May 28, 1934 (8 pages)

. love with Lorry. Babson discovers 7? Wnte le behind & eval power préjects news, but—you watch my editoriais— Bill Rooney went white and then RAY S FIXIT SHOP Acton M. Cleveland Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She adVllsizzle like a Roman candle, be— pink: he wet his lips, and his glance editor ,of the local paper, to attack l Nate as an enemy of-the people. This . WeePing childishly when Nate Tiche— sheriff had a brilliant idea. “It hapNotary Public Legal Papers Brainerd refuses 0 do. Nate comes to nor came over and bailed him out pens I ain’t wearin’ my gun _ this Brainerd’s resove financially. The ed. “"The war is on,” he sobbed. “The waz mornin’, Tichenor.” Automobile Insurance ‘Monday, May 28, 1934 OUTLAWS of EDEN -By PetesB. Kyne . THE NEVADA CJTY NUGGET pr SPE Vern Nh nr Rao en cs ete on CSE A ETE OTR ES ett 4 PAGE THREE 6 Cepyright, by Peter B. Kyne. 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 itEden 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. jerked him down. “Boy, you ain’t A guffaw went up from the crowded . Handle, up in the public domain, lead hysicians and sufgeons rePaenamarseas aa aac hgipo tgs eee Hensley .and the bloodactin’ right.” 3 <ourtroom, nor could all of Bill . the water west through the public dich * * eud is on. By 1917, Rance Kershaw, “You serve Babson’s writs of atEtooney’s pounding on a table quiet it. . domain and down to a natural reser. # + i : D OUNTY ea bl a don ew i tachment, you fat fool,” Brainerd As an officer of the court, i.e. bailiff, voir in the hills off to the west; thence NEVADA C U Tichenor is the sole survivor on the shrieked, and presented Mr. Rooney Air. Rooney felt that his own dignity into Forlorn Valley.” : Banner Gold County of 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 4>. Babson makes legal appli“Tt? ” o in m i 4 i 4 ene eke tne cttescon at fosa eae a It’s war, oe werneee. as 4 a. 2g —— on. ge ce filing, bicycles repaired, knives Nevada City, Calif. ters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation ooney turned the key in the lockcarrying 8 508, Oe and lawn mowers sharpened. district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in mits she loves Nate, and they become engaged: Babson orders Joe Brainerd, 4 a “Well,” Joe Brainerd answered slowpuffing into the bank in response t@ the stenographer’s summons, Mr. Rook-— by was crouching in his locked cage. while the demon editor strove to climb over the steel wire netting to get at him. : E “Joe, _you commanded, man by the stop that,” Mr. Rooney grasped the little mad-— seat of the trousers ane with a decoration commonly known as a mouse on the eye. Out of his good eye Mr. Rooney observed that his quarry was weeping with rage; so he folded Brainerd to his ample abdomer and carried the lunatic out of the bank, screaming and kicking, and se cured him in the local bastile. “Babson accused me of selling out— Selling out! Understand? He saic I'd sold out! I’m free! Fil print the >> cause I'm free. I'm free, I'm free .Hel was stretched out on a bencEr Nat—> upor Center Tichenor was when, very apparent to having called Babson a message tellin’ him to lay ofr Joe Brainerd or he’d git himself in trouble.” “You. should read up on the law. Wou can’t fine me for contempt alleged to have been conveyed in a mere susBPicion on the part of your Honor. 1 shall not-pay the two dollars and what is your Honor going to do about ss a had been more or less assailed by Nate "Kichenor when the latter. had so adroitly managed to upset that of the court. **“You just wait a minute, Tichenor.” E3ill Rooney’s voice was as honey. “TH just fan you, young feller, an’ see if you’re carryin’ a concealed weapon. <«carryin’ a gun without a permit don’t so I'll spare you the effort of searchimz me and produce My gun at least one second. before you produce yours.” fiimched from Tichenor’s and roved over the courtroom. Then the deputy crowd and lift up your coat-tails,” came the ringing order. Tichenor advanced upon the deputy lorn Valley of Eden Valley water. I've assured you of that already.” “Oh yes, you are. You'll have to, if not for your own sake then for the sake of Lorry Kershaw. I’m going to let you in on’a secret—now that Babson is my enemy. He plans, after organizing the irrigation district, to tap Eden Valley creek at the head of the “But, Joe, it would be silly of Forlorn Valley to tap the stream up in the Pan. I have a splendid dam site and it is to my interest to see the FINE Work Called for and Clarence R. Phone 16 WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and REPAIRING 520 Coyote Street Mrs. Preston’s NEWS STAND Stationery, Magazines Delivered 316 Broad St. Nevada City Gray * The National Hotel — 2 NEVADA CITY SANITARIUM Elizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. Open_to all reputable ve Coffee Shop Nevada City California Here you will find Prices That Meet Present Day Conditions Safes Opened, Gunsmith. 