Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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: )) THE ACORN iS S. Editor Gertrude Brown Manan Ioditor sr ee Neill Wilson Stories Helen Cornelius Girls’ Reporter ......+Marion Troy Boys’ Reporter Debating Baseball Notes Spencer Brush Track Notes Tim Perkins Tennis . Heath Angelo Girls’ tic Ruthven Sackett Alumni Dolores sr Exchanges FOSMEB SAS tee. Senevieve Pattiani, Kenneth Rogers Art Staff: John Coyle, Edwin Murray, Charles Gibbs, Horace Wooley, Alan Beringer Business Manager Homer Spence Editor’s Address, 1429 Benton Entered as second class matter at the post office at Alameda, California

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Vol. 14 ALAMEDA HIGH SCHOOL FREEDOM, OR--? ; FFF There had been a game of cards, an accusation, a quarrel, a threat and angry words; there had been a flash of steel, a shot, another, and one of the men had fallen over in the dust, never to rise again. It was in a little mining town in the mountains, and before the crowd of rough miners realized what it all meant it was too late. Then they had seen the survivor mount the fleetest broncho in the village and ride away into the night and the darkness swifter than a meteor across the black sky ; and when he was already miles away someone had raised the head of the man who lay in the dust, and the Sheriff came hurrying to the scene of the battle. No one seemed to blame the slayer, not even the Sheriff himself, for the manner of the man who had been slain was known to all. Still, the duty to the law was to bring the offender to justice—at least, to bring him to trial and to a short term of imprisonment for his act. So, after a little delay, the Sheriff and his men scoured the neighboring mountains and plains, and offers of reward for the safe deliverance of the guilty man were posted. The Sheriff was looking out for re-election. 3ut the weeks passed by with no trace of the one who had fired the shot, and the affair was almost forgotten. Yet they missed the fugitive, for, despite his fiery temper and his untamed passions, he had been a general favorite in camp. The weeks lengthened into months. ee a At the time of the shooting there had been a man in town who was trying to uplift the rough miners about him. He was a mis- sioner, and preached night after night to all who would listen. Although sincere in his aim to lead the world nearer to the King- dom of Heaven, and never swerving from his path of duty, he did not appeal to the men, nor had he been able to win them over to his beliefs and standards of morality as a more sympathetic nature might have done. He was a man of the keenest perception, and could peer into the very soul—and not always with kindness and