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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1920)
WORLD 111 OF CURRENT IE Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Five hundred Kansas coal miners began a "vacation" Wednesday. Two mines at Pittsburg, Kan., were in volved'. The steamer St. Paul brought $8, 300,000 In gold to New York from England Tuesday. The money is to pay Great Britain's interest on the war debt. In a fight With an automobile thief at Bayard, Neb., Water Commissioner ' John Lingreen was shot and killed and Chief of Police Webb's arm was shattered by a bullet. Luis A. Santander, consul for Chile in the state of Washington and assist ant professor of Spanish at the Uni versity of Washington, died in Seattle Tuesday after a few hours' illness. Negotiations opened by representa tives of soviet Russia in Germany have resulted, according to the Red Hag, in an order for 6000 yallway engines and a large number of tur bines. J. N. Weatherby, a large landholder in Mills county, was found dead Wed nesday on a lonely road eight miles from Brownwood, Tex., with the head badly beaten and the body wrapped In an army blanket. His valuables had Tjeen taken. The allied reparations committee, according to Vorwaerts Tuesday, has presented to the German government a demand for the Immediate delivery of 10,000 bulls and 600,000 cows to France; 11,150 head of cattle to Italy, 210,000 cows to Belgium and 157,000 head of cattle to Serbia. Former King Constantlneof Greece is reported as intending to take ad vantage of tho situation created by the serious illness of King Alexander, bis son, by returning to Greece and claiming the throne. The Swiss au thorities, It is slated, are taking meas ures to defeat the alleged plot. Frank Derney was arrested In Oak land, Cal., Monday on suspicion of complicity in the robbery of the Bank of Alvarudo last Wednesday. Accord ing to officers his description tallies with that of one of the bandits who escaped with $22,000 after shooting August May, president of the bank. The supreme court has refused to review the conviction in New York of the American socialist party for vio lating the espionage act. The party wns fined $3000 for publishing a pam plilet by Scott Nearing entitled "The Great Madness." Nearing was tried ut the same time but was acquitted. Attorney General Palmer has direct ed the United Stales district attorney ut San Francisco "to make a full and complete investigation" of reports that 40 barrels of whlBky and gin were withdrawn from bond at San Francisco for the entertainment of the delegates to the democratic national convention, Pleas for the development of for eign trade through the American mer chant marine as means for securing the poace of the world and returning this country to a stabilized condition were made at the National League Kxposltion in Chicago Tuesday night by Admiral W. S. Benson, chairman of the shipping board, and Edward N. Hurley, chairman of tho board during the war. A loue robber who entered the Un ion Park bunk, in an outlying indus trial district of Spokane, shortly be fore closing time Tuesduy aftornoon, ordered Cashier Anderson and two other employes into the vault and .es caped- with $200 in small bills, which he scooped from the counter. He overlooked several thousand dollars in bills of larger denominations, bank of ficials said, evidently having been nervous. Draft evaders who had been appre hended up to July 15 and their cases disposed of by the military authorities numbered 163,738, it is announced at the war department The total num ber of draft desertions which had been reported to tho provost marshnlgcn erul wns 498,033, but examination ot government records showed that 161, 354 men classed as deserters had en listed In the army, navy or marine corps or In the armed forces of the allies, so that the total number of de sertions still listed now numbers 103,911. KING OF GREECE SUCCUMBS Bitten By Pet Monkey, Wounds Be come Infected Operations Fail. Athens. King Alexander of Greece died at 5:20 P. M. Monday. His death was due to wounds received when a pet monkey attacked him early in October, the king being badly mutilat ed. Throughout Sunday night, the heart action grew weaker, his general de bility became more pronounced and pulmonary symptoms were intense. Breathing at times was most diffi cult and alarming, and at noon it was announced that the king's condition was hopeless. The death of King Alexander gives rise to the question of succession to the Greek throne. Former King Con stantino was reported, according to Swiss dispatches of October 17, as in tending to take advantage of the sit uation created by his son's grave ill ness, by returning to Greece to claim the throne. About the same time a regency was suggested and Constantino gave his opinion of this as follows: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I will not think of a regency yet. My plans are those of my people." Premier Venizelos Sunday expressed himself as confident that Prince Paul, Constantine's third son, would not be prevented from taking the throne by his father. Both Prince Arthur of Connaught and Prince Charles of Belgium have been mentioned