WORLD HAPPENINGS '
OF CURRENT WEEK
COLLINS DEAD IN CAVERN'
Rescuers Keach Imprisoned Kentucky
Cave Explorer Too Late.
Cave City, Ky The quest is over.
Mother earth, after clinging grimly in
life and death to Floyd Collins for
Brief Resume Most Important more than 17 days, finally surrender­
ed at 2:45 o'clock Monday and without
Daily News Items.
warning opened a tiny hole between
a rescue shaft and the natural tomb
of the cave explorer.
Peering down this tiny fissure Into
Sand cave, the brave workers who
had waged an unequalled combat with
the natural forces of the earth saw
Events of Noted People, Governments that what they had fought so hard for
had been lost.
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Collins was dead.
Things Worth Knowing.
A terse statement, signed by the
three men who had led 'scores of
others in the long fight, told of the
Professor Nicola Mileff, who recent­ result and paid tribute to their assist-
ly was appointed Bulgarian minister ants.
to the United States, was assassinated
Although the quest for Collins had
in Sofia Friday night.
ended in locating his body; the tired
Request was sent to the house Sat­ miners, saddened by the realization
urday by President Coolidge for an that the man they tried so hard to
appropriation of $50,000 for repair save was dead, turned, heavy hearted,
work on the White House roof and to the still dangerous task of recover-
ing his body.
upper story.
Governor Fields ordered by tele­
The senate voted $50.000 Saturday gram that autopsy be held on the body
for repairs to the White House roof. of Floyd Collins by three physicians
The action was taken in adopting an to determine the cause of death, to
amendment to the independent offices ;
locate any possible injuries and to
appropriation bill.
find if there is any trace of poison.
Customs and all dominion govern-
The "monument” to the rescue
meat officials have received notifies workers. however, will be torn down
tion _t that
CL; the
—*-* greatest
—*
vigilance
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must
“"t
the hands that built it. The
be kept against the exporting of guns rescue shaft will be dynamtied after
and munitions to China.
Collin s body has been removed.
"It is a dangerous place and we do
Trapped behind a wall of flame in
not
want anyone else trapped in
a burning hay barn at the home of
B. C. Hardin, four miles west of Aus­ there.” said Mr. Carmichael, in charge
tin, Tex., three girls were burned to of the excavation.
Collins’ legs will be amputated just
death Friday afternoon.
'above his ankles in order to expedite
Charles Ford, 38, despondent be­ j his delivery from Sand cave, if the
cause the end of the world prophecies ‘officials in charge of the rescue work
failed to materialize a week ago, hang­ ’decide further lateral operations are
ed himself at Garfield Heights, Ohio,
too dangerous to workmen who al­
Friday, according to police.
ready have risked their lives to se­
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, south China lead­ cure the cave man’s release. This was
er, who was operated upon recently made known tonight when Lee Collins,
for cancer, was steadily growing weak- elderly father of the cave victim, sign­
er. He has been critically ill in a ed a sworn statement to the effect
hospital in Pekin since January 26 that it Mr. Carmichael, director of
last.
actual rescue operations, determined
further work too hazardous for his
Three white men are dead as the
men. he had his signed permission to
result of a quarrel between two of
resort to amputation.
them and two negroes at Orange. Tex.,
From the early days of the cave
Saturday. Those killed were Joe Pre­ man’s entrapment, when friends and
jean, about 46; Dallas Morris, about neighbors made futile efforts to ex-
22, and Basil Stakes, deputy sheriff. । tricate him. down through the days
Senate and house agriculture com- that followed there was waged a great
mittees heard further testimony Sat- struggle with nature and the elements.
urday from representatives of farm |
groups concerning the president’s agri-
cultural conference’s report and plan­
ned to conclude the hearings next
week.
COMPILED FOR YOU
$30,000,000 ASKED
FOR NAVAL WORK
Budget Bureau Offers Esti-
mates on Program
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Halfway. A trapper who came from
Fish lake Sunday reports the snow
there having reached a depth of 18
leet. Thia Is the district from which
Pine valley gets Its Irrigation water
and tho »nowtali la watchsd closely.
According to County
La Granik'.
Judge Couch, work on u now steel
NEW CRAFT WANTED. erine
bridge, to bo erected across Cath­
creek about a half mile east of
Union, near tho state fish hatchery,
will bo started as soon as weather
$16,000,000 Urged to Complete Eight permits.
