Friday, April 18, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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INSTALLMENT V
THE STORY SO FAR:
Dusty King and Lew Gordon were
valed King-Gordon tn wealth and power,
Roper, decided to start a cattle
Joint owner« of th« vast King-Gordon
but had gained his position through
against Thorp« In Texas. H« made
rang« which stretched from Texas to
wholesale cattle rustling and gunplay.
decision against the strong oppoal-
Montana. When building up this string
One afternoon King was killed by Thorp«
ot Lew Gordon. Bill'« sweetheart.
of ranches, they continually had to tight
and his two assistants. Clev« Tanner Jody Gordon, pleaded with him. but
the unscrupulous Ben Tharpe He rt-
and Walk Lasham. King's adopted son. could not change his grim determination.
• • •
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CHAPTER Vii
"And you want me to take 'em
on the other side—is that the idee?"
“I want three dollars a head.
American gold, paid oft as the cat­
tle come out of the water . . .”
Ropier's ways of gathering his wild
bunch were diverse, as diverse as
the saddle men he gathered. One
way or another, picking up a man
here, three more there, he got all
he needed, and more.
But certain other things had to be
done, in order that the wild bunch
would have work to do, planned in
such a way that something would
be accomplished that would stay ac­
complished.
On a steamy afternoon early in
July, Bill Roper sat in Fred Max­
im's San Antonio law office. Maxim
was an attorney who, some thought,
had worked under a different name,
somewhere before; but here, assur­
edly he was in no one’s pay.
"I'm not asking the likes of you
what’s what.” Bill Roper said. "I
These men whom Roper now gath­
ered about him hated a particular
man, not only as lawless as them­
selves. but a man who was more
than one man. Ben Thorpe was a
thousand men; operating under
Cleve Tanner in the south, and Walk
Lasham in the north, his innumer­
able retainers fllamented the plains
from the Rio Grande to the Big
Horn. That Roper's men hated Ben
Thorpe was no coincidence; Roper
had picked men of personal grudge.
Most of them had first been out­
lawed because they had not suited
a single organization—the organiza­
tion of Ben Thorpe.
Up and down and across half of
Texas, constantly in the saddle. Bill
Roper threaded his new organiza­
tion. Sometimes Dry Camp Pierce
was with him; more often he trav­
eled alone. These famous gunfight­
ers and outlawed men whom Roper
gathered were just youngsters, most­
ly. Some of them were true killers;
some merely reckless kids who had
got off on the wrong foot AU of
them were badly wanted by what
little law there was.
One night in early June, Dry Camp
Pierce and BiU Roper sat in the
back room of a saloon, deep in
Texas.
"Look.” Dry Camp Pierce said.
"I’ve stole cows until I could pave
my way to heU with their hides.
Eut—I don't know—to steal cows for
Dusty's kid—"
BiU Roper's teeth flashed clean in
his grin. "Whose cows?”
“I've stole cows—”
“You're going to steal cows that
belong to me, now.”
"Figure you own these cows?”
’Tm half of King-Gordon, now
split I’ve taken, out of King-Gor-
,
don, seven camps without cows; now
I’m claiming the cows that Thorpe
I
took from Dusty King. And from
some other men that we're going to
lend a hand to. pretty soon.”
Dry Camp Pierce—he was caUed
that because be hated to camp too
near to water—went to work for
BiU Roper as he had never worked
before; and thus the king of cow
Roper’s ways of gathering
thieves, the brand changer extraor­
wild bunch were diverse.
dinary. for once aligned on the side
of the law that was not.
want to know who actually owns
Ten rustlers’ camps hooked into range rights on the Graham stand.”
Thorpe-Tanner territory . . .
The hard-bitten little man across
But Dry Camp also helped in oth­ the desk from Roper was still cadgy.
er ways.
"When it comes to ousting a man
A hot June dusk, five days after from possession—”
the meeting at Whipper Forks, found
‘‘You know who 'ousted' Bob Gra­
BiU Roper at the Dry Saddle Cross­
ham and his family from possession.
ing, where be was to meet Lee Har­
Cleve Tanner took over that outfit
nish; and this meeting, too, was ar­
by main horse-and-gun power, with­
ranged by Dry Camp Pierce, though
out decent cause or reason. Every­
by this time Pierce was already far
body knows that. I’m asking you
away.
now—”
Here ran the broad, many-chan-
"Taylor and Graves are already
neled river, dividing two countries—
doing everything that can be done
a river whose spUt wanderings made
to regain possession of Graham's
two miles of intermittent shallows.
outfit." Maxim said, smiling.
At this border of a vast, impercepti­
It was the smile that Roper liked.
bly rolling prairie stood a narrow
string of adobe shacks, That was "Suppose I hold the Bob Graham
lands, and Bob Graham’s family
the Dry Saddle Crossing.
are living on it.