as possible candidates. It is probable that the old chamber will be reconvened owing to the king's death to consider what steps are to be taken before the new chamber meets. U. 8. Men Get Siberia Lease. London. Washington D. Vanderlip of California, who recently visited Russia, has sent a telegram from Copenhagen saying he has concluded an extensive arrangement with the Russian soviet authorities by which an organization of western American financers acquires a 60-year lease of a vast tract in north-eastern Siberia, with exclusive rights to develop coal, oil and fisheries. He stated that his associates are the heads of leading financial institutions west of the Rockies. Vanderlip's telegram describes the tract as "all northeastern Siberia east of the 160th meridian, including the peninsula of Kamchatka, an area of some 400,000 square miles." He said that active operation will begin in the spring of next year. Armenians Ask Marines. Washington, D. C. Secretary Daniels has been asked by the Ar menian-American Boclety to send war ships to the Black sea to land marines at Batum to keep open the illroad line from that port to Erivan. Mr. Daniels promised to take the mat ter up with Secretary Colby. A reso lution requesting the president to send marines to Batum was adopted by the senate last May 13. It was offered for the foreign relations committee. Channel Contract Let. Washington, D. C A contract for redglng tho channel to the proposed ival base at San Diego, Cal., has been awarded to the Standard Dredg ing company ot New York, it is said by Admiral C. W. Parks, chief of yards and docks. Bids were based on unit charges for material excavated, but estimates are that the completed job ill cost approximately $750,000. War Clemency Asked. Los Angeles. Recommendation that the three-year sentences Imposed upon A. Stephens, Edward Hamm and E. J. Sonnenberg, all of San Bernardino, Cal., for violation of the espionage act by distribution and sale of certain literature, be commuted to one year each has been sent to the department of justice. They were taken to Mc Neil's island last May. Five Robbers Loot Bank. Toledo, O. Five men early Mon day forced the cashier of the bank at Alvotlon, O., in Williams county, to get out of bed, unlock the safe and turn ever to them $3500 in cash and $500 in bonds. They gave first aid to his wife, who fainted when they forced ntranco to the cashier's home. Ponzl Is Held Bankrupt. Boston. Charles Ponzl formally was adjudged a bankrupt by the federal district court Monday. The court ac- pted the report of the referee in bankruptcy who conducted an inquiry to several phases of the get-rich- qulck scheme by which Ponzi obtained llllons from investors. Earthquake Hits Spain. Granada, Spain. An earthquake Bhock lasting 10 minutes was felt on Wednesday throughout the province. Damage was done In some villages, but whether there were any casualties is not known. Almost the entire pop ulation of the province left borne. : STATE NEWS t IN BRIEF. Eugene. With the shutting down of the large sawmills nearby and the shortage of freight cars, a fuel famine may result in Eugene this winter, ac cording to wood dealers. Salem. Sam A. Kozer secretary of state, has issued a warrant for $25,000 in favor of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition company, cover ing the appropriation of that amount for premiums to be awarded at Its annual show to be held November 13 in Portland. Albany. Fifteen men In the South em Pacifio railroad shops here were laid off this week to reduce the work ing force to the basis of a year ago, Eleven of them were employes in the car shops and the other four were roundhouse mechanics. Klamath Falls. Two masked and armed men entered the Shippington poolroom at Shippington, a sawmill suburb, Wednesday night at 11 o'clock, held up a crowd of 35 patrons and escaped with loot variously estimated at between $700 and $1200. Salem. Seven thousand members Is the goal of the local chapter of the Red Cross, which will start a mem bership campaign armistice day, No vember 11, and end Thanksgiving. Practically every section of Marion county will be covered in the drive. Salem. The work of erecting a scaf fold for the executions of Neil Hart, Jim Owens and Jack Rathie, who are under death sentence for the murder of Til Taylor, former sheriff of Uma tilla county was started at the peniten tiary here Thursday. The gallows will be located in the Bertillon room on the upper floor of the prison. Philomath. Philomath college has received $2000 of the $20,000 it is to receive from the united enlistment fund of the United Brethren church This probably will bring about the building of a new gymnasium soon. The campaign for $50,000 to raise the endowment to $100,000 has just been completed. Fossil. II. R. Winebarger of Mit chell was arrested on the charge of operating a car without a license and was fined $50 in the justice court. He was also arrested on the charge of operating a passenger car without a driver's license, and was charged $25. This is the first case of this kind that has ever been tried in Wheeler coun ty. Cottage Grove. Just to demonstrate that the Riverside farm can compete with any when the