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toll of the journey. The year before the road was built more than 5000 dead horses were counted on the trail. Some had lost their footing and been dashed to death on the rocks below. Others had sunk un- der their burdens in utter exhaustion and had to be thrown over the rocks, while still others lost heart and actually con- mtted suicide by throwing themselves over the cliffs One miner driving a mule team got the animals at last to the top when the leader jumped over the preci- pice, dragging the other animals with him. All were killed as they fell Oh the rocks in the valley below. The leader had been twice over the trail.
 Not far from Dead Horse canyon, and along it, are the remains of the old road built by George A. Brackett before the steam road was constructed. Bracket came from Minneapolis to Skagway and built a tollroad up the mountains. He had toll gates here and there, and the charges ranged from 50 cents each for foot passengers to $2 for a four-horse team. The White Pass railway put him out of business, and it is said that he then sold out his route for $4O,OOO in cash.
 During the winter of 1897 33,Ooo men
 
 the trails on their way to Dawson. Most of them carried packs on their backs some making numerous trips during which they took from 50 to 100 pounds at time. Some had sleds. which they pulled up the mountains, single sled carrying perhaps POO pounds The aver age outfit of the Klondker was about one ton, or 2000 pounds, and the cost of getting this over the trail was enor- nous. Mules and horses were used, In dians were hired to aid in packing the outfits, and the charge by them was ' cents and upward per pound. On the Dyea trail the Indians got 10 or 15 cents a pound for taking an outfit 50 miles, The Indians went in families. man would pack from 100 to 140 pounds, a squaw from 80 to 100 pounds and girls and boys from 20 to 50 pounds apiece Some of the white men went into pack ing and teaming as business One man is said to have made $30O,O0O by trans porting the baggage and supplies of the gold seekers. Another threw log across a stream and charged 50 cents toll for the use of his bridge.
 During my trip over the White Pass road I had as seatmate Elmer J. White, who was long our American con- sul at White Horse, and who has been in this country since the gold rush. His stories of the queer sights on the trail are interesting. Said he
 'The men carried goods of every de- scription I remember one prospector who packed a grindstone up the hills on his back. Every one wondered what
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try as far as the character of the air is concerned. Skagway is as moist as Puget sound. while White Horse Is as it rains almost every day, and the soil you are in a region which has not had a bit of rainfall for months. The country is as dry as a bone, and in midsummer as hot as the Sahara. There are frequent forest fires. AS we climbed to the top of the pass we saw thousands of acres ablaze on the sides of the mountains.
 There is plenty of soil on the northern slope of the range, and at first sight the country would seem to be excellent for farming I am told that it is not The soil is sand on a bed of gravel and the rain sinks through and is lost. Farther north the soil changes, but the air grows dryer, and the climate is like that of our Rocky mountain plateau In fact, Alaska is a world as to climate, and in speak, ing of it 1t is impossible to compare it with any one region. The conditions of rainfall, temperature and soil vary in the different sections. There are parts of Alaska as warm as Tennessee and Ken lucky. There are parts where the rain pours almost every day, and there are other parts, such as the far north, where the rainfall is only two or three inches per year. At Skagway the thermometer seldom falls to zero. Here at White Horse 100 miles away, it now and then drops to 70 below. and 40 to 50 degrees below zero are to be had every winter.
 In travelling from Skagway to the tops of the mountains the vegetation shows the changes of the climate according to altitude. We start in a country covered with Jungle. The trees are spruce and pines of various varieties. Some of therl are as big around as flour barrel and as tall as a four-story house. As we as- cend they grow smaller and smaller and shorter and shorter, until at last they range in height from that of one's waist to his shoulder. Higher still they become mere shrubs that crawl on the ground And still they are perfect trees although they have been fattened by the snow that lies on them during the greater part of the winter. At little distance they look like a carpet of green on the sides Of the hills. Close to the track they make you think of the dwarfed pines of Ja- pan, which may be centuries old, although less than two feet in height
 All the way up the mountains you can see the remains of the trail which the gold hunters climbed before the iron track was constructed. They made their way through the ice and snow, and many died before they reached the top of the pass. One part of the trail is known as the Dead Horse canyon. It was so named for the dead horses that gave up their equine ghosts at that point They started out loaded, but were unable to bear the
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bars If ice skating rinks in operation here even now and they ara not closing CT thawing. YoI can find thcnl in the white light section, or you ,an go is far up as One Hundred and Eighty-first street, where you will discover one of the largest and most popular of them all.
 No matter how hot it may set here, dancing viii te .nduiG.d ih irct'y. Ard. Incidentally, that is suggestion as to how best to avoid hot weather worries do as the New York summer resident does in many cases-keep so we'll enter tained, so busy between times, and so tired at others, that you will not notice whether 1t is hot or cold. After all, it is largely a mental proposition, whether you are Christian scientist or merely a hypnotist. However, dancing here is not all just dancing. It is merely al- ways accompanied by a certain amount of liquid refreshment and often by food. Between dances you find yourself in an found in any prohibition state and then, if you don't care for the terpsichoreanis- tic yourself there is real art to be seen in action when the cabaret numbers come on between the dances in which patrons participate
