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Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

The MS Discoverer did not leave Anchorage enroute to Seward as was stated in recent issue. Cap tain Heinie Berger left on special trip down Cook Inlet He returned to Anchorage yesterday.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

Tom Lewis was found guilty of passing worthless checks in An- chorage yesterday, according to word reaching Seward.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

John Bunny Nelson, who re- gently disposed of his Pontiac auto, has purchased the Packard straight eight, with the free wheeling fea- ture, formerly owned by John Croken, of the. local Signal Corps staff
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

The piledriving crew on the local dock today was driving number of piles and making them fast to the dock proper.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

The new walk in front of the Gore building has been completed by Hans Overchalden, of the firm of Cal M. BrosiuS,
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

The American Legion Auxiliary met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Thomas Osbo.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

To beguile the rainy evenings The Canary Murder Case; The Green Murder Case-By Van Dine. ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-23

Full line of Holioween novelties new at ALASKA SHOP.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
ALASKA NOT INCLUDED,

The United States Forest Service announced jus now from Washington it had completed a survey of timber cutting operations of the country The annual cut, it determined is four times as great as the rate at which trees are being planted
 This undoubtedly does not hold good for Alaska Here the annual timber growth from natural seed ing is many times the rate cut The Territory is the victim of entirely different kind of waste Its mature trees, after having attained full growth rotting and falling to the ground literally block ing great with windfallen and rotten debris which results in checking orderly growth of replace ments and consequent deterioration in the second growth timber. In no other section of the United States can such utter lack of real conservation be found in privately-owned Government timber holdings
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
LONDON PAPER GIVES STEESE
 UNIQUE STORY
Thrilling Adventures of Former A. R. C. Chief
 Are Duly Set Forth

A unique picture of Gen. Jame. Gordon Steese, former President o- the Alaska Road Commission. a. an oldtime cowboy, and an ac. count of his thrilling experiences from the Arctic to the tropics. is contained in a special article ir recent edition of the London Eng, Sunday Express.
 Gen. Steese was visiting London last month enroute to Australia after having represented the Unit ed States Government at the Eff teenth International Navig ation congress in Venice in September He writes that he hopes to be able to revisit Alaska next year.
 The Express account of Gen. Steese's adventure follows:
 General Jam $ Gordon Steese. formerly a cowboy of the Paddle G Ranch in wild Montana, has come to London to enjoy all the luxury that this city can give ms. !"
 He wants change from:
 Dodging the bullets of the bad men of wild Montana;
 Fighting wolves and bears in frog en Alaska and driving dog teams there when the temperature is forty below and colder than that:
 Crossing the Sahara by camel;
 Shooting the rapids of South Am er1can rivers in canoe;
 Riding by mule across Mexico. and
 Roughing it generally in lands where a man carries his life in revolver holster.
 l found General Steese living lux uriously according to plan at the Savoy Hotel, writes Sunday Ex- press" correspondent.
 His adventures would keep Hol- lywood busy for months. Hollywood films would have presented him as conspicuous figure, tall and iron jawed, with piercing eyes, but Gen eral SteeSe is a short benevolent looking man, be-spectacled and in cllned to stoutness. In fact, early In life he wanted to be a church worker.
 Put it there" said the General when we met.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
MORE OPTIMISM.

There be no doubt but that the recent rise in the price of wheat cotton and other products has had a beneficial effect on the morale of the people That is apparent to any recent visitor ir the States While there to be little exp3cta- ton that good times will be with us again soon the feeling that the turn from depressing condi- tons to better things is near
 Times not good in the States They are far better here in Juneau than they in Seattle That suggests that Juneau is good town to work in, to spend ones money in and stay with. The more people who do that the better it will be here. The time is coming when we shall again have good times in the country. The better we make Juneau the better will be position to take advantage of the good times when they shall have arrived
 Conditions have fallen long distance since that market crash a little than two years ago. The downward course continued until agriculture, manufacturing, mining. and the like .ave suffered untold losses. It W.! taSe a long time to bring prosperity back 10 the farmers to those engaged in numbering, corper mining, transportation, manu- featuring and other lines But the time for the turn from getting worse to better is not far away.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

