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Show - f THE TIMES-fcEW- NEPHL UTAH S. turned In his seat, was watching this diversion on the part of tbe conductor with Interest. Connery stepped be- Th Blind William MacHarg M fa's Eyes rHitht bji Little. Ished as one by one the passengers went away to bed. Connery, looking AM Warden, Oitrltl tt his butler Seattle capital-ta- t, lli he t expecting to be admitted .without taller, cuettloo. He Informs his wife of ne dancer that threatens htm pursue a course he consider the one. honorable Warden leaves only the ho. me In his car and meets a man a 10m he takes Into the machine. When the car returns home. Warden Is found dead, murdered, and alone. The caller, a young man, has been at Warden's house, but leaves unobserved. Bob conductor, receives orders to hold train for a party. Five men and a girl board the train, the Kan tern Express. The father of the irtrl, Mr. Dome, Is the person for whom the train was held. Philip D. EatoL. a young man, also boarded tt.e train. Dome tells his daughter end his secretary, Don Avery, to find out what they can concerning him. The two make Eaton's acquaintance. 1 Con-'ner- y, CHA TER III Continued. "You mi kn " The sentence, obviously,' was one she felt It better not to finish. As though be recognized that now ihe must wish the conversation to end, he got up. She rose i "Fll see yon Into your car. If you're returning there." he offered. Neither spoke, as he went with her into the next car; and at the section where her father sat, Eaton bowed silently, nodded to Avery, who coldly returned his nod, and left her. Eaton went on IMo his uivn car and sat down, his thoughts In mad confusion. '. How near he had come to talking t "'jjnbont himself, even though te had iiwrforo-ttev-flr- st that that was what she was trylng"K "'ike him do! Was he losing M3 comm.. u ..nse? Was the on whlcir-S- ? had so" counted that he had dared to take this train deserting him? lie "felt that he must not see Harriet Dorne agnla alone. In Avery he had recognized, by that Instinct which so strangely divines the personalities one meets, an enemy from the start; Dome's attitude toward him,, of course, wait not yet defined ; as for Harriet Dome he could not tell whether she was prepared to be his enemy or friend. Eaton went Into the met'a compartment of his car, where he sat snKfi-fi- ll after the train was undejrway yll io as his berth madeirnj up now: Eaton n.vt.t,t . na nrreon mi uiuuin imer, dropping Vi IUn ricar and eroinir . out Into tint Li . aim. iuuna ins nprrn eady for him.i,S, misui laici .u. liiv "Re Of SOineon tftrntiirh th alda 8Udllen ai""lks of h crack K )d..t!!e which .i.. fru v iuuvtb me cur " hra that t lights In the V ju oeen turnafd down. Eaton Sut sleep was far if he wished Into this car, found It empty and the porter cleaning up; be slowly passed on forward thiough the train, stopping momentarily In the rear Pullman opposite the berth of the passenger whom President Jarvls had commended to his care. His scrutiny of the car told him all was correct here ; the even breathing within the berth assured him the passengers slept. Connery bad been becoming more certain hour by hour all through the evening that they were going to have great difficulty In getting, the train through. Though ho knew by President Jarvls' note that' the officials of the road must be watching the progress of this especial train with particular Interest, he had received no train orders from the west for several hours. His Inquiry at the last stop had told him the reason for this; t'le telegraph wires to the west had gone down. To the east communication was still open, but how long It would remain so he could not guess. Here In the deep heart of the great mountains they had passed the Idaho boundary line Into Montana they were getting the 2sjll effect of the storm; their progress. Increasingly slow, wns broken by stops which were becoming frequent and longer as they struggled on. " At Frocroft the station where he was to exchange the ordinary plow which so far had sufficed, and couple on the "rotary" to fight the mountain drifts ahead Connery swung himself down from the train, looked In at the telegraph office and then went forward to the two giant locomotives, on whose aweatlng, monstrous backs the snow, suddenly visible In the haze of their lights, melted ns It fell. As they started, he swung aboard and in the brightly lighted men's compartment of the first Pullman checked up his report sheets with a stub of pencil. Again they stopped once more went on. Connery, having put his papers Into his pocket, dozed, awoke, dozed again. The progress of the train hutted again and again; several times It backed, charged forward again only to stop, back and charge again and then go on. But this did not disturb Connery. Then something went wror!;.. All at once he fund himself, by a trainman's Instinctive and automatic action, upon bis feet; for the shock had been so slight as barely to be felt, far too slight certainly