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3 BlfS tor BREAKFAST FEIST OUT OE THE TRENCHES X ""3aoa..e, l! I By IL J. JIENDIHCKS HEALTH JL ' - . : - o-SBBBSBSBSSSBSSaBSSMSBBJBBBSB . 5 "iVo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aice"m 1 From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. SraactrE, Sheldox E. Sacxett, Pao'IsAcr Comes A. Snucn - - - - Editor-Manager Sheldon F. Sxcrrrr - - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press ,: . - The Ajwoctated Freas 1s erchnlrety entitled to the wee tor publics-' ttoa of all news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in yua paper. . . - . . . -. Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: ; . Arthur W. Stypes, Inc.. IMrtland. Rocurjfr Flda. Saa lanciaco.-Sharon Bid.; Loe Aaselea, . Pac. . Bids. - Eastern Advertising . Representatives: ' Foi4-FarsonsStecWDe New York, itt Madison Ave. Chlcaco, X. Michigan- An. . - Entered at the Pomtoffiee-at Salem, Oregon, ovl Saeend-CUoa Matter. JPublUked every -morning exeept Mondav. Business office, SIS S. Commercial Street.., ': w.-.;-V;!;. :-h ' fiUBSCIUFTION SATES: -. f Mall ubacrlptioa Botes, -ta Jtdrmaee. Within Oreon: Dally ndt Sunday. 1 Mo- eewta-j a Ma. tVli C Uo. SX.SI : 1 year St-. Flan, wbara i caata per ate. -or 4i.ee Xor 1 year ta aitraara , By City Carrier; -S caata jnootTi j f S.5S n year In adraace. Per Copy 8 cents, Oa train an Mews Stand tVeeata- i By R. 8. Ccptlssd, 11 D. ' When the . newspapers . printed the report that his son had con tracted tuberculosis, the sym pathy of the whole nation went oat to the president and to hie family. Probably no disease la V - more univer- sally . feared. Practically er . ery one of us has some , per sonal : reason tor knowing Its ravages 'has hid (Offll relative . er friend or ac qua! atttci who has fallen a -victim The germs of this disease are so widely att r e d through the civilised world that it I -Impossible to avoid alt con tact with them. Indeed, it Is said that nearly -ati . adsu carry them -about fa. their bodies. nT3:J r t3a . " -o U i ; . .l . Tse -mstt soanMn lorawei:tM liie DUagCC lOr.Oiaie OCnOOiS 'disease la tnoerealosia- of .the YT fs. tin Atmbk tnift that the voluminous rpnort itwt issued Bnt Almost any part of 1 . t a a . - . - . J....1. J nt-. j.. 1 Uit boar mar da dlfectsi m. eu ,oy uie-ime Doaraai nizaer euucsuon "wui Drove tus-i - - t, appointing two waya. me aaminwrouors oitne.insmnxumsi under ordinary circumstances. will bxv disappointed . that the hudgets which' they submitted I fortunately, the lines ot 'defense Imh M 4V.?-H e An rw s .f Tftaiox onr oodles are aaineient to :r. rrrr , rr r.r rrrv j. " t-v ,vv: iwiuutand the aaaaiu t tues uLx.pay.ers. oa mejJUHT mmii, prcsaeu ior iuaua wim WU1U1 and other cerms: We are- in to meet their taxes, wUL crumble because the unified hoard daaxer- only jrhen the resistance allows rirtuallj as. much for the higher -schools as the leg- J of the body la lowered by -dis- islature aUotted the- rmt-bkraiium. The board may offer 'zLZTidiS as' jnstification that the report, of. the survey has .not yet treah:Sra5ro food. neeu piaceo m: its nanos, ana mai n- snoiua await aucniThen it is that the nu set reDort before i5erforniirur-arry:rnajr Jin I foothold ad.besin 'their .work of . - - - T. I irflA. r . . i r I m Mvuw. ve i ear ue puouc may crei & wromr irnpression iroini rr oara is At lafcj. th mhtm the news reports which accompanied the release of the re-1 of the disease may be . very rapid. Tjort ta tha nreas. These Trts -smnlnaized i th fact that I Bar, on the -other hand. it Js the board - had determined . in Tiew-of : the "economic condi-1 irrilir- " r.T"i .Ti1 A3 11 i A. U 1 A? 1 J A-X 1 I uuiis oi iao Bwc iv , iiisru-mae ta cuauoa-.iiuruij iuc there- la erery prospect of next biennium, and 'that the total appropriations for 1931-1 eoTery.. S2 should not be . permitted to exceed those for 1929-30. 1 The earlier symptoms are in Wliil rPMonnwinlMl . hidrt rlnM , juvATnnliaTi . thf it I miio . cnvir. out wicy uw su uuijr uj xuuuu-huk vicj a juuuvu uwumb im w iwi i rart tnat omatninr 1 vnar . 1 A A . W' . . .A - I ' r " " sew . JDUijauiga ue :pat iwo years, in oiner woras, n iin- i There is renerai weakness; irrit- CRKASS the Aoeratmer exDenses of the institucions X591.