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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1920)
HI HAPPENINGS OF I Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Gas bombs will be used by the Chi cago police in driving crooks into the open, if the plans of Chief of Police Fltzmaurlce materialize. The Nebraska state railway com mission has authorized an Increase in street-car fares to 8 cents within the city limits of Lincoln. The fare to the suburbs is to be 10 cents. Navy seaplane No. 13, with 10 per sons aboard, fell from an altitude of 1100 feet into the ocean off Newport beach, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles harbor, late Tuesday and for hours drifted about The New York police have arrested Joseph Amuroso, 26, who they said has been identified as one of the four men who held up and robbed two mes sengers of $467,000 in securities in Brooklyn last week. Four persons were reported to have been killed and several injured early Wednesday when the first Bectlon of the Texas & Pactfio "Sunshine Special" northbound, turned over five miles south of Texarkana, Ark. A measure proposing to Increase the . house of representatives' membership from 435 to 483 as a result of the 1920 census, and another to limit the Bize to 450 members, were Introduced in the house but with little prospect of action on them at this session. Colonel U. O. McAlexander, known as "the rock of the Marne," was nomi nated by President Wilson Tuesday for advancement to the rank of brigadier-general. Colonel McAIexander was at one time stationed at Oregon Agricultural college, Corvallls. A deal, subject only to ratification by the Ontario government was com pleted recently whereby the province will purchase virtually all of the Mackenzie power interests In and around Toronto. The price to he paid for the property Is $22,734,000. Michael Baum, a Dubuque, la., farm er was fined $25 and costs by Mayor Sherman of Farley on a charge of "shimmying" in a dance hall. Baum was charged with "shaking his body from the hips up" as the town orches tra struck up a fox trot and refusing to desist upon request of the town con stable. Action of congress to stop Immigra tion and denial of citizenship to chil dren born here of parents ineligible to citizenship are the next steps need ed in dealing with the Japanese situa tion, John S. Chambers, state con troller, said In an address before the Fanners' Educational and Co-operative union in San Jose, Cal., Tuesday night. Great Britain nnd Japan were the only ones of the larger countries that took less goods from the United States In October than during the same month a year ago. Germany, Canada, Mexi co, Chill and the Dutch East Indies were the only countries from which the United States received more goods than during the corresponding period of 1919. One of the first steps by the repub lican majority in the house to place the country on a peace-time basis was taken Monday by Representative Vol stend of Minnesota, chairman of the judiciary committee, who introduced a bill repealing all war time statutes except the trading with the enemy, food control, District of Columbia rent, Liberty bond and espionage acts. The original copies of the declara tion of independence and the consti tution are protected only by a thin steel safe In the library of the state department and Burrounded by com bustible materials usually found in libraries, says a memorandum to con gress from Secretary of State Colby, transmitted to congress. He asked for an appropriation of $25,000 to safe guard the documents. Natives of the Kuskokwlm river re gion in Alaska are confronted by death from starvation this winter unless food la sent thorn at once, according to an urgent message received In Seattle Tuesday by tho Alaska bureau of the United States department of education from George W. Hoffman, United Statos commissioner at Idl- tarod. The Alaska bureau has no funds with which to buy food. SENATE VOTES FARMER AID Revival of War Finance Corporation Directed Bill Goes to House. Washington, D. C. The senate late Monday adopted the agriculture com mittee resolution directing the revival of the war finance corporations as a measure of affording relief to farm ers. The second section of the resolution which as introduced would have di rected the extension of liberal credits to farmers by the federal reserve sys tem was amended to make the desir ability of such a course only an ex pression of opinion of the congress. The amendment making the change of the section of the resolution relat ing to the federal reserve system was proposed by Senator Norris, repub lican, Nebraska, and was accepted by a vote of 47 to 16. Another change made in the reso lution on suggestion of Senator Smith, democrat, Georgia, broadened the du ties of the finance corporation to in clude the financing of exportations of products other than those produced on the farm. An amendment by Sen ator Harris, democrat, Georgia, to make the rate of discount on loans to farmers 5 per cent was rejected, A substitute for the resolution, pre sented by Senator Spencer, republican, Missouri, met a similar result. Fur ther action on the bill was without a record vote. The measure now goes