The Seward gateway., 1923-01-27
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 servation of the wild life of the ter ritory.
 Fishermen of Prince Rupert have adopted resolution asking Ottawa to negotiate with the United States with the view of establishing recip- rocity of the fresh fish trade and if ne gotiations fail to ask & duty of two cents a pound to meet the new United States duty.
 Dog mushers of Nome are required by ordinance to equip their teams with warning bells. Many times the lives of women and children have been endangered by careless drivers or vicious teams.
 R. V. Watkins has taken a position with the Alaska Steamship Company as travelling auditor. He was formerly employed at Kennecott.
 Discussions pro and con are being published in the Cordova Times as to whether Fatty Arbuckle films shall be shown in the Cordova theatre. Man ager Lathrop states that it is mat ter that is strictly up to his audiences. If majority of them want them he will show the pictures; if not they will be barred.
 It is reported that the steamship Victoria will be placed in the Seattle Seward run again next month, and be kept here until time to take up her regular run to Nome.
 Four hundred and twenty-five ap- plications for homesteads have been acted upon by the officers of the Gnu zach National Forest, since the set ting aside of that forest.
 Thos. s. Scott, wife and four chil- dren, Mary, Jane, Ann and Robert, returned to Cordova last week after spending several months in Seattle.
 Attorney Edward F. Medley return ed to Cordova recently after spending two months in California and New Mexico.
 United States Commissioner Will liam Coppernoll of Mccarthy, return ed home very much improved in health, after spending several months taking medical treatment in New York
 The announcement of the possible stocking of Prince William Sound isl ands with new game species has ere ated widespread interest among local sportsmen Officers of the Game Pro- tective Association are receiving nu- merous inquiries and suggestions along this line. It was suggested that moose and deer would do we'll on some of the islands, but there were doubts as to caribou and elk.
 Otto Reopen, fox rancher of ka- talla, stated that he and partner had marten and other fur bearers on Big Kayak island but that some miscreants had introduced pois- on and cleaned them out.
 The condition of Nathaniel Greene, territorial bank examiner, who re- gently went to Seattle to consult an eye specialist has improved suffi- ciently for him to make visit to his daughter in San Francisco.
 The fve-year-old daughter of Ralph Dulak of McGrath was so badly burn ed recently by a gasoline explosion that she died two hours later. The mother heard loud explosion beside the house and the little girl ran in en- veloped in flames. A five gallon tank was standing near the chimney and it is believed that a spark flew into it.
 A specially constructed seaplane to carry ten passengers is being con- at Newport, N. J., to be used by a party of weathy prospectors who will visit the Arctic Circle next sum- mer.
 J. Kempt, the chef at the Pioneers Home at Sitka who recently returned to that institution from Seattle, where he underwent an operation for appen- dicitis is feeling much better, accord cording to the Sitka News.
 The vigorous prosecution of Coast and Geodetic Survey activities in the Territory, establishment of a first class seismological station at Sitka