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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1920)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Erenti of Noted People. Government! and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Frank McQurk, a Chicago detective, was probably fatally shot Tuesday In a battle with three men who attempted to rob the office ot the Illinois Manu facturlng company. Gold bullion valued at $2,300,000 ar rived in New York Wednesday on the steamship Philadelphia from South ampton. The bullion was shipped by N. M. Rothschild to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The gross national debt was reduced a total of $76,404,453 In July, accord ing to the treasury statement Tuesday. This leaves the public debt at $24, 222,917,013. The reduction was ac complished through the retirement of that amount of treasury certificates of Indebtedness. An overwhelming majority In favor of enacting drastic laws to curb Jap anese activities Is indicated In the results of a referendum vote taken nmong farmers throughout the state by the California Farm Bureau fed erotlon. The Dominion Shipbuilding com pany, which has an extensive plant at Toronto, Ont., has assigned for the benefit of creditors, among whom are 800 employes who have not been paid for two weeks. Their wages amount to 775,000, It Is stated. KIght directors of the Utah-Idaho Siifc'ar company, charged In an amend ed complaint filed last week with profiteering in sugar, were arraigned Tuesday and granted bond In the sum of 110,000. They are to have prelim inary hearing next Monday. Announcement was made at Ilar rodsburg, Ky., of the sale of the old Jordan distillery ot that city and 40, 000 gallons of whisky to George Lee and other New York capitalists for I7G9.349. The machinery and equip ment will be taken to Cuba. The Chase National bank of New - York and associates were the success ful bidders for certificates of indebted ness of the government of the Philip pine Islands to the face value ef $10, 000,000. The certificates bear Interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. Rejecting new wage price lists of fered by the shoe workers' union, 20 cut-solo, top-lift and tap manufactur er at Haverhill, Mass., failed to open tholr Bhops Monday. Six hundred em ployes are affected. The new price lists are said to call for wage Increases ranging $14 to $13 weekly. furses for the Grand Circuit races at Charter Oak park, Conn., September 6 to 10, announced Tuesday, nggregate $39,000. The Charter Oak $10,000 stake for 2:12 trotters will be raced September 9. There are 20 races on the programme, four events for each day. Entries will close August 23. National guardsmen were called out Tuesday night to protect Miami, Fla., from disorders threatened by 400 ne groes, natives of the Bahama Islands and British subjects, who have been aroused over the death of Herbert Brooks, one of their number, charged with assaulting a Miami white woman. J, Frank Hauly, ex-governor of In diana, a prohibition candidate for president In 1916, and Dr. and Mrs C. M. Baker of Kllgore, O., were killed six mllos from Dennlson, O., Sunday when a Pennsylvania freight train struck tholr automobile. All suffered fractured skulls and crushed bodies. Mr. Hnnly died at 9 a. m. nour wok a runner drop of 50o a barrel at the principal mills In Min neapolis Tuesday. Quotations on fam ily patent in 98-pound cotton sacks, carload lots, were from $12.35 to $12.75. The drop followed a recession of 40 cent! lust Saturday and com pares with prices ot $14.50 to $14.75 a barrel on July 24. The occupation of Warsaw by the bolshevlkl has been fixed for August 9, says a dispatch to the London Times from Berlin, quoting a wireless to the National Zeltung. The Polish government, the dispatch added, was taking necessary measures and had placed the fortifications under com mand of French engineer officers. The defense baa been entrusted to General Haller. M . T T T ? ?T ! STATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Pendleton. H, W, Collins, promin ent local grain dealer, last week was elected to succeed the late Tillman D. Taylor as president of the Pendleton Round-up association. Hood River. The Oak Grove Lum ber company, the plant of which, lo cated on 'Ditch creek, In the Oak Grove district, was burned Friday night, will not rebuild, It was an nounced, the small amount of remain ing timber not Justifying reconstruc tion. Portland. On the heels of the sen sational drops In wheat quotations of the past few days came the announce ment Wednesday ot a drop of 80 cents a barrel on all grades of flour, to take immediate effect. Harrisburg. The old city hall and opera house, which was built about 20 years ago, has been sold and Is being torn down by a wrecking crew from Portland. This