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Show ! PAGE TWO THE The V ard of Robbers' Roost B,y CRITTENDEN CHAPTER VII -- Yea." "Well, what Continued 15 Go Ahead glanced at the angry youngster and laughed delightedly. "1 , beg your and ber pardons. Bob," he 1 badnt the least Intention of said. offending you or her. I waa only thinking how much ahe'd lost." "Humph. Ever think bow much she'a badT Stella'a anger waa fading but It waa not yet gone. "Eh? By George, that's an Idea. No, I hadn't thought of that Now that you suggest It. I guess she's bad a tot of tblnga that a lot of girls would give a lot to have bad. I don't doubt that she's enjoyed her life. She must have enjoyed It If ehe didn't ... bate It" "What do yon meanT" "Well, she's led a boy's life, as yon said. Some girls like that Just aa most boys do. But those that don't like It usually bate it, especially when they begin to be grown up. Stella's eighteen, Isn't she?" "Maybe." "Well, we're all Father Adam's children when we're young, boya and girls alike. We all like to run and shout and kick our legs. But after a while we begin to change, and part of ns discover that they're Eve'a daughters. Then they want another life, unless, as I say, they're really boys at heart Then they love It If Stella does" "She does." "That's what I understood. That'a why I said 'poor child.' Tou see, Bob, we can't stay eighteen or twenty-on- e forever. We grow up, and these man-girl- s have a dreadful time when they I guess have to shift their views. Adam was a hunter and a farmer all his life, and his sons take after him. But I'll bet that Eve got mighty tired of the hunting game sooner or later and longed for a home where she could bring up little Cain and Abel ; and her daughters sooner or later take after her thank God." "I don't know what your driving at" Stella's tones were cold. "No? I thought you would. Stella will get tired of the life she's leading. Probably she'll realize all In a minute that she's sick to death of It and that 'she wants to lead a real girl's life. And then, when she tries to lead she's very likely to discover that it she isn't fitted for it She won't want to go back to the old life and she won't be satisfied with the new one. Of course, it might be d'fferent if she met some ouaw1iom she loved and who really loved her like you " ''like roel" An emotion that might have been rage shook .Stella from head to foot "Me love Stella Fair? Me I You you you But Oh she choked and became Inarticulate. "Good neavensl" Go Ahead stared In otter astonishment "What the devil I Look here, old man, you must have misunderstood me. Forget It; I'm liable to shoot off my mouth too much when I get somebody at my mercy." Go Ahead reached out his arm, as a touch of his bridle sent his horse crushing against Stella's and passed It over her shoulders. "There, there, there, boy. Don't hold It against me, whatever It was. I like yon. 1 never met a boy I liked no much at With a such short acquaintance." final pat be started to withdraw bis arm. But Stella went with it Instinctively she swayed toward him, turning In her saddle as she did so, burled ber hot face on bis shoulder, and burst Into a storm of sobs. Luckily the horses moved together for a few strides, then drew apart very alowly, giving Stella time to regain ber seat Go Ahead let ber go smilingly. "Ton poor kid," he said. "Tou"ve had a dreadful day, haven't you?" Stella straightened op like a steel spring that tad beei. bent "Wb-wh"Dreadful T she cried. do you mean? This has been the moat wonderful day In all my life." Co mlstakabl she meant It Go Ahead gasped. Be did not understand. Even If he had bad the key he might not have understood. But be did understand that the boy was hysterical and needed to be quieted I" down. So be ahlfted hla ground. "Well." are yon going We dof to Stella bad been wondering at the back of ber bead about that very thing. Already she had made op her mind that Go Ahead waa altogether different from any other man she bad ever known and that aha would go East with him. Sooner or later, too, aha would of course confess her Identity. But she waa not quite ready to do this yet; for a time at least aba wanted to keep her secrether vivid Imagination conjuring up many possibilities that would be exciting and would open the way to no end of fun. So she countered. "Humph I" she answered. T havent made up my mind, quite. Where're yon heading for now? This la the way to Lobovllle." "That's what 1 figured It out to be. I'm going to take my prisoners In and turn them over to the sheriff." Good gracious l "What I Why! Stella swore her big oath. "Don't yon With a Final Pat He Started to