Douglas Island news., 1918-08-09

"Cub." the famous sorrel horse owned by Began and Pangman of Nomo. recently dropped dead after a ;ong life of usefulness and on- deayor. He was one of the best anil malls ever taken to the Nome district and wus brought in from Dawson in 1899. Ho had worked continuously ever since.
 The two miles of railway track which was laid in the early days of the Klondiko camp from point on the bank Of the Yukon river inland two miles. to the N. A. T. & r. Co.'S Cun Creek coal mines, is to be torn up at once. Mir. Kemp has bought inc rails and will ship them out side. Men and teams are going down at once to pull up tho rails and toI place them on tho river bank tn readiness for loading on the steamer The mine always produced a high grade of coal. and in the boom days lt sold i'm the Dawson markets for S25 ton. and much of it was used nm stenmers. The old Clara Mon arch. famed for many adverse eX- porlenccs on the Yukon river in Che feverlsh days. once took cargo of the coal for Dawson, and she had SO many breakdowns en route that she was days making port Finally she showed her nose around the bend with a flame issuing from the stack. When she dragged into tho wharf lt was learned that the ship had burned practically all the cargo of coal on the voyage, and then there was a question of whether the com pany owed the ship or the ship owed the company. Dawson News.
 Mail service of 100 days for the round trip from Seattle does not prevent six men from taking a cor respondence course through the uni- verslty of Washington They are the captain and five surfmen at. Coast Guard Station, No. 3O5. Alas ka. and they made arrangements re- gently by cablcgram Co take the course. They study together in n little cabin on the lonely shore and thc first set of finished lessons ls now on lts way to the university sovs a cablegram received at the extension division from the captain Thomas A. Ross. Merchant marine navigation is the puzzle they are attacking. Ambition and patriotism supplv the motive power that takes the place of thc cagle-cycd school ma'am or tho abscnt-mindcd profos- ROT or have in my crew surfmen who are all ambition and dcsirous to have an opportunity to take up navlratlon." writes Captain Ross "Thcy feel that their services might serve the government to a better end fl they could navigate" Mails. take DO days each way during the winter months. he says, and are sent in from Nome by dog slods. Miss Mabcl Fraser. who has charge of the mailing for the extension courses, explains that tho lesson forms which she sends from tho university 10 the men are rolled in slender cyl- finders to facilitate slowing away i'm the packs. "If we mailed them i'm the usual big envelopes they would be discarded along the trail she said. "we get reports on tho prorrcss of the class by the monthly cablcrrams which the government allows Che men to send, and we are awaiting the first returns with com siderable interest. They don't have a great deal to occupy their minds since. as Captain Ross says, they are SO far isolated from the outside and they seem very eager Co study" Besides the captain, the class i'm cludes Harold O. Nelson, Martin L.. Anderson. John Lindman, Thomas Robertson and Ben Levine.