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Show Murray Eagle, Murray, Utah breath. His hand was, miraculously, quite meudy. More and more he neglected the news and business details of the CIMARRON By Edna Ferbcr Copyright by Edn Ferwi, WNU Service. lug among the throng; ran toward him. She was ln his great arms, but It was ber arms that seemed to sustain him. "Sahra. Sugar. Send them away. I'm so tired. Oh, God, I'm so WHAT WENT BEFORE v.nr-.- Just Cravat. returned "rom the newlyheopened Indian ter-in participated ritory where border, relates Jthe Bun over the of to a gathering Ahls adventures Athe Venable family. Yancey is criminal lawyer, editor of the Wichita Wigwam, and husband of When the Run fc:ibra Cravat fietarted, Yancey raced his pony iasainst the thoroughbred mount a girl. The thoroughbred broke two legs and when Yancey stopped o shoot It, the girl grabbed his .pony and beat him to the land he with his wife and panted. Yancey, so"n, Cimarron, start "Jror the Oklahoma country. They arrive to start a newspaper. He declares be Intends to find the .murderer of Ptgler. editor of the Vew Day. Yancey shows he can handle a gun. Preparations for ithe publication of the Wigwam re completed. Yancey accepts an ' invitation ;o conduct church services on Sunday. Grat Gotch lends t gambling tent for the serv-reThe placs is packed. Before lie starts his seimon, Yancey announces he has learned who killed fegler. He stoops In time to escape a buPet fired by Lon Yountls and then kills Yountls, announcing that Yountls murdered 'I'egler. Sabra's second child, Donna, Is three years old when she returns to Wichita for her first - tired." ?f 5four-year-ol- d s. visit t CHAPTER f VII Continued, 11 I "Thursday I But thut's the day fjie paper comes out." H "Well, the WlRwain ain't been so iirsiilHr since you been away," She tllowed that to pass without comment. "L'P ln ,lie hills he stumbles on Doctor Valllnnt, drunk, but it bo drunk he don't recognize Well, he tells Yancey, tuneoy. thnt Is. he's drunk as he right In the camp where the Kid and his One of them Is hiding out. f :mghurt had In that last Santa Fe fas Like to died, bohl-unt Cimarron. tily they sent for doc, and he came and Hived him. They put close to thirty thousand thnt trick, and It kind tif went to their heads. Vnl-- , U;int overheard them planning to In here ..t le hold to Osage, like todny, nd up the Citizens' National In broad daylight like the Kid AThey was already lways does. flarted. Well, Vuneey off on his liorse to warn (lie town, and knows to detour or he'll come on lc's the gang and they'll smell a nit. Veil, say. he actually did meet 'em. on 'em. accidental. The Kid , 't'i'M him and grins (hat nolf grin f his and sinus out. 'Vunccy. you .f'ill runnln' that paper of yourn Vunccy says. y nvn ut OsiseT - ?V Well, say,' he says, 'how Is 1(7 iH'-Yancey says a dollar year. The Kid reaches down nnd t .rows Yancey a shot sack with ten in It. 'Send me the f iver dollars 1 per for ten years.' he says. 'Where ;' Yancey asks him. Well, sny. the id laughs that wolf laugh of his never thought ,':iln and he says, that. Ill hae to leave you inow later.' Well. Yancey, looking as a meek and t iliy. he rides his way, he's put a "1 ule hook of poems In his band iid he's reading lis he rides, or retending to, but first chance be he cum across the hills, puts f-Is hrse through the gullies and "I ilo the draws and across the scrub f ik like he was a circus horse or centipede or something;. He gels Into Omicp, dead tired and his horse I a lather, ten minutes before the id nnd his gang sweeps down - f'.iwhuska avenue, their six shoot- rs ImrMi'R like a regiment was V lining, and makes a rush for the .ink. P.ut the town Is expecting t'icin. Sny I Wood!" Sahra waited tor no more. She ' gt He was restless, moody, distrait. Sabra remembered with a pang of dismay something that he had said on first coming to "O d, when I think of Osage. those yean. In Wichita I Almost five years ln one place that's the longest stretch I've ever done." The newspaper was prospering, for Sabra gave more and more time to It. But Yancey seemed to have lost Interest, as he did In any venture once It got under way. Even ln the courtroom or while addressing a meeting of townspeople Yancey sometimes would behave straugely. He would stop In the midst of a florid period. At once a creature savage and the flaring lamps, the hot, breathless atmosphere, the vacuous faces looming up at him like balloons would repel him. He had been known to stalk out, leaving them staring. In the courtroom he was an alarming figure. When he was defending a