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Show PAGE TWO THE SON OF KAZAN by I t ffflirf f.7i I M JAMES 41 OLIVER CUKWOOD, 0 WNU Bervlcs "A DOGl" Part wolf, part dor Synopsis. when two months old Baree has hts first meeting; with an enemy, Papayuchlsew (young; owl). Fighting; hard, the antagonists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and half- drowned, Baree Is finally flung- on the bank, but the water has destroyed his sense of direction and he Is lost, lonely and hungry. For many days his life Is one of fear and distress. He meets various creatures of the wild and goes through a He Is learning thunderstorm. more and more. He strays into the trapping grounds of Pierrot and Nepeese. Chapter II ' Continued "Something Is killing off the young beavers," he explained to Nepeese, speaking to her In French. "It Is a Tomorrow He lynx or a wolf. shrugged his thin shoulders, and untied at her. "We will go on the hunt," laughed Nepeese happily. In her soft Cree. When IMerrot smiled nt her like that, and began with "tomorrow," It always meant that she might go with him on the adventure he was contemplating. In a voice that was soft and plaintive and amazingly comforting to his terrified little heart, cried : "Uchimoo Uchimoo Uchlmoo !" And then he heard another voice; and this voice, too, was far less ter rible than many sounds he had lis tened to in the forests. "We cannot find him, Nepeese," the voice was saying. "He lias crawled off to die. It Is too bad. Come." Where Baree had stood in the edge of the open Pierrot paused and pointed to a birch sapling that had been cut clean off by the Willow's bullet Nepeese understood. The sapling, no larger than her thumb, had turned her shot a trifle and had saved Baree from Instant death. She turned again, and called: "Uchimoo Uchimoo Uchimoo 1" Her eyes were no longer filled with the thrill of slaughter. "He will die " "Ayetun yes, he will die." But Baree had no Idea of dying. He was too tough a youngster to be shocked to death by a bullet passing tnrough the soft flesh of his fore leg. That was what had happened. His tfv j' vitw I 4 Still another day later, at the end the afternoon, Baree crossed the Gray Loon on a bridge of driftwood that had wedged between two trees. Just beyond the driftwood bridge there was a small open, and on the edge of this Baree paused to enjoy the last of the setting sun. As he stood motionless and listening, his tail drooping low, his ears alert, his nose sniffing the new country to the north, there was not a pair of eyes In the forest thnt would not have taken him for a young wolf. From behind a clump of young h hundred yards away, Pierrot and Nepeese had watched him come over the driftwood bridge. Now was the time, and Pierrot leveled his rifle. It was not until then that Nepeese touched his arm softly. Her breath ranie a little excitedly as she whispered : "Nootawe, let me shoot. I can kill him!" With a low chuckle Tierrot gave the gun to her. He counted the whelp as already dead. For Nepeese, at that distance, could send a bullet Into an Inch square nine times out of ten. And Nepeese, aiming carefully at Baree, pressed steadily with her brown forefinger upon the trigger. As the Willow pulled the trigger of her rifle, Baree sprang Into the air. He felt the force of the bullet before lie heard the report of the gun. It lifted him off his feet, and then sent him rolling over and over as If he had been struck a hideous blow with a club. For a flash he did not feel pain. Then It ran through lilm like a knife of fire, and with that pain the dog in 1dm rose above the wolf, and he let out a wild outcry of puppylsh yapping ns he rolled and twisted on the ground. Pierrot and Nepeese had stepped from behind the balsams, the Willow's beautiful eyes shining with pride at the accuracy of her shot. Instantly she caught her breath. Her brown fingers clutched at the barrel of her rifle. The chuckle of satisfaction died on ' Pierrot's lips ns Uaree'g cries of pain filled the forest. "UchI Moosls!" gasped Nepeese, In her Cree. Pierrot caught the rifle from her. "Diable! A dug a puppy'"' he cried. He started on a run for Bare. Hut In their amazement they had lost a few seconds and Baree's dazed senses were returning. He saw them clearly as they came across the open a new kind of monster of the forests! With a final wall he darted buck Into the deep shadows of the trees. He had shivered at sight of the bear and the moose, but for the first time he now sensed the real meaning of danger. And It was clone after lilm. He could hear the crashing of the beasts In 'pursuit; strange cries were almost nt his heels and then sud denly he plunged without warning ln to a hole. It was a shock to hnve the earth go from under his feet like that, but P.ue did not yelp. The wolf wag dom(int In him again. It urged Mm to reil iln where he was, making no move, 1no sound scarcely breathing. The toM keg were over him ; the strange feet aluJ st stumbled In the bole where he lay Looking out