The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 21, 1920, Page 13

mM ts \ VESDAY, DECEMARMR 21, 1970, ar > [PPELI! Wel! Well! A Pioneer hunter! That's a new one heard of duck hunters, and hunters, and bear hunters even lion hunters, but I never met a hunter before! Do ‘om, of merely use hed vid was used to that sort of 80 he only grinned, and said BUees you're a teaser like Dad f » but I'm awfully gtad to meet " and he put out his hand to Bhake hands in such a nice manly ) Way that the Pioneer liked him Fight away, and ts wasn't Ic hunters and e} you the ng MM they were talking like old! friends. "Yea," he maid, “they told you Fight. I was only 6 old When I came to Walla Walla THT tive to be a hundred, nothing WM ever be quite so grand as that PMtip on tho lumbering old st each. I was little and they let sit high up by the driver, the horses seemed to me to be flying over the road, dust about us in clouds, and you call the road rough now DUE it didn't seem rough to me ‘ Was all just wonderful “g all deseribing, and 1 waa . @ knight, riding in state *% city which was going to be home. Some thrill! el} you a Christmas story “ Probably one of the oldest ‘about here. You've heard att years ~ and ¥ ie THE WALLA WALLA MAN wonder. | St : } ¥, J \ 239 of the Wh I reck wore MAN Massnore, on, when all those killed, folks and the ones who were left alive were brought to Port Walla? i, this story ds about some of folks—the killed in the massacre, member tha, Sager children Dr, and Mra. Whitman adopted? Weill, it was the litte ager girl who told the story. I it from her, those ones who were not Re the “The masmacre oceurred on the 27th of November, and you re member it waa weeks before the soldiers got to the prisoners and pald the ransom and rescued the women and children. “Christmas waa coming, and not only did they have gifte or merry.making. never knew from hour nothing but to puld tor they hour whether the Indians we decide burn to scalp, tortura, murder anything cruel and devilish happen any minute | “They were taken to an Indian village and put under a guard of savages; Most of these were cross and mean; but old Indian | seemed almost friendly and kind his name was Beardy, | was their only hope. “He ordered them around like slaves, and ate what they coo! for never would touch « bite until they would taste the food; he didn’t trust them. (To Be Continued) and he nemselves—but ae ADVENTURES OF ate a TWINS Gosek T+ BUSER THA A Theol WOTH A CLOSET YUL OF SWIMMING GUFiS* LETS GEE + WHAT DXD [ COME it WERE FoR 2. OM NEM: Such a blanket tossing as the rascal got @i4 Wasp Weasel got" | cause Wasp was a general muteance/ with men who only play at doing Wick, as he and Nancy rushed and she didn’t like him at all. He| things.” tnto Mra. Woodchuck's where she had been getting — for the family’s } Wasoietieke didn’t my a word 4 toward a hump under! the blankets. Of course if she two words or ten, Nancy would not have under that scamp Wasp had their charm and then run ‘That is why they were after, an idea oceurred to Nick Whispered it to his sister. > ughed softly and nodded. | do it right away,” she whis tiptoed quietly to the top bed. At the same time Nick Place at the foot. Mra wondered what it was ut but said nothing. If any ‘was about to happen ta Wasp, n't going to interfere, be ig How Nibble Rabbit had always worried the life out of Wobbly, her own dear boy, and Wally, her hustand, had just said the other day that—But there! That's not the story. Sudggeniy Nancy grabbed two cor- ners the ylankets, between which Wasp wad Crouching, and at the same ti Nick grabbed the other two. they pulled the covers clear off the bed, never letting go their hold. “Give us our charm, W: Nick severely, “or weet }up.” Wasp lay very still and never }let on he heard, That settled itt] Such a blanket tonsing as the rascal got, he'll never forget, I'm sure, nor the lesson either. And the charm jumped right out of his mouth with the jolting. Nancy grabbed it and tucked ft away sefely, and the twins departed. (Copyright, 1920, N. B.A) aD LOFh ace : fa Ime Fooled Glider the Blacksnake (Copyright, 1920, by The IN Nibble Rabbit said he was going to hunt for his lost| , instead of sitting in a sad mp and calling for her, Bobby | wae pleased. But when he was going to begin by seeing the Owl had dropped amy fur beneath his tree, Bobby was upset. He came tumbling to the ground where he could Nibble look him straight in the listen to an awful lecture. fil do nothing of the sort,” he | “Now that you have to see and and soe} and feel for yourself, Hl have to be twice as careful ever were before. You may ali the things your mother y—now you'll have to do And ehe took slit that trouble #® you could