The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 10, 1929, Page 6

GOLD BULLETS 5 arles SYNOPSIS: Jerry Ogden tells y of his father's last night as Alex P on, overlord i story revealed by Ogden just before he was murler Peterson’s young- er brother, “Jerry,” was sen- tenced by miners’ trial to hang for robbery. Defying the men pursuing his brother, Alex locks i » Peterson mine delay thelr ch! mits steal- = the mob a e to wait un- b whose inz, but Lundy, fod refu They agr til sunrise. ry Chapter 36 y A NIGHT OF HORROR I Deacon and I sat Jerry paused momentarily. T)wf . suspense was terrific and it was a fiddling with must have given dad distinct relief when Jerry resumed.|an “1t was just nine by dad’s watch. in The sun rose at four seven hours' grace and he knew is he was in for the biggest night of ‘on his life. jwi “Dad was ready to spend every dollar he possessed to save Uncle Jerry, but whether it was an honest | record and he p acceptance of his offer that L\u\(l\"‘lh had in mind, or not, he couldn't decide. That sense of ‘something eeted dad. ‘Come in.' i e of the Douglas City Council in the else’ buzzing in Lundy’s head,| “Dad described the room. A spg_i‘b‘ld“l‘"_it};f:‘my;o N e | city hall Wednesday evening, June | Secretary. wouldn't let go of him. hanging lamp lighted it. There| ., . (lx'ix\ki:xp e e o “Hm‘“ 2, at 7 o'clock. | & SRR BT S ¢ 7! “Dad struck off towards the town. were half a dozen chairs, an old |,y (. a9 vmrs'npn ::xld s ".aid “‘; ——— Burke, Webb and Fitch fell in 100 |desk, the table, and an old-fash~ - o o feet or so behind him. A terrific Place. Shouting, laughing, women |a iauealing, ragtime on a tinny pi- ano, and all that. A hush fell as dad entered. bar and bought a drink. ““Where's Lundy?’ he asked. ¥ “The barkeeper seemed nervous. “As dad made his way towards the gallery stair, Fitch, Burke, and Webb came in. “Dad stood at the top of the stair and looked down into the hall. The piano had started again the floor or drinking at the bar.|sal They all seemed animated by the same impulse: to have as good a time as Lundy’s Place could afford them, dad said. them they were all of a kind. They |floor to the ceiling, {doo:' was closed you hardly knew breathless as | sort He had pretend th Peterson saw Lundy's ghastly proposal coming—it staggered now. ioned safe with a broken lock. A | @in was pouring out of Lundy‘x‘lbrewen' calendar with a picture of | south wall. wall He went up to the|occupied the other two-thirds of the {end of the building. cigarette. ‘Upstairs,’ he said. | they had been waiting for him, that with himself complete. “Lundy and said ways having been ‘a lucky hombre.’ | “‘Me an’ Mac an’ Rich was think- and the crowd was milling around |ing uh havin' a little poker, he game,’ As he watched jain’'t no slouch yuhself, Ten-to-One.’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929. d drew on his cigarette. ,STEAMER ALASKA “‘There’s plenty of easy money downstairs,’” he said | “Lundy leaned nearer. the repitation uh beir blin’est the Skull, Ten-to-One. Don't it morning for Alaska ports with 23 seem as if a couple uh high fliers first class passengers and 108 steer: like you an' me ought to get to- age. gether y The following passengers “Dad didn't think so just then.|booked for Juneau: ‘Yuh've got | ' the gam-| th . SEATTLE, June 10. — Steame When the to the door. It was and the two gamb- and MacCoy, were sit- round table. Richey thin man with a yellow Coy was much shorter t and he had a blue and fingers. Dangerous |shouted suddenly. dad said. Lundy was fiddling stacks of poker chips.” t Jei stopped Axsd" nself from a glass of | pause gave me time to|sat in a real game. Lundy laughed. | my wits. My feeling had| “At that they began to grin and |Parker and child. yme one of stark horror as Jer ¥ T R NPT described the poster and the BISHOP CRIMONT HOME concealed entrance to Lun- secret” room. Wax dummies! uspected something of the y was commencing again. hips Lundy was ar er. That evidence against in wled. ! MecCanley, and Richey guessed dad had never |Marks, Allen Flintoff, F. A. Fred chuckle and Dad knew that ‘some- thing else’ in Lundy's mind was now. Dad said he'd never heard of anything quite so damnable. “And then he got the other side| of the picture. He knew wha Lundy was after. The proposition was ghastly, but nothing else had business. his ‘ The