The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 24, 1929, Page 6

POLLY AND HER PALS Some-\[MERCY, \| A CUTE LITTLEL | |THING | SAK:‘:S-" PQAIR:F.—»DOGEL 'ALIVE | EEMER JIBRANG ALL THE J | | 1 AY FROM < FER ¢ | WHAT [L"_?s TB0PHER) | DEL?) IS 112 I NAMED HM PHILADELPHIA JACK O'BRIEN ‘CAUSE HE'S SECH A SPUNKY LIL THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1929, e By CLIFF STERRETT AN'A PUFFICK SPECIMEN OF PRAIRIE-DOGHOOD. LISTEN, BIG BOY! You GoT YER MONIKERS SLIGHTLY MY GosH! GOLD, BULLETS « SYOPSIS: . Dillon—Ogden’s slayer—is Luther MacNair! The | murderer is dead, killed in the gdramatic elimax of a plot which ke hoped would rid him of Pee- bles, who alone had successful- 1y unlocked the mysterious puz- zle of Andrew Ogden’s death. Peebles’ 1ittle red notebook bolds the center of the stage | book on my desk. “MacNair waited until night, but the night brought the sandstorm with it and upset his plans.” Here I described that dreadful night we come to my reason A for letting MacNair know I believed nc I wanted him to do he did. Only Sun- him guilty. t he. outlines, step by step, the vy night I wasn't ready for him.” links of the evide which “I don't get that!” Henry ejacu- convicted Luther MacNair of a lated. 11 epimc he tried to fasten on I chuckled. “I mean that I want- f Jerry. ed MacNair to regard me as an in- il S | ereasing source of danger. It would ?! Chapter 48 make him force the issue, commit I NINE LINKS that overt act which would com- «g 1 put away my little red note- |plete my chain of evidence against it " I said, “are the nine | him.” chain of evidence, “You mean you deliberately in- 1 In bulk, the!vited him to murder you?” Henry g e; unlink it and |shouted you will find that most of the links | are weak.” { ¢I don't know about that,” Dea- eon objected. “I thought you had “Something of the sort,” I con- fessed Lucy was staring at me with fas- cinated, horrified eyes. She seemed . a pretty strong case.” | beyond speech Jerry's mouth 1 shook my head. “It might have ! hung open Hyde had forgotten in an Enghish his sardonic grin. Furie, whom | | | | | cited, confirmed the stery of Dillon’s plot. | T eourt, but I doubt if it would have | Jerry's flask had brought to him-] ip, an American, lscli, looked saner than I had ever i “MacNair had been too clever to |seen him. leave any tangible clew behind him.| “It was to be a duel of wits; you see, and I was pretty sure Skull Moreover, he hadn't been sending Valley would be the field of honor. Hyde chuckied. “We haven't | found the mine transfer yet. Have you? I “No” ! and T laughed. “I suppose you were going to sell it to And or Lundy's heirs for a tidy sum “Well, Lundy did a good job when he hid it. . . . You can give Hyde his snuff-box, Henry.” Lucy had dried her tears and now she managed to get in a word. “The most wonderful part of |is that my Uncle John should turn {out to be Holmes instead of |Dr. Watson!” she excl: ed. Hen: burst forth, and I knew |it was coming out at last. “Your | Uncle John always played a lone 2 i. And he believes in keeping hings to himself. When he re ten years ago he was one | of the best men Uncle Sam’s Secret | Service ever had. And he doe: eem to have lost thé old knack (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow | tired The mystery of Andrew Og- den’s murder \is solved—but there still i3 an important point to be cleared up fomor- row—the final chapter. oo TO INSTITUTE REBEKAH LODGE AT KETCHIKAN/ At a meeting of the Ketchikan | Lodge of the Independent Order of ning at 7:30 o'clock when most of |Odd Fellows, held at the Masonic'the ce Temple the other night, plans were discussed and a ngements com- pleted for the institution of a Re bekah degree in Ketchikan. An |informal banquet follow the meet- yo gefinitely settled. ing. R. W. Edmonds will be the in- | stituting officer. A banquet will be held following the institution and all prospective