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CONDITIONS Ol'TSIDK
With reports from authentic sources that cities of 15,000 in the east
rrt: states have practl< 11% disposed with picture shows because the peo
;.le have no money with which to purchase tickets, and bread lines grow
i in length all over t e country, it would be well for many who content
. lute a trip outside this winter to give it second consideration.
Many a man hns laid up a nice little nest egg in the vicinity of Au
«horage and it would bo the hei ;ht of business folly to spend it outside
when t!:ero in so many things incubating that will prove highly remuu
r'-.itivo to small investors. li is true that a change of scene and condi
tions appeals to every iu.i-i and woman, and is necessary to bring content
ment. but there are times win u th.may be foregone because of the ne
cessity for strik'.a- the iron while it is hot. The man who succeeds best is
ti e one who h.is a tew dollars wheu the opportune time arrives, and those
who husband their satin; . nd * atch • vents will be the ones who succeed
best in Alaska, (.'.oul s' .'-e li ::; made that in the course of time
will open the way for r prosperity. There will be a chance for less
ors to secure a block of profitable ground, as well as additional finds that
vill justify mm in 1"<-. - qr. ir;^ i!.tin;s These things have made many
richer city. It is the
man with the few hundred dollars safe in bank who will be able to avail
himself of these opportunities Many a man has failed for the want of
sufficient money to : in on a good thins at the beginning.—Anchorage
Times.
PI BUI ITT IT THE U VSHINGTOS CONFERENCE
The rules of r ..sm»' ould be applied to the debated question of pub
will quarrel in advance
with Sen >r Lodge's proitii.-.' of Impost measure of publicity com
■
pies of the world v. tnt re : froi military burdens and that the way to
a tor Lod.-f's l'oriniil.i t...iy be applied narrowly, with a view to the mere
i n. i:::;i-i!ies that interest will I le-s in Japan, for example, than here in
-
1 : : - figure* in our rail
when de Rlowitz secured the treaty and scored liis famous scoop for the
the Vnltert«Stafes and tltoy w,tl he given hearty reception in the West,
■
ted States made U rty years . i ore ..go when she opened wide her doors
to ill rations, i ■ d il. evil rosulis of her hospitality are
si I with «s. H • J imi'-ranr.--- are all right, but that is not the
way I'nde ?atn 1 . ar.d he t:.« a motley bunch in consequence.—
Stroller's Weekly
Bear Reaches
Point Barrow
FitM fJovortiniciit ISout lo Keiirli
ThiTo Since 1SKS—I*>kiiiios
I'iw|irrou«
Nome. Aug. —The fit'tod
States revenue cutter Bear, Captain
Cochran in command. which left
here July 2S, arrived ut Point Bar
row on August •!. The cutter pro
ceeded to Demarcation buy, arriving
there August IS. where magnetic
observations were made by members
of the Coast Survey.
Observations were a!so made of
the Ice and meteorological condi
tions in the Arctic and returned to
faint Barrow, coming then to Nome,
arriving here last Sunday.
The Bear was the first govern
ment ship to reach Demarcation
point sinqe ISsS. The season is re
ported an open one and the Kskimos
are unusually prosperous. Numer
ous teachers and church workers
were brought to Nome on the Hear.
KMPl.OYMKNT MTl ATIOX
1> IMI'KOVlXt;
Washington. Sept. 'J.—There is a
slight increase in employment re
ported by the Labor department as
a result of its Industrial survey for
the month of August.
LAltOK t>\Y CKLKHltATIONS
CKXKKAL IN flU N'TBY
Washinton, Sept. 6. — Reports
from different parts of the country
indicate that Labor Day celebrations
were generally held thruout the
country.
Canadian Labor
Asks Exclusion
!>riti-li Columbia Representatives
Sny Japanese Are Over
running Country
I Winnipeg. Aug. 30.—The Dom
inion Trades council adopted resolu
■ otis todo urging the permanent
exclusion of all Orientals from Can
ada. The Vancouver delegates said
that unless action is taken, British
Columbia in twenty years will be
completely overrun by the Oriental
la borers.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Much misunderstanding has been
'prevalent regarding the days on
j which the schools may legally be
Iclo-ed. Some school boards have
!been lucliued to confuse legal holi
i! s with school holidays. A legal
holiday is not necessarily a school
holiday.
Section 4^'. Compiled School Laws
cf Alaska enumerates the following
as school holidays:
Labor Day. Thanksgiving Day and
the day following. Christmas. New
Year's Day, Memorial Day, and the
Fourth of July.
In view of the fact that schools
are in session for but 176 days in
tin- year of MS. it is important that
none but the regular school holidays
be'observed and that schools remain
in session on legal holidays which
are not school holidays unless some
very good reason exists for closing.
