The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 6

= THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929. T T Ty T —— 'POLLY AND H ER PALS JTHINK MY WHISKERS HAS GROWN OUT ENOLGH FER ME 15 A THE GOIL| 1OILI ° SYNOPSIS: Daring the blis- tering heat of the desert, Lucy rushes to Skull Valley to warn her fiance, Jerry Ogden, that the police charge him with slaying his father. Lucy’s uncle, John Peebles, follows her to the ghost town, Torridity, where the murdered Andrew Ogden is be- lieved to have ruled 30 years before as Alex Peterson, ler and overlord. As Peebles searches the eerie buildings, Lucy and Jerry suddenly drive past but fail to see him. Peebles tries to follow them but discov- ers that the tires of his auto have been slashed. OM A TOMB What of the man who had slash- ed my tires? Dillon, undoubtedly. Knowing that Jerry was in Torrid- ity, he had come to plant the flan- nels. The children, I decided, did SIR, YOUR RESEMBLANCE 70 THE HON. ASH. D) BUL y Charles G.Booth V/HAT'S YOUR IDEA IN RAISING THAT RIDICULOUS OH! JESS : 3 g A BECAUSE THING OF PAST! WELL, IF You ASK ME, By CLIFF STERRETT FER THiS BABY ?{ HECK NO! FETCH ME THE ONE MAW SHARPENS PENCILS WITH! ] Why? It didn't take me long to speculate about it. If the slash The sun was lower. The wind |Was not a new opening into the had quickened; its eerie note shrill- |complicated workings of the Two ed a little. After T had gone 100 | Brothers mine, what was it? The yards beyond the limits of the Two marksman on the hillside was Brothers property I came upon a‘;mmrdmg a recently exposed ledge narrow gash slashed deep into the [Of gold-bearing ore. “Who ‘is it2” flinty mountainside which I had 1 muttefed. “Flrie ot seen as I came up. A vague | —Dillon?” ‘ As a farewell for Mrs. Henry |ney, where she will spend the next led into the gash and the im-| If MacNair was right in his as- Stragier who with her children is|few int of shoes showed in a sprink- |sumption that Furie knew some. ling of sand at my feet. | thing about the specimen we had elf between towering walls of |Furie. reddish rock which gradually wid- | ned into a sizeable canyon that away. With my eyes upon the; cut into the heart of the Skeletons, |slope opposite, I had made my way | [ had gone some 200 yards when I |along the trail, half expecting the noticed a “V"-shaped joint in the smack of a bullet. But it didn't south slope of the canyon. As I |come and presently I was out in approached the joint I saw it was |the desert again. ceally a cavern-lke slash in the| The sun had gone. Into the rock wall. shrill cry of the wind had come a 1 had come within 30 feet of the |human note as awesome as a voice | slash when a rifle cracked and al bullet flattened against the rock 12, from a tomb. Little wheels andi whirls of sand sprang up, danced,| died. The sand haze nipped my | inches above my head! 5 throat, stung my nostrils, watered The fury of a Skull Valle’;‘s‘andstorm lashed Peebles mercilessly. desert holding forces gathering beneath | {this outward tranquillity, affected | |me and I began to run. | jmy eyes. | | | When I had come within 100‘ ‘lyards of the nearest building the | wind screamed like a herd of ter-| rified horses. The ferocity of }‘lhe wind was beyond conception. ! It took me into its arms and,| 'Lpinnuw me like a top, ran with me sercaming down the street. Sud- denly it let me go and for a mo- ment I hung in a little pocket in the wind. Geysers of sand sprang tup from the earth, ropes of sand fell from the sky, and I saw them driven by the bellows of heaven linto the revels of a pit full of fields | let loose. | And then, suddenly, a blast of | sand poured into my face, blinding me; the wind picked me up again, spun me, and hurled me against the side of a building. Pinning me, it smote me blow upon blow until I thought my senses would leave | | | | ‘me. My body felt beatemn to a RS % 3 ulp, and my face was stingin — ) ¢ N o | y ging tand bleeding from tiny cuts in- | tticted by the gravel-toothed wind. | not know he was here and he may ot have seen them. He certainly knew I was here. Why in the| name of commonsense hadn't T brought a pistol? 