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Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

Dance halls in the Yukon are again doomed
 Even Juneau is sick of the semi-pro- fessional base ballers.
 Judge Gunnison is now on his way to his home at Juneau.
 Spuds are two-bits pound at Fair banks-as much as drinks.
 Eva Emery Dye will color up some 1 Alaska yarns for publication. { Within a month trains on the Tanana Railroad will be running to Cleary.
 It appears that Seattle people look on the Alaskan as a comic opera. They i furnish the music.
 Again comes the report of the sale of the Ellamar mine, this time to the Ven ture Company, of London.
 It is estimated that at least Sl,000,000 will be brought out from the Innoko before the season is over.
 If reports be true, the whole North will soon be network of wireless wires for telegraph stations. Ketchikan democrats want the next convention held there. The amount of rainfall will not be an argument. Judge Slane, U. s. commissioner at Wrangell, announces that hereafter that town will be "dry" on Sunday,
 At Homer, in Cook Inlet, an output of about 2,5OO tons of coal weekly will be made for the balance of the season.
 From Fort Gibbon, at the mouth of the Panama, to Fairbanks, in thirty six hours, is considered record breaking time
 The Record Miner complains because Juneau printers must pay fifteen cents a glass for their beer. Can't they rush the growler?
 Soldiers at Nome, engaged in target practice, put bullet through the head of Nels Hansen, a boatman. He died shortly afterwards. The second class cruiser Buffalo has been ordered to proceed to Pribilof Is- land to assist the cutters there in pro- tecting the fur seals.
 Chicago gamblers protest against the police using dynamite in raiding their places on the ground that they might scare away the kitty.
 J.Howard Conrad is reportedto have consummated deal whereby English capitalists have acquired the Conrad locations at Conrad City for consid- eration of s12,OOO,0OO. During the months of April and May the Tacoma Smelling company treated 9,112 tons of Alaska ore, which yielded 511, III pounds of copper, 14,S25 ounces of gold. 7,269 ounces of silver, and PAS pounds of lead.
Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21

It is moved that the Methodist con- ference be held at Whitehorse. 35,OOO chickens are to be shipped to that town to start chickou ranch.
 It is reported that the deal for the sale of the Beatson property has finally been closed, the Guggenheim interests buying the property for S7,800,0OO.
 Excursiouists on the Str. Spokane presented the captain with a solid silver drinking set. Nothing more appropri- ate could be devised, for most cap tains.
 The Juneau Dispatch is out for a government inspection of food stuffs shipped to Alaska. Does it suspicion that even our food is charged with Se- attIe spirit?
 One of the most profitable lines of occupation in the interior is that of stealing a sack of registered mail now and then. There will be hereafter for those fellows.
 Congressman Sulzer, who is touring the interior, says that he confidently expects Alaska to be granted territorial government at the next session of the ,,tiODo1 nOuOrnSS
 The need of aids to navigation is surely emphasized when the revenue cutters strike uncharted rocks. The Manning got $3O,O00 hole punched in her bottom, on Aug. 15, in Prince Will liam Sound.
 Miss Elizabeth Nina Stepler, of Se- attle, boarded the Humboldt for an eX- cursion trip to s. E. Alaska, and mar ried the purser at Skagway. The name of the energetic officer is Floyd N. Bush.
 That visitors to the Alaska Yukon, Pacific exposition will have chance to see some of the game of the far north, is the desire of l.. l.. Bales, an Alaska hunting guide, who has asked permis- sion to exhibit grizzly bears, moose and other Alaska game.
 Judge James Wickersham has ruled that application for license to sell liquor does not give the applicant the right to start the business, until such application is granted by the Judge, eX- cept in the case of application for the renewal of former license.
 News has been received from Fair banks that Viko PeroVich has been re- prieved for six months. Perovich was found guilty of murdering man and burning the remains in cabin in the Panama country three years ago. He was to have been hung at Fairbanks August 14th.
 In July increased copper shipments were recorded from the Prince William Sound country, and the first shipment of ore was sent out from the Knight island district by the Hubbard-Elliot Copper Company. There are now sev- eral companies in this section that will maintain regular shipments henceforth.
 Work continues to be rushed on the Copper River and Northwestern rail- way. Large shipments for Catalla will leave within week, 5000 tons of steel rails now awaiting shipment. The com pany has placed an order for 5,40o tons of steel rails, which will leave the east immediately, says the Seattle Star.
Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21

