Douglas Island news., 1900-04-18
ALASKA BRIEFS.

been discovered on Sullivan island that | assays $50 to the ton.
 Joe Carroll, operating a private mail
 route between Nome and Dawson, ab-
 seconded with S2O00, stole six dogs, got
 drunk, and hit the trail between two
 days. A shot gun posse tried to over
 take him, but he eluded capture, and is
 supposed to be leaving a trail of steam
 in the snow behind him on his way to
 more congeniaI climes.
 Mir. Churchill, a Douglasite now at
 Atlin, has six men employed on his
 claim, and it is reported that although
 no washing has been done as yet,
 enough nuggets have been picked out
 of the dump to pay all expenses. One
 of his latest finds was 395.OO nugget.
 He estimates that at the present time
 he has S1O,OOO in sight.
 A former chief of police of Hartford, Conn, went to the KIondike with the rush and went broke there. When the Nome excitement broke out, he walked every foot of the way from Dawson to that place, going in over the ice. He got location on the beach and cleaned up S73,OOO. He hasn't done anything since.
 Col. Miles, who came out from Daw- son the first of the month, says he paid 20 cents per pound for oats and the same for hay on the trail, making the price for one nights horse feed amount to 39. He paid Sl50 apiece for meals and 51 a night for a bunk, making a daily expense of S14.5O for the trip It took ten days to complete the journey.
 The steamship companies operating out of Seattle report no falling off in the demand for transportation to Cape Nome. For the first sailers very few of the Nome steamers have cabin ac- commodations left. The steamship Sen ator, one of the last boats to advertise for the Cape Nome run, has had all of her accommodations taken-6OO tickets being sold
 The latest stampede on the Yukon is to Koyukuk river. Three hundred men have left Circle City and large numbers are leaving Dawson for the new dig gings. Many rumors and incredible stories are in circulation as to the ex. tent of the pay, some being to the effect that 5l0O to the pan is an ordinary oc currence, and others that $50 day to the man is about the average. The new find can be reached easily by crossing the divide between Fort Yukon and the headwater streams of the Koyukuk, a distance of 140 miles. Dog teams are necessary for this trip. Pay is not on the main stream, but on tributaries known as Myrtle creek, and McKialey and Bryan gulches. Sixty miners wint- cred there and organized a district, prohibiting locations by power of at torney, and making the size of claims 800 feet from rim to rim. There are only 250 locations in the district and it is calculated that there is room for 5OCO The pay streak on the property developed is 30 feet wide and from 3 to ' feet thick, with bed rock at F feet.
 The Pinkerton detective at work un- travelling the tangled threads of the Clayson-Relfe- Olson tragedy says that it is his belief that when the three men left Minto and arrived at point nearly opposite the cabin of the wood chop pers, O'Brien and Graves, they were held up by those worthies, and at the muzzle of their revoIvers marched a short way up the trail, then away from it, past the cabin, into the woods be- yond, and shot down in cold blood. It i is his belief that two of them were shot in the back aud that the third put up a fight for his life, wounding Graves, be- fore he was himself dispatched O'Brien not desiring to take any chances on having suspicion directed his way by the presence or a wounded man, killed | Graves also. He then rifled the bod ies and either burned or put them un- der the ice on the Yukon. The recent melting of the snow disclosed trail leading past the cabin into the woods beyond. Following this trail, there was found spot where blood stains were plainly to be seen, and here was