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Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

The Whippoorwill and Mocking Bird quartz claims on White Pass have been bonded.
 The Yukon is now reported complete ly frozen over from White Horse to Dawson.
 Fifteen men are employed in getting out piles for the new cannery at Gala gher Bay.
 The White Horse public school open ed up after the Holidays with an atten, dance of 29.
 Dyea was recently isolated from the outside world by an ice blockade on the water front.
 skagway, at the spring election, will endeavor to elect council that will stay elected.
 Plenty of forage for stock is reported all along the trail from Dawson to White Horse.
 The Young Mems Club is the name of a new organization recently founded in Ketchikan.
 A snow slide mile and a half wide recently took place at Pennington, on the W. P. &Y. R. R.
 The worst storm of the season swept over the White Pass country on the night of the 8th inst.
 The quartz lodges on Discovery, in the Atlin district, will be extensively developed next season.
 The safe in the skagway post office recently got out of kilter and a famine in postage stamps resulted.
 The Alaska Missionary Herald, by the Hav-i-lah Publishing company, is a new publication at Wrangel.
 The material for the new newspaper to be launched at Valdez, went West ward on the Bertha last week.
 The Lynn Canal Mining and Develop ing company of Skagway is preparing for season of much activity.
 The Ketchikan Journal says that Geo. Scove has 900 foxes on Patterson Island ready for the spring roundup.
 l.. A. Harrison has let the contract for the erection of two-story, fifty foot business block at Skagway.
 An inspector and six mounted police. men recently left White Horse for duty on the Dalton trail at Boundary.
 Stevens, Fenton & Blanchard have completed corduroy road from their mines to the beach at Skowl Arm.
 Barney Burns was sent up at Skag. way last week for tapping the till in the ClSdF sGoIe Ol IT. N9A
 The Sunrise company is drifting on pay dirt on Spruce creek, in the Atlin district. A good cleanup is expect ed.
 Some shrewd guessers hazard the opinion that the future metropolis oi Lynn Canal will be on Pyramid liar bor.
 skagway employs four teachers ir her public schools at a salary of Slo( per month each; one principal at Sl2S per month; janitor at $50 per month and fuel and incidental expenses brings the pay roll up to S7oo per month.
Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

Tagish Charlie, the Siwash million aire claims to have been robbed at skagway on the night of the 5th inst, of s6oO.
 Two Northwest Mounted Police were drowned in the Stickeen river on Dec, 29th. Their names were Heathcote and Campbell.
 The police patrol on the Yukon trail is better this winter than ever before and close watch is being kept on all travellers.
 It is said that the A. c. company has succeeded in gobbling up most of the small mercantile establishments at Dawson.
 The last heard of the surveying party recently landed at Pyramid Harbor they were in camp 10 miles up the Chilkat river.
 In the election held at Dawson on January 9th, there was majority of 97, in vote of 687, in favor of municipal incorporation.
 M. E. Erchwege, recently went south en route to South Africa, where he goes as special correspondent for the Daw- son Daily News.
 The travelling expenses of round trip from Dawson to Skagway, accord ing to correspondent of the Alaskan, amounts to $500.
 Louis Linderman, who was badly frozen on the trail near Log Cabin in the latter part of December, will prob ably lose both his feet.
 Kotzebue Sound, by reason of the Candle creek strike, will attract a big crowd next season. The stampeders of '98 couldn't raise a color.
 Mad dogs are becoming more and more frequent in Dawson as winter progresses, and several have been killed at various outside camps.
 Joseph Legler, musher from Daw- son en route to the coast, was frozen to death on the trail at Lower La Barge the first week in January.
 On January 9th Log Cabin was made the distributing point for all mail mat ter for British Columbia between skagway and White Horse.
 The incline tramway from the main shaft of the Sea Level mine, in the Ketchikan district, to the mill, 900 feet in length, has been completed.
 Mushers complain tbat poisoned meat put out on the trail at Four Mile, Caribou and Lower La Barge is doing more damage to dogs than wolves.
 Wm. o. Robertson, proprietor of the Dawson and White Horse Relay Stage Line, has made Skagway his headquar- ters, in furtherance of his business in terests.
 The coldest day in the history of skagway occurred on January l4th 1901. The good people of that town are not anticipating duplicate this winter.
 According to the Alaska-Yukon Min ing Journal there were 228 arrivals oi steamers at Dawson last summer from up river points, and 60 from down river points.
Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

