Seward daily gateway., 1923-06-09
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J. D. Hall and wife are compiling
 the Polk Directory for Juneau, and
 will leave soon for western Alaska
 The directory will be profusely illus
 trated giving complete write-ups of
 towns.
 c. J. Truitt, engineer for the Alaska
 Engineering Commission, was injured recently when his speeder jumped the track near Moose creek.
 The Sitka Tribune started the sec- ond year of its existence May 18th. It is very newsy publication and is filling niche in community affairs.
 Congressional party refused to call at Juneau because the War department believed the water in Gasrineau chan nel was not deep enough to float the big vessel Members of the party will be compelled to take small boats if they See the territorial capital.
 Afr; ed Thibodeau recently set a new bowling record for Ketchikan as we'll as for Alaska when he made a spare in the first frame and then roll ed s straight strikes, his final ball making but eight pins. The total for the game was 2SS
 Charles H. Cosgrove, one of the most prominent attorneys of Ketchi- kan and for 20 years a resident of the city, died recently after an illness of several months. He was born in Lo- well, Mass, 52 years ago; graduated from Holy Cross College. at Worces- ter, as a classmate of Senator David Walsh.
 Construction of a first class trail to Turner Lake, near Juneau, will be started soon by the Forest Service A survey has been made and it is esti- mated the work will cost about $15O0.
 James Mattatal, blacksmith for the Wilson & Sylvester Mill company, had between three and four hundred dollars stolen from him last week. A man named Robertson, who came to Wrange1l recently from Seattle was suspected and upon being arrested, $60 of the stolen money was found on his person, but he denied having taken more than this sum. The theft of the money was fastened onto Robertson by corner torn from $20 bill, the fragment being left in the pocket of the victim. A watch was kept for the torn bill and it was passed a few days later, the corner fitting perfectly. It was then that Robertson was arrested
 Through the efforts of the Wrangell commercial club a branch of the American Railway Express will be es- tablished at that city. A representa- tive of the company will be sent to Wrangell soon to establish an agancv.
 The steamer Del Rosa, Capt. Jerry Flynn, recently took on 200 tons of oil at Ketchikan for western Alaska ports, including 100 barrels for the San Juan company at Seward.
 James Oliver Curwood, noted nov elist, of Owosso, Mich, with several friends, will spend some time in Alas ka this summer gathering material for a number of books, according to in- formation received by Gov. Scott c. Bone recently. The department of ag- ricul9re has asked Alaskan officials to extend him every possible conve- nience and courtesy. He will visit Seward and later go on to Fairbanks.
 One license and three preliminary water power developments have been issued by the Federal Power Conlmis- sion to small sites in Alaska. One was issued to develop 100 horsepower on a creek near Kanatak; two for sites near Hyder; one for Thumb creek and one for Soule's Glacier River. The third preliminary permit was issued to the Home Power Company at 
 Exports from Alaska to Seattle dur ing 1922 aggregated 122,213 tons. This was an 1ncreaes of almost 1CO Der cent over the same exports of 1921, | which amounted to 69,654 tons. Im- ports from Seattle to Alaska also ad- vanced from 95,225 in 1921 to 17O.273 tons in 1922. Passenger travel statis- tics showed 13,965 outbound passen- gers and 15,677 inbound handled be- tween Alaskan ports and Seattle.
 Glen Darlington, Alaska travelling man, and for time resident of Sew ard, where he was a member of the baseball team now has his headquar- ters in Seattle, representing sporting goods firms.
 Richard Heimer, a trapper of the Copper River valley has hean miss