local county or Territorial case they flocked from miles around to hear him, and the crude pine shack that was the courtroom would be packed to suffocation. He towered over any Jury of frontiersmen a behemoth In a Prince Albert coat and fine linen, bis great shaggy buffalo's head charging menacingly at his opHis was the florid ponent. oratory of the day, full of sentiment, hyperbole, and wind. But he could be trenchant enough when needs be; and his charm, his magnetic power, were undeniable, and almost Invariably he emerged from the courtroom victorious. Sabra saw more and more to the editing and to the actual printing of the Oklahoma Wigwam. She got In as general houseworker and helper an OsHge Indian girl of fifteen who had been to the Indian school and who had learned some of the rudiments of household duties; cleaning, dishwashing, laundering, even some of the simpler She tended forms of cookery. Donna, as well. Her name was Arlta Ued Feather, a quiet gentle girl who went about the house In her calico dress and moccasins and hnd to be told everything over again, dally. Isaiah was beginning to be too big for these duties. He was something of a problem In the At the suggestion that household. he be sent back to Wichita he set up a bowling nnd wailing and would not be consoled until both Sabra nnd Yancey assured him that remain with them forhe ml-'ever. When Jesse Ulckey was too drunk to stand at the type case and Yancey was off on some legal matter, he slowly and painstakingly helped Snbra to make possible the weekly Issue of the Oklahoma Wigwam. Snbra, In a pinch, even fried her unaccustomed hand at an occasional editorial, though Yancey seldom failed her utterly In tills department. A rival newspaper set up quarters across the street and. for (wo or three months, kept up a feeble pretense of existence. Yancey's editorials, during this period, were extremely personal. But It was Sabra who held the women readers with her accounts of (he veal loaf, coleslaw, bnkert enke served beans, and nngel-fooat the church supper, and the somewhat touching decorations nnd costumes worn at the wedding of a local or county belle. If. In the quarter of a century that followed, every trace of the settling of the Oklahoma country had been lost, excepting only the numbers of the Oklahonin Wigwam, there still would have been left a clear and Inclusive record of the lives, morals, political and social and economic workings of this bizarre community. Week by week, month by month. Hie reader could I have noticed In lis columns what ever of progress was being mnile In this fantastic slice of the republic Wigwam. Next day they exhibited the body of the Kid ln the new plate glass show window of Hefner's Furniture Store and Undertaking Parlors. All Osage came to view him ; they rode In on trains, on horses. In wagons, ln ox carts for miles and miles around. The Kid. The boy who, In his early twenties, had sent no one knew how many men to their death whose name was the symbol for terror and darand merciless marauding ing Even throughout the Southwest. In the Cast ln New York the name of the Kid was known. Stories had been written about him. He was, long before his death, a mythical figure. And now he, together with Clay McNulty, his lieutenant, lay side by side, quite still, quite passive. Sabra did a strange, a terrible thing. Yancey would not go near the grisly window. Subra upheld him; denounced the gaping crowd as scavengers and ghouls. Then, suddenly, at the last minute, as the sun was setting blood red across the prairie, she walked out of the house, down the road, as If Impelled, as If In a trance, like a sleep walker, and stood before Hefner's window. The crowd mode way for her respectfully. They knew her. This was the wife of Yancey Cravat, the man whose name appeared In headlines ln every newspaper throughout the United States, and even beyond the ocean. They had dressed the two bandits In new cheap black suits of store clothes, square In cut, clumsy, so that they stood woodenly away from (he lean bard bodies. Clay McNulty's face had a faintly surprised look. His long sandy mustache drooped over a mouth singuHut the larly sweet and resigned. fuce of the boy was fixed In a smile that brought the lips In a sardonic snarl away from (he wolf-likteeth, and the eyes, whose lightning glance hau pierced you through and through like one of the bullets from his own dreaded now were extinguished forever behind the waxen shades of his eyelids. It was at the boy that Sahra looked; and having looked she turned and walked back to the e (nine. They gave them a decent funeral and a burial