SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Friday, April 25, 1941
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TRIM FLOWER GARDEN
INSTALLMENT 6
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built
bp a vast string of ranches which
stretched from Texas to Montana. King
was killed by his powerful and un­
scrupulous competitor. Ben Thorpe. Bill
Roper. King's adopted son. undertook
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
THE STORY SO FAR:
to break Thorpe'« power. Hla first
was to «tart a cattle war In Texas,
made this decision afalnst the opposi­
tion of Lew Gordon and the tearful
pleadin« of hit sweetheart. Jody Gordon.
With the aid of Dry Camp Pierce and
CHAPTER IX
other outlaw gunmen, Roper conducted
raid after raid upon Thorpe'« herds
Clave Tanner, manager of Thorpe'a Tex­
as holdings, seemed helpless to stop
him. Gunmen drove off cattle by the
thousands.
• e
'T'HERE is much value in keep-
* ing the flower garden trimmed.
Wise gardeners pick bouquets of
favorite annuals like Marigold.
Zinnia, Petunia, Sweet Peas and
Snapdragon with systematic regu­
larity, for the picking promotes
continued blooming.
Periodic trimming is not best for
such small, low-growing edging
flowers as Alyssum. A complete
cutting, however, will
this
...... benefit
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By R uth W yeth S pears
» FASTI SLAIN FABRIC
“ INSIDI AND FIGUHtO
ROUTSltM ..
■ with
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I stiff r'* ■ x~-t\
■ fasts
Xk
as shown in the sketch, and is
covered to mutch th« box. Th*
maroon bins tupe edging of th«
stand is cemented in pluce in •
wuy that you may linci useful in
muking many other things, Th«
secret is in spreuding the cement
evenly on both surfaces, letting it
dry, and then vulcanizing the two
together with the hcut of the press­
ing iron.
"Sometimes it looks like I'm not
»
even doing that."
SPHl AD
\\
"If you haven’t accomplished any­
With the fall. Lew Gordon, now in
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sole charge of the far-scattered cat­ thing else, you've astonished my
cardboard
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TO FIT
ne s saia
father. He's
said uinisvii,
himself, aver
over nnu
and
tle holdings he had shared with iduiiT.
J BACK OF BIAS
OUTBIDS <
Dusty King, came to Texas to in­ over, he wouldn't have supposed it type of plant. This treatment may
tr
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No question blit b<‘ *• I’Pll*‘»i t” Vu> I .iluni, I.maria,
AND THIN PLACt
CROWN
spect the southern holdings of King- could be done.
NOTE'
Why
not
put away Winter things
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ovir
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Gordon—the breeding ranges from what Cleve Tanner is shaken; he's Lobelia, and Nemesia as well as
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all nicely mended? It will be grand la
Alyssum.
JOIN
8N0»
„
,„
■ , A WARM IRON
Kd them out In perfect order next Full.
which all the King-Gordon holdings shaken clear down to his roots. No­
WITH ÇUMNSO Tfirt
Mrs. Bpears' Hook 1 show* you how to da
Pinks, Cynoglossum, and Dwarf
body knows what's what any more,
drew their essential sustenance.
the moat professional hinds of mending,
Bedding Rust Resistant Snap­
Reports kept coming to Bill Roper or what will happen. People who
as
well as every day household mending.
dragon are grown both for cutting E'EMININE headgear usually There
Is a simple, quickly made tipper
at his constantly shifting bases by thought a year ago that Cleve Tan­
"
holds
its
shupe
best
if
it
rests
and for garden beauty, but they
bag for five garments tn HEWING Hook
way of the many riders who kept ner was invincible—they're saying
right
side
up
on
u
stand
that
fits
8
Send order to:
him in topch with his far-spread now that he's coming to the end of too will profit by a thoroughgoing inside the crown, but this is not
Mid-.lugust, in the season of driest wild bunch. Inevitably he knew that his string; that if this thing goes "haircut" such us that prescribed
true of a man's hat. Its dashing
for the smaller, edging favorites.
heal—
Jody was at the headquarters of the on. Tanner will be through.”
MHS. RVTII WYETH SPEAKS
lines may be preserved by plac­
It
is
advisable
to
pick
the
flow
­
Into the Potreros, by a little used old Two-Circle, not far from Uvalde.
“What else do they «ay?"
