June 25, 1934 (8 pages)

. _——— + Monday, June 25, 1934 THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE OUTLAWS of EDEN By Peter B. Kyne . Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. CHAPTER XII {5 The board of supervisors granted the petition unanimously and amidst cheers and rejoicings. Babson’s speech, in rebuttal~to Gagan’s, proved to be the masterpiece of his career. He read to the meeting the law under which the district proposed to operate —read it right out of the Code of Civil Procedure, too—and pooh-pooed the idea of a slick metropolitan lawyer trying to frighten honest and intelligent men with crazy hugaboos of unconstitutional law that was and for some years had been embodied in the code. “If this taw was unconstitutional,” he yelled, “it’s unconstitutionality would have been discovered before the bill was even submitted to the legislature; and if it hadn’t been discovered then the legislature,'a majority of whom are practicing attorneys, would have discovered it; and even if the legislature had, unbelievably, failed to discover it, the supreme court, whose duty it is to pass upon the constitutionality of our state laws, would long since’ have discovered it. Pooh-pooh and a couple of what-nots for the mighty Mr. Gagan! We are not to be frightened by men of straw.” The project moved forward without delay. Sixty days from the date of the approval of the petition by the board of supervisors the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district had come into _legal existence, by a very substantial majority of the residents in the are# to be irrigated. Silas Babson, tired, but happy and triumphant, was its president, Henry Rookby, who owned ten acres in the district, was the secretary, and the Bank of Valley (enter was the depositary of the funds of the district. Within two weeks after the district had come into official being, the state water commission obligingly allocated to it the flood waters of Eden Valley creek. A bond issue was got out within a week; within two weeks the state board certification committee had certified the bonds as legal investment for trust companies and savings banks and, by unanimous vote. Silas Babson was given the job of disposing of them to the highest bidder. A ‘New .York house wired in’a. bid of ninety-one, and after devoting a month to the task Babson decided this offer was one point higher than he could secure locally, so the district closed on the offer and, with the receipt of the money, proceeded at once to spend It. Although Babson took measures to apprize himself of the return of Nate Tichenor to Eden Valley, his scouts brought him no news of the latter’s arrival, although as a matter of fact Tichenor had returned some four months after his departure. He came in over the mountains to the south in a four-passenger cabin plane and landed in the meadow just below the Kershaw ranch-house. Lorry was in his arms before he was half way up to the house. “Well, I’m all cleaned up in the East,” he told her. “How far have you progressed in the settlement of your father’s estate?” “All ready to close as soon as I can find the money to pay the state and federal estate taxes. They aren't nearly so much as I had feared they would be. The cattle, of course, were appraised at the low price existing on 1, / / / “Dear Little Outlaw, . Love You So,” He Murmured, and Kissed Her a Dozen Times. the day of father’s death—and beef is up to nine and a half in the ranch now and should be twelve cents within a year, I'm told by my cattle.brokers, And the federal tax appraiser decided the land has been greatly. depressed in value by reason of the diversion of the water to Forlorn Valley.” “That's a favor Babson didn’t realize he was going to do you. Is everything on the-ranch running smoothly? Nothing coming up that Rube Tenney can't attend to?” She nodded. “As soon as beef goes to ten cents I'll sell five thousand fat steers, pay the taxes and close the estate.” — : “Don't, Hold them over till spring and get eleven cents—maybe, I'll loan you the money to pay the taxes. How soon can you marry me?” “In about three. minutes, if we had a license and a preacher handy.” He glanced up at the sun. “Justiee, long delayed, maketh the heart sick,” he orated. “Likewise marriage—after you've made up your mind. You skip right into the house, climb ‘into your Sunday dress, throw a few things in your old straw suitcase and meet me-here in ten-minutes. -We've just about got-time to get over the mountains and into Reno before dark. In California we have to announce our intention to get married and then wait for three days, in case we decide to change our mind. My mind is made up, so we'll take our trade to Nevada and avoid annoying delays.” “You’re a man after my own heart,” Lorry eried joyously, and came into his arms. He held her close, his finger under her chin, tip-tilting her sweet face toward him, the while he appraised