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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYPON. UTAH The Settling of the Sage S ' jf Ready to Fly From the Lexington War birds ready to take wing an interesting view of a squadron of torpedo bombing planes on the flying deck ef the U. 8. 8. Lexington, giant aircraft carrier. The deck la 800 feet long, but the planes take off in a very' short distance. An unusual photograph because heretofore the government baa not allowed any closeup shots to b made on the deck oi the Lexington. By HAL G. EVARTS CHAPTER I. Copyright by Hal A rider Jogged northward along rhs road on a big pinto horse, a led buckbeskin, packed, trailing a hind. A ranch road branched off to tiie left and the man pulled up hi horse to view a sign that stood at the forks. "Squatter, dont let the sun go down on you," he read. Thats the third one of those reminders. Calico. he told the horse. "The wording a little dif ferent but the sentiment all the same. 1'ifty yards off the trail t tie charred and blackened fragments of a wagon showed in shurp contrast to the bleached white bones of two horses They downed his team and torched his worldy goods. the rider said. "All his hopes gone up In smoke. . lie turned iu his saddle Mid looked loft across the unending expanse ot sage. Coldriver probably so named from the fact that the three wells In the town constituted the ouly source of water within un hours ride lay thirty miles to the south, a cluslei of some forty huildiags nestling on hulf-lengt- b t Hat. Seventy miles he a yond It, and with hnt two more such centers of civilization between, the railroad stretched across the rolling wind-swep- O, Evart WNU Service man took one more look at the evidence left behind to prove that the sign was no empty threat before along the left heading the paint-horshand fork. lie noted that the range cows along his route were poor and lean, their hip bones showing lumpily through sagging skin, giving them the appearance of milkers rather than beef stock. The preceding summer had been hot and dry, browning the range six weeks before Its time, and the stock had gone into the winter in poor shape. Heavy snowfalls had completed the havoc and 10 per cent of the range stock had been winter-killeThose tbnt had pulled through were slow In putting on weight and recovering their strength. A big red steer stood broadside to him, the Three Bar brand looming on Its side, and the man once more pulled up ids horse and lost himself in retrospection as be gazed at the brand. "The old Tiiree Bar, Calico. he reThe old home marked to the horse. brand. It's been man? a moon since last 1 laid an eye on a Three Bar four-foote- site-stoc- e cow." The man was gazing directly at the si eei hut he no longer saw it. Instead he was picturing Jhe old time scenes that the sight of the brand recalled. Step by step he Visioned the long trail of the Three Bar cows from I lodge City to the Platte, from the hills Plane to the rolling sage-daround old Fort l.aramie and from 1. a ramie to the present range llis mind pictured two boy- - oi some where round eighteen years of age setting forth from the little home town of Kansas City, nestling at the con ilucnce of the Missouri and the Kaw. A year later Cal Warren was whack lag hulls on the Santa Fe trail while the ether. William Harris, was holding the reins over four plunging horses a.- - he tooled a lumbering Concord stage over the trail from Omaha to the little camp called Denver. It was Hve years before their trails crossed again. Cul Warren was the t'.rst of the two to wed. and he had established post along the trail, a i ambling structure of 'dohe, poles and sod. and there conuucted the business flTwo fi One." calling impossible and unknown in any other than that flay and p'.ace The long h'lil trains were in sight from horizon to horizon every hour ot the day. The grind ot the gravel wore down the hoofs of the unshod oxen, and wlieD footsore they could not go on. One sound bull for two with tender feet was Warrens rule of trade. These crippled ones were soon laaile sound in the puddle pea. a sod corral Hooded with' sufficient water to pmhlle the yellow clay Into a six Inch layer of stiff, healing mud. then brown out on the open range to fatten and grow strong. But transitions were swift and sweeping. Steel rails were crowding close behind the prairie si liiMiners and the ox bows. Bull trains crew revet every year and eventually Cal Warden mude his last trade of -- 6P1 Y ' i i r as - :$ ntniiM 1 ox-bo- iL Fine Memorial Abbey Planned for Toledo, Ohio ; high-colore- d The Vanguard of Each New Rush of 8ettlers. d To Lead Gucknell r d e numbers that be feared an unhealthy congestion of humanity in the near future. The debate of farming versus cows was resumed between the two, but each held doggedly to his own particular views and the longed-fo- r partnership was again postponed. Harris moved once more and then again and it was something over two decades after his departure from Dodge with the Three Bar cows that he made one Anal shift, faring on In search of that land where n esters were unknown. He made a dry march that cost him a fourth of bis cows, skirted the Colorado desert and made bis stand under the first rim of the hills. Those others who came to share this range were men whose views were Identical with his own, whose watchword was: "Our cows shall run free on a thousand hills." They sought for a spot where the range was untouched by the plow and the water boles unfenced. They had moved, then moved, again, driven