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I. W. W. PLOT SAID 1 AT WILSON 14 Members Spanish Branch Taken in New York. ANARCHISTS IN JAIL Prisoner! Detained Without Bail While Searching Inquiry by Govern ment Is Being Made. New York. Fourteen members of the Spanish branch of the I. W. W. were arrested by secret service men and members of the police bomb squad in two raids here late Sunday. While they are charged formally with having seditious literature In their posses sion, government agents claimed to have evidence they were hatching a terrorist plot Frank Francisco and Edward J. Dowd of the secret service, as well as New York detectives, who assisted them in the raids, declared they had obtained evidence which would be used in an attempt to prove the pris oners had planned to assassinate Pres ident Wilson in Boston, but this as sertion was discredited by Captain Peter Rublno of the secret service, who directed the raids. According to the police, two Phila delphia men who frankly admitted they were anarchists, stopped here on their way to Boston. The grave nature of the alleged plot and the imminence of the attempt to carry it into execution it was declared, made it essential the men be impris oned at once. After being questioned at police headquarters, where their fingerprints were taken, the prisoners were locked up without ball pending arraignment before a United States commissioner. Meanwhile mechanical experts have been assigned to assemble a compli cated machine found dismantled in one of the rooms raided. The secret service agents said they were at a loss to explain its purpose. Translat ors were put to work on a mass of papers and pamphlets seized. One of the houses raided had been under police surveillance for several days as a result of meetings held there, it was said. All the men, it was said, are Span ish aliens, who have come to the United States during the past three years. According to the secret service men, a youth of 25, who gave the name of Jose Graud, is the chief organizer of the Spanish I. W. W. here, and is the editor of a radical Spanish newspaper published in New York. In the I. W. W. organization, it was said, he is known as Armolodo Sapatena. The prisoners were questioned for several hours at police headquarters, but for the most part maintained a sullen silence, Sixteen Perish at Sea. New York. The French bark Hel ene was sunk in a collision with the Norwegian freighter Gansfjord, off Winter Quarter light, Virginia, and 16 of her crew perished. Eight sur vivors, Including her skipper, Captain Malsoneuve, were brought here Sun day. The survivors were brought here on the Gansfjord, with her bows stove in and her fore peak full of water. The Helene, bound from Baltimore to Nan tes, was loaded chiefly with steel, and went down like a plummet. The Norwegian, from Cabanas, Cuba, for New York, registered only 1087 tons gross, compared with 3456 for the Balling vessel. The collision occurred at 2 A. M. during heavy weather. Fast Time Is Forecast San Diego. The dollvery of a letter in San Diego 48 hours after . being mailed in New York city is possible by aerial mail, according to Major Albert Smith, the first American avia tor to successfully make an air trip from San Diego to the metropolis and return. He made this flight recently. Major Smith declares that a 48-hour aerial mail service between the two cities can be maintained every day in the year via Texas. Ten Taken In Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Ten Cubans and Spaniards were arrested here early Sunday by agents of the department of justice on information received from New York. A quantity of alleged se ditious literature was seized and the authorities say the men arrested had some connection with those taken into custody in New York. HUN STATESMEN ARE SLAIN Premier and Ministers of Interior and War Shot Down. London. A German 'wireless mes sage received here quotes Phlllpp Scheldemann, German chancellor, as saying that Herr Rooshaupter, Bavar ian minister of war, has been killed. Bavarian Secretary of the Interior Auer also is reported slain. Herr Scheldemann, speaking in the national assembly at Weimar, is quot ed as saying: "With the greatest sorrow and in dignation, I have to Inform you that the Bavarian premier, Kurt Eisner, champion of the revolution, has been shot by a fanatic. Munich is the scene of a bloody civil war, and my friends Rooshaupter and Auer are said to be dead. "The government expresses the deepest sorrow and condemnation of these shameful acts of murder. Noth ing shows the breakdown of order more clearly than when murder be comes a political weapon. If the sacri ficial death of Herr Eisner has good results they will be bringing us all together to do away with