OCR Text |
Show -- curiosity and a Wad of wonder at this unnatural creature, Sabra must put bar question: "What do wsat t marry th richest man la Oklahoma, and, build, a palace- - that ril hardly ever live In, aad travel like royalty, aad dank with emeralds. With my skin and hair they're my ; atone. emerald, by all Beans," Sabra agreed, cuttingly. "Diamond are to erdinary. Aad th gentleman that you consider honoring let me sec From your requirement that would have to b Tracy Wyatt, wouldn't "res,' replied Donna, calmly. "You've probably overlooked Mr. Wyatt Of course, Tracy's only fifty one, aad you being nineteen, there' plenty of time If youll just be She waa too amused to be really disturbed. "I dont Intend to be patient mamma darling." , . . " Something In her hard, ruthless tone startled Sabra. "Donna Cravat, don't you start, any of your monkey busi-aeI saw you cooing and g at Mm the other, day when we went over th Wyatt hew house. And I heard you saying some drivel about hi being a man that craved beauty In hi life, and that he should have It; and sneering politely at th new house until I could, see him beginning to doubt everything in it, poor fellow. Be had been so proud to ahow It But I thought you were Just talking that New York talk of your." ,T "I wasn't I was talking business." Sabra was revolted alarmed,1 and distressed, all at once..,. She gained reassurance by telling herself that this was just on of Donna' queer jokes part of the streak In her that Sabra had never understood and that corresponded to the practical joker In Yancey, That, too, had always bewildered her, Absorbed in the workings of the growing, thriving newspaper the conversation faded to a dim and almost unimportant memory. 8abra was sufficiently shrewd and level headed to take Sol Levy's sound advice. "You settle down to running your paper, Sabra, and you won't need g any oil wells. You can have the paper and the most powerful in the Southwest Bigger than Houston or Dallas or San Antonio, - Because Osage Is going to be bigger and richer than any of them. You mark what I say. Hardly any oil In the town of Osage, but billions of barrels of oil all around it This town won't be torn to piece, then. It'll grow and grow. Five years from now It'll look like Chicago." "Oh, Sol, how can that be?" "Youll see. There where the gambling tent stood with a mud hole In front of It a few years ago youll see In another five years a skyscraper like those In New York." She laughed at that Just as she had known that Yancey had again left her on that night of the Mescal ceremony, so now she sensed that he would come back In the midst of this new insanity that had seized all Oklahoma. And come back he did, from God knows where, on the very crest of the oil wave, and bringing TJoaTTed by jtMut-44rthHVsrrr-rrr-- tV ' ft.--- v-'- J ! If' EDNA TERCER V "!' -- itr Own WW sy Mm rrtnW pa-He- ;ft other girl IMaf la Osage and Oklahoma City and Guthrie tad Wanes were trm products of fht new raw Southwest country. They liked t ores la crude high colors glaring taks, cerise, yellow, red, vivid orange, stegeata. They made up naively with wait powder and big daubs of far-aloa either cheek. The daughters mt nor wealthy parent droTe their own car la a day when this was con adored rather daring for a woman. Donna came home tall, thin to the -- oe s. ah-In- h'vt -- . 1 J1 M - . best-payin- E ' "What a Rotten Deal You've Had, Sabra, Dear." . t ..point of scrawnlness la their opinion ; allow, unrouged, drawling, mysterious. Che talked with aa eastern accent ic- fMredthe letter r, said eyether and . ayether and rlh'ally and altogether J aaade herself . poiaonoualy unpopular with the glrli and, undeniably stirring to the boys. She paid rery little heed attentloaa of the Okla- t A torn home-tow- n lads, adopting toward e a attitude ,nm very baffling to these frank and open-faced prairie products. Her school days finished, and she a ' : ialshed product of those days, she bow looked about her coolly, calculat- lagiy. Her mother she regarded with a kind of affectionate amusement the-clums- ; serpent-or-tue-WH- "What a rotten deal you've had, with him news that overshadowed his Sabra dear," she would drawl. "Rih'al-ly- , return. He entered as he had left, I don't see how you've stood it all with no word of explanation, so bizarre as to cause everything else to fade these years." Sabra would come to her own de- into the background. He came riding, as always, but it fense, goaded by something strangely hostile in herself toward this remote, was a sorry enough nag that he beT disdainful strode this time; and his white somoffspring. "Stood what?" Oh you know. This being a brero was grimed and battered, the pioneer woman and a