June 11, 1934 (8 pages)

oo: a Monday, May 21, 1934 THE NEV ADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE aaa OU dy i hp hh ines! SYNOPSIS At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There is bad blood over fences and water Kershaw kl'ts Hensley and the bloodfeud is on. Sy 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor is the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley Nate tells Lorry he and Owen, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a brother might do. Babson makes legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry. Babson discovers Nate is behind a rival power project. Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She admits she loves Nate,-and they become engaged. CHAPTER VIII—Continued —TOe “He was ready for me, but he didn't pull. And when Rookby picked himself up Owen said. ‘That's. right, Henry. This is the closed season in Eden Valley’—and he gave Henry Rookby the great-grandfather of all the kieks under the coat-tail, and walked away from me,” “Poor Owen.” “So Vil make’-a wholesale job of cleaning out that rat’a nest in the Bank cf Valley Centers, if I ean. And after ['*e smashed the bank Pl) buy the wreck, saving the depositors, and have myself elected president.” “You've got to promise something else before V'll marry vou, Nate. Help me with the branding—fou’re a top hand and f{ ean use you—but as soon an the brane@ing's finished go away and complete your business and come back ts me ws soon as you can.” “IT promise. But let me give you a seanll warning. Don't crowd me with ts many demands for promises.” “The only promise I'll ever exact from you again, Nate Tiehenor, will be to love. honor, and cherish me until death do us part.” “And endow you with all my worldly goods—including the Eden Valley water, . suppose. Funny sweetheart! I'll race you back to the house for @ dollar.” “You'd ‘win. ing can step.” “Make it a kiss then.” “Well, you'd still win, so I might as well pay the bet here and now.” And she did. That horse you're ridCHAPTER IX Joe Brainerd, editor of the Valley Center Register, had been summoned to the Bank of Valley Center. Babson led him into. his private office. And then, for the last time, he disclosed his plan for the organization of the. Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. “Here’s the copy for a full-page ad,” he finished. “It’s a call for a mass meeting of the citizens, to be held next Saturday afternoon in the plaza, for the purpose of discussing the’ water situation and the appointment of a committee to,investigate the possibillties of leading surface irrigation into the valley. [ll plant the idea good and strong in their minds at that mass meeting, but in the meantime you get out a good rousing editorial that will give them something to think about. Warn ‘em that this Mountain Valley Power company is about to grab the water for power purposes, Tell ‘em Nate Tichenor’s the Mountain Valley Power company. Give Tichenor h—1 in a quiet way, but be firm. If we tackle Tichenor now the chances are we can euchre his company out of a contract to sell water to Forlorn Valley. Get the idea? He told me his company wouldn't consider selling us water and why. If we threaten his source of water supply, chances are he’ll change his mind and do business with us. And that’s what we're after.” Brainerd, remembering his recent experience with Tichenor, needed no urging to enlist in Babson’s ceduse. Within two hours he was back in Babson’s office with a copy of his editorial, “That's certainly a rousing editorial,” Babson complimented him, “but there’d be a lot more punch to it if you tied into Nate Tichenor more vigorously.” : “Why, Tichenor hasn’t done anything out of the way, has he?” “Ie’s swiped our water, hasn't he— or he's trying to swipe it?” “He’s perfectly within his rights, Mr. Babson. How did he know we wanted the water?” “The rights of the people are paramount ‘to those of the individual, but , whether they are or not, it suits me to have you tie into this fellow. Attack him. Impute things to him. Run-a history of his family and the Kershaws—continued from week to week. *“) want to incite the community against engage in, Joe and in war you've got to make people hate or they won’t fight well. although to do so we may have to By PETER B. KYNE We’ll have to fight for the Eden Valley water, but we can win, buy both the Circle K and the Bar H in order to acquire their water rights. But if we tackle the owners now—hold them up to obloquy and ridicule and publie hate, they just can’t live in this country, understand, and they'll be glad to sell and get out.” Brainerd replied: “Mr. Babson, it’s a job I don’t like—for two reasons. One—business; the other—ethical,” “Bear in mind, Joe, that the continued prosperity of Forlorn Valley is a matter of profound interest to you and me.” “I'm on the horns of a dilemma, Mr. Babson. If I attack Tichenor in the manner you suggest he will start an opposition newspaper in this town and ruin me.” : “How can he? He can’t get any local advertising. {’d see to that, even if the focal. people were fools enough to support their natural enemy by giving him advertising.” “But he promised me he'd do it, Mr, Babson.” “A mere bluff.” “] think you've got that man wrong. 