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Show THE PAGE SIX VSON OF KAZAN by JAMES OLIVER C UKWOOD.V WNU Barrio Chapter XIV The man's hatred was different from the beast's, but perhaps even, more Implacable. With McTaggart It was not hatred alone. There was' mixed with It an indefinable and superstitious fear, a thing he laughed at, a thing he cursed at, but which clung to him os surely as the scent of his trail Baree no clung to Baree's nose. longer stood for the animal alone ; he stood for Nepeese. That was the thought that Insisted In growing in McTaggart's ugly mind. He had not ceased to hate Baree ; he still hated him as he had never hated a man, but lie had an even greater reason now for wanting to kill him. It came to lilm first in bis" sleep, in a restless dream, and after that it lived, and lived the thought that the spirit of Nepeese was guiding Baree In the rav! aging of his trap-lin- e It was in January that McTaggart caught his first glimpse of Baree. He had placed his rifle agninRt a tree, and was a dozen feet away from it at the time. It was as if Baree knew, and had come to taunt him; for when the Factor suddenly looked up Baree was standing out clear from the dwarf spruce not twenty yards away from him, his white fangs gleaming and his eyes burning like coals. For a space McTaggart stared as If turned Into stone. It was Baree. He recognized the white star, the white-tippeear, and his heart thumped like a hammer in his breast. Very slowly he begun to creep toward his rifle. His band was reaching for It when like a flash Baree was gone. This gave McTaggart his new idea, lie blazed himself a fresh trail through the forests parallel with his trap-linhut nt least five hundred yards distant from It. Wherever a trap or deadfall was set tills new trail struck sharply In, like the point of a V, so that he could approach his line unobserved. d e Tit, 11115 ...,.-..-.- J miil-- l. lie i...it...i in'iitrru I liltl I time he was sufe of getting a shot at the dog. Again it was the man who was reasoning, and again It was the man who was defeated. The first day 'that McTaggart followed his new trail Baree also struck that trail. For a little while it puzzled him. Three times lie cut hack and forth between the old and the new trail. Then there was no dout)t. The new trail was the fresh trail, and be followed In the footsteps of the Factor from Lac Bain. McTaggart did not know what was happening until his return, trip, when he saw the story told In the snow. Baree had Visited each trap, and without exception he had approached each time at the point of the inverted V. Afier a week of futile hunting, of lying in wait, of approaching at every point of the wind a period during which McTaggart had twenty times cursed himself Into fits of madness, another Idea came to him. It was like an inspiration, and that it seemed almost Inconceivable that lie had not thought of It before. He hurried back to Post Lac Bain. The second day after he was on the trail at dawn. This time he carried a pack In which there were a dozen strong wolf traps freshly dipped In beaver oil, and a rabblt"whlch lie had snared .the previous night. Now and then he looked anxiously at the sky. It was clear until late In the afternoon, when banks of dark clouds began rolling up from the east. Half an hour later a few flakes of snow began falling. McTaggart let one of these drop on the hack of his d hand, and examined It closely. If was soft and downy, and he gave vent to his sat isfactlon. 'It was what he wanted. Before in. truing there would he six inches of freshly fallen snow covering the trails. He stopped t Hie next trap house and quickly set to work. First he threw away the poisoned halt In the "house" and replaced It with the rabbit. Then be began setting bis wolf traps. Three of these he placed clone to the "iloor"' of flie house, through which Baree would have to reach for the bait. The remaining nine he scattered nt Intervals of a foot or sixteen Inches apart, so that when he was done n veritable cordon of traps guarded the house, lie did not fasten the chains, but let them lay lonse In the snow. It Baree got Into one trap he would get Into others and there would be no use of toggles. Ills work done. McTaggart hurried on through the thickening twilight of winter night to his shack. He was highly elated. This time there could be no such thing as Allure. He had sprung every trap on his way from In none of those traits Lac Bain. would Baree find anything to eat until lie ciime to the "nest" of twelve wolf mlt-tene- traps. rieven Inches of snow fell Hint night, and the whole world seemed turned into a wonderful white robe. Like ..' j,;",.