with everything In proper order, and when the minister refused to read the service over these tw sinners Yancey consented to do It nnd did. standing there over-civilize- hifa-luti- high-heele- i if mealy-mouthe- es I ht t tf ?') ... , n with the mounds of red Oklahoma clay sullying bis line boots, and the sun blading down upon the curling locks of his uncovered bend. They put up two rough wooden slubs, marking the graves. P,ut souvenir hunters with little bright knives soon mnde short work of those. The two m.iunds sank lower, lower. Soon nothing marked this spot on the prairie to differentiate It from the red clay that stretcheil for miles all about It They ent to Yancey, by mall. In checks, and through solemn com mlttees In store clothes and white collars, the substantial money rewards thnt. for almost five years, hnd been offered by the Santa Fe T the governroad, (he M. K. ment Itself, and various banks, for the capture of the Kid, dead or of the United States. alive. Sahrn, except for Yancey's growwas content restlessness, Yancey refused every penny of It. ing children were well ; The enough. the The committees, townspeople, saw And as she turned she Jmicd. the paper was prospering; she hnd oiling down (lie mad In a cloud her friends; the honse had taken dui a groteiuc scareerow. all on an aspect of comfort; they bad 'niiiks and teeth and rolling eyes. added another bedroom. She was. 3 l.ick Isaiah. In a way. a leader In the crude soI ".Win. Miss Snbra, he ain't hurt life of the community. Church cial I ri.it what yo' rightly call hurt. sewing societies; family suppers; 0. ma'am, jes a nip In de arm. picnics. sa d he gut It slung In a black silk One thing rnnkled deep. Yancey I .md'chlef and lonks right ttim't had been urged to accept the office iiinlsmne. They wouldn't let him of territorial delegate to congress 1!orig nouuy. Ev'jbody In town (without vote) and bad refused. All hukln his hand care he shoot sorts of territorial political posishot dal kill de Kid. An' you tions were held out to him. The .Know what he do Ihpn. Mls- ; - itrnT cly of Guthrie, capital of the terlie kneel down a" he cry lie ritory, wooed him In tain, d i.e a baby. IV me tote ris reat position, political laughed re aliM Ah IonMis kin tote i: jected all offers of political nan, too. My. she slio' rrowed I" ture. Now he was being offered I The newspaper office, the print the position of governor of the terher piirlur. her kitchen, ber ritory. Ills oratory. his drnmatic ,1'fiiriKiin, were pneked with men In his record In many affairs. quality, ;t (mis. spurs, sombreros; men In the Prgler murder and Including eru!l; women wllb children. ot the Kid. bad spread shooting (he I Mrs. Wjntt was there the I'hllo--I even beyond the Sojtn fame his oiathentis as one woman were west. :'lnTe; hixie l.ee, actnnlly; every-I'M"Oh. Yancey!" Sahrn thought of linle Hefner. the Venable. the Marceys, the I "Well, Mis' Cravat, I guesi you Vlnna. Ihe noforths. At Inst ber I wi-- t he prwty proud of him I . , . of a mate was to be vindichoice tniHM-Hie shtmiln', Mis' C'ra- ,pmi Hut Governor! Ynncey cated. M't. but joii rc In lime to help Tan-There was no hook his head. Is txpectlnfl "Out lha Town y r, l. lirhle. . . , Sny, the Knit-moving him. He would go on (he t Thm. tiinne oITercd five thmisnnd ttim lo make others congressmen J .1..iiar foi (he rapture of the Kid. but he hlniwdf were shocked and even and governors, the emitity, or hud alle. Yancey gets It, all offended. Sabra. tlc'ii lipped, at would lake no ofhve. "Palavering J And din Knty done Ihe same. J lo a lot of grc.ny ofllce seekers and IbM broke out In protest. ! And tlny'a giivernincnl price on a Panclng lo the tunp hmie hnve emild We panhandlers h :ii. ntid Hie Oibftis' Nation4 '" ! In Washington! el Is innkitia up a mre. You'll be a tic printing press Om's educa- fif thnt gang know the whole dirty lot of I hem." ridiii' in inir rarrlnge, act tin' In tion I witins " "I dun't lake nmnry f.r killing a P,r!ess. Moody. Irritable. P.ldlnc front tl'iw." man." Yancey repeated, to each out Into the prairies In be ami for ViUiecy was sinnding at his desk . The committers days. Coming back to regale Clm In ti e Ulgunm ofllco. lie l.vit,e. nffrr of mn-yand the checks went b.nk as Ihey with stories of evenings stwtit on tip es tiir. en ii ip m. ard ( roervntlon. His or (hit l i his f.icc stie furgnve liiin his PCi.-I- ' had come. with Chief p.ig and talking . t t'1 smoking I ln'f; fMtrnvo in II10 of Ihe Cherokee. With Chief full ef ulint Sabra noticed II, nl Yancey's hand Venal.Se would Hide of the Chlrkanw. I'uffnlo " Hn r rrriiT nnd w.rw; hi f.ilth tio.k With 8 prrn-jitililpMy Ihe '"in-.