building has been used for public gatherings of all kinds until about six months ago. when it was condemned as unsafe. MarBhf leld. The Pacific Exports company, operating In Bandon and vi cinity as shippers of white cedar tim ber and lumber, has determined upon the installation of a small sawmill at Bandon In which to cut such timber as would bring better returns than If shipped In the raw state. Klamath Falls. Dice and cards will not be removed from Klamath Falls poolrooms and other public places, de creed the city council at Its last ses sion, when, after long debate, an un breakable deadlock resulted in the vote on a proposed ordinance abolish ing cards, dice and chips. Newport. At a Joint meeting of the ports of Newport and Toledo, held at Toledo last week, It was decided to offer about $125,000 worth of bonds, the bids to be opened August 14. The denominations, though not decided, will probably be five-year bonds, car rying 6 per cent Interest. Salem. An airplane from Portland last weeTc brought to Mrs. T. B. Kay, society leader of Salem and wife of ex-State Treasurer Kay, a blue-blooded PerBian cat, which was purchased by Mrs. Kay in Portland. The cat has the distinction of being the first In the state to be shipped by airplane. Ashland. Owing to the freeze In northern Oregon and Washington or chard districts last winter which play ed havoc with this year's peach crop In particular, practically all of the Ashland peach crop will be shipped to northern points Instead of to Cali fornia, as has been the case in paBt years. Salem. "Socialist labor" party as title for the proposed new political or ganization in Oregon would be in con flict with the title of the present so cialist party and cannot be used, de clares Attorney-General Brown In an opinion written for Secretary of State Kozor. The socialist party Is held to be a valid party under the Oregon laws Eugene. The forest patrol observ ers In the airplanes sent out from the Eugene base made the record of the season last Wednesday when they dis covered and reported 24 fires located for the most part along the west coast in Coos and Tillamook counties. On Sunday they discovered and reported u fires. All were comparatively small. Salem. Because of the tendency of members of the dental profession to come from the eastern states to the west, while few go from the west to the east, the state board of dental examiners has placed its disapproval on a proposed reciprocal exchange of dental licenses. This stand was ta ken by Dr. W. D. McMillan, secretary of the Oregon board, at a meeting of the national board of dental examiners held at New Orleans. Salem. A crew of 2b flax pullers from Portlaud arrived here last week to assist in harvesting the state crop of this product There are now ap proximately 200 pullers at work In the state flax fields, practically all of whom were employed under the di rection of C. II. Gram, state labor commissioner. It Is possible, accord ing to the officials, for a family of four members to earn approximately $30 a day at this work. Newberg. J. C. Nelson, pioneer of 1844, died at his home In Newberg last Tuesday after having been con fined to his bed for 13 weeks. He was 93 years old. Mr. Nelson was born near St, Louis, Mo., and when a young man came to Oregon in 1844. The first winter was spent in Wash ington county, and the following spring he, with his parents, located in Chehaletn valley and secured land which he owned at the time of his death. GOV DELIVERS OPENING SPEECH 0 Ohio Executive Declares to League of Nations. THOUSANDS ATTEND Throngs Witneia Acceptance of Nom ination-Over 20,000 March in Miles of Parade, Dayton, O. The democratic presi dential standard, with the league of nations and progress Its peak escutch eons, Saturday was marched into the 1920 campaign by Governor James M. Cox. Cheering democrats, estimated' at between 30,000 and 75,000, witnessed his acceptance following notification by Senator Robinson, chairman at the San Francisco convention. To the ceremonies at the Montgom ery county fair grounds, Governor Cox, with, Franklin D. Roosevelt, his run ning mate, marched a mile In a broil ing sun at the head of a parade. The procession, sprinkled with two-score bands, was estimated to contain nearly 20,000 marchers. For two hours the governor kept the throng cheering as he announced his campaign policies. He made the league his paramount Issue, declaring he stood for American and world peace by Its adoption, with "Interpre tations" preserving Its vital plan. He declared the the league was a part of the democratic offering for progress as against republican reaction. His advocacy of the league drew lengthy demonstrations and statements of ap proval from party leaders. Two covenant reservations he has suggested were emphasized by the gov