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ELEMENT
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IN
BAVARIA
Soviet Rule Is Proclimed at
Wurzburg.
STRIKE IS ORDERED
Announcement at Munich Declares
landtag Dissolved Day Is
Proclaimed Holiday.
Wurzburg, Bavaria. A soviet repub
lic was proclaimed here Tuesday. The
banks, telephone, telegraph and news
paper offices were occupied by com
munist troops. A strike began at 1
o'clock -in the morning. The factor
ies and shops, except the food shops,
were closed.
Munich. On behalf of the revolu
tionary central council of Bavaria,
Herr Mekisch addressed the following
official telegram to all the workmen's
councils:
"The workers of Bavaria have over
come their party divisions and united
In a mighty block against all domina
tion and exploitation. They have tak
en over In workers', soldiers' and peas
ants' councils ' entire public authority,
"The landtag has been dissolved and
people's commissions have been ap
pointed. Complete order prevails in
public affairs and business and the ad
ministration are continuing.
"Works will be controlled by the
workers' councils, which will control
workers and direct affairs, jointly with
the managers. Everything belongs to
to the community. Independent so
cialization Is therefore out of the ques
tion. It Is the duty of the workers',
peasants' and soldiers' councils every
where to attend to the protection of
the soviet republic and Its peaceful
development. They will take over
local authority and control of the ad
ministration and are responsible to
the working people for all actions and
omissions.
"Today is a national holiday. Work
will be suspended, but the railways
and food, water, lighting and heating
services will continue."
STATE NEWS t
IN BRIEF. :
George W. and Frank Bartell, Jr.,
have purchased the Hotel de Grubb
at Orovllle for $86,000.
New influenza cases have appeared
the families of John Jump, Milton
Dwinnell and Mike Kaufmann at Wil
bur. All are mild cases.
The Walla Walla city commission-
have ordered the Mountain View
cemetery closed to Sunday funerals
except in emergency cases.
The city council of Camas Monday
night adopted resolutions of intention
to construct a new trunk line sewer
system in the city at an estimated
cost of $27,000.
Crossing the street in the congested
district of Spokane except at crossings
and then directly from curb to curb, is
a violation of an ordinance passed by
the city council.
Sidney Burnett of Seattle has closed
deal for the purchase of the sawmill
of the Mud Lake Lumber company,
four miles west of Tenino, from Mr.
Wakefield of Tacoma.
The final touches to the task of cre
ating the great tunnels which now are
part of the Naches-Selah irrigation
system were completed Monday after
noon at an expenditure of $350,000.
Flares of Smoke and Flame
to Mark Out Airplane Route
Washington, D. C. Flame and
smoke flares developed during the
war and improved recently by chemi
cal experts of the army will be factors
in the trans-Atlantic flight to be un
dertaken next month by naval sea
planes. Commander J. H. Towers, in
charge of preparations for the flight,
explained that the flares would be in
the shape of bombs which, upon strik
ing the water, would give off flame
and smoke, the one visible for long
distances at night and the other by
day. The flares would remain virtu
ally stationary on the water, Indicat
ing the angle at which the machines
were being driven from a straight line
This is only one of the many details
which officers In charge of the plans
tor the flight have had to work out,
Numerous experiments with the
planes themselves also have been
necessary. None of the three of the
N. C. type thus far are completed for
the start of the overseas voyage and
officers said that consequently they
have not even undertaken to select
tentative date for leaving Rockaway
Beach, Long Island, on the 1200-mile
flight to the "jumplng-off" place in
Newfoundland. At least one-stop will
be made between those two points.
Opposes Low Oregon Freight Rate.
Seattle. E. J. Forman, traffio man
ager and C. J. France, executive sec
retary of the Seattle port commission,
have Bubmlttod a report declaring
they bolleve western Washington
should oppose the efforts of Portland
and Astoria to get a lower freight
rate from the Inland Empire than
now In effect from the same district
to Seattle. Portland has asked the
Interstate commerce commission for
lowor grain rates from the Inland Em
pire section.
