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Show PAGE THREb BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931 - -- ! C irr.arron Edna Ferber By EDNA FERBER Copyright by Edna Ferter.l WNU Service. ioivs byj usti-a- t Irwirv ityeva J, , 5 THE STORY I. It was 18S9. Yancey Cravat, just returned from th newly opened Indian territory where be had participated In the Run over the border, is describing tbia adventure to a larB family of the Venables. The Venableg. gathering ruined by the Civil war. had left Mississippi and settled in Wichita. Kan. Five years before Yancey Cravat had appeared in Wichita and won as his bride sixteen-year-ol- d Sabra Venable. Gossip said of Yancey Cravat that there was Indian blood in him. He is a clever criminal lawyer and editor of the Wichita Wigwam. A born orator, he combines something of the charlatan, much of the actor and a dash of the fanatic. When the Kun started, Yancey had raced his pony against the thoroughbred mount of a girl. When her horse fell and broke both forelegs, he stopped to shoot the crippled animal. The girl leaped on his muBtang, galloped to the quarter section and got the land by right of claim. Yancey announces he is going back to the Oklahoma country to start a newspaper in one of the new towns. Sabra, defying her mother, say she will go too. CHAPTER II They make the Journey in two covered wagons. Isaiah, a little negro servant of the Venables, is found when they make camp the first night, hidden in a roll of carpet The travelers find the darky youngster almost invaluable in his care and protection of Cimarron, the son of the Cravats. four-year-o- ld CHAPTER III At Osage Yancey immediately begrlns trying to learn who had murdered a man named Pegler, who had been shot after the first edition of his paper, called the New Day, appeared in Osage. He had been too truthful in calling attention to condthe territory. Preparations for itioner! the tTr 'ication of Yancey's paper, the Okia. .'ina Wigwam, are about completed. Isaiah becomes a member of tl e Cravat household. CHAPTER IV Yancey Is asked to conduct church services on Sunday and Arkansas Grat Gotch "loans" his gambling tent, which is packed, the novelty of a church service and a sermon by Yancey Cravat being impossible to resist. CHAPTER V Before he starts his sermon, Yancey announces he has learned who killed Jack Pegler. He stoops just in time to escape a bullet fired by Lon Yountis. Still stooping, Yancey shoots and kills Yountis, then announces that Yountis had shot Pegler in the back. Among the late arrivals at the tent services Is a handsome young woman, known as Dixie Lee. whom Yancey recognizes as the girl who tricked him out of his quarter section. With her are six highly rouged girls, whom she has . brought with her to Osage. CHAPTER VI Sabra's second child,-nameDonna, Is about three years old when she returns to Wichita for her first visit. She finds she has grown away from family and relatives and is glad to get back to Osage. CHAPTER VII Yancey frustrates a bank robbery in Osage, killing the "Kid" and another desperado, and becoming a hero In the territory. Sabra's energy and intuition win women readers for the paper. Yancey, always eager for adventure, urges Sabra to loin him in the coming "Run" at the opening of the Cherokee strip. She refuses. He leaves her, and is gone five years. CHAPTER VIII Dixie Lee becomes a town institution. The wives and mothers of Osage are indignant. Yan- of rumors. heard thrcutrh only oeyj fHrf conducting the paper success- t j? An Usage Indian girl. Arita. be comes the mother of a son. Isniah is the father. Among the Osage Indians misconduct, or marriaere, with a negro. is a capital onenae. Isaiah and Arita, with the child, are kidnaped and tortured to death. CHAPTER IX The war with Spain in begins. Yancey returns to a Rough Rider uniform. Sabra,Osage despite his desertion, welcomes him. He has been in Alaska, he says. The good women of Osage, led by Sabra, combine to rid the town of Dixie Lee. Her trial as a vice monger, comes up on the day Yancey comes back. He defends her and she is acquitted. Yancey leaves to join his regiment. CHAPTER X Yancey returns from the war broken In health, but still a popular idol. The newspaper prospers as the town "settles down." An Osage Indian girl. Ruby Big Elk, is Sabra's house servant. Cimarron, the Cravat's first born, nineteen years old, appears, to Sabra's horror, to be Interested in her. CHAPTER XI The girl. Donna, at fifteen, is sent to a New York "finSabra becomes the ishing" school. town's society leader. Cimarron accompanies Ruby Big Elk to an Indian ceremony, despite his mother's remonstrances. Yancey, the wanderlust upon him, again leaves Osage. That night Sabra, alarmed at Cimarron's absence, seeks and finds him at the Indian