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PSTIE TCTT5TTT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933. A .nhOKKlDUtN VALLkY it-- . ti TllifiniM Bunon I'lmuMui SYNOPSIS! Again, i... Curt Tennyson has been persui by his former chief in ths Roval Mounted, A. K. Uarlln, to under take the moat important man hunt of hie lite, lie is trailing Igor Kara khan, international crook. The trail has led him to the tiny settlement of Husstan Lake, in the tar Cana dian northwest. Be and hie com panlon, Paul Bt. Claire, eee a girl noddle across to an (Aland to fish. Just at dusk. Close behind is a half breed, drunk and dangerous. Curt dislikes making an enemy of any one, but goe.i with Paul to the island, takes the half-breed's knits away from him. and tosses tt into the voter. Chapter 11 SONYA NICHOLS THE girl's coolness surprised curt. Except for breathing a little Quickly Sonya was entirely calm and self-possessed. She certainly bad courage, he thought admiringly, even If she hadn't shown very much sense In coming over to that Island alone. "I'd better take you back to shore, Miss. Your canoe's a wreck. We saw . It down there. It's not worth repair ing." ; The 'breed got to his feet "Wy Ton tell dat yo'ng feller get my ca Inoe? W at you go do wit me?' i "I ought to pitch you Into the lake, Ifrlend. But I'm not going to. A night Ion this Island'll sober you up and teach you a lesson. You're lucky to get off so easy. To smooth out bis enmity he add' led: "I'm not reporting this to the . Yellow-stripe because I think you've ordinarily got more decency than you showed this evening. I'll beach your canoe below the old post where yon got It; and I'll see that you're taken away from here In the morn- ling." He walked out on the rock thrust. got the girl's net and creel of fish, nd rejoined ber. As tbey started down the land Traeh together, her hand touched bis rm, a little gesture of gratitude. "You and your partner to do this for a complete stranger like me I can't think of anything adequate to say." Curt had not beard her speak be fore. Her voice drew his attention. A low contralto, it was tinged with jan accent, faint, rather pleasant, giving an odd sweet overtone to ber words. Her English was precise and flowing, but English was not ber native tongue. "No bother to us." be turned ber thanks aside. "But you do want to be more careful than you were to night" He bad meant to give her a tern "talklng-to"; coming across to the Island, be bad even thought up several blunt things to say. But setae instinct checked htm. , Paul bad found the canoe and , brought It to the water edge. "Use this one to go back In. Mam'selle, he bade Sonya. "Oumown Is muddy from a wet portage today, I'll take It" He stepped In and glided out Into the channel. Curt floated the 'breed's canoe, helped his companion In, shoved away, and followed In Paul's rake. The girl took off her tarn, wiped her forehead with a ridiculously small kerchief, and looked back at the receding Islands. For" tbe first lime Curt observed her closely. He tried not to stare but he could hard ly help It He did not romember tbat he had ever seen so beautiful a girl as this tenderfoot stranger. She was odd and pnszllng. Some thing about ber he could not pin It flown to any one thing gava him tha Impression of aristocracy. The Dngera of her small brown hand resting on the gunwale were long and tapering; there was a proud poise to ber head: her firm nose, arched lips and delicately-molded chin seemed finely arlstooratlo. Brownish-golden and silky, her hair was so long that ha knew It must gvach to ber knees when she combed ft out loose. j dancing girl, but she seemed cold and self-sufficient and not at all quick to become companionable. ' "My brother said be met you this afternoon when you landed," aba broke their silence. "My name la Sonya Nichols." Curt was surprised. Ralph Nich ols' slsterl . He hadn't connected those two at all. Sonya wasn't that foreign? It might be French or Rus sian or German or anything, but hardly Canadian. Her voice, name and whole air were distinctly alien. He recollected himself. "Mine's Ralston, Curt Ralston. A prospeo tor." She eyed blm narrowly. As be felt her gaze upon him Curt knew she was forming ber private opinion of blm as a man. To be studied, labeled ad put Into a pigeon-hole by her was a bit Irritating. That was how Nich ols the entomologist would study a new Insect "I wouldn't have taken you for a prospector, Mr. Ralston." Curt's paddle missed a stroke.: "What makes you say that!" ! "Well, just because." ! "I suppose I'm not the sourdough type, with trousers stuffed Into my boots and a laurel thicket on my face," ha explained With a casual laugh. "I'm a book-learned geologist of sorts. My partner and I try to put some method Into our prospecting. Does a fellow have to try pancakes In his shovel and chew tobacco In bis sleep before you consider blm an elgbteen-carat bush-loper?" . Sonya smiled. "Oh, not at all." She slapped a mosquito on her ankle. "What I meant was tbat well, I lust wouldn't have put you down as a prospector." Curt detected an overtone of dis paragement In tha way she spoka tha word. She seemed to Imply that she had considered him above that carefree bush-loping type and that ha had dropped In her estimation when she