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Show f THE BSAVEIt COUNTY WEEKLY PRESS. BEAVER. UTAH deacrfbe, s As reports far-o- ff rite. - Juat today ElacktaJl bad .seen 4" I -- f 1 A - r .V r, - y ; VWHISPEP.FOOT. ; - m '.. . aa CHAPTER II. Shortly after nine o'clock. Whisper-foencountered bis first iterd Of deer. But they caught bis scent and scattered before be could get up to them. He met Woof, grunting through the underbrush; and be punctiliously, but with wretched spirit left the trail. A fight with Woof the bear was one of the most unpleasant experiences that could be Imagined. He had a pair of strong arms of which one embrace of a cougar's body meant death In one long shriek of pain. Of course they didn't fight often. They had entirely orposite" interests. The bear was a and berry crater and thejjougar cared too much for his own life and beauty to .tackle Woof In a hunting way. . A fawn leaped from the thicket In front of him, startled by bis sound In the thicket The truth was. Whisper-too- t had made a wholly unjustified a a dry twig, Just t the misstep crucial moment Perhaps It was the swiftly, but a deer la light Itself. The fault, of Woof, whose presence had big cat would have preferred to linger, driven Whlsperfoot from the? trail, a motionless thing in the thickets, and perhaps because old age and stiff- hoping some other member ef the deer ness was coming upon him. But herd to which the doe must have beneither of these facts appeased jhis longed would come Into his ambush. angen He could scarcely suppress a But the bunt was late, and Whlsperfoot was very, very angry. Too many snarl of fury and disappointment times this night he had missed' bis . He continued along the ridge, still In desperation, be leaped front kill. Instill bit anger. stealing, alert, bat creasing with every moment The fact the thicket and charged the deer, that be bad to leave the trail again to ' In spite of the preponderant odds permit still another animal to pass) against blm, the charge was almost a and a particularly Insignificant one success. He went fully half the distoo, didn't make him eel any better. tance between them before the deer This animal bad a number of curious perceived blm, Then she leaped. stripes' along his back, and usually did There seemed to be no Interlude of nothing more desperate than ateal time between the Instant that aba beeggs and eat bird fledglings. Whisper held the dim, tawny figure In the air foot could have crushed him with one ind that In which her long legs pushed bite, but this was one thing that the out in a spring. But she dldnt leap great cat M long as. he lived, would straight ahead. She knew enough of the cougars to know that the great cat would certainly aim for ber bead and beck In the same way that a duck duck hop hunter, leads a ing to Intercept ber leap. Even as ber feet left the ground she seemed to whirl In the air, and the deadly talons Shipped down In vain. Then, cutting ot . - -- i -- Synopsis. Warned by his yhyiU'1 clan that he has not more than six months to live, Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where h should spent those six months. Memories of his trend (ether end e deep' love for ell things of the wild help, hire In reaching a' decision. In ft large southern Oregon city- be meets people who hed known and loved hie grandfather, e famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner.. The only other members of the household ere Lennox's son, "BUI." and daughter, "Snowbird." Their abode Js In the Umpqust divide, and ;v' - Moey-gbbe- there Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told Is his. From the first Failing's health shows a marked improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as if be had been bora to It. By quick thinking and remarkable display of "nerve", he eaves Lennox's life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he la a reincarnation of his grandfather. Dan Failing I, whoee fame as ft voodsmaa la ft houathfld word. Dan learns that aa organised band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston is the' leader, la setting; forest Urea. Las-dr- y Hlldreth, a former member of the gang, has been Induced to torn state's- - evidence. Cranston, shoots Hlldreth and leaves him for ftead. CHAPTER I Continued. r, -- ' For when all things are said and done, there were few bigger cowards In the whole wilderness world than A good many people WhlsperfooL think that Graycoat ' the coyote could take lessons from him In this respect Bnt others, knowing how a hunter Is brought In' occasionally with j almost all human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged In his death agony, fhlnk this Is unfair to the larger animal. And If Is true !that a cougar will some-'timet attack horned cattle, something ithat no American animal cares to do unless be wants a good, fight on his paws and of which the very thought would-throGraycott tot spasm? 