Douglas Island news., 1903-08-05

H. H. Sterling is back at his desk
 again at Treadwell, after a vacation oi
 a month spent in Washington, Idaho
 and Montana. Harry says he had
 good time.
 Robbie and Hillary McKanna and
 Claudio Penglase made a raid on the
 salmonberry patches yesterday and
 brought home the finest and most
 berries of the kind we have seen.
 For mosquito bites, bites or stings of
 insects, animals or reptiles, apply BAL
 LARD'S SNOW LINIMENT. It coun-
 teracts the poison in the wound, sub-
 dues the inflammation and heals the
 flesh. Price, 9 and 50 cents, at J.
 Heubner's Drug Store.
 The City Council met Monday even- ing as usual. Ordinance No. 15, relat- ing to the municipal court, police de- partment Sc, was passed. The bill of the dog catcher for S4.00 for slaughter ing four dogs was allowed. The vacancy caused by the resignation of Mir. M. J. O'Connor was filled by the election of N. A. Uren.
 The |. P. s. c. E. and the Junior r.. P. s. c. E. of the Friends church will hold union service on the mission lawn, Friday evening, Aug. 7, beginning at 7:45. Refreshments will be served at the close of the program. Everyone is invited to come and take part in the lesson and enjoy the social hour fol- lowing.
 MT. Smith, representing James r. Ballard, of St. Louis, Mo-, was a pas senger on the Topeka. He will visit the towns of S. E. Alaska this trip. Since his last visit year ago, Ballard's Snow Liniment, and other remedies, have become quite popular in these parts. Mir. Smith is accompanied by his wife.
 The band boys new uniforms have finally arrived and they are swell. They are of dark blue material and are all done off with great profusion of gilt. The caps are made to match. The boys turned out Monday evening and sweet strains of music, that sounded sweeter because of the new uniforms.
 Chief Joe Coggins and his band of trusty braves, Irwin Warren, John Museth and Francis Coggins, swooped down upon the finny inhabitants of Fish creek Sunday afternoon and found them wholly unprepared for defense against band of such great warriors, and the result was that the invaders carried off a large number of the inhabitants and came home Mon day night covered with glory and mos quito bites.
 Judge James W. Witten, special U. s. inspector, of Washington, D. C., was in the city today. He had with him plat of the townsite of Douglas that had been filed in the U. s. land office years ago, before there was any law by or under which the citizens of an Alas ka town could obtain title to their lots. It was the first paper ever filed relating to town lots in Alaska. The office had no place to file it, having no others like it, so they just kept it as a relic or a curio.
 A baby was born to a certain minister last Saturday morning, says an Oklaho ma paper. That evening the church of- ficers waited on him with $50 in cash. The next morning when the congrega ton assembled two wags stood before the church door and one bet that the would thank the Lord for the money first and the other bet he would hank the Lord for the baby. When he reverend gentleman arose tc pray le said: "Lord, we thank Thee for this timely succor," and the boys are yet undecided as to which was the winner.
 E. A. Hegg, the photographer, and ais assistant Miss Henson, went down 70 visit the Takus yesterday; they went ;o take some pictures of the dancing at the potlatch which has been going on for several weeks. When they ar rived at Taku they had some difficulty n landing as the Indians had been drinking quite freely of the hootch that cheers. They finally effected a landing, and, after much diplomacy on both sides, they gained an entrance into the hall where the dancing was