PAGS FOUR
rrta CHEGON STATESMAN, Saka,. Orc-ca, Tuesday llzrvAzz, Arust 13,
7 r ' haa
Toantod 1851 - .
"No Favor Sways Vs; No Fear Shall Acs
. From First Statesman. March 28. 1 SSI
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Heroic Seventies; Timid Thirtiea .
IN the 1870's there rnnst have been "giants in" the land"
out in this far western state of Oregon. The population
of the state in 1870 was only 90,923 and the assessed valua
tion of the property was $31,793,510. .Yet in 1872 the leg
islature ander the leadership, of Gov. G rover and Senator
"Thomas McF; Eatton of Salem ArPropriated funds for erec
tion of a state capitol. Its dimensions startled, many of the
.people at that time and prediction wasrniade it .would not be
filled with offices f or jl hundred, years;-The event justified the
vision of the leaders and the legislators of 1872, and long, be
fore the century additional governmental' buildings were re
quired. By 1930 Oregon's population had increased to 953,786
and its assessed valuation to 1,125,160,592. There has been
a small decline in. valuation since 1930 but no one doubts the
total will-soon be regained and passed. Yet there are those
timid souls who refuse to plan a state capitol for the present
and the future. They can only see a biildin; in the same
spot and of about the same dimensions and otyle. They seem
unable to look ahead to the Oregon of 1950 and 1985 and
2035, which the new building should- still be serving. They
lack the foresight and the courage of their grandfathers of
the 1870's.
By. the same token there is a mental palsy over the
courthouse remodelling. The building is admittedly a fire
trap and irreplaceable public records are subject to the
hazard of fire every day and night The court house was
built in the "heroic seventies" when Marion county had a
population of 9,965 and an assessed valuation of $3,175,000.
Yet the. people of that day went ahead with building the
court house at a cost of nearly $100,000. The building served
well for the past, sixty years, but its vault space is outgrown
and its offices are crowded.; Now Marion county has a
population, by the 1930 census of 60,541 and an assessed val
uation of $48,993,736 for thatyear. If the fewer than
10,000 people cfculd afford $100,000 to erect the courthouse,
surely the 60,000 people of today can afford to spend $96,
000 to supplement federal funds to provide the county with
a more commodious and fire-safe structure.
The Methodists of the thirties are as bold as their
fathers and grandfathers of 1870. In that decade the present
First Methodist church was built and its spire has long been
a landmark. The church of .this generation, preserving its
ancient meeting-place, has gone ahead this year to erect an
addition at a cost of about $35,000. They set a good example
to the timid souls of today.
The Statesman is Scotch conservative when it comes
to spending money; but good judgment and wise thrift dic
tate times to loosen purse strings: For the state that time
is now, when we of this generation have the opportunity to
lay out a capitol plan to serve well the "people of the present
and the future. For the county that time is now when-the
capitol fire has given warning of the hazard to public docu
ments in the present courthouse. .
. Human Lives or Freight?
A RE highways built for the use of passenger cars where
J. people may travel in reasonable security in their own
cars; or are they rights-of-way for freight hauling? The
death of Mrs. Frederick J. Christensen of San Francisco
and injury of four others near Shedd last week forces the
question again into the public mind. This is but one of a
series of accidents in which cars have been forced into the
ditch when meeting or passing huge freight vans, with
death or injury afflicting the occupants of the lighter ve
hicles. No matter how much is done toward widening or
straightening or strengthening, highways the trucks come
along and stretch their proportions to absorb the extra mar
fjins of safety the builders have created. The trucks are a
grave menace to the public safety in their present sizes. They
now are allowed to operate with a combined weight of 56,000
lbs., or 28 tons. This means they must be built like boxcars,
-and they are.
