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Looping along In his renf. He paid ~
more attention to them, and with teeth
set he faced ahead, grimmer now In
his determination to foil them.
Sight of the village ahead surprised
Duane. He reached 1t sooner than he
expected. Then he made discovery
he had entered the zone of wire fences.
AS he dared not turn back now, he
kept on, intending to ride through the
village. Looking backward, he saw
that his pursuers were half a mile
distant, too far to alarm any villagers
in time to intercept him in his fight.
AS he rode by the first houses his
horse broke and began to labor.
Duane did not believe he would lass
long enough to go through the village.
Saddled horses in front of a store
gave Duane an idea, not by any means
new, and one he had carried out sue
cessfully before. AS he pulled in his
heaving mount and leaped off, couple
of ranchers came out of the place, and
one of them stepped to clean-limbed,
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1
fiery bay. He was about to get into
his saddle when he saw Duane, and
| then he halted, foot in the stirrup-
| Duane strobe forward, grasped the
bride of this mans horse.
Mines done-but not killed." be
painted. "Trade with me-"
| wal, stranger, I'm shore always
ready to trade" drawled the man
But amt you a little swift7"
Duane glanced back up the road-
His pursuers were entering the village
| I'm Duane-Buck Duane" he cried,
menacingly. "Will you trade? Hurry"
The rancher, turned white, dropped
his foot from the stirrup and fell back
| Il reckon I'll trade" he said
Bounding up, Duane dug spurs into
the bays TANKS. The horse snorted
in fright, plunged into run. He was
fresh, swift, half wild. Duane flashed
| by the remaining houses on the street
out into the open. But the road ended
at that village or else led out FROM
some other quarter, for he had ridden
straight into the fields and from them
into rough desert. When he reached
the cover of mesquite once more he
looked back to find six horseInen With
in rifle shot of him, and more coming
behind them.
His new horse had not had time TO
get warm before Duane reached high
sandy bluff below which lay the willow
brakes. As far as ne could see extend
ed an immense fiat strip or reti-tinged
willow. How welcome it Was to his
eyei He felt like hunted wolf that,
weary and lame, had reached his hole
in the rocks. Zigzagging down the
soft slope, he put the bay to the dense
wall of leaf and branch. But the
horse baked.
There was little time to lose Dis
mounting he dragged the stubborn
beast into the thicket. This was
harder and slower work than Duane
cared to risk. If he had not been rush.
ed he might have had better success.
So he had to abandon the horse-a
circumstance that only such sore
straits could have driven him to- Then
he went slipping swiftly through the
narrow aisles.
He had not got under cover any
too soon. For he heard his pursuers
piling over the bluff, loud-voiced, con-
fident, brutal. They crashed into the
eli, Sid Heah's your boss 70 called
one, evidently to the man Duane had
forced into a trade.
"Say, if you locoed gents II hold ND
1 little I'll tell you somethin'," replied
4 voice from the bluff.
"Come on, Sid! We've got him
,orralled," said the first speaker.
"Wal, mebbe, an if you hev it's Ma-
lie to be damn hot. Thet Teller was
Buck Duane!"
Absolute silence followed that state
nent. Presently it was broken by
attling of loose gravel and then low
'oices.
He can't git acrost the river, / tell
+ou," came to Duane's ears Hes
orralled in the brake. know tibet
lole."
Then Duane, gliding silently ana
Witty through the willows, heard no
nore from his pursuers. He headed
traight for the river Threading .
'assage through willow brnke was
n old task for him. Many days ana
lights had gone to the acquiring of
XII that might have been envied BY
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The Lone Star Ranger
A Fine Tale OF the Open Country By ZANE GREY

