Douglas Island news., 1900-12-26

The White Moose group of claims on
 Lake Atlin south of Coat Island and
 generally designated as the "Railroad
 claims" is reported sold to an English
 syndicate, says the Skagway News. The
 chief stockholders were D. c. Hawkins,
 John Hislop, w. s. Moorehouse and
 other railroad men. Mir. Moorehouse,
 who just returned from the south and
 again went to Seattle on the Dolphin
 in company with his family, is said to
 have closed the deal. The English
 company appointed Mir. Moorehouse
 superintendent of the mine and he is
 now enroute to San Francisco to pur
 chase machinery for twenty.stamp
 mill. MT. Moorehouse refused to be
 interviewed in regard to the matter.
 A special to the Skagway Alaskan
 from Dawson says that troubles will
 be plenty for Captain Bledsoe, the Yu- kon pilot, who is to marry Pearl Lloyd tomorrow night. It was learned today that young lady is enroute to Daw- son from San Francisco, via Skagway, at this time to become his bride.i Un. less she is turned back from her jour- ney she will arrive only to find her sup. posed lover the husban of another, as the preparations for grand theatrical wedding go merrily on. It is also said that the gay river navigator has third match on, Thelyoung lady who is en- route from San Francisco to1 become Bledsoe's wife is stenographer. ,',
 The skagway Alaskan of Dec. 14th says that Joseph Wright, of Haines, a member of the Chilkat tribe, who last year was released from San Quentin where he was serving a fve-years sentence for man slaughter, was in town yesterday. He is quite charac- ter and the crime for which he served time is illustrative of the progressive ideas of this dusky son of the forest. Six years ago while packing on the Dy- ca trail he became involved in a dis pute with a chief, whom he killed, Wright had been packing goods over the trail for party of miners bound for Circle City and the chief who was to white men coming into the country tried to make Wright quit work. During the quarrel the chief was killed and Wright was sentenced to five years at San Quentin.
 Assessment work is now being done on the Pande Basin mine, and an ap- plication for patent is pending. Three years ago the report was circulated that the Pande Basin proposition was the richest ever run to earth in Alaska. A prominent official in the U. s. treasury was chief among those in- terested in promulgating the story of it's fabulous richness, and the claim was made that there was enough gold in sight to pay off the national debt and have enough remaining to pave the streets of tho principal cities of the Union. One particularly learned savant even went so far in pursuit of his enthusiasm as to express the opin- ion that the celestial paradise was di- ,ectly overhead and that the sweepings from it's golden streets had been regu- arlS and religiously deposited in Pan le Basin for countless ages. Not wish ng to disturb the equipoSe of the pres 'nt gold standard system, the manage nent has wisely decided to simply at. end to the assessment feature of the nine and not create panic by precipi- ately dumping the output on the mark tt. Who can say there are no patriots n these day who have their couutry's ,ood at heart.