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Show PAGE TWO THE BAREE, S on By James & Ce.) Friday, May 28, NEPHI. UTAH S. of Kazan Oliver Curwood Put (. Doubleday, WNU Service WARY BEAVER TIMES-NEW- EFFORT TO DROP TOLL week or two younger. But he was SUDDEN ERUPTION OF INACTIVE fully as heavy, and almost as wide as MOUNTAIN IN JAPAN BURwas he can no Nature long. produce was the dog, with Its generations of IES TOWNS IN MUD d lovIs creature more that subdued ond sleeping Instincts and able a than It Is a baby beaver, unless all that night the dog in him kept baby bear; and Umlsk would have Baree to the top of his rock. Next morning Baree found many taken first prize at any beaver baby One Hundred Bodies Located; Many crawfish aloBg the creek, and he show In the world. His three comInjured; Rumblings Give Warn-ingTwo Miles of Railway feasted on their succulent flesh until panions were a bit smaller. They Is Destroyed he felt that he would never be hungry came waddling from behind a low wilagain. Nothing had tasted quite so low, making queer little chuckling noises, their little flat talis dragging good since he had eaten the partridge of which he had robbed Sekoosew the like tiny sledges behind them. They Tokyo. A mountain lake, released were fat and furry, and mighty friendermine. an eruption from a long inactive by to Baree, and his heart beat In the middle of the afternoon Baree ly looking the trapping grounds of Pierrot volcano crater, caused the greater part of Joy. and Nepeese. Nepeesa wounds came Into a part of the forest that a sudden, swift Baree with a, rifle, but he esBut Baree did not move. He scarce- of the death and destruction which fol was very quiet and very peaceful. The capes. breathed. And then, suddenly, lowed the resumption of activity in ML ly creek had deepened. In places Its Umisk on one of bis playmates Tokachi, in central Hokkaido, north turned banks swept out until they formed and bowled him over. Instantly the ernmost of the principal islands of Ja small Twice he consider made ponds. Chapter II Continued able detours to get around these ponds. other two were on Umisk, and the four pan. 6 The governor of Hokkaido reported He trnveled very quietly, listening nnd little beavers rolled over and over, The wings made a great tumult kicking with their short feet and spat- to the hoita minister that 100 dead Not since the watching. day about Baree, but they did not hurt he had left the old windfall had he ting with their tails, and all the time and more than 200 injured had been him. He buried his fangs deeper. Ills so much at home as now, emitting soft little squeaking cries. removed from the mass of mud and felt quite snarls rose more fiercely ns be got the to him that at last he was Baree knew that it was not fight, but lava rocks precipitated from the long seemed It taste of Oohooniisew's blood, and country which he knew, and frolic. lie rose up on his feet. He slumbering crater. Besides these about through him there surged more hotly treading forgot where he was forgot every- 3000 farmers of the newly opened but where he the desire to kill this monster of the this was would find friends. Perhaps in the world but those play- rapidly developnig thing of miracle another agricultural dis mystery night, as though In the death of this Instinct of nature. For he was In ing, furry balls. For the moment trict around the mountain are missing creature he had the opportunity of old Jtseaver-tootall the hard training nature had and it is impossible to tell how many s domain. It was avenging himself for nil the hurts and here that his father and mother had been giving him was lost. He was of these may have been buried alive him since hunted In hardships that had befallen the days before he was born, no longer a fighter, no longer a hunter, in the floods of water and mud. ho lost his mother. no a seeker was after food. He longer It was not far from here that Kasun The peasants of the Tokachi dis Oohoomlsew had never felt a great and Beaver-toot- h had fought that a puppy, and In him there rose a de- trict were without warning, for on fear until now. The lynx had snapped mighty duel under water, from which sire that wal greater than hunger. May "4 the moribund volcano began at him but once and was gone, leav- Kazan had with his life with' He wanted to go down there with rumbling, and many fled from the re escaped Umisk and Ms little chums and roll ing him crippled. But the lynx had out another breath to lose. gion. not snarled In that wolfish way, and It ne rorest trew deeper. It was and play. He wanted to tell