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LODGE DIRECTORY Alaska Lodge No. 1, I. 0. 0. F. MnIi every Wwlnntdt; evening In Odd Nkn imi Vla'ting brothers always welcome. Kl>. A8Plil'ND, N. G JOHN GILLAM. Rec 3?e. Aaron Encampment No. 1 Mtets at Odd Fellows Hall Drat an.i third Mondaya at 8 p. m Brother* of the Royal Purple arc lll'GH XrRAC. 0. P. U W. KILB17RN. Scribe. Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. 1 Meets at Old fellows Hall second Vlaltors are cordially invited . A LICK III I.U Noble Urand. UKMUPM JKWKI.U Secretary. I an J ItMMtIK ? *<k<w Hi MKt F. WOLLAND MERCHANT TAILOR JIINKtll, PIANO TUNER GEORGE ANDERSON. Kxpart JO years e*per>encs. Hlith Grade Players and Pianos for Sale and Rent. Address Bos 991. Jnnsau. Phone 1-4-3. FERRY TIME CARD JUNEAU FERRY A NAVIGATION COMPANY Leaving Jnncau for Douglas. Tread well and Thane 4:40 p. m Leaving Douglas for Tread well and Saturday night. 1:15 a. m. Leaving Douglas (or Junean Saturday ntcht. I J5 X m. Subject to change without notice SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION of Alaska. Division Number On*. HELVETIA MINING COMPANY, a TO HELVETIA MINING COMPANY, (be above named defendant. IN THE NAME OK THE UNITED 'lereby commanded to be and appear ind anawer tbe complaint tllc<l igalnat you In the above-entitled .tult within thirty day* after the 'Ion and aervi ce of tbl* Summons ipon you. and If yon fall to appear and anawer. for want thereof, plain (III will take Judmient affatnit yon for the snn of t3.3SS.nn and Inter <?t thereon <t S'l per annum from i-ount at money advanced Mid de fendant by plaintiff for It at Ita re que?t. and am-ssment work done anil performed on certain mining claim* belonging to wild defendant In order machinery, etc. .owned by defendant, all of whirb said properties of de fendant have been attached to sat tarty any judgment obtained herein; and will take Judgment against you for the relief demanded Id the com The order for publication of this summons waa made by the above en 1919. and the period of publication la six weeks, the first publication to be made on the 17th day of October. 1919. and the last publication on the SSth day of November. 1919. and the time within which yon are re quired to appear and anawer la on Court tbl* Uth day of October. 1919 By JOHN T. REED. Deputy NEWS NUGGETS FROM ALASKA News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges, to Show What's Going on in the Great . Northland Twenty new soldiers have arrived ml Nenana to do guard duty ou gov ernment property there. , After an absenco of Ave years, the grouse are raaklnfc their appearauce thla year lu the vicinity of Fair banks. John Johnaon. of Valdei. roccatly i!mnppear<'<l at that town. It I* be lieved he waa drowned from the float Martin llarrala la In charge of win ter operatloua on Pan Creek. Mr. llarrala at one time alio ran for dele Kate to congreaa. The gold output In the Hot Springs Jim rlci of Alaaka was somewhat re stricted thla season on account of a shortage of water. J. R. Hcckman. of Ketchikan, has disponed of hla quarter Interest In the Beegle Packing Company of that town to Wm. Slothan, The Cordova city council recently created the otflco of city attorney, which office la to carry with It a salary of $50 per month. Vnder the slogan "Let George l)o It." George Forrest. Jr., formerly of Juneau. Is operating a transfer bus iness at Ketchikan, The fall run of salmon on the lower Yukon was a failure thla year und the cannery located at the mouth of Qwlguk slough loot money on the The "Malamute Kid." a well known dog tnushe of Nenana. was recently quite badly bitten when he tangled up with 35 head of his stock. The Valdez Miner says that thou cands of red salmon can be seen milling In Kobe lake, and affirms that the lake would make an Ideal hatchery. The whaling steamers I'nlmak and Kodlak recently went south from the station at Akutan. The boats re The skeleton of a mammoth bear recently killed near Cordova by Dr. W. H. Case hac been shipped to the I.OS Angeles County Museum of Nat ural History. Seward's floating dock recently arrived