Butter to Be Boycotted.
Salt Lake City. -Until there is
substantial reduction in the price of
butter In Salt Lake City, that product
is to be made the subject of a drastic
boycott by members of the City Fed
eration of Women's clubs. This ac
tlon was decided upon when It w
declared that good butter is now soil
lug here at 72 cents pound. The
plans of the members ot the federation
rail for "an eudleas telephone system
of promoting the boycott
PEACE COST MORE THAN WAR
'Four Billion-Dollar" Congress to
Come, Says Good, of Iowa.
Seattle's street car system, with the
exception of a line to Ronton, was op
erated by municipal employes April
10, the city having purchased the road
from the private owners for $15,000,-000.
A contract has been signed with the
brlckmakers at Oroville, Williams &
Finnie, for 200,000 brick to he used in
the construction of an auditorium and
garage. The material is being assem
bled and construction will commence
in a short time.
Curfew will blink instead of ring
after April 1st in Everett. Street
lights will be blinked when it is time
to notify boys and girls under 16 that
the hour has come for them to be at
home. The lights will blink at 9 P.
M. in the summer and 8 P. M. in win
ter.
J. H. Corbett was awarded the con
tract to erect another story to the
Yakima Elks' 'temple. He will do the
work, not including plumbing or fix
tures, for $29,000. The work is to be
completed August 10, so that the en
tire building can be used during the
state convention.
Two damage actions were com
menced In superior court at Walla
Walla Tuesday. Mrs. Irene Sheltren
sued Sheriff David Yates for $2500 for
alleged illegal detention. She was ar
rested with N. A. Branson, who was
taken back to Seattle on a charge of
bringing her here, and she was later
released.
T. R. Slusher of Selah plans build
lng a $50,000 addition to his cold stor
age warehouse at that point. A por
tion of the plant was put up a year
ago and work on the addition is to be
gin next week. The addition will pro
vide space for 200 carloads of cold
storage and 75 carloads for common
storage.
George Levesconte, formerly In
charge of manual training work in the
Yakima high school, has harvested al
ready 1300 pounds ot rhubarb raised
In a forcing cellar 100 by 25 feet. The
first of the crop matured on February
10 and he has been pulling stalks
steadily since that time. None of the
product has sold for less than 12 cents
a pound.
Additional production in the four
northwestern Btates of 6,000,000 bush
els ot wheat next season, worth at
least $12,000,000, should result from
loans made to farmers of the Spokane
district by the federal farm loan bank,
it was estimated by D. O. O'Suea, the
president, In a statement he has made
public. Approximately $1,500,000 has
been loaned by the bank for purchase
ot wheat for spring seeding, Mr,
O'Shea said.
Tuesday afternoon on the farm of
J. D. Hardy on Fords Prairie a dem
onstration of spraying, pruning and
grafting ot fruit trees and shrubs was
held under the auspices ot the farm
bureau recently organized for the dis
trict composed of Fords and Waunchs
Prairies. The demonstration, which
was largely attended by farmers, was
given by Prof. J. L. Stahl ot the west
ern Washington experiment station at
Puyallup.
Announcement was made in Seattle
Tuesday by the West CoaBt Lumber
men's Association that the United
States railroad administration has or
dered ot Oregon and Washington mills
175,000,000 feet of Douglas fir ties for
Atlantic coast railroads. In addi
tion, 40,000,000 feet ot ties have been
ordered of northwestern mills for
France and English railroads. The
Seattle office ot the United States
shipping board announced recently
that it has been instructed to assign
50 woodon steamers to carry the ties
to the east coast.
Washington, D. C The passing of
the "billion dollar" congresses of pre
war days and the forthcoming peace
period of a "four billion dollar" con
gress is predicted in a statement by
Representative Good of Iowa, who will
be chairman of tho appropriations
committee In the next house.
Reviewing the financial problems to
be faced by the next congress, Mr.
Good estimated that the appropria
tions "necessary for the various gov
ernment expenditures" in the fiscal
year ending June 20, 121, would total
more than $3,800,000,000. Strictest
economy, he added, would be neces
sary to hold expenditures down even
to this total.
