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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1929-02-28, Page 6And your own sense.. of taste will convince you, the gardens' di 11! S INERWG smE r r t;y 5U4CLAIR DRJa60 ,aW9 a0aaPa Na>za. coPYR1eh'a [989 BY e4.e.A SFRVICE, aN4 HERB TODAY �1i•kii t 1 ; of. the Double A reuc•h, a.: n ti wt owner of the old Web - rob t1i 1. Fr1ue� of Paradise their water supply. Aekiin L1'1' btliids a diem and tUkes the arose, lender t -,t and killed fronI Lin! :o 17e -Pc 1 it ughm'r of Jose, 1.., too murder. Kildare, la love with :wier- t isk hunting- the 'murderer of his NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "You heard, Bodine," he muttered cnuno.tsly. "it goes for you. When Blaze and Melody saw 'then leave. But night fell, and in the darkness they swung bac.t and up by the way I of Kings River In twenty-foar hours word of the red trail they had left • reached the Bull's Head, Cash and I , his riders .combed the . wide valleys , and narrow canons. But Bodine's Hien' were safe hi the very heart of Ae1e-. lilt's empire. A guard was placed against a repe- tition of the slaughter. Gtterril1a war- fare was Something Cash understood. A talk with Kildare revealed that the foreman blamed the raid on the Bas- ques. After two nights of quiet, Acklin relaxed. He put the incident down fora sporadic attack, a sort of dying blow. But the next night Gloomy and Shorty dashed down from their Biding place, leaving a gory track to mark the way by which they had come. B. low the peak they turned west, and threaded their way into tato valley of the Kings. There they ate and slept. Twelve hours later they were safe on Webster Creek. Bodine could not repress his ela- tion as he waited for them. He and Nez Perce had •defied Esteban's order He was right, apparently. Blaze had bad supposed Bodine would kick back once or twice before giving up; but four days had gone by, and he had not Stirred from his retreat. The following ntornifig, however, there were signs of life at the Web; eter ranch. Shortly after daylight Buck and his men were in the saddle and by noon they bad rounded up their stock, now about three hundred head. An hour later' they were in motion, eroo.'.ai fall out, it's a lane drop. pointed v ore head&Winne find the railroad, 'I tu'd better drop out of sight." sure as you're born," Melody called to Luc.. tried to interrupt, but the boy wa:ed hint down with a word: "Git!" Biaza, "We can see them from here for A movement in the crowd made it un hour ca. more. When they each claquent. ' the river, I'm going to hike down ,i, Ns as at hand. The whippoor- there.,, ww were chanting their monotonous I Melody studied his friend's face be- et.aeai r they winged .[cross the whis-1 'fore he spoke main. 1 .n - g age. Defeated, broken, tired I "Every once in a while you pull a w.ih their struggling, the weary Bas-mv serious crack like that," he finally ceeee w, e. n .'t at last in the graying I Caid. "What you got up your sleeve?" t t 1:� tt with the ;ate that confronted ,It goes back a long ways, old-timer. there. They had come to the battle with ith Some day maybe you II find out." Kil- dare got to his feet. "But I ain't got any intention 'hof 'lugging you into trouble. This is my own little ai.air. 1::,,, as heads They were beaten, T'll wait here and you can drift back CHAPTER X:`'IV to the Bull's Head." "You make me sick," the red-haired THE REI) TRAIL. one answered savagely. In tl, » dawn that followed., Kildare � "T don't want to cheat you out of • etreegand determined, but now, as thee tarred to begin the long trip heel: o hair homes, they move w , ehed Praline's: movement with un- anythin'." Blaze murmured in his; went f t the wool -house in Paradise about :+ patience. Acklin had drawling 'Colne on along, if cic dy 1 and trim into the hills again. yon feel that way about it." i eight o'clock this evening. Some of I`cr h::ure at a time they would holds Their proposed plan received a jolt, Acklin's then put it there. It says if a Ones cin the house on WebsterI as they saw Bodine and his Hien see any snore Double A steers are found Cecil. Life there became as familiar • arate at the river. Three of them' Fhct there'll be. reprisals; they'll hit if they were on the spot. Theyheaded back for the Webster. The back. You iuust 'a' got a bunch of ce rt ed e;gi t men; Buck and seven ! distance was so great that Blaze could them. The Basques are [skin' each i - t:,11'c•re. Thei • fa -'.tures were not rec-' not tell whether Buck was among other who killed this bunch of Double c •.t_ b'_ but t he big fellow's siae�these who had gone or not. A. critters. Every man -jack of theinleets his neighbor and is tickled i .r1 c i him. No one worked. In the' "One of us suspects has got to stay here lea,t or midday the Double A ridersuowv, Melody. You wait; I'Il go." silly. Anything to get Acklin. You By hard riding over a roundabout be ys turn in, The rest of us will tend course, Kildare trailed the moving to this job for tonight." herd into town. Bodine and the • "What's on now?" Gloom; inquired. "He won't have any cattle left if we ^re r two of the Basques had packed bandy-legged roan were not among i on tiha eaa their belongings and moved on. those present. The steers were load -t • "That's ended." Buck. began to Cash glade light of it. The fight was 1 d thesix rid 1 1 ed on shares by the Basques. Every 'STANDARD Of QUALITY MAKet FOR