1 don’'t know what made me think of Furie just then. MacNair had assumed that Furie knew some- thing about the Two Brothers mine; perhaps, indeed, had brought Og- den the bit of quartz. Moreover, Hubbard’s description of him strongly suggested the old desert- rat type. Mightn't Furie be a relic of Torridity's vanished prosperity? Was it Furie's presence I had sensed in the town instead of Dil- lon's? Was it, indeed, Furie who had slashed my tires? And had Dil- lon, after “planting” the flannels, taken himself off? I began to won- der about the Two Brothers mine. MacNair had connected Furie and the quartz specimens with it and 1 had concluded Lucy had found Jerry there. After swallowing a sandwich I set off up the street towards the flank of the mountain behind the town. On the out- Once again the wind picked me | up and sent me spinning down the | street. Then it smote me side-' wise. I pitched through an open| door and went headlong. (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) My eyes sprang up the opposite | slope which ascended gradually and | I saw not far above me a small| {wooden shanty from which, I con- {cluded, had come the shot. I won- dered if I were to be dropped dead as I stood. | The slash offersd sanctuary. Only 30 feet away! Could I make it? I hurled myself towards it. Before I} had covered a third of the distance |the rifle cracked again and my hat leaped and fell over my face. Los-! |ing my balance, I reeled back |against the eliff. | Will the desert’s fury add g Peebles to its toll? Who fired i the shots? What is he guard- | ing? Continue the story fo- | morrow. } — e, MEETI ! Juneau Woman's Club i It seemed likely that a third shm.m?‘;u;fai““‘a{,vg‘,‘f;‘j?;'yc{;‘f a’,‘fi 82 would put an end to the foremost|je1q at the FORGET-ME-NOT Tea ! collector of pistols in San Felipe Room, Tuesday, May 21st, 8:00 p.m. | county and I stayed where I was.| Election of officers. All mem- The sun was beginning to set be- pers are urged to attend. adv. | yond the crest of the Skeletons. eSS S 1. AR It grew perceptibly darker. What| Try a TOASTED SANDWICH st were the man’s intentions? Per- lhups he merely intended to keep| - eee— me out of the slash. Holding my! Try the Five |breath, I edged away from the Specials at Mabry's. the Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. adv| o'Clock Dinner | —adv, | DOUGLAS NEWS MRS. STRAGIER COMPLIMENTED |1eaving this week to reside in Chi- August Olson king into the gash, I found |found in Ogden’s desk it might be and Joe Riedi entertained the Cath-| {olic ladies of the island, at the| My immediate concern was to get home of the former Saturday eve-| chagof, Mesdames ning, May 18. The evening was spent at cards, three tables being played. Prize winners were, Mrs. A. Africh, first, Mrs. H. Kittlesby, consolation, and Mrs. H. Stragier, cut prize. The latter was presented with a Rayon bed-spread by her friends. - SHITANDA GETS TRUCK T proprietor, is the lucky man who A curious sense of the received the half-ton Ford truck jtself in leash, of that was disposed of by the Doug- | las Fire Department. —_———o—— CHANGE RESIDENCES Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Cochrane have removed to the Armstrong cottage on St. Ann’s Ave, where Misses Olson and Abrahamson re- sided during the school term. e (04 SR HOME FROM TEACHING Their teaching terms ended, Miss Impi Aalto and Miss Elizabeth Fra- ser, arrived home on the Admiral Evans from Scow Bay and West Petersburg, respectively, where they taught school all winter. ———.—— Ice cream, brick or bulk. Juneau Ice Cream Parlors. —adv. “Slim” Shitanda, Owl Cafe ) ; ; K 4,, | 7@77 Fo (rk Sterrefms? : slash. Nothing happened. Appar-' SILVER TEA 2 Q ently I might take my self off, but' May Succeed De Groo! I mustn't go into the slash. | St. Luke's Guild will entertain % 5 with a silver tea Thursday after- noon May 23, at the home of Mrs. J. R. 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