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Women of Warsaw are reported to
be taking up arms for the defense of
Cilna, toward which the bolshevikl are
driving along the railway from the
northwest
The Greeks suffered one officer kill
ed and 30 other casualties near
Ephesus recently when they entered
the Italian zone to capture Turks who
were sniping at Greek trains.
A freight car loaded with five tons
of American munitions was destroyed
by an explosion Wednesday at the
L'Ortent (France) station. Eight men
were killed and three injured.
The estate of the late Empress
Eugenie is valued at considerably more
than 2,000,000, according to the Daily
Mall. Some of the Jewels of curious
design are considered almost priceless.
A detachment of 150 American sail
ors has been ordered to Pekin to
augment the American legation guard
of 275 marines as a precaution against
threatened revolutionary hostilities
there.
Six watchmen of the United States
department of internal revenue at San
Francisco were suspended recently in
connection with investigation of whole
sale thefts of liquor from a local bond
ed warehouse.
The mother of 22 children, includ
ing six pairs of twins and one set of
quadruplets, Mrs. Mary Durlngton, 39,
died Tuesday at Columbus, O., follow
ing childbirth. Only five of her 22
children survive.
Ellis island officers investigating
escapes of aliens from the island hos
pital say that evidence had been gath
ered to show several unidentified em
ployes had assisted Immigrants to
enter the country unlawfully.
Consumers in Germany practically
are boycotting dealers in many com
modules. Food riots have resulted in
forcing down food prices, says a dis
patch to the state department from the
American commissioner at Berlin.
Great Britain and Japan have noti
fied the league of nations that they
have prolonged their treaty alliance
for a year, according to the Dally Mall
nt the same time pointing out that the
treaty terms are in accord with the
prlnclplos of the league.
Now loans to railroads amounting to
$17,022,275 are approved by the inter
state commerce commission, muklng
an aggregate of $27,008,875 so far cer
tified to tho secrotary of tho treasury
for payment out of the $300,000,000
revolving fund provided by the trans
poratiou act.
Extension for 30 days of the ordor
giving preferential distribution of open
top cars to coal mines east of the
Mississippi was ordered Tuosday by
tho Interstate commerce commission,
in an effort to solve the coal trans
portation problem. The original ordor
would have expired July 21.
JiiBtice Bailey of the Washington, D
C, district supreme court dismissed
proceedings brought by Charles Fair
chllds of Now York, president of the
American constitutional loague, to" pre
vent the promulgation of ratification
of the suffrage amendment and to test
tho validity of tho equal suffrage law.
Tho American relief and anti-typhus
administration workers In Poland who
nre under the direction of Herbert C.
Hoover have been ordered to remain
at their posts aud brave any invasion
of tho bolshevikl armies in order that
they may do all tho good possible, it
was announced from Mr. Hoover's
home In Palo Alto, Cal Wednesday.
Convincing evldonco that the wild
buffalo of Yellowstone National park,
the last surviving remnant of the great
herds which once roamed tho western
plains, are on the increase, instead
of dying out, as was feared, has bKu
obtained in the discovery of a new
group in the southeast portion of the
park. About 15 animals were observ
ed, evidently a part of the old herd,
which It is thought grew so large
-, that some of its members wero forced
to break away and seek new pasturage.
CURRENT
WEEK
RAIL WORKERS GET RISE
Decision Grants About Half of Labor's
Demands-Means $500,000,000.
Chicago. The railway labor board,
created under the Esch-Cummins trans
portation act, makes its first award,
increasing the pay of virtually all the
2,000,000 railroad employes.
Reports from reliable quarters indi
cated the award would average from
50 to 60 per cent of the amount asked
by the men, or between $500,000,000
and $600,000,000 of the billion-dollar
total they sought.
Judge R. M. Barton, chairman, ad
mitted "that is not far off" when he
was shown the report.
