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THURSDAY, JAN, 9, 1941
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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I—Summoned to the ranch
in central Nevada, desert-wise Walt Gandy
is on his way to help his old range partner,
Bill Hbllister. Riding through unfamiliar
country, Walt is stopped short by a girl—
who holds a rifle in firing position. She
knows him, tells him how to get to the
ranch, and tells him that they will meet
again. Walt is allowed to ride on.
CHAPTER II—Within a quarter of a mile
from his destination. Walt is stopped again.
This time by a grotesque, misshapen man
who tells him to get out and then tells him
the crew is in Emigrant, the closest
town, for an inquest. Someone has been
murdered.
CHAPTER III—Riding to the inquest in
Emigrant, Walt leaves his horse at the liv
ery stable. Before attending the inquest he
asks a few questions. Cash Cameron, owner
of the ranch, is in trouble. A hard but
honest man. Cash has many enemies.
Gandy’s eye is caught by a roan horse tied
near the doorway. It belongs to the girl
who stopped him earlier in the day.
CHAPTER IV—Chino Drake, former cook
at the ranch, has been murdered and
Sheriff Ed Battle is trying to pin the blame
on Cash Cameron. The girl is called to the
stand. She is Helen Cameron. Cash s daugh
ter She seemingly faints and, as Gandy
rushes to her aid, slips something in his
hand. It is the bullet from Drake's body.
CHAPTER V—Walt rents a post office box
and leaves the bullet in it. Leaving the
post office he is accosted by a dark, swarthy
man who offers him a job. He draws the
man out, finds that he wants to usurp Cam
eron's public range land. Gandy then turns
him down in biting fashion. The man leaps
at Walt, who whips him after a hard battle.
The man is Pete Kelso, foreman of the 77
ranch, an outfit hostile to Cameron.
CHAPTER VI—Gandy is called to the
sheriff’s office, where he meets Hollister
and Sheriff Battle. Hollister, this time, is
really glad to see him. Battle tells Hollis
ter that Cameron is through!
CHAPTER VII—Hollister and Gandy re
turn to the C. There they find Cash
Cameron and Bent Lavic, the crippled man
who stopped Gandy on his previous visit.
Paul Champion, a young cowpuncher, is
with them. Later Gandy meets Horsethief
Fisher, another employee. Walt is still
unable to find the root of difficulties.
Neither Cameron nor Hollister will talk.
Hollister, however, borrows two honored
dollars from Gandy.
CHAPTER VIII—That evening Walt meets
Helen Cameron in the kitchen. From the
first he has been drawn to her. Then she
tells him that Bill Hollister is one of the
finest men she has ever known. The w’ords,
though he has known her thoughts before,
hurt him.
CHAPTER IX—The bawling of cattle that
night brought Walt out to investigate. He
thinks that bawling is caused by the smell
of blood! Curious, he steps into the saddle
shed. Then the shed door opens slowly. In
the darkness he smells perfume. It is
Helen. Angry, she leaves, but not until she
warns him to forget the C.
CHAPTER X—Walt tells Hollister that he
wants information. Hollister tells him that
Cash Cameron, thought to be worth a for
tune, is flat broke. The murder of Chino
Drake may be his finish. Gandy knows that
any one of three people may be responsible
for Drake’s death. He also points out to
Hollister that Ranger Powell. Cameron’s
alibi for Drake’s death, has disappeared.
CHAPTER XI—Riding the range Hol
lister and Gandy meet Pete Kelso and two
of his hired men. Hollister wants no gun
play, but in self defense, Gandy is forced to
shoot one of Kelso’s men.
(Now go on with the story)
Kelso went on smoothly, in a
round-about way drawing toward
something which Walt Gandy had
already foreseen, “I’m being wide
open with you, Hollister. Jeff Stod
dard means to winter two thousand
77 animals here in the sink. As his
range boss, I’ll see that he does it.
We’re gathering now and we’ll drive
day after tomorrow.”
Interest came into Hollister’s
eyes. “Day after tomorrow? I’ll
make a note of that, Pete. Will
Stoddard be along?”
‘‘Riding point, same as usual,”
Kelso told him. ‘‘What of it?”
Hollister said nothing, but Gandy,
watching closely that set face, be
lieved the lank man had concluded
some long line of thinking.
Pete Kelso, too,, must have felt
that perhaps in some way he did not
control all destiny, that the game
was slipping out of his hands, al
though he did not see how. His black
eyes glittered. His words quickened.
