Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 1 March 1927 — Page 3

I The ,t : I Understanding I Heart ■ , y phw : I w . r ( ’ , thfs" lff *’ pn ‘ ‘‘ to ! ■ r'- wtli ’’ J t( J v a tiib’d time if she 1 ■ dh " r h Sul-. ;■"<! added that the ■ id*” h , i th., name of Ainos. ; ■w” V , ■(.,.> dmh-faced. cop- I ■ o> 3rW ’\ ‘r.thno nJ ’>>’>’ ' H U-s' d o ■, ~ , ny question i ■ l ' ir, ‘ " K " "’ m " l J B p«.p U QUit. 'Mf- 1 W. I H " M be good enough i H’‘ noth, minutely 1 Hili i B 4,<f tainan n’ position to in- - ■ X you r1 ■ ' I V ; me; ’veils IfO- ChaHp r ' is”’,..;;. e.i. ■ !'“ • heller in these here parts. 1 ■ %,'says M.'-m. ■< he a mouse . ".. m Charley. H .-Oh a whi>e spot on his off ; B on the target. Maggie-' H .s? re cut on his left, front Rt- . H lock? ■ ..'That's the animal. H --Almost a pint'- mcause of the ■ whits patches «>• !.■ t’.m pack-sa<l<ll< ■ aj.l aparejos have galled him? SB "‘You're sure des.ribin my Amos ■>gk to the last notch, Maggie.' H “‘Well, i haven't seen him. Mr. ■ Canfield.' says Maggie. 'And now, 9 sir with reference to your threat Io ■ bounce a rock off my round head. I'm ■ here to tell you you aren't half the ■ boiler you think you are. Y'ou re tresSK passing on tribal lands and you re a aa c tv old white man and 1 don't like I you jnvhow.' With that Maggie earn • i charging at him. Uncle Charley backed away, explaining that white men never bounce rocks off any woman's head, not ev.-n a squaw's; that he had merely employed a figure ot speech, as it were. Hut Maggie’s blood was up. so she dosed with Un ele Charley, flopped him. gave him a good spanking and a black eye and ■ sent him home" "He was a dear old fraud." Monica wiped the baby's mouth and handed him to the sheriff while she went into thekitch'-n and pi .-pared a gunny sack bed in th» wood-box. When the babybad been deposited therein she preL pared a snack for Garland and herself, bade the company good night and closed the kitchen door. I "Now, then. Ranger," the sheriff suggested, and grasped Uncle Charlev under the arms Garland took the M man by the legs and together they carried him into Monica's bedroom, disoosed on the floor and ■ shut the door on hint, ’ ■ "It's an ill wind that don't blow ■ somebody good," th.- sheriff remarked. 9 "Flop into Uncle Charley's place and ■ help yourself to your share of the ■ saddle-blanket, son. as soon as you've ■ warmed yourself and dried your duds. ■ Good night, everybody. Oh, Lord. ■ I'm a tired sheriff!" ■ The formalities attendant upon a B death in a city were non-existent in ■ the empire of the late Uncle Qharley B Canfield. Except in murder or suiB tide cases, which demanded a coron- | B's jury and a certifk a as to tfce I esse of death, no legal documents ! were necessary prior t.o making ar | rangements to conduct a funeral. - The sheriff said as much at the coni rerence held at the lookout after hreaktast the followfng morning, pen it comes to plantin’ Uncle Marley, my official sanction is suffi- • mt,” he declared. “Miss Dale—” “Call me Monica, Sheriff." Guess I'm restored to good stand**le worthy fellow retorted, weil. Monica, the first question before the meeting is: Where do we j torv the deceased?" “It wouldn’t make the slightest dis ' J° Uncle Charley, where we [ toned him. I'll never be able to bury “®. at the last, where he wanted to . and it seems a needless hardship ' fp/. arry a ’ s * )Ot ' y 011 a horse over the Z! Dogwood Flats. Do yoTt rem hls last words . ‘Ash, ain’t the XT, 108 .. beau UfnlT’ I think we to,™ to bury him on Bogus hill's 3hall return to the her <.T'n nthony Garlan,i reminded him JI r . ,d , e OVPr t 0 thp Pl ®ts. K p t some S b bU J Ia suiti a”' l return with carZZZ on a I’-'Rk-mule and a sou W mi t X t a ! ’ nake bis rofß ‘ n - Sheriff, might dig the grave." reckon „®° un , ,ain ’ s most solid rock. I "Seems t he 'atter replied dubiously, dirty jobs 0 - me a ” 1 ,lraw late, y is Bob Mason 110 ' haVP ,0 rt ' K ‘W,” I f*t. MT.U ’“tested. "About four ' 111 tok yon for. 1 UP alltl arouild a Kain cation so i f ° r a one " da y stay of exe,lle old man*” a roclc cairn OVPV I ffieantim™' ' 11611 rest easy in the ! Uncle Chai? 0 afternoon they buried Sd W v OUt bell or book ' Wac * on the i hlm to his resting foot of a sLr ? e Ot Bogus at ,lle !il K in the « ar >, P ne ’ wher e an ppen- ' c '' p r the nfirt l> and woo/w l ng count ry to the tlle ranger L While the sheriff and tongent earth j ramp,ng in the nica stood hv arountl him, and Moiay fli tted atout & t9arfu1 ’ a blue ° f th e sugar n, the upper branches tooiiled vooife , an<! creamed and Moni ca so mnL° US ?' He reminded v Aftp r Uncu b ° f Uncle Charieylowered i £ barley Canfield had ?’ lp returned m V* 8 . Krave ’ Monica Stle covld nntx t,,n OQkou t station. growhL b6ar to see thp ’“tie t 0 sp « the Unclp Charley, landing it U n wu? aP(I tbe ' ran Ber llte little pa’ ? brisk, business J n^nctiv P eiy thp their BPadeß ' tten followedl her r n r e ° f the ,wo ner for an appreciable

