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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Eventi of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. A demand for congressional Investi gation of the mine situation In West Virginia was forwarded to President Harding Tuesday by the Chicago Fed eration of Labor. Recruiting for the army, ordered dis continued last month, was resumed Tuesday under new regulations de signed to keep the enlisted strength at 150,000 even, the number authorized by congress. The enlisted strength of the army was said to be less than 140,000 men. At the London wool auction sales Tuesday, 10,620 bales were offered. It was a superior selection, the demand was good and prices were firm in the sellers' favor. Light, greasy merinos advanced 5 per cent and crossbreds were rather dear. A mutiny aboard the shipping board freighter Chester Klwanls off quar antine was put down by Now York policemen early Tuesday, after two spectacular battles in which many, in cluding the policemen, were battered, bruised and bitten. Officers and crew of the steamer West Isleta, in port at Philadelphia, have been Informed that they will be the recipients of a big salvage award for saving the Danish Bteamshlp Uffe, off the coast of Scotland, last January. The British courts made the award. Federal receivers In equity were named for the American Motors cor poration of Plainfleld, N. X, on peti tion of attorneys claiming to repre sent 80 per cent of the creditors. As sets were listed at $5,500,000 and at $000,000. The corporation assented to the recelvorshlp. More than $1,000,000 worth ot grain has been received dally in Superior, Wis., since August 15, a computation of grain receipts for that period dis closed Monday. Shipments from Kan sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma are par ticularly heavy, together with a heavy stream from North Dakota. Hogsheads and tanks ot cider pump ed by firemen on burning buildings Tuesday saved the village of Moustolr Remungol, France, from destruction. The fire had dostroyed eight houses and was communicating to others whon the water supply became ex- liauscd and the firemen requisitioned the elder. The trades union congress In ses sion at Cardiff, Walos, discussed un employment Tuesday, and after a long debate adopted unanimously an emer gency resolution demanding that the government summon parliament Im mediately and Introduce practical schemes for relief work, with neces sary financial provisions. The September term ot the Mingo county circuit court at Williamson, W. Vu opened Tuesday. During this ses- Blou ninny cases growing out of the In dustrial strife are expected to be tried, including the second trial ot 14 men indicted in connection with the deaths of several private defectives and others during the Matewan battle in 1920. More than 6000 delegates from every state In the union will attend the an nual national convention ot the United Spanish War Veterans In Minneapolis, Minn., September 12 to 15, It is an nounced by those In chnrgo of the arrangements tor the meeting. Reso lutions on the disarmament and bonus questions, will coma before the con vention. Snap shots ot Mars, as It tho planet were little more than a mile and a halt away, are promised by D. McAfee, American scientist and collaborator With David Todd, the American astron omer, In an article in tho London Dally Mall, describing plans tor the largest telescope ever conceived, which he says, will solve the question as to whether life exists on Mars. Preparations for advancing upward ot $1,000,000,000 In agricultural and livestock credits under recent leglsla- linn virtually have been completed by the war finance corporation, officials said Monday night. The corporation probably will be ready within a week or so to function under Its eularged powers, designed to afford needed credit relief to the farmers, It was tald. JAPAN SETTLES WITH CHINA Withdrawal of Troops Promised as Soon as Own Guard for Road Is Organized. Pekln. Proposals of Japan sent to China for the purpose of reaching a settlement of the dispute over Shan tung were made public Tuesday. The text follows: "The rights to lease Kiao-Chau bay, together with rights and privileges of the neutral zone are to be fully restored to China. "If the Chinese government on its own Initiative opens the whole of the leased territory as a commercial port, recognizing liberty of residence by foreigners and of the carrying on of commercial, industrial and agricultural projects and also recognizing the rights and privileges acquired by foreigners, the Japanese government will rescind the agreement entered in to for the establishment of conces sions under exclusive jurisdiction and of international concessions. (This refers to the agreement