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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1919)
WORLD HAPPENINGS CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. . COMPILED FOR ! YOU Event of Noted People, GoTernmenU ud Pacific Northwest, and.Other Thlnga ."Worth Knowing. The privy council has approved the German peace treaty. This announce ment wag made at Toklo Monday night. Governor-General FranclB Burton Harrison at Manila proclaimed Octo ber 30 as a holiday. Filipinos will celebrate the hoisting of the old In gurrecto flag. While employes of the Page Lumber company at Eagle Gorge, Wash., were preparing to retire late Saturday night two masked men entered the bunk house, robbed them of $000 and es caped. Alfred Flamval, a French aviator, looped the loop 624 times In a single flight In a military airplane at Madrid Monday. The previous record was a little over 300.' Flamval was in the air two hours. The acting speaker of the house in troduced a bill Monday excluding all except Americans and Filipinos from engaging in the rice traffic in the Philippines. Foreign interests planned a protest to Washington. William 0. Jenkins, American con sular agent at Puebla, Mexico, who was kidnaped by Mexicans last Sun day and held for $150,000 ransom, was released by the bandits Monday, ac cording to information received by relatives at Hanford, Cal. . Operation of the railroads under the direction of a federal transportation board is recommended to congress in a plan which has been submitted to business organizations throughout the country by a national committee of leading commercial men. Striking testimony to the value of land in New York's financial district was offered Monday in the sale of a plot 46 by 42 feet for $450,000. The land which was thus sold for $233 a square foot, is situated in the imme diate vicinity of Wall street and will be occupied by a bank building. The first aerial derby around the world, for prizes totaling $1,000,000, is scheduled to start July 4, 1920, and end on or before January 3, 1921, ac cording to announcement made in Los Angeles Monday night by Allan R. Hawloy, president of the Aero club of America, and a member of the com mission which is making a tour of the world to locate control stations- The singing of German opera in the Gorman language Is banned In New York until after the peace treaty is signed. Supreme Court Justice Gie gorlch vacated the temporary injunc tion obtained by the Star Opera com pany restraining the municipal au thorities from preventing presentation of opera in Gorman at the Lexington theater. Denial of a seat in the house of rep resentatives to Victor Berger, Milwau kee socialist, who is under conviction for violating the espionage law, was recommended Saturday by a special house committee. Representative Ro denberg, republican, Illinois, filed a minority report recommending delay. After a battle in which R. A. Pratt, (Patrolman in the Portland police bu reau, was wounded, three armed high waymen made good their escape in an automobile aftor holding up the Piedmont car barns and obtaining be tween $200 and $300 of the Portland Railway. Light & Power company's money. The service rendered to the "big five" packers by the railroads, accord ing to J. P. Iiaynes, commissioner of the traffio bitreau of the Sioux City association of commerce, enables the consignments of the packers to reach their destinations from one to three days ahead of similar products ship ped by the wholesale grocers. Five tons of brass, worth $4000 at the rate of 40 cents a pound, has been removed from the wreck of the cruiser Milwaukee by a Eureka, Cal., firm which purchased the hulk for $3050. Six persons were killed by a Union Pacific train near Kearney, Neb., when an inclosed automobile dashed upon the tracks at a crossing. From letters on the man it is believed the persons were Charles Klmmerly, his wife, three daughters and a young son, ot Spurgeon, Colo. ft I STATE NEWS I I IN BRIEF. ! Albany. A sawmill three times the size and capacity of the one destroyed by fire last July Is being erected at Peoria by Liggett & Austin. Heppner. It. F. Wlgglesworth, one of Morrow county's big sheepmen, has closed a deal for the sale of his entire realty holdings In the Butter creek section, aggregating 13,341 acres, val ued at something more than $150,000. Sulem. A totul of 1820 persons en titled to benefits under the so-called financial educational aid law, passed at the last session of the Oregon legis lature, have filed applications for training, according to Samuel A, Ko zor, assistant secretary of state. Sulem. Percy Cupper, state engin eer, received a telegram to the effect