Walla Walla.Sept. 6.—Nicholas B.
Oliver, eighty years of age, a cousin
of President Harding, died at his
family home here.
| The Mystery of
Hartley House
ay
CLIFFORD S. RAYMOND
Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS
Copyright by George H. Doran Co.
Flore followed n section or tne man
uscript from which, as I recogi i7.ed.
the pace Pravada had taken was miss
Inc. Then It cnntlnned:
"I beenme n little more assertive of
my rights and dignity, with the result
that our quarrels were more violent.
I tried to tit myself physically to meet
Richard, hut he was very sturdy, and
his profligate habits had not yet un-!
dertulned his health. When I resisted
him physically he had the better of me.
Three times he knocked me uncon
scious. Once I was 111 In hed a week
as the result of a beating he ptve me.
"Frequently be threatened that be
would kill me. He said this often and
openly, with every evidence of earnest
ness and determination. Later that
counted against him.
"I was not cowed, and with thf> great
hatred firmly rooted I was willing to
accept the unequal struggle with him.
It was a Joy to hate him, tight him,
even to be beaten by him. I had re
gained enough courage to seek socia
bility. It was difficult, because his
retlned sense of cruelty led hlin to
search me out, wherever I might bo!
with my friends, and to humiliate me.
If possible, before them.
"One night I had been at a tavern
In the village with some hoys of my
acquaintance when Klclmrd, being
drunk and very violent, found me. and
there was a scene In which he made i
loud threats that he Intended to kill
me.
"One of my friends persuaded me
to go home. At Hartley house we
walked the distance from the house |
to the village In those days. 1 Set
He Became Insanely Violent.
out alone, tint Richard. breaking away
from the voting men who would lmv
detained him. pursued me. lie < atitrii'
up with me, and we abused each oiliei
as we walked. being overheard by sn
eral persons along the way.
"When we came to a pool by tht
river near tlie house, he became In
sanely violent, cried that he was sick
ot seeing uie on earth and would rid
himself of the sight of me. He at
tacked me with a hravv stick he car
ried. succeeded In breaking down my
guard and knocked me unconscious
Our cries, while he was attacking
were heard by a farmer living across
the road. Richard was insane!}
drunk. ITe Intended to kill me nnd
thought he had done so. Me left tin
spot. disturbed, probably, by the
thought of physical consequences but.
I am sure, not by any spiritual mis
givings.
"I do not know how long I remain
ed unconscious or when I awoke. It
may have been ten. forty or -ixt.v min
utes. It may have been an hour or
two. When It was. consciousness
brought an aching head and a dawn
ing determination.
"Life with Hlclmrd at Hartley house
had become Impossible. I could no
longer control him, I could no longer
endure Id in.
"A chance of escape and of revenge
was possible. 1 was. in Richard's un
derstanding, dead. He had tried to
kill me. He might be made to think
he had. I had considerable money
with me. Richard, of course, had not
touched It. Each of us had been giv
en. that morning, five hundred dollars
by trustees. That had been the occa
sion of Richard's murderous debauch.
It Is strange—or Is It?—that I never
think of lilm as, or ever called him,
Dick.
"1 arranged the spot as well as I
could In the details to suggest that my
drunken and brutal brother had not
only killed me but had disposed of
my body In the river. When 1 had
done this, relying for success on his
uncertain memory of the act which
already had terrified him, I left Hart
ley house—all Its painful memories
and brutal experiences, the unhappi
ness 1 had experienced there, the mis
erable childhood, the wretched boy
hood and the young manhood, come
to this furtive, malevolent end. And
1 there resolved that If I got safely
away nnd If my design worked out
successfully, I should return to the
selfsame spot some time to live a Jo
vial life where life had been so droyr.
"Sly plans were not perfect; my
resources mid my Intellluence for this
sudden meeting of the world were
Blender; hut my success was heyond
expectation.
"First I had tlit* snllsfactlon of
knowing thnt my brother was taken
for my murder. Circumstances were
all against him, and he was convinced
In his own heart that he had not only
killed me as he so often had wished
to do, hut that he had disposed of my
body.
"In arranging tlie spot to Indicate
a murder I lmd thrown my hat, which
wns broken and bloody, down the
bank. It had cnught on a projecting
rock. I had taken a ring off my Anger
and had thrown tlmt Into tlie pool.
I also bad thrown In my coat. It had
blood on the collar anil shoulders. All
this seemed to mo to afford Inconclus
ive evidence, but there were obvious
dilllcultles in finding a body which
might increase Richard's troubles.
