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The Alaska daily empire., 1915-01-01
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|. J. SHARICk PIONEER JEWELER.

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 Gradually, from very modest be- ginning 17 years ago. this store has grown and expanded until it has talk en rank with the foremost establish ments of it's kind to be found in the great Empire of Alaska. New de partments have been added from time to time and all are always kept up to-date. The various lines have long since increased to that point where you'll find it at Sharrick's" is a popu lar pharse with a meaning. I. J. Shar- dick is a pioneer in the true sense of the word, and has been an important factor in the development of this i'm mense region. To the people of the type of MT. Sharrick the city of Ju- neau owes a debt it can never pay. In and out of season the "pioneers' have continually scattered broadcast the possibilities Alaska has to offer the industrious and honest newcomer Mir. Sharrick has lived to see his wis ion mirrored by busy city of several thousand people, and with future of commercial and industrial greatness fully assured.
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down the mountain. finding it even more strenuous to descend so rapidly than to toll up the steep; and at last we reach home, weary but content with the sense of achievement.
 Many other tramps of like interest remain to be taken but none so spec tacular. unless it be the climb along one ridge after another of Mt. Rob erts until the highest pinnacle is reached, whence we look down on one hand into Sheep Creek Meadows. on the other upon the buildings of Per severance. To the latter spot we may travel by the delightful road we have alreadq traversed as far as Cape Horn on our way up Juneau. Here in spring the wild columbine dances on its fragile stem, splotch of scarlet on the edge of a winter slide. One splendid waterfall pours down the gorge into a pool of blue and white eddies. The ruined red mill above betokens old-time activities in the SohIS HuoIlL lSuSS lhat lS uSlh6 tapped today by the great compan- ies. Above. this gorge narrows and comes by devious windings to an up, per basin, once the scene of hydrau lie mining and now occupied by the new buildings and tram at the north ern end of the Perseverance tunn l In the winter the snow lies thick CT these flats, and festoons the alder branches. The stream hurries down ward in it's narrowed channel almost winter bound by fantastic shapes oi
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fee that stretch out deterring fingers from every stump and boulder. Whether the Basin Road is more love ly in the luxurient growth of sum- mer or the silent garb of winter is hard to decide. Perhaps the latter is more mysterious. more exquisite in its silent purity.
 Sheep Creek Meadows correspond to the Perseverance and on the north are more spacious and surrounded by more rugged and lofty mountains. A small glacier in a defile high up be tween two of these crests discloses a faint bluish tint beneath its dag zling white. Midwinter Is a wonder, full time to visit this spot likewise. But Spring is an equally attractive
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and melancholy in the grip of winter gales.
 These mountains, lakes and chan nels, these marvellous glaciers. water falls and valleys these fOrested fjords, these eternal yet ever vary ing snows for a thousand miles from Puget Sound to Skagway they stretch in never ending variety. The farther peaks until they reach an altitude of 6O,OOO feet at the head of Lynn Can al. All the way north of Douglas we have beheld winter mountains, more frequent glaciers. some of them hang ing far above the coastline. At Skag- way Mt Dewey's angular head climbs skyward among its neighbors. Bur row Creek opposite affords one of the grandest series of cascades to be seen anywhere in the world. And from here our train climbs over the spectacular White Pass by Saw Tooth mountain and at last attains the vas, upper plains through which the Yu kon winds on it's 2500 mile journey to Boring Sea.
 A country of marvellous vastness, 2 land of majestic enchantment, is Al aska, and not least in charm are the islands and fjords of the Southeast ern part.
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ants. The mountains rise on either hand from two to four thousand feet. Great valleys or narrow clefts gash their sur face. At times the wall is sheer affording no Judgments for a single patch of snow. One fla nous cleft like a crevass in a glacier is evenly chiseled out of the cliff with startling pre- cision straight from summit to base. Here the Devil took a short cut to the water line, and to this day it bears the name of His Satanic Majesty's Shell. This reminds the traveller in New York of a gigantic fac simile of Rober's Leap on Lake George. The cliff or rock can be plainly distinguished, often ] being directly on end and with the same strata carrying across from one cliff to the opposite one.
 At length we pass two enor. nous bergs, perhaps ten times the size of our little craft being
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season and deservedly so, for purple violets grow six inches to a foot high in its bush grasses, and the butter cups startle with great patches of gold. The approach to this basin is by the tram up the mountain along side the new mill at Thane or through the wooded canyon with its stream and waterfalls along a delapidated corduroy road.
 On Douglas Island much the same kind of scenery is to be had by clam bering up the trail back of Treadwell to the upland regions just below the mountains. Here the great ditch is ready to discharge the water which it has brought for eighteen miles from the north end of the island. On this plateau is the so-called prairie where the most delicate wild flowers of all varieties bloom in the late spring and summer. The walking is easy follow ing the grade of the ditch through a forest that oftens opens out to ad- init a gorgeous view of the mountains on the mainland.
 North of Juneau the government road leads out along the edge of the channel, a favorite with automobil. ists and pedestrians. Four miles from town it passes the new Salmon Creek power plant which the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company has in stalled. This derives its water pow. CT from the great dam above which is built at the end of a most lovely valley. Beyond this the road brings
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ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT NUMBER. 1915

