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PAGE FOUR ' Th OTtCGON STATESMAN, Satea, Oregon, Tuesday mitung, sepMBDer z, taaw lt "No Favor Sways V; N Fear ShaU Awe," From First Statesman. Marc IS. ItSI THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. CHARLES A. SPRAGfE, SHELDON F. SACKSTT, Ptthltxkert Chabus A. Spbacie Sheldon P. Sacett Member f the ThS Associated Press l xclulrety ntttd te the ate rer pottf" eation tf an uwi dispatch credited i H m m f ii mlm credited In tht paper- Pacific Coast Advertising Repreeestatives; Arthur W.. Stypa. Inc.. Portland, 8ecrtty BMa. Baa Francisco. Sharon BM . Los A navies, W. Pao. 814. - Eastern Advertising Representatives rerd-ParsoM-rHecher, Inc.,' Nw fork. X?l Itadlsoa Aat Chicago. N MU'hlgttti Ave Entered at th Potto fttci mt Salem, Oregon, as Seeond-Clmts Mutter. Published every morning except Monday. Bnsineet effice 215 S. Commercial Street. 0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Maa SubacrfpUon Rates. In Advance. Within Oregon; Dally and Bandar, 1 Mo. cents; 2 Ma $1.15 ; S Mo. $2.25; 1 few 40. Else where 89 cents per Mo or $5 00 (or 1 rear la advance. - By City Carrier: 58 eeats a month ; &- a year la advance. Per Cepy 1 eenta. On trains, and Nrws Stand. S rents. Who Runs the Corporations? rE suit of Cyras S, Eaton and associates contesting he merger of the Youngstown Steel and Tube company with the Bethlehem Steel company, has served to turn the light of day on transactions which even the stockholders of Bethlehem were ignorant about The chief disclosure was that the leading executives of the Bethlehem receive enor mous grants in the way of "bonuses.' Thus Eugene G. Grace, the president, whose salary was fl2,0G0 per year, re ceived a bonus in 1929 of $l,6$3753. His bonus the first half of 1930 was $701,968. Three vice presidents received In 1929 each $378,664. None of this information was ever disclosed to the stockholders, who would probably never have heard of the fabulous amounts paid their hired men if the Eaton suit had not been brought. This provokes the question, who runs the corporations? Not the stockholders, who are scattered from Nome to Tam pa. Annually they get a notice of annual meeting, always with a proxy form enclosed made out in favor of the exist ing officers. Through proxies the management usually controls the, corporation, electing the board of directors which in turn chooses officers and fixes salaries. The di rectors are often yes-men or men too busy to pay any close attention to the corporation's affairs. Their names are on the board for window-dressing. Often they never show up for board meetings, and when they do they merely ratify the recommendations of the management. Only when' a corporation goes to pot do the directors or stockholders take any positive action, and then it is generally too late. There is no justification even to a financier's con-, science for a salary bonus of a million a year. Running railroads is about the hardest job in the country, yet the compensation for a railroad president seldom runs over; $100,000 a year even for the big roads. Yet under the form 1 of control which practice has developed for these great feu- j dal baronies of capital the managers can reach into thej treasuries without much stint. So long as regular divi dends are paid to the stockholders in modest amounts, what is left is a nice kitty for the managers. Somewhat the same situation exists in the public util-1 ity field. A banking house gets hold of a group jof utility properties. It forms a holding company, sells bonds and preferred stocks to the public and retains the controlling common stock which represents no cash outlay, for itself, The only money Invested is that of the general public, who of course must take all the risk if the company fails. The banking house profits through the constant emission and sale of securities, and if the properties prosper then the velvet goes to the watered common stock. The utility in dustry has been the greatest field of exploitation because it is a young industry whooe amazingly rapid expansion has nermitted such financial piracy. Some day the people may wake up and enact laws which will put an end to economic feudalism. The way such a course may be avoided is through an awakened con science within corporation' managers, and a growing re alization that wealth is a social creation, and that the man agers are stewards directing a trust for the benefit of con sumers, of employes, and of stockholders and not exploit ers of all three groups for their own aggrandizement. j A Front Page of Horrors THE general instructions 'o The Statesman news force are to "play down" news of crime and scandal; but as we looked, the front page over Saturday morning we could barely identify our own child. Here are heads of stories that "made" first page, most of which one must admit de serve that position from a news standpoint: "Payne blasts self to death in county jail." "Rum runners' shots kill deputy sheriff as gun fight waged.' "Slayer eludes posses." 