‘‘It would be a damn bad mistake
for you to show up on that day, Hol
lister.” He jerked his hardening
gaze across to Gandy. ‘‘Or any oth
er man!”
Behind that look, thinly veiled,
was the thing Walt Gandy had been
expecting.
Hollister, Kelso, and the sheer
cliff wall were directly before him.
Kelso’s two hirelings hemmed him
in right and left. Now the left one
edged forward. On the right, he
of the red face turned in his saddle
and gazed off up the ravine, and
in so turning, his long-backed body
hid the forty-five.
Kelso was speaking again, once
more in his smoothly confident
voice.
“Hollister, you might as well
make up your mind to quit the Emi
grant Bench. The is sunk. What
do you want to go down with it
for? You’re only the foreman. Why
don’t you get out?”
He paused, then shot home.
“You’d have to sneak, sure. God
knows both you and Cameron are
in a hole as far as the law’s con
cerned. But none of us blames you
for doing away with that cook.”
In a fleeting shift of his glance,
Gandy caught the rock-like control
of Bill Hollister’s face control cov
ering more smoldering fire than any
man would guess. For good reason
Hollister had ridden today unarmed.
He would have no outbreak until he
himself touched it off. But it was
taking almost more than his iron
will to keep silent under Pete Kel
so’s continued thrusts.
“That’s what I’m saying to you,”
the 77 man finished. “I’m not prom
ising so much for any green hands
you’ve taken on. They’re bound to
fpt into trouble at a time like this,
li
whether you give ’em guns to play
with or not!”
Lazily, Walt Gandy stretched in
his saddle. He was not watching
Kelso now, but out of his eye-cor
ners kept the red-faced man on his
right fixed in view. He had caught
the note of a cue speech in that last
talk of Kelso’s, as if this act had
been planned and rehearsed.
The man left of him had edged
forward far enough so that the rump
of his horse was even with Sun
spot's shoulder. The palomino lay
back angry ears. And now in a
heavy half minute, Walt Gandy saw
the play that was coming. There
would be a sudden lashing out of
hind hoofs from the animal edged
forward, a crowding and mix-up of
horses to the right, a gun discharged
and someone killed in the accident—
fellow named Gandy.
He stopped twirling the tobacco
sack and thrust it in under his coat
to his shirt pocket. And then the
play came.
For some reason the red-faced
killer did not wait for the mix-up of
crowding horses to give excuse. His
hidden right hand jerked suddenly.
It w’as quick, but Hollister’s warning
shout was a second quicker.
A gun ripped the ravine silence
in a single jarring crash. Upon
the red face came a look of stupid
surprise. The man lurched forward,
grabbing his saddle horn. An ugly
wound ran up along his right wrist.
He had dropped his gun.
Smoke drifted in a gray flag over
Walt Gandy’s palomino. “Try that
again,” said Gandy, “and I’ll put
the next one where you won’t ever
feel it!”
He covered all three with a short
swing of the thirty-eight. Under the
sheepskin coat his shoulder holster
lay exposed, snugged beneath his
left armpit and near the shirt pock
et holding.his tobacco. He turned
cold eyes upon the 77 boss.
“Did anyone ever tell you the dif
ference between green and yellow?
You all keep your hands up. Bill,
to make it safe for awhile, dump
their guns out, will you?”
There was a time of steel objects
thudding upon the ravine sand.
“Now,” said Gandy, “travel! And
don’t come back to get this stuff
too soon.”
As Pete Kelso lowered his hands,
the queer smile that had been there
once before today, creased his
swarthy face. Without a word he
led off across the flat sink, the oth
ers following. But out of earshot he
stopped, spoke quickly, then swung
north alone, jumping his horse at
once into a lope.
North meant to town. Puzzled,
Walt Gandy watched him go.
“God help you now, Walt!” Hol
lister’s voice broke in. “But come
on, we’d better look up the rest of
our people.”
CHAPTER XII
CJOLLISTER and Walt swung in
4 along the curving bluff where
an arm of the sink cut back into
the bench. Pete Kelso’s figure was
a dark speck northward. Twisting
in his saddle Gandy saw the two
henchmen circling out on the flat
and knew they would not be long
in returning to pick up their guns.
They'd be harmless for the rest of
this day. All their shells were in
Hollister’s saddle pockets.
Farther out on the sink, cat
tle were grazing in scattered herds,
peaceful, stupid brutes, unable to
know of the war that men were plan
ning in order to keep their paunches
full of grass. Or was it the men
that were stupid? Irrelevantly, Walt
Gandy wondered.
