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f / Î g L X MtfcftMAN UjUNTJ JOURNAL, MORO, OKEOoM * ftiraaa Valley Journal Established Oct. 14, 1897 C O N S O L ID A T E D March ft,* 1931 Wasco News-Euterprtoe Established Nov. 1891 C O N S O L ID A T E D March 4, 1932 0 . 1943 hood wb«a wc were th a t f a r away fro m a store th a t sold stick candy. And so the w orld gets smaller. (Continued frorrt ,j asre one' T h a t, however, ian’t the point. W e would like <o see it get "better soldiers a t Camp W hite and Camp. along with it. A d a ir. The maintenance w ill con tinue until June 30— the .end o f trtered as second class matter at Postoffice h t Moro. Oregon ¿tos: O F F IC IA L C O U N T Y P A P E R rates Pavahle in Advance . O N E Y E A R ........ .......~........... $1.50 20 tons o f potatoes. *>" mu3t »* S“TC<1 fo r the govern- moot. This quota will b e ; sent high whool Tuesday and sent J » the fro n t on th e survey fo r the C SR y extension. They were Rob- e rt Hickson, John F itzm aunc?, A rth u r Page and E a rl Saunders. W a te r P a rry w ill soon follow. W ith the exception o f M r. Saun tiers they have all had experience at the fro n t. Since Drs. Goffln have been in the county they have owned 17 horses. A ll thesw ift, untamed horses eventually go to D r. Coffin. The Blue barn force is now a t work these early mornings tam ing another euitan fo r him. A jo lly p a rty of five ladies ami A P R IL 16, 1943 fo u r gentlemen walked from W a s co to Biggs Sunday forenoon, re S T A T E O F T H E H IG H W A Y tu rn in g by tra in Sunday evening. Tim e was when a road went out M r. and M rs. C .H. B arn ett, th e during w in te r freeze o r flood .Misses McPherson, E w ing, Be - the neighbors called on the local knap and Davis, Messers Ken- road boas and got busy filling in pth and John McPherson and the rota. It was a f a ir ly simple S. Buffum composed the jo lly job. Then road districts were en larged u n til i t was necessary to call on the county court fo r aid in repairing roads. In more re- . v. j a , cent years i * 1 . 2 * 7 hl *°, the state fo r re p a ir o f o u r m ajo r roads • Now we have to have the advice and consent o f the federal govern ment, which is the governmental body th a t puts up the jsek fo r te - building most of our im portant arteries o f travel K la m ath w ill have 22,000 a- in potatoes this year and it been assured by growers th a t ton o f fe rtilis e r w ill produce ¡ '¿ “ g ^ t7 ’a" 1# c; nU Ñ E S TH A Y C O X 7£2 1942, ,u '¡r .¿ .d i» , in the _ ” i’. ’ i.r, an increa*e 30 P«r cent Som8 Studl" ™ l 't a r , forces. W hat is left w.U Qregon gr<)W#„ w<?r.. a&kin(f for ■Oder A ct <rf Congress ’of March (DHORIAI— JATION th a t cre» has one J im m y Byrnes, the boss o f sta bilisation bureau, has fixed the the fiscal year. price fo r Oregon strawberries a t 1?* cents a pound to the grower, H a lf of a ll the cheese o f the ah increase over the 1042 price. cheddar varie ty produced in Ore- F o r the chicken growers the price jjin Other Dayj Published Every Friday at .. Moro, Oregon ------ F r o . the Obeerver A p ril 15. 1901 Editor Giles L . French subscription A V R IL Kelly’s Column ^ ^ r u u tn (County 3Jou n :| Bferasan Coanty Observer t j u b l i s ^ j Nov. 2, 1888 F R ID A Y , crowd. From the Observer A p ril 18, 1921 M . R. Schadewitz has bought the H u lery Bros, interests in the t h e rro R x a e raMs ctay worcan has derides CO play a teas Saad asafaut be available fo r clvilians_ unner 3g ceBta an(J tainlng t h / i t under Ben Herendeen, a1 rancher bent ea run the rationing program . The f “ " h ^ ^ 'r e c e iv in r only ning the cattle country his e v s «sy. The two men have Seen easenlee ler years, tories makin g special types, such 2g centa » i d ' TCMntly the price having Srst fought ever Clay’« wife, as blue and Swiss, can produce to wag down U la . who died -hating him sad bettering th e ir fu ll capacity as these types she iboold have married Hereedeen. are not rationed and are not w an t- Mo. 113. i o f Morgan Is a seHtary tgwre, devoted to bis nlne-year-eld daughter, Janet. SI* Moro. Oregon by the government. ihongb two womea. Catheriae Oraat aad Meets 1 st and 3H Aun M cOarrah, are la love with Was, • « • ' Tuesdays in the t -ey know he cannot terset gBa. Of K lam ath farm ers have been cry- I.O-O.F. hall T r«’ l x former friends, only Back Breatbiu about a shortage of fe rtiliz e r «lent and visiting had not cone ever te Herendeen’s side. a r(j this m a tte r has fin a lly