4 'and there have been even stranger stories. If one could quite believe Jthem. A certain measure of respect must be extended to any animal that Win bunt the great bull elk, for to miss the stroke and get caught beneath the churning, lashing, slashing, asor-edgfront hoofs Is simply Death, painful and without delay. But the difficulty lies in the fact that these Ihlngs are not done In the ordinary, rational blood of hunting. What an Inimal does In Its death agony, or to protect its young, what great game it follow in the starving times- - of winter, can be put to neither Its deb.lt lor Its credit A coyote will charge eheo mad.' A raccoon will put up a ricked fight when cornered. A ben rill peck at the hand, that robs her est When jruntrftg'was fairly good, Thlsperfoot avoided the elk and steer lmoftt as punctiliously as he avoided r en, which Is saying very . much. Ih-- i: d; and any kind of terrier could i ually drive him straight up a tree. But be did .like to ' pretend to be ,ry great and terrible among the mailer forest creature, , And he was ear Jtself to the deer. A, human nnter who would kill , two deer a reek- for ..flfty-rwo- ., weeks would be ailed a mncb uglier name than poach-- : but yet this hadT been; Whisper of a record, on.- and off, ever since s second year- Many a great buck ore the scar of the fulL stroker-aft?...bad. . lost hla f old. Many a fawn had -c- rouched ntlng with terror In the thickets al a tawny light on the gnarled limb a pine. Many a doe would grow teat-eyeand terrified at Just his range, pungent smell on the wind. ;ITe yawned again and his fangs wked white and abnormally large in 4e moonlight Hit great, green eyes ere stin clouded and languorous rorn sleep. Then be began to steal p the ridge toward bis bunting rounds. It was a curious thing thst walked straight In the face of the &ft wind that came down from the iow fields, and yet there wasn't a ewthercock to be seen, anywhere. And either had the chipmunk seen-hi- m fct a paw and hold It up, after the pproved fashion of holding up a fin-r- ri Tie had a better way of knowing chltt at the end of bis whisker: js I The little, breathless night sounds f J- - bronhrouo01ra., jwmed, to adden him.. They made a song to Uu. a strange, wild melody that even tick frontiersmen as Dan - and Leapt" could not experience. ' A thousand mells brushed down to hlrn on the !d, mote, potent than arty' wine or t. II began to tremble all over Mb rapture and excitement But un-- e Cranston's trembling, no wilder-f-s ear wss keea enough Id Lear the eves rustling beneath bira. full-grow- n . - fast-flyin- ' ed . -w- Us dot faU bleeding when, tills same tovnd, 'otdy louder, apoka frota a evert from wbk Bert Cranston bad be left bellck ln poached bft-a- nd is Douna. Terrified though be was by the rifle hot still WhlsDerfoot sprang. But tat distance was" too far. His outstretched paw. hummed down four feet behind Blacktall's flank. Then forgetting everything but" his anger and disappointment the great cougar opened, hjs mouth and bowled. ' . The long night ' was ialmost done when he got- - eight of. further game. Once a flock of grouse exploded with a roar of wings froid s thicket; but they bad been waken d by the first whisper of dawn In trte wind, and ha really bad no chance at them. . Soon - " after this, the moon set The larger creatures "of the forest are almost as helpless In absolute darkness as human beings. It Js very well to talk of seeing In the dark, but from the nature of things, even vertical pupil may only respond-tolight No owl or bat can too In 'absolute darkness. It become Increasingly likely tharWblsperfoot would have to retire to his lair without any meal whatever. But still - he remained, hoping against hope. After a futile fifteen minutes of watching t'trall.'be beard a doe feeding on a hillside. Its footfall was not so heavy as the sturdy tramp of a buck, and besides, the bucks .would be higher on the ridges this time df morning. He began a cautious advance toward It For the first fifty yards the hunt was la his favor. He came up wind, and the brash made a perfect cover: But the doe unfortunately 'was stand lag a full twenty yards farther, in an open glade. Under ordinary clrcum-ftance- s, Whlsperfoot would not have , jt d -- g back In front she raced down wind. it ta' trsuaMr the most unmitigated folly for a cougar to chase a deer against which he baa missed his stroke; and It Is also quite fatat to his dignity. And whoever doubts for a minute that the larger creatures have no dignity, and that It la not very dear to them, simply knows nothing about the ways of animals. They cling to It to the death. But tonight one disappointment after another bad crumbled, as the rains crumble leaves, the last vestige of Whlsperfoot'a self-co- n troL Snarling In fury, he bounded . . 