Douglas Island news., 1902-03-05

Fritz Miller, an oId-tlme ClrCIe SlCy miner and the discoverer of the Atlin district, has returned from Fourth of July creek, says the Skagway News. He reports that thirty men are at work on that creek, and on at least two claims excellent pay is being found. Mir. Mil Ter says: If that country don't have some strikes pretty soon it will be be- cause it is not there, for on every creek along the river there are from eight to forty men at work. On Charley creek, Nation river, Seventy Mile and a num- Der of other places men are at work. The storekeeper at Star City, at the mouth of Seventy Mile, says there are a number of men up the creek, who do not say much when they come down, but the fact that they do not stay long after getting their supplies convinced him that they are doing better than they report"
 Milton Brown, who recently arrived in Skagway from the Mush creek dig gings, tells the Alaskan that he pros pected the rimrock and demonstrated to his own satisfaction that there was not only good pay on Mush creek, but that Gold Run and Moose creeks were equally as rich. Mush creek is from 9 to 30 miles long and courses through a slate country interspersed with DOT phyry dikes, with tale about the walls, and beds of conglomerate. So far 130 claims have been recorded and there is room for 1000 more. The ground is shallow and free from boulders and the pay is evenly divided. Mir. Brown is an old time Porcupine miner and his statements may be relied upon.
 The time is about ripe for Senator Bill Mason to come North and pick a few more Porcupine nuggets and, incl dentally, shed a few tears and let his heart bleed few drops of rich, red blood, for the wrongs of the poor American miner who has been sold out body and brooches by the modus viven- di process. o, wise old Bill, you got your fill of nuggets rich and rare. But the fight you fit, and the things you writ, were principally hot air. You didn't worry the lion; you didn't pull his tail; you didn't even tread un his corns, to make him howl and vail. We trusted you the rag to chew-in Washington to whoop. But marry a spout did you let out. You left us in the soup.
 A letter from Nome, on the Dolphin, has reached Skagway, says the Alaskan, and conveys the intelligence that the two Carlisle sisters have committed suicide. They are we'll known variety women in Dawson and are also known to a number of the sporting fraternity in Skagway. Their suicide was due to despondency resulting from the failure of a mining venture. A year ago one of the Carlisle sisters had quarrel with and was hit over the head with a gun by a man who was working claim for her. Whether this quarrel had any connection with the awful tragedy is not known.
 "The Copper river country will prove the greatest copper mining district in the world" said P. J. Mcdonald, who has returned from Valdez, after four years of prospecting. "Native copper is the product on which the mineral . greatness of the district will rest. I have seen it in the creek bottoms along the Copper river in pieces weighing hundreds of pounds, while pieces of the virgin metal as large as a mans head are abundant In the big Bratno- Der district have followed for three miles along a ledge % feet wide, with heavy pieces of pure copper projecting from it."
 Al Lester, SquaW man ana olu-ClIne prospector of Rampant, was recently sent to jail for six months for leaving whiskey where his wife could get at it. She was not proof against the tempta- tion, and in a rough aud tumble en- counter with the bad spirits that inhab- tied the bottle, she got it in the neck. This being contrary to the law in such cases made and provided, her husband was yanked before the bar of justice, and given a vacation, as above cited.