Douglas Island news., 1907-05-22
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The Steamer Northwestern, that was
 grounded on a reef near Beatson's
 wharf at Latouche on March 18th, has
 been safely foated.
 J. J. Corey of Ellamar, and Peter C..
 Mccormick, of Wrangell, have been
 added to the Alaska directorate of the
 A.-Y.-P. Exposition.
 Dome creek has come to the front
 with twelve hundred dollar nugget, which will help to counteract the bad effects of the law suit.
 Fox island, at the entrance to Resur- rection bay, is to be converted into
 marten farm for the propagation of these valuable fur animals.
 The annual report of the deputy col lector of customs at Nome shows that lively trade has been established be- tween Nome and Siberian ports.
 Miss Louise Baker, of Chippewa Falls, Wis, recently arrived at Seattle where she was married to Ray $. Willard, a prominent mine operator of Valdez.
 District court at Juneau was ad- journed last Friday afternoon, while Judge Wickersham made speech be- fore the Seward society of the public school.
 Clarence NJ. Shaw, a representative of the West Coast Grocery Company, of Tacoma, visited the towns on the Rus- kokwim river in mid-winter and reach ed Nome on Feb. 21st.
 J.J. Corey of Ellamar and Peter c. Mccormick of Wrangell have been ad- ded to the Alaska directorate of the A.-Y.-P. exposition, by appointment made by Gov Hoggatt.
 By decision of Judge Hanford at Seattle, the owners of the river steamer Leah are exempt from any liability for damages for losses incurred when she stranded last September. Many of her passengers lost heavily.
 The Mackenzie Steamship Company, which has been operating steamships Haldis, Halvard and Henrietta freight ing between Vancouver and Skagway, established regular eight day sched ule or last Thursday, connecting with the White Pass river steamb boats to Dawson.
 It is probably not generally known to the natives of Alaska that the law of Kansas approved March 17, 1906, grants to each of them, who is the head of a family, one hundred and sixty acres of non mineral land, as homestead, to be selected by himself under the rules and regulations prescribed by the secretary of the interior.
 News comes from Katalla that the pie driver of the Copper River & North western railroad construction crew was blown up by dynamite last week. The pile driver had been placed or the right : of way claimed by the Alaska-Pacific Ky. company, the day before. It is claimed that other hostilities will fol, low.
 There can be no doubt that athletics have been carried too far in Nome when harsh and bitter feelings are aroused, when the sports are not absolutely free from dirt, and when man hurts his business because he wishes one club to win from another, it is time to call halt. And such a condition of affairs is now existing in Nome, says the News.
 The biggest nugget ever found in the Kuyukuk weighed S9U0, and was found in a crevice of the bedrock on Ham mond creek, which empties into the Koyukuk It caused a stampede to that creek, and locators rufused to sell their holdings at any price, believing that they had found the source of the worlds gold. Many stampeders rushed in from Dawson, lured on by the glow ing accounts of the deluded few who thought they had the world on down hill pull
 All ticket agents of steamship com panies connecting with the White Pass [ < Yukon Railroad are now selling tick cts to all river points and to Nome and St. Michael. From Seattle the through rates to Dawson this summer are SS0 first class and s65 second class. First '