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Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
CITY MARSHAL
 IS FIRE CHIEF
Council Makes Temporary Appoint ment Pending Recommendation
 from Department

As there were no rccommcnda- tions from the fire department to the city council Monday night con- corning the appointment Of a fire chief Co replace "Pat" Mcclure who resigned a week before, City Mar shal W. A. shater was made chief until such time as the department can agree upon someone for Che pc sitlon who will be satisfactory Co the council.
 An the members were present ot the meeting Monday night, Council man Jensen having returned from his extended visit Co the States. Aside from routine business there was little else before the meeting. Coal to the amount of 4}l tons was reported on hands.
 A plumbers bin for services charged for at the rate Of $l per hour when six bits had been former Iy paid. precipitated considerable discussion but as no rate had been stipulated when the work was or. dered done. Che bin was paid.
 Mayor O'Connor reported that Wm Cox. an indigent, had been sent Co the Pioneers Home at the expense of tho city. He also stated that with the arrival of Cox at the home, thC latter is filled to capacity.
 Bills were paid as follows: Lee Young. S1O; l.. W. Kilburn, S15t Standard oil. S365.92; st. Ann Hos pital, $40; Fairbanks-Morse Com .pany. SG4.23; Nelson's Transfer .S775.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
EASTERN STARS
 NEW OFFICERS
Interesting Installation Ceremonies of Nugget Chapter Tues
 day Night

Nugget Chapter, Order Of Eastern Star istallcd new officers at the reg ular meeting Tuesday night. Inter csting talks were made by both the retiring and incoming officers and afterward banquet was enjoyed. The new officers arc as follows: Worthy Matron-Enid Le Noire. Worthy Patron James Christoe. Associate Matron-May Johnson. Secretary Genevieve Martin. Treasurer-Dora Kirkham. Conductress Elizabeth Sey. Associate Conductress - NettiC
 Christoe.
 Chaplain-Graco Richards. Marshdl-Agnes Brown.
 Organist-L. B. Wright.
 Adah-Elizabeth Hopper.
 Ruth-Barbara Poeth.
 Esther-Bessie Wright.
 Martha-Ira Benson.
 Elccta-Sarah Henson.
 Warden-Anna Connolly.
 Henry Vogt.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
CANADIAN LAW
 GETS McINNES
Former Gastneau Channel Resident Sentenced to Five Years
 for Robbery

Angus D. McInncs. a Nova Scotian about fifty years Of age who has made his home at Juneau for the past several years and who has been employed during that time In the various mines of this locality. was sentenced Go five years imprisonment at Whitehorse. Yukon Territory, one day last week.
 McIuucs had been stopping ot the Commercial hotel in the Yukon town for nearly three months, during which time he was noticed Co alter nate between flush" and broke. When he was flush" it was noticed that some other guest at thc hotel had recently lost money by being touched while he slept
 A trap was laid for the supposed thief by marking bills. four Of which were given to two men whose rooms had been frequently the scene og nocturnal visits. The bait was taken. likewise the marked bills. In fact. one of Che men lay awake in his bed and watched McIuucs stealth uy enter and SO through tho pockets of his clothes. Fifteen minutes later the man arose and dressed and called Che police who placed McInne7 under arrest when an four of tho marked bills were found in his possession He had visited both rooms.
 Iu court next morning tho prisoner at first disclaimcd all knowledge of how che money got Into his pockets and claimed Go be a mining man high in thc employ Of thc Alaska Juneau Mining Company. But those Cana dian officials had heard "con" talk before and it didn't go with them Angus at last entered a plea of guilty and by n o'clock or the day atteI committing thc theft had started serving a five year sentence.
 McInucs in court attributed hi' downfall to booze and its by products admitting that he had been drunk practically an Che time since going Co whitehorse.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
AWFUL TRAGEDY

A terrible story is that which comes from Tacoma concerning Otto Powell and his wife who were lost in the woods about forty miles south of that place and who, after giving up ever finding their way out, made a death pact by which the husband killed his wife and then himself When found by scarchcrs thc woman had a bullet wound through her heart and the man through the heod, having placed tho barrel of g rifle i'm his mouth. The Powclls, a promi- ncut young Tacoma couple left a logging camp at Alden the 18th Of December on a hunting trip and never returned. lt was about Jauu- ary 10 when their bodies woro dis covered where they had enacted tho terrible tragedy
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
PENSION FUND
 BEING RAISED
Douglas and Treadwell Invited to Help in Providing for Super
 annuated Clergy
Douglas. Alaska, Jan. IA, lol'