220 East Main St. Repaired and Combinations Changed Keys made for every lock, saw GRASS VALLEY California Annual production over $3,000,000 For Information Address Chamber of Commerce Phone 602 b ; td . —. a by punching . Beneen is on, Nate, and I've fired the first Before the words were fairly out of Just a Little Better Bonds Life Insurance . Sa gun.”’ his mouth he was gazing down the : ; a : = = * * * = barrel of Nate Tichenor’s pistol. OWL TAVERN CAFE CHAPTER IX—Continued The power of Silas Babson in Valliew **‘Stand up, turn your back on the NORTH WESTERN “YOU CAN’T BETTER THE BEST” MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. Camptonville a ] H ly, “I’m certainly glad you’re my Anson Towle, who combined with haxz£— ; a friend and not my apie Do you . ness and saddlery and notary publi< sheriff, thrust his gun in the official Finest Food aaa of want me to spread the glad tidings of . the duties of local justice of th — midriff and, with his left hand, unand BEE TREAT YOURSELF your contemplated philanthropy to peace, he was informed that Babsor buckled a belt at Rooney’s waist and 134 Mill Street TO THE: Forlorn Valley?” had sworn to a warrant charging Jo=] removed -a pistol in a holster. Then Grass Valley, Calif BEST “No, keep that news bottled up. I Brainerd with assault and battery he walked up on Judge Towle’s dais, Before the Words Were Fairly Out f . want to have the peoplé meet me with . Malicious mischief and disturbing time broke his own pistol and exhibited a of His Mouth He Was Gazing HAIR CUTTING all the. acclaim a Roman mob was peace, and that bail had been set ae single empty chamber to the gaping Down the Barrel of Nate TicheLg autglng Be wont to aecerd the eitmance of the . Ome thousand dollars in pack case. crowd. nor’s Pistol. BE COMFORTABLE LADIES WORK Christian martyrs in the Coliseum. I “Better lower it, judge,” Ticheno=z= “An empty pistol is not a more Mi : OUR SPECIALTY want Babson to lead them on to make suggested amiably. lethal weapon than any other piece dam erected there. In that way ss s*@ 6 ; : fools of themselves, so I can show him “That feller,”’ his honor replied, *“*w ik of hardware and when worn in a shoulKershaw and I, with our ranches a Get Y L A R S E N S up later for a false leader.” stay in Bill Rooney’s jail until som e— der holster or under the coat-tails, = era geet eran “i igo wits cee BARBER SHOP “Almost everybody here calls the . body hands me three thousand.” doesn’t come under the head of con— of ap abo ant SepeHy 9 MATTRESSES 106 Pine St. Nevada City other fellow. by his first name. My “Orders from headquarters, . sSuE— ceealed weapons. Here’s your gun, gating water. Vail ie name’s Joe. May I call you Nate?” he . pose, judge.” windbag”—and returned the wretched Exactly. But if Forlorn oe Repaired and Cleaned by * + said.” “You fixin’ to get yourself into jmi® Rooney his pistol. “This weapon of fe oe pen ea inte r j “The pleasure is mutual, Joe. You . for contempt o’ court?” mine, which you thought was an army . 1, < ol AW, YOUs a Heo 8 ak ee John W. Darke EDDIE’ LEONG may.” Nate leaned across Towle’s dest _— automatic, is the latest model air-pisnak mic ans h . eis > oe ae eA They shook hands. And then Joe . *“*Yes, I am. And what are you gzoir = tol. It shoots a tiny pellet that will He sete post gs c aa monks Commercial St. Nevada City Trae Brainerd glanced at the clock. “Exto do about it, you brainless invert<=— kill a bird, and I bought it recently . . a rs — e fill it 109 J. Phones 109 M. Fresh Fruit cuse me, Nate. It’s five minutes of . brate? You're not holding court Bows ~ to practice pistol shooting by killing seg ave St area ft S =e alk Vegetables three and I have just time to get to . are you? ‘The limit of bail to be s<=e blue-jays around my ranch.” He = 2 cutie Go bie ne sles . 2 the bank and deposit this manna from . in such cases is five hundred dolla === turned his back on Rooney. “And now, a: a ee alls ; Cleaning and Pressing Trosh fish Heaven. I'll fill your check in for six _. om each charge. Here’s fifteen htw=e— fellow citizens, you know how brave I don’t know the law in the premCASH AND CARRY es thousand”—and he did. dred dollars, and you take it and £iw <=} Mr. Rooney is—in his mind. And you ines, Joe, but this is what I plan to do. as. Seems eee $1.10 THURSDAY AND FRIDE Babson glared at the editor as the . me an order on Bill Rooney to 3rce— know just what peculiar thoughts ocI'll attend that mass meeting, listen to DRESSES d $1.00 and up Groceries latter came into the bank, but said lease Joe Brainerd, or I'll go over <> casionally flit through the mind of what is said and, if it appears to be : LADIES’ AND MEN’S pate ces nothing until Brainerd was about to . the jail, hog-tie Rooney and take J2>—] your justice of the peace. Your local the sense of the meeting that an irriALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS Phone 74 depart. Brainerd out of jail