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WOHLD H A P P E N » OF CONDENE WEEK 30 H O M E S F I R E D BY IRISH Loss at Trim, Put at £50,000- T w o1 Sm all Boys Shot. — STUDENT SPENDS 10 YEARS ON ISLAND Trim, County Meath, Ireland.—Be- | cause of the burning of the police bar racks here Sunday and the wounding | I of Chief Constable White, a number Brief Resume Most Important of armed m en descended on the town I Plot in Chesapeake Bay Used Sunday night and burned buildings, as Domicile. Daily News Items. attacked the residences of Sinn Fein- ers and indulged in indiscriminate | shooting. Several casualties were re COMPILED FOR YOU ported. The reprisals were alleged to have BOOKS O N L Y FRIEND been the work of the “black and tan” police. The regular police began tak Events of Noted People, Governments ing steps to prevent further damage. Health Seeker Plies Leisure Time to Som e 30 hourses were burned. and Pacific N orthwest, and Other Fishing and Crabbing V isits Among the prem ises destroyed were Things Worth Knowing. M ainland Once a Year. a mineral water factory, which was a principal industry, and the market house. Practically all houses on both All Italy joined Tuesday In the cele sides of the thoroughfare were set Norfolk, Va.—After spending ten bration of the 50th anniversary of the afire. The damage was estim ated at y e a n on W atts Island, In Chesapeake proclamation of Koine as the capital ‘ £50,000. Two small boys were shot, bay, with only the sands and his books one being seriously injured. of United Italy. who were captured in for company, Charles H. Hardenburg Scattered returns from T uesday’s the The raid police, the barracks, had been of Trenton, N. J., a form er law stu referendum on a new Nebraska state warned to on resign a week. dent of Princeton university is return constitution indicated passage of the The “black and within tans” reached Trim ing to civilization this week. Harden 41 proposed changes. about 3 A. M. on three lorries. They burg is a brother of Dr. Daniel S. It is rumored that four cases of mounted machine guns in Market bubonic plague have been discovered street, commandeered petrol from a Hardenburg of Jersey City, a w ealthy in Fiume. The theaters have been local shop and set fire to the principal and prominent physician. closed and other precautions taken. hotel. T hey ran through the streets Charles Hardenburg wagered with shots and flinging bombs. a friend that he could spend ten years The firm of Moorhead & Elm ore of firing The hom es of noted Sinn Feiners on an Island without the companion W ashington, D. C., has been suspend were visited in an endeavor to as ed by the New York stock exchange, it certain the authors of the attack on and ship of man or woman. He was broken was announced T uesday afternoon. No the burning of the barracks. The Sinn in health, too, and had been advised reason was given. Feiners were not found. to go away. Peter Howe was instantly killed "Solitude is the greatest m edicine Tuesday at San Juan, Tex., when a Another Boost Given Express Kates. a man can take,” said Charles Hard- motor truck tire exploded while he was W ashington, D. C. — Further in enburg several days ago. "A man is inflating it with air. The top of his creases in express rates averaging 13.5 bead was blown off and a nearby brick per cent were approved Saturday by never without company when he has the interstate commerce comm ission. things to read and nature and the wall blown in. Madame De Buyer-M imeure, former The increases which apply to class wonderful work of providence to ly Miss Daisy Polk, of San Francisco, and commodity rates make a total think about. I have enjoyed m yself. has been made a chevalier of the increase of 26 per cent granted the I have learned much and now I am legion of honor in recognition of her express companies within the last few going back to m y people.” services to France during the war, months. The express companies had asked Mr. Hardenburg was 24 years of age it is announced. for increases up to 16 per when he first becam e the sole occu W illiam of Hohenzollern, former cent. additional The only made in pant of W atts islands, 17 m iles from German emperor, has written a new the new rates are exceptions in the case of milk the mainland, the nearest towns being will, which is declared to be his last and cream shipments. testam ent. He has entrusted it to the For the first six months of this Crisfield, Md., and Onancock, Va. The keeping of Notary Schroot