July 30, 1934 (8 pages)

at e Jim?” “Me, too. And I'd like some cake,” replied Jim, dropping his load. “Cake! Wal, listen to our new hand. Jack, can you bake cake?” “Sure. We got flour an’ sugar an’ milk. Did you fetch some eggs?” “Haw! Haw! Thet reminds me, though. We'll get eggs over at Star ranch. None of you ever seen such a ranch. Why, fellers, Herrick's bought every durn’ hoss, burro, sow, SYNOPSIS Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from Wyoming, in the early days of the cattle industry, seeks a new field in Utah. He meets Hank Hays, who. admits being a robber, and tells Wall he is working for anEnglishman, Herrick, who has located a big ranch in the mountains. Herrick has employed a small army of rustlers and gun-fighters, and Hays and others are plotting to steal their employer's cattle and money. Hays gets into an argument with a gambler over a poker game. Wall saves Hank’s life by bluffing the gambler out of shooting. “How. do you aim to joined Lincoln. CHAPTER II—Continued eh Ha “H—l—you say,” panted Stud. about kill each other.” “More truth than fun in thet, Hank, old boy, an’ don’t you forget it,” re But that ringing taunt had cut the force of his purpose. “You’ve got a gun in each inside vest pocket,” said Wall, contemptu ously. The gambler let his hands relax and slide off the table. Stud shuffled to his feet, malignant and beaten for the moment. “Hays, you an’ me are even,” he said, gruffly. “But I'll meet your new pard some other time and then get rich?” “Shore, I’ve no idee. ‘Thet'll all come. I’ve got the step on Heeseman an’ his pards.” ‘ “He'll be aimin’: at precisely the same deal as you.” We'll have to kill Heese“Shore. I’d man an’. Progar, sooner or later. like it sooner.” “I don’t like the deal,” concluded Lincoln,. forcibly. Presently they sat to their meal, and ate almost in silence. Darkness “I think he would, Hays,” returned Wall. “You were sitting bad for ac tion.” “Right you are, Jira, and I’m much obliged to you. , I'd like to know some thin’.” “What's that?” “Did you bluff him?” “Hardly. I had him figured. It was a pretty good bet he wouldn't try to draw. But if he-had made a move—” “Ahuh. It'd been all day. with him. This gambler Stud has a name out here for bein’ swift on the draw. He's killed—” “Bah!” cut in Wall, good-humoredly. “Men who can handle guns don’t pack eee De ee Hays drew out a handful of bills and pressed them upon Wall. “Shore. Buy what outfit you need an’ don’t forget a lot of shells,” re “If-A.don’t miss my guess we'll have a smoky summer. Uaw! Haw? Here’s the store.” didn't you’re ask you right. to take Reckon I old man was shot by rustlers.” “I gathered you'd no use for rustlers. Well, then, Hays, how’d you fall into your present line of business?’ “Haw! Haw! Present line. Thet’s a good one. Now, Jim, what do you reckon thet line is?” them that way.” said Wall. I thet Black Dragon canyon, an’ thet hellhole of the Dirty Devil: . My He Felt an Overpowering Sense of the Immensity@of This Region. One by one they sought their beds, and Wall was the last. ‘Dawn. found them up and. doing. Wall fetched in some of the horses; Lincoln, the others. By sunrise they were on the trail, which about midafternoon led down through high gravel ‘banks to a wide stream bed, dry except in the middle of the sandy waste. “This here’s the Muddy,” announced Hays for Jim's benefit. “Bad enough when the water’s up. But nothin’ to the Dirty Devil, Nothin’ at all.” asked Jim. “It’s a river an’ it’s well named, We'll cross you can gamble on that. it tomorrow some time.” Next camp was. on higher. ground above the Muddy. Hays and Lincoln renewed. their argument about -the Herrick ranch deal. It proved what Wall had divined—this 3rad Lincoln was shrewd, cold, doubtful and aggressive. Hays was not distinguished for. any cleverness. He was merely an unscrupulous robber. These men were going to clash. That was inevitable, Jim calculated. “You seem to be versatile, Hays. But if I was to judge I’d say you relieved people of surplus cash.” “Very nice put, Jim. Id hate to be a low-down thief. Jim, I was an honest man once, not so long ago. It was a woman who made me what I am today. Thet’s why I’m cold on women.” “Were you ever married?” went on Jim, stirred a little by the other’s erude pathos. “Thet. was the h—1 of it,” replied Hays, and he seemed to lose desire to confide further. They rode into the zone of the foothills, with ever-increasing evidence