Drawer 18
ing
it
upside
down
in
a
holder.
trail, a black-sombreroed horseman The Two-Circle had been the origi­
Bedturd llllle
New York
“They're saying that the worst ers of certain popular perennials
The man's hat box. shown here,
rode. He was a tested gunman, a nal Gordon stand; from this camp renegade« of the trail are working when they are in their prime, to
Enclos« ZU cants fur Books Z «nd •
proved man whose name was known had been driven the first trail herd together, for the first time—the kill­ prevent their running to seed, und is covered on the outside with ma­
Nam« .............
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and feared half the length of the that Dusty King had pushed north. ers. the men who don’t care If they to promote the production of a sec­ roon and blue cotton print and
lined
with
blue
chumbray.
The
Ud
ond
crop
of
blossoms
in
a
single
Great Trail. Trouble-shooting for
Addies«
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.
Roper knew that she was there. live or die. They «ay they have
Delphinium, Sweet Wil­ and the front of the box ure hinged
Cleve Tanner now, he was moving Yet the fall dragged on, and No­ money back of them now, and that season.
Di- with adhesive tape before the cov­
into the Potreros to find out what had vember passed inSo December be­ even Cleve Tanner, with all his liam, Coreopsis, Perennial
■3
gone wrong with som« of Tanner's fore he went to see her.
string of outfits, can't stand up anthus, and Pyrethrum should be ering is pusted on with stiff paste.
The
stand
is
made
of
cardboard,
handled
in
this
manner.
choicest herds. He had come fast,
He had told himself that there was against the everlasting raiding, and
changing horses frequently, riding
no use in his going to see Jody Gor­ stampeding, and mysterious loss of
far Into the night
don; but in the end. of course, he cattle, They say he’s lost twenty
.nourishing...
Loping down the almost invisible went.
outfits, just because he couldn't
A
Quiz
With
Answers
saves
time...saves
worh...saves
trail through the dark, his horse sud­
He rode up to the Two-Circle ranch spare the gunmen to hold the
denly dropped from under him. head­ house in late afternoon of a cold range."
money
,..
order,
today, from
Offering Information
long into nothingness. The pony
"Eleven outfits," Roper said.
your
grocer.
on Various Subjects
might have stepped into a prairie
“Then it was really you?"
dog hole—or it could have been the
“Those eleven outfits they speak
loop of a rope. But as the dazed
of—those were outfits roughed away
I mucus, constantly secreted by
TAe Questions
rider struggled up. his mouth full
from little lonely men. on pretenses
special glands, which minimizes
of dirt a rifle was prodding his bel­
1.
Which
science
has
been
called
that hadn't any justice or any true
the
friction while swimming.
ly, and a voice was saying, "Don't
law. Those outfits are back with the dismal science?
you think you might have took the
4.
This term, which is applied to
2.
Whose
inventions
made
the
their owners now."
wrong way? ...”
a form of halo around the sun, is
"But—you admit your wild bunch motion picture an accomplished
caused by the refraction of sun­
fact?
Is behind all this?"
light by myriads of tiny six-aided
JTestT exes, far up the lonely Pecos-
3.
What
makes
a
fish
so
slip
­
“Call it that if you want to. I
ice crystals floating in the upper
pery?
One of Cleve Tanner’s-outfit bosses
guess there isn't anybody knows as
atmosphere.
4.
What
is
the
explanation
of
was talking to the Ranger stationed
well as you do what I'm trying to
8. Actium.
‘
sun dogs?
at Mustang Point.
do."
8. Sixty feet five inches.
5. In what naval battle did Cleo­
“Such a damn' outbust of lawless­
She said in a dead voice, “I nev­
7. Heinrich Hertz.
patra figure?
ness has cut loose here as I never
er believed it; I couldn't believe it—
8. One hundred year«.
6. What is the standard distance
teen before,” he said.
until now.”
9. A dog which guarded the
from a baseball pitcher's box to
The ranger here was Vai McDon­
“Didn't I tell you about it? 1 told
gates of Hades.
home plate?
ald. He had gone out nineteen times
you about it before I began. I set
10. The Fascist salute was intro­
7. Who discovered radio waves?
in battle, sometimes against Mexi­
out to break Cleve Tanner; and by
8. In Oliver Wendell Holmes’ fa­ duced by D’Annunzio, the Italian
cans, sometimes against the Coman­
Feast - for-the - Least /
God. he'll be broken!—if I live."
mous poem, how long did the won­ poet. He copied it from a statue
ches, and he had hunted white ren­
“
You
know
Cleve
Tanner
has
put
or
frescoe,
forgetting
that
ancient
derful one horse shay run before
egades galore.
up five thousand dollars for your ar­ it collapsed?
Roman citizens greeted each oth­
Idea and Work
“Awfully tough,” he said in his
rest?"
