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( ITFM ^s WORLD’S DOINGS FATNQt AND ENGINES SON MEET IN CRASHING INSTANT DEATH Ot General Interest OF CURRLNT WEEK About Oregon Stockton, Cal, — Two trainmen — father and son— were killed and scores of passengers badly shaken up in a head-on collision between the Santa Fa's westbound passenger No. 6 and a freight special. No. 498, one mile east of Stockton shortly after 3 o’clock Sunday. W. A. Wing, Sr., engineer of the passenger, and W. A. Wing, Jr., hi* son, fireman of the freight, were in stantly killed. Both engines, the mail car of th# passenger, and two or three boxcars, Uve News items of Ail Nations and were reduced to a tangled mass of Pacific Northwest Condensed splintered wood and twitted steel. Both locomotives, stripped of cabs, for Our Busy Readers. smokestacks and bells, overturned on the south side of the track, the pass enger engine almost reversing it* for A Seattle policeman attempting to mer position. capture two burglars »hot one and cap tured the other. Brief Resume of General News from Ail Around the Earth. UMYQtSAL HAPPENINGS W A NUTSHB1 Congreeaional military committees are confronted with four army plana radically differing. Two men in a fishing launch off South Bend, Waah., were rescued after being toeaed about for 12 hours. Burns, Or., offers the Strahorn peo ple $125,000 to run the main line of their proposed railroad through that city. President Wilson makes a speech before the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, in seaeion at Columbus, Ohio. France will limit herself in the Balkan states by furnishing 60,000 soldiers and no more. She assumes that England should supply the rest. Mrs. Ethel McKenxle, of California, who married an Englishman and there by was disfranchised, has regained her ▼ote by her husband applying for naturalisation papers. The Democratic state central com mittee of Arkansaa at a meeting at Little Rock, adopted a resolution In dorsing consideration of Praaident W il son and expressing belief that he should be renominated. The German imperial chancellor, in a speech before the reichatag, invites proposals for peace from her enemies, and avows that she has no desire to continue fighting and will not be re sponsible for the war’s prolongation. A Zurich, Switzerland, dispatch states that violent demonstrations in favor of peace have taken place in Berlin. The police were obliged to charge the crowds. The windows of stores and cafes were smashed during the rioting. Soldiers in the crowd took an active part in the disturbances. November exports through the New York port broke all records by exceed ing $180,000,000 in value. Foodstuff», led by wheat, and explosives, mostly smokeless powder, tri-nitro-tuluol, cordite and gun cotton, formed a large proportion of the exports. The pur chases were about equally divided be tween England and France. The custom of marriage by proxy which has come into vogue during the war baa placed a young Parisian wo man in a curious situation. She was married by proxy on November 17 to Sergeant Joseph Conduche. On De cember 1 she was informed officially that he had been killed on September 28, several weeks before the marriage. Although the marriage ia invalid in law, the authorities, taking account of Sergeant Conduche’* intentions, will give a widow’ s pension to the woman. The governor of Oregon pardons two convicts and paroles nine others. Fourteen women in Mexico are shot as Carranza spies, by the Villaistaa. The British press considers Presi dent Wilson’ s address as “ by force of events, a war message from beginning to end.” The Democratic National committee has selected St. Louis as the city in which to hold the National convention, June 14, 1916. Members of the relchstag are de bating the food situation in that coun try. Producers, consumers, dealers, and ministers are blamed. