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EDITORIAL PAGE
A STORY OF "OLD DYEA."
In the Women's National Week
ly, of University City. Mo., in its
issue of Saturday, July 31, 1915,1
appears an article by Jack Jung
meyer (whoever he may be) en- j
titled. "Society Girl Spurns Luxury
for Home in the Wilds, the theme
of which is taken from a story by
Mrs. Mary E. Hart published in
the Daily Alaskan by that talented
writer on her last visit to Skagway
a little over a year ago, during
which time she went to Dyea, lo
cated a homestead and stopped
for several days at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richter, who
had then but recently been mar
ried. but over whom still hung the
glamour of romance and who
were still permeated with the
primal desire to dwell alone with
each other in solitude, far from
the haunts of men—and women.
Published in connection with
the story in the Missouri paper is
what purports to be the pictures of
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Richter. That
of Mrs. Richter is a true present
ment of her as she is known to her
friends and acquaintances in Skag
way, but that of Mr. Richter is
another case of Esau and Jacob—
the substitution of Emil, a brother,
for Ernest.
There is enough truth in the
story, as featured by Jungmeyer,
to give it a coloring of fact—there
is a place called Dvea. Mr. and
Mrs. Richter were a newly married
couple who took up a homestead
and started into the fox business
there and at one time hoped to
make a fortune from the industry
—but that is as far as it went. The
big war killed the fox business, the
young people tired of the monot
ony of the wilderness and the re
sult was that a few weeks ago
they sold all their interests in
Dyea for a song and left the fast
nesses of the north, its primeval
forests and tangled undergrowth
in the valleys and its majestic
mountain peaks towering toward
the sky. for the unromantic plains
of Minnesota, where the farm pro
ducts dwarf into insignificance the
gold output of the gre3t territory
of Alaska.
The story follows:
Fifteen months ago Mrs. Ernest
Ric'nter, a bride of 17, renounced
her station as society favorite at
Tacoma, Wash., to begin a life of'
arduous pioneering in the Alaskan I
wilds with her "Sourdough" hus-1
band.
To-day—the only white woman |
in the vicinity of Dyea—she is
superintending the fox ranch they
established during their unique
honeymoon.
In addition to their determination
to win independence from the
soil, the Richters—he 2 1 and she
1 7—had practicly nothing but a
couple of axes and spades when
they were set ashore at Dyea.
A roaring city of 30,000 gold
mad souls in the Klondyke days, |
this Southeastern Alaska mining
town had been practically deserted j
over night when the White Pass
took the place of the terrible Chil
coot as a route to fortune or failure.
It was a silent camp of uninhab
ited houses when the Richters fired
their bridal hearth in one of the
cabins.
Clearing land for a truck garden
Jnvnlvf-d the oroblom of razing
some two score houses to make
room for beets, potatoes and beans.
Singling out a comfortable cabin
for their home, Mrs. Richter, erst
while coddled society belle, donn
ed a suit of her husband's clothes
and helped him chop down houses,
or burn them when the wind was
right.
They had heard marvelous stor
ies about men becoming million
aires on Prince Edward Island as
fox breeders. Richter trapped a
couple of sleek black animals. He
and his wife inclosed several acres
of their homestead as a runaway.
Other trappers, Indians, brought
in more "blacks" and "silvers' on
a "50-50" share basis.
Today the live fur on that little
Richter fox ranch could be convert
ed into $75,000 at least, since black
or silver breeders are sought at
from $10,000 lo $15,000 a pair
and the pelts are highly prized
market staples.
Mrs. Richter, now a hardy wo
man in place of the delicate girl
who came north a \ear ago. helps
her husband catch flounders in the
Dyea river for fox food and gath
ers the wild sweet pea foddei
which makes the fur sleek and
high-priced.
Today she has sent word back
to civilization that she is "the hap
piest of women and that society is
an empty bauble when once you
have felt the magic of the north
with its freedom and its balm.'
LITTLE THINGS.
It is another aged fact that, in
life as well as in racing, a!! thr worst
accidents happen at little diEches
and cut down fences.—Kipling.
Horrible Possibility.
"Our engagement was most romantic.
X was traveling with her party at the
time, and I promised to her In tlie far
west on the edge of a mountain gorue."
"Oh, suppose she had thrown you
over:"—Baltimore Amoricnn.
Japanese Godowns.
Godown is n place of safe deposit,
usually underground. Every L-reat
Japanese home has one, and in :t the
most valuable pictures cud ornaments
are kept to be brought forth on special
occasion.
Sure Enough.
Soph—You want to keep your eyes
oi>en arouuil here today. Fresh- -What
for? Soph—Because people will think
you are a lool if you go around with
thein shut—Dartmouth Jacko'-I.an
teru.
Named After His Grandad.
Vagrant—Listen, judge! I'm a hobo,
but this town was named after my
great grandfather. Judge— Impossible.
Vagrant—But true. lie was named in
1770, and this town wasn't on the map
then.—Chicago I.edger.
Dra.n-tic News.
"Why does ti: ■ rich man in I he play
always fall in l.«ve with the poor but
resectable orp!> in?"
