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Hyder weekly herald., 1927-06-18
BUSINESS DIRECTORY

 gressive business firms whicl advertise in the Herald anC what they handle. Assaying- John Hovland Automcbiles- Hyder Machine Shop Automobilet Supplies- Attorneys Ernest Blue George B. Grigsby
 Ketchikan, Alaska Hyder Machine Shop Hyder Mercantile Go. Banks- Bank of Hyder Barber Shop Malamute Barber Shop Bakery Goods- Quick Lunch. Ideal Cafe. Hyder Grocery. Blacksmithing- Hyder Machine Shop. Clothing Hyder Mercantile Go. Chinaware Crockery- Hyder Mercantile Go. Curios-- Hyder Drug Go. Card Rooms Malamute Cigar Store. Northern Pool Hall. Drugs Hyder Drug Go. Dairies- Hyder Dairy Electrical Supplies- Hyder Mercantile Go. Explosives- Salmon River Dock. Go. Fuel-- Hyder Fuel Company Salmon River Dock Go. Groceries Hyder Grocery. Hyder Mercantile Go. Green Goods Hyder Grocery. Hyder Mercantile Go. Gas Engines Hyder Machine Shop. HoteIS- Golden Gate Hotel. Hardware Hyder Mercantile Co. Jewelry- Nugget Shop. Hyder Drug Go. Laundry Portland Canal Electric Hills Hand Laundry Machine Shop Hyder Machine Shop. Machinery F. w. Cordes Go.
 Seattle, Wn. Meat Markets P. Burns $ Go. Notary Public Ernest Bl-e. Chas. F. Sandford Nursing Mrs. A. Perry Plumbing, Steamfitting- Hyder Machine Shop. Pool Rooms- Northern Pool Hall
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THREE BURROS
An Adventure in Mining and Love.

! went on-talking fast to hide embar
ra ssment-"I m an innocent byStand
er. My name is Grant HOLSTER. I'm
a mining engineer by profession--
| do you-are you employed by Ros
sitter Fliri?"
NO. I've nothing to do with this
property. nor with any other property
| observation-disclosures. l came up here for
my firm TO make an examination.
| The proposition fell through. They
wired me to take my vacation before
l returned. I've been camping ont
| and adding to my education by look
ing over the formations of this region.
/ dropped in this morning TO ask if !
might inspect this tunnel"
IF that's the case" she said. and
for the first time her voice came out
clear and natural. please excuse me-
Excuse me for burdening you
with so much of my life story" he re-
torted But when a young lady has
Just tried to shoot a young gentleman
il warrants condolences"
II didn't so to shoot YOU" she said,
only scare YOU away.
Il was safe as church" he replied.
My abruptneSs was objectionable, i'll
the circumstances. 1t wouldn't shoot.
You see. YOU hadn't released the
safety catch"
Grant laid down the gun on the
table.
You're from the East, aren't your"
he asked.
II am
80 am /. was thinking that.
when a New Yorker comes to the
effete West, he ought 10 give up gun
toting. Follow the custom of the
country"
well. it's pretty near New York, >
she said. Workers.
Il was brought up commuter, too
-Montclair, You seem 10 he alone
here. l suppose there's no one around
who can give me permission to look
over the grounds"
AZ can give you permission-and
WILL" she replied. You see-I'm the
owner now--or one of them. The other
is my mother"
''Oh. you've bought"
mo. I've-we've won the suit This
property has been in litigation for
i've heard that. Family affair,
wasn't ito"
Yes. Between us and my cousin
last week. Mother can't travel. So
came out to see what could be done
about starting up. Mother says l al
ways take hold of things by the wrong
handle. And 1 suppose l do. Try to
shoot a young man for example. and
don't remember to fix the gun. /
should have hired an engineer at Dem
yer. 1 expected Petersen-he's the
watchman--to be here: l telegraphed
was coming this very morning. And
he isn't here. Do you know Petersen?"
I've seen him.
do you know where he is?"
Grant was glad the question came
in that form. He could answer truth
fully in the negative.
do YOU know my cousin Rossiter?"
NO"
Have you seen him around here?
Medium-siz man. slim, straight,
about thirty-five, black hair with lit
tie white lock in front, and acts as
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won't YOU wait until l see that
report again."
They dumped to the cabin. He read
the report, passage after passage.
