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Friday, May 2, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Paa© 6
THE STORY SO FAR:
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built
was to start a cattle war In Texas. He herds.
Cleve Tanner, manager of
«P a vast string of ranches which
made this decision against the opposi­ Thorpe's Texas holdings, seemed help­
stretched from Texas to Montana King
tion ot Lew Gordon and the tearful
less to stop him. In spite of his dar*
was killed by his powerful and unscrupu­
pleading of his sweetheart. Jody Gor­ Ing plans. Roper's resources had dwin­
lous competitor. Ben Thorpe. Bill Rop­
don. With the aid ot Dry Camp Pierce dled dangerously low by the Ume winter
er. King's adopted eon. undertook to
and other outlaw gunmen. Roper con- Caine. And Thorpe seemed not to feel
break Thorpe's power. His first step
ducted raid after raid upon Thorpe'» the losses inflicted upon him.
e » e
e e
I knows his cattle counts better than
CHAPTER X
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
IUCAVYWKIGHT FIGHT
IIROAIM'ANT
**. . . This is the sixth round of
the heavyweight champeenship fight
between Joe Louis and Pudge
Goops . . . Louis sends another left
to the jaw by I aiu I s . . . Now Louis
hinds a right to the head by Louis
... Of Goops . . . By Louis . . .
It's a terrific battle, folks . . . Both
boys are in the center of Louis . . .
of the ring ... by Goops ... of
Louis . . . It's a right by Louis to
the jaw by Louis of Goops , . .
There's tho bell! . . . Goops has
been down six times so far , . . The
crowd is wild . . . Nobody expected
Goops would put up such a gume
showing!
ner. a little trickle of trail cattle
me, But—I've been all up and down began to move toward the gather­
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
The winter dragged out slowly. this country, and I don't see but ing grounds on the Red. The in­ (Consolidated Features WNU Service.)
Roper's plans, bold as they were, what he can
come from these sdles helped a lit­ X’ EW YORK.—Maj Gen. Henry H.
had been well laid. He had per­
"Well, anyway.” Roper said, “the tle; but the proceeds were principal­
’ Arnold, chief of the army air
ceived from the first that success or border gangs are going good. We'll ly absorbed by debts incurred in
corps who has just arrived in Eng­
failure depended upon whether or go on with it, and keep going on . . ." behalf of the individual ranches. The
land to serve us tin official observer
not he could make his war with
"Bill," Shoshone said, "how long improvement in his situation which
Tanner self sustaining. To gnaw can you go on, the way it's costing Roper had hoped for did not come. Arnold, Pupil of of tho war,
is ubout the
•way at the Tanner herds was one you now?”
It was deep into March when Tex Wright a, Pioneer only officer
thing; to turn their captures into
"Not much farther, 1 guess."
Long quit
remaining in
cash was altogether another.
In Army Aviation
"You going to have to quit?”
active serv­
"Look.
”
Tex
Long
said,
“
look.
”
Roper had hoped that lie could ini­
• •
Roper shook his head. "I'll never
ice who learned to fly under the per­
tiate his own drives to the north, quit now. Shoshone; 1 can't quit He did not talk easily; whatever
sonal
supervision
of
Wilbur
and
Or
­
“
Seventh
round,
folks . . . Louis
but he had found this out of the While I've got one rider left with he said was matter-of-fact, even
Pattern 6H9«.
ville Wright at their school In Day­ Is shuffiing around ... He Is star­
now.
"I
got
to
pull
out
of
tills
question. On the other hand, the me, or no riders. I'll still be work­
ton. Ohio. Just two years previ­ ing ut Goops . . . This is a stare by
game."
