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Show PACE TWO THE TIMES-NEW- BAREE , Son of Kazan IN By "A James Oliver Curwood (O. Doubladay, Pace dt Ce.) WNU Bervlee MAN-DEVI- Part wolf, part dog wbu two months eld Bar baa his first meeting with an enemy, Papajruchlsew (jr o u n g wl). Fighting; hard, tb antaa-nls- ts art suddenly plunged Into swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and half drowned. Bare Is finally flung on the bank, but the water has destroyed his sense of direction and he Is lost, lonely and hunary. For many days his Ufa Is one of fear and distress. He meets various creatures of the wild and goes through a He Is learning thunderstorm. more and more. He strays Into the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese. Nepeeee wounds Baree with a rifle, but he escapes. Baree decovers and learns nature's secrete rapidly. Nepeese la determined to catch Baree and tame him and tries again. Baree is strongly drawn to the girl, but still fears man. Baree makes friend with the beaver. Synopsis. Chapter V Continued 10 It may be that Umiak taw him. It may be that very soon the story of Ms adventure was known by all the Inhabitants of Beaver Town. For when Baree came upon Umlsk eating hii rapper of alder bark that evening, Umlsk stood his ground to the last inch, and for the first time they smelted noses. At least Baree sniffed audibly, and plucky little Umlsk sat like a rolled-usphinx. That was the final cementing of their friendship on Baree's part. He capered about extravagantly for a few moments, tell ing Umlsk how much he liked him, and that they'd be great chums. Umlsk didn't talk. He didn't make a move until he resumed his supper. But be was a companionable looking little fellow, for all that, and Baree was happier than he had been since the day he left the old windfall. That friendship, even though It outwardly appeared to be quite was decidedly fortunate for Umlsk. When Baree was at the pond, he always kept as near to Umlsk as possible, when he could find him. One day he was lying in a patch of grass, half asleep, while Umlsk busied hims self in a clump of a few yards away. It was the warning crack of a beaver tall that fully roused Baree ; and then another and He Jumped another, like pistol-shotup. Everywhere beavers were scurrying for the pond. Just then Umlsk came out of the alders and hurried as fast as his short, fat legs would carry him toward the wateX "He had almost reached the mud when lightning flash of red passed before Baree's eyes in the afternoon sun, and in another Instant x had fastened Napakasew the his sharp fangs in Umlsk's throat. Baree beard his little friend's agonized cry; he heard the frenzied of many tails and his blood pounded suddenly with the thrill of excitement and rage. As swiftly as the red fox himself, Baree darted to the rescue. He was as big and as heavy as the fox, and when he struck Napakasew, it was with a ferocious snarl that Pierrot might have heard on the farther side of the pond, and his teeth sank like knives Ipto the shoulder of Umlsk's assailant. The fox was of a breed of forest highwaymen which kills from behind. He was not a lighter when It came unless cornered and so fierce and sudden was Baree's assault that Napakasew took to flight almost as quickly as he had begun his p one-side- alder-shoot- he-fo- flap-flap-fl- fang-to-fan- attack on Umlsk. Baree did not follow him, but went to Umlsk, who lay half in the mud, whimpering and snuffling In a curious ort of way. Gently Buree nosed him, and after a moment or two Umlsk got op on his webbed feet, while fully twenty or thirty beavers were making a tremendous fuss In the water near the shore. After this the beaver pond seemed more than ever like home to Baree. Chapter VI While lovely Nepeese wag shuddering over her thrilling experience under the rock while Pierrot still offered grateful thunks In his prayers for her deliverance and Baree was becoming more and more a fixture at the beaver-ponBush McTaggart was perfecting a little scheme of his own up at l'ost Lac Bain, about forty miles north and west. McTaggart had been Factor at Lac Bain for seven years. In the Company's books down In Winnipeg lie was counted a remarkably successful man. The expense of his post was below the average, and his report of furs always ranked among the first. After his name, kept on file In the main office, was vne notation which said: "(Jets more "xjt of a dollar tlmn any other man nort f God's hike." The Indian knew why this was so. They ea"cd him Napao Wet Ikon the train (li vll. This was under their breath a name whispered slnlsterly in the glow of tepee Ilrt-j- , or spoken aoftly where not even the winds might carry it to the ears of Btisli McTag-gnilThey fen red him; they bated Mm. They