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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Goveramenti and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing, Reports to Vienna from Budapest establish the fact that In the first six months of 1920 10,000 Jews In Hun gary adopted the Christian faith. By a vote of 53, Pomona, Cal., re cently adopted a "blue law" ordinance closing all places of amusement Sun days, where admittance Is charged. Announcement of the opening to settlement of 23,040 acres of land In Beaverhead county, Montana, was made at the United States land office at Helena, Mont., Tuesday. Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secre tary of the navy, plans to be In Ta coma, Wash., May 9, when the scout crulBcr Cincinnati is launched, it is announced by officials of the Todd shipyards. Apples apparently were not badly damaged by the Easter freeze, but It was believed peaches, cherries and plums, as well as pears, were almost entirely destroyed, said the Kansas weekly crop report. Carl Neuf and Franz Zlmmer, Amer icans released from prison In Baden, where they had been confined for their part In the attempt to arrest drover C. Bergdoll, American draft evader, ar rived at Coblenz Monday. . Captain J. A. Leroyer, who blazed the trail through the northweBt for the American army planes which flew to Alaska laBt year, was killed Monday In an airplane accident at Camp Bor den, according to reports received at Ottawa, Ont. , First toll of lives in the floods in western and southwestern Oklahoma was reported Tuesday night from Hollis, Harmon county, where two were drowned In the high waters fol lowing a cloudburst Railroad and other traffic la almost completely halt ed. Alfred Griffin ("Al G.") Field, premier of American minstrels, died In Columbus, O., Monday from Brlght's dlBeaBe. Born 72 years ago In Lees burg, Va., Mr. Field entered the theat rical business In 1886, organizing a minstrel show which has operated since. The council of the Ottawa board of trailo has adopted a resolution recom mending that until the rate of ex change between Canada and the United States gets back to normal, citizens of Canada be urged to deny themselves luxuries imported from the United States. The attorney-general has authorized return to the heirs of Herman Slelcken of New York property valued at ap proximately $3,000,000, seized by the alien property custodian during the war. At the same time the return to his widow of her own property, valued at about $1,000,000, was ordered. An Increase in business failures was shown for the first quarter of 1921 in the report of R. G. Dun & Co., made public Monday. Failures totaled 4870, ' involving an aggregate Indebtedness of $178,589,989. In the same quarter Inst year there were 1627 Insolvencies with an indebtedness of $29,702,499. To expedite distribution, the Tor onto Evening Telegram Monday began publishing part of each edition in a branch plant four miles from the main office. The branch turned out papers simultaneously with headquarters. All copy was edited and set in the main plant and pages stereotyped before be ing rushed to the uptown branch. A quarter section of government land in the Elk hills oil district of Kern county, California, was sold at a United States land office auction in Vlsalla, Cal., Monday to E. L. Doheny of Los Angeles for a bonus of $456,800. In addition to the bonus Doheny must pay the government $1 an ncre and 25 per cent royalty on the oil produced from the land. The condition of winter wheat Is "generally favorable," according to a department of agriculture review of domestic crop conditions. Damage from the recent freeze was said to have been "negligible," and very little winter killing was reported.' Seeding of spring wheat was said practically to be completed In Iowa and progress ing well in Washington. CURRENT WEEK WORLD IS LITTLE IMPROVED Unemployment and Unsatisfactory In dustrial Conditions General. Washington, D. C. Financially and economically the world situation Im proved but little In March, according to cabled summaries received Satur day by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce from its trade commissioners and commercial at taches. In Europe tight money, unemploy ment and unsatisfactory Industrial and shipping conditions were In evidence, while some declines In prices and slight revival of building activities were noted. In the east the situation was described as somewhat easier, while in South America conditions were reported as practically unchang ed. Commercial Attache Lennls report ed that business depression In Great Britain has Increased owning to the prospective failure of an early settle ment with Germany on reparations. The Russian trade agreement is not expected appreciably to benefit busi ness, he added, and traders are hold ing off to secure assurance as to the legality of payment. American imports Into France con tinue to show marked reductions, Com mercial Attache Huntington at Paris reported. Refusal of Germany to pay Installments due on