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Phone 188
U. S. MARSHAL GUARDED
BEAT 4,000 MILES LONG.
The following story, taken from
the New York Sun, refers to C. L.
Vawter, who is a passenger on the
Admiral Evans for Valdez, and who
is well known to many people in Val
dez:
Seventeen years as a guardian of
the public peace on the edge of west
ern civilization has been a period
crammed full of adventure and ro
mance and interest for C. L. Vawter,
formerly United States marshal at
Nome, who is now in Seattle. Dur
ing these seventeen years Mr. Vawter
has witnessed every big gold rush in
Alaska; he has seen poverty stricken
prospectors become flushed with
wealth in a fortnight; he has seen
others become crazed because of the
hardships and privations and he has
seen the territory awaken from a
sleep of ages to stretch its arms and
rub its eyes in wonder.
When the discovery of the Klondike
first drew the attention of the world
to Alaska' Mr. Vawter left Montana
to takWpe office of deputy marshal
under John M. Shoup, marshal for
the whole ^_.ict of Alaska. Mar
shal Shoup’s office was at Sitka; Dep
uty Marshal Vawter was stationed at
St. Michael. Between the two of them
the entire territory of Alaska was
guarded, vawter s territory mciuu
ed the Yukon valley from the Cana
dian boundary, including that part of
Alaska which drains into Bering sea
and the Arctic ocean. He also had
supervision over the Aleutian islands.
And in all, his domain was 4000 miles
long from one end to the other.
In 1898 many gold seekers attempt
ed to reach Dawson by going up the
Yukon river from its mouth. This led
them to St. Michael where Marshal
Vawter was stationed. Winter over
took many of them on the trial; they
camped wherever they happened to
be when the river froze up.
It was there in the fall of 1898
that word came to the St. Michael
office that a prospector had murdered
his two partners. Marshal Vawter
took a dog team and started out for
Anvik, where the murder took
place. A man named Homer Bird
was held by the citizens of a trading
Taxes Due.
Taxes for the Town of Valdez for
the year 1915 are now due and pay
able at my office at the corner of Key
stone avenue and McKinley street.
Taxes will be delinquent on Monday,
December 6th, 1916, at 6 o’clock p.
m., and unless paid prior thereto,
a penalty of 10 per cent will be added
to the amount and interest at the rate
of 12 per cent pet annum.
Warrants issued by the present
Council will be accepted in payment
of taxes.
Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 12 m.
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. m„ except Sun
days.
Dated this 3d day of November,
1915.
E. G. AMES.
Town Treasurer.
Kill 11-18
post fifteen miles away charged with
the crime.
The citizens were determined to
hang Bird if the marshal didn't show
up within two weeks. The appear
ance of Deputy Vawter saved Bird’s
life, temporarily at least. Bird es
caped from the St. Michael jail the
morning he was to be taken to Sitka
for trial. With a pocketknife he
carved out a piece of four-inch floor
ing and fled toward the mainland.
Marshal Vawter offered a reward of
$500 for his capture and had the
meaning of the proclamation trans
lated to the natives. The result was
that within three days the Eskimos
brought Bird back to St. Michael. He
was taken to Sitka, tried, convicted,
retried, again convicted and was An
ally hanged in 1901, the second offi
cial hanging to take place in Alaska.
In 1901 Marshal Vawter was in
Washington when President McKinley
signed an order appointing his Uni
ted States marshal at Nome, then in
the heyday of opulence. The notori
ous Judge Noyes’ gang was appointed
at the same sime, and their failure
to influence Marshal Vawter in their
favor during the days of thievery,
crookedness and scandal at Nome,
forms one of the most stirring themes
in Rex Beach’s novel, “The Spoilers,”
which was built up around the inci
dents of this period.
In the novel Marshal Vawter is
Vorhees. It was the testimony of
Marshal Vawter, offered at the cir
cun court or appeals ax san F rancis
co, that convicted Judge Noyes, the
prosecuting attorney and the special
representative of the department of
justice, and sent them all to prison.
In his trips to the outside during
the last seventeen years Marshal Vaw
ter haf brought out thirty-five insane
persons.
In the spring of 1890, when Mr.
Vawter was still at St. Michael, over
1,500 persons came down the Yukon
destitute. They managed to make
their way to Nome, where the rich
placers had just been discovered, and
nearly every one of the 1500 made
fortunes within a few months.
Mr. Vawter is now deputy marshal
at Fort Gibbons, at the confluence of
the Tanana and Yukon rivers. He
has the distinction of having been in
the service of the government in Alas
ka for a longer period than any other
employe.
Fish Day in Germany.
