Douglas Island news., 1919-05-23

Cleanup day at wrangcu was May i7th.
 The whitchorse Tennis Club has rcorguuizcd for the season.
 Telegraph Creek Indian recently sold his fur catch at wrangcll for SSsO.
 A nth teacher is Co bc added Co Che teaching stan ot the Wraugcll Public school this year.
 The ice has gone out Of the sti- kline and che river Is now being nav iratcd. although the water is very low.
 Tho Hazel B.. Sid Barringtou's river boat. left on May 9th on the first trip or thc season up the Sti- kline river.
 The coal mines ot Tantalus on thc Yukon have been leased and the coal win bc mined there on quite a large scale this season.
 Tho influenza ban was lifted at skagway on Che 10th or this month. Schools resumed operations and cv- crytbiug went back Co normal.
 A bir rock slid onto the W. P. & Y. track near the Denver station one day Che early part or the week, blocking traffic for a short time.
 Work win soon commence on thc iob Of moving 5000 tons of steel rails from Seattle to Anchorage for usc ou thc government railroad.
 Tho keel Is Co be laid soon at Prince Rupert on the first of num- bcr of vessels that are Co Doe built there for thc Canadian government.
 Supt. Cash. Of Che Royal Mail service. recently put in St hours of almost continuous work iu trans porting people across Lake LcBorgc on lhc ice.
 Two men who recently arrived In Wmurcu from thrcc-weeks' trip up che susiue river sold the fur that had been caught on thc trip for SlaoO.
 Anchorage was thc first city to go over thc top in the recent Vie tory Loan drive. The town had sub .ribcd its quota three days after che drive opened.
 \ Seattle firm recently was Che successful bidder on the contract Co furnish one million feet of lumber for Che Alaska railroad. The um- I.r win bc used In rebuilding bridges ou Che road out of Seward.
 The William Britt drug store. af- rrr having been operated coutinu- uu.Iy for Che past twenty years in sEuEvay. Is Co bc moved Co Juneau where it win be conducted as a branch of che Britt store there
 Limerick Alley. at one time a famous thoroughiarc ot Skagway buJ which for a number of years has mot been used. win again come into Che Iimclight. The office of Che town treasurer will be reached in che future by way of the alley.
 Rev. TT. K Thoryilsou. who for a number of years was the pastor of thc Lutheran church at Petersburg. died recently ot his home iu Minnc- apoIs. The Rev. Thorvilson occu- pied tbc pulpit in Douglas several times.
 With thc melting or the snow on X. B. mountain near Skagway. thc famous letters from which the noun tau gets its name show up very plainly The snow mclts more rap idly on other parts of the peak leaving that in the gulley which forms the letters.
 Percy ucWolf. the mail carrier on tho Dawson Eagle route. lost two valuable horses by drowning in thC Yukon a short time ago. The mail carrier narrowly escaped death him. self in attempting to rescue the an. imals after they had fallen through Che river ice.
 ! Frank M Bitingcr and Miss Es thcr White were married In Skog way last Sunday The groom is , luortcrmastcr sergeant and will b, stationed on Che government steamer JcG Davis this season on the Yukon Tho bride Is from San Francisco The two met in Che Philippines.
 The schooner Casco. which oncD belonged Co Robert Louis Stevenson has left Sau Francisco on myster ious voyage. On board the boat ar, thirty men who have formed a com pany to work a placer mine some where iu the Arctic regions. Tn, Casco will sail for Dutch Harbo and leave that place for the Arcti as soon as the ice will permit.