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Show THE MGE SIX ' U" v H SON OF KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER CURWOODv COPYRIGHT BYDOUDlfDAYMCe G WNU Sarrlc sun had set for all time, and her own was filled with a vast loneliness. life ESCAPE There had been three at the graveside that afternoon as the sun went down Synopsis. Part wolf, part dog when two months old Baree Pierrot, herself, and a dog, a great, has his first meeting with an powerful husky with a white star on enemy, Papayuchisew (young ear. lie his and a white-tippebreast owl). Fighting hard, the antaghad been her dead mother's pet from onists are suddenly plunged Into a swollen creek. Badly buffeted, puppyhood her bodyguard, with her and half drowned, Baree Is finalalways, even with his head resting on on the bank, but the ly flung the side of her bed as she died. And water has destroyed his sense of that night, the night of the day they direction and he Is loBt, lonely and hungry. For many days his burled her, the dog had disappeared. one Is life of fear and distress. He had gone as quietly and as comHe meets various creatures of pletely as her spirit. No one ever saw the wild and goes through a him after that. It was strange, and to He Is learning thunderstorm. more and more. He strays into Pierrot it was a miracle. Deep in his the trapping grounds of Pierrot heart he was filled with the wonderand Nepeese. Nepeese wounds ful conviction that the dog had gone liaree with a rifle, but he eswith his beloved Wyoia into heaven. capes. Baree recovers and learns nature's secrets rapidly. Nepeese But Nepeese had spent three winIs determined to catch Baree and ters at the Missioner's school at Neltame him and tries again. son house. She had learned a great deal about white people and the real God, and she knew that Pierrot's IV Continued Chapter thought was impossible. She believed 8 her mother's husky was either Baree darted to one side and ran that for tlie open meadow. WaUayoo did dead or had Joined the wolves. Probnot stir as Baree sped past lilm no ably he had gone to the wolves. So more than If he had been a bird or a was It not possible that this youngster her father had pursued was of rabbit. Then came another breath of she and flesh and blood of her mother's air. heavy with the scent of man. the It was more than possible. The This, at last, put life into him. lie pet? on his breast, the white-tlppe- d turned and began lumbering after white star ear the fact that he had not Baree Into the meadow trap. Baree, her when he might easily have bitten looking back, saw him corning and burled his In the soft flesh of thought It was pursuit. Nepeese and her arms ! fangs She was convinced. While Pierrot came over the slope, and at Pierrot skinned the bear, she began the same instant they saw Wakayoo for Baree. hunting and Baree. Baree had not moved an Inch from When they entered Into the grassy under his rock. He lay like a thing dip under the rock walls, Baree turned stunned, his eyes fixed steadily on the sharply to the right. Here was a scene of the tragedy out In the one end of it tilted up great boulder, seen something that had He meadow. off the earth. It looked like a splenhe would never forget even as he did hiding place, and Baree crawled would never quite forget his mother under It. But Wakayoo kept straight ahead Into the meadow. From where he lay Baree could see what happened. Scarcely had he crawled under the rock when Nepeese and Pierrot appeared through the break In the dip, and stopped. The fact that they stopped thrilled Baree. They were afraid of Wakayoo! The s of the way big bear was across the meadow. The sun fell on him, so his coat shone like black satin. Pierrot did not kill for the love of killing. Necessity made him a conservationist. But he saw that In spite of the lateness of the season, Waka-yoo'- s coat was splendid and he raised NARROW d two-third- Ms rifle. P.aree saw this action. He saw, a moment later, something spit from the end of the gun, and then he heard that deafening crash that had come with his own hurt, when the Willow's bullet had burned through his flesh, lie turned his eyes swiftly to Wakayoo. The big hear had stumbled; he was on his knees; and then he struggled up and lumbered on. The roar of the rifle came again, and a second time Wakayoo went down. Pierrot could not miss at that distance. Wakayoo made a splenddl mark. It was slaughter; yet for Pierrot and Nepeese it was business the business of life. Baree was shivering. It was more from excitement than fear, for he had lost his own fear In the tragedy of these moments. A low whine rose In his throat as he looked at Wakayoo, who had risen again and faced his enemies his Jaws gaping, his head swinging slowly, his legs weakening under him as the blood poured through his torn lnns. Baree whined because Wakayoo had fished for him, because he ha.l come to look on lilm as a friend, r.nd because he knew It was death thut Wakayoo was facing now. Tht're was a third shot the last. Wakayi o sank down .in his His big head dropped betracks. tween his forcpaws. A racking cough or two came to Baree. And then there was silence. It was slaughter but business, A minute later, standing over Wakayoo. Pierrot said to Nepeese: "Mon IMeu. hut It Is a fine skin, Sakahet ! It !s worth twenty dollars over at I,nc P.nln '." Me drew forth his knife and began whetting It on a stone which he carried In his pocket. In these minutes Baree might have crawled out from under his rock and escaped down the canyon ; for n space he was forgotten. Then Nepeese thought of him. anil in that same st'ange, wondering voice she spoke again the word "Baree." Pierrot, who was kneeling, looked up t her. 