Half a mile ahead the arm nar
rowed, and he could make out the
notch of a trail leading upward onto
the bench top. A small bunch of
half a dozen cow's were near at
hand. Suddenly Bill Hollister swore.
A range boss can tell his own ani
mals before reading their brands
but it took a closer view for Gandy
to be sure these were 77’s, and not
C’s. As he started to say some
thing about this enemy run-in, a rid
erless horse trotted into sight where
the sink arm narrowed to a point.
He bit his words off.
Hollister had seen the horse too,
and in unison his black and Gandy’s
palomino were lifted into a run. The
mount was Cash Cameron’s tall
gray. They drove it back, swept
onto a tongue of grass from seepage
water, and then, passing a cabin
size chunk of rock, slid to a stop
next instant beside a spring.
Cameron stood there, water plas
tering the white hair close to his
head, his hat on the ground. He
pivoted groggily, recognized the two
men, stooped and splashed
more water on his face.
Hollister swung down. “Where’s
Helen?”
“The girl went back an hour ago,”
Cameron said, rising.
“Alone? Lord, Cash, the 77 is
loose all over here!”
“Don’t I know it!” The old man
bent and recovered his hat, sourly
examining a hole high up the crown.
His gray face tightened. “And I’ve
got to take a thing like this!”
“What happened,” Hollister
asked.
“I was cleaning rock from the
pool here and saw some cows. Them
/onder." Cameron pointed to the 77
bunch. "V.eni out io have a look.
Five men we:e up a draw, waiting
■for just such a move, I figure, but
I didn’t see them till one put a bul
let at me. My fool scarehead horse
bucked, and I didn't stick.”
Hollister scanned the high rim,
then the sink bottom. “Which way'd
they go. Cash,”
“West. They were 77 all right,
but too far off lor me to get a good
look. Using rifles.”
Worried, Hollis.cr thrust his boot
toe in the stirrup and mounted, say
ing, “We better get on back and
see about Horsethief Fisher and
Paul.” He made no mention then of
his own meeting with part of the
77 crew.
They climbed a narrow steep
slanting trail single file and topped
out on the bench. There, holding in
to let the horses draw wind, he stat
ed flatly what had happened, mak
ing no comment.
“Pete Kelso,” he said, “made a
pass at turning back my bunch of
strays. Gandy drilled one of his
men in the wrist—brought his thirty
eight along today in a shoulder hol
ster.”
“Gandy did!” Cash Cameron
jerked himself around in his saddle,
as near to flaring up as Walt had
seen so far. “Look here. There
wasn’t to be any gunning on the
C! Now what have you done,”
“Cameron,” said Gandy, “that
was sort of personal between Pete
Kelso and me, only he shoved the
job onto one of his killers.” He bent
toward the old man, doubled left
fist propped upon his thigh. “But
damned if I see what you’re driving
at! Now that the first gun’s fired,
why don’t we call it an opening shot
and go ahead?
“C cattle are all there in the
sink, settled for the winter. Are
you going to hold it, or is the 77
going to crowd their stuff in and
run yours out? Why don’t we meet
that drive before it ever reaches
the west rims?”
“Well, boy,” said Cameron pa
tiently, “you’re right. It’s what
ought to be done, except the is
straddling a keg of dynamite, re
member that. It isn’t only the 77
we've got to consider every
Emigrant Bench outfit is primed and
ready to blow us off the public do
main. A ranch needing as much
of that as we do, is always in a
ticklish position. Right now we’ve
got the law and the people against
us we don’t dare have any more
killings charged against the un
til we come clear of what has al
ready happened. Understand that,
don’t you? So I’ll ask you to keep
that gun of yours out of action.”
Gandy shook his head, his eyes
hardening to a dark and stubborn
bronze. “I don’t get it! You mean,”
he asked, unbelieving, “that you’ll
let the 77 drive come in?”
Cash Cameron looked at Hollister.
Then his steady blue gaze came
back. “Yes,” he said, “I might.”
It w*as after three by the time
they had pushed across the bench
top and were loping slantwise up the
timbered mountain skirt. In deep
ening forest shadow they reached
the home ranch trail, had just
passed the section corner where the
fence began, when from ahead came
a moaning of cattle.
Walt Gandy chilled with recogni
tion. Beside him, Cameron and Hol
lister exchanged a sudden eye to
eye look. Wordless, they moved on.
The cattle w’ere off on their left,
and had gone into that fenced sec
tion where a panel of barbed wire
had either been let down, or had
not been put up in Bent Lavic's
recent mending. They were in thin
timber, near another fence that en
closed the garden patch.
