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fsERIAir? L STORY J We Chronicles Sf Addington Peace By B. Fletcher Robinaon Co-Author with A. Coaan Doyle oi The Hoaod ofthe BarviUea," Ma, THE TRAGEDY OF THOMAS HEARNE Doei not that sad underworld ot crime In which you move sometime drive you Into a cynical disbelief In all mankind?" I suggested. It was a bitter night, and the In apctor and I were blowing our to bacco from seats confronting before a roaring fire. The wind rattling at the hasp of the window added the luxury of a reminder that It must be ex tremely unpleasant In the sleet-ewept streets outside. "Not how bad men are: tt ! how good they are that Is surprising." quoted Peace, with a nod of hie head. We sat in silence for a while before be spoke again. "I bare let a breaker of the law go free in my time perhaps more than once," he continued. "The law cannot take cognisance ot all the tricks that Fate plays on man." I smelt a tale, and remained silent Peace laughed. "You think you have driven me Into story-telling?" he .aid. "I am at your mercy; but I hope so." I told him. He leant forward, tapping the ashes from his pipe against the brass of the fender. Then he began . "About a year ago I received a message from Guy's hospital that there was a patient lying very 111 who wished to see me. I recognised him the moment I set foot In the ward a gentleman born and bred who had slipped down the ladder from running his own horses to dodging the police as a bookmaker's tout He was a half-and-half man too lazily clever to be quite honest, and too honest to be quite a criminal. Poor Jack Hender son! A good man gone wrong let that be his epitaph when It comes to setting up his headstone. "'Well, Henderson,' I said, "what's the trouble?' " Tm done. Peace,' he whispered. They've no more use tor me this side of the black river; but I wanted to see you before I answered the call.' -'You mustn't talk like that,' 1 said, though be was looking pretty bad. They'll put you on your legs again in a month. You can bet on that, my lad.' " "It don't matter much either way be smiled. In a quiet way he bad 'so let us get to business. You had your share of trouble, I understand. In the matter of Julius Craig last spring.' "I nodded. "1 wns in that Job.' be said; 'and after what happened I should like to tell you the truth about it I may have been a pretty bad lot In my time. In spector; but 1 had my limits, and murder was one of them.' "I won't try to give you his exact words; for the poor fellow spoke very slowly, with big pauses in between. But this is close upon the story as he told It to me. I expect you know the Blue Shield In Percher street Take them one with another, the customers are about the worst crowd In all London. One Saturday night, towards the end ot March last year I had Joined the gang there, hoping to meet some friend with the price of a drink upon him, for I was broke to the wide, wide world. Bill Redman, who was after wards lagged for bank note forgeries In Manchester, bad Just ordered me a whisky, and I was sitting on a stool watching the barman reach down the special Scotch, when in walked a moon-faced fellow, very fat and pros perous, with a dark blue overcoat and a diamond In his necktie. He looked about him, screwing up his eyes as a near-sighted man will do, and then came over to where I was sitting. "Mr. Henderson, I believe?" be said. "That's my name," I told him, won dering who be might be. "I have been recommended to you by a by a mutual friend," he said; "but I cannot discuss my business here. My carriage is waiting, if you will give me your company for ten minutes." I hesitated a moment, until Redman, who seemed to know him, leant across, whispering that I should be a fool to refuse. The stranger pushed me Into a brougham that was stand ing by the pavement opposite the door and we started off at a smart pace. Once tn Regent's park, however, the driver pulled his horse to a walk, and my companion began to do his talking. "five hundred sovereigns would be useful to you these day eh, Mr. Henderson r There was a smile all over his fat face as he said the words, and be chuckled softly to hlmielf with a sound like water coming out ot a bot tle. It