myself.” law mill is in bad shape and ought to gation district shall be Senetenerats Tailor Made Custom Clothes 314 Broad St. Nevada City “Brainerd, this bank doesn’t want Probably no man in Forlorn Vali@w be reorganized.” He moved down the water supply -— sae a oh PHONE 217-W your business! Close out your ac. knew less of the law than this vilas<— aisle toward the door, and Joe Brainley creek up ie ue 7 ner i ae HOURS: » count.” justice of the peace; but he had hez =< erd followed. the yecyls oe Ue ae ei ube 7:30 A. M. te 5:30 P. M. a “Thanks for the information. I have . of the Hensley clan and here was tt=<— **‘Nate,” said Joe Brainerd. “As one a Sc cane t al ja Boesch FORREST B. RISLEY, Prop. Where Service and Quality Meet just deposited Nate Tichenor’s check last of that tribe of killers glarin===a©& outlaw to the other tell me why you the Mountain Valley Power Or iacd neat Building . aroad St Jeffery Cleaners for six thousand dollars. It’s on a him so ferociously his Honor trembie<Z#_ made such pitiful monkeys out of property at my own — e Nevada City, California San Francisco bank, and as soon as . «well, rather than git into a row a Towle and Rooney?” they will enter into contrac Pee Lee Jeffery, Prop. it has gone through clearing Vl] give . you, young feller, an’ have to kill 3 <>=2 «“< Well, that fool justice of the peace chase water sem me and provided, 0 Eepress Your TAILOR WADE GUITS you my check for what I owe the bank in self-defense,” he decided, “I’71l =s<=t had it coming to him for trying to course, that we can come to ce pr.(. end thon glean puabalgnes FIRt Ooe . eke Seekk Se SNe Se clocse aces take up the Babson cudgels against . TY it, Sut‘be glad to entertain It.” Personality . . . 109s: church St. Grass Valley j I wouldn't keep. tin money in a bank comes up for trial at ten o’clock f£<>— you. I concluded to strike another ve m ey es ; In Good Printing—It Pays We Call for and Deliver. Ph. 152 ¢ I know is going to bust.” morrer mornin’.” blow for the editor. Asfor Bill I hope so, Nate, but before you Dividends Nevada City Routes Wueneuaal “So you've sold out to Tichenor,” “If you’re scheming to send ~F<><= Feooney—well, I hold an ancient grudge . commit yourself Th penta: F muaes THE NUGGET PRINT SHOP and Saturday Babson jeered. Brainerd up for six months with@etzst ‘against Bill. At school I used to carry that you make certain of your rights. . 805 Board Street Nevada City . Little Joe Brainerd’s face grew red; the alternative of a gue advise »~<>«2 a gun for Owen Kershaw. The teachIf I were you I’d consult some emSer ae he swelled like a_ turkey gobbler. to change your mind. And how’s tla = & er found it out and told the principal, inent firm of atiomers whose specialty " “you insulted me yesterday and I . gor contempt of court?” who ordered me to leave it home. I Is ap Ee : ale SS ; The case was called at ten an@® =f refused, because I thought I couldn’t . ~“T shall. suppose I can find the 4 ten-thirty, when Silas Babson, the C@ =32—afford to risk obedience in those days; . Tight lawyers in San Francisco.” OUR SERVICE TO YOU plaining witness, had not appear<]e«i, sot the principal told Bill Rooney on The following morning Tichenor was. Nate Tichenor, acting as Brainerd’s ==tme. Bill was the night watchman . in San Francisco and, acting upon the Fenders and Bodies Repaired, Glass and Tops Installed, torney, rose and moved Anson Tow §<—} then, so he frisked me, took my gun . advice of his attorney, he sought the Auto Painting Radiator Repairing, Auto Upholstering of that the case be dismissed for lack <>ft away from me and gave me a first. offices of Messrs, Brooks, Gagan and All Kinds eat lone Welding General Blacksmithing a evidence. ‘*Take my word for it, yworsrr class thrashing. I hesitated at mak. Brooks, Gagan received him and lisaated 3 i ’ & Honor, neither Mr. Babson nor any <>f ing reprisals until I should be older . tened without interruption while Nate YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS BACK OF US ‘ his witnesses will appear. Mr. BabsS<>2 and stronger, when I planned to give . } outlined the situation. ‘ has—as I assumed he would—thow = Fat Bill a thrashing with his own belt. To“7 know all about that Eden Valley eee ae aes eee " it over and decided to let bygones >eo day was my first opportunity.” proposition, Mr. Tichenor,” he then : : ¢ bygones. The message your Hors<>r “your clan had a reputation for . announced. “A Mr. Silas Babson, of Only Service of it’s Kind in Nevada City " carried to him from me yesterday ov <— cold-blooded courage and ferocity, . Valley Center, interviewed me on the id ping was very convincing.” Nate—and you've revived it. So today . subject recently, but he did not retain ele ee ee en a TE . eee ‘ “Kined two dollars for contempt <_-rtft you’re a hero in Forlorn Valley, but . us. In fact, certain aspects of the ad; court. Case dismissed.” when you organize to deprive this . vice I gave him appeared to conflict