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Show ? r m ; LIVES, ARE SAVED BY BELLED SKUNK. The Race or Sky Meadow BY BAILEY MILLARD TINKLING "What bosses" LEADS HUNTERS CABIN OF TRAPPER. li Jo e ph l Up right, do I thinlc o' women ranch was the wrathful tlasb of - - H.islr P. ' Shan 1 help vou Miss Windom?" 1 said Lew lould handle that bunch oei ibcie What, he iucul l this ahe could not or would not let heiself under-stan- d But she thanked him rather i urth and declin'd ihe ofTer lie smiled at liei tonfidenlly aa On what did he base rode a a i t his confidence ' The spun ot the range was strong In May Her blood mounted warmly,' amt her hoise pi eased sharply upon Hie sheep, while hei voice tang loud and clear Rut when the i a pull) moving masS( of while batks seuiried through the scrub pine-- , near the top. not half a mile away over the hill, she heard taint sounding Contes! that were glowing nearer and turning up the l Zeke Stubbs. "1 think they ought to keep to the kitchen au' not go snoopin' aroun tellin urowed up men how to take the shoes off n hoises Au Did she larn she a gal about hoises feet at that Salt lake Id like to know' If her seminary W 1, maw and paw only was alive' it's them there high toned boardin' schools that spiles gals eteiy tims " "Oh don't take on, Zeke said Url Wiggin, coming around a corner ol the barn . "May Wludoui got a few extra frills at the seminal y but she ain't spiled An' she knows all about horses Uri was the hned man on the Win dom tanch, and .eke was his helper "An- she ain't so dreadful stuck If she was she i id added L'tl up, ge out wrtb the ' wouldn't be ' Maddens heideis for money!" aheep. Hut we'U gtt la veil heard l'ri "Goin' out with the sheep' Great won t (last, come much ahead snakes' An' all alone among them nearer They wont tisk a mix-up- . they men? Guess you can count me out The "TV's were bounding up the don't want no woman this time was all boss on the range The idee' A worn slope and the advance line but toppling the ildge From a little an sheepherder! knoll on that part of the She ain't a goin alone," said L'ri larthest from the meadow. May, oat 'How then of breath from her hard ride and her Gerknow Baffin's "Wal, you Sandy sat her hoise for a moment of) tie, that married Hubs Bricker? She's cries, triumph. to Russ too j May's got along, Suddenly she heaid a great rustling look to fer things fer her, an' Ger-among the trees and brush on the tie's a goin' to do the cookin'." Russ Bricker had told May YVin-do- west side of the ridge, opposite that that It would be a race for the on which the first great billow of "YV's was beginning to appear. country the best range From below came whooping yells, she In the Wasatch mountains and was intensely eager to get in first the barking of dogs, wild bleats and a low roar as 20,000 little feet beat the with her band She had been out on the range sev- ground and 5,000 little round heads were poked out from among the pines. eral times before her father died once as long as a month She loved A great wave of "M's loomed for the wild life and the loved'the sheep moment from over the way, ready to Above all things, she was eager to rush in and become one with the toil get to the range ahead ot Lew Mad- low of W's which had charged up den, who diove a large herd of his the cast side of the ildge Just in time own shearing up that way every to meet It. Stop 'em' Stop 'em! Head 'em spring as soon as the season opened Lew was objectionable to her in no off! Can't you stop 'em! was May's other way than that he had tried frantic appeal to eke The old sheep man said nothing, to make himself particularly agreeable to her. with the result that she but reached back on his saddle for his had sent him about his business She rifle, and, raising it quickly and pointcould hardly have told why she had ing along the hundred foot gap that the two great done this, for Le was big and strong, remained between anil looked finer in his saddle than herds, sent a bullet whizzing low over May had heard of this trick any other man In Juab county. Prob- it. ably she had refused him because before. Sometimes, she knew, It had he had taken her for granted. succeeded in preventing a hopeless An hour after noon the next day mess ot two bands. Zeke fired shot after shot, but the they were all up on the top of the divide where wafts of a fresh, beady two lines, forced by the fatal air swept their faces and the sheep from behind, neared each other - browsed greedily .about. by little starts and