Douglas Island news., 1902-06-11

The Skagway Alaskan says that Capt. Richardson, who was sent out by the government to investigate the alleged destruction of Russian monuments on the boundary line, spent only six days in the task and got no further than Klukwan, 14 miles distant from the dis puted line.
 Under a new order from Washington Alaska people shipping goods to Seat tie or other American ports south ot Alaska, or those shipping to Alaska ports from other American ports will be required to furnish the customs house with a manifest, just as if 1t were going foreign.
 The mystic fgures-110'- 111-have again appeared on Mt. Dewey, near Skagway. They were plainly discern able in 1898, but since that time, up to the present time, they have been con- spicuous only because of their absence. A gentleman of Skagway, deeply learn ed in occult science, says that these figures signify that in 110 years Skag- way will have population of Ill.
 Photographic news from Dawson indi- cates that the N. c. company is still ready to continue the fight for the bus mess of the Klondike in competition with the small traders and the White Pass X Yukon. Manager Edgar Mizner of the N. c. company, says that his company has an option ou the railroad franchise from Valdez to Eagle and may build road to fight the White Pass. One thousand acres have been secured as a Tanana townsite.
 According to information received by the Skagway Alaskan, on and after Ju' ly 1st the Pacific Coast Steamship com pany will be the only one to carry the mails on the Southeastern Alaska run. This is an innovation quite in keeping with Uncle Sam's piggardly policy re- lating to Alaska. Now an additional order should be issued making the AL Xxi the sole and exclusive carrier of the P. c. fleet, and we can then all go way back and sit down and wait till h-l freezes over, or the mails get in, as the case may be.
 A Kenai correspondent of the Valdez Prospector says Mt. Redoubt has been spouting forth fire and birthstone for the past two months, but the heaviest blowout occurred on the evening of May 3rd, about 6 p. m., and the whole of the opposite side of the inlet was hidden from view by smoke. About D. m. we noticed a dense streak of smoke coming toward us and ashes be- gan to fall. They fell as thick and fast as snow and continued to do so for over two hours. Houses and ground were dirty gray in the morning.
 P. E. Kern, the Skagway ieweler, has received a letter from Senator Mark Hanna, acknowledging the receipt of newspaper clipping sent by him, deal- ing with the question of the discounting of American gold coin by the Canadian bankers at White Horse. Marks favor ite contention is that an American gold dollar is just little bit better piece of money than is coined elsewhere, and is worth and passes at it's par value in ev- cry civilized country under the sun; that it is the stuff from which heavenly harps are manufactured, and if your harp hasn't got the U. S. mint mark on it, it is spurious, and you lose money on the goods. Think what shock to bis nervous system it must have been to receive the startling intelligence that a mi-barbarous people up North were monkeying with his pet theory and making it look like thirty cents.
 A whiskey without heartache, is the PbiI Sheridan Rye. at Milan's Place.