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Show THE PAGE TWO SOS OF KAZAN JAMES OLIVER CURVOOD. WNU Srvlo Chapter XV Continued 25 The wolves were silent now. Carvel what that meant, and he was tensely alert. In the stillness the click of the safety on his rifle sounded with metallic sharpness. For many minutes they heard nothing but the crack of the fire. Suddenly Baree's muscles teemed to snap. He sprang back, and faced the quarter behind Carvel, his head level with his shoulders, his Inch-lon- g fangs gleaming as he snarled Into the black caverns of the forest beyond the rim of firelight Carvel had turned like a shot. It was almost frightening what he saw. A pair of eyes burning with greenish fire, and then another pair, and after that so many of them that he could not have counted them. He gave a sudden gasp. They were like only much larger. Some of them, catching the firelight fully, were red as coals, others flashed blue and green living things without bodies. With a swift glance he took In the black circle of the forest. They were out there, too ; they were on all sides of them, but where he had seen them first they were thickest. In these first few seconds he had forgotten Baree, awed almost to stupefaction by that monster-eyecordon of death that hemmed them In. There were fifty perhaps a hundred wolves out there, afraid of nothing In all this savage world but fire. They had come up without the Bound of a padded foot or a broken nd they twig. If It had been later, had been asleep, and the fire out He shuddered, and for a moment the thought got the better of his nerves. He had not Intended to shoot except from necessity, but all at once his rifle came to his shoulder and he sent a stream of fire out where the eyes were thickest. JSuree knew what the shots meant, and filled with the mad desire to get ut the throat of one t his enemies he dashed in their direction. Carvel gave a startled yell ns he went. He saw the flash of Baree's body, saw It swallowed up In the gloom, and In that same Instant heard the deadly clash of fangs and the Impact of bodies. A wild thrill idiot through him. The dog had charged alone and the wolves had waited. There could be but one end. His comrade had gone straight Into the Jaws of death I He could hear the ravening snap of those jaws out In the darkness. It was sickening. His hand went to the Colt .45 at his belt, and he thrust his empty rifle butt downward Into the enow. With the big automatic before Ms eyes he plunged out Into the dark-cesand from his lips there Issued a wild yelling that could have been heard n mile away. With the jelling a steady stream of fire spat from the Colt Into the mass of fighting beasts. There were eight shots In the automatic, and not until the plunger clicked with metallic emptiness did Carvel cease his yelling and retreat Into the firelight. He listened, breathing deeply. He no longer saw eyes In the darkness, nor did he hear the Movement of bodies. The suddenness and ferocity of his attack had driven back the wolf horde. But the dog! He caught bis breath, and strained his eyes. A shadow was dragging Itself into the circle of light. It was Baree. Carvel ran to him, put bis arms un-iI. is shoulders, and brought him to knew cat-eye- d four-foote- - r .i lung time after that there was a questioning light In Carvel's eyes. adi-Hihis guns, put fresh fuel the fire, and from his park dug out Mrips i f doth with which he bandagi-t'ui- or four of the deepest ruts In I'iiec's legs. And n dozen times he t ' i I. in a wondering sort of way. Now what the deuce made ymi do t,at. old chap? What have you got the wolves?" AM that night he did not sleep, but V niched. 1 i - - Their experience with the wolves l,ro!,e down the last bit of uncertainty thai might have existed Lew ecu the loan and the dog. For days after that, as they traveled shinty north and west. Carvel nursed Haree as he might l,ave cared for a sick child. Itecause of the dog's hurts, he made only n few tulles a day. Baree understood, tmd In him there grew stronger and stronger a great love for the man vhose hands were as gentle as the Willow's and whose voice wanned him with the thrill of nn Immeasurable comradeship. He no longer feared him or had a suspicion of him. It was the wanderer's Intention to swing over Into the country of the (Jrent Slave, a good eight hundred miles to the north and west, before came. the niilsh-snowFrom there, when the waters opened in springtime, fie planned t travel by canoe westward to the Mackenzie ati'l ultimately to the mountain" of British