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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1920)
E OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Event! of Noted People, Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other, Thlngi WorthKnowing. Approximately 4000 union building laborers of St. Louis received a 12 'a per cent wage Increase Monday by an agreement reached Saturday. . A petition asking that compulsory military training be removed from the curriculum of the high school at Wat sonville is being circulated among the students. Bilbao, Spain, has been quarantined because of the enormous number of dogs and cats affected with rabies. The crazed animals have made frequent at tacks on people. After the French evacuated Marash Clllcla, recently, the Turks massacred 16,000 Inhabitants. Official statement Is made In an exchange telegraph dis patch from Athens. Eleven bodies had been recovered from a building in the Chinese quarter in Walla Walla which caught fire early Sunday evening. The bodies were those of ten men and one woman. In an official statement Saturday the state department announced that the soviet peace proposal, described In Associated Press dispatches of Febru- ary 26, had not been received by the department. In Interpreting the Sherman anti trust act Monday the supreme court reversed federal court decrees which bold that the statute did not prohibit resale price fixing unless there was Intention of creating a monopoly. Usurers, blackmailers and profiteers are being placarded and marched in chains through the streets of Bulgarian cities, according to advices. This ex posure, which recalls the medieval pil lory, is said to be producing good re sults'. George May of Akron, O., won the national championship at the winter tournament of the National Horseshoe Pitchers' association, which has just closed at St. Petersburg, Fla, ' It Is es timated that 10,000 spectators witness ed the contest. David Elkins, a watchman employed to patrol the river bank at Columbus, O., was saved from drowning Sunday. Another watchman lowered a steam shovel Into the river and scooped El kins from 12 feet of water into which he had fallen. Albert Fleming, aged 62, and Mrs. Clara Fleming, his sister-in-law, aged B2 years, were Instantly killed when an automobile In which they were rid ing was Btruck by an tnterurban car . at a grade crossing in South Seattle Sunday afternoon. Fifteen days' field training and not to exceed four special instructions for officers and selected enlisted men are provided for In this year's national guard training program, made public Monday by Major-General Carter, chief of the militia buteau. Ratification of the national suffrage amendment was refused by the West Virginia senate Monday afternoon, the vote to ratify being 14 to 14. When it was announced, Senator Harvey W. Hammer, who proposed the resolution, changed his vote to no. This was done, It was stated, in order that he might move for re-considoratlon. Appointment of Sir Auckland Geddes as British ambassador to the United ' States was officially announced Mon day. The ambassador will leave for America, in about a month. The high cost of living at Washington has been ah obstacle to finding a suitable man willing to serve. 'The salary will be raised, according to reports. An American named Harris is re ported to have been killed during the recent military revolution at Kovno, Lituanla. Harris joined the Lithuan ian army a few month ago as Instruct or. The revolutionary outbreak at Kov no continues and martial law has been proclaimed. Civilians are not permit ted on the Btreets of Warsaw after 8 p. in. The Paris subway and tramway em ployes and the omnibus, cab and taxi cab drivers' unions held several meet ings Sunday and adopted In principle a proposal to call a sympathetic strike in favor of the railway men, provided they are Invited to do so by the gen eral federation of labor, which has as sumed direction of the present strike movement. WORLD IP I STATE NEWS ! IN BRIEF. 1 WWWW WW WW WW WW WW WWWW WW WW W www Salem. With call for 20 men to work on farms at good wages, there Is no excuse for idleness in Salem, ac cording to City Recorder Race, who is In charge of the city's free employment bureau. Ashland. The Ashland Canning company, owned and operated by M. C. and Bruce Llnlnger, closed a most successful season with a total pack ex ceeding that of any previous year and valued at $38,500. Marshfleld. F. A. Tiedgen, for ten years superintendent of the Marshfleld public schools, has resigned and will return to Michigan to farm. Superin tendent C. A. Howard, of Eugene, has been engaged to fill- the vacancy. Eugene. The sale of about 6,000,000 feet of government timber in the vi cinity of Reserve on the upper Willam ette river Is contemplated by the forest service, according to N. F. MacDuff, supervisor of the Cascade national for est. , Salem. Hop contracts representing $48,000 were, executed here Friday be tween Henry Bents, a grower at Au rora, and Strauss and co-buyers of Eng land. The contracts call for the crops of the