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SANDSTONE ESTATE
Application has been made for the
appointment of Neil Ward as adminis
trator of the estate of O. L. Sand
stone, who died recently at his home
in Norway. Sandstone was the owner
of mining claims at Eagle river.
FOUR HUNDRED WHALES
The whale schooners have arrived in
Seattle from their season’s trip to the
Arctic ocean. They captured four
hundred whales during the season, the
largest measuring 86 feet.
CONSERVING BOGOSLOF
Maybe Mr. Finchot will try to per
suade the Bogoslof, the Aleutian vol
cano now in action, to quit wasting its
resources.—Ex.
THIRTY-SEVEN LIGHTS
Since April, 1910, thirty-seven lights
have been established along the sea
coast of Alaska. Four old lights have
been repaired. Eighteen buoys have
been established, making altogether
56 new aids to navigation.
Two tons of Bar sand is to be ship
ped next month to the Black Sand Co.,
of St. Louis, by Doctor Martin Dam
ourette. The Black Sand company makes
a specialty of determining the best
method for working dredging grounds,
and as soon as the returns are received,
Doctor Damourette is prepared to place
two Keystone drills on the Bar, follow
ed by a dredge as soon as the testing
bores are finished.
There has been fully forty locations
made at the Bar, which takes up all
the dredging ground, and many inqui
ries are being made by mining men,
several offering to take bonds on the
property. Iron posts have been erect
ed marking the locations, and a survey
will shortly be made by a surveyor.
A crew of twenty-eight men are now
employed at Snowslide Gulch back of
Juneau for the Treadwell company.
The crew consists of hand miners, la
borers, carpenters and machinists.
The hand miners are driving the tun
nel that will tap the Alaska-Juneau,
the carpenters are timbering it, and the
machininsts under Clarence Carpenter,
are putting up a compressor to drive a
couple of Burley drills. The work of
driving the tunnel is going quite slow
at present, but when the compressor is
working, which will be very shortly, it
s thought that the crew will shatter
ome records for tunnel driving. A
jlacksmith will very shortly go over
here from Treadwell to attend to
harpening the steel and doing other
tlier blacksmith work around the
amp.
Mosquitoes in this ice-bound north
ern country, Alaska, are a plague be
yond relief. They come to life about
the middle of May, before the ground
is thawed out and while many feet of
.ice still cover the kikes and all but the
swiftest rivers. Stagnant, sun-heated
water t is not in the least necessary.
They breed in the glaciers wherever a
bit of earth or manure has melted a
little, ipool. '.- Their wrigglers are seen
in running ice water. By the 1st of
June it is uncomfortable to sleep with
out protection, and from that time on
lihtil September, -when the first frosts
have • benumbed them, especially dur
ing. the. wfirm, jainy season of July
and August* they become, a never ceas
ing ^scourge,, swarming in thousands.
The Alaskan mosquito is small,
brown, silent and very'much in earn
>est. He never sings a warning nor
fools about selecting a spot to his
taste, but comes in a bee line with his
probe and gets into action. Every
inch of your clothing is industriously
bored so that you look like an ani
mated brown cocoon, and the slightest
exposed spot on wrist or neck is
promptly set on fire. I just experimented
with a small hole in my glove. After
the first mosquito had found the open
ing others came in quick succession
to the spot. He left some microscopic
“kind lady and no dog” sign there. If
you kill the first and left his carcass
it served as a warning not at all. The
others came the faster, and the more you
killed the more eager the survivors be
came, perching quite unmoved on the
remains of their confreres.
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pays
Douglas
Commercial
Club
Alaska Jewelry Co.
EXPERT 1A/ATCH REPAIRING Alaska
$t. Ann’s
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Douglas}
Don’t Forget the
ANDERSON TOBACORY
Near the Saw Mill, Douglas
THE ECONOMY
of hand work showt, in the life of
the linen.
DOUGLAS HAND LAUNDRY
Front Street
Hugh Day
BILLIARDS AND POOL
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
Bring that old suit down and let us A C
look at it. Chances are we can make it I'I Ha W
• Better let us put a new collar on your dvercoat ‘ now; It will turn
cold one of these days.
DOUGLAS CLEANING AND DYE WORKS
Having purchased the entire
stock of George Burford, I am sell
in all wool underwear at manufac
turers’ prices.
jack McDonald
You ’ll find the best Stock of.
Tobaccos at the Douglas News
Stand.
R. R. HUBBARD
BY CAREFULLY BUYING
a small stock I can sell better Shoes
for less money than other stores
DENNY ORFANUS
St. Ann’s Road
JUNEAU PERRY & NAVIGA
TION COMPANY
Time Card
Leaves Juneau for Douglas and
Treadwell
*8:00 a. m. 1:00 p. in. 6:30 p. in.
9:00 a. m. 3:00 p. m. 8:00 p. in.
11:00 a. m. 4:30 p. in.
Leaves Treadwell for Douglas and
Juneau
*8:25 a. m. 1:40 p. m. 6:55 p. in.
10:35 a. m. 3:25 p. m. 8:25 p. m.
12 noon 4:55 p. m.
Leaves Douglas for Juneau
*8:30 a. m. 1:45 p. in. 7:05 p. m.
10:45 a. m. 3:30 p. ra. 8:30 p. m.
12:05 p. m. 5:05 p. m.
*On Sundays this trip is omitted.
Late trip leaves Juneau at 11 o ’clock
on Wednesday and Saturday only.