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Eight Thursday, The "Sinoa Curious eyes peered; fivm 1b* work, bofiik hpuse as be neared it, tme tonewe that mm *t?M Nebra>a tiie pajto^ljocse and the CBOQJM and Northern district. At first his range was limitless, but in a were not without fame even if tbe. then fe*r short years be could *t«nd| on mm himself were a stranger to the roof of his sod hut and see the them a l t f o r the better part o t wiaaed to ride for ra 0 wlitte points of light which were a. year the two high-colored horse* than for another, their ftjirattera.* m&gowi flotttog the tmm hail been seen on the range—eontli < tq the far librlwn lu^ay fltectictia to tbe "railroad, west to tbe Idaho •!SL 551^S. line. The man bad kept to himself "Becatue tbe~Three Bar he chose to Imk, 1'lie first 'of fbese to iav«# i»Js » % e hafl oeen and when seen by approaching man who baa prowled tlii and gathered, • few 0«l Warren, moving osa before the riders he had always been angling W « a . t \ g t t o g *Ml" •• ««ai »wawo of settJers JjacWag Into the on a course that would miss their own, Those who ha& out of ca"And fljat Information lg locality t)t his first chofcu In sacl* alaruilng numbers tlmt he fejired riosity, deliberately ridden oat to to any brand that hires ro an uphealthy congestion of bmnan- Intercept htm . reported that ha tbe girl. "Is that what yoa *WHw*a,therewoui<ibe tty in the near future. Tne debate seemed a decent sort of citlxea, of faruitng versus co«s was re* ^willing to converse on any known wrong with a man scfaooH siiased between the two, but each topics except those concerning him- self to know all points of held doggedly to hw own particular self. • • • • " before he asked for it," i it happens tbat wasn't TICWB and the longed-for partner' He dropped front tbe saddle be- "But Mason. - "ship was again poistponed. fore the bunk house and aa he stood m* A shade of weariness in the door he noted Half a dons* Harris moved once more—and her face. Daring tbe then agaln*-and It wm something men lounging on the bunks. Tnia that her father bad ben over two decadeg after his departure Indolence appraised him of tho fact 0 tbe hoose after being from Dodge with the Three Bar that they were extra men signed by a boraa and in tbe cows that he made one final shift, on for tbe summer season and that that bad elapsed since ! faring on in search of .that land their pay had net yet started* tor tbe aJ* ^boosand cows a where nestera- were unknown. Be tbe cowhand, when on the pay roil, /•mm the Tfc*ee Bar brand made a dry march that cost blm a works sixteen boars daily and range btd decreased to fourth of his cons, skirted the Colo- when he rests or frolics it is, ex> under bar management rado desert and made his stand un- cept in rare instances, on his own der the first rim of the hills. Those time and at his own expense. , rtl probaWy be Insulted others who came to share thie range A tall, lean Individual, who sat ( have to offer. The m e a a j were man whose views were cross-legged on a bonk, engaged: after the boraartomorrow. I Identical with bis own. wboae in mending a spar strap, waa the M man•:&*& tad da watchword was: "Our cows shall first to answer his Inquiry > for the ft« Jabi roundhere* the place run free on a thousand hills." They foreman. ; , get iiel» ^ sought for a spot .where the range "Bllile Warren Is tbe big he-coon waa untouched" by tbe plow and tbe of tbe Three-Bar," he Informed. watai1 holes tmfotyced. They had -You'H Hkely find tbe boast at moved. Dbea moved again, drives blacksmith shop." Tbe lanky <p ,*af • the. grinned aa the atraagtr a huge. Cst T aa before the invasion of the set- back through the Utter of of the shop ai.d tiers. These men bsnded together buildings, guided by the face with ,*' and swore that here condition squeak of bellows and tbe cia ahoald be reversed, that It was tbe a aledga on hot lro«i. Sevearat eqoatter who ahoald move, and oa pressed close to the window* t& Wtf *ew*pa>er,-A mm-*^ this principle they grimly retted. Udpatlon of viewing tb«v-ia#» Cal Warren had been tbe van* comer's atarprise at greeting «Aa , *bim mm a tttti* OxJagi gntrd of each new rash of settlers Three Bar boss. Bat tbe man did A eowband is rhe most ovens* ' that had paahad Bill Harris on to not seem surprised when a young and o»dtrpal« siphend that; • anotftar range, aad tbe cowman bad girl emerged from tbe open door at lost t h m nfngand cone to ear th* band of fata In the shop as he neared it on and; tte*i»lb tola persistence. When the Warren She waa dad In a gray flannel family foond blm again