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THE TURNER TRIBUNE VOL. Tl'KNElL OREGON, TIIL’tSDAY, JANUARY VI. WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED Event» of Noted FOR YOU Propio, Goveramrsit» and I’arlhc Northooot. and Other Thing» Worth Knowing. Four death, from cholera occurred lu Manila. I' I. in 24 hour,. HI« persona hollered to hare cholera were received at the Isolation hospital Tues day. Operation, were reaumed In all d<* parttnonta of the Ford Motor company tn Detroit Monday alter a shutdown of nearly a mouth fur Inventory and repair,. Organ lied labor In Ireland soon will make an Important announcement In favor of the peace treaty. The atll- tuda of labor had been regarded a, uncertain. Two hundred cocoanuta which con tained not thalr own natural milk but a plut each of alrong Jamaica rum were seised by federal agent, Monday al a Minneapolis railroad »tattoo Each cocoanut wa, plugged with a cork. Arthur O. Mrlnlnger, tugltlva cash- ler of the Night and Day bank tn Bl. lxiuli. Tueaday waa Indicted on a charge of making a false report of the affair» of a corporation. Illa al leged defalcation* are Mid to be *7*4.000. A tremendous landslide Monday destroyed tbe cathedral, the poatoftlce and many dwellings In the town of San Fratello, Sicily. The entire pop ulallon fled to tbe country. The slides, which are continuing, are due to re cent heavy rainfall. Frank C. Heaton, ex assistant cash ler of the Scandinavian-American bank of Fargo, waa found guilty by a Jury of embessllng leas than 120. making hla offense a misdemeanor. He had been charged with speculations ap proximating 175,000. Marquis Okuma. ex premier of Ja pan, died at 7 o'clock Tuesday morn Ing. For aeveral day, he bad been lying between life and death and dur ing part of that time hla coma wa, ao Intense that hli death waa an nounced Friday last. Ten men. nine of thorn deacon, and ciders, poisoned Sunday by woodalaln served by mistake for sacramental wine during communion service, of the Seventh Reformed church In Grand Itaplds, Mich., were prunounc»<d out of danger Tuesday. Colonel John Bigelow Dodge, who was arrested by bolahevlst authorities at Batum, December 9, aa an alleged secret British agent, has been re leased and la awaiting passage from Batum to Constantinople, according to a dispatch to the Ixindon Times. It was offlclslly explained from Moacow that his arrest wa, an error. Blanding at hl, place In the senate and speaking publicly for the first time In ills own defense, Truman H. Newberry, senator of Michigan, de clared Monday that with God aa his witness he was not to this hour con scious of a single act—unlawful, dis honorable or corrupt—In hla campaign against Henry Ford In 1918. That 18 manufacturers are In a con spiracy to violate the Sherman anti trust law waa claimed by the United States government In Denver, Colo., In filing a dissolution and Injunction suit In the United States district court ci ting the Cement Securities company and six other cement companies as being In the allegod combination In restraint of competition and trade. A tax of 3 cents n gallon on gaso line, to be paid by the producer, the proceeds of which would be used for a soldier’s bonus. Is proposed In a bill Introduced Tuosday by Representative Bacharach, New Jersey, republican. The tax, he estimated, would yield from (240,000,000 to *250,000,000 an nually—sufficient revenue, he said, to meet caah payments to former service men provided for In the bill. The educational programme for dis abled ex-service mon aa worked ont by the veterans' bureau, will be submitted to President Harding for approval. Di rector Forbes announced Tuesday sev eral hours after Robert 8. Marx of Cincinnati, national commander of the iil»abled American veterans of the worlu war, had protested before the house appropriations subcommittee against use of abandoned army can tonments for such training. BACKS OPEN DOOR IN CHINA Grrat Britain Hupports 1‘rlnrlpls Glv- en by Secretary Jlughe». PROHIBITION WINS SAYS MR. HAYNES Waahlngton. II. C.— Final adoption of th, new Chine,« tariff agreement by the far-eaatern committee, formal postponement of consideration of tbe famous 21 demand* Imposed on China by Japan In 1915 and of the question of apberea of Influence until tbe Shan* tung question baa been dliposod of, and reaffirmation by Hecrelary Hugh*, of the American "open door" policy In China, marked the resumption Monday by the arm* conference of It, study of far-eastern question,. The farcastrrn committee had not Open Naloon Gone and It» Many Evils Abated — Million» Imbiber» met alnco January 5. pending efforts of the naval committee to complete Abandon Liquor. It, work. Monday's meeting waa called primarily to pass the final draft of the tariff agreement. Washington. D. C.