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Show -I AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN 1 I. t L- J General Quiz i - fit 0B"',tfn pproxlroately how- long u many innings was the jeagus oaseuou r.Chat war did the Brit- the conquest of Can- CTi the French! gjl sou in i"' K"'w reached oy Bit pan oi "1C p"1 dn average waicimciuu u of the Harrisons, Wil Beniamln. his Jrved but one month of u president? got are ioriunc iu Lr many people are killed , gantry eacn yew vy ugu.- i case no candidate for Pres-Bceives Pres-Bceives majority of the U Totes, how is tne i-resi- Wat river is the Grand ji dam? Th Answer$ pproximately 50 miles. 1 to 1 tie was piayea oy ind Boston ia Zo innings ed? Hi Wen touch ttfif" Hear. By FRANK H. SPEARMAN Frank H. Spearman WNU Service SYNOPSIS 3. mn Years war (1758-1763). i- Sir TViiipla.a. Mawion ftithin a few miles of it 'ppnaimately 92.4 per cent filam Henry Harrison, who fee month after his inaugura- Qiina fortunes are told by I the lines on the soles of i u well as the markings palms of the hands. m 2,000 people in the Unit- itti are either killed or in ly Bghtoing each year. 01 the annual average is sine men to each woman. the house of representa- slumbia river. jsence of Friendship ferity, truth, faithfulness, into the very essence of ship.-William Ellery Chan- LAW j gill .JA!Jrto,-w',,,thy' Spanish owner of a Southern California rancho. refuse to head hwiI warning of a raid by a band of outlaw. Sierra Indiana. One day ha Bnally decided to seek the Wwtocttorj of the nearby miaalon tor hla iml family, the Indiana atrike. Don Alfredo la killed and hla two young daughter are torn from the armi of the family a faithful maid. Monica, and are carried away to the hllla. Padre Paa-qual. Paa-qual. mlaalonary friend of the family, arrive afth rulna of the ranch and nrna uie aiory or the raid from Monica. After trying and difficult trip across the plain and mountain from Texas to California, youthful Henry Bowie, a Tex-a Tex-a adventurer, with hit friends. Ben Pardaloe and Sim ml, an Indian scout, light the party of Indian who have carried car-ried off the two lltUo glrla. The three Texan attack the war party of fifty-odd Indin and through a clever rue, Matter Mat-ter the aavage to the hill. The girl are saved. The group make Us way out of the hills and meet the distraught Monica, the children's maid. The glrla re left with Monica and the friendly Padre at a mission, and the Texans proceed pro-ceed to Monterey. Her Bowie completes his business for Gen. Sam Houston of Texas, who has commissioned hire U deliver de-liver an Important mesiag. Bowie decide de-cide to have a look at the wild untamed country that California was In the mid-dl mid-dl Nineteenth century. Bowl dlaappear from California but returns eight year Uter and make the acquaintance of a friendly Spanish family at the Rancho Guadalupe. He Is attracted by the lovely Carmen, daughter of Don Ramon, the rancho' owner. Bowie saves Don Ramon' Ra-mon' life la a fierce fight with a huge grizzly bear. CHAPTER VI Continued -7 But Pedro dared take no chancea. Hii borae was frantic, and he knew the deadly danger of a wounded bear. Casting a haaty glance at Bowie, who lay on his face, fat urged his frightened hone closer to the fallen monster of the Sierraa., .The vaquero eyed the beast narrowly while he rode his horse, kicking and flinging, around him until be caught eight of the handle of a bowl knife sunk to the hilt between the riba under the left forepaw. The grizzly lay quite dead. Hastening to Bowie, Pedro slipped from his borae to examine him. Dust-covered and mangled, the Texan Tex-an lay in rapidly widening pool of hla own blood. Hii heart waa beating beat-ing faintly, and Pedro, giving hurried hur-ried order to bis comradea, raited the unconscious man in his anna, pushed up from ene ear a flap of acalp torn from Bowie's temple, and, shouting for puffballs, plastered the dry spores aa beat he could over the uncontcioua man's bead, shoulder and anna. Your furniture) bnl aid. " It is lovely wwneofi . 