The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-11-18
HARDSHIPS OF
 NORTH ENDURED BY A CHECHACO


 taken from a Sunset magazine rela- tive to the hardships endured by special writer during her trip in All aska is far fetched. IL is hardly possible to picture the raging stream thru which she made her trip in canoe to Brooks. Her penetration" to a point AZ miles north of the Arc tic Circle farther than any white woman ever went-must have been made with the aid of a Rand-Mc- Nally Atlas. White women have been living at Wiseman, in the Koyukuk, for several years and that is several degrees north of the circle.
 The hat-the hat-episode probably is magnified by distance as the trip to Brooks is easily made by stage. dog team or other means of convey. ance. While Miss Wagner may have had the title queen" bestowed upon her 1t was not for "mushing" miles along the trail. To the best of geo. graphical knowledge the Arctic Cir cle is in the vicinity of Fort Yukon, at which place the northernmost bank of the Yukon river is. Miss Wagner arrived in the interior of Alaska in the summer time when trail mushing and dog team travel do not jibe. The story must have become badly pied" during the course of It's construction. To a true northerner-it is to laugh. The ar ticle follows:
 Cathrine Wagner, a twenty-year old girl who travelled from Seattle, Wash ington, to point forty-two miles within the Arctic Circle, accompanied only by an Indian guide, is believed to have established record for pene. trating farther north in the interior of Alaska than any other white wo- man.
 "Mush" is the Alaskan equivalent of our word "hike." and a hiker, ac- cordingly. is a musher. "Musher Queen" is the title given Miss Wag- her in the North.
 AS a member of Professor Frank Kane's class in journalism at the University of Washington, Miss Wag- ner had ,.4aifferent' ideas. When an assignment was given the class, all of the ether girls set to work to write a movie scenario or a love- story of the girl-With-sprained-ankle and the Dougfairbanks hero. but she preferred to go where bridge was being butt and write up the engineer ing processes involved. She was the only girl in the class who wrote technical articles, and she did that so well that when the editor of the AL aska.Northwest Mining Journal asked Professor Kane to recommend some one to cover" big Alaska assign ment he received a shock. Instead of selecting one of the young men of the class, the educator introduced the as- tonished editor to an attractive Titan haired young woman with cool gray eyes and the boise of one twice her years. A contract was entered upon at once and Miss Wagner sailed from Vancouver for Skagway.
 If there were any misgivings in the girls mind after setting out upon this hazardous undertaking they gave way to a new determination when a mining prosvector bet her a $150 hat (Fairbanks, Alaska, priceD that she couldn't make good. That settled 1t. She had to go on!
 To win the hat she was to mush 164 miles over trail that took her far within the Arctic Circle at time of year when no white woman thinks of undertaking even a short journey through that region because of dan gerous swamps. Her destination was a quartz location which she was to write up for her magazine. With an Indian guide furnished by Catholic priest-and thoroughly trustworthy she began the long journey with a sled and team of ten Yukon mala- mutes (sledge dogs), who broke the