Medford mail tribune., April 15, 1928, Page 10, Image 10

PIGE TWO
MEDFORD IIJJL .TRIBUNE, ! MEDFORD, OREGON, -BUNDXY, ICPRIL 15, 1928.
A Butte Creek Saga
Choosing Some Natty Seat Covers I FLYING CLOUD
(Bx n. Friend)
mill gaining behind nn In unolher
ten minutes
miles below
could stop.
jumped
I'll have leen lwi
my cabin before i
Rul l:wt then I
tr a nianranltu btlidi
and landed kerplunk, twenty-five
reot down In the ground in four
feet of soft muck i" the bottom of
n pruKpect hole. The bear missed
jme. Hut In flvo ininuteH Hhe wan
back circling around that hole.
mlndedlv nut the rent In hls.giming her teeth and milking a
pocket, he led off to one sldo of noi.se like a rock crusher grinding
the crowd. Hat down on a log nnu , up
Alec, Old .Mike's roustabout, wan
down to the Lake (Veek store nfter
the moll. Una Hnpgood, from
over on the .South Fork, wns there.
Kzra was limping and all skinned
up: he neemed uneasy about tell
ing what had happened to him,
nml roused Alec's curiosity. After
Kzra hud taken a chew off of
Aleo'H plug of tobacco nnd iihsonl
............ ...... , - - , ;hrri::-.- : "k t v. ., . , . .w.f wv,i'.v, -.
nfter chewing deliberately for! there, it seemed to me. lor two u -j;i f ,v 'J"it,W ' A
awhile, and innki.nK sure no oneiduya but I guess It ' only an I . 6 MFrf'i V-"' I
else was In hearing, he told Alec hour or so. Finally I donated hei I",-. ), 1 aVwi-HXfc f
all about It. Says he, "1 been In n ! my Hheer in that berry patch and I Irf ' V . 'r? -' "..,'' J' 'lT
bear race." Ihe went off up the hill talkini, to t J- V ' " ' ' I,
"How come?" Alec asked. Ezra herself. I would have been In that ! !W u -, . 1 . , t V 'v. ' talf frj? 4fiSier '
answered: "l.ast Friday I was hole yet but some kids had nl u k 4 Y J 4 'j " i&f?Ca
about out of fresh meat, fo Just a knotty fir polo down It. It -wan . &!l4-ri ' ' tj 1
u It was IlKht I oiled up my 30-30 thorn knota on the pole that I f t , , J iji (f , V, f'. i
nnd started out to get me a skinned me up o. After awhile I ,fvt')J 1 ?s.? f '(ffiS
M.....n..h t.-v.n ulnen that star I ,-ll,il,o,l f.iit nml Hiieaked off down I V iVt VTt ! 3s :ir -'LL'l: ; Vif', .' tu'&IL
me warden, l'ut Dally, the hill nnd got Into my cabin Just Li." f 1 " , t W7 F W nJl
4 J MP
Kimnftled KQ
throwed me in tnnl lime lal u:trK.
"How was that'" Alec exclaim- "since then I've been too sore
fd., I and skeered to ko up and get my
"Oh-h, hadn't you heard about I (tun. I run out of meat this morn- ,
It? Oh-h oh-h, Pat was sneak- jinn and come down to the store to
Inir round In the brush back of my Ket inn some. This little hunk of
cabin and he found n hind quarter Low belly is all t tint, miser of it
of mutton hanging UP in a tree, tstorekeeper would trust mo wllh i
He claimed it was a chunk of old , till he sees whether old Mike iB
doe. I told I'nt ho wns no Judge going to give me a job in his sec
of mutton, as he never et anything jond cutting or not."
hlsself but venison. But he stuck i Just then three men, I'at Dally. I
to it it was deer meat: said he had the game warden. Ham Jensen, the ,
found (wheie I had killed the old forest ranger, und a stranger rode
doe nna tne two uiwus nu niu,i
to death, and had tracked nio home
with the. meat Said he wouui
know my number twelves any
where..; Ie got to acting so mean
I let him,' throw jne in the cooler
for sixty days, rather than have a
law stilt with him.. I'at is a better
trackor than. I thought he was. I'at
Is a pretty good old scout at that.
