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pm six MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 10, 1937, 1. RUBBER CHASE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN MX For farther proof address the author, lncloitnc a itxtaped envelop for reply. Kef. TJ. 8. Fat. Off. sflasBa ids sssiaw&ii SYNOPSIS: nn destroys Kay Crandon'f Lazy Nine ranch house and lorn. Josh Hastings, owner 0 !h Flimo Six. trie to buy her ranch ond court Kay. She halei him and is determined to keep . her ranch and rebuild. Ted Guv nor, a puncher shi impulsively ; hired. lights scrap Johnson, a cow hand who molested Kay. They shoo, it out. wounding each other. Hastings finds thtm unconscious and kill Scrap with Ted's pun. Ted crawls to i shack where a girl named Marlon nuree him through a feverish week. The gun is found ond Sheriff Farley hunts Ted. Kay goes alone to the shooU . iny scene at the central divide. Chapter 31 Jealous Misery TURNING back. Kay paced out the distance from the water to the spot where Scrap Johnson's body had been found. Then she searched the ground between with minute care. Her eye suddenly caught a gleam in a small clump of grass. Pulling it aside, she picked up a steel nail head, of the type that Is used to stud belts and gauntlets. She knew that because so many people had milled over the spot, her find was of little value, but Kay slipped it into her pocket, and went on with her search. Standing up and stretching to relieve her muscles of this strained s f ' ,j gpgtfw" ,f.f.- BS W If M? The dark haired girl appeared in the doorway. position, Kay suddenly noticed that the sun was sinking in the west. She glanced at her watch and saw that it was after four o'clock, and she hadn't yet fol lowed the stream southeast She decided Impulsively to take a chance on getting out of the mountains before dark. The trail was so well defined that there was small danger of getting lost, and now that she was here, it was fool ish not to study every possible phase of the situation. Starting along the water's edge, he came after a hundred yards or so, to such thick brush that she almost decided to turn back. As she peered ahead, however, she noticed several twigs that had been snapped off short, and pushed on with a fast beating heart. Her excitement quickened as she thought she saw more evi dences that someone had pene trated the brush fairly recently Althought it seemed impossible that any wounded man could have made such rouh going, she persevered, and finally reached Che clearing. The old prospector's cabin stood at the end of it, deserted and for lorn, with its sagging boards and dark background of pines. Giving way to curiosity that this relic of the past raised in her, Kay determined to investigate. The in tense silence, broken only by the gentle rustling of the tree tops, led tier to steal forward on tiptoe, so as not to disturb the magic hush. She noisily crossed the clear ing and stopped for a moment at the boarded up window, before going around to the door. Cupping her hands about her face, she put her eye to a crack. The Black Haired Beauty KAY managed to stifle the amazed gasp that escaped her at the extraordinary sight that met her eyes, but she stood rooted to the spot, gazing with hypnotic incredulity at what she saw. Her heart beat in uneven, suf focating Jerks, and a blaze of color flooded in her cheeks. Stretched on the cot, somewhat pale, but evidently all right, con sidering the animated way In which he was talking. Ted re clined, his head half turned from her toward a dark haired girl who sat beside him. with her hand gently laid on his. Kay couldn't hear a word of WHITE DECLARED BEST G T.ie reason why Hans Hanwn tn m at u pon wi 1 1 gti l nea fowl m preference to other varieties was dis closed in a letter revived here to day from the Brookings farmer. Mr. Hanwn wrote some time ago ft Postmaster Prank DrSouza askinK tht eomeone mall him two wnit guinea hen and a cork C. O. U No response was received to Ms or'r and then It wu discovered that Kbit guiACt