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lare, you take the fat country to

lare, you take the fat country to
the south"
"Okay."
"Gil, you sweep northwest be-
tween Short Crick and the Spotted
Range" Dunn went on. oval, you
take wider swing than Gil, and to
the east. Scout the edge of the bare
rock below Red Sleep Ridge"
The cowboys waited. "1s there
any guess yet" Tulare asked after
moment, "as to who it is we're
looking for?"
Unexpectedly the Old Man fared
up. "How the hell do I know!" he
roared. "And what do you care?
You'll know him when you find him
because he's dead! Amt that
enough for you? What you waiting
for now? Get on with it'll"
They moved off.
Horse Dunn turned to Billy
Wheeler. Get your war bag. You
got to get into horse pants and
boots. You and I got some riding
of our own to do, no later than
now!"
Billy Wheeler jerked suitcase and
saddle from his roadster and fol-
lowed Horse Dunn to room in the
rambling weathered house-the only
room the Old Man used when he
was alone.
Here, while Wheeler changed to
COW country work clothes, Horse
Dunn stood looking out across the
range. He turned to Billy Wheeler.
his big crinkly- bearded face unread
able.
'Look out the window. Look over
at Lost Whiskey Buttes. You see
signal there?"
Wheeler obeyed. Four miles of,
on high place, he made out thin
vertical line against the brassy sky.
''That's Steve Hurley's smoke"
Horse Dunn told him. "Last night
Steve was in Inspiration. checking
up. This morning-he's been on
that butte since before daybreak.
whats the smoke mean,
Horse?"
(TO BE CONTINUED
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CATTLE KINGDOM
oAan1sMa By ALAN LIE MAY

Billy Wheeler had not seen Mar
ian Dunn for two years. Had he
known that she was here, he would
not have come here now.
Marian Dunn was Horse Dunn's
niece. Once, for couple of months
two years ago. Wheeler had seen
her every day. He had used every
persuasion he knew of, all he had,
to make this girl love him-and had
failed. Sometimes he could still
hear her low, cool voice: I'm sor-
ry-truly sorry" The sincere re-
greet in that was pretty hard to take.
In everything else he had sue
ceeded. He had come up from moth
ing in cows, and tripled in land,
and switched back to cows to double
again. He had liquidated every
thing at the peak of cattle prices.
and at twenty-seven had nothing to
worry about. But in this one thing
he cared most about he had met
only complete blank defeat. He
would not have come here, to raise
again the bitterness Of that defeat,
if he had known that she was here.
And now there was a;certain aWlS-.
wardness between them, since she
inevitably knew all that, too. =
II think he's going to ask 8. favor.
Of you," Marian said. ..%
II don't know if you know: this
Billy Wheeler said slowly; "but his
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

loves - often unreasonably. The
pure-bred dog will not tolerate an
indignity from one who is stranger
to him.
The philosophy of the dog is very
simple, but very logical If he gives
his affection, it is given whole
heartedly. He dislikes trouble, and
will avoid it as long as possible. Yet
his defense mechanism is quickly
stirred by malignant forces. The
curious part Of dog and human re.
lationships is that the human being
invariably learns something from
his dog-the degree of knowledge
varying according to the intel.
ligence of the person.
Motorists Of the petulant species
are not the only ones who benefit
from the dog. The diabetic, who
also is really of an explosive, worri.
some disposition has a greater ex.
pectation of life if he becomes in.
terested in a dog. Doctors have
recommended dogs as pets especial.
ly for children suffering from dia.
betes.
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"I'll-Get Out of Here If You
Want Me TO-"

