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( ( ( ( ( ( { ( ( ( { ( ( ( { { | .f THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 3,:1931. - = S THAT AN'T A COME BELOW I KITCHEN, MAW, AN’ LOOK THAT'S A AT MY KITCHEN 7 PAW/ KITCHEN “To think that it was} the time! We've his right arms. Pierre, seeking here all Ann'c runaway husband, Bruce, been walking over it—sleeping over cachcs the descrt camp where |it—we've made fires and cooked Bruce and: Colerado Bill are over it.” He roared with laughter; hurting gold. Unscen himself, |he danced a wild jig, the threw his| h overhears Bruce admit tak- hat in the air; he was made with 5,000 from the Orchard triumphant joy. lllll bank and killing the cash- And all the time Pierre sat un- jcr, for whose murder Ann’s moved in watchful readiness. fathcr is held. Pierre’s parpose “Come here, boy,” cried the man; is to persuade Bruce to return come here and see!” to his wife, whom he had false- “Pm not interested,” Pierre re- | turned coldly, still thinking the man’s action a trick to entice him within reach. “Go on digging!” For a minute the man, looked at Pierre dumbly—he had forgotten the situation. Then he roared | with laughter. “I'll say I'll go on. You poor fish! I've struck the los! Mother Mountain lode!” ly accused of an affair with Picrre. As Bruce, despite his companion’s warning, defiantly en to drink the ast watcr, Colorado Bill shoots him dead. Pierre battles and cubdues Brucc's slayer. He plans to turn him over to the law for murder, return the stolen |little momument of rocks such as | prospectors will go without question. With the fortune we have here well find a way to clear Ann’s father. It will all be easy enough with these mil- lions to help us.” Holding out the location notice the man approached Pierre. “Here,” he said, “look this over while I fix up a monument for it.” Still smiling and covertly watch- ing Piérre, he began piling up a use to mark their claims. Pierre, keeping him covered, took the paper from his hands and won- dered uneasily at the triumphant smile on the man's face. Plerre looked at the location no- By CLIFF STERRE’I‘I‘ BAIT FISHING IS OPENED IN STRAIT AREA Four-Day Openlng An- nounced — Is Extended Prince William Sound | 'ROBBINS, JONES | ARE COMPELLED | WILL BE SENT T0 QUIT FLIGHT Become Separated from! Greener and Mattern Over Alaska Area (Continued from Page One) SITKA 1 Orders promulgated Saturday !);»'I the Department of Commerce from ! Washington opens tempo tice: “Bruce Carey, Plerre Dono- van, Roy Donovan.” “Roy Donovan—Roy Donovan!™ Pierre rose slowly to his feet The other man faced him with a triumphant laugh. “Well, son, |Ls been a long time since we met.” “Are you Roy Donovan?” “Surest thing you know.” | “My—my father?” Roy Donovan laughed. “That’s mcney and thus effect Ann’s | “Youre wasting your energy,” | another card in our little game, father's release. But Colorads 'said Pierre. “Pinish the grave $0|pen kid? I somehow can't quite Bill threatens, if arrested, to 'we can be on our way.” see Harriet Neel's boy turning his | humiliate Ann by exposing The man gazed at Plerre as if | ,un father over to hang for mur- Bruce’s murderous role. dumbfounded that any one could|ger can you?” e be so stupid. Then he said sarcastl- | with bowed head Pie turned Chapter 33 cally, “I suppose you know gold|pic back on his companion and TWO DisuOVERIES when you see it!” and tossed 8&|moved listlessly toward the spot Pierre arose and, keeping his piece of the white quartz at the|wnere he had left his canteen and| eye on his companion, and his young man’s feet. pack weapon ready, moved to Bruce's! Pierre did not even pick up the | poy Donovan followed stealthily, body and carefully ched the Plece of quartz. “I tell you I am gen by step. dead man's clothing, transferring not interested” he sald. “Go On| propping his gun, Pierre swung| everything that he found to his With your digging." the pack over his shoulder and | own pockets. This done, he stood| “Do you realize what this strike|nioked up the canteen. But he | the still form on means?” cried the other. “Do You|pauseq and, as if his strength | gazing down at : as if lost in thought. | realize that there's millions in this were not equal to the anguish of er man moved a steal- 1, the richest ever discovered? |yne situation, he leaned heavily thy step nearer and instantly Are you human or are you a blood- against the low, rocky wall, his| found himself covered by the gun less dummy?” 