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SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, August 2 1940
F arm
T opics
SYNOPSIS
Don Ramon's face lighted, The
details were worked out. The two
scouts, Pardaloe and Simmie, were
offered, and later accepted, work
as vaqueros. But with the under­
standing that when the wanderlust
seized them they were free to head
for the mountains, where, in fact,
they had spent most of their time
In California.
After the difficulties had been
ironed out Don Ramon ordered
horses. Bowie was introduced to
Pedro and his vaqueros as major­
domo. Taking Pedro. Pancho. Par­
daloe and the Creek with them. Don
Ramon and Bowie spent hours rid­
ing over the valley and through the
hills granted by the king of Spain to
his favored retainer. Don Ramon
Estrada, grandfather to the present
Don Ramon.
Dona Maria had been told of the
new arrangement
She was so
pleased that she hastened to Car­
men to tell her of the coming of
Bowie. Carmen looked up with a
face almost as black as a thunder­
cloud.
"Why. Carmen." protested her
mother, "don't you like it?"
"Like it?" exclaimed the impetu­
ous girl. "An Americano to come to
Guadalupe? Could not Father have
picked anybody but an Americano
to take poor Francisco's place?”
But Carmen was at least mistress
of her feelings and she kept them to
herself. At dinner that night there
was present a new member of the
Transformation of
Gram’s Old Buffet
Ry RUTH WYETII NI’EARS
OU have heard quite • good
deal in these articles ubout
Grandmother, who is just "Gram"
to her family.
Also about her
favorite grandson, Bill, and his up-
and-coming bride, Murty — the
same for whom Gram made the
stunning rug rug in Sewing Book
3. Then there is Bill's kid sister,
Betsy, who streamlined the old
iron bed Hlustruted in Book 3. You
Y
has sent me. The Indians were
CHAPTER IX
led by Yosco. He has carried away
Don Alfredo, wealthy. Spanish owner
twenty-five girls and women and I
At Don Ramon's suggestion Bowie
of a Southern California rancho, refuses
three hundred horses. Padre Mar­ was made captain of the company,
to heed several warnings of a raid by a
band of outlaws. Slerrs Indians. One day
tinez begs you will send help today. and it was agreed to obey his orders.
after he has Anally decided to seek the
He fears they will be back tonight
"You all understand. I suppose,
protection of the nearby mission for his
to carry off more of the women."
wife and family, the Indians strike. Don
that we must depend on Sanchez
Alfredo is killed snd his two young
Don Ramon raised his hand. "Tell to take us to the canyon?” explained
daughters are tom from the arms of the
Padre Martinez we will send help." Bowie. "If we fail to find the Indi­
a
family's faithful maid. Monica, and are
carried away to the hills. Padre Pas-
The horseman, touching his fore­ ans in the cave our work ia lost
LIOS. MIK SOM.
qual. missionary friend of the family,
By L. I. CANE
head. whirled away. A clatter of because we can't follow them into
DOOM CAXVINfc
arrives at the ruins of the rsnch snd
ANO
M ANOL IS
Growers who muke the most mon­
lesrns the story of the rsid from Monica.
hoofs and a trail of dust marked the mountains with a skeleton com­
WIKI MMOVID
After a trying and difficult trip across
pany. We are taking the chance of ey from their sheep and who re­
his
way
across
the
valley
to
the
the plains and mountains from Texas to
I think, a good ceive top prices for their lambs and
southern ranchos. The group on the finding them.
California, youthful Henry Bowie, a Tex­
<-» cmw hole »
as adventurer, with his friends. Ben
chance. Sanchez, we are ready to wool aren't turning this trick by ac­
Fill.ID WITH
porch watched him.
Pardaloe and Simmie. an Indian scout,
FUI TV-FL AIN
cident
Don Ramon looked to Bowie. “We start when you give word."
sight the party of Indians who have car­
KNOBS ANp
“A few moments, senor. When
ried off the two Uttle girls. The three
must act," he said, "The misa ion
They have learned something
A BASS OF 1X4
Texsns attack the war party of fifty-odd
the big star shows In the east we about the many factors which con­
LUMBSR ADDIO
must be protected."
Indians The girls are saved The group
CHtSr PAINTS D
makes Its wsy out of the hills and meets
"What about their soldiers?” de- start,” said the Indian in a very tribute to growing a product in
BLUE TO MATCH
low
voice.
