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Former Soldier Plans
 Locating TO Westward

Mir Arthur Skulstad, brother of Tom Skulstad the prosperous cat tie and fox raiser of Seminofsky Is- land, located in the southern end of the Shumagin group, accompanied his brother to Sand Point on the last trip of the Starr. MT. Skulstad will assist his brother in the rapidly growing business This is his first trip to the Westward where he ex- poets to locate permanently. MT. Skulstad spent two enlistments in the U. s. Army being discharged re- c6ntly
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ALASKA TO TEXAS OIL

James Malloy, miner of the Fair banks region, arrived in Seward Sat urday en route to Texas. His fath- CT, William Malloy, also well known Alaska, wired his son to come out immediately as he has a good oil deal under way.
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YOUTH MAKES FIRST TRIP

When Harry Bentley, jr., Fair banks lad, steps ashore at Seattle this week from the S.S. Victoria, it will be with some anxiety for it will be the first time he has ever set foot on any soil, foreign to Alaska He was born in the Interior 20 years ago.
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NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF

Anchorage, AlaSka, Jan. 5, I9Zb Notice is hereby given that Charles Christensen, together with his wit nesses, Anton Eide, and John P. Han non, all of Seward, Alaska, has made final proof on homestead entry, Serial 05113, embracing Lot 2, Section 2, T. S. R. w. and lots and 5, and the SWA ASE14, Section 35, T. 1 N. R. W. s. M. and is now in the files in the local land office at Anchorage, Alas ka, and if no protest is filed in the local land office within the period of publication, or thirty days there after, said final proof will be accept ed and final certificate issued.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN,
 Register. First Publication, Jan. 20, 1926.
 Final Publication, Feb. 18,1926.
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New Time Schedule for
 the Local Basketballers

The House Committee of the s. A. Club has given Capt. McEwan of the
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'NYcu most Of all. !"

'NYcu most Of ALL
Jimmy glanced down mockingly
Mr.. Ben Murillo, suppose, is go
ing to be very accommodating and
allow his fascinating wife several
nights a week out?"
Sandy frowned. She often forgot
she was engaged, when word like
this Of Timmy's or thing Judith
said recalled with pinching at the
heart the prospect OF her marriage.
She grew uneasy and breathJess, not
knowing why. She would find her
self wondering how the whole thing
had come about. She would say,
petulantly, as she had once to
Jimmy: "Oh, 1 did 1t to shut them
up--to get a, little peace and free
DOM"
Ben Murillo was pleasant
slight. soft eyed Italian. He had
sfimp hands and red lips. always a
little moist. He was rich, travelled,
experienced Sandy's mother and
father beamed when he began pay
ing court to their youngest child.
Sandy herself rather triumphed in
his batteries. They made her feel
irresistible-an enchanting woman.
She loved opening boxes Of flowers;
receiving costly gifts. She was
quite willing for these attentions.
But she wished to wave into the
distant future all thought OF mar
riage. Then the family took hand
There were long sessions with her
mother and two married sisters.
They told her not to be fool They
asked her If she hadn't enough of
wished they'd had such a chancel
Indeed, they knew it was no picnic
worrying along on two bits year.
They could love a man with money!
They reminded her bitingly that
Alice had been beauty and sought
after at 10. Alice was Sandy's
single sister. Look at her now
Thirty and a little sour old maidi
Who did Sandy think she was any
way? A cultured fellow like Ben
good family-beautifu home. She
enjoyed his company, didn't She?
What more was she looking for?
Why did she wish to waltz
When her mother asked this.
Sandy couldn't answer. She didn't
understand her own uncertainties
nor the vague hostility Murillo
aroused.
The engagement was engineered.
Well-what of it! Sandy remained
Silent, gazing at the waters. The
moon rose With a great silver
broom it swept the waves, turning
up captious flashes of green, yellow.
crimson. Far out, like the bounda-
ries Of another world. were the dark
peaks of Santa Barbara's islands.
Sandy watched the. play of color
vivid, changeful. She thought OF
herself and the many things she
wanted from life-would they be
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hers? She drew a troubled breath
dashed aside these restless forebod.
ings. Marriage wouldn't dominate
her! Other people got by with It,
And they weren't swoohing with
love for each other. She could han.
die Ben Murillo! She'd do as she
pleased-now-always.
~ HE looked up with an impetu.
ID GUS defiance. touched Tim
i--1 my's cheek and whispered
these things.
Timmv. wuo was very young and
In his boys fashion, very much in
love with Sandy-gulped. He looked
into her eyes, thinking that in the
moonlight they had a scared, i'm
ploring look. ''You don't know what
it's all about, do your" he asked
softly. You're just a frightened
kidr
She shut her eyes-slniled-waited
till Jimmy kissed her. She had q
gypsy exultance in these stolen
hours. She felt that she was even
ing the score with some invisible foe.
Half an hour later she was run
ming back over the weed grown
path. AT the kitchen door she
stopped. slipped Off her shoes. went
padding over the cool. earthen
floor. She smiled at the pots and
pans hanging In old-fashioned order
on the wall near the stove. mot
much of hut" she thought breez-
lily, for the blue blooded McNeilsl'
It was an old. rambling two story
house. sadly in need OF paint. 1t
might have been mansion yester-
day. The doors and windows ratified
discordantly today.
But there were Spanish chests.
saddles set with silver and rich old
brocades that had been In the fam
lily since the Mission days. The Nc
Neils were proud of these treasures
that harked back to the time when
the great-grandfather. Angus Nc
Neil, married a Spanish girl and
came into possession OF kings do
main. They had none # this wealth
now-nothing but the land the house
occupied.
Sandy got safety up the old stairs.
A light streamed from her room.
I'm for I'll" she thought excitedly.
Sandy's mother sat on the bed.
She was sweet faced woman grow
ing a little plump-continually mas
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BY ElemOre Meh e rim,
AUTHOR OF ssCHICKIE"

