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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1929 side of the V L. and the Halfrooon D there's not another site they can get water for, except maybe a couple of spring gulches where flood reservoirs will hold back enough to water a forty. So well still control our home range." "But there's a dozen sites down Id The Settling of the Sage By HAL G. EVARTS spring. Again Deane was lmpresed with the Impropriety of the girl's being out with two men who loved her and the thought was an ache that re- mained with him. As they sat round the little fire the girl handed Harris the paper Slade had given her. It was a scrawled bill of sule calling for three hundred odd my range," be 6aid. head of Circle 1' cows, listed In the "And a dozen small outfits wouldn't exact nuiulKMs of all ages and 6eses; run any more cows than you do now,1 In return she would send him an exshe said. "Why don't you have men change slip for the same number of file on all those sites?" Three Bar stock. This ys "You can't make a contract tuat tern was one of Slade's exchange own devising. will hold a man to turn over his Intended to eliminate the lime and exhomestead after It's proved up." he pense of sending riders to scour adsaid. "Half of them would keep their jacent ranges in search of drifted land." stock. Each outfit "Of course," she agreed. "But then based ou the round-u-exchanged slips tally with you'd have half instead of nothing ut every other brand and so could show all. Do you want the world?" bill of sale for stuff in their "I want you!" be said, "throw lu beef shipments or for rebrands any with me, girl. I'm going to tight these on the range. off tin? nesters the Three Bar among Deane was rest if you don't quit I'll smash the memorandum regarding the penciled signed by Slade. Three Bar Into mincemeat unless you a "Not very impressive document, run this d d Harris ok and quit this he observed. game." Harris laughed at the other's eviIt was the first time Slade had dent disapproval of such a slipshod ever threatened. Her spirits had soared over the prospects of the Three method of property transfer. -"Not very," he agreed. But It's Bar and she was suddenly afraid fot her brand if Slade, who had whittled absolutely good. You could borrow down a dozen outfits at once, should money against that at the bank. Slade suddenly turn his whole attention to doesn't get us that way but here's how he does: He's mapped out a rebrand the Three Bar. T've got It to do," Slade stated. system. His rebrand is Triangle on "Since you've started this deal there's the hip. When he gets our exchange been nesters filed papers on every slip all he has to do is go on his good site in my range, waiting to rush range and run the Triangle on the in as soon as I lose my grip. Do you hip of the number of Three Bar stock think I'll let them crowd me out? Not it calls for. There are Three Bar in a thousand years I'm telling you cows ranging a hundred miles from I'll break the Three Bar If you keep here, just as there's brands a hun dred miles off whose stock turns up It up." -"All rlghtl" she said. And what here with a triangle on the hip. Who's going to check Slade up? It about the homestead laws?" would take three crews to cover his "I'm the law out here," he asserted. It came to her that Slade was fight- range and tally the fresh Three Bar few ing on the defensive, that he feared rebrands .aof this one season atrain-loads to let the Three Bar succeed and Bet here and few there. He ships of cows a some in There's year. up a precedent in defiance of the old rebrands in each lot say; maybe stgns that dotted the range. "Then it's war!" she said. "And more than last year's exchange. Well he has been holding hem over. you'll go under yourself, from your He simply can easy explain that It would own size, if you haven't the judgment to hedge yourself now like the rest break a small outfit to hire enough The Three Bar is going ahead and hands to cover his range and check him up and he'd buy part of those. we're going to win." y albino's men are The She turned her horse but Slade bandits with Slade." compared arm her and whirled her caught Deane turned to the girl. around. He jerked a thumb at the "Blllle, why don't you get out of a two men down the ridge. a "What can Deane, a boy. game where everything is crooked give you?" he demanded. "You want game of who can steal the most and an outfit of your own. I'll give you every man for himself?" he asked. "Why don't you fold your hands and that the biggest in the state." She shook her head .without an give up your business the first thing that goes wrong?" she countered. "In, swering. "Then I'll break you," he predicted stead of trying to remedy It?" "But you don't have to do It" he a second time. He drew a folded slip , of paper from his pocket and held it urged. out to her. "That's the exchange slip," "Neither do you," she said. Tve. he said.' "It calls for. three hundred the same pride in the Three Bar that odd head of mixed stuff. You can you have, in anything you've helped send yours over any time." He turned build up. You'd fight all the harder his horse and followed after the for one of your schemes that was ranger while the girl joined Harris and so would L" and Deane. She turned to her teepee and ended Harris had slipped the strap of his the discussion, her pride a little hurt glasses and handed them to Deane that Deane should so little appreciate who hud dismounted and was peering her work and the spirit that made off at the spot Harris had pointed out. her hold on instead of giving up. A few scattered