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THE EUGENE GUARD “Queer climate anyway.” agreed Car “She won't break," snapped Shearer. order to swell the profits of manipula tors and stuck jobbers. penter. Harrisburg Items "Get to work.” It Is the duty of the Democratic Excepting always for the mill, tbe "It's daugerous,” they objected sul- party to ally itself with the legitimate little settlement appeared asleep. The lenly. business interests of the country, and main booms were quite deserted. Aft “You get off this driver!" shouted with their aid to overthrow the Repub (Guard Special Service ) er awhile Hamilton noticed something. Solly, “Go over and lie down in a ten Harrisburg April 21.— Wheeler Mc lican party, which has sold Itself to “Look here. Carpenter," said lie. acre lot and see if you feel safe there!" Mahon departed last Friday for “What’s happening out there? Have He drove them ashore with a storm the criminal trusts. None will welcome Democratic suc Southern Oregon, where he will work some of your confounded logs sunk, or of profanity and a multitude of kicks, cess more gladly thau the legitimate during the summer. By STEWART what? There don't seem to be near sc his steel blue ey s blazing. many of them somehow." EDWARD "There's nothing for it but to get business man, who finds it more and Mrs. Louis Maxson, of Stattie, is "No; It isn't that," proffered Carpen the boys out again.” said '! Im “I more difficult to exist under the throt- visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. WHITE tling Influence of the trusts aud their ter after u moment's scrutiny. "There kinder hate to do it.” M. W. Carter, of thiB city. 19 0 2. by Sftvart £ d to a rd tlfhitd are just as many logs, but they are But when the Fighting Forty, half growing control of legislation, money and opportunity. getting separated a litti ' so you can asleep but dauu Tbe remains of Miss Edith Cun - - * u • • • v s. took chuige of tbe To the commercial traveler, the busi see the open water between them.” ningham, who died in Albany Thurs driver a catastrophe made Itself ++♦< ness man, the mechanic whose wages "Guess you're right Say, look here known. One ot the ejected men had day, were brought to Harrisburg and ■t *4»***? +++- are cut, the local banker in constant I believe that the river is rising." tripped tlte lifting chain of the ham laid to best in the Masonic cemetery CONTINUED spun the thread of the railroad. Fai “Nonsense! We haven’t had any mer after another had knocked away danger, to every family thut has had uway gleamed the broad expanses of rain.” its living expen.es increased or its sav Saturday. CHAPTER XXX. the heavy preventing block, and so Dr. T. C. Markey is making a busi “She’s rising Just the same. Y’ou see the hammer had fallen Into the river ings absorbed by the criminal trusts, I ALLACE CARPENTER’S search laike Superior. The men paired off naturally and fell would recommend a study of the char ness trip in California. The doctor that spile over there near the left baud expedition had proved a fail and was lost. None other was to be acter of Andrew Jackson and his polit is undecided where be will locate. ure, as Thorpe had foreseen, Into a dragging, dogged walk, Thorpe ■ crib? Well, I sat on the boom this bad. The pile driver was useless. ical methods. but at the end of the week. found himself unexpectedly with Big 1 morning watching the crew, and I A dozen men were at once dispatched Mr. Prior is treating his residence To all Democrats and Democratic When the water began to recede, they Juuko. For a time they plodded on i whittled the spile with my knife. You for cables, chains and wire ropes from leaders Andrew Jackson stands a proof to a fresh coat of paint. Cauie upon a muss of flesh and bones. without conversation. Then tbe big can see the marks from here. I cut tbe the supply ut tlie warehouse. of the value of principle in the win Tbe Harrisburg drama was post thing about two feet above tlie water. The man was unrecognizable, The re- man ventured a remark. •‘It’s part of the same trick,” said ning of victory. “I’m glad she’s over," said he. “I got Look at it now.” poned until April 23d, on account of tnalus were wrapped in canjns and Thorpe grimly. "Those fellows have If it were possible in the coming the death of Miss Cunningham “She's pretty near tbe water line, their men everywhere among us. T ■ent for interment to the cenÆtery at a good stake cornin’.” campaign to choose