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pace nfiTrr MEDFORD MATT., TRTBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 27. 1940. mEmoRy of the moon by J eannc Bo wmini YESTERDAY. Comtanco it tcddtned by the treachery of her brother's telegram. She decldtt to stay several days, and goes to Beach port to interview the tarn ily lawyer. Judge Franck. Chapter 10 Dairy Farm THE old man leaned forward and stared anew. "You are no Cabrillo." he Mid. "No. I've known three generation! of them. Courtesy, that'i what a Cabrillo gives you; old world courtesy, all excepting Bridget, but then (he wasn't born a Cabrillo. "Ah. but she was a woman." His voice faded and slowed as he rose and came across to Constance. "That's it . . . that's what you are ... a Mahonev. Put some meat on those bones of yours . . . what did you say your given name was?" "All rieht," agreed Constance. . wearily. "I'm no Cabrillo. I'm the old Mick done over In skirls. In other words. Judge, I'm a throw back." Judge Franck pounded the arm of her chair and roared. "Well, bless my soul and body, a throw back: a Cabrillo who turned into a Mick: come on close to my desk. There child, sit down: now tell me again, what is your name?" "Call me Michael," auggested Constance. "Fine. Now. Michael, tell me all about yourself. I think I might give you the answers. By gad. girl, it's good to see you. I sup pose you came out to see about selling the ranch. Well, sir, you couldn't do better than sell to the Taylors. Fine men, both of them, and they've named you a fair price." "I have no Intention of aelllng EI Cabrillo ranch." Until Constance heard her own voice, she had not realized how nrmly she had reached this deci sion. "If the Taylors can find a way to make money out of somebody else's property, then a Cabrillo who turned out a mlck, can do ine same thing. The afternoon waxed and the afternoon waned. Constance pounded one side of the desk and the judge pounded the other. And then, when they were both tired, the judge paced the room and held a lengthy verbal argument with himself. "Michael," he came to a atop before her, "you could talk me into giving a kidnaper a suspend ' ed sentence." "Meaning?" Constance kept the triumph out of her voice. Judge Franck sat down heavily. "There is no ethical reason I shouldn't tell you what I know. There is a moral reason. The Tay lor's plans are generally known; however, there isn't a man in this country who wouldn't keep them from an outsider." "And a Cabrillo Is an outsider?" asked Constance. "The present generation of Cm brlllos are outsiders," affirmed the juoge. I he Taylors have won the right to be natives by their integ rity: their untiring efforts to put another family's ranch on a pay ing basli. "The Cabrillos have lost these iame rights by their assumption of ranches running themselves; by their complete lark of interest in their land and .their commu nity." "An! the Initial efforts of the Cabrillos mean nothing?" asked Constance. "We Cabrillos haven't inherited any consideration? The original Don didn't leave anything to us in consideration when he started this very city? And Mickey Mahonev didn't contrib ute anything when his money Jiaid for that courthouse and he aid the cornerstone? Hasn't his memory any value?" Judee Franck sished and nod ded. "It has. and if DM Mir-ha.l Mahoney wasn't looking out of your eyes. I'd be struck dead for telling you what I am about to tell." Their Fresent Plana pONSTANCE had argued well. She had admitted the Tavlnrs had earned certain rights. "But why," she had demanded, "must we pay with all we have left for a service we didn't demand? Sure, ly there is other land they can purchase if they must own land." It was here Judge Franck had capitulated. "Not and carry out their pres ent plans." he had objected. Constance edsed nearer her chair, waiting for him to reveal these plans. "If you've looked over the ranch, you'll remember there are heavy stands of timber beyond your eastern boundary. Now. El Cabrillo is shaped like a new moon, its horns as wide as its cen ter. It holds this timber within its broken circle It is practically in accessible to the railroad without hundreds of miles of trackage. "You say you came in on the short line running through Full er's Junction, consequently vou ! don't realize that the main line, coming to Beachport. runs through the inland valley country j "Now