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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1929 he deliberately provoked the argument, then sat back and listened to the various Ideas of the others as the discussion became heated and general. It's a settled fact that the outfits that hav put In bay are better off," Kvans said. "But there's a dozen localities like this, a dozen little civil wars going on right now where the inhabitants are so mulish that they lay their ears and fight their own Interests by upholding a flea-b- it prejudice that was good for twenty year ago but is a dead Issue today." "And why is it dead today?" Mor row demanded. "And not as good as it always was?" "Only a hundred or bo different reasons," Evans returned indifferently. "Then beef-top- s brought ten dollars a head and they're worth three times that now; then you bought a COPYRIGHT by brand on the hoof, come as they run, HAL O. EVAfcTS for round five dollars straight through, exclusive of calves; now it's based at ten on the round-utally. In those days a man could better afford to let part of his cows winterkill than to raise feed to winter the whole of them through among other things. These days he can't." "And have your water holes fenced," Morrow said. "As soon as you let the first squatter light." "The government has prohibited fencing water holes necessary to the adjacent range," Harris cut in. "If that valley was mine I'd have put it In hay this long time back." "But it wasn't yours," Morrow pointed out. "No; but It is now, or at least a part of it is," Harris said. "I picked up that school section that lays across the valley and filed on a home quarter that butts up against the rims." He sat gazing Indifferently out the door as if unconscious of the dead silence that followed his remark. More men bad drifted In till nearly a dozen were gathered In the room. "That's never been done out here buying school sections and filing squatter's rights," Morrow said at last. "This is cow country and will never be anything else." "Harris Will Do All Right for Me." "Good cow country," Harris agreed. "And it stands to reason It could be Introductions had been effected. It made better with a little help." was up to each man to use his own "Whenever you start helping a counindividual method of making his name and plow you ruin it known to the newcomer as occasion try with fence Morrow for stated. "I know!" cows," arose. loomed up in the light of "It always There had been much speculation a good move to me," the newcomer about the brand worn by the two "One of us has likely read returned. horses. The hands were a drifting his wrong." signs lot, gathered from almost as many "There's some signs round here you points as there were men present, out better "They read," Morrow said. none of them knew the brand. for such as you." were posted A dark, thin-face- d man with a slen"It appears like I'd maybe made a der black mustache was the first to voice a query, not from the fact that bad selection then. I'm sorry about his curiosity was large-- it was per- that," Harris deprecated in a neglibelief his words. "It's of haps less than that any other man gent tonj that in the room but for the reason that hard to tell just how it will pan out." "Not so very hard If you can read," he chose to satisfy it at once. Mor row's personality was cold and bleak, the dark man contradicted. The newcomer's' gaze returned from inviting no close friendships or IntiMormacies; uncommunicative to a degree down the valley aud settled on face. row's comon that had impressed itself his "Do you run a brand of your own panions of the last few days and they looked up, mildly surprised at his so's you'd stand to lose a dollar if every foot of range was fenced?" he abrupt interrogation. inquired. he "Box L," commented. "Where "What are you trying to get at does that brand run?" Morrow demanded. now?" Kansas and Oklahoma," "Southwest "Nothing much now; I've already the stranger answered. "Squatter country," Morrow said got," Harris said. "A man's interest lays on the side where his finances "Every third section under fence.' Harris sat looking through the door are most concerned." "What do you mean by that?" Morat the valley spread out below and row insisted. after a moment he ansvened the "You're good at predicting maybe thrust as if he had been long pre you're an expert at guessing, too," pared for It. Harris returned. And suddenly Evans said. he "And that's what "Yes," all range country will come to in a laughed as if something had just ocfew more years; farm what they can curred to him. Morrow glanced at him without and graze what they can't and th sooner the better for all concerned." turniag his head, then fell silent, his He waved an arm down the valley. expression unchanged. A chunky youngster stood in the "Good