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Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

The overland trail from Katmai to
Nome is to be made a regular winter
mail route by the government.
vancouver's government assay Office
will not be in readiness for this sea-
sons cleanup in the Klondike.
r The U. S. coast and geodetic survey
steamers, the c. P. Patterson and Mac
Arthur, were in these waters last week.
City Engineer Diers of skagway re,
Gently fell from a ladder and sustain
ed a compound fracture of the left
wrist
The steamer Humboldt has abandon
ed the Southeastern Alaska run and
sailed for Nome June 1st with full
cargo.
John Dolan, a stranger, was drowned
at Dawson May 25th while trying to
walk from scow to a dock. He was
drunk.
Dawson markets are in a demoralized
condition owing to the arrival of great
quantities of supplies by scows and
steamers.
Peter Raber, an old timer of Sitka,
has sold out his interests there and left
for the States, where he will reside per-
manently.
President Graves of the W. P. & Y. R.
R. is not one whit behind his brother
nabobs, as he now has a private coach
of his own.
Mrs. T. Kilburn, sister of Rev. Ban
herman of Sitka, has gone to Killisnoo
to do missionary work among the In
dians there.
Judge Wickersham has offered to
build q Jail and court house at Rampant
if the people of that burg will donate a
suitable site.
Now comes the report that the inte-
rior department has ordered reopen
ing of the celebrated Moore-Skagway
townsite case.
S. A. D. Bertrand, of Manitoba, has
been appointed superintendent of pub
lie works in the Yukon at salary of
$4,000 per year.
A gentleman, who has sized up the
situation, is of the opinion that Lake
LaBarge will not be free from ice be-
fore the 18th inst.
1t is reported that the Atlin brewery
is to be sold under the hammer, to set
tie claims to the amount of $4,000 out
standing against it.
The strike on Fourth of July creek,
on the American side of the Yukon dis,
trict, is said to be good for from $40 to
s45 per day per man.
A building on the corner of Third
Avenue and Broadway, Skagway, in
which is located the Mascot saloon,
brought Scoops at public sale the other
day.
The steamer Garonne was compelled
to abandon its Nome schedule on ac-
count of inability to complete necessa-
ry repairs, because of the machinists'
strike.
1t is reported that regulation went
into effect the first of the month at
White Horse prohibiting any person
with less than $500 in cash from going
into Dawson.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

ghe Victoria Colonist says that an
important deal is reported to have been
made recently in Vancouver, the White
Horse Copper company, owning six
claims on White Horse river, having
parted with the property under option
for 100000 to syndicate whose name,
however, is not yet divulged.
The A. E. Co. has shipped diamond
drill to Dawson, which is believed to
be the first one in the country. 1t will
be used in prospecting the company's
coal properties on Rock creek. Until
further prospecting is done the work
on the claims will not be pushed, but
small crew of men will be employed.
There will be expended this year in
the Yukon Territory for public build
ings, public works, roads, bridges and
aids to navigation, the enormous sum
of 100000. If your Uncle Sam were
asked to expend one-fourth this sum
in Alaska, territory vastly more i'm
portant, for similar purposes, he would
have cataleptic fit.
The Juneau Record-Miner says that
Alaska is recorded as a land of big ex-
penses in both living and travelling.
The living expenses are shrinking to
some degree and the travel from civili-
zation into this land is being greatly
cheapened, but the most expensive bit
of railroad travelling possibly in the
world is found on the White Pass and
Yukon railroad. From Skagway to
Lake Bennett, a distance of 40 miles, it
costs SO, or 25 cents per mile. Beat
that for railroad travelling, who can.
The Ketchikan Journal says that the
Sitka natives who were quarantined re-
Gently on account of what was suppos-
ed to be a smallpox epidemic have de-
clared boycott against the merchants
and tradesmen of that place by way of
retaliation. They can obtain every
thing they need in their own village,
and say that the white people having
shut them out in the time of their
greatest need, they propose to remain
out permanently, so far as their trade
is concerned. Should they persist in
that determination the Sitka merchants
might as well close up their place of
business, as the native trade is about
all they have to rely on.
The Alaskan says that the pas
sengers on the Dolphin this trip up
witnessed sight which is seldom seen
and one which Capt O'Brien in his
years of experience had never before
beheld. 1t was mighty contest be-
tween two leviathians of the deep-a
threasher and a black whale. 1t
occurred when the steamer was COM
ing through Wrangel Narrows and the
sight was much palmer to view as the
combatants were necessarily close by.
They fought furiously. Four times the
threasher shot into the air clearing the
surface by four to six feet. Eye wit
nesses say it was a grand sight as the
monsters seemed to maneuver with the
rapidity of lightning, never losing
chance to deal the opponent blow.
The sea surrounding them was kept
white with foam by the awful agitation
of the waters.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

