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Speed,
Service
Safety.
During the winter season of 1913-14 our regular train service
will be maintained North and South boiitd between Skaguay
and White Horse, every T uesday and Friday.
Winter Stage Service
between White Horse aud Huvsou will be In regular operation
affording our patrons t»• • maximum of Comfort and Safety.
The White I'ass & Yulcm Koute will maintain an efficient
freight and passenger stagt service from White Horse, Yukou
Territory, via Lake Kluano to the
Chisana Gold Fields
This Ls the only safe and sane route to tte new diggings, and
we will gladly answer all inquiries. We will also operate a
freight service up the White H'.ver and carry a full line ot
g-ocer:.^ and feed at mouth of White River. These supplies
can "oe obtained by prospectors at reasonable prices.
For full information apply to
H. Wheeler,
Sunt. Mail Service Dept.,
White Horse, Y. T.
J. E. Dempsey,
Traffic Manager,
613 Second Ave., Seattle.
Tha WhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 82.
Tuesday and Friday.
No. 1 .X. Bound
Is: class
8:30 a. m,
11:00 "
11:40 "
12:35 p. in.
2:00 "
4:13
SKACUAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WH1TEHOKSE
P; 3seugers must be at depots 1h time t» have Baggage inspectt J
and cl ecked. Inspection U stopped SO minutes before leaving time cf
trains.
liO pounds of baggage will be cheeked free with each full fare
ticket a»d 75 pouuda with each half fare ticket.
Leaves
Arrives
No. a 8. Bound
lbt class
Arrives 3:20 p. m.
Leaves 1:45 "
" 12:47 "
" 12:15 "
" 10:25 a. m.
Leaves 8:15 "
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—Regulations June I. 1913—
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horses. Mules and Cattle 75 c per head. Sheep and Hogs*25c per head.
Lumber $1.00 per Thousand feet. Board Measure.
All checked Baggage 25c per pice.
No Wharfage Chage on Baggage Unchecked.
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The manager of the Sloan Detective
agency pressed a button as lie hung
up the telephone receiver.
"Send Birch in," he ordered as a
shock headed office hoy appeared.
"Yes. sir."
Almost Instantly the door opened to
admit u broad slumldered young man,
alert of manner, with keen gray eyes
and resolute mouth.
"You wish to see me. Mr. Sloan?" he
asked.
The other nodded. "Sit down there.
I sny. Hob. there's been another one of
those confounded murders. It's Hin
man. the banker, this time."
"Josiah riinman?" Hirch's eyebrows
went up "Our greatest philanthropist
and the most Uarmless of men! What
are the details, sir?"
"Oh. same as the other three. He
was found murdered in his bed this
morning. Poors of the house locked,
no signs of windows being tamjiered
with, servants all old retainers, not an
enemy in the world that we know
about, and yet found dead by his
valet."
-now was It done?"
"In just the same manner as Fllck
inger. the railroad king, and P.enson.
who was. as you remember. I'liekin-J
ger's right hand man stabbed through
the heart with a dagger of foreign
make. I'm going up there, and I want
you to conic on with me."
"You know I'd like n- thing better."
returned the other eagerly. "Mr. Ulti
ma n was very kind to me when I was
a boy. Fie gave me my tirst chance In
the world "
"I know. He's helped a lot of other
people too fie was a flue old chap j
SAW FOOTPRINTS IN TflE DCST.
Funny bow they've picked out tliree
men all interested in tlie IB. M. rail
road. I've no doubt rlie same gang
turned the three tricks."
"There wasn't a clew In the other
two cases." mused Birch ns the man- ,
ager's automobile stopped before a j
bandsome stone house on the finest
avenue of the small city.
in five minutes they were in the
death chamber pf the mansion and
Sloan was rapping out ijuestions to the
agitated valet faster than the mm *
could find replies. When the interview ,
was concluded they were not much
wiser than before.
"I have not touched a thing, nor has
the doctor." ended Blunt fearfully, "lie ;
must bnvo been asleep, for the papers
were folded on the bedside table, as
was his custom, and the light was out.
although the murderer might have done
that."
