Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26
CHAPTER xXlI-Continued.

N 10! y6dA OllIISA U0lW00u lT1Dula-
and Winchester trading in cattle
timber, made journey through
!: bills that spring, and was every
Igs received as home folks" For
here we're no bars of distrust,
le was able for that reason to buy
I'D right and left. Though he had
id for it price above the average.
vas price far below the value of
Be coal and timber it contained
ID jim had picked his land.
lnse Havey and his associates knew
Bat jim Fletcher had been subsidized;
bat the money he spent so lavishly
ES not his own money; and that he
ame as a stalking-horse, but they did
lot know that he had been to Louis
nile and had conferred there with Mr..
TrevOT. Neither did they know at
nee that he had visited the cabins of
gery malcontent among both the for
ner factions, and that he was mis-
thiefmaker adroitly laying here in the
bills the foundations for new feud.
Jim had bland tongue and a per-
aaSive manner, and he talked to the
men in their own speech,
but he was none the less the advance
agent of the new enemy from down
below: the personal fulfillment of
Juanita's prophecy to Roger Malcolm.
Juanita did not realize how much
she was leaning on the strength OF
Anse Havey, how she depended on
him for counsel and encouragement,
which he gave not in behalf of the
school, but because he was the school
teachers slave She saw the little
hospital rise on the hill and thought
of what it would do, and she believed
that Anse Havey must be, in his heart,
even though his mountain
1bstinacy would not let him say so.
Then, while the hillsides were joy
BUS with spring, came a squad of lads
with transit and chain, who began
a tentative line through the
and that Jim Fletcher had bought
Anse Havey watched them grimly
With folded arms, but said no word
Until they reached the boundary of his
,Wn place.
There he met them at the border.
Boys he said, I'VE mustn't cross
hat fence. This is my land, an for
lids ye."
Their foreman argued.
We only want to take the measure
nents necessary to complete our line
dr. HaYey. We won't work any in.
ury."
Anse shook his head.
Come in, boys, an eat with me an
make yourselves at home" he told
hem, but leave your tools outside"
Men from the house patrolled the
Oundary with rifles and the young
len were forced to turn back.
But later they drew near the house
( old Bob McGreegor, and he, steal.
lg down to the place in the thicket OF
hododendron, saw them perilously
ear the trickling stream which even
hen bore on its surface little kernels
yellow corn. Deeply and violently
Id Bob swore as he drank from his
tile blue key, and when one day he
aw them again he asked counsel oil
o man. He went down and crept
lose through the laurel, and when ms
Id rifle spoke a schoolboy from the
Tue Grass fell dead among the rocks
f the water course.
After that death, the first murder OF
n innocent outsider, the war which
Anse Havey had SO long foreseen
roke furiously and brought the or
ers of upland and lowland to the
rip of bitter animosity.
Old McGreegor's victim had been
Dung Roy Calvin, the son OF Judge
alvin of Lexington, and the name 81
alvin in central Kentucky was one
with the states best ira
itions.
It had run in strong, bright threeo
trough the pattern OF kentucRS
chievements. and when news or ene
anton assassination came home, TIE
tate awoke to shock of horror. ne
lfamv of the hills was screamed III
cho to the mourning, and the name
Z Bad Anse Havey was once more
rinted In large type.
The men whose capital sought u
rest profit from the hills, ana "hose
mployee had been slain. were Qusch
0 take advantage of this hue ana cFs
f calumny.
They hurled themselves into nle
ght for gaining possession OF coVesso
and and were not particular as y
Jim Fletcher came and went con
family between the lowiands an.
ighlands. He was all things TO 81
nen. and in the hills he cursed Sne
owlander, but in the lowiand at
ursed the hills. Milt and Jeb ano
.nse rode constantly from cabin &c
abin in their efforts to circumven'
he adroit schemes OF the mountaii
udas who had sold his soul 10 ens
owland syndicate.
Fletcher sought q foothold Tor cap
81 to pierce fields acquired at 'A'
rice of undeveloped land and tnel
o take the profit of development
.nse sought to hold title until IN.
ales could be on a fairer basis anu
o the issue was made up.
Capitalists, like Malcolm, VINO sa. :,