The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 1, 1931, Page 6

I’OLLY AND HER PALS THE DAILY ALASKA FMPIRE SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1931 WOMEN 1S ‘BAD NEWS® ON MOTOR BOATS, BUT INFANTS Ann’s | de: but Pierre Donovan, Har- |1 4 hiwband, Bruce, has dccerted |riet Noel's son, lived. And he had|, “¥es: and if you turn me over | fiér for a gold mining venturs, |thrown himself into this new role|!0 the sherlff in Red Butte Ill| faltly accucing her of an af- with all the genius and greatness fair with Picrre, the youth of his artist soul were, to perish miserably in the | that Tony says Y/UNDERSTAND, THEY'S } NUTHIN' PERSONAL IN MY ATTITUDE, BUT BOATS AND BABIES DON'T MIX. [murdered Bruce Carey when you |made him money-mad and I am |going to see that you hang for it. |T owe it to Ann.” “You won't help Ann that way. If you turn this money back to |the bank, youwll have to tell how |you got it, won't you?” “I'll have to tell them some- thing, I suppose.” |the cashier. I don't think it will | make Ann any happier to know Douglas Church . | RETURNS FROM CHURCH MEET EVERY SHIP QEQthflS A MASCOT AND DEAREST IS ATH Services| Noticew Tor thig charcn column R l S d S el 3 e g |MUst be received by The Empire [Kegular dunda ervice |tell how Bruce Carey murdered |noe® o8 GEEFYS o oy | o y |morning to guarantee change of |sermon topies, ete | ) RE, Will Be Resumed by Presbyterians tral him to the desert, hop- he inherited from his actress moth- | g g L [that her husband was a thicf and o Dk Mo bk e . |a murderer and that he was read. There, as he arrives unseen, This character which Plerre how [ jor pe o sothe Mbe hung ,,’, he hears Bruce tell his com- {layed had no sense of fear. In| .. 3 e . panicn how c¢n the night of |3 cold fury, with a strength that| hic flight he had detected the | was more than physical and with village bank cashier siealing |hig brain working calmly as if he $25,000 and had unintentionally vere rehearsing a part, he fought killed him in taking the loot 0 gain the mastery of this one for himself. Because in the | yho sought his life. More than fight Bruce had dropped a |once he felt himself perilously near | watch charm belonging to Ann's | defeat, but clean bodily strength father, the older man, a bank |5f the younger man began to tell cmployee, had been jailed for Pierre saw fear come into the eyes| murder. Though Bruce's com- of his nearly exhausted opponent. panion, Colorado Bill, is Pi- |Then the end. crre’s father, the boy does not For a moment Plerre stood over recognize him as he hears the |the man who lay unconscious at pair quarrel over their water |his feet, Then he ran to Bruce. supply. Kneeling beside the body, he " |uied desperately to discover some Chapter 32 { dgn of life. When he could not THE FATAL CANTEEN 1e still knelt as if he too had In the same instance that Don-|received a mortal hurt. ovan reach for his gun and| He raised his head and looked called to Bruce to drop the raised [about wonderingly at Mother canteen Pi Donovan, climbing over the I”“I he stunted vegetation. He looked wall of rock. it the canteen lying on its side Donovan’s attention was so cen-|and the dark moist spot on the tered upon Bruce that he was un- | jround which the water had made. aware of the entrance of a third] I'hen he saw something else. actor on the scene. But Bruce| The man he knew as Colorado eaw. Bill was creeping toward that gun Pierre’s face was distorted with| which lay some distance away horror. He crouched on the rock|where it had fallen at the begin- with every muscle tense whilejaing of their struggle sheer terror held him mmmnlc,\{ Plerre leaped to his feet The Who shall attempt to say what]ither made a desperate offort, but thought lashed through the tor-{is his fingers touched the weapon tured brain of Bruce Carey at thisja smashing blow from Pilerre dramatic development? Did he feellstretched him again unconscious. relief—believing that Pierre had{ This time when the man re- arrived in time to save him? Did|gained his senses he saw Pierre he consider Plerre an additional|sitting calmly on a rock with the