Thursday, June G, 102!)
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE. ORE.
Page Seven
gold BiuiLLEirs
- hy Charles G.BootK
SYNOPSIS: Stitrtli-il iiy the
sound of MiiiM'on1 cntciiiiK the
Otfih'ii mini. I'ii-I)1oh uiiii lt-
ron stand nark in tho dark
nows it ml watch his approach.
Tht' man makes un apparently
full If search near the rich
vi-ln. As ho in about to h':m
h i WMi rcli HkIi t reveii Is h h
Identity I toy Hammond, the
San I'Vllpc lawyer. Peebles
and l't-aeon do not reveal th'Ir
presence ami t-onelude that
1 laniiiiond koukIu Hyde's
.Hiiul f-nox. As i hp two men .
mart the return trip to San
Kellpo, I'eehle examlne.s the
newspaper he louml ujidei1 the
fd;elcon In the mine.
Chapter 2X
Tin-: Aci-; (r siaii:s
One ol the hcurilfncK 1 had no
tired In the mine again eaitffht my
eye and 1 read the paragraph he
ixath it:
ANDTHKIt IOJMP AT U'N
DY'S! WHKHK IS TH K LAW?
Ten thousand In Kotd and rush
were .stolen from Mr. Joe l.unriy'n
Hut he- hadn't and wo had still to
clap a rope around the neck of the
devil who had killed him. Well, in
a link while now. surely. . . .
I began to think of what we'd
have to any to one another. Jtry
and l.uey and I. What with Ji-rry'rt
mad flight to Torrldity, Lucy's dar
ing pursuit of him, my own experi
ences in the town, and the discov
eries Peacon and 1 had made in the
mine, w'd hti vp enough to keep our
toncrueH wagging until midnight.
.Mrs. Moffil met tne at the door.
"Where is Lucy?" I demanded,
pushing into the hounc.
: Mrs, AloiTit begun lo weep.
"1 don't know, Mr. Peebles, I
haven't heard a word of her since I
went to . circle Sunday morning.
Nor you. neither. Nor Mr, Jerry.
Ami what with (he house being
broke Into and your lovely door
ruined simply ruined and tho
police doing nothing about it "
"Not here! Not here!" I .shouted.
"Nonsense, woman! Of course they
ah' here!"
1 "Indeed they nre not!" she swept
hysterically. "And I haven't seen
I
BOY SLAYER
put the Instrument down I should
have dropped U. My legs begun to:
tremble and 1 collapsed into n j
chair. They hadn't been seen! ;
' Wherft were they? What had hap
pened ? Yesterday afternoon they
( had plenty of time! That sand
storm? Good (iod! NonsenKe! They
were safe somewhere! Hut where?
I Why hadn't they telephoned?
Mrs. Mofl'it was in the room.. She ;
begun to wpep. I
"Mr. Peebles! there's something
the matter Miss Lucy they-hav-
en't turned up " she was be
ginning.
I I stopped her -sharply. "There's
nothing wrong! The children will
be home tomorrow. What haw you J
' got for supper?"
j She must have betteven' hip for
, after a sniffle or two she dried her!
'eyes and gave me her melancholy)
; smile. 1
j "A beefsteak pie and n caramel!
' pudding."
j "Kxcellent. - Karly, pleasy," T
( went on briskly. '! haven't had u I
; suiuire meal since Sunday morn
ing." -
Hrushing horoiit of the den. I
went 10, my bedroom and began to
prepare fur my hath. Hut my .mind
ctltt n ' r. .......... i
num. ill i n ill ileum, lU'MlUI ft ml'l
possessed me. Should . 1 start out to
look. for. thorn at once? Should
I raise a general .ulnrm? Or 'should
When 1 found myself standing in
Hie bath tub witli my shoes oh I
'derided it was time 1 made up 'my
mind. I would- jdvc them 'until
noon tomorrow, If they hadn't
turned up then I'd start buck -for
'Torridity. In a hired car. -
Cleansed of the grit of Skull Vtl
ley, I got into clean linen and a
fresh suit. I was fumbling .for niyl
j billfold in the rijrht-hnml hip;
pocket of the troust'i- I -hud taken j
I off when iny blood suddenly turn-!
led cold in my veins. My billfold I
j was there right enough, but there j
was sbim thlng else lib It, the i
Sinister smoothness of which seared
my. hnnd as It It were a hot Iron
t'ltat I held Instead of a playing
card, the ace of spades. .
h hadn't bi'cn a nightmare and.
I'-nrip had lied! 1
(Copyright. 1 HHU..W. .Morrow Co.)!