Columltln. The"" plans were change-- In I'cl.ru-ir- r They vi ere cauglil in n great n snow-covere- d heart-thrillin- g A Steady Stream of Fire Spat From Colt Into the Mass of Fighting Beasts. the and of Nepeese. In his sleep he saw visions of things. He heard again the low, sweet voice of the Willow, felt the touch of her hand, was at play with her once more In the dark shades of the forest and Carvel would sit and watch him as he dreamed, trying to read the meaning of what he saw and heard. In April Carvel shouldered his furs up to the Hudson's Bay company's post at Lac la Blche, which was still farther north. Baree accompanied him halfway, and then at sundown Carvel returned to the cabin and found him there. He was so overjoyed that he caught the dog's head In his arms and hugged It. They lived In the cabin until May. The buds were swelling then, and the smell of growing things had begun to rise up out of the earth. Then Carvel found the first of the early Blue Flowers. That night he packed up. "It's time to travel," be announced to Baree. "And I've sort of changed my mind. We're going back there." And lie pointed south. pool Chapter XVI A strange humor possessed Carvel as lie began the southward journey. He did not believe in omens, gnmi or bad. Superstition had played a small part In his life, but he possessed both curiosity and a love for adventure, and bis years of lonely wandering had developed In hlin n wonderfully clear mcnt.-i- l vision of things, which In other words might tie called sincularly active Imagination. He knew that some irresistible force was drawing Baree back Into the south that It was pulling lilin not only along n given line of the compass, hut to an exact point In that line. For no reason In particular the situation began to Interest hltn more and more, and as his time was valueless, and he had no fixed destination In view, he lipgan to experiment. For the first two days he marked the dog's course by rumpus. It was due southeast. On the third morning Cht-ve- l pur.osely struck a course straight wet. He noted quickly the change his restlessness at first, and In Baree after that the dejected manner in which he followed at his heels. Toward noun Carvel swung sharply to the south and east again, and almost Friday, October 8, 1926 NEPHI, UTAH S. Immediately Baree regained his old eagerness, and ran ahead of hi master. After this, for many days. Carvel followed the trail of the dog. s'Mebby I'm an Idiot, old chap," he apologized one evening. "But It's bit of fun, after all an' I've got to hit the line of rail before I can get over to the mountains, so what's the difference? I'm game so long as you don't take me back to that chap at Lac Bain. Now what the devil Are you to get even? hitting for his trap-lin- e If that's the case " He blew out a cloud of smoke from his pipe as he eyed Baree, and Baree, with his head between his forepaws, eyed him back. A week later Baree answered Carvel's question by swinging westward to give a wide berth to Post Lac Bain. It was when they crossed the trail along which Bush McTaggart's traps and deadfalls had been set Baree did not even pause. He headed due south, traveling so fast that at times he was lost to Carvel's sight. A suppressed but Intense excitement possessed him, and he whined whenever Carvel stopped to rest always with his nose sniffing the wind out of the south. Springtime, the flowers, the earth turning green, the singing of birds, and the sweet breaths In the air were bringing him back to that great Yesterday when he had belonged to Nepeese. In his unreasoning mind there existed no longer a winter. The long months of cold and hunger were gone ; In the new vlslon-ing- s that filled his brain they were forgotten. The birds and flowers and the blue skies had come back, and with them the Willow must surely have returned, and she was waiting for him now, just over there beyond that rim of green forest. Something greater than mere curiosity began to take possession of Carvel. A whimsical humor became a fixed and deeper thought, an unreasoning anticipation that was accompanied by a certain thrill of subdued excitement. By the time they reached the old heaver-ponthe mystery of the strange adventure had a firm hold on him. From Beaver-tooth'- s colony Baree led him to the creek along which Wakayoo, the black bear, had fished, and thence straight to the "Gray Loon. It was early afternoon of a wonderful day. It was so still that the rippling waters of spring, singing In a thousand rills and streamlets, filled the forests with a droning music. In