-- , the snow hung to fe;-h- ers It gave tall white caps to the rocks, and underfoot It was so light that a cartridge dropped from ti e hand sun': to the bottom of It. Baree was on the trap-lin- e early. He was more caurlous this morning, for there was no longer the scent or snow-shotrack of McTaggart to guide him. He struck the first trap about halfway between Lac Bain and the shack In which the Factor was waiting. It was sprung, and there was no bait. Trap after trap he visited, and all of them he found He sprung, and all without bait. sniffed the air suspiciously, striving vainly to eatch the tang of smoke, a whiff of the Along toward noon he came to the "nest" the twelve treacherous traps waiting for him with gaping jaws half a foot under the blanket of snow. For a full minute he stood well outside the danger line, sniffing the air, and listening. He saw the rabbit, and his jaws closed with a hungry click. He moved a step nearer. Still he was suspicious for some strange and Inexplicable reason he sensed danger. Anxiously he sought for it with his nose, his And all about eyes, and bis enrs. him there was a great silence and a great pence. His Jaws clicked again. He whined softly. What was It stirring him? Where was the danger he could neither see nor smell? Slowly he circled about the ; three times he circled round It, each circle drawing him a little nearer until at last hls'feet almost touched the outer cordon of traps. Another minute he stood still; his ears flattened; in spite of the rich aroma of the rabbit in his nostrils something was drawing him nway. In another moment lie would have gone, but there came suddenly e and from directly behind the a fierce little squeak, and the next Instant Baree saw an ermine whiter than the snow tearing hungrily at the flesh of the rabbit. He forgot bis strange premonition of danger. Iltigrowled fiercely, but his j plucky little rival did not budge from his feast. And then he sprang straight into the "nest" that Bush McTaggart had made for him. The next morning Bush McTjiggart heard the clanking of a chain when lie was still a good quarter of a mile from the "nest." Was It a lynx? Was it a tislier-catWas It a wolf or a fox? Or was It Baree? He half ran the rest of the distance, and at last he came to where he could see, and his heart leaped Into his throat when be saw that he had caught his enemy. He approached, holding Is rifle ready to fire If by any chance the dog should free himself. Baree lay on bis side, panting from exhaustion and quivering with pain. A hoarse" cry of exultation hurst from McTaggart's lips as he drew nearer and looked at the snow. It was packed hard for many feet about the , where Baree had struggled, and It was red with blood. The blood had come mostly from Baree's Jaws. They were dripping now as he glared at his enemy. The steel Jaws hidden under the snow had done their merciless work well. One of his forefeet was caught well up toward the first joint; both bind feet were caught; a fourth trap had closed on bis flank, and In tearing the Jaws loose he had pulled off a patch of skid half as big as McTaggart's hand. The snow told the story, of his desperate fight all through the night; his bleeding jaws showed how. vainly he had teied to break the Imprisoning steel with his teeth. lie was panting. His eyes were But even now, after all bloodshot. bis hours of agony, neither his spirit nor his courage were broken. When he saw McTaggart he made a lungo to his feet, almost Instantly crumpling down Into the snow again. But bis forefeet were braced. His head and chest remained up. and the snarl that came from his throat was tigerish In Its ferocity. Here, at last not more than a dozen feet from him was the one thing In all the world that he bated more than he hated the wolf breed. And again he was helpless, as be had been helpless that other time In the rabbit snare. The fierceness of bis snHrl did not disturb Bush McTaggart now. He unw how utterly the other was at his mercy, and with an exultant laugh he leaned his rifle against a tree, pulled off his mittens, ami began loading his pipe. This was the triumph he had looked forward to, the torture he had waited for. In his soul there was a hatred as. deadly as Baree's, the hatred that a Tniin might have for a He had expected to send a num. bullet through the dog. Hut this was better to watch him dying by Inches to taunt him as he would have taunted n human, to walk nhout lilm so that lie could hear the clank of the trap and see the fresh blood drip fl j!nree twisted his tortured legs and 1,- tn keep facing him. It whs a splendid the trees and shrubs; Continued 23 e