THURSDAY. AUGUST ti. 1981
TUE SPRINOPIKLD NEWS
PAO« TWO
T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N E W S
I*ubilshed Every Thursday at
8prlngfleld. Lane County, Oregon, by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
H. E MAXEY. Editor
Kntei'üd a» se rond
rltt»» matter.
February 34, 1*03, at the postoftice.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 0, IN I
THE CASCADE HIGHWAY
Delegates from every town from Oregon City to Spring-
field met with the highway commission in Salem last week
to ask that the Cascade highway leading along the foothills
between the above named cities be placed on the state sec
ondary road program. This road if built will serve territory
not now on state highways and shorten the distance to
Portland. People of Silverton, Lebanon, Brownsville and
smaller places must now travel west several miles to the
Pacific highway before going north to Portland.
The new road would shorten the distrance from Eugene
and Springfield to Portland 18 to 20 miles. It would also
lighten the through traffic on the Pacific highway by pro
viding a substitute route. It should be built before the
Pacific highway is widened as it will relieve the congestion
which is now the basis of argument for widening this high
way.
The Pacific highway, one of the finest roads in the
country when it was >uilt, does not now measure up to
modern road standards. There will need to be much
straightening and changes in alignment before it can be
brought up to date and widened. This will no doubt cost
as much as to build a substitute road in another location,
thus developing sections of the Willamette valley now poor
ly served by both highways and railroads. The Cascade
highway has the endorsement of the county courts of Clac
kamas, Marion, Linn and Lane counties. It should be on
the state program.
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TYING THE NATION TOGETHER
The process of tying every part o f the United States to
every other part of the United States by means of modern
hard-surfaced highways is going on more rapidly than ever
before. It is a big program, for this is a big country. But
we only have to look back a few years, to the days before
the automobile, to realize what tremendous progress has
been made.
One would have to go a long way into the back country
these days to find a main-traveled road as bad as even the
average highway was twenty years ago. Where tt day is
there a main road that is not passable for teams in any
weather? There used to be thousands of them in which
wagons would be mired hubdeep in the spring and defy all
efforts of horses, mules and oxen to move them.
It has cost us something to build our national system of
highways, but the result has been worth the cost. Some
states have built more roads than others, but every state
is doing its share. This year the greatest increase in high
way expenditure is being made by Louisiana, with a $71,-
950,000 road budget for 1931 compared with about half as
much last year. All told, states, counties and the federal
government are spending $259,897,000 on roads this year.
That is only $15,000,000 or so more than last year. New
York, naturally, is spending the most, a hundred and fifty-
three millions, with Pennsylvania, second. Sixteen states
are spending less on roads this year than last, 32 of them
more.
One noticeable result is the greatly increased freedom of
intercourse between all parts of the nation. The people of
one section no longer regard those of others with suspicion,
as strangers. It is probably true that the majority of Am
ericans have travelled farther from their home communi
ties, seen more of the rest of the world outside their local
boundaries, than have any appreciable proportion of the
people of any other country. That alone will, in time,
make us a broader-minded, more cultured people than is to
be found anywhere else.
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Scientists announce the growing of a new tobacco with
out nicotine. We imagine this brand will be about as popu
lar as near-beer.
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German educators want to exchange children for a few
months among nations to promote international tolerance.
Seems to us that might lead to another world war.
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SPOTLIGHTS
1 went to see Erank Craven’s play “That’s Gratitude.”
After the show Mrs Craven and Grantland Rice took me
up to Frank’s apartment. Other friends dropped in, and
presently Frank himself arrived—genuine, whimsical, mo
dest, totally unspoiled.
Seeing him in his own home made it easier to under
stand his success. Everything was simple and old-fashion
ed and sincere. When he writes a play he just picks a situa
tion out of an ordinary American home, and then he walks
on the stage and is himself.
On the way home another thought struck me.
He is the author of the play, and his name is printed on
the program and written in front of the theatre in electric
lights.
Yet it is a play without a star.
At least five other characters are just as important as
he is. He is on the stage no more than they are, and they
are given just as many good lines.
He might have written the piece so as to monopolize the
spot light, aud it might have been a success or it might have
been a flop. But being the sort of chap he is, he is content
to be in the background a good share of the time. His royal
ties will award his good sense.