of fertility. But Jim’s view had een restricted for several hours, permitting only occasional glimpses up the gray-black slopes of the Henrys and none at all of the low country. . : Therefore Jim was scarcely prepared to come round a corner and out into. the open. Stunned by the magnificence of the scene he would have halted Bay .on the spot, but he espied Hays waiting for him ahead. “Wal, pard, this here is Utah,” said Hays, as Jim came up, and his voice held a note of pride. “Round the corner here you can see Herrick’s valley-an’ ranch, It’s a bit of rich lane thirtv miles long an’ half as wide, narrowin’ like a wedge. Now let’s ride on, Jim, an’ at it.” x have a_ look Early the next day Jini Wall had Across the mouth of Herrick’s grayzreen valley, which opened under the to be the son of the proprietor, took escarpment from which Jim = gazed, charge of Wall. A new saddle blanextended vast level green and black ket was Wall's first choice, after which most remarkable one. The trail, now lines of range, one above the other, he bought horseshoes and nails, a tracks, hoof only a few dim, old each projecting farther out into that hammer and file, articles he had long tortuously down and down \ blue abyss. -meeded, and the lack of which bad 4 wound. ror-dleep: canyons: Pi dae i) r “Down in there somewhere this made Bay lame. After that heselect. The tracks: Hays: was" folld ng Hank Hays will find his robbers’ “_ed a complete-new outfit of wearing apparel, a new tarpaulin, a blanket, failed and he got lost ina labyrinthine roost,” soliloquized Jim, and turned rope, and wound up with a goodly-supmaze of deep washesimpossible to his horse again. into the trail. climb, and seemingly “impossible to ‘ 3efore late afternoon of that day A bright young fellow, who looked ply of shells for his .45 revolver, Like reason to be curious about the Dirty Devil river, for the descent into the defiles of desert to reach it was a “=Sawise’ he got some boxes of .44-rifle. escape from. oghells. coe Half an hour later the four’ men, “driving five packed -hors¢s and two unpacked, rode off behijd the town -peross the flat toward tha west.Coming to a rpad, Hays ‘ed that for a mile or so, and then branched off on : a seldom-used trail. Towards sunset they drew down to r a vast swale, where the the centeof green intensified. afd the eye of the . i Lincoln got off his’ horse and went down the -ing for a canyon, evidently searchplace to climb up to the rim above. He, returned.in.an as sertive manner and, mounting, called for the others to follow. “. hear the river an’ I’m makin’ for it,” said Lincoln. _Jim had heard mur, which had \ a faint, low murpzzuled him, and JimWall had seen’ aS many cattle dotting a erdant: grass, watered valley as ev he had viewed in the great herds drivén up from Texas to Ae ee or on the Wind River Range of Wyoming. A rough estimate exceeded ten thousand head. He had taken Hays with a grain of salt. But here was an incompar&ble range and here were the cattle. No doubt, beyond the timbered — bluff of Real “Aha! Good to be out again, boys,” said Hays, heartily. ‘Throw saddles a side canyon. Ways led them to a an’ packs. Turn ‘the hosses loose. Happy, you're elected cook. Rest_of . camp-site that never could have been expected there. 5 us rustle somethin’ to burn.” “Fellers, I'll bet you somethin’,” he Jim rambled far afield to collect “There's a @p srioload of dead stalks of cactus, said, before dismounting. gcease-wood, sunflower; and dusk was Nepidiebatuin 3 a down in thet country where Open o all Two huge, grimy barges laden with rock came from Catalina Island recently to delvier the last of the 220,000 tons that, have gone into Santa Monica’s yacht-harbor breakwater. Completion of the 2,000-foot random-mound breakwater is the culmination of dreams repeatedly ‘blasted and _ renewed for 50 years, starting when the “old-timers” first projected plans for a harbor at the Santa Monica shore. A conservative estimate of $100,000,000 is the figure fixed as the cost to San Francisco of the recent general strike. This figure does not include, according to the chamber of commerce, the losses resulting from the general strike alone but the 71-day maritime strike. At one time there were nearly 200 vessels riding idle in the harbor and at the piers inside the Golden Gate. + Banner Gold County of ,, California Repaired \and Annual production over $3,000,000 Combinations ‘Changed For Information Address Keys made for every, lock, saw filing, bicycles repaired, knives lawn Chamber of Commerce Nevada City, Calif. mowers sharpened. Gunsmith. © RAY’S FIXIT. SHOP Acton M. Cleveland 220 East Main St. Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY Camptonville Notary Public James C. Tyrrell of Grass Valley is the new president of the California Postmasters’ Association, He waselect-~ ed recently along with C. Lester Covalt, San Anselmo, first vice-president; M. ‘J. O’Rourke, Beverly Hills, second vice-president; Charles H. Hood, Fresno, third vice-president; J. F. McInerney, Merced, sergeant-at-arms; Miss Bernice C. 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Boards, will visit California about September 20, according to word received in Los Angeles. He will address representative real estate meetings in San Diego, Long Beach, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland and Seattle. moré mishap than a wetting. ae canyon’ where ran the Dirty Devil. The’ water was muddy, but as it was Nevada City California ey Estate horses. ' sedge plot where water oozed out and all followed’ Lincoln. Eventually he led them into a narrow, high-walled Coffee Shop Hugh Potter, president of the Na shallow the riders forded it without : water. Hays halted for camp at a swampy and SANITARIUM level, has been made to the chamber of commerce engineering committee by Fred Pyle, hydraulic engineer. grass was. thick enough to hold~the range rider could see the Influence of ‘They bd bd \NEVADA CITY city of San Diego to reduce the water Association Nevada City The National Hotel ee \ A prediction that if voters do not approve the $88,000 bond issue for strengthening Hodges dam on the August 28 ballot, state eigineers will condemn the structure and compel the across the valley lay another depres.Glendale may decide soon to place a charter amendment, creating a ward sion like this one, and perhaps there system and increasing the number of a of spokes like extending many were council men from five to seven, before wheel down from the great hub of the Henry mountains. But where voters at the November primaries was seen recently by persons familiar with was the market for this unparallelec which he had not recoznized Broad St. 520 yt aia . tional STAND Stationery, Magazines 316 \ Clarence R. Gray q take over the job of relief financing, leaving care of the needy to the counties. few cabins, the first of which I threw up with my father years ago. In his later years he was a prospector. We lived there for years. I trapped fur up here in the mountains. In fact I got to know the whole country except Here Work Called for and elivered for the other fellers.” “Hope I don't disappoint you,” said Jim, dryly. “Well, you’ haven’t so far. Only I'd feel better, Jim, if. you’d come clean with who you air an’ what you “A town? No one would think it.” “Wal, it ain’t much to brag on. A Devil?” (By WNU Service) NEWS REPAIRING phenol and related -»mpounds. Racketeers are selling these drugs in fat figured everybody knew Hank Hays. Why, there’s a town down here named after me, Hankville.” Dirty Radio Service and the. delegation that the state should me on.” “Shore, the News of the Week But I guess you'll more’n make up fit. “Hays, “What's WATCH REPAIRING The “reducing racket” has a group of new and dangerous drugs, dimitro air.” settled down. California * killed me.” They had breakfast. “Brad, you fetch your pack horses round back,” ordered the leader, when they got outside. “Happy, you get yourself a hoss. Then meet us at the store quick as you can get there. Jim, you come with me.” “Hays, I’m in need of some things,” be evening. California has felt the benefit of The trail led up a wide, shallow, $29,000,000 worth of relief during regravelly canyon full of green growths. cent months and has yet to feel $11,They rode on side by side. The trail 000,000 more before the state and fedled into a wider one, coming around eral funds are exhausted, according to from the northeast. Jim did not miss Charles G. Johnson, state treasurer, fresh hoof tracks, and Hays was not The federal-government has approprifar behind in discovering them. ated $20,000,000 to match the $20,000,“Woods full of .riders,”’ he mut000 appropriated by the sale of state tered. bonds, making a total of $40,000,000 “How long have you been gone, new spent for general relief in CaliHays?” inquired Jim. fornia. Let’s see. “From Star ranch? Must be a