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WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. It was announced In London Tuesday as provisionally arranged that Premier Lloyd George would attend the Wash ington conference on limitation of ar maments. Thomas D. Randolph, a leading busi ness man of Sharon, Pa., was kidnaped Monday night and is being held for $50,000 ransom, according to lnforma tlon given the police by Mrs. Randolph. Mrs. Emma R. Burkett, in New York from Hillsdale, Ind., to face a charge of forging the Indorsement of the late Theodore Roosevelt on a note for $ 69, 900, Tuesday pleaded not guilty and was held for trial July 27. Government action on Henry Ford's offer to take over the nitrate plant at Mussel Shoals, Ala., for conversion into a fertilizer plant, may await confer ence between Secretaries Weeks and Mellon, it was said Tuesday. San Francisco union marine engi neers, meeting TueBday night, voted, 480 to 60, to return to work Immediate ly, it was announced by officers. The engineers have been on strike since May 1, when the nation-wide maritime Btrlke was called. The direct charge that $5000 was paid to Major Bruce R. Campbell, an officer of the army for use among "the higher ups" to obtain the release of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, her slacker . son, was made Tuesday by Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll of Philadelphia to a house investigating committee. The fifth bank robbery In small vil lages in eastern Idaho within the past few weeks was reported in Idaho Falls Monday morning, when officers were warned to watch for four men who broko into the bank at Leadore last night and stole $3000 worth of liberty bonds. Leadore is a small mining town. i There are 8,000,000 women In the United States In gainful occupations, Dr. Aurella Henry Retnhardt, presi dent of Mills college, Oakland, Cal., told the 300 delegates attending the third annual convention of the nation al federation of business and profes sional women's clubs in Cleveland, 0., hi an address Tuesday. Jam and playing cards were granted the dignity of a class freight rate and scheduled at (1.95 and $3.65 a hun dredweight, respectively, from Atlantic to Pacific ports by the North Atlantic Pacific coast westbound conference at San Francisco Tuesday. Heretofore they had gone under the commodity or mixed shipment status. Frank Farlno, 16, of Brooklyn, Is recovering after his heart was acci dentally pierced with a knife and then promptly sowed up. The boy was work ing in a factory when a 17-lnch knife with which he was cutting rope slip ped. The blade entered his cheBt, pierced the heart covering and cut through the heart muscles. Prisoners In the western penitenti ary at" Pittsburg Monday fired four buildings and for a time kept the in stitution in an uproar, while priBon guards, deputy sheriffs and policemen, reinforced by armed citizens, fought to put down the disorder. Six convicts were shot and two others cut. Prison officials said three or four of the wounded would likely die. A singular coincidence In suicides of two men named Helm Is that Grata W. Helm in San Francisco wub found dead Monday afternoon sitting upright in his chair at his desk with a bullot hole back of his left ear, while Frank Helm, foreman of Gold Zone mine at Tono pah, was found dead Monday afternoon sitting In his chair at his desk with a bullet hole back of his right ear. They were not related. Lachrymatory, or tear gas, the In vention of Major Stephen do la Noy, of the chemical warfare division, United States army, was given Its first orriclal tryout as a mob scatterer and in repelling attacks by criminals at Cannon Ball farm Tuesday, near Phil adelphia, and 200 policemen were driv en back weeping three times. Major de la Noy, addressing tho men Just be fore the attack, said: "This Is not dan gerous. It is merely a tear-producing, choking, nauseating gas. But be care ful you don't swallow too much." ASKS FOR BIG CREDIT POOL Railroads, Farmers and Exporters Would Be Helped- Washington, D. C Broadening of the powers of the war finance cor poration, making it the great govern mental agency for bringing about the necessary economic readjustments, is suggested by President Harding in a special communication to congress. The special letter, it has been an nounced, will deal primarily with the proposed financial settlement between the government and railroads. But, according to statements by adminis tration leaders, it probably will go fur ther and recommend not only that the war finance corporation take charge of the railroad settlement, but also that It be placed in direct and prac tically sole charge of farm credits and export financing. Secretary Hoover said that he had recommended such a plan and that his recommendation had been ap proved by Secretary Mellon and Eu gene Meyer Jr., managing director of the war finance corporation. Investigation, he said, had convinced