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Events of Noted People, Government
nd Pacific Northwest, and Other
Thlngt Worth Knowing.
Fifty nurses, representing 15 coun
. tries, have received the Florence
Nightingale medal for heroism on the
battlefield by the Geneva Red Cross.
Twenty-seven bodies of those who
lost their lives Saturday night In the
sudden overflow of the River Lud,
England, have been recovered and
muny persons are missing.
Damage estimated at 500,000 was
caused In Cumberland county, Nova
Scotia, from forest fires Monday. The
fires were still burning. Twelve
thousand acres were swept.
Two members of Captain Roald
Amundsen's North Polar expedition,
Knudsen and Tesson, are reported in
advices received in Copenhagen to
have frozen to death during the win
ter of 1919-20.
A French column has occupied the
town of AIntab, Syria, It was announc
ed in a Havas dispatch from Beirut
dated Friday. The French took many
prisoners, the message said. It Is re
ported 1200 Turks were killed.
House and senate conferees on the
army appropriation bill have tenta
tively agreed to fix the appropriation
for the army air service at $33,000,000
of which $6,000,000 would be used for
new equipment and 15,250,000 for re
search work.
By unanimous vote the senate agri
culture committee has ordered a fav
orable report on the Wadsworth bill
authorizing the acquisition and opera
tion by the war department of the
nitrate fixation plants at Sheffield and
Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Corporal Vasquez was executed by
a firing squad In Matanzas, Cuba, Mon
day for the murder of a Cuban sugar
cane planter. The execution was the
first time capital punishment had been
administered In Cuba since the day
of President Estrada Palma.
Sisal estimated at 11,000,000 was
consumed In a fire of unknown origin
at pier No. 41, Galveston Wharf com
pany, which broke out late Monday
night. The warehouse In which the
sisal was stored also was burned at
an estimated loss of $500,000.
Slight modifications were made
Monday In the house bill broadening
the powers of the government to de
port alien anarchists and to prevent
their admission Into the country. The
senate Immigration committee then
ordered the measure favorably re
ported. Estrada Cabrera, formerly president
of Guatemala, has been Imprisoned up
on orders from Carlos Herrera. Her
rera was, according to advices receiv
ed at San Salvador, republic of Sal
vador, leader of the revolution which
overturned the Guatemalan" govern
ment early In April.
The secretary of the treasury would
be authorized under a bill introduced
Monday by Senator Henderson, demo
crat, Nevada, to make loans to silver
producers so they can continue opera
tions and not be compelled to throw
silver on the market in view of lower
market prices for that metal.
A general strike throughout the
country and an effort to influence all
harvest hands in the United States to
walk out of the fields at the height
of the harvest season are two of the
Interesting Items contained in resolu
tions adopted at the national conven
tion of the I. W. W. In Chicago, May
10 to 15.
In the most spectacular finish wit
nessed on the speedway In Indiana
polls, Iiul., Gaston Chevrolet, driving
an American -designed car, rode to vic
tory In the eighth renewal of the 500
mile automobile race Monday before
a record-breaking crowd of 125,000.
His time was 6:40:18.14, an average
of 88.1(1 miles an hour, the second
beet in the history of the event
The official meeting between trade
representatives of soviet Russia and
members of the British cabinet occu
pied Downing street Monday, but
beyond the announcement Issued after
an hour's conference that a prelim
inary discussion was held with regard
to the re-opening of trading between
Russia and western Europe there was
nothing forthcoming as to the conversations.
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STATE NEWS
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The Dalles. Wheat price of $2.50 a
bushel was established in this section
for this year when Louis Peetz of
Moro, Sherman county, contracted to
sell 5000 sacks at $2.60. A sack con
tains about two and one-third bushels
of wheat.
Prlnevllle. Plans are being made
for the only celebration of Independ
ence day In central Oregon. The cele
bration will be double-barreled, In
honor not only of July 4 but also the
completion of the Ochoco irrigation
project dam.
La Grande. The largest senior class
In the history of the La Grande high
school will be graduated this year,
when 46 students will receive di
plomas. Salem. Herbert Nunn, state high
way engineer, returned here last week
from eastern Oregon, where he made
an inspection of the road improve
ments now under way and contem
plated in that part of the state. Mr.
Nunn reports that the work Is prog
ressing satisfactorily.
Eugene. Higher water and electric
light rates for Eugene beginning June
1 have been announced by the Eugene
water board. It is no longer possible
to postpone a slight revision, says the
board, If an adequate depreciation re
serve fund Is to be provided.
