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An audit of the expenditures made
by the army, navy and the war risk bu
reau In compensation to service men
was ordered Tuesday by Controller
McCarl.
Miss Ann Knoeher of Philadelphia
was bound and gagged in her Buite at
a beach front hotel at Atlantic City, N.
J., Tuesday night and robbed ot Jewel
ry valued at $10,000.
Approximately 1400 employes of the
Johnston cotton mills in Charlotte and
Rock Hill returned to work Monday,
accepting the same basis of pay and
hours ot labor prevailing when they
quit.
Six persons were killed in Belfast
Tuesday during renewed rioting here
and many others were wounded, Bome
seriously. Numerous caBes of gunshot
wounds are under treatment in the
hospitals.
The Farmers and Merchants' State
bank of" Marietta, Minn., was closed
Monday and taken over by the state
superintendent of banks. Depleted re
serve is given as the cause. The in
stltution'8 capital stock was f 30,000
and surplus $10,000.
The visible, supply of Amorican
grain shows the following changes:
Wheat decreased 3,853,000 bushels,
corn Increased 150,000 bushels, oats
increased 5,559,000 buBhels, rye in
creased 861,000 bushels, barley Increas
ed 48,000 bushels.
Private Marlellus T. Abernathy, at
tacked by a shark while bathing on an
Island in Manila bay Tuesday, was sp
severely bitten that he died shortly,
afterward.' His companions, tfho wit
nessed the attack, sent a 'call for alu
and a seaplane was- dispatched to' his
assistance. . ,. .. ..v; it ! '
Vincent de Geatand; a. New York
diver, met death- Monday on the bot
tom of the Harlem river when he be
came entangled in ' battleship lines
and was slowly asphyxiated as he
struggled to free himself. With two
other divers he was engaged in laying
a submarine electrlo cable in a con
crete bed. '
Immigrants admitted to the United
States during the fiscal year ended
June 30 numbered 805,228 as compared
with 430,001 for the previous fiscal
year and with an average of 1,034,940
during the pre-war years from 1910
to 1914, it was shown In figures made
public Tuesday by.thfl .bureau Of -Am'
migration.
Eight midshipmen who have just re
turned to Annapolis from the annual
summer practice cruise aboard the five
warships of battleship squadron No.
1, llear-Admlral Charles F, Hughes
commanding, have resigned the naval
service and tholr resignations have
been accepted, it is announced. They
preferred a career in civil lile.(
Application for an increase ot 20
per cent in all press matter handled
was made by the Western Union Tele
graph company Tuesday to the Cal
ifornia state railroad commission. The
application said the press tolls were
not affected by the war emergency and
were likewise omitted from all adjust
ment when the wire utilities were re
turned to private control.
A new basis of taxation to take the
place of the house revenue measure
and practically all present tax laws
was proposed Tuesday by Senator
Sinoot, republican, Utah, who an
nounced he was preparing a bill .em
bodying the plan, which he estimated
would yield $3,895,000,000 this year.
He added that he would take the ques
tion up with the senate finance com
mittee wheu it begins consideration ot
revenue questions Thursday.
The motive of the K'.u Klux Klan
was being sought in Chicago Tuesday
in a federal Investigation of the or
ganlnatlon Instituted by John V. Clin
ii in, assistant United States district at
torney. He asserted that he would
1 Investigate allegations that the klan is
an "absolute monarchy" opposed to
public policy, that it collects $10 year
ly from each member with apparently
no accounting, that it charges $6.60 for
regalia costing less than $2, thus be
ing a corporation operating for profit,
and that numerous lawless acts have
been ascribed to porsons acting under
the guise ot the klan.
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ROY GARDNER FLEES AGAIN
Mail Robber Noted for Daring Es
capes McNeil's Prison.
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Tacoma, Wash. Roy Gardner, Cal
ifornia mail robber, escaped from Mc
Neil's Island federal prison Monday.
Everett Impyn, Camp Lewis soldier,
recently sentenced to life imprison
ment for a criminal attack on a nurse,
was shot and killed during the at
tempted jailbreak in which he and
Gardner and Lawardus Bogart, also
serving life sentence for the same of
fense as Impyn, participated.
Bogart was shot and recaptured and
Is in the prison hospital, possibly fa
tally wounded. . '
Warden Maloney and his deputies
were confident Gardner had not es
caped from the island unless he had
confederates who were waiting.
The break of Gardner and his com
panions took place at 3:30 o'clock in
the afternoon. The convicts had been
given a holiday for Labor day and
about 250 of them were watching a
baseball game between two prison
teams.