7 after the doe. ' She was lost to sight at once in the darkness, but for fully thirty yards he raced In her pursuit If he had stopped to think, It would have been one of the really great surprises of hie life, to, hear the sudden, unmistakable stir and movement of a large, living creature not fifteen feet distant ' In the thicket , Be didn't stop to think at all He didn't puzzle oh the extreme unlikelihood of a doe halting in ber flight from a cougar. It Is doubtful whether. In the thickets, he bad fny perceptions . p' A Full Twenty Yards Farther, Ht got out of the of the creature ether than Its Stripe-bac- k .He was running down. wind. was WT 1J?o",Jr still a quarter of a mile away: which so It Is certain that he dldnt smell It was quite a compliment to' the little If be saw It at all, It was Just Vb a never try to do. move-ment- s. !', animal's ability to introduce himself. Stripe-bacwas familiarly known as k a skunk. .,- i shadow,- - sufficiently large to be that of a deer. It was moving, crawling as Woof the bear sometime:, crawled, seemingly to ret Sotof.blt pathJLnd Shortly after ten, the. mouutalnJlon bad,. remortably,.flft..chanca, at. 1t was a perfect shot He landed buck. The direction of the wind, the trees, the thickets and the light were' high on its shoulders, nis head lasbed all In his fsvor. It was old Blacktail, down, and the whlto teeth closed. All the long lift of his ra he had known wallowing In the salt lick; and heart bounded when he de- that pungent essence that flowed forth. tected Mra. No human hunter could His senses perceived It a message have laid his plans with greater care.. shot along hla nerves to bis brain. And He bad to cut up the side of the ridge, then ht opened bis mouth la a high, mindful of the wind. Then there was squeal of atter, abject ' . a long dense thicket In which be terror. . a He full fifteen feet back sprang might approach within fifty feet of the lick, still with the wind lit bis Into the thicket then crouched. The face. Just beside the lick wss another hair stood still at his shoulders, his deep thicket, from which he could daws were bsred; be was prepared to Utht to h death, ne didn't under. make his leap. ; .:' His body lowered. The tall iahed stsnd. He only knew the worst single back and forth, and now It bad begun terror of, bis life. It was not a doe to have a slight vertical motion tlmt that be bad attacked In the darknexa. frontiersmen have learned to; wstch It was oot'Urson the porcupine, or forr lle placed every paw with con- even Woof. 'It was that Imperial mas-te-r of all things, man himself. Unsummate grace, and few sets of nerves bsve - anfflctent control knowing, be bad attacked Landy Hllover leg muscles t ."more wJtb such dreth, lying wounded from Cranston's He scarcely bullet beside the trail. Word of the patience. astonishing ' arson ring would nerer reach the act seemed to move afall. ' ,. But when scarcely ten , feet re- tlements, after alL ,r mained to - stalk, a "sodden soulid pricked through the darkness. It came from afar, but It was too. less terrible. Setting a fereet Ire. It was really two sounds so close to gcther that they Bounded as one. Neither Blacktail ort Whlsperfoot (TO BH CONTINUED.) bad any delusions about them. They Umbrellas art grrnt bluffers; It's recognized them at once, In strange trays under th akla that no tuaa bay cast of put up or ifiut Bp with then . Wbla-perfoot- 's g : hu-tna- irr l John W. Weeks of Jklassachusetta who It Is believed will be aecretary-lo- f 2 President Wilson leaving the White House grounds for his dolly ride.- - 3-tractor carrying a 155 MM howitzer near Stockton; Cat war In the Harding cabinet of the new Holt gun mount ' . Test NEWS REVIEW OF" CU RREMTEVENTS participate In the loan. - But Lloyd George said this was out of the question, calling attention to the difficulty in obtaining 10,000,000 to build hous es In London. The council, feellnr that the case of Austria Is so closely . commercial treaty which will grant taw Japanese subjects : lawfully In this country equal civil rights with the nationals of any other foreign nation. ' ' 2. A revision of the existing "gentlemen's agreement o as to make It conform v present-dareiulrerofnts, , and to that end would absolutely prohibit Japanese emigration to America and the Hawaiian islands, while admit ting It to the Philippines, At borne the Japanese government wss violently attacked by the oppo sition leaders for Its alleged failure in diplomatic negotiations with the United States, Great Britain, China' and Siberia, and for keeping troops In Siberia. In reply to the latter charge Premier Kara said ha would Ilka te withdraw those troops, but be be-lleved their maintenance in Elbe, .a was necessary for the national defense. He admitted that the bolshe-vlzln- g of Siberia could not be checked. ' . tt y , Supreme Council Attempts tor - Settle German Reparations and Disarmaments. ropean situation, referred the "whole matter to a Bpeclal committee, made up of the commerce ministers of the al lied nations, for investigation. Admitting that the treaty of Sevres, with Turkey,must be