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111 1,1 ? ? ? ??? ??* ? ?? ? ?? * - - - THIS Store is showing a most complete ^ line of up-to-date Spring Merchandise that shouJd appeal to every one. In our ready-to-wear department we are shewing an unusually strong line of Coats and Suits, including the celebrated Wooltex line. ?Coats, ?16.50 up; Suits, $20 up. Among some of the newest wash fabrics to arrive are mercerized cord supreme, silk eponge, ratine and bengalitfe in both J white and colors. 35c to $1.00 yd. No season has ever before shown so many dainty styles and pretty materials in waists ? $1.50 up. New wool Coatings and Suitings ? lioney ^ comb, hen-daw and shepherd checks, in black ^ and white, 42-in. to 54-in. wide. 65c to $2.25 yd, ^ I B. n. Behrends Co., Inc. | ^ 'Phone 5 JUNEAU. ALASKA ^ lodge directory. K. of P. Thr North Star Lodtre, No. !, K. of P., meets every THCRSDAY EVENING at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Halt A. R. SARSEAXt, C.C. CHAS.A.HOPP. K. of R. A S. Halting Knitrht* inviteo. Gastineau . l-odpe No. <24 F. & A. M. Lo?ire meets second and forort h Tnewlftys of each luoutl:. L.S.FERRIS, W. M. 1 AMES DANIELS. Secy. Alaska Lodge No* *? ^ ^ Meet* every Wednesday "even Wig fa <>A& Fellow* HaH V is it tug *wof hers tlit A vi H dcdlrtc. ft?K OLSfcN, A . '&. JOHN U VI Iv. Keo. Sec'i . Aurora Encampment No. \ beeU at Odd Fellows' l>*li tirvt and third Thursdays at 8 p. to. Brothers of the Koyal Piu-pte are Cordially Invited. WM. <1HKISTIB. C. P. W. H. McBLAIN. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. i ueetsat Odd FeHoa-s* irall second and feurth Th v radar*. Visitor* are cordially hivfted. ANNA HALVOR. N. O. OERTRL'DE LAlXHH.IJi. Secretary. professional Albert R. Sargeant, M. D. GENERAL PRACTICE Office? Third and D Street Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 1 p. n?. to 5 p. in.; 7 p. m. to 9 p.m. Telephones? Office 4; Residence 4-6 Eyes Tested and Glasses Fitted - . ? DR. MIDFORD PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and the Fitting of Glasses. Office? O'Connor Building Office Phone, 38 Night Phone, 61 Closing Out Stock Of Chafing Dishes, copper and nickei, at about half price. Percolators, cop per and nickel, Casserole, copper and tiokel, Bean Pots, copper and nickel Large Fancy Trays. I. J. SH HAR1CK Jeweler and Optician Juneau, Alaska "SITKA ROT SPRINGS." Accom modations, American or European plan. For terms apply to Dr. L. F. Goddard, Banitarinm, Alaska.? Advertisement. The Northland The Latest News, from Reliable; Sources, Concerning the Great North, Condensed. Information for Everybody. Kaby City wants to incorporate. Tbe Valdez fawmtll "outa 22j000 feet of lumber per day. Sluicing is on ro tbe Fairbanks dts trrct, and there ia plenty of water. T. ft. NeedTiam ba9 started a trc-fts i paper ttftbr? weekly Variety at Seward. Tbe !bo<fy of Jolin MoCabe, who ?4iowrre4l arearOordo^a^ boated ashore ?tt Onca. t'hre Ohisana Camp *10* "has aaaw-j wHl lauded tfcere a Dawson frei^jMr. The "women of VaWefc feaX^e otyan#e<3 a oivic ieagae as d *<iil *>?&* a <eo the till cafes. On May T&th, Mike ttayea, a 'resSd'orit of Lfwer Lebafga, ?teH tWofctfb tfee $(*> and was drowned. Peter t). Gvetfiekk, formerly district judge -iu Fairbanks, is said to be doitvg well at bis law practice in Los Ai>gefos Henry Phillips, tfee fcati>e (printer,, has quit the employ of the Juneafa Em pire, to go bade to nature and tbe 4 si boat. Harry C. Helm, lor ten years a pros pector about Fairbanks, died on May 9tb, of pneumonia, at tbe age of ?? years. The Ketchikan Com merdial Club lias ! adopted as its slogans ^Ketchi-kan ? I tbe Southern Gateway of tbe A vaken iug North."" More real work is under way this spring iu tbe Hope aud Sunrise cniuing districts than at ?ny tiino since the rush of *J6. The breakup of tbe Yukon on Afiay 14 oearly resulted in the destruction of the town of Circle City. Two feet of water covered tbe streets. Senator Heury Roden, Alaska agent for the Guggeuheim interest^ Idbs been supplauted by the appoiat??