iowi In lauUierip gra- what they were saying, but it . -obviously an engrossing talk. Bright points of light flickered before Kay's eyes and a strange buzzing sounded in her ears as she gazed, as though petrified, at the unsuspecting couple before her. Tom Runyon's words, describ ing Ted's fight at Kelly's, came back to her: "He won't mind boast ing about it to the black haired beauty he was fighting for!" So. it was true, then! All that time that they had been riding back in the sunset, with the pres sure of his arms tightening about her, had seemed the expression of the emotion she had thought was sweeping over them both, hii thoughts had really been on an other girl! And the first minute he could, instead of coming back to Kay as he had promised, he had gone to her rival A stifled sob broke out In spite of her, and Kay saw the girl inside raise her head in sudden inquiry, and listen. Kay shrank back from the win dow, and ran into the grove of pine trees that half circled the cabin. Panting as though she had been running a long distance, she bit her lower lip, and stood with her hand pressed against hei heart, as she peered out. The next instant, the willowy figure of the dark haired girl ap. peared on the steps of the cabin. She stood for a moment in a lis tening attitude, and Kay had an opportunity to take in her ovai face, with its rather sad but sweel expression, and the transparent whiteness of her skin against the glossy black hair that dipped in soft waves on her forehead. In s moment she vanished inside. One .11 ore .Look IMPELLED by a wild surge of 1 emotion that was stronger than anything she had ever felt in her life before, Kay could not resist creeping back to the window for one more look. It couldn't be true! She must have dreamed this nightmare! Hardly recognizing herself in the grip of the jealous misery that possessed her, Kay watched Mar lon's smile as she held her hand on Ted's forehead. Then, as she turned, and moved over to the tiny stove, Kay shrank away and ran quietly back across the clearing. She blindly pushed her way through the thick underbrush that separated her from the spot where she had left Flicker, her mind seething with inarticulate thoughts, and tumultuous emo tions. She was incapable of con secutive thought, her one intelli gible idea being to get away, as fast as she could, and never let anyone know what she had seen. Forcing her way on with relent less energy, she at last came out on the grassy space that surround ed the head waters. The slueeish water that had seemed so myste rious and wonderful in the sun light, looked dark and sinister in the fading twilight. A few streams of color from the afterglow of the sunset still streaked the skv, but the faint gleam of a planet and one or two stars told of the near ap proach of night. Still animated by her wild de sire to get away, Kav felt, with out consciously noticing It, the changed aspect of the place, and a shudder ran over her, as she reached Flicker and prepared to mount As she swung Into the saddle, her eye caught the fatal spot where Scrap Johnson's body had been found. Her overwrought nerves caused an involuntary cry. She gave Flicker a touch of her heel, and they raced through the narrow pass and pointed down the trail at a headlong pace. (Copyright, tJ?. Uarit 64 .VrrvaudJ Ray falls from her plunging horst onto the blsck, rorky trail, tomorrow. gon are an scarce as hen' teeth. Hugo A. Frohrelch, poultry dealer, said he had never seen any white guinea fowl from Portland to Sad Francisco. Ho begun rewarch to find out the reason why and wrote to Yankton, 8. D., to get aome nMte birds. Hla office Mid noday tlie re search and the YanMon oraer had not yet produced rrult. Meantime It was reported there ,w a whit guinea hen In fVtma Valley. "My experience ha. a been that white gulneaa are more fifigreanlve than the etandard type." wrote, Mr Hansen who aafd his acquaintance with the fowl o'.lglnnted In the Da kotiis si dtd Mr. Frohreleh's. 