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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1921)
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. Fifteen persons were drowned when a ferryboat sank In the Cautin river at Temuco City, 80 miles northeast of Vuldlvla, Chile, Tuesday. The number of peasants threatened with starvation in the Volga region Is now placed at 30,000,000 by a Moscow wireless dlBpatch. Of this number 9,500,000 are children. Plans for Inauguration of a dally passenger and freight service between New York and Washington were an nounced Tuesday by a commercial aviation company. Six limousine type planes have been purchased. Clara Smith Hamon, who was ac quitted In Ardmoro, Okla., several months ago when tried for the murder of Juke L. Hamon, was married at Los Angeles late Tuesday to John W. Gor man, a motion picture director. Ceorge Williams, aged 3G, of Spo kane, Wash., pleaded guilty in superior court to robbery of the Merchants & Farmers bank at Rockford Monday and was given the minimum sentence, 10 years in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. An automobile containing Jewelry valued at $50,000 was stolen at Los Angeles harbor Tuesday while its owner, Richard II. Nelson, salesman for a San Francisco firm of manufact uring jewelers, was inside a store In the harbor district, talking to a pros pective customer, according to his re port to the police. The population of England, Wales and Scotland, according to the new census made public recently Is 42,707, 530, as against 40,831,396 In 1911, an Increase of 4.7 per cent. Greater Lon don's population Is 7,476,168. an In crease of 3.1 per cent. By countries the population Is: England, 35,678,530; Wales, 2,206,712; Scotland, 4,882,288. The steamship Italia sailed from New York Tuesday for Vigo, Spain, with more than 200 recruits many of them Americans,, who had enlisted here In the Spanish legion In the last three days for service In the Spanish unny against Morocco tribesmen. They will be trained at Vigo and then em bark for Ceuta, on the coast of Morocco. The sonata Tuesday was requested In a resolution adopted by the house by a vole of 181 to 3 "to take appro priate action" concerning remarks of Senator Heed, democrat, Missouri, dur ing debate on the anti-beer bill last week, which the house held were "1m proper, unparliamentary and a reflec tion on the character" of Ropresenta live Volstead, republican, Mlnuosota, Selection of the town of Mansfield, nnd the county of Richmond, O., as the location of Its five-year experi ment In the development of children was announced Tuesday by the Na tional Child Health council. The Ohio communities were picked from 80 which sought the distinction, as most nearly complying with the qualifica tions of a typical American commun ity: Worthless notes, stolon bonds, fraud ulent deeds of trust and forged certi ficates of deposit running Into untold millions have been flung on the mar kets of tho country, federal agents de clared Tuesday, aftor Investigating the operations of a band alleged to have been headed by Charles W. French and John W, Worthlngton. Banks, bond houses, investment security brokers and wealthy business men from coast to coast wore declared to have been victims of one of the most gigantic swindles ever uuoarthed by depart ment of justice agents. Fred E. Sterling, lieutenant-governor of Illinois, rocontly Indicted with Gov ernor Small and Vernon Curtis of Grunt Park, 111., on charges of em bezzlement and conspiracy Involving $2,000,000 of stnte funds, Tuesday for warded a draft for $391,386.28 to Ed ward E. Miller, his successor as state treasurer. In a letter accompanying the draft Mr. Sterling explained that this sum was "all the Interest col lected by mo on state doposlte since May 31, 1920," and that it Included "interest to date on such collected Interest Items from the dates when the same came to my hands." EBERT TO FIGHT SEDITION Decree Prohibiting Demonstrations in Germany Issued. Berlin. After a meeting of the Ger man cabinet Monday President Ebert Issued a decree prohibiting meetings, processions, demonstrations and the publication of periodicals and pam phlets likely to encourage seditious movements. The government has proclaimed Its intention to suppress with an Iron hand and unrelenting severity all In surrections or attempts to subvert pub lic order. The assassination of Mathlas Erz- berger last Friday appears to have set a mutch to the plledup com bustibles which have been smolder ing for some time, and the cabinet Is believed to have found Itself In a serious predicament. . One of the features of the situa tion which is troubling the govern ment is the attitude of organized labor, supported by the socialist and communist parties. In demanding the definite suppression of the activities and machinations of the pan-Germans. It Is