The daily Alaskan., 1914-10-19
LOCAL BRIEFS

The regular meeting of the town council will take place tonight at o'clock at the town hall.
 The Northwestern will be in from the south at o'clock tonight with several passengers and S9 tons of freight.
 Town Marshal Frank Page left OH the Alameda today for hunting trip on some of the islands to the southward.
 supt. H. Wheeler of the w. P. & Y. R. mail service came oyer from Whitehorse Saturday pighb and returned this morning.
 Rev. Father Crimont, s. J., of Juneau, came up to Ft. w. Il. Se- ward Saturday evening on the Ad- miral Watson. He will likely hold services in Skagway before his re turn south.
 Mrs. H. D. LeaYitt, mother Of MT. Lediard, who had been in Skag- way for several days on q visit to her daughter and son-in-law, left tor her home in seattle on the Alameda this morning.
 The Spokane has been taken of the Southeastern Alaska ruR for the winter and for several months Une P. C. $. $. Co. service to Skagway will be furnished by the City of Seattle.
 A. c. Blanchard has received A letter from Harold HartwIgsem, ill which the former proprietor of the The Gateway, states that he is ra- pidly improving in health in the wonderful climate Of the salt River valley in Arizona.
 Mrs. Anna DeGraff, who has been engaged in dressmaking in Skagway for the past year, left for Juneau this morning on the Ala meda, iA which place 1t is her in sentiOn to resume her occupa- ton.
 The winter schedule of the w. P. & Y. R. cOmpany will go into eff feet next sunday, Oct. 25th. There after, until the summer schedule goes into effect next year, there will be only two trains q week between Skagway and Whitehorse.
 w. s. Dow, Q well known mill wright and miner of valdez, passed through on the Alameda this morn ing on his way outside for the first time in five years. He will spend the winter in California; returning north in the spring,
 One of the sailors on the freight CT Edith, which is unloading at the dock, while working on the smoke stack of the vessel this afternoon about 3 o'clock, lost his balance and fell to the deck, badly injur- ing one of his feet. He was at once hurried to the w. P. hospital, and Dr. Gable summoned to attend him,
 Capt. H. G. McMasters, wife and little girl were southbound passen- gers on the Alameda. Capt. Me Masters is one of the B. Y. N. em- ployes and was in charge of the steamer Selkirk. Capt. and Mrs McMasters are taking out with them the remains of their 12 year old son who died in Dawson last summer for burial.
 Thieves broke into the Board or Trade warehouse Saturday night and got away with about case of wet goods of various brands and varieties. It was rather a bold affair, as it was perpetrated between [ and s o'clock in the evening when the adjoining saloon and billiard hall were full of people.
 MT. LaVensaler, mining engineer for the Guggenheims, was a south bound passenger OH the Alameda He had been to the Broad Pass country to examine into the truth Of the alleged big quartz strike there, but he had nothing to say for publication in regard to it.
 The Boyle contingent of between 50 and 60 men arrived in White horse from Dawson on the steamer Lightning early Saturday morning They will be given a reception Nnile in Whitehorse and will prohf reach here in time to take Ae Princess May next Thursday for vancouver. They have not yet. been into the volunteer ser