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HA LSEY E N T E R P R IS E
DEC. 1 1921
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bark wolflshly, displayed yellow, fang-
like teeth. Under the raw crude greed
of the man you seemed to glimpse
something indescribably vulpine and
ferocious.
The face of Dugald Shaw was con
trolled, but there was a alight rigidity
In Its quiet. A pulse heat rapidly In
hit chfek. All worldly good, all hope
of place, power, Independence, hung
for him on the contents of the small
flat package, wrapped in oll-sllk. which
Miss Browne was at this moment with-
drawing from her pocket.
Only Cuthbert Vane, seated next to
me, maintained without effort his ee
renlty. For him the whole affair be
longed In the category known as sport
Ing, where a gentleman played his
stake and accepted with equanimity
the issue.
The dead sailor’s legacy consisted
of a single sheet of tlme-stalned pa
per. Two-thlrds of the sheet was cov
ered by a roughly-drawn sketch In
faded lrtk, giving the outline of th«
island shores as we had seen then
from the Hufus Smith. Here was thi
cove, with the name It bears In the Ad
ralralty charts— Lantern bay— written
In, and a dotted line Indicating the
channel.
T o ,a ll appearance the map was
merely to give Hopperdown his dlrec
tlons for entering the cove. There
was absolutely no mark upon It to
show where the treasure had been
hurled.
Now for the writing on the sheet
below the map.
It was In snothe'
hand than that which had writtei
Lantern bay across the face of tht
cove, and which, though labored, wn
precise and dear. This other was ar
uneven, wavering scrawl:
"He sed It la In a Cave with i
mouths near by the grave of Bill Hal
liwell wlch was cut down for he nev
to much. He sed you can bring a boat
" I Don’t Believe In Your Treasure." to the cave at the half Tide but he
Here In your treasure." (Which, of «are the turn for the pull Is strong
course, despite my temporary lapse, I He sed to find the Orave again loo’
really didn't.) ‘ I think you are—sil for the stone at the head marked B
lier than any grown-up people I ever H. and a Gross Bones. In the Chlsi
aaw. In the second place, anything Is gold Dubloons, a vast lot, also s
you do find you are welcome to keep. silver Cross wlch he sed leve for the
Do you think I came along with peo Grave for he sed Bill walks and that*
ple who didn’t want me, and have unlucky.”
That was all. A fairly clear dlrec
turned my aunt against me, for the
sake of filthy lucre? Did I come In- . tlon for any friend who had attend«*
tentlonally at all, or because I was the obsequies of Bill and knew when
shanghaied and couldn't help myself? to look for the stone marked B. H
Aunt Jane I" I demanded, turning to and a cross-bones, but to perfect
my stricken relative, who was gazing strangers It was vague.
A blank look crept Into the Intern
In anguish and doubt from Mlsa
Browne to me "haven't you one spark faces about the table.
“I t —It don't happen to say In more
left of family pride— I don’t talk of
affection any longer—that yon alt still deetall Jeat precisely where that cave
and hear me made speeches at In this might be looked for?" Inquired Mr
fashion? H a 'a you grown so sordid Tubbs hopefully.
"In more detail?” repeated Mis-
and grasping that you can think of
"Pray, Mi
nothing but this blood-stained pirate Browne. challengingly.
Tubbs, what further detail could be
gold?"
required ?”
Aunt Jane burst Into tears.
"A good deal more, I am afraid,
“Good gracious.
Virginia,”
she
walled, "how shocking of yon to say remarked the Scotchman grimly.
Miss Browne whirled upon him. in
such things. I am sure we all got
along very pleasantly until yon came her cold eye a spark had kindled
- aud In that dreadfully sudden way. And suddenly I had a new vision o'
You might at least have been cousld- j her. I saw her no longer as the de
luder of Aunt Jane, but as herself tht
»rate enough to wire beforehand."
It was Impossible to feel that Sheae deluded. Her belief In the treasur«
remarks helped greatly to clear the I was an obsession. Thia map was het
situation
I opened my mouth, hut talisman, her way of escape from ai
lllss Browne was beforehand with me. existence which had been drab am’
"Mias Virginia Harding has herself dull enough, I dare say.
admitted that she has no Just or ! “Mr. Shaw”— Miss Browne gave th
equitable claim to participate In the effect of drawing herself up In lln
profits of thia expedition—I believe I of battle— "1 feel that I must give ex
give the gist of your words, Mlaa presslon to the thought which come*
to me at this moment. It Is this—
Harding?"