at that place from Anchor age loaded with coal. The dock will bo moored In the harbor for use of Ashing and other small craft. A tax of six dollars per dog hut been assewod at Cordoxa. and all dogs found running at large In town after the 30th of thla month are to be shot. Most of the snow has disappeared from Southern Yukon andi the tem perature has risen considerably ow ing to a Chinook brexee that blew for several days. Larry Hlggins. appointed govern ment vendor of liquors at White horse. has rented a r.tort building and la having It fltted up lor his place of business. The newly elected Nenana city council recently installed Oscar Kothenburg as mayor and R. O. Southworth. editor of the Nenana News, aa city clerk. T. C Gardner, a foreal ranger who has recently returned to Ketchikan from tlyder. says the latter place Is destined to become the largest min ing camp in Alaaka. George E. Walker, of Little Salm on. who waa found guilty at White horse of firing a ahot fjom a revol ver at Capt. Wm. Turnbull of the steamer Dawson, was lined )3&. They go in for art at Anchorage. Recently there was an art exhibit held there and the paintings and drawings of two local artlats were exhibited. Tea was served also. Autone Elde. in charge of the Al aaka Hoed Commission work In the vicinity of Seward, haa been trans ferred to Ketchikan, where he will have chatge of government road The body of George Montgomery, 35 years old. was found near Wran gell recently wlt.h part of his face shot off. The coroner's jury found a verdict of suicide*. The man lived In Wrangell. The cannery crew at Port Ashton. constating moatly of girls, far the third time this season gave a dance In honor of the pasaengers of the Alameda when that boat called In there on a recent trip. John Hhellffoff waa accidentally killed iu Anderson bay. of Johnson point near Cordova, a abort time ago. The man and his wife were out duck hunting In a small boat. He raised hla rifle to lire at a flock of birds when the boat gavo a lurch and the gun was discharged, the bullet lodg ing In his head. He was klllod In stantly. Th? wlfo of J^rof. Herscbel C. Par ker. (he man who first scaled Mount McKinley. la suing him (or divorce. She claims that the ProT. drinks out of the bottle. The barge Alkl was rammed by the km boat Elsie aa she was Koine Into port at Ketchikan a short time ago. About f 500 damaxo was done to the barge and the repairs to tho Klitie will cost $!00 or 1300. John Ollea, Valdei carpenter, re cenUy celebrated his fifty-third yoar of residonce In America. Ho Is 77 years of a Re. and It !s said, does aii much work as a younRster. He ha* been In Valdox seventeen years. Chris Seleues was found Rullty In tho commissioner's court at Kotch Ikau a short time axo for illeRal fishing. He was lined $600 and costs. Selencs was flshlnR after havInK turned back bis first papers durluR the war. A still was recently raided near Fairbanks that was turning out al cohol at the rate of a quart an hour. The man operatlnR the still believed In economy. In the fact that he kept two plus to feed on the mash after It had roiic throuRh the still. Capt. Charles E. Howes, formerly In charRe of the army post at Fort Liscum. has taken a position with the mercantile firm of Drown & Hawkins at Anchorago. This is go ing from rifles to ribbons with a vengeance. Miiss M. Kversolc. a pioneer banker of the North who first came to Alaska In 1892. when she came to Juneau, has located In Ketchikan with the hank there. Miss Kveraole has v/orked In banks all over the territory. A firm on Pioneer creek. In the Hot Springs district. Is using a 12 horse (lower caterpllllar tractor for freighting from town to the creok. The tractor recently pulled a wagon loaded with two tona of goods from the town to the camp on the creek. The court of appeals at San Fran cisco has upheld the verdict of the district court at Valdes, which found one Shay guilty of the murder of "Slim" Book In Cordova In 1917. Shay was sentenced to life Impris onment. The case was appealed and the appellate court upheld the lower I court. The steamer Cordova was duo to