bounds. May saw But while the mules were being an "M sheep leap Ipto' the air and fed and everybody was eating a hasty, fall fiat. She rode over to Zeke and scrappy luncheon, the handsome Lew made him stop hie shooting. When she looked again the two great tides of sheep hhcPmet and min The ''W's" were scampering gled. wildly about among the Ms," and the and Ms" were threading through through the "W's, so that It seemed, In one wild moment, the dreaded, the was as complete as the tragic, mix-umix-uof a pack of - 1 hog-bac- 1 p p well-shuffle- d cards Lew Madden rode over to where May stood leaning against a pine, Good Mamingl crying. The rest had all run up the ridge chasing the sheep toward the Lew got off his horse and meadow. was close to her before she saw him. Oh, It waa mean of you, she declared. with wet cheeks and flaming eyes, "mean, mean! he said, smiling "This mix-up- ? softly. "Oh, I don't know. They can stay mixed for all I care. It'a all right Why, what makes you aay that? she cried, dabbing her eyea with We cant separate handkerchief. them until the end of the season, un less, she added, a little more hopefully, we could rig up a corral and a foot gate here somewhere. I wonder If we could?" "But I dont want to, said he. "It would take a months work, and It isn't worth while, anyway. Well, ahe said, with forced firmness. "Ill do It then." "But you don't want to, either." Why don't 1 want to?" "Because you're going to marry me. Little Bopeep hasn't lost her sheep. Theyve Just strayed In among her lover's. And they are going to Stay Come! there? and never be separated. 1 anryurs, and so are all my sheep!"' He held out hla arms to er. Never h&d sh4x seemed so weak In the face PC the Jtae, strong, insistent mastery But she summoned of the protesting word at last, though It came out faintly. He Said. rode coolly into camp and. lifting his broad sombrero to the ladies, showed the same unruffled brow and the same calm blue eyea that May had seen when he had made such small account of her irritating little no. ."Good morning!" he said, smiling so that the perfect white of hla teeth guttered under hla blonde mustache. Pretty rough country for freighting, eh, Mr. Bricker V For a moment nobody said anything. Then May's hospitable good nature waa shown after a sharp bite at. her under Jlp.; "Arent you hungry, Mr. Madden? Won't you have some luncheon?" He dismounted O, thanka! yea. "No! and took the sandwich she offered He came nearer and put his great him. Where's your sheep?' There was arms about her t "Youre taking me for granted, a brusque note In Russ query there somewhere, he sa!d. r all. You're just as mean as "No; I'm taking you for a dear, airily, looking up the ridge. WelL you haven't got your sheepangellc little creature, who loves me into yet?' queried May, j' very much1 are You said it! I'll "There you You couldn't his reply. dreading anted for that way" taken be not gt this there quick. have girt np "How will you be taken, then? The coolness of this smooth spoken j "Not at all. Yon don't understand young man waa getting to be a llttl her. you don't deserve you're Just as too much for " "No, they're not there yet, he said mean as word her with a he But not stopped yet." "Perhaps Well, then, well drive on and head kiss, and, after a tittle struggle, her head nestled down upon hts shoulder. you off. l'ri, hunting' for hts mistress, esAll right May I use this tin cup pied her sitting on a rock beside Lew. for finger howl? arose. and aerambled back to Zeke. Then . ahe Certainly. "There's another mix up over there," ahe called to her sheep Coo-e- ! "Well run on ahead, Mr. Bricker, with he salt), grinning amt pointing toward pines "Gi'i-fi- i Them sheep'll aO lri and Ring,-au- d you and Zeke fop the M's' next season he Pw along with the wagon " aft-Ov- -- -- -- J TO venturers completely lost tlieir bearings What to do they didn't know, hut one thing was reitsln and that was ihev must continue on Dvutb. march TRAMP WOODS TWO DAYS For i wo days theya kept on the without seeing sign of a hit mas habiiatlou and were almost ready to up, when they heaid a bell tinkle Men Lose Way While Going for Help in the Woods for Injured Guide Party Out ihe sound with their Following for Tough Experience lo tits beating in antielpatlon. Hey and GetHt. i ante to an old barn lieyond wbub 'was .t cabin This proved to lx tiiw Carver. Out -- The tinkling of a be borne of a H upper named Retools, who tied to the neck of a skunk saved .it lost party a few days i from serious inconvenience