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintend ent o f the Chicago schools, has re signed. She hsa been active in edu cational work for 63 years. The Ford peace ship has asked, by wireless to Secretary Lansing, that passports be issued so that the party may enter belligerent countries. The German government concedes the Socialist wing in tbs reichatag the right to advocate terms upon which the Germans might accept peace. Senator Dillingham, o f Vermont, chairman of the former immigration commission, introduces a bill in the senate providing that male aliens over 16 years old who cannot read should be excluded from the United States. A Manitou, Colorado, bank robber locks the cashier in the vault and es capee with $1600. Wilson’s address > congress elec trifies the country and the dominant note ia National preparedness. An agreement for a conference of Greek military authorities and mili tary representatives o f the entente powers to examine into the report on tbs necessities of the situation respect ing the allied demands upon Greece, has been reached, and the preliminary step* toward holding the conference have been taken. Stock Show Rated as One of Best Seen in Northwest Portland — Judge*, visitor* and ex hibitor* unite in assertion that the stock that ia now on exhibition at the yards at Kenton i* the beat that has ever been gathered in the Northwest. Thera are prise pens and individual an imals that must compel attention; prise herds, and cattle, sheep and awin* by the carload lota. One of the individual animal* that has created unusual attention is a registered Duroc Jersey barrow, named Woodrow Wilson. It is but 16| months of age and already has attained a weight of 700 pounds. The students’ judging contest was concluded with the result that Wash ington State college won with a score K A R L BU EN Z of 2122 points. Oregon Agricultural college was second, Idaho third and California fourth. The judging was made and the men given 80 points for perfect judgment and 20 for a perfect reason. Judging at the Fifth Annual Pacific International Livestock exhibition was concluded in Holsteins, Jerseys. A yr shire* and Guernsey*, in the cattle ex hibits. Cotawolda and Lincolns were the only two classes of sheep that were judged in which there was competition and two breeds of swine, Berkshirea and Poland Chinas, received their awards. A few classes of the Short horns remain to be judged. The biggeet thing on the program was the auction of the fat stock. The chief attraction in the collection of fat cattle and the animal that will first fall under the auctioneer's hammer is the grand champion Shorthorn steer from the University o f Idaho. This animal has never lost in any of the classes in which he has been entered and has invaded classes in which ap peared steers of greater age and has competed with many prize steers dur ing his short life. His weight is now 1636 pounds. His mother is a thoroughbred Shorthorn, May Daisy, and she was sired by the grandson o f Gold Crown, reared by J. H. McCrosakey, Fishtrap, Wash., one of the beet known breeders in the Northwest. F. W. Harding, secretary of the American Shorthorn Breeders' associa tion and a man who has judged that breed of cattle for years, declared the Karl Buenz, managing director of champion to be the beet specimen he the Hamburg-American line, convicted had ever seen. with other official* of the company of conspiracy to defraud the United Land Grants May Be In State* by false clearance* and mani Courts for Many Years fests obtained by them for vesaelt chartered by the line for the purpose Further litigation that may keep of taking auppliea from American porta both the Coos Bay and Oregon & Cali to German war vesaels engaged In fornia grant lands in the courts for commerce destroying. years is threatened as a result of the decree handed down in the United Railroad men declared that they States court at Portland by Judge Wolverton in the case of the govern never before had heard of an engine ment against the Southern Oregon being turned around in a wreck, al company. though they had seen many plunge in The court held, in this decree, that to the ditch at right angles to the the grantees o f the land are entitled to a value o f $2.60 an acre and no track. more. Attorney for the defendants The mail car, with Mail Clerk J. A. gave notice of appeal. A similar de Spalding inside, turned over on the cree, with substantially the same pro north side of the track, tearing down a visions, has been prepared by Constan barn nearby in its plunge. Spalding tine J. Smyth, special