WILL LOOK
(Tovermiient To Investigate
Escape ot Baell
The escap? of servant Buel!, who
was mjirri.d at Slrajrway under the
name'of Stacihosue ju?l before leaving
with hi* bride on the Ptiacess May,
will be investigated by (he government
at Washington.
Bueli or Stackhouse deserted from
the Tenth infantry and came to Skag
way where he was united in marriage
with Miss McKowen, who was a domes
tic la the household of Mrs. Major!
Reynolds. They left on the Princess |
May. The civil officers at Ketchikan
were notified of the desertion and in-'
structed to arrest .Ruell or Stackhou?r. i
They were prevented from doing ?o)
however, by the refusal of the captain |
of the Princess Ma; 10 permit the
officers to enter the stateroom in which
the fugitive was locked. Tne matter
has been referred to the government at
Washington.
BfLlfVfO BIRKIIARDT
WAS MURDERED
The discovery of the body of Sylves
ter Bumhardt in a dri)t on his claim on
ihe Koytwuk river, in the minds of
many, [ha* relieved that tuan of the
Iti^m i :hat hail attached to him oa ac
count of the death of his oahln mate,
?ouis Trox er. last fall. Burkhardt had
oeen >bot at the spot where his body
w?s found.
l.ouis Tioxler was killed last fell.
Someone bad beaten him to death with
an ordinary carpenter's clawt ammer.
U- fore he J ied, however, he was dls
covertd, but he never made an intelli
uib.f statement ?s to the caise of bis
wounds. He tried to say something
aiwu*. Burkh?rt with whom be lived,
nad, as Burkhardt bad disappeared, it
? *s believed he bad killed Troxler.
After the death of Troxler a search
?hs begun for Burkhardt, which was
kept up uoti' the dlscov.-ry of the bullet
i.I.ed aody io the Koyukuk drift.
A coroner's bury, evidently think
- that burkhardt had killed Troxler,
decided that the former came to his
death ;j v his own hand, but bis brother
??.Dcotbe s believe that both men were
murdered for their money. It wiia the
general idea that both men bad quite a
lot of gol 1 dust but none was fcund.
RIBIfS fOlVD
41 fAIRBMS
Fairbanks. May 27 ? Rubies are the
the latest valuables to have been dis
covered in this district.
A. S J. McAuley and Harry Dewey,
who have just returned to Fairbanks
from tne Mule Delta, found the stones
mi the latter place while engaged prot
ptciing for ioid. The rubies are of
large sv.e, but a flaw is apparent in the
one? brought here. This flaw is pro
duced by cracks whioh men. who havt
some authority to speak, declare suffi
cient to render the find worthless, if
the specimens seen are to be accepted
as a ttandard of the deposit .
50 designs of 1^07 wall paper just rej
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A Story of Old
New York.
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[Original.]
There are parts of New York, where
the bettor classics of the early Inhabit
ants once lived, now being toru dowu
to make way for business blocks. One
of the last to be demolished was the
Van Geukin house, originally built la
what was tllen the oouutry.
I11 th?? early part of the niueteentb
century this house was already more
than 100 years old. Passing the door
way, with windows at oaeli side cud
an arched one above? a universal con
struction during the seventeenth aud
eighteeuth centuries? one would enter
a large s?iuure apartmeut from which
u staircase, turning nt right angles, l<ii
I to the second story. Directly opposite
| the door, between the tlrst and second
angle, was u window of staiued glass.
I Ouiy the family occupying the house
| kuew that It was stained, liecause a
I curtain was always kept over it. Why
this was done 110 one seemed to kuow.
It was a tradition of the family that
: the window must lie kept covered.
One hot summer night? It was about
ISliO ? Anne van Uenkiu and Robert
Wryn. a young naval officer who had
seen service lu the war of 1S12, were
sitting In this apartment, which was
the living room of the family. Miss
van Genkln was the sole prospective
heir to her pareuts' estate, anil they
hail set their hearts on her marrying
Hubert van Geuklu, a descendant of
another brauoh of the family, who
possessed a farm on the northern end
of Manhattan Island, already promis
ing to be of considerable value. In
deed. today it is worth mllllous. Hut
Aune's heart had l?een exchanged for
that of young Lieutenant Wryn. aud
the luateh with her relative was re
pulsive to her. Nevertheless, having
been brought up to oliey her parents iu
such matters, as girls were In those
days, she had no thought of refusing
them lu this Instance. Besides, she
realized the Importance of doubling
the family wealth -and knew that Wryn
had nothing but his pay In the navy.
