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Show unk ha Th hoary butt-logtion. to th bottom," hs continued. "Wl a normal head o water, the ladsll move them, but wt the drmpple we have th no lie threw up hi h&iullk hands despairingly. Three days Inter a cloud burst filled the- river to the bttiu; It came at night nd wct the river dean of Cardl-gan- a An army of Jugclear togs. gernauts, they swept down on th boiling torrent to tidewater, reaching th bay shortly after the tide had commenced to ebb. Now, a chain Is only as strong aa Its weakest link, nnd a log boom Is a chaplet of small logs, linked end to end by mentis of short chains; hence whMi the vanguard of logi on the lip of that flood reached the log, b(otn, the Impetus of the charge wns tio great to he resisted. Straight through the weakest link In this booui the lingo saw logs crashed and out oxer Humboldt bur to the broad With the ebb tide some of them on me hack, xxldle others, caught In bobbed about the bay all night and finally benched ut widely scattered points. Out of the fifteen million fet of logs loss than three million were salvaged, and this task In Itself was an expeuatve operation.' John Cardigan received the news calmly. He turned from the inunager and vvnlked awnjr through his logged-oxe- r lands, across the little dlxide Of and doxxn Into the quarter-sectiotimber he hnd told McTavlsh not to cut. Once In the Valley of th foot Giants, he followed a path to the little amphitheater, and here the sunlight filtered through like a halo and fell on a plain HttlA xxhlte marble monument, he paused and snt doxxn on the noxv almost decay ml sugar pine xxlndfull. Ixe come for a little comfort, sweat heart, he murmured to her who Tin'll lie slept beneath the stone. loaned luii k against a redxxood tree, removed his lint, and closed hts exes, milling Ina groat gray bead the xxbilo n lit t tv to one side in n listening nl Long lie sat there, u groat, tune bitten dexoN-- at the shrine of l its comfort; and presently thy look loft his strong, kind face amt us replaced by a little prescient unlit the sort of smile worn by mm wlio through biller years has sought something xerx, xicy precious and las at length illscox ered It. s of the By PETER a - KYHE Author o! "Cappy Rieka kp -- CRAZY LIKE A FOX." ,n th rerion. John Cardigan, clUaen forty ven, la tha loading of Sequoia. ownor of mllla, aship, widand many aeroa of timber, of married ower aftor throo yoaratwo-daold and fathar of Ufa with Tha redwood, Cardigan. Bryco tu cousin tha aequola, U tha oldest and blggoat thing on aarth. It crows nowhere but in California. Most of tha radwooda bars gona; those remaining ere apparently doomed to tha aa and saw. Tha Mauolaa are safe to future generNaations la Sequoia and Yoaemlte Redtional parka Tha "Sava tha woods League" has been organised with tha purpose of establishing a Redwoods National park. ftynop!- - T'00? CUfor-redwo- od -- y Continued. CHAPTER II Of all their adventures however, those which occurred together, on their the to Valley frequent excursions np of the Giants Impressed themselves imperlshnbly npon Bryces memory. How well he remembered their first hla fathers trip, when, seated astride his with sturdy little legs shoulders around Cardigans neck and his chubby little hands clasping the old mans ears they bad gone up the abandon- tion of pinching the Impudent stranger, suddenly and surreptitiously, and sending her away weeping. As his hand crept between the palings on Its wicked mission, the little miss looked at him In friendly fashion and queried : What's your name! Bryces hand hesitated. Bryce Cardigan, he answered gruffly. Im Shirley Sumner, she ventured. Lets be friends." When did you come to live In Sequoia? he demanded. I dont live here. I'm Just visiting here with my aunt and uncle. Were staying at tha hotel, and there's nobody to play with. My uncles name Is Pennlngon. Sos my sunts. Hes out here buying timber, and we live In Michigan. Her gaze wandered past Bryce to where his Indian pony stood with her head out of the window of her contemplating her master. Oh, what a dear little horse!" Shirley Sumner exclaimed. Whose Is he?" Talu't a he. It's a she. And she belongs to me." Do you ride her?" Not very often now. Tm getting too heavy for lier. so Dads bought me a horse that weighs nine hundred