Why should we build these roadways for truck oper
ators with tile consequent endangering of the lives of every
traveler in ajassenger car?" The country' has an investment
. in railroads which ought to be used . to haul the heavy car
goes, withholding them from the common:, highway. The
trouble with truck legislation is that it is written by the in
terests to be benefitted. It represents the compromise of
the various classes of carriers. The-public interest is ig
nored, .save for the revenue feature. For a consideration
the state licenses trucks to roam the -roads which simply
means the smaller cars must time and again take to the
brushvthe ditch, the bank, the loose gravei and their occu
pants to the hospital or the morgue. The public can main
tain no lobby to protect its interest; but tlie truckers can;
nd the legislators are so bu3y compromising: the demands
of tthe truckers they give no consideration 'to the safety
of the passenger vehicles.
- We talk much aboot safety on the iighways and then
fail to hold down the sizes of the freight Caniers to reason
able proportions. The result is a constant toll of injury,
end death. - .
MultnomaHV Relief Load
pTULTNOMAH county is getting criticised hy other coun
JJfJL ties of the state because of its absorption of so much
of the state's fund for nnempbyraent relief. Multnomah's
budget of $140,000 for the purpose was, exhausted before
the half-year passed andiiad to be sirpplemented with $115,
000 from the tate fund, before any other county in the
state had received any of this fund. - So other, counties de
nounce the grab by the big county, andromplain because the
tax levying body put so low- an item in that eountys budget.
It is easy to criticise Portland and Multnomah county ;
but the remainder of the state needs to be somewhat sym
pathetic with their problem. Portland is the only city of met
ropolitan proportions in the state. The most of the industries
center there, and it is in industry where the greatest unem
ployment exists.': In addition
logging camps, in mills and other factories in the interior
easily drift to the big city in hopes of landing a new job
or because of natural human instinct of ftregariousness De
cent provision should be made for these cases, many of whom
are not genuinely Multnomah county's. ' And the state should
be ready to give some cooperation. '
.Whether $140,000 was enough for Multnomah commis
sioners to budget we shall not say. vThat county should not
shirk its load; but at the rate downtown buildings are com
ing, down to avoid the taxes it would appear that the real
estate"burden is as heavy as it
of the state must be willing to let the relief fund be used
where the need is greatest ; . and naturally this will be in
the larger industrial centers like Portland. Counties which
are able to carry their own burdens should rejoice that con
, ditions are so secure within their borders.
' - Politics and the Tax Bill -
FTlIIE president stirred up a political hornet's nest , when
JL he sent in his tax message. The senate liberals grabbed
the flag and started marching at the head of the procession.
This forced the president to
those thrown out of jobs irr
should be there. The remainder
come out for tax revision this
Editorial
Commsnfc
From Other Papers
THANKS FOn HIE "GREAT"
Several weeks ago when It was
announced ' that - ex - chancellor
Kerr would J be paid t CO 00 per
year ; as retirement salary,' we
wanted to say something, bat
hesitated. . The - following day a
metropolitan x journal commended
the board of higher education for
their ability - and business like
methods in fixing things ao the
ex-educator could hare his crack
ers and cheese regularly. So it
seemed that everybody was going
to be satisfied and anyhow a
sniper out in' the Jungles who
gets his rations Irregularly
knocker for finding fault with so
great, a' man and so . great - .
board. - -is' -- !-.. ;.-. .'
But ao. great a journal as. the
Oregon. Statesman, sounds a note
of. discontent, that In an educa
tional ' system, where., the , rank
and file- of instructors are notor
iously underpaid, a-, man Is retir
ed en so handsome an allowance.
Dr. Kerr has been receiving,: a
salary of $12,000, aa. amount out
ot which, it would seem that the
average, frugal chancellor could
save a little for a. rainy, day. It
may be- remembered that tha vice
president, of the United States
gets no more than that for being
chancellor of the most unwieldy
body in the world.
To the arerage person, ft looks
like too large a retirement sal
ary In a day and at a time when
funds are none too plentiful. As
the Statesman says, without , dis
paraging the services of Dr.
Kerr, many other able men hare
given long and faithful service
to the state and have not been so
rewarded. How about Dr. Hall,
former president of the Univer
sity? Sheridan Sun.