seemed an offer of lire to me a promise of everything the lack ot which makes each day a torment to the man who has known clean com fort "is It murder?" I asked him. "Oh, my dear sir, you surprise me!" he cried, lifting his flabby hand. "What a horrible suggestion! Allow me to explain at once. Have you ever heard ot Julius Craig?" "The company promoter, who or ganised the Spanish mine swindle? Of course I have." "Did you know him by sight?" "He used to come racing. A tall, thin, melancholy-looking fellow with a black beard wasn't he?" "Yes, that Is Julius Craig. He Is now in Prlncetown prison with six more years to run. The climate of Dartmoor is not suited to his health. He Is anxious to change bis resi dence; nor do I blame him, Mr. Hen derson, for It Is the most desolate pot In all England. I am in a posi tion to offer you the sum I have men tioned If you will arrange his escape. Do you agree r Yes," I told him. "Ah, that is most satisfactory. To morrow I will send you half the money with some little suggestion of my own as to your plan of cam paign. The second half you will re ceive when Mr. Craig is Tree, By the way, there are some curious relics of the stone age on the moors. Perhaps you might read up the subject and ap pear at Prlncetown as a student; yes, Mr. Henderson, that will suit you well a student of prehlstorlo man." He chuckled until the carriage shook. It was like driving wit a good-tempered blanc mange. "I shall be glad of any advice you can give me," I said. He pulled a cord, and when the carriage stopped I got out and stood waiting. "Good night and good luck to you," he said, his great white face shining upon me from the window as he shook my hand. "I have your ad dress. Drive on, Williams." I might have been an old and trust ed friend from the warmth ot his manner. Yet as the carriage rolled away I noticed that he raised the lit tle flap at the back to see that 1 didn't try to follow him. The packet arrived next morning. The notes I stowed away In an Inside pocket The typewritten instructions were unsigned and undated. According to them Craig was a member of gang "D," employed on a convict farm, in draining and inclos ing a portion of moor by a stream known as the Black brook. Above the stram rose a small hill on which was an ancient cairn and stone circle that In my character as a student would offer an excuse for my pres ence. Though communication with Craig could not be regularly established, he knew that an attempt was In prepara tion. The sight of a man in a white waterproof loitering on the cairn hill would be his signal that all was ready. 1 . ... l l i u:v. nFFF.ATKD Prlncetown Arms as of Memphis tni- ii.. ri 1 - verslty. U. S. A., was fitting on the - cairn hill above the prison that held Miitunt Acts Injure ( ause u4i-"K-Jullus Craig. ' jsn Women. 10 tne lar nonzou iwn , ., Wlun ti,.. vol. or n- ' - ...... ft ,v.nmT W k TV ITEMS tV nvrvt the melancholy moors, desettei washes ot rub marshes and stunted heather, broken hore and there by outcrops of granite, that crowned the rolling ground like the ruin of a hun dred feudal castle, r'or lirtinoor I a huge granite tableland, aud on Its barren surface no coru will grow nor tree flourish. Beneath the rampart of It contain ing hill Ilea ttio gardeu of l'efon, a land of orchard and pleasant wood, of cornfields and pasture farms; but the moor have defied the farmer and remain the same sad wilderness that prehistoric man inhabited four thou sand years ago. You can see where he built bis hut circles, and set up bis great stone avenues to the honor ot dead chieftain. It was an uncanny sort of place al together, and I shivered as I at in Ihe sought to cnlrancu.se win rejecieti i' . 1 ll lionalists. who voteu K - '- bill. vtlin-n . the present pal liaiucm r of more limited coaranc , 1'., ..sil.lv the National' if lliev nllow a woman's to pass (lie second re:i In u parliamentary i i ....( imlil..'lv em , ..liameut before (lie Home Utile i.:it I...... .in. .si h luw. '..... . debate prove! thai the (he militant policy of the sul! racists has .lone the came great harm, as far Central New- h0 I " T, . 1 ami Progress K Cwmmunltlw, 1'ul.lic InstltuUJl SKASIDK SAWMILL Toj P0KTI.AN1 TO I'OOS HAY-1911 franchise bill a ling it will lca.l struggle which III .IISMM.l. !"