danger? Did he think that what-|gun in his hand, watching. ever the outcome, Donovan would! For a long minute they looked at not dare to do the thing he|zach other without a word; then threatened? Or did he deliberately | the man, getting to his feet, spoke: move to end his own torment by|“Who are you?” taunting the man to the point| “I came to take Bruce back to of killing? Ann,” said Pierre calmly. “You With an insane laugh Bruce de-|have killed him.” fiantly lifted the canteen to his| “He was going to leave me here lips. [in the desert without water,” re- ierre tried to shout but no|turned the other. “I shot him in gound issued. He could not move. | self-defense #He knew that Bruce saw him and| Pierre pointed to the canteen wondered why he showed no sur- and to the dark moist spot on the prise. As Bruce lifted the can-|ground. “You see what happened?” teen he saw the other man bring| “Yes,” sald the other, “I .teev” his gun up to position. Suddenly| “I was behind the rock then whatever it was that held him|said Pierre, “and 1 heard Brucc let go, and with no conscious mus- |tell you about the bank money { cular effort, he threw himself /and the cashier. It is better that upon the man who was about to[Bruce should go like this, I guess, kill. The roar of the gun was|than that he should be taken back in his ears even as the fury of |home to prison, or to be hung for his attack bore the one who had murder. You are the man who fired it to the ground. The gunlgot Bruce so interested in a gold itself fell several fest away. Bruce |mine out here, I suppose?” twisted half around, the canteen| “For God's sake, who are you?” fell from his hand, and the bank; “I'm Pierre Donovan.” clerk went down in a writhing| “Pierre Donovan!” heap. | “Yes,” said Pierre. “I came here While the two men who knew|to find Bruce. He left Ann be- not that they were father and son!cause he thought she was having a were locked in a desperate struggle, |love affair with some one else. I Bruce Carey died. And the can-|did not know about this other teen emptied its precious contents!thing. Ann doesn’t know about it, into the desert sand. either. I can’'t take Bruce home The good villagers of Orchard | naw." He looked toward the dead Hill, had they witnessed that com- {man, Then he added: “But I can bat, would have said that this{take you to Red Butte and turn young man who fought his desper- you over to the law for this mur- ate antagonist with such unfalter- der. And I am going to take the ing courage was a new Plerre|money back to the bank—and get Donovan. Orchard Hill had known |Ann's father out of jail.” a gentle, imaginative lad who was| “So you are Pierre Donovan?” dubbed a “sissy” and “mamma’s| “Yes, I am Pierre Donovan. You boy.” They had known a sodajare Colorado Bill, I suppose?” fountain clerk who amused them| “Have you any water?” the man and who, as a would-be actor, was|asked suddenly. the joke of the community. Bu'l “Yes, a little. Not enough for Orchard Hill never dreamed that|two but we must make it do. We @ Pierre Donovan whom they did |must start back to Dripping Spring | not know was merely acting theselat once.” Again he looked toward parts much as he dreamed of act-jthe dead man as if considering ing on the stage. In short, Or-|what to do. ehard Hill had mistaken the char-{ *“I only gave him what he de- acter presented by the actor for|served,” said the other. “You heard the character of the actor him-lhow he was leaving his wife's {father—an innocent man—to hang But this was not a new Pierre or go to prison for life. Besides I Donovan—it was the same Pierre shot him in self-defense. If I were that his mother, Harriet Noel, and to try to get away with all the; old Antonio Latour knew—acting|water and leave you to die in the @ different role which he had desert you wo-*ld kill me, wouldn't | suddenly been called upon to play.|you?” And Pierre, himself, was con-, “Yes” said Pierre grimly. “If| scious of this sudden change in you try anything like that I shall| eharacters. He had not thought kill you.” highly of that soda jerk who was| “Well, then, why accuse me ot} so afraid of the desert; he had murder?” enjoyed the part. And inj “You got Bruce into this. If it re appeared behind | Mountain rising into the sky; at! 2" laccount as administrator of the 3 Douglas Catholic Church | jorder to cover up his crimes.” | Amazing discoveries Monday! 