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Jack Greene ,a trapper, was drown
ed by the overturning of a row boat
in which he and Mary Howard, a na
tive girl, were returning to Ketchikan
from Rowe Point this week. Greene
never came up but the girl clambered
to the keel of the overturned boat and
was rescued by passing craft.
Arthur Wakefield, Jr., a Ketchikan
lad was badly bruised by falling thru
the roof of the Ketchikan Power Co.
to the floor, a distance of 16 feet. He
was engaged in cleaning the sawdust
from the roof at Khe time.
The Juneau office of Seims & Carl
son, Spokane road contractors, will be
located in the Horseshoe building next
to the cable office.
The Douglas Mining Company, com
posed of local people which owns 13
claims on Douglas island, just back of
the town, has completed plans for de
velopment of the lode which was dis
covered last fall, in the hopes of re
viving the decadent prosperity of the
city, which went when the Treadwell
ceased operating.
According to a report by Customs
Collector McBride, the year 1922 saw
an increase of $20,481 in the com
merce of the territory with a healthy
growth in all industries. The mineral
output was approximately $18,000,000
with a large increase of shipments of
fish. Nearly twenty thousand people
efitered Alaska during the year.
Sale of the gold and silver mines of
the Daly-Alaska Mines company near
Hyder, on an option to H. S. Denny,
mining engineer of London, is an
nounced thru the offices of Maurice
D. Leehey, Seattle attorney, who rep
resented the Daly Interests in the
transfer. The property adjoins the j
Premier mine in British Columbia.
Laying of the new Seattle-Sitka ca
ble will not be begun until May, 1924,
due to time required to build it, the
Chamber is advised by J. J. Under
wood, its Washington representative.
The cable will be the latest type in
use and will be of such construction
that it can be made part of a trans
pacific cable. Congress has approved
a future appropriation to extend the
cable to Seward.
The cannery at Pybus bay, built
several years ago by the Pybus Bay
Packing Company and last operated in
1921 by the Admiralty Packing Com
pany was recently purchased at pri
vate s^le by the Alaska-Pacific Fish
eries which has other canneries at Tee
Harbor, Yes Bay, and Chomley. The
plant is a two line outfit.
Bess Casperson, in charge of the
Juneau Baths, entered a plea of guilty
to possessing intoxicating liquor be
fore Commissioner Payne and was fin
ed $100 and costs, the fine being paid.
Frederick Zorn, who has been pro
moting a mining enterprise and colo
nization scheme in the Mt. McKinley
district, particularly for the Susitna
and Yentna valleys, is in Juneau on
his way to Lake creek to perform as
sessment work.
The big halibut fishing boat Nord
land has been purchased by I. Gold
stein, Ed Wallie and Anton Sandness
from Magnus Hansen and was taken
over by them yesterday according to
a statement made by Mr. Goldstein.
The Nordlapd is 19 net and 28 gross
tons. It is 46.6 feet long, 13.7 feet
wide and 6.4 feet deep and carries
30,000 pounds of fish.
The logging outfit of Peter Olsen
was wrecked at Tenakee and the crew
barely escaped with their lives during
a heavy storm in March.. The outfit
was on a scow.
Drilling for oil at Yakataga Beach
will be started this summer, a deal
having just been closed insuring a
thorough prospecting of this field, ac
cording to an announcement made to
day by Representative Frank Foster
of Cordova. W. A. Munley, former
U. S. District attorney at Valdez is
interested in the project.
Suffering with her right leg broker
Mrs. Vanvleck was taken to' Juneat
from Wrangell recently.
Capt. Johnston, who made himsel!
rich on Cooper gulch, Nome, years
ago, and who has held on to his mon.
ey ever since, is spending the wintei
on Los Angeles.
Frank H. Hall, a former Iditaroc
man, has a drug store on Bush streei
in San Francisco.
James Wilson, formerly connected
with the Northern Commercial com
pany at Dawson, is located in ’Frisco
Louis L. Lane and the Whittarc
boys, former residents of Nome, are
in ’Frisco, where Lane owns a fine
home.
Walter Kurtz, a former printer and
pupblisher of Dawson, now has a flour
ishing business in Santa Cruz, Cal.
He was a candidate for the state
legislature last fall, but failed to
connect.