alfalfa dirt going to waste down there overrun with sage and door and bent an approving gaze on only growing enough grass to keep the big pinto as he swung out across the pasture lot. The boy's face was ten cows to the quarter. If that wa small and quizzical, a shaggy mop of to seeded it and would hay ripped up grow enough to winter five thousand tawney hair hanging so low upon his forehead that his mild blue eyes head." This remark led to the old debate peered forth from under the fringe of it and gave him the air of a surprised In the cow that was never-endin- g terrier, which effect had gained him country, breaking out afresh in 'ver, the title of Bangs. hunk house and exhaustively rcdis could "I bet the little paint-horscussed. Evans regarded Harris cur.ou ::ly as make a man swing and rattle to set up in his middle, once he started to Dr. g There once was a act up," he said. Who went by the name of James Pr. "Calico wouldn't know how to start," Got home late one night; Harris said. "A horse, inside his limWife started a fight; itations, is what his breaker makes He picked up a footstool and Sr. him. I never favored the idea of breaking a horse to fight you every A Scotchman who was named Vincent chanped his name to plain Vin time you climb him. My horses are gentle-broke.- " to save the cent. "But you have to be able to top This tombstone is for Jimmy Price off Just any kind of a horse," Bangs Who drove his car on slippery ice. objected. He tried to stop upon a slope, "That don't hinder a man from genCrash! Banp! tling his own string," Harris reReleased his clutch. No hope! turned. Bang turned his surprised eyes on SUMMONS In the District Court of Box Elder Harris and regarded him Intently as County, State of Utah. Tremonton if striving to fathom a viewpoint that was entirely new to him. Citv, a municipal corporation, plaintiff, vs. F. K. Obray, W. H. Wood-yat- t, "Why, it don't, for a fact," he said also all other at last. "Only I just never happened Buhl Frazier; persons unknown claiminp any ripht, to think of It like that before." title, estate, lien, or interest in the Morrow laughed and the boy flushed real property described in the com- at the disagreeable ring of it. Morplaint adverse to plaintiff's ownership row's face wore none of the active or any cloud upon plaintiff's title thereto, defendants. Summons: The malignancy that stamps the features State of Utah to the Said Defend- of those uncontrolled desperadoes ants: You are hereby summoned to who kill In a flare of posslon; rather appear within twenty days after serv- It seemed that the urge to kill was ice of this summons upon you if serv- always with him, had been born with ed within the county in which this him, his face drawn and overlength-eneaction is brought, otherwise within from the Inner effort to render thirty days after service and defend the above entitled action; and in case his homicidal tendencies submissive of your failure so to do judpment will to his brain, not through desire for ho rendered apainst you aceordinp to regeneration, for he had none, but as the demand of the complaint which a mere matter of expediency. "Toil listen to what the squatter has been filed with the clerk of this court. This action is broupht to re- man telis you," Morrow said to Bangs. cover a judpmont quietinp plaintiff's "He'll put ycu right give you a title to the land described in said course In how everything ought to be complaint and for equitable relief. done." Me rose and went outside. Lewis Jones, plaintiff's attorney, P. A raucous bellow sounded from the O. Address: 1st Nat'l Bank Bldp., cookhouse and every man within ear- 5 Bripham, Utah. ft'' of the By W.M.u. SERVICE Sage Hai G.Evarts THE STORY p CHAPTER L At the Warren ranch, the "Three Bar," on the fringe of the "cow country." a atranger applies for work as a rider. He is engaged by the Ann Warren owner, Williainette known to all as "Billie." The girl's father, Cal Warren, had been the original owner of the place. The question wheth-- r the territory Is to remain "cow lountiy" nr be opened to settlement is a troublesome one CHAPTER II The Tw-'-Bur girl sat looking from the window of her own room, the living room of the ranch house, one end of which was curtained off to serve as sleeping quarters. The new man was still prowling about the place, inspecting every detail, and she wondered if he could tell her anything which would prove of bcuetit in her fight to stop the shrinkage of the Three Bar herds and help her to face the drastic changes that were reshaping the policies of the range country. The Three Bar home range was one of many similar Isolated spots where the inhabitants held out for a continuance of the old order of things. All through the West, from the Mexican border to the Canadian line, a score of bitter feuds were in progress, the