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Douglas Island news., 1908-11-18
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable ources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody,

Wrangell is to have wireless station.
 Skagway will convert it's baseball ground into a skating rink.
 The Skagway Daily Alaskan has at last got it's linotype installed.
 w. B. Hoggatt, governor, of Alaska, has gone down to Washington, D. c.
 Albert Berger, an Alaskan miner, committed suicide at Helena, Montana, on Friday, the 18th.
 Col Wm. Grogan, Cassiar pioneer, was drowned in the Stikine last month. He was 84 years of age.
 The river at Whitehorse closed this year on Nov, ?, forty-three days sooner than it closed last year.
 A Fairbanks wholesale man figures that the annual consumption of sugar in that camp is 800 tons.
 A straw election held at Fairbanks resulted in democratic victory. The vote stood: Bryan, 57l; Taft, 353.
 Pat O'Connor has been appointed chief of police of Fairbanks, to sue ceed Chief Miller, who was recently killed.
 Rev. Alexander Petehn, who left his home at Afognak to cross Sbelikof strait in a bidarki, is supposed to have drowned.
 A bull in china shop may be bad, but some one locked a calf in the skating rink down at Ketchikan and left it there all night.
 R. R. Reed was arrested at Seattle, charged with robbing his employers on Doan creek, at Fairbanks, of S19,OOO during the past year.
 From Fairbanks to Whitehorse in 121a days is the record-breaking trip u1dOo Uy Iu6 14GG4o SGSdnOL AahoI "4SA ice and slush in the river all the way.
 Several shipments of freight for Fair banks arrived at Dawson too late to catch the last boat down the river. It will wait for the first boat in the spring.
 The grand camp of the Arctic Broth erhood elected Clarence Hannum of Nome grand Arctic chief, and Godfrey Chealander of Skagway grand Arctic recorder.
 The Fairbanks Times says that Frank Manley has sold his store at Hot Springs to the Northern Commercial Co.,, and his mining interests in the Rampant district to California syndi- cate.
 Caribou Bill" Cooper has announced his intention of making the long mush from Valdez to Seattle with dog team. Bill Is one of those people who believe that the longest way round Is the shortest way home.
Douglas Island news., 1908-11-18

A Seward woman lost her diamond rings. A young man who had visited at the house was arrested, charged with having stolen them. He denied his guilt, but the machinery of the federal grand jury was set in motion to send him to tue pen. About this time the woman found her rings where she had careIessly dropped them behind trunk.
 Another one against kissing is the statement of Surgeon Robert Oleson, of the revenue cutter McCulloch, who says that forty per cent of the natives of the Aleutian islands are dying of tuberculosis caused by their observance of the custom of kissing their dead during the funeral ceremonies. Forced to press their lips to the infected lips of the departed, thus carrying the germs of the "white plague" from the dead to the living, the inhabitants of the islands are doomed, he said.
 Joe Kanaka, a Jap, was in pursuit of large game few days ago in the vi- cinity of Knik Instead of being armed with thrty-thirty, or any other fire arm, he carried only coil of rope. Seeing black bear feeding near pros- pector's trail he sprang upon the bears back, and quickly had moose of the rope around bruins neck. The Jap held to one end of the rope and suc- ceeded in tangling the bear in it's coils' but the bear tore Kanaka's clothing to shreds and stripped it from his body. When the bear was thoroughly tangled, the Jap beat him into submission and led him into Knik.
 Speaking of the Alaska gold output an exchange says It is extremely un- likely that the yield of gold from Alas ka in any future year will ever fall be- low the level recorded this year. The new districts which have been opened, the improvements in transportation facilities and the introduction of ma chinery on large scale, all go toward increasing production very largely. It is most improbable that there will be two successive years of drought and shortage of water for mining purposes. Given an ample supply of water and no labor troubles, next year will be the banner one in gold production in Alaska.
 The population of Alaska is made up of all classes and kinds of people and now and then the prospector's garb covers man of most surprising intel. ligence. A reporter on the Fairbanks Times going home one night stopped to admire the beauties of the aurora To man standing near he remarked on the beauty of the scene. The man agreed with him, but began descrip- tion of the aurora as seen from point near Herschel island. Says the re- porter: When my companion had fin ished 1 looked at him closely. 1 had not before noticed that he was thinly clad in blue jumper and overalls, apd had forgotten that the night air was crisp and sharp. 1 had noticed his beautiful language and and his pictur- esque desription. His face was intelli- gent and suggested the scholar. thought noticed him shiver and in. vited him to drink. Before we reached the swinging doors of the Fairbanks, ventured the question, "Where is your alma mater?" Quietly and in matter of-fact way he responded, "Dear old Yalep
Douglas Island news., 1908-11-18

