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TRADKR OBJKFTS TO TARIFF; HIM. SHIP VIA YUKON RIVER
Sam Pubin, well known trader. who is interested In a chain of stores
on the Kovukuk river, acquired last year from the Northern Commercial
company, arrived in Nenana yesterday from Fairbanks to make necessary
arrangements in tiie matter of .handling freisu for the several stores in
which he is Interested. which will be landed at N. nana v.a the «laska rail
road.
For the purpose of transporting this freight to the points numed. Mr.
Pubin recently purchased the stea.ner Teddy II. and two barges. The steam
er is commanded by Capt. And? Livingstone, formerly of the White Pass
service, and has a full crew of certified engineers and officers.
Mr Pub n told a representative of The News this morning that he has
l 'S tons of freight in the railroad warehouse ! ere awaiting shipment to the
J\i'\iikuk and that this will be taken by the Teddy H. as soon as she has
completed a round trip to the Kantishna with a load of freight for that dis
trict. He has additional shipments of approximately eighty tons for later
shipment which he w:ll arrange to have shipped to his store at tile mouth
of the Kovukuk river by way of St. Michael, at a lower rate than is obtain
able on shipments coming over the Alaska Railroad.
In explanation of this. Mr. Pubin stated that the water and ra.l rate,
from Seattle to Nenana. v the Alaska railroad, of $42 per ton, appeared to
l>e somewhat mythical, as tue 136 tons snipped in via that route cost him a'
the rate of $51 -Stf per ton. to which must be added i e cost of the long haul
to the Kovukuk; whereas, he sa>-. the White Pass quotations, by way of
St Michael, give him a rate of $44 per ton. Seattle to the mouth of the
Kovukuk river, with a much shorter haul to destination. He had Intended
making Nenana his headquarters and having nil freight shipped via the Al
aska railroad, and he alio probably would have Wintered his boat here, but
In view of t e substatial difference in tie.ght rates, he has concluded that
it will be poor business on his part to put h:s earlier intentions Into effect.
He will make other arrangement unless a radicil change Is made In rail
road tariffs, precluding the possibility of competition by way of the lower
Yukon.
Mr Dtibin is also of t!> opini'in. as the resuH of oliservat ons and In
quiry. that a large quantity of freight, which might he routed hy way of
Nenana. will be diverted to the St. Michael route as a result of the differ
ence iu rates on the two routes, and thinks that commercial bodies of the
interior towns should look into ti: - nn er and take early action to bring
ali >ut more desirable conditions —Nenana News.
r.wwKKY pr<wi:<"t is v.m
(VMI'LETE: MATKRIAI << Ml\(.
With practically all details com- j
pleted and the machlnerv «i. r.>nt<'
to A:ic!ioruge. accompan.ed uy Fore
man Asp and Mrs. Asp. tl e .'.iicuur ;
uue Cannery company will soor be
gin the work of erectiug its plant
011 the old dock of the Alaskan Jin-,
gineering commission. Possession oi
(tie site, which has been leased from |
llie government, will be given abot.t j
June 1. when the commiss.on will j
completely vacate the warehouse. It
is planned to begin installing the
machinery as rapidly as space is
given by the commission vacancy
and by June 1 it is hoped to have
the cannery ready for the reception
of the red salmon run.
Aboard the steamship Admiral
Evans, due to arrive in Anchorage
on the tenth of May. is machinery.
Kill nets for king salmon and other
equipment and material is expected
tu arrive by the time President W.
H. James of the company arrives in
Anchorage, when tiie work of driv
ing the traps will begin. It is the
plan of the company, says J. A. Ma
gill, to have five traps, four of which ]
will be located on the west s.de o(
Cook inlet, and one on the east side
Mr. James will sail from Seattle
on the Alameda, May IT. add will
immediately assume charge of com
pleting the final details of the can
nery Approximately sixty persons
will be given employment in the can
nery during the season when the
reds are running and possibly twen
ty or thirty will be employed in fish
ing.—Anchorage Times.