A. W. Kahl, assayer for a Nome
bank, has engaged in raising bulbs at
Santa Cruz, where he has several
acres of promising varieties.
Alex M. Smith, explorer and pio
neer of the North, is spending the
winter in San Francisco, after a trip
to Siberia.
Ernie Blanck, a former Nome miner,
is said to have made a big strike in
the old silver camp of Randsburg, in
which he bought an interest some
time ago.
Erik O. Lindblom, one of the dis
coverers of Anvil creek, is living at
San Francisco.
A mercantile transaction of some
importance occurred at Tacotna re
cently when the Northern Commercial
Company acquired the stock, store and
good will of A. Higgins. Possession
was taken April 1.
A. Higgins and A1 Thorne recently
disposed of their dredging interests in
the Innoko Dredging Company which
reverted to the company. No. One,
Dome gulch, was taken over recently
by T. P. Aitken under lease.
Thos. A. Marquam was elected may
or of Fairbanks at the recent city
election and Thos. P. Youle, Frank P.
Wood and August Conradt as council
men.
Active work has been started on the
Whistler basin mine five miles back
in the hills from Windham bay. Hy
draulic operations will be carried on
all season.
John Gulliford, better known as
‘‘Jack,” one of the oldtime business
men of Dawson died suddenly March
16. Mr. Gulliford was a native of Ma
rion, Ohio, and about 48 years old. He
was one of the most expert restau
rant men in the north. For years he
was chef on the White Pass steamers,
and two years ago opened the Roch
ester Grill in Dawson.
Chief Isaac of Moosehide, the Mon
tezuma of the'Klondike, who owned
all the country before the whites ar
rived £>n the scene, recently took a
hunting trip and had an experience
which is causing a sensation among
the Moosehide braves and squaws. He
says: “Me see’m track out there big
like dat’’ Then he took his two fists
and made sharp fmprints in the snow
with his whole arm, thus indicating it
was a monster whose track the chief
; crossed.
A former Interiorite recently walk
ed into a restaurant and asked: “Is
May here?” “May who,” asked the
proprietor. ‘‘Mayonnaise.” “No she’s
dressing replied the proprietor,” and
floored the joker with a hotcake.
Sergt. B. J. Stangroom of the Royal
i Mounted Police, formerly stationed
at Dawson, has been transferred to
I Port Nelson. Hudson Bay. He started
a month ago to make the trip by dog
team.
Sam McCormick and Charles Mc
Dowell arrived in Dawson last week
| from the Tjyenty-two mile roadhouse
on the winter trail, and reported that
I J. T. E. Bridgewater of Miller while
on the way in had frozen his feet tc
some extent. He was unable to make
the trip and remained at Fish creek
Ed Campbell, a well known minei
of the Klondike, recently lost his lift
in Norway. He was drowned with his
; brother, sister and father. They hat
| been on a visit and were returninj
home across a lake in a rowboat whei
a storm swamped their boat.
Mrs. Tom Fujita died ait Wrangel
last week of peritonitis.
R. J. Sommers will superintend th<
I work of the Alaska Road Commissioi
and the Board of Rivers and Harbors
Engineers on Seward peninsula this
season. He will leave for Nome earl:
in the season.
The harbor at Nome is expected t<
be completed this summer.
Chased by dogs from its home in th<
hills a large doe fled to man for pro
tection and stood in the creek in th<
heart of Sitka until with the ap
pearance of daylight the dogs wen
chased away.
News reached Cordova this weel
that George C. Hazelett was danger
ously ill in New York with an attacl
of appendicitiis. An immediate oper
ation was necessary and his life for £
time was despaired of. Calvin Haze
let, his son, went to his father fronc
Chicago, and is at his bedside.
Adrift In the waters of the North
Pacific ocean for exactly one year to
the day, a bottle thrown over from
the steamer Belgium Maru was picked
up on the beach at Totem Bay near
Ketchikan and given to the local* cus
toms officer. The bottle was thrown
over on the 19th day of March, 1922.
and was found on the 19th day ot
March, 1923, by Olsen. It contained no
tice to the U. S. hydrographic office
it was cast overboard at latitude 49
34-30 N. and longiture 148-36-30 W.