evil con ditions. It would mean the ruin of Germany if all did not take this view and join in this condemnation. "The young German republic will, in a very sort time, be faced by a se vere upheaval, if not a breakdown. "The state and the nation are men aced as to food supplies and the con duct of industries, not only by our enemies, but our compatriots, who are now threatening our most important industries in the Rhineland and West phallan regions," he continued. "The ground upon which we are standing shakes, and perhaps will sink if we are unsuccessful in ending this mad ness and crime in the Ruhr region." The house stood while Chancellor ScheidemJnn spoke. NEW YORK WORKERS TO STRIKE FOR BEER New York. Strikes on July 1 to make effective the slogan "no beer, no work" have been voted by the New York iron workers, shipbuilders, long shoremen, hatters, stationary firemen, pavers and rammers' unions, it was announced at a meeting of the Central Federated union here tonight. Erbest Bohm, secretary, who an nounced the strike votes, said that the strike would affect about 166,000 men. The letter carriers' association, he added, while unable to go on strike, had voted to lend their moral support to the fight against prohibition. One speaker declared the prohibi tion amendment appeared to be a "scheme of a ring to do the liquor, wine and beer business out of busi ness, so that their own may be in creased." "Coffee," he added, "is the natural recourse when prohibition is in force, and that, of course, means the price of coffee would be greatly advanced." INDUSTRIAL STRIKE IN GERMANY GAINS Berlin. The Btrlke in the Ruhr industrial region is still spreading, but it is increasingly evident that only a small minority of the strikers are in sympathy with the Spartacans. Marshal Foch is reported to have consented to the sending by the gov ernment of troops against Dusseldorf, which is in the neutral zone fixed by the armistice. The majority of the Spartacan recruits come from Dussel dorf and the cleaning up of that city by the government forces would be a heavy blow for the communists, who are reported to have 15,000 armed ad herents there. There are said to be 3000 armed Spartacans at Essen and considerable numbers also at Ham born, in the Dusseldorf district The Spartacans are occupying all roads by which soldiers could come to the region. Washington, D. C Special consid eration for the bill carrying $61,000, 000 for public buildings was sought before the house rules committee Sat urday by Representative Clark, chair man of the buildings committee, who urged passage of the measure before adjournment of congress so that work might begin on buildings throughout the country. Representative Cantrill of Kentucky, insisted that the bill should be, limited to emergency pro jects. Army of 500,000 Favored. Washington, D. C. Establishment of a temporary army of 600,000 men Instead of 175,000 as provided for in a bill agreed upon Saturday by senate and house conferees was urged before the senate military committee by Sec retary Baker and General March, chief of staff. The committee is consider ing the billion-dollar army appropria Hon measure recently passed by the house. ! STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. ! WW WWW WW WW WWW VWWV WW WWW WW Bend sportsmen, protesting against the proposed draining of Malheur lake, have started a petition advocating leg islation to protect the eastern Oregon game reserve. W. W. Poland of Shedd, was elected president of the Linn county farm bu reau in the annual meeting held in Albany last week. Archie C. Miller, of Albany, was elected vice-president and Miss Bertha Beck, of Albany, sec retary. A mother and son are opposing parties in a case now on trial in the state circuit court in Albany before Judge Bingham. John H. Schneider, is suing his mother, Minnie M. Schneider, over the title to a tract of land near that city. The senate has passed the bill in creasing the salaries of the district Judges of Multnomah county from $2400 to $3000 a year. Senator Farrell of Multnomah was the only member ef the delegation which opposed pass age of the measure. A campaign to clean up all trees and shrubs in The Dalles will be. inaugu rated at once by Carl F. Galligan, county fruit inspector, who states that pests which are infesting the city trees are proving a serious menace to the fruit industry of the county. Forty-three tracts of newly reclaimed land on the northern edge of Tule lake in the southeastern part of Klamath county will be offered for lease to the highest bidder on the 5th of next month, according to announce ment made by the reclamation service. Captain Charles Barrett of Dallas, who Is a member of the U. S. signal service, left San Francisco this week