"Have It your own way," I said, that If the members of this party art
to be chilled by carping doubts, th<
shrugging.
"I move, then, M r
Secretary"— wave of «mthuslasm which has floated
M laa Browne Inclined her head In a us thus far must Inevitably recede
stately manner toward Mr. Tubbs— leaving us flotsam on a barren shore
“that you offer for Miss Vtvgtnla What can one weak w^oman—pardon
Harding's signature the document pre my unfaltering Jana:— two women
achieve against the thought of fall
pared hy yon."
"Oh, I say I” broke out Mr. Vane ure firmly held by him to whom w<
suddenly, "I call thia rotten, you looked to lead ns boldly In our for
ward dash? Mr Shaw, this Is no tlnn
know I"
"In case of objection by any per for crawling earthworm tactics. It U
son," said Mlaa Browne loftily, “the with the hold and sweeping glance ot
matter may be put to a vote.
A11 i he eagle that we must survey this
Island, until, the proper point dlf
those in favor any aye I"
<-erned, we awoop with majestic flight
An Irregular fire of ayes followed
M r Shaw said briefly, “I think the upon our predestined goal!"
Miss Browne waa somewhat exhaust
distribution of the treasure. If any
la recovered, should be that agreed cd by this effort, and paused foi
upon by the original members of the breath, whereupon Mr Tubbs, anx
Ions to retrieve his recent blunder
party. Aye!"
seized with dexterity the opportunity
Aunt Jane's aaaent'ng voice Issued [
" I get you. Miss Browne, I get you."
from the depths of her handkerchief,
<ald M r Tubbs with conviction. "Vic
which was rapidly becoming so briuy
tory ain’t within the grasp of any In
and Inadequate that I passed her mint
dividual that carries a heart like a
From Cuthbert Vane alone there came
cold pancake In his bosom. I may hr
a steadfast no—and the Scotchman
rather a man of thought than action
put a hand on the hoy's shoulder with
ma'am, and at present far from m3
a smile which was like sudden sun
native heath, which ta the financial
light In a bleak sky.
renters of the country, but If I remem
Mr. Tubbs then produced a legal I her right. It was Ulysses done the
looking document which I took to be dome-work for the Greeks, while cer
the original agreement of the members tain pci sons that was depended on
of the expedition. Beneath their slg
sulked in their tents. Miss Higgle»
natures he had Inscribed a sort of hy-Browne yon can count—const, I
codicil, hy which I relinquished all , say— on old H n . !"•
claim on any treasure recovered by I
" I thank yon, M r Tubh*. I thank
the party. I signed the clause In s - you I” replied Miss Browne with emo
bold and defiant hand, under the at
lion.
As for Aunt Jane, she gnaed
tcntlve eyes of the company. A sort
upon the noble countenance of Mr.
of sigh went round, as though some Tubbs with such ecstatic admiration
thing of vast moment had been con that her little nose quivered like a
cluded. And Indeed It had, for now guinea pig's.
the way waa clear for Violet's map.
Covertly I watched the facea around
(To be continued)
me. Mr Tuhha' eyes had grown
bright; ha licked Ida dry Up*. His
Travel ef Light eng Sound.
nose, tip tilted and slightly halhoua,
Sound ta tald to move at the rate
took on a more than uanally roseate of «1 miles a minute, and. compered
hue Captain Msgnns. who was of a te light. It is Slower than a snail
restless and Jerky habit at the beat If we should hear a ctap of thunder
of times, was Ilka a leash e l animal half a minute after a flash af light
acentlng blood.
Beneath his open ning. we could calculate that the dts
shirt you saw the quick rise and tall
■barge of electricity was about sis aud
fi/ J*1» *S>'£2
‘ip*- <*rawn a half mllee away.
took« at M r. Shaw, who alone of all
the party eat Imperturbable, except
for a viciously bitten lip.
Mlsa Hlggleaby-Browne had drawn
a deep breath, preparatory to resum
ing her verbal ramble, but I sprang to
my feet.