Years ago Cameron McKenzie wrote a short story en
titled, “The Man Who Was It.” The story told about a busi
ness that had been making good profits for many years.
The president took life very easy. He played golf, travelled
in Europe, and let the boys assume rsponsibillty.
Aftr his death a young and very efficient executive was
brought in, who decided that everything needed tightening
up. When the purchasing agent was about to sign a big
contract, the new Boss jumped into the negotiations him
self. When the salesmanager had a large order to close,
the Boss said: “I’ll pack my bag and go with you.” When
the production manager made plans for rearranging the
plant, the Boss revised his plans. He worked about twenty
hours a day. and waB always criticising his predecessor who
had seemed to work so little.
The result was that his associates, being robbed of both
responsibility and credit, lay back and let him do it. He
worked himself into a nervous breakdown, and the business
went on the rocks.
I am told that the Jesuits had this motto: “A great deal
of good can be done In the world if one is not too careful
who gets the credit.”
Wise leaders recognize this golden principle and profit
by It. The foolish hog the spotlight, and frequently go to
TTlltfïE IR
IE i f E
Bob Reeve», the Kid. was nick
named Tiger Eye by his friends
do'vn In the Brains country be
inua-e hi» •■gun-eye" was yellow
When his father. "Killer Reeves,
died the Kid left Texas to avoid
continuing his father's feuds.
Reaching Montana he 1» forced to
draw on Nate Wheeler, an irate
neater. In the exchange of »hot»
Wheeler drop» dead, the Kid later
learning that Bob Garner who had
also shot at the same time, really
killed Wheeler.
Garner gets the Kid Io Join the
Poole outfit as a rim rider. The
Kid succors Wheeler's widow and
is Interrupted by Pete Gorham and
some other nestsrs. He shoots Gor
ham through both ears for coupl
ing his name with Wheeler's widow.
Later he rescues a girl. Nellie, and
her dad from Gorham, wounding
Pete again The girl. In spite of
her belief the Kid is au Imported
Texas killer, warns him the nesters
will kUl him. The Kid wares Oar
ner the nesters are planning an
attack on the Poole outfit. He
meets Jess Market a Texan who is
boss ot the Poole wagon crew and
shoots him through both hands.
Nellie s dad Is shot from ambush
and the Kid suspects Babe against
his wish The latter thinks another
nester k .e d the old man. Babe is
wounded by hidden enemies, who
aUo »ho, t at Tiger Eye but miss.
The Kid pulls Babe back Into the
cabin and wounds one of the at
tackers.
Nellie comes to the cabin secret
ly to aid the Kid and the latter
crawls through the roof and makes
plans to escape with the wounded
Babe at night. He and Nellie wait
for darkness outside of the cabin.
NoW GO ON WITH THE STORY:
His hand went up suddenly to a
tem pted to right now, lessen he’s
U*.d welt across hla cuoeK. He had
dal,I »’ready."
n't earned that cut of Nellie' quirt.
"W hy
Because he gave you
His quirt. If you came right down
wav."’ Het voice shook with stub
born t ag ■
• Yo all ki i i. s b e tta h than lhat
.Mis» M urray. Y oall know s In yoh
iwn mind I nevah hahm ed a livin'
-out" lie leaned forw ard, »taring
to It. Braided in pride and high
loyea down on the nraios laal w is
er. before Pap and Ben were shot
Never did think that quirt he had
braided would be laid across his
own cheek with all the strength
there was In a girl'» arm. Another
half Inch and It would have lost him
that yellow liger eye of hla- and
that, too. would have been some
thing he hadn't earned.
'She nevah will call me a paid
klllah no tuoah." he told himself
savagely. '■She'll heah things about
Tiger Eye Iteevea that will shoah
prove In. death on klllahs. Poole
or nestah. It’s all he same to me
from now awn She’ll know -and
a big total fur July when business
bushes that hail caught the hide JULY RECEIPTS GOOD
attention when he looked lhat way.
rtc c i/'r I» usually not so liuavy.
