The Gold Hill News. Gold Hill, Oregon
Thursday, August 1M94O^
G eneral
S.
T r a n sfo r m a tio n o f
G ra m ’s OW B u ffet
JOHNSON
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
OU havs heard quite a good
deal in these articles about
Grandmother, who la just "G ram ”
to her fam ily. Also about her
favorite grandson, BUI, and his up-
and-coming bride, Marty — the
mm« for whom Grain made the
stunning rag rug in Sewing Book
3. Then there ia Bill's kid sister,
Betsy, who streamlined the old
iron bed illustrated in Book 3. You
HUGH
By FRANK H. SPEARMAN
SYNOPSIS
© Freni H. Speermea
WNU Servie«
Y
in their California living rooms. Or
Bowie was nettled. “ Far from it. ing their horses, walked them up
perhaps the aversion was bom of He needed an ambassador, as you the hill toward the Texans. From
sad experience with Yankee-dyed call it, who could cut through half a the appearance and apparel of the
Washington, D. C.
fabrics, their colors too perishable dozen Indian tribes athirst for am two, Bowie Judged them to be mas
ESTIMATE
OF
WALLACE
for the honest sunshine of the Pacific bassadors’ scalps; who could negoti ter and servant, the servant riding
As was painfully evident at the
slope.
ate a thousand miles of hell’s des somewhat behind.
convention, a lot of people actively
When Larkin entered the room erts and climb half a dozen Sierra
"Buenas noches, amigos." said dislike Henry “ w illa c e and
lot
Bowie introduced himself and his ranges and swim forty or fifty riv the leading horseman in salute, more dislike the way he was
companions. “ Mr. Larkin, you know ers with a mule, just for exercise; Bowie held up his hand deprecating- rammed down the throat of the
General Sam Houston?” suggested who could get fat on lizards, frogs, ly-
l io ». M t a a o a ,
Democratic party by the President.
DO O A C A A V IN 6
the Texan.
bugs and leather belts, and drink
"No habla espanot,” he ex
A
NO H A N D L It
On , - the
point—not
“ By reputation, yes. Do you come blue sky for water.”
claimed. rising and realizing at once w X
7 first ’’"""s
, " ‘ v liking Mr.
W l f t t R lM O V IO
7 F*
T**?!
from him?”
Dr. Doane listened without betray that he had a gentleman to deal
•
to make that choice and Henry Isn't
Z l C R I W H O L IS
"1 come from him. Mr. Larkin, ing all he felt at Bowie's impatient
F i m o W IY H
we’ve broken away f/om the greas outburst.
P U T T Y -P L A IN
MNOBS ANO
“ You've seen service," blurted
ers down our way. We’re flying our
A B A S I OP 1 X 4 '
own flag in Texas. I'm here Just to out Doane one day. He was exam
L U M U R A O O tD -
c w t s r P A IN TIO
learn what I can and report back to ining some scars on his patient’s
s . k j - * . .
privilege, you get really close to Mr.
S L U t TO M ATC H
torso.
“
For
a
boy
of
nineteen
the man that sent me.”
, . 5 “ estl.Vnc<^ ,^5,, horsernan Wallace, you w ill discover a very
~ ICU1iFAIW0
Then Yanquis?
fine specimen of what John L. Lewis
Larkin studied his visitor closely. you’ve been busy. Where did you BSata.
"What are your credentials. Mr. do your fighting, son?”
Again Bowie comprehended but oratorically calls the “ genus homo.”
J d F w - ilr i
"Well, we’ve had several little denied more vigorously
Bowie?” he asked.
