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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-04-20
Plan For Rodeo AT
Bly, July 2, 3 and 4;
Bad Horses Ridden

Try-outs. for the BLY, Rodeo were
held Sunday afternoon. The associa-
ton asked all to bring their best
buckers" and the material furnished
speaks we'll for the success of the
coming roundup.
Among the horses ridden we're:
Rainbow and Square Deal rid
den by Luke Chester; "Black Dia-
mond," ridden by Selby Lawner;
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
"HEAVENS POTENTATE" JAILED.

For having obstructed the draft during The war,
Joshua Sykes of California, jailed 18 months Sykes
head of fanatca body called the "House of David"
Just prior to his Imprisonment he startled his followers
with the prophesy that the end Of the world would come
on March but later changed 1t to March s. Both pro-
that his later pophesy one day nearer correct than
his first
The road to fame is devious one and the stunts
that may take to gain it. rather noorety puzzles the
ordinary man.. Sykes would probably never have beer
first page position by breaking in jail Eugene " Debs,
who received more votes in jail than he would have re-
ceiyed out of it, plays the martyr" occasionally to keep
from being forgotten Just now he has been disciplined
for scurrulous writings concerning President Wilson
But, after ALL people are willing to let such
fellows as Sykes and Debs all that kind of noto
riety.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

kettle full of boiling water sings, but unfortunately
man is not kettle.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
COURIER PREDICTIONS BEING vERIFIED

After the last presidential election the Courier pre-
diced that the bncombe of the campaign being over
the Republicans would enter into the League of Nations
IN some form or Other and the indications are that this
is to be comsumated
The personnel of President Harding's cabinet is the
best indication of the drift in that direction Secretary of
State Hughes being proLeague man. And the recent
acts OF the new tends to show tha the Pres
ident recognizes the necessity of the nation being in the
League.
Already the much hearded separate peace with Ger
many has been abandoned which leaves no other
of Versailles. - VIZ -''"'S
The policy of the Wilson administration has been
followed in every instance that has yet come up in our
foreign relations so far and there seems to be no ndica
ton OF undoing anything that has been done.
ton and succeeded in the election by denoncng the very
policies which they now endorsing and carrying out
Sooner or later in perhaps modified FORM the Unit
ed States will enter the League of Nations
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

ileNed him dead; her captOrs would
impress that fact upon her first of all.
so as to make her realize her com.
plete helplessness. Besides. she cared
nothing for him; had married him in
differently, merely to thus escape
from a worse fate. He could not hope
that loyalty to him. under such cOndl.
tions, would greatly influence her de.
cIsion. Somehow the thought hurt
Shelby, and brought to him the knowl
edge that he did care. He cared very
much indeed. and this truth colored
his thought and decision.
He dare not follow those men at
present; he could only wait where he
was, and plan his course Of action.
There was no danger OF his losing
them. for he knew where they were
going. and. In measure. at least.
about who they were. Shelby had
never been In that strange sink know
ms Wolves hole. but he had talked
with man who had. An immense
hole In the Bad Lands. through which
flowed n branch Of the Cottonwood. n
strange mnlfOrmntlon Of nature. So
cnmrletely concealed as TO he Invisible
until the surprised traveller stood on
its very edge. md stared down into
the gloomy depths below. The walls
we're PERCEPTIONS. impossible except
on foot by daylight. and at only two
noInis could the sink he entered on
horseback; from the west beneath the
protection Of a cataract, where the
stream plunged hnadlong over high
edge Of stone, and from the other
extremity down narr0w rHylne
through tunnel scoOped out by some
torrent IN long-past ages. Originally
discovered hy wandering trappeps.
who cnmped there out Of the winter
storms, II had later become the head
quarters for an Illicit Indian trade In
lIouor, and finally the rendezvous for
crimlnnls Of all kinds, eager to gel
beyond the reach Of the law. II was
rumored that there was actually
town there. with women Of o class
ylth n certain rude attempt at gov
ernmeDi by Q few self-rorstltuted aa
lhOrtIes.
Shelby vIsIoned all this In his mem
nry. questioning his chance Of eve
successfully Invading such q spot with
out arousing susnlclpn. was plain
~ proven by their testimony tina
Macklln was taking his captive TO thi
spnt for safe hiding. He apd his In
iInn accessories had ridden on. ans
!ous TO reach this security with ms III
tie delay as pnssihle. But would Shel
nv dare TO follow? To he sure, eScen
10 the Kid. he was unknown, whic
might make him welcome. Yet tn
danger Of detection was great.
Apparently, there was no othe
feasihle way Ip which he could hop
TO serve Olga. He weighed this wit
no conscious thought of himself, colt
~ and deliberately counting III
chances, and declded to make. the u
tempt.
J Copvinced as TO his duty and urge
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
A WORD TO OUR CUSTOMERS.

