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Show .'t THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Friday, November 9, 1928 NEPHI. UTAH S. i fews Notes f X It'e a Privilege to Live in Utah Ay GriHenden CHAPTER XIII 25 1M Continued "I do not wait, senor," he ended. I "1 make has-te- , as you command. go back dow swiftly to hasten Antonio, If the senor wills." Barker frowned. "Is the fellow alive or dead?" he asked. bis shoulders. Diego shrugged "Alive I think, senor, when he leave the ranch. But now qulen sabe?" Barker hesitated. But after all, be concluded, what difference did It make? He bad the girl; that was the main thing. There was plenty of time to attend to Go Abend's case later. And Wade was In a hurry to get to the Roost. "All right," he said. "You and your other man go back and hurry Tony up. Turn over the nigger to somebody." From Diego's hand he took the bridle rein of Stella's horse and turned away. Wade was watching. When Barker turned toward him be waved his band. "All right, boys," be said, wearily, and started ahead. But be swayed, In bis saddle as be rode; his wound, coupled with the Intense physical and mental stress of the last twenty-fou- r hours, had brought him very close to bis ultimate limit It was an hour later when Barker and Stella, looking back from the crest of the last swell, beyond which lay a wide expanse of loose and continually shifting sand on which the horses' hoofs left no permanent trace, saw a ' rider In the dirty white clothes affected by the Mexican peons leading a laden horse down the slope that they had last crossed. The Interval was too great to permit real scrutiny, but neither, Barker nor Stella doubted ftiat It was Antonio with the recaptured Jjorseknd prisoner. Later, as the two ' followers drew steadily nearer, Stella bowed ber bead hopelessly. And Barker, reading ber face, was so well satisfied that when the newcomers caught up with the bandits, at the verge of the waterfall, he did not take the trouble to go back to examine bis beaten rival. Once Inside the valley and at the village Wade, climbing painfully down from bis saddle, staggered away to his cabin and went In. lie asked no help and he received none. The men regarded both him and Barker with hostile eyes, blaming their present difficult situation upon his leadership and falling to find any consolation In the capture of Stella and two prisoners, of whom they knew Many of them practically nothing. put up their horses and then gathered with frowning brows to talk things over; others rode directly to their quarters, snatched up what they could carry safely, and hurried away out by the waterfall entrance. Barker, bowever, did not note any of this. The capture of Stella and Go Ahead bad gone to bis bead. Once more be felt triumphantly victorious. Up to the door of Fair's house he led Stella. "Go In," be ordered. "Put on those woman's clothes 1 brought you and wait till I send for you." Stella apparently did not hear t.lm. She was looking about ber for Fair. "Where Is my father?" she demanded. "Fair is not your father. If you mean him, he's dead." "Dead?" "Tea, I'm sorry for you and for blm. But he got In the boys' way lart night, and they shot him." "Who did? Wade?" Stella's voice was deadly. Barker hesitated. "Maybe. I don't know," be answered. "I wasn't here. There was a lot of shooting. But that's over and done with. And we ain't got time to waste. Too do as 1 tell you. Tut oo those woman's thing, and wait." Stella stared at biro. "1 know wby you want to marry me," she raid "Wade told me yesterday. He wanted to marry me and kill you for the some Ob yes, be did I . . . reason. . Ton want my money. Well, you're welcome to It, If you'U let Go Ahead go free. If yoo kill him or If b dies or Is desd already you'll never get it HI kill myself Brst" Barker laughed onpleasantly. "Don't worry." he said. "I don't know whether your Go Ahead Is alive or not, but I bop be la and I haven't ' ' Couldn't Do It The purest comedy I have ever seen occurred on an Island In the Dutch East Indies with black sandy shores and white breakers and coconut palms fingering a tropical sky. A tittle monkey, bis pointed forehead puckered Into ao earnest frown, was en. stick of deavoring to climb a two-fodriftwood, which lis held In his hands. He wotild prop the stick firmly before him, lift one leg carefully and clutch the pola with bis toes, test it cso or twice, theu lift the cao-Uous- tj M UTAH Mor than 600 buck deer will have been killed in Utah this year by the close of the season, it was estimated recently by J. Arthur state fish and game