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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- v oices rtieV aiiev or By GEORGE MARSH CHAPTER XIII 20 ' In the morning, Little Jacques was sent back to the post with a letter from Steele Informing St. Onge of the In the Pprtnge lake reappearance country of the night waller. He expressed the hope of being able, with the help of the hound, to obtain a shot ot the crenture If it remained near the lake. Denise, he did not mention. With David and Michel breaking trail through the foot of new snow which had fallen over night, the party started on the Ice for the mouth of Still river, a small tributary of the lake on which there was a trappers camp which Michel had not yet visited. . Arriving at the tlpl of the found them loading their sled .preparatory to making a hasty departure, the dark faces of two men and a boy, marked with fear, while from the Interior of the lodge rose the low pitiful walling of women. "What are you doing? Why do you leave good otter and mink water and the ridges which have given you many pelts of the silver and the black fox? There Is much flour and sugar and tea ; there are many trade goods, at the post, which wait for you to come with your pelts at New Year's. Where are you going?" he asked In OJlbway. Opening his arms In a dramatic gesture the older of the men replied : "How can we stay? The WIndigo howls at night from the ridges and robs our trap-lineHe walled and wept last night when the snow covered the moon. Our women will rot pnss another sleep here; we fear he will find and kill us." "Where was he?" ' "On the ridge there." "No good I" Michel turned to Steele. "De snow cover hees track." Then he asked : "You suy he robbed your traps? Did you see the trail?" "Oh, yes, his trail was everywhere. One sleep before the new snow fell, he followed my fox and marten traps, anil ate two foxes the snow was red with blood. They were large the tracks of the very large, and we ran when we saw them." "Will you stay tonight In your tlpl. If we camp here? This Is a great shaman from the south." Michel pointed to Steele. "He has a dog that hunts the WIndigo he has a magic howl, and the WIndigo' fears him. He has bewitched many Wlndigoes in his own country with his great voice. Tomorrow we will go with you to your trap-lineNo harm cnn come to you. because of this medicine man and his stiliniau dog." The Ojlbways gazed In awe and wonder at the great hound, strange to the north, with the pendulous ears mid the furrowed forehead, then argued rapidly among themselves, finnlly calling their women from the tent. "The WIndigo will not come tonight, for he knows the shaman dog can follow his trail even through water, and In his voice there Is death," said Michel gravely, to the impressed Indians. "If you will unload your sleds aiid camp here, near us, we will bring the skin of the WIndigo to hang from your lode poles before the nioon Author of "Toller of the Trail" Th Whelps of the Wolf (Copyright by the Penn Publishing Co.) (W. N. U. Service.) of Little Jacques' absence a limped slowly up the Still river trail. "There he Is!" cried Steele, "Now we'll hear how things have been going down below." And he hurried to the Ice to meet the "Bo'-joWhat's been Jacques! driving you so hard. Your dogs are all in." "Dere ees bad news down riviere." "What's happened, quick? What Is It?" Steele's heart skipped a beat, then started to pound, as he flinched from the answer to his question, when David and Michel, with anxious faces, Joined him. "De night we leeve Walling Kivlere to hunt de WIndigo, he holler on de ridge. De peopl' are ver' scare'." Steele glanced at his friends to find them nodding In quiet satisfaction, d then clapping the astonished on the back, turst out with: "Jacques, that's not bad news; that's good news ! He's moving around and we'll hear him . yet. Where's the letter?" The handed Steele a letter wrapped In which ran as follows: dog-tea- half-bree- ', half-bree- dog-runn- oil-ski- n "Monsieur Steele: "Jacques brought your note. I am glad to learn that you have hope of the hound. On the night you left, the Windigo walled again on the ridge opposite us. "I am In fear that something has He left for happened to Tete-Boulthe caribou barrens a week before you reached us and Is long overdue. Jacques tells me you did not find my Friday, February 26, 1926 NEPHI, UTAH S, Notes News It's a Privilege, to Live in j Utah BINGHAM MINERS TURN TO TUSKS "He foun' somet'lng on de Portage lak'. He