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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929 Identical with his own, whose watchword was: "Our cows shall run fre on a thousand hills." They sought for a spot where the range was untouched by the plow and the water holes They had moved, then noved, again, driven on before the Invasion of the settlers. These men bauded together and swore that here conditions should be reversed, that It was the squatter who should move, and on this principle they grimly rested. Cal Warren had been the vanguard of each new rush of settlers that had pushed Bill Harris on to another range, and the cowman had come to see the hand of fate In this persistence. When the Warren family found him again and baited their white-toppe- d wagon before his door. Bill Harris gave It up. "I've come to see about getting that partnership fixed up. Bill." Warren greeted. "You know the one we talked over lu Dodge a while ago, about our going In together when either of os changed his mind. Well. I've changed mine. I've come to 6ee that running cows Is a good game. Bill, so let's fix it up. I've changed my mind." "That was twenty years ago, Cal." Harris said. "But it still holds good only I've changed my mind, too. You was dead right from the first. Squatters will come to roost on every foot of ground and there'll come a day when I'll have to turn squatter myselfso 1 might as well start now. The way to get used to crowds, Cal. Is to go where the crowds are at I'm headed back for Kansas and you better come along. We'll get that partnership fixed up." A single child had come to bless each union In the parents' late middle age. The Harris heir, a boy of eight, had been named Cahin in honor of his father's friend. Cal Warren had as nearly returned the compliment as circumstances would permit, and his d daughter bore the name of Williamette Ann for both father and mother of the boy who was his namesake, and Warren styled her Bil-ll- e d. of the By WN.U. SERVICE Sage. Hal G.Evarts COPYRIGHT HAL 6 y CVAR.TS the reins over four plunging horses days of the open range In tt as he tooled a lumbering Concord stage cattle Industry were a romantic at over the trail from Omaha to the little anything that ever occurred under feudalism. The owners of important camp called Denver. brands were veritable barons in their It was five years before their trails own respective territories, making their crossed again. Cal Warren was the loss'ef-fectivlaws unwritten but none the two to ved, and he had of first the and kpeping large forces of established a post along the trail, a retainers o protect their rule. Thes helper were selected for their physical rambling structure of 'dobe, poles and courage no les than their ability as sod, and there conducted the business ranch hands and were capable of ber. calling impossible ing changed speedily into a fighting of "Two ft One," force a sort of irregular, but highly and unknown In any other than that efficient cavalry. day and place. Events were frequently of a grim naThe long bull trains were In sight ture flnd at all times exciting- - As ir the d.ivs ot medievalism, the lesser from horizon to horizon every hour of barons held allesiance to more powerthe day. The grind of the gravel wore ful princes, the magnates of the indown the hoofs of the unshod oxen, dustry, it was a colorful regime presentand when footsore they could not go ing strong attraction for adventurers. Thievery and outlawry flourished, but on. One sound bull for two with with all the irregularity and roughtender feet was Warren's rule of ness, tlire was a chivalry and code trade. These crippled ones were soon ot honor. Certain Infractions of the a sod rules brought a swift and unrelenting made sound In the puddle pen, corral flooded with sufficient water to justice. The transition from ranges to farms puddle the yellow clay Into a the settling of the sage was a stirlayer of stiff, healing mud, then ring period. The change was resisted thrown out on the open range to fatby the cattlemen in much the same ten and grow strong. But transitions spirit and with similar sanguinary acwere swift and sweeping. Steel rails companiments as the barons of old resisted the despoiling of their feudatory were crowding close behind the prairie powers. But the old order had to pass. schooners and the Bull trains The march of law and the establishment of orderliness could not be degrew fewer every year and eventually nied. Cal Warren made his last trade of This story deals with the appearance two for one. of settlers and the breaking up of the Bill Harris had come back to view range. It is located in a section where the railroad of which he had heard the cattlemen were especially antagonistic and resistant, where no portion so much and he remained to witness of the range had ever been fenced and and to be a part of the wild days