The Douglas Island News.
Hile 4k Keist, candy and ioe cream
oiercbauts, will move to Juuean next
week.
Mrs. Bert Stedtnan and children will
go to Ketcbikau on the Humboldt for
a nt.it.
The birth of a son and heir to Mr.
and Mrs. John Ue^ekus was reported
last week.
Alex T. Nelsou lias been employed by
the government to carry the mails on
the Island.
broken jvipes repaired at Keist's
Pool Koom. Ail work guaranteed.?
Advertisement
at Salmon creek in the employ of the
Perseveiance company.
John Stoft, a former resident of
Dooglaa, has beeu elected a member of
the town council at Petersburg.
Marie, rbe little daughter of Mr. and
Mr*. Peter Rolando, ban beeu sick the .
past week, but id much improved.
A war among Douglas draymen has
resulted iu a cut iu pi ices. Ft eight
and coal is now delivered as low a.^ 50
cents a ton.
Dan Gore, formerly a hoist man at
the Mexican, came up last week from
bis home in Oregou for a visit with
friends on the Island.
If your clothes need repairing, clean
ing or pressing, call ou Anton Krasel,
next door to the cable o&oe, Second
street.? Advertisement.
rue local field
James Hewitt ha* accepted a position
Mr. Otto Widemaun is laying tbe
foundation for bis uew home on fifth
street. Construction work on a cottage
25x28 will begin in a few weeks.
Smokers? All kiuds of Smoking To
bacco iu pound Jars ? also Egyptian
and Sweet Caporal Cigarettes at Heist's !
Pool Room, Hunter Block. ? Adv..
Towns-uian M. B. Archer has returned
from Sir k a Hot Springs-. He is m .ch J
improved iu health and speaks highly
of tbe healiug properties of tbe spring
water.
Ed Fox has beeu elected as tbe
Douglas agent for tlie Admiral line of
steamers, which ?;ow make this city a
port ot call both north ai d sonth*
(XMUid.
Frank P. McGuire, wiie and child ar
rived Sunday on the Al-Ki from Bu
coda, Wash., to make their home iu this
city. Frank is a brother of our old
frieud "Pat.?
Tbe Ketcbikau term of coart be?ius
Monday, A pi il 20. Tbe judge aud other
court officials will leave Juuean on the
steamer Humboldt, which sails south 1
Saturday ni&bt.
Julius Rydeik, a native of Sweden,
aged 40 years, fell from a Juneau dock
last Saturday morning aud di owned.
The coroirer's jury discovered that it
was accidental.
Joe Riedi, John Oesekas, Eaiil Gou
bell and Messrs. Meyersand Ordelli re
turned last uight from a bear hunt over
ou Aimiralty island. The huntiug was
good, but bears scarce.
Manager Thane, of the fiagle River
mines, reports that tbe ore shoot has
beeu encountered at a depth of 700 feet
aud promises that the 20 stamp mill
will soon be running again.
During the abseuce of Joe Robertson
tbe dray busioetta will be in charge of i
Pat MoGuire, who will guarautee
prompt and efficient service iu aM
matters entrusted to his care.
The hustling manager of the Lyric
theatre has secured the services of W.
Prodsbam, late of the Sullivan Consi
dine circuit, considered to be an expert
in his line? trap drums aud xylophone.
Capt. Alex Hart is back again from
Tenakee and will be with as for some
time. He will ginger up the city pile
driver for the season, and his first job
will be a few needed repairs to the city
dock.
Judge Jennings bas decided to grant
a lioense to the Board of Trade saloon
at Skagway, providing they move to a
oew locatiou. The old staud was found
to be within 400 feet of the Catholic
church.
Good progress is being made at the
Nilson & Kelez yards, East Waterway,
{Seattle, on the new ferry for the Juneau
Ferry ?fc Navigation Co. Her frames
ere all in place and ber inside plaukiug
is well on towards completion. It is
expected that she will be ready to be
lauuehed by the eud of this month. ?
(Railway and Marine News.
The Douglas council met Monday
night as a canvassing board, and fouud
that the returns of the municipal elec
tion tallied with the report -heretofore
published. The old council was re
flected with the exoeptfoo that Mr.