professional Prince Albert coat was spotted, the h in spite of linen frayed, the whole figure covered Marcy and with the heavy red dust of the trama bum of a husband," "Donna Cravat, if you ever again pled road. He must have ridden like dare to speak like that of your father an avenging angel, for his long black locks were damp, his eyes red rimmed. I shall punish, you, big as you are." "Sabra darling, bow can you punish And when she saw this Don Quixote, a grown woman? You might slap me, so sullied, so shabby, her blood turned and I wouldn't slap you back, of to water within her veins for pity. She thought, it will always be like course. But I'd be terribly embarrassed for you. As for father he Is this as long as he lives, and each time he will be a little more broken, older, a museum piece. Tou know It." ' "Tour father is one of the greatest less and less the figure of splendor I married, until at last figures the Southwest has ever proShe only said, "Yancey," quietly. duced." He was roaring, he was reeling with "Mm. Well, he's picturesque enough, I suppose. But I wish he hadn't Jovian laughter as he strode into the Wigwam office where she sat at her worked so hard at it And Cim! There's a brother! A great help to neat orderly desk Just as she had sat me in my career, the men folks of this on that day years before. For a dreadful moment she thought that he was quaint family." drunk or mad. He flung his soiled "I wasn't aware that you were planning a career," Sabra retorted, very sombrero to the desk top, he swept her Into his arms, he set her down. much in the manner of Felice Tenable. "Sabra Here's news for you. "Unless getting up at noon, slopping around In a kimono most of the day, Jesse! Heh, Jesse! Where's that son of a printer's devil? Jesse! and lying In the hammock reading Is Come in herel 0 d, I've been laughcalled a career by Dignum graduates. If it is, you're the outstanding success ing so that I almost rolled off my hone." He was striding up and down of your, class." :i j , , " "Darling, I adore you when yon get as of old, bis shabby coat tails spreading with the vigor of his movements, vtperish and Venable like that Perhaps you influenced me in my early the beautiful hands gesticulating, the youth. That's the new psychology, fine eyes bloodshot now still flashyou know. You used to tell me about ing with the fire that would burn ungrandma trailing around In her white til It consumed him. "Oil, my children! More oil than raffled dimity wrappers and her high anybody ever thought there was in aeols, never lifting a lily hand." any. one spot in the world. And "At least your grandmother didn't where! Where 1 On the Osage Indian consider it a career." "Neither do I. This lovely flower .reservation.1 It came In an hour ago, like th ocean. It makes every other like head Isn't so empty as you think, field look, like the Sahara. There la the front lolling porch hammock. never was such a joke! It's cosmic-- It's X know It's no use counting on father, terrible. How the gods must be area when he's pot off on on of bis roaring."Laughter unquenchable juyaterious Jaunts. ' What is hi doing, the blessed gods !' " aayway? Living with some squaw T among "Yancey dear, we're used to oil out . .L Forgive me, mother darling. I atdat mean to hurt you . Clm's here. It's an old story. ' Come now. Come home and have a hot bath and Jott a bad, and worse, because he' weak and' hasn't even dad' phony clean clothes." In her mind's eye she aw those fine white linen shirts of his Ideals. Tou'r busy with the paper. Yaaf all right I'm not blaming youvJ all neatly stacked In the drawer as if weren't for you we'd all be oa the h he had left them. towsor tack jn Wlchjta living on S For answer he reached out with one fraidBl la genteel poverty. I think great arm and swept a pile of copy paper, galley proofs, and and I ought to try to :wtf wonderful, Un yoo. Bat I dotft want to be a clippings off the desk, while with the other hand he seised th typewriter n th (reporter. Describing by It steel bar and plumped It to the n of dandelions and g at eat of Cassandra Sines' floor with a force that wrung a wblnaaa4atBf from (ta . head-held-hig- tartm Ihsiaea. . He "had - Cwaya scorned to use a typewriter. Th black swathes of hi herculean peudl.bJt deeper,lnto. the paper's surface than any typewriter metal teeth; - s f. honey! Do ; "Hot bath ' Hot yoa realise what this means?. Do yea understand that two thousand Osage Indians, squatting In their rag in front of their miserable shanties, are bow the richest nation 1b the world? In the world, I tell you. They wore given that land the barest meanest desert land In the whole of the OkIa noma country. And the government of these United : State said, 