reparations con tributed to a dull financial market. The situation also was described as influ enced by the upper Sileslan plebiscite, the British coal strike and the situa tion in Hungary. Ruins of Ancient Temple on Marquesas lie Found Honolulu, T. H. Ruins of a glgantio temple decorated with sculptured heads and figures in a manner un known elsewhere In Polynesia, but practiced by the temple builders of Indo-China and Central America, have been discovered on the Island of Hlva oa, In the Marquesas, by Ralph Linton, archaeologist and member of the scien tific exploration party of the Bishop museum of this city. The expedition has been In the South seas for 12 months, and will continue there for another year. Linton, In his report to Dr. H. E. Gregory, director of the muesum, de clares the temple in question "one of the moBt Impressive'! he has ever seen, those in Central America not excepted. Linton says that the temple ap proach is a paved way 400 feet long, consisting of a series of great ter races, the lowest being 180 feet long, 12 feet high and 40 feet wide. The construction Is very good and some of the stones weigh six tons. Civil War Is Foreseen. Boston. Europe was described as preparing for "a civil war of the white race," In an address Sunday by Bishop MIcholal of Serbia. "There Is no sign of peace in Europe," he said. "European civiliza tion la white outside, but within it Is a black civilization. The third kaiser of Europe is Lenine in Moscow. Europe is suffering today not from a kaiser but from kalserism." Dr. G. L. Cady, secretary of the American missionary society, asked for broader toleration of the so-called "Inferior peoples," asserting they "may yet possess the world." "The time is past," he said, "when you can maintain the world's peace by Insulting discriminations against the yellow men of Asia." $25,000,000 Debt Due. Washington, D. C Great Britain's payment of $25,000,000 in principal and interest during the fundlug scheme. for liquidating the debt of $122,000,000 in curred during the war by the purchase of $100,000,000 Btandard silver dollars for the relief of the silver famine in India falls due Friday. , Payment prob ably will be made through the federal reserve bank In New York, treasury of ficials said. An additional payment of $47,000,000 also falls due May 15, officials added, under the agreement making provision for payment from April 15, 1919. Artesian Vein Is Struck. Yukima, Wash. Several years ago searchers ran out of funds and aban doned a well 400 feet deep, located eight miles north of Prosser on the Rattlesnake hills. The hole had since been dry. A few days ago prospectors for oil and gas In that vicinity decided to use the old well as a start. After sinking a hole Just one foot they struck a vein of water which filled the well and overflowed in a Bteady arte sian stream. Heirs Are Out of Luck. Scranton, Pa. Federal Judge Whit mer Saturday handed down an oninlon in which he held that a beneficiary named in a war risk insurance policy was entitled to all Installments due ud to the time of his death, but that un paid installments could not be handed on to his heirs as part of his estate. It was said to be the first opinion of Its nature rendered in the country WWW WW WW WW W WWW WW WW VWWW STATE NEWS ! : IN BRIEF. ! fTTt?fT?TT WWW Dallas. The regular term of the cir cuit court which convened here Mon day with Judge Belt on the bench will be devoted mostly to naturalization ex aminations, there being 18 aliens' ap plications to be considered. Salem. The Multnomah & Clacka mas Mutual Telephone company suf fered a net loss of $2167.82, based on Its investment and operating revenue, in 1920, according to a report filed with the Oregon public service com mission Saturday. Salem. The Oregon Food Products company has reduced Its capital stock from $300,000 to $1000 and the Salem Kings Products company has reduced Its capital stock from $50,000 to $1000, according to notices filed with the state corporation commissioner Sat urday. Albany. The only damage suffered in this vicinity from the frosts a few days ago was to strawberries and peaches. No other fruits or berries appear to be Injured to any extent, bo far as growers can discern now, and very little damage was done. Early gardens appear uninjured. Salem. Receipts from Oregon mo tor vehicle license fees go first into the general fund of the state and do not become available for use on the roads until apportioned by the secre tary of state on March and September 15 of each year, according to a legal opinion given by Attorney-General Van Winkle.. Baker. Frank S. Barton and Grace Wickam were married Saturday night on a raft in the natatorium swimming pool as a feature of the Baker Auto mobile show and Merchants' exposi tion, Rev. E. Temple Starkey officiat ing. The natatorium lobby and balcony were crowded with persons, who ap plauded the odd spectacle. Vale. The largest real estate trans fer to be made In Malheur county in a number of years, involving approxi mately $300,000, was completed in this