Stikeen River journal., 1898-04-23
LOCAL. NEWS.

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 \ large number of indians went to Ectchikan on the steamer City of Se- lttle Monday.
 Louis Watson had fine letter about Wranucl in the Victoria Colunist of he lst instant.
 asst Tuesday the steamers D.igo, nnd tzarina collded at Juneau, The piriyo was somewhat disabled.
 been d landmark in Wrangcl for about twenty years, was torn down Il few days ago.
 Mrs. $. ]. Lcnont will lecture in the cDurt hot ,c tomorrow Sunday evening at o'clock, Psychometric readings will follow.
 Thc Indians began salmon fishing last Monday, and are making big catches. Their quaint canoes present an interesting sight in the harhor.
 Rev. ]. NJ. Trcca will hold services in the court house tomorrow Sunday morning. at To o'clock, for the mem- Drrs of the Roman Catholic caurch.
 The big pile driver for the Duns!nuir wharf was towcd to the north end yes tclday afternoon, and preparations are heiuy made to begin work at once.
 The weather this week has been of the scmi-trupiral order. Not cloud shut out the warm sunshine. One day the waters of the harbor were as smooth as Il mirror.
 A. NJ. Burns has started an Alaskan museum. His first contribution is an o!d Russian int-lock pistol, which W as dug out of the ground near the Jackson block one day last week.
 The shell game men 'haTe folded their tents like the Arabs and as sl- lcntly stole away. The alleged ''bureau of information is gone. Only the totem poles remain.
 The steamer Ming Chow arrived from Victoria Monday with POO tons of freight for Mackanzie. Mann Co. Tine freight was immediately takcn to their warehouse on Cottonwood island.
 Major George II. Corey has establish ed trausportation rates on his two river steamers. which will run to Glcnora. Single fares will be $l3: and freights, SlO per ton. The boats will leave here about May 10th.
 A. J. Mckay, passenger on the North Pacific, which passed here Thursday. bound south, was robbed of $500 in yrecnbacls aboard after leav ing Skagway. There was no clue to the thief. The money was in $loO bills.
 If Walter Bowen is correctly re- ported in the Seattle cPost-lntclliycncer of the eth instant, he is lit to blossom out as a yellow journalist. The pre- tended interview is d tissue of false hoods about Wrangel
 The Troop wharf was practically completed on the 20th instant. and the steamer Coqutlam. Captain Newcomb, was the first to dock. The old wharf of Reid X Sylvester's which has stood for the past twenty years, is being torn down.
 Daniel Farley was held to answer yesterday by Judge Jackson before the grand jury at Sitka on d charge of an assault with deadly weapon. The trouble grew out of a game of cards, when Farley is said to have made a gun play.
 The bones of the old chief of the klinket indians, which have been in a hollow of the Raven famil t.strHa- pole on Front Street, were removed and' scattered by some vandal last week. The indians gathered them, and gave them burial in their graveyard.
 The post-ottice was moved Thursday from the residence of w. K. Lear to the Black block. The quarters are very roomy. There are 100 call boxes, 80 lock boxes 12 lock drawers, and o6 boxes for the general delivery. Since the 9th instant 8ll LOGO have been issued in postal money orders sent abroad, and Sl.0O0 have been paid here.
 Last Thursday, at the early hour of three o'clock in the morning man by the name of West built house on d vacant lot on Front street. At four o'clock, the house of West was torn down by man named Kibler After daylight West had Kibler arrested on a charge of destroying personal pro- perty. kibler was promptly tried by ; ldge Jackson, and acquitted. The lot belongs to kibler.
 Last Sunday the steamer Ramona conveyed an excursion party to the ice on the Stikeen river. The trip oc- cApied about four hours, and was thor
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