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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Gorernments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Henry Starr, Oklahoma bank bandit, wounded while attempting to rob the Peoples bank last Friday, died Tues day morning. A loss estimated at $650,000 resulted from a fire which destroyed Neponset carbarns on the Boston elevated rail way In Boston. Trial night flights In the transcon tinental mall service between New York and San Francisco were started Tuesday morning. Most of the Chinese famine suf ferers are assured against starvation by grain on hand at railway points, Grain Is being supplied as fast as It can be transported by cart and man power. The allied control commissions In Germany will prohibit shipments 'of war materials from Germany to Argen tina or any other neutral country, It such countries persist in trying to buy munitions, t Canadian farmers received $2.50 bushel for wheat at the shipping point from July 31, 1919, until December 31 1920, while American wheat growers received $2.25, the report of the Can adian wheat board declared. The Association of Railway Execu tives in New York Tuesday sent to the carriers a letter recommending that the matter of adjusting wages of com mon labor to lower levels be left to . the Individual railroads to carry out. That "in due time Judge Landis will devote all of his talent and energy exclusively to baseball," was the be lief expressed by J. A. Heydler, presi dent of the National league, in a state ment criticising the men who seek his impeachment. The arrest in Vienna. Monday of I. T. Lincoln, "international spy," was made on an extradition warrant of a "foreign government," presumably Great Britain. It was understood that Austria also will bring charges against him, alleging forgery of documents. Holiday suspension of business In New York Tuesday gave the city's army of shovelers and their tractor and trucks an opportunity to clear away much of the snow which for two days had hampered traffic. City trac tion lines were operating on a normal schedule. China will stand by the United States If this country ever is In need of a friend to aid against any enemy from across the sea, Dr. T. Hsleh, sec retary of labor of China, told a gather lug of congressmen and businessmen in Washington interested in Chinese relief measures. Approval was given Tuesday by In ternational union heads and their at torneys to a tentative draft of a bill to legalize the rights of labor unions to organize all fields of Industry de spite individual contracts between em ployers and employes prohibiting union membership. The Washington Wheat Growers' as sociation has reached the 15,000,000 bushel goal In its drive to sign up wheat in the three Faclfla northwest states before March 1, according to Bruce Lampson, of Spokane, who has charge of the organization department of the association. What Is believed by aerial officers at Fort SHI, Okla., to be a world's altitude record for a parachute Jump was established Tuesday when Ser geant Ensel Chambers, 135th aero squadron, Jumped from an airship, piloted by Lieutenant Wagner, at a height of 22,000 feet during an aerial circus at Fost field. Major-General Bullard, commander of the second crops area, vigorously opposed disarmament in an address in New York Sunday before the national ment although he has acted as medl republican club. "Any proposition of cal aide to Dresidents for more than disarmament or any limitations of armament is a trick," he said, "either to gain or maintain advantage. Com ing from representatives of different nations, the discussion always consist ed of, first a nice diplomatic expres sion of profound benevolence and friendship toward all other nations; second, the truth, regretful to them un deniable, that they are forced by the other nations to arm and keep armed. To hear them Is to laugh." FARM LOAN ACT IS UPHELD Supreme Bench Releases 150,000,000 In Thirty Days. Washington, D. C The farm loan act, deslgnd to assist agricultural de velopment by providing readily acces sible credits to farmers through fed eral land banks, was declared valid Monday by the supreme court. In an opinion, which Commissioner Lobdeli of the farm loan board de clared removed every shadow of ques tion as to the legality of the banks or their bonds, the court held congress had authority to establish the land banks and to exempt the bonds from state taxation. He announced there would be an Immediate Issue of farm loan bonds to finance the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans approved by the board. v "It will be at least 30 days before funds are available," he said, "but dis tribution will be begun as soon as possible. The farm loan board Is hope ful that the market may absorb these bonds equally with the borrowing de mands of the farms." The case was appealed from lower court decrees refusing an injunction sought by C. W. Smith, a stockholder in the Kansas City Title & Trust com pany, to restrain that institution from investing in land bank securities. The contention was made that the