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CAISKS FOR OPTIMISM.
Among the outstanding features of the visit of Assistant Secretary C.
II. Huston of the department of commerce is the general unanimity of sen
tment permeating his entire party. This sentiment endorses everything
that has been said in favor of the railroad belt and its natural resources as
well as the demand of Alaska for more elasticity in the various depart
ments having to do with its destiny. In not one instance did any mem! or
of the party from Secretary Huston down take issue»over any point as to
Alaskan handicap*. On the other hand they said that congress should !>e
made to see things as they exist. With enlightenment they are of the op
inion that the legislative bodies of the government would not withhold the
logical requests of those seeking to aid the territory.
Of course Mr. Huston is only an assistant secretary and in a depart
ment that has practically merged its bureaus into the interior department
but when he appears before his superiors or in cabinet meetings he will have
a business man's gauge on Alaskan questions. That he has taken this at
titude as the base from which his deductions will operat eif is safe to say
(hat he is in a position to keep the Alaskan question alive, the thing that
Is needed to gain progress. Among his most Important annauncements and
one in which Anchorage has beeu deeply interested since the v.st of H. Fos
ter Bain was the one to t!:e effect that Alaska coal was comparable in price
with W. Virginia product and that it could be developed commercally. This
statement was the result of deductions made 'rum figures available and
which Secretary Huston analyzed w.th a keen business perception: It wa*
nit expected that he would openly take issue with another department. But
the fact that he grasped the general scope of the question stands out as evi
dence of confidence that those on the ground know more about the situa
tion than some transient official. In this Mr. Huston catered to local prido
and was willing to vouchsafe powers of business acumen to the men who
had so ablv demonstrated it as expressed by Dr. Brooks in regard to a com
meniallj developed coal mine that had been produced by local capital. —
A.\( HORAGE-TI1IES
Alaska will pack 17,750.000 pounds of salt herring this year. There
was a time when a statistical shark might have calculated the number of
legs of malt brew needed to assuage the thirst produced by that quantit}
of tish.—Seattle Times.
The coal strike has cost operators and miners of Pennsylvania $145,
(■00,000. And other persons are trying to bring this old world back to
r.ormal prosperity!—Cincinnati Enquirer.
People soon forget. Four years ago no Amercan newspaper could
have been hired to print anything written by William Hoheuzollern.—New
}ork Tr.bune.
JllH.K JAMES W1CKKRSHAM
KKTI K\S FROM K.lIRitWKS
Judge Jamc-s Wickersham, former
Alaska delegate to Congress, has re
turned from a business aud pleasure
trip to Fairbanks &nd is a guest at
tiie Hotel Anchorage. Judge Wicker
shani will remain in Anchorage moil!
the southbound sailing of the Ala
meda. when he will depart lor his
home in Juneau. Speaking of his re
cent trip to Fairbanks, Judge Wick
ersham stated that the country con
tiguous to the rail.oad is in a very
prosperous condition. He believes the.
farming section otters splendid op
portunities and in time the pioneer'
farmers will be justly rewarded. The I
Alaska railroad, from Seward to the
big interior town. Judge Wicker
sham states, exceeds his most san
guine expectations and he is of the :
opinion that the completion will I
greatly assist in building up the
country. Judse Wi'kersham has ex
plicit confidence ij the future of
Alaska.—Anchorage Times.
CHRISTY MATHEWSOK GIVEN
OVATION ON REAPPEARANCE
Sarnaca Lake. June 29.—Christy
Mathewson was tendered an ovation
yesterday when he walked to the
mound and pitched a ball over the
plate in an amateut game. He show
ed no 3ign3 of tuberculosis, which
forced his retirement from baseball
liiree years ago.
KIKST SI.KKI'ER NOW EXROUTE
FROM ANCHORAGE TO NENANA
The first Pullman sleeper to be
put into commission on the Aiaska
Railroad will arrive in Nenana to
nigiu. as part of the regular passen
ger train from the coast. The train,
in addition to the new sleeepr. will
consist of one diner, two day coach
es. a caboose and the business car,
known officially as B-l. This car is
used by officials of the road in trav
eling over the line and for the ac
commodatiou of distinguished visit
ors.
