The daily Alaskan., 1915-06-14

will ioin the Midnight sun EN- cursIon" party to Ft Yukon, which will arrive in Skagway on the Mari posa Wednesday. All of the above people W" rst visit Atlin, leaving Caribou for there on the Cleaner tonight. Returning to Caribou they VII continue on to White horse, and from thence down the Yukon by boat to their different destinations.
 Up ito the close of the tourist season, the Canadian Pacific com pany will interchange southbound passengers who have come north on ,ther lines.
 Passengers holding through tickets from Sound points to points on the w. P. & Y. R., who have come by Pacific Coast or Alaskan steam ship company can have their tickets exchanged to return on Canadia4 Pacific Railways Prin- cess steamers or vice versa.
 The Dominion Royal Indian Com mission, composed of D. H. Me Dowell, J. J. MCKenna, A. M. Ty- son, J. s. McArthur and w. S. Simpson, left for Atlin this morn ing, and after looking into the con ditivn of the natives is that part of tEe counry will, if they have time, pay | visit to Whitehorse, al- though the Yukon territory is not within their jurisdiction. The party has engaged reservations for the trir south on the Mariposa, which is scheduled to leave Skagway on the 24th.
 The body of Ed. Bell, which was buried here yesterday morning, had sU go through enc of the most re- markdble funerals on record be- fore it was finally laid at rest. It was first packei thirty miles across county from Funny river, where Il ath toJk place, to Skilak lake. A gtretchRr had to be used for the work. On reaching Kenai river
 - relnains were lined fifteen miles up that stream. MT. Bells death was due to heart failure and was very sudden. He was engaged dip ping water from hole when seized with the fatal illuess.-Seward Gateway.
 A. N. Evans. agent of the Un- tied States Bureau of Education, has staked an Indian reservation about six miles square on Old Jimmy slough, on the Yukon some six miles above the mouth of the Koyu- kuk. It is the intention to en- courage the Indians in building separate houses for each family, with the object of eliminating the system of community houses which at present exists more or less gen eralIy. Regulations requiring sani- tatioD and cleanliness will also be formulated. The government agent in charge will be the only white man allowed on the reservation.
 Miss L. r. Ergenzinger, the Baptist missionary who spent sev- eyal days in Skagway recently be- fore leaving for the interior last week, wrote back to friends here that she had passed through the Yukcn territory without hindrance, ana that the Canadian immigration inspectors had shown her every courtesy while within their jurisdi:- ton. The present trip to the ir- terior Is Miss Ergenzinger' s first vacation in p years, the ruatUr part of that time having been spent in slum work in New York. Alter spending two months in Bet t!ea and Nolan, Alasia, she will go to St. Michael, where she will enter the service O. the govern ment as a missionary teacher to thu batiYes.
 Ms. w. F. Thatcher of Washing ton, D. C., national superintendent of w. c. T. U. work among sol disls and sailors, came in on the Spokane yesterday eLroute to the interior, and at the solicitation of Rev. L. H. Pedersen and tho mem- bers of the local w. c. T. U. last night delivered a very interesting address at the M. E. church along the lines of her work, in which she has been engaged for the past twenty years. In that time she has travelled oyer the greater part of the civilized globe, but her energies have been chiefly directed to the relief of the soldiers and