The Seward gateway., 1922-07-10
NORTHLAND NOTES
 FROM EXCHANGES

 Naas river country was shot recently by Pete Calder, a native. The animal which was a small one measured 6 feet $ inches from tip to tip. The na- tives claim that a cougar was never before seen in this district.
 Fire which broke out recently at Hyder destroyed the home of F. H. Gordon at Maple bay.
 The Ketchikan team recently won two ball games from the Hyder team the score standing Hyder 8-5, Ketchi- kan 11-7.
 A hospital dance held at Hyder last week netted $146.
 The offer of the railway commission to install an up to date power plant on an easy payment plan has been ac- cepted by the Nenana council.
 The old Hallet property at Silver Bay, Alaska, near Sitka, will be re- opened by number of outside capi- talists. A crew of men is already at work on the property.
 While playing in the streets of Ketchikan recently son of MT. and Mrs Mahoney was run over by an auto and slightly injured.
 Arthur Futile, 65 years of age, died recently at Ketchikan. He had been resident of Juneau for 13 years.
 A gold nugget weighing II ounces was found on Mint Gulch near Daw- son by Pat Grady, one of the old time miners of the creek. The nugget was worth $176. asg
 A radio telephone broadcasting sta tion may be installed at the Cordova office and if this is done telephones will be installed by ranchers, fox far mers and others.
 Federal officials at Juneau have started an abatement action against the owners of the Salmon creek road house asking that the place be closed as a public nuisance. The owners have been arrested several times for viola Cion of the liquor laws and at raid week ago several persons were ar rested charged with being intoxicated.
 stampede John" Stenbraten of Fly der recently had an encounter with but at considerable cost to himself, as one side of his face was knocked into a hamburger steak, and his nose was mashed until it resembled anything but nasal organ. John was working over the rim of 50-foot canyon with a pack on his back and his axe in his hand. AS he climbed out of small gully a black bear hiding behind a bush struck down at him, the blow closing one eye and tearing his nose wide open. His face was also badly bruised and lacerated from his eye brow to his chin. The man was carry ing an axe and struck blindly at the bear, severing the tendons in the anl- malls neck. He then waded in and reduced a perfectly good skin to shoe faces. This is one of the rare cases where a black bear has been known to attack a man.
 The steamship Thistle, which left Whitehorse recently with 25 tons o1 freight on the boat and 15 tons on the barge, en route to Mayo, struck rock seven miles below town ripping big hole in her. She sank Immediately and now is lying at an angie Of 45 de- grees in water feet deep.
 A young black bear visited the cab, in of Mrs. Charles Boyle at Rock creek last week and played havoc ln the neatly arranged tented dining room. The bear ate several jars o1 jelly, cream and crackers; scattered tea. coffee and other groceries all over the place; and does other damage.
 Remaining seven years in the will derness without, seeing the face of human being, white or Indian; tWC years without bread; one year with out salt or sugar; and subsisting fol several months on a diet of moose meat alone, John Hagstrom' pioneer Klondike miner and prospector during the last seven years in the remote vii derness between the head of the Pell9 and Laird rivers, several hundred miles from Dawson, arrived at the Yukon capital last week after travel ing 200 miles over snow and ice, ant later completing the journey by wa ter.
 The Navy Department has dlscon tinued the radio service between Alas ka and Anadyr, Siberia,
 P. s. Walker of the U. s. biologlca survey is inspecting fox farms witt a number of other scientists.
 Peter Erickson of Douglas has beel adjudged insane.