her hungrily, comparing her with the girls of her age in the world he had known before the homing. instinct had brought him back to Eden Valley. He thanked God she wasn't soft, that she had high courage, initiative, and the power of instantaneous decision in an emergency; that hers was the old, flerce, unqpestioning loyalty that was his own hefitage. A man could rely on her always (he told himself), know always exactly where: she stood. She was incapable of evasions, or the tears that camouflage little feminine deceits. Her code was a masculine one, but of a. quality rare enough in this deeadent generation— the code of a gallant gentleman,plus that of the very finest of her own sex, Yes, she had character, courage, humor, self-reliance, capabilities of extreme self sacrifice, tenderness, helplessness—an angel with a touch of the devil in her. . . . Well, better a touch of the deyil than a trace of the cat. “Dear little outlaw, I love you so,” he murmured, and kissed her-a dozen times. “Make It snappy. Time and visibility wait for no pilot.” Half an hour later, as they roared upward in great spirals to gain altitude before crossing the mountains, they looked down on Eden Valley; to that tragic creek winding its silvery way through the green meadows, to the little black dots that were Lorry’s cattle and the little white dots that were the home-made headstones, chiseled from native granite and marking the graves of all the Hensleys ani Kershaws that had gone before. “I wonder what they're thinking of —up yonder?” the girl shouted in his ear, He pretended he did not understand her, “T’ve been so busy I couldn’t get started on that new house I planned.” he shouted back, “but we'll tackle it the minute we get back.” So she knew he had, at iast, left his dead and his old bitter memories behind him; and there, above Eden Valley, as her little hard, calloused, capable hand closed over his, she dropped hers also; she shed happy tears in the knowledge that never again would hard work, penury and loneliness be her portion. gihe sun was setting on Eden now, but when, for them, it should rise again on Eden, the serpent would be gone, In June of 1927 the, news spread through Forlorn Valley of the return of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tichenor to Eden Valley. Shortly thereafter huge trucks laden with lumber and _ building materials came through Valley Center from Gold Run, bound for the old Circle K ranch. Immediately Crenshaw, the manager of the Valley Center lumber yard, motored up to the Circle K to see Nate Tichenor and ask for a share of this new business, He had been received courteously and told that no orders for lumber or building material could be given him because Silas BabsSon was one of his heaviest stockholders. When Crenshaw returned to Valley Center he informed the local chamber fibs. © of commerce of the projected outlay of a great deal of money in Eden Valley. Nate Tichenor and his wife had merged their ranches, the old Bar H headquarters were to be razed and the old Circle K log ranch-house was to be given over to Rube Tenney and his family, after the Tichenors had erected on the Circle K a country home that was to cost not less than a hundred thousand dollars. There were stables and kennels to be erected also, grounds to be laid out and flowers planted. The lunatic Tichenor was even going to build a nine-hole golf course and a huge swimming pool. Crenshaw thought that the payroll for labor necessitated in these operations should go to Valley Center, so the vice president of the chamber of commerce called upon Tichenor, to suggest it. “Forlorn Valley in general and Valley Center in particular wishes to forget the past and be friendly with you, Mr. Tichenor,”, he stated. “As proof of that feeling I call your attention to the fact that we gave you the use of the freshet waters of Eden Valley creek this spring when we found we couldn't use them ourselves, owing to the necessity for concreting our diversion canal. We didn’t have to do that, but we desired to make a friendly gesture.” “My dear man, 1 ordered those floodgutes opened myself and I had men guarding them with rifles so that nobody would close them until our lands had had their annual soaking. That's the sort of friendly gesture I made to Forlorn Valley. I was on my honeymoon at the time and didn’t want to bother with the law, so I just went back to the old Eden Valley custom. It worked. And I'll engage no labor from Valley Center or Forlorn Valley. I do not liké anybody in that section of the county. And here’s another message you can take back with you; within two years I'll own every acre of Forlorn Valley that is included in the irrigation district; I’ll fence it and run cattle over it. At least the wells will supply drinking water for my eattle. And when the farmers in the district have been dispossessed there will be no further necessity for the thriving town of Valley