Seward daily gateway., 1932-03-10
OLDT|MER PROUD OF LOCAL HOSPITAL;
 HAS ALASKA CAREER "KLONDIKE KID" UNDERWENT ONE OF LARGEST LOCAL
 MAJOR OPERATIONS

tirely with bit of pride, recent
 patient in the Seward General Hos pital, Angbright Stansen, lays claim
 to having undergone one of the
 biggest of major operations in the
 local institution; cncer of the
 stomach. And, though rather weak
 in the knees and thin, Stansen is
 up and around every day.
 He doesn't like his milk diet. He
 would rather drink stronger stuff, but if he does, he has been warned
 it means curtains" for him. So, for at least another month, Stan sen will be a guest at the Overland
 Hotel after which period he antici-
 pates he will have recovered suf-
 ficiently to return to his home at Unga where he has lived and flShed for many years.
 There were two important things MT. Stansen wanted The Gateway to broadcast, same being the splen-
 did treatment extended by the hos pital staff and the marvellous skill Of pr. A. D. HaverStock. Seward
 is certainly fortunate in having such a hospital and surgeon" Mir. StanSen added
 Oldtimers may remember Stan sen better perhaps by his Klondike nicknameS, 'Klondike Dick" and "The Lucky Swede"
 Getting back to the starting, both of his adventurous Yukon and AL aska career, it was nearly one-half a century ago, in 1886, when Stan sen first arrived in Alaska; at Sand Point, in the trading schooner Dashing Wave.
 He fished out Westward until the Klondike gold rush, then. with a group of 9 men at Karluk, the schooner Kadiak was chartered for the run to Skagway. Arriving there, Stansen began boating from Skag- way to Dyea. It was here when he first met Frank P. Slavin, the Aus tralian heavyweight boxing cham pi0n, Sailor Bill" discovarer Of the great Beuerat Australian gold nugget, and MT. Hutton, part her of the then Minister of Can- ada. They all went to Dawson to- gether-Stansen as pilot.
 Slavin was supposed to have had a rich claim near Dawson and was once offered $35,0OO for it but dur ing winters absence, one of his men sank prospect holes over the ground with the result he could not, thereafter, get 35 cents for it.
 The partners, being flat on their "fannies," went across the river to Monte Cristo Island and staked claims. Finding no bonanza, they gave it up. That same winter, in 1898, Dawson burned up. The Ca nadian Royal Mounted Police took charge of things; there was plenty Of work for everyone
 In the spring, Stansen shipped on the sternwheeler Rideout, the first 1 to attempt to try Five-Finger Rap ids, but insufficient power forced l them to line" the boat through. 1 Stansen, when they arrived at White Horse Canyon, figured he would continue on to the Outside ] but the skipper raised his salary as an inducement to remain on the \ job. So back to Dawson he went.
 A new rush was then underway to Nome. As a quartermaster on a river boat he pushed off down stream for St. Michael. Mutiny had set in so at St. Michael, the whole crew walked off and the boat was sold. StanSen obtained berth on the sternwheeler Herman and on this frail river vessel, crossed the 100 odd miles of open water, Bering Sea, to Nome. But it was three weeks after his arrival in Nome before he knew he had arrived. In he Kings English, for that period ae was intoxicated.
 He was the second man to be en- oloyed on the discovery claim, at Anvil Creek, which ground was be- ng worked by pr. Flames for the owners, Lindbergh, Lindbaum and Brunderson. Lindbergh, for some reason or other, took liking for 5tanSen and gave him the best job
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