1 sized him up as one who will go through, I understand none of his people have ever made a promise they didn’t keep, Bad as they were and bad as the Kershaws were, both clans had the courage of wounded grizzly bears. I’m afraid of him.” Babson smiled patiently, “The Hensleys and the Kershaws never had their courage tested outside Eden Valley, Joe. Let Tichenor come projecting around Forlorn Valley and he’ll find a man to eall his bluft.” “I tell you, Mr. Babson, it’s a job 1 do not want. Tichenor will fight back —and the only way a man can fight the only newspaper that’s attacking him is to start an opposition newspain whi %, “You’ve Got to Promise Something Else Before . ’ll Marry You Nate.” per and mail his copies gratis to his enemies. And I tell you further I dislike the fight because it’s dirty. [ll fight Tichenor all over the lot for the sake of Forlorn Valley and its crying needs; but I'll fight him on the issue involved and not his family history.” “T see,” Babson murmured sadly, “youre an idealist, too.” “T hope I haven’t lost all my idealism.” “I see. Well, Joe, . hate to remind you of it, but you owe this bank three thousand dollars and the bank holds a chattel mortgage on your plant. And you. haven't got the -building you're housed in paid for yet. I hold a deed of trust on that.” “Is that a threat, Mr. Babson?” “Suppose we call it a gentle hint, Joe.” “Then let’s quit arguing. I'l) not wage a mean, dirty, personal war against Nathan Tichenor and that Kershaw girl. That's final—and I suggest that tf and when you get surface irrigation, into Forlorn Valley, you go out to the main canal, jump in and .drown yourself.” _ “Well, that fixes your clock Brainerd.” Babson commenced to rearrange his pens and pencils on their rack and to shuffle ‘the unanswered correspondence on his desk. “I'll just take over the Valley Center Register and put in a man who's loyal.” 7 Joe, Brainerd stood up. He was a small man, but like -most small men he lacked neither courage nor conceit. He struck, silently and savagely—furlous blows, left and right, to Babson's sneering face;.as the banker sprawled back of his desk the quondam proprietor of Valley Center’s lone palladium of liberty walked out of the bank and back to his oflice, where he seized a pad of copy paper and wrote: “With this issue the present editor of the Valley Center Register sings. his swan song. Because he wouldn't take orders from Silas Babson and do the latter’s dirty work, the Bank of Valley Center, which holds a chattel mortgage on the Register’s plant, but not on the editor's soul, him. This is a war we're about to “ will kick ye sole editor and proprietor out into the geometrical center of Valley Center LAWS of EDEN will lick the hand that feeds him, even if he doesn't relish the dirty diet. “The editor desires to ©xpress his PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY ATTORNEYS “MINING ENGINEERS HARRY M. McKEE Attorney at Law EDWARD C. UREN Mining and Civil Engineer Mining Reports Furnished Mining District. Maps Phone 278R Nevada City WNU Service. 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. Ww. E. WRIGHT ATTORNEW AT LAW : Office in Union Building from time to time Miss Kershaw an1. Phone 28 Nevada City I—and the Mountain Valley Power company, which is me—will have F. T. Nilon i: + Hennesss gratitude to the citizens of Forlorn Valley who have so loyally supported him and his policies. Of course we have found it expedient mt times to tread on somebody’s toes, but we haven’t held: mean little grudges, and when the fight wus over wee were always willing to shake haneis. And we have not always won. Henee. we hope to be forgiven our tresprasses as we forgive those who have trespassed against us. “The editor, eventually, may be forced to buy himself a compete with the birds for a livelihood, but never let it be said of him that he existed at -the price of another’s shame and humiliation. in orderthat ruthless and powerful interests might feed a persomal . grouch. “Joseph P, Brainerd, “Sole Editor and Proprietor, “Pro Tem, “Valley Center Rez@ister.” When Tichenor and Lorry Kershaw came in for luncheon the next noon, following a hard morning’s work in the branding corral, Editor Brainerd’s