shacks, showing as That evening they rode up to the toy houses from the distance, stood Three Bar just as Waddles announced In the center of a broad open basin, the evening meal. sheltered on all sides by the choppy "She's hot!" the big voice wailed. mass of the Breaks. A solid corral, "She's d hot!" almost a stockade, stood near the The bands were gathering at the buildings. in from the range for "That's Arnold's stockade," Harris aranch, coming before the beef round-u- p frolic explained to Deane. "Arnold was an should keep out for another month. e rustler that finished at the was up and he had end of a rope fifteen years ago. Now Deane's totime leave on the following day. planned all the drifters in the country stop "You can't do that" Harris said. over here If they want a place to hole "Two more days forf you. I've given up." orders not to let you off the place "Can't the sheriff clean them out of till after the dance at Brill's. This there?" Deane asked. Is Tuesday and the big frolic will be "He could," Harris said. "But no night Then you're man will make a complaint They staged Thursday ' an rustle every steer In the country free to go." Deane shook his head and prepared and the losers are afraid to muke a to offer an excuse but Harris smilingreport Every outfit Is supposed to ly refused to consider It protect Its own. If Alden should ride "No use to try," be said. "The boys up to almost any ranch within a hun- won't let you go. We've had you out dred miles and ask them If they'd In the rain and now we'll try to make missed any stock In the last three amends for don't let him years they'd shake their beads and leave the it Blllle, place. I'll detail you as swear that they hadn't lost a hoot But the Three Bar has a clean page; guard.' "You hear the orders,'' she said. we're not afraid he'll get a line ou us "You're stuck for two more days at while we're having him round up some one else. The first time we get the Three Bar whether you like It or a scrap of real evidence on any man not "That settles U," Deane said, "1 we'll call Alden In." do want to see that dance." Ton told me the Three Bar herds Home strolled up to them as they have been cut In half," Deane said. reached the corral. "How much evidence do you need" "Another of the wild bunch down," Harris like "It's this: explained. he said. "Magill this time. Cot It "Rustling Is about the hardest thing Just the same as Barton did last In the world to prove. There's a doxen week. Shot from in front ; one ways they can work It I could catch shell in bis gun. The Breaks Isempty getsome of them driving a bunch of to be a hard place to reside In." Three Bar cows toward the Idaho line. ting Again the girl felt that queer senThey'd look up and see me and calm- sation of having expected this to ly ride on past the cows. They could as if possibly she bad transpire, bunch was just drifting ahead say the the deed herself and had of their horses that they weren't helped plan That night as she lay It forgotten alL Who them at can't prove In driving bed her mind was concerned her a case of rustling even if you see It with It and at times the solution unless you actually catch one alter- seemed almost to reach the surface of ing the brand. The only way to con- her consciousness. Two belated riders now to kill him is vict a rustler right came the lane. As they rode past and swear that you run up on him ber up windows she heard the name open I a brand. expect that's of changing Magill. what we'll have to do." "That's two for Bangs," said a Deane looked at the girl to deter- voice she knew for Moore's. mine how she met this suggestion. In The evasive sense4 of familiarity, of stead of the shiver of distaste which In some way Identified with the being he rather .expected her lips were killings, was suddenly clear to her pressed tight so clear that she marveled at not hav"A little of that would help Blade, ing known at once. too," she said. "Be told me Just now Old Rile Foster was haunting the that he'd smash the Three Bar." Breaks near Arnold's, Imposing grim The man reflected that this sort of and merciless Justice on all those a life could not help but wear off some whom he suspected of having had a of her natural fineness and harden hand in the finish of Bangs. . p Copyright by Hal G. EvarU WNU Service d 'ear rning Deane was once more awakened by a clammy dampness on bis face. A fine drizzle was falling. Ole was on his feet shoving a few.lcks of wood Inside the flap of Billie's teepee. Breakfast was cooked under the dripping trees. The outfit was packed up and the little procession filed away toward the next valley and Carlos Deane proved his real caliber to Harris. Throughout the day they rode In a fine drizzle; In the timber the wet branches whipped them and sprayed water down the necks of their slickers ; In the boggy meadows of the bottoms the mosquitoes hovered round them in humming swarms. At night they made camp and slept In damp ,bed rolls with the clammy mist chilling them. The next day was the same. Deane's neck was raw and chafed from the wet neckband of his flannel shirt and his hands and cheeks were puffed with the bites of the buzzing pests. But he had been cheerful throughout and had uttered no com- plaint Toward evening of the second gloomy day Harris rode up beside him. "You'll do," he said. "How's that?" Deane asked. "There's maybe one man out of every m fesndred that can go along like thtsjjad not get to blaming every one In iekt for what's happening to him. I don't know as I'd have blamed you any if you'd been cussing us all out for the past two days." Deane laughed and shook his head. "I've