Douglas Island news., 1907-09-18
The NOrthIand
The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed,
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Whitehorse is overrun with mice.

Whitehorse is overrun with mice.
 2,2OO tons of freight are at Skagway and eu route to Dawson.
 Country postmasters in the British provinces are to receive better wages.
 Sitka may be a quiet old burg, but there was a wedding over there last week
 The Whitehorse Star says that Ju- neau girl is so timid she jumps at a proposal.
 Governor Hoggatt has returned from an official tour of Alaska to his home at Juneau.
 Bob Reid, one of the old.tm0rs of WraugelI, has sold out bis property iu- tereSts in that town.
 Another special agent of the govern ment is to be sent to Fairbanks to iu- Yestigate Judge James WiCkersham.
 A number of Ketchikau people are considering the question of migrating to Prince William Sound next spring.
 At Dawson, rich California com pany has bought all the paying claims on Dominion creek, some 400 in num- Der.
 British seaIers report that the Japan csc poachers are hanging around the Alaskan seal rookeries waiting for chance to raid them.
 Martin Young, an Austrian, stole S65O from a cabin at Dawson, and got gloriously drunk. When nabbed by the police he confessed.
 The Dawson Coal Company's mines at Coal Creek have been compelled to close down on account of the creek breaking into the workings
 Bands of raTenous wolves are report ed in the Lake Teslin country, which are killing moose and other game and even go so far as to attack human be. iugs.
 Two sisters, Marcelia and Blanche Bolin, from South Dakota, are teaching the Wraugell hopefuls. The Sentinel says they are stirring, energetic appear ing young ladies.
 Another big forest reserve has been created ill Southeastern Alaska. It is to be known as the Tougass Forest Re- serve and will contain something over two million acres.
 Twenty Hindus-good subjects of Great Britaiu-were refused passage on the steamer Portland, at Seattle. They were headed for Valdez to work for the Home railroad company.
 It is claimed that Samuel and Jennie Edwards, of Wrangeu, sold their six year-oId son to Indians, who in turn sold the lad to Sing Lee, Chinaman, who will take him to the Orient.
 It is stated that the Northwest Mounted Police have caught man at Dawson who confesses to stealing a U. s. mail bag with S2O,OOO in it. The Police are now trying to locate the 2O,OOO.
 John aud Jake Eidler, the chief and medicine man respectively of the San dy Lake Crees, were recently arrested for strangling a delirious squaw, daugh- ter-iu-law of the chief, in order to prevent the evil spirit escaping and frightening the game.
 An idea of the productiveness of the soil of Alaska may be formed from the fact that less than half acre of land at Wrangen alone supports one man, who buys all his necessities with mon ey derived from the sale of garden truck, says the Sentinel.
 The Northwestern Steamship com pany's new steam schooner Seward has had her trial run, but has not yet been turned over to Der owners. She has gross tonnage of 3,921; length 29E8; beam 42, and depth 24. She is to be used for freighting purposes and her first trip will be to Katalla.
 A Bellingham special to the P.-I. says: The youngest argonaut who ever went to the golden Northland alone and un-