The steamer Bailey of the w. P. & Y.
r. R. Co.'s feet was the first boat to
reach Dawson this season from up riv-
er points. She reached that place on
the morning of May 23rd.
The report is current in Skagway
that Gen. Randall, commanding officer
of the division of Alaska, has recon-
mended the transfer of army head
quarters from Nome to Skagway.
A pay streak has been uncovered on
No. 10 on Slate creek, in the Minook
district, two feet thick and fifteen feet
wide running Is to so cents to the pan.
The owners will put in extensive ma
chinery.
Mckenzie, the Nome claim grabber,
by the grace of President Mckinley, is
now free man. A man with politi-
cal pull is greater than any court of
! justice in these days of the Republics
/ expanding greatness.
The most exciting game of base ball
ever played in the Northwest took place
at White Horse, Y. T., May oath, be-
tween the U. S. soldiers club of Skag-
way and the Northwest Mounted Police
club of White Horse. The American
club won by a score of 6 to 5.
Pete Mcdonald, an old-time Dawson
ite, is said to have been responsible for
the report of the Kushkokwim strike,
and the consequent stampede. A horde
of his "friends," misled by his state
ments, have developed an insane desire
to lay hands upon him and give him a
necktie benefit.
The Union Steamship company,
which operates the wharves at Van
couver, has notified the Washington
Alaska company that their boats can
not touch at their docks. The City of
Seattle and Victorian propose to land,
just the same, and the matter promises
to be taken into the courts.
A complaint comes to the Ketchikan
Journal from prospectors in the Twelve
Mile Arm that parties recently visited
that section and staked some 80 claims
without ledge, lode or vein in sight, and
the complainant intimates that the
boys are going to stop that sort of
thing, if they have to make swinging
example of one as warning to others
who have such transparent swindles in
view.
The Sitka Alaskan says that DR.. Fos-
ter of Oakland, Cal, arrived on the
Cottage City and will look after the
Monte Cristo Gold Mining company's
interests in Salisbury Sound. These
locations which were made last year
have been tested and are sufficiently
encouraging to warrant further expen-
diture. With these and Rodman Bay
mines sitka will be very much bene-
fitted.
The Juneau Journal says that last
Monday an AUX Indian named George
met death while hunting on Admiralty
Island. The Indians who brought him
in think George fell over bluff and
accidentally shot himself in the stom-
ach, the ball coming out at the back.
With remarkable fortitude the wound
ed man crawled two miles and half,
carrying his gun and bear skin with
him, and died within two hundred
yards Of his camp.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

When you pass Ohman's hall, step in
and try the virtues of the finest liquors
on the Island.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

The steamer Bailey of the W. P.&Y.
r. R. Co.'s feet was the first boat to
reach Dawson this season from up riv-
er points. She reached that place on
the morning of May 23rd.
Douglas Island news. [volume] (Douglas City, Alaska) 1898-1921, 1901-06-05

Is by far the largest ever seen in Juneau
They comprise 25 distinct styles, in
sizes 3 to AZ, ranging in price from
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
CHURCH TAX EN TO TASK.
Action of Christians in China Criticised
 by President Tucker.