died of starvation and sickness. un 'he tighter I'.:ish McTaggart clenched the flng rs of his Iron rule, the more meekly. It sccimd to him. did I hey respond to ,W mas-terHis was a small soul, hidden in ! hulk of a bnitp. which rejoiced in And here with the raw power wilderness on four sides of him his end. The Big Compower knew pany was behind lilm. It had made bint king of a domain In which there was little law except his own. And la return he gave back to the Company bales and bundles of furs beyond their expectation. It was not for them to have suspicions. They were a thousand or more miles away and dollars counted. Gregson might have told. Gregson was the Investigating agent of that district, who visited McTaggart once each year. He might have: reported that the Indians called McTaggart Napao Wetlkoo because he gave them only half price for their furs; he might have told the Company quite plainly that he kept the people of the trap-line- s at the edge of starvation through every month of the winter, that he had them on their knees with his hands at their throats putting the truth In a mild and pretty way and that he always had a woman or a girl, Indian or halfbreed, living with him at the Post. But Gregson enjoyed his visits too much at Lac Bain. Always he could count on two weeks of coarse pleasures; and In addition to that, his own womenfolk at home wore a rich treasure of fur that came to them from McTaggart. One evening, a week after the adventure of Nepeese and Baree under the rock, McTaggart sat under the glow of an oil lamp In his "store." For six weeks there had been in him a great unrest. It was Just six weeks ago that Pierrot had brought Nepeese on her first visit to Lac Bain since McTaggart had been Factor there. She had taken his breath away. Since then he had been able to think of nothing but her. Twice In that six weeks he had gone down to Pierrot's cabin. Tomorrow he was going again. Marie, the slim Cree girl over In his cabin, he had forgotten Just as a dozen others before Marie had slipped out of his memory. It was Nepeese now. He had never seen anything quite so beautiful as Pierrot's girl. Audibly he cursed Pierrot as he looked at a sheet of paper under his hand, on which for an hour or more he had been making notes out of worn and dusty Company ledgers. It was Pierrot who stood in his way. Pierrot's father, according to those notes, had Frenchman. been a Therefore Pierrot was half French, and Nepeese was quarter French though she was so beautiful he could have sworn there was not more than a drop or two of Indian Clilppe-wayaCree, Ojlhway, Dog Rib anything there would have been no trouble at all In tbe matter. He would have bent them to his power, and Nepeese would have come to his cabin, as Marie came six months ago. But there was the accursed French of It I Pierrot and Nepeese were different. And yet He smiled primly, and his hands clenched tighter. After all. was not his power sufficient? Would even Pierrot dare stand against thatT If Fierrot objected, he would drive him from the country from the trapping regions that had come down to lilra as heritage from father and grandfather, and even before their day. He would mnke of Tlerrot a wanderer and an outcast, as he had made wanderers and outcasts of a score of others who had lost his favor. No other Post would sell to or buy from Pierrot If Le Bete the black cross was put after his name. That was his power a law of the Factors that had come down through the centuries. It was a tremendous power for evil. It had brought him Marie, the slim, dark-eye- d Cree girl, who hated him and In spite of her hatred "kept house for him." That was the polite way of explaining her presence if explanations were ever necessary. McTaggart looked again at the notes lie had made on the sheet of paper. Pierrot's trapping country, his own property according to the common law of the wilderness, was very valuable. During the last seven years he had received an nvernge of a thousand dol lars a year for his furs, for McTaggart had been unable to cheat Pierrot qtitte as completely as he had cheated the Indians. A thousand dollars a year! I'ierrot would think twice be fore he gave t hat up. McTaggart chuckled as he made his way through the darkness to the door. Nepeese as good as belonged to him. lie would have her If it cost Pierrot's life. And A why not? It was all so easy. shot on a lonely trap-line- , a single t and who would know? Who would guess where Pierrot had gone? And It would all be Pierrot's fault. For the last time he had seen full-blood- knlft-thrus- semi-annu- .' Pierrot, he had made an honest 1 I News Notes Live in It's a half-breed- ," Utah citi-tensh- ir MANY IM- 0 7 s Joynson-Hicks- die-har- d constl-uent- s. I dam. Since his experience In the