swan song and rousing editorial promptly came to their attention. Indeed, there was no escapime either, for the editorial in black brevier type filled the first two columns om the front page and in the center of. the same page, boxed and also in brevier, the swan song appeared. Lorry, read the articles: first and, without comment, handed the paper to Nate. When he had finished reading it he looked up. at her whimsically. “How stupid that fellow Babson is,” he commented. ‘“He’s hog-wildad with power. One could cash every bet that when there’s something constructive to be done Babson will chom@se the wrong way of doing it Hurrah for Joe Brainerd!” “It takes a man to accept ruin rather than orders that conflict writh his sense of justice. -I wonder what sort of dirty work Babson wanted hinm to do.” “TI don’t know. I can’t ©@ven suspect, but I’m willing to agree with Brainerd, on suspicion, that the work was dirty.” He commenced to chuckle with a certain joyous malevolence. **Well, sweetheart, in line with my policy of becoming the big man of this district and also in line with my prommise to tease the animal, I believe it’s up to me to save the sole editor and proprietor pro tem of the Valley Centex Register.” About two o’clock that afternoon Nate walked in on Joe Brainerd and solemnly proffered that suffering individual his hand. “Where can we talk privately?” he asked. Brainerd indicated his den. Tichenor sat in at the desk, wehere he filled in a check to Joseph P.Brainerd and signed it. “You fill in thre-figures,” he said, “and my bank will pay the check.” Brainerd stared at. him. “What do I have to do for this?” “Just continue to fight for the best interests of Forlorn Valley.” “Wait a minute, Tichemor. Who told you that you were the maan I was ordered to attack?” “Why, nobody told meI didn’t even suspect it. I decided to get behind you merely after my ow =m heart.” “Sit down,” Brainera@ commanded. And he related to Ticheraor every detail of his conversation witlm Babson. “TI could.stand up tamder ehat insect’s teasings, Brainerd,’ Tichenor told him when the tale was done, “but I shouldn't like to se Miss Kershaw put to that extremity. Well, you can give me your note if you czare to, or you may consider this advazace as a donation to the cause of good men and true. But I have a re«qquest to make of you. The Valley Center Register is the mouthpiece and the champion of Forlorn Valley and EK desire that it continue to be just that. The war for the water is on and it’s going to be some war, I ask you, therefore, to print the news from the front honesttin bilt and something to say to your subscribers. I'll expect you to print it—and I don't care two hoots in a hollow how you ridicule or condemn it in your editorial colimn. That’s your privilege.” “There must be something wrong with Office, 127 Mill St., Morgan & Powell Bldg., Nevada City Lynne Kelly NILON, HENNESSY AND KELLY Attorneys at Law Grass Valley your head,” Brainerd protested, “‘but whatever the trouble is. I like it. However before I fill in this check—and you'll take my gratitude for granted— it is my duty to inform you that from this. day forward the Valley Center Register is going to operate in red ink. I mean that I can never hope to repay this loan from the profits of George L. Offi Broad Street, Jones Jones & Finnegan ATTORNEYS AT LAW ce: Morgan & Powell Building, Nevada City, Cal. TELEPHONE 273 Frank G. Finnegan a losing enterprise.” “Just make ‘certain you can draw DOCTORS a living out of it, and if you can’t, see me.” “I owe the bank three thousand, and there’s a deed of trust on this building for fifteen hundred. Id like to pay that all up and have a balance for operating capital. But there's one more point you’ve overlooked. When B. W. Hummelt, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad St. Office Hours: 10-12 a. m., 2-5 p Evenings 7-8. , -Phone 395 Pee . : & X-RAY I bank this check in Babson’s bank everybody will know you’re back of me and it will be said that you control me editorially.” “Well, that will be fine. It will automatically prevent you from showing me any editorial preferment.” “You be mighty careful somebody doesn’t kill you off in the shank of your callow youth, my friend. You’re a temptation. With. you out of the way there wouldn’t be any water war, because the Kershaw girl couldn’t put up a winning fight. Do you realize that?” “Who'd have that much enterprise?” “Babson might instigate. it.” Joe Brainerd was very earnest now. “That man’s private fortune and the future of his bank hinges on the future of Forlorn Valley, and I don’t think he would give an icicle in Iceland for a human life if it stood between him and his desires. ‘The battle for water in this state is as old as the. state