STANTON
WINS
By
Fleanor M. Ingram
Author of *T h « Gain«
and the Candle.” X** 1®
Flying Mercury.” etc.
M a il ration» h
Frederic Th«rakar«k
C opjrlgUt U U Thu Bobb»- M errill Uompea/
I
SYNO PS IS.
A t the beginning o f great automobile
race the mechanician o f the Mercury,
Stanton's machine, drops dead. Strange
youth, Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is ac
cepted. In the rest during the twenty,
four hour race Stanton meets a stranger.
Miss Carlisle, who introduces herself. The
M ercury wins race,
stanttm
receives
flowers from Miss Carlisle, which he ig
norea. Stanton meets Miss Carlisle on a
train.
It w ai evident he and M lti Carlisle
"It 1« a good car," b « agreed con
C IT Y W ILL FIG H T I, W. W.
disliked each other at sight.
servatively ; privately he considered
She turned (torn him indifferently. it both too high and too heavy for rac
Los Angeles Prepares for Threatened
"Mr. Stanton, 1 am going to make ing work.
Invasion o f Harbor.
you a eelflsh invitation. Our place Is
"Only that? You say only that? But
Los Angeles— An important confer
about seventy-ffve miles from New wait, you have not driven 1L When
ence was held in the mayor's office re
York; will you sot try our new motor papa comes we can start."
car and give me the honor of being
Mr. Carlisle was coming; a spare, garding the threatened trouble with
driven there by «rou? You could go on nervous gentleman who wore glasses the Industrial Workers o f the World
to Lowell with us to-morrow morn set on a Roman noae, from which they at the harbor.
The San Pedro people wanted the
ing, or, if you insisted, finish the jour slipped monotonously. He and Stan
ney by train after dinner.”
ton had once met at the Mercury of council to pass an ordinance forthwith
oratory.
Sergeant
Amazed, Stanton looked at her. Once fice, where one was arranging for a against street
' again he mentally asked himself what tire contract, and the other was sign Smith said that i f enough policemen
she could want of him.
ing an agreement to drive for the were given him he would cope with
"Thank you; I have arranged to season. They recognized each other the situation, despite the rumor that
take this train,” he declined.
now, while Miss Carlisle concisely a shipload o f “ workers” was to land
at the harbor. The conference decid
"Decidedly r
outlined the situation.
"Decidedly. Miss Carlisle.”
” A most astonishing affair," com ed not to change the laws, saying that
She bent her head, patting her mented her father. “ Very kind of they were adequate, but that they felt
small tan shoe on the platform. She you. Mr. Stanton, indeed. These rail- that drastic action must be taken at
once.
The police department an
was even more handsome than hla road men are careless. Valerie— ”
night glimpse of her had shown, with
Miss Carlisle declined the Invitation nounced its willingness to send any
number o f men to San Pedro i f they
an Ivory-tinted,
cultivated beauty to enter the tonneau.
whose one defect was coldness.
“ I shall ride beside Mr. Stanton,' were needed.
A fte r a three-days' attempt on the
"O f course, I can not urge you,” she she announced. "I wish to see expert
part o f the Industrial Workers o f the
slowly rejoined. "But stroll back to driving at close range, for once.”
the depot with me, pray; I had some
"Ah?” queried Stanton; suddenly World to foment disaffection among
thing to say."
the conviction that she bad done this the longshoremen o f the harbor dis
"M y train," he began.
purposely flared up anew, and with trict by ordering a general strike, a
"Is my train also, slnoe you will not it his anger. She would have a rac summing up o f the strike situation
take me In the motor-car. W e have ing driver for her chauffeur? Very brings out these facts:
Tbe Los Angeles I. W. W. have
time enough; I Inquired of the con well. He swung Into the seat.
ductor, a moment ago.”
Until they were out of the city, he sent out a call for reinforcements to
Floyd bowed and stepped aboard drove with a wise obedience to traffic such I. W. W. centers as San Diego
the train, leaving the two to walk regulations. But when the country and Bakersfield.