AN OUTSIDER VIEWS
OUR COURTHOUSE
Marion county citizens are' In
favor of the state spending per
haps a million dollars for addi
tional ground on which to spend
several more millions tor a state
capitol, but, the planning commis
sion of Marion county voted 2 to
1 against remodeling Marion
county's courthouse , which Is
probably the most disgraceful in
stitution of Its kind In the state.
The difference is that the state
will have to pay for the new
ground and the new statehouse
but Marion county Itself will
have to pay for remodeling the
courthouse, built 70 years ago
when Marion county had. a quar
ter of the population and a tenth
of the business it has 'today. This
colm has no opinion as to wheth
er the state needs more ground
for a capitol building or not.
That, it seems to us. Is a. matter
for experts, but there can be no
doubt in the mind of anyone who
has had business in the Marlon
county courthouse' but that the
county needs a "new courthouse,
We doubt if the old one could
be remodeled to anything better
than a Chic Sale, annex. Corral-
lis Gazette-Times.
a minis'
IIET 2 IIS FIT
MIDDLE GROVE, Aug. 12.
Threshing of grain, in this lo
cality is getting well under way
and yields vary widely, fall wheat
and oats running from 25' to SO
and 30 to 85 bushels per acre.
respectively. The first two loads
of oats threshed on the W.' H.
Scharf place produced 100 bush
els. Spring grain is Ilgnter out
of -good quality. -William
Smetana had 475
youngberry plants from which he :
picked two tons or mm. Mster
Van Cleave has an especially
promising crop of English seal-
nuts which are tree from blight.
Anples, pears and prune are
plentiful. . . .
Qaile a spectacle for the-local
inhabitants was a straw fire on
ther TnUr .proDerty Thursday
night, when they burned a straw
stack: and "the surrounding atab-
bls. Btnbtle fires are not com
mon .here, except by -accident.
Tred Scharf baa hi, at raw baler
in operatioa. and. employs about
IS- men on both thresher and
baler. - , - .-i'-.'':;
HEAR FORMER RESIDENT
SILVKRTON, Aug. 12 Friends
of rManrtce Winter are taking in
terest in toning in on KOIN at
10:45 for an evening program
from Reno when they hear toe-
special work Of "Winter In the Merl
Carlson orchestra. Maurice is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Winter
of South Water street. He was a
favorite In school and dance or
chestras in the Sllverton commun
ity for several years.
session, and brought several embarrassing, misunderstand
ings with senate leaders of bis party. - When the house
committee prepared the bill it found the president's ideas
of soaking the rich would yield but a pittance of revenue, so
they departed from his ideas enough.to soak the moderately
rich, though : with .political wisdom: they.refused to reach
down to touch the pockets of the voting masses.
When thV::biU ;'.reached.;..the .senatvLaFollette forced
through an amendment in the committee to lower exemptions
and increase the taxes all down the line, clear down to the
famous "little fellow". This was loaded with such political
dynamite what with campaign year coming on, that the
committee reversed itself Monday and went back to the
house version. '
The. fact is that unless the .little fellow is hung up by
his heels and his pockets turned inside out, along with the
bi fellow, the administration cant begin to, balance its bud
gets So it either must go on with a distorted budget or it
must cut its expenses drastically or it must pile heavy taxes
on rich and poor. Smart politics -will. tryto makethe
present tax bin a gesture of rich-soaking, leaving the-painful
burdens to be laid on by the next administration. The
voters in Eh ode Island saw what was coming,- however, and
voted against the new deal proposals. ;
its ror b
Br R. J. HENDMCK3
Doxen 40-'50 aU white
Marion natives on list:
The ears of Peopeomoxmozf
-
Nin all white natives ot Mar
lon county born In the 40s and
60s were listed in this column,
as shown br the issues of June 5
and 27 and Aug. 8.- - :
The death of Mary J. Smith had
set It back to eight, but the name
of .Mrs. H. C. . Von -Behren; M5
South ISth street, Salem, who was
bora Mary J, Porter on January
20. 1857, restored tha break.
