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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1921)
E OF Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Dr. J. D. Prince, a language profes sor at Columbia university, has been selected by President Harding as min ister to Denmark. Arthur Field, 22, a messenger tor the First National Bank of San Fran cisco was attacked, beaten and robbed of $2250 of the bank's funds Tuesday. There was renewed firing Tuesday in. Marrowbone, Sinn . Fein district, north of Belfast. A woman was wound ed and troops were called out to clear the streets. With the landing Tuesday of the Swiss balloon, piloted by Paul Arm buster, all 14 competitors in the inter national race for the James Gordono Bennett trophy, which started Sunday at Brussels, have been accounted for. Louis H. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern Railway company, reported upon his return to St. Paul from the Pacific coast and the northwest Tues day that conditions were improving. "Business is definitely on the up grade," Mr. Hill said. Secretary of the Interior Fall and Arthur Powell Davis, director of the United States reclamation service, Monday inspected the Huntley recla mation project and paid a visit to the Custer battlefield near Hardin, Mon tana. Wholesale prices increased 2.75 per cent In August over July levels, whole sale food prices leading in the ad vance with an increase of 13.5 per cent, according to figures made pub lic Tuesday by the department of labor. Railroads east of the Mississippi river have declined to join with the transcontinental lines in reduced rates recently announced for transportation of carload shipments of vegetables and certain fruits from the Paciflo coast, the transcontinental freight bureau an nounced Tuesday. Bryant park, New York, was the scene of another disturbance when po lice swarmed into it to disperse a crowd of unemployed, attacking with night sticks many who did not move fast enough and beating them over the head and shoulders. Several men were thrown to the pavement. The commission on disarmament of the league of nations council, in its report issued Monday, finds that the Washington conference can better deal with the question of naval disarma ment than the league, and that It can be more effectively secured by com mon agreement among the great powers. As the result of touching a high power line of the Rlgofleld, Wash., Light & Power company near Sara, while playing in the top of a fir tree with his companions, Earl A. Salz man, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Salzman of Sara, was electro cuted Monday while his playmates looked on. A new profession has appeared in San Francisco. An "export enologist" advertised his services in a local paper for the benefit of heads of families who are entitled under the law to manufacture a maximum of 200 gal lons of non-lutoxlcatlng wines. An "enologist" Is defined as a person thoroughly experienced In the making of wine. Congress reassembled Wednesday noon, after a recess since August 24, with a full program for the remain- dor of tho extra sosslon. Activity at first Is to center in the senate, which will consider the tax revision bill, the peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary, the anti-beer bill, railroad-debt funding, and allled:debt re funding and othor bills. The treaties are to be transmitted by President Harding and are to be pressed. Warning that the making of intoxi cating "home brew" is illegal was is sued Tuesday by Prohibition Commis sioner Haynes. He says: "This tax exemption provision has been the source of confusion. The effect of this Is not to allow the manufacture of 200 gallons of intoxicating wine free from restrictions of the national prohibition act, but merely to allow the manufacture of 200 gallons of non intoxicating julcea free of tax." WORLD HAPP S CURRENT IE TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT Conference Is Organized and Measures to Be Studied. Washington, D. C. The national conference on unemployment called by President Harding organized Mon day and adjourned until October 5, when the ten sub-committees will pre sent suggestions for emergency relief. Opening the session, President Hard ing declared the Industrial depression was "a war Inheritance," adding that the results hoped for from the confer ence might extend beyond the United States. . Asserting that there ought to be work for everyone, the president described, the United States as "funda mentally sound, financially strong, in dustrially unimpaired, commercially consistent and politically unafraid." Both the president and Secretary Hoo ver, chairman, emphasized the need for an employment program which would not contemplate a drain on the na tional treasury. Organization