Whether an award on the basis re
ported will be acceptable to the men,
no union officer was prepared to say.
Nearly 1000 brotherhood chairmen and
executives ' assembled Monday to dis
cuss union affairs.
A feeling of pessimism was evident
when union leaders met and privately
they did not hesitate to declare a gen
eral strike was a possibility. How
ever, it was virtually certain that the
union chiefs themselves would not call
a strike, but would submit the question
of accepting or rejecting the board's
award to a referendum.
The labor board is investigating the
looting of its offices Sunday night,
when someone broke in and stole
among other things, a copy of the
award. Two copies had been prepared,
one for the board's files and the other
for the printer. It was the former
which was stolen.
While an air of doubt hung over the
railroad situation here, it was an
nounced from Philadelphia that the
Pennsylvania railroad planned a 10
per cent reduction in its working force
this week. The road's announcement
said that in the eastern region between
11,000 and 12,000 workers would be
laid off.
J. G. Rodgers, vice-president of the
northwestern region at Chicago, said
that the reduction applied only to the
eastern region, but that a reduction in
this territory was under consideration.
For the office of the southwestern re
gion in St. Louis it was learned no re
duction in working force was contem
plated. The reports from Chicago that the
railroad organizations probably would
reject the proposed award affected
Wall street, active transportation
Bhares averaging one point decline.
'HANDS OFF' SOVIET
RETORT TO BRITAIN
London. The reply of the Russian
soviet government to the British note
concerning an armistice with Poland
rejects in substance the British peace
proposals, according to the London
Times, which publishes a summary of
the Boviet answer.
The document is lengthy and the
Times assumes it will soon be publish
ed by the government.
The bolshevikl decline to come to
London, according to the Times, be
cause they say Great Britain Is not im
partial. They also object to the ad
mission to the conference of delegates
from the Baltic states, saying Russia
already has mado peace with them.
As to Poland, the bolshevikl govern
ment points out that the proposed ar
mistice line is unfair to Poland and
that with direct negotiations the bol
shevikl ure prepared to grant Poland
a much more favorable frontier.
Naval Oil Supply Low.
Vallojo, Cal. The Mare Island navy
yard hore has hardly more than suffi
cient oil to last two weeks, due to dif
ferences over the price, but before it
closes down it will seize the necessary
fuel from the oil plants near at hand,
under a three years old order which
allows such commandeering in time of
emergency, Captain J. J. Cheatham,
navy supply officer, said here. Captain
Cheatham was awaiting an answer
from Washington in relation to offers
of the oil compunles to negotiate the
price of $1.72 a barrel, which has been
Insisted upon by the navy.
$25,000 Timber Is Sold.
Spokane, Wash. Purchase of nearly
100,000,000 feet of whlto pine timber
on a tract flvo miles north of Metnllne,
Wash., for approximately $250,000 by
the Ohio Match company was announc
ed Monday by Fred Shore, local man
ager of the company. The timber was
purchased from eastern men.
Three sawmills, costing $120,000,
will be eroded on the proporty imme
diately, Mr. Shore stated.
Lightning Wrecks Plant.
Spokane, Wash. Lightning struck
the building of the National Copper
company near Mullnn, Idaho, Sunday,
and caused a loss estimated nt $20,000
to $25,000. The compressor buildings.
two compressors, other machinery and
a considerable quantity of supplies
wore destroyed by the fire which fol
lowed.
"1
t STATE NEWS i
IN BRIEF. t
Bend. Stockmen in the Cloverdale
district, near here, are vaccinating
against blackleg, which has made its
appearance among young cattle. A
number of deaths are reported from
the disease.
Salem. Practically half of the Lam
bert cherries in the Willamette valley
have been ruined by rains in the last
few days, according to M. O. Evans,
field manager of the Oregon Growers'
Co-operative association, with head
quarters at Salem.
