THE WHITE PASS 8
-111 BOH =
! The
Route of
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety.
During the winter season of 1913-14 our regular train service
will be maintained North and South boui_d betweeB Skaguay
and White Horse, every Tuesday and Friday.
Winter Stage Service
between White Horse aui! D nvson will oe in regular operation
affording our patrous th- maximum of Comfort and Safety.
The White Pass & Yukon Koute will ma«ntaln an efficient
freight and passenger stag* service from White Horse, Yukou
Territory, via Lake Kluane to the
Chisana Gold Fields
This is the only safe and sane route to tue new diggings, and
we will gladly answer all inquiries. We will also operate a
frel^t service up the White River and carry a full lin« of
S-ooeri<*» and feed at mouth of White River. These supplies
can be obtained by prosp ectors at reasonable prices.
For full Information apply to
H. Wheeler,
Supt. Mail Service Dept.,
White Horse, Y. T.
J. E. Dcmpsey,
Traffic Manager,
6ia Second Ave., Seattle.
TheWhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME T.1BUE Xo. 32.
Tuesday and Friday.
No. 1 Ji. Bound
1st class
8:3t a. ni. I eayea
11:00 "
11:40 "
12:&> p. m.
2:0-» "
4:15 " Arrives
SKAGUAY
WHITE PASS
LOG CABIN
BENNETT
CARIBOU
WHITEHOKSE
No. 3 8. Bound
lbt class
Arrives 8:20 p. m.
Leaves 1 :-15 "
" 12:47 "
M 12:15 "
" 10:25 a. ni.
leaves 8:15 "
^aasensers must be at depota la time t» have Baggage Inspected
and checked. Inspection U stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of
trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full far*
ticket aad 75 pouadi with each half tare ticket.
» f WHARFINGERS AND
Irloor© s Wnarr warehousemen
Phones 11 or 123]
All Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Wharf
—Regulations June 1. 1913—
Warehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
—Wharfage Tariff—
Genera! merchandise $1.00 per ton. Weight or measurement.
Horses, \lule3 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 pie<-e.
No Wharfage Charge on Baggage Unchecked.
COAL CAN BE HAD THROUGH THE WHARF AS'HERETOFORE
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At Ail
First
Class
Bars
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Juneau, - Alaska
OLDEST BANK IN (ALASKA
Respectfully Solicits The Accounts
of Skagway Firms And^Individuals.
Mystery of
<rt
il
It Was Not Solved by
Detective Wcik -
\ .
By MARGARET STEARNS
la a!l my experience of twenty
years in the detective business 1 never J
had a ease involving more ingenuity
and deep laid planning than the rob
bery or the safe in the dwelling of
Mr. Ocorge A. Tourtelotte. 1 was
sent to the gentleman's house one
morning by my chief i.i.d found him
in a very uncomfortable state of mind.
Money had disappeared fio;n his safe,
when* he had kept what valuables
these wore in the house, iind he assum
j eii t i;:i some one who lived there must
| have been the thief, for the safe was
an ohl one. opened not by a combina
tion. Mil ';y one of those little keys
witl* icotb such as are used for the
private '■>" >c - of safety deposit com
panies.
Mr. Tourtelotte. who was very rich,
("id not ease so much for the money
lost as the discovery that he had a
th' »f aiu the itioniL **rx of his house
hold. a IS tiieor.v of the robbery was
that soi:- > eve had cone into his sleep
in:. room iu eight, stolen his bunch of
keys, among which vva» the key of
the sate. imevfeed the safe, taken the
tinili> and lettiinert the key to the
pine whence u lad beeu taken.
liIs theory :li<l not s.-.tisfy me. be
cause the thief would not have been
!ii. iy to retii: u the U' Mr. Tourte
lotte evidently considered me very
stupid. tleci j.' t!..ii, il the thief were
a mein'r-r of his household, not to re
turn the key to the p:aco from which
it huO i tal.-n w- ulil he to prove
upmost i '■>.il lusively that he was a
member of the household. Hut Mr.
Tourtelotte was accustomed ro lock
and bolt his bcdr.'o.u door jn retiring.
Before I start-d on m> investiga
tions Mr To :rte!otte informed me that
one of the members of Irs family was
a governess, a young Indr who had
copje lo L.im with the ver.. best cf tve
ounneml. tions. fie h id on several oc
casion? ;;ivon !ier the key io the safe
when certain articles, such as silver
ware for the table, were wanted, and
"im US liLOfX AT THE BOTTOM."
sl:e was the only one'oi'tsido of his j
wife and children who bad ever han
dled the key. No servant on atif ac
coc.it was permitted to do so.
