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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1921)
WORLD HAPPENINGS OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing The Seattle city council has passed an ordinance requiring second-hand merchandise to be designated as such when advertised tor sale. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, new American minister to China, presented his credentials to President Hsu-Shlh Chang Tuesday and assumed his post. Appeals to English women to de mand prohibition nl Creat Britain were made by Mrs. Norman Sargent, Wes leyan church, and other speakers at Tuesday morning's session of the world's Methodist conference Brigadier-General II. II. Bandholtz, commanding troops in the West Vir ginia coal fields, where disturbances occurred between armed men has gone back to Washington. The 10th, 19th and 40th regiments remain In the fields. John Beardsley, 84, of Los Angeles, Cal., driving his automobile, pulled up in front of the residence of a nephew In Montour Fails, near Elmira, N. Y. Tuesday night, having driven across the continent alone. Gllmon Holmes, a negro, arrested Tuesday on a charge of murdering Sidney Manheim, station agent at Columbia, La., was hanged by a mob at 11 o'clock Tuesday night, the body then being riddled with bullets and set afire. Holmes was alleged to have confessed to the posse that captured him. A bill to prohibit organization of secret societies whose membership is not known publicly and to provide penalties therefor was introduced In the Louisiana legislature Tuesday. The bill also would prohibit street parades in disguise that seek to regulate by threats of punishment the conduct of persons. To finance the immediate needs of the Northwest Wheat Growers, Inc., a co-operative organization of wheat growers of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, bankers of Spokane, Se uttle and Portland have raised $1,300,- 000, George A. Jewett, general man ager of the association, announced in Spokane Tuesday. A mine three feet in diameter, coat ed with barnacles and oysters and pro vided with an electrical firing device, washed ashore at Ocean View. Va, and has given rise in marine circles to the theory that a number of ships reported lost oft this const might have been struck by one of those dere llcls. The mine bore the letters Kl Nowspnper reports from portions of central Texas, flooded as the result of torrential rains last Friday and Satur day, brought the. unofficial list of deaths to nearly 200. Communication with the affected area still is more or less demoralized, but with the high wuters In the Colorado, Brazos, Sim Gabriel and oilier streams rapidly re reding, normal conditions are in pros pect. At. the rittsfleld plant of the Gen oral Electric company Tuesday, for the first time in history, the high vol tnge of one million volts was obtained, generated and transmitted by engln eers. This dramatic advance In elec- trlcnl development was the result of more than 30 years of work. Officials said much vuluable data was gathered, Indicating the commercial possibilities of such a high voltage. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, in a letter received by Senator Borah, said he had not given thought to new government reclamation work as a menus of providing employment tor thousands now out of employment, but assured the Benator he would confer with the reclamation service Imme diately and ascertain to what extent a new reclamation service policy might aid In solving the unemployment sit uation, especially in the west. Fountain Coysor, near Yellowstone Turk, Wyo., inactive for nearly a year, exploded suddenly a Bhort time ago while 200 persons looked on. Water spouted to a height of nearly 250 feet In one of the most spectacular geyser exhibitions the park has Been. Pent up (team that had been imprisoned for nearly a year brought on the blast, which completely tore away the crater. After nearly an hour the flow ceased and the geyser since has been inactive CURRENT WEEK TO SOLVE PROBLEM OF IDLE Harding's Call to Conference Is Ac- cepted By 38 Delegates. Washington, D. C. Announcement of the names of 35 men and three wo men who have accepted President Hardings' invitation to participate in a national unemployment conference here beginning next Monday was made Monday night by Secretary Hoover. Other names will be announced later, he said, when all replies are received. The list includes Secretaries Hoover and Davis; Julius Barnes of Duluth, Minn.; Samuel Gompers, Charles M. Schwab and John L. Lewis of the Mine Workers. The women are Ida Tarbell of New York, Mary Van Kleeck of New York, connected with the Russell Sage foundation, and Elizabeth Christman of Chicago, an officer of the National Woman's Trade Union league. Mr. Hoover