- eity. loss of weisht and of ap- 1883, or about At a time when operator costs, een- ??-f,"m la eraliy are receduur xhis.xan scarcely -be -said -to be "mark- Beat. jPreeh.jir, 8aiiai mz time." Here is the summary cf the dribuuon of ex-r Complete, rest. ienty of fresh penditnrea by major headings, exdusiTe :f capital i outlay J ir jd anniisjht, nonrishinjc food and reserre; whicii m virtuaDy wiped out in-Ute new bud- SSrf'fMto ' i recoTory. some cumacea ar-es-i 1931-32 I poclally recommended, for one I General 8 RCT-Kfil I reason or another Bat where It H Administration in Instruction IV-' Extension V Research VI Plant oper. Totals. 520,658.871 1 e pauent to .4vb9Aod.UUI mnt ean nsnallv ho nrranred In lfi6,Q8&.QQ I the home, or near at hand. SU.9 79.nrtC) I The family physician Ms the r7R SIR OA I one. oesi , auie- to bqtxso waai u uhju.w shonld done. If the treatment is to bo carried on at home he -$873,738.17 1 will aire - directions for " protect ed: 1929-30 828,1992 513,474.00 4,364,406.72 948363.00. ' 75723.00 97083.60 188249.84 ; . By turnincr.to the summary of distribution of exnendi-l 'nc the health of the other mem tores by classifications we f ind that the major portion of JLl!ilr M f" ai .a i a . i . , . 1 the-rare or tne patient. uiis increase in operaumj cosi, is in me lrem oi salaries p,. i t.t the 0(m sum w gt. xue uxcresse: recouuzieiuiea in - mis ciaasuica- tion is S536,6101 ; so it is evident that nearly all the in crease is to go for higher salaries to professors and instruct ors plus some new. positions to be created. The presidents of the-university and the state college make urgent pleas for higher salaries for their faculties. We do not doubt that they may be able to justify, these , demands by comparisons with other institutions. But there is one significant comoarison which Is omitted, and that is the -ability of the -state to meet these ', deinands. There is another factor which colleges with their atrong departments of economics should -not-overlook and -that is that in the t past year every salaried person has had in effect a salary ' 'FOREST LOVE" ivingstgn ' 1 ' 111 is enrable. If the patient will fol low lnatmtioi; tvr ! . orery Yesterdays Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The States Oar Mben : Kancy. HoMenbeek, yonnf c beantlf ul and. romantic, heeds her mother's warning arnlnat marry lnr a poor man .ad- iTes vp Mat Tnlly. Bho-accepts tho attentions of Jack -Beamer who plana to - oi- Torce his. rich .wife and marry Kancy. On a mountain trip. Nan cy marrloa Roger Deeatnr, a handsome ranger. At first sue is happy in his mountain cabin,, bat when he leaves on a long trip, she flees -to her heme. Without in- formins; her family of her mar riage, she re-enters the old social Ufa. Beamer la aa-ardeat asever bnt Nancy repulses his embraces. Roger's letters arease Mrs. HoK Ienbecks suspicions. H in e y pleads with Uorer to -meet her at a hoteL -She wait fca-Taiu. Beam er enters the lobby and takes her to tea. Sho tells him of Boxer bnt not of the raarriare. Beamer-re- ceires a Jolt when his wife refuses to divorce him. Beamer roaunnea to eeurt Nancy clandestinely. Then Rocer arriTea. December-SO, 1003 Prof. WUlla C. Hawley of this city has announced that -he will s d - tti a a. tncrease of ten to twenty tjct-cent. In fact the rapid decline o"pcipieciuiVTs in living costs makes : requests for wholesale salary ; in-1 promise for. support of rrrer and creases somewhat incongruous at the present time, I harbor development in the state. Naw f-f thoa inproopa a- orr-nntorl tK -xitiI- in II ha I of course that in another biennium demands for new build- .f ttT. k ings will become insistent and ' that portion . of ' the budget ed the best drilled unit in the-ea vili then be elevated. It may be of course that the -execu- tire guard toroe of the aute na tives of the institutions can fully justify the increases Jr 3t$ u wa th ipect which are demanded! . in .spite of the fact that enrollments 1 , . are virtually stationary. But it: is apparent that the legis-l lira. Shirley has filed a pett- CHAPTER XtXVl "Charge it. Miss r The