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Show oo MAIL STAGES OP KLONDIKE GONE (Itj International News Vrvnr i SEATTLK, V:ish.. i n.t J'j. The royal mall stages of the Klondike have I passed. N'o longer will the famous stages of ,the While Pna? .ind Yukon route, drawn h. fleet-footed horse, steered ,'l.v piitureiiu drivers wh.i kn.-w no I fear, go flying over the white trail north from Dawson Into the Klondike The froren hills of the north country no more will echo back and forth the weird stlrrlnc malamtilo call of the stage driver as they brought their vehicles ve-hicles through the canyons and pasMcs or the l.eutlng of hoofs that heralded the sleds of the royal mall, the kind's m.ill for they have gone N'ews of the passing of h great work, contained In the announcement of A 'the White Pnsa ond Yukon route that it will no longer be able to operate the stages because of Increasing costs, und niust therefore shut down. And so. when snow flies, in a few j weeks over the Klondike, there will be no stages lo take up the work After Af-ter twenty-three years' eervice service as regular ad morning and night the stasis havf stopped liiley norm other company take, up the work there will be no commun kal ion with 1 1 he "inside," and the Klondike will drop back again Into the primeval Isolation Iso-lation which wan hers before the white !mon came in the great rush for gold.( But many who knew Ihe royal mall stages have gone. The Klondike klnsra' i whose' pleasure it was to ride forth on I the .stages elbow to elbow with the in- H coming prospectors, have for the most LR part, gone their way. "Swlftwater Hj Hill Bates, "HI,-: Aleck" McDonald, fa- HH mnus Skookum Mm the Indian. J.n I. Lbh Boyle and Thomas S. Llppy, great men BB of great times, ware some of them ID And "Swlftwater Bill" is somewhere lH south In a South American mining camp: Tom Llppy Is a Seattle banker Hklsl and president of the port commission. LssiB ("Big Aleck'' sleeps on the endless trail In the Dawson cemetery, "Skookum H Jim" In also deodi c.ne to (he happy sasaVa tiuriting grounds Jack Boyle was one LIbJBsI of the Klondike heroes of the great M war, and Is now regurded as the friend and benefactor .of the Ifumanlun royal saflB |