but she belonged to generation
that taught it's girls to look on the
Toys OF the flesh" as sinful. In her
girlhood one didn't anticipate &C.
stasy in marriage. A bride nobly
''surrendered'-the sacrifices being
justified only because Of the chill
dren.
T1F Sandy's4 mother had ever
known rapture. she had long
since forgotten about it. Her
married life was settled into a rou-
tine-a thing Of commonplace. placid
habit like the morning and evening
kiss Of her husband. So she was
a little impatient with all this fuss
ing about love. She wasn't the one
to understand the visionings OF a
girl just 10.
She now looked at Sandy with a
grieved, hurt silence that Sandy pre-
tended not to see.
MAKE yourself to home, Isabel, .
she said airily.
Mrs. Mcneil closed her eyes Sc
verely. ''your sister, Madeline, saw
you. She saw you walking in the
hills with Timmy!"
"Oh, that's all right with me--let
the girl see the beauties of lifel"
I'm not fooling. Sandy. This is
no way for you. to act. Now that
you're engaged we must expect dig
nifty from you. You're no longer a
child. What do you suppose Mr..
Murillo or his sister would think II
they saw your"
'I'll tell you. mother, I'm not just
sure that I'm going to marry Ben.
I'm little at sea on the proposition.
On the level. Isabella, just what is
the inside dope on marriage7 What
do you know about it?'
Mrs. Mcneil gasped. IT shouldn't
think you'd make fun of your
mother. Sandy"
mot making fun. ole dear. I'm
seeking information. Before you
were married, did you love my father
so much that you almost tainted
when he looked in your eyes or
touched your hand?"
"In my day girls didn't have such
thoughts"
I'm not asking about thoughts
i've plenty of them. I'm asking
about the feelings. You can't kid
me there-anatomy hasn't changed
any in the last thirty years"
Mrs. Mcneil took refuge in that
old defense: ''How can you be so ir'
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The Love D0dger

