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Newspaper Page TextHAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. The strike of the official and pro fessional classes at Dusseldorf is end ed, the spartacans having conceded most of the points demanded, says a Cologne dispatch. Enlistments in the navy during the week ending February 6 totalled 1637, the highest weekly figure since vol untary enlistments were resumed early in December. " The eye trouble with which Vis count Grey, former British secretary of state for foreign affairs, has been afflicted for years has culminated in total blindness, says the London Dally Mail. The all-Ireland labor conference, , held In Dublin on Saturday, adopted a programme calling for a 44-hour week and an increase of 150 per cent in wages over pre-war rates with a mini mum of BO shillings per week. The house agriculture committee has approved an amendment to the government guaranteed wheat price bill making the measure effective un til Octo'ber 31, 1919, Instead of Decem ber 31, 1919, as originally provided. Reports to the federal employment service show that xgquests from em ployers for female help have decreased 48 per cent since the signing of the armistice, while registrations by wo men for employment jave decreased only 12 per cent. Approximately 12,000 men are idle in Butte and the city is virtually under the control of the military, due to the strike of members of the Butte Metal Miners' union (independent) and of the Metal Mine Workers' Industrial union No. 800 of the Industrial Work ers of the World. Senator Borah of Idaho gave notice in the senate Monday that he would seek to have the rules set aside in or ier to add to the rivers and harbors bill when it Is called up an amend ment appropriating $50,000,000 for the resumption of work on reclamation projects in western states, suspended during the war. By a margin of one vote equal suf frage met its furth defeat Monday In the senate. No further action at this session is now possible, but advocates announced that Ihe now nearly half a century-old canlpalgn for the submls sion of the Susan B. Anthony amend ment to the states would be renewed when the 66th congress convened. Sixty-five members of the National Woman's party were arrested in Washington Sunday night by civil and military police after they had burned President Wilson In effigy in front of the white house as a protest against the threatened defeat of the equal suffrage resolution In the senate. Sev eral thousand persons watched the demonstration, but there was little disorder. Premier Venlzelos of Greece called upon Premier Orlando of Italy in Paris recently, and the two men conversed concerning the claims of their respec tive nations to Albania. Commandants of all army camps and posts have been instructed by General March to prevent the sale or dollvory of uniforms by civilian tailors to of ficers and men of the army to be dis charged. The labor situation in Papeete, Is land of Tahiti, is acute as a conse quence of the recent epidemic of Span ish Influenza, as it Is estimated that fully 60 per cent of the able-bodied la borers died of the disease. Count Karolyl, president of Hun gary, has informed his cabinet that the division of lands shall commence as soon as the laud reform act is pub lished, according to a dispatch from Vienna. The Western Fruit Jobbers' associa tion, at lta 15th annual meeting In Chicago, Saturday, adopted resolutions condemning the service of the Ameri can Hallway Express company, oper ating under federal control. Twenty buildings in the heart of the Fairbanks, Alaska, business district hare been destroyed by a fire which started early Friday. In an effort to save the federal buildings and the first national bank, firemen tore down adjoining structures. CURRENT WEEK OREGON LEGISLATURE TACOMA State Capitol. After a stormy ses sion Monday, the senate roads com mittee agreed to start wrangling over the patented pavement bills Wednes day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Meanwhile, in the house, the $10, 000,000 bond bill was being studied by the members. A number of features connected with the measure are of im portance to all citizens of the state. An outline of the bond bill Is set forth. Of the total bond issue, J7.500.000 is particularly designated for certain primary trdnk roads. When this money is exhausted, Oregon will have 713 miles of hard-surfaced pavement distributed thus: Astoria to The Dalles, 192 miles; Portland to the Cal ifornia line, 354 miles; Portland to Junction City on the west side, 112 miles; Hillsboro loop, 49 miles. This does not take into account five miles paved in Umatilla county nor 12.5 miles to be laid this year in Coos county. The foregoing gives an idea of what will be done for the