Douglas Island news., 1918-09-20


 iu England on his way Co France. Captain Pullou's wife has returned Co her duties at Washington. Jack Mclcuuon. one of tho four sons of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Maclcu- nan. Of Whitchorse. was recently awarded che Distinguished Flying Cross n France. He enlisted at ! Vancouver but Is a Whitchorsc boy
 Tho Bank of Alaska, with branches in many Alaska cities. has doubled its capitalization. 10 has now cap- ialilation and surplus Of $2lO.OOO. | This makes it one of the strongest banking institutions In Che Terri tory
 Mrs. w. C. Mckenzie, Skagway woman who lost her husband and son in a railroad wreck on the White Pass railroad some months ago, has left Alaska. She is going to the States to take care of her mother who Is quite il.
 The first self-bindcr Co operate in Che Dawson district was iu action there recently harvesting a field ot grain on Charley Maclys ranch in West Dawson. Many Dawson pco- pie availcd themselves of Che oppor- tuulty Of seeing 10 work
 The work of registering Che man power of Che Yukon Territory isnow going on. Every man and woman iu Che Territory is being registered by Che Northwest Mounted Police. and they have Co get registration card Co carry on their person.
 The saw mill at Craig produced one million feet of oirplanc stock during che past season. At tbc pres cut time Che min Is averaging &c., OOO feet of spruce timber a day and out Of chat they managed Co get 75OO feet of airplane stock.
 The real last farewell dance for ! Che Fourteenth Infantry was given lac skagway on Saturday night, Sept |7. About sovcny-dvc Of Che boys attended. 10 was announced that there would be no more general leave granted Co Che boys Co attend dance in a body away from home.
 Mrs. Harriet S. Pullcn has been supplying Uncle sam with good young beef from her Dyca ranch. A few days ago she shipped twelve quarters of beef from her ranch to Fort William n. Seward Mrs. Pull len supcriutcudcd Che shipping her self and accompanied Che beef Go Che Fort
 The Yukon government is assist ing thc operators of the recently dis covered silver mines at Mayo by helping them construct a road Go their claims. One of Che mines there expects Go ship l.OOO tons of silver orcthis winter and several other claims win ship some ore. The ! claims iu that district look very | promising
 Jimmie Matthews, a Dawson boy and member Of the Second Canadian Motor Machine Gun brigade. was re- ccntIy wounded while lighting n France. Jimmie was born in Daw- son and enlisted when hc was 1G years old which was two years ago. Ho Is arclauvc or "Fighuug Joe" Wheeler Of Civil and spanish-Am- ericun war fame
 A. L Caruthcrs. district engineer for British Columbia. arrived in skogway a few days ago from Auin. where he had been on a special mis- sion in which be had looked over the field in a casual way for the fcasl- bility of running a railroad from Taku inlet to Atlin. When qucs-
 toned as Co his opinion or Che pro- ! ject. Mr. Carruthers said he was not at liberty to give his views on the subject.
 Mrs R. Bagley was a passenger recently down the Yukon bound for Nenana. She is the daughter of Capt. ! IT. c. Paudc after whom the Pande Basin at sitka is named, and spent her childhood at sitka. Her daush- ter, 22 years old. was born in sitka. In 1896 Mrs. Bagley, in compuuy with her husband, travelled through the Chilcoot trail on skis. enroute to ! the Fortymile country. Eighteen years ago she left Alaska and hes since been a trained nurse In Seattle. She Is on her way now Co take charge ot the government hospital at Ne mana.
 Mrs. Leland. Of lditarod, a passen-
 ger for Che outside on a recent steam CT mp the Yukon river. became Che
 mother of twins while the boat was
 on its way from Dawson to White
 horse. The twin boys were born
 while the boat was coming up Che | IThirtymile river A physician from LrhlL.hn--. h..-rL.L anu-. .nn .L...-