Owing to the tightness Of money, which we believe
is temporary we adopting the rule of thirty day
credit with our advertising and job patrons We have
quite amount of accounts on our books that past
due and this has caused us some little inconvience
We buy on thirty days time and our creditors expect
lis to pay promptly.
We send statements at the first of each month and
we trust that those who owe us will not delay remittance
Or if they do to write us explaining the matter This
will enable to arrange business to meet the con-
ditions and prevent us from depending upon remit
tances that we do not receive
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

CHAPTER II.--Mccarthy, saloon
keeper and Ponca's leading citizen. de-
cldes that the girl now alone in the
world, should marry Shelby starts q
hunt gor eligible husbands and the min.
lster goes to confer with the girl.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
HENRY C. PERRY FOR CLERK.

Henry G. Perry, Of Pomp, in this weeks issue of
the Courier announces for the Democratic nomination
for County Court Clerk
He is the son of "Uncle Ned" Perry, an old confed-
crate soldier
Mr.. Perry is a Democrat of the best type and is a
faithful party worker and is always in the front ranks in
all the partys battles man of highest character and
well qualified for the position he seeks he will if elected
make faithful and competent official He has never
asked for office, and being extensively related in the
county will be formidable candidate
The Courier bespeaks for his candidacy the earnest
consideration of the Democrats of the county
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

- .s,-,,rr Repraenaive,-The American Press Association
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

frall plainly traced { 0ng Theaedge Of
the hank. II led in and out amid the
lntricacies Of the hill ' taking. of nee
essity, so winding course as to give
Shelby no view ahead and soon con-
fused him in point Of direction. He
could only move forward cautiously,
fearful lest they might have halted for
some purpose, and watchful of every
trace Of their passage, as other ravines
we're constantly uniting with this
through which he was blindly feeling
his way. He came to sand and lost
all signs of the trail instantly, search
ing for II in vain for nearly an hour
before cOnfesslng himself at fault.
Then, leaving the horse below. he
climbed the nearest hill for view Of
his surroundings.
The sun gave him the proper direc-
tiOns, but all about stretched the same
dreary, bare ridges Of rock, offering
no guidance. There was no life visi-
bile anywhere and although he waited
for some time, sweeping his glasses
back and forth, he gained no glimpse
of the two he endeavOred to follow.
They had vanished as though swal-
lowed up by the earth. The sun was
already in the west and desperately he
determined to try the level. Even this,
amid the lntricacies Of those branch
ing passages between the round hills,
was difficult to achieve, yet he finally
discovered an exit and ventured to-
ward the north. confident that the
Cottonwood would surely lie some
where In that direction.
He came upon It so suddenly and
unexpectedly as TO almost daze his
faculties. Almost without warning he
stood at the very edge Of yawning
hole and stared In amnzement down
into those depths below. Again and
again he had heard this scene describ-
ed, yet had never before comprehended
Its reality. A huge cut straight down,
fully a mile wide, cleft the plain in
two, with no visible signs Of its pres
ence until one stood at the very era
ter's edge. At night he would have rid
den Off without the slightest warning
of danger. And below! Feeling sick,
dizzy, Shelby swung himself from the
saddle, crept cautiously to the edge
and looked down. He had no concep-
tlon Of the depth, for 1t already was
hazy down there, as though he gazed
through a blue fog, but how small
those trees appeared, mere toy trees,
md the sllyery stream running through
the center seemed scarcely a yard
wide. A yard, why, II 1t was actually
the Cottonwood. II must he n hundred
feet from bank to bank! God! What
hole! What a freak of nature
What a wilderness hiding place!
lie lay motiOnless, with eyes search
Ing up and down the valley. To the
right he could not determine how far
II extended. but to the left he could
discern the silver shield Of water
where the Cottonwood came tumbling
over a preclpice, One OF the two pos
sjhle entrances was there; the Other
must be along some one Of those nu
merous side ravlnes, whose black en-
frances he could dimly perceive. I
was all SO serene, so peaceful, tn,
truth seemed impOsSible-that he wa
actually gazing down into a veritahl'
hell on earth. o rendezvous of whit,
thieves and Indian murderers, bor
der fortress for I'll the nameless devil
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
CHAPTER VII.
The Trail to Wolves Hole.