assistant to the attorney general of the United States, crawled from under the wreckage in the Oregon & California case, which without a scratch. decree will be submitted to Judge Wolverton. Christmas Mail Sails. Attorney* for the Southern Pacific New York — American Christinas company, who contend that they, as mail to Europe, the last of which was present holders of the Oregon & Cali dispatched Monday, consisted of 8660 fornia lands, own the timber, coal, sacks. The sacks carried, in addition minerals and other natural resources, well as their value of $2.60 an to ordinary letters, 90,600 registered articles, 34,900 parcel poet packages acre, will contest this view of the case. and 284,467 money orders. I f the court accepts the contentions The money orders represented $3,- 168,797, an increase over the Christ of the United States attorney, as it did in the Southern Oregon case, it is mas mail for 1914 of $1,467,704. The largest amount to go to any in probable that the Southern Pacific at dividual country was $1,669,930 to torneys will prepare an appeal. Both these appeals must go to the Great Britain. Germany will receive United States Circuit court of Ap $228,323. peals, from which it will be possible to appeal to the United States Su Liquor Men Get Ready. Eureka, Cal. — The board of super preme court. Thus it is possible that visors has received an application from the lands will be held in litigation for the Astor Wine company, of Horn- a long period. The decree signed by Judge W olver brook, seeking a license to conduct a wholesale liquor house. Hornbrook ton enjoins the Southern Oregon com being near the state line, the whole pany from selling any of the timber on sale liquor houses are counting on a the Coos Bay wagon road lands, “ or large business when Oregon and Wash any minerals or other deposits thereon, ington become dry. The names of except as part of or in conjunction 380,000 tipplers in Oregon are cata with th* land on which the timber logued and indexed by another mail stands or in which the mineral or other order liquor house that is preparing to deposits are found, and from cutting or removal of any of the timber there open in Hornbrook. on, or from removing or authorizing the removal of mineral or other depos Bankers Get Five Years. its therein, excepting in conjunction Dubuque, I a.— Joseph Harrigan, ex- with the sale of the land bearing the vice president; George Homan, ex timber or containing the mineral.” cashier, and Charles Siege, ex-teller in The defendants are further enjoined the Dubuque National bank, were sen from the sale of the land and its re tenced in the United States district sources until congress shall have had court to five years each in the Federal “ reasonable opportunity” to make penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. provision for Its disposition by legisla The three former bank officials pleaded tion. guilty to charges of having made false entries on the books of the bank and Man Born in "W est” Is 77. misappropriating funds approximating Albany— Cyrus Hamlin Walker, old $16,000. est living white man born west of the Three Cutters Recommended. Rocky Mountains, celebrated his 77th Washington, D. C.— Two cutters for birthday at hia home near Albany work on the Pacific Coast and in Alas Tuesday. He was born December 7, kan waters, one for the harbor of New 1838, at Marcus Whitman mission, York and another for San Francisco near Walla Walla, Wash., the scene of harbor are recommended in the annual the Whitman massacre. Mr. Walker i report of the Coast Guard juat sent to has resided in Oregon all his life. He congress. The cost of all these vessels is an Indian war veteran and is past is not definitely given, but apparently commander of the Indian War Vete would be more than $600,000. The re rans of the North Pacific Coast. Mr. port favors early rebuilding of the 279 Walker has been writing "Memoirs of stations of the Coast Guard. Old Oregon,” which is almost finished. LOVE»' ÏÏUDDY Lb y GELE TT DURGE IL L U S T R A T E D ¿ k R Ä Y “ ccxor/r/artr o r a n rrr CHAPTER a m k u XIII-Continued. — 1 A “ Now she turned on him with scorn. ‘ Oh. that's why you're In such a hurry. Is It? I thought so. Take one ot those three women you have proposed to— they'll do for your purpose— they'll help you out. any one of them. You have only to say the word. Whistle »nd they'll come to you. Tltero's Mrs. Royalton. now! Marry her! You've sot ten minutes left go ahead. 