BOSS TALKS
Big lotlian Makes Weather'
Comparisons
Big Bos#, od whoso ahoulders rests |
tiie mautle of a long line of Indian
chiefs of the Leo&rge tribe, says the i
Whiteborss Star, was in town durinc |
the week and took occ-sion to hacd
out some weather lore. The Bjs<
family is ancient and time-stained
and in archives are accounts of j
the weather for the past several
huodrd years.
Aecordiog to Jim there was just such J
a day as ^Vednesd-iy of this week -37!
years ago. His fourth great grand
father experienced it and handed an i
account down through the corridors of
^^aie to succeeding generations of the j
Boss family. In March of the ye*r[
U93, according to Jim'* ninth gre.it- '
grandf ither, there was just such anoth
er day as Wednesday.
Io the ye ir 171" the ice never went
out of the lake acd Labor day, 1 1<? flp-t I
Monday in September vu? Celebrated j
by a big ice worm festival. Wild
animals did not sued that year and by
the following spring ? abbits loosed as
large as average-sized mjo<e. It was a
great contrast to the year 1633, when,
according to Jim's sixth great grand
father, the Ixke did cot freeze over
and pussy willows bloomed alt winter.
The 9sh grew so arge that winter |
that Bob Clark's nets were all ripped
to pieces.
Jim does not expect the ice to ho'd io
tLe lake a 1 the coming sii'umer but
he risks the prophetic reputation of
his family on the assertion that the.lake
will not open as early as usual.
BISSE WINS
Chicago Gives R pnblicacs
Majority
(Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan.)
Chicago, April 3? Frederick Busse,
republican, was elected mayor of Chi
cago yesterday, defeating Edward F.
Dunne, democrat, by 13.000 plurality.
The republican p.atform declares for '
municipal ownnrsaip only when the j
people vote for it. It approves of an j
arrangement with the street car own
ers, which has been agreed upon by the
council, that will extend the fratchises j
25 years.
ROAD BIRDERS
MEET AT SEAITLE)
The Alaska road commission will meet
at Seattle the latter part of the present
week. Lieut. Orchard, the secreurv
of the commission and disbursing
officer, will leave for tbat olaoe on the
Jtffersoc. Major Richardson is al
ready there and Capt. Piilsbury is
at Va'dez and due to leave for Seattle
tonight.
While at Seattle, the commission
wi'.l lay out its summer work, and pur
chase supplies to forward on the fi st
boats down the river and to Nome.
Lie it. Orcba d and, perhaps, all the
the commission will retutn to Skagway
in a seort time.
OfffiUSSES
D<? N'?l Go Ovt-r Trail Wit: ?
out Piofrctiou
Do cot attempt to go ove>- the loop i
road to Dawson, across he blinditg
fields of snor wiibout taking every pre
caution to protect jour eyesight. It is
positively dangerous should anything
be wrong with your vision to attempt
it. We give free exami< ations and fit
glasses >o the eyti th?t need them
Come and trv us. WE GUARANTEE
SATISFACTION.
Do not take a dirty watch into the
inerior, the land of high pric s. Our
repair department is the best in the
North. We will put your timepieces
in such order that thev will correctly
mark time until \ou come back to the
outside again We mike things AS
GOOD AS NEW.
Before leaving Skagway you will
want to send a souvenir back to those
in the 9tates who a.*e watching your
progress to the land of gold. We sell]
aouvenirs? everything in the w of
nugget jewelry, Alaska cedar and ivory
novelties, cards, etc. OUR PRiCES
ARE RIGHT.
J. Iicuta. Optician and Jeweler.
A Compromised Fee
? a
' 1 Original.)
lii antebellum tlaya Oliver Otis, a
young lawyer jusi admitted to prac
tice, being physically delicate, cou
dudeU to take up his residence iu
Louisiana, where the climate Is less
rigorous than in the uorth. The slav
ery agitation was on, and the north
erner found making an entry either
socially or professionally slow worl;.
But there Is one held iu >vbicu at tha
age of twenty-three progress is uever
slow? the Held of love. Otis and An
toinette Le Bert, the daughter of a
sugar planter, met. and their hearts
fused as readily as if t'lere was ao
war cloud gathering between their
respective sections.
But, while Antoinette's- father had
no objection to Otis on a count of be
ing a northerner, he bau serious ob
jections to hiui on account of his pov
erty. for the young uiun on his ar
rival at his new home had uot $1110
in the world. Nevertheless .Mr. Le
Bert was friendly to his daughter's
lover, probably because Otis was too
manly to pay court to a girl he was
able to marry, ludcetl, Otis con
sidered marriage with J.lss Le Bert
as impossible as did her father. Mr.
Le Bert rave bim what P. tie law busi
ness he hud and was impressed with
the inseuious methods the young man
employed to gain his ends.
