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Newspaper Page TextPSTGE ETOTTT MEDFORD irSIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1933. iKJRBIDDlN VALLtY BMOP818: Although Sony vll not ted Curt Tennyson why she must nenetrats the land of the hostile Klosohee Indian, Curt's interest in her leads him to try to protect her. He with Paul fit. Clair, is on the trail of loot Kara khan, international orook. At a pass, the little party is attacked by the Klosohees but escapes. Now Curt is standing unprotected at the edge 01 the water trying to bring about a truce with the Indians, hid den across a narrow stretch 0 the river. Chapter 21 COWARD'S SHOT fiVRT saw a move or two yonder In the drift, but not an arrow came at him. Calling ecross to them In the Chinook jargon, he tried to work up a palaver. . . . Hie party came as friends. He was not after fun or the yellow gold of the creek beds. He Intended to stay only a short moon In the Lilluar ranges. He bad ordered bis men not to lift the shoot stick against the Klosohees. Why thon should the Klosohees try to kill themT Would they send a man across to talk with him and learn that the strangers brought no harm? The only answer be got was his TWO hours north of the pass they came to a place where the Lil luar spread out Into a big lakelike widening. Though the day was still youug. Curt decided to camp at once. He stood np and looked the lake oyer. It was dotted with little Islands, some wooded, some bare. With his glasses he studied two small ones that lay isolated out la the middle. One was a strip of mod covered with red willows. Tbe other, fifty yards to the east, was a mora half-acre of pea-gravel and boulders. It was free of timber, the Indian's own element; he could build a bar ricade of those rocks; and the thousand yards of open water all around made a surprise attack Impossible. He led the way over, landed, and set his party to work. They cooked a meal, repaired the canoes, brought a small raft of fuel logs from a wooded Island, pitched the tents, built a tiny fort of the boulders, and made sentry boxes on the north and west beaches. OK the east shore of the lake a large tributary river came wind ing In from the mountains. Curt climbed on top of the barricade, got out old John's chart, and Identified the river as the Iskitlmwah. Ruefully his eyes followed the WASHINGTON, Dec. 1J (API The bureau of labor statistics said today that retail food prices continued their upward movement during the two week ended November 31. The Index figure was given as 108.8. compared with the high point reached on September 0 of 107.4. The bureau used 1813 as 100 in computing the index. ... Ph. 068 for Expert Radio Repairing. All makes. Don's Radio service. LIQUOR TAX FIXING LEFT 10 CONGRESS WASHINGTON. Deo. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt left ta congress the fixing of the liquor tax, but told the congressional leaders be wanted It low enough to eliminate bootleg ging. After a white House conference, Chairman Morrison of the senate fi nance committee estlmsted that the recommendation for S3.S0 would be trimmed considerably. PEEK TO HEAD SPECIAL WASHINGTON, Dee. 13. (AP) President Roosevelt Monday an nounced a special government for eign trade committee had been set up with George Peek as the head. Peek will retire as the agriculture adjustment administrator and will be succeeded by Chester C. Davis, the chief of the production division ot that agency. The 1933 bean crop In California has been vslued at $13,000,000. ' S'MATTER POP By C. M. PAYNE Curt looked over the lake. wn echo flouncing back from the trail of spruces. "Maybe thoy don't understand the largon," ha thought; and he called cross again, using sign language tnd the few Dlnneh words he know. Still no answer. Not a syllable. Filing up several flat rocks, he laid out an array of presents to bacco, six fine bunting knives which he had brought along tor that pur pose, and a big carton ot sugar cubes, the best present of all, for most ot the northern tribes be bad known were badly sugar-starved. As he turned away, a little wisp of oloud-whlte puffed out from the drift; the sharp krt-ii-no of a rifle smacked across the water; a mur derous bullet burned through tbe leather ot his Jacket, not throe Inches from bis heart. He whirled around to run. Along the wbole beach there was not a single boulder or drift-pile big enough to hide behind, and the near est snag was more than two hun dred yards away. . He made a dash tor It, weaving as he ran. Ha realised It was LeNolr, who had shot at blra. The Klosohees had no rifles. Still In good range on the open beach, he expected every In stant to bear that sharp-speaking rifle again. But nothing happened. Why wasn't the 