Col. F. Mears is a passenger on
today's train, beinp enroute to meet
Assistant Secretary of Commerce
Huston and his party and escort
them back to the coast.
The Hustou party, numbering a
dozen or more, will leave Fairbanks
for Nenana tomorrow morning at
7:45. and should veach here about
ten o'clock. They will be here about
an hour before leaving for the coast
by special train.—>'»»ana News.
INTERESTING
SPORT NOTES
Boxers can get too big. Athletic pre
cision Is not mere uvoirdupols.
• • •
Cornell hits 75 candidates In the
squad out for spring football prac
tice.
• • •
Rudolph Hultkrans. of St. Paul, was
elected captain of the 10J3 Minnesota
uUlUUL.
* INDIAN DRUM
biiWilliani AlacHarq and EdwinKalirier ;
Alan was silent, watching the old
mnn; Burr. silent too, seemed listening
to the conversation which cuine to
them from the tables near by, where
men were talking of cargoes, and of
ships and of men who worked and
sail, i i. on thera.
"IIow long have you been on the
lakes?" Alan Inquired.
"All my life."
"Do you rememl»er the Mlwaka?'*
Old Unrr turned abruptly and studied
Alan with a slov scrutiny which
seemed to look hltn through and
through; yet while his eyes remained
fixed on Alan suddenly they grew
blunk. He whs not thinking now of
Alan, but hud turned his thoughts
within himself.
"1 remember her—yes. She was lost
in "95." he said. "In 1)5," he repeated.
"I>ld you know Benjamin Corvet?"
Alan askt'i.
Old Burr stared at him uncertainly.
"1 know who he Is, of course."
"You never uiet hliu?"
"So."
"Dlil you receive a communication
from him some time this year—a re
quest to send some things to Miss t'uu
stance Sherrlll at Harbor I'olnt?"
"I never heard of Miss Constance
Sherrlll. To send what things?"
"Several things—among them a
watch which had belonged to Captain
Stafford of the Miwaku.''
Old Burr got up suddently and stood
gazing down at Alun. "A watch of
Captain Stafford's?—no," he said agi
tatedly. "No!"
He moved away and left the place;
and Alan sprang up and followed him.
He was not. it seemed probable to
Alan now. the James Iturr of Curvet's
list; at leasi Alan could not see how
he could be thai one. Among jjie
names of the crew of the Miwaku Alun
hud found that of a Frank Burr, and
Ids Inquiries hud informed him that
this man was u nephew of the Jaiues
Burr who hud lived near 1'ort Corhuy
and had "disappeared" with all Ids
family. Did Burr hud not lived at I'ort
Corbay—at least, he claimed not to
have lived there; he gave another ad
dress und assigned to himself quite dif
ferent connections. For every member
of the crew of the Mlwaka there had
tn-en a corresponding, but different
name upon Curvet's list—the name of
a close relative. If old F'.urr wus not
related to the Burr on Curvet's list,
what connection could he have with
the Mlwaka, und why should Ahm's
questions have agitated him so? Alan
would not lose sight of old Ktirr until
he hud learned the reason for that.
He followed, as the old man crossed
the bridge and turned to his left
among the buildings on the river front.
Burr's figure, vague ii> the dusk,
crossed the railroad yards and made
its way to where a huge black bulk,
which Alan recognized as the ferry,
loomed at the waterside. He disap
peared aboard It. Alan, following him,
gazed about.
A long. broad, ntucu noat tne terry
wa*. almost four hundred feet to the
tall, bluff bow.
Aluu thrilled n little at his inspec
tion of the vessel. He hud not seen
close at hand before one of these great
craft which, throughout the whiter,
brave Ice and storm after all—or near
ly all—other lake boats are tied up.