for Siberia, where he will be stationed with the American forces. Captain Bar rett recently returned from France, where he spent several months on the fighting front. The crusade started iu Beud against proprietors of poolrooms and cigar stores that are said to number minors among their patrons has resulted in the conviction of C. A. Stevenson, charged with allowing boys under age in his billiard parlor, and of George A. Lutos, who pleaded guilty to selling'clgarettes to minors. The question of the disposition and use of the block owned by the city of Albany lying east of the block on which the Linn county courthouse is situated is again before the council. The project proposed now is to re move the old central school building which stands on the block and use the site as a city park. Marshfield citizens are waking up to the probability that the armory may not be secured, according to the terms Imposed by the state law governing its construction. An unusual effort has been made of late to enlist the local company to the required 100 members, but information indicates that but 65 men are Bigned. The farmers and dairymen of the Hermiston part of Umatilla county held an institute in tho Carnegie li brary, at Hermiston last week. Lectures and demonstrations were given by E. B. FItts and E. L. West over, of the Oregon Agricultural col lege; H. K. Dean, of the local experi ment station, and R. W. Allen, of the government reclamation service. While the people of Bend ara en joying the greatest prosperity in years, with a building programme outlined for the coming season which will total several hundred thousand dollars, the city is virtually bankrupt, Mayor J. A. Eastes declared. Nineteen thousand dollars in unredeemed warrants have been issued, and a local bank with $9000 of this paper in its possession has declined to take more at any dis count. That there is a chance the sheepmen and cattlemen will get together over the controversy on the range lands of Klamath county is, indicated in the or fer from both sides to hold a meeting with the aim of reaching an adjust ment. The feeling over the bill intro duced by Representative George Merryman last week, which provided that no sheep could be lawfully ranged within a mile of a homestead, has been at the highest pitch. The Elliott & Ellwood Logging company of Astoria has reopened its camp at Olney and logging operations are now in progress. The Big Creek Logging company at Blind slough has opened a new camp called No. 6. The Crown-Willamette company has put a new section crew to work. Nearly all the camps which were damaged by the recent storm have resumed operations One of the latest to reopen was the H. B. 4 A. camp at Grays river. ! Carolvn of the IZZZ mil -"" " CHAPTER XII. 12 Something Carolyn May Wishes to Know. Carolyn May's heart was filled with trouble. This was the result of her first talk with the old sailor. Not from blm, nor from anybody else, did Carolyn May get any direct information that the sailor had been aboard tho Dunraven on her futul voyage. But his story awoke in the child's breast doubts and longings, uncertainties und desires that und lain dormant for many weeks. Undo Joe and Aunty Rose loved her and were kind to her. But that feel ing of "emptiness" that had at first so troubled Curolyn May was returning. She began to droop. Keen-eyed Aunty Rose discovered this physical change very quickly. "She's Just like a droopy chicken," declured the good woman, "and, good ness knows, I have seen enough of them." So, ns a stimulant and a preventive of "drooplness," Aunty Rose prescribed boneset tea, "plenty of It." Three times a day Carolyn May was dosed with boneset ten. How long the child's stomach would have endured under tills treatment will never be known. Carolyn May got no better, thnt was sure ; but one day something happened. Winter had, moved on in its usual frosty and snowy way. Carolyn May lmd kept up all her interests after a fashion. Benjamin Hurdy had gone to Adams' camp to work. It seemed he could use a peevy, or canthook, pretty well, hov- Ing done something besides sailing In his day. Tim, the hackman, worked at logging in the winter months, too. He usually went past the Stagg place with n team four times each day. There was something Carolyn May wished to nsk Benjamin Hurdy, but she did not want anybody else to know what It was not even Uncle Joe or Aunty Rose. Once In the full and be fore the snow came she had ridden ns far as Adams' camp with Mr. Pniiow. He had gone there for some hickory wood, i But, now, to ride on the empty sled going In and on top of the load of logs coming out of the forest, Carolyn Muy felt sure, would be much more exciting. She mentioned her desire to Uncle Joe on a Fridny evening. "Well, now, If It's pleasant, I don't see anything to forbid. Do you, Aunty Rose?" Mr. Stagg returned. "I presume Tim will take the best of care of her," the woman said. "Maybe, getting out more in the air will make her look less peaked, Joseph Stagg." The excitement of prepnrlng to go to the camp the next morning brought the roses Into Carolyn May's cheeks and made her eyes sparkle. When Tim, the hackman, went Into town with his first load he was forewurned by Aunty Rose that he would have company going back. "Pitcher of George Washington !" ex claimed Tim. "The boys will near 'bout take a holiday." There was but one woman in the camp, Judy Mason. She lived in one of the log huts with her husband. 