ernor. Regarding article 10, he was cheered loudly In comparing it to the Monroe doctrine. Shouts of approval also greeted his declarations for wo man suffrage, law enforcement, re duction of taxation and other issues he proclaimed. Without mentioning specifically the prohibition amendment, he said "any one false to his oath is more unworthy than the law violator." The candidate's address closed a day of democratic Jubilation. The program was late in starting, Governor Cox and Mr. Roosevelt did not reach the fair grounds until 2:30 and their review of the paraders con tinued until 4 o'clock. Governor Cox began his address at 4:40. After the democratic leaders, thou sands of cheering democrats paraded down the race track past the speakers' tand with bands playing, banners and flags waving and bearing hundreds of cards of tribute to their candidates and predicting victory. The governor got more applause as he emphasized his indictment of the republican platform and leadership The crowd also voiced its approval of his declaration that the loss ot the league would mean more armament expense. The candidate's tribute to President Wilson and his deprecation of repub lican "discourtesy," given in lowered voice, was given further rolls of ap plause. A demonstration followed his assertion that republican "sleuthing" had failed to unearth dishonesty In the direction of the war. More cheers approved the candi date's pledge to aid ex-service men. Repeated- thumps of his fist punctu ated the governor's criticism of Sen ator Harding's stand on party govern ment. One of the largest delegations was from Marlon, Senator Harding's home. The conductor's fare count, it was said, showed 1124 on the special train, which was Jammed to the platforms. Several hundred more were reported to have come by automobile. They carried large placards in their hands with the picture of a rooster and la beled "Coxsure." Governor Cox abandoned his plan to have an Insert to his address. He announced that there would be no Insert and that the speech as sent In advance to the press would stand. Mexican Ships Beached. San Francisco. The Mexican gun boat Bonlta, carrying 1000 regular cavalry, ran ashore In the harbor of Mazatlan and Is considered a total loss, according to passengers aboard the steamer Cuba, which arrived here Sunday. According to the arrivals the Bonita met with disaster a week ago while transporting De le Huerta troops from Mazatlan to Ensenada, Lower California, for use against the Cantu rebellion. The City Purple Dreams "DESTROY THIS LETTERI" Synopsis. Typical tramp In ap pearance, Daniel Randolph Fltz hugh, while crossing a Chicago treet, cauaee the wreck of an auto, whoea chauffeur dlaablei It try ing to avoid running him down. In pity the occupant of the auto, a young girl, aavee him from arrest and gives him a dollar, telling him to buy soap, and wash. Hie eenae of ahame la touched, and he Im proves hla appearance. That night, In a crowd of unemployed and an archists, he meets Esther Btrom and In a spirit of bravado makes a speech. Esther Induces Fltzhugh to address the radical meeting. He electrifies the crowd, and on part ing the two agree to meet again. A few days later Fltzhugh visits Sy mington Otis, prominent financier, and displaying a package which he says contains dynamite, but which Is merely a bundle of paper, de mands 110,000. Otis gives him a check. At the house he meets the girl who had given him the dollar, and learns she Is Kathleen Otis. She recognizes him. Ashamed, he tears up the check and escapes, but Is arrested. Esther visits Fltzhugh In jail, and makes arrangements for procuring legal advice. His trial Is speedily completed and he Is found Insane and committed to an asylum, from which he easily makes his escape. Fltzhugh takes refuge In Chicago with Esther, who has becoiae Infatuated with Mm, but with the thought of Kathleen In his mind he gives her no encouragement His one Idea Is to become rich and powerful, and win Kathleen. While hiding In Esther's house he grows a beard, which effectually changes his ap pearance. Nlkolay, a big Russian, becomes Jealous. CHAPTER V. It was ten days since the reward for Fltzhugh's capture had been of fered, and though detectives, city, amateur, and private, as well as the police, had kept hot an unremitting search, not a trace of the fugitive could they find. "Clues," they had by scores, but they led nowhere. This tenth day fell on a Thursday In April a cold, dark day of Incessant rain. Nlkolay Invariably called upon Esther every Friday, but on this particular Thursday night, happening to be in her neighborhood, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity, and drop in on her for a pot of hot tea and a word of good cheer. He was about to pass under the wooden staircase, and so to her door, when