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Show Page Six -- BEAR RIVEPw VALLEY LEADER u RWIWG POI W.N.U. gust of wind blew out In the dark Sherwin the lamp. over his eyes; he his hands pressed was trying to shut out Jane's face! "We're goin to th stables; ain't no one there, an we can saddle up." "I can't take a horse from here!" Sherwin exclaimed sharply. "Easy, son, I'll lend you mine tonight" said Mac. "I can ride one of the ranch horses; we ain't goin so terrible far." They went to the stables and old MacDowell brought out the horses. Sherwin hated to lay a hand on one of them but he mounted when the old man told him the roan was his own property. Silently, after that CHAPTER VI e and they rode past the road. out on to mountain the twisting "Do you know why I'm wanted?" Five miles up in the redwoods they Sherwin asked, still standing. The old fellow nodded. "Seen th' passed the limits of Las Falomas. paper you had In ybur pocket, Sher- The wind from the hills grew cold, wln. You'd marked the description, but the sky was brightening; the and It dropped t'other day an I saw highest peaks were already touched moonlight Sherwin turned in it Th sheriff talked some, too, with when we were goin' to look for th' his saddle and looked down. Below place where Jordan jumped the ' creek. I ain't a skin' questions. ...mi, mu.J You sit down an' eat" Sherwin sat down. "You're a good man," he said chokingly. "I'm old," said MacDowell quizzically. "I ain't dead set on punishing other folks." "Except Jordan," said Sherwin. Mac laughed. "Well, maybe! Eat son, you may have a long hike. You can't take th trains; Cutler'll have your picture up in 'em." "You said a while ago when you were tending my arm that Miss Keller was to marry Stenhart Is that true?" A sudden d. ranch-hous- I.L J'- MacDowell considered, pulling on his pipe. "I've heard Jim say so. You don't like Stenhart?" "He's my cousin," Sherwin said In a flat, emotionless voice. The old man started and took his pipe out of his mouth. "Gosh!" he ejaculated, and stared at the young man dumbly. "He's my cousin and his testimony sent me to jail for life," said Sherwin, and his voice shook. "He lied. He lied me out of the way for fear I'd break our uncle's will. He got that it?" Mac leaned his elbows on the table, looking across it at the shadowed face of Sherwin. The latter nodded. "The old sto- ry," he said shortly. "Uncle was killed in the garden. He was stabbed while he slept on the old bench by the cedars. I'd just found him when Max came in the gate; hce'd been up the street at the newsstand. He swore I had the knife in my hand. It was perjury but he got away with it. Uncle and I had had a difference the day before, and people knew of it That went against me, and Max swore me into jail for life. That's all." Mac was silent for a while, then he grunted. "Did you tell Jim about it?" In the dark Sherwin pressed his hands over his eyes; he was trying to shut out Jane's face! him lay the ranch; he could Just see the lights in the house, mere pinpoints of brightness. Darkness, like a velvet cloak, had fallen on the valley. He drew a deep breath. Jane was there, Jane, who had repudiated him with her chill look, and Stenhart! His hand clenched. lie had sent him to prison, it Resolve was pursued him still. hardening In him, he could not go until he had killed him. He rode on again but all the while, he was aware of those lights down there in the darkness. He had lived eight years in prison but he was still young. The girl's eyes, her voice, her soft hands on his wounded arm, had kindled a flame; now the flame was made fiercer, more terrible, by jealousy. Stenhart was with her! Then suddenly he was roused from his fierce revery. Old Mac drew rein. "Get down," he said briefly. "We can hobble th horses, we've got to hoof it the rest of the way." The moon was rising over the top of the mountains as Sherwln swung himself out of the saddle. They had left the road and were On a mountain trail; great trees surrounded them, their spreading boughs making a dense shade through which the rising moon shot here and there, an arrowhead of light MacDowell led, and, as they advanced, the almost imperceptible trail grew of gigantic narrower, size locked them in; far off was the sound of rushing water, a mere murmur at their ears. "Walk slow," Mac cautioned him, "th path's mighty narrow in front now an' a mite treacherous. We're coming to the edge of a precipice, ain't nothing to save you If you fall." "I hear water somewhere," said Sten-har- fs "He Sherwin