"I waited In New York, carefully
concealed, many months, reading of
the prepress of my murder trial In the
newspapers. It pained some celebrity.
The prosecuting zeal wns tremendous,
mid public Interest, I gnthered. acute.
My ring was dredged up and was re
garded as Important evidence. The
dredge also brought up some bones
which, as I rend in the paiiers, were
regarded as fish-nibbled remains of
uie.
"Much legalistic annimem ensum.
I became a case of Importance. Involv
ing pririolj>l«>« <if evidence. Tlie super
flclal facts were all against Richard.
Ills confession faced lilm. The evi
dence I liad arranged damned liim.
Our relationship In hate and his
threats against me arose against him.
lie thought he had killed me. He knew
he had. There were many witnesses
against him.
"The only thing helping hltn was the
lack of a clearly identified body. Rut
there were vestige* of something
which. In ihe circumstances, were ac
cepted as parts of ihe corpus delicti.
I think the prosecution and the jury,
convinced that 1 was dead and my re
mains swept away, were anxious to
meet technically the requirements of
law.
"The story of our lives together. n«
I read it in the testimony of witnesses
who knew more of its terrors than I
thought myotic knew was terrific. It
would have damned ntiy aggressor In
the opinion of any hody of men. Ev
eryone who knew anything of the case.
Itlcharil himself included, was con
vinced that I had hivn murdered. The
doubt which remained merely served
to get Kichard a life sentence Instead
of ihe gallows, ropular psychology
condemned him. The lack of essential
evidence was ignored.
"1 watted until 1 knew what hlf
fate was, nnd then, rejoicing. I left
the country. I had no prospects nnd
few plans, but my Inclination was tc
go to South America, nnd 1 followed
It.
"My natred never censed. It grew
as a passion, at first a disturbing one,
Inter a satisfactory one. I wanted this
man to suffer. Nothing that he can
puffer will property pay him—at least
It will not pay my score.
"Some day. I know, for I have the
determination. 1 shall return to Hart
ley bouse as its owner, although es
teemed an alien, with a false name, a
false life and a great Joy. What Is a
family that I should not enjoy my per
feet revenge upon this brute who made
fifteen years and more of my life,
in Its most Impressionable form, ar
undesirable thing when it was mosi
desired ?
"* K«/»h Unrtlnv Snnon
niiit If lift' and health be spared me
I shall make It unil life In It Jovial
nml If strength be spared my will, thf
knowledge tlint my brother Richard
Is suffering for the murder of n dead
live man shall be the cosy north wine
in the caves below which burn m>
cheerful tires.
"This is luj' crime, and if It causef
no one rtcnr to me Inter to suffer, I
want it known. Some day I shall go
back as a man wholly unknown to
people «' knew the Dobsons. I shall
be what I have been. Homer Sidney.
I shall buy the old placo. I shall kno<v
that Richard Pobson is suffering a
most equitable but Illegal punishment
in a penitentiary close to the place
where 1 shall live in the circumstances
»hlch a great deal of money wlil en
able me to set up.
"That Is my natural revenge upon a
fiend who happened to come of the
same parents as I. Mate is a wonder
ful friend."
CHAPTER XVII.
Jed came Into the room again a* I
finished reading, and put another lnr
on the fire. Then he sat down in a
rocking chair by the fire.
"They met that night, you know,"
he said after he had rocked a while.
"They?" I said.
"Arthur and Richard Dobson." said I
Jed. "Mr. Sidney and his brother, J
who Is over there In the penltee- ;
tiary.'
"They met what night T" I asked
Jed was patient.
"They met the night last fall," be
explained, "when you found Mr. Sid- i
ney leaving the house, the night 1
found you outside, the night we pre- I
tended I was sick, the night he came j
In here and had us call the penitentiary I
to say a convict had escaped. That •
night, he met his brother. Ills broth- j
er was tne convict."
.Ted was rockliiR nod talking to the
fire.
"Mr. Sidney—Arthur Dohson—■" h» :
said, "went out to see the pool an
every anniversary of his murder. Tie
found the strength out of some reser
voir of will. Tile reaction was almost ;
disastrous. I imagine he might have
lived another year or two If he had
not had the experience he hail thl*
fall.
"I knew It was a great hate that
was keeping Sir. .Sidney alive," he
continued. "Such a hate as he nad!
I don't know that 1 understand It
now. It was so unprofitable. Or was
It? I do not know. It had a great
v">lne In his life. I think the hate he
cherished wanned and colored his life.
"Me went to the |«iol every your
the night of his murder. He did not
know that 1 went with him. It »as
such an abnormal abuse of his
strength. 1 was afraid for him."
