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GRIP
OF
Overturn of Budapest Govern
ment Reported Complete.
FOREIGNERS ARE SAFE
Crisis in Part Held to Be Due to Peace
Conference Territorial Decision
Claims Held Intolerable.
Washington, D. C Advices to the
state department Monday Irom three
widely separated European sources
tended to increase the anxiety of of
ficials over the situation in Hungary.
Bolshevik elements apparently had as
sumed complete control of the govern
ment of Budapest with a threat of re
newal of hostilities.
There was no indication as to the
extent of th control of the new reg
ime beyond the capital and, in the ab
sence of this and other details, offi
cials were reluctant to discuss the sit
uation at length. It appeared from
Monday's advices, however, that the
crisis resulted from the line of de-
markatlon established by the peace
conference in circumscribing the ter
ritory of Hungary, and the general
economic situation in Budapest.
The recognition of the extreme
claims of the Roumanians and CzechO'
Slovaks and the establishment of neu
tral zones between the lines and the
limits allowed to Hungary, which zone
was to be held by the French until
the iinal peace treaty was completed,
was said to have been more than the
old Hungarian government was able
to accept and remain in power. It
was suggested that the fact that these
lines were not to be the final limita
tions of the new Hungarian state was
not appreciated by the Hungarians,
who apparently proceeded upon the
theory that they were to lose even
the neutral zone occupied by the
French.
The safety of foreigners was a fea
' ture of the news that appeared cheer
ing to state department officials. A
number of Americans are in what was
formerly Austria-Hungary on various
missions for the peace conference and
the inter-alllied food commission, but
most of them are in Vienna.
Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee, in
a statement, referred to the situation
in Hungary, and said he believed it
would do much to wipe out differences
between the nations represented at
the peace conference and would aid
in bringing about final adoption of the
league of nations plan.
PARIS SILENT ON
HUNGARIAN EVENTS
Paris. President Wilson met Pre
miers Clemenceau, Lloyd George and
Orlando at the foreign office at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon for an hour's
conference before the assembling of
the supreme war council. 1
Both the conference and the su
preme war council were held amid a
feeling of concern over the revolution
ary developments in eastern Europe
and the lack of definite results thus
far reached in the Paris conference in
stabilizing European conditions.
President Wilson was known to re
gard the situation as serious and as
calling for energetic action toward
hastening the work of the conference
to completion.
Marshal Foch was present during
the discussion of the serious situation
in Hungary, but no announcement was
made concerning any action decided
upon.' It was resolved to send a joint
telegram to the Poles and Czechoslo
vaks asking them to submit their dif
ferences to the commission on the
ground there instead of forwarding
complaluts to the peace conference.
This proposal was made by the United
States and affects the Teschen coal
fields, to which both the Poles and
Czecho-Slovaks ant laying claim.
Maeterlinck Play Given
New York. Maurice Maeterlinck's
"A Burgomaster of Belgium," a drama
based on the clashing of Qerman mili
tarism and Belgian patriotism, was in
troduced to the American publlo Tues
day night at the Belmont theater.
Presented by an English company,
the performance marked the initial
effort of the lnter-allied art associa
tion "to bring about a mutual under
Btandlng of jhe art of the allied nations."
ELEMENT
TO TEST FEDERAL DRY LAW
Brewers Plan Suit After War Is De
clared to Be Over.
New York. The committee of dis
tillers of the United States represent
ing the entire distilling industry, has
announced that steps were being ta
ken to attack the constitutionality of
the federal prohibition amendment
and the war-time prohibition act
Levy Mayer of Chicago, counsel for
the organization, was instructed to
arrange for a suit to test the emer
gency prohibition, law after the treaty
of peace had been signed. Action to
bring "about a Judicial review of the
18th amendment, it was stated, would
await the outcome of referendum elec
tions in 13 states where petitions call
ing for a popular vote on the "bone
dry" enactment have beep filed or
are in circulation. " . '
Mr. Mayer advised the committee
that in states having referendum laws
and whose legislatures have ratified
the amendment the ratification would
have no effect unless a majority of
the votes cast in the elections favored
the amendment.
The attorney also gave an opinion
that if the war-time prohibition act is
unconstitutional, manufacture of dis
tilled spirits, forbidden by the presi
dent under the food conservation laws,
could be lawfully resumed as soon as
the war is ended.
In their discussion of measures to
nullify the federal amendment, the
distillers named California, Washing
ton, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Utah,
New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio,
Missouri, Maine and Nebraska as
states where referendum petitions
have been circulated. As 45 state
legislatures ratified the amendment,
nine more than the necessary three-
fourths, the distillers' announced plan
of action could not be carried out if
the people of more than four states
approved the decisions of their legis
lative bodies.