'breed trying to' cut him down? To his own bewilderment he reached the snag and leaped behind It without another bullet coming his way. : As he crouched beuma tue snag and looked across at the drift, he gradually saw through the queer In cident. At so deadly a range LeNolr had felt sure ot killing him with a single shot; and had whipped up hts gun and fired. But his bullet had missed Its mark, and before be could shoot again the Indians had seised bis rifle and stopped him In spite of that ugly bole through his sloeve, the Incident seemed a good omen to Curt, and for the first time he really believed that he was going to win the Klosohees over. They were honest men. In their own primitive way, as old Psxton and Inspector Jamloson had said. With tact and patience he might make friends of them yet. stream back Into the ranges.' At old John's trapping lake, twenty-live miles east, he had a rendezvous to keep. On the chance that a plane In the Lilluar country might come In bandy, he had Instructed Smash to meet him there with the amphib ian. The rendezvous was two days past already. "One devil of a chance I've got of ever meeting Smash," ha swore, "tied up as I am. I can't stir an Inch away from this outfit." Tbe afternoon passed, twilight crept Into the mountain valley. After supper bs shoveled sand over the coals and gave his Instructions: "No fires tonight, no matches struck, no talking above a low tone. Nobody la to go Into those tents or anywhere near them. The farther away you stay, the better. It thera'a any shooting done, Paul and I'll do It "Francois, If you and Jocku get us Into trouble with those Itchy trigger fingers, I'll set you off on a mosquito Island In your bare skin. I want you to keep strictly out of this. Now understand me." He let Paul have the west side, which faced the little willow Island. Taking rifle and automatic he him self went up to the tip to watch the north and east. The peaks of the western rang war still tinged with an orange glow, but the mountain valley was filled with black shadow up to tlm berllne. It was Ilka a basin full of blsckness, with a taint light around the rtm. A bright moon overhead turned the waters to wavy silver. He was thankful tor that friendly moon; sentry-go was Infinitely easier than In darkness. rive hundred yards north two merganser ducks started calling back and forth. For a time he paid no attention but when they kept It ' up longer than ducks should have done, he began listening closely. The calls sounded all right, he could detect nothing wrong about them; but he bad his suspicions. Maybe It was a j"!r ot ducks out there. And maybe a pair ot canoes signaling to each other. (CcpyHsht. 1H. wmian . ilowery) Tomorrow, a spy slips by In ths dark. E SALEM, Dec. 13. (AP) October sale of gasoline In Oregon this year exceed the 1933 October period by about 600.000 gallons, increasing the gasoline tax to the state by SIM, 000, October ealrs however fell un rtr-r the September records by 1,700, ooo gallons, with a difference of Bfl.000 in returns to the state. The secretary oa state records to. dy showed the total for the month t 14.014.337 gallons bringing In S700.713 tax. The total for the first ten months of the year was 133,098 gallons for a tax of 10,131,884. A robber, firing three shots at his Intended victim, hit a button of a cash register In Seattle, Wash, and made It ring, lis fled. Pears Yesterday NEW YORK, Dee. 11. (AP) (US DA) Pear auction msrket opened easier, closed etronger. Nine cars arrived: 4 Washington ears, I Oregon, 1 California unloaded: 4 cars on track, Oregon Boecs, 1183 boxes extra fan cy glass) 3.08: average. 81.98: 871 boxes, extra fancy and better, tl.SSt) 1.99; average, $1.88; 1403 boxes fancy $1.783 08; average, SI 88. Oregon Cornice, 430 boxes, fancy, S3 353.75; average, $3.74. Oregon D'AnJous, 1838 boxes, extra fancy, Sl.B53iO; average, $3.18; 1059 boxea fancy, $1.90 3.39; swage. $331. CHICAGO, Dee. 11 CAP) (UBDA) Pear auction market: 1 Oregon cars. 1 Washington arrived: 9 cars oc track: 9 cars sold. Oregon Boecs: 890 boxes extra fan cy. $33.18; average, $3 09: 1039 boxes fancy, 81.903 05: sversge $3 Oregon D'AnJous, 630 boxes evua fancy, $1.903.10; avenge, I1M, ,.. 35 Nx V -j PDTICDLT DECISIONS ... By GLUYAS WILLIAMS n-n TRMb 1& REMEMBER WHO SEHf Y00 THE CHRteTrOftS tTARM YOU HAVE EW ALL YEAR fo U5E OVER A6AIH - IN ORDER TD MAKE SURE W D0HT SEND THEM BftCK. TO THE ORIGINAL SENpERS (Copyright, 1933, by The Ben tyndtesta, Inc.) .am TAILSPIN TOMMY Whiskers Add To "John Doe" Mystery By GLENN CHAFFIN and HAL FORREST SOPRV TO OfAND TOM, BUT TH' PASSENGER WANTED Oo TO TAke ' HAS BEAT ft" VOL! ( THAT'S ALL CISHT- IVmnV UE tAl I ft L-MKJlsa. r-l ssi I J ( I WAVE. 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