The Seward gateway., 1923-02-03
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The Larson building at Tacotna is practically completed.
 Tenakee is advertising plenty of frozen herring for halibut bait. as we'll as fresh herring.
 Cecil Harms and wife, nee Miss So- phia Scott both formerly of Cordova, were seriously in jured in an automo- bile accident at Seattle.
 Mrs. J. c. Dougherty of Anchorage, has been summoned to Seattle on ac- count of the serious illness of her sis ter, Mrs. Emma L. Richards.
 U. s. Commissioner John Frame of Hyder recently united in marriage Miss Johanna Porter and John A.. Coughlan. The groom is one of the old timers of the camp, while the bride has resided there about two and half years.
 Hyder residents are complaining of discrimination by Ketchikan steam ship officials, because the latter tele- graphed to Seattle that the Hyder dock was not in shape to be used by steamboats intending to land there.
 On the Mother Lode extension group of claims near Mccarthy, ap- proximately 12 miles east of the fla nous Mother Lode and Green group properties there is said to be a re- markable showing of ore and deve[ opment work will be done on a large scale next spring. A fifty horsepower hydroelectric compressor will be plac- ed upon the property in time to be ready for operation before the spring breakup.
  much concerned over the reservations made by the bureau of fisheries, stat ing that it will destroy the fur busi- ness unless ranchers are permitted to catch fish fo- their animals.
 The Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields suffered the loss of a valuable horse recently. The animal wSs be- ing driven at the head of an eight horse team when it suddenly dropped dead
 The Hammon company of Nome are freighting eighty tons of coal from Nome to Chase's and from there to the head of Banner creek where it will be distributed for use by the steam shov- el during the coming summer.
 Contracts foz 60,000 tons of coa! were recently awarded by the Alaska Engineering Commission to be dellv- cred on the first of July. The Evans Jones mine will supply 30,0oO tons, Baxter x Bedell 15,Ooo. Healy River .c.n0J, and Bruno Augustine 5000. It is possible that one or more concerns will be given other contracts.
 When the steamer Jefferson of the Alaska Steamship Company's fleet docxed at the Hyder wharf on the I'd of January it marked an epoch in the commercial life of the camp. The Jefferson was the first ocean going vessel to tie up at the new wharf, and the first to make the trip direct from Seattle to Hyder. The whole town was on hand to greet her.
 The Northwestern Fur Game and Fish Protective Association organlz- ed at Nome recently and helt its first meeting. The attendance was yer! large and much interest is being talk en. The new association is for the protection of wild animals and bird life and preservation of the fish ln the streams of the first division.
 John Hover, winter manager Of the Cordova Mining Company camp on the Inmachuk arrived in Nome re- gently. He made the trip from Deer ing in five days.
 J. D. Shelton, of St. Michael dis t.ict was shot and killed recently, ac- cording to word received by the mar shars office at Nome. The shooting occurred at the south mouth of the Yukon in the Wade Hampton district. No particulars were received. Shel- ton was well known Nomeite ana Kougarok miner, having followed nm ing for many years. The town Of