that the proposal to create the Lower Powder Valley irrigation project in Buker county carried at an election held there last Thursday. The project Includes nbout 70,000 acres. Pendleton. William Baker, a resi dent of Oregon for tho luBt 60 years, well-known retired Umatilla county stockman, died at the home of his daughter Wednesday morning from heart disease. His wife, son Tracy, two brothers and two sisters survive. North Bend. More than $1500 of army food supplies, ordered by Post master J. T. McGuIre for residents of this city two months ago, arrived Sat urday. The shipment consists of bacon In cans, beans In sacks, canned corn, peas, tomatoes and other varieties of food products. Pendleton. Additional looms, suf ficient to increase the capacity of the local plant 20 per cent, are being in stalled by the Pendleton Woolen Mills. The Increased demand for the brightly colored blankets, reaching orders be yond the capacity of the mill, made the Increase necessary. Salem. Governor Olcott and Attor ney-General Brown have received let ters from Attorney-General Palmer asking that a date be fixed for the Oregon conference relative to the high cost of living. Governor Olcott and Attorney-General Brown will discuss the matter soon and arrange for the conference. Roseburg. Statistics compiled by forest rangers of this district showed that approximately 2275 persons sought recreation in the Umpqua national for est the past summer. While no record Is kept of each visitor to the forest, reports of rangers, just tabulated in the local forestry office, support the statement made. Salem. There will be no special ses sion of the Oregon legislature to ra tify the woman's suffrage amendment to the federal constitution unless the legislators voluntarily request such a session, agree to waive mileage and per diem and pledge themselves to consider no legislation other than the amendment at Issue. Fossil. J. II. Tllley, a resident of Service Creek, 20 miles southeast of Fossil, had a thrilling experience last week with a mountain Hon. He was driving his truck to. Fossil about 4 a. m., when he saw the Hon in the road ahead of him. The lights from the truck confused the animal, which started for the truck and jumped upon the radiator. Heppner. Ellis R. Minor, a young rancher near lone, has just purchased the F. H. Wilson ranch of 1500 acres, adjoining his home property. The con sideration, it is said, was $30,000. The place has a large acreage of alfalfa land under the ditch and is considered one of the most valuable farms on Willow creek. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson will' go to southern California to re side. Bend. Preparations for the biggest series of city Improvements ever un dertaken here were made recently when the Bend council approved plans for a $133,000 extension of the sewer system and ordered engineers' estim ates on grading and surfacing of sev eral miles ot streets. It is planned to have the necessary preliminaries disposed of in time to start construc tion work early In the spring. Salem. The Shell company of Cali fornia paid to the secretary ot state a totaj of $1776.93 for gasoline and dis tillate sold In Oregon during tue month of September, according to a report filed Friday. The company sold in the state 172,604 gallons of gasoline and 10,178 gallons of distillate. The tax paid for the month of September shows an Increase of approximately $5 over that paid for the preceding month. The Dalles. Tho Waplnltla Plains Commercial club went on record, five to one, In favor of a 6-mlU tax for market roads in 1920. The meeting was held in the open air and a large delegation of taxpayers attended. The farmers, by their almost unanimous vote, have shown they are strongly for Improvements which will enable them to reach their markets easier. A mass meeting will be held at Maupin soon. MEDIATION Al ML Miners Will Quit November 1, Says Their President. NEARLY 500,000 OUT Operators Would Arbitrate Differences but Union Officials Left the Conference Room. Washington, D, C The last govern ment effort to avert the coal strike sot for November 1 failed utterly Sat urday and 500,000 miners will quit work on the very eve of winter with the nation's bins running dangerously low. Even an appeal from President Wil son was not enough to bring peace to a conference that was torn and on the breaking point half a dozen times dur ing the day. Charges and counter charges flew thick and fast as the groups of operators and miners filed out of the meeting which began some what hopefully four days ago. While the operators announced that they had accepted the president's of fer to wipe the slate clean and nego tiate a new wage agreement, the min ers charged that the .operators had bolted without the consent of Secre tary of Labor Wilson, the storm center of an extraordinary fight to save the country untold distress and suffering. Surrounded by a score of miners, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, hurried out of the hall and halted long enough to announce that the strike order stood and that the miners would walk out after a full day's work on the closing day of the present month. The final breaking up of the conference, Lewis said, meant that official notice of the failure would be sent forthwith to the unions everywhere to order the men out of the mines at the appointed hour. The president's appeal was made through Secretary Wilson after the latter had exhausted every possible effort. It pointed out what a strike meant and urged the two sides to get together, negotiate their differences, resorting to arbitration only In the event negotiations failed. The im portant point In the proposal, how ever, was that the mines be kept open and the miners stay at work. Hunger War Looms Up. Boston. "The great underlying causes of the war are boiling in Amer ica now more strongly than they were boiling when our boys were across the seas," Attorney-General Palmer de clared Friday In an address before the state fair price committee. "If the American people would understand that thoroughly, they would enter on a campaign of construction, saving and economy which would result in win ning this other great war, which is not merely against high prices, but is a war against hunger and starvation In the cities and towns of our beloved land." Army Defends Island. Honolulu. Despite heavy attacks by the naval forces under Rear-Admlral William D. Fletcher, United States navy, the land army of Major-General Charles G. Morton, United States army entrenched in Oahu island, is holding Its own In the sham battle being waged against It. The naval drive against the island began Wednesday. Its pur pose is to show the defensive qualities of the land forces from an attack by naval units. Book Sells For $100,000. Philadelphia. What Is said to bo a new record In the price of books was established here Saturday by the sale of a single volume for $100,000. The purchaser, a New York collector, ask ed that his name be withheld. The book Is the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works, published in London by Thom as Pavler in 1690. Cholera Rages In Core. Seoul, Corea. The cholera epidemic is raging throughout all Corea and out of 4800 cases there have already oc curred 2500 deaths. Surgeon-General Dr. Haga, who is directing the anti cholera campaign, says everything is being done to suppress the epidemic but that the work is much hampered by the ignorance of the Coreans re garding hygiene. Pierre Lenoir, convicted on a charge of having held intercourse with the enemy, was executed at Sante prison, Paris, at 7 o'clock Friday morning. Lenoir, who had been ill for some time, suffering from paralysis ot both legs, had to be carried to the place ot execution. FAILED WOLVES OF THE SEA Dare He Confide in Anyone? Carlyle Takes a Chance. Synopsis Gcoffry Cnrlyle, master of sailing ships at twenty-six, Is sentenced to 20 years' servitude in the American col onies for participation In the Monmouth rebellion In England. Among the pussengers on board the ship on which he Is sent across are Roger Fulrfux, wealthy Maryland planter; his niece, Dorothy Fairfax, and Lieu tenant Snnchez, a Spaniard, who became acquainted with the Fair faxes in London. Cnrlyle meets Dorothy, who Informs him her uncle has bought his services. Sanchez shows himself an enemy of Carlyle. The Fairfax party, now on Its own sloop in the Chesapeake bay, encounters a mysterious bark, the Naiuur of Rotterdam. Cnrlyle discovers that Sanchez Is "Black Sanchez," planning to steul the Fairfax gold and abduct Dorothy. He fights Sunchez and leaves him for dead. In a buttle with Sanchez' followers, however, he Is overpowered and thrown Into the bay. In a desperate effort to save Dorothy, Carlyle decides to swim to the Naraur. By a ruse he gets aboard and min gles with the crew. The pirates return to the Namur with Dor othy, the captured gold and Sanchez, badly wounded but still alive. CHAPTER XII Continued, 'glanced about warily, lowering his voice until it became a hoarse whisper. "Three years, mate, and most of that time has been hell. I haven't even been ashore, but once, and that was on an island. These fellows don't put any trust in my kind, nor give them any chance to cut and run. Once in awhile a lad does get away, but most of them are caught j and those that are sure get their punishment. They never try It again. I've seen them staked out on the sand and left to die; that ain't no nice thing to remem ber." "But how did yon come into it?" "Like most of the rest. I was sec ond mate of the Ranger, a Glasgow brig. These fellows overhauled us at daybreak about a hundred miles off the east end of Cuba. Our skipper was Scotch, and he put up some fight, but It wasn't any use. There was only three of us left alive when the pirates came aboard. One of these died two days later, and another was washed overboard and drowned down in the Gulf. I am aU that is left of the Ranger." "You saved your life by taking on?" "Sanchez had the two of us, who were able to stand, back in his cabin. He put it to us straight He said it was up to us whether we signed up or walked the plank; and he didn't ap pear to care- a damn which we chose." "And you say others of this crew have been obtained in the same man ner?" I questioned, deeply interested, and perceiving in this a ray of hope. "Not exactly no, I wouldiit pre cisely say that It's true, perhaps, that most of the Britishers were forced to Join in about the same way I was, He Glanced About Warily. and there may be a Scandinavian or two, with a few Dutch, to be counted In that list; but the most are pirates from choice. It's their trade, and they like it Sanchei only alms to keep hold of a few good men, because he has got to have sailors; but most of his crew are nothing but plain cut throats. Indians and half-breeds, nig gers, Creoles, Portuguese, Spanish, and every mongrel you ever heard of. San chez himself Is half French. The hell- By RANDALL PARRISH Cupyntflil, by A. C. MuClui'K & Co. hound who kicked you Is a Portu guese, and LeVere is more nigger thun anything else. I'll bet there Is u hun dred ruts on board this Numur right now who'd cut your throat for a sov ereign, and never so much as think of It again." "A hundred? Is there that many aboard?" "A hundred an' thirty all told. Most o' 'em bunk amidships. They're not sullormen, but just cut-throats, an' sea wolves. Yer ought ter see 'em swarm out on deck, like hungry rats, when thnr's a fight comln'. It's all they're good fer." "Watklns," I said soberly, after a pause during which he sput on the dirty deck to thus better express his feelings, "do you mean to say that In three years you've hud no chance to escnpe? No opportunity to get awny?" "Not a chance, mute; no more will you. I know what yer thlnldn 'bout. I had them notions too when I fust come aboard-gettln' all the decent sort tergether, and takln' the vessel. 'Twon't work; thar ain't 'nough who wud risk it, and if thar wus, yer couldn't get 'em tergether. Sanchez is too damn smart fer thet. Every damn rat is a spy. I ain't bed no such talk as this afore in six months, Gates ; the last time cost me twenty lushes at the mast-butt. What'd yer have in yer mind, mate?" "Only this, Watklns. I've got to do something, and believe I can trust you It's not my life I'm thinking about, but that of a woman." "A woman! Not the one brought aboard last night?" "Exactly; now listen I'm going to tell you my story, and ask your help. My name is not Gates, and I am not the man Mendez brought aboard drunk, and who was thrown over the rail by LeVere. That fellow was drowned. I am Geoffry Carlyle, an English skip per." Thereupon I told him my story in detail. Then I said: "I have no plan; to become a mem ber of the crew was my only thought. But I must act, if at all, before the captain recovers. He would recognize me at Bight You will aid, advise me?" "That is easier to ask than answer, mate," he admitted finally. "I am an English seaman, and will do my duty, but so far as I can see, there is no plan we can make. It is God who will save the girl, if she is to be saved. He may use us to that end, but it is wholly beyond our power to accom plish It alone. The only thing I can do is to sound out the men aboard, and learn just what we can expect of them if any opportunity to act comes. There are not more than a dozen at most to be relied upon. Play your part, and keep quiet If you can let her know of your presence aboard it might be best for if she saw you suddenly, un prepared, she might say or do some thing to betray you. There are other reasons why it may be best for her to know she is not entirely deserted." He leaned over, motioning me toward him, until his Hps were at my ear. "It may not prove as hopeless as it appears now," he whispered confiden tially. "I helped carry Sanchez to his stateroom, and washed and dressed his wound. There is no surgeon aboard. He has a bad cut, and is very weak from loss of blood. The question of our success hinges on Pedro Estada. This