HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-06-13, Page 2THURSDAY, JUNE 13th, 1935 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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.e.-ast Maitland, sen uf a New
England seafaring family._ was
dckrminea to win ba?k nis last
family tirtunes. Fren.-hv. the
fisherman who took him and
Speed north: Lucky Rose, beauti
ful young wi-mun who had given
Maitland a ring for a keepsake:
Fallon, trail boss of the
whit resented Rose
Maitland; Steiner, t
er
partner Bill Owens;
time prospector; and
well-to-do modern one
Maitland and Speed to
stuff tri m the beach
.mountains to the Yukon—these
were among the crowd that made
up the gold seekers. At Liarsville
a camji in the hills, Speed was
made trail bos* in Fallon's place,
because Speed insisted on closing
the trail till it could be repaired—
it was almost impassable. But the
fickle crowd veered back to Fal
lon. Speed and Maitland took a
stand above the pass to keep the
miners from breaking /through.
had
keep
miners,
-*s attention to
he monev lend-
young Pete and his drunken
Brent, uld-
Garnet, a
who- hired
haul his
over the
ashed a ourpris- i’’g vt'ur-o through the tent lanes
J without being particularly observed,
as' llv crossed the street at the other
I, m ar the beach, stopped before
tincture that had no sign.
The stranger entered the place
d 1 ame . ut a minute later. “G-go
havin' a d-a drink,”
paused for a moment
speaking in us rapid
as his tongue would
u’re lookin’
dril't-
Spved 1
to rest hi
tile cretk.
Icn who -
Brent's guard, and t-.dd the old
trailsman t>- lower his gun.
“You owe me a thousand dollars,
Fallon,” he said soberly, when the
deposed it.:np boss wac. uncovered.
Fallen Lew out a wallet and
counted over the amount.
“Give him his six-shooters, Brent,’
said Speed. This was done. “The
trail*- fixed.” Speed explained, “and
I resign all claims uf the job of trail
boss. Wt'i» talkin’ level. I don’t
aim to tangle with the rangers’ law
after they cross the summit,
where we htand there ain’t a law
L
righi, s’ far
ltd, if >vt- fix-d‘endht st
” said the ont-f The stranger
ami - ame
in ai.d he
said, as ht
.-Lit- them,
undil't me
low. “The party y
is liable to b-b-b-b—*’ And he
til silently into the dark.
Speed frowned after him;
stepped up to the peal of light
the -wing do rs and pushed
brusquely open,
and they went in.
Speed bought the drinks at the
bar.
“This don’t look like a -horse
thief’s hangout,” he said, absently
noting the card the dealer was turn
ing. Gambling was the only vulner
able point his partner had ever ob
served in -his armour of vigilance.
When some minutes passed with
out a sign of the man with the dicer
he poured another drink and lifted
his change off the bar. “This is in-
ain't
1^1
an I
al-
far
I
then
under
them
He nodded to Ed.
it
But
Pete came to offer his help, but’between you and me and the sky. We
Speed refused it and the boy, at-; don't even know that it’s Alaskan
ter saying his partner had been ground. You’ve got a bad arm, so
drowned in a drunken brawl, rode I’ll discard my best gun, and we’ll
on. But -he took a position where settle the feud right here.”
•he could fire on .the miners when! “We’ll settle it when I’ve got both
they tried to rush the pass, and *0 hands limber,” said Fallon, grimly,
helped Speed. Later Brent, with, as the train, now in movement again
an old deer gun, added his help, j wound slowly by. _
Just when Speed seemed to be
gaining the upper hand, Fallon ’ ville with his partners. Maitland felt
called to his men with an exultant; weak from reaction to the scenes of
Shout.
down
WITH
Brent hack-trailed toward Liars-
A cavalcade was coming
the trail.—NOW GO
THE STORY.
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June 1st. Member
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Court of Revision 1933 Assess
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! declaration the folloving appeals
j were considered, Appeal of Lome
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Appeal of George Kemp, Lot 7,
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ing option on certain gravel lands,
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The following owners, of dogs hav
ing reported that the dogs were des
troyed, they were struck off the list:
Wellington Brock, Hannah Chatten,
Lloyd Horton, James Horne, Newton
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diner, Ben. Williams. Action defer
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Change of owner fo.r Lot 17, Con.
9 from W-m. Ferguson to Bert Fran
cis, Christina Gardiner estate instead
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Court adjourned until July 6th.
Three tenders for the purchase of
$4,000 Debenture Issue for S. S. No.