a forgone conclusion that the nationalists, If the relchstag should convene before September 27, the date already fixed, would promptly attack the government because of Its ac ceptance of puragraph 231 of the treaty, by which Germany and her allies accepted responsibility for the war. Ratification of the treaty, however, Is believed to be certain in the relchstag through the votes of the three coalition parties and the inde pendent socialists, which command 277 out of the 469 votes in the relch stag. Berlin. German organized labor, comprising 11,000,009 members belong ing to general and Independent feder ations, informed Chancellor WIrth Monday that it as ready "to go to the front" in defense of the republic. The majority and independent so cialists also sent a deputation to the chancellor, Informing him that both parties demand that 'the government proceed without fear or favor agalnBt the element responsible for the anti- republican demonstration and ma- chlnutlons "to which the assassina tion of Ilerr Erzberger Is attribut able." 700 INDIA REBELS SLAIN BY BRITISH Calicut, India. Nearly 700 members of the insurgent bands which have been creating disorders In the district southeast of this city have been kill ed in fights with British forces sent to quell tho uprising. Several Europeans have been killed, while 70 men of the Lolnster regiment and 17 native police men are missing. Many Hindus have been massacred. It was reported that the insurgents have destroyed bridges and felled trees across roads to obstruct troop movements. British troops, Including cavalry, ar rived here from Bangalore Sunday and proceeded to the disturbed area. Numerous refugees who have ar rived here from the Ernud district re lute pitiful tales of torture and loot ing. It appears the rebels have desert ed Tanur und other places and have taken to the hills. Simla, British India. A general staff report from Malabar, Issued Sun day night, said disturbances had oc curred south of Ponnanl. The steamer Nawab had arrived at Calicut with sup- piles. Both Calicut and Dudalar were reported quiet. The official communication of Sat urday from Calicut said a column re turning from Lalapuram came Into action with the rebels Friday at Puk katur. About 400 Moplahs were killed The British losses were two men kill ed und six wounded, Including one of ficer. Wool to be Auctioned. Washington, D. C Approximately 5,000,000 pounds of wool will be offer ed for sale at auction by the war de partment nt Boston, September 8, ac cording to announcement. The lot will consist of about 1,000,000 pounds of pulled wool, about 2,000,000 pounds of South Anioricun combing wool, more than 1,000,000 pounds of South Amer ican carding wool, 60,000 pounds of west coast wool and 1,000,000 pounds of scoured. Mother-ln-Law No Joke. Chicago. A "university for the edu cation of mothers-in-law" was advocat ed by Rev. Charles B. Stevens of the Third Presbyterian church in his ser mon here Sunday night. He assert ed the mother-in-law problem has ceased to be a Joke. "Seventy-five per cent of all matrimonial disasters are precipitated by her Interference," he asserted. "She is an out law Instead ot an In-law." MINERS BATTLE STATE TROOPERS Armed Forces Clash in West Virginia Hills. FIVE REPORTED DEAD Logan County Citizens Are Eager to Meet Invaders Union Will Continue Stand. State Police Headquarters, Ethel, W. Va. Five men fell in an encounter early Sunday between an armed band and state troopers on Beach creek, Logan county, Captain Brockus, com mander of the state police, and deputy sheriffs reported. Whether all the men who fell were killed, Brockus could not say. . The clash was at close range, ac cording to the captain. Prior to the fight, he said, 11 prisoners had been taken by the patrolling party, which left Logan yesterday. Four prisoners escaped, it was said, and one was be lieved to have been killed. Captain Brockus headed the advanced guard of troopers and deputies, and it was this detachment, comprising 12 men, that engaged the armed band. Brockus said he had talked with a man who came from Sharpies, and that he said 'some miners were killed." "We learned ' from Sharpies that there were between 1500 and 2000 armed miners waiting" for us to walk into a trap," he said. All along the way, he explained, "pot- shots" were being taken at the officers from men hidden in houses and in ambush. Union Will Continue Fight. Springfield, 111. After condemning conditions in the coal fields of Mingo county, West Virginia, as "un-American and intolerable," John C. Lewis, national president of the United Mine Workers of America, stated here Sun day night that United Mine Workers would continue the fight against what he termed the "mercenary gunmen" in Mingo county until the last gunman had disappeared, and the last mine work er had been freed from present ter rible conditions. ' PARLEY