Seward daily gateway., 1923-05-19
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:, MT. and Mrs. Jack Moves, former l. Nome and Candle Creek residents arc l living in the St Paul apartments in Seattle.
 R. H. Zehner, rormer wellknown , jeweler of Nome, and his wife are running a jewelry store in Los Ange. les, Calif
 George Wilson, a well-known print CT and prospector of Valdez and the Third division, is employed in the me- chanical department of the Seattle Times.
 Hans Samuelson, who is connected with the Lomen reindeer camp on gently with two fast sled deer, having made a trip of 300 miles.
 The home of Barney Buck at Colo win was destroeyd by fire last month Mrs. Buck and two children escaped without injury. A piano and few pieces of furniture were all that could be saved.
 The Nome Pioneers of Alaska are holding series of whist parties with handsome prizes for the winners of the seven game series.
 Pursuant to telegram sent out re gently from Valdez, MT. Devlet of the Nome radio station was ordered to the city telegraph office and Peter Lee transferred to the station. MT. Dev- let had no more than moved until he received telegram from Valdez coun termanding the order, and Devlet was ordered to remain at the station and Lee was relieved by another man.
 Marshal Griffith of Nome has been ill for some time with a severe attack of rheumatism.
 Wm. Anderson, proprietor of the Elite baths at Nome has purchased 24 horsepower boiler and will install new oil burning heater in his place of business.
 w. J. Rowe with three men and 20 horses has completed the moving of the big Peck dredge in the Casade- paga country.
 Mrs Norman Fotchacher, postmis- tress at IdGarod, died at that place re- gently from influenza. The deceased was formerly Miss Bessie Lyle and was the daughter of Capt. Thomas Lyle, we'll known old timer of the Nome district. She leaves a husband and four children.
 The Dawson News states that the Yukon territory passed into the April wheat planting column recently with the sowing of wheat at the Dominion experimental farm, seven miles out l Slue luc ClIy.
 Washington has notified Wrangell authorities that work will soon be started on the s5O,0O0 breakwater peitioned for so long by the inhabi- tants. The breakwater will be about $50 feet in length and will create a | Sm0oth harhor in all winds
 It only required the jury five min utes to decide that Ernest Bryson was not guilty of the murder of Robert H. Ferry at Haines in November last Bryson's testimony, corroborated by that of his wife, showed that he found Ferry at his home trying to persuade the woman to take trip to Juneau with him.
 The Juneau city council has decid- ed to follow the custom of more pro- gressive cities and allow city taxes to be paid in two instalments. Taxes will be due in December and July, and parties paying 50 per cent of their taxes will be given six months to pay the balance
 Negotiations are under way by To- cal capitalists at Hyder to finance a railway proposition from Hyder, the coast terminus, up the salmon river valley to the Forty-Nine mine, a dis tance of 40 miles. The new road will be called the Portland Canal Railway & Terminal Company.
 Charles Williams has given an op- tion on 69 gold quartz claims located on the west side of Admiralty Island to R. K. Neill of Spokane. A dozen men are employed at the mine.
 Gordon Bettles and F. G. McGregor recently left Nenana for Fort Yukon en route to the headwaters of the Porcupine river to resume their search for lost paystreak. McGregor has spent three summers in the district hunting the pay, and Bettles has also spent some time there.
 Walt Mason, the famous poet-phil- osopher, may spend the summer in Alaska. Mrs. Mason recent wrote to Mrs. James Drake, cousin at Juneau stating that she and her husband are contemplating paving them a visit in