Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-01


"Oh, yes; I've lone that sort of
thing" His broad shoulders went up
as he drew a long breath. Whats
your plan?"
There's a man down the coast,
George Bait, who knows more about
the business than any four people In
Kalvtk. He's been q fisherman all his
life. He discovered the Kafvik river,
built the first cannery here. and was
It's foreman until he quarrelled with
Marsh, who proceeded to discipline
him. Bait Isn't the kline of man to be
disciplined; SO, not having enough
money to build a cannery. he took his
scanty capital and started a saltery on
his own account. That suited Marsh
exactly; he broke George in a year,
absolutely ruined him, utterly wiped
him out, Just as he intends to wipe out
insignificant mel Thinking to bide his
time and recoup his fallen fortunes,
George came back into camp; but he
owns a valuable trap site which Marsh
and his colleagues want, and before
they would give him work they tried to
make him assign II to them and con-
tract never to go In business on his
account. Naturally George re-
fused, 80 they disciplined him some
more. He's been starving now for two
years. Marsh and his companions rule
this region just as the Hudson's Bay
Company used to govern its conces-
sions-by controlling h natives and
preventing independent white men from
gaining a foothold.
mo man dares to furnish food to
George Bait; no man dares to give him
a bed; no will let hin work.
He has to take a dory to Dutch Harbor
to get food. He doesn't dare cav the
country and abandon the meagre thou
sands he has invested in buildings. so
he has stayed on living off the country
like a Siwash. He's a simple, big
hearted sort of fellow. but his life is
centred in this business: it's all he
knows. He considers himself the father
of this section, and when he sees others
rounding up the task that he began 1t
breaks his poor heart. Why, every
summer when the run starts he comes
across the marshes and sinks about
the Kalvik thickets like a wrath,
watching from afar, just in order to
be near 1t all. He stands alone and
forsaken. barking to the clank of the
machinery, every bolt of which he
placed; watching his enemies enrich
themselves from that cleaning silver
army, which he considers his very own.
He is Stunned like a leper. No man Is
allowed to speak to him or render him
any sort of fellowship. and 1t has made
the man half mad: 1t has turned him
into a vengeful, hate-filled fanatic, liv-
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believe, he will kill Marsh"
Hmm! One seems to be forever
crossing the trail of this Marsh" said
Boyd, who had listened intently.
Eyes. His aim is to gain control of
this whole region, nj if you decide to
go into the enterprise you must expect
to find him the most INSCRIPTIONS and
vindictive enemy ever man had; make
no mistake about that. It's only fair
to warn you that this will be no child's
play; but, on the other hand. the man
who beats Marsh will have done some
thing She paused as If weighing her
next words, then said, deliberately:
"And I believe you are the one to do
it."
But Emerson was not concerned
about his destiny just then, nor for
the dangerous enmity of Marsh. He
was following another train of thought.
And so Bait knows this business
from the inside out?" he said.
Thoroughly; every dip, angle and
spur of it. so to speak. He's practical
and he's honest, in addition to which
his trap-site is the key to the whole
situation. You see. the salmon run in
regular definite courses, year after
year. just as IL they were following a
beaten track. At certain places these
courses come close to the shore where
conditions make it possible to drive
piling and build traps which intercept
them by the million. One trap will do
the work OF an army Of fishermen with
nets in deep water. 1t is to get this