BERLIN, Nov. 3.—In accordance
with the reecnt orders of the govern
ment forbidding meat to be served in
restaurants or sold to households,
Germany is eating fish today. Fish
markets have come into existence
over night and are prepared to meet
the emergency and keep the nation in
sea food for two days each week.
Special Tonight.
Four good reels at the Liberty
Theatre tonight. *
Hugo Fells, who Went to Wells
Bay to complete a building for W.
Glendennlng on his property there,
returned to town on the launch Sham
rock.
HE WAS RESOURCEFUL
•ut He Probably Didn’t Qat tho Job
For Which He Applied.
There Is a certain middle aged and
old fashioned business man who is a
little doubtful whether he or the other
carried off the honors of war in an in
terview given to a smart' young" man.
The smart young man was applying
for a berth.
“Let me see,” said the merchant;
“you’ve called on me before, but not on
your present errand. The first time
you represented Up to Date Limited
and offered to put our concern on mod
ern lines. Then you came on behalf of
Systems & Files and said you were
business doctors. And after that you
came as the publicity expert of the
Newest In Ads. company?”
“That is so, sir.”
“And are all these—er—companies
dead?”
The young man reluctantly admitted
that they were.
“Yet after coming here three times
to offer to teach us our business when
your concerns go down you coolly so
licit a berth in this poor, effete old
firm. Why, what use are you to us?
Look at your record.”
The optimist countered that easily.
“You never know, sir. I might be
very useful. Look what a splendid ex
perience I’ve had in winding up com
panies.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
THE GERRYMANDER.
Gilbert Stuart’s Cartoon Made the Po
1 litical Trick Notorious.
Gilbert Stuart, who Is best remem
bered for his portraits of Washington,
was also a cartoonist, and it was he,
according to James Melvin Lee, in Car
toons Magazine, who designed the fa
mous .Gerrymander cartoon.
in 1811, writes Mr. Lee, the struggle
between the Democrats and the Fed
erate for the control of Massachusetts
was extremely bitter. The Democrats
hail elected Elbridge Gerry governor
and had carried both houses of the
legislature. To retain this supremacy
they remapped the senatorial districts
and divided the power of their political
adversaries by paying no attention to
county boundaries. In Essex county
the relation of the district to the town
was most absurd, and a map of the
county thus laid out hung in the office
of the Massachusetts Sentinel.
One day as Stuart gazed at the map
he remarked that the towns as they
had been assembled looked like some
monstrous animal. A few touches of
his pencil added the wings and claws,
and he christened the creature a sala
mander. At the suggestion of Editor
Russell, the name was changed to
Gerrymander. The cartoon thereafter
frequently appeared In a “broadside,”
while the term became one of reproach.
Decoy Periscopes.
Such things exist as decoy periscopes
—short lengths of pipe held upright on
a float and looking exactly like the real
periscope. The submarine sets them
adrift for you to find—sometimes scat
ters several of them.
When one is sighted you cannot stop
to consider whether the little object
dancing on the sea half a mile or so
distant does or does not mean 250
pounds of high explosive coining
straight at you. Maybe you will see
an aeroplane maneuvering over it in a
way that carries conviction that it
does. You don’t dare to take any
chances, and so you train all the guns
at it.
Then the real submarine slinks up
on the other side of the ship and with
the swift rush of its torpedo another
sea tragedy is enacted.—London Tit
Hits.
Performing a Duty.
Mr. Choate told this one—not on him
self: An American called at the office
of the American ambassador In Lon
don, with his wife and baggage.
“When did you arrive?" was the first
question.
“Just arrived," was the answer.
“Have you been to your hotel?” was
another question put
“No,” came the prompt answer.
Then the ordinary question was put
to him, as to every visitor of that kind
and which we put at the end of an in
terview, “Well, what can I do for
you?”
"You can do nothing for me,” came
the reply. “I merely came here to see
whether my ambassador was in his
place.”—Denver Post
Historical Parallels.
“Oh, pop.”
"Well, get rid of it-get rid of it”
“What does this history 1 have been
reading mean by a ‘coop detat’?”
“That, my son, in politics or state
craft is the same thing as a pinch
hitter delivering the goods in the last
half of the ninth inning of a baseball
game, with runners on second and
third and the score 2 to 1 in favor of
the other team.”—Richmond Tlmes-Dis
patcb.
Promoted.
“Mrs. Nurich, I understand your hus
band is one of the stewards of the
racing association."
“Look here, young man, my husband
gave up cookin’ years ago and I’d
rather you wouldn’t refer to it”—Buf
falo Express.
A Sneaky Man.
Mr. Kay See—Sneaky sort of man?
What do you mean, sir? Witness
Well, sor, he’s the sort of man that’ll
never look ye straight in the face until
yer back’s turned.—Kansas City Times.
Appreciation.
