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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09

ing man who had once interviewed me
at Angels. and d little later had
paused M mis- conlbing of the noun
tains In search OF me to usurp my
place at the Twomblys' breakfast TIA
BILE, this bewhiskered giant, with a
goodish bunch OF followers-hard-
boiled to q man, they looked to be-.
had surrounded d fair half of the
would-be Jumpers and were hand
cutting them with q celebrity that was
truly admirable. And Beasley, him.
self, square-jawed and p~eremptory,
was showing Fullerton up against the
side Of the shaft-house, swapping the
irons upon his wrists and counseling
him, with choice epithets intermin-
gled, to save up his troubles and tell
them to the Judge. -
AS we emerged from our wrecked
fortress, other members of the posse
were ovattering to round up the out
lying bog:h-throwers, who had appar-
emily takes to the tall timber in q
panic-strfckeh effort to escape. Down
on the bench be.aw there were horses
and horse-holdera; and among the
horses n whose boy.sh-looking rider
was just slipping from the saddle.
While l was wondering vaguely. why
the Angels town marshal had let a
mere boy come along on such a battle
errand, the boyish figure ran up the
road and darted in among us to fling
itself into Daddy Hiram's arms, CUR
CLING and half crying and begging to
be told If he was hurt.
l didn't know at the time how much
or how little the big marshal knew of
the various and muddled ~invOlvements
which were climaxing right there in
the early morning sunshine on the old
Cinnabar dump head; but l do know
that he quickly turned his captures
over to some of his deputies and had
them promptly hustled down stage
and off scene. While this was going
on | was merely waiting for my cue,
and | got it, or thought l got it when
the boy who wasn't a boy slipped
from Daddy's arms and faced me-.
I'm not hurt either" I ventured
to say, hoping that the brain storm
had subsidized sufficiently to make me
visible. welcome home, Miss Twom-
bly-or should I say Mrs. BullertonT'
The look she gave me was just plain
deadly; you wouldn't think that vio-
let-blue eyes could do it, but they can.
Then she drew q folded paper from
somewhere sinside of her clothes and
held it out to me.
There Is the deed to your mine,
Mr.. Broughton," she said nippingly,
and with a fairly tragical emphasis Of
the courtesy title. "You wouldn't
take the trouble to go to Copah ard
get it recorded, so 1 thought I'd better
do it. I hope you'll pardon me for be-
ing so forward and meddlesome."
Il was the super-climax of the en-
tire Arabian-Nights business. and be-
my feelings would no longer be
denied their rightful fling, I sat down
on the. shaft-house doorstep and
shouted and laughed like q fool. But
after all, 1t was Mr.. Isaac Beasley,
deputy sheriff and marshal of Angels,
who put the weather-vane, so to
speak, upon the fantastic structure.
II been lookin' round for you a
right smart WHILE" he told me gruffly.
when you get plum over your laugh
and feel that you're needin' a little
sashay over the hills fr exercise, you
can come along with me and go to Jail
fr stealin' that railroad car"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
BEST PACKAGES FOR CHEESE
Boxes Are Subjected to Rough Treat
ment In Handling and Should
Be Good and Strong. :.

r Certain characteristics of American
cheese, most valuable for export pur-.
poses, In addition to good flavor, In
clude firm, close-bodied texture, clean
and sound rind, and strong, well-made
packages. The favored export style
Is the large so~called "cheddar,"'
weighing from 60 to so pounds. al
though of later years q good many
twins have been exported. Twins
weigh about 35 pounds each, and are
packed two in d box. p T.
The matter OF the. package is very
important, as the boxes are subjected
to rough handling in loading and I'M
loading. The most satisfactory boxes
are suiiciently large for the entire
cheese, for with a cheese higher than
the box, the pressure Of other boxes
piled on top destroys the shape OF
the cheese and Injuries the rind.
1t is common In the United States
to parafin most OF the cheese market
ed a week or ten days after the cheese
is made, which permits free moisture
to escape and allows tor the usual
shrinkage. During the spring, sum
mer, and autumn, the use OF refriger-
ator cars. where a temperature Of SIS
degrees to 40 degrees +. may be main
tanned, Is important In shipping, II
has been found as q result Of expert
ments conducted BY the United States
Department OF Agriculture.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
I Biistering Heat and the Prayer
for Rain Goes Up.