has been appointed chairman of the conference, which, it was said, would dissolve itself at once into special committees for the formu lation of plans. These committees, he asserted, no doubt would seek co operation from other representatives ' of labor, employers and civic bodies. It was considered probable that President Harding would open the con ference with an address outlining the administration's desire to remedy un employment. In naming members of the confer ence," Mr. Hoover said, " it has been the desire of the president to secure geographic representation and have regard to the different elements who are interested and can be helped in the problem without attempt at pro portional numbers or particular groups. Those of experience in those industries where there Is the largest degree of unemployment have been called on in larger proportion than from trades where there is less un employment. It was impossible to Included representation of the whole of some of 50 trade groups in the conference and hold Us size within workable limits." An economic advisory committee of 20 was appointed and, Mr. Hoover stated, has been at work on the pre paration of data and a working pro gram. Secretary Davis also has been co-operating in formulating plans, he said, and has bee.n directing a renewed survey of unemployment. DYNAMITERS TAKEN BY CHICAGO POLICE Chicago. Fourteen hundred sticks of dynamite, three inches in diameter and ten inches long and 100 sticks of TNT were seized Monday by police following the capture of five dyna- miters in the act of bombing a shoe repair shop. One of the prisoners was shot in the side by police, who had surround ed the shop for 10 hours following a mysterious tip that it was to be bomb ed. A confession that he had planted and exploded more than 60 bombs dur ing the last year was obtained, ac cording to the police, from W. O. Smith, one of the five men. The bombing was said to have been the result of rivalry between the In ternational Brotherhood of Shoe Re pairmen and the United Shoe Repair men. Kremen is a member of the formor. Richard Burke, who hurled the bomb and who was shot in an attempt to escape, was said to have told the police that he supplied bombs for several labor unions and also the men to throw them. Police said he made a statement of bomb outrages under taken for the shoe repairmen's and anitors' union, Ship Board Union Talked. Washington, D. C. Combination of the three present offices of treasurer, controller and auditor of the shipping board under one head, to be known as the financial vice-president of the board, was discussed with President Harding by Chairman Lasker. The new office would consolidate the duties of the present separate offices, Chair man Lasker Bald, adding that he was looking for "a big financial man" to take the place. Mellon't Estimate Right. Washington, D. C. Incomplete treasury report of collections of Sep tember 15 installments of Income and excess profits taxes Indicate a practi cal certainty that Secretary Melton's estimate of $525,000,000 will be realiz ed, officials said. Collections so far, officials said, showed J425.000.00O in tho federal reserve banks with re ports from various outlying districts to be received. Prosser. State health officers have notified Prosser people to "boll" the drinking water. The munclpality has ordered a special filtration plant. 6 RAILROAD UNIONS E 10 STRIKE Shopmen Vote to Protest Big Wage Reductions. ACTION AWAITS RULES President of Crafts Says Employers Take Unfair Advantage of Industrial Situation. Chicago. Railroad shopmen belong ing to the six federated shopcrafts unions have voted to Btrike against the railroad wage reduction of July 1, but will defer action until promulgation of working rules pending before the rail road labor board, when another vote will be taken on acceptance or rejec tion of the rules. This announcement was officially made by B. M. Jewell, head of the shop crafts organization, at a mass meet ing of Chicago Bhop workers Sunday. Belief that a stronger fight could be made, if a strike is called, with preservation of the shopmen's work ing rules as a goal led to the deci sion to withhold a strike call for the present, Mr. Jewell said. He and other union speakers counseled the men to wait until the entire wage and rules situation was before them, rather than rush into a strike which, Mr. Jewell declared, the railroads de sired. "We can make a real fight on the rules proposition when we might not have the full support of other branches of railway employes on a wage fight alone," he said. "We must wait until the time is opportune. You men who have been on strike before don't want to rush blindly into this thing. But if the labor board releases all remaining rules to be acted on at one time, then we will have the