wire made out as if he was offering
me job"
"Yes-I knew that"
81 owe lot to old Horse Dunn"
Billy Wheeler said. He picked me
up when was fourteen years old,
halfway starved and all the way
maverick. He carried me along
four years. # it wasn't for him, I'd
be in the wild bunch-or in the
pen. And he showed me my start
in cattle"
II suppose then," Marian said,
"you won't turn him down in this
thing now"
GIVE got things to see to, Mar
ian," he stalled. II couldn't take
on another job now"
He supposed she might know that
this was not SO. For the present he
was out from under; he could afford
to do anything he wanted to, to fill
his time or to help friend. But to
take job in which he would see
thlS girl every day, While yer Tight
cinched by the knowledge that she
was not for him, and never would
be-that was something else.
~ don't know how much he
needs you," Marian said; NOR who
else he could get, instead. But I
know this-he has more enemies
than friends, by three to one"
Billy Wheeler stirred restlessly,
and began to build a cigarette. He
knew it was true that the 81 had
many enemies. few friends. Here in
this dusty, mesa-broken land Horse
Dunn had set out to build a COW
kingdom-a kingdom on the grand
scale Of the old days. g. ~
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dom, buying up the range rights of
little brand after little brand, with
out annoying and disturbing the
brands that are left; and the
bought-out brands are forever try
ing to edge back.
Here and there in the world were
perhaps half a dozen graves COM
memorating the drawn-out, inevita
BILE conflict. There had never been
a general open war. But more than
one lone-riding cowboy of the 81 had
come to his end by the gunfire of
persons unknown, and one or two
others had left on the range an en-
envy who would force the issue no
more. And at Ace Springs had
died two men of four-hired gum.
fighters all--who had jumped Horse
Dunn from ambush. The "a could
have started it's own Boot Hill.
More .effectual than those brief,
unofficial bursts of action was the
enmity of certain cooler, more
wisely watchful men, like Link
Bender, Pinto Halliday, Sam Cald-
well-the defeated contestants for
the Red Hills ranges. Nowadays
|. the. expanding 81 found itself en-
circled by a veritable wolf ring of
enemies-a wolf ring biding its time
with ma1evolent optimism.
IT don't even know what the stu
alton u.s." the girl went on. "But
it's worrying him deeply; he can't
hide that, not from me. And his
first move was to turn to you"
ooh, shucks now, Marian ;"
II shouldn't like to think" the
girl said oddly, as if with difficulty,
''that you turned him down because
I'm here"
For an instant he sat perfectly
still, silent. He hadn't expected her
to come out with it, direct and
straight like that.
She put both hands on the rail
between them and leaned toward
him. I'D never forgive myself if
/ thought you let Horse Dunn down
on account Of me. I'll-get out OF
here, if you want me to-"
He looked straight at her-and
lied. Nothing farther from my
mind" he assured her. "No call
to even think of such a thing"
He paused, listening to the STAN.
pede of hoofs beyond a big barn
which obscured the riders as they
swung into the layout
And now rescue came, as Horse
Dunn Numbered around the corner
Of the barn and slid his pony to a
stop before them in great up
jump Of dust.
To old-timers John Dunn was
known as RED Horse Jack"-or
more commonly, just Horse"
Dunn-partly because he was big
as a horse, and partly because of
the coarse sorrel name he had had
in his youth. Nobody knew how old
Horse Dunn was; they thought he
must be sixty-eight at least, and
his mustache and curly beard were
at last roaned with gray. But he
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

Mystery and adventure on the open range -.
three strange murders that echo through the
hills! Follow this intriguing drama of the West
in Alan lie Mays newest serial story
"Cattle Kingdom" You'll be amazed at the
throbbing action, the swift turn Of events
and the SCATTERING climax. You'll be delighted
by an unusual romance in which the hero is
forced to prove his worth by sheer courage.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

Here is serial you must read ...a story that
will live in your memory for years to come.
"Cattle Kingdom" is different more than
just another Western story. All the thrills Of a
murder mystery, all the red -blooded action Of
an outdoor yarn 4. these things have been
combined into one superb tale that criticsevery-
wherehave praised. The first nstallment appears
today !. Others, just as thrilling, are coming.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
CHAPTER l