Center, so it and its chamber of commerce will disappear; Valley Center will then be a ghost town, inhabited by ghosts.” The vice president of the chamber of commerce was irritated but he was also amused. “Is there no way in which we can escape this horrible fate that awaits us?” he pleaded in mock distress. “Yes, there is,” Tichenor replied seriously. “Get rid of that buzzard, Babson, and start doing your own thinking. Show an inelination to be fair and I'll meet you two-thirds of the way toward an amicable adjustment of this water war. Continue to permit Babson and-his paid newspaper to print lies about us and ridicule us, and [ll smash. you. And after I’ve sinashed you Ill buy up the pieces and own the district. I tell you, when I get through with the state of California that state will be out of the business of giving away water it does not own and that document Babson got from the state water commission will be perfectly worthless.” His visitor gazed upon Tichenor humorously. “What a long tail our cat’s got,” he murmured, “Oh, I’m only a common little bobcat ‘now,” Tichenor replied — easily. “Wait until I develop into a tiger— and then watch my tail swish!” CHAPTER XIII The Forlorn Valley Irrigation ~ district proceeded at once to the task of concreting its huge diversion: canal, The job was completed by November first. Almost from the beginning the diversion canal ran half full and Lake Babson commenced to take form. The snowfall was unusually heavy that year also, but spring came early and the run-off due to the melting snow Traveling Goat-Herding Dog Always Welcomed by Ranchmen of Rio Grande The overlord of the goat ranches of the Big Bend region of the upper Rio Grande border is -a wandering dog which first made his appearance hereabouts several years ago, Where the dog came from is a mystery. The first time he was seen In the remote section was when he showed up one morning at the goat corral on a ranch near La Jitas crossing of the river, notes a Terlingua, Texas, correspondent in the New York Times. The dog took. charge of the flock when the animals were turned out of the corral and all day long he herded them like a veteran. He was so efficient in the work that the Mexican herder left the flock entirely in the dog’s charge. After staying at the Hernandez ranch for a few weeks, Pancho, as the dog was called, disappeared and appeared next at another goat ranch 15 miles down the Rio Grande, Pancho again took carge of the flock of goats and soon came to be what was apparently a fixture in each day’s herding routine. Tiring of this particular job, the dog made his way to another ranch where he assumed full leadership in taking care of the goats, The wandering of Pancho has continued year after. year until he is now known to ranchmen up and down the river for a hundred miles. He is always accorded a warm welcome when hé arrives at a ranch, and his faithful herding of the flocks is so well recognized that the goats always are placed in his full care. Pancho is an adept in protecting the kids and even fullgrown goats from attacks by wolves and Mexican panthers, He has to his credit many victorious encounters with these predatory pests, Useful Teacher It is said of Gladstone, the famous English statesmam, that he taught his fellowmen and women how to live, and when he could no longer do this he was teaching them how to die. commenced about the middle of January. This was the season of overflow in Eden Valley creek, the season of God’s gift of, free irrigation to the Circle K ané the Bar H, and Nate Tichenor, watching the water’s rise, knew that in another. twenty-four hours. the freshet would be on, so he and Rube Tenney and half a dozen armed men opened the floodgates, in defiance of. the ditch-tender’s protest and the flood roured on down ‘Eden Valley. The ditch-tender immediately mounted his horse and rode down to Valley Center to.report this act of vandalism to Silas Babson, who muoisred into Gold Run and, as president of the Porlorn Valley Irrigation district, pétitioned the judge of the county superior court for an order restraining Nathan Tichenor, et al., from interfering with the orderly diversion of the flood waters of Eden Valley creek to the canal of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. To Babson’s vast’ amazement the judge declined to issue ‘the restraining order. “I hold, Babson,” he informed the latter, “that the law under which the state water commission has been empowered to allocate to nonriparian owners the flood or waste waters of riparian owners, is unconstituSSS “If You Do You'll Go to the Pen, ab Babson Warned. tional and that, hence, Forlorn Valley has no legal right to the flood waters of Eden Valley creek.” “Why hasn’t our Supreme court declared the law unconstitutional?” “Because nobody has carried a water fight up to the Supreme court.” A’ week had gone by since Nate Tichenor and his men had opened the flood-gates