whole matter before us. We need only one vote to deter mine what will be done." This announcement was greeted with applause. Answering a question, Mr. Jewell asserted shop crafts would have the co-operation of other or ganizations, including the big four brotherhoods, if a strike were called, and urged his audience to prepare for action. The strike vote, completed August 1, was announced as showing a con stitutional majority against the wage reduction which went Into effect July 1. Condemnation of operations of the labor board and of its decisions was voiced by all speakers. Mr. Jewell charged that the railroads were at tempting to use the board to take an unfair advantage of the industrial situation. Mr. Jewell said he would demand of the board that "for once It meet the situation in a practical way," and announce the remaining rules simultaneously. "When the board announces the substitute rules, our committee will take a ballot," he -said. "If the rules are not satisfactory, and the ballot says so, we will take the result to the railroads. If they refuse to grant our reasonable demands, they will have to stand responsible and an swer to the people." General charge that the railroads were opposing demands of the unions as part of a movement which, he said, was backed by $9,000,000,000 or more," were made. The object, he declared was "to crush organized labor." Growers Face Big Loss. . Fresno, Cal. Thousands of tons of raisins and figs are lying in fields exposed to rain that began falling throughout the San Joaquin valley Sat urday night. L. R. Payne, Inspection manager of the California Associated Raisin company, said that 98 per cent of the raisin crop is on trays. Rain probably will cause heavy losses to fruit growers, he said. More than 100,000 tons of raisins are on the trays, according to others. Train Wreck Kill 100. Riga. More than 100 persons, most ly train guards, were killed when a heavily convoyed grain train was wrecked at Fastov, near Kiev, a few days ago, according to a Kiev radio dispatch received here. The wreck was caused by the removal of rails at a point where the train, made up of 61 cars, was running down grade. Gold Import Received. New York. Gold Imports totaling $10,500,000 were' received Friday, In cluding Germany's reparations pay ments. It was placed to the account of the allies at the federal reserve bank. ill ill or the n?fflr 792 o esy little. SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that ho has not more than six months to live, Dan Failing sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a deci sion. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typ ical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennox's son, "Bill." and daugh ter, "Snowbird." Their abode is in the Umpqua divide, and there Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told Is his. 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 1, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. CHAPTER III Continued. 5 Dan saw the door close behind him, and he had an Instant's glimpse of the long sweep of moonlit ridge that stretched beneath the window. Then, all at once, seemingly without warn ing, It simply blinked out. Not until the next morning did he really know why. Insomnia was an old acquaint ance of Dan's, and he had expected to have some trouble In getting to sleep. His only real trouble was waking up again when Lennox called him to breakfast. He couldn't believe that the light at his window shade was really that of morning. "Good Heavens !" his host exploded. "You sleep the sleep of the just." Dan was about to tell him that on the contrary ha was a very nervous sleeper, but he thought better of it. Something had surely happened to his Insomnia. The next instant he even forgot to wonder about it In the reali zation that his tired body had been wonderfully refreshed. lie had no dread now of the long tramp up the ridge that his host had planned. But first came target practice. In Dan's baggage lie had a certuln very plain but serviceable sporting rifle of about thirty-forty caliber a gun that the Information department of the large sporting-goods store in Gltche apolls had recommended for his pur pose. Except for the few moments In the store, Dan had never held n rifle In his hands. The first shot he hit the trunk of a five-foot pine at thirty paces. "But I couldn't very well have missed It I" he replied to Lennox's cheer. "You see, I n lined at the mid dle but I just grazed the edge." The second shot was not so good, missing the tree altogether. And It was a singular thing that he aimed longer and tried harder on tills shot than on the first. The third time he tried still harder, and made by far the worst shot of all. "What's the matter?" he demanded. "I'm getting worse all the time." Lennox didn't