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Generally speaking one cannot object t<> t' e protest of the White Pass
& Yukon Route people for their chagrin over 'he fact that the Alaska Rail
Road from Seward to Fairbanks is very seriously threatening its Income
and thereby Its existence. Government competition with private enter
prise is usually disastrous 10 the private institution. It turns economic |
conditions topsy-turvy, and frequently destroys capital that was invested in .
good faith, and which has rendered valuable service in the development of |
a country, often at great risk. And the White Pass & Yukon Route In Its J
day has rendered a great service to the people of the Yukon and Alaskan .
Interior countries.
However, the Alaska Railroad will render a service to the people of the
Alaskan Interior that the White 1'ass was unable to perform. The devel
opment of Alaska demanded a means of transportation thht would contin
ue throughout the year. The While P;tss could deliver freight and pussca- |
gers into Fairbanks, for Instance, for I.ut four months in the year. It was
compelled to charge a high taritt for it was limited to these four months in
which to earn enough t maintain its organ .-.at ion and yield returns on in
vestment throughout the ..car. '1 ■: conditions were such that the interior I
of Alaska would soon have become pract cally useless to the White Pass—
or any one else. Tl;>- buildini: .1 ruined from the coast to the Yukon
waterway a thousand miles or so below t e Canadian line was a necessity
to save a great American territory for the us.- of the people who live there
those who are to come there and those wl o d<> business with them, ft w.ib
for tills purpose that the Alaska railroad was built, not because the White]
i'ass 4: Yukon Route was the product ot' English capital. Eugl.sh capital
f as the same right to protection in the I'unittd States as any other capital
that is Invested in legitimate enterprise Th:it is generally recognized, and
that is why it was so e .sy in tl • old da. » .en there was plenty of English
capital for foreign investment, to get money in England for use in Ainer
I
The fact Is that the Alaska Railroad serves a section of the country i
that is not logically White Pass territory. It will enable the people of the)
American Yukon to eet goods delivered twelve months In the year. The j
merchants there will not ha*e to carry -tocks of goods through the greater |
part of the year. It will n.-ike it possible to do business with smaller cap- J
ital. save insurance, storage and other costs.
The future of the old White Pass & Yukon Route, wnich has played |
such an important part in tiie commercial and industrial history of the I
north during the last score <>1 .<-irs. thereby justifying the faith and en
terprise of Its buiiders. will <l"p id largely upon the development of the
country that is logically its ten tor>—t: e Canadian Yukon. Northern Rrlt
ish Columbia, and the American territory that lies not too distant from
liawson. May this come abundantly, and development at Mayo and else
where is encouraging, and may ti.p White Pass have years on years of
which its owners and managers may have cause for even greater pride than
they rightfully have In her past.- Juneau Empire.
Register or You Icse Your Vote!
KETCHIKAN STHOOI. NOTES—EDITORIAL
One of the most successful musicals ever given in Ketchikan was the
one staged last Tue*d;i> evening by .Mr Woodliu for the benefit of tlie high
school athletic association, which netied one hundred and sixty-five dol
lars.
Much credit for this success must bo given Mr. Wonafin, who, for the
lust several mouths has been working with tireless energy. Not only must
praise be given him for this but for other deeds as well. Has he not train
ed a (jlee Club that is a credit to tlie school, and has he not taken an ac
tive part In all school activities? Ho certainly has.
The Community Orchestra Is also to be given credit. Were it not for j
their playing giving variety and pep to tlie performance the muslcale might j
have been less successful. They are to be congratulated upon their talent
and excellent playing.
The readings and solus also helped to make the program a success and
all those who took part are heartily thanked for their services.
All in all, the program showed what talent there is in the school and
the community, and we are sure it Is ti e w sh of all that performances
such as these continue.—Ketchikan Chronicle.
POISON BOOZE KII.I.S FOI'RTH CI.EVEI.AVDER
The fourth death since the first of the year was today laid at the door j
of Cleveland bootleggers. The latest victim of poison booze, police claim.
Is John Burden, 26. who was found dead in his home today.
His wife. Inez Burden, told police he had been drinking heavily since
the first of the week, and that she was forced to leave him Wednesday. Po- i
lice believe he died Wednesday night from alcoholism.—Associated Press I
dispatch from Cleveland.
REGISTER or YOU can't VOTE
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Cop/rif at, IUM, utile, Brown m oxnpiaj)
Resides. she remembered with a
.tladdeiilng heart that Rlchards. one
of the rangers. had heen a student at j
a medical college and had taken a po
sition with the forest service to re- j
gain his health. She would cross the j
ridge to the station, phone for a doc- >
tor In the valleys, and would return
on horsphack with Richards for such ■
Hrst nld as he could give. The only j
problem that remained was that of
getting her father Into the house.