to have awakened anr of the sleeping passengers in their berths. He went to the door of the car, lifted tbe platform stop, threw open the door of the vestibule and hanging himself by one hand to the rail, swung himself out from the side of the car and looked ahead. ' II saw the forward one of in to feel the train the two loa iiiotl ves wrapped In clouds i' 4o labor with the Increasing of steam, ar.d men arm-deeIn snow the deepening snow. It was wallowing forward to the rotary still So mountains, and the weath- farther to the front, and the sight concorNuir colder and the at arm formed fully to bis apprehension that severe. ton lifted the curtain this halt was more Important and Ju the window beside him and to last much longer than those likely Sned on one elbow to look out. The that had gone before. train was running through bleak, white desolation; do light and no sign CHAPTER IV i. ... ,. ,. i fx p va Are You HlltwardT Tbe bell In the washroom at the end of the car was ringing violently, and someone was reinforcing his ring with a stentorian call for "Porter 1 rorterP Eaton realized that It was very cold his berth also that the train, which was standing still, had been In that motionless - condition for some time.. He threw op the window cur. lain as he appreciated that, and, looking out. found that be faced a great unbroken bank of glistening white snow as high as the top of the car at this point and rising even. higher aliead.- He listened, therefore, while the Englishman for tbe voice calling to the porter was his extracted all available Information from tbe negro. "Porter, where are weT "Between Fracroft and Simons, suit." In - "Tetr "Tessuh. "That yltr foolish snow "Tessuh; and suhr Eaton Went Into the Men's Compartment ef His Car, Where He Sat moklng Till After the Train Was Under Way Again. f habitation showed anywhere. The vents of the day ran through his cnlnd agab with sinister suggestion. He had taken that train for a certain definite, dangerous purpose which required his remaining as obscure and as Inconspicuous as possible; yet already he had been singled out for attention. So far, he was sure, he had received M store than that attenHe tion, curiosity concerning him. had not suffered recognition; but that night coma at any moment. Could he risk longer waiting to act! He dropped on his back on the bed d tar nlth his hands clasped under hit hea. his eyes stsrlng up at tbe roef of the car. ef the observe tint, In tna card-roocar, pleyli I end conversation still weOt t e rime; then St r still snow some "Whyr " nnt for "Because It was mine, or me. as I said at the time, lly name is Eaton; but Mr. Hlllward expected to make this trip with me." Tbe stout man with the conductor forced himself forward. "That's pretty good, but not quite good enough 1" he charged. "Conducas abruptly, he stopped dressing and tor, get that telegram for me'." sat absorbed In thought. He had let Eaton got up, controlling hlmseli himself sink back against the pillows, under the Insult of the other's manner. while be stared, unseelngly, at the "What business Is It of yours 7" be solid bank of snow beside .the car, demanded. when the door at tbe farther end of "What business? Why, only that the coach opened and Conductor Con- Fm Lawrence Hlllward that's all, my name. nery entered, calling friend I What are you up to. anyway' "Mr. Hlllward I Mr. Lawrence ntll-warLawrence Hillward traveling wltl Telegram for Mr, Hlllward!" youl I never set eyes on you until 1 Eaton started at the first call of the saw you on this train; and you take name; he sat np and faced about. my telegram I" The charge was mad The conductor was opposite Section londly and distinctly; every one l Three; Eaton now waited tensely and the dining car Eaton could not see delayed until the conductor was past ; every one, but he knew It was so-- had then putting his head out of Lis curput down fork or cup or spoon tains be hailed as the conductor was and was stating at him. "What did going through the door. "What name? Who Is that telegram for?" "Mr. Lawrence Hlllward." "Oh, thank you; then that's mine." Connery held back. "I thought your name was Eaton." "It Is. Mr. Hlllward Lawrence Hlllward Is an associate of mine who expected to make this trip with me but could not. So I should hove telegrams or other communications addressed to him. Is there anything to sign?" "No, sir train dellrery." Eaton drew his curtains close again and ripped the envelope open; but before reading the message he observed with alarm that his pajaraa Jacket had opened across the chest, and a small round scar, such as that left by a bullet penetrating, was exposed. He gasped almost audibly, realizing this, and clapped bis hand to his chest and buttoned his Jacket The message nine words without signature lay before him : "Thicket knot youngster omniscient Issue foliage lecture tragic instigation." It was some code which Eaton rec- "Mr. Eaton," She Smiled, "Wouldn't You Like to Sit With Us?" ognized but could not decipher at once. The