University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1896-1907 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 8-9-1911 Las Vegas Optic, 08-09-1911 The Optic Publishing Co. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lvdo_news Recommended Citation The Optic Publishing Co.. "Las Vegas Optic, 08-09-1911." (1911). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lvdo_news/3042 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1896-1907 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LAS VEGAS DAILY OPTIC. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 191 x. and" to plt, into which one. limp arm dangled. wounds." He bent over began What time the shadow of the sail and rock the flywheel. WELLESLEY GIR L boom did not blot It out in Slowly the warming spirit worked a swinging a Inky blackness, the moonlight struck change in Blackstock, lending him 71 TT of cold and hard upon the evil, grinning fictitious and evanescent sense was his face. strength. He straightened up against lNoivians 1 11 mask of death that SPURNS SOCIETY WOMEN'S of Swaying drunkenly, Blackstock oc- the back of the seat, a faint touch with a cupied the wheel-box- , his fat white color dyeing his cheeks, and Land hands loose of grasp upon the spokes peculiar half-smil- e watched the little and moYed by rather than controlling man at work. FOR RANCH A His head sagged low upon his "What's the use he asked abrupt- RIDING ROMANCE it f here- chest swinging heavily from side to ly In a voice more clear than By Louis Joseph Vance side as the catboat rolled. tofore. MISS ELEANOR use what?" asked HALL, WITH TWO He, at least, could not be dead, as "What's the of Ap- looking up. BROTHERS, RUNS BIG PLACE SKIRTS Chang unquestionably was a fact Appleyard sharply, "Of with me to presently verified by the most troubling trying IN TEXAS pleyard save life?" brief of inquests, discovering in tha my We have just received a new line of Women's Riding Skirts made from green or tan corduroy and Chinaman's Baked torso no less than "Oh . With a sudden cough Enitrations by Ray Walters the motor to hum; Appleyard Kansas 9. Miss Eleanor cloth in best and most size desire. three bullet wounds, all indicating the began City, Aug. khaki the approved model, any you may ( of a vital spot sat down on the edge of the hatch Hall, daughter or Nathan Hall, after perforation folded his hands before him low to escape tbe banging coaming, whom the Hall building in this city Stooping and continued the wounded of the boom. Coast over th to eye was not a stepped man. he said with an named, only can ride horse YNOPSIS. and went to Black-stoc- "I don't know," $4.50 to $7.50 Each Chinaman's body "I know, better and further than most women, He had some trouble overcom- air of open confession, don't sure. so far as I'm con- but she can raise a Texas mule and CHAPTER his repugnance to the I'm Business, I. Garrett Coast, a young ing physical with khen find a market kuslness man of New Tork City, meets but resolutely forced himself to cerned; commonplace humanity for him. an Black-stor- k, task, non- acquaintance named Douglas a shoulder with Coast, I presume; all that sort of When the "Hall children," Eleanor, who Invites him to a card party touch the man, seizing want to be with some friends. He accepts the Invi- one while with the other he sense. Why? Don't you Roland and Nathan, took of he dislikes hand, T" charge tation, although Blackstock, his head and his face heliied saved their the reason being that both are In love lifted exposed shook his father's ranch near Richland with Katherlne Thaxter. Coast attempts to the It shone a ghastly white, Soberly Blackstock heavy NEW MEXICO'S ROSENWALD to convince her Blackstock Is not light "What's Springs, Tex., three years ago, all the that but the Jaws were set and in their head. "No," he said evenly. worthy of her friendship but does not the use? I'm at the end of my tether, neighbors made disparaging remarks. ucceed. sockets the prominent eyes moved and ' as far as getting any of the savor out By sticking tothe helm and LEADING BLOCK Black-stoc- lifted to Coast's face, with a dim, pale keeping CHAPTER II. At the party with k, of life's concerned. Can't see ner weatner Coast meets two friends named glimmer of recognition. But it was eye