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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OFiCUlNT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The American Farm Bureau feder ation announced Tuesday that it had indorsed the program of legislation asked by the American Legion of the 67th congress. Lincoln Johnson, republican national committeeman of Georgia, a negro, was nominated Tuesday by President Hard ing to be recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. J. Raymond McCarl of MeCook, Neb., secretary of the republican congres sional campaign committee, was nom inated Monday by President Harding to be controller-general of the United States, a position created by the new budget law which becomes effective Friday. William P. Egan, formerly a clerk In the legal department of the prohibi tion bureau, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of bribery. Officials declined to discuss the case, but Indicated they had evidence against other ex-em ployes of the unit. Oregon, Washington, California and Nevada will be freed of bootleggers within 90 days it accomplishments of John Exnlclos, newly appointed United States prohibition enforcement agent for these states, meet his expecta tions, he declared Tuesday. Organized labor of America will call immediately upon President Harding, his cabinet and congress to bring about recognition of the Irish repub lic and protest to Great Britain against the "brutal and uncivilized warfare now being conducted In Ireland." The volcano of Stromboll, situated on the island of the same name, off the northern coast of Sicily, has burst Into activity. The eruption began with a violent explosion, which was heard far from the Island, and the people are abandoning their homes and flee ing to Sicily. The Gllllland Oil company of Shreve port, La., has consummated a deal whereby the Foster OH company, an Oklahoma concern, acquired all the interests of the Qllllland company in the north Louisiana oil fields, it is announced. The consideration is said to have been $2,500,000. The question of disarmament, parti cularly as to an agreement in which Great Britain and the United States might be parties, and the possibility of Japan joining In such a disarmament move, was brought up In the house of commons Monday by Commander Curlyon Belialrs, unionist member for the Maidstone division of Kent. The British coal mine strike, which has been in progross Blnce April 1, has been settled, it was officially an nounced Tuesduy. It was understood that Lloyd Goorge, the prime minister, will ask parliament to authorize the granting of a 10,000,000-pound subsidy to the mining Industry. The miners will resume work generally Monday if the subsidy is granted. Thomas Mulhall, deputy United States marshal, of San Francisco, from whom Roy Gardner, mall bandit, escaped at Castle Rock, Wash., re signed his position Tuosday to become an Investigator for the national fire underwriters' arson board. He has held his position for eight years. The resignation had uothtng to do with Gardner's escape, according to Uulted States Marshal Holohau. Establishment of peace by congres sional resolution reached its final Btage Tuesday when senate and house repub lican conferees agreed upon a com promise resolution which they hope to have in President Harding's hands late this weeki The compromise em bodies the house plan of declaring the state, of war with Gormany aud Austria at an end and adds the senate provisions resorvlng American prop erty and other rights. Fear of Btrlke complications bowled into the Chicago wheat market Tues day at the same time as the first big offerings from the 1D21 harvest Wild tumbling of prices followed, with the July delivery of wheat here showing an extreme loss of 9 cents .a bushel, compared with Monday's finish. Si multaneously cash values for imme diate delivery of wheat In Kansas City were reported as having dropped iu some cases fully 22 cents. WETS PARADE IN .PROTEST Sweltering Sun Braved by Thousands In New York Streets. New York. A great many New Yorkers let the world know Monday that they bear no love for the 18th amendment. Several thousand raised a terrible thirst tramping up Fifth avenue In an anti-prohibition demon stration and others packed the side walks for more than two miles to cheer them. It was called a wet parade, and it was wet soaking wet with per spiration. The afternoon was one of the hottest of the year. Mayor Hylan smiled and sweltered in the seat of honor in the reviewing stand at Madison Square. Both groups passing by greeted him with compli mentary outbursts. Every now and then somebody would loudly ask if his honor didn't long for a schooner of lager on such a hot day. The foreign-born and they made up a big percentage of the demonstra tion against dryness always ad dressed the mayor by his title, or as "Mister Hylan." Some of the march ers bore banners which called on all to witness "the outrage on personal liberty" against which they perspired in protest. Quite a few women and children participated in the parade. They were so outnumbered by masculine