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over the dilemma, the more perplexed
he became.
He thought, too, Of the everlasting
wonder, the tail of John Moreland's
bedtime prayer. How a man could 60
down on his knees and ask the bless
ings Of the Almighty upon men whom
he meant to fight the next day was
thing that Bill Dale could not under
stand.
slept. He woke at the break Of day,
arose and dressed himself, and went
OUT Going toward the fower-filled
front yard, he found himself facing q
very angry John Moreland.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
Matter enough" clipped the noun
taineer. "Bill Dale, I'm a-goin' to az
you a question, and I want the truth.
Will git it?"
you'll get the truth If you get any
thing. Shoot the question"
"All right. What do you know about
my gum"
about as much as you know Of the
left hind wheel of Ben Hur's chariot.
What's wrong with itT'
Moreland's eyes were steady and
cold. He thrust his hands into the
pockets Of his corduroy trousers. Then
his face softened trifie.
II reckon / ought to ak yore par
don," he said in low voice. "Ye see.
my guns plumb gone!"
"You had 1t only last night" Dale
said. did 1t disappear"
/ whilst / slept" cut In the hillman.
Both O. my guns is gone. And Luke's
repeater is gone, and so is Gales, and
we hain't got nothin' at all to fight
them id I4ittlefords withl"
"GOne I" Dale exclaimed wondering
ly and-it seemed to him-asininely.
"It must ha' been the Littlefords. l
guess" frowned Moreland. "Fo' be-
cause who else would ha' done it? But
to save the life o. me CANT see how
they got In and took my rifle without
wakin' me up, Bill Dale. ! slept twicet
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In sharply. III the inemy hain't come.
what're you a-kickin' abOutr'
Her brown eyes were full Of IRE.

In sharply. "n the inemy hain't come.
what're you a-kickin' abOutr
Her brown eyes were full Of hre.
They defied. and they withered, and
Bill Dale suddenly felt that he was
smaller and OF less account In the
scheme Of things than that uneducat'
ed, wildly superb creature that stood
before him.
II beg pardon" Dale said evenly. -
didn't mean to offend, y'know,"
His quick contrition struck the girl
Her mouth Quivered. She dropped
her tishing-rod, and began to toy alb
sently with the end Of her long. thick
plat Of brown hair.
"Pve seed SO much o. this fightin',"
she murmured tremulOusly. that II
makes me go to pieces. / ought to beg
yore pardon, mebbe, and DIDO.
I've seed a good many fine. strong
men brought home dead or a-dyin'
from the Moreland bullets. And the
Littlefords has killed MOrelands, too
One side about as many as t'0ther,
reckon. I'd be glad to give my life
to stop It'll"
"IT help you. II l can," Dale told
her. perhaps we can make friends
Of the Morelands and your people"
"You don't know what q hard thing
It'd be-" she replied tearfully. "The
two sets has hated each other ever
sence l can rickollect. And you won't
be here very long, l reckon"
IL may be here for the rest OF my
iife," said Dale.
'Is 1t the coal?" inquired Babe.
"Partly-yes, it's the coal. I'm go
ing to develop 1t for the Morelands."
Babe looked at him with tiny her
aid of hope In her eyes. Before she
could speak again there came from
somewhere back in the meadow the
sound OF her fathers voice
babel Ooh, Babel"
Commit" cried the girl, half turn
ing. "We'll try to make 'em friends {;
we'll try. Old Major Bradley, he'll be
up here afore long to spend the sum-
mer, and he'll help US. He's mighty
good man; you're shore to like him.
He gen'ally stays with US when he's
here. You go easy with John More
land! But when We git him, ye'll have
'em all. I'll work on pap. The amt
no danger O. trouble right now, any
ways. Goodby. Bill Dalel"
Zone moment. Miss LittlefOrd," and
he took n stem after her "Ar0 Won
sure there's no danger right now?"
Babe halted, faced about nervously.
and smiled q little.
Don't call me Miss no MORE" said
she. ut makes me feel old. Call me
what everybody else calls me. ef ye
don't mind. Why. every one O. the
Littlefords lost their rifles last night
the same as the Morelands did! Meet
me here at shutdown, and I'll tell ye
about 1T. Goodby. Bill Daiep
"Goodby, Babel" he smiled.
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ed quickly to his feet.
iii, thar. Bill, old boy!" he greeted
cordially. my gosh. but we've come