I Oue evening Wryn was pleading a
hopeless cause. Anne was firm In her
determination to carry out the plan
laid down for her.
"I have used every argument," salil
Wryn at last, "and have no more to
orlng forward. We sail. If the wind Is
fair, tomorrow for the Mediterranean,
:izi< I when I return? 1 hope I never
shall return? yon will belong to an
other."
"You have not used every argu
ment," said the gifi. "There is one
that Is kut>wu only to the members of
this family, and that is only a tra
dition."
"What Is it''"
"That a Van Cenkin shall not marry
I * Van Genkln."
"Aud why ?"
"T don't kuow. Two Van Genkiu
brothers came to America a century
and a half ago. Something occurred
between them to give rise to this tra
? dltlon."
There was a pause in the conversa
tion. The lieutenant was thinking
how he might use this information to
advautage. the girl brooding over hav
ing to act contrary to her wishes. A
storm was gathering without.
"Oh, for a breath of air!" Anne ex
claimed, swinging her fan.
"I'm going up the staircase to open
the window."
"You can't."
"I can try."
Wryn went up to the window and
? began a series of jerks to open it. lie
failed to do so. but the curtain that
eo ered It. old and Gotten, suddeuly
?a>ie tumbliug down. Satisfying him
elf that the window was screwed to
he easing, he gave up the attempt and
?ej tiueU Miss Van Genkin.
The storm broke with great vlo
ei ,-e. The front door stood ajar, and
i gust of wind blew it wide open, at
the same time extinguishing every
?ai die in a candelabra standing on a
utl'e. There eauie a vivid flash of
! ig!. tiling.
'I he lovers were facing the window
an 1 saw a sight that froze the very
marrow in their bones. In the glass
wti ? a figure of a man in the old l>utch
coriume <>f two centuries iiefore. He
wa i falling backward with a i*miurd
in his side, from the wound of which
dpi rted a red stream. Before him
sti .id the man who had slain liim.
Th - portraits of both men hung on the
wuils'hi the Van Cenkin manor house.
Tit ?>? were the two brothers who came
to America when Manhattan Island
sold by the Indians to the white
mi- a. The oue who was slain was the
an. ester of Anna, the oue who slew
hli.i the ancestor of Herbert van Gen
kln. There was but an Instant's 11
lai..ination, then " darkness. Anne
spiaug into the arms of Koliert Wryn.
Die uext morning the sun shone
brl.'htlv. Wryn went to the manor
house to take leave before sailing of
Anne van Genkln. The curtain had
not been put again over the stained
window, and he was. surprised to see
uothing of the scene that hud turned
the scales In his favor the night be
fore. Instead were simply colored
panes giving no picture at all. He
was thinking that the revelatiou must
have been supernatural when Anne
cauie down the stulrcnse and, seeing
the wonder on his face, said:
"Father has told me all. The son of
my murdered ancestor, his mind un
ba'anced by the crime, had the wlu
do v made in Holland with a picture
of the murder In the glass, requiring
a strong light to bring it out. Father
?considers It all so many generations
back not to be a bar between. tne two
branches of the family. But now tlist
I know It and could not bring myself
| to merry a Van Geakln he will not
Insist and has given his consent to our
onion. ELlSfi B. HAKR1SON.
I*~~~ ? I
A Unique Method
of Proof.
I ,, 1
[Original. 1
The microscope lias been used In evi
dence to detect human blood corpus
ties, chemistry has been called ?pou
to prououtiee upon i>olsons lu a dead
body, but tlie seuses are not considered
adequate to giro reliable testimony In
cases requiring such delicate tests.
Nevertheless there nre Individuals In
whom a certain sense is very acute? In
.ouie instances nearly as acute as In
' the lower animals.
TUe Karl of PI u ton had three sons
:tnd two daughters. The estate being
entailed. It was necessary for the two
Junior sons to shift for themselves and
for the daughters to be married. The
youngest son. Edgar Crafts, realizing
that with two brothers ahead of him
there was little or no chance of his
coming Into the title, left for Australia.