'He was a sawyer, and Judy did the men's washing. Benjamin Hardy was pleased, in deed, to see his little friend again. "You come with me, please," she whispered to the old senman after din- "I've Been So Near Drownln' Myself, That They Thought I Wat Dead When I Wat Hauled Inboard. ner. "You can smoke. You haven't got to go back to work yet, and Tim is only just loading his sled. So we can talk." "Aye, aye, little miss. What'U we talk about?" queried Benjamin cau tiously, for he remembered that he was to be very circumspect In his con versation with her. "I want you to tell me something. Benjamin," she said. "Soil ahead, matey," he responded with apparent heartiness, filling his pipe meanwhile, t "Why, Benjamin you must . know, BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT you know, for you've been to sea so much Benjumln, I want to kuow If It hurts much to be drownd-ed?" "Hurts much?" gasped the old sea man. "Yes, sir. Do people that get drownd-ed feel much pain? Is It a suf ferln' way to die? I want to know, Benjamin, 'cause my papa and mamma died that way," continued the child, choking a little. "It does seem as though I'd Just got to know." "Aye, aye," muttered the man. "I see. An' I kin tell ye, Cur'lyn May, as clos't as anybody kin. I've been so near drownln' myself that they thought I was dead when I was hauled Inboard. "Coniln' back from drowning Is a whole lot worse than beln' drowned. You take it from me." "Well," sighed Carolyn Muy, "I'm glnd to know that. It's bothered me a good deal. If my mamma and papa had to be dead, maybe that was the nicest way for them to go." 1 Since Joseph Stagg had listened to the rambling tale of the sailor regard ing the sinking of the Dunraven, he had borne the fate of his sister and her husband much in mind. He had come no nearer to deciding what to do with the apartment in New York and its furnishings. After listening to Benjamin Hurdy's story, the hardware deuler felt less In clined thun before to close up the af fairs of Carolyn May's small "estate." Not that he for a moment believed that there wns a possibility of Hannah and her husband being alive. Five months had passed. In these days of wireless telegraph und fast sea traliic such a thing could not be possible. The Imagi nation of the practical hardware mer chant could not visualize it. One day when Carolyn Muy was vis iting Mrs. Gormley Chet burst in quite unexpectedly, for it wns not yet mid afternoon. "Mr. Stagg has let me off to take Carolyn May slldln'. The Ice ain't goln' to be safe In the cove for long now. Spring's In the air 6'reudy. Both brooks are runnin' full." Carolyn May was delighted. Al though the sky was overcast and a storm threatening when tfiey got down on the ice, neither the boy nor the lit tle girl gave the weather a second thought. Nor had Mr. Stagg consid ered the weather when he hnd allowed Chet to leave the store that ufternoon. Chet strapped on his skates, and then settled the little girl firmly on her sled, with Prince riding behind. The boy harnessed himself with the long towrope and skated away from the shore, dragging the sled after him at a brisk pace. "Oh, my!" squealed Carolyn May, "there isn't anybody else on the ice." "We won't run into nobody, then," laughed the boy. It was too misty outside the cove to see the open water; but it was there, and Chet knew it ns well as anybody. He had no intention of tuklng any risks especially with Carolyn May in ills charge. ( The wind blew out of the cove, too. As they drew nwuy from the shelter of the land they felt its strength. Nuturnlly, neither the boy nor the little girl and surely not the dog looked back toward the land. Other wise, they would have seen the snow flurry that swept down over the town and quicBly hid it from the cove. Chet was skutlng his very swiftest. Carolyn May was screaming with de light. Prince barked joyfully. And, suddenly, in a startling fashion, they came to a fissure in the ice 1 The boy darted to one side, heeled on his right skate, and stopped. He had jerked the sled aside, too, yelling to