up.in the Handle and as yet Babson had not been able to secure legal relief. Upon his.return to Gold Run, therefore, he called upon the sheriff of the county and requested that official to take half a dozen of his deputies and guard the employees of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district against attack by Nathan Tichenor et al, when the former closed the floodgates in defiance of Tichenor’s dictum. In the interest of peace the sheriff consented and the following day the gates were closed without interference from Nate Tichenor and his: Indeed, not one of them ap. men. peared to protest the closing of the gates. The next morning Nate Tichenor dropped. in at the Bank of Valley Center and said to Babson: “I merely dropped in to tell you, Babson, that while you were scurrying around a whole week seeking an injunction against my wife and me you couldn’t get, our lands had a grand soaking from that week’s overflow. We would have liked another week of it, but when you brought the sherift and his deputies around I concluded it was the part of wisdom to be satisfled with the water we had already received. But as summer advances I warn you we'll have to have our legal share of, that water and If_we do not get it I'm going to put a couple of hundred pounds of dynamite under that concrete diversion dam of yours and blow it out.” “If you do you'll go to the pen,” Babson warned. : “Only my kind forbearance has kept you out of it. Do not forget Pitt River Charley. where he.is but I do. .I may bring him back to testify against you.” “You couldn't convict me.” “Perhups not, but I can shake publi¢e confidence in you, you. smug hypoerite. You realize, of course, that when the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district was formed and a deed of trust on all ot the lands embraced in the district was given, with a San Francisco.trust com. pany as trustee, to secure the bond issue the district floated, all. of the first mortgages and deeds of trust on lands within the district given to your bank to secure prior loans have now become second liens against those lands, You realize, do you, that if the Forlorn Valley frrigation district should go bust the foreclosure of the deed of trust given by the district will . automatically ‘wipe out the second liens held by your bank?” TO BE CONTINURD. ag You do not know. Getting the Best From Rice Chinese, Which Calls. a3 One of the Most. Successful ton 4 Is That of. the Is Generally Used in America. for More Water Than ee fut Do you know how to cook rice? Of course. I mean cook it really well? Any one can put rice in water and get it soft enough to eat, but when you finish cooking it, is yours dry and flaky? In other words, are you making the most of it? There really is no one best way to cook rice. I have had several different recipes a la Chinese given to me, always with the statement, “This is the only way to cook rice well.” These recipes, however, differ greatly both in the amount of water which should be used and also the question as to whether rice should be boiled rapidly or slowly. I have been most successful with the Chinese method, which calls for twice as much water as rice, and whieh directs that the rice shall be boiled but ten minutes and then put over hot water for about 15 minutes. I find the tall top of a double boiler the emost satisfactory utensil. This method, by the way, is quite different from that advised by a Chinese cook book which has recently been published. It suggests soaking the rice over night, then draining it and cooking it in boiling water for 20 minutes. Let me quote one sentence from the book, which, gives an idea of the many ways in which rice may be prepared: ‘In China we have three religions, but a hundred dishes we may make from rice.” Here is another quotation which might be applied to rice cookery: “Fuel may be cheap, but you need not burn the bottom of your pot.” To get back from China to America, There are two other ways which I like very much for cooking rice. One is to put in what is known as a rice ball—which looks like two sieves put together. The ball is put in a kettle of boiling water and when the rice is tender it may be lifted out and drained at the same time. The other method I like is what is known as steaming. I use three times as much milk as rice and put them together in a double boiler with a little salt, which we always add in whatever method we.use. It takes about three-quarters of an hour to steam rice. 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. _——— + Monday, June 25, 1934 THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE THREE OUTLAWS of EDEN By Peter B. Kyne .. Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. CHAPTER XII {5 The board of supervisors granted the petition unanimously and amidst cheers and rejoicings. Babson’s speech, in rebuttal~to Gagan’s, proved to be the masterpiece of his career. He read to the meeting the law under which the district proposed to operate —read it right out of the Code of Civil Procedure, too—and pooh-pooed the idea of a slick metropolitan lawyer trying to frighten honest and intelligent men with crazy hugaboos of unconstitutional law that was and for some years had been embodied in the code. “If this taw was unconstitutional,” he yelled, “it’s unconstitutionality would have been discovered before the bill was even submitted to the legislature; and if it hadn’t been discovered then the legislature,'a majority of whom are practicing attorneys, would have discovered it; and even if the legislature had, unbelievably, failed to discover it, the supreme court, whose duty it is to pass upon the constitutionality of our state laws, would long since’ have discovered it. Pooh-pooh and a couple of what-nots for the mighty Mr. Gagan! We are not to be frightened by men of straw.” The project moved forward without delay. Sixty days from the date of the approval of the petition by the board of supervisors the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district had come into _legal existence, by a very substantial majority of the residents in the are# to be irrigated. Silas Babson, tired, but happy and triumphant, was its president, Henry Rookby, who owned ten acres in the district, was the secretary, and the Bank of Valley (enter was the depositary of the funds of the district. Within two weeks after the district had come into official being, the state water commission obligingly allocated to it the flood waters of Eden Valley creek. A bond issue was got out within a week; within two weeks the state board certification committee had certified the bonds as legal investment for trust companies and savings banks and, by unanimous vote. Silas Babson was given the job of disposing of them to the highest bidder. A ‘New .York house wired in’a. bid of ninety-one, and after devoting a month to the task Babson decided this offer was one point higher than he could secure locally, so the district closed on the offer and, with the receipt of the money, proceeded at once to spend It. Although Babson took measures to apprize himself of the return of Nate Tichenor to Eden Valley, his scouts brought him no news of the latter’s arrival, although as a matter of fact Tichenor had returned some four months after his departure. He came in over the mountains to the south in a four-passenger cabin plane and landed in the meadow just below the Kershaw ranch-house. Lorry was in his arms before he was half way up to the house. “Well, I’m all cleaned up in the East,” he told her. “How far have you progressed in the settlement of your father’s estate?” “All ready to close as soon as I can find the money to pay the state and federal estate taxes. They aren't nearly so much as I had feared they would be. The cattle, of course, were appraised at the low price existing on 1, / / / “Dear Little Outlaw, . Love You So,” He Murmured, and Kissed Her a Dozen Times. the day of father’s death—and beef is up to nine and a half in the ranch now and should be twelve cents within a year, I'm told by my cattle.brokers, And the federal tax appraiser decided the land has been greatly. depressed in value by reason of the diversion of the water to Forlorn Valley.” “That's a favor Babson didn’t realize he was going to do you. Is everything on the-ranch running smoothly? Nothing coming up that Rube Tenney can't attend to?” She nodded. “As soon as beef goes to ten cents I'll sell five thousand fat steers, pay the taxes and close the estate.” — : “Don't, Hold them over till spring and get eleven cents—maybe, I'll loan you the money to pay the taxes. How soon can you marry me?” “In about three. minutes, if we had a license and a preacher handy.” He glanced up at the sun. “Justiee, long delayed, maketh the heart sick,” he orated. “Likewise marriage—after you've made up your mind. You skip right into the house, climb ‘into your Sunday dress, throw a few things in your old straw suitcase and meet me-here in ten-minutes. -We've just about got-time to get over the mountains and into Reno before dark. In California we have to announce our intention to get married and then wait for three days, in case we decide to change our mind. My mind is made up, so we'll take our trade to Nevada and avoid annoying delays.” “You’re a man after my own heart,” Lorry eried joyously, and came into his arms. He held her close, his finger under her chin, tip-tilting her sweet face toward him, the while he appraised her hungrily, comparing her with the girls of her age in the world he had known before the homing. instinct had brought him back to Eden Valley. He thanked God she wasn't soft, that she had high courage, initiative, and the power of instantaneous decision in an emergency; that hers was the old, flerce, unqpestioning loyalty that was his own hefitage. A man could rely on her always (he told himself), know always