Brie takes the place made vacant by
the removal of Mr. Rogers from the
<oity. Mr. King succeeds "himself on the
?obool board.
The -grand stand at. the Douglas
pleasure park has been greatly im
proved in appeurauce by a coating ?rf
oew lumber. Mr. T. & P. Keegau is
having the work done, and will use the
bright, clean surfaces tor advertising
purposes.
Among the improvements planned
for Douglas during the cooiiug summer
mouths we tuny count two large two
story flat houses to l>e. built by A. Mur
ray; one between First aud Second, hav
iug a fr .ntage on Bradley street, and
another on Fourth and U streets.
Alex R )bertsou, Jos. Robertson, wife
and children, aud Mrs. Jos. Rndi and
children -will leave the laat of the week
for a visit to Europe. The Robertsons
will visit in Scotland aud Mrs. Riedi
aud cbildreu in Germany. They wilt
journey together as far as possible.
Dieb. ? At Douglas, Alaska, on Wed*
uesday, April 8, 1914, Giovauna Ciotte,
a ualive of Felt re Vill&paiera, Italy,
aged 21 years. Funeral services weie.
held at the Catholic church on Friday,
April 10th, at 2 o'clock p. in., Rev.
Fatker Brnokert officiating. Interment
at the Douglas cemetery.
Johu Rustgaid, United States dis
trict attorney for the Firs Judioial
DivMou of Alaska, has suffered the
aUuouucemeut to go forth that he will
quit his job on June 1st, after which he
will practise law in the Capital City.
Well, the Juneau democrats made it
pretty plain that his resignation would
be accepted with thanks.
Notice
All property owners are requested to
have their premises in a sanitary con
dition by May 1st. On that date the
marshal will inspect each and every
property in the town of ljouglas and
cause the arrest of any property owner
failing to comply with the request.
tty oider of the Mayor.
Pictures of Scandinavia
The J. Jansen Fubr Travel Festival,
from Christiania, Norway, will be seen
at the Lyric theatre next Tuesday and
Wednesday nights, April 21st and 22nd.
On Tuesday night will be shown pic
tures of Norway, covering 5,000 feet of
til cx^, and on Wednesday night 6,000 feet
showing Sweden and Denmark.
If y<m were offered the opportunity
to Visit Norway for a few cents oo
doubt you woo Id grab the chance. Now
this can bo doue With the!. Jan-en
Puhr Ti-aVel Festival* Mr. J. Jarr^eti
FHihrgoes a44 oVer Norway to show tfce
either* rarity of landscapes au<8
waterways. Tbetottiistts taken over
the railways and oft tourist steaajers.
Long rides are t*fce?n by steamer
through the fjords ai*! at wig tbe const
'?by electi ic cars iuyA op ^aaa^t fSord
steamers. He allow.* Cadi *fe"irrg (Lofot
flsket?, Honing 8. -feiinc VStorsHdC.sfcet^
and the famovs 'fis'h tMntoe* <n Berge*.
He shows the capfwo* canning of
of the Norwegian Swr4ks?e?lt tfee fcjel
lands factories, StaVaMflMv. Ail krauts
of sport-, skiing, sfcatfng and Weighing.
One series of lectures from Ohristtania,
the Exposition City* X9II, is parrttoa
iarly at tract ire. You may have seen
pict-irnM of Norway before, bat yon
have never seen these. A two hoor tri$>
in moving picture, tihe best ever seen
this couulry of Norway, the famous
tourist's paradise. A -guaranteed en
tertainment.
Admission, chiMren,16cc; adults, 5Gi\,
il
I Does
Your
Watch
Run?
We now have move
time to devote to our
specialty ? the Ckajwng
Regulating and Repairing
of Watches.
YOUR WATCH
may run lor many
years, but it needs clean
ing now and then, for the
lack of oil and the grind
on the delicate bearings
may ruin it in a month.
Eight, Waltham. Hamilton Movement*
The Home of the Rowanl Watch
Beat if u I Cathedral Chime Clocks
Paul Bloedhorn
I
TREADWELL TOPICS
Joe Kyau, who has spent the past
winter in the States, returned from the
South on the Al*Ki.