them, if Tuesday came three violent erup had not bung on. A thousand and one wonderful. There was no such a thing were possible, that hf undergrowth tions, tearing out the crater walls and to Oohoomlsew had listened his mother and his home, and nights and under the trees was like had lost allowing the lake to pour through the Instinct had told him beingtraveling the wolf-howhe had thnt been a hard having In a vnst, mystery-fillemighty cavern sides of the mountain, inundating sev what It meant. He had seen the through the roof of which the light of time of It, and that he would like to eral villages, drowning villagers and with them and packs pass swiftly through the night, day broke softly, brightened here their stny mothers and and and always when they passed he had there covering 10,000 acres of rice fields fathers if they didn't care. by golden splashes of the sun, To In the shadows. him. In bis throat there came the least with mud. Landslides on the steep kept deepest For a mile Baree made his way quietly as for all other wild things, the wolf this forest. He saw nothing bit of a whine. It wns so low that slopes added to the toll of destruction. howl stood for death. But until. now, through Umisk and his playmates did not hear Relief measures are under way. Two hundred doctors and nurses are atwith Baree's fangs burled Jn his leg. It. They were tremendously busy. he hud never sensed fully the wolf- Softly Baree took his first step to tending the injured, while 800 memfear. It had taken It years to enter ward them, and then another and at bers of the local young men's associaInto his slow, stupid head but now last he stood on the narrow strip ol tion, a nation-wid- e organization, are that it was there. It possessed him as shore within half a dozen feet of them. assisting. no other thing had ever possessed him His sharp little ears were pitched forTwo miles of the Kushiro railway, Jn all his life. af if ward, and he wns wiggling his tail as running west of the mountain, have ceased his fast as he could, and every muscle lu been destroyed. Hokkaido dispatches Suddenly Oohoomlsew his body was trembling in anticipation. describe the region of the castrophe beating and launched himself upward, Like huge fans his powerful wings It wns then that Umisk saw him, and as literally a sea of mud. It ' ? his fat little body became suddenly as chnrned the air, and Baree felt himMount Tokachi is one of the highest motionless as a stone. self lifted suddenly from the earth. of a Volcano chain running through In a moment "Hello!" said Baree, wiggling his Hokkaido island, most of the Still he held on and peaks of whole body and talking as plainly as which are known sa both bird and beast fell back with a ' dying volcanos of 1 a human tongue could talk. "Do you Yezo or Hokkaido thud. care If I play with you?" Oohoomlsew tried again. This time Vi-- -r Uralsk made no response, nis three he was more successful, and he rose West Helped By Bill Signed playmates now nad their eyes on Ba- fully six feet Into the air with Baree. iree. They didn't make a move. They ' Washin They fell again. Jl third time the old President Coolidge to wing himself free of outlaw jJlooked stuniiwi. Four pairs of staring, Baree's grip; and then, exhausted, he wondering eyes were fixed on the signed the omnibus water charges bill, thereby providing for a downward restranger. lay with bis giant wings outspread, Baree made another effort. H adjustment, to the textent of about hissing and cracking his bill. groveled on his forelegs, while his tall $23,000,000, on construction and" water Under those wings Baree's mind and hindlegs continued to wiggle, and charges levied against nineteen westof Instincts swift the the with worked with a sniff he grabbed a bit of stick ern reclamation projects. The new killer. Suddenly he changed his hold, law empowers the secretary of the inbetween his teeth. burying bis fangs Into the under part "Come on let me In." he urged. T terior to permanently remove thousof Oohooniisew's body. They sank know how to play !" ands of acres of reclamation land from Into three Inches of feathers. Swift as He tossed the stick in the air as If assessment of construction and water Baree had been, 'Oohoomlsew was to prove what he was saying, and gavi charges, thus reducing by about equally swift to take advantage of a little yap. the annual charges levied his opportunity. In an instant he had Umisk and his brothers were like against the districts. It also directs Know How to Play. swooped upward. There was a Jerk, dummies. a rending of feathers from .flesh nnd him to