'Oul. Saknht, He was born of the wild. And no he Is gone" The Willow shook her head. "Non, he Is not gone." she said, and her dark eyfs nuesten the sunlit meadow. As she quested the ragged edges of , he little meadow for sirns of the her thoughts flashed hack swiftly. Two years ago they had buried her irlncess mother tinder the tail spruce sea' their cabin. That day Pierrot's dog-pup- TIMES-NEW- whimper that Just reached the Wl'. low's ears. Slowly she stretched In an arm. It was bare and round, and soft. He might have darted forward the length of his body and burled his fangs In it easily. But something held him back. He knew that it was not an enemy; he know that the dark eyes shining at lilm so wonderfully were not filled with the desire to harm and the voice that came to hlra softly was like a strange and thrilling music. "Baree! Baree! Upl Baree!" Over and over again the Willow called to him like that, while on her face she tried to draw herself a few inches farther under the rock. She could not reach hlra. There was still a foot between ber hand and Baree. and she could not wedge herself In an inch more. And then she saw where on the other side of the rock there was a hollow, shut in by a stone. If she had removed the stone, and come in that way She drew herself out and stood once more In the sunshine. Her heart thrilled. Pierrot was busy over his bear and she would not call him. She made an effort to move the stone which closed In the hollow under the big bowlder, but it was wedged in tightly. Then she began digging with a stick. If Pierrot had been there, his sharp eyes would have discovered the significance of that stone, which was not larger than a water pail. Possibly for centuries It had lain there, its support keeping the huge rock from toppling down, Just as an ounce-weigmay swing the balance of a wheel that weighs a ton. Five minutes and Nepeese could move the stone. She tugged at it. Inch by inch she dragged it out until at last it lay at her feet and the, opening was ready for her body. She looked again toward Pierrot. He was still busy, and she laughed softly as she untied a big Bay handkerchief from about her shoulders. With this she would secure Baree. She dropped on her hands and knees and then lowered herself flat on the ground and began crawling into the hollow under the bowlder. Baree had moved. With the back of his head flattened against the rock, he had heard something which Nepeese had not heard; he had felt a slow and growing pressure, and from this pressure he had dragged himself slowly and the pressure still followed. The mass of rock was settling! Nepeese did not see or hear or understand. She was calling to him more and more pleadingly : "Baree Baree Baree " Her head and shoulders and both arms were under the rock now. The glow of her eyes was very close to Baree. He whined. The thrill of a great and impending danger stirred In his blood. And then In that moment Nepeese felt the pressure of the rock on her shoulder, and into the eyes that had been glowing softly at Baree there shot a sudden wild look of horror. And then there came from her lips a cry that was not like any other sound Baree had ever heard in the wilderness wild, piercing, filled with agonized fear. Pierrot did not hear that first cry. But he heard the second and the third and then scream after scream as the Willow's tender body was slowly crushed under the settling mass. lie ran toward It with the speed of the wind. The cries were weaker dying away. He saw Baree as he came out from under the rock and ran Into the canyon, anil In the same Instant be saw a part of the Willow's dress and her moecasined feet. The rest of her was hidden under the deith-trap- . Bike a madman Pierrot began digging. When a few moments later be drew Nepeese ou' from under the bowlder she was white and deathly still. Her eyes were closed. Ills hand could not feel that shi was and a great moan cf anguish rose out of his soul. But he knew bow to I'.uht for a life. He tore open her dress and found that she was not cn..hed as he had feared. Then he ran for water. When be returned, the Willow's eyes were open and she was gasping for breath. "The blessed saints be praised!" sobbed Pierrot, fulling on his knees at her side. "Nepeese, ma Nepeese!" She smiled at him, with her two hands on her hare breast, and Pierrot hugged her up to him, forgetting the water he had run so bard to get. Still later, when he got down on his knees and peered under the rock, his face turned while and he said: "Mon I ieu. If It had not been for that Utile hollow In the earth. Nepeese " He shuddered, and said no more. But Nepeese. happy In her walvatlop made a movement with her hand and said, smiling at him : "I would have been like that. Ah, mon pcre, I hope I shall never have a lover like that rock !" Pierrot's face darkened as be bent over her. "Non!" he said fiercely. "Never!" He was thinking again of McTaa-gart- . the factor at I.ac Bain, and hN hands clenched while bis lips Softly touched the