Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, July 07, 1910, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextCAMEO 7A MOO 1 lf ' 11 W7 i BY BOOTH TAR5SNUT0N and HARRY LEON WILSON NOVELIZED FROM THE PIAYBYW.B.MJFERGUSON CONTINUED. CHAPTER II. BIS Is a private stateroom. suh." Interrupted Moreau. glaring at tbe Intruder. "What Why, as 1 live. It Is Colonel Moreau by all tbe saints, your admirable self, niy dear fellow:' heartily exclaimed tbe younger man. lapping tbe other on tbe back. "These lights are so dashed disobliging 1 didn't recognize you. I have been watching tbe game for some time through that window," pointing to one on bis tight, "and you must remember that a state room lau't private so long as tbe cur tains aren't drawn. If 1 bad known you Were aboard I wonld have hunted you up long ago. for yon know bow I love a' game, colonel, aud hence this veutured lnrruslou. Have you any ob jection to making It three cornered?" His bow Included Mr. Randall, now blinking at the table. 'Sorry, but quite impossible, suh." replied Moreau shortly. "I am already this gentleman's master fob a matter of ten thousand or so be has been playing In dam pob luck and our next wager Is for fifty thousaud. Too high fob yoh. I calculate?" "Not at all, I assure you," lightly re- plied the Intruder, smiling Into the other's venomous eyes. "Come; If your friend Is willing, let me sit In. I really Insist upon losing to 'you. colonel. Won't you introduce me?" Moreau hesitated, trying to read tbe other's eyes. Then, apparently satis fied, he turned to the nodding Mr. Randall, saying: "Have yob any objec tion, sub, to making it three? My friend, sub. Mr. er Mr. Jackson of New Orleans." "Honored, suh! Honored:" replied the planter, arising and extending a frank band. "I warn yob. suh, that the Randall luck has turned and that yoh will surely lose. Stay out. sub; stay out!" he added Impressively, pat ting tbe other's shoulder. "Fob I am about to make a killing, and 1 don't ; want yob to be among tbe dead. Tbe colonel and I are old men of the world, suh. but this is no place fob a youug man like yob. I trust yob will take my advice In the spirit In which It Is offered, fob I am a father, suh, aud and I like yob. By Gad. yob remind me of a dear friend I once bad the : Kirbys. suh. of Plaquemlne" "Come," Interrupted Moreau, "let us resume our friendly hostilities. Mr. Randall, fob yob make yob landing, suh. In about half an hour." "I thank you for your advice, sir." -said the Intruder, with sudden gravity, while gently aud unobtrusively be steered Mr. Randall to bis seat. "But I am afraid It has come too late, for card games of all kinds are my weak ness. Perhaps If I bad received It when I was younger But 1 see our good colonel Is Impatient." "I am," replied Moreau. shuffling the cards, "fob we have only half an hour, and It Is to be tbe best otit of six hands. Come, my money is up. as yob uh. and Mr. Randall draws a for bis plantation as his stakes, e await yob pleasure, Mr. er r iison." 1 understand you to say that the ikes were fifty, not tweuty thou- ud?" replied the other, casuully ? nncing at tbe colonel's roll. "I calculate my check Is good for ' balance." replied Moreau. signal I - a warning with bis eyes-"the Kinul Batik of Xew Orleuns,tsuh." "Ah. a very sound Institution, for 1 diuw against It myself." observed the younger man. "As, of course, we do not carry such an amount with us," he added, with deference, turning to Mr Kaudull. "Colonel Moreuu and 1 oust of necessity substitute our Professional Ditectory of Wallowa County THOS. M. DILL ATTORNEY-AT-UW Z Office first door south of New J Fraternal Bldg, Enterprise, Are. , DANIEL BOYD v-( 2 ATIORNEY-AHAW i Practice in all State Courts and Interior Department. Careful at- $ J tentlon to all business. 4 l D. W. LAWYER SHEAHAN ENTERPRISE Practice in State and Federal Courts and Interior Department. 