at Amer- year the express companies lost ap island contains four acres and lies be ongeu, says a D oom dispatch. proxim ately $21,000,000, according to tween Tangier island and Fox island. Mrs. Irene Root Gordon of San Fran their report to the com m ission, which There are no m eans of transportation cisco has obtained an annulm ent of showed revenues of $159,681,000 and except by using rowboats and her marriage to Jam es M. (Bluebeard) operating expenses of $180,778,000. launches. W atson, confessed murderer of nine During the first half of 1919, the W hen he first took up his abode com panies reported revenues of $132,- women, who is serving a life term in 708,000, and operating expenses of on the island he was furnished with A San Quentin state penitentiary. well-stocked library, modern farming $145,703,000. Rear-Admiral Andrew I.ong, who has The percentage ratio of expenses to im plem ents and several horses to till been in command of division four of earnings for the comparative periods the soil, and as an assurance that the Atlantic fleet, has been appointed of the two years increased from 109 he would not be m olested or removed director of naval intelligence, succeed to 113 per cent approximately, the from the island until the ten years had expired, the island was purchased ing Rear-Admiral Albert C. Niblack, report said. by his brother, Dr. Hardenburg, from recently assigned as naval attache at London. Sleuth Slain Near Site of Still. u man named John Dreamis. During his ten years of hermit-like General W rangel's latest cavalry Aberdeen, W ash.— Blindfolded, bear existence, young Hardenburg studied drive against the bolshevik in south ing three gunshot wounds and covered hard, Ills books affording him much Russia has won him valuable stragetic with two planks and a tangled mass of pleasure. He ventured the positions on the railway. More than weeds, the body of Nicolas Koleski, 24 island once a year, when from he would 2000 prisoners and quantities of sup years old, a special officer of the visit either Onancock, Va., or Cris- plies were taken, it is reported in ad Aberdeen police department, was field, Md., to replenish his stock of found by boys shortly before noon Sun food and obtain clothing for the win vices from the Crimea. day in a shallow creek in dense woods ter months. The horses which were The generul assem bly of Connecti about m iles south of South Aber cut T uesday afternoon ratified the deen. three on the island soon died, and He had been m issing since last placed nineteenth am endm ent in accord with Tuesday, Hardenburg soon tired of agricultural he was assigned to life and devoted a m essage of Governor Holcomb to the hunt down when m ost of his leisure operators of a still alleged second special session in a week. The to be located near the spot where his time to fishing and crabbing. vote in the senate was 25 to 0. The body was found. H e is believed to vote in the house was alm ost unani have been lured to the spot by moon W atkins Denies Offers. mous. Cincinnati.—Rev. Aaron S. W atkins, shiners and deliberately killed. prohibition candidate for president, Extraordinary rumors nre in circul denies the report that offers had been ation throughout Lanarkshire to the Plea Made for Timber. effect that the leaders of the Scottish W ashington, D. C.— Every time there made by the prohibition party to the com m unist m ovem ent have planned a is a forest fire it is a contributing republican and democratic presidential sensational coup to bo sprung at Blun- factor to the increasing price of lum nom inees of his withdrawal if either tyre, eight m iles southeast of Glasgow, ber, according to Charles Lathrop Governor Cox or Senator Harding says a dispatch to the W estm inster Rack, president of the American would announce they would enforce G azette from Ham ilton, Scotland. Forestry association, who, in a state the Volstead act. “I am going to run president,” he said, “regardless of Theodore Schudde, a German, nr- ment here denounced the needless $30,- for the stand of the republicans or dem o 000,000 annual forest fire loss of the rested in San Frnneisco several weeks ago, pleaded guilty In Chicago Tues United States us “a wasteful strain crats.” day to obtaining $1600 from the govern upon the resources of the nation.” Riches Await Explorer. m ent under false pretenses while pos Standing timber Is being cut and de Sacram ento.