"The next congress," said Mr. Good
in his statement, "will be brought face
to face with many new and Intricate
problems, and many of them will call
for large expenditures of money. It is
impossible to estimate what expenses
will be involved in the future in the
administration of the railroad, opera
tion of our merchant marine, the war
risk insurance payments and to pro
vide homesteads for our soldiers.
"While difficult to make a reliable
forecast as to what the expenses of
the government will be for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1921, it is reas
onably safe to assume that the execu
tive departments will most earnestly
urge appropriations at least as large
those appropriated for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1920, for such ap
propriations were made to administer
these departments on a peace basis,
If we presume, however, that both the
military and naval programs will be
greatly reduced and that our standing
army will be limited to 250,000 men,
It will require rather strict economy
to bring the regular supply bills un
der $2,150,000,000. To this must be
added the permanent and indefinite
ppropriatlons of approximately $1
650,000,000, or a grand total of more
than $3,800,000,000 necessary for the
various government activities. It will
require the exercise of strict economy
to hold the expenditures down to ap
proximately these figures."
Mr. Good estimated that the appro
priations made by congress for the
war period and for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1920, totaled more
than $47,110,000,000. The revenue to
meet these appropriations he estimat-
at $16,657,000,000 to be derived
through customs receipts and income
and other taxes and $25,888,000,000 to
he raised from the sale of bonds,
notes and war savings stamps.
Carolyn of the Comers
BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT
OwnUM, IMS, by Dodd, xm k Oomvany. tab
CHAPTER XIX. Continued.
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They ventured along their block.
The children all seemed strange to
Carolyn May. But people move so fre
quently in Harlem that this was not
at all queer. She hoped to see Edna
or some other little girl with whom she
had gone to school. But not until she
reached the very house Itself did any
body hail her.
"Oh, Carolyn May! Is that you?"
A lame boy was looking through the
Iron fence of the areaway. He wus
the janitor's son.
Oh. Johnny 1 I'm renl glad to see
you!" cried the little girl. Then she
added more slowly. "We we've come
home again me and Prince."
"You've growed a lot, Carolyn May,"
said the boy. "My pop and mom's
away."
"I'll go up into Edna's flat, then,"
the weary little girl sighed.
"The Prices have gone away, too.
They won't be back till tomorrow
sometime."
"Oh !" murmured Carolyn May.
"But, say, I can get the keys to your
flat The water's turned on, too. Every
thing's all right up there, for Mrs.
Price she sweeps and dusts it all every
once In a while. Shall I get the keys?"
"Oh, If you will, please!" returned
the relieved child.
The boy hobbled away, but soon re
turned with the outer-door key and
the key to the apartment itself. Car
olyn May took them and thanked him.
Then she gladly went In and climbed
the two flights to their floor.
She saw nobody and easily let her
self into the flat. It had been recently
aired and dusted. Every piece of fur
niture stood just as she remembered it.
"Oh, Princey, It's home!" she whis
pered. "This Is our real, renl home!
I I loved 'em all at The Corners ; but
it wasn't like this there 1"
Prince perhaps agreed, but he was
too deeply Interested in snuffing at the
pnekage of meat scraps she had pur
chased for his supper to reply.
"Well, well. Prince," Bhe said, "you
shall have it at once."
Dropping the bag in the private hall
she went Into the kitchen and stood
on tiptoe to open the door of the closet
above the dresser. . Securing a plate,
she emptied the contents of the paper
into It and set the plate down on the
floor.
In spreading out the paper she saw
some big-type headlines on the front
page:
ROMANCE OF THE GREAT WAR
ltslnce that first night she had knelt
at Aunty Rose's knee:
"God bless my papa and mamma
and bring them safe home."
The faith that moves mountains was
in that prayer.
Carolyn May slept the sleep of the
wearied if not of the carefree. The
noises of the street did not disturb
her, not even the passing of the fire
department trucks some time after
midnight.