4 If you want good feed for your team and good treatment come to White Front Barn. 87btf We do Cirot-claes Job work. checks. TVe are strangers to you, sir. und"- "Yob word. suh. Is entirely suffi cient." Interrupted the plauter. wav ing bis bund "This t a question of Honor betweeu us. fob I might draw a deed to a plantation 1 never owned. I am a mun of the world, sob, and I reckon we each can recognize a south ern gentleman on sight." "Yes. In the preseul company tbnt Is not a very difficult mutter." gravely respouded Mr. Jackson. "Shall we i cut for the deal? The four best hnnds i take all. Ah. luck Is with me. J take tbe curds, sir." "One niomeut." said Moreau. "as no stakes are up 1 reckon I'll give my check for tbe full amount should 1 lose." Pocketing bis roll, he gluuced satirically at Mr. Jaeksou. If for a presumable amateur who oc casionally indulged In a gentleman's game merely for the sake of passing the time Colonel Moreau hud exhibited a wonderful aptitude at shuffling and dealing his performance was now com pletely overshadowed by that of the young Intruder, whose lightning deft ness wob almost uncanny. Talking nonchalantly and brilliantly, be stack- ed the deck with a beautiful n re , clslon, fascinating in the extreme, even while the colonel's wutchful and sus picious eyes never for a moment re laxed their vigil. Owing entirely to this marvelous aud criminal skill Mr. Jackson won on . bis own deul and, luck following him. won also on that of Mr. Randall. As eucb and every one of the colonel's undertakings were highly estimable he naturally held the best .band when, for a moment, the cards were In bis power, aud It speaks eloquently for Mr. Jackson's large cburity of Judgment that he refrained from criticism even wbeu acutely aware that the middle aged Creole bud rather clumsily garnered bis third ace from the bottom of the deck. But as youth must be served, esneclallv when possessor of su h consummate skill qb that owned by Mr Jackson, tbe lutter handsomely won bis fourth showdown with surprising euse, verve and dash. "Well, tbnt winds her," airily ' re marked the colonel, arising and stretch ing bis long arms. "One hundred thou sand ain't such a bad cleanup, 1 reck on, but yob alwuys were lucky, yoh young scamp, and there's no playing agHinst it. Yob even topped my fob kiugs. 1 calculate tbe Randall luck finished a very pob last How about yoh theory now. aub?" The planter did not reply, for it is somewhat dllllcuii 'or a but newly ruined man to sense tbe full bumor of bis condition, in silence be drew to ward him the pen and ink, while for a long moment be stared at tbe white sheet of puper, upon which be was about to give title to all which he owned. Be and bis children were beg gars, total and complete. This was tbe turning of tbe tide, bis royal home coming. For a moment be bowed his grizzled beud; then, shutting bis teeth against all thoughts of tbe future, seized tbe quill pen. For a Randall must show tbe world how It can lose. A Randall must be beaten at nothing even at playing tbe fool. "Yob name, sub?" he courteously In quired, turning to the youug stranger who bud proved so fortunate. "Eugene Klrby, sir." "What?" exclaimed tbe planter in a dazed manner. "1 thought, sub" "Ob, the colonel sometimes calls me Mr. Jackson, because be thinks 1 re semble tbe general," lightly replied Cameo Kirby as, bead between bonds. be stured gravely at tbe table. "Any oue will tell you my . name la Eugene Ulrby-even tbe Texas tender knows It" "Ah. the General. 1 have a boy, salt, The Extremes. "Let's see, we sometimes call a man Jonah, Uou't we?" "Yes, wbeu be brings disaster." "That's tbe luuuy thing ubout It The original Jonah was a prophet, while the modern Jouuh Is a loss." Boston Transcript. . I ; J.-a; BURLEIGH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ' Office ii LUch Building. Enterprise, Oregon. i f f LAWYER - : ENTERPRISE, ORE. i Practice in State and Federal 4 Courts and Int. Dept. Abstract I Bldg., opposite court house. - - - -- - - - -- - -v TTTTTTTTTTT" TtTTTTTT'ITTTV ' Something new Klrsh curtain rods and portler poles for the first time In Enterprise. Come la and see then at F. S Ashley's. whom we affectionately call by'tbaf j irnuie." replied. Mr. Kaudall Irrelevaut- ly. marina at the celling. "I have three children, sub. There Is Tom and ! Adele and the General. Their mother Is dead. sub. And yob say yob nume tat Eugene Klrby. Very strange, suh 1 know tbe Ktrbys of Plaquemine. sub. No relation. I suppose. But yob i pardon, sub." And. with a hand now steady and Arm, be wrote and signed, the deed to ; tbe Randall plantation and. with a ?w' hauA " tu pambler whose father be had befriended; tbe gambler whose reputation was said to be the worst uu the river; tbe sou of the man who bud been bis nearest neighbor and closest friend. This accomplished. Mr. Randall arose unsteadily and walked to the door, where he turned and for a moment surveyed the smoke fouled room with Its litter of empty bottles. Aud If for a moment, a fleeting realization of the very thorough manner In which be had been victimized