driver recognised her. . "No. m pay tor it this time." she said -hastily. She couldn't let Jack : Beamer pay when she was eomiag to-meet someone also . v. her hnaband. . . The bright col- count of the sewer in the Cart wright addition being raatnrough her berry patch. The committee on sowers haa the matter under advisement. - ; : Walter Lyon of the Independ ence Enterprise was in the city on business. , - -:. lative committees will have to look behind. the renort of the! tion with the-city council asklnz board , of hhrher education and. view with - something of al 125 damages fromtho city on ae- etonv stare the recruests f or increased salaries, in times like the present. ; - Ibe held some time in 1931. What a ponderous machine for There is another significant and Kurorisincr omission I the administration of Justice! Small wonder that few crim- Xrom the report of the board; and thatis a financial report jinals are apprehended and far fewer ever convicted. of its own operations and requirements for next biennium. 1 J. ms state made a short step in the tight direction when Peruana this is to-be included in some other document, but enacted a law pennituncr nhnar of charire by the district it would seem proper to include it in this report which is so I attorney with the consent of. the accused, thus permitting detailed in analvzinor the finances of the institutions. Itne comessea crmiinai. to receive immediate disDOSition of "We do not know; how. the, legislators will" like 'the plan I his case rather than languish in jaiL The xoming legisla4-why. i . . . anywhere you Uke," m - - a. a e . m . a e a a a "a I dVu. - - dVl. - A. A. W 9 a avf 1 la,. 1 A or grouping together so many oi tne items oi inoiviauai m-i iu wuum verve tue suie ana meenas oi jusucer vj ex Btitutions so they cannot Ibe seirreiratedto-det authority of the nlistrict attorneyi i As it is approximate allotment to each school; but we presume the now-the grand jury does about wlat the. district attorneyi memoers win. nave access xo oeiauneets wmcn were useui u ww, j uuwuuk t uj giving- ue aiuwne; iuu in compiling the total. The present method may be helpful I power of -citation. in keenimr down "the rivalry of friends, of 'the individual r schools for appropriations. I. SnanisK NamMinn NrrrfKrri Jr The report is a .valuable -one: and very valuable in- a- iirprRTf?Aisrn -i,a tm . m .I -. .... .A1 . a1 . I rm -a. uv A.MMMW . uvwm. U4 m AMW uuma uu ueea are uie - rrputia ox ue - executives axAools.vThey uresent a picture achievement. Our schools are accredit OI tne inaiViauai I ynnrrfpr iwnnnmHmi Rr9ViiV Ttrmv. rtnmm rmmrr not atone of need.Hut t&ttiZ-v-Z7Z the.-state and arei.i j ci.ai--s!. i i ai. Ability- of taxpayers rto foot the bills. See how many of the following you have been in the habit of pronouncing incorrectly. The proper pronuncia tion is supplied by the Grace Log, house magazine of W. K. yt J . a e . . a - m m a a - a Grtnd Jury a -Hopeless Antique A FTER sitting, on the china, egg for three -weeks the! Grace -and Co steamship operators, long in the South Amer- xl Portland grand jury personally conducted by the pros-l lean trade. ecuung attorney's office for the Indicting of" Bowles and his. paramour. Miss Loucks. for the alleged murder of Mrs. Bowles. ; is holding over into the fourth week. What took the coroner's jury only two or three days consideration to crack out an opinion on, is. taking the grand, jury as many weeks, with the oft-repeated story that the body -hasn't gotten to hear the most important witness yet. ; This is a good example of the faults of the grand jury method of citinsr accused persons for trialT It is a cumbrous relic of medieval times, utterly unfitted for service in the busy-present. It slows up processes of justice, is expensive and wholly unnecessary save as an alternative means for bringing offenders to bar. " . Other states, while not abolishing the grand jury sys tem, empower prosecuting attorneys with authority to xharge a suspect with a crime cn hich-thsrse he will Ml . ... . .. . - ... va en De arraitmea ana nonnn owr-tn th -nntt fnr mm i nt.. wt vi.i. ..,... .'nnji The whole -maUer maybe done onicMy.In. states wherel dime iaaida the shell of an erg -she brokefov frymg. Tius-heaif'f.? Bm(it li. j . i I 1 it.n !... ts. ta itiom av r.m mAutk.i i i.t.