5 face hidden in his arms. i in Pierre's steady hand “I used to feel things” sald} ppe glder man, moving swiftly Don't make that mistake again,” Plerre. “I guess I'm dead—I'm sure|gjlently reached the gun. Anoth sald.. Piemre ply. “Get your that something in me is dead” ljpstant and the weapon was in| pack—we're g No, get your| The other was quick to take ad- |his hand. pick and shovel first I can't vantage of what seemed to be a((copyright, 1930, by D. Applet m,! Jeave Bruce like this, I couldn’y change in Pierre’s mood. “I think and Co.) tell Ann that we did not even bury I know what you mean, boy,” he i said in a tone of kindly sympathy. “But listen, with a hundredth part| !of the wealth that's right here un- him. it You must dig a grave. Dig He pointed to a spot a few feet away Dig a grave!” the other ex. |der our feet you could—you could claimed looking at Pierre. “I'll be build the most beautiful theater damned if Il do any such fool|in the world to the memory of thing 5 | your mother “You'll die if you don't,” Pierre| Pierre started. “What do you retorted coolly, raising his wea- know of my mother?” pon. “I know what Bruce told me” the other answered gently. “She heat!" protested the other. “Short was Harriet Noel. I remember see- of water as we are, yowre cragy ing her on the stage once. “Didn't to thing of such a te of strength |she used to stand in the wings and time. We'll do well if we last While you were acting your kiddie to make Dripping Spring as it is!” parts?” As well might the man have pro- The unexpected assault upon his tested to an inanimate machine. emotions threw Pierre momentarily Pierre Donovan forced him to do off his guard. The other, seeing his bidding. While the other toiled the opening, moved to make the with pick and shovel, Pierre sat on most of it. But Pierre leaped to But think of the exertion in t guard |his feet, on guard again. The It was a gruesome scene—the man stopped, but smiled as one desolate surroundings, the dead who, knowing that the cards in his body, the murderer forced by the -hand insure the final outcome of fear of death to dig a grave for of the game, might smile at his his victim; the outwardly impas-;opponent’s sucecess in taking one sive and implacable watcher with trick. his weapon ready for instant use.! wro hell with your gold!” cried The man’s task perhaps half | pjerre with passionate carnestness completed when suddenly with & .1ook what your talk of gold has startled cry he threw aside his: ,done for poor Bruce there! Look pick and went down on his knees.! what it has done for Martin Bevis' Pierre, thinking the man’s action yook what it has done for Ann! a ruse to throw him off guard, did yook what it has done for me! not move. o ek . | Anything that I-could do with this i prang to his feet and, | gol as a memorial fo my mother seizing his pick, used it for & min-|would be an insult to her.” h fierce energy, Again he| <Al right, returned the other ppeared in the grave. A“‘ca)mb “But I'm not goimz to turn later he arose, beside him-lyy pack on these millions. I'm go- self with wild excitement. In his'ing to put up a Jocation notice if hands was a large piece of white {you kill me while I'm doing it.” ey - As he spoke he took from his T've found it i pocketboook a printed form and | proceeded to fill it while Pierre, disconcerted by the man's confident Imanner and by the feeling that |there was something back of it which he did not understand, watched him. he yelled, wawviny LA ' Full of long lasting delicious flavorand |, - here!” he said when he had made of pure chicle and other |finished writing. “I have located !this lode in your name, Bruce's |and mine. ingredients of the hest qualitys Tagie g T've put in Bruce so {that his wife could have his share. {You and Ann together own con- |trol—I take only one-third. N ot 1 Derfoct condicd “Suppose you succeed in getting €com! ndition. me to Red Butte and turning me | , All of its goodness is sealed tight |over to the sheriff? That. Wen't in the clean wax wrapped packages. bring Bruce back or do away with The days work goes much easier | the fact that he with WRIGLE¥S™ to: sustain. and" ,n murderer. I say that for Ann's ! refresh. sake know | that crime and was planning to let her | father suffer for it. We will report that you and Bruce and I were to- | gether when we struck this lode; and that when we were on our we ought how her husband died, or| AND i evening. was a thief and| never to let her] he was guilty of that bank | Mcanwhile the law’s wheels | turn, and tomorrow a tele- gram brings consternation to | Ann and Tony. DOUGLAS | NEW BIRTHDAY DINNER FOR MISS LYNDSTROM Complimentary to. Miss Helen Lyndstrom on her birthday, Miss Madeline Riedi entertained with] a dinner party at her home last| Covers were laid for eight. / MRS. PUSICH TO VISIT 1‘ PARENTS IN SEATTLE" Mrs. Mike Pusich and.son, Mike, | Jr., left on the Northland Satur-/| day for Seattle to spend the next month visiting with her mother and father. REMOVE 10 JUNEAU Elmer H. Roberts and family who have been Douglas residents for about a year and a half, yester- day moved their household effects to Juneau where they will make their home. MORE CARS FOR DOUGLAS | Two cars, one a passenger and the other a truck, were added to the rapidly increasing number of motor vehicles on the Island Sat- urday when the Northland docked here. Leonard Johnson had his new Chevrolet, which he pur-| chased about a week ago, brought over gnd Dewey Frankforter re- ceived a second handed Dodge de- livery car for his dairy business. STRAWBERRY PT. BERRIES Lester Rink, who hrought in a boat load of strawberries from Strawberry Point last week, re- turned to his ranch Saturday. He had no difffculty in disposing of all his berries which found con- siderable favor. TO SITKA F. A. J. Gallwas and son Harold are on a trip to Sitka, having left late last week on his boat Mary Ann. ——.