One thousand chickens were sent to Alaska for tLe establishing of chicken farm in the far north. The chickens were taken on the steamship Montara, which left last evening for Nome. On it's return trip the Montara will call at Treadwell to bring concentrates from the Treadwell mines.-Seattle Star.
 A dispatch from Fairbanks says: Jesse Noble, president of the Dome City bank, went out to the claim work ed by Henry Crook and J. A. Williams and literally held them up to the tune of S6,0OO alleged to be due on mort gage Warrants were sworn out char ging robbery. There is much excite ment over the high-handed procedure.
 Gelineau & Lathrop found a TOO pound native copper nugget recently in the ledge on their Roaring creek property near the Gray mines on Rot- sina. They were sinking on their prop erty and found the nugget imbedded in the ledge. They will endeavor to sled the big specimen out this fall for exhibit at the Seattle fair.-Valdez Prospector.
 No agent making land entries in AL aska can act for more than four other parties, is the construction put upon the law by R. A. Ballinger, United States land commissioner, and he has been upheld by the department at Washington, D. C., in this view. This ruling does not apply to entries made prior to the passing of the act govern ing land entries in Alaska.
 The court has ordered the immediate sale of all the estate of Adams, the &c., attle assay office thief. The court took this action believing that part of the estate was depreciatinG in value. The estimated value of the estate was put at about one hundred and fifty thous- and dollars some time ago, while the claims of Alaskans now recognized az gregate S98,OOO.
 The following iten from the Ketchi- kan Miner indicates that the course of true love runs smooth in that town: The Miner is in receipt of invitations to the weddings of Olive Inez McElha- ney to James M. Murphy, Anna Dimple McElhaney to Fred w. Spurrell, and Jennie Ruth Spurrell to John fl. Cam, on Wednesday, August II, at the home of Mrs. McElhaney, Newtown.
 l.. N. Grider, we'll known local bus mess man, returned Sunday from two months trip to Alaska, where he went to hunt and see the great natural wonders of that country, says the Los Angeles Times. He passed less than three weeks in actual hunting, and de- voted the remainder of the time to sight seeing. He says that September is the best month for the Alaska hunt CT, as the eli mate is the most agreeable and the mosquitoes are the fewest at that time. Alaskan tourists make a great mistake, Grider says, before leaving Seattle, for all the equipment can be purchased just as cheaply in Alaska. Grider tookw with him an ex- tensive outfit of heavy overcoats, cloth. ing and furs as a protection against the cold, but found the days as warm as in Los Angeles, and the nights not chilly enough to be uncomfortable.
Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21
A grandson of the late State Senator

