The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 22, 1929, Page 6

POTLY AND HER PALS Y I ASK 0 iy A Ol (@l WE GONNA QUIT THIS } PALATIAL SUMMER 7 PALACE, LIKE A LOTTA fl YALLER DAWGS, OR ARE ). /| WETGDNNA STICK Ty~ e id & Reo Av Jo . WALLING st M A GAME GUY SAML. BUT 1 DRAW THE LINE AT You.FOLKS, ARE } KE MEN 2T Z2 e B | poucLas UFFALO (Fairbanks Alaska's buffalo herd is grow- r———— /SYNOPSIS: Seven men heard “Don’t you think,” Mr. Fother- } the shot, saw Roger Pell fall |bury asked, “you could at least dead—not one. could tell the |put us ‘on parole? I suppose we | | ing, police who fired it. A weird |[can all give our word of honor to drama had been enacted befors |stay within call of Mr. Wayne un- their eyes—Pell turning om his |t chief enemy, Parson Marling, hreateni duce a ghost “Very well,” said Wayne. “Until : :or t::":icx:‘bl?r:: ‘::fl".gh“ '(he chicf comes, the body must partment, will hold their refiulm'! The entire herd was sighted ves- |graze again. |loughby Ave. with the hoat T -Jrm——— gtooped to unbolt the library |stay there. The door van .be |meeting tonight. - All members are|terday at. Jarvis creek, 200 miles| They were eating pea vines and BACCO and SNUFF CURE. Hours door, a pistol exploded, Pell locked and Tl take the key.” expected to be on hand. |scuth fo' Fairbanks on the Rich-|all were fat. Their coats are 2 b, m. to 7 p. m. Call and we : b ki 7 this ti re were &l 3 IR B TR {ardson . highway, - by «&party | of jglossy and from every indication , Will” demonstrate, —adv.; dropped. Inspector Wayne re By this time were were all stand GOODY SALE SATURDAY bl Py ol 19 A RISy on, WL - e i TS fuses to believe the story but i seven spectators . insist. gne has left the room, a shot through a window is ruled out. An interruption—Professor Lax- ton, who failed to arrive at t the intended seance over bur- i ded treasure, is found in the | little Wayne and went along the corri- corridor unconscious, More questioning—a starling theory |d is suggested—that Pell was shot through the keyhole. Chapter 10 “Shot through the keyhole—" | Somerfield’s words set up a rush |Royle observed. of theory, which broke the appres- | sive silence. It loosed all tongues. in” came Wayne's voice b(‘lnnd‘:’g y for her -recovery, it is Wayne turned to stare at the us. And so we reached the hall| ought. door, in its archway, and at the{to encounter Eastley and the con- R huge lock, and at the large, worn stable on r side of Laxton, BRIDGE LUNCHEON aperture in it. coming across it. We stopped ani| - ¢ “Mr. Fothrebury,” said Wayne, | spread out Wayne pushed to Miss Lucile Pepoon entertained “is that door ever locked?” the front. with a bridge luncheon in her| “Always at night.” Laxton seemed a little groggy, apartment yesterday afternoon.| ,“And thi on {but the outside?” “Alway “Before 1 examine Say that the key ought to be inj the lock now?” \ key usually kept “Yes, certainly—if nobody has re- jtion, Inot been able to keep my appoint- “It is not in the lock,” Wayne | ment very punctually.” moved it.” bxclaimed. “Every man in the| room must have known it—the door Has been swung open several times.” Ithree o'clock.” Wayne walked to the door and| pulled it open. There was no key. “You gentlemen will please re- main in your secats,” said he. | He went outside and closed thc; fl’oor. We could imagine him stoop- | Wayne put his hand up. ing to pecp through the keyhole.|gentleman will come with me, Ilia visit up the Taku River. Immediately he was inside again, |speak to him first.” Jooking down on the body of Pell. “Mr. Grenofen,” he called to m= “will you come and show me ex- the facts about Roger Pell, I need actly what Pell did?” As T went to him, Wayne fasten- ed both bolts. “pell was here,” said I, taking} the spot where he had stood. “He| waited with his arm up, looking! 8t his watch like this. He said,| fNow!’ and he started immediately | for the door. He shot back to the top bolt, so, and he was stoop- ing to the bottom bolt, like this, | @nd before he reached it, there was @ terrific bang and he just fell in & heap—there.” .