conductor was still standyou do It for? What did you want ing in the aisle. with It?" the stout man blared on. "When did you, get thlsr Eaton "Did you think I wasn't on the train? asked, looking out. "Just now. That message came What?" Eaton felt he was paling as he through yesterday some time and wus faced the blustering smaller man. He waiting for you at Simons; when we realized that he could the got them this morning they sent It see those at thepassengers smaller tables on." had Judged his explanation "I see ; thanks." Eaton, assured that already and found him wanting; the others If the conductor had seen anything he unquestionably had done the same. suspected no significance In what he Avery was gazing up at him with a saw, closed his curtains and buttoned sort of contented triumph. them carefully. The conductor moved "The telegram was for me. Conducon. Eaton took a small English-Chines- e tor P he repeated. pocket dictionary from his Test "Get that telegram. Conductor!" the pocket and opened It under cover of the blanket; counting five words np stout man demanded agnln. "I suppose," Connery suggested, from "thicket" be found "they"; five down from "knot" gave him "know"; "you have letters or a card or some six up from "youngster" was "you": thing, Mr. Ecton, to show your re six down from "omniscient" was latlonshlp to Lawrence Hlllward.' "No, I have not" "one;" seven np from "Issue" was gazed from one claimant "Is;" and so continuing, he translated to Connery the other. "Will you give this the words to: the telegram?" he asked Eatoa "They know you. One Is following. "1 will not" Leave train lnstaatly." "Then I shall furnish hlra another Eaton, nervous and Jerky, as he copy; It wm received here on the completed the first six words, laughed train by our express clerk as the opas he compiled the final three. "Leav-erator. I'll go forward a.id get blm an The humor of other train Instantly 1" copy." In bis that advice present situation, "That's for yon to decide," Eatoa as he looked out the window at the solid bank of snow, appealed to blm. said; and as though tbe matter was A waiter from the dining car came closed for him, he resumed his seat He was aware that throughout the back, announcing the first call for car the passengers were watching him achim and Into breakfast, spurred curiously. from tion. Passengers tbe Pullman ready to go back to onit at the rear passed Eaton's section for car"Are younan-let?Avery Inquired the diner. He beard Harriet Dome's when now, she had finished her breakfast, voice In some quiet conventional remark to the man who followed ber. though Eaton was not yet tl rough. "Surely there's no hurry about anyEaton started at It;' then be dressed today," the girl returned. Tbey thing Into dethe now swiftly and hurried serted washroom and then on to waited until Eaton had finished. "Shall we all go back to the obserbreakfast. Harriet Dome was sitting facing vation car and see If there's a walk the door at the second of the larger down the track or whether It a snowed tables: opposite her, and with his overt" site said Impartially to the two back to Eaton, sat Donald Avery. A They went through the Pullmans tothird place was laid beside the girl, gether. The first Pullman contained four er as though they expected Dome to Join them; but they had begun theli live passengers; the next In which The girl Eaton had his berth, wss atlll empty fruit without waiting. glanced up as Eaton halted In tbe as they passed through. The next Pullman also, at first glance, seemed doorway; her blue eyes brightened to have been deserted In favor of the with a look part friendliness, pan club-ca- r farpurpose. "Oh, Mr. Eaton," she smiled diner forward or of the "wouldn't you like to sit with usT 1 ther back. The porter had made uj all the berths there also, except one; don't think Father Is coming to break fast now; and If be does, of coursf hut someone was still sleeping behind the curtains of Section Three, for a there's still room." She pulled back the chair beside her man's hand hung over the aisle. It was a gentleman's hand, with long, enticingly; and Eaton accepted It. fingers, sensitive and at "Good morning, Mr. Avery," he said to Miss Dome's companion formally the same time strong. That was the as be sat down, and the man serosa berth of Harriet Dome's father; Eathe table murmured something per. ton was the last of the three to pass, and so the others did not notice his force. As Eaton ordered his breakfast, he start; but so strong wss the fascinaappreciated for the first time that bis tion of the hand In the aisle It that be before turned back and gazed at coming had Interrupted a conversationor rather a sort of monologue going on Into the last car. Sons of complaint on the part of Standish eight or ten passengers men ana women were lounging In the addressed Impersonally to Avery. of the oheervstlon room; a They engaged In conversation as wr they breakfasted a conversation In couple, tilstered and which Avery took almost no pnrt. standing