him that the broadening of the finance corporation's powers through legisla tion permitting It to handle adequately the triple problem was the proper course to pursue. Funds for speeding up business, he asserted, could be made available by the corporation without a great drain on the treasury. The corporation 1b empowered to Issue bonds up to six times its capitalization of $500,000,000. However, according to finance cor poration officials, that organization has an account with the treasury of more than $300,000,000, so that a bond Issue will not be necessary until that sum Is exhausted. Payments to the roads, however, are expected to clean out quickly the account with the treasury. In connection with the necessary government financing to meet the first call for funds for the railroads It was indicated at the treasury that an issue of treasury certificates would proba bly be made August 1. It was not thought, however, that the next Issue of the treasury's new short-term notes would be floated until September. THREE-CENT STAMP -REVNUE PROPOSAL Washington, D. C Plans for build ing a new tax law took more definite form Monday as preparations ' were completed for the actual beginning of revision of the revenue laws by the house ways and means committee. President Harding heard details of what house leaders proposed to do from Chairman Fordney of the com mittee and information leaked out In dicating that the 3-cent postage stamp might be resorted to as a revenue producer. The return to the 3-cent stamp was understood to have been discussed at a conference Saturday between Secre tary Mellon and Mr. Fordney and other republican members of the ways and means committee. The sugges tion will be taken up with the post office department before any further moves are made, however, It was stated. ; ' . In tho search for methods of raising $4,000,000,000 a year, members of the committee were declared to have talk ed also of a stamp tax on bank checks, but that suggestion was understood to have been frowned upon by. the treasury. Other stamp tax proposals may get some consideration in the committee, but members said they feared the reaction from them. Big Incomes Hardest Hit. Washington, D. C People who are making $1,000,000 or more net Income are paying the government practically two-thirds of It In taxes, according to statistics of Income for 1919. There were 65 of these taxpayers, paying an average of $1,523,492 each. The pre liminary statistics do not show the taxes In classes above $1,000,000, but the net Income of individuals In the cluss from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000 Is given as Jtl.CCS.4S3. Charles Eyed Closely. Vlonnn. The rumored intention of former Emperor Charles of Austria to make another dash for the throne has caused the authorities to order a vigilant watch along the Danube and on the Swiss frontier. Officials do not appear to be concerned, however, pointing out that the Swiss authori ties are keeping close guard on the former emperor at his castle in Her tenBteln, near Lucerne. Terrier Drives Off Bull. Harrlsburg, 111. After being knock ed down and gored so badly' by a bull that he became unconscious, Ioy Bar ter, 23, farmer, probably owes his life to a small fox terrier which drove oft the bull, biting it so scvorely that It was necessary to call a veterinary. Barter suffered a broken jaw and two broken ribs. Ml IS BEHIND BOOTLEGGING PLOT Foreign and Domestic Capital Declared Used. FLEET SAID AT WORK Atlantic City Collector of Customs Says Suspected Liquor Steam er Has Left. Port. New York. Foreign and domestic capital aggregating millions of dollars Is supporting a conspiracy to violate the Volstead act by running cargoes of liquor into various parts of the United States in a fleet of sailing vessels of British and American reg istry, it was charged Sunday by Leroy W. Ross, United States distrtict at torney of Brooklyn. With the seizure Saturday of a sloop attempting to discharge a con traband cargo on the Connecticut shore and the amplification of the government's enforcement facilities along the Atlantic coast, Mr. Ross has been placed in virtual charge of pro hibitive operations at the port of New York. Elliott Rapp, collector of customs, Atlantic City, declared that a mysteri ous three-masted schooner is lying off Atlantlo City, but that when revenue officers went out to her Sunday they found she was beyond the three-mile limit. He also said a large steamer, which had been lying off Atlantic City for several days and which was sus pected of having a cargo of contra band liquor, weighed anchor Saturday and disappeared. He added the ship had signaled ashore to "lay down your money and come and get It" POLAND BIDS FOR NORTHWEST WHEAT . Spokane, Wash. Receipt of an of fer from a large New York exporting firm to purchase 3,300,000 bushels of wheat for shipment to Poland waslln nounced here Sunday by W. F. Schil ling of Northfteld, Minn., president