~ “He was shot in the forehead,” said Wayne, looking at him. “Did he face the door when he stooped?” “I can’t say. He was in rapid| motion all the time. You see, the | whole thing was done in. an in-| stant.” Wayne stood contemplating us, his brow puckered, his eyes full of doubt. “Did anybody see the key in the door before this happened?” Nobody had noticed whether it was there or not. “1 should make a suggestion,” sald Somerfield. “wen?” “That if by any chance Pell's| o'clock P. M., Monday, August 26th, ghost shot Pell, he probably didn't go off with a- great key like that in the pocket of his shroud. You've no boubt observed that the vesti- bule is badly lt.” “An!” Wayne cried, unbolted the @dor, took a torch from his pocket and flickered it along the flags of | the corridor. The suspense was too much for Séabroke. He muttered something about it's being silly, and marched across the room to look over Wayne's shoulder. . “Good for you, Somerfield!” called out. _We heard a ring of metal on he stone, and Wayne rose with ‘a Jarge iron key in his hand. He the light examined the keyhole by of his torch. “Mr. ‘Fotherbury,” said he, “you y that there has been no asgure me with this key? It's not & t?” g :‘.:-gf course mot, Mr. Wayne. You IN ALASKA GROWING ; DISPLAYNO | FEAR, HUMAN BEINGS| News-Miner) DONT BE SiLLY MAGGIE! EVERYBLUDDY BUT & INFANTS AN’ NIT- WITS, KNOWS THEY AINT NO SECH | the bridge. 22, 1929. _ By CLIFF STERRETT i HEAVENLY. motorists from here. ‘dhe herd is in fine condition. The Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Blyth, Mrs.'calf, a little fellow thought to be Margaret Abercrombie and Pat O'- not much over a week old, was Connor first saw the animals a;closcly guarded by its mother. short distance up the creek from | When the herd started down, The buffalo displayed |stream the mother buffalo herded no fear and the party had a fin@"lhc young one into the water and opportunity to observe them close- |it swam across a narrow channel. 1y. {The animals kept on going down the creek until they. were lost to ELECTRIC FLAT IRONS § i HOT POINT—WESTINGHOUSE and ROCHESTER Trade in your own flat irom and get a dollar credit for same. Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. il something is decided?” He sent a look of inquiry around D. F. D. MEETING | Alaska, has been added to the herd | within a hundred feet or so of the [ VIEW- Hose companien No. 1 and No. 2{of 18 buffalo that wintered in the |herd. Some of the animals started of the Douglas Volunteer fire de-|Delta country. A calf, the first ever born in|; The car was driven up a bar to, and discrepit it may be. We don’t care how old Juneau Phone Number 6 away but soon settled down [u! Bill Casey s still at No. 8 Wil- He had sat immobile in his chair h:." gearches all, finds no pistol. No the hearth. | \ | Fotherbury. { Fotherbury, checking where another | the left. THE KEYHOLE MURDER |to the eye no sign of recognition. should you | Fotherbur inquired with his eyebrows up. “You can't be Pr ng round him except Marling, who ociation is mak- for a goody sale in the Odd Fellows’ hall Saturday afternoon. eryone interested in the library and particularly those The Library As: 1ing* preparation: “Come along, Marling,” said Mr. Marling rose and walked slowly| owards us, with his cassock swing- 5 ng. He was at the tail of the who enjoy the free iing matter procession that filed p'vt'i" their homes are solicited for do- |nations to the sale. e, St s G MISS KIRKHAM ILL “That's the place,” said Mr. Miss .Elva Kirkham who went )south about.two weeks ago, is again {afflicted: with.a severe attack of ., | pleurisy, (and. has entered a sani- | tarium ~ for treatment. From six s.to three months will be vaulted passage went off to It was a mere unlit cave hort “Curious how he got in there, “Please pass along without going | ™ Three tables of cards were played with Mrs. Glen Kirkham holding high score and Mrs. J. O. Kirkham, | low. not much hurt. He gave me “Which of you gentlemen is Mr. ' ne Mr. Fotherbury stepped forward “Most ordinary introduc- 1S ROUND TRIPPER said Laxton. “I'm