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OIIF.OON CITY F.S'TKItl'ltlKK, 1'IIIDAV, Of.TOIlKIt 23, 1'JII. J he I7n O'Hearts By Louis Joseph Vance CHAPTIR XL. The Men In the Shadow. Tail hundred fort. If one. I !(! Jim f, from HP of III rllff Tt.elt sud gVuly tlm thing that hid been llopl Jim HI1'' checked In !( headlong ovkHiI I'T ouleteiidliig trunk of a rr. utiT which It remained, doubled U. H'l'P- horrible Tie miniature landslide that had bB ciui'd br hit Ull went oo,' trilllKf (""lusHy lha slope be rtm Wi aheer. Only part of It, a. tVua' Handful of pebbles, gained the Hiixa " csnyon. i aiuffl 1 Impact on the ground round bis f-el roused the man bu kid compassed lha bandlt'i death from lha pose ha had unronaclnualy as sumed on lha Instant of Bring. Ila stepped back, and snatched Op a rata containing binoculars. Not bafora lha glaaaea war adjusted to bla vlalon did ha find tlma to re ipoud abaeutly to lha alarmed and In Uttoul Inquiries of bla two compan ion a, a man of bla own age and a girl of some years laaa, who had been' akend from tbalr sleep br lha re- port of tha rifle. 1 Now tha latter plucked hla altera., momantarlljf deflecting tha glasses from tha object which they were fol lowing ao sedulously aa It moved along Iba heights; wildly running' bora with a woman bound helpless upon Ita bark, both aharplr In all-' houetta agalnat the burning blue. "Alan!" the girl demanded, "what la It? Why did you fire? Why won't you anawar me? What la II r "Judith." Alan replied tersely, again plrklng up with the glaaaea the run aay bona that fled ao madly along tha prrlloua end narrow track of the bill trait. The name waa echoed from two tlironia aa Alan awung aharply and lliru.l the glaaaea Into the banda of (lie girl. Judith." he affirmed tth a look of poignant aollcltuda. "She's roped to the hack of that rraiy broncho holp Via' Bee for yourself; one fslse atep -eiippoee a alone turna beneath Ita ao..f ahe'll be killed!" While the girl foruaed her glaaaea Dl'oa that apeck that flew agalnat the ly Alan turned to the two boraea hobbled near by and aelilng a aaddle threw It over the back of one. At thla the other man turn-d to hla aide and dropping a detululng band upon hla arm aaked: "What are you going to do?" Alan ahook the band oil and want on with hla aelf -appointed taak. "Jo after her, Tom. of course." be replied. "What slae? That animal la craty, I toll you" "Eren ao," Tom Ilarcua argued, "you can't climb that hlllalda on horseback and If you could, you'd be too Into to catch up, much less prevent an accident- "I know It. Put suppose It doesn't fall . , . You know what's beyond theao hllla deaerta! And tho gjrl la neipiena, i trii you, bound hand and foot. Think of her bolng carried that ay all duy, perhnpa fnce up to thla brutal aunt mio II go mad If some- tlilng lan't done " "You'vo gono mad youraolf already," Mr. Hnrcue contended darkly. "What'a It to you If aha doe? Suppoao you do aucceed In rescuing hor: what then? Aa koon aa aho gets on hor pine ahe'll try to Mick a knife Into you llko aa not Wlint'e alio been chaalng you for, all over thla land of the brave and homo of tlio free, but to 'take, your fool life And now you want to sucrlllce to avert It -no matter what may tiava eiiffere at Judith's banda?" With an Indignant grunt, but ton inrr-.ru none lha leaa, Mr. Ilnrrua eaualit up the glaaaea and turned hla b k. . . . "Oo nn!" he grumbled, pretending to Ignore tho hand Alan offered him from the aaddle. "I've go no patient imyou . . . nut go!" he Inflated or a Hidden aelilng he hand and. preaalng It fervently. "And (Jod go with you, my friend!" Then hoofbrata drumming on the hard parked earth of tha canyon trail' truck a hundred echoes from Ila rugged, rocky walla. Mr. Ilarcua ehnwed floae Trine a, fare atmoat ludlrroua wllh Ila an gutahed amlle that was Intended to, aeem reaaaurlng, "I-efs look aharp and follow him aa quirk aa may be." he urged. "Light ning will never airlke ua ao long aa e allrk to Mr, Law of the charmed life but ! don't mind telling you, once out of hla company. I'm just naturally afraid of the dark!" CHAPTIR XLI. u- 1 Pi- -r.