Shelby lifted himself on one elbow,
anil ventured TO breathe easily once
M0Te. Tie vague Smd0ws Of III Two
men had vanished, but their progress
through the underbrusl could be plain
~ distinguished. Feeling themselves
absolutely alone In that wilderness
neither made the slightest effort to
proreed silently. Shelby sat upright
on the edge Of the gully. strninlng his
eyes through the darkness.
A strange fortune had brought him
the very information he most needed.
Ills whole thought contered instantly
on the fate of the girl. What course
would she choose under :hesa clrcnH
stances when the facts were finally
revealed to her? Undoubtedly she he
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
He clreled the Two Groves.


their depths anxlously for any sign Of
life. They we're desolate aud desert.
ed. but, from the outer fringe Of the
second he could perceive plainly the
dull glow Of the are hundred yards
ahead, II was no longer q fame, hut
n mere glImmer Of red ashes, casting
no reflection about, although clearly
visible. lie fastened the bronco to o
limb. within the circle OF trees, and
crouched forward alone, Winchester
In hand, choosing his passage beneath
the bank OF the stream. and advanc.
Ing with every precautlon, nauslng
every few steps, to peer over the pro-
tec,lng bank. and thus assure himself
TINT all remained quiet, When almost
exactly opposite the red glow OF the
Goals. he lay still, endeavorlng vainly
TO learn the situation, and becoming
more and more puzzled.
The camp appeared deserted, as
though the party WHICH had halted
there had already passed on. He could
hear no sound. see no movement. The
FIRE had died down Into q mere glim
mer Of red ashes. barely percepiIbls
amid the surrounding gloom. shelhl
drew himself forward, creeping like q
snake. convinced that he was alone
vet no less alert and watchful. Hi
progress was up a shallow depression
then carefully marked the course, his
point OF guidance o high pinnacle OF
rock standing out against the sky,
He was an hour reaching this obs
iectlva but once there he found the
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
HOw's T'his1

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls
Catarrh Cure.
f.. ]. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. o.
We the undersigned have known II. ].
Cheney for lac last Is years. and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any Obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK or COMMERCE,
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally,
acting directly urpn the blood and mu-
CCus surfaces Of the system. TestimoplRis
gent free. Price-i5 cents per bottle, Bold
by all Druggists.
Take Ilalrs Family Pllls ios constipation.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

Prohibition Commissioner Kramer says that women
are the worst bootleeggers. That is new idea and
one that will bear investigation though such modest
men Jim Allen, Of the Cynthiana Democrat and Enoch
Grehan of the Lexington Hearld will ask to be excused
from any Investigations of this kind And personally
we don't see how women can be bootleggers though
there are many things possible with the sex that
unable to KEN
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

