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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-09-21, Page 2PAGE 2 Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated' THE NEW ERA Perms ` of Subscription — $1.50 per year in advance, to 'Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 to the U.S., or oth- er foreign countries, : Wo paper discontinued until all arrears, are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the label. `e.dvertising Rates -Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one' inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost," 'SStrayed," etc., inserted once for 35e, each subsequent in- sertion 15c. Rates for display ad-, vertising made known on appliea- , time Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name •of the writer. G. E. HALL, . U. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. 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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD vormommoial momenmeemmelmokomwompooni THURS., SEPT. 21, 1933 SYNOPSIS Ruth Warren, living in the East, crimes into possession ' o f.: three-quar- ter interest in an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her brother, re- ported to have died while on business in Mexico, ,Wi h her ailing husband and small' child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thipking the cli- mate may prove beneficial to her husband's weakened lungs. Arriving at the nearest town, she learns that the ranch, "Dead Lantern'," is 85 miles across the .desert. Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them to "Dead Lantern" gate, which was 5 miles from the ranch house. As they wearily walked past a huge over- shadowing boulder .in a gulch in coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go back, Go back!" At the ranch house they ere greeted suspicious]y by the galtnt rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian Ann, a herculean woman of mixed negro and Indian blood. Snavely is diffi- cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch i and its development. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY e-�11r� "Ann' do you think its going to rain?" asked Ruth, with an anxious lock toward the mountain where Warren had gone. Ann shrugged. "Maybe so. Good thing to have big rain, We can hang the clothes on the porch" But this tvas not a big one. It came steadily all afternoon though not with violence—a penetrating drizzle, oddly cold, Ruth could no longer see the mountains distinctly—they hulked •a grayish blur against the dull sky. She knew it would be impossible to find Kenneth and at every moment she expected to see hits ride into no clearing. But a little after three she could wait no Imager and asked Ann to help her catch and saddle Brisket who bad not gone far from the corrals that morning and now waited at the gate for his aid crony, Sanchez. Snavely had not yet come in from riding the lower pasture. Just as Ruth was tying her hus- band's winter overcoat on her sad- dle, Warren rode in. Itis shoulders were drawn up and hie smile was distorted by a shiver. "Well, here I am. I bad the darnodest time with this old fool of a horse ---when it started to rain I went to get hint anti found that he'd cone untied and gene for a stroll. I chased him all over that end of the ranch•—never sweat so much in any life—took tie an hour to catch hint." Ruth put her husband to bed, feel him scalding coffee and piled on' all the available bedclothes. By the time Kemreth should have been un- comfortably warm, his teeth chat - "Manta when is daddy coming home some more?" David would ask at bedtime. tered sa that he could not speak. Then suddenly the chill left and he was too warm. Ruth discovered first her clinical thermometer was useless—hot weather had forced the mercury to a hundred and twelve and it refused to be shaken down again. -She . sat still and watched the dull red spots on •Warren's cheeks grow brighter and expand, utterly helpless even to know how bad the fever was. Periodically, she felt an overpowering impulse to run into the ranch •house and tele- phone a doctor, and periodically she remembered that there was no tele. phone. `'It seemed incredible. It was dark when at' last she did go into the ranch house, Neither Snavely nor Ann had inquired a- bout Warren; now. Snavely looked up as thoughwondering why Ruth war late for supper. The 'girl spoke. "Some one must go for a doctor!" - ' "Ts he that .sick'?" asked Snavely, without much surprise. "I'm afraid it's pneumonia — please go!" "Why,there ain't no doctor be- tween; here art' town eighty-five miles." . "Then we'll have to go to tonin `for one—please hurry!" "But not having, 'no automobile, we couldn't get there for=" "Old Charley!" 