Douglas Island news., 1900-10-17

of the Aberdeen.
 H.V. Lasher, who has been east buy ing mining machinery, has returned and reports very pleasant trip.
 Burdette Sindle, who has been em- ployed by the Dalton company during the summer, now has charge of the Dalton property at Pyramid harbor.
 o. W. Allison has returned from the newly discovered mines on Bear creek, tributary of the ChiIkat, and reports the strike o. K.
 R. NJ. Odell, one of our leading mer- chants, met with quite a serious acci, dent last Sunday. Some heavy railing fell on him and hurt one of his legs quite badly. Fortunately, no bones were broken, and he is now able to get around on crutches.
 Mrs. BIankenberg, wife of our pho tographer, is quite sick; so much so that her husband took her to Skagway for treatment. We hope she will soon recover her health and be back with us again.
 Mrs. W. B. Stout and her sons, Leroy and Lewis, left on the City of Seattle, on her last trip, for Tacoma, where they eyDect tO mass the winter.
 Our postmaster has been notified by the department that the Haines post office will soon be made aninternation al money order office. And Haines keeps working to the front.
 D. Goldberg, our confeotioner and grocer, went to Skagway last Friday night on the Alert, intending to return Saturday morning, but got left by the boat and had to come home in row boat. The atmosphere was little sul- phurous for while when he found the boat had gone and left him. But we are informed by late dispatches that it has all cleared away and is all right again.
 It is with sorrow that we announce the death of Fred Godbolt, of Red Bluff, Cal. He had mining interests on the Big Salmon with pr. w. M. Thomp- son. Mir. Godbolt made many friends while here who deeply feel his loss and extend to his bereaved family and rela. tives their sincere sympathies. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope, firmly believing that our temporary loss is his eternal gain. His remains were laid to rest in our little cemetery. w. W. Warne, Presbyterian minister, conducted the services. The old fla miliar hymn, "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" to the tune of Refuge" was we'll rendered by Mrs. H. Fay, Miss Grace Hawes and Mrs. W. B. Stout; Miss May Macintosh presided at the organ. The pail bearers were J. G. Morrison, H. !. Fay, J. M. Blankenberg, -. Dimick, Karl Bjornstad and w. B. Stout
 see by the Alaska Truth that Judge Sehlbrede called on Capt. Hovey for troops to force some sailors aboard a steamer, and the incident calls to the mind of the writer the time when every citizen of Haines except w. w. Warne signed a petition to Capt. Hovey asking him to station some troops at this place, as we at that time feared an out break from the Indians on account of the Horton murderers being jailed, and the Indians being then somewhat ugly. ! Capt. Hovey claimed that he had no power to act until the civil authorities had exhausted their power, and Deputy Marshal Tanner said he could take care of the situation at Haines without any help. We would like to ask him if four or five hundred Indians on the war path would be easier to handle than eight or ten white sailors? and did Capt. | Hoyey wait in the case of the sailors until the civil power was exhausted? And was he called upon by Governor | Brady for troops in the latter case? But then the lives and property of the people of Haines do not seem to com pare with the restoration of few sail ors to their ship where, in all probabil, ity, they had not been treated just right. |
 RIALTO.