Seward daily gateway., 1925-04-18

ed. and Edward keegan and Joe Ve- vette were bruised and badly shaken
 LID when an ore train and motor car
 crashed on curve short distance from the entrance of the Gold creek tunnel of the AIaska-Juneau mine in Last Chance Basin last week.
 Bean was instantly killed and his
 body badly mangled.
 Fire which was caused by an eX-
 plosion when an electric heater came in contact with oil and gas burned | the seven passengre Cadillac of M. D. Berry at Juneau last week. MT. Berry was severely burned about the hands while attempting to quench the flames. The loss to car and gar age was about S4,000
 The steamship Alameda on re-
 cent trip north was forced to break
 eight inches of ice at Red Bluff bay | in Chatham straits, southeastern Al
 aska, in order to land her cannery
 supplies and crew. The ice is heav- fer than ever before known. A chapter of the American Red
 Cross will probably be organized at
 Skagway, according to reports re ceived from there on the last boat. The special November term of
 court held at Juneau has been ad-
 journed. The Ketchikan term open ed April g.
 One of the lightest votes in years
 was cast in Juneau at the recent election, but 26O voters coming out. Frank Martin, a bank clerk from
 England, recently mushed from Whitehorse down to Dawson. MT.
 Martin made the whole trip on snow
 shoes, and one night was forced to
 camp out under a spruce tree only to find himself the next morning
 within a mile If l camp where he
 could have vas:ed the night in com. fort
 Moo Kud Lah, the Ponds Inlet Els kimo who was imprisoned in Stony
 Mountain prison for ten years for the killing of a trapper names James
 has been notified by the Canadian authorities that he will be released in time to take a steamer home.
 When Moo Kud Lah was first arrest ed the mounted police took off his fur garments and clothed him in the habiliments of the white man.
 The Eskimo cried and begged for his furs but to no avail. They were left with his sQuaw at the Inlet. Frozen solidly to the floor of his
 cabin more than 200 miles north of
 Winnipeg, the body of Ernest A. Nell son, 53, was found by mounted po- Hcemen on patrol duty. About a weeks grub was found in the cabin and few skins.
 E. P. Hedberg, formerly with the
 Alaska Railroad has taken the posi-
 tion of master mechanic on the Cop per River railroad.
 A permit has been granted W. W.
 French on his oil location in the
 Cold Bay district, No lO5,16S. Mrs. Celestine ,Cambert who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. R. Martin of Anchorage, will return to her home in France this week Mrs. Martin is a French war bride. The Odd Fellows saved all their records and regalia in the fire at Valdez recently.
 deg was recently elected mayor of the town. A. J. Dimond received second high vote.
 Drilling for oil will be resumed in the Katalla field about May 1, ac-
 cording to George Hazelet, owner Three hundred and thirty-six vot- CTS cast their ballots in the recent elections at Fairbanks
 Fares of halibut amounting to 46,- 900 pounds were received at Ketchi-
 kan one day last week, the fisher
 men not going out after fish in any
 numbers owing to the low price. Billie Wilson, who formerly lived
 in Valdez is now living at Bend, Ore. l gon, where he runs bank.