not tell me." Of course, thought St. Onge, Michel would not confie In the medicine man he hated. But what could they have found? If he were to make the fork before dark, there was no time to waste. Ordering his own team harnessed and provisions and blankets put on the sled, St. Onge hurried to the house. "Denise, my dear! Tete-BouJs back with a message from Michel, whom he met at the fork. I mus start at once. You may expect me back tomorrow afternoon." "Monsieur Steele sent you no message?" "No! They are all well. I've got to travel to make the fork before dark, so au revolr, my dear girl!" He kissed her and left. From the window she watched his dogs take the river trail at a wild gallop. The hooded driver turned and waved back at the girl at the window, and shortly, the sled reached the bend and was gone. "It will be lonely here tonight, but I have dear old Charlotte. I shall play her to sleep In her chalr.",. Denise took the violin from Its case and laid her cheek caressingly on the strings. "What would I do here without you?" she whispered. "Father and you ! Once I thought he had Joined us was one of us. But after his admission, and this " She took from a drawer In a desk a letter, and read It slowly. And In her face was anguish. Then she replaced It in the drawer. The letter had been given to her In person by the Indian who stopped on his way from Ogoke to Albany In October the Indian who had told Michel of the drowning of Steele and David In the rapids of the Jackfish. And the signature at the end of the letter addressed to Denise St. Onge was that of Rose Laflamme. Later, Denise 'and Charlotte were finishing the luncheon dishes, when s their attention was attracted by In the clearing. "Could father have turned back?" she remarked. The women went to a window and looked out to see a group of men and two teams of dogs In front of the le Salt Lake City. William Lacy, in an "article on "Steel" in the Southern California Business Magazine, recently issued, says of the importance of the steel industry in Utah: "Of the major basic industries which within Itself and allied lines of manufacturing hold far reaching benefits to Los Angeles and southern California, the steel Industry stands out." Ogden. Inspiration to carry on the fight for equitable and just freight rates through the passage of the Gooding bill was given Salt Lake and Ogden business men, chiefly shippers at a luncheon meeting here, by James A. Ford of Spokane, secretary of the Intermediate Rate association, who is en route to Washington, D. C, to work for the passage of the Gooding measure. DESPITE DEATH OF LOVED ONES, CRUSHED HOMES AND LOSS THEY CARRY ON Final Check Shows and More Than or 40 Killed 200 Affected by Disaster. Relief Fund is Moving Forward. 39 Bingham Canyon. Undaunted by the worBt disaster In the history of the Bingham region, the people of tha Highland Boy mining district carry on. The final checkup of last Wednesday's castrophe shows thirty-nin- e bodies taken from the ruins, only one of which has not been definitely Identified; thirteen persona in the Bingham hospital; . twenty-five- families without home, making a total of mors than 200 persons who have been seriously affected by the- - tragic visitation of the white terror of the moun- Celebration of the seventy-fiftof the coming of the pioneers Into .this valley will be held September 16, 17 and 18, according to plans decided upon by the board of directors of the and Juab county fair association. Salt Lake City. Dairies operating in Carbon county have combined .for the purpose of handling their products In more sanitary manner and not for the purpose of price regulation, Edward Southwick, state food and dairy commissioner, declared here recently. He had Just returned from a week's inspection of the dairies and dairy herds in the county. He reported the herds were in good condition. Salt Lake City. Representatives of the Salt Lake Amateur Baseball association appeared before the city commission Tuesday and urged that various improvements be made in Athletic fields to encourage and further amateur baseball in the city. The commission referred the matter to the commissioner of parks and the city engineer, to prepare plans and make estimates of cost and report to the board a definite plan for procedure. Salt Lake City. Bootlegging of sheep from the western Navajo reservation in Arizona into Utah has brought into the state south of Bluff in San Juan county a large number of sheep that are affected with scabies, the larger part of the herds being in Monumental valley, but the disease has become widespread in southern San Juan county, it has become Nephi tainside. Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, pals and bunkies hare been lost to their loved ones, homes have been crushed Into matchwood, men and women are wearing borrowed clothes because they have no others, and still the men and women of the Highland Boy camp, centering around the mining camp, 7400 feet above seal level, In the winter fastness of the Oquirrh mountains, continue their daily work courageously. The spirit of "Mother" McDonald permeates the camp. "They're my boys and I'm their mother," she Bald to The Tribune when asked if she correspondent would her boarding house. "They know me and I know them. My doughnuts to them are the best In the world, and they need me Just as I need them. Of course, I'm going to start up again, else my boys wouldn't have any home." The people of the Highland Boy mining camp cling as tenaciously to their life work as do the houses to the almost sheer canyon walls. Men must work, activity must go forward, trade-houshomes must be provided; tragedy can"Who can it te? I cannot see their not be forgotten but the Job of living faces ! The large man has never must go on. The Highland Boy disbeen here before!" cried Denise, aster in Sap gulch is the story of forswept by a wild fear a , premonition titude, physical and mental courage, of personal peril. "One of them is tempered with the touch of fatalism coming here !" itlways evident in a mining camp. Charlotte hastily left the window With a number of large contribuand shuffling to a table, took from a tions received, the Bingham relief sinister-lookina drawer meat knife. fund total was brought up to nearly Running a hard thumb over Its edge, $40,000 in actual cash. The largest she calmly said : "I weel stay by de' cash contribution was $17,000 from the door." Anaconda company, of There was a loud knock on the which the Copper Mining the Internadoor of the factor's quarters. Then tional Smelting and the Tooele Val the blood of French soldiers and genley Railroad companies are subsidiai tlemen in the veins of Denise St. lea. The appropriation of this con, Onge flamed In her face proved it- pany was for 5,000, but nearly $S00 firm a t With self. step she went amount of this has already been spent the door and opening It, looked proud- in the form of labor, which the ly Into the eyes of Louis Laflamme. volunteered immediately afr had made his threat The disaster. ter the good. "Mademoiselle St. Onge, I have come 18 Percent of Utah Freshmen Fail to talk with you." "It Is evident, monsieur." Salt Lake City. Eighteen percent Laflamme stepped Inside and, as of the 851 freshman students who she retrented, closed the door, followwere registered in English classes at ing her Into the living-room- . the University of Utah failed to pass "You will pardon me if I throw off in that subject during the Autumn my coat," he said. quarter, according to Professor II. O. ' "I do not desire trouble here In my Richards, acting head of the English father's absence," she protested with department of the University. a confidence she did not feel, "but I "The trouble lies In the home with shall send Charlotte to call our men the parents who will not afford and force you to leave this post." able teachers and allow them Laflamme laughed, as he paced the time and oportunity to teach well. "Your men? You floor nervously. High school teachers are overworked. might better call on your women to "Despite the large number of failaid you. Two of your brave retainers ures at the Utah University, the pertrade-housare under guard now, la the was but half as great as that centage We couldn't find the others, If cf the failures In the same department you have them." of California. Failat the It was clear to the girl, who gal- ures In University English at the University will lantly fought with her fear of eliminated when the pabe practically purpose In coming to the post trons of the high schools of the State when she was alone helpless, that are willing to pay In money and in he controlled the situation, and would public sentiment for higher healthy be heard. In the English classes of standards "What have yon come here for, monUtah high schools." of the many sieur?" she began. The I old face of the trader flushed Coyote Made Bold By Hunger as he gazed nt the girl whose memory Lakeside, Utah. For some time the had taken his peace of mind. The