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CHAPTER Vin
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> Owing to a broken axle caused by
an upset, the stage was nearly two
hours late at Black Butte. Sheriff
Hart arrived about the same time,
and after he had eaten joined the
usual forum on the porch of the post
office. A cowboy whittling on a
piece of soft pine asked him wheth
er he was in this neck of the woods
on business or for pleasure.
"I been over to the Diamond Re
verse B to have a talk with Cal Ter
ry,” he explained.
“What does that curly wolf have
to say for himself?” growled Jack
Turley.
‘‘What you’d expect him to claim,
that he knows nothing about the kill
ings.”
‘‘Just happened to be on the scene
by accident with a rifle loaded for
bear,” Turley said with a jeering
laugh. The man had an ugly, lupine
face, pot improved by a disfigured
nose.
‘‘He gave a reason for being there.
I aim to check up on it.”
‘‘Would that reason cover the fel
low he had with him too?” the cow
boy inquired.
‘‘Says there was nobody with
him,” she sheriff replied.
Roan Alford spoke. “Cal didn’t
used to be a fool, not when I knew
him. How does he explain the dou
ble tracks, Nate?”
“Suggests the killer may have
come up Box Canyon either before
or after him, and that the hoofprints
just happen to run a parallel course
on Johnson’s Prong.”
“Too thin.” It was Turley’s harsh
voice again. “The tracks ran side
by side quite a ways.”
“Unless he’s changed a heap from
the Cal Terry I usta know he
wouldn’t stand for drygulching a
man,” Alford contributed, chewing
a quid of tobacco thoughtfully.
Out of sight but close to the win
dow, Ellen listened intently. This
was not a private conversation, but
talk in an open forum for all to hear.
Turley’s bullying voice took up the
thread. “You fellows are too soft.
He was on the ground right after
the killing and found the body. Later
he rode up the canyon with another
guy, probably the fellow who fired
the shot, and claims he was alone
because he dassent give his side
kick’s name. When seen on the
mesa he was carrying a rifle. Put
those facts together and it spells
guilt.”
The whittling cowboy closed his
jack knife and threw away the piece
of pine. He rose and stretched him
self. “I’ll say this, boys. Mr. Ter
ry can’t get away from that double
set of hoofprints. They tie a rope
'•ound his neck, or leastways they
Ibad ought to. I never did like him.
IHe’s too high and mighty for me.”
He walked toward the hitch-rack
,to get his horse, but pulled up in
his stride to listen to a new voice
:whicb had cut into the talk, a clear
[contralto throbbing with indignant
■corn.
Ellen had come out to the porch
and was standing in the doorway.
“Since you don’t like him, Yorky,
of course he ought to be hanged. He
must be the assassin because he
didn’t want ‘ Diamond Reverse B
stock stolen and was the man who
discovered Jim Tetlow’s body. And
if somebody rode up the canyon
with him that is sure proof he shot
Jim. What more do you need?”
Their astonished eyes fixed on her.
“I didn’t know you liked him,
Cousin Ellen,” the sheriff said.
“Fact is, I hadn’t heard you had
met him since you came back.”
She turned on the sheriff eyes
bright with resentment. “I don’t
like him. What’s that got to do
■with it? Isn’t there such a thing as
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fair play? Must he be guilty of mur
der just because you want to think
he is?”
Roan Alford defended himself, a
propitiatory smile on his wrinkled,
weather-beaten face. “I don’t want
to think any such a thing, Miss El
len. I’d hate to believe it of him.
Now take those tracks —”
Sharply Ellbn cut in on him. “All
right, take them. He didn’t tell who
he was with because he thought it
might embarrass a girl to be
dragged into a killing like this. He
thought—”
Hart interrupted her. “A girl,” he
repeated. “Vfliat girl you talkin’
about?”
Her eyes did not falter, though
the color had flooded into her
cheeks. “I’rn talking about myself.
I was going to Round Top, and'l
thought I’d take the Box Canyon
way to see the flowers. We met be-
“Since you don’t like him, Yorky,
of course he ought to be hanged.”
low the lower entrance, just after
the shot was fired.”
“How long after?” the sheriff
asked.
“Oh, soon. I don’t know how
long.”
“Three minutes—five minutes—ten
minutes—half an hour?”
“I tell you I don’t know. Only a
few minutes.”