-JTi.7 Mtf. J. V VS. 1 -v' v"' 0 15". Molatened Hla Parched Throat. Llpa and ToursDlf to hor, out of sheer, down- Vit ooIIhIiiicbb In tho houdl I Bup you'll like me to cnll It chivalry: I'll tell you what 1 call It lunacy I " 'Don't he an auel" Alan resionded tiporoi,.iy, gathering the reins to Keillor and Instinctively lifting a foot g the stirrup. "Who warned us yes terdny In time to prevent our being criiBhcd by tlint rock? Judith! Why H Blie sopurated from Marropliat 'iil tho others alone up there when J'liit LciiHt enonked up behd hor O; I Baw him I haw It all and grabbed her and roped hor to that bronco If It wami't becnuso she had broken with horn for good and all and started to "Klit on our side?" "You're raving," Itarcus commented In a hopeless tone. He looked to the 6lrl. "ItoEc Miss Trine reason with "lis madman " dropping the glasses, the girl cama wlftly and confidently to her lover'e llc. lifting her Hps to his. "Go, sweetheart!" she told hlra. Save her If you can!" With a look of triumph for the bene- of Mr. Barcua Alan Law gathered e Trine Into hla arms. 'Wd you dream for an Instant Rose ouia B8e hor own ilBter C(lrrIed t0 iJeath U anything could be don The Trail of Flying Hoof Prints. In the atlll air of that young day the chill of night llnitered stubbornly and would until the shadow of the aatern rampart had crept slowly down the canyon'a weatern wall, tele scoped upon ttaelf and vanlahed, let ting In the aun to make the place a pit of torment and of burning. Refreahed from reat and exhilarated by this grateful coolneas, bla horae reaponded willingly to the flrat light touch of Alan's spur. In a twinkling the overnight camp dropped from view behind tha rounded shoulder of a hill side), meaqulte-cloaked. Then from Ita flrat spirited flight the horae settled down to steady go ing, lengthened Its stride, and ran for leagues with lha long, apparently ef fortleaa and tlreleaa lope of the plalna bred broncho, ventrea terro. Atan's departure from camp had an ticipated by a round quarter hour tho appearance on the upper trail of friends of the slain bandit, to the number of four or five, who had both discovered and recovered Ms body, culled bla death murder and pledged themselves to Its avengement laying reaponalblllty for the putative crime at the door of tha man and woman to be seen In tho canyon. Immediately below the scene of llonl Jlm'a fall. Pntween tha moment when dlacov rv of tha men on the rtdga trail In terrupted their almple and hurried breakfnat and that which found Rose and Ilarcua mounted on the back of their own horso and making tho best of their way down tho canyon In pur suit of Alan, but llttlo time had elapsed. And eren with Its double burden, thnlr horae made better time upon tho broad lower level than tlioae who followed tho ridge trail. Ity mid morn ing, when they approached tho foot- hllla that ran down to tho desert, the pursuit waa more than a mllo In tho rear and shut off to boot by a niono llthlo hill, whllo Alan waa many a weary mllo In advance. He sat upon his horso, Just then, at stnndHtlll upon the summit of a round ed knoll, the Tainted hills lifting up behind him, the deaert before unfold ing llko a map but liko a map all blurred, Only In tho near foreground was anything definite to bo distinguished In the aspect of that sunhltten waste blenched earth putternod In ulmoBt or dcrly arrangoment by sagebrush and gnarled cnctl. At the dlHtance of half a mile all blondod Into one vast plain of glaring gray that stretched over the round of the world to a broken wnll of purple hills that reeled drunk only In tho hazo-vellcd southwest. . Was Judith out there, somewhere, lost, dofeuselcBs, forlorn, Impotent to lift a hand to shield her face from tho blast of that snvnge sun? Staring beneath a shndlng hand, he discerned nothing that moved upon the surface of the desert but Its myriad heat-devils Jigging monoto nously tholr lnfernnl dnnsa macabre, Or as soemed more probablo wns she bark tliore among tho Painted hills, lying still and lifeless, crushed beneath the weight of that fallen horse? No rest for Alan till he knew . . , Descending the knoll ho reined his Ingglng mount back Into the trail, fol lowing Us winding course through