been Hack is dead, shot by Herendeen’s brothers are cord» T.uw I *r? ra a a , C h a r le y H U lhonxe. O g rd j roneij out. The governm ent agen- ally invited to meet < rant, Catherine’ s brother, - joined 1 cy handling the problem reports . .vith ns. .. endeen when he discovered yhat figth ad been Io Morgan's ranch, be( ■ ' . . ' C h rrle e C. W ilson. N.G. erlnd had t ie cold bloododnees ef Hack’s mnrder E u reka,L o d g e No 121 A .F . & A .M . pelcy Thompson. Sec. ba> mad^ him break with Herendeen- Meets on the 1st and 3rd T h u rs Lupine Rebekah Lodge No. 114 V.'arneJ by F ez WtUtng, a “ nester” be day evenings of each «•.nee befriended, Clay discovers that Moro. Oregon l ’ '•re^deea Is month. V is itin g m em Meets 2d A 4th Tues 1er a shew- goes to llei bers are cordially in day of each month. Mss le the ’ <’ o k p . b it vited to meet w itlf us. V isitin g members we! by Herep- CdraW. He’ b ts no way deen’s men, aad come. w F. McLeod, W .M . out. wbea L ife White, one ef Berea Coila Belshee, N .G . deen’ s friends, ridee op. . U k e Gard V. Belknap, Secretary Florence Johnston. 8e< G reat, be la fed ep wMh Herendeen’ s _ -------------------- --- hlgb handed methods. Blshlng Us own life to save Clay, he persuades Mm te take a chaaee an riding out ef Heren deen's ranch. He doesn't th in k d:en will dare te Now contlmse with Moro Garage, opening the garage under h i. management on Wed- we#k One item 3 news in connection w ith his ow nership is th a t he has filled his tanks w ith Union gasoline. A rthur Smothers had the . , . , sec- „ .„ u Af ed last Monday as the „ result of failu re to control a heavy shot These thoughts have been en put he was handling at school gendered by the unfortunate con during the noon hour dition o f H ig h w ay 97 ^aouth o f £}. E. M athews and fa m ily ship- Grass V a lle y / N o t th a t it is a ed their household goods this boulevard this spnng fa rth e r week to th e ir new home in P o rt north, either. • land and have moved to th a t ci tv From a fe w miles south o f where a new picture the a tre is Grass V a lle y where the adequate w fo r M r Mathews on rock base stops the road is rapid- ,^ e ^agt gide ly degenerating into a rough cow t r a il and w ith the tra v e l th a t w ill F r« m the Observer A pr have to go over i t this summer it W . H . Ragsdale w ith his auto and party and L . Baraum ■ hU auto and p arty including W . C. B ryant, were representatives from M oro £ *he 1®ood meeting on^ cD°naW j r a d e last nothing to do w ith it; the state Thursday They report th a t the road is now in good condition, obtains much o f its road money plenty o f pick and shovel work fro m th e fed eral government. as w ell as p o w d er. was used by I f th e federal government ex all p articip atin g . pects to use • this highw ay to The farm ers o f Sherman county transport men and munitions it are receiving shipments of calves had b etter be arran g in g fo r some by express fro m a sort of calf rock and o il to be applied pronto or the citizens o f the south end cl€&nnF oubc in Tillam ook co- ’ dollars o f t h . « m n t r w ill b a r . an a rm y a head and a il charges paid. A on th e ir hands some ra in y m o m - i n ,. 'There won’t be any one fo r * 7 k ‘11,ng the » I d le r , to « « f t t eronnd K en t, d» iry calve, and Sherman coun- eith er. And It i . « o t o f t o be t o r ‘X *» T ? ™ * “ m c 1.* " e had to h e w -th e m stuck there. , W » » <«*iry .lo ck fo r very l.ttle . .ST . From where I s it... CHAPTER XVI ¿u Joe Marsh John T rum bull, our postm aster, looks up from his new spaper y esterd ay and says; ‘T see they cau g h t a n o th e r one o’ them so- called gang-lords’ of th e P ro hibition era. '‘W onder how long it’s going to take us to w ipe out th e evil P rohibition left behind . . . not to m ention th e billions of dollars it cost the people?” W e ll, Joh n ’s rig h t o’ course. H a rd <o believe A m erica could eve r pass a la w lik e P ro h ib itio n . Ao. 5? oj a beriet B u t fro m w here I sit I t ’s a big consolation - now th a t P re ’» » ’ • tio n is o ve r—to see how m oder atio n and tolerance have grow n up in its place. N ow adays, if a m an enjoys a frien d ly g lass of beer or two a fte r a day’s w ork, he not only can do it in clean , respectable s u r r o u n d in g s b u t h e k n o w s th a t no bootlegger or gangster is m aking a red cent on it. 3* Copyright, 1943, Brewing Industry Foundation w ill be somewhat worse than the adjoining "field s before wheat hauling