Douglas Island news., 1903-05-13

the United States courthouse and jail at Juneau, Alaska, has been let to An tone Berens. For S50,000 he agrees to erect the building and have it ready for occupancy by November l. United States marshal Shoup, of Alaska, now in this city, awarded the contract. Wood, cement and brick are to be used in construction. The building is to be 6ox9O feet and three stories in height. The first or basement story will be of concrete, laid on solid rock founda- tion, which can be reached in Juneau at not unusual depth.-Tacoma Led ger.
 Albert L. New, representing the Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company, of Los Angeles, says that his company will in June install wireless service to the North. The services will be from Cape Flattery to Dutch Harbor; Cape Flattery to Sitka; Sitka to Juneau; Ju- neau to Skagway; Juneau to Dutch harbor, and Dutch harbor to Nome. The company now has small wire less service operating between San Pedro and Catalina island in California. The longest of the proposed routes is that from Cape Flattery to Dutch har- bor, 1,5O0 miles, but Mir. New declares that this is perfectly feasible.
 An informal but highly satisfactory arrangement has been made between the United States authorities on the one side and those of Canada on the other, by which the transportation of dutiable merchandise between points in the United States by way of British Northwest territory will be greatly facilitated Henceforth, by mutual ar rangement, goods shipped for instance, from Seattle to Eagle, Alaska, by way of railroad, will be carried through Canadian territory in transit under seal of the Dominion government as we'll as that of the United States, with out payment of duty at Summit, where the Canadian custom house is situated.
 The British tramp steamer Robert Adamson, Captain James Seaville, and the Pacific Coast Company's steamship Queen, Captain N. E. Cousins, collided in dense fog off West Point light house at o'clock on the morning of May 3, with serious damage to both vessels but without loss of life. The Queen all but cut down the freighter. She struck her forty feet abaft of the bow on the port side, tore perpendic- ular hole twelve feet wide from the upper deck almost to the keel, crashed on into the cargo for ten or fifteen feet and drove the beams so hard that several of the Adamson's starboard plates were loosened, bent and bulged
 The Valdez Prospector publishes the following concise statement of condi- tions in the Panama: Population be- tween 15OO and 2OOO, distributed in two towns-Fairbanks and Cinema City and creeks adjacent. As to stability, it is a question. Little prospecting has yet been done. Two claims on Pedro show paystreak 15O feet wide, gravel from four to seven feet, muck from eight to fifteen feet; pay on these clo;p,e frOy,o fop, fo fourEoop oopts oor pan. One claim on Goldstream has four to seven feet gravel, one to three feet muck; pay about fifteen cents per pan. Extent of diggings not known; if pay is found in gravel all over the district it will be extensive. No grub now. Grub will be cheap after break up. Bed rock gets deeper down Gold stream. No money in camp.
 Control of the La Connor Trading $ Transportation Company, one of the oldest and most successful of the many Puget Sound transportation concerns, has passed by purchase of heavy block of thesto to the Alaska Steam ship Company, which also owns the Puget Sound Navigation Company. Negotiations have been pending two weeks between Charles E. Peabody, Walter Oakes, Joshua Green and Capt. George J. Wiley. The transfer of Capt. Willey's stock throws twenty ocean and Sound steamers under one management and control. They are the Majestic, Rosalie, Alice Gertrude, Garland, Prosper, Clallam, Samson and Tvdio TbornDson of tbe Pucat Sound