The Alaska Juneftu-Douglai Island News
Issued by the Alaska Treadwell and Alaska
Juneau Gold Mining Companies on
the 1st and 15th of each month
L. S. FERRIS .Editor
This publication, though unpretentious
in size and scope, is founded on a spirit
that is not measured by breadth or num
ber of pages—it is intended to be a com
munity letter sont twice each month to
all former employees of the Alaska Ju
neau, the Alaska Treadwell, the Alaska
Mexican and the Alaska United Gold Min
ing Companies who are bearing arms in
our country's service. By aiding and en
couraging this publication these com
panies hope to render some slight service
to our boys "over there,”—for those who
have lived with us must feel the same
human tie to the community that the com
munity has for those on our honor rolls.
No news is as welcome as “home" news
and If the modest publication helps our
boys realize that we are keeping the
“home fires burning,” and keeps alive their
home town interest until they are with
us again, it will have justified its exist
ence.
Our honor rolls have been fairly easy
to compile, but it is more difficult to se
cure correct addresses. Anyone who
knows names not appearing on our roils
will confer a favor by notifying the editor
at once. We will have to look to the
friends of those on the honor roll to sup
ply correct addresses, and we request that
all addresses bo turned In promptly in
order that our mailing list can be com
piled.
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The following appears In the issue of
the "Camp Dodge Dodger of Oct. 18th. a
copy of the paper having been sent to J.
F. Hurley by Maurice Casey, and refers
to a young man who worked for the Eagle
Mining Company at Eagle River: “Pri
vate John Doubeck, 14th Infantry, a vic
tim jf the “flu,” while 111. called a Red
Cross man to his bedside and declared his
intention of making out .his last will
Doubeck is a native Hungarian, but has
been a member of the 3rd Battalion, 14th
Infantry for some months and was sta
tioned with the battalion at Fort Seward,
Alaska. He has no close relative and but
distant relatives in Hungary, so he willed
his property to the American Red Cross.
This amounted to about $1,400, including
'three $100 Liberty Bonds and deposits in
a bank at Juneau, Alaska, amounting to
$1,100.”
Captain Royal R. Pullen. Co. F., 28th
Engineers (quarry), A. E. F., writes:
"We landed in France in time for the
start of the big American Show but are
all happy and well-billeted again and are
-•orktng a quarry now. What do you
think? I ran into Lawrence Wright and
Paul Carpenter on one of the roads yes
terday when out scouting for material.
I sure was glad to see them and tliev look
fat and healthy. We all get good eats
over here anyway and lots of warm cloth
ing. If any one tells you that our govern
ment isn’t treating us fine and hasn’t got
everything we need, just don’t listen to
them, because we have."
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Former Douglas and Treadwellites now
residing In Seattle and Tacoma have form
ed an Alaska Club with a membership be
tween fifty and sixty. During spring and
summer many uocial gatherings were held
at the various homes, also picnics at the
parks. This organization is trying to do
its share of war work as well, having
adopted Ward 84 at the Base Hospital.
Camp Lewis, and furnishing this ward
with curtains, pictures, flowers, fruits^
jellies, jams, etc., iu fact any of the com
forts and luxuries that help cheer and
brighten a soldier’s life while at a hos
pital.
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J. W. Martin, of Douglas, received a let
ter in the last mail from C. E. Kinnune
in France. A number of other Island boys
are in the same regiment with him. Kin
nune sent his picture, taken with Onnie
Honkancn, and both boys are looking
healthy and happy. Kinnune is getting
fat, and states that he has gained nearly
thirty pounds since he entered the serv
ice.
Harry A. Shelton, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. W. Shelton, now residents of Ketchi
kan, died of influenza at Camp Dodge.
Iowa. They were for a number of years
residents of Douglas, and at one time
conducted a meat-market there.
Bears bigger than any other on the
globe roam on the Alaska Peninsula and
on the islands of the Aleutian string, ac
cording to C. Madsen, big game hunter,
game warden and fur trader of Unimak
island, which lies near Unimak Pass,
where the steamers come out through the
Aleutian islands enroute to Nome and the
Bering sea. “How would you like to
bring down a bear weighing a ton?” Mr.
Madsen asked. “I had that experience two
years ago. The bear measured twelve feet
four Inches from snout to tall tip and
weighed approximately 2,000 pounds when
dressed. It took three shots to bring him
down.”