the warm sun the crimson bakneesh glowed like blood. In the open spaces the air was scented with the perfume of Blue Flowers. In th trees and bushes mated birds were building their nests. After the long sleep of winter Nature was at work in nil her glory. It was Unekepesim, the Mating Moon, the Home Building Moon and Baree was going home. Not to mate-hoobut to Nepeese. He knew that she was there now, perhaps at the very edge of the chasm where he had seen her last. They would be playing as they had together again sooi played yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, and In his joy he barked up Into Carvel's face, and urged him to greater speed. Then they came to the clearing, and once more Baree stook like a rock. Carvel saw the charred ruins of the burned cabin, and a moment later the two graves under the tall spruce. He began to understand as his eyes returned slowly to the waiting, listening dog. A great swelling rose In his throat, and after a moment or two he said softly, and with an effort, "Boy, I guess you're home." Baree did not hear. "With his head up and his nose tilted to the blue sky he was sniffing the air. What was It that came to him with the perfumes of the forests and the green meadow? Why was It that he trembled now as he stood there? What there In the air? Carvel asked himself, and his questing eyes tried to answer the questions. Nothing. There was death death and desertion, that was all. And then, all at once, there came from Baree a strange cry almost a human cry and he was gone like the wind. Carvel had thrown off his pack. He dropped his rifle beside It now, and He ran swiftly, followed Baree. straight across the open. Into the dwnrf balsams, and Into a grass-growpath that had once been worn by the travel of feet. He ran until he was panting for breath, and then stopped and listened. He could Bear nothing of Baree. But that old worn trail led on under the forest trees, and he followed It. FLOODS SWEEP News Notes It' a Privilege to Live Utah RAINS CAUSE IMMENSE PROPERTY LOSS; THOUSANDS MADE HOMELESS 1 Legionnaires Active, Using Boats for Rescue; Vandalism Prevented; More Than Twelve Inches of Rain Reported Kansas City, Mo. Immense property damage was threatened by floods which were bursting Sunday from more than a score of rivers and creeks In southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, but little danger of life was seen, as the residents of the stricken areas had received ample warning. Two lives had been claimed by the waters in Oklahoma and thousands of acres in the rich bottom lands of both The states had been destroyed. streams, fed by sluicing downpours on most of the watersheds of the districts, were creeping into home on the outskirts of the towns and villages in the district, and thousands were already homeless. The region afflicted, a broad, watershed draining into the Arkansas and Canadian rivers, has been drenched all week with torrential rains which in some localities totaled more than twelve inches. At several towns as much as eight and nine inches fell at one time. The first crest of the floods caused by thess rains seems now to be passing through northwestern Oklahoma, but continued rains in Kansas have kept the streams in the northern part of and the fresh the watershed bank-full- , torrents that have fallen in the last hours are now backing twenty-fou- r up from the earlier freshets and approaching in some sections the high water marks set in the disastrous flood of 1923. Tire cities in the region are just recovering from a flood in the same streams three weeks ago that did millions of dollars' damage to property and crops. d . d TERRIFIC STORM SWEEPS CAN' TON RIVER ESTUARY; SHIPPING FEELS LOSS Ephraim In a Are which broke out in the Ephraim pavilion at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and did damage estimated at $8500 the business center of the town was seriously menaced until the work of firemen brought the blaze under control. Salt Lake Range conditions in southern Montana, Idaho and Utah are only fair, due to the lack of moisture. George A. Scott, federal livestock statistician annunoced on his return Monday. The hay crop in most sections was good, white the cattle and sheep are reported to be fair. Monticello Monticello and vicinity have benefited from recent rains, in some places the best in more than two years. There is a heavy sprinkling of snow on the Blue mountains west of Monticello. Previous to the rain the ranges were the driest they had been for several years. Springs have dried up this year that