'exeleimed the girl. "Ride over to his place, and he'll go in his ear." • "The horses is all turned out," complained Snavely, "an' anyways I don't like to bother no neighbor — they don't bother me, none no more antee" A cold, clear-headed fury posses, sed the girl. "Listen," she command- ed, "you are to start for Thane's this minute and ride as fast as you can. Do you understand that?" • Amazement shown in Snavely's face; •a reply came to his lips but he thought better of it. Then with a jump his pale eyes turned to Ann. "Go ahead!" The girl heard the feet of Ann's horse on the reeks ten minutes later—there must have been a horse near the corral after all, .she thought idly. Kenneth was talking ceaseless- ly and unintelligibly. She put Da- vid to bed without his usual good- night story and seated herself by her husband. I Hour dragged after hour: For a time the sick man seemed to sleep. The girl sat immovable, his het, dry hands in Iters, her pleading eyes on itis face. Now and again his lip; fluttered and she bent down her head. But there was no speech. The silence of the hot night pressed close the empty utiles of motionless des- ! ort made themselves felt, as if they, too, were concerned with what took- place ookplace in the old adobe. All the sit, ent world seemed waiting. waiting. .. Many times, bits of the road to' town flashed through the wirl's mind she saw the twists, the hills, sand - filled arroyos, shore stretches where, speed was possible. The road war so very long. Twice it world have to be travelled before the doctor came. She knew that at beat be ?rind not arrive before six o'clock. Suddenly the man's eyes thence wide; his voice was an imploring whisper, "Ruth! Ruth!" t The girl brcught her free arm across his breast and laid her cool 1 cheek against his burning one. . . • As a matter of fact, the sun was two house high before Old Charley and the doctor finally arrived, Rut. Warren, with wide-eyed David in her arms, was sitting like an image of stone on the doorstep cf the old adobe—staring at the live oak tree east of the ranch house. Kenneth was dead. In the days which followed close upon her husband's death, Ruth Warren felt that she had separates' into two women. The one she had always known went about her tasks a'.mnst as before—even smiled and played with David. The other Rut. hovered behind her, a black shadow —a half-orazecl thing of grief an(' titter terror, wailing questions which had no answers. It was only by pre- tending not to know about this oth- er Ruth that the real Rnth could' keep her a little away. But at bed time David invariably asked, "Ma- ma, when is Daddy conning home some nure?" Then the black shoe claw entered and became het' very self. At last the question of what she must do became as strong and then stronger Alan the hovering shadow of grief and despair. One day Ruth went to Snavely, as he was turning out his horse after the day's ride. Since the alight rain both he and Ann were in the' saddle most of the day. ' Ruth had been glad. "Mr. Snavely; said Ruth quietly, "could I have a talk with you?" "Eh? Ail right—go' ahead." "I thought we might want the ranch books to refer to," said the girl hesitantly. Snavely's eyes jumped to Ruth and back to his horse's head in si- lence. r ' ' When they bad entered the living room of the ranch house Snavely silently collected; some papers anti the old daybook, dumped them on the table, seated himself opposite Ruth and waited. "The first thing I want to talk about," said the girl, "is the ranch earnings." Snavely nodded.' "HoW much do you think the ranch will Bern this year?" "We can figger it pretty close -- can't tell exactly," "Well, we got about a hundred mother cows an' th' calf crop don't rtln engrain fifty per cent-," be paused and wrote out some figures "That'll give us about forty or fifty sellin' calves—that's our increase for the year anY we ean't sell nomore thenlil peat indthout' goin' down hill. • Well, if we get thirty dollars fox' fifty ; head that's fifteen hundred dollars." "Fpr the whole year?" Snavely nodded. But couldn't a ranch as big as this. --twenty thousand acres -•. ac- commodate more than one hundred mother cows?" "It could. But cows cost money. Your brother figgered on buying more -that's why he fixed up the windmill an' the tank an' all --a but he claimed he could get hold •af some capital." "Couldn't we get some? .Couldn'i we borrow some money to buy cows so that there'd be more calves?" "How?