'MriT-rVifnt: savs he took rjolson." "War hero, now convict, tells of liquor bribes." 'Auto thieves are quickly arrested." "New clues found in Conlon murder." "Woman tells why she slew husband." 'Fiendish slavimr remains mystery." 1 As if such a chronicle of horrors was not enough for Ml fmanhr.fmni Kaiii nerinrl. these "were thrown in: wc mvj-v r- "Second luer iaus to aeam as iu,wv tw uu iu horror." "Leguia in own prison. ' "Thousands in flight as red army attacks." "Officers hurt in political clash." "Seven hut badly as auto plunges." There were only seven other headed stones on the front page; and the preponderance of tragic news was alto eether disproportionate. We hope to have no such a cata log of crime and morbidity again; but news has to be taken as it comes. This morning's tale of tragedy is an example of what may occur at any time. One thine we resent Is tad frequent naming of some natural phenomenon as "Devil's." So we have "Defil's Lake'r aad-Devirs lunch bowl" and devil this and devil that. New devil la am agly word, yet there Is nothing ugly about thlji particular lake nor about the soli aid rock erosion forming the stofiilar &uu bowl. There ire occasional grotesqneries'ot nature which look asj hough left , Spooling helltires that might be aptly tailed "devtr something me other; but why Might ao many interesting and attracts apots with a cussword name? , Prom that distant and anknawa realm where sieve the shade ; --- M 4 a. V a akaa fcsMij.vei AA f men George w. josepn, ,woo M M n riutrane-ht Dretfin and emit maBT a hearty laugh aa he sees the political furore fcelng ntsedi mltstnt a he must mat w u cmw uv uwkub tlsharment case .outcome. Just when the holders of Boutk America bonda wart teported eoaValeacent. Peru blows up and their chtCs return. - GUEST AX WOODBURN WOODBTJRH, Sept. 1 Miss Margaret Blew, daughter of Ren and Mrs. B. W. BIu I vistltng at the home of her parents for one week. Miss Blew i studying urges' training at the Emanuel hospital in Portland, fibs is in her first rear's study. NORTH HO WELL, Sept. 1 Conrad Gunderson has begun the erection j of a hew barn. He has BditorJUmiULaer M a raging -Editor Associated - , carpenters On the Job laying out the foundation and getting the ea rn ent vails ready. Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hynee and Mr. and lfrs. Dennis Hynes of Portland drove down to visit their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs, Frank Hyaes last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hynes Sr., Urea here tor many years before awns; ts live la Portland nearly twenty years ago and owned .the One farm where their son frank now Urea. HEALTH I ' a, : . ii i.i ii n I I II , I Today's Talk By IL S. Ccpelind, tLD. Father la always talking about his "need of exercise." Hare yon ever thought about your by'a need of exerciser Every baby should be en- eettrased to take exer else, it fa yast at necessary for tt as tt 1 for the grown 1VVC pecUlly so tf I Vftt br-ta In I XjmL clined to be SJ''Yr8 The aew ba IXi (JQjlhD by mores about Terr little. It devotes itself to eating and sleep ing. Bat before tnaay weeks it begins to kick and toss Its arras about. The clothing and cover ings should be kept loose enough te permit free xauseular action. The young mother will never forget, of course, that a tiny ba by is a delicate morsel of human ity. For this reason. In taking it up, the child should not he grasped by the chest under the arms. This Is a very crude meth od. The best way Is first to lift the lower part of the body by the clothing. Then slip the- hands under the back and the head. Ia this way the body and-head are supported, and accidents are guarded against. The simpler the baby's dress the better. Hare the clothes loose, as I have said, so that there can be freedom of mere ment. When ft Is warm enough let the baby lie without clothing on a blanket spread on the grass or in the room. Then It will hare a glorious time with its kicking and squirming. This Is aa good as" a gymnasium for its physical train ing. Let the baby roll and kick and sprawl to its heart's content After the ehild is several months old it can be