Show BOYS GIRLS’ AND i ' 4 I The Boy ' SUNDAY THE O " ' r HERALD-REPUBLICAN ' — AEROPLANE THE - r SECTION ’ Aeronaut EXPRESS Grit s few blocks started for the barn a E a boy thoroughly away with his suit case Mr OSBORN’ Weston alive to the possibilities of the offering to bring Nigger places and son aeroplanein waste from old Dan’s drew out of the he wagon of an expert machinist whom bam Mrs of Incidentally Weston found has learned the intimate workings western a bill such under Roy’s place machines contracts with after her to carry by improvement company husband left orders from the of means office an aeroplane Roy was glad enough to find few parties of main to outlying men on the street when it came time hills in the Parentalconsent to prospectors to project Is slow in coming mount Nigger "Don’t be afeered” exclaimed Mr trained lump rose In the boy’s Weston "Nigger ain’t no LITTLE throat lie struck a She’s bench with bucker fur no wild west show "He’s right” nis fist muttered a cow pony All got to do is not Bov stoutly “Mr Atkinson told the to argey with herye She knows more truth But father has broughtup three about sartln things ’an do an’ you boys who will do things that maybe And it’s the man over when yo’an’ she don’t agree yo’ let money can’t her hev her she does there in overalls who’ll get the credit — they’s a reasonway fur Whatever if have my Don’t be afeered’’! way” at the time his father Almost samp ridden Roy had horseback a few him and motioned him forward saw times in the country-but as he dropped off your coat” he ordered “This “3ct into Nigger’s saddle he felt Is the car that’s going as if he you to were into an arm chair Mr know every piece of it” want sinking astride his pony watching hesitated a Weston sat Roy moment T’ll be back in a he began the boy Seeing him at last mounted minute” "I’ll have to put this somewhere— and stlrruped there was a quick yell his father opened his coat and $500 gave "Eyawp!” shouted the elder man and a secret look at the package of with flip of the reins his pony a ROY - sober both believes it ' : - - -i qr j ' ' - :: M i I I I -to” A I a s ur more In front o’ me set tried to round up down an’ fur knowed frum whar started that wuz so was not agoin’ to try to git back by follerin’ that cursed river though tain’t a bad river at that take it all in stood -ston whar Goin’ east had my chice wuz dead craters the Coloradoand Green rivers the San Juan which waa like only wuss an’ mote deserts” it" “You were certainly up against sighed the boy “You went north I I 1 I ( II 1 ' iS - fl Ila UJ ' I suppose” an’ "Sometimes north sometimes northwest” continued Weston goin’ jist “Depended U on I w v T Ml Bi LW-wfjra Ik xj - ' ' - Ih iW'SHBR ' n 1 the was not at the top o’ condition as ye kin guess But cut off the tops o’ my boots pair o’ soles an' it bein’ patched up a took evenin’ then a snooze Sometimes in the night It woke up an started didn’t have was not much uv a start no preparations to Layin’ a trail make by the north star set out kind o’ 1 y v I I I I I animals jlM 471 a “It’s the best can do” was the of adobe houses the street passed over brow of a rise and droppedat once answer To Roy Roythat was enough west the into a road winding down the mountain When young Osborne goes side inaugurateaeroplaneexpress service on the alkali plains for a big develop-Iment With a motion of his hand the and prospectingcompany he called Roy’s attention to the the life the view the sloping knows with nothingof he nor of Westward ground is to be in close fell gradually Into a valley people whom Beyond a His first friend is fringe Icontact a man slopes of thepinon timber on the lower called "Sinkhole”Weston mental with whose country marked are not thoughtto be overly checkerboard powers farms and ranches like by his associates strong "Sink” offers spread out to Montezuma Roy the hospitality of his home and valley — the last bit of make fertility in the 'the boy gratefully accepts southwest ar beyond these spots of yellow green rose what to be a seemed CHAPTER VIII barrier the wall?” “What’s asked Roy trying The Trail at Last to