A grandson of the late State Senator Shumway, when four years old, was given penny with which to buy candy. Accidentally he swallowed the coin. His mother, more anxious than the boy, said she must send for the doctor at once. "No, don't send for the doctor, mamma" pleaded the lad, who had memories of bitter medicine; "send for the preacher. Auntie says he can get money out of anybody."-Chicago Trib- une.
 The ownership of what is claimed to be the first United States flag raised in Alaska territory is to be decided in the superior court of King county, accord ing to a complaint filed by Roberts x Hubert, representing the plaintiff, Ed ward Ludecke, of Wrangell. The suit is brought by Ludecke against Dexter Horton & Co.,, with whom the flag was deposited by Geo. E. Rodman of Wran- gell. The bank refuses to deliver 1t to Ludecke because it does not know Lu- decke as owner The property is esti- mated to be worth S100.
 The Mining Reporter says: For the month just ended Nome contributed the most important news items, which consisted of shipment records, new discoveries, and the installation of both quartz mining and hydraulic mining machinery. The new discoveries were both within and without the area of the Nome gold fields proper. The one on Daniels creek was the most important on account of the depth at which the pay gravel was encountered, occasion ing belief, locally, that the gravel here- tofore mined at depths of from IS to 70 feet rested on false bedrock, and that true bedrock has been encounter ed but in this one instance. It Is at a depth of 61 feet, 26, feet below sea level, and about 30 feet below the nearest deepest openings. A gravel body of width of 50 feet and averaging 60 cents to the pan is reported. Rich placer finds were also reported on Dry and Gold Bottom creeks near, or within, the limits of Nome City.
 The Seattle P.-I. says of directory of the Tanana Valley, just issued, that it contains 5000 names, and emphasizes in other ways the growth of Alaska ln and around Fairbanks. Fourteen creeks and villages adjacent to Fairbanks are included in the new publication, which is merely a forerunner, it is announced, to a more comprehensive directory to include Juneau, Douglas Island, Sitka, Ketchikan, Skagway, Windy Arm, Birch Creek, Dawson, Forty-Mile, Eagle, Cir cle, Rampant and other places in Alas ka and the Yukon Territory. Growth in the Tanana valley has been particu= larly marked; there has been no serious halt in developmental activities and there is no indication at this time of any stop Of the forward movement. Vital statistics in the Tanana directory show that only 156 deaths occurred be- tween 1903 and 1907, an exceptionally good showing for the district. Yet it is not unreasonable to expect that this rate will be measurably reduced as the conditions of life improve, as they will as the territory progresses. On the whole, the people in the district have many things to be thankful for, despite the fact that they have not yet come fully into the inheritance rightly be- longing to them.
Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21

One thousand chickens were sent to Alaska for tue establishing of chicken farm in the far north. The chickens were taken on the steamship Montara, which left last evening for Nome. On it's return trip the Montara will call at Treadwell to bring concentrates from the TreadwelI mines.-Seattle Star.
Douglas Island news., 1907-08-21

Northern Light Rebekah Lodge No. I meets at Odd Fellows hall second and fourth Saturdays.
 Visitors are cordially invited.
 MRS. IDA WHIPPLE, N. G. MRS. GERTRUDE LAUGHLIN, Sec'y
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
CONTINGENT FUNDS ARE
TURNED INTO THE STATE

OLYMPIA, Wash, July 26.-In ac-
cordance with a recent ruling by At
torney- General ]. D. Atkinson several
state institutions have forwarded to
the state treasurer money on hand
which has heretofore been turned
into their own contingent funds. All of
the state institutions have now for
warded what money they have on
hand, save the educational institutions.
An effort made for a modification OF
the order in their favor failed. It is
believed the state general fund will re-
ceive from $4,000 to $4,000 annually
from this source.
The following amounts have been
received from the institutions famed:
Eastern Washington hospital, Meli-
cal Lake. s2,2S7O1; Western Washing
ton hospital. Steilacoom, $431.s2:
school for deaf and blind, Vancouver,
$245.14; school for defective youth,
Medical Lake. s349.03; penitentiary,
Walla Walla, s1,OO1O9; soldiers home,
OrtiIg, s1,52733; training school, Che
halls s32.O7.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
GOOD POINTS AND BAD.

Like many other laws, enacted by
state legislatures. the indeterminate
sentence law has its bad points as well
as it's good. It's bad points, it is ex-
pected VIII be disclosed when the par
doning board SEES about to extend
clemency to convicts sentenced to
terms in the penitentiary under the
new law Attorney General Faulkner,
evidently realizing the danger that
confronts society, issues a timely opin-
ion that no murderers or felons con-
victed of statutory offenses can be
granted clemency until they have
served the minimum sentence pro-
vided by the state law. There is no
doubt that the governor. in the large
ness of his heart has granted paroles
or pardons to criminals. who at heart
had not reformed to a degree that they
professed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
DAM COMPLETED.
Zig Reservoir Will Hold $4,000 COO
Gallons.