propped ai with extra pillows supporting the back and sides. Little by little event muscle of the body will grow strong and it won't be long before baby Is supporting its own body. Don't treat the little baby as though it were made of wax and would break. Handle It with a combination of firmness and gen tleness. Hare you ever studied the ac tions of young animals puppies, kittens, birds or chickens? Ii you have you will find that they begin actionv very early. The parents even push the young birds out of the"rest when they know the youngsters are ready to fly and take care of themselves. Instinct and self-preservation are powerful Influences. Even the small baby knows enough to kick and squirm if given the chance. It glories in its liberty. and will smile, and gurgle and coo with delight. The infant is grateful for the freedom given it. Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Bead September 2, 1005 A fierce forest fire which start ed from the banning of slashing on the Welch farm ia raging near Mill City. Considerable damage is being done. The Sioux Indian baseball club which appears here against the Salem T. M. C. A, nine is said to be the most expensive and best managed club of its kind In exist ence. The Indians carry a 2000 feet of eanvai fence which is 12 feet high," a portable lighting plant and a portable grandstand. The game here will be played at 3 o'clock and will be the first Il luminated game ever played In Salem. The first hop picking of the season began yesterday morning in the hop yard of Catlln and Linn In Polk county. About 100 pickers were put to work the first day. IS WASHINGTON. Aug. 20. (AP). Edgar A. McCulloch, member and former chairman of the federal trade commission to night said most of the commis sion's records destroyed by fire which swept its otfiee this after noon were in duplicate form and eonld be replaced. . Accounts of hearing of the commission's varied investigation he explained, probably could be duplicated by a new form which holds the contract for recording an testimony la the bureau's In clines. Early reports after the tire had been brought under control indicated a large part of the rec ord of the commission's study ot public utility .power companies and chain stores was lost and that documents dealing with the cotton teed Investigation were badly damaged. It developed to night. However, that the loss could be repaired for the moat part one membef ot the commis sion's staff reporting that re ords et the chain store investiga tion were found 91 per cent in tact. Expressing the opinion that the "heart ot the records had been saved. William T. Keuey, assistant chief counsel of the commission, said Its tindinrs In the power Inquiry were ts print in the government printinn- of fice. The annual report alee has been turned over to the printers. COMM 1 HOLD 0 ra 1 IMMUNE j j m - - - ' in ' ii ;, rt I TO LOWS DROUGHT V The OTHER BULLET By Nancy Barr Mavity "I'm sure I don't know how to ge about it, but you've got to find out That's what you're here for. There was invincible determina tion In Aline's voice. She was no longer the broken woman of the courtroom, clinging for self pro tection to the shreds of her defi ance. Peter chortled aloud at this version of his reason tor exist ence. But Aline disregarded his levity. "Of course the picture may not lead us to Don's murderer, she admitted. "But the first-step la to find out who he really was, even If it leads us back where we were at the beginning; It's the only way we can sort out the possi bilities, although we may have to eliminate them afterwards." There was a puzzled look In Peter's eyes but he thrust aside the question that obtruded on bis rising spirits. He had tested the calibre of his ally, and was ready to trust his luck; He had guessed that Aline had intelligence and now he found that she had per sistence as well. With that com bination on his side, he might get Borne where! "That 'first step' ts a pretty long one but we'll see how far we can go," he said cautiously. "Ton threatened not to tall me anything more. There is a 'more, then?" "There Is. Aline closed the leather cover of the photograph case and held it towards him. "Did you look closely at the design on the back?" "Yes," Peter said, "bat I could not make ft out. It's too full of curlicues, and It's almost rubbed out anyway." ,"I know." Aline admitted. "But i know what it la. I've seen It be fore, or at least the same design. I caw tt on tho day I saw tho Chinese: box!" CHAPTER 2d "X wasnt going te tell you about It, until I was sure yon weren't going to back down, lAlina