our candidates In “Yes,” replied Thorpe indifferently that's right,” admitted Carpenter. I don’t know whom to trust.” Marquette. Three of the others were Mrs. Tyler and Miss Minnie Evans the history of the past, I should not ad "I got most $600 cornin’,” persisted About an hour later tbe younger man never found. The last did not come to "Yon think ft’s Morrison A- Daly?" vocate the choice of some so called visited in Junction City Sunday. Junko. in his turn made a discovery. light until after the drive had quite fin queried Carpenter, astonished. "conservative" nonentity, without mo "Might as well be COO cents,” com Mies Luelta Brewster visited her “She’s been rising right along,” he ished. “Think? I know it. They know as Down at the booms the Jam crew mented Thorpe “It ’ll make you 1u-t submitted. “Your marks are nearer well as you of I that if we save these tive or Inspiration save desire for of parents in Eugene Saturday and Sun fice; I should urge the nomination of the water, and, do you know, I believe logs we'll win out in the Stock Ex received the drive us fast as it came as drunk.” day. Big Junko laughed self consciously, the logs are beginning to feel It. See, change. and they're not such fools as Andrew Jackson, because he was not down. From one crib to another across Quite a number of the ladies of the they’ve closed up the little openings to let us save them if it can be helped.” afraid of money illegally intrenched, the broad extent of the river's mouth but without the slightest resentment local Degree of Honor are attending because be knew bow to fight and how between them, and they are beginning heavy booms were chained end to end "What are you going to do now?" "That's all right,” said he, “but you I to win. tbe convention of that order in Al to crowd down to tne lower end of the effectually Io close the exit to Lake betclier life I don't blow this stake.” bany this week. “Tbe only thing there is to be done. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Superior. Against these tbe logs car “I’ve beard that talk before," shrug- pOllu. omed softly In the slackened current ged Thorpe. “I don't know anything about this We'll string heavy booms chained to Arthur Senders is on a business i Inda.trlal Economics. and stopped. The cribs were very "Yes, but this is different. I'm goln' business,” hazarded the Journalist, “but gether between tbe cribs and then Trustworthy statistics declare that trip in Southern Oregon. heavy, with slanting Instead of square to git married on this. How’s that?" I should think there was a good deal of trust to heaven they'll hold. I think Miss Kittie Baker is visiting in Al the productive capacity of every lndl- tops. In order thut the pressure might Thorpe, his attention struck at last, pressure on that same lower end. By we can bold the jam. The water will vidual American who works has been bany this week. be downward Instead of sidewise. In stared at bis companion. Jove, look here! See those logs up-end. begin to flow over the bank before a short time the surface of the lagoon I believe you’re going to have a jam long, so there won’t be much increase multiplied 125 times in th.e past cen- “Who is she?” he asked abruptly. of pressure over what we have now, tury by the perfection of labor saving was covered by a brown carpet of logs right here in your owu booms.” “She uses! to wash at Camp Four.” Coburg Items running in strange patterns like wind “I don't know,” hesitated Wallace.' and as there won’t be any shock to machinery. Thorpe dimly remembered the wom withstand I think our heavy booms Government experts who compile in rows of fallen grain. Tbe drive was an now—au overweighted creature with “I never heard of its happening.” dustrial data assert that wealth is in will do the business.” all but over. “You’d better let some one know.” a certain attraction of elflslily blowing He turned to direct the boring of creased in America at the rate of $10 “I hate to bother Harry or any of (Guard Special Service.) Up till now tlie weather had been hair, with a certain pleasing, full tbe river men. I'll just step down tc ’ some long boom logs in preparation for a day for every person who works. dear, but oppressively hot tor this cheeked, full bosomed health. April 22.