The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1929, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, AUG. 27, 1929. D HER PALS POLLY FUE MIGHT OF DONT BE SILL 7 SA ek @ [ T SAY, NE 2 i g HEY HON PA TS WO / NEEWAH?)/ (S sTonE A Ao\ ||| A5 You SUSPECTED JICALL ME ? = W % WAS HAUNTED | i\ FanTs AnD || || THE HON. WALLS T~ & WHERE.ARE YE SEEIN'AS HOW | | NITWiITS ARE HOLLOW' T 4ps 77 WE GOT IT FER RELIEVE R THE SUMMER. [ | 1y GHOSTS! | RENT FREE' MILD, MEDIUM and VIOLENT Exereise WITHOUT EXERTION Graybar Health Motors Free Trial in Your Own Home FE Sesestis 2 Mr. Whittier. The City Council | CHAMPION IVORY TRADERS has cleared up title to a tract of LOSE AT THEIR OWN GAME land selected for the site and is awaiting the arrival of Highway maged ‘an old clothes shop and put |on the first things that came to | hand. My mother is a very dainty wom- S 4 RuA. J WALLING memmes an—rather fragile in appearance but really quite sound and grace- AT SKAGWAY IS Engineer R. J. Sommers to com- plete arrangements for co-operative | work between the town and the Territory on the iield | CHARLOTTE, N. C., Aug. 27— Felix Hayman and “Bud” Moore,! owners of the Charlotte Hornets of the Sally Ieague, and recognized as | record player peddlers, fear a “fast Progress In Development | one” was pulled on them recently. SY‘LO:;MHK\;::;UL:ES\h(t“\\‘ H;pulun he gate as the taxi pulled‘mhy active. And she, like a hos- broke S ) . | tess i s uest, ! placed Tom Grenofen in a pre- | “Hello, Cousin John,” I cancd‘:f;;szi“::’;"“zoa [dl::mfe‘;fr’:fid sown ABUUT NUHMAL dicament. For Grenofen loves |into the-dark. “Just step msldufqm sail Cewell C‘u\hm John, How $he girl and has agreed to help |the gate. Got your bag?” ‘,‘:T oy i . LR her hide a hunted fugitive by entertaining the man in his home. Veronica and Tom are returning from their strange Fred Fotherbury, the “unlicked eub” who has been annoying Veronica. Tom is enraged by the youth's insolence and strikes him a dazing blow—an incident that is to trouble him in days to come. Reaching home Grenofen discovers a danger- 6éus situation—with Veronica's ~ mysterious guest expected mo- mentarily, the eccent) gor Laxton has arrived for other of Mis seemingly intermi- nable visits. Chapter 14 COUSIN JOHNN 8o Cousin John Merryweather was to be the name of our strange guest. I secretly admired my mother's daring and foresight. “Have you told Laxton?” I asked her. meeting, when they encountered | | A figure went by me. T paid the| He put down the queer-looking 5 de “1!2 m’fi“fi::\:‘z:&;‘ggz :;Svn}_black bag he carried, took the ex- I %56 00d i Elcndedl hand and b]em over "{,flfifi RIEHESE . |then he was no longer a a “,hf;.:,l "“:.,: u\m.l!;)v)‘ml ?::锓;zg:;: but a man who knew how to behave 3 fuhn in the! hotiss, dnd GEIEE-|Wi0s 8 WOHINSASEERRE ARG - cided to get you in quietly nvmf“‘"" face there came. that .deep, J SR Y A% pooming voice, “I'm very grateful, | smuggle you upstairs at once ; | %A man? What man?” asked a|MrS, Grenofen | ¥ | “Nonsense,” said my mother. | ldm“fif‘.“”"c' I'm suspicious of all l.ipo take Cousin John up to the { mes ¥ 1 i callas Professor | Laxton” | TRIOREE G Il s JEEE € (U things, Cousin John—not like Pro- fessor Laxton.” “No,” said he: “I've no things— not a rag. The bag—" He paused, and his eyes glanced from one to the other of us. Then nd he came down to look at some Roman remains at New- place.” “Where is “In my stu the house.” he?” o round at the back of : i A .., |he shrugged his shoulders. ; m.‘,’,‘.”d I sec him without being “I may as well tell you now,” he 3 'l’don" koow w you could went on. “The bag contains pri- vate things of great importance and value to me. I want you to put it in your safe.” (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co.) Cousin John, unless you could get a peek at him by the side of the blind.” “Will you take me there?” “Py all means. This way.” Cousi 2 His 16 Chrtalnly sedthad s e Govaind - Yio che Comslx JatmipcEt identity is revealed with a shock “Oh, I just casually mentioned it. | The fugitive started in alarm at sight of Laxton through the window. Hé said he didn't dream of