RACES MR
White abtl Black in Fats]
Ruetiou
(Special Dispatch to Daily Alaskan)
Chicago, May 15? A [riot took place
last night among railroad navvies at
Hammond, Ind. The cause of the ruc
tion is unknown, but in someway the
white and black laborers began fight
ing. Knives were soon brought into
play and mori than 50 men were carved
up to a greater or less degree. Three
are dead.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT
Of GREEIY'S SPEECH
Chicago, May 13? (Scrlpp's News
Service)? Gen. .Greely in his address
before the Geographical Society here
declared that Alaska is badly governed.
He says that the nation treats Alaska
aa if her citizens were Indians instead
of progressive Americans. He further
declared the courts were only tne
instruments of private interests. He
declared in closing that Alaska has
never been treated fairly.
BREAD WILL
COST MONEY
Chicago, May 13? Saturday waa a
mad. market. There were riotous
scenes in the whaat pit, e4ual to that
of the Leiter days. Reports of frost in
the wheat fields in the Northwest in
crease the rocket tendency. It is ex
pected that flour will advance .a [dollar
a barrel.
Today wheat reached SI a bushel.
There was great excitement.
PREACHER GOVERNOR
FOR PRIZE EIGHTS
Denver, Colo., May 13 ? In spite of
the protest of the Christian citizens,
supported by the Ministerial associa
tion, Governor Butchell will Dot stop
the fight Tuesday night between Lewis
and Gardner. Last night all the leid
ministers roasted the governor.
CITIES HAVE RIGHT
OE EMINENT DOMAIN
Judge Wickersham has decided, in
the case of the city of Juneau vs. Ash
by, that Alaskan municipalities are
under the law possessed of the right to
exercise the power of eminent domain
and can thus compel the removal of
buildings and other obstructioos of the
public streets.
Columbia 0?I*ati Harvard
Boston, May 13? The Co'umbia eight
woo from the Harvard boat crew.
Al'. the delicacies of the season at the
Pack 1 rain Restaruant.
Phona City Tr*aaf?r
Koryour^oal, wood'and general haul
ing. Phone 90, Boughton's cigar
store. 10-4-lmo
The Fifth Avenue hotel is the big
gest and best appointed hostelry in all
the north.
NOW'S TIME
If Yon, Want a Baseball
Eye Act.Qnick
Now is the accepted time to have
your eyes exam iced by a speacialist
and to bare them Sued with glasses
that will gice them a vision that is per
fect. The baseball season is about to
be with as again and every good citizen
will want to get onto the curves of the
knights 6f the diamond. That will be
impos ible if the eyesight Is not per
fect. And then, the spring is the
season of the ve& 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 the latest appliances approved by
science, and we GU ARANTEE SATIS
FACTION. \
Our jewelry store and our repair and
manufacturing department are the
best.
J. Ikuta, Optician and Jeweler.
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[Original]
Passing through Richmond. Va? la
the spring of 1S90. I fell In with a
party of northern people who were
coming up from Florida and had stop
ped over to visit the historic capita! of
the short lived Confederate States of
America. There were two very pretty
young girls, Bessie and Marge Hicks,
under the care of their aunt, a spinster.
Miss Keyes. A couple of young fellows
had attached themselves to the Mlwes
Hicks, and the chape rou had all she
could do to keep the young people with
in conventional bounds.
"Aunt Lenie," protested Bess when
taken to task for soiue mild indiscre
tion, "why can't you remember that
you were once young yourself? You
act as If you'd never had a young umn
attentive to you. I don't believe you
ever had or you would know how to
sympathize with n girl."
We visited the museum in the presi
dent's mansion, the site of Llbby pris
on. aud one morning drove over the
fields of the battles which had resulted
lu the driving back of McClellan's
army from the environs of the city. It
was a. sunny morning, aud the l?ivs
aud girls were In a merry mood. One
would not suppose that they were vis
iting scenes lu which a generation be
fore laughter would have been discord
ant. lu which at every volley of mus
ketry. every discharge of cannon, poor
fellows were laid low and those who
loved them were made to mourn.
At oue of the battlefields the guide
who conducted us was very garrulous.
He had been born on the ground aud
taken part in the tight. After it was
over he had helped bury the dead, and
years later bad been in the employ of
the United States exhuming and identi
fying the bodies which now lie in the
little cemetery near by.