and bait- skirt and black angora chaps, "foe all—to awtd-a ftk at forty, ed their white-topped wagon before heavy brown hair waa concealed six months fi»tbe year. Tbe^ his door, Bill Harris gave It up. beneath the broM. bat that waa six he's thr*w*d l«we like «• . T r e come to see about getting palled low over her eyes after tbe horse to' rsatfe or starve, that partnership fixed up. Bill," fashion of those who live macb in wprk itt tt» world—but he Warren greeted. **Yoa know—the tbe open. The man removed bis know H. »r *n»»y i^oaldnt hh»1 one we talked over in Dodge a hat and stood before her. to Alp'•:§, tmtA H« while ago, about our going in toplay. N l nnV o«t of ten but wtat "Miss, Warren r be inquired. Tbe prides litnaeif fhat l» cant k gether when either of us changed his mind. Well, I've changed mine. girl nodded and waited for him to browbeat into'doing a tap of Wfl* I've come to see-that running cows state his purpose^ Ask him lo cut » stick of flreatol "What are the chances of ,my and he'll artir*l»ia hack and is a good game, Bill, so let's fix it riding for the Three Bar?"' he at yoa spornful-llke- ~T>oot up. I've changed my mind." beat h f - i r -, •• "That was twenty years ago, asked. "We're full-handed." said the girl. "It do." wild the stranger. Cal," Harris said. "But it still hold* "I'm* the }««t wagon ci>oh flat good—only I've eh an cod my mind, T i n sorry." "You'll be breaking out the- re- erer sloshed dlstlwater over DK too. Yon was dead right from the first Squatters will come 'to roost muda right soon now," he suggest- tall-gote, and even berter tlmnthit on every foot of ground nnd there'll ed. "FnMfeaJ handy round a break- In a ranch-house kitchen." the fen" come a day when I'll have to turn Ing corral." quaclous fine modestly assured bid' squatter myself—so I might as well "They're ail handy nt that," she "But I cjin't do Justice to the raesH, start now. The way to get used said. Then sha noted the twd when I lay out to do all the cboffl* to crowds, Cal, Is to RO where the horses before the bunk house and w,ltbin four* mile* and run mym crowds are at. I in headed back frowned. Her eyes searched th'e thin collecting scraps and aqsst for KasAas and you better come stranger's fare and found no fault wood to keep tbe-atove I»et aip. J&f rtlong. *Ve'il get that partnership wMh it; slip HketJ Ills level enw. since Bilile baa hired you. I tnwt fixed, up.** But she wondered what manner of you'll work op a pile of trona rttt A single child had come to Mess man ttis wasjvho had so aimlessly will keefi me grtkig—and folks «|l me Wad4{aa,** he ndde<l as an after each union Jn the parents* late mid- wandewd alone for a year, (Contteued cm Page Nine) dle age. The Harris heir, a boy men. of- eight, had been named Calvin in honor of his father's friend. Cal Warren had as nearly returned the compliment as circutustanees would permit, Bnd his thret-year-old daughter bore the name of WHHamette Ann for both father andmother of the boy who WRS his namesake, and Warren styled her A modem garage with, the most up-to-date equipmoat Blllie for short. Each man was as stubbornly set and with skilled janig experienced mechanic* enables us to In his new views aa he had bees serve you promptly and| with a measure of satisfaction In the old. The Harrises came Into possession of the Warren's prairie tunsitfpasse'd m the Nort!h Country. Wbooner and drove off to the east, The Warrena took over the Three Bar ranch and the Httie WiHlamette WRECKING CAR SERVICE Ana slept la the tiny bunk built for Call Us On The Telephone At Any Time of the the son of the Harris household, fflr a space of minutes these Day or Night jOld picture* oecnpJed the wind ot the roan on the pinto horse. DJs« tint string* of prairie schooners flat! ox-bows faded from his ralnd'a and OIL •eye and he was once more con* HOO0 and 0 . S. TIRES »eton» «f the red steer with the Tftree Bar brand that hnd stirred 0ENERAL REPAIRING AND op the train of reflections, He turned for another gHmpm of the PAINTING. M0BIL01LS distant sign Hs he headed the painthWHB aloiJ^ the road. • "AH tftnt wm quite a »jwtt melt, CMfce/* fte *«fii. "Old Bill BimU planted tftp firsf one of thnscj jsls?n», Mn<l it mn'CH n good, purpose tfi '!?#'« *!g» ilmt stands fnr bitik progrm tod»y, Times, etange, ifafefrpij*?lKJ«e<*n $e»n or line low the fetge 0t the great •*?