Withdraw His Arm. know that Barker's the sheriff and that he's the man you " Go Ahead's eyes twinkled. "Sure I know it," he answered. "And I'm having a lot of fun trying to Imagine what he'll look like when I turn hla own men over to him." Stella nearly shouted with glee. "Ohhhnr she cried. "Won't It be great to see bis face?" Go Ahead turned in bis saddle and regarded the girl gravely. "1 hadnt exactly calculated on taking you with me," he said. "I'm told that there! a good place called Bridget's In Lobovllle where you might wait for me" Instantly Stella exploded In the language that she bad heard about her all her life, and demanded furiously, "I want to know what you've seen me do today to make you think that I'm that sort of a "I don't" "Yes, you do I And 1 want to know why. 1 want to know quick, too." "1 Go Ahead threw up his hands apologize," be said humbly. "You're true blue and ail right Bob. I never doubted It for a minute. I Just felt somehow that I oughtn't to let a kid like you risk himself, especially when the cards were stacked agnlnst him. Forgive me." Be held out his band. Willingly Stella grasped It- - Tears, theretofore practically unknown to her, welled to her eyes, and she strove desperately to wink them bark. "1 couldn't etand having you think 1 d n coward," was a she gulped. Go Ahead's own eyes were a little needn't ever worry misty. "You about that Bob." be aald. "Coward would be the very last thing I'd ever think of calling you. Here," Impulsively be burst out with what he had Intended especially to keep secret "I'll tell yon something. I'm a cousin of Stella Fair's, and I'm out bere to take ber East wltb me. But I've trot to get her away from Robbers' Roost or wait till Fair sends ber to me at four-flusher- da-da-- Bridget's" This "Bridget's! waa plan; Stella knew nothing of Green, It Stella bowed her bead over her horse's neck. "No," she murmured. "I'll never be a big man. But I'll stick around til! vou're ready, all the same." Effort Seldom Rewarded Odd Curriculum "Why tell a man of his faults?" aid 111 Bo, the aage of Chinatown. "To do so may prove an effort to offer Instruction of Inestimable value, which Is certain to be unrewarded." Washington Star, Actuated by Vanity We are not convinced of the value of an Idea unless we ara persecuted tor It Then It U no longer our Idea that we ara defending, but our vanity. Plain Talk Magazine. Privilege to Live in I Utah DUCHESNE A quarter of a million dollars worth of honey cam out of the Uintah basin during 1927. SALT LAKE The total valuation of all Utah crops in 1927, at prices paid to growers, has been estimated The conservatively at $39,000,000. estimated total of acres planted to all crops waa 1,120,000. PLEASANT GROVE More than 6008 barrels of Utah strawberries were "cold packed" in 1927 and distributed throughout the country for use in soda fountains and by candy manufacturers. The crop last year totaled 2,544,000 quarts, valued at $305,000. TREMONTON The bulk of the wheat grown in this section has been harvested, there Laving been shipped from this point in the first month since the first car was loaded, July 11, 101 ears. From Garland during the same period there waa shipped 133 cars, each car averaging about 1200 bushels. The Garland shipments represent tha crops from Portage. EUREKA Tintic mines shipped a total of 149 carloads as compared with 115 carloads for the week preceding. The Tintic Standard shipped 42 North Lily, 24; American Smelting & Refining, dump ore, 15; Empire Mines, 10; Bingham Mines, 10; Colorado, 9; Mammoth, 4; Dragon, 2; Mountain View, 2; and Gold Chain, 1. Chief Consolidated units: Chief Consolidated, 7 carloads of ore and 5 of dump ore; Eureka Lily, 10; Plutus, 3. SALT LAKE A total of 3180 acres of land in Utah and Idaho will be open for settlement soon, according to word received by the Associated Press from Washington D. C The land is scattered throughout Custer and Blaine counties in Idaho and in Utah county in Utah. Veterans of the World war will have the first opportunity to file on the land. The land in Utah will be opened August 31, while the tracts in Idaho can be filed on beginning September 14. HEBER Vocational agriculture students of the Wasatch county high school at Heber will be represented at the national ram sale in Salt Lake with two pens of registered Hampshire rams, including some twenty head of lambs and fifteen yearlings. The boys have set for themselves a minimum standard of 130 pounds for lambs and 200 pounds for the yearlings. From a quality standpoint, it will be the best shipment yet made from the students of the school to the national sale. MT. PLEASANT Mt. Pleasant city will