Two men—BiU Roper and Lee
"Bob Graham hasn't got posses­
Hamish—sat in front of one of those
abandoned shacks, and tried to get sion,” Maxim said.
“Suppose be did have?”
together.
“
Never
could
happen.
Ben
’Tve always understood," Roper
said, "that you were acquainted Thorpe—”
“Shut up a minute,” Roper said.
some, below the line.”
Hamish's hard eyes studied Rop­ "I'm not asking you to put Graham
er, and for a little while nothing back in possession of his range. I'm
could be heard except the mourn­ not asking you to save him from
ing of doves in the wiUow scrub by being put off again in the way he
the water. Next to Dry Camp Pierce. was before. What I want to know is.
Lee Harnish was the oldest of those can you head off some cooked-up
to join Roper: he was twenty-eight. legal interference with Graham, aft­
He was taU and lank, sun-baked al­ er he's in possession again?”
Fred Maxim thought it over. “I
most to the color of an Indian; his
green eyes were curiously blank, im­ can only promise you that I can
penetrable. and he liked to look his cause considerable delay,” he said.
man in the eye with the peculiar
“Months of delay?”
fixity seen in the gaze of hawks.
“Providing you can show posses­
'Tve been down there some,” he sion—I’ll keep you clear until hell
admitted. "I’ve made a few drives freezes.”
into Chihuahua; one drive to Mex­
“That's all I want ...”
ico City.”
Still July, at Willow Creek—
“If you had a big wet herd run
A barren range of hills, sand hills;
to you just below the line, would golden in the dawn, purple in the
you know how to get rid of it?”
twilight, barren always. Beneath
“I can’t make out your hand,” them, what had been the Willow
Harnish said. “King-Gordon never Creek camp of the old King-Gordon.
swung the long rope yet, that I In the bunkhouse nearest the river,
heard of.”
five men lounging around a little
“I’m not King-Gordon now. My room.
stunt is to smash Cleve Tanner; and
“All right, you hard guys,” Bill
I don't care what it costs.”
Roper said; "you know who told you
"What’s wrong with backing him to come here. Dry Camp Pierce
into a shoot-out, if that’s what you told you to come here. Maybe he
told you what you could look for
want?”
“That comes later. If I bust Tan­ here, huh?”
ner I can bust Thorpe. But if Tan­
These four gunfighters who met
ner is gunned before he’s busted, Roper here were none of them older
Thorpe will take over in Texas, and than Bill; yet each was famous as a
the chance to break up his Texas killer in his own right Of them all
Bill Roper alone had no name, no
layout will be gone.”
“You ain’t going to bust him by reputation. Yet, in respect for the
running off a few head of cattle. name of Dusty King, they had come
This river crossing is slow work, to hear him out
Nate Liggett, a round-faced kid
kid.”
“I figure to cross five thousand with eyelashes that looked as if they
head within the next three months,” had been powdered with white dust,
said, "Well, what seems to be your
Roper told him.
“Five thousand head won’t even offer?”
scratch the hide of Thorpe and Tan­
ner, son.”
“I know that as well as you. What
It will do, it'll draw Tanner to throw
his warriors onto the border. That's
what I want. Because by then I’ll
be working somewhere else.”
“I guess you already know Bob
Graham," Roper said. "You know
how a warrior gang of Cleve Tan­
ner's jumped down on him. on some
thin excuse, and run him off his
range. They even took over his
house and his windmil) and his cor­
rals. Now. I aim to hand back that
range to Bob Graham; he's waiting
in Bigspring for the word. Your part
of the job is simple enough—you
just go and take it away from the
Tanner bunch."
"Simple, huh? Just how do you
figure this simple trick is to be
done?”
"A lawyer in San Antonio kept
the Rangers off when Tanner
jumped Graham. Now we've got an­
other better lawyer in San Antonio
to keep them off when Graham
Jumps Tanner. The only question is,
who's got enough salt to grab that
range—and then hang onto it?”
"And what do we get out of all
this?”
"Graham takes over the outfit and
runs it You hang around and help
him, and see that he doesn't get
run off again. For that you get a
half interest in the outfit. You split
it among you any way you see lit
I’U back Graham with cattle, and
what other stuff he needs.”
Nate Liggett said, "Bill, I don’t
see where we come in for no ad*
vantage.”
"If you're satisfied with the lone
wolf stuff you've been pulling. I
haven't got anything to offer you,”
Roper admitted. "But I’ll tell you
i this—the boys that string with me
now will see the day when they’U
run Texas; and Cleve Tanner, and
Ben Thorpe, too, will be busted up
and forgot!”