Boston, March 31.-President William J. Tucker, of Dartmouth college, took the Christian church to task for it's part in the Chinese troubles, during Len ten sermon at the Old South church, this evening. His strongest sentences were these:
 'The very apostles sent forth by the church have shown that they do not know how to keep the Ten Command ments. In China 1t looks as though the gospel was suspended as well as the law. The Christian church has been set back, nobody knows how far, by the be- havior of the missionaries in China"
 His subject was "The College Gradu- ate and the Church." He asked what attractiveness the church had for the students in these days of great ma terial wealth. He answered it by say ing that the need was plain matter of fact morality The last century was one of missionary activity, yet at its close, it's work was discredited. In China it looks as if the gospel was sus- pended. It is time of moral confusion also We must expect the failure of Christendom to support Christianity.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
4 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DEATH.
Torrington Woman Dies Under the
 Treatment at Poughkeepste.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, March 31-A son Of Hosea Mann. cashier of bank in Torrlngton, Conn, was taken with the grip while attending Eastman col lege here. On March the case became serious, but Mann refused to call a physician, saying he, was Christian Scientist. He would not take medicine. His father. being sent for, came on March 16 and summoned Dr. Lane, who found the student suffering with gas- tritis and his temperature 105. Mrs. Mann the mother, came March 19 and took the matter into her own hands. She sad she was a Christian Scientist, dismissed Dr. Lane and called In J. Ed ward Smith, healer of the local Science who was convalescent, notwithstanding he was sad to have had typhoid fever In nursing her son. Mrs. Mann took cold and day before yesterday acute pneumonia developed. This afternoon she died under the Christian Science treatment, no physician having seen her. An unsuccessful effort was made to keep the matter quiet. for the pur- pose, it was explained, of not letting the sick son know of the mo .her's death. Coroner Selfridge will grant burial permit.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
PASTORS SON KILLS HIMSELF.
Francis M. Znbriskte, Formerly stu-
 dent at Coiumbin.

New York March 31.-The body of Francis M. Zabriskie was found in his bachelor apartments on West 27th street, this afternoon There were two bullet wounds in the body, one Of which, through the heart, caused death and the police put it down as a case of suicide Zabrisl1ie was twenty-seven years old, and was known to be always we'll sup piled with money, and is said to have very rich relatives. The body was found by Mir. Madden, who went into the apartments to awaken Zabriskie and found him dead Zabriskie, it is said. took course in medicine at Co., lumbia college, but gave it up before graduating having come into a for tune.
 Late this evening it was ascertained that Francis NJ. Zabriskie was the son of the Rev. pr. Francis N Zabriskie. pastor of Presbyterian church in Princeton, N. J. Henry G. Grey, a cous- in of young zabriskie, who lives in this city, said that he thought his cousin had committed suicide because of de- spondency
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
FELL OYER THE CLIFF.
Three Persons Who Were Watching a
 Fire 1.-Two Escape.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, March 31.--Mrs Daniel Patterson, wife of a mechanic her twelve-year-old daughter, and Nell lie Chase, aged fourteen, all living in Cold Spring, while out walking to-day stopped on Table Rock, half way up Breakneck Mountain, to watch the for est fires burning on Crow Nest Moun- tain, across the river. Suddenly the Patterson child slipped and fell over the cliff. The mother sprang forward to save the child and also fell over the rock, Nellie Chase became greatly ex- cited and fell after them. Table Rock is 200 feet above tidewater and the side of the mountain under 1t Is very steep. A laborer heard screams and ran up the hill. He found Nellie Chase in the branches of a large tree, where she had fallen. She was uninjured. The Pat terson girl was found few feet further down with a broken arm and cut and bruised body. Mrs. Patterson was found down the mountain dead She had failed at least one hundred feet and was dashed to death on the rocky side of the hill.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01

Will Not be Allowed to Coach Francis,
 tho Single Scu1Ier.