if not actual starvaliou and hi ought aid to an Injured trnp-le- r and another man lamis Dubois, a man named Staring and a friend known as ' Stubby ' Wilson came up heie fmm Chicago recently anil went Into the wild land ?0 miles north to shoot and fish They picked up a trapier named Jeiry Cain, and earning their tent and provisions on their backs, set out to ! tough It. They said they wanted a tough experience under the skies and Recent Portrait of Man Who May Again Lead Democratic Hoeta, they certainly got It. From the moment they struck Into the wild lands they met with nothing but trouble Staring fell Into a bog, caught a severe cold and almost had pneumonia before his companion IMPROVEMENTS Puller of Michigan aie fully equipped could nurse him back to health. MINE COSTLY with dredges, hydraulic and other Dubois cut a small artery In hla leg PLANNED FOR KLONDIKE. means for working of low grade as while chopping wood for fuel and Wilwell as high grade grounds at a profit son " sprained a thumb in setting a The Guggenhelms alone have se mink trap But the courage of the Indications Are That Dawson Will B cured hundreds of claims and are party remained unimpaired until Cain Center of Worlds Largsst Gold spending millions In Improvements In slipped on a wet nick while angling Fielda Value of the Klondike. It la believed that with for trout and broke an ankle bone. Dredging This Yeare Product. all the Improvements that these big This accident quickly stopped the companies will make a heavy pay roll northward progress. Cain's ankle beof Out of the Dawson, Yukon. The gold output will be maintained here every sum to swell immediately and It was The Skunk Led Them Wllderneae. of the Klondike for the season of mer and that Dawson will always be gan soon seen that the man must have 1906 reaches the total of $5, 697, ML an active mining town and the center medical aid As near as they could weleotned and fed the wanderers sad This figure Is base-- ! on the average of one of the largest hydraulic and It, thev were 55 miles from told- - them that they were 20 miles figure By ounce. valuation of $lt to the di edging tlfildH In the world. the nearest parish settlement and east of the trail. The bell they heard the Klondike is meant that area of must make the distance without a was tied to the neck of a skunk. ra- MURDERER a within streams HAS PRIVATE JAIL. placer producing guide as Cain couldn't walk or be The animals got pretty thick about dius of 50 miles of the city of Dawcarried a mile In hla condition. This here," said Petola, and I belled one son Hit Precautions Will Cost Him Double waa a pretty hazardous undertaking, to keep the rest off. I think It I The total output of the Klondik Term of Imprisonment. aa none of the Chicago men had ever lucky I did. since the discovery of the camp la been in this section before and waa The trapper took the men to the 1896 Is $112,'86,52. . Rome A wealihy land owner, Ra! not used to traveling by compass nearest settlement, where they obThese figures are based on the roy- tnondo Pace, was hi 1898 condemned Cain drew a rough map of the terri- tained a doctor and guide and regovCanadian collections the the courts ,'n criminal of by by alty Roggia, Here they tory and gave It to Dubois who, with turned to their tamp. ernment, which controls all the big Italy, to ten years' Imprisonment tot Wilson set out for help, leaving Star- found Cain In a high but under fever, camp The figures are from the offles having murdered a servant of his ing to stay with the trapper. The first treatment this went down, and after of Judgment was of J T. Lltbgow, comptroller In default, and day they gol along all right, but the his leg bad been set In a passed platter cast finances In the Yukon. it was surmised at the time that the., following morning a misty .rajn came he was taken out of the woods oa a If anything the amounts here gives man had escaped to some distant up and In less than an hour the ad- - litter. are very conservative. They are weU land under an assumed name. Quite under the mark, particularly for tk recently the police heard that he wat earlier years, because It'ls believed in Foggla, and raided hla house. They that many then evaded the payment were very much amused in finding him GIRL IS SHUT IN CAYE BEARS UP TO MANY TRICKS. of the royalty exacted by the govern- - Bafely locked up in a cell which he had WITH BATS AND MICE ment. Now evasion la Impossible, be built for himself In he basement ot Strip Orchard, Toboggan on Lumbar cause alt dust attempted, to be lakes hi house. One of hla servants waa Chuto and Steal,. ... into Bear . 