The Risdon Iron Works, of San Fran cisco, has secured the contract for 1SO ton dredge to be used on the Race Horse and Feather groups in the Atlin district.
 PHI. Ganty, stenographer for the P. c. Go. at Skagway, fell on the icy pave ment on State street on the 12th inst. and was rendered unconscious for 15 minutes.
 Remick & McLaren, of Skagway have opened up a sale stable at that point for the sale of road and draught horses. They recently received car load from the South.
 The latest reports from Nome are to the effect that the winter is so mild that it interferes with the successful prospecting of the creeks, owing to the dampness.'
 What is believed to be pay ore has been located at Camp l, within 15 or 20 feet of the W. P. S Y. R. R. tracks. As result the whole mountain has been staked off.
 Passenger traffic on the Yukon last year shows that there were 8470 arrivals at Dawson and 9983 departures. Of the latter number 451S went out by way of St. Michael.
 The steamer Elihu Thomson on her trip south last week had on board 600 tons of copper ore from the Glad hough mine at Virgin Bay, consigned to the Tacoma shelter.
 A deal has been promoted by John Caplin, of Butte, Montana, says the White Horse Star, whereby Montana and Utah capitalist will develop the Laverdiere copper property on Copper Island, Lake Atlin.
 During heavy snow storm Dec.2 p Barney Wilkins left Taku City with three dogs and sled, and since that time nothing has been heard from him. It is believed that he drove into open water and was drowned.
 A Miners meeting was held at Dis covery, the Atlin district, Jan. 4, to pro- test to the government against grant ing the restaked Menzies' leases and de- mand the immediate cancellation of all hydraulic leases not legally held.
 Senator Foster of Washington has presented the editor of the Skagway Alaskan with a fine collection of garden seeds, and the editor man proposes to demonstrate the fact that the soil of Alaska is capable of producing other things than totem poles.
 Hawkins, the man who is engineering the Klondike railway scheme, says he has all his arrangements completed and will soon begin work. He says one of the advantages of his road will be the fact that he can lay cordwood down to mine owners on the creeks at slo per cord.
 Two surveyors and three assistants left White Horse on the 10th inst. with instruments and two months sup. plies for the Tahkeena river. It is said to be the purpose of this party to sur vey a line for a railway, the objective point being the boundary line at Por- cupine.
Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22
The N0rthIand The Latest News, from Rliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condnesed. Information for Everybody.

Skagway has had another spud fam inc.
 Valdez is getting ready for a big rush.
 Diphtheria has made it's appearance at Juneau.
 skagway now has Literary and De- batting society.
 sksgway has basket ball team call ed the ''Malamutes."
 The A. B. society ofSkagway has talk en new lease of life.
 The Royal mail for Atlin is now taken in over the Fan-Tail.
 Very cold weather is reported from the Big Salmon district.
 Travel Dawsonward is beginning to pick up quite perceptibly.
 No women are allowed to frequent the saloons at White Horse.
 Ketchikan Eagles are to give grand minstrel show on February 9th.
 A large stretch of open water still re- mained on Lake Atlin Jan. 10th.
 Lumber is worth from s4OO to $500 per 1000 in the Koyukuk district.
 An electric light plant is being put in place at the saw mill at Revilla.
 The cutoff below La Barge is now said to be in first class condition.
 Lake Dewey, near Skagway, is cover ed with three and half feet of snow.
 There was 14 inches of snow on the level at White Horse on the 10th inst.
 The citizens of White Horse are af- ter customs inspector Menzie's scalp.
 A black bear was killed near the city ofsKetchikan the lst ot the month'
 Stage fare from White Horse to Daw- son is sS5 with 25 pounds of baggage free.
 A temporary light has been put in the tower of the light house on Sentinel Is land.
 Thirteen Americans recently took the oath of allegiance to King Edward, at Dawson.
 The rotary snow blows on the White Pass R. R. had to blow through 8 feet of snow.
 Ketchikan experienced it's first gen. uine snow storm of the season on Jan uary Sth.
 Julian Labbe was arrested in Dawson on January 14th for selling liquor to Indians.
 The schooner Norman sunde was wrecked at Five Finger Islands. The boat was operated by the Great North ern Fishing company.
Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