-i t. . a-ntfiantso tne nest -no tel. ri ancy eiea ai-anytime try a juage,'but this Is never cone unless i Kcaerai Tviiwoa up- - - newspapers wUl hare to start a campatgn for a safe and a Take the progress of this Bowles case.The sukida .(un- what with fires, poison iianor motor accidaGts. c.Tereating. Christ less ens'takes the murder hypothesis) occurred Nov. 12th. I aiaaris showing, up with -a portentous-death record. 1 . ne.-prmcipais were given prolonged axpub.ic exarmna- ' . " lions by? detectives and;pr0SCCUtors..fXhea -CU was , Tour TJnele Eam-ee.toOncroaoe his, business at the. post- hsld rrnv a rrinl inw-V-t v . v - - ZTTT Vi - a JZii JZl ofrice year by-year.-bad times as wtU asgaed. lla-ttrer no bar rlhJtFfB&'fo fr3 fCCa lP1 r211:.! Stma ta sumps.hel!s.erer cau tatea. msea tio-ruaranteee fcr three veclism;ea if it returns trua tljtha-Lr.lli Trnlef aerrica. but sUll his business keeys on growing. Simon BoUrar not Simon BolllTar, or BoUlrar,' but Seemon Boleerar.- - , Buenos. Aires not Bonus Airs hut Bwaynoe-Iria (long I). Lima not Xima, as in Lima bean, but-Leema. Callao not Callsya or Callayo, : but Xyew; . w Santiago not Santiaygo but. Santiago (iago aa in "Othello J. Uruguay not Youro a gway but Ooroogwy. k Venezuela not Tenesooeela' but Veneswaytr. Panama net Panama but "Panama. , Bogota -not Bogoata. hut Bogotah. - Arequtpa not Arakwippa but. Arehkeepa. San Martin not San Martin but San: Marteem . ; Cartagena- not Carta geena but: Carthahayna. Cristobal not Cristobal or Crlstabal but Cris-toblc , Quito not TXweeto- but Keeta. . s Curco not Kuxko but Koosko. raama not tama but yaroa. " , Montetideo sot : Montevideo but Monta vtdayo. Peru not Peeroo but Peh rsu i . . or -flamed in her cheek. Feoling ntteriy lost and at a duadrantage. she gave a defiant tweak to her hat. and looked around for Roger. J He should hare been .-standing outside, eagerly waiting. Not that she expected? it. -She had made p -her mind never to expect any thing kindly or good of Roger, again. It was the armor she built around herself, so that he could never hurt her again. She waa almost on top of him before he saw her. "Nancy, sweetheart!" All the wearines dropped from hint; all the doubt and the fears.. He was seeing her .again. His Nancy. ' His long arm shot out. aa if to press, her tor him., right there - la the waiting room; with, dull eyed tourists sitting watch ing, and somebody's dirty faced ehlld mvaching a popcorn- hall staring - right into RogerV Slow ing face. She a topped back hastily, gave him one -email, .cold hand. She said with iard. cold brightness that chilled -him more than she meant it to, "Yes, hero X am . . . and here you are at last!" Tt -mwrnrn't that aha wantaA tn hurt him. She was, so soft t heart, so ready- to melt into tears. to throw herself: upon him and cry. "Don't leave ue don't let me go-again i" at alga of bis lean brownness, : jua clear blue- eyes.- She needd that bright hard ar mor, she chrng-to it like aahield. Ho took her hand and looked down at-tiis boots, shiny and -new for the trip. He had forgotten everythlBSfthe meant to sayw. They couldn't go on standing there in the station with the sticky -child edging nearer and nearer, ataring from her to Roger. and back again with round., inter ested' eyes, and his mouth -wide open. , - . "Where did you want to take met" flushed and looked at his bag. so she wasn't going to take hint home; he wasn't going - to- meet her people, even yet. he saia lamely. , . .s "I asppose we could go some where and talk." .Where- could "Yes. that's it we got" 8 he lad -the way to where the taxis rwcre waiting. "Where to, elrl' "Where ahall we go, Nancy-" ( There :he was, leaning on her. making her. decide rnen she waa lo tired, and it seemed any min ute 'that she might he sick. 