BRIGHT decoration In any
trail drivers had found themselves ing on Cleve Tanner. But I think
Bill Roper looked at him. without ously the war department had ac­ Louis ... Of Goops . . . Goops is
room, this rug crocheted in
so vulnerable that none of them we’re going to beat him. Wilce. Aft-
cepted delivery of its first batch of not to be outdone and he sends a four strands of string, cnndlewiclc
wanted to buy cattle of questiona­ er all, the border gangs—we can expression. "All right. How much
airplanes and so his experience as a stare by Goops to Louis by Goops or rags looks like a large chrys­
you figure 1 owe you?”
ble ownership.
count on them.”
flier pretty nearly spans the com- . . . Louis delivers u right uppercut
Tex
smiled.
"Nothing.
”
anthemum. Use two shades of a
Roper continued to count on his
The Thorpe-Tanner organization
plete period of army aviation.
to the jaw by Louis ... A left by color, with white, gray, tun or
A very rare flush of anger came
did not have this problem; they took border gangs for two weeks more,
Louis . . . A right by Louis . . . three colors.
what they wanted and drove what Then, in the middle of February, into Bill Roper's face. "Tex. what's
Anyone who ran recall the
Louis sends two lefts and a right to
e • e
the
matter
with
you?
”
they wanted, by means of their own he learned that Lee Hamish was
status of flying In 1911 will ■P-
the jaw by Louis. Goops is down
Pattern MUS contains instructions for
trail outfits. But Roper could now through.
predate "Hap*’ Arnold's exploits
Tex Long made a quick, futile
. . . He is saved by the bell . . . making rus. illustrations of It and
only dispose of cattle for the trail
The first word of difficulty came gesture with bis hands. "We used
in his tlrsl year of training as a
This showing of Goops has upset all stitches; materials needed; color schemes.
through ranchers known to be when Dave Shannon pushed a little to be able to jump down on them.
young lieutenant, assigned to
calculations . . . The crowd is Send order lol
scrupulous and established men.
bunch of seven hundred head through We can’t do that now. The Bert
flight duty from the Infantry,
cheering . . . This is a sensational
with
a
record
of
the
river
at
Mudcat
Turn,
and
found
110
night».
29
This was the strategic purpose be­
Johnson place is studded with ri­
battle!
hours In the air. In Ills second
Sewing Circle Needlerraft llrpt.
hind Roper's rehabilitation of the no vaqueros waiting on the other fles until a man can't take a step.
• •
year of training he achieved
U KIshlh Ave.
New York
eleven outfits which Tanner had orig- ’ side. Shannon waited three days Every place you'll find out it's the
“Now comes the eighth round . . .
honor as the tirst winner of the
inally seized, and which Roper had before he was forced to turn the same. There isn't going to be any­
Enclose 13 cents In coins tor Pat­
Goops mukes a rush for his corner
Mackay trophy awarded for ex­
now put back into the hands of their cattle free and ride.
thing more we can do. We went
tern No....... ••••••
by Goops, lie rushes out straight
cellence as a military pilot. In
The complete news of what had good for a while. But they got or­
proper owners. These re-established
Name
......................................... . .............
at Louis by Goops ... of Louis
a day so blustery and cold as to
ranchers had not only the sympathy happened never really came. What ganized. now. We're through."
Addresa ................................................ ,,,
.
,
.
Now
Louis
floors
him
with
a
keep all but 2 of 12 entrants out
but the respect of everyone who Roper learned came in bit by bit,
Tex Long was only one of Bill
terrific left to the nose by Louis , . .
of the race he completed a 40-
knew anything about Texas cattle. by way of random riders who had Roper's picked gunfighters, but he
and two uppercuts by Louis to the
mlle flight, originating at College
Through these men Roper now had talked with a vaquero here, another was one of the best. As March
jaw by Louis . , . Goops Is down
Park, Md., at an average speed
a safe and sure outlet for the cattle there.
drew on. Roper lost four more.
. . . He is up . . . He falls into a
of 32 miles an hour.
