MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1913.
PLATTSMOUTII SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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CHAPTER XI.
The Race For No. 3.
Uli: Oct on to the glad rags!"
Shorty surveyed his partner
witb simulated disapproval.
aud Stnoke, vainly attempt
ing to rub tbe wrinkles out of tbe pair
of trousers Le had just put on. was ir
ritated. 'They sure lit you close for .1 second
hand buy." Shorty went on. "What
was tlie tax?"
One hundred and fifty for the suit."
Smoke answered. "The man was
nearly my own size. I thought it was
remarkably reasonable. What are you
k! -kiiis about V
Who? Me? Oh. notbin'. Say?"
What do you waut now:" Smoke
demanded testily.
What's her n:imc"
"There isn't any her. ray friend. I'm
to have dinner at Colonel Howie's, if
you want to know. The trouble with
you. Shorty, is you're envious because
I'm p'in into hib society and you're
jjot invited."
I'.y this time Smoke was straining at
a pair of shoes. The thick woolen
so.ks were too thick to go into them
lie looked appealinijiy at Shorty, who
shook his head.
"Nope. If I had thin ones I wouldn't
lend "em to you. Hack to the inocca
hius. pardner. You'd sure freeze your
toes in skimpy faugled gear like that."
"But there are to be women. Shorty.
I'm going to sit down and eat with
real live women Mrs. Howie and sev
eral others, so the colonel told me.''
"Well, moccasins won't spoil their ap
petite none." was Shorty's comment.
"Wonder what the colonel wants with
you?"
As became a high salaried expert and
the representative of the great house
of -tjuggenheim. Colonel Howie lived in
one of the most magnificent cabins in
Iawson. And here Smoke met the so
cial elo'-t of Dawson men like Captain
Consadine of the mounted police. Has
kell, jroid commissioner of the North- J
west Territory, ami Baron von S?cbne
der, an emperor's favorite with an in
ternational d'.ieHng reputation. And
here, dazzling in evening gown, he met
Joy Oastell. whom hitherto he had en
countered only on trail, befurred and
inwccasiiied. At dinner he found hiui
ti if beside her.
"I feel like a fish out of water." he
confessed. "I've been living on trail
too long. This sort of thing comes to
mo with a stuck. I'd quite forgotten
that women have arms and shoulder.
Tomorrow morning, like my friend
Shorty. I'll wake up and know it's all a
dream. Now. the last time I saw you
on Squaw creek"
"I was just a squaw," she broke in.
"I hadn't intended to say that. I was
remembering tht.t it was on Squaw
creek that I discovered you bad feet."
"And I can never forget that jou
fs.iv(d them for me," she said. "I've
bein wanting to see you ever since to
thank you. And that's why you are
here tonight."
"You asked the colonel to invite me?"
"No: Mis. Bowie. And I asked her
to let me have you at table. And here's
my chance. You know Mono creek?''
"Yes."
"It has turned out rich, dreadfully
rich. They estimate the claims as
worth a million and more apiece.
"Well, the whole creek was staked to
the sky line aud nil the feeders too.
Ami yet right now on the main creek
No. o. below Discovery. Is unrecorded.
The creek was so far away from Daw
hn that the commissioner allowed six
ty days for recording after location,
livery claim was recorded eseept No.
below. It was staked by Cyrus John
sen, and that was all. Cyrus Johnson
.; s disappeared, aud in six days the
time for recording will be up. Then
tbe man wh-j stakes it and reaches
Dawon iirst and records it gets it"
"But why doesn't everybody know?"
Smoke queried skeptically.
"They're beginning to know. They
kept it secret for a long time, and it ts
only no'.v that it's coming out. Good
d g teams will be at a premium in an
i'IIkt twenty-four hours. Now, you've
gut to get away as decently as you can
as soon as dinner is over. An Indian
will come with a message f.r you.
You read it, let en that you're very
much put out, make your tscuses and
get away."
I er I fail to follow.
"Ninny:" she exclaimed. "What you
must do is to get out tonight and hus
tle dog teams. I know of two. There's!
Hanson's team seven big Hudson bay
iogs. He's holding them at $400 each.
Tint's top price tonight, but it won't
Ik? tomorrow. And Sitka Charley has
eight Malemutea he's asking $3,"00 for.
Tomorrow he'll laugh at an oler of
$". 0. Then you've got your own
team of dogs. And you'll have to bur i
t-tveral more team-;. It do; as well !
a nieia that will wia this face. It's j
210 miles, and ycu'IMiaTe to relay as
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the Wheeler Syndicate
frequently as you cnn."
"Oh. I see; you waiil me to go in
for it" Smoke drawled. "But aren't
you afraid tliis is gambling?"
"It's a sporting proposition, if that's
what you mean a race for a taillion
and with some of the stiffest dog
musbers and travelers in the country
entered against you. Big Olaf is in
town. He is one of the most terrible
dog musbers in the country, and if be
enters he will be your most dangerous
man.
"Arizona Bill is another. He has
been a professional freighter and mail
carrier for years. If he goes in. inter
est will be centered on him and Big
Olaf."
"And you intend me to ectue along
as a sort of dark ho. -?"
