V
CONCEDES
LAND TO JAPANESE
Lower California to See Agri
culturalExp!oitation. LEGALITY ASSERTED
Mexican Official Saya Monroe Doctrine
Not Violated and No Difficul
ties Can Arise.
Mexico City. That Japanese corpor
ations have been granted concessions
to exploit agricultural lands in lower
California was the statement made
Monday by General Amado Aguirre,
under secretary of development and
agriculture.
The affirmation was made, however,
that the concessions were fully au
thorized by the provisions of the Mex
ican constitution regarding the area
and position of the territory in rela
tion to the ocean shore and the fron
tier line.
There was nothing in the conces
sions, it was asserted by the under
secretary, that might possibly lead to
difficulties as far as the Monroe doc
trine was concerned.
Reports that there is a possibility
of international controversy over the
granting of the concessions to the
Japanese -were said to be absurd by
General Amado Agutrre in an inter
view in which he said the action was
legal. At that time he would not ad
mit the concession had been granted,
The Japanese legation here denied it
had any official knowledge of the
action.
In the interview General Aguirre is
quoted as follows:
n is absurd to give credit to, or
take seriously, the news published that
there Is imminent an international
conflict because of the fact that Jap
anese subjects or companies are ar
ranging to acquire lands in lower Cal
ifornia, said to belong to the Califor
nia & Mexican Land company of Los
Angeles.
"In the first place the lands, which
were given by a concession in 1884 to
the Moxlcan Land company, were de
clared the property of the pre-constl-
tutlonal government on April 7, 1917,
whlhc action renders void the conces
sion granted to the Mexican Land com
pany. Since then the government has
appointed a commission to divide the
lands and sell them to Mexicans in
small lots.
"Moreover,' even though Japanese
companies do propose to acquire, as
is alleged, huge tracts of land in lower
California, they cannot be aldod by
our government, since the Mexican
constitution, in article 27, expressly
states that no foreigner can acquire
land In a zone 100 kilometers wide
from a foreign frontier nor in a belt
50 kilometers wide along the shores
of the Pacific ocean or the gulf of
Mexico. Even though the Japanese
subjects secure Mexican citizenship,
they could not acquire 800,000 acres
of laud, as It is declared they seek to
buy. This equals nearly 400,000 hec
tares, which is far above the legal lim
it placed on the purchase of land,
which restricts all persons and com
panies to a maximum of 2800 hec
tares." Scaffold Falls; Many Drowned.
Bristol, Pa. From 10 to 40 persons
were killed or drowned late Monday
when a temporary scaffolding extend
ing around the stern of a boat on the
ways at the Merchant shipyard at Har
rlman, near here, collapsed, while
nearly 150 persons were standing on
it to view the launching of the freight
er Waukau. At a late hour only three
bodlos had been recovered. Twenty-
two injured persons were taken to the
liarriman hospital. Thousands had
assembled to see the launching and
witnesses of the accident say that the
scaffolding seemed to turn over, pre
dicting occupants into 20 feet of wa
ter. The accident happened four mln
utes before the launching was sched
uled to take place.
Flivver Planet Promised.
New York. Captain Ugo d'Annun
zio, Italian aviator, announced here
that ho had designed and begun the
manufacture of flivver airplanes cap
able of landing on almost any country
road and designed to sell for $1250.
The planes, he said, will have a wing
spread of less than 20 feet and will
be guaranteed ,to fly for two and one-
half hours at an Average speed of 50
miles per hour, carrying a passenger
weighing not mors than 105 pounds.
t
: STATE NEWS t
t IN BRIEF.
Within the next month Bend will
be able to offer the use of a free
camping ground to automobile tourists
passing through there.
Fire starting in trash piled around
the burner resulted Friday in the de
struction of the McKInley Bawmill,
near Bend. No insurance was carried
and the loss is estimated at $5000.
The plant will be rebuilt.