Except for that loll (ale fragment, :
FOR C L E R K S O L rlC t
The lutai receipts were segrega
(he calil i was ahiolutely hidden In
led ee follows
Record I ng fee«,
the thicket. When he looked be
Receipt» at (he office of the conn 673.35; circuit court feus. 5M34;
vonil he «a* where there had been ly clerk for (he month of July Io proba e court and ehunty court re
a corral and a atable. all hullt of tal«<t 5IIO5 55. according to a re ceipts |1SI; marriage llevusex,
rock cuun'ugly piled for strength port made Saturday This Is qlule tifiti; inl»c 'llaiu'oiis fees, (105 (0
.nut concealment. There hsd Io be
a spring too, of course. He found
it, leo cold snd cryislal clear. In a
niche of the cliff lhat was a part
»f the back wall of the cabin.
lie alao saw a rock-walled mea
dow swelling out like a great fat
Jug below Ila narrow neck ot a pass
not wide enough to let a hayrack
through without scraping tbs wall
on either side. The kid climbed
at
upon a boulder end tor five min
utes he gazed out over thia lost
paradise. tx>et from the world, to
be found by him when he needed
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It moat.
It took the kid nearly a week to !
make the place habitable, though
he worked furiously from sunrise
until It was too dark to see what he
was doing, tt took him two days
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N eill, wonder
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had become of him,
>’e reckoned It wouldn’t hurt
her to wonder and guess Bound
>“ *“*•• P,un'h wrong, and he’d
Pr‘” “ « “> “er. when he got good
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(n.o her tac,. wllh # cold
tensity that thrilled her with some
thing like fear "But that ain’t say
in' what I will do Pom now awn."
’’Bob' If you didn’t—If I knew
"Evenin' Ma atn. Yo all knows the
way home."
He loosed (he bridle and struck
her horse on the rump with the
flat of his hand and wutched her
go. anti the thud of hoofbeuts on the
prairies» fell like blows uptut his
heart. When no sound came back s h e ll know w hy”
to him. the kid mounted Pecos, took
She d shiver too. He d have her
Babe's bride reins in his hunt! and eating erow before the suvnmer wa.
rode away into the night.
over She’d he ready to go down
The kid was pulling out. but he
her knees to him. He'd show her
was taking his time about it and he wasn’t d i e d Tiger Eve for noth
he was not leaviug anything he , g He'd shoah make that name
owned behind him. With his gray mean something more than just the
hat set low over the ulter misery color of hi. eye They’d remember
in his eves, he stood in the middle trat old Killer Reeve, down on the
of the cabin at Cold Spring and his Brazos was his pap. and they'd say •*,d r^ ^ r’
lowering glance moved slewly the father wasn't a patch to the
(TO BE CONTINUED)
around the room, just to make sure son. Yes, sir, they all better hum
;hat he had not missed any of his their holes now. Poole killers an«^.
possessions. It was not a cheerful nesters! They'd pushed him too far
looking place. The glass from the A shoah enough tiger was loose on
one window lay in splintered frag the range, aud every man was his
ments on the oilcloth table cover, meat!
and a few early flies buzzed In and
He pulled hie hat down over his
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out through the shattered panes, eyebrows and reined away from the
"Babe s woke up." The kid lower where rifle bullets had buzzed in valley rim. To the north there rose
ed the mouth organ from his lips, yesterday. The log walls were a huddle of timbered buttes with
i heaving a big sigh as he wiped it scarred with the thlu leaden hall deep-set canyons between. Ten
THE USEFUL PLOW
i on his sleeve and slid It Into his that had beaten intermittenLy miles, no mere, from the valley; j
Anonymous
pocket.
against the cabin.
twelve or fifteen from the head
country life la sweet!
He sighed again as he rose, hitch
The kid swung toward the bunk quarters ranch of the Poole. There in moderate cold aud heat,
ed up his gun belt and looked grave and looked at the pillow still nested should be some sequestered little
To walk in the air how pleasant
ly down at her.
to the shape of Babe's sleek black nook in there where he could make
and fair!
"We all could get outa heah easy head. The muscles tightened along his lair.
In every field of wheal.
if it was Just us two. But I kain't his jaw. Babe wouldn t have liked
The kid’s fingers lifted again to
The fairest of flowers adorning
leave Babe. He's been pow'tul good the look in the kid's < os just then. lhat welt slanting down across his
the bowers,
to me, Babe has—”
Crazy as he had been from fever. cheek. One last glimpse he had ot And every meadow’s brow;
*‘Of course, we can't leave him. Babe would have sensed the deadly the low ridge and the line of cotton
s o that I say. no courtier may
They'd kill him sure, and there's quality in the kid's arrested glance, woods down there in the valley, and
Compare with them who clothe
been too much killing already. the tiger eye round and staring.
then the rain blotted the place from
In gray.