hardness of the mouth softened, In coyotes, unusually cowardly animals the dark eyes was the look of a boy have startled ranchers with their as he answered : boldness, sneaking up to ranch hous"It Is a story yon have heard be- es, snatching poultry and stock and fore, mademoiselle. But I am here to now and then even attacking people. tell It at a time when you will be wise The heavy snow has made food scarce to listen. This Is a ruined fur post. and the coyotes are desperate for Your father will be forced to leave In food. the spring. What does that mean to you?" Ford Starts "Pony Express" (TO BB CONTINUED.) Ietrolt, Mich. An aerial variation of the old "pony express" was InauguSpeaking Plainly rated here when the first contract A farmer who had married a rich left the airport on time woman was constantly Irritated by airplane a. m. FordCleveland. for at 10:40 The of fact hit wealth the wife's having was the "Maiden Dearborn No. thrown np at him by the wife herself plane all metal airplane manufacand by her relatives. Whenever he 1," first tured by the Ford Motor company and bought anything, or made any Improvement on the farm. It was always, "If It was piloted by Lowrence Fltz, wasn't for my money yon wouldn't Withdrawal Applications Rejected have been able to do that." One day Salt Lake City. State Engineer the farmer brought hack from market a fine cow that he had bought for a George M. Bacon rejected three apmere song. WhJa lie whs exhibiting plications from Caleb Tanner to apthe atilmfll to an admiring graiip of water from the I'rovo his wife came en tha propriate the waters have been river, withbecause scene. "Well. Nellie," he sal7 prouddrawn by proclamation of the goverly, "isn't thU a splendid cowT" "Yes." she replied coldly, "hut If It wasn't nor. Mr. Tanner proposes to make a test case of the matter of withdrawal for my money It wouldn't be here." Exasperated, the firmer yelled out. from appropriation of the. waters and "No, woman, and If It hadn't been has appealed Vora the derision of tha for youi money you wouldn't bays engineer to the district court of Utah been here yourself." county. hom-comin- g Utah-Delawa- dog-bell- . man-ente- s. . known. Salt Lake City. Dircetly conflicting opinions concerning the proposed g building of a railroad into the Uintah basin are expressed by Alexander Ber-gepresident of the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company, which plans to build the line, and A. S. Pyeatt, president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company, which road has withdrawn its application to build a spur into the Uintah country from Soldier Summit. Washington. The discovery depletion clause of the tax reduction bill, the last item considered and acted on by the conference committee, largely follows the language of the senate bill but with several amendments proposed by Senator Smoot to the paragraph deflninfl discoveries. The text was finally agreed to by the conference committee. Salt Lake City. The Utah Sugar Beet association and its parent association, the Utah State Farm bureau, are planning an intensive campaign this year throughout the state to encourage the consumption of more beet sugar as a means of aiding the sugar beet producers of the state, it was announced by Ephraim Bergson of Cornish, president of both the state farm bureau and the sugar beet producers. With the new three-yea- r contract with the sugar manufacturers, which gives the bectgrowers an Increased revenue from sugar extracted. Salt Lake City. Judgment of the district court of Utah county denying Ihe Salt Lake & Utah railroad an injunction to restrain Payson City from selling property of the railroad for delinquent taxes levied In 1920, was affirmed by the supreme court. The railroad company appealed to the higher court. r, Utah-Delawar- Stepped Inside and, as She Retreated, Closed the Door, Following Her Into the Living Room. message at the rendezvous. I sent Gaspard but he may have feared the WIndigo und lied to me. My daughter and I are well and send our o.anges." Hlluire St. Ouge." After considerable discussion with felicitations. "Well, what have you got to- - say, his people the older Indian replied: "tVe do not wish to leave the hunting Michel?" demanded. "I say w'en de dog res', Jacques go ground of our fathers. As you say, there Is game on the ridges and In down riviere an' breeng up grub. De the creek bottoms. If you will camp WIndigo ees on dls luk' now. We here with the white medicine man and hear