visible above the surface. Deep in the cracks of the ice gilt. ters a wonderful sapphire. These stand guardian to the glacier it. self. We have been watching its fan-like spread from a distance. Near CT on our left is Windham. a dead glacier, or one that is recedins. Now as we swing close and closer to with. in a quarter of a mile. the great face rears its serrated top to the height of between two and three hundred feet. and extends from shore to shore about a mile. We do not approach any nearer for fear of being struck by a berg which may at any minute dive below the surface. Often when the large excursion steamers whistle the vibration is sufficient to preCipi- tate tons of ice into the water. We. though unable to bring this sort of thing about. are more fortunate, for as we watch white vapor of snow rises like a streak. rumble. a big splash, and a great mass of ice has detached itself from the face. leaving a blue chasm. Verify. Taku is alive!
 Below Taku Inlet the fishing will lage of the same name, a second fjord cuts its devious way even fur ther into the mainland. Into this empties Speel River from its chain of upland lakes. Out of Tease Lake there pours a river of foam. so even in its whiteness that at distance it deceives us into believing it river of hard snow. Over one cliff from top to base, a drop of 500 feet. there is spread the most delicate of bridal
 veils. Spruce grow from the waters edge up every slope. and pale fellow moss festoons itself from the moist branches. Everywhere green forests between blue fiord and bluer sky, a paradise in summer. region austcre
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Scenery of Alaska
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by the sober shades of blue and amethyst on the more remote peaks. by darker greens on those nearby. The azure of the sky Is broken only by a few perfect clouds. Altogeth. CT. such a feast of color Is scarcely to be found elsewhere beyond the summer seas of the tropics. 2
 Before leaving we climb down to hard snoWbank below the crest and amuse ourselves with sliding and snoWballing. We then take the path
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us to Lemon creek. Here the great sloughs meander through marshy meadows often inundated by the tide and these stretch inland to the foot of the glacier. Another ten miles and we reach the flats covered by poplars and left by the retreat of the great Mendenhall Glacier with It's huge crevasses and dirty snow-cov' cred surface. It Is a wonderful sight notwithstanding. and its face. while not perpendicular. Is always chang ing as chunks of ice crash off to be carried away to the channel by the stream they feed.
 One of the most wonderful sights to be seen in the neighborhood oi Juneau is the marvellous 'Taku Glac
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 the town. being fortunate once
 more in choosing day of bril- liant sunshine and vivid coloring. Gastineau Channel Is as calm as a mountain pond. Instead of the barren stalks left by the retreat of winter, the green of young foliage is creeping up rapidly to the very edge of the white. All the streamietS are noisy after their long imprisonment. As we pass the two great mines facing each other a faint rumble is borne to our ears, the incessant road of the stamps at Treadwell and of the crushing plant at Thane Soon we are under the face of the cliff that hems in our view of the lower end of the channel. We swing to the left and enter a long fjord. This is such a one as Baya-d Taylor de scribed on his trip to Norway
 But here no chalets perched or the steep, no goats graze on the uplandS pastures for the peas
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"All the News All the Time"
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18

