Seward daily gateway., 1923-03-17

Grover Frame is advertising his Ford auto stage for sale at Hyder
 The freighter Latouche recently car :ied 250 tons of machinery and SUD- plies into Hyder.
 Four feet of water covered the Sal mon valley road out of Hyder recently owing to rains and melting snows.
 The Wrangell high school basket ball team which is now visiting the States is leaving long string of vic tories behind it.
 Carl Anderson aged 40. Alaska mi ner from 1898 to 1905, died in aaattle a couple of weeks ago. He is surviv- ed by a wife and three children.
 The Standard Oil company staHed drilling on it's Cold Bay property this week. This company has one of the largest and most complete rigs ever set up in Alaska.
 R. N. Mover has rendered his resig- nation as director of the Anchorage school board to take effect April 8. The resignation was accepted with regret by the school board.
 Meteorological Summers has estab- lished a weather station at Cordova. Instruments to measure the velocity of the wind and temperatures were established and reports will be tele- eraphed to the states twice day.
 Frank Dufresne, fur warden, states that furs along the Yukon are plenti- full but he destruction of beaver houses by trappers will result in a closed season, unless the trappers adopt different tactics.
 The Chickaloon bar at Anchorage was recently raided by U. s. marshals squad and from 40 to 50 gallons Of moonshine confscated. Joe Flowers the proprietor, was arrested and plead not guilty. He was released under bonds.
 Supt. A. T. Budd of the Willow creek group of mines, the War Baby Lucky Shot and the Gold Bullion states that a ten-tank cyanide system will be installed in the Lucky Shol mine in a few days. The new vacuum system will also be installed in the Gold Bullion mine.
 Prior to his departure from Anchor age the other day for Copper noun tain, in the Kantishna district, o. NJ Grant, who with his former partner Giles, originally staked the property which Tom Aitken and Price recently bonded to the Guggenheims, stated that he would spend the coming sum mer doing development work on his many claims.
 On the mail trip of January 12, Pete Curran had the misfortune to badl! freeze of his best dogs. After the contractor left Safety for Solomon he encountered a blizzard in which the velocity of the wind attained 50 miles per hour and the thermometer fell tc 2S degrees below zero. It was during this time that Pete froze his dogs.
 The annual report of the superin tendent of the Pioneers Home at Sit ka shows that there are "A residents there; 24 were discharged; three were adjudged insane and 40 died. Ex- penses for the past year were $91.510.- 42 or s1,236.62 per inmate.
 At a meeting of the Anchorage
 
 were elected for the ensuing year: J. R. Sapp, dictator; H. E. Riley, vice dictator; Charles Coach, prelate; w. H. Rager, past dictator; Chas. Kemp secretary; Jerry Callahan, treasurer; A. E. Adams, trusty.
 The annual convention of Chambers of Commerce of the United States is scheduled for New York from May z to May 10. Delegates from Alaska commercial organizations are cordially invited to attend. Reduced transpor- tation will be arranged with return date set for May IS.
 The last sad rites over the earthly remains of Frank M. Kiesele were D bol1 ot Nono