Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-17

ADON twenty meu are prospecting in the Inmachuk district this season. Mrs. J. E-rsuard of Cordova, slipped on the icy pavement last week and broke her leg.
 Miss Bessie Stewart, nurse at the Cordova hospital and Arthur Johnson, engineer on the Copper River and N. Y. railroad, were married last week. An ice boat has been placed on Ke- mai Lake by couple of residents and is said to make railway speed on the smooth ice.
 Fifty-two students have enrolled in the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, among whom are sev eral ladies.
 The government school at Chatani- ka which has been closed during the past month or two on account of poor lighting system, has reopened with Mrs. Frank Monkman in charge. l w. s. Frasier, an old timer of Val deg, and resident of the city for the past twenty years, who recently was taken to Cordova for treatment, died in the hospital there after a lingering illness. He was about 70 years of age. 1 Ed B. Swanson who visited Alaska | last summer as secretary to Dr. H. Foster Bain, director of the bureau of mines, has been promoted to the post of administrative assistant to the di- rector. MT. Swanson is graduate of the University of Washington.
 Chas. O'Leary, former brakeman on the Copper River, whose death in the states was reported some months ago, returned to Co-dova on the last boat, lively corpse. Like Mark Twain he said the report of his death was greatly exaggerated.
 The Federal authorities of Fair banks recently made the rounds of the town on a search for wet goods. An oversupply of beer was found at the International Cigar store and the pro- prietor was up before Commissioner Brown to explain how-come Consider able quantities of home brew also were found
 E. Sutherland and J. Sakin, work ing No. Bench Center Creek under leave from Mitchell and Kehoe have found very encouraging prospects ac- co-ding to the Nome Nugget. From 4 pans taken from the top of one bucket the boys panned s1.40 in coarse gold. l Their shaft has been sunk and drifting Is now being done to determine the extent of the pay dirt.
 The Yuba Loop dog race recently run at Nome from the city along the Tuba pipe line and return, distance of eight miles, was won by Leonard Seppela, driving nine dogs for the Hammond Co.,, time 25 minutes, 35 seconds. Second, George Waldheim, seven dogs, time 25 minutes, AZ sec onds; and third Gunner Kaasan, ten dogs, time 28 minutes, 64 seconds. Much interest was taken in the race, eight entries going over the course. Paul Hanson, one of the owners of the Home Builders mine on Reed Creek, in the Willow Creek district. went into Anchorage recently in com pany with Fred Klerned. who suffer ed frozen feet while walking from Wa silla to the Home Builders Mine. The accident has given rise to request for a first aid station in the Willow Creek district as all medical cases have to travel some twenty-odd miles to the railroad, and go into Anchorage for treatment.
 The Territorial Treasurer has re- gently threatened to cut off Ketchikan from the territorial school fund un- less larger amount of school taxes are collected in that city than have been to date During the year the school taxes have fallen away below what they were the previous year. This is partly accounted for, it is said by the fact that collector authorized to collect the taxes outside of the in- corporation, collected considerable amount in the city.
 Declines in fur prices ranging from 10 to 40 pe- cent on various kinds of skins, featured the recent fur sale in New York MuSkrat, several lots of