and his men were clawed by raven ous bears.
 Among the Eskimos
 Five men were drowned during the construction of one bridge alone, that which now spans the Nizinia River.
 Then we had frostbite to con- tend with"
 It was in Northern Alaska that he learned the habits of the Els kimos.
 Brides are chosen not for their looks but for their teeth,' said the General. An Eskimo wife's prin- cipal work is to chew frozen hides so she must have good teeth
 Her husbands boots freeze solid during the night, and in the morn ing his wife has to chew his boots until he can get them on his feet. When old age creeps on she is given firewood and food for three days and left to freeze to death. The Eskimos do not mind this at all, as death this way is really pleasant"
 General Steese has built railways, bridges, dams, and jetties all over the world. He has worked in the tropics and had to watch native laborers die like flies from black water fever and malaria.
 He has lived for months on end without seeing bed, and has slept under canvas in a sleeping bag.
 When I go back to the wild life I shall remember my three weeks of luxury in London" he said, and then maybe I'll get some sleep, no matter how hard it's freezing or how hot it is."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

I'm living soft here in London and life during the next thre weeks is going to be grand. The atres, the best food and the bes of everything, spot of night life the sights of the town and who'll heaps of fun is what I'm here for.
 He waved aside his adventures a. "all in the days work"
 T was originally intended fol the church." he said, but wen to the Paddle c ranch and ac' quired taste for adventure whicf I have never since lost.
 Montana had some real bae men in those days, especially tht Curry gang of desperadoes. Cattle rustling, train robbing, with ar occasional murder was their mair business.
 "A five years feud developed be- tween the Paddle c ranch and the gang, and there were three killings before the gang was broken up.
 Pop Curry, the head of the gang, thought it would be a good idea to confiscate our property, and the fued started when he turned up at the ranch early one morning with his men and shot my boss, Jim Winters, as he was washing his hands and face in the yard.
 f15,O00 Robbery
 "Curry's horse bucked, and the shot only grazed Jim, who dashed into the house and opened fire from a windod Pop Curry caught a bullet in the neck and was killed. They rode off swearing vengeance, taking their dead chief with them.
 The gang shortly afterwards held up a train and robbed it of bullion worth f15,00O. They re- mained in hiding in their mountain lair for a while, and then began their war on the Paddle c ranch.
 They surrounded the place and their guns set up little symphony of hate. Jim Winters was killed before he could slip into the house.
 T dodged the bullets by zig-zag- ging among the boulders, and man. aged to reach Landusky, the near est village, about fifteen miles away, and came back with the sheriff and sixty armed cowboys.
 We captured three of the gang, who each received sentences of 5wenty years penal servitude, but he others, including Kid Curry, A man named Longabaugh vas one of those who escaped. He vas recognized in a bank at Mem ohis, Tennessee. and was shot dead n fight with the police"
 The Generals next adventures anne when he turned engineer and built the Steese Highway, linking ID the Yukon country with the sea. Wolves attacked his food stores,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

Dawes on Job Headline. Dawes is usually o the job and doing worthwhile work
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
There Should Be United Opposition to
 This Plan.
Fairbanks News-Miner.)