couple of weeks. Too long, A delegation of northern California Herrick sent me to Grand supervisors recently met with Acting by gosh! Governor Frank F. Merriam, but withJunction, An’ on the way back I cirout results. The supervisors were anxcled. Thet’s how I happened to make ious to have the relief problem settled Green River.” “Did you expect to meet Happy before budgets are drawn up. Merriam said no program was suggested, exJack and Lincoln there?” pe cept the individual thought of one of “Shore. An’ some more of my out inside his vest. I never saw them, till you gave it away. He—would -have house for breakfast he was to find Hays, Happy Jack arid Brad Lincoln ahead. of him. it’d reducers in spite of reports of deaths caused by their compounds, W. G. Campbell, chief or the food and drug administration of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, reports to A. A. Brock, siete director of agriculture. “Ro ducing agents containing these drugs,” Campbell says, “have sprung up like mushrooms all over the country, and are endangering. the lives of CHAPTER III patrons. The Federal Food and Drugs Act has no jurdisdiction over products Next morning they got a late start. of this type, dangerous though they Nevertheless Hays assured Jim that may be.” they would reach Star ranch towards there’ll be a show-down.” “Shore, Stud. No hard feelin’s on my side,” drawled Hays. The little gambler stalked: to the bar, drank and left the saloon. Hank Hays turned round. “Jim, thet feller did have two guns Presently they bade Red good night and went outside: “Where you ‘sleepin’?” asked Hays. “Left my pack in the stalH out back with my horse. ‘What do we do tomorrow ?” “T was thinkin’ of thet. We'll shake the dust of Green River. I reckon tomorrow we'd. better stock up on everythin’ an’ hit the trail for the Henrys.” “Suits me,” replied Wall. Breakfast “Wal, then, good night. here early,” concluded Hays A red sunrise greeted Wall upon his awakening. When, a little later, he presented himself at the back of Red's did tured. After supper Jim strolled away frém camp, down to where the canyon opened upon a nothingness of space and blackness and depth. The hour hung suspended between dusk and night. He felt an overpowering sense of the immensity of this region of mountain, gorge, plain and_ butte. While Jim Wall meditated there in the gathering darkness he was _ visited) by an inexplicable reluctance to go on with this adventure. steer; chicken in the whole copntry.” “So you said before,” returned Lincoln. “I’m sure curious to see this Englisher. Must have more money than brains.” “He hasn’t got any sense. 3ut Lordy, the money he’s spent!” Jim sat down to rest and listen. “Queer deal—a_ rich. Englishman hirin’ men like us to run his outfit,” pondered Lincoln, in a puzzled tone. “] don't understand it.” “Wal, who does? I can't, thet’s shore. But it’s a fact, an’ we're goin’ to be so rich pronto thet we'll jest they 4 Mrs. Preston’s . al Zane Grey ; “Give me_ sourHow about you, when only our bleached bones,” scoffed Lincoln. There never had been any love lost between these two men, Jim conjec 4 FINE * Hays was saying. dough biscuits. . : store fakes bread,” find us.” “Ha! An’ ae * chore. “Wall, I don’t like never in Gawa’s world could anybody t? mantling the desert when he got back to camp. Happy Jack was whistling about a little fire; Hays knelt before a pan of dough, which he was kneading; Linclon was busy at some camp Z4 plied Hays. MTR Monday, July 30, 1934 + ROBBERS” ROOST i he ST _ THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE TWO _ ¥ Sal pects has been blocked at least temporarily with the general hospital in Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Santa Barbara. refusing to accept further addicts for treatment, saying its facilities already are overcrowded. AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Capital of California Fire Insurance Companies. E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor 4 : C}