found he was a mere wil derness roamer. fTTH stopped paddling a minute to I" proffer her his opened cigarette tease and lighter. She selected a cigarette, lit It slowly and deliber ately. Tbe little flame lighted up her face for a moment and be saw her more distinctly her long lashes, the brown of ber eyes, the merest kuggostlon of a dimple In ber cheeks. She was about twenty-tour, he Judged; maybe twenty-five It was bard to tell a girl's ago, especially at twilight In a oanoe. In a vague way he understood why he bad not given her that "talklng to." She was no child, like Rosalie Marlln. to be scolded or lectured. She had character and dopth to her, this stranger. Her thoughtful fea tures showed a maturity far beyond her years, a maturity of mind and heart which Rosalie did not have and never would attain. But all In all he did not know whether he liked her or not. She rwas strangoly beautiful, with tbe face of a Madonna and the body of AS he drove the canoe along ha wondered Just who and what sha was. Ralph Nichols' sister, yes; no doubt accompanying her brother on a field trip; but those were mere surface facts, not explaining the girl herself. She was so full of contradictions that ha could not classify bsr at alL Sha wore no Jewels, her clothes were decidedly Inexpensive, ber rod was a cheap dollar thing tbat ha would not have carried home; yet she had the gracious easy refine ment of good blrtb and culture. Back yonder on tbe Island she had stood up to an ugly danger like a man, yet she was exquleltely femi nine by comparison Rosalie Marlln seemed almost unladylike. He wished he could stop thinking so unfavorably of Rosalie. "Are you Intending to be here at Russian Lake ver , long, Miss Nichols?" "We're leaving tomorrow morn ing." Curt felt disappointed to hear sha waa going away so soon. Aside from her being a girl, she was a person worth getting better ac quainted with. The strangeness about her baffled and fascinated him. Sha was Ilka the breath of some rare perfume, delicate, untorgetable. Her old-world manner, the Spartan courage sha had snown, and ber splendor of brownish-golden hair, made him think of a girl out of soma old Scandinavian saga. They drew near the shore. Some where among the Ruaslan ruins a horned owl hooted Its weird eight noted call. Curt pointed at the dim outlines of the post and tried to make talk. "I suppose you've beard the wild yams about that place. Miss Nich ols r "Those yarns' arent half as wild as the real facta. Father Lesperanca was telling me yesterday abont tha actual history of this old fort Yon see, he discovered tbe records. They were hidden in a nlcha above tha main door, and a stone tumbled dur ing a thunderstorm, and that's how he happened to find them." While they drifted on In sha sketched him a few high lights from the story. A hundred and forty years ago a tribe of Indians, tbe Kloso bees, had lived around the shores of Russian Lake. The Cossacks cams inland, subjugated them by trick ery, forced them to bring stone and make the buildings; and then began robbing, extorting, torturing. In a Single generation the Kloso hees dropped from a tribe of four hundred people to a mere remnant of eighty. But then an avalanche tell upon the tort one night an ava lanche of vengeance, which had been damning up for twenty years. (Copyright, nil. William B. VouwryJ Tomorrow, Curt sntf Sony, do a llttlo oxplorlna. E When farmers In tlie volley say they are going to giuiM their tur key they mean It ot lout officers today are convinced one man thinks so, according to a report at the state police office. Mre. Wllllsm Phillips, who nettle In the Eagle Point district, hod ISO dreesed turkey In Vie nhed. and ir order to vouch for their safe keeping, a watchmon was hired for the night. During the night some man sp proaohed the ahed, and was greeted with a volley from a JO-.SO Win csehter In the hands of the mutch toon. The Intruder eoconed, eppsr aotly unhurt, Hit, PhUUp said. DOCTOR PLUNGES 5 STORIES, DIES OLMPIA, Wuh.. Nov. at (API While a horrified spectator stood helplessly watching htm. Dr. P. A. Bird, as. prominent physician, crawl ed out on the ledge of hu offlc win dow, hung by his hsnds for a few momenta, then dropped five atones to hit death. Joe Rollman told Deputy Coroner Wallace Mill that ho happened to glance up and w the doctor crawl ing along the ledge, but did not sus pect hU motive until he lowered him self over the edge. Mills said death waa Instantaneous. Real sstste 01 'ni-irsnns 10 is to onsa, Phone MA. OFTEN IN EARLY CALIFORNIA DAYS "Lynch trip are not new in Cali fornia, nor entirely old. But means of achieving quick Justice, to which native sons have restorted during many periods of the sometimes tur bulent sometimes glowing history of the golden state" such was the statement made yesterday by a well known local citizen, after he read reports of the hanging of Vie Brooke Hart kidnapers. The certain citizen then began to prove his contention by reviewing a number of lynching, which oc curred In the section of California in which he formerly lived and while there. "Back in 1001," he recalled, "there was the famous Lookout lynching. Twenty-three people threw four over the Lookout bridge about 100 miles south of Klamath Falls. The lynch ed were old Calvin Hall, white, his two