"Miss Browne," I said. In tones less
coldly calm than I could have wished,
"If yon have thought It necessary to
— to orate at this length merely to
tell me that I am to have no share
in thia ridiculous treasure of yours,
you have wasted a good deal of en-
erry
In the first place, I don't be-
Dairymen’s League
Members' Unwilling to Acquiesce in Work of Managers
W hom They Denounce as Wreckers
Half a century ago the order ot
Patron« of Husbandry came into
being, born of the economic slav
ery to which the farmers of the
country, as a class, were subject.
It met with fierce opposition and
ridicule from those superior beings
who followed other occupations or
no occupations and looked down
on “ clodhoppers” and “ country
jays.*’ But it grew until its influ
ence was felt in state legislatures
and in congress and “ granger
law s” were not only passed but
carried from court to court aud
finally enforced.
Co-operative enterprises were es-
tabli hed, some of which succeeded
aud some failed. As a rule their
stores have not beeu successful,
though there have been shining ex
ceptions. The most frequent cause
of failure has been the schemer who
wormed himself into the confidence
ot the members, obtained control
of the venture, wrecked it and
profited on the spoils.
The grange is not decadent in
Oregon. The membership lias in
creased by over a thousand in the
state io the past year. And in
<tate and nation its educational
influence has been immense. The
intellectual level of the farmer, on
in average the country through, is
considetably higher th an fifty years
ago, aside from the marked in
crease in the proportion of farm
ere’ sons and daughters who attend
the higher institutions of learning
But different machinery from that of
the grange has come to be a need ot the
farmer, and the farm bureau, more
heavily financed and more ambitious
commercially, has sprung up and cov
ered the country more quickly than the
grange did. It has fathered grain,
»1 and other pools which have deliv-
red members from the grip of he gam
tiers and financed them, as eertaiu
banks did the gamblers, while waiting
ior prices of products to rise to a nor
mal level.
Nature has given Oregon a climate
aud soil that make her a model dairy
state. Finding themselves at the mercy
if the bujers. Oregon dairyman tried
numerous co-operative manufacturing
schemes, but with indifferent success.
I f a co-operative creamy began to make
a success, along would’ come buyers for
big creameries and condenseries offering
more for m ilk than honest business
eould pay. Weak-kneed patrons would
be won away from the farmers’ cream
ery and it would fail. Then the price
would drop and the weak-kneed wonpl
find themselves in the hole with tilt
brethren they had betrayed.
Under the auspices of the farm bu
reau the state dairymen’s league] was
formed and members signed contracts to
deliver all their milk to the league foi
five years, except what they cousume*!
themselves or sold at home for loca
consumption. A »tiff moneary penalt
was provided in case of violation of thi
contraet.
Eastern condensers tried the oi l trici
of buying off members of local branche ■
of the league by paying higher price*
telling them the penal clause of the>
contracts could not be enforced an
guaranteeing them against it.
Th
league took up the challenge, fought 1
through the courts and won. The onh
way for a member to get out of th
league before his five years expires is 1
lie or quit producing m ilk except foi
sale to local consumers.
And now it has beeu announced that
the league is going on tne rocks. The
state board of directors declares that it
is unprofitable and has voted to disband
This move at first carried dismay to the
members, but soon they began to ask
Why? And the word has gone around
that their affairs have been willfully
mismanaged by their manager and sec
retary, to the end that would-be monop
olists may again control the price ot
milk in Oregon. It is charged that the
manager is part owner of a lival con
cern and that the plant purchased for
the league in Portland for $80,000 is not
worth one-fourth of that sum.
A t a meeting in Portland next Tue-
day morning these and other chargr
may be replied to. The call for the
meeting demands a new board of di
rectors and new management. It has
lieen unanimously indorsed by several
county leagues, including that of Linn,
which met at Harrisburg Saturday with
Halsey well represented.
LOSSES TO LIVE STOCK ON OPEN
RANGES CAN BE GREATLY REDUCED
One Hundred Acres Grubbed.