(To be continued)
Beaverdam
Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Bogart of
Lima Mr. and Mrs. Glen Guisinger,
daughter Alberta and son Milo of
Fostoria and Miss Lola Moser of Ar
cadia were Wednesday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bogart.
Dwdght Yarger of Camp Custer, at
Battle Creek, Mich., spent a few days
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Yarger and family.
Miss Lucille Marquart returned
Saturday after spending the holidays
at Miami, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young, dau
ghter Nancy Ann and son Bobby of
Indianapolis, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Mulcahy and Bobby Pryer of Wash
ington, D. C., spent the holidays with
Mr. and Mrs. George Schlausser.
Mr. and Mrs Carl Lee and family
of Lima were New Year’s day guests
of Mr and Mrs. Jacob Lee.
Miss Ruth Jennings of Dola spent
several days with Mr. and Mrs. I. M.
Jennings.
Herbert Augsburger has resigned
his position with the Ohio Power Co.,
at Lima, and accepted work in the
Engineering department of the Kible
Glass Co., at Vineland, N. J.
Mr. and Mrs. Gail Arnold were
Monday and Tuesday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald McMillen at Lock
bourne.
Mrs. Mary Strauss of Youngstown,
is spending several days with her
daughter, Mrs. W. C. Lacock and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Johnson and
son of Lima spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Carroll,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Green, Mr.
and Mrs. Russell Hoffman, daughter
Karen Lynn Mrs. Gayle Emerick,
daughter Betty Ann of Continental
spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Green and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pugh ant1 fam
ily were Wednesday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. George Pugh at Ada.
The Young People’s class of the
Church of Christ had a watch party at
the church, New Year’s eve.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis and fam
ily of Toledo Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fish
er of Lima Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Van
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Meter and family and Mrs. Cynthia
Elliott were Wednesday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Beery and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Younkman and
family visited during the holidays
with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Montgom
ery and son at Ft. Recovery.
Miss Doris Nelson returned to 0.
S. U. where she is enrolled in the
freshman class, after spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Nelson
Mrs. Mae Bailey and daughter, Lotf
ella spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Walters and family at
Findlay.
Mrs. Nora Eckenwiler and son Joe
were Wednesday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Wilbur Potee and family at
Bluffton.
Members of the Women’s Society of
Christian Service held their monthly
meeting, Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. I. J. Amstutz.
Friends and neighbors of Ernest
Hall spent a couple of days last week
cutting and cording wood for him.
Mr. Hall has been ill for several
months. Those helping were Bert
Leatherman, Chauncy Spallinger and
son Paul, Charles Hall, Ralph Hall,
Francis Williams, Levi Everett and
son Lyle, Frank Williams, Ray Zim
merman and son Robert. Dinner was
served at noon by Mrs. Bert Leather
man, Mrs. I. J. Amstutz and Mrs.
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. James Vertner are
leaving Wednesday to spend the win
ter in Florida.
Mrs. Wm. Henderson and family of
Yoder were New Year’s day guests
of Mrs. H. E. Downing and son Rus
sell.
Richland Center
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Basinger
and daughter Doris returned home
Saturday after spending the holidays
visiting relatives in Berne, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight
Frantz and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Badertscher and son and Mr.
and Mrs. Wilmer Badertscher and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Badertscher
and son.
Mrs. Howard Maidlow and family
and Mrs. Robert Roof and daughter
Sharon Ann spent last Tuesday
afternoon at the Ernest Gratz home.
Mr. and Mrs. Walton Alderfer and
daughter of Lancaster, Pa. Mrs.
Donavin Gratz of Souderton, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stevens of
Upper Sandusky Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Rhoads and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Am
stutz were Thursday evening supper
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gratz
and family.
James Dailey spent several days
last week with Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Clouser of Findlay.
Mr. and Mrs. Milton Badertscher
and family spent Friday evening
w’ith Mr. and Mrs. Harold Badert
scher and son.
Mr. and Mrs. Willard Jennings and
daughter Dorothy and son Rodney,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hilty and grand
children Hugh and Sally Ann Hilty
of Wapakoneta Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Gratz and Mrs. Warren Moser spent
last Wednesday evening with Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Schaublin and
daughter Rachel.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gossman and
son spent Thursday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marquart, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Courtenay
and family of Lima were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. I.
Luginbuhl and sons.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Amstutz and
daughter Mary Jane and Mr. and
Mrs. Dw’ight Dailey and son Wayne
spent Friday evening at the Otto
Amstutz home.