He „ , im , hom.8t, 8tudiouH and
CHAPTER V—Continued
“ All in my head. I was directed brushes with the greasers. You've
kindly. There is no side or pretense
to speak to you and make no move heard of our troubles along the Rio
i.hOU82>. ’ i.'U P°2,e
. ln hia make-up. He has a good mind,
“ And a brief word to the mision without your sanction. Had I brought Grande. Santa Ana kept us on the
Still shaking his head, Bowie tried if not a brilliant one. He is incapa- all know “ Mom,” too. Stic has be
eros on the way, so that if you are any writing with me and been caught run a while. But for every Texan to explain. Sorry, but 1 can’t speak ble of the clever little schemes that come almost famous because of
sick you shall be cared for. I f you by the greasers it would have gone he slaughtered at the Alamo, and
.T2 , a
have so characterized and discredit- her curtains and slip-covers and
are hungry you shall be fed, and for hard. By pulling together, Mr. for every Texan murdered at Goli
..2
°
Am*
ricanosI
ed
many acts of the Fourth New “ The Rug That Grew Up With the
your repose you shall have a place Larkin, Texans and Californians ad, we've taken toll. I followed Sam
Texans!’ exclaimed Bowie with Deal.
F am ily.”
And there ia “ Dad”
to sleep,’’ continued the padre.
can establish an empire that w ill
emphasis. “ Not Yankees
who
is
handy
with hammer, saw
I disagree with utmost every an
Bowie felt overcome. “ It is too reach from the Gulf of Mexico to the
“ Ah, I understand!"
and screw driver.
gle
of
his
philosophy
and
progrum
much,” was all he could urge.
Gulf of California. That's what some
"You speak English?”
Well, recently the fam ily have
"A little, senor. I have heard of and I doubt if he has the qualities •'ganged-up” on Gram about her
“ Far from enough for what you of our people have got in their
of
leadership
appropriate
to
a
great
your Texans. Brave fellows even
fancy out-of-date buffet.
They
have done. Since you have done it heads. That’s the reason I'm in
though they do not get on with their crisis, but I would trust his sincerity think she deserves and can afford
for these, His little ones, my son, California.”
of
purpose
as
far
as
that
of
any
Mexican brothers.”
He waited for Larkin’s response.
you have done it for Him. What
something new. Gram decided to
man I know in government.
religion have you?”
Again Bowie dissented vigorous
The latter hesitated some mo
get rid of the buffet, then Marty
The spectacle of a President so said that she wanted it I Thia sketch
ly. "N ot brothers, senor!"
“ Padre, I started right. But how ments. When he spoke his attitude
The don was not to be ruffled. openly forcing his own choice for I shows you one of the things she
could I have any left after living all was not unfriendly but plainly it
"Neighbors, then, if you like.” he vice president on his party, espe-1 and B ill did with it. Watch next
my life on the frontier, far from all was not enthusiastic.
cially in such dangerous times as week for what became of the m ir
suggested good-naturedly.
“ Things are very different with
religion? As a boy I slept on the
these, is highly distasteful, but the
us
here
in
California
from
what
“ Neighbors, senor. But for Tex- j effect if not the particular methods ror and legs.
plains and fought Indians and rode
NOTE: That ia white rick-rack
they were in Texas when you start
ans, bad neighbors.”
with cattle . . . ”
here used, seems to have become that trim s the blue chambray cur
The visitor shrugged his shoul-;
He did not finish—he felt he might ed your fight. Most of our white
men are not greasers, as you call
tains and slip-cover. The chair
say too much.
ders. “ Have it as you w ill, amigo.
is the one made over from an old
A Mexican, of course, might tell j
“ You leave me most grateful. them. They are of Spanish blood,
rocker described in the new Book
another story. But you are, besides
Padre,” he added, “ yet with but just as white as you and I. These
big land grants near here—anyway,
S. To get your copy send order to:
Texans, travelers and evidently pre
one sore need.”
in several cases that I know of—
paring to spend the night al fresco. I
“ What is that?”
come direct from the king of Spain.
