The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1929, Page 2

| LU TR T L Wednes DAY this soon. R T e R i N, =il EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr, Wal- ling’s thrilling mystery ro- mance, “Death Treasure,” which starts in this day, was published form under the title, at the Keyhole,” and is being serialized for the llr\s& time. { Chapter 1 ; VERONICA SEABROKE I My acquaintance with Veronica, | ¢nd therefore my cntanglement | with Roger Pcll, began on a JIIH-!; afternoon on the Hollam Bay road.| in book- At 15 minutes to four T had never | seen, Veronica Before 14 minutes to four 1 fourd myself cmlimcmf;‘l I'er tightly and she had clasped her | cxm§ about my neck. Veronica is a very charming girl. She has o slight, athletic figure, a mop ot/ iight brown hair, blue eyes, very red lips and a perfectly wonderful com- plexion. The sort of girl one likes to embrace. It. happened thus. I had be sketching and was walking back to Blackwater. A mile from home I heard a frantic clicking of hoofs ahead. Round the bend of the road came a little roan horse at a gallop with a girl sprawling on his back, and on the point of- falling every moment. I dropped my casel and paint box and stood in the middle of the read with arms stretched out. As I caught at the| bridle the girl shot off and landed in my arms. | Fortunately I did not fall; there! had been just a moment to notice how, blue were Veronica's eyes. “Well, I'm blowed!"” said Veron- ica.. “What happened—?" I began, but I never finished the question. Another clatter of hoofs luded the appearance round Her- odsfoot Corner of another rider— he was a very short man and his tubby little body bobbed about on the saddle. Then I pérceived that the rider wore a short black beard and ferocious expression. At the moment I failed to under- stand the speeial ferocity with which he glared at me. Having per- suaded his horse to a standstill, he shopted, “What does this mean and who the devil arc you?” 1 glanced at Veronica. “Are you acquainted with this gentleman?” “gSlightly,” she replied. “Allow be to ‘introduce him. My Father— my “deliverer.” Veronica explained how' I had chiecked her runaway steed. the scause of the little man's fe- rocity appeared. pre- person and her horse standing by as if waiting for her to mount again. He suffered an angry re- vulsion of feeling and leaped to the conclusion that the runaway had been got up by Veronica on purpose to annoy him. The language he used was so rich in variety and pungent in quality that T really re- gretted Veronica's intervention T1 tell mother if you don't stop.” Whereon he stopped. This was the manner of my first ; with Commander Sea- _ proke (retired) and Miss Veronica Seabroke. I had to name myself— “Tom Grenofen, who had lately come “have become involved in the with: “Now, Bill! You know the rules. “of the keyhole in romer-l B. M. BEHRENDS CO., INC. Juneau's Leading Department Store 3 This Selling Event This is 'p()siti\'cly our last DOLI AR mer merchandise ends with this sale as the new Fall Goods will be here Make Your Dollar Do Double Duty by R.A.J. WALLING ————eeere | that chap Pell?” ‘Then | He had come rourid the corner expecting to find Veronica dead or missing. Instead, he had found her with an unknown lirary: door nd’ the, trggedy ] when A door in the wall opened an |He's been telling me all about th: l THE DAILY -ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, -AUG e T T T T T TR L LT TR i day Is the Last Day of year. Our clearance of sum- IR TR inmn T T LR of Roger Pell. But when Com- a2 man ‘came but. - He pulled ‘the mander Seabroke first mentioned |door fast, turned and walked almost Pell's name to me, T was very busy ' into me. absorbing the beauty and charm of | «Oni» he jerked out, “dorry.” little Veronica. d He was “about to walk on, “but! For some unexplained reason,|¢hought better of it and pulled’up Scabroke scemed to resent my Very o stare cooly &t me. I returned presence in Blackwater. the stare. " 'They were gray, perie- Why & you come here, eh?” heliyating eyes in a sharp-featured ed, rudely. Lfarst “Lovely corner, this""he said. Then as T was dismounting ~my as Looking upon Veror quizz cal face, I carefully explained that my father, having died three|casel: “I'm afraid T've buttéd in’ months befor my mother had| “Oh, no; I'd just finished for to- is| ¢ house to avoid |day.” We had| He lingered while T strappetl my it had a}box He ‘walked