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under us and, swinging slightly in
the gale, crept put over the abyss. l
had Just come from flying with the
air mail from Salt Lake to San Fran
cisco-seven hundred miles over
mountains INT deserts-but not even
there had ! been aware Of quite SO
poignant a goodby feeling as at the
moment we left the edge of the -,ek
and dangled in the gale above Sho-
shone anon.
The little cara spider running out
its thread-dropped slowly past the
cheer gray concaye face of the dam,
down to the spray and thunder of the
river. for the water, with its three
hundred feet of head behind it, came
hurtling out of the mountainside like
a small cross section of Niagara.
It's All In The Days Work
We saw the turbine intakes down
there; compressed air drills were
humping men carrying dynamite.
Ladders, slippery with spray and held
cracks in the canon wall. ran up the
face of the rock to the top of the dam
fit for circus acrobats, you might
think, rather than for ordinary men
in overalls and heavy boots. And yet
they, as well as the cradle in which
they had descended, were all part of
the days work.
At one place the canon wall, a sort
OF conglomerate here, had begun to
give way, and men, fastened by ropes
to solid crags farther up, were prying
loose the powders, to send them
crashing down to the river. These
powders were supposed to go under
a footway across which workmen CON
stantly passed, and generally they did
go under, but sometimes they smash
ed full against it, and now and then
smaller chunks shot over the bridge
like cannon balls.
How the Trolls Were Amused
Nobody paid the least attention to
this. except the harder the powders
shook the supports of the footway and
the nearer they came to hitting some.
body the more the genial trolls work
ing up above seemed to be amused.
Every thing about Shoshone seem.
ed to be done with a similar Brob-
dignagian humor. 1t was a mans size
job, and mans size men were doing
it, from the quiet giant who was su-
~perintending the work to the roomful
Of huskies whom we Joined in shovel.
ing in beef and beans and bread pud-
|
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RUMSEY HAD PLATFORM
THAT SHOULD HAVE WON

How B. C. Rumesy lost the nomina-
tion for representative from Park
county at the recent primary mas just
come to light. 1t seems that Mr. Rum
sey's failure to make the grade was
due to the same cause which brings
on failure in many other affairs-a
lack of proper advertising. While
Rumsey was at home wrangling hors-
es and dudes his opponents were go
ing about telling the voters that he
had no meritorious platform to run
on.
This was decidedly unfair to Mr..
Numsey, as 1t now turns out that he
did have a platform n n which
would have swept him to victory by
an unprecedented majority had the
voters only known what he proposed
to do If he got into the legislature.
According to a friend of Mr.. Rum
sey's Bob's ambition when he got into
the state house was to introduce and
secure the enactment of a law to es-
tablish what might be known as an
interstate tariff. Uuder this act state
legislatures would be empowered to
protect their own industries by levy
ing a tariff on products imported from
other states.
Had the people of Park county
known what Mr.. Rumsey proposed to
do, his vote would have been. practi-
cally unanimous.
They point out the tremendous ben.
.ak kbot crxoh a 1ow worrld bo RI fhe
state of Wyoming. Take the moon
shine industry, for example. In this
state are hundreds of honest, hard
working moonshiners with families to
support working year in and year out
to perfect and put upon the market a
product that would be at once the sur
prise and delight of our citizens What
is the result? The reward of their in
dustry and sacrifice is to see their
product turned down by home con
sumers in favor of goods produced by
the pauper labor of Montana, Colo
RADIO and other foreign states and sold
at prices which mean ruinous compe
ton for home producers.
This is manifestly unfair to the in
rant Industries Of U state. They
need and demand a tarif--and moi
. tariff for revenue only but a tariff
for protection Do we want u chill
dren raised up under the same condi
tions hat surround the children Of
the 50-cents-a-day laborers Of Montana
and Colorado? We do not.
1t is pretty generally , conceded IL
these parts that Mr.. Rumsey has
struck the keynote to the future sue
cess of the politically ambitious In
Wyoming. for honor and fame will
follow the man who is able to have
enacted laws which will protect u;
from ruinous foreign competition.
, 1922-09-20
THEN SHE AROSE SUDDENLY
Elderly Lady Discovered She Had
Made Wrong Choice Of Her
Resting Position.

