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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
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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.
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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
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