unless i t can be repaired. I t Isn’t A local function any more to rafMrir it ; the county fias Save Time by using this Modern Deposit Plan Q u ic k - E a sy - S a fe W r ite o r C a ll fo r C o m p le te In fo rm a tio n The D alles Branch of the United States N ational B ank H e a d O ffic e , P o rtla n d , Oregon M * ** 8 r t U D IR S I DI P USI I I N SU RS N C I C O R P O R A T IO N I f Oregon*! brand new highway mon* y ’ commiaaion ^ould have a look a t th a t piece o f road they would un doubtedly do something construc tive I ct it. > -• G E T T IN G R ID O F M E R C A T O R One ,thipg t h b v global w a r is doing is to effectually g et rid o f the idea o f vnapmaking established by .o n e /M e rc a to r who found a means o f m akin g the earth look square on paper. Good riddance, too. I t was back in 1668 when Ge- hardus M ercato r started m aking maps in th e shape to which we are accustomed. Our ordinary maps, the ones w e w en t to school w ith , gave us to believe th a t those sections o f the earth beyond the 46th p a ra lle l were qu ite siaeahle, and one to study them reached the conclusion th a t i t was as f a r between longitudinal lines a t the poles, as a t the equator. Reason told us b e tte r, b u t there it was draw n rig h t o u t in the ge ography beok. N o w we study the globe and find th a t A laska instead o f being- on th e n e x t page from Russia is re a lly only a few miles fro m th a t p a r t o f A sia. T h e s h o rt set distance between points In th e northern hemisphere is not found b y boldly striking straig h t across the ocean b u t by deploying to the north where the up end down lines e f longitude are closer together.. Simple. Sure, but i t took the airplane to b rin g as FA J w? r 4 •w ft to attention. A irp la n e m akers are tellin g us th a t with modern speeds we are never moeh over a couple o f days sw ay from any place en the earth. Shucks^ we can rem em ber in child- if M • .» • “JCEEP ¿BT RQlIJUfflC M IIB M M BRI THE MCKBONE OF U was still close an d 'risky, as they both knew. Morgan swapped a short glance with the smiling White, seeing a thorough understanding in the latter’s eyes. Morgan made the decision for both of them at this moment, tuming*Ms horse squarely on Herendeen. The movement pulled White around and thus the two of them, holding their horses to a walk, passed down the yard in a silence that had no bottom. The river road bent around a point Reaching this point ready to turri it and shut the Three Pines ranch house from sight Morgan had bis backward glance. Herendeeq and his men were in the s&ddle, heading for the Haycreek Hills. They were going afte^the beef, Morgan knew. Lige White ceme abreast “Clay, I ’m ashamed to say i t but I ’ve strung along with Ben, not liking what's been going on around me. I still do not like I t but I cannot tol erate this kind of a war. Keep away from him. The man’s gone c ra z y /’ K j . “ A little late now.” said Morgan. ‘ T h e re ’s a ftght coming. Ben’s made up his mind, and so have I. Stay out of it. Lige- And see if you can get Gu»d to do the same.” . Lige White said with the greatest reluctance: “ I have hated to see this day come.” “ A long time coming.’’ said M or gan. and put his horse to the slope Lige White watched him climb, excitement m irroring brightly in bis eyes; afterwards he continued along the road, bound for Gurd Grant’s. Pete Borders, who had driven the Long Seven beef across the Hay-* creek Hills to Herendeen s range, lay on a pedk of the ridge through out the middle of the day He saw Morgan arrive at tfie meadow—and grinned to himself at what was no doubt in Morgan’s mind. It looked like an open steal on Herendeen’s part, which was the way Borders wanted it to look. Later when be saw Morgan head ed for Herendeen’s alone, Pete Bor ders grew serious and a little rest less. It was, he concluded, bad tactics on Morgan’s part; and so. taking to bis horse, he went along the Haycreek Hills until he was able to sight the Three Pines ranch from the heights. He made oet the. crowd ia the yard and watched the parley. Later he saw s~ new rider come along—which was Lige White— and saw two of them ride «way. Mor- tan had got out of It with a whole skin, which relieved Borders im measurably. As soon as Morgan left Lige White, he turned biM horse to the , slope of the Haycreok Hills and pres ently, -from a high point, he saw Herendeen leave the valley with his1 crew. Morgan cah- laled his margin of advantage to be about twenty min utes