The Daily Alaska empire., 1948-07-29

rived on the George Washington and started hiking on the Skyline Trail. She camped at the foot of AB Mountain Thursday evening and Friday went to Dyea where the homesteaders there talked with her and tried to persuade her to return to Skagway. She told them that she was a writer-that an aunt q hers had made the trip over the Chilcoot Pass in the Gold Rush Days and that she had decided to retrace those footsteps. She was poorly equipped for any trip all though she insisted that she was used to outdoor life. She carried no bedding, a AS but no shells, a type writer, no knife, two cans of milk and one package of K-rations. When she refused to listen to all advise oAio oCe OuI Oil Jllc u uh to ehC oSo several individuals notified the
 mounties to be on the outlook for
 her at the Summit. No report of her
 whereabouts has been made. How
 evNer, Sunday morning a forest fire
 broke out on the Dyea side of AB
 Mountain. and swept down the
 mountainside. This is thought to
 nave started from her camp fire. Regardless of fire warnings be- cause of the extreme dryness some camper left a picnic fire smoldering at Richardson's Landing Saturday evening with the result that the west side of that point has been
 completely burned over The half of quonset hut that Edward Ka- lenkosky moved over there short time ago to make into summer
 home for his family was completely destroyed. I.le road crew fought the fire all day Monday.
 Mrs. Hans Soldin, MT. and Mrs. John Dodge, $. Skatf and John
 Burnham made the trip to Denver Glacier Monday, July 19.
 Sunday, July, Sgt. and Mrs. Bill Blym of Haines arrived in a small outtoard motor hoat to spend the day visiting Cpl. and Mrs. Jack Rlenkinsop. They left at ' pm. to return to Haines. When a call came at 11:30 pm. that they had not reached home Cpl. Blenkinsop, Sgt. c. Dolby, Cpl. E. Medcalf and Mir. Morgan Reed went to look for them. They found them in small cove
 where they had been forced to land because of heavy seas. The rescue party tock them home to Haines, ate an early breakfast, and returned to Skagway.
 A movement is on foot to organize an All-City Bowling League. Local stores plan to back individual teams of four It is planned that each bac- ker will purchase shirts for it's team. It is expected that the League be in action in the early fall.
 Mrs. Al Nelson of Dyea is vis- tor in town this week She has sold the Blanchard Home on Third and Alaska to her son, Gordon Blan- chard. MT. and Mrs. Blanchard and their small son have moved into the house which was the Blanchards boyhood home.
 While putting his office in order the City Clerk has placed several very interesting books on the desk One contains the minutes of the first
 meeting of the Common Council oi
 the City of Skagway on Monday
 August 1, 1898. John Standish was f the acting chairman and Thoma! Whitten the acting recretary. Tho other book is a record o1
 deaths and on two of the pages art these items:
 Skagway July g, 1898: Jeffersor R. Smith: Cause of death -gunshot
 Body buried in Skagway Cemetery
 July 15,1898.
 On the opposite page is: Skagway, July 20. 1898, Franl
 Reed, Cause of death-gunsho
 wound, July g, 1898; Date of death
 July 20, 1898; Date of burial, Jul.
 22, 1898; Died at Bishop Rowe Hos
 pital.
 The planes continue to bring il
 cargo's to delight some of Skag
 ways children. During the weel
 Mir. and Mrs. George Nelson re.
 ceived 100 baby chicks by plane
 These are keeping their smal
 daughter Ethel Mae very busy. On Sundays plane two month
 old chesapeake pup arrived from the
 George Lake Kennels in Mimmesota to be the playmate of the three
 Kalenkosky children. They have poned tha nm Dvea Queen.