•:'.,: ' By H A L G . E V A H T S It W M five years before their trails crossed again. Cal Warren the first of te tbe two to wed,, and and lUUfiK }acged northward along d tblihd l Hit road o o i b i i pinto hone, he bad established a post along H Icil btKicBkta, peeked, trailing a the trafl, a rambling structure of fjalMength behind, A ranch road 'dob*, poles and aod, and .there branched off t* the left and the ma* conducted tbe business of "Two for HuUed u« Ma fcerae to view a sign One," a calling Impossible and onknown In any other tbao that day that stood «t the forks. **£qtiacter, Jkm't let the sun go tad place. OB von," be read, "Th«f« tbe j The tang toll trains were in sight from hortsoa to hortaon avary boor third oae of tfceee reminders. Cali- of tbe day. The grind of the gravel co,** be told the horse. T h e word- wore down the hoofs of the unshod tog a little daflerast but tbe aenti- oreo, aad when footsore they coald stunt alt the aasae." not go on. tea sound boll "for Fifty yare* a* the trail the two with tender feat w*» Warrso's charred ae* fctackeaed fragments rate of trade. These crippled ones ©f a vragoa abawed to sharp con- were soon made sound in the padtrast to the hteached white hone* dle pen, a sod corral doodad with ©f two hoceea,* . anflMaat water t» puddle toe yel"They deemed his team aad low day Into a six-inch layer of torched Ida perldty gooda," ttw stiff, healing mud, than thrown but rW*-r. said. **«. JUa--a«pea gone an tfaa open range t» fattea and grow atroog. But traasltioas ware awift aad sweeping, steel rails "•\H# taraat f« Ms ware erowdlag ektaa behind this looked otfajaaaa ta* •wuw «f «•••.; OeMftfer—prot- ftraJrla actaoatwrs aad the ex-bowa. a*}y so naaaal {Mai the fact that Bui} flralM grew fewer eveey year; eTantoaiiy* Cai Warren wade UH> thr«e ftsJip la ta« tofa eooati- M M d yf f " tufcfci the eeljr fipree of rntac with- Mi teat trade of two for one." in DM court i«g» lay thirty mika Bin Bania bad -#on»e back to to the aavtfc, I daatar of aeaaa dm railroejO" of which he bad forty tiuiidkajr oaattiag a* a wtod- view ao moeb and be remained in. •w<<pt flat • ia»era| aaBaa beyond it, beard aad to be a part of the with l^tmttMweeae* centers witneaa wild days of Abilene. Mays and ' lvillsatiea feetwseau the rail- Dodge, aa each attained tbe apex atrtbdM* wm* V* rolling of Ita 'glory aa the railroad's ead and the consequent desntaataeit as* more look at tination of the Texas trail herds. the *vid«*»M taft f M a i ' t o prow The sight of these droves of iii. t (tie sign was a* :ampty threat thousand* implanted a desire to tx>r»r« heading thi, patnt-horae rap cows himself, and when be was kU-ug the left-hand JWk. He noted wed is Dodge he broached this that the range c o n along bis route project to bis boyhood pal. were (xxir and iesn, tneirulp bones was tbe sincere wish of each tri-.«-itiK lumpily through sagging to Itgain the other as a partner in tlriii, et»ing them the* appearance future enterprise, but this was of milker* mtber than beef stock. all Tli« |>r«-eedlog MUtnnjer had been not to be. . Warren had seen the tint imri dry, browning the ning« ^bottom drop.out of the bull trade I'IS u <•<>&* iMjfone It* time, aad the and he would not relinquish the • ! v k t.wd gone Into the winter In suspicion that, any business dealing |f('>r ^tsaiK*. Hilary snowfalls hail In fntir-fooied »ii>4 wst hazard\ii;r>.f>i<"i«Ht me havoc, Htid 3d i>er ous in the'extreme- and he insist- A fe ' t • f-ciii «jf i!i*» ranj;i> stock had • v..iii'r-l,ns<>tJ. Tlu«*e that, I-i:!!i'il liiruujdi mew slow In \fi . <M wvl'iM anil recoverinjr ',U^.( :jf. Ilw been had puttheir SERVICE broadside Tlirtv l'.;ir brand lw>m \fti ; • a iiH' Kiik", iind fhe man . <• }<tin>Hi up liis liorse and lost . ••(! in r#!rf»si«?ction aa be ml nt ilte brand. «» old Three liar, CalFirw,1* hf ked la his horse. "Tlie old iiruiid. It's iteen msny a utooa lint- 1 Imt laid an rye on « Three1 V'j M« IIUJII # a s gnatng directly at jtM>V.u>«r iMit lie no longer «aw I t Ii.^;(-iid. he jx$m_ picturing th«» old\.* t.<'Hit*a tfml the sight of the , li, .tt.ul I'vfuttaL StPp hy step JHS '. \f Aiiert Hi** ftmg twft of ihe .,.j;.-r W-ft ifrom'Pud^ Wty t o i'i •!.)«>, f;--«»i.ih> HrtitP jo'the roll|i , sfijse-rfcfd nlUs rouna old Fort 1 . ^ ^' " \r - • " r ~-" — -* ~& i i WTH "- i '-- i - " s^. 'n j ^ " ~ ~ *" flfc* rTT—" ' i T ^ t i » ^ 5i r*f' $JL^*i ."-^^ Fpf ? - " ( H wjw e tale* and tti»U|!i •••>: i m f l l " ... . r «SsfS'i'tttl «».W Jlft MflJ«elt vilViu-» ru»'«f " The Vanjiuard of Each New Ru«h •i, A fe «f ^tttfai^r „:. . ; ( •„ that d o salwilsjj of alt ttelr" p pm& apto fog lpM,'ti'6t eittis.' fltowts «sal(4 mi fee.-tofltttoi to tarn tae Mi •m wfiifo- steers WOBB sclitos f feJit dollars ' l i p f c«n n PATENAUDE'S n » u I '•• in wore than H mtt& ' , Bar - SERVICE STATIQN TELEPHONE 68, CHAZY