Simply he told her. The vein of
quartz. The fault which split it's
length. The rubbing of the two edges
through geological ages. widening that
crack. filing it with debris. The seep-
age, during these cons when the world
was hot and plastic, of gold. It's de-
posit throughout the dirt of the crack.
The pockets, where it lay richly. like
those two empty spheres-actual pock-
ets--into which they had peered.
"And it's gone from the SEAM" she
asked
HE may have missed a little. But
he's worked methodically. 1t may
have been job of years.
but the quartz in the vein"
Low grade, according to these as
says. If the mine lay down by the
railroad, it might pay. But hauling
from up here"
"Any other chance?"
THE vein may so beyond the por-
phyry dixie"
at would take money to find out?"
yes"
"And we haven't any"
There was silence. Grant dldn |
know how to say what he must say
next
There's something in which / am
to blame" he began at last.
YOU"
Yes
He told her what he had seen down
by the trail. At the end he drew out
his laden handkerchief.
There's the way he carried the
stuff out" he said. Rough concen-
tration. Probably sifted it, took away
the highest grade as 1t was and
washed the dust out of the rest-when
he had time"
She drew long breath before she
asked:
"You recognized Petersen. When
did you see him before?"
THE experience was disagreeable.
I've been studying the formation in
this district. l wanted a peep below
the surface. 1 thought of the Ravenal
and the Grey Ghost--that's the old
tunnel beyond the road-a hole that
never struck anything.
80 I came here and asked permits
sion. Petersen went at me like a
tiger. Well, I left-after a few strong
expressions to save my face. [ went
down to the Grey Ghost, thinking I'd
have a look / had got to the prism
when Petersen yelled at me again.
He'd followed me. And / was looking
into a .45-caliber sidearm. 1 resumed
my stroll.
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+;op and at the same time to settle
and adjust the account, the said COM
missioners shall allow the slave, and
charge the same against the account
Of his master, just and fair compen:
sation for all service rendered ana
labor performed, and such balances as
said commissioners shall find to be &C
tuallv due either master or slave, shall
he paid to each respectively out OF
any money hereby appropriated Tor
CARRYING into effect the provisions or
| this act"
| The next speech on the District
emancipation bill was by Senator VIII
| lev of Virginia, March 20, 1852. He
| opposed emancipation. he was also
opposed to slavery. emancipation
would further disturb social conditions.
He wanted to see slavery aoonshed'
but he would rather wait for Provi-
dence to abolish it. I will show a part
of Willey's speech, but not at the in
slant. You wear a puzzled look be-
cause you did not know there was a
Senator from Virginia in Congress IN
| 1862. Well, there were two Senators
| from Virginia, but they were sent to
| Congress by a part of Virginia-that
part which was later organized as the
State of West Virginia and admitted
| to the Union, June 80, 1868.
|
graphical Congressional Directory,
| l774-1911, the following sketch of Sen
ator Wiley: "Waitman Thomas Will
lev, a Senator from Virginia and from
West Virginia; born in Monongalia
County, w. Va, October IS, 1911; was
graduated from Madison College,
| PENNSYLVANIA, in 1881; studied law and
admitted to the bar in 1888; held sew
eral local offices; delegate in the Vlr.
ginia constitutional convention of
1S5O.51; elected to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the voluntary retirement OF James M.
Mason and served from July 9, 1851. to
| March 3. 1868; delegate to the state
constitutional convention of the State
of West Virginia; elected to the United
States Senate from West Virginia in
1863. and reelected; served from Au
gust 4, 1863, to March 3, 1871; died in
Morgantown, w. Va, May ., 1900.
There was another Senator from
Virginia" in Congress with Mr.. VIII
lev and, of course. he was elected by
the western counties out of which, IN
1863. the State of West Virginia was
formed His name escapes me. l had
it in my notes for this ramble, but l
always lose some of my notes and find
it impossible to make out most OF the
others.
| X !; X
THERE were two Senators from
Maryland In Congress with Mr..
Wiley. AS you know. Maryland re-
manned a Union State. The reason FOR
that was, believe, that Union officers
arrested all members of the Maryland
Legislature who might have voted Tor
secession. But that's another story
The Maryland Senators in Congress
when the District emancipation Dill
was there were James Alfred Pearce
and Anthony Kennedy. / hand you
geographic sketches of them:
Anthony Kennedy, Senator from
Maryland born in Baltimore, Decem-
Der 81, 1911; moved with parents TO
Charlestown. Va, in 1921; attended
jefferson Academy. Charlestown, Va;
studied law and was admitted to the
bar; engaged in cotton business in New
lOrleans. and planting in Virginia;
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IN do that-to save your property.
since you're so stubborn. But Ill
never use it as a partnership
X + X
WITHOUT further word. they
w scratched their signatures.