The first season about one hundred
acres of range were grubbed, the pol
sonous plants being eradicated with
larkspur picks and scattered In ex
posed places to dry In the sun. On«
man could dig 1.71 acres a day. Th«
total cost of grubbing the one hundred
acres the first year amounted t<
$450.30, an average of $4.50 an acre
The losses of cattle were reduce«
from 18 head the year before to 5 heai
the following season. The saving o'
13 head of cattle waa directly due t*
the larkspur eradication work. Estf
mating these steers worth $50 aplec«
a saving of $650 resulted, which pal*
all the expense of the grubbing an«
left a balance of $199.70 to the cred!
of the work. The following season th
range carried 50 more head of cattl
ns a result of the decrease In th
amount and severity of the larkspu
Infection.
In passing, it Is worthy of mentloi
that the larkspur picks are made iron;
•rdinary aurface picks by drawing out
one point to a chisel form about two
inches wide, while the other point Is
sharpened in a diamond shape. Gen
■rally pruning shears and small hand
axes are used In cutting out the brush
and trees which obstruct the access of
ihe workmen to the larkspur. Ordl
narily an average workman can grill
ont from seventy to eighty larkspur
plants an hour. The last two seasons
the grubbing work has been continued
the chief attention being devoted to
new areas, as the original one hundred
acres are now practically free of any
larkspur.
C a ttle G razin g on a w e s te rn Fo re st R ange.
(Fr*p&r*d by th « U n ited S ta te* D ep a rtm en t
o f A g ricu ltu re )
The utilization of the range In the
national forests of the West for the pro
duction of wool, beef, mutton und pork
Is steadily Increasing from year to
year.
Ranchers and stockmen are
manifesting a growing appreciation of
the advantages afforded by govern
ment pasturage. And In the same de
gree they are all too frequently neg
lecting their stock after tt Is turned
out on the mountain ranges, state offi
cials of the United States Department
of Agriculture
On all open ranges there are many
losses from predatory animals, poison
ous plants, disease and accidents, and
similar dangers. Unless owners of live
stock campaign Intelligently and perse-
'•erlngly against such sources of disas
ter, their herds and flocks usually Suf
fer a mortality of from 5 to rt per cent
yearly
To Illustrate, one ranchman
grased 700 head of cattle last sum
mer on a national forest without a
herder. As a result he lost a dozen
head of steers worth $50 each.
M ortality High Last Year.
Last year In forest district 5, which
includes California ami western Ne
vada. the total live stock mortality In
17 forests s moil l i l t ' d to 1.161 cattle, 5
horses and 5,840 sheep The total mm
her of permittees who used ih e federal
(rasing lands aggregated 3,329 Tliey
grasetl 234.415 cattle and horses. #33,
500 sheep and goats and 5.500 hogs on
the foreet ranges. Two hundred and
seventy live cattle died of disease. _w
cattle and 1.4«2 sheep were killed by
eating poisonous plants; »1 cattle. 5
horses and 2.745 sheep were killed hy
predatory annuals, and 4*0 cattle and
1,«^_ stiee|* yiev ualbed to_ accidents
and miscellaneous causes or death.
This matter of live stock losses on
the government ranges has become of
such Importance that the United States
forest service made a detailed survey
of the specific causes of mortality
among live stock In the Stanislaus for
cat of California during n recent year
During the period under discussion a
total of 881 head of live stock out of
the 20.000 nnlmuls psstured In the for
est lost their lives. The manner In
which these losses were distributed
should be of value to stockmen and
ranchera who are Interested In curtail
Ing these losses and who are anxious
to know what the weak points In their
present methods of management are
The losses among cattle were dlstrlb
nted as follows;
Under one year old from blackleg.
98; over one year old from blackleg
57; calves, loss of mother from lark
spur poisoning. 10; cattle losses from
larkspur, 58 ; other poisons, 21; preda
tory animals. 20; accident, 33: In calv
Ing. 14; lost, strayed or stolen, 74 .
from anthrax. 2; from eating gtani
powder from railroad construction
camp. 3; from neck-and-splne disease
15; killed by hunters. 2; blind, aged,
crippled and ruptured. 4; losses from
contagious abortion. 122; from lack of
proper food and starvation. 14, and
from unknown causes. .337
Cheek Predatory Animals.