marchers, however, that it seemed manifest that the male of the species Is more thirsty than his mate. Every body in the line had an American flag. Many wore miniature1 liquor bottles appropriately Inscribed. There were more than 300 organ izations in line, about 100 of them Italian, those in charge announced. Bands played drinking songs" and songs dedicated to the absence of drinks. Plucards, in a manner of speaking, put the kick in the parade. One read: "Prohibition took the sunshine from our home and put the moonshine in." Another said: "Russia went dry in 1919 and made in 1921. How rational do you feel yourselves?" A third declared: "Forty million soldiers fought for liberty and were rewarded with prohibition How come?" The serious signs asked everybody to notice what alcoholic aridity had done to the American merchant ma rine. They suggested Bible readings as a means of learning who made wine from water that the wedding feast might be merry, and the biblical line: "Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake," was quoted. There were pic tures of the Last Supper and of the Goddess of Liberty, shorn of her proslt-like pose by shackles that bound her arms together. Fleet Scares Mexicans. Mexico City. The appearance off Tampico Sunday of five armored vessels comprising part of the United States Atlantic fleet is described by the Tampico correspondent of El Dem ocrata as having produced a great sen sation. The vessels cast anchor just outside the three mile limit and gave no intimation as to the cause of their visit but El Democrata says it be lieves the vessels are engaged in man euvers. Minnesota Fires Abate. Duluth. Forest fires in northern Minnesota have practically abated. Showers and abatement of stiff winds which had funned the flames and hampered the fire guards in their Work were changes in weather con ditions beneficial to the guards. Thou sands of acres of pine trees and second-growth timber were burned over by the fires, according to esti mates by forestry men. Wool Brings 21 Cents. Great Falls, Mont. Thirty-five thou sand pounds of wool was sold at Har lowton last week for 21 cents a pound by the Grain Growers' Association, Inc., to George F. Glsh of Denver for the Charles J. Webb company of Phila delphia, according to Mr. Gish here. The price is the highest known to hnve been paid in Montana this sea Bon. Typhoon Strikes Manila. Manila, P. I. A typhoon early Tues day caused heavy damage in Manila and its environs. The city's power supply was cut off and the city was in darkness. Houses were unroofed and several small vessels in Manila bay driven ashore. Street car service was paralyzed. Firecracker Is Fatal. Denver. Robert Knott, 55, a real estate operator, was standing at a corner in the business district Mon day when someone threw a giant fire cracker at his feet As the firecracker exploded Knott dropped dead, appar ently from excitement TAFT APPOINTED E Nomination Is Confirmed by Senate, 60 to 4. OPPOSITION IS NOTED Ex-President Is First Man in History to Obtain Highest Judicial and Executive Posts. Washington, D. C William Howard Taft, ex-president, was nominated late Thursday by President Harding to be chief Justice of the United States and his nomination was confirmed by the senate in executive session. The nomination was not confirmed without opposition, however, and a rollcall was demanded. The opposi tion was voiced by Senators Borah, Idaho; Johnson, California, and La Follette, Wisconsin, all republicans. On the rollcall, however, only four votes were cast against confirmation, These wore by Senators Borah, John son and La Follett, and Senator Wat son, democrat, Georgia. The final vote was 60 to 4. The senate's doors were closed for discussion of the nomination after suggestions that Mr. Taft be confirm ed in "open executive" session, be cause he is an ex-president and had been rejected by his opponents. Senators Borah and Johnson led the fight on the floor In opposition to Mr. Taft, while he was defended by about a- dozen senators, including Knox of Pennsylvania, Kellogg of Minnesota and Willis of Ohio, repub licans, and Underwood of Alabama, minority leader; Smith of South Caro lina, Overman of North Carolina and Broussard of Louisiana, democrats. Mr. Taft is the first man in the nation's history to be chosen for the highest office in both the executive and judicial branches of the govern ment. For more than 30 years prior to his .retirement from the preseidency in 1913 he had been almost constantly in public service. Twice he has served on the bench, having been a judge of the superior court of Ohio and a judge of the fed eral circuit court in the same state. The list of his other public services Includes the position of collector of Internal revenue, solicitor-general of the United States, civil governor of the Philippine islands, secretary of war and president. Mr. Taft is in his 64th year and is said by his friends to be in robust health, despite the fact that he has lost considerable weight since he left the presidency. Readjustment Goes On. Washington, D. C. June business activities in