of where signs were posted at frequent Abilene, Hays and Dodge, as each atIntervals notifying any would be homesteader not to tarry in any part of the tained the apex of its glory as the country. The wording was, "Squatter, railroad's end and the consequent desdon't let the sun go down on you." The herds. The tale is full of the romance and the tination of the Texas trail thousands of droves of these more thrill of the period. It is made sight interesting irom the fact that its prinimplanted a desire to run cows himwho cipal character was a cattleman self and when he was wed in Dodge espoused the cause of the homesteaders he broached this project to his boyhis extent of to the and had to fight resources on account of the stand he hood paL took. It was the sincere wish of each to gain the other as a partner in all fuCHAPTER I. ture enterprise, but thi3 was not to be. W'arren had seea the bottom drop A rider jogged northward along the out of the bull trade and he would road on a big pinto horse, a led bucknot relinquish the suspicion that any beskin, packed, trailing a d stock business dealing in to off branched A road ranch hind. he extreme and In hazardous the was the left and the man pulled up his insisted that the solution of all their horse to view a sign that stood at the financial problems rested upon owning forks. not cows. Harris could not be land, "Squatter, don't let the sun go down Induced to farm the soil while steers on you," he read. "That's the third were selling round eight dollars a one of those reminders, Calico," he told head. the horse. "The wording a little difWarren squatted on a quarter of ferent but the sentiment all the same." land. Harris bought a few head of Fifty yards off the trail the charred k and grazed his cows north and blackened fragments of a wagon and west across the Kansas line into showed in sharp contrast to the the edge of the great unknown that bleached white bones of two horses. was styled Nebraska and Northwest "They downed his team and torched district. At first his range was limit bislvoridy goods," thelrTdeFsaid. "All less, but In a few short years he could his hopes gone up In smoke." stand on the roof of his sod hut and He turned in his saddle and looked see the white points of light which off across the unending expanse of were squatters' wagons dotting the sage. Coldriver probably so named range to the far horizon in any direc from the fact that the three wells in tion he chose to look. The first of the town constituted the only source these to invade his range had been Cal of water within an hour's ride lay Warren, moving ou before the swarm thirty miles to the south, a cluster of settlers flocking into the locality of some forty buildings nestling on of his first choice in such alarming flat Seventy miles bea wind-swewith but two more such and it, yond centers of civilization between, the railroad stretched across the rolling desolation. The man took one more look at the evidence left behind to prove that the sign was no empty threat before along the heading the paint-hors- e fork. lie noted that the range cows along his route were poor and lean, their hip bones showing lumpily through sagging skin, giving them the appearance of milkers rather than beef stock. The preceding summer had been hot and dry, browning the range six weeks before its time, and the stock had gone into the winter In poor shape. Heavy snowfalls had completed the havoc and 10 per cent of the range stock had been winterkilled. Those that had pulled through were slow in putting on weight and recovering their strength. A big red steer stood broadside to him, the Three Bar brand looming on Its side, and the man once more pulled up his horse and lost himself In retrospection as he gazed at the brand. "The old Three Car, Calico," he remarked to the horse. "The old home of Each New Rush of brand. It's been many a moon since The Vanguard Settlers. on a Bar I an Three laid eye last cow." numbers that he feared an unhealthy The man was gazing directly at the congestion of humanity in the near steer but he no longer saw It. In- future. The debate of farming versus stead he was picturing the cows was resumed between the two, scenes that the sight of the brand but each held doggedly to his own recalled. Step by step he visioned the particular views and the longed-fo- r long trail of the Three Bar cows from partnership was again postponed. Dodge City to the Tlatte, from the Harris moved once more and then hills Platte to the rolling sage-claagain and It was something over two round old Fort Laramie and from decades after hlg departure from Laramie to the present range. Dodge with the Three Bar cows that His mind pictured two boy, ol some- he made one final shift, faring on In where round eighteen years of age search of that land where oesters were setting forth from the little home town unknown. He made a dry