The daily Alaskan., 1917-11-05

dredges for quite a while yet this season the first freezing of the water forming a blanket of ice over the remaining water which runs through the ditch to their power station.
 The famous old Yukon steamer Yidette was lost recently in Lake LeBarge while being lowed from Whitehorse down the river. Every thing was lovely until a gale blew up from the Northwest, and the old craft, having no steam pow CT or steering gear of her own' filled with water and joined Davy Jones. Only the boiler was left in the Vidette when she sunk and the steamer Dawson later removed that.
 On exhibition in the window or Burford's corner in Juneau is rutabagas 17% pounds, a S-pound turnip, and vegetables raised on the Eagle River farm of Tom Dod- sen. serving as samples to show what the soil will do in this sec ton of the country, even despite the adverse weather conditions e1- perienced the past season.
 At the Juneau General Hospital last week the entire knee joint Of Harry stockman was removed from one of his legs and the bones fas- tened together without laying joint. The operation was made necessary ly diseased bones in the joint which could not be cured. stockmau was night watcbman at th Worthen Mills. The leg will be about two inches shorter and will be stiff, but stockman will be able to get around without crutches.
 Mrs. ". w. Council, prseident Of the Cordoya Chapter, American Red Cross received the following let ter from the people of Ntzina: "To- da, we are forwarding $11s.OO to the First Bank of CordoYa, to be placed to the credit of your organ ization, this sum being the pro ceeds from a raffle which has just been drawn here in the aid Of the Red Cross. The prize was a mana carved cobellite inkstand, made an donated by Sam Means and the winning number was held by Dave Young. We are all interested in - o great work of which you are a part"
 The Sans souci building owned by Gus Roene and which has
 oused the Douglas postoffice for more than five years, is now a mess of ruins, fire having tevsstat- cd it at an early hour Monday morning last.
 When the fire was discovered smoke was issuing from practical fly all parts of the building in volumes and, regardless of the hour, .1:SO a. m., the volunteer firemen and hundreds of citizens were soon at the scene of the Conflag- ration.
 Never was the efficiency of the volunteer fire department of Doug las more thoroughly tested and never vas better work or more comulete discipline witnessed.
 Everything in the building save tFe post office equipment, mall and fixtures, was destroyed except one piano which was stored on the first floor and which was practical Iy ruined both by heat and water.
 The origin of the fire is a mys- tery. While the second floor was subdivited into living apartments, n&ne of them were occupied except one, and the owner Of the buildng' Gus Rcepe, was living alone in that, his family being in Seattle at the present time. Roene only slept there and, so far as known, there had been no fire in the building for several hours. Roene went to Ju- neau Sunday evening and Is said to have spent the night Rt the salmon Creek power house with friends. At any rate, he was not in Douglas at the time his building was burned. The fact that the building was insured for S7,6OO caused many insinuating remarks to be made as to the origin of the fire Of the amount of insurance on N..,aEz- o oOmOaOv raDrp6euted