Gardner, Impyn and Bogart had con
trived to seat themselves together at
the extreme rear of the crowd of spec
tators. The trio had evidently made
careful preparations for the attempt
and timed their movements to the
second. They waited until a tense
point had been reached in the ball
game and then suddenly bolted. Gard
ner was the fleetest of the three and
reached the barbed wire 150 yards dis
tant several yards In advance of his
companions. He had stolen a pair of
pliers from the prison tool shop and,
whipping these from his pocket, he
used them so quickly that he had cut
an opening through the fence before
his escape was noticed, the prison of
ficials stated.
Impyn and Bogart, however, had
scarcely got away from the crowd be
fore the guards saw them. In an in
stant pandemonium reigned. Half a
dozen guards opened fire on the fugi
tives while the rest of the officers
directed their attention to keeping in
check the prisoners, many of whom,
seeing the gap in the fence, started to
surge toward it.
Impyn' and Bogart fell at the very
threshhold of liberty, but Gardner
wormed ,hls way through the hole in
the fence and sprinted for the woods,
braving a fusillade of bullets from the
guards' guns. ,
It Is only a.short distance from the
baseball field to the woods and Gard
ner quickly disappeared.
: Heber H. Votaw, superintendent of
federal priBons and brother-in-law of
President Harding arrived at the
prison Monday morning at 8 o'clock
on a trip of inspection and witnessed
the dash for liberty.
IRELAND REJECTS
OFFER OF PEACE
London. The Irish republican par
liament's reply to Premier Lloyd
George's lateqt communication, made
public In- London and Dublin Sunday,
rejects the British , government's pro
posals for settlement of the Irish
question on the ground that they are
not bused on a dominion- status for
Ireland. It leaves the way open for
further negotiations, however, by of
fering at once to appoint plenipoten
tiaries, on the basis ot the principle
of government by consent of the gov
erned. The reply to the British premier by
Eamonn De Vulera had been preceded
in the British and Irish press by ap
parently Inspired statements that It
would create a grave situation.
Perusal ot the reply, however, af
fords little reason to fear the Imme
diate breakdown of the negotiations
unless the cabinet council meeting
Wednesday Bhould decide to Impose a
limit within which Ireland must ac
cept or reject the government pro
posals. Liquor Inquiry Ordered.
Washington, D. C Investigation of
all outstanding liquor permits is to
be begun shortly, uud many cancel
lations may follow, prohibition of
ficials said Monday. It is the inten
tion ot the authorities to comb out all
but bona fide users of certificates.
They assert that at present the prohi
bition enforcement bureau has no ac
curate information as to how many
outstanding permits are forgeries or
are being used for illegal purposes.
Coolldge In Accident.
Williamsburg, Mass. Vice-President
Coolldge and ten other men escaped
Injury Sunday when the speaker's
platform on which they were Btand
ing collupsed. Tho vice-president, un
perturbed, climbed out of the debris,
made his way to another platform and
delivered the address at a celebration
of the 150th anniversary ot this town.
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Bend. That the lumber industry is
now on the up grade was the declara
tion here of E. L. Carpenter, vice
president of the Shevlin-Hixon com
pany, on his annual inspection of the
company's western plants. .
Brownsville. It has fallen to the lot
of the American Legion post recently
organized here by the efforts of Jesse
R. Hinman, ex-commander of the As
toria post, to inaugurate a movement
which will give Brownsville a com
munity hall.
Yamhill. The members of Yamhill,
lodge No. 98, Knights of Pythias, ex
emplified the fraternal spirit recent
ly when they went to the farm home
of John Estes, a member of the order
and helped him erect his new barn.
Mr. Estes recently lost his barn by
fire. About 50 members of the order
were present. '
Salem. Twenty-seven thousand
acres of unreclaimed land in Malheur
county bids fair to be taken over for
reclamation by the North Canal com
pany, providing its officers can con
vince the state desert land board that
they are capable of meeting all legal
and financial requirements.
Medford For the first time in the
history of Oregon, a county has start
ed suit against the resident of another
county for the collection of delinquent
taxes. It is the suit of Jackson coun
ty against J. C. Henry of Eugene,
Lane county, an automomlble dealer,
to collect $186.34 taxes assessed in
1919 against personal property in this
city.
Klamath Falls. Harvesting of mint
on the Caledonia marsh will start
about September 15, according to
James R. Watkins, manager of the Pa
cific Coast Mint company, which has
about 125 acres to cut. One hundred
acres was planted late this spring and
will not yield heavily tlfis year, said
Mr. Watkins. It will produce some
oil at this cutting.
