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Aclilin's patience was rennin„ out,
nose Basques have got the water
that belong: to me by rights. You
prow that, Acklin."
."Why don't you ge after it, then?"
"I'm going afterit. Don't let that
worry you. And if you are ball as
wite at I think you are,. Acklin, Paget it.
"You and I can get every inch of
,,,,-,.r"'' Omuta 51Na.ata DRAG° Ana water there is in this creek, And
Las, ] i aoaEPH Moat, we'll makedthe law help us, I'll get
SOPYRIe$7, elZ Or N.§•A• etavice. Ise the' water I need, andyen'1l get
CHAPTER L to see old man Webster ac For ten enough to irrigate the entire upper
BODINE BUYS A RANCH. °Years the Doable A hadaMikan both end of the valley, Now, if you're
its own and his' share of water from willing to talk turkey, yon come to
The scorching rays of the noonday Rebel Creek. ray place . in the morning. Think it
sun beat down upon the Nevada des He stood it as long "as he could; l over. No need telling you what I've
erg and then instead of bearding Bodine I got on my mind, ri you're not rnter-
Across the waste two tiny speak° he rode to the Rancho Buena Vista to 1 ested• :. , Pm going to leave you,
moved. Save for them 411 life seem see the Senor Arrascada, Jose was here.. • . Adios•,"
ed dead, Both horses and men were the Most powerful of the Basque ° Acklin rode on. When he renehed
gray with dust. The men's throats Bente, the Bull's Head ho retired to the lit-
were bricky dry;;' and yet the taller The .quiet, halt -darkened house was t:e room that served him as an office,
of the two,hummed a song. Ahead of; a relief to. Acklin after the noise and and smoked many pipefuls as he pon-
them green trees beckoned. I,glare of the Bull's Head. Jose led dered over the astuteness of Mr.
Abruptly they began climbing the
aim to the patio, where cool zephyrs Bodine,
bench lands. 'Phe county of the seemed eternally playing. The old In the clean blue and white morn -
Little Washoe burst upon them. Par- man clapped hishands, and the ing Acklin rode to Webster Creek.
adise Valley spread out in a gigantic wrinkled, leathery Mariano, his mozo, "A11 right, Acklin," Bodine answer-
horseshoe. A range, the Santa Rosas, or house -boy, came on the run. Jose ed in reply to the other's question.
banked three sides of it, the never -sent him for refreshments. "I'll put my cards on 'the table. Here
failing willows marking where Rebel f "By the way," and Acklin's big, ,they are. I'm going to turn that
Creek cane tumbling out of the hills 1+blue eyes contracted until they seem- water back into the Webster! I've
at the apex of the horseshoe. !ed to shade to. gray, "have you seen been over thespot where the creeks
Tired and thirsty as he was, the' the fellow who bought the old Web- used to fork a hundred times, Nature
tall man stopped for a brief second'sterplace?" changed that water in one. night. PI1
"Several times. He's here to -day, do it quicker than that. There is no-
thing but sand -and small rock there.
Two days after it is done no man on
earth call prove that old lady Nature
didn't twist it for the second time.
My boys will be here in a day or so,
they'll do this job. They won't talk
either. Pll tip you off the night I
intend to do it. You be there, or send
your foreman. Just so I'll know a
don't stand alone."
Bodine bent over and picked up a
stick. With it he drew in the sand
at his feet a rough map of the valley,
"It's almost due east from here to
the old forks of these creeks. But
right here, just as Webster Creek
neared the other one, it turned north.
For almost half a mile they paralleled
each other before they met. Your line
follows this creek across the valley,
only it keeps straight on right into
those foothills. That means that Web-
ster Creek flowed through your pro-
perty for that half -mile. That's right,
ain't it?"
to appraise that wonderful valley.
"Ain't that a sweet country,
Shorty?" he murmured to the short,
bandy-legged man, hard of face and
slow of speech, who rode beside him.
Shorty's answer was a grunt. He
glanced with a trace of annoyance at
the suave, whimsical Buck.
The grass was good in the buttes.
They camped there. For two nights
they had watched the twinkling lights
which narked the little town of Par-
adise. The lure was insistent, and on
the third evening they rode into the
town and to Benavides' bar.