—Mr. Louis In Coburg, Many trust managers now eliminate time of year. The heat had come sud The two walked on In re-established the mill. Mason—he’s our mill fore-1 the chains. Suddenly lie whirled again consideration of workmen as individ gram, of Coquille, Or., is visiting to Wallace with so strange an expres- i man — he'll know. ” denly and maintained itself well. The silence. Finally the giant, unable to Mason caine to the edge of the high sion in his face that tlie young man al uals. The mechanic is considered an with hie brother, Robert, of this men hail worked for the most part in contain himself longer, broke out again. most cried out. The uncertain light of automaton—a part of the high speed place. Undershirts. They were as much in "I do like that woman,” said he with trestle and took one look. “Jumping fishhooks!” he cried. “Why, the lanterns showed dimly tbe streaks machine—and the longer it runs the tbe water as out of it, for the icy bath a quuiutly deliberate seriousness. Mr. Bridges, of Lebanon, visited had become almost grateful. Hamil “That's the finest woman in this dis the river’s up six inches and still of rain across his countenance, and more profit is made. with F. B. Sackett yesterday. I The manager of the Homestead (Pa.) a-cornin’! Here you, Tom!” he called his eye flared with a look almost of ton, tlie journalist, who had attached trict” F. B. Sackett and wife expect to Rolling mills, the armor plate factory himself definitely to the drive, distrib Thorpe felt the quick moisture rush to one of the yard hands. “You tel) panic. uted bunches of papers, in which tbe to bis eyes. There was something in Solly to get steam on that tug dou I “I never thought of it,” he said In a of the steel trust, said in congress re- start next Tuesday for Los Angeles, IDen read that the uns<*asonable condi expressibly touching in those slmpie ble quick and have Dave hustle to low voice, "Fool that I am! I don't cently, “We have only three laborers California, to attend the general con see how I missed it. Wallace, don’t in our mills—fire, water ind electrlc- ference of the M." E. church, which gether his driver crew!” tions prevailed all over tlie country. , words as Big Junko uttered them. z “What are you going to do?” asked you see what those devils will do lty.” meets in that place May 1st. At length, however, it gave signs of "And when you are married,” he usk I “I find no difficulty in running my next?” brenkln The sky which had been of ed, “what are you going to do? Are Wallace. The Rebekah lodge of this place en newspapers and starting new ones on “No. What do you mean?” gasped “I got to strengthen the booms,” ex a steel blue, harbored great piled tliun you going to stay on the river?" the eight hour day,” said Representa tertained the members of Lone Fir plained the mill foreman. “We’ll drive the younger man. der heads Toward evening the thun “No, I’m goln' t< clear a farm, I tive William Randolph Hearst in con- Circle, No. 136, W. O. W., at their "There are 12,000,000 feet of logs up der heads shifted and finally dlsslpat woman says that's tbe thing to do. 1 some piles across the cribs.” river in Sadler & Smith’s drive. Don't ------ Fr<]ss- “My establishments run twen- hall Tuesday evening. Games of va ed, to be sure, but the portent was like the river too. But- you bet when “Is there any danger?” I ty-four hours a day, but tbe individ rious kinds were indulged in, after there. “Oh, no. The river would have to you see what they’ll do?" Carrie says a thing that’s plenty good ual employees work only eight hours.” which ic» cream and cake were serv- rise a good deal higher than she is now , “No. I don’t believe”— Hamilton's papers begun to tell of enough for Big Junko.” A congressional resolution to inves ed. “Just as soon as they find out that Thorpe looked at his companion fix- to make current enough to hurt Washouts and eh '.■Ibu-. Ip the south tigate the beef trust brought out these ■nd west ’!" ■ "o n wlsl.isl th '.v had edly. He remembered Big Junko as They’ve bad a hard rain up above. the river is booming and that we are facts: Stock raisers get too little for A very pleasant party was held going to have a hard time to hold our a wild beast when his passions were This will go down in a tew hours.” _ •Olne of that water here cattle, consumers pay too much for Saturday afternoon at the home of After a time the tug puffed up to tne J Jam, they’ll let loose those 12,000,000 meat, ranchers are robbed by the com Mrs. Geo. A. Drury, in honor of the So finally the drive approached its aroused, ns a man whose honesty had end and all concerned began in antiei been doubted. booms, escorting