Seward daily gateway., 1923-04-28

l
 Eight thousand tons of silver ore
 await shipment from the Keno Hill mines near Dawson including the win- ter haul.
 Everything points to larger travel
 to Alaska this year than ever before.
 Thus far HOO passengers have sailed
 in April with heavy bookings for la ter ships.
 Jos. Schulte has leased the Crooker Hotel at Katalla and is getting the place in readiness for an anticipated
 oil rush.
 ; The Katalla school election resulted
 in Lizzie Hosick being elected clerk,
 Grace Hensen and Julia Olsen on the board of trustees.
 One hundred and eighty Detroit boys will enjoy a tour of the Yukon district this year under the supervl- sion of George E. Buchanan, veal thy member of the Chamber of Com merce of that city.
 Working overtime an illicit still of
 unknown ownership located in one story building near the Seattle hotel in Anchorage, exploded and set fire to the building which was consumed ; with its contents.
 Miss Ida Peterson, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Marcus Peterson of katalla, { and Richard Jansen, contractor tor ! the Alaska Anthracite and Railroad Company were united in marriage last : week at Katalla, the first wedding O.
 the year.
 { Officers elected at a recent meeting of the Northwest Chamber of Con- l merce at Nome were: Ralph Lomen, president; R. D. Julien, vice-presi- 9 dent; A. Polet, secretary; o. s. Wea-
 yer, treasurer; and George Schoheld,
 national councillor.
 D On the KuskokWim river about 25U q miles from its mouth is probably the r biggest deposit of cinnabar ever n found in the western hemisphere. The | deposit or mineralized zone is 300 feet = in width and has been picked up on
 both sides of the river.
 l. Wild rabbits in Western Washing e ton are being trapped and protected l. to be transplanted to the islands of } the Alaska coast where they will fur y nish live food for the foxes on those l. islands More than fifty new fox u farms have been established on the
 islands during the past year. Dr. E. M .Spaulding has been re- ! elected president of the Anchorage l. Chamber of Commerce with Alex A. Il Mcdonald, agent for the Alaska 5. S Ii Co.,, vice-president; and E. F. lesson, '- of the Anchorage Times, secretary = treasurer. The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce announces plans for ac- lively working for the development ot
 Anchorage.
 5 A total of 12,O00 tickets were print e ed and turned over to the committees in the Nenana pool, and the pot prom ises to be larger than that Of last o year. Two big combinations have n been formed, each member of the $ group putting in $25. There is also h a combination of ladies styling them g selves the Sweet Sixteen combination e who have put in s5 each. The pool
 closed the twentieth and the holders
 of tickets are anxiously awaiting for
 the breakup.
 n Last year Alaska shipped products # valued at $59,887,550 and imported
 commodities wonh $26,S47,417. 1n 1922 her total commerce imports and :, exports was $20,7SO,4O1 more than in s 1921. Her products since 1867 when until the close of 1922 are figured at
 a record began to be kept of them
 $1,114,977,111 Her fish yield last year g, was $35, 5,720,793 and from 1867 to the is end of 1922 amounted to $517, ,196,630 ,s Charles Gunnock, first mayor o1 # Rake, and one of the most famous In 70 dian silversmiths in Alaska, died al i; his home in Rake on March 23. He ;c was reputed to be over 80 years o1 # age. He was one of the first natives
 converted to Christian life by Dr. s
 Hall Young, when he first come te r. Wrangell as missionary. During . r, war between the Rake and Wrangel is natives many years ago, Gunnok who 'n was bystander without an active IS part in the affray was struck in the S. knee by stray bullet and was lame D. the balance of his life. He was chic rs of the Whalekiller clan.
 70 As the result of municipal elections ,d held recently in Alaska the following
 have been chosen to head their re-
 spective communities for the coming of year: Juneau, mayor, I. Goldstein; t. Douglas, mayor, F. A. J.. Gallwas IS Skagway, mayor, Howard Ashley; d Ketchikan, Thomas Torrey; Wran le pelI rnavor John c Grant. Peters.