Aaskans and friends of Alaska will fight to the utmost to prevent the carrying through of the War Department plan to sell the Alaska Washington Military Cable and Telegraph System to private interests.
 It is fight which must be waged with the greatest possible vigor and speed Time is limited The War Department proposes to present to Con- gress, converting in December, bill to sell all or part of the system In the absence of informed intelligent and determined opposition there is no reason to expect that Congress will go counter to the wishes of the department.
 Just how much the Signal Corps means to us in Alaska we are not likely to realize until it is gone. Well and faithfully has that branch of the army served the Territory since the earliest days The army's radio stations connect the very outermost posts of continental America with civilization and the army's spreading system of telegraph lines was contemperaneous with the development of Interior Alaska.
 There cannot be the slightest doubt that taking of the system by private interests would result in increased rates. No commercial company could maintain the present ones and exist. It could not possibly keep open all outlying stations
 We do not advocate careless spending of money every dollar appropriated for Signal Corps in Alaska has been money from which full value was derived.
 For third of a century the army has main- tained the system for military purposes and now, at the very time when the Orient casts a longer shadow world affairs than ever before, it is proposed to abandon it.
 The bulk of the business handled is probably official business. That business will continue if private interests own the system and will have to be paid for by the Government. To reduce or wipe out, it's deficit why should the Signal Corps not proper charges against those other Government agencies which are now paying noth- ing?
 Every commercial organization in fact every citizen of Alaska ought to protest now. Write or wire to Alaska's Deelgata at Washington, to the Chief Signal Officer of the Army at Washington and to every other person who exert influence against a plan whose consumation would be one the greatest strokes of misfortune every suffered by the Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
URGE GOLD BE PUT TO WORK.

Suggestion that this country can end it's own and the worlds financial ills by putting its gold to work was advoeated at the dinner of the Amer- can Statistical Assoc ltion at which Carl Snyder, statistician of She Federal Reserve Bank Irving Fisher Yale Protesaor of Economics, Lionel D Edie, Economist and [. w Remmerer, Professor of Econ- omics Princeton speakers.
 The theory that tn- gold standard had failed was denied; it only administration Of the monetary gold supply that had failed. Our huge supply of gold it was asserted be diverted from bolster ing our lover stuffed dollar" and used to back an expansion of credit through the Federal Reserve Bank The increase in god has than kept pace with production and price movements in recent major economic swings not traceable to the gold supply, speakers held
 Dawes Job Headline Dawes is usually on the job and doing worthwhile work
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

Odd that those two heather nations should be under the delusion that they have much right to start though they Christianized.- (Oho State Journa)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17
ANNUAL BAZAAR

Of the Martha Society will be held Friday, November 20, at the Pres
 byterian Church parlors. Booths will feature fancy work, candy, cooked foods. Lunch served at noon, tea in afternoon. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

It would be interesting to know what are the former Kasers thoughts he manipulates the little flags on that map of Manchuria that adorns his study at Doorn
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

Maybe Bishop Cannon merely trying not to let his right hand know what his left doing l-(Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journa)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-17

We're sorry for President Hoover. His great mistake was that he chose to run-in front of ar ayalanche-(Atchison, Kan, Globe)
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Heart of Lane q ! HAEBiEg55

