Halsey enterprise., January 15, 1920, Image 2

They rode on fo r scr-ra l mflrs, the
the necessity of fetching water up the American growing more and more per­
steep ascent from the bed of the creek plexed. Something—from somewhere
had annihilated the man who had
fa r below.
The two ate ravenously, but Jiten­ vented hts brutality In a contemptible
dra scrupulously abstained from any­ blow upon the face o f one powerless
thing except vegetables. He glanced ' to teso t.
Had Buck's hands been unbound.
st the American and fingered a can
Manuel Pacheco, ex-foreman In the
of condensed milk longingly.
"Take It—there’s lots more in the employ of the El Tigre mine, would
never have dared to offer such an
storehouse,”
said Williams kindly.
Ernest Gourley has bought the
Entered aa second-class matter ' Ktober
C H A P T E R IV .
Jitendra bowed his thanks and affront to Its ow ner: no, not i f he had
3, 1912. at the post office at Ha'sey. Ore­ gasoline washing machine and
ripped o ff the top with an opener. "In been in the center of a regiment of
Pacheco’s Death.
gon. under the A ll ol March 3. let/9.
my country," he observed, "we drink disciplined troops instead of a mere
engine o f Guy Bramwell.
Mr
“ How did you get here?" demanded
company o f ragged peons whose coun­
the m ilk of the goat."
Bramwell expects to install an the magnate.
Devoted to the material upbuild,ng ol ;
jn
But Buck Williams, worn and terfeit m ilita ry a ir only heightened
“ The ways of my people are not the
weary, only half understood him. He their ridiculous appearance and mag­
Halsey and surroundiug country and
ways of yqtirs, sahib. Did you not
nified their ignorant swagger.
Mrs
Fred
Jackson
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f
Lake
Linn county generally.
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, give me permission to come? And who relaxed in his chair and slept as sleeps
They were banditti, not patriots;
Creek, brought her baby in to um , ,ha, , gh))Ul(, pre#u[ue t0 disobey a man who feels at last a degree of
rate ft.AO per year in advance.
and their movements now were those
comparative
safety
after
many
perils.
Halsey this week to the doctor. you—or the gods J”
Once he fancied he heard the notes of a body of hnlf-terrifled, yet revenge,
Dur Hennonette.
“ The gods?"
W hile here she visited some of
ful men actuated by some intelligence
“ Vishnu and Siva," salaamed the of a fife, but drowsed off again, to superior to their own. The hideously
What doth the Lord require ol thee, her friends.
Hindu. "They, too, are here. Has the dream of the Invincible spirit of the sudden and unexplained death of their
but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
A lbert W M itzner from M a ri­ sahih never read the lines of one of men of '70. who rebelled against op- previous commander had dazed them.
' pression, laying down their lives that
to w alk humbly with thy God? Micali
on, Ore, who has been v isitin g bis own people?
The more he thought, the more tn-
their descendants might enjoy the
s
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•omprchensihle the whole affair ap­
blessings of liberty.
That these are very teasonable re- With his relatives here in Halsey "Far or forgot to me la near:
Shadow and sunlight are the sam e;
He saw vividly an army o f soldiers peared to Buck Williams. He knew
quiremenis w ill be conceded by all. fo r the past two weeks, returned
ih e vanished gods to me appear,
In
buff and blue, with cocked hats, Mexico. His acquisition of the roln-
That God could not require less from ' to ^jg home Tuesday.
And one to me are shame and fam e.”
marching
across the muddy Rio a'nl land on which El Tigre was to­
those whom he it educating lor the fu - !
taled had been nchleved during the
tore judging oi the world
e v id e n t;!
The Epw orth League gave a
“ But It’s Incredible,” returned the Grande, and before the stern anil in- gst years of the Diaz regime.
d<unitahle man who led them Manuel
mine
owner.
