Douglas Island news., 1900-05-23

for the purpose ot elect1ng three delegates tothe Democratic l CT ritorial Convention to be held at Juneau, Alaska, May 18th, 1900.
 Mir. J. E. Haman, superintendent of the Yakima mine, called yesterday and extended his subscription to the News way over into the 2Oth century. MT. Haman appreciates the News and en- joys reading it.
 A little girl was told to keep quiet while in church recently because it was Gods house. The child remained passive for few moments, apparently absorbed in the sermon, and then sud denly turned to her companion and said: "Whose house did you say this is?"
 The U. S. District court for the Dis. trict of Alaska will be held at Skagway beginning May 28th. The jurors from Douglas Island are as follows: Grand jurors. w. c. Angel and G. w. Stowell; petit jurors, Ed Andrews, w. J. Burke, A. M. Lewis, Chas. E. Matthew and O.. H. Page.
 The Snow company will present the beautiful Irish melodrama, Kathleen Mavourneen, at Ohman's Hall in Doug las City, next Monday evening. This is play that Douglas people have been anxious to see and we bespeak for the company big house. They will give a good show.
 TO THE DEAF-A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by D. Nicholson's Artificial Ear Drums gave G1,OOO to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the Ear Drums may have them free. Apply to Department A. The Institute, 790, Eight Avenue, New York, U. s. A.
 Judge Fred Page-Tustin and J. F. Collins, of Wrangel, and H. R. Shepard were pleasant callers at the office of this great moral and religious weekly last Thursday afternoon. These gen tIemen all read the News regularly and expressed themselves as of the opinion that this paper is the very best one published in Alaska.
 Messrs. A. Hunter and John Moore called on us last Wednesday to make sure that they would receive their copy of the "News." We were quite over come by their expressions of sympathy and tender approval of each others conduct. When we were asked to de. eide as to which was the greater we begged to be excused.
 Charles Baldwin, the young man who has for some months been in the em- pIoy of the News, has accepted po- sition at the Mexican mill. Charlie is an industrious young man and only leaves this office because the emolu- ments of his new position will enable him to accomplish the great desire of his life, which is, we understand, to take a course in a theological insti- tute.
 Every now and then one of the Ju- neau papers discovers that stick of dynamite has worked it's way down to the stamp in one of the great mills To- cated on Douglas Island and by eX- ploding has caused a loss of so many hundred dollars, and they make great sensation about it. Mill men inform us that it is not a rare occurrence for a small amount of the explosive used in the mine to be found in the mill and when this gets under the big stamps it sometimes explodes, causing some slight damage to the battery. The damage is repaired by the men who are there for that purpose and the stamps go on as usual, but when the report ot the affair reaches the Juneau press it is magnifed to terrible explosion and at Skagway they record the loss by thousands of dollars.
 An "Observer" says that the Chris tian Endeavor Society at the Friends church seems to be increasing in inter- est from the evidence we had of it's eX- ercises last Friday evening, which were planned and led by Mrs. Replogle very intelligently. The productions of the lnndor and tha Misses Lawrence were