This gives me some concern be-■
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
"Powder and ball, Padre. We When you talk about changing the
cause it is certain to rain before !
l l n w i l 1«
need some protection from savages flag you’ve got to deal with Califor-
morning, and rain w ill find you much
B edford H ills
New Y ork
and wild animals.”
nianos of that kind of blood—and let
exposed. And when it rains here it
Enclose 10 cents for Hook 0.
“ You shall have both. But you me tell you, they hate the Yankees
is likely to rain—what do they say
Nsmo ........... ......................... ........... .
w ill take no human life except in like poison. They are the kindest-
in Texas?—pitchforks.”
Address ............... ..................................
defense of your own—do you prom hearted, most generous people in the
While the Californian spoke he sat
ise me that?”
world, but they don’t want to get
his horse with the ease of one sea-1
" I promise.”
mixed up with Russians or English
soned to the high-peaked Spanish ;
“ Padre,” added Bowie gravely, or Yankees. They are proud, and
saddle. His trappings were elabo
“ I ’d like to ask one question."
they are gentlemen, and they are
rate; the eyes of the two scouts were ,
very independent. So you see what
“ What is that, my son?”
glued on them. Saddle and bridle
"Y
ou’ve
seen
service.”
little
there
is
in
any
situation
here,
“ May I ask your name?”
were richly chased in silver.
just at present, to interest General
“ Padre Vicente Pasqual.”
Bowie, without overlooking these
Houston
through.
He
gave
me
a
“ Are there many men in Califor Houston.
things of interest, paid closer at- i
captain’s furbelow.”
“ At the same time you will see,
nia like you?”
“ But there’s no peace down there tention to the horseman himself. He !
was young and dandified—it was just
“ Not so many as there used to if you stay a while, as I strongly now. is there?”
advise
you
to
do,
that
things
are
his unaffected good nature that ■
be. There are now' but few Fran
Bowie
smiled.
"N
ot
so
you
could
kind of—well, say—unsettled here,
checked in the rough-and-ready
ciscan padres in Alta California.”
just as they are down your way. notice it. I t ’s guerilla fighting a
To Know Others
Bowie looked sheepish. “ I didn’t There’s no denying that. What’s go good deal of the time along the bor Bowie any feeling of resentment at
HENRY A. WALLACE
He that knoweth himself knows
mean exactly that, Padre. I meant, ing to come out of it no man can der. The greasers are busy in his highly particular rig.
. "A'o Superman bul H ö n tti.”
His haf, with its low crown and
others; and he that is ignorant of
are there many men who would do tell much better than you can. bunches all the time, and our rang
broad,
straight,
severe
brim,
for a stranger what you are doing
himself could not write a very
ers
cut
up
once
in
a
while.
But
no
Bowie offered a few of his own
a
custom.
Mr.
Garner
was
Mr.
for me? I f there are. I ’d like to thoughts. “ I ’m beginning to like this other man in California knows that seemed in keeping with the dignity
profound lecture on other men's
Roosevelt's
choice
in
1932
and
1936
meet more of them. Or better, be country. I ’m going to stay a while, much about me. So forget, it of the wearer. His aspect was dark,
heads.—Colton.
but his mustachios, the most com I t is true that the first time it was
fixed myself to do something for anyway. I ’d like to live among the please.”
manding of his rather small fea by reason of a trade, without which
them.”
kind of people you describe. But
tures, were of contrasting lighter Mr. Roosevelt himself could not pos
CHAPTER
VI
I ’ll admit right off. I ’m death on
color and lent something agreeable sibly have been nominated, but it
The streets of Monterey were greasers and Indians.”
to the frank, open expression of his is also true that Mr. Roosevelt's
alive with strange-looking men—
Bowie disappeared from Califor eyes. His voice, as he chatted, was delegates, at his bidding, made good
men from every quarter of the globe
“ Well, boys, we’re here," re nia as silently as he had come to
that bargain.
—when Bowie, followed by his star marked Bowie that evening to his it; but he did not forget the Irish pleasant.
