DONE FOR
T.tuanan Thinks Hoggatt
Has Rnn Course
A great fl eal depends on the view
point. Things sometimes look
different to different persons.
A short time ?go Gov. Hog
gatt came across the continent pro
claiming th*t territorial government
for Alaska is a dead issue. He arrived
at Juneau and assumed to tell the au
thorities there what laws he would
stand for and for what he would not.
He acted much like one who admits
that; he is ''IT." Now comes a Tau- :
anan, who spent the wintir at Wash
ington, saying that the governor is
about done for. He think* we will be
troubled iitfle with him after this.
A. K. Light, who was active in the
^ramptign last year that resulteJ in the
election of Hon. Thomas Cale to con
gress and who accompanied Mr, Cale to
Washington, recently arrived at
Fairbanks speaking at a meeting of the
Tanana Miners' Association, after prais
ing Mr.Waskey in warm terms.he gave
his atteution to llov. Hoggatt, saving:
"I ?m sorry to sat that our governor
found it necessary to be in Washington
at the time Mr. Waskey was working
the hardest. Gov. Hoggatt was a new
official and. as such, I suppose, the pres- '
idem felt he should oe given a fair triai |
and support. It was natural, therefore,
that be should stand shoulder to shoul- 1
de? with him in many of the matters j
that came up. At first the governor j
bucked at everything in the way of
measures for the interior. 1 think he
finally tumbled that he was alone in
many of h:> stands, and he and his back
ers became less prominent.
"Therefore, I thick that one uufavor
able icfiuence will be overcame at the
next sessio i, when we have a right to
expect b g things for Alaska."
(ilMISON MAY
HOiD COURT
Judge Wickersham told Skagwayans
at Juneau this week that he would be
unable to come to Skiigway on account
of the busintss which he wanted to get
through with a'. Juneau, but, he said,
there will be nothing to pievent Judge
Gunnison from holding a special term
at Skagwjy if he so desires u|>on his
return from Fairbanks. Judge Gunni
son is expected to arrive here sometime
in June. The law requires that he
gives 30 days notice of a special term,
tie could do that and still hare court
begin in July.
i'ootrae?? at Noma
The people of Nome are enjoying 50
mile footraces as a diversion. James
Wada, a Japanese, is the champion. He
covered oO mtles in T hours and 49 min
utes. A Scotchman took the second
pri^e. Most of the contestants quit be
fore the race was more than half over.
CREJJM
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All the delicacies of the season at the
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The Fifth Avenue hotel is the big
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the north.
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Now is the accepted time lo hare
vour eves examined by a speacialist
and to have them fitted with glasses
that will give them a vision that is per
fect. The baseball season is about to
be with js a?aio and ever? good citizen
will want to get onto the curves of the
knigbts of the diamond. That will be
impos-ible if the eyesight is not per
fect. And then, the spring is the
season of the year when repairs are in
order, when everything should be put
in first-cla*> coaditioo for active work.
We examine eyes free of charge; we
use the latest appliances approved by
science, and we GUARANTEE SATIS
FACTION.
Our jewelry store and our repiir and
manufacturing department are the
best.
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: A Boatman's Story \
[Original.)
I was at the seashore during tho
summer. Being passionately fond of
sailing aud uot being u sailor myself,
I hired a superannuated fisherman to
! gall me. One afternoon as we were
leaving the dock a woman not quite
arrived at middle age came down lead
ing a little boy and had some private
couversatioto with my sailor. I noticed
that he spoke to her very gently, even
affectionately, aud patted her sou on"
his curly head. There was something
iu the appearance of the woman that
interested me. Either she had experi
enced some deep grief or had commit
ted some sin for which she could uot
forgive herself. But of all this my
conceptions were "vague. While tall!
Ing to the old man there was a shad
ow on her face, but on turning away
her lips parted iu a happy suiile.
Once on the water, after much plead
ing aud many promises, I got a story
from my uavigator:
"I knew Auuie Miller when she was
a slender little thing of fifteen. All
her people were tlshtc folks, as every
body iu this place is. rlw father haO
bail luck and got very poor. A1 Bar
ker, a feller about thirty -rive who'i
goue to sea and come back with soui*
prize mouey for towin' iu a desertei
vessel, befrieuded him. and the two
made it up between 'em that Al was
to marry Auuie. Meanwhile Annie
had growu to be twenty and as pretty
a craft as you ever saw. She'd a lover
on the water, but he made loug voy
ages. so lier father aud Al h.id a good
chance to bring her rouud. They soon
got her before the wind ami sailed
her Into the port of matrimony. But
,vheu they got her there she was all
jtove in aud ready to sink.