&t of Ed win A. Austin, of tdltarod. The employes of the Nortbem Navi gation Co. at Fairbanks ?efrebrated the chauge of management by firing one of the largest dances ever feeid in that section. Unitnd States Commissioaer Oeorge ; W. Kuppler was arrested b& -a deputy marshal at Seward, changed with the embezzlement of money iritrttisted to bia oare. President Wilson bas Issued an ex ecutive order reserving a tract of 230 aores of land in the Tongass National Forest, Alaska, designated as the MKlawack reservation," for the use of , the federal bureau of education atod , the Klawaok Indians. JUST ONE OF OUR CHOCOLATES is never enough. The first is but a sample of candy goodness that is simply irre sistible. Try a box and give her the joy -of a, delicious treat. Stop in today. You cannot do # good thing too soon. DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA At Cbatanika, three mere meu candi dates for positions ou the school board, were badly t>eaten by three women, Mesdames A. A. Jewell, F. E. Johnson and E. M. Keys. The Fairbauks Hre department is uow equipped with a flrenet, which was taken in over tJbc ice. It was ordered by the council immediately after the disastrous Third Avenue hotel fire last wkrter. The dog poisotrfer has been get'tiftg in some fine Work at Nome, where a couple of valuable racing teams have suc cumbed to tri* deadly mixtures. Nome people are ors the watch and it will be cho^t ffeifr f?*r Mr. Poisoner if caught. o.stat e men <?? Fairbanks say that j*rcc?e feloness property is ad ; Ifcat is to be expected iu vier of tfee faot that ttrie city will prob ably fe* tfee terminus of the flrnt got ertjcwfcst rfvilfoad r -constructed in tfre tTwited States. Mrs. ivofeei t 3? row-ring, 01 Skagway, shot atrd kilted -a -large *grey timber Woltf tfcat teas tnade a ifteal of several of I feer i^et -coolie n-s. {The animal meas ??red $ foetus iutefbea ifrom the tip of bis nose to the *?04 ?Sf its tail, and weighed $2** pe*?trtis. 'Orders have been received at Knik fey A. S. ?ud John W. Swift, iu ctoarge erf the tiaVy expedit-iou to the MatairtJaka coa:I *ielda, to bold all horses and supplies left after the coal ; waB transported t* tidewater, for use liv the rati road Kooft torft. Tke larsrt froftaiiwikg iboilding at Ridgetof\ the w.evaoit of the divide be* t^-ee? Daa^e emi V eteft -creeks, was destrojped recently wfeen "the Tauana VaiHetf 'rail-read depot at that place burned. At -one time IRidgetop was 'Quite a Nourishing -place as the railway station for both Dorue and Vault. W. F. Thorn psoiv, now editor of the Fair banks News- Miner, ran a newspaper there for some t4me. Mr. Johu Ronau and wife arrived on the Sampson and are quartered at the Seward. Mr. Ronau is one of the best kuown mining men in the interior, having been a snocessfol operator in ! the Fairbanks distriot for many years. He is now interested on the Xenai river and will leave iu a few days for Steve Melchoir's claims, on which he holds au option. Mr. Ronan will do some prospecting there this summer, and if he concludes that the grooud is carrying pay, he will put in a complete hydraulic plant and go after the coio ?iu earnest.? Seward Tribune. A Haines correspondent of the Skag way Alaskan writes that A. R. Maokiu tosh received a letter the other day from L. P. Shackleford, conVeyiug the 1 information that the writ of certiorari ?has been denied by the supreme oourt, in the case of Hinchman and others agaiust Sol Ripinsky, involving the title to the greater part of the business portion of Haines iu favor of the claim ants, claiming adversely to Ripinsky. This oase has been in the courts prac tically for the last fifteen years and has 'codt the litigants on 'bdth sides thou sands of dollars. Whether the Dew goverumeut rail road in Alaska is to be be operated by i steam or electricity is not a matter of j e much importance to the people of la i terior Alaska, bat the plao of Secretary i Lane to establish a big power plant ( here, from which electric power Will be sold for private use, is a matter of vital iuterest to ever'y 'one, as the plan, ff t carried oat, will mean cheaper cost Of ( mining and manufacturing:- Fairbanks . Citizen. The report Comes from Washington j that an unofficial document has been ( received by the President with refer- ^ ence to the projected government rail- j roads. In it he is informed that if the j r United States will extend the Alaska ( railroad to the Bering straits that the \ Russian government will eXteud the ? Trans Siberian railroad to a point on q the opposite shore. The idea would f then be to transport trains across the straits by ferry. Prince and iVes, the mining operators 6 who secured options on the large num- fi ber ot pUcer locations made by the ; j James brothers in the (.'hisana diggings r and paid considerable money to biud c the option, besides the expenditure of a $50,000 to open t he property and test I j the groaud, have decided to abandon t the claim. No reason iB given for the ^ sudden determination ro relinquish the t property. The next payment, involved ^ several hundred thousands of dollars ' and the owuers refused to graut any extension of the option, preferring to { work the claims this summer if the purchase price was not paid. The democrats all over the territory | e are getting ready their forcesiu autioi t patio-D of the coming primaries, when a e candidate to oppose the present dele t gate to congress will be selected, t Charles E. Davidson chairman of the r Democratic Territorial committee, hay ' not yet determined upon the date of t holding the primaries, bat a late report c fro ii Jaoeau quotes him as saying that t they will be held some time in July.