Seward daily gateway., 1926-04-29
NORTHERN NOTES

William Quitsch and Carl Ellers re- turned to Valdez a few weeks ago from Mineral creek, where they have been doing development work on the Little Giant property. MT. Quitsch reports some tremendous snowslides along the creek, one of which is more than mile in width.
 No definite date has been set as yet for the calling of the Iditarod term of the district court The federal par ty this year, as in the past, probably will take one of the first boats for the lower Yukon vbgkqjjj the lower river District court here has been adjourned to May 6, at 10
 R. J. Meehan, of Seldovia, had the middle finger of his right hand ann putated recently. The finger was hurt in an accident while working on the Jesse Lee Home at Seward last year, and healed stiff. It interfered with his work and the doctor deemed it best to remove it.
 Dr. J. H. Romig, of Anchorage, re- ceived the sad news last week of the death of his father, Rev. Joseph Ro mig at the advanced age of 90 years. Rev. Romig moved to Kansas about 50 years ago, where he was mission ary among the Indians, and lived in the vicinity of Independence and Cof- feyville.
 Walking two miles out on the gla- cier moraine near Mile IA, Cordova, J. W. Reed in charge of the naval ra dio station there last week came upon a big timber wolf feeding on a doe. Mir. Reed shot the big animal and is sending the skin to Denver to have it mounted He said good part of the deer had already been eaten when he arrived on the scene.
 John and Leo Reinken have se- cured the use of the Frasier ware house and buildings at Shoup bay and will start a herring packing plant in the near future. Not only will they put up the larger herring under the Scotch cure process, but will also put up several hundred barrels of the smaller fish for bait, there being a shortage of bait throughout this sec tion and in Southeastern Alaska.
 The results being obtained from the national advertising campaign being conducted by Skinner & Eddy corporation, Pacific American Fish cries, Alaska Consolidated Canneries and other salmon packers have been very gratifying and have proved even better than had been hoped for, said w. F. Schlothan, Ketchikan business man who has been outside, upon his return there.
 James McCluskey, proprietor of the Richardson hotel; arrived in Fair banks last week. MT. McCluskey re- ports that he found the trail in rath- CT poor condition, water-flled ruts having been encountered during the tions along the Tanana river valley in his district point to a good season. Sloughs have been cleared much ear Her than usual, he says. Geese were reported on the bars of the Tanana as early as last Sunday evening, and focks are now seen in northern mi grafton.
 Death summoned James Tracy last month after an Hines which extended over some length of time. MT. Tracy entered the hospital last June, suffer ing from complaints which subjected him to the close care of the doctor He knew that at any moment the final summons might come. Cerebral hem orrhage was the cause of his death a few hours after the afflicted man had taken to his bed.
 Prior to entering the hospital, on June 12 last, James Tracy was To- cated on Quartz creek, where he was