Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-31
ANn HERE IT CONTINUES

,be Paradox Apartments, entrhlned Tor
N Drv Valley at once, and by noon was
windng over the hilltops far up in
the Rockies. .,..
.oyn which was the center of activities
Sor DRY Valley. Here the farmers
boucht their supplies and here they
6 ,norIetcd their butter and eggs. In the
fall they drove in their cattle and
loaded them for Denver at the chutes in
the railroad yard.
S There had been times in the past
when Summit ebbcd and flowed with n
rip roaring tide of turbulent LIE. his
4 md been after the rOund-ups in the
z noIden Yesterday. when every other store
Z bHiIdiny had been occupied by saloon
and The rattle of chips insted far into
,be small hours Of night. Now Colo
rado was dry and the roulette wheel
Dbnd gone to Join memories OF the past.
81 summit was quiet as Sunday alter
noon on n farm. It's busiest inhabitant
wns n dog, which lay III the sun anu
lnzily polQcd over its own anatomy for
6cas. - A.,
frame building which carried on ITS
= foIsc front the word Hotel. This done,
he wandered down to the shack which
bore the inscription. Dry Valley En-
tcrprisr." The owner OF the paper,
! who was also editor, reporter, press
man. business manager, ana clrCuIator.
chanced to be imprinting some dodgers
announcing dance at Odd Fellows
/. Hall. lie dCsiStCd from ms IaDorS 10
chat with the stranger. 49,,
The editor was n tat. talkative little
man. Kirby found i: no trouble at all
TO set him going on the subject Of James
Cunningham, Senior. In fact, during
his stay in the valley the Wyoming man
could always use that name as an
tongues. % Cunningham and his mys-
terious death were absorbing topics:
iThe man was hated by scores who had
been brought close to ruin by his CHI
canery. Dry Valley rejoiccd openly IL
5thc retrbution that had fallen upon
/. him. g.,
.rhetoricalIy. "Wcll, sir. I'll be dawgcd
ir | know. But If | was guessin Ia
say it was this fellow Hull. the siicker
that helped him put through the Dry
Valley steal. Course it might a been
tho Jap. or II might "a been the ncpheN
from Wyoming. but III say it was HUI.
We know that CusS Hull up here.
Hes one bad package. that fat man
IA believe me. Cunningham held out
ON him. an he laid for the old crook an
got him. Don't that look reasonable
10 YOU? 1t sure does to me. Put a
rome round IIulI's neck an you'll hang
the man that killed old j. c.
. Lane put in an hour making himself
persona grata, then read the latest
issue of the Enterprise while the editor
pulled off the rest of the dodgers. In
the local news column he found sew
eral items that interested him. These
were:
Jim IIarkins is down in Denver oil
business and won't be home till Mon
day. Have good time. jim.
II r. j. Lupton is enjoying few days
vacation in the Queen City, He eK-
poets 10 buy some fancy stock at the
yards for breeding purposes. Dry VAL
ley is right in the van of progress.
. Art Jeks and Brad MoSely returned
from Denver today after II three days
visit in the capital. \ good time was
had by both. You want to watch them,
girls The boys are both live ones.
" Oscar Olsen spent few days IN
Denver this week. Oscar owns place
three miles out Of town ON the Spring
Creek road"
{ Casually Kirby gathered information.
lie learned that Jim llHrkins was the
town constable and not interested i'll
lnnd; that LuptOn was a very pros
porous cattlcmHn whose ranch was no
whcr" near the district promoted by
Cunningham and that Jelks and
MoSCly were young fellows more or
less connected with the garage. The
editor knew Olson only slightly.
"llc' = n Swede-bg; fair fellow.
rot rt,fIt ,,,s ht,t tV,,i,T, H., fpH n
Hull and Cunningham. Don't know
what he was dOin' in Denver, the
newspaper man said.
Lane decided that he would see Olson
ond have u talk with him. incidentally,
he meant TO see all the Dry Valley
men who had been in Denver at the
time Cunningham was killed. But the
others he saw only to eliminate them
from suspicion. One glance at each OF
thrm was enough to give them clean
blII, so far as the mystery went. They /
knew nothing whatever about II.
Lane rode out to Olscn's place and ,
found him burning brush. The cattle Z
man explained that he was from Wyo-
hlng and wanted to sell some registered
HereiOrds.
Olson ooked over his dry, parched
crops with sardonic bitterness. ''DO | .
.Ook like could buy registered stoCkT' ,
be asked sOurly.
Kirby made n remark that set the
ranchman of. lie said that the crops
looked aS though they needed water.
inside Of five minutes he had heard the
story Of the Dry Valley irrigation swim
Se; Olsen was not n foreigner. lie
mad been born in Minnesota and at
tended the public schools. lie spoke
English automatically and without an
accent
The man wns tall, gauut, broad
snouluered Scandinavian of more than .
average intelligence.
The death Of Cunningham had not .
apparently assuaged his intense hatred
on the man or the bitterness which
"eiSd out of him toward Hull.
g. cunningham got his! Suits me
MIne Ie Now all / ask is that they hang
Au.i Tor IT, he cried vindictlvely.
HI; seems to be some doubt whether
him on. '''' ~
That SOP Mebbe there's evidence
you don't know about" The words had
yy9me yyme out in the heat Of impulse. shot at
htlrDy tensry and breathcssIy' Olson
io iV0Aeu at the man on the horse and
Aose sG could see caution grow on him.
nil. iI ot suspicion spread over the pu-
Rrs bro,, beneath the heavy, ragged eye.
S%Ts, SS,O%s, II amt sayin' so. All i'm
NedS KiIure sure of Is that Hull did st."
Mn Mroy fired a shot point blank at
that Nobody can be dead sure Of
eS snfnicss unless no saw him do IT,
Fo,tn, tn,eGOe some one saw him do Il.
son As non { tell all they know" o.
naIritoked iitoked across tho desert beyond the
tains az heat waves to the noun