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WORLD’S DOINGS Of CURRtNT WEEK 18 PRISONERS BURNED TO DEATH IN DtSINfECTING BATHHOUSE NEWS ITEMS About Oregon pdiniSNDni O f G eneral Interest mm wtrowa to see her, tha Instant he landed, or seemed so overjoyed, sud such a boy sgaln, or mads so much of bar and their common memories! Hs used not have begun begging her. In s minute, to go out to Australis, and than never hsvs mentioned It again; hs might Just as well hsvs told her If hs had or hoped to have a wife to welcome hsrl Of course ho saw It afterward, him self; that was why the whole subject of Australia had been dropped so sud denly and for good Moat likely bs had married beneath him; If so, she was very sorry, but hs might hsvs said that he was married. Curiously enough. It was over Mar tha that she felt least able to forgtvs him. Martha would say nothing, but her unspoken denunciations of Caza let would be only less Intolerable than her unspoken sympathy with Blanebs. Martha had been perfectly awful shout the whole thing. And Martha had com mitted the final outrage of belug per fectly right, from her Idl tic point of view. Now among all these meditations of a long night, aud of a still longer day. In which nobody even troubled to send her word of the case at Kingston, It would be too much to say that no thought of Hlltou Toys ever entered the mind of Blanche. Sho could not hslp liking him; he amused her Im mensely; and hs had proposed to her twice, and named her he would again. She felt the force of his warning, be cause she felt his force of character El Paso, T ex.— Eighteen prisoner» were burned to death and probably 10 others seriously injured, many fatally, in a fire late Tuesday at the city jail bathhouse. The blaze started from a Manner of Protecting Oregon flash of flame from a large tub of gas oline and kerosene solution used to de Timber Greatly Improved stroy germ-carrying lice. In their Salem- -Oregon's forest protection first reports officials attributed the or igin to the deliberate action of one of agencies since 1912 have waged a cam the prisoners in throwing a lighted paign of “ preparedness," according to match into the container. ILLUSTRATIONS hv Q. ITCWUN A A V E R S data compiled by State Forester El More than a score o f prisoners, who liott. During the period from 1912 to were thoroughly saturated with the Blanche was sharp enough to Inter CHAPTER XI—Continued. solution, were enveloped in flames. 1915 inclusive the State forester said rupL — 1 <^- that more than 3000 miles of aband Jail attendants immaiiately opened Ths trusty, sisterly, sensible voice, "N o—no— but If he had!" oned and obstructed trails were made Uve News Items of Ail Nations and two exits, allowing a number of the passable; 729 miles of strategic new half bantering but altogether kind, "You'd still stand by him?" prisoners in the bath room to escape, genuinely Interested If the least bit "I've told you so before. I meant trails built; 442 miles of telephone although seriously burned. Pacific Northwest Condensed to take him back to Australia with me Inquisitive, too. would have goue to a line were constructed and 25 cabins Surgeons said that the death list harder or more hardened heart than — I never told you that— but I meant for Our Busy Readere. would probably reach 25 and that erected for the use of lookout men in many of the injured would not live the forest service. This work called heat on Blanche's balcony that night to take hltn. and not a soul out there for an expediture of $50,000, prac Yet as Cazalet lighted his pipe he to know w ho he was." He sighed aloud more than a few hours. over the tragic stopper on that plan. Surrounding the bath quarters are tically all o f which was borne byghe looked old euough to be her father. "Aud would you still?" she asked. ‘T il tell you some time.” he puffed. Aberdeen, Wash., is about to begin rows of cells, mostly filled with pris timber owners. " If I could get film off " “ The importance o f such work is ’’It's only a case of two heads." said work on a $400,000 water system. oners. Those adjacent to the bath unquestioned,” said Mr. Elliott. Blanche. "I know you're bothered, "Oullty or not guilty T" Release The government of India has im were caught in the flames. "Rather!" of these were slow and dangerous and “ Lookout men are of little value un and I should like to help, that's all." posed an export duty on grain