3, Usborne, were received.
Cooper-Passmore: That -the tender
of the Usborne, Hibbert Fire Insur
ance Co,, be accepted for the full is
sue at 3% per cent. Carried.
Application for permission to op
erate a public dance hall on Lot 2,
Con. 1, Usborne. No action was
en.
Ballantyne-Passmore: That a
law be passed to carry out the
amendments to
re collection of
imposing of an
cent per month
5 per cent, penalty already imposed,
beginning July 1st. 1935.
By-law No. 4, 1935, re arrears of
taxes was read the necessary num
ber of times and passed on motion
of Cooper-Passmore.
Cooper-Ballantyne: That a grant
of $15.00 to Kirkton Agr. Soc. and
$15.00 for Baby Beef Competition
for Usborne residents be made.
Treas. report—1934 taxes $2180.;
193*2 taxes $12.55; 1934 penalties
$11.69 rebate on grader blade $4.78
Passmore-Ballantyne; That the
following bills be passed:
Henry Rowe, grease for crusher,
at Elimville
: present — lioeve
Councillors,
and Cooper
meeting
approved
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kilowat hours sold for lighting last
year totaled 51,807 as compared with
but 6.522 in 1918, and plant capital
has now reached a valuation of $7,«
034.
With a 4.0 and 5.4 cent per kilo
watt houi* rate or domestic and com
mercial lighting respectively, Dash
wood last year enjoyed an average
lighting rate of 4.44 cents per kilo
watt, This is less than the rate
prevailing in even large United .States
cities under private ownership ser
vice, compares with an 11.39 cent
hydro rate in 1918. If U, S. private
company electricity rates were ap
plied in Ontario it would add be
tween $4,000,000 and $50,000,000
to Ontario electricity bills.
Last year the Ontario Hydro Oom
mission added 1,800 new rural con
sumers to the people's power system.
Continuing this year its efforts to
extend the boon of cheap power thro’
out rural Ontario the commission
has resumed its rural surveys. Farm
ers and housewives are having ex
plained to them, hydro’s special
rural rates and "free power” offers
involving certain electrical conven
iences. Since October last over 220
miles of new rural powei’ lines have
been authorized by the provincial
commission, or more than were in
stituted during the whole of 1934.
With better produce prices it is an
ticipated that the electrification of
Ontario will be .hastened,
$10.25; St. Marys Service .Station
lalemite gun $10.00; Cowan Hard
ware, belt lacing for crusher $-4.00;
'Raymond Bros,, equipment for the
crusher $2.40; St. Marys. Hardware,
dynamite $8.30; Mo-ore Bros., repairs
for crusher $7.45; R. E. Pooley, wire
57c,; Louis Fletcher, dragging $7;
Wes. Heywood, ditto $3.50; John
Simpson, ditto $8.63: Wm. Brad
shaw, tractor work $32.25; Freeman
Horne, gravelling $6.0 0; Chas,
Stephen, gravelling, ditto $219.00;
Garnet Mc-Falls, tractor power $115.-
74; W. Batten, gravelling $21.00;
John Kellett, ditto $21.00; Jesse
Horne, team labour $5.15; Henry
Ford, superintendent $68.40; John
Kellett, posting placards, B. of H.
$2.00; Frank Gollings, relief sup
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fessional services $35.00; Dr. J. G.
Dunlop, retaining fee, B. of H. $10;
Annual Bd. of Health meeting, exp.
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terestin’,” he said, "but
catchin’ us no horses.”
With the glass lifted
however, a sound from outside check
ed his arm. Through the blended
rumble.of the camp and the beach
turf, floated some chords of a deep-
toned guitar. The swing doors open
ed, and Rose glided within them.
She .stood framed for a moment be
tween the door beams with a charm
ing, light-dazzling effect.
When she saw the men at the bar,
she stopped with a look -of question
and smiled slowly. Maitland caught
his breath. Neither he nor Speed,
who regarded her with a brooding
stare had guessed how beautiful she
was, or how her gypsy grace c-ould
fee heightened by light and color.
She was immaculate—which some
belles of the mining camps were not.
She drew up before the outlaw
with a whimsical look. Her voice
was a rich overtone to the dreaming
Strings.
"I heard
•horses.”
"We was
■on,” Speed
leave pay you and take it out of his
hide.”
She smiled a little at the inflection
his anger had betrayed him into.
“Lefty isn’t much of a come-on. He
doesn’t know what it’s all about.