of the $100,000,000 finance corporation of the United States Grain Growers, Inc. Whether the order will be filled de pends on the ability of the purchasers and the grain growers' organization to agree on the terms of payment, Mr. Schilling said. The offer telegraphed to Mr. Schil ling said that 100,000 tons of wheat of export quality were desired for Danzig, shipment tp begin in August. The payment is to be 75 per cent cash and 25 per cent on 12 Wnths' credit, according to Mr. Schilling, guaranteed by the Polish treasury and Polish bankers. The price was not mentioned. "The greater part of this order, If It is taken, will be filled by pro ducers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho," Mr. Schilling said. "This sec tion is the best for wheat of export quality." EARTHQUAKE SHOCK HITS SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco. An earthquake shock was felt here at 9:05 o'clock Sunday night. The shock, which was felt by many persons in all parts of San Francisco, was estimated to have lasted between 15 and 25 seconds. No damage has been reported. Santa Clara, Cal. An earthquake which struck here at 9 o'clock Sunday night lasted six minutes and covered a distance of 77 miles, according to the seismograph record reported by Futher Rlcard of the University of Santa Clara. The shock radiated from Palo Alto and was most severe at that point It took a northwest direction from Palo Alto. No damage has been reported In San Jose or from any nearby points. Tax Advisors Penalized. Washington, D. C Warning against fake Income tax "experts" was issued here by Internal Revenue Commission er Blair. Within the last 30 days, he said, between 40 and 50 attorneys and agents for taxpayers have been dis barred from practice before the treas ury. Blair said that persons who knowingly offer advice by which the income tax laws may be evaded will be dealt with In accordance with pen alties provided by law. nrj By I Mp ROBERT J. C. CW STEAD Homesteader Author of "TA Cow Copyright, All Right! Renrved ' CHAPTER XII Continued. 23 "Oh, it's Sergeant Grey," she said, with a tone of relief. "I am Beulah Harris. And I've just been getting myself engaged to your prisoner here. Oh, It's not so awful as you think. You see, we knew each other In Mani toba, and we've really been engaged for quite a while, but he didn't know It until tonight" For a moment the policeman re tained his reserve. He remembered the girl, who had already cost him a de lected glance, and he reproached him self that he could doubt her even as he doubted, but how could he know thut she had not been passing in fire irms or planning a release? "What she says is right, sergeant," said Travers. "She has Just broken the oews to me, and I'm the happiest man In Canada, Jail or no jail." There was no mistaking the gen uine ring in Travers' voice, and the policeman was convinced. "Most ex traordinary," he remarked, at length, "but entirely natural on your part, I must say. I congratulate you, sir." The officer had not forgotten the girl who clung to his arm the morning be fore. "Hang me, sir," he continued, "there's luck everywhere but in the mounted police." He unlocked the door of the cell. "I ought to search you," he said to Beu lah, "but if you'll give me your word that you have no firearms, weapons, knives, or matches, I'll admit you to this er drawing room for a few min utes." "Nothing worse than a hat pin," she assured him. "But you must come, too," she added, placing her hand on his arm. "You must understand that." He accompanied her into the cell, Dut remained In the doorway, where be suddenly developed an Interest in astronomy. At length he turned quick ly and faced in to the darkness. "Speaking, not as an officer, but as a fellowman, I wish you were damned well that is, very well out of this, old chap," he said to Travers. "Oh, that's all right," Jim assured him. "You couldn't help taking me up, of course, and for all your kind aess you would quite cheerfully hang me if It fell to your lot. But it isn't going to." "I stand ready to be of any service to you that Is permissible." "The Inquest Is to be tomorrow, Isn't It?" asked Beulah. "I think you should be at the Inquest, Jim." "That's right," said the sergeant. "You may throw some new light on the case." "I've just one request," said Trav ers. "You know Gurdiner?" "I've heard of him." "Have him at the Inquest" "As a Juror or witness?" "It doesn't matter, but have him there." "All right. I'll see to it. And now, Miss Harris, If you will permit me, I will bring your horse for you." Grey took a conveniently long time to find the horse, but at last he ap peared In the door. Beulah released her fingers from Jim's and swung her self Into the saddle. "Sergeant Grey," she said, "I think you're the second best uiun in the world. Good night." The sergeant's military shoulders :ame up squarer still, and he stood at attention as she rode Into the dark less. CHAPTER XIII. An