 Suppose you come home from work in the evening, and feel that you want a bit or diverslon, 1000 ana all the rest Of 1t. Do you find yourself feeling sorry that you are in Manhattan where there is sup posed to exist summer dullness? You do not. It is never case of trying to find something interesting to indulge in it is merely matter of making your selection from long list of them
 You pick up the paper and discuss it with your wife-that C. if you have wife and if she permits discussion. What do you find in the list of places under the caption. Where to Dance and Dine" Of course. can't give them all herein. by any neans-there are thousands of hotels and restaurants in Manhattan. but
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small and harmless way, and they enjoy 1t when it happens to them. No, Coney Is the same old Coney, only more so. probably. The only real kick one can make is when they run up the price of the bath houses to about g, which amount you are required to pay merely for space in which to disrobe and get into your bathing suit, and the same bath house Is shared by others.
 Just across the Hudson river-take the Fort Lee ferry, at the foot of 130th street lis Palisades Amusement park, some thing not wholly unlike Coney, yet vastly different in that it is in the grip of pro- hibition. There you will find great ar tificial. lake of salt water pumped right up to the top of the Palisades, and so agitated by specially constructed ma chinery that it gives one the regulation ocean waves effect That is, there is an artificial surf. and where the waves roll in there is beach of sand.
 This amusement park Is also specially faypred by those who do not care to spend q fortune, and. for the most part, who could not if they wished to-. It is thronged with people throughout the sum- fner, however. and therefore must have many points of merit At night it may be seen gleaming over on the Jersey shore like an electric fairyland.
 Coney and Palisades park are both off Manhattan Island, but each is within easy reach. and the fare Is cents either way. They are not mentioned herein as among the chief charms of life in New York in summer, but merely as two of the great drawing cards for the masses, and it is the masses who remain
 But suppose we adhere more closely to Manhattan itself. Is there anything one can entertain himself with while ac- tually within the shadows of the sky scrapers? Is there? Hearken--ye who worry yourselves about hot weather--we are going to have ice skating upon Man hattan all summer long. There are num-
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 White Horse. Yukon Territory. (Ny0 HAVE just taken trip over the IWN first railway line every built in RSS,eezv Alaska. This is ,"the White lSeYe&J Pass that runs from Skagway
 over the coast range to White Horse-e at the headwaters of the Yukon. The road was built when the KlondilSe gold excitement was at it's height. It was to carry passengers over the noun tains to where they could get ship for Dawson The work was begun in 1885, and finished less than two years later when the first passenger train, a line of flat cars, brought out gold dust to the amount of $2,Q0o,00o.
 The White Pass railway is only Ill miles long and although not as expen- sive as the Copper River road, belonging to the Guggenheims, it cost millions to build. The first 20 miles cost on the average more than $10O,00Oi per mile, and there are parts of the track which cost half as much more. During the con- struction $500 men were employed, and less than 30 of these died or were killed while the railroad was building. The work went on right through the winter; and within IS months after the first pick was used the trains were crarying thou sands of passengers and millions of dol lars worth of freight down the sea coast.
 The White Pass railway begins at Skagway, the port at the head of the Lynn canal, just about 1000 miles from Seattle. It's path is cut through the rocks along the winding valley of the Skagway river and up the steep slope of the coast range of mountains. Here and there the track hangs to the sides of cliffs Np steep that the workmen had to be hung in slings from above that they might drill and blast out the ledges on which the road runs. Tn places whole cliffs were thrown down to make a place for the roadbed.
 After reaching the top of the pass the track runs for 27 miles along the wind- ing shores of Lake Bennett. It crosses a canyon 215 feet high upon great bridge of steel It skirts the White Horse rapids so famous in the days of the Klondike, and finally ends at White Horse, $50 miles from Dawson by the Overland trail and more than 100 miles more by the river.
 The usual tourist trip of Alaska is confined to the islands of the south eastern part of the territory. It ends at Skagway and many travellers make the excursion to the summit of the White Pass and return during the stay of the steamer. So far very few have
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C=1ISTUR EDDITUR: Far be it frum to rise MI up at this late day and endevvor in my ESx55FzT poor blind way to cast enny asparagus Ns&9 ovver the fame of enny of departed
 scyentists and fillosofurs. I do not sub scribe to the populer idear of digging up the records of the grate of the past for the purpose of ing up theere escutcheons and uther eggasies to pos territy. Muckracking is bad practise at best, but when it cums to the goolish habit of muckrackng noted ndividuel who has passed frum us, and who is no longer in midst to defend himself pass; it Is not shivverus, and my middle name is Shiv So without prejudise, malace btturness evven, de. sire to submit in passing that the guy who maid the obsurvasion-so often quoted in best sircles- that "fggers do not lye" eether lyer himself or else he did not have the nfermasion easily ob- tainabull, in frunt of him. that prudent ought to have who is going to pass sumthing down to the future gennerasions for theere guidense. I don't evven know the name of the misguided persun who wished this spurius presept upon us, cannot be charged with persunnel motives, but the mildest thing that can be sed of him is that he wished gold plated fake on an unsuspecting and trusting peepul
 It seems to have been so gennerelly an accepted
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The Same Species

