Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-26

OHly, lL was Sdlu. The hOuldk SLa- tion was opened for the convenience of the North Pacific fishing fleet at time several months ago when it was thought that the New England Fish Company was going to open a cold storage plant there. With the failure of that project to materiahze, | thecontinuance of the station was not justified, it was said
 | Frank Burns, son of Mrs Billy | Burns, had narrow escape from | injury last week as the result of falling from car on which he was riding near the Burns claim on Ell dorado creek in the Fairbanks dis trict. His left hand fell on the track and one of his fingers was badly mashed. He came to town to have the injury treated.
 Bringing in to Cordova the four blades of the propeller of the wreck ed Shinkoko Maru from Montague Island was the difficult feat per formed the other day by Damon Hal ferty, who has been scrapping the vessel between fishing seasons. The l blades are of bronze, weighing about ton apiece, and had to be hoisted on the cannery tender Jean with the aid of pile driver
 Charged with having in his pos session a fox skin taken out of season, Otto Smith, a mechanic en- ployed by the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, was arrested in Cordova recently. He was re- leased on his own recognizance and appeared before United States Con- missioner s. P. Harwood The case has been held over until Assistant United States Attorney H. c. Mo- Cam returns from Valdez to the Copper City,
 Notice was received from the light house service headquarters in Ket- chikan informing mariners that the diaphone at the Cape Hinchinbrook light station was reported disabled on September z, air siren operating This will be restored as soon as practicable.
 Another lot of beaver for ship ment by the Biological Survey to Kodiak Island, arrived in Cordova recently. The creatures arrived too late to make connection with the last Admiral Watson for Kodiak, which carried the main aggregation to the westward.
 Miss lola Quasi who was a mem Der of the faculty of the Wrangell public schools during the term of 1922-23, was married on August 16 to soldier in the U. s. Army In chronicling the happy event the Ju- neau Empire prints the following: Miss lola Quasi and Mr. Frank Hoffman were married aboard the steamship Admiral Rogers Sunday evening when it was in port, Rev Richard D. Decker reading the ser vice. Mrs Frank Heller of Juneau was the only attendant of the bride and Capt. Frank Landstrom, master of the Admiral Rogers was best man. The ceremony was attended by a few intimate friends of the couple Miss Quasi taught public school at Haines last year and was a pas senger from Seattle on the Admiral Rogers, returning north after spend ing the summer in the States. MT. Hoffman came south from Haines to meet his bride. He is a member of the U. s. Army and is stationed at Chilkoot Barracks where he and Mrs. Hoffman will be at home after a visit in SkagWay.
 Frank Richardson Pierce, a we'll known writer of fiction whose stor- ies have appeared in the American Magazine and other publications of general circulation, arrived from the States in Juneau recently. He will leave on boat soon for Wran- gell where he will take the Hazel B Mo- fro the gold diggings in the Cassiar where he expects to get color for another northern story. While in Wrangel it was stated, MT. Pierce had the pleasure of meeting an old schoolmate, J. L. Mackenzie, Deputy Forest Supervisor.
 Announcement is made by the postoffice department of the theft of 1,17O money order forms from the postoffice at Gainesville, Mont, on June 29 last and the public is warn ed that these orders are now being forged and cashed in sums ranging from $2O to $50 The cashing of these orders began early in July.