The Alaska daily empire., 1919-10-24


 The -four-yeaY-old daughter of c. E. Mckenzie of P. Burns and Company's Whitehorse meat market recently ac- cidentally fractured her skull at Van couyer, and was at the point of death when the last issue of the White horse Star went to press.
 J Mrs Winnifred Sharp or White horse has purchased the interest of John Zarnousky and Max Ross in the Silver Black Fox Company of that
 place and will become actively con nected with the management of the company. M
 I George E. Walker of Little Salmon
 was tried at Whitehorse for shooting with revolver at Capt. William Turnbull of the White Pass steamer
 Dawson, found guilty and fined $25 and costs, which were paid.
 Edwin Ernest Potter formerly a mine operator and all round influ- ential citizen of the Klondike, was decorated recently at Ottawa by the Prince of Wales with tho Military Medal and Bar and the Distinguished Conduct Medal for services in the war. Mr. Potter participated in many hard-fought battles, became his company Sergeant-Major, and was wounded. His wounds are still troubling him.
 A movement has been. started at Dawson for government owned con- centrators to be erected in the silver. lead mining area, as a means of as
 sisting prospectors and small mining operators to develop mining proper ties and claims in that district on : grounds it would be beneficial to tho whole of the Yukon Territory. Lorne Campbell, veteran of tho Great War and likewise veteran pros pector of the Klondike, said in an in terview at, Dawson, that he is pre- pairing to put in the winter develop
 ing claims which he holds in the fam. ous Indian river conglomeratcs, lying g miles south of Dawson. ..
 Capt J. w Troup, manager, and Capt. A. Slater. well known navig- : ator, of the Canadian Pacific, have endorsed tho recommendations or the Dawson Development League that the waters of the inside passage along the Alaska and British Colum- bia coast be made safe for navigation by the installation of needed aids. I The. Dawson News is urging that a school of ipstruction in minerology be instituted at Dawson. It declares !that prospectors was great deal Of and energy and money unless they go into the hills prepared Tor the work. s=,.l., ,s...ss .s...
 Mrs. Steinberger. a pioneer of Daw- son and the Klondike, where she bore three sons and has reared them to manhood, whose husband was vic tim of the Princess Sophia disaster, has gone to California, from where she went to the Klondike as Miss McGarvey 21 years ago. and where she will start her three sons at school. They arc all graduates of the Dawson High School, and desire to become mining, engineers It IS Mrs. .Steinherger's first trip to the outside. since she went to Dawson in 1898. Her eldest son is 1s and | tha youngest IA,
 Cant. Olaf Olsen, who has been a successful mining man anu note! proprietor in Dawson. for 2l years. and who is. ono; of the leading city property owners of that city, recent 1 iy left there for tour of the hot springs of the country in a battle against rheumatism. He intended to visit the Sitka Hot Springs. those at Harrison. B. C., Soap Lake, Wash |ington, Green Rivor. Washinston' Paso Robles, Cal. Hot Springs, Ark, and elsewhere. He Is 7s years old, but
 says he has many good years in him vet if he can boat rheumatism. Be fora going to Dawson he had won
 masters papers at. sea. He started as a sailor from his native Norway
 whsu l2 years Of age, was q master at 24 and commanded sailing vessels | for 24 years when he quit the ocean
 to become a minor. He prospered
 thero as he had before.
 I Tommy Doyle, early day hotel man aeer at Davsou, but for tho last few years miner at Chisana ana on bo- nanza creek in the Klondike. has opened the old Yukoaia hotel at Dawson. and has declared he will fin'
 ish as he started in tho north as a
 hotel manager st Dawson. 1 Fresh oystsrs in the shell at the Alaska Grill. s"s'