Winnipeg. —Mayor Deacon tra velled to his office at the city hall one morning last week in’ Scotty’’ Smith’s dog-sled, which called for the Mayor at his residence. At the city hall “‘Scotty’’ was given a letter to the Mayor of New York, which he is to deliver on his arrival in the second largest city in the world. Smith and his dogs started on the long journey over the snow-covered roads between here and New York on the same day. This is not the first time Mayor Deacon has travelled in this man ner, he having driven many miles himself behind dogs in his younger days.