Wheeler county eagle. (Alamo, Ga.) 1913-current, May 04, 1934, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextOUTLAWS Os EDEX JJiy WNU Service. PETER B. KYM: Copyright, Sy Peter B. Kyno. CHAPTER I When Raneeford Kershaw came out of the post office at Valley Center, his daughter Lorraine, seated at the wheel of the Kershaw car at the curb, saw Instantly that he had received some mail of a disturbing nature. Uis head was bowed a little, as from a blow and In his tread there was a lag that bespoke an Inhibition slightly greater than that Induced by the bullet that had shattered his hip many years pre vlous. When he reached the car he leaned against the front door; then slowly his head came down until his face was hidden. He shivered faintly and a sigh, half pain, half despair, escaped him. His daughter watched him with something of the alert, professional concern of a trained nurse. Only, in Lorry Kershaw's eyes, profound affec tion and pity showed. She knew her father suffered from angina pectoris, and two doctors had told her a long time ago that she must he prepared to lose him suddenly. They had warned her against exhibit ing the slightest concern during one of his attacks, since that would merely add to the grief and worry of her fa ther and perhaps hasten the end. So the girl waited until he raised bls face and smiled at her a trifle sheepishly. "That was a real twister," he gasped. "I flggered 1 was a goner for sure I don’t think I could stand another like that one, Lorry.” . “N onsense." Lorry twisted his great fn’> ■ “You ain't sympathetic,” he pro tested, with a show of irritation. But the girl kwew he was secretly pleased; that her wmradely badinage helped materially to allay his excitement and the resultant furious pounding of his heart “Too bad about you, Isn't it?” she Jeered. “You know very well the doc tor’s orders are to avoid excitement and to cultivate a placid outlook upon lite at its worst. Nevertheless, the Instant you receive bad news yon selfishly hoard it. Don’t you know that bad news split between us doesn t occupy nearly so much valuable space in that stifled breast of yours? You climb into this car, Ranee Kershaw, and cease your nonsense.” Rance Kershaw grinned at his daughter lovingly. He relished being bullied by her, for he was fully aware of her reason for bullying him; aware that under her calm, debonair exterior there were tears and terror. They drove in silence for about two miles. Then her father said: “You were right, darling. I found a real Jolt waiting for me In the post office. The Valley Center bank has bought our mortgage from the Savings Bank of San Francisco, an’ Babson's called It. Got to pay up In five days or the bank'll enter suit to foreclose.” “Yes, that was quite a shock." Lorry agreed, “but it might be worse. We have a year in which to redeem the ranch, and in that time we may be able to refund our mortgage.” "We'll be counted out thirty days after the suit is filed. Nate Tichenor will close In on us and take the cattle as soon as he hears Babson has filed suit And after that It wouldn't be worthwhile tryln'to refund the ranch mortgage. A cattle ranch without cat tle on it is a liability.” "Still we're not downhearted," the girl protested. “We have two thou sand head of feeders that aren't mort gaged to Nate Tichenor and we can get twenty dollars a head for them. If we sell them now we can escape with forty thousand dollars, hut If we hold them to put more fat on them Ba,w.n or Nate Tichenor will attach tb/iW to help cover a deficiency judg ment. Forty thousand dollars can be made to earn 5 per cent net. That’s two thousand a year. And I have a high school teacher's certificate se cured in the University of California. I can earn eighteen hundred dollars a year teaching school —and on thirty eight hundred • year you and I can live the life of Reilly. Not a worry in life, old-timer." “You can live the life of Reilly on ft, honey, but I shall not. It will kill me to give up Eden Valley—an’ you know why." “It would have been a bless’ng it •ur family had never seen Eden Val *7.” the girl cried passionately. "It's been paid for in blood and tear" and heartbreak and social ostracism, and •11 we have to show for the years is a private cemetery filled with Kershaw women who died heartbroken and Kershaw men who passed away with their boots on. And at last the Hens leys have triumphed over us.” “They got two more in their ceme tery than we have. Lorry." “But they haven’t any debts—and after fighting fifty years to own all of Eden Valley they'll win at last. Nate Tichenor must have money enough to buy in our ranch at the sheriff’s sale. Well, he's earned bis victory If any body Is to get our part of Eden Val ley, 1 hope it will be Nate Tichenor I wonder what sort of man Nate Tiche ■or has turned out to be?" “I dunno, Lorry. 