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Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

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Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

Remick & McLaren, of Skagway have opened up a sale stable at that point for the sale of road and draught horses. They recently received car load from the South.
Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

Tagish Charlie, the siwash million aire claims to have been robbed at skagway on the night of the 5th inst, of S6oO
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Church improvements.

The interior of the Catholic church
has been greatly improved by a new
altar which has taken the place OF the
old one in use since the church was
erected. The new altar is a large,
ornamental construction, in white
and gold from the base to the top of
the dome, about IS feet. In the lower
panel is finished representation of
the Lords supper, with the figures OF
the disciples in life-lke attitudes and
in natural colors. Near the center Of
the altar are four evangelists with
the figures of an angel on either side.
Over the tabernacle in which the
crucifiX is placed are the etfigies of
two angels. There are figures also Of
st. Peter and St. Paul. The altar
will be lighted by electric lights at
night and makes a handsome addition
to the church. A new carpet has
been laid around the altar, and ven
tllators put in on either side OF the
church beneath the stained glass win
doWS, and a ventilator in the choir.
Wire screens for the protection of the
window have been added.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Have You Got En-?

The Nonpareil Man Of the Minnea-
polls Journal gives the symptoms OF a
peculiar malady which sometimes af-
fects a man as follows:
"Have you dark blue pain in the
small Of the back, do you experience
hot flashes, are the whites OF your
eyes turning yellow, with dark blue
rings under them, do you experience
loss of appetite, have you that tidy
feeling in the morning with loss OF
memory when your wife asks you to
order the groceries, are you startled
out Of your sleep by dreams OF being
dragged through eight yards OF lead
pipe by seven baldheaded angels? II
so, it is not safe to neglect this condi-
tion, or it will grow on you. Get out
and hitch onto few of the weeds in
the garden or on the empty lot and
lift them out before breakfast. Take
an old siding and slap the rugs a few
times that are left out on the line.
All this is sovereign remedy for that
state Of mind which used to be known
as the Charlie hoss.'"
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
ELUDED PURSUERS.
HeatIcy Succeeded in Eluding Young
Men Who Sought to Tar and
cath er Him.
Fled on His Wheel From Men
Who Sought to Pun
iSh Him.
he Left jamestown Early the
Next Morning for
the West.

Chased by an angry crowd Of young
men Charles Heatley, employed as a
waiter in the Capital hotel restaurant
had narrow escape from injury Mon
day night. The boys alleged that
Heatley had rendered himself obnoX-
ious by attempts at familiarity with
young ladies of the city and they were
determined to tar and feather him OF
in some other way make it known to
him that his conduct was not APP
proved Of. Heatley fled on hearing
the boys approach and succeeded in
getting on a wheel. Several shots
were fired IN an attempt to make him
stop but he succeeded in getting away
without injury. He was followed
some distance but the boys could not
catch him.
He succeeded in getting around to
the Capital hotel some time during
the night and in the morning left for
the west.
1t is said the boys intended to 60 af
ter him again with the intention Of
accomplishing their purpose without
fail, had he remained in the city.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Ignite Coal Trsst.

Mandan Pioneer: There have been
some very definite and serious whis-
pers Of late to'the effect that the lig-
mite coal mine owners of this region
had formed d trust for the purpose of
exalting the prices. Some of the large
consumers of Ignite feel that this is
a serious matter. 1t is not at all like
ly that the trust canlpermanently ac-
complish its object, seeing that there
is such a large abundance Of Ignite in
this section, only waiting to be mined
1t is reported that party of Fargo
people are contemplating opening a
mine near MinOt. 1t is perhaps true
that in the past there have been no
fortunes made in operating coal mines
in North Dakota, but any ungodly
trust which seeks to put up prices be-
yond reason will speedily find that
1t will have quantity Of product on
hand for which it will have no sale.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Land Buyers Arrive Daily.