Nor did nearer sounds arouse her.
She had no knowledge of the fact
that a procession of A. D. T. boys
and messengers from the railroad com
pany came to ring the bell of the
Price's apartment. Later the janitor s
family was aroused, but the little lame
boy thought it would be better for him
to sny nothing about having seen Car
olyn May and of having given her the
keys.
So when in the early morning a taxi-
cab stopped at the street door and a
bushy-haired, troubled-looking man got
out and helped a woman clad in brown
to the sidewalk the Janitor had no
knowledge of the fact that Carolyn
May and Prince were upstairs in the
apartment that had been so long
empty.
"And the Prices are away, said
Uncle Joe in a troubled voice. "What
do you think of that, Mandy?"
"Oh, Joe 1 where could the dear child
have gone?"
'I haven't seen her," declared the
janitor. "But I can let you into the
flat. There's been lots of telegrams
to Mr. Price in the nlghtr-and they
weren't all yours. You're Carolyn
May's uncle, ain't you?" he asked Mr.
Stagg.
Uncle Joe acknowledged the rela
tionship. "Let's go upstairs," he said
to Amanda. "Now that I'm here "
"Oh, dear, Joe I" almost wept Aman
da, "could anything have happened to
her In this big city?"
"'Most anything, I s'pose," growled
Joseph Stagg, following close on the
janitor's heels.
The janitor's passkey grating in
the lock of the private hall door start-
New Mexican Revolt
Starts to Simmer
Washington, D. C Notice of the
safe arrival in Mexico of General Blan
quet, war minister under the Huerta
regime and now avowedly second in
command in the Felix Diaz revolu
tionary movement, was received Sat
urday at the state department. Offi
cials said no attention would be given
the matter, since it was one to be
dealt with by the government of Mex
ico recognized by the United States.
Ambassador Bonlllas said the gov
ernment of Mexico was fully capable
of dealing with the revolutionists.
Marfa, Tex. Five of the nine ban
dits belonging to the famous "Chico
Cano" band were killed by 8th cavalry
troops on the Mexican side ot the Rio
Grande last Friday after Cano's gang
crossed to the American side Tuesday
night, raided a ranch and drove off
cattle, horses and mules.
The Experiences of This Newspaper
Man Like Those of a Character In
a Novel Lost for Eight Months In
the Desert At the Mercy of Semi
savage Tribes, Man and Wife Escape
at Last to Return in Safety and
Health.
Education Secretary Aim.
Spokane, Wash. Indorsement for
the movement looking to the adoption
ot a secretary of education to the cab
inet of the president of the United
States was given by women educators
of the northwest, at a luncheon Sat
urday of the women's executive com
mittee ot the Inland Empire Teachers'
association, in session here. Mrs.
Josephine Preston, state superintend
ent of publio instruction, spoke in
favor of the proposal.
Plant to Detect Whales.
Tacoma. Airplanes and submarines
are to have an important part in the
whale industry, Victor Street, former
manager ot the Bay City, Wash,, whal
ing station, declared recently. He de
clares aircraft will be able to detect
the leviathans under water and get
nearer to them than the present steam
craft and submarines will also be able
to locate them under water.
U. S. Ideals to Be Taught.
Washington, D. C Creation of the
office of director of citizenship in the
department ot labor and the appoint
ment of Raymond E. Crist, deputy na
turalization commissioner, to the new
position, is announced. Expansion ot
the bureau's work in teaching Ameri
can ideals to alien residents is
planned.
Hit Story Told to Beacon Reporter at
Quarantine.
Carolyn May rend no further. It
did not particularly Interest the little
girl. Besides, she wns very tired
too tired to think of her own supper.
Had she read on, however, even her
simple mind might have been startled
by the following paragraphs printed
below the heading of this startling
story:
Their wonderful good fortune In escap
ing firm the disaster that overtook the
steamer on which they traveled and
which was caught between the gunfire of
a French battleship and two of a Tur
kish squadron can only be equaled by
the chance which followed. Naturally,
a Journalist himself, Mr, Cameron Is
prepared to tell the details of his re
markable adventure In the columns of
the Beacon at a later date. -
The boat In which they left the sink
ing Dunraven was separated In tho night
and fog from that ot the other refugees
and was carried by the current far to
the south. In fact, they were enveloped
by fog until they landed upon a stretch
of deserted beach.