Pacific and Columbia river highways. Out of the bond issue $2,500,000 is set aside for other roads. This sum will be swelled by the receipts from gasoline tax, millage and surplus li cense money, so that the state high way commission will have a comfort able bank account with which to . im prove the "other roads." These "oth er roads" are in the system already adopted and they penetrate most of the counties. Out of the $2,500,000 and such other sums, the commission intends building highways to the coast. Included are the roads from Roseburg out to Coos Bay; from Eugene part way to Flor ence; from Corvallis to Toledo and from McMlnnvllle to Tillamook; the coastal road first unit from Seaside, via Elk Creek and Cannon Beach to Nehalem. In the interior, the plan designs im provement of the central Oregon high way, which is from Klamath Falls to Bend and from Bend to The Dalles; another projected road is from On tario to Burns and thence to Bend. In the south there is the Ashland to Klamath Falls and to Lakeview road, and there is also the Mackenzie Pass route.- The Mount Hood loop has been In the program for a couple of years, the commission having already set aside $24,000 to match a similar sum from the government to be used this year on the zig-zag section, which is 12 miles long. The state money for this loop comes from the Bean-Barrett bonds. Supplementing the $2,500,000 to de velop this road program will be post road and forestry money. Various counties are expected to co-operate freely. A large part of the success and speed in executing this gigantic plan is dependent on the assistance contributed by counties. There has been no blare of trumpets by the com mission, but this is the work mapped out for the coming three years. Cin ders, macadam and gravel will be used, for it Is not the purpose to hard surface all this mileage. A little mon ey may be left for other market and post-roads now on the state highway system. The consolidation program is dead, for the 1919 legislative session at least. The department of agriculture bill, father of all the measures and pet of the joint consolidation commit tee, was knifed to the heart and bur led deep in the house at a session which extended Into the early evening last .Friday, and its obsequies were held under a forensic barrage, One by one, it is understood, what other consolidation bills emerge from the committee will be sent quietly to the guillotine to end the consolidation agony for this biennium. A bill by Mrs. Alexander Thompson providing for the establishment of a minimum wage ot $75 a month for teachers of the state passed the house last Friday, Representatives Chllds aud Crawford voting against It Mrs. Thompson presented a statement showing that living expenses for teachers had increased all out ot bounds as compared with increases In wages. Tillamook county, through State Senator Hundley, has offered to the state highway commission a $475,000 fund for the construction of the first link ot a coast highway, providing that the highway commission will match the fund, dollar for dollar. Representative Richards' bill pro viding for making the Portland school clerk elective and reducing his salary to $3600 a year was burled under an avalanche of negative votes in the house Monday morning. Only Home, Richards, Smith ot Multnomah county, Lewis and Westerlund voted for the bill. Representative Coffey, in attack ing the measure, again intimated that it was actuated by some sort ot per tonal animus against the present clerk. s CALL OFF STRIKE Mission of Walkout Declared to Have Been Fulfilled. , A. M. MONDAY, DATE Controversy Over Shipyard Wage Scale in No Way Affected by ,, Sunday's Action, Tacoma, Wash. The general strike in Tacoma ended at 8 o'clock Monday morning. 'It was officially called off shortly before 5 o'clock Sunday by the general strike committee. The resolution given out by the com mittee says; "We of the organization committee of the general strike committee, as sembled this, the ninth day of Febru ary, 1919, recommend that the follow ing resolution be passed: " 'Whereas,, the general strike has fulfilled its mission in showing the solidarity of labor, to show the em ployer of labor that the worker will, if necessary, use the general strike, now therefore, be it, 'Resolved, that each of the crafts or individuals who are not affiliated with the Metal Trades, return to work at 8 A. M., February 10, 1919. Thaf if any craft or individual is discriminat ed against, we, the general strike com mittee, will take such action as will put them back on the job.' "Passed by the general strike com mittee this 9th day of February, 1919. "General Strike Committee, "C. W. Bryan, Secretary.' The demise of the general strike does not affect the Metal Trades Council's controversy with