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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1921)
E T Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events'of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A Protestant church will be estab lished at Eastern penitentiary In Phila delphia, it is announced, at the request of 286 prisoners who became converts. Sadie Schoolai, 18-year-old Indian girl sentenced to six months impris onment in federal court in Portland on December 15 for alteration of a money order, was pardoned by President Wil son. Two men are dead from burns and suffocation and eight persons were in jured in a fire which swept the Chest nut hotel in Cleveland, 0., early Tues day. Several persons are Bald to be missing. The South Dakota attorney-general is drawing up a bill for presentation in the legislature which will proVide the $6,000,000 fund necessary to pay ex-service men the bonus voted at the November election. W. P. Slaughter of Dallas, Tex., brother of the late Colonel C. C. Slaughter, has started a suit for $3, 000,000 damages, alleging breach of contract and slander, against four bephews and a niece. Threats to hang profiteers on lamp posts were made by members of sev eral Vienna unions at a conference Tuesday. The conference had been called by the chancellor to devise means of checking rising prices. Evening weddings at- Calvary Pro testant Episcopal church in Pittsburg were banned by Rev. E, J. Van Etten, pastor, Tuesday. . In his New Year's sermon the pastor paid much attention to evening gowns worn by women. The recount of votes in the Michi gan senatorial contest between Sena tor Newberry and Henry Ford show a net gain for the latter of 551 votes. Of the 2200 precincts in the state the votes of 597 have been recanvassed. Newspaper dispatches received at Toklo from Vladivostok report that the chief engineer of the American cruiser Albany was shot by a Japanese soldier while he was returning to his vessel at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. The Palm Beach Bhow, with, two score bathing girls serving refresh ments to dolegates, was ordered abol ished Tuesday by District Attorney Zabel in connection with the conven tion of the National Shoe Retailers' association at Milwaukeo, Wis. At last the farmers of the groat "bread basket" of America, extending from the eastern boundary of Ohio to the Rocky mountains, are getting to gether. They are forming a giant or ganization to market their products and they are going about it In a busi ness manner. Collections of Income and excess profits taxes for November Increased by more than $20,000,000 as compared with November, 1919, according to re ports made public by the bureau of In ternal revenue. Receipts were $70,- 212,075 as aginst $49,740,230 for the same month in 1919. Introduction by Representative Van de Stoeg of Canyon county of a con current resolution against Japanese immigration was a sonsatlon of Tues day's Besslon of the Idaho legislature It purports to make a definite and clear-cut declaration to the world, and particularly to congress of how Idaho stands on the Japanose question. Testimony taken by the senate Im migration committee In hearings on the Johnson bill prohibiting Immigration for one year has failed to prove exis tence of an emergency, according to senators who analyzed evidence sub mitted by more than 30 witnesses in the last week. They doclared the charge that "millions of aliens would flood the United States, Increase un employment and create economic chaos" had not been proved. The Jewish news bureau In New York has made public wireless advices from Berlin stating that Nikolai Len ine, premier of soviet Russia, was ill in Moscow from a general breakdown accentuated by recent violent attacks upon him by extremists in the com munist party, who accused him of "selling out the cause" in his dealings with foreign financiers, including Washington B. Vanderlip of Los Angeles. WORLD HAPP 1 HI WEEK TARIFF BILL IS BROADENED Horticultural and Dairy Products Win Protection Add 10 Amendments Washington, D. C The Fordney emergency tariff bill, broadened to in clude practically all farm products in stead of the limited number as the measure passed the house, was ap proved Saturday by the senate fi nance committee, which voted to re port it out Monday. Seven amendments wre added, mak ing ten in all. No provisions of the original bill, however, were removed and rates on the major products wqre left intact. Opponents of the bill join ed with the authors of amendments and forced the acceptance of most of them