The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-21


 The Rev. E. E. Reisner officiated ] at the services and interment fol- lowed in the Pioneer plot of the Seward Cemetery.
 V. BoUJKer, ct Petersburg, re- gently installed three shrimp pick ing machines in the building of the Isom Brothers cannery in Cor dova. MT. Bottker with E. N. Dinner, well known Petersburg shrimp canneryman, will pack shrimp for market in Cordova this season MT. Bottker is the design CT of the machines which were in- stalled.
 H. R. Miller died recently at hte Anchorage Hospital following an operation. For years he was a re- sident of Valdez and the vicinity but for some years past he has been employed by the Alaska Rail- l road. He was the father of Mrs. | w. T. Stuart of Valdez.
 Preliminary steps looking to the development of the old Mayfield | mine, near Columbia Glacier, are under way according to a recent 1 Seward Gateway. Pilot Bob Reeve, of the Seward Airport, recently 1 flew James Linley, mining engineer, to the mine presumably for the | purpose of making survey of the 1 old workings and prepare a pro- gram for development It was an- nounced that MT. Finley would I have $l00,000 at his disposal for mining operations during the con- 1 ing season. The packers of the < enterprise had a mining engineer on the property all last summer working under cover to discover the possibilities of the mine. It has been made known that he re- ports the property one of the best milling prospects he has seen in Alaska. {
 With the Nebesna mine busily engaged in timbering and prepar- ]! ing for continuous operations, and { many prospectors preparing to en- ter that district, great activity is expected during the coming sea- son. Pilot Bob Reeve was busily ! transporting supplies by air from Valdez to the Nebesna and Chisana ! countries a short time ago and re- ported lots of snow and what the oldtimers pronounced the coldest winter for many years.
 The body of Andrew Groswold | was taken to Sanak several weeks !. ago for burial, on the motorship ! Blue Fox. A number of people 2 from Pauloff Harbor attended the s funeral in Sanak. The services z were conducted by Ernest Bailey of Sanak.
 Miss Helen Hofstad and I. c. BJorge were winners of high prizes lat the last of the series of whist i parties given this winter in Wran- gell at the Bills Club. High scores of the series were made by Mrs. Delis Coulter and Walter Coulter. {
 Impressive funeral services were held recently in Seward at the Sacred Heart Church, for the late {, Steve Melchoir, pioneer resident of Seward, The Rev. R. Dermot , OFlanigan officiated and many friends of the well-liked resident attended to pay their respects. t
 Edna Christofferson, who visited in kotzebue a short time ago, re- turned to Nome by plane to con- tinue her writing of stories and collecting of data for a book she expects to publish later on. She is the first woman to fly plane in that section of Alaska. I'
 Mrs. Joe Dexter, of Golovin, has oeen very ill according to Chief { Deputy U. s. Marshal A. O. Brown who returned to Nome recently { rom. an official trip to Golovin and Haycock. tt
 Mrs Nellie Neil-Lawing. who is sis nearing 60 years of age, donned her hiking clothes recently and hit the railroad ties from Lawing, 2s miles to Seward, to have con- terence with the postal inspector. Sne covered the distance in a lit- tisGmore than six hours. Scarcity ], ot snow had made the trip by dog { cam 'it,,xxorxu-1z