'tot you O-CedarltT go sod get a bottle of (rumn inH hnmr hnma ekni?fwi it cluins the chain Jko, doors and floors, takes ".VI mill IS ... fin IMWM soft wirm lore lie lustn of 'wire uutiua...iiid LASTS. (Vffldap POLISH , W$nS, aiANOtf AND AND MOTH SPIAY we Tongues secret if we cannot keep i a M u a r Room Proportions - cciung tmu to conceal "Wlons and irr,t .. .1- IT? ,r now being general-ome general-ome ownera. Light col- J" fluxed miik i-j . m ... wuiie, tena w umi of space and shmilrl groundwork when this A gray back Mlghout IK. uit. rght shadea of yeUow. " m. or similar tints. ... eueot .paee. end nor. -,00"' - wtU appear CJJfte house 1. too Urge k. un at nun togg?. Dark shades,. ?J"col"r-. should be used rnert, - wnmera &b,a"d,ot,n-n umes wbo dur- Of trnkli. .. .. ' tl rvJi v wvyw. par il,w wriraaa.. dressed in tZ; sea animals, Wfhome. and In the beeVT e Practice aeems .urvivalottheRo. i,c,h outr,es In Eng. fimi.;;:i"1ornakor i eanor. CHAPTER VII Bowie woke m bed to aee a tall bald man in the brown woolen habit of a Franciscan padre sitting in a chair betide him and eying him with a suspicion of a smile As Bowie opened bis eyes the padre raited the forefinger of hit right hand and laid it acrost nis own lipa a a if to enjoin silence. "Dot palabros, amigo, no matt" he said in a low sympathetic voice. "Few words from you for aome time yet I want to tee some nourishment nour-ishment for you before you expend any strength you left mott ot that, amigo. in the canyon. "Yea." he continued, still In English, Eng-lish, "I know what you want to ask. You were brought back to the ranch house, given up for dead. When ,they sent for me at the mission mis-sion I asked, Who is this man?' 'A Texan, mangled by a grizzly,' they told me. 'A Texan?' I repeated. And when they assured me you were, I said, The Texan ia not dead; I have teen many men torn oy grizzlies; but the Texan outlasts the bear.' However, I say to you seriously, few wordt and on your back tiU we can get more blood courting through your veins." Bowie lay to utterly weak he could hardly find voice, but apeak he would. "Padre," he aaid, breathing with difficulty, "if the bear is dead I want my knife. My knife," he repeated wijh an effort, "and my revolver." For answer the Franciscan rote, turned to the bureau in the bedroom, took from it the long knife and Jhe Colt revolver. "They have been cared for. amigo, as you see. But I advise you to rest up for at lea it three months before you resume with a grizzly . . . That is, indeed, a knife," remarked the padre, holding hold-ing up the bowie knife for Interested Inspection. "Where did you get it amigo?" "The blade waa made from a blacksmith's file," returned Bowie with a trace of pride in bit weak-nets. weak-nets. "And calls for a long strong arm to wield K," mused the padre. - Don- Francisco entered the. room on tiptoe. He greeted Bowie warm- 'ty.'-" vAmigol'' v hev "exclahned. Thanka to God that you axe alive! Tell me: what happened in that can- - The pa&e'put'up his han He la too weak to talk." "But in a few words." begged Don Francisco. . 'J a lew wordsreapondedgiw-, le dryly,, "we bad more or lets, of a fight" : .Madre de DlosJ" exclaimed Don Franclaco. "I would call it more than leaa of a fight' Pedro baa never nev-er aeen ao big a bear no, noj In all hla life, he truly aaya. But Bowie, you must know Padre Martinet. He hat been our turgeon, amigo. We had none else to call on. Dr. Doane waa in Santa Barbara. Doctors are acarce In California, very acarce. We feared you would die from all tlnez, who graduated a surgeon In Spain before he became a mission-er. mission-er. came quickly to our aidand you tee!" Bowie weakly acknowledged acknowl-edged hit obligation by pressing the hand of Padre Martinez, who aat beaide hit bed, and the padre silenced si-lenced Don Franciaco by waving him out ot the room and then following fol-lowing him. At the door he encountered Don Ramon Just coming to speak to Bowie Bow-ie and. In matter o( fact, to apologize apolo-gize for exposing hit guest's life to , tush .danger. Don . Ramon .brought back hit nephew Francisco for translator. "Only a few wordt. Padre." Pad-re." exclaimed Don Ramon. "But he saved my life. I mutt, at least, thank him" Bowie, who in the everyday course ot the life of a frontiersman would not have looked on bia narrow escape es-cape aa an extraordinary event, found himself the hero of the rancho. Pardaloe and Slmmle, shining m the penumbra of hit prestige and though secretly elated at the teat put on aire of indifferent: among the va-queroa va-queroa to intimate that where they came from such incidents were ev-erydsy ev-erydsy occurrences. The days went slowly, almost painfully, for an active man like Bowie. Dons Maria, realizing that her hutband'a life had been spared through