despite opposition from the bill's defenders. The amendments made a part of the measure by committee action includ ed: Sugar, $2.13 the hundred pounds un til the retail price reaches 10 cents a pound. Frozen meats of all kinds, 2 cents a pound; all other meats 25 per cent ad valorem. Apples, '20 cents a box; cherries 4 cents a pound. Tobacco, 'Sumatra wrappers and fill ers, $2.85 a pound; stemmed Sumatra, $3.50 a pound, Butter and cheese and their sub stitutes, 8 cents a pound instead of 6 cents, provided in amendment accept ed Friday. The length of long staple cotton on which the tariff will be effective was reduced from 1 inches to 1 inches, the duty remaining at 7- cents a pound as the bill passed the house. Cattle and sheep to be- used for breeding purposes were exempted from the duty on imported animals. Rice to be used in manufacture of canned goods was exempted from the tariff of 2 cents a pound levied in the house bill. Attempts of several opponents of the bill to load it down with amend ments dealing with extraneous sub jects were unsuccessful. In its tariff revision 'hearings the house ways and means committee took up schedule D of tho Underwood act, comprising wood and wood products. John H. Kirby, Austin, Tex., presi dent of the Southern Tariff associa tion, asked the committee for a rate of 15 per cent ad valorem on im ported lumber, saying that .such a tariff would yield $0,000,000 annually in revenue and would not increase tho lumber cost to American consumers. There was no attempt to change the life of the bill's provisions 10 months. Several republican senators were said to have explained that the permanent tariff bill would be whipped into shape before tho expiration of the emergency law, and that the latter then would be automatically repeal ed. "Guide to Hell" Is Out. - i Ziou City," 111. Wilbur Clenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic church in Ziou, Saturday issued ad vance sheets on a "hand book and guido to hell." "Every sinner is going to be pun ished with an overdose of his own sin," he declared. "A tobacco smoker will be locked up in a den full of tobacco smoko. A ehewcr of the filthy weed will be immersed to his nock in a vat of tobacco juice. A drinker will pass his term of purifica tion In a natatorium fillod with beer, wine and whisky." Mayflower Lift To Go. Washington, D. C Tho presidential yacht Mayflower is in drydock, under going repairs. One of tho tilings be ing done to tho craft. is to remove tho elevator recently Installed for President Wilson on tlio theory that ho might desire to take a trip while lie was 111. Installation of the elevator cost, $16,000. Its removal will cost a similar sum. Tho elevator never has been used by the president or any body else. Its removal has been or dered because, In the opinion of navy experts, Us presence makes tho May flower unseaworthy. Outlaws Defy Police. Buenos Aires. Damage estimated at many millions of pesos has been caus ed by the depredations of outlaws who are pillaging, burning crops and ranch es, destroying agricultural machinery and killing inhabitants at Santa Cruz. Dispatches say these bauds now aggre gate more than 1000 men. Tho out laws are said virtually to control the whole Interior of tho territory as far as Chile. Police are said to be helpless. Five-Cent Bread Back. New York. Tho 5-cont loaf of broad Is back In Now York. It appeared lust week in a bakery shop, where almost' immediately sales jumped from 80 to 1000 loaves a day. In nearly all other New York stores the price is 10 rents, but the baker who reduced the price says he is making more money now. : STATE NEWS ! i IN BRIEF. I. ATI ULl.A.i. , ! Astoria. What is said to be the first winter chinook salmon taken this sea son was caught by one of the gillnct ters Saturday night in the Prairie channel above Tonguo point. It was a beautiful fish and tipped the scalc3 at 41 pounds. The Dalles The Dalles-King Prod ucts company will close its. big plant In The Dalles for the winter season upon completion of the present run of apples. About 200 persons are employ ed in dehydrating fruits and vegeta bles grown in Wasco county. Nyssa. The carload 6f Jerseys ordered- from the coast have arrived here and have been sold. Tho sale was well attended. The cows sold for an aver age of about' $100 each. Salem. Members of Capitol Post, American Legion, met here Saturday night and went on record favoring a cash bonus of $35 a mouth for soldiers, sailors and marines serving in the late war with Germany. It was said that the vote in favor of tile cash -bonus was almost unanimous. Pi-ineville