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i. L. Pilman. AtUn, B.C.
THE DIVISION OF AI-ASKA
The Commercial cluhs of Juneau a'id of Ketchikan are strenuously ad
vocating a division of Alaska into two or more territories. The argument
for such division is that the interests of the First division are not in line
wtih those of the other dirisioiis. and that the First is fbrce to expend mon
eys contributed by it for the support of the other divisions.
While a majority of the re» dents of the Second. Third and Fourth divi
sions would prefer to see the territory remain one and indivisible, with the
capital removed to a more central location, there should be very little oppo
sition to such division.
The First division is not identified with Alaska proper. It has always
been more or less identified with Canadian interests, patronizing Canadian
vessels. working with Canadian capital and depending upon Canadian trade
from the Yukon district to add to its resources With the possible exception
of timber it Is not as r.ch in resources as the other divisions in Alaska; it
has constantly hogged all territorial boards and offices: and has been more
or less a burden upon t ■ rest of tl e territory, which has contributed slxty
fc\e per cent, of its suppoi. As an independent territory it would be near
ly self-supporting and would he a compact, highly settled area nearly ;ts
lurge as the State of Washington
Take the case of the Alaska Road Commission with present headquar
ters at Juneau. The larger part of its work is in the northern divisions,
and its officials must come hundreds of miles to get to the scene of oper
ations. There are few roads in the First division, hut the commission main
tains two boats to visit the numerous islands and towns. It is a waste of
money having the headquarters so far from the work; farther than from
Fan Francisco to Seattle Think of a road official running up from 'Frisco
to oversee roadwork near Seattle.
In case of a division of the territory, for the first few years the coun
try north of the Yukon, intl iding ti e Nome district, would be a heavy bur
den on the Third and Fourth divisions, as it has few resources other than
gold or fur With the growing Siberian trade, however, it would rank with
the foremost division in Alaska in wealth, if winter transportation could be
assured.
Whatever the choice or the people. anu 11 snomu ne supiinueu 10 a »uie
of the people, the time is at iia: J when something must be done to relieve
conditions. In hoth the First and other divisions. The territory Is too large,
too unwieldy, too varied in its resources and needs to remain one territory
The fisheries and timber lie in tlie First and Third divisions, the gold and
furs in the Second and Fourth. Laws protecting game in the southern di
visions are useless in the nortl erit ones: to take a trip to Juneau means a
s«*a voyage of nearly a week. By connecting with the government railroad
at Seward. Nome residents would he saved a trip of a thousand miles out
of the way to get to the capital of the interior. They are now compelled
to travel to Seattle, thence back to Juneau; then back to Seattle and over
the former route home.
By all means let us have a division of the territory if we cannot reach
an agreement by other methods.--Seward Gateway.
WUITKHOKSK TRIP FLIVVERS
After all arrangements had been made—after the Mounted Police had
purchased new uniforms and put in a hard month's basketball practice—
had arranged for a bis dance, a snowshoe party, a curling bonspiel. and
various other forms of entertainment .fur their visitors—the whole affair
had to be called off because we couldn't get enough of the soldiers here In
terested to secure the five-dollar rate offered us by the White Pass & Yu
kon Houte. The railroad people had even offered to bring back their reg
ular Tuesday tram from Whitehorse a day early, in order to suit our con
venience. but the plans had to be all cancelled when we got no backing on
this end. Just at present Port Seward's name is "Mud" up in the Can
adian town, and it's hardly reasonable to think that it shouldn't be. l.et
us hope that some day we'll get a chance to clear it. "Nuf sed."—Chilkat
Post.
B!G NEWS IN LITTLE ITEMS
S. ;i tterei) items of lin n I news and
dispatches te'ling t»f lucreased pro
duction Uere, .if greater *a'es tin*re. of
lessening unemployment, of it general
stir of action anion;; industries, of a
widespread movement among all men
to (To out uiid get business- tliis Is ll e
greatest news of the year, it is the
most immediately vital news to us all—
to ' tir business, our families, our peace
of mind, our hopes, our ambitions, i'.ut
because of the great news of interna
tlonal sign'? mice with a bigger appeal
to the Imagination. the greatest news
of the year Is passing unnoticed to
the niaD who is not accustomed to
look for It, to rend between the lines
of everyday occurrences. In the
meager item here and there this news
does not seem of srettt moment, but
ill LLe aggregate. abided to b>
j every i n:ir. e\ cry ila.v and every week,
the to.al Is convincing. We have
sinn k :i business revival. We are on
I ilie r.u- ' t<> •rmal production—sales.
