The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 31, 1920, Page 14

T The Ridin’ Kid From | Powder River fa Henry Herbert Knibbs Copyright, 1919, by Henry Herbert Knibbs TODAY cacued as a enild by an old Pete hiter BRGIN F and owboy ‘Shuck Pioneer named Annersiey, wh » Jater killed by the T-Dar-T outfit the cause of the disturbance that Annersioy, owning the hoas would pitet y water for miles around, has| wonldn't git back plaged it under fe for farming fal . p. kid purposes. This deprives the ranch ere of a watering place eattie, During the raid curred at night, two are also Killed and boy, is given ing “bumped them off.” th of his “pop,” Pete rift, ang herds sheep for « Until he meets y ite, @ rider for the Conc After this Pete's ambition ts to be- & cowboy for the Concho. An old friend of Annersiey’s loans Biro the money to buy « boy efit, Pete rides, a weak- knoe to the Concho seeking @ Job , the foreman, telis him there ‘opening at the time, but th fowboyn, bored by inactivity, b ‘A ‘the boy about his del: an tent pony and tell Smoke, the Concho's fam that no one has ever been Dreak. e decides to try @ bargain with the fore said they wa'n't no tl for awl b Rope 1 throw the Now I fering 1 kid's saddle ¢ n age Andy | w Pete's watch was a jollar watch that went when/ I to and ceased when t] At present the wateh| A good it going—and seemed anxious to make up for lost time by racing at a de-| lirious pace, If Pete could arrange} that his riding be timed by his own | watch he thought be could win, with | something to spare. After a wild battle with the punchers, Blue Smoke was saddied with Pete's sad BOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. | to, “Go on ‘im™ cried Nalley Pete crawled ever the bars. “Jest time him for me," aald Pete, “How long kin a fella stick © turning to the cowboy who held his| that there Blue Smoke hoss?’ Pete | wa ton queried presently. The cowboy glanced at the watch. “Depends on the man,” said Balley |The durn thing's stopped!" he as. grinning. sorte “Bailey here stayed with him 15 secdhids onct,” said a cowboy Pete back his hat. “Weil, | “TY . I ain't sae twister, but 1] TR men jumped back 5 Feckon I could ride him a couple o' | Smoke lunged and went at it. Pete Who's keepin’ time on the | #Titted his teeth and hung to the jumps. Bh rope. Blue Smoke was not a run doggone cayuse é y ning bucker, but did his pitching in “Anybody that's got a watch.” re) 4 emai area—and viciously, Pete's Plied Bailey. head snapped back and forth. He was bleeding at the nose. He want- ted to let go and fail. Anything was better t this. terrible punish n was on f would start started it ° n {Continned trom our Inst fasue.) | hake her,” said Pete Pete slipped inte the Turn ‘im loose! he cried. 6 saddle, Dive an Blue Smoke} and twist. Sud heard shout woman's vo gave a quick pitch deniy it was ni When he came to, Mra. Rafley was kne beside b and ringed | aro were the faces of the cowboys. “I'm the Ridin’ Kid from Powde: River,” muttered Pete, “Did make it? “That horse liked to killed you.” sald Mrs. Bailey. “If Td a knew the boys was up to this © © ¢) {and him just a boyt Jim Bailey, you ought to be ashamed of yourseif!’| Ma Bailey wiped Pete's face with her apron and put her motherly arm | beneath his head. “If he was my) bey, Jim Batley, I'd—I'6—show | your" Pete raised on his elbow. “I'm/ all right, mam. It wa'n't his fault I said I could ride that hows, Did I make it?’ | “Accordin’ to your watch here,” said the puncher who held Pete's ir. responsible timepiece, “you rid him for four hours and sixteen minutes.” | “Do I git the job?” qheried Peta. “You get right to bed! It's a won der every bone in your body ain claimed Ma Bailey. snorted Pete. He rose} His neck ached; but his} black eyes were bright and blinking. | “Goodness!” exclaimed Mra. Bal- ley.. “Why, the boy is comin’ to all| right?" “You bett* nald Pete, grinning, a} though he felt far from all right. “I you, you sure can make the best ever turned loose! he aaserted. “Pier gasped the foreman’s wi “and him almost killed by that bi med