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Interior Alaska, with its possibilities of livestock raising and success
ful agriculture. is the place for the small man. according to Prof. C. C.
lleorgeson. head of the government experimental stations in the territory.
The small man would not hesitate to take advantage of these oppor
tunities if they were presented to him m the right light and if the govern
ment made it easy for Uiiu to lake up land and start farming.
In this matter, as in ot' ei it.eluding paper manufacturing on a huge
scale, the initiative must be taken by the federal authority, it must sim
plify the process by which la d n ay lie acquired. It must induce the set
tler. preferably the expet leticed agriculturist of limited means, to try his
luck in the northland
Kvery Scandinavian who has visited the country has come away con
vened t at it could and would support a population as progress.ve. us pros
perous a:.J as numerous .>s t it ot Norway and Sweden. Climatically it is
i.o more repellent even in ti e coldest reaches: while, on the coast, the win
ters are milder than those of Washington. D. C.
stetansson. who has spent years on the Arctic plain of Canada and Al
aska or north of it. has compiled data showing that it is colder there than
ii. some sections of the I'tited States and the Dominion. The proximity of
ti e ocean tends to temp e extreme of winter. Stock raising, for In
stance. is as feasible as in Montana.
Alaska's aghcultu: il riclu s ' ave not been touched It possesses re
source* sufficient to support a hu tired times its present white population.
Some day :t will i.a\e the people but the government must pave the way
for ti..tt development Ti e sooner it acts the sooner will the land be set
tled. tilled and its wealth made available Seattle Times.
\\ WIS TlIK S.\I.M«»\ To IIWI. \ < II\N< K.—Tap federal government
is not paying much attenti* n :>■ the artificial propagation of satmou in Al
askan w.n rs. Iiut it :> propo.-ed lo exert a more diligent care this season
than ever before in the effort to give 'he Ash a chance to set up-stream dui
iug a few hours of each week so that taey mig t reach the spawuing
ground- and thus multiply and ke>p liieir numbers up to something like
the normau quantity And the canm : \ :i en. with just a little thought lor
the immediate future > ars oug T to be anxious to assist the government
in continuing to keep valuable those p.ants that have bean erected at lie
c t of many millions of dollar Without the salmon they are worthless,
but with a partially closed sv .-on. strctly adhered '•>. there may be a ten
dency to check the depletion that i.as been gradually going on for beveral
years past and which threatens to exterminate the fisheries in the Xotth. if
the trap operators would .-how a d.-p sit.on to assist in preserving the sal
mon in a reasonable way t;.er»- might not be such a strong urgency for the
greater control and regulation of the traps.
PSYCHOLOGY IN GRADIN3
Put c!!iciency Is in»t the whole of
lift- am) t - time thai »er "us thought
were given to something that goes f.ir
beyond tti»- •lufsrlou of the trustworth
iness- • f the tes's or the immediate
advantage g*ned hy their use. says
the Nf\v York Independent. If we are
e: upon a regime in which chil
dren are going to be lubt-led and
graded. not according to what th-y
ki hut according to what, by the
if xurnhle pronouncement of a self
registering machine, they inherently
are what is Koine to be the effect of
all this upon those children's n;itl««k
on life? It Is true that even as things
are. every sensible cliihl has a pretty
sure consciousness of Ms own inferior
ity to his more gifted comrades; but
It Is on<- thing to know this in n gen
eral way and quite another to have
that knowledge bunted into his ■•on
sctousness as a scientific and in>-«»t>
testable fact. to say nothing of Its
being stamped upon him as ? fatal
brand to be carried through life.
Whatever precautions are taken to d!s
guise '>r conceal the verdict, we may
he quite sure that If. as now promises
to be the case, the scheme of psycho
logical tests Is to he made a funda
mental part of our educational system.
Its results will he no secret to the
Individual child most concerned, nor
to those w,tb whom he Is most closely
ass->ciated.
