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Things Worth Knowing.
Ex-King William II of Wuerttcm-
burg Is (load. William II, reigning
king of the monarchy of Wuerttem
burg, abdicated in November, 1918, as
a direct outcome of the war. He had
reigned since 1891.
David Scull Bispham, baritone and
one of the best known American lyric
artists, died of intestinal trouble Sun
day in New York, after an illness of
six weeks. He was 04 years old. A
wife and two daughters survive him.
The Spokane branch of the federal
land bank Tuesday was allotted $5,-
750,000 by the fedoral farm loan board.
according to a dispatch from Wash
ington. The money is to be loaned to
farmers in Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Montana.
Beans are coming back to their
place in the hearts and stomachs of
the American people, from Boston to
Los Angoles, according to John W.
WelcTi, president of the National As
sociation of Restaurant Men, in an
nual convention in Los Angeles.
Published reports that the adminis
tration or repubHcan leaders in con
gress planned to abandon or unneces
sarily delay enactment of the per
manent tariff bill were formally denied
TueBday by Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania, chairman of the senate fi
nance committee.
Robel forces in India control more
than 100,000 square miles of territory,
over which they have proclaimed ab
solute independence, according to a
statement Issued in Washington, D. C,
by S. N. G. Hose, national director of
the American commission to promote
self-government in India.
RetaH food prices in ten cities
showed a tendency to decrease during
September, according to a report made
by the labor department. In the cities
where figures were obtained Septem
ber 15, only one, Richmond, Va., had
an increase over August prices and
this amounted to 2 per cent.
The Pacifio const altitude record
for a Blngle-englne one-man hydro-airplane
is declared to have been broken
Tuesday by Wllllnm R. Davis Jr., of
Oaklnnd, Cal., who reached 11,600
feet. The previous record is said to
huve been 9500 feot, made in 1915 by
Joseph Struebel, also of Oakland.
Patents to 30,000 acres of timber
and stone lands in Plumas, Tehama
and Lessen counties, Calif., bought
from the government for $316,500,
were ordered canceled Tuesday by
the United States circuit court of ap
peals, on the ground that they bad
been obtained by fraudulent entry.
Two mnsked men entered the Span
gle, Wash., State bank at Spangle,
18 miles south of Spokane, at 1 P. M.
Tuesday, shot Miss Ruth Jennings, the
assistant cashier, in the arm, and
escaped with a sum of money estim
ated at about $5000. A posse of dep
uty sheriffs left Spokane In an effort
to oyertuke the robbers.
Thomas R. Marshall, former vice
president, called at the white house
Tuesday to pay his respects to the
new administration as a private citi
zen out of a Job and not looking for
one. Mr. Marshall, who was passing
through Washington on a lecture tour,
declared his present occupation was
"exchanging old stuff for new money."
and that he was enjoying it thorough
ly. Mexican Consul-Gcnernl Magana at
El Paso, Tex., said Monday he had
received orders from Mexico City in
structing him to put into effect an
order requiring all Americans crossing
the border here to put up an $8 bead
tax. This will be required of all per
sons entering that country, he said,
but the tax will be refunded It the
depositor re-enters the United States
within six months.
Senator King, democrat, Utah, charg
ing during consideration of the tax
bill Monday that retailers and manu
facturers in every state had illegally
combined to maintain high prices, said
the attorney-genornl should "send to
the penitentiary thousands of conspir
ators responsible for paralysis of
trade." Until the government takes
action, he added, there will be no
marked decline in prices or in begin
ning of prosperity.
SENATE VOTES FREE TOLLS
American Cestui Vessels to Get Ex
eruption - House May Delay,
Washington, D. C The Boruh bill
for tolls exemption of American coast
wise vessels passing through the Pan
ama canal was passed by the senate
Monduy, 47 to 37. The moasure now
goes to the house, where it is expected
It will bo subject to indefinite delay,
at least until after the conference on
limitation of armament.
The senato rejected two substitutes
offered by Senator King, democrat,
Utah, to authorize the president to
negotiate for arbitration of the tolls
question and to appropriate $2,000,000
as a subsidy for American vessels us
ing the canal.
Debate on the Borah proposal dis
closed a split in party ranks, oppo
nents declaring the bill was inoppor
tune, while Senator Borah, republican,
Idaho, declared he had talked with
Presldont Harding and Secretary
Hughes and they did not share such
views.
Twelve democrats voted for the bill
while 17 republicans voted against it.
In referring to the armament con
ference, Senator Borah said he did not
understand that this conference would
Involve the United States bartering
away any substantial right.
