The Seward gateway., 1922-06-05
CAME WARDEN COTTER
 BRINGS NEWS FAR WEST

George G. Cotter game warden, re- turned from trip to Bristol Bay points on the steamship Starr, early Sunday morning. He reports a very successful trip and is full of praise for the accommodation on the Starr and the courtesy extended the passengers ! by Capt. Johansen. MT. COtter states there are about 2O00 men employed in i the canneries in the locality of NalInek and that the resident natives are either ready started on summer fishing. The wilderness back of Bristol Bay is a steadily producing fur district and MT. Cotter looked very thoroughly into the matter of where these fuTs are absorb i ed, evasion of taxes on them and the wherefore The fox catch was very large for the past season, and all the belts heard of are of fine quality.
 MT. Cotter investigated complaints that COW caribou are being killed for the pelts of the unborn calves, and put in busy time at every stop. He says the residents to the westward are jubi- lant over the speed of the Starr, and that the vessel is securing a steadily increasing patronage.
 At Unalaska the gas schooner Emma | e 1ooT-in cr for the Attu Islands where Captain Schroeder will take over the Summer ville interests. He was formerly with the North American Commercial Com pany and is now managing the close corporation made up of Unalaska men.
 Capt. A. c. Goss, of the Everett Hayes is outfitting preparatory to leav- ing for Atka island where he has trading post.
 Dan Ross, the new deputy marshal, has arrived at Unalaska and is already popular there.
 The gas schooner Lettie is outftting also. Capt. Crawford and wife with chief trader c. w. Bates, expects to get away by June 18th for two years trading trip into Banks Land this year and to Victoria Land next summer. Crawford is an Alaskan old timer and Bates was formerly with the Hudson Bay post at Attumapiskat
 The first westward ball game of this season was played at Unalaska, May Il 2S. by teams from the crews of the coast guard cutters Bear and Halda. The Haida crew won by score of to s, with really fast playing on both sides. Bates of the Lettie was a capa- ble umpire and up to the departure Of the Starr southbound he was still hid ing out in the sticks.
 The cutter Bear will soon start on her annual long trip to Nome and the Arctic seas. The Haida>is one of the newest type in the cutter service be- ing electrically driven and capable Of making 16 knots per hour. The vessel lis waiting at Unalaska after spending a month patrolling the Unimak Pass district.
 A moving picture show installed by the cutter service at Unalaska for the benefit of the natives is quickly teach ing them new ways and showing them the world outside beside giving them much healthy amusement. The ma chine is operated by Chief Yeoman Bromerberg, who thoroughly under stands the work.
 Messrs. John Thees and Charles King, respectively of New Rochelle, N. Y., and New York are hunting brown bears in the Isenback Bay region with two westward guides. Edison Marshall of New Medford, Oregon, Is looking for brown bears in the vicinity of Sand Point and expects to go south on a P. A. F. vessel direct.
 MT Cotter says he enjoyed the trip immensely, the Starr having a most congenial bunch of passengers aboard, He will make another trip to westward points before the end of June.