Douglas Island news., 1902-12-03

business done from Seattle this season was with St. Michael, where the passen- gers and freight going and coming alike were discharged, and thence reshipped to Yukon points as far as Dawson and to Bettle's up the Koyukuk. What is known as the lower Yukon takes ln from the mouth of the mighty river to Dawson; including also such important tributaries as the Koyukuk, Forty Mile and the Panama.
 If plans, which are now in course of preparation, do not miscarry, one Of the largest salmon canneries on the Al askan coast will be established early next season near the mouth of the Yu- kon on Boring sea, south of St. Mich Rel. The exact location has not yet been decided upon, but the ground has all been looked over this summer by representatives of James T. Scott, Chicago capitalist, who will head the company engaging in the enterprise.
 
 The vessels engaged in the Nome traf- flo the past year were: Nome City, Port land, Bear, Jeanie, Lily L., Theit1s, Manauense, Americana, Nellie Coleman, Manning, Patterson, Martha w. Tuft, Elihu Thomson, Carrier Dove, John $. Kimball, Centennial, Garonne, Senator, James H. Bruce, Discovery, Corwin, Roanoke, Ohio, Oregon, Valencia, h. diana, Meteor, Nolante, Abbie M. Deer ing, Conemaugh, Seven Sisters, Lyra, Warren, Barbara Hernster, Dora, News boy.
 The Washington city correspondent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer claims to have unearthed the outline of plan on the part of President Roosevelt's friends that, if carried out, will prove a fearful blow to Alaskan commercial interests. It Is said that they have in- duced the president to contemplate the creation of an immense game reserve and national park to contain great portion of Alaska. The proposed re- serve and park Is to extend from the mouth of the Yukon river, great dis tance on each side of the river, to the eastern boundary of Alaska.
 A recent dispatch from Washington states that the lighthouse board rec ommends an additional appropriation of sS5O,OOO for lighthouses in Alaska, urging that the increased navigation in those waters makes it necessary to con- struct eight lighthouses besides those under way. The appropriation last year was sl2O,OO0, raising the total appropri- ation to s470,O0O. Ten lighthouses in Alaska have either been completed, are under construction or are in immedi- ate contemplation, besides the eight recommended in the report of the light house board made public today.
 The new scale of wages, hours, etc., demanded by the Marine Engineers As sociation, which is an affiliation of the body of masters and pilots, went into effect on Sunday, Nov. 16th. All work ing days hereafter are to be from ' o'clock a. 10. to o'clock p. m., with one hour for dinner, making . day of eleven hours. Sundays and legal holidays are to be working days if steamers sail thereon. Labor on Sundays and legal holidays is to be overtime at S1 per hour. This order embraces captains, pilots, chief and assistant engineers.
 For the past four months the Ameri- can Coral Marble company, with head quarters at Tacoma, Washington, has been quietly at work prospecting some marble properties located on the North Arm of Moira Sound, at Dolomi, and to the eastward of the last named place on Clarence Strait, Prince of Wales Is- land, says the Ketchikan Journal. The first named location embraces tract of 32O acres, and here the ledge, or bed, has been found to be over 800 feet in width, the marble being of many colors, from sea shell pink tint to an ivory cast, including dove blue and noun tain shade, which last are choice and noted colors at the Rutland (Vt.) quar- ries. The ledge is covered by heavy growth of moss, removing which the stone presents the appearance of having been sand-rubbed as if by some pre- historic hand.
 The secretary of the treasury gave a hearing to representatives of the