bags. There was neither shame, pose, nor "You couldn't.” it was in these that most of the fatal less they can immediately report the Blanche went General Argumedo, a Mexican rebel ities occurred. "How do you know? I believe you're hesitation about that Volunteer rescuers fires discovered to their county warden leader, has been executed by Carranza. aided in dragging out the victims, and to the patrolmen in whose district going to devote yourself to this poor through into the room without a word, they occur. It is thus necessary that man—If you con get him off—1 mean, but her eyes shoue finely lu the lamp The United States National bank many unconscious and badly burned. lookout stations be equipped with tele when you do.” light. Then she returned with a book, H. M. Cross, an American, who died will build a $250,000 bank building in phones and the patrolmen must have aud stood half In the balcony, framed of injuries, was named as the man "WellT” he said. Portland. "Surely I could help yon there! as In a panel« looking for a place. who struck the match that caused the access to them at several points along Portland’s new city directory, which "You remind me of 'The Thousandth fire, in a statement made by H. G. their ’ beats.’ Especially If he's III,” cried Blanche, will be issued next week, will report a Baby, one of the trusties on guard. “ Patrolmen finding a fire they can encouraged by bis silence. "Tin not Man,' ” she told him as she found It population for the city of approxi Cross was under arrest as a vagrant. not handle must be able to telephone "Who was her* half a bad nurse, really!" mately 281,000. "He's every man who does a thou His home is said to have been in Dav to their chief for a fire-fighting crew "I'm certain you're n ot" to be sent to the scene of the fire with sandth part of wbat you’re doing!” The secretary of the California state enport, la. “ IX>es he look very 111T" To mobilize a crew, to said Blanche with confidence. Aud The disinfection tubs were placed out delay. board of health declares spring fever She had beeu trying to avoid the then she read, rather shyly and not gether with tools and rations on the is not a disease, but a perfectly nor near the doorway leading to the police direct question as far as possible, but too well: hospital. The burst of flames blew fire line in any part of a district in mal and natural feeling. this one seemed so huriuless Yet It out doors and windows' and the blaze time to control it before it reaches Secretary Daniels predicts full vin was received In a stouy silence unlike "O n » m »n In a thousand." Solomon says. swept the hospital, rendering it un dangerous proportions necessitates a " W ill stick mors clos» than a brother. dication of the Navy department in any that had gone before. It wus us carefully planned system of passable tenable and useless for the press of It's worth w h ll» « « «k in g him h alf buying armor plants, etc., when the though Cazalet neither moved nor And your roads and trails.” days emergency work which followed. true facts become known. breathed, whereas he had been all I f you find him twfora tha other. On fire from head to foot, the nude Nina hundred and nlnsty-nln» d> o»nd sighs and fidgets Just before. His pipe Six homeless boys less than 6 years victims dashed into the streets and al "Use Own Judgment” On what ths world a ««s In you, was out already—that was the one of age and of varying nationalities are leys surrounding the prison. Several, tlul th « Thousandth Man will stand your merit of hush tobacco. It required friend Advice to Woolmen to be adopted by Mrs. Bessie Fuller, maddened by the pain, outdistanced all constant attention—and he did uot W ith the w h o !« round world agio you." of South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada, pursuers and disappeared. Only one Pendleton— The Nation«! Woolgrow- look like lighting It again. as a sociological experiment. of these had been found several hours ers' association refuses to advise Ore "1 should hope he would,” said Caxa- Until tonight they had not men gon woolmen whether or not to sell tioned Scruton since the motoring be let. "If he’s a mau at all.” The discovery of a small comet by after the disaster. One o f the victim s,' a veritable their 1916 clip at the present time. "But this Is the bit for you," said Neujmin was announced in a cable gan. That bad been a tacit rule of the gram to the Harvard observatory