The losses from predatory animal*
are being checked as rapidly as the
federal agencies for this work arc
able to cope with the situation. When
ever the forest rangers note that the
predatory animals are causing heavy
damage, professional hunters are sent
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Iruj them, The looses due to
disease and accident and miscellane
ous causes could he substantially de
creased If more herders were employed
hy the owners. Under conditions which
obtain on the national forest ranges
one or two herders could handle from
five hundred to a thousand cattle with
out particular difficulty On tlie same
scale that It pays to herd sheep on the
government ranges It also Is profit
able to herd cattle and, potentially,
permittees probably will come to this
decision of tbelr own accord.
Poisonous plants—and particularly
larkspur—are responsible annually for
large losses of live stock throughout
the western states. There is only one
ffectlve system of ridding the ranges
>f larkspur and that Is to. grub the
plants out seuson after season until
finally the range will be free of this
•bjectionnble growth.
The experiences of a certain ranchei
vhose range abuts one of the Califor
nia national forests, and who, under
he supervision of the United States
"orest service, has been waging a win
ling fight against larkspur during the
ast four years, are Illuminative In this
regard. After careful trial and stud?
if the control methods and the results
his stockman is enthusiastic about th*
fildency of the plan and he urges ev
v other rancher or stockman win
’ - ’ »d range to give the systen
of eradication a thorough and Inipar
tlal trial.
Ideal Pasturage Infested.
In this Instance the larkspur wn-
prevalent In large amounts on a rang*
where the grazing was otherwise excep
(tonally go«xl. The Infested area wat
on a side hill where seepage from t
sprlpg near the top of the hill pro
vlded plenty of moisture, so that the
grass was unusually luxuriant at all
times during the grazing period. The
rancher had to have a herder with the
cattle constantly In order to keep
them off the larkspur-infested area
Not only did he lose the use of excel
lent range, but he also was under ex
tra expense to protect his cattle from
the poisonous plants. During the 1913
grazing season he lost ten steers,
which, despite the efforts of the herder
trespassed on the larkspur area and
succumbed to the poisoning which re
sulted. The following season, under
similar conditions, 24 head of valuable
range cattle were poisoned. The next
year only five steers died from lark
spur poisoning, while the following
year the mortality aggregated eighteen
head. In 1917 the larkspur eradication
campaign was instituted, and as a con
sequence of the work of that season
the cattle losses were curtall«‘d to only
five animals. The next year the work
was continued and not a single ease of
steer mortality from larkspur poison
Ing occurred. In 1919 only two steer«
died, while last year the mortality also
was limited to tw*o animals. Recently
the larkspur area of. the range has
been grazed hy a band of 2,000 sheep
BUYING SUITABLE CHICKENS
Posa*bts for City Man to Select His
Pullets From Live Poultry
Shipped to Town.
Where a town man has no time to
go Into the country to buy his pullgts
tt often Is possible to choose suitable
birds among the live poultry shipped
Into the city markets. The advice of
some experienced person ahould he
obtained before buying, says the Uni
ted States Department of Agriculture
Local poultry associations are glad to
help prospective poultry keepers by
putting them Into touch with members
having stock for sale. The board of
trade or the chamber of commerce
often can bring poultry raiser and
buyer together.
i
Mensy of Ancient Britons.
Sword-shaped bars of Iron were
used by the ancient Britons as money,
snd many of these are now «ound In
British museums
A recent Invest!-
ration shows that six different denom-
instlons were used, distinguished by
Uxlr six«.
articles no longer needed, or succeeded
by better ones, which somebody would
like to obtain. An advertisement
the
lu s c u ic u t
tU C
size of this, costing 25c, m
might
find
a
ig h t fia
d a
buyer and covert what is
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now only trash into good
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE OF SALK
Notic« it hereby given that on and
after December 23, 1921. under author
ity of the last w ill and testament of
Lizzie Bilveu. deceased, the undersigned
will proceed to sell at private sale for
cash all of the interest of said deceased
in the following described property, to
wit 1
Lot 1, in block 1, in Bridges' addition
lo Shelburn, Linn county, Oregou ; also
lot 1 and the w. X of lot 4 in block 11
in Wheeler's addilfon to Scio, Linn
eounty’ Oreg *n:
Dated and first publication hereof is
November 24, 1921.
G W . M O RRO W . Executor
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