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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, she asked. Bangs was topping a horse that strenuously refused to be conquered and as they looked on the animal threw himself. "Like that? Well, no not precisely," Harris said. "They're not breaking horses. They're proving that that can ride they're bronc-peeler- s 'em before they're broke. A horse started out that way will be a bronc till the day he dies." Three men were lashing their bed rolls and war bags on three pack horses and when this task was completed they rode down the lane, each one leading his pack animal. Harris FEBRUARY 28, 1929 of the fix was a striking figure, a big man with pu e white hair and brows, his pale eyes peering from a red face. "The rossted albino Is Harper, our leading bad man In these parts." Evans remarked to Harris. "And the human ape is Lang; Fisher, Coleman, Barton and Canfield are the rest Nice and such." layout of murderta Harper's men ate unconcernedly, conscious that they were marked as men who had violated every law on the calendar, but knowing also that no man would take exceptions to their presence on that general ground alone, and as they had neared the wagon each man had scanned the faces of the round-ucrew to make certain that there were none a nunc them who might bear some more specific and personal dislike. The Three Bar men chatted and fraternized with them as they would have done with the riders of any le gitimate outfit Harper praised the food that Waddles tendered them. Billie Warren forced a smile as she nodded to them, then moved off and sat upon a rock some fifty yards from me wagon, aespising tne six men wuo ate her fare and inwardly raging at the conditions which forced her to extend the hospitality of the Three Bar to men of their breed whenever-thep OF THE AGE. Hal G.Evarts By W.M.U. SERVICE past noon on the following day a drove of horses appeared at the lower extremity of the valley and swept on toward the ranch. As Harris threw open the gates of the big corral he saw her standing In the door of the cookhouse watching the oncoming drove. Riders flanked the bunch well out to each side to steady It. There was a roar of hoofs and a mg cloud of dust as three hundred horses clattered past and crowded through the gates, scattering swiftly across the pasture lot back of the corral. A dozn riders swung from their saddles There was no chance to distinguish color or kind among them through the dust caked in the week-olgrowth of beard that covered every face. An hour sweat-streake- d d One man remained on his mount and followed the horses Into the pasture lot, cutting out fifty or more and heading them back Into the corral; for Waddles had decreed that they could have the rest of the afternoon off for a jaunt to Brill's store and they waited only to change mounts before the start Calico stood drooping sleepily In one of the smaller corrals and Harris moved toward him, Intending to rldd over with the rest of the men. "The boss said for you to ride Blue," Morrow stated as Harris passed the group at the gates of the corral. Blue Is." ''He's clear gentle-brokThe men looked up In surprise. Morrow had not been near the house to receive Instructions from the girl. The lie had been so apparent as to constitute a direct challenge to the other man. Harris stood looking at him, then his shoulders. slugged SH'hatever the boss says goes with me," he returned evenly. A rangy blue roan swept past with jthe fifty or so others. At least once (every round of the corral he laid back his ears and squealed as he scored jsonie other horse with his teeth, then lashed out with wicked heels. "I reckon that'll be Blue?" Harris ,asked of Evans and the lanky one nodded. The men scattered round the corral and each watched his chance to put his rope on some chosen horse. The roan kept others always between himself and any man with a rope but at last he passed Harris with but one horse between. Harris flipped his noose across the back of the interven-jln- g horse and over the blue roan's e, head. "You've been busted and rope-bura time or two," Harris remarked, and jhe led the horse out to saddle him. The big blue leaned back, crouching on his haunches as the man put on the hackainore. His eyes rolled wick-'edl- y as Harris smoothed the saddle Iblanket and he flinched away with a ..whistling snort of fear, his nostrils flaring, as the heavy saddle was thrown on his back. Harris tightened the front cinch and the blue horse braced himself and .'djw in a long, deep breath. jCJjNWiat's right, Blue, you swell up and inflate yourself," Harris said. "I'll have to squeeze It out of you." He fastened the hind cinch loosely, then returned to the front and hauled on the iatigo until the pressure forced the horse to release the ludrawn breath and It leaked out of him with a groaning sigh. "I wonder now why Morrow Is whetting his tommyhawk for me," Harris remarked as he inspected the big roan. "You're a hard one, Blue. I'll let that saddle warm up on you before I top ycu off." "Well, step up on him and let's be going," Morrow ordered surlily. Harris took a short hold on the rope reins of the hackamore with his "left hand, cramped the horse's head toward him and gripped the mane, his C0PM6KT HAL fry 6. IVAfcTS EgblTiand on theTIorn, and swung gently to the saddle, easing Into It without a Jar. "Easy Bluel" he said, holding up the big roan's bead. "Don't you hang your head with me." He eased the horse to a jerky start and they were off for Brill's