6h Frightened by Jumps, across the boundary before iwddjtiy: hlmrto act as, Jallpr, and by Cloaca and Almost Door, , r Dugout, g reived thw Stamp and certlflcateahw-in- order or his master supplied him once Laqula .Ta. The blacK'-beaGoss Insana. water bread with a that the royalty 1 paid is conof and Wheelervllle Jug day continue to hold the fiscated. 1 During eight years Pace never stirred Sadis palm for being the smartest of their Pa. Fifteen-year-ol.Galeston, The indication la that the outpat for from his cell, and be told the police McMIcken of the Kettle Creek section kind In this state. the future, wilt be greatly frvcreaaed as that after completing the full term of became They-hastripped the apples ot frightened 'at the sight of s soon as the many big streams now be- ten years to which he was condemned black bear In the woods and sought the orchard of a small farmer living ing acquired by the Guggenhelm of he Intended petitioning the king for a refuge la a dugout or cave, the door ot near Cold Spring, the thievery being New York, Sigmund Rothschilds and royal pardon. As It la, the unforwhich became fastened by the heavy accomplished in two - nights. - - Last associates of Detroit, Colonel! Wil- tunate man has to 'start his punish- wooden latch on the outside and made summer, In the neighborhood of Wello-grov- o liams of Paris, Tex., and associate ment afresh, and In the end will have her a prisoner. Jubctlon, two .cubs got to nosDr. A. 3. Grant of Toronto and N. A served almost twice his time. lumber in the cave stirred up ing around a band truck on Her presence 4 a of bata, which repeatedly road and started the thing down colony 00000000000000000000000060000000000000000000000000000 struck the glrla face and bands with grade, one of thb bear on top of it their ugly bodies. She also feared the That bear had a sad fall andv roll presence of copperheads or rattle- among the rock, while the truck went snakes In the cave. At the end of four off the Hack at a curve. Between Wheelervllle and Grover, when a party of searchers were hours, A man named Wilcox or Indiana. to the cave by the girls one midday recently, a bear frightened attracted Attacked by Indian in Early Days, Wilson was wounded. The Indiana screams, they found her In a condition n huckster's horse until in its plungThey Buried the Treasure. were routed. The wounded maa waa on hysteria. ing about It scooted a crate of eggs bordering i taken to Fort Kearny and hla brother two firkins of honey Into the roadand five at to o'clock out had She gone Topeka. Kan. We have heard of waa sent for. When the brother ar way from the wagon and then started hurled treasures, but did you ever rived the wounded man toM him at the maple grove, a mile from the on a canter up the road. The bears In the house, to bring in the cow know of a case in which one waa as possible where he had drove were two undersized heifers. fell to and greedily devoured the eggs nearly found? .Well, Joe Prentice, of Heb- buried more than $2,000 during the At the edge of a deep wood that runs and boney before the huckster got his ron, Neb., formerly of Sabetha, some night of the Indian attack. The for miles back Into the Kettle Creek frightened horse stopped and returned time ago found a buried treasure. wounded man died, hut the brother region the girl heard the wether cows with n gun. Prentice formerly operated a hard- could not unearth the gold. Latei bell One morning less than a monta ago and started across the woods to Prentice the land where the money was sup ware store In Sabetha. an engineer on an early freight oa the her. Intercept traded the store to John M. Evans, posed to be buried passed Into the She had got Into the deep timber Susquehanna tL New York railroad, now a resident of Ohio, and got, hands of Evans. she saw what she thought was pulling his train ap the Ellenton grade when Evans tried but could not locate the one of the little black heifers browsing through the Pleasant Stream timbers, among other things, a farm near Hebron, Neb. saw what he first thought wsa a man People laughed at Pfen-tlc- e gold. Prentice paid no attention tc in a laurel thicket. s good deal because of the farm. the atory. 