of May 25, 1915, regarding the 21 demands of Japan). "The Chinese government agrees in the interest of trade and for the resi dence of foreigners, to open herself certain suitable places In Shantung as commercial ports. The regulations for these will be drawn up by agree ment between the Chinese govern ment and all countries with interests there. "The railway from Kiao-Chau to Tenlnan, together with the mining areas belonging thereto, shall become the joint enterprise of China and Japan. "Japan to relinquish all preferen tial rights acquired by virtue of treat ies relating to the leased territory of Kiao-Chau. (Japan under this relin quishes rights acquired under 1915, 1917 and 1918 agreements). "Preferential rights In the Kao- Hsu-Hsun-Teh and the Chefoo-Welh slen railway shall be transferred by Japan to the joint management of the new banking consortium. (These are projected railways). "The TBing-Tao customs shall be recognized as part of the Chinese cus- toms, in the same manner as during the German regime. "Regarding the disposal of public buildings and properties the prin clple is recognized that these are re linqulBhed to China, , but a mutual agreement shall be entered Into for the future maintenance of all public works. c "Details for the carrying out of the above provisions and other matters relating thereto, shall be further settled by dolegates appointed by the Chinese and Japanese governments. "When the Chinese government gives public notice of the formation of a special police force to guard the Klao-Chau-Tsinan railway, the Jap anese government shall announce in mediately the withdrawal of Its troops and transfer responsibility for pro tection of the railway to China." Wool Imports Possible. Boston. The American Woolen couipuny may import manufactured goods from Germany and other Euro pean countries where coBts are lower than In the mills here. President Wil liam M. Wood, on his return to his desk from a trip to Europe, said he ex pected to report within a day or two covering the possibility from Chester L. Dane, president ot the American Woolen Products company, a sub sidiary, who has just completed an Independent investigation ot condi tions abroad. Should It bo decided that Buch a venture was a promising one, the American Woolen Products company would, so far as operations in the United States are concerned, change from an exporting to nn importing organization. It would also market tho output ot European mills In South America and elsewhere, Mr. Wood said. Oil Struck Near Asotin. Spokane. Oil was struck Monday In a well being drilled between Clarkston and Asotin, wash., about six miles from Lewlston, Idaho, according to a message to the Chronicle by Dr. N. M. Purvlance ot Lewlston. lie declared the oil was In suflcteut quantity to Justify pumping. Oil men ho're declar ed the discovery, the first oil ever struck In the Inland empire, disproves the theory that the basaltic overhang of tho section burned out the oil. Nevada Outlaws Sought Reno, Nov. Sheriffs, constables and deputies are searching the hills for two outlaws who held up the Owl club at GoldhlU on the Comstock Saturday night. Sixteen men In the gambling rooms were lined up by the masked men and all the money on the card tables and In the safo was taken, said to be $1600. Officers declared It was the first hold up In Virginia City In 40 years. FLOOD DEATHS 47; 10SS $5,000,000 Missing in Wreckage Said to Exceed 200. HUNDREDS HOMELESS Bodies Found in Driftwood and on River Banks Will Require Many Weeks to Clear Away Debris. San Aantonio, Texas. The list of known dead from Saturday's flood had advanced to 47 late Sunday. The dead and missing were estimated at ap proximately 250 by rescue workers, while Police Commissioner Phil Wright said they might total 300. Many residents, however, consider these figures high. The property loss was placed at $5,000,000 by some business men, but both lower and higher estimates were made. Soon after daylight Sunday searchers on the Alazan creek found three bodies in the driftwood and wreckage on the banks, and another was found near the San Antonio river. Other bodies were recovered. While it has been declared that possibly the majority of the dead floated down the stream, searchers believe that as the wreckage is cleared away, others will be found. Rescuers confined their efforts principally to recovering bodies, work of rescuing the marooned having been completed. Rescue and relief work continued all day and hundreds of Mexicans and poorer persons who lived along the Alazan are homeless and were given assistance by relief headquarters "es tablished downtown. Tile fact that most of the bodies re covered have been fully clothed shows that the victims were either warned or heard the approaching rush ot