commissioner. MAGNA Salt Lake county heads all counties in the state in number 61 producing mines, tons of ore treated, production of gold, copper, lead and zinc, 's third in production of silver, and leads in value of all miner als. EPHRAIN Snow and mud conditions have been responsible for the closing of the road connection between Sanpete and Emery counties, it was announced recently at the offices of the state road commission. PROVO Fruit and vegetable growers of Utah county have had one of the best years this reason in the history of the county, according to local agricultural officers, and more fruit and vegetables have been graded and shipped this year than ever before. LOGAN Farmers of Duchesne county are converted to the dairy business, according, to W. W. Owens, state county a gent, leader, who just returned from Duchesne and Uintah counties, where he made investigations' of the agf iultural needs before "selecting a county agent for Duchesne. PRICE The beet harvest of the Carbon county farm lands is about half, completed, according to an announcement recently by Orson P, agent. Madsen, county agricultural The beets this season are yielding about higher per acre than in 1927, and the qualify is better than in any previous year, SALT LAKE General market tendencies for turkeys at Thanksgiving 6uggfcst that price will be about the same as last year, possibly a little lower, it was announced recently by Claude C. Edumunds, manager of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association. Prices paid last Thanksgiving ranged from 38 to 40 cents a to lo TTTs and" "You're loco." "Not a bit of It. The padre Is here and you've got to tell him that you want to marry me. Then you've got to marry me In Go Ahead's presence willingly and pleasantly. When you've done that I'll let him go. If you don't do It he'll be no use to me as a witness and I'll turn him over to Wade. . . . Wade loves him, you know." "You beast!" "All right Say what you like now; but see that you talk right later If you want your man to live. Now go In and put on those things I told you to." lie pushed the girl inside the door and shut it upon her. Then be strode away to Wade's cabin, nearby. Wade himself was not visible, but in front of the cabin stood the two horses with their silent burdens. The man who had last Joined the cavalcade was Just hitching his own horse at the rack. Barker paid no attention to hip. Instead he strode up to the horses, recognized Caesar by his color and turned to the other. "Is be dead?" he asked of the guard, who came hurrying up, as he bent to peer into the captive's face. Then abruptly he felt the muzzle of a ' pistol thrust against his ribs and voice In his heard a ears. "Not so dead as you'll be If you make any breaks," it said. In steely tones. Slowly Barker straightened up. tils was ghastly face, agape In Its pallor. "Go Ahead 1" he gapped. "Yes. Now you go ahead Into this bouse. Keep your bands by your sides, but don't try any tricks If you want to live." Obeying, Barker felt himself swiftly and completely disarmed. "Now go, to the back room," or"Let's see what's dered Go Ahead. become of Wade." One pace behind, he followed Barker to the door. Wade was In the room, but as Go Ahead had conjectured, he was clearly out of the game. Stretched on the bed. he was suuk In a stupor that Go Ahead merely final. looked glanced at him; then he waved Barker back to the first room, followed blm, and closed the door. "Call two of your men," he ordered. "Tell them to untie my man Caesar and bring him In and lay him on the lounge yonder. Tell them to handle blm gently, that you want him to give you some Information. Then tell one of the men to bring Bob here. Put It In your own words, but get the Idea over. And remember, I'll be right behind you and that one false move means death." Like one In a dream Barker obeyed. To the door he went, closely followed by Go Ahead, called two men who were passing and gave them Go Ahead's orders. Then be came back, sat down behind the table and waited until Caesar, weak, tottery, hut still alive, staggered In between the men and collapsed on the lounge. Then be gave the order to tell Bob to come to him. When the men bad gone Oo Anead turned to Caesar. "How do you feel, old man?" he asked, affectionately. Caesar's eyes rested on him, at Brst hesitantly, then with dawning recognition. "Mr. George, Mr. George I" he cried. "Glory, glory I I thought yoo was killed, Mr. George." Lie still, old "Not yet, Caesar. man. Everything's all right and the rest Is going to be so In minute." He crossed back to his place behind Barker as