“
1
rode
my
horse
almost
and yet all three of these qualities spec- surprise party Wednesday even-
The very name of the mine itself had
Pacheco and hts ragged bandits tied
ified thru the prophet, are comprehend- ¡ng at the home of W A Carey to death—and there w ere times when precipitately.
leen derived from him. El Tigre sig-
I had all I could do to get through."
ed m the one word, l.ove
hove re- jry honor o f his Son E verettt, who
But the dream passed; at least the t.ifled “ The Tiger,” and that name had
He gazed, more and more mystified,
quires that we shall deal justly with our | a , e | r e t u r n p d f r o m th(J s e rv ic tfi
ut the gaunt figure who. seemed to have phantasmagoria of the Continental .'alien once from the lips of a thieving
neighbors, with the brethren, w ith cur
neon, who was overtaken and effectu­
forgotten fatigue or hunger at the army, with Waslilngton at its head,
fam ilies, w ith ourselves; th at we sha i
M rs David Froman o f Albauy mere sight of him. Jitendra was naked faded, while oddly enough, the fea- ally chastised by Buck himself fo r
seek to cultivate our appreciation of the i visited from Saturday u n til Mon- to
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hts loins, which were girded with a j tures of Pacheco persisted. Something stealing camp supplies In the early
rights of others.—th eir physical rights, d a y even ng w ith Mrs C M Ward cloth almost the sume hue as his body, was gripping his arms cruelly. Buck days of his operations.
For Buck wns named “ The Tiger”
their mural and intellectnal right*, their who has been on the sicklist w ith
Uis legs and feet were bare, and *’ Williams tried • • to - rise.
He half leaped from the comfort­ because of his Implacable fu ry when
liberties, and that, appreciating these,
save for a thick something swathed
) about hts neck and hts snow-white tur- able chair In which he had been sit­ any Httempt to victimize him was made
we shall in no sense ot the word seek to the grippe.
by the subtle methods which Mexicans
C J White, a form er business 1 ban- he was otherwise nude. It was ting. His heavy eyes widened.
abridge or deny them
Opposite him sat Manuel Pacheco usually employ with a "gringo'' un­
Inexplicable—and the Incongruity of
man o f Halsey, spent a few hours the poetry which the Hindu had quot­ himself, on hts face an evil leer; and accustomed to their ways.
State of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Now "The Tiger” was bound fast to
here last Sunday. He is in the ed. together with htg devotion, added trussed like a chicken in the corner
Duces County, as.
F r a n k J C heney m akes o a th t h a t he
the
back of a horse, en route to some
was
the
Hindu,
gazing
mutely
nt
him
to
the
American’s
perplexity.
wholesale lum ber business in
la senior p a rtn e r of Ih e firm o f F . J.
tribunal of whose authority he was ig­
Then his eyes fell upon the feet of with a curiously inteut expression.
C heney A Co , doing business In th e C ity
Eugene.
o t Toledo, C oun ty a nd S ta le aforesaid ,
the little brown man.
"Welcome to El Tigre. Senor W il­ norant hut of whose Judgments ho
an d th a t aald firm w ill pay the sum o f
He was conscious of a swift, re­ liams.” sneered the ex-foreman. “ I could guess.
O N E H U N D R E D D O L L A R S fo r each
and every case o f C a ta r r h tt.u t cannot be
Pacheo, o f himself, would not have
morseful throb. The feet were bare— Ptorable thongs, hut cursed Ills for­
r
r u le d by th e uaa o f H A L L 'S C A T A R R H
bruised, cut. swollen, bleeding—the mer mine foreman with expletives ot dared to presume to lay hands upon
M E D IC IN E
FRANK J CHENEY
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S w o rn to before me and subscribed In
him, Dor did the indolent Mexico*
feet of a man who has plodded Hcross a high dynamic quality.
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m y preeence, th ia it h day ot Decem ber.
thg flinty surface of the open country.
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A D. 1M>6
A W. GLEASON,
Pacheco merely adjusted Ids heavy. foreman possess sufficient initiative to
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N o ta ry Public.
w liv, has unhesitatingly kept on through gold fringed epaulets and complacent seize on a mining property of the mag­
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H a ll'a C a ta r rh M e d ic in e la ta k e n in ­
chaparral, woods, streams—the feet of ly patted aw ay an im aginary w rinkle nitude of El Tigre unless with inspira­
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te rn a lly and acta th ro u g h th e Blood on
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th e M ucous Borfacee o f th e System Send
a man unused to unremitting pursuit. In the neat blue coat he wore ns he tion from bigger minds than his. But
t
fo r teetlm oniale. fle e
Buck Williams gulped—there was a signaled to the other moxos, standing Pacheco was dead—a bloated purple
F . J C H E N E Y A C O . Toledo, O.
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Sold by a ll drug gists "Ex'
lump In Ids throat,
respectfully but curiously beyond the corpse—struck down almost at the in­
H a l l ’a F a m ily p itta fo r constipation.
stant of his atrocious blow and burled
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“ You have followed tuo all of these door.
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nine days—afoot?” he sternly (Jo-
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“ Assist Senor Williams and his «to the great unknown.
