Seward daily gateway., 1923-05-05
Notes of the NOrthla1d -

The days of '9S were recently stag ed at Fairbanks.
 M. J. Mccarthy, an old time Nome Its, is now located at Silverdale, Wn.
 Headline says tJury Gives $20,0O0 for a Kiss" Well, it is worth it to kiss some juries.
 Walter Edkins, for many years in- terested in Katalla oil, is now well driller at Cold Bay.
 James Smith, of Cordova and Ka- talla, where he conducted cold sto- rage plant and meat market is living at Haywards, Calf.
 E. Lucas, formerly with the Harri- man National Bank of Seward is as- sistant cashier of the National Bank of Commerce, of Seattle.
 Elliott Stewart, old timer of Alaska, and former resident of Seward, is in Esacada, Oregon. He is in the print ing business.
 Miss Cora McVean formerly with Bank of Alaska branch at Anchorage, is in Manila, P. l., where she is visit ing acquaintances.
 Major Gotwals recently made vis- it to Fairbanks in company with MT. Hansen, on the railway new coupe speeder.
 Another coal seam of very high grade has been discovered at Mile 334. Andrew Anderson was the To- cator.
 Harry Lucky, popular guide at Healy has been advised that a party of big game hunters will come north this spring for hunt in his district.
 The Mt Mckinley Bituminous Coal Corporation has sent five more men to their mine at Mile 341 to develop the property. The company has opened of fees in the Terminal block at Nenana.
 Cannery employees at Chignik are reported to be slaughtering ducks in that vicinity. AS the law is out for killing these wild fowl until fall the game warden will investigate.
 The cold store plant at Ketchikan was last week threatened with de- struction by fire. Timely discovery of the blaze and quick work by the fire department averted the disaster
 Leslie Munger, an oldtimer 1n the Cook Inlet country, is located at Ca venne. state of Sonora, Mexico, where he has two thousand acre ranch. lie raises rice and Spanish beans.
 The old Alaska Yukon Navigation Company Dock at Fairbanks is being torn down with the exception of the extreme western end, which is to be used for the convenience of small boats.
 Fire which broke out recently at Juneau caused loss to three parties estimated at about 5000, panially covered by insurance. The greatest damage was done to the Britt Pharm- acy.
 Struck by a heavy sea the entire supplies and equipment including tractor for the Taku river company's camp on Taku river were swept into the sea from the barge on which they were being lowed by the gasboat Iowa.
 A young Seward boy who was asked to make up composition on Study Time turned in the following: When ice cream grows on macaroni trees; when Sahara's sands are muddy; when cats and dogs wear B. V. D.'s, that's the time like to study"
 Healy river coal is being shipped to Alaska coast towns as far south as Ketchikan and is finding a ready mar ket wherever introduced. Five car loads of coal were recently disposed of in Cordova, and is sold at from $4 to $5 less than British Columbia coal Four carloads were shipped to Ketch- ikan.
 The fur industry of the north, both wild and domestic has added its quo ia of wealth to the expert valuations approximately two million dollars be- ing the value of the shipments accord ing to datum furnished by the biologi- cal survey. The total valuation of the belts shipped last year is approx imately SLIPS ,693.46 This does not include Pribilof island furs.
 Captain Foster, who recently made a trip through the northern ranges of Alaska, reports that the northern ranges of Alaska were once the nat ural habitat of the musk-ox. Not only are there large numbers of musk OK horns to be found on these ranges but there are other evidences that large numbers of these animals once lived in this part of the country. What accident or design drove the muskox