Capt. c. W. Ames, for five years master of the Str. Elihu Thompson, has resigned his position and will go East. He was master of some of the early Alaskan vessels.
 Captain Charles Brown, for thirty seven years in the employ of the Alaska Commercial Co.,, and located at Kodiak for the most of that time, has gone for a visit to the States.
 The only articles excluded from the winter mails to Dawson are newspapers and periodicals, when they are ad- dressed to dealers, and trade catalogues and samples of merchandise.
 The officials of the Third judicial dis trict of Alaska, who had their pictures taken at Valdez and afterwards printed in the Seattle P.-I., will hardly take the blue ribbon in the beauty show.
 Shattuck $ Co.,, of Juneau, have brought suit against the Perseverance Mining Go. for S5, 5,234.25, and have at tached concentrates and machinery to a sufficient amount to cover the claim.
 Richard NuckoIls has quartz loca- tiou at Thorne Arm, in the Ketchikan district, from which he has taken a thousand dollars in gold with the aid of a common hand mortar only. The property is not for sale.
 The chief signal officer of the army has recommended to Secretary of War Wright that certificate of honor be awarded to Corporal Roy F. Cox, of the signal corps, for heroic action in saving the life of a wood chopper in Alaska.
 George Pestrijkoff was found guilty at Valdez of murder in the first degree. George found his affinity in the wife of Peter Skvorof, and between them they planned his death; plan which they afterwards carried out the last detail.
 Nugget chains, nugget pins, Eskimo ivory ornaments and all the old-time decorations of Alaskans have now been discarded by the people of Seward pen insula in favor of the blood red rubies which have recently been discovered in large quantities near Nome.
 Figures showing the October receipts of gold at the United States assay of flee at Seattle swell the total receipts for the ten months inclusive between January l, 1908, and Nov. 1, 1908, to S17,2O2, 2,7O4O2, which is an increase of s1,741O92,36 over the same period of 1907.
 Two women at Ketchikan went aboard steamer lying at the dock and be- came so intensely interested talking to the captain, or the purser, or one of the funkies, that they did not notice the flight of time and were carried away, and one of the women had her husbands pocketbook with her all the time.
 The Juneau Daily Dispatch says: H. Sokolof, Russian employed at the Occidental hotel, has perhaps the first printed copies of the first American and Russian newspaper ever published in Alaska. The paper was called the Alaska Appeal and is filled with news items of Wrangell and Sitks. MT. SokolofF's father preserved the copies and bound them in book form. They date from 1876 to 1879.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
ADVICE FROM ELIOT.
President of Harvard Tells Wisconsin
State Park Board How to Pro-
coed with It's Work

MADISON, Wis, Feb. II From
President Eliot of Harvard university,
who is greatly interested in the subject
of state parks and reservations the fol
lowing letter was received this week by
a member of the state park board:
My Dear Sir: massachusetts is acquiring
public reservations in three ways. First
by the direct action of the state approprtat-
ing money for the purchase of wooded hills
to be preserved as public parks. Secondly,
through the action of state appointed com
missions, like the Metropolitan Water board
and the Metropolitan Park MISSION Sc
curing large areas for public use, which are
paid for by assessments on the portion of
the state which is benefited. In this way
around Boston have been created, and large
reservations have been secured on the wa
torshed of the Metropolitan water supply.
Thirdly, by creating a board called the
trustees of public reservations, which holds
reservations in various parts of the state,
and also funds to maintain these reserva-
tons in good order These reservations
and the funds which 90 with them are gifts
from private persons; but all the reserva-
tions in the hands of the trustees are for
ence fourteen years, and it has acquired a
variety of beautiful holdings, including
Monument mountain in Berkshire county, an
admirable tract at Woods Hole, hill on
Cape Ann, which commands a superb pros
pect, and several spots Of peculiar beauty,
like the sO-called gates" of the Charles
river and the Virginia Wood in Middlesex
Falls.
These three modes have been used in
Massachusetts for some years, and all three
have proved TO be good. The public parks
secured by the Metropolitan Park commits
sion have great variety, including sea
beaches thousands Of acres Of forest, ponds
or lakes, ornamented par. ways and both
banks of the Charles river for many miles
Your problem in Wisconsin is of course q
very different one and yet the principles on
which Massachusetts has proceeded IN
will be similar in Wisconsin. Chief among
them are the preservation of forests, and
therefore of continuous water supplies; the
Of places which possess interesting iistor-
ical association; and the permanent provision
of means Of wholesome public enjoyment.
The sooner these results are secured by
the state of Wisconsin the better for all
concerned.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
Only a Cold.

