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The
Route of
Comfort,
Speed,
Service
Safety
Daring the winter season of 1914—15 oar regular train ser
vice will b« maintained North and South b®und between
Skaguay and White Horse, trains leaving both terminals
every Tuesday and Friday.
U1IHTER stags service
Our through Mail, Passenger ane Freight Service will be
operated between White Horse and Dawson, affordin? al
possible comf»rt by means of a
Thoroughly Equipped Sta?e and Automobile Line
For full information apply to
C. W. Cash.
Supt, Mail Service Dep t.,
Whit^horse, Y. T.
A. F. Zipf, Traffic Manager,
612 Second Avenue,
Seattle, Wash.
TheWhitePass &Yukon Route
TIME TABLE No. 34.
Tuesday and Friday.
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8:15 a. u>
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! ARMY RED I
I TAPE 1
I
8 It Waii Cut In the Nick of £
Time by a Girl.
By F. A. MITCHEL
Tears ago when I was a nontenant
In the regular army stationed In what
was then tbo wild west at Fort I\. we
had In the garrison an otlieer who was
a tyrant The fort was a two com
pany post and he commanded one of
the companies. Captain Hawkins was
so severe with his men that Major Bar
ton. commanding, felt called upon 011
several occasions to remonstrate with
him.
A young man named Stevenson was
sent out to 11s with a lot of recruits
and assigned to Hawkins' company,
lie had very little knowledge of mili
tary discipline and was unfortunate
in having a martinet for a captain.
Stevenson was a handsome fellow,
with a young face and massive frame.
I remember one day when several In
dian chiefs came to (lie fort <>n bitsi
uess for their tribes and saw him they
grunted their admiration, one of (hem
saying to him: "You come with us.
We make you chief." Perhaps it was
this manly beauty that won the heart
of Madge Conover. the daughter of an
ordnnnee sergeant who wore half a
dozen service stripes on his arm. At
any rate. Madge fell desperately in
love with Stevenson, though I believe
he was not disposed to fall in l.ne with
any one.
he was handsome. But. knowing noth
ing about the duties of 11 soldier, lie
very soon cot into trouble, ills cap
tain was always sending him to the
guardhouse, and since Stevenson's
breaches of discipline were entirely
through ignorance lie justly laid up
his punishmeuts against Hawkins. One
day for some misdemeanor (lie cap
tain ordered him tied up by the 1
thumbs. When his sufferings were
becoming unbearable Hawkins ordered
him taken down and gave him a severe
scolding. The youngster thus goaded
while still suffering struck his cap
tain. Hawkins drew his sword and
was about to cut down the mutineer !
when he thought bettor of (lie matter i
and ordered him under guard.
The offense was. Indeed, serious.
Stevenson was informed by his friends
that be would be tried for his life.
Had the ense come to trial he might j
have been sentenced to be sh"t, but l
the sentence would likely have been |
commuted to a long imprisonment
But it did not—at least, not then—come j
to trial. Madge Conover one night j
contrived to draw away the attention I
of ids guard and made a sign to him ]
to light out. This he did. and before j
his escape was reported to headquar
ters he had mounted a horse that i
stood saddled and was soon galloping |
over the plain.
Stevenson remembered that the I tali- i
nns had said that if he would go with
them they would make him a chief. !
lie directed his course to where he J
knew the Arapahocs were cwampeJ
and was received with open arms by
them. They did not at once make him
a chief, but he soon bc ame a leader j
among them.
It was not long after the mutineer's j
escape that the Indians became trou
blesome. and a force from the fort was
sent out to regulate them. During a
skirmish with them Stevenson was
captured. If his case was desperato
before it was now doubly so. In ad
dition to the charge of mutiny he now
had to answer a charge of desertion
and one of taking arms against the
urmy to which he belonged. This time
he wa3 confined iu a place where es
cape was scarcely possible. A court
was at once convened: lie was tried
on all three of the charges, found guil
ty and sentenced to be shot. The lind
ings were sent to Washington, approv
ed anil returned to the commanding i
officer.
Major Barton was at the time seri
ously considering whether he would
not prefer charges against Captain
Hawkins for cruelty to the men. He
was aware of all the facts in the case
of Stevenson and sympathized with
the youug man. who he knew had
been driven to what he had done by
Hawkins' severity, ne recommended
to the president that a pardon be
granted Stevenson in view of the cul
prit's ignorance of military discipline
at the time his offenses were commit
ted.
It was a long distance in those days
from Fort K. to Washington. While
the major's communication was on the
way Stevenson was under sentence of
death, and unless a pardon came be
fore the day set for execution he must
Sic. for there was no one authorized
to set aside the findings of the court
except the presldeut of the United
States.
A few days before the day set for
Stevenson's execution an official docu
ment arrived at the fort postmarked
vVashington. the envelope bearing I he
| rinted words "From the President of
rhe United States" and addressed to
Major Charles F. Barton, command
ing. It happened that the command
was away ou an expedition and the
fort had "been left in charge of Ser
geant Conover. The sergeant was not
authorized to open the mail and would
have kept the missive until the major's
return, but. suspecting it pertained to
the matter of Private Stevenson, con
citlded to son/1 it to hW eommnuding
officer.
Stevenson, when i lie ctttbmnnd start*
ed on the expedition, wes trnnsferred
under guard to Fort ()., souie twenty
miles distant, where Ills execution was
to take place.
