I WHITE PASS ft
The Speed,
Route of [ Mpg) j Service
Comfort, Safety
Through Tickets to and from Dawson, Fairbanks, anJ all Interior
Alaska and Yukon River points.
Daring season of navigation, our fleet of modern, up-to-date
steamers will operate regularly the entire length of Yukon
River and its tributaries, giving a service nevei before
fV.n.lWI
Daily tram service will be maintained between Skaguay and
WhiteHorje, and our fully equipped parlor observation rars afford
every co.nfort and convenience.
Fall informition che°rfu!ly given upon applying to
A. F. ZIPF, Traffic Manager
F. B. WURZBACHER.
General Agent,
Skagway, Alaska.
Skagway, Alaska, and
612 Second Avenue,
Seattle, Wash.
The WhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 85
Daily Except Sunday
No. 1, N. Hound
1-n Class
0:30 a. m. Leaves
11:35 il m. "
12:45 p. m. "
1:10 p. in. n
3: -0 y. m.
5:50 p. m.
SKAGWAY
WHITE PASS
LOO CABIX
BENNET
CARIBOC
WH1TEHORSE
No. 2, S. Bounil
1st Class
Arrives 4:40 p. I
Leav-i 3:10 p. i
" 2:25 p. i
"" 11:50 a. i
" 10:25 ft. r
" 0:80 a. n
Passengers must be at depot In time to haie Baggage inspecte<
and checked. Inspection is stop p 30 minutes before leaving tim
of train*.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full fart
e» and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
The Best The Most Popular *
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NEW !
CAIN !
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Juneau's Newest and Finest *
Hotel J
Room arithd»tachpil th$1.60up 4
Room witti private la.' S2.50 up 3
Juneau, Alaska |
Whitehorse
Kluane Stage
Line
The Royal Mail Stage
leaves YVhitehorse the
fourth of every month
for Kluane and way
points and also on the
seventeenth of every
month for Chainpaigne
Passengers and Freight sol
icited, Rates Reasonable
and the Service First Class.
' H.CHAMBERS, Prop.
OFFICE
, Regina Hotel :: Whitehorse, V T
Pack Train Restaurant
The Delmonico of Alaska
CHARLEY JOHN
Karaman & Clecak
PROPRIETORS
Where tfuu Can Get what Y ou Desire Ctxfcsd as It Should Be
W« Make a 8P«cialty 0f Ban q net* ud Prlrat® Dlaaer Parties
A refUed aad comfortable place lor a »upper after the show
or danoa—lerrice i« coxy pi-Irate boo tin if deeired.
la 1911 tha secretary of agricul
ture in his report to the president
said ia "part: "Recent events hAve
tt-jde.' to create more or less alarm
•regarding our dependence 011 for
eign sources of supply for our
potash."
investigations ' liaye been made
and are still under way for the
extraction, of potash from silicates
and other minerals.
•Diligent search is being made of
tlio desert basins of the arid states.
Some promise of minor successes
are coming from this work. But in
the giant kelps of the 'Pacific coast
there is a source of uotash that will
yield three or four times the
amount now used in this country.
It is regarded as a very conserva
tive astjuate to put the annual
yield ci uotassium chloride from
tha Pacff:c kelp at 1,000,000 tons,
valued at present prices at nearly
j4o.ooo.aoo.
These investigations were ' sub
mitted to the U. S. senate and by
tiiein published in senate document
number 190.
Frcm Dixon Entrance to Chath
am Straits nearly 1200 beds of
kelp have been surveyed. Their
density measured and toanage es
timated by the government. 7,
Soo.uoy tons of kelp are available
carrying 299,000 tons of potassium
chloride.
For ovc-r two hundred 'years the
Scotch haro been gathering kelp,
drying aud burning it for'the con
tained potash-soda and iodine.
The as^i finds a ready market
with any manufacturing chemist.
! As the Alaska kelp is far richer in
potash than the Scotch kelp, there
appears to be no reason why a
j new industry should not be estab
ished handlinp this kelp ash. Pres
ent prices should make this an at
tractive proposition.
freezing salmon FOlt bait
The Ketchikan Cold Storage com
pany is trying a new experiment in
freezing salmon backs for halibut
bait. At certain seasons ol the year
salmon is considered as the best
bait obtainable bv ' halibut fisher
men, so as Capt. Marr is putting
no salmon bellios, the cold storage
company is freezing tho backs and
will sell thom to the fishermen.
Kolchikan Miner. '
Naturally.
"Many of the patrons of a popular
photographer must make his plates
suffer."
"Why do you think so?"
"Aren't his plates sensitive?"— Balti
more American.
Had Him There.