GOULD’S AUTO BODY WORKS “Will the court please state in ww Ea =a t valley of the water from Eden Valley . with his own opinion of the situaAt The Nevada City Garage . manner I have been guilty of <<> £2creek you're going to be the most . tion.” _ tempt.” hated man in this county.” “Well, he’s liable to be around later “You’re ‘intimatin’ that I carriea Si “But I’m not going to deprive For. to retain you, although I hope to reae ()-G()-)-D---DD) : If women do not reason as welt aS problems, and because the tasks were “Henry! Help, Help,” Babson do men they are better at taking hizx2=ts best. done when the hints are given, oe : a Agents for Montag Furnace and Oil Burners, Shrilled to His Satellite: with the result that they may rfrrs<>re it is concluded from the experiments gadis paper hag : ais American and Sparks Circulating Heaters ‘ sar roae hievements <-f that the type of reasoner most sucyou w the exception © Conde: A f heR -Oi1 B Cc ad y rice for it,” he screamed. nearly approach the ac : = : 3 : 9: (hae ents for the Rotary Oil burner Company poked you TW men. This is one conclusion \r2z2 ww cessful in problem-solving is the one nation suit,” Gagan said. 8 and Then “Now. you’ve insulted me. again Pmt “4 Tests Show Womem Eead Taking Hints, but Men FP ouannd Better at Reasoning from a series of reasoning tests Sie ena who can suppress or-inhibit his habitustrain him by employing peaceable and profitable measures. © Meanwhile, I haven't any business for you, save to outline for me the legal right8 of Miss Kershaw -and the Bar H Land and Cattle company in the premises. [ll pay your fee for that, so please fire “I was quite certain of that before G. PHONE 22 O'Neill. PLUMBING AND SHEET METAL SHOP ~ BROAD STREET NEVADA CITY on I’m going to clean up on you.” he leaped. In reality, he bounded like a tennis ball clearing the railing and landing beside Babson’s desk. “Henry! Help, help,” Babson shrilled to his satellite. “Call Bill Rooney,” he ordered his stenographer. Then he went down under the impact of Joe Brainerd’s furious onslaught, whereupon the editor crawled him and hammered him until his fists hurt him, .after which he grasped Babson by the throat and bumped his head against I called upon you, but merely desired to have an expert verify my suspicions. A non-riparian community—Forlorn Valley—is about to form an irrigation district on the strength of a promise of the state water commission that it will allocate to the proposed. district the storm, flood, freshet, or so-called waste waters of Eden Valley creek. Miss Kershaw and I make beneficial use of all of the overflow waters of Eden Valley creek every spring, and no waters are waste waters until after al line .of thought to allow free play of new ideas and thought patterns. The women students were regularly poorer than the men in problem reasoning, even though all the problems were not of a “mechanical” nature, which might be more favorable to men. ‘Those. in the group receiving suggestions, howeyer, raised their solving average markedly, apparently benefiting comparatively more from the hints than did the men-in-the same group. 384 students at the University or Michigan by the university pS» < F2<>Ilogy department, reported in the E®=z-itish Journal of Psychology. Using students in the beginnings resSychology course as subjects, they ww —_re divided into two xroups, one of w Faicn received some general hints on we Ea at not to do when solving the Dprobli =—_ zs presented. The second group recei w ©&d no suggestions. The hints were ‘eocis~ren in connection with one of these p2zoobD All Work On A Guaranteed Basis j ) a () EAD () <I> () <LED> () EES () <CERRE( ES-ES GE (SD 0 REO) ( OED () <=> () <a> () aD () GC NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE “Practical mining tests from 25 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentage of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work promptly attended to. ‘the floor. He was like a desperade of lems and it was solved by twice] as The men’s scores in this group rose dow uh cor ee the olden days who, having cleaned many individuals as the other —>=<>bdecidedly, but the women = scored ea voy wren ae iene th a Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and ; out a barroom, could not. be happy un. lem. higher. Peale aio Brits se . peti a tthe pect Capital of California Fire Insurance Companies. el til he had shot out the lights. He had . . Because, tcc against dependima= Bae Civilinati domain and appropriating the flood or AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE anaee terns Weir Oh ee + A siggeomgetpinwtone waste waters before such waters have : = Civilization is as much a matter of 1 tbe heart as of the head habitual patterns of thought and Zima E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor & el by when the latter interfered, and persistence in attempting to s<q>ive when Deputy Sheriff Bill Rooney came ' flowed over our lands. TO BE CONTINUED. —