,
the distraught Monica, the children's
CUR1AMI
ready demand by the market. Chief
manded Bowie of Pedro. "Hasn't
maid The girls are left with Monica and
ANO
"And when the column moves, not among these factors are good breed­
this worthless government enough
the friendly Padre at a mission, and the
CHAM
Texans proceed to Monterey. Here Bowie
regard for the property to supply a word ia to be spoken by anyone,” ing. feeding, and management prac­
SLIP
completes his business for Gen. Sam
cavia
guards for it?" He did not wait for added Bowie to the company. "Not tices.
Houston of Texas, who has commissioned
an answer. "Pedro," he said sharp­ a whisper nor a cough nor a laugh
him to deliver an important message.
In breeding, the successful sheep­
Bowie decides to have a look at the wild
ly, "fetch Pardaloe and Simmie . . . nor a sneeze. This is no holiday man Is careful to select short-legged,
untamed California. Bowie disappears
ride
—
some
of
us
may
not
come
Who is this?” he asked. A second
but returns eight years later and makes
compact blocky rams rather than all know "Mom," too. She has be­
unobtrusive vaquero had stood at back. You are going against a chief the long-legged, coarse, upstanding come almost famous because of
the acquaintance of a friendly Spanish
family at the Rancho Guadalupe. He is
Pedro's elbow, listening to every with the reputation of being the type, Then he ships to market each I her curtains and slip-covers and
attracted by the lovely Carmen, daugh­
wiliest of the mountain outlaws. San­
word.
ter of Don Ramon, the rancho's owner.
year his wether lambs and part of "The Hug That Grew Up With the
Bowie saves Don Ramon's life tn a
"This is Sanchez, my right-hand chez says we need every precau­ his ewe lambs but holds back the Family."
And there ia "Dad"
fierce fight with a huge grizzly bear.
trailer," answered Pedro. "He is tion. Are you all in moccasins? If best ewe lambs for replacing old and who is handy with hammer, saw
Don Francisco, youthful heir to the
frantic. Among the girls Yosco has not, provide yourselves here. Look poor-producing members of the and screw driver.
ranebo's acres, is captured tn a battle
with Indian raiders. Bowie sets out to
stolen Is his sweetheart. Amelita." to your rifles, carbines, knives and flock.
Well, recently the family have
help his friends.
"He knows the mountains?" asked your ammunition. If there is a fight
*‘<*nged-up" on Gram about her
Good
feeding,
placed
by
many
there will be no time to correct our
Bowie.
fancy out-of-date buffet.
They
"Born and lived there, He is mistakes. Yosco will do that for sheepmen ahead of good breeding, is think Rhe deserves and can afford
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
likewise
highly
important
in
the
pro
­
us.”
down here only two years.”
something new. Gram decided to
At midnight the ghostlike column duction of high-grade market ani­
"And Yosco has stolen his girl?”
get rid of the buffet, then Marty
It was a bootless search with no
mals.
Plenty
of
milk
is
probably
had
penetrated
the
higher
moun
­
mused Pedro.
said
that she wanted it I This sketch
signs of the Indians. Daylight was
"They were to be married soon." tains. Sanchez halted the party in a the moat important feed Item in pro­ shows you one of the things she
well advanced by the time the four
ducing
top-notch
lambs
This
means
small
grassy
glade.
Here
they
dis­
"You should have some idea of
had covered the canyon and Pedro
and Bill did with it. Watch next
where this Yosco hides,” said Bow­ mounted. Three men. Don Ramon ; that th-» ewes must be fed for milk week for what became of the mir­
had signaled for the horses.
production.
and
two
vaqueros,
were
detailed
to
ie, eying Sanchez closely. "He is no
ror and legs.
Riding back, the quartette found
Many growers feed their lamba
doubt the same wretch that killed guard the horses—above the glade
NOTE: That is white rick rack
the vaqueros riding in circles over
Don Francisco. We must get him. the trail could be followed only on some grain in addition to the milk. that trims the blue chambray cur­
the scene of the fight of the day be­
foot
The
advance
was
begun
single
This is often placed in a creep where
Where does Yosco hide?”
fore. They had counted, when Bow­
tains and slip-cover. The chair
"Senor,” muttered the stolid Mar­ file, and like a writhing black ser­ the lambs may help themselves is the one made over from an old
ie rejoined them, the bodies of elev­
pent
the
column
of
armed
men
without being disturbed by the old­
iposa, "he has three places.”
en dead Indians, but there was no
rocker described in the new Book
wound its way. at times faintly vis­ er sheep.
"Which is the closest?"
sign of Don Francisco. Once more
6. To get your copy send order to:
ible in the light of the stars, and at
"If
he
is
in
the
closest
he
cannot
In addition to good feeding and
Bowie ordered the party up the can­
be taken. You must wait till be times disappearing into the eclipse good breeding, there are a large
yon to pick up the trail. He him­
of
a
mountain
shoulder.
