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The Department property lost included
all the equipment at the detachment, save
three police dogs, two sleighs, two rifles
and the department automobile.

Telegraph Creek is at the head of
navigation on the Stikine River. To
reach this post, a river boat is used which
takes about two and one-half days to
navigate the swift water of the Stikine
from Wrangell, Alaska, to the “Creek”
Telegraph Creek is situated behind the
Alaskan Panhandle, where the territory
of Alaska extends southward in a narrow
coastal strip to the Portland Canal at
Hyder, Alaska. All passengers or freight
must therefore come into Telegraph Creek
through American territory, unless they
wish to take the long overland route on
foot from Hazelton along the telegraph
line to the Yukon. The trip that takes

This post was built on the mighty Liard
River flowing towards the Arctic Circle.
: We sympathize with the victims of the
lelegraph Creek fire, and the members
of the Force have given tangible effect
to this sentiment by contributing a purse
of several hundred dollars towards the
re-establishment of the constable’s house-
hold effects which were lost in the blaze.

DETECTIVE’S QUICK WORK
WHILE delivering a lecture to the Quota
Club, San Jose, California, Det.-Captain
Raymond Blackmore, who had taken as
his subject “Crime Detection,” hannened
to glance out a window where he saw a
man who was wanted by the police. He
abandoned his lecture, hurried outside,
and made an arrest.

After the fire.

two and one half days up the Stikine can
be made in eight hours coming down the
river. Special boats are used in travelling
this swift, and in many places shallow
river. The boats have flat bottoms, and a
tunnel running down the centre at the
stern, so that the propeller can be elevated
into the tunnel when passing over sand
bars and shallows. Telegraph Creek is an
important northern “jumping off’ point
for miners and prospectors who have a
vast and little explored mineral empire
awaiting them. The fur industry is also
quite large, and Telegraph Creek is the
natural outlet for the mid-northern trap-
per. Recently air travel has brought the
settlement closer to the centres of civiliza-
tion at the coast.

The original police detachment at
Telegraph Creek was opened at Glenora,
a few miles south of the Creek in
1879, while another early detachment
was called “Stickeen River” which was
created in 1875. Further to the north-east
ot Telegraph Creek a police detachment
Was opened in 1876 at McDames Creek.

EIGHTEENTH EDITION

SON OF NEGRO SLAVE BECOMES
POLICE CAPTAIN
EMANUEL KLINE, son of an ex-slave
and the oldest negro member of the City
of New York Police Department, is the
first of his race in New York's history

to attain captain’s rank in that service.

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SURVIVAL

IT IS A REAL ANTIQUE, this King
James Authorized Version of the Holy
Bible, now the legal property of the Van-
couver Public Library. Its chains are
gone. It is now secure in a closed book-
case—not for the financial value, but for
its cultural riches in this machine age of
mass production.

During the great blitz of 1942, London
seemed doomed.

Not only her people, but her culture
and her literary treasures were the targets
of bombs and high explosives. The print-
ers and stationers suffered their share of
the modern design of destruction and
terror.

As dusk gathered in the troubled sky
and the angry drone of bombers swarmed
up the Thames Estuary, the question of
survival was uppermost in all minds, and
our interest and affection for our historic
treasures was increased.

It brought to mind the terrible burnings
of great libraries of the past—of the
great fire in the city of Alexandria in
ancient times, in which perished many
books, the burnings of which cut us off
entirely from antiquity. Precious manu-
scripts were sent whirling into the sky
as mere flecks of blackened leaves, only
to settle on the countryside as useless
dust. Louvain perished in World War
One, and though the Americans attempted
to restore it, they were unable to return
the original works.

3ut books, like traditions, have a sur-
vival value. and neither warmongers nor
incendiary bombs can ever completely
stamp them out. When so many old books
were feeding the flames around Station-
er’s Hill, one volume was destined not
to perish.

It was once chained for 100 years to
the reading desk of How-Chapel Church,
near Ross, in Herefordshire. Printed in
1613, it is a copy of the original 1611
translation, and one of the first Bibles to
be read in English in that church.

It was the best seller of the year! It
was not merely a book to the people—it
was an event. It brought excitement to
their lives with its stories which caught
their fancy with all the excitement of a
present day movie fan for the picture
of the year.

The newly added words to its title-
page, “Appointed to be read in the
Churches by Royal Command”, kindled a
wild fire of enthusiasm. While some had
read parts of it in English before, yet
it was only at the risk of their lives, when
they joined the underground movement,
for if they were caught with a translation,
they were put to death. So they read it
in secret hiding places, where they met
after their day’s work. ;

If this historic book could unfold the
story, now lost, of its unique survival of
four centuries, to turn up in this new

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