Seward daily gateway., 1923-03-10

The infant son Of MT. and Mrs. R c. Morris. of Nenana. died suddenly last week.
 The council at Fairbanks recently elected Martin A. Pinska to- fill the unexpi-ed term of H. H. Ross, the lat ter resigning.
 A wireless station was installed at Bethel last summer which has placed the town on the map. One mail a month is received during the summer and two in the winter.
 Yukon Order of Pioneers recently held an installation of officers at Daw son. Dr. w. E. Thompson was elected president and Duncan c. Robertson, secretary.
 The New York Alaska Gold Dredg- ing Company has been doing prelimi- nary work on their ground 180 miles above Bethel on the Tulusak river with the aid of two drills run by gas engines.
 Statehood for that part of Alaska lying south of the Arctic circle and east of the 162 meridian of longitude is advocated by Col. w. B. Greedy, chief forester of the United States in a report to the secretary of agricul- ture.
 steam heating plant in the basement swept the interior of the Lavery x Bailey building at Fairbanks recently Loss was estimated at $10,000, the greater part of which was covered by insurance.
 The report of John c. Mcbride, col lector of customs. shows Alaska s trade for the month of January to have totalled s1,0S9,797 of which cop per totalled S657 900, with fish pro ducts second with S120,754, and foN furs totalling over $66,000.
 Bethel on the kuskokwim is an old Indian town with a population of fifty or more whites. u is situated abou1 15O miles up the river from the moutl and is the head of navigation for the steam freighters and gas schooners This season five large freighters call ed in there.
 Lomen Bros. of Nome have been ad vised that their studio received { photographic prize for one of theil many artistic reindeer photographs The photograph is printed in the Nov ember Worlds Work and was awarded by the American Museum of Natura History of New York.
 The U 5. Geological survey has published map of Alaska that meas ures 5Ox33 inches. The map is solo for the sum of 25 cents and is issued as Map of Alaska" (E) and in print ed on scale of 40 miles to the inch is done in four colors and shows tho drainage, glaciers, principal settle ments and rail and wagon roads.
 Peter Ripperberger recently trie( to ship bunch of Monopole cigars tC Fairbanks via parcel post and tht postmaster refused to accept then claiming Fairbanks was a restricted port between October l and June l New York has evidently not read o the railorad connecting the interior town with the coast.
 The recent presidential order with. drawing 20,0O0,000 acres of oil land il the Endicott range from entry has shut Nome out of any hopes she may have had in securing cheap oil. It is state din this district whole rivers ol oil are running to waste, but the de partment believes the action advisable on account of the seepages.
 The cablCship Delwood is coming to Alaska to take the place of the old cableship Burnside, which has beer in the service for many years. The Delwood will first repair the break in the cable between Sitka and Peters burg, and then proceed north to Cor dova repairing the break between that city and Valdez.
 The Nenana city council has ar ranged to keep the former govern ment hospital open. the commission intending to close it down as soon as the Nenana bridge was completed Tho council has agreed to supply heat