Mr copy Weston’s easy loll in ffTTIYAWP!” the I 1 J xOj L northwest “Jt begun to That’s the way rough rightrivers away all along them — the river hole then a fringe o’ sand an’ then higher afore sun up ground Long stiff hills wus makin’up some purty You’d When day they come wuz in ’em thought wuz some life an’ timber didn’t see thar Ef they was neither As near as could figger it the rock was like as ef they’d took all an’ piled it up on out o’ the San Juan kind o’ tableland They te to seemed big high ridges o’ rock stretchin’ all with here an’ thar over the country a heap uv it high enough to make a peak day an’ the next “That knowed giner’ly goin’ northwest At the was end o’ the second day didn't keer agin ever up much whether wokesleep Only didn’t exactly go to My head was wrong an’ knowed it Onct found myself diggin’ in the sand got up sneerin’ at myself knowed well enough they was not no water up thar Then you know what foundmyself adoin’? caught myselfatryin’ to spell out my by layin’ little pieces rock on the name sand That was the limit o’ restin’ "I cut out an’ got up an’ be stop agin it’ll whar I’m goin’ to stay’ My boots was not no good didn't any more — leastways to try to tie ’em on no somehow keer rickollected 'bout more Then starvin’ people thar shoe leather chawin’ believe it’s wuth tried it Don’t you not hungry A while Anyway was little water would ’a’ helped but mostly jist to git out o’ reckonThat’s longed that rock what mo bothered like it got to seem as if Curious could git whar couldn't see them walls You’re ever'thlng'd be all right batty when you git that way "I kin remember the moon come out But that made me mad It lookedall so like the sun It was much had to kind o’ over the rocks come despise But thar was one place 'at dark and boots wuz throwedifaway my an’ run in thar like as somepin was An’ kept gohi' till a chasin’ me over was not beckon jist keeled did plannin’ to up no more but wake An’ thar was them rocks "I didn’t feel much like gittin’ up fin’ly turned over so’s But wouldn't bits o' granite see them er whatever they was they air An’ lo and behold not no rock at all my eyes fell whar out After awhile figgered that this thing And then was a good knowed tryin’ to tryin’ wuz do— wuz what to convince myself ’atstopped ought to go over whar the rocks "I coudn’t walk so crawled Some thinkin’ apparatus seemed gone o’ my but got away all right o’ — was out the rocks Then rickollected says 'They- ought to be water here whar they ain’t no rocks the waterT What's not no to that an’ They was answer thev was not no water wuz the maddest ye ever see Whar’s the water?’ manyelled Not actu’ly ye know 'cause my not movin’ seein’ tongue was jaws pried open as how it had my thing” comes a cur’ous Mr Weston "You’d on athought all in my was me hands an’ knees the night before But this goin’ has without no water funny the angles was mad’a’andbeendemandin’ waitin’ fur that should waterAn’ o’ mine on them raw feet me started to find it couldn’t talk an’ couldn’t think to of but could speak quit see An’ afore saw smoke that didn’t int’rest me didn’t even surprise me But it was right whar was and thought water kept goin’ This Is one somehow place they sav I’m nutty I’ve forgot srittln’ out o’ the rocks good deal about went but I’ll make affedavit toward figger that smoke all day How do that? it was black all aroundme when quit goin’ agin anything knowed Injuns Couldn’t was with knowed fool smell An an me on Injun when old Injun on my poured water woman tongue jist shet my eyes an’ went to sleep agin’” (TO BE get I io I ex-sheriff a 1 I a a t I I I I I saddle Roy awoke rose on his elbow "we’ll "Wall” laughed the old plainsman climb that wall tomorrer That’s his bearings and then remembering Utah and sand” that he was in Mrs Weston’s “The desert?” exclaimedRoy "spare” bed me fur — well never knowed jist turned out and rushed to "The same” answered his companion kep’ how long “an’ a good deal o' that” the window “Sinkhole” Weston was — "Mr or ’Sink’” broke in "What's the blue wall then?” added Roy Weston the house entering “you’re getting me all the