The annual election of the Ochoco irrigation project was held January 11, and M. It. liiggs was elect ed to succeed himself for a three-year term on tho district board. Other members of the board are of the fol lowing well-known men: Fred lloel schcr and John Grimes. Salem. A sheriff is not entitled to charge fees for serving subpenas upon witnesses in criminal cases when such actions are brought in another county, according to a legal opinion given by Attorney-General Van Winkle here. The opinion was asked by T. II. Goyno, district attorney of Tillamook. Eugene. Ira P. Whitney, agricultur al agent of Lane county, announces that efforts will be made soon to or ganize a counly farm bureau here. lie attended the meeting in Portland last week, at which a slate federation of farm bureaus was formed, and will take steps immediately to organize hero. .Pendleton. At a special meeting of tho Pendleton American Legion post Friday night a resolution asking the state legislature for a soldier bonus bill was unanimously indorsed and the adjutant was ordered to communi cate tho action of the post to the state legislature and to the state legion headquarters. Medford. At the annual meeting of the First National bank all old direc tors and, officers were re-elected. John It. Tom) in was added to the board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of F. K. Deuel. After paying a divi dend, the management added $20,000 to tho surplus. The bank's resources now exceed $1,400,000. Salem. The C. K. Spaulding Log ging company, which closed Its local plant hero December 20, will resume operations next week, according to an nouncement made Sunday. Only a small force will be employed upon opening tho plant, but more men will he added to the payroll as the business demands. Nyssa The $15,000 alfalfa-meal mill recently completed here by W. G. Cath ey and Randolph Sage, stockmen, has been delayed in opening, due, if is said, to the fact that Mr. Cathey became so heavily indebted for material and la bor, which, coupled with the drop in price of cattle, tliat he could not go on with the work. Salem. Enforcement of the state laws as they relate to the registration and licensing of motor vehicles will start on February 1, according to a letter prepared by Sam A. Kozer, sec retary of stale. The letter was direct ed to nil chiefs of police, sheriffs, con stables, district attorneys and justices of the peace in Oregon. Pendleton. t'mat ilia county's dona tion for tho starving children of. cen tral Europe will be shipped to Port land Monday. In the shipment will be 1213 barrels of export flour. The flour will be shipped in 140 pound jute bags, the onMre consignment making three carloads, according to J. V. Tallman, chairman of the relief drive. Med ford. Southern Oregon mining men are much interested in the fact that the Gold Ridge quarts mine, lo cated by T. C. Norrts of Medford three miles south of Gold Hill in 1912, which ho bonded a year ago to Lew Ross, a Nevada mining engineer; C. C. Clark and a number of other Medford men for $10,000, has been developed into a big wealth producer. Salem. Three cases of eggs, alleged false charges, arrest, incarceration In jail and the attendant publicity figure in a suit for damages filed in the Me.r- ion county circuit court, here Friday by Dave Swaimm of Hubbard against C.,V. Mayger.' Tho plaintiff asks I $5000. Mayger, Mr. Swanson said, iie I eusod him of larceny of the eggs, with : tho result that he was arrested and lodged in jail. AUTHOR j "THE ADVErtTUREJ CHAPTER XI Continued. 10 We were early .risers at that time, and the whole brigade was usually un der arms at the first flush of dawn. One morning it was the sixteenth of June we had just formed up, and General Adams had ridden up to give some order to Colonel lteynell, within a musket-length of where I stood, when suddenly they both stood staring along the Brussels road. None of us dared move our heads, but every eye In the regiment whisked round, and Ihere we saw an oflicef, with the eoek ailp of a general's aido-de-enuip, thun dering down t lie road as bard as b great dapple-gray horse could carry him. He bent Ids face over its mane, and flogged nt Its neck with the slack of the bridle, as though be rode for very life. "Hullo, Reynell," says the general. "Tills begins to look like business. What do you make of it?" They both cantered their horses forward, and Adams tore open the dispatch which the messenger handed to him. The en velop had not touched the ground be fore he turned, waving the letter over his bead as If it bad been n saber. "Dismiss !" he