"Kver since then 1 been lM'y
of getting out on them little mod
ders and open country up on, the.,
head, uf the crick . I Keep round
in the burns and gulches. The
hunUn' alnt so good hut the dodgln
la a sight better. I was goln' along
purty kcorful us I knoweil old I'at
was up In those summers. Hut I
think he was over on Hoda Crick
watchln that one-eyed homestead
er. Iiellevo me, he'll, stand watch
ln'. He'd a. regular game 'hog!
The last timo lie was over here to
got a quarter or fresh meat otton
mo he said that was the first time
he'd been out of venison In over a
year! But he's a damn liar, be
cause he's getting some offen mo
about half the time."
"When I hart got up beyond the
school house here comes Old Mike,
up the road wllh a shovel over his
shoulder, riding Little Mike's pinto
pony und Hpol, his pot hound
trottln along behind. I says.
'Howdy, Mr. llonley!' And I see
Mike was till het up und ho spilled
it to mo how ho hud Just paid a
thousand dollurs to Jedge Kvuus
to get him a dee-rrco about two
Inches thick from the Supremo
t'oa't glvln' him all the water
rights on the crick and them
homesteaders up above all the
water. ' Ho suld Old Uncle Joe
used to get the water without no
deo-crco u-tull. And he was going
to got hls'n to, wot up his sucond
ofop of alfalfa If ho had to teach
them Hohunks a lesson anil use it
shovel handle for a, plnter. I
struck old Mike for a Job In his
second culling of ulfalta hay to
got mo n little tobacco money. Ho
Htld 'he would think about it'."
. "I- took tho trail over the ridge
to .the log spring. When I hud
gone a Utile ways I looked back
und her conies that dam pot
hound and I let him toller me. By
the .time I had got to tho top of
the last ridge 1 had Jumped two or
three' hut 1 couldn't get a shot
cause thai hound would break on
me. I kepi under tho summit
round Into the burn, In the head
of, ..ank; (lulch. . I hear some n
feedln and t gets Spot between iny
legs to hold him. In a little while
a three plnter In the full velvet
feeds out Into the open off uhout
nven,ty-five yards and 1 am Just
ready la knock him whon thn,t dog
gets u whiff and makes a break!
pay! 1 light on my left ear forty
lt down the gulch. The last I
See of tho deer he's klcklu up the
dust ten feet ahead of, the dog. In
about half an hour,, back comes
old Kpot all perked up and noting
on It he'd won the war. Then 1
took off my suspender and tied It
around his neck and onto a hazel
stink so I can lend hlra."
'"ily now It's gettln around noon
and I went over Into the berry
patch in the head of Raster Creek
to see If Ihey were ripe. . Say!
you, never see such a sight in your
life.. J could n picked a car loud.
I set the old gun down hy u stump
Und lit In with both hands to fill
up. . I fed off Into the patch to
ward, a big black log laying up
off the ground u little. 1 turned
ipol loose, so he could ro under
the. log w-hllu 1 cliin over It und
Jumped down on the other side
light bvhlnd him. Then things
happened! An old brown beuv
that looked to me to be sevenleeii
feet tall rlt right up In front of
me nnd says. 'Woughfff!' ,vhun I
hit the ground behind Spot he let
out a yowl and made a jump. The
stick I'm leadin him with catches
the bear between the hind legs and
upsets her right on top of him.
And say! If ever you wee u falr
raoe.ftnd no favors there one
starts. The dog has the pole nnd
light weight and I figure he Is Just
UboUt making ltolse. Idaho, by
now. 1 started on down the trull
tlioy made through the hrunh, and
purty soon 1 Jumped two bear
cubs. They was as big and clumsy
as a big fat pup. 1 ketched one.
)la let out u bawl like branding a
yearling steer and 1 nm chasing
round after the other one when I
hear something enmlng nnd 1
lopkotl up anil here comes that old
benr with her senuth open. II
looked Uo . the big door to Old
Mike's burn wide open, with the
red, threshing machine inside. Her
tushes taoked as big an walruses.