"I have talked with those most re
sponsible for and concerned, in the
conference," he added. "I have had a
full understanding and discussion. The
fears expressed are not shared by
them."
Senator Lodge, republican leader,
was among those who raised the ques
tion of the armament conference. He
admitted that the United States had
the legal right to pass the bill, but
said there were "potent reasons"
against action at present, in view of
the coming conference. Senator Mc
Cormlck, republican, Illinois, ex
pressed similar sentiments.
CHURCH SAYS 200
MARRIAGES ILLEGAL
Wilmington, Del. Two hundred
couples who have been married since
August 1 by the Rev. R. T. Western,
the unfrocked minister of Elkton, Md.,
are not legally wedded, according to
ecclesiastical law, the Rev. Robert
Watt, district superintendent of the
Wilmington Methodist Episcopal con
ference, said Monday. Dr. Watt added,
however, that bo far as the civil law
was concerned the persons Involved
need not worry.
"It appears that Mr. Western quit
his charge In Montana in the middle
of a church year and left without no
tice to the authorities," said Dr. Watt.
The Wilmington conference recently
dismissed Mr. Western after he had
been convicted by an ecclesiastical
jury on charges of splitting marriage
fees with jitney drivers.
$292,522 IS SHARE
OF SERIES' PLAYERS
New York. The players participa
ting In the 1921 world's series fund
will divide $292,522.33, a new high rec
ord for the players' share. Under the
rules players and umpires cease to
share In the gate receipts after Mon-'
day's game, the . fifth of the series.
Increased seating capacity and higher
admission charges account for the
new total.
While Monday's attendance and gate
receipts fell slightly below those of
Friday's game, the official figures gave
35,758 paid admissions for a total gate
receipt of $116,754. Of this amount the
advisory board collected $17,513.10, the
players $59,544.54 and the club owners
$39,696.36.
U. S. Authority Disputed.
Washington, D. C. A case of wide
interest to the west, involving a con
struction of the government's police
jurisdiction over public lands, will be
reviewed by the supreme court. An
nouncement was made by the court
that it would hear the case of Charles
McKelvey, convicted in Idaho of as
sault upon a herder in which case it
Is the government's contention that
lawlessness upon public lands can be
punished under federal law.
Liberties Hit High Mark.
New York. Liberty bonds were ir
regular and dull In the first half of
Monday's session, but active buying
was resumed later.
The feature was the first 4s, which
showed a gain of 210 points at midday,
rising to 94.30, the year's high price.
The second 4s and first 4's also
were at new high records, rising 28
and 20 points, respectively.
REDUCED
Ell
ES
PREDIGTED
Early Cut by Carriers Is Count
ed Almost Certain.
SITUATION CLEARING
Agricultural "Bloc" in Congress Also
Voices Demand for Action in
Behalf of Producers,
Washington, D. C. Developments
which were doclared to presage early
reduction in railroad freight rates and
a clearing of the railroad situation
generally came here Saturday from
several quarters.
A group of prominent railroad ex
ecutives conferred with President
Harding and Senator Cummins, re
publican, Iowa, chairman of the senate
Interstate commerce committee, and
discussed steps toward . freight rate
reductions preliminary to the execu
tives' meeting In Chicago October 14.
Rate reductions also was the prin
cipal topic of the programme at a
meeting Saturday night of democratic
and republican senators comprising
the unofficial agricultural "bloc." Sen
ators attending the meeting said there
was a wide and vigorous demand for
rate cuts as imperative to agricultural
Interests.
Senator Cummins, after his confer
ence with the railway executives, said
he believed they would adopt at their
Chicago meeting his suggestions for
an immediate reduction of freight
rates. No definite assurances to this
effect were given him at the confer
ence, he explained, but he expressed
the opinion that the reductions would
be made by the carriers voluntarily.
The carriers then, Senator Cummins
said, would ask the railroad labor
board to reduce wages or appeal to
congress for legislation to meet the
situation caused by the voluntary rate
reductions.
The railway executives in the con
ference included T. Dewitt Cuyler, rep
resenting a railway securities holders'
organization; Samuel Rea, president
of the Pennsylvania system; President
Smith of the New York Central;
President Holden of the Burlington
system, and Julius Kruttschnitt, chair
man of the Southern Pacific.
SHIP SUNK, TWO DEAD
IN DOUBLE COLLISION
Belfast. Damaged by one vessel In
a dense fog off the Bouthwest coast of
Scotland and then sunk by another
coming to its aid, was the fate early
Sunday morning of the Laird line
steamer Rowan, plying between Glas
gow and Dublin. Thirteen of the
Rowan's crew and three passengers
are missing. Two passengers died af
ter being rescued by vessels which
responded to the wireless S. O. S. call.
