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proved by the addition of modern
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which afford travelers an opportunity to view the scenery ov
er the famous White Pass to tho best advantage. These
cars are splendidly equipped with comfortable leather chairs,
wriflug desks, card tables, dressing rooms, etc.
Passengos traveling via The White Pass & Yukon Route will
have their baggage checked and bonded through to destin
ation thereby avoiding all possible troublo and delay.
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O. L. DICKESOX, President
SKAGWAY, ALASKA
i
J. E. Dempsey, Traffic Manager,
612 Second Ave., Seattle Wash,
aud Stag way, Alaska.
A
The White Pass diYukon Route
TIMK TABLE Xo. 31.
Daily except Sundays.
•>o. 1 Ji. Bound
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»:30 a. m. l eaved
12:06 "
12:4a **
1:40 p. m.
9:-M ••*
.1:54) *" Arrives
SKAGIT AY
WH1TK l'ASS
LOG CABIN
bexjktt
CARIBOU
WHITE IIORSK
\i ». intuitu
lbC class
Arrives 4:50 p. in.
Leaves 3:20 '
2:30 "
1:50 "
"* li:48c.tii.
reaves !>:00 "
Passengers must be at depots In time t# have Baggage inspected
and checked. Inspectiou Id stopped 30 minutes before leaving time of
trains.
150 pounds of baggage vriH be checked "r?a with each full fare
ticket aid 75 pounds with each half fore ticket.
The Skagway Pioneer Dairy
H. F. SEEMAX, Prop.
'The Sanitary Milk Ranch"
The largest and best conducted dairy tc A laska —
Daily Shipments of Pure Milk and Cream<
To ill points on White P*ss & Yi'lron Route.
Moore's Wharf E. J. Shaw, Manager
Wharfingers and Warehousemen
All Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Wharf
•-Regulations Juue 1. 1913—
Warehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 6 A. M. to 5 P. M.
--Wharfage Tariff
General merchandise $1.00 per ton. Weight or measurement.
Horses, Mules and Cattle 75 c per head. Sheep and Hogs 25c per head.
Lumber $1.00 per Thousand feet. Board Measure.
All checked Baggage 25c per pice.
No Wharfage Cha-ge on Baggage Unchecked.
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His Little
Boy's Pistol
By THOMAS R. DUNN
A Detective
Story
By ALBERT KENYON
This happened some thirty years ago.
Manners In the far west aro better
now than they were then. Indeed,
they are as civilized there as any
where else.
A stagecoach drew up In front of a
tavern in a small town where gun law
was the only law on tho statuto book.
But even that was an unwritten law,
for (here was no statute books to write
It in. A young -man, dressed in the
ordluary business costume of New
York or Chicago or Philadelphia or
any other eastern city, got out of
the coach with the other passengers
and went into the tavern. He asked
if there were any letters for him. Tho
landlord handed hlrn one. He read it
and huntod through his pockets for his
cigar case. Not finding It nt once, he
took out seven articles while making
the search, among them a small pistol.
Several men. denizens of the coun
try. were lounging about, among them
a red facpd man with a stubble beard
and as many scars on his face as a
German student member of a dueling
corps This innn caught sight of the
new arrival's pistol, and It at once ex
cited his interest.
"Leuime see that, stranger," he said.
The j'oung man handed him tho pis
tol. and he looked it over with evident
pleasure and amusement
•Turfy, isn't it?" he remarked.
He continued to examine It, cocking
and uncocking it Meanwhile the
stranger found his cigar case and, lean
ing a chair up on its hind legs against
the wall, sat down on It, resting his
heels on tho front rouud and. lighting
a cigar, smoked.
"What do you do with it?" inquired
the rod faced man.
The stranger smoked on without
making any reply, nis sang frold ex
cited the attention of the bystanders,
who commenced to move nneaslly
away. The man who asked the ques
tion was Scar Joe. so called from the
traces of his many tights, no was
not used to asking questions and re
ceiving no reply. He cast a single
glance at the stranger and went on
cocking and uncocking the revolver. ,
"(loin' to make a birthday gift of It
to your little boy?" he asked.
Still no reply.
"Will It shoot?" persisted Soar Joe.
This third question eliciting no reply,
the westerner took a quick aim at the
stranger's cigar and fired, and cigar
and sparks left the smoker's Hps.
He didn't turn pale. lie didn't look
at Scar Joe Reproachfully or fearfully
or any other way. He didn't look at
blm at all. He simply took out anoth
er cigar, lighted It and went on smok
ring.
"Pops shoot, don't tt? Shoots pnrty
straight, ilou't It? I wonder If I could
do It again!"
Hp fired a second shot with like re
sults. The stranger remained as Im
perturbable as before, taking out an
other cijrar and lighting it with as lit
tle apparent objection to this wr.ste of
clears as if ho were loaded down with
them Acain Scar Joe si-ut It flyiDg
aiuid a shower of sparks.