'There, you red dogs, take that and live on it And if you can't liv on It, then die on it God 'mighty, I could die my self with laughing. Million and million of dollar. They're spattering, I tell you, all .over the Osage reservation. There' no stopping that flow. Every buck and squaw on the Osage reservation la a millionaire. They own that land, and, by 0 d, Fm going to ee that no one takes it away from bt ' them!" v :j l?... be careful." "Oh, Yancey, He was driving hi pencil across the paper. "Send this out A. P. They tried to keep It dark when the flow came, but I'll show them. Sabra, kill your editorial lead, whatever It was. I'll write it Make this your news lead, too. Listen. The gaudiest star- spangled cosmic Joke that ever was governplayed on a double-dealin- g ment burst into firework today when, with a roar that could be heard for miles around, thousands of barrels of oil shot into the air orr the miserable desert land known as the Osage In dian reservation and occupied by those duped and wretched !" "We can't use that, I tell you." Why not?" "This Isn't the Cimarron. If the tat of Oklahoma, That' treason . She had never replaced It with another. THE OKLAHOMA WIGWAM Yancey Cravat Prep, and Editor. "When you take that down, Sabra, your own name up honey, and paint in my place,- - you'll be the editor of this newspaper. Until you do that, I am." As they stood there, she in her neat blue serge, be in his crumpled and shabby attire, she knew that she nevei would do it. Young Cim came home from Colorado for the summer vacation, was caught up in the oil flood, and never went back. Willi bis geological knowledge, slight as it was, and his familiarity with the region, he was shuttled back and forth from one end of the state to the oilier. Curiously enough Cim, like his father, was more an onlooker than a participant in this fantastic spectacle. The quality of business acumen seemed to be lacking in both these .men ; or perhaps a certain mad fastidiousness In them kept them from taking part in the feverish fight A hint of oil In this corner, a trace of rum-soak- v ; . 'ta sumptu-decoratio- run-Caq- pro-testin- xs2a, g, hard-fightin- high-heele- (TO BE CINTIN.UED) Bothwell n 1 r hard-drinkin- that's anarchy" Mrs. Lamar Harris and children, of "It's the truth. It' history. I can Chicago, are here visiting Mr. and prove It They'll be down on those Mrs. Isaac Burnhope for a brief stay. Osages like a pack of wolves At least Mrs. Harris was formerly Miss Mar I'll let them know they're expected. garet Burnhope. HI run the story, by G d, as I want It Mrs. Marion Summers and son, Bob run, and they can shoot me for It" last week visiting relatives bie, "And I say you won't. You can't at spent Idaho. Pocatello, come In here like that I'm editor of Mr. and Mrs. La Von Williams and this paper." of Howell, are new residents He turned quietly and looked at her, family, at Bothwell. We welcome them and the great head Jutting out the eyes hope they will enjoy living among us. like steel. "Who is?" Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Stark and Mr. "I am." Mrs. Ezra Banbrough of South and a he word Without grasped her out, across the old Weber, visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo. wrist ar.d ?rr? porch, down the steps and into the Stark several days last week. street There, on Pawhuska avenue, Mr. Bert Hunsaker and Jared Fors- in the full glare of noonday, he point- gren left Tuesday for Twin Falls, on ed to the weather-worsign that he business. Sunday, Bothwell base ball team himself, aided by Jesse Rickey, had the Corinne boys. Bothwell bealmost there played twenty years hung fore. She had hnd it painted and re- won by a score of 9 to 5. Mr. and Mrs. .Harry Drew visited painted. She had had it repaired. ... J malic noniecomlngi. She "had made up her amlsH, to accept the Inevitable. -- be did not mind that Yancey spent much ttqw on th olT1lldX";W"knW the men be called the "Big Boys' from tb East aad they often sought him out for his company, which they found amusing, and. for a certain regional wisdom that they considered valuable. He despised them and spent most of hi time with the pumpers aad roust abouts, driller and tool drrcr and Nurd-talk-Ing. shooter a g crew. In hi whit sombrero and bis outdated Prince Al d boots he was bert and his known a a picturesque character. Years of heavy drinking were taking their toll of the magnificent body and mind. The long lock showed streak of gray. Local .townsmen who once . had feared and admired him began, to patronise mm or to laugn at mm, 101 erantly. Many of them were rich now, counting their riches not in thousand but In millions. They had owned a piece of Oklahoma dirt, or a place of a