I profit- V.'e are bended for prosperity.
Me:. v> .. b< :nl sreat Industries realize
the value or this business revival. They
"enow it < jin he turned Into an era
of prosperity If the obstacles of
p«.*siitiwtn. doubt, fear and inaction
are removed. The nation-wide pros
I neri'v rampalsn Instituted by tlie
[ Itotary Clubs of United States and
I f'atindn will give tiie revival impetus
j n all part* of the country that should
[ show iiuuiediate and unmistakable re
sults in every community in the United
Stale*.
Prices of other things may fluctuate
and he uncertain, hut w-|th sure de
Hbenifene^s Libert;' bonds are climb
ing to ;mi'. .
The Voice
of the Pack
By Edison Marshall
(Cep/rlf at, 1OTU, Utile, Brown * l')mp»ny)
And Pan had no delusions about
her attitude toward him. For a Ions
Instant she turned her keen, young
eyes to his white, thin fare: and at
once It became abundantly evident
that heyond n few girlish speculations
she felt no Interest In hlra. After a
single moment of rather strained, po
lite conversation with Dan—Just
enough to satisfy her Idea of the con
ventions—she began a thrilling girl
hood tale to her father. And she was
still telling It when they reached the
I house.
Pan held a chair for her In front of
the fireplace, and she took It with en
tire uaturalness. Re was careful to
put It where the firelight was at Its
i height He wanted to see Its effect on
| the Hushed cheeks, the soft dark hnlr.
And then, standing In the shadows, he
I Standing In the Shadows, He Simply
Watched Her.
I simply watched her. With the eye of
inn artist lie delighted In her gestures.
' her rippling enthusiasm, her utter Ir
repressible glrlishness that nil of time
I had not years enough to kill.
Bill stood watching her. his hands
deep In his pockets, evidently a com
piitilnn of the hesi. Her father gazed
ill her with amused tolerance. And
Dan—he didn't know In Just what way
he did look at her. And he dldn'i hav,
time to decide. In less than flfre«!
minutes, and wholly without warning
she sprang up from her chair auc'
stsrtvil toward the dour.
"flood Lord!" P"n breathed. "If
you make such sudden motions «► that
Til have heart failure. Where are
you going now?"
I "Back to my watch." she answered,
her tone wholly lacking the personal
note which men have learned to ex
pect In the voices of women. And an
Instant later the three of them -:ivr
her retreating shadow as she vanished
I among the pines.
Dan had to be helped to bed. The
long ride had been too hard on his
shattered lungs; and nerves and body
collapsed an Instant after the door
was closed behind the departing girl,
lie laughed weakly and begged tlieir
pardon; and ihe two men were really
very gentle. They told him it was
their own fault for permitting him to
overdo. Lennox himself blew out the
candle In the big. cold bedroom.
Dan saw tlie door close behind him,
and he had an Instant's glimpse of the
lone sweep of moonlit ridge that
stretched beneath the window. Then,
all at once, seemingly without warn
ing. It siuiply blinked out. Not until
the uext morning did he really know
why. Insomnia was an old acquaint
ance of Dan's, and he had exffcx'ted to
have some trouble In getting to sleep.
His only real trouble was waking up
again when !>emu>x called him to
breakfast. He couldn't believe that
the light at his window shade was
really that of morning.
"Good Heavens!" bis host exploded.
"You sleep tlie sleep of the just."
Dan was about to tell him that on
the contrary he was a very nervous
sleeper, but he thought better of It.
Something had surely happened to his
Insomnia. The next Instant he even
forgot to wonder about it In the reali
zation that his tired body had been
wonderfully refreshed. He had no
dread now of the long traiup up the
ridge that Ids host had planned.
