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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1919)
S EE! PEACE PACT WEDNESDAY Orlando and Sonnino to Attend Peace Meeting. BELGIANS RETURN Crown Council at Brussels Gives Con ent to Signing of Treaty. Clemenceau Satisfied. London. According to a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph from Paris the question regarding Flume has been settled in full agreement with the Ital ian government on the basis that Flume shall remain an autonomous port for two years, when it will be assigned to Italy, Rome. Premier Orlando and For eign Minister Sonnino of Italy started for Paris Monday. Paris. The time for handing over the peace treaty to the Germans was set for 3:15 o'clock Wednesday after noon. The announcement that Premier Or lando and Foreign Minister Sonnino, leading Italian delegates to the peace conference, had left Rome for Paris, and the further news that the Belgian crown council had given its assent to the Blgnlng of the peace treaty have resulted in relieving the embarrass ments of the peace conferees. These developments had the effect of producing a call for a plenary ses sion of the conference for Wednesday for the purpose of laying the peace treaty before all the participating na tions. The decision of Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino to return to Paris was taken spontaneously after conferences in Rome during the last few days, according to the Temps. The council of three did not reply to the telegrams received from Baron Sonnino on Saturday. Camille Barrere, the French ambas sador in Rome, during the past few days has been smoothing away differ ences, according to Liberte, which adds that the co-operation of Thomas Nelson Page, the Amorican ambassa dor to Italy, was most valuable. "I have done my best. I think it is a good peace." This declaration was made to the editor of the Figaro Monday night by Premier Clemenceau. The editor adds that from the details he has been able to learn, he is convinced that all France 1b weighing well the immense advantages she will gain from collab oration with Great Britain and the United States. If it is a good peace, the editor con tinued, it is also a better one because it Is an alliance with the two most powerful nations of the world. TEAMSTER'S STRIKE AT SPOKANE BEGINS N Spokane, Wash. The threatened strike of the teamsters and chauffeurs of Spokane began Monday. The men were called out following a unanimous vote of the membership Sunday to back up the demands embodied in the now agreement effective May 1. Between 300 and 400 men were called out from places where employ ers had given a definite refusal to sign the new Bcale. This numbor was being constantly added to all day. The committees calling upon employers and presenting the new scale would order out the men upon refusal of the employer to Blgn. It was estimated by union officials late Monday afternoon that between 600 and 700 men would be on strike before night if the committees met with a .concerted refusal on the part of the employers to sign. The transfer business of the city is badly hit At the three largest trans fer companies it was stated that the companies are paralyzed and have made no effort to operate in any de partment. Liquor Reform Proposed. Sydney, N. S. W. A movement to offset the activities of the prohibition party which is becoming powerful in the state of New South Wales has been launched by a group of citizens here. The purpose is to reduce some of tho evil aspects of the liquor traffic rather than to do away with liquor entirely. The programme calls for agitation for the reduction of the al coholic contents of liquors, etc. ITALY ASKED TO RETURN Negotiations on Disputed Matters May Be Resumed. The Italian delegates to the peace conference, who left Paris almost ab ruptly when the council of four re fused to grunt Italy's full claims to Flume and the Dalmatian coast, have been Invited to resume their places in the peace conference. Paris dispatches say it is believed the Italians will return to the French capital and that the negotiations over the disputed points will begin again. French and British diplomats in Rome for several days have been discussing the controversy with Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnino in an endeavor to straighten out the tangle. The invitation of the council of three, it is understood, has in view the elimination of the personal element in the controversy and the paving of the way for a territorial adjustment ac ceptable to Italy when the conferees are again together. In peace conference circles Sunday was quiet. President Poincare had the mombers of the cabinet before him and discussed with them the prelim inary peace terms. A meeting between the inter allied and German creden tials commissions which was to have Been held was postponed. President Wilson spent the day motoring. In Belgium the dissatisfaction