at e Jim?” “Me, too. And I'd like some cake,” replied Jim, dropping his load. “Cake! Wal, listen to our new hand. Jack, can you bake cake?” “Sure. We got flour an’ sugar an’ milk. Did you fetch some eggs?” “Haw! Haw! Thet reminds me, though. We'll get eggs over at Star ranch. None of you ever seen such a ranch. Why, fellers, Herrick's bought every durn’ hoss, burro, sow, SYNOPSIS Jim Wall, young cowpuncher from Wyoming, in the early days of the cattle industry, seeks a new field in Utah. He meets Hank Hays, who. admits being a robber, and tells Wall he is working for anEnglishman, Herrick, who has located a big ranch in the mountains. Herrick has employed a small army of rustlers and gun-fighters, and Hays and others are plotting to steal their employer's cattle and money. Hays gets into an argument with a gambler over a poker game. Wall saves Hank’s life by bluffing the gambler out of shooting. “How. do you aim to joined Lincoln. CHAPTER II—Continued eh Ha “H—l—you say,” panted Stud. about kill each other.” “More truth than fun in thet, Hank, old boy, an’ don’t you forget it,” re But that ringing taunt had cut the force of his purpose. “You’ve got a gun in each inside vest pocket,” said Wall, contemptu ously. The gambler let his hands relax and slide off the table. Stud shuffled to his feet, malignant and beaten for the moment. “Hays, you an’ me are even,” he said, gruffly. “But I'll meet your new pard some other time and then get rich?” “Shore, I’ve no idee. ‘Thet'll all come. I’ve got the step on Heeseman an’ his pards.” ‘ “He'll be aimin’: at precisely the same deal as you.” We'll have to kill Heese“Shore. I’d man an’. Progar, sooner or later. like it sooner.” “I don’t like the deal,” concluded Lincoln,. forcibly. Presently they sat to their meal, and ate almost in silence. Darkness “I think he would, Hays,” returned Wall. “You were sitting bad for ac tion.” “Right you are, Jira, and I’m much obliged to you. , I'd like to know some thin’.” “What's that?” “Did you bluff him?” “Hardly. I had him figured. It was a pretty good bet he wouldn't try to draw. But if he-had made a move—” “Ahuh. It'd been all day. with him. This gambler Stud has a name out here for bein’ swift on the draw. He's killed—” “Bah!” cut in Wall, good-humoredly. “Men who can handle guns don’t pack eee De ee Hays drew out a handful of bills and pressed them upon Wall. “Shore. Buy what outfit you need an’ don’t forget a lot of shells,” re “If-A.don’t miss my guess we'll have a smoky summer. Uaw! Haw? Here’s the store.” didn't you’re ask you right. to take Reckon I old man was shot by rustlers.” “I gathered you'd no use for rustlers. Well, then, Hays, how’d you fall into your present line of business?’ “Haw! Haw! Present line. Thet’s a good one. Now, Jim, what do you reckon thet line is?” them that way.” said Wall. I thet Black Dragon canyon, an’ thet hellhole of the Dirty Devil: .. My He Felt an Overpowering Sense of the Immensity@of This Region. One by one they sought their beds, and Wall was the last. ‘Dawn. found them up and. doing. Wall fetched in some of the horses; Lincoln, the others. By sunrise they were on the trail, which about midafternoon led down through high gravel ‘banks to a wide stream bed, dry except in the middle of the sandy waste. “This here’s the Muddy,” announced Hays for Jim's benefit. “Bad enough when the water’s up. But nothin’ to the Dirty Devil, Nothin’ at all.” asked Jim. “It’s a river an’ it’s well named, We'll cross you can gamble on that. it tomorrow some time.” Next camp was. on higher. ground above the Muddy. Hays and Lincoln renewed. their argument about -the Herrick ranch deal. It proved what Wall had divined—this 3rad Lincoln was shrewd, cold, doubtful and aggressive. Hays was not distinguished for. any cleverness. He was merely an unscrupulous robber. These men were going to clash. That was inevitable, Jim calculated. “You seem to be versatile, Hays. But if I was to judge I’d say you relieved people of surplus cash.” “Very nice put, Jim. Id hate to be a low-down thief. Jim, I was an honest man once, not so long ago. It was a woman who made me what I am today. Thet’s why I’m cold on women.” “Were you ever married?” went on Jim, stirred a little by the other’s erude pathos. “Thet. was the h—1 of it,” replied Hays, and he seemed to lose desire to confide further. They rode into the zone of the foothills, with ever-increasing evidence of fertility. But Jim’s view had een restricted for several hours, permitting only occasional glimpses up the gray-black slopes of the Henrys and none at all of the low country. . : Therefore Jim was scarcely prepared to come round a corner and out into. the open. Stunned by the magnificence of the scene he would have halted Bay .on the spot, but he espied Hays waiting for him ahead. “Wal, pard, this here is Utah,” said Hays, as Jim came up, and his voice held a note of pride. “Round the corner here