“It's a hefty order!"
"Maybe It is. This Graham busi-
ness is a kind of experiment; it’ll
work if you make it work, But if
it goes through okay—it's only the
beginning, you hear me? You string
with me a little while; and maybe,
by God, we'11 show a couple of peo­
ple something
.
CHAPTER VIII
Hol, dry days of early du gust ~
SO VPS FOR EVERY OCCASION . . .
(See Recipes Below)
SOUP’S ON!
Soups may be a substantial addi­
tion to a rather lean menu, or a
distinctive touch to a dinner de luxe,
for they vary al) the way from the
thin, clear, delicate consommes and
bouillons to the hearty chowders and
satisfying cream soups.
Economical, tasty, nutritious—
what more could you ask of a dish
so versatile? Make soup the main­
stay of a family lunch or supper or
the perfect beginning for a "com­
pany" dinner.
A little "dressing up” can play
fairy godmother to the plainest dish
-yes. even soup,
Most people eat
with their eyes,
first of all. So.
if you wish your
soups to take on
a party air, gar­
nish them entic­
ingly. Try sprin­
kling with but-
tered croutons, chopped parsley,
a few grains of popcorn, toasted
puffed cereals, minced chives, a
dash of paprika, or a few tiny round
crackers; or place a spoonful of
whipped cream in the center.
For extra goodness, why not try
cheese in soup? It will draw a big
stamp of approval, as you will see
if you try Potato Cheese Soup
Here's the recipe:
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BUNDAY-NITE Sl'l’l’EH
*l*ola lo Chreer Houp
Apple-Celcry Salad Wlth Sour
Creara Drraaing
Nut Bread
Aprlcol Jim
Bcvcrage
•Recipe glven.
’T'HIS handsome panel emhroid-
* ered in wool or silk is fascinat­
ing needlework und adds to the
beauty of any home.
utes. Pour over a mound of hot
boiled rice placed In individual soup
dishes. Yield: 6 servings.
Pattern 2780 contain« a transfer pattern
of a picture IS by 20 Inches; Illustration«
of «niche«; color chart; materials re-
qulred. Send order to:
•
Ducheaa Soup.
2 tablespoons minute tapioca
1 teaspoon salt
Vfc teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon onion, finely chopped
4 cups milk
2 tablespoons butter
Mi cup grated cheese
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
Combine dry ingredients, onion,
and milk in top of double boiler.
Place over rapidly boiling wuter,
bring to scalding point (allow S to 7
minutes), cook 5 minutes, stirring
frequently. Add remaining ingredl-
ents; cook until cheese is melted.
Serves fl
Old-Fashioned Vegetable Soup.
2 quarts soup stock (see directions)
cups potatoes, diced
*« cup celery, cut
in strips
2 small onions,
sliced
H cup pea«
1H cups carrots,
cut in strips
cups eanned
tomatoes
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons parsley finely chopped
Heat stock, add vegetables and
seasonings, and cook gently until
vegetables are tender. Add chopped
parsley and serve. Mukes 8 por­
tions.
•Potato Cheese Soup,
As the first sun struck with a red
(See picture at top of column)
heat across the plains, the Tanner
3 medium sized potatoes
men who held the Graham ranch
2 cups boiling water
were already saddling. Al) over
2 to 3 cups milk
Texas, cowmen were throwing to­ I
3 tablespoons butter
gether the last trail herds of the
H small onion
year; it was time for these Tanner
1 teaspoon salt
men to roll their chuck wagons
2 tablespoons flour
again, to round up the last of the
Pepper, cayenne
trail-fit stock that remained in the
1 tablespoon parsley
herds which had belonged to Bob
1 cup cheese, grated
Graham.
Cook potatoes in boiling salted wa­
Out from what had been the Gra­
Cream of Onion Soup.
ter until tender.
Put through a
ham corral, three riders swept
2 tablespoons rice
strainer.
Measure
the
liquid
and
add
through the dusty dawn; but they
2 medium-sized onions
had hardly left the pole fences be­ enough milk to make four cups. 2 tablespoons butter
Melt the butter, add the
hind when six other riders confront­ Scald.
1 cup water
ed them, rising into their saddles finely chopped onion and simmer 1 teaspoon meat extract or n bouil­
five minutes. Add the flour and sea­
like Comanches, out of the brush.
lon cube
The strangers closed in a semi-cir­ sonings and combine with the potato 3 cups milk
cle, unhurriedly, their carbines in mixture. Cook three minutes and Salt and pepper
their hands. In another minute or strain, if desired Add cheese and
Chop the onions and cook in the
two the three Tanner riders were beat until smooth. Add chopped fat until slightly yellow
Add the
grouped in a defensive knot, while parsley, top with buttered croutons. water, rice and meat extract or
Manhattan Clam Chowder.
from the semi-circle of the raiders
bouillon cube, and cook until the
¥« cup diced salt pork
Nate Liggett Jogged forward to talk
rice and onions are tender. Add the
2 cups diced potatoes
it over.
milk, reheat, and season with ■alt
1 dry onion, diced
“I don't think you want to go on”
and pepper. Yield: 4 cups.
