The daily Alaskan., 1915-03-23
LOCAL BRIEFS

The Dolphin is due in Skagway at 2:30 tomorrow morning with sev+ eral passengers and 50 tons of freight.
 Rev. L. Plamondon. o. NJ l., rec tor of the Catholic church at White horse, came over today on his way outside.
 Sergt. Maclaughlin, of the R, N. W. NJ. P. detachment at Whitehorse, came over today and will remain un- til Friday, when he will return.
 non't miss the lecture at the M. F. Church tomorrow night by Rev. L. H. Pedersen. The pro cecds are to be devoted to church purposes.
 The Princess Maqulnna will be in at [ o'clock tomorrow morning with 50 passengers and " tons Of cargo. She will sail south at s p. m.
 Mayor Dan Mcdonald. who came oyer from the story mine, near Peavy, on the eastern shore of Lake Bennett Friday, returned this morning.
 Mrs. Hoskins, Miss Kltchner, Miss Mclean and Mir. Condor, all of Dawson. came out from the in- terior today, and will leave for the outside on the Princess Maquin- na tomorrow.
 Geo. Anderson, the piano expert, who for some years past has come to Skagway sach spring and fall, will be at the Pullen House for a few days after the arrival of the City Of Seattle.
 Barney Swaniekamp of Carcross, who had been spending week in Skagway, and enjoying himself to the full after five years stay in the interior, left for home this morning.
 James Trainor, after giving his stomach a four days well-earned rest, and having it thoroughly re paired, left this morning for the Story mine on Lake Bennett to take another chance with Charley Arm strong's cooking.
 Glenn Brown of Redmond, Ore Son arrived on the Georgia Sln- day, apr left for Atlin, B. C., this morning, where it is his intention to open a first class barber shop. This Is his first trip to the north. The Dewey Cafe opened yesterday under the management ot Mrs. c Markle, formerly of the Robinson roadhouse between Carcross and Whitehorse. As the lady is a first class short order cook and well versed by experience in the res taurant business, We predict she will build up a profitable business ere she has been in Skagway long. D. A. Epsteyn, for the past seventeen years prominent in Junea business circles, died in Los An geles, Cal, last Thursday morning Of Bri~ht's didease, at the age of 56 years. MT. Epstevn left Seattle late in December, 1897, on the same vessel which brought Dr. l.. s. Kel- Ter to Skagway, and landed in Juneau on the 1st day of January. 1898. The dead man was a member of the Ma sonic lodge of Juneau, q Mystic Shriner and Scottish Rite Mason.
 Mrs. Cornelia TemplIton Hatch CT of Seward, Alaska, Is at present giving illustrated lectures on Alaska tn Southern Oregon towns that are attracting much attention and drawing crowded houses. Mrs. Hatcher will be in Skagway about .he middle of May to conduct the meetings of the first territorial con vnntion of the Alaska branch of the W. c. T. U., announced to take place here on the 18th and 14th of that month.
 In our hobbledhoy days there was at one period a popular song go- ing the rounds entitled, "I Cannot Sing the Old Songs" the rendition Of which always caused tears of sympathy to flow down our cheeks, but even when we were in that maudlin state the refrain never created in our minds a desire to listen to the Song of the Mos quito," nor reconciled us to the near presence of it's author. The mosquito, however, like the pussy willow, is said to be a hamburger of spring, and being so that delightful reason of the year mast be close at