Show r THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Page Four JUNIOR Tales of Real Dogs TEXAS: The Setter That JUNE 28 1931 Next Week You Get First List in BY ALBERT PAYSOR TEPKUNE Joined a Border Patrol i His ftameas “Texas” yie vas Sixth a the very last point list In big point contest Scores given here today are included In the long list of total scores found elsewhere In the section Next week however the first list 'in the sixth big e con-- ' point oontest will appear-Wistestants will have their names on that list or one the next one as an early start helps one to win The point list today Includes This purebred Llewellyn setter He became a member of Uncle Sam's Mexican Border Patrol ami there be did heroic and fearless service rock In' 1928 one cold night an cfflcer of he Border Patrol was re- turning to barracks after making hla fine! rounds" The faint sound of a ’ of It was a setter Llewellyn Arthur Butler Galt Lake comic strip Amy Nakaeluma Sail Lake cross word puazle Hop Nelson Salt Lake illustrated poem Hope Nelson drawing Margaret Dudley Balt Lake story Ruth M&bey Bancroft Idaho story Zelda Newton Mona story Zelda Newton prose Tomoko Watanuki Midvale drawing Bernell Winn 8mithfield poem A rllne Newton Mona prose Adell Reese drawing Marian Twiss Price prose Dudley Salt Lake poem Margaret Zelda Newton Mona description Charlotte Paik Tremonton puazle Dudley Salt Lake song MargaretWilliams Clarissa Murray riddles Hope Nelson Salt Lake puzzle Betty Cowans Nephl article Vance Nielsen Monroe poem Fern Freckleton Nephl poem Virginia Judd Rupert Idaho puazle Farol Hasell Mammoth puzzle Anna May Dunn Rupert Idaho puzzle Dudley Salt Lace puzzle Margaret Hope Nelson Salt Lake biography Hope Nelson Salt Lake biography Grace Bowns Copperton recipe Ruth Milton Green River curiosity Zelda Newton Mona curiosity Ariine Newton Mona curiosity Charlotte Paik Tremonton curiosity Hope Nelson Galt Lake curiosity Marian Twiss Price strange beginning Charlotte Paik Tremonton strange be- ginning T&lene Calder Orem strange beginning Virginia Judd Rupert Idaho drawing Ruth Uabey Bancroft Idaho prose Tomoko Watanuki Midvale poem Margaret Dudley Galt Lake rhyme Bernice Mills Tooele rhyme Walter Broman Salt Lake rhvme Lois Milton Green River rhyme Emma Julia Jenkins Sale Lake rhyme Margaret Dudley Balt Lake rhyme weak' and dying from hunger The officer d animal up gathered the in his arms and carried him into the barracks There the frozen beast was laid on a blanket In front of a stove and nourishing food was brought to him The setter ate ravenously Apparently he had been at his last gasp from starvation and too feeble to keep upon bis feet Also the chill of the winter night had gone through and through'hlm half-dea- So affectionate ' and so clever and so nearly human did he prove to be as soon as he was able to move about again that the Patrol resolved to adopt him The officers bestowed on him ne name of "Texas’ Nobody knew where Texas had come from nor how he chanced to be In such c perate plight when he was found It was enough that he was wise and plucky and lovable Down on the Border even nowadays it is not always safe nor sensible to ' inquire too closely intQ a newcomer's past life or antecedents true Incident and was verified by the 8 P C A before it was printed: "1116 night was pitch dark The Patrol had information that smugglers would attempt to cross liquor and perhaps dope at a lonesome spot down the river Four patrolmen were creeping on their hands and knees through the dense brush on the bank of the Rio Grande “Texas was along He was In the lead Suddenly Texas 'froze to a The troopers knew brains and courage and friendliness when they saw it And they decided they saw all thre? of those fine traits In their new chum Texas Bo they made him one their brave patrolling force by adoption The Job of the Border Patrol is no of sinecure Among other malefactors there is the en smuggler seeking to carry contraband goods across the Rio Grande and into United States territory under cover of darkness It was against these smugglers that Texas first showed his prowess as a member of the patrol Several men of the Patrol force had lost their lives In skirmishes with smugglers who had a way of sho: ng to kill Sometimes they slew three or more hoopers of the Pa- trol in a single year It was to this ser-vidangerous branch ctf the Border that Texas elected to attach himself I rm going to quote from the of- Everyonestopped and point’ srrained his ears but heard nothing a moment Texas turned his and whined softly Thus the patrolmen’ knew he had spotted smugglers “They waited breathlessly A few minutes later three smugglers came After head forms ever-pre- s- k into through the gloom walkr- them Texas- had crouched in the bushes Without a sound The officers jumped to- their feet vlth leveled rifles and took the smugglers so much by surprise that no effort was made to use the pisupon - ce Dumb Animals”) ' of ne