To keep interest alive, principally
back together, followed by the maid. line was reached, Stanton stopped
“ I wanted to ask you of the race," the car, donned a small pair of gog among those who have walked out,
Miss Carlisle said, when they w-ere gles from his overcoat pocket, and leading members o f the I. W. W.
quite at the end of the long platform. passed his hat back to Mr. Carlisle’s ent out a circular calling a mass meet
ing. “ Stick, brothers, and we will
The speech remained unfinished. care.
There was a shouted order, the cough
"I am sorry I had no time to get win the strike,” was the ending o f the
of the locomotive mingled with the Into motor clothes," he observed, a summons.
About 30 men returned to work un
ring and jangle of tightening coup little too pleasantly. “ Still w e will
der the old schedule o f wages, and
lings, and the Lowell express pulled manage."
out of the shed. Stanton wheeled with
They made the next ten miles in employers think that the other 150
an ejaculation, but halted without at ten minutes, having a fair road. Then strikers w ill soon repudiate the I. W.
tempting useless pursuit.
rough hills and villages somewhat W. and return to work.
"How very unfortunate!" murmured lowered their pace. It was a dizzying
AM END S HO M ESTEAD LAW.
Miss Carlisle, putting aside her tan rush through a gale ef wind, a blrdllke
Bilk veils. "How very stupid of the cleaving of the summer air, accompa
conductor! “
nied by the weird howl of the electric Entrymen Mutt Specify If Old Law
is Preferred.
Stanton turned from the departing horn upon which Stanton kept a fin
train to the tranquilly regretful girl, ger much of the time, a vision of scat
Washington, D. C.— The senate has
his straight dark brows knitting. For tering wagona
adopted an amendment to the sundry
There was a curious circumstance. civil bill, proposed by Senator Borah,
tbe instant he could have been cer-
*Ln that she had done this Intention Valerie Carlisle literally cowered In providing that homesteaders who made
ally and by a pre-arranged plan. But her seat, pale, shivering, usually with filings prior to June 6 last may perfect
at once reason reclaimed him; he re her eyes shut. Yet she, the Imperious title under the three-year or five-year
called her breeding, her father's high demander of her own way, uttered no homestead law, as they prefer, even
position and wealth her composed remonstrance, although faintly crying though they fail prior to October 4 to
out once or twice when they slid by elect under which they will proceed.
worldliness, and ridiculed himself.
"Since I have made you miss your some obvious danger of cliff or road.
The Interior department construes
train, and missed my own, I can only Stanton saw, from the corner of his the three-year law to require that all
repeat my former suggestion," she eye, and speculated as he drove.
old entries be prefected under the
added, as he did not speak. "W hy
"Do you think this is safe?" Mr. Car three-year law unless entrymen elect
should you not come with my father lisle found an opportunity to urge.
otherwise before October 4.
and me in our car? It is only a three
“ I think so, if nothing breaks," Stan
or four hour trip, and you will be so ton called back, twisting the car
Washington. D. C. — Every home
much nearer Lowell, at least. I am around a load of hay.
stead entryman who made his initial
filing prior to June 6, 1912, and who
had not submitted final proof prior to
that date, w ill be expected to com
plete bis proof under the three-year
homestead law unless, by October 4,
next, he files with the local land office
statement to the effect that he
wished to complete proof under the
old law under which his filing was
made. This, in brief, is the interpre
tation which Secretary Fisher places
upon the new law, and he holds that
under the language o f the act, such
interpretation is mandatory, and no
discretion is given him.
C H A P T E R IV. (Continued.)
"Neither are you." he countered
“ Nor It wouldn’t be of any importance
If we were, but we are not. I'm not
asking you why you are working with
your hands instead of your head, and
I suppose you are not asking me. Who
cares?"
"N o one." dryly agreed Stanton.
"But I can tell you that I am doing
this to make money, and make It
quick, and I would much prefer break-
.ing my neck to living In the ruck of
poverty. They ate calling our train;
you had better come.”