He was stirring a little now. Rvl- j
ilentl) consciousness was returning to
him. And then she thanked heaved !
for the tew simple lessons In first aid
that her father had taught her in the 1
days iH'fore carelessnpss had come 1
upon him. One of his lessons hail
been thai of carrying an unconscious
human form—a method by which even
a woman may carry, for a short dis
tance. a heavy mar.. Ii was approxi
mately the method used In carrying
wounded In No Man's l.and: the hodv
thrown over the shoulders, one anr
through the fork of the legs ro th.>
wounded man's hand, tier father was
noi a paillcnlarly heavy man mid she |
>vas au exceptluimIly strung yuunt;
frnmp In the pine needles. The trees |
themselves were motionless. That |
peculiar sound, not greatly different '
from that of running water which the i
wind ufteu makes In the pine tops,
was entirely lacking. Not that she i
could he deceived bv It—as stories !
tell thai certain tenderfeet. dying of |
thirst In the barren hills, have been.
Rut she always liked the sound; and
she missed It especially tonight.
She felt that If she would stop to
listen, there would be ninny faint
sounds In the thickets—those little
hushed • noises thul the wild things '
make to remind night-wanderers of !
their presence. Hut she did not in
rlit* least care to hear these .sounds. ,
The) do not tend towfc'd peace of
mind on a Ions walk over the ridges. i
The wilderness began at once. .
Whatever influence toward clvllizu '
tlon her father's house had brought to j
the wilds chopped off as beneath a
blade lu the first fringe of pines. This |
Is altogether characteristic of the Ore- j
gon forests. Tliey are much too hi*. ]
and loo old to be tamed In any large (
degree by the presence of obe house, i
No one knew this fact better than I
Lennox himself who. In a hard win
ter of four years before, had looked |
out of his window to find the wolf j
pack ranged In a hungry circle about |
his house. Within two hundred *anl> |
after she bad passed through her fa [
tlier's door, she was perfectly a wart I
that the wild was stirring and throb I
bing with life about her. At first she i
tried very hard to think of other j
things. ISut the attempt wasn't en- I
tlrely a success. And before she had I
covered the ttrst of the twelve miles. |
the sounds that from the first had .
been knocking at the door of her con |
sciousness began to make an entrance I
If a person lies still long enough, he
cau usually hear his heart beating |
and the flow of his blood lu his i
arteries. Any sound, no matter how j
faint, will niuke Itself heard at last ,
It was this way with a very peculiar |
noise that crept up through the silence
from the trail behind her. She (
wouldn't give it any heed at first. But '
In a very little while Indeed. It grew i
so Insistent that she could no lunger
disregard Jt.
Some living creature was trotting I
along on the trail behind, keeping ap- |
proximately the same distance be- I
tween them.
Foregoing any attempt to Ignore K.
she set her cool young mind to think- j
lug what manner of beast It might be.
Its step was not greatly different from I
that of a large dog—except possibly a j
dog would have made slightly more
noise. Yet she couldn't even be sure '
of this basic premise, because this |
animal, whatever it might be. had at i
first seemingly moved with utmost j
caution, but now took less care with j
Its step than Is customary with the
wild denizens of the woods. A wolf, i
for Instance, can simply drift when It j
wishes. t:nd the silence of a cougar Is
a name. Vet unless her pursuer were
a dog, which seemed entirely unlikely. I
It was certainly one of these two. She
would have liked very much to believe
the step was that of Old Wolf the
boar, suddenly curious as to what this
dim light of hers might be; but she
couldn't bring herself to accept the
lie. Woof, except when wounded or
cornered Is the most amiable crea
ture in the Oregon woods, and It
would give her almost a sense of se
curity to have him waddling along |
behind her. The wolves and cougar,
remembering the arms of Woof, would j
not be nearly so curious. But mifor
tunately. the - black bear had never
done such a thing Tn the memory of
man, and If he had. he would have
made six times as much noise. He
can go fairly softly when he Is stalk
ing. but when he Is obliged to trot
as he would be obliged to do to keep
up with a swift-walking human figure
-he ' rucks twigs like a rolling lor
biiV UaU UiC liuyiwddluil UlUi Uic «iii <
woman. Slip know (if once that this
problem \v»g solved.
The hardest part was lifting Mm to
her shoulders. Only by calling upon
her Inst ounce of strength, and tuff
Ring upward with her arms, was she
, ahle in ilo It. But It was fairly ea«y.
j In her d'sperution. to carry him down
the bill. What n st she got she took
i by leaning against a tri'e, the limp
I body still across her shoulders.