"Probably liccauso the poor orphan
wears such beautiful diamonds."— Phil
adelphia Ledger.
The Quick Witted Sharp.
Mrs. Sharp—So you told Mr. Jones
you wished you was single once more,
did you? Sharp (with quick wit)—Only
that I might have the happiness of
marrying you over again, darling.—
Boston Transcript
When Women Kiss.
Whep women kiss it always reminds
me of prizeti0'hters shaking hands.—
Smart Set.
£V'~ f'. i j"; c> p%
Sick 5«>a<lache. 1jufr.et? pi! and
bad breath :irc uf _iiy euw;J inac
tive bowels. Oct a box of 1vcau!1
Oruciiit,.;. T!,cy act C-i—7 and tiToo
tivelv. Sol'! only by uj at 10 cents
Wm. Britu
A Mystery'
Bciaji a Story of How a
Murder Case Was
Not Solved.
B> DONALD CHAMBERLIN
j My telephone bell ran;: and, going to
I the Instrument, I took up the receiver,
j "Is that you. Thompson?"
; "yes."
"I'm Parker. I wish you to come
j down anil stay In the bouse with me
I tonight I'm alone and nervous."
i "Certainly, old man. What's the mat
| ter with you?"
j "I can't ask you to dinner, for I
; haven't a servant In the house."
"Well, I'll be over about 0 o'clock.
| Will that do?"
"Yes; uiuch obliged."
Parker was the junior partner In a
I large jewelry firm and a nian who
never shrank from any duty Involving
danger, "herefore 1 was surprised at
bis shrinking from sleeping In a house
alone, lie was a widower without chil
dren, and though he lived In the house
he lard occupied with his wife, he took
his meals at Ills club, hiring no servant
| except for day work. I fancied he must
, be I!!, or be would not have asked any
one to sleep in the house with him.
I At 0 o'clock 1 rang his doorbell, and
j he admitted me himself. lie appear
; ed neither ill nor troubled. He led me
into an apartment he used for a smok
1 liig room, where he produced cigars,
| and we sat down for n smoke. I waited
• some time for him to tell me why be
wished for some one to sleep In his
house with him. but he did not, chat
I ting on ordinary topics until I rose to
I go to bed. Then I asked him what had
[ made him nervous.
j "There Is a story connected with It
And I don't feel likw telling it tonight"
| he said. "We are all connected with
.-.>me disagreeable episode and are apt
to make too much of It Doubtless in a
few days or a few weeks I shall think
! nothing of the one in which 1 am con
! ei rued. Why take up n lot of time
-■■ins "ver It with you. especially since
■ It would be unpleasant for me to do
j I excused hint and went to my room,
j having told him that 1 must be up ear
ly la the morning and off. for my time
I for going to business was 7 o'clock,
I while he did not need to do so till 9
j -o'clock. 1 bade him good night telling
j fcliu that if he should be wakeful to
come iuto my room for a chat He
said he expected to sleep soundly, and
with that we parted.
In the morning I went out treading
softly that I might not awaken my
friend, and emerged from the front
door before most persons were stirring.
A milkman drove up at the time and
THE ROAD TO
SUCCESS
jls LINED WITH ADVERTISE
MENTS, THAT HE WHO KINS
MAY READ—
Therefore, I liaave been. in
struct o<.l to advertise for
sale sat the reduced price
j or
$300.00
a Two Story Four Roomed
House on Fourth Avenue,
next to the old bakery.
Former Price was
$350.00
| PHIL ABRAHAMS, Agent
You make a mistake if
you do not stop at
THE
Piiilen House
Electric Lights
Rocms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking.
Milk, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own d^nr
Fiesh Eggs, etc
Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN, P.op.
Skagway. Alaska
$100 Reward, $1(M)
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
ireaded disease that science has bee:i
able to cure in all its stages, and !V.at Is
Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
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disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the dis
ease. and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials.
Addr. 83: F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo. O.
Sold by all Drupglsts. 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
carried a bottle of thllk to A rear door.
He looted at mo, and 1 spoke to him.
expressing surprise that he should
leave milk at a house where no meals
■were served, whereupon he told me
that Mr. Parker drank a quart of milk
every day at home.
I called up Parker the same evening
by telephone to ask blm if be required
my services again, but there was no
I response to the call. I thought nothing
of this, for there was do one besides
himself to answer, and 1 presumed be
; was not at bomc. Several days passed,
and I heard nothing from him. Then
on taking up my morning paper I saw
under large headlines a statement that
he had been found murdered In his bed.
The man who left the milk at his back
door, seeing that the bottles remained
unemptiod where be had left them, no
tified a neighbor, who broke Into the
house and found Parker stabbed to the
fceart A Jbaded revolver was under
j his pillow that had not been used.
Horrlfled, 1 started immediately to go
| to the house where the murder had
, been committed. On the way 1 met the
i milkman in company with a police
man. On seeing me the former said
I something to tb* policeman, which I
did not hear, and the two stopped be
fore ma
' "You're wanted at Inspector O'Con
nor's office." said the policeman.
