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f fife öhkitMAN CÜbki Y JULKN a U MORO, URKUUN, Fnday, Aufuat 11, IM. J ■ jo ^BSSS í SHERMAN CuUNTY OBSERVER* Established Nov. 8, 1888 GRASS VALLEY JOURNAL. Established Oct. 14, 1887 CONSOLIDATED, MARCH 6. 1981 WASCO NEWS-ENTERPRISE, Established 1891 CONSOLIDATED MARCH 4, 1982. Grass Valley Art Bibby is here this week and is still in the notion of coming beck here to live permanently. ‘ • Lieutenant John Homewood and Published Every Friday at Moro. Oregon, By wife were here Sunday from Wyom Managing Editor ing to see Mr- Homewood’s mother, . GILES L. FRENCH Mr*. L- R. French. They took their little girl home with them. /ZOI Miss Cassie Holmes is at the Wm. Mitchell home caring for Marguerite Entered as eecond-clMS matter at the ?oetoffice, at Moro, Oregon, under Act of Mitchell who was badly burned seV- Congress of March 8, 1879. r SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Ooe Year........... ?...................................................................................................... 81.50 Six Months.................................. 1.00 FRIDAY, AUGUST 11,1983. ? Little Bobbie Johnson has been fl! lately. George Wilcox and daughter Janet left for Portland Mbnday night for a short visit while George attends buyers week. Harold Hughes and Arne Annuls were among the party that made the . WHAT OF WHEAT? elimb up ML Hood laat Sunday under Fields of wheat that stood last week, trimmed of hay strip, direction of the Hood River post, white strawed, red headed, are now being resolved into long American Legion- , strings of sacks and rows of yellow straw for it is harvest time when wheat becomes a marketable commodity instead of a grow, ing plant What will happen to wheat as it enters the new stage is un-( known. There is little of it, if 500 million bushels can be called little, and a bounty has been placed on it to raise the price. Yet the warehouses in the northwest are full. It begins to look as if millers bought wheat before the tax became effective and do not care to buy now that the price is higher. A company with a full ’ granary is not a good customer at a high price If the market for flour falls off there may be a lull in the sell, ing of wheat that will hold down the price for a time . Or it may be that if benefits are paid to exporters for selling wheat across the ocean that will ■ f stimulate sales It has been a long time since the outlook for wheat was complicated by so many factors. - Now the market is affected by crop* reports from harvesting sections • In a few months reports df intentions to plant, fall rains and favorable snows will change the market It is foolish to con- ....elude that next year the orop will be as small as it is this year. We will probably raise more wheat on reduced acreage than we grew this season. That will surely depress the market although the farmer may be protected by an increased tax levied on the millers BY MOONLIGHT Probably everyone in this section has ridden over the Colum bia river highway on a night when a bright moon gave the hills a misty,’ vague look and the water a bright sheen. On such a night one might be riding in a dream, for moonlight, even at its brightest,is a half light and in it common things and com mon scenery assume strange looks. The scenery along the Columbia is not ordinary scenery and moonlight makes it appear more striking than usual. The hills whether tree covered or the plain hills might be of some soft sub* stance molded to fit the turns of the river while the river itsel shines as bright as a new blade ready for cutting and slashing. It may be a better way to look at the river than in the daytime for while the hills are rocked ribbed and mighty they have been cut and moulded by that comparatively slim stream as yielding as it appears. -------- 0-------- PAYING FOR PREYING The press has reported an occurance that seems to just beat everything. A New Yorker, whose funds were permanently low, was taken by a group of gun men and he was held for a goodly ransom. None of his relatives could pay it, so, being gentlemen of some ability at persuasion they persuaded the kidnappers to let their victim go upon a promise to pay a small part of the asked price at some future date. z' We Americans have bought radios, refrigerators, baby carri ages, automobiles and nearly everything else on time, we have paid fines on credit after regaining liberty, but dealing with rack eteers on a time payment basis is something new, even to this blase' generation Are times so hard with crooks that they are taking up the installment method in order to increase business? -------- o-------- With the approaching repeal of the 18th amendment there is a serious problem that needs much thought; how to handle the liquor business in a satisfactory manner? How to make every one honest .and, how to make every one obey the laws are other pro- b'ems in the same class. Almost anything can happen to wheat in the next twelve months. * With the government aligning itself on the side of the farmer