pounds. Midget only weighs five hundred. lie considered her a moment while she gazed In awe upon this man with two horses. Can you ride a pony?" he asked, for no reason thnt lie was aware of. She sighed, shaking her head reWe havent, any room to signedly. keep n pony at our house In Detroit," she explained, and added hopefully: But Id Jove to ride Midget. suppose I could learn to ride if somebody box-sta- ll e and Into the of the forest, terminating suddenly In a shower of sunshine that fell In an open space where a boy could roll and play and never get with dirty. Bryce looked forward eagerness to those frequent trips with bis father to the place where Mother dear went to heaven. When Bryce was six years old, his father sent him to the public, school In Sequoia with the children of his me how. thus laying taught loggers and He looked at her again. At that the foundation for a democratic eduperiod of his life he was Inclined to cation oil too Infrequent with the sons regard girls as a necessnry evil. For of men rated, as millionaires.. .Bryces some immutable reason they existed, boyhood was much the same as that and perforce must tie borne with, and of other lads In Sequoia, save that In It was Ids hope that he would get the matter of toys and later guns, life and see as little ns possithrough , dogs and ponies he was a ble of the exasperating sex. Neversource of envy to his fellows. After theless, ns Bryce surveyed this winhis tenth year his father placed him some miss through the palings, he was y nd on on the mill sensible of n sneaking desire to find he was wont to line up with the favor In ber eyes also equally sensito receive his modest stipend of ble of the fact that the path to that ten dollars for carrying In kindling to desirable end lay between himself and the cook In the mill kitchen each day Midget. after school. Well, I suppose If you want a ride This otherwise needless arrangement I'll have to give It to you," he grumwas old Cardigarfs way of teaching bled, "although Im pretty busy this his hoy financial responsibility. morning." When Bryce Cardigan was about Oh. I tlilnlt you're so nice," she defourteen years old there occurred an clared. Important event In his life. In a comA thrill shot through him thnt was mendable effort to Increase his Income akin to pain; with difficulty did he he had laid out a small vegetable restrain an Impulse to dash wildly garden In the rear of his fathers Into the stable and saddle Midget In house, and her on a Saturday mornifurious haste. Instead he walked to ng, while down on his knees weeding the barn slowly and with extreme carrots, he chanced to look np and When he reappeared, he was discovered a young lady gazing at him dignity. Midget, a little sllverpolnt leading through the picket fence. She was a runt of a Klamath Indian pony, and Moses, a sturdy pinto cayuse from the cattle ranges over In Trinity county. Ill have to ride with you," he anCant let a tenderfoot like nounced. out alone on Midget" go you All aflutter with delightful anticipation, the young lady climbed np on the gate and scrambled Into the saddle when Bryce swung the pony broadside to the gate. Two hours of his valua able time did he give that morning before the call of duty brought him back to the house and his neglected crop of carrots.. When he suggested tactfully, however, that it was now necessary that his guest and Midget separate, a difficulty arose. Shirley Sumner refused point blank to leave the premises. She liked Bryce for his hair and because he had been so kind to her ; she was a stranger In Sequoia, and now that she had found an agreeable companion, it waa far from her Intention to desert him. So Mis Sumner stayed and helped s Bryce weed his carrots, an dslnce a voluntary laborer ahe was at least worth her board, at noon Bryce a brought her In to Mrs. Tully with weqt Wbenhe for luncheon, request to the mill to carry In the kindling for the cook, the young lady returned Hotel rather sorrowfully to the see to with a fervent promise ' Sequoia, Hell; Little Boy him the next day. She did, and Bryce lew years his Junior, and a stranger took' her .for a long ride up Into the n Sequoia. Ensued the following Valley of the Giants and showed ber conversation r "Hello, little boy Lis mothers grave. They put some Hello yoirself I aint a little flowers on the grave, and when they boy returned to town and Bryce was unSh? Ignored the correction. "What saddling the ponies, Shirley drew re you kissed doing?", Midget's nose down to her and Weedin carrots. to weep commenced she IL seer Then Cant you What forr rather violently. !rJVe, highly licensed at having "What are you crying about? designated little boy by this Bryce demanded.. Girls were so hard alMor damsel, saw his' opportunity .to understand. tomorrow," Tm Sir for kitten howled. retorted 6be without any ''-.