It was a distance of one hundred
yards In all. No muscles hut those
• trained by the outdoors, no lungs ex
I rept those made strong by the tnoun
i tain nlr. could have stood that test.
| She laid hiii) on his own bed. on the
i lower lloor. and set his broken limbs
| the best she could. She covered htm
up with thick, fleecy blankets, and set
I a bottle of whisky heslde the bed.
i Then she wrote a note to Dun an.1
fastened It upon one of the Interior
doors.
I She drew on her hob-nailed boots—
j needed sorely for the steep clltnh—
and pocketed her pistol. She thrust a
i handful of Jerked venison Into the
' pocket of her coat and lighted the lan
! torn. The forest night had fallen, soft
| ami vibrant and tremulous, over the
r beads of ihe dark trees wlieu she
| started out.
CHAPTER IV
Snowbird felt very glad of her Inti
mate, accurate knowledge of the
' whole region of the Divide. In her In
' fiinr.v 'hr winding trulls hud been her
playground. and lone ago she had ac
ciulred the mountaineer's sixth sense
for traversing tlieni at night. She had
need of that knowledge now. She
slipped into Iter free, swinging stride;
and the last beams from the windows
of the house were soon lost In the
pines behind her. It was one of those
si'ent. breathi'ss nights with which
no mountaineer Is entirely uiiacquaint
I ed. and Tor a long time the only sound
I she could hear was Ijt own soft
mal behind had been pass'ng III:#
| smoke at fi:st. but wasn't taking the
| trouble to do It now.
i The sound was a soft pat-pat on the
; trail—sometimes entirely obliterated
! but always recurring when she began
i to believe tlml she had only fancied
i Its presence. Sometimes a twig, min
imised though it wns. cracked beneath
'■ a heavy foot, and again and ngaln
I she heard the brush crushing and
. rustling as something passed through.
Sometimes. when the trail was cov
ered with soft pine needles. It was
: practically Indistinguishable.
! The nnin:a! was approximately one
hundred feet behind. It wasn't a wolf,
, she thought. The wolves ran In packs
' tins season, anil except in winter were
i more afraid of human beings than any
1 other living creature. It wasn't a lynx
—one nf those curiosity-devoured lit
! tie felines that will mew all day on a
! trail and never dare come near. It
] was much too large for a lynx. The
feet fell too solidly. There were no
dogs in the mountains to follow at
' heel: and she bad no dps're whatever
! to meet Sling, the Tnlthful hybrid that
| used to be her guardian In the hills.
; For Shag had gone to Ids well-de
I served rest several seasons before.
Two other possibilities remained. One
I was that this fn1 lower was a human
i being, the other tKt It was a cougj.r.
Ordinarily a h«i:>an Ileitis Is much
more potentially d.ni erous to n worn
I an in the hills it night then a cougar. |
i A cougar Is an abject coward and
some men are not. Hut Snowbird felt i
| herself entirely capable of handling
| any human foes. They would have no
advantage over her; they would have
! no purpose in killing from ambush; ;
; and she trusted to her own marks- I
i manshlp Implicitly. While It Is an *X
i tretnely dllilcnlt thing to shoot at a
| cougar I calling front the thicket, a tall
j man standing on a trail presents an
i easy target. Besides, she had a vague i
sense of discomfort that if this animal j
were a cougar, he wasn't acting true j
i to form, lie was altogether too bold, j
\ The animal on the trail behind her
! was taking no care at all to go sllent
I ly. lie was simply pit-patting along, j
I wholly nt his ease. He acted as If the j
fear that men have Instilled In his |
| breed was somehow missing. And |
that <8 why she instinctively tried to
j hurry on the trail.
I The step kept pace. For a long i
mile, up a barren ridge, she beard !
j every step It made. Then, as the
i brush closed deeper around her, she
| couldn't hear It ut all.
| She hurried on, straining to the
I silence. No. the sound was Stop]led.
I Could It he that the animal, fearful at
I last, hnd turned front her trail? And
then for the first time « gasp that J
i was not grentlv different from ft de
| spairing soli caught at her throat. She
heard the steps again, and they were j
In the thickets Just beside her.
• «•••••
Two hours before Snowbird had left
the house, on her long tramp to the
ranger station. Dan had started home.
He hadn't shot until sunset, as he had
planned. ,
He rode one of Lennox's cnttle j
ponies, the only piece of horse-flesh
that Bill had not taken to the valleys
when he had driven down the live
stock. She was a pretty bny, a splr- j
ited, high-bred mare that could whip i
about 011 her hind logs at the touch of |
the rein on her neck. She made good j
time along the trail. And an hour be
fore sunset be passed the only human j
habitation between the marsh and :
! Lennox's house—the cabin that had I
been recently occupied by Landy Hil- j
dreth.