Marshfield. The Coos county com
missioners' court has arranged for two
new projects to be put through thiB
year. One of these is the proposed
drainage district In the vicinity of
Coaledo, where there is a considerable
area of low lands capable of being re
claimed by a system of ditches.
Eugene. Cherries about Eugene
have not been damaged to any great
extent by the rain thus far, according
to fruit growers, but should the show
ers continue for several days they look
to see the fruit crack badly. The cher
ries are now too ripe to be affected
by a small amount of moisture.
Salem. There was sold in Oregon
during June by the Dwhers' Motor Car
association, 95,365 gallons of gasoline,
on which there was a tax of one cent
a gallon, according to a report filed
by the secretary of state. This is the
first report of gasoline sales filed with
the state department by this asocla
tlon. Albany. The boys' and girls' in
dustrial clubs of Shedd, among which
is Included the largest boys' Jersey
calf club in the world, will hold their
annual Industrial fair On September
10. The fair will be held early this
year so that its exhibits may be en
tered at the Oregon State fair and the
Linn county fair.
Albany. The definite route of the
Pacific highway across Linn county
will be decided within a few days. So
far the route has been located from the
northern boundary line of the county
to Drivers crossing, which is south of
Tangent, and about eight miles south
of Albany, and pavement is being laid
as far south as Albany.
Salem. Actual construction of the
Benham falls reservoir and dam which
will provide means for Irrigating more
than 8000 acres of land included in
what is known as the Deschutes proj
ect, will start as soon as plans for fi
nancing the improvement can be for
mulated, according to announcement
made by Percy Cupper, state engineer.
Albany. An underground crossing
has been decided on for the point
where the Pacific highway will cross
the Southern Pacific railroad about
two miles north of this city. Steps
will be taken to have the public serv
ice commission determine the propor
tion of the cost of the work to be borne
by the state, the county and the rail
road company.
Salem. Unless unemployed men will
accept temporary work in lines other
than their profession, there will be a
shortage of help in the fields of Ore
gon during the harvest this year, ac
cording to C. II. Gram, state labor
commissioner. Mr. Gram recently con
ducted a survey of the state, and re
turns In his office show plenty of men
available to handle the crops.
Medford. The sale has just been an
nounced of the orchard of Dan W.
Stone, 22 1-2 acres, on Scenic drive in
the Willow Springs district, to D. L.
Davidson of Kansas City, Mo., and for
merly a Hood River district grower,
for $18,000. The orchard of Bosc and
the Bartlett pears Is under irrigation
and is said to be one of the best small
er commercial orchards in the valley.
The Dalles. The first car of cher
ries from this section, containing 1172
boxes, brought $6458 in New York, re
turns to the Cherry Growers' associa
tion here show. Black Republicans,
faced, brought $5.15 per 15-pound lug,
and BIngs commanded $5.85 per 15-
pound lug. In the same market, the
same day, the same varieties of other
western states brought from $3.75 to
$4.50 per 15-pound lug.
Marshfield. The stock show held
here during the celebration period has
given an impulse to the interest in cat
tle breeding and has resulted in the
organization of the Southwestern Ore
gon Livestock association, a $25,000
corporation which alms to assist the
ranchers of this district In Improving
their dairy herds and the breed of
range cattle. It also contemplates an
annual livestock exposition in Marsh
field and will construct a pavilion for
its housing. Rev. J. T. Anderson is
president of the association, and Mair
Dano is secretary-treasurer; Walter
Butler, D. A. Jones, Joe Williams, J.
W. DaviB, George E. Dix and L. J.
Simpson are the directors.
The City 01 BAD
Purple Dreams
"NOT GOODBY, BUT AU RE
VOIR." Synopsis. Typical tramp In ap
pearance, Daniel Randolph Fitz
hugh, while crossing a Chicago
street, causes the wreck of an auto,
whose chauffeur disables it trying
to avoid running him down. In
pity the occupant of the auto, a
young girl, saves him from arrest
and gives him a dollar, telling him
to buy soap, and wash. His sense
of shame is touched, and he im
proves his appearance. That night,
In a crowd of unemployed and an
archists, he meets Esther Strom
and in a spirit of bravado makes a
speech. Esther Induces Fitzhugh
to address the radical meeting. He
electrifies the crowd, and on part
ing the two agree to meet again.
