Douglas Island news., 1900-08-22
ALASKA BRIEFS.

uG ANOLuG pOSJOLlCO u AahSASVS o SONON business each day.
 You must be vaccinated before you can pass Bennett enroute to Dawson. Peddlers in Skagway are required to pay a S15O license fee.
 1000 Nomites are returning to Seattle on the barge Skookum.
 Thirty-fve additional mounted po- lice are on their way north for duty on the Yukon.
 There are 19 employees in the Nome postothce. Their compensation is S15o per month.
 The British authorities are preparing to collect customs in their Porcupine possessions.
 Water is said to be scarcer in the Klondike at present than at any time since it's discovery.
 A party of St. Louis prospectors have found gold going 50 cents to the pan on Hobson creek, Nome district.
 NIL. Lewis, Skagway pioneer, has just got back from Nome and says that Skagway is good enough for him. The body of Mrs. Stewart, one of the Florence s. victims, has been found six miles below the HootalinQua river.
 Bert Farrar, formerly of Skagway, writes home that he is at Nome mak ing S1OO per day in the freighting busi- ness.
 Geo. N. Wright, formerly of Skagway, postmaster at Nome, has been removed and his brother Joe appointed to his place.
 The White Pass R.. R. officials are vigorously opposing charter from the British Columbia authorities to the Chilkoot road,
 There is a lost placer somewhere at the head of Lake Atlin and several prospecting parties are in the field in search of it.
 Skagway's city council has ordered an ordinance drafted providing for the appointment of police judge and a city marshal.
 CHI Smith, who is operating a steam mining plant on the beach at Nome, estimates the daily output from the beach at between s10,OO0and 820,000.
 A promising strike of gold and cop per is reported on Lake Bennett, four and a half miles below Caribou Cross ing. The ledge is said to be b feet wide.
 The steamer Alaska, which recently sailed from Sound ports for the north, has gone on the Juneau-Skagway mail route under contract which calls for 5000 per year.
 Alexander King, the man who shot and killed Herbert Davenport at Sel- kirk short time ago, was tried at Daw- son for the crime and sentenced to be hung on Oct 2nd.
 Peter Madison, of Skagway, has sued the Pacific Coast Steamship company for 5000 damages resulting from the Queen running down his fishing sloop in Skagway bay. July 28th.
 A small stampede is reported on from Dawson to Bear creek, where it is said a fine conglomerate ledge has been struck. Samples of the ore exhibited assay s2O to $40 per ton in free gold.
 A contract has been let for the con struction of 10 miles of road bed on the Chilkoot Pass R. R. This covers the line of road from Dyea to Canyon City. Henry Schafer has the contract and will begin work at once.
 Scow builders on the upper lakes are rushed with orders and have all the business they can carry. They expect an increased demand because there is evidence in sight of rush to Circle City and the Panama district.
 Some men coming into town yester- day, says the Skagway Alaskan of Au- gust 12th, reported finding man on the roadside at Porcupine hill, about 5 miles from town, helpless and desert ed. Deputy Marshal Naughton at once proceeded to the rescue assisted