Willow's hair. -- llv-Ii,- "Nepeese, Ma Nepeese I" and Kazan and the old windfall. He had witnessed the death of the creature he had thought Wakayoo, the big hear, had not even put up a fight. Pierrot and Nepeese had killed him without touching him; now Pierrot was cutting him with a knife which shot silvery flashes In tlx sun; and Wakayoo made no movement. It made Baree shiver, and he drew himself an Inch farther hack under the rock, where he was already wedged as if he had been shoved there by a strong hand. He could see Nepeese. She came straight back to the break through which his flight had taken lilm, and stood at last not more than twenty feet from where he was hidden. Now that she stood where he could not escape, she began weaving her shining hair Into two thick braids. Baree had taken his eyes from Pierrot, and be watched her curiously. He was not afraid now. His nerves tingled. In ti in a strange ami growing force was struggling to solve a great mystery the reason for bis desire to creep out from under his rock and approach that wonderful creature with the shining eyes and the beautiful hair. Nepeese was looking about her. She wan smiling. For a moment her face was turned toward him, and he saw the white shine of her teeth, and her beautiful eyes seemed- - glowing straight at him. And then, suddenly, she dropped on her knees and peered under the rock. Their eyes met. For at least half a minute there was not a sound. Nepeese did not move, and her breath came so softly that P.aree could not I hear It. Then she snld. almost in a whiper: 'Baree! Baree! I'pi Baree!" It was the first time p.aree had heard his name, and there was some-thinso soft and nsuring In the sound of It that In spite of himself the dog In him responded to It In Will Baree finally come under the domination of Nepeese? Friday, June 11, 1926 NEPHI, UTAH S, SENATE FACES News Notes to Live in a It's Privilege PROGRAM BLOC LAUNCHES DRIVES TO ENACT NEW McNARY-HAUGEBILL Salt Lake City. "I am fully confident and have been assured that the proposed legislation regarding the title to school lands in Utah will be enacted into law at the session of Oddie Insists Roads Aid Measure Must congress in December of this year, Pass If Congress Is To Adjourn and will direct my efforts unceasingFight Threatens; Attached ly to that end, realizing what it means As A Rider to the state and to the public ac common schools of my state, as well as to the, other Western states. Washington. Some of the most ImSalt Lake City. Utah's tomato crop, portant legislation that has come be- for which the state has been so famfore congress awaits action by the ous in the past, will only :be a trifle senate this week, while the house over half of what it was last "year, acrests on its oars. cording to a report issued by Frank A determined drive will be started Andrews, federal agricultural statisby the farm bloc to enact the re- tician. The acreage this year for tovamped McNary-Haugebill, attach- matoes for canning is only 4000 as ed as a rider to the administration's compared with more than 700 acres cooperative marketing bill, before the last year. close of the session. Salt Lake City. Crop and range With the amendments dictated by conditions In many of the counties of Vice President Dawes written into the southwestern Utah are better than bill, there were indications that the have been for many years, M. &'. they measure would command a majority secretary of the Utah State in the senate. The house must then Winder, Farm bureau, reported Monday. Rains "railroad" it through that body. will be needed badly in that section Although the senate finance com- as well as other parts of the state durmittee will begin hearings Wednesday ing the next few weeks. on the French debt settlement, final Salt Lake City. The acreage of toaction by the senate depends upon ratification of the pact by France. Sec- matoes for canning in Utah is but ac-57 was retary Mellon will be the first wit- per centtoofa what it issuedlast year, report recently by cording ness. agricultural The senate commerce committee Frank Andrews, Utah The 1925 acreage was will put on full steam ahead in con- statistician. 7000 acres, hence the 1926 acreage harsidering the $50,000,000 rivers and bors bill, passed by the house, in an would be about 4000, the same acreage effort to get it on the program of the as was planted in 1924. Myton. Tourist travel through the "steering committee." It faces a hard Uintah basin over the Victory highfight, but Is expected to be passed. The $85,000,000 federal aid good way has begun. So far the larger roads bill is scheduled for a vote on numbers are traveling eastward, many Friday. Senator Oddie of Nevada, in of them having spent the winter charge of the measure, has served months in California, and are now on notice that congress will not adjourn their way to their homes in the middle western states. The different until the bill is passed. Senator Copeland of New York will towns in the basin have suitable campmake an effort to get action on his ing grounds arranged for the accomcoal bill, designed to keep peace in modation of the tourists. the industry and protect the public in Salt Lake City. Chairman Henry the event of future strikes. H. Blood of the state road commisA bitter fight is certain to be waged sion said last Sunday that the highover the Dill raido