1 don't care!” She paused on the threshold. ‘TH send her In. She'll make you a good wife— she's had a lot more ex perience than I have! Good luck!” Mall, left alone, walked up and down the studio angrily. He was so en grossed with hts thoughts that he did not see Mrs. Royalton. who had en tered a moment after Flodte left, until, turning suddeuly. he all but ran Into her. Rena, beaming, effusive, held out both her hands, caught hta and laid her dark head against hts shoulder. "Oh. H all!" she breathed. Hall tried unsuccessfully to free himself. "What's the matter now?" he asked. She looked fondly up Into his face. "Oh. Hall, didn't you understand what I said over the phone?" A sudden thought came to him, a desperate expedient. Any stick to best a dog with; any excuse, however ri diculous. would do for a quarrel with this clinging sickening female. He must get rid of her. So, quick as a flush, he took up her words and plunged Into a histrionic rage “Oh, I understand It right enough. That's the trouble. I understand It too well. Well, you've put me out of my misery, alt right. Thank God. you did It while there waa time for me to es cape worse!” "nut t don't mean that. Hall, real ly—" "No. you mean you only wanted to lure me on—get me to propose, and then throw me down! I know! All a woman cares for Is to fool some man —any man will do, I suppose, so long as her vanity Is satisfied, and ah* can have hts scalp to wear at her belt! Isn't it shameful what a woman will do, just for the moment's cruel pleas ure? You have no sympathy, no ten derness. no heart—you're nothing but a mass of Insane female conceit, that's what you are! Thank God I found It out In time, I say! Ob, I did think I loved you. Rena. I admit; but I was a fool to believe In you. Now, it’s all o ver!" He stood before her. shaking his fin ger savagely. "It's all over, and I’m glad of it! I'm well rid of you. Rena Royalton, and It will teach me a les son! I'd just like to tell you what 1 think of you, but you're my guest In my house, and unfortunately I’m a gentleman, and so I can't do It. But there's one thing I can say, and that's 'Good evening!’ Mrs. Royalton, and you'll have to excuse me, for I have my guests to attend to !” Almost winded with this extrava gant fury, he turned to make hts exit as speedily as possible, but shs was too quick for him Seising his arm, she looked him straight In the face, her eyes filled with tears. "Why, Hall Bonlstelle!” she ex claimed. "You're crazy! Why, I ’m go ing to accept you!” He dropped like a log upon a chair. In amazement. She had demolished his whole towering pose at a word. For a moment he was unable to speak. Then she looked at him very archly. "Hall,” she said, "don’t you think I'm prettier than usual tonight? Or do I Imagine It because I'm so awfully happy?" The question pricked him Into life. He looked at her coldly, and tn des peration made another attempt to goad her Into anger. "By jove, I didn't think a woman could— well, a, woman will do any thing to get what she wants, then, won’t she? She'll pay any price, and suffer any Indignity! Good Lord, haven’t you any pride, Rena, for heaven’s sake? Haven’t you any sens* of shame? Tell me; Is there anything you wouldn’t do for money, Rena Roy alton? Let’s have It !” "Why, Hall, dear!" she replied, with big Innocent eyes, "I don’t know what In the world you're talking about; but I’ll tell you one thing that I wouldn't do— I wouldn't give you up for all th* money In the w orld!" "W ell, can you beat It!” he gasped, addressing a Spanish chair. "Ah, Hall," she continued, "when I once consent, 1 go fast. Really, I ’d like to be married to you this very night. If you only had a marriage li cense.” "A what?” he cried, thunderstruck. "A marriage Uconse, you know. Of course that’s always necessary be fore—” "By Jlrniny Christmas!” h* thun dered, staring In front of him. Rena was forgotten, everything was forgot ten except that, through his stupidity all, now, was lost. A marriage li cense! Not once had