said candidly. r Back dawn! Peter Pinar basic down on a story Just because it was hard to get! Why the harder It was, the less likelihood that It would leak to the other papers. His hoot of derision changed to an appreciative chuckle. So Aline also had been testing the calibre of her aUy! It was a strange occasion for laughter, but Aline seemed to find the uncouth snort of mirth which came from Peter's throat reassuring. "Ton said the boa waa con nected with the murder, he said gravely, though a glimmer of amusement still lighted the gray eyas bent over the photograph. "I cant be as positive at all that. But there's something strange about it. Til tell you ex actly what happened. I cant be lieve that it hasn't some signifi cance. Aline paused, visualising the scene again In aU its clarity. "It was one day when I went down te the lodge nirpecUdly," she said. Dem had bees la one of Us periods of melaaeboly when hs vent oft by himself and didn't want to see anybody, mot even me. I didn't expect bias te be there, but I eouldat keep away. 2 mads the -excuse ts myself thai t wanted to borrow a book. I walk ed along the grass by the side f the path.tt was spring then, and the grass was soft and. green. I remember that even in my obses sion about Don. I loved the feel ot It the silent springiness in contrast to the harsh crunching of the gravel path. The door was dosed, as It al ways was" when Don? was sway, bat It was never locked. In fact, I opened It without taming the knob or making a sound. I'd come oat of the bright sunlight, so that I Stood blinking- tor a minute, not able to distinguish anything. Then I saw. that Don was there, and that my entrance had startled him. He leaped up from his chair behind the desk when he saw me, and Borne thing that he was hold ing in his hand dropped to the floor and rolled almost to my feet. "I stooped to pick it up. Don had started around the comer of the desk, but when he saw that I already had It in my hand, he stopped short, with a funny help less shrug of his shoulders, as if it was too late to do anything. "The thing thaf I held In my hand waa a ring a large, old fashioned ring of hand-wrought gold. It must have been quite valuable tor there were two rath er large emeralds; sunk deep In the gold work on each side. The top widened out in a circle, like a signet, and the design waa twist ed into a monogram. With the in itials 'da la M.' "Why Don!' I said. This Is a really lovely thing. Wherever did you get it? I should think you'd wear it. It haa an 'M' on It, even if you can't claim that aristocratic 'de la,' "I got it a long time ago he said. It was only in the light of what happened afterwards that I realised how queer and strained his voice wast. 'No, I never wear it.' "At the moment I thought that he was still in his black mood, and I hoped that by talking about the ring I could bring him out of himself. Sometimes it would take only some little thing like that to break the spell of brooding. I stood there, turning It over in my hands and slipping it ea and off my finger. The workmanship was really interesting and I looked at it closely. "It was then that I discovered that besides the eignet design on top, there was another device on the underneath, concave aide of the same circle, where it waa hid den against the finger when the ring was worn. It was rubbed faint, but it was evidently a coat of arms, with those funny heral dic animals that stand up on their hind paws and look like nothing so-ologicaL I put it on my thumb and stepped over to Don. He had n't moved after that first startl ed leap, when he saw that the ring had rolled out of his reach. "I held! my hand out te him, turning it so that the emeralds caught the light. "Isn't tt. stunning with this green dress? ' I said. If you real ly don't use it yourself I'd love to wear it sometimes. It makes me feel like one of the Borgia. "It waa then X saw that some thing was really wrong. He star ed at me with a sort of dim hor ror In his eyes. If over a man looked haunted, he did In that TlrTTiftillL -'DonT he whispered dont' lay that' Then he passed his hand across his forehead, slowly, as U he were trying te push away some shadow that kept him from seeing clearly. The next thing I knew, ha had seised my hand and tore the ring ft my thumb so violently that tt scraped the skin. That seemed to bring him te himself. JHe kissed the reddened place oa my thnmb ae eonld do things like that ex quisitelybat l knew that it was little mere than as absent-minded gesture. He wasnt really thinking about me. "2 was so astonished that I Just stared like aa