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Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
The Douglas Island News.
THE LOCAL FIELD.
Items of Interest Dished Up in Brief for the Ben-
 eft of Our Readers.


 Items of Interest Dished Up in Brief for the Ben-
 eft of Our Readers.
 Gertrude Landsberg is improving. Say! Have you tried those new ci- gars at the Douglas Pharmacy.
 The Tug Pilot came up from the south Monday night.
 Fox is selling piles of wall paper. He has a fine assortment.
 Maggie Mitchell, of Juneau, made a visit to our city last Thursday.
 Plain Gold Rings, any size, to order at Jos. Schelrs.
 John H. Radolph, an old Seattle boy, but now of Juneau, was in town Thurs day.
 Ladies' and Gents Grape Rings made to order. Jos. Schell.
 Jack Fletcher, one of the way up boys of Juneau, was in the city last Thursday.
 Ladies' and Gents Buckle RlnSs made to order at Jos. Schelrs, jeweler. It has been suggested that the dray- men of the city put in little work on the Front street improvement work. We still have a few pictures of the herring catch at the Douglas Pharmacy. The Rosalie tied up at the new wharf at Juneau last evening between s and 3 o'clock and in about one hour there after, pulled out for Skaguay.
 For UP-TO-DATE Ladies' and Mems Neckwear go to c. A. Lindstrom's. Mir. H. Hal. Hoffman is now managing editor of the Alaska Miner, which has changed everything but its name.
 Douglas people are invited to call at the City Brewery, Juneau, and get a sample of bottle beer. Give it trial Muir Glacier was named in honor of John Muir, of Martinez, Cal, mem Der of the Hartman party.
 Watch Weesner's cigar store, when he opens his cases of fireworks. Just arrived from New York. Latest makes, new stock and best goods.
 The trial of the Kirshbaum murder case resulted in a verdict of man slaughter. A motion for new trial is pending.
 Those white iron bedsteads at Alaska Furniture Go. Store, Juneau, are dan, dies and cheap.
 Mir. A. Smallwood started for the Porcupine last Monday.
 Mir. Raymond Robins, the eloquent young lawyer. preacher made a pleasant call at the News office this week. He will read the News.
 s. E. Weesner, has received some fine cigars lately. He keeps a clean, wei selected stock of goods. Al S15O.O( cigar is his latest.
 MT. Chas. Wortman will immediately begin the erection of a large two-story business house on lot near the plan, ing mill.
 Word reaches us this week that oul friend, MT. I. A. Boynton, who has beer spending the winter at Berkeley, Cali fornia, will return to Douglas in feV weeks.
 An elegant line of gents clothin! just received at the Treadwell store These goods are. put up in the Iates styles and of first class material.
 Juneau Dressmaking Parlors. Mrs Burkman. Fourteen years experience in fashionable dressmaking. All worl guaranteed and made in the lates styles. Douglas Island trade solicited Second St, bet Main and Seward Juneau.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
A Card of Thanks.

The ladies' of St. Luke's Guild wish by this means, to extend their sincere thanks to all who assisted in their en- tertainment, and who provided refresh ments. The net proceeds were about S1OO.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
rIattiTg.

There is nothing that makes so fine a covering for floor in summer as good mating. It is clean and easily kept so. Mr. P. H. Fox has just received a large shipment of Fine Japanese Mat. ting. Go and see it.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
Bottled Beer.

Don't drink stale beer when you can order it in bottles of the City Brewery, Juneau, delivered to you in either pints or quarts.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
Denied.

The attorneys for the defendant in the Kirshbaum case were denied a new trial by Judge Johnson last Tuesday afternoon. Sentence will be passed on Saturday morning.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
Here for Business.

