Seward daily gateway., 1924-04-03
KANATAK HAS MUCH
 TRAVEL DURING TIE
 LONG WINTER DAYS

LU|v6 Wl|vlEK DAI0
 KANATAK, April-The April Starr
 delivered five passengers, all former
 residents or visitors, to Kanatak.
 Mrs. Patton returned to Kanatak af-
 ter spending the wiAer in Seward.
 Ed "Slim" Michaelson, who has been
 spending a few weeks in Anchorage
 and Seward, is back in Kanatak
 Mrs Nelson of Kodiak, is a visitor
 in town.
 F. Deigh, who left Kanatak last fall
 has returned.
 Mrs. Beattie, who has been spending
 the wlr,el outside returned o1 re-
 cent boat. She will reopen the bath
 house in kanatak.
 Bon Senson, fcx rancher on Cgain-
 shak Island, arrived on the Anna L..
 This is the first gas boat to arrive in
 kanatak this year He reports q
 successful season on his ranch, tho he
 estimates that hc lost twenty young
 foxes by the flood during the October
 storms. He returned with supplies.
 Maximn, who has a fox ranch on - David island, was a passenger on the 7, Anna L. He was an old Kanatak
 resident.
 Harry Lohr, who spent the winter
 ping in the vicinity of Amber bay d on the Anna L. He reports fran nping season and mild weath- ,,o+,,-. ighborhood throughout the fair traA m ; b;~ a local merchant, IS y,;o+ar expected rush this Cr ,roJ,on fourteen feet and tteparing for the Ai' oSoi0
 l.. ,I;,. of the store an office to the rear ol ii0"' ''' enlargng and remodeifng ny 'o"" room was quite an imp*oV>
 this store would do credit Co a pay in Alaska.
 kanatak has had many Bristol visitory this winter The dog traA were unusually good tho it was after the first of the year before the first mail team. driven by Nelson, was able 'Ia! 11|, TIL o,1 ,,,o,+t,e, and drive heavy snow fall which followed made dog mushing easy. Most of these men brought over fur remained for short FlS4' anu Ie'"i ,i." i''' 5y5,.,,. xous ward first to arrive with his fur. He was r. followed by Ben Hansen, who drove t.o,. over the finest looking dog team which has been seen in Kanatak Billie oul- po livan and a native team brought over cy,.. their catch Charlie Smith and three Eskimos, formerly from Ntme prot Al over fur and moccasins. They 1ouho View old Nome friends at Kanatak Tn Char lie Madsen and Sol Warren. FG Two natives from NakneE Jolneo cally teams with two natives from 1geglK See and made record time coming over the trail. FC Jack Lowe of Dillingham;, finished boat, fur buying trip down the Bristol bay heav coast and brought over the largest IT, Ancl dividual shipment of fur that has been Forwarded through the local post C- office.
 Fred Madsen and Fred Kraun of Nahhek anu ". ~ or;os {arri' vile, winter men for the cannerles' Cort drova over for visit. There were oZ doos in their combined teams Recent 4, rains had raised the snow line so Cie Sbo, doos were left at the fish village ana tho two men walked in the rest of the N
 IoIN way. They returned to 'heif 'e'a'', long eadd1e horses and transported thelr Q. ,,,,,cbased on pack horses. About hall way over the divide some of the norseS s. s+amneded, the cheechako packers ola ard xond bitches failed to hitch and two of the horses returned to kana1aK "i.n L. their saddles where their beliy-Danas eier should be. Supplies ranging from too1h Is brushes to shu pacs were scattered all along the trail and travellers are stlii :" n;cl;no things out of the snow from teh' ploNi'e arri time to time. r,,a From Kanatak Demion has driven s'e over to Egegik for a visit. Demlon ana o Androy Sam have been transporting ennnlies. mail, passengers and pensh- sou able goods out to the drill camps all Vas winter They even hauled hay and for oats for the horses. has Mr. and Mrs. Murphy drove over, and from Ugashik and are visiting rela- ! lives in Kanatak No this is not an r l Irish couple. Murphy is chief Of the avi | natives at Ugashik and is full-blooo- age ed native. His name is unpronounce pal ! able to all whites and to most natives art 90 he is known as Murphy. Just about ! two years ago he drove into hana.aA ! accompanied by Russian Priest ne Ct ! was married to the daughter of Nlchoil l Kolmacoff, who was chief Tn the | native village of Katmai before the TO | Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes was re