TO BE ASKED ON LABOR SITUATION Washington, D. C President Hard ing will call a national contrence, representative of the country, here next month to Inquire into the unem ployment problem, Secretary Hoover announced Sunday night. "The object of the conference,' he said, "will be to inquire in,to the volume of needed employment, dis tribution ot unemployment, to make recommendations as to measures that can be taken In co-ordinated speeding up of employment, and a study of economic measures desirable to amel iorate the unemployment situation and give Impulse to the recovery of business and commerce to normal." He said it is intended to invite rep resentatives of the greater groups of industries and thought. "While the business situation is steadily improving," Mr. Hoover stat ed, "some sections of the workers may have exhausted thlr savings by win ter and they must be a matter ot ex treme solicitude." Savings' Rate To Rite. Washington, D. C. Recommenda tions that the Interest rate on postal Bavings be increased from 2 to 3 per cent, and that the maximum al lowed a depositor "be raised to $3000," were agreed upon by the bankers, the postofflce department to Invesi gate the postal savings policy, Postmaster-General Hays said Sunday. Other changes agreed upon and in corporated in a bill was Introduced In congress. Spaniards Rout Moors. Madrid. Native Moroccan villages along the coast southeast of Melilla have been destroyed by bombardment by the Spanish warship Bonlfaz, ac cording to a message from Chafinas island, oft the Moroccan coast Sunday night. The Are from the warships also caused numerous casualties and forced the Moors to flee to the in terior. Federals Fight Rebels. Managua, Nicaragua. Heavy fight ing between government forces and revolutionists was reported at El Sauce, 60 miles north of Leon. The government now has a large force of men under arms. Many persons have been arrested fur political activities. OF COPYPfffT. T9ZO 3V LITTLE, SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that he has not more than alx months to live, Falling site despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should apend those six months. A friendly squirrel practically decides the matter for him. His blood Is pioneer blood, and he decides to end his days In the forests of Ore gon. MemorleB of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. CHAPTER I Continued. 2 The squirrel was very close to him, and Dan seemed to know by Instinct thnt the movement of a single muscle would give him away. So he sat as if he were posing before a photogra pher's camera. The fact that he was able to do it is In Itself Important. It Is considerably easier to exercise with dumb-bells for five minutes than to sit absolutely without motion for the same length of time. Hunters and naturalists acquire the art with training. It was therefore rather cu rious that Dan succeeded so well the first time he tried It. He had sense enough to relax first, before he froze. Thus he didn't put such a severe strain on his muscles. The squirrel, after ten seconds had elapsed, stood on his haunches to see better. First he looked a long time, with his left eye. Then he turned his head and looked Very carefully with his right Then he backed off a short distance and tried to get a focus with both. Then he came some half-dozen steps nearer. A moment before he had been cer tain that a living creature in fuct one of the most terrible and powerful living creatures in the world had been sitting on the park bench. Now his poor little brain was completely addled. He was entirely ready to be lieve that his eyes had deceived him. Bushy-tall drew oft a little further, fully convinced at last that his hopes of a nut from a child's hand were blasted. But he turned to look once more. The figure still sat utterly in ert And all at once he forgot his de vouring hunger In the face of an over whelming curiosity. He came somewhat nearer and looked -a long time. Then he made a half-circle about the bench, turning his head as he moved. He was more puzzled than ever, but he was no longer afraid. His curiosity had be come so Intense that no room for fear was left And then he sprang upon the park bench. Dan moved then. The movement consisted of a Budden heightening of the light in his eyes. But the squir rel didn't see it. It takes a muscular response to be visible to the eyes of the wild things. The squirrel crept slowly along the bench, stopping to sniff, stopping to stnre with one eye and another, just devoured from head to tail with curi osity. And then he leaped on Dun's knee. He was quite convinced, by now, thnt this warm perch on which he stood was the most singular und In teresting object of his young life. It was true that he was faintly worried by the smell that reached his nostrils. But all It really did was further to In cite his