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Show BEAVER PRESS " snow De- Then the miner hit the tween tussocks. hnmviixi man's curse as he the quagm e plunged down into around. He jerked Fluxby's glance too late saw the trap a split second the Like tussocks. on the to keep the miner, he shot down through slime and the Into deep crust frozen suit. mud The third man followed the where near shore, was he Hut fourth, knee-deeThe bog was onlv on solid lagging behind, halted along the trail, followed by the man with the moosehide. Huxby was looking at the tracks that led on along the lake shore. The man on the plane peered Into the three cockpits. Huxby, sighted the cabin plane across the corner of the lake. He shouted and point ed to it, but waited for the second miner to come up before starting on along the trail. The fourth man of the party appeared up the stream bank. Garth slipped back behind thick ground. At Huxby's shouted orders, the cover and swung into a fast pace. of down the stream bank above last man ran to fetch poles were in leaders two The timber. of view off cut all the ford. Trees before the the four trackers. Garth crossed the almost to their armpits I, 1 could be brought trunks dead aspen and bed in ice stream the open As found cover again on the west and shoved out to them. Set on nlggerheads, the poles bank. But instead of heading up men the gulch, he kept straight on, paral gave support for the trapped the of out to pull themselves up lel with the lake shore. quagmire. sucking treacherously IX amused The CHAPTER Continued thought of UHth plane. It lay In shallow water, surrounded by freezing slush. The him. She had been seen only by the Other poles maae a Drmge iu. beard- IS miner who had fired down from back to solid ground. But the lie unrolled the thawed wolverine hlt'rtn,.,! I. n A kU I, !.. L his rifle down in me t. pelt and showed a big hank of enough to break up the sheet Ice and tlmberline. At the distance she must ed miner left With his knife he started to crack it Into pieces too small to have been mistaken for a man. ooze. Garth chuckled and looked to see shape caribou sklna for parkas and grind through the sides of the pon- n'y degenerate criminal would men. in- trousers. Lllith'g eyes brightened. toons. knowingly shoot at a woman. But Huxby bucktrall with his headed up the the engineer She softened a length of catgut in stead, her short snowshoe trail following The plane had been driven across the melted lampfat, and asked for Into this corner of the lake, along h's own and Dillon's must have bog valley towards the gulch, lhat a needle. with the sludge. The shoreward- - shown the trailers that the third added to Garth's mirth. By a quick could have . . u! i oa hin. rpturn. the hunters momhor w f hta napfv u.n ,w ton nua AH the remainder of that day of iwntio t ... uuijr a uiai'UU death and storm, both of them piled out from the solid bank. Garth has- - les as the dead or wounded con- - stripped off the grizzly a hide neiore it froze. They were walking away awl and buckskin needle and cat- tened to fetch small trunks and stable. Still smiling, Garth came to the from a. rug that would have gone gut thread. Neither was an Eskimo pieces of rotted logs from the down seamstress. But their stitches, timber under the nearest trees. By placer camp. The big fire under the far towards replacing their burnt kettles had died blankets. He had so tantalized and though coarse, were strong. By tossing out chunks of logs on the gravel-thawindown d a bed to the coals. The fore enraged them that they could think first of nightfall they .finished sludge and bog he caribou-skisuit waistlong was able to make a slender foot sts and hindquarters of the new- only of revenga To add Insult to Injury, he t and parka with ly killed moose lay in the snow be bridge with pairs of trunks. The last extension proved touch side the brush leanto. On the floor tramped a heavy trail up into a fringed with wolverine fur. After another meal of broiled and go. Cross pieces and stringers mat of spruce sprays, along with spruce thicKet ana duiu a smaii fire. Beside the fire he scattered a meat, Garth went out and climbed drove down under his weight into the bedding, was a pile of food- the lateral moraine to gather a the sludge-fillewater and the mud bacon, flour, sugar, dried fruit, tea. handful of dried apricots and prunes. Alter tnat ne SKiriea aiong quantity of caribou moss from be- beneath. But he had made a dash Back of the food were tween the snowdrifts on the wind-wefor It His hands clutched hold of cans filled with dynamite, coils of the edge of the muskeg to its north end. tundra. the rudder before he could sink. fuse, and caps. When he returned, Lillth lay Garth Jerked up the blankets. Un He climbed upon the tall, ran for Among the rocks of the rapids, on asleep on one of