Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-17

Three new herring SalIeFleS VIII De located on Prince William Sound this year. being located near Latouche.
 w. K. Keller. superintendent of the Fairbanks schools, has been appoint ed superintendent of the Juneau pub lie schools.
 Bishop R. J. Crimont, head o: the Cat nolic Missions in Alaska, recently attended the opening of the General Hospital at Ketchikan.
 The Alaska Anthracite Railway will complete It's dock at Controller Bay this year. It will also continue con struction on its railway to the Boring Coal Fields.
 S. A. Sholin, formerly of the Hogue island fox farm, has disposed of his interests to his brother and left for the states, where he will locate on Puget Sound and go into the mink farming business.
 Robert Arnold, charged with shoot ing and killing J. D. Sheldon, was bound oyer to await the action of the grand jury at St. Michael recently. It is understood that he claims self de- fense.
 The Hyder Igloo of Pioneers owns its own hall, fine three-story build ing, with fixtures and equipment worth $6,000, which has been paid for by issuing bonds in denominations of $25 each to members, 20 of which were sold to non-members, the Igloo taking them up later.
 Experts state that the greater DOT tion of whiskey received in Alaska at the present time is either synthetic whiskey of denatu-ed alcohol products and that the consumer is taking a gambling chance in drinking 1t. The bootleggers brand is becoming worse and worse, day by day.
 The Chilkat Oil Company now has 13 producing wells on its Katalla prop erty with an annual output of 12,000 barrels. The company is erecting re- finery and will undertake the produc- tion of heavy oils and greases. It has radio telegraph station with con stant communication between Katalla and Cordova.
 In answer to letter from Sitka cit izens advocating closed fur season of Kruzof island, Ernest Walker of the U. s. Biological Survey, stated that lack of funds prevented wardens be- ing appointed for such purpose. He stated that such island reserves must ultimately be abandoned as under the present plan they become mainly good hunting grounds for lawless persons.
 The women of Alaska in the gene-- al election voted by little more than two to one in favor of the coming Ter ri,orial Legislature, passing a law re- ouiring women to serve as jurors, ac- cording to the official election returns made public by the Canvassing Board. The vote for the proposition was l. 164, against it, 5S9, majority of oeo votes.
 Declaring that the Alaska Indians have been dispossessed of their lands, hunting grounds, fisheries. sealing rights, without compensation, the AL aska Native Brotherhood has adopted a resolution asking Congress to set aside all the lease money from the fox islands and the revenues from the Pribilof seal fisheries for benefn oi the indians.
 Id was just the other day that 1ei- low galled be up cd the phode do dell he about the gold he had i'd his head ad I couldn't eyed say good bordig do him because I would have beel Id the same fix as the guy that stutter- ed. A fellow cabe up 10 hib ad sald "Wh-wh-wh-wh-ad d-d is id?" Ad ne didn't dare answer hib. You see, l had a gold i'd by head too. Glorious sprlg- tibe!
 A man named Emerson was iouu'' frozen to death on the Yukon river trail ten miles below Circle recently. It appears that he had walked into an oy erflow, but got back on the kfa1l' only to run into another. The th1rd time he floundered into the oveFilo" he succumbed to the cold. He hao