That's all the picture the Install
tuneous exposure 1 alve registered.
For I'm lenvln' right now for
homo and all points north and
west. For the next five nilnuies
I. break all records for down hill
running and brush Jumpln with
that bear Jump and a nulf and
onto the bridge below the store
Kzru took a good look at them and
started home saying: "I don t
like them two I know any too
well. Sam claims I set that fire
UP on Wild Cat hill so us to muko
the huntln' hotter (und ho dumn
near cuught me at It, too) nnd that
other fellow looks like he might
be a Volsleader, so 1 guess I'll be
moseying off up the trail. There's
41 little soniethin' In my wash bull-
er, I want to kind of rid up before
anybody goes nosing around my
cabin."
OAKLAND HAS
NEW TEST TRACK
A loop of clmlcr roail nonrly one
hnlf mile long anil ImnktMl ut the
turns him been constructed by the
Oakland Motor Cur company nn a
piivatu factory tent truck over
which OuklunU und Pontine hIxuh
are run immediately uflfr leaving
t,ho UHHcmhly linen.
Th loop e.xtemlH pant the Ton
l lac Six UHNemhlyr und the new
Oakland All-American Mix OKHein-
bly bulldhiK which 1h to mart op
eration April l.xltH from the
two iiHHcmldy building open dl-
r -a
t 1 ?
X,'4 I'M''
LADY DRIVERS
per cent and March gain of 10?. ' R. I.ee. general ale manager "?ut
II1C -U"
from dealern all over the couniry , wid Mr. I.ee. "And the inuoduc- well. houi,,Jin
r.-cord-hreakinff Hpring tion of ihe Standard Kix ui prices wie 1 .A mtlP(ri..
h of minion nax 1 . - , , , , .
Indicate
buying Keaaon, according to John ! withtn th rea
SprinQtime and roaditer lest tops go hand in hand and along
this trend comes the necessity of protecting the upholstery from
the hot summer tun. Above photo shows a Western Auto Supply
Company salesman assisting a fair motorist in selecting a set of
:fia covers for her roadster, which, according to Western Aulo in
formation, add. to the car's appearanca as well as protect the
Tho ever-Increasing Influence, of
I the gentler sex in the final choice
'of this or that motor enr ia a mat
ter that p.ll automobile mnnufac
: tureia are taking into contddera
tton in greater meaHure each year.
I KiatiMica show that direct Kales
, of motor cars to women buy era la
'17 per cent and thai women's
i influence In the sale of automo
; bllea in an high us 90 per cent.
! Kifty-one per cent of alt automo
bile owners' wives who were
questioned, in a recent invemlga
! tion, drive and of this number
more than 06 per cent drive more
I than do thelr'hUHbands.
j Jn the 1929 Keo flying Cloud,
, tho makers hitvo provided not
ionly a new beauty of exterior and
i Interior, new modlnh appointments
land, the -comfort which my lady
: looks for und. . appreciate, but
i Keo designers have also created
i many year-ahead operating ud
! vantages which anticipate today
jwhat women drivers would ordl
naiily expect no sooner than a
(year from now.
j It Is these, and many other ad
vantages found in the new models,
, which will still further increase
ithe popularity of tho Flying Cloud
.among women drivers, and enable
ithe new 192! Flying Cloud to ex
Iceed even the record-breaking pro
duction of lust year, Heo officials
believe.
rnctly upon the tost track.
A squad of 20 test drivers has
been organized to pilot holh Oak
land and J'ontluc Nixes around the
loop, ATI or being given u thorn
road test, tho curs are returned to
their respective Inspection depart
ment h where they ure rechecked.
If pronounced perfect, they -are
E
SHOW DIG GAINS
THREE MONTHS
i.nd adjustment before delivery to
purchasers. .
