Show -- U— JeJ'sMV H£wtt V : ntfrg&P:: CHAS LAMMERSDORF — Pres HANS TUFT A V HUISII Cashier— DIRECTORS— Chas Lammcrsdorf liana Tuft W H Brown V Huish James Farrell gensen P C Scorup A THE First State BANK !MMMEIE Altaic or the plainsParrismIMdall cj)v Author South nW Lady Or Of‘My By A (Copyright C McClurg A Co Was King' PtAnnww 191(0 once Angels av Hiven If It isn't the same the ol' Giuerul was showln’ me In the parly” The other sat up suddenly her white shoulders and rounded throat gleaming "The old General you said? What General? When was he here?" "Shure now be alsy honey an' Ol’ll tell ye all there Is to It It’a not hts name 01 know maybe Ol nlver heard till av It but 'twas the 'Glneral' they called him all right He was here maybe three days outflttln' — a noice wld a gray beard spoken ol glntlemin an' onc’t he showed me the locket— be the (towers if It do be his there’s an openin' to It an' a picter Inside” The girl touched the spring revealing the fare within but her eyes were blinded with tears The landlady looked at her In alarm "What Is It honey? What Is It? Did you know hill!?” The slender form swayed forward shaken with sobs "He was my father and — and this Is tny mother's picture which he always SYNOPSIS Jack Keith a Virginian now a tier plainsman is riding along the Santa Ke trail on the lookout f or roaming war Ho notices a camp parties o( savages Are at a distance and then sees a team attached to a wagon and at full gallop pursued by men on ponies When Keith reaches the wagon the raiders have massacred two men and departed He seart lies the victims finding papers and a locket with a woman’s portrait He resolves to hunt down the murderers Keith Is arrested at Carson City charged with the murder Ins accuser being a luiliun named Black Bart He goes to jail fully realizA ing the peril of swift border lustice companion in his cell Is a negro who tells him lie is Neb and that lie knew the Keith family back in Vliginia Neb says one of t tie murdered men was John Sibley the other Gen Willis Waite an officer In the Confederate army The plainsmun and Neb escape from the cell and later the two fugitives become lost In the sand deseit They come upon a cabin and find Its Iona occupant to be a young girl whom Keith recognizes us a The gill singer he saw at Carson City explains that she came there in search of a brother who had deserted from the A Mr Hawley induced her to army come to the cabin while lie sought to cate her brother and Hawley appears Keith in hiding recognizes him as Black Bart Hawley tiles to make love to the In the girl There is a terrltlr bottle darkened room in whhh Keilh overcomes Black Bart Horses are appropriated and the girl who says that her name Is Hope Joins In the escape Keith explains his situation and the fugitives make tor Fori Lamed where the girl is left with the hotel landlady bor- CHAPTER t'V emergency r ' considerations Just now other He caused him to desire freedom bad been accused of murder Imprisoned for It and In order to escape had been compelled to steal horses the most heinous crime of the frontier Not only for his own protection and safety must the truth of that occurrence at the Clmmaron Crossing be made clear but be also had now a personal affair with "Black Bart" Hawsettled They ley to be permanently had already clashed twice and Keith Intended they should meet again was the of still In his girl Memory mind as he and Neb rode silently forth on the black prairie leading the extra horse behind him He endeavfrom his ored to drive the recollection mind so he might concentrate it upon planB for the future but somehow she wove her own personalimysteriously ty into those plans and he tfas ever seeing the pleading In her eyes and soft Southern accent the to listening Of late years he had of her voice to unaccustomed association been with women of high type and there was that touch of the gentlewo” about this girl which had deep interest Of course' “A J ' '" merely an Inherlo bef agt( an(j could not truly the present Christie However the music hrfls Marinating she might be she could not be worthy any serious considers of his In rough life the tlon spite social spirit of the old South was Implanted In his blood and no woman of that class could hold him captive Yet some way she refused to be banished Even Neb muBt have or left behind been obsessed by a similar spirit for he suddenly observed: “Dat am sutt’nly a mighty fine gal nothin’ to I ain’t seen Massa Jack compare wld her since I quit ol’ Virain’t” ginia — ’deed back at hla black Keith glanced satellite barely able to distinguish the fellow’s dim outlines' "You think her a lady then!" be questioned giving - thoughtless utter Four per cent interest paid on time deposits SAUSAGE Frek and Fine used to "Then what Is your name?" "Hope Waite" Kate Murphy looked at the face half hidden In the That was not the name which Keith had given her but she had lived on the border too long to be Inquisitive The other her lifted her head back flinging loosened hair'with one hand “Mr Keith dropped It" she exclaimed It?" Where do you supiose he got Then she gave a quirk startled cry her eyes opening wide In horror "The Clmmaron Crossing the murder at the Clmmaron Crossing! He — he told me about that but he never showed me this — this Do you— do you think—" Her voice failed but Kate Murphy ithered her into her