FOR PLACE
Mary Contestants For Yukon
Governorship
The contest fur the governorship of
Yukon territory, the position recently
resigned by tiyv, Mclnnes, will be
warm. A fight will be made by Yukon
era for ihe appointment of a resident of
the tertitory. Apparently they hare
settled upon J. T. Litbgow, the present
comptroller of tbe territory, for the
place.
There was a disposition in the south
end of the Yukon to support Robert
Lowe for the governorship, but he put
an end to it by wiring his friends that
he is no way a candidate.
Both of the Dawson papers are
earnestly supporting Comptroller Lith
gow tor the appointmi-ai. He is now
the acting governor. The Whitehorse
Stpr is also favorable to Mr. Litbgow,
though it ta*es Mr. Lowe at his word
with reluctance,
IN LINE
D ws 11 Cui'el for Litligow
Fur (j. v ruor
Dawsan. Jan. t> ? A mass meeting1 will
be held here Wednesday to indor.-e
Litbgo v for permanent governor of
Yukon to succeed Mclnnes.
Yukon is making a strong rally for
Litbgow, because he is a nonpartisan
Yukoner. Robert Lowe, a member of
the Yukon legislature from Whitehorse
has pulled out of the race for the gov
ernorship, leaving the tie'.d clear
throughout th* territory for Lithgow.
Every newspaper in the territory has
unqualifiedly indorsed Lithsow.
An Ottawa sp cial savs tio permanent
govt-rLor will be uamed for two months
but Yukoners are none the less idle.
AID GOES
Gov. Di^tin Aiil to
\ iiiia' -iia
At the suggestion of Gov. Distin, the
revenue cutter Rush has been ordered
to go to Vagataga beach to relieve the
9ufiferers there. It was reported to Gov.
Distin by the deputy I'nited States
marshal at Catella that there are 40
men and nine women and six children
at Yagataga who are likely to die of
s'arvation if no: relieved or removed at
once. The message added that all
were ready to pay their passage .'money
if the government wou'd s?nd a vessel
to take the people away.
Jantan It Som . 'Terae'f!
Juneau is going to build some rail
road herself during 1907. With the
Silver Bow Basin road six miles and the
Alaska Southern eight miles she will
make something of a showing.? Juneau
Dispatch.
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residence corner of Third Avenue and
Alaska street from Nov. 1st. Enquire
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that we have the best place to buy
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We sell jewelry of all kio'ls. We
carry the very bes' that is made. WE
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everybody.
Out line of optical good- is cjmnlete.
We will guarantee to meet all con
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I A Marine Wandering Jew
l Original )
Sluee steam has largely taken le
place of sail on the ocean 1 doubt If
the sailor", yarn Is what it was fifty
rears ago. when the Black Ball line of
clipper ships sped between the Occident
ami the orient - In my younger days
, i,?t a lad? I sailed before the
mast in the Hreaduanght. Among ot.r
crew was Sell. Hawkins, an old salt
of forty. We considered him a Methu
selah. a tall, thin man with a profusion
of little red curls. He was very reli
gious. observing all the commandments
scrupulously except the ninth. "Thou
shalt not bear false witness." and in
thi* h? sinned only In spinning yarns,
which he always vowed were real hap
penings. One starlight night 011 th?
forecastle while we were lounging
about the capstan he Rave us the fol
lowing:
?You've all heard a lot about Judas
Iscariot. who was cursed with havln'
to live forever and wauderln' all over
the world, at one time belli' seen In
K"vpt another in France, and so on.
alwavs leavln- a trail of misfortune la
his wake. But I don't believe any of
you has ever beam about his sallin the
sea? There's <io sense in this, for how
could he have got to America, where
he's turned up often, unless he crossed
an ocean? Leastaways I've seen him
ravself. and on the water too.
? I first shipped on the Mark Matthews
,u ,i voyage around the Horn to take In
hides on the west coast of South Amer
ica We was lay In' in the doldrums
,,ue event u' just before four bells. A
thu.k fog was all about us. and we
,ouldn't see a cable's length. All of a
<udde.it 1 lieered a bell. It struck four
times As soon as It stopped our bell
Struck too. Then the fog thinned a lit
tle. and Just about half the ship's j
length front us was the oddest lookin
?raft 1 ever clapped eyes on. She was
j aw ful hiuli in the poop, low In the
' wiist and had a head on her bow like
1 that of a son sarpent. She had two
i masts like a schooner, and the sails
| was hung on 'em like they put 'em on 1
l| Chinese jitnks. ? Of course they hung
?imp like ?uru. , !
