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Dispatches received last uight say that the senate In disposing of the
fish item in the tariff bill adopted an amendment offered by Senator Poiu
dexter. providing that a duty of two cents a pound be imposed on all fresl.
or frozen fish imported into the I'nited States and that this should apply as
wall to the product brought into Canadian ports on American vessels and
packed there. This amendment by Senator Poindexter was by way of £ tb
stitute for the amendment advocated by Ketchikan whereby all fresh or
froten fish from the North Pacific waters would be excluded from the Unit
ed States except when shipped in bond from an American port.
The passage of the Poindexter amendment may be considered a victory
for Ketchikan, for Alaska, and for American interests, but it is not a com
plete victory. It is a half victory, but it is to be hoped that It will be the
stepping stone to a complete victory when another session of congress rolls
around.
Under the terms of the Poindexter amendment. It will mean that all
fish landed at Prinie Rupert for Amrican consumption must pay a tariff of
two cents per pound before it can enter the I'nited States. This will tend
to throw the fish market of the North Pacific waters to Ketchikan and
Southeast Alaska unless the Grand Trunk railway, whtih now charges four
cents a pound on fresh fish from Prince Rupert to Chicago, cuts its rate in
two for t :o Princes Rupert shippers and absorbs the tariff, at the same time
maintaining the old rate so far as fish shipped from Alaska is ccncerned.
This, however, is not a probability. It is in fact only a remote pos
sibilitj and if such a method is pursued It undoubtedly will make it the
«.isier then for Ketchikan to push through the measure which it had been
advocating and which would then com pell the Canadian road to come to
times, and with the net result that Prince Rupert would then lose all of the
AmerU.iu business.
While the amendment Introduced by Senator Poindexter Is not all that
could be desired from the standpoint of Ketchikan, it is a big step in the
rtght direction and undoubtedly will do much to build up the industry here,
in fact a >ear ago it was though' by many that the best that could be hoped
tor was the amendment which has just passed.
If the amendment is now accepted in conference by the conferees of
the senate and house, it may and probably will briug about a condition
which later will show to everyone interested. American interests and fish
ermen. that it will lie feasible and advisable to secure the amendmaat
which has been advocated by Ketchikan for exclusion of fish from the North
Pacific, except when in bond from an American port.
Senator Poindexter and Senator Jones undoubtedly secured all for Ket
chikan and Alaska that was possible. They were on the ground and In
touch with the situation and telegraphic rep< .°ts indicate that they could
not have got more, nor could anyone else. They have rendered a tremen
dous service to Alaska and the fruits of the victory will later be material!)
tell in Ketchikan.— Ketchikan Chronicle.
V. S. MI ST OPKX ALASKA.
Interior Alaska( with its possibilities of livestock raising and sue
cessful agriculture, is the place for the small man. according to Prof. C. C.
t.eorgeson. head of the government experiment Station iu the Territory.
The small man would not hesitate to take advantage of these nppor
tuuities if they were presented to him in the light and if the government
:na<ie it easy for him to take up land and start farming.
In this matter, as In others, including paper manufaituring on a big
srule. the initiative must be taken by the Federal authority. It must sim
plify the process by which land may be acquired. It must Induce the set
tler. preferably the experienced agriculturist of limited means, to try his
luck in the Northland.
Every Scandinavian who has visited the country has come away con
vinced that it could and would support a population as progressive, as pros
perous and as numerous as that of Norway and Sweden. Climatically, il
is no more repellant even in Its coldest reaches: while, on the coast, the
winters are milder than those of Washington. D. C.
Stefansson, who has spent years on the Arctic plain of Canada and A1
aska or north of It. has compiled data showing that it is no colder then
than in <oi'ie sections of the United States and Canada. T.ie proximity o'
the ocean tends to temper the extreme of winter. Stock raising, for in
stance, is as feasible as in Montana.