you can see Herrick’s valley-an’ ranch, It’s a bit of rich lane thirtv miles long an’ half as wide, narrowin’ like a wedge. Now let’s ride on, Jim, an’ at it.” x have a_ look Early the next day Jini Wall had Across the mouth of Herrick’s grayzreen valley, which opened under the to be the son of the proprietor, took escarpment from which Jim = gazed, charge of Wall. A new saddle blanextended vast level green and black ket was Wall's first choice, after which most remarkable one. The trail, now lines of range, one above the other, he bought horseshoes and nails, a tracks, hoof only a few dim, old each projecting farther out into that hammer and file, articles he had long tortuously down and down \ blue abyss. -meeded, and the lack of which bad 4 wound. ror-dleep: canyons: Pi dae i) r “Down in there somewhere this made Bay lame. After that heselect. The tracks: Hays: was" folld ng Hank Hays will find his robbers’ “_ed a complete-new outfit of wearing apparel, a new tarpaulin, a blanket, failed and he got lost ina labyrinthine roost,” soliloquized Jim, and turned rope, and wound up with a goodly-supmaze of deep washesimpossible to his horse again. into the trail. climb, and seemingly “impossible to ‘ 3efore late afternoon of that day A bright young fellow, who looked ply of shells for his .45 revolver, Like reason to be curious about the Dirty Devil river, for the descent into the defiles of desert to reach it was a “=Sawise’ he got some boxes of .44-rifle. escape from. oghells. coe Half an hour later the four’ men, “driving five packed -hors¢s and two unpacked, rode off behijd the town -peross the flat toward tha west..Coming to a rpad, Hays ‘ed that for a mile or so, and then branched off on : a seldom-used trail. Towards sunset they drew down to r a vast swale, where the the centeof green intensified. afd the eye of the . i Lincoln got off his’ horse and went down the -ing for a canyon, evidently searchplace to climb up to the rim above. He, returned.in.an as sertive manner and, mounting, called for the others to follow. “. hear the river an’ I’m makin’ for it,” said Lincoln. _Jim had heard mur, which had \ a faint, low murpzzuled him, and JimWall had seen’ aS many cattle dotting a erdant: grass, watered valley as ev he had viewed in the great herds drivén up from Texas to Ae ee or on the Wind River Range of Wyoming. A rough estimate exceeded ten thousand head. He had taken Hays with a grain of salt. But here was an incompar&ble range and here were the cattle. No doubt, beyond the timbered — bluff of Real “Aha! Good to be out again, boys,” said Hays, heartily. ‘Throw saddles a side canyon. Ways led them to a an’ packs. Turn ‘the hosses loose. Happy, you're elected cook. Rest_of . camp-site that never could have been expected there. 5 us rustle somethin’ to burn.” “Fellers, I'll bet you somethin’,” he Jim rambled far afield to collect “There's a @p srioload of dead stalks of cactus, said, before dismounting. gcease-wood, sunflower; and dusk was Nepidiebatuin 3 a down in thet country where Open o all Two huge, grimy barges laden with rock came from Catalina Island recently to delvier the last of the 220,000 tons that, have gone into Santa Monica’s yacht-harbor breakwater. Completion of the 2,000-foot random-mound breakwater is the culmination of dreams repeatedly ‘blasted and _ renewed for 50 years, starting when the “old-timers” first projected plans for a harbor at the Santa Monica shore. A conservative estimate of $100,000,000 is the figure fixed as the cost to San Francisco of the recent general strike. This figure does not include, according to the chamber of commerce, the losses resulting from the general strike alone but the 71-day maritime strike. At one time there were nearly 200 vessels riding idle in the harbor and at the piers inside the Golden Gate. + Banner Gold County of ,, California Repaired \and Annual production over $3,000,000 Combinations ‘Changed For Information Address Keys made for every, lock, saw filing, bicycles repaired, knives lawn Chamber of Commerce Nevada City, Calif. mowers sharpened. Gunsmith. © RAY’S FIXIT. SHOP Acton M. Cleveland 220 East Main St. Phone 602 GRASS VALLEY Camptonville Notary Public James C. Tyrrell of Grass Valley is the new president of the California Postmasters’ Association, He waselect-~ ed recently along with C. Lester Covalt, San Anselmo, first vice-president; M. ‘J. O’Rourke, Beverly Hills, second vice-president; Charles H. Hood, Fresno, third vice-president; J. F. McInerney, Merced, sergeant-at-arms; Miss Bernice C. 