and it is unending. There is more drama and more tragedy in it than most people realize; enough men . have died with their boots on beside a stream to fill my obituary column for the next ten years. Needs must when the devil drives, Nate Tichenor, and the devil is up on the front seat driving through Forlorn Valley and Silas Babson was the first man to recognize him. Now he'll point him out to the others and the job of exorcizing him will commence at the mass meeting in the plaza next Saturday afternoon.” “IT shall attena that mass meeting, and I shall address it.” “Provided you’re permitted. Babson will call it to order and address it first, and when he finishes you’ll have a hostile audience on your hands.” “They'll listen to me. I’m going to make them a proposition they’ve got to listen to. I’ve about made up my mind not to install the power station, but build my dam good and high and store water for sale to Forlorn Valley. I’m not going to stand selfishly by and see those old settlers leaving their abandoned farms. But I’m going to smash that, blood-sucker Babson, by smashing his bank.” “How?” “By starting a new bank here. In return for the lifegiving water I shall have to sell them, the people will have to do. business at my bank. I'll rent money at six per cent. I'll take up every loan they have with the Bank of Valley Center, and when they switch their deposits to my bank Babson will be left with insufficient capital to meet the withdrawals.” “How about the minority stockholders? 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oo: a Monday, May 21, 1934 THE NEV ADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE aaa OU dy i hp hh ines! SYNOPSIS At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley Below Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There is bad blood over fences and water Kershaw kl'ts Hensley and the bloodfeud is on. Sy 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor is the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley Nate tells Lorry he and Owen, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a brother might do. Babson makes legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry. Babson discovers Nate is behind a rival power project. Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She admits she loves Nate,-and they become engaged. CHAPTER VIII—Continued —TOe “He was ready for me, but he didn't pull. And when Rookby picked himself up Owen said. ‘That's. right, Henry. This is the closed season in Eden Valley’—and he gave Henry Rookby the great-grandfather of all the kieks under the coat-tail, and walked away from me,” “Poor Owen.” “So Vil make’-a wholesale job of cleaning out that rat’a nest in the Bank cf Valley Centers, if I ean. And after ['*e smashed the bank Pl) buy the wreck, saving the depositors, and have myself elected president.” “You've got to promise something else before V'll marry vou, Nate. Help me with the branding—fou’re a top hand and f{ ean use you—but as soon an the brane@ing's finished go away and complete your business and come back ts me ws soon as you can.” “IT promise. But let me give you a seanll warning. Don't crowd me with ts many demands for promises.” “The only promise I'll ever exact from you again, Nate Tiehenor, will be to love. honor, and cherish me until death do us part.” “And endow you with all my worldly goods—including the Eden Valley water, . suppose. Funny sweetheart! I'll race you back to the house for @ dollar.” “You'd ‘win. ing can step.” “Make it a kiss then.” “Well, you'd still win, so I might as well pay the bet here and now.” And she did. That horse you're ridCHAPTER IX Joe Brainerd, editor of the Valley Center Register, had been summoned to the Bank of Valley Center. Babson led him into. his private office. And then, for the last time, he disclosed his plan for the organization of the. Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. “Here’s the copy for a full-page ad,” he finished. “It’s a call for a mass meeting of the citizens, to be held next Saturday afternoon in the plaza, for the purpose of discussing the’ water situation and the appointment of a committee to,investigate the possibillties of leading surface irrigation into the valley. [ll plant the idea good and strong in their minds at that mass meeting, but in the meantime you get out a good rousing editorial that will give them something to think about. Warn ‘em that this Mountain Valley Power company is about to grab the water for power purposes, Tell ‘em Nate Tichenor’s the Mountain Valley Power company. Give Tichenor h—1 in a quiet way, but be firm. If we tackle Tichenor now the chances are we can euchre his company out of a contract to sell water to Forlorn Valley. Get the idea? He