One day Mr. Le Bort placed a col
lection for a goodly sum In the law
yer's hands uud In doing so said to
him:
"Le Grand Bouvier. irao owes u;*- .
this debt, la a tire eater of the worst
kind. He hates a northerner as he
bates snakes. He Is a duelist, a dead
shot. an*l has kileri several men under
the code duello. There Is no lawyer
hereabout who will take the collection.
The amount is $i::.iHX>. It" you will find
a way to force or persuade him to pay
It you shall have half for a lee. FJut
remeuiher y hi must exercise the great
est care not (o offend llim, for if you
do he will challenge you, and if you re
fuse him satisfaction sentiment here
*"?11 be against you. and you will have
to go elsewhere. Besides, I do not core
to antagonize Le Grand Bouvier my
self?not thar I fear him, but we south
erners consider it beneath us to press
a claim for debt, especially from one
of our own class."
Otis took the papers in the case and
said that he would look Into It. ne
neither spoke to .Mr. Le Bert about it
nor Mr. Le Bert to him till one morning
a week later when the client rushed
Into i >ris" ollii-e with a letter in his hand
and threw it down before him. It read:
Si:-? t have rrooivpd :m Insulting lel'er |
"rom .! vanne Butter snipe from the north
d<*m in.i payment of my Indebti-dnesg j
t<> >011. in which ho tines the word " Irad
beaf md accus- s me of having obtained
your property and< r "false pretenses." I
desire t-p know you assume responsibil
ity for the p-.ippv - in.-ult!- I have the
honor to bt- your most obedient servant.
LK GRAND HOl'ViER.
Le I'-.-rt esjieeted to s<?o Otis pale
when he read the letter, but he did not.
He wrote 011 tile face of if:
My r. <te was written without the knowl
edge i Mr Le liert. and 1 alone am ro
sponsible for it OLIVER OTIS.
Handing It Iiark to Le Bert, he re
sumed the work at which he was en
gaged as if nothing u:iu-ual had oc
curred.
"Are you aware." usk.'d Le Bert,
"what this means';"
"Perfectly."
"Very well. If you want to get a hole
in you. go ahead."
That evening a gentium. u witli very
btuck bair and eyes who spoke softly I
the Creole dialeet eallea upon Otis
with i demand lor satis.Vction on the
part of Bouvier. Otis asked if he
woukl be esjivcled lo tig t under (he
Louisiana code. The visitor said that
his principal was so enr getl that he
would tight under a n \ . >ue, where
upon Otis sai i that in so; e states the
code espei a.ly stipulate* that there
snould be no meeting cetween two
persvtis when-ill one ow -d the other
money; that he was perso ally interest
ed ia the debt due from Mr Bouvier
there tore hi-- ciutUenger v. as his debt
or. He couid not accept : uy challenge
from Mr. Boime; until il;e debt had
been paid.
The visitor departed, aud nothing
more was heard of the uffair for teu i
days, whi i Mr Le Bert received a
check for the lull amount of his claim 1
with interest The payment had not
been mate rive minutes when Mr. |
Bouvier' s second called at Otis' office. '
Mr. Le Ben came in at the same mo- j
meat with his cheek. The second po- I
lltnly informed Otis that, there being I
nothing in the way of the meeting, his j
principal expected It would take place
without delay.
Then Otis placed his hand ou his
heart, made a profound bow ami said:
"May I ask you to convey to Mr.
Bouvier my sincere aud humble apol
ogy? I supposed him to be what i
called him, but I see I was mistaken.
I have proof in the payment of this
debt that he is an honorable man."
The creole looked surprise through
his soft black eyes, bowed, turned and
left the ollice. Aud that wA the last
of the prospective duel between Oliver
Otis aud Le Grand Bouvier.
That afternoon Mr. Le Bert sent
Otis a check for $0.i>sa.7 1. exactly half
the amount of the collection. Otis re
turned it with a bill tor legal services
for $?">. Mr. Le Bei t strove in vain to
induce him to accept the larger
amount without success. Otis averred
that It was not in the north consid
ered at thai time professional to take
cases on shares. The matter was
Anally compromised by the check be
<ng drawn to Miss Le Bert lor a pres
ent on her wedding with Otis. Le
Grand Bouvier sent a clock of the
time of Louis XV.
T. AiNTHOXY TWIXIN3.
The Colonel's Kid
[Copyright. 1?;. by McClure, Phillips & Co. I
Among the batch of forty recruits re
ceived lit Fort Blank one day froio
Jefferson Barracks was one who at
tracted atteuttou Immediately from his
superior looks and beariug. He bad
w aristocratic fact-, a pood Qgure. and
it was evhleut at a glance that he did
not belong among that crowd. Private
llarker had not been In the barrack*
ail hour when it had beeu determined
from colonijj to corporal that he was
a man who must be disciplined.
Colonel Ranks had lost his wife twe
years before, but be bad not sent his
little daughter Edith east among rela
tives, as it hau been supposed be woui-'
do. She was a handsome, sunny hulre
child of ten. and he clung to her an
had an aunt come, out and act as blv
housekeeper and a mother to the moth
erless. Scarcely any one at the fori
gave the child her name when speaking
of her. She was referred ta affection
ately as the colonel's kid.