of his dark hld- ng pi i'ce, he could see one of his enemii. It wag Nepeese, the Willow, Sh weV standing so that a last glow of the dny feu opon her face. Baree ld not take his f" s from her. Above ills pain there inJ In him a strange and thrilling fnsWna tlon. The girl put her two lunds'to tier mouth, and of sharp-pointe- two-legge- later, out of the heavj timber of the creek bottom Into th; more open spaces of a small plain that ran along the foot of a ridge. It was in this that Oohoomlsew hunted. plain Oohoomlsew wag a huge snow-ow- l. He was the patriarch among all the owls of Pierrot's trapping domain. He was so old that he was almost blind, and therefore he never hunted as other owls hunted. He did not hide himself In the black cover of spruce and balsam tops, or float softly through the night, ready In an Instant to swoop down upon his prey. His eyesight was so poor that from a spruce top he could not have seen rabbit at all, and he might have mistaken a fox for a mouse. So old Oohoomlsew, learning wisdom from experience, hunted from ambush. He would squat on the ground, and for hours at a time he would remain there without making a sound and scarcely moving a feather, waiting with the patience of Job for something to eat to come his way. Now and then he had made mistakes. Twice he had mistaken a lynx for a rabbit, and In the second attack he had lost a foot, so that when he slumbered aloft during the day he hung to his perch with one claw. Crippled, nearly blind, and so old that he had long ago lost the tufts of feathers over his ears, he was still a giant In strength, and when he was angry one could hear the snap of his beak twenty yards away. For three nights he had been unlucky, and tonight he had been parTwo rabbits ticularly unfortunate. had come his way, and he had lunged at each of them from his cover. The first he had missed entirely ; the second had left with him a mouthful of fur and that was all. He was ravenously hungry, and he was gritting his bill In his bad temper when he heard Baree approaching. Even If Baree could have seen under the dark bush ahead, and had discovered Oohoomlsew ready to dart from his ambush, it Is not likely that he would have gone very far aside. His own fighting blood was up. He, too, was ready for. war. Very Indistinctly Oohoomlsew saw him at last, coming across the little He open which he was watching. squatted down. His feathers ruffled up until he was like a ball of fire. Ten feet away, Baree stopped for a moment and licked his wound. Oohoomlsew waited cautiously. Again Baree advanced, passing within six of the feet bush. With a swift hop and a sudden thunder of his powerful wings the great owl was upon him. This time Baree let out no cry of pain or of fright. The wolf is kiplchl-maas the Indians say. No hunter ever heard a trapped wolf whine for mercy at the sting of a bullet or the beat of a club. He dies with his fangs p bared. Tonight it was a that Oohoomlsew was attacking, and not a dog-puThe owl's first rush keeled Baree over, and for a moment he was smothered under the huge, outspread wings, while Oohoomlsew pinioning him down hopped for a claw hold with his one good foot, and struck fiercely with Ills beak. One blow of that beak anywhere about the head would have settled for a rabbit, but at the first thrust Oohoomlsew discovered that It was not a rabbit he was holding under his wings. A snarl answered the blow, and Oohoomlsew remembered the lynx, his lost foot, and his nar row escape with his life. The old pirate might have beaten a retreat, but Baree was no longer the puppylsh Baree of that hour In which he had fought young Papayuchlsew. Experi ence and hardship had aged and him ; his ' Jaws had strengthened passed quickly from the g to the age and before Oohoomlsew could get away, If he was thinking of flight at all, Baree's fangs closed with a vicious snap on his one good leg. In the stillness of night there rose a still greater thunder of wings, and for a few moments Baree closed his eyes to keep from being blinded by Oohoo- mlsew's furious blows. But he hung on grimly, and as his teeth met through the flesh of the old night pirate's leg, his angry snarl corrled defiance to Oohoomlsew's ears. Bare good fortune had given hlra that grip on the leg, and Baree knew that tri umph or defeat depended on Ms ability to hold It. The old owl had no other claw to sink Into him, and It was Impossible caught as he was for him to tear at Baree with his beak. So he continued to beat that thunder of blows with his four-foo- t wings. wolf-whel- He Was Gritting His Bill in His Bad Temper When He Heard Baree Approaching. leg was torn to the bone, but the bone Itself was untouched. He waited until the moon had risen before he crawled out of his hole. His leg had grown stiff then; It had stopped bleeding, but his whole body was racked by a terrible pain. Instinctively he felt that by traveling away from the hole lie would get away from danger. This was the best thing that could have happened