piece of dirt and suddenly, through bo act of theirs, it was wortk irj weight la diamond. Fat Leary, tfa pugnacious little Irish lawyer who bad once been a aecttea hand la the early day of the building of the Santa F road, was now so rich through his vast oil holding that his Indian wife. Crook Nose, was considered a quaint and picturesque note by the wive of eastern operators who came down on oil business. .... . "When Take That Down, Sabra, Honey, You'll Be the Editor of This Newspsper." You ' relatives at Corinne Sunday Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Brain, .Mr .and Mrs. Willard Rogers and baby and Mrs. James Keyser and small sons, of Salt Lake City visited through the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Nels An ' '. derson. - " ' Mrs. James and Bishop Walton, of Tremonton, visited Mr. and Mrs. Wil lard Rogers and Mrs. James Keyser, at the Nels Anderson home Monday afternoon. Miss Edna Wells, of Willard, spent the week end visiting Leila Stark. Miss Afton Hunsaker and Mr. Jim Nebeker visited Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hunsaker Sunday evening.' Mrs. Eliza Krumperman, of Ogden, visited her daughter, Mrs. John An derson Friday and Saturday. Then Mrs. Anderson accompanied her mother home for a few days visit. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Forsgren, of Brigham, were the week end visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Rudger Forsgren. Mrs. George Summers entertained at a family birthday dinner Sunday in honor of her brother, Glen Henri, of : Garland. .n . i Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stark, of How ell, spent the week end visiting Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stark. r M Mrs. Oscar Forsberg, of Riverside, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nels Anderson Thursday and Friday. -Bishop Marble and Wendell Hun saker, went to Cold Water Canyon on "'" . business Monday. Beatrice Hawkins had Ruby Hunsaker for her dinner guest Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Scholer, of Union, were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs Rudy Scholer Sunday. Mrs. George Summers and children spent Monday and Tuesday visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Henri, of Gar land. Mrs. Sophia Anderson returned home from Gentile Valley Tuesday. She spent the last week visiting her children residing there. Mr. and Mrs. Heber Hailing and children, of Bear River City visited and were dinner guests of Mrs. C. O Anderson, Sunday. Mrs. T. V. Summers and Mr. Melvin Homer left Sunday for Salt Lake. Mrs. Homer 1 to ro under a tonsil operation Wednesday and as Mrs, Homer ha been very sick the past year everyone hones for her safe recovery. Mrs. Mildred Nichol had for her dinner guests Friday, Dorothy Summers, Beatrice and Grant Hawkins and Dorothy Anderson, all friend of Gloria Nichols and student in the band. Mr. and Mrs. Evered Roach and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newman were. Sunday visitor of Mr. and Mrs. Rasmus " Anderson, Mr. and Mr. Andrew Firth and chil dren, of Ogden and Mr. and Mr. Will Firth and family, of Layton, visited and were dinner . guest of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Firth Thursday. They also ' - oil In that, and the thousands were upon It pushing, scrambling, nose to the ground, down on like pig In a trough. A hundred time Yancey could hsve bought aa oil leas share for a song. Head lolling on bis breast, lid lowered over th lightning eyes, ke shrugged Indifferent shoulder. "I dont want th filthy muck," he aid. "It stinks. Let the Indian have It It' theirs. And the 'Big Boys' from the East let them sweat and scheme for It They know where Oklahoma 1 sow, all right." HI comings and goings had ceased attended the county fair. to can Sabra the keen agony of Mr. and Mrs. Golden Peterson, earlier day. She knew Bow that their children, of Snowville, were week existence, so long a Yancey lived, guest of Mrs. C. O. Anderson. would always be made up of Just such Mis Leola Seeley, of Brigham, taaglalned aaracnj sad selodra Mr. Reed Anderson visited Mrs. all-fou- -- - and end and EU Riverside j '. ' '! ... ' ON PEACH DAY I ?fr Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Bott and children, of' Logan, and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ward, of Wellsvffle, were the finiulflv cmenta of Mrs. Phebe Ward. Edward Tubbs and son. Blaine, of Ogden, were here over the week end with Mrs. Francis Tubbs- - Mrs. Tubbs and son,-- Georger returned "with Edward to Farmington where they will spend the next three weeks with Mrs, if";. f.iC ; In tit past it has been the custom for many cafe to raise their price dm - The Howard Cafe