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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933.
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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.
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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.
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Heating costs can be reduced. Per
complete hosting service call Art
Schmld.ll. 4181063.
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