without itivita- g \tion by my side when I set off was making!down the path. | We had crossed the bridge and| ficreer frown on his face. |were on the road under the woods | “Can't scc why the devil anybody |where my house stood, before he in- should come to live in that moldy |troduced himself. He was Roger larg The commandecr aguc noises, and I turned to see a| hole,” said he, with queer aggres-|Pell. siveness. “Are you mixed up with| “You live at Blackwater?” I, asked. “pantr I Pell?” “Oh, no, I'm staying at the Lord Nelson, the inn in the village It was the first time I had heard |Came down to have a look at Foth- the fateful name If only vwon-“orby:; excavations. Are you in- ica and I could have foreseen what | terested in that sort of 'thing— Pell would mean to us . . . Roman remains, you know?” However, my denial of any know- I had no idea what sort of thing ledge of Pell failed at once to ap-|he meant. vease the suspicions of Veronica’s |name to me—that of the owner of fiery parent Newplace Abbey, of which Woodcot “If you don't know Pell,” said he, | had been a corper. I did not know ‘I now warn you against Pell. 1|he was excavating or what he could won't tolerate any associate of Pell's | expect to find. And I wasn't par- —I'll be damned if I do!” ticularly interested—then. Yet he attempted an approach to| Pell talked so excitedly and con- cordiality before we parted—but |tinuously that he appeared not to with obvious labor and anxiety. notice when we turned off the road I resumed my walk and found|and up the steep byway that led myself unconsciously falling into|to Woodcot. the Seabrokian dialect; who the| We were in the little drive under devil was Pell? the porch when my mother came The day after the encounter with |around the house from the rose the little roan horse I set up my |garden. | easel at a point above the bridge “Hullo, Tom!—you're home early,” over the Blackwater River, where |she said. the walls of Newplace Abbey came| Mr. Pell raised his hat with down to it in an angle. I had sketched for half an how studied formality. “Mr. Roger Pell, mother,” said I |Miss Willa Armour, | ter, Excursion Inlet; Henry O'Mal-| » LEXINGTON, ‘| Tigers of the American league. Fotherbury was only a |- Roman remains at Newplace Ab- bey. “Oh, how interesting!” she cried. “I love old things. 1 have every reason to suppose that my mother’s sudden passion for antiquity was mer¢ politeness, But Roger Pell fastened upon her with the samc avidity as on me, and in a few moments it was. “won't you come in, Mr. Pell?” Mr. Pell would. © And he Would be glad to teil Mrs. Grenofeh all about his friend Bertram Fother- bury, the owner of Newplace Ab- bey and about anybody else in Blackwater in whim Mrs. Grenofen manifésted ‘the least” intérest. In half an hour he had given us a“nifffiature Who's Who of Black- water. He 'touched ofl everybody in the place with a few strokes. Two young rien lived in a ‘bungalow at Passage on the other side of the creek. Anderson Royle’s father had pots of money, which young Royle helped to burn. He spesial- jzed in racing motor boats. Royle had attracted Martin Somerfield, a | young American, who did motor| boating records. He lived in the second bungalow. And then there were the Sea- Bringing 170 students and a {a ity of 15, the S. 8. Queen of the )éldmn-ul Line arrived in onday morning enroute first University of Oregon summer gossion cruise to Alaska. This is the first time in history of Ameri-| can education that an institution | | of | higher learning has sponsored | & |such a tour, and so far it has been| lan unquelified success in every| | way. Students are taking regular uni on the Jreceive full college credit. Courses: & have been specially sclected for this | tour, and include geology and gco- graphy of Alaska, Art of Ala Indians, anthropology, literatrue of | the Pacific Northwest, feature writ-! ing, camera reporting! school tems and others, all taught by ree ular university professors. | The student ship stopped ‘f Wrangell, where on Sunday thosc on board attended church service and hcard a lecture on Totemisn by Rev. H. P. Corser, noted auth ity on this subject. brokes. Pell gave a most accurate and entertaining sketch of the! From Petersburg the vessel came Vel commander. - His account of Miss |t0 Douglas and Juneau and will go |th Seabroke was vaguer and more re- ONE HUNDRED ANL SEVENTY STUDEN TOURING S. E. ALASKA; Junean | % TS AND FACULTY OF 15 FROM OREGON UNIVERSITY ; IN JUNEAU TODAY l1 p. m. yest'y 30.06 62 S 1 Clay 4 a. m. today 30.06 56 SE 3 Cldy {Noon today 3001 62 S 6 Ciy CABLE AND RAD1O RErORTS YuSTERDAY ] TODAY Highest 4p.m. | Low 42m. 4am. Precip. 