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Zurich Herald, 1930-10-02, Page 2Thc Gringo. Privateer By PETER B. KYNE ty years on El Ranchito. It 10401 been Burwash Describes lisesi must toe freshowSALADA. ,easy job." "Well, it does seem to carer 1 .tot Arctic Adis venture . guaranteed to be fresh more worries lately, liose." ‘ a I "That's because you're not so young of 1 Ranchito is developing into. a young Franklin Camps Found as you used to be, and ' managing El Numerous Evidences 1 man's job. Art, you've got a wife and I four children, and it isn't to be pee- on Island warned that you ca.e to "take the Eclmonton,—Stories of the grim tragedy which befell the Sir John Franklin exploration party during their search for the Northwest sage 83 years ago on ships imprisoned in the ice, was told by Major L. T. Burwash, Dominion Government ex- plorer, recently returned from an aero- plane journey which took him to King William Island and the magnetic pole. Ottawa will get the first complete details of what was found on the ice- bound coast along which the Franklin expedition wandered after spending two years,,ships imprisoned in the ice, Major Burwash stated. The ex- plorer told, however, that frequent evidences of Franklin's camp were found. "Some of them were twenty miles apart," he said; "some of them were almost side by side." Making a pilgrimage in the interests of science, Major Burwash followed again that trail •down which a strag- gling procession of British seamen tumbled to their deaths in 1841. The Major was taken in to the island, most grim and lonely. of the northern Arc- =, tic islands, by an aeroplane piloted by W. E. Gilbert of the Western -Canada Airways. Exploration de Luxe SYNOPSIS. KennethB :urney adventurer and one- time gentleman co.aes to Bradley Bar - din, king of the cattle country, for a job. Burney has had a fight with Martin Bruce, a rival cattle owner who has been Stealing- the king's stock aided by Miguel Gallegos., a Mexican bandit. The king, likhig young :Burnes style, offers him th job of getting the cattle-thieVes. Burney accepts though he knows it means tight to the death. Ke meets Muriel, the kb beautiful daughter, Muriel, ho is more interested than she cares to admit, tries to p :suede her father not to let Burnkl Burney tackle the cattle thieves, The king ecides to test Bur- my's courage by making him ride Gero- nimo the toughest broncho on the ranch. ney vaulted into the saddle. Instantly the blindfold was withdrawn and the show was on. Across the field the out- law bucked madly, but the rider stay- ed, his right hand uplifted, his legs scratching three times forward and three times aft. Suddenly the horse changed his tactics and leaped side- ways at least a dozen feet. That trick had never failed him previously, but strangely his ridee swayed with him and stuck. ProMptly Geronimo tried sunfishing. Still pitching, he metamorphosed Min - self into an equine pin -wheel. Eut still his rider stuck—and suddenly, in rage and chagrin, Geronimo squealed—and commenced running, with only an oc- casional pitch—and the king, nodded to Art Graydon, who, fired his six- shooter. Instantly the hazers, who had been following the outlaw, ranged it alongside of him and picked him up. Ken Burney slipped trom Gero- nimo's back to a seat behind the sad- dle of the near hazer and thence to the ground, where he stood "or a mo- ment weaving on his feet, slumped to his hands and knees, remained there a few seconds and then pitched for- ward on his face. But nobody paid any attention to him and in about three minutes he rose, stripped his saddle off Geronimo and started wearily to retire. But a shout from the king halted him; the kingly command to approach was evidenced by a peremp- tory arm signal. With his saddle in hand Eurney re- ported. "Son,' said the king, "you're a young devil. I never did see the beat of you. I gave ycu sixty zeconds or that horse anc, ten would have been a passing mark." "Yes it was fifty seconds too long, sir. You embarrassed the horse and ine. "A bit dirty of me, 1 admit. But you're on the payroll. Art Graydon has been over asking for you." "I thank Your Majesty." His Majesty glowered and would, in all probability, have scolded him Re employing the kingly form of ad- dress had not Muriel interrupted. "Why. didn't you remain for break- fast, Me. Burney?" she demanded. "If you will ask yei r father that question, Miss Muriel, he will answer it correctly," he replied. "And, by the way, Mr. Graydon has changed my mime. Hereafter I am to be known as Smokey." He doffed his sobrero end turned away. "See what you've done to him," the girl charged the king quaveringly. "He's bleeding