Bert Cohen o f Portland, tra v ­ 9
Pacheco’s death was, and forever
servant Io horses,” he curtly directed.
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By FRANK ULIGIITON
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Art
eling fre ig h t and
passenger 9
It was already sunrise. Outside the would be, utterly baffling, Buck W il­
L.
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house the two were securely bound to iams knew unless Jitpndra could and
agent fo r the O E, was «ver at
Ml
t a a auf M Kk
the animals, and the party started voidd explain It.
Tulsa last w tek to make observa­
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down the tra il towaril the coast. At
lip turned to glance at the little HltJ-
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tions concerning business, and
the fork of the highway leuding oil the In with growing feeling of respect,
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left to Cullacan, they debouched to the »ordering on awe. He noticed that,
stated that if there was not a on a Biding Tom D a v e n p o rt, engineer of 1
' right.
sbile surrounding then,, the soldier*
the Pacific L im ite d , becomes In terested in I
probability of more rt turns than the
fu r tiv e m ovem ents of a sm all brow n
: . "Where are you taking us?” Im­ sere riding well away from Jitendra
have
been
expectlcg
you
for
some
man,
e
v
id
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n
tly
a
fore
ig
n
er.
and
In
v
e
s
ti­
heretofore that the side tracks gates W h a t he discovers sends him
periously demanded El Tigre's owner. »nd himself.
days.”
“The conimandiuite nt Znpntlllo de­
would be removed to other pla­ bat k to his t ap In a h u rry , b u ch ai an
The mysterious demise of their enp-
Buck
Williams
struggled
futllely.
W lllla m s . m in in g m an. boards the tra in •
ain had evidently not been without Its
A rawhide rlata had been looped sires your presence, senor,” leered
ces and the station be moved and m akes the acq u a in ta n c e o f the
s tra n g er,
J a lls in g ia o
J ite n d ra ,
who
Pacheco.
effpet. Ruck wondered why Jitendra
elsewhere. Now i f the farm ers proves to be a n E a s t In d ia n T h e lim ited around his elbows behind his hack,
" I ’ll get you fo r this, v.>u grgpser and himself had not been shot down.
Is w ie t Red.
throwing his shoulders so fa r out of
around Tulsa are anxious to see
dog!” exclaimed the American.
I t must be because definite orders
, .
.C ' I C H A P T E R I I . —W illia m s . though patn. I
that the pain was frightful. An-
For answer I ’neheco drove his hots© lisd been spnt oqt both fo r his capture
business move tttitl keep th e ir fu lly burned, h v , . Jitsmtra who h id ) other twist of the same lurlat had
pinned under the w reck
Th e H in d u j pinioned his wrists, his knees und between the animal Williams wns rid­ and disposition—otherwise the tides
place on the map it would he been
vow» « to rn a i g ra titu d e
W illia m * re -
ing and Jitendra’s mount, leaned over of the bandit command would, ere this,
cstves a message ta ilin g him .Mexican | u n k li s being left free.
well fo r them to get busy and rs v o lu tlo n is ia have seized hts m ine, I Naturally a ntau of Strong Impulses, and struck the American a heavy blow have visited s death ss sudden, but by
kn o w n as " E l T ig re ," a i.u k ilte d o r driv e n
do something. Roads are need­ -•> •>.« S ,„ a r le a iis .
in means as mysterious, upon both.
Williams ceased to wrench at the In- across hts unprotected face.
Although half-blinded w ith rage nt
''Jitendra." whispered Williams.
ed to get to the station from all
the blow. Williams an Instant later (elt
Thp Hindu turned.
"H ’m 1” muttered Williams, ns he
But why—of course It's absurd a strange th rill of some event out of
directions and th a t w ill mean
“ What was it that killed Pacheco?"
carefully scanned the camp through even to think
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o f _ It—but
why In the
th a t the farm ers must work to­ hts glass for signs of hidden enemies, devil
didn’t you work the occult' stuff. the ordinary. Pacheco drew hark. Ills
“ The vengeance o f Vishnu, sahib,"
brutish
face
wreathed
in
a
grin
o
f
fe­
inswered the other.
gether, and the ones that are in ­ ‘Manuel and his friends seem to have Jitendra—that Is, If you could? I ’m
rocious trium ph; hut the smile sud­
" I do not understand,” replied the
terested in certain roads should other business than running El Tigre sorry to have caused you all this trou­ denly stiffened.
