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Show THE Friday, April 30, 1926 BfRJ VSON OF KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD, COPYRIGHT WNU 8rtc HIS FIRST BATTLE Synopsis Baree Is born In a vast tangle of fallen timber that shuts out the light of day. He Is the son of Kazan, the dog, and of Gray Wolf, the blind wolf. He makes the acquaintance of his father and sees sunlight for the first time. He sets the use of his legs. Chapter I Continued ' '2 In a way Baree sensed this. lie was not afraid, of the owls. He was not afraid of the strange cries they made in the black spruce-topBut once fear entered into him, and he scurried back to his mother. It was when one of the winged hunters of the air swooped down on a enowshoe rabbit, and the squealing agony of the doomed creature set his heart thumping like a little hammer. He felt In those cries the nearness of that one tragedy of the wild death. He felt it again that night when, snuggled close to Gray Wolf, he listened to the fierce outcry that was close on the of a wolf-pacheels of a young caribou bull. And the meaning of it all, and the wild thrill of it all, came home to him early In the gray dawn when Kazan returned, holding between his jaws a huge rabbit that was still kicking and squirming with life. This rabbit was the climax in the first chapter of Baree's education. It was as if Gray Wolf and Kazan had planned It all out, so that he might receive his first introduction In the art of killing. When Kazan had dropped it, Baree approached the big hare cautiously. The back of Wapoos, the rabbit, was broken. His round eyes were glazed, and he had ceased to feel pain. But to Baree, as he dug his tiny teeth into the heavy fur under Wapoos' throat, the hare was very much alive. The teeth did not go through into the flesh. With puppylsh fierceness Baree hung on. lie thought that he was killing. He could feel the dying convulsions of Wapoos. He could hear the last gasping breaths leaving the warm body, and he snarled and tugged until finally he fell back with a mouthful of fur. When he returned to the attack, Wapoos was quite dpad, and Baree continued to bite and snarl until Gray Wolf came wlth.her sharp fangs and tore the rabbit to pieces. After that followed the feast. So Baree came to understand that to eat meant to kill, and as other days and nights passed, there jrrew in him swiftly the hunger fur flesh. In this he was the true wolf. From Kazan he had taken other and stronger inheritances of the dug. He was magnificently black, which In later days gave him the name of Kusketa Mohe-ku- n the black wolf. On his breast was a star. His right ear was tipped with white. His tall, at six weeks. Was bushy and hung low. It was a wolfs tall. His ears were Gray Wolfs ears sharp, short, pointed, always gave promalert. His ise of being splendidly like Kazan's, and when he stood up he was like the trace-doexcept that he always stood sldewlse to the point or object ho was watching. This, again, was the wolf, for a dog faces the direction in which he Is looking Intently. One brilliant night, when Baree was two months old, and when the sky was filled with stars and n June moon so bright that It seemed, scarcely higher Baree setthan the tail spruce-topstled back on his haunches and howled. It was a first effort. Hut there was no mistake In the note of It. It was the . But n niompnt later when Baree slunk up to Kazan, as If deeply ashamed of his effort, he was wagging his tall in on unmistakably apologetic manner. And this again wns the dog. If Ttisoo, the dead Indian trapper, could have seen him then, he would have Judged him by that wagging of his tall. It revealed the fact that deep In his heart and In Ms soul, if we can concede that he had one Baree was dog. In another way Tusoo would have At two found judgment of lilra. months the wolft whelp has forgotten Iiow to play. He Is a slinking part of the wilderness, already at work prey Ing on creatures smaller and more Baree still than himself. helil"s . In his excursions away from playi-dthe windfall he had never gone farther than the creek, a hundred yards from where his mother lay. He had helped to tear many dead and dying rabbits Into pieces; he believed, If he thought upon the matter at all, that he was ex ceedingly fierce and courageous. But It was Id ninth week before he felt Ma spurs and fought his terrible battle with the young owl In the edge of the thick forest. The fact that Oohoomlsew, the big snow-ow- l, had made her nest In a proken stub not fnr from the windfall w) destined to change the whole blood-curdlin- g s. ever-prese- k g, wolf-howl- BYP0U3lfl)AYF(JG TIMES-NEW- The pain of that hold was excruciating to Baree, and he made a more desperate effort to get his teeth through his enemy's thick armor of feathers. In the struggle they rolled under the low balsams to the edge of the ravine through which ran the creek. Over the steep edge they plunged, and as they rolled and bumped to the bottom, Baree loosed his hold. Papayochl-sehung valiantly on, and when they reached the bottom he still had his grip on Baree's ear. Baree's nose was bleeding; his ear felt as if It were being pulled from his head ; and In this uncomfortable moment a newly awakened Instinct made his discover Baby