at a shuffling trot. Three times In the first mile Blue bunched himself nervously and made a few stiff jumps but each time Harris held him steady. "You'd have made one good little horse, Blue," he said, "if some sport hadn't spoiled you on the start" They left the horses drooping at the several iitch rails before the post and crowded in. Some detached themselves from the group and occupied themselves with Several started a game of writing. stud poker at one of the many tables. Harris wrote a few letters before Joining In the play, and as he looked up from time to time he caught many curious glances leveled upon him. Morrow had been busily spreading the squatter was tidings that a would-b- e among them and they were curious to see the man who had deliberately the unwritten law of the Cold-rive- r said that there comes a day In the life of every handler of bad horses when he will mount one and ride him out master him and dismount and forever after decline to ride another. Riley Foster was evidence of this. For three years Rile and Bangs had been inseparable, rid Ing together on every job, and the shaggy youth topped off the animals In Foster's string before the older man would mount them. As Bangs went about his work his faded blue eyes were ever turned toward the Three Bar boss who stood In the door of the blacksmith shop. y The girl was vaguely troubled as she noted this. Bangs and Foster had returned for their second season at the Three Bar. All through the previous summer the boy had evidenced his silent adoration, his eyes following her every move. The scene round Billie was one of strenuous activity, every effort bent toward whipping the remuda into In the shape for the calf round-uleast possible space of time. Green horses were led out, one after another, to be saddled for the first time, and those previously broken required a few workouts to knock the wire edge off their unwillingness to carry a rider after a winter of freedom on the range. Three men were shoeing horses tied Interto snubbing posts at One animal vals before the shop. that had fought viciously against this treatment had been thrown and stretched, his four feet roped to convenient posts, and while he struggled and heaved on the ground Rile Foster calmly fitted and nailed the shoes on him. Cal Harris finished shoeing the cojt he was working. "That's the last touch," he said. "My string Is all set to go." "You have five colts gentled for your "But you circle bunch," she said. didn't pick a single cow horse. The boys have sorted out the best ones and the few that are left won't an swer for a man that Insists on a gen tied string." "Creamer and Calico will do for me," he said. "I broke them myself and maybe I. can worry along. "Did you break them like thatr Is p ten-yar- d SUMMONS In the District Court of Box Elder County, State of Utah. Tremonton City, a municipal corporation, piam fiff P K Ohrnv. W. H. Wood I want to go west, where the women vatL Buhl Frazier: also all other are tried and found willing. persons unknown claiming any inright, the itl aofofa, lion nr " interest I1W, COMV-real property described in the com- .- -, pJIT get all kinds of Fruit Vines, Shade Trees, Roses and Shrubbery from us at lower prices for high grade You can Trees, stock. Write 15 your wants and we will be glad to quote you C . Anderson Produce Co. Brigham, Utah knew this as evidence that they would the west, but cached away in a pocket that led well back into the base of the 6tnall outfit range, a comparatively owned by the Brandons, father and four sons, who made every effort to keep the bulk of their cows ranging in their own home basin and ex changed reps only with the Three Bar. Slade's home place lay forty miles south and a little west and his cows grazed for over a hundred miles, re quiring three wagons to cover his range. During the afternoon the three reps came in to replace the men who had left The surplus horses had been cut out and thrown back on the range, only those required for the remuda remaining in the pasture lot. The chuck wagon was wheeled before the cookhouse door and packed for an early start. Before tha first streaks of dawn th men had saddled and breakfasted. It was turning gray in the east when four horses, necessi tating the attentions of four men, were hooked to the wagon. A man hung on the bit of each wheel horse while another grasped the bits of the lead team as Waddles made on last hasty trip Inside. "This will be a rocky ride for a mile or two," he prophesied, as he mounted the seat and braced LI nisei f. "These willow-tail- s haven't had on a strap of harness for many month. All set Turn loose I" The men stepped back and the four horses hit the collars raggedly. One wheel horse reared and Jumped for ward. The off leader dropped his head and pitched, shaking himself as if struggling to unseat a rider, then the four settled into a jerkey run and the heavy wagon clattered and lurched down the lane. The wrangler, whose duty It was to tend the horse herd by day, and the nighthawk who would guard It at night sat on their horses at the far end of the corral and urged the herd out as the gates swung back. The remuda streamed down the valley the two first riders swinging wide to either flank while the nighthawk and wrangler brought up the rear. Shortly before uoon the wagon was halted in a broad bottom threaded by stream. The teams a tiny spring-fe- d were unhitched; mounts were unsad died and thrown Into the horse herd, which was then headed into the mouth of a branching draw and allowed