principles involved differing widely according to conditions and locality. There were existing laws and certain clans that denied the justice of each one, holding out against Its enforcement and making laws of their own. In some spots the paramount issue was over the relative grazing rights of rows and sheep, fanning a flame of hatred between those whose occupations were in any way concerned with these rival interests. In others the stockmen ignored th homestead laws which proclaimed that settlers could file their rights on land. As always before, wherever men e to lawlessness to protect their fancied rights, the established order of tilings had broken down, all laws disregarded instead of the single one originally involved. In many communities these clashes between rival interests had furnished opportunity for rustlers to build up in power and practically take the range. Each clan was outside the law In some one particular and so could not have recourse to It against those who violated it in some other respect; could not appear against neighbors in one matter lest their friends do likewise against themselves in another. This attitude had enabled the wild bunch to saddle themselves on certain communities and ply their trade without restraint. Rustling had come to be a recognized occupation to be reckoned with; the identity of the thieves was often known, and thev visited from ranch to ranch, whose wners possibly were honest them- dlves but had friends among the out laws for whom the latchstring was always out. The rustlers' toll was in the nature of a tribute levied against every brand and the various outfits expected certain losses from this source. It was good business to recoup these losses at another's expense and thus neighbor preyed on It was a case of dog eat neighbor. dog and the slogan ran: "Catch your calves in a basket or some other thief will put his iron on them first." It was to this pass that the Three Bar home range had come in the last five years. As Billie Warren watched the new hand moving slowly toward the bunk house she pondered over what manner of man this could be who had played a single-handegame in the lii lis for almost a year. Was he leagued with tke wild bunch, with the law, or was he merely an eccentric who might have some special knowledge that would help her save the Three Bar from extinction? The stranger picked up his bod roll d and disappeared through the door as she watched him. The lean man who had first greeted him jerked a thumb toward an unoc- bunk-hous- e iod bunk. ay roll?" he Inquired; then, as new man nodded, "I'm most gen erally referred to as Lanky," he of fered tentatively. "Evans Is the rest of it The stranger hesitated appreciably; then: "Harris will do all right for me Cal for every day," he returned and TOOK SODA 20 YEARS FOR GAS STOPS NOW years I took soda for and stomach pas. One bottle of Adlerika brought me complete relief." J. B. Hardy. Adlerika relieves stomach pas and sourness in TEN minutes. Actinp on BOTH upper and lower bowel, it removes old waste matter you never Let thoupht was in your system. Adlerika pive your stomach and bowels a REAL clcansinp and see how much better you feel. It will surprise you! II. G. Scott Drug Co. "For 20 indi-gesti- e jazz-lovin- d 21-2- fhot rose and moved toward the summons to feed. "Let's go eat It np," Evans said and left the bunk house with Harris. "Did you gather all the Information you was prospecting for?" he asked Harris nodded. "I sorted out one nir.n's number," he said. "Now If you'd only whispered to me I'd have told you right off," Evans said. "It's astonishing how easy It Is to pick them if you try." All through the meal the gigantic cook hovered near Bil'.ie Warren as fhe sat near one end of the long table. It was evident to Harris that the big man was guardian and counsellor of the Three Bar boss. He showed the same fussy solicitude for her welfare that a hen would show for her helpless cl iekj. "Praise the grub and have a friend at court," Harris murmured In Evans" ear. Billie Warren had nearly completed her meal before the men came in. She left the table and went to her own room. When Harris rose to go he slapped the big man on the back. 