„ "Oh, I don't know—people do- bor- row money. Couldn't we say to some one, 'Lend us so much to buy cattle with, and then we'll pay when She looked up. "But what can we do? We must do something." the cattle make the honey — we could give the ranch as security." "No!" .Snavely's voice was a high- pitched shout of pretest. "None o' that—none o' that. You don't know what you're getting into when yon fool with that sort of thing! You'll lose the whole ranch to some cute sharper --that's what'll happen! No Mrs. Warren I don't feel that it would be wise to' put the ranch up to borrow on. An' it's the law that both pardners has to agree before anything's done with the property." "Certainly, I understand that, Mr. Snavely; and of course we shall a- gree an everything." She smiled her best, "H'e're not children look ing for something to squabble about we're owners of of this fine ranch and the want to improve it." "I wasn't connpainin' none --that much'll keep me." Ruth summoned all her courage. "But your share would only be a quarter of that amount." "W'hat.are you hintin' at?" Snav- ely half rose. "Let me tell you that I ain't got all that's coning to me by a long chane! It takes all the ranch brings in to buy my grub. I'm the only parelner that's working an' I figger my quarter is due the as clear salary." Ruth's heart was thumping. "And I certainly agree, Mr. Snavely I—I think you have 'done splendidly, and if possible I'll see that you get back your share of the money any brother took when he went to Mexi- co. That's not the point. 'We've got to make the ranch earn more; for both of tis," "The ranch can't. It'll bring in enough to keep :the man that runs it, but it won't do no more without you buy some more stock and put in a well So's the stock can live after you get 'ern here." Ruth's fingers drummed nervously on the table top. No one would have guessed how near she was to breaking down. She, didn't pretend to know anything about the ranch, ear the business of ranching — she only knew that her interest in the ranch was all she had in the world —that David had.no father, . She looked up. "But what can we do? We must do something." "You mean you got to do some- thing. I ain't needin' money •--. I been gettin' along for more'n fifty years. I don't reckon you can come anywhere's near undostandin' ine when I tell you I don't want money. The only good money ever clone me was to give it to people so's I could get shot of 'em Well --I'm e. long ways from broke right now. 'Zoe got -a claim on this ranch. The only thing this ranch means to you is money; the only thing it means, to one is a place to live my myself. I'll swap you one for the other," "How much is my share worth, Mr. Snavely; what will you give me for it?" Tho girl's voice was strained, eager. • A gleam of almost insane saris- faction lit Snavel-y's face; he Ieaeed for-weed'and-Wouldhave placed his hand on Rath,'s arrn'.had 'she. not DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD, Nfld. Scouts Master a Forest Fire An hour and half's stiff fight with fire in valuable timber was the test of a camping Newfoundland troop of Scents, ' the 4th St. John's. When other fire-fighters arrived they found. a band of blackened but 'victorious boys. Wil; Scout! Signals Reach Lifeboat While the Yarmouth (England) lifeboat was out searching for a man who had drifted to sea on a raft, ,Soy. Scouts of. 'Barton -on -Sea learned that the man had drifted ashore. They successfully semaphor- ed the information to the lifeboat. Scouts For World Peace Says U. S. President "Such gatherings as this are a- mong the Most important contribu- tions to world peace," wrote Presi- dent Roosevelt in a letter read at the opening of the World Scout Jambor- ee in Hungary. "It stirs our imag- inations and kindles our emotions to contemplate the possible implications withdrawn it "Now, Mrs. Warren, I think you're gettin' some sense, This ranch ain't no place for a wo- man an' a baby—it's a wild, lone- some; country mighty strange to you. Suddenly he stood up. "Mrs. "Warren, I'll give you every cent I've got for your interest. Then yore can git out!" His voice, trembling and pitched high, rang weirdly* in the small room. "Yes, you can go! You can leave the Iike you found me —you can go back to the stinkin' mess of people an' their low tricks, and their mean hog lives an' you can leave me be! That's what I want an' that's what I aim to have! I can't abide people—I don't want no money, I don't want