classify certain lands as temAnd then, of a sudden, some on porarily unproductive Baree was alone on the field of battle. but a few winged flittings of birds and remove no sound. Then h there was saw Baree. It was a big beaver swimBaree had not killed, but he had came to a almost charges against them. It Is estimated still Around down the pond with a sapling pond. ming conquered. His first great day or this pond there larger was a thick growth timber for the new pond that was un- the temporary class of lands will reThe world was night had come. of uiders and willows; the larger trees der way. Instantly he loosed his hold duce charges by about $7,000,000 anfilled with a new promise for him, ns out. He saw the glimmer and faced the shore. And then, like nually. The bill was drafted by Chair-mavast as the- night Itself. And after a had thinned Smith of the house irrigation of afternoon the report of a rifle, there came the committee sunlight on the water moment he sat back on his haunches, to carry out recommendaand all at he heard life. bis once, crack then, on of the water big flat tail sniffing the air for his beaten enemy ; tions of board of adjustments and the In There had few been the heaver's signal of danger that on changes the feathered Beaver-tooth'- s and then, as If surveys appointed by the secretary of since a the can be mil beard a colony half days quiet night come bnck and fight to the monster to the interior. A similar bill was inof his feud with Kazan and the others. away. end, he pointed his sharp little muzzle Old Beaver-toottroduced in the senate by Senator wns He It still older. danwarned. Danger," "Danger first to the stars and sent forth was fatter. He slept a great deal ger danger 1" Phlpps, Republican, Colorado. l Into the bnbvlsh and perhaps he was less cautious. He Scarcely had the signal gone forth Farm Products Rates Attacked was dozing on the great tnud-nnwhen tails were cracking In all direc III 1 Chapter brushwood dam of which he had been tionsIn the pond. In the hidden ca 1 I engineer In chief, when Buree came nals. In the thick willows and alders. Washington. Rates on livestock is out softly on a Baree s fight with OotioomlsV bank thirty or To Umisk and his companions thej and vegetables were attacked In arguhigh good medicine for him. It nolonly forty feet away. So noiseless had said : ments Tuesday in the interstate comgave him great confidence In himself, Baree been that none of the beavers 'Bun for your lives!" merce commission's western freleht fever the of cleared It uglalso but had seen or heard him. He squatted Baree stood rigid and tnotlonlesi j rate Investigation. A. H. Brown of He no longer himself fiat on his belly, hidden be now. In amazement !: watched th iness from his blood. Cleveland said that from nolnta went snapped and snarled at things ns he hind n tuft of grass, nnd with eager four little beavers plunge into the pone of Chicago that rates were stifling to went on through the night. Interest watched every movement nnd disappear. He heard the sound, growers. He said if a rel-o- f that given much less was Beaver-tootwound His was rousini, himself. He painful other and heavier bodies striking j ntlve equality of rates with competing the next day, and by nightfall he stood on bis short legs for n moment; ,... n.r. uiru ii.rir Itlliuoril I marl,t, thl Plovnl,.r, ltV,.fnn1r scarcely bad noticed It at nil. Since Mien he tilted himself up on his broad, piimiik lino ocMU!cuiig Niience, Softlj (lnutrv , wnillrl flirnloh tho rill, his almost tragic end at the hands of (bit tall like a soldier at attention, and Baree whined, and lils whine, was a I j . . ...a. , lu. tu " ,,,,, mg imiullu V1, ...1.1, In., Nepeese, he had been traveling in a wiih a sudden whistle dived into the to the benefit of the consumer. H. C. and bis little mates run away from him' general northeasterly direct inn, followpond with n great splash. In unci her moment It seemed to A great loneliness swept over him I Lust, representing the Pacific coast ing Instinctively the run of the waterways; but his progress had been slow, Baree that the pond wns alive with loneliness greater even than that ol vegetable growers nnd shippers' transnnd when darkness came again he wns beavers. Heads nnd bodies appeared bis first nlclit away from bis mother portation committee, said thnt under not more than right or ten miles from and disappeared, rushing this way nnd lie bad not found comradeship. Aui a new scale approved by the commission the carriers In California had the hole into which he had fallen nfler Mint through the water in a