to the house, where a number of sim ilar farmer relief measures are pend ing. HOUSE VOTES REPEAL OF MOST WAR LAWS Washington, D. C Repeal of most of the war-time laws was voted Mon day by the house which adopted the Volstead resolution for that purpose after two hours debate. The vote was unanimous, 323 votes being cast in favor of it and none opposed. The house before taking the final vote accepted an amendment providing for Inclusion of the Lever food control act among the laws which the resolution would repeal. Tho amendment which covers all profislbns of the food control act with the exception of the section re lating to rents In the District of Colum bia was offered by Representative Bland (rep.) Indiana. It was carried 179 to 137. The resolution, which now goes to the senate, exempts from repeal only the trading with the endmy act, the war finance corporation act and its amendments and measures dealing with the issuance of liberty and vic tory bonds. The resolution declared "any act of congress that by its terms is In force only during the existence of a state of war and a limited time thereafter shall be construed and administered as if the present war terminated on the date when this resolution becomes effective." The measure, as adopted, was prac tically identical with that passed, by congress just before the adjournment of the last session and vetoed by President Wilson. Republican lenders of the house as sert that udoptlon of the resolution was one of tho first steps taken by the republican majority to fulfill the cam paign pledge to put the country on a peace-time basis. Disposition of the Volstead resolu tion cleared the way for consideration of the resolution offered by Rcpresen tiitlve Reavis, Nebraska, which would provide for a congressional survey of the government's administrative de partments. Cotton Crop Is Large. Washington, D. C Cotton produc tion this year Is larger than that of any other year since 1914, when tho coun try's record crop was grown. The final estimate of the crop announced Monday by the department of agri culture placed production at 12,987 000 bales, exclusive of llnters. Produc tion last year was 11,420,763 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, in 1918 it was 12,040,532 bales and in 1917 it was 11,302,375 bales. Britain Drafts Oil Note. London. The British government is drafting a reply to the most recent note of the American government con cerning the exploitation of the Mesopo tamlan oil fields, In which the United States sets forth its right to be con sulted. This reply, after submission to the cabinet, will be forwarded to the American state department, prob ably within a few days. Soviet Troops Gather. London. Concentrations of the so viet troops are occurring in the direc tion of Vilna, consequent on the ar rival of allied and neutral troops in Vllnn. This was related in a dispatch received Monday from tho Lithuanian legation Ihere. ! STATE NEWS ti TTVT TSTSTTT-C LU1 UfVLdf wttw WWW r V There were 426 Industrial accidents in Oregon during the week ending December 9, according to a re port filed by the state industrial ac cident commission. - Bend. Lime, slaked by falling snow, set fire to a woodpile, the flames spread to a juniper tree, then jumped to the house of J. E. Curley of this city. Chemicals extinguished the blaze. The damage was small. Eugene. R. S. Shelley, supervisor of the Siuslaw national forest, who has Just returned from a trip to the coast, stopping at Mapleton, Or., and Florence, Or., said that nearly all of the shingle mills and sawmills in that locality had closed down. The Dalles. The 1911 budget for Wasco county will call for an expendi ture of $300,915.34, which is within the limit prescribed by the state law. Only by rigid economy and a cut of more than $7000 in the county road fund was the county court enabled to keep within the tax limitation. Cottage Grove. John Overholser has been exhibiting during the past week samples of plug cut smoking to bacco, which he raised himself. He also provided his own implements for shaping the plugs, which an expert could hardly distinguish from those put up by regular manufacturers. Salem. There is no law in Oregon whereby a school board can withhold the salary of a teacher because he or she falls to attend a teachers' insti tute. This opinion was given here by I. H. Van Winkle, attorney-general, at the request of J. A. Churchill, state superintendent of public instruction. Albany. Some Band found recently in the oil well which the Oregon Pe troleum company is sinking east of Lacomb Is 68 per cent oil. This has been disclosed by a chemical analysis made at the Oregon Agricultural col lege. This analysis showed also that the sand, which was 17 per cent coke and 15 per cent water, had a paraffin base. Salem. Application for permit to appropriate water has been filed in the office of the state engineer by M. F. Hanley of Mtdford, covering ap propriation of water from the north fork of Little Butte creek for Irriga tion of 780 acres In Jackson county. It is estimated that the development will cost approximately $44,000 and will consist of a power plant. Toledo. MrB. Maybel Simpson ac cepted the office of sheriff offered to