Douglas Island news., 1908-04-29
The N0rthIand The Latest News. from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North. Condensed. Information for Everybody.

m en to Alaska.
 The winter population of Candle in- cludes 50 ladies and three babies.
 Merwin, a Dawson pioneer, has struck dollar diggingS on Duncan creek.
 Two yards of dirt taken from the fourth beach line at Nome produced S25 when washed.
 The Ice went out of the river in front of Whitehorse Friday morning, April 24, at 10 o'clock.
 The baseball season opened in Skag- way with contest between the "A. Bs" and the South Paws.
 Seward is to have shingle mill and the shingles are to be made out of spruce and cottonwood.
 Frank Manley will employ 1000 men working for him in his interests in the Baker district. Manley took out more than half million last year.
 Thomas Martin, mem Der of the Nome miners union, has been ad- judged insane and will be taken to the Mt Tabor, Ore, sanitarium.
 The date of the Spring breakup of the river ice at Fairbanks for the past four years has been as follows: 1904, May 7th; 1905, May Sd; 1906. April 30tb; 1907, April 30th. o
 Thousands of cords of wood have been cut up the Klondike river this winter and will be foated down and piled on the banks for the use of the dredges to be operated by the Guggen- helms.
 The growth of the Tanana has been so rapid that 1t is beyond the range of possibilities for the Road Commission to supply the roads and trails that have been petitioned for by the owners of outlying properties.
 The Canadian Pacific Railroad has declared for an open shop on the rail road and in all their shops. As re- suit strike is threatened in all de- partments. The declaration has creat- ed a sensation.
 O.J. Friedsen, a Norwegian hunter and explorer, will try to reach the North Pole this summer by way of Dawson. Dependence will mainly be placed in dog teams.
 According to Prof. c. c. Georgeson, special agent of the department of agriculture, the experiment of placing Galloway cattle on Kodiak island has so far proved successful.
 Jens Nelson is the third man in as many years to lose his life in the attempt to navigate a skif from Wrangell to the A. P. A. cannery, about mile and half distant, while ! illuminated with brilliant jag.
 Edward J. Knapp received S250 from the government for reporting that the Str. Corwin, in 1906, carried explo- sives along with her passengers and mail. The amount when received he devoted to public charity at Nome.
 At Dawson, the Yukon Mill, Joe Burke proprietor, has bought out all of It's competitors in the lumber busi- ness, and the price of lumber has ad- vauced from 10 to 15 per cent. The new quotations are S60 to S75 per 1 1000 feet.
 On account of the depredatio ns of dogs, the Whitehorse Stroller is l ed to make the statement that "the only safe way to keep chickens in this country is in cold storage. We had one not long ago that had been here ten years and no dog in the neighbor> x hood would dare tackle it."
 Report has it that a man named Newton has secured franchise for the building of railway from Haines Mission, on Lynn canal, up the Porcu- pine valley through Pleasant Camp, along the Jack Dalton trail and into the copper fields at the head of White river and elsewhere in the Yukon.
 Jack Smith and associates, of Katalla, Alaska, have secured the con-