know for sure. But he made a long guess. "It might be beginner's luck," he snld, "but I'm in clined to think you're trying too hard. Take It easier depend more on your instincts." Dan's reply was to lift the rifle lightly to his shoulder, glance quickly nlong the trigger and fire. The bullet struck within one Inch of the center of the pine. For a long second Lennox gazed nt him !n open-mouthed astonishment. "My stars, boy I" he cried at last. "Was I mistaken In thinking you were a born tenderfoot after nil? Can It bo thnt a little of your old grandfa ther's skill has been passed down to you? But you can't do It again." But Dan did do It ognln. If any thing, the bullet was a little nearer the center. And then he alined at a more distant tree. But the hammer snapped down In effectively on the breech. He turned with n look of question. "Your gun only holds five shots," Lennox explained. Reloading, Dun tried a more difficult target a trunk almost one hundred yards distant. Of course It would have been only child's piny to nn experienced hunter: but to n tenderfoot it was a difficult mark Indeed. Twice out of four shots Dan hit the tree trunk, and one of his two hits wns practically a bull's-eye. His two misses were the result of the same mistake he had mnde before attempting to hold his aim too long. Dan and Lennox started together up the long slope of the ridge. Dan alone armed; Lennox went with him solely ns a guide. The deer season had fm Bz?oSAt anx co7-rprrr. just opened, and it might be that Dan would want to procure one of these creatures. "But I'm not sure I want to hunt deer," Dan told him. "You speak of them as being so beautiful " "They are beautiful and your grandfather would never hunt them, either, except for meat. But maybe you'll change your mind when you see a buck. Besides, we might run into a lynx or a panther. But not very like ly, without dogs-" They trudged up, over the carpet of pine needles. They fought their way through a thicket of buckbrush. Once they saw the gray squirrels In the tree tops. And before Lennox had as much as supposed they were near the haunts of big game, a yearling doe sprang up from Its bed In the thickets. For an instant she stood motionless, presenting a perfect target. It was evident that she had heard the sound of the approaching hunters, but had not as yet located or identified them with her near-sighted eyes. Lennox whirled to find Dan standing very still, peering nlong the barrel of his rifle. But he didn't shoot. The deer, seeing Lennox move, leaped Into her terror-pace that astounding run that is one of the fastest gaits In the whole animal world. In the wink of an eye she was out of sight. "Why didn't you shoot?" Lennox de manded. "Shoot? It was a doe, wasn't it?" "Good Lord, of course It was a doe I But there are no game laws that go back this far. Besides you aimed at It." "I aimed just to see If I could catch It through my sights. And I could. My glasses sort of made It blur but "There's Something Living In That Thicket." I think perhaps that I could have shot It. But I'm not going to kill does. There must be some reason for the game laws, or they wouldn't exist." "You're a funny one. Come three thousand miles to hunt and then pass up the first deer you see. You could almost have been your grandfather, to have done that. He thought killing deer needlessly was almost as bad as killing a man. They are beautiful things, aren't they?" Dan answered him with startling emphasis. But the look that he wore said more than his words. They trudged on, and Lennox grew thoughtful. He was recalling the pic ture that he had seen when he had whirled to look nt Dan, Immediately after the fleer had leaped from its bed. It puzzled him a little. He had turned to find the younger man In a perfect posture to shoot, his feet placed In exactly the position that years of experience had taught Len nox was correct ; and wlthnl, absolute ly motionless. What many hunters take years to learn, Dan had seemed to know by Instinct. Could It be, after nil, that this slender weakling, even now bowed down with a terrible malady, had Inherited the true fron tiersman's Instincts of hla ancestors? The result of this thought was at least to hover In the near vicinity of a certain conclusion. That conclusion was that at least a few of the char acteristics of his grandfather had been passed down to Dan. It meant that possibly, if time remained, he would not turn out such a weakling, after all. Of course his courage, his nerve, had yet to be tested; but the fact remained that long generations of frontiersmen ancestors had left this 1 Influence upon him. The wild was calling to him, wakening instincts long smothered in cities, but sure and true as ever. It was the beginning of regeneration. Voices of the long past were speaking