Seward daily gateway., 1923-02-24

Il Covered with ice from stem to stern five halibut fishing boats arrived in Juneau recently.
 Four Chinamen were arrested in Ketchikan and bound over to the grand jury on charge of dealing in narcotics.
 Judge E. E. Stackpole,N a resident oi Ketchikan, is dangerously ill there according to report. His daughters are on their way from the states to his bedside.
 That the Boring River coal used ir recent steaming tests made by the Pacific fleet failed utterly to come up to standard is the information re- ceived recently at Juneau. It is said the fineness of the coal made it inn possible to feed under the boilers. IL also failed to cake properly going khru the gcates when they were shak en by the firemen. Six hundred tons were tried out by the navy.
 Fox farmers who have leased isl ands in Alaska have exclusive rights to those islands and may keep all others off according to an opinion re- ol,x ky o,f,, ni agriculture.
 Additional quicksilver discoveries have been made in the Iditarod dis trio according to reports. 1 NJ. S. McCowan's auto was burned shortly after Christmas on the trail near Mayo One passenger lost con- siderable amount of clothing and oth- CT baggage
 An Airedale belonging to Tom Lest ten, a trapper who lives near Ketchi kan was caught recently in a wolf trap, and showed up at his home F
 
 the chain to the trap and made his waq home.
 A 64 mile gale hit Juneau recently breaking windows, crossing telephone lines, damaging autos and buildings A barn containing five milch COWS was blown down and the animals killed Ford car belonging to To- cal dairyman was blown across the street and the top taken off.
 A warm fight has been started in Juneau over the school principals and superintendent. The teaching recently signed a public statement denying the reported inefficiency oi the school system.
 z The Healy River Coal Corporation has inaugurated "coaf' campaign among the housewives of the interior offering loads of coal as prizes for the 
 used. Several tons will be distributed through this medium as the house wives are entering the contest with winning spirit.
 A discovery of quartz in the Tolo- yana mining section bids fair to in crease the gold output of that camp manyfold, assay values showing as high as S425 to the ton. Jack Irvine and partners are credited with making the discovery The location is given as being on the upper end of Livengood creek.
 A true bill was returned against O. 4. Mcconnell by the Fairbanks grand Jury during the present session. Me Connel was bound over by Commis- sioner Mel Boyd on a charge of as sault with a deadly weapon.
 Thomas T. O'Brien, who was appre uouueu Dy ocpuIy Vhoi Si1i SIS -"S Mullen, near Knights roadhouse on the Toklat river in connection with the robbery of Vivian Howard, of Ia kotna, plead guilty to the charge ol petit larceny and was sentenced to one year in jail by Commissiones Green of McGrath.
 Dome Creek in the Fairbanks dis trict is Booming back" in the opinion of experienced mining men. Many claims, formerly abandoned, are being worked and so far are showing good indications of pay.
 Nenana coal may this summer De found in the Nome market, if the ef- fort of Senator Fred Aver, of the Sec onl TN;,-;c;o,, ouailinu Rpforp com