the foothills and round the base of that monolithic mountain toward the junc tion with the ridge trail, miles away. It approached the hour of noon be fore he gained the point where the two trails Joined and struck out across the desort. And here he discovered what he thought Indisputable indica tion that the fright of Judith's horse had persisted. Abandoning Immediately all notion of returning through the hllla by tho rldge-trall, he turned and swung away at the best pace he could spur from his broncho, delivering himself into the pitiless embrace of that Implaca ble wilderness of sun and snnd. At long Intervals he would check the broncho and, reeling In his saddle, endeavor to sweep the desert with his binoculars. And toward the middle of the after noon he fancied that something re warded one such effort; something for an Instant swam athwart the field of the glasses: something that seemed to move like a weary horse with a human figure bound to Its back. Put now the phenomena were dis cernible which, had he been more des ert wise, would have made him pause and think before be ventured farther from those hills, already beyond reach as they were. His first appreciated warning came when the surface ot tha desert seemed o lift and shake Ilk the top of a ranvae tent In a gale. At tho same time a mighty guat of wind swept, athwart the waate, hot as a furnace-, blast. In a trice dual enveloped man. and horse, a stifling cloud of super-, heated particles that atung tht flash, like a myriad needles. And then dark Deaa fall, the twilight of hades, a cop ! pr colored pall. Nothing remained, vlalble beyond ann a length, lillnded, half suffocated, unapeak- ably dlamayed and tewlldertd. tbe, bronoho swung round, back to the iblaat, and refused to budge another Inrn. Himself more thso half dazed, but itli; hounded by his nightmare vlalon, of Judith, Also dlarnounted to escape being torn bodily from the saddle br that belllah sand blaat, and selling the bridle sought to draw tbe horse on with him. He wasted bla strength In that en- dnavor: the animal balked, planted Jta hoofs deep In the sand, stiffened Its legs and restated with tbe atub bomnosa of a rock; then, of a sudden, Jerked his head smsrtly, snapped the Tirldle from bis grasp and flung away, acuddlng before the storm. Pursuit wss out of tbe question: Indeed, tbe bridle waa barely torn Alan had fallen In bla dlny bllndneee,' Hha found him Inaruaible, lying with aa arm bent under him In a poa frightfully auggeallva of dislocation. Yt when eh turned hi in on bla bark and roleaaed the -arm, be mad to sign to Indicate that the movement had caused him tha allghteat pain. There was a slight cut upon hla brow, a brulae about his loft temple. Hha tore linen from her bosom, be neath her coarae flannel ahlrt, and with, spsrlng aid from tha canteen, asahad the cut clean and bandaged It. Then seeing that the atorm bald with fury unabated, she roae, recon pottered and returned to etrt all her strength and drag the unconscious man acroaa the dry bed of that anclaol water-course and under tbe loe of Ita farther bank. There, sitting, she pillowed big head upon her lap, and bending over blm Dade her body an additional shek lr to him from the swirling cloudg of dust. And for hours oo end Judith Durse4 hint there, scarce daring to move save to minister to his needs, bathing bis fevered brow and moistening hla parched lips and throat. In the course of the first hour she waa once startled by the spectral via. I ""'"Til i ! it i. ..-. :-, 1V . '' -rvk- : I "Roae Miss Trine Reason With the Madman from his hand before Alan lost sight ot tho broncho. For a moment he stood rooted in consternation as In a bog with an arm upthrown across hla face. Then the thought ot Judith re curred. ... Head bended and shoulders rounded, he began to forge a way Into the teeth of the sandstorm. How long ho fought on, pitting hla strength against the elements, cannot be reckoned. In the end he stumbled blindly down a slight decline and was abruptly conscious that he had In some way found shelter from the full force of the wind. Ho staggered on another yard or two, breathing more freely, and blun dered Into a rough-ribbed