Democrat Saturday. will let down the
last bar to those whose only source Of
gain at law is the harassing of incor-
porated industry. OF manifest fair
ness upon the face. yet it contains
meanings so unworthy that its tabling
should be the recommendation of the
House committee to which it has been
referred.
If ever there was time in the his
tory of this State when fair treatment
should be accorded to business, it Is
now. There should come to the reali
cation of the people of Arkansas this
fact:
That big business cannot be done ex
cept by Incorporation of several indi-
vidual interests into one interest. If
there is objection by the people of this
State to any concern in the State hay
ing more than ten dollars worth of ac
tive capipal, then the remedy for the
condition is forbidding the incorporation
of any company The remedy IS not
permitting the Incorporating of indus
tries, and then by fines. by court en-
tangements and countless other means
of harassment. hog tie the hands of
business bindfold the eyes of its di-
rectors and take that ten dollars away
by force.
If the people of Arkansas want Ar
kansas developed they should learn
that the State can be developed in but
two ways: First, the operation of in
dividuals working singly, unlimited.
without general plan or purpose, each
contributing his mite to the general
welfare Second. the operation of in
corporated industry. taking the labor
of hundreds. the capital of thousands,
the interests of the hundreds of thou
sands, and directing this vast army at
one point; then. with its completion.
the subjugation of other difficulties
The profits of whole year = bust
ness of most any firm in Arkansas in
these strenuous periods can be wiped
out by the action Of single Jury of
friends" of the plaintiff in any suit, re
gardess Of the justice of his claim.
The plaintiff IS an individual and
known to the jury. the defendant is an
Incorporated institution and as such
has no soul Such have been the
popular beliefs.
Senator Futrel was very, very right
when he insisted that there is great
need in some Of the counties for sys-
TEN of education which would train
some of the juries not to return such
handsome Veraiets IN damage cases.
- Ne.
Ad,sp1AeHs,le
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18

Snyder has two miles of the best
roads in the state paved with good in
tentions Snyder Correspondent of the
Hamburg Budget.
Snyder must be helva place ALL
over-Arkansas Column of the Arkansas
Gazette.
Unfortunately, Snyder has no corner
on this particular kind of pavement.
Our own Front Street is an excellent
example of what good intentions minus
a knowledge of engineering will do.
And this is no reflection on the ability
of those in charge of the work done on
our streets Men engaged in other
professions are not supposed to be civil
engineers, and at least some knowledge
of civil engineering Is required to prop
erly grade and drain a street. The
water that falls has to go somewhere,
and properly made bitches are as nee
essary az the street itself. With the
completion of our curbs and cutters.
which it is earnestly hoped will not be
delayed much longer. the condition of
our streets during the rainy season
should be materially improved.
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18
Rock Club.

The Rock Club met last Thursday at
ternoon at the home of Mrs. Ingram
Gillian. A number of interesting
games were played, Mrs. II. w. Mich
OILS making high score. At the close
of the games, delicious salad course
was served and valentine favors given
each guest. The score cards were
Cupid hearts and the home was taste
fully decorated in keeping with the
valentine season.
Members present were: Mesdames
Nielsen, Elliott, Belser, Kimpel, Ford,
Hoffman, +. Gillian, Daniel, Nichols,
Hanchey, Dishongh, Voolfolk. Bass
and Hiltoa. Guests for the afternoon
were Mesdames Barlow, Barnett, II.
2. Ford, Alexander, and Miss Dewey
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18

Judge Harry f. Cook of Chicot Goun-
ty has announced his intention of be
coming a candidate for attorney gener-
al before the next democratic primary
election Judge Cook IS a splendidlaw
yer, and is unquestionably the best
County Judge in the State. Within a
few short years he has brought his
county from state Of hopeless indebt-
edness, with scrip selling for about 30
cents to a firm financial basis with the
county's floating debt wiped completely
off the slate, scrip worth dollar for dol
lar. and some sixty thousand dollars in
sinking fund to take care Of the
No. IS bond indebtedness Pee
COUNT Wis.
hortas Times.
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18
Notice.

Dermott. Arkansas. Feb. /. l9i5.
The assessment Of local Improvement
District No Of permott Arkansas.
being Sidewalk. Curb and Gutter In
District No | of the city
of Dermott. Arkansas, was filed in my
eflice on the 18th day of Feb. 1918. ans
the same is now subject to inspection.
81 Jas r Delaney.
Clerk or Recorder of Dermott, Ark.
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18
Epworth League Program.

