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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1922)
PAan nRND HUI.IiKTIN, nKND, OnKOON, TIIUIIHOAY, OOTOBKIl ll, inaa BANDITS STOP STUD GAME AT CAMP, GET m Eleven Loggers Held Up by Masked Men PAIR OF SIXES WIN Itcvolvcrs Trove Intrusion nt Hunk- liouse It Not l'rnctlcnl Joke Ilobbcre Vanish In Auto Phone Wires Cut Eleven loggers nt Shovlln-Hlxon Camp No. 1, 15 miles from Bend, engaged In a blooded game ot stud poker in one ot tho bunk houses nt 8:30 o'clock Thursday night, wero relieved ot over four hundrod dollars by two maskod bandits who faced the players to tho wall nnd (orced one ot their victims to search tho others tor their money. Pocketing their loot, the bandits retreated to their waiting auto and speeded- off In tho direction ot Spring river. Tho game had grown so Interest ing that tho players failed to note the entrance of two rather small men, armed with revolvers, their faces concealed with pieces apparently torn from a brown swedter. "I'll raise you ten," one of the players re marked, when a voice behind him added "I'll just call you for the rot." The men at the table thought It was all a practical joke nnd con' tinued at their cards. "I mean business; put ,up your hands," ordered the man who had entered the room, and as the players saw his gun wobbling uncertainly in apparently unaccustomed fingers, and saw the second man guarding the door, they rcallied that from their point ot view at least there was no humor In the situation. Clicck Ignored The game was abruptly ended as tho second of the intruders ordered the eleven to "stick up your mitts and face tho wall." The instructions were promptly obeyed; one of the players was stripped ot .his money, then forced to turn wrong side out ot the pockets ot his companions. A check which lay on the table was Ig nored. "Don't come outdoors tor five min utes unless you want to be filled with lead," the loggers were advised as their unwelcome guests left. Disre garding the advice, the entire eleven rushed out almost on the heels of the bandits, only to hear the roar ot the motor as the robbers' car vanished In the timber. Victims of the bandits describe the two as below medium height, both wearing caps, one wearing a dark suit, and the other a dark coat and gray trousers. Bandits Know Camp A more accurate description may be available If Jbe theory Is accepted that two strangers who bad been no ticed loitering about camp for several days are responsible for the robbery. It is considered that the bandits must have been somewhat familiar with the lay of the camp or they would have been unable to locate the bunk house in which the game wai "going on, or to make so speedy a departure from the camp. The car in which the bandits Teacbed camp arrived shortly after 8 o'clock, and 15 minutes later the rob bery was staged. Xews of the affair was brought into Bend late at night by auto, the rob bers having taken pains to cut tele-, phone wires between camp and Bend before breaking up the game. Sheriff S. E. Roberts was notified an hour before midnight. ltoad Is Ouurdifl City Officers Wlllard M, Houston and Tom Carlon guarded the road to Bend on which it was thought that the robbers might come In, but a two hour vigil was without results. Numb with cold, the officers finally returned to Bend. Little chance exists that the pair will be apprehended, Sheriff Roberts believes. LOWER BRIDGE FOLK ARE MARRIED HERE Albert 11. Chapman Weds Auua Mil burn Chester Levitt and Xorn. F. Wood Married Saturday Marriage of Albert B. Chapman and Anna Milbum, both ot Lower Bridge, took place Monday after noon at tho Baptist parsonage, Ilev, F. II. Beard reading the wedding servlcei Mr. and Mrs. Chupman will make their homo at Lower Bridge. Saturday Itov. Beard married Chester Levitt and Miss Nora F. Wood, tho ceromony occurring ut the homo of tho groom's father, Edward Levitt, on niveisld'o. The young cou pie will reside In Bend. CROSS-CUT j&fl "Da "you "wnnt my answer howT' "At any time when you havo given the matter sufficient thought." "That's been accomplished already. And there's no