1t Is hard sometimes for the old and
the young to arrive at a common point
of understanding. The old lady and
the Sunday school boy In this story
did finally arrive at an understanding,
but not until the boy had suffered
damage to his feelings. If not to his
possessions.
A picnic was In progress. and the
benevolent and elderly lady took much
enjoyment in witnessing the delight Of
the children who were ~disporting them
selves In her grounds.
She went from one to another, Jay
ing a few kind words TO each. Pres
emily she seated herself on a grass
plot beside Dickie, a little boy with
golden curls and an angelic expression.
But as soon as he observed her sitting
beside him DIckie set up an ear-pierc-
ing howl.
Have you the stomach-ache7" she
asked. a~nxiously.
mo, l amt" snapped Dickie.
Perhaps you would like some more
cake"
MOP roared the angelic child.
What I want Is my frog that ]
ketched."
"FrogT"
Eyes, my frogi You're sitting or
him philadelphia Ledger.
, 1922-09-20
UMLER-sTAHLE

Mr.. Silas Rumler of Milford, Nebr.,
and Miss Luella Stanley of Meeteetse
were united in marriage at Christ
Episcopal church in ody on Tuesday
afternoon, Rev. D. r. Blaske officiat-
ing. Mrs. VIM Simpson and Mrs. D.
R Blaske acted as witnesses.
MI. Rumler is an e~x-service man
and the bride has been a teacher at
Meereetse for the past two years. Mr..
and Mrs. Rumler will reside near
Meeteetse where Mr.. Rumler has a
homestead.
, 1922-09-20
NOT HELPING OPERATORS SIDE

The unnecessary ~suffocating and
burning of Al workmen in a Califor-
mia mine adds a good deal of public
sympathy to the laboring mans side
in industrial disputes.
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Saws Uncle Chen.

"A man sometimes makes Ills best
soundin' Speech" said Uncle Eben.
"when he amt sure of what he's
talkin' about because he feels de ne.
cessity Of shown all de emotion pos
sible."
, 1922-09-20

Don't forget the big novelty dance
in Meeteetse Saturday night, the 23rd
Everybody welcome. Come and have
a fine time. B. Shrine.
, 1922-09-20

Don't forget the big novelty dance
in M~eeteetse Saturday night. the 23rd.
Everybody welcome. Come and have
a fine time. B. Shrine.
, 1922-09-20

Mrs "Bub" Cox, dressed up IN a
skirt brought Arrowhead guests who
were returning to New York, to the
station last Friday.
, 1922-09-20

Bargains in Children's Hats at the
Vogue Shop.
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words and phrases like man In the
last stages OF lockjaw.
1--WE we're going to Angels-to get
married" he painted. .Ah-ohI was
to meet her at Atropia She She was
afraid to ride all the way with me
afraid-the old would come gun
ningl Oh, for Gods sake, Broughton,
take your thumb out Of my back
you're killing me by inches r.
"Ypu need little killing worse than
anybody know" l told him. go on
you were to oYertake her at Auopia;
what them"
Il didn't see her again !" he howled.
Il don't know where she went I"
! didn't believe much OF what he
was saying, and think Daddy Hiram
didn't, though we had proved 1t true
up to the point where they had sepa-
rated on the Atropia road. I would
have gone on, making him talk some
more, but the look that was creeping
into the old mans eyes made me let
up. AS read the look 1t meant that
Daddy couldn't stand 1t to see the
third-degree stunt carried to its finish,
so l got up and pulled Bullerton to
bis feet. He was pretty badly wrecked,
as | meant him to be; still couldn't
straighten his neck, and stood as II
one leg were about half paralyzeG, as
perhaps 1t was.
This outfit is my property, and
you've eut-stayed your welcomed" !
snapped at hiHa Climb your horse
and get of the mapi~
He limped over to bis horse and
gathered the reins ana tried to put a
feot Into the stiyrup. When saw
that he couldn't do even that much, I
grabbed him and heaved him into the
saddle; did this, and gave the horse a
slap to set him going. / guess shall
Always be able to recall the picture Of
that brewn-bearded pirate riding
across the Cfnnabar dump head In the
early morning sunshine, screwing his
body In the saddiebecause he
couldn't turn the stiff-necked head by
itself-to yell back at me with siz-
Eilng curses, -Ill get you Ill get you
yet! DIN your eyes-do you think
you can make a hobbling cripple Of
me and get away with lit rR-" and
ehen breaking 1t or short and kicking
tne RIBS Of his nag franticany for more
speed when l made as Ii were going
to run after him.
throughout this BIT OF beiligerent
py-pa1, which hadn't used up more
.nan q rev minutes, all told. Daddy
hiram had stood aside, as have said,
taxing the part OF the Interested spec
.ator.- New he remarked: aYou can
". all Your old clothes, son. that we
haint seen the last o. Charley Butler
soa' not by a long chalk. You rfcollect
! 'oid you once he'd got man. down
I, n one o the camps on the saguache?
Neal' It was for heap less than what
you Gone to him q few minutes ago.
But let's go eat.s
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The Girl, q HOrSe
and q Dog