"I'm supposed to keep tn touch
with Mr. Green,” Floyd observed,
gathering up his magazine with cheer
ful nonchalance. "H e Is worrying
about me most of the time, for fear
I'll lose my nerve and desert."
Which was not precisely what was
worrying the assistant manager of the
Mercury company, and perhaps Stan
ton of the rough temper knew it.
“ I fancy your nerve will hold out,
if your patience does." was his reply.
"Patience is supposed to be a wom
an's art,” doubted Floyd. “ But I ’ll
try to acquire it.”
Stanton laughed briefly.
"I wouldn't give much for your
chance of success, In that case. If I
ever find a woman who will ride with
me as you do, I will— marry her.”
“ Oh, no, you will not,” contradicted
the other, searching his pockets for
a missing glove. "You will marry a
Fluffy Ruffles who will faint if you
exceed the eight-mlle-an-hour speed
limit. And then you will quit racing
and be spoiled for the Mercury Com
pany, and all its rival manufacturers
will chant for joy: 'A yourg man mar
ried Is a young many marred.' ”
It was so long since any one had
cared to talk nonsense to Stanton
not to mention airily teasing him, that
he caught his breath in sheer aston
ishment. And then a tingling, hu
man warmth and sense of comrade
ship succeeded. It was as if he had
been living In a lonely, silent room
when unexpectedly some one opened
the door and entered.
"I'm too busy,” he retorted only, but
his tone conveyed no rebuke.
They walked on dpwn the room and
out Into the train shed. They were
almost at the train itself, when Floyd
stopped.
"Some one Is calling you," he signi
fied.
Stanton turned, and found a pant
ing, black-gowned young woman be
hind bim.
"M y mistress bade me ask you to
wait, sir,” she apologized.
“ Your mistress?”
She stepped aside, and he saw a tall,
fairhaired girl, gowned with finished
richness in a motor costume of pale-
tan silk, who advanced with leisurely
grace toward them.
"Miss Carlisle, sir,” supplemented
the maid.
"There is no need for you to go,"
Stanton checked, as Floyd moved to
continue on bis way. “ Stay here."
He was obeyed without comment.
The maid respectfully withdrew a few
paces, when her mistress came up.
"What a place to meet a man of
gasolene!" greeted Valerie Carlisle,
He Drove With a Wise Obedience to Traffic Regulations.
in her low, assured tones. "Or are you
also in distress, Mr. Stanton, and sorry our chauffeur Is 111, so t am
They reached their destination in
forced to prosaic train travel V
forced to ask you to drive. Of course, two hours and ten minutes. When
Her manner was that of one meet
you fear tiring yourself for a race they entered the village limits and
ing an ordinary acquaintance, she held day after tomorrow— ”
tbe speed fell to fifteen miles an
out her hand, in its miniature tan
Stanton started to speak, then ab hour, Mr. Carlisle slowly revived, and
gauntlet, with perfect ease. No one ruptly shrugged his shoulders. After regained his breath and bis glasses.
could have guessed how unconven all, why not?
His daughter released her grasp of the
tional and slight had been their Intro
Thank you,” he returned.
"I seat, raised a shaking band to touch
duction.
scarcely think a seventy-five mile veils and bonnet, then passed a hand
"I am going to Massachusetts," Stan run will incapacitate me."
kerchief across her dry lips and
ton answered as composedly.
You will come?” Her amber eyes looked up at the man beside her.
“ To Massachusetts?
But so are gleamed vividly. "You are too good.
"How do you like the car?” she
we! At least, we had everything ar Let us find my father and the car. It asked.
ranged to motor out to our country- Is at least a car worthy of you— a
Stanton surveyed her, almost sur-
place. until twenty minutes ago our better than the Mercury, I confess to prised Into compunction.
chauffeur was taken violently 111. thinking.”
"It hasn't the Mercury’s pull, to
Now I sti, pose we must go by train— ”
"A foreign machine?"
be perfectly frank," he answered. "It
she broke the sentence, her large
"N o, an Atalanta Six. Martha, find Is a trifle heavy and less lively. But
brown eyes sweeping Floyd with a de papa in the station and ask him to it Is a fine machine, and of course you
liberate question and scrutiny.
come out to the car."
do not want to race with It.”