bill, embodying the way west of Salt Lake is in good concommission form of administration. dition and will remain so for the visit Even if passed by the senate, the mea- of the caravan, June 12, barring a sure may fail in conference, because possible heavy rain at that time. Conthe house has passed the White bill, struction has. gone along steadily, Mr. providing for administration by the Blood said, and the highway to the Nevada line Is practically finished. secretary of commerce. Myton. Many of the ranchers In Mosul Control Pact Is Made this part of the Uintah Basin are harConstantinople. Turkey and Great vesting their first cutting of alfalfa Britain have signed the Mosul con- hay, while others who have been grazvention, which settles the dispute be- ing the land where they raise alfalfa tween these two countries over the seed are irrigating it for the first control of Mosul, with its important time. The Mosul untapped oil resources. Logan. Due to an unusually early question came up before the league of season in this locality, farmers are nations and various solutions were their first crop of lucern busy cutting the present suggested. Eventually of cases strawberries In number a and was drawn up. The princiagreement are being picked. Because of rains pal points of the convention are acfall wheat ceptance of what is known as the during April and May, the Brussels line by both parties with crop looks better than for many years. Myton. One nursery has delivered plight modifications in favor of Turkey in the neighborhood of Alimoun, and 900 fruit trees this spring in the the maintenance of a demilitarized Uintah basin. It is reported that .thirzone seventy-fivkilometers on both ty farmers will set out commercial sides of the frontier. A Turko-Iraorchards this season. Climatic condimilitary commission, presided over by tions are believed favorable for the a Swiss, will delimit tne ironner production of excellent fruit in this within six months after ratification of part of the state. The Inhabitants of the agreement. Myton. The Commercial club and the reded territory may choose Turk- business men of Roosevelt have acish nationality If they wish. Turkey is cepted the invitation of business men share In the roy- of Vernal to join with them in the celgranted a alties due the Irak government from ebration of the on oil in the kingdom of Irak, In which 5 and 6. An excellent program July the vilayet of Mosul lies. Great Brit- Is being prepared. In return, the peoain now holds the mandate over the ple of Vernal will join with Roosen kingdom of Irak and recently the velt in the observance of July 24, exwas mandate this covering Pioneer day. of twenty-fiva maximum to tended convenSpanish Fork. The local plant of years. The signing of this the Utah Packing corporation began tion last January was In conformity canning the first peas of the season with the decision of the league of naWhile a comparatively small Friday. over Mosul. tions in the dispute force was employed, It is expected the will be running at full blast beArmy Training Protested By Minister plant end of the week. Peas are fore the Washington, D. C. Recommenda-M- i maturing rapidly and a good crop Is ns against compulsory military txpected. The new warehouse of the (raining In schools and colleges, which company Is completed. It is expected wrs declared to be foreign to the that a much larger force of women ii'euls of (ho educational system, were will be employed this year than was made public by the administrative last season. of the Federal Council of fommlMf-Salt Lake City. The Utah-IdahChurches. Coincident with the com-mf c.'s appeal was the publication of Central Railroad company was granted a certificate of convenience and a war department statement reviewing tse growth of the reserve officers' necessity to operate an automobileof stage line for the transportation tra;n;n-- ; corps, showing that applicpassenger and express between Logan and of universities nineteen ation state line, and inhieh schools and the Utah-Idahend of thirty-fiv- e the public utilitermediate by points, fnr 1!. O. T. C. units were on file, hut rn.ild not be approved because of luck ties commission Thursday. of f'inds. The committee's appeal Brigham City. The comlssioners aiked church people throughout the of Boxelder county are arranging for fin'icn to study the whole question of the building of a new $10,000 county Militarism In education, and expressed Jail, to bo erected east of the present special dissatisfaction over the extencounty Jail site In this city. The location Is just south of the county sion of the program of military train-Ielaborate and technical courthouse and north of the Mahannah ir, of an character, even Into the public high hospital, the ground having been purchased from Dr. D. L. Mahannuh. schools. n e k one-tent- sesqui-centenni- e !t col-l"g- Bay City Fire Loss $200,000 San Francisco Smouldering ruins of a dozen residences, partial destruc- - (TO HE CONTINCED Finns' Double Chritlmat For centuries hefore I lie year 1772 the people of Finland had four 'hrlt-iiii- i holidays, but a Swedish royal decree loicd that year fiboli-he- d 'lit de third and fourth, ns It wk siralile to curtail the fe;;:il in Hip Interest of work B it the linti-- i tir have two "! r i ma hop ! v. T,..pin ber T, and -- '! (St. Step!"-!.