This is approximately 600 miles west
and 500 miles south of the point at
which it was found.
Dr. W. W. Council was elected may
or of Cordova; K. G. Robinson, town
clerk; and Alland G. Lund, C. P.
Michaelson and George Dooley mem
bers of the council.
T. W. Baker, well known prospec
tor, was taken to Juneau the first of
the week suffering with paralysis. His
entire right side is paralyzed and his
condition is serious.
Albert Grant, who was arrested re
cently for killing Percy Huntington,
was taken ill on his way in to Fair
banks and is temporarily delayed at
the ToloV&na roadhouse.
Driven by hunger the wolves on
Gravina island are growing bolder and
soon will be a real menace to people
living there. Recently howls of the
pack took the Stensland boys armed
with lanterns out to their trap, where
they saw a big fellow struggling in the
trap. He was surrounded by others.
The animals had pitched upon a dog
of the Stenslands, and broken his
back and lacerated him until he was
killed to put him out of his misery.
The famished pack has even fallen
upon the wolf that was caught in the
trap and had begun to chew him.
A heavy season for road work in
the Haines district is planned for this
summer by the Alaska Road Commis
sion, according to a statement made,
by Major John C. Gotwals.
The coast guard cutter Unalga
left Juneau March 30 with ten mem
bers of the Alaska legislature to in
vestigate conditions at the Pioneers’
Home at Sitka. Those making the
trip were: Senators Ayer, Dunn,
Chamberlin and Snodgrass; Repre
sentatives Raelson, Murray, Wilson,
Callahan, Keys and Johnston.
Edward Ashby, 22-year-old son of I
Thomas Ashby, old time resident of
Alaska, died at St. Ann Hospital in
Juneau of hemorrhage of the stom
ach. Deceased was born in Tacoma.
Wash.
While Arthur Robinson, an old time
miner of Fairbanks creek was work
ing on the Schoesser claim on Dome
creek, he was being hoisted up the
shaft when a lump of dirt fell on his
head, knocking him ouit of the bucket.
He fell to the bottom of the shaft,
I fracturing his skull, death ensuing be
| fore he could be rushed to a hospital.
Marshal George D. Beaumont was {
in receipt o£ a telegram recently from
Attorney General Daugherty asking
him to appoint special deputies from
the personnel of the coast guard fleet
to assist in the protection of fox far
mers against poachers.
Among important civic matters
transacted at Skagway recently was a
reduction of salaries of city officials
and a readjustment in the remunera
tion of the town marshal and justice
of the peace. Salaries of the city
clerk and city treasurer were reduced,
the clerk’s pay being cut from $50 to
$30 per month and the city treasurer
from $3b to $30. The pay of the jus
tice was fixgd at $1 per year, but he
will receive one-third of the fines im
posed, as will also the town marshal
leaving one third for the city.
Records show that the snowfall at
Nenana during the last winter meas
ured forty inches, which is consider
ably more than usual. The snowfall
at Dawson .was 55 inches.
The stockhosders of the Tanana j
Valley Agricultural Association, Inc.,
recently held their annual meeting for
the purpose of electing officers.
Mr. Rutherford who arrived in Fair
banks recently from the upper Chena,
states that he is satisfied George Tree
met his death in the icy waters of the
Chena. Rutherford says for five
months previous to his coming to
town he had not seen a soul and felt
like kissing the first man he met on
the trail. Itytherford was ill twice
during the winter and was unable to
keep his fires going or cook his food.
At one time he was laid up with a
frozen foot and was almost demented
from the pain and solitude.
The Fairbanks Commercial Club:
has been reorganized with R. C. Wood
at the head of the organization as
president, and W. F. Thompson vice
president. E. H. Mack was elected
secretary.
Bert Anderson, who was arrested at
Fairbanks recently on a charge of vio
lating the dry law and giving hootch
to Indians, has been bound over to
the grand jury.
The longest freight train ever seen
on the Fairbanks line arrived there
this week, (the train consisting of 33
cars, including five cars of autos.
The last load of mining machinery
and supplies for use on Caribou creek
by the Stewart outfit was sent out of
Fairbanks this week. The aggregate
weight was 140 tons.
Thousands of caribou are reported
on the south fork of the Koyukuk and
meat is plentiful at three pounds for
one dollar.