water in time to make preparations to leave, Because of the many curiosity seek ers and others visiting the devastated district, a rigid restricted area is rop ed off and guarded by policemen and soldiers. The Red Cross and other organiza tions opened relief headquarters, and assisted flood victims. Bread and cloth ing were distributed. Members of the local American Le gion post aided in clearing away the debris and did patrol duty In sections of the city. They also aided in recov ering bodies. Many pathetic scenes were enacted at the Rod Cross headquarters and at the morgues. Mexican families from which a number were missing called in a body at both places, and in broken English asked about the missing. One Mexican and his wife told of seeing their four children swept away just as they neared safety, City officials estimate that the total effect of the flood will not be cleared up for a month. A scum ot oil was left hanging to the buildings as the water receded. . World Getting Very Bad. London. The world has fallen into a moral slump, there has been a unl- versay recrudescence of sin, par ticularly in America, and physical force rather than the moral law has qalned supremacy, said Rev. Ezra Squler Tipply of Madison, N. J In an address Sunday before the Methodist ecumenical conference. "There is a growing vulgarity and recklessness in dross and behavior," he continued "and an Increasing disregard for the sanctity of the home." Span Disaster Kills 24. Chester, To. Twenty-four persons were drowned and five seriously In jured in the collapse Sunday night of the bridge spanning the Chester river at Third street, In the business dis trict A small wrought Iron gusset plate, part of the support for a foot path along the structure, which had been eaten by rust, gave way under the weight of a hundred persons who were attracted by the cries of a drown ing boy. Severe Quake Recorded. Washington. An earthquake, de scribed at severe, was reported Sun day at the Georgetown university selsmographlcal observatory. The dls turbance continued three hours. The center ot the tremors was estimated to be about 1700 miles south ot Wash Ingtou. or THE lit J COPYfT7. 79ZO LITTLE. SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that h has not more than six months to live, Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. A friendly squirrel practically decides the matter (or 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 all things ot the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a . large southern Oregon city he meet 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. From the first Falling's health shows a marked improve ment, and In the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as if he had been born to It. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of "nerve" he saves Lennox's life and his own when they are at tacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Falling I, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. CHAPTER Ill-Continued. "Of course but sit down now, any way. I'm sorry that Snowbird Isn't here." "Snowbird Is " "My daughter. My boy, she can make a biscuit I That's not her name, of course, but we've always called her that. She got tired of keeping house and Is working this summer. Poor Bill has to keep house for her, and no wonder he's eager to take the stock down to the lower levels. I only wish he hadn't brought 'em up this spring at all ; I've lost dozens from the coyotes." "But a coyote can't kill cattle" "It can if It has hydrophobia, a com mon thing In the varmints this time of year. But as I say, Bill will take the stock down next season, and then Snowbird's work will be through, and she'll come bnck here." "Then she's down In the valley?" "Far from It. She's a mountain girl If one ever lived, perhaps you don't know the recent policy of the forest service to hire women when they can be obtained. It was a policy started In war times and kept up now because it Is economical and efficient. She and a girl from college have a cabin not five miles from here on old Bald mountain, and they're doing look out duty." Dan wondered Intensely what look out duty might be. "You see, Dan," Lennox said In explanation, "the gov ernment loses thousands of dollars every year by forest fire. A fire can be stopped easily If it Is seen soon after It starts. But let It burn awhile, In this dry season, and It's a terror a wall of flame that races through the forests and can hardly be stopped. And maybe you don't realize how enormous this region Is literally hun dreds of miles across. We're the last outpost there aie four cabins, If you can find them, In the first seventy miles back to town. So they have to put lookouts on the high points, and now they're coming to the use of air