if a smir could h nm from the main line east of Bi-ach-port and through the northern horn of your ranch, the haul of timber to the mills would be com paratively short, the cost of lav mg the spur well worth the ex pense. that understanding killed her faith in tht Taylors. They had wanted to rush the sale of the ranch and. probably, get half of the cost of the land back by sell ing a right of way. Blue eyes focused on the gray cornerstone of the court-house. Michael Mahoney had laid that She was a throwback. The Judge had been telling her about "the old pirate." Michael had played fair with his friends. He had out witted his enemies before they were aware of it. Then why did she feel like this? As though half the joy in posses sing Ei Cabrillo had gone? "Sick. Michael?" asked the Judge anxiously. "You look pale." "Not exactly." she managed, with a thin smile. "It was just that I thought the Taylors were plan ning something constructive . . . not planning to double-cross us" "But dear child they are plan ning something constructive, of fered the Judge, quickly. "This spur running through El Cabrillo makes it possible. "Michael, he leaned across ana took her young hand in his old one. "El Cabrillo. without the spur, isn't worth fifty thousand to anyone but a Cabrillo. "I want you to hear me through, and maybe from your own family's history you can un derstand how we must adjust our selves to change. "Let's go back to the Don Ca brillo wa know the most about. He came of tht leather age. He raised cattle, like his father before him, for their hides; lean, tough steers that grazed on thousands of acres and needed only his peons to herd them to market. Michael's Vision "HE had top markets In Russia, 1 the Orient and Europe. Then other countries began negotiating for that trade and prices dropped. He had saved no money, tie had thought he had no need of it, and his children, despising ranch life, spent all of their time, and his money, in New York, Vienna, and Paris. "About this time Michael Ma honey came over from Irelandr came steerage, to cross the plains looking for gold. He finally landed in San Francisco with the need of a beefsteak under his belt: but beefsteak was only for men who struck gold. There was no beef in this cattle country that a man could put his teeth into. so Michael went orosnect n for gold to buy his beefsteak. He hired out on a wagon train going to Oregon, and when the train broke up before it even reached the line, he cut over to the moun tains to prospect He came uoon El Cabrillo. run down, the old Don defeated. Michael looked at the steers and had a vision. He saw them re placed with fat, sleek beef cattle . . tenner meat. "Michael bargained. He offered to buy the forty-five thousand acres of ranch land and cattle. me rancn proper was not includ ed, for thirty-five hundred dol lars gold." "But how could he?" asked Constance, "if he couldn't even buv a steak." "You don't know vour ureal. grandfather," opined the judge. "Michael came up to Beachport, a landing it was then. He bargained a barber into giving him a shave ana hair cut. and then h met Simon. He bargained Simon into giving him a suit of clothes . . . and five hundred dollars gold. And Simon, who dealt in human in tegrity, looked into the eyes of Michael Mahoney and gave him the gold." Constance was thinking. I have no gold. When I reach home I'll be nearly broke until mv next commission. But if Michael could . I Willi What did he do then?" .he asked eagerly. "There were pirates in those days. They sought the coves of El Cabrillo for shelter and trade Michael now owned the coves and he wasn't afraid of the devil him self, so he went down and forced them to pay for their shelter. "He bargained with them. He traded steer for beef cattle, sleek, fat kine from Europe. Once the ranch was stocked, he sold these beefsteaks on the hoof at top prices, to cafes in 'Frisco, and made the pirate ships deliver them. "Within three years he had paid off Don Cabrillo, and paid Simon, who reveled more in the gold he found in Michael s character than he reveled in the increase in his investment "Now we come to the present another change. "First climate. Somehow we've swung into the wet belt and with the decrease In grazing, voung trees, too valuable to the future to he sacrificed, are springing up "Next the grazing land is re duced by boundaries, and there are no nearby