Fitzhugh visits Symington Otis,
prominent financier, and displaying
a package which he says contains
dynamite, demands JlO.OOO.
CHAPTER II. Continued.
"You might, but you won't. You will
iccompany me to the bank; you will
itand at my elbow while I cash It;
jrou will then enter a motorcar with
me and drive to some deserted spot
outside Chicago; you will leave the
auto, and thus give me a chance to
escape. All this while I shall have
the dynamite; one false move and I'll
blow us to kingdom come. Your life
is worth ten thousand dollars, I take
It. Mine's not. Do I make myself
clear?"
"Excessively. And now for the
check." Without moving his head
from the back of the chair Otis pro
iuced a private check book and a
fountain pen, and, feeling the way
with his fingers, filled out a check
for- ten thousand dollars. "What
name?" he asked.
"Make It payable to bearer."
"Very well"
"Father 1"
A pair of portieres at the rear of
the room were held far apart, and In
the aperture stood a girl. Without
turning Ills back was toward her
BMtzhugh knew who she was. He had
heard her voice before. As she spoke
Ills uplifted handB dropped swiftly
ind concealed the newspaper package
beneath his coat. Then he turned,
ind, even as he knew he would, looked
Into the pansy-blue eyes of the girl
with the Titian hair.
There was a dramatic tableau. Fitz
hugh, every nerve and muscle tense,
itood looking at the girl. Otis, who
had not moved, watched him. The
girl looked from one to the other in
julringly. She seemed to know intu
itively that something very unusual
lad occurred.
Otis was first to speak.
"Will you excuse us, Kathleen? This
rentleman and I have a little business
to transact."
"I did not Intend to Interrupt, fa
ther. I thought you were alone."
She went out, closing the portieres
jehlnd her. Otis wrote "bearer" on
the check, snipped It from the book
ind stood up. He held out the check
without saying a word.
Fitzhugh took the slip of paper,
itudied It reflectively. There was no
juestlonlng Its genuineness. It called
tor ten thousand dollars, and the call
was as authoritative as a govern
nent bond. Suddenly he drew a
leep breuth, folded the check, and de
liberately tore it twice across. He
Jropped the pieces on the table,
picked up his hat, and without a fur
ther word walked from the room.
In the hall he found Kathleen Otis,
"This is not the first time," said he
n his best dramatic manner, "you
nave saved me from myself. I thought
I'd tell you."
She stepped back, looking at him
.urlously. "I I'm afraid I don't un-
ierstand you. I dont think I even
tnow you."
"It's hardly possible"
"What were you doing In there?"
ihe interrupted. "I know something
ivas wrougl and" She broke off,
ind with impulsive courage fairly
ihot a question at him. "Were you try
ng to blackmail my father?"
"Some people might have called it
lomething worse," he replied easily;
ind he was thinking: "She's beauti
ful beautiful I This must be the sort
men go crazy over. The sort men do
things for."
"What were you doing?" she In
listed.
"Why so inquisitive?" he countered.
She looked annoyed. "W-would you
mind telling me your name?" she
isked, and dug her nails into her
palms upon feeling her cheeks burn
ing. He asked pointedly : "Can you recall
Ihe 'dirtiest young man' you ever saw?"
She bit her Up and stepped back
from him. She was scurlet to her
temples. "Yes yes, I remember you
bow. You are the one I gave a dollar
to yesterday. I believe you said your
aine was Fltz Fltz something or
ther?"
"Fitzhugh."
"Oh, yes Daniel Fitzhugh 1 I re
nember perfectly now."
