Alaska sentinel., 1905-08-24
Our Local Grist.

on the Peerless.
 Tom and Cash Cole are down from Juneau to visit their father for few days.
 George Snyder caught an 150-pound halibut, Monday. He says this "beats Yamhill."
 Miss Margaret Bronson went to ketch- ikan Monday, on the Cottage City, to visit friends.
 Albert Johnson was in town several days duIing the week. The rheumatism still troubles him.
 Receiver Davidson came from Juneau on the Humboldt and returned on the City of Seattle.
 Harry Raymond came up from Ketch- ikan on the Dolphin, and stopped in town several days.
 Government timber agent Langille has been in this section most of the past week, looking after Uncle Sam interests.
 The Wrangell Robe Tannpry will tan your Furs and Hides properly.
 F. WEST X P, HAUeHT.
 Roy D. Tait has sold out his property at San Pedro, Calif., and goes to Lake port to build steamboat to operate on Clear Lake.
 Wm. Lewis and Vim. Fowler came up from the Lake Bay cannery, Saturday. They reported 12,000 cases up at this cannery, and fish running well.
 The Mason-C Collins and Engstrom- Dar- well-Nickelson salting outfits have join ed their entire forces and are now work ing at Tolstoy. It is reported they have up over loo barrels of red fish.
 The Town Council held q special meet ing Saturday afternoon and ordered the new school building. The Board at once sent in an order to Seattle, and the fur niture is expected to arrive in few days.
 That was a delightful racket those Smart Alex off the Humboldt kept up on the street for an hour or two, Mon- day night. If some man lad appeared among them with base ball bat, they would not have wanted fight half as badly as they thought they did.
 Mr. Chelander, who has been dele gated to get up the Seattle Alaska exhib- It, was north bound passenger, in the interest of the work assigned him. Mr. Chelander is good talker and may persuade Alaskans to go to Seattle in 1907.
 MT. F. G. Strickland, who has been looking after the interests of the Olym- pie Mining company at Hattie Camp and Smiths camp, with headquarters at the latter place, came in Saturday and re- turned Monday. He reports everything in good condition over there.
 Dr. E. Green made professional trip to Marble Creek and return on the Peerless, last week, The Pr. says that Col. Mason has been and is doing a great work for the purpose of getting marble from the eXtensiyequarries. They have a ships load of the produc! out, and are waiting for the Alki to come in and take 1t below.
 C. F. Weber and \. J. Svindseth are off on some kind of an expedition-just what nobody seems to understand and just where the most curious were unable to find out. At all events they took with them plenty of fishing tackle, and Mir. Weber incidentally remarked that some of these expert fishermen would look smaller than six bits when he gets home.
 R. $. Fox, of Seattle, one of the main movers of the Great American Marble Company, came up on the Dolphin, ar irving Friday morning, and went over on the Peerless to look after the proper ties on Fox Island. This property, Mir. l, Fox informed SENTINEL reporter, is likely to change hands before long. It is the property over which Ball killed Deppe.
 Mir. J. J. Daily of Skagway, represent ing the Fry-Bruhn Co.,, passed through on the City of Seattle on his way home from Ketchikan. He came to this coun- try with P. C. Mccormack, and strik ing coincidence is, Mir. Daily is president of the Skagway Chamber of Commerce, while Mr. Mccormack holds a like posi- ton in the Wrangell Chamber.
 Prof. Benson, whom the school Board engaged as principal of the Wrangell public school, accepted another position But our board have secured another just as good-if not trife better-in the person of Preston H. Nash, who will be here in time to open the school. School usually opens the 1st of Sept; but as that falls on Friday, the opening will . probably be postponed to Monday, 4th.
 Letters from Manager Thompson of the Hudson Bay Co., state that the trim steamer Mount Royal will be at Wran- gell to connect with the Princess May, which leaves Vancouver 24th-for Tele- graph Creek, which means she will leave up the river about the 27th This will afford hunters and others who wish to , make trip up the Stikine, an excellent opportunity to do so
 Sunday the report was brought to town that McHenry Inlet (where Capt. Callbreath's hatchery is located) is full of salmon. It may be that what Mir. c. has claimed, "that fish will return to } their native waters" will come true. However, before getting excited, Com missioner Thomas and E. P. Lynch had Capt. Churchill and Chief Kinney take them out on the Clatawa, to look thor } oughly into the matter.