r FIX BLAME
I . '
Closius: Order Charged to
Hoggatt
The story comes from Fairbanks that
Gov. Hoggatt is responsible for the
action of Attorney-General Bonaparte
In closing gambling In Alaska, The
papers sa.v that he had a lone talk with
the attorney-geoertl and urged that all
the federal officers in the district be
instated to enforce the anti-gambling
law. It is stated further that Got.
Hoggatt took the action ho did as a
move in his campaign against self-gov
ernment. He said, so tbe story goes,
that the support of territorial govern
ment is largely fr:>m those who hope to
make gambling one of the corner
stones of Xortnern society and com
merce, and that to stamp out tbe
gambling fraternity and put the lid on
the saloons would be to destroy the
territorialist strength.
An attempt was made to interview
Judge Gunnison of this subject, but he
declined to talk. When asked if had
any p?r.* in the move that shut down
tbe games! at Fairbanks, April
12th and those at Valdez a week later
he said that he had not. He said be
action was the direct result of per
emptory irstructions received on the
morniog of April 12th bv wire from the
attorney-general. Judge Gunnison
added, however, that he, personally and
officially, is opposed to gambling
and that he believes the people will be
opposed to it also when they get busi
ness adjusted to the new order ! of
things.
The permptory telegraphic instruc
tions referred to above came in response
to a request from Marshal Perry and
others for an explanation of a letter
written by the attorney-general March
19th, wherein it was stated tbat the
law against gambling shou'd be en
forced and tbat Gov. Hoggatt had sug
gested that it could be so enforced if
the judges would withhold licenses
from saloons that permitted gambling
in the piemiset. Marshal Perry asked
if tbat letter was meant that the mar.
shals should enforce the law, saying
that there would be no difficulty about
it if it were desired.
Many Staastrt la AlaaJta
More than 200 steam and ga?oline
craft are examined yearly in Alaska. |
All of tbem ply local runs in thisdis-j
trict. Most of them are in the waters
of the Yukon and tributaries and those J
of Southeastern Alaska, The largest ^
vessels in Alaska are the big stern- j
wheel packets tbat ply the Yukon. I
Many of these are over 200 feet long
one, the Isom. exceeds 250 feet in
length.
Mrt Boaapaaa Will Ratara
A recent letter from Bishop I. O.
StriDger who is now In England, to
Rev, H, A. Cody of thi* place, informs
the latter that the venerable Mrs. Bom
pass who accompanied the Stringer* to
England, expect* to return to America
in the near future. It it not known
whether she will make her residence
In Montreal or come on to the Yukon.?
Whiteborse Star.
Sksgwayan* Oat Offloi*
Four former Skagwajans were elected
to the municipal council in Cbena last
month. They were Willian Sher?rd,
Wiilliam Sunderbruch, A. Birnbaum
and E. W. Griffln. The o; her council
men elected were J. Kuetter, Martin
Harrais ?nd H. A. Currier.
NOW'S TIME
If Yon Waot a Baseball
Eye let ^aicfe
Now is the accepted time to have
your eye* examined by a speacialist
and to hare them fitted with glasses
that ?ill give them a vision that is per
fect. The baseball season is about to
be with us again and every (toed citizen
will want to get onto the curve* of the
knights of the diamond. That will be
impossible it 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-class condition for active work.
We examine eyes free of charge; we
use\he latest appliances approved by
- science, and we GU ARANTEE SATIS
FACTION.
Our jewelry store and our repair and
manufacturing department are the
best.
J. lkuta, Optician and Jeweler.
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Out of Dartmoor
[CJopyrlstht. 1X?, by Ruby Doucla*-]
Convict No. >300, whose name was
James Shelburn*. was working on the
moor farm wltb others when the fog
came up. It cane rolling across the
wide moor like a billow of smoke
from a cannon's mouth. One minute
there was suushiue over all, with the
horizon five niiies away; In another the
guards were culling out to each other
and hustling the convicts luto line, and
uo man's eyes could penetrate that fog
a distance of ten feet Slielburue drop
ped his spade aud run. He was grab
bed at by other convicts, flrcd at by
guards, and he ran against aud knock
ed over two or three men, but he es
caped?that Is. he got away from the
bunch of prisoners herded together like
so many caitle while the guards sent to
the prison for re-enforcements to march
them in.
There have been few escapes from
Dartmoor. No man ever got away
from there unless aided by the fog. A
fog was what James Shelburue had
waited and hoped aud prayed for for
Ave years. For foar years he had been
Immured bl-hlnd the stone walls. He
had done his best to galu the confi
dence of the prison officials, and he
bud accomplished it. If he softly raved
aiid cursci at night, tempted to suicide
a hundred times over, uone of the
warders fuspected It. By day he was
patient, respectful and uncomplaining.