Abe Baumgartner of Idaho Miss
Anita Garcia and Dr. Rosella Bieder
man of Jenera Mr. and Mrs. Wilford
Gratz and Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Schaublin spent Sunday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz.
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Fett and
daughters spent Friday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Zimmerman
and daughter.
Mrs. Katie Balmer of Bluffton, for
merly’ of this community’, passed
away Sunday morning. Funeral ser
vices were held Tuesday afternoon at
the Emanuel’s Reformed church.
Burial w’as in the church cemetery.
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(Continued from page 3)
his life in a garage at his home on
East Lincoln street Thursday* morn
ing.
Coroner Kenneth Preston, who re
turned a verdict of suicide, said the
body was found by members of the
man’s family at 8 a. m., approxi
mately two hours after Mr. Fisher
had died.
He left a note, Preston said, tell
ing of financial worries.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Officials To Get
Lower Pay
Because the population of Putnam
county dropped below 25,000 by four
persons in the 1940 census, salaries
of several county officials will be
lower during the next four years
than during the past 10.
This was learned from County
Auditor Carl Frick who said that he
is submitting the revised salary
schedule to the state inspection bu
reau for approval before the first
check for the officials becomes due
in January.
January Draft To
Take 34
Official notification to send 34 reg
istrants in Class 1-A to Toledo on
January 20 for physical examination
and probable induction into military
training was received last week by
the Putnam county selective service
board.
These young men will leave by’ bus
at 8:10 a. m. and report at Toledo
recruiting headquarters for the ex
aminations. This call is for “all
white” registrants. Board officials
revealed that there are no Negroes
registered in Putnam county.
Relief Costs Are Low er
It cost 25 per cent less to provide
direct poor relief to Putnam county’s
needy during the first 11 months of
1940 than during the same period in
1939.
County Relief Director Bonnie B.
Corns issued a report to this effect.
She showed that a total of $27,846.75
was spent during the 11-month
period this year as compared with
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1939.
Likewise, the case load for the
1940 period dropped 462 or about
25 per cent. The total was 1,534
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$12,458 In Sales Tax
Receipts
Putnam county, its townships and
its corporations received a total of
$12,458.39 from sales tax receipts
during 1940, according to figures on
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Of this total the county received
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566.52. The townships received $1,
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New7 Highway Pro
posal Revived
Preparation of legal papers for
the purchase of the abandoned Cin
cinnati and Lake Erie Traction Com
pany right-of-way’ through Putnam
county is under way, it was learned
this week to revive the possibility
that State Route 65 may be re
located through the county.
Hopes for the improvement which
would eliminate eight railroad grade
crossings in the county as well as
provide a modern highway for To
ledo traffic in addition to United
States Route 25 were dimmed a few
weeks ago. Officials of Columbus
Grove announced that they would not
provide land for a right-of-way
through that village, a purchase the
highway department had declared
must be made in each of four vil
lages if the relocation was to be car
ried out.
However, State Representative T.
F. McElroy a few days ago con
ferred with highway department offi
cials who revealed to him that the
state department is determined to
go through with this improvement
regardless of the Columbus Grove
opposition.
Federal Food Value
$20,000
Surplus commodity clients in Put
nam county received foodstuffs dur
ing 1940 valued at about $20,000, ac
cording to a report obtained today
from County Relief Director Bonnie
B. Corns.
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various groceries in the county and
the clients obtained them twice each
month.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, ss.
Estate of John W. Hilty. Deceased.
Elmer C. Romey, of Bluffton. Ohio, has
been appointed and qualified as administrator
of the estate of John W. Hilty, late of Al
len County, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 3rd day of January, 1941.
RAYMOND P. SMITH.
39 Probate Judge.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
The State of Ohio,
Allen County, ss.
Estate of Moees Steiner Deceased.
Fiana Steiner of Bluffton, Ohio, has been
appointed and qualified as administratrix of
the estate of Moses Stefrier, late of Allen
County. Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 4th day of January, 1941.
RAYMOND P. SMITH.
39 Probate Judge.
Check plots in average Ohio pas
tures receiving no improvement
treatments contained 45.8 per cent of
bare ground.
NOTICE TO
DOG OWNERS
Residents of Allen County
may purchase dog tags for
the year 1941 at the
Badertscher Grocery on
Vine Street in Bluffton, O.
Mak Dog $1.00
Female Dog $3.00
No Fee for Registration
Floyd B. Griffin
Auditor, Allen County
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