—Jam es Sydney Norton, ing as Lieutenaut Arthur Kincaid, an stroyed by fire, diseases nnd insects. I 52 years of age and a member of Sir he said, more than four tim es as fast Am erican army officer. He was sen Francis Younghusband's famous ex tenced to three years in Leavenworth as new trees are being grown. pedition into Thibet several years ago, prison. has a fortune of $3,000,000 aw aiting Amundsen Is Ice-bound. Reports received in Philadelphia! Nome, Alaska. — Captain Roald him in eastern banks, according to a T uesday by S. D. W arriner, head of I Amundsen's Polar expeditionary ship j letter received by the police from a tlie anthracite coal operators’ wage Maud is reported wedged tight iu j New York law firm. Norton is said scale com m ittee, showed, it was an the the Polar ice pack west of Kolyuchin ! to have been seen here recently. nounced, a general return to work of bay, Siberia, nnd nearly midway be- i hard coal diggers. The men quit the tween W rangell island and the North Bird's Message Mystery. m ines because of dissatisfaction with j ern Siberian coast, by fur traders w ho j Bakersfield, Cal.—A pigeon killed by the recent award of the anthracite coal I reached Nome Sunday. Because of , flying into a high tension wire at an com m ission. bad ice conditions, it appears doubtful : oil lease near here Monday bore this The boys who In '61 answered the whether the explorer will be able tot messc^-.e: 'Zudon. Germany. Send cull of "Father Abraham" are in ses | reach his last year's winter head | troops at once. Captain Guntz. S O. siou in Indianapolis. The city nnd quarters at Itsuun bay, according to S. W. E. S. N.” The pigeon bore the state w ere form ally turned over to the traders. number A. J-20-1542 on a band around them by Mayor d ia r ie s W. Jew ett and its leg. The m essage was in a m etal Governor Jam es P. Goodrich at a sem i Cork Shaken By Explosion. case uttached to the bird’s neck. official m eeting and reception mark Cork, Ireland.—A violent explosion j ing the form al opening of the 1920 shook this city about 2 o'clock Monday I Two Children Die In Fire. reunion of the G. A. R. morning. It was followed by the rattle j Everett, W ash.—Two children of C hinese in the fam ine ridden prov- j of rifle fire In various parts of the j Joseph Cully, living on the Lake ince of Shantung are poisoning entire | business district. When citizens ven Roessegor road, near Machlas, were fam ilies to avoid slow death by starva - 1 tured forth later, they found the main I burned to death Sunday morning, tion. according to Toklo cable ad j thoroughfare. Patrick street, littered I when trapped in their home by fire vices to the N'lppu JiJi, Japanese lan with glass, and the front of a large during the absence of their parents, guage new spaper In Honolulu. T. H. departm ent store, which is said to and a third child, an infant of 3 A hundred m illion dollar fund is need employ a large number of young Sinn months, was severely injured and may ed to save the people In the starva Feiners. com pletely wrecked, as if die. The dead nre Naomi Cully, 3 by bombs. tion districts, the advices added. years old. and Ruth Cully, 2 years old. Salem .—The W atson Bucket Plow company, with headquarters at Port land, has been incorporated by C. B. am and If you could hear the story MR. PORCUPINE Hurtt, Sam Hewey, W illiam W atson, from some animal that has tried to A. H. Hickm an and C. L. Anderson. harm him, I guess he would tell you a NE morning. Bob Rabbit nnd Tim The captial stock is $500,000. Hare were running through the very different story If he ever tried the same thing oil me. M arshfield.— The Coos and Curry w oods, when Bob espied Mr. Porcupine “I do not throw my quills at an en Airplane company has been organized sitting in the doorway of his home. us many think, hut I cun easily on Coos Bay. The company w ill not “There is old Mr. Hedgehog,” he emy let an carry away as many as said In a whisper to Tim Hare. "Bet operate until the spring of 1921, but ter not let him see you because he can he likes enemy so deeply buried In him that in the m eantim e will com plete plans throw one of those sharp darts he car they have to he drawn out. and purchase planes necessary for ries under his long, coarse hair.” “Now, Mr. Hedgehog uses his quills defend himself, but he cannot conducting business. But Mr. Porcupine heard Bob Rab to wound ns I can, and look at my tall. bit, for his ears are very keen and he Eugene.