Just now, nt least. Wonder If Scotty ble and worry. I f you could send
mine owner. He was a little Irritated
make a concerted pull fo r that was wrong?"
He reeled In his saddle; a second to think thst he, a »trong. lusty Ameri­
your astral body on ahead and then
particular road and not depend
He gave a little chortle o f satisfac­ follow It—well. I wouldn't have cared. later his eyes almost started from their can. wss Inferior In resources fo r re­
sockets with agony. His cigar-colorcd sistance to his enemies, while a gaunt,
too much on the people who are tion as the glass focused on the door Why didn’t you do that?”
features grew purplish and a fleck of emaciated, undersized atom bound un
to the underground bullion house and
’’Sahib, It is not permitted to In­ foam rose to his gasping lips.
not
p articularly
interested in i supply chamber. It was marred und
securely as himself to another horse,
,
,
,
voke the powers of the gods when our
His bridle-hand reluxed; convulsive­ Invoked apparently occult powers with
th a t road.
Let them do this battered, but evidently It had resisted own efforts w ill avail. Only when no
from all sides anti make Tulsa a! ,he ,‘n’,>r,s
the pillagers to enter it. ( other means are at hand fo r dellver- ly his legs drove the spurs on the high- »nch startling results.
topped boots into the sides of the horse
Jitendra's hands were tied as were
“
Not
so
easy
to bore through steel- ante may I call upon Vishnu and
real shipping point.
The place
he was riding. The animal reared, his own—he could see the flesh swell.
reinforced concrete,” laughed the Siva.”
pawing the air with a peculiar and un­ Ing on the bony wrists where the taut
could well support a ware house weary man. “ Lucky I followed my
There was nothing to be gained by
and much o f the business th a ’ hunch and stuck those worn-out mine- discussion. Williams decided. Yet he accountable terror, and would have rawhide was shrinking In the heat of
bolted had not one of the command the sun.
goes elsewhere could he concen­ rails Into the cement mixture when I could not Imagine in what manner the gras|ied It by the reins.
"The vengeance o f Vishnu," at last
had anticipated his own ar­
trated rig h t there, which would hung that door. Well. I'v e g o t !? f a k * Oriental
Buck Williams gazed mutely nt the te mechnnlcnly repeated, when ,lie
a chance. I suppose. anil I ’d le tter take rival.
retribution which had struck down the 3lndu had apparently failed to aottea
be a help to the place as well as It In daylight than after dark. There's
"You were ahead o f me?" he asked.
bandit. The outcry of the privates he , lls remark.
Jitendra bowed.
a convenience to the shippers.
some canned stuff inside my cellar, and
scarcely heard. He did not need their
“ Yea. Sahib Buck."
” Ilow did you know thia was El
I guess It won't taste so awful bail
chorus of alarm to know that Pacheco
The squalid adobe structures o f 1
after a diet of frljoles and berries. I f Tigre? There are many other mines was dying—was dead.
Tangent Items.
Sepatltlo were now clearly In vie w ,'
Pacheco unit his gang do swoop down around these hills."
Yet there had been nothing—abso­ fhe soldiers sat o little more e re ct,1
Howard a Jenks went to Hubbard on me. I might make a stand in the
The Hindu silently stretched his
Thursday on important business.
Josed th rtr ragged ranks Into slightly
bullion-vault until they sturve me out. I t* ""b pointing to the huge sign on the lutely nothing—save only the quick
tralghter lines, and the horses, sens
company store above them. The mine bending o f Jitendra's lean body in Ihe
Mr» Viola Houten of Freewater, Ore. anyway!"
captain's direction—a sw ift inclination
He rode fearlessly down the narrow •’ " n e r laughed.
haa been visiting with her mother. Mrs
Ing
a delayed meal, moved forward
of the turbaned head at the instant
at a sw ifter psca.
M I Sm ith. W h ile here the received a path with the quiet poise Of a man who 1 "R 'vss a foolish question, wasn’t It? following the cowardly blow.
Still Jitendra did not vouchsafe any
telegram announcing the deatli I tier Is willing to risk all for the thing his | 1 *"••’•* I ni almost too tired to think
The sergeant, Jesus Corabado, vol­
brain has built and his bunds secured straight. Well, wed better he getting
explanation.