We ll make.it somehow. I—you can
He got his own pillow and tuck his sight.
And follow the useful plow.
just do anything. Tiger Eye!"
ed it savagely under his arm. The
Before dark he camped In a thick
"Shoah feel like I could, from nights when he had laid his head grove of young spruce that grew They rise with the morning lark.
now awn, said the kid, looking at j dow-n 5t.sjja Babe's in contented beside a natural meadow. He slept, And labor till almost dark.
Then, folding their sheep, they
her with shy meaning, and started comratjcSi1ip fairly slapped him in his quirt-scarred cheek cuddled in
hasten to sleep
to climb. ’’We'll make iL" he called the face now with a bitter con the crook of his arm—and dreamed
softly down to her. “We've plumb tempt for his blind faith.
of making love to Nellie Murray.
P1«»’“ 1 P«rk
Next morning Is ringing with
got to make it!”
And when he talks like you're the Dreamed that she was going to
birds that are singing
They did make it. Down the gully, one that did the killing—when he marry him. and they planned the
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with Babe tied on his horse, insen talks like that right before Nellie, homestead they would take in Cn each green, tender bough.
With what content rod merri
sible to pain or motion. Fifty yards, and makes her so gfrasy mad sh»j Wolfe Buttes, somewhere, and how
ment
a hundred, with the rifles on the starts in quirting you over the head they would build themselves a
Their days are spent, whose
ridge barking foolishly at the empty and calling you a killer. Just be ranch with honeysuckle vines all
minds are bent
cabin.
cause she's only a girl and can't over the cabin.
.
. . .
The sun went down behind the shoot you down like a dog, it's
It was morning and tt was raining
rim. the daylight was merging into something worse thau hate you with a cold, steady drip on the i
dusk when the kid forced the feel toward him. Babe had brains spruce boughs that sheltered him GRAVEL DREDGING MAY
horses up the steep bank.
sharper than any old he-wolf, but like a thatched roof.
DAMAGE LAND. REPORT
"Say, where do you think you're his brains sure weren't working
Another day of hunting a den i Installation ot a county rock
goin'. Tiger Eye?” Babe roused last night, when he made that talk for tfie tiger that would be a I crusher on the Coast Fork of the
suddenly to consciousness and up there on the Bench.
scourge to all killers.
The kid ( Willamette north of Walker for
speech when they stopped beside
Most men would have shot Babe fished blindly under the blankets contemplated road work in that
Nellie s horse, circling the rock r|gbt then and there. They would- for his hat, found It and put it on area has brought a request from a
anxiously in the starlight.
n't have cared a damn about his as he sat up.
number of farm owners along the
‘ Reckon we 11 go awn ovah to the being drilled through the middle
He crawled out of his blankets, stream for a conference with the
Poole, Babe.
and piunjt> out of his head. But e v e n ______
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buckling
his gun belt around him county court before the cruahsr is
‘What you goin to the Poole all wRb the we| tg oj Neiue Murray’s with vicious tugs on the strap.
set up.
of a sudden for? Babes voice qujrt on big cheek and the lash of
He stood up tall and full of pride
A letter from Clyde E. Wright
sharpened. Think you 11 beat me ber conternpt searing his heart, the in the man who wouldn’t kill be- received by the court states that
to the bounty? You’ve got another kId couldn-t pu„ hig gun and send cause, he didn’t want to kill. Didn't farm owners fear that the taking
think comin , Kid. 111 do the collect- a bullet Into Babe Garner, wounded save to kill to make men afraid of gravel from the stream bed at
in on this one.
and sagging against the rope that of him. They'd look over their this point will change the course
' Don t know what yoall talking beid him tied on his horse. That J shoulder when they spoke his name, of the current and may damage
about. Babe. The kid glanced un- wouid be putting himself down on and when any one mentioned the farms below.
easily toward Nellie. ’1 m totln a jeve| wjtb Babe, killing a man Brazos they'd look at each other,
The court announced that be-
yo all ovah to the Poole, account of tbat hasn't any chance to shoot thinking that was where Tiger fore the crusher starts operations
that bullet hole in yoh side.
back. Had to go on and take Babe
Eye came from.
a hearing either here or at the
"You're a damned liar! Babes t0 the poo|e rancj, same as if he
All that day It rained In windy I scene of operations will be held.
voice was abnormally loud and dis- wer6 a frien(j
gusts, with periods of quiet drizzle
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tlnct. Nellie, mounting her horse.