Then they raced again to the Grey
Ghost He affixed one notice to the
door. He scooped hole at the foot
of one dilapidated lintel-pOst, nailed
there the other notice, scratched the
dirt back.
There's a chance that Petersen
may come back and locate" he ex'
planned. "He won't-but, il he tears
our notice down, here's our buried
ace to prove him a liar. Is there
gas in that fiivver of yours"
II had it filed when / left Silver
Moon"
"Cowdray next-the county seat
register of mining claims. We can
make it in an hour. When we're reg.
istered, that cinches the matter"
They shot through Silver Moon,
bringing gaping heads from windows.
About that partnership" he an.
nounced.
Suppose you give the whole claim
to me, or 1 give it to you"-he was
sparring for time. and realized 1t;
whereat he fioundered ahead-"and we
get married"
whatever I say to that" she re-
piled, don't take your eyes on the
road and don't you let that dial go
below 40. I've been thinking about
that too. Let's"
The fiivver checked speed.
mo" she exclaimed. go on.
know your intention. But there's a
lifetime for that. Let's talk about why
we love each other. l assume you do
love me. seeing that you can't possibly
be marrying me for my money. only
say it-keep the fiivver going!
"Of course l love you.
"And / love you," she said.
"And you began to feel that way"
he prompted.
"Oh, about when l tried to shoot
YOU. / suppose. At any rate. by the
time we got into that tunnel it was
raging something violent. Even the
awful disappointment didn't Kill IT.
Grant, dearest, if l may presume to
get so familiar on short acquaintance,
that's how know it's real. And when
did you?"
From the beginning, ] suppose.
But | didn't know it until l stood
looking at you last niSht-When you
were asleep
who woke you this morning." she
interrupted.
You
Didn't you know I kissed your eye
lids? Look out-that's curve ahead
steady her-now let her go.
A long, level stretch across the floor
of the valley. The dial crawied back
to 40-to ~.
"Are you strong and determined
enough" asked Sally, Ito keep her 70
40 and not to jump the road what
ever happens?"
II promise"
"All right. Hold steady. IN going
to kiss you again-dirt and all-be-
loved, beloved"
(Copyright 1927
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Il supposed I'd made a mistake
Two days later, I looked over the
maps of this district. The Grey Ghost
isn't on the Ravenal property. It's
not on any ones property. After the
Ravenal discovery. the owners ran il
800 feet or so, found nothing and
gave up. They didn't patent it. and
the claim lapsed in 1898. You see
ia scared Petersen to death. When
man acts that Way-it's fear. | had
an impulse to assert my right, as an
American citizen, to enter claim that
belonged to nobody but Uncle Sam
But the addition to my knowledge OF
geology wasn't worth going through a
murder trial--as defendant or corpus
deficit"
I'm glad you didn't" she said
Then: Petersen took the gold by
hurro. And transferred it to Cousin
Rosster.''
"Pro5ably."
She rose now. Her shoulders
dropped.
"You must go outside. l want to
change"
\ x X x
WHEN she emerged from the cabin
shadows were gathering close
about the plateau. She was carrying
her suit case. He turned and f1icked
away q cigarette.
You're going down to Silver Moon
for the night? I'll stay here"
"Guarding the stable after the steed
has gomez"
mo. The steed might come back
It's a chance in thousands. But he
may have a cache somewhere. And
he may sneak back for more"
Then I'll stay" she announced.
He turned to her.
Rather not"
at isn't your choice. Even if you
leave, l stay"
They sat for time in silence. He
was waiting for the explosion which
must follow her calm.
Was that a sob? Yes, she was cry
ing; all the more poignantly because
so silently. He found that he was
holding her hand. 1t rested in his
palm with a soft, trusting pressure
it might have been a child's. She
began to talk in bursts, between her
silent sobS.
Mother wanted money so long-not
do with it-educate her sisters chill
dren-and always thinking of what
she'd give me-and | wanted her to
see Europe once more"
Suddenly she wiped her eyes and
gave a little laugh.
That's over. 1t had to come. l
might as well have let myself go in
the beginning"
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About Honey Bees.