Governor Edwards h:is votned the
anti-oat bill, and there is said to be a
d"Uht whether it can l>e repassed over
the veto. There are honest dift'eretir-es
of opinion a* to the value of the rat.
savs the Trenton Times. While It is
undoubtedly true that thousands of
birds and small ifauie animals are
killed every year by vaerant and pel
cats. It is equally true that Tom ami
Tabby also kill thousands of rats,
mice, moles and other r«nnin that
Jft'VUlU Qiiliioii* 04 UuiUlTS
worth »r f'trin cn«ps. fa ttie cttle's the
:ii is :i treat nnlsance to ninny per
si.ns. Init even there they render an
important service, us many a merchant
■ir<I family will testify. Perhaps the
toll he takes In song birds. English
sparrows and squirrels Is no more than
his due. and there are men and women
who object to the presence of the bird.
Slti'v rats and mice are known to be
(list-; »e carriers the evidence appears
to be in favor of ttie cat.
Nearly six hundred hanks In the
I'nite.; States suspended payment. and
were sixteen thousand commer
cial t>:>nkrn|>t< ies. ("Ircece was In "the
rby-- ..f insiilvcni-y" and Italy was on
rlit- brink. In Ilussia, famine and pes
tilence prevailed, and in Australia
aearly every bank of consequence had
i-losod its doors. Amerii-an farmers
were «•> hard pressed that they could
hardly buy smoking tobacco. Such
were the conditions in 1893. as re
vealed in news|>u|wrs and magazines
«.f that time, says the Nation's Busi
ness. Looking hack on them, the
neriod from which the world Is now
emerging seeius not so gloomy, after
all.
John I>. Uockefeller gets as many »9
3,(XK) begging letters a day. To go
tlirni|'_-h all of these, he would have to
read five a minute, working a ten
liour shift daily. Secretaries do the
reading. The only bothersome thin.'
about hiiv'ng ivohey W the swarm of
schemers that try to get it away fro
you as soon as you have it. They al
<vays show up, whether you have a
million or only five cents.
The baron who offers to share his
title with an American girl in con
sideration of a million dollars forgets
that a woman can buy a title for that
amount in these days without taking
on the encumbrance of a useless hus
band.
INDIAN DRUM
b.|William jHacHarq and Edwin Baimer
lllttsfrafions by ^
Ir'vix P\yevsr\.
Cop^riqhf by EdwirTBalmer • -J
CHAPTER V
An Encounter.
Alan, stnnding In the darkness of
the hall, felt in his pocket for his
matches and struck one on the box.1
The light showed the hall iu front of
him. reaching hack into some vague,
distant darkness, and great rooms with
wide portlered doorways gaping on
both sides. He turned into the room
upon his right, glanced to see that the
shades were drawn on the windows
toward the street, then found the
switch and turned on the electric light.
Alan had the feeling which so often
1 comes to one in an unfamiliar and
vacant house that there whs some one
in the house with him. He listened
and seemed to hear another sound In
I the upper hall, a footstep Ue went
eut quickly to the toot of the stairs
•ud looked up them.
; "is any one here?" he called. "Is
1 anv one here?"
His voice brought no response. He
went half way up the curve of the wide
stairway and called again, and 11s
I tened; then he fought down the feeling
he had had; Sherrlll had said there
would be no one In the house, and
I Alau was certain there was no one.
I So he went hack to the room where
he had left the light.
' The center of this room, like the
| room next to It, was occupied by a
| library table-desk. He pulled op«n
some drawers iu it; one or two had
! blueprints and technical drawings Iu
them: the others had only the miscel
lany which accumulates in a room
much used. There were drawers also
under the bookcases all around the
room: they appeared, when Allan
optMitnl some of them. to coiitnln pirn*
phlet« '">f various soc'ette* and the
j scientific correspondence .if which
St'.'rrlM had t"1'1 him. Alan felt that
seeing these things wns bringing his
father closer to him: they gave him a
little of the feeling he had W". unable
to get when he looked at Ills fiither s
| picture. He could realize better now
: the lonely, restless mun. pursued by
• some ghost he conlil not kill, taklns
I up f»r distraction one subject of study
I after another, exhausting each In turn
, until he could no longer make It en
. gross him. and then absorbing hlm
j self in the next.