An outfit of several men will leave
in a few days for the Bonnifield dis
trict, where they will be engaged in
mining on Gold King, say Fairbanks
papers. *
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Alaska Fur Shippers, disposing
of your furs to the best advan
tage possible. Regular Sales
will be held about every two
months. Special sales held
whenever market justifies.
Advances made on shipments
when requested.
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$1,000 and 5% on lots under $1,000,
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The body of J. D. Shelton, the man
who met his death at his trading sta
tion along the south mouth of the
Yukon, was taken recently to Nome
for the purpose of holding an autopsy.
Nenana authorities have been ap
pealed to ig connection with the dis
appearance last July of George Tree,
a well knoyvn former resident. He
was last seen at the caribou farm on
the upper Chena.
Karl Karsten was accidently shot
and killed by his own rifle recently or
the beach in the Rocky Pass district.
Karsten on landing from hig boat at
tempted to pull his gun from the bow
and received a fatal wound..
Valdez is reported to have the first
radiophone broadcasting station in the
Third division, in operation. The in
struments were installed about three
weeks ago by M. E. Quist of the ca
ble office, and tests with Latouche
and other nearby stations have been
very successful. As soon as the cable
is repaired a regular broadcasting
program will be arranged for the ben
efit of those living on the fox islands
in Prince William Sound.
Capt. Con Gallagher, a pioneer resi
dent and veteran canneryman of the
First division died recently at Seattle
after an illness of several months
from stomach trouble. Deceased was
67 years of age and was bom in Don
egal, Ireland. About 25 years ago he
came to Alaska with the A. P. A. and
since that time has made his home in
this district.
Edward Montgomery, aged 38, died
last week at Juneau, from tuberculo
sis. He was a native of Wisconsin
and had spent the past two years in
Alaska ait the Warm Springs district.
Unfavorable weather conditions
have hampered travel muchly during
the past week. Mail Carrier Hay Be
attie endeavored to break through to
Big river on Thursday but was com
pelled to return to McGrath that
night, his doge exhausted.
A recent report from Dawson says
the caribou are swarming in the hills
west of the city and that numbers of
them are falling victims to the hunt
ers. A conservative estimate places
the numbert within ten miles of the
[ city at 5,000.
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The gas boat Lou, tender for the
Sukoi island fox ranch was wrecked
recently during a heavy southeast
wind. The Lou was once the property
of Capt. Plunkett, who was killed by
Edward Krause, the latter being sen
tenced to be hanged, but breaking
jail and being shot at Doty’s Cove.
Walter Stenslund, a young trapper
in southeastern Alaska, has made $60
in bounties on wolves this winter.
The bunkhouse at the Dunwell mine
| on Glacier creek was completely de
; stroyed by fire just before noon on
: March 14, a defective flue being re
| sponsible for the blaze. The mine
| crew lost most of their possessions.
While engaged in loading ties at
Forest dale, on the Grank Trunk Pa
cific, John Carlson, formerly of Hy
der, slipped from a gangpplank and
fell, the tie he was carrying crushing
him causing instant death.
Vince and Jim Lade, who have the
contract for developing the Outsider
mine at Maple Bay, near Hyder, have
driven two tunnels, one of which is in
60 feet and the other in 100 feet, both
following the same vein and on ore.'
Work on the Daly-Alaska which was
closed down last November, was re
sumed last week, a contract having
been let for driving 100 feet in No. 1
tunnel, and which will eventually cut
all the five ore zones that cross the
property, situated at Hyder.
The Silver Tip group of claims lo
cated east of the Big Missouri, near
Hyder, has been bonded to an English
syndicate for $125,000, duration of
contract 18 months.
Preliminary surveys have been
made by P. R. Backus, on the Thumb
and Glacier creek power projects, ap
plied for by Hyder residents, and also
a site for a dam and landing facilities.
Thirty or forty tons of ore will be
shipped from the Riverside mine at
Hyder in the near future, as a trial
shipment. The mine which is near
Hyder, has been under bond by Carl
Strong of Ketchikan.
Another reminder of the early days
of DawsoJT, Name and Fairbanks was
given recently when a miner on Doug
las island washed out $370 in gold
from three pans of gravel.