Alaska's agriculture riches have not been touched. It possesses re
sources sufficient to support a hundred times its present white population
Some day. it will have the people—but the government must pave the waj
for that development. The sooner it acts, the sooner will the land be set
tied, tilled and its wealth made available.—Fairbanks News Miner. '
Europe is looking for financial succor, but Uncle Sam is not the finan
cial sucker he used to be.
The advocstes of national cancelation of debts are pretty good collec
tore of debts due them personally, we notice.
A necklace imported from France at a cost of $12.25 was sold at retail
in this country for $150 00, says Senator McCumber. Luxuries usually
come high, but there is an Instance where the purchaser got it iu the neck.
MINDIANDRUMf
b.lWilliam iHacHarg and Edwin Balmer {
•<=.
Chnurichh bu EcJwirvBalmer
Illttsmriions by Jf
* IrwiN iHyer^ ^
. -r
"Oil, It Is not definite yet—not
cleur!" She felt the bitterness in his
tone. "They huve not any of thein
beeu able to make It wholly clour to
lue. It li like u record that 1ms been
—blurred. These original nuines must ,
halt- im 11 written down by my fHther
mistiy j 'ttrs ago—many, most of those
peoi I think—are dead; some are
neari" forgotten. The only thing that
; Is Miy plain is that in every case my
' iiHiu res have led me to those who
have u«>. "ne, and sometimes more
than one re .itive upon the lakes."
Constance thrilled to a vague hor
ror; it was not anything to which she
could give definite reason. His tone
quite as much as what he said was its
cause. Mis experience plainly had
been forcing him to bitterness against
bis father; and he did not know with
certainty yet that his father was dead.
"You'll lunch with us, of course."
she said to Alan, "and then go buck
with us to ilarbor 1'olnt. It's a day's
Journey around the two buys; but
we've a boat here."
lie assented, and they went down to
the water where the white mid brown
power yacht, wiih long, graceful lines,
lay somnolently In the sunlight. A lit
tle boat took them out over the shim
mering, smooth surface to the ship;
swells troui u faraway freighter swept
under the beautiful, burnished craft,
causing it to roll lazily as they hoard
ed It. A party ot nearly a dozen men
and girls with an older woman chap
eroning them, lounged under the shade
of an awning over the after deck,
l'liey greeted her gaily and looked
curiously at Alan as she introduced
hiiu.
"Have you worked on any of our
boats?" she asked him. alter lumheon
had been finished, and the anchor of
the ship had been raised.
A queer expression came upon his
face. "I've thought it best not to do
that. Miss Slierrili," he replied.
She did not know why the next mo
ment she should Ih.nk of Henry.
The yacht was pushing swiftly.
I smoothly. »ith hardly a hum from Its
I motors, north uiong the shore. He
watched intently the rolling, wooded
■ hills and the ragged little bays and in
lets. His work and his luvesiigatiligs
had not brought 'dm to the neighbor
I hood before, but she found that she
did not have to name the places to
him; he knew tItem from the charts.
! "Grand Traverse light." he said to
her as a while tower stiowed upon
( their left. Then, leaving the shore.
I they pushed out across the wide mouth
of the larger bay toward Little Trav
erse. lie grew more silent as they up
J proached It.
I "1! is up mere, isii i u. »«r u»*ru.
I pointing, "tlmi they hear the Drum?"
!"Vfs; how (Jul you know tlie place?"
"1 don't know it exactly; I wuutyou
, to show me."
j She pointed out to him the copse,
' dark, primeval, blue In Its contrast
I with the lighter green of the tree*
about it and the glistening white of
the shingle and of the more distant
saint bluffs. He leaned forward, staring
at It. until the changed course of the
yacht, as It swut p ahout toward the
entrance to the hay. obscured It.
"Seeing the ships made me feel thai
I belonged here on the lukes." he -e
Qilnded her. "I have felt something—
not recognition exactly, but something
that was like the beginning of reiog
uition- many times this summer whet
I satv certain places. ItT'Iike one 01
tluse dreums, you know, in which you
are conscious of haviug-had the saint
dreaiu before. I feel that 1 ought tc
know this place."