would. She had seen his name on
the list Of wedding guests.
Well, she had been wrong to think
Lame was interested in him. She
had not wanted her to have any,
thing to do with that clan. How
silly she had been to worry There
had been nothing to it.
This day is a climax in my life"
Cas- thought thankfully. Every
thing hoped for has come Lame.
Love, security. happiness. "Oh, it
was more than she had hoped for
really.
Yet how changed the child
seemed. How quiet and repressed.
Cass shrugged away her momentary
anxiety. She would not let herself
be fanciful. Everything was splen-
did. Everything was as it should be.
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The very sound of her own voice
terrified her.
Braces dangling, his broad shoul-
ders looking broader in the stiff
white Of his shirt, he appeared in
the stiff white of his shirt, he ap-
peared in the other doorway.
yes" He said it quietly as one
might speak to a child.
II just wanted to say good
night"
He came toward her, so big, so
tall, so stern Tipped. That's right.
I forgot"
He bent and touched her hand.
Our agreement holds" he said in
a curious voice. You keep your
part Of the bargain. I'll keep mine"
He wheeled and the door closed on
him. Lame heard the lock click
family.
In her own room she looked
curiously at the hand he had held
for an instant. Strange while hers
was cool and steady, his had been
tremblingl
n
CHE awoke to a sense of drama
~ and danger. The strange room,
the drawn damask curtains, her
frock folded across the back of a
Louis XIV chair, all brought her
back to the present.
Il was married yesterday, she
reminded herself.
She stretched, luxuriating in the
big bed, the fine linen, the mauve
coverlet. She threw these aside and
swung herself over the edge, cram
ming her toes into those gilt crusted
mules.
a knock sounded at the door. Be
fore she said come" she dived
frantically into the folds of that ex-
quisitely fashioned negligee.
"Come!" she called again, ap-
palled at the prospect of a strange
man in her room.
A housemaid, not the one of the
night before, appeared. "NIr. Clees-
paugh said you might be wanting
me-"
"Oh, yes, do. Will you have this
pressed for me, please?"
Mr.. CleeSpaugh said to tell you
breakfast will be up directly. He
has gone out, but will be back in a
moment" parroted the servant.
Thank you" The tone dis
missed her, but the maid fingered
pretending to straighten curtain.
She studied Lame with a covert
glance.
The dress had not been returned
when Give came back and so, with
an apology, Lame presented herself
at the table in the lacey robe.
Il hope you don't mind" she
murmured.
Mind" He laughed at her
openly. "You look exactly as a
bride is supposed to look"
His laugh had touch of bitter
ness in it.
Don't mistake me. I went into
this with my eyes open. You agreed
to this as sort of business arrange
ment. knew you cared-or thought
you cared-for Van. And that you
thought it was hopeless"
He sat down. Here, let's begin.
Unless I'm spelling your appetite.
Don't let me do that. We've got to
straighten this out .
ct eXepcted only a few things of
you. Loyalty, an appearance of
happiness. 1t ought to be easy.
I'll not interfere"
She. interrupted him, her head
high. I'm willing to give all of
that. You know that"
II was going to say I'd not in
terfere with any of your pursNSs.
Only this. Steer clear of Van. He's
bad medicine"
Ito Be COntinued)
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ow co Co on NJ Win THE STORY
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE (Con.
tinued)

With a sudden movement Lame
vas at the door. She wrapped the
voluminous folds of ermine around
her. She signaled the Frenchwoman
to follow her. Like a princess of
the blood she took charge of the
situation. Her voice was cool,
steady. Her hand no longer trem-
bled.
You needn't bother, Miss Lord"
she said. eve shall manage. You'd
better hurry or you'll be late for my
wedding"
Tressa laughed, but there was no
Gnirth in the sound. L wouldn't
miss that for anything" she sneered.
Defeated, with smoldering eyes, she
watched them drive away.
AS the big car swept out of sight
she said fiercely, Il hope she never
reaches there alive"
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"Gobred took the title of Prince and Bohun
that of King. These titles have been handed
down from father to son. Gobred's men still
wear their crosses upon their breasts and so
are called Frontiers. The followers of Bohun
wear crosses upon their backs, hence are called
'Backers.' But long since both sides have given
up hope of going on or turning back, for we be
surrounded by vast army Of Saracens."
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Then Gobred built here city and strong
castle to defend the entrance to the valley"
continued Sir Richard '"This was to prevent
Bohun from returning to England until they
had accomplished their mission. And Bohun
crossed the valley and built likewise, to prevent
Gobred from pushing on to where the latter be-
heved the true Sepulcher lay. And here, for
seven and half CENTURIES their descendants
have continued the feud.
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PAGE 81
BY Williams
By Bloss 9r
By Crane

Anyway. we know no other country and are
content" For a while both men were silent
Blake was the first to speak. This big tourney
interests me-" he said. when does it take
place? Do you think 1 could take part in it7
I'm getting better with my lance every day."
Sir Richard looked sadly at him and shook his
head. Tomorrow thou wilt be dead" he said
Say. you're as cheeful as a buzzard," ex-
claimed Blake 81 am only telling thee the
truth" replied Sir Richard
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Blake amazed at such strange state Of
affairs existing in the twentieth century, re-
NAMED thoughtfully silent. "Thinkest thou not
that we are wise to remain here under such
stress?" demanded Sir Richard. well" said
Jimmy, you'd certainly surprise EN- if you rode
into Jerusalem or London this day and age.
I'd remain here were I you. The home folks
may have forgotten you after seven and a half
centuries" '21ayhap thou speakest wisely,
James, said I&chard.
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BEGIN UFRF ToDAy