I -She was head-on. and the fog dldn t
let sec abaft the fo'uiast. On the
foreea?tie -tuod the rtgur' of an olti man
I couldn't tell you how old In- looked.
hM there was somethin' ?il?uut him
that reminded me of a people long
passed away. He was a Jew and the
Jewlest lookin" Jew 1 e\et see.
was wrapped in a cloak that looked ,
UUe a monk's frock. The melancholy
wav he stared out o' them blinkers o |
.,ls:n w is enough t.? send a cur yelpln
to his kennel. They was like the eyes
or a sick man as hadn't slept durln a
i vovce There wiisn t
odoHn his Cheeks unless you
I call the leathery look ?' the M
,?t Mow color, and It seemed s I
,-otfld see right t..:oui;h his gluistlj 1 I
! t; few teeth that was left ... his
i jaws I!.- hadn't any hat -hi. and 1
' ,, .1, , , lust what
| wasn't near eimiuli J
I his hair was like, except that h? bad
1 mistl,v little. But s.miethln ??>
'? ,H..v'iu' Ms sktill that looked like
i norms Wi-tlier w"9 "r
j i,air | couldn't st'**. but It must ? been
. r.ir there wasn t the ghost or a
?V I;-,, veil the lit, est halts.
I , ?1 there 1" 'kin' .'t us without
11V i; -..,e t in ti-em melancholy eyes
? hls'n. and til.' only 1"' U,".lK:
< v.Uh hi* sU'.nuy 1::ii??R lH?urIn
, ?, > 1 1 1 S. |"!*? ?* II I'll*4 llHUll t?*
?'Itl'ier"" l-'verv oi.eet In awhile he'd
:,s if to' throw the silver nway.
.,',t I e couldn't, and every time be tried
I failed bis race would take on an
?\pression of awful remorse.
'while I was 1. -.kin' at him the two
j.'itis was so slowly drittln apart that
lobodv could see 'em move. I be other
raft was gettiu' In our stern. 1 he
Tews blinkers 'wa.movin
o<tin' on anything for more n half a
;ec:.nd till suddenly they s,n''*
teru Then there was the worst tright
?mue Into 'em I ever see on any mans
: ee not even a mulh.eer 1 once saw
^ when he caught sight ,f the noose
laiiglin* from theyardarm.
?What did he see.' Iitdut . .ell you
..rshl" was the Mark Matthews? Ihe
. .U1e. o course, was on the stern.
< .me ?' the letters was faded, and th.
/In Matthews was pretty nigh gone,
???lilt the Jew saw was the names o
.. i,,,- \i... "Vs. Mark and Mat
"Tlri: t' -r tin- rif-t film* it struck me
who !u> w .1". II" was the wanderln'
lew. ,\s soon . h?> saw tin- mimes o'
them two itlil fiv.-uds <?' IiU'ii lie was
throw-oil on his ! tti cud*. You fee.
!i.' one o" the twelve in tf> n si ami
rr^ilar statnlln' litl lie K'tmyeil his
master for them thirty pieces o' silver,
j To he brought face to fin e with two
i.f til.- disciples iift^r a couple ,r thon
sr.nl years" uanderiu' must 'a' brought
luck onp!ca<ant remembrances.
"Ey this time I felt so had for the
poor whl sinner that 1 wanted to give
him ?iomethlu' to warm him up. 1 ran
helow. ^ >! some irrotr In a can and ran
hack. expe 'tin' to swing It ovtr to the
.!?? w at tli.' end of a rope, tint wheli I
Sot on deck the strange looklu' craft
had disappeared In the fog.
"Hut wherf she'd drifted to was a
puzzler, for within ten minutes the
fog lifted, we could sweep the horizou,
and there wasn't u sail to lie seen.
"Within an hour It come on to blow
out o' the sow'west. That was the gala
wheti I was wrecked, the Mark Mat
thews goln' to the bottom and the crew
beta' picked up half dead by n whaler."
F. A. MITCHEL.
| A Successful Rival
[Original.]
It Is uot unusual ror either a mau or
a woman to come lietween au eugaged
couple, I) lit it Is iinii ual for the course
of true love lo lie turned awry by a
horse. The story liegin* hack 111 the
days -tvlieu the Indians In the west
were constantly breaking away from
their reservations ami slaughtering all
palefaces w ho ciime in their way. It
was then that Florence Brooks was
visiting au older sister at Fort II., the
wife of an officer in the fulled States
army. And then it was that, the gar
rison ha vinir marched away, leaving
the women and children to the protec
tion of half a company under the com
mand oi a lieiilemiut. another tribe
consisting ??r several hundred warriors
came dowU to take possession of the
fort.
When friendly redskin rode into
the inch is u re and announced the earn
ing of his fellows, every man being
needed for defense. Florence Brooks
volunteered to ride to the nPare9t ,)0st,
fifty miles distant, for succor. Lieu
tenant Howard Whiting, in command,
placed her ou his own Kentucky bred
horse. Comanche. .? sent her' thing
out of the fort, shouting after 'her.