It occurred to him— the whole sublime comedy had been played out in vain. The four million*— Jonaa Hasslngbury bad won. altar all! H* gave another look at th* clock. It was four minutes to twelv*. With out another word he stalked Impetu ously out of th* room. Mrs. Royalton. smiling, self-satisfied, stood for a moment In triumph. Her eyes were suddenly attraoted by a shining object upou th* rug, and cross ing toward It, the saw a ruby ring. Punled at Its presence there, she stooped and picked It up, examined It carefully, frowning, and then slow ly placed It upon her finger. Aa ah* did so, Carolyn liellys burst Into th* room. Mrs Koyalton hastily turned th* ruby Inside aud dropped her hand carelessly. Carolyn came up to her, very eager. “ Well, did you see Hall?” Mrs. Royal ton nodded, smiling "W hy! Didn't 1 say I would?” For a moment Carolyn gaied at her. aa It trying to penetrate her mind She seemed aa yet unconvinced. “ You re fused him. Rena?" "CertainlyI" Mrs. Royalton toasod her head. Still Carolyn seemed Incredulous. "W ell, how did he take It?” "Ob. I said 1 liked him. of course, but I couldn't think of marrying him. and all that—he took on awfully, real ly. Carolyn; he begged me to have him, and said his Ilf# would be ruined and all that rubbish—you know, tbs way they always do.” ‘ Said his Ilf* would be ruined, eh? What nonsense! You didn't say any thing about—about me, or Rosamund Gale, did you? I mean about why you refused him. really?” “ Ob. no!" Mrs. Royalton'* ton* waa for the first time, clear and honest sad ■b* now took her turn. "What did you aay to him, Carolyn?" Carolyn smiled. "Oh, we had a nice little time— no fuse, no hysterics at all. It waa really vary amusing.” "Did he seem -w ell, how did he take It, Carolyn?" “ Oh. of course we pretended It was all a Joke, you know. I wouldn't per mlt him to make a scene, but all th* earn* 1 could eee that underneath It all b* was pretty badly broke* up.” "Wall, h* didn't show It much whan be came to me, then. He seemed quite hopeful." At this moment there waa a peal of laughter outside the door, and a gay vole* ending a passage of affected per siflage. Rosamund sailed swishing In to the room. 8he held her bead up proudly, she seemed Immensely su perior as sha gated about, triumphant. The two women sprang at her "What did you say to Hall Bonlstalla?” exclaimed Carolyn. Rosamund waited a moment, proud ly superior. Then she answered calm ly, "No, I accepted him.” "You accepted him !” tha two broke out. "D ’you mean to say you want back on your promlta?” Carolyn demanded, furious. Mrs. Royalton caught her by th* arm. "A r* you fooling, Mlsa Gal*, or what do you mean? You promised— ” "Oh. pshaw!" Rosamund answered "What's a promise? Why, I found out that Hall felt a good deal different from what I had ever thought. Why, he’s a dear, really, and h* never cared a snap for you two— ” "Oh, didn't ha!” cried Carolyn. “ Why, tha fact la, I didn't have tha heart to reject him, really I didn't. 1 saw that there was some misunder standing somewhere, and we had got It all wrong. Hall’s simply crasy about me. and It waa perfectly absurd to let our talk stand In the way of my happi ness—and hta, that's a ll!" "And do you mean to aay you said yaa?" cried Mrs. Royalton. "Certainly I did. Hall Bonlstelle and I are formally engaged, now, and we’re going to be married— " "That's about all you know," cried Carolyn, now betide herself. "Hall Bonlstelle Is engaged to met” Mrs. Royalton gasped. Rosamund raved: "T'.'s no such a thing! It can't b e!” "Then yon lied to me. Carolyn?" Mrs. Royalton asked frigidly. "W ell, I couldn't violet* a confi dence, could I?” "It's a lla, that’s all there la about that!” Rosamund exclaimed. *Tt*s per fectly absurd on the face of I t I guess I ought to know!” "Oh, you don't have to believe It, but It’a a fact, nevertheless,” said Carolyn to Rosamund; and then turn ing to Mra. Royalton, sh* added; "You see. Rena, Hall explained It all to me, and I couldn't really blame him for tha way he's acted. He was In an awful mass, and bad led you and Mias Oal* to Imagine things that he couldn't get out of, very well. Bo, aa long aa I waa the one he really wanted, you know, I thought— ” "You were the one h* wanted!” Mra. Royalton