Mrs. Horace Leach of Cordova died
last week from illness resulting from
an attack of influenza. Deceased was
a former Seward resident, but has liv
ed in Cordova about ten years. She
leaves a husband, Horace Leace, and
three sisters, a father, and two bro
thers. The remains were sen* to
North Yakima, the home of her par
ents for burial.
Trains leave and arrive at Sewarc
as follows.
LEAVE SEWARD
8:00 A. M. Mondays and Thursdays fo
Anchorage, Matanuska, Talkeetna
Healy, Nenana, and Fairbanks.
ARRIVE 8EWARD
6:10 P. M. Wednesdays and Saturdays
CONNECTIONS AT ANCHORAGE
FOR CHICKALOON BRANCH
8:30 A. M. Sundays for Cfclckatoon.
8:30 A. M Tuesdays and Fridays for
Sutton only.
Breakfast Luncheon
and Dinner
Served on all trains
J. CASEY PIcDANNEL Contr.
GATEWAY CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISEMENTS
FOUND—Purse containing small sum
of money; owner can have same by
calling a/t Gateway office and prov
ing porperty. 92-tf
FOUND—Gold ring; owner can have
same by calling at Gateway and
proving property. 92-3t
FOR BADE—Printing plant sufficient
ly l^rge to issue four pages five col
umn; includes cylinder press; type
stones, proof press, chases, column
rules, etc., two cases of display
type; cheap for cash. Gateway, tf
FOR SALE—One Model A Iotertype,
with one mold and one set of eight
point mats; now working and in
good condition; price $2,000; part
cash. At Gateway office.
LOST—Diamond earring, finder return
to Gateway; reward. 90-3t
FOUND—Watch and chain; owner
may hare same by calling at the
Seward Express office. 91-3t
FOR SALE—Cafe outfit. 2-oven range
cash register, swing back stools,
just the thing for Cold Bay. J. Casey
McDannel, Sexton Hotel. 1m
FOUND—In A. B. Hall, lady’s brown
handbag. Owner may apply at Gate
way office.
FOR SALE—Rotospeed, brand new,
Used about one week, will sell for
$35.00 Perfect Condition. Lipke.
Radio Station, Seldovia, Aalska.
WANTED—Experienced planer man
apply Resurrection Bay Lumber Com
pany. 71-tf
WANTED—Clean rags at the Gateway
Office. tf.
FOR SALE—One three horse motor,
110 volts, 60 cycle, single phase,
with a lot of shafting and pulleys.
Apply at Gateway office. tf
FOR RENT—3-room house-; see Chas.
cooper. 48tf.
EVERYBODY can buy groceries, feed
and supplies Wholesale. Write for
free price list. People’s Grocery, 701
Olive St. Seattle. 50 lm
BIO CHANCE to make a stake; fox
island, dose in, 100 blue foxes;
three boats; good improvements;
Price $25,000. See Don Carlos and
Don Carlos, Sexton Annex. tf
Sale
ARMY SHOES
Sale
WE HAVE just bought a tremend
ous stock of ARMY MUNSON LAST
shoes to be sold to the public direct
Price $2.75. These shoes are 100 per
cent solid leather with heavy double
soles sewed and nailed. The uppers
are of heavy tan chrome leather with
bellows tongue, thereby making them
waterproof. These shoes are selling
very fast and we advise you to order
at once to insure your order being fill
ed.
The sizes are 6 to 11 all widths;
Pay Postman on recsipt of goods or
send money order. Money refunded if
shoes are not satisfactory.
THE U. S. STORES CO.,
1441 Broadway, New York City
WE HAVE PURCHASED 122,000 pair
U. S. ARMY MUNSON last shoes, siz
es 5 1-2 to 12, which was the entire
surplus stock of one of the largest
U. S. Government shoe contractors.
THIS SHOE is guaranteed one hun
dred per cent solid leather, color, dark
tan, bellows tongue, dirt and water
proof. The actual value of this shoe is
$6.00. Owing to this tremenduous buy
we can offer same to the public for
$2.95.
SEND CORRECT SIZE. Pay post
man on delivery or send money order.
If shoes are not as represented we will
cheerfully refund your money prompt
ly upon request.
NATIONAL BAY STATE SHOE CO.
296 Broadway, New York, N. Y.