Rt. Rev. J. R. Crimont, S. J. had Jer Those poker ual trip of i ng of what the man had{presented itself, or seemed likely | mind.” Jerry paused. “I wont|to. And Jerry was waiting for jChurche what I ha told you |him. . . . blackness behind him. an exact description,” he went|a rope ahead . . .. Jerry, his kid | Weeks. brother! ~ And it he wh | s | brought him here! | ADMIRAL ROGERS IN PORT (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) | i The Admiral Rogers, Capt. J. E K g °th, L] | What is Lundy’s ghastly prop- osition? Can Peterson win his brother's freedom? Continue the son and H. C. Simmon: C It will sail for Sks DOUGLAS |.: noon and i NEWS |reote - I FUNERAL OF ROBERT bound next Friday. I o —| SAUNDERS HELD TODAY LAW ENFORCEMENT | HELD AT DOUGLAS At a public meeting held in the| Qdd Fellows hall Saturday evening law breaking in connection with the The Funeral of Robert Saunders, {Church of which Mr. Saunders was | The bearers were ‘Trevor Davis, Mort Truesdell, J. C. Thomas, ance. pall The meeting was called to order by Nels Anderson representing the 0Odd Fellows lodge, and L. D. Ham- | him. mock acted as secretary. These of- = ficers were made permanent to preside over any future meetings | Price. PRCARRS e 6 L, HOME FROM CHICAGOF ""l‘]fi“l”}-m r;u: ‘u;) trl{zrf;tl BN et sy B called, | Phyllis Edwards returned numoii = going g John Rustgard, Attorney General, |°0 the Virginia IV yesterday after Dad had what follows as a few weeks' visit with friends in who was an invited guest at the meeting, made an inferesting talk | upon the subject of the meeting.| With no attempt to defend the| anti-liquor laws against those op- r as a letter on a distaphone ed it on to me Chichagof. —e il COUNCIL MEETING CALLED at way. “‘Howdy, Ten-to-One, Lundy IS ENROUTE NORTH hombre as ever come into Alaska sailed at 9 o'clock Sunday | Jack Light, He'd come to talk about his broth- |Aselle Light, Mrs. S. A. Light, W. him. |A. Prater, R. E. Robertson, R, Lyle |is operating 14 plants in the Ter- Lundy said there wasn't any hurry.'and wife, Chas. A. Payne, Maud ritory “you'll show it to me now,’ Dad Mudge, L. W. Kilbourne, M. Leagen, Miss P. Kane, M. Kronquist, Miss “Lundy drew back. ‘Scared?’ he Leona Alfan, Miss M. Morris, D. M_"twu more plants in Western Alaska, J. C. Hepfinger, Eva MacCoy said it looked that Wu‘—;Y\lrn\fln. A. R. Romaney, Mrs. J. lerick, E. E. Dudden, Mrs. W. W Catholic Bishop of Alaska, arrived sy, t|on the Princess Alice after an ex- {tended trip in the States on Church | He expects to leave on inspection of and Missions to the West- |the Admiral Evans. {ward and Interior in about two,attending school in Seattle. docked in Juneau north- i this morning at 11 o'clock {witls a large list of tourists aboard r 5, land the following passengers for | ! story ?‘m tumuxrn“r iilmptcr. B ol hke i " {Mrs. Henry Hegdahl, Harry W. |Hegdahl, J. M. Masters, M. S. Wil- gway, Haines | o'clock this after- due in Juneau south- {who died at St. Ann’s Hospital Fri- | y evening was held at 2:30 o'clock | = |this afternoon from the Episcopal, {a member, the Rev. C. E. Rice of- illegal liquor traffic was the sub- |2 e ject, of many talks and the passing | [iclating at the services. Interment |of resolutions by those in \ttend- | FOOK place in Evergreen Cemetery ,i] To facilitate automobile traf- sam Feldon, Cedric Davis and John | } fic over Auk Lake Loop of the There will be a special meeting | * H ) 3 VICE-PRESIDENT OF PACIFIC AMERICAN FISHERIES IS HERE 5 H. L. Symonds, Vice President of °|the Pacific American Fisheries, ar- | rived today on the s | Rogers, on a shor will be in town for s The Pacific American Fisheries e this season. It added the Petersburg plant to its Southeastern | Alaska holdings during the winter, and two on Kodiak Island. Mr. Symonds will spend the entire sea- -|son in this section, supervising op- erations of all plants. TWHO'S WHO | AND WHERE i ——ts Walter Blue, son of Wayne Blue, agent for the Admiral Line at Sew- ard, is a westbound passenger on He has been | Harry Taylor, engineer for the | Western Electric, who installed the Vitaphone in the Coliseum theatres |in Juneau and Ketchikan, was tak- en to St. Ann's Hospital last night -|with a severe case of indigestion. He arrived on the Northwestern early Sunday morning, from Ket- chikan. 