"I'm going to the house of a friend of
mine who has been murdered. Til call
later at the Inspector's office."
"You'll have to go with me now,"
was the reply.
Then for the first time It dawned
apon me that I was under arrest for
Parker's murder; that be had been
killed the night 1 bad slept at his
house; that the milkman had seen me
coming out the morning after the mur
der had been committed. The situation
flashed upon mo and the dan per in
1 which It placed me. I am sure I turned
| pale, and I felt my legs tremble be
I neath me.
Not a human being knew or my Hav
ing been called upon by Tarter to stay
at h!s house the night he was mur
dered. I had been seen leaving It early
In the morning of the murder. There
had not been another person In the
bouse during the night than myself
except the murderer. What a pity I
had not Insisted on Parker's telling
me the story connected with his ob
jecting to sleep In the house alone!
The circumstance attending my being
there, together with the revolver found
under his pillow, made It plain as the
; sun in heaven that he had feared some
! enemy. But all this was a blank to the
j rest of the world. An explanation made
; In a courtroom unsupported by a sin
i gle clew pointing in the same dlrcc
j tion would be set down as a fnbrlca
j tion. However, since I had been a
friend of Parker, since my reputation
was good, since I could not see how
I »ny motive on my pan fur the crime
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
OR L 8. KULLKR.
DeatUL
Hon Hodm Method*.
Opes EreaUsB.
Office Hours: 9-1J a. m 1-6 p. m.
AJaskaa Building - Broadway
8KAGWAY ALASKA
WILLIAM PALI.1ST KR, M. H.
(Formerly of Seattle)
Specialist In treatment of
•ilseases and deformities of t'le eye.
'•*r, nose und throat.
Office. Goldstein Bulldiag, Ju
i(v»o Alaska.
W. B. STOUT
Atlcraty Al Law.
PraetJe* U *11 court*
1b Territory of Alaska.
Halaec Alaika.
F. ft A. ML
White Pace Lodge
r. Jb A M. Na lis
meets 2d anC 4th
w Prl. Er'gs of each
month. VUi'.ifit brothers are ■wel
come Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
EUrner L. Wheeler. W. M.
B. P. O. KLKS
Stag-way Lodge
Vo. 431, B. P. 0.
E. meets first
and third Thurs
day evenings at
8:30 o'clock. Vis
laur brothers cordially welcome.
HOWARD ASHLEY, E. R.
F. J. VANDEWALL, Secretary.
Fraternal Order
E»«lew—
Skagw&y Aerie
No. 25, Frater
a&l Order of
Eagles meeta the first ana third
Wednesday night of each month at
their hall oa Fifth arenue. Visiting
brothers cordially iarited to attend.
ihOB C. Wood, W. P., J. W. Prit- I
chett, Secretary.
Arctic BrtttSierfHiod.—
Camp Skafpvay No. 1
A, B. meets every sec
ond and fourth Tues
day ereal»g at 8:00 p
m. >11017. Visiting brotter* cordial
ly welcome. A. J. Achesoa, Arctic
Chief, \v R. Hlllery, Arctlo Re
corder f <i»yv
Seattle, Tacoma, Victoria
Vancouver. Pnnce Rupert, Sitka,
Juneau, i'etrraburg, Wrangcll. and Ketchikan
Leave Skagujay
S. S. SPOKANE Aug. 13, 24 Sept. 5. 17, 20
S. S. CITY of SEATTLE Aug. 18,30 Sept. II, 23
And every twelve days following. MoW* roaafortaMe «»ilpa,
excellent Mg-vir« Connects at Hnul* with thermgh pawn
C<*r i»wim
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and city of rmiLA
Sailing Tuesday, Thursday ntxl Friday, 11 p. m.
FOR SA\ FRANCISCO, IA)S ANGELA, 6AS DIEGO.
Through ticket* acrid ar.rt txiggxgc checked to *11 rfl*n«a 1»
CB1W Mate* Mid Canada. Fop folder* and foil particular*.
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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MARIPOSA Auk. 18
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NORTHWESTERN Aug. 11.
JEFFERSON Aug. 1, 14, 26
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WESTBOUND
ALAMEDA, Aug. 16
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NORTHWESTERN. Aug. 4, 2^
Fasscrjjeis wi!i be transferred to Vancover or Victoria
•without extra cliarpe.
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SEASON 1915
New Steel Steamships
gSHfPrtocm flliw
s$ Sophia
&
Every Thursday 7 p. m.
Aug. 5-12-19-26 Oct. 7-14-21-28
Sept. 2-9-16-23-30 Nov. 4
For Prince Rupert. Vancouver, Victoria,Seattie
Let us arrange your trip to the Fair, or to the East
Cheap round trip rates with choice of routes
F. F. W. LOWLE, Gtn'I Agt. Phone S7 or 141 SKAGWAY
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Aug. 8-20 Sept, 1-13-25
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1 hrough Tickcts Honored
Transfers to Vane uvcr, Victoria and Tacoma
WITHOL'i AM ADDITIONAL CHARGE
, DORTERO & SON, Skagway Agents
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712 Second Ave l ull Phono .13
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But Kodak Time Has Come
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