The Alaska daily empire., 1916-05-10
BRIDE ENJOYED TRIP OVER LEAGUES or ICE
 iN THE FAR NORTH

| UNILNNEMhNpb NNA"AAAo NNNtANtAtNh~ F"@ fur center of the world, and thence across tho barren tundras from Kiona to cordoya by dog team, thence back to Seattle by steamship Is the bridal Journey which Mr. and Mrs Sam lMagids finished yesterday, the first lap on tho steamship Northwestern, says the Seattle Times of May 8. They brought with them six fine malamute dogs.
 Mrs. Magids. who Is a sister of q. A. Berger, a prominent mining man of Alaska and Nevada, was married year ago. Her husbanr is the own CT of several trading stations in the Far North. They left Seattle for the Arctic last spring and spent the summer and part of the winter at Riana, many hundreds of miles north of Nome
 Early in March they decided 10 re- turn to Seattle, and left Kiana for the Koyukulz River, a tourney of sey- eral hundred miles through uninhab- tied territory, and across treeless plains and blizzard-swept snow fields They had three teams of dogs, Mr. and Mrs. MagIds each driving one, the third being driven by an Eski- mo. For the first ten days they camped out in tents. but on reaching the Alatna river tributary of the Koyulkuk. they found a cabin in which they rested for two days,
 Pitched Tent In Snow.
 Pitching a tent out in the open snow fields. with the wind whistling around, has It's inconveniences," said Mrs. Magids this morning, "but a trip like the one we have just taken also has It's compensations. We en- joyed 1t immensely"
 The nervy little woman looks the picture of health, md 90 does her husband
 From the Alatna river they ram- bled down to the Koyukuk, and final ly reached the meager civilization afforded by Fort Gibbons. an army post on the Yukon. Here they d. vided the teams. sending the native back with twelve of the dogs. With two teams of six dogs each they mushed Into Fairbanks and from there to Cordova by way of chitina at which place they gave away six of the dogs and took the train to Cordova.
 Kiana. the trading post where they spent part of their honeymoon. Is on Squirrel river. a tributary of the Kobuk. There are fifty white minors and trappers in the district and a horde of Eskimos. Mrs. Magids was the only white woman. She is booster for the North.
 "The people up there are the fin est that ever drew breath" she said, "and it is really a wonderful coun- try. We are going back this sum- mer, as soon as the first boat leaves" " Her one regret seemed to be that they would not be back In time to watch the geese and ducks come in from the south for their summer nesting.
 Decides To Make Trip
 It was suggested that the trip across hundreds of miles of unbrok- en trail in the Arctic was rather a hard one for woman to take.
 "Oh, not at all l enjoyed every minute of it," she said emphatically. "I never did any mushing before. It's "a new experience. One gets so fond of the dogs One finds them much like human folks if one stu dies them for a while.
 "A lot of our dogs were puppies, None of them had ever seen Q horse before, and 1t was really funny to see them an take to the brush when they saw horse for the first time at Fort Gibbon. They were more afraid of that horse than horse is when he sees his first automobile'
 The Arctic bred dogs did not work as well when the reached the com paratively warmer latitude of Fair banss-a place where the weather was only about a dozen degrees be- low zero It was little too warm for them, SO from that point on they travelled by night. when the weather was cooler. Mrs. Magids says the season at Klana was good one-the white miners took a lot of gold out of Squirrel river and the natives made splendid catches of furs
 Tells Of "Mystery Man.7
 She says that Deming Wheeler the mystery man of the North, came to Kiana last winter and re- mained there few days. Then he journeyed on towards the Mckenzie river Wheeler is a member of a wealthy Indian family, who has spent several years driving dogs in Alaska and hunting for amusement He has killed practically every kind Of animal known in Alaska.
 MT. and Mrs. Magids are the guests of Mir and Mrs. Berger at 5S5 Sev- ,.,4,o,+t North Avnnua North They