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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH 1 Bf TP, letePiiicier- Robert J. C Stead -- - . Author of KMchmtr and Other Fotkj" Illustration bf IRWIN MYERS Copyright by Harper A Brother UTAH BUDGET It is rumored that the L. I.Itith-field-S... church will erect a hospital at imse Cache county mimissioners to enlarge Trenton irrigation district to 12.1MI acres. from S. wiiools, when Enrollment at L. with previously published compared a large increase. shows reports, yearly Lliili will be represented at the national foreign trade convention to l? held in San Francisco. May 12 to lo, V) l. WM. "Very good, my boy," said the man. and disappointed. He reasoned with "That was a wonderful lift The leg is broken compound. Can you get his horse as he rode: 44 Tain't no use, you ol Slop-ey- e : some way of moving me to shelter? a fellow can't get the bead if he ain't I will pay you well." The last words were unfortunate. got the fillln cooked meals an' decent chuck. I could plug 'em six out Hospitality in the ranching country is o six you know that, you ol flop-oar-s. not bought and sold. "You can't pay me nothin'," he said Don't you argue about it, neither. When I'm right inside my belt rudely. "But I can bring a light I smash 'em six out o' six, but I ain't wagon, if you cen ride in that, and right, an' you know it. You don't put you up at the ranch. The old know nothin' about It You never had man's soused," he added, as an aftera father; leastways ybu never had to thought "but it's better than sleepin' be responsible for one. . . . Well. out. I won't be long." lame He was back at his horse, and in it's comln' to a fjnlsh a d finish, you know that. You know " a moment they heard the clatter of But he had reloaded his revolver hoofs galloping down the hillside. The girl rested her father's head in and set up two more bottles. This time he broke four and was better her lap. Tears made her bright eyes pleased with himself. As he rode back brighter still. his soliloquy was broken by a strange "Don't cry, Reenie," he said gently. sound from beyond the belt of trees. "We are very lucky to be so close to The horse pricked up his ears and help. Of course I'll be laid up for a the boy turned in the saddle to listen. while, but it will give you a chance "Jumpln crickets I What's loose?" he to see ranch life as it really is." He ejaculated. He knew every sound of winced with pain but continued: "I the foothill country, but this was fancy we shall find it plain and What a horseman! If I strange to hira. A kind of snort, a sort of hiss, mechanical in its regu- could run an automobile like he does larity, startling in its strangeness, it a horse we should not be here." came across the valley with the un"He's strong," she said. "But he's broken rhythm of a watch tick. rude." "The best fields for muscle are often "Well, I guess It won't eat us," he ventured at last. "We'll just run it poor schools for manners," he andown and perhaps poke a hole in it." swered. So saying, he cantered along the road, The boy was soon back with a crossed the little stream, and swung wagon and, a stretcher. He avoided the eyes of his guests, but quickly up the hill on the farther side. He was half way up when a turn in and gently enough he placed the inthe road brought him into sudden jured man on the stretchen "I guess sight of the strange visitor. It was youll have to take the feet," he said. the first he had seen, but he knew it The words were for the girl although at once, for the fame of the automo- he did not look at her. "I could bile, then In its single-cylindstage, hustle htm myself but It might hurt had already spread Into the farthest 'im.n But the Injured man interrupted. ranching country. The horse was less well Informed. He bucked and kicked "I beg your pardon," he said, "that I in rage and terror. But the boy was did not Introduce my daughter. I am conscious not so much of the horse as Doctor Hardy; this is my daughter of two bright eyes turned on him in Irene, Mr. V frank and surprised admiration. "They don't call me mister," said "What horsemanship!" she ex the boy. "Ulsters is scarce in these claimed. But the words had scarce woods. My name is Elden Dave left her Hps when they were followed Elden." The girl came up with extended by a cry of alarm. For the car had taken a sudden turn from the road hand. He took it shyly, but it made and plunged Into a growth of young him curiously bold. "I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Elden," poplars that fringed the hillside. It half slid, half plowed Its way into a she said. "I'm glad to meet you. too," he anposition among the young were swered. "Misses Is scarcer than misThe two occupants trees. thrown from