Success is nothing but a good
9. In ancient mythology Cerber­ er by shaking hands, and only
own sympathetic way.
Bill Roper chuckled crazily. "All us was what?
slaves made the sign which Mus­ idea coupled with hard work.—
The foreman of the outfit that was
right. I'll put up ten thousand for 10. Who introduced the Fascist solini adopted.
Balzac.
busted up was fit to be tied. “I
his arrest There isn't going to be salute?
tell you, we’re being stolen blind.”
any arrest, and he knows that, too."
The Answers
he raved. “Not just a calf here
“I can’t believe it,” she kept say­
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Economics.
1.
and there, either—they take 'em in
ing over and over. "I can’t believe
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Thomas
A.
Edison.
1.
swoops and bunches. It’s the bold­
it even yet"
3. Its body is covered with a
est thing I’ve ever seen. Even when
"You can't believe what?”
there's no chance of getting clear
“That you're an outlaw—a wild
He
pulled
up
his
horse
a
few
with any cattle, they’re game to
bunch boss—thrown In with the ug­
yards from the kitchen gallery.
stampede a cut herd that it's took
liest killers this range has ever seen,
weeks to round up, and scatter it
December day. The sky was low or any range—”
from hell to—”
and heavy, and the bitter norther
He said ironically, “Don't hard­
“This is one of Ben Thorpe's out­ had brought a scud of hard snow a
ly see how I could use second rate
A doctor’s telephone rang when
fits? No?"
long way to throw it sharply in his men.”
he was trying to go to sleep. The
"Does that mean—”
face.
“Reports have come in,” Jody caller was in a wild state of alarm.
“Well? How many times has Cleve
He pulled up his horse a few yards said wonderingly, “from over eight
"My wife, doctor!" he shouted.
Tanner passed out the word. 'The from the kitchen gallery, then sat hundred miles of country; they’re
•’It’s her appendix. You’d better
Rangers be damned?’ He's put more there looking at the house, his sheep­ beginning to call it a rustlers' war,
come round quick.”
obstructions in the way of things skin hunched about his throat a final showdown between the wild
"Keep her quiet in bed,” said
I
we was trying to do than any other Even now, having come this far. he bunch and lawful men. An<| you—”
the doctor, "and I’ll come around
one man. Who was it had the legis­ almost made up his mind to go
“What about me?”
tomorrow. She hasn't got appen­
lature cut down our pay until we away.
“Oh, Billy, it's unbearable! That dicitis.”
practically ride for nothing, and fur­
Then Jody Gordon stepped out on you—you've turned yourself into the
The husband became even wild­
nish all our own stuff?”
the gallery in a whippy woolen dress festering point of all that struggle, er, however, insisting that the doc­
One's Neighbor
“The question here is whether and stood estimating the uninvited and hate, and Lawless gunning—”
Lost or Won
tor should come at once.
we’re going to have any law, or are horseman through the dusk. Some­
The most pious may not live
The next dreadful thing to •
He had to grin at that, unhappy
"Look here,” said the doctor at
we going to have—”
thing like the strike of a buffalo as be was. “Didn't realize I was last, "you know that I took out in peace, if it does not please his battle lost is a battle won.—Wel­
wicked neighbor.—Schiller.
lington.
"From what I heard,” McDonald lance went through Bill Roper; it festering,” he said.
her appendix three years ago, and
said, “Cleve Tanner has left it be was so long since he had seen that
"You had everything," she said, nobody has two appendixes."
known that he's the biggest end of one slim little figure that could so “and you threw it away . . .”
"Ever heard of anybody having
the law himself. Go talk to Cleve change everything under the sky,
He had only heard her say that two wives?" asked the husband.
Tanner if you want law.”
for him.
once before; but. In memory, he
"My understanding is,” the fore­
A split pole fence separated them; had heard it so often since that her
man argued, "that the Rangers are and after a moment she came words had the ring of a familiar
supposed to—”
across the few yards of space, song.
“I'm sorry that we can't ever and are still miserable with stomach
"I’ll move out and straighten up leaning sideways against the bitter
your little old range,” McDonald wind, and stood gripping a bar of see things the same," Bill said. "I gaa 1 Spoils your sleep, and you hardly
said. "I’ll be glad to. Just as soon the fence as she peered up into his started out to get Cleve Tanner, and
I'll get him. After Tanner, Walk dare eat ADLA Tablets bring
as I get orders from headquarters. face.
Lasham; and after Walk La sham, QUICK relief. Your druggist has
"I knew it was you,” she said.
I’m waiting for them right orders
UY
now!”