"Miss Carlisle. Mr. Floyd, whom you
They emerged by a side exit into
"O f course I do not want to race
saw beside be for many hours at the the noisy, dirty, sunny New Yosk with It," She slowly assented, and
Beach motordrome," Stanton made the street.
averted her face from him. watch
presentation.
Is it not well designed, well ing the streeta
Her face cleared swiftly, he could swung?" she challenged. "It Is fast
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
have said It was relief which shot
n the race track— you know that la
across her expression.
If You Desire Success.
It not handsome?”
If you wish success In life, make
“ Your mechanician? Is It possible?
She spoke eagerly, with more ani
You also are going to Lowell, Mr. mation than he had yet seen la her. perseverence your bosom friend, ex
Floyd?"
Stanton ran a careless glance over the perience your wise counselor, caution
"Yea, since my next work Is there,” big, tan-colored automobile standing your elder brother, and hope your
guardian genius.—Addison.
Floyd replied, unsmiling and laconic. by the curb.
,
D E M O C R ATS DISAGREE.
Caucus Declares Agairst Additions to
Battleship Fleet.
Washington, D. C.— A serious split
in the Democratic organization o f the
house o f representatives is threatened
as a result o f the action of the party
caucus in declaring against additions
to the battleship fleet. The prediction
is made that before many days have
passed Speaker Clark and Leader Un
derwood w ill be fighting one another
out in the open.
Speaker Clark voted against the
battleship programme.
Leader Un
derwood voted in favor o f ¡battleships.
The charge is made by the Demo
crats that Mr. Clark, angered by the
failure o f Mr. Underwood to support
Mr. Clark in the Baltimore conven
tion, has decided to join issues with
the m ajority leader.
The Democrats who favor navy ad
ditions, charge that the speaker some
weeks ago, promised to givet his sup
port to an amendment to the naval bill
authorizing one battleship.
Artists for Fair Named.
San Francisco— F ive important ap
pointments for departmental work on
the Panama-Pacific exposition were
made by President Moore, o f the expo
sition company.
The following are
the men and positions:
Jules Guer
in, director o f color; A. S. Calder,
chief o f sculpture; Carl Bitter, advis
er in sculpture; E. E. Carpenter, civ
il engineer; A. H. Markwart, chief o f
construction. Guerin is widely-klown
mural decorator.
He designed the
mural decorations in the new Penn
sylvania depot in New York.
Re-trial Held of No Benefit.
Washington, D. C.— W ar depart
ment officials hold that the four West
Point cadets who were courtmartialed
and expelled from the m ilitary acad
emy on September 5, 1911, for drink
ing intoxicating liquors will not be
benefited by the senate’s joint resolu
tion directing President T a ft to re
convene the court and try them again.
Arm y offioers maintain they may. re
enter
the m ilitary academy only
through appointment.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
LIBRARY FUND SH O R T.
TRADE BALANCE T U R N S ,
Medford
Becomes Extsnslvs Seller Bids Will Be Opened August 6 for
Construction.
o f Food Products.
Medford— Medford w ill mark the
year o f 1912 as the first year that it
has started a balance o f trade in farm
products in its favor.
The first car
of potatoes ever shipped out o f the
valley was sent this week, and be
cause o f the heavy hay and grain crop
many flour and feed mills which have
been closed the past few weeks will
open as soon as the threshing sea:
begins.
A year ago 163 cars o f hay were im
ported and eggs were shipped in regu
larly. For several weeks now eggs
have been sent out and none received.
Hundreds o f tons o f alfalfa and grain
hay w ill be sold to outside buyers.
The public market recently estab
lished is proving a great success.
Fruits and vegetables o f all kinds,
chickens, eggs and other produce are
being purchased by local consumers
considerably below the market price.
The fru it crop will be large and o f
the highest quality.