| them stood a washstand OF golden
oak. Strips Of yellow wall paper
hung from the walls here and there.
Barbara stared at 1t duly. 1t was
the paper that she had chosen for
the room two years ago.
The fireplace was dark. In the
center of its hollow, there was
little pile of scraps, with a tomato
can on top. On the mantlepiece
above there. stood a cardboard cal
endar. surrnounted by a picture of
plump pompadoured lady dressed
in pink ballet dress
| Barbara took in every detail of the
scene. She walked to the window
and threw it open. A rush of spring
air came into the musty room. She
stood staring out at the street Most
of the houses across the way were
quite dark, but in two or three win
dows lights were still visible.
From up the street came the feeble
yapping Of dog.
Whirljng about with her back to
| the window Barbara again surveyed
the room. The dingy gray counter
pane was bordered by a ragged
fringe that dragged upon the floor.
Barbara undressed and got into
bed. The blankets were thrown back
over the iron framework at the foot
Of the bed, and her coat WIS spread
over her for a covering.
The room was worse by morning
light.
She lay staring about, her. too
sick to move. The sunlight crept
across the dirty mating on the floor
to the point where there had once
been rich blue rug for 1t to shine
upon. 1t crept on across the room
toward the bed, and Barbara
watched it fascinated.
| When 1t had almost reached the
iron bedstead, Barbara sat up sud
denly. But she did not get out of
bed. Instead, she pressed a hand
tightly to her forehead and shut her
eyes.
1t was some moments later when
she finally dragged one foot and then
the other off the bed to the floor and
crept to the wooden rocking. chair
on which she had spread h pr clothes.
The bathroom door across the hall
was closed, and sounds of splashing
came from within. Barbara leaned
against the door frame. looking
around the hall. 1t too suffered from
the daylight. There were piles OF
dust in the corners, which some one
had swept there and then abandoned.
On the doors of the bedrooms,
Barbara saw cards stacked. She adj
vanced slowly to the room that her
mother had used as a sewing room.
in the window of this room the ca
nary cage had always hung.
Its door had no card, but only q
scrap Of tablet paper, fastened with
a bent pin in crack of the paneling.
Jim Briggs" said the scrawl upon
it.
Barbara looked again at the bath.
room door, but the splashing contin-
4 ued. She went back into her room
and finished dressing without wash
ing her face. When she emerged in.
to the hall-again. the splashing stfll
continued In the bathroom.
Barbara went down the stairs in
search of Mrs. Crumpett. AS she
reached the downstairs hall. she
heard a mans voice in the hall
above. raised in angry tone.
i I'll HE mans words, though loud
l were unintelligible. Barbara
- heard a battering of fists on q
deor and a sharp response in a femi.
nine voice,
Barbara went through the hall and
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reverent. Such things are too sacred
to talk about"
"Oh, save your bushes, Isabellal
see you don't know a darn bit
more about it than I do. That's all
thirty years of marriage did for
your
RS 7EOPLE thought Sandy sophis-
ticated. She had even been
@J called "hard boiled" Her
mother was afraid of her cherishing
a secret dread that Sandy might go
too far" Sandy was continually
shocking them with her brazen au.
dacities.
But for all her daring spontaneity.
her large chatter, she was extreme
ly young in her thoughts-young
and unay7akened Her knowledge
was oe the tongue; not Of the mind
or heart. She had great deal OF
information scattered loosely in her
brain. 1t hadn't been absorbed and
made part OF her consciousness
through experiences. She wasn't
half as dangerous as her family
judged her.
One evening after her unsuccess-
full argument with her mother she
passed the living room door. She
heard her uncle Bob Mcneil speak
angrily: "A marriage that will
make her life meaninglessg' He
walked over to the mantel. knocked
his pipe against the hearth. what
rotten sport you are. Angus. to
deliberately shut your own child
out from the love OF life it amounts
to death for a girl like Sandy"
A suave grunt. Sandy's father
hddled with his watchfob. his eyes
twinkling. Women don't look at
1t that way. They die Of heart
failure or pneumonia or dropsy. I've
yet to know Of a woman who died
of marriage"
Sandy's ears tingled. She was
conscious Of a choking heat In her
throat, She loved Bob McNeil--a
dashing fellow. not yet thirty. What
did he mean by that phrase, shut
ting her out from the Joys Of life?"
She stopped to unwind the fringe
where 1t had caught on her shoe
buckle. She unlxnotted 1t in a tense
slowness, whispering in a flush.
What am in for anyway won.
der what I'm doing-death for a
girl like mech Lordp'
Ito Be Continued
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NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER xxxvI