Pendleton. Pendleton's post office
will have classification as first class
after July 1, according to notification
received from the department by Act
ing Postmaster Lester B. Cronln. The
stamp sales for the local office during
the past year were over $40,000.
Salem. Advertisements for the sale
of state road bonds in the sum of $1,
500,000 to match federal aid under an
act passed at the last special session
of the legislature have been prepared
by R. B. Goodln, secretary of the state
board of control, and will be printed
in the Portland press later In the week.
Salem. Federal officers last week
raided the home of C. W. Cowfard at
Gervals and seized a still and large
quantity of liquor. The officers said
the still had been in operation for
some time. Cowfard formerly lived
at Albany, but later moved to Port
land. He located at Gervals last win
ter. Salem. Dr. R. Lee Stelner, who was
temporarily In charge of the state pen
itentiary following the resignation of
R. L. Stevens as warden, said that all
Information gathered on his recent
visit to prisons in the eastern states
would be turned over to L. E. Comp
ton, present superintendent of the
penitentiary.
The Dalles. A grain-grading school
conducted by Professor G. E, Hislop
of Oregon Agricultural college will op
erate in this city three days, June 14,
15 and 16. This demonstration has no
connection with that to be given by
the bureau of markets In this city
June 1. The subjects of wheat grow
ing and marketing will be taken up
by Professor Hislop.
Salem. Company M, Oregon Na
tional guard, heard the pay call for
the first time since it was federalized
several months ago, at the armory
here last Thursday. The pay included
the months of August, September,
October, November and December.
Hereafter the guardsmen will receive
their pay semi-annually, probably on
January 1 and July 1.
Eugene. The gasoline shortage in
Eugene continues and every day cars
are Been stalled on the streets or
country roads because of empty tanks.
Last Sunday many owners drove into
the country as usual, taking a chance
on having enough fuel to bring them
home. Some got back, but In other
cases the cars are still on the road
side, miles from the city.
Salem. That it is contrary to the
best Interests of the state to increase
further the untaxed area of Oregon
by ceding to the federal government
lands embraced in Malheur lake to be
known as the Roosevelt bird refuge,
was voiced In a letter prepared here
by Percy Cupper, state engineer, and
addressed to Baar and Cunningham,
consulting engineers of Portland.
The Dalles. To Increase the city's
water supply the water commissioners
have decided to run a tunnel through
the solid rock near Hansen's mill on
the east fork of Mill creek, about 15
miles from this city. Bids for the work
will be called about June 5. The
tunnel will be rushed to completion
in order that the city may have more
water during the summer months.
Salem. The Oregon public service
commission, in an order issued re
cently, granted In part the application
of the Eastern Oregon Power company
for the establishment of a new rate
schedule for electrio current, with
cancellation of all contracts not now
conforming to these charges, end re
duced the prompt payment discount
on lighting bills from 10 to S per cent.
PEACE AGAIN DELAYED
Versailles Covenant, Wilson Asserts,
Embodies World Objects in Final
German Settlement.
Washington, D. C President Wilson
vetoed the peace resolution Friday and
informed congress that be could not
become a party to the peace program
framed by republican leaders of the
senate and house, because he consid
ered it would put an ineffaceable stain
on the nation's honor.
To establish technical peace by such
a method, the president said in his
veto message, would be to effect "a
complete surrender of the rights of
the United States so far as Germany
Is concerned" and to relinquish all
the high purposes which led the na
tion Into war and which were em
bodied in the rejected treaty of Ver
sailles. The president's act apparently
brought to another and final dead
lock the efforts of the administration
and congress to agree upon a peace
program. Republican leaders conced
ed they had no chance to pass the reso
lution over the veto, though an attempt
will be made in the house tomorrow
and on both sides It was predicted that
the issues of the treaty controversy
would have to be fought out in the
political campaign with democrats
and republicans blaming each other for
the failure to consummate a state of
peace.
In his message the president did
not indicate whether he might again
submit the treaty to the senate for
ratification, but he said the resolution
raised against the question of whether
the United States cared to draw apart
from the rest of the world or to join
with other nations in attaining the
ends for which the treaty was framed.
$436,000,000 IN NAVY
FUND IS AGREEMENT
Washington, D. C Next year's
naval budget was fixed at about $436,
000,000 under a complete agreement
oh the naval appropriation bill reach
ed Saturday by senate and house con
ferees. The original house bill carried
$425,000,000 and the senate about $467,
000,000. The conferees agreed on $20,000,000
for navy aviation, a compromise be
tween the $15,800,000 voted by the
house and $25,000,000 by the senate.
