The Seward gateway., 1915-09-13
NEWS NOTES.

with the aid of the tug boat Holyoke 1t was necessary first to remove a plank in the bottom of the scow in order to let out the air inclOsed, which before created such a great suction that it was impossible to turn her over. At low tide she will be beach ed and after the plank is replaced will again be foated.
 Mir. and Mrs. s. B. COngdon were outgoing passengers on the Alameda today. Mir. Congdon, who has been with the Hartman National Bank of Alaska here since it started last spring, goes to Washington D. C., to accept a position as the private secretary of the Comptroller of the Treasury. Mrs. COngdOn will ac- company him as far as Chicago where she will make a two weeks visit with Mir. Congdon's mother, and then join him at Washington.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Finnegan, old time residents of Seward, will be pas sengers for this place on one of the next boats from Cordova. They have been in the interior for the past two years, where Mir. Finnegan has fol- lowed his profession at Shushana. They will make Seward their home this winter.
 w. K. Martin, representative of the Ruhstaller's Brewery of Sacramento, California, was an arrival on the Alameda.
 George J. aughlin, the homsteader of Mle Seven, has succeeded in rais- ing a fine crop of string beans It was thought in these parts that this vegetable could not be raised in A aSka with success, but Mir. Laughlin has done so, although he spent Luch time and labor on them.
 Joe Grimes, the mining man, will come in over the trail tomorrow from Knik.
 Jack Grady will soon come to Se- ward on business trip from Anchor age.
 Mrs. F. A. Taylor returned on the Alameda after a three weeks visit to Miss Babe White at Anchorage.
 "Long-Shorty" McCOnaghy of TyOnek is enroute to attend the court at Valdez.
 Fred Tracey, of the Alaska S. S. company, and Gus GilEes, "The op- timo Kidd" are Alameda passengers.
 F. K. Brenneman, United States Marshal, passed through on the Ala meda to Valdez.
 A. F.. LathrOp, the well known show man, left for Anchorage on the Ad- miral Farragut.
 Oak Olson, the Schwabacher man, left on the Alameda for his head quarters at Juneau.
 Felix Brown left on the Alameda this afternoon for Seattle with ship ment of ore from the Skeen-Steven- son claims in the Moose Pass.
 Tom Kehoe, formerly purser of the Admiral Evans, is now travelling with a stock of ladies furnishing goods.
 D. ColQuhon came in from the lower Kenai the other day.
 A. P. Brown, left on the Alameda for Valdez on a two weks trip attend ing to court matters.
 Arthur Freidman left on the Ala meda to spend a couple of months at La Touche.
 Four cluster lamps arrived on the Alameda from the south and will be put, one on each corner, at the inter- section of Fourth avenue and Wash ington. Each lamp post will have 3 lights. They will be put in position tomorrow.
 A. s. Dautrick, travelling freight and passenger agent for the Great Northern railroad, arrived the other day on business trip. MT. Dautrick has his headquarters at Juneau.
 Ike Evans and Leo Margules went down to Kane's Head yesterday morn ing hunting big game with a Twenty two and met big black bear at'which they fired. They held their ground as the bear, not knowing the kind of artillery they had, ran away.
 Mrs. w. W. Anderson and Miss Georgia Anderson left on the Ala