Sergeant Conover knew of the dis
tress his daughter was suffering at
Stevenson's misfortune and that she
was In an agouy of suspense as to
word from Washington concerning
liim. Fearing a disappointment, he
did not tell her of the message from
I he president, lie had no one to send
It li.v to Major Barton except a private
named Cassidy, a worthless creature,
who had iieen left behind when the
expedition started. Mounting Cassidy
011 the best horse the garrison afford
ed. Conover gave him the message nnd
(old him to ride with it to Major Bar
ron as fast as possible.
During the night that Cassidy start
ed the sergeant told his wife of the ar
rival of the message from the presi
dent and his forwarding it to Major
Rarlon by Private Cassidy. Mrs. Con
over. knowing that the execution of
Stevenson was set for a near date,
scolded him for intrusting so impor
tant a message to so unreliable a mes
senger. M:i:!w. in an adjoining room,
heard every word that was Bald.
That night Madge was missing, also
a horse from Uie stable. Madge had
taken the horse for tiie purpose of
overtaking Cassidy and to make sure
that Hi.- oii'ssage was delivered with
the utmost expedition.
The next day at noon Cassidy reach
ed tlii- encampment of the command
and on feeling in his belt for the mes
sage r.'oiii tin- president to give to
Ma.ioi Itarton discovered that he had
lost ii. lie had reached a settlement
the iii.Llit before, where he bad spent
much time caroti>ing, and had lost the
dispatch. Uarlmi ienriied from him
that the envelope bore the mark of
the president of ihe United States nnd
gunni-eil t!•::t i: contained either a
pardiji for Stevenson or a refusal to
pardon hint
The ma lor was in a quandary. He
was ujiiioni ;i message. Stevenson
was io be executed. and even if n par
don |i d l.i' n granted there was hard
ly time to send word to stop it. Bar
lon Irid been in I he army during a
period when red tape was much in
rogue. anil the situation quite upset
Itiin Though a human life was at
siake. lie had no order to Interfere.
To give an order in the name of the
commander In chief of the army and
navy of the I'll it od States was more
than he dared assume. He debated so
long as to what course to pursue that
it would be Impossible to send a mes
songer to stop the execution even if he
were willing to take the responsibility
for doing so.
Madge Conover. starting after mid
night without a guide, missed the road,
was ol,lived to retrace her steps for
quite a long distant e and did not reach
the settlement where Cassidy had stop
pi il till the next afternoon. Then she
learned that be had been there and
had gone on rather the worse for his
amuseir.ciit during his stay. Madge
remounted Iter horse and was gallop
ing onward when she saw before her
an oblong paper lying beside the road.
Something nuved Iter to get down and
pick It up. She did so and, turning it
over, saw on the left hand corner the
printed words "From the President of
the 1'nited states."
• * »i viu inv i"
though iii>t addressed ti> her. was not
a 111:11 n»r hi' reverence si> long as .lira
Stevenson's life was r.t stake. Her
loving In nt was nut tied up with red
tape. Sin' tore I In- envelope to shreds
to get hi the contents and, unfolding
the letter with trembling hands, read
tint the president had granted a par
don ti> Private .lanies Stevenson. —th
infantry. United States army.
Madge was at one angle of a trian
gle. Major Barton .-it another and the
rondcmncd man at another. The short
est leg wns to I'.arton. But Stevenson
was l>> die the next morning at sun
rise. and. though by that much respect
ed k. the army regulations, she
should have delivered the document
throng!) the major, she knew that by
doing so she would fail to save her
lover. It was t! o'clock in the even
ing. Fort <!. was some forty miles from
her. Mounting, she turned her horse
in that direction.
\t daybreak- it came early- the gar
rison oi Fort <!. begun preparations for
pulling Private Stevenson out of sus
peuse. .lust before sunrise he was
marched out through the gate on to the
open plain, blindfolded, his hands tied
behind him and a firing squad drawn
up before him. The attention of the
officer of the day who had charge of
the execution was culled to 11 mounted
figure galloping across the plain. As it
drew nearer it held aloft something
white. The officer directed the ser
geant In command of tie men to bring
them to a "rest"
"It's a woman." muttered the officer
to himself.
The tijrure grew larger as it ap
proached, and when but a short dis
tance from the fort it was plain that
It held aloft a paper. She pulled up In
front cf the oUieer. handed it to him.
tottered, and he caught her in his arms
11s she fell from her horse.
Thus was the life of Private James
Stevenson saved l),v a bit of red tape
cutting on the part of a woman. Had
the army routine prevailed, bad she
been delayed ten minutes more thnn
she had been, he would have been rid
dled with bullets. Unbound and his
eyes uncovered, he saw lying on the
turf ne:ir him the inanimate figure of
Madge Oonover.
"A pardon!" exclaimed the officer of
tlie day. holding a paper toward tbo
culprit.
Stevenson paid no attention to the
paper, but took Madge up in his arms,
and when she revived she saw her
lover looking down upon her.
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A Gallon of Gasoline.
A single gulloii of enm?hti« v.-„i <'■>
wonders almost unywhcr •. but no
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Ave yards of cement, move a ton truck
fourteen miles, plow three-fifths of nu
acre of land and make enough eleo
tricity to keep eight lights going in tlie
farmhouse for thirty days.
Goodby to boyhood memories of turn
ing the grindstone.—Wail Street .lour
nal.
His Punishment.
"I had a horrible dream Inst night,"
said Uuddleston when he came down
to breakfast the other morning.
"What was it?" asked his wife.
"I dreamed that I was in purgatory I
and was made to do all the things 1
had told my frlervls I would do if I
were in their places."—BrooV!vn
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