exigencies of the occasion require, John Hull, the owner of the farm, has jut on exhibition a turnip weighing 20 pounds and. hav ing a 32-lnch circumference measure. This is the largest turnip from the patch, but he has many two-thirds that size. Salem. A telegram was received by the Btate highway department here to the effect that Story, Thorndyke, Pal mer & Dodge, Boston attorneys, had waived all objections in connection with the authorization of $10,000,000 of state highway bonds by the Oregon legislature last January and approved by the voters at the special election In May. Eugene. Inconvenience of often times suffering caused by the lack of roads in the northwestern part of Lane county is illustrated In the fact that one day last week four men were com pelled to carry Miss Ellen Stevens, resident of the Ten Mile section, many miles on a stretcher over mountain trails to reach a train so she could be sent to Portland for treatment. Medford. An Illustration of the growing business prosperity that Med ford has been enjoying for more than a year is that the gross receipts of the local postoffice for the year ended September 20, 1920, were $34,781.37, which exceeds by $1253.88 the previous highest year's record, that made dur ing the boom days of the year ended August 31, 1911, which was $33,427.49. Bend. Discovery at Horse Butte, nine miles southeast of Bend, of a naturally heated cave apparently draw ing its warmth from a subterranean volcanic source was reported by C. A. Yarnell and II. D. Elde, local fuel deal ers. Investigation verified the report. The cave located near the top ot the butte first attracted attention when a wave of heat was felt issuing from the mouth. Salem. C. A. McLaughlin of Inde pendence has Just received from Louis Lachmund final payment of his 1920 hop crop which Involved a cash con sideration ot $183,728. The hops were purchased by Mr. Lachmund for an English syndicate and will be sent to foreign ports. The hops were of first class quality and were produced on what Is known as the old HIrshburg farm, two miles north of Independence. Last year's crop of hops yielded Mr. McLaughlin $115,000. The City of Purple Dreams By EDWIN BAIRD Copyright by F. O. Browni & Co. CHATER XIII. Continued. 17 Near the close of the day's session, without exactly knowing why, he went on the "floor" for a. few minutes. A man shouted in his ear: "July's gone to a dollar and a half l't witnout answering, without even looking at the man, he stoo8 watch Ing the monster turmoIL The uproar was deafening. The old speculator turned away. Very carefully, very slowly, he made his way through the hurly-burly, de scended the steps that led to the ground floor, Ills hand sliding jerkily along the banister. When he entered bis broker's office his hair was no more white than his face, and as he sat down and held his hand a moment over his eyes his fingers trembled as one af flicted with palsy. It was the first time In his twenty-odd years of speculating that he had been seen unnerved. He looked at his broker and shook his Bead. He's dose It," he said, with a pitia ble pretense of smiling. "He's done It, Howard. He's got us. He's cor nered the market." Authoritative news of the corner went out over the land. The name of Daniel Randolph Fltzhugh loomed gigantic on the financial horizon. He controlled all the wheat. He could exact for It whatever price he wanted. If he chose, he could get fifty dollars bushel. He was the King of Wheat. His name became a household word, Scarcely a man, woman, or child in the middle West but prattled of him. The farruers lauded him as a benefactor of humanity. Others condemned hlra as a thief. Tliousands of letters of every description flooded his mall. Loaves of bread dwindled In size. Mutterings reached him. His life was threatened. His wealth multiplied with prodi gious leaps. At no time could he tell how much he was worth. He knew it was more than fifteen millions and less than thirty. Then there came a day when he was to settle with Otis. The defeated gladiator made the appointment for eleven o'clock that morning In Fiti hugh's office. At five minutes to eleven Fltzhugh was alone awaiting him. He had given orders that none but Otis was to be admitted, and that afterward they were not to be disturbed. As he lolled back in his cushioned chair before the mahogany desk, and gazed round the luxurious room, a reverie came over him. He recalled Ms first venture in wheat, made with a few thousands won In a poker game ; he remembered the time he had worked for Qulgg for four hundred dollars a month. And then, his memory slipping his control and leaping back further still, he thought of the time when No I Had he been a dishwasher? Had he slaved In the scullery of a filthy kitchen for a miserable weekly pittance? The door opened. Symington Otis entered. In these days of his monarchy Fltz hugh saw many sorts of characters ex posed raw and naked to Ills gaze. He saw men come cringing to him, begging and pleading. He saw others enter, blustering and trying to outface him. Otis behaved In neither manner. . He walked in quietly, and, closing the door, remained standing, with no greet ing whatsoever. He looked ten years