Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-12

accused fined $50 and set free upon paying a fine. The case against R. H. Palmer was dismissed. Maud Hamlin and Alice Graves were fined $500 and $500, respectively, while Mrs. Blakemore was brought to Dawson, where she has to serve three months Alex Lesperanee was fined $200 and costs for violation of the liquor ordinance.
 c. H. Passels, pioneer Alaskan and Ketchikan resident for the past several months, passed away recent 1 ly from the results of cardiac dis orders. Until his relatives are in- formed of his death no funeral ar engagements can be made. MT. Pas sels has had a varied and interest ing life. He left his home in Chicago in the early nineties when he was thought to be hopelessly i'll. He travelled into the Canadian interior l and engaged in the fur business un- til the Klondike rush in which he took part. He has lived in many of the Interior camps and is we'll known | to all the oldtimers
 Edward K. Scharping of Airing 1 ton, Minn, who has been in the An | nh n cSn +o1 oI months, passed away at an early l hour Sept. 5, and the body was re- Parlors to be prepared for burial Word has been sent to the deceased's relatives in New York state, and fu- neral arrangements are being held until reply is received.
 David Gaydon, died at the Pioneers Home July 30. He was born in Ten nessee in 1855, came to Alaska in | 1898 and has lived in all parts of the 1 territory since He has lived in Sel- dovia where he became ill and was admitted to the Home a year ago last June. He leaves no known rel atives.
 Before the closed order of fishing was made for Wrangell Narrows, c. T. Lundgren established his home in West Petersburg and expended some $l,6OO on home. He had depended upon his gill net to get fish to keep him going. He has lived in Alaska 30 years. He says to the Petersburg Herald, that since the closed order he has been compelled to abandon his home and must go elsewhere tc make living. MT. Lundgren says the policy of closing Wrangell Mar rows and then allowing an open sea son on the outside of it where t,:e fish may be caught before they can get ln.> ,the Nartows, i3 one Of the funny things about the mavhod by wh;ch tLe Bureau of rioneries is seeking to consreVe salmon in Alas ka. He adds that Charle Rooney U ScoW Bay was @lo0 put out of bus inrS3 by the order Tl1 latter has blue foxes and igure1 or making his living from fishing near home un r.! ue could get a s.a".
 Tourist; To what do you attribute your great age?"
 Oldest Inhabitant: T don't know yet; there's several O. them patent medicine companies bargaining with me-"
 Four we'll known residents of Fa:~. banks were joined in marriage on Sunday, last, the ceremony taking the form of double wedding, with U. $. Commissioner M R. Boyd of ficiating. The principals were Will jam A. Appleby and Sophie Peck, and William Henry Cleveland and Dorothy Dickson.
 A late Standard Oil bulleton pre- diets that there is no. cause for alarm concerning an oil shortage; that the present supply seems adequate and that it has been the history of oil that when shortage seems emmi- nent a new field is invariably discov- cred. The Bulletin makes no refer ence to the supposed oil-bearing areas of Alaska.
 The tourist season, the most suc- cessful in the history of the north, IS drawing to a close and another two weeks will practically turn Alas ka back to her permanent population for the next eight months. The feel ing between the tourists and Alas kans this season has been mutual one, each having enjoyed the other.
 A general increase in development and progress of the Green Butte mine in the Copper River District is the recent word received here. A ship ment of 200 tons of high grade ore