Douglas, Alaska, Jan. IA, 1917 To the Public:-
 As you have probably learned through the church and daily papers, a movement has been started to raise Ia fund of $5,5OO,OOO, the income from which is to be used in pension ing the aged and infirm clergy. lt is one of the reproaches of the Church that something Of this sort was not done long ago. Already more than half the fund has been raised. March l. 1917, has been set as the time when the entire amount must be subscribed.
 The Bishop has appointed us a committee to take charge Of the work lin Douglas and Treadwell. The Church in Alaska and each member of 1t and the people generally ought to share in this enterprise. We therefore ask if you will kindly send us a personal subscription for this most worthy and appealing cause. We beg your cooperation, we need your help.
 It is necessary that the Douglas md Treadwcll Pension Committee should have all it's returns in in time to report to the Central Com mitteo at Juneau, which, in turn, has to report to the General Pension Committee before March lst.
 Very sincerely yours,
 A. F. GURR,
 D. J. KINZIE,
 JOHN HENSON,
 Douglas and Treadwell Pension
 Committee.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19

Miss Ruth salmonson, who has been visiting her father, Samuel Sal monson. at Treadwell for several months. left this week for her home at Picrson, Wash.
 Mrs. A. V. Peterson and little son left Wednesday on the Spokane for their home in Ketchikan after a months visit with the formers par ents. Mir. and Mrs. A. Liljestrand.
 High grade Piano for sale-Price S175, terms to responsible party. Call at Eddie sparlings home on st. Ann avenue, Douglas, and inspect piano. Will rent it. Phone 143, Ju- ncau
 Mrs. William Donnewerth and son Fred visited at the home of E. J. White Wednesday while the Princess Sophia was on the Channel. They were enroute to their home in White horse. Yukon, after an extended visit with relatives in Toronto, Canada.
 D. E. Fuller, tailor. cleaner and presser, who has had a shop adjoin- ing the Douglas Market for some time. will leave on the Jefferson for Seattle where he will take treat ment for rheumatism with which he has been troubled lately. He will be accompanied by Mistah Hook Dem |nlson, sombre-hued gentleman who . has floated down the Yukon river on a banjo every spring for the past dozen years, but who has been around Douglas and Juneau for the past sey- eral months.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
HOME RULE IS
 ALASKA'S NEED
J. L. McPherson Tells Rotary Club at Seattle What Alaska Needs
 Most of All

Home rule for Alaska ls the great essential in the terrltory's further development, J. l.. McPhorson, man ager of the Alaska bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. told members Of the Rotary Club at their noon meeting Wednesday.
 "Alaska's enemies," said Mir. Me Pherson. "argue that she has an ir- responsible and unstable population. What better answer could be given Co this charge than the overwhelm- ing vote recently recorded by Alas kans for prohibition? And now they must wait until congress sees fit to grant them this right, for under pres ent laws the people Of Alaska have not the right to say tha; they will have prohibition. Their vote was merely an expression of their views. Congress must make the law.
 "The territorial legislature finds itself enmeshcd in the apron strings not only of congress, but of ten other foster parents, bureaus and commits sions that have acquired administra- tive functions-so many govern ments that they overlap and inter- lock to the helpless confusion of the Alaskan.
 "The rational development of our frontier wonderland demands, first, the full measure of home rule acc corded our other territories, and second, a centralized control in Alas ka over the administrative duties of those bureaus and commissions. ."- Seattle P. !.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
ENGLAND WANTS
 MORE MONEY
Hence, J. P. Morgan and Associates, of New York, Will Supply
 the Needful

New York, Jan. 17-Another Brit ish loan of S25O, 100000 is to be floated by the American banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company of New York.
 This will be the third loan fln- anced by the New York banking firm for Great Britain since the war start ed. The loan is to be backed by high grade collateral with five and one-half per cent interest. One hun dred million is to be retired at the end of one year and the balance at the end of two years. However. the bonds are at the option of the pur- chasers convertible into five and one half per cent British bonds matur- ing at the end Of twenty years.
 J. P. Morgan & Co. are forming countrywide syndicate of financial institutions to offer the bonds to in- vesto=i.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
SERVICES ARE
 WELL ATTENDED
Rev. Fathers O'Reilly and Meagher Pack Local Catholic Church
 Every Night

