Douglas Island news., 1901-10-30

swimming from one of the islands of the chain forming the inside passage to Alaska, to the mainland. Capt. Wal lace ordered the ship slowed down and two boats were lowered. 1t took half an hour to capture the deer, after an exciting chase. Capt. Wallace says he will probably present the deer to tho city of Seattle for one ofits parks.
 Capt. Strand, of the steamer Santa Ana- reports that when he weighed anc- hor at Nome, considerable quantity of mud was brought out, some of the miners on board prospected it with the result that several small nuggets of gold were found, the largest of which was worth one dollar. The Santa Ana was anchored one and quarter miles from shore, in six fathoms of water, and the captain expressed the opinion, that with deep sea dredge, large amount of gold could be secured.
 A prediction recently made by some miners, that the country adjacent to Montana creek, on the Yukon, will prove rich enough to put the whole camp on it's feet, is being realized, al ready, according to reports now at hand. A strike of phenomenal richness Is said to have been made on Conglom- crate creek, and it is now boldly assert ed by those who has seen it that sec ond Gold Run has been discovered. The strike is on the claim of Allen, No. g.
 IL. Bales reports the steamer Jes- sic. which sailed from Seattle, and has been missing for the past three years, wrecked on the Alaska coast, just north of the mouth of the Kuskokwim river. Natives say she went ashore in the great storm of three years ago. Bales visited the scene of the wreck and was shown two bodies laying on the tundra, in such fair state of pres ervation that he was able to identify one.
 Public Land, magazine published at Spokane, Wash, wants the names and address of five families who have lived on agricultural land in Alaska for the past five years, and who have supported themselves wholly from the product of their farms or gardens. It also wants the name and address of each person who has opened and de yeloped coal mine in this territory.
 Mir. Fred M. Terry, who, for the past three years, has been investigating and testing the agricultural possibilities of the Yukon valley, predicts that in the neer future many thousands of acres of agricultural land along the Yukon and the islands of that river will be dotted with farm houses and covered with fields of waving grain and agricultural product of almost all kinds.
 Mir. Dodson of Portland, Ore, who re- gently returned from Nome with some fragments of mastodon, is of the opinion that a revulsion of the earth's axis exterminated these mastodons, as the positions of many skeletons prove that these animals were frozen todeath in their prime.
 Jack Wade creek seems to be all right. Grant and George Lemont, re- gently picked up a s431.25 nugget on No. Il above, and few days previous to that find, got one worth s297. And on fraction just above No. Il $500 one was picked up this summer.
 A boat belonging to the Ben Brook party, which left Nome in July, 1900, for Kuskokwim, has been picked up in Kuskokwim Bay and fears are enter tained that the party of five were drowned, as nothing has ever been heard of them.
 A Mir. Henning, proprietor of the Quick Lunch Room at Atlin, attempt ed to cut his wife's throat with razor, on the I7th inst. He inflicted several serious wounds, but the woman will re- cover. He was taken into custody after a hard fight.
 A man named Smith got full of booze at the Summit on the White Pass R. R. the other night and began shooting at every thing that took his fancy. He was finally taken in and allowed to sober up, when he was turned loose.