From the Princeton Tiger. M
 He-My dear. where did this awful big spider come from?
 She-James. you have been drinkinR those horrid cocktails again. That's my new spring hat.
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EW YORK, June 1o.-(Special.)
 Poor, little, old New York.
 Summer is upon it, and the rich residents are rushing away to
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER

Copyrighted, 1916, by Frank G. Carpenter I4zhito IIea,.sa .X,1lrc,,, rrfar,:it,r..
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White Horse. Yukon Territory. HAVE just taken a trip over the first railway line every built in
 Alaska. This is ,''the White
 Pass" that runs from Skagway
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-09-07

ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the District Court Of the Second
Judicial District Of the State Of Idaho,
ia and for the County Of Lewis.
Games b. White, auditor as trustee
Of Lewis county, State Of Idaho, plain
tiff. VS.. Margaret Russell, formerly
Margaret Reed, and Frank Russell, her
husband, defendants.
The State Of Idaho sends greetings:
to Margaret Russell, formerly Margaret
Reed, and Frank Russell, her husband,
above named defendants.
You and each Of you are hereby mo-
titled that y complaint has been filed
against you in the District Court Of
the Second Judicial District of the
State Of Idaho, in and for the County
of Lewis, by the above named plaintiff,
and you are hereby directed 70 appear
and answer the said complaint within
twenty days of the service Of this SUM
mons IL served within said Judicial
District, and within forty days If serv-
ed elsewhere; and you are further no
titled that unless you so appear and
answer said complaint within the time
herein specified, the 1aintiff will take
Judgement against you as prayed in
said complaint.
This action is brought for the fore
closure of certain delinquency tax GER
fificates, being delinquency certificates
No. 4l2 for the year 1913, and delin-
quency certificate No. ass for the year
1914. and delinquency certificate No.
500 for the year 1915, covering lot %
of block l6 Of the town Of Morrow,
Lewis county, State Of Idaho. All Of
which is more fully set out in plain
tiff's verified complaint on file herein,
and TO which reference is hereby made.
In witness whereof have hereunto
yet my hand and fixed the seal OF said
District Court this sth day Of April,
1915. j. r. White,
(SeAl) Clerk District Court.
8. o. Tannahill, prosecuting attorney,
Lewis county, Idaho, attorney for
plaintiff, Residence, Nezperee, Idaho.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-09-07
ALIAS SUMMONS.