Salem. Most of the 30-odd thousand
ex-service men in the Btate will soon
receive bonus application blanks, ac
cording to Harry C. Brumbaugh, secre
tary of the world, war veterans' state
aid commission, who placed the last
of the blanks In the malls here Sat
urday. The forms were forwarded to
the various American Legion posts, of
which there are 104 in the state.
Hood River.' The Hood River Fruit
company Thursday night shipped the
first carload of the valley's 1921 apple
tonnage, estimated now at an approxi
mate 2250 cars. The initial shipment,
destined for consumption in Chicago,
consisted of Gravensteins, harvested
from the Boneboro orchard of Burt
Van Horn, owner of large local and
New York state apple orchards.
Salem. The sum of $21,505.20 was
spent by the state board for vocational
education, in support of 16 depart
ments of agriculture, employing 19 in
structors, according to the annual re
port of the board, which has just been
forwarded to the federal board in
charge of the administration of the
Smith-Hughes law by J. A. Churchill,
executive officer for the state board.
Corvallis. Thirty-four head of dairy
cattle have been shipped from the
college herd for entry in the Spokane
Interstate fair, September 5 to 9. From
Spokane the animals will be sent to
the Montana state fair at Helena, Sep
tember 12 to 17, then to the Washing
ton state fair at Yakima, September
19 to 24, and back to the Oregon state
fair at Salem, September 26 to Octo
ber' 1.
Monmouth. Between July, 1920, and
July, 1921, the Monmouth Co-operative
Creamery sold 278,675 pounds ot but
ter, receiving $136,108.73, an average
of 45.2 cents a pound. A total of 210,
317 pounds of butter fat were bought,
from which the producers received
$97,870.78, or 46.5 cents a pound. In
addition to butter a small amount of
Ice, ice cream, and miscellaneous pro
ducts were manufactured.
Gold Hill. Activity in the revival of
gold mining In the Elk creek district
Is evidenced by the rush of miners and
prospectors from the southwest states.
This district ia up Rogue river and
Elk creek about 40 miles from Gold
Hill, the nearest shipping point The
elevation of the district varies from
2000 feet to more than 5000 feet. It
is a heavily forested area and is with
in the Crater Luke national forest.
Bend. Settlers on the central Ore
gon irrigation district will have a tax
ot $1.25 an acre to pay if the budget
favored by the district directors is ac
cepted. The budget, which Is for ap
proximately $115,000, takes care of all
outstanding indebtedness, and is actu
ally for a three-year period, including
accounts for 1920 and the first eight
months ot 1921, and estimated ex
penses for the remainder of the pres
ent year and for all of 1922.
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Warned by his physician that he
has not more than six months to
live, Falling sits despondently on a
park bench, wondering where he
should spend those Blx 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. Memories of his grandfather
and a deep love for ait things of
the wild help him in reaching a
decision. In a large southern
Oregon city he meets people who
had known and loved his grand
father, a famous frontiersman. He
makes his home with Silas Lennox,
a typical westerner. The only oth
er members of the household are
Lennox's son, "Bill," and daugh
ter, "Snowbird." Their abode is
many miles from "civilization," in
the Umpqua divide, and there
Failing plans to live out the short
span of life which he has been
told is his. His extreme weakness
In the face of even a slight exer
tion convinces him that the doctor
had made a correct diagnosis of
his case.
CHAPTER II Continued.
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Yes, Steele knew Bill. Bill weighed
two hundred pounds, and he would
:hoose the biggest of the steers he
Irove down to the lower levels in the
winter and, twisting Its horns, would
nake it lay over on its side. Besides,
joth of the men assumed that Dan
mist be only in the first stages of his
malady,
And even as the men talked, the
train that bore Dan Falling to the
bome of his ancestors was entering
tor the first time the dark forests of
pine and fir that make the eternal
background of the Northwest. He was
wholly unnble to understand the
strange feeling of familiarity that he
had with them, a sensation that in
his dreams he had known them al
ways, and that he must never go out
of the range of them again.
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Dan didn't see his host at first. For
the first Instant he was entirely en
grossed by. a surging sense of disap
pointment a. feeling that he had been
tricked and had only come to another
city after all. 'He got down onto the
gravel of the station yard, and out on
the gray street pavement he heard
the clang of a trolley car. Many au
tomobiles were parked Just beside the
station, some of them foreign cars of
expensive makes, such as he supposed
would be wholly unknown on the
frontier. A man In golf clothes
brushed his shoulder.
Dan looked up to the hills, and he
felt better. He couldn't see them plain
ly. The faint smoke of a distant for
est fire half obscured them. Yet he
saw fold on fold of ridges of a rather
peculiar blue In color, and even his
untrained eyes could see that they
were clothed In forests of evergreen.