"Al spent a few mouths at home,
then went on a long cruise. He'd been
goue a year when in comes Jack Tuck
er. Annie's old lover, ami wheu he
finds Anule married he sluks right
down on the beach, covers his face
with his hands and shakes like a ship
buckiu' up agalust waves driven by
a hurricitne. Theu without goin' to
see even his old mother be lights out
aud doesu'? show up again for another j
two years.
"One day a body of a mau was found
up In the inlet. There were certain
marks about it that led some peonle to
think it might be Al Barker. who\n>een
to sea for a Ions cruise without beiug
beard from. They called for Auuie to
decide the matter, aud <he deeded that
It was, so they buried it. and a head
stone was put up over the grave, sacred
to the memory of Alfred Barker. The
widow pnt ou mouruln', but there was
not much grief, and wheu .lack Tucker
came in again she picked up might,'
luick. Jack wanted her to marry bin.
right off. but she said she feared she j
might have been mistaken about 'jw
husbaud beln' dead itsl put him ofc.
lie wenf on another cruise, aud wher
he came back, no change fcarln" takes
place as regards Al. Acute married
Jack. He left crulsln", tcfiofi fisher
man and s->*'led down right here. It
time the little fe.ler you saw with her
at the dock ? me along, aud the Tuckei .
family was happy, only I noticed thai j
Annie was kind c-f sror.-led and a 1 wars i
seemed to be looiia" out for sometliin'
or some ore.
"It was five years ago coiido' No
vexuber. The Tucker kid -*?js al?c>iil
six months old. his father and mother
bavin' been tuarrU.1 a year and a half.
That was the fall v* had the big stora
that swept the coast from Nantucket to
Hatteras. In the middle of the nlgbt
I heard a boom out at &ea. Then the
life divers went by in a h*.HT.v. I jot
up. dressed myself and went out A
shin was drlftln' In, draggln' her a&
,-!ior. She stuck ou the bar and Teat
Id pieciv; Iu an hour. Then wreckage
??il l holies came In. strewln' the beadi.
"Just r.s It was comln' light 1 turne#
and sav Annie Tucker just behind me.
Shu was white as a corpse. Taklu' me
by the sleeve, she led me, without a
word, to u little cove between two
rocks. There lay as dead boc'y. At
ouce I recognized Al Barker.
"1 took iu the situation at once. She'd
beeu livln' with Jack while another
mau's wire.
"J stood lojk ir from the body to her
and from ber to the body. She was a
picture of despair. Then an idea oc
curred to mi Coin' up beyond high
site auil taklu" a bit of board that had
Ufcn washed ashore, I began to dig In
the sand.
" 'What you goin' to do?" Annie
asked.
" "Bury him. Nobody but you and me
(mows that he lmiu't been dead all this
time, and I don't propose they shall.'
"I dug a shallow grave, put the body
la It and covered it over with sand.
Then 1 took Annie by the hand and
said to her:
" 'If you value the peace and comfort
ri your husiiaud and son, keep this a
wret.'
"She /ist threw her arms about my
neck aud cried.
"1 sent her home and watched tb?
grave all day to sec that the tide didn't
go high enough to wash out the body,
and that night I uncovered it. put It
In my boat. and. sailin' out Into deep
water, dropped It. "loaded, Into th?
ocean."
The old man paused, pulled the main
she?t In a little, then finished:
"She and I are the only ones that
have known the secret. Now yon
know It. but yon don't live here, and
taken In supposln" you'll
orself."
* aever Do iw?
? , ? a
Romance of Ellis Island
B- ?
[Original]
Why should story tellers rack their
brains for themes when romances arc
| happening every day under their noses?
Here, like a flower peeping from un
iler a heap of rubbish, Is a rotnauce
extracted from the most unromantlc
thing in the world, an emigrant ship.
It only remains for the story teller to
put It In form. It Is not a talo of
young lovers. Iu the conventional
story romance ends with marriage.
Nature knows no such division. Con
ceive an old fruit tree bearing shortly
before It Is cut down a single bit of
fruit Into which the tree's vitality has
been concentrated and you have the
kind of romance you are about to get.