laughed bitterly. wouldn't believe me if I did! The Jury didn't I've served eight years. when I was senI was twenty-twtenced. Ever been in jail?" he asked ironically. "Come mighty near it once, son. Punchin' a rogue's head got me arrested, but somehow th Judge kinder agreed with me that it punchin'." "It's like being in hell to shut a healthy man up behind stone walls for life," Sherwin said bitterly. "I won't be taken if I can help it; I'd rather die only I've got something to do first" The old man looked across under the lamplight again; something in the white face opposite moved him deeply. Sherwln was a stranger, he was an escaped convict, yet "Don't do it, son," old Mac said gently. Sherwin, startled, raised his bloodshot eyes to hi. "You know?" "I re(kon I do!" Sherwin rose and began to walk about the room. "I came out here to find him. He wasn't in his usual haunts in the city so they told me and I'd tracked him patiently, tracked him to Keller's ranch, when I stumbled into your accident and motored you here. It was pure luck, I thought, to get here so easily without credentials, too!" MacDowell nodded. "He's gettin' well an' he's sure to hang around Sherwin. Jane." "Mighty pretty little cascade beSherwin said nothing, but his low us, 'bout two hundred feet It's hands clenched until the nails bit into the palms. In the silence the too far down for th' moonlight to little room seemed full of Jane's strike it yet mind th turn now see th' drop, it's presence. Again he saw her eyes there, you can steep." mighty change, saw her recoil! A shudder van through him, fury leaped up In They stood on a narrow ledge. Some convulsion of nature had long him, he remembered Stenhart' white face, his cowardly cry: "Don't ago ripped out the side of the slope. let him kill me!" Again he paced Behind them was a bit of sheer rock; on either side the great trees up and down. MacDowell , rose Old slowly, stopped and there was only a narrow path at the edge of a deep rastretching his uninjured arm. "Th sheriff'll be around here for vine. Far down a turbulent little hours. You river roared over the broken rocks a spell, maybe thirty-sican't hardly miss him if you try to and tumbled from a high cliff into reget out now; some of 'etn will meet the depth below. The moonlightnothup with you. I 'tell you what I'll vealed a sheer precipice with do you come along with me now, ing reaching out from it but one before moonrisc, an' I'll fix you up. old, gnarled tree. "A mighty bad place to slip," I've just been flgurin' it out." Sherwin stopped in nis pacing and Sherwin said musingly; "easy to looked at him, strangely touched. thrust a man over there to his "How about Keller? He wanted me death!" to get out at once." Old Mac grunted. "Mighty easy "You ain't goin' to stay on th' but you ain't goin' to get th' chance, far.ch; you follow me." Mac picked he's too lame a duck to get this o tree-trun- x P th door. food-pac- and opened the KEIEASE his face; how easily the old man had read his mind! Mac stopped now and pointed, Ig- noring what he had just said. "Th cabin's hid in there amofig them trees. I built It most forty years ago. I hadn't no health those days; doc said I'd got to live out up here in the redwoods, so I knocked There used to be up th' shack. shootin' an' fishin. It's mighty good stood weather bettern I expected. There ain't anybody knows about it except Jane; she saw it once, I fetched her up here. You can camp here safe enough till I bring you word where Cutter's gone. Sherwin, looking ahead into the dense shadows of the mountainside, saw a light Both men stood still, electrified. "By gosh!" Mac caught at his companion's arm and gripped it listening. "I'm darned if Jordan ain't up here sure as shootin' 1" he whispered. "In your cabin?" Sherwin smiled grimly, loosening his pistol in the shoulder holster. MacDowell cautioned him to silence with a gesture and they both crept forward. As they did so, Sherwin discerned the outline of a little cabin set in under a sycamore. A rectangle of light appeared, the door was open! Softly, step by step, the two men approached, keeping in the shadow. Sherwin slipped behind the house and looked in the window. A man was sitting on the floor, smoking and reading a newspaper by the light of a candle. It was the outlaw! Sherwin signaled to MacDowell and the old man came softly over and looked in. The man was an easy mark, but they did not shoot, both loved fair play too well. Making a sign to Mac, Sherwin went quickly toward the thicker shadows of the trees in front of