State reservations "And then, the present huhly competitive market command only the best beef at decent pricea "The Taylors recognized this change but they were helpless to cope with it They had to own the land before they could borrow money for the next step, nsmely. turning El Cabrillo into a mod ern well paying, Dairy Ranch." A dairy ranch." breathed Con stance in contempt and she thought of Peter Tavlor and his Dutch belted herd. He had been sure enough of owning El Cabrillo iw "i est in mat. me Longshore Lumber Com- "Why the scorn?" inquired the pany. owning timber rights to the Judge. "W. l, on m k wh territory mentioned, is ready to i we come into the world and we're CrV;r h.'. r""hl 0f Kty " ' don to it before ; tltabrilio 'leave. Its the thing for this coun. Constance turned to look out of try." the window. She understood, and ' le centlnura EUGENE 'SUICIDE' of Hugh O'Brien was found hanging in his downtow n furni ture store basement was in his own handwriting. Officials had suspected the note, admitting suicide, might have been forged London Aug 27. ( Vi The Eusene. Airs. 27. I.T State death of the Duke of Guise, pre police handwriting experts in tender to the French throne, at Sn'.em tcdav rot. dirt Coroner Lararhe. Spanish Morocco, was Charles P. I'oolc that the note reported from Madrid today by found last week alter tl'.a body 1 Reuters, British news agency. On the Radio Chains TaiioN There te rind ibm oa the Dial: fctX. 1 1 Mi. Purl and; krl. atO 1 !; tut, 1470 aiwaaoe KOO. ;uo. SD Iranriire; fcl.t no. Portland: Hi. KIU, aeetiwi kNX. 1040. Las Anirlet: HO, in Denver! Mil. Mo. Fun land HOMO Uttr aealltei IPO. SSU HI frinrlM-n; Kl 1 1, Sill !. 10 SO Van's Oreb, KM. KJR; Richards" Orrh, KOW; National Da. feu Program, KPO. 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E TAX BILL SIGNED Chicago, Aug. 27. (IP) Fed eral Judge John P. Barnes stated today he would sign a summary judgment of $201,347 against AI Capone for taxes, in terest and penalties on his in come for the years 1924 to 1929. Abraham Tietelbaum, counsel for the former Chicago gang lord, tried unsuccessfully to ob tain a continuance on the ground that Capone couldn't af ford to pay such a Judgment and that a compromise offer was still pending in the internal revenue, department. But Judge Barnes ordered the judgment drawn up, in forming Assistant U. S. District Attorney Paul Ziffren that he would sign it this afternoon. Capone is recuperating from an illness on his Palm Island estate off the coast of Florida. Closing tun for Too Lata to Clas sify Ads I 1 :30 p. m. OFF AND ON By CLUYAS WILLIAMS Ms FEUS IT WOULD BE A 6000 IDEA1blAV OFF 11 SOCKS MOTHER JUST WoH LOSK 6R)P ON IT, KHEE FJ.V1N6 BACK MD 6IVW6 HIM A CRACK ON TriE CHIN 6TT5 TO WORK A6A1M , DE-ftBMD,ED AiHD A WILE MAO 10SES 6RIP A6AIH, 6IVW6 HIMSELF A P0K Oti "WE NOSE RUBS NOSE RuFTullV. WOULD LIKE -0 ABANDON fME PROJECT BUT DOESN'T WAKT1D BE A QUITTER .OMPROMISES BY 6ETT1H6 ONE SOCK Off ST THEN LOSING EJITiRE INTEREST IH rOOT 6trl0 B-2 8l KEEP BOTH JOBS Washington, Aug. 27., The White House announced to day President Roosevelt would ask congress for legislation per mitting Jesse H. Jones to fetain his present position as federal loan administrator if he be comes secretary of commerce. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, said Jones was "very anxious'' to accept the cabinet post, but his nomination would not be sent to the senate until the proposed legislation has been acted. The legislation will mention Jones by name and will pro vide that he be permitted to i hold both offices notwithstand- ing existing prohibitions i against a man holding two fed jeral offices. It also will provide that the total compensation shall not exceed the IIS.OOO provided by law for a cabinet member. Jones now gets $12,000 as loan administrator. Cot. Slassen to Speak Spokane, Aug. 27. .?) Gov". Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, kevnoter of the Republican na tional convention at Philadel phia, will be the principal speaker at the northeast Wash ington Republican rally at nat atorium park here tonight, party officials said today. I'm Mall Tnbun nt ad. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS by JOHN HIX rf, . .vtj ft n kbO faWWIfc COUHJVJAlLf MM WHflHtf, Hotel. Vi omcttiL JhlLBR... f . A fffoM 100.000 KADS. teja&MA 502. 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