Douglas Island news., 1918-10-25
NUGGETS FROM ALASKA News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges to Show Whats Going on in the Great
 Northand

The Polar Bear. Che famous ship belonging Co Capt stotansson. the Arctic explorer. win be sold at auc- ton at Victoria. B.. C., and Che pro- cecds donated Co thc Red Cross. The Polar Bcar now lies at Nomo and win undergo repairs Co her keel there before coming south Go Doe sold.
 10 is claimed that "B" Company or the lim Infantry leads an other companies of infantry in tho United states for physical fitness being three inches taller and seven pounds heavier on Che average. "B" Com- pany was drafted from Fairbanks and vicinity and were trained at Fort Gibbon.
 Frcd A. stcmman. a brakeman on thc government railway was recent E killed by Che overturuiug of a box car on which hc was riding at mile 7Gis. NIT. stcinmou had been a resident of Western Alaska for the past 20 years. most of which time he was mining and prospecting around Sunrise
 Three hundred and seventy gal- Ions of whisky was recently seized ot Panama by Deputy Marshal vawtcr. No owner was found for the goods At SiO quart which is said Co be Che going price for squirrel whisky i'm the interior. Panama people are getting dizzy trying to figure out how much the owner lost
 The cauncry at Andrcaisyy on the lower Yukon got up-only about l3,- OOO cases of fish this year. This was a great deal less than was expected. for the fish were plentiful. but thc cauucry was not equipped properly Co handle them sourdoughs who went from mining camps to work in thc cauucry this year say they win not wander SO far from home again
 The grand jury recently adjourn cd at Valdez, returned indictments against four fishing concerns. The Northwest Fishing Co., and Che Abcr- crombic Packing Co. were Jointly indicted for violating the regulations ot Miles Canyon lake. and Che Car lislc and Canoe Pass Packing Conn pauios were charged with Illegally maintaining fish traps m Che Cop- per river.
 Tho power schooner Bender Bros has reached Seattle from trip Go ucrschcl Island, Co which place she went under charter to Che Hudsou's Bay Co. The crew of Che boat re- ports that tho government coast guard steamship with supplies for Point Barrow was unable to get Chat far north this season and discharged the supplies goo miles from Point Barrow. from which place they win be frcirhtod over the snow.
 On Che 10th of October fresh hali- but sold on Che Seattle exchange for 20 cents a pound. Three thousand pounds of the fish, che catch or Che Annie Larsen. was bid in at this top notch price by thc Ripley Fish Co.,. which also bought from the same boat lTO0O pounds of sable fish at Q cents a pound and l.20O pounds of fresh halibut at 8 cents a pound Last February a catch of .OOO pounds of fresh halibut brought Co port by the schooner For tuna sold in Seattle at 80 cents a pound. that being che highest price ever paid for halibut on thc North Pacific
 The freight and passenger steamer ! Catherine D. of the Pacific American Fisheries. has been chartered by Che Pacific Steamship Company and will be used first in Che Alaska trade and then in the California trade. The boat has been chartered for four months. She win be used in clean ling up the canned salmon cargoe. |offcring in Alaska and news print paper from Ocean Falls. B. C.. and after completing that service will be ! placed on the Seattle-Califoruia scrv. fee os an extra carrier The Cath crime D. has accommodations for 125 first cabin and 60 stccrage passon- gers. She Is a vessel Of 2,224 gross land l.G24 net tons register and was launched from the yards of Che Pa- Iclnc American Fisheries on February 25m last.
 CATHOLIC CHURCH