WORK ON HKIlHiK APPROACH
IS RAP1DIA PROGRESSING
The work of meking excavations
for the pier that will support the
approach to the Tanana river bridge
on the south bank of the river, is
proceeding at a good cliy and before
very lonp the driving of the piling
at the bottom of (lie excuvatious will
be started Three piledrivers have
been set up at the scene of opera
tions and all of them will he in
commission within the next day or
two.
A considerable amount of piling
w'.iich has been cut on the banks of
the Tanaua river, above town, will
be rafted down to the bridge site at
an early date. Nothing will be done
in tills connection, however, until
the river has cleared of ice and
dr.lt.—Xenana News.
•M M VI l\VITKS SK.UJWAY
ON Jl° LY FOl'RTH
Tom McDonald, chairman of the
sport.-; committee of Juneau, cordial
ly invites the Skagway baseball team
to contest for the two prizes to be
offered on that day. A prize of $200
and a second prize of $100 for base
')all is offered.
The American Lesion is giving a
Itoxit.g siroker on the evening of
July :trd. to which all lovers of the
risric exercise are cordially invited,
eitler as spectators or as aspirants
for honors.
The White Pass Athletic Club re
ceived the above cable from Juneau,
and the same was turned over to
Dan McDonald, manager of the
Skagway Baseball team, for the lat
ter to take action.
An artist went to sea to see
What he could see at sea to draw:
lie only saw what all may see.
The sea was all the artist saw.
And when he saw he'd seen the sea
Proceded he the scene to draw.
And since '.i!S scen° I've often seen,
I've seeu the sea the artist saw.
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"SherVUI walked to the window ana
stood as though looking out, but his
eyes were hlauk with thought.
"For almost twenty years," he said,
"your father, as I have told you. lived
In thai house practically alone: dur
ing all those years a shadow of some'
sort was over him. 1 don't know at
all, Alan, what that ahadow wus. But
••For Almost Twenty Ytars," He Said.
••Your Father, as I Have Told You,
Lived in That House Practically
Alone."
it Is certain thiit whatever It wits thai
IiiiiI cliiiii'.'ril liim from the man he
was when I tlrst knew lilm culminated
[ three days ago wIii>ii he wrote to y«m.
It Inuy tie thut the colise<|Ueiiees of Ills
i writing to yuu "ere such (hat. after
be hud sent the lelter, he could nut
bring himself tt> face them auil so has
merely . . . gone away. In thut
I i-a-e. as we statu! here lulkiinc he is
' still alive. On the other hand. hi>>
«rill hi; you may have precipitated
something that I know nothing of. In
either case, if he has left anywhere
any evidence of what It Is thai (-lumped
and oppressed him for all these years,
or If there is any evidence of what
has huppened to him now. It will be
J found in his house."
Sherrlll turneil hack to Alan. "It is
I for you—not me. Alan." he Mild simply.
"to make (hat search. I have Ihotight
i wrh-usly uhiuit It. this lasl Imlf hour.
anil have decided that Is a* he would
i want It—perhaps as lie did want It—
to he. He could have told me what his
trouble was any time In these twenty
| y.-ars. if he had been 'willing I should
I know; but he never did. Your father,
el' course, hud a key to ihe front door
like this "lie, nls servant has a key
to the servants' entrance. I do not
kiiow of any other kejs."
"The serv. at is m charge iliere
' now V" Alan asked.
"Just now there is no one In the
house. The servant, alter your father
disappeared, thought .nut, If he bud
merely gone uway .e might liuve gone
J buck to-his blru place uear Munistujue,
and he went up ihere to look for him.
1 hud a w.re from him today that he
hud not found him und was coiuing
buck.''
tiherrill waited a moment to see
l whether there was unything mora
Aluu wanted to ask ; then he went out.
CHAPTER IV.
"Arrived Safe; Well."