wall of rock; some! sporadic outcrop, he under stood, whose bulk stood between hint and the storm. He thought to rest for a time, until the storm had spent Its greatest strength; but as he laid his shoulder gratefully against the rock and gyrubbed tho dust from his smarting eyes he saw what he at first conceived, to be a hallucination: Judith Trine standing within a yan'. fit him, alive,, strong, free. He stared Incredulously, saw her recognize him, open her mouth to utter a wondering cry that was Inaudi ble, and come quickly nearer. "Alnn! You came for me! You fol lowed me, through all this!" He throw off her hnnd with a bitter laugh that was like the croaking of a raven ns it Issued from his bone-dry throat -and in momentary posseBBlon of hysteric madness, reeled away from tho woman and the shelter of the rock and delivered himself anew to the mercy of the dust-storm. CHAPTER XLII. Open Mutiny. Though she had been schooled to hold the very name ot Law in loathing un speakable and to think of Alan as a mortal enemy and as one whoBe death alone could properly requlte the cruel Injury that had been done her father; and though the man himself had, laughed to scorn her first Involuntary confession of that love for him which now consumed her being with Its In satlablo fires, she swallowed her chagrin and followed him with the solicitude of one whose love can recog nize no wrong In Its object. Through all the remainder of that day of terror she was never far from hla side. With the meekness of the strong, she made herself his shadow. And she was now the stronger, for she had bad more than an hour's rest beside the waterhole, which he bad missed on the way of that rocky windbreak.: Sooner or later his strength must fail him and he would need her; till then she was content to bide her hour. It befell presently In startling fash Ion; she was not a yard behind htm when ha vanished abruptly. But the next moment Judith herself was trembling on the crumbling brink, of an arroyo of depth and width in determinable In the obscurity of the duatstorm. Down thla, evidently, Ion through the driving sbeets of dust of a horse that plodded up the arroyo, bearing two riders on Ita back. Weary with the weight of Its double burden, It went slowly and passed so near to Judith that she was able to recognize the features of her sister and Tom Barcua. Be sure she made never a sign to catch their attention. Within the next succeeding hour the coppery light lost something ot Its hot brlllance, took on a darker shade, and then one darker still. Twi light stole athwart the desert, turning Its heat to chill. Its light to violet Growing more Intense, the cold eventually roused the sleeping man. And hardly bad his eyes unclosed and looked up into the eyes of Judith bending over him than he started up and out of her embrace, got unstead ily upon his feet and after a moment ot pause, watching her rise in turn, strode away or, rather, staggered with the gesture of exorcism. Uncomplaining, hugging her new born humility to her with the ecstasy1 of tho anchorite his horse-hair shirt, Judith followed him patiently, at a little distance. Not far from where he had rested there was a break in the overhanging wall of the arroyo. Through this he scrambled painfully, .reaching the level of the desort only after cruel effort, the unheeded woman at his heels. A brief pause there afforded both time to regain their breath and survey the desert for signs of assistance: It offered none, other than what they might accomplish through their own exertions. For leagues In any quarter It stretched without a break other than the black cleft of the arroyo, gleaming a bleached and deathly white In the moonshine like the face of a frozen world. With tacit consent both turned that, way, Alan leading, Judith his pertina cious shadow, with never a word or sign between them to prove that either was aware of the other's company. But this was a state of affairs that could not long endure. Judith had the price to pay for her own trials, suf fering and privation: the strain began to tell sorely upon her. She reeled slightly as she walked, weaving a winding trail across and across the stralghter line ot footprints that marked Alan's course through the or dered pattern of the powdered sage brush. 