! that lonely cemetery of the forgotten s parliament is dead. The huge prison was built on the opposite slope of the shallow valley, and the farm which the convicts had won field by field Btretchod down from It wall to a brook at the foot of the cairn hill whore I was. On the further edge of the brook a gang was at work Inclosing some new ground, and through my glasse I oon made out the man 1 wa arter. The last time I had een hlra wa on hi own coach at Ascot, with the girl bulling round him like wasp alter sugar, and there he was digging trenches with a spade. It's a funny world! About twenty men were in the , irTi vi vV gang. On the outer side a couple ot SI 1 rKAl.l.l n "-r' .uccrncil. inc.vo- dilation mil o. - iocted bv only a small majority com pared with tho l'iek.nsoii bill, which was under discussion and 1'reviou hills giving some measure of enfran chisement to women, have passed the second reading, although they never survived silhse.iient stages. Uceent police court disclosures of acts of incendiarism planned by the militants far surpassing in magnitude anything heretofore attempted, and burning of St. atncrine s cnun n ly inllueliceii against the bill. Vice President Thinka Train Will i Kun by That Tim. i Portland Train, will be running .. i .... I i ....... Itiiu liw (hit be between lorlisn.i ' ' V" 1 end of pill think K. V.. alv.n vice recent IV too "" ' be in it built to MarNiilleld. Mr Calvin inspected the I'll mile, of trick immediately west of Kugciio anil the tunnel lit Noli, which now I vir tuallv complete. Ho went west over cw roll. I a" inr i i .i i it.i. l lid not no to Marsiinei.i on wo 'i'. huvitiif visited that city anil me vari ous ,.ther towns on C..s Pay that the new road will touch, on an inH'rllon lour a year aeo. Kor Ml miles the new road will be built aloiiK the water. Mr. Calvin is, lilted out, either rivers, lake, the ocean front or the bay. This work rcpnres slow ami careful construction. Speed, therefore, is not all essential factor, and the Southern Pacific offi cial are not taurine; on having the hue finished much before January 1, l'.n:.. th at llateham, umloubte. many members to vote MAPS Will. P.i: AITIIKNTIC warders strolled up and down witn rifles under their arms. There was nothing but a low hedge to stop the convicts If they knocked down the guards with their spade and made a run for it Hut wheu I looked back across the wastes of the moor I un derstood. In a city a man may van ish In a crowd, but on Dartmoor he must tramp a dozen mile before he can find even a bush to hide him. la clear weather the mounted warders of the pursuit would ride him down In halt an hour. The Prlncetown Arms, a gray, weather-beaten square of granite, was a pleasant country Inn standing near the center of the village. It wa too early in the year for tourists. Indeed, as I discovered, there was only one man beside myself staying In the bouse, a Mr. Thomas Hearne, whose address in the visitors' book was briefly London. When I came down to dinner that night I found him al ready seated at a little table with my knife and fork laid opposite. I wasn't anxious to make new acquaintances, but I couldn't very well ask them to lay another table for my benefit So I took my chair, and wished him good evening as politely as possible. He was a small, gray-bearded man of over sixty, as I reckoned, and be seemed a disinclined for conversa tion as ever I was. Kor that I thanked my luck, and worked through the din ner with my brain busy with one plan after another. It was Just as coffee was served thst be asked the ques tion which startled me. j Slate Immiitralion llurcau W ill ! Portland A complete and authentic Vicar of MiuVe Ascribe Uurninif map of Oregon, by separate routine. .. . .ii- I will be contained in the second edition to "lliose l.oveiy i.uu.c. . f ,,r , AlmnHI. London While the members of the house of commons were eiitcrirg- par liament to discuss the woman suff rage bill, newsboys thrust "extras" at. them announcing what seems to b the most destructive work the militant suffragette have yet accompli-hed St. Catharine's church, at ll.itcham, in the southeast of London, one of