The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-06-20, Page 2THURSDAY, JUNE 20th, 1035 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
SYNOPSIS : Young Ed. Maitland and j like he had, other ^things to be nexw
■the hardened t *' "
lone became partners on the trip
north to the Yukon gold fields iix
’97, when word of the rich ores
there first came down the Pacific
coast, Maitland, son of a New
England seafaring family, was de
termined to win back his lpst fam
ily fortune. Frenchy, the fisher
man, who took him and Speed
■ north; Lucky Rose, beautiful
young woman who had given Mait-
■ land a ring for a keepsake; Fallon,
trail boss of the miners, who re
sented Rose’s attention to Mait
land; Steiner, the money lender;
‘ young Pete and his drunken part-
ner Bill Owens; _ . \
prospector; and Garnet, a wel-to-
do modern one who hired Mait
land and Malone to haul his stuff
from the beach over the mountains
to the Yukon—these were the prin
ciple ones who made up the crowd
that was the gold seekers. At
Lairsville, a camp in the hills.
Speed was made trail boss in Fal
lon’s place, because Speed insisted
on closing the trail till it could be
repaired. When a detachment of
• Canadian Northwest Mounted Po
lice came riding down the pass and
mended the bridge for Speed, there
was a truce between him and Fal
lon and the trail was reopened.
■ Garnet went back to civilization
for the winter leaving his ponies
and equipment with Speed and
Maitland. But the horses disap
peared just after* the transfer.
Lefty, who* could hardly say the
words fox* stuttering, told Speed
he’d help him find the horses and
led him to a tent saloon, where
Rose was waiting for him. She
seemed to want him and Maitland
to do something for her, but his
unfriendliness -held her off. How
ever, she told him she had .rescu
ed his horses for him and that
they were waiting outside.—NOW
GO WITH THE STORY.
“We’ll take the street,” said
Speed to Maitland, “it’s more vis
ible."
The marbled thoroughfare, with
its cross stripes, of light, opened a
chancy course before them when
they turned the bend. These alternat
ing patches of light and darkness
were an advantage as well as a men
ace; they exposed the entrance of
each resort, while the dark spaces
between shielded their approach.
When the sign of The Pack Train
saloon appeared ahead, Speed’s step
became a little more measured. No
figures loitered around this entrance;
the noisy revel inside was apparent
ly boo engrossing. Light, .streaming
from chinks and seams in the canvas,
clearly illuminated the roadway
making it an unlikely spot for an
ambush.
They reached the outer radius ot
the light, entered it, and passed the
low bright beam that issued from
under the swing doors. Through
shadows that flickered over the road
from the shuffle of dancing feet, they
moved safely toward the margin of
darkness.
“Which goes to show—” Speed
bean. But the sentence was never
completed.
He stopped and wheeled with
suddenness that brought the 1
bronco’s chest' against his leg. Mait
land heard a double crash; saw a
bright flame stab from Speed’s gun.
Something burned past his cheek.
The saloon door behind them was
swinging to and fro, throwing blinks
of light into the road. In the lumin
ous pool just below it, a man lay
crumpled with his face upturned.
The features were clearly eligible*
It was the shell dealer they had
at Liarsville.
They were in shadow again
had gained the darkness of the
before the street filled, for
Pack Train was a “last chance" sa
loon. They joined a scattered line
of prospectors who had started on
the night trail info the canyon, and
ifo one followed them.
In. wary silence the two partners
kept' trailing till they made camp
far up the river canyon.
Over the fire, the outlaw sat in a
long study. “I reckon that was a case
of what you would call ‘suggestion’
The man wouldn’t believe I didn’t
have my gun notched for him."
“What made you think he did?”
■ Maitland asked.
“I followed him one night in Ne
vada. Got a slant of him then in
the light of a saloon, door. It just
heeded one look to see he was On’y
a tramp tin-horn. Seems, though.
gambler Speed Ma- ous about; he had friends in the
' ' ’eamp and hiss imagination started
guns blazing’ . , . When lie .seen me
here he figured I was still after* him
. . . Like the girl said, the worst
risk may be the one you ain't look
in’ for.
“I’ve been figurin’ .slowei* since I
made that first mistake . . . Tliey’s.
a heap of pretty burnette girls in the
Western camps. You can see how
easy it is to get mistracked from
how wide my guess was about this
one and the horses thinkin’ she want
ed pay.’’
“Do you think the gold secret she
spoke of was just something she’d
overheard while singing through the
camp? Like her tip about the shell
dealer?"
Speed looked at him curiously
“Why would you guess she over
heard a gold secret?"
“I don’t know," Maitland hesitat
ed. “Something she said the first
time I saw her. And then Owens’
losing his outfit when he was on his
way to join a partner in the Yukon
... Do I imagine, on does that tie
together?”