The colonel's kid stood noming ne;
father's hand when the recruits line
up for roll call, lier e.ves roved al >i>
the line until they rested on Darker
and there they paused. There was Unit
In his face that attracted her. and shr
secretly determined to be friends wit':
him. lie saw her from his place I:
the ranks, and his face softened. II.
:!are;l not smile at her, but more friend
liness came into his heart than hn
been there for many a day. The nett
day. and the next, and the next, he as
her from a distance while he was t.
lug drilled. On the fourth dny. whiV
he was doing sentry duty at the flar.
staff, she came walking up to him an ?
held out her baud and said:
"I like you. Won't vou shake li-.ndsV
Private Barker's face was all smile
as he took her hand anil assured he
that he liked her In return and thai
back In the east he had a little nleco
who looked almost like her. Ten
minutes later the colonel's kid was
back In Officers' row with tears In her
eyes, and Private Harker was In the
guardhouse. It was a tremendous
breach of discipline he had committed.
Never before In the history of the
American army, according to the ser
geant, had a sentry on duty dared to
pause in his monotonous tramp and
ground arms and shake the colonel's
daughter by the hand. The captalD
agreed with the sergeant, and Private
Harker got five days' confinement. He
knew that spite was the foundation,
and he set his Jaw hard. He had been
at liberty ouly three days when fault
was found with him at inspection of
barracks. He answered back, and this
time It was ten days in the guard
bouse. At the end of that time be wan
ca'led before the colonel.
In barracks even the children know
what goes ou. The colonel's kid had
learned that l*rlvate Harker had been
disgraced for shaking hands with her.
She defended him. When he received
his second sentence, she defec-jed him
more vigorously. In fact, she wept
over it and was scolded by'ber father
and aunt. Men and women make
friendships iu an hour, but their Judg
ment is not as good ns the Intuition of
a child. The kid had taken a liking to
Private Harker, and they argued in
vain. The colonel was upset over It.
He was in angry mood when be re
ceived the recruit. There was nothing
ho could do officially, and yet he would
not talk as man to man.
"Private Harker," he" began, "I aai
sorry to hear bad reports of you. If i
you l*gin this way. whire will you
end? You may be above the common
run. sir, but lej me tell you that you
can put on no alrg here. If I catch
you tripping ipm, I shall put you
down as a trouble maker and act ac
cordingly. Go to your quarters, sir."
The intent had been to hi1 jlllate him.
and the soldier knew it. From that
hour on he had but one object 1l view
It took him three months to accomplish
It, but in the end be had talked revolt
until the 200 rank and file at the post
were ripe for It. They would leave the
fort and scatter among the mines and
ranches. Before leaving they would
kill tour or live of the officers that had
been marked down. Never was a con
spiracy better planned or a secret bet
ter kept. Not the slightest hin: reach
ed the officers' ears or the ears of those
?who would remain loyal. At 10 o'clock
at night the 200 would arm, parau.
and march out In the face of the offi
cers, and theie would be shooting done
before the last of them left the gate.
The signal was to be given by Pri
vate Harker? a musket shot. He had
planned for days that the ball from
that musket should find the colonel's
heart. He would reach the colonel's
quarters and fire on hliij through an
open window. They had kept the kid
out of his sight for weeks, and he dldi
not take her Into account in his plan- (
nlng. It was her father he meant to
kill, but her feelings were not consld
ered. When the night came, he slipped
out of barracks, dodged across the pa
rade ground and skulked up a dark
alley and reached tbe point aimed at.
The evening was warm, and the colo
nel had fallen ascleep as be sat over
his papers. The soldier raised his mus
ket and drew a fair bead for the offi
cer's heart, and his finger was pressing
the trigger when a hand was gently
laid on his arm. He lowered his mus
ket to find the kid by his side and
standing on her tiptoes to whisper:
I "Don't shoot him. He Is my father.
He don't like you, but for my sake
don't shoot him."
Private Harker bent down and kiss
ed the child and then walked away and
out of the fort and was never seen
again. The signal did not come, and the
waiting conspirators cowered In their
Ibuuks and made no move. The colo>
nel's kid bad tared the day.
M. QUAD.
SPECIAL 5ALES
' 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 dress goods and I
fancy trimmings. We must make
room for our Spring lines j
HIE BEST
COFFEE
can be
SPOILED
by the old bit
or tciss" plaa
used in Bom*
households)
BUT
with 9
?V- "METEOR"
COFFEE PERCOLATOR
even-thing is so arranged that bf
following the simple instruction*
the quality is always delhion*.
See our several stylea and lattM
explain the perfect way.
P. E. KERN
Gold fid Silver smith.
We have a large stock |
liouiney's Gandy
Peter's Choeo!ates|
A1 so a large stock ol
Fresh Nuts
Dont' Forget the Number. 428B dw')|
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' The Leading Jeweler
fgj Nugget jewelry of all kinds
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