'Tm glad you do."
Then he became aware that Syming
ton Otis was standing in the doorway
f the library. At sight of the man
whom he half believed a dangerous
lunatic taking the unthinkable liberty
of addressing his daughter Otis' cool
ness had vanished, his restraint
snapped.
Fitzhugh took the girl's hand, and
In a vibrant voice, pregnant with far
more significance than the words it
uttered, said, "I will not say goodby
but au revoir." Then he turned and
left the house. The front door had
scarcely closed behind him before Otis
wheeled upon his daughter.
What did that man suy to you?" he
demanded.
Why, n-nothing of any Importance.
Why?" She luughed nervously, like
a child caught In some petty misde
meanor. "Go to your room. Thnt man was a
maninc. He might have killed you.
Where's Noonan?" He rang a serv
ants' bell, ran to the hall telephone,
rustled through the telephone direc
tory, and got the Chicago avenue po
lice station on the wire.
"Police headquarters? . . . This
Is Symington Otis, Lake Shore drive.
Crazy man just left my house. He's
got a bundle of dynamite, so be care
ful how you hnndle him. . . . How'll
you know him? Well, he's dark, very
tall, well built, and about twenty-four
or five years old ; he wears a soft gray
hat, tan shoes and a blue serge suit.
The dynamite is wrapped In a news
paper. I'll have my butler and another
servant follow him and keep him in
sight. Goodby."
When the big Iron gate clanged be
hind Fitzhugh it was upon a very dif
ferent young man from the one who
had entered It, fired with anarchy and
"Were You Trying to Blackmail My
Father?"
evil thoughts ; he came out, fired with
aspiration and good thoughts. Al-
reudy his mind was busy with plans
for the future. He must not see
Esther aguln. He must forget her,
He would do something big, place
himself on an equal plane with the
girl he had Just left There must
be no more wlldness, no more ldliugs,
nor things forbidden by law. Ambi
tion again throbbed in his veins, but
It was the antithesis of last night's
ambition : that hud been the kind
which tears flown this was the kind
that builds up.
He turned south on the drive, his
bruin reveling in golden dreams. In
his wake skulked the stout butler and
a second servant, who, mindful of the
telephoned word, "dynamite," took
especial pains to keep a discreet dis
tance between themselves and their
quarry. Near Chicago avenue he saw
a mun dodge Into an alley a short way
ahead, and though he caught but a
glimpse of the mun's face, he recog
nized Detective Kelly. He turned
swiftly, started back and walked Into
the arms of two detectives, who
seemed to appear from nowhere.
Kelly came up on a run, tackled him
from the rear and dexterously twisted
the parcel from his grasp.
"What's the charge, Kelly?" asked
the prisoner, whose cuptors held him
fast by either arm. "Or is it just be
cause you owe me one?"
"Never mind what," growled Kelly.
"You'll do a stretch this time you'll
remember. That's enough for you to
know."
En route to the police station the
detective kept a nice distance to the
rear with his trophy, and only with
the utmost caution did he relinquish
it to the desk sergeant.
Fitzhugh was booked under the
mime of Randolph Fltz and consigned
to a cell with a "drunk and disor
derly," a petty larceny case and two
negro criminals.
When Symington Otis arrived at tho
police station the first person he met
was Kelly, and the first question he
asked, ns he handed him a cigar, was,
"Did you get him?"
"We got him all right," answered
Kelly.
The last vestige of excitement van
ished from the millionaire's face.
"And the dynamite?"
Kelly exchanged meaning glances
with the desk sergeant.
"Sergeant," said he, "show Mr. Otis
the 'dynamite.'"
The sergeant bent his gaze thought
fully upon the financier.
wm
"I don't know what passed between
you and this fellow," he said, speaking
very slowly, "and I don't know what
you expect to see, but this is what
he had on 'lm." And the sergeant
held up a gymnasium sweater, once
white and fresh but now soiled. "This
is what he had wrapped In the news
paper, and 'is pockets was not bur
dened with so much as a match. II
he had any dynamite on him it was
Inside of 'lm, sir."