Papayuchisew wings as a fighting asset. An owl has never really begun to fight until he uses his wings, and with a Joyous hissing, Papayuchisew began beating his antagonist so fast and so viciously that Baree was dazed. He was com pelled to close his eyes, and he snapped blindly. For the first time since the battle began he felt a strong Inclination to get away. He tried to tear himself free with his forepaws, but Papayucldsew slow to reason but of firm conviction hung to Baree's ear like grim fate. At this critical point, when the un derstanding of defeat was forming Itself swiftly In Baree's mind, chance saved him. His fangs closed on one of the owlet's tender feet. Papayuchisew gave a sudden squeak. The ear was free at last and with a snarl of triumph Baree gave a vicious tug at Papayuchlsew's leg. In the excitement of battle he had not heard the rushing tumult of the creek close under them, and over the edge of a rock Papayuchisew and he went together, the chill water of the stream muffling a final snarl and a final hiss of the two little fighters. w course of Baree's life, just as the blinding of Gray Wolf had changed hers. The creek ran close past the stub, which had been shriven by lightning; and this stub stood In a still, dark place In the forest, surrounded by tall, black spruce and enveloped In gloom even In broad day. Many times Baree had gone to the edge of this mysterious bit of forest and had peered in curiously, and with a growing desire. On this day of his great battle Its lure was overpowering, kittle by little he entered Into It, his eyes shining brightly and his ears alert for the slightest sounds that might come out of it. His heart beat faster. The gloom enveloped him more. He forgot the windfall and Kazan and Gray Wolf. Here before him lay the thrill He heard stranger of adventure. sounds, but very soft sounds, as if made by padded feet and downy wings, and they filled him with a thrilling expectancy. Under his feet Chapter II there were no grass or weeds or flowof a wonderful brown carpet ers, but To Papayuchisew, after his first soft evergreen needles. They felt stream was algood to his feet, and were so velvety mouthful of water, the that he could not hear his own move- most as safe as the air, for he wenta sailing down it with the lightness of ment. g He was fully three hundred yards gull, wondering In his from the windfall when he passed big head why he was moving so swiftOohoomlsew's stub and into a thick ly and so pleasantly without any effort growth of young balsams. And there of his own. To Baree It was a different matter. directly In his path crouched the He went down nlmost like a stone. A monster ! Papayuchisew (Young Owl) was not mighty roaring filled his ears; It was more than a third as large as Baree. dark, suffocating, terrible. In the But he was a terrifying looking ob- swift current he was twisted over and ject. To Baree he seemed all head over. For twenty feet he was under and eyes. He could see no body at all. water. Then he rose to the surface Kazan had never brought in anything and desperately began using his legs. like this, and for a full half minute It wns of little use. He had only time he remained very quiet, eyeing it spec to blink once or twice and catch a ulatively. Papayuchisew did not move lungful of air when he shot Into a cur a feather. But as Baree advanced, a rent that was running like a mlllrace cautious step at a time, the bird's eyes between the butts of two fallen trees. and for another twenty feet the sharpest eyes could not have seen hair or hide of him. He came up again at the edge of a shallow riffle over which the water ran like the rapids at Niagara In miniature, and for fifty or sixty yards he was flung like a hairy ball. From this he was hurled Into a deep, cold pool ; and then half dead he found himself crawling out on a gravelly bar. For a long time Baree lay there In n pool of sunshine without moving. His ear hurt hliu ; his nose was raw, and burned as if he had thrust It into fire. His legs ..nd body were sore, and as he began to wander along the gravel bar, he was the most wretched pup In the world. He was also completely turned around. In vain he looked about him for some familiar mark something that might guide him back to his windfall home. Everything was strange. He did not know that the water had flung him out on the wrong side of the stream, and that to reach the windfall he would have to cross it again. He whined, but that was as loud as his voice rose. Gray Wolf could have heard his barking, for the windfall was not more than two hundred and fifty yards up the stream. But the wolf In Baree held And the Fight Began. him silent, except for Ids low whining. Striking the main Bhore, Baree begrew bigger and the feathers about his head ruffled up as if stirred by a bit gan going downstream. This was away from the windfall, and each step that of wind. He came of a fighting fain he took carried him fartl ?r and farliy, this "little Papayuchisew a sav from home. At the end of half age, fearless, mid killing family and ther weleven Kazan would have taken note of an hour Baree would even have comed Papayuchisew. And he would those ruffling feathers. With a space of two feet between not have fought him he would have If possible, the way