Three cars of
pears have been sold for future d eliv
ery through the Northwestern Fruit
Exchange o f Portland, averaging $2
box f. o. b. Medford. The picking
season for Bartletts will open August
5 to 10, and local ranchers ate already
scouring the country for help.
Although moisture has delayed the
honey production somewhat the ton
nage w ill be a record breaker. W il
liam Muller, the honey king, reports
that shipments will begin next week,
and between 30 and 40 tons w ill be
shipped.
The increase in local production is
attributed largely to the increased use
o f water, the ranchers having 'found
that irrigation is one o f the best in
vestments that can be made, both as
an insurance against crop failure and
a guarantee of greater production per
acre.
P O T A T O C R O P IS LARGE.
Hood
River Will Produce Between
26,000 to 30,000 Sacks.
Hood R iver— The potato crop in the
Hood R iver valley is estimated this
year at between 25,000 and 30,000
sacks, the largest ever raised here.
A number o f the tuber growers here
reaped a rich harvest last year, ship
ping a number o f carloads to Texas
and receiving excellent returns.
While most o f the acreage is com
posed o f land just cleared or that with
potatoes planted between young trees,
a few have planted on a commercial
basis. The orchardists who plant be
tween their trees expect their crops to
furnish them their own supply and
enough over to have a wagon load or
two to haul to market.
Albert Crocker, John Koberg and F.
H. Button are the heaviest growers of
potatoes. Mr. Crocker has a large
tract on the Paradise farm.
It is probable that the Hood River
Applegrowers’ union will handle pota
toes this season. Wilmer Sieg, the
manager, who ' has gone to Eastern
cities, w ill attempt to establish rela
tions with firms in order to dispose o f
the local tuber crop to advantage.
C O V E'S SHOW A T T R A C T S .
AM Union County Drawn to Magnifi
cent Cherry Exhibit.
La Grande — Luscious cherries—
cherries the like o f which captured
the golden medals at the last three or
four world’s fa irs —were inspected
and admired by loving throngs from
nooks and corners o f Union county at
Cove.
A sprinkling o f rain immediately
after the luncheon hour failed to
dampen the ardor o f the volumes o f
praise spread by the visitors at the
annual cherry fair.
The day went
along with threatening weather until
the afternoon, when light showers
made the afternoon’s schedule prob
lematical, but the cherries were there
in big red letters.
Fortunately, the cherry crop was
most prolific this year, and a proper
amount o f warm weather colored the
fru it to the exact hue that shows them
at their best.
Coming early, the crowds soon filled
the little hamlet to overflowing, and
by noon walking room was a scarcity.
Union, L a Grande, Elgin, in fact,
every town and city in the valley sent
a splendid representation, and, rain
notwithstanding, the fair was a tre
mendous success.
Conservative estimates place the at
tendance at 3000.
Shaniko Ships Sheep.
Shaniko— Two hundred and ten car
loads o f sheep were shipped from this
point over the O.-W. R. & N. last
month. Railroad officials say this es
tablishes a record for initial ship
ments from any point in the Pacific
Northwest.
Seventy carloads were
shipped in one day. The number o f
sheep handled was 52,000.
It is es-
timated there are 80,000 more to be
shipped from this territory before the
Australia Opposes Canal Rebates.
end o f this season. On account o f the
Melbourne— The senate o f the Com open winter, sheep are in splendid
monwealth o f Australia passed the condition.
resolution adopted by the house o f
Natron Rails Are Being Laid.
representatives on July 18, in refe r
ence to the Panama canal. Its terms
Eugene — Word comes from Oak-
are: “ In the opinion o f the bouse, ridge that the Utah Construction com
any system providing for a bonus or a pany has laid 800 feet o f rails beyond
rebate o f canal dues to American ship that place on the present contract for
This brings
ping in the Panama canal would be the Natron extension.
detrimental to the interests o f Aus the rails to Salmon Creek, and makes
possible the site direct.
tralia.”
Salem— W ith the announcement that
bids will be opened for the new Su
preme court and State Library build
ing on the state grounds August 5, it
has also been determined that it will
be possible on the present appropria
tion to construct only the brickwork,
exterior and flooring, and that the iu-
terior and finishing w ill have to de
pend on a further appropriation at the
next session o f the legislative as
sembly.