idiot. He smil ed a Uttle at that. Then hs re turned to the desk where he had bees sitting when I came la, and drew me down to the am of the chair beside him. Something of bis reckless gaiety was coming back. The little Chines box was open on the desk, and be picked it and dropped the ring into its in ner compartment. I'm giving- the gods a dare, he laid1 aa he tripped the lntrl- eate sliding panels one by one In to place. "Of. course the box might as well have been made of pasta board as far as being a safe was concerned. Why, you could almost crush it In your hand, though to open it properly took a good deal of skin, unless you already know its combination. I thought he meant It could easily be Stolen and I said, naturally enough, 'It doesn't seem a very safe place to keep anything so valuable.' "'Oh, it isn't the value that matters,' he said. isn't Just valuable it's dangerous.' '"Do you mean it really has poison in it?' My remark about the Borgias was still in my mind, and it truly was a somewhat an tique and romantic-looking ob ject. "He laughed at that a short, harsh little laugh. '"Nothing so pretty,' he said. 'I only mean that it's not the saf ety of the ring I'm worrying about but my own safety If it were known that I have it. And now somebody does know. You know. That's my dare to the gods. "I waa piqued at that "Well, I certainly shan't apeak of it again, to you or anybody else.' I said angrily. 'But I should think you could easily enough get rid of it.' "No, I shan't get rid of it he said. He had taken up the Chin ese box and moved over to the book ease with It. 'My life is worth precisely that.' He drop ped the box almost casualty be hind a row of books as he spoke. 'It's queer how we eling to life and yet cling to danger too. That ring may yet cost me my life some day. But you see I do trUSt you. I've let you see where I keep It. If anything should happen to me accidentally- rd like to hare you come and get it, though in that event I'd rather you'd Just keep it tor your own and say nothing to anyone. That would be the ending the -unsatisfactory ending you could tell your grand children.' He smiled at that "Oh. but I don't want it not Bke that.' I said. It hurt me that he should talk in that hard, flip pant way about giving me the ring after his death. "'Well, believe me. It would be a more satisfactory ending than aay ether,' he said, etiU with that grim, ironic smile. I may not have the pleasant fortune to die accidentally and ia that case I greatly fear that some ene else not half ao charming as yourself will already have possession of the ring. "And sow he's dead and the ring Is gone! Aline ended with a gasp. "Whee-whlng!" Peter exclaim ed. "It dees look as if we've got hold of something. Yon think ft really belonged to him that be hadn't stolen It for Instance? "Ne, he didn't steal it," Alfa said quietly. "People's moral eodeg are fanny things. Don Mert Istra eonld net resist taking love, though it threw the wreckage of others nres aU about him, bat ho wouldn't have stolen a piece of Jewelry. It simply couldn't be done!" The bitterness of her tone re called to Peter's mind the thing that had been puszling Titm, "Yet you waat to ge to a ead of trouble to bring bis murderer ts justice, he said, answering her tone rather than her words. "I've told you that I want te find my letters. Aline said stlf- Tes, that's an right as tar as it goes," Peter assented. -But I've a hunch that you're not going in to this lust for your ewa advant age. Of course, the less t know; the tees good m be. StflL tr yoa don't care to trust tne " He made a feint ot turning the ear back into the read, as if th BITS for BREAKFAST -By R. I. HENDRICKS TheTJorion woman: s The part et the Hunt-party led by Wilson Price Hunt himself was v. .ita ft the city of Boise. Excerpt, from the Defenbach JejJgrati nation theyred to a man ,mt onatlnue: "They neighbors a group or tnievisn Snakes, of whom they bought some fish and dogs upon which they feasted sumptuously. S "For the reason that this ar rival ot the Hunt expedition at the present site ot the capital city of th state, on Nov. 21, 181 1, marks the discovery of this locality by white men, the tune, place and event should be com memorated by a substantial mon ument. Net only because Boise is the capital and metropolis of the state, but because much ot the tragic later experiences of prom inent members of the party was In this neighborhood, the memor ial should be in that city. The ex act and precise locations of the story cannot be determined. "The feature to emphasize in the proposed monument is clearly , the Dorion woman. No detailed description of her appearance, certainly no painting or drawing, is obtainable. Her physical traits, what she looked like, must be reasoned. Inferred, deduced from what we know of her career. Irv- lng comments upon her wonderful ! patience and hardihood. She led ! her boy. of five years and carried ! the one ot two in addition to j 'the usual harden imposed upon a sqaaw. Yet she bora all her hardships without a murmur, and i throughout this painful Journey kept pace with the best of the pedestrians. Indeed, on Tarious occasions during the course of this enterprise, she displayed a force of character that won the respect and applause of the white men." She was a tall, powerful animal; muscular and strong. She was about 26 then. V S The Dorion woman got a horse 10 miles west of Boise, the camp ing place on the 22nd. The camp, ot the 23 rd was a little west of the present Caldwell, and the next night at the mouth of the Boise, Their entire food supply on leaving the site of Weiser was one beaver, but they secured a horse and butchered it that night Just east of the site of Hunting ton. From there they followed the Snake down toward Homestead. Through rocky chasms and under beetling precipices. On December 1st they made 13 miles on a diet composed ofTsmall beaver with some frosen blackberries and chokecherries. It began to snow. More horrors In Box canyon, where the Snake has cut its nar row bed over 7000 feet deep. m V The Defenbach story relates: "At one time Hunt found him self alone with three men, but only for a short period; the four overtook Dorion and his family. Calling the half-breed to him the leader pronounced the doom of the woman's horse; the only one remaining." Dorion fiercely ob jected. But Hunt said the other Incident were closed. But Aline reached out a re straining hand and laid It almost timidly on his arm. "It isn't that." she said in a choking voice. "It won't help any, and I didn't want to say it for fear I'd seem to be making ex cuses. It's Just true, that's all. You see, I really did try to kill Don. It is only an accident that I didn't. I didn't deserve that ac quittal not really. And I'm sor ry. Oh, I know it's too late for making amends! But there was something that haunted Don in his lite, and may have brought him to his death something sad or terrible, that accounted for hjs wanderings and hla black moods and made him cut himself off from his earlier Ufa, a. life that he must have treasured and cher ished, or wouldn't have saved through everything those few mo meatos of it. If I could help to clear it all up at last, to take away that shadow even after he Is dead, it seems the least I can do the only thing that won't make my acquittal a farce!" Dont count too much on what we can do." Peter warned her. "A man who has purposely hidden his past makes it all too easy tor someone to emerge from that past and then hide himself, again. I agree with you that the ring Is the key to both the murdered man and the murderer. Only we have n't got the ring!" "There must be ways of find ing It," Aline Insisted. "Newspa per men are always finding eat thlngs. The things they find out get put in the paper," Peter explain ed gloomily. "The things they miss, just aren't published. Jimmy Bears knew well that that abysmal gloom of Peter's, and knew that it preceded a burst ot prodigious activity, is which patience burned with a steady flame. Once,, when a key witness hid tried te fix a cru cial date by referring to a cer tain advertisement which he re membered seeing la some news paper read at tho pibUs library, Peter had gon over all the tiles for a period et three years, watn be found tt. When Jtmmv bad called him off the job in despair, no aaa gone seek to the librsrv la the evening and continued the search on his own time. "Aa old photograph and a lost flag those two things are all we've got to help as discover the identity of a maa whe took a great deal ef pains to keen any one from doing that very thing, ne groaneo. "Why. for th mat ter, th tw may bars so connec tion with each other." Aline's hand tightened on his arm. . . "But they do!" aha aald urg ently. That's how I recognised the bits of gold chasing that had- oeen ruhbed off the -nhatn. graph frame. Ifa the same mon ogram and the same coat of arms max i saw on the tingl- , (To bo continued) men of the party also had their rights. They p.t it to a vote. The story goes: "To the everlasting credit et the starring crew, and to Hunt's surpris end jrrebaWe children of their -horse. Real fel lows, these: of such stuff were the pioneers ot the great west made!" S The party left the Snake. Three men weakened and went back to the wild Indians. But the Dorion woman was not through with the Snake. Once again in her life was it to be to her the scene of anguish, privation, hardship and tragedy. The route for the starv ing band was up Burnt river. They had secured from Indiana five Jaded and half starved horses to carry part of the baggage. The general route that followed led not far from that of the present railroad from Huntington to the western foot of Blue mountains. 