Land sales in this part Of the state
continue to he lively and new arrivals
looking up land and bargains are COM
ing every day. Outside parties have
plenty of faith in our cheap land,
more so than some Of the old timers,
whose methods of farming it have re-
suited in many cases unprotitably be-
cause the raising of grain has been
the chief use to which the land has
been put. The new comers see that
feed stuff, stock, poultry, hogs, vege-
tables and other small farm products
eau be produced on the farms of
North Dakota as well as in Iowa or
Minnesota, and that the markets are
Just as good. 1t is not the value Of
the land for grain purposes that is
creating the new movement. 1t is
the new idea displacing the old shop
worn methods of farming.
While many OF the new purchasers
are what may be called spectators,
yet they expect and no doubt soon
will resell these lands at a further
profit to actual residents who in turn
will make money on their purchases.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
SAD DEATH OF YOUNG FARMER.
Oscar Miklethun Killed By the ACCi-
dental Discharge of a
AGO Rifle.

Oscar Miklethun, a young man 20
years OF age, was killed Wednesday
evening about 5 o. oclock, while at work
IN the field in Dover township, Griggs
county, by the accidental discharge of
G rifle that he was carrying while en-
gagged at driving d disc. Oscar had
taken the rifle (44-60) with him to the
field for the purpose OF shooting goph-
ers. 1t is supposed that he lad the
gun on the disc that he was riding,
setting upright between his legs, and
when he went to raise it the hammer
caught or struck some part Of the ma
chine, discharging the gun and the
side and came out under the right
shoulder blade and in falling from his
seat the reinS we're frightened and the
team stopped. When found, the dead
body lay only few feet from the disc
and the rifle barrel was sticking in the
ground.
The deceased recently came from
South Dakota and had rented his
brother John s farm for this season,
and his folks were to join him in a few
weeks. He was young man of good
habits and industrious. His father
and mother arrived and the funeral
was held Sunday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Arranging For Dates

:, PRESIDENT Worst, of the Agriculture
q, y college, was in Wells, Foster and
huuy counties last week arranging for
excursions to the college of farmers
VINO are interested in the experiment
Cal work being done at the institution
ana IN progressive farm methods. The
Nofthern Pacific will carry the visi-
Cois on The same plan as last year.
Inc hrst excursion will be early in
1uly. President Worst desires that
men who can spare the time and are
dppreclatlye Of the object Of tne liber-
dllCy or the roads, make up the delega-
Clohs from the various counties. De-
Calls OF the matter will be arranged
soon. 1t is believed that the visits Of
farmers in the past to the college, and
The discussion Of farm matters that
mas been aroused by the work of the
college has been OF benefit to the state
at large, calling attention to many
Things in way Of farm work that
would have not been thought of or
known had the farmers not seen the
station themselves.
President Worst says that the
James River Valley looks as well this
year as it ever did in any previous
year, and that his visits to this part
OF the state show that more stock are
being raised, than ever before. Stock
cars are more in evidence at the var
lous stations than in the past
He says chat farmers of the Red
river are talking more stock and that
1T IS Seen that the land there will have
to be harmed more carefully in the
future and devoted to some other
purposes then wheat to the exclusion
OF other products to make the land
give the best results. If farmed in
the right manner, it is believed that
the same amount OF wheat can be
raised and stock largely increased be-
sides.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
David Fuchs is Dead

David Fuchs died at noon Sunday
at his home near Ypsilanti, after an
illness ot some time. He was born in
Germany May l,1S45, and came to Am
erica in 1873. He resided in Milwau-
kee for many years, coming to North
Dakota in August 1888. He has since
resided on the farm near Montpelier.
lie leaves three daughters the young
est, unmarried, residing at home, one
in New York City and one in NViscoa-
sin. There are two boys. Carl has
been at home and Rudolph has been
in Valley City. They have the SYM
pathy OF all in their bereavement.
the funeral occurs from the German
Lutheran church Tuesday afternoon
at clock.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
UNSATISFACTORY TRADE.
VIM. Hawthorn and Sed Sheddy nav
Difficulty Over a Horse
Trade.