'I'd work for half pay where you get grub like this," he said. "That's what I'd call a real feed." Waddles beamed and followed him to the door. "It's a fact that I can set out the best bait you ever throwed a lip over," he confessed. "You're a man of excellent tastes and it's a real pleasure to have you about." Billie Warren opened the door and motioned to Harris. He went into the big front room that answered for both living room and sleeping quarters. Indian blankets partitioned off one end for the girl's sleeping room. "You had something to tell me," she observed, after he had remained silent for the space of a minute, sitting in the chair she had Indicated and gazing Into the fire. "And I'll have to start it a little different from the way I first counted on," he said. "Have any of the boys mentioned my name to you?" She shook her head and waited for him to go on. "You won't care much to hear it," he announced. "I'd thought some of spending two years here under some other name but perhaps it's better to come out in the open don't you think?" The girl had straightened In her chair and was leaning toward him, her face white and her gray eyes boring straight Into the man's. She kiew now who he was the man she had more reason to despise than all others on earth combined. Of the Harris family she knew nothing at all except that her father's lifelong regret had been the fact that the partnership between himself and his oldest friend, William Harris, had never been brought to pass. And this regret bad, in the end, led him to try and cement that arrangement in the second generation. Five years before his trail had crossed that of the elder Harris for the first time since he had taken over the Three Bar brand; and when his will had been read she had known that on the occasion of that visit his old friend had played upon this sentiment to trick him into making it. On all sides of her she had evidence that men were wolves who preyed upon the interests of others, and there was not a doubt that the father of the man before her had preyed upon her interests through the sentiment of her parent ; no other possible theory could account for the strange disposal of his property, the will dated and signed at the exact time of his visit to the Harrises. The tenseness of her pose was replaced by lethargic Indifference and she relaxed Into her chair. "I've known all the time you would come," she said. "It's too bad, Billie," he said. "It's tough having me wished on to you this way." "Don't play that game with me!" she flared. "Of course you've disproved every drop of human decency In advance." "It sure looms up like that on the surface," he admitted ruefully. "But I didn't have a hand In cinching you this way." "You could have proved that by staying away. I wrote you a year ago that I'd donate you a in the Three Bar at the expiration of the time if you'd only keep olf the place. But at the last moment you couldn't resist having it all. Ten more days and you'd have been too late." The man nodded slowly. "Too late," he agreed and sat looking into the fire. She had been almost a' son to her father, had ridden the range with him, managed the Three Bar during his sickness; and such was her loyalty to his memory that not a trace of her bitterness had been directed toward her parent. He had loved the Three Bar and had always believed that old Bill Harris, its founder, had loved If too. His will had stipulated that half of his property should go to the younger Harris under the condition that the man should make his home on the Three Bar for two out of the first three years after her father's decease. The whole of It was to go to him In case she failed to make her own home at the Three Bar during her coheir's stay, or In the event of her marriage to another before the expiration of three years. "Of course I'm tied here for two years," hhe said. "Or left penniless. If you can make It unpleasant enough to drive we away which won't be difficult you win." "I wouldn't count too strong on that." he counseled mildly. "Then why did you come?" she "Half of It was yours by merely keeping owny." "Maybe I'm sort of tied up myself d half-intere- !n wrys yon don't suspect," fered. he of- she returned; ."Very likely!" "sounds plausible. You might offer to many me." she suggested when he failed to answer. Tou could Rain fu'l possession at once that way." He removed his gaze from the Are and looked long rt her, "It will likely come to that," be said. "I ll put a weapon In your hands," she retorted. "Whenever It does come to that I'll leave the ranch so now you know the one sure way to win." "I hope it won't pan out like that." he raid. "I'll be disappointed more than I can say." She rose and stood waiting for him to go. "Good night, Billie," he said, "1 expect maybe things will break all right for us." She did not answer as he went ont Waddles hailed him in friendly fashion as he passed through the cookhouse, then wiped his hands and stepped Into Billie's quarters. Waddles was a fixture at the Three Bar; he had ridden for her father until he bad his legs smashed up by a horse and had thereafter reigned as cook. He was confidential adviser and guardian of the girl. His mind was still pleasantly concerned with the stranger's warm praise of his culinary efforts. "That new man now, Billie," he remarked. "He's away off ahead of the average run. You mark me he'll be top hand with this outfit in no time at all." Then he observed