Winter x Ponds photo studio is open on Sundays Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
APPLICATION FOR PATIENT.
U. s. Land Office, SitlIa, Alaska, JuDe 6. 1Sg9

June G. lSSg.
 Notice is hereby given that w. A. Sanders, For himself and his co-claimantS, w. A. Thompson and Minnie Ross Holman, whose DOst office address is Juneau, Alaska, mas this day filed his application for patent TOT fifteen hundred linear feet qqt, each, ihe @ Hntea lode the Section lode, the Extension of Section lode and the Great Western. lode claim, also for five hundred and sixty linear FeSt 0f the Xmas lode claim, with surface around. six hundred feet in width for each of said lode claims, situated Tn Harris MlnlHS District. Alaska, and designated by the held notes and official plat on file in this omGe as a U. s. Mineral Survey No. 3iO. Sal9 r,I r.. .,,' D. Mineral Survey being described as follows to-wit: ~
 FIELD NOTES OF MINERAL SURVEY NO. "4V.
 HATEA LODE CLAIM
 Rooinning at corner No. 1. identical with a cation corner and with post No. ;. Mo- lOy. Set most feet long, 4 ius. sq, it. in ground ,,oIInd impracticable Scrihed No. l-SlV-ha- +o Whence U s. Min. Mon. No. bears ;. SS deo 51'E.. G1S56 6 fit distant. Thence S 40 deg, 00' W, Var. 29 deg. S0' k. 30O.OO 1t. to corner So 2 identical with post No 5, 5. No. lUJ and with q location corner ot thls survey. oeV most it. long, inches sq., feet Tn ground, Lp,oTnd impracticable Scribed "2 s. $40 Hatea." Thence N. 45 deg. 0O' w.; Var. ~ 96S k 462 OO feet to corner. No. 5 identical y,yitb a location corner. Set post feet long, inches su., 2 feet in ground, mound lmprac- ticable. Scribed "3-S.S40- Hatea." Thence N i7 deg. 5P w.; Var. 29 deg. 3O k. 57S feet S9S feet cross small creek 10 feet wide, course N k, IOS8 feet to corner No. 1, identical with location corner. Set post feet long, inches so., , feet in ground; mound impractlcabie-, Scribed 'I $ BIO Hatea." Thence N. lj degrees OO' E.; Var. 29 degrees SO t.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07
By Bottle or Otherwise.

.Jno. Dewar's Imported Scotch Hiram Walkers Canadian Club of 1893 By ED. CAsEBoLT,
 At the Comet.
Douglas Island news., 1899-06-07

It is hereby ordered that the foregoing notice of application for patent be published for the period of ten consecutive, weeks m paper published and printed at Douglas City, si5sIsa JOHN W. DUDLEY,
 ,nyne 7th. 1899 Register.
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The evening times., 1899-06-14
RECIPROCITY WITH JAMAICA.
Delegates From the Latter Country
Arrive in New York.

We" NOTk.
New FORK June IA W Farquharson.
d. S. Gideon, and V. G. Bell, delegates fl ON
the government of Jamaica. who have come
to confer with our authorities about reci-
procity of trade. are stopping at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. They will remain in this
city today and then proceed to Washing
ton. The delegates have been sent here to
gather information as to possible closer
commercial relationship between the Unit
ed States and Jamaica, and to report to the
jamaican legislative assembly.
The immediate cause of the coming of
sentation on the part of our Consul General
vance in the tariff rates of the islands on
imports was working a disadvantage to
American trade. Jamaica exports sugar
rum. molasses. coffee. and oranges, on
which duty has to be paid in this country
and also a large quantity of bananas which
come into the United States free. She i'm
ports cotton goods. fish. flour, rice and
other articles to an amount about equal
to the value OF her exports. making total
in each direction of trade Of from S. 900. 600
to $40. .000, 900 year. The negotiations for
taking advantage of the reciprocity act will
be conducted between the British Embassy
and our Department of State. with the del
egates as interested listeners, and the dele
gates expect to be able to report in ia
maica in time to bring about a new un-
derstanding. in case such an arrangement
seems feasible, before the time limit ex-
Dires in the latter part of July.
The evening times., 1899-06-14
PROBING CHICAGO JUSTICES.
Many Cases shown of Illegal and Ex-
tOrtiOnate Fees.