manner bis heart was very sad. been given an additional $3,000,000 in the Willow bail shot him. Mint nmiized nnd puzzled him. It was revenues, practically all coming from All sound now held n meaning for the colony's evening frolic Tail hit lettuce growers. Baree. Swiftly lie was coining Into the wnter like flat boards, odd whisPoor Baree! Even the playful little beaver are afraid of himl his knowledge of the wilderness. Ills tlings rose nliove the splashing and eyes glenmed ; his blood thrilled. Kor then as suddenly ns It had begun, the Spotted Fever In Wyoming Fatal many minutes at a time he scarcely play came to an end. There were Cheyenne, Wyo. Rocky Mountain HE (TO CONTlNl'tD.) But of all the sounds that probably twenty beavers, not counting moved. spotted fever, a disease communicatrame to him, the wolf-crthrilled him the young, and as If guided by a comed to humans from sheep ticks, claimPlantt and Animal t most. Again and again be listened to mon slcnal something which Baree From the study of plants we lean ed nine victims In Wyoming during It. At times It was far away, so fnr had not heard they became so quiet that It was like a whisper, dying away Mint hardly n sound could be heard how to grow them more efficiently nn May, flRures received by Dr. C. M. almost before It readied him; and In the pond. A few of them sunk un- make the fullest use of plant prod- Anderson, state health commissioner cases were rethen again It would come to hlin der the wnter and disappeared entirely, ucts; also, because life In plants nnt revealed. Twenty-threhot with the breath of the tint most of them Imree could watei, nnimnl Is similar. If not Identical ported officially during the first three weeks of the month, while six moro rlmse, calling bini to the red thrill of ss they drew themselves out on shore. ami ns plants lend themselves In som the hunt, to the wild orgy of torn flesh The beavers lost no time In getting ways more readily than do animals t have been reported unofficially. and running blood culling, culling, at their labor, and Baree watched and uch observations, uny Information w Berger Proposes Reserve Plans calling. That was It, calling him to listened without so much iis rustling n can obtain on how plants "work" will luiost certainly throw some light os bis own kin. to the bone of his bone blade of the grnss In which be was In functions anliuuU Inillur and hij and the flesh of his flesh to the wild, conceiiled. He wns trying to underWashington. A bill proposing esfierce bunting pucks of his mothir's stand. He was striving to place these man beings. of a national forest retablishment tribe! It whs (.ray Wolfs voice neck- curious and comfortable-lookincreaIn each state and providing for serve In Methodist Pioneet the trfght ing him Iray WolfV tures In bis knowledge of things. And blood Inviting him to the Brotherhood then, close under him not more than The first Methodist preacher It a policy of reforestation was drawn up of the Back. ten feet from where he lay be saw America wns Philip F.tnbury. who had by Representative Hcrger, socialist, Baree trembled ns he listened. In something that almost gnve voice to een In the Irish Methodist conference Wisconsin. It also would establish a his throat be whined softly. He edged the ruppylsh longing for companionbefore coming to this country Id 1700 migratory bird refuge In each tate. ! to the sheer face of a rock. He ship thnt was In him. found a number of Irish Metho He said at present the distribution of wanted to go; nature was urging hln dists In New York city nnd gathere)" regaining timber "Is unbalanced" nnd there, on a clean strip of I)on to .o. But the call of the wild wa' that rose ont of the soft mud of hem Into s small corig egntlon tha' his measure would call a "hilt" In the itrugplinz ngalnst odd; for in hln the pond, waddled fat little Umisk and held Its meeting1 Id bis Iioxmc present program "of destruction." Part wolf, part Oog Synopsis when two months old Baree has his first meeting with an enemy, Papayucblsew (young owl). Fighting hard, the antagonists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, and half drowned, Baree Is Anally 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 lie Is learning thunderstorm. more and more. He strays Into four-foote- ; pit-a-p- h l. d i 10 REACHES TO 100 three of his playmates. Umlsk was Just about Baree's age, perhaps a fout $16,-000,0- , n h - I wolf-how- d -- i n,t y e I THIRD RULE MCADOO AND SMITH SUPPORTERS ENDORSE PLAN AND INCLUDE UNIT VOTE Former Rivals Still Leading Characters In Party; Situation May Be Rule