1 wouldn't attempt I to figger even a half-breed Hensley I His father, folks do say, was a right peaceable, fair man an' when he mar I ried Angie Hensley he wrote me, en closin’ his photograph, an' advisin’ me (hat marryin’ into the Hensley family didn't mean he'd married into the Hensley-Kershaw feud. I took him at his word—an' he kept It. But his son was raised a Hensley. He went armed after his fifteenth birthday. I flggered him an' your brother. Owen, would shoot it out some day, which was why I never sent Owen to the high school at Valley Center. The principal dis covered Nate Tichenor wore a forty five in a shoulder holster, an’ ordered him to leave it home thereafter, but young Tichenor wouldn’t do It so they hove him out o’ high school. An’ they do say he was the smartest boy in the country.” “He's been gone from Eden Valley sincethe war," Lorry mused. “Nineyears of life outside may have civilized him. 1 hope so. You've got to admit, dad. he hasn't been an importunate cred itor.” “He don’t have to be. The longer he holds off the more Interest'll ac cumulate an’ the more cattle he’ll have L-=- BRFziS j GENERAkST I alrA Ha vib "ate “Too Bad About You, Isn’t It?" She Jeered. to levy on for bls deficiency Judgment. He’s smart. He don’t figger to do no half-way job bustin’ us.” "Well, whatever happens to us It will be wor’h while,” the girl finally suggested, “provided It ends this sense less, bloody feud ” “The feud ended” Ranceford Ker shaw replied, “when your brother was killed In France. The last Hensley 1 tangled with put me out of the runnin’. A man so crippled he can’t walk a mile or set a horse haA got to wait for his enemies to come to him.” They were passing a cluster of buildings set among some scattered bull pines in the meadow about a quar ter of a mile to the left of the road. A lateral road led from a gate on the main highway down to these buildings which constituted the headquarters of the Hensley ranch. Since 1920 when Angle Tichenor, the last of the Hens leys, had died while her son was with the army In France, the Hensley headquarters had been deserted. For thirty years Ranceford Kershaw had never passed that gate without keeping a wary eye on the Hensley headquarters. And since the habit of thirty years may not be broken in six, he gazed upon the buildings now —and started as he saw a column of smoke issuing from the chimney of the low ranch-house. Lorry saw the smoke also, and Instantly stopped the <ar. “It'll be too late to dispose of them two thousand feeders now," her father told her. “Nate Tichenor’s back. Hirn an' Babson are both after us. They'll strike together. Ah, poor Bulgaria Ranks Third for Men and Women Who Live More Than 100 Years Recent Investigations reveal that there are 158 persons In Bulgaria who are more than one hundred years old, according to a correspondent In the New York Times. This figure, In pro portion to the total population, gives Bulgaria third place for the world rec ord, Lithuania being first and Portu gal second. Os these 158 persons, only four have lived their lives unmarried; 85 are men and 73 are women; among them are 143 Bulgarians, four Pomaks. three Turks, three Gypsies, two Jews, one Armenian, one Kutzovlach and one Rumanian. Os the women, eleven have had five children, four had eight, eight have had nine, three had ten. one has had eleven, one has had twelve, four have had thirteen, one has had fourteen, one has had fifteen and two have had sixteen. Os these men and women, thirty seven were parents before they reached the age of sixty, but twenty eight became parents between the ages of sixty and sixty-five, forty-one between the ages of sixty-five and sev enty, twenty-one between seventy and seventy-five, nine between seventy-five | and eighty, while two had children ; when over eighty. longevity appears to be hereditary, or the parents and grandparents of i WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA Lorry—my poor nttie gin. Sorry, honey—so sorry—” He sighed deeply and lurched over against her; his head fell on her shoul der. She set the brake, moved a little in her seat, put her right arm around his neck to steady him and with