Additions were again called for
and the printers' ink on the pa
per waa hardly dry until there
was a response umng tne num
ber to aa evea dozen.
Richard Patterson waa born
March 9, 1857 In Marion county
on the AbiQua river a Qvarter of
a mile south ot the Miller eeme-4
tery. That cemetery,, was -named
for "Dickey" 1 Richard) Miner,
prominent pioneermember. of the
legislature, etc, etc.
Mr. Patterson now lives- 12
mUes north, of Salem, and t w o
miles, north ot (new) Waxonda.
His farm la on the Salem-St. -Paril
paved' highwey, hla address la Ger!
vala, Rt, 1, and lie U a: veteran:
subscriber of The Statesman. .
Mr. Patterson, left' his Ablnua
farm 81 years ago this fall on:
account of the Cleveland' depresV
slon, farmed on Trench prairie for
a while, then on the Judge W. C.
Hubbard place, before going to
his present farm. ,
Sis father was John Patterson,
who came in the covered wagon
immigration of 1845, in a compa
ny of which "Mich" WiUock and
Alfred Markham were prominent
members. His mother was Sarah
Ann Pickering-Stout-her father
Dickey" Stout of the Ablo.ua, re
lated to the Stouts ot the Mehama
section.
t
Mr. Patterson's name raised the
native whites of Marion born and
still living In the- county to 10:
but he brought the names of two
more of his boyhood companions
who belong in the same class
and thus the class has now an
even dozen. The two are:
S S
First,- Flora Hobart, daughter
of Jacky Graves, who is a week
older than Mr. Patterson. She
lives at Jack's bridge, Butte
creek, about five miles from Sll
verton. Second, Newt. Shepherd, son of
Andrew Shepherd, born In 1858.
He lives on Crooked Finger prair
ie, 10 miles back of Sllverton,
where he has a farm that he has
deeded to Marion county, with a
consideration of receiving $15 a
month while he Uvea. Newt. Shep
herd Is a recluse.
His father was the man who
was supposed to have cut off the
ears of the great Chief Peopeo
moxmox or Yellow Serpent of the
Walla Wallas. That is a story
which wUl be further mentioned
later along.
Now, with Mrs. Von Behren and.
the three above mentioned, the
following eight make up the round
dozen native whites of Marion
born in the 40-'50s, and still Uv
Ingr Malinda Wade, Feb. 14, 1848.
Her home is at 852 North Liberty,
Salem.
Marion Taylor, Mehama, March
4, 1848.
Ben. B. Gesner, Salem, March
is, irso.
- Lemuel Hobson, Salem,. May 13,
1850.
Henry Porter,. AamsvUle, Nov.
24, 1850.
. Samuel F. Parker, Woodburn,
May 8, 1852.
Twenty Years A30
August 13, 1015
Oregon has 6110 more automo
biles this year than last, a total'
of 21,880 licenses having been is
sued since the first of the year.
There will be no more Sunday
funerals In Salem excepting In
contagious cases, according to an
agreement, among, undertakers,
sextons, ministers and" liverymen
of the city.
" - A party of 3 Australian . boys.
In their teens and early twentya,
have taken Salem by storm. They
gave a band concert, and awtm
miac exhibition yesterday and
wIU appear at the Grand' theatre
toirtglrt, '
7 August 15, 1925
Two guards and a convict were
kUled la a break at the state peni
tentiary last -SiSht and three pri
soners escaped. ;
A new city ordinance for head
on parking goes Into effect next
week. ' -
S A slight earthquake shock was
felt throughout Montana yesterday.
Mrs. Ruth Sayre, Salem; Not.
18, 1852.
ValledaW. Ohmart, Salem, Jan.
22, 1855. -
Who come next? . If you know
another one, please let the Bus
man know.
: ; -
"..Now for further Information
concerning the cutting - off -of.
Chief ; Peopeomoxmox's ears i by
Andrew Shepard. , .