the United States, al though showing an acceleration in price declines, were classed as "In conclusive" with respect to probable future developments by the monthly review of the federal reserve board issued Friday. The board concluded that "it is evi dent the close of the readjustment period has not yet been reached," in some lines of business, notably iron and steel. In Iron, the board said, it Is now generally believed further readjustment of wages and prices is likely to occur and that increased activity in it will certainly not be noted before autumn." In several branches of domestic trade, the board said, the "month of June is usually a period of relative quiet and temporary reaction," and "such recession as has occurred is evi dently only seasonal." - Employment continued practically unchanged, the report Bald, "with slight tendencies, to betterment, no tably in agriculture." Silk Trade Is Trebled. Washington, D. C The silk goods in dustry in the United States has grown nearly three-fold In the last five years, the total value of silk products in 1919 being $688,916,000 as compared with $254,011,000 in 1914, according to a statement Issued by the census bureau. Establishments in the knit goods In dustry reported products made of silk valued at $207,370,000, a business five times greater than that done five years ago. Soldier Aid Approved. Washington, D. C Approval by the treasury department of the construc tion at soldiers' homes of five hospitals for the care of former service men suffering with tuberculosis was an nounced Friday by Secretary Mellon. The new buildings will cost $3,100,000 and are expected to be ready by Jan uary 1. GIF TtlQ ROBERT J. C STEAD Homesteader - Author of "Thm Cow . Copyright, All Rights Reserved ' Punch." Etc CHAPTER XI Continued. 20 With a yell of pain Gardiner sprang x his feet, jerking the farmer into a mlf-sitting posture as he did so, and Jarrls, with a great gasp for air, re Inquished his sudden and unexpected idvantage. But Gardiner's head was igain in command ; he rushed through lie door, half falling over the obstruc lon as he went, and In an instant was ost In the gloom of the night. For some minutes Harris lay on the loor, recovering his breath. As the xygen welled back Into his lungs he egan to realize that, save for his :hoklng, he was unhurt. With return ng strength his thought reverted to Mian, and, calling the boy's name, he iprang to his feet. The first thing was :o get a light. He found matches in lis pocket, struck one, nnd peered ea ;erly Into the gloom as its flickering lame beat back the darkness. A blnn let, rolled and stained, lay in the doors-ay, and within was a figure that night once have been a man. Harris' leart almost stopped at the sight : "Al an," he gasped, "my boy, Allan I" He liptoed across the crumbling floor to ward It, holding the match before him. !l man's boot and part of a trouser leg protruded from the mass. He held the natch downward, leaning over them. They were not Allan's. "Thank God," he murmured, swell ng with a great hope, "thank God for diat." He struck another match and found :he lantern. When he had lighted it le surveyed the little building, and mw Allan's gun lying at the end far :hest from the door. Not until that moment did he think of the money. Mian had been uppermost In his mind, ind when he thought of Allan money ivas no consideration. But now a great ivave of understanding rushed In upon aim. Yes, the bag was gone. They nad been attacked by robbers. Knowl jdge of their expedition had in some way got to evil ears, and while he ilept Allan had been set upon. The joy had emptied his gun the huddled nass In the doorway told that tale plainly enough but other robbers had seized the cash and Allan had pursued :hem empty-handed. They had fired at lim as he rushed from the building that was the flash he saw a few sec jnds after the first loud report. He was not quite clear as to his own share In the fight, but he saw the gen sral plan of it plainly enough. He be ?an to wonder what had happened to Gardiner and Riles. Had they been shot down as they wgund through the woods? This was evidently the work of a gang prepared to stop at nothing. Harris never for a moment suspected his old neighbor of treachery. He was himself a hard, grasping, money-seeking man, bnt he had a code of honor none the less, and within Its limita tions none was more honorable than he. To have done what Riles had done would have been quite Impossible for John Harris, nnd because It was im possible for him Its possibility for ttiles never suggested Itself. Harris had not yet fully realized the loss of his money. It was overshad owed by the more tragic events of which one evidence lay before him. His anxiety for Allan loomed larger In his mind, although he had little ioubt the boy would take proper care of himself, and, even if unarmed, would come back with the money and perhaps with a prisoner. The fact that Allan had not taken his gun was reassuring; If there had been any great danger he would not have left it behind. But he must get out now and aid in the search. As he reached this decision his eye caught a gleam of something shining on the floor. He walked to It and found a revolver, fully loaded except for one chamber, which had been dis charged. "This Is evidence," said he "important evidence." Harris had all the Old Ontario contempt for this kind of weapon, and knew compara tively little about It, but he concluded from its appearance that It was al most new. As he examined it his eye fell on the Initials, "J. T.," cut In the grip. 