city when the deed conveying part of the holdings of the Moline Farms com pany to the Commerce Mortgage Se curities company of Portland was re corded In the office of the county re corder. Salem. Any doubt as to what action will be taken by the Oregon public service commission In reconsideration of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company rate case, was removed Sat urday, when H. P. Corey, member of the commission, said he would Join with the other two commissioners in granting the petition of Portland for a rehearing. Scappoose. A mass meeting was held in the Watts & Price hall Satur day night to hear the report of survey ors for the proposed water site and to discuss the advisability of a new water system for the town. The meeting was adjourned with the understanding that a canvass of customers be made before anything definite is decided. The system would cost about $38,000. Salem. Because the Guarantee Se curity corporation, with headquarters in Portland, failed to list with the state corporation department United Cigar Stores, Limited, stock which it had offered for sale in Oregon, without qualifying the same under the blue sky law, T. B. Handley, corporation commissioner, has revoked the li cense of the concern to transact busi ness in this state. . Salem. A bid of $987,850 for $1, 000,000 of state highway bonds to match federal aid funds in the con struction of forest and post roads was received by the state board of con trol Saturday. Before formally ac cepting the proposal, the board tele graphed to the state highway commis sion to determine whether the offer was satisfactory to that body and to ascertain if the issue should be sold in its entirety or in part. Prineville. Under the supervision of County Agent Tinker, Crook county is to experiment this season In the pro duction of sugar beets. This experi ment is to be tried out on the Ochoco project, selecting three acres, one each on the farms of Fred Woelscher, G. W. Slayton and E. T. Slayton. It Is planned to send the product of these three acres to a refinery for testing, and should the experiment prove a suc cess It Is hoped to obtain a refinery at this place. Medford. The farm bureau co-operative exchanges of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas counties, through their respective managers Roland Flaherty of Medford, C. N. Cully of Grants Pass and C. E. Bannlngs of Roseburg as the result of a conference Just con cluded here by the managers will hereafter handle shipments of live stock to market together, sending only one man from here to handle the simultaneous shipments from each ex change. S0 ROBERT J. C. STEAD Homesteader Author of "Thm Cow Copyrfght, All Bights Reserved funchtr." Etc. "YES; HE'S GONE." Synopsis Dissatisfied because of the seemingly barren outlook of his position us 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 Bet out for the unknown country. They select a homestead, build a home and put In a crop. Returning from selling his first Crop, Harris finds his wife almost Insane from loneli ness and with Immediate expecta tion of becoming a mother. A son Is born and they name him Allan. The story now Jumps forward 25 years. Harris Is prosperous and all for getting rich. Mary Is toll-worn and saddened over the change In her husband. Allan works on the farm. Beulah, the pretty daugh ter, la rebellious at the shut-In farm life. Jim Travers Is an un usual hired man and he Is In love with Beulah. CHAPTER V Continued, 'We'll hurry up the plowing, Dad, md run west before the harvest Is on us," Allan said as they rode home through the darkness. "We can file our land and get back for the fall work. Then we will go out for the winter and commence our duties. The only question Is, can they grow any thing on that land out there?" "That's what they used to ask when we came to Manitoba," said his fa ther. "And there were years when I doubted the answer myself. Some parts were froze out year after year, and they're among the best In the coun try now, and never think of frost. The same thtng'll happen out there, and we might as well be In the game." To do him Justice, It was not alto nether the desire for more wealth that prompted Harris. It was the call of Dew land ; the call he had heard and answered in the early eighties ; the old appetite that had lain dormant for a quarter of a century, but was still In his blood, waiting only a suggestion of the open spaces, a whiff from dry grass on the wind-swept plains, the slgzag of a wagon-trail streaking afar Into the horizon, to set it tingling again. So this morning father and son were especially anxious that not a moment of their plowing weather should be lost, and It was particularly aggravat ing when the hired man's long delay resulted In a bubbling sputter followed by a dry hiss from the Injector, warn ing the engineer that the water-tank was empty. Allan shot an anxious glance down the road to the coulee, but the water team was not In sight. Seizing the whistle cord, he sent its peremptory summons Into the air. Harris