exactly where: she stood. She was incapable of evasions, or the tears that camouflage little feminine deceits. Her code was a masculine one, but of a. quality rare enough in this deeadent generation— the code of a gallant gentleman,plus that of the very finest of her own sex, Yes, she had character, courage, humor, self-reliance, capabilities of extreme self sacrifice, tenderness, helplessness—an angel with a touch of the devil in her. . . . Well, better a touch of the deyil than a trace of the cat. “Dear little outlaw, I love you so,” he murmured, and kissed her-a dozen times. “Make It snappy. Time and visibility wait for no pilot.” Half an hour later, as they roared upward in great spirals to gain altitude before crossing the mountains, they looked down on Eden Valley; to that tragic creek winding its silvery way through the green meadows, to the little black dots that were Lorry’s cattle and the little white dots that were the home-made headstones, chiseled from native granite and marking the graves of all the Hensleys ani Kershaws that had gone before. “I wonder what they're thinking of —up yonder?” the girl shouted in his ear, He pretended he did not understand her, “T’ve been so busy I couldn’t get started on that new house I planned.” he shouted back, “but we'll tackle it the minute we get back.” So she knew he had, at iast, left his dead and his old bitter memories behind him; and there, above Eden Valley, as her little hard, calloused, capable hand closed over his, she dropped hers also; she shed happy tears in the knowledge that never again would hard work, penury and loneliness be her portion. gihe sun was setting on Eden now, but when, for them, it should rise again on Eden, the serpent would be gone, In June of 1927 the, news spread through Forlorn Valley of the return of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tichenor to Eden Valley. Shortly thereafter huge trucks laden with lumber and _ building materials came through Valley Center from Gold Run, bound for the old Circle K ranch. Immediately Crenshaw, the manager of the Valley Center lumber yard, motored up to the Circle K to see Nate Tichenor and ask for a share of this new business, He had been received courteously and told that no orders for lumber or building material could be given him because Silas BabsSon was one of his heaviest stockholders. When Crenshaw returned to Valley Center he informed the local chamber fibs. © of commerce of the projected outlay of a great deal of money in Eden Valley. Nate Tichenor and his wife had merged their ranches, the old Bar H headquarters were to be razed and the old Circle K log ranch-house was to be given over to Rube Tenney and his family, after the Tichenors had erected on the Circle K a country home that was to cost not less than a hundred thousand dollars. There were stables and kennels to be erected also, grounds to be laid out and flowers planted. The lunatic Tichenor was even going to build a nine-hole golf course and a huge swimming pool. Crenshaw thought that the payroll for labor necessitated in these operations should go to Valley Center, so the vice president of the chamber of commerce called upon Tichenor, to suggest it. “Forlorn Valley in general and Valley Center in particular wishes to forget the past and be friendly with you, Mr. Tichenor,”, he stated. “As proof of that feeling I call your attention to the fact that we gave you the use of the freshet waters of Eden Valley creek this spring when we found we couldn't use them ourselves, owing to the necessity for concreting our diversion canal. We didn’t have to do that, but we desired to make a friendly gesture.” “My dear man, 1 ordered those floodgutes opened myself and I had men guarding them with rifles so that nobody would close them until our lands had had their annual soaking. That's the sort of friendly gesture I made to Forlorn Valley. I was on my honeymoon at the time and didn’t want to bother with the law, so I just went back to the old Eden Valley custom. It worked. And I'll engage no labor from Valley Center or Forlorn Valley. I do not liké anybody in that section of the county. And here’s another message you can take back with you; within two years I'll own every acre of Forlorn Valley that is included in the irrigation district; I’ll fence it and run cattle over it. At least the wells will supply drinking water for my eattle. And when the farmers in the district have been dispossessed there will be no further necessity for the thriving town of Valley Center, so it and its chamber of commerce will disappear; Valley Center will then be a ghost town, inhabited by ghosts.” The vice president of the chamber of commerce was irritated but he was also amused. “Is there no way in which we can escape this horrible fate that awaits us?” he pleaded in mock distress. “Yes, there is,” Tichenor replied seriously. “Get rid of that buzzard, Babson, and start doing your own