Douglas Island news., 1900-10-24
ALASKA BRIEFS.

Skagway carpenters are demanding sixty-five cents per hour.
 Henry Battin, first mayor of skag- way, died at Portland, Ore, Oct. 4th.
 The Canadian steamer Tees has been laid off the Alaska run for this winter.
 J. Brown, the proprietor of the Atlin sawmill, died at White Horse on Oct. 10th
 All the hydraulic properties in the Atlin district have closed down for the season.
 H.H. HiIdreth, former editor of the Sitka Alaskan, has engaged in the fox culture business.
 No more newspaper mail will be sent further into the interior than White Horse this season.
 The Chilkat Indians, according to the latest reports, have concluded to postpone their scalp hunt.
 The Skagway Daily News of Oct. Il published a very creditable map of the new strike on the Chilkat.
 The White Pass R. R. Go. has issued a IA page pamphlet descriptive of the "scenic route of the world"
 John Rose, of Houlton, Maine, is supposed to be somewhere in Alaska. His wife wants to hear from him.
 Capt. John Irving expects to operate a steamer on the Chnkat river as far up that stream as the mouth of Bear creek.
 John McGoldrick was given three months in jail at Sitka for assaulting a waiter in a Skagway restaurant with a knife.
 The last steamer to make the trip from White Horse to Dawson this sea son was the Ora, and she started on the trip Oct. 18th.
 l.. D. Petit was one of the lucky Skagwayans to make cleanup at Nome. He arrived from there the first of the month with S2O,OOO. Chas. Hurndall, a railroad employe at Skagway. recently came into posses sion of S2OOOOO by the death of his father at Maidenstone, England.
 There is at present quite an exodus of Yukon steamboat men to more sun ny and congenial climes. They will re- turn with the robins in the spring.
 Nick and Billy Butler, mining experts representing the Canadian Bank of Commerce, say that the Stewart river strike will develop into another Klon- dike.
 Hog cholera is prevalent at Dawson. The Yukon authorities complain that the disease was contracted at Skagway, and that the patients were sent to Daw- son to die.
 When the last steamer left White Horse for Dawson there remained but | I66 tons of freight in the warehouses to be forwarded. This will be handled by the scow fleet.
 The court at Skagway found privates Payne, Jordan and Andrews, colOred soldiers, guilty of rioting and sentenc- ed each to three months imprisonment in the jail at Sitka. ! Stewart river is navigable for 300 miles, and owing to the import ! ant strike on Clear creek, tributary, quite fleet of steamers will operate on the river next season.
 Dawson is now in the throes of a quartz boom and so acute has the situ ation become that three assistants are required in the gold commissioners of flee to record claims of this descrip- tion.
 The citizens of White Horse have raised $500 for equipments and 870 per month for maintenance of a public hos pital. It is expected that this latter sum will be easily increased to $500 per month.
 Louis K. Pratt and Herman F. En- mons won their suit against the United Alaska Mining Go. for the possession of some valuable placer property on Mckinley creek in the Porcupine district.