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MCGRATH, ALASKA. NOV. 30, 1921.
HOTEL MAN
RED
And Guests Robbed By
Two Bandits at
Butte.
Butte, Nov\ 27.—Sutton Schil
ling, proprietor of the Hotel
Harrison, was shot and killed
and the guests in the hotel
robbed by bandits, last night.
Early in the evening two men,
wearing hats pufled down over
their foreheads, and coat collars
turned up, suddenly appeared
before Schilling aud commanded
“Hands up!M and when Schilling
did not obey he was promptly
shot by one of the men.
One of the bandits then calmly
searched the guests while the
other kept them covered with
his revolver.
Leaving the hotel by a rear
entrance, both men escaped,
leaving not the slightest clue for
officers to follow.
Andrew Olson arrived Monday, and
returned home yesterday.
Max Simel
The Pioneer Trader
Furs Bought and
Sold!
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service On the Inoka
River.
Ask the People of Ophir about us.
STATION
fairview, Innoko River
Delegate Sutherland
Pleads Canadian Ships
Washington.—Delegate from Alaska
Sutherland pleaded today before the
House committee on merchant marine
and fisheries for greater participation
of British shipping in Alaska trade.
He charged that the Jones Act discrim
inates against Alaska in that it denies
to Canadian boats the privilege of
doing business in the Territory, while
allow ing them to operate in the States.
He urged that the bill amending the
objectionable section in the Jones bill
be approved. C. D. Garfield, of Juneau,
and A. L. Thurman, of the New Eng
land Fish Company, supported Dele
gate Sutherland’s contention.
THE KOBUK MAIDEN.
Where the sun shines bright sit mid
night all thru the month of June,
Where the winter sheds twilight on
the snow and ice at noon.
Lives a dusky, dark-eyed maiden, and
her heart is free from care.
And she thought not of the morrow as
she ate her salmon rare;
Her hands and feet were dirty, she
could sing the Mission psalms,
But a little soap and water would have
added to her charms.
She could run before a dog team, and
laugh with childish glee.
And the waters of the Kobuk rippled
onward to the sea.
She could oaddle her small kyak, she
could trail the fox and bear.
She could dry the meat for winter, she
could hunt and lish and snare;
She was handy with the needle, no
furrier in his trade
Could chew a boot or patch a skin like
this dusky, dark-eyed maid.
She had very few accomplishments,
she seldom wiped iier nose,
And the odor of her mukluks resem
bled not the rose;
She had many dark-eyed admirers, but
' she heede \ Dot their*plea.
And the waters of the Kobuk rippled
onward lo the sea.
She was not tall and slender, like the
poet’s verses tell.
She’d have been far more attractive if
she’d had a different smell;
She was clothed in skins of animals
and wherever she would roam.
Many tiny little creatures would make
her clothes their home.
Don’t lav this up against her. for she
had never seen
Pear’s soap nor insect powder, fine
comb of C’ameline:
Hut no high-born lady in the land had
a warmer heart than she,
And the waters of the Kobuk rippled
onward to the sea.
W hen the Kotzebue excitement brought
a crowd of miners there
There was one voung tnau among them
with blue ayes and sorrel hair;
He was smitten with this maiden, and
he was often seen
Hanging ’round her little igloo, which
was not so very clean.
Outside he was so dignified ’twould be
very hard to tell
How he bacaine accustomed to her
peculiar smell.
He brought her flour and sugar, and
bacon, beans and tea,
And the waters of the Kobuk rippled
onward to the sea.
When the sun came back in summer,
and the winter storms were spent,
And the miners left tne country where
they hadn’t made a cent*
Empty cabins, rude reminders of the
days of ninety-nine.
Stand all along the river, ’mid stumps
of spruce and pine,
In her deserted igloo sits a maiden all
forlorn:
“Kah-loo-na-kok, kow-kow peluk,” all
tho white man’s grub is gone.
A blue-eyed mickining she is holding
on her knee,
And the waters of the Kobuk ripple
onward to the sea.
—Pathfinder.
Waino Puntila arrived from Ophir
Sunday, and left Monday morning for
Candle.
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Mike Bozicb, of Candle, spent .a few
honrs in town yesterday.
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