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Route ot
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Service
Safety
To Yukon Territory, Atlin District
Interior Alaska
During the winter season of 1916-1 7 our regular train service will
be maintained North and South Bound between Skaguay
and Whitehorse, trains leaving both terminals Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
WINTER STAGE SERVICE
Our Through Mail, Passenger and Freight Service will be oper
ated between Whitehorse and Dawson, affording every possible
facility for comfortable winter travel by nmans of a
Tho'oughly Equipped Stage and Automobile Line
F or full information apply to
C. W. CASH
Supt. Mail Service Dept.
WHITEHORSE. Y. T.
-OR
612 Second Ave.,
A. F. Z1PF
Traffic Manager
SEATTLE, Wash.
Wnits Pass & Yukon Houte
TIME TABLE No. 38.
Morelay, Wednesday and Friday
No. 2, 8. Bound
1st Class
Arrives 3:50 p. m.
Leaves 2:20 p. m.
" 1:30 p. m.
" 12:50 p. m.
" 10:48 a. m.
" 8:00 a. m.
Pvsaenger* mast be at depot la time to have Baggage In
»pected *i:d checked. Inspection Ik stopped SO minutes before
leaving time of train*. ■
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each fall
fare tlck« and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket.
No. 1. X. Hound
♦ 1st Claaa
8:30 a. nu Leave*
11:05 a. m.
11:45 a. ni. "
12:40 p. m. "
2.20 p. m. "
4:50 [». in. Arrives
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POLICY
IX GOOD STRONG COMPANIES
REGISTERED IN
ALASKA
AND REPRESENTED BY
PHIL. ABRAHAMS
LICENSED AGENT AT SKAGWAY,
A Bridal
Commission
By JOHN KENAN
I was sittin' with Amelia before tin
fireplace, with the logs givin' out a
I checrful heat Amelia didn't seen
happy, though, and I asked her whj
j she looked so melancholy-like.
"I'll tell you, Mr. Grlmshaw," she said
"Did you ever hear the song, 'No One
to Love, None to Caress?' Well, that's
the way I feel. Father ever sine*
mother's death has been restless and
cross, and now he's goin' to give me
a stepmother. 1 haven't any brothers
or sisters to love, and I'm goin' to have
a stepmother to hate."
"Why, Amelia," says I, "the thing for
you to do is to get married."
"How can I do that with nobody tc
marry me?" she asked, awful sad.
"How you talk!" says I. "You know
mighty well there's lots of fellers that
would be glad to git you."
"I'd like to know where they are. If
you know any sich I wish you'd send
em around."
"Sartain. I'll git you a husband in
I no time. Air you particular about his
I bein' good lookin' or havln' a farm oi
his own or anything like that?"
"No, I ain't particular, leastways 1
won't be if you can fix me out before
I brings that red headed wldder into
| the house, 'cause I know I've got to git
out when she comes in."
"How much time is there?"
"Well, I heard paw say the other day
that he ealc'lated to be married before
the end o* next month."
"Supposin' I send you a feller that
; suits you and you suit him, what is
I there in It for me?"
"I don't see what I can do for you,
Mr. Grlmshaw, seein' that I haven t
got a cent in the world, and there Isn't
anv favor I know of that I can do
you. But I suppose"—looking down at
the floor—"bavin' made the match,
you'd be entitled to kiss the bride."
This bothered me a lot I was to
fix up a match by which another fellei
I was to git all the kisses he wanted for
a lifetime, and 1 was to git one kiss
[ on the weddin' day.
"It seems to me, Amelia," I says,
"that's like sellin' a man a house
wo'th a lot o' money for a commission.
He gits a whole house, and the broker
gits a few dollars."
"You forgit" said Amelia, "that the
broker don't want all the houses he
sells. What would he do with 'em?
Besides, when a man buys a house tt
I artrys that he's able to own a house
I and wants a house, and wants that
particular house. I don't see that the
broker earns anything more than his
commission. Do you?"
"I don't see as he does," says I,
scratchln' my head. And I didn't
Howsomever, I couldn't git it out o*
my noddle that I was goin' to git the
little end o' the bargain. But I felt
sorry for Amelia, powerful sorry, for
I'd had a stepmother myself.
"Is it customary," says I, "to pay
a commission before the transaction s
| completed?"
"Not at all," said Amelia. "That
| wouldn't do."
"Why not?"
"Well, the broker, bavin* got his pay,
wouldn't take any pains In the mat
ter."
"If he didn't do his work he might
return what he'd received."
"Iu that case he'd git double pay for
I notliin—that is. if his commission was
"Isn't there somepin among business
men like payin' part down, the rest
j when the (leal has gone through ?" \
"That's got nothin' to do with bro
kers; it's* when you buy a piece of
property yourself."
"Well," I says, givin' it up, "I reckon
I'll have to wait for my pay till I've
done the job."
I got up and was goin' out when
| Amelia said:
"How soon are you goin' to send a
- feller?"
"I dunno. Somahow I don't like the
transaction. Seems to me he'll git the
lion's share."
r "Well, Mr. Grimshaw, since you look
£ at it that way I don't know but I
ought to make It more to your interest
'• to do the job. I might double the
t commission, one-ba'f payable in ad
vance."
0 "Now you're shoutin'," I said, and
k instead of goin' away I sat down ag'in
and tuk the first half o' my commis
sion. It tasted so good that I began
right off to hanker for the other half
of my pay.