4am. Stations— temp. temp. | emp. temp. Velocity 24 hrs. Weather | Barrow R |~ 32 40 26 10 Rain e - 50 48 | 32 44 . 02 Cldy Bethel 54 50 44 46 i 02 Cldy . 58 58 54 54 - 06 cldy . 56 b4 50 50 — 0 Rain 70 62 4 54 L 02 Clay Paul 50 50 46 46 16 0 Cldy | Dutch Harbor ... 70 54 | 50 50 — 0 Clear | Kodiak 60 58 | 46 50 - 0 Cldy Cordova 68 66 | 50 524 b .01 Cldy Juneau 69 62 | 53 56 - 0 Cldy Ketchikan 68 - | 56 -— Calm .07 Pt. Cldy il | Prince Rupert bt —_ | 52 54 Calm 0 Pt Cldy | | Edmonton 8 4 | 52 52 % 04 Clear # | Seattle 82 82 56 56 ¥ 0 Clear Portland 86 82 | 58 58 g 0 Pt. Cldy San Francisco 66 62 | 54 56 e 0 Cldy Executive Secretary of the Uni- rsity of Oregon, who is (lirncnng| e summer session on the steamer| Special shore trips en route clude one to Mendenhall glacier, i: Jupeau, a rail trip out of Skagway and others. The vessel went in' strained. It was on Mr. Fotherbury and Newplace that Pell enlarged most *|PROSPECTORS AND Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U. S. Forecast for Juneam and vicinity, beginning 4 p. m. today: Timy Weather Bureau Burometer Temp. Probably showers tonight and Tuesday;gentle southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Humidity Wind Velocity Weather “ * NOTE.—Observations at Alaska mainland statllons, except Cor- to Skagway, Sitka and other points. |QUeen. |dova and Juneau are made at 8 am. and 8 p.m., Juneau time. *Less than 10 miles. With an area of low pressure spread over most of the Terri- tory and centered northeast of Barrow precipitation has occurred at fall reporting stations except Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and Juneau. Minimum of 32 degrees last night were experienced at Barrow and TAKU? YUKON STOVES SHEET IRON FITTINGS SHEET IRON FLUME PE HYDRAULIC PIPE TANKS freely. Newplace had been aban-| FISHERMEN USE PLANE doned by its anclent owners, M. 8s close to Taku glacier as is safe i | Nome. Fotherbury had bought it threc|and gave students a chance m‘ 3 T | years ago when the last of the Red- | sce this scenic ‘wonder. | Two trips to the Taku district,| slades found himself compelled to| With the cruise is W. G. Beattiz, one to the inity of Berners Bay part with it. ;:ngw professor of education at tho'and a two-and-one-half hour fnsl": | The Redslade family, who hadiUnlversity of Oregon, who has had ing trip to Lake Hasselburg, made owned Newplace, became pmm‘nn extensive career in school work | Sunday a busy day for Pilot Al -1‘ and poorer in late years, and final-/in Alaska. Mr. Beattie came to C. Eckman:xx and Frank H:fl('hc i ly could not afford to keep up the | Wrangell in 1901, where he m“gm‘m_crhamc of the Al ‘Washin ,t‘cn-‘ establishment at all. This vt’ryrfm' some time. In 1905 he went Airways Ccmpany planc Kclcnl-V‘ hotse at Woodcot Was the refuge|to Sitka as principal of the Shel-|kan. | for the last Redslade, reputed to be | don-Jackson school and under hlsi The seaplane left Juneau at 10'401 a gambler who had died a suicide, direction the present bufldings werg{10r the Taky aistrit, with Dr. W.) Mr. Fotherbury, some time after crected. — He remained here five! W. Council, R. B. Mclver and Roy | cntering into possession, had found | Years, and then in 1911 became su- | Houtz. he passengers remained | the: substratum of Roman rcmains | perintendent of schools for theat the United Eastern camp until) Pell ‘himself was interested in Ro- {Federal Government for Southeast , afternoon when the plane made an- | man things, and fond of digging,|Alaska. This position he held until other trip in to pick them up.! P1 hbthad edbme down to lend Fother-|1916. From 1917 to 1919 he was|Shortly after noon the Ketchikan, | pury ‘4 hand. in charge'of the industrial d n|with Warren Wilson and Shelley; “Then therc was a vignette of Dr,{0f school work at Metlakatla, d|Graves, made a Ln{: of an hour Eastley. And, of course, Fother- from hére came to Oregon, where, [and a half in the vicinity of Ber bury’s chaplain, Mr. Marling, whose | After teaching in the normal scho Bay, returning to Juneau about church 'and house were inside the{®#} Monmouth, he joined the uni- 30 o'cloc hich it retu walls of ‘Newplace. Versity staff. [to the strict for Dr. Coun- And thus and thus. Evidently he| Prominent members of the faculty |cil, Mr. McIver and Mr. Houtz. Joe was trying to make an-amiable im- |In¢lude Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, pro- |Hill, who has been prospecting in | pression on my mother. He did. fessor of English at Princeton, who | the Taku for the last three weeks, She ‘even 'invited him - to stay {o is teaching Lieurature of the P;\.