuska fields to the coast.
They have the buildings for both men
and horses finished at Koik and sever
al points along the trail and expect to
begin the work of transporting the
coal in a few days. They are of the
opinion that if given a free hand Dal
ton will land the coal at the coast in
good time but report that there is a
friction between him and Swift, the
paymaster for the government. Dalton
was anxious that the work should be
rushed with all possible speed while the
weather was such that meD oould work
to advantage. He hired every man he
could get and put him to work. The
paymastea objected, believing that only
the men brought from the States with
the party should be employed. Dalton
wab forceible in his arguments and is
now in undisputed command. The
paymaster is understood to have re
ported the matter to tho department
at Washington and the men are waiting
to see the outcome. They all like to
worft for Dalton and hope he will be
left in charge as he is experienced and
knows how to get results. As a result
of the operations of the government,
Knik is experiencing a period of pros
perity such as has never before been
enjoyed. Every man in camp who
wants to work is being given an oppor
tunity.