be @ sensible, rabbit and keep out of danger, you'd run right off the minute you and offer Hooter a free *. Bobby was #0 worried about She forgot that the ground was ¢ tor a sensible bird. 1 must know if Hooter caught pleaded Nibble, “and 1 will be 1.” He sat up and sniffed ali d with his nice, clean nose that fieen all swollen from cryibe| ‘en Bobby Robin found him. And} ed up his tidy ears, just to show reful he meant to be, And he a soft little noise behind him t two grass stalks rubbing , tho it was an tiny ax that. the scraping Glider the Black makes when he slips across a ! ibble’s feet just bounced of them and Bobby's wings beat and ugly head landed right be em. For Glider hears every at goes on along the ground. eard Nibble stamping to Sher. If Mammy Rabbit h , Glider never would have But she didn't-—#o Glider did. now lonely little Nibble Rabbit racing off and Gilder wae after simply boiling over with rage fast as he could put his tail to the He didn’t think Nibble could } | | ! a ‘ i pe | place to hide | breath before he could talk Amoctated Newspapers) run so very far. He was sure he! would eatch him, For a minute Nibble thought so, too, Scared! Nibble Rabbit was too seared to think. He just ran. Every jump he made was longer and higher than the one before until he was «ail ing over the tops of the tallest grasses, My, but he wanted his mam-| my-—that was because he was so dreadfully scared, Then he wanted a Presently he remem bered the Brush Pile, He turned toward it and he didn’t even hide his trail the way he had been taught~ that was how scared he was, But just as he reached it he re- membered something his mother had} told bim, which wag just what she hoped he would do. “If the thing) that chases you ra feathers, take! to &@ hole, If it weare fur, don't put your nose into any h that hasn't another end, If it wears acales, keep to the open and run aa fast and far ax you can.” And scales are ex-| actly what Glider wears, | So now he knew exactly what to do, and he wasn't quite aa scared. He just bounced up on the Brush Pile and kept on going until he bounced off again on the other side He 4 thru the Clo ch and dowe the Broad Field between shocks of corn. The field was all muddy from the rain, and his feet slipped and, his little heart went bump, bump, agajnst hia sides, as tho some one were hitting him. asn’t even frightened any more was too tired But he kept on. nm he heard @ voice ca!!ing him ibble, Nibble, wait It was no hissy voice of a snake, It was Bobby and slid So he turned Into one of the nice little tents made by the shocks of And Bobby had to catch his “You're sate,” he gasped. “You lost Glider back by the Brush Pile, I asked you if you could fly, You can. You fly faster than a-thistledown in a north! wind.” And Nibble twitched his nose | into @ pleased smile, while Bobby} corn. | they listened for, lof the young jof-way fight | grabbed my THE SEATTLE STAR Tom Might as Well Have TWAT ovGur To BE AM EASY Word To SPL - Keep VouR sur on "runt rao rr! Looked in the "Phone Book OW CLEM! + Dips Pur A NEW SET OF SKID- CHAINS ON THAT COUPE Freckles and Tagal Veal © BUY tte DIO Hud Ais, SuvekSt t ger ‘BETTY AND HER BEAU— THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1920, by Charts Berihmer’s Sens) (Starts on Page One? Mr. Norcross, It has been my mis fortune to have to asnociate chiefly He switched off at that and axked her if she were warm enough, aay ing that if she were not, he and I would scrape up some mgebruxh or something and make « fire She re lied that she didn’t care for a fire. hat the night wasn't at all cold which ft wasn't, Then that she was humiin, clear the tips of her pretty tingors. “You may smoke if you want to.’ she told the boss, “I «ba‘n"t mind it in the least.” At that, my little girt turned on me and said, in tly tone: “You may amoke if you want to, Mr, Dodda, I sha’n’t mind it In the least." 1 heard a sort of amoth ered chuckle from the other end of the timber seat, and the bors lighte his cigar. Then there waa more talk, in which young woman and her c to bave been met at Portal City by somebody she called “Cousin Basil but there wouldn't be any scare, be cause she had written ahead to say that possibly they might stop over with some friends in one of the apple towns, Then = Mr. Norcross ania wouldn't mins anything by the drop out but an appointment he had with an old friend, and he guenwed that could wait. I listened, thinking may be he would mention the name of the friend, and after a while he did The forwarded Portal City telegram the had gotten gust before we went to dinner in the dining car w from “Unele John” Chadwick, the Chicago wheat king, and that left |me wondering what the mischief Mr | Chadwick