years 1920 to 1923, inclusive, and are the largest made here thus far this season. Will H. Daly, of Portland, took the oath of office from United States At torney Humphreys as federal fair-price commissioner for Oregon Thursday morning. He said that he will open an office in the old postoffice building as soon as a location Is assigned and will have someone In charge to take com plaints and handle details. Salem. Dr. W. H. Lytle, state vet erinarian, has gone to Klamath county where he Is Investigating complaints to the effect that California sheep are being Imported into Oregon without first undergoing the federal quarantine tests. In the event the complaints are found to be true, Mr; Lytle says prose cutions of the violators may follow Salem. A ten days' fair for the year 1920 and ultimately a free gate are under consideration by the state fair board, and It Is expected that some action to this end may be taken In the near future. The report of the fair board filed here Thursday shows that all indebtedness has been paid and there remains In the treasury a small balance. Aatoria. The machinery for the first unit of the Astoria Flouring Mill com pany's new plant Is said to be working perfectly and is now grinding at the rate of approximately 1400 barrels of flour daily. Within the coming few weeks this output will be Increased to over 1900. The machinery for the sec ond unit should be ready for operation In about 30 days. Salem. As the result of an Investi gation conducted by the state treasur er's office, the heirs of the late Clar ence S. Jacobson, who died in Portland some time ago, will be obliged to pay inheritance tax on property and securi ties valued at JH6.302.67, instead of 182,302.67, as set out In the original appraiaement. The increased amount of inheritance tax to be paid by reason of the , treasurer's Investigation Is $645.94. Hood River. Shipments of apples from here during the last week have been heavy, more than 35,0 cars of fruit having rolled to points of distribution. The Apple Growers' association, how ever, now holding practically all of the commercially-packed apples remaining here, still has about 100 cars of apples unsold. The agency is holding In stor age for Instructions from buyers about 160 cars. On last year at this time apples of all varieties had been sold. Toledo. A determination to get bet ter dairy cows through the organiza tion of a Jersey bull association, the. elimination of rodenta and vermin, the production of better crops through soil Improvement, constituted the pro gramme of work adopted by the Nash ville community farm bureau which organized here Tuesday evening. The women's meeting, presided over by Miss Lane and Miss Biles of the Ore gon Agricultural college, was well at tended. Home demonstration work was new to the local ladles. ' Secretary Lane has ordered the open ing to homestead entry of 360,000 acres of land In western Oregon, formerly embraced in the Oregon and California railroad grant The lands are mostly within the Roseburg land district Opening of these lands was deferred pending the enactment of legislation by congress granting a preference right of entry of the lands to Boldiers, sailors and marines of the late war. While all of the land is classed as agricul tural there are considerable areas which are not adapted to cultivation. The time when settlers who resided on such lands since December 1, 1913, must exercise their preference right of entry begins 9 o'clock A. M., April 12, and ends 4:30 P. M., May 8, 1920. RAILROADS TURNED BACK TO OWNERS Gigantic War Control Organiz ation Reduced: HINES STAYS AT POST Conference of Executives Intended to Formulate Public Expression of Union's Attitude. Washington, D. C. America's rail transportation systems, operated aa one great public utility since Decem ber 28, 1917, were divided among their 230 respective corporate owners when the government released control at midnight Sunday. . Director-General Hlnes, as the agent of the president, handed over the prop erties and equipment, valued at ap proximately $20,000,000,000, to their old directors, free except for the juris diction retained by the government In the new railroad reorganization bill, While all arrangements for formal restoration of the carriers to their owners were completed Saturday by Mr. Hlnes, instructions went out Sun day to operating representatives of the railroad administration, informing them they would "report to the proper officials of the corporations which re sume control at 12:01 A. M., March 1." Of the gigantic organization created by former Director-General McAdoo as a war-time expedient, only a small part will remain. Mr. Hlnes will continue in his pres ent capacity until about May 1. Al though without any railroads to direct, he still faces the settlement of liter ally thousands of claims, contracts and grievances. Only 147 of the 230 compensation contracts with the corporations were actually signed during the government control and the remainder will con tinue to be the subject of negotiations. The reply given by President Wilson to labor's