There was no town near, nor even an
encampment of Arabs. But aoon after
their disembarkation and before the of
ficer In command could take means to
communicate with any civilized, or semi
civilised, place a party of mounted and
arraed tribesmen swooped down on the
castaways.
These people, being Mohammedans, ana
having Been the battle the day before
between the French and the Turks, con,
sidered the castaway enemies and swept
them away with them Into the desert to
a certain oasis, where for nearly eight
months Mr. John Lewis Cameron and his
wife and the other refugees from the
Dunraven were kept without being al
lowed to communicate with their friends,
Mr, Cameron was on furlough from
his paper because of 111 health. At the
befflnnln of his caDttvlty he was in
very bad way, Indeed, It Is said. But the
months In the hot, dry atmosphere of
the desert have made a new man or mm,
and ha nersonally cannot hold mucn ran
cor against the Mohammedan tribe that
held him a prisoner.
There was more of the wonderful
story, but the sleepy little girl had
riven It no attention whatsoever,
Prince had eaten and loin down in his
familiar corner. The little girl had
gone softly Into her own room and
made up her bed as she had seen her
mother and Mrs. Trice make it
Then she turned on the water In
the bathtub and took a bath. It was
delightful to have a real tub Instead
of the galvanized bucket they used at
Uncle Joe's.
She put on her nightgown at last
knelt and said her prayer, including
that petition she had never left out of
Caught Her Up in His Strong Arms
and Hugged Her.
ed something that none of them ex
pected. A startling bark echoed in the
rooms which were supposed to be
empty.
"Whatever is that?" gasped the jan
itor.
"It's Prince I It's her dog!" shouted
Uncle Joe.
"The child Is here!" cried Amanda
Parlow, and she was the first to enter
the apartment.
Prince bounded wildly to meet her.
He leaped and barked. A cry sounded
from a room beyond. Miss Amanda
and Uncle Joe rushed In.
Sleepily, her face flushed, rubbing
her blue eyes wide open, Carolyn May
sat up in bed.
"Oh, Uncle Joe ! Oh, Miss Amanda !'
she said. "I I was just dreaming my
own papa and mamma had come home
and found me here."
"My dear I My dear 1" sobbed Aman
da Parlow, dropping to her knees be
side the bed.
"You're a great young one !" growled
Uncle Joe, blowing his nose suspi
ciously. "You've nigh about scared
ev'ybody to death. Your Aunty Rose
is almost crazy."
"Oh I'm sorry," stammered Caro
lyn May. "But you see Uncle
Joet You and Miss Amanda are go
ing to be happy now. Aunty Rose says
'two is comn'ny.' So you wouldn't
have room for me."
"Bless me!" gasped the hardware
dealer. "What do you know about
this child's feeling that way, Mandy?'
"I am afraid we have been selfish
Joe," the woman said, sighing. "And
that is something that Carolyn May
has never been In her life 1"
"I dunno I dunno," said Uncle Joe
ruefully and looking at the little,
flower-like face of the child. "How
about Aunty Rose? How d'you s'pose
she feels about Hannah's Car'lyn run
ning away?"
"Oh!" ejaculated the little girl.
"It may be that two's company and
three's a crowd,' but you and Aunty
Rose would be two likewise, wouldu
you, Car'lyn May?"
I never thought of that, Uncle
Joe," the child whispered.
Why, your running away from The
Corners this way is like to make both
Mandy and me unhappy, as well as
Aunty Rose. I I don't b'lieve Mandy
could get married at all If she didn't
have a little girl like you to carry
flowers and hold up her train. How
about it, Mandy?"
"That is quite true, Carolyn May,"
declared Miss Amanda, hugging the
soft little body of the child tightly
again.