"Just long enough for him to have
made sure he had done a good job
and then got to the canyon for his
getaway,” rasped Turley.
“Mr. Terry didn’t act like a guilty
man. He wanted me to examine the
rifle to make sure it hadn’t just been
fired.”
Hart jumped at that like a terrier
at a rat. “Why did he do that? Un
less he was covering up—building
evidence for himself.”
“Because of something I said.”
“And the rifle—could you tell if it
had just been fired?”
“I didn’t look.”
“You didn’t see anybody else
there at any time?”
All of the men were watching El
len closely. She could see that their
interest was keen-edged. This would
be talked over at every ranch in
the county. People would wonder
what she was doing alone with Cal
houn Terry in a canyon so little fre
quented.
“Nobody else,” she said. “Before
I came out of the canyon the killer
had slipped away in the brush. Mr.
Terry rode up the canyon with me
because he thought the-killer might
have slipped into the gorge, and lie
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was afraid to have me go alone. Ke
felt I might be in danger, since the
assassin couldn’t know I had not
been a witness.”
“It knocks out the theory of his
having an accomplice there with
him,” the sheriff said. “I’m much
obliged to you, Cousin Ellen, for
saving me a lot of work. I won’t
have to try to run down a fellow
that doesn’t exist.”
“There’s a point there that tells
against Terry, though,” Hart add
ed. “When he reported finding Jim
Tetlow’s body that looked like the
action of an innocent man. Now we
know he was discovered close to the
spot and had to frame a story to
protect himself.” •
“We don’t know any such thing,”
Ellen differed. “If he is innocent
he didn’t have to frame a story. All
he had to do was to tell the truth.
Which is what he did.”
She turned and walked swiftly into
the post-office. As she thought of it
later, she did not know whether her
story had done him harm or good.
Perhaps it was true she did not
like him. Certainly she resented the
importance he was taking in her
thoughts.
CHAPTER IX
Half an hour after Sheriff Hart
had declined to stay qt the Diamond
Reverse B for dinner another visitor
arrived in a buckboard.
“Hello, Clint!” said Terry. “Just
in time for dinner. If you had been
a little earlier you might have met
the law here.”
“I met it down the road a bit,”
said the superintendent of the No,
By Joe. “What did Hart want?”
“Wanted to arrest me for killing
Jim Tetlow, but he was afraid his
evidence was a little too thin even
for a rustler’s court.”
Ellison was busy getting his cigar
started. He said, between puffs:
“Tell him to look nearer home. Tell
him to check up on which of the
thieves have quarreled with his
brother and Tetlow.”
“I wish this could be cleared up,
Clint,” his companion replied. “We
can’t afford to have people think we
are shooting down men on suspicion.
I grant you both of these men were
dyed-in-the-wool thieves. We were
sure of it. I wouldn’t have objected
to stringing them to a tree openly.
But I don’t want Wyoming to think
we approve of drygulching men we
don’t like.”
Ellison walked to the door, looked
around to make sure nobody was
near, and decided not to risk speak
ing of what was on his mind just
now.
“After dinner we’ll stroll out into
the open where there can’t be any
eavesdroppers and do our talking
there,” he said.
The midday dinner finished, Ter
ry and his guest strolled out to a
corral and leaned against the fence.
“Cal, unless we take the law in
our own hands the big ranches are
through,” Ellison began abruptly.
“We’ve all lost money this year,
and we’ll lose more next. You know
the reasons, well as I do. Short
feed, hard winter, and too many
rustlers who call themselves ranch
men preying on our stock.”
“Yes,” agreed Terry. “And you
named the worst last.”
“I did. We’re through, unless we
can wipe them out.”
“How?” asked the Diamond Re
verse B foreman. “We range over
so big a territory and the thieves
are so slick we hardly ever catch
them.”
“We know pretty well who they
are, don’t we?”
“A good many of them. That is,
we’re pretty sure, even when we
haven’t prqof.”
“What I propose is to bring in a
little army of warriors, round up
the known rustlers, and hang them
as we sweep through the country.
Those we are not sure of we could
give orders to leave.”
Calhoun Terry drummed with his
fingertips on the top rail of the
fence. “There must be several thou
sand settlers in this district where
we operate,” he mentioned, “the big
majority of them on the side of the
little fellow. How big an army are
you thinking of bringing in?”