tOrtiOnate Fees.
Chicago. June 14.-Nearly a score of JUS
tices OF the peace. majority OF them from
the country towns but several from the
city, were examined yesterday before the
Baxter senatorial committee. They made
lame defences of their methods of collect
ing fees. and in nearly every case were
compelled TO admit that they were in the
habit of charging Illegal and extortionate
fees. The only one who put up fight was
Justice Everett. whose Office is in Clark
Street. In the course of his examination
Justice Everett embraced the opportunity
to take a shot at the profession to which
both Chairman Baxter and Attorney Burres
belong If there is a stronger custom
than that OF Justices looking for their
fees" said he, lit is that OF lawyers in ap-
propriating money which may rightfully
belong to the justices for legal fees
Justice Everett said that il less printers
ink were used in denOuncing the wrong
acts OF justices and more energy shown in
Furnishing the guilty officials real benefit
would be gained. He favored filing a pc
ution demanding the summary removal of
Justice sharks by the courts of record.
The witness frankly stated that Justices
who sanction the dragging of litigants into
the country should be ousted from ofiice.
and gave the committee some practical rec
concentrations how to improve the Justice
court system
Much evidence was heard relating to the
legal robberies perpetrated by rascally con-
stables against slot machine owners and
manufacturers. One manufacturer swore
that he had been robbed OF 1000 worth of
machines by constables. Another said he
had been driven out of business by them.
The seized machines were never destroyed.
but were sent to other cities and sold.
The evening times., 1899-06-14
HELD AT BAY BY CANNON.
New Jersey Nnn Barricated Against
Trolley ROnd Builders.

Plainfeld. N J.. June 14.-Street rail-
road building has met with decided set
beck in this city. and ]. X. Van Ness. a
former New York city lawyer. with a
small arsenal of weapons at hand is tenn
porary master of the situation. The rail-
road is being constructed on each side of
his country home. near the city limits.
and the contractors are waiting for a
chance to run over his property. but Mr..
Van Ness says No and points to his
store of ammunition and his several hired
men.
When he saw the proposed line was TO
cut through the middle of his place Van
Ness made hasty preparations for war. He
built rustic summer house directly on
the line of the road. and moved there with
guns, swords. pitchforks, and other war
like furniture.
I'm peaceful man. content to raise my
white beans and buckwheat," he said.
but l don't propose to let any trolley line
get the drop on me. I'm a countryman.
but my little brass cannon is ready, and l
have a Calling gun, too" For more than
week Van Ness has been sleeping on his
arms on a cot covered with mosquito net
ting. Cool breezes from the meadows and
the distant Watching mountains gave him
peaceful sleep.
Some of the trolley workmen gave him
trouble on Saturday. and. fearing his shan
ty would be taken by storm on Sunday, he
indulged in little field-gun drill. Moving
his brass cannon within range of the road
bed, which was completed up to within
few feet Of his land, Van Ness began
firing. .-.
Boom after boom broke the quiet Of the
evening hours. until George W. Rockefel-
Ter. the mayor of Plainfield, telephoned to
police headquarters to have the noise
stopped. Policeman Florence Mccarthy
found the warlike landowner swabbing
his cannon and training it upon the troll
ley trench. Pleadings and threats on the
part of the policeman were alike in vain
aud he departed. after telling the man be-
hind the gun to appear in court the next
day. Instead. Van Ness called upon the
police for protection from the trolley
WOrkmen
The evening times., 1899-06-14
FORTUNE FOR TWO SOLDIERS.
Red Cross Nurse Remembers Wound
ed Regulars She Attended.