“It ties to her,” Speed grunted
“Maybe nowheres else. Outfits are
gambled and lost right along the
trails without needin’ a gold secret
back of it. What you heard Owens
say doesn’t count for much. And if
this perspectox* had a gold mine why
wouldn’t he record it, thus endin’ the
secret? Another thing—I’d bank
she wouldn’t be that much interest
ed even in a gold mine. She comes
by gold too easy.”
“Then what motive would she
have?”
“Motive?” Speed’s mouth tight
ened. “You better not guess. Noth
ing sets a man wonderin’ like gold,
and the best txyck a woman has is to
get you wonderin’ till you go round
her in circles. When she talks of put
ting heads together, whose head do
you figure .she’s interested in? May
be Fallon and me both cramp 'her
She baits me with a gold
her
It
Brent, old-time
ideas.
lure to go trailin’ him, and
other argument is plausible,
would surely be a wise move to hunt
Fallon down and settle that feud.
But not on Canadian soil.
“The mail wouldn’t believe that I
didn’t have a gun notched for him.”
seen
and
trail
The
of police, setting uip a barracks,
An
snow
Drew,
form.
bound.
“Just lookin’ fox* timber and place
to camp,” said Speed.
Drew’s eye was on the pijitos, as
he filled and lit a pipe. “If you’re
heading toward the Lewes and you’d
like to make some wages, I could
give you a load of supplies to haul
to Thirty Mile. One of our inspect
ors is camped there. He’s taking
Judge McGuire and the Crown Pros
pector to Dawson,” Drew explained,
as a pleasant conversational item.
‘‘The goods are to be delivered to
him. No rush about it."
■Speed looked darkly at his partner
who had a provident, thought. With
what lay behind them, it might be
good politics to do the police a ser
vice. "We could leave oux*
here,” Maitland ventured,
prospect for a camp on the way."
“That’s an idea,” said the inspect
or. “If you make your camp be
tween here and Lebarge, you’ll be
in the line of Cathcart’s patrol. Cor
poral Cathcart’s a new man. It’ll be
an event for him
along that lonely
“Does he use
asked curiously.
“No. Our dogs haven’t arrived
yet. Speaking of that, though, Cath
cart’s very interested in the sled
track of a mysterious Siwash 'he’s
seen down that way. If you should
get a glimpse of this lone Indian,
you’ll have exciting news fox* him.”
“What makes the track a myster-
tery?” Maitland inquired.
“The act that no one has ever
had a clear view of the Siwash or
■his team. This sounds odd, but it
dates back to a time before our men
entered the territory—when a miner
from the Pelly brought in some gold
he claimed to have got from an In
dian in a storm. The snow, he said
was driving thick, and the native,
whose face was muffled in a parka
hood, spoke in ’Chinook, offered a
potlatch of furs and nuggets in ex
change for .supplies. A gold legend
grew from it, and whenever a cache
was robbed, or ribbed by wolves, the
vanishing Indian was blamed.
“Interesting case," Drew conclud
ed tapping out his pipe , . . But I’ll
be getting your sled-load ready.”
■Speed listened in silence, his mind
apparently less .occupied with the in
spector’s story than with
iar circumstance of theii*
haul for the police.
The snowfall continued
as they sledded on toward Lake Le
barge. Between the canyon, rapids
and the Takhim they passed a creek
that cut into the left bank of the
river. It appealed to Speed as. a
.site for a winter camp. The timber
around it was good enough for cabin
logs, and they could haul in the fin
er-grained wood they needed for the
boat.
The solitude of the region remain
ed unbroken. Feathering snow had
erased the track of a patrol’s mount,
which they had noted occasionally.
So, when they were returning to the
horses after a side excursion to ex
amine timber, Maitland, was surpris
ed to see his partner §toip suddenly
and look down, as if he had detected
some mark on a blank rise of snow.
The shape of these marks, was not
that of footprints but of some moo-
casin-l'ike foot covering. There were
other phantam dots and lines that
suggested a sled track—unaccount
ably to him.
Speed studied them with an ab
sent intentness, from which he
recalled by a question from
other.
“Must be the track of the
Siwash Drew’s patrolman was ccuri-
ous about," he said. “Mysterious,
too, because there ain’t any native
settlements in this region, and noth
ing much to bring a wandering Si
wash in."