and entered the timber at a fast clip. He caught up with h.s outfit a mile or two beyond the The cat tle were single file, going very slow ly on the crooked trail and stretched out for three or four hundred yards. Cap Vcrm ilye was in front of them, beyond sight. Fox Willing held the rear, with H arry Jump still farther back to cover whatever might come up. H arry Jump Was a little' edgy with the strain o f this thing; he showed relief at Morgan’s presence. ” 1 been on the verge of ridin’ back after you.” ¡k*thlehem Chapter No. 78, O.ELS. M oro. Oregon . Meets Every Second and F o urth Thursdays i n z Each Month. V isitin g * Members Invited. N orm a Bnlslgar W7 M M arie HoektaaoH, Baa. / I - “They're half an hour behind me. We’re apt to have a scrap.” “H ell with ’em.” said H arry Jump at once. “L et’s stop and have it out.” ‘Keep right on going. Fox, cut ahead‘'and ride with C ap. I f you bear any ruckus back bore, Join usc- I f you poeet anything in front, let out a yell and we’ll be right with you.” Fox, unable to crowd by the beef on so narrow a way, cut through .the timber and rough slab rock with considerable difficulty. H arry Jump begin Ur grumble at the lagging cat- t!e. crowding them with his pony. Morgan dropped back a distance to watch the trail. They came at last to the stage road and turned into i t From the Mvamp meadow to this point had been more then en hour’s drive end Hcrepdeen was long overdue, lead ing Morgan to believe that Heren- —IS— ('cen had circled them The trou- He made eat the crewd ia the He. U»n. would come when U ,., J>r4 ™ yard and watched the parley. jr-*.•**- reached the open country. He joined Morgan shrugged his shoulders. H arry Jump, both of them hazing “ Your funeral." the stragglers forward until the beef “I t may be,” agreed Gale com was in a compact bunch. Vermilye posedly. “But if sq, it will be a dou and Willing were fifty yards, for ble one. At my age I ’m too old to ward; now and then a cow wan worry about ayin*. for it is pretty dered toward the jack-pine forest close to me at any event, and 1 surrounding them and had to be cut guess I ’m poor enough not to fret back. At five o’clock they reached about Iosin* anything. the bottom of the stage road, left He rummaged his pockets, pro the pines and swung north toward ducing pipe and tobacco. Morgan Government Valley, three miles dis watched him fill the pipe and light it tan t and settle on bis heels. Herendeen was nowhere to be This was late September and sud seen, whereupon H arry Jump came denly. slightly beyond seven o'clock, to his suspecting conclusions. “ He the blue-running shadows turned to didn’t want to try it in timber. He’s gunmetal gray and afterwards to waitin' for us to get in the middle of full night. The haze of autumn lay the flats. My idea is that he’s watch- over the land. Through this filtered in’ us from the Potholes right now.” ■ strong moonlight creating the ef A sim ilar thought bad occurred to fect of woolly clouds ba iked against Vermilye. He trotted back to Mor the earth. Morgan led his itorse to gan. ' Now in case he comes a-bust- the remnant wall of the near.si dobe in’ out of the brush. Clay, we better building and walked on until be stood just let this beef go and hit for them alone, faoing the open socth Fox Willing was irt the saddle, circling agency buildings.” . “ No.” said Jump at once. “I t ’s the held bunch of beeves The job was done and, as far as the cattle our beef, by God.” were concerned, there wasn’t any "That’s right,” said Morgan. need of staying here.” Yet Morgan Verm ilye joined Harry Jump, knew that this waiting was neces both of them urging the cattle along sary. Herendeen was somewhere in at a quicker gait. Morgan closely the yonder night. The big man had watched the back trail, not quite avoided a meeting in the timber, able to understand Herendeen's con be had delayed this pursuit; but he tinued delay. The suspense worked was out there and he would come. oq his nerves. Once, thinking he Nothing ■ * changed much. Morgan s«w movement at the edge of the realized; Herendeen had faced him Potholes, he turned and made a for ten years, never giving ground, stand, searching the black margin of never able to forget. It . was some that country quite carefully. H e had thing that would not dim or die, it been mistaken, however; and pres was a force that drove Herendeen. ently turned to catch up with the Thinking about that. Morgan admit bee( Near six o’clock, with the sun ted the same force drove him. What