A difficulty between VIM. Hawthorn
and an Assyrian peddler named Sed
Sheddy was adjusted to the satisfac
tien of all concerned in Justice Pear
sons court Friday. The trouble arose
over horse trade. Sheddy says Haw-
thorn got from him sl2 and pair Of
pants to boot forcibly He wanted
same back and had Hawthorn ar
rested. In taking his oath the ped
dler said "HOnest to God this is true.
Hawthorn was ordered to return the
Sl2 and the pants to the ASSyrian.
The pants were found on friend Of
Hawthorn'S VINO took the same off
and turned them over to Sheriff Eddy
who returned them with the Sl2 to
the Assyrian.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Anniversary of Big Fire

Three hundred Shriners paraded
Saturday evening in Fargo on the
ninth anniversary Of Fargo's great
fire. The Shriners' band led the pro-
cession and the Arab patrol acted as
escort. After the parade the Shriners
repaired to the bi. temple, where a
big class Of candidates were initiated.
The only other celebration of the an
niversary of the fire was run by the
fire department at 14inthe afternoon
in response to an alarm turned in
from the same box that called the de.
partment out June I, 1898.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Railroad Building.

The Northern Pacific is using in
surfacing track within the limits of
Burleigh Concluding train crews and
foremen 200 men. Messrs. Cook s.
Kinds, who have the contract for
grading the Nick branch
of the Northern Pacific, have estab-
lished two campS-one at Mckenzie
and one in the northwest corner of
township l37, range p, about three
miles east of where the town Of
Glasscock has been located on the 500
grade and where will be the junction
of the two roads. They already have
100 men and the same number Of
teams and will add to this force as
fast as men can be gotten.
Camp No. of the 500 graders is
now located about one mile southeast
of the farm residence of Mr.. VIM.
Britton, and about % miles southeast
of Bismarck, and Camp No. 3 is ex-
pected to move up this side of them in
day or two. The three camps of
this company employ 100 men and
about the same number Of teams, and
within the next twenty or thirty days
will be in Bismarck.
Besides the graders are the bridge
and culvert crews that are following
closely behind, numbering some fifty
or sixty men. The tracklayinp crew
of sixty to eighty men will reach the
southern boundary OF Burleigh county
within week or tendayS.
At the new plated town of McKen-
zie some half dozen new buildings in
cludinga large hotel building are in
course of construction, employing
twenty to thirty artisans of the build
ing trades.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Divorce is Granted.

The supreme court has handed
down decision affirming the judg-
ment of the lower court in the famous
divorce case of w. c. Clopton VS.. Jose
phine Clopton. Clopton was wealthy
New York lawyer and clubman, and
was granted divorce by Judge Win
chester at Mandan. The decree was
afterward set aside and then re-estab.
lished. An appeal was once before
taken to the supreme court on techn-
cal grounds but the court sustained
the lower court and second appeal
was then taken from the judgment
granting the decree. This is the ap-
peal just decided by the court.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
Prohibition.

Theae are many who believe that
the south is going to lead in the
prohibition reform. The north took
the lead in abolition; the south may
regain lost grounds by taking the lead
in a second great reform.
Already the prohibition reform has
given the country some great leaders
and one of them is James A. Tate Of
Nashville, Tenn. He is secretary Of
the National Prohibition Committee
and has been engaged to speak in the
Congregational church tomorrow
evening.
The following is from the Daily
Democract of Rogers, Ark, James
A. Tate is one Of the youngest most
brilliant, most sensible, and most
logical temperance lectures now on
the platform.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-06-12
SpiritwoOd is Lively.

Spiritwood is said to be livelier than
for years. Merchants report business
as good and crop prospects in that
vicinity are excellent. There is some
building and improving going on.
State Commander Kelley attended
the meeting of the Spiritwood Macca-
bees Saturday night and made a
speech. High Priest William Farley
made talk to the ladies. Supper
was served after the meeting and
fine time enjoyed by all present.
Children's Day exercises were held
in the NJ. E. church in Spiritwood
Sunday and were largely attended.
The exercises were very interesting.