afraid I've 2 Mrs. M. M. Marks left last eve- ning on the Virginia for the round trip to Chichagof. She will re- | Iturn here on Saturday. - HERE FROM KILLISNOO “Appointment?” Mr. Fotherbury “Yes, I said, I'd be with you at “Good gracious!” cried the host. fessor Laxton?” “Oh, yes T can,’ id Laxton. “And what on earth—" “Excuse me, Mr. Fotherbury,” Miss Agnes Schlosser who visited here for a time early this summer | as the guest of Mrs. Jack. Koby, | {rcturned from Killisnoo early in| “If Lh“}thc week, and expects to leave for| For my purpose, which is to tell| SEAPLANE KETCH[KAN GOES TO NEW LAKE | AND ON FISH PATROL The Alaska-Washington Airways seaplane Ketchikan, Pilot Anscel C. pckmann, eturned to Juneau at 0 o'clock yesterday afternoon not dally with the public proceed- ings of Wayne and his superiors. ‘Wayne was a capital fellow—the best type of the trained police offi- cer, and in England that is saying a lot. But Wayne naturally con- cerned himself only to find an ex-| planation cf. the murder and wheni,reer taking August Buschmann,! he "'“‘"d it, since the murdererl, ;minent canneryman, from Wat- could obviously not be caught inleyray) to Port Althorp, stopping at Blackwater, he handed the whole{gayveral canneries of the Alaska- thing over to Scotland Yard. Pacific Salmon Corporation on the And Scotland Yard began itslyay, hunt for the mysterious person of}{ At 9 o'clock this morning Mr. whom we came to speak as “Pell's|Eckmann took A. J. Ela, engineer Ghost.” in charge of hydro-electric surveys Wayne, puzzled to death andifor the pulp and paper interests, bulging with those suspicions ofland J. A. Cameron, into the lake his, as soon as the theory of theldiscovered recently by the Alaska shot through the keyhole was sug-|Aerial Survey Detachment for & gested, conceived the idea that Lax-{day's inspection of the timber and ton might be the ghost. water power possibilities of the lake (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) land vicinity. While this lake was discovered by the Navy fliers and named Lake Dorothy by Commander A. W. Rad- ford in honor of his wife, today is the first time a landing has been made on it by a plane. After a several hours' patrol for the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, with Capt. M. J. O'Connor, Assistant at the office of the City Superin-|Alaska Agent for the Bureau, Dr. tendent of Schools, in the High|w. H. Rich, head of the scientific Schoo! Building for the delivery offinvestigation of salmon conducted Fuel Oil to the Juneau Schoollin Alaska by the Bureau, and Dr. Building from the Alaska Juneau|Fred A. Davidson, Dr. Rich’s assist- fuel tanks for the school yearjant, the seaplane will return to| 1929-30. Lake Dorothy to pick 'up Mr. Ela Fifty (50) barrels of fuel oil are{and Mr. Cameron. to be kept in the fuel tanks at{ The itinerary of the fisheries the Juneau Public School Building|patrol for today follows: at all times. The right is reserved| Leave Juneau, going down Chat- to ‘reject any or all bids. ham Straits to Fishery Point, ex- ‘W. K. KELLER, amining the lake at the head of Superintendent of SchoolS.|the creek; from there up Tenakee ——— Inlet, across to the head of Lis- We are now servmng SANDWICHES |ianski to Stag Bay, to Hoktaheeh, and SALADS. The best yet. Ju-!vYakobi Island and then down along neau Jee Cream Parlors. —aav, {the west coast of Chichagof Island ‘ - lto the head of Slocum Arm; across ! |to Salisbury Sound, down White- mOUSANDS OF L {stone Narows to Sitka, to Redoubt CORNS REMOVED Lake; to the head of Crawfish " We now have a femedy that really will | Inlet; to Red Bluff Bay; up 6us quickly a8 | Chatham Strait over Wilson Cove; to Chaik ‘Bay t6 Kootznahoo, to “Professor Laxton has a puz- zling explanation to offer—in temoarrow’s. chapter. —————— NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS Bids will be received until 6 —adv. 't ask me that if you were suffering & little from excite- t. It looks as if—but perhaps yowd rather we didn't speculate?” Ty alters things,” said Wayne. 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