IN some of the East Indian islands
and on the mainland or fIfndustan
are to be found the smallest species
of honey bees in the world. These
dwarf honey collectors are known TO
entomologists as apis florea. Their
honeycombs are no larger than
child's hand and the cells are about
the size Of small pinhead. This
honey Is excellent. as is the wax.
The little creatures build the comb
on the branch of a low tree. and. as
they have not to provide for Winter.
they work all the year round raising
their broods like themselves.
In the same land there is q species
of giant bees, apis dorsata, as large
as a field cricket. These monsters OF
the bee world build honeycombs that
are from six to seven feet in length.
four or more in width. and which
weigh from 900 to 400 pounds each.
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The Smallest World.

IRON time to time the earth APP
proaches very little world, one
that might be walked around in two
or three days, for it is only 80 miles
round. This is Eros, the tiny planet
whose existence was unknown until
1898, when the astronomer Wit OF
Berlin discovered it by means or
photography.
At intervals of nearly years our
world and this Lilliputian one ap-
proaches one another, coming nearer
each time. and last year Eros was
nearer to us than it had been for 20
years.
Eros is about 33ls millions miles
away. 1t is situated due south and
just above the horizon between l
and 2 O'Clock. There is no possibility
Of seeing it, for Eros is too faint and
is travelling southwark very rapidly.
But occasionally it comes much closer.
so as TO be possibly visible to the eye
or very dark, clear nights. Such an
occasion is anticipated in 1881. when
Eros will not be more than 1872 mil
lions of miles away.
This wandering star" is verv or
ratio is it's movements, being but
105.29O.000 miles from the sun,
when at it's nearest to him-at pe:ihe.
lion. 1t is then at it's nearest 10 the
earth also; but when at the opposite
side of its orbit. at aphelion. or farth-
est from the sun. Eros is 1G5 $40, 900
miles away from him and far beyond
the orbit of Mars.
There are reasons, however, for re-
garding Eros rather as an enormous
mass of jagged rock than as a com
paratively smooth globe. because reg
ular changes occur in it's brightness
every hours and 16 minutes. This in.
dicates that Eros rotates. that this is
its day, and that periodically a larger
sunlit surface than usual is turned
toward us.
Another explanation Of this varia.
ton in brightness would be that some
parts OF Eros are of whittier material
say, for example, quartz-than others.
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I'm AFRAID YOUR NINE HAS
BEEN LOOTED"

Ravenal tunnel: the side fork, now
almost eliminated, he had never been
able to trace to its source. The tracks,
here very clear, came from the rlght.
From behind a tangle of mountain
laurel he came out suddenly onto the
little plateau. Here the mountain fell
away in a long slope which was almost
a cliff. SO narrow was that shelf
from which the owners of the Ravenal
had driven their tunnel that the old
.'unar OF ite Give days. now over
grown with weeds, spilled down the
hillside like Stag down the heap of
smelter. A dilapidated Toulouse and
p log cabin hung over the landscape
like eagles nests. Except for rough
clearing about the cabin, the plateau
was q riot Of weeds and wild flowers.
At its further end gaped the mouth
of the road Beyond was glimpse
Of another dump. The prism at its
tunnel door was overgroWn, and the
single cabin stood unroofed.
Grant stood reconnoitering-a long
irgsed. sIim.waisted siX-footer with a
lean face and tousled brown hair
lie walked TO the central cabin ana
knocked. There was a pause. His
inner senses registered movement with
in.
Suddenly the door burst open. He
was aware of slim figure, of a smart
brown tailor made, of fresh, untan-
ned complexion. of hazel eyes, Of
bobbed, sloe-back hair, before ne per-
ceived one of the few phenomena po'
ten. - draw the eyes Of any young
man tom those of any girl.
ia her right hand she was pointing
O. small automatic pistol. The hand
vas wabbling nervOusly. dangerously
He awaited the instant when IL point
81 past his left arm and pounced upon
:. 18th both hands. He gave a wrench
at her wrist; she released her hold
only then did she emit scream
9umr backward and. as though her
legs had given out, sink down on the
edge of a bunk, her eyes wide with
terror.
* * *
LIE slipped the pistol into his pocket
II When he looked up from that
operation her expression had changed
The terror had gone from her eyes.
I'm sorry" he said. But when you
expect to be shot you're a little
abrupt"
She said nothing.
ITO reassure you. in case you We
xaIstaken me for some one else" he
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III do that--to save your property.
since you're so stubborn. But III
never use it as a partnership.