Not
a
word
goes farther up in the mountains.”
number of approved management
self was riding slowly ahead, alone
Bowie was impatient 'Tell me, was spoken—the Texan knew the practices that the moat successful
and under a driving rain, across a
tricks
of
Indians
and
left
nothing
to
talk faster: where is this closest
sheepmen follow. One of the most
field of loose rock and shale when
chance.
place?” he asked curtly.
important Is a regular monthly
his eye was drawn from the trail by
The
going
grew
rougher
than
that
"In a canyon of the Santa Maria
Name
an object lying near to a clump of
of the sierra they had crossed. Bow­ drenching for the control of Internal
River, high up in a cave—”
parasites.
Addrese
stunted trees. He reined toward it.
ie halted at times to give the col-
Pedro interrupted. "I know that
looked again, hesitated, then sprang
big cave, senor. It opens on a can­
from his horse. It might be the
yon wall five hundred feet high. The
naked body of a dead Indian. But
cave is halfway up, reached by a
a closer look brought a shock; it was
ledge not three feet wide. You see.
the rain-sodden body of Don Fran­
Farm families in sections of the
there is no chance to attack while
cisco.
country subject to excessive heat
Yosco hides there. You must wait”
A saddle blanket was stretched on
and insufficient rainfall have found
“This cave—it opens out on a can­
the ground. The dead lad was
that they can still raise enough
yon walk Is the opening narrow or
wrapped in it and slung across the |
fresh vegetables for home use by
wide?”
back of a horse, and with every
planting frame gardens.
“Wide, senor.”
precaution against ambush the so­
"We will try for the cave, Pedro.”
Though they have been used by
ber horsemen made their way back
"But. senor!”
some farmers for a number of
to open country and the ranch. At
Bowie shook his head. "We will
To Know Others
years. It was not until the past year
Bowie's insistence Pedro rode ahead
start tonight What say, Sanchez?"
He that knoweth himself knows
that their use became widespread.
to break the news; he himself did
The Mariposa did not speak. He
With a face almost as black
The Farm Security administration others; and he that ia ignorant of
not feel equal to it.
looked at the ground, thinking. Don
as a thunder cloud.
has sponsored the gardens as an aid himself could not write a very
Loud wails greeted the little caval­
to a balanced diet, especially where profound lecture on other men's
cade as it approached the rancho. household. and he waa received by Ramon, Dona Maria, Carmen, wait­
ed in suspense.
drouth has prevented farmers from heads—Colton.
Servants and children made no ef­
the family with the perfect courteay
“Sanchez." asked Bowie casually,
growing many vegetables for home
fort to restrain their grief At the
of their training and traditions. Bow­ “are you afraid?”
consumption.
ranch house door Don Ramon, stem
ie, in spite of himaelf, was a bit self-
The taunt stung the Indian into
faced and bitter, stood with Dona
Many of the farmers have used
conscious. Perhaps that was why words, "For himself. Sanchez fears
Maria, who was supported by Car­
scrap lumber in constructing the
he talked more than was his wont nothing. Yosco has stolen his Am­
men, the two women in tears. They
frame. It la usually four or five
He was likewise conscious of choos­ elita. Sometime," Sanchez spoke
suppressed their sobs as best they
feet wide, 12 to IB inches high, and
ing his words carefully in the new slowly on. “sometime Sanchez will
could while Don Francisco was awk­
as long as desired. Frequently a
tongue because of listening ears at kill him.”
wardly but tenderly carried in by
subirrigation system is installed to
the lower end of the table.
"You speak like a man, Sanchez.
the tall Texan and laid on the young
improve production. This requires
But help us now to get back the
Don's own bed and in his darkened
less water and less labor than sur­
Within a short time the rancho horses and the mission women. Can
room.
face irrigation—nor does the gar­
routine had already become so es­ you take us to the cave?"
Don Ramon summoned Dr. Doane tablished that the presence of Bowie
den crust over.
Homemade con­
Again the Mariposa paused. "I
from Monterey, and under his skill­ seemd a part of the considerable
crete tiles, or even tin cans are used
"We
are
two
hundred
feet
ful hands the features of Don Fran­ domain. Pedro, a full-blooded Mari­ can take you to the cave, senor.
for subirrigation. They are placed
PE K0 JAR
from the cave.”
cisco, as he lay in the candlelight posa Indian, took to Bowie from But the only chance would be to sur­
FOR TIGHTER FIT,
in rows two or three feet apart the
RIM«
SEAL
the next night in his rough coffin, the start Simmie told him of one prise them. If they discover you umn a chance to close up; and an
length of the garden plot at a depth
LONGER LIFE!