leave St. Michael on October 14. At I'nalaska the Cordova was to take the full-rigged ship Abner Coburn In tow to Seattle. The boat had 1 20 { passengers front Nome and St. Mi chaels and la. due to arrive at Se attle October 30. Old tailings on Sullivan creek In the Hot SprlnRS district are belnR rewashed this season for the placer tin they contain. although in moat cases the Rold In the talllnRS paid most of the expenses. About 25 tons of tin ore was recently shipped outside for treatment at a smelter. Confident that mining activities now in progress In the Kantlshna country will soon attract a consid erable number of people to that dis trict, the old-timers have laid out a townsite on Moose creek at the mouth of Kureka. where locations for business places and cabins can be secured for a nominal sum. There was to have been a special election at Petersburg on the 14th of this month to determine whether or not the city should bond itself to erect a school house and cold storage plant. The election was postponed on account of the law not being clear under which the bond ing was authorised. At the special election held a short time ago at Nenana to decide whether or not the town was to gov ern Itself accordlnR to the law paaaod by the last leRlslature, It was de cided It should. A council was also elected. Only property owners were allowed to vote, and those men liv ing in the Alaska Railroad Commis sion bunk house were denied the right although they had but re cently paid the new school tax. Two alleged bootleggers were arrested on the steamer Senator at Ketchikan. A quantity of whisky was also tsken. A waiter friend of the two men arrested attempted to Interfere with the officer in bis duties and he also was taken along. The bootleggers were fined 160 each and the waiter released on t50 ball to appear later. The game warden of the Tanana district recently returned to Fair banks. after a trip to the Twelve mile country. He reports that cari bou are running by the thousands in that country and that there seemM to be some moose around also. There were large packs of wolves follow ing the caribou herd, and the wolves may turn the herds so that they would not pass near Fairbanks, as they have been dplng for the past several seasons. THREE LITTLE MAIDS TO SCHOOL Firat Visit to Big City It Desribed in a Seattle Paper of Recent Date The Seattle Tlmco of October 14 describe* the visit to town or three lltttlo Alaska chickens on their way to school: Threo small aristocratic daughters o f wealthy Hydaburg Indian parents, breakfasted In the city police station this morning as the guests of Mjs. Kay Hicks, Jail matron. Into whose charge the trio of protty maidens waa given by ('apt. J. T. Mason. The girls art- Itebecca Nathan, Blanche Kdeushowor and Flora Alexander. 1 Blanche Is II vo?rn old and her two friends are 14. They are en route to Chemawa, Ore., where for five years they will be studonts of the school for Indians at that itlace. The girls wero met at the dock by Juvenllo Officer Henry Mork at the telegraphic request of Superintend ent Hall of the Indian school. Bewil dered at their 'first sight of a big ' city, the girls gludly welcomod th>' big officer, who led them to the pc lice station. "How do you llko Seattle?" Cap tain Mason asked. "Nice," replied the youngest of the three girls, who speaks good English. "Are you glad to go to school?" "Yes. If I had something to eat." came back the broad hint. Then the captain Introduced the three hungry girls to the matron, who at once "bulldosed" the rook In the Jail for a few "extras." The fathers of the throe girls an wealthy fishermen In the Southeast ern Alaska district. In the party Ik Nick Mix, who will also (.ttend the Indian school. After five years the girls, who will then be educated young women, will return to their homes at Hydaburg. Alaska. Officer Mork says he's sure they will be thoroughly educated by that time because of their Intelli gence shown by their simple request he show them around the department "That's making a good start. I'll say," said the officer, who willingly piloted his charges