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ICE CREAM — CONFECTIONERY
GAS — OILS

SALMO B.C.

SALMO MERCANTILE
CO. LTD.
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VANCE BROS. LIMITED

“Wholesale Produce”
Phone 1200

156 Wellington St. Trail, B.C.

Telephone 127 P.O. Drawer 150

HUBNER’S GARAGE

A. F. HUBNER, Proprietor
Expert Repairs to All Makes of Cars

Gasoline, Oils, Tubes and Accessories

ROSSLAND BRITISH COLUMBIA

KLINE’S

YOUR FRIENDLY HOME

FURNISHERS

You'll Always Do Better at Kline’s
TRAIL British Columbia

The Home of Hospitality
ARLINGTON HOTEL

LICENSED PREMISES
TRAIL B.C.

HILLSIDE DAIRY

MR. and MRS. F. T. HAMBLIN, Props.

FRESH MILK and CREAM
Grade “A” — T.B. Tested
DELIVERED DAILY

P.O. Box 412 TRAIL, B.C.

Boundary Sawmills Limited

Manufacturers of
LUMBER and TIMBER OF ALL KINDS

Production about Twelve Million Feet
Per Year

SAWMILLS AT MIDWAY, B.C.

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him in the back; he’d decided as he
lay awake that night to bring matters
to a head. Near sunrise he’d sneaked
quietly from the Police shack, forced
the door of the lean-to, and grabbed
a rifle and four cartridges. Retracting
his steps he’d stood by the stove,
taken deliberate aim at Doak’s thigh
—intending merely to wound and
hurt him—and fired. The Mountie
had lived about four hours and had
asked him frequently why he had
done this thing. When Doak died he
decided he might as well kill Binder,
too. Standing beside the window he’d
waited for the trader to start across
the ice on his usual morning visit.
Half way to the barracks Ali-
goomiak’s second bullet had felled
him in his tracks. Then, since he’d
found white men could be killed so
easily, Aligoomiak decided to kill the
two remaining whites and return to
the village of his people.

The evidence against Aligoomiak
and his uncle was overwhelming.
Two Americans, Radford and Street,
had been murdered by this same tribe
only a few years before; then Fathers
Rouvier and Le Roux had been muti-
lated and slain. Now a Hudson’s Bay
trader and a Mounted Policeman had
succumbed to Cogmollock bullets. If
something drastic wasn’t done, it
would be unsafe for white men to
venture into Coronation Gulf.

Death Sentence

As the death sentence was passed
upon them, Aligoomiak grinned,
stepped from the dock and handed a
cigarette to Judge Dubuc who'd just
decreed his death .. .

In the ghostly twilight of a Febru-
ary dawn, a group of broad-faced
Nunatagmuit Eskimos gazed through
the empurpled half-light at Herschel
Island’s frozen barracks. With
measured step four fur-clad Mounties
crunched towards the “bone-house.”
Between them, their Mongol faces
registering mingled apathy and de-
fiance, shuffled Aligoomiak and _ his
uncle. The door slammed omniously.
Across the wind-flailed wastes drifted
the dismal death-dirge of a slinking
wolf. On frosted hinges the doors

H.C. Davis Ltd.

ESTABLISHED SINCE 1910

General Merchants

IMPERIAL OIL PRODUCTS

Phone 2131

FRUITVALE

creaked open. Four grey-faced
Mounties and the hangman tramped
back. Bill Doak and Otto Binder
had been avenged . . . and the Arctic
at last made safe for pioneering
whites! %& *&

Copyright by Philip H. Godsell, F.R.G.S.
1954.

Red-Coated Mounties
Model for Alaska Force

Canada’s famed red-coated Mounties
will serve as the model for Alaska’s
relatively new Territorial Police, ac-
cording to word from Superintendent
A. P. “Bob” Brandt, who also
announced that he plans to make use
of F.B.I. methods in screening appli-
cants for jobs on his department.

Superintendent Brandt plans to set
up in Juneau a headquarters which
will keep in close contact with all
parts of the territory.

Authorized by the Territorial Legis-
lature early in 1953, the department is
in the process of organization and will
extend its coverage to all types of en-
forcement, criminal investigation, and
the establishment of a crime labora-
tory.

Assisting Superintendent Brandt in
the administration of the new depart-
ment are Captain Wesley I. Gilman
and Lieutenant E. L. Mayfield. * *

JUPP’S
MEN’S WEAR

Tip Top Agent » Broadway

P.O. Box 144

Phone 71 — Res. 18-L

NAKUSP B.C.

Creighton’s
Food Market

Locker Storage

GROCERIES - MEATS
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