objection to the reorganiza tion bill Is being considered. All ex ecutives here will be called into the conference for the purpose of agree ing on a public expression of railroad labor's attitude. There was no indication as to sen timent among the leaders, who had read the president's statement in an swer to their request that he withhold his approval from the bill. They said they had stated their case and that until a policy can be deter mined they would remain silent as to future action. With the lines again under private control there will be almost immedi ately "a resumption of the days of competition." Corporation heads have been preparing for this for several mouths. The various roads will at tempt to divide again the business which has been handled jointly under federal control, reports indicated. The roads go back to private con trol under largely new conditions. The railroad bill, Bigned Saturday night by the president, gives the system certain new privileges, but as an offset, it enlarges the Interstate commerce com mission, both in power-and personnel The corporations no longer are mas ters completely of their bond issues, nor are they allowed to stand solidly against labor, for labor's demands, if not met by arbitration and negotia tions between the parties concerned. go to a high court provided in the bill and on which sit, in addition to labor and railroad representatives, public representatives as well. PUGILIST DEMPSEY IN DICTED AS DRAFT DODGE San Francisco. William Harrison Dempsey, whose ring name is Jack Dempsey, world's champion heavy weight pugilist, and his manager, Jack Kearns, must face true bills charging them with conspiracy to defeat the military draft law, according to the findings of the federal grand Jury, which made its report Saturday Federal Judge -William C. Van Fleet, Warrants for the arrest of Dempsey and Kearns were Immediately issued and given to United States Marshal Holohan. U. 8. Land Sale Ordered. Washington, D. C. Public sale ol 165,000 acres of land in the former Cheyenne river and Standing Rock In dian reservations in North and South Dakota were ordered Sunday by Secre tary Lane. Lands in the Lemmon, South Dakota land district, will be offered at Lemmon May 27, and those In the Timber Lake. Appraised prices of the lands are 50 cents to $6 an acre and none will be sold at less than appraised value. 12 & By "FOOL1 FOOLI FOOLI" Synopsis. David Elden, ion of a drunken, shiftless ranchman, al most a maverick of the foothills, Is breaking bottles with his pistol from his running cayuse when the first automobile he has ever seen arrives and tips over, breaking the leg of Doctor Hardy but not Injur ing his beautiful, daughter Irene. Dave rescues the 'injured man and brings a doctor from 40 miles away. Irene takes charge of the housekeeping. Dave and Irene get well acquainted during her enforced' stay. They part with a kiss and an Implied promise. Dave's father dies and Dave goes to -town to seek his fortune. A man named Conward teaches him his first lesson In city ways. CHAPTER III Continued. 6 Dave's duties were simple enough. He had to drive a wagon to a coal yurd, where a very superior young man, with a collar, would express sur prise that he had" been so long gone, and tell him to back in under chute number so-and-so. It appeared to be always a matter of great distress to this young man that Dave did not know which chute to back under until he was told. Having backed Into po sition a door was opened. There was a Action that the coal in the bin should then run into the wagon box, but, as Dave at once discovered, this was merely a fiction. Aside from a few accommodating lumps near the door the coal had to be shoveled. Then Dave had to drive to an address that was given him, shovel the coal down a chute located In the most Inacces sible position the premises afforded. and return to the coalyard, where the young man with the collar would face tiously Inquire whether Mrs. Blank had Invited him in to afternoon tea, or if he had been waiting for a change In the weather. His work and supper were over by seven o'clock each evening, and now was the opportunity for him to begin the schooling for which he had left the ranch. But he developed a sud den disinclination to muke the start! he was tired In the evening, and he found it much more to his liking to stroll downtown, smoke cigarettes on the street corners, or engage In an occasional game of pool. In this way the weeks went by, and when his month with Metford was up he had neglected to find another position, so he continued where he was. He was being gradually . and unconsciously submerged in an inertia which, how ever much it might hate its present surroundings, had not the spirit to seek a more favorable environment, So the fall and winter drifted along ; Dave had made few acquaintances and no friends, If we except Conward whom he frequently met In the pool rooms and for whom he had developed a sort of attachment. One Saturday evening, as Dave was on his way to their accustomed resort, he fell In with Conward on the street, "Hello, old man 