FLAVOR IN
were less terrible, more nearly nat­ fairly stiff brush in company with first every man you take along will occasional cautious "Hist!” checked of 12 to 14 inches, and connected
elonomical . too !
keepairout !
ural and, in some measure, more the Texan and how he had taken be killed. Do you want to take that the movement while Sanchez felt to the water supply. Over this sys­
out the rocks for further ascent. He tem is laid fertile soil. Sacks can
consoling to those who gathered stock of his bearing when baptized chance?"
“Why not? And we must start was following a trail along which be placed around the sides to give
around him to recite the prayers of by a cloud of arrows. In the esti­
the dead. Indeed the whole night mation of an Indian one characteris­ tonight” Sanchez nodded assent each man was cautioned in the low­ protection from the wind and sun.
heard their voices raised to heaven tic ranks above all others—steadi­ "We must get to the cave before est whisper to hug the face of the A thin cloth is spread over the top
The Indian nodded precipice they were mounting—
in intercession for a dear one. Hour ness under fire. Every day Pedro daybreak.”
to protect the green stuff from ex­
by hour groups of the household, and his fellow Indian vaquero, Pan­ again. "We shall need you for a where a misstep would have plunged cessive heat or cold.
a man hundreds of feet into the
from master and mistress to the cho, rode the valley and foothills guide.”
As soon as the soil has been
lowliest of the servants, relieved one of Guadalupe with Bowie, who grad­
A small cloud of dust could be canyon below.
cleared of one crop, it can be re­
At
long
last
the
struggling
ranch
­
another in vigil beside the rude bier. ually applied to its better manage­ seen on the northern horizon. "Those
planted. Thus, the same families
Next day, lying before the mission ment the experience and practice of are rancheros,” said Bowie. "They eros. who, had they not been men of have fresh vegetables most of the
spirit,
would
have
sunk
under
the
will be here soon.”
altar while Padre Martinez and his a Texas cattleman.
year around. These frame gardens
Franciscan assistant intoned the
The rancheros rode up in twos exhaustion of their long and danger­ cut down the grocery bill, but an­
One morning word came to the
ous
climb,
were
led
in
the
dark
­
Mass of Requiem, the youthful vic­ rancho that the Indians had raided and threes. Felipe and Jose Marti­
other important function is supply- I
tim seemed in his repose almost to the mission. Two hundred horses nez from Pinole; Antorrto Bernal ness to a rock chimney in the sheer Ing food with some of the vitamins ,
face
of
the
precipice.
Within
the
speak words of consolation to those were missing and fifteen women and from Santa Teresa, Francisco Soto
necessary for proper nutrition and
who still mourned him with unceas­ girls taken. The storeroom was from El Molino; Pedro Arguello walls of this they could stand in a
good health.
group.
ing sobs. Bowie had never seen robbed and emptied.
from San Miguel; Sebastian Pache­
"We
are
two
hundred
feet
from
♦
just such a Catholic funeral. The
"Senor Bowie, what do you think co and Ignacio Alviso from Vicentl.
the
cave,
”
whispered
Bowie
to
those
solemn ritual, the marked rever­ of this raid?” Don Ramon asked the
The sun was hot. Francisco Soto,
nearest him. The splashing of a
ence, the uplifted hands of the sup­ Texan at breakfast.
who was pugnacious but fat, sug­
"While federal agencies have been
small waterfall in the canyon made
pliant at the altar, joined by those
"Pedro thinks this is another of gested moving to the shade of the
acting to help the migrants already
whisper«;
it
possible
to
speak
In
uplifted at times at the altar rail— Yosco’s jobs. Pedro knows these portico Bowie vetoed the sugges­
on the road, their main efforts,"
moved him beyond any spectacle he mountain Indians pretty well But tion. "Let us keep away from the the news was cautiously relayed to Secretary Wallace recently ex­
the
whole
company.
had ever witnessed.
there’s one thing certain: every time servants’ ears,”
he suggested.
'Take a last look at your car- plained to the senate civil liberties
Dr. Doane spent the night at Indians make a successful raid they "These Indians are not all to be
bines and rifles. Have your knives committee, "have been devoted to
Guadalupe and sat late with Bowie are bolder for the next. They need trusted. If we don’t surprise Yosco,
handy if we’re rushed. The trail checking migration at its source.
and Don Ramon. Again the mas­ a lesson.”
he will surprise us: that Indian must
splits here. Sanchez wants six vol­ For every dollar which the Farm
He spoke slowly.
ter of the rancho talked with the
be a smart hombre.”
unteers to follow him up another Security administration has used to
Texan about taking over the man­
“What shall we do?” asked Don
The conference moved, as a com­ hundred feet. He will post them aid migrants in California, for ex­
agement of the great domain.