-ce originality we must con ..ILe wa. Stricken with dismay and -Wr for the tqiaceof severs! mn-e-s bade her desist from her vain repinand gave all his attention to his crop. ing; But her Heart was broken, auto' act to the' visitor spoke again. somehow Bryce appeared like your hair, little arm around boy. Ita a matically he had his ' he pleaded. red. Shirley." her. "Dont cry. OofGed the- Issue between ""It breaks my heart to see you cry. hailed as little boy was Do you want Midget? HI glee her to i -' ut to be reminded of his you." confessed that sobs r,!J1g GilfortUDe was adding Insult Shirley Between tl) ojurv. He rose and cautiously the prospect of parting with, him and a Led the fence with the inten not Midget was provocative of her ed skid-roa- seml-aark-n- d 1 mlll-hafid- s, fishing-rods- pay-rol- l, pay-da- mill-cre- i w 1 I i ' go-goin- g . W J - f' T0 . woe. This staggered Bryce aud pleased him Immensely. And at parting she kissed him good-bye- , reiterating ber opinion that he was the nicest, kindest boy she had ever met or hoped to meet. When Shirley and her uncle and aunt hoarded the steamer for San FriiiicUeo, Bryce stood disconsolate on the dock nnd waved to Shirley until he could no longer discern her on the deck, lie thought of his elfin companion very frequently for a week, nndhe lo.st his appetite, very much to Mrs. Tullys concern. Then the stcelhend trout began to run In Eel river, and the sweetest event that can occur In any boys existence the sud den awakening to the wonder and beauty of life so poignantly realized In his first loe-nffaI- r waa lost sight of by Rryo. In a month he had forgotten the Incident; In six month he hnd forgotten Shirley Sumner. CHAPTER Mm B. Kyn rail connect lon"wlth the outside world, so we art forced to. ship our lumber by water. But some day a railroad will he built In from the south from San Francisco; and when It comes, the only route for It to travel H through (Mir timber In the San Ueilrln valley. Tve accumulated that ten thousand acres for you, my son. for the railroad will never be built In my day, It Pa-rlfl- desnt matter, son. You will still be logging there fifty jenrs from now. Ami when the railroad people come to you for a right of way. my boy. give It to them, iVmt cliarge them a cent. It lias nlxvnya been my iollcy to encourage the development of this comity, and I want you to he a cross-current- citizen. public-spirite- d That's why Im sending you East to college. Youve been bom and raised s, n In this town, nnd you must siux more of the world. Listen to tue, son. Youre only a hoy, and you cant understand everything I tell you. but en well-wor- III. Th - - - t him-sel- f, i - lk Mc-vn- or, I ! i i r he aoi nloiit I i a uk T xeierun organ Milner, b Idol, who drew up tin' speetl 141 1; of thetabor- ior ilio rebu II a lr instrument uhout twenty year ago, died in LalisiUe, lnd , Suudnj, July 4. ut the age of Til Filmed hctienih an automobile nnd rest ued without injury, Is the e of J. Snell of Suit lutke, Mi L. J. Burt nnd Mreu A. K. (buni-be- r ' I inio of bo I icn-!,o- i The car and her three children. ox ci turned In a collision. Thirty fixe nurses of the forty. txvo tests passed the requirements of the mute board of evamtueri of nurses and are now declared qualified to become reglsterisl nurses m xx ho took the Ituh During the month of June the S.df Luke county Bed Cross home serxlee department mlxjinecd to former set. x ice men This $I17ld'J xxas less than wns p.ild out lit May. A file, llu' uiigm of which h mi-- h ut mux p, broke in Thistle and W ped out U big poll mu of (lie business disi ilit of the little railroad Junction. The loss is about $2t.