1m-><t Sunday. Colorado Bill makes his in a i grave, while Pierrg’s is in the |& mve-‘t{gcr. ! i Sex ‘mon. DOUGLAS “m-‘}’ Church e 5y NE WS | HARRY WI1LLArw, Lay Worker | Meets Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. EQUA. BOARD CONCLUDES | 11 Church The last meeting of the City |B——m—0—————-—""—— Council acting as a Board of, oIEV: PHILLIF E BAUER. Pqualisation was BEI 1ast eve-| (UDEAY Bctiool ab 109 8. ok ning and its labors concluded. Lit- tle business was presented at the meeting and no action was taken. The council will hold another | NOTICE meeting next Tuesday evening to! PEffective today, the ALASKA take up other matters of import- GRILL has been taken possession ance to the city. of by a committee of my creditors, following Sunday school. e HOME FROM HOSPITAL | who will conduct it under the| Mrs. Ben Havdahl is back at her‘ management of Pet: Lucy, Alll home in Treadwell having returned | creditors should promptly file an yesterday from St. Ann's hospital | itemized, verified statement of their with her infant son, whose arnval‘ account with R. H. Stevens at the | First National Bank, Juneau. - | (Signed) STANLEY KONCIEL. SUNDAY SCHOOL TOMORROW | First publication, Aug. 1, 1931. Sunday school will be held as|Last publication, Aug. 10, 1931 usual tomorrow morning at 10:30 e s o'clock in the Congregational Com- munity church. VAUDEVILLE WITH PICTURES The Roamers, vaudeville artists, will be at the Douglas Coliseum this eévening in a new program as | an added attraction with the fea- ture, “Maybe'It's Love.” Sunday evening the feature will be “Fast Life,” with Douglas Fair- banks, Jr., and Loretta Young, asj occurred ten days ago. NOTICE OF HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT Erik Oslund, having on the 13th day of July, 1931, filed his final lestate of James McQuinn, deceased, in the Commissioner's Court for Haines Precinct and Territory of | rs. C. C. Saun- ders returned to Juneau this morn- the Northland after hav- been gone for a month, B8 A ML S Bty LD 05T | (Copyright, 1930, by D. Appleton| There wint not be any services and Co.) | at' the Catholic Church in Douglas HEAVEN HELP THE GOOD. " SHIP,:SWALLOW:( ing which time they attended a | meeting of. the Synod of Washing- ton, held at Spokane. “I believe the people of Juneau |take fully as great an interest in the work of the church as they do anywhere I visited,” says the | Rev. Saunders. The regular Bible Schools and }church services will be resumed by | the Northern Light church tomor- row after a month’s vacation, dur- ing which time the interior of the church auditorium has been ‘re- decorated. e HENRY SOLSTAD WELL Henry Solstaa, after having spent a few days in St. Ann’s hos- pital for medical treatment, left dur- | for <his home. today. [ o - e st | St. Luke's Cpiscopa! Church | T — | 7:30 p.n—Evening Prayer and e o o g R e | Congregational Community | [ SO S EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS The Leader Department Store SO S SISO | Preaching services 11:30 a. m,, CALIFORNIA GROCERY DISTRIBUTORS OF Start Your August ss==nt A ecount Now This Is Our New Month YOUR ALASKA LAUNDRY We call for and deliver Alaska, notice is hereby given to all heirs, creditors and other per- sons interested in said estate, that; Saturday, September 26, 1931, at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the office of the MILK--Borden’s and Carnation, Cake oy, [0 0, 00 ey $3.75 United States Commission, in the > Town and Precinct of Haines, Al- aska, is the time and place set for the hearing of objections to said account and settlement there- of. E. E. ZIMMER, United States Commissioner and MEXICAN BEANS--Fresh Stock, ... 25¢ Ex-Officio Probate Judge. First publication, July 18, 1931. Last publication, Aug. 8, 1931. ! DOUGLAS MARSHMELILOW--Best Grade ’ Boind ... 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