The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-19
MAGAZINE SECTION.


Walter Stout settled himself in the
shade Of a giant sagebrush and. IN
folding the last issue of the Paint Rivep
Record. searched for his name in print
He found it among the personals.
Walter Stout, of Oak Grove, Iowa,
has purchased 100 acres of choice farm
ing land on Paint river from the Smyth
Land company, and is about to settle
in our midst. Welcome to Wyoming,
Walter. We need hustlers like you"
Stout from his seat under the sage
brush could look into the bed of Paint
river, which should have rolled at his
feet, only it did not, because Paint
river was quite dry. 1t was filled with
huge mud-caked boulders, behind one
OF which the skeleton of a COW had
lodged. border of driftwood high up
on either bank showed, however what
Paint river could do when it had half
chance. Behind him stretched his
$50 acres, the entire surface of which
looked like macadam road before the
stone crusher has passed over it.
Stout twisted his lank body and looked
at his farm, then he consulted the per-
sonal again. and mentally made a cor
rection which in type would have read:
Welcome to He'll, Walter. We need
hustlers like you"
mark that ever had listened to the sill
Yer tongue of a land agent! He had
gazed at the twenty-pound beet which,
in Wyoming. sold to the sugar-beet
factory-still to be built-at five cents
a pound. He had drunk in the stories
of wheat at eighty cents a bushel and
of gigantic potatoes selling at SO
sack, and eagerly bought 100 acres of
land he had never seen for $40 an acre.
"a in n
was that twenty other suckers, with
homeseekers' tickets and green badges,
had arrived on the same train with
them.
He turned again to the columns of
the Paint River Record.
For Sale-10 tons of second crop al
falfa, IS ton, delivered.
S. B. BATES.
Public Sale: Saturday, Sept. 10,
twelve head of Hereford two-~ear-old
steers; four yearling heifers.
S. B. BATES.
Wanted: Pair of good work horses
1.100 to 1900 pounds. Must be sound.
S. 3. BATES.
Strayed-or Stolen: Bay mare White
star in forehead; BRANDED SBB. Suit
able reward. S. B. BATES.
Stout threw down tie Paint River
Record impatiently. The needs of s.
the dazzling future CT the Paint river
valley seemed to &C Institute the orig
inal matter of the Newspaper. PrOba-
bly, it was S. B. Bates who had raised
the twenty-pOund Oeet which had lured
him to his finaIcial destruction. A
feeling of resentment against S. B.
Bates began to rise in his bosom.
Mechanically, Stout picked a cactus
thorn from the side of his shoe. The
IA h1a0 act of
counter irritant to his mental soreness.
Having extracted the cactus, he
watched with Indifferent eyes a hay
l-wagOn and its load coming down the
/steep hill across the alleged river. In
the bed of the river the team swerved.
One of the front wheels rose on a huge
rock and the load of alfalfa promptly
turned ever entirely, burying the
driver, &ho, with con1fnendable pres
ence of mind. chung to the lines and
steadied the plunging horses. Stout
slid down the bank and grabbed their
heads
There came a violent upheavaI and a
flushed and angry face appeared, then
a stout feminine body, buttoned into
a tight-fitting basque. Another lunge
and a short denim skirt and a pair of
/. astOnished eyes. The angry lady, her
Black hair bristling with alfalfa
straws, strobe at once to the horses
heads, and, taking one of them firmly
by the bit, slapped him first on one
cheek and then on the other.
If you'll help me hist this wagon
over, Wen pitch the load back on
again. she said decisively; and before
Stout could quite realize it he was
reeking with perspiration and tossing
up fOrksful to the amazon in boots,
who could stack a load as well as he
could himself
Whats your name?" she asked.
when the last wisp was on the wagon.
Stout"
oh" The tone implied that she
knew all about him-his fame as a
sucker had already spread. he thought.
He waited expectantly for her to tell