Douglas Island news., 1899-09-27
HAYNES ITEMS.

A large whale was sporting in the bay near the wharf last week.
 Much building is going on and Haines is coming to the front.
 Mr. A. J. Campbell has in bis garden raddish measuring seventeen and one half inches ill circumference.
 Fine large halibut can be had for the catching within one hundred yards of our doors.
 The wharf at Haines is being thor oughly braced from the shore end to deep water.
 The Rev. Mir. Warne holds religious servcesi every Sunday forenoon at the village of Chilkat and in the afternoon and evening of the same day at Haines Mission.
 Mr. W. A. Biglow has received his new light wagon and will do express business. Also handle passengers and fast freight.
 Messrs. P. R. Mcclure, J. J. Cham bers, J. G. McCabe and T. Marquam have just returned from successful prospecting trip.
 Mir. Weitzman has just returned from the Atln district. The hearty hand shaking that he received at the wharf was good evidence that he is more than welcome back to Haines.
 MT. Chas. r. Nystrum, of Chilkat, is doing much development work on the "AIien" group of mines near Smoke house bay.
 Messrs. Warner & Kern have their large, new hotel well under way and will soon be ready for the public.
 The people of Haines and surround inp country should patrOnize and sub- scribe for the Douglas Island News. 1t always has a good word for this dis trict
 MT. H. A. Brigham, of San Francisco, an expert on hydraulic mining, is eX- amining placer ground in the Porcu- pine district.
 The many friends of Mir. Edward Armstrong, formerly court interpreter at Juneau, will be pleased to learn that he will start a grocery store at Haines as soon as the goods arrive from the Treadwell store at Douglas City.
 Nearly all of the natives have left Haines and Chilkat to attend their an- nual feasts that are held at Klukwaltoo and Clukwan, on the Chilkat river:
 A public meeting was called Tuesday evening, the 26th, for the purpose of forming progressive club and dis cussiug other matters of interest to the citizens of Haines.
 A thorough test of the lime rock near Haines has just been made, which proved very satisfactory, and the own CTS have since received an order for 800 barrels.
 MT. A. H. Dreher has purchased the lot adjoining the wharf on the south side. and will build large bakery with brick bake ovens. The doors and win dows came up on the Farallon.
 Mir. John Minnis, just down from the Takeen, brings some fine samples from his mine, at depth of ten feet.
 Those magazines presented by the Rev. Warne to the free reading room, are appreciated.
 Mir. Henry Erie will please accept the thanks of the public and the Haines Mining Exchange for magazines and other reading matter for our free read. ing room annex. The names of all con tributors to this free reading room will be published in the Douglas Island News.
 Mrs. A. J. Campbell nee Manning, of this place, has very valuable private collection of Indian curios, more val uable owing to their antiquity. Mrs. Campbell has been an instructor among the natives of Alaska for the past four years, and during that time has col iected much valuable data as to the mythology and ethnology of the na- tiyes of Southeastern Alaska, which will appear in book form nNhe near future.