down beyond the Cache Mountains, ever the outward reasons, whatever they threw the beef on their own the open quarrels and excuses, there grass near the shattered dobe build was a deeper reason still—the na ings of the old agency * tive. chemical animosities of two Morgan said: “ Hold this Jag in a men bom to be opposite in all budch We’re not through yet. I things; bom to Collide and to de want Herendeen to see what we stroy. It was’ past explanation. took. Fox. if I were you I think I ’d Stationed like tins, apart from the pull freight. Thanks for cornin’ group and facing southward, he along." heard Herendeen at last approach, Willing said, idly: "Might as well hidden by the pulsing fog Off there stick arqund.” a steady’ rhythm rose, of horses Cap Vermilye, always a forehand moving at a slow run and prcsenUy ed man. got a few sage stems and a slowing to a—Walk. Shadows ap piece of old board from the nearest peared in the fog. and shape e«3 out building to make up a Are. He had lines. Fox Willing came in from a frying pan and coffeepot in his the herd, dismounting and pulling saddle roll; and some bacon and a his horse near the dobe wail. He can of beans. He boiled up the cof walked over to Morgan. Vermilye fee. fried the bacon and heated the and Jump had risen and had la ban beans in the frying pan’s grease. position not far from the wall Gale Having no other utensils, they took was out of sight. turns at the frying pan, using their Herendeen’s party showed as a pocket knives, and drank the coffee wide scatter of shadows on the des straight from the pot. At seven e r t They were halted, two hundred o'clock, with shadows sweeping feet away. Herendeen said: across Mogul’s plateau, a single “ Morgan. I ’m coming in to cut that horseman horseman appealed on the high edge bunch of stock and look it over for of Mogul 1 Mountain and quartered my brand.’’ down 'Î This T wa? in the west, from Morgan said: "None of yottr cows which Morgan expected no trouble. in it, Ben." Harry Jump walked deliberately to “ I ’ll see for myself.’’ his horse and pulled out his Win Those shadows were too vague to chester. Morgan snid, “Hold on, be counted but Morgan knew Heren H arry." Rider and horse plodded deen had at least eight men around unhurriedly through the blue swirl him; and he also knew Herendeen's of dusk—a long stooped shape on a intention—which was to build up a rawboned animal; at a distance be fight on any grounds. He said: waved his arm overhead and a lit “Charley Hillhouse there?" tle later Morgan recognized the neat ‘• “Ho. I ’m coming in /’ er Gale. Morgan said: “Nothing here for Gale came up but did not dis you, Ben. Stay b ac k/’ mount until Morgan gave him the Herendeen’s voice boomed out. proper invitation. When the invita-, “ You know the, rules of the country tion came ne dropped to the ground It ’s my privilege to cut any man’s with an old man’k stiffness; he range for my stock. I claim there’s poised both his hands over the muz Three Pines cows in that bunch.” zle of his ancient gun and looked “ H there are,” said Morgan cool out from beneath his twisted awto- ly, “I ’ll send them back tomorrow.’’ ing-shaped eyebrows. “I want 'em now.” ’T h ere ’ i some coffee left in the “Youlfe In a burry all of a sud pot.” said’ Morgan. den,” pointed wit Morgan ironical “ Just w hut I need,” Gale an ly. “I sent word to you some time swered. He slouched over the fire ago to clean your stuff out of this and tipped the pot ag ain st his valley and you didn’t seem to figure mouth, drinking with en acute thirst it worth your time. So you can wait Coffee ran'down the seams of his another day. You won’t cut this jews. He said, “Ah.” in great ral* bunch tonight, or any time. Get ish’ and sponged the liquid from the off my grata.” “You goto* against the rules?” tips of his'mustache with sidewise “You been making the rules a motions of his tongue. long time, Ben. Now I ’ll make ’em." Morgan said: “Pon’t mean to be Herendeen said: ‘T v e listened to unfriendly, but maybe you ought to you long enough. \ We’U settle this move on.” now.” ' ; Gale didn’t smile.* He was past Morgan’s reply was soft and flat the point of finding amusement In In the night “Let ’er flicker. Ben. the w orld, but in his eyes was a light When you move to we start shoot- like the last glow of coals of a dying to’.” Are. “Don’t you worry about m^. •He heard Herendeen say: ’ Come M r. Morgan. I f I didn’t know whut on, boys.* I wanted to do, I wouldn’t be here.” (TQ OX C O N T lN lliD j