(00, John Ilelcka, 2d jeniH of age, Finnish 'miner In the employ of the Daly-Wecompany at Iark City, xvus almost lasraaily killed when a blast xxas CHAPTER IV. set (ff prematurely. Th Salt Lake navy rcriulting staIt was on the day that John Cardition record of 1U2 recruits for Ihe gan received the telegram from Bryce second quarter of I SCO doubles that of saying that, folloxxlng four years at any previous year since the Salt llku Princeton and two yotrs of traxol Million opened. abroad, he xxas returning to Sequoia to Transportation for 120 Boy Scouts take over his redwood heritage thnt on the at avail to' Bryce canyon and lux discovered that n stranger and not the fiesh of Ids flesh nnd the blood of Zion national park Is secured, accordhis blood vxas to renp the rewurd of ing to the Utah State Automobile association. Ids fifty years of endeavor. The Fourth of uty celebration ill For n long tl tue he sat there letharxvus participated In by more lrovo w 1th misery. he gic Eventually roused himself, reached for the desk people und was the most successful telephone, nnd pressed a button on Jn the history of similar observances In Irovo. the office exchange station. His manone A movement bus been Inaugurated Thomas Sinclair, answered. ager, he snld calmly, Thomas, you to make the election of a district Judge and attorney In the First Judiknow, of course, that Bryce Is coincial district this year a home. to Tell the take George ing big ear and go oxer to Red Bluff for nm tier. him. Juequellne Anderson, 7 years of age, George Sea Otter, son of Bryce was fatally burned while lighting a nurse, xvss Cardigans old sparkler, during Independence day n person In whose nature struggled celebration at ber homo In Salt Lake. the whites predilection for advertiseA purklng ordinance lias been passed ment and civic pride and the red at Delta. This ordinance requires that For cars b mans Instinct for adornment. parked on the proper side of three years he hnd been old man the street at an angle of 43 degrees. Cardigans chauffeur and mnn-o- f Th First rreshyterlan ehurli. at about the latters Mt. 1leiisunt was burned to the ground home, and In. the former capacity he a fir which. It la believed, was drove John Cardigans single evidence by In a fireworks celebration. started of extravagance a Napier ear, which Another big reservoir project under was very Justly regarded by George which acres will be reclaimed 10,000 Sea Otter as the king of automobiles, In Duchesne Is being Investicounty since it was the only Imported car In service. reclamation the by gated the county. Upon receipt of orders, with operIV. Itert Austin, to charged from drive the Sinclair, therefore, over bound an was illicit to atilt, over Bluff Red meet end ating Napier to tli United States grand Jury, fole Ids future boss and playfellow, George Sea Otter arrayed him- lowing his arrest at Salt Iuke. self In a pair of new black corduroy Trailers to be used in building the Cedar-Luna button blue shoes, trousers, yellow post road have been rewoolen shirt with a large scarlet silk ceived by the Southern Utah Conhandkerchief tied around the neck, a struction company. South Sea Islander' day will be pair of beaded buckskin gloves with fringe dependent from the gauntlet, celebrated July 1C at Lagoon, In honor and a brood white beaver hat with of th party of New Zealanders who rattlesnake-aki- n band. Across the are visiting In Salt Lake. windshield of the Napier he fastened Tb district forest office at Ogden an 'orange-colorepennant bearing has sent 1400 pounds .of TNT te In bright green letters, the legend: Pleasant Grove for use ln building the Mt-CIBEQOGtA- .- As aafety-firs- t Mt. Tlmpanogos trail. precaution against man and A new postoffice has been esbeast en route, he buckled a at tablished Pintura. Washington to the spare tires on the Maud Gregor Mrs. with Utah, county, running-boarand slipped a rifle Into son as postmaster. the scabbard within quick and easy reach of bis band; and arrayed thus; - Citizens of Pangultch are doing their travel to Bryce George descended upon Red Bluff at utmost te encourage accommodations and canyon provide the helm of the king of automobiles. tourists. tat When the overland train coasted Call has been issued fof a state conInto Red Bluff and slid to a grinding halt. Bryce Cardigan snw that the vention of the newly formed Labor IHghet.t Living ' Authority "I, n'Tde-acendeparly, lo meet at Salt Lak City, Julyfrom the train also. He had 