In lieu of the senate appropriation
of $1,000,000 to begin work on the
new Pacific coast base in San Fran
cisco bay, the conferees authorized a
congressional commission of five sen
ators and five representatives to in
vestigate available sites on San Fran
cisco bay and report to congress not
later than December 31.
The Tongue Point submarine base
in the Columbia river near Astoria
was approved.
Canada Presents Big Claim.
Ottawa, Ont. Canada's reparations
claim against Germany amounts to $1,
871,000,000 and has been forwarded to
England for presentation at the con
ference of representatives of all parts
of the British empire In London and
subsequently at an inter-allled confer
ence at Spa, Germany, it was an
nounced Saturday.
The claim is for losses sustained by
the country and its citizens and in
cludes: Cost of war and demobiliza
tion, $1,715,000,000; reparation allow
ances, $85,000,000; Halifax losses, $30,
000,000; army of occupation, $8,000,
000, and illegal warfare, $31,000,000.
Under reparation allowances fall
sums paid to dependents of those who
served In the military and naval
forces; Halifax losses cover damage
to the city by the munitions explosion
In Halifax harbor on the steamer Mont
Blane in 1917; army of occupation
losses Include costs of maintaining
Dominion troops in Germany after the
armistice, and illegal warfare dam
ages represent losses of Canadian
merchant and fishing vessels during
Germany's submarine warfare."
Bean Tariff May Go Up.
Washington, D. C. Increase of the
tariff on beans from 25 cents to $1.20
a bushel is provided by a bill reported
favorably Friday by the house ways
and means committee. Democratic
committeemen declared the measure
would increase the cost of living.
Western bean growers have urged
enactment of the bill, declaring they
were unable to compete with Jap
anese growers.
CHAPTER XII. Continued.
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"He'll soon be well, don't you think,
mister? He suld he would be well
when the holidays "
But Dave's expression stopped the
boy, whose own face went suddenly
wild with fear. "He Is well now,
Charlie," he said, as steadily as he
could. "It Is all holidays now for
him."
The match had burned out and the
room was In litter darkness. Dave
heard the child drawing his feet
across the floor, then suddenly whim
pering like a thing that hud been mor
tally hurt. He groped toward him,
and at length his fingers found his
shock of hair. He drew the boy
slowly into his arms ; then very, very
tight. . . . After all, they were or
phans together.
"You will come with me," he said
at length. "I will see that you are
provided for. The doctor will soon
be here, or we will meet hlra on the
way, and he. will make the arrange
ments for the arrangements that
have to be made, you know."
They retraced their steps toward
the town, meeting the doctor at the
broken bridge. Dave exchanged a
few words with him In low tones, and
they passed on. Soon they were
swinging again through the city
streets. Even with the developments
of the evening pressing heavily upon
his mind Dave could not resist the
temptation to stop and listen for a
moment to bulletins being read
through a megaphone.
"The kaiser has stripped off his
British regalia," said the announcer.
"He says he will never again wear
a British uniform."
A chuckle of derisive laughter ran
through the mob ; then someone struck
up a well-known refrain "What the
h - do we care?" Up and down the
street voices caught up the chorus.
. . , Within a year the bones of
many in that thoughtless crowd,
bleaching on the fields of Flanders,
showed how much they cared.
Dave drove direct to the Hardy home.
After some delay Irene met him at
the door, and Dave explained the sit
uation in a few words. "We must
take care of him, Reenle," he said. "I
feel a personal responsibility."
"Of course we will take him," she
answered. "He will live here until
we have a some place of our own."
Her face was bright with something
which must be tenderness. "Bring
him upstairs. We will allot him a
room and Introduce him first to the
bathroom. And tomorrow we shall
have an excursion downtown, and get
some new clothes for Charlie El
den." As they moved up the stairs Con
ward, who had been in another room
In conversation with Mrs. Hardy, fol
lowed them unseen. The evening had
been interminable for Conward. For
three hours he had awaited word that
his victim had been trapped, and for
three hours no word had come. If
his plans had miscarried, if Dave had
discovered the plot, well And here
at length was Dave, engrossed in a
very different matter. Conward fol
lowed them up the stairs.
Irene and Dave chatted with the
boy for a few moments, then Irene
turned to some arrangements for his
comfort and Dave started downstairs.
In the passage he was met by Con
ward. "What are you doing here?" Dave
demanded, as he felt his head begin
ning to swim in anger.