Tho series of meetings being con- ducted in Che Douglas Catholic church by Rev. Fathers p. F. o. Reilly and Thomas A Moagher, tray cling missionaries Of the church. are being we'll attended, tho church be- ing packed every night for the ser vices beginning at 7:3O o'clock. Many Protestauts are taking a deep
 interest in the meetings, the able discourscs delivered nightly being beneficial to oll alike regardless of sect or creed
 Tho series of services began Sun day night with a sermon by Father ORcmy He was well received and his highly interesting address at once popularlzcd him with his auditors. Father Meaghcr followed Monday night with an equally entertaining service and tho result has been crowd ed houses every night since, Che speakers alternating each evening. Rev. Father Turnoll, the veteran and wcll-liked priest from Skagway is also here and attending the nightly meetings
 Fathers ORcilly and Meaghcr re- ccuuy arrived in Alaska from Che outside. having lately conducted meetings throughout Che states of California. Oregon and Washington. Both are highly educated and admir- ably gifted with speech. The services win continue che remainder of this week and Sunday.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
POPULARIZING
 ATHLETIC CLUB
Second Smoker of D. I. A. A. c. Re suits in Many New Members
 Being Enrolled

The second smoker to be given by the Douglas Island Amateur Ath- lctic Club took place inn the Nata- torium last night whom from S.3O .untn l1:3O it was a merry round Of pleasure without cessation.
 Tho affair opened with a very gin- gory game Of basket ball between members of the Trcadwell and Doug las fire departments, the former winning by a narrow margin. Les Foreman operated the whistle and gave good satisfaction.
 Immediately following the game Mayor O'Connor. as president of the Club. took charge as master Of cere- monies and for the remainder of the evening things happened in rapid succession. Happy Duncan's shade orchestra was present from Juneau as we'll as Billie" Woodwork, pi- anlst and vocalist. Several short talks were made. stories were told and specialties given. There was an abundance of refreshment solids and fluids and smokes. Juneau and Thanc were both we'll represented.
 The crowning feature of the smok- CT was the fact that thirty new names were added to the Club mem bership. an of them good and sub stantIal men who will be a great acquisition to the organization which is rapidly becoming the most popu- lar one ever organized by the twin towns. Douglas and Treadwel.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
CASE OF BUCK FEVER

Alexander, the buck deer owned by the city and kept with his mate, a mild-oyed doe, on Mayflower Island. showed signs of general debility a few days ago to such an extent that Councilman Joe Reldl took compass sion on him and removed him to a warm stable where he has since been giving him treatment with Mayor o'Connor as consulting physician and bottle holder. At first Alexander appeared to be disgusted with life. He had a far-away. dim and distant look in his eyes, his pulse was irregu- lar and ever and anon his heart beats slipped cog-sometimes two cogs. There was something troubling him and a careful diagnosis was required to determine whether the trouble was on his mind or his stomach. It proved to be the latter and diet Of milk. followed by seaweed. cracked wheat and puffed rice, soon renewed Alex's interest in life and, unless complica- tions that are too much for the may or and councilman arise, he will be able to return to his home on the is- land and to his sorrowing and lonely mate in the near future. Alex has lived on the island for more than two years, being a present from a family named Alexander that cap tured him on Admiralty Island when he was a kid.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
ASPHYXIATED
 ON GAS BOAT
Two Die and Four Others Are Over, come on Launch Chichagoff
 Sunday Morning