Cove Exhibiting;
'; Livestock This
Year At Union
Mrs. .1. It. Price
( Observer Correspondent )
. COVK (Special) Ahum fn luvid
or stock from Cove have been tak'-u
to the stock show tit In ion litis
year. Those who are sending stock
are Ralph Comstnek. A. I.. Hecker,
J. K. Mills. Kay Duncan. K. II. Hell,
Charles Itetlass. Kay liaunt, La
Von Koker, M rs. Minnetto Scent -ner.
J. Ogilvir- and John Cidllns. A
great deal of this slock is being
itent by the bnys and girls of the
various calf clubs.
. M. V. Witty dauled three truck
Kuds of lambs to I'nion Junction
Tuesday for liecker Itrothers. These
are tho early spring lambs' which
how nre ready , for market.
Ralph Conisiock suffered a brok
en nose Tuesday when a cow which
was being unloaded at ibe stock
show grounds bumped him wiih
Her horn.
- R. II. Daniels left Saturday for
u business trip to Portland.
Among those who attended th
normal school dedication at La
Grande Wednesday wore Mrs. A, L.
Meeker, Mrs. J. K. Mills. Mr.s. K.
S. Contstock, Mrs. R. II. Daniels
and .Mrs. It. I. Marker.
Miss lda .Martin and her friend
Miss Ruth Hrown left Wednesday
morning for an extended trip
through California. They .expect
to be gone until the beginning of
the next school term. - ;
Virgil Richards mid Donald
Smith are taking the etghth grade
examination Thursday and Kriday
of this week.
Miss Mildred Cade of tt O ramie
Is a house guesi at the home of
Miss Lois Conley. She was also a
visitor at the meeting of the camp
fire girls hold Monday evening.
Tuesday afternoon was spent by
the members of Nissaki camp fire
collecting atilelcs donated by the
Ouild to Mr. and Mrs. Kmory Mili
um n who lost all their household
goods In a fire recently.
W. J. Hallmark has inUhcd
palntinA, kalsonilning and rear
ranging his grocery store,
.Mrs. M. V. Witty and daughter
l-Ili due are leaving for Port land
Saturday. Mrs. Witty Is going as
a representative of Cherry chapter
lo the grand lodge which convenes
June 11, li'. a. She w ill return
the following Krhlny.
Miss Karlhio Whistler Is spend
ing two weeks with her parents-: in
Cove. Miss Whistler is taking
training at the Dickinson hospital
In Spokane,
Jtobert Kronen, ( K. Iiwson
and R. L. 1 taker took their cattle
to the. reserve .Monday.
Shipping Lambs
To Market From
Lower Cove Area
I Where there's a will there's a
court eoiitcsl.
Hy Mrs. Xell Klglit
(Observer Correspondent)
I.OWl'R COYK (Special) Pur.
nters are shipping their early lambs ;
and receiving a fancy price for
them. j
The rain was appreciated in this!
vicinity, crops are nil looking fine.
Mrs. f iciirgp llempe and chil- J
dri n and Mrs. Stephen Troy and
fn mily of Port la ml are visiting j
their Mister Mrs. A. I. Hecker and '
fiunhy. j
Warner lleem and M Iss f.uyle ;
Tucker of lmbler spent Sunday!
. Ith Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Klb
Kiizabeth Slanger of Tillamook
is spending a few days with her
cousin, Mrs. VI, T. lloswell.
Mrs. II. Ai (iasset relurnotl from
the Wonder lick hospital Sunday
afternoon and Is Improving rupltily.
Mr. and Mrs. I "rank Rogers of
Spruce street. La ilrande.
spent the weekend with their enim-;
i: s, .Air. and Mrs. Nell Right.
Mr. and Mrs. John O'nnrtwiett of
tnion visit etl at the N. I. Ktghl '
home Sundav. ;
Mr. Pearl llite who has been at ,
the T. H. Johnson honip the past j
eifhi months left reee.'Ul..' for
Oi f.iKivlew. Wash., for a visit with
f t olutiveH. ;
Henry Miller of RaKer is vlsi
Ing at the homo of hlH nlece, Mm:
Mary Duron. 1 J '.' -
Mr. and Mrs. r. Horkgren havo
returned from ft trip to Wenatchee
Wash., where they visited their
son, I0 r nest and family. ' They also'
i visited at the home of M r. and
Mrs. Waldo Richardson. 7 "
Raul Trueliltiod, bruihet-Hf Sirs,
I Lilian Koger, left Saturday for
Roseburg to spend his vacation.
Mrs. Orphic Rurford of Hot 1-alm
Is taking care of her sister, Mis.
liowaid Oasset.