Conward leered only the more of
fensively, and walked down the stairs
beside him. At the foot he coolly lit
another cigarette. He held the match
before him and calmly watched it
bnrn out. Then he extended it toward
Dave.
"You remember our wager, Elderi.
I present you with a burned-out
match."
"You liar I" cried Dave. "You in
famous liar I"
"Ask her," Conward replied. "She
will deny it, of course. All women
do."
Dave felt his muscles tighten, and
knew that In a moment he would tear
his victim to pieces. As his clenched
fist came to the side of his body k
struck something hard. His re
volver! He had forgotten; he was
not in the habit of carrying It. In an
instant he had Conward covered.
Dave did not press the trigger at
once. He took a fierce delight in tor
turing the man who had wrecked his
life even while he told himself he
could not believe his boast. Now he
watched the color fade from Con
ward's cheek; the eyes stand out in
his face ; the livid blotches more livid
still; the cigarette drop from his
nerveless lips.
"You are a brave man, Conward,"
he said, and there was the rasp of
hate and contempt in his voice. "You
are a very brave man."
Mra. Hardy, sensing something
wron, came out from her sitting
room. With a little cry she swooned
way.
Couwurd tried to speak, but words
stuck in his throat. With a dry
tongi:n ho licked his drier Hps.
"D you believe in hell, Conward?"
Dave continued. "I've always hnd
some doubt myself, but In thirty sec
onds you'll know."
Irene appeared on the stairway.
For a moment her eyes refused to
grasp the scene before them: Con
ward cowering terror-stricken; Dave
fierce, steely, implacable, with his re
volver lined on Conwnrd's brain.
Through some strunge whim of her
mind her thought in that Instant flew
back to the bottles on the posts of
the Elden ranch, and Dave' breaking
five out of six on the gallop. Then
suddenly she became awure of one
thing only. A tragedy was being en
acted before her eyes.
"Oh, don't, Dave! Don't, don't
shoot him!" she cried, flying down
the remaining steps. Before Dave
could grasp her purpose she was upon
hlin, hnd clutched his revolver, had
wrapped her arms about his. "Don't,
don't, Dnvel" she pleaded. "For my
sake don't do that!"
Her words were tragically unfortu
nate. For a moment Dave stood ns
one paralyzed; then his heart dried
up within him.
"So that's the way of it!" he said,
as he broke her grip, and the horror
In his own eyes would not let him
read the sudden horror in hers. "All
right; take If," and he placed the re
volver In her hand. "You should
know what to do with It." And be
fore she could stop him he had walked
out of the house.
She rushed to the gate, but al
ready the roar of his motor was lost
In the hum of the city's traffic.
CHAPTER XIII.
When Dave sprang into his car he
gave the motor a full head and drove
through the city streets in a fury of
recklessness. His mind was numbed ;
It was Incapable of assorting thoughts
and placing them in proper relation
ship to one another. He was soon out
of the city, roaring through the still
autumn night with undiminished
speed.
Over tortuous country roads, across
sudden bridges, along slippery hill
sides, through black bluffs of scrub
land In some strange way he tried
to drown the uproar in his soul in the
frenzy of the steel that quivered be-
He Took a Fierce Delight in Tortur,
Ing the Man Who Had Wrecked His
Life.
neath hlin. On and on into the night,
Bright stars gleamed overhead; a soft
breeze pressed against his face; It
was such a night as he had driven, a
year ago, with Bert Morrison. Was
that only a year ago? And what had
happened? Where hnd he been? Oh,
to bring the boy Chnrlie, the boy
When was that? Under the calm
heaven his mind was already attempt
ing to establish a sequence, to set Its
outraged home again in order.
Suddenly the car skidded on a slip
pery hillside, turned from the road,
plowed through a clump of scrub.
ricochetted against a dark obstruction,
poised a moment on two wheels, turn
ed around, and stopped. The shock
brought Dave to his senses. He sat
on the running bonrd and stared for
a long while Into the darkness.
"No use being a d d fool, any
way, Dave," he said to himself at
length. "I got It where I didn't ex
pect it but I guess that's the way
with everyone." He tried to philoso
phize; to get a fresh .grip on him
self. "Where are we, anyway?" he
continued. "This country looks famil
iar." He get up again and walked
about, finding his way back to the
road. He went along It a little way.