told me his company wouldn't consider selling us water and why. If we threaten his source of water supply, chances are he’ll change his mind and do business with us. And that’s what we're after.” Brainerd, remembering his recent experience with Tichenor, needed no urging to enlist in Babson’s ceduse. Within two hours he was back in Babson’s office with a copy of his editorial, “That's certainly a rousing editorial,” Babson complimented him, “but there’d be a lot more punch to it if you tied into Nate Tichenor more vigorously.” : “Why, Tichenor hasn’t done anything out of the way, has he?” “Ie’s swiped our water, hasn't he— or he's trying to swipe it?” “He’s perfectly within his rights, Mr. Babson. How did he know we wanted the water?” “The rights of the people are paramount ‘to those of the individual, but , whether they are or not, it suits me to have you tie into this fellow. Attack him. Impute things to him. Run-a history of his family and the Kershaws—continued from week to week. *“) want to incite the community against engage in, Joe and in war you've got to make people hate or they won’t fight well. although to do so we may have to By PETER B. KYNE We’ll have to fight for the Eden Valley water, but we can win, buy both the Circle K and the Bar H in order to acquire their water rights. But if we tackle the owners now—hold them up to obloquy and ridicule and publie hate, they just can’t live in this country, understand, and they'll be glad to sell and get out.” Brainerd replied: “Mr. Babson, it’s a job I don’t like—for two reasons. One—business; the other—ethical,” “Bear in mind, Joe, that the continued prosperity of Forlorn Valley is a matter of profound interest to you and me.” “I'm on the horns of a dilemma, Mr. Babson. If I attack Tichenor in the manner you suggest he will start an opposition newspaper in this town and ruin me.” : “How can he? He can’t get any local advertising. {’d see to that, even if the focal. people were fools enough to support their natural enemy by giving him advertising.” “But he promised me he'd do it, Mr, Babson.” “A mere bluff.” “] think you've got that man wrong. 1 sized him up as one who will go through, I understand none of his people have ever made a promise they didn’t keep, Bad as they were and bad as the Kershaws were, both clans had the courage of wounded grizzly bears. I’m afraid of him.” Babson smiled patiently, “The Hensleys and the Kershaws never had their courage tested outside Eden Valley, Joe. Let Tichenor come projecting around Forlorn Valley and he’ll find a man to eall his bluft.” “I tell you, Mr. Babson, it’s a job 1 do not want. Tichenor will fight back —and the only way a man can fight the only newspaper that’s attacking him is to start an opposition newspain whi %, “You’ve Got to Promise Something Else Before . ’ll Marry You Nate.” per and mail his copies gratis to his enemies. And I tell you further I dislike the fight because it’s dirty. [ll fight Tichenor all over the lot for the sake of Forlorn Valley and its crying needs; but I'll fight him on the issue involved and not his family history.” “T see,” Babson murmured sadly, “youre an idealist, too.” “T hope I haven’t lost all my idealism.” “I see. Well, Joe, . hate to remind you of it, but you owe this bank three thousand dollars and the bank holds a chattel mortgage on your plant. And you. haven't got the -building you're housed in paid for yet. I hold a deed of trust on that.” “Is that a threat, Mr. Babson?” “Suppose we call it a gentle hint, Joe.” “Then let’s quit arguing. I'l) not wage a mean, dirty, personal war against Nathan Tichenor and that Kershaw girl. That's final—and I suggest that tf and when you get surface irrigation, into Forlorn Valley, you go out to the main canal, jump in and .drown yourself.” _ “Well, that fixes your clock Brainerd.” Babson commenced to rearrange his pens and pencils on their rack and to shuffle ‘the unanswered correspondence on his desk. “I'll just take over the Valley Center Register and put in a man who's loyal.” 7 Joe, Brainerd stood up. He was a small man, but like -most small men he lacked neither courage nor conceit. He struck, silently and savagely—furlous blows, left and right, to Babson's sneering face;.as the banker sprawled back of his desk the quondam proprietor of Valley Center’s lone palladium of liberty walked out of the bank and back to his oflice, where he seized a pad of copy paper and wrote: “With this issue the present editor of the Valley Center Register sings. his swan song. Because he wouldn't take orders from Silas Babson and do the latter’s dirty work, the Bank of Valley Center, which holds a chattel mortgage on the Register’s plant, but not on the editor's soul, him. This is a war we're about to “ will kick ye sole editor and proprietor out into the geometrical center of Valley Center LAWS of EDEN will lick the hand that feeds him, even if he doesn't relish the dirty diet. “The editor desires to ©xpress his PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY ATTORNEYS “MINING ENGINEERS HARRY M. McKEE Attorney at Law EDWARD C. UREN Mining and Civil Engineer Mining Reports Furnished Mining District. Maps Phone 278R Nevada City WNU Service. 