—Facta and fig With the tariff question disposed of, tbe nine power, represented In tbe ures. together with "an even doxen committee took up the question of the unquestioned points lu proof that the epen door after Secretary Hughes had 18th amendment Is being enforced," suggested that consideration both of were made public Bunday night by the II demands and spheres of Influ ence be deferred until tbe Hhantupg Prohibition Commission Haynes In a question waa disposed of outside tbe statement on the eve of tho second conference by the Chinese and Ja anniversary of the national prohibi panese delegates. tion act. which became effective Jan Secretary Hughes, opening a discus uary 16, 1920. sion of the open door, supplied th, Tbe 12 points cited as "so outstand other delegate, with copies of a "def inition" of an open door policy re ing that no attempt can be made In garding China. This, It waa under denial" follow: stood, was baaed on a note Secretary "Disappearance of tbe open saloon. Hughe, had delivered tbe Chinese "Abatement of tbe drinking public minister bore July 1 concerning tbe i dining rooms. rights disputed by other powers, of "Passing of the treating evil, which tho Federal Telegraph company, an American corporation which bad ac wag recognised aa the greatest con quired a concession for tbe erection tributing agency In the development of a wireless station. In tbla note tbe of a liquor appetite. secretary reaffirmed tho American "Closing of whisky cure and similar policy regarding tbe open door In Institutions. China. Home question arose aa to whether "Increased savlugs accounts. lb, "definition" should apply to pri "Record breaking Christmas busi vate enterprise, and the discussion ness. will be continued The British dele- "Decreased drunkenness. gallon. It was understood, subscribed "Prohibitive prices of 'bonded' liquor tn principle to the open door through tor beverage use. Mr llalfour. Under the tariff agreement, th, tar "Dangerous character of Illicit iff resolution commission at Shanghai whisky. shall Immediately revise the schedule "Hurreptitlousnesa of present day adopted In 1918 so that the custom drinking. duty shall be an effective & per cent. "Wall of bowling minority who Thia resolution shall be completed within four month, and becomo ef would go to the length of undermining • fective within two month, thereafter the constitution to nullify an amend A special conference, the agreement ment which their action demonstrate, provide*, composed of the powers, I, In actual effect "Changed attitude of former hostile •hall meet within three month. In China at China's request to prepare statesmen, political leaders and the the way for the abolition of tbe l.lkin press." Mr. llsynes declared that the pro (Internal tax) with a view to granting China the right to levy surtaxes of 2ft hibition amendment was being en per cent on necessaries and & per cent forced to an even greater extent than on luxurleg. had been anticipated and predictions To keep the tariff schedule up to of opponent, had not been borne out date, thus assuring an effective rate, by actualities. "The chief cause of non-enforce- the agreement provides for a revision after four years and again every seven ment." he said, "was tbe appointment years thereafter. No mention la made of wet officials and smuggling. This of restoring to China autonomy over la being corrected by the appointment h<-r tariff, a, asked by the Chine,, of officials who are In sympathy with delegation In It, 10 points presented tho law and by serving notice on neighboring countries that their flags when th, arms conference opened. are being used to protect smugglers.” General Goethals Will Kake Ho declared enforcement would Survey of Columbia Basin henceforth be a much easier under taking, for various reasons. Including Olympia, Wash.—Negotiation, with the attitude of the public, curtailing General George W, Goethals. builder of sources of supply, closer co-opera of the Panama canal, to undertake a tion of all enforcement agencies and survey of the Columbia busln Irriga the "poisonous death dealing charac tion project for the purpose of deter ter of practically all Illicit liquor now mining the feasibility of the two pro on the market." posed river diversions, will be closed Arrests for drunkenness, ho de Immediately at a contract prlco of clared. hnvo decreased 60 per cent, 120,000, Director Scott of the state liquor withdrawals have been reduced department of conservation and devel 50 per cent, while last year's Importa opment announced Saturday. General tion of liquor was one-half of one per Goethals first asked *25,000 to make cent of the total consumption of liquor the study, but Director Scott was ad in America the year before prohibition. vised that he would accept *20,000 If tho state would guarantee payment. Movies to Insure Hays. The director Immediately telegraph New York.