The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-14
He Gets S12O in Money and
 Much Jewelry.
A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR
Strange visitor Enters Rooms Where tho Family is Sleeping, Riaes tho Houss and Esoapes = The Chloro- form Theory is Advanced.

John kalem. the Fifth Avenue grocer, was robbed early yesterday morning of sI7o In cash. two watches ana several smaller articles of iewlery. The robbery was committed In the Kalem residence, over the store. while the family were asleep In the rooms from which some of the articles were taken, and yet not a member of the household was aware of the presence of a burglar.
 lt Is one otths most mysterious robberies ever committed In Skagway. Mr. Kalem entertaIns the ldea that probably the family was ehlorofOrmeu by the burglar before he began his search through the house for the plumber.
 The jewelv was not obtained until nearly every trunk and bureiu drawer In the house had been rlhed and its contents taken out and strewn upon the floor.
 Valuable papers, garments and other articles scattered over the house met the gaze of the surprised members of fhe household when they awoke at their cus- tomarv hour and looked about them.
 There was no evidence of the robbeT having forced an entrance, and it Is thought by Mr. Kalem that probably the unInvlted guest slipped Into the house early h the evening and hid himself until all had retired.
 Mrs. Wolf, wife of the tailor, who lives in adjoining rooms. savs she heard some one walking about In Mr. Kalem's rooms about { o'clock yesterday morning, and not making any effort to conceal his presence by being quiet. She therefore thought lt must have been Mr. kalem and dId not dwell upon the matter. This fact Is accepted by Mr. Kalem as point In couobotatlon of his theory that he and his family must have been ehIoroformed. He says further
 "We retired at midnight. We had spent the evening at home, and while sit- ting In the parlor Mrs. Kalem called my attention t1 a peculiar rubbing noise, as she imagined, against the wall, and want ed to know what was the cause. dls- missed the matter with the observation that likely it was only someone rubbing against the outside building downStaiIs or something of that kind, and we thought no more of the affair.
 "MrI Kalem always awakens very easily. She Is in tact so easily awakened that none of us can go into a room where she sleeps without breaking her Slumber, vet last night she heard not a sound. None of us heard thing.
 Again, Mrs. Kalem had sense of llghtheadedness all day today and 1t may be the after effect of ehloro.orm. also slept more soundly than usual.
 "The money that lost ! had placed In a pocke. book which kept in my vest, and had left with my other clothes in the room where slept. The vest had been taken from It's place with the other clothes, the book had been emptied of it's contents and all the currency was gone.
 "Other articles taken are; A gold filled watch, and attached solid gold chain, small linked endless chain; a diamond locket and nugget charm; a lady's gold filled watch with long gold neck chain; a gold stick pin with cross bar and solid nuggett; two ehldren's loekets, one oval shaped and one heart with the engraved Initial A. k. k.
 "l locked the outside doors when we re- tired. but It appears the stranger at least went out the door leading from the front of our stairs to the sidewalk on the Fifth avenue side of the building, for that door was open when we got up."
 Mr. Kalem has oitentlmes kept large