Seward daily gateway., 1924-08-30
NORTHLAND NOTES


 was taken violently ill, being forced to lie 15 days without attention be- fore he was found So emaciated was the victim that he weighed less than 100 pounds when rescued
 Bishop P. T. Rowe, who is visiting the missions in Alaska, recently left Nome for Point Barrow. He is in stalling radio set for the Rev. Thomas at Hope.
 The steamship Lady Kindersley, en route from Vancouver to Herschel is land with supplies for the mounted police barracks at the far northern post, recently passed Nome on her way north
 The Nome Nugget reports large run of silver salmon in the Nome river.
 Anchorage will give a mammoth industrial and agricultural fair, start ing August 30. Handsome prizes are being offered
 The employees of the Alaska rail- road were given picnic by the man. agement Sunday last, at Wasilla.
 Armed with twelve pairs of over alls, ton of grub and two thousand fishhooks, as we'll as a number of guns of different makes, Pat Mur- ray, who passed through Seward last week on his way to the Interior, is now scouting the Chickaloon district.
 Mrs. Katherine McNeill, of Fair banks, is hunting for information concerning her son, John, a native born Alaskan, who left Australia two years ago in May on his way to AL aska and has not been heard from since. The young man is 21 years of age and is thought to have shipped on some vessel. Address General Delivery, or Seattle Daily Times, Se- attle.
 Wm. N. Beach, president of the Pennsylvania Cement Co.,, of New York, is touring Interior Alaska, ac- companied by his wife.
 Paddy Mclaughlin, an oldtimer of theFairbanks district, is on his way Outside to spend the winter. , A Fairbanks newspaper is adver- Using lost hog, which has been picked up by a farmer of that sec tion. How in the name of the bulls of Bashan can hog stray away from home, and not be converted in choice bacon.
 The Alaska railroad announces re- duced fares for Labor Day.
 Fairbanks ranchers are selling home grown raspberries at 35 cents per box, or three for one dollar. They are said to be large and firm, excel ling in taste those of the state.
 Jess Wickersham, a resident of the Chickaloon district, was instantly killed by his native wife, who placed three bullets where wind and water meet, following bitter quarrel dur ing which the man attempted to beat up his spouse The night of the tragedy Wickersham, who was intox- icated attempted to carve the wom- an with butcher knife. She warned him off and when he came within the danger zone fired with deadly aim. Wickersham was a Spanish War veteran and had lived in Alas ka for number of years.
 In Michigan recently a man open ed a bottle of near beer and it ex- ploded, blinding him. On the Idita- rod recently hop toad Tapped up few drops of hootchinoo and attack ed the rancher's bull dog seriously injuring him. The climate causes different effects.
 Al Houssack of Fairbanks was re- gently fined $2OO and given 30 days in jail for violating the liquor laws.
 A large number of counterfeit sil- yer dollars are being passed in Alas ka. The coin feels soft and greasy to the touch, and has not metallic ring, but is good imitation of a dollar and would be taken without notice. Several have shown up in Seward.
 Leonard Scott Temple ,an oldtimer in the North, dropped dead at Nome Sunday from apoplexy. He first came to Alaska in 1898.
 Former Governor William Sulzer, who is returning east from a tour of Alaska, is member of Pioneer Ig- loo No. I, of Nome. The governor has been in all camps in Alaska and is we'll known by all old timers.
 The big airplane at Fairbanks is now making regular flights from that city to Brooks. The machine has paid we'll since its installation.
 The 1924 salmon pack in south eastern Alaska will be over 100000 cases short this year, according to figures received fE0m the packing companies. The reduction is caused by the 20-day closing season ordered by the bureau of fisheries