need of waiting. I want Barnham. to thank you exceedingly for your of fer, and to tell you that you can go straight to h II !" And without looking back to see the result of his ultimatum, Falrchild rose, strode to the door, unlocked It, and stamped down the hall. lie had taken snap Judgment, but In his heart, he felt that he was right. What was more, he was as sure ns he was sure of life itself- that Anita Richmond had not arranged the Interview and did not even know of It. One streak ing name was Hitting through Fair child's brain and ranging It to seethe with anger. Cleverly concealed though the plan might have been, nicely ar ranged and carefully planted, to Rob ert Falrchild It all stood out, plainly and clearly the ItodalnesI And yet why? That one little word halted Falrchild as he left the eleva tor. Why? What did they know about the Blue I'oppy mine, when neither he nor Harry had any Idea of. what the future might hold for them there? That day In court Rodaine had said Hint the Blue I'oppy mine was good property and that It was worth every rent of the value which had been placed on It. How did he know? And why ? Suppose. Hint It had been Anita Richmond after all who had arranged thin? It wax logical In n way. Maurice lodaln wm the one man who could give direct evidence against ,Harry as the man who had held up the Old Times dance, nnd Anita now wan en. caged to marry ti f lit. Judge Richmond had been n friend of Thornton Falr- chlld; could it hare been possible that this friendship might have entailed the telling of secrets which had not been related to anyone else? Hie matter of the finding of the skeleton could be handled easily, Falrchild mw, through Maurice Rodaine. One word from him to his father could change the story of Crazy Laura and make It, on the second telling, only the maundering, tale of jiii Inline, herb-gathering woman. Anita could lime arranged It, and Anita might have nrranged It. Vet, why should tdie have gone through this procedure In reach III lit ? Why had she not gone to Fnrrell with tha proposition In a man whom she knew I'nlrchlld trust ed. Instead of to a greasy, bund-rub-blng shjsler? And beside But the ( ti out Inn wan past answer ing now. Falrchild had made his de cision, and he Inn! told the lawyer where to go, But one thing was cer tain: the Blue I'oppy mine wns worth money. Once before an offer had i-ome, and now lhal he thought of It, l-'alrchlld fell almost certain that It had been from the same source. That was for fifty thousand dollars. Why fchould the value have now Jumped lo four times Us original figures? It wan more than the ndvenliirer could en- compass; he sought to dismiss It all, went to a picture show, then trudged hack to his lintel and lo sleep. The next day found him still striv ing to put the problem away from him as he went about the various errand outlined by Harry. A day after Hint, then the puffing, snorting, narrow gauged train took til in again through Clear Creek canon and hack lo Ohadl, The motion was strangely deserted. Only the bawling bus man for the hotel, the station agent wrestling with a trunk or two that was all. Knlr child looked about him In surprise, then approached the agent. '"What's happened?" "Ji !l'J- Fnihi what i.Jieijr It's a ' XJTTCr.AK&VS CO. Courtney Goober A ILLUSTRATIONS RJB.VanNice, strike tlmia go.uii u viut uu the map agnln." "Who mndo It?" "Don't know. Some fellow came running down here nn hour or so ago nnd said there'd been n tremendous strike made on tho hill, nnd everybody heat It up there." Fnlrchlld went on, to turn Into n de serted street, it street whero the doors ot the stores had been left open and the owners gone. Everywhere It wns the same; It was ns If Ohadl and' donly hnd been struck by some catas trophe which hnd wiped out the whole imputation. Only now and then n hu man being appeared, n few portions left behind at the banks, but that was about nil. Then from far nwny. up the street lending from Kentucky gulch, enme the sound of cheering and shout ing. Soon n crowd appeared, led by gesticulating, vociferous men, who veered suddenly Into the Ohndl bnnk nt the