the Emer gency Fleet Corporation over the ship yard wage scale. The shipbuilders will await the action of the Puget Sound council in which they are af filiated with Seattle and Everett workers in their crafts. The calling off of the general strike makes It unnecessary for the long shoremen or other organizations to take further votes either in walking out or staying out in sympathy with the metal trades. Seattle. Formal statements issued Sunday night by Mayor Ole Hanson and a citizens' committee represent ing 37 civic, patriotic and business or ganizations asserted that the back bone of Seattle's general strike ot 55,- 000 workers, now In its fourth day, had been effectually broken. Almost simultaneously it was an nounced that the barbers had voted to return to work and that several other labor unions were meeting to consider similar action. "All city and public utilities are operating 100 per cent," the mayor'i statement said. "All streetcars are running. Gas, light, water, power, garbage collections, hospitals, etc., are functioning. All schools and theaters will open. Seattle, a loyal city, has responded nobly in this emergency. "The revolution has failed. The at tempt to establish a soviet govern ment and control and operate ail en terprises and industries has collapsed The government should now arrest, try and punish all leaders in this con spiracy. No sklm-mllk policy should be adopted." Troops Block Agitation. Everett, Wash. Arrival of company D, first regiment, with a machine-gun detachment and two guns under com mand ot Major A. R. Emery here Sun day, quickly terminated any plans that might have been made for a dem onstration by labor agitators in sym pathy with the Seattle strikers. The regular infantrymen were or dered by Major-General John Morri son, who arrived in Seattle Saturday, o command federal troops there and at Tacoma during the general strike emergency in those two cities. Tacoma. Advocacy of labor taking possession ot the industries of the country and a warning that bloodshed can be .expected it any other than law 'ul methods were resorted to appeared n the meeting ot the "soldiers', sail ors' and worklngmen's council" Hun day, which 2500 men and women at tended. Nine of the ten speakers were from Seattle. Max Eastman, edl tor Ot the Liberator, will speak before he council next Sunday, it waa an nounced. 101 T xRU1H A 1 CAROLYN AND PRINCE HAVE - BRINGS THEM Synopsis. Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the Ditnraven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn May Cameron Hanna's Car'lyn Is sent from New York to her bach elor uncle, Joseph Stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by Jier uncle is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn is also chilled by the stern demeanor of Aunty Rose, Uncle Joe's housekeeper. Stagg is dismayed, when he learns from a lawyer friend of his brother-in-law that Carolyn has been left practically penniless and consigned to his care as guardian. Carolyn learns of the estrangement between her uncle and his one-time sweetheart, Amanda Parlow, and the cause of the bitterness between the two families. Prince, the mongrel dog that Carolyn brought with her, and the boon companion of the lonesome girl, is in disfavor with Uncle Joe, who threatens to dispose of him, but Prince becomes a hero and wins the approval of the Corners by routing a tramp in the act of robbing the schoolteacher. The following Sunday, while Carolyn and her uncle, accompanied by Prince, are taking a walk In the woods they encounter Amanda Parlow. Prince kills a snake about to strike Amanda, and Stagg and Amanda speak to each other for the first time in years. Carolyn is dismayed when she learns from Chet Gormley, her uncle's clerk, that she was left practically penniless and is a "charity" orphan. CHAPTER VIII Continued. 10 "So, you see," added the child, "I am charity. I'm not like other girls that s got papas and mammas. 'Course I knowed that before, but It didn't seem seem so hard as it does now," she confessed with a sob. "My dear! my dear!" cried Miss Amanda, dropping on her knees beside the little girl, "don't talk sol I know your uncle must love you." "Oh, Miss Mandyl" gasped Carolyn May, "don't you s'pose he loves other folks, too? You know folks he'd be gun to love ever so long ago?" The woman's smooth cheeks burned suddenly and she stood up. "I'm 'most sure he'd never stop lov ing a person if he'd once begun to love 'em," said Carolyn May, with a high opinion of the faithfulness of Uncle Joe's character. "Do you want to know if your Uncle Joe loves you?" she asked Carolyn May at last. "Do you?" "Oh, I do!" cried the little girt. . "Then ask him," advised Miss Amanda. "That's the only way to do with Joe Stagg, if you want to get at the truth. Out