| clear stream between yellow cliffs,
| stood small deserted shack of cover
ed mesquite poles. 1t had been made
long ago, but WAS well preserved. A
door faced the overgrown trail, and
another faced down into a gorge Of
tives from law and men who hid in
fear Of someone they had wronged
| never lived In houses with only one
door.
1t was Wild spot, lonely, not fit
for human habitation except for the
outcas:.
On clear days-and rare indeed were
cloudy days-with the subsiding of the
wind at sunset hush seemed to fall
around the little hut. Far-distant dim
blue mountains stood gold-rimmed
gradually to fade with the shading of
light.
At this quiet hour q man climbed
up out of the gorge and sat in the
westward door of the hut. This lonely
watcher of the west and listener to the
silence was Duane. And this hut was
the one where, three years before,
Jennie had nursed him back to life.
The killing of a man named Sellers,
and the combination of circumstances
that had made the tragedy a memoir
able regret, had marked, if not
change, at least a cessation in Duane's
activities. He had trailed Sellers to
kill him for the supposed abducting
of Jennie. Vague rumors, few words
here and there, unauthenticated stoT-
les were all that Duane had gathered
in years to SubStantiate his belief
that Jennie died shortly after the be-
ginning of her second captivity.
Sellers might have told him. Duane
expected, if not to force it from him
at the end, to read it in his eyes. But
the bullet went TOO unerringly; it
locked his lips and fixed his eyes.
After that meeting Duane lay long
at the ranch-house of a friend, and
Sellers had given him he started with
two horses and pack for the lonely
gorge on the Nueces. There he had
been hidden for months, prey to re-
morse, a dreamer, victim of
phantOms.
1t took work for him to find sub
sistence in that rocky fastness. And
work, action, helped to pass the hours.
But he could not work all the time,
even if he had found it to do. Then
in his idle moments and at night his
task was to live with the hell in his
mind.
The sunset and the twilight hour
made all the rest bearable. The little
hut on the rim of the gorge seemed to
hold Jennie's presence. 1t was not
as if he felt her spirit. If it had been
he would have been sure of her death. |
He hoped Jennie had not survived her
second misfortune; and that intense
hope had burned into belief, if not |
surety.
A strange feature of this memory |
Of Jennie was the freshness of 1.-THE |
failure of years, toll, strife, death
1ealing to dim ito deaden the
thought of what might have been. He
had a marvellous gift of INSTALLATION.
he could shut his eyes and see Jennie
before him just as clearly as if she
lad stood there in the flesh. For
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SYNOPSIS.

The time of the story: about 1875. The
place: The Texas cow country, The chief
character: Buckley Duane, young man
who has inherited lust to kill, which he
a drunken bully and is forced to flee to
the, wild country where he joins Bland,s
outlaw band. Euchre an amiable rascal,
tells him about Jennie, young girl who
had been abducted and sold to Bland for
bad fate. They determine to rescue the
girl and restore her to civilization. Eu-
dangerously wounded by Mrs. Bland, but
escapes with Jennie.
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Considering all the domestic
troubles, family scandals and
love affairs that turn out badly,
one might be cynical indeed
about the power of woman's af-
lection and trust to keep man
on the path of honor in the face
of alIuring temptation. But
there comes into Buck Duane's
life a feminine influence SO fine
AS depicted by the author
that the reader of "The Lone
Star Ranger" cannot resist the
charm of it all. If you want the
cream of romance and adven-
ture, don't miss this instaIlment.
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CHAPTER xI.

A hundred miles from the haunts
most familiar with Duane's deeds, Tar
up where the Nueces ran q trickARg
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CHAPTER x-Continued.

Buck and Jennie are sitting in the
wilderness cabin discussing their fu-
ture.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-02-17
BRIEF STATE NEWS

Two new chemical fire engines were
recently purchased by the village
board at Dickey.
Larimore potato raisers are going
to grade their potatoes, wrap them
in paper, box them like apples and
ship them to California, where they
will command the top notch prices.
1t is claimed that pottery factory
will be established at Stanton, in the
southwestern part of the state in the
spring. The clay in North Dakota
cannot be surpassed for making high
class pottery.
A Beach man went to St. Paul, evil
IDENTIFY for a good time, started to
write checks, and 10 and behold, his
wife back at Beach had stopped pay
ment on all checks, and he landed in
jail, where he remained for several
days.
At Devils Lake a few days ago,
John Krous, of Lincoln, ILL.,, fell in a
faint over a gasoline engine and
struck his head against the drive
wheel. The skull was crushed and he
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less than the previous year. Coupled
with the passage of eight states with
a total population of 8,250,0OO into the
"dry" column the first of the year, it is
apparent that the liquor business un-
derwent a dismal experience. The de-
crease in the production Of distilled
spirits during the year was 1883 ,439
gallons. The consumption of distilled
liquors, however, is better indicated by
the Withdrawals" which show de-
crease of 14,771, 427.6 gallons. The
evil days fell upon and crushed 10e
distilleries. The decrease in the pro-
duction of fermented liquor (beer,
etc., amounted to 6,381,256 barrels,
Forty-one breweries were run over
and put out by the water-wagon. In
ascribing a reason for the decrease
the commissioner of the department
sets forth that "the decreases here
noted occurred principally in beverage
spirits-whiskey, rum and gin-and
the falling off in this class of spirits
is doubtless attributable in a large
measure to the prohibition laws enact
ed in many states" AS the "wets'
will bemoan this diminution of produc-
ton and consumption, SO the "drys'
will rejoice and take fresh courage
1t is good news, from the standpoint
Of the prohibitionists, and is substan.
tial evidence Of the progress Of their
movement. The camel rampant and
the water wagon overlooking take on
an added interest as symbols.
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died in a few hours. 1t is believed
krous was overcome with gas fumes
while working about the engine.
F. E. Loughton, of Grand Forks, re-
Gently received notice that an old col
lege mate of Carleton College, has
been beheaded by gendarmes at Ana
Italia college, Marsovan, Turkey-in-
Asia, and his wife suffered the same
fate. The parties were DR.. A. G. ST.
vaslien and wife, former residents of
Mortified, Mimi
While the agricultural appropria-
ton bill was being considered, Con-
gresham Helgeson obtained an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for stamping
out durine, the disease that has done
much damage to the horses of North
Dakota and Montana during recent
years. 1t is believed this appropria-
ton will be sufficient to eradicate the
disease.
The total drink bill of the United
States fell away off in 1915. This
may be CLEANED from the final report
of the Internal Revenue department
In round numbers the American peo-
pie passed s2,500,000,00O across the
mahogany. This is about $250,0O0,O 00
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10 CENT "CASCARETS"
FOR LIVER AND BOWELS
Cure Sick Headache, Constipation,
1iitousness, Sour Stomach, Bad
Breath-candy Cathartic.