march that of Kansas City, nestling at the con cost him a fourth of his cows, skirted fluence of the Missouri and the Kaw. the Colorado desert and made his A year later Cal Warren was whackstand under the first rim of the bills. ing bulls on the Santa Fe trull while Those others who come to share this the other, William norrls, was holding range were men whose views were Th v. six-Inc- h s. half-lengt- h four-foote- she-stoc- left-han- d 8 old-tim- e d three-year-ol- for shcrt Each man was as stubbornly set in his new views as Ik had been In the old. The Harrises came into possession of the Warren's prairie schooner and drove off to th east The War rens took over the Three Bar ranch and the little Williamette Anr slept in the tiny bunk built for the son of the Harris household. For a space of minutes these old pictures occupied the mind of the man on the pinto horse. Distant strings s faded of prairie schooners and was once he and from his mind's eye more conscious of the red steer with the Three Bar brand that had stirred up the train of reflections. He turned for another glimpse of the distant along sign as he headed the paint-hors- e tl.e road. "All that was quite a spell back, Calico," he said. "Old Bill Harris planted the first one of those signs, and It served a good purpose then. It's a sign that stands for lack ot progress today. Times change, and It's been eighteen years or so since old Bill Harris left" The road traversed the bench, angled down a side hill to a valley somewhat more than a mile across. Calico pricked up his ears sharply toward the Three Bar buildings that stood at the upper end of It Curious eyes peered from the bunk house as he neared It, for the paint horse and the buckskin were not with' out fame even If the man himself were a stranger to them all. For the better part of a year the two horses had been seen on the rang- esouth to the railroad, west to the Idaho line. The man had kept to himself and when seen by approaching riders he had always been angling on a course that would miss their own. Those who had. out of curiosity, deliberately rid den out to Intercept him reported that he seemed a decent sort of citizen. willing to converse on any known topics except those concerning him self. lie dropped from the saddle before the bunk house and as he stood In the door he noted half a dozen men lounging on the bunks. This Indolence apprised him of the fact that they were extra men signed on for the summer season and that their pay had not yet started, for the cowhand, when on the pay roll, works sixteen hours dally and when he rests or frolics it is, except in rare Instances, on his own time and at his own expense. A tall, lean individual, who sat on a bunk, engaged In cross-leggemending a spur strap, was the first to answer hh Inquiry for the foreman, "Billie Warren is the big of the Three Bar," he informed. "You'll likely find the boss at the blacksmith shop." The lanky one grinned as the stranger turned back through the lit tet of log outbuildings, guided by the hissing squeak of bellows and the clang of a snedge on hot Iron. Sev eral men pressed close to the windows in anticipation of viewing the newcomer's surprise at greeting the Three Bar boss. But the man did not seem surprised when a young girl emerged from the open door of the rhop as he high-colore- d d n neared It real handy round a breaking corral." "They're all handy at that," she said. Then she noted the two horses before the bunk house and frowned. Her eyes searched the stranger'" face end found no fault with it; she liked his level gaze. But she wondered what manner ot man this was who had so aimlessly wandered alone for a year and avoided all other men. "Since you've finally decided to work, how does It happen that you choose the Three Bar?" she asked, then flushed under his eyes as she remembered that so many nen had wished to ride for her brand more than for another, their reasons In each case the same. "Because the Three Bar needs a man that has prowled this country and gathered a few points about what'a going on," he returned. "And that Information Is for sale to any brand that hires you 1" said the girl. "Is that what you meanr "If it was, there would be nothing wrong with a man's schooling himself to know all points of his Job before he asked for it," he said. "But It happens that wasn't exactly my reason." shade of weariness passed over her face. During the two years that her father had been confined to the house after being caved In by a horse and In the one year that had elapsed since his death the six thousand cows that had worn the Three Bar brand on the range had decreased by almost half under her management "I'll put you on," she said. "But you'll probably be insulted at what I have to offer. Tl men start out after I want a man the horses tomorrow. to stay here and do tinkering Jobs round the place till they get