'M?.ny poultry raters, especially In hawk -In .rated arena, keep giu ne'is to act as police for the poultry flock. T.iey are ever vigilant and their rtucoiis danger signals ate al ways a warning to the flock to eek shelter whenever a hawk or other poultry enemy appears. The white gjliieaa wUi oieu tb bawl. JL-IH-0H6 MfSRKEP COLT ' A he American King A brilliant younr Illinois lawyer. James Jesse. Strang, fell In with lead ers of the Mormon church In the earl 1840's ftnu was baptized Into the re ligion In 1B44. Only one month after bis baptism he wns ordained an elder of the church. Strang became a close friend of Jo seph Smith, founder of Mormonlsm. and when Smith was killed by te bullets of a mob In June, 1884, Strang attempted to take over the leadership of the church. He based bis claim;, for the pott on a letter which was purportenly written by Joseph Smith in which It waa declared that Qod had vl<d the prophet and given a command for a new Mormon colony "Another reason for my preference Is that white gulnears are more easily domesticated than the standard type. I make pets of all my flock and 1 have found that the standard guinea is difficult to tame. "Aa a table fowl I am sure the white guinea Is equal if not supe rior to the standard variety. In many restaurants and dining rooms in the past, especially In the east, guinea fowl was listed on the menu as pheasant. It Is dark fleshed and .--jam n TAILSPIN TOMMY The Voiled Lady Is Reticent 1 BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER VNeU.,UUClfc KIM, I WU MUb. HJCJIM VsIU. BOTH t-7 A SWELL AUUT,-JOO- I - 7 THE NEBBS Something to ST5 a lomg TIME ilMCe AkTtTWIM& OAS WAS. trs vJEST MV I GOTTA DUTV MAS ACOUSEC 50 MUCH IMTEKEST AS THE MAX- UUTWEQ.nSWTl SCHEDULEO TOR. AUSU5T 16 Ll:'. L Ib-ifPSfl'Old dmokltn M Alt student, FHCHCP SIT SIKEOUTS IH .tj xffAg of eve?? 17 per ewe Alliance Witt' . jMf MniAt?nsJ nPTUP OF iMAcr ou rNP tRVED .j be established on White River, In the lands of Racine and Walworth ' Strang' cttempt to become leader of the Mormon church resulted in his excommunication but his powerful gift of oratory brought a rift in the ranks of i hand of ubout 2000 follow ers, Strang establlvied a new Mormon colony named Vorcj In the locale die tated by the allegedly "divine letter.' Later the colony moved to Beave. feland, largest Island In Lake Mich igan, and .Strang proclaimed the land as the "Kingdom of St. James" with himself xs. king. 1 The "king" ruled his land with a 6trong band. Instituting a regular system of tithing ond running the I government as an nhsolute monarchy. gamey of flavor and can be passed off as a game bird better than any other type of barnyard fowl." FORD PLANT RESUMES FOLLOWING INVENTORY DETROIT, Aug. 10. (API The Ford Motor Co. resumed production Mon day after three weeks shutdown for Inventory. Assembly plants, as well as The Lady Approaches vou Talk About LUCK EC OJ THAT I (SOTTA BeCiz-BrrSOM feL, HAS ) BETTER M A )tSaTBEJ1 ELECEdV00 D,DM'T HUSV DUTV TM AT X LUTHER GOIMV SCCO UTTLEyI.f.. J?. WlOW IT WAS V" JA eBOn M fVAClENT CHlSFTAlM near Jizbtj, $iedett., e mMohm 'leader. UteMwt? iri MJO MlrUlANU ITTe HMEy In 1852 the flourishing colony elected Strang to the Michigan state legisla ture. Things ran cmootbJy for Strang un til the U. S. government, hearing of his monarchy within the republic, had him taken to Detroit aboard the warship "Michigan for questioning. King Strang in an impassioned speech charging religious persecution, won bis acquittal and returned to his kingdom. On June 16. 1856, he was shot from ambush and died the fol lowing month. His followers were driv en from the island and forced to disorganize. Tomorrow: What Railroad Operates With Wind Power? the Rouge plant &t Dearborn, re opened. A company ofYtJ'al said the pro ductlon schedule called for 6.500 un.ts dally, the same t-chedule that was. maintained before ih shut-down. WINDOW GLASS We sell window lass and wtll replace your oroken windows reasonably rrow bridge Cab inet Works. Ue Mall Prlbune want ads. ..J,. 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