the pile driver. The on us. They’ll break the jam or dy bination which keeps down the price “You've changed, Junko,” said he. pation to taste the weariness that latter towed a little raft of long, sharp namite it, or something. And let me of beef on the hoof, retail butchers seventh birthday of her daughter, Emma. A merry time was “njoyed "I know,” said the big man. “I been ened piles, which it at once began to' tell you that a very few logs hitting •Waited them. The few remaining cannot sell at a profit, dressed beef Is tasks still confronting them all at once a scalawag all right. I quit it. I don't drive in such positions as would most the tail of our jam will start the whole higher than three years ago and the by the little folks, who numbered ■eemed more formidable than what know much, but Carrie she’s smart, effectually strengthen the booms. In shooting match so that no power on1 producer gets less, the cost of handling about thirty. Lunch was served by they had accomplished. The work for ■nd I’m goln' to do what she Buys. the meantime the thunder heads bad earth can stop It” tbe hostess, assisted by Mrs A. C. "I don't Imagine they’d think of do-, meats from ranch to block is reduced. Dixon and Mrs. W. M. Duryea, to the first time became dogged, distaste ! When you get stuck on a good woman slyly climbed the heavens, so that a Who gets the benefit? ful. Even Thorpe was Infected. He, like Carrie. Mr. Thorpe, you don’t give sudden deluge of rain surprised the Ing that.” began Wallace by way of which the guests did ample justice. too. wanted more than anything else much for anything else. Sure. That’s workmen. For an hour it poured down assurance. Vote« Show Popularity. Lone Fir Circle, No. 136, W. O. W , “ Think of it! You don ’ t know them. It's tlie biggest thing top of right steady to drop on the las! in Mrs. Hathaway's In torrents, then settled to a Election returns are true measures boarding house. There remained but earth.” gray beat, Immediately the aspect They’ve thought of everything. You of a man's personal or political popu will give a shadow social in a short don't know that man Daly. Ask Tim. Here It was again-the opposing had changed. time for the benefit of the order. A a few things to do. A mile of sacking ' larity. In districts where all elements general good time is promised, as the Would carry the drive beyond tlie in creed. And from such a source! Solly, the tug captain, looked at his He'll tell you.” of society are resident the canvass I "Well, the ” — fluence of freshet water. After that Thorpe’s iron will contracted again. mooring hawsers and then at tbe near members of that order are always able “I’ve got to send a man up there shows the esteem in which candidates “A woman Is no excuse for a man's est crib. there would lie no hurry. to do. are held. The Eleventh congressional lie looked round at the hard, fatigue neglecting Ids work,” he snapped. "She’s riz two Inches in th' last two. right away. Perhaps we can get there district of New York is a typical, rep Worn faces of the men about him, aud [ “Shorely not” agreed Junko serene hours,” he announced, “and she's run-, tn time to head them off. They have resentative cosmopolitan community, he suddenly felt a great rush of affee 1 ly. "I alm to finish out my time all nin’ like a mill race.” Solly was a to send their man over”— He cast his i Within its boundaries is part of the Hat and Cloak Taken. Hon for these comrades who had so un i right Mr. Thorpe. Don’t you worry I typical north country tug captain, short eye rapidly over the men. “I don’t know just who to send. west side, whose residents work hard; reservedly spent themselves for his af none about that. I done my best fot aud broad, with a brown, clear face part of Fifth avenue, where wealth If the person who took the ladies’ fair. Their features showed exhaus-1 you. And.” went on tbe river man in and the steadiest and calmest of steel There isn’t a good enough woodsman and ease abound, and part of the hat and cloak by mistake from the I. tlon, it is true, but their eyes gleamed the expansion of this unwonted confi blue eyes. “When she begins to feel in tbe lot to make Sfscoe Falls through Broadway business section. O. F. hall last evening still with the steady, half humorous dence with his employer, “I’d like to th' pressure behind,” he went on, the woods a night like this. Tbe river This is the district that elected Wil O. trail is too long, and a cut