"Only cold" Is a common sxpres-
sion. And SO the victim lets it go on.
day after day. red eyes, swollen fea-
lures, lassitude, sleeplessnesS, loss of
appetite, the irritating cough.
In itself a cold may be simply I'M
comfortable. In its results it is often
fatal Pneumonia, with its enormous
fatality; consumption, with its deadly
grip; bronchitis, asthma, these and
many ailments are often the direct re
suit of Il cold.
The patient may have had many
colds. They have resulted in nothing
serious. But when the system has be-
come weakened by these repeated at
tackS, when the mucous membranes are
In chronic unhealthy condition, then
1t is these fatal maladies assert them
selves
There is no greater mistake than to
neglect cold At its first appearance
measures should be taken to relieve it,
At this season of the year, when coughs
and colds are common. Peruna should
be kept constantly in the house. At the
first symptom this remedy should be
taken. 1t will soOthe the mucous mem
branes. relieve the irritation. and the
cold will gradually disappear. That
this has been the experience of many
is proven by the hundreds of grateful
letters in our files.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

RACINE-John Sabo, aged II, has been
missing since Friday, and it Is feared he
has drowned.
APPLETON-Miss Myrtle Harmer, a stu
dent at Appleton high school, has disap-
pcared and no trace Of her has been found.
RIPON-Alfred Ziebach. a horse dealer
residing at 1914 Chestnut street, Milwaukee,
fell on a slippery sidewalk, causing a bad
break at the ankle.
KENOSHA-Pcter Ross, a resident of the
town of Salem in this county, died at the
Lake View hospital in Chicago of ptOmaine
poisoning.
OsHKOsH-The School of Agriculture
and Domestic Ecanomy has been placed in
commission, and its formal dedication will
occur Monday. February a.
KAUKAUNA-The North Western Rail
way company has served notice on the Rail
road Y. NJ. c. A. that after the first of
March it will not be responsible for meals
served on ticks.
MADISON-Fire originating from some
unknown cause destroyed the millinery and
footwear stock of Wilkinson & Daily, and
badly damaged the store building. Loss
5000 is covered by insurance.
BELOIT-Contrary to statements cmanat-
ing from other sources, Carroll college has
not been admitted to the State Intercol-
legiate OratOrical association. Arthur e..
Fish of Beloit president of the association,
says the matter is still pending
pLATTENILLE-The annual oratOrical
contest for the purpose of choosing Platte
ville's representative In the internorma'
contest took place Saturday night. The
judges awarded first place to James R..
Wallin.
SHEBOYGAN-A special session of the
board Of supervisors to elect a county clerk
will be held March 4. vacancy has been
created by the resignation of Z. B. Mat
toon, who becomes postmaster
WAUKESHA-Overtak by death when
they went to Ireland to claim an estate
which they had inherited, was the fate Of
Mr. and Mrs. j II. Milling of this county,
whose bodies have just been brought from
the Emerald Isle for burial.
LA CROSSE-Preliminary steps have
been taken in MelrOse toward the Organ1za-
ton of a stock company of farmers for the
establishment Of a freight and passenger
automobile transfer line between Melrsse
and West Salem, via Burr Oak and Min
doTo.
MARINETTE-After refusing ali food
given him for eight days, Peter DOwney,
who was sent to the city pOorhOuse some
time ago in a serious condition as the re-
suit of exposure. has started 10 eat again,
and states that he is going to return to his
home.
GLENWOOD-'Dr." John Till, the notori-
Gus healer, who was arrested not long ago
and fined $50 and costs on a charge of
practicing medicine without a license, was
again arrested on the same charge at
Somerset and brought 10 this city. He
waived preliminary examination. and fur.
nished bonds for his appearance. He re
turned to Somerset and continues TO prac-
tice.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21