hecm soon." David nodded In acquiescence, the shaman dog with the voice of the e e thunder, we will stay." The day that Little Jacques left the "We will camp here und keep the WIndigo away." answered Michel, post on his return to I'ortage lake Steele from St. trusting that the beast would prove with the letter to In his trade-rooOnge, the factor sat him a false prophet. In the morning leaving David at staring with unseeing eyes at the the camp to ease the fear of the wom- wull. The hope Inspired by the reen, Steele and Michel slipped Into turn of Steele, despaired of as dead, their snow-shoe- s and taking the with his plans for the running down hound, drove their sled with the traps of the brute, whose appearances In to the first lines of marten and fox the valley of the Walling and In the were eta on the neighboring ridges. There, lake districts of Its water-shealong the line which the WIndigo had fast working the doom of the post, robbd, Michel set the six double-sprin- g wag at low ebb. Try as they might, wolf traps under the new snow he felt that the problem which faced near the marten canaries, chaining his three loyal friends would prove them to spruce logs, which he burled. beyond their power of solution In Farther on, at two of the fox sets, time to save the post. There would Michel and Steele brought from their be little Christmas trnde, and sumsled the two bear traps. These, also, mer would find Wailing River deserted. were burled In the snow where an aniAs he sat brooding with his pipe, mal Approaching the baited fox trap would step on the pan, releasing the the Jingle of dog bells trought him to his feet. Could It be Jacques returnyawning Jaws. It would take six days for Little ing for something he had forgotten? Jacques to make the round trip to the St. Onge threw on his duffle capote post, and that night over the fire, and went out, to meet a panting team while he Ojlbways cowered In their of huskies, the steam of their hot tlpl, the three men talked of what breaths rising In clouds In the biting message he might bring. Tliey won- air. We thought somedered In what way Laflnmme would show his teeth for strike he would thing had happened !" "1 see Michel before the long snows faded ; If he at de fork of de would dare again to send men to the Stoopln. He geeve me dls for yon." post. It seemed unlikely, for he did produced from his sled on which were not know that the head man was ab- roll of birch-bark- , sent, the Iroquois, from Nlplsslng, traced with a charred stick syllabic ho was known the length of the characters In OJlbway. ' St. Onge translnted: "Come to fork Walling and the treat Albany for the sureness of hU eye over the sights Stooping river quick when you get Michel." and the possession of a stone hard this from You met Michel uprlverT" asked nerve. No, Laflamme would not send men to the post on so desperate a ven- the surprised factor. "Yes, he cum dere at daylight, w'cre ture. ' Five uneventful days passed. Con- I camp. Hees dog cnn travel no more, fluent of the supernatural powers of lie geeve dls to me so you get dere strange dog whom they before sun go down, and he res' hees 8fiI and Ms In the forest dog. He go back I'ortage Ink' dis nw heard In ull voice of Michel, the the trail sleep," following "Did he sny what had happened? again began to travel their lines of traps. However, It whs clear He gave you no letter from Steele?' "M'sieu Steele ees ovalr on de that a few mom night pf the Indigo a Leetle mean Current wld Daveed." would gen at I'ortage "Hut why does h want to see me eral exodus. On tha afternoon of the jlxth day tonight Laflamme , "Tete-Boule- Tete-l!oul- ! e Tete-Hotil- s, r e. h anniversary Utah-Delawa- free-trade- well-traine- e. Traffic on the Ogden electric line to Huntsvllle Ogden. yon canwa-halt- by two snowslides In Ogden canyon following the heavy snowfall. Salt Lake City. The Chief Consoll-dateMining company of Eureka during the year 1925 had a gross yield from Its property of $4,704,367, from which deductions of $4,353,364 are made, leaving the net proceeds ot the mine $351,003, which multiplied by three gives the value of the mine at $1,055,000. The figures are those filed with the state board. d farni-hiiml- I Ogden. Mayor George E. Browning requested Senator William H. King to amend senate bill No. 675, which provides for the sale of 3S.3G0 acres of public land In Ihe mountains east of OH'len. to the city at $1.25. It was requested that the land be transferred to the city for watershed