never have been known to be dry before. The cattle and sheep men had begun to worry lest they would be compelled to send their stock out of the county because of the shortage of water. Ephraim Forest Ranger Anderson reports that a heavy snowstorm visited the Manti forest on the evening of September 29, and that six to eight inches of snow fell at the higher elevations. n Ogden Cattle receipts at the Union stockyards reached the peak for the fall campaign with a heavy run also in sheep and hogs. The cattle receipts were 3408, with sheep receipts reaching 20,554 and hogs Only Foreign Casualty Known; Dutch Resident of Hongkong; Few Are Saved; Loss May Reach 2,000 Hongkong Two thousand Chinese fisherman are believed to have perished in a typhoon which raged though-ou- t Monday. More than 100 junks, which were engaged in fishing in the Canton river estuary and off the coast have not made port, and are believed to have been wrecked or sunk. The only known foreign casualty was the drowning of a Dutch resident of Hongkong, who was blown into the water and drowned. Shipping at Hongkonk, a British colony, and at Macao, a Portugese settlement, was badly battered by rough seas, but the wind did comparatively little damage to the cities. Ships at docks made fast with additional lines and those anchored in exposed places were towed to safety. Thirty-fivnative fisherman clinging to wreckage were rescued by the crew of the British steamer Hydrangea, when lifeboats were driven through plunging seas to their rescue. Hongkong and Macao frequently have been damaged by typhoons. Located on opposite sides of the Canton river estuary, they are exposed to high winds. They are forty miles apart. Many lives were lost in Macao in 1923 when the city was badly damaged by three typhoons. Hongkong suffered severely, with considerable loss of life. The whole south China coast is subject to devasting storms. The hurricane of August, 1922, was said to have killed 60,000 Chinese at Swatow. e Og-de- 22G2. Salt Lake The board of directors of the Utah state fair find themselves confronted with the difficult, though perhaps pleasing, task of building for ext the future. With the hibitions entering the last half Wednesday- the board members are noting forty-eigh- places where expansions must be provided between now and the openshowing ing date for the forty-nintnext fall. Salt Lake Damage estimated at Guilt Speech Stirs France $50,000 was caused Tuesday night by Paris French governmental circles a fire which, for a time, threatened the are stirred over the speech of the Ger- destruction of the three-storwareman foreign minister, Dr. Stresemann, house and elevator of the Western at Cologne Saturday, in which he re- Seed Marketing company at 130 South ferred to the recnt "war guilt" Fourth West street. Fast and efficient speeches of Premier Poincaire, char- work by the fire department confined acterizing them as jarring notes in the the flames to the roof, the third floor machinery, in insist of the Thoiry conversations, and and the saying that Germany was ready to which the blaze started. Most of the submit to any impartial tribunal damage was sustained by the machincharged with investigating the origins ery and by the bagged alfalfa seed, of the "World War. A semiofficial note some of which was wet by water which issued states that M. Poincaire's St. twenty lines of hose poured into the Germain and BaLe-Duspeeches last building. Sunday and Monday, respectively, Sandy In an effort to recoup losses were an expression of the opinion ot occasioned this season by the beet the entire French government. crop failure, farmers of Sandy have completed arrangements for feeding Mighty Crowd at Sesque Mass lambs, according to Information from More than a quarter the Philadelphia Sandy City bank. This is the first of a million Catholics participated in season that feeding has been carried a solemn pontifical mass of thanksout on a large scale on this side of the inde150 of American for years giving valley. pendence at the sequicentennial stadBrigham City Under the direction ium Sunday. Preceding the mass, which was celebrated by Cardinal of District Engineer K. C. Wright of the state road commission, work beDaugherty, aproximately 50,000 Catholic men marched down Broad street gan Tuesday in widening and grading from the center of the city to the stad- the state highway through Boxelder canyon. ium. The great hosts filled to overSalt Lake An analysis of Utah flowing the huge stadium. roads from a compilation of bureau of Troops Capture Mexican Bandit public roads and state statistics shows Mexico City The authorities an- the following divisions: Grand total nounce that federal troops have cap- mileage, 23,381.1 miles; unimproved tured and willed the leader of the and earth partially graded, 18,437.9; bandits who on Sunday last attacked' earth to establish grade and drained, a Mexico City automobile party on the 1989.6; total miles of surfaced road, highway midway between Mexico City 2953.6. A similar tabulation for Idaho and Pachuca. The authorities believe shows this proportion: Grand total that with federal troops patrolling the mileage, 34. 