the door opened and Stella came In. (TO BE CONTINUED.) , Ephrain-Orangevil- r I ,mr t nwa-- i .jUjfftSl o a "V thJ A ibBoJ i St t 1 mil "si ra1 4 ARdamtTJ CQircXPtfozr By ELMO SCOTT been instructed to reuse admittance to that state of any shipments of fruit from Utah in which any hay or straw contamination is found, according ta a letter eceived recently by Dr. F. E. Stephens, Utah state inspector of agriculture, from A. C Fleury, supervising quarantine officer for Cali-- f ornia-- $751,-628.3- eco-no- m on-les- y 4 r' WATSON More than 400 hojrs on R. L. Lisonbee, in the Nine-Mil- e section of Carbon county, have died of cholera recently, it was revealed by Orson P. Madsen, district agricultural director, who re turned to Price recently from a trip into that region. Approximately 100 more head are afflicted with the disease, according to the agricultural director. of the . SALT LAKE Expenses 4, state in October amounted to according to the monthly report of John Walker, srtate treasurer, The report made public recently. shows a balance on hand October 1 of $1,148,077.53. The receipts were $1,023,477.98, making a total of The balance on hand The October 81 was $1,421,897.17. sale of cigaret stamps during the month was $12,235.83. rr LOGAN Results of a recent ic survey of Utah's apple industry was discussed by W. P. Thmaa, the Bluebird, before the first regular monthly meeting of the Utah ecomonist, recently, at cultural experiment station staff, according to an announcement by the program committee, including George D. Clyde, F. B. Wann, D. W. Pittraan, Byron Alder, E. G. Carter, D. A. Burgoyne and Mr. Thomas. MOAB It was stated that the storms of the last few weeks have placed the road through Logan can- lows : yon in Cache, and Rich counties, and "One wing of the cnpltol on!y has the Cedar-Lon- g Valley road in Iron been erected, which, with the Presiand Kane counties, in poor condition dent's house, a mile distant, both conso that they probably are closed for structed with white sandstone, were the winter. Although one of these) shining objects In dismal contmst roads may be passable for a time wltb the scene around them. Instead state road officials are discouraging of recognizing the avenues and streets motorists from attempting travel over portrayed In the plan of the city, not them. one was visible, unless we except a BRIGHAM CITY In response to a road with two buildings on each side call from President 0. P. Bates, of the of It called the New Jersey avenue. Power of Tree Tremonton Commercial club, about The Pennsylvania avenue, leading, as Is treThe power of tree root mendous. Those of a onk CO have given approval of the plan laid down on paper, from the capitol lifted a block of granite weighing 6 ',4 cf the Utah Poultry Ptducers" as- lo the President's Mansion, was then tons. In seveo years the block had sociation for the establishment of a oearly the whole distance a deep moras, covered with alder bushes. been raised two Inches. grading plant and warehouse in Tremonton. Jesse W. Hoones of Brig-ha- 'which were cut through the width of Knock So Good City, president of the association, the Intended avenue during the then W. Garr, manager tf the association's ensuing winter." s Hard knocks are good for yon in Brigham City, and others explant you happen to be IEnfant' plan called for connectprize fighter. plained the workings of the association ing the I'rel!cnt's House and the Con Farm and Fireside, LEIII Apple picking, grain and and grain other foot confidently off the ground alfalfa seed threshing planting are virtually completed in Audacious French Thieves and Immediately go tumbling bead-lonstick and all, down the hot Utah as a result of the excellent beach toward the sea. Corey Ford In weather of the last week of October, Amazing audacity was displayed by according to tha weekly crop report criminals who raided ihe prison of Vanity Fair Magazine. Issued recently by J. Ceil Alter, Meltin. near Paris. IhKpite the close His re- watch maintained on the Jail day and government meteorologist. Good Id eat and night, burglars succeeded In nxiklng continues: "Fall plowing port a When man has "good idea," fi likes to tell fats friends about IL And sugar beet and potato digging are way with the governor's safe, which -well along, though hampered in most welched Ti pounds and contalntd usually a good Idea" la a fool Idea. climbed over Fall grains, fO.fxiO, They rvidf-ntlplaces by hard sol's. Atchison Globe. pastures and ranges are at a stand- the wnll with the aid of a ladder, and The tragedy of maty gtn; hen went to the governor's i.ffice, the