from each nostril and each corner -of his mouth." "So I observed," His Majesty re- plied carelessly. "These rough-riders get more or less shaken up on occa- sion, but they get over it." His hand closed over his daughter's. "Honey, I've been a long time looking for that roan" he whispered. "How badly I need men who aren't afraid to bleed in my service! An exhibition ride, eh? And he declinai the hundred - dollar prize—with ehree dollars in his pocket. Something magnificent about that young mar " "I'm sorry for him, Dad," said Mur- iel. "There's something pathetic about him, with all his bravado." "Gentlemen down on their luck are always more or less pathetic," he re- minded her. The rodeo dragged on. At twelve - thirty .the barbecue was served and Muriel saw her knight squattd on his heels on the outer fringe of the bar- becue ground, gnawing industriously at a fat rib of beef. When hee sympa- thetic nature suggested to her that she approach him and make polite in- quiry as to his possible internal in- juries, he rose and walked away to join a group of other riders, and her father, noting this, grinned malicious- ly at hate His name is Smokey now," he reminded her. "Hes oat of your social circle now, my dear, and, con- sequently, out of your life." She bit her lip and favored him with a glance of profound irritation, CHAPTER VIII.— (Cont'd.) Breakfast was prolonged two hours that morning, in orde. to accommodate a dozen or more riders who drifted in from neighboring ranches with their bucking horses. From the bench in front of the bunkhouse where he sat smoking, Ken Burney observed a dozen automobiles arrive and deposit their passengers in front of the king's house, and presently the king and the princess appeared, leading th•3ir guests down to some raised benches set out under a fringe of box elders on the edge of the field where the rodeo was to be held. A stout fence protected them from injury in the event that a wild horse or steer should attempt to stampede in among them. CHAPTER IX. To Burney presently came Art Graydon. "The king says him an his guests will be honored if you start the fireworks on Geronimo," he an- nounced solemnly. "The king hath spoken," the victim remarked blithely. He picked up his saddle and walkec out on the field where two cowboys were holding a big black gelding. He sighed. He had never known a good bucker that wasn't a black or bay. As he ap- proached a mounted man rode up, drew Geronimo's head across his mount's neck, and seized the outlaw by the ears, while another man blind- folded him. The 'eorse submitted to saddling without unusual protest, and when he was ready to be mounted, Ken Burney turned to Art Graydon in- quiringly. "You ride him with the headatall an' halter shank," that grim individu- al informed him. One arm free an' raised above your head at all times an' if you pull his 'en down so he can't buck proper you'll be disqualified. You scratch him forwara on the first three jumps an' rearward on the next three; you don't claw leather an' you stay with him until the gun goes off an' the hazers pick him up." "Association rules. I know them backward. By the way, does His Ma- jesty offer a prize for this?" "Sure does, Smokey. Nathin' cheap elout the big hose on the Fourth o' July. A hundred dollars special if you win, nothing if you lose—an' you pay your own hospital bill, if any." "A hundred dollars special prize, eh? Well, Mr. Graydon, you trot over, please, and tell the king I'm riding special—an exhibition ride for the sport of kings and rot in open com- petition. Say to him, please, that if I win I desire the prize to go into the pot as added money in the babckine contests to follow. Tell him the mail- order cowboy is quite content to ride for a job." Art Graydon immediately rode to the kings bench and delivered the message. "There's a true blue sport for you," Muriel Bardin cried, and applauded. But the king wrinkled his nose. "Grands'eander playing to the gallery," he sneered. "He's pretty well convinced he'll be thrown, so he's saving his face and making a big I Am of himself. 