My habit has always been to pay at- i
tos.t;. u tu every suj/Sesliua. aud I en- ,
teretl this information in my cental |
iioielijo.:. but I rely so confidently ou
my beinjr able to teM 1>> instinct a
guilty froji an innocent person as to
discredit sin aecuxition against any
on:- uy : er>-eptive ' icuit. declares in
nocent The governess. Miss Martin,
did not even appear to realise that she
was in a position to be suspected.
It bup.'ia.ii C. that tl t-re was no clew
for me to work upon except what I
could pet from Mr Totrteiotte himself,
nnti. his s;.-!)iclons h -ins !>eou fixed
on Miss Martin. his mind was so taken
up with this solution thai there was
no room ir if. for anything else. But I,
who b id investigated fur indications
of an entrauce into the bouse, had
learned that on the ni?I»t of the rob
bery a window over a trellis bod been
left unlocked, and. tlionp'i this did not
prove that the thief had come from j
without, it indicated that he mi^ht,
have done so
After learning all there was to be
Irarneo so far as I could see about the
case 1 h"d absolutely noiUinp to work j
ou. 1 do not remember to have been i
ever so completely buttled. Usually I '
have found some clew, even if it led j
me on a false scent, but ic Lbis case
there no clew at all. I therefore
said to Mr. Tourtelotte:
"There is some information about
this case that has not co:ue to me
Let us begin at the bottom. Tell me
of every time you can remember of
your safe key having left your keep
in? and vlio has bad it"
lie racked his brain for some time,
then said:
•There is only one time that the key
has been out of my hands atd pone
into other hands, and then only for a
minute at most. The circumstance
could not have had any possible con
nection with this robberv "
"Tell mo what yon refer to."
"About two weeks ago I was travel
Ins to a parlor car. A gentleman hav
ing the next chair to me took up a
suit case and, on putting his hand Into
his pocket for the key. found that he
had left It at home. He seemed very
much annoyed, saying he had some
papers in his suit case It was essential
that he look over before reaching his
destination. He was a lawyer and as
soon as he arrived must try a case in
court to which the papers referred.
A gentleman sitting in the chair on
the opposite side of the aisle offered
him his key ring with a number of
keys on it that he might see if any of
them would Ut the lock. He tried them
all, but found noue of them availably.
«-perhaps.' said the man who had
loaned the keys, 'this geutleman'—re
ferring to me—"has a key that will
serve your purpose."
"1 handed him my key ring, and he
tried all the keys on it, but without
effect"
"Mr. Tourtelotte." 1 said. "I am in
clined to think that this episode may
have some connection with the rob
bery."
"Will you'kiudly explain bow?"
"I assume that the key of your safe
was on the ring."
"It was."
"Were your eyes on your keys every
moment they were lu the other's pos
session ?"
"No. Uis buck was toward me
when he wa3 trying them."
I sat pondering for awhile before
saying anything more.
"I fear." i said at last, "that I shall
have to give up the case. There is a
possibility that some game was played
on you by this man to whom you loan
ed your keys, but to tind him would be
Impossible Besides. It would require
all the ingenuity of a Hrst class modern
detective story writer to show how a
chance momentary loan of keys on a
train couid result In money disappear
ing from your safe without that safe
having been forced open."
"Why do you decline to suspect Miss
Martin?"
"Ul'CUUSe NHL* 1*119 11 »L"IJ
face, and it would be Impossible for
ber to carry such n secret without be-,
trnying It. Moreover. I bave perfect
conlidouce !n my ability to tell a rogue
froui an innocent person by looking
into the «ye.''
"Very well, sir: since you acknowl
edge your inability to ferret out the
matter you are welcome to retire
from it"
I learned afterward that he employ
ed another detective, who worked on
the lines he Indicated, and Miss Mar
tin was kept under surveillance. But
she wa3 never known to spend a cent
that she could not afford to spend, and
no clew was found against her. 1 met
her on the street one day. and she rec
ognized me as having been at the house
where she was employed Immediately
after the robbery. She told me that
Mr. Tourtelotte had dispensed with
her services, but she did not know
why. 1 did not enlighten her. Before
I left her ! entered her new address
in my notebook in accordance with my
habit of keeping the addresses of per
sons In any way counectod with my
cases.
There was a special reason which 1
did not know .at the time why Mr.
Tourtelotte wished to fix the robbery
of his safe on Miss Martin. He had a
son whom he suspected of being in
love with her. He informed that son.
Edgar, that he was convinced that
Miss Martin was a thief, but since he
could not prove It he made no charge.
But. not desiring to bave one whom he
did not trust a member of his house
hold. he had sent her away.
This was the first Edgar Tourtelotte
knew of his father's suspicions. lie
came at once to me to hear what 1
knew about the matter. 1 told him
that I hnd no suspicion whatever of
Miss Martin; on the contrary. I was
sure that she was an Innocent girl.
