Douglas Island news., 1902-01-15

seI some four or five feet in diameter, made of two inch moulded glass. h. side this there will be room for men to sit or move about. This vessel is at tached to a cable and properly weight ed cen be sunk to any depth. Air is supplied by tubes connected with pumps on au auxiliary steamer on the surface. and connection kept up by a telephone. A screw propeller and rud- der allows the vessel to be moved in any direction beneath the surface, the vessel above changing it's position cor respondingly as word is sent by the telephone. A powerful searchlght will play upon the waters, and when the submerged wreck is reached ingenious schemes of detachable grappling irons allows the hull to be taken hold of and lifted by the wrecking scow on the sur face. The egg-shaped glass vessel will stand any possible pressure, being much stronger than steel, and if all the inventor anticipates comes true, the probabilities of the invention in deep sea photography and wrecking opera tions are enormous"
 Judge Moves has been fined sIOOo, U. s. District Attorney Woods sentenced to 4 months in the pen, and Assistant Attorney Frost sentenced to P months imprisonment as a reward for their crimes aud misdemeanors at Nome. The janitor escaped, luckily for him, as by the ratio of importance attached to subordinate positions, he was due to receive about 3 years solitaryfconfne- ment.
 The tariff difficulty between the White Pass R. R. and the Canadian gov ernment is not yet settled. Meantime it is stated at the department of inter- for that any person can insist upon free transportation over the line until such time as the Yukon tariff is approved by the government, the company, under the railway act, not daring to refuse any passenger or freight which may offer.
 The Skagway Alaskan says that sew eraI groups of 100 claims have been transferred under options or contracts in the famous Conglomerate quartz re- gions at Dawson. The Conglomerate is as much as 400 feet in thickness and carries gold assaying from s to S25 per ton. Some of the croppings are much richer than this, but the general average assay value is S6 per ton.
 CHI. Bowdrie and Chas. c. Myers have arrived in Valdez from Jack Wade creek. They made the trip with dog teams in 15 days. They killed four caribou on the route and say they could have killed 30 head had they de- sired. They say that the country north of the Panama abounds with caribou and dmoose.
 The Alaska Packers combine has de- cided to make Petersburg it's headquar- ters and extensive improvements, such as marine ways, wharf, machine shops, etc., are contemplated or already in course of construction. The Dirigo on her last trip north left 60,000 feet of lumber there for construction pur- poses.
 Miss Alma M. Dahl, whose father was a victim of the Islander wreck, recently arrived in Skagway from Circle City. She mushed it from Circle to Dawson, and says although the thermometer registered as low as 6, the river was cracked, full of air holes and very dangerous.
 At Rampant, Nov. 2nd, there occurred the biggest poker game ever played in that camp. The game lasted IS hours, and French Louie, known here in the early days, quit with s4OO. Three other men won from $50 to S25O each while | the house is said to have taken another $50 but put $40 in the game.
 The Elk Mountain Mining and Mill ing company, which has group of six claims on the west side of Lynn Canal, about 40 miles from Skagway, has se- cured the capital necessary for the erection of 20 stamp mill. They claim to have another Treadwell."
 800 men are wintering in the lower Stewart river country, on the various streams thereabout. and it is estimated |