corner, leaving tho multitude without for n moment, only to return, their hands full of gold certificates, which they stuck Into their lints, punched through their buttonholes, stuffed Into their pockets, allowing them to hnng half out, nnd even Jammed down the collars of their rough shirts, making outstanding dec orations of currency nbout their necks. On they came, closer cloicr, and then Falrchild gritted his teeth. There were four of them leading tho parade, displaying the wenlth that stood for the bonanza of tho silver strike they bud Just made, tour men whose nnmes were gall nnd wormwood to Robert Fnlrchlld. BUndeye Boieman nnd Tnylor Bill were two of them. The others were Squint and Maurice Rodaine I CHAPTER XIV Had It been any one else, Fnlrchlld would have shouted for happiness nnd Joined the parade. As It wnn, he .stood far to one side, n silent, grim figure, watching the miners nnd towns, people passing before him, leaping about In their happiness, calling to him the news that he did not want to hear: The Sliver Queen had "hit." The faith of Squint Rodaine, maintained through the year, had shown his perspicacity. It was there; he al ways bad said It was there, and now the strike had been made nt last, lead silver ore. running as high as two hun dred dollars a ton. It meant every thing for Ohadl; It meant that mining would boom now, that soon the hills would be clustered with prospectors. and that the little town wnnld blossom as a result of possessing one of the rich silver mines of the state. Falrchild felt cheap. He felt de feated. He felt small and mean not to be able to Join the celebration. Squint and Maurice. Rodaine possessed the Silver Queen; that they, of all persons, should he the fortunate ones was bitter and hard to accept. Why should they, of every one In Ohadl, be the lucky men to find a silver bonanza, that they might flaunt It before him, that they might Increase their stand ing In the community, that they might raise themselves to a pedestal In the eyes of every ono and thereby rally about them the whole town In any difficulty which might nrlse In the fu ture? It hurt Fnlrchlhl, It sickened him. He saw now that his enemies were more powerful than ever. And for ii moment he almost wished that he had yielded down there. In Denver, that he hail not given the ultimatum to the greasy Iliiruham, that he bad ac cepted the offer made him and gone on, nut of the fight forever. Anita ! What would Ir mean to her? Already engaged, already having given her answer to Maurice Rodaine, this now would be an added Incentive for her to follow her promise. It would mean a possibility of further argument with her father, already loo wenk from Illness to Mini I fie mentis of evading the Insidious pleas of the two in Hi who bad taken his money and made hliu virtually their slave. The future looked black for Itohert Pair shlhl. Slowly he walked past the happy, shouting crowd, nil turned up Kentucky gulch toward Ihe Ill-fated (Hue I'oppy, The tunnel opening looked more for 'orn than ever whi'n he sighted It, a leak, staring, single eye whlct teemed to brood over It own mlsfor tunes, a dead, hopeless thing which lever hud brought anything hut disap pointment, A choking came Into Kalr 'hllil's throat. He entered the tunnel ilotvly, ploddingly; with lagging mus ics he hauled up the bucket whleli :old of Hurry' presence below, (hell ilowly Ion ci cil himself Into the re. .esses of the shaft mid to the .drift leading to IJio Mope, .where only a fine lay before they had found that ;iiiint, whitened, haunting thing which liail brought with It it neiv misfortune. A, t)zLJ ulfiiliied ubciitl. uul tin; lottnd of a' single Jack lininmcrliig nn the end of n drill-could be heard., Fair child called and went forward, to find llnrry, grimy nnd sweating, pounding nwny nt n narrow streak of black for mation which centered In tho top of the slope. "It's tho vein," he nnitntinccd, lift or he hnd greeted Fnlrchlld, "nnd It don't look like It's going to amount to much I" "No J" llnrry withdrew the drill from tho hole he wns making nnd mopped tils forohend. "It nln't n world-beater," cntno tits