Is a chance he has long been waiting for. The only question is, has he the nerve to act I doubt if he has alone, but LeVere is with him, and that half-breed would cut the throat of his best friend. You understand? the death of Sanchez would make Estada chief." " "But" I interposed, "in that case what would the crew do?" "Accept Estada, no doubt; at least the cut-throats would be with him, for he is ' of their sort. But Sanchez's death would save you from discovery, and," his voice still lower, so that I barely distinguished the words, "in the confusion aboard, if we were ready, the Namur might be so disabled as to compel them to run her ashore for re pairs. That would give you a chance. If once we reach Porto Grande there Is no hope." A marllng-splke pounded on the scuttle, and Haines' voice roared down. "Port watch 1 Hustle out, bullies I" CHAPTER XIII. I Accept a Proposal. I went on deck with the watch, and mingled with them forward. A Ptu guese boatswain set me at polishing the gun mounted on the forecastle. I was busily at work on this bit of rd nance, when Estada came on deck for a moment The fellow chanced to ob serve me. "Yon must be a pretty tough bird, Gates," he 6ald roughly, "or I would have killed you last night I had the mind to." Something about his voice and man ner led me to feel that in spite of his roughness, be was not in bad humor. "That would have been a mistake, sir," I answered, straightening up, rag 4 In hand, "for It would have cost you a good seuman. Three- years ago I was skipper on my own vessel. The Bora bay Castle, London to Hongkong; I wrecked her off Cupe Mendez In a fog. I was drunk below, and it cost me my ticket" "You know West Indian waters?" "Slightly; I made two voyages, to Panama, and one to Havuna." "And speak Spanish?" "A little bit, sir, as you see J I learn languages easily." He stared straight Into my face, but without uttering another word, turned on his heel and went below. I had fin ished my lubor on the carronade, and was fastening down securely the tar paulin, when a thin, stoop-shouldered fellow, with a hang-dog face crept up the ladder to the poop, and shuffled over to LeVere. "Mister LeVere, sir." "Well, what Is it, Gunsaules?" "Senor Estada, sir; he wishes to see a sailor named Gates In the cabin." "Who? GateR7 Oh, yes, the new man. He swept his eyes about, uutll I Waitea for the Man to Speak. he saw me. "Follow the steward be low ; Senor Estada wishes to see you go just as you are." "Very good, sir." The fellow led me away. There was no one in the main cabin. I fol lowed the beckoning steward who rapped with his knuckles on one of the side doors. Estada's voice an swered. I stepped inside, doubtful enough of what all this might mean, yet quite prepared to accept of any chance it might offer. Estada sat up right in the chair gazing straight at me, his own face clearly revealed in the light from the open port His face was swarthy, long and thin, with hard, set Hps under a long, intensely black mustache, his cheeks strangely crisscrossed by lines. The nose was large, distinctively Roman, yielding him a hawklike appearance, but it was his eyes which fascinated me. They were dark and deeply set, abso lute wells of cruelty. I had never before seen such eyes In the face of a human being ; they were beastly, dev ilish; I could feel my blood chill as I looked into their depths, yet I held myself erect and waited for the man to speak. Then his Hps curled in what was meant to be a smile. He arose, stepped quietly to the door and glanced out, returning apparently sat isfied. "I don't trust that steward," he said, "nor, as a matter of fact, anyone else wholly." He paused and stared at me, then added: "I've never had any faith in your race, Gates, but am in clined to use you. Every Englishman I ever knew was a liar and a sneaking poltroon. I was brought up to hate the race and always have. I can't say that I like you any better than the others. I don't, for the matter of that But just now yon can be use ful to me If you are of that mind. This is a business proposition, and It makes no odds if we hate each other, so the end is gnined. How does that sound?" "Not altogether bad," I admitted. "I have been In some games of chance before." "I thought as much," eagerly, "and money has the same chink however it be earned. You could use some?" Carlyle sees a chance to carry through hia wild plan to save Dorothy and himself, but there re many pitfalls in the way. The chance it a desperate one. Shall he take It? Carlyle can tee but one answer to the ques tion. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Greater London's food blU amounts to more than $30,000,000 a week.