her left tilted his face upward toward hers with a look of love unutterable; racked by excruciating pain, neverthe less his high courage was equal to the effort of n smile; and then the light went out of his eyes and his heaving breast was stilled forever. For a long time she had known tha< some day he would leave her thus— suddenly, awkwardly. . . After a while her thumb pressed the button in the center of the steering wheel and a series of raucous, long-drawn shrieks came from the motor horn. The Kershaw pride was in the dust at last. The last of the Kershaws was appealing to the last of the enemy for help 1 «•••«•• For two hundred years the Ker shaws had not been aide, with patient submission, to tolerate more than a modicum of civilization. The rirst progenitor in America arrived witu Lord Baltimore; thereafter each gen eration moved at least one state far ther west; one might have traced the hegira of the tribe by its headstones, albeit many a Kershaw never found » grave at all. They were hunters, trap pers, soldiers, and cattlemen. When Robin Kershaw, at the age ot twenty-two, came home from the Mexi can war, he discovered that during his absence Ills father's ranch In northern Texas had been raided by Comanche Indians, tils family slaughtered and the cattle stolen or dead In a drought Robin Kershaw rode with Fremont to California and. when gold was dis covered, was among the first to stake a claim in the Sierra foothills. Before the snow flew in the winter ot '52, he had amassed a fortune of half a mil lion dollars—and It was time to be moving on. He was now twenty-eight years old and he could afford to marry and move on to the solitude the Kershaws called peace. The land hunger was gnawing at his heart; he liked the cattle busi ness and lie had in him in full measure the ancient primitive urge for free grass and free water. So lie married a Juno who had walked to California be side a covered wagon In '49 and with her rode up into northeastern Califor nia and cast about for a spot where the Kershaw odyssey should end. On a day In the year of 1853 he drove his three pack mules out of the timber on to a bald spot on the erest of what Is now known as the Goose Nest range, and saw three thousand feet below him the land of his heart's desire. “Lovely—and lonely," the girl beside him murmured, and she spurred her horse In beside him and slipped her soft hand into his, so rough and cal loused. Thus they looked upon their heritage. It was a wild elliptical valley into which he gazed; Kershaw estimated it should contian nearly one hundred thousand acres. It was. In reality, a vast mountain meadow. No trouble to winter cattle there. He could cut suf flclent wild hay to insure bringing them out in the spring strong and fat A large stream meandered down the approximate center of the valley. After a long, searching, wistful con templation of the scene below him Robin Kershaw said: “We'll cal) It Eden Valley.” The two youthful pioneers slid down through the talus and pine needles at last into the beginnings of Eden Vai ley—a canyon about a quarter of a mile wide and four miles long these old people mostly lived longer than the average. Thirty-three at them are teetotalers, while 125 drink moderately, but only 48 smoke, a cu rious fact in a country which grows tobacco. They are all even-tempered, cheerful folk. Sixty-nine of them have spent their lives as shepherds or shepherdesses, forty eight have worked upon the land, eighteen were servants, three were blacksmiths, two dressmakers, two gardeners and one nondescript. Only fifteen spent their Ilves as housewives. Managing Canadian Indiana The administration of all Canadian Indians Is carried on by the depart ment of Indian affairs at Ottawa Every province is divided Into agen cies each of -'bleb Includes several reserves. An Indian agent Is made responsible for the welfare of the In dians residing in bis agency. On re serves where agriculture is carried on, a farm Instructor promotes agri cultural work among the Indians. Each band of Indians also has a govern ment of Its own elected by the mem bers of the band. The chief and coun cillors (or headmen) are elected every three years. Each band cannot have more than one chief and fifteen head men. Two headmen are allowed for everv two hundred Indians. I Kershaw rode his horse out into the brown whirling creek waters until they lapped his stirrups, then turned back and joined Ills wife on the high ground along the foot of the hills. “A creek in the