10,000-Ton Cruisers, and for
Hillsboro Machinery is being ship
ped from San Francisco for oil well
soon as
drilling near Buxton
weather permits. A camp la now be­
Washington. D. C. — Budget pro- ing arranged, the company having ob­
tained enough leases to make the
poaals to carry out naval cbustruc-
work possible.
tiou and other work already authoriz­
Pendleton. — Men without visible
ed by congress were presented to the
means of support who have been walk
house Saturday by Director Lord of Ing the streets of Pendleton for weeks
the budget bureau, the request total­ have received special attention from
ing $30,000,000, of which $1,000,000 the police during the past week, with
would be maue available at once for the result that several have been
sent to jail on charges of vagrancy.
work on the battleship Florida.
Bend.—Snow at the summit of tho
Work on the Florida already is in
Cascades, near the Willamette pass
progress at the Boston navy yard and
highway, not far from Crescent lake,
can be completed with the $1,000,000
is 15 feet In depth and is packed into
carried in the new budget proposals.
a glacier-like mass by heavy rains and
It will not be available for service
sub-zero weather, according to reports
with the fleet until part of the pend­
being brought to Rend by trappers.
ing work is finished.
Tillamook. The average milk and
A provision of $2,000,000 is includ­
ed in the budget proposal for the butterfat production In the three Tills
laying down after July 1 of the first mook county cow testing associations
two of the eight 10-000-ton post-treaty for January exceeded that of the pre­
cruisers already authorized, and a like vious month, with fewer cows on test
amount is asked for beginning con­ in each association for the month, ac
struction work on six new gunboats, cording to reports recently completed.
needed chiefly in Chinese waters.
Klamath Falls.—Morris L. Johnson,
The new cruisers will cost approxi Klamath county appraiser for the
mately $16.500.000 when completed state bonus commission, has resigned,
and the navy general board has stat he announced Saturday. ITessure of
ed that 22 of them would be requir­ other business was the reason he gave
ed to place the cruiser strength of Governor Pierce in submitting his
the American fleet on the basis of resignation. His successor has not
equality contemplated by the Wash­ yet been named.
ington naval limitation treaty for the
Bend.— Dairymen of Deschutes coun­
battleship tonnage strength of the
ty will ask the central Oregon legis­
American and British navies.
lative delegation to support a bill call
In addition to the provision for con­
ing for the compulsory testing of all
struction of cruisers and gunboats,
dairy herds In the county for tuber­
the budget request calls for $14,000,-
culosis. Dairymen meeting In Red­
000 to complete the naval aircraft
mond Saturday were unanimous in
carriers Saratoga and Lexington, in
support of the measure.
procesa of conversion from battle
Oregon City.—The Grant II. Dimick
cruisers, and $3,000,000 for procure­
ment of additional naval aircraft. Each stock farm near Hubbard, including
of the new aircraft carriers will carry the old home of John Dimick, the
70 planes of various types and the father, was sold to four prominent
aircraft appropriation will be for the farmers of the Hubbard section Fri­
purpose of providing these machines day through H, W. Sitton, referee in
to be ready when the ships are com­ bankruptcy of the fugitive attorney’s
estate, and J. J. Cooke, local real
missioned.
Included in the $30,000,000 request estate man.
also is a $9,000,000 item for changes
Bend. — Reclamation of the Fort
George Alexander Parks of Alaska
San Francisco. — Thrust by the and repairs on six of the older battle- Rock district of the Deschutes na
was nominated Saturday by President chance of the law from the life of ships, including addition of deck tional forest for grazing purposes,
Coolidge to be governor of Alaska. Mr. what he himself calls a "desert” into armor, alteration to oil burners from supplying range for an additional 30.-
Parks, who has been stationed in Alas­ a position where he may soon com­ coal-burning
of 000 head of sheep, or 8000 head of
craft,
addition
ka for several years, will succeed Scott mand millions, George Campbell Car- "blister” under-water protection, and cattle, is backed by sheepmen of cen-
C. Bone, whose term of governor will i son, 58, itinerant miner and for 15 other improvements permissible under tral Oregon, it betamr known when a
expire in several months.
I years the guest of a sailor lodging the terms of the Washington treaty.
meeting of wool growers was held In
A 50-story tower—the second tallest ; house in San Francisco becasue he
Bend Friday.
