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W. P. Hemenway fur warden, is in vestigating complaints in the Panama valley of trappers using poison.
 The Pacific Coast Steamship Company is negotiating for a steamship to take the
 lace of the Delhi, wrecked near Wrangell. Enrique Nantuy of kena was recently fined $200 for stabbing a fellow country man. The wound was not serious, and | the man is recovering. Nantuy had no money, and is serving out his time
 It is reported that when the steamship Dora is relieved from her present run to | the westward by the Santa Ana which IS being rebuilt and converted into an oil burner, she will be taken to Seattle and ! sold
 George R. Goshaw has been appointed postmaster at Chisana The former official was removed by the department for failure to make proper reports of his office to the department. It also ordered the office closed, but rescinded the order when l Goshaw offered to accept the office. Separated for fifteen years, c. B. Wilson | formerly of Panama and Fairbanks, and Mrs Wilson, who has been making her home in California, were reunited recently. The couple are now enjoying their second honey moon, and will come to Fairbanks within the near future.
 H. Yamashita the Japanese accused of murdering K Kajta, fellow countryman, at Sitkoh bay cannery last year, was found not guilty by the jury which heard the case In his closing address to the jury TTri+oJ ICbn I PapoD 6a- manded the life of the accused in retribu- tion for the death of the victim. Home grown potatoes the best in the world, are selling at Knik for s3.50 per hundred pounds. Early Ohios, Gold Coin or Matanuskas are among the varieties of tered.
 A shot was fired through the window of Norah Moore of Koyukuk notoriety, with the evident intention of woundirg or killing her The shot missed Norah but blew the stove in the cabin full of holes. knik now has a commercial club, which came into existence to pave the way for greater things which the members believe will come to that town as the result of railroad activities.
 John Scranton of Juneau was recently fined S200 and given a sentence of ten days in jail for selling deer meat out of sea son.
 Harry c. Lamarty, who claims to be an Alaskan, has bzen arrested by the police in Seattle, charged with being implicated in the robbery of the postoffice at St. Mary's, Idaho.
 i According to the government statistics the natives of Alaska are about 26,0OO in number, and they are spread over more than 350,000 of the 500,000 square miles of the territory.
 A number of business places in Haines have been burgarized recently and the culprits have been caught. They are native boys between 13 and 16 years of age. The value of the loot is placed at Sl00,
 The output of the Vermont Marble Com pany from their quarres in Southeastern 1 Alaska IS to be greatly increased, and a l force of 250 men will be steadily employed. cubic feet annually The Alaska marble has been pronounced the finest in the world A2ith the exception of some grades from 1 Italy
 Ketchikan creek, or "Shingle Mill Hume, :" as 1t IS locally known, has claimed another victim in the person of William F. Fergu- son, trsveIing salesman of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company of Seattle. His body was found on February II. The coroner's jury returned verdict of accidental death. De- ceased was we'll known along the Alaska | coast
 So many school teachers have applied l for in AlaSl.a tb ba+ if h hapOnp necessary to print a circular letter, which is mailed in lieu of written reply | Harry Cavanaugh has secured the con- tract for carrying the mail between lliamna i lake and Naknek for the balance of the win | ter The former carrier was drowned sev- eral weeks ago while trying to cross the lake, Letters from Naknek state that the residents of that place have been bedly neg lected by the mail authorities A quiet stampede recently took place to l Nugget creek, a tributary of Goldstream, owing to pay having been found by k. Ronaldson and Hugh Ross.
 The bakers of Juneau have entered into an agreemnt not to cut prices, and will re- duce expenses as far as possible. Twelve loaves of bread retail and fifteen loaves to dealers is the new rate
 The first territorial convention of the w.. c. T. U. will meet in Skagway some time in May Mrs Cornella .Jewett Hatcher, pres ident of the Alaska branch of the organ | ization, will conduct the meeting. Mrs. Hatcher will be accompanied by dramatic reader, who will give entertainments during the session.
 Alaska fur dealers are hopeful that the l fur market will soon revive, as inform ation