They landed only a few hundred
yards from the cottage. After hid
ding good-by to her trieiids, Ihpy went
up to It together through the trees.
■ There was a small sun room, ruthei
• shut oft from the rest of the house, to
I which she led hint. Leaving him there,
she ran upstairs to get the things.
She halted uu Instant beside the
■ door, with the box In her hands, be
| fore she went buck to hitu, thinking
, how to nrepare .him against tin sig
nificance of these relics of his father.
. She need not prepare him against the
mere lact of his father's death; lie
had been bec'uulng to believe that al
ready ; but tin 4e things must have fur
inore meaning tor him than merely
that. She went In and put the box
down upon the curd table.
"The muflter In the box was your
father's." she told him. "lie had it ou
the day he disappeared. The other
things," her voice choked a little, "are
the things he must have had in his
pockets. They've been lying In water
and sand—"
He gazed at her. "1 understand,"
he said after an Instant. "You mean
that they prove his death."
She assented gently, without speak
ing. As he approached the box, she
drew back from It and slipped awu.r
uilo the uext room. She walked up
and down there, pressing her hands
together. He must be looking at the
things now, unrolling the uiuliler.
. . What would he he feeling as
l44*«aw Uieuii ,»\oiild UeJijLgluil-with
tliut same Kindness which hi d mingled
with tier own sorrow over Uncle
benny, thai his father was gone—gone
from his unlit and Ills feur and his
disgrace? Or would he resent that
death which thus left everything un
explained to hliu? He would be look
ing at the ring. That, at least, uiust
bring more Joy than grief to lilui. He
would recognize that it must lie his
mother's wedding ring; If It told hltn
that his mother must be dead. It would
tell iiiin that she had been married, or
had believed that she was married I
Suddenly she heard him culling her.
"Miss Slierrill!" Ids voice had a sharp
thrll of excitement.
She hurried toward the sun room.
She could see lilui through the door
way, bending over the card table with
the things spread out upon its top In
front of hliu.
"Yea."
He straightened; he was very pale.
"\tyuld coins that my father had In
his pocket all have been more than
twenty years old?"
She run and bent beside him over
the coins. "Twenty years!" she re
peated. She was making out the dates
of the coins now herself; the markings
were eroded, nearly gone ill some In
stances. but In every case enough re
mained to niiike plain the date.
"Kighteennlnety — ISM — 1SSD," she
made them ouU Her voice hushed
queerly. "What does It mean?" she
whispered.
He turned over and re-examined the
articles with hands suddenly steady
ing. "There are two sets of things
liere," he concluded. "The mutller
and paper of directions—they be
longed to my luther. The other things
—it isn't six months or less than six
months tliut they've lain in sand an(t<
water to become worn like this; It's
twenty years. My father can't have
had these things; they were some
where else, or some,one else had them,
lie wrote his directions to that per
son—after June twelfth, he said, so It
was before June twelfth he wrote It;
but we can't tell how long before. It
might have been In February, when he
disappeared; It might have been any
time after that Hut If the directions
were written so long ago, why weren't
the things sent to you before this?
I Didn't the person nave the tilings
then? Did we have to wait to get
theiu? Or—was It the instructions to
send them that he didn't have? Or, If
he had the Instructions, was he wait
ing to receive word when they were
to be sent? You thought these things
I proved my father whs dead. I think
they prove he is alive! Oh, we must
think this out!"
lit* pHl'tffl up ltn»I Ulinil III*.* I will , nn«
sank Into u chair, wutching him. "The
first thing that we must do." he said
suddenly, "Is to find out about the
watch. What Is the 'phone Dumber
of the telegraph ofllce?"
Slip told him. and he went out to the
telephone; she sprang up to follow
him. hut checked herself and merely
waited until he came hack.
"I've wired to Buffalo," he an
nounced. "The Merchants' exchange.