Forty years ago Herrnau Gurlieh, a
Prussian, came to America, purchased
a farm, married, raised a family .and
prospered. His wife died, and one by
one his children left him to marry and
raise children of thoir own. For ten
years he worked his farm alone, and
then It occurred to him to relieve his
solitude by rAisitlug his former home
iu t'russia. He did so. but failed to
And the diversion he had expected.
The place he had left as a village had
grown to be a city, aud the frleuds of
his youth who had not gone elsewhere
were In the churchyard. Disappoint
ed, he turned his face again toward his
desolate home iu America.
Martha Leoser, a widow living iu
Berliu with her daughters, had a son
in America. Iler daughters had been,
with her since their birth, but her one
son had left her wbeu he was a boy.
and she pined to spend the few years
that remained to her where she might
occasionally see him. At last she could
resist the temptation to go to America
no longer.
Now It happened. This Is a short
sentence, au incomplete sentence, yet
how much there is Iu it! What would
all the story tellers do If the two words
were blotted out from the world's on
going? It happened that Helurich Gur
licli aud Martha I.eoser were passen
gers ou the same ship. One day they
sat side bv side and fell to talking.
Gurlieh rejoiced with the mother in
her expectations at meeting her hoy,
and Mrs. I.eoser grieved with the ojd
niau when lie spoke of his return to
his lonely farut. They met frequently
on the vojwgo aud ou reai-hlug port
parted with mutual regret.
In New York harbor, where they
landed, Is Fills Island, a danger point
for emigrants more to be dreaded than
a submerged rock of the ocean. Here
they must satisfy the officials that tliej
will not be a burden upon the L'uited
States. Gurlieh had 110 trouble in do
lug so and took Ills departure. Mrs.
Leoser sent for her son, who lived In
one of the environs of New York, ne
came, and for 11 brief period the moth
er and her boy enjoyed their meeting
and the prospect of at least living on
the same continent. But the young
man failed to satisfy . the authorities
thut he could support his mother. He
had a large family of his own aud was
at the time out of employment. His
mother, too old to support herself, had
no one else on whom to depend. The
decree went forth that Martha Leoser
must bo deported to her native land.
Herman Gurlieh, in the turmoil of
the metropolis, was alone? as much or
more alone than he would be wheu he
returned to his farm. In years he had
met but one person of his own genera
tion to give him oue spark of sym
pathy?the woman he had met on the
steamer. She had shown him a paper
bearing her son's address to ask how
she might Ilnd him. This address Gur
lieh remembered.
One evening there was a rap at the
door of young Leoser. and upon its
being opened there stood Gurlieh.
"Is Martha hero?"' I10 nsked. He re
membered only t.ie widow's first name.
"No, and she will not be here. She
Is to be deported."
Gurlieh went Into the house, and his
host told him that there was 110 hope
of his mother remaining, since there
was no one to support her.
"Yes, there Is one," said the old man
after a long pause.
??Who?" t
"I. If your motoer Will marry nir
and go to live with me on my farm she
need not go back to Germany."
In half au hour the two men were on
a boat speeding for Ellis island. They
found the poor womau bemoaning her
fate. Her eyes lighted as she saw her
companion of the voyage.
And here the effort of the story teller
to put this humble romance In story
form breaks down. Never was offer of
marriage made In a form uiore widely
diverse from the conventional proposal
laid down lu printed romances. The
sou took his mother aside and told her
of Gurlich's proposition. While mother
aud son conferred the would be groom
stood making pretense of looking at a
family of Russiau Jews eatiug sau
sages. In a few minutes Leoser return
ed and said his mother accepted the
offer. In vain the romance constructor
casts about for some stretch of the
facts to give story form to the recep
tion by the lover of the news that he
was to be made happy. Vet why try
express what no words ever have sue
ceeded in expressing? Perhaps he said
"Yah," perhaps "Das Is goot;" but. no
matter what he said or how unlike otlr
conceptions of wbal he should have
said, his old heart experienced an echo
of the gladness of youth.
Upon Gurlich's promising the author
ities that he would be responsible for
Martha Leoser's support they at one?
gave her permission to go where she
liked. With her affianced husband and
her eon she went to the latter's house,
where the marriage ceremony was per
formed, and after a brief visit the
; bride and groom started for Gurlich's
farm. FLORENCE GILBERT.
TO My Patrons:-- \
I will be at my old place of busi
ness until further notice and pre
I pared to give receipts . to all those
who desire to pay their account.
I ~ MARTIN CONWAY
I Skagway, May 11th, 1907.
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