through the bus DESCRIBES NATIVES OF KUSKOKWIM Differ Coniiderably From Thoic of the Coait in Many of Their Habiti kokwlm region describes tbe native imputation thero u being of a ver> different type from those that are found along the Yukon and Tanan river*, aay* the Cordova Time*. They i ure. he nay*, a abort. stocky-built people, "with flat or dithed facea.' During the summer months they live mostly In tho open, but In the winter Keaaon they Inhabit holca dug In the ground. For the moat part they are foun<l In large village*, with a ruling clan They ure very aoclally Inclined. Dur- 1 Ing the winter evening* practical^ the entire village. Including dog*, congregate In a public hall called In the native tongue "klahlm." whore , their local dlsputea are settled b> the ruling clan. Here alao they give entertalnmenta and tell atorlea to pan away the time. Here, too. the village medicine man ha* hi* abode and worka his miracle* a* though It -were tho eight eenth Inatead of the twentieth cen tury. And the klahlm. whatever ap peal It may have for the native an<l hla dog, la not a pleasant place to vlalt. It haa plenty of openlnga for ventilation, but of ventilation there la none. With the plaA thoroughly warmed, the apotrtire In the roof I* closed, the door la tightly *hut and the big aoclal event la on. Fish. good and bad. is distributed to everybody Even tho dog* get their portion. After a couple of hours' refreshing enter tainment tho atmosphere la per fumed to a degree deacrlbed by white men a* "fifty-seven skunk power." The native* alao have bath houses These are very small klahlm. equipp ed with heated atones to furnish Hteam. It is a common sight to aee young "bucks" dash out of the bath house j-lad only in their "birthday < lothes." speed across the village street and Into their own Igloos. Contrary to common belief, the na tives bathe often, although thoy sel dom or never launder their clothes, thus losing' part of the efficacy of the bathing. Igloo 16. Pioneers of Alaska, alt uated at Ketchikan, has received ar ticles of Incorporation for tho es tablishment of a sanitarium al Bailey bay. which la located on Cleveland pelnlnsula, 76 mllea north of Ketchikan. The site Is situated immediately acros* Bchtn canal from the upper end of Rell inland, where there are alao hot *pr!ng*. It la the intention of the Pioneer* to build :> modern and up-to-date health re port which Will be not only for mem bers but for any one who desire* treat men l. The sprlnga are said to have a medicinal value. , Piano for rent. Phonu 143, Juneau. FAMOUS VESSEL WRECKED IN ICE Belvedere, Well Known Old Whaler and Trader, Wrecked Off Siberian Coast Arctic carro valued at $200,000 and a ihlp valued at $175,000 wont to the bottom or the Arctic ocoan September IS, when tho famou* old whaler and trader, Hclvcdcre, owned by the Hlburd-Swuusou Company of Seattle, met her doom In the Ice off the coaat of Siberia. DetallB of the loss have been received In Scuttlo by tho Hlbard-Swonaon Company In a cablegram from ('apt: Carl Huuson, the maator, who arrived with tho \esael'a crew In Nome recently. The cargo consisted of whalebone, furs. hide*, Ivory and general mcr rhaudiac. The loss In cargo und nhlp I* well covered by Insurance. The Belvedere left* Scaltlo late last spring, commanded by Cnptaiu Hanson and manned by u crow of eighteen Seattle men. In September iihu arrived In the waters off Koly ucklan Bay, Siberia, to hunt walrus. On September 1! a galo smashed the famous vessel's rudder and drove taor Into the Ice. The pounding of heavy floea opened leaks Septembor 16 and she began taking water rapidly. When the water had risen sevon feet In her hold. Captain Hanson or dered the crew overboard, the crew at that time consisting of the seven teen Seattle men and nearly twenty Ksklmos. The master then led- his followers toward shore over the Icc Itold which was heaving and grind ing under the force of the gale. Be fore they had pawed out of sight of the scene of the disaster, the Belve dere went down to a watery grave. Reaching shore, the maoter and crew found a native village where