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A police drive against narcotic sus that our kind feelings cannot open it, nor yet so unfastened that it lies open to all. A limit should be set, and it should depend on our means,—Cicero Investigation by the Los Angeles county grand jury into the disposition of about $8,000,000 in gasoline tax money collected from motorists by the civic affairs. Real Generosity reputable physicians and surgeons and — Prices That Meet Present ‘Day Conditions — TO BE CONTINUED. Our purse should not be so closed Here you will find \ All Sacramento county employes and appointive officers have been told by supervisors not to engage in political activity under penalty of dismissal. But supervisors admitted they did not know just how far their authority went, and asked the district attorney for an opinion covering every phase which the warning has given. range? Still they were lost. There .was nothing to do, however, but work up roost Elizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. Boards, will visit California about September 20, according to word received in Los Angeles. He will address representative real estate meetings in San Diego, Long Beach, Pasadena, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland and Seattle. moré mishap than a wetting. ae canyon’ where ran the Dirty Devil. The’ water was muddy, but as it was Nevada City California ey Estate horses. ' sedge plot where water oozed out and all followed’ Lincoln. Eventually he led them into a narrow, high-walled Coffee Shop Hugh Potter, president of the Na shallow the riders forded it without : water. Hays halted for camp at a swampy and SANITARIUM level, has been made to the chamber of commerce engineering committee by Fred Pyle, hydraulic engineer. grass was. thick enough to hold~the range rider could see the Influence of ‘They bd bd \NEVADA CITY city of San Diego to reduce the water Association Nevada City The National Hotel ee \ A prediction that if voters do not approve the $88,000 bond issue for strengthening Hodges dam on the August 28 ballot, state eigineers will condemn the structure and compel the across the valley lay another depres.Glendale may decide soon to place a charter amendment, creating a ward sion like this one, and perhaps there system and increasing the number of a of spokes like extending many were council men from five to seven, before wheel down from the great hub of the Henry mountains. But where voters at the November primaries was seen recently by persons familiar with was the market for this unparallelec which he had not recoznized Broad St. 520 yt aia . tional STAND Stationery, Magazines 316 \ Clarence R. Gray q take over the job of relief financing, leaving care of the needy to the counties. few cabins, the first of which I threw up with my father years ago. In his later years he was a prospector. We lived there for years. I trapped fur up here in the mountains. In fact I got to know the whole country except Here Work Called for and elivered for the other fellers.” “Hope I don't disappoint you,” said Jim, dryly. “Well, you’ haven’t so far. Only I'd feel better, Jim, if. you’d come clean with who you air an’ what you “A town? No one would think it.” “Wal, it ain’t much to brag on. A Devil?” (By WNU Service) NEWS REPAIRING phenol and related -»mpounds. Racketeers are selling these drugs in fat figured everybody knew Hank Hays. Why, there’s a town down here named after me, Hankville.” Dirty Radio Service and the. delegation that the state should me on.” “Shore, the News of the Week But I guess you'll more’n make up fit. “Hays, “What's WATCH REPAIRING The “reducing racket” has a group of new and dangerous drugs, dimitro air.” settled down. California * killed me.” They had breakfast. “Brad, you fetch your pack horses round back,” ordered the leader, when they got outside. “Happy, you get yourself a hoss. Then meet us at the store quick as you can get there. Jim, you come with me.” “Hays, I’m in need of some things,” be evening. California has felt the benefit of The trail led up a wide, shallow, $29,000,000 worth of relief during regravelly canyon full of green growths. cent months and has yet to feel $11,They rode on side by side. The trail 000,000 more before the state and fedled into a wider one, coming around eral funds are exhausted, according to from