Douglas Island news., 1902-04-30

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 The Washington Post, in order to un- burden itself of horse laugh, nomin- ates ex-Collector Ivey for president.
 The contractors operating on the H. Hanna route failed to make single delivery of Nome mail the past winter, and were unfortunate in other respects, losing in the neighborhood of twenty horses on the trail.
 The Association of Marine Engineers has decided that no engineer on the Yukon shall engage for service for less than six months, at salary of not less than $500 per month for chiefs and S2OO for seconds.
 Keelar, the money king, says that some day bonanza in quartz will be struck near Skagway. It is nice to know all about such things and to be able to pry into the future and tell just what is going to happen.
 The treasury department for the year 1901 expended s3O,OOO for the education of the children of Alaska, and in the same period spent s26,133.53 for the care of reindeer. Note the relative inn portance of the two subjects.
 L. B. Anderson and pr. Donaldson arrived in Valdez the first of the month from Koyukuk. They say that they have prospected that stream and most of it's branches and do not want any more of that country in theirs.
 The district court receiver has just made a good clean up on Slate creek and Miller gulch, in the Copper river country. You can always depend up on a court receiver reaching bedrock and getting the cream of the layout.
 James Lewis, who is prospecting the Grown Diamond claim five miles from Skagway, was badly injured by the eX- plosion of five sticks of dynamite which he was thawing on stove in his cabin. Tue stove was totally and the cabin partially wrecked.
 On April 17th, as the section men at Bennett on their way to work were pumping the handcar around curve, a huge grizzly bear was seen on the tracks about 30 yards ahead, says the Skagway Alaskan. The foreman and the men fearing that there might be danger prepared to defend themselves if necessary. The bear stood stolidly on the track as the car approached. When within 10 yards of the animal all hands jumped off and allowed the car to go empty, thinking it would scare the fe- rocious looking brute. To the surprise of the men the bear jumped upon the car and bid defiance to the section gang until the car had carried him 300 yards further down the track, when he jumped off aud made his way easterly into the woods.
 More delay has been caused to boats and scows by the immense sand bars at the head of LaBarge than on any other part of the river At this point the water formerly spread out over a wide area and the constantly shifting sands would, in the course of few hours, fill up old channels and form new ones so that no matter how experienced a pilot might be he was ever in danger of running aground. It was found that in order to confne the water and force it to run in a regular channel it would be necessary to build three dams. The first of these is 1900 feet in length, the second 400 feet and the third 243o feet. Of this work 610 feet on the first, all of the second and 1080 feet of the third have been completed, leaving balance of 2O9O feet, and this is now being put in at the rate of 200 feet per day.
 Apricot Brandy at theGlory Hole.