Ithaca, N. r., March 31.-A petition presented by J. M. Francis '02, the lead ing single sculler in the university, to the athletic council, asking that James A. Ten Eyck be recognized as coach of all the single scullers at Cornell and that Francis be allowed to represent the university at Poughkeepsie this year under Ten Eyck's coaching provided he beat out all other competitors, was re- fused yesterday. The council decided this on the ground that c. E. Courtney had been selected by the navy commit tee to coach all crew candidates and that his services have been eminently satisfactory The council is said also to have had in mind the danger of the precedent that would thus be estatb- lished by allowing single athlete to bring to Cornell a coach in private capacity. Ten Eyck was to have come April 1. It was announced that the Princeton-Cornell track meet would be held in Ithaca May 30. Professor c. H. Hull was elected to the board of trus
 tees of the council and H. J. Davall, the varsity football end of '9S and '99 was made coach of the freshmen and scrub football candidates for the next season.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
EMPHASIZING STATE NEVIS.
A Fire in Branford- Rev. J. H. Cham-
 berlain Returns.

Meriden, March 31.-An autopsy was held to-day over the remains of Joseph
 Gracey, who died last night from the
 alleged results of blow struck by Gus- tav Wager, saloonkeeper, and an i'm
 quest will be conducted tomorrow by
 Coroner Mix. The result of the autop~
 sy was not made public, but 1t is un-;
 derstood from statements made at the
 time of the mans death that the inns
 mediate cause was blood poisoning.
 This theory is substantiated by the fact that the alleged assault took place on March 20, while Gracey did not die until March 31. Wager is still held without bail pending the coroner's find-' ing.
 Torrington, March 31.-The Rev. James H. Chamberlin, pastor of the Center Congregational church, who has been under treatment at the Marietta, O., hospital for cerebral trouble, re- turned to his charge here to-day. and res stunned his ministerial duties. Rev. A. F. Shirell, of Lee, Mass, who hns been acting as supply in MT. Chamberlin's absence, has been retained as assistant pastor.
 Branford, March 31.--Fire from an unknown cause destroyed the house and barn of Michael F. Mason on the Cher ry Hill road at 9 o'clock tonight. Two horses were burned to death and a con- siderable quantity of hay and grain. The loss on the house will be about $2,- 900 and that on the barn and stock $l,- 4OO both partially insured.
 New Britain, March 31.-Ihonas Tul- Ter, a prominent merchant, died to-day at the New Britain hospital of Bright's disease. He was fifty years old and un- married. Fuller was native of Scot land and had been engaged in the dry goods business here for twenty years.
 Mer.den, March 21.-Thc Rev. J. Wes- ley Johnson, pastor of the First Meth odist Episcopal church, of this city, to- night announced his resignation, pend- ing action by the next conference. MT. Johnson has received a call from a church ii, Brooklyn. N. Y.
 Waterville, March 31.-An immense tract of wood land across the Nauga- tuck river from this town is on fire and at late hour tonight it appears that hundreds of acres of valuable timber will be destroyed.
 Meriden, March 31-Michael O'Brien, forty-fve years old, was found dead at his room, 193 Herbert street, at o'clock tonight Heart disease was the cause. He was unmarried.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
FIRE WAS NEAR MAGAzINE.
Lieutennnt-Co Roper Was the - First t.. Go Below


 s First ts. Go Below.
 Cavite, March 31.-At z o'clock this morning fire was discovered in the sail room of the United States gum boat Petrel, Lieutenant Commanded Jesse Mnns Roper commanding. The sail room is a small compartment ad- joining the magazine The heat was intense, the smoke suffocating and the flames difficult to extinguish.
 Lieutenant Commander Roper was the first to descend into the hold, but he was forced to return to the deck. Oth- CTS went down. Seaman Patrick Toner was prostrated and about to perish when Lieutenant Commander Roper en- deavored to rescue him and was suffo- cated in the attempt Lieutenant Josiah S. McKean and Cadet Lewis suffered severely in bringing the body of Lieu tenant Commander Roper to the deck.
 Twenty-two Of the crew were pros- trated, Toner, Evans, Flaherty, Larsen, Kessler, Cahey, Burton. Smith, Sulli- van and Forshoon seriously, but all will recover. The contents of the sail room were destroyed, but the damage to the sgunboat was slight. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained possi- ply it was case of spontaneous com bustion. The death of Lieutenant Com mander Roper is greatly deplored His body will be sent to the United States April by the Buffalo
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
1HEArrAoK UPON EMPEROR.
Investigation Not Yet ConcIuded-The
 Kaiser and His stan Suspicious.