A crew of meu are at work tearing
down the old office building, prepare*
toiy to ereoting a n? w concrete build
in# for office purposes.
S. B. Combe? t, who recently has had
cbaige of the refinery at the cyanide
plant, has resigned and will leave for
the States shortly.
W. B. Ash by, bookkeeper at the cy
anide plant, has moved his family from j
Douglas and is now occupying the
bouse recently made vacant by Frank
McDonald aud family.
The Treadwell fire department held
au interesting meeting la.-t Friday
evening. A committee was appointed
to arrange the details for a baseball
tuu nament to be played by the differ
ent tire companies duriog the coming
season.
Ed Beal* and Bud Coryell left for
Skagway on (he last trip of the Spo
kane. They will wait at Whitehorse
until the breakup aud then go dowu
the river to Dawson.
E. P. Rotman, stenographer in the
Treadwell offloe, has resiirued aud will
soon leave for the States. His positioo
has beeu taken by VV. E. Daniels, who
arrived on the Spokane.
There will be a band rehearsal tomor*
row night at the 'fire hall.
The new baseball grounds are in such
shape that light practice is being en
gaged in regularly.
On next Friday evening the lastchal
lenge bowling game <>t the sear.ou will :
take place on the Treadwell alleys.
^Boss" Bennett, the Christy Matthew i
.*on of bowling circles, ha9 assembled a
team aud challenged the world for a
-upper. The team 9 liue up as follows:
Bennett's Braves? C. E. Bennett, Win.
McCorraick, Ed McCormick, Claude
Peter.-* and Gabriel Paul. "The World"
? W. H. Metzner, Ohas. Thielicke, Joe
Kalal, Clarence Moore and Guy Terry.
Van J. Kubin has resigned bid posi
tiou in the machine shop department
with the intention of departing for the
States.
Baseball Benefit Dance
Next Wednesday night, at the Dong
las Natatorham., a dance will be given
for t fro benefit of the Douglas Island
Baseball <*kib. Everybody may not be
wtife cwoagh to dance, but everybody
cou 9r?toh e baseball garnet H,,d > ??i e ie
an opportunity to contribute a few
s&efceis to belp -maintain a li rwt class
b*U team on Douglas Island. The
?f tfro island are to be asked to
fOV-ea bet pin* by supplying cakes
anl wishes, Trtiieh will be -served
to 1 fee haugiy -dancers.
Tickuta trill be -on ?sate to i sorrow at
$1 eaoit. Splendid music is promised.
~SITKA HOT SPKINtiS." Accom
ruodation-', American or European pl&n
For terms apply to 5>r. L. P. Goddard,
Sanitarium, Alaska.-? Advertisement.
THE BEST
BRITISH COLUMBIA
19:
00 PER
TON
AT THE
CITY DOCK
DOUGLAS, ALASKA
ASSESS!!!
H. A. Dahl
Succeftsorrto
o Coughlin & Dahl
o Dealer In
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Fancy Groceries 3
Vegetables and
0
1
5
Fruits
Front St. Douglas
are not made for any one class of men, though
they are "classy" hats in every sense of that
somewhat slangy term.
You'll find the new Spring styles the "classi
est" you've ever seen.
They're "cravenette" too. Moisture can't
soak through and doesn't injure the hat.
We've a style for every head and taste.
Stiff and Soft ? $3.50 and $4.00
P. H. FOX
ALL GOODS SOLD FOR
CASH
FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS
WILL BE SOLD AT COST
WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF ENAMELED,
GRANITE AND ALUMINUM WARES, ALSO
FURNITURE, FIXTURES, MECHANICAL SUP
PLIES, STOVES, PAINTS. GLASS, ETC.
JOHN FEUSI
FRONT STREET
DOUGLAS
WE INVITE YOU TO BANK
WITH YOUR HOME BANK
Deposit your money with as and keep
it in the country. This helps yourself,
your neighbor and the town.'
Interest paid on time deposits
Foreign Exchange issued on all parts of
{he world at reduced cost.
FIRST TERRITORIAL
BANK OP ALASKA*
Under Territorial (Supervision
Tt. J. O'Connor, Pres. I T. F. Kennedy, Vice Prea.
A. B. Gurr, Cashier
DOUGLAS, ALASKA.