8. Gross returned on the Nortn- | western from Ketchikan where he has been on a short business trip. | [While there the Vitaphone talkies auspiciously opened at the | Ketchikan Coliseum, and made ac| | were big a hit there as in Juneau, he said | B. C. Delzelle, merchandise brok- er, returned on the Northwestern . |from Petersburg. Making the round trip on the| Admiral Rogers, are Dr. and Mrs. '/E. D. Reinking, of Spokane, Wash. ONE WAY TRAFFIC PROPOSED | { Glacier Highway during the | {tourist season, the Glacier Taxi | | Association invites the Public to cooperate with it in directing traffic on the Loop in one di- rection only. Cars moving North over new Mendenhall Bridge around the Loop. GLACIER TAXI ASSOCIATION JAMES CARLSON, was the moral and legal duty of | every citizen to support the law flghts lung on the|ono PIPi thereby, A door in the east into a storeroom which woman in led citizen to vindicate the opinion of the majority. Assistant United States District | Attorney George Folta, who was| also a guest at the meeting, talked upon various phases of law enforce- ment. “Law enforcement,” he said, s only as strong as the average jury or citizens.” A number of those present spoke more or less briefly on the exist- ing conditions or made suggestions for their betterment, and finally a set of resolutions which pledged full support for enforcement of the law, was passed unanimously by the 64 persons present. e ——— and rolled a he felt that “‘Dad took a chair He said there the cast was rattled the poker chips omething about dad al- id. “‘S0?" dad grunted. eah. They plays a purty stiff Lundy went on. ‘But you w ] » » “Dad acknowledged the compli- The law, he| ‘ . : said, had the support of l.wu-thirds‘, i of the Union, and that it is the | patriotic and honest duty of each | The First National Bank might have been members of a single body. “‘Sheep, dad muttered to him- ment and Lundy remarked tkat he was partial to a stiff game himself. ‘Mac an’ Rich is fair itchin’ fer & BRIDGE PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Cahill en- self. Think alike, act alike. Whetb- er it's lynching a man or swallow- ing booze. Wax! Get 'em hot and you can shape ‘em any way you| game,’ he went on. MacCoy supported him. tertained with a delightful bridge party Saturday evening, June 8. Three tables were in play, high “‘Itchin’ is right’ Richey and please.’ “These were his thoughts as he stared down into the hall and I mention them because they bear on what follows. The comparison to wax sent Dad’s eyes to a colored poster tacked in the well of the stair. It went something like this, dad said: l GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH PROFESSOR DRYDEN POPE'S WAXWORK WONDERS DIRECT FROM TWO YEAR RUN IN NEW YORK See Lifelike Representations of PRESIDENT CLEVELAND MADAME DU BARRY BUFFALO BILL SITTING BULL BLUEBEARD v NAPOLEON i and OTHER FAMOUS PERSONAGES LUNDY'S PLACE, JUNE 218T | AND 22ND % “Professor Dryden Pope had left| without paying his bill and Lundy confiscated the show. You'll get the significance of that present- “Several of the alcoves and some of the rooms were occupied, but the alcove in the northwest corner of the gallery was empty and dad went towards it. This alcove was always empty, for the reason that | door in the north wall, close to corner, led into Lundy’s office, or ‘secret’ room, except in so far E the door when it was closed asn't visible to the casual ob- . Everybody familiar with resort kpew it was there. The door was set in the partition which ‘mcross the morth end of the , and 1t extended from the score going to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sey and consolations to Mirs. Frank Pearce and Mr. Elton Engstrom. . After the cards were discontinued the hostess served delicious refresh- ments. Juneau of : N N\ e eeecve00coeoe . TODAY'S STOCK . » QUOTATIONS e eececsov oL NEW YORK, June 10. — Alaska Juneau mine stock is quoted today at 5'%, American Smelting 98%, American Tobacco A 169, Amerlcnn' Tobacco B, no sale; Bethlehem | Steel 99%, Continental Motors 17%, Cudahy 51%, General Motors 80%%, Gold Dust 59%, International Pap- er A 28%, Interational Paper B, no sale; Mack Trucks 94%, Mathie- son Alkali 47, Missouri 89%, Na- tional Power and Light 50%, Stand- ard Oil of California 764, Stewart- | Warner 69, U. S. Steel 166%. EATON RETURNS FROM A W. A. 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