curiosity. He followed the leg op to the hip and then perched on the elbow. And nn instant more he was poking a coid nose into Dan's neck. But If the squirrel was excited by all these developments, its amazement was nothing compared to Dan's. It had been the most astounding inci dent In the man's life. He sat still, tingling with delight. And in a single flush of inspiration he knew he had come among his own people at last. He knew where he would spend his last six months ot life. His own grandfather hnd been a hunter and trapper and frontiersman In a certain vast but little known Ore gon forest. His son hnd moved to the eastern cities, but In Dan's garret there used to be old mementoes and curios from these savage days a few claws and teeth, and a fragment of an old diary. The call had come to him at last. Tenderfoot though he was, Dan would go back to those forests, to spend his last six months of life among the wild creutures that made them their home. CHAPTER II. The dinner hour found Dan Falling In the public library of Gitcheapolls, asking the girl who sat behind the desk if he might look at maps of Ore gon. He remembered that his grand father had lived In southern Oregon. He looked along the bottom ot his map and discovered a whole empire, rang ing from gigantic sage plains to the east to dense forests along the Pa ill i THE B&OWA! AMD COf-fPWy. cific oceun. He begun to search for Llnkvllle. Time was when Llnkvllle was one of the principal towns of Oregon. Dun remembered tho place because some of the time-yellowed letters his grand father had sent him hud been mulled nt a town that bore this name. But he couldn't find Llnkvllle on the niup. Later he was to know the reason that the town, half-way, between the sage plains and the mountains, hud prospered nnd changed its name. He remembered that it was located on one of those great fresh-water lakes of southern Oregon: so, giving up that search, he began to look for lakes. He found them In plenty vast, unmeas ured lukes that seemed to be distrib uted without reason or sense over the whole southern end of the state. Near the Klamath lukes, seemingly the most Imposing of all the fresh-wuter lukes that the map revealed, he found city named Klamath Falls. He put the name down In his notebook. The map showed a particularly high, far-spreading rnnge of moun tains due west of the city. Of course they were the Casendes; the map sale so very plulnly. Then Dun knew he was getting home. His grandfather had lived and trapped and died in these same wooded hills. Finally he located and recorded the name of the largest city on the mnln railroad line that was adjacent to the Cascades. The "preparation for his departure took many days. He read many books on flora and fauna. He bOught sport ing equipment. Knowing the usual ratio between the respective pleasures of anticipation and realization, he did not hurry himself at all. And one midnight he boarded a west-bound train. He sat for a long time In the vesti bule of the sleeping car, thinking In anticipation of this final adventure of He Couldn't Find Llnkvllle on the Map. his life. He was rather tremulous nnd exultant as he sunk down Into his berth. He sow to It thnt at least a meas ure of preparation was made for his coming. That night a long wire went 6ut to the Chamber of Commerce of one of the larger southern Oregon cities. In It, he told the date of his arrival and asked certain directions. He wanted to know the name of some mountain rancher where possibly he might find board and room for the re mainder of the summer and the fall. The further back from the paths of men, he wrote, the greater would be his pleasure. And he signed the wire with his full name: Dnn Falling, with a Henry In the middle, and a "III" at the end. He usually didn't sign I1I3 name In quite this manner. The people of Gitcheapolls did not have particular ly vivid memories of Dan's grandfa ther. But It might be that a legend of the gray, straight frontiersman who was his ancestor had still survived In these remote Oregon wilds. The use of the full name would do no harm. Instead of hurting, It was a positive Inspiration. The Chamber of Com merce of the busy little Oregon city was not usually exceptionally inter ested In stray hunters thnt wanted a boarding place for the summer. Its business wns finding country homes for orchardlsts In the pleasant river valleys. But It happened thnt the re cipient of the wire was one of the old est residents, a frontiersman himself, and It was one of the traditions of the Old West that friendships -were not soon forgotten. Dan Falling I had been a legend In the old trapping and inn shooting days when this nfnn wn young. So II came about that when Dun's train slopped nt Cheyenne, he found a telegram waiting 1 1 1 1 11 : "Any relation to Dan Fulling of the Umpqua divide?" Dan had never heard of the Ump qua