A $1,000,000 bond issue proposed in
Linn county for road construction
may be voted upon at the special elec
tion in June. A meeting of represen
tatives from various sections of the
county with the county court will take
place in Albany this week.
Between April 1 and 5 the Booth-
Kelly Lumber company will start its
sawmill at Springfield on a double
shift, adding a night crew of about
80 men and increasing the day crew
by 20 men, according to announce
ment by A. C. Dixon, manager of the
company.
At a meeting held Saturday The
Dalles poultrymen perfected a co-operative
organization, adopting a con
stitution and by-laws. U. L. Upson,
poultry expert from O. A. C, explain
ed the State Poultrymen's association
and the local body will affiliate. Plans
also were made by the poultrymen for
grading their product.
Albany people from present indica
tions will enjoy very few of the straw
berries raised In that vicinity this
year. Such high prices are being of
fered already by canners and shippers
that it is said there will be very few
berries for home consumption. Many
growers are contracting the delivery
of their crops already.
That the bulletin on rural school
architecture prepared by J. A. Chur
chill, superintendent of public instruc
tion, for the use of the boards of di
rectors in rural school districts of this
state is attracting attention in all
parts of the United States is shown
by requests being received by the de
partment for copies of this bulletin.
The present week will see the ma
jor portion of spring planting in east
ern Umatilla county completed.
Heavy rains up to the latter part of
last week left the ground in unusually
good condition for planting and pros
pects for heavy crops are good, a
considerable portion of last fall's soed
ing was frozen during the winter and
much of this had to be replanted.
Coos bay, although the probability
seema quite hopeless, has not aban
doned the desire to prevail upon the
doned the desire to prevail upon the
house naval affairs committee to visit
that port, and has sent to Portland
Charles Hall, president of the State
Chamber of Commerce, who is author
ized to invite the committee there and
guarantee any expenses in connection.
Both the Medford-Klamath Falls
road and the Crater lake national park
road will be undertaken and pressed
to completion this year, A. F. Potter,
acting United States forester, advised
Senator McNary recently. Prepara
tions were mnklng to start work on
these roads when the war started, but
the work was abandoned awaiting
peace.
A pure-bred Duroc hog association
for Wasco county was organized Sat
urday at a meeting held at Dufur.
Charles Doyle was elected president
and A. R. Chase secretary-treasurer.
A committee on organization and sales
was elected as follows: Charles Doyle,
A. R. Chase, Dr. O. E. Sanders, A. W.
Greenly, Ira Waterman and J. C.
Johnson.
The J. B. Robertson sawmill on the
Mohawk, 15 miles northeast of Eu
gene, has been sold to W. H. Effen
berger and O. A. Effenberger of Ore
gon City, who have contracted for
15,000,000 feet of timber and will soon
begin to operate the plant. A valua
tion of $20,000 was placed upon the
property. The mill has a capacity of
25,000 feet a day and will employ 25
men. Arrangements are being made
to start logging camps at once.
The Rogue River Lumber & Box
company, a new concern, composed of
Stanley Blshoprick, S. Berqulsc, M. W.
Malcomb and J. Sat ford, Portland tlm
bcrmen, have purchased from Pressly
A Hackett the old Gold Hill Lumber
& Railway company's sawmill plant
on Sardine creek, six miles north of
Gold Hill. A large tract of valuable
saw timber tributary to the plant pass
es to the new owners In the deal. The
new owners propose to begin opera
tions at once, and extend the railway
into the timber, and also rebuild their
box factory at Gold Hill the coming
season.
CASUALTY LIST TO CLOSE
Last Publication to Appear April 6th
5500 Men Still Missing.
Washington, D. C On April 1 the
war department will discontinue the
method of issuing casualty lists which
has hitherto made them available for
simultaneous publication in all news
papers throughout the country. This
has been decided upon, it was explain
ed Friday, because practically all the
casualties incurred in fighting have
been announced and few remain, ex
cept deaths from injury or disease
since the signing of the armistice.