his position can hardly fail to be more favorable, however. • ----- —o-------- Perfection is an elusive thing. We never quite attain it for having won or accomplished our immediate end we cogitate a mo ment and likely remark, ’’Now if,-^-”. -------- 0-------- The last administration had as its goal a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot, this one is working for a job in every family and beer in every glass —io-------- We note the demand for and sale of that hybrid tool, a bottle opener and a cork screw. Who said they never come back? Dean Olds has moved from, the Dugger house to the house formerly occupied by the Tetz family. • ■- ' Phone in your order for fresh Meats Fruits, Berries and Vegetables at the Grass Valley Market., Spec ial prices for harvest meats. Ice 75 cents per 100 pounds. Eggs taken in trade Ear! Old*. Miss Margaret Morgan is visiting at the Frank von Borstel home with Mrs. van Borstel- They attended school together at Monmouth. Henry Tetz is moving hi* house hold Rufus preparing for the open ing of school there within a few weeks. Henry returned from sum mer school just a short time ago. Homer Wall and Judge McKee were visitors here Tuesday while looking over the county. Parity Prices” Basis Of Farm Relit “In what Une of endeavor?” “Cows." "On a large scale?” "Ob yes!” "I should know him or of him, then. What’s his last name?" . "Latham. William B. Latham.” Dun J afiné Miguel Hlguenes set down bis glass and stared at her. “Is Uncle Bill slightly lame lo his off bind leg—just a suspicion of a limp?" "Yes. Do you really know mv Un cle BUI?" ' “No, I do dol But my late father knew bim very welL They got Into an argument once as to which was the best for the country—the gold stand ard or Bryan’s slxteen-to-one silver idea. Your Onde BUI was un outcast in Texas, at the time being a Repub llcan. ‘ My father, of course. was a Democrat. Is their argument they waxed persona 1. and finally your Un eie Bill callen ------ ----- -------- my father a d—d an- archlxtlc greaser. So my father yelled: ‘Hurroo! Faugh a-hallagh !* and hit your Unde BUI on the noxe and canted It five degrees to the south east. My parent then ran to his hors« to get his gun, which he wore In a pommel holster, and on his way there your Uncle Bill shot his hnt off. Thia was getting personal, so my father re taliated by -shooting your Uncle Bill In the heel." “Why, Uncle BUI never told me ahout that, Don Jaime ” “Why should he? He cam« off sec ond best, dldi/t he? He was drunk at the time and my father was Intoxi cated, otherwise there would have been two funerals. Father was heart broken when be sobered up/and sent his lawyer to your Uncle Bill to apol ogize, so your Uncle Bill accepted the apology and sent back one of his own. When I was a very small boy your uncle sold out his rancb to old man Holiurt. whose son, Kenneth. Is now my general manager. Doe* Uncle Bill treat you with civility and decency?" "Of course Nt does. He’s adorable. He’s a love." “Very well, then, I’ll not kill him. You must agree, though, that I did yon a real service In bumping off old Un cle Tom.” "Uncle Bill says you did.” Roberta admitted. "But then he’s biased.” ' "My father always declared that Uncle Bill was all wool and a yard wide. . „ . Dinner’s ready, thank God. That stout saddle-color«^ male who appeared In the door Just now says we’d l»etter come and get it or she’ll throw It out." “What an extremely old-fashioned young man you ire, Don Jaime.” “Please do not call me Don Jaime. The dop Is really a title of respect, and Is used by one's employees or so cial inferiors—rather like having a pullman porter address you as ’Judge' ox ’colonel.’ You may cal) me Mr. With the whole theory of the agri cultural adjustment act based on means of obtaining "parity prices” for the farmers products, increased interest is being shown in the chang ing relationships between the things farmers sell and those that they buy, according to L. R. Breithaupt, exten- sion economist at Oregon State col lege. This is particularly true as to wheat, now the object of a definite control program. The government index of prices paid by farmers as of July 15 is 105 per cent of the 1910-1914 average, now used as the normal period- This is two points rise since June and five points since March. As this index goes up so will the price of farm pro ducts need to rise if a fair purchas ing power is to be attained- The average price of wheat on July 15 had risen to 869 cents a bushel, or almost as high as the pre war average, but since that time the the eastern markets via the Panama price has gone down and commodity canal, the agricultural adjustment ad prices have probably raised somewhat ministration is seriously considering above the 105 index, so parity is not using a small percentage of the in come from the processing tax on yet in sight for wheat. wheat to establish an export subsidy As for Oregon, the farm price of or equalization fee by which to wheat has not reached any such fig make possible export of this north ure' as an unusually large spread