Reds Would Buy Supplies.
New York. As the first step toward
obtaining recognition by the United
States, the Russian soviet government
is prepared to deposit $200,000,000 in
gold with American and European
banks for the purchase of supplies
heeded in reconstruction work, accord
ing to a formal statement issued here
by L. C. A. K. Martens, American
representative of the Demldoff iron
and steel workers in Moscow, through
"the bureau of representatives tf the
Russian socialist federal soviet repub
lic." Asserting that he had received
this week his appointment as official
representative of the soviet govern
ment in the United States, Mr. Mar
tens said he had forwarded his creden
tials to the state department and
meanwhile has opened temporary
headquarters in this city.
Treaties Are Published.
Pekln. The military convention
made between China and Japan in
1918 with a hitherto undisclosed ex
tension signed last nfonth providing
for the termination of the agreement
on the signing of the peace treaty, was
made public simultaneously Friday in
Pekln and Tokio. More than 12 treat
ies are to be published in the Chinese
and Japanese capitals.
These Include two agreements be
tween the Chinese government and the
British Marconi company and two
with the Stems Carey company of the
United States regarding railways and
canals. There are no French agree
ments to be made public.
Voles Heard Over Ocean,
Washington, D. C Should occasion
have demanded it, officials in this
country could have talked directly to
President Wilson by wireless tele
phone at any time while he was re
turning to France on the American
transport George Washington. Lieutenant-Commander
S. C. Hooper, chief
of the radio division, said that the
voice of the speaker could be heard
plainly on board the transport even
after it arrived In Brest
Butte Editor Arrested.
Butte, Mont James H- Fisher, edi
torial writer of the Butte Daily Bulle
tin, was arrested Saturday on-'a fed
eral warrant by officers of the depart
ment of immigration. Ho was given
a preliminary hearing on a charge of
advocating the overthrow by force of
the United States government and ad
mitted to ball on bonds of f 1000.
U. S. to Rebuild Forests.
New York. The American Forestry
association will aid in restoring the
forests of Great Britain, France and
Belgium, which were sacrificed to the
allied cause in the war, according to
Charles Lathrop Pack, retiring presi
dent of the World Court League.
Pershing Highway It Aim.
Lincoln, Neb. A "Pershing high
way" extending from San Francisco
to New York, will be permanently or
ganized here next month, according to
plans of a temporary organization
formed here recently to carry out the
project
l STATE NEWS I
IN BRIEF.
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The Inland Empire bank of Pendle
ton was chartered by the state bank
ing board last Wednesday. The bank
will have a capitalization of $250,000
and J. W. Maloney will be its presi
dent, with C. E. Wailes its cashier.
The third consecutive co-operative
carload of feed and seed received with
in a week by the farmers of the Lin
coln county farm bureau arrived at
Toledo Saturday. More feed has been
shipped into Lincoln county this year
than ever before.
Following the failure of congress to
make an appropriation for the main
tenance of the Astoria federal employ
ment office the city council has ap
propriated $228.25 a month to cover
the expense of operating the office
during the coming 60 days, or untjl
congress is convened again-.
The state fairgrounds will be the
landing place of a fleet of airplanes
as they fly northward early in June
to participate in the Portland Rose
Festival. The war department is ex
pected to contribute about a dozen
planes to the entertainment at Port
land. The first step toward endeavoring
to apply the referendum to thejoint
resolution of the recent legislature,
which ratified the national prohibition
amendment, was taken last Friday,
when Dan J. Malarkey of Portland
filed in the office of the secretary of
state the form of petition for approval,
and for the preparation of a ballot
title.
Discharged soldiers may keep their
uniforms and other equipment which
they took home with them after be
ing mustered out and all postmasters
have received orders from the war de
partment not to accept parcels con
taining these articles for return to the
department, according to information
given out at the Eugene postoffice last
week.
That assessed valuations in Des
chutes county range from 11 to 48 per
cent of the true values, was the report
of a committee appointed by the Bend
commercial club to investigate the tax
problem in that county. It was rec
ommended that valuations be raised
50 per cent W. T. Mullarky, county
assessor, is in favor of an advance of
even more, he stated.
A national guard company has been
enlisted at Marshfield and the muster
ing will take place Wednesday night
at the Millicoma club. The staff offi
cers will be there to take charge of
the proceedings. It was announced
that bids for construction of the ar
mory will be called for immediately
after the company has been formed
and made ready for service.