Mrs. Hixson; “1 bad be! devil there! You come right in the so weak from seven years of i suffering that at times I wasn't able| house and I'll tix you up.” to stand on my feet. What I ate| That evening was one of the hap. pearly always disagreed with me and|Piest evenings of Pote's lite. He made gas form so bad that I could| "ad never known the tender solici hardly get my breath. I was badly tude of a woman. Mrs. Bailey treat-| constipated and had a pain arrose | °C! him as @ sort of semi-invalid, and ‘of my back and my nerves | finally when the boys turned in her I was troubled with duli | Y°lce came across to the bunkhouse. junt about all the time and jood night, boys.” T had fainting, dizzy spells and od night, maf’ they chorused never able to walk any dis-| heartily. — before I felt exhausted. And “Good night, uncle recommended Tantac to| from the house, Bow since it has entirely “Good night, my troubles I will never | bushing. | get through praising it. I am not) “I'm plumb rore™ Groubled with indigestion or gas at *!n®. “ "Good night, boys,’ ts good ail and I am eating anything and ev.|°m0ugh for us. But did you hear erything I want and digesting it per-| “Dat come after! 1 kin see who gits Headaches and dizzy s«pelis|*!! the extra ple around this here have all left me and my constipated |"nch! I've half a mind to quit.” @ondition bas been relieved. My| “What—eatin’ ple?” perves are in fine condition and the| “Nope! Joshin’ ma. She allus gits cross the small of my back ‘he best of us.” disappeared altogether. I have} gained thirty-six pounds in weight, my housework by myself and than I have been in bas certainly been the greatest blessing of my life and able to praise it t it has done for me.” curious r| | 1 | only seventy-nine when I began taking Taniac, now I weigh one hundred and am feeling better than I} tement made by Mrs. Lucile living at 2023 Broadway, City, Mo. a few days ago. I began taking Tanlac,” it Pete,” came af maf’ shrilied Pete, 3 E asserted Has- CHAPTER Iv. Pop Annersicy’s Boy Several days after Pete's arrival at the Concho ranch, and hungry from a sojourn over near the Apache line. White was washing with a great deal of sputter and el- bow motion, when some one slapped .{ him on the back. He turned a drip- .| ping face to behold Pete grinning at him. Andy's eyes lighted with pleasure He stuck out a wet hand. “Did you land a job?" “With both feet.” It was evident from the start that | Pete and Andy wotld run in double! harness. They were the youngsters of the outfit, liked each other, as the months went by became known—Ma Bailey had read the book—as “The Heavenly Twins.” Bailey asked his wife why “heaven ly." He averred’that “twins was all right—but as for ‘heavenly’—" Mrs. Bailey chuckled. “I'm callin’ ‘em ‘heavenly,’ Jim, to kind of even up for what the boys call ‘em. I don't use that kind of language.” When the fall round-up called for| all hands, Pete would not. have changed places with any man, had been allotted a string of ponies, entered on the payroll at $30 a} | UNITED TEA & COFFEE STORES South End Market—119 Yesler Way and LIBERTY MARKET Between Pike and Liberty Thentre ig Stores—Five Retail Stores An Arabian of old uttered this enthusiastic eulogy, which we translate: “Oh, Coffee, thou dispellest cares of the great and bring- est back those who wander in the paths of knowledge. Every care vanishes when the cup-bearer presents the de- licious chalice to our lips.” THE SMATTLE STAR—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1920. You have very probably noticed that the Coffee men of America have been and are advertising the advantages, goodness and deliciousness of the great American beverage---COFFEE. But however satisfactory it is to us who extol inallur- ing adjectives the virtues of coffee, it is futile unless we get your co-operation to the extent of an actual trial. We therefore ask you this week in particular to quaff this fragrant, refreshing beverage whenever you have the opportunity and further we ask you make thisa Seattle Coffee Week by making a purchase of one of