Iler L>ad—What can you offer my
daughter that equals or excels what
she has now? Suitor—Well, I rather
think the name of Montmorency is an
improvement upon that of Skraggs,
sir. Don't you?—Itoston Transcript.
Inefficiency of Broken Steel.
Experience has shown that tho end
of a bar of steel that has been bro
ken off should never l>e used for the
' working or eutting eml of n (lie or
- punch. Tho til>ers in the end of such a
bar have boon so severely strnfned in
breaking that the steel Is unsuitable
for performing tho work done by a
punch or die. The broken end should
be made the shank of tho punch, while
the end of the bar that was cut off
should be used for the cutting end of
the tool.
Better Than Fresh.
"Are you sure these eggs are fresh?"
. "Positive! They were really not due
until tomorrow."—Fliegendo Blatter.
An Irascible Mood.
"I want to nsk your consent to my
marriage with your daughter," said the
formal youth.
"Young man," replied Mr. Cumrox,
"don't you bother me with any moro
such talk. If you and Gwendolin get
married it's her and her mother's do
ings, and 1 don't want to be brought
into it I'm tired of being held respon
sible for every kind of trouble that
comes up in this family."—Washington
] Star.
The Roads of Norway.
A curious feature to travelers on the
highroads of Norway is the great nura
her of gates—upward of 10,000 in the
whole country—which havo to be open
ed. These gates, which either mark
I the boundaries of the farms or sepa
i, rate tho homo fields from tho waste
J lands, constitute a considerable incon
{< venience and delay to the traveler, who
has to stop his vehicle and get down to
t open them.
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I "93" HairTonic
* Wm. Britt
Dr. Edmonds'
Patient
A Talc of a Haunted
House.
By CLARISSA MACKIE
j A severe thunderstorm was raging
when the telephone bell tinkled softly.
Dr. Edmonds' man, joslah, roused
himself from slumber on the office
sofa and reached apprehensively for
the receiver.
"I don't llko techln" telephones no
ways when de lightning's kyootlng
around." muttered Joslah. "Heil<\
J dnr!" he called timidly. "1a-n«, stih,
j dls am de doctor's—ya-aa, gah. He'll
come right nway."
Joslah hung up the receiver nnd went
up to the doctor's bedroom on the sec
j ond floor. The doctor camo out—a tan.
lithe, red bearded man, rubbing his
eyes sleepily.
"What Is It, Joslah?" be yawned.
"Mr. Dixon got another bad spell?"
Josluli's eyes rolled affrlghtedly.
"No, sab; It was a call from de Ged
ney place."
"Gednoy place! 1'ou've made a mis
take. It's been unoccupied for years."
j "Dat's what he said. "Tell de doctor
he's needed at once at de Gedney place
on de Hollow road.' "
"Humph!" muttered the physician.
"Well, you better go out and harness
Daisy and get out my raincoat."
It was a dreary ride to the Gedney
place.
Joslah, huddled In one corner of the
buggy, was shaking with fear of the
approaching ordeal. Dr. Edmonds was
puzzling over the strange summons.
To his knowledge the Gedney place
had been unoccupied for the past ten
years. As a family the Gedneys had
died out, all save one son, the black
sheep of his generation. William Ged
ney was serving a life sentence In pris
on, convicted of killing a man In a
quarrel. The plea was self defense,
and Gedney had escaped with his life.
The village people had gossiped ever
since the last funeral at the place ten
years ago. It was said that the spirit
of the murdered man, Tom Collins,
haunted the rooms of the flne old man
sion on the Hollow road. Lights had
flickered there at midnight, and men
straggling lifcme between midnight and
dawn had declared that a man's dim
form restlessly paced the pine grove
that was growing up nronnd the neg
lected house. But little credence was
given to such talcs.
"Here we am, doctor," quavered Jo
slah. "I'll Jest git out nnd open de
gate."
Tho long unused gare creiitteu
and the doctor turned Into it, trusting
more to Daisy's Instinct than to any
thing ho could sea. Josiah did not re
turn to the buggy. He tramped be
side the doctor, muttering charms un
der Ills breath.
They were In the protection of the
front porch now. Dr. Edmonds
brought <jut his electric torch and
found the doorbell. Ho pulled It vig
orously, and a resonant peal rang
through the house.
There was no answer.
Again and again the doctor rang, and
at last ho Impatiently turned the door
knob. To his amazement It responded
to his pressure.
The door was unlocked!
They entered complete darkness.
"Hello, there!" shouted the doctor,
standing at the foot of the great stair
case that wound up Into darkness.
"Anybody here?"
In the silence that followed they dis
tinctly heard the distant striking of tbe
town clock In the valley below.