to graze. Waddles dumped off the bed rolls that were piled from the broad to the wagon top lowered tail-gat- e and each man sorted out his own and sDrend It upon some spot which struck him as a likely ber ground. It was not long before Waddles was dispensing nourishment from the low. ered tail-gatladling food and hot coffee Into the plates and cups which the men held out to him. They drew on the away and sat cross-legge- d The meal was almost fin cround. ished when sis horsemen rode dewn the valley and pulled op before the wagon. "What's the chance for scraps?" the or any cloud upon plaintiffs title The thereto, defendants. Summons: State of Utah to the Said Defendants: You are hereby summoned to appear within twenty days after service of this summons upon you if served within the county in which this action is brought, otherwise within nftr RPrvice and defend the above entitled action; and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to leader asked. the demand of the complaint which "Step down," Waddles Invited. "And has been niea wun me ciers. oi uus- throw a feed In you. She's still ia hrnucrht to reTlilo 8 nuiVtintr n itAirmont. nlaintlff steaming." .its I jUMinv... f IU Four of the men differed In no raa title to the land described in said reiiei. for and terial way from the Three Bar men equitable complaint Tnnna nlnintiff'n flttompV. P. In appearance. The fifth was a ruf 1st Natl Bank Bldg., flan with little forehead, a face of O. Address: il-i- o Knirham. - 0 r Utah. gorilla cast, stamped with brute fe rocity and small Intelligence. The last Subscribe for The Leader $2.00. 1 V prices. Bangs Was Topping a Horse That Strenuously Refused to Be Conquered. short-hande- ' It y smoke. de-fle- d horses !" . sat Harris strolled over and down facing her, sifting tobacco Into a brown paper and deftly rolling his start after the calves on the following day. The custom was to exchange representatives to ride with each wagon within a reasonable distance, the range. reps to look after the Interest of the Waddles had Instructed Evans to brand for which they rode. start the men back before the spree "How many reps do you trade?" he had progressed to a point where they asked. would refuse to leave Brill's and so "Three," she said. "Halfmoon D, At V L and with Slade." leave the Three Bar the end of two hours he looked at his The Halfmoon D lay some fifteen watch and snapped it shut. miles eastward along the foot of the "Turn outl" he shouted. "On your hills; the V L the same distance to AMERICAN .TRAGEDIES The fellow who goes around drinking out of everybody's cigar lighter. Blue Gator. TREES chanced by. "Has It been on your mind what I was telling you a few nights back, about how much I was loving you?" he asked. "You had your chance to prove It by going away," Bhe said, "and re fused; 60 why bring it up again? The next two years will be hard enough without my having to listen to that" 'Our families must have been real set on throwing us together," he ob served. "I was cut off without a dime myself unless I spent two full years on the Three Bar." She was angry with herself for be lieving him sincere, for being con vlnced that he, too, as he had several times intimated, was tied in much the same fashion as herself. The explana tion came to her In an illuminating flash. The elder Harris must have nursed a lifelong enmity against her father, who had believed him the moat devoted friend on earth. She had often heard the tale ot how her parent had, In all friendliness, followed old Bill Harris step by step from Dodge City to the Platte, to old Fort Laramie and finally to the Perhaps present Three Bar range. the one so followed had felt that Cal Warren was but the hated symbol of the whole clan of squatters who had driven him from place to place and eventually forced him to relinquish. his hope of seeing the Three Bar brand on a hundred thousand cows; that his friendliness had been simulated, his vindictiveness nursed and finally consummated by leaving his affairs in such fashion that his son must carry on the work his trickery -- had begun. Harris resumed where he had bro ken off. "And I'd have tossed it off, as I told you once, if tne Tnree liar gin naa turned out to be any except you. You've had a tough problem to work out, girl," he said. "I sold out my lit tle Box L outfit for more than It was worth and figured to stop the leak at the Three Bar and put the old brand on Its feet" His calm assurance on this point exasperated the girl. :md publicly announced that he would put la hay on his filing, knowing that he was a marked man from the hour he turned the first furrow. Whatever h's thoitcomings, lack of courage was not one of them. I take that back," she said, referring to her words of a few moments before. Harris straightened to a sitting position In his surprise at this impulsive retraction, and as he smiled across at her 6he divined that this man, seemingly so Impervious to her sarcasm, could be easily moved by a ' single kind word. "That "Thanks, Billie." he said. was real white of you." He rose and sauntered toward the wagon and Billie Warren felt a sudden clutch of fear as he halted before Harper and she realized that he had taken her words literally and Intended ordering them off. 