'J. T.," he said to himself. "J. T. Those Initials seem familiar. I'll just leave this thing where I found It, un til the police see It." Replacing the weapon on the floor. he stole out the cabin, avoiding the silent obstruction In the doorway. Out side he stood for a moment undecided. The circle of light from his lantern might beacon Allan back to the shan ty, but it would also prove a signal to the robbers, If they were still in the vi cinity. The roar of water came up from the valleys, but above or through that roar suddenly he fancied he heard a sound from the bushes near at hand. He held his breath and listened In tently. Yes, there It was again a hu man sound, beyond question, half groan, half gurgle. He turned In the direction from which It came and stole quietly forward. Half-a-dozen yards from the building the light revealed, first a shadow, and then a figure lying on the ground. With some trepidation Harris approached. The man's arms had been extended when he fell, and bis coat was thrown over his head. Harris stooped and drew It down over the shoulders exposing the face. It was Allan. The first shock of the revelation al most stopped the heart of the old farmer, and he sat back as one dazed, unable to accept the testimony of his own eyes. Then came a panic of un certainty, and he fell upon the boy, groping wildly for his heart, and at last pressing upon it in an agony of fear. Yes, the beat was there, faint and uneven, but unmistakable. With a sudden surge of returning hope he brought his ear down to the open mouth, fringed with light red foam, and could hear the air laboring in the ravaged lungs. Then came that hu man sound, half gurgle, half groan; but to Harris, in the reaction from his first paralyzing fenr, It was as very music from heaven. His boy still lived, and still should live. Tenderly he turned the body to a more comfortable position, laying his folded coat beneath the head for a pillow. He loosened the shirt about the neck, and far down the heaving chest saw the sodden red that marked his wound. Rain fell In scattered drops, and he brought another blanket from the cabin, caring little now foi the silent form In tile doorway In the sudden shadow of his greater tragedy. He spread the blanket over the wound ed boy, and sat down by his side, ca ressing his temples with his big fin gers, and wondering what to do next. As he saf the helplessness of his po sition grew upon him. He was deep in the foot hills, many miles, fis far as he knew, from the home of any set tler. In daylight he could, no doubt, find his way back to town, but daylight might be too late. He did not know whether Allan was dying on his hands at that moment. Certainly to attempt to move him in the buggy would be dangerous in the extreme. And as he sat he thought of the missing money, the fruit of his life's labor, snatched from him in a moment In the darkness. The loss did not hurt Without an Instant's Warning, Harris Threw the Bag About His Head. him as deeply as he might have thought ; he was numbed by the great er blow that hung over him. If Allan would only live t The boy had been his constant companion since ba byhood. All his hopes, all his ambi tions, which had found their expres sion In his years of feverish toll, had been wrapped about Allan. He had no one else. His better self revolted at that thought. "You have a wife and daughter," it said, "ready to share your life ns soon as you are ready to share theirs." He forced his mind from that phase of his position, but it re verted to it again and again. He could not wander in memory up the path of his boy's life without meeting his boy's mother. And all the pain and unhap piness of the later years how It cut like an evil bank of fog across the once bright course of their career! But he had suffered for their sakes, hold ing fast to his own course because he knew It to be best. Best? And it had brought him to this? The question would not down. Rather than relax an lota from his own purpose he had broken up his family; he had crushed them under the wheels of his Inflexible will, and now that same will had driven his son to destruction and himself to ruin. It Is not easy for a man who has laid out a career nnd followed It with all the energy of a virile nature, recast ing his gods from time to time to con form with the evolution of his ideals, but recasting always In the mold of his own will rather than any vessel of creed or persuasion It Is not easy for such a man to stop at fifty and say, "I was wrong." It requires a break In his process of evolution, a shock suffi ciently powerful to pulverize his gods before his face, to drive