has west surplus wheat to the Orient- developed between Pacific coast cash Such action, it is stated, would not wheat prices and those at Chicago. only restore the normal relationship This has amounted at times to be between Chicago and western mar tween 20 and 30 cents a bushel- When kets but would also protect the one adds to this freight charges from markets of the entire country from farm to terminal, it is seen that the being depressed by distress selling of “front page” report of Chicago fu- Pacific coast wheat through the east kure price is far above what the for what it would bring. Oregon farmer can get for his With this widening spread of wheat wheat prices coupled with the fact This abnormal spread between the that western fanners usually have Pacific Northwest and Chicago prices to pay somewhat higher prices than is blamed on the excessive stored the national average, little hope is supplies of wheat in this territory - . seen for attaining ’parity” for resulting from near collapse of the northwestern whieat growers unless export _ outlet the last two years. In some such method Is found for re- »n eflTort to correct this situation and during the burdowom. export sur- avoid dumping the western wheat on plus in this region. . They have toc EAT Those men who pitch hay and work summerfallow from dawn to dusk____- Let us provide the foods, Staple Gro- ceries Fresh Vegetables all reasonably and fairly priced. H. Zeigler’s "SS? Grass Valley • Oregon anticipate a reverse in the market which will pull him out, if not with a profit at least without terrific loss." “My father loved your Uncle Bill, even if he did shoot him In the heel and disagree with him politically. I would be glad to give my fakher'a 1 friend a leg up. You live with your Uncle Bill, I take It.” "I’ve been his ward sini n member of his household since my tenth hlrt’i day. I have never known a wish he hasn’t hastened to gratify, nt whatever cost. So, you see. now that h«’» old and Hable to suffer financial reverses. It lx my duty to take care of him. a fid for that reason my Uncle Tom’s estate conies to me somewhat In the, nyjure of a godsend.” . "One more reason why 1 should bo dealt with charitably tn the matter of your deceased avuncular relative," the Higgins, Mr. Hlguenes. James. Jimmy* young man suggested humorously. or Jaime.” “Well, we’ll pull you out all right on “Very well, Mr. Hlguenes,’* the girl the sheep.” “I understand the estate Is boarding murmured In a very small voice. Then: "Hold everything, mine host I on you. Mr. Hlguenes. Don Jaime shrugged, “Es nada.” he must run to my room for a handker replied. "That Is. the grass they con chief. I forgot to fetch one.” Don Jaime gazed after her. There sume doesn’t amount to that," nnd he was no doubt but that he approved of snapped his fingers. "Th? knowledge her mightily. When his gaze shifted that I nm serving n distressed lady 1« a rich reward." it met Mra Ganby’a Two mnids removed the empty soup "How does she Impress you?" she plates and set the roast down In front queried.^ "Miss Antrim Is physically beauti of Don Jaime. ”A wild turkey,” he ful and mentally alert. Yes. she’s as Informed Roberta. Then he sharpened smart a young woman as you and I his carving knife nn the steel and at will ever meet Well raised, well tacked the bird, dissecting It in a very spoiled, haughty, aware of her power neat nnd scientific manner. "Can you cook. Miss Antrim?" over men and just loves to use It “Heavens, no!” Sound at heart, though, t think.” "I had heard It was a lost art with “Will she be here long, Don Jaime?” ”1 do not know. In all probability the rising generation. I’m a rattling she will not be here long enough to good cook, myself, If I do say sd. Most please mA In fact if I hadn’t run I^itln males are. you ’know, ! enjoy that Bill Dingle scalawag down the cooking Hah and game.” "How ahdut boxing?" road she wouldn’t be here now. *She’s "Great sport. I have three \ n <i lieri » h a new note In life to me. hut I’m not who are paid five dollars a month going to let her know she Is.” I extra to box with me." CHAPTER VII Robbie, his pule face glowing from his recent ablutions, arrived with Ro- hertz and the four went In to dinner. The table had been set In the gallery, Don Jaime explaining that during the summer they always ate outside. Roberta appraised the table with „ the eye of an expert. It was covered with a white linen cloth; short- stemmed red roses peeped from n Jade green bowl in the center; the service was of sterling silver and very old and beautiful. On closer Inspection she saw that It carried a coat of arms. “My great-great-great-grandmother’s silver.” Don Jaime explained. "Fellow in New York once heard I had it and -sent his secretary down to buy it. He offered me an unbelievably high price for the service and didn’t seem to be lieve me when I told him it was not for sale. He Just kept tilting the ante and couldn't seem to see he was an noying me. Some people are like that They think money is the beginning and the end of everything." Perhaps you