On the top of a chest of high draw
' ers In a corner near the dressing
| ti Me were some papers. . Alau went
i over to look at thetu; they were Invl
' tmIons, notices of concerts and of
| plays .twenty years old—the mall,
l probably, of thi morning hen <'orv •' »
j wife had gone away, left where her
I nutld or sh.- hers, if had la^t the:,i,
an l only picked up and put back there
| at the times since when the room was
I dusted. As Alan touched them, be
I saw that his fingers left marks In t'le
. dust on the smooth top of the chest:
, he noticed that some one else had
. touched the things and made marks
of the same sort as he bad made. The
freshness of these other marks star
tled him: they had been made within
: a day or so. They could not have
j tven made by Sherrlll. for Alau had
' noticed that SherrlH's hands were
j slender and delicately formed; Cor
• vet. too. was not a large man; Alan's
• own hand was of good size and pow
erful. but when he put his fingers over
the marks the other man had made, he
found that the other hand must have
been larger and more powerful than
| his own. Had It been Corvet's serv
ant? It might have been, though the
| marks seemed too fresh for that; for
I the servant. Sherrlll had said, had left
| the day Corvet's disappearance was
discovered.
' This proof that some one nnn neon
I prying about In the house before him
self and since <"V»rvet had gone, star
| tleil Alan and angered him. Who h:<•]
i l.e»n searching in Benjamin Corve's
j —In Alan's house? He pushed the
I drawers shut hastily and hurried
i ncros1} the hall to the room opposite.
[ In this room—plainly Benjamin Cor
I vet's hed room—were no si ens of In
j truslon. He went to the door of the
j room connecting with It, turned on
I the light. and looked In. Tt was h
| smaller room than the others and
contained a roll-top desk and a cabi
net. The cover of the desk was closed,
and the drawers of the cabinet were
shut and apparently undisturbed. He
tried the cover of the desk, but It ap
peared to he locked; after looking
around vainly for a key. he tried
agnln. exerting a little more force,
and this time the top went up easily,
tearing away the metal plate Into
which the claws of the lock clasped
and the two long screws which had
held it. He examined the lock, sur
prised. and saw that the screws must
1 have been merely set Into the holes:
scars showed where a chisel or some
metal Implement had been thrust In
under the top to force It up.. The
pigeonholes and little drawers In the
upper part of the desk, as he swiftly
opened them, he found entirely empty,
i He hurried to the cabinet; the draw
' «rs of tfie uibinet tyiJmtf .beeu forced,
nniVvoTy" M-ently: Tor *ne scars nno
the spllntPrs of wood were clean and
fresh. These drawers nn<l tlip draw
ers In thp lower part of !Iip desk
either were empty, or flip papprs in
them had heen disarranged and tum
bled In confusion. us though some one
had examined them hastily and tossed
thptn hack. To Alan, the marks of
violence and roughness were unmis
takably the work of the man with the
big hands who had left marks upon
the top of the ehest of drawers; and
the feeling that hp had been In the
house very reepntl.v was stronger than
ever.
Alan mil out Into the hall and lls
temsl: he heard no sound : hut he went
buck to the little room more excited
than before. For what had the other
man been searching? For the same
thing* whleh Alan was looking for?
And had the other man got thomT
Who might the other be. and what
might be his connection with Tlen.la
inln Corvet? Alan had no doubt that
everything of Importance must have
been taken away, but he would make
sure of that. Mp took some of the pn
ppr* from the drawers and began to
examine Them; after nearly an hour
of this, be had found on'v one article
which appeared connected in any way
Willi what Slierrlll had told him or
with Mill1 li" i*' It' in or" ol' 'lie little
drawers of the desk be found several
i hooks, nit!'h worn a" though from
being carried 'n a pocket, ami one of
j these contained II series of entries
str- telling over se"«rn' years These
lls'ed an amount *!"• '—opposite n se
ries of dates with only th» year and
the month given, and there was an
en'rv for every second ruoirli.