The action was taken on the ground
that the casualties are not "fighting"
casualties and that they are in the
same class with deaths in the navy or
in the army camps in this country,
which are not formally announced.
The war department will furnish
full lists for mailing from Washing
ton, but they will not be issued for
publication on any specified date and
may be published whenever newspa
pers receive them. The last list is
sued under the present system will
be published in the newspapers of
April 6. Thereafter it is probable that
only the killed in action will be dis
tributed by telegraph.
General Pershing reported to the
war department there were still 5500
officers and men of the expeditionary
forces listed as missing. This total
compares with the British official fig
ures of 161,800 missing and the French
of 290,000.
All of the 5500 names have been re
ported as "missing"- in casualty lists
already published, the report said. Re
interments of bodies from isolated
graves in the centralized cemeteries is
furnishing additional identification in
a number of cases, and for this reason
the records of the grave registration
service are being carefully studied.
Re-examination of gtave registration
reports and also of hospital records
are referred to by General Pershing,
was said by officials at the war depart
ment to explain the "killed in action,"
and "wounded in action," casualties
still appearing in the daily casualty
lists sent out by the department.
The British war office, General Per
shing's report said, had adopted the
policy of considering 26 weeks in the
case of ah officer and 30 weeks for an
enlisted man the length of time after
the men had been recorded as missing
before death is pvesumed. In the
French army, he said, no definite pe
riod has been fixed.
No accurate estimate of unreported
deaths can be given, said General Per
shing's report. "There are, however,
approximately 5500 missing to be ac
counted for, all of whom have been re
ported to Washington as missing. Re
interment of bodies removed from
isolated graves to centralized ceme
teries is furnishing additional identifi
cation of deaths hitherto reported as
missing.
"Deaths of American soldiers in
French hospitals, of which only mea
ger and often incorrect records are on
file, are likewise disclosed by reburial
of these bodies, resulting in complete
identification."
Army Ration Is Increased.
Washington, D. C. American sol
diers, already regarded as the best fed
fighting men in the world, are to be
furnished with an even more diversi
fied menu. Announcement was made
recently that upon the recommenda
tion of Major-General Rogers, quarter
master-general, Secretary Baker had
authorized the issuing as a part of the
army ration after April 1 canned corn,
peas, string beans, pumpkins and
squash. Heretofore such things have
been bought as extras out of the com
pany mess funds. The canned tomato
portion of the ration also will be in
creased. Candy and tobacco recently
were added to the rations issued
the Boldlers overseas.
to
Cyclops Still a Mystery.
Berlin. The German admiralty says
It Is unable to give any assistance in
solving the mystery of the disappear
ance early in March of last year of the
United States naval collier Cyclops,
while bound from Brazil for the Uni
ted States with a crew of 15 officers
and 221 men, 57 passengers and
cargo of manganese. Admiralty of
flcials say they received no report of
the sinking of the Cyclops. They add
hat no German submarines were oper
ating at the time In West Indian wa
ters.
Hun Planet to Bear Food.
Paris. German bombing airplanes
of the Friedrlchshafen type, which
were surrendered under a clause of
the armistice, will be used by the de
partment of civilian aviation in tran
sporting foodstuffs between Paris and
Bordeaux. The airplanes will be
equipped to carry three tons. Before
the end of the week the department
plans to have In operation an aerial
post between Paris and Valenciennes
by way of Maubeuge.
Carolyn of the Corners
BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT
CHAPTER XVII Continued. '
17
"No, I should say they're not," Aunty
Rose observed with grlmness. "Far
from it It's a fact 1 I wouldn't have
believed it If I hadn't seen it with my
own eyes. Holding hands in there like
pair of Well, do you know what
It means, Carolyn May?"