21. elected to designate her thus In the Salt Lake has been chosen as the nbsence of any Information anent ber next meeting plai'e for the national Christian and family names, and for Chi Omega sorority convention. the fnrther reason that quite obviousPeople who ride on street cars In ly she wa a very superior person. fare. Salt lAk must now pay a Fred Kempton, aged 11, of Ogden. wa seriously injured, July 4, euffer-ir.Bryce Cardigan comes th? loss c,.the,EjstjDd kc? ml home to his b.'ftd father. fingers of the left hand When an army rifle shed .filled, wi;h , potash nnd UK (TO CONTINUED.) sulphur exploded in his bund, caus'd j xx st 1 fully-obsesse- re-pile-d, i week to Douglas, All., by William F. Smith, her lover, who, after slaying the yutg womaq, turnpd the pistol uHa cudii g bis life, t brought te Suit Ijike for burial. Text suit brought by Ieter E; Van Ordeti, a tai.pu.xer of the (ache mttniy school district, 1ms resuhed In ts ,y $411,000 bond Issue reveBtl) that district being uphold by ibstsiou f lie NUprem courl Confident lh.ll they Mould sueeis'd m bringing th- lid convention of the grand lodge of Flk- - to Suit luike. six ib h'Cutes from the Soil lodg fi Saturday by Kjs'cml train to tiof th grand. led tii,. unnmil 'odc In Xtucugo i. Ion proportx manager for Lilmon W lute I'lintilnthiiiu circuit. wn drowned In I alt lai.e near Aim'll 1'ork The body was found near .i tho point wlide Messiu-- wont down hi'-- bar-rn'i- s n IT Gutke, e well-lai- thirty-year- Thelma body of years of ago, who was .ltt xx Throughout the happy years of Bryces boyhood his .father continued to enlarge and Improve his sawmill, to build more schooners, and to acquire more redwood timber. Lands, the purchase of which by Cardigan a decade before bad caused his neighbors to Impugn bis Judgment, now developed strategical Importance. As a result those lands necessary to consolidate bis own holdings came to him ut bis own price, while his adverse holdings that blocked the logof his competitors ging operations went from him also at his own price. In fact, nil plans matured satisfactorily with the exception of one, nnd since It hns a very definite henring on the story, the necessity for explaining It Is paramount. Contiguous to Cardigans logging operations to the east and north of Sequoia, nnd comparatively close In, lay a block of two thousand acres of splendid timber, the uatural, feasible, and Inexpensive outlet for which, when It should be logged, waa the Valley of the Giants. For John Cardigan hnd played a waiting game with the owner of thnt timber, for the latter was as with the belief that he was going to sell It to John Cardigan at a dollar and a half per thousand feet stumpage as Cardigan was certain he was going to buy It for a dollar a thousand when be should he ready to do so nnd not one second sooner. Eventually the time for acquiring more timber arrived. John Cardigan, meeting his neighbor on the street, accosted him thus: Look here. Bill, isnt It time we got together on that timber of yours? You know youve been holding it to block me and force me to buy at your figure. Ill give you a dollar a thousand stumpage for your timber, BilL "I want a dollar and a half. A dollar Is my absolute limit. Then Ill keep my timber. When And Ill keep my money. I finish logging In my present holdings, Im going to pull out of that country and log twenty miles south of Sequoia. Remember, Bill, the man who buys your timber will have to log It through my land and Im not goIn the ing to log that quarter-sectiobe will no outlet Hence there valley. for your timber In back. Not going to log It? Why, what are yon going to do with It? Im Just going to let It stay there until I die. When my will Is filed for probate, your curiosity will be satisfied but not until then. Better take a dollar. Bill Ita a good, fair price, aa the market on redwood timber la now, and youll be making an even hundred per cent on your Investment Remember, Bill, If 1 dont buy your timber, youll, never log It yourself and neither will anybody else. Tonll be stuck with It for th e next forty years and taxes arent getting any lower. "TU hang on a little longer, I think, I think so, too, John Cardigan And that night, as wns his wont, even though he realized that It was not possible for Bryce to gain a profound understanding of the business