man-smel- l. trap-hous- e trap-hous- rat-lik- ? trap-house- e TIMES-NEW- He was so engrossed If. rengeance. It that he did not hear the approach of snowshoes behind him. It wss a voice a man's voice that tornel him round suddenly. The man was a stranger, and he was younger than McTaggart by ten years. At least he looked no more than thirty-fiv- e or six, ven with the short growth of blonde beard he wore. He was of that sort t'jat the average man would like at a glance; boyish, and yet a man; with clear eyes that looked out frankly from under the rim of his fur cap, a form lithe as an Indian's, nml a face altogether that did not bear the hard lines of the wilderness. Yet McTaggart knew before he had spoken that this man was of t'.ie wilderness, that he was heart and soul a part of It. His cap was of fisher-skin- . He wore a wlndproof coat of softly tanned caribou skin, belted at the waist with a long sash, and Indian fringed. The Inside of the coat was furred. He was traveling oa the long, slender snow-shohis pack, strapped over the shoulders, was small and compact; he wes parrying his rifle In a cloth Jacket And from cap to snowshoes he was travel-worMcTaggart, at a guess, would have said that he had traveled a thousand miles In the last few weeks. It was not this thought that sent the strange and chilling-thril- l up his back ; but the sudden fear that In some strange way a whisper of the truth might have found Its way down Into the south the truth of what had happened on the Gray Loon and that this travel-worstranger, wore under his cnrlbou-sklcoat the badge of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. For that Instant It was almost a terror that --possessed him. and he stood mute. The stranger had uttered only an amazed exclamation before. Now he said, .with his eyes on Baree: '.'God save us, but you've got the poor devil in a right proper mess, haven't you?" , There was something In the voice that reassured McTaggart. It was not a suspicious voice, and he saw that the stranger was more interested In the captured animal than in himself, lie drew a deep breath. "A trap robber," he- - said. The stranger was staring still more closely at Baree. He thrust his gun stock downward In the snow and drew nearer to him. "God save us again a dog!" he exclaimed. From behind, McTaggart was watching the man with the eyes of a ferret. "Yes, a dog." be nnswered. "A wild dog, half wolf ut least. He's robbed me of a thousand dollars' worth of fur this winter." The stranger squatted himself before Baree, with his mittened hands resting on his knees, and his white teetli gleaming in a half smile. "Yu poor devil!" he said Sympathetically. "So you're a trap robber, eh? An outlaw? And the Police have got you ! And God save us once more they haven't played you a very square game !" lie rose and faced McTaggart. "I had to set a lot of traps like that," the Factor apologized, Ills face reddening slightly under . the steady gaze of the stranger's blue eyes. Suddenly his animus rose. "And lie's going to die there. Inch by inch. I'm going to let hhn starve, and rot in the traps, to pay for all he's done." He picked up his gun, and added, with his eyes on the stranger and his finger ready at the trigger, "I'm Bush McTaggart, the Factor at Lac Bain. Are you bound that way, m'sieu?" "A few miles. I'm bound beyond the Barrens." McTaggart felt ngaln the strange thrill. "Government?" he asked. The stranger nodded. "The. Police, perhaps," persisted McTaggart. "Why, yes of course the Police," said the stranger, looking straight Into the Factor's eyes. "And now, m'sieu, as a' very great courtesy to the Law I'm going to ask you to send a bullet through that beast's head before we go on. Or shall I?" "It's the law of the line," said "to let a trap robber rot In the traps. And that beasf was a devil. " Listen Swiftly, and yet leaving out none of the fine detail, be told of the weeks and months of strife between himself and Baree; of the maddening futility of all his tricks and schemes and the still more maddening cleverness of the beast he had nt last succeeded In trapping. "He was a devil that clever," be cried fiercely when he hnd finished.. "And now would you shoot him, or let him lie there ami die by Inches, as the devil should?" bush-countr- y e; n n TO UK CONTINUED. ) Revenged busy housewife came Into the sitting room, a determined look In her A eyes. "1 shall have to punish those children," she began. "What have the little beggars been up to now?" asked father, looking up from his newspaper. f my "Why, they've made a mos sewing rooln," explained his wife. "Needles, reels of cotton, scissors everything had been hidden away In the