Alan felt Ills fiir.-er-; trembling as he
turned the pages of the little hook
and found at the end of the list a
blank, anil below, in the same hand
but In «riling which had changed
slightly with the passage ot years, an
other date and the continuing entry of
Jl.MKl. Alan looked through tlie little
, book apfin and put it In his pocket
i It was. beyond doubt, his father's
; memory iium of the *nms seut to Itlue
I Haplils for Alan; It told lifm that here
he had been iti his father's thoughts,
lie grew warm at the thought as he
began putting the other things back
j Into the drawers.
lie started and strnlghletieil sudden
ly; then he listened irii'iiveh and
his. skin, warm an In-dnnt before,
turned cold and prickled. Sotm-wliere
within the house unmistakably on the
floor below him. a dour ha I slammed.
Some one—it was beyond question
I now, for the re:il|/ .t|o|i was quite dif
ferent from the feeling lie had had
j about that bef> re—'.as In the house
| Somewhere Within the House, Unmis
takably on the Floor Below Him, a
Door Had Slammed.
with him. Whs It . . . his father
who had come hark? That, though
not Impossible, seemed Improbable.
Alan stooped quickly, unlaced and
stripped off his shoes, and ran out
Into the hall to the head of the stairs,
where he looked down Rnd listened.
From here the sound of some one mov
ing about came to hlrn distinctly; he
couM ace no lieht below, hut when he
ran down to the turn of the stairs. It
became plain that there was a very
dim and flickering light In the library. |
He crept on farther down the stair- [
case. Ills hands were cold and moist
from his excitement, and his body was 1
hot and trembling.
Whoever it was that was moving j
about downstairs, even If he was not
one who had a right to be there, at
least felt secure from interruption.
He was (thing with heavy step from
window to window: where he found a
shade up. he pulled It down brusquely
and with a violence which suggested
crcat strength uiulej- a nervogs strain;
n shade, winch had" been pulled flown,
flew up, nnd (lie man damned It ax
thnuith If had startled him: then, after
an Instant, he pulled It down again.
Alan crept still farther down end at
last caught slu'ht of him. He wax a
big. young-looking man. with hroad
.shoulders and very evident vigor;
Alan guessed his age at thirty-five; he
was handsome—he had a straight
forehead over daring deep-set eyes;
his nose, lips and chin were power
fully formed; and he was expensively
and very carefully dressej. The light
l>y which Alan suw these thlnpa can)a
from a flat little pocket searchlight
tbit the man carried In one hand
which threw a little brilliant circle of
light as he directed It; and now, a9
the light chanced to fall on his other
luuid—powerful and heavily muscled
—Alan recollected the look and size
of the finger prints on the chest of
drawers upstairs. He did no* doubt
that this was the same man who had
gone through the desk; but since he
had already rifled the desks, what did
he want here now? As the man moved
out of sight, Alan crept on down as
far as the door to the library; the
man had gone on Into the rear room,
and Alan went far enough Into the
library so he could see hltu.
He had pulled open one of the draw
ers in the big table In the rear room
and with his light held so high as to
slmw what was In it. he was tumbling
over Its contents and examining them.
He went through one after another of
the drawers of the table like this:
after examining them, he rose and
kicked the last one shut disgustedly:
lie stood looking about the room ques
tlonlngly. then he started toward the
front room.
He had. as vet, neither seen nor
heard anything to alarm him. and as
Se went to the desk In the front room
' and peered Impatiently Into (he draw
| ers. he slammed them shut, one nfter
another. He straightened and stared
about. "D—n Ben ' D—n Ben he
ejaculated viol intly and returned to
the rear room. Alan, again following
him. found him on his knees In front
J of one of the drawers under the hook
I enses. As he continued searching
through ibe drawers, his Irritation he
| cntue greater and greater He jerked
| one drawer entirely out of Its case,
' and the contents dew In every dlrec
; tlon: swearing at It. he gathered up
j the letters, (toe suddenlv caught his
I attention: he began rending It closely,
J then snapped It back Into the drawer.
crammed the rest on top of It. and
j r.-pnt on to the next of ihe tiles. He
) searched in this manner through half
• dozen drawers, plainly finding noth
| Ing at all he wanted • he dragged some
of ihe hooli.s from their cases, felt be
hind tliein and shoved back some of
■lie books but dropped others on the
floor and blasphemy burst from him.
