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A HKCOGNITIOX JISTI.Y 1>1 i:
The report given out by Colonel Steese of his recent extensive trip to
nnd over a large part of interior Alaska points to a break in the cloud
that has lone hovered like a wet horse blanket over the Territory. The
•Alaska Road Commission, of which Colonel Steesi- is Commissioner in
charge. is one of the few departments of the government that is function
ing at d getting results. Its duties are to build roads and it is performing
t: !-m. Any community that wants a road and can show the road officials
that its claim is well based and has merit will get it—if not at once, as
speedily as possible. All needed roads can not he constructed in one year
—or In several years—but if the present organization is continued and al
lotted the "wherewith" by Congress. Alaska will ere-long have a system of
roads that will do much toward opening a vast expanse of territory that is
now practically inaccessible. The organization of which Colonel Steesi is
iu «".arge is composed of men who do things and Alaska is the beneficiary
—something new for her, to be sure, and she appreciates the ovation.—
Stroller's Weekly.
kki'ok>im:>.
By WAI.T MASON".
Reformer# all are restless jays never quit reforming we see thorn
hump, through all their ilav, on helpful errands swarming
s v. t>rld is tu-v.'r good enough to suit these busy beavers: to every
thing that's bunk or tough they'd hand their shining cleavers; they're al
w.t - 01 t'.te trail of sin. aud when one sin they smother, they do not take
their signboards in. but go and hunt another. And some are tinhorn little
sins that do not seem to matter, but still reformers raise their din. and bore
us with tht .r chatter.
A lot of us believe that this globe is worth what it cost us. and it's no
feet sphere—that fact seems plain and simple—a world without a sight or
tear, without a boil or pitnpi-■ And we're inclined to say. "Gee whiz!
what is the t:-e of storming? T/.e world'.-. .1 daisy as it is. go why keep oil
reform in;:" Why not o'erlook an ill or two. and bless this good old plan
If we all talkv.1 tins v\.,y. tin-thinks, this lift' would be serener. but oh.
the wild reforming uinks must make the old world cleaner. They snoop
around v it'i ar.\iuus care, iti ever grow ng numbers: if there's a tlyspeck
anywhere tin - can't enjoy their slumbers. In every log they'd drive their
weilsc. and entry pie they'd finger, and so they keep us all on edge while
At last they die and pull their freight across the stream of Jordan, and
-how t .-ir ri c >rd at the gate, and get rewards airordin*. I have no doubt
reformers all to Paradise are carried, when they are summoned from this
ball, that they so long ha\<- harried.
I often wonder how they act when in the realm otysian; do they con
s of gold and praise the shining rixcr. or do their saintly feet get
cold, and do ttiey roasts deliver?
eriiicismc weird, throughout the bright dominions: they do not like Saint
Hot' r's 1' ard. or Noah's pair of pinions. And each reformer says his
crown Is punk, he has been slighted; they'll turn the whole place upside
down unless their wrongs are righted. They wander through the sacred
groves, to see just w hat is doing, and meet some angels chewing cloves, and
then suspect home brewing.
lit ;.ven is. they say. behind the times is needs a jtidue and jailer, and
John the Baptists'* robes are crimes—lie ought to fire his tailor. They
srwt tobarro in the air and clamor for a sheriff, they want inspectors
everywhere, to bother saint and seraph.
Can you imagii:-.s all that bunch in peace and quiet dwelling; there is
no grapejuice with their lunch, and so they keep on yelling.
KETCHIKAN HAS
BIG FUTURE I
PULP INDNI5TRY
\rw York Lnnibcr Concern I*
Crrtttly Inlon'Mifl in He
sources of I)i>I rii't.
In a letter from Mr. Harry
t'hrimes. of the Chethain Log and
Lumber, New York City, who visit
ed the Ketchikan district last year,
making estimates of the timber :>nd
water power of the section with re
gard to putting »n a pulp mill, he
gives the good news that he is
still interested in the district aud
its possibilities.
