Seward daily gateway., 1923-03-17
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ing Nenana for the states to reside.
 Nenana lodge of Moose recently el- ected officers. B. Tunison is dictator, and Tom Smith treasurer.
 Denny, the young son of MT. and
 Mrs. Jack Stewart of Fairbanks recent iy lost an eye and his left hand when his shotgun went off accidentally.
 w. D. Gross, proprietor of the Coli scum theatre at Juneau announces that he will shortly erect a new movie : house with a seating capacity of 1000.
 Rev. and Mrs. Ziegler of Co-dova, have gone to Seattle, where MT. Zieg' [ Ter has received a commission to do rural decorating in the new offices ot
 the Alaska Steamship Company.
 The Inoko- Dredging Company con- pleted their Forks-Tacotna haul re- } cently, when the last loads arrived in Tacotna The company expects to re- : sume hauling in a few days to their cache on Independence.
 Sailor Dixon of Anchorage, has is
 sued a challenge to anyone in Fair banks in behalf of John Lindstrom and , himself to boxing contest Of any dis 3 tance. L. Lindst-om fights at 155-l60 , and Sailor Dixon at 145-150.
 w. F. Thompson, publisher of the
 News Miner at Fairbanks, and asso-
 ciates have ordered Standard airship - to be in Fairbanks early in April. The ? airship is for commercial purposes p and the standard trip of the boat vii T be from Fairbanks to Nenana and re l turn.
 Rev. George Pringle, formerly o n Dawson and a well-known musher who h travelled many miles of country in ali = kinds of weather in the service of his |, church and fellow-men, has branched T out into the field of literature. MT. 6 Pringle was an intimitable story tel l. fer.
 Word was recently received of the E death of Dan Rock at the kennecott $ hospital. MT. Rock was for some years : past a mining operator at Gilmore sta :. tion. associated with Rock, Carlson X [ uaien. He left Fairbanks about six F years ago and has since been in busi-
 Less Tn Kennecott.
 The U. s. Lighthouse tender Cedar $ left Ketchikan the first of the month = for Seattle for an overhauling. She ; vii lbe gone about a month or six l, weeks. Upon the return of the Cedar 7 she will bring up considerable con 9 struction material for the light and
 fog signal station that is to be built
 at Point Retreat on the north end Of l Admiralty Island to replace the pres l ent unwatched acetyline light.
 In the general cleanup of legislation in the house at Washington D. c. two minor measures affecting Alaska were passed. One permits veterans of the world war to file in homesteads, to hold the property one year without oc- cupying it, and the other aggregates l from government domain a small tract at Skagway for the establishment of park.
 Alaska shipping showed large gain in 1922 oves 1921, according to the re- port of Collector of Customs John C. Mcbride. The total number of vessels entering and clearing in 1922 was f. OS4, as against 3,693 for 1921. The to- tai tonnage of all vessels entering and clearing in 1922 was 0s1,O45 against S29, ,3OS, for 1921 in this respect 1922 was the biggest year in the history of the Juneau customs house except the year 1920.
 Albert Maurice a pioneer resident of Alaska and an oldtimer in the Kan tishna district took his life recently to escape death by freezing. His body was found later by a chance visitor. The deceased had a severe attack of rheumatism and was confined to his bed. Realizing that he would freeze to death unless help arrived he wrote note and shot himself through the heart. There was a plentiful supply of wood at the door of the cabin but he was unable to get to it.
 The body of Percy Huntington, old timer of the Inferior. who has been