exclaimed. "Wall, than, I'd Ilk* to know what you think of that!” And ah* thrust her hand with the ruby ring Into Carolyn's fac*. Rosamund turned white. "Wbat la it?” she stammered. "It's an engagement ring, of course,” •aid Mrs. Royalton. "Ran* Royalton," cried Carolyn, “ do you mean to say that you havo gone behind my back and broken your p r o » lead word?” Rosamund took U up. “You know you said you’d refuse him!” "W all.” said Mra. Royalton, T can’t help It, but 1 am engaged to Halt Bonl stalla. You two gtrla must havo made some big mistake, tn some way; I don’t understand It at all. But you can sao for yoursalf- there's tha ring I” Carolyn looked at bar ooldly. "Ran* Royalton, you have Had to mat Well, what can you eipaot from a woman, anyway?" "Yes." Rosamund added, “the min ute your back Is turned, end they'll stab you In the beck, every tim e!” "Why, I had no Idas of breaking my word. Carolyn, you know I would never do such a thing aa that. It would be utterly unlike me. I’ve always prided myeelf on my loyalty. But. you ■ee, when It's a case of a man’s happi ness at stake, hia whole Ufa— why. 1 •Imply had to aacrtfica myeelf. I'm too genaroua, I suppose, but 1 simply had to do It !" Carolyn gave a harsh laugh. "Well, then wa are all three of ua engaged to him. It seems. Ws'll have to draw lota for him. Or alsa stand In a row and lei hire choose." "Wall, I know one thing,” said Rosa mund, "I don't Intend to release him!” "Neither do I.” agreed Mra. Royal- toa. "W ell, I don't mind a fight mysalf," Carolyn arknowledged. "when It's a question ot four millions of dollars!” “ lluah!” cried Mra. Royalton sud denly, "hare conies somebody I” CHAFTBR XIV. Tha thraa grew Immediately silent, watching tha door. Mr. Doremua waa walking In with Jonaa Hasslngbury, talking. Both were In high good humor, the attorney beoause of hts pleasant social success, the Branford farmer because of tha growing prob ability of bla good fortune. They stood for a moment, looking about tha studio, and than Mr. Doramus pointed to tha clock. "My word, Haaslngbury, look al that! It's after twelve o'clock already I” Ha extended his baud ceremoniously. "Permit me to congratulate you. sir, upon your accession to th* Roalatella fortune! It Is my practice, as you know, never to take sides. Er—that la, I seldom permit myself such parti sanship Bo long, however, as fate has decided In your favor, I take pleasure in knowing that you era now tha poe- •aaaor of four million dollars!” "W h it's he talking aboutT” Rosa mund whispered wildly. "Why, It can't ba— " Carolyn began, but eha waa Interrupted by the cloea of tha lawyer's speech. “ It Is, of court*, to be regretted that ona of you must tnavltsbly lose, ac cording to ftontstella’s will, and 1 am profoundly sorry for Mr. Hall Bonl- •telle, our host, who naturally will be disappointed." Jonas Hasslngbury, meanwhll*. had taken out his wstcb, and was compar ing It with the clock. "E r—of course— what's that you're saying?" he asked, a little confused. "Oh, Hall! Yea, yes, of course It Is bard on Hall If I get the money—but theu." and ha “ What Old You Say to Hall ■tails?” Banl- straightened up and returned tha watch to his pocket—"he'd only throw It sway on soma woman, and I'll put It to good uaa. It s far battar, after all, that I should have It." Ha turned un easily, to leave. It seemed strange that ha was no mors sxcltsd or ex ultant. The three listening women tamed silently to one another, each with a look ot araaxement. "Why. It can't be! What do they mean?” Mrs. Royslton exclaimed. “ Oh. Mr. Doremus, Just wait a moment, please." He was about to follow Jonas, whan ‘Carolyn darted to hiss and caught him by his cost. (TO BB CONTINUED.) Two Definitions. Indeterminate santanea la that ia which a prisoner convicted of a crime la aontancad to Imprisonmaat not tor a particular tarm of year*, but for whatever time may ba determined hy hia conduct, oto. Th* ruling of tha re call la that by which an official may ba displaced from office If at a spe cial election held at tha demand of a prescribed number of tha community voters ha does not racalva tha greater number of votaa cast Tha judicial r e call lacludea judge* among ofleiala who may ba thus displaced.