Mr. Chrimes complimented tne
local post of the American Legion
lor its Fourth of July edition of
the Chronicle. As regards that is
sue (he letter says: "To my mind it
is further proof to the people ol
the great North American Cintiuent
that Alaska has enormous resources
and the able way these are brought
forward in your issue should tend to
induce capital to make a bir effort,
and develop the natural resources of
a great country."
The letter goes on further to
state that Mr. Chrimes is still
greatly interested as to the pulp
possibilities of the Ketchikan dis
trict. and the concluding paragraph
is full of encouragement reading:
"As you are awarae, I am anxiouss
to see apulp mill in Ketchikan, and
Governor Scott C Hone's reference
to that commodity, as capable of be
ing manufactured wihout limit in
Alaska, is extremely gratifying."
The letter is typical of a great
many received by local businessmen
in that it shows the interest of out
side capital in the other resources
of the country besides those already
yielding profit. Ketchikan san rest
assured that her entry into the pulp
industry is not far distant.
The Mystery of I
Hartley House!
*. 1
By
CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND
Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS
Copyright by George H. Doran Co.
"i nave iio reason at all."
"Thru yon will come to Hartley
hi>u*e as I suggested?"
"Sure, If jou can get nie there with
out killing me."
I made the necessary arrangements,
and Amies set out on hi;r return. In
iui ambulance.
The servant who openeJ the door as
we drove up was Jed.
I could not help showing by a start
and by the expression on my face that
I u:i^ astonished by his reappearance.
This plea-ed him. When he acted he
lUt'd to produie e fleets. He looked In
quiringly at the auibulniice and then
Inquiringly at me. By that time I was
able to accept hliu as a usual part of
the household.
"Oct someone to help you with h
stretcher, Jt'd." I said. "J^ue.s. a maid,
lias been hurt. Then teli .Urs. Aldrich
I should like to see her it the olliec as
soiui as it is convenient."
"Yes. sir." said Jed.
Mrs. Aitlrleh came imr i-diately, and
I tiiltl her the girl Agnus was to be
treated with every consideration and
that if it were possible to have the
"titer maids retard her kindly so as
not to ir.ake her feel obloquy. 1t would
j be only < 'hristlan.
Mrs. .Milrbli vvns a very standi
ohurchwoniiin and 1 m!;I see In tlip
tightening of lit-r lips that such soft
treatment of n woman caught In crime
did not satisfy her Ideas of morality.
She went out dissatisfied, but I knew
she would do tier best. Jed came In,
still In lils siipiTservieeah'e mood.
"Would vou like some corfi*e. sir?"
lie asked. 1 whs tired mil did want
a stimulant.
"Yes. Jed i would—thank you." I
said .is heartily as 1 could, determined
to break down his triumph of imper
turbability ' \ a commonplace handling
of h!m. He brought the tmy.
"S t down." I said, "\otir schemes
have come to a bnd end in this house.
It * 111 do > mi no good. and It may de
stroy the f.'nlly. Things are beyond
your control or mv control. The Span
lard tins the manuscript he was after.
Your • i «i-r is gone. It Is transferred
to him."
"S" you are fnmllinr with this af
fair:"
"I am not. I only know what hn«
happened since I en me litre. I do not
"You are wise. There Is nothing bur
nnhap' ness and fldiacr in knowlm:.
It Is not news to me that Drnrndn has
■
nft"r they learned that the manuscript
had b •" found imd Hint the lawyer
.Ted then sat down ar.il told what
had happened to him. I wns very
ansr rt-inembering Isohel as slie came
htmi' :ig in that night with her sleeve
tern from her waist. 1 wondered that
I could bear the man cilnily. but he
had extraordinary power being moved
by extraordinary emotions.
"In the first place." lie said, "may T
sav that I have been preposterous?
