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Route of
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Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska -
During the winter season of 1916-17 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays.
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
Fnr full information applv to
C. W. CASH
nipt. Mail Servic.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
A. F. Z1PF
_0R— Traffic Manager
612 Sec and Ave., SEATTLE, Wash.
White Pass & Yukon Routs
T1MK TABLE .U 38.
Mop<1»7, Wednesday and Friday
2, 8. Bound
1st Class
S:50 p. m.
2:20 p. in.
1:30 p. m.
13:50 p. m.
10:48 a. m.
8:00 a. m.
Pasaengert most be M depot i« time to nave Baggage la*
•pected and checked. Inspection is atopped 80 ■ilnutew before
leaving time of train*. ■' —
150 poande of baggage will be checked free with each full
fare tick** and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
Nou 1. N. Bound 4 ; , , No.
1st CUm
8:30 a. m. Leaves 8KAGWAY Arrives
11:05 a. m. M WHITE PASS Loot**
11:45 a. m. " LOO CABLN "
12:40 p. m. " BENNETT
2.20 p. ni. " CARIBOU
4:50 p. in. Arrives WHITSHORSE "
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Skagway. Alaska
FOR SALE
On Fourth Avenue, adjoin
ing Fire Hall No. 2, lot
25x100 feet, described as the
west half of lot 11, block 8,
with a two story dwelling,
arlce 1 ■» l'| i'
Cash $300
Possession given at once.
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
Established in 1897
An Ingenious
Woman
A Story of the Days of
Witchcraft.
By F. A. MITCHEL
There was once a young man named
Conrad who married a girl named
Joan. They were vassals on the estate
of a baron who owned and ruled over
a great territory. The man and the
woman were both poor, and their
neighbors wondered how they would
pet on. Nevertheless they prospered,
and their prosperity was all on account
of Joan, who was very shrewd. One
thing puzzled those who knew her. She
did everything in a way so queer that
some of them thought her demented.
And yet her acts resulted to her bene
One person, and one person alone,
came to understand her—her husband.
Conrad was a stupid man, and it is
likely this was the reason why he came
to be an excellent auxiliary to his wifo.
Having no ideas of his own, he was
readily recipient of here. For tea
years she kept Instilling her way of
doing things into him. so that at last
not only could she trust him to follow
her lend, but at times to take the ini
tiative on her methods.
There was much warfare in a small
way in those days, attacks being made
by one suzerain upon another. In one
of these incursions upon the domain of
Baron Elginbrod, where Conrad and
bin wife lived. Count Hastings, the in
curslonist, took Conrad away with him,
having learned that he and his wife
had accumulated money, and held his
prisoner for ransom.
Conrad was thrown into prison and
told that he should stay there till he
paid the ransom. He remained a cap
tive some time, then sent word to his
captor to say thut if he would give him
a messenger he would send him to his
wife with an order to pay the ransom
The count at ouce furnished the mes
senger. and Conrad wrote the following
message to Joan:
Vv r>onr Wlf«wT wish VftU to DftV thfl
ransom demnnUed tojr t .urn 80
n,y release. 1 «»" '•»". ^ tonlght if
ram noHtr^ ^ *nj
fined'1'Your lovlns husband. CONRAD
TUi.-i letter was submitted to the count
who read It with satisfaction for. said
he -if the woman Is Inclined to dicker
ll' to the amount she shall pay. the
threat of her husband to hang hUnsel
will Influence her to pay anj sum T
osk." And he doubled the amount de
manded for the ransom.
When the messenger delivered the
note to Joan and she read her hus
band's threat to hang himself she fe
over in a faint The messenger did
what he could to revive her e
deavorcd to reassure her by po tottog
I out the impossibility of the prisoner
hanging himself in the chimney, since,
fn the first place. he had no rope ^
in tho second place. even If he had
J,;/,™, nothing I- •<>« 10
I sh0 would do so as soon as possibla]
She added a note begging ni
I ha„g himself, thus deprivlng her B.d
,he children of his care and the plea.
| ure of having him with them. ^ ^
The messenger went
count with Joan's letter, and
read with satisfaction, for It was e
carry It <>ut, that she would do all to
l,er power to raise the money for the
ransom So the message was del
Li to t'ourad. who read It. evidently
leased at the prospect of getting 3
U17week Pa^ed. and the night came
hi the prisoner's supper and set
that she might not be able to raise the
i^«wS5
bsrsS;
W"\VhvC then! did you name a.P«rlod
I insufficient for her to raise the ran
| because I did not wish her to lose
I H"yWeU.ei'in glad you have no reason
to hang yourself. For if you
Should have to sit up and watch you
j tonight, and 1 prefer to be asleep to
I msobthe jailer left his prlsoner to eat
, uls supper, and when he returned Con
: rod was snoring loudly on his cot The
keeper went away satisfied mat there
was no danger of tne prisoner theat
ing the count out of his ransom by MU
SS himself, and he. too, betook Urn
self to his bed and was soon snoring
as loudly as Conrad.
