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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929 Bar calves on Ms circle while I'm running the layout Morrow tried on while he was breaking you that .- The in- Carp surveyed the faces of the men and started to speak but changed bis mind and headed for the rope corral. "That's going to leave ns Harris said to the girl "Morrow, Carp and Bangs three short Borne ought to get back from Brill's today. We've only one more Settling of the short-handed- Sage week out so I guess we con worry through." "How did you knowf she asked. "About Carp, I meant "Lanky caught him overlooking a bunch of cows with calves," Harris explained. "Lanky is worth double HAL G. EVARTS Copyright by H&I O. WNU 8rr1c pay" Brtrtt Home came back from Brill's In the early evening and another man rode with him. . "Alden," 1 ," Billie said. "1 wonder what the sheriff is doing out here." e'Te a clear field now with noth- The sheriff stripped the saddle from V n onr minds but the job of put- - his horse and the wrangler swooped feet," he down to haze the animal In with the juOt the Three Bar on its 'said. The Three Bar Is a pretty remuda as Alden Joined Harris and small. outfit the way things are today the girL He was a tall, gaunt man but In d few more years the brand with a slight stoop. His keen gray that runs three thousand head will be eyes peered forth from a maze of sun almost in the class of cattle kings. wrinkles surmounted by bushy eyeThe range will be settled with an out- brows, the drooping gray mustache fit roosting on every available site. accentuating rather than detracting The big fellows will find their range from the hawklike strength of countecut np and then they're through. If nance. He dropped a hand on the the Three Bar files on all the water girl's shoulder and looked down at out of Crazy Loop and covers the flat her. with hay we'll control all the range "How are things breaking this seafor a number of miles each way. son, Billie?" he asked. "Everything There's not another site short of running smooth?" Brandon's place west of us twelve "About the same," she said. They miles or so; about the same to the were old friends and the girl knew east; still farther off south of us. that Alden would help her In any posXou try sible way. "We'll be riding the crest and get a letter off to the Judge toThe sheriff turned to Harris. "I see you've settled down to a day" The girl nodded. steady Job, Cal, instead of browsing "We'll try It," she said, "I know around the hills alone. I run across that Cal Warren would rather see the Home at Brill's and he was telling Three Bar go to pieces from Its own me about some one gunning for you from the brush. Morrow, he says. Do you want me to pick Morrow up?" "It would only waste your time," Harris said. "We couldn't prove it on him the way things are." "Fact," Alden agreed. "But I could hold him till after you're back at the ranch. Some day folks may wake up and need a sheriff. It's hard to say." The men had finished working the herd and were crowding around the wagon for their meal. "You go ahead and eat, Billie," Alden said. "Cal and I'll feed a little later on. I've got a fuss to pick with I "Will Try It," She Said. pressure, fighting from the Inside to grow, than' to see It whittled down from the outside without our fighting back." She crosBed to her teepee to write the letter asking Judge Colton's advice on this matter which would mean th& turning point In Three Bar affairs. later Home rode away from .ther-vagonhis bed roll packed on a led horse, heading for Brill's with the message that meant so much to the Three Bar. As he left Harris handed him two letters he had written weeks past, before leaving the ranch. Presumably only the three of them knew of the intended move but In the course of the next few days it had become rumored among the men that the Three Bar was to turn Into a farming outfit The girl learned that Carpenter was the source of these Cnl." Billie left them together and the sheriff squatted on his heels. "What's this rumor about your farming the Three Bar?" he asked. "Home said all the hands were guessing, but I haven't heard anything about It outside." "And I don't want it leaking out before we start" Harris said. "But we're going to break out the fiat I had the plans all laid and sent word off. Things are moving toward the start right now." "It'll stir things up," Alden predicted. With one forefinger he traced a design in the dust then blotted it out "I'll play In with you the best I can; "We've got to make a clean split" Harris said. "Get the wild ones definitely set apart Then they can be handled." Alden was regarding old Rile Foster who had drawn apart from the rest and was eating his meal in solitude. The old man had taken a boot heel from his pocket and was studying it as if fascinated by the somber reflections it roused In him. Alden shook his bead as he rose and moved toward the wagon. "Home was telling