No odds how bad your liver, stom-
ach or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable you are from
constipation. indigestion, biliousness
and sluggish bowels-you always get
relief with Cascarets. They imme-
diately cleanse and regulate the stom-
ach, remove the sour, fermenting food
and foul gases take the excess bile
from the liver and carry off the con-
stipated waste matter and poison
from the intestines and bowels. A
lo-cent box from your druggist viii
keep your liver and bowels clean;
stomach sweet and head clear for
months. They work while you sleep.
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declared that she took the poison vol
UNFAIRLY and that he remained with
her until she died. The fact that a
drug clerk in Madison had sold Orpet
some of the same kind of poison as
was found in the girls stomach, makes
the case against him quite clear. Some
of the poison was found in the base
ment Of the Orpet home. Letters writ
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. LIBRARY NOTES. {

{: By Margaret Greene, Librarian Q
3. o o o o o . = . . . D = = = = q
Lobrary Hours: The library is open
each week day from 1000 a. m. to
900 p. m. and on Sundays from to 6
p. m. There is a story hour for chill
dren each Thursday at 4:15 p. m.
Last week the Library had an ex-
hibit of books at the Mid-winter Fair,
hoping in this way to show the farm
folk that there was something besides
fiction and children's books to be found
at the Library. We not only had the
books themselves on display, but in
the various booths we placed signs
telling what books were to be seen at
the Library Exhibit. A number of
new borrowers registered and took out
books. We hope that the Ward county
residents will avail themselves more
and more of their privilege of drawing
books from the Minot Library. All
that is necessary for them to do to Sc
cure a Library card is to have some
Minot taxpayer sign their application
card. They are also permitted to
keep the books four weeks, instead of
the usual two.
We are purchasing new books each
month, and try to have at least few
in each order that will be of special
interest to the farmers, such as new
books on farm machinery, electricity
for the farm. concrete buildings for
the farm, forage crops, gas engines,
ETC. This month we placed the Dakota
Farmer on our subscription list for
five years. The reading room at the
Library, with it's daily and weekly pa
pers on file and the current magazines,
is comfortable place to spend ones
leisure time.
January was busy month at the
Library, in spite Of the severe wea
Their, as the report given below will
show:
Librarians Report for January, 1916.
Children's non-fction circulated 435
Children's fiction -48O
Total children's books BIB
Adults non-fiction ------353
Adults fiction ------1 lott
Total adults books circulated -1430
Books circulated on teachers
Whole number of books circulat-
ed --------------------.---24O 3
Days open for circulation ------ %
Average daily circulation 1880 SO
Estimated attendance in reading
rooms --------------------7-1s4 5
| New borrowers registered $500 1T
| Books repaired -.- SO
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College Student Charged With Murder
of Sweetheart.