in Brigham City fiaa never taken advantage of this custom for the simple reason that it doe not approve--, ot such meutods. position is that : food carrie no greater vsiu merely because of, a celebration, that the is stUl entitled to a wjuw deaL Francis Hess. e SoonPeaxhDay,whyhveD-comMr. and Mrs J. 0. Hodfield accom Wo and from weary of Centerdale, W. husjtj Smith, panied by J. C. E. Smith of Garland, and Mrs; E. much fun, it will b a pioaurerto of tjtah'a W. Ward motored to Salt Lake Sat serve you wel with ' finest eating-urday where they1 were dinner guests With more than double the aeaCnt; of their sister, Mrs. Charles Peterson. ba mr Creek Blue capacity of last year, thera will The Ora Hyer family, of ' have moved into the Aaron Porter welcome place for you, HOWARD CAFE, home for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ward went to Hol-bros '-home and returned (Adv.r rSaturday - - - - -- Sunday, - Construction Mr. and Mrs. Herald Welling, of Richfield underway Salt Lake were the guests of relatives on $30,000 armory building. in Riverside for the fair and also for f.ni rfnict5on will be eomnletad- labor day. end of year on CasUegate-Rolap- a Mrs. Mary Andrus and Mrs. Nina road, costing $125,000. Stayner, of Garland, were the board members present at the Sunday even- ness trip to Pocatello, Idaho, Monday. . . ing meeting. Hugh Davis, of GarMr. and Mrs. Glen Walker aad Mrs. v.-land was the speaker. LaVon Hales W. Ward made a business trip to ; sang and Steven Hales played a cor- Salt Lake Saturday. V net solo. A. M. held The I. tjheir opening tth Mrs. J. H. Ward was visiting in Lo dal Wedneday at the Udy Hot Spring ; gan with relatives Tuesday. Joel Tubbs and family, of Holbrook Idaho, were here over the week end. Mrs. Eliza Ward returned home with them after spending three weeks in Holbrook. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walker have gone to Pocatello to make their home. A large crowd of young folks from here attended the midnight dance at Fire Insurance All Kinds, f a b ? Portage Sunday, i Automobile Insurance, Miss Glenna Packer, of Ogden, has been a guest at the R. D. Macfarlane Fire, Theft, Collision, home during the week. Walter Kirksick and his sister-- Mil Public Liability, dred, of Salt Lake, were guests at the Property Damage, Henry Tubbs home Wednesday.- - Miss Mildred remained until Monday as a Plate Glass Insurance. , guest of Miss Roma Tubbs. Mrs. Herbert McQuine and children, of Elsinore, California, have been vis iting with relatives here for a few Surety Bonds, ' days. Contract Bonds, Mrs. George Hales was the hostess at the Relief Society work meeting Public Official Bonds. Tuesday. Mr. and, Mrs, Gilbert Tingey and LOANS small daughter, of Salt Lake, spent with and and Sunday Monday Bishop Farm Loans, Mrs. Russell Capener. Mrs. Phebe Ward returned from Property Loans, McCammon, Idaho, the last of the - BUILDING & LOAN r week. i .. busiJack and Joe Forsberg made a Save As You : eu-tor- ner - aae ' j ok - V - We All Want to Know Where We Can Find Service ' " !. Please, Income Accounts, Hawkins Sunday. Mr. Rasmus Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Anderson were in Logan on business Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Anderson who met with an auto accident have re covered sufficiently to be able to be " around again. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stark and son Joe, and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Stark accompanied Miss Edna Stark to her home in Willard Sunday. Relief Society was held in the ward hall Tuesday. It being work and business meeting so the time was taken up in quilting. Mrs. Pack was a visitor from the Stake Board, and a very enjoyable time was had. Watermelon was served by the ladies. ; Savings' Certificates. NOTARY PUBLIC CONVEYANCING the above together, with the best of service can be obtained from All of JAMES BROUGH Office -- Tremonton BVR. Tel.- - rim. -- Res. Utah Bell Tel tj 31J.2 -- ADDITIONAL CAN OF Dritt in 4 fcowr C Enmr Coma to our store,bwy a can el GUODEN at th regular price, present th coupon below, and you will gat ANOTHER CANj unit your original purchase for Ic. for your woodwork, for furniture C Now is th lima to "gat or other articles that you desire to enamel. 21 color to choose from. Dries In 4 hours. No odor Com in today. .. JAP-A-LA- iiM , JAP-A-LA- . I Ttw itimnifi,m CENT burin Wsltlywl cm, JAP-A-LA- C pint ef Uw ety iH at C f k. State COUPON li rafvlcr tin, It (in-P- hil I . Mr' MtMM I M KsMt Nam Ssres4...M............. .......... ....... .......... ....m. .,....M............m......MM. Dealer's Name ,. , Coup iiflm ht o tUn ttmm Uta of luitlio. Farmers' Cash Union Phone 35, Tremonron, Utah I. |