An official statement says that the
Rowan carried 93 persons, including
the crew, 77 of whom are accounted
for by the four vessels which went to
the Rowan's assistance.
Aboard the Rowan was the Ameri
can Southern Syncopated orchestra,
composed largely of negro players,
who had been touring this side of
the water since 1919.
One of the men who died after be
ing taken out of the sea was Pete
Robinson, the drummer of the or
chestra. The accident was due to a double
collision in the north channel off
Corsewall point. The Rowan first col
lided with the American steamer West
Camak, helped in the rescue work,
afterward putting Into Glasgow with
26 survivors. Captain Donald Brown
of Glasgow is reported to have gone
down with the Rowan. Three other
vessels also answered the call and
completed the work of rescue as far
as was possible.
Nine Ministeri Confirmed.
Washington, D. C Nominations of
the following American ministers to
foreign countries were confirmed Sat
urday by the senate: Lewis Einstein
of New York, Czecho-Slovakia; John
E. Ramer, Colorado, Nicaragua; John
G. South, Ky., Panama; E. E. Brodle,
Ore., Slam; Roy T. Davis, Mo., Guate
mala; Chas. L. Kagey, Kan., Finland;
Willis C. Cook, S. D., Venezuela; Chas.
S. Wilson of Maine, Bulgaria, and
Lauriets S. Swenson, Norway.
Billings, Mont. Dragged In front of
a shotgun in the hands of Floyd Smith,
profesBor of the Red Lodge high
school, by his bulldog, Joyce Kellum
was shot and killed at his father's
ranch near Red Lodge Saturday after
noon, according to a dispatch received
here.
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WMISPERFOOT.
Synopsls.-Warned by his physi
cian that ho han not more than six
months to live, Dan Falling sits
despondently on a park bench, won
dering where he should spend those
six months. Memories of his grand
father and a deep love fur all
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 grandfather, .a famous fron
tiersman. He makes his home with
Bllas Lennox, a typical westerner.
The only other members of the
household are Lennox's son, "Hill,"
and daughter, "Snowbird." Their
abode Is In the Umpqua divide, and
there Falling plans to live out the
short span of life which he hus
been told Is his. From the first
Falling's health shows a marked
Improvement, and In the compan
ionship of Lennox and his Bon 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 Len
nox's life and his own when they
are attacked by a mad coyote.
Innox declareB he Is a reincarna
tion of his grandfather, Dan Fail
ing 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, i9 setting forest fires. Lan
dry Ilildreth, a former member of
the gang, has been Induced to turn
state's evidence. Cranston shoots
Hlldreth and leaves him for dead.
CHAPTER I Continued.
For when all thlugs are said nnd
lone, there were few bigger cowards
n the whole wilderness world than
Whlsperfoot, A good many people
think that Graycont the coyote
xmld take lessons from hlin In this
espect. But others, knowing how a
uinter is brought In occasionally with
tlmost all human resemblance gone
from him because a cougar charged in
lis death agony, think this Is unfair
to the larger animal. And It is true
:hat a full-grown cougar will somer
rimes attack horned cattle, something
mat no American animal cares to do
inless he wants a good fight on his
paws and of which the very thought
would throw Graycont Into a spasm ;
ind there have been even stranger
stories, if one could quite believe
:hem. A certain measure of respect
Bust be extended to any animal that
will hunt the great bull elk, for to
nlss the stroke nnd get caught be
neath the churning, lashing, slasblng,
razor-edged front hoofs is simply
ieath, painful and without delay. But
:be difficulty lies In the fact that these
things are not done in the ordinary,
rational blood of hunting. What an
tnlmal does In Its death agony, or to
protect its young, what great game It
follows In the starving times of win
ter, can be put to neither Its debit
nor its credit. A coyote will charge
Rhen mad. A raccoon will put up a
wicked fight when cornered. A hen
will peck at the band that robs her
lest. When hunting was fairly good,
VVhlsperfoot avoided the elk and steer
tlmost as punctiliously as he avoided
men, which Is saying very much in
leed; and any kind of terrier could
isually drive him straight up a tree.