Si:COl SWItY IIOMK
ItHt KANSAS CIHOKKXK
HIAWATHA, Kas. (A I1) John
Moser. a Hiawatha farmer, pro
vldod a second story apartment for
his chickens when coyotes supple
mented the activities or thieves. . '
He arranged (tuarlcrs in the up
stairs room of an old home on his
place and when It was suggested
that the chickens might need morn,
sunlight Moser cut a hole in t!m
roof. This was fnnced with chicken
wire ami now the flick has a prom
enade when the skies are bright
ami h protected shelter when it
rains. -
Courses in "boyology" will bo
conducted this summer by tho;
Knights of Columbus at Cliff Hav
en. N. V., and Jackson's I'olnt. On
tario. . f
This tetephoto shows-Carl New-
ton Malum, (i,-VaintsvHIe (K.v.;
hoy "who, was sentenced to 15
years In a reformatory for shoot-
ing a playmate, hut later spared
when a higher court set the sen- ;
tence aside. However, the p-ose- .
cut Ion filed an appeal, so his
- fate still Is in doubt.
I
Of The Assignee Stocks From "The Wonder" Of
Portland, Oregon
"Its sliistet! smoothness sea nil in y
safe early this morning. This Is
the fourth of a series of thefts anil
hold-ups in-I.undy's Place In the "
past three months and It Is by far'
the largest amount yet taken. The j
town is in a fine state wlien it man :
cannol conduct a respectable busi- :
ness venture without being sub-
ject to outrages of this sort, and I
t he Kirc brand calls on Deputy j
Sheriff Hillings to do his duty. The '
Firebrand has It on good authority i
that Mr. Lundy hns brought an ex- j
pert from San Francisco to see ;
whut's what: nnd !k lw;jOiih'r,rd '
bis inn! to shoot to Ulll!0 'JJx-cmS; '
of Torridity look to your gold ! j
Alt'! your guns! (We know of half
a dozen good ropes itching to '
stretch tin1 hombre's neck, Joe. Ve i
i;d.) j
The Item was interesting and f
amusing and something of a side- j
light on conditions of that day, but '
nothing more, apparently, and why
it should occur tc me that lb
might be n connection between
Lumly's misfortune and Andrew's
death I couldn't for the. life of me ;
tell. Rut the notion had got Into
my headi ami there it stuck.
"Listen to this, Henry." J read
the Item lo him.
"Pity the poor devil if they found
him," he muttered grimly, "Tor-;
l idily was one wild town from
what I hear."
Of my feeling that, the Item j
might have bearing upon the mat- f
ters which occupied our minds I i
said nothing, Henry Is intolerant off
leeiings. ;
hnnd I held the two of simile."
Miss Lucy since Sunday morning.
And what with you going off and
the house bettlg broke into and
your lovely door "
Thrusting her aside, 1 rushed In
to my den and took up the tele
phone. Deacon was In his office.
"What have you done with Lucy
and Jerry?" I bawled at him.
' "They are not here, John," he
Raid in u troubled voice. "I don't
know where they are, John. They
are not here. The boy hasn't given
himself up. We haven't en
cube? of-Xlietif. "'"
I hung tip the receiver, tin empty
feeling about my heart. If I hadn't
Port of Rodosto :
Damaged by Flamed
i
I'eeblte's ghusily nightmare
with the two figures at the i
poker table was no dream. To
morrow's chapter brings him a 1
step nearor the solution of Og-
denV murder. . " . ','
TtAisi-: risir ixm .mink .
I 1IILHKRT. Wis (AT) Peter
Flemming, mink rancher. Is rals
r Ing fish now to feed bis 67 palrji
j of adult mink ami the LTtO spring
j kittens. After weaning time fish is
Ithe chief rood fo.tho fur-benrer.
. When the ranch Is stocked to capn
city. Us it will bo Boon, f0 pounds .
of fish dally will, be reuiiireii. n'hc
poifTTsr'stocne'd "vl! h ' Viit.'Tm-WifreT
and bull heads,' will u1n furnish
sportsmen nn angling spot.
LONDON, June 0 ( AIMA rent
er dispaleh from Constantinople,
Mates that enormous damage v;i;j
tuusvd by a fire which dcslcoyed u
largt. pari of the port of RndostO
on the Kuropean bank of the sea
of Mamota about eight miles, west
of Constantinople.
School Hauls Water
- l.OS A.XOKLKS (AP) Five bun
dred gallons of salt water, dlpp''
from the ocean four miles off short,
has been ha tiled to the marine bio
logical laboratories of the I'niveiv
Mity of Houthfj-n California, h-rn to
!)rfV''lf DtdUH ;i:miml condl
iVon IW (he sHlTTyoY nmWho life. m
evaporation occurs,, the tiinks. are
replenished by the same method.
At rmal lose-out t
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(Loats
rices
sssa
wny
Mr.1
Pitchfork Canyon, to which we
presently came, htlil lost none of
Us trim terror, but we managed
the ascent without disaster In
something under two hours. It was
three o'clock when we reached San
i I'elipe. Deacon dropped nie at a
downtown corner, muttering sonie-
iiiiiih iiiiuiii iiik nn- i,un, III!
s on ii nreii in ,i niuuiny inooo i-i ei'
' since we left Torridity and J had
jf of mind., Henry had been so sure
voi certain in hits, reirret u v sure.