cried. "General pa rade and march in half an hour." Then, in an Instant, all was buzz nnd hustle, and the news on every lip. Na poleon had crossed the frontier the day before, had pushed the Prussians before him, and was already deep in the country to the east of us with a hundred nnd fifty thousand men. Away we scuttled to gather our things together and have our breakfast, and in an hour we had marched off nnd left Ath and tho Dender behind lis forever. There was good need for haste, for the Prussians had sent no news to Wellington of what was doing, and though he had rushed from Brussels nt the first whisper of it, like a good old mastiff from Its kennel, it was hard to see how be could come up in time to help the Prussians. It was a bright, warm morning, zrA as the brigade trumped down the broad Belgian road the dust rolled up from It like the smoke of a battery. I tell you that we blessed the man that plant ed the poplars along the sides, for their shadow was hotter than drink to us. Over across the fields, both to the right and 1 lie loft, were other roads, one quite close and the other a mile, or more from us. A column of Infan try was marching down the near one, nnd it was a fair race between us, for we were each walking for nil we were worth. There was such n wreath of dust round them that we could only see the gun barrels and the bearskins breaking out here and there, with the head and shoulders of a mouiTted offi cer coming out above the cloud, anil the flutter of the colors. It was a bri gade of tlie Guards, but we could not tell which, for we had two of them with us In the campaign. On the far road there was also dust nnd to spare. but through It there flashed every nowv and then a long twinkle of brightness, like a hundred silver beads threaded in a line, nnd Ihe breeze brought down such a snarling, 'clanging, clashing kind of nmsie as I had never listened to. If I had been left to myself it would have been long before I knew what it was, but our corporals and sergeants were all old soldiers, nnd I had one trudging along with his hal bert at my elbow, who was full of precept nnd advice.- "That's heavy horse," said he. "You see that double twinkle. That means they have helmet as well sis cuirass. It's the Royals or the F.tmisklllens or the Household. You can hear their cymbals and kettles. The French heav ies are too good for us. They have ten to our one. and good men, too. You've got to shoot at their faces, or else at their horses. Mind you that when you see them coining, or else you'll find a four-foot sword stuck through your liver to teach you better. Hark I hark ! hark ! there's the old music again !" And as he spoke there came the low grumbling 'of a cannonade away somewhere to the east of us, deep and hoarse, like a roar of some blood daubed beast that thrives on the lives of men. At the same instant- there was shouting of "lleh 1 heh ! heh !" from behind, and somebody .run red, "Let the guns get through!" Looking back, I !saw the rear companies split suddenly in two and hurl themselves down on either side into the ditch, while six cream-colored horses, galloping two and two, with their bellies to the ground, came thundering through the gap with a tine twelve-pound gun whirlings and creaking behind them. Following were another nnd another, four-nnd-twonty In all, flying past us with such a din nnd clatter, the blue coated men clinging on to the guns and Ihe tumbrils, the drivers cursing and cracking their whips, the manes fying. the mops and buckets clanking, and the whole air tilled with the heavy rumble and the Jingling of chains. There was a roar from the ditches and a shout from the gunners, and we saw s?GQEAT ft SHERLOCK HOWES COPYRIGHT BY A.CONAN DOYLE a rolling gray cloud before us, with a score of busbies breaking through the shadow. Then we closed up again, while the growling ahead of us grew louder and deeper than ever. "There's three batteries there," said the sergeant. "There's Bull's and Webber Smith's, but the other Is new. There's some more on ahead of us, foe here's the track of a nine-pounder, and the others were all twelves. Choose a twelve if you want to get hit, for a nine mashes you up, but a twelve snaps you like a carrot" and he went on to tell about the wonderful wounds that he had seen until my blood ran like Iced water In my veins, and you might have rubbed all our faces In pipeclay and we should have been no whiter. "Aye, you'll look sicklier yet when you get a hatful of grape Into your tripes," said he; and then, as I saw some of the old .soldiers laughing, I began to understand that