thinking. Show an inelination to be fair and I'll meet you two-thirds of the way toward an amicable adjustment of this water war. Continue to permit Babson and-his paid newspaper to print lies about us and ridicule us, and [ll smash. you. And after I’ve sinashed you Ill buy up the pieces and own the district. I tell you, when I get through with the state of California that state will be out of the business of giving away water it does not own and that document Babson got from the state water commission will be perfectly worthless.” His visitor gazed upon Tichenor humorously. “What a long tail our cat’s got,” he murmured, “Oh, I’m only a common little bobcat ‘now,” Tichenor replied — easily. “Wait until I develop into a tiger— and then watch my tail swish!” CHAPTER XIII The Forlorn Valley Irrigation ~ district proceeded at once to the task of concreting its huge diversion: canal, The job was completed by November first. Almost from the beginning the diversion canal ran half full and Lake Babson commenced to take form. The snowfall was unusually heavy that year also, but spring came early and the run-off due to the melting snow Traveling Goat-Herding Dog Always Welcomed by Ranchmen of Rio Grande The overlord of the goat ranches of the Big Bend region of the upper Rio Grande border is -a wandering dog which first made his appearance hereabouts several years ago, Where the dog came from is a mystery. The first time he was seen In the remote section was when he showed up one morning at the goat corral on a ranch near La Jitas crossing of the river, notes a Terlingua, Texas, correspondent in the New York Times. The dog took. charge of the flock when the animals were turned out of the corral and all day long he herded them like a veteran. He was so efficient in the work that the Mexican herder left the flock entirely in the dog’s charge. After staying at the

Hernandez ranch for a few weeks, Pancho, as the dog was called, disappeared and appeared next at another goat ranch 15 miles down the Rio Grande, Pancho again took carge of the flock of goats and soon came to be what was apparently a fixture in each day’s herding routine. Tiring of this particular job, the dog made his way to another ranch where he assumed full leadership in taking care of the goats, The wandering of Pancho has continued year after. year until he is now known to ranchmen up and down the river for a hundred miles. He is always accorded a warm welcome when hé arrives at a ranch, and his faithful herding of the flocks is so well recognized that the goats always are placed in his full care. Pancho is an adept in protecting the kids and even fullgrown goats from attacks by wolves and Mexican panthers, He has to his credit many victorious encounters with these predatory pests, Useful Teacher It is said of Gladstone, the famous English statesmam, that he taught his fellowmen and women how to live, and when he could no longer do this he was teaching them how to die. commenced about the middle of January. This was the season of overflow in Eden Valley creek, the season of God’s gift of, free irrigation to the Circle K ané the Bar H, and Nate Tichenor, watching the water’s rise, knew that in another. twenty-four hours. the freshet would be on, so he and Rube Tenney and half a dozen armed men opened the floodgates, in defiance of. the ditch-tender’s protest and the flood roured on down ‘Eden Valley. The ditch-tender immediately mounted his horse and rode down to Valley Center to.report this act of vandalism to Silas Babson, who muoisred into Gold Run and, as president of the Porlorn Valley Irrigation district, pétitioned the judge of the county superior court for an order restraining Nathan Tichenor, et al., from interfering with the orderly diversion of the flood waters of Eden Valley creek to the canal of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. To Babson’s vast’ amazement the judge declined to issue ‘the restraining order. “I hold, Babson,” he informed the latter, “that the law under which the state water commission has been empowered to allocate to nonriparian owners the flood or waste waters of riparian owners, is unconstituSSS “If You Do You'll Go to the Pen, ab Babson Warned. tional and that, hence, Forlorn Valley has no legal right to the flood waters of Eden Valley creek.” “Why hasn’t our Supreme court declared the law unconstitutional?” “Because nobody has carried a water fight up to the Supreme court.” A’ week had gone by since Nate Tichenor and his men had opened the flood-gates up.in the Handle and as yet Babson had not been able to secure legal relief. Upon his.return to Gold Run, therefore, he called upon the sheriff of the county and requested that official to take half a dozen of his deputies and guard the employees of the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district against attack by Nathan Tichenor et al, when the former closed the floodgates in defiance of