the girl's expression. ''What Is it. Pet?" he inquired. "What's afrettlng you?" "Do you know who he Is?" she asked. Waddles wagged a negative head. "He's Calvin Harris," she stated. Instead of the blank dismay which she had expected to see depicted on thence North 88 deg. 20 min. West 262.68 feet; thence south 330 feet; thence South 88 dep. 20 min. East 494.5 feet; South 1 dep. .05 min. West 335 feet; thence North 88 dep. 54 min. West 616 feet; thence North 0 dep. 40 min. East 980.5 feet; thence South 89 deg. 35 min. East 379.5 feet to the place of beginning, containing 8.50 acres. Commencing 859.3 feet West of the Northeast comer of Section 23, Township 9 North, Ranpe 2 West; thence running West 100 feet, more cr less; thence South 35 feet; thencj West 120 feet more or less to O. S. L. railroad Ipht 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-Roadthence North along said 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 corner 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 dep. .06 min. East 2X33 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 ripht from an electrically operated well, it being understood that the mortpape is intended to include the pump and all attachments and appliances necessary or eomve-nie-nt 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, : 1929. Terms of sale cash. JOHN H. ZUNDEL, Sheriff of Box Elder County, Utah. By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy 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. Flaintiff, vs. Joseph H. Watkins and Lydia E. Watkins, his wife, and the First National Bank of Bripham City, a corporation, Defendants. To be sold at Sheriff's Sale on the 28th day of February, 1929, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Front Door of the County Court Howe, in Brierbam City, Box El'lcr County, Uta't, aH ihe right, title, claim and interest of the above named defendants, of, in and to the property, sitfolVw'rig described uated in Box Elder County, Utah, l to-w-it: The Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 10 North, Ranpe 3 West of the Salt Lake Meridian, U. S. Survey, containing 160 acres of land more 3 or less, subject to right of way for public highways and irripation canals now of record in Box Elder County, Utah, records. Waddles Wagged a Negative Head. Also 40 acres of water right in the o Sugar Company, together Waddles' face at this announcement, with any and all water or water to it seemed her that the big man was rights used on or in connection with ' the above described land. pleased. Dated this 7th day of February, "The h 1!" he said. "'Souse me, So this here Is Call Billie. Well, 1929. Terms of sale cash. well now what do you think of that?" JOHN H. ZUNDEL, "I think that I don't want to stay Box Elder County, Utah. of Sheriff here alone with him while you're out By JOSEPH R. OLSEN, Deputy. after the horses," she returned. 2 "Wrong Idea 1" the big man promptly contradicted. "You've got to Btick It out for two years, girl. The best thing you can do Is to get acquainted ; and figure out how to get along the BRIGHAM best you can the pair of you. Old Cal Warren had some definite notion & Co.'s when he framed this play; so It's likely this young Cal Is on your side, Utah-Idah- I 20-2- Coming to Dr. Mellenthin too." "But eu;n more likely stated. "Then what?" not," she Specialist in Internal Medicine for the "Why, then I'll have to kill him and a anto man the stop put it," big past fifteen years "But it's noways probable nounced. that it will come to that. Let's use logic. He spoke well of my cooking, DOES NOT OPERATE which proves him a man of some discernment. No way to get around that. Now a man with his judgment Will be at wouldu't suspect for one living second BRIGHAM HOTEL on you that he could play it with me roosting close at hand. PutTHURSDAY, FEB. 21 ting two plain facts together It works Office Hours 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. out right natural and simple that he's on the square. As easy as that," he finished triumphantly. "So don't you ONE DAY ONLY fret. And In case be acts up I'll clamp down on him real sudden," he added by way of further reassurance. No Charge for Consultation His great paw opened and shut to Illustrate his point as he moved toward the door and the Three Bar girl knew that when Waddles siKike of The specialist of Dr. Mellentin & clamping down It was no mere figure Co. is a regular graduate in medicine of speech. and surpery and is licensed by the (To Be Continued) state of Utah. He visits professionally the more SHERIFF'S SALE low-dow- 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, B. C. Call, Administrator of the Estate of J. M. Jensen, deceased, and the First National Bank of Bripham Citv, a corporation, Defendants. 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