Hot sunlight, winds as hot, as
heat which distorted OBJ
jects at a distance and made the sky
line a dazzling, wavering ribbon OF
faded blue and then the dull haze OF
smoke which hung over the land, and,
without tempering the heat. turned
the sun into a huge coppery balloon
which drifted imperceptibly from the
east to the west, and at evening time
settled softly down upon a parched
hilltop and disappeared, leaving be-
hind 1T an ominous red glow as Of
hidden fires, B. NJ. Bower writes In
LONESOME Land" >E .
When the wind blew, the touch Of IL
scared the face, as the smoke tang a.
sailed the nostriis. All the world was
q weird. unnatural tint. hard to nanne
never to be forgotten. The Tar horf-
zon drew steadily closer. as the days
passed slowly and thickened the veil
OF smoke. The distant mountain drew
daily back Into DINNER dictance; be-
came an obscure. formless BLOT against
the sky and vanished completely. The
horizon crouched then upon the bluffs
across the river, moved up to the line
OF trees along its banks. biotted them
ont one day and impudently estab.
lished itself halfway up the coulee.
Time ceased I'd 10 measured aceur.
afeIy; events moved sIowly III m un.
real world Of suftry heat and smoke
ana i red sun wading heavily through
fhe copper-brown nv from the east "a
IN west. md moon ~ red which
foIIOwed rneskiy After.
Men ro6e uDeasily heFs ma there
- Whsz they net 80 talked y
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linn
GAIN Or BULL ASSOCIATIONS


prepared ~ the United states Department
Or AEriculture.1
"A gain DE 80 cooperative bull ASSOC
cations during the past fiscal year TIM
dicates that dairy farmers are begin
ming to appreciate the value Of such
organizations. According to the dairy
division OF the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture there were 158 of
such associations. as compared with
I23 d year ago. This Is an increase OF
% per cent, q very satisfactory gain In
view Of the comparative neWness Of
the plan. AZ
This Increase ID attributed by the
department to the fact that farmers
are beginning to become acquainted
with the benefits which other farmers
have derived from this form OF CO.
operative breeding. Both federal and
state workers have found that mem
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CHAPTER xvI-continued

Now the presence of d wagon on our
bench at this early hour in the morn
ing might mean either n of two
Numerically opposite things: Our
~deIiverance: or the upcoming Of re-
Inducements for the raiders. We were
not left long in doubt. Shortly after
the rack-rack of the wagon wheels
stopped we. heard footsteps, and the
hair stiffened on Barney's back. Next
we heard Bullerton's voice, just out
side and apparently under u window
openings.
.Broughton :" the voice called; "can
yoi hear me?"
$50 we'll that you'd better keep out
dc range" / snapped back.
"All right-listen. You've got to get
out, Rroughton-that's fiat. l haven't
wanted to 60 to extremes. For per-
fectiy obvious and commonplace a
sons I don't want to have to kill you
to get rid of you. But we are not 60
ing to gentle you any You've
already hurt four Of my men, and two
Of the four are crippled. The next
time we hit you, it'll be for a tinish.'
"Yes," said /. "You brought the
new club up in a wagon, didn't you?
He ignored this.
ave could starve you out If we
chose to take the time. | know pretty
we'll what you've got to eat-or rather
what you haven't got. It's your privi-
'lege to take your life in your w
hands, Broughton; that's up to you.
But how about the old man?"
1.-THE old mans a-plenty good and
able to speak for h~isself" yapped
Daddy. You do your durndest,
Charley Fullerton !"
"All right, once more. You'll hear
from us directly, now: and as I said
before. we've quit gentling you. That's
my last word"
For a time after this the silence,
and the darkness, since it vas the hour
before dawn, were thick enough to be
cut with an ak. But the dog was
more> restless than ever, and we knew
that something we could neither see
nor hear must be going on. After a
while / asked the question that had
been worrying me ever since I had
heard the wagon wheels.
What did they bring up in that
wagon, Daddy-a Gatling?"
1.-THE Lord only knows, Stannie-and
he won't tell was the old p~rospector's
reply, made with no touch of irrever-
n C and the words were scarcely out
of his mouth before a thunderbolt
struck the shafthouse.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
Fishes Heads for Headaches

1t is the custom In China to pray
for holy medicine. A patient must
pay a visit to the temple and take
from the altar a tube containing num-
bered sticks. He passes the tube over
the incense several times until one Of
the sticks falls out. This is picked up
and the number on It is read. A cor
responding slip containing q prescrfp-
ton Is then handed TO him. As a
treatment for apopIexy, serpents' liver
is surely unique, but this Is prescribed
by the best Chinese doctors. Pigs
feet and deer's tendons are prescribed
for weak legs. and fishes heads for
headache. and giddiness. Human flesh
Is supposed to be eficacious In the
case Of certain illnesses, and young
people will have pieces OF flesh re-
moved TO make medicine for q sick
fatherl 49, M
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CHAPTER XVIII.
The Hofd.Up.