with it, square, and ask him." "I will do it," Carolyn May said se riously. After the child had gone the woman went back into the little cottage and her countenance did not wear the fare well smile that Carolyn May had looked back to see. Gripping at her heart was the old pain she had suffered years before and the conflict that had seared her mind so long ago was roused again. "Oh, Joel Oh, Joel How could you?7 she moaned, rocking herself to and fro. "How could you?" That very night the first snow flurry of "the season drove against the west window panes of the big kitchen at the Stagg homestead. It was at supper time. "I declare for't," said Mr. Stagg, "I guess winter's onto us, Aunty Rose." This snow did not amount to much ; It was little more than a hoar frost, as Mr. Stagg suld. This might be, how ever, the last chance for a Sunday walk in the woods for some time "and Carolyn May did not propose to miss It On this day she earnestly desired to get him off by himself, for her heart was filled with a great purpose. She felt that they must come to an understanding. On this particular occasion Uncle Joe sut down upon the log by the brook where Miss Amanda had once sat. Carolyn May stood before him. "Am I just a charity orphan? Didn't my papa leave any money a-tall for me? Did you take me just out ot charity?" ' "Bless me!" gasped the hardware dealer. "I I wish you'd answer me, Uncle Joe," went on Carolyn May with a brave effort to keep from crying. Joseph Stagg was too blunt a per son to see his way to dodging the question. "Hum! Well, I'll tell you, Car'lyn May. There isn't much left, and that's a fact It isn't your father's fault, He thought there was plenty. But a busi ness he Invested in got into bad hands and the little nest egg he'd laid up for his family was lost" 'Then then I am Just charity. And so's Prince," whispered Carolyn May. "I I s'pose we could go to the poor house. Prince and me ; but they mayn't like dogs there. You're real nice to me, Uncle Joe; but Prince and me we really are a nuisance to yon." The man stared at her for a moment in silence, but the flush that dyed his cheeks was a flush of shame. "Don't yon like it any more here with Aunty Rose and and me?" he demanded. "Oh, yes! Only only, Uncle Joe, I don't want to stay, if we're nuisance. Prince and me. I don't want to stay, If yon don't lore me," BELM0RE ENDI00TT ' CQPYTUOHT -1 9 1 0 - 1TC EODU.MEJVDand COMPANY. ANOTHER ADVENTURE WHICH NEW LAURELS. Joseph Stagg had become quite ex cited. "Bless me!" he finally cried once more. "How do you know I don't love you, Carolyn May?" "Why why But, Uncle Joe! how do I know you do love me?" demanded the little girl. "You never told me so I" The startled man sank upon the log again. "Well, maybe that's so," he mur mured. "I s'pose it Isn't my way to be very very softlike. But listen here, Car'lyn May." "Yes, sir." "I ain't likely to tell you very fre quently how much I I think of you, Ahem ! But you'd better stop worrying about such things as money and the like. What I've got comes pretty near belonging to you. Anyway, unless have to go to the poorhouse myself, reckon you needn't worry about going," and he coughed again dryly. "As far as loving you Well, I'll admit, under cross-examination, that I love you." "Dear Uncle Joel" she sighed ecs tatically. "I don't mind If I am charity. If you love me, it takes all the sting out And I'll help to make you happy, too!" CHAPTER IX. A Find In the Drifts. Before the week was over, winter had come to Sunrise Cove and The Corners in earnest. Snow fell and drifted, until there was scarcely any thing to be seen one morning when Carolyn May awoke and looked out of her bedroom windows but a white, fleecy mantle. This was more snow than the little girl bad ever seen in New York. She came down to breakfast very much ex cited. Uncle Joe had shoveled off the porch and steps, and Prince had beaten his own dooryard in the snow In front of his house. For be had a house of his own, now a roomy, warm one built by Mr. Parlow. It must be confessed that although Uncle Joe paldfor the building of his doghouse, it never would have been built by Jedldiah Parlow had It not been for Carolyn May, At .noon Uncle Joe came home, drag ging a sled a big roomy one, glisten ing with red paint. Just the nicest sled Carolyn May had ever seen, and one of the best the hardware dealer carried in stock. "Oh, my, that's lovely!" breathed the little girl in awed delight Thatjs ever so much better than any sled I ever had before. And Prince could draw me jan it, If I only had a harness for him. He used to drag me 1A the park. Of course, if he saw a cat I had to get off and hold him." Mr. Stagg, once started upon the path of good deeds, seemed to like it At night he brought home certain straps and