Rebekahs will be welcomed. - - - PAINT TRADE ACTIVE CHICAGO, June 24—The Asso- ciafion of Commerce reports that Chicago's annual paint business i jmore than $120,000,000. Retail sales turnout wholesale, were $11,000,000, $35,- 000,000 and manufacturing sales $75,000,000. The industry’'s payroll is nearly $12,000,000 and the city's per capita expenditure for paint and varnish is estimated at $3.25. S ee Try a TOASTET: SANDWICH &t the Juneau Ice Cream Pariors. adv ‘We make anu aer all kinds of fur garments. Goldstein’s Em-| oorium. —adv., R AT S TrE Juneau LAUNDRY Franklin Street, between Front and Second Streets PHONE 359 men to the death penalty for 30| ygars without learning a thing or | MacNair telephoped me this after- tigo about evidence and he knew |noon that he was going down to just as well as I did that I hadn't |Skull Valley to arrest Furie for the murder of Andrew. Did I want to epough to be sure of convicting | be in at the finish? If so, I was to w480 that you may understand fcome alone. I knew what he what happened tonight, I shall try |meant—and he knew I did. Well, to give you a sort of moving pic- I came.” fure of MacNair's mental processes I then recounted what had hap- from just before he left for Tor-{pened up to the moment when I ridity Sunday morning up to the had knocked Furie out. end. e, that’s it!" Furie suddenly {*MacNair knew I believed him to |shrilled white-bellied coy- be Andrew's murderer and that his|ote telled me you wuz a-goin’ to attempt to implicate Jerry wasn't break me neck fer me. 'Tis a good &pt to succeed; so he looked around | thing ye bust me under the chin.! for a likelier candidate. He fixed|Git on with it, will ye!” 1 gn the cunning, half-witted old| This was encouragement, indeed, desert rat, Furie. - Furie's violent and I proceeded. ‘ guarrel with Andrew had provmed‘ “You see, if MacNair had won, him with motive for the crime. his story of the shooting would “But first he must plant Jerry’s have been true. As I swept up my “aae flannels in Torridity, as the trail |pistol I looked for MacNair to inevitably would lead there. And‘mme pouring in. But he was still this on Sunday morning MacNair |waiting. My eye fell ‘on the dum- proceeded to do. - Not to further involve Jerry, remember, but to support the charge of murdering | Andrew and getting away in Jer- | MacNair was familiar with Fur- ty’s flannels that he purported|ie’s astonishing hat and shirt. As bringing against Furie ;_\()u see, I put both on Napoleon, “I also, went to Torridity Sun-|pretending that Furie was on the day morning. Neither of us had /point of shooting me. Then I fired expedted the other to be there—|my pistol twice. MacNair rushed yet. MacNair now saw that while [in, saw Furie’s hat, and fired at the 1 might not have enough evidence |dummy three times before he took to convict him he could not fasten a second glance. Then he whirled the guilt on Furie while I lived.lupon me, bringing up his pistol to And—I was an increasing source|kill me. That was the overt act of danger to him. He concocted|I had been waiting for.” s beautiful scheme for disposing| They were standing around me @f Furle and me and insuring his|like mourners at a burying. own safety at one blow. I ran a quizzical eye from Na- “His scheme was absurdly simple.|than Hyde to Roy Hammond. would shoot both of us here in| “It seems to me” I observed| ty and bring out bodies to-|shrewdly, “that Hammond once . Then he would report to|prospected these parts as a young Deacon, that Purie had killed |man. , that' I had charged Furie| “Is it possible that he was down the crime, that Furie had here recently and discovered| and that he, MacNair,|the new entrance to the Two| running up and dispatch- | Brothers? Is it possible that he| i Furie just a moment too late to;went to Nathan Hyde and that , £8ve my life. Later he would get |between them they dug up the story passession of the little