. love with Lorry. Babson discovers 7? Wnte le behind & eval power préjects news, but—you watch my editoriais— Bill Rooney went white and then RAY S FIXIT SHOP Acton M. Cleveland Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She adVllsizzle like a Roman candle, be— pink: he wet his lips, and his glance editor ,of the local paper, to attack l Nate as an enemy of-the people. This . WeePing childishly when Nate Tiche— sheriff had a brilliant idea. “It hapNotary Public Legal Papers Brainerd refuses 0 do. Nate comes to nor came over and bailed him out pens I ain’t wearin’ my gun _ this Brainerd’s resove financially. The ed. “"The war is on,” he sobbed. “The waz mornin’, Tichenor.” Automobile Insurance ‘Monday, May 28, 1934 OUTLAWS of EDEN -By PetesB. Kyne .. THE NEVADA CJTY NUGGET pr SPE Vern Nh nr Rao en cs ete on CSE A ETE OTR ES ett 4 PAGE THREE 6 Cepyright, by Peter B. Kyne. 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 itEden 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. jerked him down. “Boy, you ain’t A guffaw went up from the crowded . Handle, up in the public domain, lead hysicians and sufgeons rePaenamarseas aa aac hgipo tgs eee Hensley .and the bloodactin’ right.” 3 <ourtroom, nor could all of Bill . the water west through the public dich * * eud is on. By 1917, Rance Kershaw, “You serve Babson’s writs of atEtooney’s pounding on a table quiet it. . domain and down to a natural reser. # + i : D OUNTY ea bl a don ew i tachment, you fat fool,” Brainerd As an officer of the court, i.e. bailiff, voir in the hills off to the west; thence NEVADA C U Tichenor is the sole survivor on the shrieked, and presented Mr. Rooney Air. Rooney felt that his own dignity into Forlorn Valley.” : Banner Gold County of 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 4>. Babson makes legal appli“Tt? ” o in m i 4 i 4 ene eke tne cttescon at fosa eae a It’s war, oe werneee. as 4 a. 2g —— on. ge ce filing, bicycles repaired, knives Nevada City, Calif. ters to the Forlorn Valley irrigation ooney turned the key in the lockcarrying 8 508, Oe and lawn mowers sharpened. district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in mits she loves Nate, and they become engaged: Babson orders Joe Brainerd, 4 a “Well,” Joe Brainerd answered slowpuffing into the bank in response t@ the stenographer’s summons, Mr. Rook-— by was crouching in his locked cage. while the demon editor strove to climb over the steel wire netting to get at him. : E “Joe, _you commanded, man by the stop that,” Mr. Rooney grasped the little mad-— seat of the trousers ane with a decoration commonly known as a mouse on the eye. Out of his good eye Mr. Rooney observed that his quarry was weeping with rage; so he folded Brainerd to his ample abdomer and carried the lunatic out of the bank, screaming and kicking, and se cured him in the local bastile. “Babson accused me of selling out— Selling out! Understand? He saic I'd sold out! I’m free! Fil print the >> cause I'm free. I'm free, I'm free ..Hel was stretched out on a bencEr Nat—> upor Center Tichenor was when, very apparent to having called Babson a message tellin’ him to lay ofr Joe Brainerd or he’d git himself in trouble.” “You. should read up on the law. Wou can’t fine me for contempt alleged to have been conveyed in a mere susBPicion on the part of your Honor. 1 shall not-pay the two dollars and what is your Honor going to do about ss a had been more or less assailed by Nate "Kichenor when the latter. had so adroitly managed to upset that of the court. **“You just wait a minute, Tichenor.” E3ill Rooney’s voice was as honey. “TH just fan you, young feller, an’ see if you’re carryin’ a concealed weapon. <«carryin’ a gun without a permit don’t so I'll spare you the effort of searchimz me and produce My gun at least one second. before you produce yours.” fiimched from Tichenor’s and roved over the courtroom. Then the deputy crowd and lift up your coat-tails,” came the ringing order. Tichenor advanced upon the deputy lorn Valley of Eden Valley water. I've assured you of that already.” “Oh yes, you are. You'll have to, if not for your own sake then for the sake of Lorry Kershaw. I’m going to let you in on’a secret—now that Babson is my enemy. He plans, after organizing the irrigation district, to tap Eden Valley creek at the head of the “But, Joe, it would be silly of Forlorn Valley to tap the stream up in the Pan. I have a splendid dam site and it is to my interest to see the FINE Work Called for and Clarence R. Phone 16 WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and REPAIRING 520 Coyote Street Mrs. Preston’s NEWS STAND Stationery, Magazines Delivered 316 Broad St. Nevada City Gray * The National Hotel — 2 NEVADA CITY SANITARIUM Elizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. Open_to all reputable ve Coffee Shop Nevada City California Here you will find Prices That Meet Present Day Conditions Safes Opened, Gunsmith. 220 East Main St. Repaired and Combinations Changed Keys made for every lock, saw GRASS VALLEY California Annual production over $3,000,000 For Information Address Chamber of Commerce Phone 602 b ; td . —. a by punching . Beneen is on, Nate, and I've fired the first Before the words were fairly out of Just a Little Better Bonds Life Insurance . Sa gun.”’ his mouth he was gazing down the : ; a : = = * * * = barrel of Nate Tichenor’s pistol. OWL TAVERN CAFE CHAPTER IX—Continued The power of Silas Babson in Valliew **‘Stand up, turn your back on the NORTH WESTERN