"There." he said, pointing, "was a
trench lu which were fifty-live bodies.
From under that tree I took up the
body of a young mau and have got the
trinkets I took out of his pocket yet,
boplug that I might Identify him by
them. There were a |<oeketkuife with
a bone handle, a little comb and a
silver heart."
By this time tin boys aud girls had
quieted linger the guide's pictures, all
the more affective since he had seen
them with his own eyes. Aunt Lenle
seemed to be living again lu those
days when thousands at home were
scanning long lists of killed and wound
ed. dreading to see what they looked
for.- I was looking at her when the
guide was naming the articles he had
? taken from the soldier's pocket, and
when he mentioned the silver heart I
saw the blood leave her checks as If
taken out at the first stroke of an air
pump.
"Sometimes." continued the guide,
"I took thiugs off the l>odies that had
something on 'em to identify the own
er. such as initials of regiment and
company. This silver heart I spoke of
bad initials on both sides and a date,
but no corps."
"Wliere no you Keep sucn mings: i
asked.
"At the house usually. This one I've
made a pocket piece of."
He drew a flat silver heart from his
pocket and held it up for us to see. I
happened to glance at Aunt Lenie.
There are no words to describe her ex
pression. but I knew by It that the bit
of sliver was a connecting link between
her and a dead past. In a moment she
had regained her self control and cast
a quick glance at her nieces to see if
they had noticed her emotion.
"On this side," th? guide went on,
"are the letters 'J. It.' and on this
?L. K.. Sept. 10. lSfil.' "
A silence feil ou us all. We were
stauding among the pines that bad
spruug up since thirty years before to
shade the graves of those who still
slept there. We crowded around the
guide to read the letters and the date.
Aunt Lenie was standing back.
We were startled by a sob.
As we turned to look Aunt Lenie
turned also, so that we could not see
her face, but we knew the sob had
come from her. In a moment she was
herself again.
"The grave," she said "where Is the
cravt"?"
The guide ted us to the little plot
with Its uniform white headstones and
stop[H>d before one marked "Cn
kpown." Aunt Lenie knelt beside IL
We men uncovered, and the girls, go
ing to their aunt, knelt one ou each
side of her, with an arm about her
waist.
Motlouiug to the men of the party to
come. I moved away, and they fol
lowed uie. f liought the articles found
on the dead soldier of the guide. He
offered them without price, but I
tbo.iiL.-ht that Miss Keyes, for whom I
Intended theiu, would prefer to pay.
Later I lea rued the story? a story as
old as tiie peninsula on which these
men fought aud as fresh as the tiny
wild flower that springs up over the
soldiers' graves. Tom Ray. a young
ster of twenty, loved I-eonore Keyes. a
girt of nineteen. He enlisted in the
Union army, and shortly before be
marched south they plighted their
troth. Leonore had treasured from
childhood a silver heart, and when the
yovug soldier departed she gave It to
him with his Initials engraved on one
side and her own on the other, with the
date that she had promised him that
she would on his return be his wife.
After the battle he had been reported
missing, and Leonore Keyes had for
years faintly hoped that he would
come back to her.
The soldier's grave la no longer
marked "Unknown." A headstone on
which his full name and corps are giv
en has replaced the other.
Miss Keyes must admit that an old
maid may still have a heart.
JLiRIOS MAT 110 1ST.
I lung1 iV.ri ^?wipnprr^U
?
His Self Confidence
(Original]
When Hermau Easton parted wtth
bis motber In England, she to return to
her home In America, he to finish bis
studies at Oxford, her last Injunctions
were to study hard, to beware of de
signing women and not make a mis
alliance. He assured her that he was
wide awake on the latter subject, and
she had nothing to fear for him. Half
a year later he was graduated with
high honors and wrote bis mother that
he had followed the first of her rr
quests, and a man who could accom
plish what he had accomplished at oue
of the oldest universities In the world
certainly should be trusted uot to make
a fool of himself In becoming entan
gled with an unworthy woman.
A few weeks after that he took pas
sage on an ocean liner for home. Ou
the voyage he became acquainted with
a lady who was registered as the Hon.
Amelia Drysdale. She was of refined
appearance, and her manners were
those of the British aristocracy, a num
ber of whom Kaston had met while
speudlng vacations with his university
friends. She knew several titled peo
ple he had met ami described them.