"Your prospects depended upon
him,'' I suggested.
He allowed a moment to pass In
sllenrt-. It was as If he permitted ven
tilation before we again entered the
room of common thought and com
munIon. He did not look pained or
hurt in any fashion. There was no
dlsp.ny about It. He Just refrained
for a moment from talking. I! wa« as
If he were opening the windows for
that moment. When the air vrgv
cleared of the odors of my testy re
mark. he went on as if I had said
nothing. The olil rascal was very dif
ficult !<> deal with.
(Continued on Saturday)
To be fair to the railroads it
should he remembered thai llr.
Ford is something of a financier
He might even be able to make big
money by reducing freight rates on
a privately owned, run down road
purchased for a song and run at a
loss, if thereby he accomplished a
general reduction on the lines ovet
which he hauls his materials and
supplies.— Marion Star
I Man named Bone was picked as
liead of Alaska government, and
now Wood lias been selected for
main post in Philippines. The ma
terial in these oases is bette- than
!the names might imply.
; If prohibition is not a complete
; success at the end of two years it Is
| not remarkable. After apes of cx
'lierience whiskey was still an utter
' failure.
; XOTM'K To ril.: I'l III It'
"
| of .the City Ord< v of tho T> .»*n
'of Skagway, Alaski. r« .uls -is fol
lows:
Kquipineiit for ^1 <•»«>• Vehicle* and
1»lr>
All motor dri'ei 7«hicles wiiiJo
on the public streets itiaK '.ie
equipped with proper twrn or
some similar de ice f ir giving ; r
tice of their jvsenc-. which Uotn
or device sh.i' i<" in vood wurkhic
order, and *"'th >vi lights at
tached to the front < f ? 'd vehicle,
which lights, as well as nil other
I lights that may be pl.io-'d in the
front of said vehicle, 'hall be
dimmed when driven Mpei the
main streets of the said To»<n it
Skagway; and with one red light
attached to the rear, exc-T'1 n.o
tor cycles and bicycles, which "vi 11
require only one light att; .-hed
to the front, which lights shall
he kept burning as above speci
fied during all hours from twi
light to day break in which said
vehicles are used in the streets of
said Town of Skagway.
Any person or persons violating
the above section is liable to fine
of Fifty dollars (?."()) or impris
onment in the City Jail of Twenty
five Days (251.
WM. M. SI ME.
Town Marshal.
9-6-S-1A
IX THE PROBATE COl'RT FOR
HA1XES PRECINCT. FIRST JT'-j
DICIAL DIVISION. TERRITORY;
OF ALASKA.
IX THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE,
OF
S. J. WEITSMAX. deceased,
\ntlcc of Honrinc on Final \<
connt
Xotice is hereby piven that .Ins
H. Chisel, as administrator of the'
estate of S. J. Wcisman, deceased,
did on the 5th day of September.
1921. file in the above entitled court
his final account and report of his,
administration of said estate, and |
the hearing of the same has been j
set by said court for the 5th day of:
Xovember, 1921, at the hour of two
o'clock p. m. at the courtroom of j
said court at Haines. Alaska, at j
which time and place all persons
are required to file any objections
they may have to said acconnt and
report, and to show cause if any
they have, why said account and re
port should not be allowed and set
tled.
Hated this 5th day of September,
1921.
JOS. H. CHISEL,
Administrator.
First insertion—Sept. 8. 1921.
Final insertion—Nov. 10, 1921.
TITE SKAGYVAY
i^ione^r Dairy
H. F. SEEM AN, I'rop.
!Ht SANiTARY MILK HAHtti
The largest and l>es( con
ductnl dairy in Alaska. .
Daily shipments of pure
milk and cream to all
paints on While Pass A
Yukon Ronte.
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who hit inieirst.
e<l in hunting hip game in the
I/)\vrr Yukon country are in
vito! to rail on me. .1 ha%e
Ifve«l for many years in the At
I in country, ami ran punranfi-e
hunting parties line sueclmen*.
1 I ave a s<mnI power fatal
for lake lumtinc an<l fishing. .
For information rail or ad
dress
Tom Williams
ATI.IN'
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The countrv \
nit togfcthcr. «rr..i
pored to bo ir.oi:
rrcuily mf :r.
;ion.il treatment
tine, mnnufacf.
thru th- Blood . r
of the System. • v
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Catarrh Medi in
Sok by Dr
Halls Fainuy .
in this s#rtton
other dise&Mfl
u was Ftip
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I When used for every-day toilet pur
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white and hair live ard rIossv. The
Soap to cleanse and purify, the Oint
mcnt to soothe and heal and the
Tileum to powder and perfume.
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