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. Ww. E. WRIGHT ATTORNEW AT LAW : Office in Union Building from time to time Miss Kershaw an1. Phone 28 Nevada City I—and the Mountain Valley Power company, which is me—will have F. T. Nilon i: + Hennesss gratitude to the citizens of Forlorn Valley who have so loyally supported him and his policies. Of course we have found it expedient mt times to tread on somebody’s toes, but we haven’t held: mean little grudges, and when the fight wus over wee were always willing to shake haneis. And we have not always won. Henee. we hope to be forgiven our tresprasses as we forgive those who have trespassed against us. “The editor, eventually, may be forced to buy himself a compete with the birds for a livelihood, but never let it be said of him that he existed at -the price of another’s shame and humiliation. in orderthat ruthless and powerful interests might feed a persomal . grouch. “Joseph P, Brainerd, “Sole Editor and Proprietor, “Pro Tem, “Valley Center Rez@ister.” When Tichenor and Lorry Kershaw came in for luncheon the next noon, following a hard morning’s work in the branding corral, Editor Brainerd’s swan song and rousing editorial promptly came to their attention. Indeed, there was no escapime either, for the editorial in black brevier type filled the first two columns om the front page and in the center of. the same page, boxed and also in brevier, the swan song appeared. Lorry, read the articles: first and, without comment, handed the paper to Nate. When he had finished reading it he looked up. at her whimsically. “How stupid that fellow Babson is,” he commented. ‘“He’s hog-wildad with power. One could cash every bet that when there’s something constructive to be done Babson will chom@se the wrong way of doing it Hurrah for Joe Brainerd!” “It takes a man to accept ruin rather than orders that conflict writh his sense of justice. -I wonder what sort of dirty work Babson wanted hinm to do.” “TI don’t know. I can’t ©@ven suspect, but I’m willing to agree with Brainerd, on suspicion, that the work was dirty.” He commenced to chuckle with a certain joyous malevolence. **Well, sweetheart, in line with my policy of becoming the big man of this district and also in line with my prommise to tease the animal, I believe it’s up to me to save the sole editor and proprietor pro tem of the Valley Centex Register.” About two o’clock that afternoon Nate walked in on Joe Brainerd and solemnly proffered that suffering individual his hand. “Where can we talk privately?” he asked. Brainerd indicated his den. Tichenor sat in at the desk, wehere he filled in a check to Joseph P.Brainerd and signed it. “You fill in thre-figures,” he said, “and my bank will pay the check.” Brainerd stared at. him. “What do I have to do for this?” “Just continue to fight for the best interests of Forlorn Valley.” “Wait a minute, Tichemor. Who told you that you were the maan I was ordered to attack?” “Why, nobody told meI didn’t even suspect it. I decided to get behind you merely after my ow =m heart.” “Sit down,” Brainera@ commanded. And he related to Ticheraor every detail of his conversation witlm Babson. “TI could.stand up tamder ehat insect’s teasings, Brainerd,’ Tichenor told him when the tale was done, “but I shouldn't like to se Miss Kershaw put to that extremity. Well, you can give me your note if you czare to, or you may consider this advazace as a donation to the cause of good men and

true. But I have a re«qquest to make of you. The Valley Center Register is the mouthpiece and the champion of Forlorn Valley and EK desire that it continue to be just that. The war for the water is on and it’s going to be some war, I ask you, therefore, to print the news from the front honesttin bilt and something to say to your subscribers. I'll expect you to print it—and I don't care two hoots in a hollow how you ridicule or condemn it in your editorial colimn. That’s your privilege.” “There must be something wrong with Office, 127 Mill St., Morgan & Powell Bldg., Nevada City Lynne Kelly NILON, HENNESSY AND KELLY Attorneys at Law Grass Valley your head,” Brainerd protested, “‘but whatever the trouble is. I like it. However before I fill in this check—and you'll take my gratitude for granted— it is my duty to inform you that from this. day