this mnn was trying to frighten us, so I began to laugh also, and the others as well, but It was not a very hearty laugh either. The sun was almost above us when we stopped at a little place called Hal, where there Is an old pump from which I drew and drank a shako full of water and never did a mug of Scotch ale taste as sweet. More guns passed us here, and Vivian's hussars, three regiments of them, smart men with bonny brown horses, a treat to the eye. The noise of the cannons was louder than ever now, and it tingled through my nerves just as it had done years before when, with Edie by my side, I had seen the merchant ship fight with the privateers. It was so loud now that It seemed to me that the battle must be going on just be yond the nearest wood, but my friend the sergeant knew better. "It's twelve to fifteen miles off," said he. "you may be sure that the general knows that we are not wanted, or we should not be resting here at Hal." What he said proved to be true, for a minute later down came the colonel with orders that we should stack arms nnd bivouac where we were, and there we stayed all day, while horse and foot and guns, English, Dutch tfnd Hanoverians, were streaming through. The devil's music went on till evening, sometimes rising into a roar, some times sinking Into a grumble, until about eight o'clock In the evening It stopped altogether. We were eating our hearts out, as you may think, to know what it all meant, but we knew that what the Duke did would be for the best, so we just waited In patience. Next day the brigade remained at Hal In the morning, but about midday came an order from the Duke, and we pushed on once more until we came to a village called Braine something, and there we stopped, nnd time, too, for a sudden thunderstorm came on and a plump of rnin that turned all the roads and the fields Into bog and mire. We got Into the barns at this village for shelter, and there we found two strag glers, one from a kilted regiment and the other a man of the German legion, who bad a tale to tell that was as dreary as the weather. Boney had thrashed the Prussians the day before, and our fellows had been sore put to It to hold iheir own ngnlnst Ney, but had beaten him off at last. It seems an old, stale story to you now, but you cannot think how we scrambled around those two men In the barn, and pushed and fought Just to catch a word of what they said, and bow those who had heard were In turn mobbed by those who had not. We laughed and cheered and groaned all In turn, as we were told how the Forty fourth had "received cavalry In line, how the Dutch-Belgians had fled, and how the Black Watch had taken the lancers into their square, and then hnd killed them at their leisure. But the lancers had had the laugh on their side when they crumpled up the Sixty ninth and carried off one of the colors. To wind It all up, the Duke was In re treat. In order to keep In touch with the Prussians, and It was rumored that he would take up his ground and fight a big battle Just at the very place where we had been halted. And soon we saw that this rumor was true, for the weather cleared toward evening, and we were all out on the ridge to see what we could see. It was such a bonny stretch of corn and grazing land, with the crops just half green and half yellow, and fine rye as high as a man's shoulder. A scene more full of peace you could not think of, and look where you would over the low, curving, corn-covered hills, you could see the little village steeples pricking up their spires among the poplars. But slashed right across this pretty picture was a long trail of marching men, some red, some green, some blue, some black, algzag glng over the plain and choking the roads, one end so close that we could shout to them as they stacked their muskets ou the ridge at our left, and the other end lost among the woods as far as we could see. And then on other roads we saw the teams of horses toiling and the dull gleam of the guns, and the men straining and swaying as -they helped t turn the spokes In the deep, deep mud. As we stood there regiment after regiment and brigade after brigade took posi tion on the ridge, and ere the sun had set we lay In a line of over sixty thou sand men, blocking Napoleon's way to Brussels. But the rain had come swishing down again, and we of the Seventy-first rushed oft to our barn once more, where we had better quar- . ters than the greater part of our com rades, who lay stretched in the mud, with the storm beating upon them, until the first peep of day. CHAPTER XII. The Shadow on the Land. It was still