bufrsfing, slappans and rubbing. maui
Ing zns worse than any Turkish-bath
pirate would have dared 10. IN was
keen torture, but II turned the trtrk,
and by the time was able 10 breathe
comfortably again, had acquired a
beautiful spRnked blush where I had
been blue all but the great bruise,
.ring-shaped. where tho suction pipe
had hit me.
or course. Daddy was chock full Of
sympathy and concern, mixed up with
. good bit Of curiosity.
.'0ne of the suction pipes,~ I ex-
planned. beginning 10 crawl back into
my clothes. II was foolish enough 10
get under It and II grabbed and held
me. II you hadn't stopped the pumps
I'd have been gone goose. I was just
about all IN. as II was.~
swell, you found out the pumps are
suckin' all right, anyhow he re-
marked.
They sure are; you'd think 30 Il
you'd been whers / was Then I be-
gan 20 recall some OF those mixed and
mingled Impressions | had gathered.
"what kind OF soil ia there under this
floor. Dsddys" / asked.
''FIuh !" he snorted; "what soil there
Ii on this here ledge you could mighty
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CHAPTER XIII.
A Battle and a sia..a


1t was Daddy Hiram who made ,ba
first break.
Chariey Fullerton, where's NV
daughterT he raped out, hurting the
question at the loafer on our doorstep
In a sort Of deadly rage that Won
wouldn't have thought possible in So
mtld-mannered a man.
You needn't worry about her wos
the cool response. Didn't you 90, ~ :
note she left for you, saying that Won
neeuh u Then, as II he had lust seen
and recognized me. Hello prortrs
ton; we've missed day, but IN girs
you the benefit OF II and not dock you
are you selling the old watsr.Iosna,
C cam for twenty thousand do nsr
WIS anas me mornlnsf TIN probably save
you more or less trouble II Won owe = "
He didn't get the kind Of answer +.
wanted; or any relsting to the mIps
onouckling Jeanie's gun and hona'I :
!. II, 70 Daddy Hiram, / walked across s'l -
"hefe he was sitting, keep,ng : S =, y
eye on the hand which would a S : WI. y
be the one to go after tho wsa ave !, 70
haa once showed me hanging nnso ou I :
left arm-plt, uhuer his
Mr, Twombly has Just asse1 -,
wnere his daughter is, and vo, ha YOU
told him." l gritted. you've - ~ haven't aS
len seconds in which to ten ~ "a ABOUT
you know, and after you've d an
N going to trim Your lOle IL
:. de had scrambled to His TO-, :,
n rs saw me coming, and, just !. Tnen
pested, that watched riFht I Ssas Is ! ! e1-
suddenly under his coat. y t a'cked Z
rushed hlra and we mixed !, - ma. mat ]
l ! got hold Of the gun ban = Promptly pc
s $" 70 the pistol butt, and A. y, Setore i
U TS were all over the place s ne elinch
p 2. for the underhoId, ana each sSal, crap
Mp Ss paving much attention - - .s Of
Ia.l Of oueensberry o. = o, ,ne rules,
: iAsaAn WIS Aaay1x.I = otAer Bul.
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Eynonais. - Under his grand
fafasarse win, Stamford ysroughton
mDca@ty sdisr. sands hss share 0f the
m@s@&a, vaased mk something like
$4,000, He's III d ssssGfe xaDomi t0rR !.
iaxifuds ana longitude described,
and that In all. III may DO idsnzt-
GeA BIZ The presence nearby OF q
hrown-haiYad, biue-aysd airi. pis-
bali normA, and n dog with q Hpiit
fasa, half black and half whites
