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MUTT AND JEFF

OICE SIR,THOMAS LIPTON WANTED

ME TO SAIL HIS YACHT BUT MY

PATRIOTISM PREVENTED MÊ

FROM SAILING ABAINST

MY OWN COUNTRY!

OH!

Page

"OH, MUTT," IF YOU'RE MY FRIEND TAKE ME ASHORE AT ONCE!

IN AN HOUR OR SO,KID!

THIS IS THE LAST TIME YOU'LL EVER RIDE WITH ME! YOU'RE FINE COMPANY! ALL YOU'VE DONE 15 MOAN!

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 24 1980

By BUD FISHER

WHAR YOU GOING WITH THEM QARS,

OHIO STRANGER?

IM GONNA

KEEP ON WALKIN INLAND UNTIL

MEET A GUY WH DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY

ARE!

Swimming Season

HUNTLEY

New Style POCKET WATCH

for

GENTLEMEN

Stainless Steel Case 15-21 Jewels, Lever Movement

Assorted Dials

From $15.

with

WATCH

· 148, Des Voeux Rd.

Show your Waterproof

Watch to Accompanied Swimmer Smart !

Don't forget

the Modern Wrist Watch for you and your misses.

COMPANY (opposite Sincere's)

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings.

SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES

Via

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

S.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

SAILS JULY 29th at 10.00 A.M. AUG. 17th at 8.00 A.M. AUG. 26th at 8.00 A.M. SEPT. 9th at 4.00 P.M. SEPT. 23rd at. 9.00 A.M. OCT. 7th at 8.00 A.M.

THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Six-Gun

Law

Within two months three banks in town under cover were relieved by located in the Red Canyon Valley others, and these in turn were reliev- were help up and robbed. In each ed by still more. Then one day a. case a man was killed. Five ranch lookout on the top floor of the hotel houses, also located in the valley were reported a band of men riding into

rancher's plundered. A

wife was the north end of town. assaulted. Two cowboys, were shot The riders came leisurely, looking down in cold blood.

like cowboys in for a spree. They' The bandits each time escaped into stopped in front of the bank.

Four the hils, leaving no traces behind them, dismounted and headed for the door. no clue as to the location of their Others sat their horses, appearing in- hideout! Posse after posse, led. by different, looking around. Still others Sheriff Will Austin, combed the hills, were across the street, waiting, squat- but combed in vain. The outlaws had ting in the shade, saddled horses vanished, covering their trail com- handy. pletely.

A shot rang out. It came from At length Ray Halifax, wealthiest Ed Jergen's store across the rancher in the valley, called a meet- One of the four on the bank steps ing of all the cattlemen and bankers screamed, flung up his hands and located in the valley. This was the pitched headlong. The others whirled, day of vigilantes, a day when men guns out, alarm on their faces, nar- resorted to emergency measures and rowed eyes searching for a target. took the law into their own hands But the street was empty. Empty when necessary. Ray Halifax want of movement, but suddenly filled with ed a vigilante committee formed now. sound.

way.

Sheriff Will hooked his thumbs in From windows, from doorways from his belt and rolled his cigar between rooftops guns blazed, six-guns crack- his lips. He was a hard man, patient, ed. The bandits raced toward their relentless in the performance of his horses, guns belching lead, but hit- duty.

ting nothing. The bandits, who had "I ain't objecting none, Bay. I been on guard shouted warnings, fir- admit I ain't been so successful, but I ed aimlessly, deserted their comrades don't see how a vigilante committee is and headed out of town. They were going to do. any better than my posses, met at the north end by fusillade of

By Vic Yardman

We're pretty nigh certain that Wild- shots. They turned, charged back, horse Sharon and his gang are com ran the gamut of blazing guns and mitting all these depredations, but hot lead, that don't get us no closer to locat ing him."

"If we make it a business it will We'll stick on their trail till we run 'em! down!”

The sheriff shook his head. "Take weeks. Whilst we're up in the hills like as not Wildhorse will strike at our unprotected ranches. Nope,. We gotta think of a better plan."

The scream of wounded men mingl-. ed with the tortured cry of horses, the cries of both being drowned by the firing. Dust rose from the street, mingling with the blue of gun smoke. Dead 'men, Men lay in the dust. Wounded men. None of those ban- dits who had dismounted remained alive. Of those who were still ahorse only five remained. These five, terror- stricken, raced for the south end of Young Avery: Ober, who had been town. It was like racing into hell. back East to study at a school there Bullets screamed at them, intercept- and had returned to help his father ed their progress. Two, men on the ranch, hitched up his belt down. Another was, dismounted. The and stopped forward. "I know you remaining pair whirled their horses, men don't lay much store by a college in their maddened fright for mercy. education. You can't see how it helps looked wildly about, then screamed to raise cattle. OK, I won't argue They dropped their guns and lifted that. But there's something else I their hands. They admitted defeat. learned. Something about human na But the, hot lend still poured from ture. A man like Wildhorse is by windows and doors and rooftops. Re- himself. It would be easy to fetch live. now pretty conceited, pretty sure of venge. No bandit would be allowed to Not the men who had killed him to us, rathr than us going to him." unmercifully, assaulted women

and The men waited, skeptical but hope tortured prisoners to make them reveal SEPT. lst at 12.00 Noomful. Avery continued: "Suppose a the hiding places of loot.

AND FORTNIGHTLY THEREAFTER NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ

8.S. "PRESIDENT MONROE” ́S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS”

SAILS JULY 26th at 12.00 Noon AUG. 5th at 12.00 Noon"

AND FORTNIGHTLY, THEREAFTER MANILA

8.S. "PRESIDENT: ADAMS” S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT" 8.8. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND" S.S. "PRESIDENT HARRISON”

·SAILS AUG. 5th at 12,00 Noon

AUG. 5th at 2.00 AM AUG. 19th at 2.00 AIME

** AMERICAN ✰✰

PRESIDENT LINES

12 PEDDER ST.

ROUND-WORLD SERVICE.”

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ramour got around that all us ran- This was the West. The old West. chers were scared of Wildhorse and Men took the law into their own hands. brought our money into the Sadler This was law. The law of the six- Savings bank and left it there for gun.

safe keeping, because that bank was When the firing finally ceased there strong and hadn't been the object of was not one of the outlaws left to a rald. Wildhorse hears the story tell the tale.. Only the men who had and his mouth begins to water and been appointed to wipe out the bad he plans a final raid, with the idea men and had done their duty, of clearing out of the country there (Released By The Association

Newspapers).

after.

"He stages the raid and we're wait- ing for him. Two men from every ranch, and the townspeople. Ready. and waiting no matter how long it takes."

It made sense. It smacked of logic. It was a good chance. It was the only chance. So the next day 巍 cowboy from the Swinging W got drunk? the Twin Door saloon and

remark to a, Mexico told some friends

sch-new

money

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

Hidney

The mer

remain