over the awards to Belgium has resulted in a petition being presented to King Al bert, asking him to decline to affix his signature to the peace treaty. A cabi net council Saturday recalled home the three Belgian delegates for a con ference which is to decide whether the conditions offered Belgium are accept able. A big patriotic demonstration was held in, Antwerp Sunday at which, demands were made for the fulfill ment of the allied pledges to Belgium. Reds Leave Samara As Siberians Advance Beilebei, ' Province of -Orenburg, Southeast Russia Siberian troops are pushing close to Samara and Oren burg. The latter town is being evac uated by the bolshevik!, and it is ex pected a few days will Bee the capture of Samara by the Siberians. To the northward the Siberians have occu pied Bugulma, Mensolinsk and Glas tov. The retirement of the Czechs from the southeastern Russian front, at first regarded as a calamity, has been greatly offset by. the spirit, self-reliance and patriotism shown by the Si berians. The advance of the Siberi ans has practically been carried to the determined limit of possibility prior to the spring thaw. It is expected that the Siberians will undertake a new drive with the river Volga as their ob jective. This front is held by an army of 200,000 officers and men organized since Admiral Kolchak took control, five months ago. A second army of 300,000 men is being formed in the rear. As a result of the efforts of Great Britain and France, quantities of much needed equipment are arriving. U.S. DEBT TOTALS $24,824,345,000 Washington, D. C Public debt of tho United States government report ed by the treasury is $24,824,345,000. ' Most of this represents liberty bonds of the first, second, third and fourth Issues, the victory liberty loan not be ing included to any great extent. No reduction is made for the $8,852,000, 000 loaned to foreign governments. Consequently the net debt would be approximately $16,000,000,000. The treasury plans to issue other bonds this year and next year to meet the fag ends of war expenses, but in the aggregate, these are not expected to amount to more than $5,000,000,000, so that tho gross public debt of the United States is expected by officials to be in the neighborhood of $30,000, 000,000 when the period of war finan cing ends. New York. The United States gov ernment has contributed 2000 army cots for the relief of poor persons ren dered homeless as the result of the wholesale rental eviction now taking place in New York. This announce ment is made by Captain C. A. Gold smith, U. S. N., retired, who is work ing in conjunction with Mayor Hylan's committee in an investigation of al leged rent profiteerlifg. The cots will be placed in 38 churches throughout the city. 325,000 Germans in Army. Coblenz. On May 1, which official ly marked the end of the demobiliza tion of the old German army and the functioning of the new army or reichs wehr, Germany had 325,000 men of various classes under arms, according to estimates by American intelligence officers. The present strength of the troops available for service is approx imately 225,000. ! STATE NEWS l IN BRIEF. X Hundreds of Eugene people Friday were attracted to an exhibition in a local hardware Biore window of the rattles of 53 rattlesnakes killed in one day by Archie Washom and Elmer Brown, who live near Harrisburg. Two fatal accidents were reported to the Industrial accident commission during the past week, according to the weekly accident report just made pub lic. One man was killed in a lumber mill and the other by an electric train at Coodln. Grading work costing approximately $500,000 will be Btarted in Grant and Wheeler counties this summer, accord ing to announcement by the state high way commission. Contracts for this extensive work will be awarded when the commission meets in Portland on May 10. Will T. Kirk, for several years state capital correspondent for the Oregon Journal of Portland, has resigned and will accept a post as head of the claims department of the Btate indus trial accident commission. Mr. Kirk has been with the Journal in Portland and Salem for eight years. A resolution condemning the system of time whereby clocks are moved ahead an hour in the spring and are changed back to sun time in the fall, has been adopted unanimously by the Farmers' union at Lacomb. It is as serted that the new system is a detri ment rather than a benefit to farmers. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will be un able to attend the state meeting of the Spanish war veterans in Salem dur ing Juive. He so notified Harvey Wells, state commander. It was first believ ed Roosevelt would visit Oregon, but a sudden change of plans eliminates this state from his summer itinerary. Mohair took a jump upward Wed nesday and during a flurry in the mar ket approximately $15,000 worth of the season's clip was contracted for at 60 cents per pound. The product was bought through a Roseburg agent for an Albany firm. Ten thousand dollars' worth of the mohair was supplied by Oakland parties. Governor Olcott has appointed Miss Peggy Curtis as a member of the Ore gon welcomeicommission in New York, succeeding O. C. Letter, who has re turned to Oregon. Miss Curtis, a for mer Portland newspaper woman, has been serving as executive secretary of the commission since its inception at the close of the war. Places for laborers far outnumber the men applying for them in this sec tion, according to Frank L. Armltage, superintendent of the federal labor bu reau in Eugene. There are 75 posi tions open at the present time and the employers are having difficulty in obtaining enough men to carry on their enterprises. Whether the coyote menace in Uma tilla county is decreasing, the bounty fund for the extermination of the ani mals has suffered because of the work of hunters during the past month. The records of the county clerk show that $739 was paid in bounties. Payments were made to 43 trappers. The largest catch turned in was 25 jkins. Ralph E. Williams of Portland has purchased the interest of Thad Robin son in the Tillamook county bank, and has been elected as its president. Mr. Williams was born and reared in Polk county and for 30 years has been ac tively engaged in the banking business of that county, being president of the Dallas National bank and Dallas City bank. Herbert Nunn, state highway engi neer, accompanied by Assistant Engi neers Bishop and McLeod, County En gineer LIbby and County Commission er Harlow, left Eugene May 1st to se lect a route -for the Central Qregon highway between Eugene and a coast section. This highway was decided upon last year as a project to be built jointly by the state, county and forest ry department. The Women's Civic Improvement club, one of Heppner's most active pub lic organizations, is behind a move ment to improve the Morrow county fairgrounds for use as a public city park. Children's playgrounds, rest rooms, a band concert stand and many other conveniences will be provided. A big double show was given at the Star theater recently, the proceeds of which will go into the park fund. The coming of the dredge Oregon to the Marshfleld port means deepening of the channel from an 18-foot depth, as recognized by the government to 22 feet. The Port of Coos Bay expend ed $600,000 to dredge a 25-foot chan nel, but it has shoaled and the new project of 22 feet implies the govern ment will maintain that depth. The dredging will extend from Charleston bay to the Smith mills, approximately 15 miles. Copyright by' Frank A. Munsey vs. JACK LEARNS THE APE LANGUAGE AND HE AND AKUT BE COME BOON CRONIES PAULVITCH ATTEMPTS MUR DER AND IS HIMSELF KILLED FOR TREACHERY Synopsis. A scientific expedition off the African coast rescues n human derelict, Alexis Paulvltch. He brings aboard an ape, intelligent and friendly, and reaches London. Jack, son of Lord Greystoke, the original Tarzan, has inherited a love of wild life and steals from home to see the ape, now a drawing card in a music hall. The ape makes friends with him. The upe refuses to leave Jack despite Ills trainer. Tarzan appears and is joyfully recognized by the ape, for Tarznn had been king of his tribe. Tarzan agrees to buy Akut, the ape, and send him back to Africa. CHAPTER III Continued. Tarzan visited Akut the following day, but though Jack begged to be al lowed to accompany him, he was re fused. This time Tarzan saw the peck marked old owner of the ape, whom he did not recognize as the wily Paul vltch of former days. Tarzan, influ enced by Akut's pleadings, broached the question of the ape's purchase, but Paulvitch would not name any price, saying that he would consider the mat ter. When Tarzan returned home Jack was all excitement to hear the details of his visit, and finally suggested that his father buy the ape and bring it home. Lady Greystroke was horrified at the suggestion. The boy was insistent. Tarzan ex plained that he had wished to purchase Akut and return him to his jungle home, and to this the mother assented. Jack asked to be allowed to visit the ape, but again he was met with flat refusal. He had the address, however, which the trainer had given his father, and two days later he found the opportunity to elude his new tutor who had re placed the terrified Mr. Moore and after considerable search through a section of London which he had never before visited he found the smelly little quarters of the pockmarked old man. The old fellow himself replied to his knocking, and when Jack stated that he had come to see Ajax, opened the door and admitted him to the little room which he and the great ape oc cupied. At sight of the youth the npe leaped to the floor and shuffled forward. The man, not recognizing his visitor and fearing that the ape meant mischief, stepped between them, ordering the ape back to the bed. "He will not hurt me," cried the boy. "We are friends, and