When the nest morning the Jailer
1 took Conrad's breakfast to him e£
pectins to see his prisoner sitting, as
i usual, at the table waiting for It, be
wob astonished nut to nee turn at aa
Moreover, there was a strange stillness
In the room, the silence of absence of
any living thing. The man, thinking
that, after all, hla prisoner might have
curried out bis threat, went to th®
chimney, fearing that he might see hla
body dangling there. There was noth
ing In the lower part, and, looking up,
he saw only u small patch of blue sky.
With fear and trembling the Jailer
sent word to the count that his prison
er had vanished. In order to shield
himself, he declared that he had heard
strange sounds overhead during the
night He believed that his prisoner
had carried out his threat to hang him
, 6elf and that witches had carried off
the body.
! That was an age when people, instead
of looking for natural causes, inferred
everything to supernatural Interfer
ence. The count so far leaned to the
Jailer's opinion that he did not look far
for a means of theprisoner's escape. He
examined the only.outlet, the chimney,
! and satisfied himself that Conrad could
not have climbed the flue. In those
days chimneys were very large, and
for one to work himself up a flue by
hla knees on one side and bis back on
the other was impossible. Conrad must
j hove hung bimse'f, and there was no
■ accounting for the disappearance of
the body except that the witches had
j carried it off.
1UC jailCla ougijcratiuu oa>cu mux
from punishment, and (lie count was
obliged to forego the ransom. He was
becoming reconciled to his disappoint
ment when one day a neighbor of Con
rad's came across the border and re
ported the suicide living at home in
comfort with his wife and children.
The count was astonished. Indeed,
he would not believe the report until
he had sent a spy into the enemy's
country to learn the truth. When the
spy returned aud said that he had seen
Conrad sitting before his door, the
count was convinced that he was there.
But the spy. believing that witches had
assisted C'onrad to got away, supposed
himself to bo mvlor I lie influence of his
Imagination. CoiirhI waw sitting mo
tionless at the time, and the spy got the
idea into his head that lie was a corpse.
He reported that he had watched the
figure ten long minutes, in all of which
time it made no motion.
The count, disgruntled at having lost
his ransom and not satisfied with his
spy's report, sent another, who saw
Conrad chopping wood. This disposed
of the theory that witches had carried
back the corpse of a suicide, and the
count determined to make a raid into
the domains of Count Elginbrod with
I a view tongalu carrying off the wealthy
Conrad.
Now, conrnd'si home was near the
border, and all the count had to do
was to send a forte across, kidnap Con.
rad and carry him uway before any of
the baron's forces could be brought to
protect him. Hut it happened that
Joan had been looking out of the win
dow when the second spy saw her hus
band chopping wood and watched the
man slipping away, as he supposed,
unnoticed. Joan suspected what this
meant and straightway took precau
tions She sent one Oldershow, a
neighbor, to Count Hastings' domain
to win the confidence of the count and
agree for a consideration to entice Con
rad away from ills homo so that he
could be readily captured. This man
succeeded in his object. At the same
time he was instructed by Joan to re
port that Joan was a witch.
This confirmed Count Hastings' be
lief in the Jailer's suggestion that
witches had been instrumental In Con
rad's disappearance, but he nttributed
the removal to one witch, Conrad's
wife. Nevertheless, he was so averse
to being beaten even by a witch that
he accepted Oldershow's offer and,
having paid him a round sum, sent a
dozen men with him to kidnap Conrad.
The expedition approached Conrad's
house in the evening gloaming, and
what was their horror to see the man
they were after hanging by the neck
to a tree near his house. They at once
took to flight and never stopped run
ning till they had reached their start
ing point, having left Oldershow be
hind them. They reported what they
bad seen to the count, and Oldershow,
returning, entered Conrad's house and
poured a heap of g"ld he had received
for Ills work in Joan's lap.
This ended Count Hastings' efforts
to rcrgain possession of Conrad, for hn
was convinced of his being managed
by a witch, that witch being Joan.
But he sent a messenger to Baron El
ginbrod to say that the baron had a
witch in his dominions, and if he dirt
not get rid of her she would infect the
whole country.
Upon this the baron sent for Joan
and asked her what truth there was
in the count's charge.
"Please, your worship." replied Joan,
"when Count Hastings raided your do
main he carried off my husband and
held him for ransom. When the pris
oner wrote me that if I did not paj
the ransom by a certain date he would
hang himself In the chimney I knew
that there was a chimney in the room
j where he was confined and that he
I meant that I should on a certain night
j send some one or go myself, get on the
■ roof and let a rope down by which he
could climb. I sent one Oldershow,
I who succeeded in doing la at. and my
j husband escaped.
j "Suspecting that the ccant would try
aga^n to make my husband his prison
1 er, I sent Oldershow to win his con
; fidence and pilot a party to make the
capture. I made a stuffed figure of my
husband and bung it to a tree near the
house. When they came to take him
j they were frightened and ran away,
j Instead of the count getting a ransom,
| I got the money he paid my messenger
to lead his men into a trap."
I The baron was so well pleased with
I Joan's story that be gave her a tracfc
of land near his castle, where she and
, her family would be in less danger
j from Count Hastings' incursions.
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