the northeast. Jim did not miss Charles G. Johnson, state treasurer, fresh hoof tracks, and Hays was not The federal-government has approprifar behind in discovering them. ated $20,000,000 to match the $20,000,“Woods full of .riders,”’ he mut000 appropriated by the sale of state tered. bonds, making a total of $40,000,000 “How long have you been gone, new spent for general relief in CaliHays?” inquired Jim. fornia. Let’s see. “From Star ranch? Must be a couple of weeks. Too long, A delegation of northern California Herrick sent me to Grand supervisors recently met with Acting by gosh! Governor Frank F. Merriam, but withJunction, An’ on the way back I cirout results. The supervisors were anxcled. Thet’s how I happened to make ious to have the relief problem settled Green River.” “Did you expect to meet Happy before budgets are drawn up. Merriam said no program was suggested, exJack and Lincoln there?” pe cept the individual thought of one of “Shore. An’ some more of my out inside his vest. I never saw them, till you gave it away. He—would -have house for breakfast he was to find Hays, Happy Jack arid Brad Lincoln ahead. of him. it’d reducers in spite of reports of deaths caused by their compounds, W. G. Campbell, chief or the food and drug administration of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, reports to A. A. Brock, siete director of agriculture. “Ro ducing agents containing these drugs,” Campbell says, “have sprung up like mushrooms all over the country, and are endangering. the lives of CHAPTER III patrons. The Federal Food and Drugs Act has no jurdisdiction over products Next morning they got a late start. of this type, dangerous though they Nevertheless Hays assured Jim that may be.” they would reach Star ranch towards there’ll be a show-down.” “Shore, Stud. No hard feelin’s on my side,” drawled Hays. The little gambler stalked: to the bar, drank and left the saloon. Hank Hays turned round. “Jim, thet feller did have two guns Presently they bade Red good night and went outside: “Where you ‘sleepin’?” asked Hays. “Left my pack in the stalH out back with my horse. ‘What do we do tomorrow ?” “T was thinkin’ of thet. We'll shake the dust of Green River. I reckon tomorrow we'd. better stock up on everythin’ an’ hit the trail for the Henrys.” “Suits me,” replied Wall. Breakfast “Wal, then, good night. here early,” concluded Hays A red sunrise greeted Wall upon his awakening. When, a little later, he presented himself at the back of Red's did tured. After supper Jim strolled away frém camp, down to where the canyon opened upon a nothingness of space and blackness and depth. The hour hung suspended between dusk and night. He felt an overpowering sense of the immensity of this region of mountain, gorge, plain and_ butte. While Jim Wall meditated there in the gathering darkness he was _ visited) by an inexplicable reluctance to go on with this adventure. steer; chicken in the whole copntry.” “So you said before,” returned Lincoln. “I’m sure curious to see this Englisher. Must have more money than brains.” “He hasn’t got any sense. 3ut Lordy, the money he’s spent!” Jim sat down to rest and listen. “Queer deal—a_ rich. Englishman hirin’ men like us to run his outfit,” pondered Lincoln, in a puzzled tone. “] don't understand it.” “Wal, who does? I can't, thet’s shore. But it’s a fact, an’ we're goin’ to be so rich pronto thet we'll jest they 4 Mrs. Preston’s . al Zane Grey ; “Give me_ sourHow about you, when only our bleached bones,” scoffed Lincoln. There never had been any love lost between these two men, Jim conjec 4 FINE * Hays was saying. dough biscuits. . : store fakes bread,” find us.” “Ha! An’ ae * chore. “Wall, I don’t like never in Gawa’s world could anybody t? mantling the desert when he got back to camp. Happy Jack was whistling about a little fire; Hays knelt before a pan of dough, which he was kneading; Linclon was busy at some camp Z4 plied Hays. MTR Monday, July 30, 1934 + ROBBERS” ROOST i he ST _ THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE TWO _ ¥ Sal pects has been blocked at least temporarily with the general hospital in Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Santa Barbara. refusing to accept further addicts for treatment, saying its facilities already are overcrowded. AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Capital of California Fire Insurance Companies. E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor 4 : C}