Carolyn May to "hold fast!" But Prince was flung from it, and scram bled over the ice, barking loudly. "Oh, dear me!" cried Carolyn May. "You stopped too quick, Chet Gorm ley. Goodness I There's a hole in the Ice!" "And I didn't see It till we was al most in it," acknowledged Chet. "It's more'n a hole. Whyl there's a great field of Ice broke off and sallln' out into the lake." "Oh, my!" gasped the little girl. The boy- knew at once thnt he must be careful in making his way home with the little girl. Having seen one great fissure in the Ice, he might come upon another. It seemed to him as though the ice under his feet was in motion. In the distance was the sound of a reverberating crash that could mean but one thing. The ice in the cove was breaking up! The waters of the two brooks were pouring down into the cove. Spring hnd really come, and the annual freshet was likely now to force the ice entirely out of the cove and open the way for truffle in a few hours. CHAPTER XIII. The Chapel Bell. If Joseph Stngg had obeyed the pre cept of his little niece on this particu lar afternoon and had been "looking up," Instead of having his nose in the big ledger, making out monthly state ments, he might have discovered the coming storm In senson to withdraw his permission to Chet to take Caro lyn May out on the ice. Comers OopyrtnM, IMS, bj Dodd, Mead A Company. Ino. It was always dark enough In the little back office In winter for the hard ware dealer to have a lamp burning. So he did not notice the snow flurry that had taken Sunrise Cove in its arms until he chanced to walk out to the front of the store for needed exercise. "I declare to man, it's snowing!" muttered Joseph Stagg. "Thought we'd got through with that for this season." He opened the store door. There was a oil 11 1, clammy wind, and the snow wns dump and packed quickly under foot. "Hum I If that Chet Gormley were here now, he might be of some use for once," thought Mr. Stagg. Suddenly he bethought him of the errund that hnd tuken the boy away from the store. "Hey, Stugg !" shouted a shopkeeper from over the way, who had likewise come to the door, "did you hear that?" "Hear whut?" asked Joseph Stugg, puzzled, "There she goes again! That's ice, old man. She's breaking up. We'll have spring with us in no time now." The reverberating crash that had startled Chet Gormley had startled Jo seph Stagg as well. "My goodness!" gasped the hard ware dealer, and he started instantly away from the store, bareheaded as he was, without locking the door behind him something he had never done be fore, since he had established himself in business on the main street of Sun rise Cove. Just why he ran he could scarcely have explained. Of course, the chil dren had not gone out in this snow storm! Mrs. Gormley little sense as "Where's That Plaaued Boy?" he believed the seamstress possessed would not have ullowed them to ven ture. Yet, why had Chet not returned? He quickened his pace. He was run ningslipping and sliding over the wet snow when he turned Into the street on which ills store boy and his wid owed mother lived. Mrs. Gormley saw him coming from the windows of the tiny front room. Mr. Stngg plunged into the little house, head down, and belligerent. "Where's that plagued boy?" he de manded. "Don't tell me he's taken Hannah's Car'lyn out on the cove In this storm 1" "But you told him he could!" wailed the widow. "What If I did? I didu't know 'twas going to snow like this, did I?" "But it' wasn't snowin' when they went," said Mrs. Gormley, plucking up some little spirit. "I'm sure it wasn't Chetwood's fault. Oh, dear!" "Woman," groaned Joseph Stagg, "it doesn't matter whose fault it is or if it's anybody's fault. The mischief's done. The ice is breaking up. It's drifting out of the inlet." Just at tills moment an unexpected voice broke into the discussion. "Are you positive they went out on the cove to slide, Mrs. Gormley?" "Oh, yes, I be, Mandy," answered the seamstress. "Chet snld he was goln there, and what Chet says he'll do, he always does." "Then the ice lias broken away and they have been carried out into the lake," groaned Mr. Stngg. G Mandy Pnrlow came quickly to the little hall. "Perhaps not, Joseph," she said, speaking directly to the hardware deal er. 'Jt may be the storm. It snows so fast they would easily get turned around be unable to i.nd the shore." Another reverberating crash echoed from the cove. Mrs. Gormley wrung her hands. "Oh, my Chet! Oh. my Chet!" she wailed. "He'll be drowned !" "He won't be, if he's got any sense," snapped Mr. Stngg. "I'll get some men and we'll go after thein." "Call the dog, Joseph Stn?g. Call the dog," advised Miss Amanda. "Heh? Didn't Trince go with 'emT "Oh, yes, he did," wailed Mrs. Gorm ley. (TO BE CONTINUED.)