Seward daily gateway., 1923-04-28
From Thursdays Daily

IOll ! HUI ou0y D0Ay J. s. Ridebaugh, interior business man, left on the Watson for the States where the will spend severa months on business.
 Henry Lucas, oldtimer of the Kena Lake district, registered in this morn ing from the States, where he has been visiting for some time. While outside MT. Lucas spent considerable time in Kansas City visiting with his brother.
 Jack Chisholm, we'll known sales man, was among those leaving foi An. chorage this morning. He is on his way to Kanatak, taking the freightel Valdez from his home town.
 Wm. Lawley, who arrived from the states on the Northwestern, will as sume the position as chef at the Sew ard Grill.
 A. J. Nordale, former owner of the wellknown Nordale hosterly in Fair banks and which was recently de stroyed by fire, was noted among those who arrived from the interior last evening. He left for the states on the Northwestern.
 Mrs. J.. W.. Foley and family of Fairbanks, were among the arrivals of last evening" MT. Foley is electrl clan employed by the Northern Con- mercial company at Fairbanks. Mrs. Foley will visit with her mother in Juneau.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred Van Raes ar rived in Seward from Fairbanks last night on their way to the states. MT Van Raes far the past three years has been linotype operator for the News Miner at the Interior city.
 Sergt. Thos. E. Ayers, Quartermaster corps man at Valdez, returned to the glacier city on the Watson after pay ing a visit to Anchorage.
 Sam McNeice, located at Moraine came to town last night to greet his wife and daughter, who arrived rom t!:e States on the Northw .er..
 Indications of mining activities oi the interior were noted among the freight shipments on the Northwest ern, large number of pieces of ma chinery being scheduled for shipment to points along the railroad. Perhaps the heaviest shippers were the Fair banks Gold Dredging Company, oper ating on Fairbanks creek, 2S miles from the town :. of Fairbanks. The property upon which the dredge is en- gagged is of some extent and many more years will be required before the ground has been worked out. The Mt Mckinley Gold Mining Company in the Kantishna district, also recely cd quite a shipment of hydraulic sup. plies and it is expetced that this con cern will produce heavily this year.
 Mrs. Ira Bailey will leave Thursday of next week, to join her husband, the well-knOwn painter, who has been ln the interior metropolis the past few weeks MT. and Mrs. Bailey will make their home in Anchorage.
 What may be considered as the first tourists of the 1923 season arrived or the steamer Northwestern this morn. ing in the persons of Miss M. Gibbons Miss E. Marburg, and Messrs. c. H Davis and c. E.. White. This party is making the round trip on the vesse as the guests of the Alaska Steamship Company and have enjoyed every min ute of their outing, despite the rather chilly weather which has greeted them at times. In coming to the northland the party had quite an in teresting transcontinental tour before arriving at Seattle. Leaving Rich mond, Virginia, their home city, in { Pierce-Arrow auto, they traversed thu entire southern section of the United States to the southern part of Cali fornia, then took the Pacific highwa! to the Puget Sound metropolis. Dur ing their stay in Seward they found much to entertain them in visiting several points of interest, which ex ceeded their conception of Alaska a' did other places visited by them.
 A radio s. 0. s. was picked up thi morning from the Pacific Mail steam er's liner Empire State, saying th' vessel was ashore near Honolulu ant calling for help. It is not known wha damage resulted, or whether any live l were lost.