ed quickly to his feet.
HI, thar. Bill, old boyl" he greeted
cordially. my gosh. but we've come
at the right time, shore. We're a-goin'
to have young squirrels To- dinner, and
a billed hamshank with string Deans'
and cawnbread made with the yeller
o. hen aigs. Live whilst We do live.
says l. Come right In. Bill, old boy"
LA, la, lar cried Granny Heck.
looking over the brass rims OF her
spectacles. "How glad am to see We.
Mr.. Bill Come right In and tell US
the news"
Bill Dale crossed the threshold and
accepted creaking chair. His eyes
took in at sweeping glance the home
made dining table with Its cover OF red
oilcloth, the broken cast-iron stove. the
strings of dried peppers hanging on
the log walls, the broken stillwofm
lying in the corner.
"The Littlefords," said Dale, shave
declared war;"
"Sakes" laughed the old woman.
1--WE knowed that last night when we
heered them ten Shots"
"And all the Moreland rifles are
missing" Dale watched the effect OF
his words.
"Whatl" the Hecks cried in one
voice.
Their surprise seemed genuine.
Dale pressed the subject further and
learned only that II they knew any
thing concerning the disappearance
Of the rifles they were not going to
tell. Then he started homeward by way
Of the pool above the downtown syc-
amore.
There was a chance that Ben Little
ford's daughter would be there fishing,
Dale told himself, and 1t was barely
possible that she could throw some
light on the mystery of the rifles.
He crossed the river by means of
the PROSTATE tree. Babe was there;
she sat on the stone on which she had
been sitting the morning before; her
back was to him, and her bare feet
WCKC III LlC WdLCk " nCA dhhACos AdAO
went Up close, stopped and gathered
q handful Of violets and dropped them
over her shoulder and into her lap.
Babe looked around and smiled.
"What luck, Miss LittlefOrd?"
"NOthin'. ! don't much want to
ketch anything" she said slowly, a
spirit OF sadness In her musical voice.
IL Jest come Off down here to be
whar It's quiet. You ought to hear the
noise at pap and the rest OF 'e,a Is
a-makin!'
Dale narrowed his eyes. "Are they
er, making a noise? And what abOut?"
"My goodness gracious alivel You'd
think SO eff We could hear 'em Fought
to hear pap cuss John MOreland"
She shrugged her pretty shoulders,
lifted the small end OF her rod to Its
proper place, and went on, Il never
did see pap half as mad as he was
when he got home last night from
a-follerin' me-"
mad at your" asked Dale.
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CHAPT Err v.
At the River AGAIN.

Al the River Again.
John Moreland met Dale at the gate.
"What did ye find outT"
IL learned" was the answer, that
the Littlefords all lost their guns just
as the Morelands did,"
1.-THE devili"
The mountaineers began to crowd
about Dale.
"And Who" asked their leader. "do
ye think done itf"
Bill Dale shook his head slowly and
threw out his hands.
"How should I know7" He went
on: "Babe told me about the Littleford
guns disappearing. saw her down
at the river: she was fishing"
did she say anything" pursued
John Moreland. "'at sounded like she
knowed whar them guns went TOT"
"She told me-" said Dale, "she would
give her life to stop the fighting. She
seemed rather badly worked up over
It,"
From the cabins front doorway came
woman's sorrowful voice:
"And me, too; I'd give my life to
stop this here fghtin'. had q boy,
big, strappin' boy"
John Moreland frowned toward his
wife and interrupted, "Now. Addie,
honey, don't do that"
1t ended the talk.
Mrs. Moreland dried her eyes on a
corner Of her freshly ironed Bingham
apron, and announced the MONDAY
meal. The mountaineers dispersed.
Grandpap Moreland went away claw
ing at his long white beard and grum-
bling over the loss of his beloved old
Lancaster.
An hour later Dale ccrnered the
MOreland leader on the vine-hunH
front porch and suggested that they
look over the coal property that after
noon. He was eager to 60 to work,
eager to be doing something worth
while, he told Moreland. The hillman
stood very still for what seemed to
the other very long time, and had
no word to say. Evidently the feud
had all his mind now.
Wnen he Olu speak, ne Salu Slmply !:
"All right, BILL"
After half an hour OF fighting their
way through thickets OF blooming lau-
rel and Ivy, they drew up before an
old and widowed cabin at the north
end of David Moreland's mountain.
Moreland led the way In and pointed
to spot under a small, paneless win
dow.
"Thar," said he, 'is whar we found
my brother David"
The two men turned for the point
at which the coal vein ran out to the
light Of day.
Dale picked up piece Of the shin
Ing black stun. IGdging by the little
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as light as a sick mouse"