"Amelia," I says, "you couldn't pay
It all in advauce, could you?"
"Sartain not. What would there be
to hold you to your work?"
I thort awhile, and then I said:
"Supposin' I make the deal for my
self."
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean supposin* I Jlst take the
I other feller by the nape o' the neck
and put him out Then, instead o'
actin' as his broker, I acquire the prop
erty in my own name."
"Land sakes, Mr. Grlmshaw!"
That was all the talkin' we done.
I was hungry for another kiss, and 1
tuk her in my arms and had a dozeu
without stoppin'.
"Good gracious, Mr. Grimshaw, what
you doin'?" she says.
"I'm makln' a fust payment to bind
the bargain." i
Amelia and I was married before her
; father brought the stepmother to his
| house, and Amelia found a home with
me. One of her old flames on our wed
dln' day claimed a right to kiss the
bride.
"What did you do to earn it?" Bays
i I to him.
_] Amelia bust out larfln.
Tracked by a
Human Weakness
By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
One morning the quiet town of Silver
Waters—named for a stream running
through It—was horrified at the an
nouncement that Leonard Marston had
been found murdered in his bed. Sil
ver Waters was a summer settlement
of wealthy persons who were not there
In winter, but Marston had remained
beyond the usual time, and the tragedy
occurred late in November. '
The house had evidently been enter
ed for the purpose of plunder. It was
I generally known that Mrs. Marston,
who was in the city at the time of the
murder, had a great deal of valuable
j Jewelry. Some of this was at the
country house, and it was all taken by
tho robbers, as were her husband's
studs, sleeve buttons, scarfplns, etc.
When tho police, who were called in
at once, came they took possession of
tho premises, allowing nothing to be
touched till the arrival of Dempsey, a
detective, who was to make a thorough
examination.
riomnsevhiid a reputation of being one
of tie most skillful probers of crimes
In America. When he arrived he be
pan his search for something the crim
inal or criminals had left as a possible
clew. Theiy were 110 footprints, which
are usually considered the most Impor
tant pointers. Indeed, after an hour's
methodical Investigation Dempsey had
discovered nothing. Then his eye
caught a small object under a dresser
from which Mr. Marstou's belongings
had been taken. v
Drawing an electric lamp from his
pocket, he Hashed it upon the object
and revealed a stud. Taking it up, he
saw that it was a mosaic and recog
nized it as one that must have been
made in Italy. Evidently in taking it
from the box in which it and other
articles of like character had been kept
the thief had dropped it and it had
rolled under the dresser.
This was the only clew that was
found. Dempsey inquired of Mrs.
Marston how many studs of the set
her husband h:id possessed, where they
had been procured and any other In
formation (he lady might give. He
was told that there were three studs
In the set, with a pair of sleeve but
tons to match. She had brought them
from Koine with her after her last vis
it there during the previous summer.
The design was the same on all the
studs and the sleeve links, a copy of
the head of a statue In the Vatican
called the Apollo r.elvidere.
"That will do," said Dempsey. "It
may be a long chase, but if persisted
In the thief and murderer will at last
be found."
Dempsey did not begin to probe the
matter till a month after the robbery,
then he got up a circular, a copy of
^ hlch he sent to every pawnbroker
and manufacturing jeweler in Amer
ica. He gave a description of the mo
saic stud and a picture of it. He got
nothing from any pawnbroker, but
from a jeweler he received a letter
stating that two studs answering the
description In his letter had been made
into a pair of earrings in his shop.
Dempsey responded to the letter in
person and learned that the work had
been done for a woman. She was well
remembered by the clerk who took the
order and was described as about
twenty-eight or thirty years old, large,
rather flashy in her dress, and her face
and neck had been "calcimined."
From this point Dempsey worked
with a large corps of assistants, whom
he employed to go to public places of
amusement, dining places, cabarets
indeed, such places as are frequented
by the floating population of cities.
Nevertheless a year passed with no
results.
At last one of Dempsey's assistants,
a girl about sixteen years old, report
ed that a friend of hers had told her
that she had sat next to a woman at
a movie show who wore mosaic ear
rings representing "the head of a man
with curly hair." The assistants were
instructed to follow the person if met
with and note the residence. But the
woman with the earrings could not be
found. So the game was lost.
But Dempsey wont at once to the city
where the discovery bad been made,
hired a special corps of assistants and
went about himself where pleasure
loving people go.
One evening after dining nt a caba
ret he was lighting a cigar and about
to move on when a woman entered,
brushed past him and took a seat at a
table with her escort. Dempsey's eyes
were out for earrings, and he thought
those tire woman wore were mosaics.
He took a seat at a table near the one
at which the couple sat, but not near
enough to get a close view of her ear
rings'. The man ordered drinks, after
which the couple danced. While they
were dancing Dempsey took a seat
within a few feet of the one the wom
an had left, though his back would be
toward her. When she returned she
took the seat she had occupied before.
Dempsey turned around and, seizing
one of the earrings in his hand, brought
, It to within a proper focus for his eyes,
j When Mrs. Marston was going to
bed that night she received a telephone
j message from Dempsey stating that he
had found the stolen studs, the wearer
had revealed the thief and murderer
j and he had been arrested.
j "How did you do it?" asked the
I widow.
{ "It came through a human barbarism
1 —a passion for adornment—which civ
1 ilization has not eradicated," was the
reply.
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