until 1S41. He came west, locating in
Stephenson county, ILL.,, and two years
later he located at Portage county, Wis.
where he engaged i'll the lumber bust
ness. In 1914 he was elected under sher-
1T OF Portage county. and was elected
sheriff two years later.
He was married to Miss Lucy PierSon
Of Beloit, Wis, in 1913, and they To-
Gated at Plover. where Mr.. Mitchell
served as clerk of the courts and regis
ter of deeds. He engaged actively III
the lumber business in 1850, and i'll
1886 moved to Ripon, where he was
elected sheriff of Fond du Lac county
and in 1861 he was chosen state senator
from that county. On account of bust
ness interests he moved to Charles City.
la, where he opened a bank with Judge
Fairfield. He returned to Wisconsin in
1919, taking up his residence at the
Plankinton house. and about thaI time
he became identified with the North
western Mutual Life Insurance COM
pany. He served for eighteen years as
member of the finance committee, re
firing four years ago on account of fail
ing health.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
COFFEE DRINKING.
4 Doctor Says 1t weakens tho Hear

Doctor Says 1t Weakens the Heart.
In my opinion says a well-known
German physician. mo one can truth
fully say coffee agrees with him, as it
has long since been proven that caffeine.
contained in coffee, is an injurious
poisonous substance which weakens and
degenerateS the heart muscles.
For this reason the regular use of
coffee, soon or late. causes a condition
of undernourishment, which leads to
various kinds of organic disease.
Convinced of this fact, 1 have often
sought for some healthful beverage to
use instead of coffee. At last found
the thing desired in Postum. Having
had occasion to forbid people using
coffee, whose hearts were affected,
have recommended Postum as a bev-
erage, since it is free from all injurious
or exciting substances. l know this
from results in my own family, and
among patients.
Hundreds Of persons who now use
Postum In place of coffee, are greatly
benefited thereby" There's Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
ville," In pkgs.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21

So years. For some time Mr.. Van Vech-
ten had been i'll. Fridav evening he be
came gradually weaker an. passed quiet
ly away this morning in the presence of
the members of his family living in this
vicinity.
Mr.. Van Vechtpn was born May s.
1923. in Catskill, n Y. He worked as
fireman and engineer on Hudson river
boats until he was % years old, when
he struck out for the west. He worked
his way and Travelled hundreds of m les
afoot through forests and over plains, ar
irving in Wisconsin, in Washington
county, in 1916.
He was the first white settler in Wash
ington county, and it was he who sug-
gested the name Kewaskum for the lit
lie city that grew up about his first log
house. 1t was the name of an Indian
chief with whom Mr.. Van Nechten had
traded When he settled in Washington
county Mr.. Van Nechten secured the
grant of 100 acres of land and later pur-
chased an additional eighty acres. This
he owned up to within few years of his
death.
Here he farmed for many years until
the town had grown up into thriving
little city. He filled various offices in
the town and was an honorsd and re-
spected citizen of the community, leaving
it in 1888 to remove to WauwatOSa.
He married Esther Elizabeth Ban
croft, daughter of Thaddeus F. Ban
croft, the first register of deeds of Wau-
kesha county, at MenOmonee Falls, Feb
ruary ,, 1851.
Retiring from farm life, although still
in the prime of his existence Mr.. Van
Vechten since 1888 had lived quietly
with his daughter Elizabeth, at his home
stead in Wauwatosa. His wife died
eleven years ago.
THE only surviving son is Edwin T.
Van Yechten, assistant district attorney
Of Milwaukee county. Other children
are, Mrs. A. W. Lehman and Mrs. J,
X. Douglass, Neosho, Wis, Mrs. Viii
liam Stewart, Tracer, Ia, Mrs. f. B.
Gage. Pierre. S. D., and Miss Elizabeth
Van Nechten, Wauwatosa.
Mr.. Van Xechten is a first cousin of
Peter Van Vechten, one of the oldest
settlers in Milwaukee and we'll known
member Of the Old Settlers club.
Surviving nieces and nephews are:
Samuel Simmons, Joseph Simmons, and
Mrs. Sarah Cassel, of Catskill, n. Y,
Washington Van Vechten. Charles Van
Eechten. and Mrs. II. f. Vedder of
Leeds n Y
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
G. W. MITCHELL DEAD
WAS ACTIVE IN EARLY DAYS IN
LUMBER INDUSTRY.
Veteran Member of Northwestern Mu-
tual Lite Insurance Company Sue
cumbs at Advanced Age.