Changed; Two-Thir- Begun d In Iowa Washington, D. C The present Demogrowing movement within the cratic party to get rid of its rule began in Iowa with a resolution passed unanimously by the local Democratic state central committee. Thereafter Democratic national committeemen and committeettomen of Iowa sent a letter to the Democratic committeemen and committeewomen of all other states, which described the rule as "a blot on the Democratic escutcheon," and solicited the judgment of the others about abrogating it. The first reply came from New York, In which Norman Mack of Buffalo and Miss Elizabeth Marbury of New York endorsed the Iowa denunciation of the s rule, and added, possibly with significance, that the unit rule should go with it. Since the Iowa committeeman who initiated the movement was a McAdoo partisan and the New York committeeman who assented was a Smith manager, it is apparent that the growing support of the proposal has no relation to individual favorites or candidates for the presidential nomination. It was supposed that opposition would come from the south, but a southern paper, the Chattanooga News which is edited by a McAdoo partisan, George F. Milton, expresses the hope "that this effort to rid the Democratic party of its old man of .the sea will succeed." This paper includes both the s rule and the unit rule in s its condemnation. The rule is merely one which says that a Democratic candidate for the presidential s of the nomination must get delegates instead of a mere majority, as is the case in the Republican party. The unit rule is one which enables or requires the delegates from a given state to vote solidly as determined by a majority of the delegates from the state. If the unit rule were abolished, each delegate would vote individually. To abolish the unit rule Involves some complexity because several states have primary laws which gave the unit rule the status not merely of a party regulation, but of a formal statute. In this sense the question whether the delegates from a state shall vote as a unit or individuals embarrasses the Republican party as well as the Democrats. For example, in 1920, Hiram Johnson carried the primaries in Oregon. Thereafter, however, one Oregon delegate, did not vote for Johnson. Largely because of this, Johnson, within the past few months, has successfully resisted the appointment by President Coolidge of McCamant as a federal judge. two-thir- d two-third- two-third- two-third- two-third- EDWARDS CALLS DRY ORDER Enrollment of State and City Officials as Liquor Agents Assailed Washington, D. C. Denouncing a "menace" President Coolidge's e.a exe- cutive order authorizing enrollment of 1926 News Notes to Live It's a Privilege in Utah Salt Lake City. Two crops of early market tomatoes in Utah will be ready for shipment before the main crop is matured, according to a bulletin issued by Frank Andrews, agricultural statistician for the farm bureau. These two crops will be the yield of seventy-fiv- e acres in Washington county and acres in Grand county, seventy-fiv- e Mr. Andrews said. Myton. George L. Wood, general superintendent of the rural mail service for the federal government, made an inspection trip through the Uintah basin recently. He went as far as Vernal. Several changes have been made in the personnel of the truck drivers. Glenn W. Daniels, Jed Mar-di- e, Guy Pritchard and J. C. Nelson resigned and accepted positions with the Sterling Transportation company. Spanish Fork. Beet thinning in the Spanish Fork district is going forward rapidly now that the boys and girls are out of school and able to assit in the work. The beets show good stands as a rule and the favorable weather makes the work progress rap' idly. Ogden. Samples of water being used for dish washing purposes in cafes and root beer stands were taken this morning by V. G. Gill, sanitary inspector, for analyzing by A. T. Barrett, milk inspector. Salt Lake City. Members of the road committees of the Duchesne, Uinta and Wasatch county chambers of commerce will be in Salt Lake May 28 to meet with the road committee of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce and discuss problems in the Uinta basin country. F. C. Murphy, director of the chamber of commerce industrial department, received a telegram from G. Z. Billings, Duchesne county commissioner, that the party could be expected. About fifteen men from the three counties will be present. Logan. Last Saturday directors of the various county farm bureau organizations met with County Agent R. L. Wrigley and State Commissioner of Agriculture Harden Bennion to