arms "Cry here honey" she said as if to a child “Shure an' Oi’m tellln' ye It nlver was Jack Keith what did it— murther ain't his sojle" CHAPTER Across Its Face Was Plainly Written ance to his own Imagination voice “’Deed I does!” the thick "I somewhat reck’n Indignant knows de real quality when sees It I’sq ’soclated wld quality white folks befo’" "But fleb she’s a singer In dance halls” "Miss Christie Maclaire” tant grazing antelope but to the north extended more broken country with a faint glimmer of water between the bills Satisfied they were unobserved be slid back again into the depression As be turned- to lie down he took hold of the saddle belonging to Hawley’s In the unbuckled bolster horse his eye observed the glimmer of bit of white paper He drew It forth and It at It an was gazed unthinkingly envelope robbed of its contents evidently not sent through the mails as It had not been stamped but across Its face was plainly written “Miss He stared at It Christie Maclaire” his lips firm set his gray eyes darkIf he ening possessed any doubts before as to her Identity they were all thoroughly dissipated now "I don’t believe it Massa Jack” “Well I wouldn’t If could help It She don’t seem like that kind but I her as soon as got her recognized face In the light She was at the the last time Gaiety In Independence I was there Hawley knew her too and called her by name” Neb rubbed bis eyes and slapped his pony's flank unable to answer yet still unconvinced '“I reck’n both ob jfer might be mistook" he Insisted doggedly "Not likely” and Keith’s brief laugh As be lay there with head pillowed on the saddle his ' body aching from was not altogether devoid of bitter“We both called her Christie fatigue yet totally unable to sleep ness Maclatre And she didn’t even deny the staring Into the blue of the the girl they had left behind name she was evidently not proud of sky it but there was no denial that she awoke from uneasy slumber aroused was the girl” by the entrance of Mrs Murphy For "Dat wasn't like no name dat you an instant she failed to comprehend called her when we was rldlnV her position but the strong brogue oth“No she didn’t approve of the of the energetic landlady broke in er and told me to call her Hope but sharply Maclaire all A bit av a cup av coffee fer ye reckon she’s Christie right" honey” she explained crossing to the "Shure an' there’s nutbln’ loike bed They rode on through the black lent night as rapidly as their tired It when ye first wake up Ifowly horses would consent to travel Keith Mither but It’s toird 'nongli ye dorbe led directly across the open prairie lookin’ yet’’- I haven't slept very well" the girl guiding his course by the stars and the trails where confessed bringing her hand out from avoiding purposely some suspicious eye might mark their beneath the coverlet the locket still His first object was to get tightly clasped In her finger "See passage safely away from the scattered settlefound this on the floor last night after ments lying east of Carson City Be- you had gone down stairs” yond their radius be could safely disYe did!" setting the coffee on a pose of the horses they rode disapconvenient chair and reaching jut for pear from view and find time to de- the trinket look at "Let’s As to the girl— velop future plans 'well he would keep bis word with her of course and see hej ggaln sometime There Would be no dlffl culty abou bat" otherwise she should taln no Influence over him Sue belonged rather to Hawley’s class than his It was a lonely tiresome ride during which Neb made various efforts to talk but finding his white comat last panion uncommunicative of Vicinity for Many Year lapsed Into rather sullen silence The People Considered Its Heights Imposend when horses plodded on steadily sible to Scale thp two men daylight finally dawned In a depression leadfound themselves "Ararat Is not a mountain that Is Here ing down to the Smoky River even every they came to a water hole where they climbed every day or as“Seventeen and their year" says a writer could safely hide themselves When With both Indians and white cents have been recorded stock made James Bryce unaccompanied men to be guarded against they took his remarkable ascent In 1876 he was picketall the necessary precautions In ing the horses closely under the rock told by every one whom be met and not upon tbe vicinity of the mountain that tbe shadows venturing and reached Neb threw himself top had never" been building any fire what was more it never could be on the turf and was instantly asleep but Keith climbed (be steep side of Jinne and fiends and giants bad prethe gully and made searching survey vented tbe rascally Kurds from even The wide arc to the attempting to ecale the terrible mouof the horizon south east and west revealed nothing ntain and since tbe ark grounded there to his searching eyes except the dull mortal man had not been allowed to brown Of the slightly rolling plains trespass on the sacred heights be was with no life apparent save some dis informed ' Doctor Fairbain Introducing Headed as they were and having GROCERIES The G- CfO Be White Front W - LONG COFFINS and CASKETS and Burial Supplies kept in stock at my store imported from leading deal- You can examine the goods and make seletion at ers any moment Call in and see my stock of burial goods! PF PETERSON Furniture Store rjzrmimrzm