back. "That'll suit me as well as any," he "I'm a great litaccepted promptly. tle hand at tinkering round." The clang of the sledge had ceased and a huge, fat man loomed in the door of the .shop and mopped his dripping face with a bandanna. "I'm glad you've come," he assured "A man that's not the newcomer. above doing a little fixing upl A cowhand Is the most overworked and underpaid sapliead that ever lost and three nights' sleep hours on end; worked seventy-twsleep in the rain or not at all to hold a Job at forty per for six months In the year. The other six he's throwed loose like a range horse to rustle or starve. Hardest work In the world but he don't know It, or money wouldn't hire him to lift hi9 hand. He thl:.ks it's play. Not one out of ten but what prides himself that he can't be browbeat into doing a tap Ask him to cut a stick of of work. firewood and he'll arch his back and Don't laugh at you scornful-like- . that beat h 1?" "It do," said the stranger. "I'm the best wagon cook that ever sloshed dishwater over the e nd even better than that in a kitchen," the loquacious one modestly assured him. "But I can't do justice to the meals when lay out to do all the chores within four miles and run myself thin collecting scraps and squaw wood to keep the stove het up. Now since Billie has hired you, I trust you'll work up a pile of wood that will keep me going and folks call me Waddles," be added A hand-runnin- g o tail-gat- rauch-hous- running: West 100 feet, more or less; above entitled action; and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the clerk of this court. This action is brought to recover a enfuss, plaintiff, vs. Joseph B. Jeppe-th- e land described in said complaint Lewis Jones, plaintiffs attorney. P. O. Address: 1st Natl Bank Bldg., Brigham, Utah. - - 15-1- 9d City Slicker: do! Farmer; Terms of sale cash. JOHN H. ZUNDEL. Sheriff of Box Elder County, Utah. By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy. 20-2- What does your son He's a bootblack in the ctiy. C. S.: Oh, I see, you make hay while the son shines. Williams Purple Cow. Gals once rejected a man because of his weak chin. Now it's his weak gin. Michigan Blue Baboon. When You Think LUMBER THINK WILSON "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 11. Coming to BRIGHAM 1929. Dr. Mellenthin & Co.'s 1 Specialist 2 SHERIFFS SALE In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Utah, in and for the County of Box Elder. State of Utah, Plaintiff, vs. Joseph H. Watkins and Lydia E. Watkins, his wife, and the First National Bank of Brigham City, a corporation, Defendants. To be sold at Sheriffs Sale on the 28th day of February, 1929, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Front Door of the County Court House, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, all the right, title, claim and interest of the above named defendants, of, in and to the following described real property, situated in Box Elder County, Utah, in Internal Medicine for the paet fifteen years DOES NOT OPERATE Will be at BRIGHAM HOTEL THURSDAY, FEB. Office Hours 10 a. m. to 21 4 p. ONE DAY ONLY to-w- it: No Charge for Consultation The Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 10 North, Range 3 West of the Salt Lake Meridian, U. S. Survey, containing 160 acres of land more The specialist of Dr. Mellentin & ro less, subject to right of way for public highway and irrigation canals Co. is a regular graduate in medicine now of record in Box Elder County, and surgery and is licensed by the Utah, records. Also 40 acres of water right in the o Sugar Company, together with any and all water or water rights used on or in connection with the above ''escribed land. Dated this 7th day of February, Utah-Idph- 1929. Terms of sale cash. JOHN H. ZUNDEL, .Sheriff of Box Elder County, Utah. By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy. 20-2- 2 1 as an afterthought "Very good, Mr. Waddles," the newcomer smiled. "You shall have your fuel." The big man grinned. "That title is derived from my "My shape and gait," he Informed. regular name is Smith If you're set on tacking a Mister on behind it." The girl waved the talkative cook aside and turned to the new hand. "You'll take it then." He nodded. "Could you spare me about ten minutes some time today?" he asked. "Yes," she said. "I'll send for you when I have time." The nuin headed back for his horses and turned them into the corral. He rumbled among the outbuildings on a tuur of Inspection and the yirl saw him stand long in one spot before the solid log cabin, now used as a storeroom for odds and ends, that hud been the first one erected on the Three Bar and hud sheltered the Harrises before her father took over their brand. is brought, otherwise within thirty days after service and defend the thence South 35 feet; thence West 120 feet more or less to O. S. L. rail- - i road risrht