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The Douglas Island News
VOL. 16.
/)OUGLAS CITY AND TREADWELL, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, UM4
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LODGE DIRECTORY
K. of P.
The North Star Lodge, No. 2,
K. of P., meets every
THURSDAY EVENING
at 8 o'clock in A. L. U. Hall
JOHN R. LANGSETH, C. C.
A. K. (il'RK. K. of K. 1% S.
Uniting Knight* invited,
Gastineaux Lodge No. 124
F. & A. M.
Lotl^e meets second uml fourth
Tuesdays of each monlL.
L.S. FERRIS, W. M.
JAMES DANIELS. Secy.
Alaska Lodge No. 1, I- O. 0. F,
Meet? every Wednesday evening in odd
Fellows Hall
V i?at ictsr brothers always welcome.
WM. CHRISTIE, X. G.
JOHX LI VIE. Ree.Sec'y.
Aurora Encampment No. i
meets at Odd Fellows' hall first and third
Thursdays at & p.m.
Brothers of the Rnyai Purple are cordially
invited.
WM. CHRISTIE. C. P.
W. H. McBLAIX. Scribe.
Northern Light Kebekah Lodge No. i
meets at Odd Fellow*' hall second and fourth
Thursdays.
Visitors are cordially invited.
ELIZABETH ARIS. X. O.
ANNA HALVOR. Secretary.
PROFESSIONAL
Albert R. Sargeant, M. D.
GENERAL PRACTICE
Office? Third and D Street
Office Hours? 9 a. m. to 12 ra.; 1 p. rn.
to 5 p. m.; 7 p. m. to 9 p. in.
Telephone*? 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
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modationp, American orEuropeau plan.
For terms apply to Dr. L. F. Goddard,
Sanitarium, Alaska.? Advertisement.
The Northland
The Latest News, from Reliable
Sources, Concerning the Great
North, Condensed.
| Information for Everybody.
The Seward Gateway pays that the
gold output from that sectiou this sea
60 d will be double that of last season.
Dr. Schalabeo, of Seward, is having
a bunch of muskrats caught alive for
the purpose of bieeding them on some
island.
VV. E. Hansel, of Valdez, was the low
est bidder for the contract to taking
the winter mail from Valdez to Tousiua.
The contract calls for two trips a
mouth.
Nome experienced another serious
loss the early part of the month when
a heavy southwest gale swept, the beach
clean and drove the water past First
street. A considerable amount of dam
age was done to property.
Another tract of laud in Alaska was
withdrawn by President Wilson on
Sept. 21st, and reserved for townsites
under the Alaska Railroad bill. It is
three miles square and located at the
confluence of theTauana and Nenana
rivers.
Officials of the Pacific Coast Steam*
ship Co. anuounce that the steamship
*Seoator will sail on her last voyage this
I year from Seattle for Nome at 10 a. m.
October 10. The vessel will leave Nome
on her last voyage of the year south
bound, ou October 25.
Ketchikan will vote October 1 on the
proposition of auuexing the tide lauds
and water front abuttiug the southerly
boundary of the town aud the property
of the New Eugland Fish Company,
tho property of the Standard Oil Com
pauy aud the public cemetery.
Marshall City, on lower Yukon river,
1 which for a time last fall occupied at
teution as a new placer camp, is re
ported to be very quiet. It boasts of
oue roadhouse and several tents. One
? outfit working ou Wilson creek are re
ported to be taking out a little gold.
O. Wisewell, a well kuown miuiug
man, was drowned in the Salchaket,
about a mile above Muuson's road
house, during the receut high water,
while tryiug to ford the river. The
water rose so high at Muuson's road
bouse that the ouildiug was uuder
mined aud washed downstream shortly
after the death of Wiswell.
Three prospectors were spectators to
a fight between two bears ou the Brem
ner river. The brutes were a black aud
browu. The brown bear was much
heavier than his antagonist, but was no
match for his active enemy. The fight
lasted more thau an hour and was end
ed by the black disembowelliug the
brown mouster. The outcome of the
fight proved a surprise as the browu
bear has always beeu regarded as the
monarch of the Alaskan wilds.
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. Vou
cannot do a good thing too
soon.