o"io, q 1lldIl Has DGGIl kllleQ, mere
on the 81 ranger"
Billy Wheeler turned to look at
the girl who perched beside him on
the corral fence, and for a moment
ne forgot to answer. Marian Dunn
hadn't been in the desert country
long enough to gather very heavy
tan. Under the shadow of her Stet-
son her face reflected the glow of
the fresh morning sunlight upon the
red hills; to Billy Wheeler it seemed
fragile face, finely drawn, sug-
costing transparency. And her eyes
were blue distance boiled down. She
wore belted overalls and half boots;
but she could never have been mis-
taken for a Westerner.
Billy Wheeler, though, could
never be mistaken for anything
else. The dry intermountain coun-
try, by it's necessity of wide ranges
and the perpetual mobility Of the
saddle, has set its mark upon its
sons. Wheeler was young, but his
weather-t trimmed features showed
VIC A4oOt VI Quiz 1l1O OWOCP VI W41ASS
and his gray eyes were visibly
tuned to distance.
He was wearing summer tWeeds
instead of brush jacket and chaps;
yet wherever he might have been,
he would still have suggested this
land Of vast rolling flats, Of desert
mountains and dry rivers, sage
brush and mesquite and gaunt red
rock. He was always Enthusiastically
a horseman.
The girl turned her eyes to him,
reminding him he was supposed to
say something.
II didn't hear much" he said.
IA gas station man told me there
was killing, as came through
Inspiration; but he didn't know
much about it."
II guess nobody does"
Eyes, but-who was killed? And
when?"
"That's just it," the girl told him.
"They don't know who was killed.
It's the strangest thing I ever heard
Of. They can't even find him"
"Can't find who? The man who
was killed."
''That's it,
Billy Wheeler grinned slowly, boy
ishly. "Well, I'll be darned!"
81 don't think it's funny. I think
it's-horrible.
"Well, yes; / guess it is"
He looked away, estimating again
the nearness of the approaching rid
ers. John "Red Horse" Dunn, Old
Man of the 81, at whose summons
Wheeler had come 300 miles, had
not been on hand to receive him,
having set out before daylight on
an unknown mission with three of
his cow hands. But they were COM
ing in now; across the dry morning
Wheeler could identify the individ-
ual riders at the half mile as they
iog-trotted in, their ponies abreast.
when did all this happen?" he
/. asked.
'Unc1e John found the sign, as
he calls it, yesterday morning"
''Then he must. have wired me
right after that"
II guess So"
She hadn't known, then, that her
uncle had sent for him. She hadn't
known that he was coming-and he
hadn't known she was here. That
made a difference.
"Uncle John hasn't wanted to talk
about this thing-to me-" the girl
now said. Perhaps he'll give. you
different, clearer story, Billy"
They fell silent. Billy Wheeler
let his eyes run over casual, famil-
lar things-the roadster he had
come in, the tall barns, the low
sprawled house, clubhouse, and
grub shack. But as Billy Wheeler's
eyes drifted out over the vast roll
ing 'hats" of the plain, resting
here and there on a broken, fat
tonned mesa ar far I1n.thr,1st NOM.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
District Relief Budget Sased $780, 900 Fiscal Year Record Cut
Budget Increased Over '38
Total Despite Sldshes

The District Budget for 1889 fiscal year totals $4I
34470 increase of 1884, 561 the current years
appropriation.
District officials announcing another year OF IN
creased taxation for local residents forecast certain
deficit by the end of 1899 year of $3,347,8 ,819.
Deficit may be doubled official said, If $765OOO
street lighting item is not sadded the gasoline tax
fund.- and the current business privilege tax does not
reach the anticipated $3,000,00O yield.
Budget designed to sustain only present activities
of the municipal government, providing only few
isolated items for improvements.
Major improvements provided include: $4,48OOOO
underpass at Dupont Circle $6500O0 to start consruc
tion Pennsylvania Avenue Is. E) bridge;
$4,000 for site of new National Guard Armory; $780,
900 for start of Municipal Center.
Requested improvements by various department
heads ignored include: Funds for fveyear 900
school expansion program increased personnel new sta
tion houses for police department; new medical ward
building at Ganger Hospital; new main building and
improvements for Public Library system.
Deepest cut made in requested appropriation: Cen
era relief requested by Board of Public Welfare $3,
447 900; approved by Budget Bureau, $9O0,OOO
Suggestions for increased taxation program to meet
anticipated deficit: From District Tax Committee,
sales tax an income tax and increased Federal payment
from SIS 900 to 50O0O from citizens advisory tax
committee increased Federal payment and, as an al
tentative if this is refused sales tax.
Federal contribution recommended by Budget Bureau
fixed at $5OOO,O0O.
Budget Bureau also recommends return to the $1.5O
per $1OO valuation real estate tax rate.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Budget Cuts Fire Fund
Purchase of N eW
Apparatus Hit

The budget for 1899 Sheared
$25,900 today from the $2,469, $50
appropriated to the District Fire
Department for the current year.
The 1889 figure-$2, ,443 $40
cuts sharply into the allowance
for additional apparatus and re-
duces the personal service total.
1t increases the appropriation for
repairs by allowing $4,000 for con-
structing an addition to No. %
Engine House.
The new apparatus which would
be purchased in 1889 would be
three combination hose wagons,
two pumping engines and one
aerial hook and ladder truck with
total cost of $4,000.
The 1888 strength of 888 Off
GERS and members of the depart.
ment would be maintained as
would their current salaries.
/ No estimated savings and un-
obligated balances are indicated in
the 1889 budget whereas this item
amounted to $4,000 in 1888. The
deduction for lapses is increased
from $4,000 in 1888 to $l2,6 for
1889. 1t is on these items that a
personal service decrease of S..
900 is predicated.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
JAIL INCREASE
FOR D. C. URGED