Over the heads of the green hills Dan
could see a few great peaks; Mc
Laughlin, even and regular as a paint
ed mountain; 'Wagner with queer
white, gashes, yi,-iere the snow still lay
In its ravines,,; and to the southeast
the misty range of snow-covered hills
thnt were the Sickeyous. He felt de
cidedly better. And when he saw old
Silas Lennox waiting patiently beside
tho station, he felt he had' coiiife' to
the right place. " "
It would be Interesting to explain
why Dan nt once recognized the older
mnn for the breed he was. Silas Len
nox was not dressed In a way that
would distinguish him. It was true
that he wore a flannel shirt, riding
trousers and rather heavy, leathern
boots. But sportsmen all over the
face of the earth wear this costume at
sundry times. Mountain men hnve a
peculiar stride by which experienced
persons can occasionally recognize
them; but Silas Lennox was standing
still when Dan got his first glimpse of
him. The case resolves Itself Into a
simple matter of the things that could
be rend In Lennox's face.
: Dnn disbelieved wholly In a book
that told how to read characters at
sight Yet at the first glnnce of the
lean, bronzed face his heart gave a
curious little bound. A pair of gray
eyes met his two fine black points In
a rather hard gray Iris. They didn't
look post him, or at either side of him,
or at his chin or his forehead. They
looked right at his own eyes. The skin
aroiind the eyes was burned brown by
the sun, and the flesh was so lean that
the cheekbones showed plainly. The
mouth was straight; but yet it was
neither savage nor cruel. It was sim
ply determined.
Lennox came up with a light, silent
tread and extended his hand. "You're
Dan Failing's grandson, aren't you?"
he asked. "I'm Silas Lennox, who
used to know him when he lived on
the Divide. Yon are coming to spend
the summer and fall on my ranch."
The Immediate result of these
words, besides relief, was to set Dan
wondering how the old mountaineer
had recognized him. He wondered if
he had any physical resemblance to
Ms grandfather. But this hope was
shot to earth at once. His telegram
bad explained about his malady, and
of course the mountaineer had picked
hlui out simply because he had the
EDISON MARSHALL
mark of the disease on his face. As
he shock hands, he tried his best to
read the mountaineer's expression. It
was all too plain: an undeniable look
of disappointment.
The truth was that even in spite of
all the Chamber of Commerce head had
told him, Lennox had still hoped to
find some image of the elder Dan
Failing in the face and body of his
grandson. Because of the thick
glasses, Lennox could not see the
young man's eyes ; but he didn't think
it likely they were at all like the eyes
with which the elder Falling saw his
way through the wilderness at night.
Of course he was tall, just as the fa
mous frontiersman hud been, but
while the elder weighed one hundred
and ninety pounds, bone and muscle,
this man did not touch one hundred
and thirty. Evidently the years had
brought degeneracy to the Falling clan.
Lennox was desolated by the thought,
He helped Dan with his bag to a lit
tle wiry automobile thut waited be
side the station. They got into the
two front seats, and a moment later
were starting up the long, curved
road that led to the Divide.
During the hour that they were
crossing over the foothills, on the way
to the big timber, Silas Lennox talked
a great deal about the frontiersman
that had been Dan's grandfather. ,A
mountain mnn does not use profuse
adjectives. He talks very simply and
very straight, and often there are long
silences between bis sentences. Yet
he conveys his Ideas with entire clear
ness. Dan . realized at once that if he
could be, In Lennox's eyes, one-fifth
of the man his grandfather had been,
he would never have to fear again the
look of disappointment with which his
host had greeted him at the station.
But Instead of reaching that high
place, he had only death. He knew
what his destiny was in these quiet
"You're Dan Failing's Grandson, Aren't
You?"
hills. And It was true that he began
to hnve secret regrets that he had
come. But it wasn't that he was dis
appointed In the. land that was open
ing up before him. It fulfilled every
promise. His sole reason for regrets
lay in the fact that now the- whole
mountain world would know of the
decay that had come upon his people.
Perhaps It would have been better to
have left them to their traditions.
He had never dreamed that the
fame of his grandfather had spread
so far. For the first ten miles Dan
listened to stories legends of a cold
nerve that simply could not be shaken ;
of a powerful, tireless physique; of
moral and physical strength that was
seemingly without limit. Then, as
the foothills began to give way to the
higher ridges, and the shadow of the
deeper forests fell upon the narrow,
brown road, there began to be long
gaps in the talk. And soon they rode
in utter silence, evidently both of
them absorbed In their own thoughts.
Dan did not feel oppressed at all.
