Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-06-11
LOCAL NEWS.

finished and started up yesterday.
The ,louRN Al. office was moved this
week into the Seward block on Front
street.
Tho steamer Al III was advertised to
sail from Seattle ON the 9th instant,
northbound.
The steamer toursrr is making reg
ular trips between Glenora and Tcle-
graph Greek.
The weather the past week has been
delightful. Most of the days We're
clear and sunny.
The steamer Barano1 sailed Mon
duy for How Kan and way ports, carry
| ng the /. s. mail.
\ whole quarter of IL beef was stolen
out of Front street butcher shop
! "Wednesday night.
Wilson u Sylvester have shipped
| load of lumber on the scow Garnet to
Juneau. Wrangel is exporting
The soldiers of co. H. 18th L. $. In
fanlly will soon have cosy quarters in
the old loo houses on the plaza.
Captain H. J. Woodsidc wrote from
Glrnora this week that lac and X. }.
| Met hcsncy would push on to rcslin.
The last court Was held in Wrangcl
Monday. Brown X Davidson got Il
Judgment against John Malone for
Slio
tallani see II, in our new quarters.
I'VE may have come from the same
place back East, God knows. we
don't.
\ river boat on Monday brought
down from Glcnora - horses belong
ing to Mackenzie. Mann X Go. 100
more Will follow.
&c. Jensen returned from Sitka on
the Cottage City Thursday morning.
where he ina, been attending court Il, Il
jarAnan
The Skagway Daily Alaskan says
that Collector lvey ha, been indicted
by the grand jury at sitka, but does
not state the charge.
Nearly all OF the principal business
houses and many of the residences are
being painted. and the town is assum-
ing civilized appearance.
One of the soldiers of Co. II, l4th
rs. Infantry, has become insane from
the effects of IA sunstroke last year, and
is confined in the t. 5. Jail
They say that the genial merchant
case. of the tiru of Case Il Wilson has
added ~" to his namee So that now
Yen addre,, him Nh. Casey
The wrcrkrr~ at work on the Clara
! Nevada arr. persons from this place
fa,.y arr, )rt in- to verify the report
that she had rio",ooo in gold dust
Iahoard
1ae mercury -to. d al no degrees in
Gle loia fea DAY, ago. The warm
weather Ia the Cae,iar district is melt
ine the sno~ and the Stikccn river is
booming.
\ band of horses otampeded last
Monday on the south end of Etolin
bav and ran toward town breaking
down several hundred feet of sidewalk.
They were chased back and corralled.
Three prominent citizens went fish
ing on Friday and through some mis-
take got the lunch basket and bait
basket mixed. aud now the story of
Jonah and the whale is u back number.
G. T.. Davidson and Webster Brown,
civil engineers. have dissolved partner
ship. Mr.. Davidson went to Juneau
last Tue. day. MIR. Brown is busy fin
Shing the town~it. survey.
The government buildings ON the
plaza were whitewashed this week
The grand jury at Sitka is busy white
washing officials. The kalsomining
costs more In the latter case.
, On Monday the barque Richard III
was towed from Etolin bay to the
Davidge wharf, and the coal was UNI
loaded on the wharf. The barque will
i. go to Nanaimo for another cargo.
The steamer Queen arrived from the
} south ON Monday with 300 tourists
, Many of them carried kodaks, and the
totem poles will be in evidence in
| in many a distant home. She went on
I north the same day.
5 1t is reported that Mann & Macken-
| zie received the enormous sum of $4,000
per day during the time that firm has
} been working on the Yukon railroad
scheme. One hundred and eighteen days
, at $4,000 per day amounts to S7Os.OOO
not so bad after all.
Bucks bar, famous in the early Cas-
star excitement, is being quietly
worked, and miners are making SIS and