As the Uuor closed behind Sherrill,
I Alan weui uvc. to the dresser and
(ticked tip the key which Sherrill hud
left. He put it, after u moment. on
the ring Willi two or three other keys
lie hud, and dropped them llito liis
pocket; tlieu he crossed to a chair a lid
sat down.
Sherrill had spoken of the possibil
ity that something might have "hap
pened" to C'orvet; hut It was plain lie
did not believe he had met with actual
j violence. He hud left it to Alan to ex
amine Corvet's house; but he had 1101
urged Alau to exauiiue it at mice; he
had left the time of the examination
to be determined by Alan. This
showed clearly that Sherrill believed
—perhaps had sullicient reason for be
lieving—thai Curvet hud simply "gone
away." Corvet. Sherrill had said, had
married In 1SS9. Hut Sherrill In long
knuwledge of his friend, had shown
J firm conviction that there hud been
uo mere vulgar liaison lu Corvet's life.
I Did this meau that there might have
! been some previous marriage of Alan's
father—some marriage which had
strangely overlapped and uulliticd his
public marriage? lu that case, Alan
could be, not only In fact but legull),
Corvet's sou; and such things as this,
Alun knew, had sometimes happened,
and hud happened by u strange combl
1 imrmn M. events, naiycuuUy for ail
parties. CurveTs public 'separation j
from Ills wife, Sherrlll had said, laid |
taken place in 180^ but the actual I
separation between them might, pos- I
sibly, have taken place Icing before J
that.
The afternoon hail changed swiftly
Into night; dusk had been gathering
during his last talk with Sherrlll, so
that he hardly had been able to see
SherriU's fare, and Just after Sherrlll
had left him, full dark had come. Alan
did not know how long he had been
sitting in the darkness thinking out.
these things; but now a little clock
which had been ticking steadily In the
blackness tinkled six. Alan heard a
knock at his door, and when it wus re
peated. lie culled. "Come In."
The light which came In from the
hull, as the dour was opened, showed
a lunn servant. The mail, after a re
spectful Inquiry, switched i>n the light.
He crossed into the adjoining room—
a bedroom; the room wnere Alan was,
he thought, must be a dressing room,
and there was a bath between. Pres
ently 1I1*1 man reappeared, and moved
softly about the room, unpacking
Alan's suitcase, lie hung Alan's other
suit in I he closet on hangers; he put
the linen, except for one shirt, in the
dresser .drawers, and lie put Alan's
few toilet things with the Ivory
backed brushes and couih and other
articles on the dressing stand.
Alan wondered, with a sort of trepi
dation. whether the uiun would expect
to stay and help lilui dress; hut he
only put flu* button* in the clean shirt
and reopened the dresser drawers and
laid oiu a change of things.
"1 was to tell you, sir. .Mr. Sherrlll
is sorry lie cannot lie a: heme to din
ner tonight. Mrs. ssheri'iil and .Miss
Slierrlll will be here. Dinner is at
seveu. sir."
Alan dressed slowly, alter tlie muo
liu<l gone; ai.U ut one minute before
seven lie went downstairs.
Tliere was nu one iu llie lower hull
und. ufier an insiunt of irresolution
und a glume into the empty drawing
room, lie turned into tlie small loom
at Uie opposite side of the hull. A
handsome, stuiely, rather large worn- J
an, whom he fottud there, introduced
herself to liim formally as Mrs. Slier- I
rill. Her reserved, yet almost loo
casual acceptance of Alan's presence,
told him that she knew all the par
ticulars about himself which Sherrlll
hud heeti abie to give; and as Con
stance came Uov.n the stuirs und
Joined tliein hall' a uiiliute liner, Alan
was certain that she also knew.
Winner was announced, and they {
went into the greut dining room,
where the table with ils li..en, silver,
and china glcumcj under shaded J
lights. The oldest and most digmlied
of the three men servant* who waited j
upon them In the dining room Alan j
thought must he a hutler—a species of |
creature of whom Aluu had heard hut
never had seen; the other servants, at j
least, received and handed things j
through him, and took their orders i
from him.