back them, the pup and the owlet eyed each Inquired, other. In the moment, if Gray Wolf home. could have seen, she might have said to Baree: "fse your legs and run:" Well, Baree, ha had his first And Oohoomlsew, the old owl, might battle and come out alive. Also, have said to I'apnyuclilsew : "You he is lost and homesick. What little foul use jour wings and fly!" next? bedid neither and the filit They rain-swolle- n slow-thinkin- w mm gan. Papayuchisew started it, and with a single wild yelp Baree went back in heap, the owlet's beak fastened like a t vise In the soft flesh at the end of his nose. That one yelp of sur prise nnd pain was Baree's tlrst and Inst cry In the fight. The wolf surged in him; rage and the desire to kill possessed him. As Papayuchispw hung on, he made a curious hissing sound and as Baree rolled and gnashed his teeth and fought to free himself from that amazing grip on his nose, fierce little snarls rose out of his throat. For fully a minute Baree had no use of his Jaws. Then, by accident, he wedged Papayuchisew In a crotch of and a bit of Ids a low ground-shrub- , nose gave way. He might have run then, but Instead of that he was back at the owlet like a flash. Flop wen Papayuchisew on his bnck, ami Baree teeth In the burled his needle-likbird's breast. It was like trying to bite through a pillow, the feathers were so close and thick. Deeper and deeper Baree sank his fangs, and Jus as the? were beginning to rrlck the owlet's skin, Papayuchisew Jabbing a little blindly with a beak that snapped sharply every time It closed got 1dm by the ear. red-ho- e (TO UK CONTINUED ) A Lucky Lie was surrounded by And how must friends be entertained? By some sort of story surely. Silver thought for some time, John friends. Silver and begun : "I don't know If any of yon knew It, but I am going to Mexico next month." "Yon are really going to Mexico?" "And why shouldn't I go to Mexico?" asked Silver. In the manner of friends they replied: "Every other man dies of malaria." "It Is simply unbearable with poisonous fleas." , "You have to go to bed with a revolver In one hand." "What's more, Silver, very few people ever come back." And then Silver exclaimed, heartily: "Well, It certainly Is a lucky thing I was lying 1" Sun Dial and Tele$cop, small telescope has been added sun dial Intended for residence to grounds. A PAGE SEVEN NEPHI, UTAH S, PUBLIC BILL LANDS REVIEWED X New Section Four Is Written Into Colton School Land Measure And Bill Amended To Give Appeal Rights Entirely Colton D. C. The Washington, school land bill, with certain modifications suggested by the subcommit tee that has been studying the bill for a week, was considered by the house public lands committee, but no action was taken. As the bill was read, its provisions generally seemed to appeal to members of the committee, but Chairman Sinnott remarked that the bill is so Important and some of the suggested changes are equally important that he wanted time to study it further before his committee acts. The chairman gave assurance that the bill would be brought up again, but no definite day was set for resuming consideration. Several important changes In the bill were suggested by the subcommittee, consisting of Representative Colton, Morrow, Winters, Letts and Driver. Section two of the bill, which seeks to impose a limitation on the time within which the government may question a state's title because of the alleged mineral character of school sections, is amended In two particulars; the government Is to be restricted only in its right to Institute a suit in any court, and the period within which It may be started Is made six years, Instead of three years, as provided in the Colton bill. As originally written, the bill would have imposed this limitation on proceedings in the interior department as well as the courts, but all reference to departmental activities was stricken out by the subcom' mittee. The subcommittee also struck out the first par section three of the bill, making reference to rules of practice in school lands cases.An entirely new fourth section has been written into the bill, prescribing the manner in which the states may appeal to the courts from adverse rulings from the land department, the original court appeal provision being abandoned. Wyoming Sheep Being Sheared This week will see the "big shear" under way in western Wyoming, and about one-thir- d of the total 1926 clip Is under contract to eastern firms. Some shearing began last week and several flockmasters will begin soon. The miles clip at the wells, twenty-eigh- t north of Rock Springs, also will get under way during the week, as it will west of Rock Springs. The number of fleeces in the 192G clip is about the same as in 1925, but the amount of wool is a matter of conjecture until the shearing Is well under way and the first bales have been weighed. In 1925 approximately 2,750,000 pounds were clipped in western Wyoming, and s a year ago this date saw almost of the total sold. Only a litof the 1926 tle more than clip Is said to have been contracted for delivery. Market tendencies in Boston, the nation's wool center, during the past week have brought encouragement to local flockmastera some of whom feel that 1926 will be a much better year for them than It first promised to be. Indications are that lambs will bring a better price than the first Bales indicated. three-quarter- one-thir- d Poultry Farming Increase Rapid Salt Lao City. No farm Industry has advanced with greater strides the last few years than the poultry business, the value of which for 1921 baboon estimated by the department of agriculture at ?99 1,000.000, $325,000.0011 or more than half of which represents the value of ergs produced on the farm, and $169,000,000 from poultry produced. It is believed safe to assume that the final department of agriculture figures for 1925 will show that the value of the Industry has mark. Tho passed the billion-dolla- r total numbers of poultry on farms January 7. 