Douglas Island news., 1903-11-25


 This time it is to be 6x7.
 Miss Allie Bach returned yesterday morning on the steamer Georgia from Sitka. Miss Allie is much improved in health as result of her sojourn ln the capital city.
 Mr. John E. Noonan, of the Tread we'll assay office, will be passenger on the Dolphin, bound for his old home in California He will be absent two three months.
 Mir. c. T. Osttand leaves on the Dol phin, bound for his old Norway home. He expects to visit the States, Norway and take in the St. Louis fair on his way back next fall.
 William Rudisell, the proprietor of the Douglas Barber Shop, solicits the patronage of the people, to whom he promises to spare no pains in giving satisfaction. Baths in connection.
 Services as usual at the M. E. church next Sunday. Theme for Il o'clock "Christians Peculiar People" for evening service: "Running the Race that is Behind" All will find cordial welcome to each service. Sunday School at 12 o'clock.
 Oscar Ohman leaves on the Dolphin for the States where he will spend the winter getting accustomed to the ways of the Yankees. Oscar is an Alaskan of long standing, having lived in the district for nearly quarter of a century.
 Mr. Geo. Moore called on the News last week and dropped three into the Meal Tub. George tells us that neither his father or Mir. Smith are very much in love with South Africa, and he eX- poets at any time to learn of their re- turn to the States. George expects to leave Douglas Island about the 18th of next month for Arizona.
 At the Monday evening session of the city council, the bill of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Go. for SAT was approved and ordered paid. Coun- cilman Ohman rendered his resigna- tiou which was accepted, and Mir. E. E. Smith was elected to fill out the un- expired term. The council adjourned at an early hour.
 A turkey shoot yesterday, near the old government school house, produced | lots of fun for the boys. A range of 75 yards and a turkeys head for a tarket was no trouble for some of the Others who are fine shots in the field, found stationary target hard to hit. In spite of the rain they kept at it as long as daylight lasted.
 Representative Sulzer, of New York, has re-introduced his bills providing a territorial government for Alaska, and . for the protection of Alaska salmon. The former bill creates the usual ter ritorial officers and legislative assembly and authorizes the election of dele gate to congress. The latter proposi- tion is to encourage salmon canners to maintain hatcheries and so perpetuate the salmon supply.
 Navigation, so far as thew. P. & Y. R. R. is concerned, closed this week, says the Atlin Claim, but it must not be taken, by our friends outside, that we are frozen up or out of the world. Each year facilities of ingress and . egress are improving and with the ex- ception of few days when the ice is forming in the fall, or breaking up in the spring, travel goes on continuously; and the actual time required to get to the coast is practically no longer than when the steamers are running.
 By a stroke of good fortune the Editor of the News has gained repu- tation as a pie taster, and we want to say right here that it isa position much more to be desired than that of um pire at ball game or referee at a prize fight. The ladies have favored | us from time to time with large, juicy pies that have been worthy of the high est praise, but last week. Mayor Bach's daughter, Lenora, brought us in a mince, pie, of her own manufacture, that was fully up to the standard. We are beginning to think that the ladies and girls of Douglas can all bake fine pies.
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