the finest church edifices in the suburbs, caught tire soon after noon in a mys terious way and was destroyed. The vicar, llev. Howard Truscott, when asked about the cause of the lire, said: "1 cannot nscribe it to another than those delightful ladies." The vicar visited the church at nsn, whi n he noticed three women in the building. He supposed them to be praying. He now believes that they arranged the tire and think explosives must have been used to aid in the de structive work. A mysterious attempt to explode a bomb was made early Wednesday morniMf outside the (iran.l hotel, op site Trafalgar square, where sulfra gette disturbances took place Sunday. The hotel was crowded with American tourists. A ".lie. -man saw a woman deK)sit a can with a lighted fuo in front of the door. He abandoned the IkiiuI) after extinguishing it by tramp ing on the fuse, und then pursued the women. He caught one woman whom he sup posed to be the culprit. Investigation proved her to be a night prowler who had often been in s.li. e court. Five. Year taae Free Reduced Rates. U.. .!.!.. l- i i . jra. k-e Oregon Almanac, which I in lie issued this summer by the Mute Im migration ll.ircnu. Already the county maps, corrected up to date in the last detail bv the otlicials of the various counties, are being received at the Portland Commercial club olIW, where I.. P. I av is i engaged for the immigration commission in compiling the rew edition of the almanac, These map will be the only ma available which tire correclisl down to date as to iM.undarie nod will Contain many feature w hich w ill be of ese- ,-ial value and interest to Intending immigrants. Highway betwet-n town and the s. h.silh.mse in each county will be indicated, also rural free delivery routes. lloiiglas. Linn, Wasco, IIo.hI Kiver, Yamhill, Wallowa and Curry counties are the only counties that thus far have sent in complete data for their sections. Farm Data Heing Printed. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis "The Oregon partner" i the title of a ptllte InKiklct just sent to press by Dean J. A. Bexell, director of the Oregon Statistical Bureau, which conducted a preliminary agri cultural survey of the state for the purMisc of compiling accurate data on the results being obtained by agricul turist in the state. It is cxected that C. C. Chapman, state immigra tion agent, w ho has charge of tho pub lication of the 'JniLpage Issik, will have it ready for distribution by the middle of June. Beside the statistical data, the re Irt will contain I I 'ending articles by different author, dealing with phases of the work in which each was based N.xvVx. . vA,. v oV S.-?XM ..NVt...imivX wir dess service is l,ein mnit,,n...l r J&tftly!M 1 . r: "?1'."1 - -"'"y interest..,!, tn. i. Uht'fVhr r-. l lVf 'W, l tM "truck Wednesday, among them Albany - 1 hat all children att IVWi V .n YV V t hfja T rfc&l'-if I'rat.M on the steamship City ..f S.- I""dir aehmd should wear unit i'Mi'&'&r. i's !JXyff rr I-'attle. Jefferson, CtiraCH... Penn-ylvan- 111 "-. l" uniform. 11.J,ititilLZZZJ2 .1M yV'f .. . ia, Yosemite, J. A. Honor. Paraiso. ! l""-h.'.l by the Male, is a pro Ois.ri'l- W l:id. l- l!..nv..r un.l C.rl..u SleW'Hriln oil slioioivhioa urn r..tu ... ...I Lilin to have declined to furnish food to strikebreakers, and the engineers, it is alleged, ilo not supply electric cur rent for the wireless instrument. Operator are being taken off tug and freight boats to supply passenger ves sels, the strikers say. The steamship companies, with offi ces here, are unable to furnish patrons with news of tho movements of boats. Villain in ".Mov W Shot. Leavenworth, Kan. Patrons of a moving picture show here were mo il. ending 'onus to lie Is, sal in a resolution adopted bv the ounty council of the C ranee in session at the Sand Kidge (Jrsnge hall. J. H. Scott, president of the council, was instructed to pres. tit the resolu tion to the State Grange, at it next meeting in Albany. P.esides promising uniforms for a'l public school children the resolution propose free text book and the fur nishing of warm noonday lunches to students. NOT HOW MfiMM Art; T l HOW 0009 That Bi THAT II HiUPttUHC,'. Sudden fogs were frequent upon the moor, and when they