** Definite announcements will be made i later, probably shortly after the gover nor returns from the outside. No can didates have made any open deolara- j tions of being in the running yet.? Cordova Times. ' t 'Boginuing several days ago the Atlas c Mining Company resamed ore ship- ? ments from the Pueblo mine to the t Tacoma smelter, full cargoes now going I to the bunkers at Skagway by every c train. This 1s the flrst shipment of ore c since the end of last November, when * that part of the mining industry was ? v suspended for the winter althoogh de- i velopment work was carried on without e cessation all during the wiriter, the re- c suit being that the mine is ncrw in bet* ? >i ter shape for successful operating than c ever before in its history. At present c there are 160 experienced miners em- * ployed at the Pueblo and counting the 1 woodchoppers, 200 men are on the pay i roll and boarding at the compauy'e { messhouse. Twelve thousand cords of ?< wood have been contracted to be cut t and several thousand cords are Already < piled up lu the vicinity of the mine, t ! more wood than has ever :before been i seen ;u one place Id Yukon territory.? < Wbitehorse Star. i Dorothy Irving, an 8-year old Daw iou girl, recently killed her sister, aged )ix, by the accidental discharge of a thotgun. The mother had been huot ng ducks and left the gon where the bildren could get at'it. Last year Klondike produced $5,500, )00 in virgin gold and sent a vast wealth moth to Seattle and other cities of the joast. This steady old bread basket of he Nofrth will do equally well this year md already there is much Btlr prepar ng the mammoth dredges ou the old :reeks where ouce only the individual vorked with crude methods. Hydraul cs on the high hills aho are being nade ready. The Canadian-Klondike Company has two large dredges Work ng already on the Klondike basiu and ? ill have two more working shortly. The i'ukon <3old will work eight I radges. J. A. Matfill, agent for Swrft & Com )any, has ju*t completed the most itrenuous 33 days of his career as a alesman In Alaska. Magill left Seward ast mouth over the Suurise trail en oute for Knik He took iu the camps >n the Resurrection river aud then tarted dowo Tarnagaiu arm iu a boat, ce and wind interfered and he was uarooned ou Fire island for three days. Vhile there he read the records left on he government triaugalation marks )y Nate White's party who were ma ooned on the island for 16 days earlier n the winter. "It is evident by their iotee that the meu of the party had riven op hope," said Magiil. "Otto 3elbar, Jarues Lanahau, J. J. O'Brien ind Jack Renner left word to notify heir 'relatives. Their food gave out iud they ate squirrels, weasles aud mytbing else they could Hhoot. On be morning of the 16th day a boat ar ived from Knik." During his trip Uagrll called on eight merchants scat* ;ered all the way from Sunrise to Ko liak island. He says it was worth the 'ffort, even if he did jiave to crawl over i mile of shore ice to get to Knik. ? Seward Gft'teway. The purpose of Senator Tories to tmend the sundry civil bill to provide or ao Alaskan building aud an exhibit it the Sa a Francisco exposition will neet with the approval of every friend )f the Northland, here and elsewhere, tays the Seattle P. 4. Doubtless Senu or Jones is proceeding in the only way >y which an appropriation of $200,000 mu be secured, It 'is unlikely that jongresa, with Its calendar crowded vith measures which must be left vaiting at adjjo&rnment time, oould be ndaced to pasfe a special bill. The idminlstratiou Can provide no better >b(jeot 'lesson for the country than to ustall ait San Francisco -an exhibit >f Alaska products which will show jonvincingfy that 'the expenditure of (85,000,000 for a railroad is amply justi led. The opposition to the Alaskan ailroad bfll came largely from con tre68men uufamlliar with the magnifi cent resources of the North. Even yet ;here are millions of people in this country who have but a vague idea of ;be natural wealth of Alaska. 'Probably irnong the thousands of visitorodt the exposition there .will be maooy^Mho are miriformefl concerning tbo'rstft'Nortb.