Only that I asked him to watch and
let me know when you come into
the camp. The horses and outfit
were rescued from a thief who was
trying to sell them for his passage
out. I held them so you wouldn’t
shoot up the camp and get shot,
looking for them. And because I
wanted to be sure of meeting you in
a quiet place. That makes every
thing clear, doesn’t it?”
"It would be simpler
if Fallon was as dead as
half-way,
tak
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According to the latest municipal
hydro report, Dashwood has entered
the growing list of -hydro municipal
ities which, having assets in excess
of liabilities, are now regarded as
out of hydro debt. Dashwood’s total
liquid assets are $3,121, ‘with total
hydro liabilities of only $2,030.
Dashwood’s total of hydro reserves
and surplus is now, $13,446, com
prised as follows: Reserve for equity
in hydro system, $5,320; deprecia
tion on local plant, $2,129; deben
tures paid $1,386; operating sur
plus, $4,610.
The total number of Dashwood
hydro consumers at the end of the
last hydro year was 92 as compared
with only 47 consumers in 1918, one
year after the -hydro service com
menced. Average .horsepower used in
Dashwood last year was 38.3 as
compared with 46.5 in 1918; total
revenues were $2,857 as against $4,052 in 1918; lighting revenues!
were $2,299 as against $743 in 1918;
hatesblood which the other two had ac
cepted so lightly, He was troubled in
another way about Garnet’s hauling
job.
This anxiety was relieved, how
ever, in an unimagined way. When j they reached the cache, they found
that Garnet was gone, (A note at
tached to one of the packs advised
’ them that he had left Alaska, de-
| ferring his trip to Dawson till the
following spring, when — he had
I learned—steamers would be running
{up the Yukon. The note, dated two
days before, assigned them hiis out
fit and the horses, free of all claims.
It was windy dusk 'when they I emerged from the river canyon and
i looked down on an astonishng ap- , I parition of canvas above the Skag-
beach. A tent city had taken
shape in their brief absence—a
I mush-room town of illuminated I mushrooms, glowing in the mist of
flight by kerosene flares that sput-
| Through misted darkness, the
camp lights defined a twisted main
street whose course had been deter
mined by the accidental camp sites
of the first comers.
Avoiding this. the two partners
detoured around to the quieter sec
tion where they had left the unmov
ed part of Garnet’s outfit. The spot
was hard to locate in the maze of
tents, and when they did find it,
there was no sign either of the cache
or the horses.
"I’ll skin the thievin’ polecat who
done this,” .Speed announced in a
voice that carried over a wide area.
Though the neighboring tents
seemed empty, a man appeared noise
lessly in answer to his challenge
from one of the canvas lanes. He
wore a dark suit of eccentric but
studied fashion, with the collar of
the jacket upturned, soft-soled shin
ing shoes, and a black dicer hat.
"D-did you .1-I-lose somethin’?”
he inquired.
"A team of horses and a pack,”
said Speed. "Don’t get nervous,
ain’t specially .suspectin’ you.”
“Well,” said the other, "I seen a
p-pair of horses like the—like that
yesterday. A guy was 1-leadin’ ’em.’
"Know the man?”
"I know where h-h-he hangs out.
But I wouldn’t want to- be seen st-st-
et—to be seen steerin’ ye.”
This helped allay the remaining
doubts in Speed’s mind. "How care
less would get for fifty-dollars?”
he asked.
"K-keep me in s-s-sight,” said
informant. "B-b-<b—” Leaving the
word suspended, he moved silently
away.
The recovery of the horses was nec
essary, but Maitland wondered
whether it would be worth what
they might be walking into. It was
the sociable hour after dark when
saloon doors swung inwards, and
they followed their conductor’s weav-
■ON
was
the"You
Speed’s grim answer,
crack -trailsmen of the cop kingdom
and a .hard-shootin’ outfit. The (simple
name they goes by is the Royal Can
adian Northwest Mounted Police.”
This detachment was .the first of
the reinforcements sent into the Yu
kon under order from Major Walsh
to police the gold rush. They were
passing over American ground and
their authority did not begin until
they crossed the Canadian line at
the summit of the paiss, but its ex
tent was not a question in the minds
of any of the onlookers.’
'Cheering and jubilant, outfit got ready to parade through j
behind them, never doubting that'
Speed’s hand had been called.
