Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1912-10-24
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all through ALASKA as burning Day
light" celebrates his goth birthday with
a friendly crowd of miners at the Circle
City Tivoli. He is a general fayorite,
hero and pioneer in the new gold fields.
The dance leads to heavy gambling in
which over $1000CO 10 staked. Harnish
loses his money and his mine but wins
the mail contract of the district.
z CHAPTER II.-Burning Daylight slartF
on his trip to deliver the mail with dogs
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 tkb bank and down the frozen
Yukon andEin the gray light is gone.
CHAPTER III.-Harnish makes a SEN
sntionally rapid run across country with
the mail, appears at the Tivol and there
is another characteristic celebration. He
has made a record against cold and eX
haustion and is now ready to Join his
friends in dash to the new gold fields.
CHAPTER Iv.--Harnish decides where
the gold will be found in the up-river dis
trict and buys two tons of flour. which
he declares will be worth it's weight in
gold before the season is over.
CHAPTER y.-When Daylight arrives
with his heavy outfit of -four he finds
the big fiat dcsolate.i A comrade dis
covers gold and Harnish reaps a rich
harvest. He goes to Dawson, begins in
vesting In corner lots and stalking other
miners AND becomes the most prominent
figure in the Klondlke,
CHAPTER VI-Harnish makes fortune
after fortune. One lucky investment en-
ableS him to defeat a great combination
of capitalists In a vast mining deal. lie
determines to return to civilization and
gives a farewell celebration to his friends
that is remembered as kind Of blaze o.
glory.
CHAPTER VII.-The papers are full
of 1.-THE King of the Klondke." and Day.
light is feted by the money magnates or
the country. They take him into a big
copper deal and tho Alaskan pioneer
finds himself amid the bewlldering com
plications of high finance.
CHAPTER vIlT.-Daylight Is buncooG
by the moneyed men and finds that hC
has been led to invest his eleven million
in a manipulated scheme. He goes e
meet his disloyal business partners az
their Offices in New York City.
CHAPTER IX.-Confronting his part.
ners with a revolver in characteristic
frontier style. he threatens to kill then
cowed Into submission, return their steal
tngs and Harnish goes back 10 San Fran
cisco with his unimpaired fortune.
CHAPTER A.-lJaNllEnL meets ms rate
In Dedes Mason. q pretty stenographeI
with a crippled brother, whom she oares
! for. Harnish is much attracted toward!
her and interested in her family affairs.
CHAPTER XI.-He becomes an elemens
in large Investments on the Pacific coasi
and gets Ito the political ring. For {
rest he goes TO inspect one of his proper
ties In the country and momentarily is at
tracted back to the old life on the lone
some trail. ~
CHApIER. xII;-Dayllght gets deeper
z ana<Eepei- into high finance In San Fran,
He makes frequent runs into tbs
codhtty thus getting close to. nature. bu.
his mind Is stil In the speculation trend
Very often, however. the longing for tht
simple life we'll nigh overcomes him.
CHAPTER XIII.-Dede Mason buys {
horse and Daylight meets her In her
saddle trips. He begins to indulge In
horseback riding and manages to get In
to her company quite often.
CHAPTER XIv,--one day Daylight
asks Dede-to go. with him on one moro
ride. his purpose being to ask her TO mar
Sy him. and they caHter away, she trying
TO analyze her feelings.
CHAPTER XW-Dcde - tells davleh-
dhat she likes him but that her happlpes'
could not lie with nancy maDipul9tor
She suggests the vast good he could d.
CHAPTER XVIl-For the sake Of hi.
love. Daylight undertakes the scheme ~
building up a great Industrial communlty
among the hills He wins her regard by
p Interesting himself In her crippled broth.
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In the weeks that. followed, Day
light was busy man. II meant quick
work on a colossal scale, for Oakland
land the adjacent country was. not
slow TO feel the tremendous buying.
But Daylight had the ready cash and
il had always been his policy to
strike quickly. Before the others
could get the warning of the boom, he
quietly accomplished many things. Az
the same time that his agents were
purchasing corner lots and entire
blocks in the heart of the business
section and the waste lands for fac.
tory sites, Daylight was rushing fran
,chises through the city council, cap
turing the two exhausted water com
panies and the eight or nine indie
pendent street railways. and getting
his grip on the Oakland Creek and
the bay tide-lands for his docksystem
The tide.lands had been in litigation
for years, and he took the bull by the
horns-buying out the private owners
and at the same time leasing from. the
city fathers BY the time that Oak
land was aroused by this unpreoedent
ed activity in every direction and wal
questioning excitedly the meaning o
/, dt, Daylight secretly bought the chic
Republican newspaper and the chic
democratic organ, and moved bold!
into his new Offices. 0f necessity. the.
were on a large scale, occupying fou
floors OF the only modern Office build
ing in the town-the only building
that wouldn't be torn down later on
as Daylight. put II. There was dc
partment after department, score o
them, and hundreds of clerks am
Stenographers. AS he told Dede:--
I've got more companies than yol
can shake a stick It,, There's the Ala
media &. Contra Costa Land Syndicate
the Consolidated Street Railways, th,
-EsDa Buena Ferry Company, tn
ltI4ited Water Company, the Pied
mont Realty Company the FaiIvley
;and Portola Hotel Company and hal
"a dozen more that I've. got to refer L
notebook to remember. There's th
Piedmont Laundry Farm, and RED
wood Consolidated Quamies. Startin
in with our quarry, just kept a'goin
TIL got them all, And there's tn
ship-building company | amt got
name for yet. Seeing as | had to hay
ferry.boats, decided TO build theI
myself. They'll be done by the tim
I Che pier is ready for them
For months Daylight was buried /
work The outlay, was terrific, an
lere vas nothing coming in. Beyon
eral rise in land values, oalSlan
not acknowledged his irruptio