her by the county court and was In stalled last week. From a large list of applicants she selected Mr. McEl walne of Toledo as her deputy. Her selection is a popular one. Mrs. Simpson is regarded as thoroughly ca pable of handling the administrative affairs of the office, while McElwaine is possessed of a cool head In the face of danger. Marshfleld. A large timber deal ne gotiated through Adelsperger and Con rad of this city, in which Mr. McGreg or and R. K. Booth of Astoria and James Manary of Portland, acquired 13,000 acres of spruce lying between the Umpqua and Siuslaw rivers, had to be revised and half of it belonging to the Sparrow heirs was released, owing to the inability of the adminis trator to dispose of it before all heirs became of age. Albany. A machine gun company of the Oregon National guard, to consist of 73 men and two officers, will be organized in Albany. Captain Miles H. McKey and Lieutenant Clarence Collins, veterans of the-world war and formerly active in the old National guard company here, have received authority from Adjutant - General White to organize the unit. They plan to form the company before the first of the year. Bend. To aid its employes In se curing Irrigated farm land, the Broeks Scanlon Lumber company has com pleted the platting of 1000 acres of logged-off lands and has secured water rights from the Arnold Irrigation com pany. Easy payment terms are to be allowed men working for the company, and financial aid will be given in the making of Improvements. The land was sparsely timbered, and little dif ficulty in clearing is expected. Salem. Measures having for their purpose the regulation of interstate traffic as it relates to the operation of motor vehicles and uniform laws for all the northwest states will be sub mitted to the legislatures of Wash ington, California, Oregon and Idaho, in case officials In charge of the auto mobile departments of these states comply with the request of Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, who in a letter Issued Saturday urged a con ference at an early date to decide upon regulations needed In handling the traffic situation. - SMDOW A.ConAnl)oi)le ' Q "I HAVE LIVED." Synopsis. Writing long after the events descrlber, Jack Calder, Scot farmer of West Inch, tells how, In his childhood, the fear of Invasion by Napoleon, at that time complete master of Europe, had gripped the British nation. Following a false alarm that the French had landed, Jim Horscroft, the doctor's son, a youth of fifteen, quarrels with his father over Joining the army, and from that Incident a lifelong friendship begins between the boys. They go together to school at Ber wick, where Jim is cock boy from the first. After two years Jim goes to Edinburgh to study medicine. Jack stays rive years more at Bchool, becoming cock boy In his turn. When Jack Is eighteen Cousin Edte of Eyemouth comes to live at West Inch. Jack falls In live at first sight with his hand some, romantic, selfish and auto cratic cousin -of seventeen. They watch from the cliffs the victory of an English merchantman over two French privateers. Reproached by Edle for staying at home, Jack starts to enlist. Edle tells him to stay. Jack says he will stay and marry her. She acquiesces. Jim comes home. Jack sees Jim kiss ing Edle. Jack and Jim compare notes and force Edie to choose be tween them. She chooses Jim. Jack gives up Edie to Jim. A half-dead shipwrecked foreigner drifts ashore at West Inch. He says he is Bon aventure de Lapp, a soldier of for. tune. The Caldera take him In. CHAPTER VI Continued. 6 "What think ye of that, Martha?" said he. "You've sold the two black tups after all?" "No, but it's a month's pay for board and lodging from Jock's friend and as much to come every four weeks." But my mother shook her head when she heard It. "Two pounds1 a week is overmuch," said she. "And It Is not when the poor gentleman Is In distress that we should .put such a price on his bit of food." "Why, woman, he's turned you! head wl' his foreign trick of speech," cried my father. "Aye, and It would be a good thing If Scottish men had a little more of that kindly way," she said, and that was the first time in all my life that I had ever heard her answer him back. Our visitor came down soon, and asked me to come out with him. When we were in the sunshine he held out a little cross made of red stones, one of the bonniest things that ever I had set eyes upon. "These are rubles," said he, "and I got it at Tudela, in Spain. I pray that you will take this ds a memory of your exceeding kindness to me yesterday. It will fashion into a pin for your cravat." I could but thank him for the pres ent, which was of more value than anything I had ever owned In my life "I am off to the upper mulr to count the Iambs," said I. "Maybe you would care to come up with me and see something of the country?" He hesitated for a moment, and then he shook his head. "I have some letters," he said "which I ought to write as soon as possible. I think that I will stay at quiet this morning and get them writ ten." All forenoon I was wandering over the links, and when I got back he looked as though he had been born and bred In the steading. He sat In the big wooden-armed