half breed Indian sons, and one oMier white man. The four had been a menace to trhe community for many years. One night the trouble was ended with sinister suddenness, when ropes were tied around their necks and over the bridge. That was all. Twenty-three persons were arrested and tried In Alturas. Cal. The trials went on for months but there were no convictions." Referring to the night of the first arrests In the case, the Dally Argus, northern California newspaper of Vie times, stated: "Alturaa Is In tumult. Last night warrant was Is sued for arrest of 13 men, whom prosecution believes to be partici pants In tha banging. It Is feared, and with good reason, that serious trouble will result at any time." The case of Holden Dick, the Med ford citizen added, constituted an other example of "quick justice." An Indian by that name beheaded a man who was traveling between Al turas and Susanvllle on the Made line plains. The Indian waa arrested and placed In Susanvllle Jail. But It was not strong enough to hold him. During Vie night unknown persons called and the next morn ing's sun revealed Dick hanging high. No arrest has been made yet and the hanging occurred more than 40 years ago. The same treatment was consider ed In order for horse thieves In Cal ifornia, and turning to that partic ular offense, the Medfordlte yester day told an Interesting tale. A well known character In the section, now known aa Kubleber, was sleeping In his barn. Wfren he arose early In the morning from a peace ful night he beheld, hanging down ward from the rafters above blm, the body of a man, definitely dead. Investigation proved nothing but that the man was known about the countryside as a horse thief. How the hanging .had progressed light above his head without disturbing the barn sleeper he could nt under stand, but a very complete Job had been done. The famous Treka lynching and that of the Rugglea brothers of Red ding slso occurred during about the same period. " ' Stage robberies were many at that time and they were frequently fol lowed by night parties, which left weird figures dangling from trees, barn rafters and bridge supports. "It waa Call Ion la's way of saving court expense," the Med ford man explained. , Dr. Charles T. Sweeney has moved his offices from the Phlpps Bldg. to the Medford Center Bldg., Rooms 405, 403 and 407. Tel. 86. ' Authorized Maytag Service, All makes repaired. Phone 800. I READY FOR SALE THANKSGIVI The 1033 Christmas seals are here. In gay green, red, yellow and black they show two mediaeval revellers dragging ihome at early dawn -Ye Olde Yule Log," while a boy bugler announce the beginning of holiday festivities. The familiar double barred cross, emblem of the antl-tu-berculosls crusade, appears beside the message "Christmas Greetings." By mall, personal visit, booths In stores, and school children, the aesls will be offered to every resident of the state. It is estimated that near ly four and a half million will be disposed of In Oregon, tha goal for the aale being five seal for each man, woman and cftlld. Selling at, a penny each or a dollar a sheet they sre being depended up on by the Jackson County Health Association to bring Into Its treas ury the funds required for Its year round battle against tuberculosis In 1934. As in the psst the battle will consist largely of finding eases early and helping to get the adequate care for them. The ssl opens Thanks giving Day and runs until Christmas, though business houses planning to. uss seals on December 1st mailing may purchase them In advance. Individ ual may also order seals In advance to decorate holiday mall requiring posting before Thanksgiving, Mrs. Alex Sparrow points out. The entire state la organized for the sale, every community of any site having Its own volunteer chair man and corps of workers ready for the drive. It will be the 37th cam paign of Its kind In the United States. Miss Mildred Carlton Is president of the Jackson County Health Asso ciation and Mrs. J. 8. O. Weill Is treasurer. Oregon crrr, Nov. as. (ap Stephen Carver, 87, pioneer railroad builder and promoter of other enter prises, died at his borne at Carver, which was named for him, Saturday. See the smart Turtle neck Sweaters at Adrlenne's. Brown, Blue, Bed, Whits , , . And they only cost S1.B5. Phone 333, Retaking Trucking Co., for modem ptnsb OIL deliveries. 200 VISIT STOCK AUCTION OPENING Before a crowd of 300 agriculturists gathered at the newly opened live stock sale pavilion, north of Medford, beef steers, registered stock, and Mr mi horses were sold lost Saturday sfternoon st the first suction, car ried on by A. H. Dudley, manager. Steers, purchased by the Wells com mission company of San Francisco, at prices satisfactory to the pro ducers numbered 33. Several borses changed bands from the suction block and two registered animals rrom tn Klrtlsnd farms. Av H. Bsnwell and members of tha agricultural committee of the cham ber of commerce, with Charles' A. Wing, chairman, represented tha chamber of commerce at the first ssle. The auction will open again next Saturday at 1 o'clock and a large sup ply of stock Is sntlcplated. t Heating costs can be reduced. Per complete hosting service call Art Schmld.ll. 4181063. S'MATTER POP- By C. M. 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