the cabin, then, deliberately and slowly, he be gan to tramp down dry twigs and make the noise a man might make in carelessly approaching from the The woods back of the ravine. sounds reached the rustler's ears. He extinguished the candle and stepped outside the door. everything." "An' you're accused of killin' th' uncle because he'd cut you off, ain't far!" Sherwin felt the hot blood turn in number of church songs and Gardner a litf Mary Imlay Taylor "That you, Kenny?" For answer Sherwin sprang forward, pistol in hand, and old Mac emerged from behind the cabin with a roar. "We've got you now, you skunk!" he shouted. The outlaw dodged, dropped to his knees, rolled over like a ball and went spinning down the slope, Sherwin' s bullet speeding after him. A sailing cloud suddenly obscured the moon and, in the darkness, a gun flashed below them and a bullet whistled past. They heard a scrambling falL Sherwin fired again into the dark, a man cursed and silence followed. "Darn that cloud, I can't see a thing!" old Mac whispered. "You think Jordan's down there, Sherwin?" Sherwin, who had gone to the edge of the ravine and came back after the last shot answered as softly. "Yes! I can hear him scramble I'm hanged if I know how he got away without falling over the precipice! There comes the moon back out of range or he'll pick you off, MacDowell!" They both stepped back into the shadow of the cabin and waited, expecting a rush by Jordan and his confederates, but nothing happened. Far below them they heard a twig snap and some gravel slide. "Comin', I reckon!" Mac whis- pered. Sherwin shook his head. "Still going, the same man. Very likely he's gone for help." "That's true, ain't any use stay-i- n here to be shot at!" As he spoke he felt his way into the cabin. "Want to risk lighting the candle?" Sherwin asked him from the door. "I've got matches." We'd be targets sure "Nope! I can see from th' moon. then. Where you goin'?" "I'm going to stay here." "You'll have to give th' cabin up, son; you'd have a batch of them rustlers to fight if he comes back." "And the sheriff on the road,' Sherwin replied grimly. "That's true!" Mac thought a moment "I say, Sherwin, you'd better Just keep under the trees for th' night an' skip at daybreak. The posse'll be most likely tired an' rest-in- '. You'll get some hours start any- ways." Sherwin nodded. He had other plans, but he would not tell them. He grasped the old man's hand. "Come, I'm going to see you off safe with the horses, then I'll come back here quietly." Mac protested, grumbling, but he finally let the younger man accompany him to the road. His lame arm still made the old man more or less awkward. Sherwin helped him get the two horses and saw him mount "You skip at daybreak," Mac said kindly, and leaned from the saddle to hold out his hand again. "I don't believe you did it" he ended brusquely. Sherwln wrung his hand and stood under the trees, watching him go. The old man's blunt sympathy and active help had touched him to the. quick. He watched until the old fig. ur in the saddle and the two horses became mere specks on the white road toward Las Falomas. (TO BE CONTINUED) THURSDAY, MARCH while in the service and the articles bank in Ogden. of faith. Earl Nielson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Capt. and Mrs. Nielson rendered Ogden visaed DEMYVttLE II THE STOHT THUS FAR: Mae telli Eherwin that Jam is foinf to marry Stenhart. "I think the will not," he Solemnly Mae stated that the sheriff had picture of "someone that's wanted." Sheriff Cutler had shows the picture to Jim too. Harder, first decree, scaped from Rhode Island. "I don't think he's around these parts," Jim replied. Jane too saw the picture, and Stenhart panted: "Don't let him kill me!" Sherwln admitted to Jane that he was the man they wanted. Jim advised him to "melt away." Feeling like an outcast, Sherwln foes to Old Mae's shack where the foreman has a meal ready for him. "Aint no use sUrvln'," says Mae. Tremonton, Utah- Recently, Mrs. Louis Spademan and children and Mrs! Horace Lish visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ladel at Mendon. Mrs. Clarence Perry and daughter, Kathryn, have returned from Preston, Idaho, where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Johnson. Mrs. Louis Spackman and Mrs. Bert Wheatley entertained a nunr ber of friends at the Spackman home, honoring their husbands' Dinner birthday anniversaries. was served. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Perry attended the Kanesville ward reunion and homecoming. Mrs. J. W. Spackman is visit, ing her son and daughter-in-lawMr. and Mrs. Perry Spackman, in San Francisco, California. Recently, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wheatley of Deweyville, Mrs. Willard Moss of Simms, Montana and Mrs. May Whetton of Brig-haCity, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Snow in Brigham City. Mrs. Thomas Mills of Stone, Idaho, and her daughter, Beth and grand daughter, Carol of Ogden, visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Wheatley. Hvrum Montgomery of North Ogden, visited with Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner on Sunday. Captain and Mrs. Henry Niel-soand sons and father of Mr. Nielson were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. Peter Marble, Sunday. Mrs. Charles Burbank has re turned to her home after visiting with relatives in Idaho. A family dinner was enjoyed by relatives of Mrs. Lizzie Burbank at her home in Brigham City on Sunday honoring her 90th birthday aniversary, which was March 14th. Sunday evening at Sacrament meeting Captain Henry Nielson of Brigham City and N. Peter Marble were the speakers. Capt. Nielson related his experiences 5n, S 21 A w 13d n hymns on his cornet. He was accompanied on the piano by his Mario Hyatt has father. Mrs. Nielson and Mr. Nielson, father of the Capt., at tended the meeting. Mr. and Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Mat Muire of Ogden have moved in the T. L. U1 wmurnia visited with Wheatley home recently vacated orotners, iver and Jack I his is tK f. by Lynn Wheatley and family, auuidmuy. who are making their home in frank has been home for U ' edfrctheMannen;; ! X 7 Gc-- ! j .. K '.1 .Clementsl Montana. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hara and fam- visiting relatives in Saltfe Mrs. Lester Pierson ily and Mr. T. Hara have moved to Santa Monica, California. word from her son, DougK Mr. and Mrs. Frank Germer and Mr. and Mrs. Frankie Germer from California, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Eames and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hansen of Idaho, attended funeral S. NORMAN services for their aunt, Mrs. Anna Germer Monday. ABSTRACTOR Parley Burbank of the navy Established 40 Years visited relatives and friends here He is visiting his ERIGHAM CITY ttt, on Sunday. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bur- m as r ih would you S-l- ;..tf C ART i'iui n : Pictured here are the records of four "life lines" of our busfour things which largely control the destiny of any busing whether it be a farm, a factory or a store. They are Wages, Matt? rials Costs, Prices, and Profits. Suppose these were picture what is going on in your own affairs. How would you chart yr future course from these facts? t K ' 160 PE8 CENT n WAGES 150 CENT 160 i t j Proposed Increase 140 ' I 150 ' ri I MATERIALS j 1946 increases not included 140 "1 130 130 j ISO 120 110 no 100 100 LEGAL NOTICES 46 41 50 IN THE DISTRICT.COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF UTAH, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF BOX ELDER: BENEFICIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a cor- 4J 41 I By the end of 1945, prices on all modifies other than farm products arc food had gone upl9.J9bmcel941.Qsfl does not show effect of 1946 increcsn, With the proposed increase, wage roles will have risen from $0.85'4 per hour in 1941 to $1.3314 in 1946 a oain of !& . & w'eeiciy averoge would be $53.40. NOTICE OF SALE 100 " PRICES 153 PROFITS j 140 Vyl 000 h 130 ken lhai poration, ISO J Plaintiff, -- no vs- N. MASON, WAYNE PEARL B. MASON, his wife; WILLIAM MASON, LILLIAN MASON, (H.) his wife; GLEN S. MASON, MARJORIE M. MASON, his wife; VERA M. JENSEN, a widow; and RAY MASON, unmarried, LITTLE ; ; to-wi- t: The Southeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section 22, the Southwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of Section 26, the Southeast quar- ter of the Southeast quarter, the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter, the Northeast quarter of the Northeast quarter and the Southeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section 27, all in Township 14 North, Range 3 West of the Salt Lake Base and Meridian. Also The East half of the Northwest quarter, the Northeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, the West half of the Northwest the quarter, Northwest , quarter of the WARREN W. HYDE, County, Sheriff Box Elder Utah. Robert N. Gardner, By Deputy First Publication, March 14, 1946. Last Publication, March 28, 1946. 