“Maybe a hundred men. We
would have to keep our plans ab
solutely secret. My idea is to drop
off the train at Jim Creek, where
we would arrange to have horses to
meet us, then come up through Box
Canyon.”
.“If we were seen—and eventually
somebody would be bound to meet
us—word would be rushed to Round
Top and to every nester within sev
enty-five miles. They would be down
on us like swarms of bees.”
“I would hold prisoner every trav
eler we met, no matter who he
might be, until we had done the job.
The friends of the rustlers would
not know until too late. By that
time the fear of our vengeance
would be in all their hearts. They
would accept the situation as a fact
accomplished.”
“We couldn’t ask our own riders
to go with us. They would be
marked men the rest of their lives.
Besides, they would not join us to
destroy men with whom they have
ridden the range and gone to dances.
Fact is, as you know, though we no
longer employ riders who have stock
of their ow r n, a good many of our
boys are related to the small ranch
ers or are friends of some of them.”
“We would leave them out of it.
My idea is to bring in men who
have been United States deputy
marshals in Texas and Oklahoma.
They are tough fighting men, crack
shots, and used to running down out
laws.” Ellison flung opt an impg-
tient gesture of protest. '"I dorTt
like this any better than you do, Cal.
But it’s neck meat or nothing.
Things have come to such a pass
that we have to make our own law.
It’s forced on us, unless we want to
move out and let the thieves control
the country.”
The plan preposed by the man
ager of the No, By Joe meant war.
The nesters and the small cattlemen
would throw in with the thieves,
not because they liked them but as
a choice of evils. They felt that
th«_ big outfits were their chief ene
my. A great many men would lose
their lives, and he was not sure a
clean-up would solve the range trou
bles. He doubted whether the large
cattle companies with absentee own
ership were any longer feasible.
fie shook his head slowly. “I don’t
believe it can be done, Clint. You
can’t keep a secret with that many
men in on it. Before we had trav
eled forty miles there would be hell
to pay. Besides, we’re not ready
yet for anything as drastic as that.
We may win the elections this fall.”
“Not a chance for us to win the
election. You know that. Why fool
yourself?”
“I don’t think we’ll win,” Terry
agreed. “But we’ll have made our
fight. After that, my suggestion is,
the first time we catch a rustler red
handed we go to court with it. When
we don’t convict him, I’d get the
story in Cheyenne, Denver, and Salt
Lake papers, with a review of the
whole controversy. I think then that
public sentiment in the West would
back us in fighting back the only
way we can.”
“It’s ready to back us now if we
have the nerve to act,” Ellison said
bluntly.
“Not the way you propose,” Ter
ry differed. “We don’t want the
Governor calling out the militia
against us, or government troops
being sent in to stop us.”
“No chance of either. The Gov
ernor is a cattleman himself. We
have a big pull with the Administra
tion. We’ll be lookwi after. Don’t
worry about that. I’ve talked with
John McFaddin. He’s with me. So
are the Antelope Creek and the Two
Star ranches. All the decent cow
men will throw in with us.”
“Not many of the little fellows,”
Terry disagreed.
“You’ve got them wrong, Cal. A
lot of the small cattlemen are afraid
to say anything now because the
thieves are in the saddle, but they
will be with us when they find out
we’re going to stand up on our hind
legs and fight. They don’t like this
condition any better than we do.”
“Maybe not, but they would op
pose us if we tried armed insur
rection. The time isn’t ripe yet,
Clint. Let’s give the rustlers a lit
tle more rope to hang themselves.”
“No,” Ellison said grimly, bring
ing his closed fist down on the top
fence rail. “Let’s hang them now,
while we still have a chance to
win.”
“It would be a mistake,” Terry
insisted.
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Selectees, Guardsmen and Reserves
from 12 months to 30 months, and
of enlisted men from three to 4 1-2
years. The legislation provides for
a salary increase of $lO a month for
every month served in excess of one
year. Congress also approved legis
lation deferring from military serv
ice all men who had reached their
28th birthday July 1, and authorizing
resignation of men already inducted
who became 28 before July 1 and
whose discharge is not found con
trary to the best interests of the
Army.
