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Show HE BUILDS ROCK WALLS IN MEMORY OF YOUNG BRIDE ; t'niru Hint liu: himuiiu. .iiciumi ' tiy ho placed another upon it, then an-nothor an-nothor and another, and beforo he) knew it he hud a stone wall built. From that lime on he has occupied occu-pied his time building stone walls. The loose rock on his place ran out after a while and he was forced forc-ed to quarry more, but year in and year out he has added to his stone walls, which now overrun the entire en-tire tract. Experts say that the walls arc an excellent example of dry masonry, and that the peculiar formation of his quarry deposit would make it valuable if properly marketed. But old Jerry merely sighs and goes on building more walls - and so he will continue until the "Great Builder" calls him to join that never-forgotten bride of long ago. HODIKS AKK SOI OUT WH1TEFISH. Mont., Mar. G. H Rescue parties continued their , efforts today to find the bodies of I Gus Mazes, section foreman, ami j Phil Tanas, track walker, who were caught under a snowslide. i ' 77 '1 j '4 I Jerry Smiley, Idaho rancher, who builds dry rock walls, crossing and i-ecrossiiifi his ranch, as a monument to his dead bride. SUOKANE, Wash., Mar. 1 Years ago Jerry Smiley had vis- ions of his homestead in the Coeurj d'Alene country, just out if Spok-' ane, flowering into a paradise of 1 flowers and fruit. He (and his young bride moved onto it with high hopes for a future that spoke of the happiness that comes when man and wife are in perfect harmony. har-mony. Today, what would have been a fruitful ranch, is a barren tract, broken here and there with high' stone walls that serve no other purpose pur-pose than to occupy a lonely old man's time. For the harmony that was, and the peace and contentment, was shattered when the young wife died one day. The husband, in the rush of his grief perhaps to battle bat-tle the fate that took from him al that was worth while, threw hinv self upon the ground in front oi the cabin and. began, pounding tht earth with a rock. The rock soon became hard-fast |