But first came target practice. In
Dan's baggage he had a certain very
plain but serviceable sporting rifle of
about thirty-forty caliber—a gun that
the information department of the
large sporting-goods store In Gitche
apolls bad recommended for his pur
pose. Except for the few moments In
the store. Dan had never held a rifle
Uis luiids. Ilie flrsi siwi lie tut tiie
trunk* oT a flvt>-foot pine at thirty
pace*.
"lint I couldn't very well havr
missed Ithp replied to Lennox's
cheer. "You see. I aimed »t the mid
dle- Inn I Just erarcd the edee."
The second shot was not so eood
missing the Tree al; Tether. And It j
was a slnenlar th"' that he aimed |
longer and tried lwr<!er on this shot j
than on the first. The third time he '
tried still harder, und made hy far I
the worst shot of all.
"What's .'he matter?" he dnmanded. '
"I'm eettine worse all the time." '
Lennox dliln"t know for sure. Bnt (
he made a lone cues*. "It mlcht be i
beginner's Inck." he said, "•■ul I'm In- I
dined to think you're trylne too hard [
Take It ens'er—depend more on your j
Instincts?"
Pan's reply was to lift the rifle i
lightly to his shoulder. e'mce quickly t
alone the trleecr and fire. The hullet ,
stnick within one Inch of the center i
Of the pine.
For a lone second Ijennox en Ted at
him In o|>er-m'mthed asionlshment.
"My stars, hoy!" he cried at last.
"Was I mistaken In thlnklne yon were
a horn tenderfoot—after all? On It j
he that a little of yonr old erandfa- |
ther's skill has hoen passed down to j
you? But you can't do It acafti."
But Pan did do It aenln. If any- |
thine, the hullet was a little nearer (
the center. And then he aimed at a (
more distant tree.
But the hammer snapped down In
effectively on the breech. He turned
with a look of question.
"Yonr (run only hold* five shots."
Lennox explained. Heloadlne. Pan |
tried a more difficult tareet—a trunk
almost one hundred yards distant. Of j
course It would have hoen only child's 1
play to an experienced hunter: hut t
to a i«"tiderf'>ot It was a difficult
mark Indeed. Twice out of four shots I
Pan hit the tree tnmk. and one of his I
i two hits was practically a hu'l's-eye. 1
His two inK-so* were the result of the (
i same mlsthke he had made before— ;
.11 temptIne to hold his aim toe 'one.
I Dan nnrt Letinor sritlted mge'her .
np the lone slope of the rills'1 Dan
alone R'nn-1: l.entio* went *l'h him
solely as a cnlde T'ir d- «r season had
Ills! opened. and IT might be that Dan
would Wi.ni lo procure one of those
| creatures.
i "Kill I'm n.">r sure I w*nt to hunt J
leer" D't toH h'm "Yon S|i<-ak of 1
ihem n•• hflnp s.- beantiftll—"
l "Thev are benntiftil nnrt yonr '
grandfather would never hum Th«m.
either, except for meat Tint maybe l
von'll ohpner vonr mind when von «ee
a hnrk. is- sides w > ni'cht run Into a
lynx or a pari "her. Hot not very like
I ly. wl-hou; dogs."
The* trudged np. over the rarrvt of
nine n-'edtes T' <'} fon~ht their war
through a ihl'-Vet of h«irV>n:«h Once
they saw the gray crjn'rrels In the tree I
top*. And before Lennox had as mnrh
as supposed the* nw near the hiwnfs
of big came, a yearllnc d.w> sprang np
from Its bed In 'he thiefce's
For an In-'ant sh" stood motionless,
presents' a pe'feet target. It was
evident ihnt «!»• had heard the «onnd
of the am -"inching htinkers hn' had
not as yet !<■ itied or Identified them
whirled to find r*nn standing very
still, |ieermc along "hi barrel o' his j
i rifle. Ru! he didn't shoot. The d>-er.
seeing Lennox move Vjxh) Into her
terror-pace—that astonnd'ng mn tl.at
i is one of ih-- fas'es" Its ,n the whole
animal world In "he mink of nil eye
' she v.as out of sight.
j "Why didn't you shoot?" Lennox do
; roanded.
i "Shoot? I| was a doe, wasn't ItT" I
I "Good Lord, of course It nas a do#!
Bui there nre no game laws that go
hack this far. lUsiiies—you aimed at ,
i It."