boy pointing toward the south mixed up It nearly o’clock was and time to don’t seem to follow you” sir ef it want fur that 'ye’d “Wai be off The “O’ But I’ll make it newly awakened boy lost see yaller thar too That’s the Mesa course not straight jist as soon as git a chanst no time All his preparations had been twenty-five miles from hyar Grande Then ye kin understand Till then before After is fur a tableland o’ rock made the night laid writing Mesa Spanish me 'Sink’ git around to letters he had Thar's the ole Aztecs built thar call When out his new togs whar the yarn ye’ll say mebbe as how it’s Take the Mesa and packed his "store” clothes as he homesaway an’ ye’ll good 'Sink enough name fur me called them In the suitcase he see New Mexico’ from hyar” pointing aHole’ Weston!" As that?-’ continuedRoy his gray flannel his khaki his to “And It’ll donned the southwest where pinktipped “We’ll be intale’’ camp tonight Roy make gray hat and his boots a new his heart fluttered spire rose cloudward campfire suggested of nodded like that of the youngster with Thehisleader Roy’s cavalcade “Ute mountain” answered the westerner head and for time rode his first long trousers as he his pony urged forward silently ahead as if in some thought The again “And frum It ye’ll likely see in Cortez Then he paused doubt Hearing Utes pace brought them to and Navajos about Mr Weston in the adjoiningroom he o’clock Here they had agreedto wait old Doolin’s brakeswere creaking While for the them peeked cautiously through a narrow against the the big wagon toyou overtake wheels of His heart leaped might strike on a crack in the door rom Cortez wagon Mr Weston and Roy gave their bee-line to the southwest and never real estate agent animalsrein and were off for the againhow The one-time strike anotherwhite village until and the plain miles man’s plainsman once more had on below twelve you entered southernCalifornia It's made no halfway change Danglingat away bank stores cement buildings and his right leg was a holster and revolver “Kid” exclaimedhis companion after telephoneswere the last signposts of “we well civilization on the edge of the wilder might aswe’re agree Roy almost catchinghis breath for joy on athistimeAin’t goin’ to no one the finishing touch to his own ness made meet 'at’Il call 'Mister’ nur me Roy was to pay a dollar a jret-up Weston Buckling on his belt already And ain’t no reason why yo’ mile for transporting the aeroplane to carefully stuffed with ammunition the should Over thar" and he pointed to Bluff That meant a cost of about $90 “it’ll ‘Sink’ boy felt the caress of the new automatic the Utah alkali be furnished the Weston Weston for this — wagon against his hip and leg and his Don’t be skeered I’m goin’ to think the six horses the services of both Dan less you tur it Doolin and himself and the food for all happinesswas nearly complete At a post in front of But not quite the little white house stood two cow ponies saddled with ropes at the pommels k and blankets cinched behind One of these Roy knew from its size must be his mount He started for the door then hesitated and on him Everything felt so that he new almost had stage fright “Waugh!” rang out from the next room “Chuck’s ready’ yelled Roy with assumed “Waugh!” boldness and throwing open the door he dashedinto the room whirled about in Imitation of a ballet danctrand then clumsily revolver drawing his new struck an attitude of aiming through the window “Well by the great horn spoon!” VJ I I “ by ‘Well the great horn spoon!’ shouted Weston” I I get I knew that the latter parent would never wear it doctor curio-dealer As the was the purchases for shipment by express to said: Newark the yho "Aren’t you came youngSink man Weston?” in this morning with Roy answered that he was “Going back today?” continued the doctor on” he replied goin’ "Going “We're to Bluff with a freight” wagon of Bluff?” exclaimed the storekeeper “To in apparent surprise "With Sink I ” Anyway I I a saysWhen I I I 1 In-the I I I I I I -afore ‘ I I I - I I a-get-tin’ I I I “In a May arroyos wuz bank when the toted and better the pieces o’ we that boat up in the San Juan mountains beyant fagasa peak Two weeks later Alcatrez Alcatrez down about — or whar is now timber and them fellers — we found figured out they wanted raft big enough to But carry us an’ the boat We made it it must a bin a bum raft At the first bad rapids we struck whar the river cuts through the Car-riso mountains the raft went to pieces full upper CHARTER IX the Canj on of the San Joan before night came Sink Weston’s train had crossed creek and Elmo was well down to ward the Mesa Verde The evening campfire ’was almost within the shadow of the old Aztec cliff home The Cortez curio dealer’s suggestion that “little off” had bothered Weston was Roy a great deal but his early apprehension had worn off somewhat as he failed to detect any outward signs of “cracked ness” in the old guide Naturally Roy to associated Weston’s “Lost Indians” vague references the the and the “old man of sink hole” with what the storekeeperhad said And as he thoughtthe matter over he finally concluded:“We little are all daffy in line I’m some suppose crazy over aeroplanes If Sink has a soft spot or peculiarity why should bother about it?” concluding that the “sink hole” story be whatever it was ladmight decided Weston’s hallucinationthe to say 410 more aboutit In the gray-blue of the Mesa shadows and Roy picketed their Verde Weston ponies and madewith campthe Long before Doolin came up they wagon had collected and made a fire The stars were wood when the wagon showing arrived Then followed Roy’s first camp experience the Doolin and Mr After all did it it way simple Westonfor was very this first stop was carried WaterbaiTelin The horses were watered given oats and picketed A pot of coffee was made two cans of baked beans were heated a can of was peaches passed opened the crackers were — there was not even condensedmilk for the coffee and the evening meal was — over with no dishes to wash Immediately old Doolin extracted a rifle from somewhere in the wagon and his charging pipe strolled away in the dark “to stretch his legs” as he put it The sky was black-blue the stars were hot carbons: no insects disturbed the breezeless soft surroundings and the glow of the dying cook fire sent a straight line of In ONG one-wagon a dated came "When didn’t believe it a-shinln I was alive but fur a long time peeled off the blood an’ by feel in’ was on the rocks round concluded But was so nigh the water that the foam an’ spray was a blanket fur me all night That’s laid till It whar light agin O' boat come course the was gone my chuck was gone an’ them walls o’ stone stood up afore and They me — straie-ht! seemed like the inside o’ a ball” 1 I to I I I I I I I - I I behind I I I I I i ' 45 IS® I i I (w- man I “Now I I I I I I “Somehow I I likeWhite thinsmoke a I I I I IND red-yellow IN some who have -crawling the walls hung and seats cut from the’ sides about people The are of and speak Arabic e a s t a I ' tin-dishes shotahead I I - ‘ J 5 I a I “An’don’t ' recall the rock Berber rugs range tribe subterraneandwellers say that are cool in ani homes summer in They are peaceful winter warmcontent and with their lot in life of families number Jewish were A trace their history found here who the Romans In hack to the time of Tripoli of cave dwellers whole villages who and have their underground are Jews synagoguesby and Talmud ruled rabbis I - ' the their I ' across Africa The I - recently come the north of ’ i - -the weatherwas In are “How before have folk The only signs of these dwellings above the surface are the holes in the the entrances and which form ground thirteen feet in diameter sometimes The walls are often supportedby great stones In the walls uneven doors separate portions of the cave from each other The rooms are quite the ceilings roughly stuccoed large with carpets and - a queer sand ani burrow beneath the their homes in rocky underlyiniT caves “With ' When CONTINUED) DWELLERS NORTHERN ARICA CAVE Scientists explained — " I I -? I I “When ' - I I a °°r continued a-crawlin’ "He’s jist right” broke in Mrs Weston "That’s all right Mr Osborne Don’t you stand fur no jokin’” “All right!!’ answered Air Weston “shore they’ll be all right but dia yo’ 1 ever see a city man go into a country town but what the yaps had to make fun o’ his clothes?” “Don’t you all wear these?” asked Koy anxiously “They would if they could” answered Mrs meat platter Weston depositingthe arid turningto surveythe boy "An’ ain’t yo’ got a thing on yo’ that ’Sink’ be tickled to Look at wouldn’t own 1 him reediclus” — it’s looked Mr Roy soiled Weston still wore the white shirt or one like it same A block silk handkerchiefencircled his upward huntin’?" asked Roy indicating “Goin’ neck It was knottedin front while old Doolin Roy's was fastened behindas he had “Doolin never sets by the fire” Mr Mr seen in the pictures Weston wore Weston “He may not be back till midnight Jist onrestless But no coat and his white ehirtslceves were he ain't lookin’ fur That no held up by blue elastic bands Never game gun’s like a cane to him He had Roy such things in may be seen cowboy up on the Mesa Verde afore he gits pictures But the man’s blue clothes sleepy”had been after bis first day in exchanged for a dark vest clatter of Roy was tired a hoofs Nigger bounded forward’’ the saddle He was lying on a blanket and a pair of close-fitting black trousers I “ ‘How did you get out?’ asked Roy ‘And where were you?’ ’’ his 'eyes on the little fire and The vest was unbuttoned and if lie wondering would like to be going one side of it sagged with the weight with the “onrestless’’ Doolin Westton of silver chain The trousers “All right will if you’ll tell a watch me why animals Royv was to provision the sitting with his back against and went did vou get out?” was we all down 'Labarge he “And asked Roy into a pair of worn unpolished they call you ’Sink’ party ood supplies to be laid wheel his disappeared were knees crooked did corrie up” where were you?” wagon him with one hand lazily grasping never boots But here the shattering of his in at Cortez “I ain’t agoin’ to Weston turned sideways in his bubblingpipe “Drowned?” exclaimedRoy answer neither” tenderfoot’s ideals saddle replied Nir AVeston the Vo?' asked about’ a tent over to young paused "So‘Sink’?” ye want’to know why they call explained the fire boots! They and son” Weston H explained that "An’ smashed” Weston and using a coal to light his were wrinkled “That’s a considerable yarn laughed Those me he said suddenly as if tents were superfluity The crinkled in true cattleman style the “Tell it” exclaimedRoy enthusiastically tamping'his pipe “We saved the boat rechargedpipe the two had just been ideal' discussingthe an’ like a waitin’ for years to The river ain’t 1?” he added without a heels tapered woman’s rench been subject me and Moffett went on Tve “It's your’ saddle fur piller and z Roy cast his eyes again in the direction sartin deep in the 'canyon smile “’Cause don’t’ knowdid Don’t slipper and janglingabout the instep hear a real story that ain’t been in & blanket was now As fur a cov fura mattress Doolin had taken Their companion know no more today ’an then two as ornate spurs as any artist book"-' were erin’ aboveye jist Mebbe Moffett knowed whar we was want to try the had Somehow did git out But it was not — ye disappeared Somewhere at “Ye kin be sure this ain’t been in no sky It but didn’t He put it down in his ever drew beats houses er tents" ’that moment a shivery half-bark that day ’cause slep’011 the rocks and book As fur bein’ real see that?” book Then if got so bad thar was-not half-wail And best of all there was the "gun” — Roy wau eager to try it The sounded ag in '1 kin tell you this though when enough stoppin' an’ jist Roy’s and loosened the shirtsleeve of the freight no any more we fell The belt was not as new as carried frying pans “Coyote” said Mrs wi thout down on the sand up thar some-’ere white Weston left and revealed a long wagon don’t we wuz as the not an automatic-carbine arm and a coffee pot in the tail know whar on ton o’ that gash in the airth the revolver was box moving back of his" arm- just The food 'bought said but it wuz about four days arter my clo’es was in furrow: on the The cook "fire was but little more rags an’ two finger but it was- there was simple pork lost ’at Moffett figgered below the elbow flour — salt than Just a littlejwaveLabarge was nails on each hand was mlssin’ bacon baking powder crackers dying blaze must a cost ye quite a out he was due to climb out o’ the canyon’ “That sartln the boy the boss o’ the Sink coffee and a variety of crept over reckon dumb some’’ Mr “Thar’s whare High canned goods of apprehension It mine shaft fur deep bit” was Weston’s comment was lik a Hole the white Mucky-Muck o’ In the way of beans and fruits he alone with an irresponsible meats Was "This was not the sink hole was it?” mind of tries to and dark but had some projeck yo’ some one the Lost Injuns It’s real to plugged me These articles purchased packed and man? Was his companion abouthallucination about gettin’ his bearin’s So we tried interruptedthe boy yo' Yer all O K Ye don't need all right" paid for guy Weston left the lad for a an imaginary experiencean it lie lugredthem o’ his took several that might work him into a instruments The long nuthin’ but to git the new off An I’ll Indians?” Roy “The Lost the exclaimed time fur him he mighty-near puffs at his pipeV an’ 1’11 say this “You Indians no white little frenzy?- Hoy was almost sorry that the guarantee-to do that afore we git to mean man Roy was glad enough to do a has ever seen?’He visited all the stores had left He was not afraid doneit600 feet somepin happened “What' happened on the river was sightseeing teamster lie like Bluff” and at last found himself in half but dropped rock” only what ye might expec" “Sink" Weston shook his head with drug a "Whathappened get'A pair of spurs?” — and pulled his blanket can half smile and half store in he stoutly "I’d like Roy shuddered arter ain’t got a general one “Yes’’ it” answered no man no right Mr “I seen ’em An’ he seen ’em” of which-was stock of nearer the fire Weston snapped to look fur In it asked the boy git ’em corne a way was even unique to hear persisted Ron--' Or don’t know as ye could anywhar — best relics in a tew or few “Oh ye kin “He? Who?” lndlai moments the moments the guide marshalhe a piece of mesquite say But Nigger repeatedwith a boy vfas on familiar and sheriff said nothing Then got down the water agin thatIt was place over to the drug store “Who?" “Sink” the terms within the to unusual returned though’ that starlted boy proprietor lie his pipe they was not even his little books and him don’t need no spurs laugh an old doctor And recharged threw a couple of annrehensions to leastwayson strange — — me? been fur more’n hour he had selected bits measurin' 'Ever’ but the "I’ll try string "Tell aching ten next slia real of mesquite upon the fire and retraps thing not to out” resumed little jant like this” a years to learn that To say nothin’ o’ Navajd blanket for his mother and his position boat was gone in the foam o’ vthe San Weston “But ain’t askin’ remember twenty minutes after Roy o’clock the hole in the bowels o’ the airth equall interesting turquoise set I'm done” he said at last Juannever knowed whar Moffett ye to believe it” The fire flared up over and had rbag for his father breakfast was where he took me and plugged me and although'he "ye’ll say I’m bughouse They all do was killed But it was about 10 o’clock and Roy'-saw that the man’s face was ' I I 1 picter” I I However shouted Weston “Land o’ mercy!” added Mrs Weston who had just entered with a venison steak — hot and coveredwith fried po tatoes I I I I a a I I I I -map ” — I Ihadn’t I L I I I o I I a Weston?” 'Colonel’ I I little indignant “Yes” retorted Ray a "Why not? Any reason why travel with Mr Weston?’’ “No” faltered the but storekeeper "No real reason guess "But curio what?” added Hoy— sharply dealer his lips The significantly puckered he Then touched his' head with his finger But hereabouts “He’s wehonest enough all kind o’ consider him little off crackedin the story” village calkerlated — watch I didn’t I a shouldn’t 9 a-plenty” Hole in the mornin’ have no I relief Mr started et a good meal sigh of "Before fur calm knowed the wav that river was enough a boilin’ and roarin’ below me was “In ninety-eight party of not agoin’ to brung make no more stops tillIt railroad prospectors to Durango” Mr An’ didn’t somepin happened Weston began "That winter herded happened arter dark When plumcouldn’t sheep and fit Injuns spring See no more an’ it was dark sick o’ Injuns and made was up my the sun went down thar long plains 500 mind to do a little minin’ Jist then 600 feet down up on the off or couple a o’ fellers named Labarge an’ above didn’t make no shoved Moffett showed up in camp They wuz bluff at steerin’ nice men an’ it wuz bad fur ’em an’ “I jist not waited Mebbe was others what happened to ’em but it goin’ a few? shore was sorry nigh bein’ as bad fur me came These stuck to my minin’ idee was men corrie all the way from Washiri’ton fur a good things sorry when to o’ the San Juan river make a the dark bn many got tired o’ come They had outfit an’ a a moneyin an’ thinkin’ an’ waitin’ at last an’ says boat that come pieces The wages to 'Let her come now says they offered me to go with ’em settled an' myself git over with it’ was the minin’ idee accommo -he I I’m Sink know why ye’ll Weston” Roy breathed Weston's tone was preparing 5 He I o’ W 1 1 1 air the wild west I I remarked shore laughed the I I if off on a pivot and was Instead of astonishment the busy whirledthe asmain street of Dolores With mechanic only coat grunted down right there’ he clattdr of hoofs "Hang your a Nigger bounded for shortly neak ward "We ain’t tdyes you’d better get to Now down Roy gasped caught his saddle pommel a reahdob and make sure you’ve got with and his hat with the one hand hangof eyery thing Turn in and help put your the other Then remembering instructions car together" the he grasped his reins straightened WhenthatRoy and his father left Aeroplane out his legs and works eveningan No American threw back his had been shoulders cloud of dust company modeltested and Ahead rose a assembled adjusted taken It was Doolin’s four horses just crossing apart again The next morning itsit the railroad tracks to take the valley would be crated to andthedispatched on road They off at last long west labeled were journey “RC Cook Manager Utah Miningand As the two ponies scampered by the via freight and reached the southern Developing Company Bluff Utah wagon limits ‘of the town Dolores Colo” Weston flipped think and the two "What do you about her?” his reins' once more he and his father into trot asked Royjas boarded the railroad slackened a Beyond the switch yards and fringe bound "You I- I bills to cornin’ night an’ the sun was By that my right hand was north Ef went south it reason must be some’ere nigh I to land That settled goin’ south Navajo If went west about the only thing knowed of ’at could find afore come to the Nevada mountainswuz the Ha’ desert An’ had pledty o’ that ” t I all “It was facin’ me pointin’ x I I I I I I l I I miles I car-homeward 1 I - -his thoughtful "Nobody 'em ’ll tell I’m of nutty five-thirty -At five-dollar and Some you I’m used to it jist want to explaimwhy-I’m Sink Hole Weston” “Tell it all” pleaded Roy suddenly "I don’t know what day itsand wuz An’ found kin myself up thar in the as ye guess don’t know whar it wuz Dcn’t as if know yit” he added this were one of the regrettable details of his adventure “But one thing kin he said with a make affedavit drawl— "my gun wuz gone the soles wuz tore off my boots an’ my hat wuz with the gun didn’t have reckon a scrap o’ food an as fur water they 600 feet below me was a plenty about an’ none reckon within hundred ? a -He Lamar Jgltpn - SYNOPSIS ’ -he schools over wera found -plainsman j ' PANAMA -when a “Where ’ republic of Panama has entered policy of economy a retrenchmentand national The assembly will have before it materiallyreducedIt budget is consideration understood salaries of all public officials and employeeswill be considerablyreduced The - I on ' a - " excitin’ I ' a “When z-Roy’s I ' t f - I a - By 5 silver - I ' i “When 1 - RI-yTRENCniNG a for that One of the reasons given is the large decrease in the import revenues duo the war in Europe to |