problems to which be was heir, John Cardigan discussed the Squaw creek timber with his son, relating to him the details of bis conversation with the owner. "But Isn't It Bryce pondered. cheaper to give him Lis price on Squaw creek timber than go logging in the San nedrln and have to build twenty miles of logging railroad to get your logs to the mllir "It would be, son, if I liad to build the railroad. Fortunately, I Co not Ill Just shoot the log down- the- hillside te tha San Iledrln river and drive them 'down the stream to S log-- ' boom on tidewater. - Bryce looked ut his father admiringly, "1 guess Dan Keyes Is right be said. "Pan says youre Dad, a fox. Now I know why like crazy you've been picking up claims In the Sau Kedrin watershed. ""No, you dont Bryce. I've sever told yea. but HI tB yen row th real re&scau Humboldt couuty to te MID UIAHIIS UTAH "I Dmna See How Im to Keep the Mill RunnlnM" some day understanding will come to you. You nmMnt fall the people who work for yon w ho are dependent upon your strength and brains nnd enterprise to furnish them with an opportunity for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When you are the boss of Cardigan's mill, you must keep the wheels turning; you must never shut down the mill or tin logging-rumpIn dull times Just to avoid a loss you can stand better than your employees. Ills hard, trembling old hand closed over the boys. I wunt you to bo a brave and honorable man, he concluded. True to his word, when John Cardigan finished his logging in his old, original holdings adjacent to Sequoia and BUI Hendersons Squaw cfeek timber, lie quietly moved south with his Squaw creek woods gang and Joined the crew already getting out logs In the San Iledrln watershed. Not until then did Bill Henderson realize that John Cardigan had called his bluff whereat he cursed himself for a fool and a poor Judge of human nature. He had tried a hold-ugame and had failed; a dollar a thousand feet stumpage was a fair price; for years he had needed the money; and now, when it was too late, lie realized his error. Luck was with Henderson, however, for shortly thereafter there came again to Sequoia one Colonel Fennlngton, a millionaire whlte-pln- e operator from Michigan. From a r on the porch of the Hotel Sequoia, the Colonel had heard old John the tale of how thri bluff. ofequal-lCardigan Bill Henderson; so for the next few weeks the Colonel, under pretense of going hunting or fishing on Squaw creek, managed to make a fairly accurate cursory cruise of the nenderson timber following which he purchased it from the delighted Bill for a dollar and a quarter per thousand feet stumpage, s p chair-warme- stiff-necke- d Lad-.calJe- y d stiff-necke- d j No man Is Infallible, and In planning his logging operations In the San Iledrln watershed John Cardigan presently made the discovery that he had erred In Judgment That season, from May to November, his woods-creput tldrty million feet of logs Into the San Iledrln river, while the mill sawed on a reserve supply of logs taken from the last of the old choppings adjacent to Squaw creek. That year, however, the rainfall In the Ran Iledrln country was ffftjr T et cent less than normal, and I y the first of May of the following year Cardigans woods-crehad succeeded Jn driving slightly less than half of the cut of the preceding year to the boom on tidewater at the mouth of the river. "Unless the Lord'll gt us a lot more s water In the river, tl v BIcTarlsfh eorojiixlned, "I (linna sef tow Taa to keep the nl!l nurnln'." He was taking Jahn Cardigan up the riier Vxk txd avplainitg the situa w w ood-!u- .1 non-partisa- n hnlf-bree- d all-wo- rk one-tim- d - d TI gun-scabba- rd d d nt g - Silk for Conslctent Hindus. Mnga silk Is a product of Assam Erl silk conic from caterpillars which feed on the castor oil plant. It la of great value In India, because It Is the only silk that run be spun from cocoons without killing the Insects In the cocoons, nnd It Is therefore the only allk that cun be worn by a strict Hindoo. by a Biowr from a' hammer.''""" Fred Johnson, 37 year of age, a miner, was seriously injured al Bingham when he was run over by an automobile." Johnvjn was riding on the fender of the machine and In trjlng to get off stumbled la the road. The front and Lind wheels passed ever his body. c I r |