Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-30

mer, most of the dogs, about seventy
 having been taken there. The steamship Victoria arrived a
 Nome on the afternoon of June 13
 and the steamer Buford which sailed from Seattle the day before. arrived
 in Nome 45 minutes later Weather and ice conditions were ideal. , Miss Anna Muir teacher in the Ketchikan schools for the past two years, has taken a position as clerk
 in the Juneau office of the BSreau ot
 Fisheries.
 Capt. Samuel Cromarty, veteran pi
 lot of river boats in the North, both
 on the Fraser and Yukon rivers. died
 in Dawson June 15, after a brief ill
 ness. Capt Cromarty was a pilot on
 the Fraser river before going to the
 Yukon. He was one of the most ca pablo navigators on the Stewart
 Miss Alta Ruth Russell, daughter of MT. and Mrs. James Russell of Fairbanks, was married to Richard c. Luckow, at Anchorage last week.
 Many patients, Indians and others. are reported to have had narrow es- capes in the Hudson Stuck memorial | hospital at Fort Yukon, recently when the Yukon river flooded the village, An ice jam formed just below the town threatening destruction of the building, which sits on the river bank and is considered unsafe for that req son.
 Delegate Dan A. Sutherland. who is in southeastern Alaska, states that if the land office is removed to Anchor age from Juneau. he will endeavor to have another established at Juneau
 The Emancipation mine, located at Hope, British Columbia, is preparing to reopen, after being Closed cown a considerable time. The mine was dis covered by Mike Merrick, an old time Alaskan prospector.
 Col. o. B. Perry, general manager of the Yukon Gild Company. onerat Ing ln the Klondike, was married re- gently. The company owns and oper- ates big gold dredges in the Dawson region and is also concerned in silver lead properties in the Keno Hill sec- tion.
 J. s. Killeen of Seattle was arrest ed at Juneau Tuesday on bench warrant having been indicted at the last term of court for salting salmon at Port Conclusion without a license
 Capt. Olaf Swenson, of the Olaf Swenson Fur and Trading company, for twenty years operating along the Eastern Siberian coast, recently re- turned to Seattle from a four months trip to Japan and Siberia. Capt. Swenson first went to Siberia in 1902, then a youth about 20 years of age to prospect for gold for a company of which the late John Rosene was man. ager. Swenson stands six feet two inches in height and despite his age is as 1.-the and erect as an Indian.
 Thomas G. Carter, United States commissioner for the Chandlar re- cording district, recently passed away in a hospital in Chicago. MT. Carter was miner and prospector of the West, and was typical of the outdoor man, who blazed trails and developed the resources of the country. He went to Nome in the early days and from there went to the little-known Chand- | lar country, where he remained until i his health failed him.
 A trapper named Heimer, partner of Louis Rudolph, a trackwalker at Mile 39, on the Copper river railroad, l has been missing since May 25, and it | is feared he has been killed by a bear as he left to get couple of cubs.
 E. R. Jordan, former U. s. marshal of the Second division with headquar- ters at Nome, is now travelling repre- sensitive for the Seattle Fur Ex- change.
 The Pioneer Dredging Company, which last year secured options on mining ground on Cleary and Gold stream, now has drill in operation, the crew and machinery starting in upon the arrival of Engineer c. G. Lewis, of San Francisco.
 Forty two votes were cast at Ia cotna's first school election recently. Frank Larson was elected director; Mrs. John Rieck, clerk, and Chris Pe- terson treasurer.
 There is no physician between Fort Yukon and Nulato, distance of 600 miles along the Yukon river.
 The Boy Scouts of Fairbanks have been enrolled to help wage war on the about the town. Crude pill will be poured on the sloughs and