revised, ' the council decided that representatives of LATTER the allies shall bold a conference with BtlEKD FOB Turkish and Greek representatives in London In the latter part of February. Austria's Plight to Be Investigated If the governments of Constantinople " and Angora can get together for the Morris and Shldehara Devise Plan purpose, they will be allowed to send for American-Japane-se Accord a Joint 'delegation. To this extent the Railways Prepare to council recognizes the Turkish Na A Ask Reduction of tionalist government and It probably , Wagea. la the least it can do In view. of the ' strong position of Mustapha , Kemal - By EDWARD W. PICKARD. fasha and bit recent military suc 'Germany, Austria and Turkey were cesses against the Greeks In Asia on the anxious seat last week ; and va Minor. rious other nations were only less con- Disagreeing with the views of Prescerned. For the supreme council of Wilson as set forth In Secretary ident disthe allies was In session In Paris note to the Italian ambassador Colby's the disarmament cussing reparations, salvation of Austria and the revision last November, the council decided of the treaty of Sevres, Between ses- that Esthonla and Latvia, two of the sions Premier Lloyd George lunched states carved out of the old Russian and dined and talked In private with empire, should be recognized aa sov Premier Brtqnd, and gradually won erelgn states. Action on Georgia and him over to a policy of greater con Lithuania waa deferred. . ... ciliation. It Is probable that this was iutte agreeable to M. Briand, but he , From the other side of the fence-Be- rlin comes the Information that the had to putvtp some argument to satis fy the rench people, who are aoomea German government will not recognize the right of the supreme council to set to disappointment When the matter of German repara- tie the subject of reparations. Berlin tions ,cama. ..up... JDoumer the ..French holds ,tbt there must .be first A'dl-- . mf&lster of finance, made a long id cusslon by Industrial experts regarddress In which he Insisted that France ing deliveries, and . then - the confermust be paid 400,000,000,000 gold ence of the governmenta at Geneva aa marks. He stated, aa the policy of promised, at the Spa meeting. A France, that Germany must be pre sented with an itemized bill for war TertlnaxXa usually damages caused by ber, and that the Paris Journalist, says. Great Britain supreme council should then fix the Is going to propose that payment of amount that Germany must pay within the British war debt to the United the next five years. Lloyd George and States be postponed . until 1936 and his colleagues wished to concentrate 1947. This debt now amounts to someon what Germany Is able to pay, and thing over four billion dollars. It Is said there, were three ways In which said Lord Chalmers, permanent secreshe! could make payment in silver, In tary of the British treasury, will come over .here with the plan for postponegold and In goods. The discussion developed that Great Britain has objec- ment tions to the two last named, it Is held President Wilson's note, asking that that It Germany Is compelled to pay over any considerable amount of the before he undertake mediation for Arhundred million gold marks she Is sup- menia, the great powers promise Rusposed to be holding as a reserve the sia that ber territorial Integrity shall mark would become practically worth not be invaded, seems to have met less and the economic situation in Eu with little response from the capitals rope would be worse than ever. The of Europe, though It may be the statesBritish also oolnt out that If . Ger men are merely digesting It Armeula many pays la goods the markets would herself appears to have ceased to Inbe glutted and English Industries terest any except the philanthropists ruined One other method of partial who know that ber people still are sufpayment to France has been proposed fering and oppressed. As for Russia, the sending of ' German laborers to the main development of recent days reconstruct the devastated regions. Is the progress of the negotiations for But this ta opposed by France ,oa. the resumption of . trade between her and gro'und that, the people of those re Great Britain; " The soviet envoy has gions are without employment and received the terms demanded by the seed the payment for doing - the re-- British, and It Is Ukely they will. be constructlosv work aewpted, The movement toward - the It,,waa.rm...l..QuesUQn..ot.,dlMmaaajen(Liri. Ibe. Uaited..5tatea ..has. sment that the French yielded most received a setback In the senate comGeneral No! let's report said that the mittee, where a majority seems opGermans were not faithfully carrying posed to an arrangement which they out the treaty terms In that renpert, think Involves the recognition of the " but this was contradicted by the re- soviet government WUson same wss Internote General British That Bingham. port of the Th council's