from torch, plunged through the jagged re In a letter received here by Senator J. road, of wayside talk and Indoor orgy. Blanche: Professor Backlund, of the Imperial mains of a window pane and clambered N. Burgess, of Pilot Rock, who is the But Blanche had always assumed that to the roof of the jail, where he was Oregon member of the executive com "His w rong's your wrong, and his right's observatory at Pulkowa, Russia. your right. rescued by firmen, only to die a few mittee of the association, from Secre Cazalet had been to see him In the In season or out o f season. A Bucharest dispatch receiveed in minutes later. prison; and now he told her that he tary S. W. McClure, he says: Stand up and back It In all inen'a sight — London by Reuter’s Telegram company never had. Edward McGowan, of Warder, Ida W ith that for your only reason! "M y advice is that around 6,000,000 by way of Amsterdam says that the ho, and John Campbell, of Camern, of “ I can't face him." he cried under N in e hundred and nlnely-nlne can’ t bid* pounds o f inter-mountain wool has now The shame or mocking or laughter. Queen Mother, Elizabeth, of Rou- Eugene, Oregon, were among the his breath, "and that's the truth! I.et been contracted. Fine wool is selling tha Thousandth Man w ill aland by "I Gusts I'm Not Fit to Speak to You," mania, (Carmen Sylva), died Friday Americans'seriously burned in the jail me get him out of this hole, and I'm Hut Xour side at from two to three cents above last Hs Said. morning. bis man forever; but until 1 do. while T o th « fs lto w s -fo o t-a n d a f t e r !" fire. __________________ year's, with cross breeds at from two there's a chance of falling. I simply A Stockholm dispatch to the London to five cents above last year. The last words wsrs Italics In can't face the fellow It Isn’t as If and will. Shs literally felt these Morning Post says that, according to a “ On Monday several crossbred clips Blanche's voice, and It trembled, but forces, at actual emanations from ths he'd asked to see me. Why should 1 message from Karlskrona, Sweden, a sold at Dillon, Mont., at 31 cents, and so did Cazalet's as be cried out In hie strongest personality that had svsr force myself upon him?" whole mine field of several hundred it is reported that the Wood Livestock formula: "He hasn't asked to see you because Impinged upon her own. mines is drifting from the North, hav company’s clip has sold at 30 cents, "That's the finest thing I aver heard Washington, D. C.— Newton D. Bak and also that 30 cents has been offered he doesn't know what you're doing for In the day of reaction, such consid ing presumably been set adrift by the er, former mayor o f Cleveland, has for some quater-blood clips in Western him!” Blanche leaned forward as ea- In all my Ilfs! But It's true, sud so erations were bound to steal In as ice and wind. It should be. 1 don't taka any credit been selected by President Wilson for Wyoming. I hope you will give this I« r !r * s _ » h e was speaking, all her re single spies, each with a certain con Fred G. Buskuhl, of Friend, Oregon, secretary of war. His nomination information to your sheepmen, but this pressed feelings coming to thslr own for It." solation. not altogether Innocent of has just received the bronze medal will go to the Renate immediately and "Then you're all the more the thou comparisons in her for just a moment. "He doesn't But ths battalion of association refuses to advise whether awanied to him by the Carnegie hero administration leaders expect quick know because I do believe you sandth man!” Toye's virtues only marched on fund commission for attempting to confirmation so the new secretary may to sell or not to sell. He must use his wouldn't have him told that you'd ar Ho caught her suddenly by the Blanche when Martha came to her, on save the life of Joseph I. Tarke at take active charge of the War depart own judgment entirely in this matter. ” rived. lest he should suspect! You shoulders. His rough hands trembled; ths little green rug of a lawn behind Friend, August 3, 1912. The commis ment’s plans for army increases and his Jaw worked. "Look here. Blanche! ths bouse, to say that Mr Toye hlsa- are a brick, Sweep, you really a re!” sion also awarded $1000 to Mr. Bus reorganization. If you had a friend, wouldn't you do He was too much of one to sit still Road Change Permissible. salf had called and was In the draw kuhl. the same?” Mr. Baker is 44 