Douglas Island news., 1903-04-29


 before be left for the South that the request that the deputy marshal at Skagway be placed on salary instead of on fees as heretofore had been grant ed, consequently John w. Shook will hereafter receive monthly salary ln- stead of having to rely upon the un- certainty of the fee system. An effort is being made to place all the deputy marshals in the district on salaries.
 Recent Dawson papers contain the information that the Dominion govern ment will expend s6,0Oo in repairs at Fivefugers and at Hellgate on the fu- kon. At the former place there is still trouble expressed from the rocks and at the latter the shifting sands cause the formation of bars that interfere with navigation. The work to repair these places will be done before the beginning of navigation according to telegram received from the government at Ottawa.
 Dawson papers of the 18th contain the information that the Arizona creek district, comprising in addition to Arizona creek, Hobo, and Drapeau creeks is coming to the front as pro- ducer of placer gold; the territorial en- gineer had just arrived from the dis trict and brought the information that pans as high as s1 in value had been taken out. The average was about 4O cents bucket. Arizona creek is 12O miles up the Klondike river.
 The dog fish works at Loring will be ready for business as soon as the run of that class of fish begins. The build ings are all completed, and the tanks will be delivered on the ground in ample time. The dog fish are wont to copgregate in the waters at and about the canneries, to feed upon the offal, and during the canning season abound in great numbers There is every req son to believe that this new industry will prove a very lucrative one.-ketch- ikan Journal.
 J.W. Gillis, the engineer for the Hester Creek Mining Company, was horribly mangled in an accident which occurred on the claim today, says a Dawson dispatch of the 18th inst. His head was badly injured and both arms were severely hurt. Gillis was at the bottom of the shaft preparing a bucket to be sent to the top, and ln some unknown manner became entan- gled in the cable. He was brought to Dawson for treatment, and the physic- ians believe be may recover.
 Mrs. Woods, who is familiarly known as aMother" in the Nome country, near ly lost her life few weeks ago on the open ice in Boring Sea. She started from Nome with her dog team, and was soon afterward overtaken by one of the terrible storms which have proved the death of more than one unfortu- nate prospector during the present win ter. She was unable to locate the road house and soon became hopelessly lost. She finally wandered out on the snow-covered ice in Boring Sea, and here she was found by another traveller.
 It appears now, that there is every reason to believe that the Copper River Railroad will feel the influence of the Panama discoveries. Dr. l.. Or vile Wilcox, of Chicago, the man who succeeded in first getting the bonds of the Klondike railway underwritten by Ottawa capitalists, is on the inside of the railroad operations that are taking place. with Alaska as their field, and gives it out that in his opinion the first rails that will be laid in Alaska will be by private subscription of Alaskans themselves, there being scheme afoot to build commencement out of Val dez by subscription. In Valdez there ! is declared to have been subscribed s75OOO, which the projectors declare is bonafide and can be collected. That would lay enough iron to give the place the appearance of going to be a rail- road terminus, but that is all. AS for the needs for road, the recent discov- cries on the Tanana make such road more certain than ever. The Valdez, Copper River & Yukon survey passes over the Panama, but two hundred --:1.- LAla.,, 4l,n ,,,;nns and n0nld easily |