This pleased him very much, and he
begged me to try again to discover
the miilty person, agreeing to pay me
for any time I spent in doing so. 1
told him that, not being one of those
detectives who could work up a case
from a scratch on a wall or the stump
of a cigar. I would not undertake to
work up one in which I had no clew
whatever. 1 added that I believed his
father's safe had been robbed by a pro
fessional criminal and there was a pos
sibility that at some future time an
explanation might/Come out by some
crook in limbo.
The lovers were In time relieved by
Just such an explanation. It came to
roe lu a roundabout way. A lot of
us detectives were sitting together one
evening swapping yarns when one of
tb? party told that a crook who had
given him samples of his ingenuity
related the following with great pride:
He had marked a rich man for his
quarry and noticed that he left the
suburb in which he lived every morn
ing by a 'certain train for the city.
One day, well dressed, the criminal en
tered the same car with the gentle
man. followed by a confederate. On
the way to the city be pretended to be
a lawyer with a case coming off in
court that he must try when he reach
ed the city. In this way, aided by his
confederate, he secured the rich man's
safe key long enough to take an im
pression Qf it in was. entered bis bouse
by a trellis, opened his safe and se
cured a good lot of swag.
There was no use having this in
genious crook arrested, for he had al
ready been sentenced to serve a term
of ten years In state prison, but I in
formed the Tourtelotte family of the
explanation of their safe mystery, and
I was soon afterward informed by Ed
Far Tourtelotte of his engagement,
with his father's consent, to Miss Mar
tin. Ou the day Edgar was married he
suut me a check lor S100.
SEIilAT, no. 01003.
APPLICATION TO MAKE HOME
STEAD ENTRY.
U. S. Land Office at Juneau, Al
aska, October 13, 11113.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thai
Simon Jacob Weitzman wnosa post
office address is Haines, Alaska, lias
applied to entar under Sec. 2289 of
ilie Revised Statutes of tlie United
States, and of the Act of March 3,
1903, the following described trart
of land as a homestead, said tracr. j
o land being situated about 1 mile
northerly from the Indian Village
of Kluckwan, Alaska, and more par
ticularly described as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, from
which U. S. L. M. No. 209, bears
N 8° 53'iE 36 Iks. dist. and
from which a witness Cor. bear
East 58 Iks. a Btone marked
S 991 W C 1, M. C., thence
meandering the eastern bank of the
Chilkat River S20°27'E (Variation
40° ;E) 2.75 ens. S21045'E 11.79
ens. S25°33'E 4.84 chs. S62°29' L
2.90 eha. S49"18'E 3.16 chs. S35°
46'E 5.10 chs. S35°20'E 7.60 chs.
S15°39'E 1.86 chs. to Cor. No. 2
M. C., from which a witness Cor.
bears East 72 Iks. a stone marked
S991 W. C. 3 M. 0., thence East
(Variation 34° East) 3.40 chs. cen
ter or road, 19.72 chs. Cor. No. Z,
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.U0 Chs. to Cor. No. 1
the place of beginning. Area 103.67
Acres. Survery No. 991.
Any and All persons claiming ad
versely any portion of the above des
cribed tract are required to tile with
the Register and Receiver of the
U. S. Land Office 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
oe barred by provision of the stat
ute.
Simon Jacob Weitzman.
It is hereby ordered that the fore
going notice be published for the
statutory period in The Skagway
Daily Alaksau, a newspaper of gen
circjlatlon, published at Skagway,
Alaska. Date of fir3t publication j
November 1, 1»13,. Date of Last i
Publication, Jauuar 10, 1914.
C. B. Walker, Register.
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Mr. Barnes was discharged yes
terday after a two weeks rest.
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Scores of Alaskan Keadew Are
.Learning the Duty of the Kid
neys.
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When they fail to do thia the kid
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Backache and other kidney ills
may follow.
Help the kidneys do thelrwork.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills—th«
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Proof of their worthiu the foilow
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tinctly for Doan's Kidney Pills—•
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You should give "Luxor" toilet
articles a trial. See the "Week
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cents. Enough for a thorough trUl.
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SMOKERS' ARCTICLES
Large shipment of £1 In/inte
clear Havana cigars, just re
ceived. Try them.
Large circukling library, incluJiag tka
latest copy write book*, MagaHM^
Newspapers and other periodical*. Fme
line of Stationary.
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" 1H£ SIMM MILK KAWeH"
The largest and b«t con
ducted dairy la Al**ka.
Daily shipments of pure
milk and cream to all poUt*
on White Pais & Yuke*
Route.
Start the
New Year
With A
When you see a choice lot of
photographs •which have been col
lected by some friend, does it
not create a desire on your part to
do likewise?
You can take all the pictures you
■want with a "kodak", and the "Ko
dak" way is the only way.
Whether it be school boy or
school girl or tlio most, sedate of
"grown-ups" there's always a fas
cination in picture taking and it's so
simple by the Kodak system thac
anybody can take good pictures from
the start.
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