to him, and the Fallings once more had begun to run true to form. Inherited tendencies were in a moment changing this weak, diseased youth Into a frontiersman and wilderness Inhabitant such as his ancestors had been before him. They were slipping along over the pine needles, their eyes Intent on the trail ahead. And then Lennox saw a curious thing. He beheld Dan sud denly stop in the trail and turn his eyes toward a heavy thicket that lay perhaps one hundred yards to their right For an instant he looked al most like a wild creature himself. His head was lowered, as if he were lis tening.. His muscles were set and ready. Lennox had prided himself that he had retained ail the powers of his five senses, and that few men In the moun tains had keener ears than he. Yet It was truth that at first he only knew the silence, and the stir and pulse of his own blood. He nssumed then that Dan was watching something that from his position, twenty feet behind, he could not see. He tried to probe the thickets with his eyes. Then Dan whispered. Ever so soft a sound, but yet distinct In the si lence. "There's something living in that thicket." Then Lennox heard It, too. As they stood still, the sound became ever clearer and more pronounced. Some living creature was advancing toward them; and twigs were cracking be neath its feet. The sounds were rath er subdued, and yet, ns the animal ap proached, both of them instinctively knew that they were extremely loud for the usual footsteps of any of the wild creatures. "What is it?" Dan asked quietly. Lennox was so Intrigued by the sounds that he was not even observ ant of the peculiar, subdued quality In Dan's voice. Otherwise, he would have wondered at it. "I'm free to confess I don't know," he said. "It's booming right toward us, like most animals don't care to do. Of course it may be a human being. You must watch out for that." They waited. The sound ended. They stood straining for a long mo ment without speech. "That v was the dumdest thing!" Lennox went on. "Of course It might have been a bear you never know what they're going to do. It might have got sight of us and turned off. But I can't believe that it was Just a deer " But then his words chopped square ly off In his throat. The plodding ad vance commenced again. And the next instant a gray form revealed It self at the edge of the thicket. It was Graycoat the coyote, half blind with his madness, and des perate In his agony. -There was no more deadly thing In all the hills than he. Even the bite of a rattlesnake would have been wel comed beside his. He stood a long Instant, and all his instincts and re flexes that would have ordinarily made him flee In abject terror were thwarted and twisted by the fever of his madness. He stared a moment at the two figures, and his red eyes could not Interpret them. They were simply foes, for It was true that when this racking agony was upon him, even lifeless trees seemed foes sometimes. He seemed eerie and unreal as he gazed at them out of his burning eyes ; and the white foam gathered at his fangs. And then, wholly without warning, he charged down at them. He came with unbelievable speed. The elder Lennox cried once in warn ing and cursed himself for ventur ing forth on the ridge without a gun. He was fully twenty feet distant from Dan; yet he saw In nn Instant his only course. This was no time to trust their lives to the marksmanship of an amateur. He sprang toward Dan, Intending to wrench the weapon from his hand. But he didn't achieve his purpose. At the first step his foot caught In a projecting root, and he was shot to his face on the trail. But a long life In the wilderness had developed Len nox's reflexes to an abnormal degree; many crises had taught him muscle and nerve control; and only for a fraction of an Instant, a period of time that few Instruments are fine enough to measure, did he He supinely upon the ground. He rolled on. Into a position of defense. But he knew now he could not reach the younger mun before the mad coyote would be upon them. The matter wns out of his hands. Everything depended on the aim and self-control of the tender foot. Dan Failing's true marks manship proves that he it not the weakling he it supposed to be on teveral occationt in the next installment of "The Voice of the Pack." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Sailor Superstitions, A seaman's superstition Is that a penknife stuck Into the mast of a sailing vessel Is supposed to bring wind. For the same reason a sailor will whistle through his teeth. Plaster for Mending. Adhesive plaster Is Just the thing for mending hot-water bags, raincoats, gloves and rubber goods of all kinds. Jud Tunklna. Jud Tunklns says he doesn't see why anybody who wants to get a good job in a jazz band shou'd waste time on music lessons.