through the will return tbe same to No. 80 West purpose of the pioneer. When they rise to remark that you’re the best boss “there's goin' to be trouble.” liam Randolph Hearst as its represent woods is blind. ” Caught Ills glance they grinned good 1 ever had. and we boys wants to stay Toward dusk she began to feel that With infinite difficulty and caution ative in congress by tbe largest major Fifth street, they will confer a favor with her till there’s skating in hades." [ pressure. Through the rainy twilight humoredly. they reached the shore. Across the ity ever given to a representative in on the owner. “ All right, ” murmured Thorpe lndlf All lit once Thorpe turned aud start the logs could be seen raising their gleaming logs shone dimly the lanterns Greater New York. The figures are ferently. Suddenly the remaining halt ed for the bunk. ghostly arms of protest. Slowly, with at the scene of work, ghostly through Interesting. Representative Hearst re Married. “That 'll do, boys,” be said quietly to mile to town seemed very long indeed. out tumult, the Jam formed. In tlie the rain. Beyond, on either side, lay ceived 26,953 votes, 16,112 more than the nearest group. “She’s down.” rear they pressed in, were sucked un impenetrable, drenched darkness rack bls Republican opponent The same CHAPTER XXXI. It was noon. The sackers looked up der in the swift water and came to At Anlauf, Douglat county, Ore., percentage given to Bird S. Coler, the ALLACE CARPENTER ■nd rest at the bottom of the river. The ed by the wind. In surprise. Behind them, to their very “I wouldn't want to tackle it,” pant candidate for governor on the same April 20th, 1901, at the residence of Hamilton, the Journalist, ■eat current of the river began to protest, feet, rushed »he soft smooth slope of I ticket, would have elected a Demo ed against the sun warmed pressing its hydraulics through the nar ed Thorpe. “If it wasn’t for that cratic governor of the Empire state. the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hemlock rapids. Below them flowed a ' cursed tote road between Sadler & bench of Mrs. Hathaway ’ s broad, peaceful river. The drive had rowing crevices. The situation demand Smith's I wouldn't worry. It's just too Mr. Hearst's majority was 6,000 great Samuel Wood, E. B. Ilandsaker to Miss Mattie May Wood, Rev. T. S. passed Its last obstruction. To all in . boarding house, commented on tbe ed attention. er than Mayor McClellan's one year easy for them.” band as it stumbled into the wash- tents and purposes it was over. Handsaker, officiating. A breeze began to pull offshore in Behind them the Jam cracked and later, and the same precincts gave Mr. Calmly, with matter of fact direct room. Their con versa tiou was inter the body of rain. Little by little it in shrieked and groaned. Occasionally Hearst 3,000 more votes than Judge Hess, as though they had not achieved rupted by the approach of Thorpe aud creased. sending the wuter by in gusts, was heard beneath the sharper noises Alton B. Parker received, and the lat the Impossible, they shouldered their I Big Junko. The former looked twenty ruffling the already hurrying river into, a dull boom as one of tbe heavy tim ter had tbe advantage in that the peaveys and struck Into the broad wag vears older after Ids winter. His eye greater baste, raising far from the bers, forced by the pressure from Its publicans did not nominate any Re- one On road In the middle distance loomed j was dull, his shoulders drooped, his shore dimly perceived whitecaps. Be- > rosting place, shot into tlie air and fell against him. To Mr. andJMra. Mark T. Flemming the lull -ta.-k.t of ttie mill, witti the lit ' gait was inelastic. The whole bearing tween tbe roaring of the wind, the back on the bristling surface. near Irving,April 10, 1904, a 12-pound of the man was that of one weary tc tie board town about It. Across the eye dash of rain aud tbe rush of the stream "Tim Shearer might do it," suggested Selling and Baylag. daughter. tbe bone. men had to shout to make themselves Thorpe, "but I hate to spare him.” The department of commerce___ and “I’ve got something here to show beaixl. He picked ills riflq from Its rack and labor recently published the statement you, Harry!” cried Wallace Carpenter, “Guess you'd better rout out the waving a newspaper, It was a great boss.” screamed Solly to Wallace Car thrust the magazine full of cartridges. that the average cost of living in Amer “Come