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" HE full moon of July lad drawn
Grant HOLSTER into the open
The chance by witch he saw
the three IrroS sprang from
no coincidence more remark
able than that. They had reached the
passage OF the trail below the shelf oi
rock on which he lay, and were goinE
on The first one disappeared into
TIL, shadows before he could identify
il. He had better luck with the sec
Ond. II was burro-loaded. 1t dis
appeared another popped into the
field of vision. This one seemed actu-
ally to stagger. Bringing up the rear
was a tall man on a small horse.
The train had halted: there were ir-
regular hoof beats: there were oaths.
1t seemed a foreign language, with an
cd staccato beat. An electric torch
brought out, for a moment, the
hui revealed nothing OF the group at
their foot. Branches rustled, hoots
beat: the train went on.
The staccato rhythm seemed TO stir
a memory. AS he scrambled back 20
camp, he was reaching for something
which eluded him. His subconscious
mind must have worked on the subject
all night long; for. next morning, he
said to himself:
The Waterman at the Ravenal tun-
mel, who had run him off the property
las week, spoke with q foreign accent.
Tall, too. Other details of that adj
venture came into his mind. ON the
plateau before the tunnel he had seen
hobbled hurros and sorrel bronco.
The Waterman of the Ravenai, With
out question. But why was he driving
p lack train by night up that route?
ho
RaveEal. had been abandoned 20 years
ago. when the owners got their road
built from Silver Moon. The RaVenal.
tied up in litigation. had he"'' inactive:
b the road was paSSahle.
We'll. it's none of my business,
said Grant HOLSTER to himself. Hav-
ing said this, he proceeded to make it
his business. He slipped a geologist
hammer into his belt and turned, not
down into the valley. as he had in
tended, but up the trail. The hoot
prints in the earth We're plain. He
followed 10 that turn below his shelf
where the train had halted. There the
tricks lay confused. TO one side lay
a quart or so of fresh yellow dirt,
wholly eXtraneous to the loan under
foot. 1t had been paved over, ap-
parently: Grant could even trace the
finger tracks. He paved it himself;
picked up something, examined IL anu
whistled.
It was a twist of virgin sold.
X * * y
LIE made another examination.
There were more twists; there
was dust. He pieced together his
memories of the night before. Doubt
less a sack had burst or come united.
That was the meaning of the halt on
the trail. The horseman, when he
flashed his torch. had picked over the
spillings for nuggets. Grant scooped
up a handful, tied it up in his hand
kerchief.
4 discovery, a secret mine-or
what? Grant stood for a moment
heSitant, then he went up the trail.
The footprints persisted. He came TO
the top of the high mountain shoulder.
There the old trail divided. The main
fork led to the right, toward the
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member of the Virginia State House
of Representatives, 1S39-1S43; defeated
for the Twenty ninth Congress; presi-
Dental elector on the Wing ticket in
1S4S; returned to Baltimore in 1850,
member of the State Legislature in
1856; elected as a Unionist to the
United States Senate and served from
March 4, 1857 to March 8, 1868; dele.
gate to the State constitutional con
vention of 1867; died in Annapolis
July 81, 1892"
James Alfred Pearce, Represent
alive and a Senator from Maryland
born in Alexandria, Va, December g.
1904; was graduated from Princeton
College in 1922; studied law and was
admitted to the bar. and in 1924 be-
gan practice in Cambridge, Md.
moved to Louisiana in 1923. and en-
gagged in planting; returned to Kent
County, Md. and resumed the practice
of law in Chestert0wn: served in the
State House of Representatives In
1881; elected to the Twenty -fourth
and Twenty fifth Congresses (March
4. 1S35.March 3, 1880: defeated for
re election to the Twenty sixth
Congress; elected as II Wing to the
TWentyse Congress March
4, 1871 -Mafcn IS. 1880, elected 10 the
United States Senate as Wing In
1S43, and four times reelected tthe
last time as Democracy, and served
from March. 1S43. until his death in
ChestertoWn, Md, December 20.
1862"
Now, let the Rambler hand YOU the
closing paragraphs OF Senator Will
ley's speech opposing the District
emancipation bill:
Mr. President. If slavery shall suf-
fer from incidental and necessary eff
fects upon it OF the war. let it be so.
/ shall not regret It. | am no pro-
slavery man. I wish there We're no
slavery. | believe that slavery is
doomed. believe the time is coming
when il will he abolished. Heaven
hasten the day when under the re-
generating and reforming influences