came while the convicts were at work In the field, the chance of escape was excellent; for the authorities did not chain their men, and the warders rarely used their rifles. They trusted to the huge moors upon which men who escaped were easily retaken, half dead from fatigue and starvation. Craig would make a rush for the cairn bill. From thence It was my duty to convey him to Torquay, thirty miles away on the coast. Once there he would know where to go, and my responsibility ended. A letter to the Torquay post office, under the name of VV. Blade, would be forwarded to the writer if I required further as sistance or had any questions of real Importance. That was all; but it was enough for me. Here was a scheme Into which 1 could put my heart There waa no low-down swindling, no dirty work about It. I felt as gay as a schoolboy off for a holiday. And so In three days' time that ragged rascal Jack Henderson disap peared from London, and the well dressed Mr. Abel Klngsley, vaguely described In the visitors' book of the! Hot Wave Helps) Apple. Hood Kiver -With a continuation for a few days of the warm sunshine thnt is tirovailifor. thu r.r,-!,,..-.!.. .1 - r,.,t....;i.. ..o: ...:i i I , . " ion rn- ! "" ' -.. wnen u spec-1 ure district w ill he in blossom. For a j moo, utoicvuiK io,: vinain was going j week or more the i muruor mis new oi the picture, j weather retarded drew a pistol from his pocket and fired lower valley. ai u,e struggling ngures on the can- I'redictions as to the apple rron for vas. The shot rang out just a it np- the coming season vary However peared the hero would be thrown over all expert seem to be agr I on the :n, : ... r r . 1 l"Hl l '-rK yield win unusually cold the bloom of tho doors, hut order soon was restored by "The landlord tells me you ar studying the stone remains on the moor," he said. "Is It your opinion that they're Neollthln or rjrutillri.1 V I cursed the landlord under my i the orchestra, which played throughout breath. I had told him my story, but l,lu 'nmuent, I bad forgotten he might pass it on to others. "The latter, undoubtedly," I said; though. If the truth be told, I had no opinion whatever. "I cannot agree with you. They were here before ever the Druids came over the sea. May I ask what arguments you adduce tn support ot your theory?" Everything I had read about those ha. been closed down for gjJv'S years, within a fwd,ltZl paired and oMned f..r biul0 A the Olson Itrtither. henna ) sive lognlng oiieratiun. I. weat of .Seaside there h Jl' eral attempt, to come to m? the owner, of the SeuiJ, ' iIimii farlnrv mi. I i u. . i tl I l - . . "s. 'io, M-mi'ii r I.enert iJ other oul.ide sawmill umj. plan, for starting a newmiu oi mo siocsnonior oj th gut together and mad. Una which ileal was cluml over the old plant. Few sawmill, in the (m, darted with brighter prwprij, are now abend of this one. cession made by the torkb,yB' five-year lease on the iiwm: K erty free, the new owneniosj, necessary repairs. Th. S(m Portland & Seattle railroad t, ha. sgreisl to give the mill it (siint rate and the Olson brotlnni agree,! to .ell the mill loft fc,d thousand led than the mtiketpn, Kt'SSIANS F.XAMINE OHE Colony of Several ThouMsi Saakatchrw an Too CAL F.ugene That the Uuuitu cm Saskatchewan, ( ana.la, will wJ the vicinity of Kugene, Ii from the fact that the four "nj who have been making a Usirsdi ern Oregon, l.s, king for i in their colony of several tbuluud J era, rvtunx-d here again sfUr it) trip to Southern Oregon, nd im lie shown again unit land Out J had insectis earlier the put tj The four nien stayed all dij, kv later for the North. They are well pleased with U ixt Willamette valley, sctortu; their interpreter, and th on;; J tion I that of finding s PilUvi large tract of land at s price tix suit them. They have been Im at land and living 'condition ill Oregon and Washington, and port their findings to their fe!i ile. for final decision. They in satisfied with Canada berattM king, cold winter, and nt I climate where they ran grt plr fruit. They are vegetarisnt, a lire a pletitlfuly supply of fru TAX DATA TO HE GATHER Slate Commi.sion to list Wimf Dertl Transfers. Salem Announcement U B Slate Tax Commissioner CtM that the etimmission will twM mence the listing of all w.rrutj I M .1 J transfer. In the state Mr in of assembling reliable ditt which to tpsirtion Ihe tU Ui that nirainat tiublic .'rvif tom tint!. Kach vear the comrr.iion P thi information, but it will be complete this year, for the WtM provided a larger approprisiiw. ol.n I tn cheek all w arranty lew temling bark a year from Htrt P.M3. and then to make sn ipM ment of the iiMiwrty t ilrUrm valllM The assessment of UVfl ..ri will th.