Inquest and Some Explanations. The Inquest party consisted of the ;oroner, who was the doctor that had already attended Allan; Sergeant 3rey, six Jurors, selected from the :ownspeople; the manager of the bank, whose suspicions had first been com municated to Grey ; Travers, and Gar liner. In the early morning the po lceman had ridden out to the ranch for Gardiner, but had met him on his way to town. News of the tragedy lad reached him, he said, and he was lurrying In to see if he could be of tome assistance to Travers in arrang jig for a lawyer, or In any way that night be practicable. Grey told him that as yet no formal charge had been .aid against Travers; that he was merely held pending the finding of :he coroner's jury, and suggested that f Gardiner would accompany him to ;he Inquest he1 might be able, not only :o throw some light on Travers' char icter, but also on his whereabouts on :he night of the tragedy. To this 3ardlner readily agreed. It was noon when the party reached :he Arthurs' ranch. They swung Into the yard amid a cloud of dust, the llngle of trappings, and the hearty ex :hange of greetings between Arthurs and bis acquaintances from town. 3ardlner was Introduced to Arthurs, tnd shook hands without removing hli rauntlets. Then the rancher walked jver and shook hands with Trovers. There were no signs of handcuffs low, and an outsider would not have known that the young man's position llffered from that of the others pres et After the meal Gardiner joined them again, and the party, which now In Auded Arthurs aud Harris, proceed- ed up the valley to the scene of the tragedy. It was a great shock to Har ris to find that the victim of Allan's gun was his old neighbor, Riles. He stood for a long time as one dazed by the discovery, but gradually out of the confusion a horrible fear took shape In his mind. Allan had shot this man, with whom they had an ap pointment at this spot ; had shot him down, as far as could be shown, with out excuse or provocation, before he had so much as entered the door. The body proved to be unarmed, and from its position had evidently fallen Into the building after receiving the fatal charge. Harris' evidence was first received. He found It difficult to give his story connectedly, but Item by Item he told of his acquaintance with Riles In the eastern province; of their decision to come west and take up more land ; of the chance by which they had fallen In with Gardiner, and the prospect he had laid before them of more profita ble returns from another form of In vestment; of how his hesitation had finally been overcome by the assur ance that all he need do was have his money ready he was to be under no obligation to go any further In the transaction unless entirely satisfied; of the offer wired by the New York capitalists; of the sale of his farm for a disappointing sura, and their Journey with the money to the old shanty up the valley, where they were to be met by Riles and Gardiner, and also, as they expected, by the owner of the mine, with whom they would open direct negotiations, producing the money as proof of their desire and ability to carry out their undertaking; of how they hoped the owner would be Induced to accept a deposit and ac company them back to town, where an option would be secured from him for a period sufficient to enable them to "Perhaps I Am a Murderer," He Con. tlnued Simply. turn the property over to the New York Investors at a handsome profit; of how he Harris wearied by the long ride In the bright, thin air, had gone to sleep confidently with Allan at his side, and of how he had sudden ly been awakened by a shot and heard Allan spring to his feet and rush across the floor of the old building. Then there had been another shot a revolver shot this time and every thing was darkness, and he could hear only something struggling at the door. Then be told of his own fight ; of how they had fallen and rolled about on the rotten floor, and how, In despera tion, he had not hesitated to use his teeth on the hand of his assailant, who had finally broken away and disap peared in the darkness. Then he told the rest of his story ; of his vigil with Allan, of the loss of the money, of the capture of Travers, and finally of the arrival of the policeman on the scene. "Didn't it seem to you a foolish thing to go Into the hills with all that money to meet a man you had never seen, and buy a property you had nev er examined?" asked the coroner. "It wasn't foolishness ; It was stark, raving madness, as I see It now," Har ris admitted. "But I didn't see It that way then. It looked like a lot of easy money. I didn't care what the coal mine was like I didn't care whether there was a coal mine at all or not o long as we made our turn over to the New York people." "But did it not occur to you that the whole thing coal mine and mine owner and New Yorkers and all was simply a scheme hatched up to Induce you away Into the fastnesses of the