THE CARROLL JOKE
“Hello Carroll,” said Deputy Unit
ed States Marshal McMillan, as he
walked into a cabin back of Comet
last week at four o ’clock in the morn
ing, turning up the coal oil lamp, and
grinned at the astonished man who
arose on his elbow and looked at the
intruder with jaws agape, “where you
been for the last two months?”
“Oh,” said Carroll, getting his
breath back, ‘ ‘ I’ve been knocking
around a bit. ’ ’
“Well,” said McMillan, “I’ll tell
you one thing, your going back to Ju
neau with me this time.”
“Yes, 1 know,” answered Carroll
softly, “I am going back to Juneau
with you this time.”
Two months ago Carroll got into dif
ficulties on account of checks which
he had issued, and which those who
cashed them had been unable to get
rid of, and attempted to get away. He
was arrested at Yankee Cove about
two months ago on a warrant sworn
out by Percy Pond who had cashed
one of the checks. After the arrest,
Carroll got awray as far as Y'ankee
Cove, where he was subsequently ar
rested while marshal and prisoner
were waiting for a boat, Carroll evad
ed his captor and slipped away in the
woods. During the long period which
lie spent in the wilds, living in a pros
pectors cabin, he had a rather hard
time of it. McMillan walked to Yan
kee Cove at night last week, arriving
at. 4 o’clock in the morning, so as to
surprise Carroll. Carroll was surpris
ed. Brought to town, he had another
surprise.
When he was arraigned before Com
missioner Winn, the evidence showed
that when Pond has cashed the check,
he had requested Pond to hold it for
a certain number of days. Pond be
came suspicious, and ascertained that
he had no account at the bank in ques
tion, and he then swore out a warrant
for Carroll. Commissioner Winn, on
hearing the evidence, ordered his dis
charge.
Under the law, in order to consti
tute obtaining money under false rep
resentations, the representations must
be false at the time they are made.
The conviction cannot be had if the
representations relate to some act
which the prisoner pretends that he in
tends to perform.
UP A. B. MOUNTAIN
Invited on a mountain climbing trip
up the famous A. B. mountain near
Skagvvay one Sunday morning a very
steep and damp climb was experienced.
The writer however arrived safely
down (lead tired and soaked to the
skin yet glad of the expedition. One
of our friends from Boston, the elite
-city, describes the trip accordingly:
It was near the hour of two, dark,
damp and dreary when a solitary,
* ‘ night owl” slowly picTcM—his dila
tory ambulation up one of Skagvpay’s
near-deserted boulevards and entering
an unpretentious dwelling proceeded to
place his corporal excuse to humanity
into the loving embrace of Morpheus.
Two hours later this being was inter
rupted from his unconscious and heart
breaking imitation of a sawmill by the
harsh and cruel vibrations emanating
from the telephonic alarm. Awakened
abruptly, the summons for a day of
sweet, peaceful, and mild pleasure of
a “berrying” expedition, was receiv
ed quite besparingly of abbreviated
French, both classical and musical, and
otherwise referred to as educated pro
fanity emanations.
With a perfect crease upon the trou
sers, a white collar and tie, a play
book in one pocket and two modest,
yet dainty, pails of unassuming pro
portions, this sensibility wended lus
sleepy way, nervously and erratically
up one of the aforesaid desertions to
meet the rest of the bunch. The
bunch collected, all hands shifted car
go, took on water and cotfee at 35c a
pound, and caught the course. The
trip up, what some kind lodge member
has cognomened “A. B. mountain”
was very damp—that is to say persper
atious. The bank, which was created
by nature from odds and ends of ac
comadating moisture and which no
check could be drawn upon or which
might suffer no partial or complete re
linquishment, was obligingly lowered
to prohibit too close inspection of the
surrounding country. This obliging
bank ran a continuous performance un
til after the successful culmination of
a day agreeable sociability.
After a short amble up the moun
tain to the place where the blue ber
ries anxiously awaited the arrival of
the eager admirers, in the record and
remarkable time of 3 hours, 20 minutes
and 8 and one-fifth seconds, cross
country Ambulations, contortions and
hydrostatics were unwillingly indulged
in with the kind assistance of wet four
foot grasses, slippery logs, all of whom
most favorably aided the demonstrat
ion of the laws of gravity and unstable
equilibrium.
Accompanying each berry patch of
infant size were patronizingly distrib
uted several quarts of aqua pura upon
the numerous leaves, branches and
twigs which seemed to have a remark
able chemical or friendly affiliation
with ones rainment, so affectionately
manifested.
The camp was present as was the
crowd, smiling serenely, mentally as
well as voicably commenting upon the
appearance of each other irregardless
and inconsiderate of personal prejud
ices. The fire was of a very warm
temperature, the coffee reminded one
of the present state of J. Pluvius,
cloudy and unsettled, and after the
final idea of self approval, berrying
by the more aggressive and adventure
some of the brave and daring hunters
•was tolerated and permitted by the
remainder of the little gang and his
two face totems.
About the time that nature requires
mortals to take nourishment in the
form of camp luncheons, the heroes
and heroines of the Noble Gang re
turned in great triumph majestically
wearing the laurels of success on their
high foreheads, eight leaves to the inch
and any size to fit.
Berries, they were blue, as were
many of the personages attached to
this royal equipage, and after a care
ful and caustic examination and sampl
ing of same were decided able to pass
a not too, severe civil service examina
tion. The noble set of adventurers af
ter numerous misadventures late in the
evening wending their tired and soak
ed way painfully and gloomily home,
some smiling, others to wet to smile,
yet all feeling three threads finer than
the best imported Japanese silk. But
never again.
Percy Algernon DeClarence, alias
C. Brown.
BOGOLSLOV A FREAK
Deputy Marshal W. B. Hastings, who
is the guardian of the peace and dig
nity of the vast region to the west,
known as the Alaska peninsula, with
headquarters at Unalaska, tells of re
cent changes which have occurred in
the topography of the ilse known as
Bogoslov, in Bering sea. It was while
enroute to Atka island, on the revenue
cutter Manning, on September 10, that
the marshal, accompanied by officers of
the ship, ventured, ashore on that fickle
speck of land. The island wasn’t busy
when the party reached there, nor were
they anxious to observe its manifesta
tion. They were content to view the
scene .while all wms in repose. At that,
they were treading on slippery ground,
as there is no telling when an eruption
might occur.
Bogoslov, known in Russian nomen
clature as Johann Bogoslov, or John
the Theologian’s island, first raised its
kaleidoscopic head above the waters
surrounding on May 18, 1796. Since
that time it has disappeared and reap
peared, sometimes emerging in several
distinct isles. The isle is something in
the nature of a moving picture show,
giving an almost continuous perforine
ance. Last year there was a boiling
lake in the center of one large island.
This year, by a stra strange caprice,
one side of the land which formed the
lake sunk beneath the wavefe, leting in
the ocean, or a part thereof. Now
there is a nice cosy bay, and the water
of course, is cold. There are other var
iations in the physical appearance of
the land, wholly unfamiliar to those
who had visited it before.
Old Bogoslov is nothing more nor
less than an active volcano. While in
repose, it gathers force for the eruption
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