“YOU CAN’T BETTER THE BEST” MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. Camptonville a ] H ly, “I’m certainly glad you’re my Anson Towle, who combined with haxz£— ; a friend and not my apie Do you . ness and saddlery and notary publi< sheriff, thrust his gun in the official Finest Food aaa of want me to spread the glad tidings of . the duties of local justice of th — midriff and, with his left hand, unand BEE TREAT YOURSELF your contemplated philanthropy to peace, he was informed that Babsor buckled a belt at Rooney’s waist and 134 Mill Street TO THE: Forlorn Valley?” had sworn to a warrant charging Jo=] removed -a pistol in a holster. Then Grass Valley, Calif BEST “No, keep that news bottled up. I Brainerd with assault and battery he walked up on Judge Towle’s dais, Before the Words Were Fairly Out f . want to have the peoplé meet me with . Malicious mischief and disturbing time broke his own pistol and exhibited a of His Mouth He Was Gazing HAIR CUTTING all the. acclaim a Roman mob was peace, and that bail had been set ae single empty chamber to the gaping Down the Barrel of Nate TicheLg autglng Be wont to aecerd the eitmance of the . Ome thousand dollars in pack case. crowd. nor’s Pistol. BE COMFORTABLE LADIES WORK Christian martyrs in the Coliseum. I “Better lower it, judge,” Ticheno=z= “An empty pistol is not a more Mi : OUR SPECIALTY want Babson to lead them on to make suggested amiably. lethal weapon than any other piece dam erected there. In that way ss s*@ 6 ; : fools of themselves, so I can show him “That feller,”’ his honor replied, *“*w ik of hardware and when worn in a shoulKershaw and I, with our ranches a Get Y L A R S E N S up later for a false leader.” stay in Bill Rooney’s jail until som e— der holster or under the coat-tails, = era geet eran “i igo wits cee BARBER SHOP “Almost everybody here calls the . body hands me three thousand.” doesn’t come under the head of con— of ap abo ant SepeHy 9 MATTRESSES 106 Pine St. Nevada City other fellow. by his first name.. My “Orders from headquarters, . sSuE— ceealed weapons. Here’s your gun, gating water. Vail ie name’s Joe. May I call you Nate?” he . pose, judge.” windbag”—and returned the wretched Exactly. But if Forlorn oe Repaired and Cleaned by * + said.” “You fixin’ to get yourself into jmi® Rooney his pistol. “This weapon of fe oe pen ea inte r j “The pleasure is mutual, Joe. You . for contempt o’ court?” mine, which you thought was an army . 1, < ol AW, YOUs a Heo 8 ak ee John W. Darke EDDIE’ LEONG may.” Nate leaned across Towle’s dest _— automatic, is the latest model air-pisnak mic ans h . eis > oe ae eA They shook hands. And then Joe . *“*Yes, I am. And what are you gzoir = tol. It shoots a tiny pellet that will He sete post gs c aa monks Commercial St. Nevada City Trae Brainerd glanced at the clock. “Exto do about it, you brainless invert<=— kill a bird, and I bought it recently . . a rs — e fill it 109 J. Phones 109 M. Fresh Fruit cuse me, Nate. It’s five minutes of . brate? You're not holding court Bows ~ to practice pistol shooting by killing seg ave St area ft S =e alk Vegetables three and I have just time to get to . are you? ‘The limit of bail to be s<=e blue-jays around my ranch.” He = 2 cutie Go bie ne sles . 2 the bank and deposit this manna from . in such cases is five hundred dolla === turned his back on Rooney. “And now, a: a ee alls ; Cleaning and Pressing Trosh fish Heaven. I'll fill your check in for six _. om each charge. Here’s fifteen htw=e— fellow citizens, you know how brave I don’t know the law in the premCASH AND CARRY es thousand”—and he did. dred dollars, and you take it and £iw <=} Mr. Rooney is—in his mind. And you ines, Joe, but this is what I plan to do. as. Seems eee $1.10 THURSDAY AND FRIDE Babson glared at the editor as the . me an order on Bill Rooney to 3rce— know just what peculiar thoughts ocI'll attend that mass meeting, listen to DRESSES d $1.00 and up Groceries latter came into the bank, but said lease Joe Brainerd, or I'll go over <> casionally flit through the mind of what is said and, if it appears to be : LADIES’ AND MEN’S pate ces nothing until Brainerd was about to . the jail, hog-tie Rooney and take J2>—] your justice of the peace. Your local the sense of the meeting that an irriALTERATIONS AND REPAIRS Phone 74 depart. Brainerd out of jail myself.” law mill is in bad shape and ought to