Douglas Island news., 1919-06-13

The Skarway school closed for the year on Friday, June eth.
 They have character at Fort Yukon named 'Jump-OG Bill."
 Canned clans are already being shipped from Cordoya to the States.
 A dog ordinance is Co be strictly enforced tn Cordova this summer.
 The ice broke on the Yukon in front of Dawson on May 10th this year.
 Thirty-sevcn liquor licenses were issued in Yukon last year. This was a decrease of eighteen over Che year before.
 The poll tax in the Yukon is now due and payable The tax is sS per year for every malc person over thc age of IS.
 Twcnty-six applications for citi- zcuship have been filed in the dis trict court at Fairbanks since the first Of the year.
 A party of government surveyors recently left Anchorage for the pur- pose of locating railroad route through thc Broad Pass.
 The Jchs and Mutts are staging a series of baseball games in a two team league at Dawson. At present Che JcGs are in the lead.
 The steamer Senator left on tho first of June for Nome with a full passenger list and freight cargo for thc first trip of tho year.
 Tho influenza scare is over at Whitchorsc and the health officer there raised the ban against public gatherings on June 5th.
 10 is estimated that the distance between rail heads on the govern mcnt railroad at tho end Of work this summer will be about 100 miles.
 The skagway Alaskan says that although several pioneer firms have left that place this spring there still remain twcuty-two business houses u thc city.
 Captain John Livingston has re- turned Co his duties es captain of thc Jefferson. after having been dis ablcd for a couple Of months on ac- count ot fall.
 The U. s. transport JeG C. Davis, used on thc Yukon river. wus launch ed from Che ways at whitchorse last week and will begin its summer service on the river soon.
 Lowell Rousseau. son Of tho editor of thc whitchorsc Star. has arrived at Seattle from overseas duty and after a visit in California will prob ably return to the North.
 Many whitcfish and grcyling arc being caught In the river between Whtchorsc and the foot Of Miles Canyon. One man went out from town one day and caught eighty.
 The frcightcr Latouche. which silcd from Seattle for Nome on May alst had a cargo of material aboard for the annual reconstruction Of the harbor at the mouth Of Snake river.
 According to the Seattle Times. one Alaskan cannery company has a machine gun aboard one or their launches Co protect the company's traps against fish pirates who are lifting traps.
 The superintendent in charge of tracks of the Anchorage division of che Alaskan railroad officially calls down some of his men whom he sus- poets Of using government korosine to start fires with.
 c. M. Arbuckle. who formerly published the Iditarod Pioneer, was recent passenger down the river. He will very likely continue the pub llcation Of hi5 paper, which has been suspended for some time.
 Tho number of cases Of flu among ! thc Indians at Champagne Landing .n Che Yukon has increased from 66 Go 103. and two more deaths have taken place. with the possibility that four or five others who are very m win not recover.
 Ketchikan will in the future have two daily papers. A new printing plant has just been shipped from Sc. attIe Go be used by B. M Stone and |E. G. Morrissey. who will start a paper called the Journal. Tho Times is already operating there.
 Robert Lowe has shipped fiftce1 tons of copper ore from the Wal ! Eagle. Anaconda and other White b,rs, district propcrties To th,