military experts, with preted In this country as aiming chiefMarshal Foch as chairman, then got to- ly at Jspan's continued occupation of gether and agreed to abandon the orig- Vladivostok and the surrounding porinal French demand that the civil miltion or Liberia, and In this light might itary i organizations of Bavaria and have been generally spproved If the East .Prussia be disbanded at once. Republican press bad not Jumped on A delay until July 1 was granted, hut It as a presumptuous attempt to esFoch ItiHlxted on guarantees bv mill tablish a policy by a repudiated Anyhow, the Japanese tary occupation of the Ituhr dlxtrkt If the terms were not executed by that so fir have not given It official attendate, j In view of the stutborn jrttl tion : neither bare they mnde any tude maintained by the gvcrnmmts move toward getting out of Vladivoof Bflvarla and Ent Prusxla and the stok. The miTdi-- r of . an American leaders of the organizations In ques- naval lieutenant by one of their sention. It Is not easy' to see how the cen tries, and other unwarranted acts, tral gotrrnment it Berlin Tran britiJt bdweveC have forced Tokyo to disabout the dlKhamlment by July 1 It, as avow all such actions. H ssye, it ratinnt do sonow. Ambassadors Morris and Shidchara The. plea for. Immediate relief for have, concluded-thcl- r negotiations for starving Austria, made to the supreme tbe settlement of the California alien council by Sir William Goode, British land law question and the definition representative In Vienna, , and Jther of the rights of Japanese In the United reprowntatives of the allied nations. States, and their recommendations are was made in vain. The plaa proposed embodied In a report which Mr. Mor by Goode was that Great Britain and ris has submitted to Secretary of State France should lend Austria 50,000,000 Colby. The principal features of this In ten annual Instalments, and ha report are as follows: 1. An amendment to the existing suggested the United States might M , t , well-inform- . -- '. - Hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States are without em-- . ployment but the situation Is growing better dally. In the North the textile mills and many of the automobile plants are reopening, and In the South the cotton mills are resuming operations. To be sure, the worker la often compelled to accept either a shorter week or reduced wages. The downward trend In pay has now reached the railways, and last Week the labor committee of the American Association- of Railway 'Executives met la Chicago to lay plana for a request that the United States railway labor board authorize a reduction of wages. One' minor road In the Southeast already ba asked for such authority, The railway executives say that at the present .rates, the propertlea.am not earning the 0 per cent return guaranteed by the transportation act; that the rates now are as bash as the business can be expected to . bear; that forces have been cut to the minimum consistent with safe operation,' and that the only remaining place for a reduction In expenses Is the wage scale. They also will show the federal board that wage Increases . of more than 120 per cent since the President signed the Adamson eight- -' hour law have accounted for almost s of the Increase In operat- tag expenses from $3,100,000,000 to nearly $6,000,000,000 a year, and that the ' national Industrial conference board's estimates show that the cost ef living has decreased. . ( two-third- ' ajsssBeBsgejft r Union laborers who believe Samuel GompeTt, and' hla associates have proved Incompetent leaders and "have directed the tollers' Industrial ship Into the whirlpool of fallacy and corrupt politics" have just started the organization of a .new national labor movement called the American League of Union Worklngmen." Its organisers declareAhey are foe 'America and American Ideals and covceptlons and that they hope to establish cordial re-latlons between their leaders and the ,;- Harding administration. A i t , ' Wa,,..att.ha.i.Jjass!tbe..linlof. government regulation of the meat packing Industry, which, according te Its proponents, will protect both the stock raisers and the consumers from alleged price control by the packers; Eighteen Republicans, mostly Progres si vet, joined forces with 2$ Democrats to carry tbe bill through, tbe vote being 40 to 33. Washington cor respondents predicted that It wosld not get through the house, at least daring this session. Charles M, Schwab, the steel nate. who was accused of hsvl en from the government $2C0ta bis persons! expenses wblletta director general of tbe Fleet corporation, was ated by tbe house conr'i ritln the ehlnnlnir It somewhst sensatlotijj which Mr. Schwab f charges that Attorney Samuel wordy battle' f , latter of ws IE urtcr's UUli Urtt or a few night3 tftsr. your orpr.3 to th lr the Ilcsdachc znd In the tzxr.x fln( 'ay. pjowe'j enj prti'crJ Ccr:";JiJ z,.i r..si j : : embassy pontics f BjSd r: $ |