William H. Orpet, young college
student from the University of Wis
cousin, has been arrested, charged
with the murder of his former sweet
heart, Marion Frances Lambert, whose
death occurred in lonely patch Of
woods in Lake county, ILL.,, recently.
She had been poisoned and at first it
was believed that she had committed
suicide. A mans foot prints in the
woods paralleling those of the girls,
led to the arrest Of Orpet. After a
severe cross examination, he admitted
being with the girl in the woods, but
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ten by the young man and the girl dis
close the fact that he had been the
cause for her delicate condition. He
was engaged to Miss Celestia Kouker,
teacher in the Normal school at De
Kalb, Ill.
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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-12-01
...CompIaint Filed

State Of south Dakota
County OF Grant &c.
In circuit Court-the Fifth Judicial tircu,,
Archie l.. Palmer. Plaintiff
George CraDdall and his unknown heirs.
administrators, Executors and As.
signe: A. w. Glenn and his I'M
known heirs and %assigne: and All
persons unknown who claim to
have Any interest or estate in or
lien or inCumbrance upon the prem.
ises herein described, Def, ndants.
The state of south Dakota. to the Above nam.
cd defendants and each Of them. greetings.
lon and each OF yon are hereby summoned
and required TO answer the complaint Of In.
plaintih. which was filed in the office Of thu
c'srk o. the circuit court. At he city Of Milbank.
IN the County 81 Grant and State oi Snufh DaLo'
III. on til. 18th DAY of October. A. d. 1915 ana
which prays for u judgment quIetipr title in AID
to determination of all adverse claims ara nat
the premises described in the complaint and
situate IN the County of Grant aud state If
south Dakota, to-wit: Lot seventeen UD II,
Block forty one (11). in the Second Addition
70 MilbAuk junction, now the Cltyof MilhanL
aud to serve a copy or your answer to sal com
plant on the undersigned. al his office. oy., m.
First National Bank of Mllbank, in the ritvn,
Milbapk. IN the County Of Grant and S,ate ne
south Dakota, within thirty days after he CON.
pleted service ct this snmmons upou you. ar.
clusive Of be day u service, and " YOU fn,l "a
answer 20 the said complaint within tina, time
tue plaintiff will apply to the Court for the r..
''ef demanded IN the complaint.
SIS. LOCKHART
Attorney for the Paipt,6.
: Aiibank, South Dakota.
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Notice Of Real Estate MORTGAGE
Sale by Advertisement.

Defahit mas been made IN the condition OF q
certain r-ai estate mortgage Containing a power
% sale aggf-gatlng $an 90. dated Ala, "A. 1915.
executed ~ John Westciland, (0therMlec knoms
National Bank Of Mlinank, Nonth ia.
kots. mortgage, whereby the mprtaa
9or ala mortgage the following d.,
crined real estate situate in the county OF Ginni
aud state OF south Dakota, to-wlt: Lot Four q,
~ block Three 81, reformed Original plat vi
.tlahobnfg' Grant County. South Dakota, a,
pIat'ed ana teptatted and on record in the ,tf,e,
81 the Register OF Deeds, Grant County, South
DakoIn, Which mortgage was filed tor record in
the once or the register ~ deeds Of Grant conn
y, >onth Dnkota, on the Tenth day OF Nove,s
ner, lsi'. ~ Sla O'Clock u. m, and recorded In
BOOK = Of mortgages on psgt
The amount ella med TO he due on said ,nort.
gaze ny the MORTGAGE above mentioned and
Inc owner and holder of snld mort gage anon tn.
'hte, ot'Ohtr ~. 1916. IL The sum OF 500 ~ ut
winch ~" is principal. Do int,rtst, ana ,l.tS
insurance.
Therefore. notice is hereby given chat said
mortgage VII be irr-cloeed and n sol. m md. OF
th- above described iande or 50 much Thereof =.
may DE- necessary { satisfy aud DISCHARGE fh.
ABOVE mortgage debt. inttreet IN insurantana st
du- ID ne amount stated. and the cnst- oi sale.
including 10 On attorneys fees. hs The Sheriff of
Grant county. south Dakota. at he front door
OF the court hoas-, IN the CITY of N,lbn,l
Grant county, Sauil Dakota. on. the 10th WI, ~
Dec mbrI, 1916. AT the hour OF Two u.clprk ~
III. OF said dav.
lhat no other proceedings at law or o,h.rp{e.
have been had for the foreclosure ~ TN. mafl-
gage.
Dated this 31st day of October. lel6.
FIRST \AlIoNAL BANk,
~ MiibAnk. ;. d.. Mortgages
j. y. Manley. sheriff,
lSad l.. Fuller, Attorney. Milhank.S S. d..
nov 3h dca
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SUMMONS.

