Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1931, Page 31

01,701 /0\i /8178 i 78Y: THE_EVENI f{ele’ K ranch. Immediately Crenshaw, Qutlaws of Eden By Peter B. Kyne SYNOPSIS. ,shaw _and Nate Tichenor. sole Feteors of " Warri fies, “fnd " ihem- ) | Valley. rrigatio v orsamizing o power runs her_cattle ranch. love. Bobson hires & half-breed to inate Nate., but the attempt fails Babson organizes & mass meeting and es the public mind against Nate, tell- the people that he is scheming to rob Nate addresses the mass meeting, d is roughly handled by the crowd. Lorry saves his life by wounding several of his assailants. Babson seeks to secure the lands and water by organizing an irrigation district and floating _bonds. ner. Gagan, w the en nfla; 3 returns. t0’ be married. INSTALLM T XXV. JBE TENNEY, following water_news in_the columns the Valley Center Rej 3 called upon Silas Babson on the first of February. He heaved himself into the visitor's chair beside the banker's desk, spat in Babson's waste basket, sighed and said nothing inute O o werl well* Babson interrupted petulanily, “what's on your mind, Ten- ey?” 2N 5. T'm not_interested.” “I am. Representin’ as I do the in- terests o' Nate Tichenor an' his wife, I got to. I been watchin' the Forlorn Valley irrigation district divertin' water from Eden Valley Creek ever since the first, of the Fall rains, an’ I ain't said xothin'." Kind of sneered. Not a-tall. Orders from the boss. Before he left on his honeymoon Nate had a real cngineer up to look over that | diversion canal, and this engineer re- ported you wouldn't have no success impcundin’ water this year on account the sofl in the ditch is so porous four- the of br you, I'm sure,” Babson Tennely replied lugu- | an’ give the Circle K and the Bar H the annual soakin’.” +1 shall do nothing of the sort. in't you mean, took every drop o' water in Eden Valley Creek frem now until May you couldn’t © | fill your reservoir an’ until you've filled it you can't start to irreigate Forlorn 8o why not let have the overflow this year “The Forlorn Valley irrigation dis- trict is not conferring any favors on | Nate Tichenor or Lorry Kershaw, Ten- ney.” 3 “The only reason I asked you,” Ten- ney went on patiently, “is because Nate an’ his wife are in Yurrup on their honeymoon an’ it don't sort o' look fair |to have to bust up a honeymoon to start a lawsuit an’ have you enjoined by the court from divertin' our water. | 80 I sort o' figured,” he finished sadly, | “to_enjoin you myself!” “I opened the gates in your tarnation | diversion dam myself this mornin' and | I got a couple o' men on guard in the | bresh up the hillside watchin' to see if | any of your people come to close them gates. If so be somebody comes you | take my word for it he ain't goin’ to go away under his own horsepower, be- | cause these boys I've engaged most us- ally hits whatever they shoots at.” sheriff’s posse will close those | gates. Tenney. “Whereupon I'll kill you for engagin | Pitt River Charley to bump off Nate Tichenor.” Babson's face paled. “How long do you require the flood waters?” | "THl I'm through with ‘em.” Mr. Tenney rose and waddled out on his parenthetical legs. Meanwhile, beyond Rube Tenney's statement to Silas Babson to the effect that his employers were honeymooning in Euorpe, nothing had been heard | from Nathan Tichenor and Lorry Ker- | shaw, as Forlorn Valley still continued | to refer to her—as doubtless they al- ways would, since she was much too much of a personage now to lose her identity through marriage. Although questioned adroitly by the curious Rube Tenney remained as uncommunicative as a clam on his frequent trips into the manager of the Valley Center lum- ber yard, motored up to the Circle K to see Nate Tichenor and ask for a share of this new business. He had been re- ceived courteously and told that no orders for lumber or building material could be given him because Silas Bab- son was one of his heaviest stock- holders. When Crenshaw returned to Valley Center he informed the local Chamber of Commerce of the projected outlay of & great deal of money Eden Valley. te Tichenor and his wife had merged their ranches, the old Bar H headquar- ters were to be razed and the old Circle K log ranch house was to be given over to Rube Tenney and his family, after A Tasty Assortment . . - . Myra Monet (Pronounced Myra Mon-ay) the Ticheriors had erected on the Circle K a country home that was to cost not less than a hundréd thousand dollars. There were stables and kennels to be erected also, grounds to be laid out and flowers planted. The lunatic Tichenor ‘was even going to bulld a nine-hole golf course and a huge swimming 1. Crenshaw thought that the pay roll for labor necessitated in these operations should go to Valley Center, so the vice president of the Chamber of Com- merce called upon Tichenor to sug- gest it. “Forlorn Valley in general and Val- ley Center in particular wishes to