forward the Valley Center Register is going to operate in red ink. I mean that I can never hope to repay this loan from the profits of George L. Offi Broad Street, Jones Jones & Finnegan ATTORNEYS AT LAW ce: Morgan & Powell Building, Nevada City, Cal. TELEPHONE 273 Frank G. Finnegan a losing enterprise.” “Just make ‘certain you can draw DOCTORS a living out of it, and if you can’t, see me.” “I owe the bank three thousand, and there’s a deed of trust on this building for fifteen hundred. Id like to pay that all up and have a balance for operating capital. But there's one more point you’ve overlooked. When B. W. Hummelt, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad St. Office Hours: 10-12 a. m., 2-5 p Evenings 7-8. , -Phone 395 Pee . : & X-RAY I bank this check in Babson’s bank everybody will know you’re back of me and it will be said that you control me editorially.” “Well, that will be fine. It will automatically prevent you from showing me any editorial preferment.” “You be mighty careful somebody doesn’t kill you off in the shank of your callow youth, my friend. You’re a temptation. With. you out of the way there wouldn’t be any water war, because the Kershaw girl couldn’t put up a winning fight. Do you realize that?” “Who'd have that much enterprise?” “Babson might instigate. it.” Joe Brainerd was very earnest now. “That man’s private fortune and the future of his bank hinges on the future of Forlorn Valley, and I don’t think he would give an icicle in Iceland for a human life if it stood between him and his desires. ‘The battle for water in this state is as old as the. state and it is unending. There is more drama and more tragedy in it than most people realize; enough men . have died with their boots on beside a stream to fill my obituary column for the next ten years. Needs must when the devil drives, Nate Tichenor, and the devil is up on the front seat driving through Forlorn Valley and Silas Babson was the first man to recognize him. Now he'll point him out to the others and the job of exorcizing him will commence at the mass meeting in the plaza next Saturday afternoon.” “IT shall attena that mass meeting, and I shall address it.” “Provided you’re permitted. Babson will call it to order and address it first, and when he finishes you’ll have a hostile audience on your hands.” “They'll listen to me. I’m going to make them a proposition they’ve got to listen to. I’ve about made up my mind not to install the power station, but build my dam good and high and store water for sale to Forlorn Valley. I’m not going to stand selfishly by and see those old settlers leaving their abandoned farms. But I’m going to smash that, blood-sucker Babson, by smashing his bank.” “How?” “By starting a new bank here. In return for the lifegiving water I shall have to sell them, the people will have to do. business at my bank. I'll rent money at six per cent. I'll take up every loan they have with the Bank of Valley Center, and when they switch their deposits to my bank Babson will be left with insufficient capital to meet the withdrawals.” “How about the minority stockholders? They’re rather decent, substantial citizens.” “When the smoke clears away [rll settle with them privately so they'll not lose a dollar.” “You may not be able to secure a state charter for your bank.” “Then I'll operate a national bank,” TO BE CONTINUED. ly .and impartially. It may be that W. W. Reed, M. D. Nevada City, California Office 418 Broad Street. Hours: 1 to 3 and 7to & P. M. Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 Office 207 Pine Street. Alfred H. Tickell, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Nevada City, California 525 Nevada Street ..-Residence Eye, 11 a. m.to 4 p. m. pointment. Phone Office 11 — Residence 73, Ott Building, Nevada City. W. P. Sawyer, M. D. Expert Refraction Modern Glasses Best quality lenses and mountings. 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The ‘**dining room” in ‘this instance was a targe box, and after a few trials with the buzzer. one particular cod so closely and accurately connected the box with food-— whether the buzzer weas_ working or not—that it took up Permanent res} dence there. In public. aquaria the visitor is sometimes impressed by the sudden activity shown by the ©xbhibitors when an attendant statione« in the public corridor. blows a whistie or sounds a gong just before the taamk inmates ure fed. The visitor, however, forgets that the fish have a vers Keen eyesight and that the appearamece of an attend. boulevard and put in an editor whe ant in the service gallery, itivisible, _—_— of course, to the onlooker, acts as a very potent appetizer and causes the lively demonstration. 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