43 46 45 4 What about wages? Waget have risen steadily for five years. Before the strike which began on January 21 in ten of our plants and which has choked off nearly all farm machinery produc- tion, earnings of employes of these plants averaged $1.15 an hour, not including any overtime. The Union demanded a 34 cents per hour increase and a Government board has now recommended a general increase of 18 cents an hour, which would make average earnings $1.33 an hour. Weekly average would be $53.40. What about materials? No one seems to know how high materials costs will go. The Gov- ernment has increased steel prices as much as $12.00 a ton, with an average increase for all grades of Steel is the most important material we buy, but prices on other materials are also increasing. What about prices? 8.2. There has been no general increase in our prices since they were frozen by the Government in early 1942. Since then a few small increases have been allowed where particu-- 1 lar maciiines were substantially changed in design. Risk is part of the American profit and loss system, so we do not, of course, ask either our customers or the Government to 'that we can be certain guarantee of profits each year. The chart tells the story of our profits during the war. ' Although Harvester produced more goods than ever before, it had no desire to get rich out of war, so our rate of profit has steadily gone ;down. What our 1946 profit will be is extremely uncertain. What is tte next step? ;As you can sec, our present situation is that with frozen prices and declining profits, we are asked to pay higher materials costs and to make the biggest wape increase in the history of the Company. Can we do this? Wages and materials consume all but a few cents of every dollar we take in. If our prices continue frozen, and cost of wages and lo Iff d '44 Jci!m lbo llf, b j kief! materials continues to rise,ob will begin ously our Company some point f operate at a loss at which ope The exact point at Huh would start loss a at ating matter of judgment. GovernffiHm ft agencies and union leaden have opinions as to where onm Ifm, point is. But if they turn tte be wrong, they can shrug shoulders and say: "Well,itwaKf t mft P my responsiblity. J didn ! the decision." Wf The management of this say pany cannot and will not It dares not gamble. ofItourhas m sure. Continuation to millions of customers, ofthe ture jobs of thousands the o ployes, and the safety8tocUl vestments of 39,000 as corrw. depend on our making posaw I decision as is humanly K i -- What about future prices j farm machinery? J The judgmentof Harvester agementnowfethatwecannoj ly make the huge wage inc, recommended bytheGovwg until the Government t t adequate increases in co to machinery of farm j costs. increased J resulting That is not a C makes us happy. The not want to raise pn j to lower prices, Sbk, and we know our that. prefer to have us do anfl 1942 prices, at produced no we could continue to have delayed seeking gene it co relief in the hope that ff are , we avoided. Now that it cannot be awg1 The Vricf be Settled. Until itcan "gf, do not see how we we f.f , Piti es t , .itinn ...o Until we question is settled how we : can resumeoutpnIf ' H ..rninff j anaJ loegin mi we know ;! ,. attenti(n.l'hroughthecrf(I, rents of today's cond.nlJti trying.r. to chart a to our fcrrw mivps. customers.ancitoourstoau utl- m All rtj machines which farmer customers neeu. Because of the imP-.which both farmers and era have in this controjeare bringing i hese """ : ULJULIU'L I oj-do- What about profits? ; '41 M jAlol rroni per uui iui 01 uw iw until in 1945 it was slightly cents, as against 8.4 cents in JM1. Using U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics with 1941 prices eaualing 100, prices of farm machinery in 1945 were only 104.9. COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, particularly described as fol- Southwest quarter, Lots 3 and 7, all in Section 26, Township 14 North, Range 3 West of the Salt Like Meridian, containing 322.40 acres, more or less. TOGETHER with the appurtenances, including all water and water rights, and all estate interest of the said Wayne N. Mason and Pearl B. Mason in and to said premises, and the rents, issues and profits thereof. TIME OF SALE: 1 o'clock P. M. Dated at Brigham City, Box Elder County, State of Utah this 14th day of March, A. D., 1946. 4 A- -9 "O" r-- CHANGE i 100 41 Defendants. To be sold at Sheriff's Sale, on the 4th day of April 1946, at the lows, (Pre - ness "v m U n f n ; ho |