She nodded and continued earnestly:
"Itemcinber, 1 shall never forgive my
self for the trick I played on the
Squaw creek stampede unless you win
this Mono claim. Aud if any man can
win this race against the old timers
it's you."
It was tbe way she said it. He felt
warm all over and in bis heart aud
head. He gave her a quick, searching
look, involuntary and serious, and for
the moment that her eyes met his
steadily ere they fell it seemed to lain
that he read something of vaster im
port than the claim Cyrus Johnson had
failed to record.
"I ll do it," he said. "I'll win it,"
Smoke had traveled in a leisurely
fashion up to Mono creek. Also he
had familiarized himself with every
mile of the trail and located relay
camps.
So many men had entered the nig
race that the 110 miles of its course
were almost a continuous village. Be
lay camps were everywhere along the
trail.
Von Schroeder. who had gone in
purely for the sport, had no less than
eleven dog teams a fresh one for ev
ery ten miles. Arizona Bill had been
forced to content himself with eight
teams. Dig Olaf had seven, which was
the complement of Smoke. In addi
tion, over twoscore of other men were
in the running.
No. 3 below Discovery was ten miles
up Mono creek from its mouth. The
remaining 10O miles were to be run on
the frozen breast of the Yukon. On
No. 'J itself were bfty tents and over
G'X dogs. The old stakes, blazed and
scrawled sixty days before by Cyrus
Johnson, still stood, and every man had
gone over the boundaries of the claim
again and again, for the race with the
dogs was to be preceded by a foot and
obstacle race.
Each man in the contest had to re
locate the claim for himself, and this
meant that he must place two center
stakes and four corner stakes and
cross the creek twice before he could
scan ior uawson with nis oogs.
Not until the stroke of midnight cf
Friday night was the claim open for
relocation, and not until the stroke of
midnight could a man plant a stake.
This was the ruling of the gold com
missioner at Dawson, and Captain
Consadiue had scut up a squad ef
mounted police to enforce it.
The Mono trail ran along the level
creek bed and. less than two feet iu
width, was like a groove, walled cn ci
ther side by the snowfall of months.
The problem of how forty odd sleds
and oOO dogs were to start in so
narrow a course was in everybody s
mind.
"Huh:" said Shorty. "It's goin' to be
the gosh dangdest mix up that ever
was. I can't see no way out, Smoke,
except main strength an sweat an to
plow through. I got a hunch right now
tbey's goin to be a heap of scrappin'
before they get strung out. An if any
of it comes our way you got to let me
do tlie punchin. You can't handle dogs
a hundred miles with a busted knuck
le, au' that's what'll happen if you
land on somebody's jaw.
"An just remember." Shorty went
on, "that I got to do all the shovin for
them first ten miles, au you got to
take it easy as you can. I'll sure jerk
you through to the Yukon. Say. what
d'ye think Schroeder's scheme is? He's
got his hrst team a quarter of a mile
down tlit creek, an' he'll know it by a
green lantern. But we got him skin
ned. Me for the red flare every time."
The day had been clear and cold, but
the night came on warm and dark,
with tbe liiut of snow impending. The
thermometer registered 15 below zero,
and iu the Klondike winter 15 below is
esteemed very warm.
At a few minutes before midnight,
leaving Shorty with the dogs 500 yards
down the creek. Smoke joined the
racers on No. 3. There were forty-live
of them.
IJacli racer carried 6ix stakes and a
heavy wooden mullet.
Lieutenant Pollock, iu a big bearskin 1
coat, looked at his watch by the light ,
of a tire. It lacked a minute of mid- j
ti.-iit. "Make ready." he said as he I
raised a revolver ia his right bajdL j
Forty-five pairs of hau-.ls were uumit
tened. and forty-live pairs of moccasins
pressed tensely into the packed snow.
Also forty-live stakes were thrust into
the snow, and the same number of
mallet.s lifted Jji the air.
The shot rang out. aud the mallets
fell. Cyrus Johnson'.' right to the mil
lion had expired.
Smoke drove in his stake and was
away with the leading dozen. Fires
bad been lighted at the corners. anJ
by each Ere stood a policeman. list in
hand, checking otT the names of tlie
runners.
A contestant was supposed to call
out his name ami. show Mis face. There
was to be no staking by proxy wlulf
the real racer was off and away down
the creek.
At the first coiner beside Smoke's
stake Von Schroeder placed his. As
they hammered more arrived from tie
hind and with such impetuosity as to
get in one another's way and cause
jostling and shoving. Squirming
through the ; rcr.o r.r.d cr.llinsj his name
to the policeman. Smoke saw the
baron, stni'd: in collision by one of the
rushers, hurled clean off his feet into
the snow. But Smoke did not wait
Others were still ahead of him. By
the light of the vanishing fire he was
certain that he saw ike back, hugely
looming, of Big Olaf. and at the south
western corner Big Olaf and he drove
their stakes side by side.