on the market shal- pundas and Van Tyne. The play runs his tre- the profit of clinging to what's going lows, Miss Eleanor has ranch nigh, there la a quarrel, weapons are evident at a glance that only kept the STORE PLAZA drawn and Blackstock shoots Van Tyne mendous vitality and force of will sus- afloat and made it pay. ESTABLISHED 166Z dead. He them makes a movement as If blood soaked bo- to commit suicide. Coast to tained the man; the Many people with business acumen struggles shirt told too wrest the weapon from him, and thus som of his flannel plain- enough for the and no the police discover them. Blackstock and the tale of a terrible drain upon his city, more, say Pundas accuse Coast of killing Van Tyne ly ranch" consist of a and and he Is arrested for murder. strength. range few fences, and all you have got to Gatun has the reputation, the one CHAPTER m. Coast Is convicted. Just "Appleyard" s do to as he begins his sentence, however. "No; this one's first he's done for run one successfully is to keep across Richland Greek is the real prac- confesses to his perjury, names Black-stoc- k completely," Interrupted the little man out tie rustlers while the cattle or tical water barrier of the two con- as the real murderer' and then kills to himself. Coast becomes free, but Blank-atnr- k with prompt decision; "we've got horses multiply. The rancher's life. tinents. has married Katherlne Thazter and him out of the way before we can Machinery Headquarters. fled. get they say, is a one, whose Miss Hall Is twenty-si- x move. T'other can wait." lazy only years old, aim Is to ride about under a Stetson and less than WO CHAPTER rV. Coast purchases a "But he'll die" probably weighs ?'acht named the Echo. His mind Is "I'm satisfied. Here, lend me hat during the week, and shoot up a Her face, when the interview- over the marriage of the woman pounds. be loves. lift at this, won't you?" saloon or two Saturday night. er met her, bore the tan of the prairies. ' diffi- CHAPTER V. While sailing his yacht. Together with considerable "More people fail at ranching than "The Texas winds did that," she Coast sees a man forced over the rail nf the culty, they managed to raise fail In the clothing business," Miss said. "Some of the think I a boat at a distance. Coast rescues him to a side seat and then girls ougnt Grain Binders, Deere Plows, and finds the refugee to be a fellow body of Chang Hall says. "There is no use trvine to home to hand around named Appleyard, who pretends he was over the rail. A sullen splash and a bring enough Farm on the boat and was thrown you haven't a -- I Howing Machines, Wagons,. a stowaway shower of spray, molten sliver In the backbone, a business among my friends, but tell them I overboard. sense, and a sense moonlight, were all his funeral rite. of humor. Take have all I can carry." Hay Rakes, Spring Wagons, CHAPTER VI. Appleyard Indues mule, for instance: Coast to let him run his craft, and they Everybody thinks Miss Hall tells you she lives six Bean Threshers, Buggies, arrive at a lonely Island, which Appleyard "And now for the quick," said Ap- mule colt is as hardy as a weed and teen miles from a railroad town, and tells Coast Is an unhahltcd spot known the word." Grain as No Man's Land. Next mornfnfr Const pleyard; "and quick's ill grow up without any attention. intends to stay there ABd Threshers, Binder Twine, tL-- - Indefinitely, finds his and the ttfnder of as- Blackstock E-M- helper But they approached Try raising them once and see for own Bean -F yacht missing. some unsus- lets you draw your conclusions Harvesters, Autos. the man, drawing upon yourself. Mules are- valuable to aficr-war- d be as whether or not she is naturally CHAPTER VII. Tr.o teiidcr Is pected reserve of nervous force, de cause found on the shovo by Const and they are hard to raise." Inclined to the wilderness. to exnlos-- the dcsnlntn liberately if with torturing effort. "Too He 8ald he starts out Late," In June, 1909, Miss Hall eradimrorl island. He comes some deserted nulled himself together, lifted a leg That's All. "G'd-Nlfl- . " At the ranch she is boss of four buildings, and discovr i man dead. He off the box from Wellesley been executed with a over the wheel and slipped college. During her ranch hands, takes care of the house, has bowstring.