Buck and Shorty edgedto the bar
and waited. One -eyed Manuel, the
Mexican bartender, was busy else-
where. The delay irked Bodine.
Catching the butt of his glowing cig-
aret between thumb and forefinger, he
shot it straight as a bullet intoMan-
uel's face.
Manuel's hand trembled as he set
out the glasses for the two strangers.
He smiled evilly,
The incident had passed quite un-
noticed by the crowd. Wash Taylor,
a ragged old mule -skinner, had been
one of the very few to observe it. He
laughed immoderately. When Buck
bade him drink, he acquiesced with
alacrity.
Bodine drew from the old skinner
the complete history of the valley.
"I'm sort of lookin' round for a
place," Buck was saying. "If I could
find a small ranch hereabouts at the
right price, I mightabe interested."
"The only place for sale in this hull
valley is the old Webster ranch. No
water there at all new. Used to be
plenty in the old days."'
Wash drained his glass.
"Used to be some place then. Hank
owned due west from where Rebel
Creek forked into the Webster. He
had all the water. A cloudburst
changed that in one. Light. When it
was all over, Hank found the mouth
of the Webster damned up like a ma-
son had done the job. Rebel Creek
has been same stream ever since."
"What happened to Hank?" Buck
demanded.
"Oh, Hank gave up the ship. He's
runnin' a store down in Golconda, ac-
cordin' to last reports."
Shorty and Buck cane down from
the hills and camped at the deserted
ranch. On the morning of the second
day Buck called Shorty to his side.
"I'm going into Winnemucca and
have. a look at the county records. I£
old Webster made a filing on his
water rights, I'm going to buy him
out If I go to Golconda to see Web-
ster, I maybe gone a week. You wait
a week. If I don't come back by then,
you find -Gloomy and go over inj;o the
Malheur Lake country."
Five days later Bodine returned.
Behind him lumbered a freighter,
bringing the tools and necessaries of
life. Shorty shook his head. No need
to, ask; Bodine had done as he had
said he would.
CHAPTER II.
ACHLIN BUYS A RANCH.
In a thinly settled country, where
'every man's movements are marked,
news spreads quickly. People talked
and wondered about Bodine,
Of all those who watched and won-
dered, no one was more interested
than Dick,Acklin, the Big Boss of the
Double A. He had been quite content
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down at the corral. Esteban and the
vaqueros are breaking horses."
A little tot of six, unnoticed by
them as they talked, had felt his way
upon the verandah. He was a beau-
tiful child. His browny staring eyes
made a mute appeal to friend and foe.
For close to five years, Jose had
been both father and mother to the
little blind Basilic.
From the fence at the end of the
patio, a magpie scolded in raucous
tones. Basilio knew that particular
magpie. In a flesh he slid off the
steps and ran down the graveled
walk of the patio.
When he had almost reached the
fastnesses of the vine -covered fence, a
black head bobbed up beyond it, and
calling again, dashed up a side -path
of the garden, with the boy in keen
pursuit. It was the Senorita Mer-
cedes.
In answer to her father's call she
carne up the steps truculently, the boy
hanging on to the ribbons of her dress.
The old Basque caught up Basilic
and said goodby to his guest, pleading
ISSUE No, a9 -'2e
She
own.
away.
•
felt his fingers pressing her
In a flash she jerked her hand
the need of his presence elsewhere.
Jose knew that extreme youth and
old age are not handmaidens to love.
Acklin held up a small package.
He waved it in front of her eyes, as
one does with a toy for a child. Mer-
cedes clapped her hands joyfully.
"You like me so much mister?" she
said.
"You know I do. This little pres-
ent came all the way from the city."
"City" in that country meant San
Francisco.
From the tissue -paper, Mercedes
clrew forth a tiny vanity -case.
She tried to release the.small com-
partment that held the powder -puff.
Acklin reached out his hand to help
her. She felt his fingers pressing her
own. In a flash she jerked her hand
away.
"You're foxy, huh, like the Senor
Bodine?" she cried.
"Oh, damn Bodine," Acklin rasped
out.