Ramon, interrupting him.
Approved by Good Ifomeberping
promise, to the shade of a spread­ high above the cave where they can ample, it has used |20 for the re­
“I know of but one thing,” con- ing oak. Two hours went to im­
"Now more than ever I need you,
hutitnte and the Homehold
fire down at the raiders or roll boul­ habilitation of needy farm families
Senor Bowie,” said Don Ramon qui­ tinued Bowie; “that is to go after pressing on the group the details of
in the five states from which most
Searchlight.
ders
on
their
heads
—
who
wants
to
etly. “My nephew was my right them, Anyway, that’s what we used the plan of attack. "And I don't
of the Pacific coast migrants origi­
go?
But,
”
he
added
truthfully,
"you
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And without him, well-nigh defense­ when they got too troublesome. warning him of the danger,” said there's no possible salvation for sas,
Arkansas,
and
Missouri.
FOR A TRIAL PACKAGE OF 48 GENUINE
less. He has handled the vaqueros, There's another angle in this for me, Bowie as the meeting broke up. "It
Throughout the nation it has used
these six.”
PE-KO JAR RINGS« SENT PREPAID.
managed the matanzas, arranged Don Ramon. This Yosco led the is a dash into enemy country. If
nearly
>480,000.000
in
the
last
five
Every man of the twenty-eight
the sale of the hides and tallow. raid that resulted in the death of our attack fails some of us will not volunteered, rhree rancheros and years to help low-income farm fam­
These marauding Indians — from Don Francisco—murder I call it, for come back, and if anyone wishes to three vaqueros were chosen. Like ilies get a new foothold in their
now on they will be bolder, encour­ the boy was killed after he was drop out now there will be no hard
men chosen for death, the six with home communities.”
aged by this partial victory . . . wounded. He was my friend. I'd feelings. We meet at eight o'clock their guide crept and crawled to the
Don Ricardo," he said, addressing travel from here to hell-fire to punish at the mission.”
last difficult post Even Bowie, with
Dr. Doane, "will you not also lend his murderer."
That night the Spanish blood was keen ears, awaiting with the main
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your voice to persuade our Texan
His speech and manner were still up. Every don who had been sum­
body the return of Sanchez, could
More poultrymen — particularly
friend to become, as you have, a deliberate, almost cold, but his tone moned was on hand at the evening
hear nothing of the volunteers after those who sell direct to housewives
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Calif orniano?”
carried conviction of deadly Intent
rendezvous.
they had gone fifty feet
or local retailers—should candle
"Give me tonight to think it over,
Again he was cut short Pedro,
Their numbers had been hand­
"Now,” whispered Sanchez on his their eggs before selling them.
Don Ramon," said Bowie at last hat in hand, had run hurriedly to somely supplemented by rancheros return, "you have kept quiet Keep
Sometimes an absolutely fresh,
"Tomorrow I will decide. In any the doorway. “Vaquero from the from the south—in all, twenty-eight quieter. Try not to start a single new-laid egg will be unsuitable for
event, I thank you. Good night.”
mission!" he exclaimed.
men rode from the mission that chip of rock under your feet, for it food, and if delivered the reputa­ Pg The buyer’s assurance ia the advertis- I
After breakfast next morning
The Don with Bowie, followed night for the stronghold of the out­ will rattle all the way down the can­ tion of the producer, because of a
Bowie and Don Ramon sat down in closely by Dona Maria and Carmen, law Indians in Santa Maria Canyon. yon wall. They are in the cave— bloody white, a blood spot, or meat Bing ha or she reads in ths newspaper. I
That ia the buyer’s guide. It tells the ■
the rancho office. "If you still feel hastened to the portico. The mes­ It was only a handful of men for that much I know now. Get on your spot. On the average farm, can­
ft prices one must expect to pey. I^t the E
you want to go ahead, Don Ramon,” senger was bareheaded and his an Invasion, but they were twenty­ hands and knees this time for the dling will take only a few minutes
said Bowie, "I'm inclined to come horse foam flecked and restive.
eight men, each capable of giving last climb. I think we've got them.” daily. A length of stove pipe and
te stay here with you."
He spoke fast "Padre Martinez an account of himself.
a light make a good candle.
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