discuss a campaign which has been begun against a number of certain weeds in the county. Salt Lake City. Utah will receive $157,600 to build, maintain and survey highways in national forests and monuments as its allotment of funds totaling $4,500,000 to be expended by the federal government In this manner during the fiscal year beginning July 1. Such was the advice received In Associated Press dispatches from Waahigton. Ogden. The eighth annual Utah Department convention of the American Legion will be held August 23, 24, and 25, It was announced Monday by Department Commander Arthur Woolley. The convention will be held in Cedar road-buildin- g City. Heber City. Twenty-fivhundred head of dairy cattle have been tested for tuberculosis In Wasatch county (luring the past two weeks. Of this number fifty-threhead were found to be afflicted with the disease. Salt Lake City. An' article detailing the Victory highway motor caravan, fthlch will travel from San Francisco to Salt Lake June 9 to June 12, a feature of the May 12 issue of San Fran-fisc- o Business, house organ of the San franclsco chamber of commerce. e e state and city officials as prohibition agents. Senator Edwards, Democrat, New Jersey, announced that he will According to reports given call up in the senate this week his outMyton. in Myton, the rights of way for resolution demanding an Investigation the unit of the fedof prohibition enforcament "in all its eral aid road have been obtained. It In view of phases." the president's Is expected that those who have the order and" "the fact that early and fa- hatter in charge will advertise for vorable action will be demanded by Mds two weeks. It is reported administration leaders on the Goff bill that within construction work will begin by (the administration measure to tight- July Myton-Rooseve- en enforcement). Senator Edwards said he suspected that "something is 'rotten In Denmark ard that something warrant's a complete and thorough investigation." The senator described the executive order and the Goff bill as "flagrant violations of our constitutional rights," and declared that if either is put into operation "America will be metamorphosed Info a slave market of one hundred million souls completely subjected to the tyranny of an odious and brteful law which has already hopelessly disrupted our age-olscheme of peneral law enforcement, and is breeding a national of hypocrites and both active and potential criminals. "In an attempted Justification of the pres:drnt's prohibition order," he said. 'General Lincoln C. Andrews, czar of the Volsteadism, Is reported to have publicly stated that it in too late to Initiate an outcry about states' rights; that the eighteenth amendment killed that ancient and honorable slogan. West Pointers Will Not Fill Vacancies Washington. Uncle Sam needs 150 young men to Step right Info the United States army as second lleuten-nn's- , the war department announced Sunday. That a numb?r of vacancies will exist even nfter this year's graduating class of West Point enters the service. It was stated. Nation wide examinations will bo held next month and soldiers of the regular army, reserves, national guard and certain civilians, will be eligible to take them. Salt Lake City. Roads through Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Duchesne nnd Uintah counfies aro In good condition generally, according to Ira R. Browning, chief engineer of the state road commission, who, with E. C. Knowlton. assistant chief engineer in chnrge of maintenance, returned from a road Inspection tour recently of close to 13C0 miles through the counties named. They were accompanied by. Reuben Simpson of Price, engineer of road district No. 4, In which the counties visited He. According to reports eiven those who are In a position to know, the season this year Is at least two weeks ahead of former years. Some of the ranchers are beginning to irrigate. So far the outlook Is most promising In this part of the Uintah jasln. The orchards came through the winter In good condition, and the prospects are splendid for a good crop. Brlgham City, Prospects for a henvy crop off ruit In Brlpham City this year are very favorable. There will be a full rrop of Windsor cherries, according fo leading fruit growers, but the early vnrletle-i- , such as tho Iimbert, Orb, Napoleon and Bing will be lighter, the buds bavins been slightly nipped by thn frosts. S. T. Taylor of Salt Inke Myton. City, manager of the Taylor ditch, which supplies wafer for the south Myton bench, expects to have water on the bench by the first of next week. Myton. In by |