for- get the past and be friendly with you, Mr. Tichenor,” he stated. “As proof of that feeling I call your attention to the fact that we gave you the use of the freshet waters of Eden Valley Creek this Spring when we found we couldn’t use them, ourselves, owing to the ne- cessity of concreting our diversion canal. We didn't have to do that, but we desired to make a friendly gesture.” “My dear man, I ordered flood gates opened myself and I -had men guarding them with rifles so that no- body would close them until our lands had had th?! annual . ‘That's the sort of friendly gesture I made to Forlorn Vdlley. I was on my honey- moon at the time and didn't want to bother with the law, so I just went back to the old Eden Valley custom. It worked. And I'll engage no labor from Valley Center or Fornloyn Valley. I do G _STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1931. in that section of the ere's another message you can take back with you; within two years I'll own every acre of For- lorn Valley that is included in the irri- gation district; I'll fence it and run cattle over it. At least the wells will supply drinking water for my cattle. And when the. farmers in the district have been dispossessed there will be no further necessity for the thriving town of Valley Center, so it and the Cham- ber of Commerce will disappear; Valley Center will then be a ghost town, in- habited by ghosts.” ‘The vice president of the Chamber of Commerce was irritated, but he was also amused. “Is there no way in which we can escape this horrible fate that awaits us?” he pleaded in mock dis- tre 'Yes, there is” Tichenor replied se- riously. “Get rid of that buzzard Bab- son and start doing your own thinking. Show an inclination to be fair and I'll meet you two-thirds of the way to an amicable adjustment of this war. Continue to permit Babson an his paid newspaper to print lies about us and ridicule us and I'll smash you. And after I've smashed you I'll buy IIF the pieces and own the district. I tell you, when I get through with the State of California the State will be out of the business of glving away water it does not own and that document Bab. son got from the State Water Com- mission will be perfectly worthless.” B-15 upon ‘Tichenor “What & long b our e murmured. 'm only a common little’ bob- cat now,” Tichenor replied easily. “Walt until I develop into a tiger—and then watch my tall swish!” ? (To Be Continued.) - 666 LIQUID OR TABLETS Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day and checks Malaria in three days. 666 Salve for Baby’s Cold Every-Day Drug Store Needs Priced Low at Peoples! “All Over Town” —The Better to Serve You i J Complete 3-Qt. 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Shortly thereafter huge trucks laden with lumber ond building materials came through Valley Center from Gold Run, bound for the old Cir. e EXPERT HEATING ROOFING SERVICE Don't wait till frost comes to overhaul your heater—phone for competent results. Full Line of Coal Ranges and Heating Stoves W.S. JENKS & SON .7237th St.N.W. NAt. 2092 Washingtow's_Oldest Hardware and | Stove Store fifths of it lcaks down into the soil be- fore cver it gits to Lake Babson. He told me to watch the papers an’ if I seen where you an’ your gang was goin’ nd a lot o' money concretin’ that ion canal, T was to come in an’ ou mot to waste the money. It's way, Babson. The run-off rain an’ meltin’ snow from the hills into that | ditch naturally carries a lot o' top soil with it—what the miners call slicken: fThe water runnin’ through the ditch carries more top soil an’ there's a quall- ty in that slickens that ain't to be de spised. Nate's engineer says it'll sift down into all the cracks an' pores of the bed o’ the canal and gradually fill *em up an’ sort of cement 'em naturally, an’' next year the loss from sinkin water won't amount to much: each year it amounts to less an’ les “Isn't it kind of Nate Tichenor to 0 to all that trouble for the irrigation istrict?” Babson replied coldly. “Oh, Nate's kind,” Mr. Tenney as- sured Babson. “Kindest feller I ever did see. It plumb hurts him to see the farmers o' Forlorn Valley stuck for an- other couple o’hundred thousand dollars it ain't necessary to spend.” ! will be the judge of that, Tenney.” | “I know you will. You ain't got the brains of a buck goat. However, I didn’'t come here to argue. I come be- cause T had my orders to come an’ tell ' if you didn't believe this re- | vas 1o invite you up to the Circle | * show you some old ditches up | there that wouldn't carry a lick o' water the first year, but which silted up an’ hardened until now we don't lose | a drop through capillary attraction, | which is what the engineers call it.” | “ suppose you'd like to get me up on | the Circle K 50 you could kill me?” | “Nary bit, Babson. You're a-playin’ hookey from the cemetery now, so why should ![bum{) you ?fl? 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