Douglas Island news., 1900-03-28
ALASKA BRIEFS

The EplscopaIlans have decided to build church in Skagway.
 The Y. MICA. boys of Skagway are perfecting plans fora new gymnasium.
 The steamer Amur will probably sail under the American flag this season.
 Tom Clancy, one of the pioneers of Skagway, died in Seattle last week, of pneumonia,
 New fish canneries will be establish ed this year at Ketchikan, Icy Bay, Ia ku, Copper Mountain and Snettisham.
 The skagway Chamber of Commerce has arranged for a banquet in honor of Delegate Price on his return from Wash ington.
 Jas. M. Dougherty, familiarly known 1 as ''Nigger Jim" was recently married in Dawson to Miss Lottie Oatley, a var iety actress.
 Seattle expects rush of 50,000 to the Nome gold fields and is preparing for their wants and entertainment with all her old time vigor.
 Placer claims in the Klondike which | have reverted to the Crown, will be sold at public.auction in Dawson on July 10th and August 18th.
 
 Mail from Dawson to Skagway is now coming through on an average of six days. There were six trips each way during the month of February.
 United States district court will commence at Skagway April 2Oth, Judge Johnson presiding. The Horton murder case will come up then. George B. Swinehart, the new com missioner for Nome, left Skagway on the 23rd inst. for his field of labor He took the river route, via Dawson.
 The Alaskan says that on March 22nd ! forty.one cars of freight were manifest ed out of Skagway for the British side the largest number in the history of the place.
 The Washington-Alaska s. s. Com pauy will soon put another steamer on the Alaska run. The boat is new one and is named the Ruth. She is slightly larger than the Rosalie.
 Prosecuting attorney Friedrich has been cited by the government to appear at the preliminary examination of the Indians now under arrest for the mur- der of Bert Horton and wife.
 After June 1st the Pacific Coast Steamship Company will add the steam CT Queen to it's fleet, making four yes sels on the route, viz: the Cottage City, City of Topeka, Al-Ki and Queen.
 Recent arrivals from Dawson say that the trailis barren of snow in a good many places and that water inter- feres with travel in many places. Freight is going around by Tagish.
 It is expected that the Yukon will be open for navigation very early this sea- son, and the Canadian transportation companies expect to handle large per cent of the Nome travel by this route.
 Jack Wade creek, the new American camp, is making a remarkably satisfact ory showing. Out of thirty-three claims prospected this winter all but two show pay streak. Prospectors pre- dict that it will prove the best camp in the far north.
 It is reported in Vancouver, B. C., by Dave Menzies, Canadian collector at Atlin, that the American miners at Cape Nome have organized to drive the Canadians out of that district in retail iation for similar treatment accorded Americans at Atlin.
 Nearly hundred persons made the trip from Skagway to Dawson the past winter on bicycles, and this mode of To- comotion seems to be coming into favor with travellers along this route. Ten to 1. fourteen days is the average between Dawson and Bonnet.
 The government has purchased the transport Columbia for dispatch duty between Puget Sound and Alaska. Her first trip north will be for the purpose of carrying troops and supplies to Val dez. Nome and St. Michaels, where mil