But he did like to pretend to be
rery great nnd terrible among the
smaller forest creatures. And he was
Fear Itself to the deer. A human
hunter who would kill two deer a
week for fifty-two weeks would be
:nlled a much uglier name thnn poach
sr; but yet this had been Whisper
foot's record, on nnd off, ever since
lis second year. Many a great buck
wore the soar of the full stroke aft
er which Whlsperfoot had lost his
hold. Many a fawn had crouched
panting with terror In the thickets ni
just a tawny light on the gnarled limb
of a pine. Many a doe would grow
sreat-eyed and terrified at just his
strange, pungent smell on the wind.
ne yawned again, and his fangs
ooked white and nbnormnlly large In
the moonlight. His great, green eyes
were still clouded and languorous
from sleep. Then be began to steal
ip the ridge toward his hunting
rrounds. It was a curious thing that
tie walked straight In the face of the
soft wind that came down from the
snow fields, and yet there wasn't a
iveathercoek to be seen anywhere. And
neither had the chipmunk seen him
net a paw and hold It up, after the
ipproved fashion of holding tip a fin
fer. He had a better way of knowing
a chill at the end of his whiskers.
The little, breathless night sounds
n the brush around him seemed to
nadden him. They made a song to
llm, a strange, wild melody that even
inch frontiersmen as Dan and Lcn
iox could not experience. A thousand
smells brushed down to him on the
irlnd, more potent than any wine or
ust. He began to tremble all over
-tth rapture and ex-jltement. But un
ike Cranston's trembling, no wllder
less ear was keen enough to hear the
eaves rustling beneath him.
2S&QSM AM COM'PANir.
CHAPTER II.
Shortly after nine o'clock, Whisper
foot encountered his first herd of deer.
But they caught his scent and scat
tered before he could get up to them,
lie met Woof, grunting through the
underbrush, and he punctiliously, but
Willi wretched spirit, left the trail. A
fight with Woof the bear was one of
the most unpleasant experiences thut
could be Imagined. He hud a pair of
strong arms of which one embrace of
a cougar's body meant death In one
long shriek of puln. Of course they
didn't fight often. They had entirely
opposite Interests. The bear wus a
berry-eater and a honey-grubber, nnd
the cougar cured too much for his own
life nnd beauty to tackle Woof in a
hunting way.
A fawn leaped from the thicket In
front of him, stnrtled by his sound In
the thicket. The truth was, Whisper
foot had made a wholly unjustified
misstep on a dry twig, Just at the
crucial moment. Perhaps It was the
fault of Woof, whose presence bad
driven Whlsperfoot from the trail,
nnd perhaps because old age and stiff
ness was coming upon him. But
neither of these facts appeased his
anger. He could scarcely suppress a
snarl of fury and disappointment.
He continued along the ridge, still
stealing, still alert, but his anger In
creasing with every moment. The fact
that he had to leave the trail again to
permit still another animal to pass,
and a particularly Insignificant one
too, didn't make him feel nny better.
This animal had a number of curious
stripes along his back, and usually did
nothing more desperate than steal
eggs and eat bird fledglings. Whlsper
foot could have crushed him with one
bite, but this was one thing that the
great cat, as long as he lived, would
Twenty Yards Farther.
never try to do. He got out of the
way politely when Stripe-back was
still a quarter of a mile away ; which
was quite a compliment to the little
animal's ability to Introduce himself.
Stripe-back was familiarly known as
a skunk.
Shortly after ten, the mountain lion
had a remarkably fine chance at a
buck. The direction of the wind, the
trees, the thickets and the light were
all in his favor. It was old Blacktail,
wallowing In the salt lick ; and Whis
perfoot's heart bounded when he de
tected him. No human hunter could
have laid his plans with greater care
He had to cut up the side of the ridge
mindful of the wind. Then there was
a long dense thicket In which he
might approach within fifty feet of
the lick, still with the wind In his
face. Just beside the lick was another
deep thicket, from which he could
make his leap.
His body lowered. The tall lashed
back and forth, and now It had begun
to have a slight vertical motion that
frontiersmen have learned to watch
for. He placed every paw with con
summate grace, and few sets of hu
man nerves have sufficient control
over leg muscles to move with such
astonishing patience. He scarcely
seemed to move at all.
But when scarcely ten feet re
mained to stalk, a sudden sound
pricked through the darkness. It came
from afar, but It was no less terrible
It was really two sounds, so close to
gfther that they sounded as one
Neither Blacktail nor Whlsperfoot
bad any delusions about them. Thev
recognized them at once. In strange
ways nnder the skin that no man may
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describe, n the far-off reports of a j
rlllo. Just today lllnckliill hail seen
his (loo full bleeding when this same
sound, only louder, spoke from
covert from which Bert CrmiNimi hml
pouched her and he left the lick In
one bound.