would, also, Mr. Hlguenes, if you had ever been poor,” Roberta suggested. "I’ve paid 12 per cent for rented money.' ” he retorted, “I’ve had the ranch mortgaged In bad years and banks carried my father half his life- time. Only those who are poor tn spirit, who lack courage, can he really poor.” “Dn you not find life a little lonely here?" "A busy man Is seldom lonely. My father spent his life in bondage to the Irrigation system you probably ob served en route here, but after his death 1 completed It and transformed a semlarld valley Into alfalfa and cot ton fields. I got rid of the scrubby long-horned cattle that were built for speed and substituted Herefords, which are built for beef. All this has been a considerable task and fell to my hands when I was eighteen. That ten years ago. •’After I was demobilized In the spring of 1919 1 really started to put this rancb on a paying hasis. I cleaned up on cotton in 1919 and ’20. And cattle price* were unbelievably high. I bad a feeling, however, that such a wartime prosperity wouldn’t last, so I sold »11 my cattle In the fall of 1920, and in 1921 I didn't plant any cotton. Well, the market smashed on both—and lucky Jim didn’t have any I "Instead I raised alfalfa and stacked It; then I bought cattle for a song when the banks and the governmental loan agencies foreclosed. Cheap cat tle and cl)eap feed, you know. 1 had my moments of panic; the road was rough and rocky In spots, although that, of course, made it all the more Interesting, the victory all the more delightful. I think that when one has had to fight for his land tnd his people he learns to love both, no matter how unlovely or unintereatlDg they may appear to those whose lives have been spent lh shelter and without effort.” “My life has been spent that way, 1 must admit,” Roberta confessed. “And I like It,” she adddd. “Why not? You’ve never tried nhy other life, have you?” Roberta noticed that her host was much more at his ease, now that their conversation bad veered Into new channels. It occurred to the girl too that Don Jaime Miguel Hlguenes had lived more In five minute* of his color ful Life than had the last three genera tions of Hacketta. And the Hacketts were a long-lived race. “What gainful occupation, if any, does Mr. Latham pracUce now?” Don Jaime asked Roberta. "He plays the stock market.” “With success, I hope.” “He has always been very success ful until recently, when he loet prao- tlcally everything he had—or at least k. W«OM hit. Io«t It wlthont th. »Id • of same people who |ore him. F We Certainly. After dinner you can telephone your message to the office at Los Algodone« and charge it to tr.a account.” ”1 suppose 1 should go to lx>s Algo dones In a day or two to consult with my attorney.” "Well, the longer you delay your visit. Mi is Antrim, the more agreeable It will be to Prudencio Alvlso. Prudy's almost a full-blooded S|>aniard. About one thirty second Aztec or Yuqyl, but that’s enough to make him want t<» take life easy. Be kind. Your visit on a business mission will cause him to bestir himself.” Roberta laughed again—softly, sud denly, for again she had a swift vision of Glenn Hackett artd compared the activities of his law office with the somnolent status of Don Prudencio’» Dgal mill. “I feel like Alice in Wonderland. ’ she declared suddenly. “Speaking of bees and birds and sealing-wax, and cabbages and kings,” lighted to have sold Prudy tn you. Hex so slow, so deliberate; I kqnw he’ll just lengthen out your visit to < the Rancho Valle Verde until you get to like the country. Just now you think my country's bare and lonely' 1 and desolate, but—It will grow on I you. To one unaccustomed to wide , horizons there is born, in Texas, a i feeling that pne Is lost. But presently one discovers that out of all tills lone liness and vastness a surprising num ber of good-natured and contented peo- pel come; they’re friendly and they do not talk too much, although they do talk to the point. I’ll miss my guess a mile If you find yourself without a serious Interest In Texas. Mees—I mean Miss—Antreefh—Antrim." “He’s secretly excited, and dis turbed,” Roberta thought. "Ihronounc- Ing ‘I’ us *?.’ I wlsN dinner were over.” Providentially, It was not a long “That. 1 suppoRp,” said Roberta dry-? course dinner, such ns Roberta had ex pected would be served and which she ly. “appeals to your Irish blood. Arp you of a reNglnug turn of mind$" a had looked forward to with dread. A - “Well, I built a church In my pueblo . soup, a salad, a roast, two vegetables, a light dessert and hlack coffee. That and I sup|M»rt a padre for my people. was all. — ,l play the orgna in my church and “Haruns his household like a sensi Uve rehearsed the choir until It’s real ly ratlier goo<|. ^Vou must enme to ble man, at any rate," the girl re- .