Douglas Island news., 1899-03-22
THE NEWS MAN 1T NRANGEL
A Flying Trip to One of the NiceSt Towns Tn All
 Alaska.
THE WAIT FOR THE TOPEKA

The News man was on the 'go' last week. The stern lines had been let go on the P. C. $. $. Co.'S steamer Al-Ki when the writer appeared at the dock. Whether we wore a longing look on our phiZ is unknown to us for we do not carry looking glass, but the big,portly l first officer took one eloquent and affeC tionate look at us and then ordered a gang plank to be lowered for our spe- cial benefit and we lost no time in climbing aboard of the "pack-horSe' of the company, for the old Al-ki always gets there. and if she ever lOafed around on the beach or rocks more than once we did not hear of it. The trip to Fort Wrangel was uneventful. We laid up at the mouth of the Mar rows for time and did not arrive i'll the city on the island until the next morning.
 We formerly lived at Fort Wrangel and it seemed like getting home again. It is said that the town is quiet, but all Alaska towns are i'll the same fix just now. However. Wrangel will come out of the kinks" all right in the spring, when the ground settles. There was d good big crowd at the wharf, and, of course, John k. Sales was there. John came near entering the pearly gates last fall. He fooled around slow blast at one of his mines, and when the thing went off, |, some parts of John came up missing and in fact never were found, but there is enough left of him to make one of the best men on earth. Deputy Marshal Grant is always at the wharf when the boat arrives. He "never sleeps.' He Is a little fellow. but possesses enough nerve and grit for dozen men. He will tackle anybody that ought to be arrested and he never yet failed to get bis man into the baStile.
 We'll, we are home again and as we stroll around the town shaking hands with the boys. we come across Dad" Strouse. who stays by Fort Wrangel i'll a most affectionate manner. Hello, therem and the sound comes from Cap tain Adams. the local inspector. Send me the News" says the Captain as he reached for his pOcketboOk. He is one of the best and cleanest officers con nected with the customs service i'll Alaska. Hirsch, another one of the boys, Case, Wilson, George Clark. Whit ney, Donald Sinclair, MT. McKinnon, that old veteran, Robert Reid. Rufus Sylvester, and Capt Wilson all live, wide-awake men and you can find no better anywhere Harry Day. we must not forget him. He limps some yet, little after the fashion of lame duck. Harry was out prospecting and carried loaded revolver That is where he got off wrong. Instead of shooting some game, he shot his leg and for nearly year has been laid up for repairs. Mr. Hofstad is another one of the good citi- zens of Fort Wrangel. Judge Tustin, the best Commissioner in Alaska, moves along in the even tenor of his way, and Capt. Mcintyre, of the Fort Wrangel Hotel is also in evidence. He has the finest hotel in Alaska and we make no exception.
 Of course we dropped into the Jour nal office and found Editor Nc Keand busy getting out his paper Mir. McKeand is a most pleasant fellow and is giving them good paper He is engaged in contro- versy with some of the officials. We wish it wasn't so. Me is forcible writer and when he "roasts" it is to dark brown"
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