I t is no secret that Mr. Willkie
The youth wore a short dark bo
ing scouts, sought the office of two scouts. “ There’s nothing to doctor. In fact, eight years later
Thomas O. Larkin, respected citizen take us back to Texas till we look Bowie appeared once more at the lero jacket heavily embroidered in was consulted about his choice for a
of Monterey.
around. And inasmuch as the sov door of Doane’s office with as little silver and knee breeches edged be running mate, that he selected Char
Frontiersmen, removed from their ereign republic of Texas has not ceremony as if he had left it the low with silver lace. His soft buck lie McNary, and that the senator
habitat of desert, valley and moun supplied its ambassadors with any day before. There was laughing skin leggings were highly but pleas didn't want the job and could not
tain and thrown into city streets, are funds, we’ll have to forge along, and greeting; then something close ingly stamped with the fanciful de have been nominated without Mr.
as confused as children. The Tex best we can. We’ve got our rifles to a fight. Bowie, about to take his vices of a Mexican artisan. From Willkie's backing. Thus, however
ans themselves were objects of curi and, thanks to old Padre Pasqual, a leave after a happy hour of talk, head to foot he presented a picture hateful the method used to put Mr.
osity to other men of the capital. little powder. You can see for your threw a bag of coin on the table. of distinction and detail, yet he was Wallace across, it can hardly be
used to attack this nomination, un
Their garb, in part Californian, selves, boys, there’s plenty of game The doctor’s ear was alert to the quite simple in manner.
“ I see,” said the Californian pres less pots are to be permitted to call
thanks to the kindness of the mis- in this country for everybody; I clink. “ What’s this, son?”
kettles black.
ently. “ You are hunters.”
sioners, and in part reflecting the reckon nobody w ill object to our tak
“ Souvenirs of the Rio Grande,
“ That's why we are heading for
After all, there was an element
hardships of the desert tra il; their ing our share.”
Doctor.”
the hills.” explained Bowie, “ to of courage and an avoidance of the
long-barreled and carefully carried
Bowie’s wound in his shoulder,
“ Hold on. Keep your souvenirs, bring in some game—and,” he added usual skullduggery in nominating
rifles and powder horns; and the long neglected, called urgently for a _ —
_ »»
jokingly, “ among other things, to Mr. Wallace. He is Doctor Newi
long deep-sheathed knives suspend surgeon’s care. The American fron son.
“
They are to cicatrize that old In buy some salt.”
Newee New of all the New Dealers.
ed from their belts were a novelty tiersman never gave a wound much
“ I love to hunt,” returned the don.
Not all Democrats are New Deal
to the naval officers, the seafaring attention; he had, without asking, dian wound, Doctor.”
“ That old wound is outlawed. So "And nothing I like better than the ers by a long shot. That r ift was
Yankees, the Mexican supernumer the best of remedial agents at hand:
aries and the rancheros who, ever the pure air of the plains and moun is the fee. I never want to hear of hunter’s supper out in the open, like not never more apparent than at
this. In fact, 1 confess it was envy Chicago. Great rips and wounds in
averse to walking, rode richly ca tains and the hardiest of constitu either again. I mean it.”
that turned me up this way when I party solidarity were made.
“ So do I mean it. Doctor.”
parisoned horses up and down the tions. Neglect, not care, was the
narrow streets.
The words grew warm. Both were saw the fire and the party, though
An obvious strategy for the heal
rule for any wound not completely
inflexible. It was finally agreed to I was far from being in hunter's ing of these fissures would have
Bowie himself, though more so disabling.
been to nominate at least one Demo
phisticated than his scouts, found
But Bowie had for once relied too leave the Spanish doubloons in the rig myself."
“ Where,” asked Bowie, “ did you crat on the Democratic ticket. Mr.
much to gaze at. His eye swept much on nature unaided and at Mon doctor’s safe in suspense, and after
learn
so
much
English?”