Life that still for the want of moisture rally, forage being poor as a rulej windows, of which were tmrrd. They time Is cot felt to be trust PRICE the ranch of 3 aiAt ITH the federal building program for our national capital now under way at full speed and every Indication that It will be carried forward uninto com terruptedly pletion in time for the great celebration in 1932 of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, the century-oldream of Pierre L'Enfant, is nearing Its realization. Few Americans know anything more about L'Enfant than a somewhat vague idea associating his name with the phrase "the founder of Washington." Yet had the advice of this young French engineer been followed, the United States of America would have now the most beautiful and Impressive capital city in the world. Even though the nation allowed him to die a disappointed man, his goal unreached, yet he dreamed and planned to such good purpose that not even a hundred years of blindness to beauty and neglect of the opportunity at hand have been sufficient to dim his vision splendid, and the United States may yet have the wonderful capital that he planned for it. Pierre Charles L'Enfant was born August 2, 1734, somewhere In sunny France. He was a lieutenant In the French army In 1777 when he came to this country and offered his services to the Continental congress. By his ability he rose to the rank of captain and then to major, lie planned anil built Fort MIfllin nnd Fort Washington, fought through the remainder of the war, was wounded at the battle of Savannah, taken prisoner bySirlh-nrClinton In 17S0 and paroled three years later. With the war at an end, L'Enfant decided to remain in this country and continue his career us an engineer and architect. The ciiy of New York presented him with a testimonial for his services nnd his reputation was so high that President Washington selected him In I'M to lay out the new capital which was planned on the banks of the Potomac, declaring that "Major L'Enfant Is as well qualified for the work as any man living." To this Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state, added the Indorsement, "I am happy the President has left the planning of the city in such good hands." Certainly It needed the hand of a genius to transform the "dismal hamlet on the Potomac" Into a city befitting the dignity of the capital of a oatlon. - For when President John Adams transferred the seat of governand gay ment from the Philadelphia to this raw wilderness town, he found It a place of thirty er forty huts scattered around In the woods and swamps and the beginning?! of the public buildings, described by a congressman In Adams' party as fol- pound. PROVO Inspectors of the California department of agriculture have iuaaaBKv aivrrKB.- or rxmui. I rd c -- i 1 , .1 Ifc le . one-thi- sfZt is Me-cha- the slightest Idea of killing him. I want him as a witness to our marriage. I'll need some one to go East with us and testify In court that you married me willingly and all that, with-terror- I gress House, as he called them, by a series of parks. But President-elec- t John Adams could not see the sense of having these two Important buildings so far apart. He wanted the executive and legislative buildings huddled together. Convenience and not beauty was his Idea. However. Washington stood steadfastly by L'Enfant and Uie buildings were so placed, although L'Enfant's dream of the parks between was never realized. In fact, he was repeatedly frustrated in his planning; he was ridiculed by unimaginative and materialistic men who were high In office nnd from the time tlie seat of government was moved to Washington, he was constantly begging congress to pay him the money due hira. Finally, that body In 1810 passed a bill for bis relief, giving hira $tif.0.fiC with Interest from March 16, 1792, amounting in all to $1,394.20. Tljis was done more because congress was becoming weary of his Importunity than for any other reason and It was typical of the tardy Justice with which the new republic rewarded the men, including Revolumiy ofwar heroes, to whom It owed tionary so much. L'Enfant died In 1S25, a heartbroken man. During his last years he lived with a man named Dudley Dlggs and be was burled In the Dlggs family graveyard outside the city of Washington. There bis body lay In an unmarked grave for nearly a hundred years. Then through the efforts of the American Institute of Architects It was removed to Arlington cemetery. He was given a military funeral and tributes were paid to him by higb government officials, both American and French. A