—The life of Postmaster- ed the Columbia basin committee of the Spokane chamber of commerce to General Hays will be Insured for *2.- notify him at once if *5000 could be 000,000 when he resigns to head the placed at hla disposal, which, with National moving picture combination, the *15,000 now in the Columbia basin It was announced Sunday by a sub fund, would make the required amount. committee of motion picture men, The At a meeting In Spokane the commit policy will be mnde payable, In the tee placed the *5000 In tho bank with event of his death, to the reorganised Director Scott aa trustee, the depart national association of the motion pic ture industry and the amount being ment was notified. The Spokane chamber of commerce large. It was stated, would be distrib sent a delegation over the state in an uted among aeveral companies. Success of Dry Law Is Held Fully Proved. MEASURE effort to raise the *10,000 required to bring General Goethals here at the first-named price. General Goethals will be asked to study tho Columbia and Pen d'Oreille proposed diversions and report which plan is the most practicable in bring ing the water to the land. ENFORCED Newsboy Pays Alimony. Chicago.—Tony May, who told Judge Friend he was a newsboy, wa, ordered to pay *600 a month to his wife as alimony. Questioning by the Judge brought out that while Tony formerly sold paper, on the itreet, he now owned a string of news stands, quite Tax Exempt Bonds Hit. a bit of real estate and Interests In Waahlngton, D. C.—Adoption of a aeveral business enterprise,. constitutional amendment prohibiting Volcano Again Erupt,. further laauance of tax exempt securi ties waa advocated by Secretary Mel San Antonio, Tex.—Popocatepetl vol lon before the house ways and means cano, which has again awakened, Is committee. It would have the ten throwing out an enormous quantity of dency of Increasing Interest rates on asbea that are hulled far from the state and municipal bonds and would mountain, said a dispatch received do much to check extravagance of Sunday by La Prensa, a Spaniah lan states and municipalities. He estim guage newspaper here. Snow, which ated that *10,660,000,000 In tax ex always covers the summit of th* vol- empt securities were outstanding. esno, has melted. E state news | in brief . I Th* Dall*,.—Tbe general tax l*vy In Wasco county, based on the 1921 tax rolls, for all pirposss, totals 23 ei mills, according to figures released st tbe county assessor's office. Belem—When the 1921 legislature passed a law providing that women shall alt on juries. It also placed on Marlon county tbe necessity of re modeling the Interior of tbe court house ul a cost estimated at *12,000. 19, 1922. NO. 17. ing words. Snowbird. You're a brav* girl—aiwavs have been «Ince a little thing, a, God I, my Jim», «nd y* u know we must face the truth. 1> ’re* one of us die than l>oth. And I pro..- Ise—DI never feel their fangs. And I won't take your pistol with me either.” Her thought flashed to the clesp hunting knife that he carried In bi* pocket. But her eyee lighted, and »he bent and kissed him. And the wolves leaped forward even at thl». "We'll stay It ont,” she told him. "We'll fight It to the last—Just a, Dsn would want u, to do. Beside*—It would only mean the same fate for me. In a little while. I couldn't cling up there forever—and Dan won't come back." She was wholly unable to gain on tbe fire. Only by dint of the most heart-breaking toll wa, she able to se cure any dry fuel for It at all. Every length of wood she cut had to be CHAPTER III—Continued. of defeat, of death, of heaven know, scraped of bark, and half the time the —22— what remorselessness with which thl, Are was only a sickly column of white "Good evening. Cranston," he said grave giaut would administer Justice ■moke. It became Increasingly diffi was upon him, and his heart seemed cult to swing the ax. Tbe trail wa, pleasantly. Cranston wa, also upon hl, feet the to freexe In bl, breast. Cravenly be almost at It, end. The after-mldnlght hour, drew on* same Instant HI, instinct, were en- leaped for hl, knife on tbe blankets by one across the face of the wilder- Urely true. He knew If he leaped for below him. Dan wa, upon him before he ever ness. and she thought that the deep hl, rifle, Dan would be upon bls back tn an Instant and he would have no reached IL