"Strancer." said the smoker In a soft
voice, "you're one of the best shots I
ever saw. That pistol I've brought
from the east as a present for ray wife.
T've sot another for my little girl that
I'll bet you can't hit a silver dollar
with at ten yards."
"Lemme see it"
The stranger thrust his rl?ht hand
I into his trousers pocket nnd grasped
something that he drew out so clutched
in his fist that it was not easy to dis
cern what it was. One of the lookers
on. with better or quicker sight than
the others, seemed to get on to some
thing about to happen, for he ducked
under h table. The stranger reached
the thing out to his tormentor. It ex
ploded. and Sear .loe staggered back
ward. nt the same time putting his
hand to bin hip. The something in
the stranger's.fist-exploded again, aud
the westerner fell dead.
One would naturally suppose that
those prereut would be chiefly interest
ed in the fa lieu man. So they were
till they were convinced that he had
received his last scar. Then all of a
sudden their minds concentrated on the
thing in the stranger bands that had
done the work. All eyes turned toward
him curiously. lie had returned the
explosive thing to his pocket
"Landlord." he snid, "I'd like some
thing to eat before 1 go. My wife
writes me that she'll send a team for
me to be here at 2. It's now 1. I've j
just time for dinner."
"I say. stranger." said one present,
"would you mind lettln' .us see what
that was you shot him with?"
"I know what It is," said the man
who had sought safety under the table.
•'It's ii bulltlojr. 1 seen 'em before.
They're the ugliest weapon at short
ranee they Is goin'."
The stranger took out n short, thick
pistol with a very stocky barrel and al
lowed the party to examine It
"Was t'other one really a gift for
your wife?" naked one.
"Certainly. When I was called east
she asked me to bring her a revolver
suitable for%a woman."
While the stranger was dining the
body of his victim was being removed.
When his team arrived and he was
driving nwa.v one of the crowd who
had gathered to sop him off cried out:
"Much obleeged for gettin' rid of Scar
Joe. He was gittin' to be a nuisance."
On the identical spot where this
episode happened there is now ft band
some hotel, lighted by electricity and
having till the modern improvements.
What makes the detective business
so fascinating Is that It Is a perpetual
pnzV.le. Then there arc so many In
genious methods of perpetrating swin
dles and concealing all kinds of crime.
A detective never knows when he Is
going to light on a new nnd ingenious
device.
But it is uot in such cases that 1,
now twenty years a detective, have
found the keenest relish. The mur
derer is not in a condition of mind to
think out a problem coolly. He is ir»
an abnormal condition. For my part
I could nover understand how any one
could commit a crime the discovery ot'
which would bring a dreadful punish
ment. Nevertheless criminals often
work out very intricate problems.
it is when two or three persons above
the average In the social scale and in
education cousplre together that the
most ingenious devices develop. Per
haps this Is because each gives the
other courage. That is wbat makes
hunting down a gang of counterfeiters
so interesting. They are usually Intelli
gent men and work together. Yet them
is one thing they all lose sight of or
disregard—the fact that they aro al
ways caught In the end.
The most interesting surprise I ever
encountered was in unearthing one of
these counterfeiting gangs. I say sur
prise. for it was no credit to me that
I made the discovery. Indeed, had I
not made a criminal of myself I should
never have got on to them. I was put
on the case in this way: Some counter
feit twenty dollar bills were being put
into circulation. They seemed to come
to the surface In a small town In Kan
sas and drift eastward. At any rate,
one of them was traced to this place,
and I was sent ont there to Investi
gate There Is always a difference in
to-wns, some being Inhabited in the
main by good, religious people, others
being notoriously bad. N-, tho point
where the counterfeit bill came from,
was neither good nor bad. but not long
before my arrival a party had begun
to assemble every evening to play
poker. The game or series of games
had been started by two or three men
who had recently come to the town,
and a number of citizens had gradu
ally come to take a part in the pro
ceedings. They were played in the
room sometimes of one. sometimes of
another, member of the party.
I went into the town ostensibly to
buy cattle. A day or two after my
arrival I was Informed by a man
whose acquaintance I had made that
there was a poker party In a room up
stairs. Tie said he was going up to
look on. and I told him I would go
with him if he would lutroduce me.
The truth is 1 have suffered all through
my life from the gambling passion.
Having a fortune. 1 lost It. and that
was what 'hrew me Into the detective
business. I should not have gone to
watch this game, for I ran a great
risk of being drawn into it.
I found a party of Rood fellows, who
received me cordially, and It was not
Ions before 1 called for some chips. 1
soon lost what good money I had
about me and to recoup yielded to a
temptation to use a counterfeit bill
that 1 had brought with me for a sum
pie. The moment I laid It on the ta
ble t saw two of the players give each
other n meaning look: then both
turned their eyes on me. A cold chill
ran down my back, for It looked as If
[ were detected ou the start. But my
business had schooled me In conceal
ing toy feelings, and I returned the
men's glances with a blank stare.
