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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.
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! 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
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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.