II. w. R Holmes late ot fomoha California. and Dan Gallagher. an old time Alaskan. are dead as Che rc.ult of gas poison on Che launch Chlchagoff and J. ]. Spear Andrew Mlchaelsou. Frank Motzke and Oliver weyn narrowly escaped thc same fate. Che latter four being SO badly overcome as Go be unconcious when discovered.
 The launch Ieft Juneau for Chich- aroff late Saturday night and it was between n and 12 o'clock next day when che condition ot Che six men who were an quartorci in Che fore castle of Che launch was discovered. When found by che officers ot the boat the two men. Holmes and Gal- Iarher. were dead but thc other four were resuscitatcd after considerable work. Captain Rasmussen of the launch. in discussing thc accident, said.
 I've left Juneau Saturday night, the l4th oI January. at ll.55 o. clock. There were six passengers a- board down forward and ! was talk ing Co one who was going out Co cook at 5.45 Sunday morning He was .on deck chen. We had breakfast at n o'clock. After breakfast ! took the wheel and Che deckhand went 8nto Che iorecastle Co call the men shere for breakfast and he returned and told me something was wrong. sI can't get them up' be said.
 'He then went and called Che en- ,glueor and thc rest ot the passcn- .gers m tho cabin. The chief engineer rwcat into Che f9recastle and found aAe drain cocks on Che radiator open. He shut Che radiator oft and with the help ot Che deckhaud passed the men out on deck. The crew and pas- senEors did an they could Co bring them Go. We decided Co so Co che mine as that was Che nearest place Go a doctor. We arrived at Che mine at 3:3O o'clock Sunday afternoon. The doctor was called and they were au put ashore where aIl but che two who died are recovering under his care"
 The launch returned Co Juneau with Che bodies ot che unfortunate men. arriving late Monday night Gallagher was buried at Juneau "Wednesday. while Che body ot Holmes was shipped Go his California home where he has a wife and several chil. dren
 It is claimed that someone. uu- known co Che officers and crew. op- oned O radiator on Che boat. suppos- edly for Che purpose ot warming Che apartment where Che men were sleeping and that Che escaping gas from Che motor found its way into thelr quarters through the open radiator.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
GENEROUSLY SOAKED

Tho high cost of sleeping is keep ug pace with that Of living. A man who essayed to woo oblivion and rest iu Che waiting room of the ferry boat Gent at Juneau and who became ugly when asked to vacate. was fined S.OO and twenty days in jail there yes tcrday
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
STARTS NEW PAPER

Paul F. stauhope. for several years engaged tn the newspaper business at Ketchikan. also at Wron- Cell. has started a new paper at Cosmopolis. Wash, thc Cosmopolis Times stauhope sold the Wraugell Sentinel last summer and went south, not intending Co again engage in newspaper work.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
PEDDLING WITHOUT LICENSE

A Mexican named Felix was ar- rested this morning on the charge of peddllng without license. He was selling coal on the beach and there is a suspicion that he has also been doing business with booze as a side line. He will be tried by Magistrate Erie tomorrow morning
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
KILLED IN SEATTLE

Harry Agee, a young colored man who lived with his parents in Skag- way tn the early days and later in Dawson. where he was known in pugilistic circles as the Telluride Kid. his brother Roy being the Colorado Kid. was shot and killed few nights ago in Seattle. The parents now re- side in Seward.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
CLEVER CHECK ARTISTS

Late Seattle and Tacoma papers tell of the operations Of a gang of the most clever check artists ever known on the Pacific coast in those cities. It is not likely that their operations will extend to Alaska, this being n rathr difficult country for hurried getaways.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
BREACH OF PROMISE

The case oI uiyia Larsen against Robert s. McM,uan. breach ot prom ise. is now being tried tn Seattle court. The alleged wooIng took place iu the Iiitarod country. Me Milan is prominent miner iu Che interior and at one time was cx'er- slvely engaged tn fox farming. ll1 ia wants S50.000 for having her af- fections toyed with.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
"CUss" ONLY IN WINTER
Douglas and Treadwell Pension Committee.

This is the time of the year in Alaska when SO many people can be heard swearing that this winter is their last sure and certain. Three months from now when the sun is shining and all the world looks bright Alaska will look just a little better than any other place to the man who has to work for a living. Many a man has gone outside after having been thoroughly saturated with the independent spirit of the north and he has yearned to come back, 10 get away from the cheap and numerous competition, from the semi-slavcry that is ever a concomitant of so- called civillzatlon.-seward Gateway.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
OPENING NEW SALOON

John Walstead, a Juneau man, is preparing to open a saloon on Ferry Way in the rear Of the Owl Cafe having purchased the license of the Hunter hotel. The stock of the lat ter was sold yesterday by Deputy Marshal Naming. most Of it being purchased by Chris Vayich of the Victor Bar.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
APPROPRIATENESS MARRY