816. 3 miles; unimproved highways In the Mexico City region and earth partially graded. 11,217.9; and the prompt execution of the ban- earth to established grade and drained, dits who murdered Jacob Rosenthal of 12630; total miles of road surfaced, Wood mere. Long Island, N. Y., and 10,908.4. the leader of kist Sunday's gang, travel Myton During the past week at the now will be safe in the country surUintah Basin Seed Growers' associarounding the capital. tion plant 500 sacks of alfalfa seed hai been received, making a total of 10P.S Head Asks Warship Railway Friday evening. William Lowe, manthe that San Diego, United States navy headquarters on ager, estimates the crop to be handled at 1.000,000 the Pacific Coast he asked to send a by this organization vessel to Quaymas, on the west coast poumls. The plant of George Tingley of Mexico, to discover what damage & Sons is also filling up In a satisfactory manner. had been done to that city by hurri-c-iiiwas made by II. B. Titcomb. presSalt Lake Since the success of the ident of the Southern Pacific railway early pioneer projects 1n Irrigation, aglines in Mexico, in a message from his riculture has been one of the chief Inheadquarters at Tucson to San Diego dustries of Utah. The development of and Arizona railway headquarters i's possibilities has been a source of here. wonder to those who have made a study of rural life In the United States. Severe Earthquake Shock Is Recorded Tooele Seven thousand bushels of An earthquake which Washington continued more than four hours and sweet Valencia onions from F..eight M. Is a record claimed by had Its center about 4500 miles south-wen- t acres of Clark were The Grantsvllle. onions San-daof Washington was recorded rown on the J. Reuben Clark farm. on the seismographs at Georgetown university. The disturbance be- The onions are remarkable for their unusual size and for their uniformity. gan at 2:57 and was described by D- "There weren't any culls In this irector Tondorf of the observatory as patch," Mr. Clark said. "quite severe." Price Ira R. Browning, chief enginRussians Drop Old Glory and Hoist Red eer of the state road commission, Toklo A dispatch to the newspaper spent Sunday In Price completing arNlchl Nichl from Hakodate, Japan, rangements with Superintendent Cyril says the Hussion Fleet Asoclatlon's B. Cltiff of the government operated nil p, Stavropol, has arrived from star mall route, for the repair of the Wrangel Island, where Is removed the state's road equipment in the postoffiM American and British flags and raised garage. the red banner. Fifty Russian emiSalt Lake Snow on the mountains grants were placed on the Island after and much needed rain In the valleys It i thorough exploration by airplane. was found th-ivegetation was scarce, resulted from the storm which covered northern Utah and southern Idahe but there were a number of animals. Including bear and fox. Wednesday night. In Salt Iake there was a precipitation of .95 of an Inch. Th: area Is 2924 square miles. Farmers Driven Out By Floods Fort Smith, Ark. Threatened floods Thursday were driving farmers in the Arkansas and Poteau river bottoms to seek safety on higher levels with livestock and equipment. Recent rains iu the lowlands of Oklahoma drained by at Fort Smith have swollen both rivers the two streams which flow together and brought the Arkansas to, flood stage. Weather bureau officials In sending out warnings to inhabitants of the menaced area predicted a stage to twenty-fiv- e here of twenty-fou- r feet Friday morning. Flood stage is twenty-two feet. The flood will be of short duration bureau officials here believe, cud will confine itself to the territory from the mouth of the Neosha river near Fort Gibson, Okla., 150 miles west, to a point downstream fifty-fivmiles west of Fort Smith. h seed-liftin- g c n e Miner Ate his Corn-coPipe Ironwood, Mich. The forty-threminers who spent five and a half days imprisoned in Pabst mine here were refreshed