A starch factory Is soon to be open
ed in Gresham in the building owned
by Mrs. Olive Ekstrom, better known
as the old cheese factory, which has
been purchased by the new company.
Some machinery, enough to handle the
left-over potatoes from last year's
crop, will be Installed immediately,
and the growers will be saved the oth
erwise total loss of the remainder of
their crops.
Dealers in gold-tinted wildcat oil
stock and other fraudulent corpora
tions have reaped a rich harvest in
recent months among the well-paid,
gullible shipyard workers of Oregon,
according to Corporation Commission
er Schulderman, who has sent printed
warnings broadcast about the state,
advising the public generally to be
ware of the salesmen for these out-of-
the-state stock compantes. -
The Eugene chamber of commerce
has appointed committees to co-operate
with the people Of Klamath Falls
to work for the extension of the Na
tron cut-oft of the Southern Pacific
from Oakridge, in Lane county, to the
point in Klamath county where the
northern extension ends, and for the
extension of the" upper Willamette
highway in Lane county over the sum
mit of the Cascades in Klamath coun
ty. Charges that the Hazelwood com
pany of Portland and Butte, as well
as other concerns owned by the Ha
zelwood, together with A. P. Henning
sen and W. Henningsen, the latter of
iutte, had operated their business in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law and had sought to cripple com
petitors to such an extent that they
would be put out of business, have
failed to be proved. These concerns
and their owners were Indicted In the
federal court of Idaho a long time ago.
When the case came to trial Federal
Judge Frank S. Dietrich threw out of
court all proceedings against the var
ious concerns and held the Hennlng-
sens alone to trial. The case went to
the Jury and a verdict of not guilty
was returned. This clears the com
pany and owners of all suspicion.
IV If 7-
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CHAPTER XVI Continued.
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'Go on I Good dog!" cried Mr.
"Lead the way to Hannah's
Car'lynl"
He heard the little girl screaming:
"Oh, Uncle Joe! Oh, Uncle Joe ! Here
we are !"
Cherry rattled the buckboard down
to the bottom of the hollow and
stopped. There was some smoke here,
but not much. The man leaped to the
ground when he saw a figure rise up
from the foot of a tree by the spring
a figure in brown. 1
"Joseph I Thank God I" murmured
Amanda.
The hardware dealer strode to her.
She had put out both her hands to
him, and he saw that they were trem
bling, and that tears filled her great
brown eyes.
"Oh, Joe!" she said, "I feared yon
would come too late !"
"But I'm here, Mandy, and Pm not
too late!" he cried; and, somehow
neither of them could, perhaps, have
evplained just how his arms went
around her and her hands rested on
his shoulders, while ebe looked earn
estly Into his face.
"Oh, Joe! Joe!" It was like a sur
rendering sob.
"It's not too late, Is It Mandy? Say
It isn't too lntej" he pleaded.
"No, It's not too late," she whis
pered. "If if we're not too old."
"Old !" almost shouted Joseph Stagg.
"I don't remember of ever feeling so
young as I do right nowl" and sud
denly he stooped and kissed her.
"Bless met what fools we've been all
this time!"
"Oh, Uncle Joel Oh, Miss Amanda t"
cried Cnroyln May, standing before
them, and pointing with a rather grimy
index finger. "You aren't mad at each
other any more, are you? Oh, I am so
glad! so glad I" and her face showed
her pleasure.
But the situation was too difficult to
allow"Tf much but practical thoughts.
"Where's the old woman?" asked Jo
seph Stagg quickly.
"Her husband came with a horse
and buggy late last night and took her
over to the new camp," was the reply.
"The fire was coming into the camp
when I left We must get out of here
In a hurry," declared Mr. Stagg.
"We aren't going to be burned up
now, when Uncle Joe is here. Miss
Mandy," Carolyn May declared with
confidence. "See how nice he and
Prince found us? Why, they are reg'lar
heroes, aren't they?"
"They are, indeed, child," agreed the
woman. She turned to Joseph Stagg,
happiness shining in ber eyes, aud
looking prettier than ever before In
her life, he thought
The hollow was rapidly becoming
filled with smoke. The man did not
understand this, but it foreboded
trouble. He turned Cherry and the
buckboard around, and then he helped
Amanda Into the seat.
"Up you go, too, Car'lyn May," he
said, lifting the little girl into the rear
of the buckboard.
