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Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-08

loping along in his rear. He paid no 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 it sooner than he expected. Then he made a 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 flight Az he rode by the first houses his hors. broke and began to labor. Duane G'd not believe he would last long enOugH to go through the yiSage.
 Saddled hC-ses In front of a store gave Duane an 'dea, not by any means new, and one he had carried out sue cessfully before. A he pulled in his heaying mount and leapcd of, a counle of ranchers came out of the place. and one of them stepped to a clean-llmbed,
Tombstone epitaph., 1916-10-08
The Lone Star Ranger A Fine 7ale ot the Open Country By ZANE GREY

unusually tall figure. When 1t np- peared nearer he was seen 10 be walk ing with both arms raised, hands high. He slowed his stride.
 Docs Burt Jones live here?" he asked. in low, hurried voice.
 Il reckon. I'm Burt. What can do for you?' replied Jones.
 The stranger peered around, stealth lily came closer, still with his hands up.
 Tt is known that Buck Duane is here. Captain MacNelly's camping on the river just out of town. He sends word to Duane to come out there after dark"
 The stranger wheeled and departed as swiftly and strangely as he had come.
 Bust me! Duane. whatever do you make of that?" exclaimed Jones.
 "A new one on me-" replied Duane. thoughtfully.
 First fool thing ever heard of MacNelly doing. Can't make head nor tniis of 1t. I'd have said off-hand that MacNelly wouldn't double-cross anybody. He struck me square man. sand all through. But hell! he must msan treachery. I can't see anything else in that deal"
 Maybe the Captain wants to give me fair chance to surrender without blOOdshed," observed Duane. Pretty decent of him, if he meant that"
 He invites you to come to his camp after dark. Something strange about this, Duane. But MacNelly's a new man out here. He does some queer things. Perhaps he's getting swelled head. Well, whatever his intentions, his presence around Mercer is enough for us. Duane, you hit the road and put some miles between you and the amiable Captain before daylight. To- morrow I'll go out there and ask him what in the devil he meant"
 That messenger he sent-he was ranger" said Duane.
 Sure he was, and nervy one! It must have taken sand to come bracing you that way. Duane, the fellow didn't pack gun. I'll swear to that. Pretty odd. this trick. But you can't trust it. Hit the road, Duane"
 A little later a black horse with muffied hoOfs, bearing tall dark rider who peered keenly into every shadow. trotted down a pasture lane back of Jones' house. turned into the road, and then. breaking into swifter gait, rapidly left Mercer behind.
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LANDS SUITABLE FOR SHEEP
Animals Do Best Where Grasses Are Produced Naturally or introduced
 by Cultivation.