| period; then the sheriff gnvo Undo Charley’s bivouac n nnni pat and sat down on an adjaeant windfall to smoke. Anthony Grland Joined him and they puffed in silence for several minute*. . Presently llcntley sighed and spat.' "All hell to pay and no pitch hot, Hanger," he "Reckon that posse o' mine thinks I've been burnt up." He spat again. "Honest, If 1 didn’t have my wife and them four gills to care for, I'd bo shot if I'd inn for sheriff again. It's a sorry Job. .lust think, Ranger. 1 run that boy. Roh wttli dogs!" “He entertains no resentment, against you for that. Sheriff." "Well, if he don't 1 <io. Hut that | ain't the worst ot it. son. I've got | to leave him here with that Dale girl.’ Can't trust him with nobody else—, not that he hasn't a lot of friends in this country who'd protect him, but I because 1 can't trusffheir intelligence. I'.ut that Monica gill's smarter'n a road-runner —and capable. She's got to nurse the boy, and 1 hate to risk sending a doctor up here to look him over. 1 wonder if ho needs a doctor. "The only doctors I know of in this country tell everything they know, even when they don't know it. If one of them ever got suspicious that Mon'ca's patient was an escaped convict. he'<l blat cut his suspicions Just to prove that nobody could put anything over on him. And, of course, the girl's bound to get talked about. Son. you got any bright ideas on this subject? If so, trot 'em out.” ' "His burns are painful but not ser - ous. sheriff.' A person can live if only ompthird of his body has beea burned and the burns are first degree. With from a halt to two-thirds of his skin destroyed . he would di'< Mason is burned in patches, firstdegree burns, and mostly on the legs where he blushed against hot charred limbs, so I hold that a good trained nurse can handle him as well as any doctor.” "Where’s Monica going to sleep. "On thejloor. Baby in the wood box.” , . “Monica will have to a cottwo cots, rather!, one for herself and' one tor the nurse. And she'll have to have a new mattress for Bob and several new blankets and sheeting; also some sick-room supplies.” “Right you are, Ranger. I reckon Dob'll need a smear o’ nightshirts.too. Whilst he kept movin'he didn't stitieii up, but now his burns are drawin and he's helpless on his back. Yes. that was a smart move o' yours telephonin' to Sacramento for a nurse. Did you instruct her to come to Montague?" Garland nodded. “Then I reckon I'd better ride back tonight and meet her there tomorrow afternoon. I'll run her out in my automobile and we ought to be back n Tantrum by dark. You meet us at the foot of the trail with horses ami bring her up here. She'll give me a list of all the sick-room supplies She'll require, after I explain the case, and I'll bring them with hie." “Bring the cots and mattress and bedding, ton. I'll borrow anothehorse to pack them up the trad. And speak to the nurse about food She l< want something special, I imagine, in fact, it wouldn't be a bad idea for you to bring up quite a slopk of provisions in your motorcar. 111 be good for the expense. I haven'i any money with me. but —’ “Sho, boy!" Bentley held up his hand "Bob Mason u credit's good with me." He rose, nteieliir.- him .-•-elf- "Reckon I'd better git started if I'm to reach home tonight. Got a forty-two mile ride o’ me; I’ll leave word at Ran ger Headquarters for the posse to come in, and tell 'em the bird s got clear away into Modoc!" “That w'ill be mighty kind of you. but I doubt the wisdom of it. When Mason is well you're coming back after him —” "I ain’t neither. He's going back on his own. He told me so.” “Do you think you can trust him. then? Remember, he broke his word of hotwr to the warden." "I know. But he's sorry for that and wants a chance to make his word good agalin. I wouldn't deny that chance to a Chinamanf’ "Well. I sincerely hope he doesn’t betray, you. Nevertheless I think ‘lie wisest thing that could be done — since he's going back to San Quentin anyhow—will be to put him on a stretcher, carry him down the trail, put him in your car and take him down to the prison hospital, where he will receive proper care.” Sheriff Bentley looked at his com panjon in frank surprise. “Then why’d you sgjjd for thaft trained nurse?" he demanded. "I thought the baby might require her services. That infant has been through a mighty stormy passage; it's been wet for hours, cold and hungry., and it if develops some infantile illness Monica Dale will be helpless.” “Whose baby is it? He told me something of his find but I didn't question him." "Mason doesn’t know. The automobile was upside