most unexpected places. It's exasperating." Her husband laid down his paper and smiled. "I did that." he said cnlnily. "Toti so beautifully the tidied up my de-.other, day that I thought It only fair to return the compliment. So I tidied up your sewlne-nxtm.k Pallas. Tpxmh. fiss ofiVe building Friday, September 24,' 1926 NEPHL. UTAH S. ea-cret- e GULF COAST CITIES : in Privilege ESCAPE GALE'S FURY FLORIDA'S Utah SUFFERS HEAVY PROP. ERRTY LOSS, BUT SO FAR NO DEATHS KNOWN MOBILE Price The entire town of Scofield, a mining camp of 900 inhabitants, miles west of Price, about twenty-fiv- e came near being wiped out early Monday morning when fire of undetermined origin swept a part of the business section and was brought under control only after the entire population had turned out to fight it. Salt Lake Heavy frosts visited the gardens of the south side Friday night and ice formed in the pools. On this side of the river only slight damage was done in most parts of the city. Tomato vines were the chief sufferers, although some gardens in the north end of town were badly damaged. Ice was noticed in the north end of town also. The official temperature dropped to 35. During the day it rose to 67 degrees. Denver Salt .Lake unanimously was selected as the meeting place for the next convention of the western division of the American Mining congress, in 1927, at the meeting here last Monday, the date to be announced Hurricane Blows Itself Out; Florida Area is Slowly Recovering; Gale Lasted for Nineteen Honrs Mobile, Ala. Lashed and battered by a tropical hurricane for nineteen Mobile Tuesday took hours Monday. stock of the damage to find that this city and immediate vicinity escaped without loss of a single life. Property damage, yet unestimated, is high, as many homes and business houses were unroofed, but rto great devastation was wrought and but few buildings were actually demolished. Ample warnings of the hurricane and the fact that the wind remained in the north throughout the gale an? responsible for the manner in which Mobile withstood the hurricane. The greatest damage to Mobile in previous hurricane has been caused by high water, but this condition only exists The when southeast winds prevail. storm winds of Monday, however, were from the north, reversing the conditions and causing the lowest tides in history of Mobile river and later. Salt Lake There are 60,000 colonies of bees in the state, according to the biennial report of D. H. Hillman, state apiarist, which was handed the comof agriculture Tuesday. missioner Nineteen counties provide funds for the payment of county inspectors and three of these counties provide for more than one, making a total of twenty-four in the state. The cost of in5 spection work is approximately cents per colony. Price Improved road projects in eastern Utah, proposed or now course of construction, aggregate more than 1650,000, according to Ira R. Browning, chief engineer, of the state road commission, who gave an outline of highway improvement in eastern Utah in answer to an inquiry from the Price .chamber of commerce. " Salt Lake A poultry exhibit unprecedented in attractiveness and extent will be on view at the Utah State fair, if the plans of the Utah Poultry association mature. The association held its first meeting of the season Monday evening at the home of its president, E. J. Solomon, 3454 South West Temple street, and went thoroughly into matters pertaining to the exhibit. Monticello. Monticello and' vicinity bay. Ilesorts on the eastern, shore of Mobile bay and fishing centers on the western shore also escaped without damage loss of life, though property was suffered. Agricultural Conference at Salt Lake Salt Lake City The farmers of the intermounlain region and representatives of other interests concerned with steps leading toward a sound national agricultural policy will have in the agricultural conference at Salt Lake City October 1 and 2 their greatest opportunity to present the case of agriculture in this region as a contribution toward the determination of such a policy, is the belief of M. S. Winder chairman of the agricultural commitThe tee of the Salt Lake chamber. conference is sponsored for eight Mates, Arizona, Idaho. Montana, Nevada. New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado, by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States with die Salt Lake" organization cooperating. This conference is the first ever iiciu on agriculture in this territory. Last year Utah and Idaho presented facts at a similar gathering in Seattle L'U this year is the first for the farmers to gather about their own table and talk their own problems. . MIC