on the platform gazing back though Miss Dome tried openly to from the train. draw hint In; then the sodden entrance of Connery, followed closely by "No, Not Isn't this Isn't this stout, brusque msn who belonged Basil 8antolner to the rear Pullman, took Eaton's attention and hers, "Which Is hlmf the man with Con(TO Ut CONT1KUSO.I nery demanded loudly. Tie. Connery checked hlro, but fotnted When th girl keeps on cal'lng yur at the same time to En ton. "That's blrn. Is ItT" tbe other man attention to what a lovely ring the moon has, grab your hat and go said. "Then go ahead." Eaton observed that Avery, a4 -- Richmond Edwin Balmer Company. Bfwn The Measurement of Irrigation Water side Eaton's seat "You took a telegram for Lawrence Hlllward this morning," be rsened. "Tes." By more, "Ilut haven't we the plow still ahead V "Oh, yeasnh; the plow's ahald. We still got It; but that's all. sub. It ain't doln' much; It's busted." "Eh what "Tessuh busted I There was right smart of a slide across the track, and the crew, I understands, diagnosed It jus fo' a snow bsnk and done bucked right Into It. But they was rock In this, suh; we's latin right below a bill ; and that rock Jus' busted that rotary like a Pel glum shell bit It. Tessuh pieces of thst rotary esaen-ttall- y scattered themselves In four directions besides backwards and We alnt done much travelin since then." Entnn ne longer paid attention. "Snowed In and stopped since four!" The realization startled him with the necessity of tsklng it Into account In bis plans. He Jerked himself op In his berth and beraa pulling bis clothes down frees the books ; then. . r s. dl d gen-tlem- a easy-chai- w-r- s Tlnieo-lMapatc- rs By O. W. laraelsen, Professor of Irrigation and Drainage, Utah Agricultural College Many water users, attorneys and englners urge that the measurement of irrigation water Is of vital Importance to western progress. In nearly every phase of Industry and commerce men pay for commodities and services In proportion to the amount received. For example, when we tuy coal we pay a certain price per ton ; when we send the produce of our farms to the distant markets we pay freight In proportion to the tonnage; when we travel on the railroad we pay a fare based on the distance traveled, and when we purchase land we agree on the price and then carefully measure the area. Some Irrigation projects now charge Irrigators for water delivery In proportion to the amount of water used and many more will doubtless find It advantageous soon to do so. The West is experiencing a rapidly growing need for water measurement The lute summer stream flow In many localities is fully appropriated and further Irrigation expansion must co'jie through storage. Flood waters stored in reservoirs at a high cost must In many cases be commingled witli the natural stream flow of late summer In order to convey It to the lands that need Irrigation. Ana, strange to say, usually the stored water looks, tastes and smells Just like the natural water, especially after they together splash and gurgle down the canyon trough. Moreover, since neither the stored nor the natural water Is branded or marked, there remains only one possible source of Identifying either, namely to measure them at the points where they are mixed and where they are separated. But by who mind how are these measurements to be made By the unskilled but boneat layman? No. his mistakes, tno unintentional, may cost some one thousands of dollars ; by the skilled but easily Influenced no his Intentional, errors may be equally as costly ns those of the layman. The measurements must be well trained thorough made by one having deeply plant, ed Into his system a love tor being square, and also one having a real back bone. And then with such a man provided with proper engineering equipment such as weirs, orifloes, steel tapes, cales, rubber boots that reach the hips, and precisely caliberated current meters the measurement of water la of great advantage to the water user e.nd to the entire western fine-fello- public For the Irrigation company It replaces speculation with security concerning water costs, and it assures It the enjoyment of vested rights. helps the farmer determine what becomes of the water he uses; whether or not much of it creeps away In the dark of the deep soil underlain by porous material; it protects the owner of. lowlying land from having his land water logged necnuse it prevents excessive Irrigation by his neighbor higher up; and finally, of great Importance compared to these and many other benefits of water measurement; It Is a factor of vital Importance in the continued protection and enjoyment of the Irrigators water right For these and many other reasons it la advantageous to measure Irrigation water. land values In the United States and Utah. Farms always and without exception are subject to fluctuations Many of the estates accumulated In value from year to year and from by farmers have been made largely decade to decade. There la no unithrough the rise