Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-20
Monday was rainy all day. The rain barrels were well filed

I There is quito Il rivalry between Tel egraph Creek and Glenora as hradwat- CTS of navigation. and, although Tele graph is l2 miles further mp the river from Glenora, she is getting the trade.
 The U. S. revenue cutter Cosmos, Captain Hofstad, arrived Saturday af- ternoon, twenty-four hours from Jul neau, with the steam launch Scout in tow The Scout will be used here. J. D. McArthur writes that he has left Seattle for Bakersfield, new min ing town in Whatcom county, Washing ton, near the British Columbian line that already has 4,0O0 population.
 The steamboats Casca and Monte Cristo arrived last Sunday from Tele- down Monday with the mail. Passeng- CTS and freight were carried both ways.
 That venerable and veracious indi- yidual. the 'oldest inhabitant," sol emnly ayers that the present spell of dry weather is of longer duration than any previous one in the history of the : island.
 Eugene Hall returned from Skaguay Monday, where he went to see Frank Reed, who was shot by "Soapy' Smith. Mr. Hall reports that Reed could not live, and that E. E. Bair went on to Lake Bennett /
 \ select dancing party was given i'll the court house Tuesday evening by Mrs. J. r. Lindsey in honor of her friend Miss Jeneyeve Treadwell, who is visiting here from How Kan. \ pleas ant time is reported.
 The steamer Mcdonnell, Captain Raab, arrived at , P. m. Friday from Glenora, having left there at 6 o'clock a m She was at Telegraph the day be- fore. The Mcdonnell brought down p passengers and some freight.
 RC. Diehl and John Stephens went on fishing and hunting trip from Sat urday to Monday to Iarembo island. They saw nothing of Porter, but ran smack across big whale i'll the straits between Woronofski and Iarembo is- lands.
 About dozen Klondikers came down Ol lIlt AiBllN lt A16Aidy lloii ulh Creek to get u taste of civilization They left Spokane in April and travel ed overland via Ashcroft, arriving i'll Telegraph few days ago. They will go on to Teslin.
 Last Saturday afternoon the numer- ous fishers around Cannery point were lifted by fourfoo wave which came out of the mouth of the Stikeen river and tossed boats around ill lively manner for few minutes. The wave was not noticed up the river.
 MT. Haller, of Seattle, was a passeng- CT from the south on the Utopia last Thursday and returned on the same boat on Monday. He reports very pleasant trip. MT. Haller Is one of the live, wide-awake business men of Seat tie, and d jolly good fellow socially.
 If the numerous parties of ladies, who are invading the woods, gathering Der ries, would preserve and press the nu- merous varieties of wild flowers, the specimens would be valuable addi- tion to the free museum about to be established by the Twenty Five Thou sand Club.
 Tuesday an Indian got off the Tope- ka from Ketchikan and displayed to the wondering eyes of the crowd on the dock piece of ore some Is inches long and nine inches in diameter which cer- tainly held upwards of S1,0oo in gold. He took it on to Juneau. The speci- men came from pocket
 The steamer City of Topeka arrived from Seattle last Tuesday with large number of tourists, who took i'll the sights of the town, and photographed the totem poles. When the Topeka sailed she carried Willoughby Clark, NJ. J. Cochran and A. G. Mcbride, attor- neys, who have legal business at Sitka. The Topeka is expected back next Sun. day evening"
 The steamer Monte Cristo, Frank Murray captain, got away last Wednes- day afternoon at o'clock for Tele- graph creek. F. II. Worlock, resident agent of the Canadian Development company, was aboard. The steamer An glian, which the company imported last winter, and put together at Lake Tes- lin, has made it's initial trip to Five Finger rapids and back.
 Thursday evening lot of steers were being unloaded from the steamer Al-ki onto the McKinnon dock, when one of the animals broke lose and took a head CT in the bay. After vainly trying to climb up the piles, it headed for Shak-