Yon think 1 am a lunatic. Sometimes
I am. almost. It is easy enouitli to he
a cabbage If you are one. It is some
times hard to seem one If you are not
I've been a fool—but I've been lutntinc
for somethlup that 1 have not been
able to find. 1 want happiness and Im
portance. My egotism asks for It. hut
my common sense Is going to have Its
way. That's preliminary."
Then he told his experiences. He
had become violent with Isohel. He
wanted it understood that he had been
desperate but respectful lie had no
ld'*a of taking hold of her or of tear
In:: her sleeve. She had been magnifi
cent. She had siv en liltn a moral
shock. He felt like a vvi rm. He had
been attaeked suddenly hy the men
who had overpowered him. They had
come upon him from the brush. He
had recognized Pravada lit once. He
micht have overcome the Spaniard, but
the desperate little lawyer, in a frenzy
of activity, had been Just hold and
strong enough to Interfere so that Jed
had been made helpless. Another man
had come breathlessly to help. Jed
had been bound and gagged. He hart
been hustled Into the screen of woods
anil beyond them to a waiting auto
mobile.
Ilk captors. in tup auiomoniie. nnu
headed fir the city and entered It after
midnight. They had taken their pris
oner to n tenement on l lie East side.
Kor several days the lawyer antl Prn
vada had tried to extort the secret
from Ji'd by threats. They had tried
to buy It by promise of an equitable
division of profits. The lawyer had
been quite frantic part of the time.
,T«sl said, boundlnc about in an ecstasy
of rage. At other times he had been
friendly and persuasive.
Pravadn had been savage and want
ed to try torture, but the attorney, en
raced as he frequently became In his
failure and disappointment. would not
permit this and had cot a trustworthy
rascal of his acquaintance, named Sim.
with two other men. to keep a con
stant guard over Jed with a view not
only to prevent his escape but to keep
i Pravadn from doing him harm or tak
I inir htm away.
I The lawyer, both dismayed and en
raged by Jed's obstinacy, had finally
thought of corrupting someone In the
house to find and steal the manuscript
The best he had been al le to do was
to persuade a maid to prove false
enough to««tntcodu£e the real thief.
"*"l >111 villi 11 nni! [In1 lawyer never hint
any b«*!t;bey "t hex-lip their qnarrei*
in tlii' room where they held me," Jed
snlil. "Brown wns afraid Dravada
would corrupt llie fellow Sim. torture
tne aivl set llie story. Dravada was 1
nfrnld Brown would corrupt someone j
In Hartley house and pet the manu
script. Kach one feared that the
other would succeed Independently
anil cot away without tuaklnc a dlvl- I
si on.
"Dravada pretended to be satisfied
when Brown told him that he mnsi
not appear near Hartley. When th°y
thought they were going to succeed Ir
stealins the manuscript our of my
room Brown proved to Dravada that
the only one of them that could RO to
meet the maid was Rrown. Dravada
appeared to accept that as reasonable,
and he must have put Rrown off li's
cuard. because Brown told him all the
plans.
"Dravada used to be very sMtnld.
but his cupidity has Riven him a sol
of intelligence. He allowed Rrown to
think he was perfectly satisfied, but
he wasn't at all By seemlus ,>p
satisfied lie learned all about the de
tells of the plan, and he knew that
Brown, to avoid pursuit. Intended to
take the way to Horwich.
"lie know that it tirown «om
throuch Horwlch hi" would stop for
several drinks. II.• would need them
If he was disappointed. Ho would have
to have thom If lie Itnd the manuscript
and was excited hv It. So Prnvadn
wont to Horwlch. It alt worked out.
and when Brown cot to the village ho
found Pravndn. Then ho telephoned
to the fellow Sim to let me go. I was
perfectly harmless. It was an Inter
esting situation."
"I could wish Prtivada had tortured
you.** I said to Jed. "II'* has the
moans now. through you, to torture
this family."