Terrified though lie win by the rifle
shot, still Whlsperfoot sprung, lint
the distance wus too far. Ills out
stretched paw hummed down four
feet behind Blacktnll's flank. Then
forgetting everything but his anger
nnd disappointment, the great cougar
opened his mouth and howled,
The long night was almost done
when he got sight of further game,
Once a flock of ground exploded with
n roar of wings from a thicket; hut
they bud been wakened by the first
whisper of dawn In the wind, and he
really bad no chance at them. Soon
after this, the moon set.
The larger creatures of tho forest
nre almost ns helpless In uhsolute
darkness ns human beings, It Is very
well to talk of seeing In the dark, but
from the nature of things, even verti
cal pupils mny only respond to light.
No owl or but can see In absolute
darkness. It became Increasingly like
ly thnt Whlsperfoot would have to re
tire to his lair without any meal
whatever.
But still lie remained, hoping f
against hope. After a futile fifteen
minutes of watching a trull, he heard
a doe feeding on a hillside. Its foot
fall was not so heavy as the sturdy
tramp of a buck, nnd besides, the
bucks would be higher on the ridges
this time of morning. He begun a cau
tious advance townrd It.
For the first fifty yards the hunt
was In his fuvor. Ho came up wind,
nnd the brush made a perfect cover.
Hut the doe unfortunutely wus stand
ing a full twenty yards farther, in an
open glade. Under ordinary circum
stances, Whlsperfoot would not have
made un attack. A cougar can run
swiftly, but a deer is light llsclf. The
big cut would have preferred to linger,
a motionless thing in the thickets,
hoping some other member of the (leer
herd to which the doe must have be
longed would come Into his ambush.
But the hunt was late, and Whlsper
foot was very, very angry. Too many
times this night he had missed his
kill. In . desperation, he leaped from j
the thicket and charged the deer.
In spite of the preponderant odds
against him, the charge was almost a
success. ' He went fully half- the dis
tance between them before the deer
perceived him. Then she leaped.
There seemed to be no Interlude of
time between the instant that she be
held the dim, tawny figure in the air
and that in which her long legs pushed
out In a spring. But she didn't leap
straight ahead. She knew enough of
the cougars to know thnt the great
cat would certainly aim for her head
and neck In the same way that a duck
hunter leads a fast-flying (luck hop
ing to Intercept her leap. Even as her
feet left the ground she seemed to
whirl In the air, and the deadly talons
whipped down In vain. Then, cutting
back In front, she raced down wind.
It Is usunlly the most unmitigated
folly for a cougar to chase a deer
against which he has missed his
stroke; and It Is also quite fatal to his
dignity. And whoever doubts for a
minute that the larger creatures have
no dignity, and that It Is not very dear
to them, simply knows nothing about
the ways of animals. They cling to
It to the death. But tonight one dis
appointment after another had crum
bled, as the rains crumble leaves, the
lust vestige of Whisperfoot's self-control.
Snarling in fury, he bounded
after the doe.
She was lost to sight at once in
the darkness, but for fully thirty yards
he raced in her pursuit. If he had
stopped to think, It would have been
one qf the really great surprises of
his life to hear the sudtlen, unmis
takable stir and movement of a large,
living creature not fifteen feet distant
in the thicket.
He didn't stop to think at all. He
didn't puzzle on the extreme unlikeli
hood of a doe halting In her flight from
a cougar. It Is doubtful whether, In
the thickets, he had any perceptions
of the creature other than Its move
ments. He was running down wind,
so it is certain that he didn't smell It.
If he saw It nt all, It was Just ns a
shadow, sufficiently large to be that
of a deer. It was moving, crawling as
Woof the bear sometimes crawled,
seemingly to get out of his path. And
Whlsperfoot. leaped straight at it.
It was a perfect shot. He landed
high on Its shoulders. His head lashed
down, and the white teeth closed. All
the long life of his race he bad known
that pungent essence that flowed forth.
His senses perceived It, a message
shot along his nerves to his brain. And
then he opened his month In a high,
far-carrying squeal of utter, abject
terror.
He sprang a full flftfen feet back
Into the thickets; then crouched. The
hair stood still nt his shoulders, his
claws were bared; he was prepared
to fight to the death. He didn't under
stand. He only knew the worst single
terror of his life. It was not a doe
that he had attacked In the darkness.
It was not Urson the porcupine, or
even Woof. It was that imperial mas- f
ter of all things, man himself. Un
knowing, he had attacked Landy HU
dreth, lying wounded from Cranston's
bullet beside the trail. Word of the
arson ring would never reach the set
tlements, after all.
Setting a forest fir.
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
Umbrellas are great bluffers; It's a
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