summer and tall, but a good sized river In the winter and spring, Lorry," be announced. “There’ll be no dry years in this conn try. Lorry; and there’ll always be a world of water for summer irrigation." The partner of his brave dreams nodded, for she. too, was a child of the soil and could understand his enthus iasm. "Tlie country’s laid out like a frying pan. Robin. This narrow canyon is tlie handle and the big valley Is tbs pan." Keeping to tlie high ground at the base of tlie hills they Journeyed down the Handle to the Pun, fording numer ous lateral torrents that roared down ' the mountainside to the main stream । below. Debouching from the Handle Into the Pan (for so they continued to al lude to the peculiar disposition of the country) Kershaw discovered that tli« ; creek was now. Indeed, a river. And. . as was tlie ease in the Handle, so It was in tlie Pun. For fully a mile on tho west bank of the stream tha ground was inundated. "God’s the ditch-tender In Eden Vai- i ley, Lorry," he exulted. “Once a year for perhaps a month. He gives free I surface Irrigation on a strip two miles wide nnd no man knows how long.” He left her and rode out Into the , sluggish wash to a point within n hun dred yards of tlie main channel. "From a foot to six Indies deep," he an- } nounced, when lie rejoined her on the high ground. “What a grand soaking I And then a couple of inches of new rich silt from the high country back yonder Is left behind to fertilize the grass when the waters recede to the channel I" Site smiled upon him, rejoicing with him in this discovery of unlimited free ! grass and water. On a mesa about forty acres In area, and backed up against the western hills, they found the location for their future home. Perhaps a hundred i stately pine ttees grew upon this mesa, , with lush green grass between. “I can have a garden," Lorry mur mured rapturously, “And there's timber to our hand for our home and outbuildings,” he added. "We'll build a grand big log house and well furnished. When this valley has been surveyed and thrown open to set tlers we'D have a squatter's right to this site, on account we’ve been here first." They camped that night In the pine grove. Side by side, on a foot-deep carpet of soft [line needles, they lay under the stars that night and talked and made brave plans for their future. Truly, they were as Adam i.nd Eve in the Garden of Eden; there, beneath their heavy woolen blankets, content In each other’s arms, they saw no vision of rhe Serpent. They dreamed not of the hatred and envy of humankind that one day should make them, their chil dren and their children's children fight to the death for this dear silent land; that one day the waves of a new civilization would engulf them; that one day they should be crowded I The following morning they con tinued their Journey down the valley Half-way down, the land on each side of the creek rose to a slight angle to ward the hills on each flank, thus grad ually narrowing the area subject to annual overflow from the creek. The channel of the creek grew deeper, too; the man who would irrigate these lands In summer would have to erect I a very expensive dam to raise the wa- | ters above the bank level ami divert them out over his haylands. Unques tionably, the upper half of the valley was, by far, the most desirable from every point of view, and there rose In the heart of Robin Kershaw a fierce desire to own it. Yes, he must have not less than fifty thousand of those rich acres. He could support a cow to every three acres, probably less; that meant he could run. In the valley alone, not less than fifteen thousand head. “I'll be the cattle king of Eden Val ley." he told bls wife suddenly. Presently the valley commenced to pitch downward, the angle of pitch In creasing gradually as they rode. The quality of the soil and the quantity of ' grass decreased with the pitch; the valley commenced gradually to pinch In until finally they found themselves riding through a gorge about two hun dred feet wide, walled in by towering granite cliffs about a hundred and fifty feet high. The gorge suddenly debouched Into a vast, semi-arid plain Into which the surging torrent of Eden Valley creek poured, gradually flat tening out In the inhospitable soil. Robin Kershaw turned In his saddle and looked hack. "If a feller wanted to an' there was some other good coun try off yonder that wanted Irrigation, he could easy put In a dam In this box j canyon. 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