'But ahe said patiently, "You'll want to get ua or tnat bag. Don't yoa want to go to a notei tirst ana regiaten that 1. if you're staying ever tonight!" "Tee that's a good idea, -what hoteiT" She. -told him .that too, and there - was another heavy silence. He could not talk with the chauf feurs head so near, and Nancy, iiis own- wife, so cold and chang- -ed. nid yon come dewn on bus! veast" she asked, etui in that bright hard -voice. Yes. A rush trip, m be pall ia k out -in the morning. So it was business that brought him. Not she. - She was just to fill in-some empty time. She 'bit her Up. and. struggled furiously to-hold, back the team. Don't cry, silly t What did you expect? If if could. Ignore you when you begged htm to comels-i it likely he'd set a change -of heart t Besides, what-' do you caret' Toure- through -with him. I aren't 'rout wnh-a-botue-green "buttona" Nancy sank into a chair to -wait. . Single- room and -tatht" theH clerk, asked, -and'-while -he l summoning- ana ther buttons -to carry tae.'bag trptttirs Rorer came ever to . where Nancy at. I ?Would you4 stay here with met he asked ' ahyly. He waa ashamed-because' he had' made up 'tis cmtad -he wouldn't- meet -her n-aay such terms.' It was to tel aa ; honest ' lacing el the music with her family or nothing, at all But since business had brought him. . , "Please, he begged. "How can you ask such thing! "' she whispered; -Her cold hands writhed in her lap. He might have 'been a stranger, in sulting her, : ahe looked so hurt and- shamed. - Without another word be turn ed and followed the bellhop to the elevators. She waited, a mis erable enough little figure, sunk la the big blue chair. when he came back she mo tioned him to the chair beside her. ' : "But we can't talk hers! he cried. "Nancy, let me take you somewhere else.. Some .place where we can talk. Something haa .happened. I-dou t know what. but I've got to find out what It "You're asking ME that? After you . . you . . words -failed her. . . . His iaw dropped.: He sared at her in. -genuine astonishment. -What have I 4one?" "Well. Teallr.. . -She had made up her -mrad not -to talk about It. It wouldn't do - any good, but . . . The little spark of hope that never aulte dies while you love flared in her heart, warming It. setting It to beating fast . . oh, Roger, can't you see how you hurt met I begged you to come I put pride in my pocket I watted and waited " It was no use; she couldnt keep her voice steady, "and you didn't come"- , "Darling, I couldn't come. couldn't get away.- I told yen that I couldn't! Oh Nancy. X cant make you understand. We don't speak the same language It's the city . . . alt this artificial stuff He waved a long, arm wildly, meaning the hotel, the crowd, the used up air they breathed. "I cant talk to you here. Come back Nancy. Try. it again. Come oack home, we love each other . .we were happy . . . we'll be again. You dolore me.girir You do; X know you do, and I. . . well X; thought X knew how much you meant to me. but 1 didut. I didnt know till you went away. That night When- - I found you gone. I . . . oh. well I X guess you know. Nancy . . . She was trembling violently. biting tier lower lip until it bled. There came- a pounding, in her ears, blacknear that blotted, out the hotel -lobby, blotted out the world.: her good resolutions. Ev erything- but Roger. -Roger and she. 'v. ....--.:.": Out came ber hand groping for 2tla. . .--. TStay with mew Roger. -' Stay with me. Don't go back ever!" Pioneer spooks, bangingtt , b "e W M.oi - of 'this column knows of the birtorlchangingf Charles J. Roe. Apni o.. .it ta neonle who were m and around the Salem of -t attended. Or nearly 1L . a would have been very much out of style or a hopeless back num ber-who had not ?, Ing; or the one oi .enaa that Umeor the one of Beale end Baker, about six years iaier, wj 17, 1S5. - . . -.- TS ' "O Ti ' ' - ttti v -m. Croisan. U. S. col lector of cuatoma . at Portland. who Uvea ; in saiem ana siwjb bevheod up. saw the nta Baker, hanging, but he waa too young. for the Roe-neck tie party. However, ms oiwuer, George W.. who Uvea at 585 North Summer street, saw Roe hanged. v. xt rfroiaan ears Joe Baker, aiMa Aldeat citlacn la point of residence, waa about right aa to tbs location .oz the acaffold on walch Roe was executed, and the place where-the Urst oia log jaii af llaiioa. county: stood. But he ays the seaXtold, which was near the site -of the jaii, wmcn m been burned, was oa tne east side instead tt the west aide of cnurcn