TIT took Barbara some time to
assemble and pack her
- clothes.
When she checked out and sent
bellboy for a cab there was just
time to make the 80 o'clock bus.
She arrived after the lights had
been turned off in the corner store.
Barbara turned toward her street,
and met a still denser blackness.
She looked about nefvously. There
was no sound or movement any
where.
Barbara opened the gate at her
mothers home with eager hands,
and lifted her eyes to the door. Here
at least, there was light, but it
shone strangely REQ, through the
glass panels at the sides of the
door.
Barbara ran UP the creaking
wooden steps and searched Tor the
bell. Despite it's silence of the after
noon. this time it rang with a loud
Jangle that made her start
When nobody came, she did not
ring 1t again, but knocked somewhat
family on the door, At last she
heard the same numbering steps that
had heralded the landlady that after
noon. The door swung wide, and
Barbara saw the hall.
In one corner the hall light shone
ruddily upon leaning hatstand and
was caught up more vividly still Ill
the mirror at the top. The torn rug
was pattern in varying shades of
murky red, and the staircase rose
out of scarlet shadows to landing,
turned, and disappeared in gloom.
The woman had begun to climb
the stairs, and now turned back to
look at Barbara again as Barbara
moved to follow her.
In the upper hall Barbara again
stopped ere a dim light burned in
an unshaded bulb. In one corner OF
the hall lay a pile of broken furni
ture. A laundry bag hung on the
door of the room that Barbara &
mother had used for a sewing room
The landlady led the way to the
door Of Barbara's room, but the girl
followed slowly. The room was dark
ana the woman stumbled forward.
ouch! Drat them rockers" she
cried, as Barbara heard the impac,
OF her Sims against a chair 81 never
can find the switch in this room"
Barbara stepped to the wall and
pressed the light button. The room
was ablaze with electricity.
1t shone on the startled face OF the
Iandlady. For Gawd's sakeY' she
cried, "how did you know where that
f1ellish button was? If that dom
beat air.
Barbara stammered a moment
They're usually in some such posi-
ton az that" she said, quietly.
The woman withdrew. stopping
frequently to bend over and rub the
injured shin. She said as she reached
the door, You can pay me tomor
row. I always expect pay in ad
vance,
She went out. Barbara walked
across the room and closed the door
after her.
Then she turned about and sal
down on the iron bed. and locked
around the room in which she ha6
lived. ages ago
The electric bulb was 70 large
that its light struck painfully or
eyes fresh from the gloom Of the
stairs and hall.
Where the wall lights had been
on either side Of Barbara's dresser
there were now two black and frayet
ends of wire, hanging stiftiy fro3r
Jagged holes in the plaster. Between
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saying the suggestion of an unwel-
come double chin. -
Mrs. Mcneil dearly loved her
youngest daughter. She had no
mean motives in urging Sandy to ac-
cept that pleasant Mr.. Murillo."
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THE STORY s0 EAR

THE GIUHI 80 KAN
Sandy Mcneil red haired and beauti-
her santa Barbara home. tells Judith
Fnent to rich Italian, whom she doesn't
parents AND FelIatiYes; Judith; st Na,9E
univ erAty student. who lives in the
flat next door, Thrilled by, budding
possibility Of her ,adored cousin being
forced into a loveless marriage.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER 2
rE1 ANDY caught the old Spanish
I1 shawl about her, went eau.
EJ tiously down the back steps.
Jhe knew the squealy boards and
edged along the red lincrusta, avoid
Ing them with a laughing exultance
At the landing she paused, blew an
audacious kiss toward the closed
door Of the living room behind which
her mother and father sat unsus.
pecting. doing in after-dinner con
tent.
She was a happy thing-Sandy
McNeil--as she ran through the fra
grant. neglected garden this night OF
an exotic spring. Colorful as the
dark-eyed senorita, a long dead cou
sin OF hers, who had gone stealing
through these same grape vines a
misty hundred years ago to meet her
vaquero lover. Dreadful things
happened to Pillar Dominguez-her
eyebrows shaved, the beautiful long
hair clipped and she herself com
PEELED to stand in the church Sun.
day after Sunday holding a lighted
candle because she had loved un.
wisely and too well. Sandy thought
Of the luckless girl and shivered de-
lightedly.
She reached out a hand. 1t was
caught eagerly by a blonde youth
who now came from the shadow
with a soft, relieved laugh: Thought
you weren't going to make it, ole
dear!" He swept off his hat, gave
Sandy swift, ardent kiss. They
ran lightly with suppressed, merry
chatter to the gate.
They walked toward the hills-the
brown, lovely hills that hold in their
lap the town Of Santa Barbara.
They talked of a thousand inconse-
quential things. finding great deal
to laugh about.
At II o'clock they circled back to
the water, stood on the long pier.
looking out dreamily to the lighted
channel.
Sandy's face was a white flower,
it's Swallowed eyes wistful. She was
10 and life was very rapturous. She
listened hungrily to the boys words.
He kissed her-intoxicating, sweet.
I'm going to miss you, Sandy
miss you like the very devil"
Err voice came dangerously:
It'll when I'm married. Jimmy?
EJ But / mean to keep my
friends"
Friends like me, Sandy7'
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She really believed that wealth in
sured happiness. Sandy's beauty
would have worthy setting-she
would be saved the ache Of incessant
deprivation. Nothing wears down
JOY more quickly. Isabel Mcneil
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knew 1t well. She rejoiced that Sandy
would escape. 1t didn't occur to the
mother that an empty heart might
prove a graver tragedy than an
empty purse.
Not that she was cold woman.
Evening star., 1926-10-20
NEW ORDER FAVORS
CIVIL SERVICE RULE
President Acts to Empower
Commission to ReinState
Employees.