Tichenor’s dictum. In the interest of peace the sheriff consented and the following day the gates were closed without interference from Nate Tichenor and his: Indeed, not one of them ap. men. peared to protest the closing of the gates. The next morning Nate Tichenor dropped. in at the Bank of Valley Center and said to Babson: “I merely dropped in to tell you, Babson, that while you were scurrying around a whole week seeking an injunction against my wife and me you couldn’t get, our lands had a grand soaking from that week’s overflow. We would have liked another week of it, but when you brought the sherift and his deputies around I concluded it was the part of wisdom to be satisfled with the water we had already received. But as summer advances I warn you we'll have to have our legal share of, that water and If_we do not get it I'm going to put a couple of hundred pounds of dynamite under that concrete diversion dam of yours and blow it out.” “If you do you'll go to the pen,” Babson warned. : “Only my kind forbearance has kept you out of it. Do not forget Pitt River Charley. where he.is but I do. .I may bring him back to testify against you.” “You couldn't convict me.” “Perhups not, but I can shake publi¢e confidence in you, you. smug hypoerite. You realize, of course, that when the Forlorn Valley Irrigation district was formed and a deed of trust on all ot the lands embraced in the district was given, with a San Francisco.trust com. pany as trustee, to secure the bond issue the district floated, all. of the first mortgages and deeds of trust on lands within the district given to your bank to secure prior loans have now become second liens against those lands, You realize, do you, that if the Forlorn Valley frrigation district should go bust the foreclosure of the deed of trust given by the district will . automatically ‘wipe out the second liens held by your bank?” TO BE CONTINURD. ag You do not know. Getting the Best From Rice Chinese, Which Calls. a3 One of the Most. Successful ton 4 Is That of. the Is Generally Used in America. for More Water Than ee fut Do you know how to cook rice? Of course. I mean cook it really well? Any one can put rice in water and get it soft enough to eat, but when you finish cooking it, is yours dry and flaky? In other words, are you making the most of it? There really is no one best way to cook rice. I have had several different recipes a la Chinese given to me, always with the statement, “This is the only way to cook rice well.” These recipes, however, differ greatly both in the amount of water which should be used and also the question as to whether rice should be boiled rapidly or slowly. I have been most successful with the Chinese method, which calls for twice as much water as rice, and whieh directs that the rice shall be boiled but ten minutes and then put over hot water for about 15 minutes. I find the tall top of a double boiler the emost satisfactory utensil. This method, by the way, is quite different from that advised by a Chinese cook book which has recently been published. It suggests soaking the rice over night, then draining it and cooking it in boiling water for 20 minutes. Let me quote one sentence from the book, which, gives an idea of the many ways in which rice may be prepared: ‘In China we have three religions, but a hundred dishes we may make from rice.” Here is another quotation which might be applied to rice cookery: “Fuel may be cheap, but you need not burn the bottom of your pot.” To get back from China to America, There are two other ways which I like very much for cooking rice. One is to put in what is known as a rice ball—which looks like two sieves put together. The ball is put in a kettle of boiling water and when the rice is tender it may be lifted out and drained at the same time. The other method I like is what is known as steaming. I use three times as much milk as rice and put them together in a double boiler with a little salt, which we always add in whatever method we.use. It takes about three-quarters of an hour to steam rice. After the rice is: cooked you can do all sorts of things with it besides serving it with meat as is so often done. I usually try to--have gravy when I serve rice instead of potatoes. It can be combined with highly flavored foods, such as tomatoes, onion, cheese, leftover meat and fish. It also forms a foundation for any number of _ interesting desserts. Steamed in milk, it is delicious with shaved maple sugar and crushed sweetened berries or fruit. If you want a more elaborate dessert you may add whipped cream, fruit, plus a little gelatin, to the rice, and mold it. You may use brown rice or wild rice in place of the familiar white variety. The method of cooking is the same for all but both the brown Tribute to Art Art is one of man’s greatest blessings.—Albert Einstein. and wild types require longer cooking. time. 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