In the District Court Of the Second
Judicial District Of the State Of Idaho
IN and for the County Of Lewis.
James B. White, auditor, as trustee
for Lewis county, State Of Idaho, plain
tiff, vs.. Ed. Reed and Sylvia Reed, his
wife, Charles Helmer, J. H. Lewis, Mrs.
Florence johnson, Erick Anderson, w.
W. Morrison, James Thornton, Robf.
L.Angford, l. NJ. Brannon, Frank A.
BOozer and all unknown owners and all
unknown claimants IN and 10 lots B,
6 9 10 - IA and Is Ia block Of
the town Of Howard Lewis county,
Idaho, defendants.
The State Of Idaho sends greetings:
To Ed Reed and Sylvia Reed, his wife,
Charles Helmer ]. H. Lewis, Mrs.
Florence johnson, Erick Anderson, ".
w. Morrison, James Thornton, Robt.
Langford, L. ~. Brannon, Frank A
BooKer and all unknown owners and all
unknown claimants IN and 10 lots 3 5
8 Z 10 ~ IA and IS IN block z Of
the town Of Howard, Lewis county,
Idaho.
You and each Of you are hereby mo-
titled that q complaint has been filed
against you in the District Court Of the
Second Judicial District Of the State of
idaho, in and for the County Of Lewis,
BY the above named plaintiff, and you
are hereby directed to appear and an
sWer said complaint within twenty days
Of the service Of this summons If served
within said Judicial District, and with
in forty days If served elsewhere; and
YOU are further notified that unless
you 30 appear and answer said COM
plant within the time herein specified,
the plaintiff viii take judgement
against you as prayed in said com
plant.
This action Is brought for the pur
pose Of foreclozing the lien~of certain
delinquency tax certificates, being de-
hnqnency certificate No. $40 for the
year 1913, delinquency certificate No.
3e3 for the year 1914 and delinquency
certificate No. 322 for the year 1915,
covering lots ) SCI s 9 10 - IL and Is
IN block Of the town Of Howard, Lew
lie county, Idaho, all Of which is more
fully set cut in plaintiffs verified
complaint on file herein, and TO which
reference is hereby made.
In witness whereof have hereunto
ses my hand and affixed che seal Of
said District Court this sth day Of
April, 1916. ,. p. White,
court Seal) Clerk District Court.
S. o. Tannahill, prosecuting attorney,
Lewis county, Idaho, attorney for
plaintiff, residence, Nezperce, Idaho.
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Notice OF Sale Of Rstray by Sheriff.

Notice Of Sale Of Rstray by Sheriff.
Public notice is hereby given that
on Thursday, the 2sth day Of Sep
TENDER, 1916, at the hour Of II o. clock
a. m. AT the residence Of Frank Doyle,
Jr., one mile east and two miles north
Of the town of Nezperce, in East Nez-
perez precinct, / win sell at public anc
ton 10 the highest and best bidder,
for cash, lawful money Of the United
States, the following described estray
animal, to-wif; one gray mare, 20
years old, weight 1900 pounds, branded
B on left hip.
--Da4sd It Nezperee, Idaho, this, the
10th day o. August, 1916
Manf0rd H. Paige,
Sheriff Of Lewis County, Idaho.
4w BY A. w. Mitchell, Deputy.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-09-07
Summons for publication.

In the District Court Of the Second
Judicial District Of the State Of Idaho
IN and for the County Of Lewis.
James b. White, Auditor, as Trustee
for Lewis County, State Of Idaho, plain.
tiff, vs.. Daniel +. McGlynn, b. A. Rey-
n0lds, Keffenbaeh Co. Ltd, corpora
ton, Charles Monroe, Nez Perez county,
Idaho, a municipal corporation,B. r.
johnson and all unknown owners Of
lots 5 and 10 of block AZ Of the town
Of NezpeFee, Idaho, defendants.
The State Of Idaho sends greetings:
To Daniel +. Me0lynn, b. A. Rey-
holds, Kettenbaeh Co. Ltd. a corpora
fion, Charles Monroe, Nez Perez county,
Idaho, q municipal corporation, b. 4.
johnson and all unknown owners Of
lots s aud 10 Of block AZ Of the town
Of NezpeFce, Idaho, defendants.
Y0u are hereby notified that q com
plant has been filed against you Ia the
district Court Of the Second Judicial
District Of the State Of Idaho, in and
for the County Of Lewis, by the above
named plaintiff and you are hereby d.
reeted 70 appear and answer said com
plant within twenty days Of the SER
vice Of this summons IL served within
aAtA y AHA-tat 0AHAlANts anu WITHIN AHA ~
DAYS IL served elsewhere; and you are
further notified that unless you so APP
pears and answer said complaint with
In the time herein specified, the plain
tiff viii take judgement against you
as prayed in said complaint
This action is brought for the pur-
pose Of foreciosing the lien Of unpaid
taxes on the following described pro-
perty, fe-wit: Lots 8 aud 10 Of block
AZ Of the town Of Nexperce, Idaho;
said unpaid taxes being evidenced By
certificate No. 234 for the
year 1913, delinquency certificates No.
20s and 200 for the year 1914, and de
linquency certificates No. i3S and l39
for the year 1915, and which said Ger
tifieates are now owned and held by
lssis county, Idaho; for $500 attoF-
ney's fees, and for costs Of this action.
Witness my hand and The seal Of the
District Court this 22nd day Of August,
1916 j. u. White,
Clerk District Court.
court Seal)
:. o. Tannnhill, Prosecuting Attorney,
attorney for plaintiff. residence, Mex
perez, Idaho
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Notice q sale Of echool nonda.