down on top of the child's mother, so Mason couldn't look inside the car and read the license certificate, which bore the owner's name. He did make a mefftal note of the number of thfe license tag. but he's forgotten It.” "That’s because he's sick and tired. He'll remember it when he gets better.” "Perhaps. Meanwhile, what do you think of my plan for sending him to the prison hospital? As you say, if he remains here, the strait-laced residents of this country will hear of it and it will spell scandal for the girl.” “I’ve talked it over with her. She knows what she knows and she’s willing to take the chance. No, I’ll not have that boy humiliated by sendin’ him back under guard. That’s final. I ain't afraid of him betrayin' me. Bein' convicted of a felony don’t wipe all the decency out of a man, ranger.” CHAPTER 37. "Why, I recall once," continued the sheriff, "havin' to fake a young feller

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from this country down to San Quentin to get hung for a murder. He'd bushwhacked hls own uncß> in n feud, the uncle being I he ond he suspected of havin’ bushwhacked ills brother — which I reckon he was right at that. I "Well, I'd known the boy since he was a pup, and it didn't seem right to take him down on the train, witli handcuffs and leg-rons on him, and every curious Tom. Dick, and Harry starin' at the boy. So 1 allowed I'd motor him down in my official car. figurin' he'd enjoy that one last ride maybe, | "Well, we started, and presently he complained about the hardware I'd put | on him, so 1 unlocked it and threw it Iback in the tonneau, and we drove ; along, pleasant and neighborly, until ■ passin’ through a patch of live-oaks, ' lie saw a gray squirrel run up a tree. He got me to stop the car. I " Sheriff Bentley, sir, he says, ’just to show you Um not scalrt, an' that 1 ain't noway* nervous, I'll bet you fifty dollars I have in my pocket, and which 1 don't figure on geltin’ to spend anyhow, 1 can take your gun and shoot the head off'n that squirrel from here.' "I looked. It was a good fifty yards, and 1 figured he couldn’t make the grade. 'You re on, son,' 1 says, and handed him my gun. which he immediately pokes into my ribs. " 'Now then, sheriff," he says, ‘l'm sorry to say you’re too trustin' for a peace officer. Gettin’ hung don’t appeal to me none whatever, so I reckon you’ll just naturally have to get out and walk. I'm going to borrow your car and try to make my getaway. I'm hopin’ 1 won’t have to kill you, but if you object there ain't no other course open to me.’ "I looked at the boy,” continued the sheriff, "and 1 seen he meant business. I wasn’t worried, though, because I wasn't quite the fool sheriff he thought I was. 1 had a little short thirtyeight gun in a holster inside the band o' my britches, and of course the minute he turned his back on me to drive off I'd have potted him. But 1 didn't want to do that, ranger. He was a nice boy. He had nice folks. So I just pushed the muzzle of the gun ’ away from me arttl says to him: (TO BE COMTINVED) Copyright 1926 Peter B. Kyne by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc o— Town To Be Moved To New Higher Site Bella Coola, B. C. Mar. 1 (United Press)—Residents here have decided to tow their village across the river and transplant it bodily on a bluff, where the view of snow-clad Cascade range peaks is better. Each spring, when the snow melts in the highlands, the Bella Coola river ' goes on a rampage. The town is inun- ‘ dated in places and even threatened with destruction. It was deemed cheapI er and safer to move the town than at- ' tempt changing the course of- the ' stream or build baricades. Townsfolks here are optimistic over the oxodus. They are certain, anyway that the scenery will be better and are 1 eagerly awaiting a mass meeting to be held soon, at which they will draw lots , for sites of their new homes. The gov- ; ernment has given them the townsite free of charge. Some difficulty is anticipated in moving the town across the river although a majority of the business i houses and homes are frame structures. — -o Austrian Priest Bans Dancing Os Priests Prague (United States—The Bishop . of Koeniggraetz through his church newspaper, has issued a decree prohibiiing all priests and theological students from dancing. The bishop stated that reports have icached him that many priests had been seen indulging in the diversion. He decreed that B must cease at once. 0 Rushville —Harold Pearce of this city had a narrow escape from death i when he struck his head while driving • and was rendered unconscious. When he came too he found himself on an - interurban track with a traction car bearing down on him. He jumped be- , fore his car was demolished.

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