"I said I know Pravada had the
manuscript." said .Toil. "I did that for
effect What I oucht to have said was
that I know he thought he had the
manuscript. If 1 had no more than the
Intelligence you credit me with, doctor.
I could not have conducted this alTalr
so lone. What Pravada has is not the
diary of Mr. Sidney."
riltll I felt the relief following .Tod's
explanation that the blackmailers had
stolen only a decoy, I did not fully
realize into what despondency our
predicament up to that time had
thrust me. If Mr. Sidney's diary were
being read hv unscrupulous men. we
might expect anything.
The lawyer, whose shrewdness and
lack of morals made him formidable,
was dead. The Spaniard would soon
discover his disappointment and would
he furious. 1 thought the physical
danger to .Ted was greater than »-\eT*
and found some pleasure in tellinc
him so.
lie was convinced of that himself
and was not happy.
"Why don't you end your rascalityT"
I urged him. "Why don't you give the
manuscript to Mrs. Sidney and allow
her to make whatever disposition she
wants of it? Then your conscience
will be easy—your position In this
house will for the first time be tolera
ble to a decent man, and your physi
cal security will be promoted."
He would not. He seemed to hesi
tate for a moment, but his purpose
was too long fixed and too much a
[ part of his life.
He no longer was su-ly with mo,
and I seemed to have lost my ability
to enrage h!tn. We parted with my
telling him that there would be no
possible truce or peace between us
unless he respected the women of the
household. He bowed.
"Anything else, sir?" he asked; and
then he departed a* the servant.
Mrs. Sidney's relief to find that
the robbery had proved only a hoax on
the robbers was such as would come
from escape from tangible horrors.
The lady had been keeping control of
herself, as was necessary to protect
her husband and daughter from her
own agony of mind and to keep the
household from finding significance In
what could be passed over as a triv
ial piece of robbery.
When she learned that the alarm
was over, she relaxed limply in her
chair, and I feared that she might
collapse; but In a moment she had
Jtruggled back to command of herself.
Then she excused herself and went
Into her bedroom—for prayer, I knew.
Mr. Sidney's Joy at the return of
Jed was robust, and Jed went to bod
very tipsy with two bottles of wine
In him. 1 found him in the hall as 1
went my rounds of the house. He
was singing.
1 knew we'd hear airain and soon
from I>ravada. but not In what man
ner. Naturally I was apprehensiv<
and no doubt Jed was more so. al
though to save himself from my c >
tempt he tried to conceal his fears.
The Spaniard could not be cxpe<-iet!
to accept his failure as final. He
would try again. That expectation
was fulfilled In a disconcerting fash
Ion.
Thus far we had been dentins with
chance, with apparitions and threats.
We now came to deal with inevitabil
ity. Our experiences had been disa
greeable, but they had not presented
unesrapahle consequence. We had r
choice of ways. Now we :r.terod i
way from which there was no es
cape.
(Continued on Saturday)
A lot of persons net as if they wnuid
like to have the law of cause and efr
[ feet repealed.
Pink Salmon
Run Is Large
At Ketchikan
Inspector Says ilint the Humpies
Are Hitting Southern
Part of Alaska.
Thai the Ketchikan section is get
ting a remarkably large run of
humpies or pink salmon, is the
statement of A. K. Nelson, inspector
for the National Canners' Associa
tion who has recently returned from
that section after a lour of inspec
tion of the companies :if71li:ited with
the association.
saw indi< .itions that the humpie
run was to he a It it; one. A1 Ketch
ican rreeit, running thru the city
of Ketchikan, the stream was black
with them. For the past several
years but few tish have been going
up t lis stream.
At various places that Mr. Nelson
was at he saw many of the fish
schooling and the tanneries were
beginning to gel then in quantities.
Not many of the canneries art- oper
ating and some had closed down for
the season.
In the .lueau section the pink sal
mon run w is an absolute failure this
season. The run in the Ketchikan
section is considerably later than
ordinary years.