CAtfCllCllV.lIlg UJ1C Ul UllC ui y WUI&L spells for many years. With the exception of a shower September 11, ther has been no rainfall for more than three months. inter-mounta- Selt Lake Secretary of Agriculture Jardine has been asked to have a' French People are Friendly personal representative at the regional conference oh agriculture, sponLogan Reports of alleged sentiment existing in France sored at Salt Lake, October 1 and 2. have been grossly exaggerated and do It is related to the secretary that this not reflect the true feeling of the conference will bring out a French people, according to the copy of agriculture in the eight states of a letter from Myron D. Ilerrick, to be represented, Utah, Idaho, WyoAmerican ambassador to France, ming, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, today by S. S. Eccles, the AmerMontana, and New Mexico which the ican Legion's France convention offishould have. cer for Utah. Ambassador Herrick's government department the situation letter outlining France Logan What is commonly called was m ;iled to Bowman Klder, national "water core" in Utah grown Jona-- ; chairman of the legion's France con- than apples is a serious handicap to vention committee, in answer to a di- the marketing of the crop, asserts rect query as to what the situation T. II. Abell, assistant horticulturist in regard to American tourists was In at the Utah Agricultural experiment that country. Ambassador Herrick has Interstate shipments of been in the United States for a couple water cored fruit have been condemof weeks and has expressed approval ned and the orchards producing them of the proposed convention of the have received a commercial black ej;c. American Legion in Paris in Septemcross-sectio- n - ber of 1927. Brigham City LEVELS HURRICANE Notes News to Live a All crops figuring CITIES INJURED TOTAL OVER 2,000; LOSS IS $125,000,000; RELIEF IS ' RUSHED TO RUINED CITIES 120 Winds Scatters Tragedy Along Play Region of America; Dead Lie in Streets; Troops Guard Area Miles-an-ho- Jacksonville, Fla.- Harry H: Owen, general superintendent of the Flor-idEast Coast railway, reported to the chamber of commerce here an estimate of 804 dead in the Miami storm area. a Mr. Owen's figures showed 500 dead in Miami, 250 in Hollywood and 54 in Hialeah. No estimates for Fort Lauderdale and other places were included. Miami, Fla. Gat, water and sanitation. This trinity alone will save Miami and the greater Miami district from complete eradication MonThe total dead list mounted day. to 145 from Miami and outlying districts and thousands appealed to police for hospitalization for injured foUowing the worst storm in the history of the Flordia east coast, which took another toll of . uncounted millions in property damages. Miami, beaten to its proud knees, was unable to tell the world of the intensity and scope of its great suffering until Police Chief H. Leslie Guigg of Miami chartered an airplane and sent this correspondent northward to seek a telegraph wire. Scenes of indescribable suffering were left in the wake of the great airship. Coral Gables, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Dania, Pompano and suffered from effects even Palm-Beac- h of the unprecedented hurricane which leveled every house vaihin a radius of several hundred miles and set back the advancement of Florida east coast at least five years. Miami and surrounding cities were declared ur.t!cr martial law by city authorities after looting had commenced. Miami now is in charge of state troops after seven looters were shot and severely wounded and three reported killed. 1000 Estimated dead 2000 Estimated injured . 38,000 Homeless $125;000,000 Property loss Zone of hurricane Along Florida east coast from Miami to Fort and Palm Beach, seventy-fivmiles north. Relief steps Troops on scene and national appeal by Red. Cross. L:.u--derda- le e Florida Storm Adds To Death Toll Florida Florida's latest storm disaster is the fourth important visitation to strike the region in less than one year. The others were: April 5, 1925 Five killed, homes and business houses at Miami wrecked and the new Hialeah racing club's $1,500,000 plant heavily hit by the hurricane. December 1, 1925 Miami, Tampa, Lakeland, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Bradentown, Sebring, Avon Park, Fort Myers and other points swept by hurricane. Tampa hardest hit, with five deaths. July 29, 1926 Seventy' killed, property damage and many ships sunk by hurricane that swept the Bahamas and the south Florida region. BiminI was the center of the disturbance. Other famous cyclonic and and hurricane disturbances lu recent years have been. February 