CHARLESTON, July 26-The Lewis
tom Charleston company will complete
their dam across the Pomeroy gulch to-
day. l. is built OF solid concrete and is
so feet high. The reservoir when full
viii hold about So million gallons of
water. With this large amount of water
in reserve, Charleston will be given one
of the best irrigation systems on the
coast. Not only will there be plenty
of water, but it will be pure mountain
water and for domestic use it will be
as good as can be had anywhere
Where the water flows into the reser-
voir the company has erected a 500
horsepower electric plant, which means
that they will use the water twice. The
new power plant means relief to the
ovcrburdened plant above Asotin. They
cannot tell when they will be able to
urn the water into the reservoir. They
have been held up on a right of way
over about so rods Of land. If they can
not get through the land they will
have to lay pipes around, which means
quite q distance further.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
COAL IN WHATCOM COUNTY.
Big Find Of Anthracite AccidentIy
Found.

SEATTLE, July ga large bed of
anthracite coal, pronounced by experts
to be equal to anything in Pennsylva-
MIA, has been found in Whatcom
county. The discovery was made by
G. A. Alexander. purely by accident. He
was following the trail of a bear over
the Cascade mountains when he fell
over lump of what he supposed was
a black stone. He examined it AMI
found it to be high grade anthracite.
Analysis later showed it to be IS per
cent carbon. Alexander then began an
investiga ton of the land, of which he
and two others are owners and found
about 1000 tons of coal in sight JonY. 7
Wheatman. manager of the Washing
ton Saw Works, of this city. is one of
the owners. The claim shows 112 feet
on the trend 40 feet on the dip and
the depth is estimated at 80 feet. Sever
al offers for the land have been re-
ceived. but all have been refused.
Among the would-be buyers is the
Great Northern. The property is II
miles from the Great Northern line ar
four miles from the B. B. & B. c. rail-
road.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26

timent regarding water transportation
has undergone a striking change.
This change in sentiment is due III
mart TO Irresistible natural causes
the wonderful and unprecedented de-
velopment of the country's resources
the increase of products, and the un-
exampled activity of. all INDUSTRIES
but is also due. secondarily. to the
recently organized and systematic
campaign of commercial and other
organizati tons and the press for i'm
proved rivers and harbors. In TINS
work the Pacific northwest, and es-
pecially Portland. have had no small
share.
The campaign for open or canalized
rivers and improved harbors has so far
been successful almost beyond expect
alton. but it is only begun, and must
be kept up persistently until every
available waterway in the country can
be utilized for the transportation OF
products. For every million dollars
spent on the Panama canal, or on the
army and navy. the government ought
to spend a million on inland water
ways.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
SUSPECTS COLLISION.

Two Umatilla farmers happened in
The Tribune office yesterday and quite
naturally began discussing the prob
able price of wheat. says the Pendleton
Tribune. One of them remarked thar
it was singular that all wheat puy-
ers. outside the local mills. had pre-
ciscly the same price to offer. and sus-
G.. sted that there must be an agree
ment between them-a combine
The other replied that he had noticed
the same thing. and added that if there
was not an agreement to offer Sc
much and no more. it would seem that
some buyer some time would offer
more or less than another. A further
discussion brought forth the suggestion
that maybe if the Grain Growers asso-
citation should look into the matter a
little it might do some good.
The question was finally raised that
A combine in grain buying is as unlaw
full as any other, and the best means
of reaching l., and to whom the appli-
cation should be made to discover the
situation, all showing how the farm
er's mind runs at times, and very
properly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
REVIVE LUMBER INDUSTRY.