in the value of land form ity of vnratlon, but there are rather than through farming opera- general tendencies which over a period of years may be studied and analtions. Tables 1 and 2 show the changes In yzed with profit Table 1. Average Value of Land an Acre In the State of Utah and la the United btates as a Whole, 1900 to 1920 (U. S. Census Reports) U. 8. Utah United States Utah Year Utah United States LAND VALUES E. B. Brossard, Agricultural 'Economist, Utah Agricultural College 1900 1919 1920 Table $ 2. $15 57 22 40 .7 29.28 41.78 6J 1V 12.50 67.8( Value of Plow Lands,A- United States and Utah, 11 (U. 8. D., - Tearbook, 1921) District Utah 1919 1920 1921 1922 65 61 United States 0 AO (1 67 42 47 11 1S8.1 TT.a 209.1 41.1 116.82 24.S6 so 1121 1920 1921 1922 1919 1DZS 1921 lis 135 113 92 140 106 12S S 9S T4 1H 90 . IZt 90 100 84 T price due to an anticipated rise In the price of farm products. At present some lands are held at prices which the productions of the same land will not pay Interest on. One reason Is because of anticipated of Increased economic productivity the land or anticipated prioe Increases for agricultural products. Table 1. Index Numbers of Prices of Farm Products and of Lan4 Taluea la the United States ' Pets:. Land Tear Index of Prices of Fa m P'Oi. ' Values Pet. Cbm Ch. Yr)y.l909-13-10Trly. As prices of farm products rise, land $.ues tend to rise; as prices fan, land values tend to fall. These are general tendencies. The rise or fail In land values, due to the variation In the prices of farm products, usually lags behind the rise or tall In the prices of tbe products of the however, land rises In 1911-1U- 1999 1909 ' nil 1914 1911 19IS 19IT 1911 1919 1924 191 14 97 1911 1911 . - (1 191 - 101 91 101 f 1 11 I i ioe t 10S 121 11 134 214 1( 14 tit 114 T 43 41 91 I I 9 99 101 S tot lit 121 lit 161 1T tot 14 lit t - tl t tl It eil Statistics Bui. Ne. ttt and U. B. IX A. Tearbook. Land ral' re are obtained on March 1 following the yea 1921, respectively. ehown on the stub of the tabulation: flauree may be retarded as representing; approximately values at the close ef the year Indicated rather than average for the entire yeer. Lands rose In value until lftCO when of land are not made It that owueis values felL The greatest increase are holding for values la exchange wns In 1919 and the greatest derrense which maintained la IBIS and WIS, In 192L The values of land did not are too btgh for a purwhich values rlso as high relatively as did the la li'17, chaser to make Interest oa at the prices of farm products. when prices rose bo per cent over present ptioes of farm products. Ileal 1010 prices, land values rose tut M estate will change handa more readily per cent above tlte ll'lt) vnlues. Land when these values are adjusted on values In 15in were not as high re- a new basis lower than at present latively as were the price of tana or when prices rise sufficiently to products, yet both were higher tbaa make It possible for a purchaser to make Interest on the Investment out' at any other time. One reason that more exchanges of tbe production! of tbe land. U. a. Bureso of Labor to determine the value of land. The THE OF LAND acre which glvee the nlgtieHt yield in product Is not always the most (Ity n. It. Vroaanrd Agricultural valuable. Tbe acre nearer market Economist Utah Agricultural College) may be more valuable thaa the on that yelld more bounteously. The In Many people Interested and economics are asHng value of land Is affected by tnultl- themselves end others what It Is that tndlnua economic as well aa natural determines the value of bind. In the or physical factor. Any factor that aow common parlance of the average tracts the kind or the amount of the citizen It is said that the supply and products of land such as climate, soil demand for land determine Its val- - and topography or tbe price receiv ed for tbe prod acts wben mAS. tends to reflect this effect la the values of of What the average persoa thinks as supply and deranad are the acre the land. which deter- Interest Rate a Determining Facte? and the market-bidder- s The almpleat formula and also the mine prta of land aad not the more find deeper causes basic oa la calculating lead value fundamental that the value of aa acre of land which determine the value of land. Tbe wise man wants to know what It equal to the set annus) Income dithe nnderiylng factors are that de- vided ry the current rate rrf Interest oa well secured land Irons. It la termine land values. elly see from the formula the Value Determlnd by Productivity aa larreato In the a at annual either The value of lsad Is determined Income or a decrease la the Inter ta economic fry productivity. By that rat tends to Increase the value of la aseanl not alone the kind and laad. Tbe rnnverse of this r a Is a anon at produced per acre hut rhe lad ed any rhaar la th fa. tru. Bet valoe ef the total productions. teret rate tends to affect laid. vt T prices as! farat predicts be4p I WHAT DETERMINES VALUE arrl-cultur- e 1 ' |