Stamford 81 hrsk regards the be-
guest an q joke. but after consider
alton sats Out 10 find his legacy.
On his way 10 Denver Stanford
haarn from fellow trsyeiAg.
sshariss xualsrton, q mining anGi-
nesx. q ato~y having 70 do with q
flooded snsne. He has d 'shunch'
ITALIA mins 10 the .'safs repository
Of shs will. naileFton refuses him
information. On the station plat
farm as Atrepim, Just 40 the train
pulls cut. stanford ssea what APP
pear so be the identical horse and
dog 6saerihed IN his gfanHFafhsr'e
will. Impressed. he lsaveH the train
MT she next step. Angels. Unable
10 secure d conveymnre. Brop@htcn
measen d trmek-inspection car and
escapes, leaving tbs impression on
the town marshai. Fseasley. that he
% aesnen8ed. Pursued, he shan
kscna ths car. which IN wrecked,
and escapes on foot In tho dark
ness be Ia evertaken by the afri,
the horse and the dog. After he
explains hla presence nhe invites
him 20 her home. at the OLD CHINA
bar mine. Tsroughtonss hosta are
Haran Twombiy. earetaksr OF tbs
mina. and his daughter JeaDse.
Stamford does not reveal his ider-
tity. Hiram and Stanford SO putt
serfng about the mine. Stanford
gets interested IN the work and
fails In love with Jeanne, who saves
mis- Ifs. Buliertcn shows up Of the
mine. He offers s5s. 1000 for the Gin
nabay. Stanford says mo" Ball
iartrn nakea threats. Somebody 7
throws monkey wrench into tina
pumping machinery. Jeanne disap-
pears. 30 does tho deed Of the
CsnnRhar.
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.roh,h,v fifteen pounds the advantage
~ me IN that direction; but after !
n.a got the thumb Of my free hand
unoa certain spot In his neck' " Was
All over but the funeral.
Jehu, how be swore when eruih
n,ea him. and took his gun away IRON
MIN and slammed him down on . oeo
~ broken stone and stuck knee 'n.a
| bis breathing machinery. Bas y
| couldn't do anything; the thumo-las
had f,red him His head was sseweo
over to one side and be conian ], .
straighten IL j groped around jill
II found that other paralyzing nsIss
ranglIa-the one at the joint Of tn'
third vertebra.
aListen to what he says, Dnndy
said to the old man who stood ioOAins
on with the face Of wooden iinass
Then to Fullerton, who vas now meI0
| iy wad OF flesh gone fiacc'a uisue'
| the torturfng touch: Tell what yon
know. and ali you know; and tel u
ouick and straight" and ! gave BIN
one more little prod on the agony
nerve.
with preliminary shrek ne LET u
out by Titles, gasping between tha
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so in there and saw her come out
likewise and the same, he must We
seen what she did after she come on,
Looks as II he wanted to talk and ten
us. don't her.
Barney was certainly giving good
imitation Of that, or some other any.
sety. He was frisking about and bark.
Ing, leaping up now and then to snan
at an imaginary fly In the air. Daddy
caught him by his lower jaw and held
him immovable. "Go find her, BAR.
neyi' he commanded; good doc-go
find herit
The instant he was released the col.
lie acted as II he understood perfectly
what was wanted OF him. ssprinefnr
asida- he began TO circle again. noso
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BY
FRANCIS
LYNDE
csyyrssns by oAasss ssssasss suns

