LOCAL NEWS.
The Mexico will be placed on the Alas
ka route in March.
Mr. J. J. Beattie paid a visit to Doug
las on Monday last.
Assistant District Attorney Daly has
returned from his trip to Wrangel.
Mr. George Walker arrived on the To
peka. He has been visiting on the
Sound for the past six weeks.
Mrs. J. W. Bixby and family returned
home on the Topeka and are sojourning
at the Occidental hotel, Juneau.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Matthus sailed for
the Sound bn the Al-ki. They intend
taking up their residence in California.
The Port Townse..d Call says the
Douglas Miner is blight and newsy,
and bids fair to excel all other papers in
the territory. Next.
Mr. Scott Lindsay, of Decker Bro’s.
was an incoming passenger on the To
peka. His many friend* will be pleas d
to see him home again.
The Hon. B. P. Moore, collect r of
customs, arrived on the Topeka on his
return journey from San l'innc'sco. He
sailed for Sitka on Monday morning. ^
Judge Delaney came on the Pinta
ft from Sitka, transfr rred to the Seaolin at
Point Retreat and arrived in Juneau on
y Saturday. His Honor departed on the
Topeka for Sitka.
Ill consequence of the high winds
which blew wi li such violence at Tread
well on Thursday last the Al-ki experi
erc d considerable delay in unloading
her cargo of t oal.
Neil Ward, one of the ovvnets of the
Regan property at Sheep creek was in
Juneau this week after some | owder and
supplies. He says the property looks
well, and he is much encour ged. This
vein is on the Silver Queen bel , and
contains the same ore as ttie Queen.
Mr. Ed Deiker returned on the Tope
ka af er an absence of several months
accompanied by Mrs. Decker. Mr:
Decki r is busy shaking hemts with his
friends and telling them what a good
time he had.
Mr. J. P. Jorgenson arrived on the To
peka accompanied by his blushing bride.
Mrs. Jorgenson was fornurly Miss Lizzie
D. Heiishelwood. The nuptials occurred
at San Francisco on January 17. The
Miner extends to the happy pair its
heartiest felicita ions.
We announced last week the sad intel
ligence of the death ol the infant daught
er of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Behrends. We
1-arn that Mr. Behrends left for the
Sound on the Al ki and intends return
ing here with Mrs Belli ends and the re
mains of their little daughter. Upon
their arr.val here the burial services will
be held and the interment will take
place at Ev rgreen cemetery.
Owing to the Episcopal social the
prayer meeting at the gospel hall will
be held on Thursday instead of Wednes
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Orton returned
on the Topkka, and the ladies at the
Occidental hotel are busy telling all
about the new styles.
C. W. Garside, who has been engaged
in surveying the claims of the Boston
and Alaska Mining Company, at Funter
bay, returned to Juneau on the S aolin.
The Childrens’ Home Missionary So
ciety will hold their first social at the
Douglas Gospel hall next Friday after
noon. Children who are not already
members of the society are invited to the
social and requested to become regular
members by attending the meetings.
At the last weekly meeting of the Se
attle Mining Bureau held at the Hotel
Northern, Seattle, Mr. G. W. F. Johnson
the representative of the Juneau business
men’s association, read an interesting
paper on Alaska quartz mining. A large
number < f mi ing men were present and
the paper was the feature of the evening.
Mr. L.G. Kaufman, of Kaufman Bros,
Juneau, is staj ing at the Hotel Butler,
^Seattle.
Mr Kaufnnn rt presents the Juneau
•hatuber of commerce, and is in Seattle
^ or the purpose of urging upon the
chamber of commerce of that city, and
other commercial bodies in Tacoma,
Portland and San Francisco, the impoit
ance of the passage of the b.ll now be
fore congres- to give Alaska a delegate
in that body.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The city of New Orleans is now six
inches lower than it was fort}' years ago.
The oldest national flag in the world
is that of Den .nark, which has been in
use since the year 1219.
The new electric light at Fire island,
New York harbor, will be one of 450,
000,000 candle power.
The public lauds still vacant in the
Unit'd S ates amount to over 700,000,
000 acres, without including Alaska,
with its 359,000,000 acres.
Ill the year ioo B. C. Hepparchion
' counted 1,012 stars with the naked eye
and Holenians 1,022. First clasa tele
scopes of today r veal over 100,000,000.
Dr, Lawson Tucker has discovered
that the Roentgen rays exist in nature—
namely in the ordinary glow worm,
whose light penetra'es thin sheets of alu
minium and other substances.
William Robinson, a Missouri colored
man, has been sentenced to prison for
102 years—99 years for killing his sweet
heart, and tlnee years for stealing a
horse.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining Compa
ny has declared a dividend of $15 per
share, payable on the 1st of February.
This will circulate $1,500,000 among the
shareholders, and makes $3,500,000 dis
tributed during the company’s fiscal
year. The total dividends paid by the
company, including the above, amounts
to $48,350,000.
Mrs. Wm. McKinley is a tetotaller,
but the president elect does not always
turndown his glass when wine is served.
It is not known what course will be
adopted during his term of office in this
regard. When Mrs. Hayes presided over
the social functions at the White House
she did not have wine served.
Mrs. Dr. C. S. Leonhardt arrived on
the Al-ki Wednesday evening.1
The Rt. Rev. P. T. Rowe, Bishop of
Alaska, and Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Doug
las, did not leave on the Al-ki as they
originally intended. The Bishop Pro
ceeded to Sitka on the Topeka, and will
shortly return here. The Right Rever
end gentleman has postponed his trip to
the Yukon until June.
Douglas Gospel Hall.—Prayer meeting
I every Wednesday evening, at 7:30, led
by Miss Cassie Williams,
i Singing class every Saturday evening
at 7:30.
Sunday services.—Children’s home
missionary society at 2 p. m.
Evangelistic services at 7:30 p. m. Lots
of singing, short sermons. Everybody
welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Evans
Missionaries.
Douglas citizens have good reason to
he elated over their prospects. The
sinking of a five-compartment shaft by
the Treadwell company during the com
ing season is an undertaking of such im
portance as to be worthy of special men
tion. The event is also of much interest
to the mining world. The probable re
sult of sinking a shaft of this capacity
to only liaif the depth contemplated,
means more to Douglas than the location
of half a dozen mining plants of ordinary
size in this immediate vicinity. We un
derstand it to be the intention of the
company to sink their new shaft for
1,000 feet if the ore bodies justify such a
course. Evtry hundred feet that the
great Treadwell lode is demonstrated to
exist below the present development
means a long term of years added to the
usefulness of the present plant. Should
the lode be found to extend for 1,000
feet, the magnitude of the plant which
could be profitably employed in reduc
ing the ore. few can comprehend.
The last few months have been very
important ones in the history of Alaska,
with respect to quartz mining and the
results of the season we are about to en
ter upon will be eagerly looked for.