MILWAC NEE. Wis, Jan. Il. 'OS-
George w. Mitchell, a pioneer lumber
man in Wisconsin. and active in life in
Surance circles, died on Sunday even
ing at his rooms i'll the Plankinton
house. after an illness of about three
months. He was So years of age. The
funeral will be held from the home of
the son. G. Stanley Mitchell, 295 Pros
pect avenue. on Tuesday afternoon at
O'Clock. Interment will be at Forest
Home. Mr.. Mitchell is also survived
by daughter. Mrs. c. L. Lyman of
Minneapolis, Mimi, and three graud-chii-
dren. Howard Mitchell and Stanley and
Arthur Lyman.
He was Il native Of St Adams. VT.
where he was born on September Is,
$50. Young Muchell's parents moved
to ChautauqUa county. y. Y, when he
was years of age, and remained there
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
PathOS.

Prof. Bander Matthews, at a recent
dinner talked of bathos with his usual
wealth Of apt illustration.
We find q deal of bathOs in the law
courts, he said. AN excellent example
occurred in Massachusetts judges sum
ming up Of larceny case. lie said:
" For forty centuries the thundcrs Of
Sinai have echoed through the world:
Thou shalt not steal, This is also, gen
tlemen, a principle of common law and a
rule Of equity
In a murder trial (the accused had
killed n soldier another judge said:
John Jones, not only have you com
mtted murder, but you have also run a
bayonct through the breeches of one OF
our august republics cavalry uniforms.
a Sunapee justice Of the peace re
buked n thief thus:
." Prisoner. bountifui Providence has
endowed you with health and strength,
instead Of which you go about stealing
chickens Washington Star.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
A Little Mixed.

- he late Marion Story, Julian StOry's
bro Ter, was great sportsman" said
, Wv York broker, Gle was a splen-
did .igler | used to like to hear him
tell asb stories, for in his case these
stor were always no less amusing than
true.
.'Alr Story was once fishing for tar
pom in florida. He fished in motor boat,
and his companion was q crecker-a
Florida cracker.
"SUdd My the cracker got a bite, gave
a great ERIK backward, and then-presto,
he vas spashiDg and foudering in the
water. The huge fish had pulled him
,.crDulrd.
Drop your rodH shouted Mr.. Story
aot ne started the motor, and in a few
M. utes reached the cracker and hauled
him back on board.
'''The man said, as he began to wiring
out his clothes:
What l want to know isis this
cracker a-fishin' or was that fish a
crackcrin' San Antonio Express.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
Perfectly Willing to Help Out.

There is good story going the rounds
in Fittsburg of young man, formerly Il
stock broker, who dropped many thou
sands in speculation during the early
spring.
One night, shortly after going to bed,
the PittSburgcr was awakened by strange
sounds. At his first motion to jump up
he was greeted by Il hoarse voice. IF you
stir you're Il dead man" it said. I'm
looking for money"
In that ease" pleasantly answered the
erstwhile spcculator. kindly allow me
to rise and strike a light. | shall deem
it a favor to be permitted to assist in
the search. Philadelphia Record.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-21
How He Did 1t.

When / was connected with a certain
western railway" says a prominent of
fetal of an eastern line, 1--WE had in our
employ a brakeman who, for special
service rendered to the road, was granted
a month vacation.
HE decided to spend his time in n
trip over the Rockies. We furnished
him with passes.
He went to Denver, and there met a
number of his friends at work on one
of the Colorado roads. They gave him a
good time, and when he. went away
made him a present of a mountain goat
Evidently our brakeman was at a loss
to get the animal home with him, rs
the express charges were very heavy at
that time. Finally, however, hitting
upon a happy eXpedient, he made out a
shipping tag and tied it to the horns of
the goat. Then he presented the beast
to the Office of the stock car line
'Well. that tag created no end Of
amusement, but it served to accomplish
the end of the brakeman 1t was in
scribed as follows: Please Pass the
Butter. Thomas J. Meechin, Brakeman.
5. S. & I. Ry.' "-Harper's Weekly.