Seward daily gateway. [volume], November 18, 1926, Page SIX, Image 6

About Seward daily gateway. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1923-1933

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AMONG OLDTIMERS
OUTSIDE AND INSIDE
Ex-Governor and Mrs. J. F. A.
Strong recently completed their ninth
Seattle to California trip, announc
ing on their arrival that it was posi
tively the last trip over land by au
tomobile they would ever make. They
drove through in a Jordan car, and
had nothing but mud and rain down
to 'the California State line, after
which they struck the hottest week
in California this summer—102 in the
shade.
Judge James Wickersham has fin
ished writing his books dealing with
Alaska. The series deals with early
life in the Territory, including min
ing and early lore. And a reprcfduc
tion of all but one of the very early
papers issued in the Territory, many
being printed only with the aid of
a primitive typewriter.
Another serious deal in a biographi
cal nature or a sort of Who’s Who of
the Early Days. Animal life is dealt
with breaflv and Frontier Law and
some of its vaguerieis is treated by
a master’s hand. The forth coming
series will be the most valuable, in-j
teresting and illuminating works is
sued on Alaska from any pen.
In the passing _ of Charley Borwn.
Sr., discoverer of gold on the beach
at Nome, Alaska loses one of her
stanchest friends. He went north in
the spring, carrying on development
work on some ground he was inter
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ested in, and in the winter lived in
Los Angeles, residing at the Jona
than Club. It was while on his way
outside the report of his sudden
death was broadcasted.
Judge A. M. Kilgore, formerly
Deputy Clerk of Court for Fourth
Division, and U. S. Commissioner,
stationed at Flat, recently disposed
of his general store at the corner of
23rd street and Foothill boulevard,
Oakland, California, and is now liv
ing on his fruit ranch five miles out
on one of the principal roads. The
Judge has bought out a new type of
fire extinguisher, the ingredients
i being dry, and expects a large sale
among automobile owners.
Danny Brice, for many years a
prominent figure in the Interior coun
try, as dog musher, mail carrier and
miner, is now living at 542G Sierra
Vista Avenue, Los Angeles, Califor
jiiia. Danny recently acquired some
very promising mining ground in Ne
vada and is busy developing the prop
erty. For many years Mr. Brice held
a bunch of nine groups, eight claims
each, dredging ground on the Tuluk
sak river, tributary of Kuskokwim riv
er, and just below the mouth of Bear
creek. After keeping up the assest
ment work |or a long string of lean
years, the ground lasped, and a dredge
is now operating on the ground.
Fred C. Bennett, former agent in
Alaska,for the Old Northern Commer
cial company, at one time having
charge of all the activities of that
company on the Kuskokwim river, is
now with the Williams Steamship
Company, with headquarters most of
the year at Los Angeles. Mr. Ben
nett’s home is at 49 Cascade Drive,
| Mill Valley, Susalito, California.
Among the Interior old timers who
has made good outside is.Al J. Cody.
Mr. Cody is chief of one of the most
successful private detective agencies
operating all along the Pacific Coast.
He has operatives in all the Coast
! cities, and among his patrons are the
j bankers express and railroad com
panies. Outstanding features the past
summer has been his unravelling of
several murder mysteries in the mil
lionaire row in Los Angeles, and the
i
i Aimee Semple McPherson hoax.
A1 Currie, for many years with “The
| Branch,” in Flat, is now a third own
1 er in the Hotel St. Francis, at Tia
i juana, Mexico, or if a revolu
tion; happens to be going strong, Bajo,
Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Currie recently
spent their vacation visiting old tim
ers in Los Angeles.
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shoot him.’ I told Pat ‘Let him shoot
him but hold your bead, for Jack
wasn’t reputed to be a very good shot.
The most savage thing I ever saw
was a wounded brown bear. Jack
shot but only clipped a piece of the
hide just back of his ears. Pat seeing
that Jack had missed, took»aim and
the bear was done for. He dropped
like a log but he certainly did tear
things up before he cashed in. The
second cub, presumably came to
the conclusion that things were de-1
veloping a trifle too fast for him,
I
turned tail and made a grand exit, j
When the smoke had cleared and we
had regained our senses I asked Pat
how he killed the old bear when she
was coming straight towards him
and his reply was, ‘Well Mac, I thot
of that and I had to think quick. It j
was the bear or me so I just side- j
stepped her. I had to do it quick for J
the distance I had to travel was much
!
greater than hers. Not having time
to take a broadside shot, I took a j
quartering.’ He shot her through
the brain, just above the eye. One j
shot did the work.
“We helped skin the old bear and
after removing the pelt, we stretched
it out on the grass and it measured
10 feet 6 inches. We left Pat and
started on our Moose hunt.
“We traveled down river just below ,
the Schooner Bend, both of us cros
sing the river in a raft that we
found. Jack was more familiar with
the country than I so suggested that
we meet at a cabin near the foot of
the mountain the river running with
in twenty rods of it. So we separated
I keeping close to the river and Jack
taking to the tall timber. After
traveling about two miles to where
the trail left the river, I found a cabin
and was half tempted to remain there •
but If any bargain is sacred, it is one
made in the woods or mountains with
a partner. ‘What are you going to do
and how you will do it. Well I kept
moving on and later found out that
the cabin I had contemplated on stay
ing was the very one Jack had meant.
But I started for the mountain. I
had just reached the bank when I
saw something loom up in the trail
ahead of me. The only way I could
distinguish as to what it could be,
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Thanksgiving Ball
Wednesday Evening
November 24th at
Odd Fellows Hail
Under the auspices of the
Seward Athletic Club
“JOLLY THREE” Orchestra
Admission charge —:— Men $1.00, Ladies free
Yes, There Will Be Punch Served
COME EARLY AND STAY LATE!
Tis seldom indeed the local athletic organization stages a dance
>o rest assured the committees in charge of this one are leaving
nothing undone to make it one of the outstanding
Dance affairs of the season
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