the uncut skins, ward to the cabin, and swung in der one set lay the strong canvas the slope of the lower valley below She had sunk down, completely board. The frozen body of Constable bag for which he was looking. He the falls, Garth made out the wreck tired out. Garth covered her over, Dillon lay on the floor where he had hoped to find the constable'! age or Mr. Hamuli custoni-Dublocked the roof hole with a chunk had placed It He buckled the car rifle. But one of the miners must monoplane. He worked his way down alongside of soft snow, and spread his own tridge belt with its holstered pistol have come to the valley without a skin mat on the other side of the about his own waist took the keys gun. The carbine had not been left the rapids to look closer at the wreck. What little had been left of lamp from the girl. He lay down and handcuffs from Dillon's pocket in camp. on it and snuffled out the light and climbed out to scramble for The failure to find the weapon the costly aircraft was not worth did not alter Garth's plans. Work- - salvaging. But the tattered cover ward into tha cockpit The side of the cockpit had been 'ng fast he filled the three-galloof one broken wing thrust up out CHAPTER X pierced by several bullets. But when teapot with packages of tea, salt of the white water within reach The Bedeviling. Huxby fired at the drifting plane, and sugar. The pot went into an from the bank. Garth started a fire of small her eyes as Garth In his attempt to kill the supposedly empty flour jack, along with a little LILITH opened his hasty meal of lamp- - hidden fugitive, he had aimed with dried fruit some dynamite, and a sticks. He quenched it with damp seared meat and fat. He explained great care to avoid damage to the pair each of tin cups, plates and moss, and used the charred stick his plans to her. Her hands clutched Instruments and controls and the spoons. ends to write on the wing fabrics: On the big stack of fuel beside motor. "$5,000 reward for together until they whitened. "You you'll be careful?" After removing the breaker points the leanto, he piled all the rest of V. HUXBY "Never fear. I'll come back to look from the magneto. Garth ran back the food and dynamite, the blankets Thief and out for you. The storm has blown to the tall of the plane. Here came and the quarters of moose. With a Murderer." out Clear sky and about ten below the greatest of his risks. The bridge shovel that was leaning against the rero. Keep treating your ankle and poles had risen to the surface again, rocker cradle he tossed coals from CHAPTER XI but the outermost cross logs re- - the fire Into the base of the stack, work on your suit" "You'll freeze." mained embedded in the mud under The wood soon blazed up in several Female of the Species. I That won a smile from him. "This the water. places. Shortly before noon, the four He let himself down sideways. As Garth lugged the sack across the trailers appeared on the moraine. is an Eskimo rig. I've sat in one for hours before a seal hole, at 40 his moccasins touched the slender open space and past the stunted The man who had not been bogged below tero. Finish your suit, and tninks, he let go of the rudder and spruce beRlde which Constable nil led the way down." Another miner crawl out to enjoy the frost Only leaped. Though the ends of the ion had been murdered. In a drift followed, then Huxby. The man be careful of that ankle. When out poles shot downwards, his swift on the north side of the next tree, who had lost his rifle lagged beside, keep close to the Igloo, and dnsh carried him up their sharp he dug a hole, dropped In the sack hind. The two leaders reached the of alloy, and covered it over. duck inside if you see anyone else slant to the next pair of trunks. broken monoplane wing. Garth saw The re9t of the Improvised bridge than myself." a iook at tne camp them read the writing. She flun out her hands. "Oh, if was fairly firm. A single misstep showed the bonfire flaming high. At Huxby Jumped down beside the only I could go along to help! I'm anywhere along it would have land- any moment the frozen dynamite miners, to stare at the offer of reso afraid hell find you. All those ed him In deep bog; but he had was apt to thaw enough to explode. ward that branded him for what he guns he and his men you, empty- - done far too much canoeing and From off to the left came angry was. With a curse, he ripped the rough-grounhanded!" running to lack bal shouts. The direction of Garth' tattered piece of fabric from the ance or trail had at last warned the pursu- - ttJnF fro rr a an1 flnnn I A Garth met the almost frantic out i t " Safe back on solid ground, he at en. of his raid on their camp. Thev .ho burst with a look of cool irony, "Do you take me for a chechahcol once stepped into his snowshoes and were beading for It as fast as they Tne two men lanced