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Tiv Tribune
THE TAFT TRIBUNK, MAY M. ^
tiger eye
* By B. M. BOWER- “
'wild iwt It Mr rude
untemkcd th* if*-*'
The kid *m gUnKum **«'> *1
.„*i uwu w uir
jsrjirrs^Hs
\?LZ7mm ■- “Id
Of told .mpH"* *» tfir HU" 11 .r .
. funny kind of lump m h u,
no. with »n that hnif '**
I Uki *n »n*r in » gingham
kind#
The sharp. venomou* crack of » 111'
1 k UI) on the ridge brtund the hou r
i struck ***' t*W** ,hou*h!s
And then
Buttons On Sleeves
V I n's officer* «*f«‘ hr»»r ac tio*** *«•»'*.
Napoleon > , (l„ Ui f.huf l»r nu*4\
Hul tilth "'«d " t>' ttm. ,hl.n ,iuh(K - *f»l
K“,5k xs rr-w.-,
1—— ,».To^—».«»» z\TSEsrr r..:“,r ::T.
„ ‘ZZ 'ZUTZ -*:«*zzxx. r r»™, - ■«> ™
—MJU., Turr eye by hU friend', down *** . oornam and wunc Je*. had »»o:n «unj> out ,ti ■
tm the Bret-* country be«*u*e hi* He shoot* Oorhem the foreman here remarked '“n,jL '
m yellow When hi*- ihi> r*r» for couphn« hi* name trp to the two .smeared *v' j ^jv. then he heard the puri .i.-
(Star Stiller Itowrte." dtod the kid ^^whe^ers m tdow Liter he iWM on the ground The l“d * ,h,i Lhrelk of a »««•» Th k'd k,'r'*.
toft TkW to avoid continuing hie , and h,r father from ,tr*t«ht I »** r<""in* '’ ne it- u *oun«l bitterly »ill and a h
S1«VW im-hin, Montana hr • j* Pete ««» The „,ble and 1 *.* Uw «**•'M ^ up h* .pine With one
^fpr«MlbB draw on NaU Wheeler. ' *Xr belie! that the Young Reeves an'«;»»*' >*' of his spurs he l«m^ J.
“ —■— j* the eschanc# of J*” ,w toiler aanis last as he says Jess raided his ..an lrom behind 'he stack j
lf^f wheeler drop* de^. the kid “ ’ *” |||rn wiu km him Thr and Rev re her.- whdred and shot ' ■ thundering up the road No <;
VaMe IincUlhat BoTo.mer who bad h® he neetere art mUst have drawed his eon but ^ . tablet now from that +
HUT ItoT r«"time, really .^T.J^e outfit He never saw him do " »e sure *.....— ' -> ♦
THE HUB
( leaning eorf Preaain*
PI*«»M
Strn's I unu.lunat
,.+++++++++++++;•+•:•+ H-++'1-++++'
wait, alien « wo- !■'.
man raise* 'hr d»*th acream
NOTICE
Wal«r Well Drilling
Artesian or Punp
Weils
guild Towers ahd Rep*'1
Mills
E. T. ELLWOOD
Pkene 871
SINTON - TEXAS
his run
srr “EK^rs.H: “r." h^“~ ri......... t
•“« »* *• o* - «i
NOW oo ON WITH THE 8TU«Y UughN, ,t -hat and Walter B'-Elcom,, and h,)p grt hm in -theyv» |
The kid tilled hta head in response turT1ed on Je* I lulled him--Oh. hi s dead - +
to a nod or two. and took his place You brought it on yuuraell. he, Too %Y1J the kid kne* «hat U«ic
at one side of the froup—the right Rrow)pt, come on up to the house
side, which left hi* gun arm fr* arHl ji; f|X you till you can get
and gave him a clear path to his hwse g doct3r Ree ve*, 1 11 see vou at the
Babe left him. gout* to the house. h0u*e after dinner. ..... - .ron, t
where ne knocked on the door yes sub.” hi*. He stepped Umberly down from j
Babe was a long time in the house Vou don,. right Tiger E>e." said ^ .saddu. atM| ran and km-1. on one j.
•pcared like he must have a right Btbf. as the two lingered outside knee beside the wailing «orn“ • •
litany Hls lipr pressed their sof. a.
cur * into u thin line. Hi* twinkling J
blue eye hall closed to let the t ue: i
look through that yellow right, eye of *
dlmg to her bre*-*t the lolling old j
head of her man .j.