18, 1884 Southern states swept by tornado that killed 600. April, 1892 Tornado swept Kansas Sar-asto- $15,-000,0- in Boxelder county's agricultural pro- i gram, save the sugar beet, came Tragedy Ends Ocean Flight West bury, N. Y. Disaster struck through the 1926 season with a satdown the giant Sirkorsky isfactory production, it is indicated in within two minutes after its at- a consensus taken during the county's tempted Tuesday for a nonHtop annual Peach Day celebration . here flight from New York to Paris. A Friday and Saturday. The sugar killing40. June 14, 1892 Five counties In Minmass of twisted wreckage and the beet situation is, however, quite serchirred bodies of Charles W. Clavier, ious', for the county counts upon the nesota swept, fifty killed. June 20, 1893 Sixteen killed in Kanradio operator, and Jacob Islamoff. beet money every fall. Normally mechanic, tonight were the tragic Boxelder produced between 225,000 sas river valley. September 20, 1894 Iowa and Minaftermath of what was to have been and 250,000 tons of beets, and last visited by tornado that killed nesota cue of the most daring ventures ever year the beet fields of the county av- seventy-five- . attempted In the history of aviation. 1 20. tons. This eraged year producMay 27, 1896 St. Louis and East tion will do well to hold to St. Louis, 500 killed, thousands hurt, Louisiana Town Has $750,000 Fire Oil City, La. Fire which broke out of the 1025 total, and. but one facmillions of damage. the Garland plant, will operate. of March 30, 1897 turly Tuesday In a pool room here tory, destroyed two and a half blocks in Price The big Horsley dam in Chandler. Okla., destroyed. the business district, causing loss es- Pleasant valley, near Scofield, was May 18, 1898 Illinois, Iowa and bustimated at $750,000. Twenty-twWisconsin swept by storm that killed of the formally accepted at a iness bouses were burned, only the Oil j three directors of themeeting forty and did $1,000,000 damage. Price River City bank bul!ding, of brifk construcApril 27, 1899 One hundred killed Water Conservation district, promo- at Klrksville and Newton, Mo. tion, remaining on the west side of tors. the town. J'ifteen residences were deJune 13, 1899 Town of Herman, Salt Lake Invitation to have one Neb., destroyed and 100 killed In Nebstroyed. or more representatives at the nnr.ual raska and Wisconsin. 75 Soldiers, 28 Indiana Killed convention of the Western Assjcia- May 9, 1905 Thirty killed at MarNotales. Ariz. A dispatch to the tion of Highway Officials, which wi'l quette, Kan. Herald Tuesday from Guaymas, Son- ue nciu in Dan r May 11, 1905 Snyder, Okla., derancisco, uciotter 7 to era. Mexico, said that severty-flv15, has Iteen received by the Utah stroyed, 130 killed. soldiers and twenty-eigh- t March 2, 1906 Thirty-fivYaqul In- state land commission. killed at It has not dians had been ki'led in a battle four been decided yet whether the local Merldan, Miss. kilometers north of Tithaya station. commission will be April 24, 1908 Five hundred killed The message said a large number had it was announced. represented there, In Mississippi. Louisiana and Alabama. been wounded on both sides. June 5, 1908 Twenty-sevekilled Ogden Thj L'taii Construction in northern Kansas and southern received word that Thursday the Fire Destroys Oregon College contract for building the (ilbson dam March 13, 1913 Peoria, HI.; Portland, Ore. Fire this morning In Montana had been awarded to the Mt. St. and Tennessee and Angel college at drstoyert The company re- Louisiana Ind., towns swept, with much Benedict, Ore., with an estimated loss Ogden company. ceived word weeks three It that ago of $5no.no0. The fire originated from damage and loss of life. the explosion of a gasoline tank in the was low bidder with a figure of Missouri May 31, 1917 Southeast college garage, spreading to the car $1,556,000, which was assurance that and southwestern Illinois visited by he contract would be awarded later. storm that killed pe.nter shop, gymnasium, butcher shop, and InA 5 e - hop-of- f one-quart- Three-fourth- s I i e e n com-prn- y a. Vn-cenne- s, sixty-seve- bakery, college building, chapel, II brary and school. The college started ths fall term a week ago, with 200 students present. All escaped. Thirty 'ive valuable Bibles r" crrte'l turned. n fierce forest fire raged jured 200. Ogden Thursday on Caunpy creek, twenty-,Iv- e June 23, 1919 Sixty killed, 400 miles northeast of Ogden, and a buildings destroyed at Fergus Falls, large force of men under W. II. AnMinn. derson, county gMne warden, were April 25, 1923 Oklahoma fwns and busy all afternoon fighting the flames. lllages swept and 100 killed. |