their seat ; the girl fell ters in this neck o the woods." clear but her father was less fortuCarefully they lifted the injured man into the wagon, and Dave drove nate. In an instant the boy had flung him- to the ranch building with an unself from his horse, dropping the reins wonted caution that must have caused to the ground, and the animal, al- strange misgivings in the hearts of though snorting and shivering, had no his team. "It ain't much of a place," he said, thought of dlsgvacing his training by breaking his parole. With quick, un- as they pulled up at the door. "I gainly strides the boy brought himself guess you can see that for yourself," to the upturned machine. It was cu- he added, with a grin. "You see rious that he snould appear to such there's Just dad and me, and he's disadvantage on his feet. In the soused most of the time, and I handle saddle he was grace personified. a lasso better'n a scrubbin' brush." For a moment he looked somewhat He was already losing his shyness. stupidly upon the wreck. Had It been "Now you take the feet again. Steady ! a horse or a steer he would have Look out for that barrel hoop. This known the procedure, but this experi- way now." ence was new to his life. Besides He led Into the old ranch house, there were strangers here. He had no kicking the oor wider open with his fear of strangers when they wore heel as he passed. A partition from chaps and colored handkerchiefs, but east to west divided the house, and a girl in a brown sweater and an another partition from north to south oldish man with a white collar were divided the northern half. In the creatures to be approached with cau- northeast room they set the stretcher tion. The oldish man was lying on on the floor. the ground, with a leg pinned under "Now," sjtd the boy, "I'm goin' for the car, and Brown Sweater raised the doctor. It's forty miles to town, his head against her knee and pressed and it'll likely be mornin.' before I'm his cheeks with small white fingers, back, but I'll sure burn the trail. and looked at the boy with bright There's grub in the house, and you gray eyes and said: won't starve that is If you can cook." "Aren't you going to do anything?" his was evidently for Irene. There That brought him back. "Sure," he was a note In it that suggested the said, springing to her side. "Whada, ye girl might have her limitations.) "Dig want me to do?" into anythin' in sight. And I hope "I am nfruld my leg Is broken," said your father's leg won't hurt very the man, speaking calmly notwith- much." standing his pain. "Can you get the "Oh, I'll stand it," said Doctor jack out of the toolbox and raise the Hardy, with some cheerfulness. "We car?" medical men become accustomed to The girl pointed to the box, nnd In in other people. You are suffering a moment he had the jack in his very kind. My may remain hand. But it was a new tool to him in this room, Idaughter There Is suppose? and he fumbled with it stupidly. The no one else?" handle would not fit, and when it did "No one but the old man," he anfit it operated the wrong way. swered. "He's asleep in the next "Oh, let me have it" she cried imroom, safe till .mornin'. I'll be buck patiently. time. That's my bed," indiIn a moment she had It set under by that a corner. "Make yourselves at cating the frame of the car and was plying home." lie lounged through the door, tho handle up and down with rapid and his spurs clanking heard they strokes. The boy looked on, helpless across the hard earth. nnd mortified. He was beginning to The girl's first thought was for her realize that there were more things She removed his boot and father. in the world than riding a horse and and, under his direction, slit stocking, a He sudden felt bottles. shooting his trousers above the inthe of leg desire to be of great service. And It was bleeding a little. In the jury. no he now be service could of just large room of the house she found a whatever. But 'the foot of the jack began to pail of water, and she bathed the sink In the soft earth, and the girl wound, wiping it with her handkerchief nd mingling a tear or two with looked up helplessly. said. "What the warm blood that dripped from it. "It won't lift it," she "You're good stuff," her father said, shall we do?" the fingers of her unoccupied pressing ne was was his chance, It eighteen, find a clean nnd his wild, open life had given him hand. "Now if you could " It to cloth bandage muscles of steel. he said "Here," roughly, "move his leg when I get it clear." He turned his back to thr "Is that you, Daver machine and crouched down until he could get his hands under the slee! "Yes, Reenie, and the docframe. Then he lifted. The car was too." tor, in a somewhat poised position, and he was able to swing it up far enough to release