monument, with his plan carved on the marble slab, overlooks the city for which be had dreamed on such a grand scale and which during the years while he lay In the unmarked grave had sprawled haphazard over the landscape. For "backwoods-rulecongresses saw no utility In beauty. Homespun sol on s knew no more and about arualtecture than they did about poetry and thought both the comical diversions of "dudes," or was 'macaroni' still the word, or "dandy'?" So writes Charles Willis Thompson In an article In the New York Herald-Tribun- e a year or so ago, telling of the plans for preserving the beauty of the capital as L'Enfant had conceived It He writes: So it Is wonderful that tha Idea through a century of Hannibal For It Chollnpa and Elijah Pronrama. did. Tha shadea of L'Enfant brooded over tha rltjr. t.nd atlll brood over It. F.Kentlal1y. It la atlll hla city. Noth ing that Ignorant politician and greedy apeculntora could do to II haa effaced The worst bla Indelible Impreentrn that baa happened to Washington hap. d Jack-hoote- d per-Hint- ed sned through the burs, entered nnd tried to open the safe, but finding the too difficult, carried It off witle How Ibey did It remains a them. mystery. tk First Paved Road Russia Is said to be the first country where wood Mm ks were used for paving roads. The first blocks consisted of short uniform lengths, round In shape, as cut from the tree trunks. Later the shape was altered to hexagon to secure a clorer Joint, and finally Idealized portrait of L'Enfant on the medallion made by Leon Chatdain, in the Chevy Chase Savings bank, Washington. pened outside the boundaries he set for It. He could not foresee that it would irrow so big, L'Enfant's city was to be only two and a half miles wide and three and a half miles ong. His plan for that city Is today as be made It, needing only beautiflcation. The city did not grow much bigger until the War of Secession, when it underwent a sudden and fictitious exThen the speculators began pansion. to get in their work. Washington im grew beyond the limits mediately to L'Enfant and President known Washington, and in building up the outer sections nothing was thought of but money returns. Yet bo meticulously had .L'Enfant laid out the plan It was not possible to turn It Into confusion even when ged and Ignorance had done their worst. The new city. the greater Washington, had to grow generally along L Lnfant a lines In spite of Itself. But It was cursed and degraded by defacements. Impertinent buildings Interjected themselves Into the plan; streets ambled off Into the Land ot Nod and disappeared. L'Enfant's pet lay fallow, though fantasy, the MalL be had planned so wisely that nothing can prevent ita flowering Into consum o wills. mation whenever congress The distortion of the original Idea had become such an eyesore by 1901 that a congressional commission, headed by Senator James McMillan, of Michigan, set about restoring the L'Enfant plan wherever It bad been departed from, and embodied Its praiseworthy attempt In legislation which atlll rules. Ever aince then the task of unifying and greatenlng Washington has been carried indef atigably on, and succeeding congrenaea have been more and mora friendly and attentive. The present plan, put Into operation some two years ago by the public buildings commission, beaded by Senator Smoot of Utah and having an Initial fund of $0,000,000 at Its disposal, follows closely the plan of L'Enfant. The outstanding feature in It Is the Mall or Monument Gardens, extending from the Washington monument to the capitol and flanked by new federal buildings. And If this plan Is completed, as it Is hoped it will be, In time for the George Washington celebration In 1932, some of the honor paid that great American tjjen will be shared by the young French engineer whom he backed In his effort to give this country a capital city beautiful. The Old Rocking Chair Some one becomes sad and despond- ent over the passing of the family rocking chair. It has no place In modern life. One now demands something that he can easily Jump out of, for the automobile or airplane may be waiting at the door. For a quick exit, the old family rocker Is a hazard. Hartford City News. Ihe blocks received their present rec- tangular form. This method of paving was Introduced Into England about 18.'W, but some time lapsed before the value of a firm foundation, such as Portland cement concrete, was fully Appreciated. Hospitality The few who treat a courteons harshly are mostly those who In their own misery and wont one around to be miserable, Farm and Fireside. caller revel every too. |