Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-17
NORTHLAND NOTES

Seattle the other day on her last trip of the season prior to overhaui ing. The old ship concluded her 425th trip to Southeastern Alaska port, Jock Livingston mastering her most of the time. The lief entered Alaska service in 1904.
 The Board of Equalization finish ed her regular session in Fairbanks recently. The tax rate for the cur. rent year has been fixed at one and three-quarters per cent.
 If the Model cafe in Fairbanks will have it's picture took it will hear of something to it's advantage in the Christmas number, says the News Miner. Photograph Cam is camped nearby and if he can't nobody can make the picture.
 Another oldtimer in the person of Ole Johnson Wolden, member of the Fairbanks Masonic lodge, the Moose and the Elks was buried the other day under the auspices of the Masons.
 Father L. H. Rivet fell recently, while carrying a large article of fur niture up a stairs and suffered in jury to his side The Father lives in Dawson and was signed up at the Dawson hospital immediately after the accident but it is expected he will be about soon.
 A Mrs. W. w. Clark, who has been residing in the Fairbanks coun try during the past few years, visit ed Dawson for few days prior to her departure for the outside. She is the owner of Robert w. Service cabin in the Klondike metropolis.
 The Alaska Telephone and Tele graph office in Nome was burglar ized recently and small amount of chicken feed taken. In their haste the would-be yeggs left ten bucks in the drawer and dropped dollar on their way out Officials in Nome have their ever-watchful eye on cer tain characters and arrests are soor to be made.
 Tom Baxter, an old-time sourdougL of the Nome section died August 30t1 at the Maynard Columbus hospital af ter a short illness. MT. Baxter was taken sick while working on Os borne creek for Swanson and Lee and was removed to the hospital and given the best of medical attention and care possible. Mr. Baxter was born in New York and was 51 years old at the time of death.
 Last week the Department of In terior representatives were in Fair banks looking into the title question on Garden Island. When the Islan ders moved off the Main Highway and back from it to enable Fair banksans to get sight of the Rail road station, they were guaranteed title to the ground they were moved onto. Now title will have to be giy en them, and they will probably ge it this year.
 The sad news of the death of Mrs o. s. Laning, who recently passed away from a prolonged illness in he home in Auburn, Wn, comes to tn, North as shock. Mrs. Laning ar rived in Dawson in the early day. when her husband, o. s. Laning wa connected with the Alaska Commer cial Co.
 The Nome Nugget, a live week., medium increased it's news gatherin,
 0PS tSSSAiy Wucu IL put on COT respondents from all over the Sew ard Peninsula. The Nugget expect news from 15 different sections Q the Far Second Division.
 According to story given out t the Dawson News recently by Leo1 Sloss, jr, who was on a tour of tn North with his bride, a domesti COW which was allowed to rambl around the green pastures of tn Atlin district suddenly became ir fatuated with a handsome bull moos ana an elopement was promptly e1 tected. The COW apparently is CT toying her new home in the Wilds for as yet the animal has not returr ed, while the last traces of the 1T fatuated couple were seen as the were crashing thru the tall timber The incident caused no small amour of wonder and amusement around Al lin (B. O so consequently the uniuu little tourist resort on beautiful Lax Atlin has been called by some imas