Thursday after their rescue Wednesday night, and some of them received newspaper correspondents at a hospital here. Physical examinations are being mado to make sure that an immediate return to their normal life will not prove too great a strain. Clolhos were brought by their families to the hospital and when the physical examinations are completed the men will go home for the first time in six days. Three corn-co- b pipes were eaten by Florino Stolich, one of the entombed members. It was learned at the hospital. The pipes relieved the longing for tobacco. b e j Old Monarchical Idea t. The name "Divine Bight of Kings" that was pro- nmlgated In Kngland In the Seven- It asserted that teentli century. kings held their authority by divine appointment and were earthly repre- sentatlves of the Deity. This prlncl- pie relieved the sovereign of all re- sponslblllty toward his subjects, and gave him absolute claim to tbelr obe- dience. The chief defenders of this dogma were Salmaslus. Hohbes and Sir Ilobert Kilmer; while Milton, Al- gernon Sydney and Harrington were Its uncompromising opponents. The controversy died a natural death on the accession of the House of Han- over In the Bill of Itlghts (KIS'.i) the right of the people to depose the sov- erelgn. to alter the order of succes- slon, and to confer the sovereignty on whomsoever they may think prop- er Is distinctly set forth. Kansas City Star. Is given to a doctrine : ' i j ' y I Matter Sculptor Myron, i Applet Invade; Cafes Feeling Effect Chicago baked apples vl J5 cents each are flirting with a fall in price. The government bureau of agricultural economics reported Thursday that shipments of apples throughout the United States have increased 35 per cent in the last week, nnd are now of much larger volume Hum shipments of either potatoes or grapes. Bushel baskets of various kinds of apples are selling as low as 50 cents wholesale, with extra fancy boxes $1.25 and barreled apples at $2 per bushel. Serve-yoursel- -- Cal.--Bequ- est (TO IIB CONTINl'ID.) D TYPHOON IS LARGE y s the celebrated ;reek scnlp tor. who lived In the Fifth century, B. C., was noted for the ae,,n of his statues, mainly of athletes. He showed them as setua'lv i ii:."ij:ed In contest rnthcr than poking CHINES E f in a MIDDLE WEST d d s, tin- storm in the Wholdala Lake country, and when their fortunes looked darkest Carvel stumbled on a cabin In the heart of a deep spruce forest, and In this cabin there was a dead man. He had been dead for many days, and was frozen stiff. Carvel chopped a hole In the earth and buried him. The cabin was a treasure trove to Carvel and Baree, and especially to the man. It evidently possessed no other owner than the one who had died ; It was comfortable and stocked with provisions ; and more than that, its owner had made a splendid catch of fur before the frost bit his lungs, and be died. Carvel went over them carefully and joyously. They were worth a thousand dollars at any post, and he could see no reason why they did not belong to him now. Within a week he had blazed out the dead trap-lin- e man's and was trapping on his own account. This was two hundred miles north and west of the Gray Loon, and with each day that passed, the sun rose higher In the sky; It grew warmer; the snow softened under foot, and In the air was the tremulous and growing throb of spring. With these things came the old yearning to Baree; the call of the lonely graves hack on the Gray Loon, of the burned cabin, the abandoned tepee beyond the TIMES-NEW- J f Motorists Lose Through Theft York -- Motorists lost $00,000,-0'i- u last year through the theft of automobiles and the present situation la sn "open challenge 0n the part of tha underworld to the Insurance companies," Alfred Reeves, general manager of the national automobile chamVr of commerce. New Vera Cruz Storm Takes Six Lives Mexico Cily Official reports thus far state that six persons were killed Monday'i tornado which struck Cruz and Jalapa, but reports are trickling In Indicating that several villages In remote sections have suffered heavilv. In V-- ra Missionaries in no Real Danger Shaiifhni The situation of the foreign missionaries in the great Yangtze basin Is serious, but. there Is no immediate danger, according to telegraphed reporls to missionary headquarters here. Tbo condition, an outgrowth of recent feeling, is improving. Th missionaries of Cheng-ti nd vi inity, far In Ihfl Interior, are llvine tinder comparatively peaceful They number less than .V.it'iirig has been received from itantlate repo'tfl. anti-foreig- |