What Sherrlll had told >lan of his ,
father had been Iterating Itself again
and ugaiu In Alan's thoughts; now he |
recalled that Sherrlll had said that his '
daughter believed that Corvet's dis
appearance had had something to do
with her. Alan had wondered at the
moment how that could he; and as he
watched her across the tahle and now
und then exchanged a comment with
her, it puzzled him still more. He
had opportunity to ask her when she
waited with him in the library, after
dinner was finished and her mother
had gone upstairs; hut he did not see |
then how to go ahotlt It.
"I'm wrry. ' sue sum to mm, iuui i
vre ''sn't he home Tonight; but perhaps
yon would Hither he alone?"
He did not answer that.
"Have you a picture here. Miss Shw
rill, of—my fuiher?" lie asked.
"L'ucle ISeuny had had very lew pic
tures taken; hut there is one here."
She went Into the study and came j
hack with a book open at u half-tone
picture of Benjamin Corvet. Alan took
it from tier and carried it quickly
closer to the light. The face that
looked up to him from the heavily
glazed page was regular of feature,
handsome in a way, and forceful.
There were imagination and vigor of
thought in the broad, smooth fore
head: the eyes were strangely moody
and brooding; the mouth was gentle,
rather kindly,; it was a queerly Im
pelling, haunting fuc^ This was his
father! But. us Alan held the picture,
gazing down upon it. the only emotion |
which came to him was realization that ,
he felt none. He had no emotion of
any sort; he could not attach to this
man, because he bore the name which
some one had told him was his fa
ther's. the passions which, when
dreaming of his father, he had felt.
Alan st» od still u moment longer,
tbeu, remembering the book which he
held, he drew a chair up to the light,
and read the short, dry biography of
his father printed on the page oppo
site the oorU'uit. it j>UUiiuul'j3i'^LjB
a fty* Hundred worth) Ills fatliePS 1WP.
Alum shut the book and sat thought
ful. The tall clock in the hall struck
nine. He got tip and went out Into,
ihe hall and asked for tils hat and
'•oat. When they .had been brought
liim, he put them on and went out.
He went down the steps and to the
corner-and turned west to Astor street.
When he reached the house of his fa
ther he stopped under a street lamp,
looking- up at the big, stern old -man
sion questlouingly.
He could not call up any sense that
Ihe house was his, any more than he
had been able to when Sherrlll had
lold him of It. He own a house on
that street I Yet was that In Itself
uny more remarkable than that he
should be the guest, the friend of such,
people as the Sherrllls? No one as
He Could Not Call Up Any Sense That
the House Was His.
yet. since Slierrlll liu<l tuld him he was
Curvet's son, hud called him by name;
when they did, what would they cull
litm? Alan Conrad still? Or AIhii
Oorvet?
lie noticed, up u street to the west,
llie Untied sign of a drug store und
turned up thai wuy; he hud promised,
he had recollected now, to write tu
. . . tli»se in Kansas—he could not
cull them "father" and "mother" any
more—and tell them what he had dls.
Covert-d as soon as he arrived. H«
could not tell them that, but he could
write theui at least that he hud ar
rived safely and was well. He bought
a postcard in the drug store, and wrote
just, "Arrived safely; uiu well" tc
John Wei ton In Kansas. There was
a little vending machine upon the coun
■it, and he dropped in a penny und got
a box of mutches and put tlieiu In hli
pocket.
He wailed Hit- card and turned back
to Astor street; and he walked mure
swiftly now, having cotue to his deci
sion. and only shot one Quick look u[
at the house as he approached It. Wltti
what hud his father shut himself U[
within that house for twenty years'
And wus It there still? And was ll
from that that Benjamin Corvet had
tied? He saw no one In the street,
,-tnd was certain no one was observing
him as, taking the key from his pocket,
he ran up the steps and unlocked the
outer door. Holding this door open
to get the ll^hl from the street lamp
he fitted the key into the Inner door;
then he closed the outer door. For fut
ly a minute, with fast-beating hearl
and a sense of expectation of he knew
not what, he kept Ills hand upou thf
key before he turned It; then hf
opened the door aud stepped iuto tilt
dark and silent house.