as light as sick mouse"
Withia ten more minutes, every man
OF the Morelands was gathered there
at the house Of their chief-and every
man Of them had lost their weapons
during the night
John Moreland called Dale aside
and said to him:
"You're high on the good side o.
them thar trifin' Hecks. and. so fer
as they know, you amt interested in
the feud. I wisht you'd go down thar
and see BY and his mother. and see
eff We can find out whar our rifles
went"
When Dale had gone off down the
dusty oxwagon road, Caleb Moreland
climbed a tall ash that grew behind
his fathers cabin and kept a watch
toward the Littleford side Of the river.
He saw group Of men standing In
Ben Littleford's cabin yard. and moth
ing else.
A little more than a quarter OF an
hour after Dale left John Moreland
he entered by the gateless gateway at
the cabin OF the Hecks. 1t was d.
Iapidated place. and 1t stood not far
from the river. BY sat In the front
doorway; he was lazily cutting new
midday sun mark In the place Of the
worn old one. Behind him sat his
mother, who was busily knitting q
gray yarn stocking.
The moonshiner looked up and start
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SYNOPSIS.

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CONTINUED from last weekly
CHAPTER w
The Mystery Of the Rifles.

! An hour after John Moreland had
sent his ten rife bullets whining over
the head Of Ben Littleford, every
Moreland and every Littleford in the
valley knew of the declaration Of war.
And each man Of them oiled his weap-
ems and put them In better working
OrdeR.
When Dale went to bed, there was
too much on his mind to render sleep
Ing easy for him. Tomorrow he would
have to help In the fight against the Lit
tlefcrds, kinsmen Of the young woman
who had saved him, without doubt,
from death by the murderous rife Of
the mountaineer Godfather break his
word fatty. 1t was poor return for
such favor. The longer he thought
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CHAPTER L.-Young Carlyle Wilburton
Dale. or "Bill Dale" as he elects to be
known, son OF q wealthy coal operator.
John X. Dale, arrives at the Halfway
Switch, in eastern Tennessee. abandon
ing . life Of idle ease-and incidentally q
bride. Patricia Clavering. at the altar
Determined to make his own way In life.
He meets Babe Littleford, typical
Meuntsiassr girl. by" Heck, : charac-
Ger Of the hills. takes him to John More
lands home. Moreland il chief OF his
"clan," which has an old feud with the
LttletorAs. He tells Dale of the killing
ct his brother, David Moreland. years
ago, owner Of rich coal deposits, by o
EQan named Carlyle. Moreland's descrir-
klou q Carlyle" causes Dale to believe
8ha man was his father.
CHAPTER IY.-DaIe awanges to make
HE home With the Moreland family, for
whom hA sntsrtains deep respect.
CHAPTER III.-Talking with babe"
xlttieford next day. Dale 10 ordered by
,'slaok Adam" Ball. bully Of the district.
60 leave 'his girl" alone. Dale replies
Npiyitedly. and they fight. Dale whips
che bully, though badly used up. He ar
ranges with John Moreland to develop
OAvid's coal deposits. Ben Attleford
sends . challenge 70 John Moreland to
meet him with his followers next day, In
battle. Noreland agrees.
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CHAPTER II.-.Dale auanges to make
HE home with the Moreland family, FOL
whom he Nntsrtains o deep respect
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
G. N. Officials Guests
of kalispell Chamber
of Monday
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
kalispell, May 11.-A party of off
Gals of the Great Northern, headed BY
Ralph Budd, president, and Louis W
Hill, chairman of the board, came
into Kalispell Monday night and were
entertained by the local chamber of
commerce.
With the party was Walker ID.
Hines, formerly director general OF
railroads under the federal admins
t%ration, who delivered a short address.
Mr.. Hines spoke of the difficulties of
the railroads during the war and OF
the relation of rates to industrial and
agricultural development.
Mr.. Hill spoke of the developmen,
of the Flathead and declared that he
had helped put "KalispeIl on the map
by reason of an apple exhibit which he.
in cooperation with ex-senator White
side, had entered at n land show in
the east. He also commented favor
ably on the growth of the potato in
.dustry in this county and said that
the man who has developed the po-
tato industry In Montana and has found
a market for them has really done
something for you and your country
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
~Two-year-old Girl
browns in Slough
in Foot of Water
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Kalispell. May 1.-The body OF
IZona Esther Selley, t~wo-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Jose Selley, who
strayed from the home, one mile west
of Columbia Falls. Sunday, was found
late Monday afternoon in q slough
In quarter mile north of the home
Death was due to drowning and had
occurred about six hours earlier, ac-
,cording to physicians.
The child had been playing with q
neighbours boy and, according TO the
mother, had not been gone more than
90 minutes when her absence was dis
covered and a search instituted.
A small creek flows just west Of the
home and the search conferred along
this creek, which was partially drained
and dragged until about $50 Sunday
evening, when a report was spread
that the child had been seen to be
picked up and carried away and the
search was partially abandoned. only
to be resumed Monday morning even
more energetically.
The body was found some distance
away from the creek in a shallow
slough, into which she had wandered
and had evidently fallen down and had
been unable to extricate herself from
the deep mud, as the body was found
lying face downward in less than one
foot of water.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
THE PRESIDENTS
CABINET