before, he was my father's friend. They knew one another in the jungle. My father is Lord Grey stoke. He does not know that I have come here. My mother forbade my coming, but I wished to see Ajax, and I will pay you If you will let me come here often to see him." Paulvitch encouraged the boy to come and see him often, and always he played upon the lad's craving for tales of the savage world, with which Paul vitch was all too familiar. He loft him alone with Akut much, and it wa;) not long until he was surprised to learn that the boy could make the great beast understand him that he had actually learned much of the primitive language of the anthropoids. During this period Tarzan came sev eral times to visit Paulvitch. He seemed anxious to purchase Ajax, and at last he told the man frankly that he was prompted not only by a desire upon his part to return the beast to the liberty of his native jungle, but also because his wife feared that In some way her son might learn the where abouts of the ape and through his at tachment for the beast become imbued with the roving instinct which, as Tar zan explained to Paulvitch, had so in fluenced his own life. The Russian could scarce repress a smile as he listened to Lord Grey stoke's words, for scarce a half hour had passed since the future Lord Grey stoke had been sitting upon the disor dered bed, jnbberlng away to Ajax with all the fluency of a born ape. It was during this Interview that a plan occurred to Paulvitch, and as a result of It he agreed to accept a fabu lous sum for the ape and upon receipt of the money to deliver the beast to a vessel that was sailing south from Dover for Africa two days later. Everything played Into Taulvitch's hands. As chance would have it, Tar can's son overheard his father relating to the boy's mother the steps he was taking to return Akut safely to his jungle home, and, having overheard, he begged them to bring the npe home that he might have him for a playfellow. Tarzan would not have been averse to this plan, but Lady Greystoke was hor rified at the very thought of It Jack pleaded with his mother, but all unavalilngly. She was obdurate, and at last the lad appeared to acquiesce In his mother's decision that the ape I M fill 11 ill i must be returned to Africa and the boy to school, from which he had been ab sent upon a vacation. He did not attempt to visit Paul vitch's room again that day, but In stead busied himself in other ways. He had always been well supplied with money, so that when necessity demand ed he had no difficulty in collecting several hundred pounds. Some of this money he invested In various strange purchases,, which he managed to smuggle into the house undetected when he returned late in the afternoon. The next morning, after giving his father time to precede him and con clude his business with Paulvitch, the lad hastened to the Russian's room. Knowing nothing of the man's true character, the boy dared not take lilm fully iuto his confidence for fear that the old fellow would not only refuse him aid, but would report the vJiole affair to his father. Instead, he simply asked permission to take Ajax to Dover. He explained that it would relieve the old man of a tiresome journey, as well as placing a number of pounds in his pocket, for the lad purposed paying the Russian well. "You see," he went on, "there will be no danger of detection, since I am supposed to be leaving on an after noon train for school. Instead I will come here after they've left me on the train. Then I can take Ajax to Dover, you see, and arrive at school only a day late. No one will be the wiser, no harm will be done, and I shall have had an extra day with Ajax before I 'lose him forever." That afternoon Lord and Lady Grey stoke bade their son good-bye and saw him safely settled In a first class com partment of the railway carriage' that would set him down at school in a few hours. No sooner had they left him, however, than he gathered his bags together, descended from the compart ment and sought a cub stand outside the station. Here he engaged a cabby to take him to the Russian's address. It was dusk when he arrived. He found Paulvitch awaiting him. . The man was pacing the floor nervously. The ape was tied with a stout cord to the bed. It was the first time that Jack had ever seen Ajax thus secured. He looked questlonlngly at Paul vitch. The man mumblingly explained that he believed the animal had guessed that he was to be sent away and that he feared he would attempt to escape. Paulvitch carried another piece of cord In his hand. There was a noose in one end of it, which he was con tinually playing with. He walked back and forth, up and down the room. His pockmarked features were working horribly as he talked silently to him self. The boy had never seen him thus. It made him uneasy. At last Paulvitch stopped on the op posite side of the room far from the ape. "Come here," he said to the lad. "I will show you