‘m;\(h- the return trip to Juncau on lunch. He had the decency to re- |¢ific Northwest, while on the voy- | the seaplane. | fuse. age; Dr. C. N. Reynolds, profess } At 5:30 o'clock, Miss F. E. Tor-| gerson, M. V. Manville, I. Gold- (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) |of sociology at Stanford Univer | sity, who is teaching anthropolc Rarl W. Onthank, executive jtary of the University, who is di- In Irestor of the tour; Professor Al-|Ju | st secre- | OF Tom 'Grenofert learns more of this mysterious visitor, “Roger Pell, in tomorrow's chapter, LA HU R ot | }Prox Noland B. Zane, professor of | AT THE HOTELS art, and others. # Students came trom: many siates Gastineau |in the union for the eru and Mrs. Donald Armour, Ketchikan;|one, Richard Clive Mears, came Ketchikan; | from ' Eaton, - England. Chet Johnson and family, Peters-|{ All students will return to Eugenc burg; Capt. and Mrs. C. E. Ahues, | August 21, and will spend the next | Taku; Mrs. A. C. Adams and child; |10 days in study on the campus,|nc Nels Anderson, Excursion Inlet! dfter which examinations will be da Mr. and Mrs. Ole Syre and daugh- ‘QWEH- i he | | Taku, |tured a few months ago by Camp-| in Zynda bell Church of Eugene. Mr. Church | G. W. Morgan, Juneau; Henry | F. Stocker; Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Nil- |ing on his yacht and hunting game C |'sen, Seattle; R. A. Greén, wife and |and it was on one of these trips W soh, High River, Alta; Edward |that “Becky” was taken. She will Hersey, Providence, R. I; Mons Anderson; B. W. Benell, Greeley, | haunts for the rest of her natural in Colo. ¥ life. { — e, | We are now servmng SANDWICHES Io |and BALADS. The best yet. Ju- ta neau Ice Cream Parlore —adv. nc Alaskan L. White, Juneau; E. Lawler, Ketchikan; M. M. Higgins, Taku; Charles W. Erickson, Taku; Dan- iel Durphy, Ketchikan; Harry Nel- son, City; George Thomas, PREREC S 4 G i NEW DETROIT ROOKIE | IS NO-HIT, NO-RUN Hl‘RLERi Ky., Aug. 1.2 One ‘student at the University of Kentucky has contracted to step! into a “big time" job after his grad- uation in 1930. He is Raymond Rhoads, star pltcher of ‘the university baseball | team, who will join the Detroit At the beginning of the present season, Rhoads ghve scouts a nerve | thrill by pitehing: a no-hit, no-run game aghinst Loulsville, which does not 106k so miich like a fluke when | compared with 'his previous pitch- ' ing records: .He was signed on by | the Tigers for 1930 after protest- | ing that he intended to finish school next year. Rhoads is a Lexington boy, the son of McHenry Rhoads, professor in the college of education at the bert Sweetser, professor of botany,!8:30. FUNERAL SERVICES | The ship is also bringinz along a ! nos ley, * Washington, D. C.; J. Hill, supercargo “Becky” a bear cub cap- the Rev. Gabriel Menager officiat- | spends much time in Aleska cruis-|John left cin and Arnot Hendrickson 1 the Ketchikan for a fishing trip | to Lake Hasselburg, returning to meau with a good catch about | D FOR J. E. CONNOR | HELD ON SUNDAY The funeral of J. E. Connor, pin-1 cer of Juneau, who died last Pri-! after a prolonged illness, was at two o'clock yesterday after- n at the C. W. Carter Mortuary, | Those acting as pall bearers were Reck, Frank Aldrich, L. M.| n, Charles Brernodt, Alec and Tom Knudsen. Tcllowiny the short services, ar at be released to return to her mative the mortuary, interment took place | Evergreen Cemetery. ! D | w who never has | O has one advan- | ge—when he gets married it is noy & RICE & AHLERS CO. PLUMBING Wholesale and Retail HEATING SHEET METAL “We tell you in advance what job will cost” e /\NNOI,‘N(IINC THE NEW MAJESTIC RADIO MODELS Juneau Phone 6 MIGHTY MONARCHS Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Douglas I?Joné 18 OF THE AIR Free Trial . NEW HATS hats have arrived from urpass any styles shown of material and design. The fall colors show new shades in red, brown university. He pitches right hand- L The first of the fall felt & the Bast and are now on display. 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