Sheep do best on high, dry land that is, on hard-soiled land. where the grasses adapted to sheep are produced naturally, or are easily introduced by cultivation. The short grasses, or such as usually are termed pasture grasses, are essential to the well-be- ing of the sheep. Cattle and horses Sill thrive and do well on hay grasses. on wet land grasses, tall grasses. but with the sheep it Is different: they depend on the short-growth. dry-soil- pasture grasses. It Is important that hey be not confined to wet. soft, bog gy pastures. The sheep incIines to foot scald, sore feet and finally foot rot where the hoof is constantly under the influence of moisture in the soil.
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Fecundity appears to be inheritable, at least to slight degree. This fact IS borne out by herdboOk records, al- lowing for their errors. It is Ques- donable whether the size of the litter really represents the hereditary fac tors transmitted. The wild hog usually averages four pigs per litter, very fer. tile sows of improved breeds often av. craze eight pigs, but the Tamworth, with an average of F pigs Der SOW, is the most fecund breed.
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hours he did that, dreaming. dreaming of life he had never tasted and now never would taste. He thought of her beauty and sweetness. of the few things which had come to mean to him that she must have loved him; and he trained himself to think of these in preference to her life at Bland's, the escape with him. and then her recapture, because such mem ories led to bitter, fruitless pain. He had to fight suffering because it was eating out his heart
 Sitting there, eyes wide open. he dreamed of the old homestead and his white-haired mother. He saw the old home-life, sweetened and filled by dear new faces and added joys, go on be- fore his eyes with him part of It.
 Then In the inevitable reaction. in the refiux of bitter reality. hs would
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fiery bay. He was about to get into his saddle when he saw Duane. and then he halted, foot in the stirrup.
 Duane strode forward, grasped the bridle of this mans horse.
 Mines dOne-but not killed" he panted. Trade with me"
 Wal, stranger, I'm shore always But ain't you little swift?"
 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.
 T reckon I'll trade" he said.
 Bounding up, Duane dug spurs into the bays Hanks. 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 hOrsemen with in rifle shot of him. and more coming behind them.
 His new horse had not had time to get warm before Duane reached a high sandy bluff below which lay the willow brakes. As far us he could see extend ed an immense fiat strip or red-tinged willow. How welcome it was to his eye, He felt like hunted wolf that. weary and lame. had reached his hole in the rocks. Zigzagsing 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 willows.
 ''Hi, Sid. Hcsh's yonr hossr" called one. evidently to the man Duane had forced into a trade.
 Say, if you locoed gents II hold up little I'll tell you somethin'." replied a voice from the blHff.
 "Come on, Sidl We've got him corralled," said the first speaker.
 "Wal. mebbe, an If you hev it's lia- ble to be damn hot. Thet feIler was Buck DuaneI"
 Absolute silence followed that state ment. Presently it was broken by a rattling of loose gravel and then low voices.
 'He can't git acrost the river. tell you" came to Duane's ears. Hes hole"
 Then Duane, gliding silently and swiftly through the willows. heard no more from his pursuers. He headed straight for the river. Threading a passage through a willow brake was an old task for him. Many days and nights had gone to the acquiring of a skill that might have been envied by an Indian.
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clear stream between yellow cllnS, stood a small deserted shack of cover ed mesquite poles. It had been made long ago. but was well preserved. A door faced the overgrOwn trail. and another faced down into a gorge of dense thickets. On the border fugi- tives from law and men who hid in fear of someone they had wronged never lived in houses with only one door.
 It was a wild spot. lonely, not fit for human habitation except for the Outcast.
 On clear days-and rare indeed were cloudy days-wIth the subsiding of the wind at sunset a 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 a 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 man named Sellers, and the combination of circumstances that had made the tragedy a memor- able regret, had marked If not a 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 stor- ies were all that Duane had gathered in years to substantiate his belief that Jennie died shortly after the be ginning cf her second captivity. Sellers might have told him. Duane expected, If not to force 1t from him at the end. to read 1t in his eyes. But the bullet went too unerringly; 1t locked his lips and fixed his eyes.
 After that meeting Duane lay long at the ranch-hOuse of friend. and when he recovered from the wound 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, a prey to re- morse, dreamer, victim of phantoms.
 It took work for him to find sub sistence In that rocky fastness. And work, action, helped 10 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. l. 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, toil, strife. death dealing to dim tito deaden the thought of what might have been. He had n marvellous gift of visualization. He could shut his eyes and see Jennie before him just as clearly as If she had stood there In the flesh. For
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INHERIT FERTILITY IN SWINE
Experiments Of Kansas Experts Watched With Closest Interest,"
 Tamworth Most Fecund Breed.

Can filters of 8 to 12 pigs per SOW be insured by any system of bondingi Possibly so, is the reply indicated by the work of Wentworth and Ambel. Kansas Agricultural college. Their experiments in breeding will be watched with the closest interest.
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DRY FOOD QUITE INJURIOUS
Cows and Sheep Grow Feverish and Stomachs Show Effects of Unnat-
 urai Food-Give Green Roots.

Cows and sheep fed on dry food V summer grow feverish and their s,omachs show the effects of the un- natural food Green roots, when mixed with the grain diet, will prevent this. Tf 1t is not desired to feed the roots whole they can be massed by passing them through . pulper.
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SYNOPSIS.

The time of the story: about iS.s. The place: The Texas COW country. The chief
 character: Buckley Duane. a young man ~ho has inherited lust to kill which he suppresses- In self-defense he shoots dead a drunken bully and is forced to flee to he Wild country where he joins Bands outtaw band Euchre. an amiable rascal, teis hisn about Jennie a young girl who had been abducted and sold to Bland for a Dad Tate. They determine to rescue the girl and restore her to civilization Eu- dangerously wounded by Mrs Bland, but esca pes 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 a man on the path of honor in the face Of allurine temptation. But there comes into Buck Duane's life a feminine influence so fine as depicted by the author that the reader of "Thc Lone Star Ranger" cannot resist the charm of if all. lf you want the cream of romance and adven- ture, don't miss this installnent.
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CHAPTER xi.

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

SCck and Jennie are sitting in the wilderness cabin discussing their fu- ture.
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Do you believe that Captain MeNeIiy is trying to lure Duane to his camp at night time In or der to shoot hIm from ambushf

CTo BE CoNTINULDJ
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
PROGRESS OF WORK ON
RECLAMATION PROJECT
Distributing Unit is SO per cent Com
plete, Arrowrock oo.5 per cent.