In view of the high prices of all
kinds of building material. prevailing
in Walla Wa!la and other points of the
Inland Empire for that matter. any
movement by outside or local capital.
to revive the lumber industry of this
section will certainly be hailed with
appreciation by long suffering pub
lie. There is no denying the fact that
the high price of building material has
had decided effect in retarding the
progress of Walla Walla. While there
has been a material advance in the
price of lumber in Portland, Seattle,
Tacoma and Bellingham, big lumber
Centers. the past two years, it has not
been any way near as large as at in
terror points and in consequence. those
cities have enjoyed a phenomenal
growth with the end not yet in sight
There is any amount of available TIM
Der adjacent to Walla Walla, ready
for the lumbermans ak and saw MILL
and all that is necessary to put it on
the market is little capital and en-
ergy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
BOOKS
EACH MONTH
New Ruling for County Clerks
and Auditors

County Clerk Dorsey Hill and Au-
ditor McCaw will have to check each
others books monthly in the future.
Such is the opinion given out at the
attorney generals Office this week. In
accordance with chapter IS of the laws
of 1907, there must be something more
than mere perfunctory examination
and checking up of the books.
The matter was brought to atten-
ton by the action of Prosecuting At
torney Maurice Langhorne of Lewis
county, in advising the clerk and audi
tor of that county of their new du-
ties in this regard.
1t is the further duty of the check
ing officer to see that tha fees and
other moneys entered in the books are
properly accounted for and that the
fees and charges for all work are
properly entered in the fee book. A
mere adding up of the figures in the
fec book will not answer the require
mems of the law. in letter or in spirit.
In the opinion given ct-coy the at
tOrney general the opinion of Prose-
cu-ing Attorney Langhorne is quoted
in full, whose reply to the Lewis coun-
ty attorney is as follows:
'The attorney general has carefully
examined the law in question ard feels
that he cannot state the matter more
clearly and fairly than you have stated,
and therefore adopts and appropriates
your opinion as his"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
NEED OF INLAND WATERWAYS

The New York Tribune in a recent
editorial said: The railroads appear
to be unable to handle expeditiously
the enormous freight of the country
and everybody is turning his attention
to natural and to artificial waterways
"a means of relief. The in
dications are that the country has de-
veloped to a point where transporta-
ton by. canals and canalized rivers is
becoming as necessary to it as was
water transportation before the build
ing of the great railroads. Public SEN
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-26
WITH THE MAGAZINES.

No more important question con-
fronts the Americtr: public today that
that of our public lands. AS an able
statesman has said:
They are our national insurance
policy, insuring national resources to
future generations. Shall we compro-
mise or destroy this policy?"
In recent speech President Roose-
welt says:
1.-The conservation of our national
resources and their proper use consti
tute the fundamental problem which
underlies almost every other problem
of our national life.
The men whom we have prosecuted
ard those who fear prosecution by us,
naturally endeavor to break down the
makers rights can be secured, and the
lands preserved for the use of himself
and his children
There is a keenly interested element
in the west. made up largely of men
in public office. associated more or less
intimately with the monopolistic tim
Der, coal-minirg and railroad inter-
ests ably supported by the so-called
System of the east, who are OppOs-
ing these new policies, claiming tn :
they are un-American, visionary an
autocratic. and that the best intero - 5
of the settler and the progress of tie
west are ieOpardized,
Both sides of these most interestir. =
questions will be ably discussed in a
series of articles by a prominent west
ern writer, entitled: 1.-The way of the
lard transgressor," beginning with the
August issue of The Pacific Monthly,
presenting to the reader the unvar-
nished truth. thereby affording an ex-
cellent opportunity to judge who and
what is right.
They will be profusely illustrated
with a series of remarkable photo
graphs, showing scenes in the public
land regions, the methods of land fraud
operators. characters involved, together
with sketches from life of public men
whose names are associated with the
subject.