drizzling In the morning, with brown, drifting clouds and a damp, chilly wind. It was a queer thing for me as I opened my eyes to think that I should be In a battle that day, though none of us ever thought it would be such a one as It proved to be. We were up and ready, how ever, with the first light, and as we threw open the doors of our barn we heard the most lovely music that I ever listened to playing somewhere in the distance. We all stood In clusters hearkening to It, it was so sweet and Innocent and sad-like. But our ser geant laughed when he saw how it had pleased us all. "Them are the French bands," said he; "and If you come out here you'll see what some of you may not live to see again." Out we went the beautiful music still sounding in our ears, and stood on a rise just outside the barn. Down below, at the bottom of the slope, about half a musket shot from us, was a snug tiled farm with a hedge and a bit of an apple orchard. All round It a line of men In red coats and high fur hats were working like bees, knocking holes In the wall and barring up the doors. "Them's the light companies of the Guards," said the sergeant. "They'll hold that farm while one of them can wag a finger. But look over yonder, and you'll see the campflres of the French." We looked across the valley at the low ridge upon the farther sideand saw a thousand little yellow points of flnme, with the dark smoke wreathing up slowly in the heavy air. There was another farmhouse on the farther side of the valley, and as we watched we suddenly saw a little group of horse men appear on a knoll beside It and look across at us. There were a dozen hussars behind, and In front five men, three with helmets, one with a long, straight, red feather in his hat, and the last with a low cap. "By God!" cried the sergeant. "That's him I That's Boney, the one with the gray horse. Aye, I'll lay a month's pay on It." I strained my eyes to see him, this man who had cast that great shadow over Europe which darkened the na tions for five-and-twenty years, and which had even fallen across our out-of-the-world little sheep farm, and had dragged ns all-rmyself, Edie and Jim out of the lives that our folk had lived before us. As far as I could see he was a dumpy, square-shouldered kind of man, and he held his double glasses to his eyes with his elbows spread very wide out on . each side. I was still staring when I heard the catch of a man's breath by my side, and there was Jim, his eyes glowing like two coals and his face thrust over my shoulder. "That's he, Jock," he whispered. "Yes, that's Boney," said I. "No, no ; it's he. This De Lapp or De Llssac, or whatever his devil's name Is. It Is he." Then I saw him at once. It was the horseman with the high red feather In his hat. Even at that distance I could have sworn to the slope of his shoul ders and the way he carried his head. I clapped my hand upon Jim's sleeve, for I could see that his blood was boiling at the sight of the man, and that he was ready for any madness. But at that moment Bonaparte seemed to lean over and say something to De Llssac, and the party wheeled and dashed away, while there came the bang of a gun and a white spray of smoke from a battery along the ridge. At the same Instant the assembly was blown in our village, and we rushed for our arms and fell In. There was a burst of firing all along the line, and we thought that the battle had begun, but it came really from our fellows cleaning their pieces, for their prim ing was In some danger of being wet from the damp nlg"-.t. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Early Irish History. In the earliest time of which there Is any record, Ireland was Inhabited by tribes of the great Celtic family, to which belonged the ancient Brit ons of the larger Island, and the Gauls of the country now known as France. Each tribe had Its chief, and after a time a supreme monarch came to the front One of the most famous of these was Brian, who overthrew the Invading Danes in the battle of Clon tarf, fought In the year 1014 near Dub lin. He was slain In his tent at the close of the fight. After his death the supreme monarchy was often In complete abeyance, misrule and an archy widely prevailed and the ancient form of society was largely broken up. It Is said that Roderick O'Connor, son of Turlough, was the last of the mon archs of Celtic Ireland. From that time the influence of Anglo-Normans Increased. Real Estate Note. Father (mockingly to young suitor) Well, the nerve of you to ask my daughter to share your lot when yon haven't a single foot of real estate in your name.
