The daily Alaskan., 1911-08-15
HOW HE WAS
 EXECUTED By OSCAR COX Copyright by American Frbss Asso- citation. igi
By OSCAR COX

his fellow beings with great zest But try Co make hiu kilI even one Of them in cold blood then you will see what a difficult matter it is
 There was once a Kingdom not as big as Monaco. and thnt is small enough ln ail cousciencc. Little Some shon was but five miles iu circumfer. ence. Yet It WIS a perfect kingdom. for King Shandigrab ETas a real royal parsonage. five feel high. nvo feet around the girth and wore a crown that weighed pretty nearly as much as himself He had a cabinet. masters Of the robes and hounds and cOuThers galore. There were 5000 commouers, with a number or horses mules, cats and other animals The general of tbe army of forty men fmastly eHecdvesl was a terrible fellow. with 8erce mus tachios as pointed as his sword
 But the army and tbe general were both for show, for tbe kingdom was under the protection Of its neighbor the emperor Of Hollibag who had been paying 1t a stated sum ever since the principal part Of the territory bad been topped or many centuries before for the benefit of the empire. Besides, the little sonneshons were the most peaceful people in the world So ten der hearted were they that once when musquito flew over there from what Is now New Jersey they refrained from killing it, so that it planted all the pools with mosquitoes.
 Nevertheless there was once a mur- der committed ln the kingdom by a man named Hans Gotterman But that was an exceptional case, for be killed hls wife. who was a naEger Perhaps for this extraordinary incite- ment to murder be might have gone scot free had he uot been lazy and generally worthless. So he was con victed and sentenced to have his head chopped or
 But here arose a difficulty There was a royal execuuoner, but, like the general of the army, he was for show. Be wore tights, a mask and all that constantly carrying an aT on his shoulder But the aX was wooden and its bearer SO tender hearted that when he had fried chicken for breakfast his wife was obliged to cut of It's head.
 At a meeting of the cabinet the matter of Hans GOtterman was dis cussed. and It was agreed that the royal execuuoner wouldn't do for the fob at all. So it was decided to send request to the emperor of Hollibag for the loan of his headsman. Unfor- tunately there had been a revolution in the empire. and ths royal exscu- toner was so busy cutting o6 the heads of rebels that he could not be spared
 At another meeting of the cabinet 1t was decided to offer a hundred pieces of gold to whomsoever would execute the murderer. The offer was posted everywhere throughout the kingdom, and Che king and his cabinet waited for some one tO step forward, accept it and put an end to Gotterman. But no one was willing to kin a man at the price. and as no other eypedlent was suggested Gotterman stii lived
 One day a mosquito bit him and im- pregnated him with bacteria that caused a. terrible fever The court waited eEpectantly, thinking the man would die, but be disappointed them by getting well. and since lt cost con- siderable to keep him the cabinet de cided to let him out on his promise t0 return when an execudoner could be found to 5ehead him. He rather ob- iected to this. but his keeper stopped his food and thus forced compliance
 Every few days he would pretend be had heard that an eyecutioner had ar rived and go back to the jail, demand ing food ad interim. Thus be got to be an insuGerable bore No one could be found Co kin him, he wouldn't die.
 One day it was reported to the king that fifty coal miners had been buried in a mine. These were citizens the state could not afford Co lose. The cabinet ordered a hundred men col lected at great expense to dig the min CTS out They dug a month, when one day, hearing a voice, they made their way with pick and shovel toward the sound. After several days hard work they broke into a compartment and there found Gotterman.
 He said be had gone into the mine for work, but when asked how he had lived so long without food pointed to fifty empty dinner paiis. He had gone Into the place where the entombed men had placed their dinners None of the Ioborers was ever got out alive Got terman alone survived the catastrophe
 The king was much ineensed when he heard the story Of Gotterman's res cue and renewed his efforts among the uelghboring states for the loan of an executloner. but without success. Then came a written offer from the murder CT to cut hls own head or for the prom tsed reward. The cabinet could not ac- eept it. because there was a law of the Kingdom against suicide
 One dny when the cabinet was in council a member presented an oftef from woman who was known to be