The private test track, of course,
does not affect in any way the
Ouklund Motor Car company's
practice of maintaining a fleet of i
major test cars in constant opera- i
tion at the Ceneral Motors iirovlnir
Kiound. These cars urn run ut truck from tho plunts of Dodge
driven to tho shipping department, high speed for thousands of miles Hrothen In the United Htates and
Should any adjustment be found an(i in,,n 0i-Jl down" for micro- i Canada during the first quarter
necessary after n car has been scopln inspection hy Oakland Mo-ttnlH ver totaled 60.3X7 units, atf-
placed back on the or cuv company engineers. i cording to preliminary figures.
4 compared wun tne first quarter
Shipments of motor cam and
tested, it is placed back on the
line, the adjustment Is made, und
tho road test and Inspection are
repeated. .
Toil rich u soil is not desirable last year, hen 48,506 units were
for sweet potatoes. It has a ten- I built, the giUn In output Is 13,821,
The Installation of the private . dency to develop the vines nt the 'or 29.7 percent. The February
track Is In line with the recent ; expense of the tubers. As a com-shipments this year exceeded the
announcement by Gordon 1-efehvre imcrcial crop the sweet potato Is of i January by i9G4 units, tr C2.4 per
vlce-pi'esident in charge of opera-I large Importance to, Virgl n i a, cent, and March with an output of
thins, that he Intends to provide ' Maryland, Delaware, and New Jer- 2ti,Ji95 units was 29. S per cent
the Ouklnnd-l'onllac dealer organU jsey. as well as In muithern Illinois, j ahead' of February. Compared with
station with cars that require a southern Indiana and the cotton the corresponding month of 1927
minimum amount of Inspection belt. f t Februnry showed n go in of
MfWZ n"PP "NHiFe
WpJW THE pre-eminence of the symbol "Body by
lS" Fisher" is founded on gigantic resources em-
1?W r i bracing more than 170,000 acres of timberland, sji'A
tyv 14,000,000squarefeetof factory floor space and an
I JHE pre-eminence of the symbol "Body by
X Fisher" is founded on gigantic resources em
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14,000,000 square feet of factory floor space and an
army of more than 50,000 employes. Fisher is one
of the largest manufacturers of lumber, of plate
glass and of hardware as well as the largest manu
facturer f motorcar bodies. Fisher closely controls
all sources of materials, effecting an efficiency of
manufacture which is immediately apparent in
the superior design, bejiuty and particularly in
the value of every car with Body by Fisher.
M IE TR A H.
M O T M
R
The New 1928
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Is Now on Display
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E3
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Be sure your car is thoroughly overhauled . . . tightened up
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polishing or perhaps a paint job .will then make it look as well as it runs.
"Western Auto9 offers a complete stock of guaranteed tools, ao
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To Save Your Tires
Your tires will give more milo
ase Jf you care for them prop
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Bniall cuts, etc. Wq list a few
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dries. "Schradvr" Gauga . . . the old
reliable (1.19, $1-25 and $1.55
Valve Intides, the genuine
Schrader and DIM. 5 in box 5c
Tube Patch Outfit.. . .24a to 90c
5Minute Vulcanizer 98c
A Trouble Lamp
Is handy for night work around
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Brake and Transmis
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Safeguard life and property
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For Fords, "Neverburn" Trans
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Sot of S pieces with rivets
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"Weitern Auto's" top repair
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Gives your top
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Oik, irum. equipment and
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for example . . .
"Sprinfl-Eei" ... A Super
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45c can of Imperial Nickel
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nt our reaular ork-e:
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No. 7 Duco $1.C0
LlShtnintr Polish 81.00
"All Klean" Polish J1.00
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Only one Free ran. to a cus
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urday, April 21st.
This Week Only
2 packages "Western" Polish
ing Cloth or one 6-yard roll
Cheesecloth with every pur
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This offer ends Saturday.
April -jst.
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Everything for cleaning and
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"Simoniz" Cleaner or Polish. 48c
"Pyrene' Safety Upholstery
Cleaner 25c and 45c
"insto" Hand Cleaner
10c, 25c and $2.00
Sponges, fine iuality35c to $1.25
Chamois, French oil tanned
$1.15 to $1.85
Hasslers
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Carry an
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always . , ,
several
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Work in Comfort
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"Lee Ours-Bilt" One-
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Pleasingly low prices on every
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