Show ry r )i 1 — Pro IIAN3 TUFT CHAS LAMMERSDOHF A V HUISII Cashicr- liana Tuft W HJIrown Chris Jor- DIRECTORS— Chas Lammorsdorf V Huish A C Farrell P James Scorup gensen IpMDON First State BANK AumP or ure call or memo ''mrrrANG? wath rom" ere (Copyrtht (Copyright 8YN0PSI8 Slam Harnlah known all through Alaska as "Burning Daylight” celebrates his SOth birthday with a crowd of miners at he Circle City Tlvolt The dance leads to heavy gambling In which over 1100000 is staked Harnish loses his money and He his mine but wins the mail contract starts on his mall trip with dogs and fledge telling his friends that he will be in the big Yukon gold strike at the start makes a sensationally Burning Daylight rapid run across country with the mall appears at the Tivoli and is now ready to join his 'friends in a dash to the new (told fields Deciding that gold will' be district Harnish found in the buys two tons of flour which he declares will be worth its weight in gold but when he arrives with his flour he finds A comrade discovthe big flat desolate ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har- vest V— Continued CHAPTER Back In Dawson though he remained true to his word and never touched hand to pick and shovel he worked as He bad a hard as ever In his life thousand irons In the fire and they Heavy as were his kept him busy He he won more heavily expenses took lays bought half shares shared and made with the men he bis locations and night Day personal dogs were ready and he owned the fastest teams so that when a stamnew discovery was on it was pede to Burning Daylight to the fore through the longest coldest nights till he blazed his stakes next to Discovery In one way or another (to say nothing of the many worthless creeks) he came into possession of properties on the good creeks such as Sulphur DoACrlsto Siwash Excelsis minion lhambra and Doolittle The thousands he poured out flowed back in tens of thousands Dawson grew rapidly that winter of 1S96 Money poured In on Daylight from the sale of town lots He promptly Invested it where it would gather In fact he played the dangermore ous game of pyramiding and no more than in a placer perilous pyramiding he But be imagined camp could ' played with hie eyes wide open locations Corner lots in desirable sold that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars Daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for the newcomers to bring down and as a result the summer of 1897 saw his saw mills working day and night on three shifts and still he had legs left over with which to build cabins These cabins land included sold at from one to several thousand in dollars fog buildings the business part of town brought him from forty to fifty thousand dollars of capfresh accretions These apiece ital were immediately invested in othHe turned gold over and er venturesover until everything that he touched seemed to turn to gold With the summer rush from the Outfor side came special correspondents and magazines the big newspapers and one and all using unlimited space they wrote Daylight up so that so far as the world was concerned Daylight loomed the largest figure in Alaska Of course months the after several world became Interested in the Spanish War and forgot all about him but in the Klondike Itself Daylight still remained the most prominent figure CHAPTER was held dian' fashion himself living Indian fashion on straight moose meat now heard the hoarse whistles calling his hundreds of laborers to work and watched them toil under the white glare of the But having done the thing he was ready to depart And when he let the word go out the Guggenhammers vied with the English concerns and with a new French company In bidThe ding for Ophlr and all Its plant bid highest and the Guggenhammers price they paid netted Daylight a clean rumor million It was current that he Was'wcrth anywhere from twenty to But he alone knew thirty millions just bow he stood and that with his last claim sold and the table swept he had ridden clean of his winnings h!jj hunch t£ the tune of Just a trifle AVer eleven millions His departure was a thing that passed into the history of the Yukon All the along with his other deeds Yukon was his guest the Dawson On that one seat of the festivity last night no man’s dust save his own was good Drinks were not to be purchased Every saloon ran open with extra relays of exhausted bartenders A and the drinks were given away man who refuse this hospitality and found a dozen persisted In paying on hands The his veriest fights rose up to defend the chechaquos name of Daylight from such insult And through it all on moccasined feet moved Daylight Burning with good naDaylight overspllling ture and camaraderie howling his howl and claiming the night as his bending men’s arms down on the bars performing feats of strength his bronzed face flushed with drink his black eyes flashing clad in overalls and blanket coat his dangling and his gauntleted mittens swinging from the cord across the shouldBut this time It was neither an ers ante nor a stake that he threw away but a mere marker in the game that be who held so many markers would not miss (TO BE CONTINUED) by AS IT SOMETIMES Drafts drawn on alt the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits New Train Service VIA DENVER la It All Moved Daylight Hell - Roaring when he looked back on It and felt again the touch of her lips on his an hand She was saying good-band he had never eternal guessed At that