Douglas Island news., 1919-01-17
NEWS NUGGETS FROM ALASKA News of Alaska, Taken From the Exchanges, to Show Whats Going on in the Great
 Northland

The new trail into thc Broad Pass country has been completed. Nauaimo coal is now Sl9.5O a tou. sacked and delivered, at Val dcz
 Joseph A. Clark, formerly ot Daw- son. has been elected mayor of Ed moutou. Alberta. Canada. 10 has been estimated that there arc only i75 people iu Che Koyu- kuk country this winter.
 Hootch has fallen in price from SEQ Go SS per bottle at Cordoya, ac- corduE Go che Cordoya Times.
 10 is said that Che famous Engiu- ccr mine iu Che Carcross district will .o .. bc working luu blast again.
 Tho time for payment Of lots at Ncuaua has been extended for one ycar by order of President Wilson.
 X special train was run between Seward and Anchorage to bring the Christmas turkeys for Che Anchorage folks
 Col Joseph Boyle, famous Yukon man who was prisoner iu Germany, arrived iu London the latter part Of December
 Thomas Kccuc. of Cordoya. was recently up before the court there for violating the bone dry law and was fined SlOO.
 Thirty members Of Che U. S.. Guard. stationed at Fort Liscum re- rc.vcd their discharge the first part of this month
 The Fidalgo-Aloska Copper Conn pauy of Valdez is taking steps Co disucorporatc as company and wind up its a0airs.
 10 is said there are moro than 800 bomcstcads located In tho country through which thc government rail- road runs and will run.
 The recent nu epidemic at Valdez cost that city S7OO for salaries of vatcbmcu. rent of quarantine quar- tcrs and other expenses.
 w. M saucrs. one of Che founders of seward and a resident of kcnai Peninsula for thc past 22 years, re- gently died at Seward from mtlu- cuza.
 Tine Neuaua Commercial Club is seeking Go patch up peace between fHat town and Fairbanks. 10 seems tfa, there is a fcud ou between che two places.
 Tho miners of the Eska Creek coal mine raised S2oO as gift to Che destitute families of two former employees of that mine who recently died of influenza.
 Harlan Kccslcr former linotype operator ou Che Valdez Miner, and rrn. J seIbv. son of Che owner Of that paper. are both iu Germany guarding tho Rhine.
 Tho business Of Che Ohm Packing Company at Cordoya has been taken over by Che Hiuchinbrook Packing Company and stock is offered in' the company at Sl per share.
 Dr. Charles L.. Hale. a prominent dentist of Cordoya. passed away at that place Che first part Of the month from influenza. He was one of thc prominent men in that town and had lived there ten years.
 For che first time in several years thc town of Valdez is now out of dobt A number of moucy-saying features were introduced there tn city management that has brought about th.s happy state Of affairs.
 Frank Hobald. who Is known as  Che "wood-saw wizard" at the Val eric mine near Carcross, recently .Icf there for Prince Rupert. He claims che record for saving wood iu thc Northland He saws five cords per day.
 The Nenaua Board Of Health re- fused Co give the natives that lived i'm che mission near there their dol lar back which they gave to the board Go buy colorcd ribbon Co put ou their hats at the time that place Was threatened with Che flu.
 John r. Towers, who at one time worked for the Trcadwell Company has a crow of men with him at Ku- prcanof island,at the head of Duncan canal where they are developing a copper mine. He bought the prop. crty at marshal's sale, the former owners being the Kupreanot Copper Mining Co.
 Rev. E. P. Zeigler of Cordoya re- gently secured a permit from th' s,.t,-,1 authorities 10 secure a small