Douglas Island news., 1918-08-09
NEWS NUGGETS
 FROM ALASKA
News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges, to Show Whats Going in the Great
 NOrthand

In one week recently the town Of Wrangell shipped i5 uerces Of mud cured salmon. 33S barrels Of salt salmon and t79 boxes of fresh salmon. Six firms shipped. The cs- timatcd worth of the fish was S1S,- 900.
 W. A. Randall, a naturallzed Ger man. was recently brought out from Che Koyukuk country and placed In jan at Ruby, charged with making sedltious uttcrances. This was tho first prlsuoncr Of tho kind ever in the Ruby jail.
 On July 25th the salmon had not. reached Dawson yet on the Yukon river and Dawsonitcs were bccom- Ing worried over the matter. as they were long overdue. The lateness Of the fec going out is said to be the cause Of the salmon being 80 late.
 Tho cannerymon of tho Ketchi- kan district have organized them selves Into an association called ''The Alaska Gamers Association" John R. Beagle. of Kotchlkan, is president. Tho purpose Of the organ ization ls said Co be for mutual ben eat.
 The Wrangell Sentinel now has Q service flag with one star in it The star is for Weston Dalgity. who was formerly employed on that paper. but has gone away to enlist in the army. His place on tho paper has been taken by Miss June Elliott, Of Spokane.
 Milo steguro. who was tried for the murder of George Riley on Flat creek on the 5th Of May last, has been found guilty as charged. Judge Bunnel has passed the sentence Of death. He will be hanged in Fair banks within ninety days of the passing of sentence.
 Eska creek. one Of the producing mines on the government railway. will have new school building within a short time. The town has increased rapidly In population tho past year. 5000 tons of coal being mined monthly. and several hundred miners being employed.
 A few days ago the boat N. & S. fouled her propcllor on a chain in Valdez harbor. Joe Schulte, pas scngcr on thc boat. went overheard and stayed i'm the ice cold water twenty minutes freeing tho chain. He received purse Of $2O from the passengers on the boat
 M. Mckinney. the shinglc man of WrangeI. recently lost boom Of logs containing 125.OOO feet. The logs were being towed by the boat Ida May An attempt was made to get the logs, but the boat that went after them broke down, SO the at- tempt had to be abandoned.
 The old steamer Alaska, formerly owned by the Wilson & Sylvester Mill Co.,. Of Wrangcll. and later the propcrty of the Dalmeny Fish Co.,. when lt was used as a fish station, has been purchased by IT. A. Andcr- son. of Petersburg. who will con- vert lt Into a herring saltory.
 The village Of Bear Creek. Yukon, will soon be no more. as drcdge operated on the creek Of the same namo ls eating its way right through the village to get at the placer de- poslts that undcrlle the town. The town was built by the same dredg- Ing company that is now destroying |it.
 Chief Steward John Knox, Of the steamer Alaska of the A. Y. N. Co.,. was arrested recently at Nenana for violation of the game laws. It was alleged that he served caribou meat on the boat out of season. He was released on $500 bail to make his appearance in court on the next trip of the boat.
 The Valdez Packing Company is putting up over a thousand cases of salmon a day and prospects arc good for a record pack this year Tho company ls getting more fish than lit can handle. despite the opinions of pcsslmists who believed Valdez a poor location for a cannery. The company employs about 15O hands.
 Munsons roadhouse, run by Hitler & Bertrand. has come Into promin- ence lately as a summer resort. sey- eral auto parties have gone out re- ! .t H hoo, boT o rOOH limo