Published Every Saturday by The
Seward .Gateway .Publishing Co. at
Knik, Alaska.
BERNARD M. STONE, President.
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Here and There
A stage line lias been established
between Fairbanks and the new To
lovana camp.
John Faliy has struck pnv dirt on
Ilappy creek, Fairbanks district;
which is said to be better than to
cents per pan.
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At the recent election several
Kake Indians answered all the
questions asked by the judges and
were allowed to vote.
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Seward has a brand new school
house all ready for use excepting
tor one little particular, and that is
Jffle builders forgot to putin a chim
ney.
i he winter schedule ot the Cop
per River & Northwestern railway
has gone into effect. Trains leave
Cordova on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Saturdays.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Co.
has instituted a search for the rela
tives of James Moe, who was killed
at Fort Seward by falling down the
hatch of the steamship Meteor.
* tlin, risen from the ashes of the
fire of May 3, which destroyed 3c
buildings with a loss of $100,000,
now looks more prosperous than
ever. Notwithstanding the severe
losses sustained the business men
have nearly all rebuilt.
Recent issues of the Fairbanks
papers contain the news of a rich
strike on Vault creek. Pay dirt
yielding from $5 to $6 per pan is re
"ported to have been encountered by
laymen who have a lease from Jack
Prest.
The natives of Auk village, in
Southeastern Alaska, became in
terested in the Belgium relief fund
and raised S1S.75, which was for
warded to the treasurer in Juneau.
The natives tire hit hardest by the
Ktiropean war as the prices of furs
have dropped to a very low figure.
Spruce creek, in the AtlinJ dis
trict, lias taken on a new lease of
life and is busier now than ever be
fore, as there are more men work
ing and more . development work
being done this winter than for
many years. Ground that had
been abandoned lias been taken up
and new ground is being opened up
all along the creek.
The police of Whitehorse have
started a number of undesirables
out over the trail as a result of
petty thievery.
The residents of the Koyukuk
district complain about their mail
service. Only three mails each way
from Wiseman had been carried
during the year, up to November i.
The Mclnroy store at Fort Yu
kon was destroyed by lire last month
causing a loss of $20,000. The loss
of the stock will cause a shortage
before the opening of navigation
next spring.
The miners of Ghisina arc re
ported to be prospecting the benches
of the creeks there in hopes of lo
cating the elusive pay streak. Sev
eral have reached bedrock but noth
ing approaching pay has as yet been
! found.
A gigantic mastodon skull, dug
up,from the frozen, ground 110 feet
’ clow the surface near Dawson, has
jbeen sent by Capt. S. C. Barrington
to Seattle where it will be displayed.
The grow 1 was frozen from the
surface down.
Preside 1 Wilson lias sent a per
sonal let er to Fairbanks citizens
who sent him a beautiful ink-stand
manufacture.] from native gold and
ivory dug from the local mines.
The President stated that Alaska
was much in his mind and that he
bcleived a period of great prosper
ity was in store for the territory.
The body of Anna Shepherd,
wife of Jack Shepherd, a pioneer of
Cordova, was found on the beach
near that place recently. The cor
oner’s jury returned a verdict that
deceased had come to her death by
drowning. She was a native woman
and had been separated from her
husband. She leaves a family of
six children.
The "Ketchikan Progressive has
discovered a real estate bunco game
being operated by Seattle parties
who are putting Alaska town lots
on the market in the Spirit city.
The company is known as the
Grindell Pay Development Co., In
corporated. Grindell bay is located
on the west coast of Prince of Wales
Island. The prospectus, which
bears no names, states that halibut
are so plentiful there that they are
caught in nets and that the place
has a delightful climate which is
only excelled by the exquisite
views. The Progressive says there
is nothing to warrant the boom and
that patent for the ground has not
even been applied for.
Hot Tamales at Mrs. Morrison’s
Roadhouse. *
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