It was no light work, this prelimi
nary ob-t.-i'-lo race. The boundaries of
the claim totaled nearly a mile, and
most of it was over the uneven sur
face of a snow covered, nigger bead
Hat. All about Smoke men tripped
and fell, and several limes he pitched
forward himself jairi.igly on hands
and knees. '
The upper center stake was driven
by the edge of the bank, and down
the bank the racers plunged, across
the h-ozen 'creek bod and tip the oilier
side. Here, as Smoke clambered, a
hand gripped his ankle and jerked him
back. Arizona Bill, who had been
treated similarly, rose to his f e, t and
drove bis fist with a crunch into the
offender's face.
Smoke saw aid heard as he was
scrambling to his feet, but before he
could make another lunge for the bank
a fist dropped him half stunned into
the snow. He staggered up. located
the man. half swung a hook for his
jaw. then remembered Shorty's warn
ing and refraini d.
It w;-s a foretaste of what would
happen when the men reached their
sleds. Men were pouring over the oth-
red flare that marked bis own team.
Two men were guardiug Von Schroe
der's dogs, with short clubs interiKised
between them and the trail.
"Come mi. you smoke: Lome on. you
Smoke!" he could hear Shorty eallin
anxiously.
By the red Hare he could see the
snow torn up and trampled, and from
the way his partner breathed he knew j
a battle hau been lougnt. lie stagger j kq
ed to the sled, aud in the moment lie it' J
peu as ne yetieu:
"Mush, you devils! Mush."'
The dogs sprang into the breast
bauds, and the sled jerked abruptly
nhead. They were big animals Han
son's prize team of Hudson bays and ia
Smoke had selected them for the first i ivM
stage, which included the ten iuile
ot
Mono, the heavy going of the cutoD ! r" j
fibrose: thf fiat Jit the niir'th and the!3
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first ten miles of the ukon stretch
'How many are ahead :" he asked
"You shut up an' save year wind.'
Shorty answered. "Hi. you brutes
hit ber up! nit her upl"
He was running behind the sled tow
Ing on a short rope. The tires bad beei
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through a wall of blackness .-is fast as jt--the
dogs could spring into it. 1 1;
(To Be Continued.)
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Queen.
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We have arranged to give away 5C0 Beautiful Gold I'ish ;.nJ
Globes with a 25c purchase of one of the following Rexall Remedies:
Rexall Tooth Paste 25c
Rexaii Tooth Powder 25c
Rexall Cold Tablets 25c
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NOTICE.
J. W. Hamilton will take notice
that on the 11th day of January, l'tlii.
M. Archer, a justice of the peace
Cass County, Nebraska, issued
ori!er of attachment for the sum of j
?l'.'j.7o in an action pending before
him, wherein John Cory is palintirT,
r.nd J. W. Hamilton is defendant, and
hat property of the defendant. cor.-lj",;3
?i-:ling cf money in the possession o'ife
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tached under said order. Said causo
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JOHN CORY, Plaintiff.
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Gold Fish FREE
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This sale starts at
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February 13, 1915.
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which we wiii dis
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iefore the Judge of the said Court.
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ISth day of January, 11)1".
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watr, Del. "My I. whc.-. 'bt';.!-l)a:-,
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ChamberluiiiV Cont'd iU rr.t.iy. Afi.r
taking this I buuu'ni li.-'Ii" a dn.e'i t "'.
lie", of it. but only v. ci tf lie. :v,
as the cc nrh k ft me :.n 1 I 1 .". ..
bccii trcu'i'.el .-ii.ee.'' O.itaii.ablo
eve; vv. hc: e.
A Fist Dropped Him Half Stunned Into
the Snow.
er bank ar.d piling into the j::m. Tbey
swarmed up tbe bank in bi::s:-!ios and
In bunches were draj-'-ed bark by tlioir
iuipatient fellows. Mure blows were
struck, curses rose from tbe panting
chests of those wbo still liad wind to
.spare, and Smoke Loped that the mal
lets would r.i't be brought into play.
Overthrown. t;od upon, groping i:i the
snow for bis lost Ftakes. lie at last
crawled out of the crush and attacked
tbe bank farther aln;r.
Down to the fourth corner be trip
ped mid.v.iy and in the lo:i;r. sprawling
fall lost hi. reniainino: stake. For five
minutes ho groped in the darkness be
fore lie found it. ami all the time the
panting runners were pasins him.
From the List corner to the creek be
bean overtaking men for whom the
mile run had been too much. In the
creek itself bedlam bad broken loose.
A dozen sleds were piled up and over
turned, and nearly a bundled do?
were locked in ocinbat. Anions them
men strujrled. teurin:; the tangled ani
mals apart or beating them apart with
elubsj.
Leapincr down the l)ank beyond the
glutted passage, be pained the hud
footing of the sled trail and made bet
ter time. Here, in packed haiixrs. be
side the narrow trail, sleds ai: men
waited for runners that were still be
hind. From the rear came the whine
and rush of Cops, and Smoke had bare
ly time to leap aside into the deep
Snow. A sled tore past, and be inrtde
out the man kneeling and shouting
madly. -Scarcely was it by when it
stopped with a crash of buttle. The
excited dos of a L:ir'. o:vd sled, resent
ing the passing animals, bad got out
cf bund anil spr:;ns upon the::i
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