the diversion of the bear'a fury, wat unremitting in her sollci tude for the Texan's comfort And when he waa ready to ait up. Carmen Car-men sent flowers and a Chinese confection con-fection to bun. During the impatient daya that followed, fol-lowed, Bowie had one faithful attendant at-tendant Don Francisco spent hours at his bedside and entertained him with stories of California and of his people, the rancher ot. Bowie was a good listener. One day while Don Franclaco sat with Bowie a Jar of Canton ginger waa tent In with the compliments of Carmen. Bowie, assuming as-suming such indifference si he could muster, stked why Carmen . wore black. "She had a sweetheart. Don Ramon Ra-mon de Haro. He had a twin brother broth-er .. . Now If you are an admirer of General Fremont" Don Francisco Fran-cisco interrupted himself to say, "you would not like to hear this." "Fremont" aaid Bowie, "means nothing to me." "The brothers, one day this spring, took a boat at Yerba Buena to row over to San RafaeL They wanted to aee Fremont about getting get-ting pay for a bunch of ateers hit men bad taken from the De Haro rancho. They took with mem an old friend. Don Jose de Berreyeta, to Interpret The three men landed at San Rafael, and when they were aeen by Fremont be detailed three to meet them and kill them" "Kill them?" echoed Bowie, surprised. sur-prised. "Listen," continued Don Franclaco. Francla-co. "One of these three men sent by Fremont waa his scout Kit Carson. Car-son. Carton, before he let out asked Fremont whether he should take these three Californlana prla-onera. prla-onera. Fremont growled, 'I've got no room for prisoners.' "Carson and hla two men dismounted dis-mounted about fifty yards from the De Haro boys and Berreyesa, who were walking up the hill unarmed, and, covering them with rifles, deliberately de-liberately ahot the three." Bowie tightened up a little. "Ia that the kind of a man Fremont ia?" he asked. "Judge for yourself," returned Don Francisco succinctly. For a moment Bowie made no comment. "I've beard aome tough atories about him," he aaid alowly, "but nothing to equal that" "They buried the boys fine young fellowt and poor Berreyeta. You can Imagine bow Californlana felt" "I can' "Senorlta Carmen wat wild. Don Ramon and ahe were not what you say, engaged, but they were deeply In love. I really believe If ahe could have got bold of Fremont ahe would have strangled hlim. No wonder ahe hates Americanos." Bowie's padre surgeon, Martinez, came often. When the danger had paased he confessed he had greatly feared infection. "But I should have known better," he said one day. "Texana are.atrong blooded. You may be discharged from my care, let us see it la four weeks. You are a lucky man. Senor Bowie. What will you do now?" Thla waa the question that waa being asked in the Estrada family. After prolonged discussions In which Padre Martinez waa consulted Don Ramon spoke to Bowie. " YuhiM come .to California., to live. You mean to go upriver to Join Captain Sutter." I hive some Uxint better,. .If you will become roaJoNtomo of JUnchb Gtiadalupe will make you a rich man." Bowie thanked" Don Ramon but shook hit bead. "I would rather be ftee, Don,, Ramon,, I have always been free. A Texan Just naturally hates to be tied down. Besides, I want to see more of this country.. It is very, wonderful. And who knows? I might be called back to Texas." Don Ramon did not prett hit offer. of-fer. "At you will, senor. Remember, Remem-ber, you sre alwaya welcome, with your friends, at Guadalupe. And if you honor ua again with your company com-pany I ahall be careful not to lead you into any more bear traps. You ha!?e,sye4imyiWe.;iia As the last day of bia stay approached, ap-proached, Bowie began to wonder whether, he should catch a final glimpse of the young girl who had occupied hit thoughts so much since coming to the rancho. She had been visiting in Monterey and came home the night before Bowie and his acouta took their departure. The acene in the morning at the trio made ready to mount their horses wat a lovely one. The tun had broken into flame above the eastern Sierraa and flung its billows ofogold over the-land, Th5.Uvnd. the spreading green of the pepper trees and brightened the pink tips of the burgeoning oaks. The family were grouped together. After good-bya to Don Ramon and the Dona, Carmen eame forward, with her cousin Francisco for interpreter, in-terpreter, to thank