"Eavesdroppers hear no good of
themselves," a voice answered in
unctuous sweetness.
Mercedes and Acklin turned. Bo-
dine lounged against a pillar at the
end of the verandah.
"I sure didn't know I was intrud-
ing on any party, Senorita. I just
came up to say goodby. I' broke that
bad gray for Esteban. That caballo'll
be gentle enough for you to ride now,"
Acklin got to his feet.
"We11, I guess P11 get my hat and
run along," he said, in that tired way
whieb was common with him.
"Which way you going?" Bodine
asked,
"Back to the Bull's Head."
"I'll side you as far as the Webster,
if you have no objection."
"No harm in that,' Acklin answer-
ed. "Come along."
:Holder for Draining
Vegetab1s•
To prevent steunr fr•on resiling on
one's kind whoa draining vegetables,
a speotal kind of bolder is now on
sale in some of the °shops, and can
easily be made. One comic. ofthe
old-fashioned square bolder is folded
over to the middle and fastened down
to the centre of the holder with it
snapper, Through the folded corner
the thumb is slipped. ,The grand is
then react) to at tine bot pan for
draining the vegetables. When: tip,
ping the pan to ,pour off the boiling
water, the thumb, although in .'its
usual position on the edge .of the
Pan, is protected from the rising
steam by the folded corner of the
holder;
(To be continued.)
•
Crisis in Russia
enied in oskow
City Situation Bad, But No
Unrest; Famine is Eased. .
Moscow.--Repopts appearing In the
American press of revolts ferment-
ing in the Ukraine were categorically
denied here following receipt of the
cabled reports from New York.
The rumors that the Soviet Gov-
ernment was in danger because of the
unrest were termed absolutely un-
founded and having no justification
in fact.
George Lubarsky, Chief Agrono-
mist of the Agrojoint, who returned
from an inspection in the Ukraine,
told the New York World corres-
pondent here tbat he visited the dis-
tricts most affected by the crop fail-
ure, in the vicinity of Cherson, Meli-
topol, Odessa and Nikolsiev.
"The situation I 'found was good.
Satisfactory winter, and spring crops
seem to be certain, causing a more
cheerful mood among the peasants.
The condition in the towns is bad
but not alarming. I saw no signs of
unrest anywhere," he declared.
The Soviet authorities, Mr. Lubar -
sky added, took efficient action to
ameliorate conditions, having spent
forty million rubles for various meas-
ures to check the suffering resulting
from famine and to alleviate the sit-
uation effectively.
Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, head of the
Agrojoint, the agency in charge of
the Jewish settlement work in Rus-
sia, when interviewed stated that
there was no danger of famine, as
the Government las distributed en-
ough seed and food.
There was an old girl of Uganda,
Renowned for her coolness and manda,
When, during abuse,
Her spouse yelled, "You goose!"
She promptly retorted, "Uganda!"
The revenue for Canada for the
first half of the current, fiscal year
ended September 30, 1928, totalled
$235,792,712, an increase over the cor-
responding six months of the previous
year of more than $14,000,000. The
debt of Canada was reduced on Oc-
tober 15th by $53,000,000 through the
paying off in cash of 5 per cent. bonds
maturing on that date.
CHAPTER III,
TWO SCHEMERS {MEET.
Buck was the first to break the
silence.
These foreigners seetu to be clanm-
ed prosperous around here, don't
they? From your nest at the Bull's
Head, these ranches down here must
r ok pretty sweet. What a place this
valley would be to fatten cattle in,
And to think that you could' have had
it for a, song.
Bo.line clucked his tongue at the
pity of it,
"'Well?" -
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In view of the widespread attention
that has been directed to the matter
of 'motor accidents during the past
season, it is- interesting to note that.
out of 864 deaths so caused during
the year 1927, only a total of eighty,
or nine' per cent. occurred at railway:
crossings.' 'Wh'ile the number is de- 4
plored,' ae being, too many, there le
reason for encouragement in the fact
that government reports recently is-
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a decrease in this percentage of cross-
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The year's total of 864 motor. acci-
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Kurdish Chief
Claims $200,000
From Britain.