to him, for a little later a porcupine came wandering along, chattering to Itself In its foolish, way, and fell with a fat thud Into the hole. Had Baree remained, he would have beeu so full of quills that he must surely have died. The exercise of travel was good for Baree. It gave his wound no opportunity to "set," as Pierrot would have said, for In reality his hurt was more For the first painful than serious. hundred yards he hobbled along on three legs, and after that lie found that he could use his fourth by humoring It a great deal. He followed the creek for a half mile. Whenever a hit of brush touched his wound, he would snap at It viciously, and Instead of whimpering when he felt one of the sharp twinges shooting through him, an angry little growl gathered In his throat, and his teeth clicked. Now that he was out of the hole, the effect of the Willow's shot wns stirring every drop of wulf blood In his body. In liliu there was a growing animosity a feeling of rage not against any one thing In particular, but against nil things. It was not the feeling with which he had fought Papayuchlsew, the young owl. On this night the dog In him had disappeared. An accumulation of misfortunes had descended upon him, and out of these misfortunes snd his present hurt the wolf had risen savage and vengeful. This was the f.rst night Baree had traveled. He was, for the time, unafraid of anything that might creep up on him nut of the darkness. The blackest shadows had lost their thrill. It wag the first big fight between the two natures that were born In lilm the wolf and the dog and the dog was vanquished. Now and then he stopped to lick his wound, and as he licked It he growled, as though for the hurt Itself he held a personal antagonism. If Pierrot could have seen and heard, he would have understood very quickly, and he would have said: "Let him die. The club will never take that devil out of him." In this humor Baree came, an ooui ' good-humore- d blood-curdlin- g ' bone-lickin- g bone-crackin- Baree's acquaintance with man begins unfortunately. What next? TO PBS CONTINUED.) Great Englith Sailor Friday, May 21, 192& NEPHI. UTAH S, o, d s, t TIMES-NEW- This Year's Style in Locomotives News Notes j It's a Privilege to Live in J Utah 1 1 fefM A The first radical change In railroad engines brought ouf In fifteen years Is evident In the New Union Pacific type. It has 3 cylinders instead of 2, has 12 drivers, 6 on each aide; Is 102H feet long, 16 feet 1H Inches high, and 11 feet 2 Inches wide. This new type will haul 125 carloads of freight 50 of miles per hour. It will be used between Cheyenne, passenger speed Wyo., and Ogden, Utah. it IMPORTANG EOF VOTE STRESSED PRIMARY RESULT MAY EFFECT PRESIDENT, MELLON OF PROHIBITION ISSUE Fight Bitter Between George Pepper and Gov. Pinchot, With Vare as Leading "Wet"; It Also Ef- x fects Secretary Washington. With Mellon one exception, the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday is the most important single event of the present political year. The exception is the case of Senator Butler of Massachusetts, and the only reason for the Massachusetts election's greater importance lies in the' fact that Senator Butler's personal and geographical intimacy with President Coolidge will cause the senator's fate to be interpreted as having a direct bearing on the prestige and power of the president himself. For the importance of Pennsylvania primaries on Tuesday, there are many reasons. It constitutes the best oportunity the "wets" have to register a striking advance in any of this senatorial year's pending thirty-threprimaries and elections. It determines the fate of so distinguished a senator as George W. Pepper. It effects Secretary Mellon closely because he has deliberately solicited the people of Pennsylvania to Identify Pepper's fate with his own. This Pensylvania primary will either close the political career of Governor Pin chot, or else give him a powerful shove toward a greater career than he has yet had. It will measurably de termine whether the prohibition Issue is to figure in the 1928 presidential primaries and elections. If the "wet" candidate should win it will reveal Pennsylvania as a "wet" spot in the Republican party almost as conspicuously as the Democrats have in New York. Persons outside Pennsylvania can best be given an understanding of the situation by a brief chronologlcaj statement. George W. Pepper was appointed to the senate four years ago as the successor of Senator Penrose and by roughly the same political organization of which Ponrose was the head. The selection of Pepper exthe comparatively pressed steady though sometimes interrupted tradition of Pennsylvania that its senators at Washington should be men of a higher type of Intellect and character that it was the custom to put In ordinary office. By a similar Pennsylvania tradition, Pepper shauld now be returned for a second term without opposition. That, in fact, was the program that remains cf the old Pennsylvania Republican