Ma'am lake away voh arms, till I *
•It him Inside " }
She looked up at him blankly, hei v
CVr 'oo lull of tragedy to sec aught J
else i
Then Nelllr cam< running lrom .*
somewhere up long tta- base ol th- nil %
•Vou! Whftfve you done’ Whatd
you do it lor? Ma- -oil. Mother, don’t ;.
Pity * ,.T at the kid. !v-art as h-
looked at the two oi them cowering ...
together, but his voice was gently in- |
.......................
< > . _ _ .,
HAULING
Day or Night
Uul and Um* DtoUnee
AW Car; see Injured ap tu
«5d* a Load
Mjart^to^say to the Old Man The "Shoah tried to. Babe"
kid's feet grew thwd. standing there ,r thotp.ht Jess acud klnda funny
leaning against the fence, but he. w^fn wr w#i over there a! the round
couldn't afford to sit down. ! up. He asked me who 1 had with me j tote him inside
i ; -mother man rode up. some foreman j gn(1 j 4 young feller from down
r or other. He told iNm to feed their, W1 thp Bri4W He wanted your name
f horses and stay for dinner, and the gn<( j gaVr it to him He nesrr
group stirred and went off to attend Mtd anything. but I suspieioned he
to their mount*. The kid loosened knowpd yuh or had heard of yuh. Jus.
the saddle on Pecos and Babe's horse by hls loolu> B.„ you never let on
slipped off their bridles and turned vou gnowed him. so I let it P8*s
them into the corral. Babe gave the kid that sharp. *;d.'-
Babc'ft voice calling ..u *orac oa.c- i^,, 0f his
v less remark to the loreman came to Tfu, fe|d drp, a ;ong. relieved
;; him at last, and over at the log house brea,h and ;oog(Ki at Babe with 'he
•• beyond the cottonwood some oa was oW lai.h shining in his eye.*. .
;; pounding on a tin pan to say dinner wt ,hc jol) whcn the ,w(*|ri*.nCompf inotll , ‘obediently the oil
I £ ^'£rr.?^!r»rr crt t c
l door when the k,d came up. Bab,'emiv ^ ^
tied his basin with a .lmg of ^oai» on hls aav to the stabi<
watftr JNo the bushes at th< end of
Plenty of Good
- - SERVICE - -
We know you are coming,
But, pray tell u» when?
It acts busineaa humming,
If juftt now and then.
sis tent.
If yo’all would gel hei away
Taft Service Siati»>n
"Ol I K l Ai. (.KKMIOl Nl» HUS SI ATION"
Matt Burford, Prop.
•• . , th» foreman, icowlod uno turn(*d
CALL PHONE 14* COLLECT ;; thp house, gave the basin to th- kid . w.,'k,n<. wide
•• and went inside but stopped Just in* £ * ,lil!K|s W(.„. panda-
slde th, door and -stared back over * * J' ^
■ hi* should,- at the kid as if he were ««> ** ^ [nJ ^ kid,s Up.
ss paHNfd Kil-
h* never w^uld kill H^aln
G. W. PULLIN
Truck Line
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expecting onr thing
DR- F. C. STAMM"
OPTOMETRIST
Ryes Examined Glasses fitted
AT THE STAMMS
51* Chapparal street
Oldest Jeweler* in Corpus (. hristi
I M ther
I yes—ye- I i) :i, «,iread u;> the ’’"d
With the ..rn;>. l>oin Jd nun
1141,1- a deadweight :ii hi.- youm irm-
I the k:d went into Uv h-i.<- I ■l!:'
I old inippv :iad tv-n -n't ;|i
j when he walked nu* :n '• J‘ ,4'
• KiU«i work l):v u.iJuhfd thev -
lied ■! up hwe K:
la rock with a rill
cam, aiont Then pud •••■•
i time or two. look to see it '1"' •>u‘-
C A G E
and
EASTERWOOD
Fire Insurance, for
Town and Country.
CHIROPRACTOR
Dr. Irving M. Dietz
The eMeat eetaMMied chireprac
tor in S««tk Texax. STATE HO-
TEL MTLDING. opposite po*t-
•Mee.