Notice IL hereby given that the trus-
tees Of school district No. Of Lewis
county, idaho, win, on the 18th day Of
September, 1916, at the office Of the
clerk Of said board Of trustees, at
Aohler, Lewis county, Idaho, sell 70 the
best bidder therefor, 100000 coupon
bonds Of the said school district No.
.. Said bonds will run for ten years
with an option 10 redeem the same af-
ter five years, and 20 bear not 70 ex-
coed six 90 per cent interest per an
mum, payable emi-annually. The said
bonds win be sold for the purpose o.
providing funds for building and pro-
viding a school house In said district.
Dated AZ Mohler, Idaho, thia 18th
day Of August, 1916. John Biggarf,
Clerk school district No. 9, residence,
Mohler, Idaho.
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Chiropractor.

have located in Nezpcrce
first door south DeMoude's drug
store and am ready to treat your
Ills through this very effective
and successful system. I am
graduate Of the Palmer School Of
Chiropractic. j G. Taylor. If.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1916-09-07
NOTICE or APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEEDS.


Notice is hereby given that the FOL
lowing described property was duly
sold 10 the undersigned BY the tax
collector Of Lewis County Idaho, on
September %, 1918, for taxes duly
assessed thereon for the year 1912 and
delinquent, aud tax certificates there
for daily issued 10 him On Sept 23rd-,
1913. The following is \ lisl Of the
numbers pfN certificates; parties to
whom assessed and q description Of
each tract - sold:
Certificate No. la0. unknown own
era, lotl2, block 3. Nezperce Certifi-
cate No. l4a. Wilson Bowlby, owner,
lot 10 block 20 Nezperce Certificate
No. i6t, II Tabor, owner, lot s, block
8, Nollmer.
All Of which are in Lewis county,
Idaho, aud the undersigned IL now the
owner and holder Of said certificates.
And you are hereby notified that the
time allowed BY law for redeeming said
property from snch sale viii expire On
September 23rd., 1916, and that unless
said property Il redeemed within three
months from the first publication here
Of. viz. on or before the sOtk day Of
November 1915. the undersigned viii
apply 10 the proper officer for the
issuance q deeds to him for said pro-
perfy on the expiration Of such period
Of redemption. Dated this 5th day o.
August 1915 John Stevens.
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court Seal)
Is. o. Tannnhill, Prosecuting Attorney,
attorney for plaintiff, residence, Mex.
perez, Idaho.
The Lake County times., 1916-11-16
DOCTORS
To MEET
IN GARY

How the infant mortality in Gary
was reduced. viii be one of the inter
esting subjects to be discussed at the
meeting of the Tenth District Medi-
cal Association when it meets in
Hammond next Wednesday afternoon
and evening.
The subject Is TO be presented by
DR. otis B. Nesbit. The sessions will
he heId at the Hammond Country Club.
Beginning at 1880 in the afternoon the
program is as follows:
Paper-..A Few Interesting Case
Hist lies''-Dr. Simon J. Young. VAL
paraiso.
Paper. syphilis of the Aorta''-Dr
Robert B. Preble, Chicago.
Paper. "A study in Psychanalysis"-
sylvan E. sommer Chicago.
Paper. Infant Mortality in Cary
Dr. Otis B. Nesbit. Gary.
After the dinner John II. Oliver Of
indianapolis Avin talk on the "Busi-
ness Administration o.. the state As
sociation.
A dinner will be served at six
o'clock. and following it the business
talk will be given. Another extraordi-
nary feature is being planned to hold
the guests lor the evening session.