For a time he corresponded with his
family and with I.ucy Harmon, to
whom he was attached and who was
attached to him. but since fortune did
not at?? nd his efforts the correspond
ance was Una 11^ dropped by reluctant
mutual couseut.
The earl died about ten year* arter
Edgar's dep?rtnre. His oldest son suc
ceeded him, married, but bad no chll
dren. The second son died before the
first while still a bachelor. Then the
oldest sou -the earl-died. Meanwhile
Edgar had not been heard from In
many years. He was forty years old
when the title fell to him If he were
alive. Advertisements for him were
l>ut iu the Australian papers, but
elicited uo response. After a two
years' fruitless hunt the title was sh
ell to auother branch of the family.
One day u man purporting to be
Edgar Crafts appeared and claimed
the title and the estates. He said he
was forty-three, but looked tifty. He
was swarthy aud gray and bald. Arch
Ibald Crafts, the Incuinbeut, at oner
took tlie ground that he was an im
postor. One of the claimant's sisters,
win was still living, did not behave
him to be her brother. The quick eve
of lore saw what others could not "or
would not see. I.uc.v Harmon, who
hail not married, at ouce recognized
him as her lover. If she had not done
so. he would have soon convinced her.
'lhere was no w:ij? for Edgar Crafts
to come Into his rights except by suit
iu a court of law. But he had no mon
e> ? He claimed that he had gone front
Australia to Brazil, where he had made
a fortuue anj lost it. There did not
seem to be a ghost of a chance f..r his
winning a ease, but Lucy Harmon,
wh i had come into a small fortuue
during his absence, offered to risk It
for his sake. He declined, but thev
finally determined to be married, and
then suit was l>egtin.
fine would supi>ose that there would
be many ways of proving a man's Ideu
tlt.v. So there are. But unfortunately
there are as many ways of proving
tliut he Is not the man he claims to be.
There was but one likeness of Edgar
Crafts extant, taken when he was eight
een years old. and that looked very
little like him. He and the likeness
were brought before disinterested per
sons, who declared that they could uot
be oue and the same. His* haudwrlt
ing was compared with letters of Ed
gar Crafts written soon after his de
parture. but they were not alike. Out
of three experts only oue pronouued
the two to have been written by the
same person. The prei>ouderance of
evidence was against the claimant.
l>onald Beardslee, the barrister who
had charge of the claimant's case, wa*
tnuch Interested In It. He believed the
man to be what he purported to be
largely because Lucy Harmon believed
in him. Beardslee had been working
hard on the case one day without suc
cess and was sitting in his smokiug
room at home after dinuer racking hit
Ingenuity for the morrow when a man
was announced, who gave bis name as
Patrick Noonan. He was shown Into
the smoking room.
"Well, who are yotki" asked the bar
rlster. "And what can I do lor you?"
"I'm an old servant In the service of
the I'intou family, sir."
The barrister pricked up hi* ears.
"And 1 want to tell you about Mr.
Edgar, sir. The man as has come back
Is him.''
"How do you know?"
"I can smell him." ^
Smell biin? W hat do you meanr
lou':e not a dog."
"1 know the smell of all the lute
earl's family."
Hie next uioruiug Noonan visited
the barrister at his office. A few days
later Beardslee, who had ransacked
the scientific libraries, summoned Noo
nan for a witness, but liefore taking
his testimony read the following to the
Jury fr?m a Cermau Archive of physi
ology:
,AuryJ1Tan ^'ns ha8 a stifle odor
of his own by which he can be recognized
by persons of sensitive smell. The oas
is mentioned ot a man who blindfolded
could pick out each Individual la n com
pany of twenty by his odor. The smell
Wlth u"' but develops grud
about the age of fourteen, after
, , remains unchanged. Members
of a family have a kind of common odor
IWUcti exists even when they have lived
apart for a long time.
Beardslee with this preface blind
folded Noonan and brought people to
him to smell, asking him if each was
dgar t. rafts. The fifth person brought
to him was the sister who did not be
ileve the claimant was her brother.
Noonan pronounced her one of the
l rafts family. The fifteenth person
led up was the claimant. Noonan pro
nounced him Edgar Crafts.
That euded the Crafts case, aud Ed
Kar Crafts, earl of Plnton. and his
countess were put into possession of
the title aud estates. But the earl
never likes to have the fact referred to
that he was proved to be an earl by
Ills small. C. ^lOBKISON TBIPP
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