DOUGLAS NEWS DEPOT
FRONT ST. DOUGLAS, ALASKA
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The report of the placer strike on
i Wild river in the Koyukuk district is
said to be ninety-nine percent oxiliue,
which is the purest brand produced in
Alaska, according to the Valdez Miner.
It is said that there are fifty meu in the
district without any provisions for
winter.
The rauchers of Dawson produced
two hundred and tweuty-fivo tons of
potatoes this year and expect to realize
betweeu 820,000 and $'25, 000 for the crop.
The tomato crop this year is eaid to
have beeu superior to auything ever at
tained before in the north. Several
tons of tomatoes were frown and ri
pened.
The revenue cutter Tahoma, which
struck a rock eighty four miles off Kie
ka island in the Aleutian chain, has
been abandoned to her fate aud her otti
' cers, crew and other persons aboard
are en route to Nome on the Pacific
Coast Stamship Company's Bering Sea
liner Senator, according to wireless
messages relayed to Seattle from the
scene of the wreck. The Seuator and
the United States coast geodetic aud
! survey steamship Patterson were the
first vessels to reach the rock-impaled
reveuue cutler.
Judge F. M. Brown in the district
court appointed Representative Robert
Gray a? receiver for the Alaska Oil and
Refining Company, a Washingtod cor
poration, which has been manufactur
ing gassline at Kakotta the past two
years, says the Valdez Miuer. The com
pany is reported to owe between $10,000
and 815,000 and has a refining plant
aud oue patented claim besides other
oil property which it owns but has not
as yet received patent for. They have
put considerable gasoline ou the mar
ket at Valdez, Cordova, Port Wells and
other Southwestern Alaska ports.
The big bear known to fame as Old
Resurrection, will have a hard time
getting through this wiuter,as several
have sworu to kill him now sure. The
tracks of the big brute have been seen
recent ly in several places near his head
quarters on Funny river. He is so
large that a Stetson hat can be laid ou
his track without coveriug it. In one
place on bis trail he passes uuder a ;
wiud fall. Poiuting dowuwards from
this log there is a knot four feet eight
inches from the ground, but the bear
never passes under it without leaving
some of his hair on its jagged poiut.
This is no bear story.? Seward Gate
way.
Fairbanks. ? Probably as eucouraging
words for the merchants and busiuese
men of Fairbanks as any that have
been hoard here in months were those
uttered by Lieut. Mears, when he esti
mated that in the summer of 1915, there
would be at least 2,000 meu working on j
the construction of the Interior end of
the Alaska railroad. Regarding the
bearing of the preseut war on the ?rail
road bill, Lieut. Mears stated that he
did not think it would effect it iu any
way. The engineering commission ex
pects to have its report in the hands of
the secretary of the interior shortly
aftar the first of the year aud within a
very few weeks afterwards it will be up
before congress for cousideratiou.
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in
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The Hop? Sunrise mining district is
this year enjoying the most prosperous
year in the history of the old camp, ac
cording to a recent arrival in Seward
from theTuruagain Arm district. There
| is more work being done in that section
this year than has been done since the
early boom days and the work is all
counting. The ground that is being
projected is showing up good and the
properties that are being worked are
producing better than was anticipated,
and that is enough to make a camp
good if anything can.
Nothing could bring more vividly be
fore the miud the extraordinary game
conditions iu this distritt than the re
lation of a little incident which oc
curred while the Revell-Sweat-y party
: was recently in the hills, says the Sew
ard Gateway. The sheep were so plen
tiful that they appeared in flocks, not
less thau six hundred having been seen
in one day. On one occasion two foxes,
a black one and a red one, trotted iuto
a flock of the sheep in full view of the
hunters. George Cotter, a member of
the party, says that the sheep just
stopped grazing for a moment to look
at the intruders and theu went on feed
ing as calmly as ever.
The seeming apathy in matters poli
tical, which has prevailed for several
weeks past, has been broken and candi
dates for legislative honors are spring
ing up thick and fast throughout the
Third division, says the Cordova Times.
I At this time there are four candidates
for senator iu the field; T. C. Price, of
Cordova, democrat; Dr. W. II. Chase, of
Cordova, Wickersham; O. P. Ilubbard,
of Valdez, Frame nominee, and George
Goshaw, Chisana, independent. Seveu
candidates for the legislature are now
in the running. Thomas H. Holland,
Chitina, democrat; Dr. David Knik, in
dependent; John Lyons, Valdez, repub
lican; J. H. Ingram, Valdez, republican;
Al. White, Valdez, independent; J. J.