foothills with a lot of money In your possession?" A half-bewildered look came over arris, as of a man gripped by a new and paralyzed thought But he shook his head. "No, It couldn't have been that" he said. "You see, Riles was an old neighbor of mine, and Mr. Gardi ner, too, I kuew for a good nnny years. It wasn't like as if I had been dealing with strangers." . ( "We will go deeper Into that matter after a little," said the coroner. "It's very fortunate Mr. Gardiner Is here to add what light he can to the mys tery. We will now adjourn to the room where the younger Mr. Harris lies and hear his evidence. It would be unwise to move him for some days yet." "I can't tell you how It happened, Doctor," he said, turning his eyes, larger now In his pale face, upon the coroner, "but I think I got very home sick I guess I was pretty tired, too and I began thinking of things that bad happened long ago, back when 1 was a little child, in a little sod shan ty that the old shack In the valley some way seemed to bring to mind. And then I guess I fell asleep, too, but suddenly I sut up In a great fright I'm not a coward," he said, with a faint smile. "When I'm feeling myself it takes more than a notion or a dark night to send the creeps up the back of my neck. But I own I sat up there so frightened my teeth chattered. I had a feeling that I was going to be attacked I didn't know by what maybe by a wild beast but something was going to rush In through that old blanket hanging In the door and pounce on me." The sweat was standing on Allan's face, and he sank back weakly Into the pillows. Beulah placed a glass to his lips, and the doctor told him to take his time with his story. "As the minutes went by," Allan continued, after an Interval, "that ter rible dread grew upon me, and my sense of danger changed from fear to certainty. Something was going to at tack me through that door I I raised my gun and took careful aim. I saw the blanket swing a little ; then I saw the fingers of a man's hand. Then I fired. "Perhaps I am a murderer," he con tinued, simply, "but before God I know no more why I fired that shot than you do." There were deep breathing and shuf fling of feet as Allan completed this part of his statement, but only the coroner found his voice. "Most re markable evidence," he ejaculated. "Most extraordinary evidence. I have never heard anything so obviously sin cere and at the same time so altogeth ed unexplalnable." "Perhaps it's not so unexplalnable," said a quiet voice; and Mary Harris made her way through the circle of men to the side of the bed. She sat down on the coverlet and took the boy's hand in hers. It mattered not how many were looking on; he was her little boy again. "You will understand, Doctor, and some of you men are parents," she began. "Allan will be twenty-five years old this coming winter. A lit tle less than 25 years ago my husband was obliged to leave me alone for a considerable period in our little sod shanty on the homestead where we had located down In Manitoba. There were no near neighbors, as we count distance in well-settled districts, and I was altogether alone. I stood It all right for the rst day or two, but my nerves were not what they should have been, and gradually a strange, unreasoning fear came upon me. I suppose it was the immensity of the prairies, the terrible loneliness of It all, and my own state of health, but the dread grew from day to day and from night to night. I tried to busy myself, to keep my mind active, to throw off the specter that haunted me, but day and night I was oppressed with a sense of Impending danger. We had no wooden door on the house j we hadn't money to buy the boards to make one, and nil my protection was a blanket hung in the doorway. I used to watch that blanket at night; I would light the lantern and sit In the corner and watch that blanket . . My fear gradually pictured to Itself an attack through that doorway 1 didn't know by what; by white man, or Indian, or wild beast, or ghost, or worse, If that Is possible; my mind could not balance things; nothing seemed too unreasonable or terrible to expect So I took the gun, and sat In the corner, and waited. (TO BE CONTINUED.) An Eayptian Orchestra. A full Egyptian orchestra was com posed of twenty harps, eight lutes, five or six lyres, six or seven double pipes, five or six flutes, one or two pipes (rarely used), two or three tambou rines (seldom used). If vocalists were added, 'which was not necessarily the rule, they would number about three fourths as many as the harpers. Land of the 6ugar Maple. The finest and most abundant growth of the sugar maple Is found in the New England states. New York, northern and western Pennsylvania and west ward throughout the region of the Great Lakes to Minnesota. In the southern Appalachians it grows well were climatic conditions are similar to those farther north. The practical farmer raises better crops than the theoretical agriculturist