the Injured leg. (TO BB CONTINUED.) tart, and the boy rode back, muttering THE COW PUNCHER Here's an story of the ranch country, the city and 'over there." It's a love story the story of the master passion that drives a man onward to success for the sake of the woman he loves. The hero is a maverick of the foothills. The heroine is a city girt born to the con. ventions. As the boy was practicing his cayuse on the shooting-wit- h dead run along came the first automobile he had ever seen. It obligingly tipped over right behind the ranch house and broke the owner's leg. So there was time for Dave and Irene to get acquainted which was to fall in love. They parted with a kiss she to go back to her city life, he to win his way up to her. , (ft -- IS CHAPTER I. The shadows of the spruce trees fell northeastward, pointing long, cool Sogers across belts of undulating prairie or leaning lazily against the And among the brown foothills. trees It was cool and green, and clear blue water rippled over beds of shining gravel. The house was of round, straight logs ; the shingles of the squat roof were cupped and blistered with the auns of many summers. Refuse loitered about the open door: many empty tins, a leaky barrel with missing hoops, boxes, harness, tangled bits of wire. Once there had been a fence, a sort of picket fence of little saplings, but wild broncos had kicked it to pieces and range steers had straggled unsearred across its scattered remnants. Forward, and to the left, was a small corral, mill slabs on end or fences of lodgepole pine ; a corner somewhat covered In, offering vague protection from the weather. The upper poles were worn thin with the cribbing of many horses. The desertion seemed absolute; the silence was the silence of the unspoken places. But suddenly it was broken by a stamping in the covered part of the corral, and a man's voice say- ing: "Hip, there ! Whoa, you cayuse I Get under your saddle 1 Sleepin' against a post all day. you Sloppy-eyHip t Come to It!" Horse and rider dashed Into the The boy for he was no sunlight. more than a boy sat the beast as though born to It, his lithe frame taking every motion of his mount as softly as a good boat rides the sea. With a yell at his horse he snatched the hat from his head, turning to the sun a smooth brown face and a man of dark balr, and slapped the horse across the flank with his crumpled The animal sprang into headgear. e. The Animal Sprang Into the Air, Then Dashed at a Gallop Down the Roadway. the air, then dashed at a gallop down the roadway, bearing the boy as un concerned as a flower on its stem. Suddenly he brought his horse to a stop, swung about, and rode buck at a gentle canter. A few yards from i he house he again spurred him to a ptutop, and, leaning far down bv the animal's side deftly picked a bottle from among the grass. Then he circled 'about, repeating this operation as often as his eye fell ou a bottle, until he had half a dozen; then down the nnd again, carefully setting a bottle on each post of the fence that skirted It to the right. Again he came back to the house, Vut when he turned his eye was on the row,, of posts and his right hand lay on the gr,'p of hts revolver. Again his sharp yell broke the silence and the horse dashed forward as though shot from a Run. Down the road they Wnt until within a rod of the first hottl: then there was a flash In the sunlight and to the clatter of the horse's hoofs came the crack-crac- k of th revolver. Two bottles shivered to fragments, but four remained In- - er semi-vertic- e a package before the war t Westminster college, at Salt of City, has received a contribution $10,000 for the election of a boys' dormitory. Gladys Olsou. usie'l 7, was instantly killed at Delta by the accidental discbarge of a gun vhiTi was not thought to be loaded. the requisites Baskets containing for a Thanksgiving dinner were furnished by the Salvation Army to 150 needy families of Salt Luke. The federal government will very conshortly advertise for bids for toe steel bridge S10.000 struction of a across Santa Clara creek, Washington county. Three thugs robbed Tom Brooks, proprietor of a rooming house at Salt Lake, and his wife of approximately one $:Ot) in valuables and money night last week. United States department of the interior advises that an additional $"000 is now available for road work on Arrow Head trail through the Shivwits Indian reservation; The San Francisco police department has been requested to find the relatives of the man. believed to be T. H. Tury, whose body was found in Taylor's canyon, near Ogden. Salt Lake residents responded generously to the request for a Christmas gift to French war orphans during the post card drive conducted by the com mittee for the Fatherless Children