ceremonial, having actually taken part in it. She brings him home. CHAPTER XII The "oil boom" convulses Oklahoma. Donna, comes home, determined, she tells her astonished mother, to many Tthe richest man In the state." Yancey .1 Mturns. aroused by the news that oil 4TKj been struck on theto Indian reser-J3tloand determined defend their V.rt-htin the newspaper, though he s Ciniir-ron'- s sentiment. antagonizes public open friendliness with the Into dians stirs Donna indignation. CHAPTER XIII P.ig Elk. Osage Indian chief, and his wife, formally notiof the marriage that fy the Cravats daughter, Ruby, to Cmorning of their imarron. The monstrous announcement Sabra, though Yancey is unstaggers moved. With her husband, Sabra attends the wedding festivities, though she feels that, for her, life is over. truck driver. Is Tracy Wyatt, former easily the richest man In Oklahoma. Divorcing his wife, he marries Donna. Her ambition is fulfilled. For years, from Yanagain, Sabra hears nothing soon after cey, who had disappeared Cimarron's marriage. Sabra is elected con stress woman, and Donna and her husband, and Cimarron's Indian wife, electrify Washington with their display of wealth. CHAPTER XIV With a eonrres-lonparty, and some leading oil operators, Sabra Is making a tour of investigation into conditions In the OklaAt the town of homa oil districts. Bowlegs he finds Yancey, outcast and a with the last maghero, bum, dying, nificent gesture of an empire builder. In the mud of the oil fields, but she Is In time to be recognised by htm and to close his eyes In forgiveness and Kve. d , d, n, al Edna Ferber has given to America many great stories. Her "Roast Beef M e d 1 u m," and "Personality Plus" sketches have entertained millions of readers. In her mora ambitious "So production, Big," she gave to America a char- acterization that is today ranked as a classic of our and literature, now she has turned to the hisromance torical and gives us "Cand to imarron," this she brings all of the glamor and Edna Ferber. adventure of the great Southwest. You will thrill at the description of the great rush of land seekers across the border line between Kansas and Oklahoma of April 22, 1889; you will enjoy Yancey Cravat as land seeker, as editor, as pioneer; you will love his energetic and capable wife and her ability to carry on when Yancey fails. With Yancey she joined the "Oklahoma run." Into this wilderness of rattlesnakes, Indians, bad men, son. They she took her saw the wilderness into which they had rushed with thousands of others made populous in an hour, and cities numbering thousands of people springing up over night. "There's never been said anything like it since creation," the wife. "Creation! H 1!" said Yancey, "That took six days!" Cimarron is destined to be ranked among the greatest of American historical romances, and as a serial It is a story you are going to appreciate more than any other you have read for a long, long time. four-year-o- ld FOREWORD Only the more fantastic and Improbable events contained In this book are true. There Is no attempt to set down a literal history of Oklahoma. All the characters, the towns, and many of the happenings contained herein are But through reading the imaginary. scant available records, documents, and histories (Including the Oklahoma State Historical library collection) and through many talks with men and women who have lived in Oklahoma since the day of the Opening, something of the spirit, the color, the movement, the life of that Incredible commonwealth has, I hope, been caught. Certainly the Run, the Sunday service in the gambling tent, the death of Isaiah and of Arita Red Feather, the catching of the can of nitroglycerin, many of the shooting affrays, most descriptive passages, all of the oil phase, and the Osage Indian material complete these are based on actual happenings. In many cases material entirely true was discarded as unfit for use because it was so melodramatic, so absurd as to be too strange for the realm of fiction. There is no city of Osage, Okla. It Is a composite of, perhaps, five existent Oklahoma cities. The Kid Is not meant to be the notorious Billy the Kid of an earlier day. There was no Yancey Cravat he is a blending of a number of dashing Oklahoma figures of a prist and present day. There is no Sabra Cravat, but she exists In a white-haireinscore of bright-eyetensely interesting women of sixty-fiv- e or thereabouts who told me many strange things as we talked and rocked on an Oklahoma front porch (tree-shadenow). Anything can have happened In Oklahoma. Practically everything has. EDNA FERBER. d, CHAPTER I All the Venables sat at Sunday dinner. All those handsome inbred Venable faces were turned, enthralled, toward Yancey Cravat, who was talking. The combined effect wn almost blinding, as of