A FINGERLESS BOAT OPERATOR
Adam Schneider, game warden for
southeastern Alaska, is probably the
only lingerless and thumbless operator
of a gas boat on the Pacific coast if
not in the world. How he does it is an
unfathomable mystery to any one who
hos not seen him do it.
Schneider has been in Aalska for a
quarter of a century. In ’90 he was
in the Klondyke, and spent seven thous
and dollars developing a placer claim
that failed to produce any returns.
Finding himself without funds in the
winter, he made another stake shoot
ing game, sold it for twenty-five cents
a pound and with the proceeds outfitted
himself for an expedition to Siberia.
He wtnt as far as Point Barrow by
dog team, and then across Bering sea
in skin boats. He prospected in Si
beria without results, and returned to
ence bay, and built a scow for traffic
which never came. He located claims
at Tin city, and while hauling logs over
the trail between Tin city and the
beach, a blizzard came up. For seven
hours he was lost in the storm.
Although he was only two miles from
his cabin when the whirling snow
bound him *in. He would have per
rished in the snow but for his lead dog
Pete. When he found that on aceount
of the violence of the storm he could
make no headway he cut them loose
from the sled. Schneider insists that
iVte could talk. T.'ne and again Peto
ran through the blinding storm to
Schneider’s cabin and endeavored to
make the neighbors understand that his
master was in peril. The neighbors
wondered at the dog’s strange conduct
but believed that Schneider werodtdw
but relieved that Schneider was home
In bed. Afer ea-’h futile attempt to
luing the neighbors, Pe:e would rush
back to Schneider, anc. when he found
tl.a he had fall n in the snow lie
world rouse him, anJ Sc! neider would
nrike another effort; to get home. Aft- r
stv»en hours strughe reached his
carin. It was too l.ne to save Ins £ng
e_s and thumbs, but Schneider still l*i
ii**' es that he was lucky to get out
alive.
[Naturally ingen ou«, always an ex
pert at machinery and having remark
able self reliance, he cam? to Juneau
ten years ago, procured a hull and an
old boiler and made a sfcean launch.
By sheer force of perseverance and en
ergy, he made a living, and when he
was appointed game warden, ho had
not only made a living without fingers
and thumbs for a decade, but had sav
ed enough to own a gas boath worth
two thousand dollars.
Schneider is not only able to run a
gas boat, but he c^n pull a trigger
with a knob of flesh which used to be a
thumb, and can cut his own fire wood.
Recently Schneider changed the
name of his gas boat to Eye, and
“Adam and Eve’; are alwTays together.
NOVEMBER THIRD, BIRTHDAYS '
Three memorable events occured on
the third day of Nov. First, the Mik
ado of Japan was born; twelve years
later Frank Back was born in Germany,
and some years after that on the same
day of the year, R. Drisock Fujii
countryman of the Mikado, was born.
All three of these famous personages
have celebrated the day ever since.
Fujii stood on the street in front
of his laundry all day last Friday,
grabing guests and taking them in to
receive his hospitality. There is, prob
ably, no more hospitable soul on earth
than this same Fujii.
At midnight, after the city council
had drunk the toast to the emperor of
fered by Mayor O’Connor, Marshal
Schafer asked: “You’re some rela
tion to the Mikado, arn’t you?”
1 ‘ All same Frank Back to German
Kaiser, ’ ’ quickly answered Fujii.
C. S. BLAKE MARRIED
Prof. C. S. Blake, principal of the
city schools at Ketchikan was married
on Oct. 25 to Miss Florence M. Daniels,
of Grand Rapids, Mich. The wedding
occured at Ketchikan.
Mr. Blake has- a great many friends
on the Gastineau channel, not only in
Juneau, where he taught last year in
the high school, but in Douglas. The
Sourdough extends to the young couple
its heartiest congratulations.
Douglas
Commercial
Club
St. flnrs
Alaska jewelry Co.L,
EXPERT' WATCH REPAIRING Alaska
Don’t Forget the
ANDERSON TOBACOBY
Near the 8aw Mill, Douglas
I
THE ECONOMY
of hand work show., In the life of
the linen.
DOUGLAS HAND LAUNDBY
Front Street
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| Hugh Day
BILLIARDS AND POOL
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
Bring that old suit down and let us A Q xiniir
look at it. Chances are we can make it lNILt W
Better let us put a new collar on your overcoat # 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
For a Good Smoke Try Douglas
HENRY CLAY
JUNEAU FERRY & NAVIGA
TION COMPANY
Time Card
Leaves Juneau for Douglas and
Treadwell
*8:00 a. m. 1:00 p. ai. 6:30 p. m.
9:00 a. m. 3:00 p. m. 8:00 p. m.
11:00 a. m. 4:30 p. m.
Leaves Treadwell for Douglas and
Juneau
*8:25 a. m. 1:40 p. m. 6:55 p. m.
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. m. 7:05 p. m.
10:45 a. m. 3:30 p. m. 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.