Seward daily gateway., 1923-05-19
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{ WlLn q view to uSlng the craft to com bat the liquor runners along the coast of Alaska. The boat will be over hauled completely before coming to the Territory.
 Sunday morning the Kennecott Laundry was destroyed by blaze started by cigaret coming in con- tact with gas. The Japanese proprie- tor started to draw some gasoline to use on suit he was pressing. and his lighted cigarette ignited the gas. The tank blew up totally destroying the laundry in the fire which followed. New equipment has been ordered.
 The navy department will sell number of boats at the Bremerton yards on May 23. Anyone interested can get catalog from the postmas- ter and bids can be wired in by mak- ing deposit with the postmaster, capt. Gus Nord, who will have con- mand of the new Alaska Steamship Company's liner, Alaska. has had command of two new steamers during ms connection with the companv. Nineteen years ago in July Capt. Nord came north in command of the Jeffer son, crack boat at that time.
 
 has lost two of it's old-time captains during the past month, Capt. Max Gunther dying at Juneau from the ef- fects Of ptomaine poisoning, and Cant A. C. Jansen dying at Ketchikan this week. The former was captain on the Admiral Watson and the latter on the Admiral Evans.
 In anticipation of an increased tour- lst travel to Alaska this summer re- sultlng from the formal dedication If Mt. Mckinley park, an improved sar- wee has been inaugurated over the richardson highway from Fairbanks to Chltina. Parties desiring to make the circle will receive tickets with :. coupon reading over Richardson high way, and may take the trip either hv way of Cordova or by way of Seward It is planned to run large excursionc 1n the opposite direction for Alaskans at reduced rates, thereby utilizing the extra equipment both ways. the l;nl- connecting the two towns being made by steamer.
 The hauling of the 300 tons of haa " steel parts and other eouipment If the Treadgold excavator from White Pass wharf to the north end of Daw. son been completed. A fence has been built around the material and cover placed over it.
 The condition of the ice in +bo -; cln1ty of Wainwright may mako it possible for Raold Amundsen to bor on on his trans-Polar flight even oar Ter than June 2Oth, according to ad. wees received from Kotzebue. wher. <Ainunosen left on April 18th for his headquarters at Wainwright. The TO. port stated that Amundsen had bean oeiayed at Kotzebue for several davs rom snow blindness, and that ba wos aiso delayed at Candle where tbe sof, 'no" prevented sledding and shoeing
 me commencement exercises of the oenlor class of the Cordoya H;eh school were held in the Empress tba. atre at Cordova last night The b.co. laureate sermon will be deliverad bv Rev. k. s. Nickerson, Sunday The class consists of Dorothy Doolev IT Eugene Tibbs, Harry O,Neiu and Earth O'Laughlen.
 Harry Christie, a Cordova trapner ;s publishing 4,000 copies of a book de. scrlolng the best method of tranning fur bearing animals,
 number of natives in Fairbanks are reported to be in destitute circum- stances. Several families are down with influenza and have m me.ns of support.
 Earl Parsons, Son of Manager Par sons of the Nenana store of the N. c. company, was shot in the nose and chin recently by stray pellets from the gun of companion.
 The Fairbanks Alaskan, the new weekly paper published at Fairbanks by James Feaster, was unable to is. sue last week owing to the failure of the News-Miner office to set the tyne
 The ice went out of the river in the Yukon river in frotn of Dawson at 9:20 May II, and steamers left on last Monday for Hootalinqua and low CT lake Leberge
 B. c. Carson, who has been ranch ing at the head of Engineer creek near Fairbanks, died this week as the result of an attack of heart disease. He was born in Washington and went to Fairbanks from the Nome district.
 The Jurisdiction of the Seward cus- toms office has been extended to cov- CT the Yukon and Tanana rivers, all vessels plying those streams being rnoicforod ;y, tho Comard oNf;oa