I It Is true, but sin e, nevertheless.
?nnd our discoveries had shaken his
conclusions more than he had uil-
initted. Needless to say, his pcr
' plexity hud delighted ine and 1 had
Met hint nlonc.
Hailing a taxi, I settled into it.
? keenly anticipating the joyful n
. union belore me. J had expected
. I leacon to insist on driving me
;home and I was relieved when he
-Jtiiii i, i or i uaniPM ine Cllliuren U
-jiuyself. My loiming for a sight of
Lucy's face had become almost a
physical ache and I vould hardly
-it still on my scat. Lucy had come
t-to ni e as n little thing, but t had;
never dreamed that she would ever
til III my heart as complct'ly us she
did. One of these days I would
,loe her. The reulfwitlon twisted
:;'iny heitrl; but I knew 1 could re
concile myself to it. Jerry was a
1 ine lad, too.
;! Jf only Andrew had lived to see
the flowering of these young lives!
RELIEF FROM CURSE
f OF CONSTIPATION
f
7; A Hnttlo Creek physlclnn says:
I'i 'oiiKtipalion is responsllde for
inort! misery than tiny othir
f ause."
nut immedtatn relief has hern
found. A tablet cilled Rexall Oi
(lerlies has been discovered. Till:
tablet attracts water from the fys
Uiu into the lazy, dry fxtictiutlng
howfd rolled the colon. Th watfi ,
loosens the ti y ftind w iisif a n I
Cannes a gentle, thorough, naturHl !
movement ullhojt forming a hub
M or ever Incrrasbig the dose. j
top suffering1 from constipation
Chew u Renll Olderlje ttt night. ',
N-t day bright, (it ! r for 'Jir !
(Oday ut the m-nrest liexall Drii
Store, Ottiss Diul'h. Inc. Aijv
ISoiv more than a
have been built
With every deparlmfenl of the Frigitlaire factories run
ning at maximum capacity, with orders greater than
at nny lime in the history of the business, on Thurs
day, May 16lh, the Millionth Frigidairc was ImiU
In both the Household and Commercial
fields Frigidaire leads in sales' to customers
TIir.ltE nre definite reasons why
more l-'rigiriaircg arc in line than
ull other maU- of rlentrle rorrljxera
tors combined; why il in the ehoiee of
home owners, of builders, of apart
ment owners, of commercial refrig
eration users throughout the world.
Jleau ty, potvrr and conven ioncc.
IVigidaire lias surplus power that
meets every emergency in I he hot lest
weather, and yet operates economic
ally always.
Frigidaire cabinets are beautiful
they are finished in gleaming porce
lain enamel, or while Duco -clean
and easy to keep clean, 't he mechan
ical part is completely enclosed and
so quiet tiiat you don't bear It start,
stop, or run. Food shelves arc elevated
so that stooping U unnecessary. '
The famous "Cold Control"
And in addition to the standard tem
perature regulator which automatic
ally maintains an ideal temperature
in the food compartment, I'rigidaire
is equipped with the famous "Cold
Control that speeds the freezing of
Jesse Rosenhaum, Elect.
Nmv I'oliy IMilg.
Ornfiflo - Oregon
icecubes and make? possible dozen of
new and tlelieioos ileerli and salads.
Low Prices
rterause Frigidaire has achieved the
million mark lccaue it is the over
whelming choice of the majority
the economies of quauiMy proline
lion have made, prices so low that
every model represents a tremendous
saving to the buyer.
I u . m ft
I alVJ.-'T7i 1
Only -ESklVH
Thm IP-4 Frtgtttoir tfiitrrif trlfi
thm'4HCantrat" tf; " lX-
Mfflpbl, tUtiwd ami op rm ting
in yuur
Eastern Oregon Light &
Power Colin-
jfa-aufle. die.
The very finest Spring Coats cut to
ctqse out. regardless of real value.
values to
$15.00
Regular
Values to
$65.00
Regular
Values to
$85.00
EXTRA-THIS WEEK
With the purchase of any garment
Coal, Dress or Hat at S.9..9.I avd
abrive ice give you a
HOUSE DRESS
for
50c
Regular $2.00 and $2.50
SZ2EHTJ
Dresses
A great coll eel ion values seldom of
fered all sizes, large sizes in abundance.
Regular
Values to
$25.00
Regular
Values to
$10.00
$9.95
Hundreds of brand, new Spring and
Summer hats values to $12.00.
$2.95 & $4.95
$15 and $17 Hals at $(M and $S.r
'fif '
Mm
iff
CREDIT
Credit gladly, free
ly during the sale
as usual. Easy pay
ment plan.
CINDERELLA