on. Wallace," said be. “We'll ica has increased 16 2-3 per cent This drive, and here's something to reinem penter. "This water's cornin’ up an hunt him up." statement is based undoubtedly on ber it by." The following described horses Inch an hour right along. When slie They stepped again into tlie shriek wholesale market quotations. “All right, Wallace, by and by,” re out and roar of tbe storm, bending their Since Nor. 1, 1D03, there has been an came to my place about April 12th: plied Tliorpe dully. "I'm dead. I'm backs up once she'll push this jam beads to Its power, but indifferent to average reduction of wages throughout One dark bay mare, wieght 1050, going to turn In for awhile. I need sure.” Wallace ran to the boarding house the rain. The sawdust street was sat the manufacturing centers of the east brand “C S” on right hip, shod; one I sleep more than anything else.” He passed through the little passage and roused Ills partner from a heavy urated like a sponge. They could feel of 10 to 20 per cent. Flour and other sorrel horse, weight] 900, shod; one Into tlie "parlor bedroom," which Mis sleep. The latter understood the situa the quick water rise about the pressure foodstuffs have Increased in price since amah bay horse, no brand. Owner Hathaway always kept in readine» tion at a word, While dressing be ex- at their feet. From the invisible bouses the same dale. can have the same by calling at my The price of newspapers tn the groat for memliers of the firm. There lie t'ci’ plained to the younger man wherein they beard a steady monotone of flow Ing from the roofs. Far abend, dim bi lay the danger. cities has been reduced two-thirds in place, 1’4 miles above Hendricks’ heavily asleep almost before his "If the jam breaks once," said he. the mist, sprayed the light of lanterns fifteen year» The cost of producing ferry on the south side of McKenzie met tlie bed. Suddenly Thorpe felt a touch on ho them has increased. "Notwithstanding river, and pay for tbeir keeping. "nothing top of earth can prevent it long dining room tli from going out Into tbe lake, and there arm. Faintly he perceived at his elbow these conditions." says William Ran A. TUPPER. aimed a belated dinner It 'll scatter lieaven kuows where. Once a face from which tbe water streaim-d dolph II at st. "uiy papers pay hand Walterville, Oregon. comments “Injun Charley!" he cried. "Tlie very some profits, and wages are higher and scattered it is practically a total loss.” the hours of toil reduced." They felt blindly through the rain in man?’ O Oil till A Prominent Chicago Woman Speaks. the direction of the lights on the tv? Prof. Roxa Tyler, ol Chicago, vice CONTINUED and pile driver. Shearer, the water **• Wam Them, vary m Ulint's Woman's Alliance, dripping from his flaxen mustache. Among tbe earnest and powerful president fresh saw in speaking of Chamberlain's cough At the i hulldr <1 joined them like a shade1 X. The United Organ and Carriage •upportcr of the I’anamn canal and remedy, says: “I have suffered with river bo an nion. "We Factory is now at work on backs, the gre • r ivy for America none did a severe cold this winter which can bold 1 er more he assured I Repretet.taUi c William threatened to run into pneumonia. turning out a fine grade of vehicles. tv» ntl I s. but R remedies but I them, 1 t ta I ut the I tried different n n 1 The organ factory is not yet ready fo- acc<. by m f thi. iwo . stlnctly seemed to grow worse and tbe medi cine upset my stomach. A friend ad operation. Twenty or thirty organs Am. she'll jh•ll ti to go down a| vised me to try Chamberlain's Cough made a*. Ccrvallis are bring flnisbe I The thre< picked their v Remedy and I found it was pleasan creaking, swaying i up and will be put on tbe market be timber, A .-kil l Product. to take and it relieved me at once. I they reach the pile drive fore tbe Albany organ department of In thirty- . year» Alaska has pro- am now entirely recovered, saved trouble af< mutinied tbe tacrory is ready for running.- Al duced in go! ! firs and fish $ 150,000,- doctor's bill, time and suffering Tbe crew b r thins and refused longer to drl piles uu bany Itemocrat This is th» factory COO. Tbe revenues and taxe« collected »nd [ wjH never be without thl I medicine again.” kFor sale der tbe face urchaae splendid that Eugene t aid have easily se- by th »? L. Delno. - "If she bn ns around tin going to of the teirtuiry Hum Ku .1 umvunt ts cured. bury us," said t i Trail * Estray Notice. • Q ■