Douglas Island news., 1918-07-26
NUGGETS
 FROM ALASKA
News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges, to Show Whats Going on in the Great
 Northland

Seven thousand nvo hundred dol- lars i'm cash left by Samuel Blum to Cora Blum. of Berlin. Germany, in the formers will before he is sup posed Co have ended his life by Jumping out Of a fourth story win dow early last fall, have been seized as enemy alien property in Seattle and Cordova. which was the proper ty Of the deceased.
 Mrs. E. A. Lindman, of Wrangell, may inherit fortune running Into six figures from the estate Of her half brother, James R. Daly, who died recently at the soldiers home at Lost Angeles. Calif, She is tho only relative of Daily, who was sup posed to be worth more thu $1OO,- 900. Mrs. Lindman had not heard from her brother for number Of years.
 J. c. Tolman. of Cordova, is going Co France according Co a letter re- coived by U. s. Deputy Marshal Isaac Evans. Mir. Tolman writes that although he was too old to get in the real active service against the kaiser he is going to France as cook for the Y. M. c, A. and OK poets Co get away this month. Mir. Tolman receives S1 a month and pays his own expenses,
 Fairbanks and Nonana arc not on speaking terms any more on account of Che cancolllng Of the Fourth of' July ball game that was Co have been played between tho two towns. Ncnaua decided at the last minute that they would have some other team there to play for tho money. Fairbanks. of course, claims that it was case Of frigId toes and is real mad.
 Koyukuk station. at the mouth Of thc Koyukuk river. was washed away by high water and many Indian yil- lagcs have been isolated. All com munication with the lower river has been cut. Thus far no loss Of life has been recorded. but an the cord wood stacked along the banks of the river. which is valued at thou sands of dollars, has been swept away by thc flood.
 Word has been received in Daw- con that Che famous Jewish Battal- ion. recruited not long ago in Lon don for service In the Palestine, has gone forward in charge of Major Patterson. a former Klondikcr Pat tcrson once engaged in mining on Last Chance creek. in the Klondike, and was associated with "Red" Nichol. some time manager Of the El- dorado bottling works Of Dawson, and an old-timc pal of Andy Carnegie of multi-millionairc fame.
 Cook Inlet and an fresh water streams in the Anchorage district experienced this season an unusually heavy run Of eulachon. pronounced u-la-kon. according Co the bureau of fisheries. but known familiarly as "hooligan" or "oolican." It is a rel- ativc of the smclt. and very oily. Great numbers of the fish became stranded on the shore of the Inlet and on the banks of the rivers and brooks. and died Large quantities of them wcro caught by the Indians, who dry them as an edible dolicacy for Che winter Many were likewise taken by white fishermen.
 One thousand and ninety-onc tons Of coal were produced during tho week ended June 22 at the Commis- slou's mine at Eska. One hundred and fifteen men were on Che payroll. Prospecting with the churn drill, driving Of Eska West, Of Maitland Counter Gang and of the prospect tunnel north Of Maitland were con tinued. Forty men. during the week ended June 22, were employed at the Commissions coal mine at Chick aloon. where tho driving of "F" Rock Crosscut and Eight West and the sinking of the slope were con tlnued.
 For the first time since the be- ginning Of the construction of the government railroad, women arc em- ployed now to wait on tables in the mess hall of the Alaska Engineer ing Commission and tho luncheon room Of the railroad Young Mems Christian Association. The military conscription law and the demand for laborors at wages considerably higher than can be paid for wait | ing on table gradually made impOs- slble the obtaining of experienced men walters in the mess hall and lunch room. and. after fruitless ef- forts to maintain the service with elderly men and boys, recourse was