red now-Jof that incredible poker game?” mies and I thought of that psychol- | ogical trick Andrew used 30 years | ago. | % e Fresh Pop Corn Crisps California Grocery Phone 478 PHONE 478 Free Delivery — “A GOOD JOB ALL WAYS” And because it is our motto we will expand in PAINTING of every description. Interior and Exterior, Sign and Landscape Painting, Graining, Kalsomining and Wall Papering Anything to beautify the home, office, ete. CALL ARMAND, The Painter Estimates Gladly Given e e rereree) it} Co.) | 29 PASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA | Under most ideal weather condi- | tions, about forty persons enjoyed: SEATTLE, June 24—Steamer {the picnic held at Marmion Island jAlaska sailed for Alaska ports Sun- morning at 9 o'clock with 236 vesterday by Nugget Chapter No.|d2 6 2, 0. E. 8, for their members, Ma- 1f st class passengers and 108 steer~ | sons and families. |age. The following passengers are | Among the various diversions pro- |aboard for Juneau: {vided were races and other con-| C. M. Jones, C. W. Hawkesworth tests for which candy was given|2nd wife, F. B. Snyder and wife, as prizes. Bathing was indulged | Frank Fuller, Miss M. C. Woodward, in by quite a number during the|Irene Nelson, J. S. Jeffrey, C. G. Robinson and wife, Mrs. M. Halver- | DOUGLAS | NEWS afternoon. Ice cream was liberal- ly dispensed-by the St: topping | Son, John Price, Fred Hultaren |off the individual lunches provid-|Helen F. Rymer, Mrs. A. F. Low, |C. W. Hyde, Mrs. Heimer, O. Lind- berg, Leo, Harard, G. H. Stock and one steerage. ed by the picnicers themselves. | The boat Yakobi which was char- {tered for the day, supplied suit- |able transportation to the grounds for most of the crowd with some |m ng the trip in their own boats. | e 'SKAGWAY TO HAVE GOOD SPORTS FOR FOURTH OF JULY of | The Skagway Fourth-of-July |committee has arranged an attrac- tive list of sports for their Inde- pendence Day celebration which will take place at that place. There |will be all sorts of field sports for |girls and hoys and for women and !men which will engage the interest |of participants and spectators jn |the forenoon, afternoon and eve- |ning. The main evening event will |be a hose race for members of the Fire Department. This will be fol- |lowed by a free dance at the Elks | Hall. | In the afternoon there will be a all game. e Fourth of July has alwa 4TH JULY MEETING { | | . 4 The most important meeting {the Douglas Fourth of July Asso- 'ciation is scheduled for this eve- clebration to be held is to be planned. The finance committee is expected to make a fairly finish- report of money to be available so that all the propesed events can B R BASEBALL TUESDAY EVE Another ball game, perhaps the most important cne for the Doug- las club for the e first half of the series, will be played tomor- | row evening on the local grounds|been observed at Skagway, and they with the Moose team. Unless the |have always turned out a lot of weather prevents the game a record | proficient athletes for their con- from both sid of the tests. It is expected that the com- channel will probably attend. ling celebration will be one that wil! ——aa—— he town. ‘do credit to t | F. O. E. AUXILIARY ——o— AT THE HOTELS l There will be a meeting of the F. O. E. Auxiliary tonight at 8! Gastineau oclock. As arrangements for the| Mr. end Mrs, H. E. Mills and picnic are to be discussed, all mem- |Paby, Seattle; Frances Grinstead, bers are urged to attend. | Columbie, Nev.; W. S. Jensen, Seat- ———.