meecioeoscseimmssseNiMtsteMmMMM 3 LUMBER m LUMBER i Nephi Plaster Portland Cement and a fine line of Builders’ Hardware Windows Moulding Doors no Pacific being temporarily suspended by Indian outbreaks the graders made both night and day alike hideous and comwhich the single 'dirty street ith shacks posed Sheridan lined crowded with saloons the dull dead prairie stretching away on every side with was congested to the horizon every hour of the during humanity Matlier make MEATS and XVI other special objective point In view It was only natural for the two fugitives This was at that to drift into Sheridan time the human cesspool of the plains country a seething boiling maelstrom of all that was rough evil and brazen Customaralong the entire frontier ily quiet enough during tbe hours of a mad the town became daylight saturnalia with the approach of darkness Its ceaseless orgies being noisily this Bui at dawn until contipued period all track work on the Kansas Like Choicest line ot carried" XV Again Christie Maclaire Keith possessed sufficient means for several months of idleness and even If be bad not his reputation as a plains scout would Insure him employment at any of tbe more important scattered army posts Reliable men for such service were In demand Tbe restlessness of the various Indian tribes made specially manifest by raids on the more advanced settlements and extending over a constantly widening territory required continuous of communication Interchange between commanders of detachments Bold and reckless spirits bad flocked to the frontier In those days following the Civil War yet all were not of the type to encourage confidence In authorities Keith had almilitary In this caserved ready frequently and abundantly bis pacity proved worth under rigorous demands of both endurance and intelligence and he could feel assured of permanent emwhenever Not a desired ployment few of the more prominent officers he bad met personally during the late war — Including Sheridan whom be to had once borne a flag of truce— yet the spirit of the Confederacy still lingered In bis heart not in any feeling of either hatred or revenge but In an to serve the blue uniunwillingness form and a memory of antagonism which would not entirely disappear He had surrendered at Appomattox yet he could not quite adconquered just himself to becoming with those against whom he had fought valiantly for four years 6omJ of tbe wounds of that conflict UU smarted A" natural soldier to help the harassed pgttlers eugef enough to be actively employed he still belt! aloof from army connections except as a volunteer in case ot Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Europe Banking Yu RU its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited £rcErc IS of Salina - TRe when Wilderness tuLUSTBATioni Chris Jor- 6 Black Phone ARNESON LUMBER CO' F JOHN Vhy not say Hello to them? h Your friends all the ’ohone With I CONTINUED) want to talk to you over Better have it put in a Sitlins telephone in your home you can rnn errands go do buainess ete without leaving boms You will enjoy the Whr nor have t? Qt annnontd this coming wpk SAUNA TELEPHONE "IT: "fSMrtrryyy L'raiSia wimti3ni COMPANY Siii - - r‘ - m Strict School Rules John Wesley held thht school children should do without holidays altoWhen he opened Kingswood gether that “the school in 1748 he announced children of tender’ parents so called have no business here for tbe rules will not be broken in favor of any Nor Is any child person whatsoever received unless his parents agree that tie shail observe aft the rules of the and tbqt they will pot take house no not for a day him from school till they take him for good and all” Further no play days were permitted and no time was ever allowed for play on the ground that he who plays when be is a child will play when he becomes a man Every Friday the bad to work till three In children $e fterpogn without breaking tbelr ” faA KatSUBBS Leather Harness Shop Goods- - and Shoe Store Horse Blankets Tents and Wagon Covers and a Harness Saddles full line of Men’s and Hoys’ Dress and Work Shoes We want your trade Our goods are the beat and our price the lowest Drop in and look over our line and be convinced THB ' Who’s Your Magazine that Bizltfa Fact TAILOR? more Who repairs and “witrmN to row can ISrCIVTAfU IT" Continue! 5Jwt of lb World winch you may begin reading at any time and which will hold your mUiroat forever it running in cleans clothes? tbt fudoatlas than Fiction CHEAT prpgrtu jj Sacred Mount of Ararat “Had not St Hagop tried again and again to reach the suhirIt In order to bilence the skeptics about the ark but found himself each mornir on wakat the babe ing quietly deposited whence be started? Finally an angel presented him with a piece of the ark for his pains hut told him to cease bis attempts A reach the forbidden ground “That was in the fourth century of our era but the piece o' the ark Is still to be seen at tbe monastery of the dwell where the Echmiedzln church of the Armentan catbollcos That Russians or a stray lore Eng lishman bad really reaches the tor of Ararat was not to be thought of' The men who gain distinction the men who blaze the trail In world’s progress art th August Ericksen p Store fat the Popular Mechanics Magazine of your it Co-o- ' Are ? 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