The Seward gateway., 1923-01-06
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1 Fifteen men are employed in the Kougarok mining district. A new roadhouse has been establish ed at Tacotna, by MT. and Mrs. Gus Gullickson.
 Ole Lomen, a pioneer of Petersburg recently had a narrow escape from drowning.
 A territorial school will be establish ed at Tacotna this winter. There are at least fifteen scholars.
 Dredging materials for the Innoko Dredging Company, were landed al Bethel just before the freeze-up.
 George Grigsby. former delegate from Alaska and attorney general is now located in New York city.
 Mrs. Johnson has closed the Susit- na station roadhouse and will abandon it as soon as she can secure another | location.
 Mathewson Bros, who have been hydraulicing on Chicken Creek, have disposed of their interests to Nellie Bates.
 I xral1 in Nome Teller and Fairbanks is in New York raising funds on oil properties near Billings, Montana.
 The new radio station at Bethel is completed the station having estab- lished communication with other sta tions of western Alaska.
 On recommendation of Inspectors the mail this winter will go by way of Lake Minchumina and Nedfra to McGrath and Iditarod.
 Max Menard, an oldtimer of Tacot- na, was recently stricken with paraly sis, losing the use of his right arm. and finding it very difficult to talk.
 A gold nugget valued at SLIP was recovered from the placer workings of Pringle, Postlewaite and Jones on No Ian Creek, in the Koyukuk recently.
 A new trading post has been estab- lished at Big River, also a new road house, Louis German in charge of the former and Diamond Dick" Rhodes in charge of the latter
 A radio station has been erected a, Ruby by Sergt Kaiser and party.
 There will be no session of court al Flat this winter, according to Federal officials of the Fourth division.
 The Ketchikan Daily News, a new publication has been started at the portal city by Ebert Bennett, who is editor and business manager, and Der nard M. Stone, who is well-known in the Alaska newspaper field Dr. Samuel Leonhardt, pioneer phys sician of Juneau who practiced there from 1889 to 1904 has returned to the coast as ships surgeon aboard the U. s. Coast Guard Cutter Unalga- At Tacotna, within the next few days, will arrive several tons of Out side meats, which will be brought in over the trail from the cold storage barges of Dave Murchler at Iditarod.
 A new craft the Spub, has been placed on the Kuskokwim river. It is a stern wheeler, equipped with an ad- unstable spur reaching through the bottom, designed to shove the craft through the shallow places.
 Jumping out of a tree, Freda Koe- ming of McGrath was severely injured by throwing herself on a cutoff will low which entered her abdomen about the center, the willow point making a gash upward of over three inches. The young lady is doing nicely.
 Henry Wagner, oldtimer formerly of Nome, Iditarod and other Alaskan camps, died at Ruby recently, after an illness of several months. A few hours before his death he loaded his person al effects, intending to leave for the outside, but was taken with fainting spell and passed away.
 Grant Murdock, a Candle to Seward traveller, who recently left for the states, reports that the inhabitants in the interior are much dissatisfied with the new trail made from Iditarod to