Douglas Island news., 1919-06-06

train bound TOT Alum duu NlNlNit9 whro he will spend time prospecting. Mr. Mcdonald is expecting F. W. Bradley. one Of the Troadwell min ing engineers and L.. Worneckc, Che Trcadwen gcologist, Co meet him at Carcross and the party will proceed Co Aun. There arc number of properties ln Atln that this party win investigate. skugway Alaskan.
 Mrs. otto Kanitz. a former Valdez woman. was recently arrested at Glendale. Oregon and fined S2OO for selling whisky. The woman was netting as agent for her husband, who stavs i'm California and gets Che booze over the Oregon line. Mrs. Konitz was arrested by officers who for months have been trying to cntch her. just as shc was about Co deliver a pint bottle to a purchaser out of her hand bag. Tho couple have four small children who ac- companicd their mother Co court when she was tried.
 For having obtained more than S35.OOO in subscriptions Co the re- cent Victory Loan, w. l.. Durham. chief clerk to the superintendent of track i'm the Anchorage division of the government railroad, has been awarded a German helmet by Che governor. Mir. Durham was on his vacation during the last loan drive and visited every station and con struction camp on he Anchorage di- vision in behalf of tho loan. he se- curing about third Of thc whole amount subscribed by railroad em- ployces. Mir. Durham Is veteran Of the Spanish-Amcricon war and saw active service n tho Philippines.
 A raid headed by Ensign J. J. Hughes or thc sub chaser 3O9, on the cabin Of B. R. Sawyer. secretary of the Wrangcl Labor Union, dis closed considerable amount of se- diuous literature. Among the pamphlcts was bundle by Lcnine, inc Rolshcvih leader. There was a lot of doggcrel poetry written by Sawyer. entitled, "Thc Bolsheyiki Arc Coming" Sawyer was given a preliminary hearing by the Wran- rel Commissioner on thc charge of having scditious literature m his posscssion. Tie was bound over under Sa.ooo bail Co thc grand jury. He is also suspected of being a stacker. as he has ro registration card.
 With three holes stove iu her bot tom as che result of striking a sut- merged iceberg thc night of April 19. two miles west Of Cape spcn- ccr. Che steamship Elihu Thompson. of the North Pacific Sea Products Company fleet. arrived at Tacoma, May 25th from Alaska. The vessel. in charge of Capt IT, E. Farrcr and Pilot Benson. narrowly escaped go- ing to Che bottom. it is said by mem hers of the crew of the vessel. who declare that had the holes been a few inches farther toward tho stern the Thompson would have gone down in a few minutes. Immediately re- olizinr that the vessel was damaged thc small boats were prepared and al made ready Co leave the ship. The vessel filled with water in her forepcak. but the bulkhead in this section Of the vessel fortunately held.
 portending one of the earliest springs in Che memory of Che oldest pioneers of the Seward Peninsula district an early opening Of navi- ration i'm an of the Far North har- bors and from an headwaters Of Che mighty Yukon to the sea, the fec moved out of the Nome roadstoad Inst night. unlocking the famou. mining city from the letters of Kinr Winter News that Boring sea i' getting ready to receive the van ruard of ships which each spring land the first supplies of the year ai
 ome. st. Michaels and Golovin and hundreds of passengers who spend the summer in the Seward Peninsula district. was received ir Seattle this morning by cable Tho dispatch said that drifting before brisk wind. Che great floes which have locked Nomo harbor since los' fall. mover Co the westward, leov ing the waters on the Seward Pen
 insula metropolis free ot ice as fan as Che eye can see. R. A. Carroll Nome agent of the Alaska Steamship Company and a veteran of the North land. said today that not since l9l' had the ice moved out of Nom' roadstead as early as this year Mir Carroll said that if his memory serves him correctly, the Nome road
 stead was clear Of floes for the trs
 timo in 1913 on the night of May
 25th. Last year the ice was vcrl lato in moving out of the Berini sea and tho liner Victoria of the Al aska Steamship Company afte. steaming through hundreds of mile
 of bergs and Hoes. succeeded h
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