Bowie for the claws. Bowie yielded to an impulse im-pulse and stepped up to Carmen to thank her for the Canton Jar. "Since I can't take it with me. I have left it In the car of Don Francisco," he explained. "It was mott kind of you, senorlta," he laid, while Don Francisco translated, "to think of the stranger within the gatet. I ahall not forget it" He watched her narrowly as Don Franclaco repeated bis words, but her manner waa reserved, her smile eooL Yet at the end as he turned away be thought perhaps imagined, that a faint flush crept unwelcomed into her cheeks. "If ever I am happy enough to revisit Guadalupe . . remarked Bowie, soliloquizing, as he rode away. "I shall certainly have learned to speak Spanish. In fact I won't come back till I can." Ho kept his word. They heard from him at Guadalupe. For months after the Texan bad ridden away there came from upriver. almost regularly, choice bits of game from Bowie saddles of venison and elk; Canadian geeae, mallard ducka and, not Infrequently, pelts, from the north, of the silver-tipped fox. Of these there were always two. soft tanned and deep piled, for the Dona and her daughter. "The Texan haa the instincts of a gentleman," observed Don Ramon at dinner, one evening, -''since he exaggerate! in hit mind the alight hospitality we have been able to ex tend to him and hla men. Nor doei he forget Padre Martinet, for Pe dro tella me that Santa Clara re ceive! much courtesy from him not alone in gifts of complirnthV tut-so tut-so Pedro says he and hlijmen have helped the padres recover horses and sometimes cattle, driven off by thieving Indians." "The Indiana are growing constantly con-stantly bolder. Con Ramon," said hia nephew indignantly. '1 hear it on every hand. They raid our neigh- bora already. Soon they will be after our horaea. Yosco and Stanl alaut long ago taught them rebel lion. They need to be driven out of these mountains." "Don't undertake it yourself. Don Francisco." remarked his uncle, who knew his fiery disposition, "Nevertheless, my uncle, you will see them give us trouble if they are not taught a lesion." Don Franclaco proved too good a prophet The horse-stealing Indiana did grow bolder. Their depredations increased, and they raided the big rancboa with leaa fear of consequences. conse-quences. Every young Californlan along the foothilla wat angry. They demanded something be done by the soldiera at the mission or the presidio. pre-sidio. But the authorities were indolent Following minor depredations at Rancho Pinole, the Indiana, emboldened, embold-ened, ran off. one dark night every saddle hone on the place. Don Jose Martinez and hia ton had to borrow bor-row bortea from Don Ramon at Guadalupe. The neighbora were Infuriated. They organized a party and aet out to recover the horses and chattise the thievet. Don Francisco of Guadalupe Guad-alupe waa cboaen captain The posse was in the saddle early next morning, and two vaqueros tracked the marauders through the hills to a canyon in the mountains where, toward evening, they charged the Indians in a surprise attack. It waa made too hastily, and the red men, scattering at the onslaught of the rancberoa, tent back a cloud of arrowt at their pursuers. Pedro and his vaqueros took advantage of the sudden confusion of the warriori to-run. the stolen, hoisea out of the canyon and head them downhill for home. 'Tor 1 time' The brush was fast;, Abwt - Fer, ,t0,P . Wanjr , Jo-. dlant. Don Francisco called a retreat re-treat and -the Calif orniana slowly retired from the flejd. . , : -.At the leader, of his tittle band, Don Franciaco waa the last to wheel from the acene of battle. The youngster young-ster waa tearless beyond his years. Unhappily, at he spurred after hia comrades? aA arrow ilfuck hlrfi W tween the shoulders. For-a moment be awayed in hia taddle, but before he had galloped k hundred yards, striving to cling to his hora,' he pitched forward headlong to the ground. A score of Indian horsemen in hot pursuit yelled in triumph as be felL Hit companions turned to at-tempt at-tempt a rescue. But the fighting line of purtueri had already patted the fallen Don, and the pitifully tew Californlana were driven back without being able to lave their youthful leader. The duty of informing Don Ramon of the capture of hia nephew waa put upon Don GuITlermo Castro, eldest eld-est of the young men. Hat In hand, he headed hii companloni Into the living room. The family