Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-11-14

all through Alaska as Burning Day
light" celebrates his 30th birthday with
o friendly crowd of miners at the Circle I
City Tivolie He is a general fayorlte, .
nuro and pioneer In the new gold fields /
The dance leads to heavy gambling in
which over 100000 Is staked. Harnish
loses his money and his mine but wins
the mail contract of the district.
CHAPTER II.-Burning Daylight starH
on his trip to deliver the mail with dogs !
and sledge, He tells his friends that the
big Yukon gold strike will soon be on
and he intends to be in 1t at the start |
With Indian attendants and dogs he |
dips over the bank and down the frozen
Yukon and in the gray light is gone.
CHAPTER 11r.-Harnish makes a sen
sationally rapid run across country with
the mail, appears at the Tivoll and there
ID another CHARACTERISTIC celebration. He I
has made record against cold and eX-
haustion and Is now ready TO join his
friends In a dash to the new gold fields,
CHAPTER Jv.-Harnish decides whore
the gold will be found In the up-rver dis
he declares win be worth its weight In |
gold before the season is over
CHAPTER v.-When Daylight arrives
with his heavy outfit Of -four he finds
the big fiat desolate. comrade dis
covers gold and Harnish reaps 9 rich
harvest He goes to Dawson, begins In
vestirg In corner lots and stalking other
miners and becomes the most prominent
figure In the Klondike,
CHAPTER vI.-Harnlsh makes fortune
after fortune. One lucky Investment en-
ables him to defeat a great combination
Of capitalists In vast mining deal. IL
determines to return to civilization and
gives farewell celebration TO his Friends
z That is remembered as kind Of blaze o
glory.
CHAPTER vTI.-The papers arc full
OF 1.-THE King of the Klondlke," and Day.
light is feted by the money magnates o
copper deal and the hlaslSan pioneer
finds himself. amid the bewlldering coU-
plications Of high finance.
CHAPTER VIII.-Daylight IS buncoeS
by the moneyed men and finds that hl
has been led TO invest his eleven mlllion--
In q manipulated scheme. He goes I
meet his disloyal business partners
their offices in New York City.
CHAPTER N.-conironting his part
ners with a revolgcr In CHARACTERISED,
frontier style. he threatens TO Kill then
n his money Is not returned They arr
cowed into submission. return their steal
ings and Harnish goes back TO San Fran
cisco with his unimpaired fortune.
CHAPTER X.-Daylght meets his fate
IN Dede Mason. a pretty stenographei
with a crippled brother, whom she cares
for. Harnish is much attracted toward;
her apd Interested in her family difalrs.
CHAPTER XT.-He becomes an elemen
IN large Investments or the Pacific coas
and gets Il 10. the political ring. For
rest he. goes 10 inspect one OF his proper
ties In the country and momentarly Is at
tracted back 10 the old life on the lone
some trail.
. CHAPTER XII DAYLIGHT gets deeper
and kpe into lIkli fihsyre IN San Fran
iii i...-..-.i-l,e to nature, br
HIS mind Is sififin the speerisaan trend
Very often. however. the LONGING for tn
simple life well nigh overcomes him.
CHAPTER XIIT.-Dede Mason buys
horse and Daylight meets her IN her
saddle trips He begins TO indulge n
horseback riding and manages 70 get in
TO her company quite often.
CHAPTER xIv.-lOne day Daylight
asks Dede 80 with him on one more
ride his purpose beins to ask her s to , mar
70 analyze her feelings.
CHAPTER Xv.-Dede tells dayllsh
that she likes him hut that her happles'
could not lie With mTney manipulator
She suggests The vast good he could d.
with his wealth n so Inclined.
CHAPTER xvll-1ror the sake OF HE
love. Daylight undertdSes the scheme o.
building up n great indnsh@nl. community
among the hills He wins her regard nv
interesting himself In her crippled broth
er.
CHAPTER XvII-Drde finally tells
Daylight she does not dnre marry man,
who Is SO ,enErossed With tse bushes s.
win her.
CHAPTER xv1tI.-Daylvhs ellis haol
into his old drinking ways and Tier
rouses up from the same reaiiztng TINT
ne Is not the sturdy pioneer OF the rude
Alaskan days.
the money market. bit DAYLIGHT tellr
neAssthat he Is going 20 wipe the slate
clean, 20 to manual work on ranch
and prove to her that he has reformed,
Sometimes he started small slides
:of earth that covered up his work and
, compelled him to dig again. sorce
he was swept fifty feet down the can.
! yon.slde; but he iloundered and scram
bled IN again without pausing fer
breath He lift upon quartz that was
u often that II was almost like clay,
and here the gold was richer than
ever, II was a verltable treasure
chamber For hundred feet up and
down he traced the walls Of the vein
He even climbed over the canyon.iip
10 look along the brow Of The hill for
signs OF the outerop. But that could
wait, and he hurried back to his find
He toiled on In the same mad haste.
untit exhaustion and an intolerable
,acheNin his back compelled him to
pause. He Strengthened up with oven
richer. piece of goldloden quartz.
STOPPING. the sweat from his forehead
had fallen 70 the ground It now ran
into his eyes. binding him. lie wiped
II from him with the back OF lis hand
and returned 10 a scrutiny Of the gold
II would run thirty thousand to The
ton, fifty thousand, anything-he knew
tthat. And as he gaZcd upon the ycl-
siow lure, and painted for air. and
y wiped the sweat away. his quick vision
ieaped and set to work He saw the
spur.traok that must run up from the
valley and across the upland pastures,
and he ran the grades and built the
bridge that would span the canyon,
until Il was real before his eyes.
Across the canyon was the place for
\ the mill and there he erected it; and
he cree ed, also, tho endless chaln Of
buckets. suspended from cable and
''~essted by gravity, that would cross
sanyon to the quartz-orusher.
.ewise, the whole mine grew before
MIN and beneath him-tunnels, shafts,
and galleries, and hosting plants. The
blasts Of the miners were in his cara,
and from across the canyon lie could
-?r, the roar Of the atGmps. The
that held the lump of quartz
trembling, and there was tired,
yot palpltation apparently In the
his sstom@h 1t came 10 him