The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23
'OF INTEREST
 TO ALASKANS
BISHOP ROWE COMING.

Io"e Has iaohA 'hS East and is planning tour Of Alaska. The veteran mission work CT of the North has completely re- covered from the breakdown which was caused by the loss of his wife earlier in the year.
 RIGGS TO EXPLAIN ROAD.
 SEATTLE. Nov 16 Thomas Riggs, Jr, member of the Alaska railroad commission. has accepted an invitation of the Sourdough club of the University of Washington to ad- dress the members of that organiza- tion, and will explain the proposed Alaska railroad to them on Wednes- day night.
 The Sourdough club is composed exclusively of students from Alaska.
 HUNTERS AFTER CARIBOU.
 DAWSON, Nov. Is. - There has been a stampede of hunters across the Yukon to attack the caribou which are crossing the Glacier creek trail about thirty miles from town. Reports from the westward state that there are thousands of caribou moving across the country.
 Governor George Black is one of the enthusiasts.
 YUKON FREEZES.
 DAWSON, Nov. 16. The Yukon river closed in front of this city yesterday morning at 10:26, and in- dications along the upper river are that the stream will be frozen over its entire length within a very short time. Heavy ice Is running at Yu- kon Crossing and as far south as Hootalinqua.
 The freezeup this fall is the sec ond latest in the history of the camp, the last being in 1901, when the river remained open until November 25. The late closing is due to the uniformly mild weather which has prevailed throughout the interior country during the past two months.
 There Is very little snow on the overland trail, and the roads and trails near Dawson are practically bare.
 ALASKA COAL GOOD.
 SEATTLE, Nov 16.-The harbor and laboratory tests of Matanuska coal having proved satisfactory, the cruiser Maryland will now subject the Northern fuel to the final or sea test. The outcome of the actual steaming trials is looked forward to confidently by those acquainted with the results already obtained
 ALASKA BOAT WRECKED.
 SEATTLE, Nov. 17.-The pioneer Alaska steamship Dirigo, enroute to Seattle from Cordova with a cargo of copper ore, foundered in a gale yesterday at a point about 100 miles west of Cape Spencer, and Is a to- tai loss. The members of the crew were rescued by the steamship Cor dova which was towing the Dirigo to her Puget Sound destination.
 The Dirigo was launched at San Francisco in the spring of 1898, and was one of the first steamships placed on the Southeastern Alaska run in the early days of the Klon- dike rush. Of late years, the Diri- go has been engaged in freighting.
 NAVIGATION HAMMERED.
 SEATTLE, Nov. IS. - There is the probability that Alaska vessels will be compelled to take the out side passage in consequence of the of lights along the British Columbia coast by the Can Gdian government.
 RIGGS BOOSTS ALASKA.
 SEATTLE, Nov. 19.-In an address before the members of the Univer- sity of Washington Sourdough club, last night, Commissioner Thomas Riggs. Jr, referred enthusiastically to the future of Alaska. Speaking of the proposed government rail- road, the commissioner declared that there were two good routes from the coast to the Interior, and he pre- dicted that some day each would be traversed by a railroad. The routes referred to were the Susitna and the Copper river.
 Mining in Alaska is no longer a haphazard business, MT Riggs in- formed the young Northerners, and he urged the members of the club to dispel the pessimism of the old sourdoughs, who bemoan the passing of the pioneer days. Alaska Is changing, he said, and with the con- struction of such a railroad as is by the government. the fu- ture will be merged rapidly into the present.
 Commissioner Riggs will leave for in a few days to begin, with his colleagues, the preparation of the report of the commission which spent the summer investigat- ing the various routes in the North.
 HONOR ALAskA's FRIEND.
 SEATTLE Nov. 19. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, who made convincing speech in favor of the construction of the Alaska railroad. at the time the railroad bill was pending before congress, will arrive here on Saturday. The Chamber of Commerce is arranging a banquet in honor of the visitor because of his efforts in behalf of Alaska.
 WOMEN COMING.
 SEATTLE Nov 19.-Mrs. c. T. Hatcher, of the Alaska branch of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, says that the holding of the 1915 convention in this city will mean much to Alaska. Many of the delegates, she says, are interested in the Northland, and will avail themselves of the oppor- tunity to visit Alaska while in the West.
 ERWIN IN WASHINGTON.
 TACOMA, Nov. 19.-A dispatch to the Ledger from Washington says that Marshal Erwin, of Fairbanks. arrived at the national capital this week for the purpose of conferring with officials of the department of justice on matters of a secret char acter. The dispatch states further