A storm which swept Boring sea
last month is said to have been one
of the worst ever experienced In
the North. It lasted for a week
and besides wrecking the trading
schooner Gertrude at East Cape,
sent the steamship Ketchikan to
cover at Teller, forced the Ixitouche
to rnn for Si. Michael and caused
the coasting schooner Ram with a
number of passengers on hoard to
l>e posted as missing.
Rapid Progress is being made at
Hurricane nulch in throwing the big
steel arch across The American
liridge Company's frew has moved
some of its equipment across and
on Saturday and one bent of false
work and one panel of steel in
place. When this half of of the senii
I. ircle is completed the Immense
j jacks will be released ever so slight
ly and the two immense halves of
the bridge will drop together and
} be riveted there.
Georgetown I vi.- V. |ii> .T. Ward
i f:inm-r t : »i
hp l.i n inn. With it in spI'Ms he
sieji|H'il hi." t! !• lmc porch In the dark
A seven vi'iti
wagon anil :iU.i <ifii mil a broken
leg. ll<« wife *
ir.g to tlio-. >■ i alii ' ted.
Immigrants frem Red centers In Fn
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He s i'« . .1} i Tor ■ r.stlpatlon.
MS
On Child's Body ForThree
Months. Itched Awfully.
"My child was just full of pimples
for three months. Thepimples were
large and red and were scattered all
over her body. They itched some
thing awful. I tried all kinds of
things but nothing did anv good.
A friend told me to use Cuticun
Soap and Ointment and I did and
they healed my baby in less than
two weeks." (Signed) Mrs. E.
Tebaldi. 1427 Sherman St., Alameda,
Calif.. July 28. 1920.
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daily use of Cuticura Soap and occa
sional touches of Cuticura Ointment
as needed to soften, soothe and heal.
They are ideal for the toilet, as is
also Cuticura Talcum for perfuming.
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So\r3c. C -tTWPtSandBOc TakwcBe.
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PITARTM1VT OF THE INTERIOR
I'nit oil Stales Laml Offlre
Serial 04290
Juneau, Alaska, June 3.—1921.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Thomas Dixon Page of Haines, Alas
ka has submitted final three-year
proof in support of his homestead
entry serial 04290 for lands embrac
ed in 1". S. Survey No. 1243. situ
ated about five miles sounth of Chil
kat Village in latitude 59 degrees 09
minutes N. and longitude 135 de
grees 22 minutes W.; more partic
ularly described as follows:
Commencing at corner No. 1,
M. C. on the line of ordinary high
tide of Chilkat Inlet, whence W.
C. bears E. 1 04 chains, thence E.
62.57 chains to corner No J;
whence U. S. 1. M. No. 175 bears
N. 34 degrees 05 minutes E. 21.
S3 chains: thence S. 26.09 chains
to corner No. 3; thence W. 60.00
chains to corner No. 4 M. C. on
the line of ordinary high tide of
Chilkat Inlet; thenie meandering
the said Inlet <1) N. 4 degrees
29 minutes \V. 7.93 chains; (2)
N. 74 degrees 00 minutes W. 2
00 chains; (31 N. 53 degrees 15
minutes \V. 3 90 chains: (4 1 N
22 degrees 30 minutes W. 3 00
chains; (5) N. 46 degrees 15 min
utes E. 2.30 chains; (fi) S. 69 de
grees 15 minutes E. 230 chains:
(7) N. 69 degrees 15 minutes E.
3.00 chains; (S) N. 47 degrees
00 minutes E. 6.00 chains; (9)
N. 30 degrees 30 minutes E. 7.
50 chains to corner No. 1, the
place of beginning, containing an
area of 156.77 acres. Magnetic
variation 29 degrees 40 minutes
E.
FRANK A. BOYLE
Register.
First Publication June 18. 1921.
Final Publication; Aug. 27, 1921.