street, near P"errv some lt feet or ao aenth ef Ferry. JL little te the south of the presenr Khnser and Meredith residences. Mr. Croisan knows the exact legation, because the house of hla parents stood about where the Tick building aew is. corner of Hurh and Trade streets: and there was a shallow well where the burned Jail haa been. The well was uncovered, and Mr. Crol- aan. father, tearing his- children er -those -of some neighbor might fall into the weU. took the par tially bnrnedr doers ef the old J all and covered the well with them. . v At that -same place waa alse lo cated the scaffold on which was hanged William, Kendall on April 18. 1851. This waa the first legal hanging in Marlea county, the Bits man believes; It was before Mar ion county had any courthouse. The first courthouse, that stood where the present one stands, waa buUt la 1851 and 1152. . WUe Chapman being- the foreman in Charge of construction. Before the old courthouse was built; the courts for the county were held far a room In the Oregon Institute ithat by change of name became Willamette -university.) The building of the -Oregon Insti- ute hair three stories. It hadieen the Indian manual training school. built after the coming of the Lau aanne in 1840. It atood about where the present Willamette uni versity now stands. So the old log la the lobby of Oakland's best hotel they held hands, ahamleas ly. They whispered confidences MI slept with your letters un der my pillow I . . . tNancy. how can I . ever make up to you . . '. how can I . ever make you happy enough- And ahe cried recklessly. "By givinr up that miserable -moun- taia job, Roger. That hateful work that made us almost lose each other!" ' ." ' v' - He didn't understand. "Olring up my Job! Why, whatever would L do?" TSell real estate. Xve thought it au tmx. Mr. craig "Sell real estate? lis!" He threw back his bead and roared. That's a picture!" . I nero's an ainos of money la It, nr.. Craig Hay Btll Craig's ' father would ive rou a position, we couid, get a little apartment' down town. - You wouldn't 'have to give -un the t outdoor either. Mr. Craig could put you up-ror the-country dab. Golf awd -teiasla.' -Ue was: ataring. at tier 'as U she had lost her mind. : "I told you about It -In soy 1st- pleats of her skirt. T don't know why not." 'Yoa don't know why not! Why. Nancy girl, you can't ex ipect a man ' to . give up his. life wora to piay aoitr" 'Yea don't have to play .golf if you don't want to." They tried e laugh, to laugh away the fear that had them both, . pulling them, apart further ... further. "I took a degree la forestry you wouldn't have me let lt so te waster 'Look at my finger nails all shiny and long .again. Am I to waste them scrubbing In the backwoods?' "Oh. ir that's the way you feel about It, Scrubbing so that was what she- remembered" most about their honeymoon In the cabin. Scrubbing. Then ahe real ly didn't love the mountains . . . she had Just been pretending That waa why she left. He was red to his ears. "It you: care more about your Job than me!" She knew- he didn't, of course. She waited for him to deny it, to nromlae to come to town, to tell her nothing mattered but her . . Why didn't he speak? "It's me or the Job, Roger! He re-dented the crown of. his Stetson hat. "Make up your mind. I won't go bade to that ahanty; you shouldn't ask me to. If you lov ed me you d stay here!" Nerves made her shrewish. He aald alowly. "Yoa know I love you. Ill always love you. But I cant give up my work. girt Ton shouldn't ask me to. "It's the first thing I ever asked of you." "I can't do , Nancy. They -stared at each other. strangers . . . -they who were man and wife. -Bo far apart that they could no longer hear each other calling. Xost lost "I could arrange so yon didn't have to -scrub? any more. Nancy, it I could Just make you see" He stopped- 'because he saw that it war useless; she would not -listen. "I'm sorry, but It's too late now' she said with polite , re gret. She -had remembered that you must smile and look animat ed whenyou talk in hotel lob bies, else people will look at yon and wonder. "We made a mistake. Rorer. X think we both know that. We were foolish to think we could ever patch It up. I'm