Beasley left me sitting on the door
step-T've a notion he had run out Of
handouts, else he might have clapped
a pair of them on melville he start
ed his posse down to Atropia with the
captured raiders and their leader.
When he came back we took time,
Daddy and I and the big marshal, to
size up the damage that had been
wrought, and beyond that. to dig into
the mystery of the continuous grum-
bling oar which was still ascending
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
XVII,
Tit forTat.

That word 'thunderbolt" is hardly |
a figure of speech. The thing that hit
us couldn't be compared to anything
milder than thunder and lightning.
There was a flash, q rending, ripping
roar as if the solid earth were split
ting In two, and the air was filed with
flying fragments and splinters. Air, I
say. but the acrid, choking gas which
filed the sEafthouse could scarcely be
called air.
4 "Dynamite-that's what they fetched
In that wagon! !" gurgled the old man
at my side, and I could have shouted
for joy at the mere sound Of his voice.
since it was an assurance that he
hadn't been killed outright.
"It's only a question of a little time.
now, Daddy" l prophesied. what
you said yesterday-that Fullerton
would try to get possession without
destroying the property-no longer
holds good. He has evidently decided
that we've got to be ousted. even at
the expense of building a new shaft
house and installing new machinery.
Why has he changed his mind, when
he knows that he could starve US ont
In a few daysT'
Il been thinkin' about that. right
p'intedly. Stannie. Shouldn't wonder
If samethin's in the wind-somethin.
we don't know about"
Then there's another thing" I n,,t
VII I'm II tkGsrnYanrfnv f.yct F~~ %L
argument, that our first guess was
right that, he did take jeanne to
Angels three days g and that they
We're married there. You know your
daughter, Daddy, and / know her. a
little. Nobody but an idiot would SUD-
pose that she'd live with Fullerton as
his wife for a single minute if he
makes himself your murderer"
IL sure does look hathaway to a
man up a tree" admitted the stout
old fighter. " -
I'm hanging on to the little hone
like a dog to a root, Daddy" I O 4
fessed. IF / can only keep on belfey-
ing that they're not married, / can put
mp a better fight, or be snuffed out--if
I have to be-with a good few less
heart-burnings.''
But at this the old man, who, no
longer 4 than the yesterday, had
seemed To lean definitely toward the
no-raarriage hypothesis. suddenly
changed front. =
Don't y0u 60 to bankin' on any.
thing like that. Sfannie, son" he said
in tone Oh deep discouragenent
.tlsharIey Bnllertonfs d liar, from tn
place Hhere they make liars for 4
Twin and faint goin' to- be no tricl
a4taiI Tor him To make Jeanie, and !
lct ether folks, b1ieye that WI
bI0wed ourselves up with our owr
dynamite. nd. sir don't you 90 Il
hankfn. Oh Tint.
Then y0u nj believe that Jeanfe
wont with Buiiert0nY
2 III -ooks Itke Their mint nothine else
mi to believe. 4 .he asserted doIefrlfy
ssI1oOk st X for yourself, son /: she's
been rome three whole deys. II sl1e
hadnff g0ne with Mn~and thI 800
Lord only knows where else ~ couid
kave rone-don,f ron reckcn lied nv
eesn bnek here long afore thks1 No
Sknnnfe; Nh bses, leffint 4
ru wffh khe hsd q
6ok r. gStf enf esstI
lIIIIEaSyI beks
rln1 stsfsaI.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
Use Of Purebred sires az ,improvers
Of Productive Capacity Of Cows 10
Rapidly Gaining Favor.