Leader, Ruth Evans
Subject. The Benediction of Spiritual
Home
Song Service
Scripture References, Sam. |. p: II,
?; VII, |.
Prayer
Song
Introduction. By Leader
The Family, Helen Bartmess
The Opportunity of the Home Charley
Crook, Marie Bullock, Hazel Morris.
Weaver Anderson
Reading Viola Rogers
Why Family Training Has Declined,
Willie Duerson
How to Improve Home Training.
Lyle Gillian
Prayer and Song
Reading of Program
League Benediction
job work neatly and quickly done at
the Dermott News Office Your pat
ronage solicited.
The Dermott news., 1915-02-18

Join the international Peace Society.
No money required. Weekly conclaves.
2l50 Railway Exchange. st. Louis,
Missouri
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-06-25

Schmidt proudly led them to cor
ner. In an aluminium case was pc
culiar little fly wheel set on gimbals
SO that it could rotate in any plane.
The inventor started it revolving.
press down on it," suggested
Schmidt
WI did so. The uncanny little
wheel seemed actually to resent being
forced to move out of the plane in
which 1t had been started rotating.
"You know" explained Schmidt to
WI. that when the gyroscope is start
ed rotating in one plane, it tends al
ways to keep in that plane"
with that steadying my airship,'
put in Sprague. there will be no
chance for a mistake the next time.
We can aim perfectly"
"Ill buy it, ther." agreed WI. quick
ly producing the money.
After the explosion in the ware
house, Kennedy. thoroughly alarmed
for the safety of Elaine. had ordered
me to accompany her on another visit
to her cousin, Mary Brown. at their
estate, Rockledge, near Lakewood,
while he stayed in the city to help
Lieutenant Waters trace down the rob
berry at the fort, II possible.
Elaine was easily reconciled to the
banishment now that the weather was
fine, and decided to do a little sketch.
ing in the country. She had loaded
me down with the pleasant burden of
her painting kit-sketch box, folding
easel, camp chair and large and
gaudy sun umbrella. jennings fol.
lowed us to the car with the luggage.
AS We entered the car we were all
too happy at the idea of a holiday to
notice that down the street was an
other young Chinaman of the same
tong as Sing Lee.
We had all seated ourselves and
Jennings had gone back into the house
when Sam skulked around back of the
car and, serpentlike. as was his mas
ter. WI. wriggled over. crouching
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more, get it. Only remove every
trace of the circle"
While l was scrubbing away for
dear life at the fresh paint on our
roof Kennedy secured large can Of
white paint and a brush and stealth
lily made his way to the rear of the
old warehouse across the street
Kennedy found a shed from which
it was easy to get to the roof. There
he set to work. too, Immediately paint
ing a large circle on the warehouse
exactly like that on our own roof
which l was erasing.
We went home, and l. at least,
thought little more. about the matter:
Quite early the next morning, how
ever, We got around to the laboratory
again to prepare for the visit of
Kennedy's cordial invitation to wit
ness the experiments with trodite.
Our speaking tube sounded finally.
and l answered it, 1t was Elaine,
Aunt Josephine and Lieutenant Wa
ters, who had all arrived at the same
time.
"Most peculiar thing. Kennedy" re-
marked the lieutenant after the greet
ings were over. I'VE had a robbery
at the fort last night-or rather, not
exactly at the fort. for that would be
impossible, but from a freight car in
the yards
what did they get?" asked Craig.
"Some trodite-enough to blow up a
house, and some of those aeroplane
arrows"
"Hm." considered Kennedy, gazing
involuntarily at the ceiling and think
ing doubtless of the white circle that
had been on the roof.
Listen" cautioned Craig.
Outside we could hear buzz, as
though gigantic cicada were predict
ing warm weather. 1t was a peculiar
sound. and Kennedy seemed to recog-
nize 1t instantly. He sprang to the
window and strained his eyes up at
the sky.
The Elbert County tribune., 1915-06-25
SYNOPSIS.

