Douglas Island news., 1900-04-11
ALASKA BRIEFS.

Iy escaped drowning last week.
 Work has commenced on Matlock & Smiths new brewery at Skagway.
 s20,OOO is said to have been taken from discovery on Porcupine creek.
 Nuggets, the size of mans fist, are being picked up on the Big Salmon.
 Sixteen carpenters are at work at Bennett on Capt. lrving's new steamer.
 A 36 ounce gold nugget is reported taken from Willow creek, Atlin district.
 A s25OOO fish cannery is to be built this season twelve miles below Skag- way.
 J.H. Holme arrived in Skagway from Dawson March 28th with thirty pounds of gold dust.
 Peter Schlaterer, of San Francisco, is missing. He was last heard of in Dyea in February, 1898.
 The Dawson market is glutted with fresh meat and the bottom has been knocked out of prices.
 Freighting on the Porcupine trail is yet very good and is expected to re- main so for at least three weeks longer.
 There is a scarcity, or perhaps cor ner, of flour in the Dawson market and prices have jumped from s per sack to s7.5O
 Sixty head of cattle and three hun dred head of sheep were on board the Seattle on her trip up last Friday, en- route for Dawson.
 Henry Clay Parker, a prominentme mer chant of Skagway, dropped dead at a meeting of the chamber of commerce one evening last week.
 Men coming out from Atlin report the trail in good condition and that large quantities of supplies are being rushed into that camp. Capt. G. A. Crockett of the tug Wal Iowa has gone to Seattle to take the captaincy of the steamer George w. Dickson, on the Nome run.
 The largest nugget found in Domin ion creek, Klondike district, was taken from Nj. J. McNeil's claim, No. below upper discovery, and it's value was $40.
 Thos. McNamee is suing his brother for a settlement of interests. The plaintiff claims grub stake interest in Kondike mining property valued at S1,OOOOOO.
 S15OOO in cash and bullion was stolen from the safe of the Alaska Conner ciaI company at Unga, recently. It was recovered in full few days later but the thief was not apprehended.
 Late arrivals from Dawson say that the trail is fast becoming impossible and that the ice is breaking up. Twelve miles of Fifty Mile river and sixteen miles of Thirty Mile are now clear. LID. Kinney, original promoter of the Chilcoot tunnel, says work on that project will be resumed. The scheme involves the building of an electric railroad from Dyea through the tunnel to White Horse rapids.
 John J. Doyle of Dawson has obtain ed a concession from the Canadian government for big hydraulic propo- sition comprising 973 acres. This is To- cated between Adams and Boulder, on the left limit of Bonanza.
 Large property holders in the Klon- dike say that winter working on min ing claims in that district will soon be a thing of the past, as it has been dem onstrated that the ground can be worked easier and with less cost in the summer season.
 The Salvation Army has reaped a harvest in the gospel field at Haines. Three hundred Chilkat Indians have embraced christianity and are holding nightly meetings where the old time war whoop has been mellowed to the Salvation Army amen.
 A Vancouver man is on his way to Dawson with 1900 dozen eggs. The weather is now so unfavorable for the transportation of hen fruit that the owner is in a quandary to decide which