consolntoly. "I doubt whether It'll run uiore'ti twenty dollnrs to tho ton, the wye smelting prices nvo gone up I And there nlnt much money In that. Whnt 'nppened In Denver?" "Another friune-iip by tho Rodnlnes to get tho mine nwny from us. It wns lawyer. He stnlted that the offer had been mndo to us by Miss Rich' niond," "How much?" "Two hundred thnusiiml dollars nnd un to get out of ull the troubles wo nre In." "And you took It, ot course?" "I did not!" "No?" llnrry mopped his forchend ngnln. "Well, mnybo you're right. Maybe you're wrong. Hut whatever l Did Not" you did well, thnt's Just tho thing I would 'uvo done. Only " nml Hurry was stnrlng lugubriously nt the vein above him, "It's going to take us n long tlmn to get two hundred thou sand dollars out of things the wye: they stand now." "Rut we're going to keep at It, Harry, sink or swim." "Vou know It !" "The Rodalnes have hit maybe we can hnvn some good luck too." "The Rodalnear Harry stared. "'It whatr "Two hundred dollar a ton ore!" A long whistle. Then Harry, who hnd been balancing a single Jack, pre paratory to going bark to his work, threw It aside and began to roll down his sleeves. "We're going to 'ave a look at It," "A look? What good would II V' "A cat ran look at a king," said Harry, 'They can't arrest us for go ing up there like everybody else." "But to go there and ask them to look at IMr riches" "There ain't no law against II I" He reached for hln carbide lamp, hooked to a small chink of the hang ing wall, and then pulled his hat over hln bulging forehead. Carefully he attempted to smooth hlsstrnylng mtis In die, nnd falling, as always, gave up the Job. "I'd he 'appy, Just to look at II," he announced, "Come on. I.et'a forget 'on they are and Just be lookers-on." Falrchild agreed against bis will. Out of I lie shaft they went and on up the hill lo where Hie townspeople agnln were gathering nbout the open ing of the Sliver Queen. A few were going In. Fnlrchlld nnd 'Arry Joined them, A long walk, stooping most of the wny, ns tho progress wits made through the narrow, low-roofed tun nel; then n slight raise which traveled for n fair tllstanrn at an easy grade at Inst to stop; and there before them, Jammed between the rock, wns tin strike, a great, heavy streaking vein, nearly alx feet wide? In which the ore stuck forth In tremendous chunks, embedded In a black background, llnrry eyed It studiously, "Vou can see the nllver sticking out!" be announced at last, 'It's won derfuleven If the Rodalnes did do It, Come on. Boy, let's us get out of 'ere. I'll he gelling the blind staggers If I stny much longer." Fulrchlld accompanied him word lessly. It was as though Kale had played a deliberate trick, that It might laugh at him. And as he walked along, he wondered more than ever nboul the mysterious telegram and the mysterious conversation of the greasy llarnlmni In Denver, For once a ray of rhef-r enme to him. The Rodnlnes had known of this strike long before lie over went lo that ollk-i- In Denver, They had wall ed long enough to have I heir nssnya mnde and had completed their first shipment to the smeller. There wan no necessity that they buy the Mine I'opny mine. Therefore, was It simply number trick to break him, lo lend ti I in up' lo ii point of high expecta tions, then, with ii'liiugh ill his ills, appointment, throw lilin down ngnln? Ills shoulder straightened as I hey iTiiclicil (he outs'ile ii'r, pud he moved Essay Wins Trip to Washington Stanley Newconib, 14 years old, ot San Dlcgo, Calif., it the boy scout who wrote an csi.iy nn "How I Can Make Highways More Safe." winnliiK over 400,000 competitor, He gets a gold watch and a trip to Washington, from the Nallnn.il Automobile Clianibcr of Commerce. close lo llnrry its be told blm his con jectures. Tho Cornlshmnti bobbed his bond, "I never thought of It Hint wyol" ho ngreed. "Hut It could rspliiln u lot or things. They wnnt to bent us nnd they don't euro 'ow. It 'una n person to he disappointed. Thnt's It. I ill tvyes snlil you 'nil n good 'end on you I That's It. Let's go buck to the Blue I'oppy." Back they went, once more to de scend the shaft, once