Seward daily gateway., 1923-05-05
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Five hundred men will be employed in the vicinity of Katalla this season according to Cordova papers.
 Mrs. stephen D. Grant has been ap- pointed public health nurse for Wran- gell, for the coming year beginning April 16.
 The Sitka Public school recently in- augurated a clean up day for the city, and streets and grounds were given a thorough overhauling.
 Elmer Reed, recently appointed chief deputy marshal for the First judicial division has arrived at Jul neau, accompanied by Mrs. Reed.
 George A. Parks, chief of the Gen. eral Land office, field division, recent ly returned to Juneau after spending several weeks along the government railway.
 The mother of Oak Olson, promi- nent broker for Alaska, died at Seat tie last week. Mir. Olson at the time was making his first trip to Alaska since he moved his headquarters from Juneau to Seattle last month.
 George F. Hughes, Seattle resi- dent has sued the Alaska Steamship Company for 5000 damages as re- suit of alleged damages sustained by him in May of last year when a cargo sling on a steamer at Skagway struck him.
 A verdict of not guilty was returned by a Juneau jury in the case of of the United States vs. Hoxie, charged with having liquor in his possession. Hoxie was arrested following raid on his cigar store, when alleged whiskey was found on the premises.
 Rev. George Pringle, formerly oI Dawson and we'll known musher who travelled many miles of country in all kinds of weather in the service of the church, has branched out into the field of literature.
 Sig Winberg, keeper of the blue fox ranch on Patterson island, owned by the Alaska Fur Farms, Inc, was in Ketchikan recently and reports that his company has approximately 130 young foxes. At present the company has three keepers.
 The U. s. Forest Service is getting ready for shipment of 300 board feet of clear yellow cedar to the Forest Service Products Laboratory at Mad ison, Wis, for testing purposes It is being cut by the Ketchikan Lumber & Shingle Mill Company.
 Mr. and Mrs. c. s. Moss of Los An geles, are visiting in Skagway. Mr. Moss is in Alaska in search of syndi- cate stories for his newspapers. He has staff of writers with him who will specialize in Who's Who" in Alaska.
 Miss Alma Abrahamson, a Juneau school teacher who left shortly before the Christmas holidays for a visit in the states, is reported to be seriously ill with sleeping sickness at Casper, Wyoming, at which place she was talk en from the train while on her way to visit relatives.
 John R. Winterbottom, a former mining operator, on Vault Creek, Fair banks district, died at the Pioneers Home at Sitka April p. He had been a resident of Alaska since March, 1898 having first resided at Skagway. De- ceased was born in England in 1867. He had been an inmate of the home TOT nearly two years.
 News has been received at Dawson of the death at Rampant House of the Rev. Amos Njooti of the Church of England, full blood Peel river Indian aged 50 years. Njooth was ordained 12 years ago at Dawson by Bishop Stringer and was very fluent speak CT.
 Ernest Bryson of Haines, was in- dicted by a Federal grand jury on the charge of murder in the first degree at Juneau last week. Bryson is al- legged to have killed Robert H. Ferry, whom he found in a cabin with his wife, by shooting him with a pistol, November IA last at Haines.
 The Chichagof island Gold Mining Company will not shut down its mine on Chichagof island at the present time or in the future, President w. R. Rust stated, denying rumors which have been circulated about the first division. MT. Rust stated that twenty more men could be employed at the mine.
 John Williams, resident of Skag- way was a participant in shooting scrape at the Gateway City in which one of the participants used a gun, and John used rocks. Williams said the man was packing off his planks and when he demonstrated the man