ed Regulars She Attended.
New York. June l4.-Samuel Scull. OF
Mays Landing. y. j.. and II. S. Smith, OF
Utah, were lucky in being wounded in
the charge Of the American forces up San
Juan Hill. Had they not received these
wounds they would not have met Miss An
ME E. Thompson, a wealthy woman of
Kansas City. who in dying remembered the
soldier boys she as a Red Cross volunteer
nursed back to health and strength.
Scull and Smith were devoted to the kind
nurse and she was devoted to them. They
heard nothing Of her after the war until
yesterday. when Scull received word that
the nurse was dead: that she had left a
10000 hotel in St. Louis to be divided
between himself and Smith
Scull and Smith were members of the
Twelfth Regiment. United States Regu-
lars. The wounds they received at San
Juan SO weakened them that they fell easy
victims to fever. They were taken to the
Fort Mcpherson hospital in Georgia. There
they met Miss Thompson. The nurse was
kind to all the soldiers in her care, but she
showed the greatest interest in the regu-
lars. who she said had had the hardest
time in Cuba. Cured OF the fever Scull and
Smith were discharged from the army.
The evening times., 1899-06-14
An lnWtSe Plan.

| Some academic thinkers have been ad-
vocating the establishment of a penal COL
ony in the Philippines. OF course, we have
the example of England in Australia for
| such an action, but the disadvantages of
the plan are so many and SO obvious that
| they outweigh any ideal advantages. The
penal colonies of England date from times
! when the management of criminals was
not as weIl understood as it is now and,
moreover. until comparatively recent
times. the laws of that country punished
with transportation for life some compar-
ativeiy Sigh, offences, so that many So
called criminals were people with much
greater possibilities of good in them than
the average convict of today. Even con-
sidering these things, the success OF the
Australian colonies has not been so tre-
mendous as to warrant a similar action
ON our part in these later times.
One OF the things which we are begin
ming TO learn in this progressive nine
teenth century is that We cannot sweep
dirt outside oUr own door, and be rid of
il forever. The treatment of the crimi-
nal problem in former centuries, all over
the world, was very much like the solu-
tion of the dirt problem. Less than 200
years ago there was a muck-heap at the
door of each citizen in Edinburgh, and
sanitary regulations were unheard of.
Hence, fevers. chronic filth diseases, and
the periodic visitations of the Black Death
and other plaques. Nowadays we have
learned that we must not only have our
own garbage carted away with regularity,
but must see that our neighbor's is also
removed If he cannot pay for having 1t
done. and this refuse must be destroyed
not left in a heap outside the city limits,
or thrown into the river. Along with the
sanitary reform comes the civic reform
We are learning that thorough and efficient
policing Of city is necessary for the pub
lie health: that 1t is far easier to pre-
vent than to punish crime, and that it will
not do TO allow moral pest-holes to exist
in our neighborhood, even II they are not
under our noses.
AS all parts Of the world become more
accessible. and the human race is more
closely bound together by the ties of de-
pendence and daily business relations. II
Will be seen that such rubbish holes as the
penal colony cost more than they save. and
hat the criminal cannot be shunted off into
some distant country or turned into the |
wilderness; he must be kept out of mis- |
chief or helped to reform himself by the |
people among whom he has grown I'D. In |
he American population of our colonies !
here will doubtless be many men who
Wish to wipe out some stain on their past,
md make for themselves career among
hose who do not know their history. and
The evening times., 1899-06-14
ANOTHER DEFECTIVE SHIP.
The Albany Reported to BE as I'm.
safe as the New Orleans.

