Douglas Island news., 1900-04-04
ALASKA BRIEFS.

a few days ago on Admiralty Island.
 One hundred and fifty men are work. ing on Jack Wade creek, and all are do-
 ing we'll.
 On March 27th fire damaged the Presbyterian church at Skagway to the
 extent of $500.
 Material for new stern wheel steam CT for the Bennett-Atlin route was de- livered at Skagway last week
 Alexander Mcdonald, the Klondike gold king, expects his cleanup this sea- son to reach the s5,OOO,OOo mark.
 Bicycles are now used in delivering Dawson papers to patrons and Sub- scribers in the outlying districts.
 A fve-stamp mill will be erected this season on Lord Hamilton's property, known as the Anaconda, in the Atlin district.
 The steamer Danube is on her way up with rails, motive power and other material for the tram between Taku Arm and Atlin.
 It is reported that bill will shortly pass congress doing away with the power of attorney in the location of placer mines in Alaska.
 A rich strike in quartz is reported from the vicinity of Wrangel and now the good people of that place are sit ting up nights, expecting boom.
 On his return from trip east Mayor Hislop of Skagway was presented with a handsome gold watch by the con- struction department of the railroad.
 Skagway's city council has passed an ordinance requiring brick chimneys to be built, and calls for the replacing of all fues with chimneys of that material
 Track laying on the Closeleigh ex- tension of the White Pass & Yukon R. R. began this week. Fifteen miles of track out of Caribou will be put down.
 Lower Yukon navigation companies are contracting to deliver freight in Dawson from Seattle for 800 per ton This will make the White Pass compa, ny issue another schedule in order to meet the cut, as much trade is being di- verted from Skagway.
 It is now believed by those trying to clear up the mystery, that Clayson, Relic, Olson and Graves were murder ed by man named O'Brien, now in custody at Dawson, and that he ere mated the remains, evidence to that eff feet having recently been found.
 The Budget denies the report that ,he bodies of the Clayson party have been found. Discovery of what was to be blood stains in the ice on the Yukon between Minto and dootchiku was made, but up to date lothing further had been found.
 Joseph McGilvray, a pioneer prospec- or and engineer in the KIondike, does not take much stock in the theory that he gold in that country will soon be nined out. He says that on Bonanza ,reek alone there were ten miles of bench carrying 35,OOO,OOO yards of pay gravel Working 12O days a year, with OO0 inches of water, it would take IF -ears to wash out these benches alone.
 There are some queer nick-names to ,e found in this Alaskan country. For James Corners, a we'll known haracter all along the line, is designat d as Ham Grease Jimmy" James Gackison, formerly of Juneau but now n the interior, answers to the appella- ion of "Sparerib Jimmy" This re- minds us that "Swiftwater Bill" is now ,nown to bis associates as "StilIwater Willie"
 Herman Grimm, of Skagway, is in re- eipt of letter under date of Jan. 15, rom former mining partner on Gold Branch, in the Koyukuk river country, which was published in full in the Budget last week. He states that he las struck it rich and will take out nany thousands this season. The trike is near the head of the south 'ranch of the Koyukuk. The writer avs that Myrtle, Slate, and other treams in that country, are prospect