permeated his throbbing brain no bint of It was de picted In face or bearing. "tSood evening, gentlemen." be said gravely, "and thnnk yoh for the obli gation. Good evening." Head erect, be walked out and very softly closed the door. Klrby resumed his preoccupied atti tude at the table, while Moreau. care lessly lighting cheroot and pouring himself a drink, sprawled elegantly over an adjacent couch. "Well. I calculate that's the easiest mark that ever cuuie our wny," he observed, with a laugh. "Green as the everlasting hills." quietly pocket ing Mr. Randall's wallet, a delicate maneuver which Klrby neglected to nolo. "I cuiculute this Is the first Htue yoh and I ever 'played together, eh? Yob're a deuce of a bund at the cards, my boy never saw yoh equal befoh. 1 tuke It, yoh partner. Mr. Lark In Bunce. Is not with yob this trip or yoh wouldn't have so uucere moulously doubled up with me. Or perhaps yoh two have fallen out. eh? If so, suh, I will be happy to make our Impromptu partnership poriua nent." Klrby swung slowly around and Ox edly regarded bis magnificent and amiable companion. "Since when have you contemplated such an admi rable partnership?" be blandly in quired. "Ever since I first saw yoh play. Klrby. Come; yob partuer, Bunce, is crude a blubber faced Yankee, with no manners whatever, sub. But yob and I are gentlemen aud would make the best team on the river. I consider our pluy tonight the biggest haul in a decade, and I promise yob mob like It, fob I never go In foh picayune af fairs. My fingers are growing a little too stiff foh skillful manipulation, and I frankly own I haven't yoh delicate and admirable (luesse. But I have the ; manner, Kirby. and can rope the cut tle for yob to brand, sub. I'll guar antee yoh tbe biggest game on tbe river." "You will oblige me. sir," replied tbe other, carefully lighting a cheroot, "by employing the prefix to my name if ever In tbe future I am unfortuuate enough to have you address me. Per mit me to inform you that you are a I blank scoundrel, sir! I cannot be too ! emphatic concerning thut statement. Whenever I form a partnership with ! you I will be more qualified for a front seat In hades than I am at tbe present moment Why, you low, thiev ing swamp cat," be cried, losing all self control, "how dare you think gamble like you by getting unsuspect- Ing victims drunk and then robbing' them? I watched you outrageously i cheat Mr. Randull and ply him with liquor in order to cover your churac- W, C. - DENTIST KETCHUM ENTERPRISE J Office Borland Bu'ldlng." Home i Independent Phone. I C. T. HOCKETT. M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON j Office upstairs in Bank Build- ' ing. Ind. Home phone in office J ' ; and residence, i . X - DR. C. A. AXJLT I PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON J Office In Bank Building, Home phone both office andj X residence. T Oakes carries a full line of Lowe Brothers Paints. I08tf '- . Phone your Ice cream and candy orders to Harvey's. Prompt delivery. terlstlcally clumsy ni.iulpulnnon of Ve cards, and If I sieppod In tonight and stooped to emulate the type .f game which you solely play It was in order to save your victim from complete and total rutu' It Is unnecessary to say that when Mr. Randall is capable of estimating what has occurred aud Is once more himself this deed will be returned to him." "Now. Klrby. yob can't play that game on me," cried Moreau. Jumping to his feet. "Yoh come iu "on my kill and thea tr? to do uie out of tbe spoils. That don't go. Klrby. I'm too old a hand. Keep that line of tall; for sap heads. The liandall plantation Is sold under the hammer, and 1 get two thirds or" "Or what?" coldly demanded Klrby. carefully pocketing the dt-ed. "You. know me, Mr. Moreau, so don't try to pull a derringer. It's considerably safer to wait until my back !s turned. I say Mr. Randall himself will destroy this deed aud thai his plantation will not be sold, and you may believe Ir or not. Just as you like. That teu thou sand you virtually stole I cannot, un fortunately, refund: but.' believe me. thut is the entire extent of your steal lugs.. For once lu your life you are going to release a victim before lie has been completely sucked dry; for onec in your life you are going to be half way decent" "Decent?" bellowed tbe other. "That's a complimcut from oue of yoh standing" "Like yourself. I game for a living. Mr. Moreau," coldly Interrupted Klr by; "but, unlike yourself, 1 endeavor to do so honestly, and 1 have never