Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-23


 to Kobe, distance of 400 miles in | days with two scrub dog teams, load ed with six robust children, Davit Strandberg, mine operator from Fla Creek, arrived in Anchorage recently The first dredge of the seasor , to start operations in the Yukon val ley got under way May IS. It was No. dredge of the Burrell & BairG fleet.
 Shoal water is hindering navigation at points along the Yukon, particu larly along the upper portion.
 pr. L. s. Sugden, noted lecturer was drowned last week at Stewart Falls. He fell off a barge that was being lowed to Dawson and his body was washed away and not recovered Dr. Sugden's family reside at Los An geles. He had come north to take pictures of the Yukon district with a view to incorporating it in his lee lures.
 The second annual Alaska Teach CTS Institute will be held at Ketchi- kan during the week beginning Aug ust 27. The program has not yet been announced.
 Charles Brown, Sr., who has been special officer for prevention of sale of liquor to natives has resigned and Robert James, an old timer and for mer president of Nome Igloo, has been appoitned to the position.
 John Ford Starr, son-in-law of Gov. Scott c. Bone, received word last week of the death of his father Hen ry T. Starr, at Richmond, Ind MT. Starr was prominent attorney of the State.
 A sailor on the Admiral Rogers, who dallied too long up town, at tempted to jump to his ship as it was leaving the dock at Juneau, and miss ing his hold plunged into the icy wa ters of the bay He was hauled out with rope and continued his journey amid the jeers of his shipmates.
 An unloaded gun was responsible for the death of Charles Beasley, a Yakutat Indian, who was killed at Yakutat on June 4th, by his sister-in- law, who playfully pointed a 32-cali- bre rifle at the youth and discharged 1t from her hip, the bullet entering Beasley's forehead.
 The Galena Bay Mining Company has offered the Seattle Chamber of Commerce a copper nugget weighing three tons to be placed in Pioneer Square if the transportation compa- n1es will take it to Seattle free. The company offers to move the nugget 16 miles from Strelna to the coast next winter. The Seattle chamber has wir- ed acceptance of the offer.
 Little Mary Jane Harrington of Seldovia, who has been receiving medical attention at the Anchorage hospital for the past few months, fol- lowing the amputation of a leg. has returned to her home. She is the daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Har- rington.
 E. D. Ralston, sourdough, is mak- ing a trip from Seattle to the lower Yukon on his yacht Greyling, powered with 200-horsepower motor. He will ship the Greyling to Carcross on the White Pass Railway and spend some days cruising in the lakes near there From there the boat will be shinned to Whitehorse and the party will then sail for Fairbanks, hunting and fish, ing in leisurely manner. They will return from Fairbanks to Lake Teslin and from there head south.
 A number of fine dogs died at Daw- son recently in a peculiar manner. A few believe poison did the work, and others say the animals were poisoned by eating from old cans lying about the city.
 Ice was thrown up on the Dawson water front to a height of thirty feet following the recent breakup. The ferry boat and scows were damned in tight and left fifty feet or more be- hind the wall of ice.
 Robert Mcconnell, an old time trap per and hunter of the Dawson dis trict who recently returned to that city from the upper Klondike valley brought in a freak fur of some animal which has not yet been classified by the trappers of Dawson. Some think the animal from which it was taken was an offshoot of the tiger family as the markings were exactly like those of the royal outlaw of India. The pelt measured 38 inches long and had an average width of eight inches. It was tan color and had markings on