Phone JII
Corpus Christi Texas
i tied '.mev.ii-i• ■
the bi’she-
CilNTIM I l> M ' I " * > *'
uivu
warnin
Damn
smak
Eat,
Lives on
Soun
think Jess
'•-is that
k • •
A Iraki '•! ■
■ t >mauli .*> r
L vt; 'U'
(VVl'l
kill'-i
had iii *
h.in<is
soup for fivr*
month T ■**)
, T ' " 1
this
u- mid b-
« a riafh?
jieaur -
Adlrrika an<i
now I va'
*l!- *■
Babe
?)iinu without
a a > M:
Conner
Adlerika it la-. -I'.ma-li - -
TEN minute*! Act* fl‘)! if Ui'P*:
and lower iwwei remm ’tits old IX''-
sonous waste you nevr kn--
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KIKTtjv-fill.BEKl lit: • f
I Afl and <‘IH '>
.rout
DR. SPIVEY
Osteopathy — Lights
Chiropractic
Hours: 10 to 12 a. iTi.-—-2 t© 0 P* m
20 tears Practice
1009 Chaparral St,.. » mrpiis t hrlsli
GREGORY LODGE
No. »98
meets the first and third
Tuesday nights in each
month at K P m. Visiting
Bretfeern cordially invited
E. E. Koskinson, W. M.
A. H. Barnett. Secretary.
ORDER OF THE EASTERN
STAR
Begwhu' sneetin* nights Sra and
third Thursdays of each monih.
YiaHtag Stefs always welcome.
GENEVA f» TCTT.
. W, M.
1 U)U T HARRIES.
Saeretawy
and he iooke<i sick The kid
The kid dipped water from -he big « lUUr a'S "
- bucket standing t^re-vently let the 011 ,ma...hed knuckle* go,
splash would drown some little sound ' °‘ ' s :i, stirks j..s*
he ought to hear, some little sound ‘
Babe wa* listening for. there inside would lose some of h.s -n.e,..
u,t J' 1 kid reckoned hopefully
tfc‘‘ <l0"r . ,. ttu, -You done right. Kid. Babe flicked
somebody coming across tt* Mid. ,huml)nail acrass a match h-ad
walking kind;, slow and carefu. Hun- . (h( ^ th,
-r, men don. wak ,n two pICCfs before hr dropped
,heir dinner fhe Kid took out hi. • Heel got vou and
little black iwx-ke' comb unfolded it - al •
and loaned to the wavy mirror in its j
cheap frame He looked within and didn (
with his left hand h drew the comb man
through his thick, wavy locks that iust If
missed being red. Babe was still stand- brok,
ne iust inside the door, still looking laild
- - - ***' ^f^kr
irtg for something else loo. ,
But even though Babe -stood there he .-aid .siioit.v
, h, . „ kld "Shucks' Yo'all amt a killer Babe »«».* ......
I LJ *' “ ' " ‘ Man's got a right to defend himsell, oon't fool with medicine whir.i ■ 1*
.whirled and tired . T1ln(.t Pan a!wav.s ,,,i. „»»t „• Ih.w,-: o'!
| The kid ducked past the window I .ecKon
and then backed slowly, keeping sald Yc............ . ••*« •*"*' .............
close to the wall. Hls yellow eye had lessen he come at von with his gun cleaning and gf n<! .
. •..«♦ ' out KIRTI.HV-(iII/BhK I
the cold .stare of a ug<'r. as he wat-
ched the men rushing out to see what "Short not Babe shot a seen glan-
! had happened. Twenty l'eet away, ce at the kid "Come on and talk
a man steadied himself and reached to the Old Man Jus. red tapr bu
backward with his left hand, and th- you oughta meet him He told m<
i kid fired again. The man dropped he'd put yuh on and let yuh nde
I the second gun and stood there, hold- rim with me.
ing two bloody fist* before him. stor-
................. .................. and. T:
. .. , ,^Rd^: ,nd not m the coulee but tucked down be- j both delivered ' '
Uhevlialted on the broad step' ‘ h‘"d a low ridge, where the lone | week for an ’•
, n, kill you for this. Tiger Eye streak ol cottonwoods showed there ------
Reeves'" raved the man with the was a creek -the kid would like to
i . know the name of fhe foJcs that uv-;
' "You kain't" the kid replied in his «d there But he couldn't a/dc. or
melodious draw! 'You nevah will Bate- might kinda suspicion it was the
muodious . j “ , atol Nellie that the Sc d wanted to
i shooot no more, j-ss Market ’,A|- : '
"Pc’- Gawd- sake. Tiger Eye- rri.'d know about
Babe from the stop 'What a it ail The kid focused his -told glasses on
about" You said vou didn't know Jess, the ridge but n- couldn t •*« any
-t nevah did s;iv I dons know J-ss a " :"‘nnlna 8 on";
Market I said mot. easy dr-P Th" ranch was over bemud ,
their Texas names awn »he *r- i ■"»>«' ^onwoDds,
up here. I nevah die say I don: T*it. Old pappy wasnt leeimg good
know that !obo." oih-: day hke n< ,
■Or hn boys'" r.ved Jew*. i.V i- ride down 'her- ami — how -h> ■>•<! \
in* out' h'..- ‘-.'.'I '-.wtered h-e f<'»r 'c”!“ akm:"
••Thru'* Kill- ■' R voung.'-’ -•' ■ Ww‘Wn‘! but a 10 ndt
and tiie wo." ui -!■ Ikmk a‘ld " ” :a '.