Lee Harnish had been pressing
recovered by Dry Camp's experts,
Into the Big Bend, into the valley
clinch of Louis by Goops . . . Louis
while the gunfighters under such south with a herd of twelve hundred
of the Nueces. Cleve Tanner had
Twenty-two years later he again just landed four straight smashes
men as Nate Liggett, Tex Daniels, head. He was two days into Mex­
flooded such a power of gunfighters won the trophy as leader of a flight to the head by Louis . . . Ixruis
and Hat Crick Tommy supplied a ico. and supposed that he was clear;
as Bill Roper would not have be­ of 10 twin-engined bombers from scores a terrific right to eur by
much needed protection until they he had never bad much trouble,
once he was well below the line. lieved. He had supposed that he Washington, D. C. to Alaska and re­ Louis . . . And a left jab by Louis
could get on their feet
could outplace and outsmart Tan­ turn. As early as 1911 he prac­ to the face of Goops by Louis . . .
But this method, promising as it
ner's warrior outfits. But now his ticed at aerial bombardment and Louis gets in two stomach punches
was. was slow. Of necessity the
raiding forces met everywhere a war department records credit him by Louis , . . Goops goes down
men whom Roper backed were cow­
stubborn resistance.
with being the pioneer in the sue- . . . Goops has been down eleven
men without assets other than their
cessful use of the radio for military times ... He hasn't landed a solid
CT&I8IUÍ,
Roper
bad
discounted
the
quit
ot
disputed claim to their ground.
punch so far by Goops. But he Is
Tex Long; but now other news was purposes in an airplane.
Sometimes by mortgage loans, but
Quite at variance with the out- still in there . . . All the expert
coming in. The Graham outfit—the
PHXJICIAN,
principally by silent partnerships.
first of all those that the Roper men ward semblance of this slightly predictions have been upset . . .
Roper had now obtained interests
had taken—was again in the hands built, silver-haired soldier with his Goops has surprised everybody . . .
in nearly a dozen outfits.
They
of
Cleve Tanner; and Nate Liggett, diffident smile, is his forthright ut­ There goes the bell as Louis sends
should have been thriving outfits.
assigned to protect Graham, had terances and writings concerning the a hard right smash to tho jaw by
But Roper found his money drain-
Louis.
headed for the tall without even a airplane as a war machine.
- ing away with unforeseen swiftness,
PETEIfMINfP TO
report. Hat Crick Tommy was three
without hope of any financial re­
“
The
only
way
to
prevent
air
FINO A MHfRVAV
weeks missing
The Davis outfit,
“Ninth found, folks . . . This is
turn until the trail should open in
invasion Is to attack the Invader
TOUFT WATEZ.
left under bis protection, had gone
one of the greatest heavyweight
the spring. Only the Mexican bor­
with superior numbers and
HE INVENTE?
the
way
of
all
loose
outfits,
and
Tan
­
championship fights in history . . .
der operations, which depended upon
He
THE PUMP
knock
him
out
of
the
air.
”
ner's cowboys rode the range.
Goops Is down again from a left and
Lee Harnish, continued to show a
APOUNP ISO «C.
has been preaching this for
right
and
left
and
right
and
right
de
­
Dry
Camp
Pierce
was
almost
the
thin trickle of income through the
years, his concern having ever
livered by Louis to the jaw by Louis
last to come in—of those who came
winter months.
As spring ap­
been for the constant procure­
in at all.
... He is up .. . He Is In very
THE 0ETTK WAY lb TREAT
proached, Roper found himself near
ment of thousands of new. Im­
bad shape ... He has no defense
C0W1MITMW PUE TO LKX OF
the end of his string.