He sprang a, a cougar ening cold presaged dawn. Her An chance to use It Tbe rifle was now ■pings, incredibly fast and with shat ger, were numb. Once more she went to one of the out of the running, as they were at tering power. Both went down, and saplings, but she stumbled and almost for a long time they writhed and strug alxitit equal distances from it, and Bend. — A county-wide campaign went to her face at the first blow. It against the coyote, which during tbe neither would have time to rwlng or gled tn each other’s arms. Tbe pine wa, the Instant that her gray watch bough, rustled strangely. elm It fall and winter season has caused con The dark, gaunt band reached In er, had been waiting for. Tbe wolf Dan’, sudden appdry-anre had been siderable loss to central Oregon sheep so utterly unlooked for. that for a mo vain for tbe knife. Some resistless that stood nearest leaped—a gray man, Is to be undertaken In the near ment Cranston could find no answer. [x>wer seemed to be holding bl, wrist streak out of the shadow- and every future under the direction of County Hl, eye, moved to the rifle, then to and wa, benulng Its bone as an Indian wolf In tbe pack shot forward with a yell. It was a short. ex;e><tant cry; Agent Jamison. Tasteless strychnine i hl, belt where hung hl, bunting knife bends a bow. Pain lashed through him. but It chopped off short. For with a that still lay on Uie pallet. “Good And theo thl, dark-hearied man. who half-sob, and seemingly without men in a beef blood bait will be used. I evening. Falling." he replied, trying had never known tbe meaning of mer Salem —There were two fatalities In his hardest to fall Into that strange cy, opened bls lip, to scream that this tal process, she aimed her pistol and fl red. Oregon due to Industrial accidents spirit of nonchalance with which terrible enemy be merciful to him. A f»rt-leaplng wolf I, one of the But the word, wouldn't come. A during tbe week ending January 12. brav* men have so often met their ad moat difficult pistol target, that can tie according to a report prepared here versaries. and which Dan had new. ghastly weight had come at bl, throat, imagined. It bordered on tbe miracu- by tbe state Industrial accident com "I'm surprised to see you here. What and hla tortured lung, sobbed for brea h. Tten. for a long time, there mission. The victims were William do you want?" was a curious pounumg. lashing sound I Dan', voice when ne replied was no Petero, planerman. Portland, and Ed more warm than the srtew bank, that In the evergreen bough. It seemed , ward Erickson, dock employe, Astoria. reinforced the lean to. “I want your merciless and endless. But Dan got up at last, in a strange. ■ Toledo.—The farmer, of ths lower rifle—also your »u->w shoe, and your Slletx river and on the Alsea and Ya- aupplies of food. And I think I'll take heavy silence, and swiftly went to : work. He took the rifle and filled It i qulna rivers are at a loss to know your blankets, too.” "And I suppose you mean to fight with cartridges from Cranston', belt. I what to do with the millions of feet of Then be put the remaining two boxes I high-class alder log, which they have for them?" Cranston asked. Ills lips of shells Into hl, shirt pocket. The I drew up In a smile, but there wa, no on their bottom lands. At the present ■mile In the tone of his words. supplies of food—the sack of nutri- I time there is only one small mill, lo "You're right.” Dan told him. and tiou, Jerked venison like dried bark. ■ cated at Toledo, which handles alder be stepped nearer. "Not only for the little package of cheese, the boxes ; logs. that. Cranston. We re face to face at of hard tack and one of the small ! sacks of pr.-pa^rd flour—he tied, with I Tillamook.—W. D. Clarke, division last—bands to hands. I've got a knife a «Ingle kettle, into hl, heavy blan In my pocket, but I'm not even going' engineer of the stat* highway commis kets and flung them with the rifle upon to bring It out. It's bands to hands — sion. with the county court, surveyor you and 1—until everything', square hi, back. Finally be took the pair of and county road master, are going! between us." snow shoes from the floor. He worked I over different sections of the county, "Perhaps you've forgotten that day coldly, swiftly, all tbe time munching , napping out road work for the coming on the ridge?" Cranston asked. “You at a piece of Jerked venison. When he | year in which the state highway com haven't any woman to save you this had finished be walked to the door of the lean-to. mission will take part, on a 50-50 basis time." It seemed to Dan that Cranston whis- j "I remember the day, and that's part with the county. of the debt The thing you did yester pered faintly, from hl, unconscious»- , Eugene.