years old, a lawyer, ing-room. Salem — “ The plans of the State under the name. He sprang up. beat "Yes. If I'd such s friend as all Five million bushels of May wheat and as a leader among Ohio Democrats Highway commission are not like the ing his bands. "Why shouldn't 1 be— Blanche stole up past the door, and that.” she faltered. has been a warm supporter of the W il have been bought by milling interests laws of the Medea and Persians, not quickly made herself smarter than she "You'd stand by his elds 'to tha gal in the last week as prices tumbled, son policies since the pre-convention subject to change,” declared Attorney had ever done by day for Walter Cors lows-foot'—if ha was swine enough to He has been a General Brown in advising the mem according to estimates of Minneapolis campaign in 1912. let; at least she put on a "dressy" let you?” close personal friend of Mr. Wilson chamber o f commerce traders. This, bers of the commission that they could blouse, her calling skirt (which al "I dare say I might." they say, would represent sales of one since the latter was instructor years change the state road map prepared by ways looked new), and dtd what aha "However bad a thing It was—mur million barrels of flour. Most of this ago at Johns Hopkins University, and ex-State Highway Engineer Bowlby. der, If you like—and however much could to her hair. All this was only product is said to be for Eastern was offered the post of secretary of The question was put to the attorney because Mr. Toyo always came down he was mixed up In it—not like poor the Interior in the original Wilson general by the commission, which de bakers. as If It were Mayfair, and It was rottsa Scruton?" cabinet, but declined because he then to make people feel awkward If yoa Two men with a large “ roll” of was mayor. He is understood to be in sires to change the route of a state "I'd try to stick to him,” she said oould help IL So In salted Blanch«. counterfeit Federal Reserve bank bills thorough accord with the President on road in Washington county, it being simply. are operating in Portland, and a third the preparedness_ program and foreign found that another route is more "Then you're the thousandth wom In her very best for tho light of day, suitable. John H. Albert, o f the ad member of the gang is supposed to be an," said Cazalet. "God bless you, to be followed as soon as posalbls by questions. visory board of the commission, con the silver teapot, though she had Just working in conjunction with the others Blanchle!” An offer of the War secretaryship tended that the commission had no au had tea herself. And there stood Hil disguised as a plainclothes officer. The was made to Mr. Baker by telegraph He turned on his heel In ths bal ton Toye, chin blue and collar black, duty of the third man appears to be to several days ago, after the President thority to revise the general system of cony, and a minute later found the trunk roads to be improved by the his trousers all knees and creases, ex disarm the suspicion of the victims by room behind hltn empty. He entered, had spent more than three weeks care state. vouching for his accomplices. stood thinking, and suddenly began actly as bs had Jumped out of the boat- fully going over a long list of those looking all over for the photograph of train. Crowded galleries that gathered to suggested to succeed Secretary Gar- Lumber Outlook Bright. “ I guess I'm not fit to speak to you," himself, with a beard, which he bad hear the international situation dia- rison. Mr. Baker accepted, and upon he said, "but that's Just what l'va Kalamath Falls — Lumbermen have ' seen there a week before. cussed saw the house take its annual being notified, that he would be nom come to do— for the third tim e!" vote, this time 150 to 46, not to reduce inated at once, telegraphed that he reason to expect the most prosperous CHAPTER XII. season in years, according to Robert “ Oh. Mr. T o ye!” cried Blanche, members’ mileage from 20 to 5 cents a would come to Washington. A. Johnson, head of the Klamath Man really frightened by tho face that mile. The defeat of the motion was Spanish Steamship Hits Rock. ufacturing company, of this city, who Quid pro Quo. made his meaning clear It relaxed preceded by a lively debate, in which Santos, Brazil— The Spanish steam has just returned from San Fancisco It was his biassing that had done a little as she shrank Involuntarily, the 20-cent mileage