Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-23

Interior, was found dead in his cabin on Ester creek. Death was due to natural causes.
 Ed Schwartz, White Pass wharf inger. had a narrow escape from be ing drowned recently, when he went g through the ice, just before the biz breakup at Dawson.
 Great flocks of wild geese were seen flying over Dawson recently. At Grand Forks near Dawson the other day bull moose tramped into the center of the camp and gave it the once over. It is said the animal walked into the school house, and later made for the woods amid a fu- sillade of bullets.
 Price Powell was fined S25O by a Cordova magistrate for dabbling in physics. MT. Powell at the time he was apprehended had an array of bot ties. corks, hydrometer and other paraphernalia, including hootch.
 Betty Stewart and two men visit ing her were arrested in Cordova re- gently and fined for looking upon the wine when it was red.
 A house occupied by Thelma Baker a lady of lax morals, was closed re- gently under abatement proceedings A number of other cases of a similar nature were tried and the places of business ordered closed Ketchikan is making vigorous effort to clean up the city.
 Manager w. F. Thompson of the Fairbanks airplane enterprise has re- ceived word that the much-delayed plane has been loaded on the train in California and will be rushed through to Seattle by train without delay. It is stated that the machine will reach Nenana in time for a Fourth of July exhibition flight after which it will be flown to Fairbanks to entertain the Presidential and Brooklyn Eagle par ties.
 A 720 pound brown bear was killed last week by the purser on the steam CT Queen, when that vessel landed at Funter Bay for time. The purser took .22-calibre rifle and went out in the woods short way He heard noise and saw brown bear looking over log at him. Instinctively he threw the rifle to his shoulder and fired, the bullet penetrating the eye, killing the animal instantly. The bear was feeding on the carcass of a deer which was partly eaten.
 Half the winters output of silver ! ore from the Mayo district has tra- versed the Stewart river, in which the water continues high. Nearly 5000 tons await steamers which are to convey the ore to Nenana and outside by way of Seward
 nation wide search is being made by Canadian police for E. J. Donohoe, former manager of the Britannia Mines Company. He is charged with making false entries, obtaining money under false pretenses, and fifteen sep arate indictments for theft.
 Hyder has been changed from customs station to a port of entry, E. R. Stivers, who has been in charge of the station being retained at deputy collector of customs.
 F. R. Havens, for several years U. s. customs officer at Prince Rupert. has been transferred 10 Ketchikan where he succeeds J. L. Abrams, who was transferred to Seward.
 One brown bear killed, two brown bear badly wounded, and two fright ened men is the score for a hunting party of two Petersburg men and their wives, who went to Gambler Bay. The men killed nothing: the women while out goose hunting saw three brown bear in bunch, and kill ed one and badly wounded the two others.
 John Package, sourdough resident of the Yukon and Alaska, who has been Outside for a few years, is get ting an outfit together for a trip to Kodiak where he plans to go into the fox raising business.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Van Raes, who i left Alaska recently for Oregon City, Ore, have wired friends that an S. pound boy has been born to them. MT. Van Raes is working at the print ing business in Oregon.
 The halibut catch during May in the Prince Rupert district totaled 2,541, 700 pounds. The highest price quoted during the month was 17c.
 Thirty-fve men are engaged in the construction of the Eyak lake high