Douglas Island news., 1918-07-26

now dock at Anchorage W. A. C. Baldwin Is now Che man lager Of thc Windsor hotel at Cor doya.
 Bishop Rowe is now In Seattle and IwnI take a steamer for Nome, and then a trip through the Arctic.
 Residents Of Cordoya are indig- Inaut because some one has detaced the fence and grounds Of their new ball park.
 Steamer victoria on her first trip out from Nome. has iOO carcasses Of | frozen reindeer aboard for the Se- Iatuc markets.
 The Beluga Whale Fishing Com pauy has caught 42 whales to date | and expect Co make the number 300 for Che season.
 Gen. W. P. Richardson. formerly head of the Alaska Road Commission, is at Fort Beurcgard, near New Or leans. where he is commanding the 7Sth Infantry brigade.
 J. w. Pritchctt. editor ot the wrangeu Seniucl, and Mrs. Sadie Eleanor Edmundson were married ! Seattle on July IS. They will return |to wrauEclI and make it their home in che future.
 Martin D. Cottcr formerly special | |disbursiur officer ot the Alaskan En- | glnceriur Division In tho Anchorage | division. recently enlisted at Nor | folk. Va. as a yeoman. third class, ! In Che navy.
 Perhaps the first Alaska woman |to engage actively In the catching of fish in Alaska is Dora Davis, Of Seward. who has purchased a half interest in the boat Dewey and will sail on her to Che fishing banks. 10 Is now definitely known that the 81st Engineers. the regiment that was recruited from Anchorage, has arrived n France and Anchorage people arc sure that their boys will | give good account of themselves. Eugene Faraud. son of a Fair banks ussaycr. was awarded a prize of a $50 Liberty Bond in the conn .pcut.vc contest among the Fairbanks Boy Scouts in selling Libery Bonds. Ho made Gl sales which ncttcd Sl5,- 500.
 n. G. Click. who had lived in Daw- son iu poverty for ten years. died there recently a charity patient in la hospital of that city. After his death a search ot a grip In his pos session disclosed more than Sl,6OO in cash
 Thomas F. Gordon. recently or |Fairbanks. recently had halt Of his stomach and five inches Of his intes- |uucs removed iu a hospital iu Penn isylyania. Ho has recovered and says he feels better than he ever did iu his life.
 ! KIoudikc girls arc helping Co win Che war by doing manual labor such as was formerly regarded as only proper for men Co do. Clothed in ! khaki kuickcrbockers they are plant ing and caring for agricultural pro- ducts. and they propose Co do the harvesting when they shall have grown
 The cases of tho Canoe Pass Pack ling Company and Northwestern Fish cries Company. charged with a waste of Fish in Abcrcrombie canyon, came up before United staes Com missioner Medley. Of Cordovu, re- gently. The defendants both plead ed guilty and were each fined S250 and costs.
 steam Shovel No. I. operating at |Mnc 1lS. Of the Alaska railroad, es- tablished a record for itself recently when it handled 3,7OO cubic yards ot gravel in one day. This gravel was taken to Turnagaln Arm. Shovel ! No. 1 during the six working days iu Che week ended June 22, moved Il5.0OO cubic yards Of gravel.
 It has been definitely decided that
 Che steamer Dora. which has served
 thc people Of Western Alaska SO l faithfully for such a long time. will
 be withdrawn from the service on ! August 20 and taken to Seattle tC
 be sold. It is not known how tho points formerly served by the Dora I win receive their mail and freight
 in the future. as no provision Ina,
 as yet been made for securing am
 other boat for the run.
 Three applications have been mad, in Che past month for homesteadi
 along the line Of the government
 railroad. Two applications. which
 had been made previously, were all
 lowed by the federal land office au
 thorities. Under the so-called "com
 mutation of homeseads" regulations -n certlncnLe hns heen issued by thl