1 And of a sudden Bhe collapsed. Instinct alone made Alan glance over-shoulder: for she had made nO sound whatever. He turned and came directly back to her, knelt beside her, lifted her head, pillowed It gently on his arm and plied her In turn with the dregs of the canteen. With a sigh, a stifled moan and a little shiver, she revived. He helped her gently to regain her feet, passed an arm round her. In this fashion they struggled on In strange, dumb companionship ot mis ery and wonder. Tons an hour passed; and for all their desperate struggles neither could see that the light on the mountainside was a yard the nearer. quickly answered by fainter yefls from a dlataat quarter of the desert, then by plitole popping and Baahlug some two miles away, then by a growing rumble of galloping hoofs. Tbe bight glaaaea la the car a (forded bar flaabe of a body of several horse men some all or seven, she judged making at top speed Inward the spot where Marrophat, Hicks and Jimmy waited txalde a beacon which they bad built and lighted. Half a don sentences exchanged with the chauffeur advised her that these were horsemen from the town of Mesa who had charged themselves with the duty of avenging the death of Hopl Jim Blade. A tardonle chuckle from within Trlne's gag goaded the girl Into a sul len fury. Electing hla atmoat speed from tbe chauffeur, nader penalty of bar dis pleasure, she set herself to revive Also, With the aid of such stores of food and drink aa the car carried, tbla waa quickly enough accomplished. Strangling with an overdose of brandy too little diluted with water, Alan aat up, graaped the condltlona In a flaab, and gained further Informa tion as be devoured sandwiches and emptied a canteen. Tbe mountain pass wsa now, be Judged, a mile distant. The light on the hillside, according to the chauf feur, waa that of a prospector who had camped there temporarily. There was nothing, then, to be feared from that quarter, but solely from the rear where tbe horsemen, having picked np Marrophat and hla companions, bsd Instituted hot pursuit, and were now strung out In a long, strangling line, three horses carrying double the farthermost perhaps a mile and a bait away one with a single rider the nearest, well within three-quarters of a mile. Nobly mounted, this last came on like the wind, gaining on the motor car with every stride; for his horse was trained to such going, whereaa tbe car at beat could only labor heav ily in duat and sand. None tho leas, it had won to a point within a quarter of a mile from the pass before the horseman got wltbla what be esteemed the proper range, an! opened Ore. He fired thrice. Hla first shot winged wide, hla second by Ill-chance ripped through a rear tire of the car, tbua placing upon It an additional handi cap, while bla third sought the zenith as hit hands flew up and he dropped from tbe saddle, drilled through the body by Alan's only abot A long-range pistol duel was in progress before the car had covered half the remaining distance to tho pass. By the time It entered this last, which proved to be a narrow ravine with towering aide ot crumbly earth and shale and broken rock, the pur suit was not a hundred yards behind. while the firing was well-nigh contin uous. Two hundred feet above the trail two men were working with desperate haste at some mysterious bualneas though none noticed them. Only the chauffeur was aware of a woman running down the hillside at an angle, to Intercept the car several ft-its. a, una X k ' tv "Straight Ahead, My Manl" She Said. hundred yards from the mouth of the pasB. ' As It drew near the spot where she paused, waving both hands frantically, the head ot the pursuing party swept Into the mouth ot the ravine. At the same time the chauffeur no ticed that the two men on the hillside were following the woman pellmell, throwing themselves down the slope with gigantic leaps and bounds. And then a great explosion rent the oeaceful hush of night that till then i been profaned by the pattering .acks of the revolver fusillade. As the roar of dynamite subsided