older than his actual age. Fltzhugh returned to bis chair. The silence had lasted fully half a minute before he spoke. "It has been agreed, Mr. Otis, that I shall deal with you as I see fit" Otis nodded. He did not speak. "My rule has been to give no quar ter and ask none. I see no renson why your case should mark an exception. I see every reason why It should not. For eight years or more your hand has been against me. You have opposed my ventures, obstructed my path, hin dered me In every way." "I came here," Interjected Otis cold ly, "to talk business; not to discuss our personal affairs." "And we are going to discuss those affairs. Mr. Otis" Fltzhugh rose, and, with his hands resting on the desk In front of him, leaned toward his visitor, who now stood opposite "I will let you out of my corner on only one con dition." "Which Is?" "That you tell your daughter" "You need not go further! I will consider nothing that Involves my fam ily." "Then you refuse to deny to her" "Absolutely I" "the preposterous falsehood you repeated?" I repeated no falsehood. It was the truth." "It was a lie I The woman is dead now, and I shall say nothing against her. But you, and you only, can undo the wrong she did me." Mr. Fltahugh, I must ask you to "For the final time, will you tell her " "No! Absolutely, n!" "Then you will take the alternative." Fitzhugh turned and pressed one of the pearl buttons on his desk. His ex pression was one many Chicagoans had seen to their sorrow since lat July; the facial muscles tense, the stern jaw thrust forward, his eyes hard as agate. A young man entered. Fitzhugh nodded to him, and he departed, re turning presently with a small, round top table, which he placed near the desk. In the center of the table was a plush box not unlike a jeweler's ring- case. Otis looked on as a child who fears the dark. He had not even a remote Idea of what the box contained, nor could he imagine what the table portended, yet he felt, nevertheless. that some sinister torture was Impend ing. "You are short to us," said Daniel, after locking the door upon his em ployee, "seven million bushels of wheat ranging In price from ninety-six cents to a dollar and ten. I am going to settle our transaction in less than one second." He crossed to the table, picked up the little box, pressed a spring In the side; the lid flew open, and he extract ed a new gold eagle, which he held up between thumb and forefinger. "Tills will settle it. A fitting emblem, Mr. Otis. Gold I What a sermon you and I might preach upon It !" Tried beyond all patience, Otis cried out: "Come to the point 1 What'i your object?" Fitzhugh laughed. It was ttie same mirthless laugh that had once remind ed Hunt of a wolf baring Its fangs. He poised the coin. "Heads or tails. wmch do you want7 It I win, your wheat will cost you two and a quarter a bushel " "Two merciful God! man, that price will ruin me !" ".Of course it will." Fitzhugh re placed the eagle in the box, breathing audibly a sigh of relief. "Now then, I think we understand each other. If you will only go to her " "I won't consider that!" "You know the alternative." "It makes no difference. I will not consider it!" "Very well" poising the coin as be fore. "Heads or tails?" "Stop this aslulne playing!" "Should you win you will have Just enough to live on modestly." "The idiocy of such a thing I" Fltzhugh again gave his discomfit ing laugh. "I don't agree with you. All our mighty warring, proclaimed broadcast in every country of the world, has been nothing more than a game of heads-and-tails. lou bet wheat would fall. I bet It would rise. "But You, and You Only, Can Undo the Wrong She Did Me." I won. The toss of a gold coin will add en artistic climax. Walt I" as Otis made an attempt to Interrupt. I'm not through. If you will do us I ask, you will not lose a cent. You will get your wheat " "I will not do It!" "Once and for all, will you save yourself?" "In the way you nsk never!" "Then, you will take the conse quences I" Daniel seized the gold piece. "Wc'.'l toss for it ; and if I win you will go bankrupt." Otis, who had remained standing throughout the conversation, groped behind him for a chair, staring aghast at his opponent. There could be no doubting his seri ousness. Ihere was not a trace of merriment In his hard face. Nor a vestige of compassion. "Then you do mean It?" "Every word of it !" The groping hand struck a chair. Otis sat down, clutching tremblingly at the arm, moistening his lips. "Talis," he whispered, but so indis tinctly he was asked to repeat the word. "Heads," he snld, more firmly, Fltzhugh spun the coin into the air. It fell upon the polished table with a little ring. The older man's face grew suddenly ghastly, and the two lhiavy furrows extending from his nose to the corners of his mouth deepened. He was on the verge of a collapse. "What Is It? Quick!" Fltzhugh bent and looked at the gold eagle. "Heads," he said. CHAPTER XIV. Daniel's career In La Salle street closed with his corner In wheat. Ter minating the ocean of details, he sailed forthwith for Paris. "For a long holiday," he told his friends. But It was really for quite another purpose. Hunt, who swore by the man and potently believed him