"Very true." said Sloan. "Now. my
uiau. if yon will leave us alone"—
Blunt weu! out and closed the door,
and the two detectives were left alone
In the room from which Mr. Hinman's
body bad been removed a short while
after their arrival. The two men had
diligently searched the luxurious apart
ment aud after that every room in the
bous-e. and now they stood silently re
garding the only clew at hand.
The slender. Moot] stained dagger.
"What data have you concerning the
Flickinger and the Benson cases?" ask
ed Sloan.
Birch referred to his memorandum
book.
"The most important is that I learn
ed that four men who had been
discharged by the railroad company
bad threatened harm to Mr. Flickin
ger and his secretary. I could find no
trace of these men. It was said that
one of them was really a titled foreign
er down on his luck, that he had pass
ed through all the phases of good and
bad fortune and he had failed to make
good."
"I guess he's the man we're after,"
said Sloan. "What name?"
■"Van Benjidck."
"You're searched every room In the
house, Birch?"
"Yes, and had a man to take records
of all finger prints. 1 say every room
in the house. There's one place I've
been through, and I've a notion to go
there again. Come with me."
Sloan followed Birch through the
hall and up a flight of stairs to the
third floor, where there were several
bedchambers and a billiard room un
der the mansard roof. From the pas
sage a door led into an open attic that
ran across the back of the house. A
window at the back overlooked the
wing containing the servants' quarters,
and overhead was a trapdoor leading
to the roof. A narrow ladder led to
the trapdoor.
From the doorway where they stood
they could see that the dust of the
door was untracked near the window,
and any hope that the murderer might
have gained the roof of the wing and
entered the bouse by the attic window
was at once dispelled.
Suddenly IUrchtouched hlschief's arm.
"I.ook there, sir!" be whispered.
Sloan bent bis keen eyes to the floor
and saw the trace of footprints in the
dust. Some oue had passed from the
ladder to the passageway and goue
back again. Instantly Birch had made
a detour so as not to disturb the tell
tale marks with his own boots and he
was up the ladder and was lifting the
tra pdoor.
"Unfastened, sir." he reported; "evi
dently pried up from the roof—lock
brokeu."
He passed up ou to the roof, and
Sloan followed.
The large expanse of flat, tinned roof
was surrounded by a fanciful iron rail
ins: In one place the railing had dis
appeared. There was a gap of per
haps fifteen feet. Birch crept to the
edge of the roof and peered over.
"Funny thing." he commented; "that
iron railing is down ou the ground
there- looks as though It had recently
fallen Let's have Blunt up here." He
fi ti Ind the valet, and the two detec
tives pointed out the broken railing to
the astonished servant
"But. sir." he protested. "I am sure
it was not brokeu yesterday, because
the gardener would have removed it
He cut the grass yesterday and cleaned
up the yard thoroughly. You see. It
has fa lieu directly underneath the li
brary windows, and some of It sticks
right up in the turf."
"You heard no sound in the night
you are sure?"
"I am sure. sir. I sleep In the wing
yonder, and at the head of my bed is
a bell that connects with Mr. Hin
man's room. One of the servants In
the house next door was coming home
from a party very late last night or
early this morning, and she declares
she saw a big blackbird hovering over
this house. She is very superstitious,
sir. and I suppose she's imagined that
since hearing of the murder.'"
"Very likely." said Sloan in a pecul
iar tone, and his eyes met those of his
young assistant with a significant
glance. "Thank you. Blunt. That will
do for the present."
When the valet had disappeared
down the trapdoor Birch dropped to
his knees aud made a searching ex
amination of the roof. In the slight
layer of dust some clew might be
found.
"It's here, sir"—he looked up with a
smiling face—"the tracks of the 'big
blac kbird.' And the discovery reveals
how the other two murders were com
mitted."
Sloan knelt down beside mm ana
watched the movement of Birch's fin
gers ;<s he pointed out the trucks made
by tho rubber tired landing wheels of
an aeroplane. When the machine had
made ils departure it had carried away
fifteen feet of the ornamental railing
from the roof.