they lived until the gale subsided. Then they proceeded to Fast Cape. Siberia, whence they aet out in two native skin boats for the Diomede islands at tho entrance to the Arc tic. One of the boats lost her way In fog and had to turn back. The other reached the Big Dlomedo and chartered tht, Ksklmn acbooner Ham for a voyage back to the Slbcrlnn coast to pick up the othqr members of the Belvedere party. Tho rescue proved successful, and the Ham then proceeded to Nome with the entire Belvedere party aboard. Tho Belvedere was one of the truly famed vessels In Arctic annals. Built In San Kranclaco as a steam bark in lS80. the made her first voyage to the Arctic In 1881, re turning to tho 'Golden Gate port the following year. On the drat voyage she earned a dividend of $700,000 for her owners, a showing that causcd a sensation In the shipping woild. Her cargo Continuing In the Arctic trade self one of the best money-makers JSIght years ago ahe waa bought by the Hibbard-Swenson Company of Seattle, and since then Rlliott North operations. In August, 1913, while proceeding to Herschel Island with supplies for one of the camps of the Stofnnnson party, the Belvedere was cuughi In the Ice and froren in. She remained a prisoner In the Ice for 339 days, or eleven months, arriving home In Se attle In November, 1914, after an absence of twenty-ono months. Her Stefannson shipments wore delivered In the summer of 1914 after she had been released by the Ice. During the eleven months sho was In the ice the Belvedere acted as an Arctic hotel and refuge. Including her officers and crew, sixty persons lived aboard from the fall of 191.1 until the summer of 1914. thirty of the men being engaged constantly In hutlng to keep the vessel supplied with food. Olaf Swenson, of the Hibbard Swenson Company, left the Impris oned vessel In October. 1913, mush ed with a number of others to the mainland and thoncc to Fairbanks, a distance of 700 mile*, and from Fair banks traveled to Seattle by (rail and steamship. In the ^mmcr of 1914 he headed another Hibbard Swenson expedition Into the Arctic, the company having chartered the power ichooner King & Wlnge of Seattle. On that expedition Mr. Swenson rescued the Wrnngell Isl and survivors of Stefannson'i Ill fated KarluK expedition, one of the daring feats of Arctic history. In 1917 the Hibbard-Swenson Comply converted the Belvedere from a steam bark Into gasoline pow ered barkentlne. but later changed her rig to that of a schooner. The Sesttle waterfront regarded the famous old Arctic vessel with n genuine affection. It became a say She had many great advent urea In her thirty-eight year* In tho Arctic trade, alwaya managing to escape un til the disaster laat month off the Siberian coast. The natives of the Siberian shores, as well as the shore* of the North American conilnncnt from Bering Strait to Herschel Isl manent features of their lives. getter. xWo feel that* we have lost more than a veasel. 8he was a staunch, steady, reliable old friend." Job Printing at the News "fflce. FOR THE PEOPLE Dry Goods and Notions Clothingand Haberdashery Boots, Shoes and Rubbers Hats for Everybody Ours is the Largest and Most Select Stock carried in Alaska. Our staff of Clerks is experienced and always willing to aid customers in making their selections. The Grocery Department has every thing in season. Our stock of Staples is complete. ONE VISIT TO OUR STORE MAKES A REGULAR CUSTOMER GOLDSTEINS EMPORIUM K++++4 New Suits at Old Prices Take into consideration all the tilings that make for quality, character, comfort, style and service, because the more you demand these things, in the suits you buy, the more you will appreciate how completely AL FRED BENJAMIN SUITS stand the test OLD WOOLENS AT OLD PRICES We anticipated our wants months ahead on good staph; suits for men. We cannot buy the suits that we have in stock today at any price. Suite from now on will be made of one-half wool, one-fourth shoddy and a quarter cotton. B. H. Behrends Co., Inc. Phone s JUNEAU. Al.ASKA 1919 ISSUE NOW ON SALE WS.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT