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