Vague Impressions suggested that he
should know the spot, and yet he
could not Identify it. Then, with a
sudden shock, it came to him. It was
the hillside on which Doctor Hardy
had come to grief; the hillside on
which he had first seen her bright
face, her wonderful eyes. ... A
poignancy of grief engulfed him,
sweeping away his cheap philosophies,
Here she stood, young and clean and
entrancing, thrust before him in an
Instant out of the wonderful days of
the past. And would she always fol
low hira thus? With an unutterable
sinking he knew that was so that
the world was not big enough to hide
him from Irene Hardy. There was no
way out.
wmmiA
He started his motor, and even In
his despair felt a thrill of pride as the
faithful gears engaged and the car
climbed back to Its place on the trail.
Was all faithfulness, then, In things of
steel and Iron, and none In flesh and
blood? He followed the trail. Why
stop now? The long-forgotten ranch
buildings lay across the stream and
behind the tonguo of spruce trees, un
less some wandering foothill fire had
destroyed them. He forded the stream
without difficulty. That was where he
had carried her out. ... He felt
his way slowly along the old fence.
That wns where she had set up bottles
for his marksmanship. ... He
stopped where the straggling gate
should be and walked carefully Into
the yard. That was where she had
first called him Dave. . . . Then
he found the doorstep and sat down
to wait.
When the sun wns well up he arose
and walked about. His lips were
parched; he found himself nibbling
them with his teeth, so he went to the
stream. He wns thirsty, but he drank
only a mouthful; the water was flat
and Insipid. . . . The old cabin was
In better repair than he would have
thought. He sprung the door open.
It was musty and strung with cob
webs. He did not go in but sat down
and tried to think.
Later he walked up the canyon. He
must have walked swiftly, for the sun
was not yet at the meridian when he
found himself at the little nook In the'
rock where he and Irene had sat that
afternoon when they had first laid their
hearts open to each other. Suddenly
one remnrk stood up in his memory.
"The day is coming," she had said,
"when our country will want men who
can shoot and ride." And he had said,
"Well, when It does It can call on me."
And today the country did want men
who could shoot and ride, and he had
flown Into the foothills to nurse a
broken heart. . . . Broken hearts
can fight as well as whole ones. He
could be of some use yet. At any rate
there was a way out.
Some whim led him through the
grove of spruce trees on his way back
to the ranch. Here, in nn open space,
he looked about, kicking in the dry
grass. At length his toe disturbed a
few bleached bones, and he stood and
looked with unseeing eyes far across
the shimmering valley.
"Brownie," he said at length.
"Brownie." The whole scene came
back upon him the moonlight, and
Irene's distress, and the little bleed
ing body. And he had said he didn't
know anything about the justice of
God ; all he knew was the critter that
couldn't run was the one that got
caught. . . . And he had said that
was life. ... He had aald it was
only nature.
And then they had stood among the
trees and beneath the white moon and
pledged their faith. ...
Again his head went up and the old
light flashed In his eyes. "The first
thing is to kill the wolf," he said
aloud. "No other innocent shall fall
to his fangs. Then my country."
Darkness had again fallen before
Dave found his car threading the
streets of the city, still feverish with
its newborn excitement of war. He
returned his car to the garage; an
attendant looked up curiously it was
evident from his glance that Dave had
already been missed but no words
were exchanged. He stood for a mo
ment in the street, collecting his
thoughts and rehearsing his resolves.
He was amazed to find that, even
in his bitterness, the city reached a
thousand hands to him hands of
habit and association and customs of
mind all urging hlin back into the
old groove; all saying: "The routine
is the thing. Be a spoke in the wheel ;
go round with the rest of us."
"No," he reminded himself. "No, I
can't do that. I have business on
hand. First to kill the wolf."
He remembered that he had given
his revolver to Irene. And suddenly
she sat with him again at the tea
table. , . . Where was he? Yes,
he had given his revolver to Irene.
Well, there was another in his rooms.
In the hallway of the block in
which he had his bachelor apartments
Dave almost collided with a woman.
He drew back, and the light fell on
his face, but hers was in the shadow.
And then he heard her voice.
"Oh, Dave, I'm so glad Why,
what has happened?" The last words
ran Into a little treble of pain as she
noted his haggardface.
"You Edith?" he managed to say.
"Whatever"
She came toward him and placed
her hands on his. 'Tve been here a
hundred times ever since morning .
ever since Bert Morrison called up to
say you had disappeareo. that there
was some mystery. There isn't, is
there, Dave? You're all right, Dave,
aren't you, Dave?"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Pacific Coast Line.
The United States, with its Islands,
has a greater Pacific coast line than
any other nation, possibly equal to
those of China and Japan combined,
says Gas Logic.