me about Bangs too," he said. "Pretty tough for Rile. They was as close as father and son, those two." Harris and the sheriff Joined the rest at the wagon and held out plates and cups to Waddles. The girl was oddly excited, anxious for the start now that the decision had been made. "How long will it take to get things whispers. moving after we get back?" she asked. Ever since the departure of Morrow "Not more than a week at the outCarp had been sullen. Twice he bad side," Harris said. "Probably less." taken exceptions to some order of "You don't mean that" she stated. Harris' but the new foreman had pa"I want to know the truth." tiently overlooked the fact However, "You have it," he assured her. "1 on the fifth day after the departure of had the plans all laid. Our crew is Home with the letter to Judge Col-toheaded for the Three Bar. already Harris whirled on the man as he Before they get there every man will made an remark when have filed on a quarter I designated the hands were gathered for the noon for him. Inside a week we'll have meal. covered the flat" "That'll be all," he said. "Ill figure Long after the hands had turned in out your time. Yon took things up for the night she heard a faint murwhere Morrow left off. Now yon can mur of voices and looked from ber go hunt him np and compare notes." The brilliant moonlight teepee. "Cant a man speak his mlndr showed Harris and the sheriff sitting Carp demanded. off by themselves. For no apparent "He can talk his head off." Harris reason she thought of Carlos Deane it he can't overlook any Three and, point by point she contrasted aid, him with the man who sat talking to If your wife is studying French you the sheriff. Each was almost super-efficiein his own chosen line and had better learn to darn your own sox. she caught herself wondering what each one would do if suddenly transplanted to the environment of the other. Then her mind occupied itself with Harris who would soon break out the first plow furrow that had Afc(r n, anti-squatt- FRUIT TREES You can get all kinds of Fruit Trees, Vines, Shade Trees, Roses and Shrubbery from us at lower prices for high grade stock. Write us your wants and we will be glad to quote you prices. Anderson Produce Co. Brigham, Utah off across a flat beside the road a sign that loomed In the cen- to-wa-rl ter. The giant designated as Tiny swung the mules off the road and beaded for the sign. The three wagons were drawn up some fifteen yards apart in the shape of a triangle, the mules unhitched and given a feed of grain from tied to the wagons and supplied with baled bay. Tiny walked over and viewed the sign. "Squatter don't let sunset find you here," be read. "It's about that time now," he observed, squinting over his shoulder. "It'd be a mistake to leave evidence like that around." He tore down the sign and worked it into firewood with an ax "Now they can't do notldng to us for drifting in here by error," be remarked to his companions. "It wouldn't be fair." In the morning the three wagons lumbered on. Near sunset they passed another sign where the Three Bar road branched off to the left Tiny pulled up the mules. "Uproot that little beauty. Russet" he advised. "We're getting close to black-browe- d nose-bag- s, home." The guard descended and threw his weight against the sign, working it from side to side until the posts were loosened in the ground, pried it up and loaded it on the carrot-haire- d wagon. "Quick work, Russ, the big man "For a little sawed-of- f complimented. runt, you're real spry and active. He clucked to the mules and they settled steadily into the collars and moved on to the Three Bar. The Three Bar men viewed the freighters curiously as they, swung the mule team In front of the blacksmith shop, noted the rifle In the hands of each guard and a second one In easy reach of each driver. They knew what this portended. The freighters had stripped off the wagon-shelashed across the top of each load and the Three Bar men moved casually toward the wagons, curious to view the contents. "You boys get to knowing each other," Harris said. "These will be banging out at the Three Bar from now on." All down the line the Three Bar men were getting acquainted with the freighters. A thousand pounds of oats were tossed from the top of the first wagon and when the concealing sacks were cleared away there were three heavy plows showing underneath, the spaces between them filled with shining coils of fence wire. The second load consisted of a dismantled drill, a crate of shovels, and more barbed wire ; the third held a rake and a mowing machine, more wire, kegs of fence staples and a dozen forks. "The Three Bar will be the middle point of a cyclone," Moore prophesied as he viewed the implements. "Just as soon as this leaks out" "We fetched our cyclone openers with us," Russ assured him. "Let ber buck." From the cook-shac- k door the girl viewed these preparations, then turned her eyes to the flat and vlsloned it with