LANE BARRETT. i8 and beautiful
Tres IN vain TO forget VAN ROBARD.
wealthy polo PLAYER. when his engage
rt Is announced to MUR1EL LADD.
Eopular debutantc. Lanes mother,
SASS BARRETT. is an actress and Il is
curing Cas- engagement in stock at q
thsnlonable Long Island summer colony
mat the Bsrretts meet MRS. CLEES-
fAJGH. wealthy widow.
When Cas- goes or tour in the fall
lane becomes Mrs. Cleespaughs social
secretary. Give CLEESPAUGH. the
Widows only son. asks Lane TO mar
~ him. Give can not inherit his
ttatner's fortune unless he marries be-
lore he is rs.
Lane accepts. agreeing the marriage
Is 70 be a matter OF form only.
Kopard. whose moods are changeable,
ASKS Lame to break the engagement. but
she refuses. TRESSA LORD and her
sister, MRS. AMBERTON. come to visit
the CleespauRhs and Tressa. who wants
70 marry Give. begins to make trouble
Tor Lane.
She connives with a gang Of black
mailers. but friendly police Lieutenant.
SHANE McDERMID. interferes. At the
fashionable hunt ball Lane Is kidnapped
70 be held for ransom. She is rescued
BY McDefnid and Give.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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NLD ladies turned their heads to
watch heY- &C che yoaeead rrbo

NhO ldQleS turned Jnelr neaQS to
~ watch her as she passed. The
whisper ran from mouth to mouth,
Lovely Lovely"
Lame heard none of it.. She
moved like a somnambulist along
the aisle, her arms just resting on
Gives black sleeve.
The ceremony was ended On the
third finger of her left hand where
the glove was stripped away plati-
mum band studded with diamonds
rested beside the glittering head
light of stone that was her engage
ment symbol.
The choir played the music softly,
triumphantly. There was an in
sidious quality about that music.
The Mendelssohn march. Senti-
mental wedding guests wiped their
eyes openly with their cobwebby
handkerchiefs.
There was something ethereal,
something not quite of the world
about this particular bride. A
transparency Of skin, perhaps, a
luminosity of the eye. Whatever it
was. the wedding guests decided she
was charming.
"A nobody, my dear, but quite
lovely. Give has money and posi-
ton enough for two. What does it
matter?"
1t was all over. It was real. She
had her mothers blessing. Now in
the car with her husband she faced
the reality at last.
He stopped to her, brushed her
lips with his own. Sorry, but they'll
think it queer if I don't" he had
muttered softly.
She had later a hazy recollection
of long table glittering with silver
and crystal. OF someone pouring
champagne into graceful glass. OF
her own lips touching it.
She heard the polite toasts. She
hung her bouquet of white orchids
from the top of the stairs. The
dreamlike quality of the occasion
persisted although she knew in her
heart that all this was real.
Then she was in her own room
again and the maids were assisting
her out of her flnery, laying out the
pale beige frock and the sable coat
for her going away.
At the last the girl had a word
for Cass. Il didn't want to worry
you," she said brokenly. II never
meant to, no matter what I did"
Cass was troubled at this obscure
apology.
You never did in all your life"
she cried. She smiled, putting it
all down to the child's natural emo
ton at leavetaking.
you were always the best, the
sweetest" she muttered. She
turned up the corners of her lips
resolutely. What a fool she was
letting the child go away weeping!
DRY your eyes" she commanded
with mock severity. What will
Give think if we send him off with
a red-eyed bride?"'
Cass reflected with. some satisfac-
ton that she was glad that dread
full man Robard had not come to the
church. She had been afraid he