Douglas Island news., 1908-04-08

against A Morrison for islander and claims s5O,OOo damages. The complaint alleges that defendant called the plain tiff thieving old rascal in the pres- ence of Judge Moore'and others.
 The man who is now at the head of the Reynolds enterprises in and around Valdez travels under the somewhat suggestive name of Tetors, which will fit in very we'll with the up and down l experience of the Westward towns.
 The Yukon Basin Gold Dredging Go. is said to control the most gigantic as we'll as the most promising mining proposition ever entertained and undertaken in the North. Former Governor William Ogilvie is at She head of it.
 Among the numerous bills that have been introduced by Delegate Gale IS one authorizing the interior depart ment to convey, at s2.50 per acre, cer- tain lands at the head of Cordova bay to the Cordova Bay Harbor and Town site Improvement company.
 By proclamation of the governor of the Yukon territory the killing of all musk OK, elk or wapita, moose, caribou, deer, mountain sheep or mountain goats, is expressly prohibited, except by miners, prospectors and Indians for their own use, until further notice.
 Not less than 30 men started from here ou foot for Dawson Tuesday morn ing, says the Whitehorse Star, sixteen of them having arrived on the train the previous evening and the others having been congregsting for three or four days, most of them having arrived on the train Saturday evening and others having walked from Skagway.
 All the steamship companies operat- ing vessels into Nome and the Arctic Ocean. out of Seattle, are figuring 1p their schedules for the Northern trade, which is due to open about June lst. From the applications already received
 by the several com mpanies, for the reser- vation of space, the indications are that this year will be a record breaker or very near it.
 A new Philadelphia mining syndi- cate, headed by E. B. Powell and w. T. Perkins, of Nome, has been organized and has purchased the dredge of the insolvent Seward Peninsula Mining Company, located on upper Snake river. The new company will re- assemble the machinery at No. l, below, Wonder Creek, back of Nome. The new company will also install new electric dredge on the property Another Cordova story is that told by Chief Engineer Hawkins, of the Copper River & Northwestern R. R., upon his arrival at Seattle from New York on 5 the 1st inst. He says it is not true that they have abandoned Cordova and gone entirely to Valdez. On the con. ] trary he declares they propose to rush work at Cordova. They will, however, he says, await time when they can secure titles to the coal lands before they resume work at Katalla. The Alaska Petroleum & Coal O., which concern now owns the townslte of Katalla, advertises lots for sale, and states that the town now has ten mer- cantile establishments, two hotels, six lodging houses, two docks, two hos pitfalls, nine saloons, water works, tele- phones. U. s. Commissioners office, three physicians, three practicing law yers, three saw mills, two express con- panies, headquarters for the great oil and coal companies for this entire district. and not 8 vacant house in town.
 While Seattle citizens have been spending large sums in killing rats all winter for the protection of the public health, the trappers of the far North have been equally antagonistic toward the hoards of field mice, although not for the same reasons, says the P.-l. The mice afford an excellent menu for the mink and martin, the chief fur bearers of the interior of Alaska, and as these animals have been able to keep we'll supplied with food by living on A. l;.4Io ep;n,aIe thev haVe not been