(Dr. Truholtz is acting Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A. Ft. Egbert). Mrs. French, & Mrs. VanHook: Miss Thompson and Cora, & Mrs Wickersham & I. We had a royal good dinner & plenty of good cheer: music &c. During dinner received telegram from Forty Mile, saying that Mr & Mrs Orr are on Clifford Sifton & that the boat would arrive at 11.30.p.m. After May [previous word struck through] supper (or dinner rather) went to the courthouse & waited for boat; at 11:30 it arrived, the first steamer for 6 months to appear at our levee; the Tacoma crowd was surprisingly large: Mr & Mrs Orr and son: Richard Roediger, Ed. "Dawson News": R. J. Davis, Charles E. Taylor, C. B. Zabreska[?] Mrs. Lockwood, Mr & Mrs. Crawford. We took them in & gave them lunch & did best we could to entertain them. About 3 oclock, Mrs. W & Mrs. Orr went to bed & Orr, Davis & I, made a bed on the floor with robes & slept until 7 oclock. They rema