was denounced as It; up to then she had controlled her but the compassion In his eyes and graft and defended as a just allowance. ship Principe de Asturias has been where he passed the winter. sunk by striking a rock. She went to “ There is a material increase in the feelings In a fashion worthy of the mouth did not lessen their steady de Secretary Daniels is opposed to lo the bottom in five minutes. Eighty- demand for the upper grades of lum title Just bestowed upon her. If only termination. cating a naval base at the mouth of six members of the crew and 57 pas ber, and the prices offered are from ‘ Look Here, Blanche! If You Had he had stopped at that, and kept his "1 didn’t have time to make myself the Columbia river. sengers have been brought to Satos by $5 to $6 per 1000 feet better than they Friend, Wouldn't You Do It?” blessing to himself! ft sounded so presentable," he explained. “ 1 thought the French steamer Viga. were in the fa ll,” said Mr. Johnson, j very much more like a knell that you wouldn't have me waste a moment The momenteus battle between the In the past few days I have received to him—to a poor devil who's been Blanche had begun first to laugh, and If you understood the situation French and Germans before Verdun I Rio Janeiro— It is feared here that through all he’s been through? Ten then to make sucti a fool of herself want you to promise to marry ms continues with practically no gain for 400 lives have been lost by the sinking telegraphic inquiries for five carloads o f lumber at $5 to $6 more than was years! Just think of It; no, It's un (as she herself reiterated) that sbs right now!” either side. of the Spanish steamship Principe de thinkable to you or me. And It all was obliged to run away in the worst offered a few months ago.” Blanche began to breathe again. The steamer remained The Russian steamship Petshenga Astruias. started In our office; we were to blame possible order. Evidently be was on the eve of yet an has been sunk. Fifteen o f those on afloat only a short time after striking for not keeping our eyes open; things But that was not the end of those Hood River Men Pleased. board were saved. She was o f 1647 a shoal off San Sabastiao, and there couldn't have come to such a pass If four superfluous words of Anal bene other of his Journeys, probably back gross tons. Seven o f the Petshenga’ s J was little time for the escape of pas Hood River — News that the Rogue we'd done our part, my poor old father diction; before the night was out they to America, and he wanted to go over sengers and the crew in the boats. crew were lost. River Fruit & Produce association, for one— I can’t help saying It—and I bad solved, to Blanche's satisfaction, « engaged; at first she had thought ha had had news to break to her, but this which decided to withdraw from the myself for another. Talk about con the hitherto Impenetrable mystery of was no worse than she had heard be Great Britain will permit shipment Naval Secrets Given Out. Northwest Fruit exchange, probably tributory negligence! We were neg Cazalet's conduct to the United States of a cargo o f dye fore. Only It was mors difficult to Washington, D. C.— The house naval would accept an offer of the Apple- ligent. as well as blind. We didn't Hs bad done something In Austra cope with him; everything was differ stuffs valued at $5,000,000. committee became interested Tuesday growers’ association of this city to co know a villain when we saw one, and lia. something that fixed a gulf be ent. and he so much more pressing Only three co-eds out o f 23 at the operate in the distribution o f its ap we let him make another villain un University o f Oregon have good feet. in finding out where Representative ples and pears was received with grat der our noses; and the second one tween him and her. Blanche did not and precipitate. She had never met mean something wrong, much less a : Gardner got the confidential figures on Yes; shs None have a perfect toe-line. ification by local market men. was the only one we could see In his crime, least of all any sort of com this Hilton Toye before target practice of the Atlantic fleet, was distinctly frightened by him. Rut Wilmer Sieg, sales manager of the true colors, even then. Do you think General Felix Diaz, who has been which he made public some time ago. plicity In the great crime which had Applegrowers’ association, says: in the United States for several we owe him