“When I made that bet about the (______~_____
bridge,” muttered Speed, “I plumb Jtered garishly in the wind,
forget to leave out the_ Northwest1 — - - - - -
Mounted,
down the gulch there into the creek
and beat
overtake
of range.”
"You’re mad!” Maitland cried re
fusing to move. "Yon can’t challenge
their right of way!”
"I’d rather be plugged by the
rangers than see that bunch of sure-
thing gamblers herd through behind
’em. It means checkin’ in to a man-
Size outfit. Will you go?”
For an instant Maitland thought
of trying to hold him by force, but
something primal and absolute in
his decision prevented. The
squadron was now within
t-he turn of the defile into
canyon.
"I can’t wait to argue
boy,”
I can say it, I’m wishin’ ye a better
run of luck than you’ve had. The
best won’t be too good.” He wrung
his partner’s hand in a tight grip.
Then as remonstrance froze on Mait
land’s lips, he leaped over the rock
corral and slid down into the trail,
with both guns drawn, the red band
age gone from his head.
The police captain halted his
troop within a few yards of this surx
prising challenger, while the crowd
banked up curiously behind.
"Gents,” said Speed politely, "the
trail’s barred.”
A pair of level eyes covered him
in a cool impersonal way. "Barred
till when?” There was the merest
hint of irony in the velvet casualneiss
of the officer’s tone.
"Until I’m drowned where I stand
or a pack of quitters back of ye does
some chores on it.”
.Inspector Drew1 owed .his command
to certain gifts .of understanding
which had not been idle on his way
from .Skagway. His eyes wrinkled
thoughtfully, and then with a slow
Get go-in’ Bud. Slide
up it. Maybe you can
Pete. Anyways, iget out
police
yards of
the creek
with ye,
said the outlaw abruptly. "All
1
you were looking for
going to pay your come-
said. “We’d just as
for yc
Owenfe?’
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The Breaking Out of Boils
An Evidence of Bad Blood
I She did not answer to the refer
ence to Owens. “I’d rat-her it was
Fallon than either of you,” she said.
“We have that much in common.”
Speed shook his nead at -her grave
ly; “I begin to feel sorry for this
man, Fallon. And him figurin’ all
the time you’re his friend.”
“He doesn’t,” she returned, in a
voice that was bot-h sombre and tense
“He’s no- fool. He just doesn’t be
lieve I’d play against him. The why
of that doesn’t matter. But I’ve no
reason to be his friend. Less than
ever now ...” A deeper shadow
crossed her face, and s-he added with
a vibrant fall in her voice. “It would
have been simpler, as you say, if
you’d killed him.”
The restivity of the outlaw slipped
its rein; "Whatever Fallon may be,
we don’t need a woman’s help to
fight -him. Do- we go hunt those
horses, or will you say where they
are and what we owe you for your
trouble? Come on, Bud.”
“They’re out in back,” Rose in
tervened, "through that door. You
might live to think better .of me if
you listen to w.hat I tell you now.
When you leave camp, go through
the* tent lanes the way you came.
Don’t follow the street, and special
ly keep clear of the The (Pack Train
saloon. You’re on the watch for
Fallon, but sometimes the danger
you’re not looking for is the worst
. . . My guesses have a way of com
ing true.”
Speed moved to the door at the
rear of the tent. He pulled it open,
revealing a clear space of gravel
between it and the next enclosure.
The light fell on the pintos, held by
the man with the black dicer.
"Get out of my range,” Speed
growled, “before I push you over.”
And waiting till the man had van
ished, he -pulled the team into -mo
tion,
ETTERS
When boils start to break out it
is an evidence the blood has be
come corrupted.
One of the worst features of
boils is that as soon as you seem
Tid of them others break out to
take their place.
What is vitally essential to rid
yourself of this painful eruption
is to go right at the blood and give
it a thorough cleaning.
When the blood is purified,
cleansed and vitalized by Burdock
Slood Bitters the boils will quickly
disappear, your misery will end,
and your health and strength be
improved.
(To be continued)
Married Hero 59 Years Ago
Dr. and Mrs. F. H, England,
Los Angeles, Calif., appreciate the
kind invitation to join with the Old
Boys and Girls in their reunion in
Exeter in July. We would very
much like meeting With them In the
home of my birth, writes Mrs, Eng
land, but owing to unforeseen cir
cumstances it will be impossible to
attend.” Mrs, England’s’ maiden
name was Annie smale. It will bo
fifty-nine years ago this coming Oc
tober that they were married in
Exeter,
FRANK TAYLOR
ARTHUR WEBER
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