Only at the gate of the
husband a brother in Seattle
leyed n command and the column
The cluster of desolate-looking min­ up to camp," continued Williams.
halved, while the corpse of Manuel carrel itself, a few minutes later, did
Mrs Thomas Smith, daughter Gladys, ers' ciihius on both Rides of the road
lie dismounted stiffly from the horse,
Buck W illlam s catch a low murmur of
and grandchild V irg in ia, of Spnngd.de. up which supplies were brought from and the other dropped lightly to the I ’acheeo was stripped of uniform mid , words. He listened eagerly.
equipment.
Following
the
unique
hut
Wash, are visiting with Mrs Smith s ’ ’ullacan, fifty odd miles to the west, road. meekly following in the rear.
The Hindu seemed to be chanting,
simple Mexican tnstirrecto method of
brother in law. I. F Sm ith
M r Smith. l,,IU ,,,t unnervtal him.
“ I'm a man of my word. Jitendra ; and
promotion. Corabado donned the neat but the words were English;
His horse shied violently; something while I can t promise that you'll ever blue Jacket, with Its heavily fringed j
who died th e years ago. was a resident
quivered In the hushes on hts right. live long enough to resume your Jour­
reckon III who leave ms out;
of Tangent to years ago.
epaulets, and buckled the sword around
W hen m e th e y f l y - I am the wings.
Williams glimpsed at the half naked ney at El Paso, p ii t»e glad of your him.
1 he many fri •nds of ■ ret, Lupe.- will
I a m th e d o ubter and th e doubt
brown body and covered It with hts company until Scotty and the other
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
On the same principle, a corporal
be glad to learn that lie w ill tie borne
pistol, while he steadied the frig h t­ boys arrive from Gultacan. I f you get
s,ib«tltuted the former sergeant’s coat
this week Iron, Los Angelrs, Cali. He ened animal with his other hand.
In bad. remember. I gave you the
C H A P T IR V.
fo r hts own. and a private In hts stitrt-
lias recovered from his serious illness,
straight dope on this proposition, and
The bushes (varied.
sleeves
pnt
on
tho
corporal's
Jacket.
of autataxine poison, and w ill hit the
Gut u(a>n the flat roek, w ithin a don't blame me."
Incarcerated.
"Volante!” cried the new captain.
high places lor old Oregon
doaen feet of the alarmed American,
A careful search o f the premises dis-
The Jail at Zapatllln was a atructuro
The soldiers closed in and the col­
rlos.-d
no
paeudo-lnsurrectoa
in
am­
poked
a
turbaned
head,
beneath
which
W A Slate plumber and machinist,
umn moved forward. Manuel Pacheco In which one would not particularly
bush.
was painfully injured Frida) of last a thin, worn, ascetic face smiled Into
that was lay rigid and stark on the care to remain fo r a prolonged period.
the niusxle of the randy w*eii|von.
Williams, much relieved, permitted caliche, gazing at the cerulean sky w ith The Intensely hot. humid day mad«
week when he was («Hiring bsblutt met­
“Good morning, Sahih Muck,” piped Jitendra to aid In carrying a supply of fixed and sightless eyes.
the «alls reek with a stench from the
al into the le ir m g tor sou, • machinery,
the diminutive figure as it squatted canned food to h l* own house, a stout
Buck Williams turned to look at Insanitary conditions which always
the moisture causing the molten metal weakly upon the slab of tlre-bltten adobe building somewhat higher than
to explode and fly into his eves The granite, gazing Into the amaxed anti the Others, with Its hack against the Jitendra. The Oriental's face was in­ prevail In prisons, no matter how well
cleaned.
n g tt evehall was damaged, bat the phy- pitying eyes of El Tigre's owner.
hill. Ills horse was picketed along- ' scrutable He wns gazing straight
The food was unspeakable; the wa­
ahead.
Immovable,
as
if
behobltng
some
r
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th
le
h
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atcian attending the caae dogs not be-
scene yet to emerge front the womb of ter insufficient and unpalatable.
The Halsey Enterprise
taken "¡»
to o Albany
Buck Williams could not at once re- ' , he glope an(j a brook beyond obviated '
was
to’ have h it ply.
He was fascinated by the rapt look
wounds attended to.
An Independent Newspaper
upon Jllendra’s feature*—an »•■•static
gleam.'such »« a follower of Moham­
aOVUlH.
med might wear when be at Inst be­
P U B L IS H E D E V E R Y T H U R S D A Y
holds the shiuimerlug minarets of
M r Delos Wesley has bought Mecca shining brightly across the hot
the
Conk rig h t place. He w ill sands, signifying the end of tils pil­
CHAS. BAL1.ARU, Editor
make that his home in the future. grimage.
I
Swami
Ram’s
Reincarnation
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