Doubtless it was this that caused one
of them to tunke a mistake. He gave
me a crafty look. I returned It with
one equally crafty.
I had no idea what this meant. 1
happened to win the bill 1 had put up
and something besides. Then caution
got the better of my passion, and I
played only so long as I could play on
what I bad won. I saw the men who
had noticed the bill go on the table
watching me. Evidently I didn't fill
the bill of what they- had expected of
me. for I got no more confidential
glances. One thing I noticed—several
twenty dollar bills came out from
those meu on the samo bank as the
one I had used for u stake and ftaSB
ed Into the hands of other players
One of them fell to me. The man who
had given me the meaning glance at
once asked me for it. offering four
'fives" for it But 1 told him I would
rather keep it However, knowing
some game was going on other than
the open one on the table, I gave it to
him. This seemed to allay a. slight
suspicion of me that had come to him.
Tt was the producing of these twenty
dollar bills, all on the same bank, and
their passing into the hands of others
that pave me an explanation of the
mystery. Counterfeiters were using
the game to shove the spurious money
on to such citizens of the place as
wtre drawn into their poker game.
Immediately 1 put out all the bills I
had brought with me as samples, and
this won me the confidence of the
counterfeiters. Nevertheless they seem
ed puzzled, and I determined to act at
once. I always go about armed, and,
drawing a brace of pistols. I covered
the two men 1 suspected and said:
"Yon are under arrest"
There was the usual pretended as
tonishment. hut I held them to their
seats and directed a waiter who had
just brought in some drinks to tell the
landlord to summon the police. Ho
did so, and within half an hour I land
ed my men In Jail.
LOCAL BRIEFS
8KAGWAY WEATHER REPQflT
Keaulta of the observation taken
at Moore'a Wharf at midnight,
)»3t nighty la as follows:
Temp, time obsorra!?n ... 36 above
Max. preoeding 24 hrs .. 42 above
MUl " " " .. « 32 above
vlean " " " .. . 37 above
Barometer 29:90 Clear, Calm.
CAN YOU SWIM?
Kyery Woman Should Be Able to
Teach Her Children to Swim.
It ought to be every woman's ambi
tion when summer comes not only to
learn to swim herself, but to see that
her children learn to swim and so less
en the possibility of accidents from
drowning in her own family. No one
who doe* not know how to swim ought
to get into a canoe or rowboat, and if
she does perchance risk her life in a
launch she ought first to think of the
responsibility her Inch of knowledge of
swimming puts on her companions.
Children should not be forcibly
thrown into the water. If they natu
rally fear it thoir fear should be over
come in some way. Sometimes an ex
hibition of swimming on the part of a
strong mil* will lusplre tbeiu with a
desire to learn the art. Sometimes a
little bribing will help gain the dosired
result. Stories of great swimmers, too.
help inspire children with a wish to
learn to swim well. Cardinal Merry
del Val Is a good swimmer and once
rescued some one from drowning;
Prince Leopold of Bavaria is a royal
patron of the sport; Jack London, the
story writer, can swim as well as he
can write, and many other famous men
have had Interesting experiences while
they were swimming.
A little girl can often have her inter
est in swimming stimulated if her
swimming costume is attractive. For
instance, a bright cap of waterproof
silk or one of the red, blue or green,
rubber caps frilled about the face,
with garters of frilled rubber to
match, might prove attractive to a lit
tle girl who Is timid about entering the
water. The thought of wearing tho
pretty cap would keep her mind occu
pied so that she would forget her nat
ural dislike of the water. After a few
lessons almost every one becomes en
thusiastic about learning to swim. It
is the first few lessons that are diffi
cult, and It Is during these that a child
sometimes needs coaxing.
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Take Hall's Family Pills for con
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F. & A. M.
White Pass Lodge
F. & A.M. No. 113
meets 2d and 4th.
Frl. Ev'gs. of each
moutli. Visiting brothers are wel
come. Phil Abrahams, Secretary.
W. R. Killery, W.
Fraternal Order
Fugles—
Skagway Aerie
No. 25, Frater
nal Order of
Eagles meel« the fir»c and third
Wednesday right Of each month at
their hall oa Fifth avenue. Visiting
brothers cordially invited to attend.
John Grashel, W. P.; J. M. Keller,
Secretary.
B. P. O. ELKS
Skagway Lodge
Ko. 431, B. P. O.
E. meets every
rhursday night at
8 o'clock. Elks
club and reading
room open aaily Ironi 1 p. m. to
12 midnight. Visiting ?)rothers cor
dially welcomo.—W. C. Blanchard,
Ex. R. Geo. Magee, Secretary.
Arctic Brotherhood.—
Camp Skagway No. 1,
A. B. meets every Tues
day evening at 8:00 p.
m. sharp. Visiting brothers cordial
ly welcome.—Fred Fonzo, Arctic
Chief. W. R. Hillery, Arctic Rec.
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