They made an uneventful trip
down the stretch ofl lake Le
barge to the Lewes and delivered
officer walked out
flicker to meet tin
wearing a winter
He asked where
through the
?hi. It was
service unb
they were
stuff
"and
to meet anyone
beat.”
dogs?" Maitland
the pecul-
making a
was
the
lone
... If that ain’t her motive, it’s
just barely possible she’s workin’
with Fallon to nail my ipelt. On else
—” he concluded, less audibly, ‘she’s
drawin’ evidence for the Law. She’s
the most insidious woman I ever
met, and I’ve known some bear-cats.”
At the top of the pass they looked
out over a new world.
Clouds billowing darkly on a chill
wind, shadowed the crests of a pil
ing sea of mountain peaks. To the
east and below them, a ,gleam that
followed this moving darkness chang
ed a sable wood to misty enchanted
green, and glinted over the snow- their consignment to the inspector in
dusted surface of Summit Lake— charge, without meeting the other
first promise of their approach to, official personages. Nor did Speed
the headwaters of the Yukon, The'show any desire to do so. He lost
sky turned grayer as they descended no time in getting rid of the order,
till it melted in flakes that drifted. and putting miles between them and
around them like leaves, 1_____’
theii* mud-stiffened clothes. I
When the long strait of Windy' _ _ .
Arm brought them into the wooded' logs they felled along the way. Pros-
stillness of Lake Tagish, and they; pecting for timber sometimes
reached the lower end of this water-' them far apart. r"' ’ ' ■'
way, they came on an advance crew
mantling1 the Lewes.
I Retracing their lonely route with
! Windy'the empty .sleds, they loaded up with
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caribou crossin’ the river mouth, and
had to shoot twice to stop It. Then
it seemed like I—-like somethin’
else was moving in the timber."
“Maybe a wolf was,, trailing the
deer you shot?"
They put the deer on the sled and
kept trailing tjll they camped in the
shelter of some timber above the
river mouth. When they had skin
ned the game and cleaned up, dark-
ness had closed around them with a
bitter cold night. Maitland broke
limbs from a fallen tree fox* the camp
fire, while Speed was cooking cari
bou steaks on some wood coals. Re
leasing the axe fox* a moment to
blow on Ills fingers, Maitland hap
pened to glance across the river, and
was arrested by a yellow gleam from
a dark, slinking shape of fur.
“There’s your wolf," he 'called to
his partner.
Speed gave anothei* turn to the
steak he was bxmwning,
“That’s no wolf," he muttered.
“It's a Siwash dog, And lame. Must
of strayed from the team of that
disappearin’ Indian. Or the Siwash
cut it loose."
The cruelty
dog to starve
Maitland. But
cooking, Speed mentioned some
harsher examples of the law of sur
vival in th snow country. The topic
did not dull their appetite. Having
appeased it, they foiled in the fire’s
warmth.
Speed took a deep drag at a wan
ing cigarette and tossed the stub in
the fire, Then he got up and sleepily
stretched his arms. As he did so, his
eyes came suddenly and sharply
awake.
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■of leaving a lamed
seemed extreme to
while the steaks were
mentioned
(To be continued)
Hay Council
regular monthly meeting ofThe
the council of the Township of Hay,
was held in. the Town Hall, Zurich,
recently with all the members pres
ent. After the adoption of the min
utes of the meetings held on May 4th
and May 27th, the council became or-
ganizd as a Court of Revision, to
consider appeals against the 1935
assessment roll. The following res
olution disposed of the appeals:
That appeals against the 1935 As
sessment Roll be disposed of as fol
lows: N. Beaver Estate, appeal dis
missed; Earl Campbell, assessment
reduced .$100; Clifton Prouty, asess-
ment reduced $.100; O'wen Geiger,
assessment reduced $200 on SJ Lot
24 and NJ Lot 25, Con. 1, for ex
emption bush lands; O. L. Petty, as
sessment reduced $200 on Lot 28,
Con. 2 for exemption on bush lands;
Canada Company, appeal dismissed;
G. K. Farwell be assessed for Lots
61-6 2, K.'S., Zurich, in place of
Mary Schwalm; Ivan Yungblut be
assessed for part Lot 22, Con. 10, in
place of J. Hey, Sr., estate; Elizabeth
Gottschalk be assessed for NJ Lot 8,
Con. 15, in place of D. Henhefer; as
sess Dr. R. H. Taylor, one 'dog; H.