looked up from the plows, and the two exchanged frowns of annoy ance. But the water stood high in the glass, and Allnn did not reduce the speed, although he cut the link action another notch to get every ounce of advantage from the expansion. But the water went down, down In the glass, and still there was no sign of a further supply. Allan again cut the air with his whistle, and at length, with a muttered imprecation, he slammed the throttle shut and jumped from the engine. "Keep a keen eye on your fire," said Harris, "and I'll go down and see what's wrong with him." So the farm er strode off across the plowed field. The delay annoyed him, and he felt unreasonably cross with Travers. As he plodded on through the heavy soil his temper did not Improve, and he was talking to himself by the time he came upon Travers, giving his team their wind at the top of the hill lead ing up from the creek. "What kept you?" he demanded when he came within a rod of the wagon. "Here's the outfit shut down waiting for water, and you " "I'm sorry, Mr. Harris " "That ain't what I asked you. You can't make steam with sorrow. What have you been foolln' about?" "I haven't been fooling. As to what delayed me well, you're delaying me now. Better Jump on and ride up with me." "So you won't tell 'me, eh? You think you can do what you like with my team and my time, and It's none of my business. We'll see whose busi ness It Is." Harris came threateningly toward the wagon, but was met only by the Imperturbable smile of his hired man. He thrust his foot on a spoke of the wheel and prepared to spring onto the tank, but at that moment the horses Etirred and his foot slipped. Seeing that the farmer was about to fall Travers seized him by the collar of his shirt, but in so doing he leaned and lost his own balance, when the weight of the" falling man came upon him, and the two tumbled onto the grass In each other's arms. Allan, having satisfied himself that the engine would take no harm, had followed his father, and came over the crest of the ridge above the coulee just in time to see Jim apparently strike bis employer and the two strug gling on the grass together. In an In stant the young man's hot blood was In his head; he rushed forward, and Just as Jim had risen to his knees he struck him a stinging blow in the face that measured him again in the grass. It was only for an instant. Travers sprang to his feet, a red line slowly stretching down his cheek as he did so. Allan came upon him swinging a tremendous blow at the Jaw; hut Jim guarded skilfully, and answered with a smash from the shoulder straight on the chin, which laid his adversary's six feet prostrate before him. Allun rose slowly, sober but deter mined, and for a moment It looked as though a battle royal were to be fought on the spot, both men strong, lean, rigid, hard as iron, and quick as steel; Allan angry, careless, furious; Jim calm, confident, and still smiling. But Harris rushed between them and seized his son by the arms. "Stop it, Allan; stop, I say. You mustn't fight. Jim didn't hit me I'll say that for him. Now quit It. As for you" (turning to Jim), "I'm sorry for this, but you have yourself to blame. I'll give you one more chance to answer me what kept you?" "I don't choose to answer," was Jim's reply, spoken In the most casunl tone. Ills, eye was rapidly closing where Allan's blow had fallen on It, but his white teeth still glistened be hind a smile. "All right," said Harris. "You can go to the house and tell Mrs. Harris to pay you what is coming." And the farmer climbed onto the wagon and took the reins himself. When Jim entered the kitchen he was received with astonishment by Mrs. Harris and Beulah. "Why, what- He Rushed Forward, and Just as Jim Had Risen to His Knees He Struck Him a Stinging Blow in the Face. ever has happened?" they exclaimed. "Has there been an accident? You're hurt I" But Jim smiled, and said: "No ac cident at all. I have merely decided to go homesteading." And he went up the stairs to pack his belongings. CHAPTER VI. Into the Night. Harris and Allan drove straight to the engine, never looking back to see what became of the hired man. On the way the farmer explained to his son what had taken place; that words had passed between them, but no blows had been struck, until Allan appeared on the scene. "I can't make out what got Into Jim, that he wouldn't answer a civil question. Jim was a good man, too." Perhaps the disturbing suggestion en tered Harris' mind that the question had been none too civil, and he was really beginning to feel that after all Jim might be the aggrieved party. But he crushed down such mental se dition promptly. "It don't matter how good a man he was," he declared, "as long as I pay the piper I'm goln' to call the tune." "It puts us np against it for a wa terman, though," said Allan, thought fully. "So it does," admitted Harris, who up to that moment had not reflected that his hasty action in dismissing t ravers would result In much more delay than anything else that had oc curred. "Well, we'll have