Years of agitation by District
officials and citizens, alike, were
rewarded today when the Bureau
of the Budget recommended to
Congress that a $250.00O addition
be built on the historic District
Jail.
The bureau also met the re-
peated requests of municipal Of
ficials when they urged appro-
priations for increasing the guard
staff at the District Workhouse,
Occoquan, Va, and the District
Reformatory, Lorton, Va.
These recommendations were
contained in the items urged by
the Budget Bureau for Board OF
Welfare activities during the 1889
fiscal year. The bureau recon-
mended a total appropriation OF
$6,938,575 for the coming year,
which represents a decrease OF
$27 los over the current year ap-
preparation of $6.965,770.
AS a start toward the jail ad-
dition, the bureau provided $125,
600 in the coming year budget,
of which 5000 is to be available
next July l to draw plans ard
Specifications.
The addition is to house ad.
ministrative offices, hospital, an
execution chamber and a walled
exercise yard.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
z new SCHOOLS
ON BUDGET LIST

Construction of two new elemen-
tary school buildings is provided
in the $13,328,O76 school budget
for 1899 transmitted by President
Roosevelt to Congress today.
The budget estimates would
give the local schools $527,351
more than was appropriated for
the current fiscal year.
Provision is made for conStruc-
ton of two eight-room extenSible
buildings, one on a portion of the
site of the present Petworth Play
ground, at Hamilton and Third
st. N. W., and the other at First
and Pierce SITS. N. w.
Despite the fact that budget es-
Inmates for school buildings and
grounds are $129,350 under the
present appropriation, building
program calls, in addition to the
two new buildings, for other con-
Struction items, as follows:
Completion of vocational
school to replace the present
Lenox Vocational School, Thir-
teenth Street and Potomac Ave.
S. E., 5000, 900.
Continuing construction of a
new senior high school at Fifth
and Sheridan SITS. N. W., $3.50, 900.
Completion of a junior high
school on a portion of the site of
the Banneker Playground, $524,-
$50.
Purchase of land adjoining the
Douglass Simmons School for
physical education purposes, and
of a site for school purposes at
Mt. Olivet and Bladensburg Rds.
N. E, $4,000.
Eightn-one new teachers are
also provided for, at an extra cost
of $145, 1896, bringing the total es-
innate for teachers to $7,313,716.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
DISTRICT BUDGET
INCREASE S954,561

Continued from Page II.
medical building at Gallinger Hos
pital was refused.
The efforts of the Board of Pub
lie Welfare to meet the increasing
demand for general relief was cut
from more than $3,o00,oOO to
100000.
Allowances we're made for a du
Pont Circle underpasS at $3.50, 900,
beginning construction of a new
PennsylVa a mia Avenue Bridge,
$3.50, 900; site for a new National
Guard armory, $4,000 and $780,
900 for the beginning of the East
wing of the Municipal Center.
FIXED CHARGES
The Budget Bureau relieved the
general fund charges by recon-
mending that $765 900 for street
lighting be paid for by funds col
lected in the gasoline taxes. The
general fund charges carried in
the bill amount to $39, 9,629,542. To
these are added certain fixed
charges totalling $1,443,277, max
ing the total general fund charges
$41,072,819.
The fixed charges include: Two
hundred and forty thousand dol
lars for half the expense of oper.
ating Freedman's Hospital, $272,.
335 as the Districts share in the
appropriations for the District
Court of Appeals; $350,000, the es
timated amount for supplemental
and deficiencies and $619, ,102, the
revenue deficit estimated for the
current fiscal year.
The total revenue estimates for
the general fund are SGT ,725, ,000
District officials estimate the
gasoline tax fund this year will
yield $5,815, ,167. Against this will
be charged the Highway Depart
ment items, trees and parking
appropriations, the Department OF
Vehicle and Traffic items, expense
of police control of traffic and
the new $765, 900 street lighting
fund, which total $5.722,140. Thus
a surplus Of $93,027 will be left
in the gas tax fund at the end
of 1889, according to the esti
mates.
In like manner, the District Of
ficials figure that the water fund
will wind up the year with a sur
plus of $446,611. They estimate
the fund will total $2,439, ,631 and
and out of this charges amount
ing to 1888, ,020 must be met.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
d. C.. Courts Fund
Cut S889,875