OVER' SO YEARS BETTER HOME. MADE Egypt to Raise Assuan's Dam by Eight Feet New Irrigation Project Held Safe Owing to Strength of ,Darn's Found- ation London -Tale report of the interna- tional technical commission on the raising of the Assuan Dana in Egypt has now been Published here, wtili the news that its recommendations have been accepted by the Cairo Govern- ment and will now be put into effect The commission finds that. the dam has been so strongly constructed, strutted., and upon such excellent foundations, that it can safely bo raised by no less than 291/2 feet. Iii making the recommendation, the commissioners say they keenly appre- ciate that the security,health and hail= piness of more people Mian ever be- fore depend almost entirtly upon the safety of the dam, but taking this into consideration, they still hold that this great work should be clone. The Cairo Cabinet has decided. to Intrust its supervision to Sir Mur- doch Macdonald, the engineer re- sponsible for the splendid original work, subject to his accepting all the - conditions laid down by the commis- sion. It is understood that, as a re- sult of the heightening of the Assuan Dam, it will be necessary to strength- en the Esna Assiut and Delta barrages at a probable cost of about 6E3,500,- 000, to convert land in Upper Egypt and improve drainage in Lower Egypt at a probable cost of a further £E12, - 5000,000.—(E stands for Egyptian.) ward the cabin. Noon -tine :always found them beaded wick to the higher ground. There were close to a thou- sand head in the herd; fine big mer- inos. Blaze laughed as he watched through his glasses the play of the big rams; but his smile deserted him as he saw two horsemen dash around the cabin to the centre of the herd: The sheep were in a panic almost instantly. Shooting and hallooing, the riders urged the sheep on, until they sped before the prancing horses. Another minute, and they were hurtling Shooting and hallooing, the riders urged the sheep on until they sped before the horses. and ridden .to Paradise. They had heard a great deal. By ten o'clock they were back on the ranch. Bodine could not sleep. He paced up and down the path in front of the house for more than an hour before his two men. arrived. He greeted then voci ferously. "Boys, we got 'em! The Basques found a notice nailed on the door of through space to the jagged rocks hundreds of feet below. Thirty, forty Use Min.+rd's Liniment for the Flu. —Blaze turned away sick. An 'Indian could not have conceived anything more savage. ..So far Kildare had caught only 'the backs of the two men; but as they began to cross the mesa, he knew they must come down by the trail that led to the cabin. Blaze moved to where his rifle commanded the road. chase all the stocks for all retail gro- (To be cintinuecl.) cess through the country. Rube, el Khali, mor Empty Quarter, in Arabia, the greatest desert in the world, remains untraversed by ex- plorers. In Great Britain a limited liability company has been formed .to pur- i;: scly c style sight of any of them. Morrow n,c. hi;, men one morning. I �.eo had no news. He had heard that over! i ed the next moroegh and - smile again. "That warehouse is own- ers who had brought them in imme- l h 'W 1 t ' Evening fouaa rise an Melody, I in their old nest above Bodine's ranch. or so -have this yea]. s clipping there ' • 'cin' to touch it TO a : fiQb' r X ---- diately retura:ed tote Webs e�. one --othem is interested ill it. Thirty tee ;:hinge. d Bl d LEA-"Looks like a get -away to me," Kil- right now. 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Fx" Pagu'9=tam sa for Shorty and Gloomy, so ' big wooden building was in ruins. excitement; you head for + _, town tonight andcircleback after RI A agar of the Santa Ro•as separ- gets dark. Strike into the hills west ! ated Paradise Valley from the country that sloped to Quinn River. Old"man ahe •e; Morrow may have his eye on' us. Bump off a few of Acklin's cattle. 1 Liotard, an octogenarian, grazed his **ork east tomorrow night. That'll, sheep in its draws and cnhe flat throw them off your trail. It'll looks mesa that skirted the rim of the val- like the Basques hada a finger in it. 1 ley opposite the Timbered Buttes. Liotard occupied a shack that stood Get You'll tde north places moning. , wLere the mesa came to a neck in infor find y lot of places tohole-upass1 front of the granite outcroppings that 'n for a clay or two. Once you pass; rose to high peaks. Hog John's, lay out as long as it semis The mesa and the tiny vareys be safe; three days if you can make it. i r Beat it here then, quick as God'll let y"ond were only accessible by means you, and pump alI the lead you want 1 o this narrow look a�ross thet of dldiesel th. The at to ann I separated his any from the buttes, but the getting there was quite a dil- 1 feront [natter. It was a sheer fall of eight hundred feet from the eastern rim of 'the mesa to Bodine's ranch be- low, Above the shack there were large pockets in the rocks in which the snow water stored itself. It was a sheep - man's paradise. Bodine knew that men like Liotard were looked up to as the heads of their clans. They were uncle, cousin, or of grandfather to countless numbers the Basques in the valley. Marriage tripled ayd quadrupled the number. A blow at leotard would hurt a Hundred kinsmen. ' 'Urging thole horses cautiously Up the tortuous trail that led to the shack, Shorty and he arrived within