Members o f the State board, after
making a purchase o f the entire block
east o f the capito! at a cost o f $50,-
000, reached the conclusion that the
remaining $100,000 would be insuffi
cient for the construction of such a
building as is needed.
State Treasurer Kay held several
conferences with members o f the Su
preme court and members o f that body
stated they would back up the State
board and give their moral support in
securing an additional appropriation
for the construction o f the building.
The deficit w ill be about $70,000,
about $50,000 o f this being for the
building and the remainder for com
pletion and furnishings. The founda
tion has been constructed.
The second floor will be entirely de
voted to the state library. This will
include floor space o f 96 by 126 feet.
The third floor w ill have offices for the
Supreme court. The attorney general
and assistants will have three rooms
on this floor.
MEDFORD FARM IS BOUGHT.
Illinois Woman Pays S200.000
l&OO Acres Fruit Land,
for
Medford— Miss Kate F. O’Connor, a
prominent suffragette o f Rockford,
III., active in the Federation o f Wo
men's Clubs and well known through
out the Middle West, has purchased
the old McMahon ranch o f 1500 acres,
lying seven miles southeast o f Med
ford.
Edward Butterfield, who owns and
operates a string o f retail stores in
Northern Illinois, is associated with
Miss O ’Connor and w ill be the Med
ford manager.
Miss O'Connor, who is an extensive
real estate operator in Ilinois, will
have tbe property cut up into five and
ten-acre tracts planted with pears,
and w ill establish her main sales office
in Rockford, III. Although no money
consideration was named, it is be
lieved to be in the neighborhood o f
$ 200 , 000 .
Special inducements w ill be made to
young women to settle on the prop
erty, and it is rumored that those be
lieving in “ Votes for Women” w ill be
particularly encouraged.
C O O S BAY C ANN E R IE S OPEN.
Salmon Industry Outlook Good Wnen
Run Is Started.
Marshfield — The salmon canning
season on Coos Bay has started, but as
yet there is not much o f a run o f sal
mon. The fishermen, however, expect
that there w ill be a good run. This
year there w ill be more markets for
fish than before.
The plant at Empire w ill be operat
ed by the Southern Oregon company.
The Tallant company, which last
year was interested with the Southern
Oregon company, will operate sepa
rately this year, having purchased the
Reynolds salmon cannery in Marsh
field and will operate it this year.
The cold storage plant in Marshfield
w ill also be opened this year, so there
w ill be three plants on Coos Bay buy
ing fish. The cannery at Gardiner on
the Umpqua river w ill also operate
to handle the salmon caught in that
waterway.
Fruit Packers to Vie
Two medals w ill be awarded by the
Northwestern Fruit Exchange at the
Northwest Land Products show, to be
held in Portland in November, for the
two best 25-box exhibits. The first
prize w ill be a gold medal and the
second a silver medal. It is expected
that there will be between 76 and 100
entries. The medals w ill be awarded
to packers, and not exhibitors.
Manager Bond said that much'inter-
est is already being taken in the forth
coming show by fruitgrowers and
farmers throughout the Northwest.
Every producing district in Oregon
w ill have extensive displays at the
show, he said.
Grade May Be Changed.
Marshfield— It is generally under
stood here that the Southern Pacific
ill change the grade o f the Eugene-
Coos Bay line at points
between
North Bend and Gardiner. In conse
quence o f these changes it is an
nounced that no further work will be
done in the way o f clearing the right
° f W*T until the changes have been
m*de and definitely decided upon. It
ig thought, however, that the delay in
starting the work will not be a long
one- Shipments o f machinery are ex-
pected soon.
Oregon Arouses Interest.
Salem — “ Everybody was asking
about Oregon,” said Superintendent
Aderman. who has just returned from
Chicago, where he attended the Na
tional Educational association. “ Great
interest was expressed in the rural
high schools in Oregon, and especial
interest was shown in the develop
ment o f rural schools in general.”