Seward daily gateway., 1923-03-17
Notes of the Northland =

ger on the Northwestern leaving Val deg for the states.
 Miss Jessie Johnston and Sydney L Whitford were recently married al Nenana. They left for visit to thu States.
 M.. and Mrs. Meyer Blum of Val deg, left on one of the last boats for Seattle. Mrs. Blum will go on to Cali fornia to visit her mother.
 The Fairbanks Alaskan, the newest paper in Alaska, recently started pub lication in the interior metropoSs,' with James Feaster at the masthead.
 Presentations are now unde:' way for the launching of the new steamer Al aska on April IT, She will sail from Se- attle June g, alternating with the Ala meda and Northwestern.
 In honor of the Alaska legislative members Governor and Mrs. Scott :, Bone gave reception at the eXecu- tive mansion last week, which was at tended by all the members and num- Der of townspeople.
 Frank Cunningham recently picked up the body of Arnie Anderson, who was drowned at Zakoff Bay Montague Island. February 23, and took it in to Latouche. The marshals office was no tified but no disposition of the body has been made as yet.
 William Mitchell, who recently pur chased the s. s. Skagway, from the Alaska Steamship Company, will use the vessel in carrying lumber between the Puget Sound country and British Columbia ports.
 Forest Ranger John G. Brady, II charge of this district of the Chugacl National Forest, passed through Sew ard recently en route to CordoVa where he will confer wMh Supervisor William Mcdonald regarding forage conditions on Montague Island for elk
 Sam Mccormick, Ben Volkman, Fr Rivet, Howard Sutherland, Jack Cast and J. Jones arrived in Nenana this week from the Mayo district, report ing a hard trip. At Mcuestin eigh inches of new snow had fallen and i was a matter of breaking trail all the way from the Klondike.
 The Alaska Pulp and Paper Com pany has resumed operations on its pulp plant at Speel river and is gllnd' ing at capacity. The company now has 100 tons of pulp on hand ready lol shipment to the States and is adding to thas amount daily. Fifty men are employed at the plant.
 The 50 horsepower Frisco Standard engine, which was in the launch Good Partner. when that vessel was wreck ed at Metlakatla recently. was salvag ed with but little damage. The hull oi the Good Partner was total wreck but the engine, valued at $5,OOO was put on scow and lowed to Metlakat, la.
 Jim Hoover, who is interested with Tom Blalock in rich Indian river hold ings, in the koyukuk district, arrived in Nenana recently from Cold Bay. He said that the drillmen who are work ing in the oil fields believe that opera tions now in progress probably wou'C determine the value of the field by the middle of July.
 The new ketchikan General Hospl- tai built under the direction o1 Fath- CT Van Der Pol is said to be one of the most up-to-date and best equipped 0OSDlldlS perior and four sisters arrived recent ly from the States to take charge of the hospital. Sister Germalne, who at one time was connected with the Sew ard hospital, is one of the sisters who arrived in Ketchikan.
 Through the efforts of M. Woldson, of Fern gold quartz mine, above Was illa, movement has been started with a view to install telephone communi- cations between the several mines in that vicinity and Wasilla. Such sys- tenn can be installed for approximate ly s2 800, providing the mine owners do the work jointly themselves. Such a means of communication will great