soon be protected from the menacing floods of past years, as a flood control project is under way two miles east of the city. A. F. Reynolds of Mt Pleasant, who is in charge ef the construction work, has 20 men and teams on the Job. The excavation for cobble spillway is now the completely ready for the masonry work, which will begin at once. The north wing of the dike is completed and the south wing will be finished within 10 days. MYTON The road that !s being improved through the Pleasant Valley district will be completed in a couple of days, so W. E. Broome, overseer of construction, reports. The purpose of this activity is to put it in shape for the handling of supplies, material arid machinery for the test well for oil, to be started immediately. R. W. Gibson, a representative of the Utah Southern Oil company, is superintendent of the work in this part of Utah, recently workmen began making excavations in preparation for the setting up of the derick. RICHFIELD The Sevier County Fair association reports that extensive training is going on at the fait grounds every day among owners of the race horses. About ten head of race horses are already on the ground from southern Utah, reckoned among the fastest in the state. They also have booked six head from Utah esun ty, to arrive next week, promising tha most Interesting racing program to be held here in years. The dairy ex.. hibit is also more promising that ever before, owing to the fact that a num.. ber of animals from important herd in Wisconsin and the northwest, have been entered. VERNAL Prospects for the 192i alfalfa seed crop in Utah are 47 per t cent of normal compared with 60 a year ago, Frank Andrews, ag. ricultural statistician for the United States department of agriculture, an. nounced Wednesday. Increases or de creases from this estimate may result pending arrival of killing frosts, Mr. Andrews reported. Early frosts will bring production lower than estimated and higher production will probably result if frosts are late, the report said. Lark of sufficient moisture hs eaused the crop to lower from last year's harvest and reports of stripping of blooms also have been made, Mr. Andrews stated. MYTON The Upako Flour Mill In Myton, which Is operated by C. P. Watterson, has opened for the fall and winter and recently began receiving new wheat About 400 bushels were received in one day, some of which was of a superior quality, weighing sixty-fon pounds to the bushel. Mr. estimates the crop for this season in the vicinity of Myton at 20 COO bushels, which Is a marked increase over that of previous years. In addition, he expects to purchase considerable tonnage from ether portions af the basin. rmm We Mmd $ ear-loa- ha asked, "aren't yoa going to teU me any mora about Stella?" Stella told. But what aha told was not wtut she would bavt told ten minutes before. Ber mood bad ahlfted utterly. No longer did aha try to shock Go Ahead by tales of Stella'a toughness, nor to astonish him by magnifying ber courage and skill, instead she racked her brain to recall things that brought out the feminine aide of ber character. And Go Ahead ate up all aha aald. "She's got a mighty loyal friend Id yon. Bob," be said, at last "I Ilka what you've told me, and I Ilka the way you've told It Now tell me something about yourself. You've left the band for good and all, haven't your , m Friday, August 31, 1928 NEPHI, UTAI7 S, Newo Notes jj MARRIOTT O. Ohapmaa. ) W.WNU Service TIMES-NEW- "Yea, I don't know how long It'll all not long, I goes. And I'd b mighty glad If yon could stick around till I get her and then go East with ma and ber. You you'll be a big man some day If you'll come." take (TO BBS CONTINUED.) One's Own Busineta la the Inestimable right of human beings to find happiness In their own way or to grow by their own mistakes. Woman's Borne Companion. It One of the world's curious schools, the college of fisheries at the University of Washington at Seattle, teaches students how to fish, bow to prepare Osh for market how to raise them and bow to combat dlreases to make the Annies thrive better. Not All Tamed Into Beef One authority says that 64.3 per cent of the finished product of a slaughtered steer la beef and 43.7 par cant la composed of , 30-fo- pet-cen- ur Wat-teno- By ELMO SCOTT OMING as A Sale Bill of 1849 plow with wood mola board; to 1,000 thras-foclapboards; ten foot fenca rails; 1 algtr itallon aoap kettle; It augar trough, mad of white ash timber; 10 gallons of map) avrup; I spinning; wheals; to pounds of mutton tallow; I large loom, mad nnit by Jerry Wilson; 100 poles; hoops;' 100 mpty barrels; 1 thirty-tw- o gallon barrel of Johnson Millar whisky, seven years old; to gallons of apple brandy; 1 forty gallon copper till, of oak tanned leather; 1 dozen real booka; I handle hooks; t scythe and cradles; t deien wooden pitchforks; call-b- r Interest In tanyard; 1 thirty-tw- o rifle, ballet mold and powder horn, f rlfl tnal by Baa Mllktri gallon soft aoap; hama, bacon and lard; 49 head gallons of sorghum molassea; hound, all aoft mouthed on. At th asm tint I will sell my six I men, IS and 60 year negro clave old: t boy. It and II yara old: t mulatto wenches. 