Douglas Island news., 1903-07-15

w. S. Mckean, city clerk ana h. W.Jeu nings city attorney for the year.
 Arrangements have been made where by No. 16 Eldorado, Thomas Lippy's fa- mons claim, will be worked by the Lew es River Mining and Dredging Com pany. with dredge. Joseph Putrrow, Lippy's manager, has just returned from the outside and made this an- nouncement. The exact terms are not made public.
 The first government station of wire less telegraphy to be constructed tbis year will be at Fort Davis, at Nome. A mast POP feet high will be erected, a sta tion will be built and probably force of three telegraphers will be stationed there. The next post will be at Safety Harbor, about thirty miles south of Nome. There will be also wireless post at St. Michael, no miles away, across Norton sound.
 A copy of an order has been recelVed in Skagway by Col. Pitcher, issued by the president and dated May 21, 1903, reserving and setting apart for military purposes a tract of land embracing about 462 acres, situated on the Skag- wav river. known as survey No. TIT, as surveyed by Alfred Williams, United States deputy surveyor. This tract is the site selected by Capt. Hovey for military post three years ago, and lies to the east of Nicolai < Clark's farm, with an outlet across the river between Nineteenth and Twenty first avenues.
 A theatrical stock company managed by Lillian Hall, wife of Jim Hall, for mer owner of No. 1T Eldorado, and one of the luckiest of the Klondikers, has arrived in Dawson. The company is putting on high-class drama, with Frank B. Tanning as leading man and Miss Franklyn Gale, of New York, as leading lady. Such plays as "Carmen," .sTbe Christian" "Camille," "Cyrano de Bercerac" and "Moths" are presented. Miss Gale will open in Brooklyn next fall as a star in new play to be written for her.
 There's nothing small about the mi. ming operations which the De Soto Placer Mining Go. propose to inaugrr- ate the coming season in Council City district. The company has large areas of ground in that section and it seems to be going about the development of its holdings in a practical way. On board the steamer Jeanie were Sl75,0OO worth of mining machinery and sup plies. These include the largest dredg- CT ever built and which President De- Soto of the company alleges will revo- lutionize mining methods where large bodies of low grade gravel are found.
 The cost of maintaining the public schools of Nome is quite an item, as the following figures will show: Secre- tary school board, $50; principal S25O; teachers, grammer grade (threel S45o; teacher, primary, $50; teacher, drawings s75; teacher, music, s75; teacher, night school. S125; janitor, heat, light, etc., s232.75; total, s1, ,4O7.75. The Nome gram mar school reaches a high degree of ed ucation. The scholars are taught Greek, Latin, algebra, geometry, physics and astronomy. Several of the scholars are so advanced in these studies that four months iu the preparatory school will fit them for one of the big colleges.
 Late advices are to the effect that the Nazina district is coming up to the earlier expectations of those operating in the camp. Claim No. is reported as having a two and one half foot pay streak that averages 34 cents to the pan. On Chittilu creek good pay has been staked on claims from one to eleven above discovery; Rex gulch from one to fourteen inclusive. Robert Blei is getting good retdrns from No. Rex, and Charles Koppus from one pan took 50 cents on No. 10 Chittilu and two TO- cent pans from No. above Chittilu. Blei's gravel on No. ? Rex runs from 7 to 10 cents per pan. Rowland the dis coverer of the district, took out S20,OO0 worth of dust from cut on Rex where he has been ground sluicing.
 The Alaska Central railroad is to be built. The contract for the construc- ton of over four hundred miles has bean Iet and the rolling stock purchas- |