organization as now captained loosely by Secretary Mellon and Senator David Reed. Report Showa Farm Products Rise Washington. Farm products and foods were slightly higher at wholesale In April as compared with March hut nearly all other comomditieg showed a narrow decline the department of labor reported. The bureau'g weighed Index number, which includes 404 comomditieg or price series with 151.5 for April compared with 151.5 for March. For April 1925 the Index number was 156.2. Sir Francis Drake, famous naviga tor of the time of Oueen Kllzabeth. sailed from Falmouth December 13, 1577, sailed around the globe and re turnrd to England after suffering many hardships, on November 3. l.U0. The queen visited Drake on his ship nt Deptrorrt April 4, .Hl, and conferred upon Mm the honor of knight hood. He died at Panama Janunr Passenger Air Service Startg May 23 L'S, V'M, while engnged In. an expeLos Angeles. Calif. Dally passendition against the Spaniards, and w ger service over the Log Angeles Salt burled at sea. Lake City airway will be Inaugurated May 23. Harris M. Hansue, president That Did It of the Western Air Express announced Outside the storm raged. The thun- Sunday. The passenger traffic will der was deafening, the llghfnlnr be handled by the company's planes flashed almost continuously. Presentoperating under contract with the tnv. ly a bolt struck some part of the ernment for carrying air mail between house and knocked the owner com- the two points. Each plane win acpletely out of bed. He rose, ruobml commodate two passengers and that his eyes. nwii.t, and s:iid. "All rlgbi number can be carried each way every dnr. Ill get r.ii. ' day. Session Will Finish Varlei Washington. The usual preadjourn-men- t legislative jam is piling up in congress. Estimates as to the date on which the session will end rango from May 29 to July 15, with ultimate selection depending entirely on how many pieces of legislation are to be enacted. With the adjournment ques-tiostill hanging in the air, the house will resume during this week its work on farm relief bills the Haugen, and Tincher measures. On Tuesday the house will debate the highly controverted point of the major crop equalization fee contained in the Haugen bill, with discussion expected to run over Thursday and Friday, making it possible to reach a vote by the week-end- . The senate will resume consideration of the migratory bird reservation bill which has been under attack on the ground that it will discrinimate in favor of wealthy hunters. The senate commerce committee will meet tomorrow to decide whether it has power to. advise the shipping board to set aside the sale of five president type mail liners out of Seattle to the Dollar interests for $4,500,000 and reopen negotiations for disposal of the ships. n Warsaw Is Nw Normal Warsaw. Warsaw has settled down to its accustomed calni under the con trol of Marshal Piludski, with M. Rad- ja as acting president, and a ministry functioning under Professor Charles Bartel, until the national assembly meets sometime durfhg the present week to elect a president. The former president, M. Wojciechowskl, has been Eiven a passport and permitted to retire to the presidential summer resi dence at Spala. Some of the minis ters of his former cabinet are still under guard at Wilanow, but the min- istars of railways has becu allowed his liberty. Among the members of tae ousted government who are in the custody of Pilduskl are M. Zdziechow-ski- . Senator Smuslla, General Malcze-wsk- l and Generals Rovadowri, Anders, Zogorskl, Kessler and Zunzynskl. Bill To Provide U. S. Building Salt Lake City. Appropriation of 1925,000 for the construction of a new federal building In Salt Lake will be included in the appropriation bill of the next, or seventieth session of congress, and members of the Utah delegation are confident that a public lands bill, assuring western states title to school lands granted by the government, and a bill to reimburse Salt Lake donors of 120,000 for construction of ail mail hangars at Woodward field, will be enacted by the present session. Amundsen'g Party Arriveg Safe ! Salt Lake City. Utah, woolgrowers re now shipping their wool east through the recently organized Utah, Wool Marketing association, it Is announced by J. A. Hooper, secretaiy. A number of growers who have not been disposed to accept the pribe offered In Utah have shipped their wool through the association which has also financed the enterprise. are Salt Lake Cn.y. Negotiations being conducted and are virtually completed, whereby a $500,000 cast iron pipe plant will be constructed and operated near the Columbia Steel corporation's Ironton plane near Pro-vo, it was learned from reliable Information. Incorporation of a company known as the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company will be perfected during the week, and land holdings obtained from the Holding company. Salt Lake City. Agricultural development in the Millard county district of south central Utah