One of his college mates site claimed
as a relative. "What, Cousin Dick!"
she exclaimed. "Well, upon my word,
to think that you should have been
friends!"
There Is nothing like discovering mu
tual friends to draw travelers together,
and Kaston was delighted at finding a
young and pretty woman with whom
to pass time which was all leisure. The
Hon. Miss Drysdale was traveling with
her mother, who, being troubled with
seasickness, kept her room during the
whole voyage. They were going to
travel in America, first visiting friends
In Newport whom Euston knew well
by reputation. The moon when the
ship left port was in the second quar
ter, and since fine weather prevailed
he and the lion. Miss Drysdale passed
their evenings ou deck under the sooth
iug Inriueuce of its light. Bvron says,
"The devil's lu the moou for mischief."
Whether this be so or not, Easton
found that it was especially conducive
to drawing two people of opposite sex
together. Besides, the time spent In
England h.'.d given him a fancy for Its
aristocracy. "Mother," lie said to him
self, "thought me silly enough to get
entangled with souie actress or chorus
girl. What would she say if I could tell
her ou my arrival that 1 was engaged
to a daughter of an earl? 1 can't do
that, of course, especially lu so short a
time, but I have friends at Newport,
and 1 shall take care to secure invita
tions there."
Once Just before reucmng port ue
ventured to hlut at more than an
ocean acquaintance, more than any ac
quaintance, but tlie lady gently took
occasion to say that all acquaintances
with any but those born to the circles
to which she hail been accustomed
could be only transitory. But on the
morning of their arrival while they
stood on deck, the vessel steaming up
New York bay, she turned from him
with a sigh that gave him a faint hope.
Just before coming down the gang
plank the mother came up. and Easton
was preseuted. She was old and fat,
and her daughter In no way resembled
her. Easton offered the mother his
arm. but the daughter would not per
mit Instead she asked him to carry a
bundle of umbrellas and parasols strap
ped together. He did so and wheu they
had disembarked called a carriage for
them, putting the umbrellas In after
them.
As he was closing the carriage door
he thought he saw a slight pallor come
upon the face of the Hon. Miss Drys
dale, which he could not but attribute
to the parting. Qrilckly drawing one
of the umbrellas from the package, one
with a large silver knob on the handle,
she gave it to him, saying:
"Please accept this as a tokeu of
my appreciation for your kindness dur
ing the voyage."
He bowed his acknowledgments and
turned away. Then the carriage 7ind
all that made life a prospect of happi
ness for him departed.
Eastou Joined his mother, who was
waiting for him on the dock. He con
cluded to have ills baggage examined
and take it with him. While waiting
his turn he stood talking with his
mother. His heart was too full to
keep off the subject that eugrossed It.
"XJother," he said, "I haven't been
picked up by an adventuress. Ou the
contrary, 1 have met a daughter of a
British peer. I can't tell you thnt I have
won ber. but I ftui sure she loves me."
At that moment a customs inspector
stepped up to him and said:
"I'll trouble you for that umbrella."
Easton was Indignant, but surrender
ed the umbrella. The official opened
and shook It. Then, seizing the silver
knob at the handle, he turned It. The
knob unscrewed, and the official shook
the hollow handle. Out came a little
ball of tissue paper. Unwrapped, It
displayed a valuable diamond. The
handle was full of diamonds.
Easton was thunderstruck.
"So blame to you," said the officials.
"We had a cablegram warning us of a
smuggler personating the Hon. Amelia
Drysdale, whose maid she had once
been. She saw that I was watching
her, and I saw her give you the um
brella. She's under arrest. I'll trou
ble you for your name and address.
We 6hall want your testimony."
During Easton's drive home with
his mother the good lady spoke not a
word of reproof at her son for being so
easily taken In. and since he liad no
heart to talk they rode In silence, the
mother mutely thanking heaven for
having given her son a leeson.
Easton never wrote of the affair to
hla British friends.
EDNA L. 8 AUBURN.
TO My Patrons:
I will be at my old place of busi
ness until further notice and pre
pared to give receipts to all those
who desire to pay their account.
MARTIN CONWAY
Skag^yay, May 11th, 1907.
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Water Closets " " " " ?' 50
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Wash Basins " " " " " 25
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