incandescence; but Yancey Cravat was not bedazzled. A sun surrounded by lesser planets, he gave out a radiance so powerful as to dim the luminous circle about him. The Venables. dining, strangely resembled one of those fertile and dramatic family groups portrayed lolling unconventionally at meat in the less spiritual of those Biblical canvases that glow richly down at one from the great gallery walls of Europe. Though their garb was sober enough, being characteristic of the time 1889 and the place Kansas it yet conveyed an Impression as of purple and scarlet robes enveloping these gracile shoulders. You would not have been surprised to see, moving silently about this board, Nubian blacks In loincloths, bearing aloft golden vessels piled with exotic fruits or steaming with strange pasties in which nightingales' tongues figured prominently. Blacks, as a matter of fact, did move about the Venable table, but these, too, wore the conventional garb of the servitor. This branch of the Venr.ble family tree had been transplanted from Mississippi to Ktnsas more than two t decades before, but the had mid-wes- failed to set her bourgeois stamp upon them. Straitened though It was, there still obtained in that household, by some genealogical miracle, many of those charming ways, remotely oriental, that were of the South whence they had sprung. Unwilling emigres, war ruined. Lewis Venable and his wife Felice had brought their dear customs with them into exile, as well as the superb mahogany oval at which they now sat. and the silver which gave elegance to the Wichita. Kansas, board. As the family sat at Its noonday meal It was plain that while two decades of living In the Middle West had done little to quicken the speech or hasten the movements of Lewis Venable and his wife Felice (they still they declared to goodness; the eighteenth letter of the alphabet would forever be ah to them) It had made a noticeable difference in the younger generation. Up and down the long table they ranged, sons and daughters, and daughters-war-salvag- charm of manner, a hypnotic eye, and the power of making each listener feel that what was being said was intended for his ear alone. Something of the charlatan was in him, much of the at.r. a dash of the fanatic. No rom seemed big enough for his gisranlic frame; no chair but dwindled heiittith the breadth of his :nn;likrs. He xeciiied actually to loom more than his six reel two. His black links he wure overloiij. tlmt they curled a litlle about his neck lu the manner of (with. His checks and forehead were, in places, deeply pitted, as with the pox. Women, perversely enough, found that attractive. His mouth, full and sensual, had still an expression of great sweetness, (lis eyelashes were long and curling, like a beautiful girl's, aiul when he raised his heavy head to look at you. beneath the long black locks and the dark lashes you saw with something of bewilderment that his eyes were a deep and unfathomable ocean gray. Now, in the course of his story, and under the excitement of It, he left the table and sprang to his feet, striding about and talking as he strode. His step was amazingly light and graceful for a man of his powerful frame. His costume was a Prince Albert of fine black broadcloth whose skirts swooped and spread with the vigor of his movements; a pleated white shirt, soft and of exquisite material; a black string tie; trousers tucked Imo the gay boot-topand, always, a white felt hat, broad-brininit- d a:;d rolling. On occasion he Snowville - CHINESE SMOKERS I The Chinese smoke 60 billion eigar-eta year, according to a Department of Commerce report. Of these, about 9,000,000,000 are imported, most of them from the United States. China also buys 93 per cent of her leaf tobacco from us for manufacturing cigarettes. The principal center of production is Shanghai which turns out approximately 60 per cent 6f the total output of domestic made cigarettes. ts .1 j. The drama "Eyes of Love" was presented here Saturday night by the Thatcher Ward Dramatic' Co. The attendance was good and the play was enjoyed by all. Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Wardleigh were Ogden visitors a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Coxey of Ogden were guests of Mrs. Coxey's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Robbins last week. Mrs. Lamar Cutler was guest of honor at a shower held at the home of Mrs. B. S. Cutler on Thursday. Leo Cottam of Brigham was in town Wednesday. Relief Society meeting was held last -- ek at the homo of Mrs. Anne Hurd. The meeting was followed by a social. Refreshments were served. Miss Isabelle Hurd was visiting friends at Tremonton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Goulding spent the week end at Mantua. MOVING PICTURES IN INWA India now has a motion picture film