canyon and the death of Wakayoo, he had not fared particularly well. Caution had heiil him near the pond, and he had lived almost entirely on crawfish. This new perfume that came with the night wind roused his hunger. But it was elusive: now he could smell it the next Instant It was gone. He left the dam and began questing for the source of It In the forest, until after a time he lost It altogether. McTaggart had finished frying his bacon and was eat- anti-Russia- Monti-cell- o Utab-Colorad- ing It. Enter the villain. Bush McTaggart! How does Bare fit Into the situation. The doctor who used to feel hi "Many cases of Illness are due to patient's pulse or gaze Into a gaping something taken in from without mouth to determine the cause of Ill- usually microscopic germs. More and ness nowadays takes a drop of blood more of those germs are becoming to analyze. The guilt for much of known to us every day. There Is rumun suffering Inn been traced to reason to believe that the origins of the germs, tiny but deadly, which other diseases which are still unforce their entrance Into the human known iiiuy he found ill the same culls'- - ' body, nnd whi h can only he detected by such analysis. , "Blood tests provide us nil li clews But Wait a Few Yeart number of to an Sfiiil a doctor to the writer. I.lltle F.sther. who vuis drawing near "It Is being found, for Instance, that to her third blrlhil.i wa.i taken by eye complaints are often due to thi her mother to he fml for n new itbsni Hon of germs which have af- hat. She protested. "W hat for do I fected oilier parts of the body, such want another bal? I se got only one as the tonsils. We cim often detect head." Her father tells tills story with great gusto. Boston Transcript them by testing the blood. FIN ACTION ON Salt Lake City. Instruction in PORTANT ISSUES NOT LIKEwas and mlllitary courtesy LY BEFORE ADJOURNING given to the citizen soldiers a their Wednesa Fort Douglas training camp folday. These Instructions will be Aids Abandon Fight For Final Ballot lowed by close order drill and lec- Madden Will Oppose Getaway Until When Southern Bloc Develops; Harbors Bill Is Acted Upon; Eftures in first aid work. Major John Amendment Would Spoil forts Will Be Made To Rush J. McCormick of the medical corps The Bill will have charge of the first aid In Through Proposals struction. Salt Lake City. Indications are Washington. On the verge of a thath the total tonnage ol all fruit Washington. With a number of Imvote on the McNary farm bill, the sen- crops in Idaho will compare favorably portant legislative issues still hangate adjourned late Tuesday with the with last year, says Julius Jacobson, ing fire and final action on most of measure swaying In the balance, each agricultural statistician for Idaho, In them unlikely before adjournment side admitting that one or two votes his monthly outlook summary. Peach- house and senate leadc predicted, might decide the issue. es promise 197,000 bushels, against that the present session of congress Managers of the proposal believed last year's almost dismal failure of would be brought to a close Saturday, they had made inroads into the ranks 23,000 bushels. Pears are forecast at June 26th. of the opposition during the day by 69,000 bushels, compared with 39,000 A resolution proposing Bine die ad-- . loading it down with amendments In bushels in 1925. The cherry crop will Journment on that date Is expected to an effort to appease opponents. They also be larger, and Is now being har- be offered in the house Monday. It said the bill would be passed by a vested. Last year 115 carloads were will have the support of Speaker margin, while the opposition shipped and the 1926 figure is expect- Longworth, Representative Tllson, the spokesmen predicted it would be de- ed to exceed this total by several doz- Republican leader; Chairman Snell of feated by two votes. en carloads. the rules committee, and others, al- -: For a time it appeared that the meaof Utah's though Chairman Madden of tbe apfame The Lake Salt City. sure would be forced to a final vote, propriations committee, one of the particularly and fruits vegetables, but those In charge of it abandoned is trav- powers in the house, has indicated he and celery, peas strawberries, the attempt when Southern senators according to Wes- will oppose a getaway until final acthreatened to bolt the bill if an amend- elingE.far and wide, who Just returned tion Is had on the rivers and harbors has King, ment offered by Senator McNary, Re- ley six weeks' visit In the east bill, now pending before a senate coma from publican, Oregon, sponsor of the pro- and middle west. "The supply of mittee. posal, was adopted. It provided that The plan to wind up business and grown here and furnot more than $75,000,000 out of the