"That they love each other," the
child said boldly. "And I'm so glad for
them 1"
"So am I," declared the woman, still
In a whisper. "But It means changes
here. Things won't be the same for
long. I know Joseph Stagg for what
he is."
"What Is he, Aunty Hose?" asked
Carolyn May in some trepidation, for
the housekeeper seemed to be much
moved.
"He's a very determined man. Once
he gets set in a way, he carries every
thing before him. Mandy Parlow is
going to be made Mrs. Joseph Stagg so
quick that it'll astonish her. Now, you
believe me, Carolyn May."
"Oh 1" was the little girl's comment
"There'll be changes here very sud
den. 'Two's company, three's a crowd,
Carolyn May. Never was a truer say
ing. Those two will want Just each
other and nobody else.
"Well, Carolyn May, If you've fin
ished your supper, we'd better go up to
bed. It's long past your bedtime."
"Yes, Aunty Rose," said the little
girl in muffled voice.
Aunty Rose did not notice that Caro
lyn May did not venture to the door of
the sitting room to bid either Uncle
Joe or Miss Amanda good-night. The
child followed the woman upstairs with
faltering steps, and in the unllghted
bedroom that had been Hunnah Stagg's
she knelt at Aunty Rose's knee and
murmured her usual petitions.
"Do bless Uncle Joe and Miss
Amanda, now they're so happy," was
phrase that might have thrilled
Aunty Rose at another time. But she
was so deep in her own thoughts that
she heard what Carolyn May said per
functorily.
With her customary kiss, she left
the little girl and went downstairs.
Carolyn May had seen so much excite
ment during the day that she might
have been expected to sleep at once,
and that soundly. But It was not so.
Thi little girl lay with wide-open
eyes, her imagination at work.
"Two's company, three's a crowd,
She took that trite saying, in which
Aunty Rose had expressed her own
feelings, to herself. If Uncle Joe and
Miss Amanda were going to be mar
ried, they would not want anybody
else around ! Of course not I
"And what will become of me?"
thought Carolyn May chokingly.
All the "emptiness' of the last few
months swept over the soul of the lit
tle child In a wave that her natural
cheerfulness could not withstand. Her
anchorage in the love of Uncle Joe
and Miss Amanda was swept away.
The heart of the little child swelled,
Her eyes overflowed. She sobbed her
self to sleep, the pillow muffling
the sounds, more forlorn than ever be
fore since she had come to The Cor
ners. CHAPTER XVIII.
The Journey.
It was certainly a fact that Amanda
Parlow Immediately usurped some
power In the household of the Stagg
homestead. She ordered Joseph Stagg
not to go down to his store that next
day. And he did not 1
Nor could he attend to business for
several days thereafter. He was too
stiff and lame and his burns were too
painful.
Cliet Gormley came up each day for
Instructions and was exceedingly full
of business. A man would have to be
very exacting indeed to find fault with
the Interest the boy displayed In run
ning the store just as his employer de
sired it to be run.
. "I tell you what It Is, Car'lyn," Chet
drawled. In confidence. "I'm mighty
sorry Mr. Stagg got hurt like he did.
But lemme tell yon, it's Just givin' me
the chance of my life 1
"Why, maw says that Mr. Stagg and
Miss Mandy Parlow'll git married for
sure now 1"
"Oh, yes," sighed the little girl.
"They'll be married."
"Well, when folks git married they
alius go off on a trip. Course, they
will. And me I'll be runnln' the busi
ness all by myself. It'll be great I Mr.
Stagg will see jest bow much value I
be to him. Why, It'll be the makin' of
me I" cried the optimistic youth.
Tea, Carolyn May heard It on all
sides. Everybody was talking about
the affair of Uncle Joe and Miss
Amanda.
Every time she saw her uncle and
her "pretty lady" together the observ
ant child could not but notice that they
were utterly wrapped up In each other.
