The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1933, Page 7

FO SURE ---- T LEFT THE DIARY AN' SKIPPED ---- NOW, TAKE |T EASY, VIPE ---= B8Y TOMORROW T'LL HAVE THE BIG BOY IN THE N PALM OF YOUR HAND----3 RBIDDEN VALLEY By William Bynon Moweny SYNOPSIS: On the trail of the Russian international crook Igor Karakhan, Curt Tennyson and Paul St. Claire have reached Russion ZLake in the Canadian Nortliwest. They have rescued Sonia Nichols Jrom a drunken half-breed, but Sonya and Curt have quarrellcd because Curt has approved the downfall of the Romanofs. At a potlatch on the lake shore Curt plays an old an tune, and Sonya sings the words. At lcast, Curt {8 sure she is a Russian Chapter 14 SONYA APOLOGIZES ONYA must be a Russian, exiled by the revolution and therefore bitter against it. That was why she kad flared out at him when he mild )y praised the Leninists. Her man- ners indicated that she had come from a wellto-do family, possibly from the aristocracy. But what about her brother? Ralph didn’t appear Russian, or an alien at all. His name was English and he seemed to be an ordinary Canadian citizen. Of course ‘he could. have changed his name, and it was possible that he had lived in the Dominion longer than Sonya; but even so they were vastly differ- ent people to he brother and sister. Altogether there was something odd about the relationship of those two, something that he could not quite fathom. Old"John took the trout from the balsam slab, divided it; and an In- dian * girl handea the portions around on strips of birchbark, with an oolichan and piece of bacon to each portion. As Curt passed out his cigarettes and chocolate squares, he purposely stopped with Nichols, crouched down, and fell into talk with the entomologist. “I understand you're not staying at Russian Lake much longer, Ralph.”* *“No. Mr. Higginbotham here has hired two guides for us and we're leaving tomorrow morning.” “Making a trip into the bush?” “Yes, up the Lilluar.” A young trapper cut in bluntly: ‘Nichols, if you try to go into the Klosohee ranges, it'll be just too bad, that's all! Those Klosohees ain’t any iame treaty Siwash. What I mean, I'd ruther fight a grizzly b'ar with a pine branch than argy with them boys. When I first hit this country four years ago, I thought this talk about 'em was mostly nonsense, but I fouwd out different!"” “You may be a scientist, Nichols, an’ after nothing but harmless bugs, but they won't know you from a human bein’, an’ they don’t have any more use for you than for any white mau. You'll git to the pass all right, but if you go any further you'll float back down, so full of arrers you'll look like a pincushion! Ain’t I right, John?” “They don’t let whites in,” old John corroborated. *“They'll give a man fa’r caution, an’ if a prospector happens to stray inside, they’ll take ‘m out peace’bly. I'm jist meanin’ to say they shoot squar’ with a per- son at first, an’ then if he don’t take warnin’ they shoot straight.” The city sportsman winked know- ingly at Sonya. “Scare talk, Miss Nichols. They've repeated it so much that they've got to believing it themselves. You'll find those Smokies as tame as tabby cats.” Sonya quietly ighored the sports- man and spoke to the men who knew what they were talking about. “I don’t deny there’s a 'dapger. But we're going to try and get on friend- 1y terms with the Klosohees. If they understand we're altogether peace- ful, they probably won’t object. And we do want to work in ‘that coun- try. One week in there would be worth a year in a country that's been combed and combed.” (URT took no part in the discus- gion. By linking up Jamleson’s account of the wild Lilluar tribe with Sonya’s sketéh of their history, he could see the whole story of the Klosohees pretty clearly. Their hos- tility toward white people undoubt- edly sprang from the brutal treat- ment they had received from the Russians. In so isolated a tribe, traditions would hang on for genera- tions. Now Sonya and Ralph were going into that pot of trouble, with no pro- tection except a pair of guides who would desert at the first real danger. For a city girl and man to venture into territory where experienced bush-lopers stayed strictly out was sheer suicide, and not a very pleasant kind of suicide at that. At eleven-thirty the first spatter of rain broke up the party. The In- dians faded into the darkness; the factor ambled home; the missioner wrapped his biack robe about him and left; the young trapper stuck a wolf cub in each jacket pocket and trotted for his tent. Curt wanted to ask Sonya If he might walk up to Higginbotham's residence with her, where she and Ralph were staying: but he was afraid of getting snubbed. While he wavered, Sonya said good-night to Mrs. Hodkins and turned to him. “I've been wanting to apologize to