THERE are rumors of cabinet
l changes at Washington. Attor-
ney General Daugherty is under a
sharp fire from republican senator's
for his connection with the Morse
shipping scandal, and Secretary
Falls of the interior department, is
being assailed by Senator LaFol-
lette who says he is opposed to
conservation of oil and interested
in securing oil leases for big inter-
ests. Our Washington political
correspondent says:
Secretary of the Interior Albert
B. Fall of New Mexico, who leased
naval oil reserve No. 3, in Teapot
dome, Wyoming, to the Monmouth
Oil company. a Sinclair corpora
ton, which in turn is a Standard
Oil subsidiary, was characterized
as a. consistent opponent of the pol
icy Of conservation by Senator Rob.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12

ert M. LaFollette, (Rep., Wis., in
a recent speech dealing with his
vast oil scandal, as follows:
"'I was astounded when / learned
that the navy department had turn
ed the administration of these nav
al oil reserves over to the interior
department. 1t can be said for the
present secretary of the interior
that he has always frankly declared
his position on public questions
Az a member of the senate, his at
titude toward the public domain
generally, and the naval oil reserves
in particular, was we'll understood
during his service as a member of
this body. Upon every measure
that involved the conservation OF
natural resources upon the public
lands Senator Fall, from New Mex
leo, was the able opponent of the
policy Of conservation as establish
ed under Roosevelt and thereafter
maintained as a general policy of
administration by his successors.
His position, as shown by speech
and vote while a member of this
body, makes it very plain that he
was opposed to strengthening and
extending conservation and in favor
of weakening and impairing the
policy.
During the long fight over the
naval oil reserves, which was the
subject of sharp contention from
time to time on the floor of the
senate, the present secretary of the
interior, then a member of the SEN
ate, was not conspicuous as a guar
dian of naval oil reserves. Every
body familiar with his record will
admit that to be true. He voted
and spoke against provisions Offer
ed to safeguard these valuable re-
serves"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
knights of Columbus
Revive Proposition
of Club Building
Special to The Tribune.

Anaconda, May 11.-After living dor
Imant since January, 1920. the project
of n new clubhouse has again become
a vital issue with the members Of An
Iaconda Council No. $50, Knights of Co
lumbus. Stock in the proposed build
ing is now being taken I'D by the mem
bers at a par value of 500 per share.
The new building will be erected ad.
jacent to the present X. G. building,
on property owned by the organization
at the corner of Third and Cherry
streets. Present plans call for the
erection Of n two-story brick building
with full cement basement. This. It
Ii thought, will be sufficiently large
enough to take care of the present
needs of the council, and il the future
needs require, an additional story can
be built.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
LEWiSTOWN WOMAN
BUYS PORTLAND HOTEL

Portland, May 11.-Mrs. Josie Ross,
formerly of Lewistown, Mont, has pur-
chased the lease and furnishings of the
street, taking possession at once. Mrs.
Ross formerly operated the Waldorf
hotel at LewtStown for six years. The
Grant will be r~edecorated and new
furniture added, Mrs. Ross states.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
AUGUSTA HIGH SCHOOL
TO PRESENT 3.ACT COMEDY
to The Tribune

Special to The Tribune.
Augusta, May 1.-THE students Of
Augusta high school will present a
three-act play entitled, Fifty Fifty"
in the high school auditorium on the
evening Of May 20. The play depicts
the comic experiences Of two young
men struggling to achieve a living and
fame in literature and art. Their per-
sonal affairs become almost inextric-
ably entangled through an inclination
to avoid the strict truth on OCCASION
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
DESERTtON ALLEGED,
Special to The Tribune.