on before the invasion of the settlers. These men banded together and swore that here conditions should be reversed, that It waa the squatter who should move, and on this principle they grimly rested. Cal Warren had been the vanguard of each new rush of settlers that had pushed Bill Harris on to another range, and the cowman had come to see the hand of fate In this persistWhen ence. the Warreto family found him again and halted their white-toppe- d wagon before his door. Bill Harris gave It up. "Ive come to see about getting that partnership fixed up. Bill," Warren greeted. You know the one we talked over In Dodge a while ago, about our going in together wheD either of us changed his mind. Well, Ive changed mine. Ive come to see that running cows Is a good game. Bill, so let's fix it up. I've changed my mind. two for one. Thai was twenty, years ago. Cal, Bill Harris had come back to view said. "But it still holds good Harris be which beard of had railroad die much and he remained to witness only I've changed my mind, too. Yon and to he a part of the wild days ot was dead right from the first. Squat ters will come to roost on every foot Abilene. Hays himI Dodge, as each attained the upex of Its glory as the of ground and there'll come a da when I'll have to turn squatter my railroad's end and the consequent des I nut ion of the Texas trail herds The self so I might as well start now The way to get used r crowds. Cal sight ot these droves ot thousands Is to go where the crowds are at I'm to run cows a desire ilm implanted sell and when he was wed In Dodge headed back for Kansas and you better .o his boy in- - tin milled this project eonie along. Well get that partnerlioml pal. ship fixed up." A single child had come to bless It was the sincere wish of each to gain the other us a partner In all fu each union In the pure.its' late middle ture enterprise, hut this was not to age. The Harris heir, a boy of eight, be Warreu had see- - the bottom drop hud been named Calvin in honor of his Ernest Woet tier of Caldwell, N. J.. has liecii elected to lead the Bin ktiell university football team next season Inis played football for Buck in II ilnve years, beginning tils grid m n i a reel by winning a tnekle eleven is twenty two years old, six le:-one itiih tall and weighs Bio Sixteen foot Ita II players were oiuds awarded the major It" All of them joe expeeleil to return next fall witll jhe except Ion ot tour This will give Be Knell a strong team. father's friend. Cal Warren bad as nearly returned tiie compliment as circumstances would permit, and his daughter bore the name of Wiiliamette Ann for both father and mother of the boy who was his namesake, and Warren styled her Billie for rlifrt Each uiau was as stubbornly set In his new views as h. had been In the old. Tiie Harrises came ln-posses sion of the Warrens prairie schooner uDd drove off to the east. The War reng took over the Three Bar ranch and the little Wiiliamette Anr slept in the tiny hunk built for the son of the Harris household. For a space of minutes these old pictures occupied the mind of the man on tiie pinto horse. Distant strings f prairie schooners and faded from his mind's eye and he was once more conscious of the red steei with the l'hree Bar brand that had stirred up the train of reflections. He turned for another glimpse of the distant sign as he headed the paint-hors- e along t. e road. All that was quite a spell back. Old Bill Harris Calico," he said. planted the first one of those signs, and It served a good purpose then. Its a sign that stands for lack ot progress today. Times change, and its been eighteen years or so since old Bill Hurris left." The road traversed the French, angled down a side hill to a valley somewhat more than a mile across. Calico pricked up his ears sharply toward the Three Bar buildings that stood at the upper end of It. Curious eyes peered from the hunk house as he neared It, for the paint-horsand the buckskin were not without fame even If the man himself were a stranger to them all. For the better part of a year the two horses had been seen on the range-so- uth to the railroad, west to the Idaho line. The man had kept to himself and when seen by approaching riders he had always been angling on a course that would miss their own. Those who had, out of curiosity, deliberately rid den out to Intercept him reported that be seemed a decent sort of citizen, willing to converse on any known topics except those concerning himself. He dropped from the saddle before the bunk house and as he stood Id the door he noted half a dozen men lounging on the hunks. This indolence apprised him of the fact that they were extra men signed on for the summer season and that their pay had not yet started, for the cowhand, when on the pay roll, works sixteen hours daily and when he rests ot frolics it is except In rare instances, on hiu own time and at his own expense. A tall, leaD Individual, who sat d on a bunk, engaged in mending a spur strap, was tiie first to answer his inquiry for the foreman n "Billie Warren is t he big of the Three Bar, he informed "Youll likely find the boss at the blacksmith shop." The lanky one grinned as the Stranger turned back through tiie lit tei of log outbuildings, guided by the hissing squeak of bellows and the clang of a suedge on hot iron Sevto the windows eral men pressed ch-sIr anticipation of viewing the new comer's surprise at greeting the Three Bar boss. But the man did not seem emerged surprised when a young girl from the open door of the -- hop as he neared 1L She was