Is going 'orward at a rapid rate, reports J. H. Manderfield, general manager of the Salt Lake Union Stockyards, who recently made a trip through that region. The pumping project south of Milford, which is supplying water for a large area of land. Is making possl- ble this unprecedented development, he esserts. New land is being bought into the project and thousands of acres of virgin soil was broken this spring. Salt Lake City. More than 4,500 acrea of new land in Millard county will be devoted to alfalfa seed production this year, accordnig to J. H. Manderfield, manager of the Salt Lake Union Stockyards, who has completed a tour of that county. The alfalfa crop of Millard and other central Utah counties is in the best condition, reported Mr. Manderfield. The greater development in Millard county is a result of the water pumping project near Milford, he explains. Spanish Fork. Work of planting beans for the Utah Packing corporation is practically completed. Many people with only small plots are growing pole beans for the cannery. These are planted about the middle of May so that they will not come into bearing before the peas are canned. Eureka Mines of the Tintic district shipped 167 carloads of ore during the week that Just ended. Following aro.the mines and their shipments Tintic Standard, (in carloal lots): 55; Chief Consolidated, 32; American Smelting and Refining (dump ore), 26; Bingham Mines, 19; Mammoth, 14; Plutus, 10; Iron King, 8; Colorado, 2; Yankee. 1. Salt Lake Condition of the sheep and cattle of the state is excellent and is nearly 15 per cent Improved over the corresponding period last year, giving evidence that the livestock men of the state will have a prosperous year, providing they receive fair prices, George A- - Scott, livestock statistician for the seven Western states, announced in his report. Myton The following facts have been assembled, relative to reclaimed land in Duchesne and Uintah counties. The total acreage is placed at 284,478. The two largest irrigation projects are the Dry Gulch Irrigation company of Roosevelt, containing 63,000 acres, and the Uintah and Ouray agency project, containing 80,583 acres. Salt Lake Plans for the annual convention of the district school superintendents of the state have been completed and tne program of the convention arranged, according to announcement from the office of Dr. C. N. Jensen, state superintendent of The convention public Instruction. is to be held at the University of Utah on June 21 and 22, and copies of the program planned have been sent to each of the district superintendents. . Salt Lake Increases In average milk and butterfat production for April over the preceding month, March, ars reported by two of the four association main-tn'ne- d by dairymen In the Caeho valley. The association whose cows bettered their March average during April were the Rlchmond-Lewlstoand WellsvllleJCollege ward associations. Provo-Springvill- e Nome, Alaska. Captain Roald Amundsen. Lincoln Ellsworth, Captain Oscar Wlstlng and Lieutenant Oskar Omdahl of the crew of eighteen of the dirigible Norge arrived here from Teller, seventy five miles northwest, lo the launch Pippin at 5 o'clock this morning. The Norge reached Teller from Spltzbergen via tne north pole Salt Lake City. at 8 o'clock Thursday night. The PipEarly opening pin was dragged fourteen miles to dates have been announced for both open water over the frozen bay of Zlon and Yellowstone National parks, Port Clarence at Teller before it due to expected heavy tourist travel, could put off. for the trip down the D. S. Spencer, general passenger agent coast of the Bering sea. It was a for the Union rac.ific railroad, said. cold and gloomy voyage. Captain Zlon park will open May 15, fifteen Peterson piloted the little launch In days before the usual opening date, which the quartet left to complete and Yellowstone will open June 30, the voyage originally planned for the while special parties will be permitted to enter the park June 16. airship from Spltzbergen to Nome. Ogden. Although the Amalgamated Sevier County Fights Pest Sugar company shared the unfavorRichfield, Utah. The white top able sales conditions with other sugar control campaign, recently initiated by manufacturing companies, the annual of the Sevier County Farm bureau, lg report to President Henry H. Rolapp, the stockholders at their angiven forward going extensively, according nual meeting shows the company to be to announcement by S. R. Bosweil, in excellent condition. county agent. The Sevier county comPrice. At a hearing In Price missioners have been called on to tut on June 7 the public Carbon county board nil the weeds on the county and state of commissioners g will consider highways. The railroad company hag for additional allowances of initiated a movement to measure the about $55,0(10 In the county road deareas on the right of way In order to partment and $50 In the recorder's determine the coat of salting the same. cow-testin- g appll-catlon- i ' |