these products to the middle west could be go home in nine days meets with the: nished revolving funds should be used in multiplied by ten or twenty and a approval of Republican leaders In the marketing cotton. market obtained for them," senate, who expressed the belief that The southerners claimed that the profitable Mr. King said. the legislative decks could be cleared would amendment spoil the effectivefor adjournment then. Senator Robmarks date This ness of the bill, so far as cotton was Salt Lake City. the Democratic leader, not only concerned, and the debate got so the ascendency of Cancer, the Crab, inson,he favored a getaway at the end heated that the Oregon senator with- the Head Sign of the Water Triplicity. said next week, but thought It would of the colAstral is tailsman. The the agate drew it with the explanation that he be good for the country. probably would reoffer it Wednesday ors are green and russet brown. NotIt also was indicated that the adIn modified form. withstanding their love and loyalty The senate then passed on to an people born on this date are Inclined journment program meets with Presamendment by Senator Harris, Demo- to change friends frequently and for- ident Coolidge's approval. Adjournment June 26, as congrescrat, Georgia, proposing to give the get those to whom they were once farm commodities In the bill a 50 per closely attached. As a rule they are sional leaders saw it, means there will cent rail and ship preferential rate moderately successful in business and be no final action at this session on for the export trade. After some dis- industrial undertakings. The Want the French debt settlement, which the cussion consideration went over until Ads will help you to find the place to senate has not yet approved, on yourself Muscle Shoales, coal and prohibition Wednesday at the request of Senator spend your vacation. Avail of the wonderful choices a Want Ad legislation, or on the rivers and harNorris, Republican, Nebraska. bors bill. Before the senate called It a day, at this time would bring you. however, It had reduced the appropriaEfforts will be made to rush through Price. Total expenditures of the tion for the revolving fund from Carbon county school district for the a variety of Important proposals, into $150,000,000, eliminated cat- year 1926-2are placed at $406,386.54 cluding farm legislation, the radio contle entirely from the measure and in the budget passed and approved trol bill now pending in the senate and made the equalization fee operative Wednesday by the board of education. a deficiency appropriation bill which against corn immediately instead of in This is an increase of $11,713.10 over would provide, among other things, three years. last year. Principals' and teachers' funds for the start of work during the Other amendments approved defined salaries, amounting to $195,000, consti- summer on the government's $165,000,-00- 0 swine processing as "slaughter by pur- tute the chief item of expense in the public buildings program. chaser for market," which would per- operation of schools. Fate of farm legislation was still In mit a farmer to slaughter his own hogs Brigham City. The first straight the balance as the senate continued and sell the meat without paying the carload of cherries to be shipped from debate on the McNary rider to the fee, and provided that the equalization this marketing bill. A went out to the eastern house city fee could not he put into operation on The car was made up of vote before the end of the week on markets. any crop except by permission of the Bing and Windson cherries, and was the McNary proposal, similar with its members of the proposed farm board Ehipped by the Brigham City Fruit- equalization fee feature to the Haugen measure rejected by the house, was representing land bank districts pro- growers' association. ducing more than 50 per cent of the leaders pointing out that the forecast Salt Lake City. An announcement senate, even should crop as figured on the basis of the the McNary proby the Federal Intermediate Credit visions meet defeat, might give its last previous census. bank advising the reduction of interto the cooperative marketing est rates, which will lower interest approval Harbors Bill and Farm Aid Close sections. The defeat of the charges on advances on wool, will Washington. British-Rusmovement, more or less official on the lower all advance made by the Utah Break Averted Marketing Association on wool part of the leaders for congress to Wool Great London. Britain will not 54 per cent, according to Jamea adjourn June 30 Is due to new develop- to with Russia. This decision, break A. Utah of the Hooper, secretary ments about two bills farm relief and which was arrived at by the cabinet rivers and harbors. The continuous