gation district shall be Senetenerats Tailor Made Custom Clothes 314 Broad St. Nevada City “Brainerd, this bank doesn’t want Probably no man in Forlorn Vali@w be reorganized.” He moved down the water supply -— sae a oh PHONE 217-W your business! Close out your ac. knew less of the law than this vilas<— aisle toward the door, and Joe Brainley creek up ie ue 7 ner i ae HOURS: » count.” justice of the peace; but he had hez =< erd followed. the yecyls oe Ue ae ei ube 7:30 A. M. te 5:30 P. M. a “Thanks for the information. I have . of the Hensley clan and here was tt=<— **‘Nate,” said Joe Brainerd. “As one a Sc cane t al ja Boesch FORREST B. RISLEY, Prop. Where Service and Quality Meet just deposited Nate Tichenor’s check last of that tribe of killers glarin===a©& outlaw to the other tell me why you the Mountain Valley Power Or iacd neat Building . aroad St Jeffery Cleaners for six thousand dollars. It’s on a him so ferociously his Honor trembie<Z#_ made such pitiful monkeys out of property at my own — e Nevada City, California San Francisco bank, and as soon as . «well, rather than git into a row a Towle and Rooney?” they will enter into contrac Pee Lee Jeffery, Prop. it has gone through clearing Vl] give . you, young feller, an’ have to kill 3 <>=2 «“< Well, that fool justice of the peace chase water sem me and provided, 0 Eepress Your TAILOR WADE GUITS you my check for what I owe the bank in self-defense,” he decided, “I’71l =s<=t had it coming to him for trying to course, that we can come to ce pr.(. end thon glean puabalgnes FIRt Ooe . eke Seekk Se SNe Se clocse aces take up the Babson cudgels against . TY it, Sut‘be glad to entertain It.” Personality . . . 109s: church St. Grass Valley j I wouldn't keep. tin money in a bank comes up for trial at ten o’clock f£<>— you. I concluded to strike another ve m ey es ; In Good Printing—It Pays We Call for and Deliver. Ph. 152 ¢ I know is going to bust.” morrer mornin’.” blow for the editor. Asfor Bill I hope so, Nate, but before you Dividends Nevada City Routes Wueneuaal “So you've sold out to Tichenor,” “If you’re scheming to send ~F<><= Feooney—well, I hold an ancient grudge . commit yourself Th penta: F muaes THE NUGGET PRINT SHOP and Saturday Babson jeered. Brainerd up for six months with@etzst ‘against Bill. At school I used to carry that you make certain of your rights. . 805 Board Street Nevada City . Little Joe Brainerd’s face grew red; the alternative of a gue advise »~<>«2 a gun for Owen Kershaw. The teachIf I were you I’d consult some emSer ae he swelled like a_ turkey gobbler. to change your mind. And how’s tla = & er found it out and told the principal, inent firm of atiomers whose specialty " “you insulted me yesterday and I . gor contempt of court?” who ordered me to leave it home. I Is ap Ee : ale SS ; The case was called at ten an@® =f refused, because I thought I couldn’t . ~“T shall. suppose I can find the 4 ten-thirty, when Silas Babson, the C@ =32—afford to risk obedience in those days; . Tight lawyers in San Francisco.” OUR SERVICE TO YOU plaining witness, had not appear<]e«i, sot the principal told Bill Rooney on The following morning Tichenor was. Nate Tichenor, acting as Brainerd’s ==tme. Bill was the night watchman . in San Francisco and, acting upon the Fenders and Bodies Repaired, Glass and Tops Installed, torney, rose and moved Anson Tow §<—} then, so he frisked me, took my gun . advice of his attorney, he sought the Auto Painting Radiator Repairing, Auto Upholstering of that the case be dismissed for lack <>ft away from me and gave me a first. offices of Messrs, Brooks, Gagan and All Kinds eat lone Welding General Blacksmithing a evidence. ‘*Take my word for it, yworsrr class thrashing. I hesitated at mak. Brooks, Gagan received him and lisaated 3 i ’ & Honor, neither Mr. Babson nor any <>f ing reprisals until I should be older . tened without interruption while Nate YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND SUCCESS BACK OF US ‘ his witnesses will appear. Mr. BabsS<>2 and stronger, when I planned to give . } outlined the situation. ‘ has—as I assumed he would—thow = Fat Bill a thrashing with his own belt. To“7 know all about that Eden Valley eee ae aes eee " it over and decided to let bygones >eo day was my first opportunity.” proposition, Mr. Tichenor,” he then : : ¢ bygones. The message your Hors<>r “your clan had a reputation for . announced. “A Mr. Silas Babson, of Only Service of it’s Kind in Nevada City " carried to him from me yesterday ov <— cold-blooded courage and ferocity, . Valley Center, interviewed me on the id ping was very convincing.” Nate—and you've revived it. So today . subject recently, but he did not retain ele ee ee en a TE . eee ‘ “Kined two dollars for contempt <_-rtft you’re a hero in Forlorn Valley, but . us. In fact, certain aspects of the ad; court. Case dismissed.” when you organize to deprive this . vice I gave him appeared to conflict GOULD’S AUTO BODY WORKS “Will