a carpet of rippling hay. There was a clatter of hoofs and a rattling of gravel as five horsemen d mounts down put their the steep slope two hundred yards back of the house and followed along the fence of the corral. The five Brandons bad cut across the shoulder of the mountain. The girl wondered at this visit as she heard Lafe Brandon,' the father and head of the tribe, ask Harris to put them up for the et mule-skin-ne- us. Rile," he urged. "Bangs would want you to try and forget" The old man shook his bead. "I'm drifting today," he said. "I'll likely be back before long. I backtracked Blue to their camp and trailed them twenty miles to where they Joined another bunch. It was some of Harper's devils I don't know which four. One way or another, whether I get the right four or not. I'm going to play even for Bangs. Them were less than a dozen others in Brill's store when the Three Bar men crowded through the door. Five men sat at one of the tables in the big room and indulged in a casual game of stud. Harper and Lang were among them. Two of them Harris knew as men named Hopkins and Wade. The fifth was unknown to him. The albino's eyes met Harris' steadily as he entered at s the bead of the Three Bar men. The news that the Three Bar had turned into a squatter outfit bad been widely noised abroad. From behind the bar Brill covertly studied the man who was responsible for this change. Four men from the Half-moo- n D stood grouped at one end of the room. They split op and mingled among the others. Brill moved up and down behind the bar, polishing it with a towel. One after another be drew each of the men from the Half-mooD Into conversation with the Three Bar foreman to determine whether or not they resented bis move. There was no evidence of it In their speech. The men from the two outfits mingled as unrestrainedly as before and at last Harris smiled across at Brill. "Weil, have you sized it all up?" he asked. (To Be Continued) night An hour later Harris and Lafe came to her door and she let them la "The Brandons are riding down to file on a quarter apiece," Harris said. "Art quit the wagon below their place as we came In and told the rest that we're going to farm the Three Bar." "Then you're doing the same?" she asked Lafe with sudden hope that her brand would have company in the move. Old man Brandon shook bis head. "Not right off," he said. "Until we see how you folks pan out We can't fix to handle it the way you do. We're filing to protect ourselves before some nester outfit turns np at our front door." "But the other small outfits feel the same way," Harris said. "If two of us start the rest will Join in." "Maybe' so," the old man said "But noways likely. doubtfully. They're too set on the other side." The thought was deep-rootand he could not be moved. "We'll let it out it'a only for protection that we all are filing," he suld. "And that we don't aim to prove up. The outfits that don't file now will lose out This will always be open range, more than ninety per cent of It, and those who file on their water will control the grass. As soon as the squatters see one outfit starting, they'll take out papers on every piece of dirt they can get water to. They'll have six months to move on, then a six months' stay. They'll hang round ever scarred the range within a rawaiting for things to open up so they dius of fifty miles and she pictured can rush in here. The brand owners seen she a had that sign again day: who haven't hedged thelrselves before"Squatter let your wagon wheels keep hand will run down to file and find turning." that nesters have had papers on all the good pieces right in their door-yar- d CHAPTER VI for months. They'll have only the plots left that their home ranch Three heavy wagons, each drawn sets on, and likely no water even for by four big mules, traveled north that" The Brandpns stayed for the night along the Coldrlver stage trail. Every wagon was loaded to the brim of the and rode off at tUiyllght the next triple box. Two men were mounted morning, while the Three Bar men on each wagon seat, the man beside prepared for a trip to Brill's. As the the driver balancing a rifle across bis rest were saddling for the start Harris saw old Rile Foster seated by knees. ''Nice place to camp, Tiny," said the himself, gazing off across the hills. "Better come and ride over with guard on the loai wagon. He pointed Unlimited Money to LOAN 2; n Collinston One of the most successful amuse ments of last week was the Overall and Apron dance held at the Beaver Dam amusement hall Friday night. A Permanent Record A Convincing Receipt YOUR CHECKING ACCOUNT The Wellsville orchestra furnished the old time music. Mrs. Mary Kidman delightfully entertained the Relief Society ladies at IT'S safe it's convenienta checking account at Tremonton Banking HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID the necessity of keeping considerable cash on hand. 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