Asks Compensation for His;
Estate ort the Tigris --Suit
Involves King Feisal
Also
With the arrival in . London of
Hamdi. Beg Babara the etlrviving
head of the Saban dynasty of Meso-
potamia, powerful and wealthy in the
days of the Crusades, the High Court
of Clrarreery will be asked to settle a
'O7 claim against the British Govern'
Ment for $200,000, w'bich ale° invol"
ves Ring Faisal of Iraq.
In' the middle of the last century
the vast' estates of he Babans were,
confiscated by the Turkish Govern-
ment and a sop was thrown to the
father of Hamdi Beg in the shape
of the Gover•nship of the .cilayets of
Mosul, Bagdad 'and Busra, which 'eon'
etituted , the 'exact territory over
which the Babans had ruled at the.
time of the Crusades, while the son: '
was kept. as a hostage in Stamboul,
where he was brought up as a Turk-
ish gentleman and every effort was
made to have him forget his ante-
cedents. Agents of his father did
not permit this, and in 1911, after ,
making many pledges to the Porte,
he received permission to reside in,
Bagdad, his father, by that time, be-,
Ing dead.
purchased-,
In Bagdad Hamdi Bog purchased
. safety.20,000 acres of land on the right.
disregard
Motor accidents arc bank of the Tigris, opposite the city.
becomingmore frequent. Every sane Here he raised fancy fruits'aad sold
were exactly the same, numbering I motorist deplores this.. If accidents part of the land tocpthe Bagdad: Rail.
eighty, Thus, ,while the percentage are to be lessened,' the sane mo io ist l Way Company, at a groat profit. It.
of such fatalities in 1927 was nine, !must educate the culpably nee g was said that `ha possessed the se -
,
in 1926 it was over thirteen per .cent. 'motorists . mist of irrigation known to his an
It is interesting to note that the I In co-operating in the elimination °esters when Mesopotamia had "blos-•
total death rate in Canada from `of grade : crossings, in supplementing soured like the Gardenof. Paradise."
motor accidents in 1927 was 9,1 per, recognized and standard warnings , Just before the British troops oc
hundred thousand of, population, and heacupied the region in 1916 he had se -
for' 1926` it was 6.5. In the United
States during 1926, the latest year for
which figures are available, the rate
was 18.2, or nearly three times our
own. This fact, and also the diminish-
ing percentage of crossing accidents
in Canada may be set down to the
various safety campaigns that have
been carried on, and to the efforts
that have been put forward both in
the way of crossing protection and
by the publicity in which latter direc-
tion they have been greatly aided by
the public-spirited attitude of ' the
press tbwards tile matter.
The report of the Board of Railway
Commissioners shows, that forty-five
accidents occurred at protected cross-
ings, and also that during 1927 there
were seventy-four accidents' as a result
of motor vehicles running into the
sides of trains, and twelve unfortun•
ate attempts to beat the•train. In the
'preamble the report states: "Notwith-
standing safety devices and caution-
ary signals, people take chances and
Silver Foxes
Sherbrooke Tribune (Lib.): The
development of silver. fox farming is
somewhat leisurely because of the
lack of knowledge of the treatment.
which silver foxes demand in captiv-
ity. Until this is known, rearing the
foxes will raise difficulties which do
not exist in the case of any other
animals. Every other kind of domes-
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them to get for themselves what they
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Finds Tigress
Under His Table
Forest Officer in India Relates
an Exciting Experi-
ence
An extraordinary encounter with a
tigress, which paid an unofficial visit
to a forest officer in the Nailamalais
(Kurnoll) district of Madras, is de-
scribed in the current" issue of the
Indian Forest Ranger.
While on a tour in the jungle, A.
Wimbush, Conservator of Forests for
Madras Presidency, along with an-
other conservator and two district
forett officers, was staying in the lit-
tle forest rest house. -
One evening, after sundown, when
some of the party were enjoying their
baths, Mr, Wimbush was informed by
a villager that "a large striped ani-
mal had just jumped on to the ver-
andah."
Thinking that it could be -nothing
more than a pie -dog, he was amazed
to find a tigress seated comfortably in.
one of the rooms under the table, on
which a petrol lamp was burning!
