The Cordova daily times. [volume], January 05, 1921, Page 2, Image 2

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Cordova Mill and Lumber Company
Telephone 5 P. 0. Box 218
Copper River and
Northwestern Ry.
Effective November 1, 1920.
TRAIN LEAVES—
Cordova for Chitina Monday and Thursday.
Chitina for Kennecott Tuesday, Friday and
Sunday.
Kennecott for Chitina Monday, Wednesday
and Saturday.
Chitina for Cordova Tuesday and Friday.
THI8 SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
Freight received and delivered at Cordova Wharf from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m., except Sundays
and Holidays
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot Office one hour
before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER. Superintendent MARK MoALLEN, Ticket Aflent
ALASKAN PUTS
STORY OF LIFE
IN BOOK FORM
“Alaska Man’s Luck,” described in
a sub-title as “A Romance of Fact,”
is the latest book by an Alaskan au
thor to make its appearance, and it is
receiving considerable attention from
Eastern reviewers. The New York
Times recently gave it a whole page
in its book review section.
The story s written in diary form,
and tells of the experience and ad
ventures of Hans Hajalmar Rutzebeck,
who is building a farm on government
land near Haines. The diary begins
with February 14, 1914, and the last
entry is May 19, 1917. The diary of
course, in the first person, and the
name used by the author is Svend
Norman, but the preface explains that
the adventures and experiences are
those of the author. The book is wel1
written, the incidents quickly and di
rectly narrated, the descriptions en
tertaining and true and the philoso
phizing not at all tiresome, and con
fined strictly to the deduction of ah
active mind from actual experiences
as they are related.
The writer is a native of Denmark
and was still in his twenties when he
closed the book. He had quit school
as a boy and gone to sea. Later he
enlisted in the United States army,
and came to Fort William H. Seward.
This is brought out in the preface and
in the subsequent entries in the
diary. The actual story begins with
the author in Los Angeles, lately hon
orably discharged from the army.
There he meets a girl, wrho becomes
the ideal of his dreams. She agrees
to wait, without promising directly to
marry him, for him to return to Alas
ka and make a home. From this time
to the end the entries in the diary
take him through three eventful years
and tell the story of his life, together
with the every day experiences which
are told in a way to rob them of any
hint at commonplace, and testify to
his unwavering devotion to Marian,
surname never mentioned, nor other
details, except of course, she is beau
tiful, sweet and brave.
The author beats his way north
Meet
Your
Friends
ward by stealing rides on railroads,
works in a logging camp for a month
in Oregon, and finally lands at Haines.
He secured work in a Porcupine
mine, makes a prospecting trip, goes
broke, and then, proceeds over the
Dalton trail to Whitehorse, where he
is unable to find work, and is under
suspicion by the Northwest Mounted
Police. He gets to Skagway, without
a cent of money. Denied passage to
Haines, too proud to beg, he breaks
into a store at Skagway to get some
food. Once in the store, realizing that
he is a burglar, a criminal, he goes a
step further and robs the cash regis
ter of $13. Then follows his experi
ences as an outlaw during the course
of which he breaks jail three times—
once at Skagway, once at Whitehorse
and once at Juneau. He testifies to
the efficiency of the Northwest
Mounted Police and the American of
ficers of the law in the story of their
pursuit and recapture of him time af
ter time. He makes characters of his
fellow prisoners, tells interesting
stories of them, and has little but
praise for his captors and keepers.
While he does not mention his
name, twice his story testifies to the
kindly heart and thoughtful interest
of Judge Jennings. Once when he
tells of the interest the judge showed
when he related the story of his life
in open court, pending sentence for
his crime, and the second time when,
after he had worked for a month at
the Perseverance mine, when he
called on the judge to ascertain
whether or not he had forfeited his
citizenship and would be ineligible to
take up a homestead. In the first iif
stance Judge Jennings took into ac
count that he had served honorably
in the army and lived a decent life
before his Skagway adventure and
gave him a jail sentence of fifteen
months instead of a long term in
the penitentiary. The second time
the judge, he says, was very kind,
told him that he had not forfeited
his citizenship and offered to help
him if he needed it. Prom that time
on the author works on his farm at
Viking Cove, near Haines, makes
money fishing and working at Skag
way. Notwithstanding that he got
a hint from a friend of his that he had
better return to Los Angeles and claim
Marian, he does not muster up cour
age to go until Marian comes out of
her shell and frankly asks him to
come. This is just before Christmas
time. The diary closes there to be re
opened only with the break of the
next spring when he and Marian as
man and wife are together at their
home at Viking’s Cove.
The writer at no time enipts to
justify his adventure ir ot.Iawry,
and he does not spare himself in his
condemnation. He is more or less of
a dreamer and a lover of nature. Alas
ka’s mountains, forests and waters
appeal to him with compelling force
and time after time in the most un
expected times and unusual places,
he stops the thrilling story to relate
the impressions of some bit of na
ture the natural scenery or the pranks
of animal life, leave with him.
The book is well worth reading,
and wifi add greatly to the appeal of
Alaska if it gets the circulation it de
serves. It is pubished by Boni and
Livernight of New York.
Ti:: Jr.il record of the man, the his
tory of his crimes and his attempts
the Alaska court records. Rutzebeck
to escape justice are all borne out by
the Alaska court records. Mr. Rutze
beck says he is writing other books on
Alaska and also promises to write
books relating to his experience as a
sailor.
Those who have read “Alaska
Man’s Luck” wdll look for the appear
ance of the next book with more than ;
a little interest.
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BILLIE BURKE
in
“The
Misleading
Widow”
She shocked the town! Really she did.
A young, charming widow, entertaining
two men in her home. And unchaperoned!
Unspeakable!
And who do you suppose one of the men
was?
And what do you think the other one did?
Words can t describe the scandal!
Come and see it! Do!
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