was completed with the formation of ten committees to originate study and recommend practical measures for meeting the emergency. These committees, of which the first five have named chair man, will deal with: , Unemployment statistics, Harry S. Robinson of Los Angeles, chairman; employment agencies and registration, Julius Barnes of Duluth, chairman; public hearings, S. M. Lindsay of New York, chairman; organization, Mr. Rob inson, chairman; emergency measures by manufacturers, W. H. Stackhouse, Springfield, O., chairman; emergency state and municipal measures and pub lic works, emergency measures in transportation, in construction, in min ing and in shipping. , After the emergency measures and the collection of statistics are com pleted, the conference is to be re grouped into committees whose func tions will be to recommend permanent measures by which the unemployment may be held to a minimum. "The initial efforts of the confer ence," it was announced, "are being driected to meeting emergency needs of the unemployment situation. Si multaneously, an exhaustive study will be made to bring out facts concern ing unemployment. Estimates of the number of unemployed vary from 3, 000,000 to 5,500,000 and it is felt re liable data as to the extent, geograph ical distribution and industrial dis tribution are imperative before relief measures are put into effect." Thousands Die In Flood. Shanghai, China. China's third great disaster within a year has been recorded in Anhwel province, where an area larger than the Btate of Con necticut has been flooded, with the loss of thousands of lives and property damage conservatively estimated at $80,000,000. The Anhwel catastrophe followed the famine in the seven north ern provinces of the republic; In which millions literally perished, and the earthquakes in Kansu province, In which 60,000 people are estimated to have been killed by temblors that de vastated entire counties. Cut off Arms, Is Plea. Riga. The third internationals of Moscow sent a wireless appeal Mon day to the workmen of Europe to block arms and munitions shipments to Po lund, Ron mania, Esthonia, Letvia and Finland, charging that a war was being prepared by Poland and Roumania against Russia. It also accuses England, through Winston Spencer Churchill, minister of the colonies, and also Lord Curzon, the foreign minister, of coming for ward now to help France promote such a war. Police Chief Is Robber. Chicago. Police are investigating the strange case of dual personality of Frank Slnnick, chief of police of Rlverdale, a suburb, who was arrested Saturday night, while holding up a Chicago saloon. Slnnick lias been po lice chief of the surburb for 13 years. His arrest disclosed that after enforc ing the law during the day, he became a robber at night. He was identified by two saloonkeepers as the robber who held them up. Troops Cause Deadlock. Toklo. Delegates of the far eastern republic engaged in the conference with Japanese representatives at Dalren have Insisted that Japan fix a date for withdrawing her troops from Siboria. The Japanese delegates, how ever, hold that, while this country is disposed to evacuate eastern Siberia, It does not desire to make its with drawal conditional on a treaty with the far eastern republic. Davenport. Sixty tourists register ed at the tourist park this week, which is the lowest number since early In the season. The season's total to date Is 2107. F BILLTO OPEN NOV. Farmers Given More Time to Discuss Measure. RECLAMATION URGED Washington State Official Tells Hoover of Way to Help Solve Idle Problem This Winter. Washington, D. C. Hearings on the agricultural schedules in the perman ent tariff bill will begin the first of November, Senator Penrose, chairman of the senate finance committee, told Senators Gooding of Idaho and Capper of Kansas, of the western senate agri cultural bloc, and representatives of numerous farm organizations Sunday afternoon. Chairman Penrose said that his com mittee would be pleased to give ample time for agriculture and allied indus tries to be heard on the tariff and that two weeks would be set aside for the farmers' representatives if so much time were necessary. Accompanying the two senators were representatives of the American Farm Bureau federa tion, the National Dairy union and a half dozen other farm organizations. Representative J. W. Summers of Washington and E. F. Blaine of Se attle, representing the Western States Reclamation association, conferred with Herbert Hoover at length this afternoon, suggesting that western reclamation development be speeded up this winter as a means of solving part of the unemployment problem. They told Mr. Hoover that several thousand men could be used in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho in the de velopment of the present accepted pro jects. As examples of the possibili ties for putting men to work they cited two projects in Washington state for which the reclamation service has funds available for much greater ef fort than Is now being put forth. They said that the same facts were true of projects in Oregon and Idaho. The two projects used as examples were the Wapato and the Toppenish- Simcoe enterprise on the Yakima In dian reservation. It was pointed out than $500,000 is now available for work on the Wapato project and $100,000 for the Toppenish-Simcoe project. No new projects were urged, Rep resentative Summers said, for the reason that only the old projects where surveys have been made and the devel opment carefully planned could be taken up quickly enough to be of any benefit to the unemployed. Mr. Hoover said he was glad to have the suggestion and thought it worth considering at the conference on unemployment. Idle Conference Monday, Washington, D. C The national un employment conference summoned by President Harding assembled Monday. Comprising half a hundred representa tives from most of the "key" trades; members of the conference were se lected, it was said, for their knowledge of conditions. The first duty of the conference will be to determine employment needs and to recommend to the administra tion emergency measures for mitiga ting the situation as found to exist before winter begins, officials said. With the immediate problem of work distribution solved, according to administration officials, the confer ence will take up the formulation of a permanent policy for combating un employment wherever a serious situa tion may arise and suggest methods for hastening the return to normal of commerce and business. Fire From Air Survived, Norfolk, Va. Arinorpiercing shells were hurled from army airplanes Sat urday on the old battleship Alabama In Chesapeake bay in the tests being conducted against the ship. Although considerably battered by the attacks of the last two days, the battleship was left practically intact, although officers maintained bombs would have been fatal to any crew aboard. 5-Cent Lunch Started. Chicago. Soup and beans, choice of two sandwiches or meat and pota toes and a cup of milk or chocolate and a dessert price 5 cents. Begin ning Monday that is the menu to be served In the penny lunchrooms of Chicago schools. Last year the var ious items were priced at 2 and 3 cents each. HEARINGS ON TAR1F The Voice. By i SYNOPSIS. Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to Hve, Dan Falling 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 Falling plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told Is his. From the first Failing'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. Dan learns that an organized band of outlaws, of which Bert Cranston Is the leader, Is making trouble In the vicinity. Landry Hildreth, a former member of the gang, has been induced to turn state's evidence. CHAPTER III Continued. 6 He looked up, and the whole weird picture was thrown upon the retina of his eyes. The coyote was still racing straight toward Dan, a gray demon that In his madness was more terrible than any charging bear or elk. For there is an element of horror about the insane, whether beasts or men, that cannot be denied. Both men felt It, with a chill that seemed to pene trate clenr to their hearts. The eyes flamed, the white fangs of Graycoat caught the sunlight. And Dan stood erect in his path, his rifle half raised to his shoulder; and even in that first frenzied Instant In which Lennox looked at him, he saw there was a strange lmpasslveness, a singular Im perturbability on his face. "Shoot, man!" Lennox shouted. "What are you waiting for?" But Dan didn't shoot. His hand whipped to his face, and he snatched off his thlck-lensed glasses. The eyes that were revealed were narrow and deeply Intent And by now, the fren zied coyote was not fifty feet distant. All that had occurred since the ani mal charged had possibly taken five seconds. Sometimes five seconds Is Just a breath; but as Lennox waited for Dan to shoot, It seemed like a period wholly without limit. He won dered if the younger man had fallen into that strange paralysis that a great terror sometimes Imbues. "Shoot I" he screamed again. But It Is doubtful If Dan even heard his shout. At that instant his gun slid Into place, his head lowered, his eyes seemed to burn along the glitter ing barrel. His linger pressed back against the trigger, and the roar of the report rocked through the summer air. The gun was of large caliber; and no living creature could stand against the furious, shocking power of the great bullet. Tbe lead went straight home, full through the neck and slant ing down through the breast, and the