be done to me!" 1filn« ^ .'K'w nte<J K' v
-j never do bus* drwjs * han't !e>- tb,n* -hoi. n
a "'• :iv kl<! vZwU‘V^^S'^.ii| baby has
^Wb.t v«h pull a gun or. turn tor ' Poole rider !«to a -oi'M- Babe had ; * * D 0 D 7
jes?" rhe loreman walked scowling* toW i5im w ,!a“ ai'rov- "hlr ^nch.’"'
toward the wounded man Th, kid th* rim and -com around :hen- tor .
ts dead right vou hud vour guns 8»v * brarubug fue> or «U-
held within •• >rral* hidden m the,
out when he -hot. )hJcko.s a CRY m the Bight Caiit! No aa
, S,* ‘“/'iv'" ......... ".. r ,T ............... rv A <^^552*;a
I don* never shoot a ran m the konif; o,i .ik, this on - -T- “• k romfort. and ran ma.toa
bark ,lk, w. tried do." rhe kid hi*, but h didn' tee! sway.....own k ti... ^ble tfuug wtea tSuMrai i
‘ or mean enough to turu back irom. Mfmg WheUtar H*a Hm ■■
'"i"d co <J> .. -he outs- of Nellies home and Nelf'es! the irttle toiwHa: «
Waiter ru*ns4Mi came 4 ____(«««
Them were ihiri«:» the ki-ci would
Jital from” them to the kid. . to ask Babe about the valley
"Yo'all stop wheah yoah at." the That ranch out a wayv from the rim,
The man who 'v-ir.'i-" :: 1,1
' straight and uarrov. pu'h. *lv>',tUi r* •
mrmb-i the fate of the haiian.,. Fto'
i time it drop: frotr, th>. bunch ;-
■ due loi .1 ginning
EDUCED
RATES OW
TIRE MILEAGE
0o,yoo <kivo 20,50.40tHcinand
rpRov a year? You qot a
duced rafo" p«K by uv.ng
Dooblo 6aql«—Wt tint 4tm
woeW*»I«tq«I rafcber comply
cm WW- L•*•>♦<* o»*»'
rmivry 5
Prrc*s
Liber©! Id
T A F T <> A HA (. K
TAFT - - TEXAS
Phone 65
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KAZMEIER
BABY CHICKS
c o
Dn R. O. BEST
Denise*
Nis»n RaiWisg
Office Khan? 2338
MtwMtatR Ffeiuse |*Ui‘?-W
CORPUS CHRISTS. TEXAS
s*215'..........£ £
"YMVriopW him tea ufe Know ’*»** « :he vailev But the f-dgel 4-d , morr Am* m (Mm
was fnendiy *nc hu .d.d :rom j* :,h»»yw nrtter !m yrnwag s*
Z, M,h Thai wlte, ! aimed to *** the s',nth. and 'he brushy atoMM ****** m«*M <*#f *« j
und?rgrrnWft ttw* cr«*fc ii&vcf ' -im-
^"D'd eh" YouT. have to show a protection there He -ate enonah j
damn good rwvm for that young to „iw h.« f«M attention to -he ranch J
he was. approaching
“v« suh 1 was combine my hair Thi, waa whore NelBe lived. Y« j
uaa i -aw sbping up, «wn to *r. lived eight ^ T**® * i
M * in the Boom like a . P»«*- The kid's heart thumped so he j
White Leghorn - Barred Rocks
and S. C. R I. Reds - from trap-
nested bloodtested and pedigree
bred hens. Every nest, on my
farm is a trapnest. The Ira priest
is the only sure way of breeding
for high flock average egg-pro-
duction. Write:
F. W. KAZMEIER
BRYAN TEXAS
ifr'crrMett? FwlU» liaikfaaadiiaaakM, ! ^ A M
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Clark, W. S. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1931, newspaper, May 14, 1931; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth711252/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Taft Public Library.