I heir lives depend upon you:" How
the horse enabled her to cross the
path or the coming Indians an hour
before they reached the paint of Inter
section. how ten miles farther on she
met a squadron or cavalry, how when
the Indians reached the fort thev
found a force ample to protect it, need
only be referred to here. From that
day Comanche was beloved by the
" hole garrison, and especially by Miss
Bro?fcs. as for Miss Brooks, she was
elov ed by the whole garrison, especial
ly Lieutenant Whiting.
And now the view of alkali plains
surrounding Fort R. has changed to
vacant lots on the outskirts of a citv.
Brooks rides in a trolley car hi
stead of on horseback, and Lieutenant
V\ hltlng spends the greater part of the
day in a recruiting office In one of the
dingiest streets ,,f ,bc city. Rut eariv
u the afternoon he leaves his sergeant
in charge and. mounted on Comanche
rides past Miss Brooks' abode. She is
watching ror him from au upper wlii
dotv. He raises his hat, and from be
hiud the curtain she throws him a kiss
But for one thing the lover would be
supremely happy. He Is jealous of
C omaiu'lie.
| "Why." he asked ou Joining his
fiancee after one of his rides, "do vou
always feast your eyes on my horse
f and pay uo attention to me? This aft
ernoon when I rode by you didn't even
see When I raised my hat. You waved
i your hand long after 1 had done so "
"I love Comanche. ' she replied
Miss Brooks left the city fur a month,
and when she returned her lover In
formed her that he had sold Comanche
The reason he gave Mr doing so was
that he had lieen ordered to rejoin his
; regiment In the west. and. Comanche
!av1,"* besides gone lame.
the lieutenant would not feel warrant
, ed in transporting him so far. especial
1 1.V as he would need a serviceable ani- !
mal. Miss Brooks looked astonished
[ when the news was imparted to her
| i argueil long and well against the
necessity for the sale. But Whiting
"""""g hut his pay, which was
not sufli.ient to keep so expensive a
,per and she was obliged to admit.
Which She did reluctantly, that he
could hardy have done otherwise.
The.\ parted with an embrace, warm
enough on the part of t|1P man. but not
| the girl,
l ?Iowp,,T- lf gradually came over
J Miss Brooks- planning as she was for
, the coming wcddl?g_tliat Comanche
| could not have been Included In the
calculations. Indeed. It was very dlf
flcu t for 'her to figure out the problem
of Ihlng on Whiting's pay. even with
out what Comanche .would have cost.
' had an Income of $800, which sbs
must relinquish upon her marriage.
I his left only a second lieutenant's
pay. with commutation for fuel and
quarters, on which flic couple must
"ye. After all. Whiting was right
There is no doubt that all would have
gone well had it not been for a certain
Inopportune meeting. One morning
while Miss I 'rooks was out buying her
trousseau she saw a man driving a cart
with an enormous load on it The
horse was unable to get It up au in
! . ' MMd ,,le driver was belaboring
him unmercifully. Miss Brooks, natu
rally fond of horses, approached to pro
test. The horse turned his head, look
ed at her out of a pair of melancholy
eyes and whinnied. He was Comanche
Miss Brooks embraced him and wept.
The next mall carried to Lieutenant
Whiting a breaking of the engagement
from Miss Brooks. No satisfactory
reason was given. Tlie real reason was
that she loved Comanche better tluin
Whiting. On her Income, which, If not
married, she would retain till death,
she could live and take care of Co
niaucbe. She bought him for $30 and
kept him In royal equine style.
Comanche lived five years after be
ing rescued from the melancholy posi
tion Into which his master had sold
htm. Then Miss Brooks, after a de
cent period of widowhood, began to
think of her lover of other days. He,
hearing that his rival was dead, sought
her. They were married and went to
' live at the post where he was stationed.
"Whiting." said his colonel banter
Ingly one day, i hear your wife kept
you waiting five years while she lavish
ed her affections on a horse. J didn't
know 1 had an officer under my com
maud with so little capacity for pleas
lug the fair sex."
"Colonel," replied Whiting. "I would
much rather have lieeu kepS waiting
for the woman 1 love by a horse than
by some men I have known."
ELLSWORTH EMEBSON.
I SPECIAL SALES
I SPECIAL SALE Ladies Winter hats
Commencing Monday 1-2 off.
SPECIAL SALE in Men Overcoats
and Suits 25 per cent. off. For the
next ten days.
SPECIAL SALE in drees goods and
fancy trimmings. We must make
room for our Spring lines.
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See our several sty!e3 and lettt*
explain the iwrfecf way.
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Gold and Silver smith.
Notlca to Public
I have authorized Mr. P. B. liraves
to assume full charge of my aff irs in
connection with running the Pullen ]
House during my absence.
Mrs. h. S, Pullen.
S?agway, Nov. 28, 1906. tf.
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