The kld rolled hlmgelf a clgar. bfttween
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reined close to listen. '’You’re goin et(e ,,ghted ,, with a match heId
That afternoon he came upon the FROM MAIN UNE POINTS
to try to gyp me outa my money gjeady | n bis fingers, picked up his place he was hoping to find. A rock j
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. for old Murray. You can have the rjf]e wf,ere ¡t stood leaning against rab ÿ built of fragments of the cliff D
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pay for gettin Ed Murray, if you tbe cabjn beside the door, slid It It, Ice cold and crystal clear, in a 99 ■
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want to be on the grab, but 111 be jnto tbe gcabbard on his saddle and fallen in. It was the upended ridge-
damned If you’re going to collect mounted. where he was going, he pole with a corner of the roof at
for the old man!”
did not know or care.
tached and showing above the
“Oh, you—you fiend!” Nellie
forced the words out through her
, clenched teeth. "Paid killers, both
of you!”
“Ain't paid yet, but I’m sure as T h e e l e c t r i c w a s h e r s t i b s l i t u t e r f
hell goin' to be. Damn' right!’.’ The
febrile strength that bad upheld e l e c t r i c p o w e r f o r h u m a n l a b o r
Babe for a minute began to ebb.
He swayed In the saddle. “Dirty
work—and It's money talks, in this
neck uh the woods. Damn right I'll
T x primitive woman who withed her ample
be paid! Tiger Eye ain’t goin’ to
garment! by » a k in j them in w ait! and beating
get the host—the best of me—he
can't—" Hia head lolled on his
them agaimt a Sone drdn’l have wch a bad idea
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j chest then, as his body sagged
—ihe electric w aih er operate) on the »m e
Coach ticket, good in day
against the ropes that held him In
coaches o r reclining chair cars
general principle, only Kientdkally modified
; the saddle.
— a lio in To urist Sleepers on
and ad|uited to that no harm i t dona Io tha
payment o f berth chargef about
"You killer!" Nellie Jumped her
>/2 the Standard Pullm an co«t.)
' horse toward the kid.
dainties article! ol wearing apparel.
She had pulled her quirt from the
There h one important difference, whereat the
saddel horn, and she struck him
prim itive woman actually worked when the
across the face; swift, slashing
! blows which the kid never felt at
waihed c lo th ei, the modeln woman limply
TO
■ all, save in the heart of him. He
watcher an efficient machine lubititute electric
Just stood there in the starlight and
power lor human labor.
i held the frightened horse quiet,
! while the quirt he had given her
In a lew hour!, and at the coil of only a lew
One-way coach ticket that
left Its mark on neck and shoulder
tavet you many dollars. T h is
cent!.
.
.
becauM
electric
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ice
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cheap.
.
.
an
piim til,» Ilf»
!and cheek.
is Ir t it i comfort at the lowest
electric waiher will do the biggert kind el a
p n n ih lc cost.
, » » u l r » i f o n t ,loll»l«i<»
“And I trusted you like a fool—
.m l .t i.ll» . M tin lM A U K
family waih. Selact tha one you like from your
and thought you were good!” With
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n tr x A n s com plete
one final blow her arm fell to her
dealer’!
pock.
<50 poundi e/ baggage may be
I E E C 1 R IC S I It V I C E
side as if In dlspalr at ever wreak
chtcktd f r it on lo eit litlu tl.)
ing vengeance upon him. ‘'Shoot
me now, why don't you? I’ll turn M o u n t a i n S t a t e s P o w e r C o m p a n y
my back!”
“Yo’all’s crazy as Babe.” The soft
drawl of his voice had a chill. "Yoh
1
‘ à
brothah was shot befo' I evah came
| into the country. I nevah did kill a
CARL OLSON, Agent
man In my life—but I'm plumb
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