One of the Zionist leaders has offered reward Of
$1,000 to any one who prove to him that the world
is not fiat Yet we anticipate that there will be no rush
to try to garner that bunch Of money fellow with
that kind of an idea in these days susceptible Of neither
proof nor reason 1t would be far easier to prove that
his head Is flat.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24
a H~a
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.-Tom Shelby, q rGncher.
rides III TO the frontier town OF f1nca
looking for q good time after long spell
of hard work and loneliness on the
ranch.- Instead, he runs into 4 funeral
that OF Dad Calkins, q retired army man
Of whom little is known. A girl still In
her teens, survives Calkins.
CHAPTER u.-McCarthy, q saloon
keeper and Ponca's leading citizen, de-
cldes that the girl. now alone In the
world, should marry Shelby starts
hunt gor eligible husbands and the min.
lster goes to confer with the girl.
CHAPTER III.-she agrees to pick u
husband from a score Of men lined up In
her home. To his CONSERVATION, she Sc
l,cts Shelby. who had gone along merely
rs a spectator. He declines the honor.
indignant. the girl dismlsses the assem-
hlage. Later. Shelby goes back to make
an explanation. She receives him good
naturedly,
CHAPTER IV.-Leaving her, Shelby
runs into two Of the rejected sultors, and
In a fight worsts them both. Angered
at tbeir peHarkB, ne returns 10 lne BlTli
determined 70 marry her, II she will have
lin. After his explanation Lhe sgreas
" marry him.
CHAPTER V.-The wedding takes
lace and the couple set out for Shelby's
.anch. with them Is the "Kid," Mack
lin, whom Shelby has hired as helper
on the ranch. On the way the girl tells
i.er husband her name is Olga Carlyn,
and also tells him something Of the pc
culiar circumstances Of her life.
CHAPTER VI.-Leaying hls wife II
| The house, Shelby goes to care for th'
horses, Returning, he iS struck IRON
! behind by an unknown assailant. Hour;
iatsr he reaDyers consciousness, to flt
that his wife and the kid" have dis
pppesred. He starts In pursuit,
CHAPTER VII.-Shelby overhears
conversation between two outlaws tina
throws some light on his wlle's history
| lie learns she is an heiress and that he
abduction has been planned. He ais
.earss that she has been taken t.
"Woives' H6ie,p o haunt Of bandits an
bad" Indians. fhe Whereabouts Of II
place Is unknown to Shelby tGopgh It
feputation as a resort of criminals !
.5idespread.
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

Candidates can reach the people Of the county bet
ter through the columns Of the Courier than in any other
way Tell the people what you stand for in the paper
The Courier goes to all the people,
Licking Valley courier., 1921-03-24

~ Anyhow, there is no use for ne ccuntr1 editor to
put on such airs because one G. lis A-~ IS elected
president.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-08-25

selected the DEVILS Basin as a place
in which to forget the tyrannies OF
kings and woo the goddess of liberty
and the jade of fortune. The former
had been amiable enough, but not
the latter, and when they started
Number One" on his homestead the
prospect of a personal acquaintance
with royalties, much as he had al
ways hated the tribe in general, nat
urally worked on Toms mind. So
that night he dreamed a dream, a
tremendously vivid dream, so vivid
that he just had to tell everybody all
about it. He dreamed that they
struck oil at six hundred feet, that
Campbell took the head driller to one
side and told him not to get excited
because it was only a Showing" and
that the driller right afterward broke
his arm cranking the engine.
They got a showing of oil at exact
ly six hundred feet; Campbell took
the head driller over to the sunny
side of the derrick and said
thing to him, and the latter, crank.
ing his stalled engine with a crow
bar, broke his arm. Scores of citf-
zens who fear God and vote the Re-
publican ticket straight, will take
oath that this is Gospel truth.
But, as usual, various things hap
pened to this we'll, including the
World War, and it remained for one
Harry Van Duzen, a pioneer sheep
magnate over in the country where
Theodore Roosevelt acquired the
strenuous life idea, to bring home
the bacon. Van Duzen "spudded in"
about a mile from the dream WE'LL"
and on November g., 1919, cut an
oil sand at 1,175 feet and brought in
Montana's discovery we'll" The
Treasure State had uncovered a
new treasure, and it is interesting to
note in this connection that subse-
quent study of the previous wild
eating operations in the state has
brought out that of yer two hundred
wells, comparatively few of which
were ever completed, only some 10
per cent were located on what a
present-day oil geologist would map
as a structure.
This discovery naturally drew the
attention of oil men to Montana, but
as the fluid was what is known as
"heavy" oil, and the production was
not large, it caused only a furry, and
it required still more than the Cat
Greek discovery to put Montana on
the oil map. This anne in May last
year, when another we'll drilled in
Cat Creek "blew itself in" with an
initial production estimated at 5000
barrels per day. This was the match
that fired the magazine, the spark
that set off the fireworks, the signal
for a final grand offensive all along
the line, with the big guns support
ing the-shall l say?-infantry, and
victory in the air. 1t was the magic
wand that in the twinkling of an eye
metamorphosed "Smith, the poor
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-08-25