Woolgrowers' association, Tuesday. after a battle that almost led to a seras to Lake for when Salt perCity. Application uncertainty adjournment ies of resignations, was announced in will occur is due to the same cause. mission to abandon its mixed train the house of commons by Sir William As to the farm relief bill, the best schedule between Utah Railway Junc, home It recent Judgment Is that It has not se- tion and the Hiawatha mine in Car- was received with loud secretary. by cured enough supporters in the senate bon conuty and between Jacobs and the Laborltes and cries cheering of dissent to pass it. The motive of the new re- Standardville was filed with the Pub- from the section of the Tory cruits Is partly the wish of individual lic Utilities commission by the Utah party, who have been the senators to go on record for the sake Railway company. The company sets government to "throw pressing rascals the a forth fact has the been that there if the impression of their farm out" ever since It became known that In the common Judgment, big shrinkage in the passenger traf- Russian money was being sent to Enghowever, the larger motive Is to cause fic on the road and that receipts from land to support the coal strike. Tbe source have this from $9, to dropped embarrassment the administration battle In the cabinet, which has been 024.42 in 1922 to $3,160.36 In 1925, and and to the Republican leaders respongoing on for several days, reached sible for legislation. The phrase, "Put to $429.11 in the first three months a climax Thursday night. Lord Birkthe administration it a hole," is heard of 1926. enhead, Winston Churchill and Sir with increasing frequency. This moMonticello. State II. J. William led the element, tive is ascribed not only to Democrats Nlelson, who has the Engineer while Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin work of surveyand Insurgent Republicans, but also ing the federal aid road fsom was supported by a majority in his to some Republican senators and to the state line, reports that the policy of Inaction In regard to the others highly placed who are supposed center survey line is completed a dis- Russians relations. to be most orthodox in the regular Retance of twelve miles. Which brings publicanism. If the senate passes the it from the end of project No. 7 to the Borah Against McNary Bill fann relief bill, the house must do state line. Mr. Nlelson With leaders prodWashington. omething about it. Ordinarily the reports the route inexpensive, except senators to speed up their arguhouse would decline to pass the bill, about four miles which runs through ding ments so a vote on farm legislation because It has already debated It in heavy timber. be taken before the end of tbe may a form no more acceptable than it Is Salt Lake City. In spite of the need week, debate on the McNary bill renow and has rejected it by a vote of volved Thursday mainly around exof rain in most localities throughout "12 to 167. But If the house declines changes between two senators from state the are the to be crops reported to do anything, then adjournment will the west and two from the in excellent condition to according provide the country with the spectacle Borah, Republican, Idaho, anof farm relief passed by the senate, Frank Andrews, federal agricultural nounced his opposition to the bill, acreThe statistician. wheat winter but left In the house. at 149,999 acres while Senator Johnson, Republican, age Is estimated California, endorsed It as economically from bushels are exwhich $2,731,000 Quake Recorded at Georgetown Senator Randsell, Democrat be to The harvested. pected acreage A "very sharp" earthWashington. Louisiana, opposing the measure, took Is E000 acres larger this year nuake was recorded early Monday on Issue with Senator Caraway, Democrat the Georgetown university selsmo-- ' Ogden. Receipts In the sheep diviof Arkansas, who argued for It. Late Union was sion at which the Ogden stockyards In the day when It appeared a vote graph. The disturbance, placed by Director Tondorff at 1700 Monday passed the 60. 