He had not nieunt to apply there when
he question.<1 old IVurr about a berth
on the ferry; he had used that merely
as a means of getting Into conversa
tion with the old man. Hut now he
meant to apply: for It would enable
him to tlnd out more about old Burr.
No berth on the ferry was vacant
yet but one noon would he, and Alan
was accepted In lieu of the man who
was about to leave: his wages would
Dot begin until the other man left, but
In the meantime he could remain
ahoard.
All that was known definitely about
old Burr on the ferry, It appeared, was
that he had Joined the vessel In the
early »priug. Before that—they did
not know; he might be an old Inkemun
who, after spending years ashore, had
returned to the lakes for a livelihood.
The ne\t morning, Alan approached
old Burr in the crew's quarters and
tried to dra« him into conversation
again about himself; but Burr only
stared at him with his intent and odd
ly introspective e"es and would not
talk upon this subjc t. A week parsed;
Alan, established as a lookout now on
Number i'> and carrying on his duties,
saw Burr daily and a I mint every hour;
his watch coincided with Burr's watch
at the wheel—they went on duty and
were relieved together. Vet better
acquaintance did not make the old
man more communicative; a s'-ore of
times Alan attempted to get htm to
tell more about himself, hul he evaded
Alan's questions and, If Alan persisted,
he avoided him.
On deck, one night, listening while
old Burr talked, excitement suddenly
seized Alan. Burr claimed to- be an
Englishman horn In Liverpool. He had
been, he said, a seaman In the British
navy; he had been present at the
shuihui.' of Alexandria» later, because
of some difficulty, which he glossed
over, he had deserted mid litid coiue to
"the Slateshe hud been tlrst a deck
hnnd, then the mute of u trnmp schoon
er on the lakes. Alnn. gazing at the
old mnn. felt gxultatlon leaping mid j
throbbing within him. This life which
old Burr wns rehearsing to him ns his
own. was the actual life of Munro
Burkhnlter, one of the men on Cor
vet's list regarding whom Alnn had
tieen ahle to obtain full Information!
Alan sped below, when he was re
lieved from watch, and got out the
clippings lett by Corvet and the notes
of what he himself hud learned In his
visits to the homes of these people.
HU excitement grew greater ns he
pored over them: he found that he
could account, with their aid. for all
that old P.urr had told him. Old Rurr's
stories were not. of course, true: .vet
neither were they fictitious. They—
their Incidents at least—were actuali
ties. They were woven from the lives
of those upon Curvet's list! Alan felt
his skin (trickling and the blood heat
ing fasi in his temples. How could
Burr have known these incidents?
V\1m could he lie to know tlieni all? To
what num. hut one. could all of them
he known? Was old llurr . . . Ben
jamin Corvet?
Alan telegraphed that day to Sher
rill; but when the message had gone
douht seized him. Benjamin Corvet.
vlien he went away, had tried to leave
his place and power umong Inkeinen
to Alan; Alan, refusing to accept what
Curvet had left until ("orvet's reason
should he known, had fell obliged also
to refuse friendship with the Sherrills
When revelation came, would It make
possible Alan's acceptance of the place
Corvet had prepared for hint, or would
it leave him where lie was? Would It
bring tilm nearer to Constance Slier
rill, or wmild It set him forever away
from her?
CHAPTER XV.
A Ghost Ship.
Officially, nnd to chief extent In ac
tuality. navigation now had "closed"
for the winter. - 1'urlhcr up the har
bor. beyond Number glowed the
white lanterns marking two vessels
moored and "laid up" till spring; an
other wns still In the active process of
"laying up." Marine Insurance, as re
gards all ordinary craft, had ceased;
and the government at sunrise, tlve
days before, had taker the warning
lights from the Straits of .Mackinaw,
from lle-aux-Ualets, from north Mtinl
tou. and the Fox Islands; mid the light
at Beaver Island had but live nlghls
more to burn.