———— (tle; C. D. Jensen, Seattle; J. B. MOVIE SHOW TONIGHT | Merifield, Seattle; Mrs. D. H. Mac- |Donald, Portland Island; Mrs. Lloyd “Peter the Great” will be featur-:J. Gay, Seattle; Lloyd J. Gay, Se- ed at the Liberty tonight. This|attle; Betty L. Gay, Seattle; production was to have been the W. Breyer; W. L. Bell, Vancouver; regular Sunday night show but, ow- | S. H. Lorain, Chichagof; Mrs. S. H. ing to picnics, fine weather and |Lor Chichagof; ‘B. F. Hume, other combinations for out-of- Olympia; Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Stacy, door events, it was postponed. San Diego, Cal. “Peter the Great” tells the story | Alaskan of a new film dog star. The title| M. M. Hudson, Union, Ore.; John is “Wild Justice.” Others besides | MeNoir, Union, Ore.; Erick Erick- the dog in the cast includes George Son, Taku; Ole Nedrebe, Taku; Joe Sherwood, Frances Teague, Frank ! Barbiere, Chichagof; R. Earlile, Hagney and others. |City; R. M. Hanley, Seattle; Lee | Gate, Seattle; A. Melacher, Seai- L l B E RT Y'cle; Bob Barclay, City; Art O'Dea, \Kake; H. Fairley, Taku; M. V. Man- TONIGHT |ville, Taku. Zynda Mrs. Lena C. Shaver, Skagway; Mrs. Sarah O'Dea, Everett; H. E. Simonds, Bellingham; Joe S. Hill, Peter the 5 ‘ e Great !LEAVE FOR SOUTH ON DOROTHY ALEXANDER A Big Feature with | COMEDY and | . The Arcade Cafe | | Special Dinners on Sundays i and Weéek Days | | | Soda Fountaln in connection. | Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd C. Gay and their son, Lloyd jr., left for the Isouth on the Dorothy Alexander after visiting for some time with Mr. Gay's mother, Mrs. D. H. Mae- Donald, of Portland Island. - eee —— An average husband is one whe has about. as much to say about Come in and listen to the | whether he will spend the evening | radlo. Mary Youmg, Prop. | at home or go somewhere as a bird i$ Phons 288 | | has about, whether or not it shall be Leo ¢ |Crowd Stampedes Visiting Vessels Of British Fleet LONDON, Sketch says many were injured, and some fainted, when a crowd of several thousand persons inspect ing the fleet of destroyers, got out of control on the Traford Wharf boarding the ships. One ship was nearly capsized when the crowd rushed to one side. Nurses and ambulances have been sent for to treat the hundreds of those fainting. Women were in- jured, also children. Seyeral per- sons were pushed overboard, but all were rescued MAN KILLED.AT HERRING PLANT Death Follows Shooting at Saginaw Bay—Auth- orities to Investigate To investigate the fatal shooting of Ole Bludseth at Saginaw Bay, Deputy U. 8. Marshal C. V. Brown left Petersburg last night for that point, according to telegraphic ad- vices received by United States Marshal Albert White. Details .of the shooting were not available today. Bludseth was an employee of He was shot last night at Sagi- naw Bay. A tender left at once with him for Petersburg but he died before it made that pert. It had no information about the af- fair. SUMMER TRAVEL TO ALASKA WILL BREAK RECORDS According to adyices received in Juneau, summer travel to Alaska promises to break all records ac- cording to Pacific Steamship Com- pany representatives. The Admiral Line has made bookings from near- ly all sections of the country. Following are a number of the special excursions arranged, the ship, the date of sailing from Se- attle and the number in the party: Retail Grocers’ Association, Dor- othy Alexander, June 28, seventy- five tourists from convention in Portland, Special party organized by the Rev. Paul G. Stevens of Los An- geles, Admiral Rogers, July 4, forty tourists. Burlington Tour Party, Dorothy Alexander, July 19, fifty tourists from Chicago. Woodmen of the World, follow- ing convention in Omaha; excur- sion organized by W. E. Bock, Dor- othy Alexander, July 19, seventy- five tourists. Special excursion from Omaha, organized by W. E. Bock, Dorothy Alexander, July 30, seventy-five tourists. University of Oregon Summer School, excursion organized by Campbell Church, Jr., Queen, Aug- ust 8, total of 180 tourists. Elks Lodge of Sacramento, Cal, excursion organized by H. E. Wil- lis, Dorothy Alexander, August 9, total of one hundred tourists. Church Extension organized by the Rev. H. B. Hollaway of In- dianapolis, Admiral Rogers, August 15, sixty-five tourists. 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