the entire side of the hill shifted and slid ponderously down, choking the ravine with debris to the depth of some thirty or forty feet, burying the leaders of the pursuit beyond hope ot rescue. Only a Instant later the motor car jolted to a halt and Alan pulled him self together to find that Rose and Barcus were standing beside the door and Jabbering joyful greetings, mixed with more or less Incoherent explana tions ot the manner In which they had come to seek shelter for the night In the prospector's shack and, roused by the noise ot firing and recognizing Alan In the car by the aid of spy glasses, had with the prospector's aid hit upon this scheme of shooting a landslide in between the pu 3ult and Ita devoted quarry. ; Itehlnd them other I't'jts sppaared to staring yellow tn (hat peered up over the hortion, eeerned to pauae a time In eearrb of lha two, then leaped out directly toward thern. Of thla they were altogether Ignor ant; and when a deep, droning soend disturbed the deeert silence, like the purring of some gigantic cat, both as cribed It to the drumming of tbalr laboring pulaea. The two lights were not a mile be hind them when, allently, without a sign to wsm tbe girl. Alsa released. her, took a step apart and dropped as If shot. Instantly she wss kneeling by bla side. But In the act of bending over htm she drew back and remained for several moments motionless, staring at thoae twin glaring eyea, sweeping down upon them with all tbe speed attainable by a alx-cyllnder touring car negotiating a trackless desert When Judith did move K was not to comfort Alan. On tbe contrary, ber flrat act was to draw from her pocket a heavy, blunt-nosed revolver, break It at tbe breech and blow Its barrel clear of dust Her band went next to the holster on Alan's blp. From this she extracted his Colt's .45, treat ing It as she bsd tbe other. Then she crouched low above the man she loved, as If thinking perhaps to escape notice from the occupants of the motorcar. If that were her thought. It was bred of an Idle hope. Alan had cbosen to fall In the middle of a wide space ao arid that not even sagebruih had ven tured to take root there. When the glare of the headlights fell opon tbem It was Inevitable that discovery should follow. The motor car stopped within twenty feet Three men Jumped out and ran toward the pair, leaving two In the car the chauffeur and one who occupied a corner of the rear seat: an aged man with tbe face of a damned aoul, doomed for a little time to live upon tbla earth In the certain knowl edge of his damnation. As thla happened. Judith Trine leaped to her feet and stood over the body of Alan, a revolver poised In either hand. "Halt!" she ordered Imperatively. "Hands up!" The three who had alighted obeyed without a moment's hesitation; her father's creatures, they knew the daughter'a temper far too well to dream of opposing ber will. In the six bands that were sil houetted against the headlights' radi ance, three revolvers glimmered; but at ber command all three dropped harmlessly to the earth. Then, sharply. "Stand back two paces!" she required. They humored her unanimously. Darting forward, she picked up and pocketed tbe three weapons, then with one ot ber own singled out the men Lshe named. "Now, Marrophat and you. Hicks pick Mr. Law up and carry blm Into the car. And tr-at htm gently, mind! If one ot you lifts a finger to harm him, that one shall answer to me." Still none ventured to dispute her. The two men designated, without a sign of disinclination, stepped forward. One lifted Alan Law by the shoulders; the other took the legs. Between them they bore him with every care toward the motor car. But now a second will manifested Itself. The man In the rear seat lifted up a weirdly sonorous voice: "Stop!" he cried. "Stop this non sense! Drop that man! Judith, I command you" "Be silent!" the girl cut in sharply. "I command here If It's necessary to tell you." There was a pause ot astonishment Then the old man broke out in exas peration that threatened to wax Into fury: "Judith! What do you mean by this? Has it Indeed come to this that my own daughter denes me to my face?" "Apparently!" she shot back, with a short laugh. "Judge for yourself!" 