clad In a gray flannel skirt and black angora chaps. The heavy brown hair was concealed bo'enth the broad hat that was- - pulled low over her eyes after the fashion of those who live much In the open The man reqioved Ills hnt and stood before her. he Inquired The Miss Warren? girt nodded and waited fot him to state his purpose. What are the chances of my rid tng for the Three Bar? tie asked. "We're full handed. said the glrj I'm sorry." Youll be breaking out the retmtda I'm right soor m w. tie suggested real hundy round a breaking corral." Theyre all handy at that. she said. Then she noted the two horses before the bunk house anti frowned Her eyes searched the stranger's face and found no fault with It: site liked But site wondered his level gaze. what manner ot mar, this was who had so aimlessly wandpred alone for a yenr and avoided all other men. "Since youve finally decided to work, how does It happen that you choose the Three Bur?" site asked then flushed under his eyes as she re membnred that so many .m-hgd wished to ride for her brand more than for another, their reasons In each case the same. three-year-ol- out of the hull trade and he would not relinquish the suspicion that any business dealing in stock was hazardous In t lie extreme and he insisted that the solution of all their financial problems rested upon owning land, not cows. Harris could not be induced to farm the soil while steers were selling round eight dollars a head. Warren squatted on a quarter ot land. Harris bought a few head ot and grazed his cows north and west across the Kansas line Into the edge of the great unknown that was styled Nebraska and Northwest district. At first Ids range was limit less, but In a few short years lie could stand on t tie roof of his sod hut and see the white points of light which were squatters wagons dotting the range to tiie far horizon In any direction he ctmse to look. The Hrst ot ttiese to invade his range had been Cal Warren, moving on before the swarm of settlers flocking Into t tie locality of his first choice In such alarming desolation. I L : The greatest number of racing norses registered In one year in Amer iea was In BHKj, when thorough bretls 'were enrolled on turf records. 1.4-St- Joe fiuyon. great Indian athlete and for years a player In the American association league, has been added to tiie coaching staff of tlemson college. El Quad, the North African runner, is said to shout words of encourage inetit to his opponents Still, he speaks French, and passes the opponents rapidly, so often the meaning la lost in The architect's drawing of the projected Memorial abbey at Toledo, Ohio. T. P. Barnett company. The edifice was designed by the New Soviet Idea in Architecture LINDYS FLIGHT cross-legge- (TO BE CONTINUED t And Only Then Once In s while you see a mat vvhi doesnt want any more motley He Is holding a illy. Buffalo News. Finns Invite Stars Influenced hv General Mae.Vrthurs report faoring International track competition iu non ( Hympic years, the Helslngin Klsa Yeikot ot Helsingfors, one of the largest athletic dubs In Finland, has extended an invitation to American athletes louring F.urope this sunimet to Include Finland in their travels for competition between the first of May and the last ot August. It was announced by Hie A A. U through the monthly bulletin. If, Is thought the Americans will accept Thle piece of statuary Iu bronze. Just completed by Frank Vittor of Pittsburgh, Pa., is designed to Immortalize Lindberghs transatlantic flight and will be placed either on Mlneola field, In New York, or at Le Bourget, France. It depicts a winged figure with the helmet of aa aviator supported by a cloud which springs from a miniature of Bartlioidys "Liberty," while one tip of tiie figure's wing extends across tiie ocean to touch the Eiffel tower in Paris. li Tills extraordinary julldlng was erected recently In DmUrowsk, Soviet a club for the brotherhood of railway employees. The windows and other parts of the design represent the horizontal lines of railway tracks. P.ussia, as Flowers That Resemble Stones TRAINING FOR FIGHT Arinand Emanuel, Jewish heavyweight battler, rowing a boat at West-lakpark at Log Angeles, in preparation for his bout witli Tommy Lough-ranworld's champ. e Here are specimens of mesembryantliemum marmorata" one ot tiie W varieties of mesembryantliemum discovered In Africa by the Belgian horticulturist, Professor I)e I.aet. Before blooming, this curious plant, growing among stones on tiie desert, looks like a stone. Once a year the hard shell breaks and beautiful flowers some crimson, others white, or yellow, or pi uk appear. , Aloy siiis Can Climb Trees d The Coif Problem Governor Graves of Alabama was talking In Montgomery about a labor contest Both sides are hopelessly in the wrong," he said. "To arbitrate between them well, that would he us difficult as tiie golf problem. Black and Wiiite were playing golf. Their scores were even when they neared the last green. Then Black lost his bull, mid White played on alone. "Found her! Black yelled aft'r n hit and tie played on and won t and the game. "Problem: Wlmt should White do : knowing that he has l.laeks lost ,.i i iu his pocket? t.nh ot the Ivory coast of Africa. lie came to Washington In a tin can, the on an ocean vessel. Elsinger captive of Alfred Eislnger, chief radio operator Aioyslus over to Dr. William M. Mann, superintendent of the Notional i wiio said tiie scientific name of the creature la perloighulmus.' i This pei idiar Hsh is tiie first of his kind aver brought to America. 1 1! . |