nothing now? Don’t you been committed while he was on hla In a minute she had ceased to ha Admiral Fletcher, testifying before frightened of herself; shs knew her “ During the past we have cut under think I owe him something, as the months, and under surveillance of the the ’committee, said that the figures way home. But she believed tha own mind ones more, and spoke It each other on prices o f our fruit, each only man left to pay?” department o f Justice, has succeeded were approximately correct. “ Who worst hs had dons was to emulate trying to reach the buyer, and as a in leaving for Cuba, where, it is re But Blanche made no attempt to his friend, Mr. Potts, and to get en much as bs had spoken bis, quits con»- ever told them,” said Chairman paeslonately. but Just as tersely ta result the growers of both districts i answer bis passionate questions. He ported, he will form plans for another Pagett, "w as false to his trust and gaged or perhaps actually married to the point. have suffered.” revolution in Mexico. : had let himself go at last; It relieved somebody In the bush. : a traitor to his country. I f I find "One moment,” he Interrupted. "I i her also In a way, for It was the natu There was no reason why be should said nothing shout ray feelings, be- Mrs. Carrie Hall, 76 years old, a out who did it, I am going to publish Farm Bonds Proposed. ral man back again on her balcony. \ not; there never had been any sort cousin of Abraham Lincoln, dies at the his name.” Salem— Issurance o f 4 per cent state But be had set Blanche off thinking on or kind of understanding between her cause tbsy're a kind of stale proposi home of her sister. Miss Isabel Hanks, tion by this time; but for form's saka bonds, and the lending o f the proceeds other lines than he Intended self and him; It was only as lifelong Taylor's Con-.ct Splits. near Louisiana, Mo. “ I’m thinking of what he must have friends that they had written to each I may state there’s no change there, Cambridge, Mass.— A split in Tay direct to the farmer at the same rate Germany delivers note to United felt he owed Mr. Craven and—and other, and that only once a year. L ife except In the only direction I guess a lor’s comet, with one o f the parts o f interest and in the same manner as person's feelings are liable to change States setting forth her submarine long friendships are traditionally fatal toward you. Miss Blsnohs! I'm a worse the irreducible school fund is now lent, Ethel!” she owned. warfare on armed merchantmen to from two to two and a half magnitudes “ I don’t bother my head over either to romance. They had both been csss than ever, If that makes say dif fainter than the main comet, was an are advocated by Percy A. Cupper, as which this government has objected. nounced Tuesday in a message to the sistant state engineer. As a means of ! of them," returned Cazalet harshly. free as air; and If be was free no ference.” Another shipment o f gold to Holland Harvard Observatory from the Yerkes presenting his proposal for a system of "H s was never s white man In his longer, she had absolutely no cause Blanche shook her yellow head. from New York under an agreement Observatory. The measurements were rural credits for consideration o f the i lifetime, and she was every Inch his for complaint, even If she was fool “ Nothing can,” she said. "Thors must 1 daughter. 8cruton’s the one I pity— enough to feel tt. people before the irrigation, drainage with the British government against made by Professor Barnard. he no possible mistake about It this AM this she saw quite clearly in her time, because I want you to be very seizure will go forward on the Holland- The Yerkes Observatory also re and rural credits conference meets in because I've suffered so much from that man myself.” very honest heart. And yet. be might American liner Nieuw Amsterdam for ported an observation of Nujimen’s Salem March 9, Mr. Cupper has pre good and never ask me again. "But you don't think hs did It !” hava told bar; he need not bsvs flows Rotterdam. The shipment, amounts comet, discovered at Pulkowa, Russia, pared a bill, which contains the essen (TO B B C O N T IN U E D .* tial requirements for ruraPcredits. to $1,500,000. last month. Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. Author o f GheAMATEUR CRACKSMAN. RAFFLES. Etc . UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEli President Names N. D. Baker Secretary of War; He Accepts