A great deal has been written,
from time to time, since Decem
ber, 1855, when members of the
Marion county company under
Captain Charles Bennett of Salem
were accused of mutilating the
body of . Peopeomoxmox after his
death at their hands. .There was
no denial of the fact that bis body
waa mutilated -the body partly
skinned and -the skin tanned and
purses made of It, etc, etc
; '. . v
Horrible! von will say, and
many have said.
Bat let It be known, first, that,
on account of the treachery of that
wily old chief, their beloved cap
tain, Charles Bennett, had Just
been killed. .
; And Asdvew Shepherd was the
second lieutenant of Captain Ben
nett. It was Company F, 1st Reg
iment; Oregon Ifoanted Volun
teers, all from Salem and the see-'
tion surrounding the capital City..
A. M. Fellows was first lieuten
ant, and took the place of com
mand when Captain Bennett fell.
He (Fellows) waa one of the four
organizers of the First Congrega
tional church of Salem,, July 4,
1852 the second church here. ;
In order to get a little better
setting, let's turn to "Indian Wara
of Oregon, the book by Frances
Fuller Victor, beginning with page
444, and, remembering that Fran
ces F. Victor was a woman, read:
V A
' Their purpose (meaning- the
purpose of the Indians) was -to
leave no foes behind them; their
policy was the poUcy ot exterm
ination; their FLAGS were the
SCALPS of our people, murdered
in cold blood whose, gray locks
floated, from poles raised on ev
ery prominent point on the hills
to our left with a squad of those
bloody fiends dancing the war
dance around them. "
Note the double quotation. She
was quoting the written words of
G. W. Miller, Oregon trooper. In
the thick of the battle, who kep.
a diary. The balance of the en
try in his diary, describing that
particular battle, will have to go
over.
(Continued tomorrow.)
Whether or not W C. Hawley,
ex-congressman, will be in the
race at the primaries for a return'
to Washington from this district.
was still a question last night as
Hawley entrained, from Salem tor
Denver, Colo.
- "It's too hot to decide,, waa
Hawley's Comment when pressed
for a statement on whether be
will seek his termer congression
al post next spring.
Hawley goes to Denver to at
tend the quarterly meeting of the
board of head managers ot the
Woodmen of the World, of which
board he has been a member since
1898.' From Denver he- goes to
Pittsburgh to attend the national
fraternal congress, being a mem
ber of Its committee on munici
pal securities.
At Pittsburgh bis daughter
iras will take him to her home
near Providence, R. I. He will
also visit -with his son Kenneth
at Baltimore later. He goes then
to the extreme southern part ot
Texas in connection with invest
ments made by the Woodmen.
He anticipates being absent from
Salem some five weeks.
Car Upset Sends
Frankie ' Dunigan
ta Hospital Care
SmVKRTON, Ani. 12 A nine
pound, 14 ounce an waa born to
Mr. .and Mrs. &. aceglnad at the
Sllverton hospital Saturday "tgt
Miss Mable. Digerneas, who un
derwent au appendectomy recent
ly at the Sllverton hospital, 4s re
ported, aa progressingunieely.
Mrs. F r a n fcl -Dunigan war
brought to the Sllverton hospital
Sunday for treatment for a bro
ken right arm and bad laceration
aa a- result of the ear In which
she was riding overturning at the
S". corvo over the Southern Pa
cific crossing sear the Tokstad
station west of Silverman, x
.
Junior Kobow Hurt
When Log Rolls Over
Him While Working
SILVERTON. Aug. 12-Junior
Kobow, 14, was thought to be
eriously Injured Saturday at Mo
lalla when a log rolled over him
as be was assisting his nncle fn
clearing a piece of ground. The.
boy . was rushed to the Oregon
City hospital and the extent ot
his injuries was not learned here.
; Kobow is spending the summer
with an nncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Clifford McMorrls of Molal
la. His mother . is completing a
teacher's coarse .at - Monmouth
NormaL He la a nephew ot Mrs.