“Has your wife a sense of humor?”
“Sure. I told her all the automobile
Jokes I could and now she wants one
of the automobiles."-Washington Star.
PAINTED POST.
Story of tho Inoidont That Gavo tho
Plaoo Ita Name.
There's not a drummer between New
York and San Francisco who hasn’t at
some etage of his drumming career
made game of the name of the to|vn of
Painted Post And after everybody
laughs you may hear the query, “But 1
wonder where It did get Its name?”
Here Is the story:
In the summer of 1770 the English
and Indians under a loyalist McDon
ald, and Hlakutoo, a renowned Seneca
war chief, returned north from a raid
by way of Pine creek, the Tioga and
the Conhocton. They brought with
them their own wounded and some
prisoners taken at Freely’s fort
Under the elms at the confluence of
the Tioga and Conhocton Captain Mon*
tour, a half breed and a noted war
chief, died of bis wounds. He was the
son of Frontenac by the famous Indian
Queen Catherine. He was burled by
the river side, and above his grave was
placed a post on which were painted
various symbols and devices. This
monument became known as the paint
ed post and was a landmark often vis
ited by the bruves and chieftains of
the Six Nutions.
The post stood for many years after
the settlement of the country. Finally
It rotted down at the butt and was pre
served In the barroom of a tavern until
1810, when It disappeared. Some say It
was swept away during a freshet—
New York Sun.
CURIOUS COBRA TRAP.
And a Queer 8nake Theory Held by the
Natives of India.
A naturalist tells us of an odd kind
of snake trap that caught its victim
securely. It was a biscuit can, and in
the bottom of it were some macaroons.
A cobra spied the can, but a mouse
was ahead of the cobra. The little thief
was having a good time regaling him
self on the macaroons, all unconscious
that a snake was preparing to regale
itself on mouse. Into the can went
the head of the snake, but the h,ead
that went in was destined to come out
less easily. The rough edges of the
can Irritated the cobra, and involun
tarily it dilated its hood. That made
it a prisoner. With the hood dilated
the head could not be withdrawn, and
the cobra remained In its tin prison
until morning, when it was easily cap
tured and killed.
Stradling, who knows the natives of
India as well as he knows the snakes
of that land, tells of an interesting
theory held by these people. They are
firmly convinced that for every human
being a snake bites it loses one joint
When the number of deaths the snake
has caused equals the number of its
joints the venomous head alone re
mains. The snake has now reached the
height of Its wicked desires, and at
this point It develops wings and tri
umphantly disappears. — Washington
Star.
The Clock’s Hands.
"Come, hurry up!” said the second
hand of a clock to the minute hand.
“You’ll never get around in time if you
don’t. See how fast I’m going.” con
tinued the fussy little monitor as It
fretted round on Its pivot.
‘Come, nurry up.” said the minute
hand to the hour hand, utterly oblivi
ous of being addressed by the second
hand. “If you don’t be quick you’ll
never he In at the stroke of 1.”
“Well, that’s just what our young
friend there has been saying to you."
At this point the clock pealed forth
the hour as the hour hand continued:
“You see, we're in time, not one of us
behind. You take my advice, do your
own work In your own way and leave
others alone.”
Moral.—Mind your own business.—
Philadelphia Press.
Iceland and Ireland.
Iceland was once very near to be
coming a part of the British empire.
Uninhabited until the middle of the
ninth century. It was first discovered
by a little company of Irish monks,
who had fled their own land to escape
the ravages of the pagan Norsemen.
They built themselves a home In the
new land, and seemingly Intended to
stay when, after a few years, the
Norsemen also discovered Iceland, and
the monks fled back to Ireland. Not a
few Scotch and Irish emigrants, how
ever, found their way to Iceland in
later times.—London Express.
A Chilly Spot.
“You’ll have to change my place on
the bill,” declared the lady acrobat “I
find the audience too cold.”
“How will a shift help that any?"
demanded the vaudeville manager.
"Why, I come on Just after a fellow
who is lecturing on the arctic.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Rems’* Aqueducts.
The eight aqueducts of ancient Rome
brought 40,000,000 gallons of water a
day Into the city, find the Romans
been aware that water always rises to
its own level these huge erections on
arches seventy feet high need never
hnve been built
Improved by Experience.
"Goodness,” she exelnimed sarcasti
cally, “but you were born bright!” *
"Certainly," he agreed, “and knock
tng around has polished me constdera
bly.’’—Judge.
How It 8ounded.
Bacon—Whnt Is your daughter doing
at 'he piano? Egbert—Sounds ns If
she was setting her etnas yell to music
—Yonkers Statesman.
There is no solemnity so deep, to h
rightly thinking creature, as that of
dawn.—Ruakln.
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