Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-18

J. G. Kelly, publisher of the Walla Walla Bulletin, Mrs. Kelly and family have just returned to Seattle from a trip into the interior of Alaska and Yu- kon territory. They reported a most delightful vacation.
 A band of caribou, numbering ap- proximately five hundred, is reported to be roaming the hills and flats of the Chatanika valley, near the town of Chatanika. It is not believed these animals are the forerunners of the gen eral fall run, but that they are an isolated herd, probably driven from their former haunts by forest fires.
 The closing down of the Associated Oil Company's drilling operations in the Kanatak field is due solely to the circumstance that over production of oil in California and elsewhere has made it so that there is no immediate anxiety to bring in new field and the company has compiled with the re- quirements of the government and it's contracts with those who hold leases from the government, according to J. J. Finnegan, who was in Juneau re- gently on his way south. It means nothing else to the oil country, ex- cept slight reduction in the payroll, said Captain Finnegan, for the Stan dard oil company is continuing devel- opment work.
 The biggest six months business ever experienced by the U. s. Forest Service in Alaska were in the period from January 1 to June 30, this year according to the financial statement of the District Forester, which has just been issued Receipts for that per- iod were s41,000, almost s2O,OOO in ex- cess of the same period in 1922. said District Forester c. H. Flory.
 An increase of $15 for the round trip of S1O for one way trip is favored as the wharfage charge of Juneau, to the Alaska Steamship Company. It is maintained by the city that increase ln the wharfage charge is necessary for the upkeep of the dock.
 Atfpr 1hrpp and sight seeing in Alaska, 34 Detroit boys, sponsored by George Buchanan have returned enroute home. They are all enthusiastic over Alaska.
 | I. J. Petrich, who has nefG the posi- tlon of stenographer and typfst in the Juneau U. s. Customs office for the past year, was recently promoted tc Deputy Collector, a0o Inspector, ac cording to an announcement made by Collector J. c. Mcbride.
 ". l.. Underwood, field engineer fol the California Press Manufacturins Company, of San Francisco, left Ju neau recently for Hood Bay to inspec the company's by-products plant a
 that place. He expects to return t
 Juneau, which city will be his head
 quarters while he inspects severa
 plants operated in that district by hi
 firm. The company operated fiftee
 plants in Alaska, in the Southeaster
 and at the Westward, putting out fel
 tilizer.
 An accident which might have easil proved fatal, resulted only in slight 1T : Jur1es to the occupants, when For
 automobile, driven by young Kennet Kimbrough ran off the bank an struck on its side in the ditch on tn Lemon Creek flats recently near Ke chikan. Five adults and one bab were in the car. All occupants suffer ed slightly from bruises and a gene al shakeup, and Mrs. Mary Stephe1 son suffering with two broken ribs, The seventeen ton barge that wa hauled over from Whitehorse recent to Carcross and considered a transpo tation feat on the White Pass, mea
 ured 61 feet five inches by 21 feet
 inches, and approximately 8 feet deer
 Picture this going over the rails on
 33-ft, steel car and landed safely afte doing the snake dance for about fit miles.
 Frank Dufresne, Federal Fur an Game Warden, of the Second divisio has announced that he will carry or an intensive policy of killing loos t dogs. Many dogs about Nome are De mitted to run loose on the tundra an in the hills, where they destroy nest and kill young ptarmigan in gres numbers.
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