—Among the early-day ex you should see me use tliut when once bristled; but before Tim anil Why, hibits at the Lane county fair last at enemy tries to attack me.” Bolt had time to run he spoke to them an Sir. Porcupine suddenly dropped his week was a drum that was made 61 and dropped his quills out of sight. years ago in W aupaca, W is., and that “Come here,” he called. “I won’t head, arched his back and planted Ills still has one of the original heads. The hurt you. I want to explain a few feet firmly with all his quills or spines nnd swung around his club-like drum was exhibited by F. H. W est. things to you youngsters so you will erect tail with many more v “s, so sw ift It was made in 1859 by Mrs. W est’s ly that Tlin Hare a. Bob Rabbi, father. ran. When they were at some distance Hood Hiver.— The upper valley w ill from Sir. Porcupine’s house they harvest a record potato crop of excel peeped out from behind a tree where lent quality this season, according to | they had taken refuge. J. F. Thompson, grower of the district, “Did you ever see your friend, Mr. here to make an exhibit at the county Hedgehog, do that?” called Mr. Porcu pine, looking very calm again. fair. Mr. Thompson estim ates the "He is not a friend of ours," an total yield of 1920 at 100 carloads, an swered Bob Rabbit. "I just thought increase of 20 per cent over last sea you had two names and that Hedge son. hog was one of them.” SaJem.—The work of coding the “Well, I have only one name and don't you let me hear you call me by laws of Oregon for the year 1920, as any other,” said Mr. Porcupine, walk authorized under an act of the legisla toward them. ture of 1919, has been com pleted by never call a Porcupine a Hedgehog ing “You will never hear us call you Conrad Patrick Olson of Portland, again. It just makes me bristle when anything,” called Boo and Tirn as they code com m issioner and form er m em I hear that name.” scampered off through the woods. ber of the Oregon suprem e court, and “But we thought you were Mr. “I know why he was so angry," said will be ready for distribution within Hedgehog,” said Bob Rabbit, keeping Tim Hare, when they were safe In at a distance, in spite of Mr. Porcu their part of the woods. "Mr. Hedge the next two months. promise. hog Is the little fellow that rolls up Boardman.— The United States re pine’s “Yes, I know, and so do many oth like a ball when he is scared and Mr. clamation service has begun the study ers think that is my name,” said Mr. Porcupine thinks he is a coward for of drainage problem s in the vicinity Porcupine, “but if you listen I will tell not fighting as he does.’ of Boardman with a view to forestall you the difference. “Well, they both have very sharp ing any dam age to the lands of the "In the first place we are In no quills and I think Mr. Porcupine is although Mr. H. has quills, very fussy," said Bob Rabbit, “but I west extension through lack of proper way related, he ents ants and many things will not get near enougli to coll him attention. Pipes are being sunk to but I would scorn. anything again. I cun tell you that.” locate to present w ater table, and a which (C o p y rig h t.) “And he is not nearly as large as I thorough investigation is to be made. The D alles.— In spite of the assum p tion that there are no peaches in Wasco county this year ow ing to the late freeze in the spring, E. R. Jack- man, county agent, says that in the Pine Creek region, several m iles from By EDNA KENT FORBES Dufur, the orchards were bearing full crops of splendid fruit and were ap parently untouched by the late frost. REMOVING BLEM ISHES NDER the hend of serious blem Bend.—That the forest fire in the ishes one should include such yellow pine belt near Fox butte burn things as large birthmarks, smallpox ed over 2500 acres and killed approxi marks, unsightly scars, powder and m ately 1,500,00 feet of high-grade tim tattoo marks, and burns. All of these ber, wortji over $70,000, was the state nre curable, but unfortunately, those ONGA time ago I herra one man m ent of Forest Supervisor Plumb, who who are competent to cure them do tella nother one he ees rougha not nlways live In the smaller cities, returned from the scene of the con neck. I no uuderstanda ver mooch flagration. A cruise w ill be made and so their services are lost to the wot ees dat. I feegure mebbe he cat- shortly to determ ine the exact amount greater part of the country. too many boils or no shava da In a department like this It Is Im cha neck for maka dat wny. But I am of the loss. possible to tell a woman exactly how meestnke idee nlln right. Seence Bend.