Pearl Darts, formerly ot Silver
ton. -'
Inga Molstad Dies
in South; Service
Slated August 21
" SILVERTON. Aug. 12. Faaer
al. oerrices tor Miss Inga MoTk
atad who died, at las Angeles
"Then AltFU
THE SNOW LEOPARD"
CHAPTER XXDC
Abbe Bergere left the room
and presently reappeared with a jug
and three glasses. These he set
upon a table. "You've dropped
down from the sky on the tenth
anniversary of my exile here,' be
explained amiably. , Thia liquor is
my own makean ancient preroga
tive of monks. I distffled it from
berries and seeds gathered In the
small oasis below na."
The Abbe filled the glasses.
Bannister and Toole lifted theirs
and gazed through the golden, trans
parent liquid. Dick offered a toast
for the occasion -the Abbe's anni
versary -and the three drank.
A apaskling smile fUnmisated
the Abbe's face aa he watched the
reaction of his guests. Bannister's
eyes rolled npward while Toole's
tongue sought the hmer recesses of
bis mouth to retrieve a lingering
drop.
Abbs Bergere hastily refilled the
-ylatniie. Xagea Sire was the inspira
tion for the next libation,
"From tm time I was twenty-,
five." the Abbe rambled on, "I haw
-been a member of a monastic order
pledged to human service and tho
spread of Christian teachings. My
physical peculiarities. asTwi might
teoagme wei sKessBpa&ied by cei
tain inhibitions. NomaaRkea to be
regarded as freak. -Sedmuoa is
thw obvious refuge from ridicule.
So I asinmed tasks that kept -me
oat ef the sight of men. That m
iwsr -1 met Maurice Sire twelve
Tears ago."
: Toele and Bannister listened,
eagerly as the Abbe continued
Sir bad beard of me through
the curator of the British Museum,
for Whom Ibad done some work de
ciphering aneient scripts. He-came
te our saenasterx' in-the aecrth f
rmwy wttfc -jMrlnwOTt. that -bad
ten in Ida family 4or bnsdreda of
years. -laHhe mass we writings
jadleatiBg that aa affost bad btu
saade to.give eoatinuity te a legal
claim upon the great valley that
lies below this mountain." .
Bannister thrust in a word. That
was the great ef land made "by
Chenfhia Khan te his loyal white
paladins, iwutft UTt
. Exactly. And this brant bad
tftieequtuUy been' awprwed try
KUMa suraawmt a number of TO
auLuatia. At mach later data
It had beromttfaed at Yeldnr wbwo
-the oU Taitaraegiaeofsasetfvat i
ease lor SireT "lUmlster ettawt
The aJbe1atifbed. Taat was&t
what ba wanted;- JU ihat timee
didat ear about gbe-JBiro Depree
aion. It was, and stUl is, a parched
atrip of deep lowland about one bun
nraamilea ioivoatd forty wida. Just
how any considerable number of
white men managed te live there be
eouldnl understand.' ;
Wkat did be want then! Toole
interjected.
Well, tbe documents told about
a continued warfare "between the
wUte -settlers la tho valiey-and the
upland Tartars. . The yellow men
finally drove the whites out but
after a few years the invaders
couldnt find grarhig for a goat. It
seems that the white bad changed
" the course of the mountain stream
' ao thaVlt raa anderground ad dis
appeared in the bowels of the eartSi.
- Without -water the -valley became
sterile. -But even that significant
fact didn't interest Sire at the time."
"Where did bis interest Uer
Bannister asked.
The Abbe laughed silently. -
"Sire had become obsessed with
the notion that bia own ancestors
were not the original White settlers
who bad won the land by their ser
vices for Genghis Khan. He had an
idea that his stock was that of the
conquering Tartars and that, there
fore, be waa not a pure-white man;
And he's not sure of it yet"
' "Tubr ejaculated Toele, "I
thought ao, bat what of itr
Bannister did not take the state
meat ao -lightly. "At that -time.
' twelra yeareago.eJd Dick alowly,
"Kazan , Sire waa eight
old.