40 end 10 year old. Will anil all together to earn party, will not leparat them. Terms of sale, cash In band, or not to draw 4 per cent Interest with Bob McConn! aa surety. south of VeMy horn I I mile McCoana rsatile. Kentucky, on th ferry plk. Sal begins at I o'clock A. at. plenty to drlak end Mt J. U VOML Two hundred wagons, rolling out to Oregon tbo gopher hole, Breaking through lurching wide and free. Crawling up the mountain pass, Jolting, grumbling, rumbling on, Two hundred wagons, rolling to tha aea. From Bast and 8outh and North they flock, to muster, row on row, A fleet of ten-scoprairie ships beside Missouri's flow. The bullwhlps crack, the oxen strain, the canvas-hoode- files. d Ara off upon the long, long trail of sixteen hundred miles. Tha women hold the guldlnt,-l!ne- s; best! the rocking steers With goad and ready rifle walk tha bearded pioneera duflt beneath tha Through clouds of floods of sweeping sun, through rain Across tha Kansas prairie land, across Nebraska's plain. Two hundred wagons, rolling out to Oregon Curved around tha camp lira flama at halt when day Is done. Rest awhile beneath tha stars, yoke again and lumber on. Two hundred wagons, rolling with tha aun. Among the barren buttes they wind V beneath tha Jealous rlew V Of Bktckfoot. Pawnee, Omaha, Ara-pahand Stoux. No savage threat may check their course, no river deep and wide; They swim the Platte, they ford :T tha Snake, they cross the g: Great Divide. : They march as ones from India's valea through Asia's mountain door shield and spear on Europe's plain tbelr fathers marched before. They march where leap tha an telona and storm tha buffalo ' Still Westward aa their fathers ; W marched xo. ten thousand years Two hundred wagons, rolling out to Oregon Creeping down tha dark deflla be- low the mountain crest, 8urglng through the brawling stream. lunalng. plunging, forging on. Two hundred wagons, rolling toward tha Wast. Now tolls tha dusty caravaa with swinging wagon poiee Where Walla Walla pours along. whera broad Columbia rolla. long haired trapper's face grows dark and scowls tha brave; painted Where now the beaver builds his dam tha wheat and rys ehaai wave. Tha British trader ahakes his head and welgha his natlon'a less. For whera those hardy settlers come tha Stars and Rtfipes will toes. Then block tha wheels, unyoka the teera; tha prise la his who rtaree; Ths eablna rise, tha flelds ara sown, arid Oregon Is thetrsl Tbey will take,In they will hold. tha mold. By tha enade By tna aeel in tne anil. By tha awaat and tha toll, Ftv tha plow In tha loam. By tha School and tha Homel Two hundred wagons, rolling out to Oregon, Two hundred wagons, ranging fro and far. hundred wagons, rumbling, Two grumbling, rolling on. Twa handred wagons, following star) Arthur Oultermaa la "I Sing tha pioneer." K. p Dattoa and Company. retraced his path In an automobile and in 1024 he went over the trail In an airplane, continuing his flight to Washington where he was received by President Coolldge, after having spanned the continent In 1928 he hours. The Oregon Trnil seventy-tw- o In 8At.FI Having sold my farm and I am tear. Ins; for Oregon Territory by ox team, will offer. March t, 1149, all of mr par-anproperty", All o teams except two team. Buck and Ben and Tom and Jarrjr; t milk sows: 1 grsy mar and roll; 1 pair of I baby yaks: t eg Mi and lroyoke; foot ef poplar weather tarts; al 800 1.-t- ot le on-ha- lf known Mont-pelle- Tha bnarda; When the California gold fever aprend over the country many persons sold their property and hurried West to get rich. Here is a ante bill of UioNe days: t: reality had two The Oregon Trail it did near the Eightieth anniversary of the discovery of gold In California, the announcement of a project, sponsored by a Californian, Charles E. Davis of Sacramento, to take an Immigrant train of 300 prairie schooners from Independence, Mo., along the overland trail of as a pioneer days means of aiding In marking historic places and awakening more interest In these places, brings to public attention again a route which has well been cnlled the "road that won an empire." That Is the historic Oregon Trail, once known