Having no particular duty when the
bout was lii dock, old Burr had gone
toward the steamer "laying up," and
now wns standing watching with ab
sorption the work going on. There
was a tug a little' farther along, w Ith
steam up nnd black smoke pouring
from Its short funnel. Old Burr ob
served this boat too nnd moved up a
little nenrer. Alan, following the
wheelsman, enme opposite the stern
of the freighter.
" l ney re crossing, me wneeisman
said aloud, tiiit more to himself than
to Alan. "They're laying her up here,"
he Jerked his head toward the Stough
ton. "Then they're crossing to Mani
towoc on the tug."
"Whut's the matter with that?" Alan
cried.
Burr drew up his shoulders nnd
ducked his head down as a gust blew.
It was cold, very cold Indeed In that
wind, hut the old mnn had on r mackl
naw and, out on the lake, Alan had
seen him on deck coat less In weather
almost as cold as this.
"It's a winter storm," Alsn cried.
"It's like It that way: hut today's the
lT.th. not the 5th of December!"
"That's right," Burr argeed. "That's
right."
The reply was ahsent. as though
Alan had stumbled upon what he was
thinking and Burr had no thought yet
to wonder at It.
"And It's the Stoughton they're lay
ing up, not the—" he stopped and
stared at Burr to let hljn supply the
word and, when the old man did not,
he repeated again—"not the—"
"No," Burr agreed again, as though
the name had been given. "No."
"It was the Martha Corvet yon laid
lip, wasn't It?" Alan cried quickly.
"Tell me—that time on the f>tli—It wns
the Martha Corvet?"
Burr Jerked away; Alan caught hlra
again and, with physical strength, de
tained him. "Wasn't It that?" he de
manded. "Answer me; it was the
Martha Corvet 7"
The wheelsman straggled; he seemed
suddenly terrified with the terror
which, Instead of weakening, supplied
infuriated strength. He threw Alan "ft
for an Instant and started lo nee back
toward the ferry; and Alan let lilni go,
only following a few steps co make
sure that the wheelsman returned to
Number 25.
.Bt^uuse or the severe cold, the
"Answer Me; It Was the Martha
Corvet?"
• iilL'ncs on too terrji n^n t.vn.
etied. Ainu would be relieved from
time to time to warm himself, nnd
then he would return to duty again.
Old Burr at the wheel would be re
lieved mid would go on duty at the
siime hours ns Alan himself. Kcnjamln
Corvet! The fancy reiterated Itself to
him Could he lit* mistaken? Was that
man. whose eves turned alternately
from the compass to (he how of the
ferry as It shifted and rose and fell,
the same who hail snt In that lonely
chair turned toward the fireplace In
the house on Aslor street? Were those
hands, which held the steamer to her
course, the hands which hail written
to Alan In secret from the little room
olT his bedroom and which pasted sr>
carefully the newspaper clippings con
cealed in the library?
(Continued on Thursday)
Movie Shots
Culver City, (Jul., July.—Leatrico
Joy, Laskv star, wvs painfully burn
ed v.-hen she accidentally overturned
a pot of boiling grease for a scene
which luckily was being shot at the
hospital. Treatment was almost In
stiT'aneous, but it 2s holding up the
Picture.
Sunday the profession Is honoring
the memory of our beloved Lillian
Russell at the Orpl.eum theatre. Ma:
ny film folks will be present.
Jack Conway, Universal star direc
tor has two big leaguers for his new
film "The Long Chinee". They are
Henry Walthall and Ua'.ph Graves.
W. D. Hoffman, At. P. editor of the
Oakland Tribune bids fair to join our
writer company. He won a prize for
"The i'aths of Gloiy" in the recent
Goldwyn contest.
Mack Sennett's latest mirthfilm
"The Crossroads of N. Y." received
its western premiers at Miller's The
atre with many screen notables pres
ent. It is a whopper of a comedy for
which credit Dick Jones, directorial
genius.
Mabel Normand is in N. Y. to em
bark for Europe with Moth and sec
retary on board. Watch for "Su
zanna", which will have its world
premiere at the M.'ssion when the
mirthful Mabel returns. Credit Dick
again.
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