Canadian border, whence emanate
the winter weather reports that ma
lign Montana; but nary a drop of
oil.
Let me add here parenthetically
that "~wildcatting'' is a much misun-
derstood term. 1t is merely a pic
t%uresque expression which means
hunting for oil where oil has not yet
been located, and in no sense is it a
term of opprobrium. The wildcat.
ter is the trail blazer, the prospect
or, the 49er, perennially reincarnat-
ed, and where he is, there is the from
tier of petroleum production. He has
and he must have the spirit and the
mettle of the explorer and the pion-
eer. Without him there would be no
oil fields. In the past largely the
validating has been done by small
Independent observation-disclosures even
as recently as this year the Eldorado
field in Arkansas-but it so happens
that today in Montana some of the
largest producing companies in the
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-08-25

fish," into Mister Smith, the presi-
dent of our company"
The rest is the old story of the
old days of the gold rushes and OF
the newer days of the oil booms,
only the setting and the cast are
new. Men who had struggled for
years against hardship and discour-
agement found themselves literally
jerked overnight into the lap of opu-
lence. Homesteads that one day
would have been sold for a song, the
next day could not be bought for a
fortune. One young man from Texas
who, on the advice of a friend, had
filed on some government land in
Cat Creek before enlisting in the
army, came back from France to find
that he had an oil well on his ground
and was already a near-millionaire.
Untold numbers of poor fish" who
had been "monkeying around" get
ting leases or making filings, found
themselves possessed of rights either
Immediately worth a small fortune
or prospectively worth a big one
For with discovery came develop
ment. And this development in the
last thirteen months has gone for
ward with such speed and has grown
to such proportions that even the
people of Montana themselves do not
fully grasp it's tremendousness / do
not NEAR hal Montana is blind to
the Importance of it's newly disclosed
resource, for it is doubtful if in any
other oil state the home folks have
shown more initiative and enterprise
- al 14-l- 81 fs-
oil operations. What I do mean is
suggested by the fact that there are
men who have been leaders for years
in the commercial and industrial life
of the state who are only of late be-
coming thoroughly alive to the fact
that here is a source of wealth that
will mean perhaps as much to Mon
tana as do the marvellous copper
mines which for decades have been
one of the cornerstones of her in
dustrial prosperity.
To understand just what is going
on and what the future is likely to
bring forth, one must be able to
visualize eastern Montana, superb
cially at least, from an oil standpoint.
Imagine how your nice white bath
room wall would look if the embryo
Christy Mathewson of the family
had thrown a handful of ink at it
from a distance of say three feet;
conceive each of the telltale spots,
irregular in design and indiscrim-
mate in arrangement, to be an oil
structure, and you get me the first
time. More than one hundred such
structures have already been spot
ted" Two-score or more of them
have been subjected to detailed geo
logical survey and pronounced favor
able for oil. Before any oil was
found in Montana, there was just as
much reason to hope to find oil in al
most any of these structures as in
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-08-25

country. There nature has obliter-
ated all the outward signs of oil,
anyhow most of them, and about the
only thing you can be dead sure of
is that you will find oil where you
find it.. But out here nature has
b~illboarded the scenery with oil signs
so co~nspicuously that he is indeed a
boob who cannot spot a dome with
one glance after having heard what
they look like from a man who never
saw one.
All simple enough. But somehow
it failed to work out. More things
a happen to an oil we'll than to
almost anything else in this world
except a movie star, and they all hap
pened to the wells in Montana. The
"w~ild-catters' drilled here, there,
and everywhere, but they found no
oil. Sometimes they found nothing
that even remotely resembled an oil
sand. Sometimes they found one, but
as thin as a Long Beach bathing suit.
or as dry as prohibition statistics, or
as wet as Gotham is rumored to be.
In various places they got gas-lots
CT it yer near Baker by the Dakota
line, ditto around Havre, near the