Massachusetts 8 P C A for an account of the setter’s first night as a volunteer patrolman It Is a ficial organ (“Our sight slowly and silently Each had a sack on his back and each carried a drawn pistol in his hand ‘‘The smugglers came right toward the waiting officers who remained where they were until the three were ing - - down tols 'Had the patrolmen continued their creeping progress unwarned by Texas they would no doubt have encountered the smugglers x and Application for Membership in Knighthood of Youth Knighthood of Youth' Editor’ ’ The Salt lake Tribune I want you to enroll me as a member of the Knighthood of youth and I enclose 13 cents which I have earned myself to pay for mr first button ribbon and chart I pledge myself to be strictly honest in filling out my chart - Name -- name Parents' Date Age t Address I of Birth ( Street) (City) (County) (State) would have been taken at a disad- vantage” Not long after the incident I have just quoted there was another nocturnal clash between'the Patrol and a group of smugglers Again Texas gave warning of the outlaws’ stealthy approach But this time the Border men were not so fortunate in bagging their ganre without firing a shot The patrolmen were greatly outnumbered by their foes and had to retreat to the cover of a nearby thicket As they gained this shelter they noticed that Texas was no longer with them The dog to earth as usual after giving the- alarm and had lain there awaiting further orders from his human pals But those pals had been too busy scuttling for cover to call him Andnow lying where the smugglers might see him in another in- stant and send a bullet through him One of the men of the patrol risked a bullet through his own head by breaking cover and dashing back to where Texas lay By rare luck he and the dog got back safely to their comrades Remaining in the cover of the thicket the Border' men held the charging smugglers at bay Then by crossfire they kept them from reaching the river until reinforcements of the Patrol cams on the scene and rounded up and captured the - — enemy The foregoing are but two of many instances wherein Texas has been of great use to the Border guards He seemed tb develoman almost miraculously accurate nfcse and other border malefactors He could trail them or could sniff out their ambushes or scent their distant approach as could no human Now here Is an odd slant to this ' story: Texas was a trained bird-do- g Thus one might reasonably have 'expected him to be distracted by the sight or scent of game birds during these patrol hikes of his and to neglect mere human prey for the sake of this ancestral Instinct But he did not Even when a covey of quail was on the ground between him and the smugglers he was trail- - he would not turn aside for even the fraction of a second In order to pqint the birds When his advance flushed them he gave them not A single glance but continued along his ltne of duty That is most un- -’ Usual behavor for a purebred and e hunting dog Nobody knew w here Texas came from nor how he chanced to be ly- big half dead near the Patrol bar racks nor why he took so naturally to But he repaid fifty- fold the kindness and the care be- stowed on him by the men who fed him when he was starving and who nursed him back to health Date In of Name of School School Filing Application I Earned lit is (Explain in detail Just what work you did) loo 100 100 100 100 100 15 75 75 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 25 '25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 wrote last spring There will be a podhi "Girls” an articlef “Girls” and a drawing "Girls” Come on boys let’s see what you can do I This material must reach us by midnight July 4 he-w- SOME NATIONAL “ HIMS ” 1 (Copyright 1931 McNaught cate Inc) Syndi- A -- lat National Him of Illustrious name- - Licked the British and made them 2 3 What National Him at birth of the nation? Wrote our glorious Declaration? What National Him first' wrote his name Ahead of those whd signed the same? ’ 4 What National Him in ardor saith: “Give me liberty or give me death”? 5 What National Him famed for his ride ‘‘The enemy comes!” he warned our side 0 What National Him oh martyred name Saved the union to undying fame? 7 What National Him said “War is Hell” Truer words no one has ever heard tell 8' What National Him a Union sol- dier Became our president when some - what older? 9 man-hunti- Money by 200 200 The contests for the coming week will be about girls The Knighthood club At Rupert Idaho suggests this Subject and we know it Is a fascinating one We had a dandy contest about boys and now the boys will have a chance to get even with the girls for all the things they drew and field-brok- Grade Is the fifth whimper made him pause and press the button of his flaslilight On the him lay a gTund Just In front (dog Contest ' 1 : hat National Him at San Juan hill Led our boys with iron will? 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