planes so they can keep even a better watch. Snowbird and a girl friend from college got Jobs this summer as lookouts nil through the forest serv ice they are hiring women for the work. They are more vigilant than men, less Inclined to take chances, and work cheaper. These two girls have a cabin near a spring, and they cook their own food, and are making what Is big wages In the mountains. Tm rather hoping she'll drop over for a few minutes tonight" "Good Lord does she travel over these hills In the darkness?" The mountaineer laughed a de lighted sound that came somewhat curiously from the bearded lips of the stern, dark man. "Pan, I'll swear she's afraid of nothing that wnlks the fnce of the earth and It Isn't because she hasn't had experience either. She's a dead shot with a pistol, for one thing. She's physically strong, and every muscle Is hard as nails. She used to have Shag, too the best dog In all these mountains. She's a mountain girl, I tell you ; whoever wins her has got to be able to tame herl" The mountaineer laughed agnln. The call to supper came then, and Dan got his first sight of mountain food. There were potatoes, newly dug, mountain vegetables that were crisp and cold, a steak of peculiar I shape, and a great bowl of purple ber- I rloe to be eaten with sugar and cream. BttOVSAJ; AJVZ CO-fPyrr. Dun's .appetite was not as a rule par ticularly good. But evidently the long ride had affected him. He simply didn't have the moral courage to re fuse when the elder Lennox heaped his plate. "Good heavens, I can't eat all that," he said, as it was passed to him. But the others laughed and told him to take heart. He took heart. It was a singular thing, but at that first bite his sudden confidence in his gustatory ability al most overwhelmed him. So he cut himself a bite of the tender steak fully half as generous as the bites that Bill was consuming across the table. And Its first flavor simply filled him with delight "Whut is this meat?" he asked. "I've certainly tasted It before." "I'll bet a few dollars that you haven't, If you've lived all your life In the Middle West," Lennox an swered. "Maybe you've got what the scientists call nn inherited memory of It. It's the kind of meat your grand father used to live on venison." Soon after dinner Lennox led him out of the house for his first glimpse of the hills In the darkness. They walked together out to the gate, across the first of the wide pas tures where, at certain seasons, Len nox kept his cattle; and at last they came out upon the tree-covered ridge. The moon was just rising. They could see it casting a curious glint over the very tips of the pines. - But It couldn't get down between them. They stood too close, too tall and thick for that. And for n moment, Dan's only sensa tion was one of silence. "You have to stand still a moment, to really know anything," Lennox told him. They both stood still. Dan was as motionless as that day in the park, long weeks before, when the squirrel had climbed on his shoulder. The first effect was a sensation that the silence Standing In the Shadows, He Simply Watched Her. was deepening around them. It wasn't really true. It was simply that he had become aware of the little con tinuous sounds of which usually he was unconscious, and they tended to accentuate the hush of the night. He knew, just as all mountaineers know, that the wilderness about him was stirring and pulsing with life. Some of the sounds were quite clear an occasional stir of a pebble or the crack of a twig, and some, like the faintest twitching of leaves In the brush not ten feet distant could only be guessed at. "What Is making the sounds?" he asked. He didn't know It, at the time, but Lennox turned quickly toward him. It wasn't that the question hnd surprised the mountaineer. Rather It was the tone In which Dan bad spoken. It was perfectly cool, perfectly self-contained. "The one right close Is a chipmunk. I don't know what the others are; no one ever does know. Perhnps ground squirrels, or rabbits, or birds, and maybe one of those harmless old black bears who Is curious about the house. And tell me can . you smell anything-" "Good Lord, Lennox ! I can smell all kinds of things." "I'm glad. Some men can't. No one con enjoy the woods If he enn't smell. Part of the smells are ot flowers, and part of balsam, and God only knows what the other are. They are just the wilderness Dan could cot only perceive the i smelts and sounds, but he felt that they were leaving an Imprint on the very fiber of his soul. He knew one thing. He knew he could never for get this first introduction to the moun tain night The whole scene moved him in strange, deep ways in which he had never been stirred before; It left him exultant and. In deep wells of his nature far below the