or France. Increase in rates amount to pracper cent has been tically twenty-fiv- e Salt to Lake, Garfield and the granted Western railroad and the Inland railroad company by the state public utilities commission. The stockholders of the Utan-Idah- o Central Railroad company, at their meeting at Ogden, ratified the action of the directors in ordering the segregation of the city and lnterurban lines of the company. Norma Shepard, aged 40, a drug addict, inmate of the city Jail at Salt Lake, committed suicide by hanging herself from a cell cover in the woman's ward. An apron was used as a hangman's rope. The kitchen of C. B. Jones' residence at Salt Lake suffered considerable wreckage when a frozen water jacket, suddenly heated, exploded. Six windows were broken and two large holes were blown in the ceiling. A liquor "still," which members of the sheriff's office say has been operated the past year and its product sold exculsively in Bingham, was seized at Salt Lake and Antonio Scor-zat- o and his wife placed under arrest. The Utah-Idah- o Sugar company has filed application with state engineer feet of water from to take Hear river, directly east of Garland. They will erect a power plant and lay h TOO feet of pipe for irrigation purposes. Cedar City is awake to the advantage it holds as the gateway to tl,c newly created Zion National park and other scenic attractions and is preparing to take care of the tourists who mist pass through its limits on their way to nature's wonders. Millard county will on December 9 sell $350,000 bonds, of which $50,000 is for the erection of a courthouse, with t he federal $90,000 in and state governments for the construction of state roads and $220,000 for local and county roads. Plans are being made at I'rovo for a community Christmas tree. It is intended to erect the tree in a central place in the business district of the city, and that it be large enough to present a spectacular appearance when trimmed and illuminated. No traces of poisonous bacilli, such as caused trouble in ripe olives in eastern states, were found in olives tested in Utah, according to a report submitted to Walter M. Boyden. state dairy and food commissioner, by L. L. T)aines. state bacteriologist. After trying to kill Manuel Ortega, 21 years of age, a Mexican, by slashing the right side of his head and cheek in an attempt to sever the jugular vein while be was sleeping at a table in a poo'liall in Salt Lake, Jesus Lopez, aged 47, made his escape. The first contribution toward financing the proposed memorial bridge to the soldiers, sailors and marines of Salt Lake county to be built across the mouth of Parley's canyon on the Wasatch-Bonnevillhas boulevard, been made by the Ensign school. Proposals looking toward the development of Zion National park by extending the camping, automobile, road and other facilities to meet the expected increase in the numbers of visitors for next year and thereafter were made at a meeting held at Salt Lake. It will be unlawful after the first day of January, 1020, for any person ill Utah to use on the public highways of the state wagons having tires les than three inches wide, provided that this shall not apply to buggies, carriages ami other light vehicles used for driving purposes only. 40-ine- e V c a package during the war c a package 8) MOW THE FLAU0R LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! i? 'HONK, HONK!' THERE YOU ARE NOT AT ALL BAD REASONING After That It Was Easy to Understand Few Have Real Confidence In Advict That Is Handed Out by AcknowWhure Old Lady Wanted Letter to Go. ledged Failures. woman applied to a money order to thg far East She had left her son's said he was "some dot sounds like der noise an automobile makes." The clerk smiled, and turning to another nearby, he said: "What kind cf a noise does an automobile make, A portly Dutch the post office for send to her son In told the clerk she letter at home, but place out la China, Harold Bell Wright, the novelist said In an after-dinnspeeca In Sa er Francisco: "After all, success financial cess Is the best proof of a book'i t ttff It All good books, from 'RoblnsM Crusoe down, have had phenomena! success made hundreds of thousand! of dollars. "We all know this Is true about Joe?" financial success. We are all like "Honk, honk!" the other suggested. tramp who asked the old gentlemfl "Yah, dot's it" exclaimed the wom- for the price of a glass of beer. " 'I have- no money,' the old gent! an, her face brightening. "Honk honk, dots der place." man said, "but I will give you a lit So the clerk made the order payable advice, friend.' to Hongkong, and the woman went "The tramp lit a cigarette butt ui blew a contemptuous putt of smote away happy. 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