q a. n~ ~ 50 .f .. -.s En-. -.~
bers are being benefited by such CO.
operative associations even more than
the organizers had anticipated. s%t
Some form Of cooperative breeding
Is essential to the proper growth of
the dairy industry in many sections of
the country, for the reason that the
average herd at present Is so small
that the owner cannot afford to buy a
good purebred bull, and it is certain
that the herds of the future will not
be large enough to change this condi-
tion materially. The movement to get
more people living on farms and in vii
lagos to keep family cows tends to
diminish the average size Of the herd,
tor the one or two cows kept by each
family are really a herd In themselves,
but owners of small herds cannot at
ford to keep a bull. They, therefore.
depend upon neighboring bulls, and
the cooperative association is n
means of providing for such cows the
service Of high-class bulls.
The dairy extension men In South
Carolina, for example, realizing the
importance of the cooperative bull
association, have made. it a part OF
their campaign for two cows to each
rural family" and they have set as q
goal the organization in their state of
ia cooperative bull associations.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09

right now. Stannie. my son. Wed be
moggfn' up the golden stair and avon
derin' how much farther It was to the
New Jerusalem, and what kind o.
harps they was goin' TO give us when
we got there. We sure would"
We didn't keep our heads out very
long. While we were staring up at
the hole and at the patch of sky be-
yond II. d small dark object with q
smoke-blne comets tail trailing be-
hind iii crossed cur line OF sight, and
we duckei and held our breath---or af
least, I held mine. The crash came
almost Immediately, and II was fol-
lowed in swift succession BY d second
ana d third. Luckily. none of the
three hill the. s~haft-h0use, nor, Indeed,
felI very near To- it and this uncer-
fainty of aim told % where the attack
- cosning from. The bomb throw
were p0sted s~ofneshere on IN
eteop saCps of M mountain abore ~;
e0pewhtch hays desc1ibed -
lron nv brfnk ~ -
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09

pipe connections. Gone, likewise, was
the greater part Of the heavy wooden
sh%aft-lining. A little of this remained
in the upper part of the shaft, but
from a point possibly twenty-five feet
down, there was nothing but the bare
rock sides of the square pit swept by
the receding flood.
As for the hollow roaring noise
which mad followed the crash of the
explosion, and which still continued,
there was a good and sufficient reason
plainly visible from the pits mouth.
Some twenty feet down, and ON the
eastern side Of the shaft, a stream of
water big enough to run a good-sized
h~ydro-electric plant was pouring into
the perpendicular cavern, and it was
its plunging descent into the bowels
Of the earth which was making the
mimic thunder.
Beasley was the first to find speech.
where the blazes Is all that water
comm from?" he exploded.
That's just what we're. going to
find out!" I barked. "Can you and
Daddy handle my weight in a rope
slingT
They both protested that they could
handle two of me IL necessary, and q
sling was quickly rugged and I was
lowered into the, pit. At the nearer
view thus obtained, some of the mys-
teries were instantly made clear. The
reason why the wooden boxing disap-
peared below a certain point In the
shaft vas that it had never extended
any farther down. It had been mere
ly a box with q bottom and all those
pipe-dream impressions which had
tried to register themselves on the
day when I had my struggle with the
suction-pipe octopus were instantly
translated into facts. i could have
sworn. then, that there was a bottom
In the box, and there was a bottom.
And that other impression-that j had
encountered an inrushing stream oh
ice-cold water In the chilling depths
here was the stream; a foot-thick,
neyer-failing cataract, pouring In
through a perfectly good and substan.
tiai conduit of twelye-inch iron pipe
In a fash the whole criminal mys
terry involving the ostensibly flooded
mine was illuminated for me. 'tHaul
awayrI called to the two above,
and when they had drawn me up u
the pits mouth and 4 could get upor
my feet, I yipped at Daddy and tht
marshall to come on, and led them Ii
an outdoor race along the mine ledge
to the eastward; a hundred-yardi
dash which brought MS to the bank,
OF the swift little mountain torrent ii
the right-hanf gulch.
A brief search revealed precisel,
what / was expecting to find whal
anyone In possession Of the facts pre-
cedent would have expected to find
In the middle OF a small pool slight,
upstream from the path levef--a pock
eted bit OF water neatly screened AM
half hidden by q growth OF low
branching spruces--we saw a cone
shaped whirlpool swirl Into which /
good third Of the stream How wal
vanishing. Below this pool an appar
entity accidental heaping of rock
formed 4 small dam which kept III,
Iittls reservoir full.
without Z word. Daddy Hiram m,
fhe Angelic marshal plunged reckless
I'm tptn On stream M Vim their M,
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
BgBEBE 81 81 AS 81 81 9 81 81 5S = 81 y 81 e bM 9 Y
WHEN FLAMES SWEEP THE PRAIRIE

prairie fires and fire guards and the
direction of the wind, and of the faint
prospect of rain. Cattle. driven from
their accustomed feeding grounds,
wandered aimlessly over the still-un-
burned range and lowed often In the
night as they drifted before the flame
heated wind. "
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
aaflsfactorx HOW of NM

Satisfactory Flow 81 Milk.
Where no effort II made to give cows
good care, II II difiicnlt to make them
pay their way. They may give q satis-
factory dow az milk for 4 few weeks;
but later on they tall 20 keep the pals
dlled.5
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
Feed BaIancsd Ration.