inflict- ing himself on us for another night. But he wanted to wait until you came in.” Professor Laxton sat in my long ¢hgir, smoking a cigar, when I went in. I greeted him. “How do, professor? If you want another midnight expedition, not for this child tonight.” “Wouldn't think of asking you, Mr. Grenofen. I only came up to say thanks for not recognizing me | in the hall at Newplace.” “Oh,” said I, “but I gave myself away! I forgot I'd seen you In London and therefore ought to have owned you when they brought you into the library. In the excitement most people missed it, but one saw o “Who was that?” “Mr. Fotherbury, himself.” “Ah—well, he may forget. A quéer yarn about this fellow Pell. What do you think? Just mad- ness—or method in it?" “If there wasn't any method in it, professor, there was a purpose. Péll expected to reveal somebody.” “Quite,” said Laxton. “What had it got to do with Fotherbury’s diggings?” “Haven't a shadow, professor. ‘What about you?” “Y had an idea, Mr. Grenofen. But now Pell's dead, and whether T can ever put the idea to the proof—well, we shall see. But it's late and you're expecting a guest. So—" “Must have a sip before you go, And T went out of the room with- out giving him a chance to refuse. T wanted to know whether Mr. John | Merryweather had arrived and the coast was clear. But Mr. Merry- weather had not yet produced him- se)f. In fact it was while my mother put glasses on a tray in the dining room that I heard a car in Woodcot lane. “Take the tray in to Laxton, will you mother?” said I “Keep him talking ‘il T've spirited Cousin John out of the way.” And I went down to the road, John might b to Tom Grenofen tomorrow. DOUGLAS NEWS AUXILIARY STARTS SE FOR PUBLIC CARD PARTIES| The card party given by the Ladies Auxiliary iast cvening proved a successful event, with an at- tendance of about 50. There were 11 tables of cards played, prizes going to Miss Elizabeth Feusi and Richard Rasmussen for high scores and M Joe Riedi and Ed Cashel consolations. ~ Refreshments were also enjoyed after the prize awards. ——ggiiy COUNCIL MEETING | The regular meeting of the Doug- las city council is set for this evening at 7:30 o'clock. ——————— LEAVING TO TEACH ‘ Miss Beth Anderson expecis to some relative. We went quietly [leave on the Alaska for Mile Seven round to the back of the house.|near Cordova, where she will teach Unfortunately I had mnot noticed |school. that the blind of the big north window had not been drawn. A 'huge square of bright light lay on ithe turf . Nearly the whole inter- ior of the room was visible. My mother stood talking to Professor Laxton. Cousin John leapt back just as he was about to step into the square of light. “That man—" “Professor Laxton?” teatl “Go and get rid of him. Tll wait h““h““"d somewhere outside. Does he know Letterheads you have a visitor?” Folders ¢ Cards ety He taking imsels Statements off to leave room for you. ait here by the shrubbery and I'll go EEIIVGI lople. and get him out of it.” As T entered the den I guessed {that Laxton had heard the arrival lof the taxi. So I said to my | mother: “Cousin John's just come—very tired, but he’'d like a little supper when he's had a wash.” Whereupon Laxton put down his glass and soon took his leave. When the coast was clear and T brought the man in from the shrubbery, and he stood revealed in the light of the hall, I had a ter- {rible jar. But my mother just GET OUR PRICES X ) ow. pama co \smiled in her sweetest way and & said: X “Well, Cousin John, how are Fun foir the whole ] family! The man was tall, and between | 30 and 40 years of age. He had a tubble of beard of three days' ;*:rowth at least, which stood out iall over his face and—this was the cinister thing—was quite as long as his hair. Is there a less pleasant spectacle than a man whose hair has been ir,upped to a uniform length of a {quarter of an inch, so that his scalp shows through evervwhere? This man had a shapely head, {but in his dark eyes the look of a hunted wolf. He wore nondescript clothes, he held in his left hand a FLORES YO-YO THE WONDER TOY Juneau Drug Company H. M. HOLLMANN R. R. HERMANN Free Delivery