It struck the hour of midnight, and
on the heels of the last stroke there
came a sound In the Gedney house.
It was a cry, a moaning Cry. that
sent a shudder through the doctor's
strong frame.
I Josiah almost sank to tho floor.
I "De ghos'I" ho gibbered.
Dr. Edmonds recovered his nerve,
poked Josiah In the ribs with the ao
tomatic pistol he always carried at
night and brought the dnrky to hla
senses.
"Some one is upstairs," he said stern
ly. "Some one who Is hurt and needs
me. Understand! Take my bag and
follow me. If you try to run away, re
member, I'm a dead shot!"
Josiah mutely fell Into step behind
the doctor as they mounted the stairs.
He would have been more terrified
than ever If he had remotely guessed
why tbe doctor had handed him the
medicine case. It was that both his
own bands might be free to grapple
with any danger that menaced them In
the deserted house.
The cry had come down from the
upper regions of the house. They
searched the second floor and found It
untenanted 6ave by spiders and scut
tling mice. Here, as In tho lower
rooms, tho furniture was covered with
dust
Now the moaning cry was repeated.
It camo from the third story under the
mansard roof.
They reached the narrow upper hall,
went down Its carpeted length to the
southwest chamber. The door was
ajar. Tho doctor pushed It open and
raked it with the light of his torch.
The light revealed several startling
facts.
There was a narrow cot on the car
peted floor, n pine bureau littered with
bottles and dishes and crugts of bread,
land a ■battered tin coffeepot stood oil
Ian oil stove. Tlicre were heavy blan
kets hung before the three windows,
and besides one or two rocking chairs
j there was a pile of books from the li
brary downstairs and a man's black
ened pipe on the deal table.
Llko lightning the doctor's keen eye
searched the room and then went back
to the space in front of the cot. A
man'« body lay there Inert.
"Hold this torch," commanded the
doctor, and, bending down, he lifted
the man's emaciated form to the cot
The ragged coat fell back, revealing a
glimpse of a broadly striped garment
underneath.
It did not need this betraying glimpse
of the convict stripes for the physician
to recognize in the man William Ged
neyl
The room revealed that It had long
been the habitation of some recluse
Who was It? Hardly Gedney, for he
was still in prison.
The doctor made a brief examination
and found that the man had been stab
bed in the right shoulder. An ugly
wocnd, but not necessarily dangerous.
Joslah, relieved at this practical lay
ing of the Gedney ghost, waited upon
his master with unusual Intelligence.
Fit; heated water on the oil stove,
found a lamp and lighted It and held
It, together with the torch, while the
doctor skillfully washed and dressed
the wound. When It was bound and
a pillow placed under the Injured
man's back the doctor administered a
strong stimulant and presently Wil
liam Gedney opened his wild, dark
eyes and searched tbo physician's
countenance.
"Edmonds!" he gasped. "You? How
did you come here?"
"A telephone message," said the doc
tor quickly. "And you, William, you
hnvo escaped?"
Gedney nodded wearily. "Sit down,
and I will tell you all," ho said.
His story •was brief and to the point
He declared that ho had been innocent
of the crime charged against him. Al
though there had been a fight and a
shot had been fired, ho swore that ho
had not held the weapon. Ills com
panions had scattered, leaving him
with the body of Tom Collins—to Ikj
the scapegoat
Circumstantial evidence was against
him, and to save his client Gedney's
lawyer had pleaded self defense; henco
the life sentence.
"I've always intended to escape,"
muttered Gedney, "and at last came
the opportunity. I grasped It My
first thought was to come home here. |
I arrived this evening at dusk. The
place was home to me, although there j
remained none of my dear ones to
welcome me, the black sheep of the
family. Doctor, I may have been wild
and foolish, but my hands are innocent j
of blood.
"1 came arooi—i naa iraveicu u.i
night—and at last I reached hero, pain- J
ed nil entrance through the pantry win
dow and went up to my mother's room.
I—I was going to pray there and ask
their forgiveness—you understand," he
ended brokenly.
MI had reached the upper hall when |
I met a man; It was Tom Collins' I
brother! He was carrying a candle,
and ho looked old and ragged and un- I
kempt. When he saw mo ho gate |
chase, screaming madly that he would J
kill ma I was unarmed, and 1 was
weak from lack of food. lie pursued
me op the attic stairs to this room, and
there he stabbed me, leaving me for
dead on the flo'or. It was a welcome
sound Indeed to hear your ring at the
door! I suppose I must go back to
prison, but I think I have solved the
mystery. Jim Collins killed his broth
er. That Is why ho has hidden away
here, a prey to his own guilty con
science. lie must hare lived a hermit
life for several years. A fellow pris
oner told me that Jim had dlsappear
ed from his usual haunts. I hope—1
pray that he has left a confession of
some kind that will clear my name!"