of way: thence south 8 deg. West 113 feet, along- said right of way; thence south 86 deg. 42 min. East 240 feet, more or less, to County Road: thence North along- 6aid road 160 feet to the place of beginning, containing 0.72 acres. Commencing 13 feet West of the Northeast corner of Section 23, Township 9 North, Range 2 West; thence South 1 deg. .05 min. West 20 rods and 10 feet; thence North 89 deg. 35 min. West 634.1 feet; thence North 0 deg. 40 min. East 20 rods and 10 feet; thence East 640 feet, more or less, to the place of beginning, containing five acres, more or less. Commencing at a point 13 feet West of the Southeast comer of Section 14, Township 9 North, Range 2 West; thence running West 27.21 rods to West side of a lane; thence North 8.08 rods to Forest Street; thence South 89 deg. .06 min. East 27.33 rods; thence South 1 deg. .05 min. West 7.64 rods to place of beginning, containing 1.34 acres, containing in all 15.56 acres of land. Also water right from an electrically operated well, it being understood that the mortgage is intended to include the pump and all attachments and appliances necessary or convenient to the operation of said electrically operated well, together with any and all water and water right used on or in connection with the above described land. Dated this 7th day of February, SUMMONS In the District Court of Box Elder County, State of Utah. John A. ouieting plaintiff's title to sen, Anna S. Jeppesen; also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real property described in the complaint adverse to plaintiff's ownership or any cloud upon plaintiff's title thereto, defendants. Summons: The State of Utah to the Said Defendants: You are hereby summoned to appear within twenty days after service of this summons upon you if served within the county in which this action Pap-judgm- . state of Utah. He visits professionally the more important towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consultation, except the expense of treatment when desired. According to his method of treatment he does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful results in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. If you have been ailing for any length of time and do not get any better, do not fail to call, as improper measures rather than disease are very often the cause of your long standing trouble. Remember above date, that consultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different Married women must be accompanied by their husbands. Address: 224 Bradbury Bldg., Los Angeles, California. (To Be Continued) SHERIFF'S SALE In the District Court of the First Judicial District of the State of Utah, in and for the County of Box Elder. Start nf TTtnh Plaintiff. VS. Josenh H. Watkins and Lydia E. Watkins, his wife, is. .;. (Jail, Administrator oi tne Estate of J. M. Jensen, deceased, and thp. First National Bank of Brigham City, a corporation, Defendants. To be sold at Sheriirs bale, on me 28th day of Februasy, 1929, at Twelve o'clock noon, at the Front Door of the County Court House, in Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, all of the right, title, claim and interest of the above named defendants, of, in and to the following described real property, situated in Box Elder County, Utah, Commencing at a point 13 feet West and South 1 deg. .05 minutes West 20 rods and 10 feet and North 89 deg. 35 min. West 254.6 feet from the Northeast corner of Section 23, Township 9 North, Range 2 West; thonrp mnninv .South 318.78 feet: thence North 88 (leg. 20 min. West 262.68 feet: thence South 3.J0 feet; thence South 88 deg. 20 min. East 494.5 feet; South 1 deg. .05 min. West 335 feot; thence North 88 deg. 54 min. West 616 feet; thence North 0 deg. 40 min. East 980.5 feet; thence to-w- it: She was clad In a gray flannel skirt and black angora chaps. The heavy brown hair was concealed beneath the broad hat that was pulled lo over her eyes after the fashion of those who live much in the open. The man removed his hat and stood before her. "Miss Warren V he Inquired. The girl nodded and waited for him to state his purpose. "What are the chances of my rid Smith RQ rW 35 min. East 379.5 feet ing for the Three Barr he asked. said the glrL to the place of beginning, containing "We're 8:50 acres. Tm sorry." rnmmann'no- RKO, 3 ffft West of the "You'll be breaking out the remuda Northeast corner of Section 23, Townright oor now," k suggested. "I'm ship 9 North, Range 2 West; thence - For Life's Harvest Time A Plentiful Income Assurance of a comfortable income in your later years is based on your saving now. For, after all, your whole investment program finds its beginnings in your weekly or monthly deposits at the teller's window. And the dollar planted today in a savings account becomes the fruited tree of independence tomorrow. 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