1 don't like his meth- ods." "How ungenerous of you, Dad," the girl charged. "You know very well Geronimo has nevebeen ridden. Bet you a hundred dollars my unknown knight tides him to a bawling finish." "Taken," said the king. Then Art Graydon blew a whistle and Ken Bur - stances you used to grapp.a -wit a a single man. Kind of lonely here on El Ranchito, too," the. king went on musingly. "You're children are get- ting to high school age and there isn't a high school in title country "Art, I'm going to divorce you from hard work and worvy. You're assist- ant to the president of the Bardin Land and Cattle Compaoy, which means that I'm going to shoVehalf rny job on to, you. You'll reside in San Francisco and your job will be to drift around eanong the Bardin' ranches, keep in touch witkwhat they've doing, do sane cattle buying, attend to the land leases, make land appraisals --oh, there are any rur ber of important jobs for you to do. Still, I want you to take it easy. Executives should let the other fellow do the hard work. Pack up as soon as you can and drag yourself and famile out of heie—at the Bardin expense." (To be continued.) What New York Wearing is BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated DraSSMOMKg Lesson Fur- Itished With Every Pattern SU The' tingling taste of fresh mint leaves is a real treat for your sweet tooth. WRIGLEY' ;Affords people everywhere great comfort and long.lasting enjoyment. Nothing else gives so much hene- v,fit at so small a cost. It is a wonderful help in work and play -- keeps you cool, calm and. contented. ADDS A ZEST cans In contrast to the road of death along which the membesr of the naval expedition fell out one by one as cold and hunger chilled their heafts, the Major and his pilot lived in compara- tive luxury. "We had fresh grapefruit for break- fast every morning of the whole trip," said Major Burwash, who looks more like a successful business man than. a man who has ventured to the ends of the earth in an aeroplane to solve a .secret nearly a' century old. "It Was not canned grapefruit," he Insist- ed, "but strictly fresh stuff, although we had canned grapefruit along." Nor did the party need to hunt game or catch fish, for the larder of the big Fokker plane was well stocked. Engine trouble developed and delay- ed -the first departure of the explorer's aeroplane. It was scheduled to leave Coronation Gulf on August 19, but did not actually get away until one week later—August 26. Another i>lane was brought in, and it headed for Gjoshaven, from Bern- ard Harbor. The distance of 600 miles was covered in one day. Geoshaven, on the shore of King William's Land, was free of ice and was at one time a winter camp of Amundsen. It is now a Hudson's Bay Company post. Over Magnetic Pole Northward, then across Ross Strait, the blue and yellow plan swung, over a- stretch of sea covered with floating ice floes, where a landing would have been impossible. Then they swung over the magnetic pole at Boothia Land, where the compass jammed as they passed "over the top of the world." Major Burwash is familiar with the terrain in that vicinity, having explor- ed it early last spring. The present trip was made for the purpose of getting aerial photographs of that re- gion. Felix Cape, back of King William's Land, was the next place visited by the plane, the most northerly point on the ice -land that became the tomb of the British sailors. From there they headed south and west, . flying at 100 miles an hour over the shore line along which the sailors had stumbled. The ill-fated members of the 'rank - lin exnedition eight decades ago be- lieved they were on the north shore di Canada, when in reality they were marooned on. the rocky stretches of 'King 'William Is/and. This newest theory on the fate \Villa! overtook 129 men in the frozen barrens is believed to have been established by Major Burwash. Fragments of Ship St. John's, Nfld.—The finding of fragments believed to be of Sir John. Franklin's ship, the Erebus, and the discovery ore several small islands in the region of the magnetic pole were described on arrival here on the Hud- son's Bay Company steamer Fort James, after two yeas in the Arctic. Sailing from this port On July 26, 1928, the Fort jamas called at Port Burwel, where sealskins for clothing, dogs, and other winter supplies were taken aboard. Winter quarters were established at Oscar Ba, and from this point Captain Bush and a corn= panion set out by Motor boat for Got - haven in an attempt to locate the wreck of the Erebus., Only a few fraginents were found. He was moody and. glum after the dance, and his friend could hardly get a word out of him. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Dida't you get on well with, the girl 1 introclaced you to?" "Well," said his friend, "I ask- ed her three or four times if I could see her home, and she said if I was as keen on her home as all that she'd send me a photograph. ot it." .A. negro boxer was to fight a hea,vy- weight champion. Whet he reached the ring it was noticed he hung back. "It's all right, Samba," said his sec - "The latest thing in nien's clothing and. 'Just yon . say to yourself, 'I'm Yon will -win." "That's no good boss," replied Sambo. 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