—Fird which started Saturday she may overcome such blemishes. leetle while bouta ago I feegure out why ees in the yellow pine forests of the Fox plenta rougha neck deesa country. Butte country has spread rapidly and Mosta everybody senda shirt and collar for maka clean weeth da laun now includes at least 1500 acres of dry. After I senda few times I finda som e of the best tim ber in central out gotta be rougha neck or buy da Oregon. The fire is the largest this new shirt and collar every payday. season in the national forest. Two Jusa taka da choice. hundred and fifty acres was the big One shirt I gotta ees besta health gest fire which forest em ployes have only leetle dirty when I senda weeth had to fight this year. laundry lasa week. But when he come bnck looka Jusa Ilka been seexa mont Portland.— George A. Bright, forest een da front trench weeth plenta shoot. exam iner, and F. W. Furst, forest as E ef dat shirt gotta wound stripe for sistant, have just returned from a every hole lie ees alia gold now. I dunno eef dey try knocka dirt out cruising trip which covered over four weeth machine gun een dat laundry or m onths in the Oregon national forests. no, but he sure looka somating lika They cruised 20,000 acres in the dat’s wot happen. Ochoco national forest and about 8000 Other day I gettn bunch of collar acres on the Deschutes forest. They back from da laundry, but I no usa covered a total distance of 3000 m iles for dress up now. So longa he stay in a forest service car. stiff dat collars maka greata saw for cutta wood. Everyone ees rough on Salem .— Thomas A. H ayes of Port top likn small town road. land has filed with the secretary of On da bill from deesa laundry says. state petitions of his candidacy for “We Usa Onfy Softn Water.” I dun United States senator from Oregon at no, but I tink ees gooda Idee some time eef taka nails ou t the general election to he held in Wot you tink? November. Mr. H ayes w ,i make the --------- O--------- race under the independent banner, Real Apprehension. and w ill be opposed to Robert N. He— Men will no more submit to Stanfield, republican, and George E. live under an autocratic government. Chamberlain, democrat. His petitions \ She—Good gracious! You are not Serious troubles can be removed by thinking about discharging the cook! contain 4590 signatures. expert treatment. --------- O----------- Salem .— In Oregon counties where ! Smallpox pits are removed by cov school boards pay their teachers in j excess of $100 a month little trouble J ering the outer skin with a lotion dries It up so It may be pnin- Is being encountered in obtaining ef- j which removed—It peels off easily— flcient instructors, while In counties lessly leaving a new, tender, unblemished where the maximum m onthly salary is skin beneath. For a time this skin less than $100 the directors have been Is super-sensitive nnd needs especial unable to supply the vacancies, accord care, blit such complexions nre usu ing to a report prepared here by J. A. ally beautiful and a delight to the Churchill, state superintendent of women who have faced disfigurement schools, follow ing a com plete survey otherwise. Birthmarks are cured eith er by a caustic or the electric needle of school conditions in the state. treatment, the needle atrophying the Ontario.— With record-breaking dis tiny veins causing the ugly scar, and the normal skin to form. plays of all kinds and a generally high allowing Powder marks removed liy pierc er grade of pure-bred stock in all class ing the skin at are each and Inject es. the 11th annual Malheur county ing peroxide, which mark cleans out the fair open here last week. The w eather powder embedded In the cuticle. Tat was cold and threatened rain, but this too marks are removed by re-tattoolng did not reduce the attendance. Great the surface with a solvent. Scars are usunlly treated by cutting interest has been m anifested by the various com m unities of the county in and allowing the unmnrked skin to careful treatments. the struggle for com m unity honors for form again under (Copyright.) which total of $500 in prizes w ill be! ---------- O----------- awarded. The contest lies largely be The Way It Works. tw een N yssa, Adrian, Dead Ox Flat “Life's arithmetic Is very contrary.” “I know. It adds to your sorrows, and Cairo. One of the best exhibits was brought 80 m iles by auto from divides your means, multiplies your can's and subtracts from your pleas Bonita, a hamlet in Cow valley. ures.” O Beauty Chats U L ■SLACKERS ft