The Reclamation Record for Janu-
airy is at hand. The monthly progress
for November on the Boise project Is
as follows:
About 100 second-feet of water was
carried in the main canal and the
Mora Canal throughout November
being carried mainly for construction
purposes. However, water was de-
ivered for the irrigation of clover
and alfalfa to limited extent; also
stock water was delivered over prac-
ueally the entire project during the
month.
Excellent weather prevailed in No
veniber. On Thanksgiving day there
was slight snowstorm and after that
date there were one or. two other
small showers Of snow, but most of it
melted, leaving the ground in good
shape for fall blowing, considerable
OF which is being done.
The threshing of clover seed con-
tinued the entire month. A little
trouble was experienced the latter
part of the month on account of wet
weather. The high price of l6 cents
per pound still prevails for Glove,
seed
The prices of hay and gain are
quoted as follows: Hay, S5.75 to Sc
in, the stack; barley, $l.1O; oats, $l.15:
wheat, $l20.
The status of the project reservoirs
Tor the month is as follows:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
SHIPMENT OF CANNED
WATERMELON IN FREEPORT

(Carrol County ILL.,, Democracy
While Freeport is behind other
towns in many things, it comes to the
front occasionally and TODAY it has
the reputation of being the first city
in northern Illinois to receive cargo
OF canned watermelon. When the
canned watermelon agent was in
Freeport several weeks ago, he dis
played to one of the leading mer-
chants of this city sample of the
goods, and the result was an order
right OFT the bat, to be rushed to Free
port at once, as the Freeporters were
Just longing for a taste of waterme1-
on. Other orders had been taken in
Rockford and surrounding cities, but
the Freeport shipment was to be sent
by express and arrived in advance of
the orders from neighboring cities.
The watermelon is put up in cans
somewhat larger THAI can of salmon
and is sold at 10 cents a can. The
label on the can is almost complete a.
1t has on the front a picture of large
Juicy watermelon which has been
freshly cut. If an old southern darkv
was included in the scene it would b.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
GIVE THE BOY A CHANCE.

DR.. Louis w. Rapeer estimates that
between IS and 20 per cent of the
children who fail of promotion and
fall back in their school work do so
because of i'll health and physical
defects. These three or four million
unfortunate children are likely to be
hampered all through their future
lives by the same causes. The object
of school medical inspection is to de-
tect such defects in time and secure
their treatment-to give the boys and
girls a chance, in school and in after
life.
DR.. Rapeer estimates from study
of the statistics obtained in twenty
five cities that out of an average
group of elementary pupils two-thirds
will be found to have defective teeth.
one in fourteen defective eye-sight,
one in seventeen enlarged tonsils and
one in twenty adenoid growths or
other distractions of the nose or
throat.
AS rule, neither the child nor its
parents have any suspicion that these
physical defects exist. Many child
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
William L.ANen, MD.
SPECIALIST DISEASES OF MEN
zol-4 McCarty Bldg, Boise. Idaho.
A VISIT WILL TELL

mont IN invite all sick people who contemplate taking treat
@ f 60 come to my office for personal interview and
a aft i" S M of their condition give special
teon 10 tne combination of the curative powers If
nlectrlcty, A-kay, Light and Heat Bacterpes Sor,n
anu organic extracts, with the scientific administrators Of
care!uy selected medicines. endeavor to do evarvth
pessole TO promote the welfare of nv patients and
aer thorough examination find your case ;nonrebi
ent of fen you So have spent thirty years in the treat
nave spent one year in the largest hospitals and clinics
VI Europe formerly was surgeon to the New York Cen
fra ana hudson River Railroad | am graduate If
sno1ad University Medical Department class of 1881
Sinatea at Albany New York Ny Offices are eounnei
STANCES pn .e or o te pda scientific and
lux e1e methods Will appeal to those who think and das
the day. anu ii0e' approved treatment of
flow bfeat and cure in selected cases and without onor
Hon. Ion flles flstula Ulcerations Prolapses F;spros
Nernon TGpture without confnng the patient to bed
Kidney Bladder Urinary Diseases
Sroaas varlcoeee Hydrocele Prostatc Troubles
ntrlctures Sexual Weakness and all private d;saes
H e. diseases OF the skin, such as Eczema Psor;as;
orticarla Auto infections and Synhii;s zoo;
es e 40 not treat any by mail but frst reonre n
ossee visit Tor personal examination and consnlat %
Idaho " -oif Nicoarty Bldg, Boise,
Consultation and Examination Free Referanco INV,
oank OF business house in the city. '"'s any
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07

