The Dolores star., 1913-06-06

e,se I'm, tho furrows nsed IN he as
straipbt.s a line with a ruler He
fought tho hard times and the drought
IN his wife died. and then he said to
ma I'm heat. I'm going IN take the
habv hact IN Winnie,s folks II ia
oplv coma last YEAR I cm,Id have took
Winnie too The comnanv kin have
INV farm and I hone 10 God it1l be
the curse 10 them it.s been TO mel.
There the farm is, And look further
the switch to another
direction-"there's another dropping
to pieces. Lord, when I think OF the
stories they told me about the crops
when I fust came and put In four hun.
dred dollars that I'd worked hard for
in a sawmill. and I think how we used
to set round the fire evenings, my
wife and |, talking about how the
town was a-growing and what Il would
be when the trees was growed and our
children was going to school, and how
we'd have a cabinet organ and we'd
have a top buggy, and we'd send for
her mother. who didn't Jest like II
with BINS wife-we was Jest like chill
dren, making believe! But that amt
what ! was driving at. Here 1t Is.
We calculated that we'd be let alone,
because the poor, miserable remnants
OF stock and machines and farms we
got simply wasn't worth outside folks
taking. and inside folks wouldn't risk
their lives by dispossessing us. That's
how we sized II up. amt IT,
II don't see yet what you're after.
Wesley"
You will. We reasoned that way.
But along comes this company, this
trust, that's clean against the laws
and don't give a curse for that, and
1t buys up the whole outfit. tell you.
Mr. Robbins. there amt Ave men In
this community that that trust amt
got the legal right to turn out on the
prairies tomorrow. They've all been
foreclosed, and the year of grace is
up. Most Of US here amt got no show
at all-legally. And so they send
man down here to see about Citing
out writs and finishing us up"
But who'll they get to buy. Wesley
Orr"
They're not needing much buying
They're on to a new scheme-going to
turn all these farms into big pastures
and fatten cattle with alfalfa, raise II
and ship It: then the lower part OF
the county, down below town, they In
tend to run a ditch through from the
river and irrigate II. They will fetch
In a colony who'll pay them about ter
times what they. paid, ! expect, and"
But we won't let them"
Depends on how many guns the
colony's got and how much fight
there's in II. They'll try II, anyhow.
unless"
Unless" repeated Robbins I'm.
easily.
Unless they're scared OF. unless
they think It's death for man to
tackle us"
Il kinder WISH" said Robbins. that
he came from another town"
What's the difference about the
town.
"oh. none, I guess. But that town,
it's In Iowa, and II sent the best things
we've ever had. One woman put In
a lot of jams and jellies and tea
such tea. My wife was sick then, and
I didn't know but I'd lose her. gave
her some of that tea and some jam.
and she began TO pick up from that
day. It was a ounce jam, and made
her think OF home. she said Her
father was a Connecticut man, and
they had an orchard with ounce trees
in it, remember" lie did not Nm.
ish the sentence. but he sighed as he
absently ran bis eye over the gaps In
the harness mended with rope.
Il bet he didn't have nothing to do
with that box" said Orr; most like.
the people sent us that were poor
folks themselves, and had to pinch to
make up for the things they sent us.
faint the rich people are sorriest for
poor folks. This young Wallace--hls