the court please state in ww Ea =a t valley of the water from Eden Valley . with his own opinion of the situaAt The Nevada City Garage . manner I have been guilty of <<> £2creek you're going to be the most . tion.” _ tempt.” hated man in this county.” “Well, he’s liable to be around later “You’re ‘intimatin’ that I carriea Si “But I’m not going to deprive For. to retain you, although I hope to reae ()-G()-)-D---DD) : If women do not reason as welt aS problems, and because the tasks were “Henry! Help, Help,” Babson do men they are better at taking hizx2=ts best. done when the hints are given, oe : a Agents for Montag Furnace and Oil Burners, Shrilled to His Satellite: with the result that they may rfrrs<>re it is concluded from the experiments gadis paper hag : ais American and Sparks Circulating Heaters ‘ sar roae hievements <-f that the type of reasoner most sucyou w the exception © Conde: A f heR -Oi1 B Cc ad y rice for it,” he screamed. nearly approach the ac : = : 3 : 9: (hae ents for the Rotary Oil burner Company poked you TW men. This is one conclusion \r2z2 ww cessful in problem-solving is the one nation suit,” Gagan said. 8 and Then “Now. you’ve insulted me. again Pmt “4 Tests Show Womem Eead Taking Hints, but Men FP ouannd Better at Reasoning from a series of reasoning tests Sie ena who can suppress or-inhibit his habitustrain him by employing peaceable and profitable measures. © Meanwhile, I haven't any business for you, save to outline for me the legal right8 of Miss Kershaw -and the Bar H Land and Cattle company in the premises. [ll pay your fee for that, so please fire “I was quite certain of that before G. PHONE 22 O'Neill.. PLUMBING AND SHEET METAL SHOP ~ BROAD STREET NEVADA CITY on I’m going to clean up on you.” he leaped. In reality, he bounded like a tennis ball clearing the railing and landing beside Babson’s desk. “Henry! Help, help,” Babson shrilled to his satellite. “Call Bill Rooney,” he ordered his stenographer. Then he went down under the impact of Joe Brainerd’s furious onslaught, whereupon the editor crawled him and hammered him until his fists hurt him, .after which he grasped Babson by the throat and bumped his head against I called upon you, but merely desired to have an expert verify my suspicions. A non-riparian community—Forlorn Valley—is about to form an irrigation district on the strength of a promise of the state water commission that it will allocate to the proposed. district the storm, flood, freshet, or so-called waste waters of Eden Valley creek. Miss Kershaw and I make beneficial use of all of the overflow waters of Eden Valley creek every spring, and no waters are waste waters until after al line .of thought to allow free play of new ideas and thought patterns. The women students were regularly poorer than the men in problem reasoning, even though all the problems were not of a “mechanical” nature, which might be more favorable to men. ‘Those. in the group receiving suggestions, howeyer, raised their solving average markedly, apparently benefiting comparatively more from the hints than did the men-in-the same group. 384 students at the University or Michigan by the university pS» < F2<>Ilogy department, reported in the E®=z-itish Journal of Psychology. Using students in the beginnings resSychology course as subjects, they ww —_re divided into two xroups, one of w Faicn received some general hints on we Ea at not to do when solving the Dprobli =—_ zs presented. The second group recei w ©&d no suggestions. The hints were ‘eocis~ren in connection with one of these p2zoobD All Work On A Guaranteed Basis j ) a () EAD () <I> () <LED> () EES () <CERRE( ES-ES GE (SD 0 REO) ( OED () <=> () <a> () aD () GC NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE “Practical mining tests from 25 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentage of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work promptly attended to. ‘the floor. He was like a desperade of lems and it was solved by twice] as The men’s scores in this group rose dow uh cor ee the olden days who, having cleaned many individuals as the other —>=<>bdecidedly, but the women = scored ea voy wren ae iene th a Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and ; out a barroom, could not. be happy un. lem. higher. Peale aio Brits se . peti a tthe pect Capital of California Fire Insurance Companies. el til he had shot out the lights. He had . . Because, tcc against dependima= Bae Civilinati domain and appropriating the flood or AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE anaee terns Weir Oh ee + A siggeomgetpinwtone waste waters before such waters have : = Civilization is as much a matter of 1 tbe heart as of the head habitual patterns of thought and Zima E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor & el by when the latter interfered, and persistence in attempting to s<q>ive when Deputy Sheriff Bill Rooney came ' flowed over our lands. TO BE CONTINUED. —