you, Mr. Ralston.” She was really sincere about jt—so contrite, in fact, that she would not look him fn the eyes but stared at a button on his jacket. “Why, it was as much my fault as yours,” he insisted, as they start- ed up toward the factor’s house. “I threw out a big wild statement and you caught me up on it. But honest- ly"—he was thinking of her javelin- sharp words—"1'd hate to ever get into a real quarrel with you.” “Am 1 that baa?" “Oh, you're positively formidable! To change the subject, there's some- thing I'd like to say, if you won't bite my head off.” “I promise. What s it?” “Well, if you don’t mind an un- solicited opinion, I believe you and your brother ought to think twice before you start north into Klo- sohee territory. 1 don’t know any- think about the Klosohees myseif, but- I do know that some of these northern Dinnehs can’t be judged by the bands closer in to civilization.” “But we've thought twice already, Mr. Ralston, and ‘we've decided it's worth the risk.” v She said it so conclusively that Curt dropped the subject. If he was to stop them, he would have to think up some way more effective than argument. At the door of the residence they chatted a few moments about the party; and then Sonya bade him good night. Curt turned away re- luctantly, looking back once for a glimpse of her as she stood outlined in the shaft of light from the door. E told himself when the Karak- han hunt was over he was going to look her up, find out who she really was, and try for a better ac. quaintance. He would be a poor de tective if he could not trace Ralph and her. The rain came on in earnest short- ly after he reached camp. A high wind lashed the pines, woke up the lake and tugged at their tent: rain fell in gusty sheets; flash after blinding flash of lightning banged into the timber and rolled bellowing across the lake. Sitting on their sleeping pokes, he ALEXANDER TO SENTENCE TWO TOMORROWAM. iPaul Johnson and Mrs. Nichia to Be Sentenced for Manslaughter Sentences on WO DPersons con- victed during the recent trial term of the Federal district court | will be imposed tomorrow morn- ing by Judge G. F. Alexander, it was announced today. They are: Paul Johnson and Mrs. Blanche | Nichia. They will be taken south on the steamer Yukon to serve their terms in whatever prison the Court designates. Johnson was convicted on man- slaughter for the killing of Mrs Eva Lawrence here early this year. His -co-defendant, Albert (Doc.) | Matthews, was acquitted, Judge Al- | exander dirzeting the jury to re- | turn a verdict of not guilty. | Mrs. Nichia was convicted of manslaughter for the shooting of | O1e Stortset, a fisherman, at Yak- | utat last September. | Judge Alexander extend>d arguments for a new { trial for Harry DeGroot, convic |ed of murder in the second degr for shooting of Abe Hanson at | Chichagof last January. George B | Grigsby and H. L. Faulkner pre sented the arguments for a retria {and G. W. Folta, Asst. Unitec | States Attorney, replied for the | Government. The arguments |still in progress at midafternoon | today. Until this is disposed: of | DeGroot will not be sentenced. today heard in the United hands through in and Paul waited for the time when | they could begin their work. Not | lonig after the storm began, Curt felt a trickle of water on his hat brim. He reached for his torch and looked up. About two feet down from the ridgeline a neat hole the size of a pencil had appeared in the | canvas. On the opposite wall and at the same height was another hole. “Look Paul —how’d those get there? No stick would blow clear through both—" A livid white flash lit up the tent as plain as day. An instant later— kip-plang! —their nested set of alu- minum dishes, lying on a box near the flap-front, sucdenly exploded in a dozen directions, as though pos- sessed of some diabolic magic. In the rolling thunder Curt heard the half-muffled bark of a rifie. He sprang to his feet. “Hell! Somebody’s shooting at our tent! It's that ‘breed!” They grabbed slickers and auto- matics, and leaped outside. Throw- ing themselves down behind the fire- wood, they waited for the next spurt of rifle fire to stab the darkness. “Watch back in the timber, Paul. I'll watch down toward the fort. He's | | in one of those directions. He's not out on the lake or around the post anywhere.” A minute lengthened to three, five. Curt bad never known it to rain so hard as just then, or to lighten so tremendously, One moment they were blinded by a dazzling glare; in the next the dark dropped like a | pall. They lay there for ten minutes, praying for just one glimpse of a rifle flash. But the sniper did not shoot again. “We might as well go back In,” Curt suggested finally. “I ought to've taken your advice and left him over on the island. We saved him from a soaking and then got it ourselves.” “Sometime we're going to have a show-down with that slinker. He's going to kill us or we're going to kill him,” It'was exactly Curt’s own thought. (Copyright. 