usual cur rents of excitement a little excited too. Then both of them were startled out of their reflections by the clear, unmistakable sound of footsteps on the ridge. Both of them turned, and Lennox laughed softly In the dark ness. "My daughter," he said. "I knew she wouldn't be afraid to come." J Dan could see only Snowbird's out line at first, just her shadow against the moonlit hillside. Ills glasses were none too good at long range. And possibly, when she came within range, the first thing that he noticed about her was her stride. - The girls he knew didn't walk in quite that free, strong way. She took almost a man size step ; and yet it was curious that she did not seem ungraceful. Dan had a distinct Impression that she was floating down to him on the moonlight. She seemed to come with such unut terable smoothness. And then he heard her call lightly through the ' darkness. The sound gave him a distinct sense of surprise. Some way, be hadn t as sociated a voice like this with a moun tain girl ; he had supposed that there would be so ninny hnrshenlng Influ ences In this wild place. Yet the tone , was as clear and full as a trained singer's. It was not a high voice; and yet It seemed simply brimming, as a cup brims with wine, with the rap ture of life. It was a self-confident voice too, wholly unaffected and sin cere, and wholly without embarrass ment. Then she came close, and Dan saw the moonlight on her face. And so It came about, whether In dreams or wakefulness, he could see nothing else for many hours to come. The girl who stood in the moonlight had health. She was simply vibrant with health. It brought a light to her eyes, and a color to her cheeks, and life and shimmer to her moonlit bnlr. It brought curves to her body, and strength and firmness to her limbs, and the grace of a deer to her car riage. Whether she had regular fea tures or not Dan would have been un able to state. He didn't even notice. They weren't Important when health was present. Yet there was notling of the coarse or bold or voluptuous about her. She was just a slender girl, perhaps twenty years of age, and weighing even less than the figure oc casionally to be rend In the health magazines for girls of her height. And she wr,s fresh and cool beyond all words to tell. And Dan had no delusions about her attitude toward him. For a long Instant she turned her keen, young eyes to his white, thin face; and at once It became abundantly evident that beyond a few girlish speculations she felt no Interest In him. After a single moment of rather strained, po lite conversation with Dan just enough to satisfy her Idea of the con ventionsshe began a thrilling girl hood tale to her father. And she wns still telling It when they reached the house. Dnn held a chnlr for her In front of the fireplace, and she took it with en tire naturalness. He was careful to put It where the firelight was at Its height. He wanted to see Its effect on the flushed cheeks, the soft dark hnlr. And then, standing In the shadows, he simply watched her. With the eye of an artist he delighted In her gestures, her rippling enthusiasm, her utter Ir repressible glrllshness that all of time hnd not years enough to kill. Bill stood watching her, his hands deep in his pockets, evidently a com panion of the best. Her father guzed at her with amused tolerance. And Dnn he didn't know In Just what way he did look at her. And he didn't have time to decide. In less than fifteen minutes, and wholly without warning, she sprang up from her chair und started toward the door. "Good Lord!" Dan breathed. "If you make such sudden motions as that I'll have heart fuilure. Where are you going now?" "Buck to my watch," she answered, her tone wholly lacking the personal note which men have learned to ex pect In the voices of women. And au Instant later the three of them saw her retreating shadow as she vanished among the pines. Dan had to be helped to bed. The long ride had been too hard on his shuttered lungs ; and nerves and body collapsed nn Instant. after the door was closed behind the departing girl. He laughed weakly and begged their pardon ; and the two men were really very gentle. They told him It was their own fault for permitting him to overdo. Lennox himself blew out the candle In the big, cold bedroom. The next installment of "The Voice of the Pack" lm parti to Dan Failing tho exist ence of an organized bend of outlaws. I'l'U liH CUNTINUKU.) Different Kinds of Hickory. Twelve kinds of hickory are found In the world, eleven of them Indige nous to the United States east of the ' Rocky mountains, and one Mexican species. Previous to the Ice age, ex tensive forests of hickory existed In Greenland. No woman ever loved a man so much thitt she didn't try to And out how much the engagement ring cost