The Seward gateway., 1923-01-27
Notes of the Northland

at Nome and digging amazing quantl- ties of gravel and bedrock in its pres ent position on the Klondike river at Bear creek.
 While unloading wood at Dawson recently Charles Zenier suffered a nasty cut near the corner of the eye, a hook slipping and catching him.
 Sam Matheson and partners are prospecting near Sixtymile with a hand drill. His associates are Nicol and Williams, both men new on the creeks.
 E. w. Harrington, formerly of the mounted police. recently left Mayo in company with a married woman, and after a sharp chase by the husband the couple were overtaken at Skag- way
 E. J. White, publisher of Stroller's
 
 Weekly at Juneau, was recently elect ed president of the Juneau Igloo of Pioneers.
 Louis Dulen, Seattle junk dealer, and B. Levine, buyer for the North west Steel and Metal Products Co.,, are in Juneau to buy the remaining equipment of the Thane mill of the Alaska -Gastineau company.
 Carl Arnold Running, age 16, of W1angell, died in Seattle.
 Ketchikan now has one of the finest bands in Alaska, according to reports from that city. There are 22 mem- bers and the band owns its instru- ments
 The heavy snowfall of the past sev- eral days is driving the timber wolves out of the mountains and into the low lands according to prospectors in the
  said to be unusually bold.
 Reports circulated in southeastern Alaska recently that the gasboat Prince of Wales had gJne down with all on board, was denied by the owner who said the boat was safe.
 Juneau postal receipts for 1922 are said to have increased nine per cent over 1921 There was an increase of 3h per cent in registered articles re- ceiyed and dispensed and a consider able increase in the sale of treasury savings.
 Most of the wreckage from the re- cent fire has been cleared away and the Evans Jones mine at Matanuska has resumed operations.
 Eight precincts including Seward were missing when the canvassing board met last week. Those missing, according to the check are: Seward, Mile 3A, Nushagak. Dillingham;. Sand Point, Pirate Cove. Koggiung and Nak- nek.
 Ed Laherty, who was badly frozen last winter and has been in the hos pital at Nenana, is getting along fine, forty pieces of skin having been grated to his knees, all but one grow ing. His hands, also operated upon by Dr. Romig, are mending nicely.
 Juneau singers will broadcast min strel songs from the station at that place, if their plans mature. Arrange ments for an elaborate concert are be- ing made by the station.
 J. A. Dyer, an old time miner and prospector of the interior, who has been under treatment at Anchorage for cancer of the throat, is in a criti- cal condition, death being expected at dHS llult
 Arguments have started at Juneau in the suit started by the city against the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, which recently raised it's rates without authority, from the city council.
 President Charles E. Bunnell of the Alaska Agricultural. College 6 School of Mines, has been granted an in crease in his salary of 5000 a year, which under the new arrangement will total $6000. The members of the board express themselves as well pleased with the manner in which the college is being conducted.
 Four arrests were made recently my Federal Deputy Marshals Handy