1933. William B. Mowery) Curt and Paul go on a strange expedition tomorrow. Everybedy DAT'S DE STUFF, PETE--= AN' HE T'INKS YOUSE 1S A RED-HOT MAMA 7?2 HAW- HAW - HAW- R Succeeds Humphrey George 'C. Matthews (above) of Madison, Wis., succeeds William E, Humphrey as a member of the fed- eral trade commission. Humphrey was removed from office by Presi- dent Roosevelt but he declared the executive's action was illegal. (Asso- ciated Press Phote) REBEKAHS ELECT The Gold North Rebekah Lodge of Fairbanks recently :elected the ollowing of TS Noble Grand, Mrs. Jake Marks nd, Mrs. Joseph Picotte; Mrs. Arthur Treasurer, Miss Margaret Kramer; Crustee for three years, Mrs. Eli- zabeth Walker. Other officers are appointive. e D. DERCONI UNDERGOES MAJOR OPERATION MON. D. Derconi, who is employed at he Juneau Lumber Company, cn- sred St. Ann's Hospital Sunday wening and underwent a majdr ration on Monday morning COURSE TURKEY DINNER $1.00 ALL YOU CAN EAT! Welcome Pioneer Cafe PaurL & Novack, Props. Next to Home This Is the Best Place to Eat Hering; | 'CLIMAX' TO- THURSDAY {CELEBRATION WILL BE PURPLE BUBBLE BALL Held annually in Juneau and other Elks' lodges throughout the | country, the Purple Bubble Ball { will furnish a delightful climax to Thanksziving Day celebrations next | Thursday_evening. | Sp:cial music, special decora- | tions and special favors are among jthl‘ attractions offered by the Elks’ dance committee for the Purple Bubble Ball, annually the most | popular dance> of the winter in Juneau. | Jimmy Stecle’s Revelers have, |been excited for days working on |extra dance features for the dance jand the committee members are vindn.«:rinus]y trying to outdo each {other in thinking up original ideas for the decorations and entertain- | ment. | | L D O | LEGION AND AUXILIARY ‘ CHILDZEN TO BE GU { AT PARTY NEXT SATURD. ‘1 | Girls and boys whose fathers,| mothers. sisters or brothers, e members of either the American Legion or the American Legion Auxiliary are invited to attend the luncheon and ‘theatre party being given for them next Saturday. | Luncheon will be servad at the { Legion Dugout at noon and later | the children will be guests of Man- |ager Cliff Daigler at the Capitol Theatre. it has been announced vations may be made with Alfred Zenger at 226. 7 b 1l’l'HLI(' REQUESTED TO USE THE GOLD REET HOSPITAL ENTRANUE The public is requested to use| the Gold Street entrance to St.| Ann’s Hospital until further no- tice, due to the fact that both of the Sixth Street entrances are | temporarily closed, it was today | announced by hospital authorities. LLARGE 'NUF SED {Cornell Baseball Leader Speaks Finnish on Radio ITHACA, Nov. 28—T.A. fTOb# | [ There'll Be No Weeping if pasto, .Captain and- third baseman Grid Schedule Arranged by Coaches Drawing | Lots in Portland ‘ PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 28.— Schedule makers of the Portland high school football - league were saved a great deal of trouble this| year., Instead of a committee working out a chart for games between the various schools the season was opened by drawing lots. Every school in the league was out in unform ahd just before mo; first game was to start, the coaches pulled slips of paper out of a hat.| In this way the schedule for the season was arranged with the op- ponents of the opening game un- determined until a few minutes before time. | RACING BETTER Bidhe: fiisens B Baacit Proves Boom' in Im- port of Horses RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 28—Bel- ter programs and bigger purses this year at Brazilian race tracks have boomed imports eof foreign horseflesh. Within a week recently, 15 Eng- lish horses and 15 Argentine horses errived in Rio de Janeiro, for the stables of Jean George Frederiks and Ruben Noronha, respectively Earlier in the season, about a doz- en horses had been imported from Argentina and Uruguay. Brazil's biggest horserace, $25,- 000 to the winner, saw a Brazilian runner defeat a big field of im- ported horses. s T One and a half million acres of cleared land are idle in North | Carolina, it is estimated. | ORDER This League Has Disbanded PRESTON, England, Nov. 28.-— The unemployed football league here has cancelled half its match- es for the time being because many of its members are working after long enforced idlencss. The league was formed during the period of trade depression rder to keep unempl 1 nfen fit. D Sweet gum, formerly gathered its arcma, is now used in bak- perfumes and cinnamic alco- for ing hol. of the 1934-Cornell baseball team, is making good use of his native tongue—Finnish. 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