"Why, I I"
Carolyn May was for once beyond
verbal expression. Besides there was
a noise In the outer hall and on the
stairway. The door had been left
open by the surprised janitor.
A burst of voices -came into the
apartment. Uncle Joe turned wonder
Ingly. Miss Amanda stood up. Car
olyn May flew out of bed with a shriek
that startled them both.
"My papa! My mamma! I hear
them! They're not drownd-ed! God
didn't let 'em be lost In the sea !"
She was out of the, room in her
nightgown, pattering in bare feet over
the floor. A brown man, with a beard
and twinkling blue eyes, caught her
up In his strong arms and hugged her
swiftly safely to his breast
. "Snuggy 1" he said chokingly. "Pa
pa's Snuggy!"
"My baby! My baby!" cried the
woman at whom Joseph Stagg was
staring as though he believed her to
be the ghost of his lost sister Han
nah.
It was several hours later before
really sane thing was said or a snne
thing done in that little Harlem flat.
"It's like a lovely fairy story 1" cried
Carolyn May. "Only It's better than a
fairy story it's real!"
"Yes, yes, it's real, thank God!"
murmured the happy mother.
"And I'm never going away from my
little girl again," added the father,
kissing her for at least the tenth time.
"But what Aunty Rose Is going te
do I don't see," said Uncle Joe, shak
ing his head with real commiseration.
I've sent her a dispatch saying that
the child is safe. But if we go back
without Hannah's Car'lyn "
"The poor soul !" said his sister. "I
can believe that in her secret, subdued
way Aunty Rose Kennedy Is entirely
wrapped up in Carolyn May. She will.
suffer if they are separated for long
and so abruptly."
"That's true," Miss Amanda said
gently. "And Joe will feel It, too."
'I bet I will," agreed Joseph Stagg.
'But I have you, Mandy. Aunty Rose
Isn't going to have anybody. And for
her to go back alone into her old house
for she won't stay with us, of
course " he shook his head dolefully.
"Let us write to Aunty Rose," said
Hannah Cameron briskly. "We want
her here. Why, of course we do!
Don't we, Carolyn May?"
Why!" cried the child delightedly,
"that's just the way out of it, Isn't It?
My! how nice things do come about
in this world, don't they? Aunty Roso
shall come here. You'll like her ever
so much, papa. And Prince will be
glad to have her come, for she always
has treated Princey real well."
Prince, who had been standing by
with his ears cocked, yawned, whined
an1 lay down with a sigh, as though
considering the matter quite satisfac
torily settled.
Carolyn May, having climbed up into
her father's arms, reached out and
drew her mother close beside her.
THE END.
MADE OCCASION FOR FESTIVAL
Travelers In Northern Russia Fittingly
Celebrate the Crossing of the
Arctlo Circle.
On the trains running northward
across north Russia, the crossing of
the arctic circle is made the occasion
for a festival similar to that which
tourists used to enjoy on shipboard
when crossing the equator. The train
makes a stop of several hours In the
midst of a snow-covered waste on the
shores of the White sea. The passen
gers stretch their legs and take a con
stitutional out over the frozen surface
of the White sea, while a picnic din
ner is being prepared.
The exact spot where the railroad
crosses the circle is probably not de
termined with scientific accuracy, but
the men who built the railroad appar
ently agreed on an approximate loca
tion, and this is marked with a suit
able inscription. At this point also
the railroad builders have left a slight
gap, probably not more than a quarter
ot an Inch, between the rails, so that,
as passengers often notice, "when the
train passes over the circle there Is a
distinct jolt and Jar." -
The Whlppoorwlll.
The favorite hunting ground of the
whlppoorwlll Is about the edges ot a
forest, or over the tops of the trees,
where the big, fat moths are to be
found at night. It makes no noise as
it flies, because Its feathers are soft
and fluffy, but as It dnrtt past you
sometimes It utters a sort of groan.
The nighthawk occasionally gives vent
to a loud "yawk" as it flies through
the evening air, ,
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