Joseph Stagg felt very serious as he
seated himself by Amanda's side and
picked np the reins. The horse quick
ly retraced his steps up the hill to the
tote road. As they came out into this
broader path they saw the smoke pour
ing through it in a choking cloud.
"Oh, Joe," gasped Amanda, "Its
coming 1"
"It surely is," agreed the hardware
merchant "We're In a hot corner, my
girl But trust to me"
"Oh, I do, Joel" she exclaimed,
squeezing his arm. "I am sure you
know what is best to do."
Til try to prove that 60," he sold
with a subdued chuckle.
"Oh, Uncle Joe 1" cried Carolyn May
suddenly, "can't we get out of this
awful smoke? It It chokes me!"
"Walt" whispered Amanda to the
man. 'Til lift her over tne Back of
the seat I think she bad better be in
my lap."
"P'r'aps that's so," he agreed, and
he held in the nervous Cherry for a
moment till the change was accom
plished. The roaring of the fire grew louder
and louder in their ears.
Suddenly Joseph Stagg dragged
Cherry's head around. The horse
snorted and hesitated, for the smoke
was blinding blm.
"I pretty near missed these forks!"
exclaimed the hardware merchant
This left road takes us toward the
lake."
"Oh, Joe, can we reach It?" whis
pered Amanda.
"We've got to !" he returned grimly.
"It's three miles, If it's an Inch, but
Cherry has got to make it"
They were relieved after a minnte or
two tn this new road. The smoke had
not eo completely filled It But it was
a rougher way, and the buckboard
bounced until Carolyn May cried ont
In fear..
They drove over a little hillock that
raised them higher than the tote road
bad done. Amanda clutched Mr.
Stagg's arm again and uttered a half'
stifled "Oh!"
Be shot a glance to the left A
omers
?UTH BELMORE ENDIO0TT
mass of flame broke out in the wood
not far off this trail the top of a
great tree was on fire.
"The wind Is carrying brands this
way," muttered the man. "A dozen
new fires will be started. Well, gid-ap,
Cherry I" and he seized the whip
again.
The horse was well spent now, but
he was plucky. He tried to increase
his stride. A hot breath of wind came
rushing through the forest, bending
the branches and shaking the leafy
foliage. The wind seemed fairly to
scorch the fugitives.
The roaring of the fire increased.
Through the more open woods which
"Oh, Uncle Joel Oh, Miss Amanda,"
Cried Carolyn May.
bordered this path they saw the smoke
advancing in a thicker wall and one
as high as the tree tops.
"You've got to make it, old boy,"
muttered Joseph Stagg, and he lashed
the horse again.
The spirited Cherry leaped forward,
both the woman and the child scream
ing. '
"Is It far? Is It far?" gasped Aman
da in his ear.
"Too far for comfort. But keep your
heart up."
As the man spoke, a blazing brand
swung through the air and came down,
right on Amanda's shoulders. Carolyn
May shrieked. Joseph Stagg brushed
off the burning stick.
Cherry mounted another small ridge
and then they clattered down into a
little hollow where there was a slough
beside the road. The water was green
and stagnant, but it was water.
The man pulled in the bard-pressed
horse and leaped down, passing the
reins to Amanda. He whipped off his
coat and dipped it in the mudhole. He
drew It out dripping with water and
slime.
"Look out, here ! Have to shut your
eyes I" he warned bis two companions
on the seat of the buckboard, and
threw the saturated coat over Miss
Amanda's head. The dripping garment
sheltered Carolyn May as well.
'Now- good horse!" he yelled to
Cherry, leaping back to the seat "Gid-
ap!"
The horse started up the slope. An
other ewlrllng brand came down upon
them. Joseph Stagg fought it oft with
his bare hand. His shirt sleeve caught
fire and he was painfully burned on
the forearm before he could smother
the blaze.
Another flaming brand fell, landing
on Cherry's back. The horse squealed
and leaped forward at a pace which
Mr. Stagg could not control. Maddened
by the burn, Cherry had taken the bit
In his. teeth and was running away.
The man threw down the reins. He
could do nothing toward retarding the
frightened horse's pace. Indeed, be
did not want to stop him. .
Els left arm he flung around Mlj
Amanda and the child, and with his
right hand clung to the rocking seat of
the careening buckboard.
The wet steaming coat saved the
woman and the child from Injury.
Joseph Stagg had lost all count of
time. The forest road might still ex
tend ahead of them for a mile, for all
he knew.
But suddenly they broke cover,
Cherry still galloping wildly, and
plunged down an open ravine to the
edge of a lake of sparkling water.