He merely seemed to fall Into the
spirit of the woods, and no words
came to his lips. Every mile wag an
added delight to him. Not even wine
could have brought a brighter sparkle
to his eyes. He had begun to experi
ence a vague sort of excitement, an
emotion that was almost kin to ex
ultation, over the constant stir and
movement of the forest life. Once, as
they stopped the car to refill the ra
diator from a mountain stream, Len
nox looked at him with sudden curi
osity. "You are getting a thrill out
of this, aren't you?" he asked wonder
ingly. It was a curious tone. Perhaps It
was s hopeful tone, too. He spoke
as If he hardly understood.
"A thrill!" Dan echoed. He spoke
as a man speaks in the presence of
some great wonder. "Good Heavens,
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I never saw anything like it in my
life."
"In this very stream," the mountain
eer told him joyously, "you may occa
sionally catch trout that weigh three
pounds."
But as he got back into the car the
look of interest died out of Lennox's
eyes. Of course any man would be
somewhat excited by his first glimpse
of the wilderness. It was not that lie
had inherited any of the traits of his
grandfather. It was absurd to hope
that he had. And he would soon get
tired of the silences and want to go
back to his cities. He told his thought
that it would all soon grow old to
him ; and Dan turned almost In auger.
"You don't know," he said. "I
didn't know myself, how I would feel
about it. I'm never going to leave the
hills agnln."
"You don't mean that."
"But I do." He tried to speak fur
ther, but he coughed Instead. "But I
couldn't if I wanted to. That cough
tells you why, I guess."
"You mean to suy " Silas Lennox
turned in amazement. "You mean that
you're a a goner? That you've given
up hope of recovering?"
"That's the Impression I meant to
convey. I've got a little over four
months though I don't see that I'm
any weaker than I was when the doc
tor said I had six months. Those
four will take me all through the fall
and the early winter. And I hope you
won't feel that you've been imposed
upon to have a dying man on your
hands." , . ,
"It isn't that." Silas Lennox threw
his car into gear and started up the
long grade. And he drove clear to the
top of it and into another glen before
he spoke again. Then he pointed to
what looked to Dan like a brown
streak .: that melted into the thick
brush. "That was a deer," he said
slowly. "Just a glimpse, but your
grandfather could have got him be
tween the eyes. Most like as not,
though, he'd have let him go. He
never killed except when he needed
meat. But that as you say ain't
the impression I'm trying to convey."
He seemed to be groping for words.
"What is it, Mr. Lennox?" Dan
asked.
"Instead of being sorry, I'm mighty
glad you've come," Lennox told him.
"It's not that I expect you to be like
your grandfather. You haven't had
his chance. But it's nlways the way
of true men, the world over, to come
back to their own kind to die. That
deer we Just saw he's your people,
and so are all these ranchers that
grub their lives out of the forests
they are your people, too. And you
couldn't have pleased the old man's
old friends any better, or done more
for his memory, than to come back
to his own land for your last days."
The words were strange, yet Dan
intuitively understood. It was as if
a prodigal son had returned at last,
and although his birthright was
squandered and he came only to die,
the people of Ills borne would give hlui
kindness and forgiveness, even though
they could not give him their respect.
CHAPTER III.
The Lennox home was a typical
mountain ranch-house square, solid,
comforting in storm and wind. Bill
was out to the gate when the car
drove up. He was a son of his fa
ther, a strong man in body and per
sonality. He too had heard of the
elder Falling, and he opened his eyes
when he saw the slender youth that
was his grandson. And he led the
way Into the white-walled living room.
"You must be chilly and worn out
from the long ride," Lennox suggest
ed quietly. He spoke in the tone a
strong man invnrlably uses toward
an invalid. Dan felt a curious re
sentment at the words.
"I'm not cold," he said. "It's hard
ly dark yet. I'd sooner go outdoors
and look around."
The elder man regarded him curi
ously, perhaps with the faintest glim
mer of admiration. "You'd better wait
till tomorrow, Dan," he replied. "Bill
will have supper soon, anyway. You
don't want to overdo too much, right
at first."
"But, good heavens ! I'm not going
to try to spare myself while I'm here.
It's too late for that."
Dan Failins; is introduced
to "Snowbird," who' proves to
bo a decidedly interesting
member of the Lennox family,
and Dan shows new interest
ia life in the next installment.
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Watch Expenditures.
If he who is always, hard up will
but keep a record of his expenditures
he may find that he is more lacking 1b
sense than in dollars.
Or a "Situation."
When a statesman runs into a brick
wall and sees no way to get over or
under, be emits a few sharp yelps and
calls It crisis, Baltimore Sua,