(Continued on Tuesday;
BARON' KATO CHOSEN PREMIER
Toklo, June 9.—The Council ol
Elder Statesmen came to a decision
today as to the successor to Taka
hash! as Premier. The Council nas
invited Baron Kato to form a new
cabinet.
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who are Interest
ed in hunting bis game In tike
Lower Yukon ccantry are In
vited to call on m, .1 have
lived for many yean In the At
lin country, and can guarantee
hunting parties One (ueciniens.
I have a good power boat
for lake hunting and fishing. .
For Information call or ad
dress
■ 4
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ATLIN B. C.
Phones—Office, 10; Res., 80
The
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Bonded Freiglt and Baggage
Transferred
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Agents for Ladysinith Coal
Careful handling and prompt
delivery cur slogan
Pile* Cored In ft to 14 Days
DrnggMM refund mon«y If PAZO
OINTMENT folia to cure Itching.
Blind. Bleeding or Protruding Pllee.
Instantly rellevee Itching Pile*, and
you can get-reetful sleep after first
application. eoc.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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Attorney at Law
- Practice In all courts
In Territory of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA
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SKAGWAY ALASKA
8KAGWA*
FRATERNAL ORDERS
01k Camp Skagway No. 1
• K meets every second and
iJS fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:80 o'clock. Visit*
1nR brothers cordiiJly welcome.
J. M. Keller, L. 8. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Skag»
way Lodge, N'o. 431, B.
P. O. Elks, meets ever}
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cop
dlally welcome.
dan Mcdonald, e. r.
F. J. VAN DEW A1>L, Secretary.
F. & A. M.
White Tags Lodge F. & A.
M. Ko. 113, meets 2nd bd<]
4th Saturday evenings of
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
P. J. Van de Wall, W. M.
T. J. Stnndlsh, Secretary.
Fraterul Order of
Eagles
Skagway Aerie, No. 25,
Fraternal Order of
Ragles, meet the first
and third Wednesday night or each
month at their hall on Fifth Ave
nue. Visiting brothers cordially in
vited to attend.
C. H. ROGERS, W. P.
J. M. Griesbach, Sec'y.
Naomi Chapter No. 9
O. E. 8., meets in Ma
{sonic hall, first and
third Friday of each
month, at 8 o'clock.
Visiting members welcome.
POLLY WEBSTER
Worthy Matron
Fanny Speer, Secretary.
Baby Blinded
from Eczema
"The child'* bead aad tact were almost
ft solid sore. The eyet perfectly blind.
Doctor «aid the wont caae be bad ever
teen. One taneU of D. D. 0. did won*
derful wonc, A complete'cure fol
lowed." Thas. J.Dorminey.Jenison. Ala.
Von write, too, to the D. D. D. Company of
Chicago forasamplo and Ret immediate relief.
Or, come in and we will tell yoa what D. D. l>.
has accomplished in yonr own neighborhood.
Your money back unlets the first bottle relieve#
yoa. 33c, 00c and $i.uo.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. 8. LAND OFFICE
at Juneau, Alaska
April. 13. 1922
NOTICE Is hereby given that Mi
chael J. O'Connor, of Haines, Alas
ka, who, on April IS, 1922, made
HE, No. 04908, for lots 1 and 2.
Section 14; and lot 1, Section 23.
Township 30 S., Rtnge 68 E., Cop
per River Meridian, has filed notlca
of Intention ' to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before R. M.
Odel, at Haines, Alaska, on the 27th
day of May, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses: N.
0. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska; Chas.
An way, of Haines, Alaska; Leon
Ballard, of Haines! Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE.
Register,