1925. was $ 142.S00.000. with a value of $349,006,000. Of this num-- I ber. 437.000,000 head, with a value of 11.16.177,000, were chickens. During the year 678.300,000 chickens were raised, with a value of $14.rt01S.noo. The chicken eggs produced amounted to 1.968,276,000 dozens, worth $521,-547,00- Ealt Lake Overlooked In Finance Bill Salt Lake City. Advised that the army construction bill, which passed the house of representatives at Wash-- ! lntton, did nut Include any approprla aft'en for Fort Douglas, the fairs committee of the chamber of commerce will hold a special meeting for the purpose of considering what may be done to have '.he bill amended when it comes up on the senate, it wn! announced by chamber officials. Brlead'-- r General Lucius Holbrook, Is ef the local post. In c rn-.'- vl Privilege Utah I AMENDMENTS MEET APPROVAL OF HOUSE COMMITTEE; TO STUDY BILL Rock Springs, Wyo. News Notes to Live in It's a EGG t Salt Lake City. All arangements have been completed for Utah's participation In national egg day, May 1, according to A. R. Mlckelson of Draper, designated Utah state chairman by the national poultry council, sponsor of the movement. The poultry council. In planning a national egg day cited It was for the purpose of paying tribute to the hen for her part In In Utah, the American agriculture. observance will be directed toward acquainting all persons with the mag nitude of the poultry industry in the state. Ogden. The Utah State Farm Bu reau federation, through its canning crops committee, has begun the organ ization of canning crops' associations In various counties. It is planned to Join all associations Into a state fed eration, it was stated by Martiu B. Brown, chairman of the canning crops committee of the state farm bureau organization. Salt Lake. "The mineral wealth of Utah" is the title of a comprehensive 'booklet just off the press, and compiled and published by the mining committee of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce. The edition runs to 20,000 copies, and will be distributed by the commerce chamber throughout the country to arouse interest in Utah's mining industry, according to J. C. Dick, chairman of the committee. Ogden. J. D. Claiborn of Kimberly, Idaho, topped the Ogden market Saturday with two carloads of pulp fed steers weighing 1435 pounds, each bringing $8.20 a hundred, which is the highest price paid on the Ogden market In months. They were sold to the Western Meat company of Sa Francisco. Salt Lake City. Is Salt Lake City destined to become one of the greatest commercial fertalizer centers of the world? Recent developments of potash in Utah and nitrates in a newly discovered bed in southern Nevada, seem to point in this direction, according to Eli F. Taylor, register of the Salt Lake land office, who is daily receiving glowing reports on the latest find ings in connection with these two products. Salt Lake City. Due to the fact that members of the Utah Canners' association refused to pay the farmers $12 a ton for their tomatoes this yeat while they declare most of the othei states of the country are paying that much or more, the farmers are planting sugar beets and other crops instead, M. S. Winder, executive secretary of the Utah State Farm bureau announced recently. Myton. The Fort Duchesne Farm bureau, with John Hacking as president, has arranged a campaign to fight the weeds in that part of the basin. George E. Young is project leader east of the Uintah river and John Gardner Is leader for the west side. The weeds they will try to exterminate are the white top, mnrdock-burr- , morning-glory- , cockleburr, Russian and Canadian thistle. MARKETING AGENCIES GROW IN ORDER FARMERS TO DISTRIBUTE PRODUCTS TO BEST PRICES Figures Are At Hand For Both 1924 And 1925 For Enterprises Marketing Large Fraction Eggs Produced of Salt Lake City. Thirty per cent more eggs were marketed In 1925 than In 1924, according to recent estimates by the department of agriculture. The increase was due to two reasons, first, many of the old associations engaged in the cooperative marketing of eggs received larger Quantities from their members la 1925 than in 1924, and, second, a number of recently formed organizations reached their full stride as marketing agencies during the latter year. Figures are at hand for both 1924 and 1925 for enterprises handling a large fraction of the eggs marketed cooperatively, and these show on the whole an Increased volume of business although in some sections of the country the associations suffered a decrease in valume of business. Gains