to get some body else. We'll manage till noon, and then you better ride over to Grant's or Morrison's. They'll be able to lend a man or one of the boys for a day or two." At noon Jim's chair was vacant, and the family sat down to dinner amid a depressing silence. No mention was made of the morning's Incident until the menl was well advanced, when Hnrrls, feeling that he ought in some way to Introduce the subject, said: "Is Jim gone?" "Yes, he's gone," blazed Beulah. "You didn't expect he'd wait to kiss you good-by, did you?" "One In the family Is enough for that treatment.' put in Allan, whose swollen chin and stiff neck still biased him against Travers. "He didn't, either. And If he did It's none of your business, you big;" . she looked her brolher straight in the face, her swollen eyes telling their own story, and repeated deliberately, "you big eowurd." Allan bit his Up. "Jim's quite a hero, all right. It's too bad he's gone." "It's a good Job he's gone," said Harris. "By the way Beuluh tulks things have gone far enough. I don't want my daughter marrying a farmer." "Her grandmother's daughter did," said Mrs. Harris. "Yes, I know, but things are differ ent now. I look for something better for Beulah." It was characteristic of Harris, as of thousands of others, that, ulthough a farmer himself, he looked for "some thing better" for his daughter. He was resigned to Allun being a farmer; his Intimate, dully relationship with his son shrank from nny possibility of separation. But for his daughter no. He had mapped out no career for her; she might marry a doctor, lawyer, merchant, tradesman, even a minister, but not a farmer. It Is a peculiarity of the agriculturist that, among nil professions, he holds his own in the worst repute. In inter years has come a gradually broaden ing conception that farming, after all, calls for brain as well as muscle, and that the man who can wrestle a suc cessful living from nature has as much right to hold up his head In the world as the experimenter In medicine or the" lawyer playing hide-and-seek with justice through the cracks In the crim inal code. Herein Is a germ of the cityward migration: the farmer him self is looking for "something better" for his children. "Jim was a good man," persisted his wife. "Don't you think you were well, p'erhaps, a little hasty with him?" , Harris sat back. It was his wife's business to agree. For twenty years and more she had been faithful in the discharge of that duty. That she should suggest an opinion out of har mony with his Indicated a lack of dis cipline, not very serious, perhaps, but a seed which, If permitted to flourish, might develop to dangerous propor tions. "So you're goln' to take his part, too? It's a strange thing if I can't handle my hired help without advice from the house." Mary flushed at the remark. Any open quarrel with her husband, espe cially before the children for she still thought of the man and woman to her left and right as "the children" was more painful to her than any submission could have been. It would be so much easier to change the sub ject, to follow the line of least resist ance, and forgot the Incident as quick ly as possible. But of late the convic tion had been coining home to her that aome time, somewhere, she must make a stand. And, quite unbidden, a strange surge of defiance welled In her when her husband so frankly told her to mind her own business. "I was under the impression we were managing this farm together, you and I, John," she said, very calm ly, but with a strange ring in her voice. "When we came West I under stood It was to build our home. I didn't know it was just to be your home." The look of surprise with which Harris greeted her words was abso lutely genuine. A hot, stinging retort sprang to his lips, but by a sudden effort he suppressed It. "We will talk about that some other time, Mary," he said. "If Jim had answered my ques tion fairly, as he had a right to, In stead of beatin' around the bush, I might 've let him off. But when I wanted to know what kept him he simply parried me, makin' a fool of me and ruhbin' it in with that infer nal smile of his." "So that's what started it!" ex claimed Beulah. "Well, I'll tell you what kept him, if he wouldn't. The cattle got Into the oats through a break In the fence, and I couldn't get them out, and the dog went kl-yi-lng over the prairie after a rabbit, and Just as I was beginning to to con dense over It Jim came up and saved the situation. What If he did keep your old engine waiting? There are more Important things than plowing." "Aha!" said Harris, knowingly. "Well, I guess It's Just as well It hap pened as it did. Jim was gettln' al together too good at runnln' at your heels." "That's all the thanks he gets for working late and early, like no other hired man in the district. All right You and Allan can milk the cows to night, for I won't see?" "You they're living and we're existing." (TO BE CONTINUED.) The Secret of Success. The great secret of success Id life Is to be ready when opportunity comes. Disraeli.