Pierce rode into the Pot Hook
proved combat craft, training of
and doesn't seem to be able to land
PRÜFER •M-K" IN THE PIET 6 TO
Camp early in April. He was the
Early in February, Shoshone
thousands of new pilots, enlist­
a solid punch ... He is certainly
CO0XCT THE CAUff Of THE
same, small wiry man he always
Wilce came south seeking Bill Rop­
ment of tens ot thousands of
outclassed, but this is the ninth
nouecc with a oeucKXJf
had been—his eyes watery, his jaws
er, and found him at the Pot Hook
ground crew men, swelling of
CEREAL, KfUûCC'S
--------- ,
round, folks, and he has upset all
poorly shaven
ranch.
aircraft plants and acquisition
a
•
ALL-MAN... EAT /
/
the dope by still being in there . . ,
* Ju ■ '1
of vital raw material for future
"Find out anything?” Roper
"Bill, I can’t carry these camps
Goops is putting up a wunnderful
asked.
aircraft production.
no more.
God knows we strung
demonstration of courage by Goops
Shoshone Wilce rubbed his badly
with you while we could We've et
Still an active pilot, mounting ad­ . . . He is down again as Louis
OF VMATtR.
shaved chin with horny fingers. "I
beef, beef, beef without salt or flour,
ministrative duties have cut down sends a left and a left and a left by
don't know as you're going to like
we've et bobcat meat,
But Bill.
this so very good, Bill.”
there's no lead in our guns, and his time in the air and restricted his Louis to the jaw . . . Boy, what a
activity in two hobbies—cooking fight!
"Let’s have the bad news first—I
there's no patches in our pants,
and writing fiction. Boys who re­
eat it up.”
and it's time I got to let the boys
Harnish took to the brush
As One Thinks
member his "Bill Bruce” books, in­
"Now we are starting round ten
"God knows there’s enough of it;
go.
to
make
out
any
way
they
can."
the hills.
Man
is
only miserable so far as
cluding
"Bill
Bruce
at
West
Point,
”
there ain't any other kind to be
Bill Roper looked older than Dusty "Bill Bruce at Flying School," and in the greatest fight for the world he thinks himself so.—Sannazaro.
I
heavyweight
champecnship
in
years
had. What do you want to know But now, one moonless night, a band King had ever looked; his face was
other breath-taking juvenile works,
first?”
reported as of at least sixty men like granite, with hard lines cut into will regret the recent idleness of . . . Joe Louis sends a left to the
head by Louis . . . Goops is down
"How’s Thorpe making out up struck from no place, scattering the it by the weather.
his pen.
. . . He's up ... I never saw such
above?”
herd, and blazing down on Harnish's
"Okay." he sai4 "1 understand
spirit . . . Such courage by Goops
"I saw him in Dodge City; he riders almost before they could take
how you feel. Dry Camp."
was throwing money around with a to the saddle. There had been a
RONOUNCED feeling of good-will . . . Such fighting nerve and spirit
Dry Camp's anger was gone as
. Bam! . . . Goops is OUT!”
shovel in each hand. You know sharp running fight as Harnish and
toward a nation where she has
what 1 think? I think he can go his half-dozen boys took to the brush quickly as it had come. "Bill,” he been most hospitably received, sen­
May Warn of Disordered
away and forget Tanner, and write and the hills. Unsatisfied with sei­ said pleadingly, "it’s only—it's on­ timent born of local pride and a high
PROBLEM FOR WASHINGTON
Kidney Action
ly
—
”
everything he has in Texas right zure of the herd, the unknown band
„
c-
>
sense of hon-
(A picture made entirely of hair
Modern Ilfs with Its hurry snd worry.
Braztltan
Senhora
orable
pre
.
"It's only that you've had a lot of
off the books, and never know the had spent three days trying to hunt
Irregular habits. Improper sating ana
from the heads of members ot the
drinking—Its risk ot sxposurs and Infse-
men out working for us." Bill Roper Chriatena Ship in ferment. Roosevelt family will be presented
difference!”
down Harnish's riders.
lion—throws heavy strain On tha work
said more reasonably.
Roper locked his hands behind his
of tho kidneys. They ara apt to become
to
the
President.
—
News
item.)
