Douglas Island news., 1918-11-08
NEWS NUGGETS
 FROM ALASKA
News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges, to Show Whats Going in the Great
 Northland

Private Vincent T. Dortero, a skagway boy. son of a pioneer resi- dent of that town. died at Camp Dodge Iowa. Sunday. October 27. Ho was Che first skagway boy to die tn service
 II. Bismark. resident Of Flat City, in the Iditarod. was recently arrest cd and fined S25O and costs for gambling. He had been arrested sey- oral times before charged with the same offense
 Part ot the Panama Bakery at Fairbanks was recently consumed by flames. The fire department very quickly got a chemical and two streams of water on the blaze and got it under control
 Harry Kamayama and wife, Jap aneso residents or Whitchorso for a number Of years. where they con ducted bakery and restaurant left that place a few days ago on route to their old homes In Japan.
 Henry NJ. Chamberlain was recent ly arrested at Nenana for violating tho game laws. He was afterwards arrested for being a stacker, as proof had been secured that he was Of draft age and had not registered.
 A school district has been organ izcd at Eslla. Alaska. where the gov crnment coal mine Is located Fife teen scholars are enrolled and Miss Orah D. Clark. formerly Of Anchor age. has been engaged as teacher.
 George Mellich. a bootlegger who escaped from custody at Fairbanks several weeks ago while serving out a thousand dollar fine, has been re- captured on Che Circle trail about 90 miles from thc town of Circle.
 seldovia Is said Co bo booming. A new dock has just been completed there. There are four eating houses. three rooming houses, two pool halls and three grocery stores and sev- cral other business started at this new town.
 The launch Flyer. which was sunk last month near Fairbanks, was said Co have had from S75.OOO to $1OO,- 900 in gold dust aboard. The dust was from tho Tolovana district. It has been rumored that there might have been foul play in the sinking of the launch.
 Caristo Racine, proprietor of the White Pass hotel at Whitehorse, was tried at that place on the s2nd Of October for selling liquor in pro- hiblted hours. As this was the sec- ond otiouso. he was fined S1OO and costs. or three months in jail, after pleading guilty.
 Three shoulder straps from the uniforms Of German soldiers have been sent to Fairbanks and are on exhibition there. Thomas McSmart the Fairbanks soldier who sent them said that their owners would have no more use for them, as they had gone to a place where shoulder straps were not used.
 For the betterment Of the telo- graph service In Alaska, the gov ernment will shortly establish new radio station somewhere on Prince William Sound. This will complete a chain of army and navy radio sta- tions which will enable wireless messages to be transmitted by re- lays from Nome to Seattle.
 The Copper river was called the Aetna by the Russians and prior Go .1SSi nothing was known of the river except what Che Russians told about it In their records. The river was first known of In 17S7 and at least three parties of Russian ox- plorers lost their lives trying to reach Che upper reaches Of the river. where it was rumored there were lots Of gems and gold