Lewistown, May 11.--A divorce was
granted Tuesday in the Ease of Marion
Solvorn against Carl O. Solvorn, de-
sertion being the ground, and the
plaintiffs maiden name, M. Eleanore
Currie, was restored to her. The
parties were married at Great Falls
in 1919.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12
Conditions In Counties

BIaine-S0me winter wheat and rye
did not start last fall, and is starting
slowly this spring, that which did get
a good start looking fine. Spring work
backward as fields are too wet, seed
ing in some localities getting under way
in fine shape. Condition OF livestock
below normal. some losses of stock
from lack of feed and range. Range
starting slowly. i.
Chouteau-Stubbled winter wheat
looks better than that on summer fall
low, considerable loss of winter wheat
and rye in some localities, others re-
port excellent condition. Heavy loss
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-12

I like thirty cents also. That Is why
they voted with the democrats.
But it passed all the same. Now 1t
is up to the senate.
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Manor in Mountains.
Continued from front page

but Arch decided to go on and begin
his sentence without having his APP
peal argued. Jessup kept up the
fight and was granted new trial.
This new trial began last Monday
here al Rockingham, and it was for
this trial that Manor was brought
back as a witness.
In conversation with the PostDis-
patch man, MIR. Manor talked quite
Interestingly of his work and in
generation. Naturally he does not
enjoy the confinement and work,
but then ne is not secured or EN-
Uttered by it. He is taking his
medicine like man, and expects
to be a better man when he gets his
freedom.
For several months last year he
was with squad building a state
highWay in Montgomery county, To-
Gated at VAUDEVILLE. Then on Nov.
l2t. and 18th his bunch was trans
fe. d to the extreme western part
10. North Carolina-to Graham
c,nnty. Graham is bounded on the
vest by Tennessee on the south by
Cherokee county and north and east
by Swain county. Not a railroad,
touches Graham county, the nearest
railroad being in Cherokee county
at Topton, this being on the South
ern Railway that runs from Ashe
vile to Murphy, further down in
Cherokee.
The work the force is doing is
building state highway from Rob
binsville, the county seat of Ora
ham to Topton, distance of some
- miles. Two state forces are on
this road-a squad of 81 white men
on the Graham end, and IS colored
prisoners over in Cherokee on the
Topton end. Manor says there is
not a single colored man to be
found in Graham county, but refer
ence to the Post-Dispatch files of
census statistics show that the 1920
census gave five negroes as being
! in Graham, and 1856 Indians. The
total population of that county in
1920 was 1872 which was an in
crease of only 1873 since the 1910
census.
Manor says the force was able to
work but ten days during the
month of January, the snow and
cold keeping them indoors the bal
ance of the time. They are housed
in a sort of barracks. His roommate
is man named Huntley who was
sentenced from Wake county in 1914
for life for killing man. Later
Governor Beckett, committed the
sentence to 80 years.
!. Manor is a Grade B. prisoner,
which means that he will get rs
days each year from his sentence.
He expects to have to serve not
quite four years of the five-year
sentence, this coming off for good
behavior.
w. J. Latham, sentenced to the
pen for three years, was sent to the
VAUDEVILLE camp last fall just before
the squad was moved to Graham
county, and he now is also in the
squad with Manor. Latham is quite
we'll and is glad to hear of the news
from back home; Arch is sub
scriber to the Post-Dispatch, the
paper reaching him regularly each
Monday night. He reads it and
then turns it over to Latham.
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Meltons Have Moved.

Mr.. P. P. Melton and family
have moved to the Phillips place
near Roberdel. We regret the
loss of this family as Mr.. Melton
was one of our leaders in the
Baptist Church, and Mrs. Melton
one of the oldest teachers. Miss
Pearlie was also one of our teach
ers. Joe and Robert are good
boys to attend church. We hope
this family will be welcome in
that neighborhood.
Baptist S. S. Supt.
Steele's Mills.