going to get a divorce." , To be continued) Jail was rather, conveniently lo cated. . ' William Kendall shot and kill ed WiUlam Hamilton. The crime was committed . on wmi wcvu. the Lafe Cavaaaough farm, a mile or so southeast of the old re form school and the present peni tentiary annex. Tne auung w over a dispute about that land. Kendall had located the place as his donation land claim, and had Joined the California oia rusn. While he was absent in the mines, Hamilton "Jumped" his claim. Some prominent pioneers thought Hamilton rot what waa coming to him. as claim jumpers were not popular then. But Judge wunam Ftrong net a. m spevia mu miM im the eld Institute building te try Kendall; convening it on if area 28. and short worg was made of It, aa Kendall was usher ed Into eternity three weeks later, April It. as stated above. Benja min F. Harding and W. O. T'VauIt defended KendaU. They were among eld -Oregon's moat promin ent attorneys and citizens. Hard lag becaata Ualted -States senator- a little more-than 10 years later. . v Mr. Croiaaa's father went te the mlaei, too and when he came back he round a "Jumper on his claim. oa the- Croisan creek, oa the rlTer highway south of Sa lem, no was Thomas Powell, an English blacksmith. Bat, Instead of -killing htm. the elder Croisan paid him Site to give him back his donation right. The Roe kiUlag-was at their home, which was ia North Salem, near ' Broadway aaf . Market streets, a little distance southwest of the location of the plant of the present Cherry City Baking com pany. Roe was Jealous ef his wife. He cut her throat, aad she ran bleeding to a near neighbor's, aad soon expired. - Mr. Croisan- thinks she was net a aalfbreed, aa all the historians s-epreseat Iter, -but a full blooded Indian girl He remembers that her name waa Angelica; says that name was on the woedea slab that marked her grara, la the I. O. O. F. cemetery, -aad had lettered oa ' it words to the effect that she waa cruelly and brutally murdered by her husband. They had a little boy. and a married sister took him. Her name- was Mrs.. Frank Cook, and the boy always went by the name of BUly Cook; never . Roe. Mr. Croisan thinks the Cook family went to the Grand Rondo Indian reservation la Polk and Yanrhlll counties, and that Billy Cook grew to be an old man there known as aa Indian. There was evidently at least one other, child, for Judge Boise referred to their "children" when he sentenc ed Roe to be banged. But the other .or the others, may have been by Roe's first wife, Nancy, who had been Nancy McKay, a three-quarter breed Indian wo man. a Now for the pioneer spooks; the old ghost stories. No one lived or wanted to live la the Roe house. Mr. Croisan thinks It was a frame dwelling. . Stories -got out that it was haunted. Neighbors imagined that they '"heard things." They were certain that Angelica Roe's ghost returned te ner -dwelling in the flesh. Or perhaps Charles J. Roe's shade, too. It became a spooky neighborhood. The very soughing of the gentle south wind carried the voices of departed spir its come back to hover the house of horrors. ' At one period the sounds were more vocal and horrific than usu al. They were the real thing; no mistaking the fact Ugh! Finally a neighbor, more nearly fearlesa than the rest, and not as trustful as the average in the existence of ghosts. Investigated "a And found a sow with her lit ter of pigs! The porcine mother had taken up her family abode in the haunted house. tert ' -Cut, f Good' Bod!. I dlla't think, you .csrer isrtstirf ' Eae begaw ;ta jlci at 'tie (Some more matter anent pio neer spooks wUl hare to So over until tomorrow.) Hi f,J CLOD T& BET EOT FREW FRUITLAND. Dee. it The Prultland . community club" will hold its monthly meeting Friday, January S, 1811. A fine program has been - planned. The Banners family will: put. on the most of the program,. . Barrlcks Quartet win also.be a good feature of the program. . . Barrlck's quartet is well known in the Salem dis trict. . After the program there will be- free refreshments served to all. ,.- ..... .., pzloodooCso U U often relieved fVTTr tttoH jo u? vr 1 y 5r I B CnXTECSX AT FESXtT rroins xa Jf 6- Afl sf set w mm JZIaf CLTIZJ 1 i -