And so It came to puss that when the
spring muster roll was made up of the
men who were to work on the farms
outside the gates the warden said:
"Put down (WOO. He Is one of the
most trusty of the lot. He wouldn't
leave us If he could."
The convict ran blindly. He fell at
evsry few yards, but he arose to speed
on again. Presently he came to a high
way. A wagon was passlug and Its
drhcr sh;utiug warnings to those who
might be coming from the i>i poslte di
rection.
Shelbume slip|>ed behind aud climb
ed In. There were a lot of empty bags
from tliJ morning marketing, und he
coveted himself up as well us ho could.
The prisoi. bell sounded, and the driv
er uttervd a shout, but the fig held.
A Dartiuoor fog may last tec minutes
or two hours. After an hour of steady
Jogging tli-' team turued off the malu
road. Theii Shelburne softly slipped
to the ground, broke his way through
the hedge and was running across a
meadow when he came upon a cot
tage. A childish voice culled oul:
"You are one of the bad men from
the prison, but you needn't be afraid
of me. I won't hurt you."
A girl of seven or eight years was
seated on (be doorstep not ten feet
away. He had overlooked her. She
gat humped up like an old woman, and
there was an old look to her face. She
bad her hands clasped around her knees
and was weaving to and fro, and as he
contluued to look at her she asked:
"Do you know how folks look when
they are dead?"
"Yes. little girl," he replied as he
advanced aud sat dowr beside her.
"What Is your name? . f there folks
In the house?"
"I am N-?ney," she said. "Famer
went way, way off a year ago, and
mother Is Id there on tbe-ijed."
"And Is your mother ill?"
"Does that mean sick? No. she Isn't,
bnt she's bt?n awful quiet this morn
ing. I can't wake her up, aDd thafs
the reason I haven't had any break
fast. She a'n't deud. Is she?"
"God fotbUi: Let us go inside and
see ber."
"What Is It when folks die?" she
asked as sU* led the way into a bed
room.
"They ne -er speak again." he an
swered as lie looked Into the face of
a woman ty'ug dead.
"Po<>r litt e girl!" he said as he beat
down aud ktssetl her.
"Won't ir other speak no more?"
"Never."
"And I'll liave to go and live wltt
Annt Sarah at the Beeches?"
"Yes."
"Well, thfn. I'll go. but I don't wsnt
to, for Atti-t Sarah don't like me very
well. You come from where they shut
op the bad men, but you dou't seem to
be bad."
"Not so very bad, I hope. Listen to
me. I have a wife and little girl, way.
way off. I have not seen them for
years. I want to get to them. Will
you help me?"
"Why, of course I will," she replied.
"They mast be longing to see you. If
you are hungry you uiEy eat all you
want to. Do you want to go home In
those ugly clothes?"
"God forbid! My Tittle girl would
run away from me la fear."
'.Then you can take soire clothes
that father left. Have yoa got any
money ?"
"Not a farthing."
"Aunt Sarah sent v* ilfl the other
day. Yqu shall ha7? N3if of St."
ITie coivict ptc&ed let aud kissed
her, and when sJ?a law h??rs in his
eyes she bruited tijoi away with her
hand and said.
"If yon wei a Vi? wan you wouldn't
ery. Yes. yc? Mia.t| *ee your wife and
little girl ?*a!x. "
"And if the ic?43 oo&ie after me?"
| "I wont tell."
An hoar later eonv'ct No. fiSOO left
the houae la enativr garb, with a pick
age of food cade* his arm and a five
pound uoto In his pocket. He shed
tears again as he kissed the little old
face held up to his. and the child re
turned Lis kiss and said:
"Tell your little girl that Nancy sends
her lo\>. Maybe mother will speak
again. I must go and see. If she
don't 8(ieatK by noon then I must go to
the squire house and tell them she Is
dead. Yea. say that Nancy sends her
love." M. QUAD.
THE DOOM OF VENICE
IT MAY BE TO LIE IN THE BOSOM OF
THE ADRIATIC,
The Famouu Bell* of St. Mark's Ma j
Toll on Ocean's Depths Like Those
of Old Port Royal? The Sunken
Cities of tho World.
It Is believed by mauy that Venice
Is sinking Into the Adriatic and that
she gradually will disappear beneath
the waters of the great lagoon from
which her palace crowned Islamls
arise. Other cltle9 have gone that
way before her, and ships now sail
over spots which were once teeming
with a populous life.
At the entrance to the harbor of Klng
|ton, Jamaica, the original city of Port
Royal lies fathoms deep beneath the
blue and sunlit waters of the Carib
bean sea. A uarrow strip of land, on
which are a 'small settlement and a
fort. Is all that Is left of what was
once the richest and wickedest town in
the West Indies. It was the resort of
pirates, who rested there from their
depredations and made the city hid
eous with their revelry. But these pi
rates brought great stores of their loot to
the city, and Its commerce grew and
flourished. Palaces and churches were
built, a pirate often striving by a rich
endowment of a church to square his
accounts with heaven.