New Receiver Wonder.
building in the world—is to be the could afford no better, was prospect­
The Dalles. — Explanation of the
crowning feature of Cleveland's $60,-- ing all of the twists and turns that
Washington, D. C.—The League of state board of control plans for dis­
000,000 union terminal development. (have brought on his stunning good American Inventors announced here
tribution of the $1.500.000 appropria­
This tower will rise 708 feet above the .fortune.
Saturday that one of Its members had tion voted by the legislature for loans
of
the
United
concourse floor of the new union sta-1 Monday, by decree
satisfactorily tested out a “magic to Oregon wheat farmers whose crops
”1 overlook the public States circuit court of appeals, Car­ cloth,” which, with the aid of only a
tion and will
were killed by the sub-zero weather
son, inventor of two great improve- crystal detector, a ground wire and
square.
of December was made Friday by a
, 'ments in copper ore smelting, was a pair of earphones, made a perfect
delegation headed by Sam Kozer.
fn pOHgession of the
The amnesty bill restoring political:
rights to James E. Ferguson, ex^ovI
geniug after n radio receiving set. '
serf et ary of state.
No coils are needed In the new
ernor of Texas, passed last week by |
of
8truggle The court
Pendleton. George S. Whittaker of
the state senate, was held uneonstitu-,
an
jn. method, it was asserted. In the try­ Pendleton has signed a contract with
tional in an opinion announced by :
on the patPnt8 by the outs, it was claimed that the ear­ the Gorham Press of Boston. Mass.,
phones, connected with a fixed crys-
Attorn ey-general Dan Moody.
The
American Smelting & Refining com­ stai held near the cloth, afford per- for the publication of a volume of
opinion was prepared at the request
pany, and that an accounting was due, feet reception without physical con- his verse which will be published this
of the house of representatives.
spring. The title of tUe volume will
which, according to counsel for Car- tact. No aerial was used.
The Imperial hotel, one of Winni- son, would bring him at least $5,000,-
be "Blazing Altars.” The collection
peg’s oldest landmarks, which had'ooo similar suits are pending against
contains love and nature poems In
Jardine Gets Agriculture Post.
housed many of the west’s pioneers tbe phelps-Dodge corporation of Ari-
both sonnet and lyric style.
Washington, D. C.—President Cool­
when they were en route to their new zona an(1 the Anaconda Mining com
Salem. Jack Sorahan, 17, was ar­
homes from eastern Canada, was de- pany of Montana, and the decision, ac- idge completed Saturday the cabinet
rested here Sunday In connection with
stroyed by fire early Sunday. Four !cor(iing t0 Carson’s legal advisers, vir- he will take into office with him on
operations of vandals In the McKinley
adjoining
business
establishments tuaI]y determines those other suits March 4, when he begins the term to
school building-here last week. The
were damaged. The total loss was I a]g0 A total accounting would bring which he was elected last November
vandals removed the top and motor
in
his
own
right.
$100,000.
him $20,000,000 at least from the com-
M. Jardine of from a large phonograph purchased
He
chose
William
Pedro Puig, the last Spanish gover- panies that have used his patents, i, he Kansas as secretary of agriculture recently by the students, threw Ink
nor of the Philippines, died in Madrid contends.
and sent his nomination to the senate upon the walls, played havoc with the
Saturday, virtually in poverty. He
along with that of Frank B. Kellogg domestic science rooms, marred the
Old Fort Bill Passed.
had lived in obscurity for many years.
of Minnesota, whose selection as sec­ desks and littered the halls and floors.
Senor Puig was in charge of the trans­
Washington. D. C.—The bill design­ retary of state to succeed Charles E.
A 676-acre dairy farm at Rainier in
fer of the Philippines to the United ed to bring about the restoration of
Hughes was announced a month ago. Columbia county was sold Saturday by
States and when he left the islands the old Fort Vancouver stockade on
H. M. and Walter M. Keck to Mrs.
he brought a large sum of money the Vancouver Barracks military
Fan, 73, Dies at Puzzle.
J.
M. Reniff of Pasadena, Cal. It was
which he delivered to the Spanish gov­ reservation in Washington state was
Toledo, Or.—Charles Wade, 73, a announced that the price of the farm
ernor.
passed Monday by the house and sent
cross-word puzzle fan, refused to re­ and a small herd of registered Hol­
Operation of busses by electric rail­ to the senate. No provision is made
tire Saturday night until he had com­ stein cattle on the place was $30,-
ways to supplement their regular serv­ for the expenditure of government
pleted solution of a puzzle. When 000. The new owner of the place plans
ice will be discussed at a meeting of funds, the bill authorizing the so­
the hour became so late that his wife extensive Improvements, according to
the American Electric Railway asso­ cieties who are planning the Fort
was alarmed she went to see why he John Ferguson, local real estate man,
ciation in Washington, D. C., Tuesday. Vancouver Centennial celebration to
had
not come to bed. She found him who negotiated the deal.