OIL—
Petroleum Coordinator Ickes said
he was satisfied with first results
of the nightly blackouts of East Coast
gasoline stations, but asked motorists
to redouble efforts to cut motor fuel
consumption voluntarily. He made
recommendations for operations of
commercial vehicles which he said
would cut gas consumption about 30
per cent, and announced the oil in
dustry will give its patrons wind
shield stickers pledging the use of
one-third less gasoline than usual.
He said 82 insurance companies have
contributed to the “share-your-car
campaign” by revising underwriting
rules to enable motorists to carry pas
sengers to and from work.
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt urged immediate resignation
of State employment offices of all
automobile service station workers
who lose their jobs as a result of
the drive to cut gasoline consump
tion, in order that they may “be
transferred as rapidly as possible to
other work.”
POWER—
Consumer Administrator Harriet
Elliott issued a list of suggestions to
housewives for the conservation of
power for defense by cutting electric
bills, and said “The practice of care
ful consumption habits now is the
best preparation for the future.” Miss
Elliott recommended economies be
practiced particularly in parts of the
country where power shortages are
threatened.
LABOR SUPPLY—
The OPM said railroad labor and
management will help meet skilled
labor shortages in defense industries
out of the available supply of railroad
workers, which includes 20,000 skill
ed mechanics now unemployed and
80,000 apprentices who could be pro
moted to release other workers. The
OPM also announced 21 Gulf Coast
shipyards have put into effect zone
labor standards prohibiting strikes
and stabilizing wages during the next
tiwo years. Federal Security Admin
istrator McNutt said 2,500,000 jobs
were filled by State Employment
Services during the first six months
of 1941, a gain of 52 per cent over
the same period in 1940.
DEFENSE HOUSING—
FWA Administrator Carmody said
nearly 8,000 homes far defense work
ers—an average of 256 houses a
day—‘were constructed during July,
16 more houses a day than in June.
Mr. Carmody said 16,107 homes were
completed, as of August 1, of the
90,465 approved for construction.
Contracts have been let for 60,835
more, he said.
AGRICULTURE—
Assistant Price Administrator Gal
braith, speaking during the annual
Farm and Home Week, said “farm
ers. . . must be the natural leaders
in the fight against inflation. M
they take the leadership then sta
bility is assured. . .To stop this
price increase. . . we need the will
ingness to see price advances stopped
and stopped firmly.” He said prices
today are more favorable to farmers
than in years, but it took 20 years
“to rebuild agriculture out of the
wreckage left by the inflation of the
last war.”
PRICES—
The Bureau of Labor Statistics re
ported retail food prices increased
I. per cent during the last two
weeks of July to a level almost 16
per cent above August, 1939. The
Federal Reserve Board said national
income payments by last June had
reached about SBB billion a year—
-19 per cent above May, 1940—and
said unless an unusually large part
of consumer income is saved or paid
out in taxes, price inflation will grow.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
Secretary of State Hull, returning
to his desk after a six-weeks absence,
said “During the weeks of my ab
sence the most clinching demonstra
tion has been given. . . (that) there
is a world movement of conquest by
force, accompanied by methods of
governing the conquered peoples that
are rooted mainly in savagery and
barbarism.” Secretary Hull said
“with full effort and ever-increasing
production and preparation for de
fense. . . a successful resistance to
the present world movement. . . will
be made.”
SALE OF REAL ESTATE
UNDER POWER OF SALE
GEORGIA, Early County:
There will be sold by the under
signed on the 2nd day of September,
1941, before the court house door of
said county, in the city of Blakely,
at public outcry to the highest bid
der for cash, within the legal hours
of sale, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Thirty-six (36) acres of land in
land lot No. 229, in the twenty-sixth
land district of Early County, Geor
gia, said land being known as the
Authur and Louisa Williams Place,
and being a part of the old Shep
Daniels Estate.
Also eighteen (18) acres of land in
Lot No. 229, in the tiwenty-sixth
land district of Early County, Geor
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and bounded as follows: on the east
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west by lands of Dunean Daniels,
and on the south and north by the
original lines of said lot.
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corded in the Office of the Clerk of
Superior Court of said County in
Deed Book 46, on pages 96 and 97,
said deed having been executed to
secure the payment of the indebted
ness therein described, the Holman
Mule Company having succeeded
J. C. & W. C. Holman Mule Com
pany, and default having been made
in the payment of said indebtedness.
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purchaser at said sale as provided
in said deed.
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PHILLIP SHEFFIELD, Attorney.
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