farm loan act was invalid, as congress had neither authority to establish banks nor .to exempt their securities from state taxation. The court, in a practically unan imous opinion, upheld the authority of the government. The power to designate fiscal agencies has been conceded congress since the days of Chief Justice Marshall, the opinion held and the tax exemption provision was a necessary protection. Justices McReynolds and Holmes, dissenting, explained they took ex ception to the court's assumption of Jurisdiction, rather than to the find ings. The case was within the scope of Missouri laws and the state courts. they said. Justice Day, who delivered the court's opinion, said: "Congress declared It necessary to create these fiscal agencies, and to make them authorized depositaries of public moneys. Its power to do so Is no longer open to question." Farm loans aggregating mora than $50,000,000 have been held up since May, 1920, as a result of the suit in stituted by Smith. Applications to this amount were pending when Com mlsstoner Lobdeli announced at a con ference of farm loan officials here that official approval would be withheld pending a decision of the court. Officials placed the total amount of loans to farmers held In abeyance by the suit at many times $50,000,000, however, the receipt of applications having stopped with Commissioner Lobdell's announcement On March 1, 1920, the farm loan board reported that $182,897,000 had been advanced to 75,384 farmers and that applica tions from 179,734 persons then pend ing totalled $471,000,000. NTEREST ALLIES OWE IS ENGUGH FOR BONUS Washington, D. C Adjusted com pensation for ex-service men as pro posed in the amended house bonus bill presented Monday to the senate will cost between one and a half bil lion and five and quarter billion dol lars, Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, estimated In his report, Senator McCumber said the Interest on war loans to the allies would "more than take care of the obligations." The plan to distribute the cost of the bill over the next 20 years, Sen ator McCumber said, would prevent Its being burdensome. If all war veterans took the cash bonus, Senator McCumber said, the estimated cost would be $1,547,904,395. If all took the 20-year deferred cer tificates, the cost, he said, would be $5,251,364,000. All cash claims would require the treasury to pay out $909,- 000,000 in 1923, $600,000,000 in 1924 and $38,500,000 in 1925. If all vet erans took the certificates the 1923 requirements, the figures showed, would be $44,256,000, increasing up to $66,000,000 in 1942. Grayson It Transferred. Washington, D. C. Rear-Adnilral Cary T. Grayson, President Wilson's personal physician, was ordered Mon day by the navy department to regu lar duty. Admiral Grayson has never been of ficially assigned to duty at the White House, It was said at the navy depart- 16 years, serving under Presidents Roosevelt Taft and Wilson. Autolit Gets Long Term. Chicago. Sentence of from one to 14 years in jail for attack to com mit murder with an automobile was passed on Raymond Fox, 24, in crim inal court Monday. This was said by court attaches to be the first convic tion on this charge in connection with automobile accidents. STATE LAWMAKERS END GOOD SESSION Legislature Is Adjourned Salem Sine Die. MANY BILLS PASSED Marketing, Logged-Off Lands, Bndget Taxation, Port and Bonus Among Vital Enactments. State House, Salem. Following the usual happy Incidents that for many years have marked the closing hours of the Oregon legislative session, the lawmakers finished their duties at o'clock Wednesday afternoon, folded their tents and departed from the cap Itol. An hour later most of the legis lators were aboard trains en route to their homes In various sections of the state. While not as spectacular as some previous sessions of the legislature in this state, much of the business tran sacted was of great importance to the future interests of the state. The legislature did something be sides increasing salaries. True, al most everyone who wanted a lift in the salary line met with a sympathetic response from the legislature, but most of the increases were for county officials. Road legislation commands first place in the accomplishments of the session. This legislation ranges from a brand new motor vehicle code and a new basis of. licensing these vehicles, to authorizing the highway commis sion to sell $7,000,000 of bonds to carry on road work. Then, too, there was the new gaso line tax and 'the bill which permits several counties to create road dis tricts. This latter act was one of the genuinely Important pieces of legis lation which has come out of the ses sion. The highway commission is in control of the operation of this bill to some extent, for the commission must give approval of boundaries and petitions for such districts, make the location of the roads and do the sur veying. The co-operatlvce marketing asso ciation measure was considered an other unusually important act. It will require a couple of years to determine how it will work out with respect to the producers, the