yet stooped to the methods which you exclusively employ. Although you are MOREAU, CAREFUliLT WIPING THR 8M0KINQ PISTOL, UKTUUMCO IT TO U1S POCKBT. seemingly not aware of tbe fact, there Is a distinct difference betweeu a gum bier aud a thief. Once I hud the priv ilege of meriting the friendship and esteem of gentlemeu like Mr. Randull, and 1 now wurn you to keep your claws off him. If ever In the future I cutchyou bleeding him as you did this evening you und I will have a different sort of discussion. For your own sake I beg you to remember this." Before Moreau could reply the sound of a single shot rung out from one of the staterooms and echoed Itself over tbe river. Impulsively Klrby turned to tbe door, and us he did so Moreau quickly withdrew bis band from tbe breast of bis long frock coat. A tongue sf flame leaping from bis Derringer hattered tbe stagnant tobacco fumes, ind wltb tbe acrid bite of powder In his nostrils and a bullet through fie luufc'8 tue youuger man. fighting hard ueuilJf" ul slowly eased himself t0 tue floor- ror you, suu, courteously sueerea , Moreau, curefully wiping the smoking pistol and returning It to bis breast I pocket, while he coolly wntehed the I writhing figure cough out its life. "1 calculate, suh. yoh u re now booked fob that front seat la hudes which you de clined. I li teucb yob to pluy a low down game on 'a gentleman, suh." As be turned to refill his glass the door wus vloleutly torn opeti aud a lurge, florid faced man entered. Mo reau turned, his baud slipping Into his breast pocket For along moment the two confronted eucb other lu silence. Mr. Randall bus Just blown out his .i... .,.,.. . : Druius. said the Intruder slowly at length. "1 guess thut's your work, my fine old bucko. But 1 beard another shot, Where's my pal, Gene Kirby?" His eyes, restlessly searchiug the dark ened corners, at leugtb happened on the huddled thing, now lying very still. "Gene," be cried, stooping and raising the other's bead to tils knee. "Siteuk to me, boy. It's your old pui, Bum e." "I calculate yob friend Is past speak ing, suh." observed Moreuu. bucking toward the door and keeping a wury eye ou the florid faced Yankee. "Mr Kirby Insulted me, suh, and bus paid fob It witbXis life. I shot him in fair' and honorable combat." "Fair und honorable hades!" snarled Bunce. leaping to bis feet . "Shot him In the back, you skunk your Usual fair and honorable manner! You haven't the nerve to stand up and face a crip pled hen!" "Stand back, sub!" warned the other, drawing his Derringer. "Yob are uat yirajly excited, and so 1 choose to ovcr- ! l,.k yoh words, which I will not do In the future. Hut dou't push me too far, mib-dou't push me too far. fob even j a gentleman has his limits." "No mail ever double bunked Gene Klrby twice," said Larkln Bunce la conically, "and It'll be a good tblna for I you. Moreau. if he Is past speaking, which. I guess, looks the case. If he happens to pull through you can gam ble he'll fix your case himself, but If be doesn't, my flue old bucko. I'll settle your honorable bash. Yoh've stunk up this river Just about along enough." "It will afford me considerable pleas ure, suh." replied the pseudo colouel In his best manner, "to place yob In tbe same imsition which yob friend Mr. Kirby will shortly occupy. . I re fer, suh. to a front seat in tbe grill room of his most Satanic majesty. Yoh servant, suh. and a very good evening." Bowing, tbe flower of south urn Int. ltu.L-...t l,l.l.. !,.... ..1. U'n'S Wilts UtOIIJIVUICUi (TO BK CONTIKI'ID. J. E. ratterson started up his saw nlU north of town, Monday, for a mmmer's run. Flo: a la figuring upon holding a Istrlct fair to precede the county air at Enterprtae about a week. This fill be a means of gathering together i nucleus of products for exhibition 3 bo later brought to Enterprise, inid will also be a means of arousing jnthusiasin for the county fair. Levi Stewart of Ashland, Jack 0:1 county, Oregon, arrived In Enter prise Tuesday evnlng to visit with lla sone George Stewart who Is anchlug on Whiskey Creek. The el ler Mr. Stewart was here twenty ears ago, and at that time aided n building one of the mills ln En .erprlse. J. C. Shackelford and family ieft I'tie.day with the first load of tynxlH, or their new home at Clarka-ton, A'ash. U will be remembered that fr. Shackelford traded for a fine fruit ranch there recently. The rtany friends of the family wish them ill unmeasured success. In thulr new .ocatlon and new place of abode. A Wretch Mistake o endure the Itching, painful distress jf piles. There's no need to. Lis ten.; "I Buffered much from piles, " writes Will A. Marsh, of 8ller City, N. c, '"till I got a box of Bueklen's Arnica Salve, and was soon cured." Hums, bollsJ ulcers, fever sores, ec zema, cuts, chapped bands, chilblains, vanish before It. 25c at all drug- B'stH, . NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION ISO LATED TRACT. PUBLIC LAND 8ALE. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Office et La Grande, Or egon, June lath, 1910. Notice Is. hereby given that, as directed by tbe Commissioner of the General Lend Offke, under provls- Ions of Act of Congress approved June It, l'JU6 (31 Stat., 517), we villi offer at public sale, to the high est bidder, at 10 o'clock a. m., on the 2Slh day or July, 1910, at tula office, the following-described land: The'SEK SWVi Sec. 6. A NE NW Sec. 7, T. 1 S., R. 43 E. W. M.. Serial No. 07432. Any peruous claiming adversely the above-described loud are advised to Tile their clalme, or, objection , ou or before the time designated for sale. , . . 43c5 F. C. Bramwell, Register. Colon R, Eberbard, Receiver. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. In the County Court of the State of Oregon, for Wallowa County. In the matter of the Estate of Wil liam Hollo way, Deceased. Notice Is hereby given that live un dersigned hag been duly appointed e, T ' T, , County, State of Oregon, the Admln- lat rator of the Estate of William Hot loway, deceased, and has duly qual ified as, snob AdroinUtraitur. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified and re quested to present the same to me within six months from the date hereof, properly verified as requir ed by law, aud to present the same to me, at Flora, Oregon. Dated -and first published June 9, 1910, . 42c5 JOHN T. HOLLOWAY, Administrator of Estate of William Holloway, Deceased. THOS. ; . DILL, Attorney for Ad- ni....tjr, Enterprise, Oregon. PRAIRIE CREEK DITCH. . Contrcator J. E. Patterson finished the Prairie Creek Irrigation ditch and turned It over to the farmer own ers, Monday, and County Brief News Items Ellison Records; for July now on Bale at Ratcliff'a furniture store. A bright girl baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Brady Tuesday afternoon. E. O. Makln has just purchased a lot lit Atder View, ,near the Larson residence. Two more wagon lu.nU of tho Troy brulgo left Enterprise for Troy Thursday morning. Miss Harriett. lUow returtiM Wed nesday from l'ra'rle Cretdt where she has been for some llino. A daughter was born to Mr. and .Mrs. Joe demons at their Slimmer ' HarVey Homer arrived from Port land, Suuday, where ho stopped some time on his way here from Turlock, Calif. V. E. TagHart, who has been vis iting relative at Colfax, Wash., and friends at other points, return ed home Wednesday. J. W. Kerns this week s:ld hta ten-acre roach in. the south part of town to Ecu Ownbey. Mr. Kerns will leave In August for southern Ore on, ueir Roseburg, where he lias secured the prliulpaUlilp of a pub lic school. MU)s Linn to I a dm, who has been III for some time at the home of Iter sister, Mrs. VUiltmore, near here, left Thursday morning f,or near Port land where she will receive hospital treatment. Wall paper at 10 cents per roll at Ratcllffs, Ills entire stock will be sold at bargain, prices whllo It lasts. O. II. Brady U placing a beautiful tile entrance to the A. C. Miller !ulldlng, and a concrete pillar which extends the ful 1 frontage of the building. Lee Brothers, who recently pur :tiaed the blacksmith shop here of I. N. PlUer, have purchased the ttock formerly owted by Poulsoni A Prater. The shop formerly con lucted by Poulsoa A Prater ha oeen closed. Word comes .from Vancouver, Wash., of the birth of a bright, live ly girl baby to Mr. and Mrs. C. C. rhomason. Mr. and Mrs, Thomaaon re well known through Wallowa valley, Mr. Thomasoii at one time having been a well known newspa. ier man of La Grande. Mrs. f hom son before hr marriage was M!s Caroline Wasson, the Wassiwv family ilso being well and most favorably uiown In Wallowa valley. The lit le baby girl will be christened Cor ucll Thomasoii. , The world's most successful nied lolne for bowel complaint U Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and (DIar rhoet Remedy, It ha relieved more pain and suffering, and saved more lives than, any other medicine in use. Invuluable for children anl adults. Sold by all dealers. 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