divide, but he couldn't doubt but tliut the sender of the wire referred to his grandfather, He wired In the alllnnatlve, The head of the Chamber of Commerce received the wire, reud It, thrust It Into his desk, and In the face of a really Important piece of business proceeded to forget all about It. Thus It cnnie nbout that, except for one thing, Dan Falling would have probably stepped off the train at Ills destination wholly unheralded nnd un met. The one thing that changed his destiny wns thnt at a meeting of a certain widely known fraternal order the next night, the Chnmber of Com merce crossed trails with the Frontier In the person of another old resident who had his home In the furthest roaches of the Umpqua divide. The latter asked the former to come up for n few days' shooting the deer be ing fatter and more numerous than any previous season since the days of the grizzlies. "Too busy, I'm afraid," the Cham- ' her of Commerce hnd replied. "But Lennox that reminds me. Do you remember old Dim Falling?". ; Lennox probed buck Into the years for a single Instant, straightened out all the kinks of his memory In less time thnn the wind straightens out the folds of a flag, nnd turned a most Interested face. "Remember him!" he exclnlmed. "I should say I do." The middle-aged mnn hulf-closed his pierc ing, gray eyes. Listen, Steele," he said, "I saw Dan Falling make a bet once. I was Just a kid, but I wake up in my sleep to mnrvel nt It. We had a full long glimpse of a black-tall bounding up a long slope. It wns Just a spike-buck, and Dun Falling said he could take the left-hand spike off with one shot from Ids old Shnrpe's. Three of us bet him the whole thing In less thnn two seconds. With the next shot, he'd get the deer. He won the bet, nnd now If I ever forget Dan Falling, I want to die." "You're Just the man I'm looking for, then. You're not going out till the day after tomorrow?" "No." "On the limited, hitting here tomor row morning, there's a grandson of Dan Falling. His name -Is Dun Fall ing, too, and lie wants to go up to your place to hunt Stay all summer and pay board." Lennox's eyes said that he couldn't believe It was true. After a while his tongue spoke, too. "Good Lord," he said. "I used to toiler Dan around like old Shag, before he died, followed Snowbird. Of course he can come. But he can't pay board." It was rather characteristic of: the mountain men that the grandson of Dan Falling couldn't possibly',;pay board. But Steele knew the ways of cities and of men, and he only smiled. "He won't come, then," he explained. "Anyway, have that out with hlin lit the end of his stay. He wants'. Ash ing, and you've got that in the North fork. Moreover, you're a thousand miles back" "Only one . hundred, If you must know. But Steele do you suppose he's the man his grandfather was be fore him that nil the Fallings have been since the first days of the Ore gon trail? If he Is well, my hat's off to him before he steps off the train." The mountaineer's bronzed fnce was earnest and intent in the bright lights of the club. Steele thought he had known his breed. Now he began to have doubts of his own knowledge. "He won't be; don't count on It," he said humbly. "The Failings have done much for this region, nnd I'm glad enough to do a little to pay it back, but don't count much on this enstern boy. He's lived In cities ; besides, he's a sick man. He said so in his wire. You ought to know It before you take him In." The bronzed face changed; possibly a shadow of dlsnppointment came In to his eyes. "A lunger, eh?" Lennox repented. "Yes It's true thnt If he'd been like the other Fnillngs, he'd never have been thnt. Why, Steele, you couldn't have given that old man a cold if you'd tied him in the Rogue river overnight. Of course you couldn't count on the line keeping up forever. But I'll take him, for the memory of his grandfather." "You're not nfrnld to?" "Afraid, h 1 i He can't Infect those two strapping children of mine. Snow bird weighs one hundred and twenty pounds and Is hard as steel. Never knew a sick day In her life. And you know Bill, of course." Disappointment turned into rapture at sight of the wild country and through warm welcome accorded by Silas Lennox, Dan Failing's host, characterize the next install ment of this story. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Porpoise a Fast Swimmer. There Is another mammal that Is so fast no one has ever been able to find out how fast he Is. This is the por poise. The porpoise con do stunts In front of the fastest boat that travels the bounding wave and when he ii through after several hours of clown ing he flirts his tail and nonchalantly speeds beyond the horizon. The por poise will do his tricks under the bow of a nine-knot cargo tramp or a 22 knot ocean greyhound. He Is like the antelope in that he sets his pace ac cording to the speed of the pursuer.