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When you boys ride away, in a few minutes from now, you can tell folks that the grub line Is closed as far as the Three Bar is concerned." toward him, Lang took a half-stehis face reflecting his gathering rage as his slow brain comprehnded the fact that this speech was but another way of announcing that he and his men would find no welcome at the Three Bar from that moment on. Harper caught his arm and Jerked him back. The albino was an old hand and could rightly rend the signs. "The gentleman was remarking to me," he said to Lang; "not you." He turned to Harris. "There's no law to make you feed any man," he said. "From now on well pay our way as far as the Three Bar is concerned." Ills tones were casual ; only his pals eyes, fastened unbltnklngly on Harris' face, betrayed his real feeling toward the man who, notwithstanding the roundabout nature of his announce ment had practically ordered him to stay away from the Three Bar for all time. "But even In the face of that," he resumed, "we'll welcome you any time you happen to ride down our way.' Every man within earshot understood the threat that lay beneath the casual words. "Then I'll likely drop In some time," Harris said. "If you'll send word where It Is. And I'll bring fifty men along." The albino motioned his men toward their horses and they -- mounted and rode off down the bottoms. Harris walked back and resumed his seat near the girl, who sat looking at him as if she could not believe what she had just witnessed. "You see It was Just as easy as I'd counted on," he said. "It'll be a considerable saving on food." "But how did you know?" she asked. "Why Is Harper afraid of you?" "He's not," Harris said. "Not for a single second. But he's an old hand and has left a few places on the Jump before he came out here." "And he thinks you know It I" she guessed. "He don't care what I know; It's what he knows himself that the wild bunch is always roosting on the powder can even when It appears like they're sitting pretty that counts with him. You thought I was taking a fool chance of outgaming him. In p reality I was taking almost an unfair advantage of him, providing he had the brains he must possess to have "What can "How?" she demanded. the six lived to his age." She toward do?" you pointed anSiie could find no ready-mad- e men near the wagon. "During the time you spent prowling the hills did swer to this surprising statement, (To Be Continued) you ever come across those men? "Not to cal round with them," he It's not the unhappiness one finds confessed. "But I did cut their trail now and then. They're not the outfit in marriage that hurts; it's the dis that's going to be hardest to handle illusionment. when the time arrives." "What do you mean?" she asked. "No one has ever been able to handle them up to date." "Did it ever strike you as queer that Slade could come into this conn try twelve years back, with nothing but a long rope and a running Iron, and be owning thirty thousand head . Stranger: Where can I get a drink? Native: one down. Three padlocks over and i "I'd go through hell for my wife!" "That's nothing; I've gore through it with mine." Rutgers Chanticleer. Twin Float SOL HOT Oil Burning Brooder Raises More Chicks For Sale By Bear River Valley Ass'n. Poultry J. L. WEIDMANN Phone Tremonton, Utah 12.3-- 5 Burnsright LOTS OP LOW ASH HEAT For the next few months you want the highest quality coal obtainable for comfort and cleanliness. Let us furnish you that highest quality coal with unsurpassed preparation and service. Block North of Tremonton Milling Co. One-Ha- lf BESSINGER Phone 36 BROS Tremonton, Utah 3E We Contract Acreage on irrigated land, with good farmers to grow BEANS at guaranteed prices from seed that we furnish. FILER SEED CO. South 3rd West 324 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH N. W. OLSEN Resident Agent TREMONTON, Phone 73-0-- 1 P. UTAH 0. Box 267 today?" "ne has the knack to protect his own and Increase." she said. "They're afraid of Slade." The girl shook her head impatiently and looked across at the six men who ate her fare. "Look at them," she flared. "Eating my food; and In a few nights they'll be hazing a bunch of Three Bar steers toward the Idaho line. Why doesn't some man that Is a man kill that albino fiend and nil his whelps and rid the country of his breed? Even Slade lets them put up at his place." "If they're pestering you I'll order them off," he said. "And what effect would that haver she Inquired scornfully. "The effect of causing them to climb their horses and amble off down the country," he returned, ne sprawled on the grass, his head propped on one hand w he regarded them. "Then probably you'd better order them off," she suggested. "You havo Now's your chance to my permission. make good the lordly brag of helping the Three Bar out of the hole." She Instantly regretted having said It A dozen times of late fhe had wondered If she were turning bitter and waspish, If she would ever again be the Billie Warren with a a smile for every one. and word good narrls was, as always, apparently undisturbed by her words. Far dwn the bottoms she could see a point of light which she knew for a while sign even-tempere- d that rend: "Squatter, don't let sundown find you here." The man before her had defied these sinister warnings scattered about the range A Permanent Record A Convincing Receipt YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT . it's convenient a checkat Tremonton Banking account ing A complete record of income Company. and disbursements, it relieves you of the necessity of keeping considerable cash on hand. And cancelled checks are an airtight receipt. IT'S safe Today You can open a checking account with us. 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