sight of the place before dawn. There they waited. the ole. 14Tinutes rolled by before wean came otit, a moth-eaiten dog at his side. Out of a lean-to built against his shack he led a•Lurro that seemed 1 as old as its master. About seven o'clock Kildare, from i a perch across the canon where he watched the house on Webster Creek, caught sight of the milling sheep as Liotard drove them from the' water - pockets in the rocas When the animals settled to graz- ing, they began moving directly to Fast, to to e heed 44100 to as you come.. Words • won't dye a dress, or coat, or sweater. It takes real anilines to do that. That's why Diamond Dyes contain from three to five times more anilines than any other dye -by actual test. It's the anilines in Diamond byes that do the work; that give the colors such brilliance; such depth and permanence. 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These people will be arriving after March 15. , SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA OF STRL'JG1H -- — mar —_ ,raasr 1928 Assurances in force (net) An Increase of $408,925,000 New Assurances Paid for An Increase of $112,836,000 Totallnconle - - An Increase of $41,972,000 Surplus earned during the Year - - Payrnents to Policyholders and Peneiiciax.ies - Surplus . and Contingency Reserve - - - An Increase of $9,157,000 Total Liabilities - - (Including Paid up Capital) Assets, at December 31st, 1928 An Increase of $87,652,000 Rate of Interest earned on meaninvested assets (net) DTVIDENDS TO FOR NINTH SUCCE SIVl'YEINCREASED YEAR The Cor.jwasy has also inaugurated the practice of payinge special maturity dividend oda participating policies, ten or more years iii force, terminating by death or maturity. - $1,896,915,000 441,244,000 144,747,000 4.0,264,000 49,920,000 • 66,938,000 • 422,020,000 488,958,000 6.58% EXTRACTS FROM DIRECTORS' REPORT •' ... After deducting amounts re -assured, the total due dseteith day; as inwht the or asldiv dead, is in arrear rr arnofor assurances in force now ansount to $1,896,915,934.57, n an increase of $408,925,254.48. Policies in forcestocks exceed salt see y several s at the million mollars purchasose Pay - number ay number 633,240, and in addition 136,293 certificates able of assurance are held by employees of corporations The surplus earned during the year, based on the and firms under the group plan. values given in the accounts, amounted to $40,264,- While every field of operation contributed its full 088.52. share to these impressive advances, the rapid Bevel- $10,000,0*0. has been deducted from the already opment of our business in Great Britain and the heavily marked -down value of securities, as addi- United5tatesisespeciallynoteworthy..iheg'enerous tdonal prov reception of our Company in countries served bagainst possible uons, y. creasing the amount so set aside toflX520ctuati,000,000. in - powerful domestic institutions is particularly .grati- The .special amount set aside as a liability to ision fying, as testifying to widespread appreciation of provide for unforeseen • contingencies leas been main - our record and services. rained at $12,500,000. . The amount staid to policyholders since organize- $1.5,822,339.65 ltasbe been paid or allotted as profits tion, together with the amount at present held for to policyholders during the year. their security or benefit, exceeds the total amount After making all deductions and allocations; received from then in premiums by $'111,370,22'9.10. S9,157;966.34 has bccn added to the undivided sur The stl further a resources of the Company have pls, bringing the total over• liabilities, contingency been still further enhanced. accounts, and capital stock, fa $54,438,862.48. The net rate of interest earned on the mean in- The continued prosperity of the Cgrlpany enables vested assets, after making provision for investment your Directors to announce, for the ninth successive expenses, , has sen and 6.58 per cent. Dividend g in- year, a substantial increase in the scale of .profits to cruses, bonuses. stock privileges, accruing on be distributed to participating policyholders during many of the Company s holdings, contributed sub- stantially to this gratifying result. In addition, your Directors have inaugurated the A net profit of i311,028,854.59 has been realithe ensuing year. zed •principle of granting a Special Dividetil on part from the redemption'or sale of securities which had pacing policies maturing after having been in forcer risen to high premiums. ten years or longer. This newhw bonue s helwill enable e The securities listed in the assets have beettvalued policyholders or e beneficiaries' of pokey ithdraws, is at figures Government, below This unluedder-valuation placed of participaton e in the acoinnulated se plus which it has our securities the ssoepresents This under va prudent to our securities represents an important safeguard not as yet been considered tfc. assurance at thedivide. against possible adverse market fluctlow�r thanutitions, addi-'rhe effort to prov- al to the reserves specifically provided against net cost obtainable has been increasingly apprcci- that contingency. ated. Our policyholders will be gratified by this againthe able ro re rt that on the bonds ant.1 further evidence of of r d� a� ants members. eay s Weare stocks P° shall be fully by preferred stdclds listed in the assets, not one dollar, prosperity SUN LIFE ASSURANCE • [COMPANY OF CANADA