———— | OFFICE MOVED TO BLOMGREN BUILDING [ ‘rv« v back Bruce wandered off the | BENEFIT into Skeleton Sink. Welll say . - Ked it was impossible for us to go aft- P er him because we wefe so short| er that we barely made 1 the Spring ourselves, That story | Drs. Kaser & Freeburger have moved their offices from the Gold- stein Building to the second floor of the Blomgren Building. —adv. R — Old rapers av The Empme. Ifor bait and |and made public today by | erick, Chichagof Island, was ope: | State is ready for the trial of H Port Frederick to herring fishi added two days to| the salmon fishing season in Prince | Wwilliam Sound. They were ceived at local headquarters of t |Bureau of Fisheries late Saturday Asst. | Agent M. J. O’Connor. | Herring bait fishing in Port Rotbins and Jom‘s fl(’\\ |land route. They expected to make Fairbanks ! within 11 or 12 hours. Rekbbins and Jones | Fairbanks at 5:50 o'clock wstcrda)’ |afternoon off to give soline. Cn their and them previous flight, Fred- | weeks ago, Robbins and Jones con- m\,\tac ed over Fairbanks with Pilots |Nick Greener and Jimmy Willie John,, the in-ipore at the last len | wes! arrived over | the refueller took 200 gallons of | iree-year | Penitentiary at John was several A i on a liquor Mattern at 6 am. today and will close a fine. 6 pm. on August T {in their refusling plane, then both| e - The Prince William Sound = arted for Solomon. At Solomon tension permits commercial 1-|bad weather was encountered and; Deputy mon fishing today and tomorrow.|it Was impossible to make a second 1also John for: re- Aug- It also extends the time moval of trap leads to 6 a.m. ust 9. e, prove the killing was premeditated. | trial will probably KEKLAND M EEE 'hr county jail here last Friday,| BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 3—| W. \ ,\ 1 Wi ‘f»\“\w(l 3 e en Toms The Province of Catalonia cast an | % o oman ol Accused, V ‘.‘)‘ = B i R overwhelming vote in favor of M S k 25 Alle C(] (_ US(‘(I Tra .- | PLAN NEW POLO FIELDS |autonomous statehood within the Osqu"to t"c > c 4 “vi-evinds g g | Republic of Spain. gl Ao o Cd}, Famls mn _]E\ll DEL MONTE, Cal, July 31.—{ It is estimated that 400,000 of the | Construction of two new polo fields six playing areas and a club house will be completed | ; the Del Monte Polo association »fore the opening of the winter December 1. e — Old papers tor saile at the Em-< would pire office. SEATTLE, Aug. 3.—Depuiy Pros- |Pr eccutor Arthur Bailey, Jr., sald the N® Loy, Kirkland jeweler, on charges of first degree murder for the se: ! shooting of L. D.»Todd, feed store| at Kirkland. the State dealer, Bailey said ANDARD 0x450 4 21 The QUALITY tire withir the Reach of ALL - \JALUES posble because Goodyear builds MILLIONS MORE tices than any other company. TODAY'S NEW GOODYEAR'S ¢ ¢ ALL SIZES 'y v ALL TYPES The accused with Mrs. miliar Loy visited her husband in oviding on, (30 x 5.00) 4.40-21 %4% | 5.25-19 (29 x 4.40) (29x5.25) 4.50-21 356 | 5.25.21 (30x4.50) (31 x 5.25) 4.75-19 %665 | 5.50-19 (28x 4.75) (29x5.50) 5.00-19 $6% [ 6.00-20 (29 x5.00) (32x6.00) | contact with the refueler. | fliers then returned to Szattle, ‘\\fl”l’d a new motor and hopped| o[f again yesterday morning Jmm;' Field. READY TOTRY .. week. 30x3% The two|Joe Campbell, in- and sane side. George Griggs, G W, Nomand from be held Todd of being too Loy and lw WOT’S ALL THE RUMPUS ABOUT, UNK? ~~ 2 NO R’LIMPUS SON. MAW'S i JESS SHOWIN' SOUTHTUESDAY ‘{Will Enter Federal Peni- tentiary to Begin De- layed Prison Term al district court of assault with intent to commit rape, will be tak- south Tuesday rn by Deputy Marshal Martin to begin serving a term previously charge and was sen- tenced to serve five months in the {local Federal jail and pay a $200 He has just completed that Martin - will Lauchart, Sitka, Sitka, adjudged in- committed to Morning- He will be accompanied by STATEHOOD VOTE CAST: ELECTRIC SUNLIGHT MACHINES UNIVERSAL AND EVER READY TYPES Sold and rented—rtentals can be ‘applied on later purchase if desired Alaska Electric Light and Power Co. NDIAN JUNEAU Phone 6 DOUGLAS Phone 18 JUST ARRIVED Another New Stock of WALLPAPER Juneau Paint Store Indian convicted term of the Fed- on the North- United States FOR INSURANCE See H. R. 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