Phone 33 | throughout the season. jsent out shortly. T L O T T LT E LT T White Pass Records Show Normal Movement—New | Mine Is Promising Skagway's 1929 tourist erop was fully as large this season as in 1928, passenger statistics: of «the White Pass and Yukon Route in-| dicate, according to M. S. Whittier, Asst. Collector of Customs,: who visited there last week on an offi- cial trip to the towns of the Tri- angle Route. The volume ‘of travel seemed to be sustained lafer this year than in the past, and it was expected the total for the| season would be as large if not larger than last year's. ‘The White Pass & Yukon had an excellent season. Its freight hand- lings are already in excess of the quantity handled in 1928, Mr. Whit- tier said. It is pleased with the showing of the new river boat Klondike which set a new upriver record by handling 325 tons of ore from Mayo to Whitehorse. Good Mine Reports Skagway is enthusiastic over the reports of Engineer Dunham, in charge of the mining development at Inspiration Point. The ' ¢rew | has been crosscutting leads and has | been continuously in good pay ore! It is ex-| pected by this Fall to have de- termined what size the mine will| be. A smelter shipment is td Bo | An' aerial tram | has been installed across the gulch | to the railroad and is in opera-: tion. ‘The company is now erect- | ing an assay office and quarters for Engineer Dunham. | pack, had a very satisfactory pack Citizens of Skagway are looking, forward to the early constructio of | an airplane landing field there, id to visit Juneau. to Juneau. exhibits. Boys’ Blazer Shirts Ages 8 to 18 o battered hat and in Nis right a rag- ged bag. He might have rum- Post Office Substation No. 1 Reports received from the Pleas- | ant Camp district back of Haines, said “Stampede John Stenbraten, in charge of development work on the property for the Alaska Juneau, is making splendid progress on the exploratory program. One of the largest exhibits ever sent from an outside point to the local Southeastern Alaska Fair, will come from Skagway this year, Mr. Whittier said. It will be in charge of W. C. Blanchard. Skag- way fruits and flowers are excel- lent this year and the exhibitors will have a large variety from which to choose. Improvements At Sitka Business gonditions at Sitka were normal, added Mr. Whittier. The Pyramid Packing Company, while not putting up a record salmen for the so-called “off-year.” Work is progressing rapidly on the new Industrial School building being erected as a new unit for Sheldon Jackson School by the Presbyterian Board of Missions. It is a two- story structure of concrete. It will | house the school power plant, ma- | chinery and equipment for the in- | dustrial training school, | Mrs. George Peterson has just completed a two-story store and apartment building. This is a fine addition to the town, Mr. Whittier said. 1 BIaR -5 00 Mrs. I Tilden and Mrs. Josephine } ‘Tupper, teachers in the Juneau Public Schools, returned on the Alaska after spending the summer | in the States. While they were away they made a motor trip through California. Miss Dorothy h Fay and Miss Josie M. Hursh, who will teach in | the Douglas schools during coming year, arrived on the Al the - September 11, 12, 13, 14 Eighth Annual Fair—Bigger and Better than ever. See ‘your steamship agent for round trip rate Due to arrangements for the most eamprehensive exhibition of Alaskan Products ever shown at the Fair, the management has decided to cut down the numbers of Booths at the coming Fair to use the space for This will also increase the value of the space rented. There are a few booths left and the management requests that those interest- ed in concessions make their application for booths as soon as possible. Frank Roscoe, outfielder, was sent to Wilmington, of the eastern Carolina league, and they received Alaska Electric Light & Power Co. Juneau Phone Number 6 a pitcher, Ted Veach, in trade. Just about 48 hours afterward announcement came from Wilming- ton that the Pirates had sold Ros- coe to Waco of the Texas league. | NEIGHBOR. 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