The Huttig news., 1909-10-30
 SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER l.-Murfay Sinclair and his gang of wreckers were called out to clear the railroad tracks at Smoky Creek.
 CHAPTER 1I.-McCIoud a young road superintendent caught Sinclair and his men in the act of lootlng the wrecked train. Sinclair pleaded innocence declar- ing it only amounted to small s,IIn-a treat for the men MeCloud discharged the whole outfit and ordered the wreck age burned.
 CHAPTER IT. McCloud became ac- quairted with Dcksie Dunning. girl of the west. who came to look at the wreck She gave him message for Sinclair.
 CHAPTER Tv-"Whispering" Gordon Smith told President Bucks of the rail- road of McCleud's brave fight against gang of erazed miners and that was the reason for the superintendent's appoint ranged to board at the boarding house If Mrs. Sinclair. the exforeman's desert cd wife.
 CHAPTER v.-picksie Cunning was the daughter of the late Richard Dun ming. who had died of broken heart shortly after his wife's demise. which occurred after one year of married life.
 CHAPTER VI.-Sinelair visited Marion sinelair's shop and fight between him and McCloud was narrowly averted.
 CHAPTER VII Smoky Cheek bridge was myster iously burned. McCloud pre- pared to face the situation President Bucks notified Smith that he had work ahead.
 CHAPTER vIII-MeCloud worked for days and finally got the division running in fairly good order. He overheard Dick sic critieising his methods to Marion Sinclair
 CHAPTER Ix.-A stock train was wrecked by an open switch Later pas senger train was held up and the express ear robbed. Two men of posse pursuing the bandits were killed. McCloud was notified that Whispering Smith was to hunt the desperadoes.
 CHAPTER X.-Bili Dancing a road iineman. proposed that Sinclair and his stranger. apparently with authority. told stranger was Whispering smith
 CHAPTER xI.-smith approached Sin clair He tried to buy him off. but failed He warned McCloud that his life was in danger.
 CHAPTER xII.-McCloud wa carried forcibly into Lance Dunning's presence Dunning refused the railroad a right-of- way. he had already signed for. Dick ste interfered to prevent a shooting af fray.
 CHAPTER xIII-Dicxsie net Mecloud on q lonely trail to warn him his life was in danger. On his way home a shoI passed through his hat.
 CHAPTER XIv.-Whispering Smith re ported that Du Sang, one of Snclair's gang had been assigned to kill McCloud He and Smith saw Du Sang.
 CHAPTER Whispering Smith of Medicine Bend or suffer Du Sang seemed to sueeumb to the bluff
 CHAPTER xyI-MeCloud's big con struction job was taken from him be cause of an injunction issued to Lance Cunning by the United States court flood stified further railroad operations
 CHAPTER xyIr.-Beset by food Dick sic asked Marion to visit sher Marion proposed asking aid to stem the flood from McCloud- At first Dicksie refused Tt1. she a-reed.
 CHAPTER XVIII Arriving at the camp they learned Smith had follower hem from the ranch to be sure of thei safe tourney McCloud offered the aid 0 100 men and equipment
 CHAPTER xIx.-Smith told Dicks the story of his railroad career
 CHAPTER Xx.-Iance Dunning reaG ily accepted the aid of MeCloud's me- who made much progress. Smith entei tained Dicksie.
 CHAPTER XXI.-McCloud succeed, In haltins the flood. He accepted Dui ninx's hospitality-
 CHAPTER XxlI.-Dicksie and Marion visited Sinclair at his ranch He tried to persuade his deserted wife to return to him. She refused.
 CHAPTER XXIII.--A train was held up and robbed, the bandits escaping. Smith and McCloud started in pursuit
 CHAPTER XXIV.-They hit the wrong trail, lighted themselves and again steit- ed pursuit.
 ~ CHAPTER XXv.-At Baggs ranch Du Sang killed old Baggs. Whispering Smith befriended his ten-year-old son. CHAPTER XxvI.-They came to Will Hams Cache. Smith certain the ban dits were there. He importuned Reb- stock, king of the cache, to give up Du Sang. Rebstock refused. Smith declared he would clean out the whole gang, in- cluding Rebstock.
 Just how in the mountains-with- out telegraph. newspapers. and all or dinary means of publicity-news trav- els so fast may not certainly be said. The scattered lines of telephone wires help, but news outstrips the wires. Moreover, there are no telephones in the Mission mountains. But on the morning that the roundup party rode into the Cache it was known in the streets of Medicine Bend that the Tower W men had been tracked into the north country; that some, if not all, of them were in Williams Cache; that an ultimatum had been given, and that Whispering Smith and Kennedy had already ridden in with their men to make it good
 Whispering Smith, with the cow boys. took the rough country to the left, and Kennedy and his party took the south prong of the Cache creek The instructions were to make a clean sweep as the line advanced Be- hind the center rode three men to take stock driven in from the wings. Word that was brief but reasonable had been sent everywhere ahead. Every man, it was promised. that could prove property should have a chance to do so at the Door that day and the next; but any brands that showed stolen cattle, or that had been skinned or tempered with in any way, were to be turned over to the Stock associa- tion for the benefit of owners.
 The very first pocket raided started row and uncovered 80 head of five- year-old steers bearing mutilated Duck Bar brand. It was like poking at rattlesnakes to undertake to clean out the grassy retreats of the Cache, but the work was pushed on in spite of protests, threats. and resistance Every man that rode out openly to make a protest was referred calmly to Del hrt E