Bt Mark this that scoundrel Huxby Is headed straight away from the could flounder through the drifts. each other. Huxby pointed to the shore into a dense growth of spruce. Instead of circling to double past trail on the the man who s In danger. opposite bank and With this assurance, Garth crept There he circled to the right to- them again. Garth skirted off down- signed for them to lead the way out through the tunnel, shoving his wards the glacier gulch, keeping blope towards the west side of the across. Neither moved. The first lake. There was no need to warn man snowshoes ahead of blm. Snow had well back from the lake. and shouted his recursed, continued to fall after the wind had Midway to the stream channel he them about the dynamite. Before fusal : died down. That meant easy track- stopped where, through separate he had taken a dozen strides, the Jump them boulders? I ain't no ing. In the dim starlight he had vistas, he could see both planes.The frosty air crashed with a thunder lynx. I'm through trailing that to guess at the covering of his trail gray dawn had brightened enough ing explosion. devil." to make them visible at a distance. to the stream channel. When he neared the border of the 'Me too," declared the second On the other bank, he plowed i He sat down on a log to wait In muskeg he glimpsed a gray shape man. "I won't break my neck for Eskimo suit, the cold was In the outer fringe of willows. No heavy trail up into the ice tunnel, the nobody." and brought from the storage cave negligible. wolf could bulk so large. The A second look at the crossing A look at the one of the remaining legs of carl constable's pistol had been first of the flesh forced Huxby to shout his agreebow. ne left the meat atop the showed It to be fully loaded. He eaters to find what was left of the ment: "Curse the devil! We'll chase moraine, and started down the tun- took off the belt and buckled it on newly killed moose. back. He's on around to our going dra as fast as he could travel by again up under the loose fullness of Close looking and listening showed plane. That's where h must hav Holstered bis between the the that cubs of parka. the great bear left both of starlight his disabled un were not with her. Garth went Dawn was graying over the east caribou skin and his rabbit-fu- r mountain wall of the valley when dersult the oil In the pistol mech straight towards the hoggishly feed When all four disappeared un on he neared the lake, ne crossed anism would become warm. Cold ing beast until she caught his scent. the moraine, Garth recrossed the over the frozen ford and went to oil is apt to jam a gun. She reared up to gape her bloody boulders. three-seater After sure of the the making peer at pistol, Jaws and roared as she had roared plane in There the growing twilight It stood much he had nothing to do except give at him and Huxby and Mr. Rannlll. he came was no sign of Lilith when down from the an his face occasional be rub to had than left preIt higher Garth very quietly turned to the ne called into the entrance moraine. tunnel A close view showed that the vent frostbite. lie sat restfully re left and angled off away from her. Back came a quavering of re-cry and his men had managed to laxed, as patient as an Eskimo He was the d creature uer. a quick crawl took him In raise the craft above water by crib- hunter beside a seal hole. Very who had several times shied rethrough the low narrow passage. bing logs under the shattered pon- slowly the gray dawn brightened. spectfully around her and her cubs iimn was breathing hard, al toons. The top logs of the crib It at last began to mellow Into gold. during the summer. most gasping. "Oh! oh, thank God! From across the lake came the brought the bottom of the floats He skirted along the border of I looked and looked, but I could not level with the thickening skim Ice. crack of rifles three shots In quick the muhkeg to where a narrow neck I thought you must bespe yon. Long poles had been set to brace succession. Garth told himself that of the swamp extended up a little there-li-ke lying that poor pollct- his the wings against the wind gusts. or men were Huxby hunting valley to a gulch In the side of the umu uenu ! Garth swung aboard. As be ex- niooso. He surmised why. The en west mountain. "Hardly. Look here and hro pected, all the food had been taken gineer planned to cover the shatAt the far bank he shifted side He showed the pistol, then dumped three-seateSo also had been the break- tered ends of the away. ways and crouched down behind a his floursack pack. "How fllmf er points from the magneto. Huxby plane's floats with rawhide. clump of willows. He did not have salt on our meat, and a no doubt had figured that the canoe The sun glared over the Jagged long to wait Enraged cod of rn. the de with sugar?" builder might repair the floats with barrier