- ' .';,)). tho-iL-li- t field, former Parific Coast league baseball park, remained m charred reminders of a conflagration hero which Is described by authorities as the "most scri'ius fire menace Fan Francisco has experienced since Pfil." Th" fre. starting a Kin? f i 11 In the lite afternoon, developed Info a ro. ei.mf cf destruction broimV.t under control. 'ig before It was NEW PROGRAM Utah FARM ! L EADERS MAKE I j Fait Lake flood growing weather still prevails throughout Utah and the crops generally are far ahead of the usual stage of development at this season in previous years, according to the weekly crops report Issued Wednesday by the weather bureau branch of the department of agriculture. Ogden. The canning of peas will b under way In northern Utah, and particularly Weber county, renter of the canning Industry, within a few days, officers of the Utah Canners association announced. ADMINISTRATION BILL TIGHTENING VOLSTEAD ACT GOES IN TO DISCARD Plan of Action Set Out By Steering Committee Fixes Guitting Time; Truth In Fabric Out; Discussing Debt Settlement Washington, D. C. A program of legislation The administra- tion bill for tightening up prohibition enforcement was thrown into the discard Tuesday by the senate Republican steering committee along with several other important measures. was out- lined which leaders believe will permit adjournment of congress sine die by the end of this month. While the French debt settlement was not technically before the committee, some Republican leaders said there was little prospect of action upon it at this session since the latest word from Paris was that there would be delay by the French parliament. The committee sidetracked the administration prohibition bill only after a fight, with Senator Willis, Republican, Ohio, demanding that it be given preferential status instead of being shoved over until the next and short session of congress. While turning down this bill, the committee agreed to have the senate consider another administration measure creating separate bureaus of prohibition and customs in the treasury department with a director at the head of each. The house already has approved this bill. A. majority of the committee was of the opinion that it was useless to call up the bill to put more teeth in the Volstead act unless the senate was prepared to remain here for many weeks while the whole wet and dry issue was again fought out on the floor. There were threats that the drys would undertake to call up the bill, which is now on the regular calendar, and force action before adjournment. If this course should be pursued the wets said they were ready to call for a showdown on a national referendum on prohibition as well as on their bills for modification of the Volstead act. House Favors More Judges A bill to authorize apWashington. pointment of additional federal judges in nine states was passed by the house and sent to the senate, vote was 215 to 97. The states affected are New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Michigan, South Dakota, Iowa and California. Vigorous opposition to the measure was voiced 'by Democratic members from New York City, who objected to the five additional district judges and one justice of the circuit court of appeals to be given their state. The prohibition issue was raised by several representatives, who maintained that the docket congestion, resulting in the demand for new judges, was caused by petty cases which belonged In police courts. Chairman Graham of the judiciary committee admitted that prohibition was the main cause of the legislation, but urged enactment of the bill, declaring that, under the present conditions it was impossible to transact court business in certain sections. - Senate Wrestles With Tax Board The fight over senate Washnigton. confirmation of President Cooldige's appointments to the new board of tax appeals was carried into the open senate Saturday, when Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, a former treasury secretary, introduced a resolution providing that no person who has been an employee of the internal revenue bureau within two years may be appointed to the board. Previously, behind dosed doors, the senate had battled for another hour over the nomin-nationwhich are opposed because some of the nominees are former bureau employees. . Governors Urge Aid to Highways Santa Monica, Cal. Telegrams urging the adoption of an appropriation bill of $75,000,000 In federal aid for road construction in the United States were telegraphed to both houses of congress by he United States Good Roads association convention In session here. The messages embodied a resolution by Governor W. J. Fields cf Kentucky and bore the signature of six state governors who are attending the convention. Greetings from President Coolldgo were contained In a telegram read to the convention at the opening session. Weather Bring New Fire Danger Missoula, Mont. With forests In north western Montana and northern Idaho extremely dry, humidity low and hot winds blowing, the fire situation again Is assuming a menacing aspect. Fires wero reported to district headquarters from three nallrn-a- l forests. Several crews of men have been sent from Missoula to fight three fires in the Ixdo forest. In the Hitter Hoot forest a firs Is being battled with i gasoline pump engine near Wood-?ide- . Two serious fires are reported. |