studio, the first in that country. It was opened in Calcutta early this year and is owned by Maden Theaters, motion picture producers and exploiters. The enterprise is housed in a building 100 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 38 feet high located on a site comprising seven acres of land. An ideal husband is the man who The difference between a wife and a barber is a barber always asks you has sense enough to remember his what you're going to have instead of wife's birthday and forget how many she has had. telling you what you're going to do. ATTENTION LADIES s; S on Ladies Spring pecia1 COATS and DRfcSSES "you-alled- U.S. Cleaners Tremonton, Utah sons-in-la- in-law; grandchildren; remoter kin such as visiting nieces and nephews and cousins, offshoots of this family. As the more northern-bremembers of the company exclaimed at the tale they now were hearing you noted that their vowels were shorter, their diction more clipped, the turn of the head, the lift of the hand less leisurely. In all those faces there was a resemblance, one to the other,, Perhaps the listening look which all of them now wore served to accentuate this. Yancey Cravat was talking. He had been talking for the better part of au hour. This very morning he had returned from the Oklahoma country the newly opened Indian territory where he had made the Run that marked the settling of this vast tract of virgin land known colloquially as the Nation. Now, as he talked, the faces of the others had the rapt look of those who listen to a saga. The men leaned forward, their hands clasped rather loosely between their knees or on the cloth before them, their plates pushed away, their chairs shoved back. Now and then the sudmuscle den white ridge of a hard-se- t showed along the line of a masculine Jaw. Their eyes were those of men who follow a game In which they would fain take part. Sometimes a woman's hand reached out possessively, remindingly, and was laid on the arm or the hand of the man seated beside her. "I am here," the hand's pressure said. "Your place is with me. Don't listen to him like that. Don't believe him. I am your wife. I am safety. I am security. I am comfort. I am habit. I am convention. Don't listen like that Don't look like that." But the man would shake off the hand, not roughly, but with absent-minde- d far-flun- g d resentment. Of all that circlet of faces, linked by the enchantment of the tale now being unfolded before them, there stood out lambent as a flame the face of Sabra Cravat as she sat there at table, her child Cim In her lap. Though she. like her mother Felice Venable, was definitely of the type her face seemed luminously white as she iistened to the amazing, Inoltve-sklnne- CALL 15 For a free demonstration on the MAYTAG Also to see the new IRONER A demonstration will give you a chance on the Free Maytag or Ironer which is to be given away MAYTAG SHOP Utah Tremonton Yancey Cravat. simply blubbered Shakespeare, the Old Testament, the Odyssey, the Iliad. His speech was spattered with bits of Latin, and with occasional Spanish phrases, relic of his Texas days, lie flattered you with his fine eyes; ht bewitched you with his voice; he mesmerized you with his hands. He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would Invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and t lie Cimarron. Afterward, sobered, he was always filled with shame. Wine, he quoted sadly, is a mocker, strong drink is raging. Yancey Cravat could have been (in fact was, though most of America never knew it) the greatest criminal lawyer of his day. It was said that he hypnotized a Jury with his eyes and his hands and his voice. His law practice yielded him nothing, or less than that, for being sentimental and melodramatic he usually found himself out of pocket following his brilliant and successful defense of some Dodge City dunce-hal- l girl or roistering cowboy whose had been pointed the wrong way. POULTRYMEN!! 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Twenty-on- e married at sixteen, mother of boy, and still In love with her picturesque giant of a husband, there was about Sabra Cravat a bloom, a glow, sometimes seen at that exquisite and transitory time In a woman's life when her chemical, emotional, attains Its highand physical make-uest point and fuses. Lewis Venable, In his armchair at the head of the table, was spellbound. Curiously enough, even the boy Cim had listened, or seemed to listen, as he sat In his mother's lap. Perhaps It was the curiously musical quality of voice that lulled him. the story-teller- 's Sabra Venable's disgruntled suitors had said when she married Yancey Cravat, a stranger, mysterious, out of Texas and the Cimarron, that It was his voice that had bewitched her. 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