suddenly, Just opposite the win dow he stopped still and stood as though hewed Ttom stone. What he saw was this : In the cen ter of the room, her back toward him, stood Esther; arms held out, her head back, she had the unmistakable pos ture of a woman waiting only for the One Man. The next Instant a very tall man, young-looking despite the short, nntrlmmed beard on his lean face, stepped from some point outside Niko lay's range of vision, and took her in his arms and kissed her. His pimply face" livid with fury, yel low hair seeming to stand on end, Nlkolay burst Into the room. Fltzhugh sprang from his place and faulted the table, bringing it between himself and the door. "Get out, Esther," he ordered quietly, rolling up hla shirtsleeves. "I'm going to slaugh ter this beast" She made no move to go, however, but drew to one side, and with hands pressed to her cheeks, watched the Rushed Like an Infuriated Bull. two gladiators with mingled horror and fascination. Nlkolay had the ad vantage of some forty pounds In weight, but Fltzhugh was vastly his superior In stamina, fistic skill and quickness of eye and movement. To win the fight he Judged he had to do but one thing: to keep free of the other's clutches. Once the big Rus sian got those tremendous arms around him the combat would be un equal. Nlkolay rushed upon Ms foe like an infuriated bull, and Fltzhugh ducked and sidestepped like a lean panther, springing in quicklj to deliver two blows In rapid succession, the last of which brought blood. In the next rush, however, a sledge hammer seemed to swing upon the point of his chin, and he spun dizzily backward, unable to regain his balance, and fell heavily against a fender. But Nlkolay was not quick enough to follow up his ad vantage, and when next he charged, Fltzhugh had recovered, and was dancing around him as before, his lip drawn back from hi! gleaming teeth In a taunting smile. The blood waa streaming from a dozen cuts on the Russian's face, its crimson biota In his eyes; and ever that smiling, whlte-nnd-black face swam before htm like a pirouetting phantom. Knowing his endurance to be his strongest, and the other's weakest, point, Fltzhugh desired chiefly to wear his opponent down until such time as he could rush in and finish him. Nlkolay was fast becoming exhaust ed. Ten minutes of this mad pace was more than he could stand. His breath came shorter and shorter. At last he stopped and allowed his arms to dangle limply at his sides. For a little while, coughing and spit ting blood and catching his breath In wheezy gasps, he stared drunkeniy, Then, seizing a heavy water pitcher from beside an overturned chair, he hurled It, with a vile word. Fltzhugh dodged the missile and leapt for bis foe. He put every atom of hi! vigor ous young strength Into the blow he landed under Nlkolay's Jaw, and the man went down like a clubbed ox. The conqueror walked to a corner, picked up his coat, and slung It over his shoulder. He came back to Esther, crouching against the wall like one awakening from some horrible dream, He smiled, but In the neutral light the smile was ghastly. "I'm sorry you had to see It I told you I'd slaughter him." J tie next moment the woman was sobbing hysterically In his arms, can't let you go! I can't I can't I" She clung to him as a drowning per son, clutching his hands, his arms, bis neck. "You must, Esther." He stroked her hair tenderly. "The police may be here at any moment. Get away . as quickly as possible. Never mind- about him he'll be all right presently. I'll write you care of the post office. lou write me, too. Good-by, dear, good-by." With these words of parting he turned and left the house. Fltzhugh entered a saloon and laved his hurts and washed up, afterward surveying his face very critically In a mirror. He concluded he was ef fectually , disguised against anybody who had not seen him during the past four weeks. He left the saloon and continued northward. In State street he stopped before an alleged restaurant one of those dis colored, unwashed places that can be scented a hundred yards off on a warm day, and where a "full meal" may be had for twenty cents and read this sign hanging from a nail on the door post: "DISHWASHER WANTED." He removed the sign, walked inside and handed It to the chemical-blonde cashier perched on a high stool be tween a cash register and a pyramid of toothpicks. "I'm it," said he, favoring her with an engaging smile. It was a sweltering, filthy place, reeking with multitudinous odors and overrun with cockroaches. The soiled dishes came In a never-ending torrent, and all day, with three respites for food, he bent at the wash-bench, his arms Immersed to the elbows In black, soapy water. At eight came the night man, and he drew a breath of relief and a dollar on his weekly wage, and started