was doing away out in the wild and woolly western country where they raise more apples than do wheat, and more mining stock schemes than they do either. There was another thing that 1 too, but It didn’t come was some little side oman’s husband. far as that underthetank talk vent, there needn't\have been any Mr. Macrae” at all, and I was puz aied. If she'd been wearing mourn ing—but she wasn’t, so I told myself that she simply couldn't be a widow Anyway, she was @ lot too light hearted for that We had been marooned for nearly an hour when I struck a match looked at my watch. Me was still doing his best t for the young woman, just in the exciting railroad story, telling n the exa n were That mention Bo and Norcross kill time nd he was art of another about a right Midland, where we had to smuggle in a few canes of Winchesters and arm the track layers to keep from being shut out of the only canyon there was by the Pp & 8 + when the lit girl arm and said: “Listen! I did, and broke in promptly. x couse me,” I called to the other two, ‘but 1 think there's a train com. ing.” The bows cut his story short and we all listened. It seemed that I was wrong. The noise we heard was more like auto running with the cut-out open than a train rumbli “What do you make it, Jimmi came from théehons end of timber, “Motor car, said, pointing ward the east. the Tt out that way,” 1 in the darkness to stopped to fan himself with his wings, Next story: Bobby Robin Teases Glider the Blacksuake, the mme} turned out that the} he as} My guens was right. In less than & minute we saw the lights of the car, which was turning in a wide drele to come up beside the main ne track #0 ft would head back to © east. It stopped a little way be low the water tank and about a hindred yards north of the track, or maybe leas; anyway, we could see it quite well even when the lamps! were switched off and four men ame tumbling out of it If I had yenn alone on the job I should proba bly have oalled to the men as they ame tramping Over to the side-track But Mr. Norcrows had @ different hink coming. “Out of sight—quick, Jimmiem he whispeted, and In another second he had whipped the young woman over he big footing timber to a standing under the tank among the braces, and I had done the same for the girk r out of an Anna Kath nm detective story After something to ‘the switch of unused spur track, the four men eparated. One of them went back the auto, and the othpr three walked down the main track to th lower «witch of the short siding which was on the mame side of the main line as the spur. Here the ‘ourth man rejoined them, aad the irl at my elbow told us what bh ad gone, back to the cag for “He has ligh a red lantern,” she whimpered. “I saw it when fe took it out of the auto.” I guess it was pretty plain to all of us by this time that there was mmething decidedly crooked on the rds, but if we had known what ft was, we couldn't very well have done anything to prevent it. There were only two of us men to their four und, besides, there wasn’t any time The lantern-carrying man had bare y reached the lower switch we heard the whistle of a locomo ive. There was a train coming from the west, and a few seconds later an electric headlight showed up m the long tangent beyond the sid ing. It was a bandit holdup, all right We saw the four men at the switch stop the train, which seemed to be 4 special, wince it had only the en sine and one passer rear, One of the men stood on the track wav ing the red lantern; we could see him plainly tn the glare of the headlight » wasn't much of a serap, There 6 two or three pistol shots, and then, as near as we could make out the holdup men, or some of therm, limbed into the engine What they ext waa an blind a Chinese puzzle. Refore you could ten they had made a flying with the single ear. kicking it in on the siding. Be fore the car had come fully to a stop, the engine was switched in be hind It, coupled on nd the reversed ain, with the engine pushing the ear, rattled away on the old spur that led off into the hill; clattered away and was lost to sight and hear tng in leas than a minute. Tt was not until after the train waa switched and gone that we dis covered that two of the bandits had been left behind. These two reset the switches for the main track leaving everything as they found it, and then crossed over to the Pretty* soon we saw match count switeh auto, | flares, and two little red dots that | appeared told us that they were smoking. What are they doing, Jimmie? asked the bons, under his breath “They are waiting for the other two to come back,” I ventured, tak ing a chance shot at ft. Then I asked him if he knew where the old What followed was as mystertous | when | had | spur