widening Golden Gate canal, 1900
yards excavated, 40 per cent COM
pleted; widening first miles of Deer
Flat Lowline canal by contract, ST.
per cent completed; paving on Main
canal by contract, 15,40O square yards
work IS per cent completed.
Pioneer Drainage.
Drag line No. has worked con-
tinuously on the Madden spur drain,
excavating length of $3.50 feet and
81, 100 cubic yards. This drain is 20
per cent completed.
Drag line No. 3 has worked on the
west end drain since November ID,
excavating 1906 linear feet or PASS
cubic yards, the drain being 10 per
cent completed.
One 30H-inch reinforced concrete
pipe culvert, carrying the Madden
spur drain under the Oregon Short
Line, constructed to within 80 per
cent of completion.
Surveys on the north side of the
Boise River have continued through
out the month with four topographic
parties. Topography has been taken
to date covering approximately $4,000
acres of land.
Arrowrock Reservoir.
Weather and labor condition were
favorable during the month. With the
exception of little excavation for
the log conveyor, the installation OF
log-conveyor equipment, and the dis
mantling and storing of plant and
equipment, the work was finished.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
City and County Intelligence
UNION BLOCKS WILL BE
CONVERTED INTO HOTEL
Work of Remodeling Building Under
Way-Nichols Will Run Place.

That portion of the Union Block
belonging to Martin Jensen and parts
of the building belonging to M. A.
Roberts and Dr. ]. w. Cue, is be-
ing converted into hotel The entire
second story will be remodel and
the rooms rearranged. A wider stair
way will be put in the building. One
room on the ground floor will be
made into an Office and lobby. The
entire building will be steam heated
with hot and cold water in every
room.
The new hotel will have about 80
rooms. 1t will be convenient and
modern in every respect. Messrs.
Horshaw & Goodloe have the con-
tract for remodelings the building.
Mr., and Mrs John H. Nichols, for
many years residents of Falk, have
taken lease on the building. They
will be prepared to accommodate the
public about January IS provided the
furniture arrives.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07
TRIBUNE CORRECTED WITH
FORMALITY BY MOMRERc
Statement Last Week Was "Ouite
Contrary to the Truth"

Last week there appeared in The
caldwell Tribune this small news
item: III"
The City Bakery Is moving to the
Hartenbower building next door to
The Tribune Office. The business of
the City Bakery is growing rapidly
and demands location closer in"
Monday The Tribune received from
w. J: Momberg letter which reads
as follows:
In reading over your issue of This
week | find local quite contrary to
the truth. Am writing you under Or
ders from Mr.. Momberg REQUESTING
you to make corrections in vour nexi
issue. You will please find local pin
ned to this letter.
Acting under orders from Mr..
M,omberg, | am requesting you to
discontinue our locals for the time be-
ing; VIII let you know when we
wish to print them again Hoping
you will give this your earliest atten.
ton, | remain,
-, Very truly yours,
w. J. Momberg. for Mr.. Mombere,
inquiry brings to us knowledge
that it is the Home Electric Bakery
which is growing rapidly and de
mands location closer in. We should
not have made the mistake of con.
founding the two bakeries. 1t is the
Home Electric which has moved in,
to the nartsnbower building next |
door. to The Tribune Office. This bak-
cry IS modern and up-to-date in every
particular and is doing a splendid and
growing business. 1t will need larg-
er quarters at an early date.
There was demand in Caldwell
Tor modern bakery and Mr.. Hoff-
getter is filling the bill
y, we trust that everything is clear to
Tribune readers. We are extremely
sorry to have made the error and
trust that w. ]. Momberg for Mr.
Momberg will accept this humble
apology, and explanation in the spir;,
n which they are offered. The aver
age man makes mistakes once in
While, but if he cheerfully corrects
hem at the earliest opportunity thew
ire generally forgiven.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-01-07

is backward in its school work he
cause it cannot see the blackboard
clearly or cannot study because of
backaches and never suspects that a
pair of glasses would cure all the
trouble. Many a child is dull and
fretful because of obstructed breath
ing and its far-reaching effects on
physical and mental health.
The principal of a public school in
a large city wrote short time ago
in regard to group of backward
pupils whose physical defects had
been detected by the school physician
and promptly treated: Without ex-
ception we have found marvellous
improvement in these children. Thev
all assert that they can breathe bet
ter, sleep more soundly and have
better appetites. Several of the bow,
have been able to give up their habit
of cigarette smoking, and all appear
to be in far better physical condition
Mentally they exhibit an unusual
alertness, interest and intelligence.
the absence of which was the chief
and most noticeable feature of their
previous condition"