The New York police are nystif1ed by n
teries of murders and other crimes The
principal clue to the criminal ls the
Warming letter which Is sent the victims.
hgned With a 'clutchinK hand The
atest victim of the mysterious ASSASSIN
y Taylor Dodge. the insurance president.
bis daughter. Elaine. employs Craig
Kennedy. the famous scientific detective,
70 try to unravel the mystery. What
Kennedy accomplishes is told by his
friend. Jameson. newspaper man. Az
rr many fruitiess attempts to put Elaine
md Craig Kennedy out OF the way the
clitching Hand is at last found to be
zone other than Perry Bennett. Elaine's
awyer and the man she Is engaged TO
marry. Hennett fees to the den OF one
yf his Chinese criminals. The Chinaman
'orccs from Bennett the secret OF the
whereabouts OF s7.00O.O00. Then he gives
he lawyer a potion which will suspend
tnimation for months. Kennedy reaches
Bennett's side just after he has lost con-
fciOusness
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managed to sneai back of the shadow
OF the cars.
Between two OF the cars sat 1 de-
tective Of the secret service smoking
and hating his job. The Chinaman
had passed the first line of defense.
He now managed to sneak up behind
the second. He raised a Chinese club
and brought 1t down on the head of
the unsuspecting detective, knocking
him out
The sentry paced by on the other
side of the train. Quickly, after he
had passed, the Chinaman went
through the detectives pockets until
finally he found bupch OF keys. He
detached one from the ring. still keep
ing in the shadow as the sentry paced
up and down. looked stealthily about
until he saw a chance, then unlocked
the door OF the car and entered, clos
ing 1t safely.
A few minutes later. laden with as
much Of the trodite as he could well
carry and bundle of heavy aero ar
rows he stole away as silently as he
had come.
It was well after midnight when
Kennedy and were preparing to
leave the laboratory. l was just about
to switch OF the lights when Kennedy
raised his hand to stop me.
The far-away look on his face told
me that he had heard a peculiar noise.
He looked quickly at the ceiling.
Listen. Walter" he continued
did. There was noise above US
on the roof, apparently as though
someone had slid off.
Craig switched out the light himself
and went quickly over to the table
where he had left the periscope.
Carefully putting it together again, he
tiptoed over to the window, put the
periscope out and slowly raised it to
the roof.
We gazed through the eyepiece. A
large white circle had been painted on
our roof.
What doesit mean?" queried.
Kennedy was in a brown study.
Suddenly he clapped his hands.
Il think | have It," he exclaimed.
Walter. take this turpentine. Go up
and scrub the circle out. II you need
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"Look!" he exclaimed. pointing.

'Look!" he exclaimed, pointing.
We crowded about the window.
There was an aeropIane passing over
the city.
Just watch that warehouse over
there"
We riveted our eyes on it. 1t was
an anxious moment.
Already. had we known it, Sing Lee
had quietly let himself into the loft.
taken the glasses from the cupboard
and leveled them at US in the labora-
tory.
Meanwhile. Sprague. of whom we
learned later. had started his aero
plane flying from his hangar in the
suburbs. and was now speeding over
the city. AS he passed he peered
down. looking eagerly for the target
the white circle.
With expert precision he let go the
bomb. and the deadly engine of de-
struction swooped down.
Straight to its mark 1t went.
The old warehouse across from us
rocked with the detonation. 1t seemed
as If the whole top of it were blown
10 pleCeS.
The bomb that had been meant to
destroy the laboratory had. by the
quick change of the white circle. de-
stroyed the hangout and the emissary
of the Serpent
Half an hour later. Long Sin was
nervously reporting to WI Fang in
the secret den in Chinatown.
THAT white devil. Kennedy. has de-
feated us again. MASTER" he said dep
recatingly.
Again." demanded WI, his face
livid with anger.
''Yes, master. He saw the circle
wiped It out-and painted a new one
on the warehouse. The bomb fell on
that-and Sing was killed"
Someone shall pay for that" hissed
WI.
Far uptown, on the East side,
Sprague led Wa and Long Sin to a
little machine shop kept by a for
eigner, Anton Schmidt.
What can do for you, gentlemen"
asked Schmidt.
81 wish you'd show US your new
gyroscope stabilizer" asked Sprague.