Roosevelt certainly is not one. Mr.
the beautiful harbor. Within it lay terey was obliged to seek a sur a bottle of wine and a lunch at Da
“ I have a sister married to a Bos Wallace is even farther away. His
a coasting vessel from San Bias, a geon. Fortunately for him a good Guerre’s the old cordiality—which
Lower California port. A shrewd- one was at hand; Larkin introduced had never really been impaired— ton man, a ship-owner. I had two nomination puts the whole New Deal
years at Georgetown University.”
reasserted itself.
theory of spending ourselves rich
looking Yankee trader with sails in Bowie to him.
“ Georgetown! I had one year right in the spotlight as the un
nocently furled, trim and fast sail
"So
you've
come
back,”
mused
Dr. Doane was an Irishman and
there
myself,”
said
Bowie.
“
May
I
fuzzed issue in this fight.
ing, doubtless hailed from Boston. A justly proud of it, and he took an the doctor. “ Glad you had that
ask your name?”
clipper-built ship from Hong Kong Irishman’s fancy to Bowie.
much sense. Henry, this is the gar
Adding it all up, while I can't ap
"Francisco Estradillo; and yours,
and the Sandwich Islands lay under
plaud either the candidacy or the
The doctor was a good prober, den spot of the world. What are senor?”
the bluff, and, most interesting of both physically and mentally. He you going to do?”
“ Henry Bowie I ’m a long way method that made it, I can respect
all to the young Texan, a United had been a world traveler and was
“ I don’t know yet. I ’ve heard from Texas. This is Ben Pardaloe, or at least understand both.
States sloop of war, rocked by a a man of parts.
talk of a man up the river who and this is Simmie.”
Even if the fatefully unexpected
gentle swell, surveyed the harbor
“ I suppose I ought to say, Doc built a little fort up there and is deal
should happen, and Mr. Wallace
Francisco
nodded.
“
My
uncle,
scene from a dignified distance.
tor,” began Bowie, “ that I haven’t, ing in furs. I ’ve got the same scouts Don Ramon Estrada, lives not far should one day become President of
The coaster brought soldiers, just at present, got a cent in the with me. They’re trappers and want from here—about ten miles. I am the United States, we can be as
freight and dispatches from Mexico, world.”
Approved by Good Housekeeping
to look the thing over. The man up visiting him. You are on his rancho. sured of a Chief Executive who
and passengers from San Diego, San
hutitute and the Household
“ Did 1 say anything about mon there is a Swiss and I hear him You tell me you are hunting. Day would be honest, straightforward
Pedro and Santa Barbara The Yan ey?” demanded Doane sharply. well spoken of.”
Searchlight.
after tomorrow we are to have a and wholly unaddicted to political
kee trader brought merchandise for “ Take off your shirt.”
The following day Bowie traded hunt at the rancho. You should join cleverness and devious two-way
IF
YOUR
D
E
A
L
ER CANNOT SUFPIY YOU,
sale to merchants of Monterey and
After some weeks Bowie com in the travel-worn horses of the us. Cornel Why sleep out tonight? thought and action. That would be
SEND 20e WITH YOUR DEALER'S NAME
Yerba Buena, for barter with Cali plained that the doctor’s treatment long tra il for fresh stock. In the Come with me to Don Ramon’s.”
something new and refreshing. Con
FOR A TRIAL PACKAGE OF 4S GENUINE
fornia rancheros and the missions was taking a good deal of his afternoon, with his two scouts, Par
sidering everything, I am not sure
F I-K O JAR RINGS« SENT PREPAID.
of Santa Clara, San Francisco de (Doane’s) time.
daloe and Simmie, Bowie headed
The Estrada rancho, a royal that it is not the number one re
Asis and San Jose. The Yankee
“ Young man, you ought to be north for Sutter’s place up the riv grant, embraced a tract eleven quirement in the choice of a Presi
clipper brought from the Orient the thanking God you haven’t lost an er. They traveled light, meaning to leagues by eleven leagues. The two- dent. There simply are no super
silken stuffs of Cathay for the fur arm instead of talking about the depend on their rifles for food in a story ranch house crowned the brow men.
ther adornment of women already time it has taken to save it,” country rich in game.