"I aimed just to see If I eonld entch
It through my slg;:;s. And I could.
My glass,... sort »f made it hlur—but !
| shot It. I'm I'm not going to kill doe*
I There must be some reason for the '
j patne laws, or they wouldn't exist."
"You're a funny one. Come three
thousand miles to hunt and then pass
I up the first deer you see. You could
almost have !>eon your grandfather,
to have done that, lie thought klllins
deer needlessly was almost as bad as
killing a man. They are beautiful '
things, aren't thev?"
Dan answered him with startling
I emphasis. Hut the look that he wore
| said more than his words.
| They tnidged on, and Lennox grew
thoughtful. He »a< recalling ttie pic
j tur»- that he had scon when he had
whirled to lo.ik at Pan. Immediately
after the deer had leaped from Its 1
bed. It puzzled him a little. He had
turned to find the younger roan In «
i perfect posture to shoot, his feet !
' placed In exactly the position that
| years of exjK>rlei; -e had taught Len
nox was correct: and withal, absolute
I ly motionless. What many hunters '
take years to lenrn. Pan had seemed J
to know by Instinct Could It be. after
all, that this slender weakling, even I
now bowed down with a terrible I
malady, had Inherited the true fron- j
th-rsman's Instincts of his ancestors? j
The result of this thought was at j
least to hover In the near vicinity of j
a certain conclos'nn. That conclusion
j was that at least a few of the char
acteristics of his grandfather had j
; been passed down to Pan. It meant t
that possibly. If time remained, he 1
would not turn out such a weakling, j
•fter all. Of course his courare. his .
I nerve, had yet lo be tested: but the
fact remained that long generations
of frontiersmen ancestors had left this |
Influence upon him. The wild was .
calling to him. wakening Instincts I
long smothered In cities, but sure and
true as ever. It was the beginning
of regeneration. Voice* of tbe long
Dubi were suttakiuc tp Uiiu. juid Uje
Fnllfnrs our* motv bid ho-mn to ntn
imp to form Inherited te*>d<T>rte«
•not* In a mnmnil ehanjtlnc this weak
dlseasi-d youth Into * frontiersman
«tnd wilderness Inhabitant «och n« hlt>
ancestors had boon before htm.
They were sllppinc along over the
! piny needle*. th»lr ere« 1m<*nt on the
I trail ahead. And then Lennox aaw a
curious rbing. Hp beheld Han rati
denly stop In the trail and mrn hl»
I eyes toward a heavy thicket that lav
J perhaps one hundred yard* Tn their
> rlcht. For an Instant h» looked al
most like a wild creami* hlmxclf. Hi*
head int lowered. a« If he w.t* 11«
! tenlnc. His muscles were set and
j ready.
i Lennox had prided himself that he
' had retained all thr powers of h'« five
j senses, and that few m«-n In the ujonn ,
' tains had keener ears than he. Yet
! It was truth that at first he only knew
1 the silence. and the stir and pulse of
his own Wood. He aw-iimed then that
I">an was watchlnc sowethlnc that
from his position, twenty feet behind.
. he eonld not see. He tried to probe
the thicket* with his eyes
■ Then Dan whispered. Ever so soft
i a sound, but yet distinct !n the ai
ft* &• •
••There's Something Living In That
Thicket."
ler><~* "There's something llvlnp In
that thicket."
Then l.enne* henril tt fx*. As the>
stood Mill, the smtnd hernme ever
clearer and more pronouni'ed. Som>
Mvint ereti'tire t«< ndvnncinc toward
them: ant rwirs r-ere crtiokinc '*>
nenth It* feet The sotind* were ruth
er sn^diied. find ye* as the animal at*
pr.w -t.--i hoth of thetn Inurtnetlven
knew that they were extrwnety lotd
for the usual footsteps of any >>f lh«
wild creatures.
-\\t-">' 's !•*" rvir arted n"'"-!v.
(Continued on TtinraUjr)
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75c at Keller Brothers.
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M. No. 11.1. mM» SmJ »iwl
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mrh month al ( o'Hnrk.
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come.
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W. IV STOIT
Attorney tt Law
Prxilop in >11 r«*rti
III Trrrilnrf of Ala«ka
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