- , in brrskfnt. and that this was with old IHrtik Kettle of WUwsm, Ivmnn. nti. ruble as Hint ,!r,l fnd frlglili'lied. hd lr tip a niorv limn p.ut he was Pot always like this. He flrM drink of lil. t'i'll Im.w llilrred. hud Cnf n hand spprnmhed were times when hi old Tlicre a he ate before allowed T:i'i,-,s Ittit as Ysnrey t""k a hiky He en tmk une S II spirit fiery down "iitTililirg i.p toward bef'abe bad inorrl. lie (oed for Hie stnleinvid of fight (he (ered takes from pain, Wm. iutIiIiib relief "''y one child, stid Hint mm firMand here he enr. When h returned Hie Oklahoma territory, Slie Hirnt medicine. acin enough even countered opposition iiilo Isainh'a arms; left Cim whirl- - glass t the lable be drew a deep fresh-turne- J ri-'l- -t. dcnl 1 ) r,.ie 1 lik Hre be-fr- e nrr poiion. -. " lnna ation of newspapers and monthly Great Aviator Says He Haa No "Speed Complex" publications. The slogan of the magazine of the national organizaThe world's greatest salesman of Flyer Frank Huwkes, has taken a day off from flying to protest that he Is "not a speed demon," that he does not want to he a demon, that he Is never reckless, that he does not race, that he Is not after records. He Is, he protests ln the American Magazine, merely a "salesman of speed." Why does lie seek to sell speed? Because he Is convinced that the main advance made by present-day civilization lies In the acceleration with which things can be transferred from one place to anspeed, other. But the speed he sells so he Insists is not freak speed, attained ln freakish apparatus, under special conditions. It Is honest speed, attainable by anyone. It Is good, conservative, almost humdrum speed. In reaching It he Is never after records, he Is simply cruising, sort of, at a conserving his engine, conserving himself so he says! and supports the entire family, both his own children and the other fellow's children without a whimper and seems to like It This has been going on for some years and the family seems to be a wholly friendly combination. Brockton Enterprise. tion Is "To increase public confidence ln business by promoting fulr play ln advertising and selling." The Knife Dr. Charles II. Mayo, the famous surgeon, said at a luncheon in Itochester: "Dreiser ln one of his novels killed off a woman In childbirth with a Caesarian section operation, and now Hemingway has done the same Spsgnum Moss in Quantity peat bog 700 acres in area and believed to contain a half century's supply of spnguum moss at 500,000 bales a year, has been put under production in Canada. A Prise Stamps The most valuable postage stamp "These novelists are evidently of the same mind as the hospital sur- In the world is the l'.rltlsh guinea. One is owned by King George and geon. "'Doctor,' a visitor said to him, one by Arthur Illnes. 'what Is the most dangerous case One of the blessings of love Is that you have here? can talk silly without feeling lie people said and he, laughed "'This,' and laid bis hand on a case of sur- ridiculous. Instruments." Detroit Free gical thing. mm Presa. dog-tro- Man Here Is one who may be termed a man. lie lives ln a For Business Betterment town, and is the divorced The Better Business bureau Is an nearby of a red headed woman by husband agency aemlpubllc ln character that whom he had five children. Does alms to protect the public against the fact that Bhe bus married anmerchants who make false or mis- other make him sore? Not at all. leading statements In their advertisAnd to cap the climax of good naing and against the promoters and turalness with dog-likdevotion, alsellers of fuke stocks and other man lives with bis this leged securities. This organization, former wife and ber new husband which Is a unit only In the common purpose and methods of operations, Is composed of the Nutlonal Better Salt Lake City Directory Business bureau and local bureaus ln some cities. Each local buC1USMOK A NU'HOIJt reau Is a distinct entity supported ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS B. Wast by and owing allegiance to only its Offlcs and laboratory own community, and It Is not a mem- Tampl St, Salt Laka CHr, Utah. P. O. hux KM. Malllns caralopce and prloas ber of or subsidiary to the National fumlshad on raquaat. Better Business bureau. The bureaus are financed by merchants, manufacturers and other financial interests. Their activities are furJ. B. 