| Berlin, March 31-There is the high
 est authority for the statement that the 1 investigation into the cause of the at
 tack upon Emperor William by Diet rich Weiland in Bremen has not vet
 been concluded, but is still being vigor- ously pushed. The imperial court at i Leipsic, which alone can try cases of high treason, has sent two officials tp Bremen to assist in the investiga ton, which is now directed chiefly with a view to clearing up three points not yet explained, namely, what company Wei land regularly frequently before the at tempt, whether he received orders from plotters, particularly anarchists social ists or Anglophobes to carry out the att tempt, or whether he is simply crank.
 Evidence tending to threw light upon these points has been accumulated, but it Is too slight to warrant indictment. The question whether Weiland actually threw piece of iron, as was at first alleged, or some one fired a shot from an air rifle is still unanswered 10 the satisfaction of the authorities.
 Emperor William inclines } the air rife theory. His physicians incline to the belef that a piece of iron was thrown. The emperor is also convinced that Weiland was a tool and iri this con- victon he Is sustained by his entour- age.
 Immediately after the preliminary in- vestigation is closed the evidence will be sent to the imperial court at Leip- sic, whose president will come to Ber- lin at Eastertlde to confer with Herr Won Schoenstedt Prussian minister of justice, and with the imperial judicial department with a view to ascertaining whether sufficient grounds exist to be- gin a trial for high treason.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
FUNERAL OF JAMES STEPHENS.
Leader of Fcnian Movement Buried In
 Martyrs' Plot.

Dublin, March 31--The funeral of James Stephens, leader of the Fenian movement of 1866, who died here last Friday, took place to-day, the remains being inferred this afternoon in Glas- nevin cemetery, in the presence of a great assemblage of people, including delegates from the various nationalist organizations Michael Davitt was among the pallbearers. The coffin was drawn by six horses with outriders and covered with beautiful wreaths from political societies. An Irish flag foated over it.
 At the request of John Redmond, na- tionalist leader in the House of Con- mons, Timothy Harrington, lord mayor of Dublin, William Field (member of parliament for the St. Patrick's divi- sion of Dublin) and John J. Clancy (member for North Dublin county fol- lowed the hearse as representatives of the nationalist parliamentary party. MT, Stephens was buried beside his wife in the Martyrs Plot. There were no speeches or demonstra tions.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-01
VAR SPIRIT IN JAPAN.
Interviews With Prominent Statesmen
 There Breathe It.

London, April 1.-The Yokohama cor respondent of the Daily Mail, who rec ords various indications of prepara- tions for war on the part of Japan says:
 Interviews have appeared with prominent statesmen, all breathing the war spirit and expressing the general opinion that it is impossible to allow Russia free hand in Manchuria. This is the gravest crisis from the point of view of Japan since her war with China"
 London, April 1.--"Japan has made direct representations to St. Petersburg against the Manchurian convention" says a dispatch to the Times from To- kio, dated Saturday, but the result Is not yet known. Japanese public opin- ion is very strong on the subject.
 'The cabinet is prudent and pacific, but impressed by the national enthu- siasm, which is certain to become un- controllable if there Is any undue yield ing.
 "The result of the issue of the first installment of the Seoul Fusan railway loan testifies to the extent of the patri- otic enthusiasm. The amount was cov- cred many times over with subscrip- tions from remote rural districts in spite of the extreme tightness of the money market
 London, April 1.--"There is reason to believe" says the St. Petersburg corre- spondent of the Daily Mail, that the Manchurian convention between Rus sia and China will be ratified in April"
 St. Petersburg, March 31.-The St. Petersburg Novosti, unlike most Rus sian journals, professes to see no oc- casion for rivalry between Great Brit ain and Russia in China. "The legend of Anglo-R Russian ennity,'' 1t says, rests upon crude misunderstanding Russia's natural spheres do not touch in the Yang-Tse valley"