- ’ , mass witli me tomorrow and listen • fleeted. to It." She watched a humming bird flitting from flower to flower, saw a quail come “Why were you armed today? Do forth and bear away a crust tossed you always carry that arsenal?" him by Don Jaime. Then, as the he replied soberly. “I do not. .shadows lengthened, the mocking But of late I have felt that discretion birds, replete with food and happy, might be the better part of valor. You perched.In a lime tree and paid for see, I have been unfortunate enough their meal In melody. Roberta had to make Romp new pnpinlps recently. never heard a Spanish mocker before The last time I went abroad unarmed I and was delighted with the beauty was carried home on a stretcher." ami variety of their extensive reper “I fear," the girl suggested, “that toire. . the Antrim sheep are preying to be a “You arc fond of music?” Dou J aline source of embarrassment to you.” queried. "Oh, not at nil! My enemies never Roberta nodded nnd he tossed a embarrass me, I assure you." He said quick order In Spanish to one of his It so simply, so earnestly, so absolute dusky maids. ly without brag or bounce, that Ro From behind the climbing passion berta laughed aloud. vines on the gallery across the patio "You are a new note In life," she de a guitar was strummed; Roberta clared. “Mrs. Ganhy, do you not find heard the mellow notes of a harp as Don Jaime a source of profound unseen fingers ran the scale. Then amusement?" a girl’s voice—without much volume, “Don Jaime, I must admit, is—dif but wondrously sweet and sympa ferent,” Mrs. Ganby replied guardedly. thetic—commenced to sing "La Golon- “I’m sure of it, Mrs. Ganby. He Isn't drlnn." a bit religious, but he Is very charit “When 1 am unhappy," Don Jaime able—so charitable. In fact, that I am explained, “they sing that sad song to certain he Is obliging me. In the matter me nnd make me unhappier.” of those sheep, at considerable loss "Why don’t you have them sing and nuisance and Inconvenience to something Joyful?” himself.” "My dear Miss Antrim, no Higgins "Not nt all," her host protested, "I ever wants to be made happy when expect to collect from the Antrim he’s unhappy. It’s like enjoying poor tate a reasonable fee for my services, hen 1th. We must feed our racial mel to reimburse me for my outlay or In ancholy.” convenience." Roberta hn<! a feeling of helplessness “You incorrigible Celt? Are these In this man's presence, for he was a professional entertainers brought out from Los Algodones?” new experience with her. She had “No, they’re part of the ranch as never met a man who remotely resein hied him— ro ruthless, forceful and sets. That harp has been In our family dominating. since the first Higgins emigrated to Madrid. Hello, bub, you getting Not knowing what to say, she sleepy? Tired after your long ride to was silent and attacked her meal. day, eh?” When presently, her glance met Robbie had left his chair and climbed Don Jaime's again he was smil up Into Don Jaime’s lap; his thin little ing at her, whereupon she itched arih was around the brown, powerful with a desire to pull hla undoubtedly neck, his head cuddled under the big Celtic nose. "He has all the audacity square chin. Don Jaime held him and assurance of the Irish and all of close with his left arm, and Roberta the ego of the I-atln,” she thought. noticed that with his right hand he “What an indolent, semi-Insolent gently massaged the atrophied mus glance he has! And he isn’t good cles of the boy’s left leg. looking at all. Still he isn’t bad-look The purple shadows crept over the ing. He’s Just masculine and knows It. patio, the music sobbed and mourned All of his life he has been accus behind the passion vines. tomed to being high and low justice I’resently Don Jaime shook Robbie on this ranch; because these peons of gently. "Come, son," he said softly. his kotow to him he thinks he can get “Say your prayers—in Spanish, as I away with murder. He’s just a Mex- have taught you. Nuestro padre—” The sleepy voice spoke haltingly the unfamiliar words, the man prompting from time to time. When the prayer was finished he rose and, with the boy In his arms, stooped over Mrs. Ganby that she might kiss her son good night Then he passed around the table to Roberta’s chair. "Innocence and helplessness," Roberta heard him murmur. “Who could not love It!” He stooped over her and lowered the boy until the childish Ups brushed her choft; then he bore the lad off to bed. The two women exchanged glances, the mother’s eyes were moist “That Is the Latin in him. Miss Antrim. He’s Ml1 not ashamed to demonstrate his affec tion.” Roberta did not answer. She was thinking of a remark that Crooked Bill had once made in her presence. “When children and dogs love a man a woman Is usually safe with him.” She wondered now If Glenn Hackett loved children and dogs and decided presently that he would love his own children. If and when be had them, but that he would not be interested in “Just a Mexican Feudal Baron.” <l<>gS or human beings beneath him In the social scale. lean feudal baron who has established his feudal sway just far enough north To be continued. of the border to make good with It." Hojack—What do you do with your "Is It possible for one to send a tele- dull old razor blades T »r”1“ 7°ur ~nch' "•««'»«>’ Skookum —Shave with them. * Olked.^ mi' urn.