—Deaths numbering 248 oc day Is part of It too. It's all to be set ness. as he passed; but the victor did ! curred in Eugene during tbe past year tled at last Cranston, and I don't be not turn to look. The snow shoes | and there were 324 births during the lieve I could spare you If you went to crunched »way Into the darkness. On j same period, according to the report your knees before me. You've got a the hill behind a half doxen wolves— i of the city health officer. Dr. S. M. clearing out by the fire—big as a prixe stragglers from the pack—frisked and leaped about In a curious way. A Kerron. The report states that Eu ring. Well go out there—side by side. strange smell had reached them on the . And hands to hands well settle all gene and Lane county during 1921 wind, and when the loud, fearful step, ' maintained a high standard of health I these debts we have between us—with were out of hearing, it might pay them i no rules of fighting and no mercy In In comparison with previous years. to creep down, one by one. and investl- j the end I" its cause. They measured each other with their gate Dallas—The big mill of the Falls • ••••••* City Lumber company, owned by the eyes. Once more Cranston’s gaxe stole The gray circle about the fire was Some Resistless Power Seemed to Be Cobbs-Mitchell Interests, suspended to bls rifle, but lunging out Dan growing Impatient. Snowbird waited to Holding His WrisL kicked It three feet farther Into the operations permanently Saturday. The shadows of the lean-to. Dan saw the the last instant before she admitted lous that she did not miss him alto company gave as Its reason for the j dark face drawn with passion, the thl, fact But It is possible only so gether. Her nerves were torn, their long to deny ‘ the truth of a thing that shutdown the prohibitive cost of trans hauds clenching, the shoulder muscles control over her muscles largely gone. porting logs from Its logging camps in growing into hard knots. And Cran all the sense, verify, and that moment Yet the bullet coursed down through the Siletx basin. The equipment and ston looked and knew that merciless for her was past. She noticed that when ,he went to the lungs, inflicting a mortal wound. crew of the mill will be transferred to vengeance—that age old sin and her hand, and kn«es, laboriously to The wolf had leaped for her throat; Christies, creed by which he lived — Valsetx, where the company has an but he fell short. She staggered from had followed him down and was cut a piece of the drier wood from the other mill. rain-soaked, rotted snag that was her a blow, and she heard a curious vounil clutching him at last principal supply of fuel, every wolf 5 I d the region of her hip. But she Roseburg. — Nine residents of the He saw ft in the position of the stal would leap forward, only to draw bnck didn't know that the fang, had gone Camas valley vicinity have appealed wart form before him. the clear level when she stood straight «gain. She home In her soft flesh. The wolf to tho circuit court from the schedule eyes that the moon light made bright worked desperately to keep the fire rolled on the ground; and If her pistol of damages allowed by the county as steel, the hard lines, the slim, pow- burning bright. She dared not neglect had possessed the shocking power of court in confiscating land for right of It for a moment. Except for the single a rifle, he would have never got up way on the Roseburg-Coos Bay road pistol ball that she could afford to ex again. A, It wa°. he shrieked once, pend on the wolves—of the three she then sped off in the darkness to die. which has been adopted as a state Five or six of tbe nearest wolves, I had—the fits was her last defense. project. The court appointed a board But It was a losing fight. The rain- catching the ,mell of hl, blood, bayed of viewers for this road and a storm soaked wood smoked without flame, ■nd sped after him. of protest arose over the findings of the comparatively dry core with which But the remainder of the great pack the board. I Dan had started the fire had burned —fully 15 of the gray, gaunt creature, I down, and the green wood, hacked with —came stealing across the snow to The Dalles—The bld of Blyth, Wit I such heart-breaking difficulty from the ward her. White fang, had gone ter & Co., In conjunction with Bond, [ saplings that Dan had cut needed the home; and a new madness wa, In th, Ooodwin & Tucker, offering a prem ! most tireless attention to burn at all. ■Ir. ium of *13,850 for the 6 per cent ••••••• Her nervous vitality wa, flowing • *150,000 Issue of Wasco county high- , ! from her In a