middlemen and the consumers. Mucn, However, was ex pected of it. The logged-off lands bill, It was hoped, will solve the problem which has been troubling many timber coun ties for years. Considering the Issues involved in this measure, it was re garded as surprising how little oppo sition was raised against It Under the provisions of this act It will be possible to handle the snag-Infested lands on an extensive scale and bring Into productivity land which Is now almost less than worthless because of the stumps. Taxation matters were not over looked. President RItner and Speaker Bean were Joint sponsors, for the measure which creates a tax commis sion to investigate and seek to find new sources of revenue. The com mission will look for some sort of income tax, presumably, and under the measure creating it the commis sion will ask for data on income taxes from the department of internal rev enue. A state budget system has been ap proved, the measure being fathered by Senator Patterson. Under this act there will be compiled a mass of in formation which will reduce state budget-making to its simplest form and will lighten the task of the ways and means committee in future ses sions of the legislature. For the soldiers, the legislature re ferred to the people the proposed bonus. The matter is to be settled at a special election to be called in the spring. It is the only measure which will appear on the ballot. No anti-Japanese legislation was en acted, although the house did Its best The general sentiment was that this was a subject which should be left to congress to handle. On the whole, the legislature con ducted Itself in a sedate manner. State House, Salem, Or. Passage of Mrs. Kinney's house bill, qualifying women to sit as Jurors In Oregon, de feat of the state fair board's measure designed to legalize betting at the state fair races and defeat of a measure to increase the salary of the secretary of stare from $4500 to $6000 a year, were outstanding feature of the senate'! after-dinner session last night The women Jurors' bill was Introduced by Mrs. Kinney, representative from Clatsop county. Copyright. U1 fiigfrb Reserved CAMP NO. I. Bynopsle. Dlssatlsfled because of the seemingly barren outlook of his position u a school teacher In a Canadian town, . John Harris deter mines to leave It, take up land In Manitoba and become a "home steader." Mary, the girl whom he loves, declares she will accompany him. They are married and let out for the unknown country. 4 CHAPTER l-Contlnued. 2 Tlarrls left his wife with a company Of other women In the government Im migration building while he set out to find, If possible, lodgings where she might live until be was ready to take her to the homestead country. He must first make a trip of exploration himself, and as this might require sev eral weeks his present consideration was to place her In proper surround ings before he left. lie Inquired at many doors for lodgings for himself and wife, or for his wife alone. The response ranged from curt announce ments that the Inmates "ain't tatyn' boarders" to sympathetic assurances that If It were possible to find room for another It would be done, but the house was already crowded to suffoca tion. In two hours Harris, notwith standing his stout frame and his young enthusiasm, dragged himself somewhat disconsolately back to the Immigration building with the Infor mation that his search had been fruit less. At the door he met Tom Morrison and another, whom he recognized as the teller of Indian stories which had captivated the children of bis car. "And what luck have ye had?" asked Morrison, seizing the young man by the arm. "Little, I'll be thlnkin', by the smile ye're forcln' up. But what am I thinkln' of? Mr. McCrae Is from 'way out in the Wakopa county, and an old timer on the prairie." "Aleck McCrae," said the big man. We leave our 'misters' east of the Great Lakes. An Ah'm not from Wa kopa, unless you give that name to all the country from Pembina crossing to Turtle mountain. Ah'm doing busi ness all through there, an' no more partial to one place than another." "What Is your line of business, Mr. McCrae?" asked Harris. "Aleck, I said, an' Aleck It Is." "All right," said the other, laugh ing. "What is your business, Aleck?" "My business Is assisting settlers to get located on suitable land, an' eke Ing out my own living by the process. Tom here tells me you're hunting a house for the wife. Ah know Emerson too well to suppose you have found one." "I haven't for a fact," said Harris, reminded of the urgency of his mis sion. It's out of the question," said Mc Crae. "Besides, It's not so necessary as you think. What with the bad time our train made, an' the good time the stock train made, an' the fact that they started ahead of us, they're In the. yards now. That's a piece of luck, to start with." But I can't put my wife In a stock carl" protested Harris. There's worse places," McCrae an swered, calmly worrying a considera ble section from a plug of black chew ing tobacco. "Worse places, Ah should say. Ah've seen times when a good warm stock car would have