G. B. Smith, known in Ketchikan as Candy" Smith, and Mrs. F. Pur- inton, of the same place, were re- gently married in San Francisco and went to Honolulu on a wedding trip.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
CHRISTENING

Seth Theodore Orava and Alice orava. son and daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Seth Orava, of Douglas. were baptized in their home by Rev. Mar tin l.. Larson last Sunday evening. Mir. and Mrs Mike Heikkela served as witnesses.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19

Merchant and City Councilman Julius Jonsen, who has been roaming over the grcat Outside" for the past three months, arrived home on the Seattle Saturday night IT he com mitted matrimony while away, there was nothing in his trunk to indicate it on his arrival. He says "Barkus was williu'"
 Arthur Oslcrberg will leave to- morrow on tho Jefferson for the south, probably Arizona, where ho will look over the field with a view of locating permanently He has been here eleven years, more than half of which he has been employed in the Treadweu power plant. Mir. OBterberg's family win remain in Douglas until he decides on loca- ton.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
SAILS SOUTH TOMORROW

The steamer Al-H is duo tonight and will sail for thc south tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Douglas Island news., 1917-01-19
JEFFERSON SAILS TONIGHT

The steamer Jefferson will sail for the south about : o'clock this even ing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-06-28

-Everything marked down in
wings and flowers. LIMA EMCH.
-WANTED-Young girl about
Is years old to work in restaurant.
Inquire w. II. DECKER.
Constipation causes headache, indi-
gestion, dizziness, drowsiness. For a
mild, opening medicine, use Doan's
Regulets. 25c box at all stores.
WANTED job on farm
for the summer. Inquire James
Len, Box 3S9, Perrysburg, Ohio.
Miss Cenia Small has gone to
st. Louis, Mo-, for month S stay
with her aunt, Mrs. VIM. Camp
bell.
-WANTED-A girl for house
work. No cooking, washing or IRON
ing. Good wages. Mrs. T. H.
Tracy, River Home, Phone Main
124.
Mrs. Grant Holbrook attend
ed the commencement exercises of
the Toledo Scott High Friday
night. Her niece, Miss Alice Beck
ham, was one of the graduates.
On Wednesday evening, June
13, the Lady Rebekahs initiated
the following members: Miss
Bess Baird, Mrs. Nellie NAL
Ion, Mrs. Gertrude Vietch, Mrs.
Harriet Sweet, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Holbrook and Mr.. Snyder. After
the initiation refreshments were
served.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-06-28
On account of July 4th being
a holiday next weeks issue of
the Journal will be one day late.


I will offer my customers
very unusual values in panamas.
LIMA EMCH.
Miss Ruth Lahey of Bowling
is spending few weeks with her
aunt, Mrs. Val Schwind.
Miss Frances Caldwell has re-
turned from a pleasant vacation
spent at Pittsburg and other east
ern points.
Mrs. G.. w. Smith of Holland
is at the Phinefrank hospital re-
covering from an operation recent
ly performed.
Mrs. John Moser, Jr., had as
her guests Thursday her daughter,
Mrs. Ralph Kuhn, of Bowling
Green, and Mrs. Bernard O'Reil-
ley and daughter, Irene.
There will be an important
meeting of the Chautauqua guar
antors at the Civic rooms next
Tuesday evening, July 3, at s
O'Clock. All guarantors are urged
to be present. 19A
Mr.. Donald Finkbeiner is
home from Ann Arbor, Mich, and
will spend a month with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Fink
beiner, before leaving for training
at F't. Benjamin Harrison.
DR.. and Mrs. Bert Kinsley
entertained at dinner Tuesday eve
ming Mr.. and Mrs. F. Kalmbach
and daughter, Evelyn, of North
Baltimore and Mr.. and Mrs. J. j.
Dreher of Britton, Mich.
A letter from Mr.. Pierce H.
Norton of Redlands, California,
gives the information that he has
been travelling the coast for sew
eral weeks and that the weather
has been unusually hot-10S de-
grees, and figures like that.
The "Story Hour that
proved so popular at the Way
Library last summer will be re-
sumed during the vacation months
beginning this Thursday after
noon at three thirty. All children
invited.