1 cup water
he said. “I don’t even think you
Russian Borsch.
1 cups milk
want to work for this outfit any
1 pound soup meat
1 can minced clams (about 1 cup)
more.”
6 cups water
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon salt
Cook the diced pork and onion,
Two nights later, one hundred and
y« teaspoon pepper
stirring constantly 'til they are ten­
fifty miler away—
1*4 cups potatoes, large cubes
der
but
not
browned.
Add
the
po
­
With the approach of dusk, a pe-
*4 cup grated raw beets
cujiar light lay upon the valley of tatoes and water and simmer until
1
tablespoon chopped parsley
the
potatoes
are
tender.
If
the
one
the Potreros. In a reach of open
large onion
1
cup
of
water
Is
not
sufficient
to
cov
­
grass a herd of flve hundred head
1 large carrot
bunched loosely—tame, heavy cat­ er the potatoes,' more should be add­
tablespoon butter
1
ed.
When
the
potatoes
are
tender,
tle, already well removed by breed­
2
cups
medium-chopped cabbage
ing from the old, wild, long-horn add the milk and clams and season­
1 cup beets cut ih Vi-inch strips
strain. But they had not bunched ings and heat thoroughly. Serve with
fl tablespoons sour cream
voluntarily. The shuffled restless­ crisp, salted crackers.
Cover meat with water, add salt
ly, watchir.«? the brush! something
One Dish Supper Soup.
and pepper and boll for 10 minutes.
was happening around them that
% cup rice
Cut onion and
they did not understand.
1 cup chopped celery
carrot in strips
2 small onions
As the light failed, the figures of
and brown in but­
1 green pepper
horsemen emerged from the brush,
ter. Add to soup
1 pint tomatoes
cutting mile-long shadows into the
and boil for 1
6 eggs
flat rays of sunset; the huge, heavy­
hour,
replacing
% cup cheese
shouldered man who signaled to his
water as it boils
3
cups
water
spread-out cowboys by turning his
away, Add cab­
Salt
horse this way or that, in Indian
bage and beet
horse language, was Dave Shannon.
Add chopped celery and onions to
strips to soup and
They did not harass the cattle. a kettle of boiling water. Add
Only, between sunset and the next chopped green pepper. Cook slowly cook until beets are tender, about
daylight, no cow took a step other IS minutes Add tomatoes. Just be­ 30 minutes. Add potatoes and cook
than in the direction of the Mexi­ fore serving, break the eggs into the until tender, or about 13 minutes.
Just before serving, add grated raw
can border . . .
hot soup.
Sprinkle with cheese.
Cover. Keep in warm place 5 mln- beets and pour immediately into
serving dishes. Place 1 spoon of
Drygrass season; Texas scorched by
sour cream in center of each serving
the hot winds—
and sprinkle with parsley. Makes 6
All across the southern ranges a
LYNN SAYS:
servings.
peculiar thing was happening. As
word spread from twenty points of
disturbance, certain of the older cat­
tlemen began to sense that there
was a curious, almost systematic
order to what In itself seemed a
widespread disruption. All over the
Big Bend country, eastward almost
to the well settled Nueces, west­
ward beyond the barren Pecos,
northward to the fever line, was
breaking a spotty wave of raids of
an unparalleled boldness. Far apart,
but almost simultaneously, hell had
busted loose in a great number of
places, covering more than half ut
Texas.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The water in which vegetables
have been cooked, and left-over
cooked vegetables may often be
utilized in making excellent
soups.
Minute tapioca, because of its
thickening quality and attractive
translucence, makes an excellent
thickener.
Once thickened to the desired
consistency, cream soups should
be kept warm over hot water.
Evaporation caused by additional
cooking may make them thick
and pasty.
Pattern 2790.
Houp Stock.
3 pounds shin of beef
3 quarts cold water
Cut meat in pieces free from fat,
and place in kettle.
Add water,
partly cover, and heat slowly to boil­
ing point. Simmer gently flve hours,
removing scum as it forms. Keep
meat well covered with water. Then
remove meat and set broth aside to
cool. Skim fat from broth. Strain
liquor carefully through fine sieve or
cheesecloth. Chill. This gives a
clear broth, free from fat, to be used
as basis for soups. Makes about 2 I
quarts stock
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