Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-17
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With life of colorful adventure
 behind him, Capt. George Ash, sol ] dier, cowboy and bandit capturer arrived in Juneau and opened an en- : gagement at the Palace theater of r that town in an original act-and they ! say his dexterity with rifle, revolver r and lariat we'll proved him of being l once connected with the ranges with
 in the scope of the Royal N. w. M
 Police. He was born in Calgary and : later did his stuff on the Texas rang es, which rangers rank second only : to the Mount Police of Canada.
 Mail destined for Yukon Territory
 points and Upper Yukon River re- gions in Alaska that was aboard the last Admiral Watson for the last boat down river from Skagway and White horse was held aboard and brought 1 to Seward. Canadian point mail was delivered to Skagway, but Alaska Yu-
 kon river mail was brought here for
 distribution from Nenana. The mail being late arriving in Skagway could not make connection with the last down-river boat of the White Pass, so therefore the re-routing.
 It's only an incident of Life in
 the Far Places, but it is worth tell , ing. Henry Pringle lives at Wise man, in the Interior Koyukuk dis trict He has to eat, like all of us. At Wenatchee, Wash, they raise or grow Jonathan apples of class, and while they probably have to sell them there at $1.5O a box, N. P. Mead of
 Wenatchee, apple grower, shipped
 Lavery & Bailey of Fairbanks box of apples from whom Pringle bought
 them for $6. The box contained 125
 apples. Landed at Wiseman by air plane they will have cost the ap- pie eater S31. However, the apple habit cost Adam more than that
 it cost him his home and garden.
 Believing the Chickaloon oil field
 holds as much promise as any of the several districts in Alaska, c. J. Lin cke, newspaper man of Anchorage, recently located a tract adjoining the lease where the Peterson outfit is preparing to start drilling operations,
 and since arriving back in Anchorage
 vided one-half interest in his hold , ings to a group of we'll known Anch- f orage men, including M. J. Conroy, former mayor, F. L. Knight, vice president of the First National bank
 and Charles Matheson. Lincke re-
 ported that drilling operations will s not start on the Peterson claims un- til spring.
 En route to Washington for con- 5 sultation with War department off
 reau of Budget in defense of the Al
 aska Road Commission estimates to- taling $1,7O0,000 for next year, Col.
 James c. Steese, president of the
 Commission, will leave for Seattle. After his work before the Director of the Budget is completed, he will take a 60-day leave for trip to Flu :, rope and Africa.
 T. Fifty-eight years ago come the t 18th, Sunday, Uncle Sam went out
 in the face of great opposition and
 bought something. After hefting it :, they called it Great Land," and the = Cheechacos call it Alaska. What : some Alaskans call it we do not care
 to state.
 s Within one mile of the White Pass s & Yukon railroad and twenty miles r. from this town, Skagway), near the
 summit of the White Pass, large
 body of high-grade silver and lead y ore has been discovered by Chas $ M. LaRue, who in addition to being mining man of many years eXpe. Y rience, is inspector in charge of the 5 United States immigration office in 'l the Lynn Canal town. Altho there
 has been little work done on the re- gently discovered mineral deposit n LaRue is confident that the stuff is there and in large quantities. c Winter activities of the Cordova e Athletic club commenced and the hal e acquired by the boys of the Copper T. City will be open all the time fol e basketball and handball, volleybal l. and indoor baseball. 1t is all in read a- mess. It is anticipated to organize s. six basketball teams, including the T. high school, railroad shops, Knights 1- of Pythias and possibly the Elks; also y two Women's teams. Use of the hal TT by the school boys is welcomed. They U are issuing membership cards as i1