single chair, with the black cat on his knee. His arms were out, and he held a skein of worsted from hand to hand, which my mother was busily rolling Into a ball. Cousin Edle was sitting near, and I could see by her eyes that she had been crying. "Hullo 1 Edle," said I; "what's the trouble?" "Ahl mademoiselle, like all good and true women, has a soft heart," said he; "I didn't thought It would have, moved her, or I should have been si lent. I have been talking of the suf fering of some troops of which I knew something, when they were crossing the Guailarama mountains In the win ter of 1S08. Ah, yes, It was very bad, for they were fine men and fine horses. It is strange to see men blown by the wind over the precipices, but the ground was so slippy, and there was nothing to which they could hold. So sompaules" all linked arms, and they lid better In that fashion ; but one ar tilleryman's hand came oft as I held it, for he had had the frost bite for three days." I stood staring, with my mouth open. "And the old preiiadiers, too, who were not so active as they used to be, they could not keep up; and yet If they lingered the peasants would catch them and crucify them to the earn doors with their feet up and a fire under their heads, which was a pity for these fine old soldiers. So tvhen the; could go no farther It was Interesting to see what they would do. For they would sit down nnd say their prayers, sitting on an old saddle, or their knapsacks, maybe, and then take off their boot and stocking, and lean their chin on the barrel of their mus ket. Then they would put their toe on the trigger, and pouf! it was all over, and there was do more march ing for those fine old grenadiers. Oh! It was very rough work up there on the Guadarama mountains." "And what army was this?" I asked "Oh I I have served In so many ar mies that I mix them up sometimes. Yes, I have seen much of war. But there Is a man out yonder. Maybe he is the one who your father said would carry my letters to the post." "Yes, he Is farmer Whitehead's man Shall I give them to him?" "Well, he would be more careful of them If he had them from your hand.' He took them from his pocket, and gave them over to me. I hurried out with them, and as I did so my eyes fell upon the address of the topmost one. It was written very large and clear. "A.S.Majeste "Le Rol du Suede "Stockholm." I did not know very much French, but I had enough to make that out. What sort of eagle was this which had flown Into our humble nest? CHAPTER VII. The Corriemulr Peel Tower. Well, It would weary me, and I am very sure that It would weary you also If I were to attempt fo tell you how life went with us after this man came under our roof, or the way in which he gradually enme to win the affec tions of everyone of us. With the women It was quick work enough, but soon he had thawed my father, too, which was no such easy matter, and had gained Jim Horscroft's good will as well as my own. One of his first acts was to give my father the boat In which he had come, reserving only the right to have It back In case he should have need of It. The herring were down on the coast that autumn, and my uncle, be fore he died, had given us a fine set of nets, so the gift was worth many a pound to lis. Sometimes De Lapp would go out In the boat alone, and I have seen him for a whole summer day rowing slowly along, and stopping every half-dozen strokes to throw over a stone at the end of a string. I could not think what he was doing un til he told me of his own free will. "I am fnnd of studying all that has to do with the military," said he, "and I never lose a chance. I was wondering if it would be a difficult matter for the commander of an army corps to throw his men ashore here." "If the wind were not from the east," said I. "Ah, quite so, If the wind were not from the east. Have you taken sound ings here?" "No." "Your line-of-battleshlps would have to He outside, but there is water enough for a forty-gun frigate right up within musket range. Cram your boats with tirailleurs, deploy them be hind these sand-hills, then back with the launches for more, and a stream of grape over their heads from the frig ate. It could be done! It could be done !" His mustaches bristled out more like a cat's than ever, and I could see by the flash of his eyes that he was carried away by his dream. "You forget that our soldiers would be upon the beach," said I indignantly. "Ta, ta, ta I" he cried. "Of course, It takes two sides to make a battle. Let us see now ! Let us work It out ! What could you get together? Shall we say twenty thirty thousand? A few regiments of good troops. The rest, pouf 1 conscripts, bourgeois with arms, how do you call them volun teers." "Brave men I" I shouted. "Oh yes, very brave men, but Im becile; ah, mon Dleu, It Is incredible how Imbecile they would be. Not they alone, I mean, but all young troops. War must be learned, mj young friend. Just the same as the farming of sheep." "Pooh !" said I, not to be outcrowed by a foreigner. "If we had thirty thousand men on the line of the hill yonder you would come to be very glad that you had your boats behind you." Sometimes, when he talked, I thought he was joking, and at other times