An executive order favorably affect
Ing some Government employees under
the classification act was signed yes
terday by President Coolidge. This
was announced by the Civil Service
Commission.
The effect of the order, it was said,
Is 10 empower the Civil Service Com
mission in its discretion to permit
reinstatement or promotion of certain
employeS without examination in the
same department or office back to the
same class of positions as that oc.
cupied on July l, 1924. after a separa-
ton or demotion without fault or
delinquency, If otherwise in accord
ance with the civil service law or
rules
The order signed by the President
Yesterday amended an order Of June
-. 1924. which permitted employees
10 remain III the positions to which
they were allocated in accordance
with the classification act of 1928 and
receive tho compensation attaching
10 such allocations, although contrary
10 existing provisions of the civil
service rules. but provided that such
persons should not thereby he given
any dinerent status for promotion or
transfer than they had acquired I'm.
der the civil service rules prior to
such ALLEGATION.
The issuance of the original order
was brought about by the classifica.
ton act Of 1923, under which posi-.
lions were required to be classified
upon the basis of the duties perform.
ed, regardless of the civil service
STATUS or the incumbents. The order
anected those employees who we're al.
located out of status, that is those
VINO were found in positions for
Which they had net properly quail
Ied or were receiving higher salaries
man those to which their civil sery.
ice status would normally entitle
hem, or were performing skilled or
"iassined duties. although actualI,
possessing only an unskilled laborer
or unclassif1ed status.
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ANNOUNCE NEW DIVISION.
Salvation Army Southern Area In
Include District.

a new territorial division Of the Sal.
Nation Army. taking in 16 Southern
states and the District Of Columbia.
VIII be established on January 1. 1927.
stan Capt. Ernest r. Holz. Potoma G
divisional commander, has been noti-
fed.
Washington is now included in the
Eastern territorial division. No
changes are contemplated, however.
In the local branch Of the army by
reason of the establishment of the new
division. Atlanta. Ca, has been
chosen as the Southern divisional head.
quarters.
Establishment OF the new division
Is move by the army to extend its
work throughout Southern cities, Col
William A. Mcintyre. formerly in
charge Of New England States. will
direct the division.
Stan Capt. Holz also announced that
t1nsign Robert Rose. formerly Young
Peoples secretary for New Jersey
has been named divisional commander
OF the Potomac division here. Rose
succeeds Capt. Holz, who was recently
named divisional commander here.
l1olz succeeded Brig. William III. Bar
fett. who was promoted and trans.
ferred to New York City.
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VIENNA, October 20 R.-A clock
to register the exact strength of
Roentgen rays administered to a
patient has been invented by Sis1nund
Strauss. Vienna physicist. In the
past. exclusive radiation has some.
times resulted in dangerous burns to
the patient. This hazard will be elm.
mated by use of the new registering
clock, DR.. Strauss said.
Evening star., 1926-10-20

The cost OF living in Greece still is
mounting.
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