Douglas Island news., 1902-01-22

Dawson advices to the Skagway Alas kan under date of January 7th say that great interest now centers in the Roy ukuk. A letter received in that city on the day previous by Consulor Clerk F. Clayton absorbed the attention of the many people who are grasping at every bit of information they can receive from the new American camp. The let ter is from U. s. Commissioners Nc Kenzie and was sent out from Coldfoot bv a Dawson musher. It says that pay extends over an immense area and MT. Mckenzie says he will be greatly dis appointed if the district does not turn out to be the greatest producer in Alas ka. The price of dogs for use on the trail has advanced to between $40 and s75. A S660 nugget is one of the latest finds exhibited at Coldfoot. Powers of attorney are in great demand.
 According to special correspondent of the Skagway Alaskan, writing from Haines under the date of Jan. 18th, A. Bronson and J. F. Miller, two prospect DTS arrived in that town on the morn inc of the l1th inst, with s1O,O00 in gold dust, which they say they took from Mush creek, 15O miles from the coast, in two months work. They would not tell the exact location of their find, and in consequences the people of Haines are keeping awake nights guessing.
 A version of the suicide of Dolly Ouappe, published in the Seattle Times, furnishes strong evidence that the un- fortunate girl was the erring daughter of Rev. J. J. Walters, late of Skagway, says the Alaskan. Falling desperately in love with Nell Pickerell, a woman dressed in male attire and whom the suicide believed to be man, she be- came moody over her unrequited pas sion and ended her career of shame by taking carbolic acid.
 A Mir. Bramfeld, who has contract to keep several Dawson firms supplied with fresh fish, is carrying on opera lions at small lake west of White Horse. His method is primitive. He cuts hold iu the ice, puts small box cabin over it, and with Klondike stove to keep his feet and hands warm, he sits and fishes with hook and line. He is said to be quite successful.
 There have been several narrow es- capes from freezing on the Yukon trail recently. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Phin, of Dawson, nearly perished below Lower La Barge in the storm of January 7th, and T. C. G. Robinson, who runs the Wayside Inn on the c. D. cutoff, got lost at Middle La Barge and wandered around for nine and half hours before finding shelter.
 D. G. Macdonell, solicitor for appli' cants, is advertising in the White Horse Star for leave to incorporate a railroad company called the "Lake Bennett Railway Company" to build and equip railway from point on the Dyea river near the international boundary line to point on the Yukon river near Selkirk, via Bennett.
 Traffic manager Lee of the W. P. & Y. R. R., speaking in defence of the high traffic rates maintained by that road, makes the statement that it cost S225,- 900 to construct one mile of track at a certain point, and that a snow slide the first of the month did damage there that would cost s1OO,OOO to repair.
 The Dawson News says that Circle City is deserted save for few business men, owing to a stampede to Good Pasture creek, in the Tanana district. Pay at the new diggings run from 4 to ' cents per pan, with bedrock to 5 feet. Pay has also been found on sev- eral of the adjacent streams.
 The Journal says that the Al-Ki on her last trip took shipment of ore from the Valparaiso mine, in the Ketch- ikan district, consigned to San Fran cisco for treatment. It is expected to yield S12,OOO. A previous shipment of 30 tons from this mine gave returns of S1S7 per ton.
 There was recently quite stampede from Dawson to Burnham, creek. a tributary of Dominion, where good pay is reported. The creek was first locat-