Seattle’s own brands of Roasted Coffee. There are several, each of which is carefully selected and perfectly roasted by experts. There are no better equipped coffee roasters in the world than those who are willing and ready to serve you here at home, in fact —any taste can be satisfied with a Seattle Coffee —therefore we urge you tolook on your pantry shelf and satisfy yourself that you are using a brand of cof- fee that is roasted and packed in Seattle. Such blends you will find deliciously fresh and wondrously satis- Respectfully, WHOLESALE COFFEE ROASTERS ee — a SEATTLE This is Coffee Week month, and turned out to do his share in the big round-up, wherein riders from the T-Bar-T, the Blue, the Bight-O-Eight and the Concho rode, gathering and bunching large herds over the high country. Bleve Gary hb n one of the riders for the T and had taken delight in baiting The the men had admired the which the boy ignored the older man’s rather malicious chaff, for they all knew the of Pete's Pop Annersley and Gary's part tn it Jim Bailey, however more erned than be cared to admit over the whole affair, and his feol ing was not lestened at something he happened to find out one day while riding alone, In @ clreular hole known as “The Pit" pat of way in atory was ce in the he disco’ plain od He Pete indulging in private target | practice. “You handle like an old-timer,” he said. "I ain't advertisin’ it, Ole Jone Montoya alwnys aid practicin’ by yourself, and then no body knows just how you would play your hand,” Bailey frowned and nodded. “Well, seein’ as I'm in on it, Pete, I'd kin of like to know myself." “Why, I'm jest figurin’ that some day mebby somebody’l! want to hang my hide on the fence, I don’t alm to let him.’ “Meanin’ Gary?” “The same, I ain't lookin’ for Gary--even if he did shoot down Pop Annersley, I'm ridin’ this country and I'm like to meet up with him the | that smoke-wagon to do your! t any time. That's all.’* jo you aim to even up, th?” ‘ope. 1 fest aim to be ready to jeven up.” is plain out door talk, which you sabe, Mrs, Bailey and moe ain't ex actly hatin’ you, aa you know. We would hate to nee you get into trou: ble on account of Gary you fee put Pop while you're forget G Annersley, But for ary. I ain't tellin’ you you I'm talkin’ as your friend y Pete slowly comes at me THIN, NE wary Weak. thin people—men or women —are nearly always nervous wrecks; thua,conclusively proving that thine nes@ woakneas, debility and neuras- thenia are nerve starvation. your nerves and all ymptoma due to nerve starvation i} disappear. Dmineat specialists state that the best nervé@lfood in an organic phos- hate knoWn among drugg: Bitro-Phoaphete, a five-grai of which should’ be taken with each meal, Being a genuine nerve build er, and not a stimulant or bhabit- forming drug, Bitro-Phosphate be safely on by the weakest and most delicate sufferer, and the re- I know how! Pete rode away mo—jest | line that’s different.” CHAPTER The Open Holster During the following “It'a this way, Pete—and this here | actually “wusted” him. riously and so It was with spring day to stake o' between the Con TRBarT. The line would run Annserley claim and P tally rehab people regain strength | and > plumpness and curves thinness sleep returns to the al fidence and cheerfulne: bility dull bright, n the pink glow of b *, the use of which Is inox- 80 wonderfully promotes we of weight in @ fe CAUTION: Althou phate in ‘uneurpassed” nervousness, sleeplessness and ge it *hould not, owing eral weakne to its remarkable fi properties, used by does not desire to put Blue Bailey had laughingly » give Blue to Pete if he-could break The boy took the foreman s« NEED BITRO-PHOSPHATE use are sunken eb h Bitro-Pho: | Andy appeared in the doorway |'T-Bar-T boys are comin’ \'em is Gary! Veto nodded and hitched up his | tir ‘ The T-Bar-T men rode in /for hal mounted ney Pil (Continued in our next issue.) ble since at them and th UP} Carman a y field Ky.,| “My back used to hurt me at} and I could not get straight | n hour. 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