state OF south DAkOta, County Of Grant-s.
IN lireni. Conr1-Fifih Judicial tircnlt.
j. X. Lee. Plaintiff,
Grace Lee, Defendant.
state Of South Dnkotx to thr .hova n.m.d 4.
fe0dant:
You are hereby inc and required 10 An
swer the complaint of the plaintiff IN the above
entitled action, \ copy Of which ,e hereunto a.
neAed ana herewith served upon YOU. and to
sefve a copy of your nnewer to the said COM
plant on the subscriber NJ his o!ice In he Bouck
building, III the city OF MiIbank in the County 81
Grent ~ said state of Sonth Dakota. with,a
thirty days after the service OF this eummons
upon YOU. exclusive of the day Of epch eeryica
ana II You fail to aneWer said complaint within
thirty daye after the service of this summons
upon you the plaintiff IN this action will amt,
to the Court for the relief demanded in Il.
said complaint.
Dated vt Ailbank. South Dakota, this 2sth day
OF October. A. ID. 1911.
ROBERT D.. JoNEs.
Attorney ,r PLAINTIFF.
bouck building, Ailbank, s. II.
10 the above named Defendant:
lou will please take notice that the compla,nt
10 the above entitled action was on the frat da~
OF November, 1916, duly filed ia the Office Of 10
clerk of the Circuit Court OF tue Fifth Judifi.t
Circuit In and for Grant County.
Dated November =. 1916.
Robert D., Jones.
Attorney for Plaiutif
Bonck Building, Milbxnk. $. Oak
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of South Dakota,

State Of south Dakota
as In Circnit Cont
Comfy of Grant Flftn Judicial Ctrcutt
Nellie ). Rruner. Plaintiff
W.
William l.. Bruncr. Defendant
The state of South Daknia sends vrectino T.,
the above named defendant:
ron AZ" hereby and requl red to an
s"er the complaint of the above named pIainlia.
= copy OF winch Ia herewith servrd upou you
AND 7" serve n COPY Of ynul AM Wpr on the nun.
ecTlner ~ ME once in the city Of Milbank. Grant
county. south Dakota, within thirty dAya after
tne service or thls summon eXclueIve OF The dav
81 service. and II yon fail TO answer the com
paint within that time tn. plaintiff viii apuly To
the Court for the relief demanded in this eo,.-
plant. '7 w.
osttd the aist day Of October, 1915. at Nil
bank. South Dskcta.
Geo. :. Xix, attorney for plaintiff
10 Ihe above named defendant.
lou VIII please take notice that the summo..
III 'he above entitled action II published puf-
shant 10 ONT. and hat II copy OF the aunnnn.
anu complaint IN THE action IL on file In the on.
nee or the Clerk or Courts Of Grant Connt,
south Dakota. "H''
Geo. :. RlX, Attorney for Plaintiff.
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DELINQUENT TAX LIST

q. 1Ni6
Notice 10 hereby given that |, A. j. Lindahl, treasurer
OF Grant County, South Dakota. will on Monday December
IL, lSl6, between the hours ut y o'clock 4. m. shd 40 clock p.
q: q that day proceed TO sell It public auction all the real
estate IN Grant County, South Dakota. on which the taxes.
being the real and personal taxes due or the year 1915. or
previOne years, are delinquent and remain unpaid on that
day.
said sale will take place ut the court house. in the conn.
~ treasurers Office. III The city OF Miibank. the county seat
OF said Grant county. commencing. III Y o'clock on aAid 18th
DAY OF December, 1916. and If necessary will he continued
from day to day until ali OF said real estate in Grant county
sold.
The following liet contains y description of the lands,
lots And real eetate to be sold, the names OF the parties to
whom the same are assessed, and the amount OF taxes due
thereon.
Witness my hand THE 23rd day of November, 1915.
A J. LNDAIlL
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Notice to Creditors
state of Sonth Dakota County Of Gfant-s a..
In County Court.

state of Sonth Dakotx County of GRANTEES.
In County Court.
In the matter of the estate OF Jefferson d.
skinner, deceased.
Notice IL hereby given by the undersicnaf
Emma N. >kinner, xdmtnistratrix of the estate Of
Jefferson D. skinner. deceased, to the creditors
OF, and All persons having claims anainst thu
said licensed, 10 exhibit them. with The
necessary vouchers, within six months astp, frst
publication of this notice 10 the sAtd Emma n
skinner at her residence in Revillo in the County
Of Grant, South Dakota.
Dated Al Milbank, South Dakota, Dec. II. 1911.
EMMA NJ. SKINNER
Admin -tratrix of the estate,
of Jefferson ID. skinner. dacea..A