M. Willert, 1 dog and Felix Wilds,
one dog; that the Clerk be authoriz
ed to make the necessary alterations
in the assessment roll; that the 1935
assessment roil as altered be adopt
ed as the noil for 19 35, and that the
Court of Revision be closed. The
council then resumed the regular or
der of business. After disposing of
the communications the following
resolutiioss were passed; That the
Collector’s Roll for 1934 be accepted
from the tax collector with unpaid
taxes allowed as “insturcted by coun
cil to return as not collected” and
others as “no chattels” and that the
collector be paid his salary. That
accounts covering .payment on Town
ship roads, telephone, charity and
relief and general accounts .be passed
as per vouchers: Township Roads—■
Dom. Rd. Mach. Co., repairs to crush
er, $40.26; Huron Expositor, adver
tising, $3.68; C. Aldwoirth, roads 2-
33, $24.50; O. Grob, road 6, $5.50;
R. Adams road 10, $2.80; J. Du
charme, re grader, 8’5 c.; II...Steinbach
road supt,, $24.30; J. Green, road 5,
$10.0'8; W. Farirell, road 18, $3.20;
Dashwood Planing Mill, posts, $2.80
A. Smith, road 8, $7.05; M. Russell,
road 1, $4.90; N, Foster, road 6-15,
$10.55; A. Mousseau, road 3, $>22;
W. Coleman, labor at crusher, $1’1.-
25. Telephone accts.—'Bell
phoe Co., tolls, March to April,$77.-
04; Northern Electric Co., material,
$46.91; express, postage, etc.., $7.38;
Benson-Wilcox, batteries, $18.50;
Zuirch Central switching, $68; H. G.
Hess labor etc, $103.40. Oharity and
relief—J. C. Reid & Co., account, in
digent, $2.60; 'C. Fritz, acct, indig.
ent $3.50; C. F. Pfile, $4.50; J. W.
Merner, $6.70; G. J. Thiel, $4.96;
Treasurer Huron, hospital accounts,
$93/60; J. A. Williams, acct, indigent
$3.00; J. Gascho & Son, acct, indig
ent $2/65; M. Oesch acct, indigent
$1.83. General accounts — Excise
and postage $13.90; F. J. Haberer,
sheep valuator, $2; Amusement Tax
Branch, tickets, $7,83; W. S. John
ston, salary and expenses, $83.08.
The treasurer’s report for the month
o f May showed the following re
ceipts: Arrears of taxes and penal
ties, $317.25; telephone rates and
tolls, $91.80; hall rent, $5; Provin
cial Treasurer,' grant relief, $76.71;
and Treasurer, Stephen, relief fund,
$14*23. Total $504.90. The council
adjourned to meet again on Saturday
June 29th, at 1.30 in the afternoon.
A. F. Hess, Clerk
Moon Family Reunion
The annual Moon family reunion
was held at Grand Bend on Saturday
last, The weather* was ideal and a
goodly number were on hand to meet
old friends of former years also to
welcome any new members .of the
family who were present. In the af-
trnoon a number of sports were
run off. The following is a list -of
the winners in the various events;
Girls’ race 5 and under, Audrey
Campbell; boys, :5 and under, Elmex*
Campbell, Allen Willsie; girls, 6 to
9, Muriel Rowe, Jean Snell; boys, 6
to 9, Harold Campbell, Cecil Rowe;
girls, 10 to 13, Lois Prance, Doreen
Campbell; boys 10 to 13, Gerald
Campbell, Ray Shell; boys 13 and
over, Roy -Campbell, Alvin Rowe;
Yroung ladies’ race, iLois Prance;
ladies’ race, Mrs. Percy Campbell;
potato race, Terry Moon, and Alvin
Rowe, Irene Prance, Bill Snell; hoop
race, Bill Snell’s side; ladies, kick
the slipper, Mrs. J. Lovie; 50 yard
pacing contest, George Geddes. The
prize for the oldest lady went to Mrs.
Mary Gould, of Exeter and to the
oldest gentleman, Mr. W. H. Moon,
of London. To the youngest child.
Eloise Pym, daughter; of Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Pym, Wihchelsea, The motion
to hold another reunion in June 193 6
carried by a large majority only one
vote being recorded against it. The
former executive were re-elect
ed for. another year.
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They had been sep
arated in this way for some time
when Maitland became aware that it
Was getting dark, A wolf howl, weird
in the distance, /deepened it still
more.
Some minutes later his ears were
stung to alertness by the muffled
double crack of a rifle.
Wondering what game Speed would
consider that number of shells, he
pulled the horses into a faster gate.
Presently, through the snow driz
zle, be discerned a dark lifeless bulk
on the snow-blanketed ice. He found
it to be a stray woodland caribou—
the first he had ever seen. It had
been dropped by a clean head shot,
and its blood, still warm, stained the
snow. 'Speed’s bullet had stolen a
feast from the timber wolves.
In answer to his shout, his part
ner came toward him out of the
shadow of a clump of eottonWo'Ods.
“What were you looking for?"
Maitland asked,
The other had an oddly abstracted
look and was still scanning the shore
line. “I must be .gettiix’ mental," „
lie said, “I got a dim sight of this Lucan, Granton and Wellborn
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