Approximately 800 executives from all take charge of the restoration work.
Tillamook— King’s Bessie of River
dead in his chair. The cross word
parts of the country, many of whom
puzzle lay on a table in front of him. view, purebred Guernsey belonging to
already are operating supplemental
King George Indisposed.
the Ira G. Lance herd, has gained the
bus lines, are here for the sessions.
London.—King George was suffer­ Solution was complete.
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Heart disease was said to have state championship for Oregon In class
Representative Longworth arrived ing from a feverish cold, it was an­ caused his death.
F, senior 2-year-old, according to ad-
in Chicago Sunday and made the ac­ nounced Monday, and would be unable
vice received by County Agent Pine
quaintance of his Infant daughter, who to fulfill his public engagements for
Fire Ruins Auto Show.
from the American Guernsey Cattle
arrived Saturday. Both Mrs. Long- a few days.
Kansas City Mo.—Fire destroyed ap­ club headquarters In New Hampshire.
worth, who is the eldest daughter of
proximately $1,500,000 worth of the This Guernsey gained the high place
Premier Mussolini III.
the late President Roosevelt and her
latest
creations of automobile manu­ with a production of 8138.7 pounds of
Rome.—Premier Mussolini is ill, but
child, born three days before her par-
facturers
at the Kansas City motor milk and 517.78 pounds of butter fat
ents’ 18th wedding anniversary, are his indisposition, it was stated Mon­
day, is not of a serious nature. He show in the American royal livestock in the year, She is a Tillamook coun
doing well, the attending physician has a slight attack of influenza.
¡pavilion here early Saturday.
Ity product.
said.
WANDERER WINS
MILLIONS IN SUIT
SCHOOL DAÇS
Carriers $14.000.000,
Someth ing to
Think About
Bi F. A. WALKER
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LACKING VISION
E WHO tread» In a beaten round.
clings to Ideas that have been
H
worn threadbare, chooses to follow the
lead of other», without Investigation
of their method». Is not deatlned by
nature to paint a masterpiece, carve a
living marble or rise beyond mediocrity
In any one of the ordinary fields of hu­
man endeavor.
He lucks tti«* fire, the spirit, the di­
vine force that bespeaks mu»tery and
magnificent' adilev ement over »puce
and material.
He 1» blind to the glorious heights
forever calling to the original man or
woman who possesses what the world
calls vision.
James J. Hill visioned the slumber­
ing wealth of the great Northwest and
built a railroad that brought thou­
sands of homes and mill ns of dollars
to farmers, tradesmen nd mechanics
who sensed his keel: ..erceptlon, but
knew not Its meanln
Vision Is dlfilfult > demonstrate In
words, yet one word defines It -fnlth!
We cun feel It in the personality of
the man or woman who has It. We
can Sense Its dynamic thrill In his or
her voice. We nre stirred to the heart­
core by Its magnetism and swept along
by Its Invisible force ns a flower la
whirled downstream to remind the
weeds In the regions that lienuty, love­
liness and grandeur nre to be found In
enduring abundance up among the hills
and productive highlands.
The lifelong and heroic labors of
the men and the women of vision nre
only efforta that count in th? world’s
work; the only labor that endures and
gives Inspiration to the rising genern
tion; the only labor that keeps the
world safely on Its upward course.
Our great museums of art end sci­
ence would be bare were It not for
the men and women of vision, who put
forth their hands In God'S name, march
out Into the unknown and dare and do,
while the Incompetent follow the beat­
en truck with never a new thought nor
even a new word!
We have but touched the crust of
wonderful things flint lie all about us
In the nlr, In the sen. In the earth
waiting for the men ami women with
vision to Iny them Imre and utilize
them for the common benefit of man-
kind.
The great achievements of tld» age
are destined 4o fade und wither before
the grander things yet to come, seen
even now by souls given vision by the
Omnipotent. Give your vision full
rein and drive on in fnlth.