the greatest he had ever known, settled his specula tive deals and went with him. One evening In the Cafe Martin they met Artie Sparkle. Artie had long since become an expatriate, due, ac cording to gossip, to unrequited affec tion and hope too often deferred. He was with a brilliantly gowned woman of the French boulevard type, who wore Just a little too much rouge, Just a few too many diamonds, and a gaiety of manner Just a trifle too effervescent. Artie's animosity toward his former rival had very obviously been buried, or forgotten, for he pounced Joyfully upon the two Americans, and with gusto and eclat presented them to her of the gorgeous plumage his wife of the month. Then more wine was ordered to toast the bride, and Artie extollod ec statically the bliss of connubial life, touching In particular upon his own, which to him, of course, was unparal leled and paramount. Gradually the talk turned upon other topics, with the benedict easily leading. "I read all about it in Lunnon, dean fellow." This to Daniel. "Frightfully clevah of you, I must say, getting all that grain and freez.ing out the otliah chaps. . . . And poor old Otis; I saw him in Carlsbad last week. He looks dreadfully done for. I feah the poor fellow won't last long." Always the mention of Otis' name spelled bad moiue nts for Daniel. Since that Indian summer day when millions had hung upon the toss of a coin the aged speculator, as Daniel knew, had been a bowed-down man. He never visited the pit again. He never went nenr it. The memory of Its roaring sent a shudder through hlui. He was care-worn, listless, comfortless. He had lost his "nerve." Grain gambling topics were taboo in his household, and those who valued his good will found It politic not to broach such in his hearing. When in October he had left for the German '"bad" cures he was broken in health as well as In spirit. His quest was fruitless. One May morning In Florence Dan iel read at his breakfast table of Otis' death. He had died in mid-ocean en route to New York. He put down his newspaper, beck oned the waiter, ordered some cable gram forms. Leaving his breakfast untouched, and Hunt's questions un answered, he wrote a lengthy message to a Chicago trust company that spe cialized in mortgages. He fretted with Impatience until he received an answer; and then, having read It, he tore it up and sighed hopelessly. Daniel heard afterward that Otis had left nothing beyond his life insur ance. The house on the drive- had gone, and with It all the pomp of cir cumstances. Mrs. Otis was residing temporarily In Oconomowoc. Kathleen was with her. Early In June of that year two wealthy Americans, who had made their "piles" In July wheat, booked first-class transportation from Rome to Chicago. When they boarded the liner at Naples there embarked with them a quarter of a million dollars' worth of European art treasures. When they left the liner at New York the name of the tall, distinguished-looking one, of the black Vandyke beard and white ducks, was not Daniel Randolph Fltz hugh. It was his own, Hugh Daniel Fltzrandolph. This name juggling had heralded their coming, und they were surround ed at the pier by a phalanx of sharp eyed men armed with cameras. Daniel greeted them warmly, shook hands, gave them cigars, and waxed so Jovially humorous about his malleable patronymic that he was voted a shin ing member of the Good Fellows' club and lauded as a thoroughgoing, fine sort. Nothing derogatory was printed of him In the New York newspapers; and the eccentricity of one's using one's family name for a "komlcal kut out" was made to appear a very nat ural thing for one to do. His arrival in Chicago received a similar reception. The thing he had long been plan ning, the thing that had prompted his trip abroad, which had necessitated the proper rearranging of his name, was made public. With a fanfare of trumpets, a sounding of cymbals, a beating of tom-toms, Hugh Daniel Fitz randolph Inaugurated his campaign for the Chicago mayoralty. In the primary election these were nominated: Hugh Daniel Fltzran dolph, advocating pure politics; Sam Bufflngton, fat and puffy and a tool of the trusts; John Dlnwoody, lean and lank and a patron of vice, and Ivan Skimkus, skinny and erratic and a champion of the working man. Before the primaries, Daniel's chief rivals, Bufflngton and Dlnwoody, took scant notice of him, shelving him in a category with Skimkus, the Socialist, who had no chance whatever. Afterf his nomination they changed their views. They suddenly realized many tilings; realized he had been working hours to their minutes ; that his enor mous volume of advertising was not unproductive of results ; that he had a happy faculty of making friends wherever he went ; that his popularity was booming dally; and that he con trolled nearly as many votes as they. This would never do, decided Buf flngton and Dlnwoody. They Immedi ately set about to crush the Intruder who presumed to enter a domain al ways exclusively their own. Thus, when the papers supporting the mal- , contents were not casting their har poons at each other, they took time to shy a concerted volley at the Interlo per. TO BE CONTINUKDJ corns at once to business."