mountains Into the frost- - struction of their food by and fliani sue cried "Yon mads rawhide, and run away with the gripped valley. Quite a while later. outfit. Huxby and his men camp must them give . you all th!s!" To balk the engineer, Garth saw one of his four enemies have rushed down fast the trail of Lilith gazed at him In in turn. Garth helped himself to the come out of the trees near the lake their bedevller. .ruh. less her blue eyes breaker cam. shore, on the far side of the frozen From over across the corner of wide wonderment and lustrnm very n He Jumped back on the bank, and glacier stream. The man carried a the muskeg came the warning roar tended not to notice. mushed eastward along the shore! big folded hide on his left shoulder. of the disturbed He alted A grizzly. quick and started to eat the in the dim grayness. At first, thick He held his rifle ready for a tint hot fat quick shot followed. Close the re- caribou sfenk that she wrred him ets of alders and willows cut off all shot, and as he advanced, he peered port dinned an outburstupon of terrific on one of the looted view of the Jake. He did not trou- around at the brush and trees. tin platcg snarling roars and a whole fusillade But after he had told about ble to seek an opening until he had A shout turned the mans steps of shots. The roars the ceased. bear scare and the suddenly covered a half mile. There he came up towards the ford. Other shouts But the luring of the firing kept up for four or men Into the , to a remembered stretch of partly came from the slope above. Oarth five seconds. bog, ller found utterance. open Dank. smiled. It was as he had foreseen. "Scared. Wasting cartridges," "Why didn't you kill the Though the gray dawn had grown In corning to repair the floats of Garth told himself. "Hopping mad while you had the chance?" beas,, a little less faint, he peered for sev- the tbreesenter plane. Huxby at me. and, atop that, flurried by Garth answered with eral moments without sighting the and his men had formed a line her sudden charge. Hope she didn't get gravity: "For cabin plane. It seemed as If Its pon- from the lake shore to tlmberline .everal reasons, my any of thorn." KlrL n.e toons much have been sawed and searched the spruce woods. His wish was soon fulfilled. All am not main ones are became i killer and becas , t through by the sharp edged sheet of the hunters bad found no four trailers came plodding along end that Vivian ice, so that the aircraft had fountrace of their quarry all the way to the border of the muskeg. Huxby Ilxhy ha dered in deep water. the bank of the frozen glacier was In the lead. But the bearded tried and hung for murder." Hut then he made out vaguely a stream. There, however, the snow-sho- e mnti next behind shoved forward . .rr'1:'"Yn"h"nlI'.uth e white shape against the white of tracks coming down from the besMe blm as he came striding out YfnVaoil ino.p n!en fo him. l..y. d rs the Ice. A short dash tundra made plain s'gn even for on the bog. Both than nlnne happened to step ,, m only a hlndmmv." brought him close to the grounded chechahcos. Huxby came running two or three thwa on nlggerhcads. TO UK COXTlSUEDi BSSS 1 cat-tcu- suow-covere- n s, hood-fron- d tight-lidde- d m n ,.li. she-grizz- two-legge- r three-seater- I'-ii- ,7 C .,., LovrpoTm I Intermountain News tu lie-struc- snow-covere- r r Briefly told for Busy Readers to. SMALL STATE DEBT WOULD USE WATER PAY FOR SHEEP MEN COSTLY IDAHO TRIAL CARSON CITY, NEV. The of Nevada has a treasury of more than $3,000,000, has no bonded debt outside the state has never aeiauneu a bond issue, and the state tax rate has declined over a period of years, Governor Richard Kirman announced recently. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Capture, trial and conviction of Douglas Van Vlack of Tacoma, sentenced to death for murder of his former wife, cost Twin Falls county teryS, W J Do You Ever bonder Hi,,, Whether Remedy taxpayers $6,712.32, according to figures compuea Dy wwdiu prosecuting attorney. BOISE, IDA. The value ol butterfat produced by Idaho 1935 for comdairymen during was $9,877,003, mercial purposes compared with $7,529,857 in dxu-coc- k. the"Pain You Use is SAFE? Ask Your Doctor and Find Out 19-3- 4. WYO. The KEMMERER, new $75,000 post office buildmg was dedicated here a few days ago. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Returns in reply to questonnaires mailed Don't Entrust Your Own or Your Fsm;u. j . i j.: iaa w hi - oemg to Un v Preparations to water users, requesting the amount of storage water they would subscribe to in the event a reservoir on the south fork of Snake river is constructed, indicate a subscription of 770,000 acre feet, provided the price does not exceed $2.50 an acre foot, Lynn Crandall, watermaster announces. OGDEN, UT. Practically all equipment necessary for use of lake at Camp the new Kiesel this year has been obtained. The equipment includes 10 boats, two canoes, a diving tower, a pier and various safety appliances such as life buoys, drag lines, bells and "buddy system" boards. Four persons will be on duty on the lake at all times during the summer camping season. At least two of these will be qualified lifeguards. OGDEN, UT. South Davis park, in the mouth of Weber canyon, has been selected as the site for the state scout camporal to be held June 8 to 10, inclusive, 1000-fo- gin, winrwmt0tet5 and talk witL too which ShakesSe "Romeo and Juliet- - THE person to inn ask whetha ttt about Genuine He will tell BAYER asSrJ you that fccore & pain remedies were against by physicians as bad forTe o ten for the ot Which is food for thought if Z seek quick, safe vjief. Scientists rate Bayer Aspirin among the fastest methods vd fa. covered for the relief of headacia and the pains of rheumatism, and neuralgia. And the eiperi-enc-e of millions of users has proved it safe for the average person to use regularly. In your own intad this. You can get Genuine Bayer Aspinn at any drugstore simply by asking for it by its full BAYER ASPIRIN. Make H point to do this and see that yoj get what you want. it is announced. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Dividends amounting to more than Bayer Aspirin $20,000 have been sent out by the Utah Wool Marketing association to its members as a result of savings effected in marketing the 1934 clip. The dividend money has been sent out to association members in proporClever and Wise tion to the amount of wool they A clever fool is more danjena marketed through the associato argue with than t wise one, tion in 1934. It is the first dividend by the association since its founding in 1926. Prices received for the 1935 clip were substantially higher than prices which prevailed when the clip was sent east. BOISE, IDA. Final agricultural adjustment administration checks totaling approximately $275,000, will be in the hands of Idaho farmers in a few weeks. The checks will cover payments g condue on wheat and tracts "due as of January 6," the date the AAA was declared unconstitutional by the United States supreme court. When the payments have been made the farmers of Idaho will have received approximately $14,000,000 from the federal government under the AAA. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Less than two per cent of all dwelling units in Salt Lake City are vacant at the present time, and 102 units are now being constructed or remodeled, according to the tenth annual survey conducted by the Salt Lake Real Estate Board. SANDY, UT. The National Youth Administration project, sponsored by the P W A, for the cleaning up and beautification of Midvale and Sandy City has corn-ho- It always woih Just do what hospitals ioM p .J :. clocklike regularity doctors insist on. use i Katum to i without uienecu ...l , . l strain nrorlnallv reduced dOSeS. m dosage is the real secret of . . constipatwiL . A. Aa Ask a doctor arjoui : V.r r.ro nnnulaf ITbeeor well's Syrup Pepsin has j - amount oi ncip. been approved. the bowels each gives time, SALT LAKE CITY. TIT An. nual autombbile shows will be revived in Salt Lake after a are moving icuawj . without any help at all lapse of eight vears, it is anDr. Caldwell's SyrapPM nounced. The 1936 show will be tains senna and cascara-- bo a display of new models and aclaxatives that form no bat &i cessories. Dealers from Utah. but sure. Wyoming and Nevada will be in attendance due to constipation BOISE. IDA.- -A report has been received by the state bureau of reclamation that more than Their Fini.li cat never AbO inches of moisture fell on Does of war, alas, Jackson Lake ;he watershed in wisdom teeth. Wyoming and Idaho a 36 hour period recently. during Total precipitation at Moran since Feb. 1. is 3.28 inches as compared with a normal of 2.15 inches for top entire month. ELY. NEV. Contracting for Nevada wool has started with draper & Co., eastern wool firm reporting the purchase of 15.000 1V cUtflcdtU. IlCCCrS at 2fi rente q nnnn 2 shfP interests in northern ,ne counV. 2000 from Menlholal"1 u Ce county. Salz & Co. reported the purchase of 2000 fleeces from Eureka county at -- a cents a freer brealnL pound. g I Id-th- o, anyslu.orb(CA NOSTRIL K tr!E tollec rd $084,702 of the $1,518.-04- 5 advnlorcm tnx charge against counties for in35. The $1,518,045 is Payable in two one in January and installments, the other in mS-infe11- in handy easuring content on watersheds J central Idaho by means of a em ,s brine tried out at scv-the Sawtooth m.P nts ln ' PKle. foreran to cannl com-- .; ';. urination dfclriets and -- iMim roncrrninR water supply. prortiict-- - cl'ir- - '( nnr'rcd yf.'ir. IfyouprefW""-- in-"- "' pc Ik iincer. ill. fh ! Writ'. i. . ''"Juk Start today to rohove ci1 , I |