000 mark for was Imminent. Senator Willis, Repubmiles northwest of here, started at the month to date, which presages an lican, Ohio, took the flor and 2:0S a.m. and lasted for two hours unusually heavy traffic in spring the house cooperative market$250,-000,00- From Lac Bain to Pierrot's cabin the trail cut within half a mile of the beaver pond, a dozen miles from where Pierrot lived; and it was here, on a twist of the creek In which Wakayoo had caught fish for Baree, that Bush McTaggart made his camp for the night Only twenty miles of the Journey could be made by canoe, and as McTaggart was traveling the last stretch afoot, his camp was a simple affair a few cut balsams, a light blanket a small fire. Before he prepared his supper the Factor drew a number of copper-wir- e snares from his small pack and spent half an hour in setting them In rabbit runways. This method of securing meat was far less arduous than carrying a gun in hot weather, and It was certain. Half a dozen snares were good for at least three rabbits, and one of these three was sure to be young and tender After he enough for the frying-pan- . had placed his snares McTaggart set a skillet of bacon over the coals and boiled his coffee. Of ail the odors of a camp, the smell of bacon reaches farthest in the forest. It needs no wind. It drifts on Its own wings. On a still night a fox will sniff It a mile away twice that far if the air is moving in the right direction. It was this smell of bacon that came to Baree where he lay in his hollow on top of the beaver Blood Analysis Helps Doctor in Diagnosis HOSE JUNE 26 one-vot- e d (TO BS CONTIN'l'ED.) CONGRESS MAY Privilege fe IN FARM BILL PROPONENTS OF McNARY BILL HOPE TO WIN VICTORY BY ONE VOTE south-Senat- or ' j ever-growin- y CHANGES propo- sition : he would marry Nepeese. Yes, even that He had told Pierrot so. He had told Pierrot that when the latter was his father-in-law- , he would pay him double price for furs. And Pierrot had stared had stared with that strange, stunned look In his face, like a man dazed by a blow from a club. And so if he did not get Nepeese without trouble It would all be Pierrot's fault Tomorrow McTag's gart would start again for the country. And the next day Pierrot would have an answer for him. Bush McTaggart chuckled again when he went to bed. Until the next to the. last day Pierrot said nothing to Nepeese about what had passed between him and the Factor at Lac Bain. Then he told her. "He is a beast a he said, when he had finished. "I would rather see you out there with her dead." And he pointed to the tall spruce under which the princess mother lay. Nepeese had not uttered a sound. But her eyes had grown bigger and darker, and there was a flush In her cheeks which Pierrot had never seen there before. She stood up when he had done, and she seemed taller to him. Never had she looked quite so much like a woman, and Pierrot's eyes were with fear and uneasiness as he watched her while she gazed off into the northwest toward Lac Bain, She was wonderful, this slip of a Her beauty troubled him. He had seen the look In Bush He had heard the eyes. thrill in McTaggart's voice. He had caught the desire of a beast In McTaggart's face. It had frightened him at first. But now he was not frightened. He was uneasy, but his hands were clenched. In his heart there was a smoldering fire. At last Nepeese turned and came and sat down beside hint again, at his feet "He is coming tomorrow, ma cherie," he sa'.a. "What shall I tell him?" The Willow's lips were red. Her eyes shone. But she did not look up at her father. "Nothing, Nootawe except that you are to say to him that I am the one to whom he must come for what he seeks." Pierrot bent over and caught her smiling. The sun went down. His heart sank with It like cold lead. man-devil- Friday, June 25, 1926 NETfHI, UTAH S, iJ and a half, reaching maximum intensity at 2:22. Missing Yacht Llmpts Into Port Chicago. Its rigging torn away by (he w ind and Its mainmast and boom Mildred II. the yacht splintered, sought since Sunday right by all of the coast guard stations south of Mil waukee drifted Into Grand Haven. Mich., with its crew of four safe but worn out with their struggle with the rh'monts. First reports that the boat was In distress were received at Gary, lid., when a steamship captain reported the boat had been towed by his ship until they had to abandon It. lambs. In the opinion of L. F. Whit lock, general manager. Ogden. The city board of education has authorized the construction of a new school building to cost . $70.0110, the first unit of what will eventually be a large structure. It will have eight classrooms, with a combination auditorium and gymnasium. It will be erected on Tark avenue, between Twenty-sixtand Twenty seventh streets. Price. Two more carloads of wool were shipped out of Price this week the Jeremiah-Williacompany of Boston. Mass. This wool was contracted early in the season. ing bill, to which the McNary proposal Is attached as a rider. Emergency Dam Holding Its Own Caleilco, Cal. The emergency dam built acres-- ! the Bcij river channel to keep th flood waters of fh" Colorado river from reaching the volcano laku basin, where it ml;Iif endanger thn Imperial valley, has accomplished Its purpose. J C. Allison, rancher and The torrent whiih Is pouring lhroi;rh the half mile break on the FaicaoVro levee showed a slight revision, despite the fact that the Colorado rirrr at Yuma showed an In creaso of flood waters. |