home the truth that they were not gods at all but mere idols of his own creation. In Harris' later life two idols had grown up to the exclusion of all oth ers: they were the wealth which he had bullded with his hands and the boy, Allan, about whom he wrapped all the affection of his nature; and they had crumbled to dust even while he worshiped. He found a flask thrown from some camper's pack, and filled it with water at the mountain stream that rushed by a few rods below the cabin. He placed the liquid to the boy's lips and fancied that some drops found entrance. He had stanched the wound as best he could with fragments torn from the lining of his coat, and he sat down again to watch. Until morning he could do nothing more. Then some camper, lunfbermun, or surveyor might happen along the road. If not, he would have to move Allan at all risks. It took time for him to realize the utterness with which his plans had collapsed. As the night wore on he was able to weigh his disaster In a more balanced mind, but Its magnitude grew In the weighing. From prosper ous ambition he had been swept In an hour to penniless ruin. His destruc tion was almost complete. The old farm, the scene of his labors his and Mary's was gone. If Allan should die there remained nothing more. Suddenly he fancied he heard the sound of horses' hoofs In the cloy road along the hill side, now softened with the light rain. The sound ceased as suddenly as It began, and It occurred to him that It might be one of the rob bers returning. The lantern was burn ing low, but as a precaution he now turned it quite out. There were some cartridges in Allan's pocket; he felt for them and decided to bring the gun out of the cabin. But before he could put his decision Into effect he observed the form of a man moving silently but briskly toward the cabin. He held his breath and remained obscured In the bushes. Dimly he discerned the form stop at the door and peer into the darkness. There was no doubt In the mind of Harris as to the evil Intent of the vis itor. He had come on horseback near the building, and had then dismounted and stole up to It on foot. That In It self was sufficiently Incriminating. One who was riding through the mountains 'on a legitimate errand, and who knew nothing of the night's affray, would take no such precautions. Unarmed as he was, Harris resolved that the robber, probably the murderer of his son, should not on any account escape him. With the blanket which he had brought to cover Allan was a bag In which they had carried oats for their horses; this he found In the darkness, and stole after his victim. He over took him standing at the door, In ap parent hesitnncy whether to enter the building. Without an instant's warn ing Harris threw the bag about his head, and with a quick twist of his powerful wrist had his prisoner se curely gagged. Throwing him violent ly to the ground, he tied the sack In a hard knot, and, despite all struggles', dragged him back to where Allan lay. Here he relighted the lantern, and, cutting part of the blanket into strips with his pocket knife, securely tied his captive hand and foot. At first the prisoner tried to talk, but he could not speak intelligibly through the close drawn sack, and presently he gave up and lay In silence In the wet grass. And again the leaden night wore on, broken only by occasional gurglings in the throat of Allan, or futile struggles by the prisoner. Harris felt little curi osity concerning the Identity of the man in gags beore him, or the victim of Allan's gun in the doorway. They were absolute strangers to him, and he even feared that if he should look Into the face of the one that still lived his anger over the assault upon Allan would burst all bounds and lie would kill his victim on the spot. He was' slowly forced to the conclusion that Riles and Gardiner had also met with foul play, and that no help was now to be expected from that- quarter. Just as the first bars of gray In the eastern sky proclaimed approaching dawn, the sound of horse's hoofs came distinctly up the valley. Harris drew himself Into a sitting posture, nnd lis tened. Allan was still breathing, and apparently with less effort than earlier In the night. The sound of the horse came nearer and nearer. At last It was In the road just below, and a mo ment later would have passed by had not Harris called out. Sergeant Gray Instantly swung hll horse from the road and, dismounting, proceeded In the direction of the voices. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Reading and "Skimming." It is said that Macaulay could fead faster than most men could skim and skim faster than they could skip. No doubt, but then he could laugh heart ily at a Greek comedy. The whole thing Is largely a matter of habit and training; a man can accustom himself to read steadily. On the other hand, the habit of skimming is one of the most perilous to careful thinking j once formed, It Is very difficult to shake off, and the man that has al lowed himself to slip Into the easy primrose path of skimming, finds that be has missed one good thing after another.