Under a new set,up by which
items for the District Court and
the District Court of Appeals are
carried in the Department of
Justice appropriations, the recon-
mendations for local courts this
year showed reduction of $685..
875.
The court items urged by the
Budget Bureau today to Congress
include: Juvenile Court. SIT $40,
an increase of $6,620; Police
Court. $173,50O, an increase of
S23,370 exclusive of a $3.50 900
item in the current appropriation
for completion of the new build.
ing; Municipal Court, sol ,12o, an
increase of $4.700. However. the
District still pays S272.335 toward
the District Court and the Court
Of Appeals on a percentage basis
with the Justice Department.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Business Group
To Hear Lusk Talk

Rufus S. Lusk, president of the
Washington Taxpayers Associa-
ton, will be guest speaker at the
luncheon meeting of the Central
Business Mems Association tomor-
row at 1890 p. m. in the Har-
rington Hotel.
The annual banquet of the as
citation will be held at 7::30 p. M,
January IA, in the Lafayette Hotel
and will be featured by installa,
ton of new officers. Guest speaker
will be Representative William
Schultz CD Indiana.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
3 Federal Prisons
Sought in Budget

Q.N.S). Construction of three
new penal institutions was pro-
posed today by President RooSe-
velt in his budget message.
He requested Congress to ap-
prove a $1.500,000 appropriation
to begin construction of the in
Stitutions to be located in Eastern
Kentucky. Eastern Texas and at
Braggs, Okla. the total cost not
to exceed $4,000, 900.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
BIGGER POLICE
FUND is URGED

The President called today for
an increase of only $7,570 in the
appropriation for the Metro
politan Police asking for $3,248,-
SOS for 1899 as against $3,240,995
in 1888, which means no addi-
tional policemen to meet the city'S
increasing demand.
The pay roll of officers and
members of the force, chargeablo
to the police account, would re-
main at $2,878,720. This amount,
under the revenue act of 1887,
represents only IS per cent of po-
lice salaries. The Is per cent bal
ance is chargeable to Police Con-
troll of Highway Traffic" under
the highway fund category of the
budget. In both the 1888 appro-
priation and the 1889 estimate
this balance was $508,010, bring
ing the total pay roll to 1886, ,730.
CLERKS ADDED
The budget eliminates the posi-.
ton of assistant property CLERK
which in 1888 paid $2,100.
It would effect a $10,250 in
crease in personal services. The
salaries of four assistant clerks
would be reduced from $1,665 a
year to $1,650 and two additional
assistant clerks would be hired at
the latter figure. Five additional
junior clerks would be employed
at 1,464.
Miscellaneous and contingent
police expenses are unchanged at
S68, ,375, but provision is made for
the purchase of $625 worth of tear
gas guns and equipment and an
increase of 1920 in expenditures
on revolvers, ammunition and ma
chine-gun equipment.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Better Docks
Washington Channel
To Be Improved

Improvement of the washington
waterfront moved nearer realiza-
ton today with budget recon-
mendation of $64,000 for work on
the Washington Channel develop
ment
Army engineers have already
done preliminary work in survey,
ing the channel. The money will
be transferred to the War De,
partment to be expended under
the direction of the Secretary OF
War.
Actual work on development OF
the water front along Water
Street Southwest is to begir
sometime during the present fisca.
year.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Police Aid
President AsksS7O,OOO
For More Cars

The President asked for $4,000
in the budget today for the pur-
chase, exchange and maintenance
of police department motor We
hicles.
The 1888 figure for this item
was SGT, 300.
Forty-two new vehicles would be
bought and a similar number ex-
changed at a net cost of $19, 300.
These would include Is radio cars,
two detective cruisers, 3 patrol
wagons, 10 motorcycles, 10 side
cars and two small cars for use at
the House of Detention.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
$5OO,OOO Provided
For New Center

An appropriation of $500,000 to
begin construction of the $780,
600 east wing Of the proposed mu-
nicipal center is provided in the
1899 budget estimates presented
to Congress today.
OF this figure, $4,000 is to be
made available Immediately for
preparation of plans and specifica-
tions. The Commissioners have
already been authorized to enter
into contracts for completion OF
the unit.
The Washington times., 1938-01-05
Memorial Bridge
Fund Is $4,000

An appropriation of 100000 for
repairs to Arlington Memorial
Bridge, linking the District of Co
lumbia with Virginia through it's
park system, is recommended in
the Department of Interior bud
get presented to Congress today.
The money for the bridge is
taken from the National Capital
Parks appropriation, which is
given a total of $267 900 for
maintenance of the Mt. Vernon
Memorial Parkway.