Throughout the greater part of the
seventeenth century no town In tho
western world was so magnificent as
to Its buildings or so luxurious as to Its
habits as Port Royal. Then one day In
1C92 the anger of the Lord shook the
Island of Jamaica, and the greater part
of Port Royal sank beneath the sea.
carrying with it hundreds of Its In
habitants. Towers, churches, palaces
and forts went down, mauy of them
not tumbling In ruins by the shock,
but sinking bodily beneath the waves.
On a bright day, sailing over the
spot where Port Royal once stood, one
cau look far down through the clear
water and see the remaius of the city
still standing there on the ocean bot
torn, with flshes swimming about
among its towers and great tropical
seaweeds waving from Its sunken
walls.
The negroes of Jamaica? aud some
white people, too? will tell you that be
fore a storm the sunken bell of the
great cathedral which went down with
the city on that awful day in 1G92 can
be heard distinctly tolling below the
waves, rung as a warning by the
ghostly hands of the spirits of depart
ed buccaneers which hauut the subma
rine city. People who do not believe in
ghosts, but think they have heard the
tolling of the bell, say the explanation
Is that when the city sunk the great
bell of the cathedral was not thrown
from Its place, but still haugs as It
originally did. The coming storm be
fore It reaches Jamaica stirs up the
waters of the Caribbean and sends In
upon the shore deep waves, which roll
through the sunken city and set the
bell n-tolling.
Another sunken city of renown 18
BaJn o. that splendid resort on the Ital
ian coast where Nero and Caligula
"reveled and drank deep." A strag
gling village and heaps of marble ruins
still stand upon the shore and bear the
name of Balae, but the greater part of
the city lies beneath the waters of the
Mediterranean, and tourists from Na
ples go out there to gaze down Into the
waters aud try to catch a glimpse of
the submerged city.
The resort of all the wealthy noble*
of Rome when ltome was mistress of
the world, Balae was a marvel of lux
urious splendor Palace ufter palace
was built on the shore, aud architects
deslgued magnitirent structures ex
tending out Into the sea.
When Itome decayed and the Goths
ravaged Italy, Balue was sacked by
I the invaders. Soon nfter the city be
gun to sink. First the buildings which
had their foundation in tha water sub
. sided beneath the waves, and then
the sea made an attack on the land.
Gradually the shore line receded, and
the Mediterranean flowed through the
streets where Hadrian had driven his
imperial chariot and Horace had walk
ed thinking of his next poem.
These promontories, crowned with
grand towers and gorgeous palaces,
were undermined and toppled into the
deep until at last the major part of
the splendid city was submerged. Its
disappearance was not sudden, like
that of Port Royal, and due to some
convulsion of nature, bnt Balae went
down to Its death gradually, as Venice
Is said to be going.
In Holland the subsidence of the
land has brought It about that many
towns once populous are now covered
by the sea. The- old Roman camp at
Brittenburg, after sinking beneath the
waves, emerged again in 1520, only to
disappear, and Its remains now lie In
deep water opposite the town of Kat
wljk. The original Katwijk Itself now
Is bcneatlr the waters, as also are the
original towns of Scheveningen, Dom
burg aud Egmond. In fact, a succes
sion of towns bearing these names Is
now at the bottom of the sea, for they
repeatedly have been rebuilt farther
Inland as the land sunk and the waves
come in to take possession.
The Goodwin sands, large and dan
gerous shoals off the southeast coast
of England, were once above the wa
ter and formed a flourishing estate,
the property of Earl Godwin. There
was no city on the Godwin estate when
I It subsided beneath the sea, but sev
eral small villages went down to the
deep when the tract of country grad
ually disappeared beneath the waters.
There are legends which may or may
not be true of lost cities sunk at the
bottom of Swiss lakes. ? New York
Mall.
I Oblivion is the flower that grows
! best on graves.? George Sand.
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On and after the 1st of October, 1905, the following will bo the
Monthly rates for water and. light service from the Northwest Light
& P owerCompany:
WATER
First Faucet $ 2 00
Each " additional (except wash basins, free) 25
Bath Tubs in Hotels or other Public Houses 50
Water Closets " " " " *' 50
Urinals " " " " " 50
Wash Basins " " " " 25
Hote's, per room additional W
Beer Pumps 1.00
Restaurants 5.00
Steam Laundries 7.50
Hand " 5.00
Motors, special per horsepower, minimum rate 5.00
Hose Connection for Fire Protection 1.00
Families carrying water 1.50
Individuals " " 1.00
Hauling water, per load 1.00
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COMMERCIAL SERVICE
All Ye*r Winter
Stores, Offices, Shops and Residences
Each 16 cp lights % l.'OO
Enclosed Arcs 10.00
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Each 16 cp lights 1.50
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