4s starvation faced them, horses were killed; the ration was one meal in 24 hours. Says the Defen bach account: i. The description of the coun try reached on the 28th. with its 'small stream winding to the north through a fine narrow val ley with mountains receding on, either side' suggests the Powder valley, and an encampment was made somewhat north ot (the site of) the city ot Baker. They continued along this valley for 21 miles on the 29th, through a steady fall of saow mingled with rain. "On setting out the morning of December 30th, the half-breed approached Hunt with the state ment that the family would be delayed for a short time, and the suggestion that the party continue on its way. 'We catch up with you pretty soon.' he added, a W "The event was, or course, not at all unexpected, yet the men of the wretched band contemplated her abandonment in great per plexity. Every one of the plucky chaps admired this heroic squaw. Her patience and dogged resolu tion had gained her their respect Land affection. They would rather go into camp, they said, and wait until she should be able to con tinue the Journey. But Pierre seemed entirely unconcerned, aa suring the leader that the family would' soon overtake the others. With this new cause for despond ency the unhappy crew went on, leaving the woman and her fam ily in camp a short distance north of the present location of North Powder. S S "On what occurred there, Irv ing makes this comment: 'Na ture is easy in her operations in the wilderness, when free from the enfeebling refinements of lux ury and the tamperings and ap pliances of art.' After a time the hungry horse was led beside the couch. ! On it was mounted the hungry squaw, her 2-year-old slung in a blanket at her side; the father and older son, a hungry pair, led the caravan. As for the new baby, it rode la the mother's arms. Was it hungry too? Poor little savage human mite? When yoa think of that baby, you in stinctively wonder why? Just where, in the great plan of the universe, was there any crying de mand for that baby? The hungry family plodded on; night comes; weariness overcomes hunger; they sleep antll break of dawn. On the family plods, in the path of the company ahead, through the snow. Hunt lias taken the load of the Canadian LaBonte when he had given out and been mounted on a Jaded horse. The way grows rougher and more difficult. Suddenly the narrow valley opens out; they are In the Grands Ronde; down yonder is the Uttle wooded Catherine creek; six tents of Indians; Hunt and the rest of the company. And food. The whites bad just bought a lot of dog meat horseflesh and rooti. The woman and her new baby (Its sex was never record ed) and Pierre and the two hnv and the rest ate their tin. Then on down the creek to about where Island City is now; Just east of La Grande. Camp. A good night's rest, with full stomachs. Read what Defenbach makes of ft: , "Next morning when Hunt sounded reveille, the Frenchman laughed at him. No travel today, M'sieu Hunt. Why not, eh? Janu ary 1, 1812.' It's a poor French man who overlooks a holiday, es pecially New Year's day.' Hunt. grave and serious. Is kindly. Two days if yoa like . 'Well we do like. Two days of repose and revelry." With the miseries ef the damned behind and the Blue mountains ahead, they sang and danced and had one New Year's dinner after another on .roots, horseflesh and dog meat (This will be continued tomor row.) J.A.Miller is Elected to Third Term in CaL AURORA, Sept fu James- A. Miller, son et Mr. and Mrs. George Miller of this place, tele graphed aig father from saa Francisco, fa bad been reelected as assemblyman ot th thirty second district. This is James third term la the legislature. He had a bard tight, as there were three opponents ts the field and one who bor the same nam as himself, with the excep tion of the middle letter, which is confusing. James has served la the legislature la one capacity or another for 20 consecutive years. Subscribers living as far as 100 miles from v Salem receive the Statesman the day of publication by mafl.