Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-19

approximately 60,000 cases of salmon
 having been packed
 Charges made to Gov. George A | Parks recently that enormous quan
 titles of herring were being wasted | through wanton destruction by fish
 ermen and packers engaged in the | industry in Southeastern Alaska were
 entirely lacking in substantiation in
 a detailed investigation made by Fed
 eral agences in the past two weeks. This was made known by E. L. Hut ter, assistant agent for the U. $.
 Bureau of Fisheries in Southeast ern Alaska.
 The Lemons-Whitworth dredger
 was successfully launched in Fish
 Creek, Fairbanks district, Aug. 26.
 The work of installing the heavy
 machinery began at once and by De-
 tober 1 it is expected that the dredg-
 CT will be in operation.
 To relieve the situation at Sitka occasioned by the illness of Dr. l.. F. Goddard, the services of Dr. E. c. Kading, physician attached to the Cutter Unalga, were rendered to the Territory. The offer was accepted by H. G. Watson, secretary to Gov. Parks.
 In accord with the policy recon mended by the Community Chest Fund Committee last spring, the Jul neau chamber of commerce adopted a resolution calling for a drive for next years finances to be started early next month. Definite plans for the drive will be worked out and presented to the chamber at an early meeting.
 Two terms of the Federal District court were called in orders signed in Juneau by District Judge T. M. Reed. One, the regular November term, convenes on November IS and the other was for Ketchikan to con- vene October 15.
 John J. Dwyer, a lawyer of 40 Wall Street, New York, is seeking information as to the fate of Maur- ice Foley, who left Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Klondike in 1899 and has not since been heard from. MT. Foley left an estate in the East that MT. Dwyer says now amounts to about s10,000, and it is desired to get the estate settled.
 s. B. Van Zandt, Ketchikan police man, following a hearing before U. s. Commissioner, J. w. Kehoe, has been bound over to the Federal grand jury on a charge of man. slaughter for the killing of Romie Indian, according to of ficial advices received by U. s. At torney A. G. Shoup of the First Div ision. Bond was fixed in the sum of $3,OO0.
 Three members of the crew of the | gas boat "Mackerel' have been ar- rested at Craig charged with robbing l a fish trap, according to official ad- l vices received by U. s. Attorney A. G. Shoup. Those arrested were Au- | gust Starkloff, Oscar Berg and Willie Joshia. The men are charged with having robbed trap in Rose Inlet belonging to Sea Coast Packing Co.,, the robbery occurring on August 20, two days before the end of the sal mon fishing season on the west coast.
 Another advance in the road to Ophir was marked during the pres ant week when on Wednesday, of ast week, the Alaska Road Commis- sion camp was moved from Califor- 1ia to Gaines creek.
 The radio station at Tocotna, for ! number of days past, has been much disturbed by atmospherical con- litions and intensive electrical dis in the ether. This will 10 doubt last until the present dry 'pell is over.
 A piece of road work, says the Husko Times of Tocotna, of con- siderable importance is that recent y completed by the Alaska Road extending from the Hume dredge, Yankee creek to No. Gaines creek. The new stretch if road is about six miles long and eads directly to the Frank Joaquin upon which dredging op- rations will commence next year. are making the trip to lanes, and the road is declared to be n excellent condition.
 Plenty of blueberries this year, for 7hich everyone seems thankful, says |