passed for heaven. But that ain't what Ah have In mind. We'll all turn in an' get the stock unloaded, hitch up the horses, pack a load, an' get away. Ah've been making a canvass, an' Ah find we have six or seven families who can be ready to pull out this afternoon. My team will go along, with a good tent an' some cooking outfit Everyone has bedding, so we're all right for that Now, If we all bustle we can be start ed by 4 o'clock, an' out ten or 12 miles before we pitch camp. How does It suit you?" "What do you say, Mr. Morrison?" "I think Aleck's plan Is best I've my wife and the two girls, and there's no roof for their heads here. It suits me." If It's all settled," continued Mc Crae, who had the leader's knack of suppressing Indecision at the psycho logical moment "we'll all turn in with the unloading of the stock." Harris ran to tell his wife that they were to Join a party for "the front" that very afternoon. She re ceived the news Joyously. In a few minutes all bands, both men and women, were busy at the cars. Many bands made the work light and by mid-afternoon slx sleighs were loaded for the Journey. 'All the women and children were to go with the party; Morrison and one or two hired men would remain In Emerson, complete the unloading, and take charge of the effects until the teams should return from their long Journey. McCrae, on account of his knowledge of the town and of the needs of the journey, was chosen to secure the sup plies. Each settler's sleigh carried that which seemed most Indispensable. First came the settler's family, which, Autrioi- of The CowPuncherfltG. IllurtrcitionJ by Irwin lftrs large or small,, was crowded Into the deep box. McCrue made them puck hay in the bottom of the sleigh boxes, and over this were laid robes and blankets, on which the Immigrants sut, as thickly as they could be placed. More robes and blankets were laid on top, and sucks stuffed very full of hay served the double purpose of cush ioning their bucks and conveying fod der for the animals. Morrison came up to Harris' sleigh, and gave It an approving Inspection. "You will all be fine," he said, "and a greut deal better than' wearyln' about here. Besides, you're Just as well to be awny," he added, in a somewhat lower voice. "McCrae tells me If this sun keeps up the roads will be gone before we know It, and that menus a delay of two or three weeks." At this moment McCrae himself Joined the group. "There's only two in your party, Harris," lie said, "an while Ah don't want to Interrupt your honeymoon, there's another passengen to be taken care of. Dr. Bluin Is go ing with us, and Ah'm going to put him In your charge. He's a bit pe culiar, but Ah don't think he'll give you any trouble. It's Just a case of being too much of a good fellow. One thing Ah know he's a doctor. Ah'm going up town for him now; you can shift your stuff a little an' make room." The whole party were ready for the road and waiting before McCrue ap peared again. When he cume a com panion staggered somewhat uncertain ly by bis side. "I'm aw'rlght, McCrae," he was say ing. "I'm aw' right. Shay, whash thlsh? Shlldren 'v Ishrul?" "Come now, Doctor, straighten up. Ah want to Introduce you." Half leading and half pulling, Mc Crae brought the doctor to Harris' sleigh. "This Is Mr. Harris, who you will travel with Juck Harris. An' Mrs. Harris." The doctor had glanced only casual ly at Harris, but at the mention of the woman's name he straightened up and stood alone. "Glad to meet you, madam," he said. "And it's only proper that the pleas- Savory 8mells Soon Were Coming From Hot Frying Pans. ure should be all mine." There was a little bitterness in bis voice that did not escape her ear. "But Indeed I am glad to meet you," she answered. "Mr. McCrae has been telling us something of your work among the settlers. We are very for tunate to have you with us." He shot a keen look Into her face. She returned his gaze frankly, and be found sarcasm neither In her eyes nor her voice. "Help me In, McCrae," he said. "I'm a bit unsteady There now, my bag. Don't move, Mrs. Harris I think we are quite ready now, are we not?" "Most remarkable wan," whispered McCrae to Harris. "Wonderful how he can pull himself together." McCrae hurried to his own sleigh, called a cheery "All ready I" and the party at once proceeded to get under way. Harris' thoughts were on his team, on the two cows trudging behind, and on the multiplicity of arrangements which his new life would present for decision and settlement But his wife gazed silently out over the ocean of snow. The rays of the sun fell grate fully on her cheeks, pale and some what wan with her long Journey. But the sun went down, and the western sky, cloudless and measureless, faded from gold to copper, and from copper to silver, and from silver to lead. It was her first sight of the prairie, and a strange mixture of emotions, of awe, and loneliness, and a certain In difference to personal consequences, welled np within her. Once or twice she thought of borne a home so far away that It might have been to an other planet. But she would not let her mind