"Bless me! The lake! the lakel"
hoarsely shouted the man.
The walls of the ravine sheltered
them from smoke and fire for a mo
ment, but the brands still fell. Cherry
had halted on the edge of the lake, but
Joseph Stagg urged him on into the
water, flank deep. The shore was nar
row and afforded little space for
refuge. He lifted Amanda and the
child bodily from the seat and dropped
them Into the water.
"We're safe now," be said hoarsely,
Jumping In himself, and holding Caro
lyn May and Amanda. . "We're got wa
ter enough here, thanks be! Hang on
to me, Mandy. I'm not going to let
you get away no more, never!"
And by the way in which the woman
clung to his arm it was evident that
she did not propose to lose him.
"My, Uncle Joe! you are Just the
bravest man!" declared Carolyn May,
finding her voice. "Isn't he. Miss
Mandy? And, see, his arm is all
burned. Dear me, we must get home
to Aunty 'Rose and let her do It up for
htm."
CHAPTER XVII.
"Two's Company."
Toward the east the forest tract was
completely burned to the banks of Cod
ler's creek. As the wind which had
sprung up had driven- the fire west
ward, there was little danger of the .
flames pressing nearer than the creek
to Sunrise Cove and The Corners.
Joseph Stagg led the horse out of
the water and advised Miss Amanda
and Carolyn May to get Into the seat
of the buckboard again. Then he set
forth, leading the horse along the nar
row beach, while Prince followed
wearily in the rear. , (
It was a rough route they followed,
but the blackened forest was still too
hot for them to pass through, had they
been able to find a path. This was a
lonely strip of shore and they saw no
living soul but themselves.
It was a long tramp, and the horse, -
the dog, and the man were alike
wearied. Carolyn May went fast asleep
with her head pillowed In Miss Aman
da's lap.
The latter and Joseph Stagg talked
much. Indeed, there was much for
them to say after all these years of
silence.
The woman, worn and scorched of
face, looked down on the smutted and
sweating man with an expression in
her eyes that warmed him to the mar
row. She was proud of him. And the
gaze of love and longing that the hard
ware merchant turned upon Amanda
Parlow would have amazed those peo
ple thnt believed he had consideration
and thought only for business.
In these, few hours of alarnl and
close intimacy the man and the woman
had leaped all the barriers time and'
pride had set up. Nothing further
could keep Joseph Stagg and Amanda
Parlow apprt. And yet they never for
one Instant discussed the original
cause of their estrangement. That was
a dead issue.
The refugees reached The Corners
about nine o'clock. Jedldiah Parlow
had hobbled up to the store and was
just then organizing a party of search
ers to go to the rescue of the hard
ware dealer and those of whom he had
set forth In search.
The village turned out en masse to
welcome the trio who had so mirac
ulously escaped the fire. Aunty Rose's
relief knew no bounds. Mr. Parlow
was undeniably glad to see bis daugh
ter safe; otherwise, he would never
have overlooked the pitiable state his
horse was In. Poor Cherry would
never be the same unblemished animal
again.
"Well, I vum!" he said to Joseph
Stagg, "you done it ! Better'n I could.
too, I reckon. I'll take the hoss home.
You comin with me, Mandy?" Then
he saw the burns on the younger man's
shoulders and arms. "The good land
of Jehoshaphat ! here's work for you to
do, Mnndy. If you air any sort of a
nurse, I reckon you got your hands
full right here with Joe Stagg," he
added, with some pride in his daugh
ter's ability. "Phew! them's bad
lookln' burns!"
"They are Indeed," agreed Aunty
Rose.
It was a fact that Mr. Stagg was In
a bad state. Carolyn May had suggest
ed that Aunty Rose" would dress his
burns, but Miss Amanda would allow
nobody to do that but herself.
When the curious and sympathetic
neighbors had gone and Miss Amanda
was still busy making Joseph Stagg
comfortable in the sitting room, Aunty
Rose came out into the kitchen, where
"Yea, lant It Nice They Arent Mad
at Each Other."
she had already bathed and helped
Carolyn May to undress, and where
the little girl was now sleepily eating
her supper of bread and milk.
"Well, wonders don't ever cease, 1
guess," she said, more to herself than
to her little confidant "Who'd have
thought it!"
"Who'd have thought what. Aunty
Rose?" inquired Carolyn May.
"Your nr.cle and Mandy Parlow have
made It tip.' breathed the woman, evi
dently mudi Impressed by the wonder
of it
; "Yes, indeed r cried the child. "Isnt
It nice? They aren't mad at each other
any more." ,
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