1" said Conward cheerily. "I was just looking for you, Got two tickets for the show tonight, Some swell dames in the chorus. Come along. There'll be doings." There were two theaters In the town, one of which played to the bet ter-class residents. In it anything of a risque nature had to be presented "Eating's; Poor Busthess When There'i a Thirst to Be Quenched," Said One of the Girls. with certain trimmings which allowed It to be classified as "art," but In the other house no such restrictions ex isted. It was to the latter that Con ward led. Dave had been there be fore, in the cheap upper gallery, but Conwnrd's tickets admitted to the best seats In the house. It was an entirely new experience. From the upper gallery the actors and actresses always seemed more or less Impersonal and abstract, but here they were living, palpitating huma beings, almost within hand-reach, cer. talnly within eye-reach. Dave found himself regarding the young woman Immediately before him; all In white she was, with some scintillating mate rial that sparkled In the glare of the spotlight; then suddenly she was in orange, and pink, and purple, and mauve, and back again In white. And although she performed the various sttps with sailing abandon there was 0 i. JLTfK: Tlvc COW PUNCHER Robert J.C.Stead Uuthoro kitchener, and other poem In her dress and manner a modesty which fascinated the boy with a sub tlety which a more reckless appear ance would have at once defeated. And then Dave looked In her face. It was a pretty face, notwithstanding Its grease paint, and It smiled right Into his eyes. His heart thumped be tween his shoulders as though it would drive all the air from his lungs. She smiled at him for him! Now they were away again; there were gyra tions about the stage. Then there was a sudden break away In the dance, and the girl dis appeared behind a forest. Dave sup posed she had gone to rest; dancing like that must be hard on the wind. He found little to Interest him now In what was going on on the stage. It seemed rather foolish. He wished the girl behind the forest would come down and rest there. Then she could see the show herself. Then she coTld see But there was a whir from the for est, and the girl reappenred, this time all In red, right before him. And then she looked down and smiled again at him. And he smiled back. And then he looked at Conward and saw lilm smiling too. And then he felt a very distressing uncertainty, which brought the color slowly to his face. He re solved to say nothing, but watch. And his observations convinced him that the smiles had been for Conward, not for him. And then he lost interest In the play, , . They hustled Into their overcoats to the playing of the national anthem. "Hurry I" said Conward. "Let's get out quick! Ain't she some dame? There through the side exit the stage door Is that way. She promised to have her chum with her. They'll be waiting if we don't hurry." Conward steered him to the stage entrance, where a little group was al ready congregated. In a moment the girl appeared, handsomely dressed In furs. With her was another girl, also from the chorus, but Dave could not recall her part. He was suddenly aware of being introduced. "This Is my friend Belton," Con ward was saying. Dave was about to correct him when Conward managed to wliNp'T: "Whist 1 tour stage name. Mine's Edward. Don't forget." Conward took the first girl by the arm, and Dave found nimseit follow ing rapidly with the other. They cut through certain side streets, up a stair way, and into a dark ball. A door opened. Conward pressed a button, and they found themselves in a small but comfortably furnished room evi dently bachelor apartments. The girls threw off their wraps and sauntered about the place, while Con ward.started a gas grate and put some water to boll. "Sorry I've nothing for you to eat,1 he said, "but I've some good medicine for the thirst." 'Eating's poor business when there's a thirst to be quenched," said one of the elrls with a yawn. "And, believe me, I've a long one." The glasses were filled and raised "Hoi" said Conward. "Here's looking!" said one of the girls. Dave hesitated, but the other girl clinked her glass against his. "Here's looking at you," she said, and she ap peared to lay special emphasis on the last two words. Certainly her eyes were on Dave's as she raised her glass to her lips. And under the spell of those eyes he raised his glass and drained It. Other glasses were Piled and drained. The three were chattering away, but Dave, was but vaguely con scious of thett,tflk and could weave no connected meaning Into it. His head was buzzing with a pleasant, dreamy sensation. A very grateful warmth surrounded him, and with It came a disposition to go to sleep. He probably would have gone to sleep had his eye not fallen on a picture on the wall. It was a picture of a girl point ing her finger at him. ... No girl could point her finger at him. He arose and made a lunge across the room. He missed her, and with diffi culty retraced his steps to the table to make a fresh start. " "She's maktn' fun of me," he said "an' I don't stand for that. Nobody can do that with me. Nobody Bee J I don't low it" "Oh, you don't?" laughed one of the girls, running into a corner and point ing her finger at him. "You don't?" He turned his attention to her, steadying himself very carefully be fore he attempted an advance. Then, with .wide-stretched arms, he bore down cautiously upon her. When he had her almost within reach she dart ed along the edge of the room. He attempted a sudden change In direc tion, which ended disastrously, and he found himself very much sprawled out upon the floor. He was aware of laughter, but what cared he? He was disposed to sleep. What better place to sleep than this? What better time to sleep than this? In a moment he was lost to all consciousness. . . . It was later in the night when he felt himself being dragged Into a Bit ting posture. "Where am I?" he said, blinking at the light He rose uncer tainly to his feet and stared about the room In returning consciousness, "Where's the girls?" he asked. "Gone," said Conward sulkily "Couldn't expect 'em to stick around all night to say goodby, could you, and you sleeping off your drunk?" Dave rulsed his hand to his head. A sense of disgrace was already upon him. Then he suddenly turned In an ger on Conward. "You put this up on me," he cried. "You made a fool of me. I've a mind to bash your skull In for you." "Don't be silly," Conward retorted. "I didn't enjoy It any more than you did Introducing you as my friend, and then have you go out like that. Why didn't you tip me? I didn't know It would put you to sleep." "Neither did I," said Dave. "Well, the next thing is to get you home. Can you walk?" "Sure." Dave started for the door, but his course suddenly veered and he found himself leaning over a chair. Conward helped him Into his overcoat, and half led, half shoved him to his boarding house. - CHAPTER IV. , Eklen awoke Sunday morning with u prodigious thirst, which he slaked ut tlifc wuter pitcher. It was the prac tice of Metford's gang to select one of their number to care for nil the horses on Sundays while the others enjoyed the luxury of their one day of leisure. In consequence of . this custom the room was still full of snoring sleepers and the air was very close and foul. Dave sat down by the little table that fronted the open window and rested his head on his bunds. He was recalling, with considerable effort, the events of the previous ulght; piecing "You Made a Fool of Me. I've a Mind to Bash Your Skull In for You." tlicni together In Impossible ways; re ussoillnt; them until they offered some sequence. The ntier lie had felt toward Conward had subsided, but the sting of shame rankled In his heart. "Fool I" he said to himself. And be cause he could think of no' more spe cific expression to suit his feelings, and because expression of any kind brought a sort of relief, lie kept on repeating the word, "Fool ! fool I fool !" And as his self-condemnation gradually won him back to a sense of perspective he became aware of the danger of his position. He had left his ranch home to better himself, to learn things, to rise to be somebody. He had worked harder than ever be fore, at.. more disagreeable employ ment; he had lived In conditions that were almost nauseating and what hnd he learned? " That you can't beat a card man at his own game, price sixty dollars, and that the gallery seats are cheaper and sometimes safer than the orchestra. Then all of a sudden he thought of Reenie, He had not thought of her much of late; he had been so busy in the days and so tired at nights that he had not thought of her much. Now site burst upon him again with all that beauty and charm which had so mag netized him in those glad, golden days, and the frank cleanness of her girl hood made him disgusted and ashamed. It was to fit himself for her that he had come to tpwn, and what sort of mess was he making of " it? He was going down instead of up. He had squandered his little money, and now he was squandering his life. He had been drunk. -. Dave's nature was one in which emotions were accelerated with their own Intensity. And the sudden man ner In which Reenie had now Invaded his consciousness Intensified the black ness In which he was submerged, as lightning darkens the storm. . . . He saw her on that last night, with the moonlight wooing her white face, until his own body had eclipsed it In a warmer passion, and he heard her words, "I know you are true and clean." . . . True and clean. "Yes,, thank God, I am still that 1" he cried, springing suddenly to his feet and commencing to dress. "I've been spattered, but nothing that won't wash off. Per haps" and he stopped as the great thought struck him "perhaps it was the luckiest thing in the world that the booze did put me out last night . . . ItH wash off." Dave turns over a new leaf. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Probably. The Sergeant What did you do be fore they assigned you here? The New and Dark-haired Stenogra-pher-'-I was a private secretary. The Sergeant Well, work hard and you'll probably get your stripes. The Come-Back.