purposes Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake county commission appropriated $1000 to the Intermountaln Livestock assoIn connection with ciation to be the annual livestock show. This Is the customary allowance made by the county to this Institution. ud I j TAX REDUCTION BILL IS PASSED APPROVES $387,000,000 MEASURE AS AGREED TO IN REVISION CONFERENCE Garner Attacks Repeal Leaders And Blames American Bankers League For Proposal Lost In Conference Washington. The house finally approved the $387,000,000 tax reduction bill as agreed to by house and senate conferees. The house vote on final passage was 853 to 29. Taking direct Issue with Democratic leaders in the senate, Mr. Garner warned southern Democrats they would have to fight their senators or "change viewpoints." The attack on the campaign fo; repeal of the Inheritance tax, which was restored-t- o the revenue bill, upon the lnsistance of the house, preceded a vote on adoption of the conference report on the bill. Amid applause from both sides of the chamber, Representative Garner charged that the American Bankers' to league had "bought legislators come up here and lobby for repeal of the inheritance tax." "They got some congressmen in the other chamber," Mr. Garaer declared. "They are after me, hut they won't get me to change my viewpoint." Washington. The $337,000,000 federal tax reduction bill was taken up in the house for final approval or rejection of the conference revision and immediately precipitated a fight over the question of repealing the estate tax, as voted by the senate. Representative Garner, Texas, minority tax leader, attacked the senate Democrats who approved repeal and the American Bankers' league. He blamed the. league for the proposal, which was lost in the conference revision. Washington. With leaders expecting quick action the compromise revenue bill agreed to by senate and house conferees and proposing a tax reduction of $387,000,000, was brought up for ratification in the house. Several members opposed the conference recommendations, but managers for the measurae were confident the house would accept the bill before night. BILL TRUDE DOG DERBY WINNER Trude Makes Record Time; Thirteen-Yea- r Old Lad Comes In Second Ashton. Records became the flotsam and jetsam of the dog racing world here when five drivers shattered beyond recognition all previously known records for the American Dog Derby course of twenty-fiv- e miles, when six took liberties with the record for once around the track, and when the American drivers, including Warren Brown of McCall, who weighs 95 pounds, covered with snow, ran away from the three Canadian champions. - A. H. Salley, driver for Ashton Bill Trude, took first place In the classic with a "time of 1 hour EG minutes and 58 seconds. The previous record for the course was 2 hours 9 minutes 18 seconds, made by Smoky Gaston. Warren Brown, the McCall champion, pushed his dogs to a good second, nosing out Harry Kennedy and Smoky Gaston, who finished in order named. Brown's time was 2 hours 3 minutes 40 seconds. Kennedy negotiated the distance in 2 hours 3 minutes 52 seconds, while Smoky Gaston, veteran of the Ashton trail, went the three laps in 2 hours 3 minutes 69 seconds. Tud Kent, winner In 1925 and favorite In the 1926 derby, did not place. Getting away to a good stare, Kent ran into trouble early and by the end of the first lap was almost definitely out of it. Further trouble with his dogs on the second lap placed him so far behind that geting into the money was impossible. New Snow Falls Over New York New York. New York, its traffic back to normal after struggling with two unusually heavy snowstorms of the past few weeks, was mantled in white again. Snow began falling shortly after midnight and by morning, when It began to dwindle, several Inches had fallen. The snow removal bureau, which had been cleaning up tho drifts left from the previous storms, went back to work on main traffic arteries. The storm was general along the north Atlantic coast the weather bureau reported. Big Gun Emplaced At Ft. McArthup San Pedro, Calif. The newest coast defense weapon on the Pacific Coast, fourteen Inch railway rifle, was on Its concrete base at Fort McArthur here with military ceremonies attended by thousands. All communities of the district were represented In the ceremonies of dedication. Major Lincoln B. Chambers, commandant of the harbor defenses here, opened the fortifications to public Inspection following the dedication em-plac- |