coyote recoiled as if an Irresistible hand had smitten him. It Is doubtful If there was even a muscular quiver after Graycoat struck the ground, not twenty feet from where Dnn stood. And the rifle report echoed back to find only silence. Lennox got up oft the ground and moved over toward the dead coyote. Lie looked a long time at the gray body. And then he stepped back to where Dan waited on the trail. "I take It all back," he said simply. "You take what back?" "What I thought about you that the Falling line had gone to the dogs. I'll never call you a tenderfoot again. But tell me one thing. I saw the way you looked down the barrel. I couid see how firm you held tho rifle the way you kept your head. And that is all like your grandfather. But why, when you had a repeating rifle, did you wait so long to shoot?" "I Just had one cartridge In my gun. I didn't think of It until the coyote charged." Lennox's answer was the last thing rn the world to be expected. He opened his straight mouth and uttered a great, boyish yell of Joy. His eyes seemed to light. The eyes of the two men met, and Lennox shook him by the shoulder. "You're not Dnn Falling's grandson you're Dan Failing himself I" he shouted. "No one but him would have had self-control to wait till the game was almost on top of him no one but him would have kept his head In a time like this. You're Dnn Falling himself, I tell you, come back to earth. Grandson nothing! You're a throwback, and now you've got those glasses off, I can see his eyes looking right out of yours. Step on 'era Dan. You'll never need 'em again. And give up that Idea of dying in four months f the W&w EDISON MARSHALL right now; I'm going to make you live. We'll fight that disease to a finish and win!" Anil thnt Is the wnv that Dnn Fall ing came Into his heritage In the land of his own people, and in which a new spirit was born in him to fight and win and live. BOOK TWO The Debt. CHAPTER I. September was at Its last days on the Umpqua divide that far wilder ness of endless, tree-clad ridges where Dan Falling had gone for his last days. Everywhere the forest people were preparing for the winter that would fall so quickly when these gold en September days were done. The Under Plane of the forest those smaller peoples thnt live In the dust and have beautiful, tropical forests In the ferns found themselves digging holes and filling them with stores of food. Of course they had no idea on earth why they were doing it, except that a quiver at the end of their tails told them to do so; but the result was entirely the same. They would have a shelter for the winter. But the most noticeable change of nil, in these days of summer, was a distinct tone of sadness that sound ed throughout the forest. Of course the wilderness note Is always some what sad; but now, as the leaves fell and the grasses died, It seemed par ticularly pronounced. All the forest voices added to It the wall of the geese, the sad fluttering of fallen leaves, and even the whisper of the north wind. Of course all the tones and voices of the wilderness sound clearest at night for that Is the time that the forest really comes to life and Dan Falling, sitting in front of Lennox's house, watching the late September moon rise over Bald moun tain, could hear them very plainly. It was true that in the two months he had spent in the mountains he had learned to be very receptive to the The Lead Went Straight Home. voices of the wilderness. Lennox had not been mistaken in thinking him a natural woodsman. He had Imagina tion and Insight and sympathy; but most of all he had a heritage of wood lore from his frontiersmen ancestors. Two months before he had been a resident of cities. Now the wilder ness had claimed him, body and soul. These had been rare days. At first he had to limit his expeditions to a few miles each day, and even then he would come in at night staggering from weariness. He climbed hills that seemed to tear his diseased lungs to shreds. Lennox wouldn't have been afraid, in a crisis, to trust his marks manship now. He had the natural cold nerve of a marksman, and one twilight he brought the body of a lynx tumbling through the branches of a pine at a distance of two hundred yards. He got so he could shatter a grouse out of the air In the half of a second or so In which Its bronze wings glinted in the shrubbery; and when a man may do tills a fair number of times out of ten he Is on the straight road toward greatness. Then there came a day when Dan caught his first steclhead In the North Fork. There is no more beautiful thing In the wilderness world than a steelhead trout ta action. He simply seems to dance on the surface of the water, leaping again and again, and racing at an unhea I of speed down the ripples. He Hghs only from three to fifteen