Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-21

Judge Clark Ia one of the boat whist players in Alaska.
 IT you are the owner of claim. euu .uIt Case. the dreamer.
 Ar. Barker left on The Eosalie, for Portland. where be will permanently locate.
 We bnee reason ta believe that Judge Johnson intends Co hold the November term of court in Juneau.
 Mir. James and Alr Case returned from brief prospecting trip Sunday. They found some quartz which they consider fair, and located couple of claims
 Sixty five mules and bell mare came down the river last Sunday night on the Monte Cristo, and at this writing are still waiting for chance to get up to Skaguay.
 Judge Clark and Mr. NJ. j. Cochran, two of our most prominent lawyers, made flying trip to ketchikan this week. on legal business, and returned on the Discovery.
 Billy Mills returned to this city last Tuesday night direct from Dawson City. He was there two months, part of which time he was sick. He says that the typhoid fever is raging at Dawson.
 One day last week a young woman called Wilhelmina was crowned queen of the Netherlands. and as much dis play was made of the affair as if she had been elected governor of New York.
 The News office is under obligations to MT. G. A. McCulloch for procuring the data for the tide table which we publish this week. The table is very carefully prepared and allowance is made for the difference in latitude and longitude between this place and Sitka.
 Judge Jackson returned to Fort Wrangel on the Discovery, from trip to Metlakahtla where he held court for several days. He enjoyed the trip very much and to our certain knowledge brought back with him one of the choicest appetites that ever graced the inner man.
 Prince of Wales Island is giving up some of its treasure. Some very val ua5le discoveries have recently been made in that part of Southeastern Al aska, one ton of the ore being sufficient to make fortune. One more year will find this par. of Alaska one of the greatest mining districts in the world.
 Mir. Smith, of the Fort Wrangel Fish Curing Co, very kindly contributed ten pound box of halibut to the News. We wish by this to manifest our appre- citation of the kindness. We have tasted cured fish before, but nothing to equal this The rich flavor of the fish is not destroyed, and it has the real halibut taste.
 A man who just came down the river on the Monte Cristo informed the News man that the Teslin trail is nOw in good shape all the way through, the seven miles that had been injured by fire having been repaired, He also said that while the trail was in good condition for packing, it was nc good for carts, the hill slopes having been injured some what by cattle passing over them.
 For two or three nights this week Fort Wrangel put on metropolitan airs, and several fistic encounters only added to the general hilarity of the occasion. Some of the parties, who lately arrived from Teslin, Glenora and Telegraph Creek, at the sight of salt water became somewhat enthusiastic and "took on" so much fresh meat, or red liquor, we don't know which, that they lost sight for the time being of the all absorbing gold field rush and, to be plain about it, were too drunk to catch boat.
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