He glanced nt the place as1 he
passed and saw that It was deserted. I
No smell of wood smoke remained In
1 the air. Evidently l.andy had gone
down to the settlements with his !
precious testimony in regard to the ]
I arson rins. Vet It was curious that 1
uu vwrii UuJ bccii huuivl ui Iiiiu. As
She Heard the Steps Again.
rar dS 'f^.it" kn£\f. neitner rne coons !
nor the forest service had taken ac
tion.
He hurried on. four miles farther, j
Ttie trail entered the heavy thickets,
and he had to ride slowly. It was at
wild a section as could he found on
the whole Divide. And Just a.-; he
came to a little cleared space, three
stnwire dark birds flung up on wide
spreading wings.
He knew them at once. AH moun
taineers come to know them before
their days are dune. 'i'liey Mere tlje
buzzard*. the followers of the dead.
And what they were doing in tlie
thicket Just hedde the trail. Pan did
not dare to think.
Of course *hey tniiiht he feeding on
the hody of < deer, mortally woi nded
hy some hunter. He resolved to ride
hy without iuvestlcntlng. He glanced
up. Ti e hu7.7.nrds were hovering In
the sky evidently waiting for him to
pass. Then, tuostlv to relieve a curi
ous sense of discomfort In his own
mind, he stopped his horse and dis
mounted.
The twilight hart started to fall, and
already Its first grnyness had beenn
to soften the harder lines of forest
and hill. And after his first glance at
'he cur!ous white heap beside the
trail, he was extremely glad that It
had. Rut there wa« no chance to mis
take the thing. The elements and
much more terrible agents had each
wrought their change, yet there was
crlsly evidence in plenty to show what
had occurred. Dan didn't doubt for
an Instant but that It was the skele
ton of I.andy Hlldreth.
He forced himself to go nearer. The
bu77.nrds were almost done, and one
white hone from the shoulder gave un
mistakable evidence of the passage of
a bullet. What had happened there- !
after, he could only cuess.
He cot back quickly on his horse.
He understood, now. why nothln? had
heen heard of the evidence that IJtndy
Hlldreth was to turn over to the
courts as to the activities of the arson
ring. Pome one—prohahly Bert Cran
ston himself—had been waiting on fhe
frail. Others had come thereafter.
And his lips set In his resolve to let
this murder measure In the debt he
had to pav Cranston.
The I.ennox house seemed very si
lent when, almost sn hour later, he
turned his horse Into the corral. He
bad rather hoped 'hat Snowbird would
be at the door to meet h'tn. The dark
ness had Inst fallen, and all the lamps
were lighted. He strode Into the liv
ing room, warming his hands an In
stant beside the fireplace. The Are
needed fuel. It had evidently been
neglect.*] for ne-rlv an lipur.
(Continued on Tuesday)
SKAGWAT
PTIATERXAI, ORDERS
Camp Skagway Xo. 1
meet* every second and
fourth Tomtay evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
Ing brother* cordliJly welcome.
i. M. Keller. L. 8. Keller,
i Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Skaz
waj UxJrp, No. 481, B.
P. O. Elks iwrtJ cverj
TharmUr at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cop
(hall) welcome.
J. C. WOOD, E. R.
P. J. VAXDEWALL, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge F. & A.
M. No. 11S, meets 2nd and
4th Saturday errninR* of
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
F. J. Van de Wall, W. SL
T. J. StandLth, Secretary.
Fraternal Order of
Eagles
Skag-waj Aerie, No. 23,
Fraternal Order of
Eagles, meet the first
and third Wednesday nlghf of each
month at their hall on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brothers cordially in
vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. Grlesbach, 9et'j,
Naomi Chapter No. 0
O. K. 8., meets in Ma
sonic hall, first and
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visli lng tiifnibm wclcome.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Kpeer, Secretary.
PROFESSION 41, CARDS
w. ii. sTorr
Attorney at Law
Practice in all court*
In Territory of Alaska
RAINES ALASKA
DR. L. S. KKU.KK
Dentist
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NOTICE
When yon want anything tnon-d
Trunks, Bicpge or anything else.
Call np the John Williams, U S.
Transfer Co. Also wood. 18 lncn,
delivered. 14 60, and coal, per ton,
delivered, $16.50. Phone 56.
OU&LTREUEVES CATARRH!
OF THE
I BLADDER
K AND ALL
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fg SAFE 1 SHXESSFUl
W Each C»p- /—v ;
Dan Sutherland
For
Delegate to Congress
A«ks the voters of Alaska to endorse his record of the
past year In Congress, by voting for his re-noralna
tion at the Republics primary on April S3, 1022.
Delegate Sutherland has diligently and persist
ently sought to secure enactment of legislation that
would be for the benefit of all the people of Alaska
and aid in the development of the Territory.
—Paid Advertisement.