enough to help his family pack and take them back north with him. However, shortly after his return he resigned from the force to join the civil service under Mr. J. D. Graham, who was then gold commissioner for the Yukon. His new duties included travelling the small creeks, collecting poll taxes and gold royalties from the creek and bench miners. During the winter of that year he acted as gold commissioner while Mr. Graham went south on business. The government decided about that time to open a government office at Atlin, and Mr. Bickle took in the stationery and other Phone 315 P. O. Box 21/ CENTRAL GARAGE CYRIL BURNS GENERAL REPAIRS - WELDING TIRES - BATTERIES - PARTS Courtenay, British Columbia BILL RICKSON Men’s Wear ® Union Street Courtenay, B. C. P. LEO ANDERTON Notary Public Official Administrator Real Estate and Insurance Phones 42 and 92 Courtenay, B.C. SS SS eS ee Headquarters for Sporting Goods, Guns, Rifles, Ammunition and Everything in the Fishing Tackle Line Courtenay Hardware Co. G. B. BELL, Manager TOURISTS’ INFORMATION Phones 401-402 COURTENAY, B.C. a DO NOT BURN OR DESTROY THIS PUBLICATION. Sell it or give it to a salvage organization. IT IS NEEDED FOR VICTORY. equipment over the ice of Lake Bennett, using dog teams and horse and sleigh, and breaking trail from Little Windy to Big Windy on his way. He then stayed at Atlin and got the office operating. It was while he was there that he had a most exciting experience. He was still a special constable, and one day about noon he was called to a restaurant on First Street. The owner, a man named Hemming, had gone out of his mind, at- tacked his wife with a razor, and then barri- caded himself in a back room. He had defied all efforts to dislodge him. Bickle wasted no time. He crashed in the door and found himself face to face with the homicidal man- iac, who had by this time armed himself with a huge meat axe. Bickle dodged the weapon and grappled with the madman, and with the help of onlookers subdued him. Later Bickle took him down to the provincial asyl- um at New Westminster. In November, 1900, Mr. Bickle resigned from the government service. Before leaving he was honoured by his associates, who gath- ered together at the Grand Hotel in Atlin to present him with an engraved gold watch. He is mighty proud of this watch, and has worn it ever since. The following year he returned to the north country for a short time, representing Hydraulic Leases, a mining company, but left for the last time in 1902. This time he went to San Francisco, where he worked for the United Railways, a street railway con- cern. In 1904 he came back to Vancouver Is- land, settling at Cumberland, where he worked in the coal mines until 1912. He did every job from digger to timber boss. He had been merchant, policeman, gold miner and coal miner. And now he changed his occupation again. In 1912 he obtained office space in the Cumberland Islander, a struggling little weekly newspaper. There he did business as a notary public, job printer and solicited advertising. Six months later he purchased the business and it has flour- ished and expanded ever since. He now has a branch in Courtenay, and the Islander is known far and wide as a lively country newspaper. In 1917, Mr. Bickle leased the Ilo-Ilo Theatre in Cumberland, and shortly after- Inscription on the back of Mr. Bickle’s presentation watch, —Photo by Const. W. H. Davidson Page Thirty-four wards purchased it outright. He now oper- ates three of the most modern motion picture theatres on Vancouver Island, one at Cum- berland and two at Courtenay. His E. W, Theatre at Courtenay, built two years ago, is noted as one of the finest in the province. Mr. Bickle has a family of five, one son and four daughters. All are now happily married, and there are a number of grand. children. And they are all proud of the “grand old man of the Yukon Trail.” SERGEANT: “Did you get those five men who escaped from the lunatic asylum?” Constable: ‘Five! I got thirteen.” “WE AIM TO PLEASE” COURTENAY HOTEL G. W. TATER, Proprietor Remodelled Throughout Fully Licensed Courtenay, B.C. SUTTON'S Courtenay Undertaking Parlours COURTENAY and CAMPBELL RIVER THE COURTENAY HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP “AMY and FRED” LUNCHES and STEAKS CHICKEN DINNERS OUR SPECIALTY ALL WHITE HELP COURTENAY, B.C. RIVERSIDE HOTEL COURTENAY, B.C. £. W.— Jlo- Ho — Lickle Theatres * EDWARD W. BICKLE * Courtenay and Cumberland THE SHOULDER STRAP