'Have you forgotten your vow to me? No. But I take it back and cancel It: that Is my privilege, I believe. ; Silence!" she stormed as he strove to gainsay her. "Silence do yon hear? or it will be the worse for you!" As well command the sea to still Its voice: her father raged like a mad-, man that he was, for the time bolng divested of his habitual mask ot frigid heartlessness. , And Beeing that there was no other way ot quieting him, the girl turned to the third man. "Now Jimmy!" she said crisply. "Into that car and be quick about 't and gag him!" "If you do," her father foam?& have your life " A flourish of her tp-- Instant obedience. She stepped up on f 1 and shot a quick, l COUNTY COURT IXPCNOITURU FOR TMI MONTH OP OCTOBI R, -1114. ROAD FUND District No. 1. O, A. Baltio M. Ii.ttin J. A. Davie T. Kylu W. Bellwood Win. lluuillon Wm. Htrange J'Here !ev!e ('. K. Ila'tln Dan Mala Dlatrlct No. 2. J. W. t-nnett Chae. liwhke M. H. Bbearer , Ralph Itoyer Marlon Tong , CUrenoe Johnson Knghouae . ... R. Bennett W. 8. Da wait Ray Dallas Clarence Dallas W. Brown Bearles W. Bennett Dlatrlct No. J. J. C. Elliott 4 Co. Wolfhagen Herman Blelx-rt Henry Hock John Wymore A. II. Ritxau Carl Young Harry Rotsch Chaa. Itoyer ,.f (3.00 .. 120 00 .. 116.00 .. (3 00 .. 115.00 .. (3.00 .. 2(0 .. 77.(0 .. 31.(0 .. t:w .. 1125 ..I 25.00 ,. M.eo ,. 10.10 ,. 11.00 ,. 47.(0 ,. 25.00 , . (.00 . 77.(0 . 37.(0 . 15.00 . 1000 . 10.00 . E.60 . 45.00 .$ 23.10 . 4.45 . 43.00 . 1.00 . 15.00 . 17.50 . 6.00 . 4.00 2.00 Walter Hall 8.00 District No. 4. Arvld Ericsson $ 1.00 Henry CItbena J.OO J. A. Kltcblng g.00 District No. S. Portland Ry., Light t Power Co 6U20 C. W. Schuld & Sons 221.90 W. E. Wheeler 88.00 H. A. Beck gg.oo O. A. Tacheron 42.00 C. Lekberg 54.00 T. Rlchey 42.OO B. Johnston 42.00 J. Imel 43.00 H. Naaa 38.00 J. A. Sutton 38.00 M. H. Wheeler 60.00 O. M. Rlchey 42.00 C. Wheeler 37.00 J. Johnson 32.00 J. W. Brooks 12.00 District No. 6. Sandy Garage t Shoeing Shop $ 4.65 District No. 7. w. M. Ganger $ at the face ot tho "Straight ahend. "Make for th r those bills y- ' unless you a . you go!" The c ' the thrr,- bow, J r and t' ' TV. cam aa - the. she Id. igh :!lay - -j. Off swept mocking - of the car 1 '0 plead their : r.a even as far ii bert; doubtless futility of that, . settled back In a ' '.1 the memory of :? ct dismay unmlti- '..1 five minutes later. sned up from making 8. , 'aie that she realized j W. Hughes H. Molton B. Odell A. H. Kllnger H. Helms C. Aschoff J. Cockelrease F. Glbona A. A. Gibons T. Hagen G. PIckena B. Pickens , E. Teneyck Wm. Winters D. Douglas F. E. McGugln District No, Henry Perret District No. 9. Bert H. Finch C. M. Sparks W. A. Rhodes Otto Jannsen A. W. Lee J. W. Eilera Nick Sheel A. Stelnke , J. Marshall T. Hardere , A. M. Jannsen , Otto Jannsen E. Grafenhein A. Zwerman R. Miller M. Line F. Ochs H. Kllnker Otto Paulsen H. Joyner A. H. Miller C. Johnson J. Paulsen H. Schmidt ....... W. Held F. Lins E. Guber W. Weiderhold '. District No. 11. Straight & Salisbury E. L. Pope Mack Rivers Eli Rivers Leonard Lundberg F. M. Robertson E. Johnson A. W. Kocker C. Guynup Theodore Huertb Ben Rivers Gu8 Rivera , Louis Norman District No. 12. Gus Fisher H. E. Gill W. S. Powers Pope & Co C. F. M. Brown Adolph Benson John Moser Louis Hampton . '. Fred Gerber A. J. Johnston Ed Barret Ben Swales Carl Fallert , District No. 14, F. H. Henricl Edward Meyrlck Emot Hughes 4.60 2.25 4.60 4.60 4.60 4.50 4.60 4.60 4.60 4.60 4.60 6.75 4.50 4.60 2.25 5.00 .$ 20.60 .$ 16.00 . 2.10 . 2.10 . 3.00 . 26.00 . 9.00 . 12.00 . 13.00 . 14.00 . 2.00 . 32.60 . 29.00 . 13.00 . 11.00 . 10.00 . 13.00 . 15.09 , 6.0O . 12.00 . 12.00 . 4.00 . 22.00 . 2.00 . 14.00 . 20.00 . 18.00 . 13.00 . 9.00 .S 6.88 . 14.35 . 9.50 . 21.00 . 19.00 . 16.00 . 12.00 . 16.00 . 14.00 . 9.50 . 9.50 . 9.60 . 8.00 .$ 2.85 . 15.65 . 17.25 . 1.25 .75 . 16)0 . 16.00 ,. 12.50 ,. 23.75 18.00 ,. 11.25 . . 1.50 . . 2.00 r.,,;c them ao content to ; will. liiard their voices lifted lung, shrill howl that waa (To be eontinuett.) Henry Henricl Loyd Henricl Bill Griffith , (Continued on page 7. .$ 30.00 . 34.00 . '38.25 . 40.50 . 53.00 . 34.00 . 36.00 )