Retreating for his 'rifle, he raised
the alarm, and a_snot was fired'
through the open door.
Pandemonium followed, The tigress
knocked over the furniture and the
lamp, which, fortunately, went out.
The door of the room was hurriedly
Gratitude ,
That possession which we gain by
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for benefit is eternal. --Quintus Cur-
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railways are doing a great work to.cured from Stamboul, it is alleged, a.
wards the still' further reduction :of full title to the land, with a map
crossing accidents, but they cannot showing its situation. This is said'.
do the work alone; as' is demonstrated Ito have the endorsement of the local
by the report which shows that day Ito
of the British collector of
by day,the automobile driver "ignored internal revenue.'
warning; broke through the gates"; 1 According to the brief that Hamdi
"Did not look for the approach of Begs lawyers have lodged with the,
train, father and daughter 'killed";court, part of. his land was occupied
"Crashed into side of train, Fined $S0 by military forces, hie irrigation en -
in court". These actual gaotations gimes were commandeered, or destroy -
from the list of "dangerous practises" I ed, as werehis fruit trees, add his
are from the report of the Board of whole estate was rendered a desert
Railway Commissioners. 1 by the closing of the, Iihirr canal
A report issued by DonrinionBureau which ho had built.
of Statistics states that in' the Prov -1 FIe was told, the brief states, that
ince of Quebec, Montreal is respon- all would be well if he, as a Kurdish',
sible for one-half of alt automobile Brinoe and the last of the Baban
deaths. Toronto's . contributions in' dynasty, would acknowledge himself s .
Ontariowas only about twenty-three la vassal of Ring Feisal. `This he de
per cent. of the total. It is to be clined to do on the following grounds:
noted, however, that in the case of
,"A.11 good Kurds wish for the protec-
fatalaties occurring: outside the city 'tion of the British mandate, but they
limits, the injured are frequently hur- • cannot admit the overlordship of an
ried to city hospitals and thus mama; I Arab. Tlfey have nothing to gain
mutably increase the city death rate. from Turlc`ey of Persia, and they
would rather be a hair on the lion
closed and the party crept round to than the end of the monkey's tail."
another door, . pushing it cautiously - Then, finding it impossible to so -
open, but could' not see the tigress, journ ' in the ancient city of _the
until one of themspotted her tail. She :Caliphs and having a great admire-
_
had evidently been hit and was tion for British justice, he determin
crouching behind the door. ed to -seek the latter in London. He
Securing, a ladder the party climbed entered his complaint at the 'Co-
to the roof and made a hole in the lonial Office, which admitted its In -
thatch; through which the tigress was adequacy to adjust the matter; hence
shot dead. his appeal to the High Court. How -
The tigress, was old andin poor ever, the 'Colonial, Office, he alleges,
condition, owing to wounds caused' intimated to him that he would be
through fighting, and possibly had allowed about a two -hundredth part
been driven to attempt man-eating.of what he asked, on condition that
Mrs. Winibush (the conservator's he would acceptthe arbitration'of a
sh judge in Iraq and would .e•
wife) was strolling recently in the Brits
'Ganjam district of Madras, • accom- fund the amount if his claims` were
panied by an ayah, a dog and two not allowed, This he declined obi the
cY.ildren. ground that he bad no money to pre-
Apanther came out of the forest,- sent his case adequately before the
seized the dog and dashed off into the designated judge. A supplement to
jungle. Mrs. Wimbush shouted, ways' his brief says that since his doper -
ed her parasol—having no more for -,tura from Bagdad some of his lands
midable weapons—and the panther
dropped the dog and cleared off.
Husband: (fiercely):' "I'll ahoy you
who's running this house." Wife:.
"You can't. It's her day'ouE"
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that tit elatter was the purchaser.
Imperial' Preference
Quebec Evenement (Cons.): Sir
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the countries of the Empire by the
strongest ties of commerce. • When
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A CAP ALREADY SET
"Why don't you set your cap for
him?" •
'My knee cap has been set for
him a long while."
"Isn't your price • for this parrot very
high?" "But it was brought up In
one of the most fashionable families,
madam," "How do you know?" "It
always talks when anyone•begins to
sine