more to follow the trull along the drift toward the opening of the slope. And there, where loose enrth covered tho plnce where n skeleton once had rested. Fnlrchlld took off lilt; coat and rolled up his sleeves. "Harry," he snld, with a new deter mination, "this vein doesn't look Ilk much, nnd the initio looks worse. But If you'ro game, I'm game, and we'll work the thing until It breaks us." "You've snld It. If wo 'It anything, line nnd well If we enn turn nut live thousand dollars' worth of stuff be font the trlnl comes up, then we can sell hit under the direction of tin court, turn over Hint money for n cash bond, nnd get the deeds buck. If we rnn't. nnd If Iho mine peters out, then we nln't lost anything but u lot of 'open and time. Hilt W goes. Wo'll double-Jack. I've got n big 'nmmer 'ere. Ton 'old the drill for nwbllo nnd turn It, while I sling th' sledge. Then you take lb' 'amtner and Uir 'ave merer on piy 'amis If you miss." (To da Continued.) Tha Morrie-Oancera. In Kngland, In medieval limes, the Christian feast of I'enlli-ost absorbed one of the summer festivals of tin pugan Inhabitants of western Europe. II was commonly celebrated In all parts of Ihe country by what was termed the Wlittsun-ale, and It was a great time for the Morrls-ilanerrs, Antiquaries seem agreed thai Ihe old English MnrrU-dante, no great n favor ite In the Sixteenth century, and Mill used, was derived through Xp.iln from the Moors, and that Its nonu; In Span ish, "Morlsco," a Moor, was taken from this circumstance. His 8lmpU Plan. 'Wow did )ou contrive lo live so lung?" asked the Interviewer. -"I dldn'l make nny particular plank," said the brisk centenarian. "No?" "I JunI kepi hopping out of bed ewry morning until the first thing I knew I hud been ilong II u bundled years." Birmingham Age llymbl. Painting Old Walls. Old walls, especially of klicliens, havu ti thin layer of grease and smoke upon them that tuny not be perceptible hut which will prevent paint from nil ticrlnc tironerlv. Heforn helnir re. pulnted they should bo washed thor- ougniy wnn soap unit water, to winch a Utile ammonia may bu udded, and finally rinsed with water, Exchange, Isn't Powdering Her Note. A pretty telephone girl may be pref erable, but a plain one will answer, Boston Transcript. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company Lumber, Luth, Shinnies, Building Muterinl, Kiln ' Dried Flooring and all kinds of Finish SASH AND DOORS COMPLETE STOCK ol SundVd Sues. BROOKS-SCANLON LUMBER, CO. Locul Saloi Ajfont, MILL lift LUMDKIt CO. HOWLING IS RAGGED AS SEASON STARTS Legion Alley Men Tnlic Two Out of Three From llrooUs-Hfiinloii Totul Hits for (Inttic Equal It wns a typically rngKoil oponlng non-nil mntch which wns played by the llranlcs-Bcntilou nnd American Legion bowling tennis on thu alloys ot tho Legion building Inst night, re sulting In two games out of tho tlirou to tho credit ot thu Legion bowlers, Knob team totalled 22 H plus fur the tlireo games, Brtioks-Scniilott winning tho first gnino by H plus, and thu Legion taking tho second game by six and tho third by night. The next mntch will ha rolled be tween Hliovlln-Illxott nnd tho city club, Hronks-tf riuiloii , 1st 2nd 3rd Qntno Ontuo (lame Total Harrington ....131 121 125 377 Hosteller 101 101 102 G2 llorg 115 H3 113 370 lllishoug 183 151 149 W Freemiut 183 138 158 470 Total 788 719 707 221 1 American legion Ontchull 142 121 203 Leigh 131 135 2A0 Hteldl 170 147 1 42 459 Connolly 147 135 282 Fowler 1G5 100 137 401 Ilttngo 100 113 180 483 Tola! 774 725 716 2214 Valuable Ota Creature. Tho walrui furnishes about Lf-00 iduiids of meat. 1,0 pounds of oil mil 500 iHiiutds ot leather, nnd tho hlto whnlo furnishes much more. I'ROl'IWHIONAL AMI Itl'SIXKHS DHIECTOItV PHONE 11 J Lee Thomas, Architect nnd Hugh Thoiupxm Dcichutes Investment Building, Wnll Street, Bend, Oru, R. S. HAMILTON Attorney At Law Rooms 13-10 First National Bnnk Bldg. Tel. 61 (Dr. C' l'uemr OfTtMl II. C. ELLIS Attorney At I .aw United Klates Commissioner First National Bank Building Bend, Oregon I'hone 04-W Lee A. Thomas, A. A. IA. 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