been rather enjoying it," he said. "You're just a plain, liar, Deane," Harris returned. "Yon haven't been enjoying it any more than the rest of us which is mighty little; but you've got insldes enough to let on like its's considerable sport which Is a whole lot" "No one else has done any beefing," Deane said. "So why should I?" "This Is everyday business with us, Harris pointed out "And right unusual for you. There's likely a 1 petty-larcen- half-bake- Howell Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Gunnell. were Snowville visitors last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Wood and sons motored to Ogden Saturday. A. W. Price of BothweU was the guest of Merlan Wood Saturday and Can't Talk To Wife; Cross and Nervous I number of things yon do every day y back your way, but that doesn't that I could amble back there and perform as well as yon." suspect you'd make out all right Deane said. 'Anyway Pm much obliged for the Indorsement" They camped again In the drizzle but by noon of the following day the sun peeped through. The ranger pulled up his horse as they struck a game trail in the saddle of a low divide. A bunch of shod horses had been ejw it a few hours past "SojC?tr the albino's layout" Wil ton surmised. They rode out on to a spur and looked down on the low country. Slade and the ranger were going on the others returning to the Three Bar. Harris pointed to the country spread out below them. "That's the Breaks," he told Deane. slf-nlf- 1 'Til point out the albino's stronghold." . "While they're looking I want to talk to you," Slade said to Blllle, "Let's get together," he said, when the others had passed on. "Why are you so dead set on making a squatter outfit of the Three Bar? Don't you know the nesters will flock In here and cut the range all up as soon as see a chance?" they ' "Not my range," she said. "Out- - self-start- er Twin Float HOT Burning Brooder Raises More Chicks Dider-ickso- What Ye Sow So Shall Ye Reap The discriminating buyer demands quality in farm products. The progressive farmer seeks to sell products of a quality to meet consumer demand. We Contract Acreage on irrigated land, with good farmers to grow The use of good seed is essential to quality production. BEANS SOW ONLY THE BEST SEED AVAILABLE THE BEST IS NONE TOO GOOD at guaranteed prices from seed that we Consult your county agent and write for list of available publications issued by the Utah Agricultural, Experiment Station, Logan. furnish. FILER SEED CO. Tremonton Banking Co. 324 South 3rd West SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH The Bank Best Able to Serve the Bear River Valley N. W. OLSEN Resident Agent TREMONTON, UTAH Phone P. O. Box 267 73-0-- Published by this bank in cooperation with the Agricultural Committee of the Utah Bankers' Association 1 d SPECIAL OFFER on Hotpoint Automatic ELECTRIC RANGES old-tim- la Everyday Business With Us," Harris Pointed Out When inetnsely angry and searching for a fitting word to express yourself, say "Roosevelt," which, we are reliably informed, is the biggest dam known. Bear River Valley Poultry Ass'n. re-e-e- This give new life and pep. Vinol tastes Adv. delicious. Scott Drug Co. Business has no you have to crank it yourself. Sunday. F. B. Gunnell and son Jay and Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Wood were Tremonton visitors Saturday. ' Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kelson and at Logan children spent the week-en- d SOL visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rock and children Oil Too motored to Brigham Saturday. C. L. Williams and Wra. Anderson "Even my husband couldn't talk to made a business trip to Salt Lake this me, I was so cross and nervous. Vinol For Sale By week. has made me a different and happy P. J. Hansen and Daisy Hansen woman." Mrs. N. McCall. were Tremonton visitors Monday. Vinol is a compound of iron, phosMrs. F. B. Gunnell spent" Friday phates, cod liver peptone, etc. The J. L. WEIDMANN and Saturday visiting at Logan. very FIRST bottle makes you sleep Phone 12.3-5 Tremonton, Utah Miss Mildred Wood spent the week- better and have a BIG appetite. NervGarland James Brough - n ous, end as a guest of Miss Phyllis tired are easily people surprised of Thatcher. how QUICK the iron, phosphates, etc., Mr. and Mrs. Mirl Mason motored to Tremonton Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Shram of White's valley were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Wood. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Williams were shopping at Tremonton Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Forsgren and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wood attended the funeral of their uncle, Win. Larkin, at Grace, Idaho, Monday. Merlan and Dallas Wood and Martin Bassett were visiting friends at BothweU Sunday evening. Frank Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Gunnell, Misses Estelle Wheatley and Lida Wood motored to Tremonton Sunday .evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Gunnell and son Lamoine were visiting at Logan Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hyde and chil d hard-presse- dren of Blue Creek were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Sorenson. Mr. and Mrs. C. C Shriber were Tremonton visitors Monday. Norman Nelson motored to Tremonton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nelson and baby at Tremonton visspent the weke-en- d iting relatives and friends. Mrs. J. H. Forsgren and daughters Cora and Lois and Miss Lida Wood were shopping in Tremonton her. 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