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Kiln Dried Spruce - Idaho White Pine Fir and Cedar - Poles and Posts P.O. BOX 450 a bend in the trail, then hastily tying the newly-acquired horse to a small tree, he rushed into the station and started to call up the Quesnel office in the morse code. A Wire to Quesnel He was in such a state of nerves that he failed to note the line was already busy, but this made no dif- ference to his shattered nerves, he simply kept calling until the Quesnel operator answered him, then he trans- mitted the following sentence: “The murderer of the Seattle policeman, whose description was sent over the wire three weeks ago has just passed by here heading for Quesnel, where he should reach tomorrow night. He has a steel right hand covered with a glove, is armed with a heavy Luger pistol, better advise police at once. He is riding a sorrel horse branded on the right shoulder, and carries one small roll of blankets and one gunny sack tied on the back of his saddle.” The operator okayed the message, and other business was resumed on the busy wire. Smith, however, still very scared, - stuck close to his office, but not before taking the precaution to stand his loaded 30.30 alongside of him. Not long after, the Quesnel operator called him up and stated that he had notified the local police, and that they had made a request that Smith refrain from passing any further remarks over the wire about this man at all. The man in the meanwhile con- tinued south, and where the trail was good he prodded his mount into a cantor. Actually he passed the Rass- mussen ranch which lay back off the trail, and made camp that night be- side a small creek two miles further south. Apparently he met nobody on the trail. About 11 a.m. the next morning, the operator at Blackwater was cast- ing for trout when he saw a lone horse- man riding towards the bridge. The operator immediately ceased fishing [ee BURNS LUMBER CO. “EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER” Industrial Paints; H, R. MILLAN, Plywood, Sylvaply, Monodor. Phone 1180-81 NELSON, B.C. Mc- NELSON, B.C. for the moment and climbed y steep rocky bank and walked 9 the bridge, where he could inter, the man, so that he could Pass time of day with him. Horse and man came toward | slowly, and when the man ¢ abreast of him, the man eased } self in the saddle and pulled horse up. Then carefully lookin operator over he asked him how it was to Quesnel, and seemed - prised it was 44 miles and quite a. and a half ride to where the { operated. The man now seemed jn hurry, in fact his arrival at Bl: water did not show any anxiety break trail records. He dismouni and stretched himself, saying that was quite saddle sore. ‘‘Is this a g stream for fish,” he said, “I could with a mess of trout, am fed up 1 my trail fare as I have seen no sj of game all the way down.” “Oh yes,” replied the operator, “ Blackwater River is notorious rainbow trout; here take these t I have more than I need and , easily catch some more.” The n eagerly accepted the trout and star to open up the gunny bag to ] them in. The operator, who was of an 1 suspicious nature, and in any evi had not overheard the conversati between the operators at Bobtail L; and Quesnel, now noted the sa Luger pistol attached to the ma belt. Firearms interested him a without hesitation he asked the m if he could take a look at it. T man gave him a searching look, th calmly handed him the gun. T operator after hefting the gun fot while and pointing it upstere handed it back to the man, exclai ING ees doh atesiseea finely balanc weapon, one does not see many them on the trail, in fact that is t first one I have seen in this distric The man took the weapon in his le hand and returned it to the holst and said nothing. Soon the man le and as he had a two-mile hill to clin he walked his horse. The operator now went on with h fishing, and having caught anoth good sized trout, he closed up h Bristol steel rod and returned to h station. That night the man camped ju: south of Swan Lake, where an Au trian had a small ranch and als PEEBLES MOTORS LTD. CHRYSLER - PLYMOUTH - FARGO DUNLOP TIRES WRECKER SERVICE Phone 1090 Nelson, B.C. THE SHOULDER STRAP