The Alaska daily empire., 1913-05-12
GLEANINGS FROM GREAT
 NORTHERN EMPIRE

GLEANINGS FROM GREAT
 NORTHERN EMPIRE
 Prince Rupert has yacht club to which most of the leading citizens of the city belong. It's social functions are among the leading events of the place.
 Miss Alice Abrahams, daughter of Skagway's pioneer real estate man, has accepted position in the skag- way postofice.
 The prospects for busy season in mining is evidenced by the number of people who are in Atlin. and Discovery looking about for locations, according to recent advices from those towns.
 The customs business at Prince Ru' pert shows steady gains. The re- ceipts for April, 1913, were $14,2S9, as against S1O,17S for the same month last year. March of this year showed and increase in receipts of about $l'' 1 900 over March of last year.
 
 The Crater copper mine in the Whitehorse district, has been closed down. It has been shipping ore for some time. It is not stated whether it has closed for long vacation or short recess.
 Valdez is discussing the proposition of having a three days celebration for the Fourth of July. The plan pro- posed by those urging the celebration is to have excursions from Cordova, Seward and other Westward towns. and to make the affair a general re- union of all that section of Alaska.
 
 ! There are 10 peope at Cripple ana Colorado creeks in the Innoko coun- try to which a road recently has been made from Ruby. They expect to work actively during the summer though it is estimated that the winter dumps will not produce more than $25,OOO.
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 The igloo of Pioneers of Alaska or ganized at Valdez April 3Oth, took in 52 members at the first meeting. Charles Day was elected the first pres ident: c. E. Bunnell, first vice-presi' dent; Robert Mcintosh, second vice president; Eugene Ames, recording secretary; w. H. Crary, historian, and A. Carlson, treasurer.
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 c. H. Barnwell, a Prince William Sound pioneer, was drowned while en- route from Orca to Cordova May l. Barnwell and his partner had been fishing for the Orca cannery, and were caught with a launch in a storm. Whie Barnwell was trying to hold the launch into the wind he fell over board. His body was recovered with in few minutes, but despite all ef' forts to resuscitate him he never re. gained consciousness.
 
 ODonenll creek, in the Atlin dis. trict, is rapidly coming to the front as a producer, and the coming sum- mer months will see it one of the best paying creeks in that district Many of the prospectors who stampeded to the Teslin districts have gone to O. DonneI and are stalking claims on the ground there. There are about 75 men now on the creek.
 The Big Salmon district, in the Up- per Yukon country, is being prospect ed this spring with diamond drills. Those that have been operating the drills say the results are so encour- aging that they will work the district during the coming summer.
 Edmund s. Ironsides, who entered | the Canadian customs service at Skag- way when E. S. Busby was the Ca nadian customs agent at that place in 1900, has ben made collector of cus- toms for the port of Dawson. He will assume the duties of his office June l. In the meantime he is acting col lector
 The Skagway Alaskan has offered to turn it's plant and other facilities for making it's newspaper over to the chil- dren and the public school for one day and to permit them to write up and issue the newspaper for themselves. Its proposal is that for that one day every line in the publication shall be writ ten or selected by the students of the school, and that they read the proof and superintend the publication.
 
 The announcement has been made that about June the great beacon from the first class lighthouse on Langara island, off the northwest coast of Graham island. that is in process of construction, will flash for the first time. Its signals will be visible from