home. Or, rather, he started to look for a home. He found one for two dollars a week a depressing room, little larger than a coalbox, tucked away In the upper regions of a shoddy lodging house. He paid the grim-faced landlady half of his capi tal, bought a packet of tobacco and an evening newspaper, and went to his room. He disrobed to his underclothing, and with the newspaper and a ciga rette, stretched himself on the couch bed, allowing his feet to rest on a ctalr. He Inhaled a satisfying cloud of smoke and unfolded the news sheet and his fingers closed rigidly on the paper; his heart seemed to stand still. What he read at a glance stretched across four columns of the front page: MURDER MYSTERY AMONG REDS I OLAF NIKOLAI, RUSSIAN NIHIL IST, FOUND DEAD IN SOUTH SIDE BASEMENT 1 WOMAN SUSPECT GONE I The story to shrleklngly heralded was told In a few paragraphs, and Fltzhugh breathed easier as he read. Substantially, It related that Nlkolay had been found that afternoon by Es ther's landlady, Who, thinking th man drunk, had called the police. An ex amination showed that he was stabbed to the heart and had been dead for hours. Esther had disappeared, leav ing no tract behind her. Fltzhugh dropped the paper to the By EDWIN f BAIRD gj Ctrrfkitrr.O.IMCk floor and stared thoughtfully at the celling, crushing his cigarette slowly between hi! fingers. Suddenly he Jumped up and began pacing the door restlessly. "Pshaw I she'll get away all right Yes, yea, she'll get away all right." On hi! way to work next morning be called at the post office and found, as he expected, a letter from Esther. It was written on a scrap of wrapping taper with a lead pencil, and begun without preface: If I've sinned It was because I loved you so. I did It for your sake. I am praying God that your desire for wealth may be granted you. Even though your ambition Is ons of which I do not entire ly approve, I would willingly die that you might achieve It. That Is how 1 love you. It may be a long while before you hear from me again, because I am going far away. Destroy this letter. Your adoring ESTHER. He burned the letter In the kitchen range and knuckled down to his op probrious toll as on the previous duy. Fltzhugh had a clearly defined rea son for doing scullery work In a res taurant. It provided a steady, if small, Income; It facilitated economy, and, above all, It afforded him a secure hiding place during the duy. He In tended to stay there six weeks. By that time his beard would be sutll- Then, Seizing a Heavy Water Pitcher From Beside an Overturned Chair, He Hurled It With a Vile Word. ciently long to be shaped Into a Van dyke. Also, for be practiced the most rigorous frugality, he expected to have thirty dollars with which to buy some presentable clothes. From that point on he felt positive that somehow his soaring aloft would be swift and sure. Only once was the monotony of that month broken. By one of those anomalous conditions peculiar to some cities, the street the restaurant was on, a miserable, poverty-stricken thor oughfare, Is less than ten minutes' walk from Chicago's wealthiest resl--' dentlal section. This Incongruous Jux taposition accounted for the break In Fltzhugh's routine. It was lute one warm night In June, and he , had walked a few streets from his board ing house and was taking the air along the Lake Shore drive, when he saw Kathleen Otis. A shining limousine stopped before the iron gateway through which he had twice passed, and as he drew back into the shadows of some shrubbery she alighted with her father. How exquisite, she was how desirable 1 Every night after that Fltzhur;h promenaded the drive. But he never saw her again. He read later that she had sailed for France with her mother : and would not return until the au tumn. From dishwasher to - . . , (TO BE CONTINUED.) Bird Deadly Enemy of Files. The Wilson warbler Is the champion fly-catcher of the United States. His method of getting most of his food Is to dash out from the limb of a tree and snatch passing Insects on the wing. He catches other Insects which are flitting about or sitting on the foliage or blossoms of the trees. You will often find these little birds In apple trees when In bloom. Their olive green and yellow plumage harmonizes with the green leaves of the trees. The male bird has a black crown patch on the top of Its bead, while on the female this cap Is greenish like the back. This bird Is found throughout the eastern United States, but win ters in Central America. Frea Hot Water. Free hot water for hot drinks at pic nics or for any other use Is served to the public at a recreation park In Toronto from"- a gas water heater placed on the grounds by the city au thorities. A wooden shed bouses the heater and a sign on the building call! attention to the fact that hot water Is free.