Lee Hamish himself, wounded in
Spirit
ol
Good-Will
over-tased and fall to filler atoeoa and
head and stared at the ceiling. the first skirmish, had had a hard . “Near fifty men,” Dry Camp said.
and other impurities from tbs life-glvlaa
Sometimes it seemed to him that time getting clear; it was not known
blood.
"How many you got working the gesture which Senhora Peixoto Please save your combings, Mrs. R.,
You may suffer nesting barkaeha,
trying to break Tanner was like try­ whether or not all of his riders now?”
employed in breaking the bottle con­
For Democrats declare
headarhe. dlsaineaa, getting up nights,
ing to empty the Rio Grande with were elsewhere accounted for.
taining champagne over the bow of That they would like the Hyde Park
leg palna, swelling feel ronetantly
Dry Camp Pierce hesitated.
tired, nervous, all worn out. Other signa
a hand dipper. The apparently un­
branch
After an elapse of several weeks,
"Not a damned man,” Bill Roper the new Moore-McCormack passen­
"f kuln< y or blmldrr disorder are some­
bounded resources of Ben Thorpe in an Indian-faced vaquero came hunt­ said bitterly. "And now you quit ger liner, Rio de Janeiro, as it slid
times burning, scanty or too frequent
Immortalized in hair.
urination.
the middle country and in the north, ing Bill Roper; he carried a writ­ Dusty King.”
down the ways in the shipyard at
Try Poan’s Pills. Doan’s help ths
out of reach of the south Texas war, ten message from Lee Hamish:
kidneys to pass ot! harmful airaaa body
"Look you here,” Dry Camp said. Chester, Pa., the other day. So act­ Young John could pull a forelock
waste.
They have had more than half a
made up a vast reservoir which
out—
century of public approval. Are recom­
"I’ve strung with you when I ing, she represented her husband.
Tanner could draw on without limit.
"This thing is finished up. Don’t
mended by grateful uaora every where.
Commander
Ernani
Do
Amaral
Frank,
Junior,
some
can
spare,
wouldn't have strung with any other
Ask your twigbbor/
"How is Tanner himself making let anybody tell you it was Cleve
man, let alone an upstart kid. I'U Peixoto, governor of the state of But what, oh, what, can Jimmy do
out?”
Tanners men busted into us. What
To place his quota there?
say this for you—you’ve made a Rio de Janeiro—for which the vessel
"Bill, I’ve been all up and down hes done, this Tanner has put some
-X. Y. Z.
game fight. But kid, take my word was named—as well as her father,
• •
the north and east part of Texas; bunches of Mex renegades up to
Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil.
for
it
—
they're
too
big.
and
they're
and I can't see where we’ve ac­ landing on us, they work with the
MOVIE VERIHCTH
too strong.”
A petite, vivid woman, who
Yakis, and his Indian scouts have
complished a damned thing.”
"That
Night in Rio.”—an insult to
“
You
think
so?
”
Bill
Roper
said,
has made a delightful impres­
WNU—13
“You don’t know what you’re talk­ spotted where we make our cross­
18—41
South America dono in techni­
"I know so. I don’t know what
sion upon those concerned in
ings. Seems like theres anyway a
ing about!”
color.
making the current visit of the
"You know what I think?” Wilce dozen bands of them havent got any­ you had, made men like Lee Har-
• • •
distinguished Brazilian pair an
persisted. "I think there's more cat­ thing else to do but lay watching nish and Dave Shannon and Nate
But if "Rebecca” was the year's
Liggett throw in with you, but they
important hands - across - the -
tle in this country than the world those crossings, and wait us out.
best picture, as voted, then we’ll
sphere event, the senhora holds
“About half of them is carrying did—the damnedest wild bunch Tex­
has any use for. I don't think you
take Mickey Mouse every time. And
a degree in law, the result of
can bother any man any more, just new American guns and plenty am­ as ever seen. Half the renegades of
we thought Ginger Rogers as Kitty
the
Long
Trail,
and
your
part
of
study
at
the
University
of
Bra
­
munition. They got our hide nailed
by fooling with his cattle.”