nothin' but peace! There ain't no peace amongst people, don't you lcnow that?" His pale, staring eyes bored through the girl. "—you come here 'cause you thought you could have money out of this place. Well, you can—I'll give you every cent I've got, an' it's more'n this ranch'll earn you in ten years. I'll give you near ten thous- and dollars an' I'll give it to you now and you can go tonight! Yes," his voice rose to a scream, "you can go tonight! Tonight! You pore little lonesome thing! You don't belong here—d can't have you." (Continued next week) growing out of this pilgrimage of these young men and boys—camping andliving together for two weeks in good fellowship and harmony." c=IMC 'An Australian First Aid Contest Thirteen Scout troops of St. Kilda district, Melbourne; Australia, •com- peted in the annual Dunbrell Cup first aid competition. The tat Hamp- ton repeated as winner,' with 96 points, followed by the 1st Caulfield with 87 and the 1st Gardenvale with. 82. es•JeMsee Scout Radio Tests with New' Zealand Tests to establish Scout radio Communication between Canada and Nett' Zealand are .being carried out between Station VE-4,IJ, operated by District Swett Commissioner Nott of Medicine Hat, Alta., and Station ZL3HZ, operated by the Nerd:h Beaeb Rover Scout Crew of Christchurch, New' Zealand. Make Friends and You'll Malde Peace ".Make friends and you will make peace. That is the purpose of all Jamborees." These were . the words of Lord Baden-Powell at the recep- tion extended him and visiting Brie tish Scout and Guide leaders to Swe- den during the summer's goodwill cruise of the Baltic ports. BIG GAME HUNTERS TO NORTHERN WILDS First big game hunters of the season put in an appearance at Jas- per recently in the persons of Wil- liam N. ,Beach and Paris Russell, both of New York City. By no means Mr. Beach's first ex, eusion into this country, he intends to occupy some time of his one- month trip in the Rockies by taking movies of sheep, moose, elk, goat and caribou, following which the two hunters will go after the game with a gun. Mr. Beach is noted for his expeditions in Canada, Alaska and Africa, after big game. Present plans of the party, which is in charge of Jack Brewster, the well-known guide, are to make De- vona, Alberta, their starting point and work up the Smoky River, com- ing out of the mountains by way of Mount Robson and take the Canadian National Railways fax return to Jasper. HUNTERS? PRIVILEGES EXTENDED With a view to meeting 'the re- quirements of the lone hunter the General Passenger Agent of the Canadian National Railways, an- nounced Saturday a radical innova- tion in railway tariffs fox the hunt- ing season. In the past the special hunters' fares applied only to par- ties of five or more. This season the low rates will apply to any in, dividual who can present a hunter's license issued by the provincial de- partment of game and fisheries. "In the altering of the tariff regulations we were giving consideration to the. individual bunter, . who frequently desires to take a moderate week -end trip to Northern Ontario and spend a clay or so in the bush. Last sea- scn many applications of this na- ture were made and we feel that such men should be afforded the same privilege as those who ane nually make up parties and spend considerable time in their camps. By adopting this system, the Cana- dian National Railways feel that it will stimulate interest in this great autumn sport and will have a most beneficial result throughout the north," Mr. , Bourlier stated. CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY EARNINGS The gross revenues of the all-in- clusive Canadian National Railways System for the week ending Septem- ber 7th, 1933, were 52,949,341, as compared with $2,677,874, for the corresponding period of 1932, an in- crease of 8271,467. ROUND TkU P BARGAIN F'Ai' ES SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 3€' To Windsor $3.20 To Detroit $3.45 Children 5 years and under 12 half fare. Tickets good in coaches only. No baggage checked. Tickets to Detroit sold subject to passengers meeting Immigration requirements of U. S. A. GOING: (Standard Time) RETURNING Lv. Clinton 7.08 a.m. 3.00 p.m. Tickets valid to return up Ar. Windsor 2.30 p.m. 8.35 p.m. to and including following Ar. Detroit 3.10 pee. 9.20 pan. Monday. Err 'information, Tickets, apply to CLINTON, ONT., DEPOT TICKET AGENT T-202. CArk3ADIAN NATIONAL is hdstris Every iiulustry, be it large ar small, adds to the progress and prosperity of any community. 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