Friday night wfll be held at Trin
ity ! church Wednesday; at 2
o'clock in the afternoon," with
Rev. Ernest Larson' of Calvary
ehurcV officiating and Larson
Son 'la -charge. Committal aerr-
Need Will Be a Cup
Her father probably waa thinking of
her. He wanted to be In a position to
give her a clean bin in case any
question arose affecting her ances
try. These things still count a great
deal in the United States where
Quadroons and octaroons sometimes
marry into white families by keep
ing their real origin secret."
'You've bit upon it," admitted
Abbe Bergere.
"Do you, personally, know Geof
frey Whipple? Bannister inquired.
"I do and B rends. X waa in
Alexandria my single extended
absence from this place trying to
dear up some mystifying details of
these old parchments when I met
them. Fine people, I thought at the
time. .But l have learned since that
they are adventurers of the most
dangerous type. -They made every
effort to gain possession of the docu
ments on the pretense ef helping me
and would have succeeded but for
on fact I "had only one of the
parchments with me. They managed
to get that.
The talk drifted to more general
channels.
"What's the idea of staying up
hero t this elevation It must be
eight or ten thousand" feet above
seaJeveL iantit:" Bannister naked.
. I gwdowa at iatervala and work
the catch." amid too Abbe, "out the
ratified air is ncatasaiy to my life.
I waa an invalid when I came here.
Look at my chest now!"
The dwarfs torso indeed was
magnilloeDt.
"Xcneaa a.man'a eot to breathe
deeper up Iters to make up for lack
of density fa the air. Tbis place
weald inake a great white plague
camp: in fact 1 ve interested
Sire
in such a project. He promised to
turn air nana to it alter ae popu
lates tba valley- and establishes s
transportation system."'
"How does be expect to reclaim
the valleyr
"By theasae atsple method Chat
wfTJ enable you t enjoy a answer
bath In a few mintstea," the Abbe-an
swered. ."Of course, ball work on
a larger-anus. Tbara why a thoa.
aaad.labxer are on their way to
the-vaUev. it is even nossibla that
Sir -may find the lott river that
ones Jeept this laaa lertue tea
river weigh those ancient whites
diverted underground to thwart
their Taster eanoaeracsv"
"HMlMldewginera aere study
mg tina proleet?-
Bo ha bat they didat com to
nry-piaoe Hen who call thtmselves
ebmikta, bonbrra and, travelkrs
baea.bissi snaejplfgareund tbaeal
ley at-jatervalalortba lart three or
four jears. Tba posiiWHtieaof tba
place are known to more than one
group. It may be that Whipple baa
actually discovered a war to bring
the water -hack to its original bed.
Or it may be that bo has discovered
vahmble mmerala."
-Or both," eonjettmed Bannister.
Or bath," ther Abbe agreed.
"Now then, I want you genUemea
to get under a shower. It is ice cold,
I warn you. . It comes from- the
BMBntalnlopa in Kttletridtlea. Pve
diverted some of them to this but..
When you Had what becomes of the
rest, 'the secret of the lost river
will be yours."
While Tool was taking bis
shower, Uannisier told the Abbe ef
his promise to shoot a snow leopard
for Karen.
"Quite romantic" the. Abbe com
mented, "and practical, too. A pair
of the brutea bare been making
uvo miserable- for me. .Only last
week the male made a raid aa the
yak abed and killed one of my finest
animals; You aWuld has seen that
leopard, Mr. .Bannister t He was
big aa a tiger, only more ghost-like.
It. would take a hardier soul than
mine to follow aim in the dark. The
natives of this territory hold him in
superstitious reverence. By tradi
tion he may be killed only by royal
mandate.
Tm here with such a mandate,1
Bannister laughed. "It's long way
from Park Avenue, -New Yorkv to
tha elopes of the Himalayas, but a
shot, at this ghostly brute will more
Ices will bey at the Sllverton
cemetery. " ' ' ,
t Surviving 4are two brothera,
John and Ed Molatad of Edmon
ton, , jCanada; - two aiaters, ; Mrs.
