Seward daily gateway., 1923-09-29
N0RTHLAND
 HAPPENINGS

Wm. N. Hairgrove, an attorney o Jacksonville, H., while travelling III the Stickine river to Telegraph creel on the Hazel B., saw a large griZZl, bear on the hillside and the captain stopped the boat to give him a sho at it. To his great Surprise as we'll a that of his companions, the bear tum bled over dead at the first shot Tn, skin will be taken back to ornamen the lawyers den.
 The ketchikan Chronicle has in stalled a Kelly automatic press, tho second to be placed in the Territory The Cordova Times orice has the frs press. These presses have speed o $500 per hour. and are the late*1 thing in printing machinery.
 Max Altman, we'll known Alaskan who left the States this spring for Si beria, with Dick Hussey, Bob Jones and Fred Meehan, died al Okotsk, Si- beria, May II, according to word re- ceived he:e on the last boat.
 c. W. Scarborough, former COrdova photographer, who has been spending the past year at Nome, has left that city on a two-years' cruise into the Arctic Mir. Scarborough plans to ob- tain scientific pictorial records of the Arctic flora and fauna, around the magnetic pole He is aboard the IT. ton schooner DuXbury, whose captain, c. K. Larson, is bent on trading and fur-buying expedition.
 The Miners and Merchants Bank of Nome shipped on quarter of mil lion dollars worth of gold bullion and concentrates on the steamship Blu ford, at the time the San Francisco chamber of commerce guests were on board.
 Skagway was visited by terrific gales last week that caused thousands Of dollars worth of damage. Wires to Whitehorse were down and communi- cation with the town of Skagway was practically cut off. the cable being out of commission.
 Howard w. Wilmoth, pioneer of the Cook Inlet country, has been ap- pointed L. 5. commissioner for the Wasilla recording district, which en- braces the Willow creek placers and Matanuska gold fields. MT. Wilmoth is also postmaster at Wasilla.
 For many years Mr. Wilmoth was with George Palmer at Knik. in the days when that section was prosper ous. Until his appointment he was with Brown & Hawkins at Anchorage.
 He succeeds the late Uncle Frank Cannon, deceased.
 The steamship Admiral Sebree hit an uncharted rock in the channel at the entrance to Pybus bay last week and was forced to return to Seattle to dry dock. Her plates were strained and she was leaking.
 4 skull was unearthed at kenai last week which is believed to be at least 150 years old. It had long braids of her and perfect teeth. The hair was interwoven with hand carved beads of ivory Game Warden Cotter believes the skull to be that of an In- dian chief.
 Valdez is reported suffering from an epidemic of la grippe.
 Capt. James A. Northway, formerly proprietor of a roadhouse at Mile Il on the Fairbanks end of the Alaska railroad, and we'll known Yukon nav igator, who was found dead on his steamer the Little Delta, September g, was buried in Fairbanks last week by Fairbanks Igloo of Pioneers. De- ceased is survived by a widow.
 Major J. F. A. Strong and Mrs, Strong are now in Egypt, according to advices received this week by friends in Alaska. For over year they were in India. They are touring remote sections of the East by easy stages. Major Strong founded the newspaper at Nome; later ran paper in the Iditarod, then established paper at Katalla; finally founding the Juneau