track led ta. He mid he didn’t; that there used to be some bauxite mines back in the hilla somewhere in this vicinity, but he understood | they had been worked out and aban | doned. I wee fost thinking that aN this) mystery and kidnaping’ and gun | play must be sort of bard on the| young woman and the girl, but tho |my half of the allotment was shiv ering a little and snuggling up just | | grain closer to me, ane proved Wat she hadn't lost her nerve. id you see the name on that boar when the epgine went past to }met in behind it?” she asked, turn. ing the whispered question looge for anybody to answer. “No,” waid the bona; and T hadn’t, | either | 1 did." she asnerted, showtng that her eyes, or her wita, were quicker jthan ours. “I had fust one little glimpee of tt. The name is} Alexa.” epelliie it out, reross started as If he had | That t Mr, Chad |wick’s private ecar—they’ve kid naped him!" Then he whirled short | on me. “Jimmie, are you man | enough to go with me and try a| tackle on thoes fellows over. there | in that auto?” I said I was, bot I didn’t add what I thought—that ft would prob-| ubly a case of le suicide for | us two to go up against a pair of Jarmed thugs with our bare hands The boss would have done it in the hollow half of a minute; he’s built | Just that way. But now the young woman put in her word “You mustn't think of doing auch 4 thing? she protested; and she was still telling him all the dif erent reasons why he mustn't when we heard the creak and grind jot the ste engine coming back fown the old spur. After that there was nothing to do | but to wait and see what was going to happen next, What did happen was as bUnd as all the rest. The engine was stopped somewhere in the gulch back of us and out of t from our hiding place, and pretty soon the two men who had zone with her came hurrying acros out of the hill shadows, making traight for the auto. A minute or two later they had elimbed into the machine, the motor had sputtered, and the car was gone, be dow Mr. Chadwick's Special Of course, a# soon as the skip-out of the four holdup men gave us a free hand we knew it was up to us get busy and do something. It was a safe bet that the Alexa was carrying her owner, and in that case Mr. Jobn adwick and his train crew were somewhdre back in the hills, without an engine, and with a good prospect of staying “put until somebody should go and hunt them up. Mr. Norcross had our part tn the play figured out before the retreat. ing auto had covered its first mile “We've got to find out what they've done with Mr. Chadwick,” he out, And then: “It can't: be they have left the and if they haven't crippled it——" He stopped #hort and slung a question at the two women: “Will | you two stay here with Jimmie while I go and see what I can find in that} gulch?” ‘They both paid me the compli ment of saying that they’d stay with me, but the young woman suggested that it might be just as well if we. should all go np the gulch together, So we piked out in the dark, the to | engine, ‘ong Hold a Conference A\u, JUST BCAUSE™ RITUMETIC LESTON® GRE, DoPS* Antu- STRICT. WELL IF IT AIN'T MY OLD GIRL | ‘SBEEN A LONG TIME SINCE! 4 Y) along over the cross-ties of the spur, and the little girl stumbling on be- hind with n She had got over her scare, if she had any, and when I asked her if she didn't want an arm to grab at, she Inughed and said, No, and that it was grand; that sho wouldn't miss @ siggle stumble for worlds. “In all my Mfe I've never had anything half as exciting as this happen to me,” was the way she put it, and she sure acted as if she meant to make the most of it. We had followed’ the spur track up the gulch for maybe a short quarter fa mile when we came to the en gine. There was nobody on it, and the brigands had been good-natured enough to leave the fire-door open so that the steam would run down wen, You Car exPecr | To Fimo Ir mw The “W'S! nere rr is, Preven outa = By BLOSSER AM % TD UNO VE USED “TEACH Scuoct TD ‘ToD MOM NOT T MARRY Mua BY PARKS | Siw YOU BETTY * gently and let the botler cool off by degrees. Luckily for us, the boss was an expert on engines, just as he is on everything else belonging to a rafiroad, and he struck matches and looked our find over carefully before he tried to move it. As we had feared it might be, the big machine was crippled. There was a key gone out of one of the connecting-rod crank-pin straps; one miserable little piece of steel, maybe eight inches long and tapering one way, and half an inch or #0 thick the other; but that was a-plenty. We coulda't make a move without ft (Continued Tomorrow) ‘The demand for baby carriages has fallen off about 50 per cent this year. 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