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Sleeves," know something of them as protection against those times (In creasingly frequent) when Yancey was absent and she must get out the paper with only the uncertain aid of Jesse Hickey. Sabra enme home one afternoon from a successful and stirring meet Ing of the Twentieth Century Culture club (the two had now formed a pleasing whole) at which she bad read a paper enIi titled. "Whither, Oklahoma?" had been received with much op plause on ihe part of Osage's twen ty most exclusive ladles, who had heard scarcely a word of It, their minds being Intent on Sabru'a new dress. She had worn It for the first time at the club neetlng. and It was a bombshell far exceeding any tumult that ber paper might create. Her wealthy Cousin Bella French Vlan. visiting the World's fair In Chicago, hnd sent It It consisted of a blue serge skirt, cut wide anil flaring at the hem but snug at the blue serge hips; a walst-lenglEton jacket trimmed with black soutache braid; and a garment called a shirtwaist to be worn beneath the JnckeL But astonishing revolutionary as all this was. It was not the thing that caused the ejes of feminine Osage to bulge with envy and despair. The sleeves! They riveted the attention of those present, to the utter neglect of "Whither. Oklnhomaf The balloon sleeve now appeared for Ihe first time In the Oklahoma territory, sponsored by Mrs. Yancey Cravat They were bouffant, enormous; a yard of material at least hud gonp into each of them. Every woman present, was, In her mind, tearing to rag strips, bit by hi!, every gown In her own scanty wardrobe. returned home. Hushed Subra elated. She entered by way of the newspaper office, seeking Yancey's Curtsying and dimpling approval. she stood before him. She wanted him to see the new costume before she must thriftily lake It off for the preparation of supper. Yancey's comment, as she pirouetted for his approval. Infuriated her. "Good C, dl Sleeves! 1st the squaws see those and they'll be throwing away Ihelr papoose board? and using the new fashion for enr tying their tables, one In each sleeve." "They're the very latcM thing In Chicago. Cousin Bella French Vlan wrote that they'll he even fuller than I his by autumn." "By autumn," echoed Yancey. He held In his band a slip of pnx-r- . I jiter (he knew (hat It was a tele gram one of the few telegraphic which the Wigwam's messages somewhat sketchy service received President Cleve"Listen, sugar. land's Just Issued a proclamation setting Septembet sixteenth for the opening of Ihe Cherokee strip." "Cherokee alrlpT" "Six million, three hundred Ihot sand acres of Oklahoma land to be 0M'lied for while settleinetit The government has bought It from the Cherokee. It was all to be Ihelr all Oklahoma. Now they're pushing Ihem farther nnd far) her out "(iiMid thing." snapped Snbra still cro about (he mutter of Yancey's Indifference to her costume Indian. Who cared I She rabed her arm to unpin her lint. (TO I1R roNTINt'liU Thllo-mathea- far-of- b'ie ' for him. He was for the consolidation of the Okiuhoma territory and the Indian territory under The thousands single statehood. who were opposed to the Indians who looked upon them as savages totally unfit for citizenship fought him. A year after their coming to Oklahoma the land had been divided into two territories one owned and occupied by the Indian tribes, the other owned by the whites. Here the Cravats lived, on And here wus the border line. Yancey, fighting week after week, In the editorial and news columns of the Oklahoma Wigwam, for the rights of the Indians; for the consolidation of the two halves as one state. Yet, unreasonably enough, he sympathized with the Five Civilized Tribes In their efforts to retain their tribal laws In place of the United States court laws whlcb were being forced upon them. He made a thousand bitter enemies Many of the Indians themselves were opposed to him. These were for separate statehood for the Indian territory, the state to be known as Sequoyah, after the great Cherokee leader of that name. Sabra, who at first had paid little heed to these political problems, discovered that she must Meal From Besa Cnrob iiiihI I made frmil a bran the linn bean which rcetntile bill Is of reddish brown color and The piwt lender enough lo chew containing the bean grown npoii trees similar to ocul tree whl. h are found In Mexico nnd Ihe smith western United State t"nroh nirnl ned lu this country a stoik feed. I Cafe and Cafeteria tt another night's 8. W. Xnd So. Bait Lake CUT. Ctah. CULLEN GARAGE 74 West tod So. a sleep gone! STORAGE AND SERVICE Flit kills Little Motel (Garage Across tbe mosquitoes quick! Q. R. Co., ttr-e- ) Gentlemen: Inclosed find $1.00 P. O. Money Order for One tube of Q. 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