rivets, and In the kitchen, much to Aunty Rose's amazement he fitted Prince to a harness which the next day Carolyn May used on the dog, and Prince drew her very nicely along the beaten paths. By Saturday the roads were in splen did condition for sleighing. So Carolyn May went sledding. Out of sight of the houses grouped at The Corners the road to town seemed as lonely as though it were a veritable wilderness. Here and there the drifts had piled six feet deep, for the wind had a free aweep across the barrens. "Now, there's somebody coming," j said Carolyn May, seeing a moving ob ject ahead between the clouds of drift ing snow spray. "Is It a sleigh, Prlncey, or just a man?" She lost sight ot the object, then I sighted it again. ."It must be man. It can't be bear, Prlncey." The strange object bad disappeared again. It was just at the place where the spring spouted oat of the rocky hillside and trickled across the road. There was a sort of natural watering trough here In the rock where the horses stopped to drink. The dog drew the little girl closer to the spot. "Where has that man gone to? If It was a man." Prince stopped suddenly and whined and then looked around at his mistress, ss though to say: "See there!" Carolyn May tumbled off the sled in a hurry. When she did so sue slipped on a patch of snow-covered ice and fell. But she was not hurt. "There ! that's where the water runs across the road, it s an slippery Ohl" It was the sleeve of a man's rough coat thrust out of the snowbank that -brought this last cry to the child's Hps. "Oh, oh! It's a man!" burst from Carolyn May's trembling lips. "How cold he must be !" She plumped down on her knees and began brushing the snow away. She uncovered his shoulder. She took hold of this with her mlttened hands and tried to shake the prone figure. Oh, do wake up 1 Please wake up P she cried, digging away the snow as fast as possible. A shaggy head was revealed, with an old cap pulled down tightly over the ears. The man moved again and grunt ed something.' He half turned over. and there was blood upon the snow, and a great frosted cake of It on the side of his face. Carolyn May was dreadfully fright ened. The mans' head was cut and the . blood was smeared over the front of his Jacket. Now she could see a pud dle of it, right where he had fallen on the Ice just as she had fallen herself. Only, he had struck his head on a rock and cut himself. "You poor thing!" murmured Caro lyn May. "Oh, you mustn't He here! You must get up! You'll you'll be frozen!" "Easy, mate," muttered the ma. "I ain't jest right in my top-hamper, I reckon. Hold hard, matey." He tried to get up. He rose to his knees, but pitched forward again. Carolyn May was not afraid ot him now only troubled. , "I'll take you to Miss Amanda's,1 cried the little girl, pulling at his coat . Lagain. "She's a nurse, and she'll know JUHl WI1UI lu uu 1U1 jruu. vjuuic, Kimvg and I will take you." then she guided the half-blinded man to the sled, on which he managed to drop himself. Prince pulled, and Carolyn May pull ed, and together they got the sled, with W sr. J' "If You Love Me It Takes All the Sting Out" the old sailor upon it to the Parlofl carpenter shop. Mr. Parlow slid back the front door of his shop to stare in wonder at the group. "For the great land of Jehoshaphat 1" he croaked. "Car'lyn May 1 what yofl got there?" "Ob, Mr. Parlow, do come and help us quick 1" gasped the little girl. "My friend has had a dreadful bad fall." "Your friend?" repeated the carpen ter. "I declare, it's that tramp that went by here Just now !" Mr. Parlow made a clucktng-nolse la his throat when ho saw the blood. "Guess you're right, Car'lyn May," he admitted. "Call Mandy. She must see this." - Miss Amanda's attention had already been attracted to the strange arrival. She ran out and helped her father raise the Injured man from the sled. To gether they led him into the cottage. He was not at all a bad-looking man, although his clothing was rough aud coarse. Miss Amanda brought warm water and bathed the wound, removing the congealed blood from his face and neck. When the last bandage was adjusted and the injured man's eyes were closed. Mr. Parlow offered him a wine-glass of a home-made cordial. The sailor gulped It down, and the color began to return to his cheeks. "Where was you goln", anyway?" de manded the carpenter. "Lookln" for a Job, mate," said the sailor. There'a them In town that tells me I'd find work at Adams' camp." "Ha! didn't tell you 'twas ten mile away from here, did they?" Miss Amanda gets some sur prising Information from the eld sailor and ehe, In turn, gives Joseph 8tagg a shock. Read about hew it happened In the next Installment (TO BH CONTINUED.) Steel that will resist corrosion is be ing made; It contains 13 per cent of rhmmlnm.