poi fds. But now and again amateur fishruiea without souls have tried to pud him In with main strength, and are still somewhat dazed Dy the result It might be done I i i i i i i i i i i I r- Copyright, 1920, by Little, Brown & Co. with a steel cable, but an ordinary line or leader breaks like , a cobweb. When his majesty the steelhead takes the fly and decides to run. It can be learned after a time that the one thing thut may be done Is to let out nil the line and with prayer and humble ness try to keep up with him. Dan no longer wore his glasses Every day his eyes had strengthened. He could see more clearly now, with his unaided eyes, than he had ever seen before with the help of the lens. And the moonlight came down through a rift In the trees and showed that his face had changed, too. It was no longer so white. The eyes were more Intent. The lips were struigliter. "It's been two months," Silas Len- ' nox told him, "hulf the four Unit you gave yourself after you arrived here. And you're twice as good now as when you came." Dan nodded. "Twice! Ten times as good ! I was a wreck when 1 came. Today I climbed hulfway up Buldy within a half mile of Snowbird's cab In without stopping to rest."- Leunox looked thoughtful. More than once, of late, Dan had climbed up toward Snowblrdls cabin. It was true that his guest and his daughter had become the best of companions In the two months; but on second thought,' Lennox was not In the least afraid of complications. The love of the moun tain women does not go out to phys ical inferiors. "Whoever gets her," he had said, "will have to tame her," and his words still held good. The mountain women rarely mistook a ma ternal . tenderness for nn appealing man for love. It wasn't that Dan was weak except from the ravages of his disease; but he was still a long way from Snowbird's ideal. Although Dan had courage and that same rigid self--control that was an old quality In his breed, he was still a long way from a physically strong man. It was still an even break whether he would ever wholly recover from his malady. But Dan was not thinking about this now. All his perceptions had sharpened down to the fiuest focal point, and he was trying to catch the spirit of the endless forest that stretched in front of the house. His pipe had gone out, and for a long time Lennox hadn't spoken. He seemed to be straining too, with Ineffective senses, trying to recognize and name the faint sounds that came so tingling and tremulous out of the darkness. As always, they heard the stir and rustle of the gnawing people; the chipmunks In the shrubbery, the gophers who, like blind misers, had ventured forth from their dark burrows; and per haps even the scaly glide of those most-dreaded poison people that had lairs In the rock piles, Dnn felt that at last the wilderness Itself was speaking to him. He had waited a long time to hear Its voice. Ills thought went back to the wise men of the ancient world, waiting to hear the riddle of the universe from the lips of the Sphinx, and how he himself more In his unconscious self, rather than conscious had sought the eternal riddle of the wilderness. He had asked questions never In the form of words but only Ineffable yearnings of his soul and at last It had responded. The strange rising nnd falling song was its own voire, the articulation of the very heart and soul of the wilderness. "It's the wolf pack," Lennox told him softly. "The wolves have just Joined together for tbe fall rutting."" "Then this means tbe end of the summer?" Dan asked. "In a way, but yet we don't count the summer ended until the rains break. Heavens, I wish they would start! I've never seen the hills so dry, nnd I'm afraid that either Bert Cranston or some of his friends will decide It's time to make a little mon ey fighting forest fires. Dnn. I'm sus picious of that gang. I believe they've got a regular arson ring, maybe with unscrupulous stockmen behind them, and perhaps just a penny-winning deal of their own. I suppose you know about Landy Hildreth how he's prom ised to turn state's evidence that will send about a dozen of these vipers to the penitentiary?" "Snowbird told me something aboul it." In the next installment of "The Voice of the Pack" the outlaw band's activity de velops, resulting in the murder of a former member of the gang who turned state's evi dence. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Folly Came Home to Him. When. Charles V abdicated hli throne and retired to the monastery of St Juste, he amused himself by trying to learn watchmaking. After some time he remarked one day: "What an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so much blood and treasure In an absurd attempt to make men think alike, when I cannot even make a tew watches keep time together."