very moment and for all the moments of the evening Burning Daylight great world of which he had heard other men talk and of which he was as Ignorant as a child There were games out there to play It was a larger table and’ there was no reason not why he with his as he well sit in and take a hand So It was coolly and deliberately knew her way she had been resolved that afternoon on Skookum Hill that to die If he had only known it! U- he resolved to play this last best Klonntouched by the contagious malady dike hand and pull for the Outside It himself nevertheless he would have took time however He put trusted married her If he had had the sligh- agents to work on the heels of great test inkling of what she contemplated experts and on the creeks where they And yet he knew furthermore that began to buy he likewise bought hers was a certain a pride Wherever they tried to corner that would not have permitted her to worked-eu- t creek they found him accept marriage as an act of phila- standing in the way owning blocks of There had really been no sav- claims or artfully scattered nthropy claims that put all their plans to naught ing her after all The had fastened upon her and she had Followed wars truces compromises been doomed from the first to perish victories and defeats By 1898 sixty of It thousand men were on the Klondike Six thousand spent the winter of and all their fortunes and affairs 1897 in Dawson work on the creeks rocked back and forth and were afwent on apace yhile beyond the pass- fected by the battles Daylight fought es it was reported that one hundred And more and more the taste for the thousand more were waiting for the larger game urged In Daylight’s mouth Here he was already locked In grapDire Necessity spring Late one brief afternoon on the benches between French ples with the great Guggenhammers “Yes sir in a year from now this Hill and Shookum Hill caught a wid- and winning Balloon stock will be Pos- Amalgamated fiercely winning er vision of things Beneath him lay sibly tb severest struggle was waged worth $10000 and I’ll sell it to you for the richest part of Eldorado Creek on Ophlr the veriest of 50 cents" he could while up and down Bonanza whose “If It’ll be worth $10000 In a year dirt was valu- see for miles It was a scene of a able only because of its vastness The from now why don’t you keep It your The hills to their ownership of a block of seven claims self!" vast devastation shorn been and had of trees' “Well you see I neeu a shave and tops in the heart of it gave Daylight bis their naked sides showed signs of gor- grip and they could not come to terms a hair cut and I’d be a holy show if even the The Guggenhammer waited that long" — Judge ing and perforating that experts conclud now s With Connectian ROUTE BURLINGTON ROCK ISLAND ROUTE TRAINS PACIFIC MISSOURI EAST UNION PACIFIC TWO NIGHTS 10 CHICAGO TWO NIGHTS TO ST LOUIS THROUGH THREE SLEEPERS NIGHTS CHOICE TO NEW YORK OF ROUTES TO For further information ent or address CHICAGO KANSAS ST CITY BENTON A LOUIS- F A see any D GAPD PDA R & Salt G Ag- Lake City DverrCoio WADLEIGH SAUSAGE and Fresh Fine Died Like Motker to make Choicest line of MEATS and GROCERIES The ? Freif White LONG V G- - 2D ip Use Electric Lights Why not?j That’s the light to see your way clear by See Manager Sevier Manion and Be Light Power & Milling T m i get wired I" aa“ — rrrri LUMBER tmngin Co- - - - LUMBER t Nephi Plaster Portland Cement and a fine line of Builders Hardware ! Door$ Windows Moulding g § Phone 16 Black JOHN ARNESON LUMBER CO j aesHaaaaNaaaaaecaeeMiaaaveaieieaaaaeaaaaiimaaaca Why not say Hello to them? Your friends all want to lalk to you over the ’ohono Better have it put in With ping a Salina telephone In your home you can run errands go shipdo business eto without leaviug borne You will enjoy the Why not have 1? Get cnrnentil this poming week SAUNA TELEPHONE Win Harness nfti Jii hi COMPANY “la t iiywi Leather Goods' and Shoe Shop Store Horse Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers snd a Harness Saddles We want your trade full line of Men’s and Boys’ Dress and Work Shoes Our goods are the beat and our price the lowest Drop in and look over our line and be convinced — i GRANDE THREE FAST HAPPENS The man at the corner of the down town alley was selling some kind of cement It was worth 25 cents a bottle as be explained to his hearers but In order to Introduce It he was making a special price of one dime good for this particular occasion only and he guarreanteed satisfaction or money funded "Will It mend broken china?’ quired a lean undersized man In the crowd "It will mend anything but a broken Say promise or a ruined character my friend here’s a couple of sticks of wood fastened together at the ends If you break them apart I’ll make you a present of a bottle” Carelessly the undersized man took the joined sticks In his hands vioThen be gave them a sudden lent wrench Bu they didn’t break apart to have to spoil a It Is saddening story In his manner but sometimes In the Interests of historical accuracy to has be It done &RI0 FE ROUTE SANTA ® Through Salina: of Be ed that It was too big for him to mantle of snow could not bide neath him in every direction were handle and when they gave him an the cabins of men But not many ultimatum to that effect he accepted men were visible A blanket of smoke and bought them out The plan was filled the valleys and turned the gray his own but ho sent down to the day to melancholy twilight Smoke