The beam of light from the torch In
his baud swayed aside and back and
forth. Without warning, suddenly it
caught Alan as he stood in the dark
| of the front room; and as the dim
white circle of light gleamed Into ai
j Hn's fa<e. the tnun looked that way
! ami suw him.
i Tlit* effect of tills upon the man was
sn strange anil so bewildering to Alan
thut Alati could only stare at him.
The big man seemed to shrink iuto
himself and to shrink back and away
; from Alan. He roared out something
lu a bellow thick with fear and hop
I ror; he seemed to choke with terror.
I There was nothing In his look akin to
mere surprise or alarm at reull/.lng
that another was there and had been
j seeing and overhearing him. The
I light which he still gripped swayed
back and forth and showed him Alan
I again, and he raised his arm before
j his face as he recoiled.
j The consternation of the man was
| so complete that it checked Alan's rush
l toward him; he halted, then advanced
| silently and watchfully. As he went
forward, and the light shone upon his
face again, the big man cried out
hoarsely:
"I>—n you; d—n you. with the hole
above your eye I The bullet got you I
j And now you've got Ben! But you
can't get me! Go hack to hell I You
can't get me! Fll get you—I'll get
vou ! You—can't save the Mlwaka!"
(Continued on Thursday)
Big Game Guide
Sportsmen who are Interest
ell In hunting bis game in the
Lower Yukon comtry are In
vited to call on m> .1 have
lived for many year* In the At
lin country, and can gnarante«
hunting parties One luecimens.
I have a good power boat
for lake hunting and fishing. .
For information call er ad
dress
Tom Williams
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In Territory of Alaska
HAINES ALASKA
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Office Hours: 0-12 a. m.—1-6 p. m.
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BKAGWAY ALASKA
SKAGWAY
FRATERNAL ORDERS
Camp Bkagway No. 1
meet* every second and
fourth Tuesday evening
at 8:30 o'clock. Visit
ing brothers cordlfcily. welcome.
J. M. Keller, L. 8. Keller,
Arctic Recorder. Arctic Chief
B. P. O. ELKS, Skatf
f way Lodge, No. 431, B.
P. O. Elks, meets everj
Thursday at 8 p. m.
Visiting brothers cor
dirtily welcome.
DAN MCDONALD, E. R.
P. J. VA.VDEWAXiL, Secretary.
P. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge P. & A.
M. No. 113, meets 2nd and
4th Saturday evenings of
each month at 8 o'clock.
Visiting Brethren are wel
come.
F. J. Van de Wall, W. M.
T. J. Standfsh, Secretary.
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.
Skagway Aerie, No. 25,
Fraternal Order of
Eagles, meet the first
andtlilrd Wednesday night of each
Naomi Chapter No. 9
0. E. 6., meets In Ma
sonic ball, 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's head and face were almoit
a solid »ore. The eye# perfectly blind.
Doctor said the wont case be had ever
seen. One aorapta of D. D. D. did won*
derful wore. A complete cure fol
lowed." Thas. J. Dormineyjcaison. Ala.
I Ton write, too, to the D. D. D. Company of
Chicago for a simple and get immediate relief.
Or, come in and we will tell you what D. D. D.
has accomplished in your own neighborhood.
Four money back unless the flnt bottle relieves
you. 85c, ooc and ?) .00.
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DEPARTMENT OP THE INTERIOR
U. 8. LAND OFFICE
at Juneau, Alaska
April, 13, 1928
NOTICE la hereby given that Mi
chael J. O'Connor, of Haines, Alas
ka, who, on April 13, 1922, made
HE, No. 04908, for lota 1 and 2,
Section 14; and lot 1, Section 23,
Township 30 S., Range 68 E., Cop
per River Meridian, has filed notice
of Intention to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before R M.
Odel, at Haines, Alaska, on the 27tb
day of May, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses: N.
G. Hanson, of Haines, Alaska; Chas.
Anway, of HSines, Alaska; Leoa
Ballard, of Haines, Alaska.
FRANK A. BOYLE,
Reflsttr,
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