were, unfortunately, un-fortunately, there Don Ramon. Dona Maria and Carmen. No sooner soon-er had Don Gulllermo spoken than all seemed to grasp the dread tidings tid-ings at once. ' Don Ramon sank, crushed. Into a chair. Dona Maria bunt Into teara, and Carmen, ghastly white, fainted. Like wildfire the bad news spread to the tervant quarters. Guadalupe, that night wat a boute of mourning. mourn-ing. It wat nearlng midnight when a clattering of hoofs waa heard out-tide. out-tide. Carmen, in the living room, wat still trying to comfort her mother; moth-er; Don Ramon aat gazing into the dying fire. He had amoked a final cigar and given himself over to painful pain-ful thoughts. At the sound of horsemen horse-men he stirred and, answering a rapping on the door, roae to hia feet answering, "Adelantel" Don Ramon thought some ot the neighbora had returned. The visitor strode somewhat forward for-ward and spoke easily In Spanish. "You do not remember me. Don Ramon. It li more than a year aince I have aeen you. I am Henry Bowie, Bow-ie, the Texan." The Don't gloomy features lightened. light-ened. 'Senor!" he cried. "Who could be more welcome? I am only sorry that you find ua grief ttrlck-en." ttrlck-en." Bowie railed hit hand. "That is why I am here. The bad news reached me in Monterey tonight I came down the river this morning with Pardaloe and Slmmle, bringing a batch of furs. They are with me. And I came at once to offer any help that I can to my frienda, Don Franclaco and yourself. " Don Ramon recounted briefly the tragedy and said the rancheroa were waiting for daybreak to assemble for pursuit "You tell me that Pedro waa with him? May I go to the vaquero quarters quar-ters to speak with him?" "Stay. He will come here. Carmen, Car-men, tell Peplta to call Pedro." When the sleepy-eyed vaquero appeared ap-peared Bowie plied him with rapid questions. Don Ramon listened, impressed im-pressed by the eaae with which Bowie reconstructed, itep by atep, the fatal fight It waa almost as if he had been there CHAPTER Vin "You say you can find the canyon in the dark?" "Without doubt senor." "And you think you know the band?" "Yosco led them, tenor. I know him." Bowie turned to Don Ramon. "Pedro "Pe-dro aeema sure he can find the ground of the fight We will atart at once." "Pedro might easily go wrong on a night like this, senor. It Is raining rain-ing hard." Bowie shook hii bead. "Every hour la precioua if Don Franciaco it alive. The Indiana will not kill their prisoner before daybreak. Since they drove off the Californianoa they may have remained in the canyon. Vamoal" "How about carbines, lenor?" "My men are well armed. You,' Pedro, aee that your vaquerot have carbinet with plenty of dry ammunitionand ammu-nitionand hatcheta and knives. Pedro." Pe-dro." Bowie spoke rapidly. His eagerness eager-ness to get started wat most apparent. appar-ent. In the vaquero quarter Pardaloe Parda-loe and Simmie, who had gone to bed, were roused with the vaquerot picked for the retcue party. Under the condition! It waa not possible to go fait after the beaten trail wai left behind. Yet Bowie waa keenly anxious to make time. The party baited for a moment while Pedro took bia bearings. "I want to get to the canyon by daylight Pedro." aaid Bowie. "Push on whenever you are sure you're right But be careful not to get lost Except for that I like the rainy night Sabe?" '"Si. eenor." The others of the party were cautioned cau-tioned to stick close together, to make no nolte and not to attempt to light pipes. The faintest light of dawn, penetrating the leaden aky and the driving rain, found the rescuer res-cuer riding fast. . They reached the canyon entrance an hour later, but the high walls shut out the added daylight end. utmoit caution waa used in threading,, the , windimj recesses, re-cesses, Pedro suddenly baited and waited tor Bowie to come up. "Here ia the place, senor," be whispered. pointing to a sharp rock that Jutted well up from the cany on floor. "The light waa here," "Then we'd better scout ahead a way to look for Indians. We U go on foot." He spoke to Pardaloe and Slm mle. "Pedro and I will work ahead. Ben." he explained. "You boys fol low. Keep your priming pans dry." The horses were left with the va querot. and the four ttole forward on foot (TO BE CONTISVED) AROUND THE HOUSE In making toast be sure the bread is at least a day old. 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