The Albany Reported to Be as I'm.
safe as the New Orleans.
The report that the cruiser New Or
leans. purchased in England by this Gov
ernment just before the war with Spain,
was dangerously defective has been receiv-
ed with deep interest by naval officers
1t was remarked that while the New Or
leans. one OF the vessels. performed most
useful service during the war. and was
probably more actively employed than any
other ship of Rear Admiral Sampson q
fleet. there was no chance to test its sta
bility. and the cruiser might have con-
tinued in commission Indefinitely without
the defects being found out, unless it had
encountered a big blow, when the vessel
would have been in serious danger
1t has now developed that tests made
also with the Albany, the other ship now
nearing completion abroad show that it is
equally defective, with no possible way Of
correcting the trouble. Naval officials are
astonished that these ships. which were
built by one Of the best-known English
shipbuilding firms. could have been de-
signed without proper consideration for
their stability. or that the weights should
nave DetN SO ulStTlDuteQ lQdI metre
centre height, which determines the sta
bility OF vessel. should have been SO
lacking.
1t is now regretted that these facts were
not looked into before the purchase was
made. but It is recalled that at the time
the ships were sold to this Government the
department was anxious to secure war YES
sells at almost any price, and would not
probably have stopped to enquire into sta
bility or other special points. As the me-
tre-centre height can usually be deter
mined by heeiing a vessel in dock. and
its stiffness and stability thus accurately
learned, there is no question after recent
trials that the New Orleans is far from
trustworthy in heavy weather.
Many officers contend that a ship as val
liable as the New Orleans was during the
war is unquestionably small craft.
it makes little difference whether 1t
has any metre-centre height or not 9th
ers however. are not willing that war
vessel. which must necessarily be tender
in stiff blow, should be sent to sea with
800 souls on board. with the risk of turn
ing turtle" and going to the bottom.
The report on the stability tests of these
ships has been sent to the Secretary of the
Navy for action. It is not improbable that
further trials will be made in order to
make sure that the defects are found to be
as serious as reported.
The evening times., 1899-06-14

Since such famous Irishmen as Mayor
Van Wyck have spoken in favor of buy
ing the Lakes of Killarney. We are unable
to see why they should not be secured
as monument to the devotion which our
best Knickerbocker element always dis
plays toward the .'Ould Sod We like to
think that these historic places are pass
ing into the. hands of Americans Ever
since Mr.. Mckinley acquired possession
OF the Blarney Stone, We have been the
more anxious that the last relic of British
oppression should be transferred, by pop
ular subscription. TO the land of the Star
Spangled Banner. We want not only the
Lakes of Killarney and the Blarney Stone.
but the Kilkeny Cats. the Kerry Whisker.
the Battle of the Boyne. and everything
else calculated to transfer Irish American
sentiment from the land where it never
exerted any potent influence TO the coun-
try where it almost constitutes a balance
OF power
The evening times., 1899-06-14
South Africa Next.

! The condition Of affairs in the Transvaal
must be serious indeed when the British
ministry is ready to admit, in Parliament.
that the Beers are arming for fight
Such admissions are extremely unusual
ences have passed beyond the control OF
diplomacy and hostilities are regarded as
| unavoidable.
II is reported from Cope Colony that the
Beers have distributed arms and ammuni-
tion among all the Dutch settlers In Natal.
! and that, in the Transvaai itself, the work
of fortifcation and other warlike prepara-
tions is being pushed with feverish haste.
! In the meantime all available railway roll
ing stock has been sent from Capetown up
to johannesburg, In view Of the exodus Of
British residents. who are getting out Of
the enemys country as fast as possible.
II is estimated by English authorities
that Kruger can muster from sixteen to
twenty Thousand effective fighting men.
What force Lord Salisbury's government
will send to meet them. is. of course not
stated. A few days ago the British mill
tary strength near the scene amounted to
eleven thousand troops of all arms. under
Major General Butler. an experienced on
Ger. To this force should be added local
organizations like the Cape Mounted
Rifles, and some other colonial militia.
and mounted police. The First ARM
Corps, in England. is under orders, and, If
necessary Major General Buffers strength
doubtless could be increased to thirty or
thirty-five thousand men within three
weeks.
The chances are that il will take that
many to subjugate those desperate fight
ers. the Beers, in anything like a single
and short campaign. The British min
istry is not likely to again commit the
error of the last war. and begin proceed
ings by throwing a few thin battalions
into the theatre of strife to be practically
as the redcoats were at Majuba
Hill. Even with adequate numbers no
hostile movement into the Transvaal is
likely to prove a picnic for the invaders.
The Beers have all the advantage of fight
ing on interior lines in a difficult country.
OF knowing it thoroughly. and OF the
enthusiasm with which Kruger.s
wild rifemen notoriously are imbued
The little state of course will be conquer
ed in the end, but it will be not without
heavy cost in lives. wounds. and treasure