The daily Alaskan., 1915-05-06
Wnn. Britt
A, easolins Engagement,

A. NNdGS4AAS 4AaaeS NA4~Sg laugh provoking comedy, in which will be featured Mary Pick ford, the worlds greatest moving picture actress, will De the attrae- tIon at the Nugget movies tonight and tomorrow night.
 MT. and Mrs. Emil Richter were made happy by the arrival at their home this morning at 3 o'clock Of a beautiful baby girl. Dr. Gabie' attending physician, reports Mrs. Richter and the little stranger as getting along very nicely.
 ". S. Watson, storekeeper at Whitehorse for the B. Y. N Co.,, came over yesterday to see his wife and children, who accompanied him to Skagway, off on the Maquinna last night enroute to Montreal, Can ada, on a visit. Mir. Watson will return to Whitehorse tomorrow.
 E. J. Liddicoat received a so- were bruise Cn his right arm yeS- terday forenoon when he fell from a ladder on which he was working at the home of P. II. Ganty, Sixth street, between State and Main. While able to be around MT. Lid dicoat cannot use his arm since the accident without suffering con siderable pain.
 Chas. Fors, while working on the new dock of the w. r. & Y. R. yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock, accidently cut himself cn the right ankle with d carpenters adze, caus- ing quite 9 severe wound. He was ct once hurried to thu w. P. hos pital where he received attention from Dr. Gable and is now getting along as well as could be epXected'
 Dan Murphy, who arrived in Skagway about two weeks ago on one of the boats, and has since been on a continuous druIk and making of himself a public nuisance, was arrested yesterday by Deputy U. s. Marshal Frank Cook and taken before Commissioner Martin Con- way, who assessed a $25 fine againt him, which he is now serY- ing out in the federal jail.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Fl. sherman and their young son returned to Skag- way yesterday after several months absence in WhitehorsG where, un- til it was closed down last fall, he was employed in the Pueblo mine. Mir. Sherman is going to work on the new dock of the w. P. & Y. R. The family has moved into the H. B. LeFevre cottage on Second street, between Main and Alaska.
 S. c. Hunter, of the Hunter Arms O., of Syracuse, N. Y, who reach ed Haines recently from the East, told a fellow passenger on the way north on the boat that he was expecting a telegram to reach him on his arrival at his destination in Alaska, informing him that his com pany had secured a s1,500,0OO con tract from the French government for the furnishing O. rifles to that country.
 Word comes from Whitehorse that Capt. S. c. Harrington, manager of the sidestreams Navigation Co. of Dawson, took down the $500 pool that had been made in the Yukon metropolis and was to be awarded the meember making the nearest guess as to the hour of the going cut of the ice in the Yu- kon river in front of that city, which event occurred at o'clock on the afternoon of May 4th.
 Rev. Chas. K. NicolI, who has been in charge of the Presbyterian church at WhitetDrsC for some time, but resigned his pastOrate last week, came over yesterday to Skagway and left on the Princess MaQuinna last night or his way to his old home in EdlDboro, Scot land. From the local C P. R. of flce, before his departure, he ar ranged for reservations over the railway to New York and from thence on the AIissanabie, the mag nificent new ocean liner Of that company, to Liverpool.
 It is not generally known that We have an author iu embryo in the popular mail clerk ol: the steam ship Spokane, MT. H. R. Andrews, whose narrow escape from death