8ome time ago while he She had got within a few yards of lying on the track a few rods ahead. That country was not considered was grading down the road near hit it when the animal, hearing her for the But the object proved to bo a bear, much of a farming country house he uncovered on a steep Incline first time, suddenly turned and faced and as tbo engine approached Bnua Prentice got hold of the farm a rusty can. such aa tomatoes and her. She found It was not heifer, but sat np on his, haunches and grinned Evans told him the following story: apples are put ap In. Opening the a black bear. She ran for refuge to defiance at the locomotive. A party of Bat a shrill whistle from the lroa immigrants were traveling can Prentice counted out $2,136.50 In the dugout, used for the storage of horse was too much for the bear, aad g over the country In the early day to gold and sliver. In addition to this camp kettles and other seek their fortunes In the far west the farm which people Joked Prentice accouterments, which a as close at he shambled off into the thicket Some of the trainmen of the 8uguehaa One night near the present site of so much about la now a very valuable hand. A New York carry rifles for chance Hebron the party was attacked by property. latch a cave has The door of the only at Inquisitive bears along the on the outside. She raised It, slipped shots Monroetown and Ralatas, between run door and the Jerked the cave, into shut, the heavy wooden latch dropping Nof Heroic. Into the catch again and making her a How dare you kiss me, sir! exprisoner. claimed the Indignant maid. this Is sometimes mentioned as though In the hole a knot avoethrough Peering The man laughed a little tantalising Dry Climate of the Beuthwaatf suitable for ostrich raising. door, ahe saw the bear scampering able la the Industry. , Alfalfa pasture is also essential; an away through the woods. When she laugh. Oh. H was hardly a deed of daracre of alfalfa will . carry four os found that she was a prisoner she I don't believe to El Paso, Tex. Some of the sceounts triches, and, which is of far mors shouted, but her voice hardly pene- ing,'' be replied. Chicago Dally of ostrich farming in this country have importance, will keep them la good trated the cave Itself. She was com- the microbe theory been so glowing that the reader was health. Our American ostriches are pelled to be a companion of the pat News. left ranch in doubt as-t- o their accur- now worth $800 a pair at four years of and mice for four hours. Reserved. acy. The ostrich business la fairly age. No one should Imagine that os Miss That Wadleigh Is rather reSalt trich farming is a prosperous, especially In the Isn't she? served, Uses Millions of Ringbone lJW of where River valley, Arizona, scheme, for the birds are not ready foi Very much so. I reserved her for Sheffield uses early over 2.000.000 the 2,200 ostriches In the country are mating nntll they become four years - knife handle. waukee - 8Uedt Hastiught-'Al- il life foeringbones now ovnel.'" This is a ne flW'o.f $ur end Americas animal industry for there is much to learn. Their Llvee Were Parallel. j half wav with some floor stain and for Caution, We have hot thus far produced Battle Creek, Mich. A remarkable said Deacon Hy- niture polish. Just Tor appearance" Henderson," Sister of the parallel has come to such fancy birds as have some "That why 1 am cantloning yon, light In the death , you should avoid even the pmore experienced breeders ln'"u . of General .William R, Shatter and 4 pers, sister." the deacon, feeling a evil replied pearance.of inThomas Ford, a fanner of Lacey town Africa, but. the aize seems to trifle weak and faint. ! helped myself to a dose from Hie big bottle in tbo ahlp. They were born on the same creasing and the health of tk 80 far day in GaleBburg, attended school la all that could be desired. Life. middle. totrou-bleenlisted for service on the serious ostrich disease have sot gether, same day in 'the civil war, were musThe Little Candle. , the American raiser; T The candle still hold its barring of the feather has tered out on the same day, died on the j with what tame day, November 12, within a few not been observed. Ostriches withstanding petroleum, ga? and elec- spirit." hours of each other, hot. dry climate, such aa is d were buried now. deacon, U isn't anything j trlcity. The iwoduoriai of candle "Well, the southwest. The rainy portion, of on the same day and ab th same of the kind. The bottles look so pretty h inUed Rtsie during the fisc Al filled ihem yxar of 19 i aiuoente I to $J,1S9,36 the south Js far less deslrsW j on the sideboaid that i jut e I j TO INCREASE OUTPUT j I i , d ve 1 GOLD LEFT BY EMIGRANTS. sugar-makin- USTRICH FARMS" PROFITABL 7 d ot, J . . 1 1 - - - |