how to secure the ape should he show signs of rebellion dur ing the trip," The lad laughed. "It will not be necessary," he replied. "Ajax will do whatever I tell him to do." The old man stamped his foot an grlly. "Come here, I tell you," he re peated. "If you do not do as I Bay you shall not accompany the ape to Dover. I will take no chances upon his es caping." Still smiling, the lad crossed the room and stood before the Russ. "Turn around, with your back to ward me," directed the latter, "so I can show you how to bind him quickly." The boy did as he was bid, placing his hands behind him when Paulvitch told him to do so. Instantly the old man slipped the running noose over one of the lad's wrists, took a couple of half hitches about his other wrist and knotted the cord. The moment that the boy was secured the attitude of the man chanced. He had known and bitterly hated Tarzan in Africa years before, for Tarzan had broken up his business as a slave dealer. Now, with an angry, oath, he wheeled Tar' zan's son about, tripped him and hurled him violently to the floor, leaping upon Uls breust as he fell. From the bed tho ape growled and struggled with his bonds. The boy did not cry out a trait In herited from his savage sire, who dur ing years In the jungle following the . death of his foster mother, Kola, the great npe, had learned that there was none to come to the succor of the fullen.. Paulvltch's fingers sought the lad's throat. He grinned down horribly into the face of his victim. "Your father ruined me," he mum bled. "This will pay him. He will think that the ape did It. I will tell him that the ape did it; that I left him alone for a few minutes and that you sneaked in and the ape killed you. I will throw your body upon the bed after I have choked the life out of you, nnd when I bring your father he will see the ape squatting over it," and the" twisted fiend cackled In gloating laugh ter. His fingers closed upon the boy's throat. Behind them the growling of thei maddened beast reverberated against the walls of the little room. The boy puled, but no other sign of fear or panic showed upon his countenance. He was the son of Tarzan. The fingers tightened their grip .upon his throat. It was with difficulty thut he breathed gaspingly. The ape lunged against the stout cord that held him. Turning, he wrapped the cord about his hands, as a man might have done, and surged heavily backward. The great muscles stood out beneath his shaggy hide. There was a rending ns of splintered wood the cord held, but a portion of the footboard of the bed came away. At the sound Paulvitch looked -up. Ills hideous face went white in terror the ope was free ! - With a single bound tho creature was upon him. The man shrieked. The brute wrenched him from the body of the boy. Great fingers sank Into his flesh,- Yellow fangs gasped close to his throat he struggled futllely His Hideous Face Went White In Ter ror The Ape Was Free I and then they closed, and the soul of Alexis Paulvitch passed Into the keep ing of the demons who had long been awaiting It The boy struggled to his feet, as sisted by Akut. For two hours, under his instructions, the npe worked upon the knots that secured his friend's wrists. Finally they gave up their se cret, and the boy was free. He cut the cord that still dangled from the ape's body. Then he opened one of his bags and drew forth some garments. His plans had been well made. He did not consult the beast, which did all that he directed. Together they slunk from the house, but no casual observer might have noted that one of them was an ape. Jack and Akut disappear and elude ail pursuit. They start out i partners in a strange country. (TO BJS CONTINUED.) Curious Weapons. A member of the St. Louis bar tells the following story : A lawyer of Mis souri, who shall be called Smith, was seized suddenly with an attack of temporary Insanity while traveling across that state. Stepping oft the train at a county seat where he was quite unknown, he walked into the bank and requested Jhe cashier to grant him permission to warm himself by the stove. The cash ier, noticing that Mr. Smith was a stranger of culture and refinement ' who seemed confused about something or other, Invited him back of the rail ing. Inside the railing, Smith savage ly attacked the cashier with his fists and gave him a beating. 'Smith was arrested and then indicted by the grand jury (at the time In session) for assault with dangerous and deadly weapons. Texas Once Was Larger. Before its annexation to the United States, in 1845, Texas was an Inde pendent republic with a much larger area than the present state, though it is still the largest state In the Union. Its area as a republic was 376,186 square miles. In 1850 the state ceded to the United States all territory be yond Its present limits of 274,356 square miles, In consideration of $10, 000,000 In bonds, with the proceeds of which Texas paid off her state debt