Undreamed things await you. They
shall be your heritage!
by McClur« N*«r»l>»p«r Hynille«»« 1
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By H. IRVINQ KING
LOVE AND SHOES
be lald upon tho brldw’s head Implylng
wlth what subjectlou ehe »houid serve
her husband.”
Tho symbollsm I» obvluus, and In
the anclent day» when the piadtlon of
the marrled womnn was an» of entlro
aubjection to her husband, one shoe
pls< ed upon the top of another would
suggekt the Iden of mnrrlnge. Now to
primitive man whut was »»soclated In
thought was aasoclnted In fact. Thvre-
fore, one shoe phu-ed upon another
had an actunl Connection wlth mar-
ringe by a phase of aympathetle maglc.
So when the New England glrl ar-
ränge» her shoe» wlth the heels of one
upon the instep of the other, the
Upper shoe rrpresentn her future hus-
bnnd’s and tbe lower one her own. The
power of sympnthetle magic Is m-t
working and her future »|wiuse sp-
pears to her In n dream.
li» MnClar» s»w.i.«p«r Minilo*'« >
Maa may bs the head of the family,
but far better than that, woman 1» Iha
heart of It.—Punch.
SOMETHING GOOD
HE fidlowing stew may be pre­
pared of tame ducks when the
T
wild nre out of season:
Stsw of Wild Ducks.
Cut up a pair or more of wild ducks
us for frtcaasae, and let boll ten min­
utes In barely water to cover, with one
onion nnd one carrot cut Into slices.
Remove the duck meat, drain, dredge
with flour mixed with salt nnd pepi>er
nnd cook in a little hot fat until
brown. Misinwldle add to the water
In which the duck was parboiled, a
minced »ballot, and a bunch of sweet
herb»; then put In the brown pieces
of duck, cover closely nnd cook fur
two hour» or until tender. Remove
the duck, thicken the liquid with
browned flour, one cupful <>f cream
and one well beaten egg. Stir until
the “KU 1« set, pour over the duck
meat, garnish with curled celery und
slices of lemon.
Sweet Pepper Soufflse.
Cut the membranes nnd remove
them nnd the seeds from four sweet
peppers, then pnrboll. Put through n
meat chopper, mix with two tnhle-
»lioonful» of tine crumbs, three table-
spoonful» of flour, blended with an
equal quantity of cream, stirred Into
the slightly benten yolk» of two eggs.
SeaHon with one-hnlf tenxpoonful of
salt, >i little pepper unit n pinch of
poultry seasoning. The whole should
be its thick as n stiff batter. Add two
well benten egg whites. Plnee nt once
In greuNcd individual molds, or In pn
per cases, filling them two thirds full.
Bake In n hot oven until well puffed.
For a pretty dessert fill Individual
pastry shells with whipped cream
which has been mixed with n few
tableapoonfuls of preserved strawber­
ries. Tlie fresh ones, of course, nre
preferable when they enn be obtained.
(®. 1811. Waatern N«wapap»r Union )
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:> MEN YOU MAY MARRY ♦
By E. R. PEYSER
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Has a man like this proposed
'’ to you 7
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LACE the heel of one shoe upon <>
the Instep of the other for three ¡J
consecutive nights before going to lied <>
and you will dream of your future ¡J
husband. That Is a common supersti­ ■«
tion among New England girls. Pos­ ¡J
sibly the superstition obtains also In •>
other parts of the country. It Is based ;;
upon the old Idea of the subjection of "
the wife to the husband of which a 11
superimposed shoe Is symbolical.
“Over Edom will I cast my shoe,” sang <>
David when be threatened the subjec­ ■>
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tion of the land of the Edomites.
In a pamphlet of the first part of the ¡J
Seventeenth century It Is mentioned as <>
being an ancient custom that "When ¡I
at any time a couple were married the < ,
sole of the bridegroom’s shoe was to
P
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Symptoms: Not attractive to
women—but he wants to be. Ue
writes to you how he's had n
bath In a November sen and
feels like Goliath; then ho has
climbed two mountnln peaks
nnd feels like Sandow. When
he’s with you ho runs up hill,
singing to develop his chest!
IN FACT
Takes little to make him feel
chesty with women.
Prescription to the bride:
Build a gym In your house.
R- Maks him think ha is a
^feminine magnet.
Absorb Thia:
PLAY YOUR CARDS
THROUGH STRENGTH
»y McClur* N«w«b«p«r Syndic«'« )
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