• • •
of a gentle rise in the fertile Santa
so notable in beauty, dignity and snapped Doane. “ You Texans, 1
They camped early in the evening Clara Valley and looked toward the
POWER
___ ____ _______
charm that they dazzled the im hear, are a quick-trigger lot. But on a hillside near a clump of live distant heights of Santa Ysabel.
Maybe it is possible to ride a lie
agination of every traveler who vis some things take time. How do you oaks, and while Pardaloe skinned a
United Stales Rubber Company
to victory. H itler says it is and
To
the
north
of
the
ranch
house
a
ited California and attempted to de like California? What brought you rabbit, one of a brace he had
seems to have proved it for the
R o c k o fo lla r Conter, N o w York, N Y.
scribe its women. The sloop of war out here? Why do you talk about brought in for the evening meal, group of buildings sheltered the In moment.
dian
servants
and
the
vaqueros.
was there for a purpose; but a pur going back to Texas?”
Simmie cut up the other and Bowie
I f political position, patronage and
Don Francisco did not. escape a
pose unknown to any not in the coun
The doctor asked questions in built a fire. A stone’s throw below wetting. It was raining hard when favor could pervert all the dele
cils of the very elect.
bunches. Bowie was slow in giving where they had camped, a well- he rode with his three Texans up to gates to a great convention, per
Bowie found Larkin at his home his confidence, but he finally did so. marked trail wound around the brow the ranch house and, first of all, de haps it could pervert a m ajority of
T h e buyer’« assurance i« the advertis-
and was received in the darkened Doane was immensely interested, of the hill, and while they broiled spite the downpour, looked up quar the voters of a great people.
ing he or «he reads in the newspaper.
parlor. Perhaps the Spanish-speak but he took Larkin’s view of Hous their meat, impaled over the fire ters for his guests. Pardaloe and
If gluttons for power bludgeon
W
T h a t is the buyer’s guide. I t tells the
ing women of California had an in ton’s dream.
on pointed sticks, two horsemen ap Simmie he lodged with the vaqueros. the democratic part of a democratic f i prices one must espert to pay. Let the
herited fear of sunshine, for even
'And why did he send you out peared on the trail below. In the Bowie he took with him to his own people into a H itler plebiscite, what
seller who tries to charge m ote bewarel
after a century of expatriation from here as ambassador? Are you in the dusk of the evening these men saw room in the ranch house.
would they do w ith the so-called
Spain and Mexico they s till fear it general’s cabinet?” asked the doctor. the glow of the small fire and, turn-
war powers of the President.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Don Alfredo, wealthy. Spanish owner of a
Southern California rancho, refuse, to heed
several w am lnfi of a raid by a band of
outlaws. Sierra Indiana. One day after be
has finally decided to seek the protection
of the nearby mission for his wife and fam
ily. the Indians strike. Don Alfredo la killed
and his two young daughter, are tom from
the arms of the family's faithful maid.
Monica, and are carried away to the hills.
Padre Pasqual, missionary friend of the
family, arrives at the ruins of the ranch and
learns the story of the raid from Monica.
After a trying and difficult trip across the
plains and mountains from Texas to Cali
fornia. youthful Henry Bowie, a Texas ad
venturer. with his friends. Ben Pardaloe
and Slmmle. an Indian scout, sight the party
of Indians who have cartled off the two
little girls. The three Texans attack the
war party of fifty-odd Indians and through a
clever ruse scatter the savages to the hills.
The girls are saved. The group makes Its
way out of the hills and meets the distraught
Monica, the children's maid. The girls are
left wtth Monica and the friendly Padre at
a mission.
~j
NO MORE
CANNING
WORRIES!
PE-KO EDGE
JAR RUBBERS