-n be taken from U and with It. assessed v.lue, thejj .1 v,i,.k i u innl. and it i value, the commission aill tbrt a . i. I. .l..,-lareil. to a" fair apsirlionment of the ltSt Salem to War nn Fli- -lmWe on flie and tubd I...I. m.rllMt nllCM M IWKin ast, wtwr . j w.ge.1 by the city, for ".ionl'n .. .. l...,l .. Ihe council Mon.lav nlirht which conUinl ent provision a. to both. nd I. I. ..I I I -,lll .rronilllillh olui-r OBI""! Winn piM, iok mv" l gj .niorv buai. The oPlinnn ..i.i - ... .i.- ...w.intment ' vine mr ui i'i- . . J . .u.... it will "1 1 1 1 n . fill Wordrt of Women Doulitrd. Chicago At a lunchion here John B. DeVoney, a Chicago bunker, squarely faced a roomful of women and told them that in financial deals their word was not as good as that, of a man. He was addressing members of tho Women's Association of Com merce and he saw that in their faces which caused him to add: "This is confounded stones slipped out of my j only natural, perhaps, because it in mind in an Instant. There was no j only recently that women have inter good trying to bluff him, for he prob- estcd themselves in business." ably bad the subject at bis fingers' ends. Bo I nodded my head wisely, and suggested It was a bit too big a subject to itart after dinner. (CHRONICI.r.8 TO BB CONTINUED.) Unable to Appreciate It To some men popularity Is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect tbe validity of those attainments which command It George Henry Lewes. HijC CruiHcr at Roue Festival. Portland, Or. Tho United State cruiser St. I,oui, one of tho largest vessel of it class in tho United States navy, will come to Portland during the Hose Festival, June 8 to 14. Hear Admirnl Alfred Reynolds, commander in chief of tho United States Pacific reserve fleet, ma.lo this announcement to the Portland chamber of commerce Thursday, o.jr. inn inuications in many orchards are that the Yellow Newtown crop will be light. Work on Cut-Off Heglna. Work is now being done on the Natron-Klnmath rut-off, which will provide the Southern Pacific with a new main line between Natron, Or and Weed, Cal., shorten the distance between Portland and San Francisco and reduce the running time by about four hours. However, no new con tracts are being let on that lino. The worst part of the work yet remain to be done. It consists of about 80 mile through a rough country, and will cost more than $7,000,000 - nearly $100.. 000 a mile. spect all the that proer coverings sre pnMlUia HIIU nillim'",'. , . nance also contain a provitw" Ing it unlawful for any llt'r"" . . . . . .... :n wnrk "k tutierculoais to engage ... .ill t.im in contact " food to be serve,! or rooked. n.. n fisher Favor n - i.w Ma inr In rh.ru... of the government fl'lllumtta ing work in mo "'" V k.i replied to the letter ent m 1 Oregon City Commercial clut J I.IIU , J School Tax Opinion (Jive n. Salem-According to an opinion by Assistant Attorney General DeUng a union high school district giving a high school course will not be subject to a tax to maintain a county high acliool. 1 ho opinion wa rendered at he revest of the clerk for school dis trict No. 15 in Harney county. na f ot gi inel nsnerm.-.., -- ,j ...... . T M, .11110.01 ne, I're iieni i. ' i in.tnietu club, that he nas lasueo ","'. u1s the dredgers to lower all blf' J rsittom of the river at night tawn In other war to refrain work that will interfere during the .10 commercial fishermen II interfere u -day season opew shermen. I CharKf Dfclare.1 Ktttmj Salem - Alleging th"t lh-2 made by the Southern 1''" for the storage of ""Wf aive and unreawinable, ' -irf thi city, has filed a formal town against the company " Kail mail commission. ",',. Ing. If prosecuted, will Inw J vrnilKKl-nlll l nil" throughout the whole state. VI'