If It Is still In existence, must have a
record of the presentation of the
watch."
"Then yo.i'll stay here with us until
an answer comes?"
"If we get a reply by tomorrow morn
ing; I'll wait till ihen. If not. I'll ask
you to forward It to nie. I must see
about the trains and get hack to Frank
fort. I can cross by boat from there
to Manitowoc—that will be quickest
We must begin there, by trying to find
out who sent the package."
She helped him put the muffler and
the other articles Into the box; she no
ticed that the wedding ring was no
longer with them. He had taken that,
then; It had meant to him all that sh«
had kno- n It must mean. . . .
In tt- morning she was up very
early; out Alan, the servants told her,
had risen before she had and had gone
out. The morning, after the cool north
ern night, was chill. She slipped a
sweater on and went out on the veran
(7h. tootchig about for him. An Irides
cent hnze shrouded the hills and the
bay; In It she heard a ship's bell strike
twice; then another struck twice—then
another—and another—and another.
The hrr# thinned as the sun grew
warmer, showing the placid water of
the bay on which the ships stood dou
ble. She saw Alan returning, and
knowing from the direction from which
he came that he must have been to the
telegraph office, she ran to meet him.
"Was there un answer?" she inquired
eagerly.
He took a yellow telegraph shoet
from his pocket and held It for her to
read.
"Watch presented Captain Caleb
Stafford, master of propeller freighter
Marvin Raich for rescue of crew and
passengers of sinking steamer Winne
bago off Long point, Lake Erie."
She was breathing quickly In her ex
citement. "Caleb Stafford!" she ex
claimed. "Why, that was Captain Staf
ford of Stafford and Ramsdell I Thqy
owned the Mlwaka!"
"Yun." AJuu said.
A preftl change had come over him
since last nlplit; lie was under emotion
mi glr uiK Unit lie seemed scarcely to
dnre speak lest It muster him—a lenp
ing, exultant Impulse It was, which
he fought to keep down.
"What is It, Alan?" she asked.
"What Is It about the Mlwalta? You
said you'd found some reference to It
in Uncle Benny's house. What was It?
What did you find there?"
"The man—" Alan swallowed and
steadied himself and repeated—"the
mini I met in the house that night
mentioned It. He seemed think I
was a ghost that had haunted Mr. Cor
vet—the ghost from the Mlwaka; at
ljasl he shouted out to me that I
couldn't save the Mlwaka!"
"Save the Mlwaka! What do you
mean, Alan? The Miwaka was lost with
"Save the Miwakal What Do You
Mean, Alan?"
all her people—officers anil crew—no
• nil" knows linw or where!"
"All except the one for whom the
itruni didn't beat!"
"What's that?" Blood pricked In her
[I'heeks. "What'do you mean, Alan?"
| "I don't know yet; hut I think I'll
goon liml out."
"No; you can tell me more now,
Alan. Surely y..u ran. I must know.
I have the right to know. Yesterday,
even before you found out about this,
you knew things you weren't telling
me—things about the people you'd
been seeing. They'd all lost people on
the lakes, you said; but you found out
more than that."
"They'd all lost people on the Mi
waka!" he said. "All who could tell
me where their people were lost; a
few were like Jo Papo we saw yester
day, who knew only the year his father
I was lost; hut the time always was the
time that the Miwaka disappeared I"
"Disappeared !" she repeated. Her
veins were pricking cold. What did he
know, what could tiny one know of the
Miwaka. the ship of which nothing
ever was heard except the beating of
the Indian Drum? She tried to make
liiin say more; but he looked away now
down to the lake.
"The Chippewa must have come In
early this morning," he said. "She's
lying In the harbor; 1 saw her on my
way to the telegraph office. If Mr.
Spearman has come back with her. tell
iiim I'm sorry I can't wait to see htm."
"When are you going?"
"Now."
She offered to drive him to Petos
key. but he already had arranged for
u nyin to lake liliu to the train.
(Continued on Saturday)
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