States for competent engineers to cararose from a thousand holes in the ry It out In the RitikabUly watershed eighty miles away be built his snow where deep down on in the frozen muck and gravel men reservoir and for eighty miles the crept and scratched and dug and ever huge wooden conduit carried the waEstibuilt more fires to break the grip of ter across country to Ophlr mated at three millions the reservoir the frost was what was needed and conduit cost nearer four Nor Organization did he stop with this he decided and his quick imagination Electric power sketched Eldorado Creek from mouth plants were installed and his workto source and from mountain top to ings were lighted as well as run by caIn one of hands mountain top the who electricity Other sourdoughs had struck it rich in excess of all Even pable management as yet untried but bound to come their dreams shook their heads gloomWhat ily warned him that he would go he saw would be a makeshift should be done was to hydraulic the broke and declined to Invest in so exvalley sides and benches ami then on travagant a venture But Daylight smiled and sold out the remainder of the creek bottom to use There was the very chance for another hlB He sold at the holdings He had wondered big killing just right time at the height of the placer what was precisely the reason for the boom When he prophesied to his old and the big English cronies In the Moosehorn Saloon that Guggenhammers within five years town lots In Dawson concerns sending in their experts That was their scheme That could not be given away while the was why they bad approached him for cabins would be chopped up for firet claims and tailwood he was laughed at roundly the sale of and would ings They were content to let the assured that the small But he went gopher out what' be found ere that time they could for there would be mil- ahead when his need for lumber was finished selling out bis sawmills as lions in the leavings And gazing down on the smoky in- well Likewise he began to get rid ferno of qrude effort Daylight outlined of his scattered holdings on the varithe new game he would play a game ous creeks and without thanks to any In which the Guggenhammers and the one he finished his conduit built bis rest would have to reckon with him dredges Imported his machinery and But along with the delight In the new made the gold of Ophlr Immediately conception came a weariness He was adcesslble ' And he who five years tired of the long Arctic years and he before bad crossed over the divide was curious about the Outside — the from Indian River and threaded the silent wilderness his dogs packing In- VI the thousands of chechaquos that Daywithout light was a man absolutely fear But Betties and Dan MacDonald their shook and other sourdoughs heads and laughed as they mentioned And they were right He bad women always been afraid of them from the time himself a lad of seventeen when of Juneau made open Queen Anne love to him’ For that and ridiculous matter be never had known women Born In a where they were rare and mysterious having no sisters his mother dying while he was an infant he had never been In contact with them But it was left to the Virgin to give She was found him his final fright A one morning dead In 'hercabln shot through the bead had done It and she had left no message no exThen came the talk Some planation wit voicing public opinion called It a She bad case of too much Daylight killed herself because of him Everybody knew this and said so The corwrote It up and once respondents of the more Burning Daylight King was sensationally featured Klondike of the in the Sunday supplements had United States The Virgin straightened up so the ran and correctly so Never had she l entered a Dawson City When she first arrived from Circle City she had earned her living by washing clothes Next she had bought men’s and made a drill parkas fur caps and moosehlde mittens Then she had gone as a clerk All this into the First Yukon Bank and more was known and told though one and all were agreed that Daybeen the cause had while the light Innocent ctfuse of her untimely erid And the worst of it was that DayAlways would light knew it was true It he remember that last night be had seen her He had thought nothing of it at the time but looking back he was haunted by every little thing that In the light of the had happened understand tragic event be could that calm everything— her quietness certitude as if all vexing questions of smoothed out and been had living were gone and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she bad said and done that had been almost materHe remembered the way she had nal looked at him how she had laughed when he narrated Mickey Dolan’s mistake in staking the fraction on Her laughter Gulch had been lightly Joyous while at the same time robustness it had lacked ltB Not that she had been grave or subdued On the contrary she had been so patently content so filled with peace She had fooled him fool that He had even thought that he was night that her feeling for him bad passed and he had taken delight In the thought and caught visions of the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing love out of the way And then when he stood at the door cap In hand and said good night It had struck him at the time as a funny and embarrassing thing her bending over his hand and kissing it He had felt like a fool but he shivered by the New York Herald Company) 1910 by the MacMillan Company V f r |