Foyle in the movie of that name Will
sil, a profession, however, In
“Never mind what you think. to the fence all right and we are King-Gordon, has gone into beating
just another movie performer who
Cleve Tanner. And where are we
which she has never practiced.
through.”
Let’s have what you know.”
hadn’t read the book.
now?”
Marrying soon after graduation
"I nosed around and tried to fipd
• • •
It was a long time before Roper
• A BUSINESS
she eventually became secretary
“Well?"
out what promises Tanner’s been
There are a lot of people in thia
to
her
father,
a
position
she
making for cattle on spring deliv­ saw Lee Harnish again. He did not
organization which wants
“We aren’t any place! Kid, I tell
country who will stand for most
now holds. Her hosts in New
eries. I didn’t learn everything. No­ accept Harnish’s statements off­ you we’re beat, and we’re long
to get the most for the
anything that may come through the
York have found her a fluent
body learns everything. But I got hand; but when he had conferred beat!"
with
Dave
Shannon,
money sets up standards
and
others
of
war
emergency
as
long
as
it
doesn't
speaker
of
English.
enough to total up.”
April melted into May, and Roper
the border men in whom he be-
interfere with bingo.
by
which to judge what
Shoshone Wilce hesitated, and
had nothing to fight with any more.
This acquirement has made her of
lieved, he was forced to accede that
• • »
didn’t say any more until he had
Those units of his wild bunch that value to her husband as an inter­
is
offered
to it, just as in
A recent newsreel showed a bunch
got a cigarette rolled. In the mid­ the border-running phase of the at­ had not quit had not been heard preter when our idiom and more in­
Washington
the govern­
tack
on
Tanner
was
done.
dle of rolling his cigarette he went
from at all; he knew already that volved diction carry him beyond his of rookies leaping from planes in
As February drew to a close, the
ment
maintains
a Bureau
a
parachute
training
test.
Each
car
­
into a coughing fit, and spilled the
the ones who had completely failed. depth. No one, it seems, has yet
tobacco, so that he had to start over big herds were once more being Cleve Tanner prospered, seemingly; found her at a loss on economic, so­ ried two chutes In case the first
of Standards.
thrown together for the trail. From
again.
and all was well with Ben Thorpe.
cial, or political questions—in fine one didn’t work. In this picture one
the eleven rehabilitated outfits in
•You can have your own
"Bill,” he said at last, “Cleve
Bill
Roper
waited
at
the
Pot
Hook
she is a brilliantly accomplished lad pulled both chutes.
which Roper was now silent part-
"Would you do that?” the girl
Tanner’s going to drive more cattle
Bureau of Standards, too.
now, trying to think of some way woman. Practical, too. When it be­
this year than he’s ever drove be­
that he had missed.
King-Gor­ came clear that certain handwork ahead asked her boy friend.
Just consult the advertis­
“Would II” he frankly exclaimed.
fore. In just one bunch alone he
don denied him, and Lew Gordon arts in Europe no longer would be
ing
columns of your news­
aims to deliver fifteen thousand head
expressedly would advance nothing available to American buyers she “Say, I’d pull both cords and yell
for
somebody
to
throw
me
a
third.
”
paper.
They safeguard
on the banks of the Red!”
more against Dusty King's share of founded the Fundacao Anchieta in
• s •
"He’s crazy!” Roper shouted. “He
the partnership which had been bro­ Rio de Janeiro which gives free
your purchasing power
It must seem funny to London
can’t do it—it’s impossible!”
ken by death . ,
training in fine needlework to Brazil­
every day of every year.
not to have any American nota-
"Well—he thinks he can. He
ian women.
(TO HE CONTINUED)
around this week.
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Backache
P
D oans P ills
P
BUREAU OF
STANDARDS
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