III III extremely difficult to feed !
ration which will cause q starved COW
to Increase her milk flow. The safest
rule Is to feed 4 balanced ration from
the beginning, and to provide adequate
feed to>meet her requirements.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
IsnnronAr Eood Ear 49,

H1pT0p p TOT H0no.
MOldy grain Or grain which hao
sprouted under improper conditions =
sot proper feed for laying hsn1.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
Caves IN atIm NM

Calves under six' week5 dO WaIl =
skim milk alone; after tbst thsy
sbould Be given Jgrainz n weil.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09
Rouuhans Tor covu

Z Gown. 6 u
See that each cow has all the rough
feed she Will eat, then regulate the
grain ration according to the quantity
Of milk produced.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-03-09

But ait the moment when they were
ready TO complete the circle OF Inn
posture, death-the death OF Grand
father Jasper-had stepped In to com
pIicate matters. Somebody-possibly
Cousin Percy-had correspondent with
whoever was representing the robber
syndicate, and by this mean the plot
tiers had learned that they would now
have to reckon with an heir. How
Fullerton came to be employed By
Them almost at the instant OF his re-
turn from South America we did not
know but we could easily understand
that with the new complication which
had risen by eason Of Grandfather
Jasper's death, II was highly neces.
sary for some emissary OF the syndi'
cate to get on the ground quickly. pre-,
pared to forestall by purchase, guile,
OF, ia tile last resort by force, any at.
tempt OF the Dudley heirs to pry into
things they were not 10 be permitted
to know.
The pushing Of the fight Tor posses
sion to the final and property-destroy,
ing extremity was another matter thai
i Beasley was able I'd explain.
eye see. Ii was d cas- u fish I cut,
bait, and do Il quick" the marshal ex,
plained. If he could nj you folks
out, pronto, and get possession afore
anybody come along To ask Il lot %
p'inted questions, he stood about on
chance In q dozen to lie out DE 4
some way. II you-all got killed Id tn
ecrimmage. he'd scatter hin men iii tn
woods and try To make me bIieve thai
you'd vol done m trying HI run HIN
cro BE coNTINunDl
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-24
PADDOCK TANCLE
 IS SETTLED NOW
It Has Been Decided that Charles Shall Be Ineli-
 gible at the U. s. (.

LOS ANGELES, March 24.-The published statement here that Char ley Paddock, worlds champion sprint CT, member of the American Olympic team in 1920 and known as "the fastest human" had run his last race under the colors of the University of Southern California, formed the chief topic of conversation among the male students in universities and col leges throughout Southern Cali fornia. The announcement also came unheralded to the general public, 1t having been the impression that Pad dock would again be seen this year running under the U. s. c. banner.
 According to Gwynn Wilson, grad nate manager of the U. s. C., the faculty athletic committee at the university ruled that Paddock was ineligible 'because of his continued absence from classes" to represent the institution in future meets.
 The star sprinter completed his course at the university last Decem Der, but had not yet received his de-
The Alaska daily empire., 1922-03-24
NOTICE TO VOTERS.

The registration books for quali- fled voters of the City of Juneau, Territory of Alaska, for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two 1922), are now open in the City Clerks Office in the City Hall, and will remain open until Saturday April 1st, 1922, at the hour of five o'clock P M. of said day. All per sons desiring to vote at the regular municipal election to be held April 4th, 1922, should register now, as persons not registered will not be permitted to vote.
 That the qualifications for electors at said election are as follows:
 Any full citizen of the United States, either male or female, is en- titled to exercise the elective fran chise in the City of Juneau, pro- vided such persons shall be of the full age of twenty-one years, and who shall have been a bona-fide resident of the Territory of Alaska for one year, and of the City of Juneau for six months immediately preceding the date of election.
 Dated at Juneau. Alaska, this 18th day of February, 1922.
 A. E. GURR,
 Registration Officer. First publication, Feb 25, 1922. Last publication. March 31. 1922.