It was not quite so easy to say. 1 well femember one evening that summer when he was sitting In the kitchen with my father, Jim, and me. after the women had gone to bed, he began about Scotland and Its relation to England. "You used to have your own king, and your own laws mnde at Edin burgh," said he; "does It not fill you with rage and despair when you think that It all comes to you from London now?" Jim took his pipe out of his mouth. "It was we who put our king over the English, so if there's any rage it should have been over yonder," said he. This was clearly news to the stranger, and It silenced him for the moment. "Well, but your laws are made down there, and surely that Is not good," he said at last. "No; it would be well to have a parliament back in Edinburgh," said my father; "but 1 am kept so busy with the sheep that I have little enough time to think of such things." "It Is for fine young men like you two to think of it," said De Lapp. "When a country is injured It Is to Its young men that It looks to avenge It." "Aye, the English take too much upon themselves sometimes," said Jim. "Well, If there are many of that way of thinking about, why should we not form them into battalions and march them upon London?" cried De Lapp. "That would be a rare little picnic," said I, laughing; "und who would lead us?" He jumped up, bowing with his hand on his heart In his queer fashion, "If you would allow me to have the honor I" he cried and then, seeing that we were all laughing, he began to laugh also, but I am sure that there was really no thought of a Joke In his mind. I could never make out what his age could be, nor could Jim Horscroft either. Sometimes we thought that he was an oldish man that looked young, and at others that he was a youngish man who looked old. On the whole, we thought that he might be about forty or forty-five, though It was hard to see how he could have seen so much of life in the time. But one day we got talking of ages, and then he surprised us. I had been saying that I was Just twenty, and Jim said that he was twenty-seven. "Then I am the most old of the three," said De Lapp. We laugbed at this, for by our reckoning he might almost have been our father. "But not by so much," said he, arch ing his brows. "I was niue-and-twen-ty in December." And It was this even more than his talk which made us understand what an extraordinary life it must have been that he had led. He saw our as tonishment, and laughed at it. "I have lived. I have lived," he cried. "I have spent my days and my nights. I led a company In a battle where five nations were engaged when I was but fourteen. I made a king turn pale at the words I whispered In his ear when I was twenty. I had a hand In remaking a kingdom and put ting a fresh king upon a fresh throne the very yeas that I came of age. Mon Dleu! I have lived my life." That was the most that I ever heard him confess of his past life, and he only shook his head and laughed when we tried to get something more out of him. There were times when we thought that he was hut a clever Im postorfor what could a man of such influence and talents be loitering here In Berwickshire for? but one day there came an incident which showed us that he had, indeed, a history in the past. You will remember that there was an old officer of the Peninsular war who lived no great way from us, the same who danced round the bonfire with his sister and the two maids. He had gone up to London on some busi ness about his pension and his wound money and the choice of having some work given him, so that he did not come hack until late In the autumn. One of the first days after his return he came down to see us, and there for the first time he clapped eyes on De Lapp. Never in my life did I look upon so astonished a face, and he stared at our friend for a long minute without so much as a word. De Lapp looked back at him equally hard, but there was no recognition In his eyes. "I do not know who you are, sir," he said at last, "but you look at me as If you had seen me hefore." "So I have," answered the major. "Never to my knowledge." "But I'll swear it I" "Where, then?" "At the village of Astorga, In the. year '8." De Lapp started, and stared again at our neighbor. "Mon Dleu! what a chance!" he cried; "and you were the English parliamentalre! I remember you very well Indeed, sir. Let me have a whisper in your ear." He took him aside, and talked very earnestly with him In French for a quarter of an hour, gesticulating with his hands, and explaining something, while the major nodded his old grizzled head from time to time. At last they seemed to come to some agreement, and I heard the major say "parole d'honneur" several times, and after wards "fortune de la guerre." But after that I always noticed that the mnjor never used the same free fash ion of speech that we did toward our lodger, but bowed when he addressed him, and treated him with a wonder ful deal of respect. Jim goes back to hi studies in Edinburgh. ITO BE CONTINUED.) Columbut Properly Honored. According to the Postal Guide, thert are 21 cities and towns in the United States by this name. Stereotyping was Invented In 1725, plaster casts being used In the orig inal process.