Finuegan, independent; C. M. Day, \ al
dez, Frame nominee.
The power schooner Polar Bear, Capt.
Louis Lane, which left Seattle April l>,
1913, with a party of scientists and
huuters, and which was froz9U iu the
Arctic near Flaxman Islaud last winter,
arrived at Nome on Sept. 22d, from the
Arctic Ocean, by way of Siberia. Most
of the hunters and collectors left the
schooner last winter and made their
way to Alaska seaports overlaud, taking
steamers to Seattle. However, Samuel j
J.Mixter.of Boston, representing the
Smithsoniau lustitutiou, and George S.
Silsbee and John Heard, Jr., both of
Bostou, sportemen, remained with the
boat all the time and arrived there with
her. Captain Laue retraced his steps
overland to the Polar Bear last spring
and resumed command of her. Captain
Lane, who has had many years' experi
ence with the Arctic ice, gives it as bis
opiniou that Vilhjalmar Stefansson
and two companions, who left Martin
Point March 22, headiug north over the
ice iu search of new land, will never be
heard from again. In his voyage along
the Alaska and Siberian coasts, Lane
kept a lookout for cairns that Stefans
son and bis companions might have
built, but found no trace of the miss
ing explorer.
Even Alaska Indians are not above
anjoyiug a little private monopoly when
they have the opportunity. When the
bridge at Salchaket, ou the Valdez
Fairbauks road, was washed out an In
dian charged $3.00 each to take white
men across the stream in hi3 canoe. He
had 827.00 worth of white men ou board
and nearly precipitated a row because
he wanted to charge the miuers 81.00
for letting their dogs swim behind the
canoe.
Fairbanks. ? "Old Toby" and "Old
Jimmy," Indiaus iudicted at the Ruby
term of the federal court for murder iu
the first degree in shootiug and killing
a mail carrier near Louden, on the Yu
kon river, teu years ago, while being
brought hero for trial eluded their
guards on the steamer Tanana and
jumped overboard at Tolovana, accord
ing to word reaching here. "Old Jim
my" whs drowned, llis compauion was
recaptured. Althoug the crime was
committed teu years ago, it was not un
til recently that tLe assailants were
identified. A equaw knowu as "Old
Dummy" claims to have found the
body in "Old Jimmy's" cabin. She says
she was cleaning salmon behind a
| clump of willows wheu the mail carrier
passed by on his way to the Koyukuk
with a large sum of money in his pos
session, and she bays she saw the kill
ing. Fear kept her lips sealed until the
last term of court. Both Indians con
fessed.
Completing a cruise of approximately
15,000 miles, the United States revenue
cutter Manning, Capt. F. (j. Dodge,
; reached Seattle ou;September 22 from
Bering sea. The Manning nailed from
Seattle on May 1. She went North via
Uape Flattery, cruising iu the (Julf of
Alaska until June 15, between Yakutat
and Kodiak from June 15 uutil July 15,
then between Kodiak and Uuimak pass
and finally into Bering sea, where she
' spent the rest of the summer. At Nu6h
agak, Bristol bay, the Manning loaded
sixty head of reindeer, which were
taken to Atka island, of the middle
Aleutians. The reiudeer will be used
in stocking the island and will furnish
food for the natives during the long
winter. Officers of the Manning said
that the Aleuts of Atka island are
dying of tuberculosis, and it will only
be a few years until the island is de
populated. They live in huts built of
earth, and in their damp, poorly ven
tilated homes contract disease rapidly.
In a village near Agiza on the Ugashik
river, where there was a population of
about fifty seven Aleuts, one birth and
ten deaths have occurred during the
past year. Every person in the village,
men, womeu and children, was more or
less afflicted with the disease. The Man.
uiug reported that lOOChiuese cannery
hands at Koguing, at the mouth of the
Kvichak river, Bristol bay, refused to
returu South on the canuery vessel in
port, saying she was not safe. They de
manded transportation on a steamer
aud said if they were compelled to
spend the winter in the North, they
would burn the town. The owners of
the cannery finally furnished them
transportation on the steamer Dora,
No seal poachers were found during
the cruise of the seal islands.