Leaving Josiah in care of the sick
man. Dr. Edmonds went back to his
horse and drove rapidly in the direc
tion of the railroad station. He sus
pected that the tieelng Collins had In
a moment of contrition telephoned from
some pay station to the doctor's house
so that Gedney's wound might be at
tended to.
Dr. Edmonds found a strange situa
tion at the tittle railroad station.
A Strang man had found shelter
there during the thunderstorm. He
was a ragged looking tramp. He had
entered the wire cage where the pub
lic telephone was placed and had used
the telephone. As he finished speak
ing there came a crackling hiss, and
a bolt of lightning ruined the Instru
ment and sent the man senseless to
the floor.
The station agent had vainly tried
to reach Dr. Edmonds, and his appear
ance now was taken as a matter of
fact
There wan little ho could do for Jim
Collins savo to take his dying state
ment aud confossiou that he was his
brother's murderer. IIo bad heard
that tho Gedney place was deserted,
and ho resolved to conceal himself
there with Ills gnawing remorse. lly
night ho stole out aud bought food aud
tobacco, tramping many miles to tho
next village.
When the sun rose over the rain
swept mountains Jim Collins breathed
his last
Dr. Edmonds went back to the man
In the Gedney house with freedom In
his hands.
William Gedney, exonerated of the
charge, took possession of Ills proper
ty and In the course of time married.
Children play around the pleasant
lawns, for the pine grove has been cut
down, and sunshine enters every nook
and cranny of the old house and
grounds.
But nothing can givo back to Wil
liam Gedney the lost years spent be
hind prison bars.
GOOD NEWS
'' ❖/
I Many Alaska Kcn<lers Have
It ami Profited Thereby >.
"GooJ news travels fast," and
th© bad back sufferers In this
vicinity are glad to learn where
relief may be found. Many a lame,
weak and aching back is bad no
nioro, taanks to Doan's Kidney Pills.
Thousands upon thousands of peo
ple are telling the good news of
their experience with this tested
remedy. Here is an example worth
reading:
F. H. Wieland, 1002 E. 4let
St., Los Angeles, Cal., says; "For
a long time I suffered from pain
in the small o* my back and I
could scarcely get around. My kid
neys were disordered and th© kid
ney secretions were highly colored
and irregular in passage. Doan's
Kidney Fills relieved the lameness
and weakness and ' removed all
trouble with the kidneys. I have
had 110 return of the complaint."
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kedney remedy—
get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same
that Mr. Wieland had. Foster
Milburn Co., Frops., Buffalo, N. Y
J. IKUTA
manufacturing
JEWELER
WATCHES
AND CLOCKS
Curios, Ivory Carvings
Indian Baskets
China and Cut Glass
O&cial Watch Inspector for the
W. P. & Y. Route
Mail Orders given prompt care
RAW FURS
WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR F!NE FURS
iY ill fH FOR PRICE LIST
Jersey's Fur House
0<!.koah, • Wi»con«in
trxK HKAOWAY
Pioneer Dairy
R. f ?EKMAN, Prop.
THE 5MITHW MILK BMM
The larjeet aad bait corn
ducted ir^ 1b Alaska.
Dally sb'.pESKtg of pur*
milk ami cream to all polmta
oi White Pa«8 ft Yuko*
Route.
fttiKMu Steamship £o.
C. 8. MAIL STEAMER
eorgia
Elecric Lighted. SMui Heated.
SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS
Sailing Date* aid Steamer Sub
ject to Change Without Notice
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaven Juueau for Douglaj, Fum
Hooaah, Gypauin, Teaakee,
IvilllsnDo, Chatham aid Sitka
EVEKY WEDNESDAY AT 12:»1
v m.
Juneau-Skagway Route
U>i #t» Skagway for Halaee, El
drvd Kock, Comet, Jualla, Sentin
>1 Island, Eagle Klver, Douglaa
»i.d Juneau,
EVERY SUnDAY AT 12:01 a.
WILLIS E. LOWELL, Manager.
SWAT THE FLY
Don't go fishing without good
flies. Trout are taking the fly
tbtse fine days, and you'll find the
greai06t assortment of good flies i'
t tu at Keller Bros. Drug Co. A
few favorite onee we name: Yel
low Jacket, Montreal, Governor
(red lip) Grey Hackle, Black
Hackle, Governor Black Hackle
(peacock body), Black Gnat, Grey
Drake, English Admiral, Seth. Green
Grey Hackle (gTean l>ody) White
Miller, Dusty Miller. >