"Find a foreigner who answers to
the description of Van Benjidck. If
he is a skilled aviator he's your man,"
was Sloan's decision.
"You remember that the residence of
Mr Flickingor is of this same type
flat roof and so forth?" questioned
Birch as they returned to the office.
"I remember, and I also recollect
that Thumus Benson lived at the Hotel
Batweli. and his room was in the an
nex. a flat roofed wing.
Once in the office Sloan picked up
the afternoon edition of a New York
newspaper. Suddenly he uttered a
sharp exclamation and pointed to a
glaring headline on the front page.
"Vnu won't have to look any further,
Birch: Your man's found and lost
gone to his reward! Listen to this:
" 'Another daring aviator met death
early this morning in some unknown
manner. Kudolf Benjidck. well known
as a fearless tiler, was found crushed
to death under the body of his heavy
aeroplane on the grounds of the Broad
brook Country club. It is not known
at what moment or under what circum
stances Benjidck met his death, but it
is supposed that be was trying out the
big machine which he recently pur
chased. Al- investigation is being
made into the matter." "
Cobert Birch bad arisen and was but
toning his coat.
"I'll be there at that investigation,"
he said grimly.
Two days afterward he returned to
the office with a chain of evidence that
left no doubt that the unlucky aviator
had been the murderer of the three
men. whom be believed had worked
him harm. The shoes he had worn cor
responded in every detail with the foot
prints found in the attic of the Hia
man house, and in his pockets were
found not only Mr. Hinman's jewelry,
but diamonds that were afterward
identified as the property of James
Flickinger
There wits nothing left to do in the
matter. Retribution had overtaken the
murderer before he could make use of
his guilty gains. The "big blackbird"
had proved a bird of evil omen to him.
KL f ' 1
SERIATi NO. 01003.
APPLICATION TO A1A1U5 llOMJfr
STEAD KATKV.
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Al
aska, October 13, 1913.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN- thai
Simon Jacob WeJtzman whose post
office address is Haines, Alaska, hua
applied to en tar under Sec. 2289 of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, and of the Act of March 3,
1903, the following described tra-jt
of land as a nomestead, said tract
o land being situated about 1 mile
northerly from the Indian Village
of Kluckwan, Alaska, and more par
ticularly descn >ea as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 209, bears
N 8° 63'iE 36 Iks. dist. and
from which a witness Cor. bear
East 58 Iks. a stone marked
S 991 W C 1, M. C., thence
meandering the eastern bank of the
Chilkat River S20°27'E (Variation
40" IE) 2.75 ens. S21°45'E 11.79
ens. S25C33'E 4.84 chs. S62°29' n
2.90 chs. S49"18'E 3.16 chs. S35°
4S'E 5.10 chs. S35°20'E 7.60 chs.
S15°39'E 1.86 chs. to Cor. No. 2
M. C., from whitn a witness Cor.
bears East 72 Iks. a stone marked
S991 W. C. 2 M. C., thence East
(Varlatipn 34" Eaet) 3.40 chs. cen
ter or road, 19.72 chs. Cor. No. 3,
a stone marked S991, C 3, thence
North (Variation 33° East) 33.43
chs. to Cor. No. 4, a stone marked
S991, C. 4 thence West (Variation
33° East) 40.00 Chs. to Cor. No. 1
the place of beginning, Area 103.t»7
Acres. Survery No. 991.
Any and All persons claiming ad
versely any portion of the above de3
cribed tract are required to file with
the Register and Receiver of the
IJ. S. Land Ofrice at Juneau their
adverse claim ther against under
oath, during the period of the pub
lication of this notice, or within
thirty days thereafter or they will
be barred by provision of the stat
ute.
Simon Jacob Weitzinan.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice bo published for the
statutory period in The Skagway
Daily Alaksan, a newspaper of gen
circulatlon, published at Skagway,
Alaska. Date of first publication
November 1, 1»13„ Date of Last
Publication, Jauuar 10, 1914.
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