Miss Amanda could not go past the
easy chair in which the hardware deal
er was enthroned without touching
him. He, as bold as a boy, would
lelie her hand and kiss It
Love, a mighty, warm, throbbing
spirit had caught them up and twept
them away out of themaulvea out of
their old selves, at least They had
eyes only for each other tnougnts
only for each other.
Even a child could see something of
this. The absorption of the two made
Aunty Rose's remarks very impressive
to Carolyn May.
A week of this followed a week in
which the trouble In Carolyn May's
heart and brain seethed until it be
came unbearable. .She was convinced
that there would soon be no room for
her in the big Wiuse. She watched
Aunty Rose pack her own trunk, and
the old lady looked very glum, indeed.
She heard whispers of an Immediate
marriage, here in the bouse, with Mr.
Driggs as the officiating clergyman.
Carolyn May studied things out for
herself. Being a child, her conclu
sions were not always wise ones.
She felt that she might be a stum
bling block to the complete happiness
of Uncle Joe and Amanda Parlow.
They might have to set aside their own
desires because of her. She felt vague
ly that this must not be.
"I can go home," she repeated over
and over to herself.
"Heme" was still in the New fork
city apartment house where she had
lived so happily before that day when
her father and mother had gone aboard
the ill-fated Dunraven.
Their complete loss out of the little
girl's life had never become fixed in
her mind. It had never seemed a surety
not even after her talks with the
sailor, Benjamin Hardy.
Friday afternoon the little girl went
to the churchyard and made neat the
three little graves and the one long
one on the plot which belonged to
Aunty Rose Kennedy. She almost
burst Into tears that evening, too,
when she kissed Aunty Rose good
night at bedtime. Uncle Joe was down
at the Parlows'. He and Mr. Parlow
actually smoked their pipes together
in harmony on the cottage porch.
Aunty Rose was usually an early
riser; but the first person up at The
Corners on that Saturday morning was
Carolyn May. She was dressed a full
hour before the household was usually
astir.
She came downstairs very softly,
carrying the heavy bag she had
brought with her the day she had first
The Brakeman Was Nice, Too, and
Brought Her Water in a Paper Cup.
come to The Corners. She nad ner
purse in her pocket, with all her money
In it and she had in the bag most of
her necessary possessions.
She washed her face and hands. Her
hair was already combed and neatly
braided. From the pantry she secured
some bread nnd butter, and, with this
In her hand, unlocked the porch door
and went out Prince got up, yawning,
and shook himself. She snt on the
steps to eat the bread and butter, di
viding It with Prince.
"This is such a beautiful place,
Princey," she whispered to the mon
grel. "We are going to miss It dread
fully, I s'pose. But then Well,
we'll have the park. Only you can't
run so free there.
Prince whined. Carolyn May got up
and shook the crumbs- from her lap,
Then she unchained the dog -and
picked up her bag. Frlnce pranced
about her, glad to get his morning run.
The little girl and the dog went
out of the gate and started along the
road toward Sunrise Cove.
The houses had all been asleep at
The Corners. So was the Parlow cot
tage when she trudged by. She would
have liked to see Miss Amanda, to
kiss her Just once. But she must not
think of that I It brought such a
"gulpy" feeling Into her throat
Nobody saw Carolyn May and Prince
nntil she reached Main street Then
the sun had risen and a few early per
sons were astir; but nobody appeared
who knew the child or who cared any
thing about her.
At the railroad station nobody Bpoke
to her, for she bought no ticket She
was not exactly clear In her mind
about tickets, anyway. She had found
the conductor on the train coming up
from New York a kind and pleasant
man and the decided to do all her
business with him.
Had she attempted to buy a ticket
of the station agent undoubtedly be
would have made tome Inquiry, As It
m
CopTTlKbl, 1Mt rwdd, M4 Oomt". Ina
was, when the train came along Caro
lyn May, after seeing Prince put into
the baggage car, climbed aboard with .
the help of a brakeman.