Otis' lips came together In a hard
line and his steel-gray eyes acquired
the flinty glint which his subordinates
and opponents In the wheat pit had
long ago come to know and fear. The
thought that he had been made a fool
of by a brazen Impostor was galling
far more galling thun if the same im
postor had really robbed him of the
ten thousand dollars. All the rage, all
the anger and contumely of the out
raged man of money power boiled
within him as he whispered savagely
to himself: "I'll fix him I" And yet
again : "I'll fix him !"
CHAPTER III.
The first person besides the news
paper men to visit Fitzhugh was Es
ther Strom. He. shook hunds with her
through the Iron grating of his cell.
Welcome r ne crieu gayiy. -cut
how'd you know?"
"I came as soon as I saw this," she
replied, taking a newspaper from un
der her cloak and holding it between
the bars to him. His eye caught a
front-page headline:
"MADMAN RUNS AMUCK 1"
Turning the page he found a group
of snapshots of himself in diverse at
titudes.
"Here's progressive Journalism I" he
laughed, shipping the paper with the
back o his hand. "These things were
taken less than two hours ago. Not
bad work, either," He regarded them
critically. He gloried In the notoriety.
She pressed closer to the bars, and
there was a troubled expression on
her face. "We must get you out of
this some way ; and you mustn't treat
it so much as a joke, for It's not. I've
a friend who's a lawyer. I'll send him
to you. I'll manage to pay him some
how, some time."
"But why?" he asked. "Why bother
about me at all? I'm nothing to you."
"I'll send him right away," she
promised. "Goodby." She pressed his
hand and was gone.
Barely an hour after Esther's de
parture the guard let Into the cell a
rotund, sleek-looking man who intro
duced himself by printed card .as
"Roger Merton, attorney and coun-selor-at-law,
Ashland block, Chicago,
hours nine to five." He sat down be
side his client on the foul bunk, and
behind his plump hand gave a genteel
little cough.
"My boy," he snid, "you have only
one defense. It's insanity don't get
excited !"
Fitzhugh laughed. "Do I look ex
cited?" he asked easily, and added,
"or insane?"
In hiding with Esther.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Saf.i.
On the occasion of a slight fire and
much smoke behind the curtain a
vaudeville manager was trying, unsuc
cessfully, by suave, assuring state
ments to quell an incipient panic In
the audience. A leading comedian
rushed out and, pointing a finger of
scorn at the manager, appealed to the
audience thus: "Sure, do you think
he would be such a fool as to Btop
here If there were any danger?"
Crocodile's Record Swim.
How far can a crocodile swim? Per
haps It would be more practical to
ask how far crocodiles do swim? J.
Stanley Gardiner claims the record
for a crocodile (Crocodllus porosus)
that recently landed In the Fiji Is
lands, where he took Its photograph.
No crocodiles of this species Inhabit
the Fiji islands, and the nearest spot
where they are known to live Is the
New Hebrides, 683 miles distant,
Therefore, this crocodile must have
swam CS3 miles in the open sea.
Scored a Success.
My four-year-old nephew was per
fectly delighted with his grandfa
ther's car and always cranked all his
toys, and even himself, when sent on
errands. He Is particularly interest
ed In anything mechanical and never
misses any such conversation. One
day he cranked the cat's tall, and was
delighted when It turned and spat at
him, for, he suld, "There, I got an
explosion that time." Chicago Amerl.
To Get Rid of Mildew Stain.
Mildew is an obstinate discolora
tion, but will yield If rubbed with
lemon juice, followed by salt, and
exposure to the sun. For mildew on
other materials than linen a mixture
consisting of two tablespoonfuls of tur
pentine, blended with the juice of a
lemon, is recommended.