Theoline McDonald of Ontario,
o' Coffee!"
By
Chris Hawthorne
than repay me for the trip!"
Tools thrust his head from under
the shower and shouted: "And
Whipple is coming heretoo. I lost
my 'arm' in Centre Street and I'm
going to' find it here."
. Abbe Bergere smiled at these'
vanities. Perhaps he was thinking
of his own higher mission, and of
the lonely man who came out cf
the desert to herald the Kinc of
Kings. ,
-- ,- e
Toole and Bannister spent the
next - day threading; the natural
paths, madV by stone -slides, that
connected the plateau upon which
the hut stood with those of the lower
elevation. Bleakness and desola
tion were everywhere scanty fibre
grass, starred tamerisks and an oc
casional tharnwood bush. The land
scape, would make an excellent
camouflage for an animal marked
in the half tones ef a snow leopard
but they found no trace of one.
Although Bully ran red far, be ai
rways came- back baffled and irri-
tsJUeThe leopard was a creature of
the night. -
The Abbe busied himself gather
ing hampers of berries and seeds
far below-them. At night be brewed
mash for the still to make fuel for
the plane metarKarea'a cat, they
were oatlling It now. They watched
for hours as his gnome-lika figure
flitted about the fire, hia aspect so
little a thing of earth that they felt
themselves transported to another
world.
In this war. days aoed bv with
Bannlster'a agony of suspense over
the fate of Karen Sire growinr
hourly. Three nights be had spent
I in
lonely ravines with Bully, vainly
seeking some trace of a snow leop
ard. It had been his hope that
Karen, would -arriv. safely with
Whipple as Abbe Bergere bad pre
darted, that he would hare the plea
sura of seeing Toole "put the bas
ket" over Whipple while be, him
self, triumphantly displayed a
leopard pelt to Karen. Breads, to
bis mind, bad already become a
vanished -factor fat the whole eoua
tion of mystery, murder, and high -plana
of -empire.
It waa dose to mkhdrt an the
tenth. Say amee their arrival that
-Bannister felt aa acuta fcxtoition
that something was stirring. It was
fine it Ttimn mjirii iimsieiss llisl
color tobuater and tfahsrmem eatd
are- accented as busmea." He
acted upan.it. :.
, Tooie and the Abbe wera asleep
but BuHy was alert the moment bis
toaster's , feet touched tba fieor.
Saaslster anngeuy r lowered kds
heavy boots and his clothes through
the opened window and motioned
the alredale outside, f carta that a
whlamer misht-disturb the ethers.
fSelecsing ads f averitowaa rem the
rack, he tipped the sight with lumi
nous pain V a trick to iasnre snore
accurate fire in the darkness. Steo-
ptof outside, he gathered up bis
outfit and withdrew from the but
to eesa. Bully knew bis own part
and kept ailent. -
I The moon waa at full round and
radiant as a night sun in its cool ef-
fulgenca. About three hundred
yards from the hut a tall shelf of
rock flared outward from the face
of Tie plateau, It had otcmied to
Bannister that this treat wall di
verted strands from the ravines in
the mountain-aide below- He bad
made up his mind to keep vigil there
nightly until he heard the cry of a
wild beast.
.For an hour be sat in silence, bis
back to the cliff and hia eyes roam
ing over the- ghostly landscape.
With ears at the alert angle and
muztle turned upward. Bully
ranged the precipice, pausing oc
casion ally and making a silhouette
as motionless as that of a stone dog.
From one ef these ailent tableaux
Bannister at length beard a low
growl. Then another, mora intense,
more Insistent.
Bully ran to him la a tremor ef
eagerness.
:! To Bo Continued)
Mtfrlfcoto rJm Pit t Sfifcn, Sm.
Canada, and Miss Kellle Molstad
of Los Angeles. ;The Molstadr
are former SilTerton resldenti
and the mother of the brothers
and sisters is buried la the SU
verton cemetery i