grave, Of the tunnel spoil, and fun
troop of cavalry might have passes
over ii without leaving any yis1oie
tran. Worse than all, Barney, the p'e
faced collie, appeared now TO be coaD-
pletely at fault He was running
around in circles with his nose 70 .'
ground; a pretty plain indication tia'
he had lost the trail.
.T1l be bat-clawed and oWl-nooteu
II know whatall to do next, Daady
puzzled.
He hadn't any the best OF me there,
and 1t was precisely at this point tnat
the split-faced dog took It into MS
head to add another snarl TO the knot
ted tangle. After galloping around an
over the place half dozen times,
sniffing at everything IN sight, he hao
| finally come to a stand with his nose
at a crack In the tunnel boarding. Inc
next instant he had leaped through
the hole where the planks had fallen
away, and presently We heard MN
whining and scratching behind the
buikhead.
| | don't know about Daddy HiramB
heart, but | do know that mine was
doing ffip-fiaps and back somersaults
when we ran up to see what the DOG
had found in the tunnel. For half
second after Daddy thrust his torch
through the hole / was afraid to looK
scared stir at the thought OF what !
might see. When ! did look, saw the
dog digging frantically at the heap Of
caved.in earth, and, Of course to my
tiisordered imagination, the hole In
which he was burrowing transformed
itself at once into newly made grave,
| 'Good Godf' / gasped; and then
Look, Daddy right under your
torcht'
He looked and staggered back, and
would have dropped the blazing pine
branch II l hadn't caught 1t from his
hand. For what he saw, and what
had seen, was the unmistakable print
In the soft earth just inside Of the
planking, OF one Of Jeanie's brown
/ IeaLneT rIulnB-DooIS
i In another half-second we were both
In the tunnel and Daddy was heavina
4 the dog aside from the hole he was
4 paving out In the earth fall. Snatch
ing up a broken-handled shovel that
the former tunnel drivers had thrown
away, the old man flung himself mad
ly upon the dirt pile, and since ther'
was room for only one to work at {
time, stood at his "a COW and held thu
torch. I don't know what he expected
to find hidden under the slide, but
do know what was afraid he wa
going to find.
J. After all, it was only flash in tn,
pan, so far as any dreadful discover,
was concerned. Inside of five minutes
Daddy, working like man demented
had dug the entire cave-in away, ant
there was nothing to show for tn
frantic shoveling less than nothing
Again, don't know how Daddy fell
but Tn sure / was able to breath
better, the Improvement dating fror
the moment when It became apparen
that the earth heap had grown to
small under the shovel stabs TO Dos
sibly conceal human body.
The collie had followed us an
Daddy Hiram scowled down at hin
IF that dog could only be like oil
Granpaw Balaam's donkey for mir
ute or So" he mused. "He saw he
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tsaS@Nss " sstS v 'Ss
near put In your eye, reckon. sTain't
nothin' but rock. and blame hard rock.
at that"
sThat was my notion. But II the
shaft IL In rock, why did they box II
so strongly with timberf Surely there
wouldn't be any danger Of cave In
solid stone,-
"Well, now, I'm dingedl" he re-
turned, musingly. "Long as I've been
monkeyin' round mines and such. 1t
never once come to me to wonder about
thati'
Speaking OF the wooden bulkheading
renewed that other Impression, or rath-
er two OF them; one OF having the feel-
ing that I was shut In tight box at
the moment OF the fiercest struggling.
and the other OF fancyina that had
felt q swiriing thrush Of the liquid Ice
as well as the sucking outrush. But
the recollection was % confused that
attached no Importance 20 1t. When
man Is fighting for his life ten or
twelve feet under water, pipe dreams
are nothing 10 the things he can Inn
agine.
it was while we were sitting at the
shaft-house door. hammering away at
the old puzzle Of why tho water level
never varied 30 much as a fraction of
an inch In the shaft, IN wet seasons or
dry--as Daddy testified 1t never did
and why the subtraction OF two SIX.
inch streams at velocity sufficient to
stir up veritable whirlpool at the
suction intakes should make no Inn
preston upon It, that began to no
tice the queer actions Of the pie-faced
| collie, Barney. First he would come
and stick his cold nose into my hand
| then he'd trot over to the cabin and
back, and maybe loaf little way dowr
| the road toward the bench level. Com
| Ing around to the shaft-house again
| he'd sit beside Daddy Hiram, yawninE
and painting as II he were waiting I'm
patiently for us to stop talking ant
pay some attention to him.
Poor old Barney's homesick. and
don't blame him." / said. +rm feeling
good bit that way, myself. Daddy
Then to the dog: "Come here, oil
boy r.
| The collie came to lick my hand. ant
while was petting him found |
pretty bad cash just behind one of hi
ears.
"See here, Daddy" broke out
.the dogs hurtr'
We examined the wound and decide
at once that II was not bite. 1t wa
a bruised cut. looking as If 1t had bee
made by some blunt instrument 0
weapon. I had a hot-fiash vision Q
Fullerton kicking the dog with hi
lron-shod heel In an attempt to drfv
him back home, and 1t was so real this
couldn't shake 1t off.
When It began to grow dusk In tn
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shaft-hcuee we shut mp shop and went
over to the cabin TO cook our supper.
The dog went along, but evidently with
reluctance. While we were crossing
the dump head he turned back and
once more started OK down the road
toward tha bench below. hut when he
found that we were not following him
bio came DO heel again. still, neither
OF us had dog sense enough TO guess
what was the matter with him.
Daddy Hiram and /, being merely
stupid humans, were commenting upon
his queer actions, and laying them to
Jeanie's absence, when again the dog
started of down the road, looking
back and barking when he found that
we were stiIi sitting on the doorstep.
AT that, since even solid ivory can be
penetrated Ii the would-be driller OF It
stays on the job long enough, we final
~ caught on.
"say, Stannie hes a-tryin' 10 tell
us to come ont" Daddy exclaimed,
starting to bis feat. "Methuselah-to-
gracious did 1t have to take us hull
endurin' afternoon TO fgger cut that
much dog-talkT r
1T looks that way I admitted but
now. having fingered" It out, we made
no delay. Daddy got his rifle and cart
ridge-belt, and told me TO take Jeanie's
pistol for myself which did And
Thus equipped we took the trail In
dian-fiiing down the mountain road In
the darkness. Daddy Hiram, with his
gun In the crook OF his left arm. set
ting the pace. and the collie running
on ahead to point the way.