"Of course, if he howls awfully," she
told the baggageman, who gave her a
check without question, "I shall have
to go In that car and sit with him."
There were not many people in the
car. They steamea away irom , sun
rise Cove and Carolyn May dabbled
her eyes with her handkerchief and
told herself to be brave.
The stutions were a long way apart
and the conductor did not come
through for some time. When he did
open the door and come into the car
Curolyn Muy sturted up with a glad
cry. It was the very conductor who
had been so kind to her on the trip up
from New York.
The railroad man knew her at once
and shook hands most heartily with
her.
"Where are you going, Carolyn
May?" he asked.
'All the way with you, sir," she re
plied.
"To New York?"
"Yes, sir. I'm going home again."
"Then I'll see you later," he said,
without asking for her ticket.
The conductor remembered the little
girl very well, although he did not
remember all the details of her story.
He was very kind to her and brought
her satisfying news about Prince in
the baggage car. The brakeman was
nice, too, and brought her water to
drink in a paper cup.
At last the long stretches of streets
at right angles with the tracks ap
pearedasphalt streets lined with tall
apartment houses. This could be noth
ing but New York city. Her papa had
told her long ago tlmt there was no
other city like it in the world.
She knew One Hundred and Twen
ty-fifth street and its elevated station.
That was not where she hnd boarded
the train going north, when Mr. Price
had placed her in the conductor's care,
but It was nearer her old home that
she knew. So she told the brakeman
she wanted to get out there and he
arranged to have Prince released.
The little girl alighted and got her
dog without misadventure. She was
down on the street level before the
train continued on its journey down-.
town.
At the Grand -Central terminal the
conductor was met with a telegram
sent from Sunrise Cove by a certain
frantic hardware dealer and that tele
gram told him something about Caro
lyn May of which he had not thought
to ask.
CHAPTER XIX.
The Home of Carolyn May.
It was some distance from the rail
road station to the block on which
Carolyn May Cameron had lived all
her life until she had gone to stay
with Uncle Joe Stagg. The child knew
she could not take the car, for the con
ductor would not let Prince ride.
She started with the dog on his
leash, for he was not muzzled. The
bag became heavy very soon, but she
staggered along with it uncomplain
ingly. Her disheveled appearance,
with the bag and the dog, gave people
who noticed her the impression that
Carolyn May had been away, perhaps, '
for a "fresh-air" vacation, and was
now coming home, brown and weary,
to her expectant fnmlly.
But Carolyn May knew that she was
coming home to nn empty apartment
to rooms that echoed with her moth
er's voice and In which lingered only
memories of her father's cheery spirit.
Yet It was the only home, she felt,
that was left for her.
She could not blame Uncle Joe and
Miss Amanda for forgetting her.
Aunty Rose had been quite disturbed,
too, since the forest fire. She had
given the little girl no hint that pro
vision would be made for her future.
Wearily, Carolyn May traveled
through the Harlem streets, shifting
the bag from hand to hand, Prince
pacing sedately by her side.
"We're getting near home now, Prin
cey," she told him again and again.
Thus she tried to keep her heart up.
She came to the corner near which she
had lived so long and Prince suddenly
sniffed at the screened door of a shop.
"Of course, poor fellow I That's the
butcher's," Carolyn May said.
She bought a penny afternoon pa
per on a news stand and then went
Into the shop and got a nickel's worth
of bones and scraps for the dog. The
clerk did not know her, for he was
a new man.
(TO BE CONTINUED.) .
That Strict Confidence.
We were listening (and who
wouldn't?) to two women talking at
each other on a Fifth avenue bus In
the more or less busy city of Gotham,
and In so doing we heard one of the
master paradoxes. One woman said to
the other: "Why, she told me In
strictest confidence only the Other
day "New York Sun.
Will It Return to Its Owner?
Flexible tips feature new umbrella
ribs, which their Inventor claims will
prevent an umbrella from being blown
Inside out . .