to thousands because of the book by Parkman, the historian, but In modern times made a familiar word to millions through Emerson Hough's novel "The Covered Wagon" and the movie that was made from that book. This latest project Is only one of several of a similar nature which have been undertaken In recent years. Six years ago the Old Oregon Trail association was organized at Baker, Ore., "to perpetuate the name of the Old Oregon Trail by having that name designated by the states through which It passes and also designated by the congress of the United States as a national highway and, by so doing, do honor to the memory of the brave pioneer men and women who faced the perils of a savage land" to carve out new homes for themselves In the "Oregon Country, ad to make It American territory ; to permanently mark the road with the design of the Ox Team and Covered Wagon so that Its history may be preserved and be a constant reminder to the younger generation of the hardships endured hy those who btaze-- the way and laid the foundation ol our present day civilization." In 1023 a pageant wss staged at Meat-hum-, Ore., and President Harding formally dedicated the Old Oregon Trull by unveiling a monument at Emigrant Springs, one of tha most famous camping spots on the trail. Since that time the association, and an allied organisation, the Oregon Trail Memorial association with headquarters la New York, has been engaged In an effort tf get official recognition from congress of their project for marking the trail and perpetuating it as a broad motor highof the memorial way. The association la Ezra Meeker, the nine Id pioneer who first went over the troll In 1852. He baa xone over It five times In the last twenty years. Ills first two trips in that time. In 1007 and 1911, were made bf ox teem, as wns his Journey In 18.")2 whim It toik Ave months to cover the riltnn sveraa-at ped f wo miles an' hour. In 101S and eastern termini, although the best one was Independence, Mo. The other was at Council Bluffs, Iowa, (formerly Kanesvllle, Iowa) opposite Omaha, Neb. From Independence the route ran through what Is now Kansas City (formerly Westport) to Gardner, Kan., where the two historic western trails, the Oregon and the Santa Fe, parted. From Gardner the road ran past what Is now Topeka, thence northwest Into Nebraska through the present town of Hebron and on until It reached the Platte river near the present city of Grand Island. It ran along the south bank of the Platte until It reached what Is now the city of North Platte where It crossed over to the north side. It was here Joined by the trail from Council Bluffs (Kanesville), and followed the north bank of the Platte to that point The "road to Oregon" continued up the North Platte to Fort Laramie In Wyoming, through the present city of Casper and on past Independent Bock, which was called the "Register ef the Trail," because so many of tire emigrants carved their names or Initials on this great landmark. From there It angled south and west until It crossed the Continental divide at South Pass, where the town of Pacific Is now located. From here led two routes, one making a bend to the south, past the present city of Kemmerer, the other going more nearly straight west over what was known as the Sublette Cut-Of- f and both coming together at what la now the town of Border. Entering Idaho the trail passed r, through the present towns of and Soda Springs, on to where old Fort Hall stood at the junction of the Port Neuf and the Snake rivers. Following the south bank of the Snake, It went through what ara now thj towns of American Falls, Twin Fulls, Filer and Buhl, where It went Into the bills and emerged again at the river near the present town of Glenn's Ferry, whera It crossed From there It passed the Snake. what are now Mountain Home, Boise, Nampa, Caldwell and Parma, near where old Fort Boise was located and where It crossed the Snake a second time. From there It entered the present state of Oregon, went past Vale and Ontario, through Huuttngton at the mouth of the Burnt River canyon, up the canyon Into the Powder valley near the present city of Baker. From here It went through the Grande Ronde valley, over the Blue mountains past the town of Meacham and on past the present site of Pendleton to the Umatilla. From there tt followed along the south bank of the ColumhlA, although at the Dalles the emigrants usually took to boats and rafts or to the Barlow road on through to Oregon City and Portland. From there they spread out over the valley, the Clatsop plains and north Into the present state of Washington. "And Oregon was theirs I" :: v. WATSON te of fox ax-ra- pt |