GHOST OF HAN6ED MAN DRIVES
WOMAN FROMJME, ALASKA
Dread of a hanged man’s ghost pre
vents Mrs. Mary E. Hart, Alaska’s
leading woman citizen, from ever re
turning to Nome.
Mrs. Hart is not a credulous woman,
but one trained In a school of harsh
materialism along the Yukon.
She Is a big capable, masterful "sour
dough” who has homesteaded, mined,
broken trail and mushed in the wildest
parts of Alaska for 15 years. Three
times she has represented the North at
world's expositions, and is a notable
club woman and author.
She is now in charge of the exhibit
of the Pacific Coast Steamship com
pany at the San Francisco exposition.
She formerly was employed as lecturer
and entertainer aboard the steamer
Spokane, plying between here and Al
aska.
"Until now 1 have always been afraid
to tell why I can never go back to
Nome,” she began. "People today can’t
credit experiences such as I am about
to relate.
"It grew out of my unwilling part in
the first legal execution In the territory,
the hanging of Fred Hardy, a youth
convicted of murdering three prospec
tors at Dutch Flat.
"I was then reporting for a Nome
paper and had been assigned to cover
the execution and try for a confession
from Hardy, although he steadily main
tained his Innocence.
"Having won his confidence, and aU
hope for reprieve having gone, I be
lieved Hardy would admit his guilt to
me at the last If he was the murderer.
He had but a few hours to live when
I spoke to him through the bars of his
death cell in the old Nome ice house.
” ’You are about to die, Fred,’ I said.
T want you to tell me If you did this
thing. Such a confession would mean
much to me as a newspaper reporter,
and could not harm you now because
all your chances are gone.’
"Terror, .gratitude for my friendship
and Integrity struggled for mastery In
his boyish features while he pondered.
" ’No,” he said finally, “I can’t do It,
Mrs. Hart. I was going to lie to make
a story for you. But it would "be false.
I am not a murderer. I can’t lie on the
brink of eternity, not even to do you,
my only friend here, a good turn '
“ ‘Mrs. Hart,' he said, ‘do you believe
in life after death; do you think the
dead can make themselves manifest to
the living?’
" ‘I do,’ he continued, ’and I shall re
turn to tell you about death and about
the beyond—If I will be welcome?’
“ ‘Yes.’ I stammered with creeping
horror, ‘ves, you’d be welcome, Fred.'
What else could I have said to a boy
about to die?”
Mrs. Hart told the rest of her story
with manifest effort at self-control.
"I was In my office writing the story
of the hanging, which I had witnessed.
"It was quiet, and I was alone.
"And then Fred Hardy, whom I had
seen dnshed into eternity, came back—
to haunt me for many hideous weeks
"I saf rigid In my chair, unable to
move or speak. It was as though i
were being choked to death; as if I
were undergoing what that 21-year-old
youth must have experienced during his
last moments. I am confident T would
have died but for an Interruption.
"A girl we knew as ‘Sunshine’ In
Nome knocked at the door, entered,
touched me on the shoulder, shrieked
‘My God’ Hardy Is here!’ and fell to the
floor, alternately fainting and hysteri
cal.
“She spoke In Hardy’s voice, describ
ing death torments—‘Sunshine’ who
had not witnessed the hanging, speak
ing In Hardy’s low. peculiar voice! It
was frightful beyond words.
“That nlmost lethal paralysis left my
body at the instant ’Sunshine’ touched
my shoulder, but from that day until I
left Nome I was haunted, day and night
bv that Inexplicable firesence. It was
destroying my health. I had to come
away.
"The obsession did not cease till I
was aboard the boat, bound for San
Francisco, where at least one other
person saw this ghostly presence.
"I make no attempt to explain this
ghastly experience. But I shall never
return to Nome—because I am afraid.”
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CHINA TO RAISE
CONSCRIPT ARMY
An extensive program for nntlonal
defense, including conscription for the
army, will be laid before China’s first
parliament when It assembles In De
cember, according to a forecast of the
government’s intended proposals, given
out by the Far Eastern bureau. Plans
are also to be submitted looking to the
building of new railways, the coloniza
tion of frontiers, the reform of the tax
ation system, the development of min
ing and the establishment of a govern
ment labor bureau. The proposals are
subject, It Is explained, to such changes
as may bo made necessary by events
transpiring between now and the gen
eral elections In October.
The general defense board, it is stat
ed, is now in session with the leading
officials of the army and navy com
pleting and correcting three bills for
submission immediately after President
Yuan Shl-Kai’s statement to parlia
ment as to the general condition of the
nation. The first bill relates to the
expansion of arsenals and the develop
ment of navy yards. Parliament will
be asked for an approplratlon of $15,
000,000 for the installation of machin
ery for the manufacture of modern
rifles and machine guns and suitable
appropriations will be sought to enable
the navy yards to turn out submarines,
torpedo boats, light cruisers and other
coast defense ships adapted to China’s
waterways.
The second bill, it Is said, provides
for conscription. It is planned to com
mence conscription with the beginning
of 1916. Tho general board ha3 al
ready taken steps to pave the- way for
this measure, which, It Is expected, will
bo approved by the people, notwith
standing China’s old-age, peace-loving
proclivities. Soldiership is described
as being encouraged and extolled in all
the public schools and by every offi
cial.
The third bill provides for the estab
lishment of naval bases and coast and
frontier fortifications.
The economic measures are being
considered by the cabinet. President
Yuan Shl-Kai will urge definite steps,
It Is stated, towards carrying out the
trurtk railway plans and the extension
of branch railways for which the sur
veys alredy have been made, as well
ha light railways to link up important
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mining and other industries.
The proposed colonization of the
frontiers is chiefly designed, it is ex
plained, to cope with the tendency on
the part of some of China’s neighbors
to encroach upon her national domain.
It Is planned to encourage tho people
to leave congested districts and settle
in parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, East
ern Turkestan, Kokonor and Tibet.
In reforming the taxation system,
the government intends to make a
strong plea, it is asserted, to end once
and for all local and petty tyranny
which is said to be fostered by the old
Mnnehu unequal system of taxation,
and to be largely responsible for the
poverty of the people. The revision of
the customs tariff is also to be strong
ly urged.
The program for mining development
contemplates encouragement through
protective laws and subsidies were
necessary. Respecting the establish
ment of a labor bureau. It is stated
that only two-fifths of the people of
China have regular trades or profes
sions. The bureau will give them an
opportunity to get regular employment,
Including work In government fac
tories, and at the same time native in
dustries will be developed.
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