are particularly noticeable in the reports received from Missouri, where a large portion of the output of the farm flocks Is marketed through the county exchanges and the centrally established essembling nad packing plants which have been developed especially to serve the farmers In marketing surplus eggs and poultry. The Minnesota Egg and Poultry exchange is largely responsible for an Increase in the quantity of Minnesota eggs marketed cooperatively. Thl3 association was formed in 1924 and began operating during the latter part of that year. It is a federation of seventeen local units with 22,000 members. In 1925 it handled a larger number of cases of Minnesota eggs than had ever before gone through cooperative channels. Fifty-eigh- t creameries, elevators and stores have reported the marketing eggs In 1925 as service to their members. Undoubtedly several times this number have assisted their patrons in assembling and shipping small lots of Df eggs. Producer-owneand cooperatively operated sales agencies In the consuming markets of New York, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Los Angeles and San Francisco have marketed large quantities of eggs for cooperative associations located in the producing regions. d Digging Potatoes In April In Idaho Boise. Digging Potatoes at Victor, Idaho, in full swing. That may sound peculiar to most Idaho potato farmers who are accustomed to digging potatoes in the fall, but L. G. Schultz, federal horticultural Inspector for Idaho Is responsible for the story. Here It Is: Forty acres of spuds are now being dug at Victor. They have been in the ground all winter. The yield Is running from 200 to 300 sacks per acre, with 75 per cent of the crop good, sound tubers. Early frost caught the diggers last fall, and the gTound got so hard that It was Impossible to continue work. Along came a blanket of snow that remained or more all winter, and kept the ground from freezing more than a couple of Inches. Myton. Tuesday the work of widening the Grey mountain ditch was com pleted and water was turned in. The work has been going on for three months. Salt Lake City. A new mining company has been formed by business men of Salt Lake and Ogden, who expect to continue development work on nine claims in the Park City district recently purchased from William M. Curtis of Park City. The claims Jersey Owners to Meet At Caldwell adjoin the old Glenallen property on the east and west, and have already some development work done on them, Caldwell, Idaho. Idaho State Jert croscut tunnel sey Cattle club delegates will convene Including an The tunnel Is said to run along the Caldwell May 7 for the annual state vein for 200 feet where good showings in of the Jersey breeders, acof ore have been found. The mine Is meeting to an announcement in the cording silver-leaproperty. state organization. Ivan H. Laughrey, Salt Lake City. Twenty-founew western representative of the Ameridirectors of the Utah Shippers' Traf- can Jersey Cattle club, and Mr. Mor-lefic association extension director in the national from five different cities were selected by the nominating Jersey organization will be speakers. committee at a meeting held at the The annual session of the Can-Adchamber of commerce recently. They organization, which had been set for were chosen to succeed the old board 'Jay 5, w ill be held instead as a part of the state meeting. of ninety men, who were asked to resign because of a state law limiting boards of directors to twenty-four- . Floods Menace Soviet Capital Rrlgham City. An auto caravan conveying more than 100 business men Moscow. Hundreds of thousands of and poultry producers of this section Russians stand in danger of being left Brlngham City Wednesday for driven from ttieir crowded homes by Draper. Tho purpose of the visit to floods because of a fresh rainfall Draper, which is one of the lending Along the upper reaches of the Mospoultry prodjclng centers of the state, cow river.. The high water, which has was to inspect the plans there and get reached the worst record In detailed information on tho industry already years, abated a few inches, eighteen from tho successful producers, with a but the new another rains view to stimulating the poultry induscrest of which has not yet the rise, try in this city and vicinity. reached the city. Logan. The history of the estabDairy Experiment Yields Big Returns lishment and development of tho Blackfoot, Ida. R. F. Ipsen, manadairy cattle In America and Cach valley was discussed by ger of the Laabs Cheese factory at Professor George B. f.'nine, head of the Blackfoot, reports that the manufao of whey cream dairy husbandry department of the ture of the Utah Agricultural college and expeributter is panning out better than anment station, at the Kiwanls lunch-con- . ticipated. More than 500 pounds of butter are made daily. 300 gallons of Washington. AncMoning of coal whey cream was stored In the pas lenses on trarM In Richland and teurizing tank and Is was made into Roosevelt counties, Montana and Se- butter furnishing in the neighborhood vier county, Utah, was authorized by of 1200 pounds of butter. Ilogglnntng the department of ths interior f3cea.tr soon the factory will start a third cheese vat. ly. six-Inc- h ' six-inch- 800-foo- d r a i |