dwell on It for long. Hha wus going to be briive. For tlm sake of the brave man who sat ut her side, guiding his team in the deepening durkness; for the snke of tho new home that they two should build some where over the horizon ; for the suite of the civilization thut was to be plant ed, of the nation that must arise, of the manhood und woinunliood of to morrowshe would be brave. A bright star shone down from the west; one by one they appeared In the heavens. It grew colder. The snow no longer cuked on the horses' feet; the sleigh runners creaked and whined uncannily. The team cume to a sudden stop. The sleigh in front wus obstructing the road, and the party closed up In solid formiitlon. "Camp No. 1," called Aleck McCrae, from the head sleigh. "Run these sleighs up in two rows," and he Indi cated where he wanted them placed. "It's hard on the horses an' cattle, after the warm curs, but they'll stand It tonight if they're well blanketed. Tomorrow night we'll be among the Mennoultes, with a chance of getting stable room." Under Aleck's direction the sleighs were run up In- two rows, about 20 feet apart, facing the north. Two sleighs were then run across the open ing at the north end, so thut altogeth er they formed a three-sided court. Men with shovels quickly cleared the snow from the northerly portions of the court, and there the tent wns pitched. The ground wns covered with blankets, robes and bedding. Pots and pans were produced ; women eager to be of service swarmed about the stove, and children, free at lust of their muf fling wraps, romped In hlgh-lnughtered glee among the robes or danced bock and forward with the swinging shad ows. Savory smells Boon were coming from hot frying pans, as sliced ham with bread and gravy, wns served up In tin plates and passed about the tent. Everybody married men and women, maidens and young men, girls, boys, and little children wus raven ously hungry, and for a few minutes little could be heard but the plying of the viands. But as the first edge of hunger became dulled the edge of wit sharpened, and laughter and banter rollicked bock and forward through the tent. The doctor, now quite so ber, took a census, and found the to tal population to be 28. These he classified as 12 married, eight eligible, seven children, and himself, for whom he found no classification. - When the meal was over and the dishes washed and packed, Aleck made another round of the camp before set tling down for- the night. Meantime mothers gathered their families about them as best they could; the little ones sleepily mumbled their prayers, and all hand, young and old, nestled down like a brood of tired chickens under the white wings of the protect ing tent. Outside the ground-drift silt ed gently about the sleighs, the cows sighed In contentment, and the wolve yapped to each other In the distance. CHAPTER II. Prairie Land. The afternoon that has just been de scribed was typical of the dnys that were to follow as the Immigrant par ty labored Its slow pilgrimage Into the farther west. True, they entered on the very next day a district having some pretense of settlement, where It was sometimes possible to secure sliel tr for the women and children under hospitable Mennonlte roofs. They soon emerged from the Red River valley, left the vast, level, treeless plain be hind them, and plunged Into the roll ing and lightly wooded Pembina re gion. After numerous consultations with McCrae, Harris had arranged that his Immediate destination should be in a district where the scrub country melt ed Into open prairie on the western side of the Pembina. The Arthurses, . who were also of the party, had home steaded there, and Fred Arthurs had built a little house on the land the year before. Arthurs was now bring ing his young wife to share with him the privations and the privileges of their new home. A friendship had al ready sprung up betw een Mrs, Arthurs and Mrs. Harris, and nothing seemed more appropriate than that the two women should occupy the house to gether while Harris sought out new homestead land and Arthurs proceed ed with the development of his farm. After the crossing of the Pembina the party began to scatter some to homesteads already located; others to friends who would billet them until their arrangements were completed. At length came the trail, almost lost In the disappearing snow, that led to Arthurs' homestead. A quick hand shake with McCrae, Ned Bncon, and the doctor, and a few others who had grown upon them In the Journey, and the two young couples turned out to break their way over the little-used route that now lay before them. Picking out a homestead. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Troublesome Spiders, A spider In Buenos Aires spun Its web near a telephone cable. The wind caught the web and wrapped It around the wires. The web soon became damp and caused several short cir cuits. Other spiders In the neighbor hood followed the adventurous one's example, and now it has become nec essary for the telephone company to send a man out every few days to clear the wires of webs. Popular Sci ence Monthly.