Seward daily gateway., 1924-09-06
NORTHLAND NOTES

lHt ldSI II ySdio WaS uAONhCd oS Tenakee Inlet the IS, ult., and the body has not been found. He was a resident of Petersburg.
 Sailor Dixon, a former pugilist of no mean fame, has quit the squared circle and gone to Fairbanks to open an office. Dr. John B. Lewis, his right name, has recently completed 8 two-year course at Portland college of ophthalmology and received his degree. In the eight years he fought 125 times, was knocked out twice and lost once on a technical kayo.
 w. A. Eaton has taken over the Louis Smith claims located at Chi chigof and will develop the property
 A pack trail has been built from Keno to the Beaver, in the Yukon territory and a number of shelter cabins erected.
 The Silver Wave, Capt. Knud Ras- mussen, arrived in Nome recently af- ter a long exploration trip in the Arctic. He left Copenhagen in 1921 on the present expedition, with a large outfit. Rasmussen is said to have written six books on the north, and gathered extensive data of value to scientists. He talks Eskimo flu ently.
 The Naval radio station at Juneau has been turned over to the Signal corps, a branch of the U. s. Army.
 Eighty-three Alaskan teachers were enrolled in the teachers institute held recently at Ketchikan to discuss Al aska problems. Commissioner Hen- derson was we'll pleased with the success of the first gathering.
 Ketchikan reports great stortage of rooms in the town. despite the many new buildings erected the past year.
 The new school building at Ket- chikan may be painted white and a bright light thrown on it at night in order that it may serve as beacon to mariners.
 Charging that he was cheated in a crooked gambling game in which he lost $40 while en route to Seattle on the steamship Alaska, August 15, Fred E. Scott swore out complaint against Louis Christ and another man Tot yet apprehended. Christ was ar, e ted in Seattle.
 Miss Minnie Nye of Grant, Ore, and Bert Griswold, of Seattle, were married at Ketchikan last week.
 Another industrial home will be established at Kanakanak in the Bristol Bay region. This is in the Southwestern division of the native school work, which is in charge of Lieutenant Thomas B. Calkins, su- perintendent. The bureau of educa- tion now has at Knakanak hos pital building, an orphanage and a school building, of an aggregate value of $18,OOO. Additional hous- ing accommodations, so as to make this industrial home similar to the one proposed at Eklutna, will be erected in due course.
 Thomas Wilson, better known to his intimates as "Tcmmy" Wilson, known to be in ~c,re part of the Northland, is s llgilt by a sister Mrs Ella Maag, 1'12 Pleasant ave- nue, Bremerton, Washington.
 Wm. F. Smith, an tidtimer in the Panama anu Yukon valleys died re- gently in :he Imperial valley, Calif., of Sunstroke, and !hI1st, while out prospecting.
 Mrs Hosea Ross and Mrs. Robert E. Sheldon recently landed a pickerel tipping the scales at twenty-five pounds, while fishing in Birch lake, near the Richardson road. The fish measured forty-one inches in length.
 Gus Gclles, who vas recently in- jured at Anchorage in an auto acci- dent is rapidly recovtring and may be out within short time. His tn- juries consisted of a shattered knee cap and many trui:es.
 John lilly, dIsco.e:er of Willow Creek in the Ma: shal district in 1913, travelled from Hnly Cross to Nulatn on the last upliver trip of the Jacobs. He is on a prospecting trip into the kaiyuk mountains and will go up the Ban2.na river for 15O miles to a creek where he has preyiouSlv fo,1nd c,,1 nav