not, of course, enough to prove any- ing. Purkitt continued to live around atlayoko Lake. In the mountains south of e lake the Tatlayoko Gold Mines, Ltd., da good deal of development work. When yerations shut down Purkitt became a sort caretaker to keep an eye on their property.

He represented himself as being about ) years of age, and this was accepted as ose to the mark, but after his death at the nch of Ken Moore, pioneer settler at Tat- yoko Lake, it came out that his real age as 86. “When Ken Moore took over Purkitt’s sponsibilities towards the mines, all the >ys had disappeared mysteriously, so Moore ad to break all the locks and substitute new nes. The loss of the original keys puzzled en Moore until last summer when he took party to one of the mine camps.

“T was in such a hurry to get Purkitt’s ody out of the house,” Moore observed ith sudden comprehension, “before the rildren came home that I never even turned it his pockets. I'll bet we buried the keys ith him.”

‘As has already been pointed out Pur- itt was never shown to be a party to the urning of Pypor’s store, but his close sociation with Rudland made him one of 1e lesser figures in the case. With his death, The Moccasin Trail” comes to an end.

CONVICTS BUILD CHURCH

N THE great industrial city of Pittsburgh, ennsylvania, a white mission-style chapel ands today behind the drab grey walls of Vestern Penitentiary —a tribute to the bour and skill of the prisoners themselves. The chapel is the first in the history of le penitentiary to be used exclusively for ligious services. Previously services were

conducted in an auditorium also used for shows, meetings and for other activities.

The total cash outlay was less than $100. But the prisoners contributed the labour, and interested outside groups presented the other things necessary to build a church.

When an old hospital building of the penitentiary was razed, the Rev. A. W. Stremel, Protestant chaplain, and the Rev. F. J. Huber, the Catholic’ chaplain, noted that one wing of this building, relatively new and of heavy construction, was not torn down.

They decided to use this wing as the basis for a chapel.

Architects provided remodelling plans. Then the prisoners went to work, altering walls, removing partitions, building a tower into the front.

Outside groups contributed stained glass

windows, a marble alter, red dorsal hangings,

cross and candlesticks, pulpit and lectern, mastic tile flooring and red chancel car- peting, an electric organ and pews.

The chapel was dedicated recently, with the Rev. A. R. Hyland, Catholic chaplain of Clinton Prison, Dannemore, N. Y., speaking at the Catholic ceremonies, and Dr. J. W. Claudy, superintendent of Rockview Penitentiary at Bellefonte, Pa., a former Pittsburgh pastor, delivering the sermon at the Protestant services

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veying policing arrangements incidental to the Alaskan Highway project. Travelling through the Cariboo and visiting Stewart Lake en route, both agreed upon their return that the North was coming into its own.

Extra police have been stationed at Daw- son Creek and Fort St. John and additional men may be drafted to the vast growing territory.

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