frightful stream. Too Straining Into the silence, a perfect way bonds was accepted by the county i long she had toiled without food in ly straight line between Cranston', court. The bonds were the first lot 1 ; the constant presence of danger, and camp and Snowbird's. Dan Falling of the *800,000 issue voted by the she was very near indeed to utter ex- came mushing ?cro«« the snow HI, I haustion. But at the seme time she sense of direction had never been county for the construction of The . knew she must not faint That wa, obliged Io stand such a test as thl, Dalles-California highway within its! I one thing she could not do—to fall un before. Snowbird's fire was a single boundaries. conscious before tbe last of her three dot on a vast plateau; yet he had gon* Tillamook.—On account of the de- j 1 cartridge, was expended In the right straight toward It. mand for calves from high producing way. (TO BE CONTINUED.) dams, the Tillamook Cow Testing as Again she went forth to the sapling, Device Overcomes Sleeplessness. and thl, time It seemed to her that If sociation ha, decided to pool Interests No one need suffer from sleepless- she simply tossed the ax through the and fix a price on young stock. In sir. she could fell one of the gray ness any longer. A device has been quiries have been received by W. D. I crowd. But when she stooped to pick Invented which. It Is claimed, will Pine, county agricultural agent, who it up—she didn't finish the thought. rend the worst case of Insomnia to will act In behalf of the association. She turned to coax the fire. And then the land of nod In a few minutes. The average of the association cows The machine, which in appearance I, she leaned sobbing over the sled. Is 450 pounds of butter fat, and the “What's the use?" she cried. “He rather complicated, consist, of a num calves are from purebred sires. won’t come back. What', the us* of ber of disc, which, when the starting fighting any more?" handle I, moved, rotate In opposite Klamath Falls.—Th* announcement "There'» always use of fighting," her directions. All that the sufferer ha, recently made by Chief Newell of the father told her. He seemed to speak to do I, to keep hl, eye, on the diac* reclamation service that the Tule lake with difficulty, and his face looked a, they turn, until after a short spell "Qood Eveelng, Cranston.” lands, comprising about 18,000 acre*, strange and white. The cold and the of watching he gradually sink, Into were to be offered for lease has stirred erful hands. He could rend It In the exposure were having their effect on a sound sleep. up a hornet's neat lu this community, tones of the voice—tone, that he him hl, weakened system, and unconscious the proposed leasing project being op self could not Imitate or pretend. The ness was a near shadow Indeed. “But. Hadn’t Wasted Any Tim*. posed by the chamber of commerce hour had come for the settling of old dearest—If I could only make you do A young couple rushed Into a mar what I want you to—" riage license bureau recently and an and the American Legion post. As a debt*. He tried to curse hl, adversary as a “What?” nounced to the clerk that they wished result of this feeling a meeting of the weakling and a degenerate, hut the ob “You're able to climb a tree, and If to be married at once. Dan Cupid's board of directors of the chamber of scene word, he sought for would not you'd take these coats, you wouldn't executive officer surveyed the cnuide commerce and a committee of the come to his lips. Here wa, hl, fate, freexe by morning. If you'd only have from under grizzled brows and said American Legion post waa held Satur and because tbe darkness always fade, the strength—" severely: “I’m afraid this I, a run day at which a protest was formulated before the light, and the courage of away match." "Well, your hono*" "And see you torn to pieces I” and forwarded to Secretary of the In wickedness always nreak, before tho “I'm old, dear—and very tired—and returned the prosp live groom. “I courage of righteousness, Cranston wag I'd crawl away Into the shadows, where can't exactly say » ran, but w* terior Fall. afraid to look It Ifi the face. The fear you couldn't see. There', no use minc walked pretty fast." Salem—Fifty p--r cent of the jurors to be selected for' service during the March term of the Marion county cir cuit court will be women, according to announcement made here. Drawing of the jury panel will start Wednes day. Prineville.—The action of Crook county post, American Legion, in adopting, resolution, opposing tbe leasing of Crook county lands to Jap anese, has been Indorsed by the Prine ville Commercial club and by the Powell Butte Co-operative association.