"Child," said Bill Roper, “you get Ben Thorpe. But when it comes to ADLA Tablets. Get them today.
But the weeks rolled by, and head­ back in that house. You’ll freeze!" saying I had everything before I
i
"Then you put up your horse and started in, I guess maybe that isn't
quarters was curiously still . . .
Simple
Adversity
who
can
Btand
prosperity,
there
A« Man Wishes
so.”
come in.” •
Adversity is sometimes hard are a hundred that will stand ad-
Men willingly believe what they
Jody said hotly, “There wasn't
"Is your father here?”
End of summer; a welcome end—
wish.—Caesar.
one thing in all the world you didn't upon a man; but for one man versity.—Carlyle.
"He's in San Antonio.”
Cleve Tanner himself, the Cleve
have—or couldn't have had—before
"I
don
’
t
think
he
’
d
want
me
here,
Tanner who represented Ben Thorp«
you chose this crazy way!”
in the south, master of breeding Jody.”
“I didn’t have you,” he told her.
"Lew
Gordon
has
never
turned
grounds, the man who controlled the
“If I had had you, I guess I would
roots of all Ben Thorpe's plains or­ away any rider without a cup of
have you yet Things don't shift
ganization, was talking to the Unit­ coffee; not yet.”
and change so easy as that—not in
He
gave
in
then,
and
stepped
ed States Marshal at San Antonio.
the part of the world I know.”
"There hasn’t been such a wave of down. He tied his horse to the fence,
He was pulling on his gloves now,
and
followed
her
into
the
house.
outlawry since the horse Indians
buttoning
his sheepskin coat
In
The fire in the big wood range
was put down. Damnation, man!
what was left of the light the
It's set us back ten years ... I made the room a dazing contrast to
shadows lay heavy upon his face As
know what your policy has been. the cold sweep of the prairie; he
he stood there, he could have been
Your idea is to let us fight it out for threw his coat open, but did not take
Dusty King himself—the man who
ourselves, against Mexico, against it off.
had broken a hundred long and
"Of
course,
”
Jody
said,
“
we
keep
the Indians, against all hell. But I
weary trails; except that Dusty King
tell you, this thing comes from in­ hearing about you.”
had perhaps never looked so old.
“
That's
too
bad.
I
expect
you
side; this thing might be something
Her voice came to him as if from
wouldn’t be hearing anything good.”
that I couldn’t beat without help.”
a distance.
"And when you’re
"No.
”
The United States Marshal at San
through," she said—“what are you
Silence
again.
He
didn
’
t
know
Antonio smiled to himself a little
going to have left?”
smile; and he said, "Seems like this why he had come; there wasn’t any­
"Far as I know," Bill Roper said,
thing
he
could
say.
He
stood
by
the
must be a terrible bad thing for you,
“I’m not going to have anything
stove,
his
eyes
brooding
on
the
iron.
Cleve?”
Deep in the pockets of his coat left. God knows I’ve got very little
than the average of the 4 other largest-selling
"I’m telling you—”
there was a trembling in his slack left now.” He was glad she didn’t
"Go ahead and tell me. You’re a
fingers, not caused by cold. It was know how his resources had dwin­
cigarettes tested—less than any of them-according
Ben Thorpe man, ain’t you? A right
a strange and uncomfortable thing dled, how close to the end he really
leading Ben Thorpe man. Well—
stood.
to be so near this girl again, and
to Independent scientific tests of the smoke Itself
maybe I’ll tell you a couple of
Her voice rose sharply. "Can’t
yet to be so far away.
things, some day ...”
“Still,” Jody said, “you seem to you see there’s no hope in this
There was law in Texa«, even in be getting done what you set out ghastly thing? Thorpe's grip is un­
breakable.” She came close to him,
those days; but there was no such to do.”
and her words came through her
law as could stand against the com­
teeth. "It’s your very life you’re
bined renegade« of the long trail,
throwing away!”
with behind them a lawyer who
Perhaps he misunderstood her
could delay forever in the court«;
then; for he grinned. “Maybe,” he
and a reckless expenditure of mon­
said, “that would be the least I
ey, the «ource of which some im­
could lose; the very least of all. ..’’
peded, but which was not definitely
(TO BE CONTINUED)
known.
Presently it began to appear that
the tough, notoriously trouble-mak­
ing outfits under Cleve Tanner were
not holding together as they always
had before. Here and there men
were beginning to desert the Tanner
outfits — sometimes fired because
they had failed, sometimes volun­
tarily deserting to the ranks of the
raiders who were now almost open­
ly punishing the Thorpe-Tanner
holdings.
r
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the form..
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